WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Truck or Trailer 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:07.080 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:19.200 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:22.919 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:27.280 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:32.640 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:38.959 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:43.720 It is Thursday November nineteenth, twenty twenty, Season sixteen, episode 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:46.560 number sixty seven. Welcome to another edition of The Break. 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:51.280 I'm Derek Eagleston, joined by Dave Hellman, Nick Eatman, Amber Garcia. 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:54.120 We're at the s WBC Mortgage studio at the Star 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:56.400 at least Dave and I are. We got our crew 0:00:56.400 --> 0:00:58.520 with us, and we're gonna spend about forty five minutes 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:01.960 today talking to Cowboys football with you. Guys. We're gonna 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:04.680 have here coming up shortly. Bucky Brooks will be joining us. 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:09.319 He'll have some insight on the Minnesota Vikings defense versus 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:12.440 a Cowboys offense. We're also going to have a topic 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:14.280 today that Nick brought up to me. If you were 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:18.000 listening to the show yesterday, you heard Bucky make reference 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:21.920 to this idea of a truck or trailer and if 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:23.600 you don't know what that means, just stay tuned. We'll 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:25.480 talk about it a little bit later. But that's gonna 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:27.679 be an interesting topic we'll get into. We're gonna talk 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:29.760 about Dak Prescott. Is he a truck or a trailer? 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:32.720 Through that in the second segment of today's show, and 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:35.080 then we'll get some fan questions in the final segment 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:38.080 that Amber's pulled together from you guys out there on Twitter. 0:01:38.120 --> 0:01:39.440 By the way, if you want to send some questions, 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:41.400 you can also hit me on Twitter at Derek Eagleton 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:44.120 and I'm sorry at the Eagleton I think it is 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:46.760 and you can and I'll take some questions there as well. 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:50.200 All right, so let's first get some updates on some injuries. 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:54.560 Let's start with Tyler Battish. He did not practice yesterday. 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:57.680 Has a hamstring injury. Dave, how long is he expected 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.000 to be out at this point or do we know? Well, 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.000 we've kind of we figured when it happened that you're 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:05.080 probably talking about a multiple week injury. I would guess 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:11.160 somewhere between two and four. You know, Mike McCarthy hates 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:13.680 giving timelines, but you can kind of read between the 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.320 lines and think that he was not placed on IR, 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:20.200 and especially in a season where IR is only three games, 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:24.040 that gives you optimism that it's not super long term. 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:28.240 So he's not gonna play against Minnesota, but and probably 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.680 not Thanksgiving either because it's you know, short week, but 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.160 maybe Baltimore or the week after that, Like I would 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.799 guess it's too Like I said two to four, just 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:39.480 depending Nick, do you expect it when Beatist is back 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:41.760 that he will jump back into the starting lineup or 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:46.760 they will they stick with their original starter, who's Joe Looney. Well, 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:49.760 I think that depends on what happens here in these games. 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:54.480 Especially you know, if if Looney plays against Washington in 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.840 a couple of week a week I guess a week 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.800 from today. It's just because we saw what happened the 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:03.919 first time around, and you know, maybe you need a 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:06.720 veteran presence in there that that will help push the 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:09.519 pile more So. I just think that it'll it'll come 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:12.640 down to who's playing better. I mean, I thought Louney 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.840 played a pretty good game decent, I guess against Pittsburgh, 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:18.200 and and you know, I think that they want to 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:20.720 see Beotish, but he's gonna have to be head and 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:24.400 shoulders above. You know what Joe Looney is and you 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.240 gotta just factor in how they're playing and how the 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:29.560 team is playing. As you know, if it's two losses, 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:33.359 then probably be Odish Amber. How much do you think 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:36.800 that this time away is hurting Beodist. We've talked about 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:39.920 digs and how he was progressing throughout the season. This 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:41.880 is another one of they're promising rookies. How much does 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:45.800 this hurt him at this point? I mean, it's always 0:03:45.800 --> 0:03:48.040 gonna hurt a rookie, but I think because of the 0:03:48.160 --> 0:03:51.160 nature of the position, I think this is a situation 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:54.520 where I see it hurt him more a cornerback rather 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:57.080 than a center, a guy that plays the center, and 0:03:57.120 --> 0:03:58.960 he's been doing a good job and all of that. 