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Speaker 5: It is Tuesday, September twenty sixth, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen,
Speaker 5: episode number thirty nine. Welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 5: The Break. We are live from the SWBC Mortgage studios
Speaker 5: at the Star and it's Tuesday. So it's the data
Speaker 5: that we kind of make sense of all of the
Speaker 5: emotions that everyone has been feeling for the last twenty
Speaker 5: four hours. Following the game, Cowboys get the first loss
Speaker 5: of the season, and I think this is where we
Speaker 5: started to get some perspective and start to realize maybe
Speaker 5: they aren't as bad as everybody thinks they might be
Speaker 5: yesterday when they were high off emotion.
Speaker 2: But we'll see.
Speaker 6: We'll get out of our normal crew here today.
Speaker 5: We got Amber, Brian and Patrick ready to talk a
Speaker 5: little Cowboys football. Where I wanted to start it today though,
Speaker 5: is Mike McCarthy yesterday had a press conference. There were
Speaker 5: two quotes that he had that I want to throw
Speaker 5: out to you guys and just get your thoughts on them.
Speaker 5: The first one was with regard to play calling more
Speaker 5: running in the red zone laid in that game. His
Speaker 5: quote was, I wish I had been a little more
Speaker 5: aggressive in the passing game on first and second down.
Speaker 6: Patrick, you were also there at the press conference.
Speaker 5: Where are your thoughts on his reaction to the questioning
Speaker 5: around how he called the game there towards the end.
Speaker 7: You know what love I love when anyone takes accountability
Speaker 7: because it shows that they're willing to look at what
Speaker 7: they might have done wrong and then improve, and that
Speaker 7: that should give everyone a lot of optimism as far
Speaker 7: as the Cowboys improving in that aspect, because obviously going
Speaker 7: to be much different than a head coach standing up
Speaker 7: there in front of the fire and squad and saying, no,
Speaker 7: you know what I got this.
Speaker 4: We know he has been seeing to charge of the
Speaker 4: this year.
Speaker 8: You notice every time he talks he refers us himself
Speaker 8: and taking accountability.
Speaker 7: One hundred percent. So I love that he continues to
Speaker 7: take accountability. This is not something new for Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 7: He's been taking accountability, uh for a very long time now.
Speaker 7: I mean, look at Mike Nolan. He didn't last so
Speaker 7: took accountability for that.
Speaker 2: Moved on to Dan Quinn.
Speaker 3: But that wasn't a hard one.
Speaker 2: No, it wasn't.
Speaker 7: But he didn't that was one of his guys. He
Speaker 7: didn't have to put him to the acts.
Speaker 3: He could have said several coaches that were his that
Speaker 3: he had to take accountability for.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 7: So, I mean the accountability aspect of it, I love it.
Speaker 7: It tells me that the Cowboys are looking inside themselves
Speaker 7: and we should now expect to see. Like Ambar said yesterday,
Speaker 7: where's the creativity that's been kind of hitting from the
Speaker 7: media and we've not seen it through the first three weeks.
Speaker 7: So maybe this is a strong hint Amber that he
Speaker 7: heard you and he's willing to start mixing some things
Speaker 7: in into the red zone.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 3: You know, if you look at Dak Prescott's numbers, I
Speaker 3: see why he ran the football. You know, Dak, there's
Speaker 3: some struggles with Dak throwing the football in the red zone.
Speaker 3: There's also some struggles with his accuracy. There's also some
Speaker 3: struggles with the receivers and their inability to get open
Speaker 3: and to win on the outside. You know, if you're
Speaker 3: one of those guys or gals that believes in numbers,
Speaker 3: you know, three of eleven for thirty five yards in
Speaker 3: the red zone passing, you know that's not going to
Speaker 3: get it done. And you know, maybe Mike is and
Speaker 3: we saw an interception there late. That's another thing you
Speaker 3: have to account for right there. You know, his offensive line.
Speaker 3: Maybe he thought he was a little bit compromised there.
Speaker 3: But to me, there's a lot of things that factor.
Speaker 3: I think the Arizona Cardinals played really well down there,
Speaker 3: but this is something that they're going to have to
Speaker 3: figure out. And we've talked about it before that there's
Speaker 3: been problems at times with the blocking guys making mistakes,
Speaker 3: but sometimes you just get covered. But quarterbacks got to
Speaker 3: be better down there, Head coach, play callers got to
Speaker 3: be better down there. You know, the creativity part of it.
Speaker 3: I think there's things that they've tried to do. You know,
Speaker 3: when you say, you know the creativity of trying to
Speaker 3: run an option with Ceedee Lamb is nice when it works.
Speaker 3: It's real nice when it doesn't. Work it. It's like,
Speaker 3: what are you doing that for? So there's a lot
Speaker 3: of things that they need to focus on to try
Speaker 3: and make sure that the issues that they've struggled with,
Speaker 3: the routes, the quarterback, the play caller all are cleaned
Speaker 3: up before they get into as we go through this season.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and he did mention yesterday. I mean, they're very
Speaker 8: well aware of everything. And he did mention how they
Speaker 8: lead the league on drives and they're able to move
Speaker 8: the ball and the most important thing is getting down there.
Speaker 8: But more important than that is now exit cuting and
Speaker 8: actually getting into the end zone. And it's good when
Speaker 8: you hear everybody talking about that, Steven Jones on the fan,
Speaker 8: everybody being well aware of where their issues are and
Speaker 8: then trying to focus and dedicate more time this week
Speaker 8: as far as preparation and trying to get better in that.
Speaker 8: We know they have the talent, they have weapons that
Speaker 8: they can utilize. Now it's actually applying it and making
Speaker 8: it work.
Speaker 4: But it's good.
Speaker 8: I love it when I hear people take accountability mention.
Speaker 8: It's not like Jalen Smith type of vibe, you know,
Speaker 8: it's more like you take it. So anyways, hopefully we
Speaker 8: see some progress this week, because again, one of the
Speaker 8: things that was mentioned when not Kellen Moore Mike McCarthy
Speaker 8: was taking over the play calling was how good of
Speaker 8: a play caller he is and how he can be creative.
Speaker 8: We're waiting to see that and hopefully it happens this weekend.
Speaker 5: All right, Let's look at another quote that he had yesterday.
Speaker 5: He said, this was in regard to the vertical passing game.
Speaker 5: He said that might have been a slight overreaction by
Speaker 5: me based on having the three new starters up front. Brian,
Speaker 5: you had mentioned that earlier and yesterday you said, you know,
Speaker 5: I kind of think he kind of just was worried
Speaker 5: a little bit more about those those those offensive linemen.
Speaker 5: What were your thoughts on this comment.
