WEBVTT - Player's Lounge: Enough Time To Fix It? 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:08.360 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:16.279 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is the 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:21.520 Player's Lamb broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:26.680 the Star. Now your hosts, Barry Church, Danny McCray, and 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:34.920 Newe Scrugs. Here we are on a Monday in which 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:38.600 the Cowboys did not secure another victory, in which the 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:41.320 Cowboys now find themselves as a number four seed in 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:45.840 the NFCAT instead of the number two seed in the NFC. 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:48.880 I'm Newe Scruggs players Large Box by Hotels dot Com, 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:53.000 joined by four Dallas Cowboys safeties, Buried Churchy McCray, and 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:55.560 I give Barry Church all the credit in the world 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:59.040 because he said on Friday that Arizona will win the game. Yeah. 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:04.000 I was twenty two, the Cowboys twenty four. So mister Church, 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:06.280 how did you know, baby? How did you know? Well, 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:09.360 you know, in the streets they called me Nigro damas man, 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:11.520 so I you know I was. I was taken back 0:01:11.560 --> 0:01:16.800 to my by Nostromo man. And uh I knew, I 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:18.560 knew man going into this game. It was just a 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:20.760 tough matchup, tough matchup, overall, you got one of the 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:24.880 most explosive running quarterbacks in the game, Rick Kyler Murray 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:26.760 and the way he's able to escape and not only 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:29.240 use his legs but also his arm. I mean, the 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:32.240 guy was deadly accurate out there yesterday. So I figured 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:34.760 this would be a tough matchup for US. Um I 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:36.240 didn't throw. I didn't know it was gonna get that 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:37.680 out of hand at first. You know, we've been We 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.240 battled back, you know, made it close towards the second half. 0:01:40.240 --> 0:01:44.080 But that first half really stunned me because Arizona they 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:47.720 were without James Connor fourteen rushing touchdowns, they were without 0:01:47.760 --> 0:01:50.559 their two starting corners on the outside. So I thought, 0:01:50.640 --> 0:01:52.320 you know, maybe this would be kind of a shootout, 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:54.200 maybe Cayla Murray would be able to squeak by with 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.080 a field goal here there. But it wasn't like that 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:59.760 at all, and they started fast. We once again started 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:02.680 and we didn't get that effort or we didn't put 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:06.279 that emphasis on getting number nineteen to football early and often. 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.680 We saw it last week. It worked unbelievable. We got 0:02:08.760 --> 0:02:11.640 him the ball that opened up everything else for the 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.200 run game, for the other receivers out there, and it 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:16.519 just didn't happen. We we instead of you know, fed 0:02:16.600 --> 0:02:20.120 Dalton Scholtz a lot, and you know, the what happens 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:21.760 is what happened. We ended up out there taking the 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.880 l Defensively, I think they played as good as they 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.840 could have against this team, but they were dialed in. 0:02:27.919 --> 0:02:31.200 They were dialed in, and eventually, eventually Diggs is not 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:32.959 gonna bite on the double move. One of these days, 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:34.960 he's not gonna bite on this double move. They were 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:36.760 able to take advantage of him on the outside. I 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:38.560 think A. J. Greener had one of his better games 0:02:38.560 --> 0:02:40.840 as well. So overall, I mean, I think it was 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:42.840 a Colin Murray show and he took over this game 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.200 and went nine to know and Jerry World. Now, yeah, 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:49.079 you know, goodness gracious, yeah, I'll start. I'll start where 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:53.200 you ended off with Diggs. I'm open to, like, listen, 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:56.080 I'll take the interceptions for him getting beat on a 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.400 double move, all right, That's that's it comes with the 0:02:58.480 --> 0:03:00.799 territory when you when you have Trade Diggs on your team. 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:03.359 But his ability to change the game, that's something that 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.200 I'll take, right. But I think what happened when him 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:08.360 was he got hit with a dove move at the beginning, 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.440 and then aj Green just kept hitting him with to 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:12.840 come back, come back, so he didn't want to jump 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:14.680 it after that. So I think they set him up 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:16.400 on that end. But I still think he played a 0:03:16.440 --> 0:03:20.200 decent game. Like nobody went crazy on him. Anthony Brown 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.520 had had a tough game. He's going to continue to 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.120 find the ball coming toward him until he's able to 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:29.280 figure out the way to stop those stop those throws. 