WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: What Just Happened? 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:03.800 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:07.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:10.680 a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:15.040 Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:19.400 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:25.279 Wait Well with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:29.440 and Derek Eagleton. It is Monday, December seventeenth, twenty eighteen, 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:32.640 Season fourteen, episode number ninety seven. Welcome to a new 0:00:32.760 --> 0:00:36.240 edition of The Break, live from the SWBC Morgan Studios 0:00:36.280 --> 0:00:39.080 at the Star. And it's a different Wednesday than we've 0:00:39.120 --> 0:00:42.080 experienced in the last six weeks. Been a little different. 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:45.920 Cowboys go out yesterday and lay an egg literally lose 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:49.879 to the Indianapolis Colts in Indianapolis. They lose twenty three 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:53.959 to zero, a game that I guess, by all accounts 0:00:54.000 --> 0:00:57.360 just wasn't The Cowboys just were not playing well on 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:00.600 either facet of the game. As as to Laurence said 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.560 after the game, they got beat offensively, defensively, and in 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:07.160 special teams. It just was not a good day for them. Yeah, 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:09.400 I mean it was the worst game, worst game they've 0:01:09.400 --> 0:01:11.440 played all year, worst game I could remember them playing 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:15.360 in a while, and you know, I think we need 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:17.880 to see exactly what this team really is. I think, 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:22.800 I mean, expectations are different now to Marley, Yeah, I 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:26.640 think they are. For me, I mean making the playoffs. 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:28.480 They still have a decent they still have just so 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:31.360 much of a chance as they did before. But my 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:33.960 expectations of this team are different. If you're gonna play 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:36.760 like that, then yeah, I mean about what you type 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.520 of team you can be. You're not going anywhere in 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.400 the playoffs. This team isn't. I don't know. I don't 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:44.280 get that impression that that doesn't mean that for me. 0:01:44.880 --> 0:01:46.880 For me, I look at it and I say that 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:50.080 they had a horrible game yesterday. I don't know if 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:52.520 that means much for the future. Maybe it does, maybe 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:55.200 it doesn't. We'll find out how they respond against Tampa 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.240 Bay and we'll see what they how they finished the season, 0:01:57.240 --> 0:01:59.600 and then what they do in the playoffs. But you know, 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:01.280 this happens in the NFL. There were a lot of 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:04.880 teams yesterday that lost that weren't supposed to lose. Now, 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:07.240 a lot of them didn't get but yeah, a lot 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:09.680 of them didn't get blanked. And that's a big difference. 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:11.600 But again, I don't know that. I don't know that. 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.119 I take that. I go all the way there off 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:16.440 off of one game. I really hate the words that 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:18.560 are about to come out of my mouth because I 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:23.720 despise the notion that I'm a homer. I hate it. 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:27.079 But yeah, no, I lean way more toward Derek's side 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:28.919 of things than anything else. What I was trying to 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:31.120 say about me, You're a homer, But I mean, that 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.240 wasn't directed at you. That's just direct. You are a homer, 0:02:33.240 --> 0:02:36.519 but that's just not a that's direct realism that's directed 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:40.600 at you. Don't we don't need to go free Amber 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.160 agrees with it. I do agree with whatever, regardless it 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:45.200 it's it. It wasn't intended as a shot at you, 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.359 just in general. You know, I'm I work for the team, 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:49.320 and I'm sensitive to the thought that somebody would think 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:54.160 I'm a homer. But um I this was so bad 0:02:54.880 --> 0:02:58.440 that I view it as more of an outlier than 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:01.680 anything else. Like that's how bad it was. To Nick's point, 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:04.560 this was worse than the performances they put up in 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:08.280 Seattle and Carolina at the start of the season. This was, uh, 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.560 you know, one hundred and seventy eight rushing yards allowed 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:12.760 on the ground. That's that's where it starts for me. Like, 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.119 we've seen this offense struggle. We've seen them bogged down 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:18.040 in the red zone. We've seen the play calling go 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:22.400 out the window. You know, we've seen special teams problems. 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:24.800 What else have we seen? We've seen in the offensive 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.320 line be completely unable to play a clean game and 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.760 protect Dak Prescott. Like all of that stuff is new 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:35.480 to see this defense just get absolutely mauled. Is not 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:39.280 that that's very new? U? I think, you know, I 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:40.800 looked it up that this is easily one of the 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:43.320 biggest rushing totals. It is the biggest rushing total they've 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:46.080 allowed this year. I think it's the biggest one they've 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:50.200 allowed since twenty fourteen. And in twenty thirteen they allowed 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:52.480 this regularly when they were the worst defense in football. 