WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Who’s To Blame? 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:06.800 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.840 --> 0:00:17.280 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Let's go. Are you 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:21.440 ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:21.560 --> 0:00:25.759 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:30.120 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:37.440 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:43.599 It is Monday, January seventeenth, twenty twenty two, season seventeen, 0:00:43.640 --> 0:00:46.960 episode number ninety nine. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:51.839 The Break. Life in the s W Mortgage. He and 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:54.000 I don't even want to laugh because it's just actually 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:56.040 do kind of want to laugh, just because it's just like, 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:58.040 what else can you do at this point near the 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:01.000 other one? I'm sure what your people have done, maybe, 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:03.160 which our producer did right before we went on the air, Like, 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:04.920 I think that was kind of what we're all feeling. 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:09.160 Cowboys lose twenty three seventeen to San Francisco. I can't 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:10.960 say that it was a surprise. I think we were 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:17.480 all very concerned about this matchup last week. Yeah, I 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:20.080 thought they'd win. We all picked, we all picked, we did. 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:22.120 I think we all had some trepidation. I don't think 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:24.600 any of us were like, oh, Cowboys A roll through 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:26.600 this team. I don't think like I roll. But yeah, 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:28.240 I thought they'd win. I mean I thought they would win. 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:31.080 I thought they would play better, but they just did. 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.600 They're not. They're not. I mean I fell for it. 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:35.880 I really did. I wrote this, we talked about I 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:37.960 fell for it. I thought they were better. I did. 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:40.400 I thought this season was different because it was it 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:42.440 was season was different than what we've had, but not 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:44.520 to the point where it was going to be a 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:48.560 different ending. So everything they've done all year long, they 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.320 showed it in that game, and they were you know, 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:54.520 they were a pretty good team. They've been pretty good 0:01:54.520 --> 0:01:56.720 shot all year long. Ago, Well, I feel like at 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.000 the beginning, and I was thinking that this morning as 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:02.200 I was driving here, I'm thinking, I'm like, man, how 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:06.800 did I personally go from watching the game and feeling 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:10.400 so pumped and confident that they would this is a 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:12.440 year that they could get to the Super Bowl? You know, 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:15.200 the way that the offense was playing, that we're making 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.760 mistakes and all that, but they were overcoming in every 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:21.440 single time. And then all of a sudden it changed 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:23.480 in the second half of the season, we've talked about 0:02:23.480 --> 0:02:26.120 it on here. Oh well, teams start looking at your schemes, 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:28.239 they start preparing for you and all that. But it's 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:30.760 like it has to be more than that. There has 0:02:30.800 --> 0:02:34.239 to be something else as to how this team changed 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:37.440 so much like night and day from what we had 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:40.679 seen initially, from me thinking and coming out here and saying, well, 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:42.880 we aren't going to the super Bowl, asking for my 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:47.639 ring and everything about that. I really don't think they changed. 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:50.040 I don't think they were the same team. It's just 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:52.840 that they face different changed it. As I was saying, 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:55.720 they were pretty good team this year, and pretty good, 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:57.359 we'll get you knocked out in the wild card round. 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.400 That's what pretty good does. See. I think you're right, 0:03:00.480 --> 0:03:04.240 but for different reasons. I think they didn't change. They 0:03:04.280 --> 0:03:09.400 didn't adapt. They did not respond to any of the 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:11.920 challenges that came their way, whether that was their problems 0:03:11.919 --> 0:03:15.720 with officiating, whether that was their problems with teams figuring 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:17.400 out how to beat them, which is to rush for 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:20.320 and drop in zone. I mean that problem arose on 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:23.640 November seventh, and they looked just as helpless dealing with 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:28.000 it on January what was yesterday fifteenth? Whatever doesn't matter, 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:30.520 They looked just as helpless dealing with something that they 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:32.800 saw all the way back in November. They looked just 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:35.240 as terrible cleaning up their penalties as they did in 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:38.840 October when that was an issue that they overcame, but 0:03:38.960 --> 0:03:42.120 they never adjusted to it. And maybe maybe I'm just 0:03:42.160 --> 0:03:44.640 shooting from the hip in the wake of a frustrating loss, 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:48.360 but it just strikes me as like an unearned type 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:52.200 of arrogance, Like every week, in the wake of all 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:56.680 of this stuff, there was this confidence, maybe arrogance, seeing 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:58.920 as how they didn't handle it, exuding from this team 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:02.240 of line them up. We got it, I know what 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.040 we have in this locker room. We're gonna do this, 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.360 we're gonna do that, we're gonna do the other, and 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:10.720 it never really translated. They played some crappy teams and 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:15.520 showed off their potential doing that, but from week six 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:19.920 until yesterday, they never answered the bell against like the 0:04:19.960 --> 0:04:22.480 type of opponent that you need to be to be 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.360 a great team. And it's frustrating. I think I've said 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:27.599 this a few times. It reminds me of twenty nineteen. 