Speaker 3: The second sack that that they gave up, as they
Speaker 3: we talked about yesterday, was a double move on the
Speaker 3: outside and and Marco Wilson didn't bite and dak is
Speaker 3: either got to let that thing fly or he's you know,
Speaker 3: he's gotta, he's gotta. You know, it's one of those
Speaker 3: things you can't I mean, you can't hold the ball
Speaker 3: in that situation. You just let it go, throw it
Speaker 3: out of bounce, throw it over their heads, throw it
Speaker 3: too far. But you know it, we had a couple
Speaker 3: of problems there, and you had a problem with with
Speaker 3: the DOGA. He was beaten on the on the play
Speaker 3: to the outside, and then also TJ was beaten on
Speaker 3: the inside. So Dak really didn't have a place to
Speaker 3: If he can climb the pocket, maybe he can make
Speaker 3: the throw. But on that particular thing, you know, by
Speaker 3: holding the ball, you're presenting yourself some problems there. And
Speaker 3: maybe McCarthy after that play said, listen, I can't throw
Speaker 3: the ball down the field. I can't even try a
Speaker 3: double move here, you know, with with with my guys,
Speaker 3: because of the stuff with the offensive line. You know,
Speaker 3: those sometimes those things will scare you if you go
Speaker 3: into the game thinking you're going to have problems and
Speaker 3: then you give up a couple of sacks like that.
Speaker 3: The other sack was just, you know, just a nice
Speaker 3: read by Arizona. But you know, to me, that was
Speaker 3: that might have been the thing that kind of scared
Speaker 3: him a little bit of not wanting to try anything
Speaker 3: else down the field.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it definitely made him gun shy. And even though
Speaker 7: like we talked about yesterday, after those couple of sacks
Speaker 7: and you had a couple of penalties to credit credit
Speaker 7: it to the offensive line, but for the most part,
Speaker 7: they kind of locked up and they took care of
Speaker 7: business for the most part of the game. So I
Speaker 7: think at that point it would have been a part
Speaker 7: perfect chance for McCarthy to kind of settle down as
Speaker 7: far as his apprehension with that offensive line and say, hey, okay,
Speaker 7: let's try to give these guys another shot to protect
Speaker 7: on a seven step drop, a five step drop, and
Speaker 7: then let's see what we can do with the vertical game.
Speaker 7: But then there's another aspect of it that I kind
Speaker 7: of wondered, and I know several people were wondering as well, well,
Speaker 7: why was Chuma not And we talked about it.
Speaker 2: We touched on it yesterday.
Speaker 7: Why was Chuma not at left guard and Tyler Smith
Speaker 7: not popped out the left tackle, which probably would have
Speaker 7: given you better pass pro and then you could have
Speaker 7: gotten those deep shots down the field. And Mike McCarthy
Speaker 7: was asked about it yesterday, and basically it came down
Speaker 7: to them being unsure about Tyron Smith going into that
Speaker 7: game because all last week Tyler Smith took reps at
Speaker 7: left guard.
Speaker 2: That was the game plan.
Speaker 7: That was the game plan, and McCarthy just was completely
Speaker 7: uncomfortable with on Sunday, an hour or so before kickoff, saying,
Speaker 7: you know what, Tyler, we're going to switch this whole
Speaker 7: game plan. You go up, because that might not have
Speaker 7: ended well, even though we know Tyler Smith has the
Speaker 7: ability to do it. But that's a different circumstance. So
Speaker 7: a lot of things that made McCarthy apprehensive about that
Speaker 7: offensive line. I mean, you're down three starters, that's seventeen
Speaker 7: Pro Bowls, two Hall of Famers. I could see why
Speaker 7: he would be nervous, and to Brian's point, especially when
Speaker 7: you see sack number one and then sacked number two
Speaker 7: and then you start thinking, okay, we're going to have
Speaker 7: to adapt to shortening the field and trying to play
Speaker 7: a little bit more laterally than down the field. So
Speaker 7: a lot went into it. But again, accountability. He didn't
Speaker 7: have to say that, right, He didn't have to step
Speaker 7: up there and say it's on me. I was a
Speaker 7: little bit overreacted, So kudos to him for doing it,
Speaker 7: for saying that. But hopefully this is not a situation
Speaker 7: that we will see going forward as far as the
Speaker 7: lack of verticality in the Cowboys offense and or the
Speaker 7: fact that they're missing two or three starting offensive line
Speaker 7: and hopefully could get them back.
Speaker 6: Hold.
Speaker 3: I don't want to be a doom and gloom guy
Speaker 3: on this, but with the way this offensive line is,
Speaker 3: with the age and a couple of guys, I think
Speaker 3: now and McCarthy the one thing that I that you
Speaker 3: talked about taking accountability for something, and I don't know
Speaker 3: if you're going to get to it, but the fact
Speaker 3: that he feels like he's got to get his backup
Speaker 3: guys more work. You know, when they when they run
Speaker 3: a script at practice and they have eight plays committed
Speaker 3: to red zone and the starters get seven and the
Speaker 3: backups get one, you better now think about okay, instead
Speaker 3: of that, maybe it needs to be a three to
Speaker 3: five split. You know, maybe we need to know. And
Speaker 3: that's something he admitted that and I think there's a
Speaker 3: lot of people that can take a lesson from that.
Speaker 3: Coaches around the league that you know, you don't get
Speaker 3: your backups enough work. But with this organization, the way
Speaker 3: this team is and the age you have at certain positions,
Speaker 3: you better get your backups work because this is that
Speaker 3: was the absolute worst thing that can happen to you.
Speaker 3: Of coming up on a Friday or a Saturday and
Speaker 3: three guys being out. Now you knew Zach Martin didn't
Speaker 3: practice all week, be oddish, But this whole thing, as
Speaker 3: long as Tyron Smith is going to play left tackle,
Speaker 3: you have to be prepared that he might wake up
Speaker 3: with a back problem or a shoulder problem, or a
Speaker 3: knee problem or something pops up here. And so to me,
Speaker 3: I that's the accountability thing I appreciate the most about
Speaker 3: with him. I've got to do a better job of
Speaker 3: getting my backups ready so I have confidence that I
Speaker 3: could play with them on a Sunday.
Speaker 8: Well, here's the thing for me, And that's the tough
Speaker 8: part of the job. It's a very difficult thing to
Speaker 8: do because it's easy for anyone to sit and watch
Speaker 8: and criticize all of it, and you can't win either way.
Speaker 8: On one hand, you got your guys here for a reason.
Speaker 8: You have backups for a reason. They're here because you think,
Speaker 8: at some point, if needed, they can play for you
Speaker 8: and help you. So on one hand, you got to
Speaker 8: go in trusting your team.
Speaker 4: You got to go in believing that you.
Speaker 8: Can absolutely do everything that you need to do and
Speaker 8: think that with every inch of your body, because otherwise,
Speaker 8: if you fight the other way, you're gonna most likely
Speaker 8: lose you if you got to get on the field,
Speaker 8: fight for your life. This is war and we're gonna
Speaker 8: die trying. But on the other hand, that's where it's tough.