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.320 It was astonishingly bad. Especially you know, I sat here 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:58.400 on this show and talked about how Marlon Mack wasn't 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.960 going to be a problem for these guys. Way wrong 0:04:01.000 --> 0:04:05.200 on that. He annihilated them. But anyway, so it was 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:08.080 so bad that it just strikes me as being uncharacteristic. 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:11.160 Maybe you feel a little too full of yourselves. You don't, 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.440 regardless of your backs against the wall mantra. You didn't 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:17.280 need this game as badly as the Colts did. And 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.360 they're a talented football team, especially on the lines. They 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.880 I mean, god, they all played both lines, and so 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.520 it was horrendous. But I feel a small amount of 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:30.320 confidence that it's just more about being one of those 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:34.240 days than some crazy trend about how bad this team is. 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.640 Amber you know, that was one of my fears. What 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:44.000 happens when the defense gets shut down? What I mean 0:04:44.160 --> 0:04:46.720 right now, the defense has been playing for both of them. 0:04:46.760 --> 0:04:50.880 And yes, that's not fully fair to say, because yes 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.320 they put up some things, you know, as far as 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:57.719 moving the ball with Zeke and all that, But in general, 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:00.320 I would say defense has been playing for both sides, 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:05.599 defense and offense. They've been making the game happen. And yesterday, 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:07.719 I mean, it's scary. It's scary the thing, and that's 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:10.840 I don't know. I don't know what they're going to 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.440 be able to do if that happens again, if the 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:19.080 defense is not able to help, And that was absolutely surprising, 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:21.840 especially with everything that we've been talking about. And I 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:24.160 don't know if Nick made this comment or not at 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:27.240 the beginning of the show, but a lot of the 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:30.760 comments I've been seeing on Twitter, it's like, oh, you 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:35.640 focus on buying hats or like making hats, making shirts 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.159 or the hot boys. This is the hot boys that 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:42.880 gotten there yet? Oh sorry, but feel free. I mean, 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:45.480 and you get pumped, you get pumped and all that, 0:05:45.600 --> 0:05:48.640 but then when something like this happens and you start wondering. 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:50.960 And I'm not saying because yes, you can do things 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:54.760 off the field, and that's fine, it's not really going 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.760 to affect your game. But clearly you don't want to 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:01.480 see them walking getting off the boss with hard hats, 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:05.680 saying hot boys, and then they get they give this 0:06:05.800 --> 0:06:08.400 kind of performance. You know. Marinelli said that they asked 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:10.839 him about what do you think about the hot boys stuff, 0:06:11.200 --> 0:06:13.680 and it was about two or three weeks ago, and 0:06:13.720 --> 0:06:17.880 he said, well, yeah, if it's if they back it up, Yeah, 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:19.640 if they back it up, then I'm fine with it. 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:21.600 If if you're gonna, you know, do that stuff and 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:23.840 call yourself that as long as you go out there 0:06:23.880 --> 0:06:25.880 and you put it on the field, and you know, 0:06:26.000 --> 0:06:27.760 for the most part, I mean, this defense has carried 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:29.599 them all year long, and so that that's the thing. 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:32.600 I mean, when when the defense doesn't carry you anymore, 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:37.320 then you get that. All I'm saying is my point 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.839 from the start was my expectations of this team have changed. 0:06:40.880 --> 0:06:45.480 I think I'm sure y'all's expectations about what they can be. Like, 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:48.080 they're gonna probably make it to the playoffs still, but 0:06:48.560 --> 0:06:51.840 probably probably what were your expectations about what they can 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:55.360 But maybe that's maybe that's the part that's a little yeah, 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:57.960 maybe maybe overinflated that a little bit. Yeah, I mean 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.000 it's like, I think I still think they're gonna make 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:03.520 the playoffs, but I just feel like if you go 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:06.240 out and put a performance like that on tape, then 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.480 you're not the type of team that's gonna go win 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.360 three games. You're okay, So do you see do you 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.840 think a similar thing? I know it wasn't as bad, 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:16.800 but do you think a similar thing of the Rams 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:19.680 today when they were at home and they got beat 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:23.040 down like that by the by the Eagles because their 0:07:23.080 --> 0:07:25.320 starting quarterback in there, right, they got the guy that 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:27.080 they should have had in there all along, right, But 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:28.560 but I think I think that's kind of the thing 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:30.560 when you look at this and that's why to me, 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.320 it's it's just I look at the entire season. Yea, 0:07:33.440 --> 0:07:35.600 And what I know about this team through the entire 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:38.480 season except for yesterday, is this defense is really good. 