WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Broken Record 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.280 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:06.920 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:15.080 Cowboys Let's go. 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:16.600 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:16.880 --> 0:00:17.160 Yes? 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:19.040 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:19.840 Absolutely? 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:24.200 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:24.360 --> 0:00:28.400 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:29.880 --> 0:00:35.040 right with Mbar Garcia, Brian brought Us, Nick Harris, and 0:00:35.320 --> 0:00:36.280 Derek Eagleton. 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:41.920 It is Monday, October fourteenth, twenty twenty four, Season twenty, 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:44.960 episode number forty eight. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:47.879 The Break. We are a Live ins WBC Mortgage studios 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.200 at the Star were presented by LGLG as the world's 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:52.479 number one O lead TV brand for eleven years in 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:54.640 counting See why at LG dot Com. 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:56.880 Forward slash O led Evo. 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:58.440 I thought you were going to turn around. It was like, actually, 0:00:58.440 --> 0:00:59.840 that's a good idea. I'm gonna turn back around with 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:01.000 you know what. 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:04.040 I was watching the Giants miss the field goal. 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:05.640 That was a bad one. I was watching it watching 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:06.399 I was kind of I was. 0:01:06.440 --> 0:01:09.720 Kind of thinking that he really missed that. Yeah, but 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:11.440 that just shows you, well, you got a kicker that 0:01:11.480 --> 0:01:12.240 makes field goals. 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:14.400 So yeah, life could be worse, could be worse. 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:18.480 Thanks for that positive note, man, I'm over here that 0:01:18.480 --> 0:01:21.800 we'll find maybe one or two others throughout the context 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:22.320 of this show. 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:24.440 It was a rough one yesterday for the Cowboys. 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.679 There make no mistake about it that that was maybe 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.000 the worst loss of the season. That's saying a lot 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:32.679 because that New Orleans game was pretty bad. But yesterday 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:35.959 it looked like Dallas just couldn't figure out what they 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.720 were doing and couldn't get on on a roll on 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.240 either side of the ball. But let's talk about it. 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:44.240 Cowboys lose forty seven to nine to the Detroit Lions. 0:01:44.280 --> 0:01:45.959 To start at the story of the game. Let's go 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:47.840 around the table, Nick, what what for you was a 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:48.680 story of this game? 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:50.160 Physicality, toughness. 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:51.800 I'm going to sound like a broken record here, but 0:01:51.880 --> 0:01:54.440 I think all of those issues really compounded in this game. 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:56.720 You go up against a really physical, a really tough 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.400 team in Detroit, and you add add in a little 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:01.760 sprinkle of engines that they were looking to enact from 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:04.720 that loss last December, and what happened. A thirty eight 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:06.800 point loss, the worst loss in the history of AT 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:10.720 and T Stadium, the worst loss, and Jerry Jones ownership 0:02:11.160 --> 0:02:13.560 of the last however many years it's been I don't 0:02:13.600 --> 0:02:15.600 feel like doing thirty five. Now there you go, thank you. 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:18.480 I appreciate that, Brian. But yeah, it was it was 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:20.679 physicality and toughness. And you saw that from the very 0:02:20.720 --> 0:02:23.079 first drive until the very last drive, even when the 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:25.239 backups were in the game, it was it was toughness 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:28.160 and uh, they were just outmanned and they were outmatched 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.720 physically from the get go. And when you are outmatched 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.400 on every single play, this is the results you get. 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:36.480 This is what This is what happens when you don't 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:40.000 when you don't preach physicality, when you don't come into 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.600 come into a season trying to be tougher. I think 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:45.720 that's kind of the product of what happened here, and 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:48.600 we're only going to continue to see it throughout the season. 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:50.480 I was able to talk to some players throughout the 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.880 locker room access and Dak Prescott about what can you 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:55.399 do to be more tough U. We can talk about 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:57.760 that as a show goes on. But you know, they're 0:02:57.760 --> 0:02:59.360 they're they're looking for a lot of answers right now. 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.320 They don't really have them at the moment. 0:03:02.360 --> 0:03:07.119 And that's the concerning part it's like what you hear 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:11.200 from them doesn't really give you any sense of hope 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:13.680 as far as like, Okay, this is the plan and 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:14.520 this is what we're going. 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:17.280 To try to work on and get better at. Like 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:20.519 you don't. So that's the difficult. 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.440 Part to deal with at the moment, there's no sense 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:25.919 of direction or what you're actually going to be working 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:30.120 on and trying to execute. And we'll talk about the defense. 0:03:30.120 --> 0:03:34.639 Obviously not good when you allow forty seven was it 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.400 forty seven points? But at the same time, and we 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:39.560 talked about it during the game, Derek, we were looking 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.520 at the defense, We're like, okay, well they got what 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:44.960 they got at the moment, but they're out there trying 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:48.920 to fight and make some plays. I think there were 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:51.640 a lot of different players that we still saw some 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:55.400 aggressiveness and some willingness to go in there and do 0:03:55.440 --> 0:03:58.160 what they can to help the team. But I can't 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:01.040 say the same on the offense. It's like the offense, 0:04:01.560 --> 0:04:04.360 there's really no excuses. I think you look at all 0:04:04.400 --> 0:04:06.240 the players and the talent that you have. You do 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.640 have talented players, you have people that you can work with, 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:11.840 You have people that you paid money. A lot of 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:16.480 money too. You have players that are healthy, but yet 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.440 you cannot score a single touchdown. You cannot scheme these 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.600 guys properly to get them to the end zone. And 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:26.520 that's something that's very, very concerning, especially you're heading now 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:30.880 into week seven, you're heading into the bye week training camp. 0:04:31.120 --> 0:04:34.159 Talk it's over at this point of the season. You 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.960 should have some type of rhythm or something that is 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:41.039 working for you, and you cannot figure out either on 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:42.680 the running game or the passing game. 0:04:43.839 --> 0:04:45.960 Yeah, this one was going to come down to how 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.840 well your offense was going to be able to play. 