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:33.919 But I think the biggest thing is offensively. We talked 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:38.440 about this last week. The defense, like the offense. We're 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.440 not gonna say the week link, but you have a 0:03:40.520 --> 0:03:42.920 strength in your defense, right and you say, hey, man, 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:45.800 if this team can score twenty four like new He 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:49.600 literally said, this team can score twenty four points somewhere 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:51.920 in that range, then we should be able to win games. 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:54.200 We go out there, we miss a field goal which 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.320 would have gave us a twenty fifth point, and we 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:58.600 lose the game. And I'm looking at these people and 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:00.760 they're like, yeah, the defense, I'm not like, what else 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:02.760 you want them to do? They held these dudes the 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.560 fourth field goals they gave and the offense gave them 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:07.680 the ball in their own territory. You know what, I'm saying, 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:09.920 that they've been but not but don't break it. And 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:12.720 I think that was I think that was a help 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.680 of performers by the defense. I think they came out listen, 0:04:15.680 --> 0:04:18.080 this is why I think they had Colin Murray under 0:04:18.160 --> 0:04:21.040 pressure the entire night. All Right, he was able to 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:23.680 get out and scramble. But when you when you have 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:27.080 your you on the on the field for seven eight minutes, 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:29.680 offense gets back up there, it goes three and out. 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:31.919 You know what I'm saying, Like you, you have to 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:33.960 find a way to play balanced football. And I think 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:35.599 for the amount of time that our defense was on 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:37.800 the field, I think they did as much as they could, 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:39.880 like you said, to keep us in the game. They 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.240 gave us every opportunity that we needed. And then we 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.000 also got a fumble at the end, and we don't 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:48.400 got the tip. We don't have the timehouse to fix it. 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:50.840 I think our biggest issue here is the offense. Like 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.520 you said, we don't find a way to feature nineteen 0:04:53.560 --> 0:04:57.679 and twenty one in the game, we will not win consistently. Uh. 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:00.480 When you got two targets to Cede Lamb and Uh 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:03.680 and Amari Cooper and nine carries to Ezekiel Ella, you 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:06.680 do not have a success a recipe for success, and 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:08.200 I just don't think it makes sense. And we're gonna 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:11.000 keep saying this weekend and week out, but it's obviously 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:14.360 not gonna change. Let's go to the offense. Let's let's 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:16.800 talk about this offense for a little bit, because you know, 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:19.600 you know, I think it's hard for me to say this, 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.200 but you know, they were out coached by click Pingsbury. 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:24.480 He got the better of this group as a whole, 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.120 as a team, He got the better of this whole 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.560 Dallas Cowboys team. Because we look at it and we 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:32.200 saw from the very beginning Arizona's defense was blitzing. They 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:34.960 blitzed about seventy to eighty percent of the time against 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:38.960 the Dallas Cowboys. Yet we're still calling plays where Dad's 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:42.000 gotta take a five step drop, Dad's gotta being shotgun 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:43.840 holding the ball for a long time while these routes 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:46.599 are developing. If you see these guys coming on a 0:05:46.640 --> 0:05:49.640 consistent basis, you can't get anything going. You gotta call 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:51.560 some plays where the ball gets out of Dak's hands. 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:55.960 Quick screens, uh, you know, short three step drop some slants, 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:57.640 something to get the ball out of his hands quick 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.960 to slow down that pass rush and slow down there BLI. 