WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Dissecting the L 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.360 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:16.120 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys, Are you ready 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:19.960 for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:24.279 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:29.680 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:36.000 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:41.400 It is Monday, January third, twenty twenty two, Season seventeen, 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:44.159 Episode number eighty nine. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:46.440 The Break Life from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.400 the Star. I got Dave Amber and Nick all here 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:52.440 with me. We're gonna give you about forty five minutes 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:56.000 of the best Cowboys content that you'll find anywhere around. 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:59.680 We gotta talk about that game yesterday. There were so 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:03.560 many moments, so many things that we got to talk about, 0:01:03.640 --> 0:01:06.160 so many opinions that I'm sure we have after watching 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:09.760 what we watched yesterday. Cowboys lose twenty two to the 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:13.840 Arizona Arizona Cardinals. Kyler Murray remains unbeaten at AT and 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:17.279 T Stadium, through high school, college and the professional ranks. 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.160 So let's jump right in and let's start first I'm 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:21.960 going to go around the table. I want everybody to 0:01:22.120 --> 0:01:25.600 tell me what was your big pictures takeaway from that game. 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:28.479 Let's start with you, Dave. Well, this one's really easy 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:33.320 because all last week I in my mind I build 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:36.720 this as a dress rehearsal for the playoffs. It's it's 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:38.959 exactly what you're expecting to see in a couple of weeks. 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:40.880 It's you're gonna get a home game against a good 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:45.160 team and to see if you're going to carry any 0:01:45.200 --> 0:01:48.200 of this progress from the last five weeks over, and 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:52.160 at least mainly for me offensively, they didn't. You knew 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:55.520 it wasn't going to look as good as as what 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:57.840 we certainly what we saw against Washington, but even some 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:01.960 of these other wins against these overmatched teams. Like I said, 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:05.120 it's just a perfect encapsulation. Kyler Murray is a much 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:09.480 better quarterback than you're, Mike Glennon, your Taylor Heineke. It's 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:10.840 going to be harder to get him on the ground. 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:13.200 It's gonna be harder to force him into mistakes. So 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:16.680 the defense isn't playing on this god mode level. I 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:18.600 did think they played well enough to win this game. 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:23.639 Weird as that might sound, but just nothing that we've 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:25.679 hoped to see from this offense, and what we saw 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:29.200 last week carried over. It looked like the exact same thing. 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.920 And I don't blame anybody that's kind of discouraged today, 0:02:34.080 --> 0:02:36.760 because again, it might not be the Cardinals. It very 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.040 likely will be. It might not be the Cardinals, but 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:40.840 you are going to play a team like that in 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.160 two weeks. Probably they are very likely going to be 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:46.679 the four seeds. So you're talking about facing the best 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:50.400 wild card possible and they got some work to do 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:53.840 and not a lot of time to do it. Amber, Yeah, 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:57.600 I'm really bummed out. I mean, you guys know how 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.840 much I come on here and complain, specially on Mondays 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:03.680 after a loss. And right now, just like that, Dave said, 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:05.840 you saw this game kind of like a playoff game, 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:09.480 and it's just like coming to the realization of how 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:13.400 little time there's left to get into the playoffs. And 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:17.480 then let's say fast forward two weeks into that game 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:21.880 and you got a similar result as last night. It's like, damn, 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:25.720 that's it. Like there's the season there, and the next 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:28.080 thing we know, we're talking about free agency, we're talking 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.679 about the draft, waiting a few months to get into 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.480 training camp and then start all over again. And it's 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:36.760 just like I just I really don't want it to 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:40.640 end that quickly. And although I really believe, I still 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:43.760 believe the Cowboys are very much capable to getting a 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:48.880 lot further than one playoff game. They don't have much 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:51.840 time left, like Dave said, they better figure out. And 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:55.480 it just sucks because, especially after the win against Washington, 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:57.920 you thought, Okay, this is great, great timing for them, 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:00.120 and then you face a team like the Cardinals and 0:04:00.160 --> 0:04:02.760 then you play the way that you did and wait 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.280 so long into the game on the offensive side of 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.600 the ball to get moving. That's just it can't happen, 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:10.680 and you can't win games like that, especially when the 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:14.240 defense it's unable to keep up playing at the high 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:16.839 level level that they have been playing for you and 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:20.240 getting you the ball with turnovers. When that happens, then 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:23.440 what do you do. That's the time that the offense 0:04:23.480 --> 0:04:26.640 needs to pick it up for the defense. Nick they're 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.240 one dimensional, they can't run, and their quarterback isn't good 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.479 enough to be to carry the team by himself. That's 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:35.080 what it is. He's not He can't he can't come 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.440 in this league to do that. He wasn't that quarterback. 