WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: What Went Wrong vs. PHI? 0:00:01.360 --> 0:00:03.880 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:07.040 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:10.799 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:10.920 --> 0:00:15.120 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:15.360 --> 0:00:19.480 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:25.599 Wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:25.960 --> 0:00:30.560 Derek Eagleton. It is Monday, November twentieth, two, seventeen, Season thirteen, 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:34.800 episode number seventy nine. Welcome to another edition of The Break, 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:37.680 live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:41.159 And today we've got to talk about that game yesterday. 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:45.000 Cowboys lose thirty seven nine in a game that in 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:48.000 the first half seemed as though maybe the Cowboys were 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.720 doing a lot of things right, specifically on the defensive 0:00:50.720 --> 0:00:53.920 side of the ball. But then after halftime the wheels 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:57.000 fall off and and they end up being outscore thirty 0:00:57.040 --> 0:01:01.000 to nothing in the second half alone. Tough day for 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:04.319 the Cowboys and U and looking like a pretty perilous 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:07.800 situation for them if playoffs are part of their goals 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:10.640 for this year. Let's go around the table and let's 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:13.119 just get some general thoughts of what you saw yesterday. 0:01:13.120 --> 0:01:15.280 And what you're thinking about this team right now, Nick, 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:17.400 I'll start with you, Well, I just thought that, you know, 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:19.040 for the second week in a row, it just looked 0:01:19.080 --> 0:01:22.400 like this team didn't make any adjustments in the second half. 0:01:22.480 --> 0:01:26.000 And you know, they played pretty you know, a pretty 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:29.319 good first half, but you didn't score any any touchdowns. Obviously, 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:32.640 the offense is just really a problem, and you know 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:35.759 you expect that when you're missing Tyron Smith and Zeke, 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:39.520 but you know, you expect the coaching staff to be 0:01:39.520 --> 0:01:42.199 able to kind of rally the troops around a little 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:45.319 bit more and scheme them in position to make more plays, 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.600 and they haven't done that. So and everyone would probably 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:51.360 say similar things, But I thought, you know, coaching staff, 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:53.280 I thought it could have done a much better job 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:55.160 with this. Let's jump to you Amber. What what were 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:58.440 your thoughts. Well, I'm still training to figure out, honestly, 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.720 and this is it wouldn't make sense me to say 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.160 I thought it would be worse when you see the 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:07.360 score and the turnout have things you know obviously turned 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:11.600 out for them. But again, I thought the defense at 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:13.799 the first in the first half, they did a lot 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.160 better than I expected. And I'm sure everyone a lot 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.639 better than what everyone expected without Sean Lee, so they 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:22.680 had a chance there. Again, I don't know how. I 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.560 can't figure out what it is that the offense isn't 0:02:25.600 --> 0:02:29.400 able to really do. Why can't Dak have a better 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:32.360 connection with this receiver When it's not Dak messing up, 0:02:32.400 --> 0:02:36.200 it's the receiver messing up and vice versa and again. 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.880 And he said it last night, it's either if the 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:41.560 running game is not going, the passing game is going. 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:43.799 If the passing game is going, then the running game 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.919 is not going. So they just have to figure out 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:49.000 a way to just get better. And I don't know 0:02:49.040 --> 0:02:54.760 how it gets better from here. Dave, It's certainly not 0:02:54.800 --> 0:02:56.959 the first time the Cowboys have lost in the Dak 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.280 Prescott era. It's not the first time they got in 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.440 their butts kicked in the Dak Prescott era. But I 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:05.160 think that is really truly the first time where the 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:10.360 Cowboys lost a game looked bad and Dak Prescott looked bad. 