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:31.800 You'll never convince me like that twenty nineteen team belonged 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:33.440 in the playoffs. I'm not saying that they were a 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:35.320 super Bowl team, but they were good enough to be 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:37.240 in the playoffs, and they couldn't get there, couldn't get 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.920 out of their own way. I do think this team 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.440 had the talent and the potential to be special, but 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:46.520 they just didn't change. They did not take the steps 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:48.920 necessary over the course of the season to be something more. 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:52.520 And the problem that we said from training camp and 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:56.880 before that that we were worried about continue to be 0:04:56.920 --> 0:05:00.920 a problem all year. The center and the left guard spot. 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:05.279 They can't block, they can't move the guys off the ball. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:09.360 And you're not going to change your quarterback because he's 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:12.000 making more money than God right now. So that's that's 0:05:12.040 --> 0:05:14.320 what he's gonna do. But you better get the guys 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:17.240 up front to block for him. You have to. You 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:20.479 have to sell out next year to protect him because 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.960 Dad needs your help. He ran more than a cross 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:27.880 country runner yesterday and he's not good enough to do 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.280 that all the time. He needs help, and he didn't 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:32.160 get it either. So let me ask you guys this, 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.200 and I know this happens all the time, because especially 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:39.040 for you guys, that right you find yourself years from now, 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.640 you'll go back and you'll think about this playoff game, 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:43.760 and there'll be a certain thing in your mind, whether 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:46.160 it's a memory of a specific play or just how 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:48.200 they played in general. What will be that thought, like, 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.279 years from now, how you guys crystallize this particular game. 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:55.640 That's actually what I wrote about last night, and I 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.880 think it's ironic. I think because the way that it 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.760 was talked about. It was the first five minutes of 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.320 Mike McCarthy's press conference, it was the first ten minutes 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:08.200 of Dak Prescott's press conference. What I will probably remember 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:12.000 is the final fourteen seconds and really that whole sequence 0:06:12.040 --> 0:06:14.159 from the time Trent Williams got the false start to 0:06:14.279 --> 0:06:17.920 win the clock ran out. That's what you'll remember, like, oh, 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:20.760 the game where Dak couldn't get the spike off. But 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:24.040 that's not It should be remembered for them playing like 0:06:24.160 --> 0:06:27.280 crap for fifty fifty minutes and like I mean, and 0:06:27.960 --> 0:06:30.760 we've seen that time and time again, and it rubbed 0:06:30.800 --> 0:06:34.600 me the wrong way. Even as bonkers as that whole 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:36.360 thing was, I was like, why are we talking about 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:38.320 this as if this is the reason why they lost. 0:06:38.480 --> 0:06:40.839 It's not. It's not it's the fact that it took 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:42.760 them thirty five minutes to realize they were in a 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:46.280 playoff game. That's why they lost. So that's probably what 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.800 I'll remember, is like, oh, yeah, that was the game 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:52.320 with the weird spike situation. But really they got nobody 0:06:52.360 --> 0:06:57.200 to blame with themselves. I mean yeah, I'll probably say 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.279 something snarky five years from now and be like, yeah, 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.120 that was the game where they played in the playoff 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:05.279 and they didn't get the playoff. That's that's that's like. 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:11.840 And not only not only once, but twice. Yeah. Yeah, 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:15.120 but I mean I got a problem with that play 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.559 with with with the officials. I mean, because everyone's saying 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:20.720 that they they did it right. They you know, even 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:24.880 that that arrogant referee that in the transcript that we read, 0:07:24.920 --> 0:07:26.320 he was like, we did it right, we did it right, 0:07:26.320 --> 0:07:28.920 we did it right. I don't think so. I don't 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:30.360 think he did it right. But we'll talk about it. 