WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Pollard Over Zeke? 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:07.400 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:19.160 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Let go. Are you 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:23.280 ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:27.640 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:27.840 --> 0:00:33.000 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:39.320 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:40.240 --> 0:00:43.360 It is Monday, December twenty first, twenty twenty, season sixteen, 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:46.440 episode number eighty four. Welcome the latest edition of The Break, 0:00:46.479 --> 0:00:49.639 presented by Geico. It's Christmas week and we've got all 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:51.760 kinds of Christmas goodies for you guys. We're gonna be 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:54.040 talking about the Cowboys, and we're talking about the Cowboys 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:57.240 coming off. They're back the first back to back when 0:00:57.800 --> 0:00:59.880 of the season. Cowboys get the victory over the same 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:03.040 Francisco forty nine or forty one to thirty three. They 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:06.440 are firmly in place to still be in the hunt 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:11.080 for an NFC East championship, firmly and and maybe and 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.920 maybe the playoffs and who knows, maybe the Super Bowl, 0:01:13.920 --> 0:01:15.600 who knows, who knows where this thing is gonna go. 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:18.679 I'm just excited. It's Christmas week, so we're gonna have 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:21.080 some fun ony five. That's where it went there. One 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:23.880 percent chance went to five percent, and I was just 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:25.440 trying to hype it up a little bit, just because 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:30.400 it's just got my guys here, got Nick got Dave 0:01:30.560 --> 0:01:34.440 got Amber. Welcome to the show. Let's talk about cowboys 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.200 versus forty nine ers. Nick. I want to start first 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:39.960 with you, and because you you obviously have access that 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:43.679 most media people don't have. Talk to me about. Talk 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:46.560 to me about the locker room and that whole vibe 0:01:46.560 --> 0:01:49.160 down there, just because you know, again, I want to 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.520 know if the players are excited as excited as I 0:01:51.560 --> 0:01:53.160 would think they would be. In back to back when 0:01:53.280 --> 0:01:57.280 somebody was definitely excited after the game, they were excited. 0:01:57.320 --> 0:01:58.800 I don't know what was going on, don't know what 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:01.800 kind of presentation. It might have been something for LP, Honestly, 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:04.800 I really don't know, but there were some It was 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:08.359 very joyous in there. Maybe they were giving Christmas presents. 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:12.120 I don't know, but it was exciting. Yeah, I don't know, 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.320 but just coming out talking to them, they were they 0:02:15.320 --> 0:02:18.120 were you know, this has been such a frustrating year 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:20.480 and to have two wins in a row, and to 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:22.720 win in a game like this. It was a tough game, 0:02:22.760 --> 0:02:25.320 and both teams are, you know, losing a lot of players. 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:28.200 I think it was just a relief of like, hey, 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:30.800 you know this, it feels good to win stacks and 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.959 wins together like this, and and and they're still playing 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.680 for something. That's the thing. They're still in. This doesn't 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.960 matter what the percentage is next week's game. They think 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:42.400 it's gonna matter. It may not matter when they kickoff, 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.359 but it matters right now at this moment. It does 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:46.720 amber give me your big picture storyline of what you 0:02:46.919 --> 0:02:54.360 take coming out of this game. Big picture, Um, you 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:56.800 guys kind of started right at the beginning of the 0:02:56.840 --> 0:03:00.880 show playoffs. And I mean, I don't mean to jump 0:03:00.960 --> 0:03:05.120 back on that train or anything like that. But after 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:08.960 this game, the Cowboys goat me. They grabbed me back 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:11.440 by my pinkie. You know how little kids grab me 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:13.919 by the pinky. That's how the Cowboys got me. Right now, 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.960 they're pulling me by my pinkie. So I see a 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:20.160 lot of fans that are back to being really excited. 