WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Lots to Cover 0:00:01.480 --> 0:00:03.960 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:07.160 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:11.840 a break? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely ready 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:15.680 for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. It's 0:00:15.720 --> 0:00:21.599 time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com with 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:26.880 Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:27.040 --> 0:00:30.520 It is Monday, January seventh, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen, episode 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:33.600 number one oh eight. Welcome to another edition of The Break. 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:35.839 We are live from the s WBC Morgan Studios at 0:00:35.880 --> 0:00:38.360 the Star and we got an hour with you guys today. 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.280 We're gonna break down this Cowboys big win for a 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:44.320 full hour, well about fifty seven. Are we doing an 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:47.919 hour for the playoffs? Now? No, no, no, no, it's 0:00:47.960 --> 0:00:50.080 just Monday. It's just Monday. That's what we do on Mondays. 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:52.840 We're talking about the Cowboys big win. Cowboys get the win, 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:57.520 their first playoff win of the postseason this year. Hopefully 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.960 that continues a win and beat the Seattle Seahawks twenty 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:04.720 four twenty two in a game that although the score 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:06.600 was really close, I don't know that the game was 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:09.200 as close as that. Towards the end, I kind of 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:11.840 felt at the end like, okay, Cowboys kind of had 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:14.160 this half control of this game. Got a little nervous 0:01:14.160 --> 0:01:17.639 there for a second, but pretty much the Cowboys played 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:19.160 the kind of game that they need to play. Let's 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.640 go around the table. Let's get some big picture views 0:01:21.680 --> 0:01:23.560 of what your thoughts are coming out of this game. 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.120 This game, Dave, let's start with you all, Oh boy, 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:30.119 put me on the spot. Um that that, I mean, 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:32.800 that's the blueprint right there, isn't it? Like everything that 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:36.200 this team does well and needs to do well in 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:40.080 order to win games. That's what they did. Um kinda 0:01:40.640 --> 0:01:44.440 kind of soured on how I don't know how bad 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:46.400 they were on defense at the end there. I mean, 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:48.320 you know, to give up such an easy drive after 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:51.440 being so dominant, I mean, if they if they play 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:54.160 on their screws that last possession, you're talking about Seattle 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.880 probably having less than two hundred and fifty yards of offense. 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:00.760 That's amazing. M so sucks that, you know, just a 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.760 just an uncharacteristic break and coverage on the Tyler Lockett 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:05.360 play to get him down into the red zone. But 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:08.040 other than that, the defense was dominant. They were physical. 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:11.520 The run game was clicking, and then Dak was Dak 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:13.760 love him or hate him, he shows up when when 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:17.079 it's crunch time and makes a play and he gets 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:18.840 he gets his first playoff wins. So that's I mean, 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:22.000 the run game, the quarterback being clutch in spite of 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.280 his wortz, and the I mean, I can't say enough 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.800 about the defense. Even even with this is my favorite stat, 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:30.120 even with the seventy five yard touchdown drive at the 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.640 end of the game, Seattle did not crack three hundred 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:36.839 yards of offense. That's crazy. Uh So there, Yeah, that's 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:40.160 it amber well as far as the offense goes. When 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:43.520 this game started, I was pretty excited by what I 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:46.560 was seeing, the fact that they were getting a lot 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:49.840 of guys involved in the game and he was working out. Obviously, 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:53.560 the Alan Hearn's injury happened and then he kind of 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:57.240 died down a little bit. But I thought that they 0:02:57.280 --> 0:02:59.919 did a nice job just kind of getting the running game, 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.400 the passing game, allowing Dad to run a few times. 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:05.679 I think that worked out well. They were able to 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:09.240 move the ball, and that hasn't necessarily been the problems 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:11.240 for the Cowboys moving the ball is just once they 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:14.200 get into that red zone area that it becomes a problem. 