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Speaker 7: It is Monday, September twenty fifth, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen,
Speaker 7: episode number thirty eight. Welcome to the latest edition of
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Speaker 7: and Man.
Speaker 5: For the first time in.
Speaker 7: This season, we have to come in here on a
Speaker 7: Monday morning and tell you what went wrong, because there
Speaker 7: was a lot that went wrong yesterday Cowboys on the
Speaker 7: road twenty eight to sixteen to the Arizona Cardinals, and
Speaker 7: we're going to break it down for you guys.
Speaker 5: We've got a whole list of.
Speaker 7: Things where the Cowboys just weren't weren't playing up to
Speaker 7: what we've expected from them, and we'll go through each
Speaker 7: of those different areas and give you our insights there.
Speaker 7: But where I want to start first is just a
Speaker 7: big picture look I go around the table, I would
Speaker 7: love for you guys each tell me what do you
Speaker 7: think was the big picture storyline for you coming out
Speaker 7: of this game?
Speaker 5: Patri let's start with you.
Speaker 8: Well, there were a couple, but I'll just go with
Speaker 8: one run defense. Coming into this season, you asked the question,
Speaker 8: you know, for me, what would it take for this
Speaker 8: defense to be special? And the biggest thing I drew
Speaker 8: a circle around was the run defense. And you know,
Speaker 8: you know, thankfully, we saw them perform well in that
Speaker 8: capacity against the Giants, we saw them perform masterfully against
Speaker 8: the Jets in that capacity, but it was still about
Speaker 8: consistency and two outings does not consistency make. So then
Speaker 8: you're going against the Cardinals team. Then, yeah, you know
Speaker 8: what James Connor can do, and you know more can do.
Speaker 8: But you want to believe that the Cowboys run defense
Speaker 8: is showed up and that it's upgraded. But when you
Speaker 8: allow two hundred and twenty two yards rushing and then
Speaker 8: at halftime it was the most rushing yards allowed by
Speaker 8: a Cowboys team since nineteen ninety one, that's not what
Speaker 8: you want to see. That's not going to win the
Speaker 8: game for you. So yeah, we can point at the
Speaker 8: penalties as well. But for me, it's got to be
Speaker 8: the run defense.
Speaker 9: Cowboys spread zone problems were more about what Arizona was
Speaker 9: doing to them than really what the Cowboys were trying
Speaker 9: to do to Arizona. There weren't clean routes, there weren't
Speaker 9: clean reads. They had some opportunities where some miss blocks
Speaker 9: along the way, maybe some unfortunate play calling. I take
Speaker 9: example of the option to seed lamb. You leave two
Speaker 9: guys on blocked. It's a minus negative play there. So
Speaker 9: really more about what Arizona was doing to them scheme
Speaker 9: wise than really what the Cowboys were doing execution wise.
Speaker 10: A whole lot of confusion had something. They went into
Speaker 10: that game very well prepared. They looked confused at times
Speaker 10: on both sides of the ball. But just to that point,
Speaker 10: what I was initially going to say is that the
Speaker 10: Cardinals were able to exploit their weaknesses, their their weak
Speaker 10: points on both sides of the ball. You talk about
Speaker 10: the running defense, the run defense, and you talk about
Speaker 10: the red zone issues that they've had, and this is
Speaker 10: going to serve as a game that opposing teams are
Speaker 10: going to watch and rewatch and try to copy and
Speaker 10: do what they were able to do to the Cowboys
Speaker 10: and try to attack their weak points.
Speaker 7: This seemed very much to me, Brian, like what you
Speaker 7: mentioned last week, the desperate team theory. After the game,
Speaker 7: I was literally just watching. We have TV monitors in
Speaker 7: here on an NFL network. They're showing some replacement game,
Speaker 7: and I didn't realize at the end of the game
Speaker 7: they actually gave their the coach a gatorade bath, which
Speaker 7: again tells you how important that game was for them.
Speaker 5: They went into that game, yes, yes.
Speaker 7: Yeah, exactly, a week three game gatorade bath your coach
Speaker 7: like that tells you how desperate they were, and they
Speaker 7: came out and played like it, and it tells you
Speaker 7: maybe how flat the Cowboys were. I did hear that
Speaker 7: at least by one player in the locker room yesterday,
Speaker 7: that they maybe it may have been a little flat,
Speaker 7: may not have had the same level of intensity that
Speaker 7: you've expected from them, or that they've shown in the
Speaker 7: first two weeks. And I do think that showed up
Speaker 7: yesterday and in the way those two teams played and
Speaker 7: the way they approached that game.
Speaker 5: All Right, here's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna go through I have a list a list
Speaker 7: of five things that I think went wrong for the
Speaker 7: Cowboys yesterday. I'm gonna throw them out for you guys,
Speaker 7: and I'd like for you to tell me a little
Speaker 7: bit more about what you saw and why things went
Speaker 7: wrong in this area. Patrick, you mentioned the first one
Speaker 7: run defense yesterday. Here with the numbers, CAW, I mean
Speaker 7: the Cardinals had thirty rushes for two hundred and twenty
Speaker 7: two yards a seven point four average. Here's another interesting
Speaker 7: stat I noted. Check this out when eight men eight
Speaker 7: plus men were in the box.
Speaker 5: So this is a stack box.
Speaker 7: This is when you expect that you should be able
Speaker 7: to stop the run because you're paying inordinate amount of
Speaker 7: attention to stopping the ru They still between Connor and Dobbs,
Speaker 7: they ran twelve times for ninety five yards seven point
Speaker 7: nine average on the ground when the Cowboys stacked the box.
Speaker 7: What did you see yesterday from the Cowboys run defense
Speaker 7: or runoff run defense?
Speaker 2: Sorry, I mean you were just losing one on one battles.
Speaker 8: I mean you you For example, the more touchdown, I
Speaker 8: mean that red Sea just absolutely parted. He went untouched
Speaker 8: and it was just a bunch of green in front
Speaker 8: of him. From there and then he rattled off the touchdown,
Speaker 8: and the same thing for some of those runs by Connor.
Speaker 8: It's again, it's a run defense that has shown us
Speaker 8: that it was short up. But then yesterday they just
Speaker 8: got beat straight up, They got outpowered, they got out executed.
Speaker 8: It was the Cardinals that was basically teaching class on yesterday,
Speaker 8: and it shouldn't have been that way. And I mean,
Speaker 8: you could talk about the three offensive lining that didn't
Speaker 8: play yesterday, and yeah there were pressures there, and we
Speaker 8: will talk about that here shortly, But for me, if
Speaker 8: you go back and you look at the film, it
Speaker 8: just really boiled down to the Cardinals offensive line were
Speaker 8: winning their assignments and winning their keys far more often
Speaker 8: than the Cowboys were, and those lanes were just opening
Speaker 8: up and the running backs didn't have much work to do.
Speaker 8: If you look at the yards after contact, there was
Speaker 8: a lot of that. But then some of those big
Speaker 8: plays didn't even have contact. It was just hand off
Speaker 8: and go, and you just can't have that if you're
Speaker 8: trying to be a contender.