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.400 I mean, he's not the only one. There's plenty of 0:03:13.400 --> 0:03:15.560 blame to go around. When you lose by what was 0:03:15.680 --> 0:03:17.919 thirty seven, so you were seven nine year by twenty 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.079 eight points, there's plenty of blame to go around. But 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.000 I said on Friday, he's going to have to have 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:25.600 the best game of his career if they were going 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:27.280 to win this game. And I think he had. I 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:29.320 know he had the worst. He had the worst game 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:31.480 of his career last night. Yeah, no doubt. Statistically was 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.320 the worst game of his career. He was eighteen to 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.240 thirty one, fifty eight percent completion rate, only one hundred 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:39.920 and forty five yards, which a lot of that came 0:03:40.080 --> 0:03:43.440 at least final drive drives, thirty to sixty of it 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:47.000 came when the game was well decided. He had zero touchdowns, 0:03:47.040 --> 0:03:51.280 three interceptions quarterback creating a thirty point four It was 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:53.440 not a good day for Dak Prescott. Here's a question 0:03:53.440 --> 0:03:55.200 I have for you, guys. Do you think that it's 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:57.560 at this point are you willing to concede that it 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.000 maybe just too much to put on his shoulders without 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.800 Ezekuel Elliott or do you still think that yesterday pressure 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:05.920 was a major problem for him. He did get sacked 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:09.360 four times. It didn't feel to me, just as an observer, 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:11.480 it didn't feel to me as though he was getting 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.040 an inordinate amount of pressure, especially early in the game 0:04:14.080 --> 0:04:16.640 when the game was more in you know, kind of 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.320 in the balance. But do you think that it was 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.200 the pressure or do you think that that this offense 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.200 really is about Ezequiel Elliott and they can't move the 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:27.680 ball consistently without him. If you want to make an 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:30.960 excuse that somebody wasn't there, that's fine. Tyrn Smith is 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.920 the one because I'm charting it right now. They ran 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.080 the ball for one hundred and twelve yards. They averaged 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:40.080 four point one yards per carry. I'm in the first 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:42.880 half right now. I mean, when the game was close 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:45.400 and they weren't moving the ball, they were still averaging 0:04:45.440 --> 0:04:47.600 four point seven five yards per carry like they were 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:51.320 running the ball. So yeah, but here's here's a statutill 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:54.159 throw it. What were they doing on first that's the 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.760 big difference. I'll tell you the numbers on first down 0:04:56.960 --> 0:04:59.080 when they were running the ball, they were ten of twenty. 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:01.880 They were ten for twenty six yards on first down 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:05.200 in the first half. In other words, in the early 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:07.120 part of the game, when the offense needed to be 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:10.039 moving the ball and getting points, they weren't doing anything 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:11.840 on first down when they ran the ball. That puts 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:13.960 them behind the chains, That puts an orderate amount of 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.640 pressure because quarterbacks and put you behind the chains. That 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:19.080 puts you not good enough in the chains. Like second 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.080 and eight is not behind the chains. Behind the chain 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.679 is second and twelve because you lost yards behind the chains. 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.080 But off schedule a second and eight, you're off schedule 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:28.239 if your second to eight, if you're getting one two 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:32.000 negative yards on first down, that's great you are you 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.080 are behind the chain. If you're off schedule, that's not ideal. 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:37.560 It was good enough, like that's what I'm saying, like 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.080 it was good enough for what it's for them to punt. 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:43.280 You're getting good enough production out of your running game 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:45.720 that your quarterbacks should be able to make plays. Like 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.560 you're telling me if you're averaging if you're averaging two 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:53.200 yards per carry, you're not on first That's what I'm 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:56.000 talking about. That you're averaging two points per yard per 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:58.960 carry on first downs. You're telling me that's good enough 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.600 to be able to move this offense. I'm telling you 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:05.960 that if you are averaging four point seven yards per 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:07.880 carry over the course of the first half, that's great. 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:12.000 If it's second and eight, move the ball again, like 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.320 complete a pass, don't have your receiver drop the ball. 0:06:14.600 --> 0:06:17.640 Don't throw a bubble screen that almost hits the dirt, 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.919 which happened twice in this game. The running game was 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.720 not good by any stretch of the imagination, not by 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:26.560 the Cowboys standards. They ran for one hundred and twelve 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:28.599 yards as a team against the best run defense in 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:31.520 the league. That's more than good enough. That's more than 0:06:31.560 --> 0:06:36.240 good enough. That's honest. That's probably what you well, not probably, 0:06:36.320 --> 0:06:38.359 that might be what you get if Zeke is in 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:40.640 the game. We've seen them do that. We saw them 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:43.320 run for a hundred yards as a team against the Cardinals. 