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.240 Apparently they think that this type of momentum that the 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:26.280 Cowboys are gaining at this point of the season might 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.320 turn into the playoffs and they might be able to 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:33.800 get somewhere further than that. Who knows. We just know 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.960 that twenty twenties a crazy here, and you can expect 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:42.560 there's anything can happen, Anything can happen, And I don't know, 0:03:42.760 --> 0:03:46.160 it's just I guess this game made me more excited 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.760 than the game last week against the Bengals. This game 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:53.320 just show me a little bit more of consistency, the 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.400 fact that it happened back to bad so that part 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.480 was exciting to me. Just seeing the changes that the 0:03:59.560 --> 0:04:02.480 defense is being able to make right now and seeing 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:05.960 them so so fired up. So that would be I 0:04:06.120 --> 0:04:08.960 guess my little storyline of the game, all right, Dave, 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:14.400 just storyline of the game. Uh, my storyline for the 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:17.320 whole thing is just that, I mean, do the Cowboys 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:20.320 really know any other way? Yeah? Like it is it 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:24.080 possible for the Cowboys to not be relevant all the 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:26.240 way to the bitter end one way or the other, 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:29.039 because I you know, this is my eighth season and 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:33.320 only once in those eight has it not been this way. Like, 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:37.200 I like, they are like genetically incapable. I was I 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.480 was watching, you know, I was watching the highlights from 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:42.680 all the other games last night, and you know, the 0:04:42.720 --> 0:04:45.279 Patriots lost to the Dolphins, and they're just like, and 0:04:45.520 --> 0:04:47.560 you know, the Patriots are done. They can't win the division, 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.359 they can't make the playoffs for the first time since 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:52.400 like two thousand and eight. With two weeks to play, 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:55.640 they're just done. And I was like, what's that like, Like, 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.200 could not be me, could not be the Dallas Cowboys 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:00.760 to just know to a certainty it's gonna happen with 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:04.120 that much time left in the season, and you know, 0:05:04.240 --> 0:05:06.680 if it's gonna be like this, at least it's entertaining. 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:10.480 Because I was expecting you know, I was expecting like 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:12.960 a slong, like a twenty four. I think I said 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.320 twenty four twenty. I didn't think it was gonna be 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:18.040 very exciting. It was a hell of an entertaining game. 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:19.960 I don't know what it means, but all kinds of 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:23.280 goofy stuff happened, and you know, if we're gonna go 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.440 all the way to the bitter end not knowing what's 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.839 gonna happen, at least the game's fun. Yeah. I've always 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:30.520 said I'd tell this to people who always ask me. 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:32.440 Sure we all have people in our lives that ask us, 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:34.680 what's it like working for the Cowboys, and I'm like, 0:05:34.920 --> 0:05:37.560 the great part is that it's it's just fun. The 0:05:37.560 --> 0:05:40.440 Cowboys always have something interesting going on, so it's fun 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:42.880 being able to cover it and talk about it. But 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.279 the worst case, the worst case scenario is the season 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:48.920 you get into where you get to Thanksgiving and there's 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.400 nothing to play for. That doesn't happen a whole lot, 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.000 and it hasn't happened a whole lot. And I'm NICKI 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:55.160 and I went through three, five and eleven seasons, so 0:05:55.200 --> 0:05:57.520 we know what that feels like. But for some of 0:05:57.600 --> 0:05:59.920 these guys, like they like in Amber, like they don't 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.000 know what that feels like. This team is always kind 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:05.480 of seemingly just hanging around till the end and either 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.040 they get barely get into the playoffs or they're barely 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:10.520 out of the playoffs. And it's looking more and more 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.840 like this team could get to six seven wins, which 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:15.360 I don't think a couple of weeks ago, I don't think. 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.640 I didn't think that was possible, But it looks favorable 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:21.040 that they'll get one more, maybe two more wins before 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:24.320 the season's all done. Yeah, I mean, and that's and 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.120 it's not a good division, you know, hasn't been a 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.280 good division, but but everybody seems to be playing a 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:31.800 little bit better. The Giants kind of faltered off a 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:34.080 little bit, but you know everyone else, I mean, Eagles 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.800 have got a spark, you know obviously when in hurts 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.839 and in Washington, you know they you know, their defense 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.800 is really good and they're gonna keep themselves in games. 