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.719 But we didn't do that, and Arizona just kept dialing 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.560 it up, dialing it up, and then once again, we 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:09.599 don't have great blocking tight ends. Why an't we continuously 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:14.560 leaving these tight ends Shoults, Sprinkle, whoever's out there on 0:06:14.720 --> 0:06:18.160 All Pro defensive ends, Chandler Jones. We've seen it from 0:06:18.160 --> 0:06:21.680 the group. Arizona's defense does not get going unless Chandler 0:06:21.760 --> 0:06:24.359 Jones gets going, and he got it going early and 0:06:24.560 --> 0:06:27.160 often in that football game. And for the life of me, 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.159 I just don't understand why we're leaving Dalton shots, who's 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.520 a receiving tight end. He's never he's never acted like 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.280 he was one of the best blocking tight ends. If 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.040 you want to put a block, put McEwen in there, 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:37.640 the big kid from Michigan. Put him in there to 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:39.640 go ahead and try to block. But you got Sholts 0:06:39.640 --> 0:06:42.480 out there blocking against an All Pro defensive end, one 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:45.120 of the best defensive ends in all of football. And 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:47.000 that's what the results is gonna happen. The guy's gonna 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.400 get strip sacks. The guy's gonna make his energy just 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:52.400 be felt throughout that entire defense. They built up on 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:54.960 that momentum that the rest was history. We just couldn't 0:06:54.960 --> 0:07:00.640 get out of the whole. Well. One of the things 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:02.680 that we have talked about here on the players Lounge 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:05.440 is running the football here and it was a tale 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:07.800 of two teams who decided to run the football. Arizona 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.040 made a commitment to the run. He start looking at 0:07:10.040 --> 0:07:14.080 them and what they did for the football game. They 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:17.239 had twenty second half rushes alone, and for the game 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.760 they had thirty two rushes on one hundred and twenty 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:23.280 seven yards on the football on the ground. Meanwhile, the 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:26.840 Dallas Cowboys basically abandoned the run. In the first half. 0:07:27.560 --> 0:07:30.640 Ezekiel Elliot actually the whole game, Ezekiel Elliet had nine 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.680 rushers for sixteen yards. Tony Pollard had three rushes for 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.440 nine yards. But here's the damning stats for me. In 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:39.840 the second half, Zeke had two rushes for zero yards 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.880 and Tony Pollard had zero rushes. How in the world 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:44.840 can you go into a football game and you tell 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:46.720 me that you have those two running backs and they 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.480 only get two carries in the second half and Dak 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:52.640 Prescott ends up being your leading rusher for the entire 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.080 football game. To me, that's a failure. Listen, let me 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:57.880 tell you something and I can hear it now. We 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.560 had negative plays. We had negative plays. Two of those 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:03.440 negative players I can see right now, Chandler Jones run 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:05.840 straight through Dalts Shows and it's and it's and it's 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.800 a negative. It's a negative play. And I'm not fault 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.600 faulting Dalton Shows for this. If you're going to put 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:14.400 the emphasis on running the ball, put a tackle out there, 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:16.880 like what who? It doesn't matter, right, If they know 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:18.720 that you're gonna run the ball, they already lining up 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:20.960 with eating the box. Anyways, put a tackle out there. 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:23.160 Make sure you get this guy blocked, and do not 0:08:23.240 --> 0:08:25.840 let him wreck the game because he moved the line 0:08:25.880 --> 0:08:27.880 of scrimmage. And then now Zeke has no where to go. 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:29.800 And you're like, man, well, Zeke ain't doing nothing. Now, 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:33.320 it's not Zeke, it's not Zeke. It's your scheme. You 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.280 know all year we've been watching Dalts and Shows blocked 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:38.520 and it's like, no, he's a receiver tight end, so 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:41.200 I'm not facing him for this. But help him out, 0:08:41.440 --> 0:08:43.120 Help him out. This a year in and year out, 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:46.040 about helping people when you know that they lack at 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.520 the at a certain skill. Right, if he's not that 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:50.920 good of a run blocker, help him out, a put 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:52.720 a tackle out there. You got you got Terrence still 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:54.880 sitting on the bench, Go put him out there, bro 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:57.400 help him. It just it doesn't make sense. And then 0:08:57.480 --> 0:08:59.600 when you see those negative type of runs, I think 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:01.920 that's when the offensive coordinator goes, oh, yeah, well we 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:03.840 can't run the ball, and then it just turns into 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:07.079 this Tampa Bay game where everybody thought it was amazing 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:09.400 when we played Tampa. But you continue to try that 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.640 