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Speaker 1: with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, A bar Garcia, and Derek Eagleton.
Speaker 1: It is Monday, September twenty four, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen,
Speaker 1: episode number forty six. Welcome to a new edition of
Speaker 1: The Break, live from s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star.
Speaker 1: Great show we got lined up for you guys today.
Speaker 1: We're gonna dissect that game from yesterday. It is gonna
Speaker 1: be great. It's always great when we have to. It
Speaker 1: is a new edition because I think na, yeah, so
Speaker 1: it's it is going to be a good show. We're
Speaker 1: gonna tell you guys what went wrong for the Cowboys yesterday.
Speaker 1: Maybe Dave will have one or two things that went right.
Speaker 1: I don't know. We'll see. We could phil, we could
Speaker 1: be done in five five minutes if we just wanted
Speaker 1: to do what went right. We have top ten players
Speaker 1: from the game going up on the website later. Well,
Speaker 1: we're really going to do that today. I don't know,
Speaker 1: are you really going to do that today? One? Yeah,
Speaker 1: we did, and I thought, you know, if you could
Speaker 1: do it. Hey, sorry sorry it's not my original joke,
Speaker 1: but well something else, if nothing else, fans would get
Speaker 1: some jokes and some last today. Yeah, because they probably do.
Speaker 1: They probably need it right now. It was a rough
Speaker 1: one for the Cowboys. I mean, they lose this game
Speaker 1: twenty four to thirteen, and it was more of the
Speaker 1: same really from the standpoint of the offense. I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody was surprised by what you saw offensively, maybe
Speaker 1: surprised that the Cowboys didn't do some of the things
Speaker 1: that they'd done that were successful the week before, but
Speaker 1: not surprised at the output and the and just what
Speaker 1: happened with this offense? Um, what did you guys think?
Speaker 1: Just overall? I want to get and I'd like to
Speaker 1: do this as we start to show day after game,
Speaker 1: just want to get a big picture. What did you
Speaker 1: think was the big picture takeaway from this game? Let's
Speaker 1: start with you, Nick. Big picture to take well, I mean,
Speaker 1: the guy you've been talking about for six months, that
Speaker 1: we've been talking about for six months, you finally got
Speaker 1: to see him up close and personal, and he was
Speaker 1: the best player on the field. He was a game
Speaker 1: changer and he you know he was. That's why you
Speaker 1: wanted to get him, not only to have him on
Speaker 1: your team, but to not have to face him because
Speaker 1: he beat you in more ways than one yesterday. And
Speaker 1: so you can talk about a lot of other things offense.
Speaker 1: I'll let him go that, but I'm just saying, Earl Thomas,
Speaker 1: you know that's why you wanted to go get him
Speaker 1: because he went out and he played great for that game.
Speaker 1: Can imagine really good player? Oh man, he's an amazing player. Um,
Speaker 1: I don't disagree with that. Earl Thomas showed exactly why
Speaker 1: you would want a player like that on your team.
Speaker 1: He's exactly the type of player that this defense has
Speaker 1: not had in the entire time that I've covered them,
Speaker 1: just in terms of making plays. I mean, really, Darren
Speaker 1: Woodson is the last good safety they had. What was
Speaker 1: Darren Woodson? That? Though no disrespect to him, but I'm
Speaker 1: not saying same kind of player. I'm saying just a
Speaker 1: really good safety, like somebody that was a different playing safe,
Speaker 1: but I mean that one. I mean a guy that
Speaker 1: you can count on to flip the game for you. Yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: Williams maybe early. Regardless of that. Regardless of that, my
Speaker 1: main takeaway, I can't look at the Seahawks here this.
Speaker 1: My main takeaway is that this team cannot pass the
Speaker 1: ball downfield to save its life, and it is beyond
Speaker 1: a problem. That's I mean. I was sitting there in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter yesterday. This team did exactly what it
Speaker 1: wanted to in the run game, honestly, and that was
Speaker 1: even with you know, I was worried about Bobby Wagner
Speaker 1: getting his feet underneath him. Bobby Wagner played a good game.
Speaker 1: He had some stuffs, he stopped them on third down early.
Speaker 1: They still ran for one hundred and sixty six yards.
Speaker 1: They ran for nine yards per per carry on the road,
Speaker 1: and it didn't matter even a lick. That's how bad
Speaker 1: the passing game was. Um what Dak finished with one
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty eight yards and I would be willing
Speaker 1: to guess I haven't done the math on it, but
Speaker 1: like at least forty or fifty of that came, you know,
Speaker 1: once the Seahawks had built a twenty four to sixth lead.
Speaker 1: Anemic doesn't do it justice. It's it is a problem
Speaker 1: that I don't know how to answer, and judging from
Speaker 1: their answers last night, I don't think they know either.
Speaker 1: And it's I got a bad feeling like it's going
Speaker 1: to be something we're talking about for most of this season.