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.679 We saw him run for one oh seven against the Giants. 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.320 Sometimes you're not going to run for one sixty and 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.240 your quarterback has to be good enough to pick up 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:53.520 the slack and normally, you know, against the Falcons you 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.480 get sacked eight times in the game. There are other factors, 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:01.760 all things being equal, everything else was good enough at 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.640 least to score more points than nine, to at least 0:07:04.680 --> 0:07:06.400 course in touchdowns. I don't know if you win the game, 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:10.360 but I thought the running game was there enough for 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:12.720 it to be balanced, for your passing game to be there. 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:16.040 Quarterback didn't show up. The receivers didn't show up. I 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.120 don't think you can pend this on not having Ezekiel 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:19.880 Elliott not based on what I saw. I don't care. 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.520 If they were only averaging whatever yards in the first down, 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:26.040 you should care because that's what starts to drive like that. 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.640 These drives are stalling because yeah, they're doing some nice things, 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:31.240 but then when it gets down to it in the 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:33.560 thirty eight or forty yards, yeah, and let me finish 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:36.400 just a second. They get thirty eight forty yard line 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:39.720 and then it stops like that, everything stops right there, 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.040 and then you do have to you're right, like Dad 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:44.680 needs help. There's no doubt about Dad needs help and 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:46.280 he can't do it on his own. And we're seeing 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.640 him from last year that who the real MVP is 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.360 because he can't do this on his own. And you 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:53.480 know those receivers aren't going to help him, like they 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.960 didn't they failed their quarterback last nine. So I mean 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:59.360 it was it was all in all. I thought that 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.000 you're right about the average yards, but like when they 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:05.000 really needed yards, they really needed to sustain it, that 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.560 they couldn't. So I just thought, all in all, they 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.920 all kind of failed. Decent numbers overall for the running game, 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.200 but I thought it was kind of hollow really because 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:15.760 when they needed to run, they couldn't really get it going, 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:19.240 and the passing game was not there. And don't get 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:23.040 me wrong, the receivers were awful. I mean, Terrence Williams 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:25.640 bad ball that turns into an interception in the first quarter. 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:27.160 I think the first time we've seen that this year. 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.840 Player Dez and Dak typical just didn't look like they 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.839 had their chemistry going. But like like I said, I 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:38.040 like it sounds like y'all are trying to absolve Dak 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:41.199 Prescott of playing like absolutely oh absolutely, that's what it 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:43.640 sounds like. Absolutely not absolutely not. And what I'm I 0:08:43.640 --> 0:08:46.320 guess the point that I'm making is I don't think 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:48.800 at this point in Dak's career he's good enough. You 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:51.080 said it should be good enough, He's not good enough 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:53.440 at this point with the receivers that he has to 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:57.360 be able to overcome every situation, I mean, being put 0:08:57.480 --> 0:09:00.199 consistently in situations where it's second and eight second and 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.840 nine second and ten. I just don't think he's good 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.280 enough yet to do that. If so, that's a little 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.760 disappointing because I think he is. I mean and he's 0:09:07.800 --> 0:09:10.400 played like he has he has played like he's that 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.480 good before he has that, But that I don't think 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:17.880 that's the second and second and eight, second and seven? 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:21.000 What that's okay? Is it ideal? No? But is it 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.520 like he's getting sacked? Is it like they have these 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:26.160 awful holding penalties like we saw back in the you know, 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:28.520 actually during the wind streak where they couldn't get out 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.720 of their own way. If you're good quarterback, you should 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.440 be able to convert second and eight. I mean, like, 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:38.920 that's not this like unconquerable mountain. But they didn't. That's 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.920 my point. Yeah, they didn't. So my point is, okay, 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.400 so what do you I'll ask the question then, so 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:46.559 what do you blame it on the fact that they 0:09:46.600 --> 0:09:48.840 were in those situations and they weren't able to convert. 