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:02.400 And you know, sitting to Mike McCarthy, I hate how 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:05.640 secretive he tries to be. Like, I get it, But 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.800 at the same time, I mean, what's the difference of 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:11.600 you just saying, Okay, Joe Luini's gonna be our guy, 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.440 or no, we're maybe thinking of having Beardish back in 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.800 the makes here pretty soon. I don't get that part, 0:04:18.920 --> 0:04:22.760 but clearly he's trying to maintain all his o line 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:27.680 combinations a secret and hopefully hopefully for something good. I'm 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:31.080 still waiting to see good, but hopefully it gets better. 0:04:32.120 --> 0:04:34.400 All right, let's move on. Let's talk about Randy Gregory. 0:04:34.440 --> 0:04:37.000 He is not He did not practice yesterday and Mike 0:04:37.120 --> 0:04:39.400 McCarthy said he doesn't expect him to practice the day. 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.279 It is an illness. Do we know anything more about 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.679 where this is or is this something that that would 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.239 maybe start to get to a point where it affects 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:49.440 his ability to play this weekend? We know it's not 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:54.640 COVID related. That's about it. So not really, I mean, typically, 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:58.680 I always that's a really interesting football thing. I think 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:01.560 is you know, well, I mean even you know, if 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:03.160 you catch if you catch a cold or the flu, 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:05.599 you're probably you know, it can be like a multi 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:07.800 weak thing. But even if it's just a little thing 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.599 three or four days, most of us, you know, football 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:13.640 players are typically back on the field after missing like 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:15.960 one day of practice because they've got or play through 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:17.960 it or play through well yeah, but sometimes but you know, 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:19.720 you've got these staffs that will give you a Z 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:21.840 pack or just hook you up to an IV and 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:23.760 just basically flush it out of you. In a day 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:26.560 so I do. I can't count how many times I've 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:28.520 seen a guy listed with an illness who's back at 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:30.360 practice the next day. So the fact that it's two 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:33.800 days in a row for Randy is is interesting to me. 0:05:34.200 --> 0:05:36.159 I don't know what it means for the weekend, but 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:38.680 I mean, Nick, would you agree with that? Like, it's 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:41.080 pretty I feel like it's pretty unique for a guy 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:46.520 to miss multiple days of practice with an illness. It is. 0:05:46.839 --> 0:05:50.360 It's also unique that you can't cough anymore and without 0:05:50.360 --> 0:05:52.680 people looking at you and going like, what's going on here? 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:56.160 So like like I wonder if and I don't know this, 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.760 I just wonder if when it comes to that, it's 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.559 you're even more are cautious about it. I mean, if 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.320 you go back and look at the Steelers and the 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:08.880 guy that was tested positive for COVID, I mean he 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:10.960 was advanced McDonald. I believe that he was on the 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:13.920 injury report with an illness just a couple of days before, 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:16.720 So you know you have to I'm not saying they're 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:20.000 all related. I just think I think now used to 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:21.760 be that that was the one thing you saw on 0:06:22.000 --> 0:06:23.919 the injury report and you weren't really worried about it. 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.960 Now when you see it, everyone kind of freaks out, like, oh, yeah, 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:28.520 you know, is it a knees and a back? Now 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.280 it's an illness, And so I think I think that 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.920 there's more cautious about it. Yeah, you just think about 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.400 it from the standpoint of how we're all being told. 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:37.800 And I'm not talking about just us that work for 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:40.080 the Cowboys. I'm talking about in general. People are being 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:43.200 told if you feel sick, stay home. Right as before, 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.480 you know, you got some coal symptoms. You're like, if 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:47.360 I if I feel okay, I'll still go to work. 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:49.200 I'll be fine. I can just go, you know, kind 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:52.120 of go through it. Whereas now, like I think most people, 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.400 as Nick said, you start coughing everybody around you, He's like, 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:56.720 why are you here? You shouldn't be here if you're coughing? Right? 0:06:57.000 --> 0:06:59.440 How much? How much not to like derail it, but 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:02.080 like life is just gonna be so different even when 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.440 this is all old. Yeah, Like the number of times 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:06.760 that I've come into work with the sniffles because I 0:07:06.880 --> 0:07:09.560 felt terrible, but not so terrible that I couldn't work. 