Speaker 1: So that's I don't know how anything else, but that
Speaker 1: can be the big takeaway Camber. I'm just confused, like
Speaker 1: I don't I really don't know what to think about
Speaker 1: this team anymore. And I know they have talent. They
Speaker 1: do have players with a lot of talent, and I
Speaker 1: just don't understand why it's not really working out. Why
Speaker 1: can't they convert on third downs? And even usually Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott in his press conference, he always has like a
Speaker 1: good answer to come back with, or like a good
Speaker 1: political answer, you know, but he answered something last night.
Speaker 1: I felt that he's answered. I mean, he didn't even
Speaker 1: really have an answer to everything that was going on.
Speaker 1: He I felt it very differently in the way that
Speaker 1: he was answering his questions. And it's like, I don't
Speaker 1: know what's happening here. I don't know why they can't
Speaker 1: freaking move the ball down and score points. And that's
Speaker 1: a big problem right now, because you talk about the
Speaker 1: defense being great. Yeah, some people think defenses win games,
Speaker 1: but I don't. I think defense can help you. And
Speaker 1: bringing a player, let's say, like Earl Thomas, and I've
Speaker 1: changed my whole tune after last night. You know, I've
Speaker 1: been one of the biggest just like Nick wanting to
Speaker 1: bring him over here. But my tune has changed completely.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. Why give up a draft pick or
Speaker 1: whatever trade you want to make to get him over here.
Speaker 1: Why do that when even if he was here, your
Speaker 1: offense is not scoring points, your defense is not gonna be.
Speaker 1: You can't rely on your defense to be making plays
Speaker 1: and scoring points for you. If your offense is not
Speaker 1: working out, there's no point of making a trade like
Speaker 1: this and bringing someone great to make your defense even better.
Speaker 1: But I kind of disagree with that too after watching this. Basically,
Speaker 1: you can't. And he's a great player and I really
Speaker 1: like him, and everyone does and all that, but how
Speaker 1: often can you rely on a guy like that to
Speaker 1: be making all this play every single game? Yesterday? It
Speaker 1: was two interceptions that changed the game. That was the
Speaker 1: difference in the game in my opinion, On top of
Speaker 1: the fact that by the way, the Cowboys safety who
Speaker 1: was out there at the time. Cavon Frasier was a
Speaker 1: big part of the fifty two yard touchdown you gave up.
Speaker 1: That doesn't happen if you've got a guy to calibover.
Speaker 1: Earl Tom Spector playing the Seattle still scores point for you. No,
Speaker 1: they do. But but the thing is is that they
Speaker 1: don't have a great offense either. So my argument there
Speaker 1: is like, if you're playing downhill, you stop them from
Speaker 1: getting to midfield, you get a three and out early,
Speaker 1: you get a fair catch your ball, the balls at
Speaker 1: the forty forty five. Now you can go play downhill
Speaker 1: for this offense to being as bad as it is.
Speaker 1: And I get I get your point. But I'm saying,
Speaker 1: if you're going to compete at all this year and
Speaker 1: maybe next year in the next few years, you've got
Speaker 1: to have an amazing defense and he can make he
Speaker 1: can get you. You know, Baltimore won a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: way back two thousand when you were like seven years old.
Speaker 1: But I'm saying they didn't have great quarterbacks. They had
Speaker 1: an unbelievable defense. Jim McMahon wasn't a great quarterback, but
Speaker 1: he had a great defense, And I think that's the
Speaker 1: only way you can compete. You have too. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: picture this scenario. Earl Thomas is playing for your defense, right, Okay,
Speaker 1: makes an interception for you, gets you the ball. Here.
Speaker 1: Now the offense, the Cowboys offen has the ball. They
Speaker 1: move three plays, they're four second saying out of the field,
Speaker 1: doesn't even get to the red zone, doesn't score a point.
Speaker 1: What's the point of doing that? You're absolute? No, I
Speaker 1: get your point, and let's not sugarcoat it. This offense
Speaker 1: is laughably bad. It's atrocious. But this, and basically that's
Speaker 1: my point is, at this point, three games into the season,
Speaker 1: I'm starting to think that this team will only go
Speaker 1: as far as its defense can carry, right right, Which, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not. I don't know if they're gonna
Speaker 1: try to trade for Earl Thomas. I've said all along,
Speaker 1: I don't expect it to happen, and I still feel
Speaker 1: that way. But I feel better about making this defense
Speaker 1: as good as it could possibly be, potentially winning some
Speaker 1: turnover battles and giving the offense short fields more often
Speaker 1: than not, because they sure as hell aren't gonna win
Speaker 1: a ton of games doing it the way they're doing it.