0:06:42.800 --> 0:06:45.360 So you know, Washington has a chance to win the division. Now, 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:48.080 I mean they'll go, they'll play Caroline at home. They 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.960 win the division, they can knock everybody else out. But 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:55.480 if they don't, that's interesting. Yeah. Now, now they're gonna start, 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:57.400 you know, feeling the pressure a little bit on this, 0:06:57.480 --> 0:06:59.800 and then everybody has a chance to jump in there. 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:02.919 All right, let's let's get the funny thing too is 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:07.360 I'm so, I just I think it's funny and rightfully so, 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:10.320 the NFE sucks like it's it's not a good division. 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:15.120 But whoever wins it after getting dogged on all year, 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:17.800 whichever one of these four team wins it, you can 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:21.000 already see the storyline of like, oh, like you don't 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:23.119 want to go to FedEx and play this pass rush 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:26.800 right now? Or don't look now, but the Cowboys have 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:29.280 more fans than anybody, so they've got a better home 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:32.240 field advantage and their defense has forced all these takeaways 0:07:32.240 --> 0:07:34.040 like you don't want to play the Cowboys right now, 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:37.480 Like whichever one of these teams manages to win, the 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.360 narrative is gonna be that like, oh, like they're actually 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:41.960 kind of scary if you got to go on the 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.600 road and play them. And it's just it's ironic after 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:48.920 how much Yeah, sure, I mean it's it's just ironic 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:51.720 after how much they've gotten dogged on that that's what's 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:55.800 gonna happen. And by the way, we've seen this happen before. 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.080 I think it was the Seahawks, I want to say, 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.000 a few years ago. They ended it in the season 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:01.680 I think at eight and eight, I want to say, 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:04.000 And they actually got to win in the first round 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.920 of the playoffs and it was seven to nine, yees, 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:08.680 seven to nine, and then they gotta win their first 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.240 round of the playoffs. So you know, it will be interesting. 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.160 And that's what I love about the NFL playoffs. It's 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.680 a one and done type scenario we've had. We've seen 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.480 Cowboys teams that are really good losing first round of 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:20.680 the playoffs. Like, it's about teams that are hot at 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:22.360 the moment. So you could have been hot all year 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:24.720 if you're not hot in the playoffs. One in doubt. 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.080 We quote brought us all the time on here because 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.240 he has all these great one liners and stuff and 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:34.480 brought us as this all the time NFL strange lady, right, yeah, right. 0:08:34.679 --> 0:08:38.840 All I gotta say is Jets Rams. Right, that's exactly right, 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.920 Jets Rams, It's exactly. It's a crazy lady, yeah, And 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.120 that's always what happens. It seems like to me, is 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:46.400 like it's not the teams that are that are flirting 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.680 with oh and sixteen. The week that they get that 0:08:49.760 --> 0:08:53.400 one win, typically it's against the most improbable team. It's 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.959 the team that nobody expects him to get that win against, 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.240 which was the case yesterday, and they got and play 0:08:58.280 --> 0:08:59.640 their best game of the season. All right, here's we're 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:01.480 gonna do it. Let's jump into some of the moments 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:04.440 that mattered. We'll go around the table. Everybody, give me 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:06.640 a moment from that game that you think was a 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.679 pivotal moment or an interesting moment, just a moment that 0:09:09.760 --> 0:09:12.200 mattered overall. In the game. We'll start first, do you ever, 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:20.160 I don't have a specific moment, because there were several 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:23.120 moments that to me were very similar and had a 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.640 very big impact for the Cowboys. So I'm just gonna 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:29.520 go with the general thing, and it was the fact 0:09:29.840 --> 0:09:32.479 what the defense was able to do with the takeaways 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.760 and the way that the offense reacted those short field advantages. 