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:12.440 Like nobody's gonna do that anymore, or you shouldn't really 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.000 you know, I think that's regular life as a working 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:18.840 adult in America. We take work very seriously and so 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:22.680 we don't typically take time to get ourselves healthy when 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:24.720 we're not feeling good. We just work right through it. 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:27.360 And COVID I think changes that quite a bit. So 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:30.160 maybe again, I'm not saying that that Randy has COVID, 0:07:30.160 --> 0:07:31.720 and that's not what I'm saying at All I'm saying 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.120 is all it takes is a cold. And I'm sure 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.080 there are probably gonna be people that are gonna say, Randy, 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:38.200 stay at home, Like, just stay at home, Let's see 0:07:38.240 --> 0:07:40.040 how this goes, see if you feel better in a 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:42.680 couple of days and then come on back, versus just 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:46.840 kind of working through it. I know what you're laughing at, Nick, 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:50.880 stop it. No, No, you don't, I promise you thought honestly, 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:53.400 I'll tell you. I was just thinking about the fact 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:55.680 that we've all done it, or we've seen people there. 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:57.880 You know, you've been in a movie theater and someone 0:07:57.920 --> 0:07:59.680 like sneaks in a coke because I don't want to 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.120 pay or PEPSI they don't want to, you know, have 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.440 like a nine pay nine dollars one and they just 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.320 coughs because they're open up the can. Man, you do 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:09.840 that now, and it's like, get this guy out of here. 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.120 I don't care what the soft drink he's coughing on me. 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:13.720 You know, you're just trying to like cover it up. 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:16.240 People cover up lots of things with coughs. You can't 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.679 do that anymore. First of all, I question I question 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:20.200 people that decide they want to go sit in the 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:23.040 movies theater for two hours these days and watch a 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:26.840 movie and have food and drinks. But that's just my thing. Yeah, 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:29.480 I can't imagine when I'll want to do that again. No, 0:08:29.800 --> 0:08:32.920 I'm good, I'm good. All right, let's real quick. Zach Martin. 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:36.160 He was limited yesterday with a calf injury. It sounds 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:40.840 like it's not much, but as we've learned here, you 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.000 never go the route of saying it's not much. You 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:44.600 always have to keep an eye on it. What are 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:48.040 you guys here? Uh, Mike McCarry went, I'm Nick's laughing 0:08:48.080 --> 0:08:50.760 because he's still dealing with a calf injury from two 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:56.079 summers ago or was it last summer athlete? Non athlete exactly? 0:08:56.280 --> 0:09:02.320 There you go, Um, that's fair. I mean over forty 0:09:02.520 --> 0:09:05.160 non athlete shouldn't be out there. You get hurt, you 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.600 get you know, it'll take two years to get back. Yeah, 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.280 but Zack Martin, what are they saying day? I think 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:12.840 Zack Martin will be fine for Sunday. Mike said this 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.800 morning that it's really more precautionary than anything. He said, 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:19.160 they want to be very cautious the week after a 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:22.040 bye week, just Eason back into practice. So, I mean, 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:24.959 it's a tweak, but I don't I don't think it'll 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:26.720 be a big deal for the weekend. And I would 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.240 assume they're probably being even more cautious this year because 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.440 they didn't even have those practices last week that they 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:34.320 thought they would have because they had to kind of 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:37.120 do everything a lot of things virtually. So so yeah, 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:38.520 it probably makes a lot of sense that they're going 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:40.480 to ease him back in. Here's what's gonna do. We're 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:42.959 gonna go ahead and head to an early break. Here, 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.520 we got Bucky on the line. We'll come back from 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:47.520 the break. We'll jump right in with Bucky. We'll talk 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:50.320 about this Minnesota defense versus a Cowboys offense. 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We're 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:27.320 talking today about the Cowboys offense versus the Vikings defense, 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.800 and I can start today with asking you our general 0:12:30.880 --> 0:12:33.800 question because this defense to me seems kind of like 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:37.360 they're very, very just middle of the road. So tell 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.520 me what is the best thing that they do and 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:45.080 the thing the way that they're most vulnerable. You know, 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:47.319 here's the thing. This is the worst defense that Mike 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:50.000 Zimmer's ever had up in Minnesota. And that's because he's 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:53.360 created such a high standard for production and performance on 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:56.080 that side of the ball. But this is the worst 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:59.360 when it comes to total defense, scoring defense down at 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.280 the bottom of the act. That's it. They started to 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:04.040 play well the last few weeks. And I will say 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:07.200 the guy that we always talk about will be Eric Kendricks, 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:09.000 because Eric Kendricks is the leader in the middle of 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.000 the defense. He's a traffic cop. He's the one that 0:13:11.080 --> 0:13:13.880 kind of handles all the communication, making sure that everyone 0:13:14.000 --> 0:13:17.160 is lined up. But his partner, Eric Wilson, is an 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:22.520 absolute stud. Three sacks, three interceptions, a couple of force 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.680 fambles and fumber recoveries. He is all over the field. 