Speaker 1: Right now. That's the big thing is when you look
Speaker 1: at a team like this that has struggles on offense,
Speaker 1: the turnovo battle becomes huge because it makes a difference
Speaker 1: in just sometimes those turnovers actually turned into points. Sometimes
Speaker 1: those turnovers turned into field goals. Whatever the situation is,
Speaker 1: you need those turnovers and you can't give them up. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, I think they lost the turnovo battle three
Speaker 1: to zero. Is that right? Yes? So? And with an
Speaker 1: offense this bat, you're not going to win games when
Speaker 1: you have a three zero So so let's say, for example,
Speaker 1: Earl Thomas was not on that team. Let's say, for example,
Speaker 1: Earl Thimis was on your team. I don't think there
Speaker 1: was a safety on that field yesterday for either team
Speaker 1: outside of Earl Thomas. That makes those two interceptions. Both
Speaker 1: those plays were amazing plays. I don't think most of
Speaker 1: those guys make so, that being said, like you change
Speaker 1: the whole complexion of that game by two interceptions not
Speaker 1: being interceptions. That's a big defer. Cowboys don't have a
Speaker 1: wide receiver that can make a play, that can make
Speaker 1: make that I'm serious. Both those catches were unbelievable play
Speaker 1: hand eye coordination, I'm just saying, I've seen our defense
Speaker 1: give turnovers and the Cowboys get the ball and they
Speaker 1: still don't do anything with it. I'm just saying, and
Speaker 1: you have a bad offense. But the problem is, like
Speaker 1: they've said, the only chance you got right now unless
Speaker 1: basically tooth in one of two exactly. I agree that
Speaker 1: the offense is gonna have to get appreciably better in season,
Speaker 1: which I don't know if that happens. How does that happen? Yeah,
Speaker 1: or they're gonna have to the defense is just gonna
Speaker 1: have to play out of their minds. I think you
Speaker 1: have a better shot of the defense playing out of
Speaker 1: their minds then the offense getting appreciably better this season. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I why costs though second round pick? Yeah, maybe you're right,
Speaker 1: but it went up who knows. It's like if if
Speaker 1: they if doing that doesn't even get you to the playoff,
Speaker 1: was it worth it? Yeah? Yeah, because you're going to
Speaker 1: get him for the next few years. You have to
Speaker 1: only make this trade if you know you can resign
Speaker 1: him if you're getting a long term deals on again. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if someone just turned on like thirty seconds ago, they're like,
Speaker 1: we're still just talking, like we've always talked. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's anything closer, And if you're him, I'm less today.
Speaker 1: I feel less likely it's going to happen than I
Speaker 1: did even Friday. Yeah, I really do no, And that's
Speaker 1: we're kind of getting lost in the weeds here. It's
Speaker 1: a fun thing to talk about, and you're you. You
Speaker 1: make a great point, Amber, because as we sit here
Speaker 1: in week three right now, it's hard to imagine this
Speaker 1: team making the playoffs. Obviously there's a lot of time left,
Speaker 1: but doing that deal for a team that might not
Speaker 1: make the playoffs could be risky, although I would argue
Speaker 1: you get three more years of that. He does not
Speaker 1: look like a guy that's planning on slowing down, and
Speaker 1: I still think that is your bet. Your best chance
Speaker 1: for this team to be successful is to have a
Speaker 1: top five ten defense and eke out what you can
Speaker 1: on offense, because even if this offense gets appreciably better,
Speaker 1: it's clearly not jumping to the top of the league.
Speaker 1: I mean again, I mean that, and that's that is
Speaker 1: that is what is so disheartening to me as we
Speaker 1: sit here, is that the Cowboys run game, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, Zeke had a fumble, Z Zeke maybe played
Speaker 1: his worst game as a pro yesterday. Honestly, say that
Speaker 1: this is why you lost, is that your best player
Speaker 1: on the field was your worst. He was the best
Speaker 1: player on the field, he had the best game of
Speaker 1: anybody on the team, and he actually had one of
Speaker 1: the worst games. It's hard to win like that, it is,
Speaker 1: but well, you're right he did. I mean, he left
Speaker 1: a touchdown on the field that would have made it.
Speaker 1: What seven to seven changed the whole complexion of the
Speaker 1: first half. I have my doubts that it changes the
Speaker 1: outcome just because it was so anemic the rest of
Speaker 1: the time, but you never know. And then obviously the
Speaker 1: fumble in the open field when it was still possible
Speaker 1: to make it a game. Having said that, they did
Speaker 1: exactly what they want to do on the ground, they
Speaker 1: I mean, I would have liked to see some more
Speaker 1: design runs by Dak, but I'll even allow that when
Speaker 1: you have a linebacker like Bobby Wagner, the Seahawks can
Speaker 1: kind of dictate that. But to see them put up
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy rushing yards in a road game
Speaker 1: and still look that bad, Like, I don't know what
Speaker 1: to say, because typically in a Cowboys loss, You're like, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: they took away the run, what do you want them
Speaker 1: to do? Like, that's kind of what we've always said.