Speaker 8: You gotta be self aware. Okay, yes, obviously I'm not
Speaker 8: saying let's go die on there.
Speaker 3: No, there's some people that are cussing you right now.
Speaker 3: Go ahead.
Speaker 4: Did I say something back?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 7: No, No, you're they were going to cuss anyway, do.
Speaker 8: You Well, I hope I didn't say anything offensive, Okay, okay,
Speaker 8: because I'm not trying to be offensive, or I don't
Speaker 8: know if I missed, I'm sorry, okay. On the other hand,
Speaker 8: that's where it becomes difficult because you do have to
Speaker 8: be self aware too, and and be aware of the
Speaker 8: things that you can't cannot do. Be aware of you're
Speaker 8: in week three heading into week four. You got to
Speaker 8: protect your quarterback. You gotta protect the other guys as well,
Speaker 8: and so it's just it's a tough balance because you
Speaker 8: want to criticize one way and some fine sometimes I
Speaker 8: find myself being like, well, you gotta keep trying. You
Speaker 8: got to go out there and fight. But at the
Speaker 8: same time, it's like, Okay, I can be understanding of
Speaker 8: the other side of it and seeing his perspective of
Speaker 8: how things played out.
Speaker 4: So it's just it's a tough job.
Speaker 6: You know something.
Speaker 5: I actually, Brian, you and I were talking before we
Speaker 5: went on the air. I was able to furiously put
Speaker 5: together some numbers real quick on the breakdown of the
Speaker 5: yardage of passes that they've been throwing through three games
Speaker 5: and relate that back to last year, because I think
Speaker 5: that's the talk right now is are they taking less
Speaker 5: deep shots this year with this new offense than they
Speaker 5: did before? He was an interesting thing. I think it
Speaker 5: goes both ways. The interesting thing is they're not taking
Speaker 5: less deep shots. Last year, they took on average two
Speaker 5: deep shots per game, and that would be twenty plus
Speaker 5: yards right This year they're averaging two point three of
Speaker 5: those per game, so actually taking just as many sea
Speaker 5: shots as he did last year. Then if you look
Speaker 5: at the ten to twenty yard right intermediate stuff that's
Speaker 5: where they were last year is about five point seven
Speaker 5: per game. This year they're taking five per game. So
Speaker 5: just to tad under what they were doing last year.
Speaker 5: Here's where it gets interesting, though. It's the volume, it's
Speaker 5: the percentage. That's why it feels like they're not taking
Speaker 5: as many deep shots. It's because if you look at
Speaker 5: their their zero to nine yards, they did eleven point
Speaker 5: eight last year. This year they're doing sixteen point seven
Speaker 5: passes per game in that range, right, so a significant
Speaker 5: more significant game more passes in that zero to nine
Speaker 5: Here's the even bigger one behind the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 5: Last year, they averaged three point three passes per game
Speaker 5: behind the line of scrimmage. This year eight point three
Speaker 5: per game behind the line of scrimmage. So it's not
Speaker 5: that they're not taking the deep shots. It's just they're
Speaker 5: doing so much more of that behind the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 5: So much more of game, yes, so much more of
Speaker 5: that zero to nine yards. They're just doing more of that,
Speaker 5: and it makes it feel like they're not going deep,
Speaker 5: but they're taking the same number of shots as they
Speaker 5: took last year.
Speaker 7: I think it goes I mean, like you said, a
Speaker 7: lot of it goes to just perception versus what the
Speaker 7: actual numbers bear out. So when you look the verticality,
Speaker 7: and we talked about it, and you know, you talk
Speaker 7: about this shot the CD LAMB that was successful.
Speaker 2: I mean they're taking the shots.
Speaker 7: I think it's just a matter of efficiency as far
Speaker 7: as production is concerned. How many of those deep shots
Speaker 7: are yielding, you know, actual completions. And then look at
Speaker 7: the situation because situational football, how many of those shots
Speaker 7: are in situations where it sways momentum one way or
Speaker 7: another in the game. And it feels over the first
Speaker 7: three games that they're down in those categories. As as
Speaker 7: you relate that to last season, what's.
Speaker 6: Interesting you asked the right me throw it out there
Speaker 6: for you. Okay, so last year you love it, I
Speaker 6: love this next year.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Let me and Brian have been all over this thing.
Speaker 5: But when you start looking at the twenty plus yard
Speaker 5: passes last year on the left and right side, they
Speaker 5: actually did really well. He had a one to forty
Speaker 5: three point seventy five rating on the right side. He
Speaker 5: had a one thirty two point two to one rating
Speaker 5: on the left side.
Speaker 6: Not so good in the middle of the field.
Speaker 5: They were only two of twelve in the middle of
Speaker 5: the field twenty plus yards with an eleven point eight
Speaker 5: to one rating.
Speaker 6: Now here's what you if you want a.
Speaker 3: Juxtae, that's where some of your turnovers well, exactly a
Speaker 3: solutionary that was a problem for them last year middle
Speaker 3: diddle the field right, but this year they have not
Speaker 3: taken a single shot in.
Speaker 5: The deep middle at all, not at all. But even
Speaker 5: on the outside they haven't been as good. They're one
Speaker 5: of three on the left side twenty plus and they're
Speaker 5: two of four on the right side twenty plus, so
Speaker 5: haven't been as successful and they have no touchdowns.
Speaker 2: But they're taking the shot.
Speaker 5: They're taking the shots, but it hasn't been as successful
Speaker 5: for them this year. This might go back to your point, Brian,
Speaker 5: two of are the receivers in position? Are they getting
Speaker 5: enough separation? Is the quarterback getting the ball way needs
Speaker 5: to get it. It's not as effective as it was
Speaker 5: last year, but they're taking the shots.
Speaker 6: It's just not hasn't been as successful.
Speaker 2: I mean you answered the question.
Speaker 7: I mean that that's basically where I was leading to
Speaker 7: it with was you know, yes they're taking the shots,
Speaker 7: but what's the percentage level of success? And you answered
Speaker 7: it magnificently. Shout out to nixt Gen stats because they're
Speaker 7: all over this stuff. Let me in, by the way,
Speaker 7: But yeah, I mean, so that's that's what Cowboys, fans
Speaker 7: and analysts are seen and or not seen. So the
Speaker 7: shots are there, but the plays are not being made
Speaker 7: when the shots are being taken. But then you also
Speaker 7: have to mix in the aspect of when you have
Speaker 7: the head coach who readily admits that he didn't give
Speaker 7: his backups enough reps in practice last week and he said,
Speaker 7: you know what, you brought up preparation yesterday. You wondered
Speaker 7: if they were prepared. Well, Mike McCarthy still on that
Speaker 7: podium yesterday and basically admitted that his backups were not
Speaker 7: as prepared as he would have liked.