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:53.159 You were just too in my opinion, too limited to 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.080 what you could do defensively in this game. And Nick, 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:58.839 I like what you're saying about the physicality aspect of it. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.520 I feel like we might have overrated an offensive line 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:07.080 here for the Dallas Cowboys. Even the best five that 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:12.559 we thought, maybe Cowboy Nation thought as best five really 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:17.080 wasn't your best five. And you're showing like a team 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:21.560 that struggles at right tackle sixty five plays five plays 0:05:21.600 --> 0:05:24.000 might be really bad. You have a Hall of Fame 0:05:24.120 --> 0:05:26.560 right guard, it's not a Hall of Fame right guard anymore. 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.520 You have a center that's really young who's trying to 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:31.960 play the position and pick up twist stunts, but he's 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.400 kind of confused when that happens, which allows pressure into 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:39.760 the quarterback's face. The All Pro guards now playing left 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:44.400 tackle because your normal left tackle is so banged up 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:47.240 he can't go in the game. He was on the 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.840 sideline address, but he was so he was banged up 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:51.680 to the point they really didn't want to start him, 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:54.200 so they said, okay, let's go with these five that 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:58.080 finished the Steelers game. He had some problems at tackle 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.000 in this game where all of a sudden he steps down, 0:06:01.040 --> 0:06:04.240 here comes a free rusher. Dack's now in trouble. Boom, 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:06.479 there's a hit, balls not where it needs to be. 0:06:06.640 --> 0:06:10.839 Maybe the ball's high, maybe it's overthrown. But you're you're 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.880 dealing with an offensive line that we thought maybe would 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:18.160 be a strength in actuality. They're really average right now, 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:20.560 they really are. They can't really run the ball, they 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:24.800 can't get any push. The backs are struggling with that themselves. 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:28.000 I know everybody's complaining about the number of carriers that zeke, 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:30.960 but go back and watch the running game. There's really 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:35.480 If you're asking me that, okay, here's a good scheme. 0:06:35.880 --> 0:06:38.560 Here's a good scheme thing to do. Nick. Let's take 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:40.960 Tolbert and try and block him on hutchetson when we're 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.640 running a play going away and see how that works. 0:06:45.320 --> 0:06:48.720 Not very well. You know. Let's try and block Schoonmaker 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:51.960 over here on an all pro guy and see how 0:06:52.000 --> 0:06:54.600 that works one on one. Not going to work very well, 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:58.279 by the way, bad idea, Bad idea. Tell you what. Though, 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:01.039 they schemed a nice job with Edie Lamb that first 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:04.800 catch one handed ketch. But hey, look at this little 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:08.200 scheme stuff working here. We're gonna switch the routes and 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:10.120 we're gonna drive it and we're gonna clear it. 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.040 So after that first drive, I was like, man, we're 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:13.360 in for a shootout. This is gonna happen. 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:16.080 There we go, Yeah, here we go. So to you, 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.000 but that's you know, and you and you and you're 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:26.040 like you're sitting here thinking it's they're capable. They're capable, 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:31.280 but offensively they're just not good enough. They're not good enough. 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:33.640 They don't run the ball well at times, they don't 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:38.280 pass protect well enough. Uh there receivers, you know, when 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:42.240 when they do have what we call creative routes. I know, 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:44.040 Brad Sham and I get out and go back and 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:47.400 forth about this. I hate the word creativity in ways 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:50.320 of football because I think there's there's things that you know, 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.760 you naturally need to do, and you know you can 0:07:52.960 --> 0:07:54.880 kind of figure some things out, and they have some 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:57.160 creative plays. If you go back and watch the game, 0:07:57.240 --> 0:08:01.440 there'll be some creative plays. Balls behind the receiver, balls 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.880 too high over the receiver, quarterbacks got a guy in 0:08:04.920 --> 0:08:09.040 his lap, running back didn't didn't run, hit the right hole. 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:13.080 That's why you lose football games. You know. Defensively, you 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:17.760 did not have the personnel to play against that offense. Nick, 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:25.400 I'm gonna tell you this, even if you had Parsons, Lawrence, Bland, Carson, 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.120 all these guys Orleans, it might have been a nass 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.600 kicking too. You know. That's how good that offense is 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:34.760 because they do things to you and they put you 0:08:34.880 --> 0:08:38.080 under a lot of stress, you know, and that was 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.600 going to be your offense needed to be good enough 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:43.839 to kind of make it a shootout. They couldn't make 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:48.360 it a shootout. I'm probably because they're probably not good enough. 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.240 I'm gona circle back to you on that creativity point, 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:51.840 but I feel like we have bigger things to address. 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.520 Well, you know what, I'll say this, I was very 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:57.920 disappointed from the standpoint that yesterday in a game, we 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:00.800 have so many players that you don't have. You're playing 0:09:00.800 --> 0:09:03.640 a team as good as this team is, you're playing 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.360 at home where the last two outings that you've had, 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:08.800 or the last three outings you've had at home haven't 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:13.240 been very inspiring. The players that are the best players 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:16.040 on the team that you needed most to step up 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.680 at moments yesterday failed you. You go down the list 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.240 and Dak didn't play this great game, his best game. 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:27.080 You mentioned Martin and I I have throughout his career. 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:30.000 I've loved this player and what he brings to the table. 