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.040 If it wasn't on the fact that the quarterback just 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:54.560 couldn't do it, then what was it? Bad quarterback play 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:56.920 and bad just just a complete no show by the 0:09:56.920 --> 0:09:59.440 wide receivers. That's what I put this, right. So, so 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.719 if running game is doing that and the quarterback and 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:05.600 receivers aren't able to overcome it, you've got a problem. Right, 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:07.720 So the running game and again that's my point about 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.480 Ezekiel Elliott. With Elliot's in there, you're not getting a 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:13.080 lot of those second and eight second and nine second 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.200 and tens when he's running the ball in first down. 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:18.280 The average is much higher on first down. That's the difference. 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:20.040 And that's the point I wanted to to kind of 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:23.080 illuminate and talk about, was is this more about Ezekiel 0:10:23.120 --> 0:10:26.160 Elliott and what he's able to do, particularly on first downs? 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:29.920 I think that you know, we're sitting here arguing like 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:32.200 is he important? Like is he Is there a big 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.200 drop off between Morris and there there is? I mean 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:37.840 we all we all know that, and so yes, I 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.720 do think that what we were seeing last year maybe 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:44.040 some parts of this year that you know, Dak's getting 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:47.000 a lot more help and the coverage is much different, 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.360 I'm sure, and the passing game is easier to throw 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.560 the ball to cold Beasley and Witten and those guys 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:55.280 when when you have to, you know, be worried more 0:10:55.320 --> 0:10:58.360 about the running game. I mean, the real issue is 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:00.520 is that there's not a single player on the offense 0:11:00.520 --> 0:11:03.920 that scares the defense, not one player. Are you worried 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:08.679 about this? Looks like the Carolina Panthers to me right now, 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:11.400 like what they what they what they have and they 0:11:11.400 --> 0:11:14.880 have an athletic quarterback who at times can be accurate, 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:17.080 but at times he can be kind of shaky. His 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:20.680 receivers aren't that great. Running game is I'm talking about? 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.240 This cowboy team is kind of suspect. There's times when 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.320 it can look pretty good. There's times when it can 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.040 look really bad. Last night it was really bad, you know. 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.679 To me, this is his year, his rookie year in 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.520 the passing game. Like last year, we didn't really see 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:37.760 him throwing the ball far or any of you know, 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.720 he would play safe. They were relying on the running game. 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:43.240 But last year the difference was he would play it safe. 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:47.800 Short passes, Jason Witten, get Cole Beasley more involved, those guys, 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:50.640 rely on those guys. This year, I feel like he's 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:54.040 really experiencing his rookie year in the passing game and 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:56.679 he's not gonna be great. I mean, we still need 0:11:56.720 --> 0:11:59.400 to remember he's a second year guy and people are 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:03.319 expecting him to ball out and be awesome at everything, 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:05.840 and it's not like that. He just needs more practice. 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.600 I didn't get a better connection with all these receivers 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.200 who are not helping him at all. Well, you guys 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:13.400 at all surprised that in the it was in their 0:12:13.400 --> 0:12:17.560 first I'm sorry, the second series of the game, Cowboys 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:21.240 get down to the Philadelphia twenty seven, it's i'm sorry, 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:24.640 second and six from the Philadelphia twenty three, and that 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.640 was the play where Dak keeps the ball on his 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:32.480 own read runs for eleven yards gets them down to 0:12:32.480 --> 0:12:36.040 the Philadelphia twelve. Were you surprised that they didn't go 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:38.880 back to that the entire rest of the game. I mean, 0:12:38.880 --> 0:12:42.240 it was obviously effective. It's obviously a situation where you're 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.960 trying to create some semblance of creativity in the offense. 0:12:46.040 --> 0:12:47.600 Where you surprised they didn't go back to that and 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:49.240 use that a little bit more in this game? Yeah, 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.320 I remember they ran that. I think it was a 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:54.559 third and two they ran that, but he let Morris 0:12:54.600 --> 0:12:56.560 have it and he just got blown up in the 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.240 back of it. Yeah. No, I mean, yeah, I didn't. 