WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Take the Medicine 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:06.200 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:07.840 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:15.920 Cowboys, Let's go. 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:17.520 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:18.080 Yes? 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:20.720 Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:22.880 Ready for a break? 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:23.360 Yeah? 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:25.079 And so much for that. 0:00:25.280 --> 0:00:29.520 It's time for the break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:35.000 We were on with Mbar Garcia, Brian brought us, Patrick 0:00:35.080 --> 0:00:37.440 Walker and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:40.320 --> 0:00:44.360 It is Monday, September twenty fifth, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen, 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:47.920 episode number thirty eight. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.640 Breakwire Live from s WBC Morriage Studios at the Star 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:51.840 and Man. 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:52.800 For the first time in. 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:54.120 This season, we have to come in here on a 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.240 Monday morning and tell you what went wrong, because there 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:00.320 was a lot that went wrong yesterday Cowboys on the 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:04.240 road twenty eight to sixteen to the Arizona Cardinals, and 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:05.600 we're going to break it down for you guys. 0:01:05.680 --> 0:01:07.039 We've got a whole list of. 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:11.160 Things where the Cowboys just weren't weren't playing up to 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:14.080 what we've expected from them, and we'll go through each 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:16.959 of those different areas and give you our insights there. 0:01:17.000 --> 0:01:19.080 But where I want to start first is just a 0:01:19.120 --> 0:01:21.840 big picture look I go around the table, I would 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:23.840 love for you guys each tell me what do you 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:27.479 think was the big picture storyline for you coming out 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:27.880 of this game? 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:28.760 Patri let's start with you. 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:30.600 Well, there were a couple, but I'll just go with 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:34.920 one run defense. Coming into this season, you asked the question, 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:37.520 you know, for me, what would it take for this 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.400 defense to be special? And the biggest thing I drew 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:42.560 a circle around was the run defense. And you know, 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:45.480 you know, thankfully, we saw them perform well in that 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:48.880 capacity against the Giants, we saw them perform masterfully against 0:01:48.880 --> 0:01:51.120 the Jets in that capacity, but it was still about 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:55.440 consistency and two outings does not consistency make. So then 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:58.120 you're going against the Cardinals team. Then, yeah, you know 0:01:58.160 --> 0:02:01.400 what James Connor can do, and you know more can do. 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.600 But you want to believe that the Cowboys run defense 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:06.440 is showed up and that it's upgraded. But when you 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:09.200 allow two hundred and twenty two yards rushing and then 0:02:09.280 --> 0:02:12.760 at halftime it was the most rushing yards allowed by 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:15.480 a Cowboys team since nineteen ninety one, that's not what 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:16.920 you want to see. That's not going to win the 0:02:16.919 --> 0:02:18.320 game for you. So yeah, we can point at the 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:20.960 penalties as well. But for me, it's got to be 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:21.760 the run defense. 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.720 Cowboys spread zone problems were more about what Arizona was 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.040 doing to them than really what the Cowboys were trying 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:30.959 to do to Arizona. There weren't clean routes, there weren't 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:34.560 clean reads. They had some opportunities where some miss blocks 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:38.359 along the way, maybe some unfortunate play calling. I take 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:42.239 example of the option to seed lamb. You leave two 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.280 guys on blocked. It's a minus negative play there. So 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:49.240 really more about what Arizona was doing to them scheme 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.600 wise than really what the Cowboys were doing execution wise. 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.320 A whole lot of confusion had something. They went into 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:02.560 that game very well prepared. They looked confused at times 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:05.080 on both sides of the ball. But just to that point, 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.680 what I was initially going to say is that the 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:12.400 Cardinals were able to exploit their weaknesses, their their weak 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:14.520 points on both sides of the ball. You talk about 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.280 the running defense, the run defense, and you talk about 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:20.640 the red zone issues that they've had, and this is 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:24.440 going to serve as a game that opposing teams are 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:29.120 going to watch and rewatch and try to copy and 0:03:29.200 --> 0:03:32.480 do what they were able to do to the Cowboys 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:34.880 and try to attack their weak points. 