Speaker 9: Arizona took advantage of Dallas's aggressiveness, especially at linebacker. You
Speaker 9: had guys overrunning the ball and then the cutbacks happened
Speaker 9: on Patrick was talking about the long run by More
Speaker 9: Dallas's front was never set. The two defensive tackles were
Speaker 9: actually moving. They were trying to get them over. They
Speaker 9: were to the left, they were trying to move them
Speaker 9: over to the right. They couldn't get them over. And
Speaker 9: once they got them over, ball was snapped and now
Speaker 9: you're in a trouble there. Sam Williams gets caught up
Speaker 9: the field there and now all of a sudden, though,
Speaker 9: you got guys pen to the inside.
Speaker 3: Kurse saw the ball break late.
Speaker 9: I don't think he saw where the run was coming from,
Speaker 9: so his angle was off and then that kind of
Speaker 9: threw him out of the way. But a lot of
Speaker 9: this against the run defense stuff is Patrick's wright. There's
Speaker 9: a physicality element to that to the game. But if
Speaker 9: you're supposed to fit in certain gaps, if you're supposed
Speaker 9: to play your assignment, I'll give you example. Donovid Wilson
Speaker 9: had a bad day early in that game of not
Speaker 9: fitting assignments. You know him the long run where Dobbs
Speaker 9: takes off on the Reid option stuff. You know they
Speaker 9: get a double team block on the outside. But what
Speaker 9: happens is Wilson goes too far to the inside. He's
Speaker 9: responsible be an edge player. Micah had a chance but
Speaker 9: kind of got caught no man's land there. So all
Speaker 9: of a sudden, now you've got a no man's land player,
Speaker 9: you got a double team on the outside, and then
Speaker 9: you got a guy taking the wrong angle that's going
Speaker 9: to lead to a forty four yard run. That happened
Speaker 9: to the Cowboys way too often in that game yesterday.
Speaker 10: Well, you talk about a defense that what we've seen
Speaker 10: in the first two weeks, We've talked about it over
Speaker 10: and over, how great. And you see them everybody so
Speaker 10: in sync, everybody making place from the top two the bottom,
Speaker 10: and then all of a sudden they're not able to adjust,
Speaker 10: they make the right changes and be on the same page. Gilmour,
Speaker 10: that was disappointing to see certain plays that he was
Speaker 10: playing where he looked slow and he didn't look like
Speaker 10: a veteran presence that you've seen so far. And again
Speaker 10: Micah Parsons multiple occasions, what was going on? Just like confused.
Speaker 10: I forgot who was telling him, no, you're you have
Speaker 10: to line up there? Who was that?
Speaker 9: Well, him and vander esh were having a conversation, but
Speaker 9: like during the game, it was there was a couple
Speaker 9: of times where he rushed and it was hands like
Speaker 9: pre snap where hands looking inside.
Speaker 3: What's going on and you're what's what's the call?
Speaker 10: So those things should not be happening. Those are easy
Speaker 10: fakes and those are the things that kind of baffled
Speaker 10: me a little bit, like to why, why, how did
Speaker 10: that happen? And it wasn't just once, it was in
Speaker 10: multiple occasions.
Speaker 9: We talked about it a little bit last week though.
Speaker 9: What Arizona does to you, the fact that they had
Speaker 9: a forty five yard run from a wide receiver as
Speaker 9: a running back, They're gonna put you a lot of
Speaker 9: different problems. They're gonna make you have to think your
Speaker 9: way through some things. And I think that the maybe
Speaker 9: some lack of communication, the lack of execution, the lack
Speaker 9: of physicality, There was a lot of things. Dan Quinn
Speaker 9: had a bad day yesterday. His defense had a bad day.
Speaker 9: Let's be fair, we give dan Quinn a lot of credit.
Speaker 9: We also need to tell dan Quinn's defense wasn't ready
Speaker 9: to play the first half of that football game yesterday,
Speaker 9: you know, and then some plays in the second half
Speaker 9: they weren't ready to play, you know, so that's on
Speaker 9: them to try and fix these things.
Speaker 3: But if you're telling.
Speaker 9: Me there's confusion and lack of communication and all that
Speaker 9: on the field, you know, in certain key situations, that
Speaker 9: is a problem throughout the defense.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you were.
Speaker 7: We were talking last week when we were talking about
Speaker 7: the breakdown about how much this team likes to do
Speaker 7: different kinds of things in their running game.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of pulling.
Speaker 7: Guards and pen and pull, so, yeah, that kind of stuff,
Speaker 7: and yesterday the Cowboys are getting beat a lot on
Speaker 7: those kinds of plays. It wasn't wh you're running straight
Speaker 7: out of the Cowboys defense is pretty adept at stop that.
Speaker 7: It was those other kind of plays. That first play,
Speaker 7: that first long run by Dobbs, to me, set the
Speaker 7: tone because it was exactly what we talked about about
Speaker 7: Micah and Philadelphia. What happened against Philadelphia him kind of freezing,
Speaker 7: he read it the wrong way. He well, he went
Speaker 7: for the running back, which and I don't know if
Speaker 7: you necessarily call that a bad reading, but what you
Speaker 7: notice is they went back to that play several more times.
Speaker 7: And what Micah did, he didn't rush, He just waited
Speaker 7: and he waited until the ball was he knew exactly
Speaker 7: where the ball was going, and then he reacted to it,
Speaker 7: which is how you're supposed.
Speaker 5: To play that. But I think that's kind of the
Speaker 5: point of it is.
Speaker 7: I think yesterday there were lots of moments where different
Speaker 7: players just had, you know, moments, They just had moments
Speaker 7: where they didn't get to their assignment, they overran a play,
Speaker 7: they just made mistakes.
Speaker 5: And it's what we talked about from the offensive line
Speaker 5: last week.
Speaker 7: There just there were so many just little mistakes that
Speaker 7: everybody was making these little mistakes.
Speaker 9: That job one doesn't and the one guy gets exposed.
Speaker 9: The two guys get exposed when everybody else and you
Speaker 9: need him. You need to play the scheme that way.
Speaker 5: All right, Let's talk about the penalties.
Speaker 7: Yes, that's another area that we thought going into this year,
Speaker 7: or at least so far this year, the Cowboys had
Speaker 7: been really good about avoiding penalties. Yesterday they have thirteen
Speaker 7: penalties for one hundred and seven yards. It was just
Speaker 7: a day when the flags were out and obviously the crew.
Speaker 7: You could say what you want about the crew and
Speaker 7: how many of those calls may have been bogus or not,
Speaker 7: the fact of the matter is that's how they were
Speaker 7: calling the game, and at some point you have to
Speaker 7: adjust to how they're calling the game. But what did
Speaker 7: you guys think about the penalty?
Speaker 3: I think they had an issue yesterday with Froholt the center.