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:39.760 He's had some games where he's developed as a passer, 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:41.880 and he certainly has developed as a passer, but this 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:44.359 is a one dimensional team and they can't figure it 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:46.440 out how to run the ball, and I think that's 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:49.240 gonna even hurt him in the playoffs. Let's let's dive 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:50.920 in a little bit more on that, because I think, 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.080 really if you look at this team over the last 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.120 even I mean outside of the Washington game, where obviously 0:04:57.160 --> 0:04:59.880 they had this huge explosion of points, even against some 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.800 bad teams, this offense has struggled mightily. Here you go 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:06.200 back to the middle of the season on this has 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:10.440 been a struggle seemingly most weeks, and the offense, led 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:13.080 by Dak Prescott just hasn't seemed to find its footing. 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.240 They can't seem to find a rhythm. Dak yesterday was 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:20.120 twenty four thirty eight sixty three percent completions, three touchdown, 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:23.359 zero interceptions. This was the part I actually liked about 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.599 his game yesterday. He had five carries for twenty yards, 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:28.919 and those runs seemed like they were like he was decisive, 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:31.640 he knew when the play and he didn't have anything 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:33.520 and he needed to run and then he tried to 0:05:33.520 --> 0:05:35.200 get what he could get out of it. I liked 0:05:35.200 --> 0:05:37.320 that part of his game. But he did also have 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.479 the critical fumble there that led to a field goal. 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:42.599 That may have been the difference. There were lots of 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:44.280 moments that you could mean that you could have talked 0:05:44.279 --> 0:05:47.000 with a difference. But talking about Dak's play specifically, how 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:49.520 did Dak play in this game yesterday? Nick, Well, he didn't, 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:51.760 you know, twenty yards rushing. He should not lead the 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:53.480 team and rushing, I mean that's the problem. I mean 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:56.200 he had to you know, that's good for him to 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.360 do that, and of course not the fumble, But I 0:05:59.360 --> 0:06:01.320 thought he missed the lot of throws early in the game. 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.039 I mean, he comes back like he normally you know does, 0:06:04.120 --> 0:06:06.480 and his stats look pretty good, but I thought they 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:08.440 just left too many things out on the on the 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:12.320 field early in the game. Um and only say this too, 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:15.080 Like I said, he's not good enough to kind of 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:19.480 lead it by himself. Who is I mean, there's one, right, 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.520 I just gotta say something, somebody else, one guy in 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:23.359 the NFL that can do it by himself. That's like 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:25.640 when people used to just one. You know, they compare 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:28.279 Garrett or any coach to Belichick. I was like, Okay, 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:32.039 that one's different. But I mean, like the everyone needs 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:33.880 a little bit of help, and he's always had that 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.239 help it right now it's not happening, and it's putting 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:40.160 it all on his shoulders. I just want you're saying Rogers, right, Okay, yeah, 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.479 Well because you could be you could mean Mahomes. Here's 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:44.640 the thing about Mahomes, Like you could say, maybe Mahomes 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:46.320 can do it. He hasn't had to know. He's got 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:47.960 the best tight end in football, one of the best 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:50.160 sceivers in football. Yes, he's got just making sure he's 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:52.640 got help, just making sure. No, I'm with Nick. I mean, 0:06:53.960 --> 0:06:57.200 he wasn't awful, but he wasn't good enough, and particularly 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.760 early on in the game. The I think the play 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:01.800 that burned into my brain is the third and nine 0:07:02.120 --> 0:07:04.520 on the missfield goal drive. I mean, he had him right, 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:06.479 that's a throw that he should make more often than not. 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:10.080 He had pressure. But so what you're Dak Prescott and 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:12.920 that just that was a theme for the early part 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:15.560 of the game. You could tell And another thing that 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.360 this reminded me of and we know this, but we 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.640 managed to forget it all the time. Anyway, A lot 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:24.520 of really good coaches and players in this league like 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:27.160 for Arizona to be as shorthanded as they are. Vance 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:30.240 Joseph has been a head coach. He's a great defensive coordinator. 