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:34.320 That's not what we're seeing anymore. He might we're seeing anymore. 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.440 Yeah, if you talked him on the side, he might 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.040 tell you he goes man, that was a rough one. 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:39.920 Yeah, that might have been the worst game I've seen 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:40.400 him play. 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.200 And I mean to the point where it was consistently 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.520 he was giving up pressure. You look at Ferguson and 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.080 that that wasn't gonna be an easy catch. But that's 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.640 a catch when you're Jake Ferguson, you make that catch. 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:54.080 That was a design play. If you look at it, 0:09:54.080 --> 0:09:56.240 they put him on the right side and they kind 0:09:56.240 --> 0:09:59.120 of delay him to run, and it's you thought when 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:01.400 he threw it, I thought that's a yolo ball. You 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.320 know you only live once. Yeah, I thought that was 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:05.600 a yolo pass. You go back and watch on tape. 0:10:05.679 --> 0:10:08.600 It was a design play. Yeah you know it's a 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:11.280 design pass. But yeah, you know you've seen Jacobers. 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:15.720 I've seen to make more differ catches in that dig yesterday, 0:10:15.720 --> 0:10:18.160 I don't think played his best football. There were moments 0:10:18.160 --> 0:10:19.960 when it was like, what are you? There were opportunities 0:10:20.000 --> 0:10:21.840 to make a tackle and he just he wasn't. Then 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.040 We've seen that before, and so I just I think 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:25.640 when you look at it, I don't think anybody can 0:10:25.640 --> 0:10:27.760 walk away from that game and say, man, I gave 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:30.120 him everything that I had and gave him the best 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:33.800 of what I have, because, yeah, I've seen so many 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.280 of these players play so much better football than what 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.160 I saw yesterday, And in moments like that, that's when 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:41.080 I need my best players to really step up and 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.480 be better than even what they are normally. And that's 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:45.200 just not what they got yesterday, So you didn't give 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.800 yourself even a chance when you're playing against a team 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:49.280 that's as good as Detroit is. 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:53.360 To the Traylon Digs point four targets, four receptions for 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:56.480 eighty yards, and a touchdown when targeting Traylon Digs a 0:10:56.600 --> 0:10:59.040 perfect passer rating, and then going to the Zach Martin point, 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.080 he allowed seven pressures yesterday. 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:02.040 That's a career high. 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:02.319 Yeah. 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:04.000 His previous career high was five. 0:11:04.200 --> 0:11:06.480 Yeah, it's it would just there were just so many 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:09.200 things where it was like, I need these guys to 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:12.200 be playing at their very best, because I have enough 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.559 guys out there who are young, who are inexperienced, who 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:17.520 may not be as good, who I'm gonna have to 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:19.720 already take up for and kind of pull the slack 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.520 for them. If your best players aren't playing like your 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.080 best players, then you really just don't have a chance 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.160 at all. All Right, let's do this, let's take a 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.880 quick break. Well, we're gonna come back all over again. 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:33.000 It's like this, I mean, the similarities there offensively is 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:36.840 just like you. You literally and this has been shown 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:41.840 throughout the season so far, like you've had I can't 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:43.880 even remember the first game, I know that was a 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:49.000 bigger score. I can't remember how the offense overall looked. 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:52.320 Like in the Cleveland game. The yeah, second half, it 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:53.960 was a non It was kind of a no show. 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:56.040 They really didn't move the ball all the first half. 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:58.800 But I mean you could say similar things about a 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:00.400 lot of games this year that even when they have 0:12:00.480 --> 0:12:02.040 played well, it hasn't been a full game. 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:04.960 You're not doing much of anything. 0:12:04.960 --> 0:12:08.360 You got rezone problems, you can't score points, touchdowns, You're 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:10.880 relying on your kicker, which should not be the answer. 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.240 And what is the stressful is like you don't see 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.319 any type of improvement in that in those areas to 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:18.880 where you're like, Okay, we're getting better here, and like 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:22.200 you can at least talk about it and work with that. 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:24.320 But right now, at this point, it just feels like, 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:25.840 what the heck are we gonna do? 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:26.840 What are we expecting? 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:27.080 Now? 0:12:27.200 --> 0:12:30.120 They are who they are? Is Bill Parcells would say, 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:31.200 they are who they are right now? 0:12:31.240 --> 0:12:34.280 I mean, that's you can't And I said this last night. 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:35.080 I was talking to my wife. 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:37.199 I was like, I've been giving this offense the benefit 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:38.920 of the doubt. I think that they were still just 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.560 as good as they were last year. And I even 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.000 forgot what they were before they got past the San 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.360 Francisco game, because they were pretty bad before that. And 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:48.000 then they seem to get on a roll and then 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:49.760 we started to see the offense really kind of come 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:51.880 into its own and I gave them the benefit of 0:12:51.920 --> 0:12:53.240 the doubt that that's who they still were. 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:55.280 I was like, surely the. 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:57.880 Loss of Tony Pollett wouldn't make that much of a difference, 0:12:58.320 --> 0:12:59.960 but they haven't really lost a lot of other pieces. 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:02.040 And and right now what we're seeing is that this 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.160 offense is not what they were last year. 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.079 I don't know if it's all Tony Pollard or. 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:08.720 Not Tyron Smith seeing the effect of Tyrone. 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:09.600 Maybe Tyron. 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:11.760 But also the part about Tyrant is you couldn't allow 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.320 on him to be there last year for all all 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:14.760 those games. 