WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Curtains for Pittsburgh 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:05.800 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.800 --> 0:00:07.400 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:15.520 Cowboys Let's go. 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:17.120 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:17.639 Yes? 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:19.520 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:20.320 Absolutely? 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:22.320 Ready for a break? 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:24.680 Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:29.120 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:34.000 We were on right with Ambar Garcia, Brian brought us, 0:00:34.120 --> 0:00:36.760 Nick Harris and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:42.520 It is Monday, October seventh, twenty twenty four, Season twenty, 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:45.080 episode number forty three. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:48.159 The Break, Live from the SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star, 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:51.200 presented by LGLG is the world's number one o leed 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:54.240 TV brand for eleven years in counting See why at 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:57.840 LG dot com, Ford slash O, led Evo. How are 0:00:57.840 --> 0:00:58.600 we doing this morning? 0:00:58.920 --> 0:00:59.360 Excellent? 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:01.840 We're doing, We're doing. 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:04.360 We're good. It was one point away from predicting that 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:06.000 thing exactly how it needed to be. 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:08.680 Look at their sixteen You know what that thing was 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:10.039 going to be close. I will tell you this. 0:01:10.440 --> 0:01:12.520 There were lots of things that happened last night that 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:14.840 if you listened to the Break, you would have been 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:15.679 well prepared for. 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:19.520 Starting with very proud starting with the weather. We said 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:21.320 this all week last week. We were like, this is 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:24.200 going to be a problem, and sure enough it was. 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:26.480 I guess not a problem because we have to end 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.120 up staying through the night, but it certainly changed things 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.119 about our night last night and about how much sleep 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:32.120 we had for this morning. 0:01:32.200 --> 0:01:34.080 Right. Yeah, it was a problem for those who had 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:35.920 to do a pregame show, right, you did an hour 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:36.240 and a half. 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:37.480 Expect the radio. 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.480 I learned what rain delay radio was all about. My 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.040 guys at the rail breaks, my guys at the Rangers 0:01:44.080 --> 0:01:46.440 reached out. They said, hey, a nice showing that rain 0:01:46.480 --> 0:01:48.920 delay radio. And I'm like, oh, okay, well thanks, that's 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:49.639 what it's all about. 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:51.040 So I can't have gay air. 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:54.360 Yeah, it's funny. I mean, hey, it's a good deal though, 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:56.720 great win, you know with all that all that went 0:01:56.760 --> 0:02:00.040 down last night and with delays and the problems and 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:02.720 stuff like that, you know, losing guys, I mean, it's 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.000 that's that's that's as good as it gets right there. 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:07.520 Yeah, thank you to the fans. We had a lot 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.720 of listeners that showed up to the game. Yeah, so 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.400 that was I did not did. 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:17.280 You No, I don't ever sign Okay, you get the 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.400 calls like, hey, Emmer, save me. 0:02:19.520 --> 0:02:21.959 Sure no, but okay. 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:23.440 So let's start with this. What do you say the 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:25.799 big picture storyline? Obviously the weather was a part of 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:28.480 the storyline, but what was the big picture takeaway? I 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:30.760 guess from this game if we remember, you know, five 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:32.480 six weeks from now, how are we going to remember 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:32.880 this game? 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.400 I think Dallas's ability to run the football in that 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.920 game really paid dividends to you know, how they made 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.920 Mike had some play calls that were the third and 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:43.920 sixth flip I know you and I were talking about 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.800 in the pre show, and you know, he there was 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:49.400 some really he found some balance when he needed to 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.760 find some balance, and you know that, and their their 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:56.360 their scheme up front was really really good. Unfortunately, you 0:02:56.360 --> 0:02:58.760 know with Guyton he gets injured, do you run the 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.560 ball better? Yeah? But they also lost her big too. 0:03:01.639 --> 0:03:03.960 That was a big loss for them. So I mean, 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.160 this was a game of attrition in a lot of 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:10.560 different ways. And and so you know, move, I guarantee 0:03:10.560 --> 0:03:13.560 you that that Tyler Smith did not take one rep 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:17.440 at left tackle this week. They made the determination that hey, 0:03:17.440 --> 0:03:19.240 if we have an injury, this is the way they 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:21.200 go and I give him credit for that. He was 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:25.760 ready to play. TJ Bass was ready to play. You know, total, 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:27.600 there were a lot of guys just go down through 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:29.680 the roster. Tell me if you had in your in 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:32.400 your uh in your bingo card this week, did you 0:03:32.520 --> 0:03:36.080 have a span four to two catches for twenty yards? Nope, nope. 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:38.440 That's what you got to have when you go on 0:03:38.480 --> 0:03:42.120 the road and win games like this, you need guys 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:45.600 to play at a level that you didn't think that 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:48.559 they could play at. And I think that's the overriding 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:52.640 thing to me was of how many guys stepped up 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:56.160 when they absolutely had to have him in that football game. 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:00.800 Well, I thought that we're gonna lose, picked them to lose. 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:03.840 I mean they were close, yeah, but they were close 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:05.720 to losing that game, very very. 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.000 Close up to Giants. 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:14.800 Okay, okay, but all in all, I mean and counting 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.640 all the different things that they had working against them, 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.680 mainly and focusing on the injuries, they were able to 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:24.480 keep fighting and get that win. It came down very close. 