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.919 But again, the defense at the beginning of the game, 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:21.400 the way they were able to hold down the Seattle 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:25.560 offense and Russell Wilson, to me, that was amazing. That 0:03:25.800 --> 0:03:28.359 it wasn't a great game towards the end of the game, 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.359 but as far as how it started out, they did 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.760 more than enough. And that's the kind of balance you 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.600 want on your team. How a defense to be able 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.040 to do that? And then how long into the game 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:42.040 did it take the Seahawks to get their first first down, 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:45.880 like fourth possession, that's insane. First three possessions with three 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:49.240 and out, that's awesome. Yeah, sorry, amazing, No, it's amazing. 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:52.720 And yeah, the defense started kind of slowing down a 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:56.840 little bit towards the end, allowing some big plays. But overall, 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.120 when you get that kind of balance from your offense 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:01.520 as well, that's what makes the game great and that's 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.520 why gets you those kinds of wins. Nick Um, I 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:09.040 just thought the defense was amazing. Uh really throughout the game. 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.480 I mean every time that that it seemed like the 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:16.360 Cowboys were struggling on offense or put them in a 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:20.719 bad situation, they still they they managed to get out 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:22.599 of it. I know that they had a short field 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:24.839 a couple of times on long kickoff return and you 0:04:24.839 --> 0:04:28.039 know they don't score anything off of that. Uh, you know, 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:30.960 they just never buckled. And after that interception in the 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:33.960 past that Noah Brown, you know, here they are, there's 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:37.360 there's Seattle's got the momentum and the Cowboys push them backwards. 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:39.600 Penalties you know, heard them, but still, I mean they 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.120 went backwards there, and so I thought every time they 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:44.479 were the offense was kind of struggling, the defense picked 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:46.800 them up. It's like they've done all year long and 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:48.599 then put them in a position and then dak and 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:50.839 seek go and win it. But it's the defense that 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.120 they did it again. Yeah, that's which I guess. That's 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.560 kind of my point. I remember and not you know, Twitter, 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.160 you're and I do it too. You're you're just firing 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:01.799 off your thoughts and moment You're not most people aren't 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.480 taking the time to really think about it. But many 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:07.520 people were like mad about what that game looked like 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:09.440 as it was going, you know, like, well it shouldn't 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:12.280 have been that close, Like well, probably not, but like 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:15.760 that's this team, Like that's that's what you should expect 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.000 from this team by now that like that's the blueprint 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.320 for success, and that's what all of their games are 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:23.400 probably going to have to look like, whether the season 0:05:23.480 --> 0:05:25.160 ends on Saturday or they go all the way to 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:28.080 the super Bowl. Like the defense carries the load, the 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.400 running game has to click for the offense to have success. 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:33.080 They're probably they're they're not going to hit on all cylinders. 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:36.600 They haven't really have they hit on cylind all cylinders 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:39.880 across the board offense and defense. Once this season, there 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:43.400 you go again, Jacksonville's Jacksonville against the team that won 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:47.040 four or five games and quit on their coach in November. 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:50.080 So it's probably not going to happen, is my point. 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:53.839 And so maybe it was. It wasn't even ugly, but 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:56.920 you get my point. It's this is a gritty defense, first, 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.800 grind it out, inconsistent team, and that's how they're going 0:05:59.839 --> 0:06:02.960 to games. And it worked pretty much perfectly on Saturday. 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:05.640 It was funny everybody that was complaining about what that 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:09.120 game looked like it's bad football, Like, well wait till Sunday. 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:11.800 I mean, I see get to Sunday. And if you 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.120 think that's bad, I don't think playoff football is bad. 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:16.680 I mean, that's what playoff football, that's what it is. 