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.040 Yeah, so at least, but at least he was a 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.560 he was a he was a major part of it. There. 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:20.960 Now you have questions that left. 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:23.040 Tackle, Yeah, well you got questions all along, you do, 0:13:23.200 --> 0:13:25.400 but really think about it is you have questions to 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:28.160 left tackle, but your right guard, as you mentioned, is 0:13:28.600 --> 0:13:31.600 his the bar was so high that he's just playing 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:33.000 as a mere mortal right now. 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.199 Yeah, Yeah, he's a he's an average guy right now, 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.400 which is crazy to say because he's such a great 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:40.840 player and he's been such a great player. It's just 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:42.640 not that's not what yesterday looked like. 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:43.000 For sure. 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:44.720 Are we're gonna take our first break, We'll come back, 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:46.880 We'll dab a little deeper into the offense. 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See it for yourself at LG dot com 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:39.000 slash oledevo. 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:39.760 Welcome back. 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:41.400 It is the second segment of The Break live from 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:43.840 the SWBC Mortgage studios at the star of the segment 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.040 brought to you by blockchain dot Com. 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:48.280 All right, let's talk about Dak Prescott. 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:51.520 He was seventeen thirty three fifty two percent completion, one 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.880 hundred and seventy eight yards, passing, zero touchdowns, two interceptions, 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:57.280 forty two point two rating. 0:16:57.760 --> 0:16:59.760 What are your thoughts on how Dak performed? 0:16:59.800 --> 0:17:01.440 Yes today, Yeah, really poorly. 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.960 We've seen him struggle throughout the course of his career 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:08.440 against against his own type defenses, and I think Detroit 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:10.040 threw a little bit more at him than what he 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:13.040 maybe anticipated. And just for one play that could kind 0:17:13.040 --> 0:17:16.280 of sum it all up was the Brian Branch interception. 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:18.760 The first one where you know, he had Dak believing 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:20.560 that he was going to go into account for Jalen 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:22.600 Tolbert on the checkdown and then as soon as that 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:25.000 ball was released, he turned back and be lined to 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:26.679 that ball and he was right there for it. So 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:28.720 you know, that's a ball that Dak's got to push 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:30.080 to the corner. He's got to push it up a 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.320 little bit. He's got to trust CD's athleticism a little 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:34.200 bit more. And then on CD's end, he's got to 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:35.919 play defense a little bit better than that. You know. 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:38.720 But I think, all in all, the day that Dak 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.320 Prescott had it's one of the worst that I've seen 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.359 in person over the course of my last couple of 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:45.280 years covering this team. You know, I think back to 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:47.159 the forty nine ers performance last year, and it was 0:17:47.280 --> 0:17:50.960 very similar in the sense that rhythm was never established. 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:55.120 His receivers were just getting fought in the secondary over 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:57.159 and over. And I got to give credits to the officials. 0:17:57.200 --> 0:17:59.080 They let them play for the most part. They called 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:02.040 a couple of penalties. But Detroit they brought that physicality 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:04.399 in the secondary as well, and it disrupted the timing. 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:06.879 It disrupted the rhythm of this offense. And when this 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:10.000 offense does not have timing and it does not have rhythm, 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:11.320 it is inserviceable. 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:13.840 And we saw that on full display on Sunday afternoon. 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:17.280 I'm still that word inserviceable. I like that I do too. 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:18.720 It's a good word. 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:20.760 It's an educated guy talking right there. 0:18:21.400 --> 0:18:24.120 Sometimes sometimes go ahead. 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:26.960 Brian, Yeah, I think the thing. I think the thing 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:30.520 with Dak is that, to me, there there were opportunities 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:33.640 in this game. Not a lot of them, but man, 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:35.719 there were some things that they had set up to 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:37.960 try and make it happen. We talked about the past. 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:41.080 The first the first inside passed, the one hand catch 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:44.080 to Lamb. I mean to me, I'm like, there you go, 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:47.240 capable of this stuff, you know, And there was some 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.920 things that they did that he's absolutely right about. The branch. 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:54.520 Branch had a couple of interceptions. The one that over 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:57.680 the middle to Brooks was just a really poorly thrown ball. 0:18:57.880 --> 0:18:59.320 I mean, he you know, there was some little bit 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.680 of pressure, but he was able to get it out. 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:04.280 The pass on the end zone, the one and the 0:19:04.400 --> 0:19:08.560 that was intercepted, it's kind of like Dallas, I guarantee 0:19:08.560 --> 0:19:11.720 you this is what happened. They probably ran that play 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:14.800 like three times in gold Line period on practicing it, 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:17.920 and every single time they told the corner to bite 0:19:18.000 --> 0:19:20.119 on the or the the man in the flat to 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:23.760 bite on the cross did it on their own. Yeah, 0:19:23.840 --> 0:19:25.720 well That's what I'm saying, like or yeah, so all 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:27.879 of a sudden, Now it's like, okay, this guy this 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:31.919 you know, it's Brian Branch. He's an instinctive player, and 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:34.520 you're thinking, Okay, this guy's gonna we're gonna play it 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:37.080 like this guy is gonna drive on the drive on 0:19:37.080 --> 0:19:40.240 the because they're gonna run a screen. They fake basically 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:42.840 the screen is what they do. So they get Tolbert 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:45.040 like this is gonna bubble, and then he takes off 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:48.119 and then out and they're thinking that maybe Branch is 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:51.439 gonna but man, he just he's like no. Dak's looking 0:19:51.480 --> 0:19:54.159 at CD the whole time coming across. You can see it. 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:56.080 You could see it in his eyes. I mean he's 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:58.280 looking at him, and Branch is like, you're not throwing 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:01.879 this ball that flat. Throw it behind me here, you know. 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:03.800 And that's just a good instinctive play. 0:20:03.680 --> 0:20:04.840 Especially on third down too. 