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:27.480 But my thing is you cannot keep playing this way 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:32.120 and expect to win football games for the rest of 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:34.320 the season. And the teams that you're about to come 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:38.080 up against, and a lot of it. We see the 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:39.840 why not, Brian, why not? 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:41.880 Why not? 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:45.680 You're gonna pay You're gonna play better teams than that. 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.000 For sure, and I think you. 0:04:48.080 --> 0:04:51.240 Know they absolutely are. They absolutely are. But the Cowboys, 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:53.240 a lot of the things that they were doing were 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.599 self inflicted mistake and that's where I'm being critical of 0:04:57.640 --> 0:04:59.720 That's where I'm being very critical of them. It's like 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:02.600 I'm cleaning up because we saw it towards the end 0:05:02.640 --> 0:05:05.080 of the game that would have cost them the game, 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:07.960 everything that led up to that, and I just think 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:12.839 they obviously need to just play it better, a cleaner game, 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:17.040 limit the mistakes because we see how they get the 0:05:17.080 --> 0:05:20.440 ball rolling and then boom they have to take steps 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:22.680 back and go back and then it's like okay, oh 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:26.359 here we go here another mistake. All right, let's go 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:28.960 back again. So it's those things that you know the 0:05:29.040 --> 0:05:32.120 talent is there, you know they can make it happen, 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:36.480 but just be more disciplined, execute things better, and clean 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:37.240 up the mistakes. 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:40.080 We talk about that every week. That's an every week thing. 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:42.720 Its team might be what it is, And Mike talks 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:46.040 about the penalties every week. You know. Unfortunately, that's one 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.640 of those that's one of those things that we talk about 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:51.119 it every week, and I'm you bring it up every week. 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.680 You know. Got to play cleaner, Gotta do this, gotta 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:56.240 do you know, Yeah, they have to play cleaner. I 0:05:56.520 --> 0:06:00.479 think that to me, you know, the penolice. I'm not 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.240 a fan of Sean Hockley, the official. I'm just not. 0:06:03.560 --> 0:06:06.160 And and I understand going in the game sometimes you're 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.839 going to get I thought it was a BS call. 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:12.320 The call on Wheat, I thought, you know, and Wheat 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.080 I thought, you know, I thought that Hockley and the 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:19.520 umpire standing behind just see the quarterback's head snap and 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.200 they think that he got hit in the face. He didn't. 0:06:22.240 --> 0:06:24.359 He got hit in the chest in the area. And 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:27.240 and it's a terrible call, and it gives them momentum 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.480 and it takes the quarterback out. But what do they do. 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:31.800 They drive the ball down the field, you know, and 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.839 get and get that that uh that call. Now the 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:38.039 undisciplined stuff, you know when when your guard, you know, 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:40.320 your backup guards in the game and he gets an 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:43.039 unsports my conduct penalty for being an idiot, you know 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:47.200 of you know, initiating contact. Yeah, that's that's things you 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:51.000 absolutely have to have to correct. But to me, I 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.000 there's things I just don't think that they're ever going 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:57.960 to get better at now. The turnover part of it, though, 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.640 I I I have a theory about what I think 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:04.760 happened on the Dak's interception to to to Lamb in 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:07.440 the corner. I have a I have a feeling. Now 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.120 if you say what I'm if you hear what I'm 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.520 about to say, you're gonna say, oh, you're, you're you're 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:15.840 making excuses for Dak, And I'm not gonna make excuses 0:07:15.880 --> 0:07:18.120 for Dak on that. I think Dak was trying to 0:07:18.120 --> 0:07:20.960 get a free play because he's he's if you watch 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.640 the tape, he's clapping his hands. He wants the ball 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.200 because they're late getting a guy on the field. He's 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:29.120 trying to get it that that guy has has to 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.960 cross through their side of the field to get to 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.800 the line to line up, and Dak wants the ball. 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:36.480 So he's going to try and get a free play 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.000 out of this, and it's happened to him before. I 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.360 believe it was. The Giants game did the same thing 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.200 throughing inter set thought he had a free play. Next thing, 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:46.920 you know, it's you know, it's not it's an interception. 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.640 The routes were poor on the outside. Lamb's route wasn't great, 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:54.280 the Brooks route inside wasn't great. You know, so your 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.120 Dak is kind of he's taking a shot thinking he 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.680 might get a free play, like we've seen a million 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:02.760 times Aaron Rodgers to he got burned on it. Now 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:06.120 there's things like that, Like I say, the fumble on 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.840 the goal line. Hell of a play by that guy. 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:12.040 Hell of a play by that guy. Now what happened 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:14.960 is they had penetration on the play and it forced 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.600 if they stay outside, if they get the block where 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:22.520 they secure the down guy, where Laddermilk is secure, the 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.560 ball's going to the edge, it's a walk in touchdown. Instead, 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.440 Dawdle has to cut back, and now you have the 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:29.600 collision in the hole. 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:32.720 And Doubt also made a critical mistake that he's going 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:35.199 to learn from in the NFL. This is not college. 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:37.240 You can't hold the ball out looked at. These guys 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:39.480 are way too skilled. They will punch it out. I 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:41.880 think that was another thing where I remember the late 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.920 great Gary Brown used to always say, don't stick the 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:46.960 ball out there on the goal line, you're just asking 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:48.760 for it to get punched out. He'll learn that lesson. 