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:19.440 I mean, it comes down to it. I mean, yeah, sorry, 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:22.599 field goals matter and sometimes you miss them. You know, 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.520 even though you hit everything in the world, you still 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:26.039 miss a field goal. Not only that, but if you 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.240 notice what you saw in playoff football, and this is 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.080 not just this year, it's many years, what you see 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:31.880 a lot of times is that teams kind of fiel 0:06:31.920 --> 0:06:34.320 each out each other out early and the game kind 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.360 of stays low scoring there early, and then teams start 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:39.840 kind of getting going and you'll see more scoring as 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:41.719 the game goes on third and fourth quarter, as you 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:43.919 saw that in a few games this weekend. But I 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:45.800 think that's the thing you have to remember. Here is 0:06:45.800 --> 0:06:48.560 and we talked about this a lot last week. This 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:50.920 defense that the Cowboys were playing, this was not some 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.200 cupcake defense, like they got players too. And the same 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.840 things you say about the Cowboys and where they have strengths, 0:06:57.120 --> 0:06:58.680 those are the same kind of strengths that they were 0:06:58.680 --> 0:07:01.000 facing in that Seattle defense. They got linebackers, they can 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:02.560 run side to side, and Nick I remember us talking 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:04.760 during the game like you're not gonna run wide on them. 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:07.240 Very often because those linebackers can get there, They're not 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:09.640 gonna give you much there. They got a secondary that 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:11.080 does what it needs to do when they got some 0:07:11.120 --> 0:07:13.080 studs up there in the front. So I mean that 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.040 defense is a formidable defense. So I don't I don't 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:19.440 know if I necessarily was thinking cowboys are squandering opportunitiess 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:20.920 much as I was thinking right now, this is a 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.160 defensive struggle and the Cowboys are gonna have to figure 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:26.040 out ways to manufacture points one percent and that. You know, 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:27.840 Like I said, I get it. It's the heat of 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:31.080 the moment. You're you're invested. But I'm like, why why 0:07:31.120 --> 0:07:33.360 are you frustrated? This is how it's been all year? 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:36.080 And yeah, those guys get paid too. You're just not 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:39.600 magically gonna score forty points in tough escape of the year. 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:42.280 Go ahead, all right, let's talk a little bit about 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:44.800 dak Prescott specifically. I was about to talk about dak 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.800 and I thought he might Dakota look at some of us. 0:07:47.920 --> 0:07:49.880 His stat line he was twenty two to thirty three, 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.160 sixty seven percent completion rate, two hundred and twenty six 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:56.160 yards a touchdown an interception. Quarterback rating is eighty three 0:07:56.200 --> 0:07:58.920 point six not great, but I thought the point that 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:01.760 was most important, most interesting to me was hit six 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:05.119 curios for twenty nine yards including the touchdown, and that 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.160 that run that he the sixteen yard run that got 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.840 them down close uh there on. I guess it would 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:11.920 be first in gold there at the one that to 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.560 me was the play of the game offensively, because that's 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:16.760 how the Cowboys had have to win if they're gonna win. 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.440 That's what Zeke's talking about. He's talking about that play 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:22.360 when he called him a grown ass man, because that's 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:24.200 that's what that was. I mean, that was just it 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:28.120 reminded me, honestly of Marion Barber sometimes of like I'm 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.480 here and I need to get to there, and I 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:32.400 don't give a crap who's in my way. I'm gonna 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.600 just run over people or run through you or flip 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:36.200 around or I don't care. I'm gonna I gotta get 0:08:36.240 --> 0:08:38.760 over there. And that's what he does. He figures it out. 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.600 He figures things out. First pass, I'm gonna throw it 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.920 to gallop, I hit somebody in the suites. Second time, 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:46.959 we're gonna do the exact same thing. We're gonna throw 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.960 a touchdown. He just figures it out, which could have 0:08:50.000 --> 0:08:55.200 been really bad. He missed that again, Oh everybody would 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:57.080 be talking crap. I was like, why would you do 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:59.520 that except for those two guys in the suite or 0:08:59.520 --> 0:09:03.439 whoever caught it. I mean, the first though was horriball. 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:06.680 It was it throws once and you know the fade 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:08.559 and the back shoulder ball. Not that that was a 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:10.920 back shoulder ball, but those balls haven't been there for 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:14.120 him for most of the last two seasons. Round was bad. 0:09:14.160 --> 0:09:16.160 To dust it off in the playoffs and have it 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.520 drop in there perfectly. It was pretty funny. But the 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:20.000 one thing I will say about the past that was 0:09:20.000 --> 0:09:22.160 incomplete there. I don't know if you guys saw, but 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.280 Brian wrote an article this morning. He was talking about that. 