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.160 They didn't play like that yesterday. Now if they go 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:43.520 back next week and Tampa Bay just runs up and 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.800 down the field scoring points on them, they have no 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.600 answer for it. Now I'm like, okay, so maybe what 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.120 I thought of this defense really isn't true. But I 0:07:51.200 --> 0:07:53.440 know in the NFL there are times when you just 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.640 a team hits. You know, the Saints offense is not 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:59.720 bad because the Cowboys shut them down. They had a 0:07:59.760 --> 0:08:02.360 bad week. Now let's see if they get back on it. 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.360 And seems like by all counts that they did. So 0:08:04.760 --> 0:08:06.960 I'm just saying I don't put so much stock in 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:09.000 that one game. I do think it's a little bit 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.600 troubling though, and it certainly brings up your radar because 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:13.560 now you're like, well, you see one team do it. 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:16.280 Did they expose something that maybe has been there all 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.440 along that other teams happened out yet Well, I don't know. 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:21.480 We'll find out when we see other teams that may 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:23.120 face them and see if other teams can run on 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:25.920 them in the same way that they ran on them yesterday. 0:08:26.080 --> 0:08:28.520 The way I see it, it's more of the Dolphins 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:30.960 just didn't do enough. And yes it was a bad 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:34.040 game by the defense, but the offense is just not 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.280 helping out. And it's like, but the Dolphins do anything 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:38.320 different yesterday than they've done most of the years. They have, 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:42.320 but that's the problem. I get that, But they had 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:44.080 They've had a lot of games last They've had a 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:45.640 lot of games this season where they've done the exact 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:47.679 same thing. They move the ball down the field, they 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.160 get to the red zone, and they stall out. We've 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.760 seen that many times. We know there's a problem in 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:54.640 the red zone for this team. We know that that 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:57.559 was not different yesterday. The defense was the difference because 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.280 usually the defense keeps them in games and allows at 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:02.240 least until they can get to a point where maybe 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.439 they get something going and can actually get some points 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:06.079 on the board. The defense keeps them in the game. 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:08.520 They didn't yesterday. Yeah, I want I want to give 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:10.360 credit to Bob Sturnam for this. He does a lot 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:11.880 of great work for the athletic I don't want to 0:09:11.880 --> 0:09:15.200 just cherry pick his stats. But made a fantastic point 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.400 in his right up today. And the offense was obviously terrible. 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.440 I'm not making excuses for that, but the offense was 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:24.440 moving the ball in the beginning of the game. You know, 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:26.800 I actually thought Scott Lenahan was doing a great job 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:29.200 of play calling while the game was still you know, 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:35.040 zero zero seven, nothing, etc. Etc. The Colts scored on 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:38.640 their first, third, fourth, and fifth possessions of the game, 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:42.880 I believe if I remember that correctly. And yeah, so 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:45.000 the offense clearly didn't hold up there under the bargain. 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.760 They didn't score any points. But that's been the way 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.240 this team has played all years, that the defense keeps 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:52.640 this thing close while the offense gets its act together. 0:09:53.000 --> 0:09:56.880 And that just wasn't happening yesterday. Again. I mean, I 0:09:56.960 --> 0:09:58.959 for all of the different takeaways you can get out 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:03.280 of here, the fact that Marlon Mack averaged what was 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:05.360 it like five and a half yards per carry and 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:08.280 at one point during the game five point one yards 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:09.800 per carry, and at one point during the game it 0:10:09.840 --> 0:10:13.160 was as high as seven eight nine. They just got gashed. 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:16.240 And I think it's a testament to the Colt's offensive line. 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:18.520 I mean, we knew quin Quinton Nelson. You know he's 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.079 people said he's the best guard prospect to come into 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.640 the NFL draft in recent memory. They'd get their starting 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:28.400 center back. Braden Smith handled DeMarcus Lawrence all day. I 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.000 think those guys were good enough to wash these linebackers 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.040 out of the game, and nobody has done that to 0:10:34.200 --> 0:10:37.400 Jalen Smith and Layton vander esh during the last month, 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:41.320 month and a half, and it clearly made a difference yesterday. Yeah, 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:43.439 I think I think that was one of the biggest things. 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:45.800 You look at the linebackers just today. That was not 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.240 a typical performance for them, and there were so many 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.839 times when either they couldn't get off blocks or they 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.600 were just completely out of position and couldn't make tackles him. 