throughout the entire season, and you're gonna end up just 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.880 like you ended up twelve rushes for twenty yards and 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:16.880 then Dak Prescott all of a sudden being your leading 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:19.920 rusher because you have not emphasized running the ball. You 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:23.800 will not win playoff games that way. You cannot play 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.480 that way and win, especially when your defense is doing 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:28.440 everything they can, but they end up being on the 0:09:28.480 --> 0:09:30.880 field for extended period of time, and sometimes that happens 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.280 like it happens like you're gonna play teams they're able 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:35.240 to put those type of drives together. Now when the 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:36.920 offense gets back out there, they can't go three and 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:39.280 the out. You gotta help. You gotta find a way 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.280 to help your squad. Right, if you run the ball twice, 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:43.800 it go three and out least you giving them two 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:47.160 three minutes you get out there and just start hacking 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:49.800 and you ain't getting the first down. Your defense like, man, 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.439 what what what are we doing? Five six weeks we 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.440 on this. And this is another example of how I 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:57.600 think Cliff Kingsbury, you know, got the better of this 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.480 Cowboys team, because if you look at Arizona's game plan, 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.680 the outside of a couple, you know, Kyler Murray scrambles, 0:10:03.679 --> 0:10:06.200 you take those scrambles away. They didn't run the ball crazy, 0:10:06.240 --> 0:10:08.800 they didn't gash us or anything like that. Chase Edmonds 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.360 wasn't killing. But what they did was they never gave 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.480 up on the run game, which kept this defense honest. 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.920 Was kept Cowboys defense honest. We know when a team 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:20.760 is forced to throw the football, our defensive ends Parsons 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:22.880 Gregory the Law, they're gonna pin their ears back and 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:26.840 they're gonna get ready to go. But since Arizona put 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:28.680 that run game and didn't give up on it, even 0:10:28.679 --> 0:10:30.680 though it wasn't producing nothing. They might have gotten, you know, 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.839 two point five yards to carry outside of Kyler murray scrambles. 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.640 Even though it wasn't producing nothing. It kept that defense honest. 0:10:36.679 --> 0:10:38.440 So they couldn't just pin the ear back and turn 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:40.200 the corner and go after the quarterback. They had to 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.160 make sure it wasn't a run and then go to it. 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:45.000 And that helps slow down our pass rush and eventually 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:50.199 let Kyla Murray be as effective as he was. So 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:53.400 the Cowboy run game. Let's start to dissect this a 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.840 little bit here. What do we put on the offensive line. 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.440 It's in terms of the struggles that were seeing from 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:00.600 this football team and not being able to run. You know, 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:02.440 I put a little bit on the old line. But 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:06.040 it's hard because they were going against eight man boxes 0:11:06.280 --> 0:11:09.600 the entire time, because Arizona doesn't believe that our past 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:11.960 game and Dak Prescott's arm can beat them. If you 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.640 saw it, a lot of those times, there was you know, 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.160 eight guys up in the line of scrimmage. Whether they 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.240 were blitzing or backing out, they were still giving that 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.560 look to where you're sitting there thinking, Okay, there's no 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:22.600 way we can run against this eight man box. But 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:24.560 to your credit, Danny, you talked about it earlier in 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:27.480 the season. Even though they have that look, sometimes you 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:29.800 still gotta just hit that battering ram. Sometimes you still 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.000 gotta just go at that wall to keep them honest, 0:11:32.040 --> 0:11:34.400 similar to what Arizona did to us. But when you 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:36.400 don't have that, you know when you gotta I gotta 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:39.000 check up out here, I gotta pass the football. It 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.640 creates problems, and it creates trouble for your offense. And listen, 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:43.360 let me tell you something that And they also goes 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:45.160 into the fact that you see, we tried to run 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.040 the boot. You know why it didn't work. We ain't 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:50.240 running the ball, abody, You're not fooling anybody. This is 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.959 the same reason Dak Prescott throws