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:26.320 He said, what he saw back on the film study 0:09:26.400 --> 0:09:28.920 was that actually they were trying to go to Jarwin 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:32.520 and they actually had Cole trying to pick the linebacker 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.160 I think was kJ Wright in order to get Jarwin open. 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.720 That didn't happen. He went around Beasley so stayed with Jarwin. 0:09:39.040 --> 0:09:42.480 So when Dak saw Jarwin wasn't open, he just basically 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:44.800 took a shot down field, and that's how you end 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:48.040 up with that play and that result. So in that circumstance, 0:09:48.040 --> 0:09:49.439 I'm a little because I was. I was one of 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.240 the people that I I was like, why would you do 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.000 that on third and two? There's no reason to do 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:56.040 that on third and two. But when you see it 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:59.240 from that perspective, maybe the thought was that that was 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:01.040 a play they felt pretty good was going to be 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.760 opening there. It wasn't, and he just took a shot. 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.559 Just yeah, and that and that's the difference. His shots 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:09.920 aren't very good because his shots he doesn't give his 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:12.800 receivers a chance. All the time he's been it's been 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:16.679 like trained in his head, don't throw an interception, so 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:18.440 so try to throw it, you know, away and all 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:20.800 that stuff. And some of the passes are just too 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.760 far away. But the interception he threw to north Brown, 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:26.240 I mean, to me, that one is on him. I 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:29.359 mean because Noah Brown is running free from the linebacker. 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:31.640 He got a lot of space out there and he 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:33.680 just didn't get it out there. And yeah, it looked 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.560 like it was interference. But Cooper will get that call. 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.920 He did get that call. Beasley and Gallop get that call. 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:42.000 No One Brown is not going to get it. And 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:44.400 it's just it's just a bank bank play and the guy, man, 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.000 you know what, at the end of the game, he 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:50.240 did so much throughout the game that the end of it, 0:10:50.360 --> 0:10:52.319 when I was looking at the stat I had completely 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:57.240 forgotten that he threw an interception. I was like, oh, yeah, 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.760 this guy he was like, you want to put him 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:03.280 through And overall he threw a red zone pick. He did, 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:06.640 he did, you can and that will that's fortunately worked out. 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:09.560 That is well, no, but that's that's Dak Prescott, and 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:12.080 that's it frustrates me that people try to like, you know, 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:13.720 it's it's gotta be one or the other. It can't 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:17.439 be everything, like he'll throw that ball. Accuracy is not 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:22.240 his forte and consistency with his mechanics and reading things like, 0:11:22.720 --> 0:11:26.559 all of those are valid criticisms. But third and fourteen, 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:29.520 with the divisional round on the line, he's just gonna 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:32.679 bowl his way to the end zone and say, kiss 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.080 my butt, y'all are going home, And and then his 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:37.239 whole team is going to mob him on the sideline 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.400 and five time all pro Zach Martin is going to say, 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.560 there's nobody else I'd rather have as my quarterback. And 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:47.000 if you don't think that's important. You're dumb. Sorry, it's so. 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:49.040 It's everything. He's got a lot of he's got a 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.720 lot of developing to do as a passer. But he 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:55.400 is a hell of a clutch dude and makes plays 0:11:55.640 --> 0:11:58.920 a plenty for all of his shortcomings. Yeah, so all right, 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:00.920 let's let's move on. Let's talk a little bit about 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:03.720 Let's talk a little bit about Zeke Elliott. His stat 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.120 line twenty six carries for one hundred and thirty seven yards, 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.960 five point three average, and a touchdown. He also had 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:11.920 four receptions for thirty two yards. And I thought the 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.920 most interesting thing here was not just how well he played, 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.520 but how well this offensive line played. Overall. You look 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:20.240 at the offensive line, they only allowed one sack, which 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.480 for this team is a huge improvement. They were regularly 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:26.200 giving up four or five sacks per game. Dak only 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.319 got hit four times, and then they were able to 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.000 allow the Cowboys to rush as a team for one 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:33.320 hundred and sixty four yards with a four point eight average. 