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:37.600 I mean, one of the things that I've been complaining 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:41.800 about this offense is their inability of them getting into 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:45.920 the end zone. And I think that for whatever reason, 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:49.160 maybe they're just not great at putting back to back, 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.360 good place back to back and when they have such 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:54.880 a long way to go or what. But the fact 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:58.960 is that with the short field advantage that the defense 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.480 was able to give them, the Cowboys were able to 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:05.160 capitalize on that. And out of those four takeaways, they 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.520 were able to get into the end zone three times 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.720 and then the other one was a vehicle. So to me, 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:14.040 just seeing what the Cowboys were able to do there 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.800 offensively and being able to get into this end zone 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:20.480 was a big thing. Yeah, you know, interestingly enough, I'll 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.800 dive into those a little bit here. We had you 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:26.439 basically had two different situations. You had the first Dallas possession, 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:28.839 which I thought was really interesting because they got to 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:30.960 the point where they had to punt. They get this 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.800 really great punt and get down to the They down 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.760 it there at the San Francisco one, and then they 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:39.959 get an illegal formation call that brings it back in 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:41.760 the gates that and says you gotta punt it again. 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.560 They punt it, they force a fumble and give the 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.720 ball to their offense down at the San Francisco twenty two. 0:10:48.120 --> 0:10:51.880 And then the second situation, obviously San Francisco second possession, 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:56.040 that's when Tank forces the fumble and Aldon Smith recovers it. 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:57.880 But I want to go back to the first one 0:10:57.920 --> 0:11:01.360 because special teams continues in my opinion too. I know 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:05.280 they are. It's weird because there are weeks when we're like, 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:07.679 what the heck is the special teams doing? But then 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:09.880 there are other points in games throughout the year, and 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:12.520 this has been throughout the year a special team just 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:16.319 makes these really, really great plays. And I will say this, CJ. Goodwin, 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.800 in my opinion, is one of the best special teams 0:11:19.840 --> 0:11:22.800 players I've ever watched on a weekly basis. I know 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:24.880 there have been other guys probably throughout the league who've 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.960 been that good. But every single game it seems like 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:30.920 if something good happens for the special teams, CJ. Goodwin 0:11:31.040 --> 0:11:34.280 is somewhere involved. Yeah, and you know, obviously I don't 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:35.840 know if there's that a moment that mattered. I mean, 0:11:35.840 --> 0:11:37.800 because that is that your moment that matter? Because that 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.400 was definitely one that I was going to mention the 0:11:40.800 --> 0:11:43.760 you never get a penalty on yourself that actually turns 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:47.040 into a good thing. But let's let's be as somewhat 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.600 fair to special teams here. When Zeke is out of 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:52.240 the game and no one knew he was not he 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.400 gonna be out until that morning. Okay, when he's out 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:57.600 of the game, that affects special teams, and that penalty 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:01.280 Shaywell Alon and Loua that was him not lined up right. Well, 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:04.000 he doesn't normally play on that, but when Zeke doesn't play, 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:07.160 then then Tony Pollard has to start, and Daddle plays 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:09.120 it more this and then they've moved this guy off 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:11.199 and a lot of LOUI goes here and he doesn't 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:12.600 know where to line up, and that's the you know, 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.520 that's a constant thing for special teams yeah, we don't 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:19.000 think about the trickle effect, but it constantly happens like that. 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:21.040 And I bet you there's a lot of this going 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:23.440 on around the league, little little things here and there, 0:12:23.720 --> 0:12:28.640 so that we need to be somewhat fair with twelve 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:30.760 guys on the field and stuff like that. That's part 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.800 of this issue with with some of the Special team's errors. 