Speaker 1: They didn't yesterday and it didn't matter. But I think
Speaker 1: what we saw yesterday is this team, constructed as it is,
Speaker 1: has to be perfect to win. Because if you take
Speaker 1: away the touchdown, if you if you look at that
Speaker 1: touchdown as Ke stepped out of bounds, if he doesn't
Speaker 1: step out of a bound, you get that score. If
Speaker 1: Randy Gregory doesn't have the dumb play where he hits
Speaker 1: the guy and and basically gives up three points, right,
Speaker 1: you take those two things, that's ten points right there.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys have to be perfect. They cannot have room
Speaker 1: for the stupid mistakes, right, They can't. They don't have
Speaker 1: room for that if they're going to win. And that's
Speaker 1: a hard thing to do to say, you're going to
Speaker 1: go through a sixteen week season and you're not gonna
Speaker 1: have mistakes, like you're gonna play perfect every week. That's
Speaker 1: where they are right now because they just offensively can't
Speaker 1: get anything going. It's I mean, people don't want to
Speaker 1: hear me talk about my college football team, but it
Speaker 1: reminds me of watching LSU, Like there's there's talent there.
Speaker 1: They can do things, but the minute it gets off
Speaker 1: of their schedule or what they want it to be,
Speaker 1: it falls apart. Uh. You know, I think I speak
Speaker 1: for anybody listening to this when I say I don't
Speaker 1: want to hear about being behind the chains this week.
Speaker 1: I know we're going to Oh they talk about it
Speaker 1: last I know. I know we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: And I get it, like second and third and long
Speaker 1: is not where you want to be in football, but
Speaker 1: good offense has overcome it all the time. It's part
Speaker 1: of the game. Uh. And if you if third and
Speaker 1: eight is a death sentence to your hopes of moving
Speaker 1: the ball downfield, you suck. Sorry, I'm sorry, there's nothing
Speaker 1: else to say. WHOA. That's usually my quote is that,
Speaker 1: But and here we are, I mean, welcome to the
Speaker 1: break the offense is. I just you know, when you
Speaker 1: see thirty two carries for Carson for one hundred and
Speaker 1: two yards and you see sixteen carries for Zeke for
Speaker 1: one twenty seven. I mean, but I'm going through the
Speaker 1: play by plays and I'm not really finding a lot
Speaker 1: of plays. I'm not I'm not trying to say, well,
Speaker 1: you know, the Cowboys. You know, I'm going to defend them.
Speaker 1: But if you just go through the play by play,
Speaker 1: you can't really find a ton of plays where you're like,
Speaker 1: should have run there, should have run there. I mean
Speaker 1: there's there's a couple of the Cowboys. Yeah, well, I
Speaker 1: think the really I think the thing about it is
Speaker 1: as far as I look at it, and and this
Speaker 1: is going to go into a whole different conversation, but
Speaker 1: I just think that the Cowboys offense wasn't diverse enough.
Speaker 1: We saw the week before and then it starts and
Speaker 1: stops with this. We saw the week before how successful
Speaker 1: they were and how much it helped the offense move.
Speaker 1: When they use his own read, it just made a difference.
Speaker 1: And to say that they didn't use it until I
Speaker 1: think it was like the late third or early forth
Speaker 1: before they get it one time. I mean it was.
Speaker 1: It was a clearly a successful part of their offense
Speaker 1: in week two. It just made no sense that they
Speaker 1: want to go back to what else was big in
Speaker 1: week two about like throwing the ball down the bild. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and honestly, you can even don't do it again, make
Speaker 1: argument Synchy. You can even make arguments as far as
Speaker 1: throwing it down the field that there was so much
Speaker 1: pressure that they didn't have time to do it. I'll
Speaker 1: even allow for that whatever, But the point is to me,
Speaker 1: the zone read. There's nothing about pressure. This is a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, that would have slowed down the pressure
Speaker 1: that was coming at you if you would hit them
Speaker 1: with a few a few zone reads. I just think
Speaker 1: that it's just it's baffling to me that offensively, it
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like they're taking the things that are actually
Speaker 1: successful and continuing to do them. It's almost like they
Speaker 1: outthink themselves, like yeah, just like yeah, they're they're gonna
Speaker 1: see that deep ball coming, So let's don't do that,
Speaker 1: all right, We're gonna take our first break when we
Speaker 1: come back. I do want to talk about this offensive
Speaker 1: line because I think a lot of the problems that
Speaker 1: they're having offensively is coming from the offensive line, and
Speaker 1: this is supposed to be what we all thought was
Speaker 1: the best part of this team. We'll talk about that
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Speaker 1: Back to the Brink Welcome back. It is the second
Speaker 1: segment of the show. We're talking about the Cowboy we're talking.
Speaker 1: We're talking about the Cowboys lost thirteen at Seattle. This
Speaker 1: is what's what's what am I looking for? This is
Speaker 1: a representation of the team. It's okay, sorry, pretty and
Speaker 1: get your stuff together over there? Please? It broke, man,
Speaker 1: I guess I'll just how did you break it? I
Speaker 1: was trying to tea he is always messing with I've
Speaker 1: never even touched this. Why do you always do that?
Speaker 1: What do you want for me not to do that?