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:37.760 This seemed very much to me, Brian, like what you 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:41.640 mentioned last week, the desperate team theory. After the game, 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:43.960 I was literally just watching. We have TV monitors in 0:03:44.000 --> 0:03:46.880 here on an NFL network. They're showing some replacement game, 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:48.520 and I didn't realize at the end of the game 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.240 they actually gave their the coach a gatorade bath, which 0:03:52.640 --> 0:03:54.960 again tells you how important that game was for them. 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:57.280 They went into that game, yes, yes. 0:03:57.200 --> 0:04:00.400 Yeah, exactly, a week three game gatorade bath your coach 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:02.760 like that tells you how desperate they were, and they 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:04.760 came out and played like it, and it tells you 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:06.720 maybe how flat the Cowboys were. I did hear that 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:08.800 at least by one player in the locker room yesterday, 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:10.400 that they maybe it may have been a little flat, 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:12.840 may not have had the same level of intensity that 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:14.880 you've expected from them, or that they've shown in the 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:16.960 first two weeks. And I do think that showed up 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:20.000 yesterday and in the way those two teams played and 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:21.240 the way they approached that game. 0:04:21.520 --> 0:04:22.480 All Right, here's what we're gonna do. 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.599 I'm gonna go through I have a list a list 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:27.960 of five things that I think went wrong for the 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.440 Cowboys yesterday. I'm gonna throw them out for you guys, 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.359 and I'd like for you to tell me a little 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:35.840 bit more about what you saw and why things went 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.200 wrong in this area. Patrick, you mentioned the first one 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:40.840 run defense yesterday. Here with the numbers, CAW, I mean 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.760 the Cardinals had thirty rushes for two hundred and twenty 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:47.960 two yards a seven point four average. Here's another interesting 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:51.719 stat I noted. Check this out when eight men eight 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:52.880 plus men were in the box. 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:54.080 So this is a stack box. 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:55.960 This is when you expect that you should be able 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:58.560 to stop the run because you're paying inordinate amount of 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:02.679 attention to stopping the ru They still between Connor and Dobbs, 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:05.919 they ran twelve times for ninety five yards seven point 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:10.040 nine average on the ground when the Cowboys stacked the box. 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:12.440 What did you see yesterday from the Cowboys run defense 0:05:12.520 --> 0:05:13.800 or runoff run defense? 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.960 Sorry, I mean you were just losing one on one battles. 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:21.080 I mean you you For example, the more touchdown, I 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:24.719 mean that red Sea just absolutely parted. He went untouched 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:26.440 and it was just a bunch of green in front 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:28.360 of him. From there and then he rattled off the touchdown, 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:31.000 and the same thing for some of those runs by Connor. 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.800 It's again, it's a run defense that has shown us 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:36.640 that it was short up. But then yesterday they just 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:40.599 got beat straight up, They got outpowered, they got out executed. 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:45.520 It was the Cardinals that was basically teaching class on yesterday, 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:48.040 and it shouldn't have been that way. And I mean, 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:51.239 you could talk about the three offensive lining that didn't 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:53.520 play yesterday, and yeah there were pressures there, and we 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:55.800 will talk about that here shortly, But for me, if 0:05:55.839 --> 0:05:57.240 you go back and you look at the film, it 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:01.720 just really boiled down to the Cardinals offensive line were 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:05.200 winning their assignments and winning their keys far more often 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:07.720 than the Cowboys were, and those lanes were just opening 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:09.640 up and the running backs didn't have much work to do. 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.520 If you look at the yards after contact, there was 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:14.320 a lot of that. But then some of those big 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:16.840 plays didn't even have contact. It was just hand off 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.920 and go, and you just can't have that if you're 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:20.799 trying to be a contender. 