Speaker 2: And he owned that. So that answers that question.
Speaker 7: So when you start to hear things like that, hopefully
Speaker 7: if there's a situation where the backups need to play
Speaker 7: again Mike McCarthy is less apprehensive, they will, right and
Speaker 7: then okay, and then when the shots are being taken,
Speaker 7: hopefully those turned into catches as opposed to pass breakups
Speaker 7: or sale throws or whatever the case may be. So
Speaker 7: it goes to execution, it goes to preparation. You can't
Speaker 7: have both of those things going wrong at the same time.
Speaker 5: All right, we're going to take our first break. We
Speaker 5: come back, I'm and ask these guys this question. There
Speaker 5: were three areas that we talked about yesterday with the
Speaker 5: Cowboys had some challenges run defense, penal, these red zone offense.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna ask you, guys, which do you think at
Speaker 5: the larger impact on the game and which do you
Speaker 5: think is going to have the potential to be a
Speaker 5: problem going forward that the Cowboys need to address more
Speaker 5: readily than the others. We'll talk about that when we
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Speaker 5: here's the question for you guys. Three areas we talked
Speaker 5: about yesterday that were problems for the Cowboys on Sunday,
Speaker 5: I'm gonna ask you, guys, which area was the area
Speaker 5: that had the largest impact on the game? Run defense,
Speaker 5: penalties or red zone offense.
Speaker 7: You know what I'm gonna go with. Yesterday I said
Speaker 7: my biggest takeaway with was the run defense. So today
Speaker 7: and that I'm going to pivot to the penalties. I'm
Speaker 7: going to go with penalties because I think both of
Speaker 7: them are like one A, one B. And I talked
Speaker 7: on the run defense yesterday, so let me talk about
Speaker 7: the penalties today. Thirteen and forced penalties one hundred and
Speaker 7: seven yards. But even bigger than that, you look at
Speaker 7: the context of when these penalties were happening. I brought
Speaker 7: up Doga's holy penalty that force third and thirteen and
Speaker 7: Ferguson got ten of that back, but then they failed
Speaker 7: to convert on fourth and three. You talk about Devin
Speaker 7: Harper's penalty that negated a fifty one yard return from
Speaker 7: Cavante Turpin on the punt that came after the defense
Speaker 7: it's forced a fourth and thirteen. So it was also
Speaker 7: the untimeliness of those and it just when you then
Speaker 7: combine that with the run defense allowing these chunk plays,
Speaker 7: the Cowboys just became more and more frustrated, more and
Speaker 7: more demoralized. And then before you knew what, the train
Speaker 7: was just off the rails in Arizona, and really there
Speaker 7: was not much that the Cowboys could do. It felt
Speaker 7: like they could climb back into the game. But then
Speaker 7: guess what, every time they tried to climb back into
Speaker 7: the game, there was another penalty. Then there was another penalty.
Speaker 7: Good play, solid play, intermediate play, penalty bring them back
Speaker 7: ten yards. So as demoralizing as the rushing attack became
Speaker 7: for the Cardinals against the Dallas Cowboys, I think the
Speaker 7: penalties are equally if not slightly more worrisome, but that
Speaker 7: can be cleaned up. That can be cleaned up, and
Speaker 7: so can the run defense. So I think, and I
Speaker 7: know Ambar will agree with this, the red zone is
Speaker 7: what is going to continue to be the concern until
Speaker 7: it's no longer concern. I don't like what happened with
Speaker 7: the run defense, but you showed me twy against some
Speaker 7: really good backs that you can stop that. The penalties,
Speaker 7: you only had six penalty five penalties in a week
Speaker 7: on I think six penalties in week two. You kind
Speaker 7: of got a cap on that red zone efficiency. Though,
Speaker 7: where's it at? Where is it at?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 3: You get answer today.
Speaker 2: I mean, hey, you know, man asked you one, yeah,
Speaker 2: and I gave them three.
Speaker 8: So you do that sometimes too, Bryan, when I don't know,
Speaker 8: but you do it sometimes, all right.
Speaker 2: Self awareness is self aware.
Speaker 4: But it's a tough it's a tough question to answer.
Speaker 2: I gave them three.
Speaker 4: Let me hear your answer.
Speaker 3: Ryan, go ahead if you want to answer it.
Speaker 4: Well, not jumped in there.
Speaker 8: I was going to say to me, it's it's more
Speaker 8: the red zone because you go back and it's kind
Speaker 8: of similar to what Patrick said. You go back to
Speaker 8: what you've seen in the first two weeks. Defensively, it's
Speaker 8: not a reoccurring theme, like it hasn't become a theme
Speaker 8: for the cob was although we've pointed out how the
Speaker 8: run defense is their weakest point area of attack, but
Speaker 8: it's not something that you've been extremely concerned about as
Speaker 8: opposed to the red zone offense. That's something that we've
Speaker 8: seen since week one. We saw it even now. Remind
Speaker 8: me of my timeline was this last year when it
Speaker 8: was happening.
Speaker 3: Before the Hanking straight If you're talking about you're talking
Speaker 3: about red zone A, you're talking about red zone. No,
Speaker 3: that was it two years ago, two years ago, two
Speaker 3: years ago.
Speaker 8: Again, my timeline after COVID is gone. I always forget
Speaker 8: what year we're at, but we've seen it before under
Speaker 8: Mike McCarthy and them having struggles in the red zone,
Speaker 8: then being effectively able to move the ball. But then
Speaker 8: when they get down there, they get stuck. And you
Speaker 8: can't always count on your defense to be the one
Speaker 8: to score points for you. You got to be as
Speaker 8: an offense. You got to be able to to score
Speaker 8: more than just a field goal. So to me, that's
Speaker 8: kind of the area where my focus would be one
Speaker 8: hundred percent. But again that's a that's something tough to
Speaker 8: answer because you absolutely need both. And if your defense
Speaker 8: is playing like that again, then I think your whole
Speaker 8: season completely changes to what we were expecting from what
Speaker 8: was becoming a really, really great defense.
Speaker 3: They cleaned up the run game in the second half.
Speaker 3: All the rushing yards were in the first half of
Speaker 3: the game. They were able to kind of sit on
Speaker 3: the sidelines getting the halftime, and they kind of figured
Speaker 3: some things out better fits, you know, maybe a little
Speaker 3: bit you know, they were getting after they were winning
Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage a little bit better. Guys were
Speaker 3: in position. It's a red zone offense. Keep going down
Speaker 3: there and having opportunities to kick a bunch of field
Speaker 3: goals here. The last couple of weeks, you know, we've
Speaker 3: talked about particular players missing blocks, bad play calling at times,
Speaker 3: not putting your team in the best position to execute.