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:05.160 Yeah. 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:07.160 They were never gonna throw it short of the sticks, right. 0:20:07.040 --> 0:20:10.840 There, never never were so Yeah. Unfortunately though that, I 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:13.320 think the play caller wasn't particularly good. I don't think 0:20:13.320 --> 0:20:16.320 the quarterback was particularly good. I think the line was 0:20:16.400 --> 0:20:18.639 particularly good. A lot of pressure there, they didn't they 0:20:18.640 --> 0:20:21.119 don't run the ball. So bad day all around, if 0:20:21.160 --> 0:20:24.159 you want to point the finger, the quarterback takes the arrows. 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:26.720 He stands up there and has to answer all the questions. 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:29.119 Everybody else kind of, you know, says, we'll look in 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:31.480 the mirror and kind of figure it all out. I 0:20:31.480 --> 0:20:34.080 do believe this. They are who they are. You're right, 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:36.640 it has to be almost perfect for them to have 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:40.000 a successful play. I mean they can't. It's it just 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:43.880 sometimes if they're off schedule and all that, the creativity 0:20:43.880 --> 0:20:46.879 of it all. I use that word there, but it's 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:49.159 a it was. It was not a good day and 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:52.040 they needed a good day from their offense. And I 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:54.560 think their offense just watching it now through six weeks, 0:20:55.280 --> 0:20:57.280 it kind of like I say, it is what it is. 0:20:57.359 --> 0:20:58.680 It's it's not good enough. 0:21:00.200 --> 0:21:01.960 I just I don't understand it. 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:05.399 We know Dak is better than what he's shown so 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:08.440 far this season and what he showed in this particular game. 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:10.960 I mean we talk about the pressure. Yes, sure there 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:12.680 was a lot of pressure, but there were a lot 0:21:12.680 --> 0:21:16.679 of plays that I saw where the pressure wasn't that 0:21:16.840 --> 0:21:19.720 bad and he was still making bad decisions where he 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:22.040 was just throwing the ball to who knows who and 0:21:22.119 --> 0:21:25.760 then doing who knows why, And we talk about I 0:21:25.800 --> 0:21:29.320 know I brought this up after some other game, I 0:21:29.359 --> 0:21:34.520 don't remember what, but the Dak's ability to run and 0:21:34.600 --> 0:21:38.560 the mobility, and you mentioned the whole ankle thing that 0:21:38.600 --> 0:21:41.719 happened during the off season. Well at this point, I mean, 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:44.040 I don't want to say I don't care, because if 0:21:44.359 --> 0:21:45.720 I really hurt, you care. 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:48.480 About, but like do something. 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:52.119 You know, there were instances, There are instances where he 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:54.040 has the ability to kind of just get out of 0:21:54.119 --> 0:21:57.200 the pocket and just gain a few more yards while 0:21:57.200 --> 0:22:00.240 he figures out the target and throws it. We've seeing 0:22:00.280 --> 0:22:04.560 him be able to throw good balls when on the run. 0:22:04.680 --> 0:22:06.639 So that's an area of the game that is not 0:22:06.680 --> 0:22:09.280 being used at all, not even when they're getting close 0:22:09.320 --> 0:22:11.400 to the red zone in that area where I think 0:22:11.440 --> 0:22:14.040 it can be very beneficial to them. And that's the 0:22:14.040 --> 0:22:17.760 whole element that's been taken away when you're already struggling 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:21.359 without a running game. Overall, I think there are a 0:22:21.400 --> 0:22:24.600 lot of elements in the game that I think Mike 0:22:24.680 --> 0:22:28.719 McCarthy is not really utilizing it to his advantage. And 0:22:28.760 --> 0:22:33.400 we talk about you mentioned Derek Hunter Lipke, another guy 0:22:33.480 --> 0:22:37.480 that we've mentioned on here all the time, did he 0:22:37.560 --> 0:22:38.840 do anything yesterday? 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:45.800 He was a sniffer blocker yesterday, a sniffer. Sniffer blocker. 0:22:46.200 --> 0:22:47.920 I heard a sniffer in the locker room. 0:22:49.160 --> 0:22:57.680 Got here with the knickerbockers, plays right behind the right 0:22:57.720 --> 0:22:59.800 behind the line of scrimmage and kind of sniffs out 0:23:00.000 --> 0:23:01.120 stuff that's going on there. 0:23:01.720 --> 0:23:04.439 They certainly didn't give him the ball, throw. 0:23:04.440 --> 0:23:05.600 The ball, or can him the ball. 0:23:05.600 --> 0:23:06.960 They did not touch the all. He did not touch 0:23:06.960 --> 0:23:07.159 them all. 0:23:08.240 --> 0:23:09.520 He was a blocker yesterday. 0:23:09.920 --> 0:23:13.480 You guys guys that you can kind of try something 0:23:13.520 --> 0:23:16.440 different with and you're not so. I mean, this whole 0:23:16.440 --> 0:23:19.760 thing kind of falls back into Mike McCarthy as a 0:23:19.800 --> 0:23:23.320 play caller and what he's doing currently. I don't know 0:23:23.400 --> 0:23:28.240 much about football, but what I watch without very little knowledge, 0:23:28.320 --> 0:23:30.360 compared to what they have over there on that side 0:23:30.359 --> 0:23:32.720 of the building and what they get paid for, to me, 0:23:33.720 --> 0:23:37.600 it seems like it looks easier from my perspective. Again, 0:23:37.640 --> 0:23:40.520 I respect what they're doing, but it just from our 0:23:40.600 --> 0:23:44.760 bird's eye point of view, it looks like you have 0:23:44.840 --> 0:23:49.159 the tools to create something better and do something that 0:23:49.200 --> 0:23:51.399 you're not doing right now, like you're not. Again, I 0:23:51.400 --> 0:23:52.800 don't want to bring up Nativity. 0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:55.760 But yes, I'm the one with the creativity. It's it's 0:23:55.800 --> 0:23:58.679 the right, it's right. But the thing that this the 0:23:58.760 --> 0:24:00.960 trade team on offense from binds me. The old Cowboy 0:24:01.000 --> 0:24:03.160 teams that win Super Bowls, you know, when you try 0:24:03.200 --> 0:24:05.080 and kind of take things away from them, they kind 0:24:05.119 --> 0:24:07.760 of figure something else out. They figure out how to 0:24:07.840 --> 0:24:09.400 run the ball, or they figure out how to throw 0:24:09.400 --> 0:24:11.800 it to the tight end. That play that they designed, 0:24:11.800 --> 0:24:14.399 the double you know, the double River. That's that's a 0:24:14.840 --> 0:24:16.399 I think that's a play someone was telling me, and 0:24:16.440 --> 0:24:18.120 I need to go back and look at this. It's 0:24:18.119 --> 0:24:20.440 a play at San Francisco ran against you last year. 0:24:20.560 --> 0:24:23.399 Do it the kittle for a touchdown? Same play, you know. 0:24:23.480 --> 0:24:26.280 So that's maybe it's like, hmm, maybe we can steal 0:24:26.320 --> 0:24:28.920 this play from you know, somebody. And but that's that's 0:24:28.960 --> 0:24:32.560 where I think with the Cowboys offensively though, it's it's 0:24:32.600 --> 0:24:35.000 just such a struggle. And it's just such a struggle 0:24:35.000 --> 0:24:37.879 because of the line struggles, the quarterback struggles at times, 0:24:37.880 --> 0:24:39.840 they don't run the ball, as I said, and your 0:24:39.880 --> 0:24:42.879 receivers don't always make plays for you, you know. So 0:24:43.000 --> 0:24:45.880 that's I mean, it's you just you watch these other 0:24:45.920 --> 0:24:49.200 teams that have so much success moving the ball. Detroit's 0:24:49.200 --> 0:24:52.159 probad of a bad example because they've got one of 0:24:52.200 --> 0:24:55.320 the best lines in football. They got really good young 0:24:55.400 --> 0:24:59.240 talent with Williams and Saint Brown as the receivers, Laporta 0:24:59.280 --> 0:25:01.119 at that tight end, is Hues and two of the 0:25:01.119 --> 0:25:03.680 best backs in the league. You see what they did 0:25:03.680 --> 0:25:07.320 to you. They just kept interchanging those guys. Montgomery the 0:25:07.400 --> 0:25:09.840 carry and then the next guy, and they went is 0:25:09.920 --> 0:25:12.480 back and forth with how they you know, and that's 0:25:12.800 --> 0:25:15.360 everybody's kind of getting on him, like, huh, you got 0:25:15.400 --> 0:25:17.439 a running back already and you're drafting one in the 0:25:17.480 --> 0:25:23.200 first round. Okay, stupid. They look pretty they look pretty smart. 0:25:23.200 --> 0:25:23.920 It's a full now. 0:25:25.359 --> 0:25:27.120 Their offensive line is really good. 0:25:27.160 --> 0:25:27.720 It's awesome. 0:25:27.760 --> 0:25:29.960 Those dudes. They play on their feet. They don't worry 0:25:30.000 --> 0:25:33.359 about your down guys, they block. Their tight ends are 0:25:33.400 --> 0:25:36.560 good at blocking, you know. They they really they're there. 