Speaker 9: He's really good at his ability to move his head,
Speaker 9: and they were I think in this game they were
Speaker 9: trying to judge that when he moves his head down,
Speaker 9: he's going to snap the ball, and there were a
Speaker 9: couple of times where he faked like he was and
Speaker 9: then now Dallas Is they were playing that game where
Speaker 9: they were watching him and then trying to get make
Speaker 9: their time their rush or they're getting off the ball
Speaker 9: when he moved his head. That caused some problems for
Speaker 9: some of the off side stuff they're dealing with the least,
Speaker 9: like on a Jordan Lewis, you know, holding down field,
Speaker 9: and so those were legitimate penalties, you know, I mean,
Speaker 9: you can't contact a guy past that five yards and
Speaker 9: you can't grab the guy. So there were some things
Speaker 9: that they were doing yesterday in this game where they
Speaker 9: were trying to jump the snap or just you know, hey,
Speaker 9: you can't hold a guy down the field like that.
Speaker 2: Don't leave the game in the hands of the officials.
Speaker 8: It just do not, because then you put yourself in
Speaker 8: situations where you need the DPI called. When you target
Speaker 8: CD Lamb on the right end of the end zone,
Speaker 8: you need the dp You need the flag not picked
Speaker 8: up when they flag for DPI on the gallop target.
Speaker 8: That's putting the game in the hands of the officials.
Speaker 8: And then you see what happened after those two plays.
Speaker 8: You don't get the DPR call against CD Lamb, they
Speaker 8: go down and score, right, you had a big sixty
Speaker 8: nine yarder on that touchdown drive from the Cardinals. That
Speaker 8: were subsequent to that, you get the Dak Prescott interception
Speaker 8: after the gallop DPI was picked up. So don't put
Speaker 8: the game in the hands of the officials. Fact is,
Speaker 8: and I have problems with the officials as well in
Speaker 8: that game. Talk about those two plays, but also you
Speaker 8: know Ceedee Lamb and him being called for offensive pass
Speaker 8: and the fans where to me, that was a bang
Speaker 8: bang football play between those two guys.
Speaker 2: Fine.
Speaker 8: Nonetheless, to Brian's point, the large majority of these penalties
Speaker 8: are one hundred percent accountable to the Cowboys, and it
Speaker 8: can't happen thirteen in force for one hundred and seven yards.
Speaker 8: To myntality, they had almost twenty that were flagged, but
Speaker 8: of course not all in forced. That is a ridiculously
Speaker 8: insane and appropriate number for a team that is trying
Speaker 8: to be a Super Bowl contender. One thing that stood
Speaker 8: out some of the a lot of these penalties stalled
Speaker 8: or just outright killed drives Cavante Turpett. You have your
Speaker 8: defense who's eventually going to get tired from being on
Speaker 8: the field.
Speaker 2: They force a punt. Turpin returns the ball.
Speaker 8: Fifty one yards, that gets negated by Devin Harper, and
Speaker 8: then tack on another ten yards on top of that.
Speaker 8: And then on that drive, Dak Prescott and the Cowboys
Speaker 8: they start recovering, they start moving on that drive, They're like, okay, resiliency,
Speaker 8: and then.
Speaker 2: You get the holding on too many. Doga makes it
Speaker 2: three and thirteen.
Speaker 8: Ferguson gets ten yards, but the Cowboys fail on fourth
Speaker 8: and third penalties. Penalties, penalties. It has to be cleaned up.
Speaker 8: There was a problem in twenty twenty two. We talked
Speaker 8: about it. Coming into twenty twenty three. It was for
Speaker 8: the most part rained in the first two weeks, but
Speaker 8: man laundry Dad yesterday. You cannot continue to do that
Speaker 8: if you really want to be a contender in this conference.
Speaker 10: Yeah, there's just no discipline, and it goes back to
Speaker 10: the whole not being fully prepared in my opinion. But
Speaker 10: I think this is where I'm confused though, because I
Speaker 10: don't think the Cowboys were two in the clouds and
Speaker 10: two in their own heads. Like as far as preparation
Speaker 10: during the week, you know, when we go in the
Speaker 10: locker room or talk to these players, that's not the
Speaker 10: vibe that I was getting from them, and I know
Speaker 10: it was asked to Dak Presca. You know, the media
Speaker 10: puts them on a pedestal when they're on top and
Speaker 10: then completely slaughter them when they're down. But as far
Speaker 10: as what they're doing, my vibe wasn't that they're not
Speaker 10: taking this game serious, they're not prepared. They were focused.
Speaker 10: So that's where I'm confused why the lack of like discipline, preparation,
Speaker 10: the lack of being insane communication occur in this game,
Speaker 10: because I do think that they were focused throughout the week.
Speaker 8: They were they were. I think it's a you know,
Speaker 8: evidence of two things. One, it's there were some discipline
Speaker 8: issues obviously as far as not committing the penalties, you know,
Speaker 8: letting go of a guy, not getting a holding call
Speaker 8: and not getting a block in the back one. I mean,
Speaker 8: come on, fifty one yards. But at the same time,
Speaker 8: as the game went on, there was frustration. I felt
Speaker 8: like there was frustration that was occurring on both sides
Speaker 8: of the ball for Dallas. And the problem is is
Speaker 8: when you're already trying your best to remain self disciplined
Speaker 8: in your individual assignments, but then you start to get
Speaker 8: beat here and then you don't get this call go
Speaker 8: your way, and then you start to shrink a little bit. Well,
Speaker 8: then that this that self discipline starts to lessen and
Speaker 8: now here's now you're playing sloppy. So now what happens
Speaker 8: is that the guy next to you, he's like, oh, well,
Speaker 8: this just as in our day penalty.
Speaker 2: So then it.
Speaker 8: Starts to spiral and snowball, and before you knew it,
Speaker 8: we're sitting in the press box in this flag flag
Speaker 8: flag someplace. There were multiple flags, multiple infractions against the Cowboys,
Speaker 8: and you're sitting there like, are we kidding as seriously
Speaker 8: as this was happening, because, particularly to Ambar's.
Speaker 2: Point, last week.
Speaker 8: These guys were focused, and we thought that they were
Speaker 8: coming in written emotional wave from losing Trevon Diggs. But
Speaker 8: I mean, I don't know if it's the body's buried
Speaker 8: in the desert, whatever is going on out there, because
Speaker 8: the game was weird from the outset with the Tyrone Smith.
Speaker 2: You know, situation, and.
Speaker 8: You know he's active, but he's and he's named the captain,
Speaker 8: but then ultimately he doesn't play, and then it was
Speaker 8: just ominous from there.
Speaker 2: So I don't know. Too many bodies in the desert.
Speaker 2: I guess, yeah, it was. I don't know.
Speaker 7: I will say this, I don't know that we can
Speaker 7: say one way or the other that they were focused
Speaker 7: or not focused. I certainly don't have any insight to
Speaker 7: see how much they were on their iPads watching and preparing.
Speaker 5: What I can say is that as you watch.
Speaker 7: That game, there were moments where you were like, man,
Speaker 7: they just didn't seem like they knew where they needed
Speaker 7: to be, and that is usually.
Speaker 5: Something that you point to.
Speaker 7: What was the preparation like, So again, I don't know
Speaker 7: whether they prepared as hard or as much as they
Speaker 7: had prepared the other two weeks or less.
Speaker 5: I don't know that.