Speaker 3: You're not doing a very good job or running routes
Speaker 3: down there. Quarterbacks not able to throw the ball very
Speaker 3: well down there. You better clean that thing up. You
Speaker 3: know you can't. You're you know, as great as your
Speaker 3: field goal kicker has been, you know, you're gonna beat
Speaker 3: a lot of these situations where you need to You're
Speaker 3: going to need to find a way to make this work.
Speaker 3: You're going to need seven, not three. In some of
Speaker 3: these games that hurt them the other day. They could
Speaker 3: have won that game the other day if they just
Speaker 3: convert in the red zone. They played good enough of David.
Speaker 4: Watch film, we would you point out to.
Speaker 8: Be like, they have a lot of change that they
Speaker 8: need to make.
Speaker 3: They really do miss somebody that has the ability to
Speaker 3: find space down there right now. They're their guys are
Speaker 3: not fine in the space. And that's where we go
Speaker 3: back to Dalton Schultz and I'm not you know, when
Speaker 3: you throw Zeke, Zeke is the one guy that is
Speaker 3: always going to fall forward for a yard, you know,
Speaker 3: but you had a touchdown last week or two weeks
Speaker 3: against the Jets six yard run. Pollard gets it in
Speaker 3: holding on the back side. Can't have that, can't have that,
Speaker 3: can't miss blocks, can't throw an interception down there, you know,
Speaker 3: and the middle of the field like that, can't miss
Speaker 3: on a fade down there, can't call a play where
Speaker 3: you don't block two guys. There's a lot of things
Speaker 3: going on with this, you know, you correct that you've
Speaker 3: got the type of offense to and you know, with McCarthy,
Speaker 3: the way they're driving the ball. I appreciate that, I
Speaker 3: really do. He's trying to help his defense, he's trying
Speaker 3: to keep his quarterback from turning over the ball. I
Speaker 3: appreciate what he's trying to do there. But you better
Speaker 3: find a way to kind of clean up all the things.
Speaker 3: It's just not one thing. There's like two three things
Speaker 3: a game that keeps them from scoring points that they need.
Speaker 5: Do you think that in any way the big sixty
Speaker 5: nine yard are that to me was the death nail
Speaker 5: for the Cowboys?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 6: Do you think that that.
Speaker 5: Was in any way a result of some of the
Speaker 5: changes they made, or some of the attention that they
Speaker 5: were paying to the run to stopping the run game
Speaker 5: that maybe forced them into some mistakes in the passing game.
Speaker 3: I think that was one of those things. And I
Speaker 3: don't know. You know they talked about dan Quinn talked
Speaker 3: about yesterday me if I'm wrong, because you were there.
Speaker 3: Dan Quinn talked about how well Hooker played. So I'm thinking, okay,
Speaker 3: in that big sixty nine yard old Hooker, Hooker or
Speaker 3: Lewis Lewis is going to pass. Everybody else looks like
Speaker 3: they're playing man coverage, and Hooker's focused on the outside,
Speaker 3: like they're going to Okay, we're not gonna let one
Speaker 3: of these outside receivers be so maybe they're focused on that.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Lewis, he passes this guy, he drops like he's playing
Speaker 3: zone and now the guy's Wilson's passed him and now
Speaker 3: he's into the secondary. Somebody right there with everybody else
Speaker 3: playing man, something happened between Hooker and Lewis right there
Speaker 3: that caused that that was a flat bust and they
Speaker 3: set it up though Arizona set it up because they
Speaker 3: went max protection. They kept everybody in. They're like, Okay,
Speaker 3: we're gonna we're gonna line to sing up and maybe
Speaker 3: they'll lose our guy across the field and we're going
Speaker 3: to take a deep shot here, and they hit it.
Speaker 3: They hit it, and they I think a lot of
Speaker 3: it had to do with and I don't know if
Speaker 3: it's it's or if it's hook her, but somebody lost
Speaker 3: the responsibility of those two guys in the way that
Speaker 3: thing was playing, especially with everybody playing man elsewhere.
Speaker 2: I was with you.
Speaker 5: I was confused because I saw everybody else playing man,
Speaker 5: and I was like, why is he passing him off
Speaker 5: if everybody else is playing Man? And again, there can
Speaker 5: be some coverages that are mixed coverages.
Speaker 3: Like there's some mixed coverages.
Speaker 6: That's yeah, that definitely confused me a little bit as well.
Speaker 5: I didn't know who was at fault on that one,
Speaker 5: and I don't know that anybody will ever necessarily say
Speaker 5: who was in fault on that particular play. All right here'
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Speaker 2: So great that we're talking about verticality.
Speaker 3: Which I had one of those I love you Beamer jealous.
Speaker 7: Great that we're talking about verticality. After seeing what happened
Speaker 7: against the card News and just the totality of the
Speaker 7: first three weeks, it prompted me to think about explosiveness,
Speaker 7: and then, of course, how explosive are the Cowboys as
Speaker 7: compared to recent cowboys?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 7: So I used a couple of qualifiers. One, I took
Speaker 7: the thirty most explosive plays through the first three weeks
Speaker 7: of twenty nineteen and twenty twenty one. I omitted twenty
Speaker 7: twenty because it was just a weird year, pandemic.
Speaker 2: CBA, it's weird.
Speaker 7: It was McCarthy's first year from Grace there, So twenty nineteen,
Speaker 7: twenty twenty one, those are these seasons. I'm using thirty
Speaker 7: most explosive plays through the first three weeks as compared
Speaker 7: to the thirty most explosive plays of this particular season.
Speaker 7: I also wanted to do McCarthy versus McCarthy, but also
Speaker 7: McCarthy versus Garrett and Kellen.
Speaker 2: More So, that's a qualifier as well.
Speaker 7: And also the good thing about twenty nineteen and twenty
Speaker 7: twenty one when you compare it to twenty twenty three
Speaker 7: is there's mostly similar personnel, right, so you have at
Speaker 7: least some form of the triplets. I know it was
Speaker 7: Randall Cobb in twenty nineteen City Lamb and twenty one,
Speaker 7: but you at least have a similar personnel.
Speaker 2: So here we go.
Speaker 7: The two numbers forty and five ladies and gentlemen forty
Speaker 7: and five. Forty is very bad. In twenty nineteen, the
Speaker 7: Cowboys were nearly forty percent more explosive than they are
Speaker 7: through the first three weeks in twenty twenty three. That's
Speaker 7: kind of a disturbance trend that shows that between those
Speaker 7: two seasons cowboys are in fact less explosive on big plays.
Speaker 7: Twenty twenty one, they're only five percent more explosive than
Speaker 7: they are in twenty twenty three through the first three weeks.
Speaker 7: With DAK and this personnel set, that's actually not that
Speaker 7: bad because that goes back to what you were saying
Speaker 7: about nixt gen perception versus what the numbers bear out.