0:25:36.600 --> 0:25:38.800 And they got a really fun play caller. I mean 0:25:38.840 --> 0:25:41.840 he he was trying to embarrass you yesterday. He really 0:25:41.920 --> 0:25:45.280 was throwing the ball to the tackle and stuff like that. 0:25:45.400 --> 0:25:49.360 I mean he's like he's like, you know, who's practicing 0:25:49.440 --> 0:25:51.720 plays to like catch it and pitch it to the 0:25:51.720 --> 0:25:53.320 your all pro right tackle. 0:25:53.560 --> 0:25:56.120 I love big boy touchdown so much. I caught myself 0:25:56.119 --> 0:25:57.600 whenever was reaching in. 0:25:58.160 --> 0:26:02.680 Get in crazy. But that's what you that's what you're 0:26:02.760 --> 0:26:05.840 up against yesterday, you know, and you you look the 0:26:05.960 --> 0:26:08.560 opposite of what that And that's probably kind of a 0:26:08.560 --> 0:26:12.679 bad example because that's one of the best offenses is 0:26:12.720 --> 0:26:13.400 in the league. 0:26:13.800 --> 0:26:15.800 Let's take our actually, let's real quick, we get this 0:26:15.840 --> 0:26:17.520 one last topic in before we go to break. 0:26:17.920 --> 0:26:20.640 Talk about the offensive line. Brian. I know you went 0:26:20.680 --> 0:26:21.520 down the line and they. 0:26:21.400 --> 0:26:23.760 Had lots of struggles, and what I saw was that 0:26:23.800 --> 0:26:25.600 the majority of the struggles seemed to be on the 0:26:25.640 --> 0:26:27.760 right side. There were some some things on the left side, 0:26:27.800 --> 0:26:30.280 but on the right side, it seemed like every play there. 0:26:30.200 --> 0:26:32.920 Was something going on over there. They just didn't seem right. 0:26:33.320 --> 0:26:35.800 My question for you is, how do you fix that? 0:26:35.880 --> 0:26:38.359 Because you ain't getting rid of Zach this year, which 0:26:38.400 --> 0:26:42.600 I'm not saying you should, but that's not changing Steel 0:26:42.720 --> 0:26:44.760 is not necessarily I don't know if you've got another 0:26:44.760 --> 0:26:45.359 guy you could. 0:26:45.200 --> 0:26:47.440 Even put there in place of him. So what other 0:26:47.520 --> 0:26:48.560 than them playing better? 0:26:48.720 --> 0:26:50.840 Is there anything the Cowboys can do to help the 0:26:50.880 --> 0:26:51.439 right side of. 0:26:51.440 --> 0:26:52.119 The line. 0:26:53.840 --> 0:26:57.320 Man, we're just gonna look at each other the whole 0:26:57.400 --> 0:26:57.800 show here. 0:26:58.440 --> 0:27:01.359 I don't know. I mean to me that it's yeah. 0:27:01.000 --> 0:27:01.960 There's one solution. 0:27:02.119 --> 0:27:05.360 There's one solution that's been tossed around on by fans, 0:27:05.400 --> 0:27:07.919 and it's played right tack guid in a right tackle 0:27:08.119 --> 0:27:11.480 and I I think you could do that if you 0:27:11.520 --> 0:27:13.560 didn't have so much investment wrapped up in terrence. 0:27:13.760 --> 0:27:14.159 But is it? 0:27:14.200 --> 0:27:16.639 But my question would be for them that may be 0:27:16.760 --> 0:27:19.680 a long term solution could be. But do you think 0:27:19.720 --> 0:27:23.000 that after not playing right tackle through from training camp 0:27:23.040 --> 0:27:25.320 and he get played in college, do you think that 0:27:25.600 --> 0:27:27.520 he's going to be any better at right tackle than 0:27:27.520 --> 0:27:29.320 maybe what we've seen already at left tackle, Because at 0:27:29.400 --> 0:27:31.320 left tackle, we know he's got a lot of development 0:27:31.320 --> 0:27:33.320 to do. So are you just changing out one problem 0:27:33.359 --> 0:27:35.800 for another potential problem if you put him at right tack. 0:27:35.800 --> 0:27:38.879 I think it's also maximizing Tyler Smith at left tackle 0:27:38.880 --> 0:27:40.960 if you feel comfortable with what he's done there, and 0:27:40.960 --> 0:27:44.240 then it's putting Tyler Gotten back into a situation of comfortability. 0:27:45.440 --> 0:27:48.080 Even though he was protecting a blindsided Oklahoma and there 0:27:48.160 --> 0:27:49.840 was still aspects that he was able to carry over 0:27:49.840 --> 0:27:51.639 to the left side. I think putting him back on 0:27:51.640 --> 0:27:53.399 the right side could help in the long run, but 0:27:53.520 --> 0:27:55.280 I don't see this team doing that. I feel like 0:27:55.280 --> 0:27:58.639 it's a wasted conversation. Honestly, they are going to keep 0:27:58.680 --> 0:28:01.280 tern Steel there and ride it out with him. Yeah, Honestly, 0:28:01.720 --> 0:28:03.680 if you look at how Terrence Steel started the season 0:28:03.760 --> 0:28:05.520 last year and how he finished the year last year, 0:28:05.560 --> 0:28:08.080 those last six seven games that Terrence Steel had some 0:28:08.119 --> 0:28:10.000 of the best play he's had in his entire career. 0:28:10.200 --> 0:28:12.280 And I think they still feel like that that can 0:28:12.280 --> 0:28:15.040 come rear rear back around through the back half of 0:28:15.080 --> 0:28:15.520 the season. 0:28:15.560 --> 0:28:18.560 I think it's San Francisco, you're gonna see guiding a 0:28:18.680 --> 0:28:21.359 left tackle, stell A Smith back at left guard. 0:28:21.480 --> 0:28:22.760 Yeah, I agree, I don't. 0:28:23.119 --> 0:28:25.320 I don't think they're going to tinker with this thing anymore. 0:28:25.840 --> 0:28:29.000 Like I said, the you're just not good enough up 0:28:29.000 --> 0:28:31.760 front right now. You just you know, you've got to 0:28:31.800 --> 0:28:35.439 get Guiden experience. You got to get BB experience. Smith 0:28:35.440 --> 0:28:40.040 will be fine, Martin, you you ride that. That's that's 0:28:40.080 --> 0:28:42.320 a Hall of Fame player over there. It's kind of 0:28:42.320 --> 0:28:44.719 like the same problems you talked about with Tyron Smith. 0:28:44.760 --> 0:28:46.640 You know, you're like, Oh, I don't know. It's some 0:28:46.720 --> 0:28:49.840 days it's great, some days it maybe not. But you know, 0:28:49.960 --> 0:28:52.360 and then you've got to figure out the right tackle stuff. 0:28:52.360 --> 0:28:56.560 I just feel like that. To me, it's it's asking 0:28:56.600 --> 0:28:58.600 a lot and they're they're not going to do anything 0:28:58.600 --> 0:29:02.040 about it. They they tried. You know, their future is 0:29:02.120 --> 0:29:05.080 with BB at center and Guidance at left tackle, and 0:29:05.120 --> 0:29:07.000 I think that's how they're going to continue to play. 0:29:07.840 --> 0:29:08.840 Let's take our final break. 0:29:08.840 --> 0:29:10.959 We will come back and we'll talk a little bit 0:29:10.960 --> 0:29:12.400 about the defensive side of the ball. 0:29:12.600 --> 0:29:14.720 Not much that was surprising about. 0:29:14.560 --> 0:29:16.880 Yesterday, but there are some points that we need to 0:29:16.960 --> 0:29:18.560 kind of figure out and then talk about a couple 0:29:18.600 --> 0:29:20.320 of players on that side of the ball. We'll back 0:29:20.360 --> 0:29:21.640 Dallas Cowboys dot com radio. 0:29:24.000 --> 0:29:26.000 If you can't be at the stadium, there's no better 0:29:26.000 --> 0:29:28.360 way to watch your Cowboys than on an LG O 0:29:28.560 --> 0:29:32.080 lead EVO TV. 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They picked up one 0:32:20.760 --> 0:32:24.120 hundred and eighty four yards running a rushing five point 0:32:24.200 --> 0:32:25.880 one average two touchdowns. 0:32:26.080 --> 0:32:27.840 To be honest with you, there was a point. 0:32:27.640 --> 0:32:30.120 Early in the game, maybe second quarter, when I was like, 0:32:30.600 --> 0:32:33.400 it almost feels like they're playing with them, because if 0:32:33.400 --> 0:32:34.960 they just decided they were just going to line up 0:32:35.000 --> 0:32:38.320 and run every down they could, the Cowboys were really 0:32:38.360 --> 0:32:41.120 not stopping them from running. They were just doing trick 0:32:41.160 --> 0:32:43.480 plays and running all kinds of stuff around there. It 0:32:43.560 --> 0:32:45.000 just seems like they were kind of toying with them 0:32:45.040 --> 0:32:48.000 a little bit, But the run defense is where it 0:32:48.000 --> 0:32:51.360 all starts, and I don't think it was really existent yesterday. 0:32:51.400 --> 0:32:53.800 And I think that obviously you look at those numbers 0:32:53.800 --> 0:32:56.200 and you say that if you start breaking it down, 0:32:56.320 --> 0:32:58.240 where do you guys think was the biggest point of 0:32:58.280 --> 0:33:00.920 failure for the defense from the standpoint zopping the run yesterday? 0:33:00.920 --> 0:33:03.160 I think getting blown off the ball line of scrimmage 0:33:03.200 --> 0:33:05.320 was just dominated by Detroit and that was on both 0:33:05.320 --> 0:33:08.200 sides of the ball. Before talking defensively specifically, I was 0:33:08.200 --> 0:33:09.920 able to kind of see some all twenty two this 0:33:09.960 --> 0:33:12.200 morning and it just kind of reaffirmed my thoughts that 0:33:12.240 --> 0:33:16.440 I saw yesterday. I mean, Golston wasn't horrible, and he 0:33:16.520 --> 0:33:20.240 was still bad and he was probably your best player 0:33:20.280 --> 0:33:24.240 on the defensive line yesterday. Mazzie Smith just reverted back 0:33:24.280 --> 0:33:26.200 to what we saw against the Saints and the Ravens. 0:33:26.840 --> 0:33:28.680 You could say the same for the rest of the 0:33:28.680 --> 0:33:33.200 interior guys, Lynval, Joseph Carlos, Watkins when he had some opportunities, 0:33:33.680 --> 0:33:35.760 kJ Henry carl Lawson. I mean, none of those guys 0:33:36.040 --> 0:33:38.000 generated anything in the run game. And so what does 0:33:38.040 --> 0:33:40.560 that do makes life more difficult for that second level. 0:33:40.880 --> 0:33:42.800 I mean, fortunately you saw a couple of plays where 0:33:42.840 --> 0:33:44.560 de Mont Clark was able to kind of be line 0:33:44.600 --> 0:33:47.040 in and find the run gap, and Marvin Overshown did 0:33:47.040 --> 0:33:49.480 the same thing. But for the large majority of the game, 0:33:49.560 --> 0:33:52.160 the second level was having to play multiple gaps at once, 0:33:52.800 --> 0:33:54.400 and then that's just asking your defense to do too 0:33:54.480 --> 0:33:55.840 much at that point, and then once they get into 0:33:55.840 --> 0:33:57.920 the secondary, nobody in your secondary can make a tackle. 