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:01.800 I didn't see half of what I thought i'd see 0:13:01.840 --> 0:13:06.000 in terms of misdirection, getting people on the move like 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.360 they had. You know, they had one play that I 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:11.360 vividly remember where they moved the pocket didn't work out, 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.640 But like they've rant one time, you didn't see any 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:16.840 boots waggles like we talked about last week, like using 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:18.640 the tight ends, Like I know you need to keep 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:21.160 the tight ends to help your protection. And for the 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:24.079 most part, it seemed like that work. But how about 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:28.000 how about some delayed screens or some again boot action 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.160 like we saw so many times last year where the 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:32.440 tight end is a late option in the passing game 0:13:32.480 --> 0:13:36.839 once Dak rolls out like it you when you're not 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.560 when you're not functioning at full capacity, when you don't 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:41.800 have the ability to just line up and run, when 0:13:41.840 --> 0:13:45.160 you don't have Ezekiel Elliott, you'd think there could be 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:49.440 some more creativity. I didn't see any, I mean, and 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:52.000 that sounds like the Cowboys, to be honest with You're like, 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:54.880 we're gonna, we're gonna do our thing. We're gonna this 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:56.680 is what we're good as, Like, well, you're good at it. 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:58.280 When you have one of the best running backs in 0:13:58.320 --> 0:14:00.880 the league, you should probably recon city or your options 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.719 based on what we got here. And you know, they 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.120 they've made a value and effort to try to get 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:11.000 Dez Bryant the ball, like out in space, and you know, 0:14:11.720 --> 0:14:14.480 maybe three or four years ago he was beating people 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:16.840 like that and he was one on one. But he's 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:18.800 not doing that right now. I mean, I don't know 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:20.560 if it was just last night, but I haven't seen 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:22.720 him really do that all year, where you know, it's 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:25.360 just like my guys better than your guy, and you 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:27.880 know he's getting tackled, he's not breaking those tackles and 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:32.080 he's not really being that dynamic. Um, these fifty fifty 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:35.720 balls are not fifty fifty. I mean that that would 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:39.440 be a five hundred, you know, that would bet he's 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.680 not catching him. I mean, I thought it was so telling. 0:14:42.760 --> 0:14:45.840 That was it? Was it the first possession after you know, 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.120 after the long kick return, or it was early in 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:54.280 the game. No, it was, yeah, the one the back 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.560 shoulder ball. Was that the first possession that you know 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:00.120 arguably you had interference? Oh? Yeah, that the first or 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.360 second possession. I'm trying to remember. I don't remember which 0:15:02.720 --> 0:15:04.680 it was. The second possession of the game. They were 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:07.400 down seven three, they go back down there, they get 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:10.840 to the Philadelphia nine yard line. Oh, the third and seven? Yeah, 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.560 well and whatever, the third and Seven's one thing I 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:15.800 thought the play before that was even more telling that 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:19.680 Dez scored on that ball against Savior Rohads last year. 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:21.800 They threw it, you know, they love that play. He 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:24.680 scored so many touchdowns on that play, and I just 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.680 thought it seemed really telling that Ronald Derby tackled him 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:30.280 by himself. I mean, Ronald Derby's a really good cornerback, 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.640 but you expect as Bryant to break that tackle and 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:34.920 he probably scores if he does. At this point, there's 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.560 really not much you can do about that, right, I mean, 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:39.920 the way your team is constructed, Dez is the best 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.600 you got at wide receiver, and what we're seeing right 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:44.560 now is that you're getting really not a lot of 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:47.520 consistent production from anyone else. It was, I mean so 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.240 telling that I get Jason Witten to catch the ball 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:51.800 in the first I think it was the first offensive 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:54.920 play of the game, seven yards, and they didn't He 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:57.120 didn't get another ball the rest of the game. I mean, 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:00.400 it's it's it's almost crazy to even think out that 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:02.320 you got this tight end out here and you didn't 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:05.560 find like, with your offense not even moving, you can't 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:07.280 find another way to be able to get him more 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:10.680 involved in the office and again, I know, I know 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:13.320 without even having watched the tape that they probably kept 0:16:13.360 --> 0:16:16.080 their tight ends in an effort to help their offensive line. 