that pick at the 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:54.960 end of the I believe it's a Washington game where 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.200 you're like, man, what is going on? If we run 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.320 the boot, linebacker doesn't really bite on. He biting on 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:00.920 a little bit and then he's able to get back 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.120 underneath the route. The same thing here. If you are 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.600 not going to focus on the run game, we are 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.760 not the only team who sees eight man boxes. Because 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:12.079 teams are gonna dare us to throw it, but we 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.599 are seeming to be the only team who does not 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:17.520 have any answer for it except throw it. We cannot 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:19.760 find a way. Like last week we came out, we're 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:23.440 pulling guys. Layel's pulling, Zack Barnes's pulling, like we're figuring 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:25.760 out ways to get guys on the edge. And this year, 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:28.560 I mean this week, it seemed like that creativity was 0:12:28.600 --> 0:12:32.800 just was lost and gone, like we have no we 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:37.120 have no identity, and our identities should be run through 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:40.320 twenty one and get the ball to nineteen. Somehow we 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:42.320 cannot figure out how to get it. I'm still looking 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:44.520 at the game. I'm saying central Russe comes in and 0:12:44.559 --> 0:12:47.680 he's catching Oh oh listen, greatness to him. That should 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:51.520 not be him. It should be nineteen like getting these 0:12:51.559 --> 0:12:54.720 passos because because other than that, he is like literally 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:56.760 not on the field. Ye that's the true. So do 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.000 you think it's more not you know, the offensive line 0:12:59.000 --> 0:13:01.120 getting beat, you know, man on man or whatever. You 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:04.600 think it's more of a lack of attempts? Absolutely? Absolutely, 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:07.719 you cannot go into a game with Ezekiel Elliott. He 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:10.520 ends the game with nine gears for sixteen yards. Yeah, 0:13:10.600 --> 0:13:12.880 lack of a like, how can he get going? Like 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.679 he's not a necessarily a pass catching running back, right, 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.560 he is a like down the throat, punish you. And 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:21.040 then at the end of the game is where he 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.280 starts to wear on you. Well, ain't nobody. You ain't 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.839 wearing no nobody with no nine runs, and earlier in 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:28.000 that game he looked like he has some juice, Like 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:29.360 he looked early in the game he had a couple 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:31.240 of runs where you know, he got through the lane scrimmage, 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:33.480 show a little bit of burst there. But you know, 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:35.040 we just didn't stick with it long enough. This I 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:36.559 don't know why this is how you know those those 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:38.959 excuses A BS one is all right, we you know 0:13:39.040 --> 0:13:40.640 we got a stack box, so we're not gonna give 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:42.520 it to Zeke nexus. We're gonna wrest him a little 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.959 bit because his knee hurt. What's the excuse? Now, you're 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:47.439 the man in the ball, right, you got one hundred 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:49.720 and ninety million dollars to who you are not focusing 0:13:49.800 --> 0:13:53.280 on on? This team? Makes absolutely no sense. One hundred 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:56.760 and ninety Newey one hundred and ninety ms. It's a 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:01.000 lot of ms. I went back here, just started breaking 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:04.120 down the numbers in the second half, seventeen pass attempts 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:07.080 by the Cowboys offense to seven runs, and of those 0:14:07.120 --> 0:14:10.600 seven runs, only two of them were by the running backs. 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:14.959 So seventeen or two man that is a damning number. 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.760 And that's not what Mike McCarthy has called for this year, 0:14:17.800 --> 0:14:21.200 he says, complimentary football. Mike's talked about that all offseason long. 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:24.400 And so for me, I wonder when is the conversation 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:27.920 the head coach has with the coordinator and the quarterback 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:31.080 about what you're calling or what you're checking into, because 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:35.160 you're just abandoning the run, and clearly yesterday you weren't 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.600 effective at all in the football game and you became predictable. 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:41.520 Do you think it's more of what Dak is deciding 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:43.960 to check into up in the line street because we've 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:45.640 seen it a bunch of times last week, or yeah, 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:47.200 this week. This past week he was at the line 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:49.440 of scrimmage and it seemed like almost every play in 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:51.240 that first half he was checking out of something, or 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:54.240 whether it was making a line twitch or checking from 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.280 past or run, whatever the case may be. Do you 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.160 think it's more of him doing that or what Kellen's calling. 