Speaker 7: But then that caused me to dig a little bit
Speaker 7: deeper into twenty twenty one to say, okay, well, considering
Speaker 7: it's the same coaching staff in twenty one as twenty
Speaker 7: three with Mike McCarthy, how Mike McCarthy fair after that
Speaker 7: first three weeks of trying to figure out some things
Speaker 7: on the offense, well, twenty five percent jump in explosive
Speaker 7: explosiveness from week one through week three versus week four
Speaker 7: through week seven, a twenty five percent jump in explosiveness.
Speaker 7: They went on a four game win streak because they
Speaker 7: became the most explosive team in the NFL weeks four
Speaker 7: through week seven. A couple of years ago after having
Speaker 7: a similar start in lack of explosive explosiveness over the
Speaker 7: first three weeks, So forty and five of the numbers
Speaker 7: forty as compared to twenty nineteen, they're just not as
Speaker 7: explosive as they were in twenty nineteen through the first
Speaker 7: three weeks, but they're not far off where they were
Speaker 7: in twenty nineteen. On twenty twenty one, I'm sorry. And
Speaker 7: if that trend continues in Mike McCarthy, who didn't suffer
Speaker 7: a two game losing streak last season, Also, if he
Speaker 7: bounces back and this offense can get going like I
Speaker 7: think they might. We might be in for a show
Speaker 7: over these next several weeks.
Speaker 6: That'll be interesting.
Speaker 5: I do wonder how much games, particular games, factor into
Speaker 5: something like that. And what I mean by that is,
Speaker 5: let's say, for example, we know this year week one,
Speaker 5: the passing game was hampered by the conditions. Yes, yes,
Speaker 5: I wonder how much when you start looking at that
Speaker 5: and you're saying.
Speaker 3: Maybe the scoreboards two.
Speaker 5: Yeah, right, you start looking at three games, are you
Speaker 5: are you factoring in those kinds of things that may
Speaker 5: even make this this year seem a lot less explosive
Speaker 5: because of the fact that there was one game in
Speaker 5: those three that just didn't have the same There wasn't
Speaker 5: a potential to be as explosive.
Speaker 7: You try to make it as apples to apples as possible,
Speaker 7: and obviously it's not always going to be. I looked
Speaker 7: at grass versus grass, turf versus turf, out outdoors versus
Speaker 7: a dome, and then you look at twenty twenty one,
Speaker 7: which would be the more apples to apples. They were
Speaker 7: on the road at Tampa Bay, they were on the
Speaker 7: road in New York, right, they were on the road
Speaker 7: in Los Angeles, but see, so those competitors Buccaneers, Chargers,
Speaker 7: and then the Eagles in week three. You finish week
Speaker 7: three and you're sitting at a two and one record.
Speaker 7: You just finished week three and you're sitting at a
Speaker 7: two and one record, and your rate of explosiveness is
Speaker 7: almost equal to what it was then. So all things considered,
Speaker 7: as much as you can make it apples to apples,
Speaker 7: there's optimism for the Cowboys, particularly as early as this week,
Speaker 7: coming against the Patriots. You asked, well, yesterday, I believe
Speaker 7: how long will it take for us to know what
Speaker 7: this Cowboys offense looks like.
Speaker 2: I know you're asking about the rushing attack.
Speaker 7: And everything, and we talked about maybe by week five,
Speaker 7: by the time you get to San Francisco, you'll know
Speaker 7: what you're dealing with. These numbers kind of bear that out.
Speaker 7: It's like you give them the first three to four
Speaker 7: weeks to kind of figure things out, particularly with Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 7: Dak Prescott and having the weaponry now that's similar to
Speaker 7: what they had in twenty twenty one, and kind of
Speaker 7: most signs point to them snapping out of it.
Speaker 2: Probably as early as this week.
Speaker 5: You guys have been NFL observers for years. I never
Speaker 5: recall I don't recall ever there ever being a time
Speaker 5: when Mike McCarthy was the head coach of the Green
Speaker 5: Bay Packers a criticism that that offense wasn't explosed. No,
Speaker 5: And that's why I kind of wonder where the thought
Speaker 5: comes that his offense, just as an offense as a scheme,
Speaker 5: is not exploded, like they don't build in opportunities for
Speaker 5: explosive plays. Because I don't think that that was the
Speaker 5: offense in Green Bay. And maybe you could make the
Speaker 5: argument it was a different quarterback. Obviously there was a
Speaker 5: very different quarterback. We're talking about a Hall of Famer.
Speaker 5: But I just I don't know that I buy into
Speaker 5: the fact that the offense itself doesn't lend itself to
Speaker 5: big those kinds of explosive plays as much as I
Speaker 5: said with those other numbers before that. Maybe it's just
Speaker 5: that the base of the offense is we're dinking and
Speaker 5: dunking you. But there's gonna be some shots that are
Speaker 5: gonna be taken. But we're going to dink and dunkey
Speaker 5: down the field.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man, those little Green Bay teams. I think about
Speaker 3: the Donald Drivers and the Adams and Jordy Nelson. It
Speaker 3: always seemed like those dudes were on the move, catching
Speaker 3: passes and then finishing, you know, and they get down
Speaker 3: in the red zone and they really weren't having red
Speaker 3: zone problems. They'd hand into a back or they throw
Speaker 3: that red zone screen saw the other which I thought
Speaker 3: was a great call in that football game. But to me,
Speaker 3: with the Packers, I just always felt like that quarterback
Speaker 3: was going to be just so accurate and if there
Speaker 3: was a little you know if and the way that
Speaker 3: the routes were run and the separation that they were
Speaker 3: able to find. You know, there were things that we
Speaker 3: saw in this team and and things that were different
Speaker 3: with the bunch formations, the scattering, the picks and stuff.
Speaker 3: You know. The even hell, they tried to run a
Speaker 3: pick on the damn goal line to get Cooks across.
Speaker 3: It just didn't work to get him open. But you know,
Speaker 3: that seemed like to what was always with Mike McCarthy's
Speaker 3: offense when you're watching those old Green Bay days, that
Speaker 3: it was that it's just you know, Rogers back ball, downfield,
Speaker 3: Rogers back ball, you know, ball underneath. Now they're going
Speaker 3: to run after catch and all that I'm I was
Speaker 3: hopeful of some of that. I think there's still some
Speaker 3: of that, the ability to do that. You know, this
Speaker 3: this season was going to be about Dhak's ability to
Speaker 3: be accurate, to throw the receivers on the move. That's
Speaker 3: what the West Coast offense is. It's just it's about
Speaker 3: hitting guys. It's the timing, but it's about hitting guys
Speaker 3: on the move and letting those guys take well. Much
Speaker 3: like the past that Gallup caught, catches a slant and
Speaker 3: he takes in another fifteen yards. You know, that's where
Speaker 3: that's where this offense is. That's what they'd like to
Speaker 3: do out here within. You know, hopefully you'll see more
Speaker 3: of that going forward. But it seemed like just those
Speaker 3: Green Bay games, they were so exploded, just down, down
Speaker 3: after down. That quarterback was just punishing you, and those
Speaker 3: receivers were punishing you with the way that they caught
Speaker 3: the ball and the way they were able to finish
Speaker 3: on those plays.