Speaker 1: You know what? He reminds me of. He reminds me
Speaker 1: of the guy that's in concert that's always like at
Speaker 1: his mic and always fixing his mic as he's about
Speaker 1: to seeing like Dave is all whatever, you bring your
Speaker 1: own headphones down here. That's and what does it have
Speaker 1: to do with messing with the microphone? This is not
Speaker 1: my fault? All right? Well you just stand there like
Speaker 1: just gonna have it all the time, and now you
Speaker 1: cut a compilation of how many times it's been Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like, what do you do that? What do you
Speaker 1: think that the reason that this thing's broke? I'll have
Speaker 1: to investigate after I didn't definitively say who sits there for? Rob? Rob?
Speaker 1: It's fine, Yeah, just leave me alone. Let's just talk
Speaker 1: about this game, all right. So let's get back into it.
Speaker 1: Cowboys at Seattle, and I wanted to talk about the
Speaker 1: offensive line. Do you think this offensive line is not
Speaker 1: good enough for them to have the type of offensive
Speaker 1: strategy that they have, which is a run first type strategy.
Speaker 1: Do you think that you need to have an offensive
Speaker 1: line that's playing better in order for this thing to
Speaker 1: have a chance that you have? Yes? Did I just
Speaker 1: hear you right like they ran for one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy year? No? No No, But but my point is they
Speaker 1: couldn't protect the quarterback. No. And if you can't protect
Speaker 1: the quarterback in this kind of offense, then you're even
Speaker 1: I think, even more at risk because even though your run,
Speaker 1: if you ever get behind, you have no shot. I
Speaker 1: am leary about going down this road because I have
Speaker 1: not rewatched it. I don't know, but I'm bringing it
Speaker 1: up because Dak himself brought it up last night. He said,
Speaker 1: I'm hesitant to criticize the offensive line even when I
Speaker 1: don't have time, because when I go back and look,
Speaker 1: some of that stuff is self pressure. Some of that
Speaker 1: stuff is on me, and self pressure. Tell me what
Speaker 1: that means. Self pressure, as in the offensive line does
Speaker 1: enough to give him time and he bails out and
Speaker 1: runs into pressure. I can think of one right off
Speaker 1: the top of my head, which we can talk about.
Speaker 1: Tyron Smith. He got his butt kick by Frank Clark yesterday.
Speaker 1: But Frank Clark ripped around the outside and Dak felt
Speaker 1: it and started moving up and moved up out of
Speaker 1: his protection, and Clark just dipped back around and sacked
Speaker 1: him like he had time if he played that different.
Speaker 1: But a lot of those those sacks are called coverage sacks,
Speaker 1: so he can say he can call it self pressure
Speaker 1: all you want to, but it's also those receivers aren't
Speaker 1: getting open. Are you sure about that? Though? Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure they're not. I mean, who's open, Who's sitting
Speaker 1: there going I'm wide open? I mean how many times?
Speaker 1: And I have to go back and I have to
Speaker 1: go back and watch it. I just know that in
Speaker 1: the last two weeks, I've seen receivers open on several
Speaker 1: occasions and the quarterback didn't get him the ball. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen this is all twenty two for this game.
Speaker 1: Yet to be able to say that you're gonna find that,
Speaker 1: you're gonna find some receivers that are open at times.
Speaker 1: You can find that all over the place. But you
Speaker 1: know that that this offense isn't scheming these guys to
Speaker 1: run free and all that. I mean, you saw a
Speaker 1: difference between what Seattle does and how they get their guys,
Speaker 1: and they get guys you've never even heard of wide open,
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys are struggling to get anybody open. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's ridiculous, full disclosed. Again. Like I I feel
Speaker 1: a little bit uncomfortable because what we got. I got
Speaker 1: in bed at two last night, I got up, I
Speaker 1: had to go to the doctor. I had to get
Speaker 1: my dog from the vet. I haven't rewatched this game,
Speaker 1: but I bet when I do, I will see a
Speaker 1: combination of all of the above. I think Dak, for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, especially two weeks on the road now, in
Speaker 1: these hostile environments against good defenses, he I think he's
Speaker 1: a little gun shy. I think he's hesitant. I think
Speaker 1: the receivers probably don't do a great job of getting open.
Speaker 1: I think he misdiagnoses his pressure sometimes, and then when
Speaker 1: the defense builds up a lead and can tee off,
Speaker 1: and then I think the offensive line gets beat as well.