0:33:58.000 --> 0:33:59.680 So that's when you saw. 0:33:59.640 --> 0:34:04.480 Davidlgomery throwing guys around, and my goodness, Trayvon Diggs, I 0:34:05.200 --> 0:34:07.640 when it comes to tackling, specifically in the run game, 0:34:08.160 --> 0:34:09.960 I don't he's had some bad games. 0:34:10.080 --> 0:34:11.560 I don't think there was one worse than this. 0:34:12.520 --> 0:34:14.560 I just I can't think of one off the top 0:34:14.600 --> 0:34:18.360 of my head where he just wasn't he wasn't trying 0:34:18.400 --> 0:34:22.200 to tackle guys. And whenever that happens, from getting blown 0:34:22.200 --> 0:34:24.880 off the ball to second level having to play multiple 0:34:25.320 --> 0:34:27.120 gaps at once, and then they get into the secondary 0:34:27.120 --> 0:34:29.400 and those guys are like, I'm good, that's what happens. 0:34:29.480 --> 0:34:31.640 One hundred and eighty three yards and however many carries. 0:34:31.680 --> 0:34:33.000 I mean, that's that's what happens. 0:34:33.880 --> 0:34:36.040 Yeah, I think if you talk about the secondary. I 0:34:36.080 --> 0:34:39.239 think Wilson was fine. I think I think Lewis was 0:34:39.280 --> 0:34:41.279 one of your better players when you look at that. 0:34:42.160 --> 0:34:44.799 I will say this though about the secondary, though, that 0:34:44.880 --> 0:34:48.960 they're man. This team will will stretch you out with 0:34:49.000 --> 0:34:51.560 the routes they run and how they replace each other 0:34:51.680 --> 0:34:54.000 three to one side, one to the middle. You know, 0:34:54.040 --> 0:34:57.480 they do a lot of things, and you know it 0:34:57.520 --> 0:34:59.560 was it was a difficult day for them in the 0:34:59.600 --> 0:35:02.040 backd and I think they messed with Hooker. I think 0:35:02.080 --> 0:35:07.840 they messed with with Digs, you know, Ao sometimes as well. 0:35:07.960 --> 0:35:11.160 I mean, it's just to show the biggest problem yesterday 0:35:11.200 --> 0:35:14.960 with you defensively, and Nick's not wrong about the physicality. 0:35:15.200 --> 0:35:17.880 Those young linebackers had a hard day. They had a 0:35:18.000 --> 0:35:21.080 hard day because of all the things that's going on. 0:35:21.600 --> 0:35:24.759 The play action, the fits, the routes behind them, the 0:35:24.880 --> 0:35:27.600 routes to the flat. You know, everything was messing with 0:35:27.680 --> 0:35:31.719 them the whole day yesterday. And you know you could 0:35:31.719 --> 0:35:34.440 see that daimone Clark just clearly does not look like 0:35:34.520 --> 0:35:36.640 he knows where he needs to be or where he 0:35:36.680 --> 0:35:38.759 needs to fit. You know, all of a sudden, I 0:35:38.760 --> 0:35:41.600 mean I think they've dropped one ball this year. I 0:35:41.600 --> 0:35:45.319 think that the Williams inside breaking route was the first 0:35:45.440 --> 0:35:48.799 drop that they had that was clear. Yeah, and you 0:35:48.840 --> 0:35:51.040 know what they did. They came back and ran the 0:35:51.080 --> 0:35:53.840 same play and then they hit it. You know, they're like, 0:35:54.239 --> 0:35:56.520 damn it, we got to get this guy back going. Yeah. 0:35:56.680 --> 0:35:59.040 Very next they threw the ball behind but on the 0:35:59.080 --> 0:36:02.720 first one on the drop, you see DeMont Clark looking 0:36:02.760 --> 0:36:05.040 around like WHOA, what's going on? And then the route 0:36:05.040 --> 0:36:08.120 breaks behind him and it was it was a it 0:36:08.200 --> 0:36:10.080 was a really rough day for a lot of young 0:36:10.160 --> 0:36:14.719 players yesterday. And you know, but you're, like I said, 0:36:14.760 --> 0:36:17.680 even if you had all your starters, that was going 0:36:17.760 --> 0:36:20.359 to be a different a difficult game. Maybe you had 0:36:20.360 --> 0:36:22.399 a game like last year, maybe it'd been a little 0:36:22.400 --> 0:36:26.520 bit closer. But man, that the Lions knew what they 0:36:26.600 --> 0:36:30.040 wanted to do running the football. Their offensive line is 0:36:30.480 --> 0:36:32.799 really good at playing on their feet. They aren't they're 0:36:32.800 --> 0:36:35.279 not on the ground. The way that they block, the 0:36:35.280 --> 0:36:37.319 way they get the second level, the way they cut 0:36:37.440 --> 0:36:40.360 you off, and they make it very very difficult for 0:36:40.360 --> 0:36:42.239 anybody to have to move the ball on him that way. 0:36:43.160 --> 0:36:46.080 Honestly, I'm just surprised we had enough bodies to even 0:36:46.360 --> 0:36:49.680 be at a game like being half players on the 0:36:49.719 --> 0:36:52.640 field because at this rate, uh, And we'll hear the 0:36:52.719 --> 0:36:56.160 report later on on Leu Fou. We know he got 0:36:56.200 --> 0:36:57.960 out of the game, that he finished the game, but 0:36:58.040 --> 0:36:59.879 walking out of the locker room, I mean his whole 0:36:59.880 --> 0:37:04.680 sholder was wrapped up in bandages and stuff. So that's 0:37:04.719 --> 0:37:08.160 another guy that's banged up. Luckily, by week starts now 0:37:08.320 --> 0:37:10.279 and they'll have time to rest and get some of 0:37:10.280 --> 0:37:14.399 those guys back. But the concerning part is here, even 0:37:14.400 --> 0:37:19.880 when the starters come back, how is this defense like that? 0:37:19.960 --> 0:37:22.560 It still doesn't promise you that this defense is gonna 0:37:22.560 --> 0:37:25.640 be able to take the next step and be better 0:37:25.920 --> 0:37:29.400 than what they've been. They were already struggling with the starters, 0:37:29.600 --> 0:37:34.160 especially in the run defense. So right now, honestly, I 0:37:34.200 --> 0:37:36.120 just feel like a fool I've been. I feel like 0:37:36.200 --> 0:37:38.600 I've been. I don't know what the heck I saw 0:37:38.680 --> 0:37:42.160 during training camp where I really bought into what Mike 0:37:42.280 --> 0:37:46.640 Zimmer was selling and trying to implement with this defense. 0:37:46.800 --> 0:37:50.960 I was very, very excited, and honestly, the thing that 0:37:51.000 --> 0:37:54.160 I was looking forward to the most was this defense 0:37:54.200 --> 0:37:55.640 and what he was going to do with it. 0:37:55.920 --> 0:37:56.960 And right now. 0:37:58.360 --> 0:38:01.239 There's nothing exciting about it, and and the kind of 0:38:01.320 --> 0:38:03.520 job he's done at the moment. I don't know what 0:38:03.560 --> 0:38:06.759 you guys think about the offense. The defensive coordinator. 0:38:06.960 --> 0:38:10.080 Yeah currently, Yeah, Mike is and I really believed that 0:38:10.120 --> 0:38:11.920 it was going to be buttoned up. It hadn't been 0:38:11.960 --> 0:38:14.799 buttoned up. You still see the problems, the busts and 0:38:14.840 --> 0:38:17.480 stuff that that they're dealing with. And we've always kind 0:38:17.520 --> 0:38:19.640 of talked about with Mike playing with and wanting to 0:38:19.640 --> 0:38:22.120 play with guys they're smart players and stuff like that, 0:38:22.120 --> 0:38:24.960 that maybe some of those big plays that we'd seen 0:38:25.040 --> 0:38:27.440 in the Green Bay with Dan Quinn in that group 0:38:27.840 --> 0:38:30.759 when it was just guys running wide open, would not 0:38:30.920 --> 0:38:34.360 be that case. Mike's Mike's reputation, Mike as a coach 0:38:35.120 --> 0:38:37.040 was as a button up guy. This is not a 0:38:37.040 --> 0:38:40.600 buttoned up defense. It's a defense. They're playing a lot 0:38:40.640 --> 0:38:43.080 of young guys. Not an excuse. Mike will tell you 0:38:43.120 --> 0:38:45.480 that's not an excuse. Got to coach them, got to 0:38:45.520 --> 0:38:48.719 get them ready, got to help them make plays. They're 0:38:48.760 --> 0:38:52.680 not making plays. And you know, as a as a unit, 0:38:53.080 --> 0:38:56.920 coaches included, Uh, they are really really struggling with it, 0:38:57.000 --> 0:38:59.560 with it with their guys now because they got a 0:38:59.560 --> 0:39:01.440 lot of young guys. There are a lot of young 0:39:01.440 --> 0:39:03.600 guys are making mistakes and Mike might be a little 0:39:03.640 --> 0:39:06.959 handicapped aways calling his defenses, but that's on him too. 0:39:07.480 --> 0:39:11.799 They I like you, Amber, I was excited about them 0:39:11.880 --> 0:39:16.000 not giving up big, big plays, but those explosive plays 0:39:16.040 --> 0:39:19.719 have been especially the home games have just been it's 0:39:19.719 --> 0:39:22.000 been embarrassing. To be honest with you, Well. 0:39:21.840 --> 0:39:25.040 I just honestly, I do put some of it. Obviously, 0:39:25.080 --> 0:39:26.479 the coordinator has to take. 0:39:26.400 --> 0:39:28.799 A passion to take the blame. But the fact a matter. 0:39:28.680 --> 0:39:30.959 Is, like I think, it all starts with the fact 0:39:31.000 --> 0:39:33.279 that if you are a defense that cannot stop the run, 0:39:33.280 --> 0:39:36.080 and quite frankly, if you cannot on the front line, 0:39:36.239 --> 0:39:39.640 if you cannot do the job of number one, keeping 0:39:39.719 --> 0:39:42.879 offensive linemen off your linebackers, of being able to hold 0:39:42.960 --> 0:39:44.799 up at the point of attack, of being able to 0:39:44.800 --> 0:39:47.359 set the edge, all these basic things you learn about 0:39:47.360 --> 0:39:50.120 playing defense at an early age when you play football. 0:39:50.280 --> 0:39:53.000 If they're not able to do those things successfully and consistently, 0:39:53.360 --> 0:39:55.640 the defense overall is going to hurt. 0:39:55.719 --> 0:39:56.239 Like that. 0:39:56.480 --> 0:39:59.440 You just it all compounds and the way offenses can 0:39:59.480 --> 0:40:01.719 get to all the other things is if they've got 0:40:01.760 --> 0:40:04.120 you to where you can't stop the run, then everything 0:40:04.120 --> 0:40:06.120 else is open to them and you have no shot. 0:40:06.160 --> 0:40:08.520 And I think that's where it starts and ends for me. 0:40:08.680 --> 0:40:11.920 And really that goes down to the personnel you have upfront. 