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:39.320 All right, Dave, give me a moment that mattered real quick. 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:41.600 I just want to say, I mean, you know, all 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:43.520 four of us last week said that we would like 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:46.560 John Fossil to hang around. And it's stuff like that. 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:51.319 I mean, like the potential. They poppy at times, They've 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:55.760 been reckless at times, but the potential is there and 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:59.360 they have you know, Cowboys Special Teams have swung them 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:03.640 some games this season, and that that perfectly exemplifies it. 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.000 I think they need to clean it up in twenty 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.120 twenty one, but I would like John Fossil to still 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:12.960 be in charge of it next year. For me, I 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.880 think it's it's the Anthony Brown interception, the second one 0:13:15.920 --> 0:13:18.080 in the second half. If you're talking about like winning 0:13:18.080 --> 0:13:21.280 the game, because you know, the defense forces these takeaways 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:23.839 in the first half, the offense actually played pretty great 0:13:23.840 --> 0:13:27.440 on a short field, but they squandered that lead and 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.880 I didn't have a ton of under it. In the 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:35.240 second half. You know, San Francisco drives to midfield largely 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:38.120 based on a penalty I believe on Jordan Lewis, the 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:42.280 defensive pass interference. So I mean they're at midfield. All 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:43.880 they need is a field goal, so you know, you 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.600 only need another first down or two to potentially tie 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.520 the game. And who knows what happens. And then Anthony Brown, 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.520 who people love to dog, not only gets a pick, 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.320 but I you know, I thought made a great play, 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:58.600 like Donovan Wilson and Anthony Brown both like jumping routes, 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:01.240 like reading the quarterback, and yeah, I mean it's Nick Mullins, 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:04.240 it's not Aaron Rodgers, but I'll haven't seen a ton 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:09.440 of Dallas dbs do that in the last decade, um so, 0:14:10.160 --> 0:14:12.560 and you know he returns it and then two plays 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:14.920 later Tony Pollard kind of seals the thing with with 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:18.600 that really nice run. But prior to that, the Dallas 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:22.280 offense had been pretty miserable, honestly, Like they had that 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.120 one really nice drive in the third quarter that led 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:28.000 to the Dalton Schultz touchdown, and they were awful the 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:31.320 rest of the half. So without that takeaway, I don't 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:33.720 have a ton of confidence that the defense stops him, 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:35.600 and I don't have a ton of confidence that the 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:38.840 Dallas offense can retake the lead if they give it up. So, 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.960 you know, I thought Anthony Brown sort of, you know, 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:45.200 kind of delivered them the game with that, with that 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.480 fourth takeaway. Yeah, it was I think that was the 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:52.360 That to me typifies the type of complimentary football that 0:14:52.400 --> 0:14:55.200 we saw from this team yesterday. Is you know, there 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.840 were moments when the offense was completely off the rails. 0:14:57.840 --> 0:14:59.800 There were moments when the defense was completely off the 0:14:59.880 --> 0:15:03.200 rail else but there were moments in those moments one 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.480 of the other units would make a play. The offense 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:07.840 made plays when they needed to, the defense made plays 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:09.960 when they needed to. Special teams made plays when they 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:13.520 needed to. So I again, that's what complimentary football is. 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:15.080 You don't have the kind of team with all the 0:15:15.080 --> 0:15:17.320 guys you got out that's just gonna be dominant on 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:19.600 either side of the ball, offense, defense or special teams. 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:22.280 What you do have maybe is, or at least what 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:24.840 we've seen yet we saw yesterday in the week before 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:28.040 is a team where you have units that can, at 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:30.600 moments in the game make plays. And if you can 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:33.400 do that enough and compliment one another, then you can 0:15:33.440 --> 0:15:37.680 get the outcome that they ultimately got a night moment 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:41.760 that matter, if it's my turn, I was gonna say, 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.440 you know, and the usually when a quarterback gets the 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.040 ball and he stands in the pocket and then he's 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:51.440 flushed out to the right. Okay, every security guard, every 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.240 cheerleader on the sideline usually get their hands ready because 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:56.400 it's coming to you. I mean, they're gonna throw it away. 