WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Where It Went Wrong 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:07.280 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:19.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Lets go. Are you 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:23.160 ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:23.280 --> 0:00:27.480 Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:31.800 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:37.960 Were with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:43.720 Derek Eagleton. It is Monday, September twenty eight, twenty twenty, 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:47.160 season sixteen, episode number thirty two. Welcome to the latest 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:49.560 edition of The Break. I'm Derek Eagleton. I'm live from 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:52.440 the s WBC Mortgage Studio. It's got Nick in here 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:54.720 with me. We've got Amber and Day from their homes 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:57.760 and we're gonna tell you all about this Cowboys game 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:01.080 and why they lost. On Sunday. The Cowboys lose to 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:04.840 the Seattle Seahawks thirty eight thirty one. And as we 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.839 do every Monday following a game, we're gonna start first 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:10.520 with letting these guys tell you what they think the 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:13.800 big picture of this game is coming out of that game. Nick, 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:16.640 you were at the stadium yesterday. We'll start with you 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:18.559 tell me what you thought was a big picture story 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:22.360 out of this game. Well, I mean they they didn't. 0:01:22.880 --> 0:01:25.840 They couldn't match Russell Wilson. You know, they couldn't match him. 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:30.240 He was, you know, as magical as as advertised. And 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:34.080 and you know, the Cowboys they hung in there with 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:37.280 passing yards, but as I wrote, I just don't think 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:40.600 they were balanced. They couldn't run, they couldn't do what 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:44.880 they needed to do to score more in the red zone. 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:47.680 So I just thought that, you know, I thought the 0:01:47.840 --> 0:01:50.960 yards were a little bit hollow because they didn't they 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.680 couldn't score enough. And you know, I thought it was 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:58.040 just a really good you know, I thought it was 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:01.760 a really good performance by Dak vested by a great 0:02:01.760 --> 0:02:10.280 performance by Russell. All right, Amber Well, offensively, there are 0:02:10.320 --> 0:02:14.120 things that obviously need to be improved, but right now 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.480 I feel like there's still hope there with some of 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:19.560 the things that the Cowboys have shown us. Now on 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:22.399 the defense side of the ball is where I'm very, 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:26.560 very concerned right now. I just don't know if how 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:30.160 much the Cowboys can actually do to turn things around. 0:02:30.400 --> 0:02:32.720 With the players and the people that they currently have 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:36.800 on the team. They're desperately in need of some players 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:41.520 that can help in the secondary. I keep hearing some 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.880 players talk about the lack of communication and the fact 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:48.200 that they haven't been able to completely be in sync, 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:53.240 and honestly, and I understand that it doesn't help that 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:55.560 you didn't have a preseason and you got new guys 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:57.799 coming in, new coaching staff and all that, But at 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:00.880 the same time, I just don't understand and what all 0:03:01.440 --> 0:03:05.480 is so complicated that they're currently doing that. It's just 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.000 you're not able to get guys in sync. It seems 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:13.520 like they're not doing anything so overly complicated in order 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:15.959 for them not to be able to get it right 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:19.160 and quit making the mistakes that they're currently make it. 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:20.600 But at the end of the day, I just think 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:24.079 it's just the lack of talent there and the lack 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:28.760 of experience. But I'm very, very highly concerned about the defense. 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:33.400 Dave big picture story. You know what's really funny, Like 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:35.720 I've been thinking about this since the game ended, is like, 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:39.640 on the macro level, nothing about this game should be 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:43.640 overly surprising. Like it played out really similarly to how 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:46.400 a lot of people thought it would offensive shootout a 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:50.400 billion yards, Dad plays good, Russell Wilson plays better. Seahawks 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:54.160 win by a touchdown, or less like that is very 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:58.080 normal and should be expected. But the way the Cowboys 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:03.320 found ways to hurt themselves elves is just beyond belief. Sometimes, 0:04:03.440 --> 0:04:06.000 like like I said, like you kind of you're not 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.440 surprised the Cowboys lose by seven on the road against 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:12.240 Russell Wilson. You are surprised that the kick returner feels 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.280 a kick that somehow winds up on the one yard 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.760 line that turns into a safety. The Pro Bowl kicker 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.360 misses two extra points or has one block either way 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.280 two huge points that come off the board. You are 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:28.160 surprised that the first play when the Cowboys get the 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:30.480 ball back, turns into a strip sack like right off 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:34.119 the bat, completely derailing everything. Like some of the mind 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:38.240 boggling details that led to this result are just that, 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:40.760 like their mind boggling their things are. And I'll even 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.720 mentioned the fact that Tyler Lockett has three first half touchdowns, 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.760 where you know you expect him to catch touchdowns, you 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.320 don't expect him to literally be all by himself because 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:51.800 the defense can't keep track of one of the best 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:56.279 receivers in the NFC. So the result shouldn't be surprising. 