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:25.360 Arizona took advantage of Dallas's aggressiveness, especially at linebacker. You 0:06:25.400 --> 0:06:28.280 had guys overrunning the ball and then the cutbacks happened 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.960 on Patrick was talking about the long run by More 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:34.719 Dallas's front was never set. The two defensive tackles were 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:37.840 actually moving. They were trying to get them over. They 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:39.440 were to the left, they were trying to move them 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:41.360 over to the right. They couldn't get them over. And 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:44.159 once they got them over, ball was snapped and now 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.000 you're in a trouble there. Sam Williams gets caught up 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:49.400 the field there and now all of a sudden, though, 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.160 you got guys pen to the inside. 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:53.400 Kurse saw the ball break late. 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.119 I don't think he saw where the run was coming from, 0:06:56.200 --> 0:06:58.800 so his angle was off and then that kind of 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:00.839 threw him out of the way. But a lot of 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:04.159 this against the run defense stuff is Patrick's wright. There's 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:06.960 a physicality element to that to the game. But if 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.920 you're supposed to fit in certain gaps, if you're supposed 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:13.000 to play your assignment, I'll give you example. Donovid Wilson 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:15.600 had a bad day early in that game of not 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:19.840 fitting assignments. You know him the long run where Dobbs 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:23.480 takes off on the Reid option stuff. You know they 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.760 get a double team block on the outside. But what 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:29.280 happens is Wilson goes too far to the inside. He's 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:32.040 responsible be an edge player. Micah had a chance but 0:07:32.120 --> 0:07:34.560 kind of got caught no man's land there. So all 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:36.760 of a sudden, now you've got a no man's land player, 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:39.080 you got a double team on the outside, and then 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.360 you got a guy taking the wrong angle that's going 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.800 to lead to a forty four yard run. That happened 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.440 to the Cowboys way too often in that game yesterday. 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:50.000 Well, you talk about a defense that what we've seen 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:52.800 in the first two weeks, We've talked about it over 0:07:52.840 --> 0:07:56.080 and over, how great. And you see them everybody so 0:07:56.280 --> 0:08:00.640 in sync, everybody making place from the top two the bottom, 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:04.440 and then all of a sudden they're not able to adjust, 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:08.160 they make the right changes and be on the same page. Gilmour, 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.720 that was disappointing to see certain plays that he was 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.640 playing where he looked slow and he didn't look like 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:19.640 a veteran presence that you've seen so far. And again 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:24.880 Micah Parsons multiple occasions, what was going on? Just like confused. 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:26.880 I forgot who was telling him, no, you're you have 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:29.040 to line up there? Who was that? 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:32.240 Well, him and vander esh were having a conversation, but 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:34.280 like during the game, it was there was a couple 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:36.800 of times where he rushed and it was hands like 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.439 pre snap where hands looking inside. 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.160 What's going on and you're what's what's the call? 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:44.520 So those things should not be happening. Those are easy 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:46.959 fakes and those are the things that kind of baffled 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:50.480 me a little bit, like to why, why, how did 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:52.960 that happen? And it wasn't just once, it was in 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:54.040 multiple occasions. 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:56.040 We talked about it a little bit last week though. 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:58.400 What Arizona does to you, the fact that they had 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:01.120 a forty five yard run from a wide receiver as 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.520 a running back, They're gonna put you a lot of 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.640 different problems. They're gonna make you have to think your 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:10.079 way through some things. And I think that the maybe 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:13.000 some lack of communication, the lack of execution, the lack 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:16.120 of physicality, There was a lot of things. Dan Quinn 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.800 had a bad day yesterday. His defense had a bad day. 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.160 Let's be fair, we give dan Quinn a lot of credit. 