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Not a good one, 0:01:19.760 --> 0:01:22.920 not a well coached one, but a talented one, and 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:25.320 so Dak throws form about two hundred and forty yards 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:28.880 a touchdown, couple of big throws on that final drive 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:34.480 Brandon Cooks delivered tonight, and Matt Mosley, of course, you 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:36.280 know Matt's been a friend of the volume for a 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:40.319 long time. There's so many different areas to go, but 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:44.319 let's start with Dak. He had better protection most of 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.840 the night. I thought he and Gallup don't work. It's 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:50.960 clearly Ceedee Lamb and Brandon Cooks Tonight felt like he 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:54.000 sort of arrived in this offense. But I thought Dak 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:55.360 played pretty well. That fair. 0:01:55.600 --> 0:01:56.440 I think it's fair. 0:01:57.040 --> 0:01:59.520 I mean, I think had it gone the other direction, 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.920 we'd be talking about that throw to Pollard. I mean 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:07.520 that will route with Pollard was wide open, and I 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:09.720 know Troy was trying to make the argument maybe Murray 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:12.240 did something there. I don't really think there was much there. 0:02:12.800 --> 0:02:14.919 So he misses a wide open throw to kind of 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:17.080 end the game there. But for the most part, you're right. 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:20.000 I mean, I would still say this offense looks weird 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.880 because the only time it really works is when he escapes. 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:25.160 So he makes the. 0:02:25.320 --> 0:02:29.200 Huge play to Pollard, they have a mistackle, Pollard makes 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:32.480 a nice play and goes for sixty. But in terms 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:36.560 of like the timing of the so called Texas Coast offense, 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:40.160 there's no real timing, like Dak kind of has to 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:43.639 go make plays for it to happen. Now, the good 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:46.280 news is he made him. I mean, he looked awful 0:02:46.320 --> 0:02:49.560 the week before, all the interceptions and everything he ran. 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:54.040 I think he plays so much better when they get 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:58.240 him running the football and on that RPO where he 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.160 keeps it for the eighteen yard touch. Yeah, like that's 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.640 huge for his confidence the team. Everybody kind of feeds 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:05.000 off that. 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:09.440 Yeah. I think Dak knows what he is more than 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:13.040 we give him credit for. Dak is not a brilliant 0:03:13.080 --> 0:03:16.800 pocket passer, and I think Dak knows it. Dak's at 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:19.480 his best. I thought the Cowboys were hyper aggressive and 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:22.560 ran him in the first half, first couple series. They 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.880 went out of their way to say and Aikman said 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.000 this in the pregame. He said, I think you're gonna 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:30.280 like what you see from the Cowboys tonight. He'd obviously 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:33.520 had some intel. I think they made a mission tonight. 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:37.240 We're gonna run Dak. We're gonna have Dak run more, 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:40.120 and I think he's more successful that way. There are 0:03:40.200 --> 0:03:43.840 people that are natural runners. Lamar Josh Allen, Jalen hurts 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:45.920 and then there are people that are just what I 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:51.280 would call they run. They run to escape, but they're 0:03:51.320 --> 0:03:53.960 like Russell Wilson and Dak kind of run to escape. 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:57.840 But at times I think they're more effective out of 0:03:57.880 --> 0:03:59.720 the pocket. I think Lamar is a better thrower in 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:01.520 the pot the people give him credit for. I think 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:03.640 Josh is great in the pocket. I think Jalen Hurts 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:05.960 is better than the pocket. I think Dak and Russell 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.640 Wilson are okay guys in the pocket. I just think 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:13.360 they're okay. So I think I think Dak to your point, 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:17.559 it is interesting if I said to you the game 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:20.800 featured two teams with no chance to win a Super 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:25.679 Bowl for the same reason. Twenty total penalties eleven on Dallas, 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:29.039 nine on the Chargers. Neither one of these teams looks 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:33.200 well coached. That was my takeaway tonight. Third down defense 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:36.839 for the Chargers, oh as a whole basic off sides 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:41.960 for the Cowboys, motion penalties. These teams did not look 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:46.279 well coached to me tonight. No Cowboys continue to be undisciplined. 