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.320 But some of the lapses that led to that result 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:03.520 are absolutely inexcusable for a pro football team, and I 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.760 think that's what makes it frustrating. It's not so much 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.760 that they lost, but they just played so poorly at times, 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.719 even in the middle of a thrilling game. Yeah, I 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:14.800 think it's I think we all probably came away with that. 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:17.760 There were lots of head scratching moments in that game 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.480 where you thought the Cowboys were either on a roll 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:22.200 or you thought they were in a good position, and 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:25.440 then they would just completely just derail themselves with something 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.160 that was totally avoidable. All right, So here's we're gonna do. 0:05:28.160 --> 0:05:30.600 We're gonna get into our segment where we're gonna talk 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.200 about the moments that mattered. I have some some moments 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:34.920 from the game that I'm gonna lay out for you guys, 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:36.720 and we're gonna talk about those moments. But I also 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.520 want to talk about those moments from the standpoint of 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.839 just the overall play of particular players and particular positions 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:46.320 throughout this game. Let's start first with the play. The 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:48.000 half of it was first and ten on the Dallas 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:51.599 forty three, about six forty five left in the first quarter. 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:54.880 Seattle has the ball, Russell, Wilson backs up, there was 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:58.320 forty three yard touchdown pass to Tyler Lockett. It looked 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:00.479 on that play we were watching from televi vision, Nick, 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:02.000 you were from that you were watching from the stadium, 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.680 But it looked like on that play the Cowboys were 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.840 in three deep coverage where you would have had the 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:10.640 two safeties that would have been covering the middle and 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:14.320 the far left from from Russell's vantage point, the far 0:06:14.480 --> 0:06:16.760 left third of the field, and then you would have 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:19.599 had Digs on the right third of the field. And 0:06:19.720 --> 0:06:21.600 it looked like Dick's backed out as though he were 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:24.680 covering his own looked like the other two safeties completely 0:06:24.720 --> 0:06:27.200 just didn't see Tyler Lockett running up the field and 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:29.800 getting behind them, in which case that's the whole point 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.560 of cover three, right, you don't let anybody get behind you. 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:34.880 That all being said, what did you guys see on 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.599 that play? And then as a bigger picture question, what 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:40.560 did you see from the safety throughout that game? And 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:46.000 we'll start thing with amber Well again, like I like 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:49.240 I mentioned early, it seems like to me, and not 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:52.760 just the play that specific play the play, but many 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:55.880 other plays throughout the games where they just seemed completely lost, 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:59.080 like they it was like you were playing a preseason 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.320 game that you haven't been playing in a long time, 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.320 and you're kind of lost and kind of getting back 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:06.120 into football. There was just a lot of things that 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:10.000 is to me, I would assume basic things when it 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:14.360 comes to coverage and football, basic football awareness, and they 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:17.240 weren't able to execute it and play the way that 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:22.520 they should play. And I don't I really don't know 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:27.600 what the solution specifically is. It seems like it's more 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:31.520 again just going back to basics and doing the things 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:34.440 that you should be able to do as a safety. 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:36.920 And again, it just plays into the whole fact that 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:42.600 the Cowboys haven't helped themselves in safety with the they 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:44.920 should have a veteran guy. And I wanted to ask 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:49.240 this question, why was it that the Cowboys felt the 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:53.000 need that they should have gotten read of Haha, Clinton Dicks. 