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:28.880 And so I would say what is different about this 0:13:28.960 --> 0:13:31.880 version of the Vikings and the passage has always been 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:34.520 about their front four and who they have upfront. News 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.400 some decent guys up front, but these second level defenders, 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.720 Wilson and Kendricks, they are the ones that get it done. 0:13:40.040 --> 0:13:42.079 And they've been able to incorporate a bunch of young 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:44.440 guys in the secondary. And so it's still a work 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:47.440 in progress, but as a defense that is trending upward 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:52.000 after getting off to a very very slow start. Bucky, 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:55.200 I want to know how much her quarterback is going 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:58.199 to struggle in this game, and just in general, whether 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:02.199 that's you talking about their defensive line in creating pressure 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:06.040 or just maybe protecting the ball down the field and 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:09.640 just you know, against the passing game and all that 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.880 just tell me how much or how concerned I should 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:16.280 be about the quarterback situation in this game. Well, I mean, 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:17.880 I think you always have to be concerned about the 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:21.160 backup quarterback starting and then what Kelly Moore is going 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:24.400 to do to help him. If Kelly Moore treats Andy 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:26.440 Dalt like he's Dak Prescott and they throw the ball 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:28.920 forty to forty five times, it's a recipe for disaster 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:32.239 because Mike Zimmer is going to take away Ezekiel Elliott 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:35.040 and he probably has Tony Pollitt high on the priority 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.200 sheet to slow him down, and he wants to put 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:40.120 the game on Andy Dalton's shoulders. And with the offensive 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:43.520 line still being relatively inexperienced, they want to go with 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:46.880 that double a gap. Look, they're gonna show pressure, they're 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:49.200 gonna fall out, they're gonna bring some pressure, and they're 0:14:49.200 --> 0:14:51.400 gonna put a lot of heat on the quarterback. And 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:54.000 so it's really important that Dallas is balanced, that they're 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:56.920 able to have some symbolis of a running game so 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:59.960 they don't get into a traditional straight drop back passing 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:02.240 game because you don't want to face Mike Zimmer when 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:04.920 he's dowland it up and being a mad scientist as 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:08.560 a play caller. This feels like a pretty classic case 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:11.880 of like the NFL being not for long, Bucky, because 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:15.280 I mean, these teams played last year and the Vikings 0:15:15.400 --> 0:15:20.400 rolled in with Daniel Hunter, Everson Griffin, Lynvall, Joseph. They 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.840 don't have any of those guys right now. They don't 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:25.480 even have Yannick and Gagway, who they traded for at 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.240 the start of the season. So if I am to 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:31.400 assume that Terrence Steele is starting, and that is what 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:33.960 worries me, So who I mean, who am I looking 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:36.120 out for at left end? Like do they have a 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:40.800 pass rusher that I need to be losing sleep about? Well, 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:42.240 I mean, I don't know if they have anyone that 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:45.040 you need to be necessarily loving sleepover. But what they've 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:48.120 been able to do is kind of do it collectively, 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:50.680 Like they've been getting a handful of guys. If he 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:52.680 I'm gonna have a tough knit time with his last 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:55.760 name Otahbo has three sacks, two and a half sacks, 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:58.000 and he has the ability to come off the pad 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:01.480 off the edge. Really, what they do is they kind 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:05.160 of do it like smoking mirrors by disguise and design. 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.840 So they'll put six guys up at the line of scrimmage. 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.560 Sometimes they'll bring all six sometimes they add another one 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:13.200 to bring seven. Sometimes they'll show that look and drop 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.920 out where they test you. It is not from an 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:21.640 individual standpoint, but from a communication standpoint a can we 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:25.400 communicate who's live, who's the point man, who do you have? 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:28.320 Can you handle the twist and games and stunts up front? 