Speaker 8: I think that the question you post is kind of
Speaker 8: a trap because however you put it, everything you say
Speaker 8: it kind of leads. It's going to lead you back
Speaker 8: to the quarterback and having that quarterback conversation and criticism
Speaker 8: and you know, fans criticizing and questioning, is Dak the
Speaker 8: right guy? Which those questions are starting to pop back up, and.
Speaker 3: They always will, Yeah, always are, They always are.
Speaker 9: But I.
Speaker 4: Feel like the first two weeks it's not what you see.
Speaker 8: Most of the things you saw was like defense, defense,
Speaker 8: you know, everybody cheering for the defense. But now after
Speaker 8: week three we hear those things again. Do you have
Speaker 8: the right type of quarterback leading the team? And people
Speaker 8: posing that question and this is the guy you got.
Speaker 8: I personally, there are things that I would like to
Speaker 8: see more of Dak doing. One is incorporating his ability
Speaker 8: to run his feet, move, get on the move, because
Speaker 8: he has the body, the physique, and the condition to
Speaker 8: be able to do that. And two, can he be
Speaker 8: the guy that in critical situations towards the end of
Speaker 8: the game be able to finish. Can he be the
Speaker 8: guy that can finish? And we've seen him comebacks and
Speaker 8: make comebacks really really good, and he turns it on
Speaker 8: in the second half of the game, fourth quarter when
Speaker 8: it's tied and they're fighting back, but it tends to
Speaker 8: not be enough because it's a little too late for
Speaker 8: the game and how it ends. But when you start,
Speaker 8: there's no comparison to be made with a guy like
Speaker 8: Dak and Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you make some excellent points. And the
Speaker 3: thing that that I think the criticism of Dak is
Speaker 3: if you're down three linemen and you're you know, you're
Speaker 3: does he have the ability to be the difference maker
Speaker 3: in a game? Does he have that ability to carry
Speaker 3: an offense when there's they're not at their absolute best?
Speaker 3: You know, the defense For the last couple of weeks,
Speaker 3: Dak hasn't had to play great. I mean, he's played fine,
Speaker 3: he has absolutely played fine, But you know, now you're
Speaker 3: in a situation and it goes to the thing that
Speaker 3: does Dak have to absolutely have and he hasn't had
Speaker 3: the same five offensive linemen you know who They've talked
Speaker 3: about what two thousand snaps or something like that. We
Speaker 3: keep yeah, we keep, yeah, we keep talking about this.
Speaker 3: But does Dak Prescott have to have a upper echelon
Speaker 3: offensive line in order to have success? That's the questions
Speaker 3: that people ask. Can he have the ability? Is he
Speaker 3: talented enough to carry this team when things aren't absolutely perfect?
Speaker 6: This is where I look at it and I'm like,
Speaker 6: I don't.
Speaker 5: I think the conversation sometimes with Dak is a conversation
Speaker 5: that you can have about most quarterbacks in the league.
Speaker 6: And quite frankly, let's look at the.
Speaker 5: Top three teams in the NFC, right, you got Brock
Speaker 5: Purdy over in San Francisco, You've got Jalen Hurts out
Speaker 5: in Philly, and you got Dak Prescott here.
Speaker 3: I think, quite.
Speaker 5: Frankly, all three of them have had the same first
Speaker 5: three weeks of the season. The games that they have
Speaker 5: won have been because they've played excellent defense and they've
Speaker 5: run the ball really well. I don't think either one
Speaker 5: of those three quarterbacks have had played their best football
Speaker 5: in these first three weeks of the season. But the
Speaker 5: conversation with Dak always turns to, well, Dak is the problem,
Speaker 5: and I think I think a lot of things going
Speaker 5: on with this. I think the offensive line this last
Speaker 5: game was compromised. I think you're talking about a team
Speaker 5: that really is a team that's driven by its defense.
Speaker 5: This year, the defense is going to be the strongest
Speaker 5: part of this team. So we'll get comfortable with that.
Speaker 5: That's okay. It doesn't mean Dak's any lesser. It just
Speaker 5: means the defense is where your strength is. So I
Speaker 5: just I think the conversation is just a little bit.
Speaker 5: I think it's a little bit unfair because I think
Speaker 5: at the end of the day, Dak is doing with
Speaker 5: a lot of quarter like offenses are not where defenses
Speaker 5: are at this point in the season. What you expect
Speaker 5: is that by the time you get to week five,
Speaker 5: week six, the offenses are going to start to come around,
Speaker 5: and Dak should have this offense.
Speaker 3: Fall unless you're Miami right now, right Miami's fear Okay,
Speaker 3: but let me ask you this though, in the expectations,
Speaker 3: Dak Prescott with a handicapped roster should have beaten the
Speaker 3: Arizona Cardinals, right, I'm not asking to beat the San
Speaker 3: Francisco forty nine ers of the Miami Dolphins, or the
Speaker 3: Buffalo Bills or the Philadelphia Eagles for that regard. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm just saying though, that's why people question because it's okay,
Speaker 3: I get it, but you you know, are you the
Speaker 3: difference maker when your team's down but you're playing in
Speaker 3: fear competition? That's that That's where I think people are
Speaker 3: looking at and saying, well, he's you know, gosh, he's
Speaker 3: got to beat these guys, right, I'm not. I don't
Speaker 3: think people are asking him to win the game by
Speaker 3: himself against San Francisco or or any other the top
Speaker 3: teams in the league.
Speaker 7: I think we need to make sure that everyone's applying
Speaker 7: blame where it needs to be applied.
Speaker 3: It's not blame, it's questions. It's questions about it's questions
Speaker 3: about where your team is and where your team is
Speaker 3: trying to go. But it may not be blamed for
Speaker 3: you as much as it's wow, yeah, Kickary.
Speaker 7: It may not be blamed for you as much as
Speaker 7: it's blamed from Cowboys fans. So it's addressing the point
Speaker 7: about Cowboys fans are going to circle back to blaming
Speaker 7: Dak Prescott. And for my money, number one, that throw
Speaker 7: in coverage, that was the interception. You can't make that throw.
Speaker 7: You just don't make that throw on accountable today. It's
Speaker 7: also true, as McCarthy said yesterday, he himself was he
Speaker 7: overreacted to the fact that he was missing sury offensive
Speaker 7: lineman and then so he took some verticality out of
Speaker 7: the playbook against the Cardinals. And if you are the
Speaker 7: play call, you're taking the vertical game out of the playbook.