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.720 Do you guys not think that they would be using 0:07:57.840 --> 0:07:59.920 him right now and that he would actually be helped 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:04.080 and the team the team, That's a great question, honestly, 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.280 and I think, I mean the answer to the question 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:08.920 is that they weren't seeing the level of play out 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:12.280 of him that justified the salaries, so they decided, you know, 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.280 we'll eat the cost to get rid of him and 0:08:14.320 --> 0:08:16.280 save a little bit of money, and we feel just 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.680 as good about the guys that we already have. Now. 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.520 It is like, this is one of those occasions where 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.239 any question you have about the safety position, in my opinion, 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.120 is one hundred percent fair. It's fair to wonder if 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:29.800 maybe Haha should still be here. It's fair to wonder 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:31.920 why they haven't gone out and tried to do more. 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.400 Like when this stuff happens, I think everything's on the table. 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:42.319 I don't have a problem with anybody questioning anything. You know. 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:46.079 Line one of playing safety is don't let him get 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.480 behind you. We saw it I think once last year. 0:08:48.640 --> 0:08:50.920 I mean one that I can really remember, the Jets game. 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:53.160 We're seeing it way too many times here in the 0:08:53.200 --> 0:08:56.439 first three games of the season, so it's it's not 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:58.920 been good enough. And I agree, I think all questions 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.719 should be asked. And it's not This isn't a new thing. 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:06.720 I mean, this is it's been around. I mean maybe 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:10.360 it is a head coaching thing, you know specifically, but 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:14.640 they haven't put a priority at the safety position for 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:18.840 a long time, and it showed yesterday, do you guys think, 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:20.719 and I amber you alluded to it, do you think 0:09:20.800 --> 0:09:24.080 that the Cowboys should be looking at other options? Now? 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:26.600 I will say this. I know we've talked about Thomas, 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.160 but there's also Eric Reed out there, who is a 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:32.200 really good safety that's sitting out there in free agency. Now, 0:09:32.240 --> 0:09:34.840 they are going to be issues, obviously, from the standpoint 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.360 you would think about how some people. Yeah, you would 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:40.160 think that that the great should apply here, especially if 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.280 the guy can play, which he can. I mean he 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.160 has been on teams. He's on the team last year 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:46.760 and played really well. So there are some good safeties. 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:48.240 There are not a lot of positions where you can 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.120 say that safety is a position where you can say 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.000 there are some good guys that are out there available 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.240 to you in free agency. You would think, and I'm 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.840 asking you, guys the questions, the Cowboys should be interested 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.400 at this point? Yeah, I do it today, give me 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:03.320 seventy two hours getting there. You need him by next Again, 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:05.120 I don't, I don't. I don't think they want to 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.680 see Odell Beckham doing his little dance in the side 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:10.560 at the end zone, you know, several times in this game. 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:14.480 Because if those guys can run by him. The Browns 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:18.839 got guys too. This is why we said what we 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:21.560 said at the start of the season, which is that's 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:23.839 awesome that that you want to go forward with this, 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.120 and I hope it works out well for you. But 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.520 you'd be crazy to close the door on their earl 0:10:28.600 --> 0:10:31.640 Thomas talk had, you know, after one week, because these 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.800 guys have to prove that they're capable of quieting that talk, 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:36.600 and they haven't done it. And that's I was going 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.000 to say when you ask the original question, is I 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:42.640 love as somebody who is paid to comment on pro football, 0:10:43.080 --> 0:10:45.440 I love when they make it easy for me because 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.560 you know, if if the coverage is amazing and Russell 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:52.040 Wilson throws an absolute dime, who am I to criticize? 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.680 You know, like that's hard. It's hard to play dB 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:57.520 in the NFL. But this is the second straight week 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:01.200 where a receiver has basically just stood on the field 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:04.440 with nobody around him for yards and yards and waited 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:06.839 for it like Tyler Lockett looked like he was catching 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:10.160 it from a jugsmachine. And that's just not like it 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:14.480 is not okay, it's not defensible. You can't justify it, 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.079 and it happened three times in the first half of 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.720 this game. Hayden Hurst did it in week two. It's 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:24.400 really really bad, and I absolutely think they should be 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:28.319 turning over every stone, whether it's Earl Thomas, whether it's 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.920 Tony Jefferson, whether it's Eric Reid, even if it's somebody 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:35.040 whose name I'm not as familiar with what they're putting 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.080 out there right now. As a liability, there's no way 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.679 around it. I assume you agree, Amber, but what do 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:43.120 you think about going out and get another safety. I 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.760 just don't see how the Cowboys could absolutely even say 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.319 that they're okay with moving forward with what they currently have. 