Speaker 7: I just know that yesterday they didn't look like they
Speaker 7: were as disciplined and knowing where they needed to be
Speaker 7: and being there consistently, and that's why they got lit
Speaker 7: up in a number of different areas during that game.
Speaker 8: You had penalties that killed your offensive drives, and then
Speaker 8: you had penalties that extended their offensive drives. Talk about
Speaker 8: the penalty on Lewis, the DPI and deron Bland. Yeah,
Speaker 8: I mean, you can't have both of those things occurring
Speaker 8: at the same time, Like something has to be clean,
Speaker 8: and just nothing was clean in that game yesterday.
Speaker 7: All Right, we're gonna take our first break. When we
Speaker 7: come back, we're gonna talk about this red zone offense.
Speaker 7: It was not just a problem this week. It's been
Speaker 7: an ongoing problem. We'll talk about that when we come back.
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Speaker 7: Cowboys loss yesterday, first loss of the season. They lose
Speaker 7: to Arizona twenty eight to sixteen. Let's talk about one
Speaker 7: other problem that popped up red zone offense.
Speaker 5: Yesterday.
Speaker 7: Cowboys were one of five twenty percent in the red zone.
Speaker 7: Get this.
Speaker 5: They were zero for two when they were in goal
Speaker 5: to go situations. Yeah, that is not good.
Speaker 7: But this has been an ongoing issue. Is this something
Speaker 7: we talked about last week that it was a problem.
Speaker 7: It didn't kill them last week, but it certainly was
Speaker 7: a problem. What happened yesterday with regards to the red
Speaker 7: zone offense.
Speaker 8: I mean it's a like you said, oh for two,
Speaker 8: goal for goal with goal to go. They had an
Speaker 8: unsuccessful goal to go against the Jets. Yeah, against the
Speaker 8: Jets with the hand with the hinder shot, and you
Speaker 8: know Rico didn't get in either.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a problem.
Speaker 8: One question is where your wide receivers in the red zone,
Speaker 8: where your wrote receiver targets in the red zone. As
Speaker 8: far as being able to produce those those touchdowns that
Speaker 8: are needed, I mean, you don't have any white receiver
Speaker 8: touchdowns at all through three weeks of football. That is
Speaker 8: something that the Cowboys need to look at and try
Speaker 8: to figure out what's going on there.
Speaker 2: So that's a large part of it.
Speaker 8: But it also goes to you know, how comfortable or
Speaker 8: uncomfortable are the Cowboys right now with this Texas Coast offense.
Speaker 8: We still don't know what it looks like. You just
Speaker 8: got Brandon Cooks back, but we were talking about this
Speaker 8: during the break. You didn't have three of your starting
Speaker 8: offensive lineman. Tyler Smith came back, but Tyrant Smith didn't play,
Speaker 8: Tyler Biadis didn't play, Zach Martin didn't play.
Speaker 2: Was there, you know, a little bit? Was there?
Speaker 8: A little bit less of a confidence in those in
Speaker 8: that start in five yesterday that maybe has had McCarthy
Speaker 8: kind of scale back on what he might have called Otherwise,
Speaker 8: if you had your front five out there, or at
Speaker 8: least four of your front five like they had the
Speaker 8: first two weeks, a lot to be figured out there,
Speaker 8: And to be honest with you, I haven't figured it
Speaker 8: out specifically just yet, because if you look at it,
Speaker 8: they should be scoring on on some of these plays,
Speaker 8: but they're just not. So when it happens like that,
Speaker 8: and I can't yet figure out what the problem is.
Speaker 2: I'm always going to lean back on.
Speaker 8: The execution of it because a lot of times that's
Speaker 8: probably what's keeping you out of the end zone. Now,
Speaker 8: some play calling is going to be mixed in as
Speaker 8: well as far as accountability goes. But I mean, I
Speaker 8: think if they execute on some of these plays, for example,
Speaker 8: the hindershot play, if he makes that vision go, but yeah,
Speaker 8: I mean you can they.
Speaker 2: Should have red zone points.
Speaker 8: And the officials also took a couple of way, but
Speaker 8: that's not the only reason they don't have them.
Speaker 9: Grand twenty four plays in the red zone is what
Speaker 9: you did the screenplay to doabtle for a touchdown. Well executed,
Speaker 9: well called. Nice job of blocking out in front. That's
Speaker 9: something that you know they need to kind of look
Speaker 9: at that little bit more. But a red zone screen
Speaker 9: is always a good thing to call there. One time
Speaker 9: they run a waggle to the right with pres Scott
Speaker 9: and Arizona has five defenders to cover three. No chance
Speaker 9: on the play. Fourth down, Arizona sells out on a blitz.
Speaker 9: It's picked up line. Lets the furthest man from the
Speaker 9: ball go. That's usually the responsiblity of the quarterback. You
Speaker 9: don't want to let anybody inside, So squeeze it down.
Speaker 9: Furthest guy from the ball. Quarterback, that's your guy. We
Speaker 9: can't block him. Prescott's got to know that he can't.
Speaker 9: He's got to know I'm gonna get a blitzer in
Speaker 9: my face. I can see him right there. They try
Speaker 9: to run the ball inside the cooks and you know,
Speaker 9: Prescott feels the pressure throws the ball too high. But
Speaker 9: he's got to know he's got an unblocked blitzer over there.
Speaker 9: Because the way the line had signed slid that way.
Speaker 9: You had a couple of times there where Prescott drops
Speaker 9: the snap on the play ferguson Lamb run into each other.
Speaker 9: They got four Cardinals to cover. Three Cowboys receive it.
Speaker 9: A dooga gets called for holding on the play. You know,
Speaker 9: this is the kind of stuff that This is the
Speaker 9: kind of stuff you're dealing with. They run that I mentioned,
Speaker 9: They run the option to Lamb. They you know, no
Speaker 9: one's fooled on the play. White and a Shashery are there.
Speaker 9: They stay at home to make the tackle. Both are
Speaker 9: on block trips left Lamb single. Prescott tries to hit
Speaker 9: him with the fade. He doesn't make the play. Could
Speaker 9: there have been a pass interference there? Yeah, it could
Speaker 9: have been. Didn't call it, didn't work out your way?
Speaker 14: You know.
Speaker 3: The thing about it is and one more final thing.
Speaker 9: I just looked down at my notes. Prescott to Gallop
Speaker 9: on the fade. He's got Wilson beat off the line.
Speaker 9: Throw the ball out there, Throw the ball out and up.
Speaker 9: That guy's gonna go make that play for you. Don't
Speaker 9: throw the ball short.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 9: Yeah, the flag gets picked up and then you have
Speaker 9: the you know, then you have the next plays the interception,
Speaker 9: you know, which effectively into the game. But you know,
Speaker 9: you run the ball. There's some things that they do well.
Speaker 9: I think this was really more about Arizona's red zone
Speaker 9: defense than it was about Dallas's offense.
Speaker 3: In my opinion.
Speaker 9: But there were some things that that, you know, like
Speaker 9: I say, the routes aren't always clean, but there's also
Speaker 9: some self inflicted stuff there that goes on. But you know,
Speaker 9: I mentioned four Cardinals to cover three Cowboys, five Cowboys,
Speaker 9: five Cardinals to cover threes. You know you've got to
Speaker 9: find a way to not let that happen in a game.