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:50.800 I think, well, a doubt and I give Dak some 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:53.199 credit because he could have reached, you know, he could 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.360 have very well reached for the cone, you know, and 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:58.240 then we'd had a situation like we had in the 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.320 Raiders game several years ago. We're are makes the run 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:03.719 and then and then Jeff Heath hits him and the 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:06.160 ball goes out the back of the end zone. Yeah, 0:09:06.280 --> 0:09:08.960 that kind of like, yeah, like Dak just kind of goes, Okay, 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:12.280 I'm gonna try, but no, I know what and now 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:15.320 what's about to happen here? So yeah, there's things that 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:19.400 could absolutely correct. But they beat a they beat a 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.160 good football team. They're not good at quarterback. Here's a prediction. 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.160 They play the Raiders next week. Get ready for Russell 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.600 Wilson to be the quarterback of the Pittsburgh Steelers next week. 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:28.839 Yeah, let me ask you this question. 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:30.880 So, and I hear what you're saying, Amber, and I agree, 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:32.800 they have a lot of stuff to clean up. But 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.280 if if we go back to the beginning of the 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:37.240 season and we're back at training camp, and I throw 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:39.640 out the question you guys. Okay, guys, we were at 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.760 week five, was at five five in the NFL season. 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.120 We're at week five the NFL season. Cowboys are going 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.200 to be in Pittsburgh, and here are the players that 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:51.400 will not be there. Yeah, Micah Tank, Kneeland, Williams, Cooks Gland, 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:52.480 Carson Gydon. 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:55.880 How are we feeling You're picking it out like she did? 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.480 No, But but my point is, my point is she's 0:09:59.520 --> 0:10:01.080 not wrong. You know, she's absolutely right. 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:02.960 But my point is I think there is something to 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:06.600 the fact that in the NFL it's weird because you 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:08.319 watch other teams like I do this all the time 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:10.160 when I watch the good teams in the NFL, say 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:12.040 the Kansas City Chiefs. You know, you watch a team 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:14.360 like that, they can play an awful game, they end 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.959 up winning, and the narrative is man that team they 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:19.600 just know how to figure it out, even on their 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:20.920 worst days, they know how. 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:21.360 To figure it out. 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.680 That's not necessarily the benefit that we gave the Cowboy 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:27.359 that a lot of people are giving the Cowboys about yesterday. 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:29.240 And by the way, they still got to clean up 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:31.120 all this stuff. I'm not saying that that's not a problem. 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.080 It's absolutely a problem because you're right, they're gonna play 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:34.880 better teams and that, even though I think Pittsburgh's a 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:37.120 good team, they're gonna play better teams and that starting 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:39.199 this next week going against Detroit, I think Detroit's a 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:42.120 better team. But the fact of the matter is yesterday, 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:44.200 on a day when the quarterback was not playing his 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:47.640 best football, on a day when they were absent a 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:51.440 ton of players, top line players, they still manage to 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.240 figure out on the road against a team that, by 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.040 the way, loves to play nasty football like that, they 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.079 figured out a way to be able to get a win. 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.439 I think there's some that goes to that in my opinion. 0:11:01.800 --> 0:11:04.440 Absolutely. I mean you have to give credit when you 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:07.280 list when you look at the list of the guys 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:10.240 that you just said, absolutely, And my thing where I 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.880 come in and become critical is we've seen them make 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:17.480 these kinds of mistakes with their starters. We've seen them 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:20.720 still do these things when they're healthy. And that's my problem. 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.559 That's all where it comes from. Where you see problems 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:26.559 or mistakes when it comes to discipline, things that can 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:32.439 be in my mind, quote unquote easily adjusted or improved on. 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:35.960 That's that's why it gets me really kind of upset 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:38.840 in this topic because you're not seeing some kind of 0:11:38.880 --> 0:11:42.400 improvement in that area. Now you look at the list, 0:11:42.600 --> 0:11:44.920 you got to give them credit. Credit to the freaking 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:47.840 defense and the play and the way that they played 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:53.080 and the physical and tackling Marshall kneeling he comes out. 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:57.640 And that's four the way, one, two, three, four, the. 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:00.520 Actually ends six from the ones you had last year, 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:03.080 Six of the defensive ends that were your top defensive 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:06.199 ends are no longer playing for you as of last night. 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.400 Think about that because two of them left in free agency. 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:10.719 And then four them you can't count out. 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.560 You can't count that when you start thinking about just overall. Now, 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:15.360 I'm not saying Cowboys should have signed them, because I 0:12:15.360 --> 0:12:16.880 don't think they should have paid the money that they 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.520 that they gotten free agency. My point is when you 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:21.920 just think about the level of talent that you've now 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:23.920 been depleted, that's the whole point I'm making it. Yeah, 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.800 from there to where you are now you are, I mean, 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.560 like you let those guys go, You lost your top 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:33.000 three guys, and then your guy you drafted is out 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:34.079 now and who knows for. 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.000 How long that that's gonna be, that's gonna last. 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:39.720 So it's it's a like defensive end that's a premium position, 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.120 and you're down six guys from where you were last 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:43.319 year this time, you. 