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:34.360 He's down on the boundary, like just doesn't have his 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.800 preferred cornerbacks, not all of them, anyway, And it didn't 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.720 seem to bother him whatsoever. And all I need to 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:43.520 know to know that the Cardinals got to Dak is 0:07:43.560 --> 0:07:46.239 how many times they got their hands on his passes 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:48.120 in this game. Like they were in his they were 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:51.840 in his throwing lanes, they were reading his screens. He 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:55.040 adjusted to it, but they and Buddha Baker said this 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:56.960 after the games, like, you can't give him a static look. 0:07:57.000 --> 0:07:58.960 You gotta be changing, you gotta be coming at him 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.680 from different angles. And he struggled to adjust to it 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:03.240 early on. And I think that's a big part of 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.920 the reason what they didn't score until the final two 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.480 minutes of the first half, scored seven points in the 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:11.200 first half. I mean, that's that's not good enough. When 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:13.760 you're talking about the firepower that this offense has. The 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.880 interesting part about that is they talked about this last week. 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:19.640 They've talked about it other weeks. The Cowboys half that 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:22.520 teams have basically figured out that they got a disguise 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.880 looks and give them different looks and change those looks 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:29.320 as they go. They knew this was coming, they still 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:31.360 weren't ready for it, and that's the part where and 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.120 they thought that their up tempo would help with that. Yesterday. 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:36.160 They started off in the in the first series trying 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:38.360 to do up tempo. But when you're not when you're 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:41.120 not able to execute that, you can't keep going up tempo. 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:43.280 And so they were their own enemy. They didn't have 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:45.319 an answer for something they knew was coming. I think 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:49.200 next right, and I'm i'm I'm. I'm such a big 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:51.600 supporter of Dak and he has grown as a passer 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:55.480 and in spurts he can carry this team when you're 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:57.600 trying to rally and in these situations. He played a 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.640 great fourth quarter minus the fumble, played any better fourth 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:05.559 quarter against Vegas and still wasn't enough. And maybe it's oversimplified, 0:09:05.600 --> 0:09:08.600 but like without that run game giving you something that 0:09:08.640 --> 0:09:12.320 can shake defenses out of these if you're gonna drop 0:09:13.000 --> 0:09:15.520 seven or eight and clog and cover, which I mean 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:18.520 I always I always get annoyed when people say, like, oh, 0:09:18.559 --> 0:09:21.600 the blueprints out, but the Cowboys haven't done a whole 0:09:21.600 --> 0:09:24.000 lot to shake people out of that idea. And I 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.800 think a big part of it is that nobody's afraid 0:09:26.800 --> 0:09:28.440 of their ability to run the ball on them. I 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:30.839 think that I think, I don't think it can be understated. 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:33.600 I was going to mention the coaching, I mean put 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:37.480 in the players aside on the Arizona side of the ball. 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.240 I think many times that I was watching the game, 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:44.439 usually when something when a play goes the opposite way 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.280 for the Cowboys, I'm like, God, damn, I'll get upset. 0:09:47.559 --> 0:09:51.079 And then last night I'm like, oh, yesterday, I'm like, okay, 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.480 all right, that was pretty well. I'll give it to them. 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:57.320 But then they got out coached by Arizona. The Cowboys. 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.640 I don't think there were other than the play where 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:05.679 Wilson threw the ball. Other than that play, I don't 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:08.560 think there was anything else. I was like creative enough 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:12.120 for me or anything that Kellen Moore did in order 0:10:12.120 --> 0:10:15.080 to help the offense to get moving. And that's what 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.360 I'm honestly lacking. That's what I think has been lacking 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:20.720 for a few weeks. Is Kellen Moore in his game 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:23.080 and you talk about them. Okay, yes, you can do 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.440 that at the beginning of the season because you're showing 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:28.080 something new, but then teams do figure you out. But 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.760 at the same time, how come other teams can still 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:34.920 do it? I mean, you can watch tape from Arizona 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.360 season long and you're not doing You're not able to 0:10:38.400 --> 0:10:40.680 do the same, So how come you're not doing it 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:42.920 as well? You know? So, I don't think that's really 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:46.560 an excuse. You are far past that you can be 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:49.120 able to switch around plays and come up with something 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:52.840 