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.280 We also need to tell dan Quinn's defense wasn't ready 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.960 to play the first half of that football game yesterday, 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:29.240 you know, and then some plays in the second half 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:31.960 they weren't ready to play, you know, so that's on 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:33.640 them to try and fix these things. 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:35.160 But if you're telling. 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:37.760 Me there's confusion and lack of communication and all that 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:41.320 on the field, you know, in certain key situations, that 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:43.160 is a problem throughout the defense. 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:43.760 Yeah, you were. 0:09:44.320 --> 0:09:46.160 We were talking last week when we were talking about 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.800 the breakdown about how much this team likes to do 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:50.240 different kinds of things in their running game. 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:51.760 There's a lot of pulling. 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:53.720 Guards and pen and pull, so, yeah, that kind of stuff, 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.160 and yesterday the Cowboys are getting beat a lot on 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:57.920 those kinds of plays. It wasn't wh you're running straight 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.439 out of the Cowboys defense is pretty adept at stop that. 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.040 It was those other kind of plays. That first play, 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:05.840 that first long run by Dobbs, to me, set the 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.880 tone because it was exactly what we talked about about 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:13.240 Micah and Philadelphia. What happened against Philadelphia him kind of freezing, 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:15.480 he read it the wrong way. He well, he went 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.480 for the running back, which and I don't know if 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:19.120 you necessarily call that a bad reading, but what you 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:21.360 notice is they went back to that play several more times. 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:24.600 And what Micah did, he didn't rush, He just waited 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:26.920 and he waited until the ball was he knew exactly 0:10:26.920 --> 0:10:28.800 where the ball was going, and then he reacted to it, 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:30.640 which is how you're supposed. 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.360 To play that. But I think that's kind of the 0:10:32.400 --> 0:10:32.960 point of it is. 0:10:32.960 --> 0:10:35.680 I think yesterday there were lots of moments where different 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:38.360 players just had, you know, moments, They just had moments 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:41.520 where they didn't get to their assignment, they overran a play, 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:42.440 they just made mistakes. 0:10:42.480 --> 0:10:44.120 And it's what we talked about from the offensive line 0:10:44.200 --> 0:10:44.640 last week. 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:47.960 There just there were so many just little mistakes that 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:49.920 everybody was making these little mistakes. 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.200 That job one doesn't and the one guy gets exposed. 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.439 The two guys get exposed when everybody else and you 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:57.280 need him. You need to play the scheme that way. 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:59.400 All right, Let's talk about the penalties. 0:10:59.640 --> 0:11:02.880 Yes, that's another area that we thought going into this year, 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.120 or at least so far this year, the Cowboys had 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:08.560 been really good about avoiding penalties. Yesterday they have thirteen 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:11.640 penalties for one hundred and seven yards. It was just 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:14.560 a day when the flags were out and obviously the crew. 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:16.240 You could say what you want about the crew and 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.000 how many of those calls may have been bogus or not, 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.360 the fact of the matter is that's how they were 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.160 calling the game, and at some point you have to 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.480 adjust to how they're calling the game. But what did 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:26.480 you guys think about the penalty? 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:29.080 I think they had an issue yesterday with Froholt the center. 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:33.400 He's really good at his ability to move his head, 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:35.319 and they were I think in this game they were 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:38.800 trying to judge that when he moves his head down, 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:40.679 he's going to snap the ball, and there were a 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:44.000 couple of times where he faked like he was and 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:46.760 then now Dallas Is they were playing that game where 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:50.160 they were watching him and then trying to get make 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:54.280 their time their rush or they're getting off the ball 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:56.960 when he moved his head. That caused some problems for 0:11:57.040 --> 0:12:00.400 some of the off side stuff they're dealing with the least, 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.360 like on a Jordan Lewis, you know, holding down field, 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:05.880 and so those were legitimate penalties, you know, I mean, 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:09.440 you can't contact a guy past that five yards and 0:12:09.520 --> 0:12:11.880 you can't grab the guy. So there were some things 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:14.319 that they were doing yesterday in this game where they 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:17.280 were trying to jump the snap or just you know, hey, 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:19.880 you can't hold a guy down the field like that. 