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:46.320 Know, And I thought they did a very good job 0:12:46.480 --> 0:12:51.720 adjusting and improving defensively overall. And you saw the aggressiveness 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.480 and them not really and I've talked a lot about 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:57.800 them being just a few steps behind. They were there. 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:00.520 They were there with these guys competing the whole They 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:04.320 didn't get worn out and it was a physical game. 0:13:04.360 --> 0:13:07.360 So credit to them absolutely. But again, the way I 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.600 see it is and I'll take the win. I'm not 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.600 saying anything absolutely like I'll enjoy this for sure, and 0:13:12.600 --> 0:13:14.920 I'm happy they did. But it's just like when you 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:18.800 see the when it comes down to those few thirty 0:13:18.880 --> 0:13:22.000 seconds of the game, you're like, man, we should You're 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.360 better than this. You're better than this. We should not 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:25.760 have been put in this position. 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:26.560 It's very true. 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:28.080 I think there were a number of times last night 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.000 in the game we were looking at each other like the 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.320 it feels like they should be up by a lot 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:32.960 more than they are. 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:35.280 Oh sure that guy, they that game could have been 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:37.480 that could have been a thirty to whatever game. 0:13:37.760 --> 0:13:39.600 You could have run away from them last night. 0:13:39.600 --> 0:13:42.160 But to be honest with you, and maybe that's exactly 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:43.280 what you are at this point. 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:44.360 You couldn't run away from. 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.199 People are going to watch this game on you know, 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.240 they're going to go back and whether it's the NFL 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.920 stuff or however, you know, they watched the games and 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.280 you're gonna see Dallas had a chance to even punish 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:56.200 him even more in the running game, and and and 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:59.040 and it was, you know, it was it's one of 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.400 those you know, uh, ten guys, uh, you know, ten 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:04.720 guys doing their job and then one guy not doing 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.240 their job. That that is a lot of it. I mean, 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:10.240 they they continue to put these wide receivers in positions 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:12.960 to try and block, and it doesn't always work, and 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:14.880 it and it cost them, and it gets to the 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:18.000 point where I'm like, just keep the wide receivers wide 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:21.120 and take keep guys out of the box. Don't bring 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.200 guys down in the box that they have to block. 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:25.800 And you know, so I don't know, I mean to me, 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:28.520 it it there there. Dallas could have Dallas could have 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.000 really put a herding on them last night with the 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.720 way and the fact that the longest run that quarterback 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.880 had was eight yards. Hell, you'll take that every single 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.280 day after watching you know, the design runs that you 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:42.840 know that that the Ravens had the other day, the 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.960 design runs the Steelers have, you know for their quarterbacks. 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:48.560 I mean, that's that was a that was a good 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.360 job by by playing run defense against him. 0:14:51.360 --> 0:14:52.920 All Right, we're gonna take our first break. 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I was certain this game was going overtime 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:05.800 as he as it was starting to wear down, because 0:18:05.800 --> 0:18:07.920 it was just like everything about it just said overtime. 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.560 But luckily we didn't have to have any extra time. 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:12.280 We had already been there for an extra hour and 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:14.800 a half, so it was perfect that the Cowboys ended 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:16.879 it the way they did. But let's talk about Dak Prescott. 0:18:17.960 --> 0:18:20.159 He had he was twenty nine to forty two, three 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:23.600 hundred and fifty two yards, two touchdowns, two interceptions, a 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:26.439 ninety point six rating. Had the game winner. What were 0:18:26.440 --> 0:18:29.239 your thoughts on his overall game, not just the end, 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:30.920 but just throughout the game. How did you think he. 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:35.840 Played any ideas? 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:39.480 I mean, he did a good job at the end 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:45.000 handle business. He handled business. But the thing that he 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:49.320 made it I think just drew more attention is because 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:52.679 leading up to the game, I was hearing from everybody, 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:56.200 the fan base, everybody was putting all of this game 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:58.359 on Dak and saying, this is going to be a 0:18:58.400 --> 0:19:02.040 game where it's all gonna come down to what Dak 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:05.120 does and how he handles the game. And it did. 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:08.400 Also the running game. We'll talk about that later on, 0:19:08.760 --> 0:19:13.800 but I think that overall in his performance, he had 0:19:13.800 --> 0:19:16.399 some really good passes, some really good throws, but at 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:18.960 the same time, some of the decisions that he made, 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:24.400 it didn't look like his usual self, like the experienced 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:29.880 quarterback Dak Prescott that we used to see in especially 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:33.919 towards the end when they some of the throw to 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:41.119 the interception to CD and right when McCarthy called for 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:43.359 time out at a weird time, you know, when they 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:46.520 were getting the offense going. You know, when I'm talking. 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:48.919 About that, I'm trying to remember what happened in the moment. 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:50.760 He challenged the play he should have challenged. 0:19:51.000 --> 0:19:52.640 But that was that was the thing. 0:19:52.720 --> 0:19:55.040 But at times it just felt rushed the way that 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:57.639 Dak was playing. At times where it was not he 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:00.359 wasn't taking his time to think. And I guess you 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:03.280 get the pressure, but there were plays where he could 0:20:03.320 --> 0:20:06.160 have had the time. He just needed to wait when 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:10.000 he threw some mistakes, some passes that were incomplete, there 0:20:10.000 --> 0:20:13.600 were other guys on the field that exactly yeah, Hunter 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.320 had he just waited like a few more seconds. So 0:20:16.359 --> 0:20:20.200 it was those things that I think he didn't take 0:20:20.240 --> 0:20:23.040 the time, not that he had it always because of 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:27.040 the pressure that was coming, but I just hid he 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:30.760 could have been a lot more poised and confident playing 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:32.320 and taking a handle of the game. But at the 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:36.880 end he did what he needed to do, but he just, uh, 0:20:37.280 --> 0:20:41.040 it was it was just inconsistent throughout the game. 