0:04:47.600 --> 0:04:50.440 You know, on both sides. On the defensive line, you're 0:04:50.520 --> 0:04:53.120 right where they line up. You know, back to Dak 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.839 a little bit, your point about the pocket is interesting. 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:58.279 He was kind of still in the pocket, like his 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.320 best throw of the night might have been when he 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.320 was backing up, which generally it is. It's interesting you 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:06.360 don't like want your quarterback like going back there other 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:10.080 than like Mahomes or Josh Allen or somebody and throwing 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:12.800 kind of off their back foot. And yet the best 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:16.080 touch he put on a ball was that throw to 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:20.400 Cooks in the end zone where he's backing up and 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:22.839 he's going in and he puts he puts a gorgeous 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:23.600 ball on that. 0:05:23.800 --> 0:05:27.200 So he he has the ability. I agree. 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:29.800 I mean, I think, first of all, you still have 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.400 wasn't that interesting that you had Kellen Moore on the 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:37.600 other sideline and you had both teams bogging down, got 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.080 down there in the red zone, didn't really have a 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:42.279 great plan for what they were going to do to 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:45.400 which I was like, both Dallas, you know, both Dallas's 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:49.960 offenses looked pretty bad in the red zone. 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:57.480 Right, you know, It's interesting when I look at this 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:02.480 game overall, I thought my biggest take was the Dallas 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:07.800 defensive front basically manipulated the Chargers O line. I think 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:13.040 the Chargers had six holding calls, Herbert almost never had 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:16.960 a clean pocket. Therefore he rushed it by the second quarter, 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:22.080 missing open throws justin. Herbert's a very good quarterback. But 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:26.080 I think what happens in games sometimes is that when 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:29.120 you get hit early, even if you don't get sacked, 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.599 and you have to rush the throws, you start doing 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:37.479 that automatically. You just hurry things up. And I thought 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:41.560 they got Herbert out of rhythm by their pressure. I mean, 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.080 he was running for his life for the first half. 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:46.520 They settled down a little in the second. But I 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:49.120 think my big picture in the entire takeaway is the 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:55.000 Chargers on occasion elected to block Micah one on one dumb, ineffective, 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:58.520 huge trouble. But overall, if I'm flying back to Dallas 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:03.080 the Cowboys, I feel like our defensive front, not McCarthy, 0:07:03.160 --> 0:07:06.159 our defensive front really controlled the football game. 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:10.680 I think that's right. I thought a Digazoo played brilliantly. 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.960 I thought he controlled, and I think Kellen Moore thought, 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:15.600 I've got to go with the run. I've got to 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.160 keep I cannot abandon the run game at all, And 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:21.440 it really wasn't there. And then to your point, like 0:07:21.600 --> 0:07:24.160 seventy seven over on the left side. I mean, that 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:26.080 was interesting what they said about Mica. He's like, well, 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:29.120 he respects Slaton, so he's not gonna line up there 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:30.680 the whole night. He's going to go to the other 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.800 side and think about how badly you have to be 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.760 holding to get called on one of those quick running plays. 0:07:36.840 --> 0:07:39.760 They run Eckler over the left side and seventy seven 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:43.400 gets caught in there because it was so incredibly obvious 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.320 because he has a wrestling move where he took the 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.200 guy to the ground. And boy, we had our Leon 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:52.400 Lett moment in this game where the Cowboys player inexplicably 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.840 I guess thought the ball was touched by his teammates 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:58.840 and slides in there at the last minute Jaalen Tolbert 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.720 and and live to tell about it. I mean that 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:07.760 really was. Cowboys do some boneheaded things. But there's a 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:11.880 second year player that decides to come diving in after 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:14.880 a football and hands it back to the Chargers. I mean, 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:17.160 the Cowboys tried to give them that game. 0:08:17.840 --> 0:08:21.000 Oh, no question. And the Chargers, Yeah, the Dallas was 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:23.520 the better team tonight and tried to give it away. 0:08:24.280 --> 0:08:28.720 The Chargers have they really do have some good players. 