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.200 Let me tell you because also to that what happened 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:05.400 to the tempo like timpo? Timpo is gone when you 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:06.960 line up on the on the ball and then you 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.160 don't snap until his five seconds left because you're checking 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.080 all over the place. I think it's both of them, 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:14.080 but I think Kellen Moore has the opportunity and he 0:15:14.200 --> 0:15:15.600 has to say so to say, hey man, this is 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:17.160 what we're going out here to run. You might have 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:19.880 two checks. Run or pass right and based off what 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:21.600 you see. If it's a man box, I want you 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:23.800 to throw this ball to nineteen. If he's covered, then 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:26.120 go to read number two. If it's seven in the 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:29.120 box and you see too high running the ball right 0:15:29.200 --> 0:15:30.800 or left, that is it. But you think that he 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:32.520 can tell him that, I mean, this is this is 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.040 a guy. I mean, he's not a face in a rookie. 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.080 This is a guy that they gave all that money too. Yeah, 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:37.960 you as coach? Yes you if you If you cannot 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:40.280 tell him that, then then who are you? Right? You 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:42.760 are his coach? Right? Then Quinn can go out there 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.200 and tell any one of them dudes to line up 0:15:45.240 --> 0:15:47.360 and play how we practice on plan all right, and 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:49.360 Kelly Moore should be able to do that as well, 0:15:49.480 --> 0:15:51.760 Especially if you have aspirations of being a head coach, 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:53.920 you need to be able. You gotta have that type 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:56.320 of control over your quarterback. You can say whatever you 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.200 want to. I know knew he's gonna like this about 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:00.400 Jason Garrett and what he did. But when he went 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:02.640 out there called to run, they're gonna run the ball. 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:04.640 He went out there and said throw at eighty eight. 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:06.640 They're gonna throw at eighty eight. Can we get just 0:16:06.800 --> 0:16:08.600 a little of that? We don't have to be all that. 0:16:08.720 --> 0:16:11.240 Can we get a little of Marie Cooper is out 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:13.200 here in the press scene, give me the ball? You 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:16.000 go to him one game against the Washington football team, 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:17.960 who doesn't have all these players. And when you go 0:16:18.040 --> 0:16:20.160 out here against the team that is a playoff team, 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:22.080 that is a litmus test for you. You go out 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:25.000 here and you sleep walk into this thing. It makes 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.720 absolutely no sense for the play callers perspective, and from 0:16:27.760 --> 0:16:30.880 the quarterback if it's him who's checking out of these plays. Yeah, 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.080 I mean, you would love your coordinator to be able 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:34.640 to you know, like you said, talking to be like, hey, 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:36.160 just what we need to do, get it done or 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.200 But it's like a different dynamic between those two because 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.040 they were teammates at one time. You know, they were 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.560 teammates at one time than Kellen Moore was the quarterback 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:45.720 coach that so it ain't like he just came in 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:47.840 and was like, yeah, I'm the boss. You are, you know, 0:16:47.880 --> 0:16:49.480 I mean, you're the student. You're to eat the pupil 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:51.960 you They was at the same level. So I can 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:54.040 see where it's hard for Kelly Moore to just be like, no, 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.720 you better do this or else. Plus, when you give 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:59.440 a guy a paycheck like that, I mean, it's it's 0:16:59.480 --> 0:17:01.480 gonna be hard just you know, to just put him 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:03.600 in his place. But you know, it needs to happen. 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:05.960 Something needs to happen, something needs to change with his offense. 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:10.080 Oh well, Kellen Moore has got a job interview with 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:14.720 the Jacksonville Jacks this week, affording Tom pla sero of 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:19.400 NFL dot Com. So maybe this is the final couple 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.520 of weeks of Dak Prescott and Kellen Moore working together. 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:26.040 We we shall see. 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