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:44.520 Yeah, you know this, this team doesn't allow you. The 0:20:44.560 --> 0:20:48.280 Steelers doesn't allow you any comfort. You know, they really don't. 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:50.639 The thing that the thing that kind of makes you 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:54.760 comfortable is for him when he sees that single high safety. 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:56.720 And they played a lot of cover to last night 0:20:56.760 --> 0:20:59.920 too to kind of prevent they were worried about, you know, 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:02.639 some of the that when Dallas throws the four verticals 0:21:02.680 --> 0:21:04.879 and things like that. Dallas can play down the scene 0:21:04.920 --> 0:21:10.520 really really well. Man, his the past, the touchdown passed 0:21:10.600 --> 0:21:13.880 that he threw to Daddle in the corner, the route 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:16.359 that Daddle round to, you know, to get the to 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:19.120 get the defender to fall, you know, and then continue 0:21:19.119 --> 0:21:21.080 into the end zone. It was just it was just 0:21:21.240 --> 0:21:24.920 so pretty because it was Prescott. He wanted to throw 0:21:24.960 --> 0:21:28.119 to his left and he's kind of like, okay, I 0:21:28.480 --> 0:21:32.159 that's so muddy over there. Maybe old Dak throws it 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:35.600 into a muddy bad look ye, and you're and it's 0:21:35.640 --> 0:21:38.280 he's forces it to Lamb and it's a contested ball, 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:41.000 and who knows what happens. But then he's able to 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:43.280 come back. And the reason he's able to come back 0:21:43.400 --> 0:21:47.960 is because Steele had kept what wide enough. You know, 0:21:48.000 --> 0:21:50.840 Wat's going to play that real wide technique, that wide 0:21:50.920 --> 0:21:55.640 nine technique outside there, and and and Steele was unable 0:21:55.680 --> 0:21:57.720 to just kind of able to pin him out there, 0:21:58.359 --> 0:22:02.320 and it allowed Dak to move and then to throw 0:22:02.760 --> 0:22:05.560 to Daddle and then Dawdle with the adjusting catches, and 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:09.120 I kind of felt like that. You know, the turnover 0:22:09.160 --> 0:22:12.480 he had in the pocket, he really didn't. He didn't 0:22:12.480 --> 0:22:16.040 do you know, his line any favored there. It was 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:19.920 instead of moving and he kind of stay stay. It's 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:24.199 like he's looking and now he's looking back. And with 0:22:24.280 --> 0:22:28.639 this Steeler front, I mean, both tackles were beating on 0:22:28.680 --> 0:22:31.280 the playoff. I mean he really didn't have a chance, 0:22:31.359 --> 0:22:35.600 but you're still thinking, like, it's the Steelers, We're down here. 0:22:35.640 --> 0:22:37.840 I got to throw this thing away. I can't. You 0:22:37.880 --> 0:22:41.000 can't hold the ball. Even the pass that he threw 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:44.320 that was short to Tolbart in the end zone, he 0:22:44.480 --> 0:22:47.159 was kind of looking looking and then and then he 0:22:47.320 --> 0:22:50.840 tried to rush it because he saw Tilbart break. So 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:53.720 I felt like there was some parts of his game 0:22:53.760 --> 0:22:56.919 that were very calm, and the way that he played 0:22:56.960 --> 0:22:59.359 the flow of the game that you know, the touch 0:22:59.480 --> 0:23:01.560 and at and then you. 0:23:01.560 --> 0:23:04.480 Feel like he's not running us much because we've seen 0:23:04.560 --> 0:23:07.040 him be good. I like on the move, make. 0:23:06.920 --> 0:23:08.879 Those throws because he was in a boot this summer. 0:23:10.160 --> 0:23:10.800 You think that's it. 0:23:10.880 --> 0:23:13.639 I think. So, I don't think he wants to. I 0:23:13.640 --> 0:23:16.040 don't think he's really interest interested. I think if he 0:23:16.160 --> 0:23:19.000 if he, if he I thought they were actually maybe 0:23:19.000 --> 0:23:22.680 thinking about quarterback draw on that fourth down. Yeah, they're 0:23:22.680 --> 0:23:24.960 like to spread that thing out and then just powered 0:23:25.000 --> 0:23:27.960 back through and see. But man, can you imagine running 0:23:27.960 --> 0:23:31.600 that play and getting stopped and now? But you know, 0:23:31.880 --> 0:23:33.879 but to me, I I kind of feel like that 0:23:34.520 --> 0:23:38.560 he's gotten older and I don't think he's as interested 0:23:39.280 --> 0:23:42.800 in doing that anymore. I don't think he's interested in 0:23:43.240 --> 0:23:45.560 I think that there's been there's some there's some times 0:23:45.600 --> 0:23:49.639 where his his ankle doesn't feel great and he plays 0:23:49.680 --> 0:23:52.119 through it, and I don't think he wants to run. 0:23:52.280 --> 0:23:54.320 I don't think he wants to go through that and 0:23:54.320 --> 0:23:57.320 and take that chance again. Watch him against Detroit, just 0:23:57.320 --> 0:24:02.240 take off run. But the side of me that really 0:24:02.280 --> 0:24:06.200 does believe that he's not interested because he doesn't. He doesn't. 0:24:06.320 --> 0:24:07.080 I haven't seen it. 0:24:07.200 --> 0:24:09.480 Yeah, really, Yeah, he just doesn't want to take a 0:24:09.560 --> 0:24:11.240 chance of not being available. 0:24:11.280 --> 0:24:13.520 But you know, that's also the thing too, is if 0:24:13.640 --> 0:24:15.600 there's an offset to that, if you're not gonna be 0:24:15.760 --> 0:24:17.440 that dack, if you're not gonna be the deck that's 0:24:17.440 --> 0:24:19.960 gonna run and make that a part of the game 0:24:20.040 --> 0:24:23.199 that the defense has to honor, then he's gonna have 0:24:23.280 --> 0:24:26.480 to be even better as a passer, which means because 0:24:26.480 --> 0:24:28.359 he's gonna take that part out so defenses don't have 0:24:28.359 --> 0:24:31.119 to honor that part. That's the part where I'm like, Okay, great, 0:24:31.320 --> 0:24:33.000 if that's gonna be the way you're gonna do it. 0:24:33.040 --> 0:24:34.720 But that means you got to step it up. And 0:24:34.880 --> 0:24:37.320 I mean, obviously last night in the moments that mattered 0:24:37.400 --> 0:24:38.760 the most I heard I think it was Nick. 0:24:38.680 --> 0:24:41.440 Said it this morning on on Sean and r J. 0:24:42.119 --> 0:24:45.080 He said, you know this, this may have been his 0:24:45.080 --> 0:24:49.920 his what was akin to Tony Roman Tony Romo's Buffalo games. Yeah, 0:24:50.000 --> 0:24:53.160 where you play not such great football throughout the game 0:24:53.520 --> 0:24:55.280 and then at the end you figure out a way 0:24:55.280 --> 0:24:57.520 to get your team a win. And and that's what 0:24:57.560 --> 0:24:59.399 it felt like yesterday. It didn't feel like it was 0:24:59.400 --> 0:25:01.080 his best day. I agree with you, Brian. I thought 0:25:01.280 --> 0:25:04.199 that that fumble was about the quarterback. I think he 0:25:04.320 --> 0:25:06.439 just held the ball so long. You gotta do something more, 0:25:06.520 --> 0:25:09.320 especially knowing those guys are already having some issues there 0:25:09.359 --> 0:25:10.000 on the edge. 0:25:10.080 --> 0:25:11.120 You just got to get rid of that ball. 0:25:11.119 --> 0:25:14.320 You can't hold it that there's there's there were moments 0:25:14.320 --> 0:25:16.160 of and that's kind of what you get with Dak. 0:25:16.200 --> 0:25:19.360 There's moments of that brilliance, and then there's moments where 0:25:19.359 --> 0:25:22.000 you're like, oh my god, what he just do? You know? 0:25:22.119 --> 0:25:24.200 And and you know, I think that you know, in 0:25:24.240 --> 0:25:26.480 the post, he was even talking about how upset he 0:25:26.640 --> 0:25:29.760 was about giving up points, you know, the turnovers. I mean, 0:25:29.800 --> 0:25:32.800 they they gave up you know, they probably gave up 0:25:32.840 --> 0:25:35.080 thirteen points down there in the red zone. I mean, 0:25:35.119 --> 0:25:37.560 they just have not been good down there. I mean 0:25:37.560 --> 0:25:40.880 they they were good. Heck, they almost lost the damn game. 0:25:41.359 --> 0:25:43.920 I mean it was crazy. I mean when that ball 0:25:44.000 --> 0:25:46.240 was on the ground and then him having the awareness 0:25:46.280 --> 0:25:49.480 to go dive on it. You know that, Oh my gosh, 0:25:49.640 --> 0:25:50.960 I couldn't imagine. 0:25:50.560 --> 0:25:54.120 Losing the game, almost like stomach. 0:25:54.440 --> 0:25:58.480 You guys on the field, No, that used to be 0:25:58.520 --> 0:26:00.640 the fun part there in MF. 0:26:01.520 --> 0:26:02.120 No, that's great. 