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:31.840 But when you live in Los Angeles, and I know 0:08:31.880 --> 0:08:35.160 they're not. They're not a national team. They're barely a 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:39.240 popular regional team or a Los Angeles team. But with 0:08:39.400 --> 0:08:46.640 Brandon Staley being a defensive coordinator like Matt Eberflus in Chicago, 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:50.400 You're like, well, why is the defense so bad? The 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:54.160 Chargers have more money on the defensive side than any 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:58.040 team in the league, Khalil Mack and Bosa Derwin James. 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:03.640 They whiffed on a cornerback acquisition, but they have active linebackers. 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:07.680 The Chargers spent a ton on defense, two elite rush ends, 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:12.800 have a defensive coach, and are as bad on fourth 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:15.480 and third and long as any defense in the league. 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:19.040 So at least Dallas can say, hey, we have an 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:23.120 offensive coach. Dak had one of his best games. Brandon 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:26.800 Cooks was involved. I mean, I look at Dallas and 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.520 I thought their O line play buy and large. Dak 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:33.800 had a more comfortable pocket. Dak had a good game. 0:09:34.120 --> 0:09:37.200 They had a game plan. They moved Dak early. I 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.920 felt like there was a plan by Dallas. Meanwhile, the 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:45.840 Chargers off a bye week, no trick plays. I didn't 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:49.280 what was the game plan. Maybe the Cowboys d line 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.680 blew it up, But I didn't see anything. 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:52.880 Can we talk. 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:56.160 About what McCarthy was doing at the end of the 0:09:56.200 --> 0:10:00.320 first half, Like when even the clock operator thought, well, 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:03.960 most any coach ever will stop the clock here with 0:10:04.040 --> 0:10:06.360 a timeout and take a shot at the end zone 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:10.240 with eight seconds left, and McCarty's over there. No, no, 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.040 I didn't call the time out. Wind this clock down 0:10:13.120 --> 0:10:15.880 for me, and they come back from a break. The broadcasters, 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:18.240 everybody doing the game was like completely confused. They're like, 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.520 did we miss a play? What happened here? And and 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.920 McCarthy because they stopped the clock, they had to get 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:27.760 it down to three. Because McCarthy didn't want to take 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:30.160 a shot at the end zone. I mean, like, think, 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:33.520 I imagine that being a play caller and offensive guy, 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.520 and you've got so little confidence in your guy or 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.280 your offense that you're like, I do not want to 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.240 see a ball go in the end zone from what 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:43.960 to like the the eighteen yard line wherever they were, 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:44.880 they're going to take a. 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:45.920 Rip at the end zone. 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:49.319 And he's like, no, I would rather I've got ceedee, lamb, 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.199 I got all these folks. I'd rather just kick this 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.480 thing and make sure we go in ten seven. I mean, 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.120 you kind of you have one young head coach is 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:01.120 kind of trying to it's probably lucky to still have 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.600 a job, and then you have one coach who's kind 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:07.640 of trying to extend his career. And they both did 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.960 some baffling things. But Mike wants to be mister go 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:12.880 for it them fourth down, but then he wants to 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.160 get down there and like not even take a shot 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.280 and settle for the field goal. So, I mean, you've 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:20.199 got some you got some weird, weird stuff going. 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:20.720 On in that game. 