Speaker 1: I think it all ties together to be a disaster.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can scapegoat any one person, but
Speaker 1: the receivers, the quarterback, and the offensive line between the
Speaker 1: three of them, I think they're all playing pretty poorly
Speaker 1: right now. So what do you think it says about
Speaker 1: this offense as Zeke ran so well, which is what
Speaker 1: they want to do. They did what they want to
Speaker 1: do that we wanted to do on the ground yesterday
Speaker 1: and they still couldn't get the offense to consistently run it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think it goes to what one of
Speaker 1: the first things that Dave said on the show was
Speaker 1: that just how bad the passing game is, because it's
Speaker 1: kind of like a bend but don't break. I mean,
Speaker 1: we're gonna keep bending here and we're gonna give up
Speaker 1: some some runs to a really good running back, but
Speaker 1: when it gets down to it, we're gonna eventually kind
Speaker 1: of shut him down and we're gonna force, you know,
Speaker 1: the receivers to make plays and Dad to get him
Speaker 1: the ball, and over a long period of time in
Speaker 1: this drive, you're not going to be able to do it.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of what happens. They just don't have
Speaker 1: guys that just win one on one that passed that
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson threw to Brandon Marshall on the sideline. I mean,
Speaker 1: Cheeto can't cover the guy better than that. It was
Speaker 1: the most unbelievable throw dak Is ever made that throw.
Speaker 1: He doesn't make that throw and you need that every
Speaker 1: once in a while, you need that, and he just
Speaker 1: I don't win the last time we've said that was
Speaker 1: an amazing throw by Dak. I think that's part of
Speaker 1: the issue though here too, though, the way the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have gone about the strategy of going with the kind
Speaker 1: of the receivers that are all here versus having an
Speaker 1: amazing receiver, You're gonna have to have a quarterback that
Speaker 1: can make that throw if that's going to be successful,
Speaker 1: because they're more often than not, those guys are not
Speaker 1: necessarily going to be in situations where they're just running free.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be in situations where they got somebody close
Speaker 1: to him. But if you put the ball on a spot,
Speaker 1: they can probably make a play, and Dak hasn't shown
Speaker 1: consistently he can put the ball on a spot it
Speaker 1: goes back. I mean, there's amounting amount of evidence that says,
Speaker 1: when everything is great, Dak Prescott can be a pretty
Speaker 1: damn good quarterback. If anything is off, he's not. And
Speaker 1: like I said, I mean that's not three games, that's
Speaker 1: about ten games, right, And again, you know you don't
Speaker 1: see you don't see those anticipation throws. You don't see
Speaker 1: a throw that's like, well, what else can the cornerback do?
Speaker 1: Like you never see that. Um, everything has to be great.
Speaker 1: The receiver has to be blatantly open or you know
Speaker 1: something like that. Um, what he averaged four point nine
Speaker 1: yards per attempt? And with the rules the way they
Speaker 1: are in the NFL, like the NFL is begging the
Speaker 1: NFL is begging teams to have dynamic passing offenses. That's
Speaker 1: what they want to the first two weeks of the season,
Speaker 1: they had more more scoring in the NFL before. It
Speaker 1: is it's the basis of this league right now, and
Speaker 1: all the rules are set up the way. If you
Speaker 1: can't do better than I mean, like six, six point
Speaker 1: nine is could be better, you know, like you're aiming
Speaker 1: for eight to eleven, Like eleven is like Pat mahomes territory.
Speaker 1: But either I mean four point nine, yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: first round pick I mean, but he was supposed to
Speaker 1: be good, and that's I mean. But again, hey, I'm
Speaker 1: saying he's got He threw for four touchdowns in the
Speaker 1: first half of the game, and the Cowboys have four
Speaker 1: touchdowns this whole season. Yep. I mean, I'm not making
Speaker 1: excuses for the guy. I love Dak. I still do
Speaker 1: and too, I still despite all the evidence of the contrary,
Speaker 1: I still think he can be a good quarterback. Again,
Speaker 1: he can be a good quarterback when everything's rolling the
Speaker 1: right way for him. I don't know. I mean Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: The Seahawks ran for two point nine yards per carry,
Speaker 1: like Russell Wilson engineered most of that himself. Obviously, the
Speaker 1: Seahawks had a game plan to lean on the run,
Speaker 1: but Russell Wilson was making plays out of thin air
Speaker 1: and has done that for a long time. I don't
Speaker 1: know if Dak is that guy. I'm sorry, but I
Speaker 1: mean again, I like Dak too, But I don't think
Speaker 1: when you say, when you say he's a quarterback, when
Speaker 1: things are going well, he can be really good. But
Speaker 1: if they're not going well, then it's really bad, Like
Speaker 1: that's not a good quarterback. Then if that's really the case,
Speaker 1: then that is not a good NFL quarterback. Because quarterback,
Speaker 1: your job is to make it right. Your job when
Speaker 1: it's third and eleven because this guy missed the block,
Speaker 1: this guy had a penalty, and now you're behind the chains.
Speaker 1: It's your job to bring it back. It's not really
Speaker 1: the other way around. I honestly, I think we've seen
Speaker 1: two decks. I mean, I think earlier in his career,
Speaker 1: I think there were some games where things weren't necessarily
Speaker 1: going well and he played well despite that. So I
Speaker 1: think it's we've seen and really you can see the
Speaker 1: dividing line after that Atlanta game. It's been a whole
Speaker 1: different player, it really has. So. But there's two RG
Speaker 1: three's I don't yeah true, there's one that there's a
Speaker 1: ball cap and one hat was Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you watch Houston, same things happening with
Speaker 1: Shaun Watson. Last year he was lighting the league on fire,
Speaker 1: and this year he has been anything but Hey, defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator X. Your job this whole summer is to figure
Speaker 1: out these teen quarterbacks that you have to face, and
Speaker 1: especially these five or six that you've never faced. Figure
Speaker 1: them out. It happened all other guys. And it happened
Speaker 1: again yesterday. I don't know if anybody else noticed, but
Speaker 1: Barkivous Mingo shouts out, Lsu sacked the hell out of
Speaker 1: Dack on one of those you know action waggles where
Speaker 1: the sleight of hand and the action in the back
Speaker 1: didn't fool anybody. And that's the third week in a row.