0:26:02.240 --> 0:26:04.160 That used to be fun, but now it's now it's 0:26:04.200 --> 0:26:05.720 you stay in the press box, still time to go 0:26:05.720 --> 0:26:06.080 down the lot. 0:26:06.119 --> 0:26:09.200 Okay, Well that's you know that when that happened and 0:26:09.280 --> 0:26:12.359 you're sitting there thinking, and when he when he recovered it, 0:26:12.440 --> 0:26:15.720 I'm I'm like, Okay, they're gonna win this game now. 0:26:15.920 --> 0:26:18.720 I Mean, the football gods are with us today. We're 0:26:18.760 --> 0:26:20.320 not going to lose it. We're not going to lose 0:26:20.359 --> 0:26:23.880 this game today because of you know, but hey, it's 0:26:23.920 --> 0:26:27.159 such a struggle watching this team on offense. Yeah, it 0:26:27.160 --> 0:26:31.600 could have absolute brilliance to it. And just like the past, 0:26:31.840 --> 0:26:33.880 Like early in that game that the past, they threw 0:26:33.920 --> 0:26:36.879 the span forward. That was the motion, and you're like 0:26:36.960 --> 0:26:40.879 going and he confused, You confuse the linebacker and you're thinking, 0:26:40.960 --> 0:26:44.040 there you go. There you go motion, you know, gig 0:26:44.160 --> 0:26:46.760 up the field wheel route, here we go, that kind 0:26:46.760 --> 0:26:48.800 of thing. But and then the rest of the game 0:26:48.800 --> 0:26:51.600 you're just like hanging on your ear because of you know, 0:26:51.640 --> 0:26:53.200 what's going on with the plays? 0:26:53.240 --> 0:26:55.160 Yeah, when you mentioned that, I went back and looked 0:26:55.160 --> 0:26:57.359 at it, like there were there were all kinds of 0:26:57.359 --> 0:27:00.800 plays that happened before that final Yeah, that final touchdown. 0:27:00.560 --> 0:27:02.439 Bro, I mean you had just to play before it. 0:27:02.480 --> 0:27:05.560 You had the the pascity short hopped to Tobert that 0:27:06.000 --> 0:27:08.520 racked him there in the end zone, and then you 0:27:08.640 --> 0:27:11.320 got yeah, and then the one before that was the 0:27:11.320 --> 0:27:13.800 one where where you got the fumble that doctor covers, 0:27:14.080 --> 0:27:16.160 and then the one before that was the one where 0:27:16.200 --> 0:27:19.400 Dak runs down to get to the one and almost 0:27:19.440 --> 0:27:22.480 gave the game away if he had if he touches 0:27:22.520 --> 0:27:25.520 that pylon and the ball doll, they lose the ball 0:27:25.800 --> 0:27:27.760 game over right, And so you had all three of 0:27:27.760 --> 0:27:29.919 those players happened back to back to back after by 0:27:29.960 --> 0:27:33.000 the way, Hunter Lipke, who I'm I'm nick isn't here. 0:27:33.000 --> 0:27:35.840 I'm sure Nick, I saw him in the press box, like, yes, 0:27:36.160 --> 0:27:36.800 that's my guy. 0:27:37.119 --> 0:27:39.200 But after he has the great screen screens to get 0:27:39.240 --> 0:27:40.040 you down in position. 0:27:40.480 --> 0:27:42.920 And then those three plays that all could have gone 0:27:43.240 --> 0:27:44.720 opposite and killed this game for you. 0:27:45.280 --> 0:27:48.480 And then just like that, Dak May makes. 0:27:48.320 --> 0:27:50.720 The play that on fourth down, makes the play you 0:27:50.800 --> 0:27:53.439 need for the touchdown. So yeah, you want to you 0:27:53.480 --> 0:27:55.920 want to call it clutch, Call it clutch. He made 0:27:55.920 --> 0:27:58.000 the play he needed to make. But they certainly were 0:27:58.040 --> 0:27:59.679 playing with fire there, definitely. 0:28:00.000 --> 0:28:02.440 So you don't want a quarterback that just gives up 0:28:02.600 --> 0:28:05.080 and mentally gives him throughout the game. So that's a 0:28:05.119 --> 0:28:08.000 great quality that he has as a quarterback. He's just 0:28:08.520 --> 0:28:12.119 staying in the game despite throwing those two interceptions decide 0:28:12.240 --> 0:28:15.320 this pipe making those mistakes that you talk you just 0:28:15.320 --> 0:28:18.399 talked about, He's still going to keep fighting all the 0:28:18.440 --> 0:28:20.920 way till the end. And that's something that even Mike 0:28:21.000 --> 0:28:23.840 McCarthy right after the game he highlighted when speaking about 0:28:24.000 --> 0:28:26.360 Dak prescotting, and that's something we've known about him. He's 0:28:26.359 --> 0:28:28.240 the quarterback that he's just going to keep fighting. 0:28:28.359 --> 0:28:29.960 Well, I will say this, Brian. 0:28:30.040 --> 0:28:33.239 They finally listen to the break and they decided they 0:28:33.240 --> 0:28:35.880 were going to commit to a running back. His name 0:28:35.960 --> 0:28:39.280 is Rico Daluell. And what he did last night was 0:28:39.320 --> 0:28:42.240 twenty carries for eighty seven yards, a four point four average, 0:28:42.360 --> 0:28:45.560 two receptions for twenty seven yards, and a touchdown. Committing 0:28:45.600 --> 0:28:46.440 to a running back. 0:28:46.520 --> 0:28:49.040 Well, it took five weeks, it took fo we're here now. 0:28:48.920 --> 0:28:50.480 But but it seemed to have work. 0:28:50.560 --> 0:28:54.040 And I'm still convinced if they will just commit to 0:28:54.120 --> 0:28:57.120 him on a consistent basis, he is as long as 0:28:57.120 --> 0:28:59.960 he stays healthy, he is capable to be able to 0:29:00.240 --> 0:29:04.360 let this running game have some semblance of a good 0:29:04.400 --> 0:29:04.840 running game. 0:29:04.880 --> 0:29:05.720 I'm not saying he's great. 0:29:05.760 --> 0:29:07.720 Eighty seven yards ain't gonna be the one that's gonna 0:29:07.880 --> 0:29:10.440 lead the league in rushing, but it'll be good enough 0:29:10.720 --> 0:29:12.640 with the passing game that you have to be able 0:29:12.680 --> 0:29:14.760 to compliment what you do and force teams of respect. 0:29:14.960 --> 0:29:17.160 I thought there was gonna be twenty seven yards rushing 0:29:17.200 --> 0:29:19.680 from Dawdle yesterday going into this game, the way that 0:29:19.720 --> 0:29:23.080 the Steelers play, But you know, they figured they figured 0:29:23.120 --> 0:29:28.120 out ways to take advantage of these edges some too, 0:29:28.200 --> 0:29:30.520 you know, with them playing wide, and you know these 0:29:30.520 --> 0:29:33.520 guys are built, you know, her big and Watt, They're 0:29:33.520 --> 0:29:36.560 built to rush the passer. They're not built to stand 0:29:36.600 --> 0:29:38.520 in there and play the run. And so if you 0:29:38.680 --> 0:29:40.800 mash on them a little bit and get bodies on 0:29:40.880 --> 0:29:43.880 them and make them have to fight those blocks. But 0:29:43.920 --> 0:29:47.280 the Cowboys offensive line did a really nice job. There 0:29:47.320 --> 0:29:49.200 was a couple of times the thing with the thing 0:29:49.240 --> 0:29:53.840 with BB and again everybody'll see this. BB gets so 0:29:54.040 --> 0:29:56.560 locked into getting that push on the down guy that 0:29:56.960 --> 0:30:00.400 he's late getting up on like Queen the linebacker. So 0:30:00.440 --> 0:30:03.200 it's gonna be a six yard gain. But if he 0:30:03.280 --> 0:30:06.080 gets up on Queen, that thing's probably gonna go. See. 0:30:06.120 --> 0:30:08.520 I'm starting to figure out these metrics, and it's like 0:30:08.880 --> 0:30:11.920 expected yards per carry thing. I kind of get it 0:30:11.960 --> 0:30:14.120 now that there were times where I don't think there 0:30:14.160 --> 0:30:16.920 was any expected yards. I'm like, that plays blocked terribly. 0:30:16.960 --> 0:30:20.080 There's no way you're now It's like, I'm interested to 0:30:20.120 --> 0:30:23.520 see what that number is because it's like, how many 0:30:23.600 --> 0:30:26.720 yards did Dallas actually leave on the field. That could 0:30:26.720 --> 0:30:30.760 have been the way the plays, if they we could 0:30:30.760 --> 0:30:32.360 have been coming out of this game, and I think 0:30:32.400 --> 0:30:34.680 we still are in a way. We could have come 0:30:34.680 --> 0:30:37.360 out of this game thinking, damn, Dallas ran the ball 0:30:37.440 --> 0:30:41.160 against a really good run defense and had success to 0:30:41.280 --> 0:30:43.520 it it and and then actually on the other end, 0:30:43.880 --> 0:30:46.480 did a good job of stopping the run. So you 0:30:46.600 --> 0:30:49.400 caught a break though. No question with you know, with Patterson, 0:30:49.440 --> 0:30:52.680 those guys not playing, that's fine, Hey, no we feel 0:30:52.720 --> 0:30:55.520 sorry for you. Nope, just keep playing. That's all you do. 0:30:56.240 --> 0:30:56.560 Well. 0:30:57.240 --> 0:31:00.520 Something that Regal he talked about right after the game. 0:31:00.720 --> 0:31:04.320 He mentioned, you know it, the more you run and 0:31:04.360 --> 0:31:06.120 the more they give you the chances and take the 0:31:06.200 --> 0:31:09.040 chances on you, and you keep building on that, the 0:31:09.040 --> 0:31:13.200 more confident you become. And we saw that throughout the game. 0:31:13.280 --> 0:31:17.640 He just kept running better and better and finding the 0:31:17.680 --> 0:31:21.000 hole and just getting more comfortable and confident. And I 0:31:21.040 --> 0:31:24.200 think that's something that's going to start carrying over next 0:31:24.240 --> 0:31:27.000 week and the following weeks. I think that the Cowboys 0:31:27.040 --> 0:31:29.880 after this game, they can I mean there's no way 0:31:30.040 --> 0:31:32.280 you don't see the results of what happened and you 0:31:32.320 --> 0:31:34.680 don't go with like, Okay, Rico is our guy, and 0:31:34.720 --> 0:31:37.600 let's start giving the ball, handing the ball a lot 0:31:37.640 --> 0:31:40.400 more and in a more consistent basis. So I think 0:31:40.880 --> 0:31:44.080 this is exactly what this offense is running game needed 0:31:44.320 --> 0:31:48.360 going forward, because it was it was getting ugly. And 0:31:48.440 --> 0:31:51.440 now you have an answer or a light of hope 0:31:52.000 --> 0:31:52.680 there with him. 0:31:52.760 --> 0:31:54.280 Can I ask you a question, do you guys think 0:31:54.320 --> 0:31:57.720 you'll ever see Cooks or Dalvin Cooks? 