different to show the opposing team. But I don't know 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:56.240 what's going on. I'm kind of very disappointed at what 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:58.680 Kellen Moore has been doing the past few weeks. Let 0:10:58.720 --> 0:11:00.800 me ask you this, Do you think that because I 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:04.600 didn't really see a ton of creativity from what the 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:08.560 Cardinals did yesterday. I think sometimes we say if it's 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:11.000 not working, you're not being creative enough. If it is working, 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:14.000 you must be being creative, when really I think yesterday 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:17.080 the Cardinals just executed better like they beat the Cowboys, 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:20.440 Like there were plays where the Cowboys just didn't execute well, 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.640 specifically on defense, when you had some of those big 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:24.840 plays forty two yard or the forty three yarder, like 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:26.839 they just got beat. I mean, they honestly just got beat. 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:29.440 I don't think there was anything really creative about that. 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.280 And so, you know, I still think you're right that 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:35.600 ultimately Kevin Moore has to figure out how to get 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:37.520 his offense going. But I don't know if it's an 0:11:37.559 --> 0:11:40.679 issue of creativity or is it an issue of execution. 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:44.240 Are they just not executing well? You know, I would argue, 0:11:44.480 --> 0:11:46.080 and I'd have to go back and look. But like 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.880 if you think about the big chunk plays that the 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:52.240 Cardinals hit on offense, like three of them came on 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:54.400 the first possession of the game, Like Greg Doorche has 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:56.400 the end a round for twenty four right off the bat, 0:11:56.800 --> 0:11:59.640 Edmonds had another great run and they catch Trayvon Dicks 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:03.080 on the stor go. I just listed off like a 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:05.760 quarter of their four hundred yards on the first drive 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:07.520 of the game. I thought, like I said, I thought, 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:10.200 all things considered, the defense played a pretty good game. 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:13.720 Like I wasn't wowed by anything the Cardinals did on offense. 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:16.440 Maybe maybe maybe that's not fair. I don't know, maybe 0:12:16.480 --> 0:12:19.000 I'm too close to it. But most of what they 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:22.240 did on offense after that first drive, to me, felt 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:25.040 like Kyler being Kyler, like he's he's gonna get away 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:29.199 from you, he's going to extend plays. But I mean, 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:33.640 I'll take twenty five points from that offense at home 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:35.679 and think like, well, yeah, like, if if that's all 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:38.000 they did, then you should win that game. The offense 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:39.920 should be better than that. This is really no different 0:12:39.920 --> 0:12:41.920 than what we've seen. It's just that they didn't get 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:45.520 any turnovers, at least not ones that were called. I mean, 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:48.120 we'll get to that, but but you know, I mean, 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.560 like that's their offense hasn't been great against New Orleans 0:12:51.600 --> 0:12:54.600 and Washington both times. The second Washington game that the 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.760 offense was rolling, but the Giants game, but they offset 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:00.920 that with turnovers short fields and they didn't really give 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:03.480 give them that. So I think that was kind of 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:05.560 the difference. And I think it's safe to say that, 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:08.760 I mean, you have to the good quarterbacks. There's enough 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:11.880 sample size now they have not played as well against 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:13.600 the good quarterbacks, and those are the ones that are 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.920 going to be in the playoffs. Yeah. I mean, but 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.120 I was gonna say, how many would your list of 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:21.760 like good quarterbacks that they've well, I mean this year 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:24.480 they faced four Pro Bowlers. I mean that's four out 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:26.640 of six. I mean, they haven't faced Rogers, and they 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.640 haven't faced uh maybe it was Lamar Jackson, I think, 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:35.360 but they faced Herbert mahomes Um and homeless Andy Brady 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:39.200 and Andy Kyler, you know, And I just think that's 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:42.360 a difference than Glennon and Hind the Key and Taysom 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:44.880 Hill and all that. I mean, they beat uh, you know, 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:47.040 the Chargers, but it was it took a walk off, 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:50.920 you know, So I don't know. I mean, but but 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:54.640 those guys aren't running. I mean, but Kyler presents differ 0:13:54.760 --> 0:13:57.920 much different types of problems any of those other quarterbacks 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:01.119 you just mentioned. I was just a different type of offense. Brady. 