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:24.640 Yeah, twenty penalties. I thought Dallas the better team, almost 0:11:24.679 --> 0:11:26.640 gave it away. I thought these were I looked at 0:11:26.679 --> 0:11:30.360 these two teams and I thought those teams can't win 0:11:30.400 --> 0:11:34.760 a Super Bowl. They literally beat themselves. Philadelphia is still 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.760 trying to find their offensive identity, but I never think 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.960 they're poorly coached. Kansas City's trying to figure out their 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:46.000 receiving cort. They're well coached. Detroit Dan Campbell may be goofy, 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:51.640 they look well coached. I mean Jacksonville dropped Jacksonville and 0:11:51.679 --> 0:11:54.320 Baltimore led the NFL and drops early, and then you 0:11:54.360 --> 0:11:56.160 watch them last couple of weeks They're like, oh, those 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:59.880 are well coached teams. I felt like I watched two 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:06.920 poorly coached teams. The Chargers O line basically limited anything 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:11.000 Herbert could do. The Cowboys had silly penalties. My takeaway 0:12:11.040 --> 0:12:12.840 at the end of the half on that was that 0:12:15.000 --> 0:12:18.920 between Mike McCarthy saying in the offseason we want to 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:23.280 run the ball and that and that play call, Mike 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:27.199 McCarthy does not trust Dak, and I thought tonight drat 0:12:27.280 --> 0:12:34.040 Dak was as trustable as he's been all year. He 0:12:34.080 --> 0:12:34.600 played well. 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:40.160 He had one is he throw late that like they 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.520 were talking about, like Troy was talking about, you kind 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:45.160 of hope he was throwing that ball away because if 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.840 he's on target, it's a pick six in a game 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.319 in so there's always a real curious thing that he does. 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:55.640 I mean, you can't miss that throw to Pollard, like 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:59.160 you can't, like just the game's over and he's running 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:02.080 wide open, you can't. You can't miss that. But he 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:04.600 was better and they were forty two to ten. And 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.400 by the way, I didn't know why the Eagles were 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:10.000 throwing there on third down at the end of that game. 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:12.840 I mean, again, I agree, they're a well coached team 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:15.440 and everything. But and maybe they just they have such 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.920 trust in Jalen. But you got to know who you're 0:13:17.960 --> 0:13:21.160 playing against. I mean, look who the quarterback is on 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:24.680 the other team, and and you I mean, that's one time, 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:26.920 you know, I know, sometimes we celebrate guys who go 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:29.520 for it on fourth down. Why in the world don't 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.840 you punt that ball and make that guy. I mean, Zach, 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.680 he's got to go like eighty or ninety yards. You like, 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:39.319 feel great about that. 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As the league 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:49.960 becomes more quarterback centric, I do believe there's a big 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.600 separation between the haves and have nots in the NFL. 0:15:52.760 --> 0:15:56.640 I see now on a weekly basis three lines of nine, ten, eleven, 0:15:56.680 --> 0:16:01.080 twelve point favorites. That's very collegiate. And I think if 0:16:01.080 --> 0:16:03.560 you just don't have a quarterback, you don't have a shot. 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:06.560 And I never felt that in the sixties seventies. Well, 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:10.360 I'll say this the late seventies, eighties, nineties, ten years ago, 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:13.200 that you could win with Tannehill a great run game. 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:18.640 About seven years ago, I felt like a defense Tannehill. 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.640 They became a number one seed. Boy, I start looking 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:23.800 around to these, I mean, go right now and look 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:28.720 around the divisions. Hurts and Dak lead their division. Brought 0:16:28.840 --> 0:16:32.640 Purty and Stafford. You are near the top of theirs. 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:37.360 Jared Goff, best quarterback in his division, leads his. Josh 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:42.040 Allen and Tua. Here comes Joe Burrow and Lamar Jackson. 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:47.760 Trevor Lawrence leads his, and Patrick Mahomes leads his and 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:49.920 I feel like you can say what you want about Dak, 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:51.480 and I've always thought he's a B to a B 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:55.360 plus quarterback. But you start looking around this league right now, Matt, 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:59.280 there's about seven really elite quarterbacks and then Dak's in 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:02.600 the next group, and it falls off a cliff by 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:07.159 about rock Perty at thirteen fourteen. It falls off a cliff. 0:17:07.200 --> 0:17:09.600 There's a lot of there's a lot of ugly hell. 0:17:09.640 --> 0:17:12.200 I would say that rookie down in Houston right now, CJ. 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:17.760 Stroud has been a revelation. Yeah, he may be like 0:17:18.119 --> 0:17:21.840 thirteen fourteen. So I think if you're Dallas today, you 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:27.359 could say this, we just went and physically pushed around 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:33.160 a team that many regard playoff team last year, many 0:17:33.280 --> 0:17:35.560 regard as one of the more talented in football. That 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:37.600 should be a happy flight home. How will it play 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:39.520 in Dallas Radio in Dallas tomorrow. 