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.800 And the and the third quarter when Dalton rolled out 0:16:00.200 --> 0:16:02.680 and seven about to throw it away and then he 0:16:02.720 --> 0:16:06.000 just decides to throw it deep to CD. That was 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.520 a huge play in the game. Forty five yards down there. 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:10.160 They scored on the very next play, and it was 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.720 the first time they had actually driven the ball for 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:14.640 a touchdown and they had gotten these gifts and they 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:16.800 scored on it. But this was one where the offense 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.320 really I thought it was it was a huge play, 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:20.920 and it was. It was a great throw down there 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:24.040 at the trust of CD. And he just keeps you know, 0:16:24.520 --> 0:16:27.320 he keeps not surprising this, but he just keeps making 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:29.600 these these great plays. That's not the one that everyone's 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.680 gonna remember, obviously the touchdown, but I thought that was 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:36.080 the one. That's that's what got him drafted where he did, 0:16:36.320 --> 0:16:39.120 just just being able to be aware and get up 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:41.920 the field, make a great play on the ball, staying bounds. 0:16:42.240 --> 0:16:45.000 He just he had a really nice game yesterday. Yeah, 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:46.800 you know, I'll throw in this last one before we 0:16:46.840 --> 0:16:49.720 take our first break. It was the first San Francisco 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:54.560 possession of the second half. At the time, Dallas was 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.320 up by three. It was third and one that Dallas 0:16:57.360 --> 0:17:00.680 twenty three. They get a big stop from Door's Armstrong. 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:04.600 There for no game that forced San Francisco to take 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.280 a field goal rather than keep their drive alive on 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:09.239 a third and one. They end up tying it up 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:11.480 seventeen seventeen. But I think that was a moment that 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:13.920 really mattered. And you look at Duran's Armstrong. He only 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.080 had two tackles in that game, but they were both 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:18.639 I think pretty good, pretty good tackles in the moments 0:17:18.640 --> 0:17:20.840 that he got them. I think he is a He 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.919 is a player that it's just an interesting player. I 0:17:23.920 --> 0:17:26.320 know Jerry loves him, and Jerry talks about him a lot. 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.439 And there have been other people, all the coach coaches 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:30.639 on this staff that've talked about him as well. And 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.800 you don't always see him and notice him, but I 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:35.479 do think that if you looked rout the year, there 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:37.600 have been those kinds of moments from a guy like him. 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:40.720 And if he's your third or fourth defensive end and 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:43.720 you're getting those kind of plays in just critical moments, 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:46.640 I think that matters. Well, let's also forget I don't 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:48.760 know if you're talking about two defensive tackles, but how 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:51.360 many defensive ends run down on the punt He actually 0:17:51.359 --> 0:17:54.119 forced to fumble on that punt, So that's another tackle. 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.480 That's a huge play in the game. I talked to 0:17:56.520 --> 0:17:58.720 twelve guys yesterday. I didn't talk to him. I think 0:17:58.760 --> 0:18:00.280 we missed the boat on that one. He had a 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.640 good game. Yeah, you should have had a next time. 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:04.879 Not that anybody would have heard it, but I would have. 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:10.040 That's inside joke. Dave knows so oh no, no, I 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.600 made a little I had a little. Me and technology 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.480 aren't really good friends. I know this, Yes, everyone knows this. 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:17.639 I made a mistake. Cost me about an hour and 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:19.720 a half. I'll deal with it, all right, We're gonna 0:18:19.760 --> 0:18:21.920 take our first break. When we come back, we're gonna 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:24.199 jump into some player evaluations. We got a lot of 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:25.920 players that I want to point out and talk about. 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:27.480 Each of these guys will give you their players of 0:18:27.560 --> 0:18:28.800 the game. Well that want to come right back. 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