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:54.199 After three games, there's nothing that is promising. I have 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:58.520 not seen anything that even sparks doubting me or hoping 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:01.679 me that I would, Oh well, they just need a 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.680 little time to get better. There hasn't been, and they 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.920 need to change it up. And especially if your offense 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:11.360 continues to make the little errors that I still think 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:14.040 that they could be cleaned up. You need to be 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.560 able to get help from your defense, and the defensive 0:12:16.600 --> 0:12:19.880 line is not necessarily fully doing their part either, and 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:23.520 the linebackers that's another question mark there. So you need 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.839 to absolutely go and grab whoever you can and hope 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.599 that you don't get you don't keep getting injured on 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:34.760 your secondary. I mean, when you think about the problem 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:39.079 areas of this team offensive tackle, well, there's a big 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:44.160 reason for that linebacker, reasons for that cornerback, reasons for 0:12:44.280 --> 0:12:48.040 that safety. That's your starters. That's where you rolled out 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.640 there with. That's the biggest problem for me is that. 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.080 I mean, you can give them somewhat of a pass. 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:55.720 I know nobody cares about excuses, but we know why 0:12:55.800 --> 0:12:58.839 the tackles are bad here, and I mean we know 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:03.240 why there's it's there. But at safety, you cut a 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.640 veteran and you said I'm gonna go with Woods and 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:09.920 Darian Thompson and it hasn't worked out. Yep. All right, Um, 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:13.480 let's move on. Let's move to the next moment that mattered. 0:13:14.080 --> 0:13:18.079 This was the ensuing kickoff after the locket touchdown. You 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.959 got Pollard back there. Um, he must the catch and 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:25.920 then recovers it on the Dallas one very next play, 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:28.360 Zeke can't get out of the end zone and it 0:13:28.480 --> 0:13:31.640 leads to a safety. Dallas is now down nine to zero. 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:38.760 Let's first talk about three three, that being said, let's 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.520 now talk a little bit about Tony Pollard. Now, I 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:44.000 think we've mentioned on the show that that, you know, 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:47.240 last week, he's running you know, he's five six yards 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.400 deep in the end zone. He's running it out, and 0:13:49.720 --> 0:13:53.040 it just seemed to me like, um, I don't know, 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:54.640 I don't know if that's his decision, I don't know 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:56.760 if that's the special team's coach decision. I don't know 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.000 whose decision it was, but it seemed like it was 0:13:59.080 --> 0:14:02.520 somewhat ill advised. And in this instance, I was almost 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:03.840 at the point where I was ready to say, Okay, 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:05.719 if it's in the end zone, tone, don't touch it, 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.079 just get away from it, let it hit the ground, 0:14:08.280 --> 0:14:10.679 and let's start at the twenty five. You guys think 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:14.640 that's probably a better tack for a tactical decision for 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:16.679 this team, especially in a situation where you got an 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:20.240 offense that's as capable as this offense seems to be. Neck. Yes, 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.080 And because it's not just about Tony Poller, it's it's 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:26.680 it's also it's the officiating, and it's the guys that 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:30.320 you have blocking. They will call blocking the back it 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:34.200 seems like fifty percent of the time, So he's certainly 0:14:34.280 --> 0:14:36.200 not going to get past the thirty or forty fifty 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:39.240 percent of the time. So the percentages are that you're 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.040 going to be you have a better chance if you 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:42.640 take it out, you have a better chance of starting 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:46.400 inside your fifteen yard line. That's not good, So, I mean, 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.800 I have The weird thing is is that I was watching, 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.880 for some reason, watching the Seahawks field kickoffs at that 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:56.760 same spot kickoffs and punts they dropped like three, So 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:59.720 I was thinking pre game, Yeah, the exact same spot, 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.920 and of course it was the Cowboys. That was it 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.040 where the sun was coming out? What was Yeah, I 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:08.920 guess it was right there, but I don't know. You know, 0:15:09.000 --> 0:15:10.840 the sun changes in that place the whole game, so 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:14.200 I don't know. I think that was That was definitely 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.440 a bad move. And then he acted like he had 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.640 never seen a fumble before, and it was just weird. 