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:55.400 So you saw these huge holes in the middle of 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:57.720 the line and nobody there to fill the gap. It's 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.240 bad when you have a quarterback like Andrew Luck who 0:11:00.320 --> 0:11:02.520 has carried and can carry a team the way he 0:11:02.559 --> 0:11:07.560 can when he finishes with one ninety two that he 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:09.760 didn't He could have thrown for four hundred if they 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:11.640 needed him to. He just didn't need I mean, he 0:11:11.679 --> 0:11:13.840 was playing Dak Prescott ball like whoop here you go, 0:11:14.000 --> 0:11:16.920 here's five yards, here's eighteen yards. Break that tackle, all right, 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:18.520 and then I'll hit the third and four when I 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.040 need to like it. I mean that's that when you 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:23.480 have balanced like that, that's how the Cowboys win games. 0:11:23.480 --> 0:11:27.840 And it was striking yesterday. Yeah, everything was better. I 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:31.800 mean we thought it was about fifty fifty, you know 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:34.440 in the fans, and I would definitely a lot of Cowboys. 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:36.400 I would imagine maybe they were a little ouder. I 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:38.319 don't know. I don't know about that, but everything else, 0:11:38.600 --> 0:11:41.360 the coaches did a better job. I mean Matt Eberflus, 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:43.040 I mean, of course, this was a huge game for 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:44.840 him and he goes out there and shut something. That's 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:48.600 a defensive coordinator for the Colts. Kidding me, I mean, well, 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.400 I know that they can't they couldn't score. They let 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.320 him have, let him be the what player of the week. 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:56.720 He was the player of the week for Sunday Night Football. 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:00.200 Let me ask, did you think do you buy into 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:03.120 the idea that sometimes a guy that's been there and 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:07.040 he's seen he certainly knows whatever things can can stop 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:09.920 this offense with Dak and Zeke. He probably knows the 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:11.720 things that have given them problems in the past when 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:13.720 he was here, and so maybe that gives him an 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:16.120 opportunity to be able to go into a game saying, 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:17.719 here are the things I know we're gonna do that 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:20.839 we'll shut down that office. Yeah, that's why you watch 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.800 the opponent. You watch games, and you have people that 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:27.360 that's their job, and so I don't think that gives Yes, 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:29.360 it helps him out, but I don't think that gives 0:12:29.400 --> 0:12:34.280 you a great amount of advantage. Season White beat New 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.960 England Patriots earlier this season, their head coach was a 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:39.240 defensive coordinator in New England. I think it does help 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.200 a little bit more than just saying it it doesn't know, 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.520 maybe helps a little bit. I think we've seen examples 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:47.200 where it certainly things that are not normal happen when 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:49.600 you have a guy that has so intimately involved in 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:51.200 one team and then the next year he's the head 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:53.040 coach or a coordinator of the polit team. I'll tell 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:54.959 you what also helps. And you know you want to 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.400 call it an excuse or whatever, but when Everflus was 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:02.160 the defensive coordinator, here, hen't facing Adam Redman and Connor 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.559 Williams at guard, and you know you can say it 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:06.520 all you want to about, well, the next man up, 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:09.040 but that's not the case here. I mean, the next 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:11.120 man up is never as good, or you wouldn't be 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:15.360 the next man And they can't just keep taking hits 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:18.559 to this guard position. And that's what happened again. Who 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:22.800 a Field goes down with an eye injury? You know 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:25.880 it just you've already got Zach Martin out of the 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.160 game and it was bad. I mean, Redman did not 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.880 look like he held up well at all. Okay, so 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:32.760 let's let's let's go down that path a little bit. 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:34.760 I want each person to tell me, do you think 0:13:34.800 --> 0:13:37.319 that now maybe the Cowboys have hit a hit a 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:39.720 sit point in the season where what's happening on the 0:13:39.720 --> 0:13:42.160 offensive line has really caught up to him and there 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:44.240 is no answer for it because you can't just go 0:13:44.280 --> 0:13:46.800 out and get better players at this point. Injuries have 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:48.320 caught up to them and that's going to be a 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.560 problem for them going forward. Well, yes, they have caught 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:54.880 up to him, and this whole rusting. You know, Zach Martin, 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:56.520 if he can play, he needs to play. This is 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:59.520 the most winnable game you've got on the schedule right here. 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:01.600 If you don't win this game and you're not in 0:14:01.640 --> 0:14:05.200 the playoffs. You know, you've got to win. This is it. 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:08.280 This is your your game right here. So he needs 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:09.720 to play if he can play, I mean, if if 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:12.319 that's the issue, he needs to come back and this 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:15.200 is no rusting period anymore. It gets time to play. No, 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:19.400 But that's I mean, and you know, and that's things 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:21.520 changed so much in the aftermath of these games, and 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:24.400 it was ugly, don't get me wrong. But I don't 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:26.360 know this for sure, but I feel like Zach Martin 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.760 probably could have gutted through that yesterday if he wanted to. 