Speaker 1: That's like, I know, take that stuff out of the
Speaker 1: playbook because they know what they know what it is,
Speaker 1: they know what's got a lot of fans that are
Speaker 1: upset about the fact that you can grab the quarterback
Speaker 1: like that and throw him down like that, but you
Speaker 1: can't do a textbook tackle and bring a guy to
Speaker 1: the ground. I'll tell you what's gonna happen. There's no
Speaker 1: makes it difference. Happened when when you know, a guy
Speaker 1: just hits a quarterback like that and he just doesn't
Speaker 1: throw it and he kind of bounces off and then
Speaker 1: he rolls over here. I mean, I really I don't
Speaker 1: know anything different that Tyron Crawford could have done on
Speaker 1: that play. I really don't. But you know, and I'll
Speaker 1: show you the juxtaposition of that. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you guys saw the ending of the of the Saints game,
Speaker 1: Drew Brees was running around the corner trying to get
Speaker 1: in the end zone. The guys that there were two
Speaker 1: defends there. They both hit him. They didn't wrap him up.
Speaker 1: They hit him and he spun around and he went
Speaker 1: into the end zone. And it's one of those things
Speaker 1: where now guys can't even wrap up because if you
Speaker 1: wrap up and you drive, there's a good chance you're
Speaker 1: gonna drive him back down and you're gonna fall on
Speaker 1: top of him, because that's the rule. Though, can you
Speaker 1: do that like on the other side of the scrimmage.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you can do that. I'm sure runner maybe
Speaker 1: want to become a runner. All I'm saying, though, defenders
Speaker 1: are now having the second guess how they tackle because
Speaker 1: you can't even make what has been a textbook tackle. Literally,
Speaker 1: this is text This is what they used to show
Speaker 1: as this is what you do when you tackle someone.
Speaker 1: You hit them not with your head, you hit them
Speaker 1: with your shoulder. You drive backwards, you drive, and you
Speaker 1: drive through the person into the ground. Like that's what
Speaker 1: you do. That's a textbook tackle. I firmly believe that
Speaker 1: NFL officials are calling these hits just based on optics,
Speaker 1: like whether it looks nasty or not, or whether it
Speaker 1: looks violent. Um to no it' I know, I wrote
Speaker 1: a story about it. I was. I was impressed and
Speaker 1: refreshed by Tyrone Crawford's honesty yesterday. He is he is
Speaker 1: not a guy that wants to give a great sound
Speaker 1: bite like he's he's a cautious interview, understandably so in
Speaker 1: this day and age. But he did not hold back
Speaker 1: to all he's about that flag. He I mean, what
Speaker 1: didn't he say? He said, I don't know any other
Speaker 1: way to hit. Leon Lette told me that he would
Speaker 1: have been flagged about two hundred times in his career
Speaker 1: if that was a flag in his day. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to change the way I hit. I can't afford
Speaker 1: to let these officials get in my head. You know,
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are slippery again to your points, like if you
Speaker 1: don't hit that way, they're going to get away from you, exactly.
Speaker 1: M Bessie Russell Wilson. He's like, I'm sure the finds
Speaker 1: come in my way. And I mean basically was like,
Speaker 1: I don't care, Like that's how I have to play
Speaker 1: football to be successful at my job and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, he's like, I would prefer that money to
Speaker 1: go to my family, but if they want to flag
Speaker 1: me on some petty stuff, it is what it is.
Speaker 1: Changed the first half of the game. That was absolutely
Speaker 1: huge point. That was it was I'm glad you said
Speaker 1: that because I don't really disagree, and that's I hate
Speaker 1: the flag. I think it's I mean, I don't really agree,
Speaker 1: is what I mean. I hate the flag. I think
Speaker 1: it's stupid. I think it's ruining the game. I can't
Speaker 1: sit here and act like that's why the Cowboys lost.
Speaker 1: It's not why they lost. But I'm just saying this
Speaker 1: team is. Momentum is a big deal. Field position is
Speaker 1: a big deal. They have their average starting field position
Speaker 1: with their own twenty yard line. You get off the
Speaker 1: field and dickon his punting in his own end zone.
Speaker 1: Now he could maybe boom at sixty yards, but you're
Speaker 1: gonna be at like the forty or fifty rights. That's
Speaker 1: the type of play that you need to play downhill,
Speaker 1: get a field goal, get a lead, get a touchdown.