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.240 But that doesn't mean you just have to abandon the 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.560 concept of them in the passing game, Like it doesn't 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:22.120 make sense to me. You know, what I did see 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:23.480 a lot of times is when they did have a 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:24.960 tight what they did they put a tight end on 0:16:25.000 --> 0:16:27.200 the side of Byron Bell and he just chipped him 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:28.960 on its way out, which was fine. That's all you 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:30.480 needed to do is just give him a little bit 0:16:30.520 --> 0:16:33.680 of help and then going to your route. And that's 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:35.400 what they didn't do last week. It seem like they 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:37.480 did more of that this week. We'll talk a little 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:39.400 bit about Byron Bell, but it seemed like he had 0:16:39.560 --> 0:16:42.080 a much better week than what Chaz Green had last year. 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:45.560 Obviously statistically did. But I mean, when you think about it, 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:48.120 I just don't I don't know how you don't get 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:50.600 a guy like Jason Witten more involved in the offense, 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:53.840 especially when it's struggling. That's an easy throw, right. It's 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:56.040 almost like this is like a these are like just 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.280 the coaching staff can only make extreme decisions. Like it's like, well, 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:02.800 Chad Green's gonna play left tackle for Tyrant Smith, and like, 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:04.399 we'll help him a little bit, but not really we 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:06.199 trust him out there. He's on an island just like 0:17:06.240 --> 0:17:09.479 Tyrant is. Well, that didn't work at all and they 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.560 didn't really adjust to it during the course of that game. 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:13.160 And so they come out here and we're like, well, 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.680 we're giving the left tackle help. That's what we're gonna 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.200 help him on every single play. The tight end's gonna 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:19.800 be there, the running back's gonna be there, We're gonna 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:24.960 chip him. Just like there's no there's no malleability to 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:27.160 the game planning, and it sure doesn't look that way. 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:30.119 I mean, there's he threw thirty one passes, seventeen of 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:33.119 them went to the rest of the team and fourteen 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:38.320 go to Dez. I mean, fourteen targets to Dez totals 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.400 sixty three yards. And that would be great if Dez 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:44.480 was making great plays, right right, That's that's what you 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:46.399 see from a number one receiver. You give him a 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:48.879 bunch of targets and they made great plays. It's just 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:50.919 you're not getting the great plays, right, Yeah, he has. 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:54.240 He really has no you know, yard type to the 0:17:54.280 --> 0:17:57.159 catch his average yesterday average with seven point nine. But 0:17:57.240 --> 0:17:59.800 I mean, you know he's not he's not breaking any tackles, 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:05.359 he's doing anything. So it does have any egregious drops. One, 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:08.359 I think he had a drop, Terrence had a drop, 0:18:08.359 --> 0:18:11.080 and Cole had a well I know I was gonna say. 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:14.359 I mean, Terrence obviously had his bobble, and then Cole 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:17.720 Beasley dropped the first down. Yeah, I don't remember what down, 0:18:17.760 --> 0:18:19.760 that just third I think it was third down was 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:22.960 one of Dak's best throws. An utter no show by 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:27.520 everybody involved in the Dallas passing game. I mean, it 0:18:27.600 --> 0:18:31.760 was breathtakingly bad. And I'm like, maybe you're right. Maybe, 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.600 and this is the twenty sixth ranked secondary in the NFL, 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:36.960 but maybe the Eagles change it up. Maybe they thought 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:39.560 they'd be able to stop the Dallas running game without 0:18:39.720 --> 0:18:42.800 really over committing to it. Dak said after the game 0:18:42.840 --> 0:18:44.840 that it really didn't look any different than what he 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:47.120 was expecting, which I'll take him at his word. But 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:50.399 if that's the case, I mean, forcing that ball to 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:52.840 Dez and double coverage on a I mean, I know 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:56.159 it's third down, but that's why Dak Prescott has been 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:59.000 so good he hasn't done stuff like that, like live 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.800 to fight another day if you have to. It's just 0:19:02.320 --> 0:19:06.960 it was everything about that was just incredibly a typical 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:08.760 from what we've come to expect. I do wonder if 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:12.040