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:22.400 Don't leave the game in the hands of the officials. 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:24.680 It just do not, because then you put yourself in 0:12:24.760 --> 0:12:27.960 situations where you need the DPI called. When you target 0:12:28.000 --> 0:12:29.960 CD Lamb on the right end of the end zone, 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:32.360 you need the dp You need the flag not picked 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:35.440 up when they flag for DPI on the gallop target. 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:37.400 That's putting the game in the hands of the officials. 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:39.240 And then you see what happened after those two plays. 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.280 You don't get the DPR call against CD Lamb, they 0:12:41.360 --> 0:12:43.160 go down and score, right, you had a big sixty 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.440 nine yarder on that touchdown drive from the Cardinals. That 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:49.080 were subsequent to that, you get the Dak Prescott interception 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.840 after the gallop DPI was picked up. So don't put 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:53.720 the game in the hands of the officials. Fact is, 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.160 and I have problems with the officials as well in 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:58.600 that game. Talk about those two plays, but also you 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.360 know Ceedee Lamb and him being called for offensive pass 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:02.800 and the fans where to me, that was a bang 0:13:02.840 --> 0:13:04.760 bang football play between those two guys. 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:05.280 Fine. 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:08.640 Nonetheless, to Brian's point, the large majority of these penalties 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:11.520 are one hundred percent accountable to the Cowboys, and it 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:14.480 can't happen thirteen in force for one hundred and seven yards. 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:17.240 To myntality, they had almost twenty that were flagged, but 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:20.120 of course not all in forced. That is a ridiculously 0:13:20.200 --> 0:13:22.800 insane and appropriate number for a team that is trying 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:25.600 to be a Super Bowl contender. One thing that stood 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:27.920 out some of the a lot of these penalties stalled 0:13:28.000 --> 0:13:32.040 or just outright killed drives Cavante Turpett. You have your 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.840 defense who's eventually going to get tired from being on 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:35.240 the field. 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.960 They force a punt. Turpin returns the ball. 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:43.319 Fifty one yards, that gets negated by Devin Harper, and 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:45.800 then tack on another ten yards on top of that. 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.240 And then on that drive, Dak Prescott and the Cowboys 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:51.960 they start recovering, they start moving on that drive, They're like, okay, resiliency, 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:52.720 and then. 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.840 You get the holding on too many. Doga makes it 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:55.840 three and thirteen. 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:58.520 Ferguson gets ten yards, but the Cowboys fail on fourth 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:02.480 and third penalties. Penalties, penalties. It has to be cleaned up. 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:04.880 There was a problem in twenty twenty two. We talked 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.640 about it. Coming into twenty twenty three. It was for 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:10.560 the most part rained in the first two weeks, but 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:13.320 man laundry Dad yesterday. You cannot continue to do that 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:16.000 if you really want to be a contender in this conference. 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.920 Yeah, there's just no discipline, and it goes back to 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:24.120 the whole not being fully prepared in my opinion. But 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:28.320 I think this is where I'm confused though, because I 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:31.440 don't think the Cowboys were two in the clouds and 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:34.960 two in their own heads. Like as far as preparation 0:14:35.160 --> 0:14:37.160 during the week, you know, when we go in the 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:40.360 locker room or talk to these players, that's not the 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.360 vibe that I was getting from them, and I know 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:46.520 it was asked to Dak Presca. You know, the media 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:49.400 puts them on a pedestal when they're on top and 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:54.760 then completely slaughter them when they're down. But as far 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:58.120 as what they're doing, my vibe wasn't that they're not 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:02.040 taking this game serious, they're not prepared. They were focused. 