0:32:02.000 --> 0:32:06.120 At this point, I think what I always well, not 0:32:06.200 --> 0:32:08.440 what I always expected, what I was starting to believe 0:32:08.920 --> 0:32:11.000 is going to come true, which is I was starting 0:32:11.000 --> 0:32:12.200 to believe they think. 0:32:12.040 --> 0:32:13.800 Of him as an insurance policy too. 0:32:14.400 --> 0:32:18.120 And now after last night, I'm kind of convinced they 0:32:18.160 --> 0:32:19.520 see him as an insurance They. 0:32:19.480 --> 0:32:23.160 Sit, they sit Vaughn, but they had to get linebackers 0:32:23.280 --> 0:32:26.680 up because of the special teams problems that they were running. 0:32:26.720 --> 0:32:28.880 But the mix was really good last night in my opinion, 0:32:28.960 --> 0:32:31.520 Like you commit to to having doubt will be your 0:32:31.560 --> 0:32:34.520 lead guy, you use Zeke because he got some really 0:32:34.560 --> 0:32:36.120 good runs, I mean quite as kept there in the 0:32:36.120 --> 0:32:38.000 second half. He had some runs that were really nice 0:32:38.040 --> 0:32:39.800 there when they were trying to kind of get back 0:32:39.840 --> 0:32:40.360 in that game. 0:32:40.760 --> 0:32:43.680 And and then then you use lip Key some like 0:32:43.760 --> 0:32:45.000 move him around, do some different things. 0:32:45.000 --> 0:32:46.560 You can use him in the passing game, use him 0:32:46.560 --> 0:32:48.480 on third down, he can pick up the blitz, all 0:32:48.520 --> 0:32:50.640 those things. I think last night's mix is how I 0:32:50.640 --> 0:32:51.560 would like them to do it. 0:32:51.600 --> 0:32:54.880 Going first, Okay, let me ask you this question then, sir, Right, 0:32:55.560 --> 0:32:59.200 the fact that he wasn't in on the the goal 0:32:59.240 --> 0:33:02.600 line play that they fumbled. Who wasn't in that sequence? 0:33:02.800 --> 0:33:05.000 Wasn't yet that Dawdle was the running back? 0:33:05.120 --> 0:33:05.520 Yeah? 0:33:05.640 --> 0:33:06.680 Did that tell you anything? 0:33:08.000 --> 0:33:08.280 Yeah? 0:33:08.400 --> 0:33:10.280 Maybe it told me that that he might not be 0:33:10.280 --> 0:33:11.000 playing anymore. 0:33:12.120 --> 0:33:13.800 I don't know if it told me that, because I 0:33:13.840 --> 0:33:16.120 still think there are people in this confess that he's 0:33:16.160 --> 0:33:17.320 still got his role. 0:33:17.480 --> 0:33:19.360 Is was going to be that? Right? Then we all 0:33:19.440 --> 0:33:20.880 kind of earmark him for that role. 0:33:21.120 --> 0:33:23.400 Yes, I think so. But I also think that at 0:33:23.400 --> 0:33:25.720 this point, I think what we may be left with 0:33:25.880 --> 0:33:29.840 is he is a complimentary back, so he will spell Dowell, 0:33:30.280 --> 0:33:33.080 They will use him in certain situations. He doesn't necessarily 0:33:33.120 --> 0:33:35.760 have a specific role that always going to be is 0:33:35.760 --> 0:33:38.000 because I thought they might use him on third downs 0:33:38.000 --> 0:33:39.720 more to be able to pick up the blitz. Liptkey 0:33:39.800 --> 0:33:42.320 is clearly that guy this point. Yeah, so I don't 0:33:42.360 --> 0:33:45.240 know that he has that defined role. I do think 0:33:45.280 --> 0:33:48.760 he could be their spell back and kind of, you know, 0:33:48.840 --> 0:33:50.520 spell Rico when they need to spell him. 0:33:51.280 --> 0:33:53.720 Are you interested at all at seeing Cook? 0:33:55.120 --> 0:33:56.400 I still want to see him. I don't know if 0:33:56.400 --> 0:33:57.880 they're going to give it to us, but I still 0:33:57.880 --> 0:33:59.800 want to see him. I'm kind of I think he 0:33:59.840 --> 0:34:01.640 can be better than than Dowdell. 0:34:02.280 --> 0:34:04.480 What was I think he could be better than Zeke 0:34:05.200 --> 0:34:08.360 Fair And if you're gonna give me complimentary back guy, 0:34:08.960 --> 0:34:11.160 give me the complimentary back guy that I think would 0:34:11.200 --> 0:34:12.880 pair with Daddle that could be better. 0:34:13.160 --> 0:34:15.160 What does he do better than Zeke that? 0:34:15.280 --> 0:34:16.440 What do you think you did? You don't know that. 0:34:16.480 --> 0:34:17.480 I need to find it out. 0:34:17.640 --> 0:34:18.480 You want to see what he does? 0:34:18.560 --> 0:34:19.080 I want to see. 0:34:19.120 --> 0:34:21.640 I just the thing is I want to take my chances. 0:34:22.480 --> 0:34:24.560 I would like to see just because I kind of 0:34:24.560 --> 0:34:28.399 feel like that that Maybe that line got a little 0:34:28.480 --> 0:34:31.480 rhythm last night, Maybe they kind of figured some things out. 0:34:31.480 --> 0:34:34.239 If they could get these wide receivers to block, you know, 0:34:34.719 --> 0:34:37.600 gott to watch San Francisco tape. All those receivers do 0:34:37.680 --> 0:34:39.719 is block, you know, but and they do it well, 0:34:39.719 --> 0:34:42.000 and they do it really well. By the way, florinoay, 0:34:42.040 --> 0:34:44.680 he could have cut call for holding twice in one 0:34:44.680 --> 0:34:49.160 of the critical plays, Like I'm like, it's number eighty 0:34:49.200 --> 0:34:52.560 and it's just like grabbing pulling a guy. Don't call it. 0:34:52.680 --> 0:34:54.520 Don't call that. I'm like, going, Bro, you're in there 0:34:54.560 --> 0:34:56.680 three plays and you could get called for holding twice, 0:34:57.640 --> 0:34:59.239 you know, So you'll see, all. 0:34:59.239 --> 0:35:00.799 Right, let's take a break goal quick. We got our 0:35:00.840 --> 0:35:02.600 final break. We'll come back, and then we got to 0:35:02.640 --> 0:35:03.840 talk a little bit about the defense. 0:35:03.920 --> 0:35:04.160 Yeah. 0:35:04.239 --> 0:35:06.040 The question I'll ask you guys, is what was more 0:35:06.040 --> 0:35:08.760 impressive last night? The run offense or the run defense. 0:35:08.920 --> 0:35:11.800 Both warreas where the Cowboys have struggled. Both showed signs 0:35:11.800 --> 0:35:13.239 of life last night. We'll talk about it when we 0:35:13.280 --> 0:35:16.640 come back. 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Let's talk about this. 0:38:03.960 --> 0:38:06.000 Can you give him a real quick metric of the day, Yeah, 0:38:06.080 --> 0:38:08.600 give it to me. When Dak think about this. When 0:38:08.680 --> 0:38:12.960 Dak had over two point five seconds to throw, he 0:38:13.080 --> 0:38:17.600 was thirteen of twenty three. It's strange, Yeah, it is, 0:38:17.680 --> 0:38:19.880 you feel like with the but that happens to Jalen 0:38:19.920 --> 0:38:23.560 hurts too. The longer he holds the ball, the worst 0:38:23.560 --> 0:38:27.160 he gets. You know, well, I mean he he had 0:38:27.200 --> 0:38:30.600 two touchdowns, two interceptions. He was thirteen to twenty three 0:38:30.680 --> 0:38:33.839 for two hundred one yards. On passes where they were 0:38:33.920 --> 0:38:37.279 over two point five seconds of protection. Under two point 0:38:37.320 --> 0:38:41.479 five seconds of protection, he was sixteen of nineteen. Yeah, 0:38:41.680 --> 0:38:43.440 for one hundred and fifty one yards. 0:38:43.640 --> 0:38:45.279 But actually that does make some sense to me. 0:38:45.320 --> 0:38:48.480 Here's why, because the longer he holds it, the likelihood 0:38:48.520 --> 0:38:51.000 is he was getting pressured, which means that the ball's 0:38:51.040 --> 0:38:52.960 probably not going to be the best ball. It may 0:38:53.000 --> 0:38:55.200 not be the best location. He maybe trying to get 0:38:55.280 --> 0:38:57.480 rid of it. Like, there's more stuff that happens the 0:38:57.480 --> 0:38:59.120 longer you take with the ball. 0:38:59.200 --> 0:39:02.319 They got worked by the one that Brooks catched early 0:39:02.360 --> 0:39:04.480 in the game. He was over the line. I mean 0:39:04.560 --> 0:39:06.640 Brooks caught the ball. It should have been her first down. 0:39:06.719 --> 0:39:08.520 Oh yeah, Cockley's crew, I don't know what the hell 0:39:08.560 --> 0:39:11.360 they were doing that day, but but you're right. The 0:39:11.360 --> 0:39:14.280 the thirteen for twenty three of the over two point five, 0:39:14.840 --> 0:39:18.239 his yards per temp was eight point seven an attempt. 0:39:18.480 --> 0:39:20.480 What was it for under two point five? 0:39:20.560 --> 0:39:23.200 Seven point nine? Okay, so it was it was pretty 0:39:23.239 --> 0:39:25.319 you know, it was pretty close. But but he he 0:39:25.520 --> 0:39:29.600 was much better. He was much better when as far 0:39:29.640 --> 0:39:32.239 as the under two point but man, they got rid 0:39:32.239 --> 0:39:33.760 of the ball pretty quick on some of the stuff, 0:39:33.760 --> 0:39:34.920 the screens. 0:39:34.480 --> 0:39:36.040 And things like that, which you need some of those 0:39:36.120 --> 0:39:36.760 kind of players. 0:39:36.800 --> 0:39:38.680 And you talk about it all the time, Brian, like, 0:39:38.760 --> 0:39:40.839 this is not a team that's traditionally been good at 0:39:40.880 --> 0:39:42.719 the screen. No, but last night they had a couple 0:39:42.800 --> 0:39:46.120 screens that that parade downtown down really good. That was 0:39:46.160 --> 0:39:48.400 that was that was unexpected. But they had a couple 0:39:48.560 --> 0:39:50.480 screens that throw. 