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:21.040 He couldn't quite figure out how he wanted to fall 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.120 on it. Dave, what do you think of that play? 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.480 All of I mean, look, nobody has driven the Tony 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.560 Pollard hype train harder than me, but it's it's been 0:15:31.600 --> 0:15:34.160 a rough two weeks. I mean, there's no way around that. 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:39.880 And Nick's absolutely right. Like the NFL is begging teams 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.040 to just let it be a touchback, like they don't 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.800 want the violent collisions in kickoffs. The play is basically 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.560 obsolete anyway. You get the ball in the twenty five, 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:49.960 Like seventy five yards is not a long field by 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:53.600 NFL standards, Dak the offense had three scoring drives of 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:56.920 like eighty nine yards or longer yesterday, So I'll gladly 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:01.880 take seventy five. If the ball crosses the goal one 0:16:02.000 --> 0:16:04.840 yard deep, the odds of you taking it out being 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:07.240 better than just starting on the twenty five are slim 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.000 to none. And that's by design. Like the NFL doesn't 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:14.040 want these plays because they're dangerous, so just play along 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:17.000 because it's disastrous what they're trying to do, Like it's 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:19.680 so bad, it's so it's so bad you can't you 0:16:19.720 --> 0:16:23.040 can't afford that risk anymore. After what we've seen Amber, 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:26.960 would you do anything different there with the kickoff returns? 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:29.280 Would you do something different with the kickoff returns at 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:34.040 this point? At this point, I don't feel great about 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:37.560 special teams and what they're doing, so and this sucks. 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:39.880 I don't want to say, hey, let's be a little 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:43.040 more conservative. But when it comes to special teams, I 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:46.440 think you or me personally, I would be a little 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:50.160 more conservative and try to not risk it as much 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:52.360 or try to be as aggressive with certain place and 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:56.080 just do what you need to do and don't don't 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:59.680 allow room for mistakes because right now, they have not 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:03.080 been having a great season. And in my opinion, though, 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:06.119 they got a safety because of the offense, not because 0:17:06.160 --> 0:17:08.000 of Tony Pollard. I mean, yeah, they didn't help that. 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:09.520 You're on the one, but you don't have to get 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:12.360 a safety. You don't have to call a play that's 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:16.200 a that's a slow moving, slow developing off tackle run 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:20.440 behind Brandon Knight and Connor Williams, who they got pushed 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:22.920 around a lot in this game. Looney got pushed in 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:27.119 that that was I think Looney getting pushed back as 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.280 far as he did really is what killed that play, 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:30.920 right in my opinion. Right, But I mean, do you 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:32.560 want to go northwest or do you just want to 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:34.400 go north and just try to I mean, I don't 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.119 understand why why quarterback sneaks have to be at the 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:38.880 one yard line. On the other I mean, why can't 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:41.920 you just get a few yards to get yourself some 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.040 breathing room a little bit. So I thought that was 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.679 a very poor decision to make that call. And then 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:49.359 you know, I still haven't seen a great replay of that, 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:52.000 but I mean, look like he didn't get out. Yeah, no, 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:54.360 it to me, it was clear that he didn't get out. 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:56.879 But like I said, I think Looney was your biggest 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:59.040 culprit there. Now that that you can make a lot, 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:00.680 there were a lot of guys there. You could probably 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.120 give some some of that culpability to other than Zach Martin. 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:05.160 Zach Martin had his guy about two or three yards 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:07.680 down field. And right now, I'm sure Zach Martin is 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:10.320 just probably in a situation where he just feels like 0:18:10.720 --> 0:18:13.440 I can't win right now because his linemates just aren't. 0:18:13.640 --> 0:18:16.280 They aren't pulling their weight. All right, we're gonna take 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:18.080 our first break. When we come back, I do want 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:20.399 to talk a little bit about special teams, uh and 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.760 particularly Greg's earline. We're gonna talk about his day yesterday, 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:25.280 we'll day when we come right back. This is Dallas 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:29.520 Cowboys dot Com Radio. 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This 0:21:13.960 --> 0:21:17.080 special teams and Amber you Mitch mentioned it has had 0:21:17.080 --> 0:21:19.320 a number of miscus through the first three games of 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:22.040 the season. They've also had some really high highs. How 0:21:22.080 --> 0:21:24.320 concerned are you at this point? And last year again 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:26.760 there was some real problems with the special teams? How 0:21:26.800 --> 0:21:29.320 concerned do you at this point about the Cowboys special teams? 0:21:29.320 --> 0:21:34.960