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:08.280 So that's where I'm confused why the lack of like discipline, preparation, 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:12.360 the lack of being insane communication occur in this game, 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:15.600 because I do think that they were focused throughout the week. 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:18.440 They were they were. I think it's a you know, 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:23.280 evidence of two things. One, it's there were some discipline 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:27.040 issues obviously as far as not committing the penalties, you know, 0:15:27.120 --> 0:15:28.960 letting go of a guy, not getting a holding call 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:31.360 and not getting a block in the back one. I mean, 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.760 come on, fifty one yards. But at the same time, 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:36.920 as the game went on, there was frustration. I felt 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:39.280 like there was frustration that was occurring on both sides 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.520 of the ball for Dallas. And the problem is is 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:45.480 when you're already trying your best to remain self disciplined 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:48.240 in your individual assignments, but then you start to get 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:50.320 beat here and then you don't get this call go 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:52.440 your way, and then you start to shrink a little bit. Well, 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:54.600 then that this that self discipline starts to lessen and 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.440 now here's now you're playing sloppy. So now what happens 0:15:57.600 --> 0:15:59.840 is that the guy next to you, he's like, oh, well, 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:01.640 this just as in our day penalty. 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:02.520 So then it. 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:05.280 Starts to spiral and snowball, and before you knew it, 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:07.320 we're sitting in the press box in this flag flag 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.840 flag someplace. There were multiple flags, multiple infractions against the Cowboys, 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:13.720 and you're sitting there like, are we kidding as seriously 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.880 as this was happening, because, particularly to Ambar's. 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:17.480 Point, last week. 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.880 These guys were focused, and we thought that they were 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:23.520 coming in written emotional wave from losing Trevon Diggs. But 0:16:23.640 --> 0:16:26.080 I mean, I don't know if it's the body's buried 0:16:26.080 --> 0:16:28.520 in the desert, whatever is going on out there, because 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.240 the game was weird from the outset with the Tyrone Smith. 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:32.720 You know, situation, and. 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:35.720 You know he's active, but he's and he's named the captain, 0:16:35.760 --> 0:16:38.480 but then ultimately he doesn't play, and then it was 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:39.440 just ominous from there. 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:41.200 So I don't know. Too many bodies in the desert. 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:44.160 I guess, yeah, it was. I don't know. 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.680 I will say this, I don't know that we can 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:48.760 say one way or the other that they were focused 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.720 or not focused. I certainly don't have any insight to 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:55.720 see how much they were on their iPads watching and preparing. 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.480 What I can say is that as you watch. 0:16:58.320 --> 0:17:01.240 That game, there were moments where you were like, man, 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:03.440 they just didn't seem like they knew where they needed 0:17:03.480 --> 0:17:06.160 to be, and that is usually. 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:06.960 Something that you point to. 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.320 What was the preparation like, So again, I don't know 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:11.520 whether they prepared as hard or as much as they 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:13.800 had prepared the other two weeks or less. 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:14.480 I don't know that. 0:17:14.760 --> 0:17:16.919 I just know that yesterday they didn't look like they 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.320 were as disciplined and knowing where they needed to be 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:22.160 and being there consistently, and that's why they got lit 0:17:22.240 --> 0:17:25.080 up in a number of different areas during that game. 0:17:25.200 --> 0:17:27.679 You had penalties that killed your offensive drives, and then 0:17:27.720 --> 0:17:30.840 you had penalties that extended their offensive drives. Talk about 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:34.040 the penalty on Lewis, the DPI and deron Bland. Yeah, 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:37.560 I mean, you can't have both of those things occurring 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:39.600 at the same time, Like something has to be clean, 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:41.560 and just nothing was clean in that game yesterday. 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:43.240 All Right, we're gonna take our first break. When we 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:45.480 come back, we're gonna talk about this red zone offense. 0:17:45.760 --> 0:17:47.600 It was not just a problem this week. It's been 0:17:47.640 --> 0:17:50.040 an ongoing problem. We'll talk about that when we come back. 0:17:50.080 --> 0:17:51.280 Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.119 Todd thought it would be secure to jog in the 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.080 cheatah Savannah. Todd believed the big Cat repellent he bought 0:17:57.119 --> 0:17:59.960 online was reliable. And now Todd is trying to be 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.720