Speaker 7: Then you're not asking your quarterback Dak to throw the
Speaker 7: ball deeply as often as he probably would have. So
Speaker 7: there's the accountability for Mike McCarthy as well. So those
Speaker 7: two individuals have to share that accountability and they do.
Speaker 7: But the question for me, if the question is can
Speaker 7: Dak Prescott carry the team? Well, this is a guy
Speaker 7: with nineteen game winning drives in his career. He had
Speaker 7: two just last season. One was a ninety eight yard
Speaker 7: drive against the Texans. I don't know the Texans, but
Speaker 7: that was a dog fight with the Texans.
Speaker 2: But it's hard to win.
Speaker 7: But why did that ninety eight drive happen? That ninety
Speaker 7: eight yard drive happened because he got better protection. Jason
Speaker 7: Peters came into the game after the Terrence Steel injury.
Speaker 7: Peters came in and helped save the day at that edge.
Speaker 7: And with that added time, what did Dak Prescott do?
Speaker 7: He marched down the field ninety eight yards and won
Speaker 7: the game. So, while there is accountability to be had
Speaker 7: when you're talking about Dak Prescott and whatever interception or
Speaker 7: interceptions are accountable to him, put him right in his
Speaker 7: lap and he will only put it in this lap
Speaker 7: before the added accountability of maybe you take verticality out
Speaker 7: of it, Well, that's Mike McCarthy, that's on your play
Speaker 7: call it the protection issues.
Speaker 2: Three starters are out.
Speaker 7: Three starters, So no matter what how you slice that,
Speaker 7: three starters are out, and then your backups are young
Speaker 7: guys going against a veteran front. Even without Carlos Watkins
Speaker 7: going against a veteran front. Brian did a magnificent job
Speaker 7: of breaking down that Cardinals front last week. So yeah,
Speaker 7: you're gonna have apprehension and they're going to have good moments,
Speaker 7: but they're going to have some bad moments, and then
Speaker 7: how does that play into.
Speaker 2: Whatever the play call might be at any given point time.
Speaker 7: That's the only problem I have with sweeping judgments against anyone,
Speaker 7: not just Dak, not just McCarthy, not Sidney's and Lamb
Speaker 7: or Michael Gallup. When people are like, oh my, Michael Gallup,
Speaker 7: throw them away, trade them, Stop making sweeping judgments and
Speaker 7: actually do the work. Like Brian said, dive into the film,
Speaker 7: dive into the numbers, look for the tricks, try to.
Speaker 8: Figure out what the that stems from a little bit,
Speaker 8: and I totally agree with you, and that is split
Speaker 8: into everybody, because there are so many factors happening all
Speaker 8: at once that you can't just put blame on one individuals.
Speaker 8: But I think that where that conversation from fans and
Speaker 8: people that watch stems from is looking at year after year,
Speaker 8: the things that you've changed around the offense, the team,
Speaker 8: the talent, the organization, coaches. The one remaining factor that
Speaker 8: has remained constant is the quarterback. So I think that's
Speaker 8: where the crisis and from fans comes from.
Speaker 4: It's like, and I absolutely agree.
Speaker 8: I don't think it's fair sometimes and Dak will stand
Speaker 8: up in there and call it how it is, and
Speaker 8: I love that about him. I don't think it's fair.
Speaker 8: I think he is a very talented quarterback. But I
Speaker 8: think that's where, after you see so many changes around
Speaker 8: him and the team investing in him and trying to
Speaker 8: find him and give him the right weapons to make
Speaker 8: his type of game work, I think that's where the
Speaker 8: conversation leads back to is the right quarterback to lead
Speaker 8: this team to victory?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 5: But I think that's that's also where you get into
Speaker 5: this is not a situation, as Parcels used to say,
Speaker 5: where they're just growing the growing quarterbacks on trees out
Speaker 5: there picking new one.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 5: It's one of those things where I think, is Dak
Speaker 5: Prescott you know Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 6: No, I don't think he's Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 5: But I also think Dak Prescott is good enough to
Speaker 5: win a championship.
Speaker 6: I really believe that. Now, does that mean you got
Speaker 6: to have the right piece around him? Yes, I think so.
Speaker 5: And going back to your press your question right, and
Speaker 5: going back to your question Brian when you talk about, like,
Speaker 5: you know what, should he have been able to beat
Speaker 5: a Carazona and Arizona team, Yes, with his offensive line compromise.
Speaker 6: He should have been able to.
Speaker 5: But he should have been able to depending on the
Speaker 5: fact that his defense would have played the kind of
Speaker 5: game that they should have played, not failed him in
Speaker 5: the way that they did.
Speaker 2: His defense was.
Speaker 5: A big part of the reason why they lost that
Speaker 5: game as well. And if I go back to the
Speaker 5: original point I was making about Brock Purty and about
Speaker 5: Jalen Hurts, they have not had a game this season
Speaker 5: where their defenses didn't show up. Those two defenses have
Speaker 5: played outstanding football all three weeks season, and they've had
Speaker 5: some games where they haven't been as close. But because
Speaker 5: of the fact their defenses have played consistently over three
Speaker 5: weeks is the reason why they're three and oh. So
Speaker 5: I don't think there's any difference necessarily in Dak and
Speaker 5: those other two quarterbacks other than the fact that it's
Speaker 5: gonna come down in the NFC. It's gonna come down
Speaker 5: to which defense can consistently play the best, because I
Speaker 5: don't think any of those quarterbacks are necessarily what we've
Speaker 5: seen so far that they're transcending quarterbacks. They're gonna need
Speaker 5: things around them, They're gonna make some plays here and there,
Speaker 5: but ultimately the defenses are the strongest parts of all
Speaker 5: three of those teams.
Speaker 6: And I just think the Cowboys defense.
Speaker 5: Didn't play a great game against Arizona, and that was
Speaker 5: the main reason, in my opinion, why they didn't win.
Speaker 7: Sunday was a bad sandwich of you give up over
Speaker 7: one hundred and forty yards on the ground in the
Speaker 7: first half in the same game that the head coach
Speaker 7: admitted lead scale back the verticality and you're behind on
Speaker 7: the score boards. So you need those big plays to
Speaker 7: try to make up the ground, especially when your defense
Speaker 7: is allowing the opposing offense to have their way on
Speaker 7: the ground. Those two things combined and you start spiraling,
Speaker 7: and that's what happened on Sunday.
Speaker 5: All right, I appreciate you guys, John Us will be
Speaker 5: back on tomorrow. Start getting into the next opponent. We
Speaker 5: gotta Bill now, yeah, we gotta be Bill Belichick. No right,
Speaker 5: So then for Patrick Walker, Brian brought us Amberg City.
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