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.480 Talk about the offensive line and how they performed, particularly 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:38.520 with Connor Williams in the game. We talked a lot 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.840 last week about the challenges there and what this could 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:43.400 mean for him as far as having to go up 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:46.640 against a pretty stout Seattle front, what do you think 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:50.560 of this offensive line? Well, I thought that, like you said, 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.840 everything there, I mean, they didn't they didn't give up sacks. 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.400 He didn't really get hit. They kept him off balance. 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:58.480 They were balanced. That was the key. I mean, they 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:01.440 were able to run when they needed to, they were 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.320 able to pass um. That's that was kind of the 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:06.640 what the blueprint of this team is. And and I 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.800 thought Zeke, you know, he really did a nice job 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.120 all game, kind of taking what was there, kind of 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.880 dipping underneath some some things. He just he gets so 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:16.880 many I hate to sound like Garrett, he gets so 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.120 many dirty yards though, that's what he does. And then 0:13:19.760 --> 0:13:21.559 every every once in a while he can go back 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.360 to high school and just like, well I'm just gonna 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:25.840 bounce it to the outside and just go for forty 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.560 five yards. There was nobody there in high school. He 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.880 probably scored, but you know, he still though, you don't 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:33.559 really get to do that in the NFL that much. 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:35.400 So all in all, I thought he was great. I 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:38.640 thought the line was better probably the no, the best 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:41.360 game that the line has played all year. Probably, Yeah, 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:45.199 I mean, especially against that front. Dak had a clean pocket, 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.480 and we knew they could run because this same line 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.240 opened it up for one twenty seven in Seattle. So 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:52.240 I had a feeling they'd be able to run. But 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:54.840 Dak had a clean pocket. More often than not. He 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.400 got sacked once. And if you go back back and look, 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:01.120 it was a stunt, which so you know, Connor Williams 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:03.040 is a rookie who hasn't played in six weeks. You know, 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:04.959 you never want to excuse it, but you know, it's 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:06.880 not like guys were just getting beat head up. They 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:09.480 ran a stunt to free a rusher up and that's 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.920 how they got him. And other than that, like I said, 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:15.959 it wasn't just that he didn't get sacked four hits 0:14:16.040 --> 0:14:20.240 so and what thirty two attempts? Yea, so four times 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:22.200 and thirty two attempts that that they got to him. 0:14:22.200 --> 0:14:25.360 I thought he had a remarkably clean pocket. You know, 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.040 Frank Clark gave tire in trouble in Seattle. I didn't 0:14:28.040 --> 0:14:29.960 really see that this time around. I thought they were 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.440 great and him again, what one hundred and sixty four 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.560 yards as a team, And that's it's cliche. And I 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:40.040 know Seahawks the Seahawks fan base is killing Pete Carroll 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:43.080 right now and rightfully so in my opie, which but 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.640 it's hard because there's a fine line between you want 0:14:45.640 --> 0:14:49.440 to establish the run and the Cowboys showed exactly why, 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:51.840 like yeah, like Zeke wasn't gashing them by any stretch 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:55.360 of the imagination. But five six, seven minutes left in 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.680 the fourth quarter you start seeing things that would have 0:14:57.720 --> 0:15:00.520 gone for three yards go for nine yards, and that matters. 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:03.040 So I get why teams want to establish the run, 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:05.440 but if I was Seattle, I would have given up 0:15:05.480 --> 0:15:07.680 on it way sooner than they did. Not to go 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.880 too far into Ram's talk, which we were doing later 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:12.960 in the week, but do you think at this point 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.520 Connor Williams has made a good argument as to why, 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:20.200 regardless of what the status health wise, Sue Philo might be, 0:15:20.840 --> 0:15:22.680 that he should be the guy that starts this week. Yes, 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:25.600 he's made a good argument. We'll take that argument. Put 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.040 it right. Thank you for your argument. I'm glad that 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.080 you're you're making a good argument. I'm glad. Argue glad 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:33.000 it's not just simple, you know it sounds like, yeah, 0:15:33.080 --> 0:15:35.040 that was a great argument, son. Yeah, Now I could 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:36.760 see why you would like to stay out till two. 0:15:36.800 --> 0:15:40.720 I get it, it's still midnight. I'm not there yet. 