Speaker 10: Okay, my heart is fully racing right now, so let
Speaker 10: me give a disclaimer. Sorry if any insults come out,
Speaker 10: if anybody from that side of the building is listening,
Speaker 10: because these are just my emotions speaking right now, So apologies.
Speaker 10: But you know, I'm looking at this, at the stats,
Speaker 10: and I'm tired of saying like, on paper, they have this,
Speaker 10: they have the talent. On paper, they look good. They
Speaker 10: should be being a lot more effective than what they are.
Speaker 10: And it could be that the Cardinals and they did
Speaker 10: a good job. Credit to them, for sure, But it's
Speaker 10: not week three. Just it's not just week three. We
Speaker 10: saw glimpses of it week one, week two, so we
Speaker 10: know this is a your current issue. So my problem
Speaker 10: is where is all this creativity that you hide from
Speaker 10: the media sometimes and you try to act all again,
Speaker 10: sorry emotions, I'm sorry, no offense, But what are you
Speaker 10: trying to hide because I'm not seeing it. Are you
Speaker 10: saving it for when forty nine ers or when we
Speaker 10: get to compete in the playoffs? I don't know, but
Speaker 10: it has to click at some point. I think it
Speaker 10: was the lack of creativity. And you talk about the
Speaker 10: offensive line. You had three of your starters out and
Speaker 10: I get it, that's a big loss for anybody. But
Speaker 10: at the same time, you saw what you were able
Speaker 10: to do. You were still being able to move the
Speaker 10: offense down the field. It wasn't as bad as I
Speaker 10: thought it could. It was gonna be again, it wasn't perfect,
Speaker 10: but you were still being able to move the ball
Speaker 10: around and do some things. But then you get to
Speaker 10: the red zone and you get stuck once again. You
Speaker 10: got a mobile quarterback that can run, that has the
Speaker 10: pheaz for it, you're not using him. You have the
Speaker 10: running backs that you know what you can do, and
Speaker 10: we've seen it before where maybe you get an extra
Speaker 10: push from somebody else helping you out. Just push through
Speaker 10: for those extra yards. You have the tight ends, you
Speaker 10: got Gallup who's been having a good game. I thought
Speaker 10: Brandon Cooks was gonna be the guy that comes in
Speaker 10: here and clicks again. I thought this whole game was
Speaker 10: going to be completely different, thinking we were gonna have
Speaker 10: some linements in there and everything. But when you talk
Speaker 10: about just the talent the skill sets that they currently
Speaker 10: have on the roster, and you're not able to really
Speaker 10: take advantage of that and put everybody in their best
Speaker 10: position and really utilize those weapons. Turpin, you've used them before.
Speaker 10: Where was that you have? Duce Duce. We've been talking
Speaker 10: it up all through training camp, pre season. The first
Speaker 10: two weeks we've seen glimpses of it, but yet you're
Speaker 10: not really trying to use them in a game that
Speaker 10: you absolutely needed to, where your defense is not playing
Speaker 10: the way that they should and now you have to
Speaker 10: really take advantage and perform offensively, and it's not happening.
Speaker 7: You know what's interesting about that is I actually think
Speaker 7: I actually think offensively, they were more creative in games
Speaker 7: one and two than they were yesterday. And I don't
Speaker 7: know if it's because they felt like they didn't need
Speaker 7: to necessarily have that same level of creativity.
Speaker 3: But we saw them and maybe it was.
Speaker 2: Maybe it was.
Speaker 7: But that's also where I would say, should you be
Speaker 7: even a little bit more creative when you're a little
Speaker 7: worried about them? Should you have a few more guys
Speaker 7: that you get involved. Should you be running, you know,
Speaker 7: using Turpin in his speed to maybe use some end
Speaker 7: rounds or some jet sweeps, like you should be looking
Speaker 7: for other ways to keep the opposing defense off balance
Speaker 7: if you're worried about going straight at them because you
Speaker 7: just don't know if your offensive line is gonna hold up.
Speaker 5: That would be my thought.
Speaker 7: Maybe you went the other way and said, let's be
Speaker 7: a little less creative and let's just try to stick
Speaker 7: to what we do, and maybe maybe that'll be another.
Speaker 9: They had a couple of no gains where they brought
Speaker 9: Lamb and I'm just saying, you know, just when you
Speaker 9: start talking about running in the line and maybe not
Speaker 9: trust him. But they had a couple of runs where Ferguson,
Speaker 9: they're running the ball going left and Ferguson gets beat inside.
Speaker 9: This guy makes a tackle and they bring Polar or
Speaker 9: they bring Lamb in motion and he's supposed to block
Speaker 9: the linebacker and he doesn't block him and it's a
Speaker 9: no game there. So I mean they're like they're designing
Speaker 9: plays as creative as you no, but they're trying to
Speaker 9: run plays. I felt like there was some times when
Speaker 9: they ran the ball down there they were able to
Speaker 9: get some traction. I think the passing game is what
Speaker 9: let them down. And honestly, I think this is going
Speaker 9: to sound bad because we all talk about these tight ends.
Speaker 9: I think he missed Dalton Schultz down there. I think
Speaker 9: he missed somebody that has an ability to know how
Speaker 9: to play in space and kind of work his way
Speaker 9: around and find his way to get open because the
Speaker 9: receivers are struggling to get open. And then you know,
Speaker 9: we haven't seen you know in some of the games.
Speaker 9: I mean we had was it Ferguson or Hendershot that
Speaker 9: had the drop in the one game, but you know, down.
Speaker 3: In the red zone.
Speaker 9: But I just the receivers are just not if it's
Speaker 9: not a fade or something like that, that they're not
Speaker 9: doing anything to win. And I think that's but you
Speaker 9: might miss a guy like Schultz that kind of understands
Speaker 9: how to get lost, how to open himself open and
Speaker 9: give Dak the opportunity to throw the ball well.
Speaker 8: With this offensive line, Initially it looked like they were
Speaker 8: probably going to lose you the game because Dak Prescott
Speaker 8: had only been sacked once through the first two weeks.
Speaker 8: He gets sacked two times fairly early in the game,
Speaker 8: and then you're wondering. You're like, oh, well, is this
Speaker 8: a Clayborne situation? Is this the Burning of Atlanta? But
Speaker 8: then they kind of locked in and for the most part,
Speaker 8: did as much as they could. Because if you look
Speaker 8: at like the Rico Dowdle scoring scoring drive, Tony Pollard
Speaker 8: was like Bam handoff, handoff, handoff, and they were effective
Speaker 8: handoffs plus eight plus five plus six plus eight, and
Speaker 8: then you know, you hit Daldo in the flat for
Speaker 8: the quick and then he does the rest of the
Speaker 8: heavy lifting. So the offensive line they didn't lose you
Speaker 8: the game. I will say that it does feel more
Speaker 8: like this Texas Coast offense, whatever it might end up being,
Speaker 8: at the moment, it's not taking the shot enough shots
Speaker 8: down for there were a couple of shots taken downfield,
Speaker 8: like CD Lamb and Michael gallup in and I actually
Speaker 8: do think Jake Ferguson performed well yesterday for the most part.