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:30.480 And if you're not sounding in that area, that's when 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:33.320 they hit the quarterback. And so it was a defense 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:35.440 that really struggled at the beginning of the year trying 0:16:35.440 --> 0:16:38.640 to get the pieces of the postle together. But now 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.840 he's kind of simplified a little bit. Mike Zimmer has 0:16:41.880 --> 0:16:44.560 been playing with better technique and their sound, and the 0:16:44.640 --> 0:16:47.280 ball isn't flying over the head, and so now they're 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:49.760 having a they're doing a better job of containing and 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:53.160 winning up front. But it's not one individual, it's really 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:56.080 a collective and collaborative effort to create the pressure on 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.520 the quarterback. But you said earlier this week than Andy 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.720 Dalton doesn't need to be a superhero. He also said 0:17:02.760 --> 0:17:05.320 just now that you feel like Zimmer is probably gonna 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.360 make him try to beat him. So how does he 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:12.119 beat the Vikings without being a superhero? How do you 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.520 kind of how does he need to balance that. I 0:17:14.600 --> 0:17:17.480 think the thing that Andy Dalton has to remember is 0:17:17.520 --> 0:17:19.520 who he is and where he's at in the stage 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:22.720 of his career. And I think sometimes the temptation is 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.320 to try and prove to the football world that hey, 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:27.600 I'm still the starting quarterback, I still can make these plays. 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:29.960 I'm still a franchise guy or whatever. And I think 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:32.159 he has to understand I just need to let the 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:35.680 offense work for me. He has three talented wide receivers 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:38.159 that can do a lot for him. His job is 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:40.240 just to basically get them to rock and get out 0:17:40.240 --> 0:17:42.960 the way. And so I think some of that can 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:46.080 be assisted and aided by Kellen Moore making sure that 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:48.919 he doesn't put the quarterback in a situation where he 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.879 feels like he has to make these hero throws. Just 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:54.840 set the offense up much like they did with Gilbert, 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:58.760 quick rhythm throws on early downs, get into second and short. 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.040 Now you have the option to run or pass on 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:04.359 second and third down, get another first down, kind of 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:06.439 do the same things. And so as much as I 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:08.840 put it on Andy Dalton, I think Kellen Moore also 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.440 has to know, Hey, I don't have a superhero at quarterback. 0:18:11.560 --> 0:18:13.919 Let's just manage the offense. Let's just make sure we 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:17.320 play in a very efficient manner and let our defense 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:20.560 and special teams set us up. Hey, Bucky, this question 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:22.200 is going to kind of cross over a little bit 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:25.320 to other units on the team. But right now, Minnesota's 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:27.879 ranked dead last in the league. An average starting field 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:31.080 position of their opponents there on average starting at their 0:18:31.080 --> 0:18:33.680 own thirty four, which you know, that's ten yards more 0:18:33.680 --> 0:18:35.760 almost ten yards more than what you would get just 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.480 in a touchback. That being said, is this an issue 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:40.920 with their special teams? This is an issue with turnovers 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:44.960 on offense. What would you pinpoint as the primary problem 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.840 that's causing this and is it something that the Cowboys 0:18:47.920 --> 0:18:52.200 are positioned to be able to take advantage of. Well, 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:54.600 the number one time, number one thing that shows up 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:56.240 whenever you look at the stat and you see that 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:59.840 is special teams are okay, Like they're fine there. But 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:03.240 Kirk Cousins had a lot of issues with turnovers early 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:05.320 in the year, to the point where even he said, 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:07.639 man if I keep playing like this, they're going to 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:11.400 bench me. Now. Since that point, over the last three games, 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:13.800 he's been better. And the reason he has been better 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:16.600 in terms of managing the turnovers is because we've got 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:19.679 more Dalvin Cook. The more they give the ball the 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:22.320 Dalvin Cook, the better it is for their offense. And 0:19:22.480 --> 0:19:26.120 they are unapologetically stubborn when it comes to the run game. 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:28.119 They don't care if you stopping on first, second, and 0:19:28.240 --> 0:19:30.439 third down. They're going to get it. They have a 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:32.639 pitch down where Dalvin Cook is going to touch the 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:35.679 ball twenty to twenty five times on the ground and 0:19:35.800 --> 0:19:38.240 at some point they believe that the damn is going 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.160 to break. And then when they're able to run the football, 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:44.160 Kirk Cousins gets to play the role that he's best 0:19:44.160 --> 0:19:46.359 suited to play, and that is as kind of like 0:19:46.400 --> 0:19:49.240 a complimentary weapon in the backfield. He can throw it 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:51.840