0:39:50.360 --> 0:39:52.920 Him the screen. He'll do. You get exactly what I mean. 0:39:53.000 --> 0:39:55.120 It was a great block by BB to get him 0:39:55.200 --> 0:39:56.680 up in the alley and the way you win. 0:39:56.719 --> 0:39:59.080 I actually love him and I love getting Ferguson in 0:39:59.120 --> 0:40:01.120 those kind of situations. With what we know about Ferguson 0:40:01.120 --> 0:40:02.799 is he breaks tackles. He knows how to. 0:40:03.440 --> 0:40:05.919 Down play that he made because he catches the ball 0:40:06.000 --> 0:40:08.040 late in the game. He catches the ball short of 0:40:08.080 --> 0:40:09.600 the sticks about six. 0:40:09.480 --> 0:40:12.520 Yards and you had no doubt he was going, You're going, oh, 0:40:12.560 --> 0:40:13.120 here we go. 0:40:13.640 --> 0:40:15.640 He's just running through guys, you know, and he's going 0:40:15.719 --> 0:40:16.520 to get the first down. 0:40:16.600 --> 0:40:16.759 Yeah. 0:40:16.800 --> 0:40:18.719 I love how he runs after the catch. But talk 0:40:18.719 --> 0:40:20.799 to me about the defense. If you had to kind 0:40:20.800 --> 0:40:25.319 of say which one was, let's say more surprising, which 0:40:25.360 --> 0:40:28.359 was more surprising between their run defense and their run 0:40:28.400 --> 0:40:29.279 offense last night. 0:40:29.920 --> 0:40:33.680 I mean, when you look at what the Steelers do 0:40:33.920 --> 0:40:36.680 or don't do on the running game, you got to 0:40:36.719 --> 0:40:39.120 take that into account. We talked about it on the show, 0:40:39.320 --> 0:40:44.000 how they lead the league on like attempts, but they're 0:40:44.000 --> 0:40:48.200 not as successful with running the ball. So that's something 0:40:48.280 --> 0:40:52.280 to keep in mind. So my credit, my bigger credit 0:40:52.320 --> 0:40:55.120 would be given to the Cowboys offense because this is 0:40:55.160 --> 0:40:58.160 an area where we definitely have just overall not seen 0:40:58.239 --> 0:41:00.200 it in when you look at the defense, I mean 0:41:00.200 --> 0:41:04.000 that's and I mean the Steelers defense. I think they 0:41:04.040 --> 0:41:07.719 hold a higher power than the Steelers' offense here. So 0:41:08.000 --> 0:41:10.360 for sure, you got to give credit to what the 0:41:10.400 --> 0:41:13.000 Cowboys O line was able to do along with Rico 0:41:13.120 --> 0:41:15.359 Dowell and the game that they were able to put 0:41:15.520 --> 0:41:16.640 as far as their running game. 0:41:17.920 --> 0:41:22.200 Kendrick's eight tackles on run stops have twenty six run 0:41:22.440 --> 0:41:27.719 snaps eight run tackles yep over shown with four you 0:41:27.760 --> 0:41:31.160 go down the list. Chauncey Golston twenty three snaps, four 0:41:31.239 --> 0:41:33.400 run tackles. He had a good game, but he had 0:41:33.400 --> 0:41:35.440 a really good game. By the way. How about Mozzie 0:41:35.480 --> 0:41:40.440 Smith thirteen snaps, four run tackles. So see you had to. 0:41:40.680 --> 0:41:42.399 I mean, we had two weeks in a row. Nowt 0:41:42.440 --> 0:41:43.640 of Mazzi has kind of shown up. 0:41:44.120 --> 0:41:46.799 He got knocked back a couple of times. But you know, 0:41:46.920 --> 0:41:50.719 Mazzie steps, Babysipsy steps. But you know, you go through 0:41:50.840 --> 0:41:54.560 yards per yards per play on these tackles. They're all 0:41:54.600 --> 0:41:58.480 within manageable numbers. They're all three point threes, three point two's. 0:41:59.000 --> 0:42:01.160 You know, when you play the Ravens and you're playing 0:42:01.160 --> 0:42:04.680 the Saints, those numbers were six point four, six point eight, 0:42:04.960 --> 0:42:09.040 seven point one. You know, it's the last couple of weeks. 0:42:09.040 --> 0:42:12.600 They've done a much better job with their fits and 0:42:12.640 --> 0:42:14.759 they're finished in They were running in a they were 0:42:14.800 --> 0:42:16.440 running in a clip. They were one of the one 0:42:16.480 --> 0:42:18.560 of the bottom teams in the league when it came 0:42:18.640 --> 0:42:22.239 to tackle percentage. And you could tell just watching the 0:42:22.239 --> 0:42:24.080 tape or watching the game. Hell, you didn't even need 0:42:24.120 --> 0:42:26.680 the tape. You can watch TV copy and go, you're 0:42:26.680 --> 0:42:29.239 not tackling very well. Today. I felt like that they 0:42:29.360 --> 0:42:31.359 you know that that this whole thing was about going 0:42:31.400 --> 0:42:34.040 to get their linebackers. That's what I was surprised. I 0:42:34.120 --> 0:42:38.480 was surprised. I was surprised with the run defense. Well, actually, 0:42:38.480 --> 0:42:40.760 I take that back. I was surprised with their ability 0:42:40.760 --> 0:42:44.000 to run the football run defense. I felt like that 0:42:44.239 --> 0:42:47.680 with the way the Steelers inability to get linebacker we 0:42:47.719 --> 0:42:49.560 talked about it when we broke them down, their inability 0:42:49.600 --> 0:42:53.279 to get linemen up on linebackers. Look a look at 0:42:53.280 --> 0:42:56.200 the tackles from all the linebackers in this game. That's 0:42:56.239 --> 0:42:58.600 something that that we kind of talked about going in. 0:42:59.280 --> 0:43:03.200 And you know, their back is he's he's at the end. 0:43:03.360 --> 0:43:06.120 That's you know, but you didn't let the quarterback kill you. 0:43:06.680 --> 0:43:09.920 That's the thing. I was worried about the designed quarterback runs, 0:43:10.000 --> 0:43:12.560 especially the first step of the game. He goes running 0:43:12.560 --> 0:43:16.200 around eight yards. I'm like, okay, here we go. I'm 0:43:16.200 --> 0:43:18.480 going to see this. But that was the longest run 0:43:18.480 --> 0:43:18.919 of the day. 0:43:19.040 --> 0:43:21.080 And I would have been more concerned if they had 0:43:21.120 --> 0:43:23.799 Warren and Patterson playing. Like you said last week, I 0:43:23.800 --> 0:43:26.799 thought those two guys added a dynamic dimension to their 0:43:26.880 --> 0:43:30.000 run game that they just didn't have last night. I 0:43:30.040 --> 0:43:33.040 think those backs are really what fuel that running game, 0:43:33.040 --> 0:43:34.600 in my opinion, for as much as it's going to 0:43:34.600 --> 0:43:36.680 be fueled. I thought that's where they could have had 0:43:36.760 --> 0:43:39.040 some issues that the Cowboys would have had a hard 0:43:39.080 --> 0:43:41.320 time dealing with. I think when you when you didn't 0:43:41.360 --> 0:43:43.160 have those two guys in there, it just made it 0:43:43.200 --> 0:43:45.160 a lot easier for Dallas to to be able to 0:43:45.200 --> 0:43:46.960 get the guys in the right place. But I'm not 0:43:47.000 --> 0:43:49.160 going to take anything away from Dallas either. That's two 0:43:49.160 --> 0:43:51.040 weeks in a row. You can say what you want. 0:43:51.360 --> 0:43:53.640 They've they they have not been stopping to run well 0:43:53.680 --> 0:43:56.160 this season those two games, last game, in this game, 0:43:56.360 --> 0:43:58.719 they've done a really really good job. And actually, if 0:43:58.719 --> 0:44:00.840 you look at the first half of yesterday day, it 0:44:00.920 --> 0:44:02.960 was looking like they were getting run on pretty good. 0:44:02.960 --> 0:44:05.479 They they Pittsburgh had seventy yards at the half right 0:44:05.600 --> 0:44:07.839 it rushing and and but they had shut down their 0:44:07.880 --> 0:44:10.560 passing offense to basically nothing, so they couldn't sustain drives. 0:44:10.560 --> 0:44:12.319 It kind of felt like they were seven on third 0:44:12.360 --> 0:44:12.960 downs like they were. 0:44:13.000 --> 0:44:15.239 They were shutting them down, so they really couldn't get 0:44:15.280 --> 0:44:17.120 anything going, but they were running. 0:44:16.840 --> 0:44:17.359 The ball well. 0:44:17.440 --> 0:44:18.960 I kind of felt like if they could have got 0:44:18.960 --> 0:44:21.880 the game at to thirteen to three, you know that 0:44:22.400 --> 0:44:25.000 there's no way, Yeah, they no way. Steelers are coming back. 0:44:25.120 --> 0:44:27.040 Not throwing the ball the way they were throwing the ball. 0:44:27.600 --> 0:44:30.640 So but yeah, it was a it was a it 0:44:30.680 --> 0:44:33.239 was a nice day as far as that, especially with 0:44:33.320 --> 0:44:35.000 all the guys to back up guys. 0:44:35.400 --> 0:44:37.239 I was going to say, with all the backups, I 0:44:37.280 --> 0:44:39.319 mean give extra credit to you. 0:44:39.280 --> 0:44:42.920 Know, if Tank, if Tank and Michael were playing in 0:44:42.960 --> 0:44:45.799 that game, that would have been far worse for the Steelers. Yeah, 0:44:46.120 --> 0:44:48.279 they those they were they couldn't block. They wouldn't have 0:44:48.280 --> 0:44:50.440 been able to block those guys because they had trouble blocking. 0:44:51.280 --> 0:44:54.000 They had trouble blocking Golston, they had trouble blocking Wheat, 0:44:54.440 --> 0:44:58.000 they had trouble blocking Osa. You know, they had problems. 0:44:58.080 --> 0:44:59.760 Had a good game too. He was using the batfield 0:44:59.760 --> 0:45:01.680 a lot. All right, we're gonna that's a wrap. We're 0:45:01.680 --> 0:45:03.239 gonna be back tomorrow. We're gonna do a little bit 0:45:03.239 --> 0:45:05.120 of bigger picture. We got a lot of things left 0:45:05.120 --> 0:45:06.719 from this game. We'll kind of talk about. We'll talk 0:45:06.719 --> 0:45:08.840 about some of the injuries that the Cowboys sustain. We 0:45:08.960 --> 0:45:10.840 got some questions that Brian will have. We'll go inside 0:45:10.840 --> 0:45:12.680 the mind of Brian brought us. We'll do all that tomorrow, 0:45:12.760 --> 0:45:15.800 So join us until then, For Brian brought us in Amagarcia, 0:45:15.760 --> 0:45:17.360 I'm Derek Eagleton. 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