0:40:12.280 --> 0:40:14.759 Maybe losing all those guys that you lost at the 0:40:14.760 --> 0:40:17.560 defensive end position, and I'm talking going back to free agency, 0:40:17.719 --> 0:40:20.759 maybe that affected you. Maybe having your first round pick 0:40:20.800 --> 0:40:22.400 from a couple of years ago not being able to 0:40:22.440 --> 0:40:24.680 step up and consistently be what a first round pick 0:40:24.680 --> 0:40:27.960 should be is affecting you. I think that's where I 0:40:28.040 --> 0:40:30.640 start and finish this thing, and for me, you know, 0:40:30.680 --> 0:40:32.200 everything else is going to go from that. And I'm 0:40:32.239 --> 0:40:35.200 not sure that's a fair deck to give someone like 0:40:35.239 --> 0:40:37.600 Mike Zimmer, but it is what it is. He accepted it, 0:40:37.840 --> 0:40:39.520 and when you accept the challenge, you got to also 0:40:39.600 --> 0:40:41.839 check the blame if it doesn't work. But I will 0:40:41.840 --> 0:40:43.640 say I think a lot of this has to do 0:40:43.719 --> 0:40:47.360 with them just not having the personnel necessarily to be 0:40:47.440 --> 0:40:47.879 able to. 0:40:47.800 --> 0:40:49.680 Stop the run right now. And that's that's just a 0:40:49.719 --> 0:40:50.440 fact in my opinion. 0:40:50.560 --> 0:40:52.759 It goes back to Nick's physicality part of it too, 0:40:52.760 --> 0:40:55.319 though stopping the run, being physical, all those things. 0:40:55.600 --> 0:40:59.040 I asked Dak last night and his press or what 0:40:59.080 --> 0:41:01.480 can you do to be a more physical team? Like 0:41:01.520 --> 0:41:04.680 within the gap of a season? You know, how can 0:41:04.719 --> 0:41:05.840 you just implum withdraw? 0:41:06.160 --> 0:41:06.800 Yeah, exactly. 0:41:08.000 --> 0:41:10.320 I asked Jordan Lewis and de Montclark the same things, 0:41:10.320 --> 0:41:12.040 but I think Dak probably gave me the better answer, 0:41:12.080 --> 0:41:13.759 and he was saying, we have to practice harder, we 0:41:13.800 --> 0:41:17.000 have to prepare harder. And I think whenever you look 0:41:17.040 --> 0:41:20.239 at a team that has had multiple practice injuries over 0:41:20.239 --> 0:41:21.880 the course of the last two years, where do you 0:41:21.880 --> 0:41:23.279 find the balance? You know, where do you find the 0:41:23.280 --> 0:41:26.839 balance between increases and physicality but also understanding that your 0:41:26.840 --> 0:41:29.520 team is one more injury away from being in that 0:41:29.560 --> 0:41:30.600 top ten of that draft that. 0:41:30.600 --> 0:41:34.200 We were talking about, Brian. So, I mean, it's a 0:41:34.239 --> 0:41:34.800 tough juggle. 0:41:34.840 --> 0:41:36.800 It's something I would like to ask Mike McCarthy today, 0:41:36.880 --> 0:41:38.880 just being like, how how do you balance wanting to 0:41:38.920 --> 0:41:42.120 increase physicality without sacrificing more depth on your team? So 0:41:42.600 --> 0:41:44.759 I think I truly believe it's just ingrained in the 0:41:44.760 --> 0:41:47.840 culture of what you have instituted over the course of 0:41:47.840 --> 0:41:49.680 the last two and a half years. Because when Mike 0:41:49.719 --> 0:41:51.640 McCarthy first got here. I don't feel like that was 0:41:51.680 --> 0:41:54.319 necessarily a problem. Like even in that twenty twenty season 0:41:54.320 --> 0:41:57.240 when they were just getting blown out, there was toughness 0:41:57.239 --> 0:41:58.839 in some of those games. There was more toughness shown 0:41:58.880 --> 0:42:00.759 in a couple of those games. And we're today, which 0:42:00.800 --> 0:42:03.520 is wild to say, looking at twenty twenty one, twenty 0:42:03.600 --> 0:42:05.680 twenty two, I feel like those were the best chances 0:42:05.680 --> 0:42:08.279 here in the MacCarthy era. You look, last year, physicality, 0:42:08.320 --> 0:42:10.840 toughness just what nosedive and this year it's it's just 0:42:10.880 --> 0:42:12.360 going deeper into the earth. 0:42:12.440 --> 0:42:15.040 So and what's really interesting is you can see, I 0:42:15.040 --> 0:42:18.520 mean you literally can see what Dan Campbell brought to 0:42:18.560 --> 0:42:20.719 that team from this from the moment he stepped in 0:42:20.760 --> 0:42:23.480 the building. When it comes to physical the Detroit Lions 0:42:23.520 --> 0:42:26.480 will never considered the most physical or one of the 0:42:26.480 --> 0:42:29.120 more physical teams in the NFL. He walked in and 0:42:29.160 --> 0:42:31.000 from day one was like, if nothing else, we're going 0:42:31.080 --> 0:42:33.880 to be tough and physical, Like we're gonna be physical. 0:42:33.760 --> 0:42:35.040 And we all laughed at him too. 0:42:35.520 --> 0:42:38.600 Yeah, And now you look at that team and they 0:42:38.600 --> 0:42:42.080 have built that team. He has literally built that They 0:42:42.120 --> 0:42:44.120 have built that team. I shouldn't just say him. They 0:42:44.160 --> 0:42:46.439 have built that team to whereas you talked about Brian, 0:42:46.480 --> 0:42:48.319 yet they got a bunch of skill guys. Yeah, but 0:42:48.400 --> 0:42:51.200 even the skill guys are a little nasty, like they 0:42:51.239 --> 0:42:54.799 got They play with a certain level of aggression. That 0:42:55.200 --> 0:42:57.879 is you can point back to the coach coming in. 0:42:58.120 --> 0:42:58.800 That's all about. 0:42:58.800 --> 0:43:01.120 I think the coach bringing that mentality to that team, 0:43:01.440 --> 0:43:03.640 and that's how they play. And if you're gonna play them, 0:43:03.760 --> 0:43:05.680 you better match that because if you don't match it, 0:43:05.880 --> 0:43:07.879 you're not gonna you're not gonna succeed against them. 0:43:08.040 --> 0:43:09.759 Let's bringing David Coggins. 0:43:11.280 --> 0:43:15.319 Let's hire Doggains bringing him and have some you know, 0:43:15.400 --> 0:43:16.800 because that's more. 0:43:16.640 --> 0:43:19.879 Than physical, that's crazy. Like Davidgins, he's on a whole 0:43:19.880 --> 0:43:20.719 different level though. 0:43:21.440 --> 0:43:22.800 He'll push you to your limit. 0:43:22.880 --> 0:43:25.160 I mean, all I have to do is listen to him, 0:43:25.200 --> 0:43:27.560 and I think I can run through a wall. So 0:43:28.160 --> 0:43:31.239 I don't know something I'm just saying some kind of inspiration, 0:43:31.360 --> 0:43:33.200 motivational speaker or something. 0:43:33.320 --> 0:43:35.319 I even wonder to some degree, I wonder if if 0:43:35.400 --> 0:43:37.600 he were being honest, Like not to say he's not 0:43:37.680 --> 0:43:40.799 being honest, but obviously coaches have certain things that they 0:43:40.800 --> 0:43:43.640 will say publicly and not. I wonder if if Mike 0:43:43.719 --> 0:43:46.319 really believes physicality is their problem, you know, I. 0:43:46.320 --> 0:43:48.400 Wonder, I don't. I don't, but I don't know that. 0:43:48.600 --> 0:43:51.880 And I know how football guys sometimes can say, no, 0:43:52.000 --> 0:43:54.399 it's really about execution, it's really about we just gotta 0:43:54.640 --> 0:43:56.359 This guy's got to do his job. This guy's got 0:43:56.440 --> 0:43:58.279 to do his job. I wonder if he would really 0:43:58.320 --> 0:44:00.040 think that physicality. 0:43:59.400 --> 0:44:02.160 Is is the issue. He thinks not getting turnovers is 0:44:02.200 --> 0:44:04.600 a big thing, and over too much. 0:44:04.719 --> 0:44:06.160 He thinks he had five yesterday. 0:44:06.200 --> 0:44:08.560 I think the biggest problem. He probably feels like turning 0:44:08.640 --> 0:44:10.719 the ball over is a huge problem for him, and 0:44:10.800 --> 0:44:13.560 not getting any turnovers that that seems like to be 0:44:13.680 --> 0:44:14.799 his focus right now. 0:44:15.719 --> 0:44:18.360 All right, appreciate you guys joining us. We'll be back tomorrow. 0:44:18.400 --> 0:44:19.719 Actually we will not have. 0:44:19.719 --> 0:44:20.680 To see you guys next week. 0:44:20.719 --> 0:44:23.200 We're going to we're doing our mix up shows tomorrow 0:44:23.239 --> 0:44:25.319 and Wednesday, So we got a whole different crew rolling 0:44:25.360 --> 0:44:27.960 in here for the break. You guys will all be 0:44:28.000 --> 0:44:29.240 shipped off the places. 0:44:29.600 --> 0:44:31.879 I mean the morning, the very morning, bright off the jump, 0:44:32.080 --> 0:44:35.080 nine am, who's got nine a M? Is that to you? 0:44:35.239 --> 0:44:35.800 With sol? 0:44:37.000 --> 0:44:42.160 That's all Kyle's signature at the end of. 0:44:43.920 --> 0:44:48.480 I think you said you're. 0:44:48.320 --> 0:44:49.400 On the Break tomorrow eleven. 0:44:49.400 --> 0:44:51.560 It will be myself, Nick Eatman will be joining me, 0:44:51.920 --> 0:44:56.240 and we'll have our new guy, Tommy Yarsh meeting us 0:44:56.440 --> 0:44:58.799 as well. And I think Bonnie Jill will be on 0:44:58.840 --> 0:45:00.120 with us. So we got a nice Yeah. 0:45:00.200 --> 0:45:02.080 I'm interested to see how we how we mix in 0:45:02.120 --> 0:45:02.640 on this show. 0:45:03.280 --> 0:45:06.560 What so I put gum under the table and I 0:45:06.719 --> 0:45:07.279 just touched it. 0:45:07.760 --> 0:45:08.840 No, you're kidding. 0:45:09.840 --> 0:45:11.839 I paid way too much. Well, Garry paid way too 0:45:11.920 --> 0:45:15.479 much for the studio, is a proper in the show. 0:45:15.880 --> 0:45:25.480 Somebody the Break Live Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. 0:45:26.840 --> 0:45:29.680 This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:45:29.719 --> 0:45:31.800 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.