Speaker 2: I mean, he had a pretty big day.
Speaker 8: When it comes to the receiving corps, Michael Gallup obviously
Speaker 8: had a big day, but this was the biggest day
Speaker 8: thus far for the tight end unit and it was
Speaker 8: because of Jake Ferguson. So I don't know that they
Speaker 8: missed on showts in that capacity when.
Speaker 3: You had in the red zone, they missed Schultz.
Speaker 2: Well that's fair.
Speaker 3: I mean in the red zone.
Speaker 9: I mean, how many touchdowns did him and z Cap
Speaker 9: and I'm not even including Zeke in this thing, but
Speaker 9: how many touchdowns did Schultz have down there?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 9: Where where are you getting where? Who is getting opened
Speaker 9: down there? In three games? Who is getting open to
Speaker 9: be able to make these plays?
Speaker 2: You know?
Speaker 3: And the thing that you know when you start to talk.
Speaker 9: About, like I said, this this offense, if they're so
Speaker 9: focused on not making our creative turnovers or bad situations
Speaker 9: from deb for Dak and they're not, and they're doing
Speaker 9: it in a way not to push the ball down
Speaker 9: the field, And this is what this offense is going
Speaker 9: to be.
Speaker 3: We might be in it for a little bit of
Speaker 3: a long year.
Speaker 9: You know, when it comes to if they don't if
Speaker 9: they're not willing to run more routes.
Speaker 3: If everything is underneath and quick and all.
Speaker 9: That, you know you're going to eventually have to take
Speaker 9: some shots down the field.
Speaker 3: And I get it.
Speaker 9: If you don't trust your offensive line, then max protect
Speaker 9: that thing, keep back in, keep tight ends in, and
Speaker 9: then launch it and see if you can win on
Speaker 9: the outside. But everything yesterday and Mike and the postgame
Speaker 9: talked about, oh, they're playing their safeties deep. Yeah, they
Speaker 9: rotated their safeties. They did a lot of disguise. One up,
Speaker 9: one back, they'd rotate. There was a little bit of
Speaker 9: a deep drop. Arizona was worried that the ball was
Speaker 9: going to go down the field. But if you're going
Speaker 9: to play the Cowboys, it does look like the Cowboys
Speaker 9: are willing to throw the ball down the field right now.
Speaker 9: It just doesn't look like that they're going to take
Speaker 9: that that shot or two. There were no routes where
Speaker 9: it was threatening the Arizona secondary.
Speaker 8: I would also say, and they did a good job
Speaker 8: of at least getting We talked about where was Deuce
Speaker 8: Vaughn in this in this picture against the Cardinals. Hunter
Speaker 8: Lipkey got some good burn yesterday he showed a lot
Speaker 8: of versatility. So if we're talking about red zone execution,
Speaker 8: let's let's get Hunter Lipkey and.
Speaker 3: Well they tried to. They did the one man screened
Speaker 3: again they did.
Speaker 9: You know, they just didn't get the blocks down the
Speaker 9: field like the tight ends last week against the Jets
Speaker 9: got the blocks. They didn't get the block. They tried
Speaker 9: it in the red zone. That's you know, talked about creativity.
Speaker 9: That's a good little play that they have. You know,
Speaker 9: get Hunter and and and Doubtle out and then throwing
Speaker 9: the ball and then try and get a block. I mean,
Speaker 9: they got some positive yards out of it, but you know,
Speaker 9: it's it just man, it just seemed like that Arizona
Speaker 9: was just everything that Dallas tried to do, the waggles,
Speaker 9: anything in the red zone.
Speaker 3: It was plastered, plastered, plastered. Nobody, nobody running free in
Speaker 3: that game.
Speaker 7: I would like to see I agree with you, Patrick,
Speaker 7: I would like to see Lipkey lip Key get a
Speaker 7: few more opportunities those we saw yesday on third and short.
Speaker 7: Thing was third and short nine nine yards. Yeah, and
Speaker 7: he might is, I won't say might be. I think
Speaker 7: he is their most physical back. And if you want
Speaker 7: to replace maybe what you lost with not having Zeke.
Speaker 7: I think he's a guy that maybe can provide that
Speaker 7: for you and give you a little more. I do too,
Speaker 7: but I think I'm talking about actually moving people, and
Speaker 7: when it's not blocked up, right, can you still figure
Speaker 7: out a way to get there. I think I might
Speaker 7: have a little more I may want to see. I
Speaker 7: do want to see more of lip Key having that
Speaker 7: opportunity than what I've seen so far from some of
Speaker 7: those other guys.
Speaker 5: All Right, we're gonna take our final break. We'll come back.
Speaker 7: We've got to talk about some of the explosive plays
Speaker 7: that happened yesterday with the with the Arizona Cardinal offense,
Speaker 7: and we might talk a little bit about that offensive line,
Speaker 7: talk about Adova and how he performed.
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Speaker 5: Welcome back. It is the final segment of the Break
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Speaker 7: S WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. We're going through
Speaker 7: what went wrong for the Cowboys yesterday and the first
Speaker 7: loss of the season. Let's talk about explosive plays. These
Speaker 7: are plays of twenty plus yards on the ground. They
Speaker 7: gave up one, two, three, four, a forty four yard
Speaker 7: rush to Dobbs, a twenty yard rush to Connor, forty
Speaker 7: five yard rush to Moore and that was a TD,
Speaker 7: and then a twenty six yard run to Connor. In
Speaker 7: the passing game, they gave up a twenty three yard
Speaker 7: to Brown and then another sixty nine yarder to Wilson.
Speaker 5: What was the deal with the big plays yesterday? Because
Speaker 5: that definitely has not been a hallmark of this defense.
Speaker 8: No, that's with more or let's help bury them. I mean,
Speaker 8: you can talk about the penalties, and rightfully so, but
Speaker 8: like you said, it was not only the number of
Speaker 8: big plays which were obvious, because it felt like it
Speaker 8: felt like the Cardinals were being allowed to have a
Speaker 8: big play every other play.
Speaker 2: That's what it felt like.
Speaker 8: But then you look at the fact that nearly half
Speaker 8: of those big plays came on the ground.
Speaker 2: If you bottle them up, the number passes right.
Speaker 8: If you bottle them up on the ground, then it's
Speaker 8: a much more manageable game. And you probably still you
Speaker 8: probably win this game, although with a couple, you know,
Speaker 8: with a black eye and some real bruises, and it's
Speaker 8: probably you know, twenty one twenty four, you walk away
Speaker 8: with the win, but at least you give yourself an
Speaker 8: opportunity to win, not I mean allowing that many big
Speaker 8: plays on the ground, just it sets up the big
Speaker 8: plays in the air and then from there you're just
Speaker 8: along for the ride. And I do I know for
Speaker 8: a fact, And we talked about it, the loss of
Speaker 8: Trevon Diggs. It shouldn't be as massive as it could
Speaker 8: be if this Cowboys team didn't have the depth that
Speaker 8: it had. But it just looked like they were trying
Speaker 8: to figure out what their identity is going to be
Speaker 8: in the secondary and on the defense. Without Trevon Diggs
Speaker 8: being you know, that primary lockdown corner opposite Stefan Gilmore.