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.960 We'll get to them, Amber, because I've left a lot 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.840 of games, so I know, how will you remember that game, Amber, 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:40.240 I don't know. But right now how I feel is 0:07:40.320 --> 0:07:46.280 that it's it's just here we are again again, and 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:48.679 you know, so many times like giving him the second 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:52.320 half of you keep thinking, maybe my biggest thing is 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:56.280 the quarterback right now. You keep thinking he's got it 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:59.160 or at least me. Every time, you know, we see 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:02.240 progress of the year, even last year before he got hurt, 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:06.160 it's like, Okay, he got it, he got it, But 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:08.720 then you realize he doesn't. Or then there comes a 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.520 time where you really need him and he plays like crap. 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:14.680 And I think he's a special player and everything, but 0:08:14.760 --> 0:08:18.080 it's just like one of those moments again where in 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:20.840 a game that you really needed him to step up, 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:24.280 he did not. So this is how I'm coming off 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.520 this year. It's like, I don't want to say that 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:29.600 they made the right choice in signing him and giving 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:33.079 him all that money and all that, but it is questionable. 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:36.600 Is he the right guy to be the quarterback and 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.160 lead this team or do you have to really spend 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.600 a ton of money in bringing up guys to build 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:45.760 around him to help him out the whole way? Yeah, 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.800 you know, I'll tell you this. Here's when I think 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:50.840 back this game, I was looking at all the different 0:08:50.840 --> 0:08:52.400 things that happened, because there were lots of things that 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:54.480 happened in this game. You could point to to be like, yeah, 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:56.480 that was wrong, that was off, that was a problem. 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.400 But really, for me, what this game came down to 0:09:00.559 --> 0:09:03.280 check this out. Two forty two left in the fourth quarter, 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.520 they had three timeouts, they were down by six, and 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:10.480 they have the ball in that drive. Dak was one 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.040 of five for thirty eight yards at the nice reception, 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.600 the nice completion to Dalton Schultz. But other than that, 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:20.000 over like it didn't complete any other passes. They had 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.960 two balls that you could say were dropped, CD and Zeke. 0:09:23.800 --> 0:09:26.280 They had an offensive line penalty that they got declined 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:28.720 on the play where Zeke dropped the ball because San 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:30.480 Francisco is like, well, you dropped the ball, so we'll 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:32.920 just take that. We don't need to necessarily take the penalty. 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:36.520 You had a sack which Connor Williams gave up talking 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:40.160 about your guard and how ineffective they are. And then 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.120 you had on the final play of that one, a 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:46.400 open receiver that because Dak is feeling pressure because there's 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.079 a blitz up the middle that either somebody didn't pick 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:51.240 up or Dak couldn't make a guy miss to buy 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:54.079 himself more time, he kind of just heaves the ball. 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.480 They can't complete the pass and they can't keep the 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:59.440 drive going. To me, you look at all that stuff 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:01.360 that was the game right there. I don't give me 0:10:01.400 --> 0:10:04.320 all this stuff. What happened after that? And REFF did this. 0:10:04.360 --> 0:10:07.120 REFF did at the end of the day, as bad 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:10.280 as they played two forty two left in the game, 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:13.920 they had every opportunity to then drive and win the game. 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:16.760 And they were highly ineffective. Not just a few plays, 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:19.880 they were highly ineffective on offense. And I think, and 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:21.679 if I don't know if you said this or not, 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.640 but going into the game that the forty nine two 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.560 best defensive players we thought were botha and Warner and 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:32.760 neither one of them are. So it's yeah, you had 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:35.880 they had the ball with north of two minutes and 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.280 all of their timeouts, facing a sixth I mean, that's 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.120 where that's what you want, that's what you dream about 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:43.920 if you are a team capable of winning a playoff game. 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:47.440 And I definitely I'm not going to absolve Dak. I 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.120 thought that he had a terrible game. That I mean, 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:53.160 the decision on the interception was was not good. Um, 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:57.199 his accuracy didn't seem awful to me. Yesterday and again 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.439 like it's gonna sound like I am, and I swear 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:04.120 I'm not. But their offensive line got embarrassed yesterday to 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:06.440 not have Nick Bosa in that game for half of 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:10.160 the game and you wouldn't know it. Five sacks pressured 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:14.199 all the time, And maybe I'm making excuses for him, 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:16.079 I don't know, I'm sorry, but like when you can 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:19.560 rush four and drop seven down after down after down 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:23.640 and make Dak repeatedly try to squeeze balls into tight zones, 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:27.640 they're playing zone all day and he's running for his 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:29.600 life while he's doing. It's gonna be hard. It's gonna 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:31.520 be hard for a lot of guys, and maybe Aaron 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.800 Rodgers can overcome that. And that's why there's only like 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:38.319 one on the planet. So that was Dak didn't play well, 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:42.679 but holy crap, his offensive line that the whole name 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:46.440 name I get maybe Zach, maybe Zach Martin, And I 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.760 think the forty nine ers specifically schemed their front to 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.080 basically say, all right, Zach will beat his guy and 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.080 we'll just embarrass the rest of him. Like that's what 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:58.320 it seemed like they were doing. Lyle had a rough day, penalties, 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.920 several priest stap he's Connor Williams. It speaks for itself. 