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:43.600 You're getting there, but um no, I mean I just 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:47.640 think Sue Philo's better, and I just I want him 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:54.760 out there for Sue and Donald. That's what that's which. 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:56.960 This is going to sound defeatist, and I'm sorry, but 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:00.520 like does it matter? Does it matter? This Air and Donald? 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:04.480 I mean, so Sue Philo is more, is stronger, but 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:08.480 Connor is probably more athletic. Donald's both like he's just 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:11.760 a super strong, super fast freak. He's got twenty sacks 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:15.360 from a tackle spot. I mean, I don't know, I 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:17.120 don't know that I will say this why they get 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:19.080 when we when we saw so a Philo have his 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:20.880 first I think it was in his first start, played 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:24.400 really well against Fletcher Cox. Fletcher Cox, who is probably 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.320 second or third best defensive Wich. Aaron Donald's on a 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:31.400 whole different level than anybody else. Fletcher Cox is overpoweringly strong. 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.320 I don't think of him as being particularly quick. Aaron 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:37.320 Donald moves like an end even though he's five ten, 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:41.120 and sometimes he lines up at it. Yeah, so you're right, 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.160 I mean, if I mean, if it was pure power. 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:46.400 I like the thought of Xavier Suahilo working against Sue. Yeah, 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.960 but Aaron Donald's so fast. Well, let's wait and see 0:16:49.000 --> 0:16:51.320 how that ankle is doing first. Well that's a good point, 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:53.680 that is, Yeah, you really want him at one hundred percent, right, 0:16:53.840 --> 0:16:55.400 You don't even want to take a guy at eighty 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:58.280 percent against this guy because he will embarrass you on 0:16:58.360 --> 0:17:00.640 the great the amazing thing that this Olne has been 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.320 able to do and especially this game, like I didn't 0:17:03.360 --> 0:17:06.040 notice anything, and I don't notice anything. That's a good thing. 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:08.520 Like no, I'm saying on the other line, because then 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:11.600 you're not Also penalties. That was another thing that they 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.040 were able to Yeah, pretty how many do they have? 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:17.480 They there were a couple though weren't there from the 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:20.880 offensive line. But what we were used seeing, no, yeah, 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:22.720 it was it wasn't anything close to what we've been 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:26.040 seeing in recent times, I guess, yeah, which was good. 0:17:26.200 --> 0:17:29.640 So and another thing considering all the guys that they've 0:17:29.640 --> 0:17:33.200 been getting out and in like changing and switching around 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:35.480 in the old line because of guys getting hurt and 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:39.359 the fact that they've been able to maintain it. And 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:42.919 although Dak yes we've seen him getting hit plenty of 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:46.240 time this season, but to see where they're at right 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:49.840 now and what they've accomplished so far, I'm pretty proud 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:51.919 of that group. Yeah. I think I think it was 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:56.840 time well used to put to give Zeke I'm sorry, yeah, Zeke, 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:02.440 Tyring and and Zach all time off last week because 0:18:02.480 --> 0:18:04.719 I think that Zeke, to me, he looked and you know, 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:06.920 I talked about this in the Prescott box during the game. 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:08.760 He looked a little quicker to me than he had 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.919 looked down the stretch of the season. I think it 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:13.840 makes a big difference, especially for a running back who 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.520 takes hits almost every play, to be able to give 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:18.440 him a week, to be able to get his legs back, 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:20.160 to be able to not be hit for a week, 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:21.680 I think that makes a difference. And I think those 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:24.000 three guys played like they'd had a little bit of 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.119 time to rest. Yeah, And I mean I think the 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:29.320 being in the playoffs, you know, it will help with 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:32.879 that as well. And that the atmosphere. I don't know 0:18:32.920 --> 0:18:34.719 if you're going to get into that at all, you know, 0:18:35.440 --> 0:18:39.200 but I think one thing that probably needs to be 0:18:40.000 --> 0:18:43.320 you know, just put way aside and it is really over, 0:18:43.480 --> 0:18:46.200 is that at and T Stadium is not a great 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:48.080 place to play as it's not a home field advantage. 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:50.280 Because it is a home field advantage for this team, 0:18:50.400 --> 0:18:53.680