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:43.600 Well, for once, we're all like on the Rangers, right 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:48.200 this is a feeling like a baseball town because they've 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:51.439 gone up two to oh on the Astros and this 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.800 is the first time they've ever faced off in the postseason. 0:17:54.119 --> 0:17:56.520 But tonight, I mean the ratings will bear it out. 0:17:56.640 --> 0:18:00.199 I mean it was you know, people will well be 0:18:00.240 --> 0:18:05.160 excited about the Cowboys, and I think McCarthy there's still 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:08.680 a lack of trust in him. I think they won 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:10.760 the game, so that end of the first half thing 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:13.280 becomes a little bit less of the story. I mean, 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:16.560 if they lose that game, especially on a special team's gaff, 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:19.840 they would have just been lit up. But now at 0:18:19.880 --> 0:18:23.119 four and two, I think people, you know, feel okay 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:25.520 about them and they can get right there in this 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:28.320 division race. And that's why it's just crazy from week 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:30.800 to week. I mean, you go from thinking the Eagles 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.560 are like going to run away with the division and 0:18:33.840 --> 0:18:36.560 maybe vying for like best team in football, to like, 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:37.520 what happened? 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:40.480 What was that? Why couldn't they? 0:18:40.520 --> 0:18:46.120 And it reminds Dallas fans that other quarterbacks throw interceptions right. 0:18:46.560 --> 0:18:49.080 We you have a tendency in your city to go, 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:51.520 we're the only this is the only quarterback who throws 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:53.280 picks right and. 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:57.840 Hurts through some picks and through a. 0:18:57.760 --> 0:19:00.960 Horrible one in the end of the game, which set 0:19:01.040 --> 0:19:04.800 up a team that an inferior team and allowed him 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:05.440 to win the game. 0:19:05.960 --> 0:19:07.199 And they didn't have to do that. 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:12.320 So I think to your point on Dak, this just 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:14.960 sort of calms folks down, because what's hanging over everything 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:17.800 is the fact that they have to turn around soon 0:19:18.440 --> 0:19:22.200 and pay him fifty million dollars a year or try 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:25.560 to see what they have in Trey Lance figure something out. 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:29.520 But the truth is this kind of that whole Dak 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:33.960 future hangs over everything. 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Will they make a move 0:20:52.359 --> 0:20:53.199 at the trade deadline? 0:20:53.240 --> 0:20:53.800 The Cowboys? 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:54.159 You think no. 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:57.880 Look, I mean they've made big wide receiver moves before. 0:20:58.720 --> 0:21:02.160 I honestly think they would be looking for safety or 0:21:02.160 --> 0:21:07.040 cornerback help because as much as they like Yo Moore 0:21:07.280 --> 0:21:10.160 and you see Bland playing well, it's just like we 0:21:10.280 --> 0:21:13.320 did without Diggs. Jordan Lewis is coming back from an injury, 0:21:13.480 --> 0:21:16.320 and he looks a little slow right now. He's trailing 0:21:16.359 --> 0:21:19.640 a lot of plays. I think they could use some help. 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:22.600 They're playing safeties at linebacker right Van der Esh is 0:21:22.600 --> 0:21:24.840 out and that was a good player tonight fourteen. You 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:27.600 saw Marquise Bell. That's a safety though he's having to 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:32.080 Deumont Clark and Marquise Bell are are both you know, 0:21:32.119 --> 0:21:36.080 they're having to play linebacker. Marquise had moved the linebacker 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:39.800 but he's playing linebacker at about two fifteen, so they 0:21:39.880 --> 0:21:41.719 need some reinforcements they could use. 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:42.760 They've got Donovan. 0:21:42.440 --> 0:21:45.520 Wilson's good player, curse pretty good player. But you see 0:21:45.520 --> 0:21:48.679 them from a speed standpoint. If you put some of 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:51.600 those guys in space, they're in big trouble, right. They 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:55.280 ran a very basic They put a they put a 0:21:55.359 --> 0:21:58.800 receiver in motion. Wasn't it Keenan Allen. They literally put 0:21:58.840 --> 0:22:01.639 Keenan Allen in mo and like they got lost. It 0:22:01.680 --> 0:22:03.760 wasn't even like, oh, there's a pick play. They just 0:22:03.800 --> 0:22:08.560 got lost in motion, like the defensive bat never arrived. 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:10.800 And that's the easiest thing in the world, which makes 0:22:10.840 --> 0:22:13.240 you think, Okay, how do you guys, how does Kellen 0:22:13.320 --> 0:22:17.400 Moore in that offense foul it up when at times 0:22:17.440 --> 0:22:21.639 in that game it looks so incredibly easy, you know, 0:22:21.760 --> 0:22:24.000 to get it done down there in the red zone, 0:22:24.160 --> 0:22:27.159 I mean both teams really, you know, in some ways 0:22:27.200 --> 0:22:30.440 you struggled in that area to I you know, I. 0:22:30.320 --> 0:22:33.520 Thought the thing you said early in our thirty minute 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:37.040 pod here that makes a lot of sense. Instead of 0:22:37.080 --> 0:22:40.439 the West Coast they call it the Texas Toast offense, 0:22:40.480 --> 0:22:42.040 what do they call it what's Dallas calling their. 0:22:42.040 --> 0:22:43.119 Offense Texas Coast? 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:48.159