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:05.720 I mean, I don't know, Yeah, I don't in the 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:07.800 CD right now, I'm giving him the bottle. I don't 0:12:07.840 --> 0:12:09.840 know how you justify that, and and I don't know 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.960 how that makes sense. Tyron Smith looked like a hobbled 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:17.880 old player yesterday. Again, Bosa left basically at halftime and 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:20.560 other guys were getting home plenty of I'm gonna go 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:23.320 back and watch it again because I watched it once 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:26.840 last night and I didn't see a lot of issues 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:29.000 from Tyron. I gotta watch it again, I guess because 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:31.880 I thought he played pretty well. I thought there was 0:12:31.920 --> 0:12:34.520 a couple of issues there. He gave up a pretty 0:12:34.920 --> 0:12:38.440 shout out Longhorns Charles Charles a minute, who who? I knew? 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:40.720 The Texas were like, we're good. I know I know 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:44.360 his name because I cover the draft, but like a 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.480 journeyman fifth round pick. He had a sack and a 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:52.360 half yesterday, beat Tyron clean on one of them. Um yeah, 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:54.520 and you're just not used to seeing that. It might 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:56.240 be an end again. I don't want to give the 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:59.000 impression that Tyron Smith is no longer a good play. No, 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.320 that's not that's what it is that I don't know 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:04.520 that Tyren Smith is an elite player. And and then 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:06.880 you start a questioning, Okay, if he's not elite and 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.920 he's not reliable from a from a health standpoint, then 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:12.840 is it time to start looking at other options. But 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.160 here's the thing about that. You know what else is 0:13:16.200 --> 0:13:19.920 in the lead about him? It's contract? Well you got 0:13:19.960 --> 0:13:21.600 that up and down this like you've got a couple 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.600 guys like that. No. But but I'm saying, if you 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:27.920 if you think that just Tyron Smith is a probably 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:29.960 not a top five player anymore, and maybe he's just 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:33.479 a top ten or top fifteen, I think he's still 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:36.400 he's still on the cheap, I have to go look 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.280 at it. But nobody like the way these contracts work. 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:42.280 For sure, he just hasn't. But as the play what 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:44.600 you need if you're if you're talking about the fact 0:13:44.640 --> 0:13:46.960 that you got problems at a lot of other spots 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:48.840 as well, and maybe that's the reason why you couldn't 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:50.360 do anything different, because you got a lot of other 0:13:50.559 --> 0:13:53.079 spots that are much more important that you fix than 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.640 left tackle. But we're getting into the weeds a little bit, 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:57.960 like we can go over all of that. We got 0:13:58.040 --> 0:14:01.240 a long time to talk about it, but it just 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:05.040 I mean, again, like Nick said earlier, like and wrote about, 0:14:05.200 --> 0:14:08.960 like every single thing that's bothered them leading up to 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.200 this came home to roost. And that's it makes it 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:15.920 frustrating because they didn't do anything to address it really, 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:19.240 or they didn't do enough except for one. What's that 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:24.160 the field goal? An extra point? Yeah? Great? And I'm 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:27.400 telling you this, if they would have scored a touchdown, 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:29.840 he's gonna hit the post. I don't know if it 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:31.640 goes in or out, but I mean it's not gonna 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:33.840 be right down in the middle. Can you imagine how 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.400 quiet that place would have been. Yeah, No, it wouldn't 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:38.520 have been because the other side, the other side, Yeah, 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.200 it wouldn't have been quiet. There wasn't no uet yesterday. 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:43.400 And by the way, it wasn't that they were overpowering, 0:14:43.560 --> 0:14:46.280 but they were enough that they were there was there 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:48.920 are enough of them there when the refs, when the 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.560 refs said the game was over, there was there was 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:55.080 a sizeable cheer. And honestly that that I liked that atmosphere. 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:58.160 I loved that. I loved that in a playoff atmosphere, 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:00.400 No it was great. Got a loud audience, a loud 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:02.760 set of fans, and they're you know, you got some 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:04.680 on both sides. I would say, what do you guys say, 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:08.040 seventy thirty split? I would So I think that's that. 