Speaker 8: You were asking you more to do a little bit more.
Speaker 8: Obviously you're asking Deron Bland to do a lot more
Speaker 8: moving him to the outside, and then you see plays
Speaker 8: like the DPI that extended the drivet. For the Cardinals,
Speaker 8: it just feels like they didn't have their usual defensive
Speaker 8: identity with Trevon Diggs not on that field, and that's
Speaker 8: something that they're going to have to figure out because
Speaker 8: allowing this many big plays is going to lose you
Speaker 8: most games. But allowing this many big plays on the
Speaker 8: ground is going to lose you nine out of ten games.
Speaker 2: So yeah, and you.
Speaker 10: Gotta make offenses respect you. Yes, you know they're gonna
Speaker 10: keep running over you and making plays like that when
Speaker 10: you keep giving them away and allowing it to happen.
Speaker 10: I don't think without Trevon Diggs, I wouldn't. Is there
Speaker 10: anybody else like in the secondary that you would think
Speaker 10: of posting teams see as like a threat.
Speaker 8: I think they respect dron Bland and already six takeaways
Speaker 8: like they respect darn Bland. But again, this is not
Speaker 8: dron Bland's base position. He's a nickel guy, so he's
Speaker 8: I say that with the aspect of I'm awarding him
Speaker 8: some grace here. It's his first NFL game playing in
Speaker 8: the outside, and you just knew that the Cardinals were
Speaker 8: going to attack that, and they attacked it early, and
Speaker 8: they attacked it early, which is what I would have
Speaker 8: done if I was to play caller for the Cardinals
Speaker 8: or any team.
Speaker 2: So it's something that Deron Bland is going to learn from.
Speaker 8: But as far as the respect aspect, NFL teams respect
Speaker 8: Bland because they know he can take the ball away
Speaker 8: just like Lewis Kann, just like Gilmore can. But when
Speaker 8: you take away a guy like Trevon Diggs because of injury,
Speaker 8: the immediate question is how quickly can you re establish
Speaker 8: your new identity because you no longer have two lockdown corners.
Speaker 8: You have one definitive lockdown corner and a ballhawk that
Speaker 8: is moved from the inside to the outside and he's
Speaker 8: trying to figure its way out.
Speaker 2: And then of course that also a lockdown corner. Is
Speaker 2: that what you're saying Gilmore? Yes, still Gilmore is a
Speaker 2: lockdown corner.
Speaker 8: He doesn't have the speed used to have, but I mean,
Speaker 8: his mental acuity is insane and he has agree with that.
Speaker 7: I't know if other teams look at him in the
Speaker 7: same way they look at Diggs or.
Speaker 5: Some of the true lockdown.
Speaker 7: I think this is also my thing about I think
Speaker 7: lockdown corner is used way more than it should be
Speaker 7: these days.
Speaker 5: There are only a few.
Speaker 7: Lockdown corners in the league on any given in any
Speaker 7: given season. In my opinion, Uh, there are some really
Speaker 7: good cornerbacks, and I think Gilmore is a really good cornerback.
Speaker 5: I don't call it.
Speaker 7: I don't think he locks down one half of the field.
Speaker 7: I don't think that's Gilmore's game. That's my opinion.
Speaker 3: I would find a way if I was attacking Gilmore.
Speaker 2: I'm to figure.
Speaker 9: I think the way to attack Gilmore is trying to
Speaker 9: get him on the move. I think that to me,
Speaker 9: and and Arizona did a really good job of this
Speaker 9: when they they ran him through trash on the touchdown,
Speaker 9: they they start him on the left, the left side,
Speaker 9: and they are they started the right, and they run
Speaker 9: him all the way across the field, all through stuff.
Speaker 9: And you know, I think that you're absolutely right about
Speaker 9: the smarts and all with him and what he reads.
Speaker 9: But there is a little bit of that lack of
Speaker 9: the burst that he wants. He had an elite burst
Speaker 9: in the way he played and he's It shows now
Speaker 9: when you carry him up the field. He'll fight you.
Speaker 9: You know, he'll battle you and all that stuff that
Speaker 9: there's teams though. You could see there's a little bit
Speaker 9: of separation there, and you know, he dove. He made
Speaker 9: a great effort to try and make the play, but
Speaker 9: the ball was right there.
Speaker 3: It was well thrown.
Speaker 9: It was But I would try and attack him on
Speaker 9: the move and make him have to chase a little bit,
Speaker 9: because I don't know if he has that burst that
Speaker 9: he once had. He still could play at a very
Speaker 9: high level. But there's ways that you I think you
Speaker 9: could kind of mess with him a little bit. If
Speaker 9: you get back to the run stuff and how the
Speaker 9: big plays that they gave up in the running game.
Speaker 9: I think a lot of it had to do with
Speaker 9: your linebacker play. I think a lot of it had
Speaker 9: to do with your safety play. I don't think Kurse
Speaker 9: was particularly good in this football game. I don't think
Speaker 9: Wilson was particularly good in this football game. I don't
Speaker 9: feel that vander Esch and Clark were particularly good in
Speaker 9: this game. And then when Belle got the opportunity, he
Speaker 9: got blocked second level, you know, long forty five with
Speaker 9: a long touchdown run by More they got hat on
Speaker 9: hat and it was you know, nobody touched the guy.
Speaker 9: But if you're going to overrun place, then you better
Speaker 9: know that if you overrun, somebody better be there to
Speaker 9: pick up the pieces when you overrun it. The problem
Speaker 9: is Dallas has two or three players overrun in plays
Speaker 9: and then the ball breaks back behind that and there's
Speaker 9: nobody there to pick up, nobody to pick up the pieces.
Speaker 9: You know, you get guys that get cut hat on hat,
Speaker 9: and then linebackers that are flying downhill and you got
Speaker 9: safety flying downhill. And when they overrun plays, just know
Speaker 9: that that ball, if it spills to the back side,
Speaker 9: there's probably gonna be a big game there, all.
Speaker 7: Right, real quick, before we end the show, I did
Speaker 7: want to get some thoughts on what happened with the
Speaker 7: offensive line. Obviously, had three of your starters out too many.
Speaker 7: Doga is the guy that I think most people have
Speaker 7: talked about the most of the guys who came in.
Speaker 7: But what were your thoughts on Adoga, on Hoffman on bass.
Speaker 7: They were all in there yesterday trying to kind of
Speaker 7: make whatever they can make out of that game, knowing
Speaker 7: that three of their starters were down.
Speaker 8: I think considering what you know, the fire they were
Speaker 8: thrown into. I think they cleaned themselves up pretty well.
Speaker 8: I mean, like I said, at the beginning of the game,
Speaker 8: it felt like things were going to get out of
Speaker 8: hand because of the offensive line. Dak goes down once,
Speaker 8: that goes down twice, and we're all back in Atlanta
Speaker 8: all over again. But there were no sacks allowed thereafter.