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:31.160 Not not that if he wanted to, but if they 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:33.280 had to, you know, if they had to have that, 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:36.280 if they were you know, five hundred and it's winner, 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:38.840 don't make the playoffs. I feel like maybe he could 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:40.240 have got it through that, but they didn't have to 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:42.400 do that. He gets an extra week, and I feel 0:14:42.520 --> 0:14:44.480 much more confident that he'll be able to play against 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.800 the Bucks because of that Suafilo, for you know, from 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:51.480 all the reports is gross, nasty eye injury. It sounded 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:54.600 like it really really hurt. But the report's coming out 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.240 this morning or that he should be all right. So yeah, 0:14:57.360 --> 0:14:59.280 I mean, obviously they've dealt with a ton of injuries 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:02.600 on this thing. I think they can get themselves geared 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:04.680 up for this game, and that's part of the nice 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:07.880 thing about having this cushion is you know they can 0:15:07.920 --> 0:15:09.920 hopefully get Martin back for this game. I think I 0:15:09.960 --> 0:15:12.280 don't think Suaphilo will have to miss it, so they 0:15:12.320 --> 0:15:15.480 can weather this. And as much as you want to 0:15:15.480 --> 0:15:18.680 overreact to an ugly loss, it doesn't change that they 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.480 should be in a better spot playing the Bucks. You 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:24.200 know what sucks is that going to training camp and 0:15:24.440 --> 0:15:27.760 heading into training camp, I really thought this offensive line 0:15:28.000 --> 0:15:31.240 was looking pretty good. I thought they had done their 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:34.520 homework and brought in some guys to help in case 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:39.320 Tyren Smith went out or whatever. So I'm like, man, 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.080 I'm excited. I'm excited for this, and I'm glad they 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:46.400 finally were able to take you know, prevent things, or 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:50.440 you know, get backed themselves up with something. And now 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.800 look at this, like everybody on the old line basically 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:57.520 has suffered something except for Joe Looney. He's the only one. 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:01.400 And then I'll still play he hasn't, but he didn't. 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:03.840 He have something that he dealt with, like nothing major, 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:11.040 but he up, but okay, Lyle penalties. Yeah, he hasn't played. 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:13.600 He hasn't played, Yeah, right, yeah. So it's like a 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:17.040 mix of different things that just have happened, and they've 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:20.880 been hanging onto that. And you know, I think there's 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.240 a rap song that says, if it ain't one thing, 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:31.040 it's another left another. I think that's too good thing, 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:35.880 go ahead, compound word. It's a kind of fantastic example 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:38.360 of life in the NFL. I mean, what you know, this, 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:40.960 this Dallas line was the talk of the league for 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.280 so many years. They were so good, it was so effortless. 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:47.240 What's Travis Frederick's long term future? Do you need to 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.160 spend draft capital or free agent capital at tackle? Like 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:52.560 it's the I wonder about that. You know, I'm not 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:55.240 trying to end Tyron Smith or Lyle Collins's career. I 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.720 think they're both good players, but it's certainly something you 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.000 should have your mind on. And then you look across 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:05.320 the line at Indie. Andrew Luck got murdered for most 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:07.240 of his first four years in the league. And now 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:09.960 you're like, oh my god, these guys are great and 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:13.960 they're young, and they're gonna Having watched that game, and 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:16.760 knowing what I know about their roster, I expect them 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.680 to be an AFC contender for years to come based 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.399 on that line though what you just started. And they know, 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:24.760 of course that doesn't of course that doesn't mean anything, 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.560 but did you get two years frown? They've got the 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:31.920 foundation to have a really great team. But well, and meanwhile, 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:34.479 like you're sitting here with the Cowboys like you had 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:39.080 the foundation two sixteen, and and it's it's not Jackguards 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:41.960 at the Foundation last year. It ain't it ain't get on, 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:44.960 but it certainly doesn't look great. And it's yeah, it's 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.240 a it is it not for long league, that's for sure. 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:49.240 All right, let's take our first break. Let's come back, 0:17:49.440 --> 0:17:51.359 and we're going to dive a little deeper into some 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:53.800 of the parts of this game that were troublesome. We'll 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:55.359 also get some calls. Give us a call eight eight 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:57.400 eight eight five five two two nine seven. We want 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.480 to hear from you guys throughout the show. Again, the 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:01.800 numbers eight eight eight, five five two two nine to 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:03.800 seven will be right back. If you're like me and 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.440 you love I mean, if you have a right thing, 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:09.400 then cutting the chord is scary. 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