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:10.920 That felt right, That felt good for a playoff team, 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:16.320 you know, and and thirty good fans. Yeah, you know, passionate, Yeah, 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.240 passionate fans of fan base. You know, obviously, if you're 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:21.520 gonna spend that money to get in, you know you are. 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:25.640 And so anybody can be loud, you know, anybody can 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:27.880 you know, if you boo, you're gonna hear that. So, 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:30.120 I mean, there they they were. They were there, just 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:31.760 like it would have been if the Cowboys would have 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:33.680 played there, it would have been the same thing. I mean, 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:35.600 that's that's what happened in the play playoffs. Yeah, all right, 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:37.120 were gonna take our first break. When we come back, 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.480 I do want to dive into that end of game scenario. 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:41.280 What you guys thought of it. We've heard from Nick. 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:43.880 I want to hear what Amber and Dave heard yet. Okay, 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:45.480 well let's let's talk about that when we come back. 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.240 This is Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio at at and tea. 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:51.280 Everyone new and existing customers get our best deals on 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.640 every smartphone. Why because you deserve it. We're turning your 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:58.040 living room into your office and your gym. We're teaching. 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:00.960 Grandma had a video call and EA or again, it's 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.320 the button on your left Nanna, Okay, your other laughs. 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.880 It's not complicated. 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At the start, we're talking about the 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:58.160 Cowboys lost twenty three seventeen. They have been booted from 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:01.359 the playoffs. San Francisco gold On they will be playing 0:18:02.240 --> 0:18:05.000 I guess there at this point, they're playing the Packers. Yep. Wow, 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:07.600 be a great game. It will be. It will be. 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.439 It will be, you know, honestly, And I heard this 0:18:10.480 --> 0:18:12.640 before the game, and I think it's true. We talked 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:15.119 about all week how bad of a matchup it was 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:17.520 for Dallas, how tough of a matchup I should say 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:19.680 it was for Dallas. It's really a tough matchup for 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.120 almost anybody's left in the playoffs, just because they do 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.280 what they do so well and it's so different than 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:26.680 what everybody else does. So it's gonna be a tough 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.560 matchup for green Bay as well. Differences. Green Bay's got 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.760 that dude. He's got that dude at quarterback. You can 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:35.280 kind of right size all that kind of stuff. All right, 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:37.840 Let's talk about though the end of the game. I 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:40.880 talked about a little bit in the first segment. Basically, 0:18:40.920 --> 0:18:44.560 they decide that they're going to with very little time, 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:47.920 they opt to allow Dak to get to basically run 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:50.840 the ball right up the middle of the field, and 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:53.199 the hope was he would get down in time to 0:18:53.280 --> 0:18:56.120 be able to then respot the ball, spike it, and 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:59.240 give them one more shot roughly twenty five to thirty 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:02.359 yards in order to win the game, which sounds like 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:05.640 a great probably a more well, I'll let you guys 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.359 answer that. Was that the right decision or should they 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:10.400 have opted for take a shot at the end zone 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:12.119 or maybe two shots the end zone from back at 0:19:12.119 --> 0:19:13.800 the fifty and see what you can come up with. 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:18.320 Here's the thing I like. I like that they thought 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:21.359 outside the box. Like your odds of completing it. They 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:23.280 were at the forty one, they were at the San 0:19:23.280 --> 0:19:26.080 Francisco forty one. So odds of completing a forty one 0:19:26.119 --> 0:19:28.520 yard pass to the end zone in the NFL is 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.640 not good. So you gotta find a way to get 0:19:31.720 --> 0:19:36.480 up there a little bit and in a vacuum. It's 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:39.320 a smart idea. It is like nobody's expecting this, nobody's 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:40.960 going to be covering the draw because you got to 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:43.800 be a crazy person to do it, and you theoretically, 0:19:43.840 --> 0:19:47.000 like fourteen seconds is the traditional threshold of like you 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:49.600 have enough time to get down, get everything together, spike it. 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:53.160 I like the thought process and a vacuum. Here's the thing. 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:56.560 Football games aren't played in a vacuum. And they said 0:19:56.600 --> 0:19:59.040 this after the game. They wrap it time and time 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:01.760 again and it works. But here's the thing. You're on 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:05.320 your own practice field, in your own environment. Everybody knows 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:08.879 exactly what you're trying to do. Our dear friend Dylan Keane, 0:20:09.320 --> 0:20:12.960 the equipment manager, plays referee. He knows exactly what they're doing. 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:14.639 He's going to sprint in with the ball, put it 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:17.119 where it needs to be. That's not going to happen 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:19.520