Speaker 8: Now also to that was I did like that. I
Speaker 8: saw Dak Prescott being more willing than ever, not than
Speaker 8: ever then thus far the season to take off and
Speaker 8: run with his legs and try to move the change
Speaker 8: that way. So that's at least promising. But the offensive line,
Speaker 8: I mean, those young guys, they came in and performed.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to say well.
Speaker 8: But above above park, above the median I talked about that.
Speaker 8: That holding penalty against Idoga was that was brutal. I mean,
Speaker 8: it killed a drive for the Cowboys and that can't happen.
Speaker 8: But I mean when you look at Tyron Smith, I
Speaker 8: mean we thought he was going to play all the
Speaker 8: way up until he he didn't, right, I mean, he
Speaker 8: was named captain, he was active. We thought he was
Speaker 8: going to play. No Tuma, by the way, you're going
Speaker 8: in and we talked about this a lot. We like
Speaker 8: Chumaydoga a lot more on the inside as a left
Speaker 8: guard then on the outside, and we saw why that
Speaker 8: is in lateral space he struggles a little bit with
Speaker 8: his feet in that quickness. But Bass had one penalty. Thankfully,
Speaker 8: that penalty didn't cost the Cowboys that drive. Cowboys went
Speaker 8: down and got points on that drive. But for the
Speaker 8: most part, those that young trio of offensive linemen didn't
Speaker 8: really account for much of what happened.
Speaker 2: Or what went wrong in Arizona for the for the Cowboys.
Speaker 9: Yeah, the sacks though, it was they didn't they try
Speaker 9: and throw waggle with Xavier at Xavier Collins and he
Speaker 9: wasn't fooled, you know. They had They tried to get
Speaker 9: the ball to Ferguson and actually had an opportunity if
Speaker 9: Xavier Collins, I mean here, they're thinking he's gonna come
Speaker 9: down inside, He's gonna chase, that's his aggressive style he
Speaker 9: plays with. And they were gonna wheel back out to
Speaker 9: the left and throw the ball to Ferguson to get
Speaker 9: a first down. It's a you know, no chance you
Speaker 9: get a sack. He's on top of him right there.
Speaker 9: Adoga gives up another sack there where they trying to
Speaker 9: double They try to double move on.
Speaker 3: The outside and here again.
Speaker 9: You know, when you look at Marco Wilson the corner,
Speaker 9: he's bitten on some of these double move routes.
Speaker 3: He's you know, he's a guy.
Speaker 9: The first couple of games, they've got the ball down
Speaker 9: the field, they try to double move him. He doesn't bite.
Speaker 9: Dak's got nowhere to go with the ball. Now he's
Speaker 9: sacked because a doga gives up the sack right there.
Speaker 9: But other than that, I thought the guy's played as
Speaker 9: well as they could play. You know, I really I
Speaker 9: think that I'm really happy with bass. I think he's
Speaker 9: a mal or brawler kind of a guy. Think he's
Speaker 9: a tough guy. I think you can rely on him
Speaker 9: in a game to help you, and if you had
Speaker 9: to continue to put him in there, I think he's
Speaker 9: going to be just fine. I was worried, sick about Hoffman,
Speaker 9: that they were going to cover him and there was
Speaker 9: going to be problems, But he showed really really good
Speaker 9: toughness in this game. If the coaches were afraid of
Speaker 9: their offensive line going in, I get it. But as
Speaker 9: the game wore on, and I think I would have
Speaker 9: been more and more comfortable with what we can do. Again,
Speaker 9: maybe the offense isn't geared anymore to throw the ball
Speaker 9: down the field. Maybe everything is underneath in that intermediate
Speaker 9: range get it out quick. If that's the case, then uh,
Speaker 9: you know, man, that's kind of what we're gonna you know,
Speaker 9: that's what we're going to see the rest of the year.
Speaker 9: You know. I think the ball does need to go
Speaker 9: down the field. But again, maybe the coverage or maybe
Speaker 9: the offensive line concerns were too much for the coaching
Speaker 9: staff in this game.
Speaker 10: With the whole conversation between a dog weather, it looks
Speaker 10: better as a guard than a tackle.
Speaker 9: I'm surprised Tyler Smith didn't play left tackle in that
Speaker 9: game yesterday.
Speaker 10: Is that how you would have lined them up?
Speaker 3: I wouldned up. I would have put it. I would
Speaker 3: have put Yeah.
Speaker 9: I mean Tyler Smith from playing guard guard guard all
Speaker 9: last year to all of a sudden boom, you're the
Speaker 9: starting left tackle against Tampa Bay Buccaneers and he played
Speaker 9: the whole year. I think that's how I would have
Speaker 9: been more concerned about dealing with the edges in this
Speaker 9: game than I would deal with the inside guys.
Speaker 10: Why do y'all think that was their decision.
Speaker 9: Though we're doing radio and they're coaching in two thousand
Speaker 9: and two thousand and five. In two thousand and five,
Speaker 9: I could have told you that sitting in that room
Speaker 9: right now. I just I'm just a guy doing radio.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, And there's no way to really know unless
Speaker 7: unless they tell us, right yeah, And they haven't been
Speaker 7: willing to tell us that about how they came to
Speaker 7: that decision. But I before the game, when Nick was
Speaker 7: doing the pregame show and he had talked to Stephen
Speaker 7: Jones and kind of got win to the fact that
Speaker 7: Tyrone wasn't going to play. That was he and I
Speaker 7: both had the same reaction, like, why is Tyler not playing?
Speaker 5: Tackle?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 7: And it's just you know, I think part of it,
Speaker 7: and I think Nick brought this up, was maybe it's
Speaker 7: just with him coming back from injury, they didn't want
Speaker 7: to just throw him out there.
Speaker 5: You're coming back from that kind of injury.
Speaker 7: Maybe they had a little question about whether he'd have
Speaker 7: the lateral quickness coming off there.
Speaker 3: Worked or worked all week at guard, right, Yeah.
Speaker 7: It could have been those kinds of things that could
Speaker 7: have forced him to say, you know, it's better just
Speaker 7: to keep him at guard.
Speaker 5: We'll put Idoga out there.
Speaker 7: But I definitely was my first thought is I'd rather
Speaker 7: have Tyler out there protecting the blindside of my quarterback
Speaker 7: because I know Idoga has done really I should say
Speaker 7: really well, but well enough, card, he's been fine, and
Speaker 7: so I would have kept him there, and I would
Speaker 7: have said, give me my guy that I think is
Speaker 7: gonna be my future left tackle.
Speaker 5: Let's put him out there and do it.
Speaker 8: But that wasn't I'll ask. Mike talked today at two o'clock.
Speaker 8: I'll ask, all right.
Speaker 5: We appreciate you guys.
Speaker 9: Tomorrow we're gonna take give you if you answer you ask,
Speaker 9: if thrown your routes down the field.
Speaker 2: All I can do is ask, You're real friendly with
Speaker 2: your questions.
Speaker 3: By the way, coach, Yeah.
Speaker 7: We're gonna we're gonna have some some bigger picture topics tomorrow.
Speaker 7: We'll get into till then. For Patrick Walker. Brian brought
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