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.920 I mean, Brady played outstanding against them. I mean they 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.880 got what three three picks off of him. But even still, 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:12.480 but like again, this performance I think is good enough 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:14.200 to win. Like, what are the odds that you're just 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:16.920 going to flummix Kyler Murray into this terrible game. It 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:20.240 can happen, but he's a really good player. Nineteen points 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:23.160 from Pat Mahomes. You take that every time, right, I 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:27.280 think so? Yeah, so, especially at their place, right yeah, yeah, 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.360 so yes. I mean the defense dropped off from what 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:32.680 we've seen, but of course it was going to They 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:37.880 were playing garbage teams. Mike Glennon, Taylor, Hanne, Heinekey, Taysom Hill, 0:14:38.400 --> 0:14:42.000 come on. But you know, no, it wasn't as pretty 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.520 as it has been. But like these are, that's a 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:47.680 winning performance in my opinion, from this defense. Here's the 0:14:47.680 --> 0:14:49.640 issue for the Cowboys right now. In my opinion to 0:14:49.720 --> 0:14:53.000 that point is I think they have a really good defense. 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.760 If you have an offense that's performing like this offense 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:58.840 right now, you need a great defense to be successful 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:00.840 in the playoffs. They don't have great defense. They got 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:03.000 a pretty good defense. They got a really good defense. 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:05.440 It's not great like you gotta have an all world 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:08.120 kind of defense if your offense is this, if they 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:10.680 sputter as much as this, if they're playing well while 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:12.280 they're playing good teams, and I think that's going to 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:14.040 be their problem as a team. I don't think it's 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:15.960 a fault of the defense. I just think that the 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:18.200 offense isn't good enough to pull its weight right now. Yeah, 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:22.000 I agree. I mean, which the narrative coming the narrative 0:15:22.000 --> 0:15:23.520 over the last month is that they were the best 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.920 defense in the league. So that's an awfully quick about 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.280 face to go from like, well they're not great, by 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.160 the way, by the way, they can be the best 0:15:30.240 --> 0:15:32.000 defense in the league. I don't know that there's any 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:33.680 defense this year. As you look like at across the 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.800 league and you're like, they're a shutdown defense. There is 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:37.640 no shutdown defense in the league this year. There have 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.800 been some in historically in the NFL, they just don't 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:42.880 have any in the NFL right now. Going back to 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:46.160 they're much better than we thought they would be, but 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:51.600 to unlock their terrifying potential, they need their offense to 0:15:51.640 --> 0:15:54.000 be doing more to dictate the game. And that's one 0:15:54.000 --> 0:15:56.840 of my biggest impressions from this Particularly in the first half, 0:15:57.120 --> 0:15:59.000 I felt like we didn't even see the offense. I 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:02.080 know that's not true, but the Cardinals were just on 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:05.920 the field consistently just dictating this game. And I'm sure 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:07.920 that was part of their game plan, is like shrink 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.480 the game, don't give Dak and them a chance to 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:12.480 go off eight minute drive. At one point, and end 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.720 up with a touchdown on that drive. And if the 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:20.040 Cowboys offense isn't doing more to dictate the game, then 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.400 I think it's going to hamstring the defense. Which again, 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:26.360 oh sorry, but they're probably going to see these guys again, 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:28.240 or if they don't, it will be a team of 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:31.160 similar calibers. So, like I said, I don't blame you 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:33.360 if you're a little bit deflated today. All right, we're 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:34.920 gonna take our first break. When we come back, we're 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:37.600 gonna talk more about this running game. Cowboys had all 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:40.160 their pieces yesterday on the offensive line, so that was 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:42.120 not an excuse that they didn't have the right guys. 0:16:42.520 --> 0:16:44.800 Question is are those guys enough? We'll talk about that 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:46.440 when we come right back. 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At the start, we're talking 0:19:11.200 --> 0:19:14.640 about the Cowboys loss to the Arizona Cardinals twenty five 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:18.359 twenty two. Cowboys now sit in the fourth seed in 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:21.760 the playoffs at this point, probably pretty likely that's where 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:24.040 they're going to be heading into the playoffs. There are 0:19:24.119 --> 0:19:26.399 some scenarios that they could possibly move back up, but 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:28.800 we'll see how that all plays out. Let's dive into 0:19:28.840 --> 0:19:30.760 this game though a little bit more. Let's talk about 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.479 the running game. We've already mentioned how bad it was yesterday. 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:38.040 Zeke was nine carries for sixteen yards, Tony Pollard three 0:19:38.080 --> 0:19:41.360 carries for nine yards. Dak actually led the team four 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:44.280 carry I mean five carries for twenty yards. Now, they 0:19:44.320 --> 0:19:48.200 did have their entire offensive lineback Tyren Smith played yesterday. 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:51.600 At one point, every player on the offensive line is 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:55.720 except for Zach Martin had a penalty, and overall, obviously 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.199 the running game was not working. What was the problem 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:02.560