Speaker 1: That changes things. Do they win? I don't know, but
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that's a big deal. All those things
Speaker 1: add up The beautiful thing about football is like, you know,
Speaker 1: you play seventy snaps, it doesn't feel like they all
Speaker 1: matter in the moment. They do. They all really do.
Speaker 1: You know. That's something I learned when I started covering
Speaker 1: this team is like when you're watching as a fan,
Speaker 1: it's a three hour game, it feels like forever, but
Speaker 1: it's eight possessions, like it's not a lot. Having said,
Speaker 1: I still I can't bring myself to completely agree. I
Speaker 1: hear everything you said. Seattle didn't score any points. It
Speaker 1: was the first quarter. You know, you had a hole.
Speaker 1: You had a hole two three and a half quarters
Speaker 1: to make a positive impact. After that, it sucked. It
Speaker 1: changed the flow of the game. But I'm not can't
Speaker 1: use that as an excuse for why they will. Just
Speaker 1: remember this though, Seattle has been playing behind in the
Speaker 1: first two games, especially the second game, and you know,
Speaker 1: and that's not what their strength is. They can't run
Speaker 1: Carson thirty two times when they're behind. And if this
Speaker 1: defensive line could have maybe got a lead, teed off
Speaker 1: on him a little bit and actually split one of
Speaker 1: their weaknesses, it could have been different. If you take
Speaker 1: the lead. That again, that doesn't change things, but there's
Speaker 1: a big play in the game, and how much did
Speaker 1: it affect the other guys later in the game of like, well,
Speaker 1: I can't do this, you can't hold them, can't hit them.
Speaker 1: Here goes back to the point which I mean, and
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a coincidence that the Cowboys took
Speaker 1: an early lead against the Giants last week. Either is again,
Speaker 1: if I think we said it after a week one,
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys are dictating the game, they can be
Speaker 1: pretty good. If the game is being dictated to them,
Speaker 1: they look lost, all right. One of the thing I
Speaker 1: want to ask you before we get Joan, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask this question too. We talked about the offensive line.
Speaker 1: Knowing what you solved from that game, does that change anything?
Speaker 1: And now you go take you back to second round
Speaker 1: of the draft. Does that change anything that you do? Now?
Speaker 1: Can I throw out something as a part of that.
Speaker 1: At about the same time as Connor William was giving
Speaker 1: up a sack yesterday, Derwin James was catching an interception
Speaker 1: in the end zone in the game that he was playing.
Speaker 1: Now again, they Derwin James was not there when it
Speaker 1: was time for them to select in the second round.
Speaker 1: But I do think that even in the first right
Speaker 1: they had, they would have had to move up two spots.
Speaker 1: But I guess the point that I'm making is I
Speaker 1: think there was there was certainly opportunity for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: to go and get a safety in the draft if
Speaker 1: they felt like they wanted to get a safety. And
Speaker 1: I think that when you look at everything that happened
Speaker 1: yesterday from the standpoint of the Cowboys safeties, from the
Speaker 1: standpoint of the safety they were playing, from the standpoint
Speaker 1: of the guy that they ended up drafting, from the
Speaker 1: standpoint of the guy that they could have drafted, I
Speaker 1: think there was a lot of stuff that suggested that maybe,
Speaker 1: just maybe they should have gone up and gotten Derwin James.
Speaker 1: I hate that you're making me do this because it's
Speaker 1: well documented how much I liked and wanted Derwin James
Speaker 1: and how stupid I thought it was that this Cowboys
Speaker 1: didn't address the safety position. But as we sit here
Speaker 1: on Monday morning, drafting Layton vander esh looks pretty smart
Speaker 1: because it doesn't sound like Sean he's going to be
Speaker 1: playing for the foreseeable future. Could Joe Thomas do that? Maybe,
Speaker 1: But you didn't know that at the time. I understand that.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying what I'll ask you, like this, take
Speaker 1: Sean out of the mix. Is your bigger problem at
Speaker 1: safety or at linebacker? The linebacker corps has looked Goodith
Speaker 1: just understood. I get it, and that's what it was.
Speaker 1: This is the epitome of hindsight twenty twenty. I get.
Speaker 1: So I'll say I I hate this again. I wanted
Speaker 1: Derwin James. I think they probably made the right call
Speaker 1: because you did not know any of that stuff at
Speaker 1: the time you had to make that pick. And we
Speaker 1: have seen we have seen a small sample size. They
Speaker 1: broke down yesterday, but through three games, safety has not
Speaker 1: been as drastic of an issue as we thought it
Speaker 1: might be. But at that time, did you think which
Speaker 1: did you think was a bigger problem linebacker safety heading
Speaker 1: into the draft? Linemanbacker? Honestly, But I thought on the show,
Speaker 1: I thought, when you talked about safety, you said they
Speaker 1: have to address the safety position. Maybe it's not a draft,
Speaker 1: they got to do it, and they didn't under standpoint
Speaker 1: of going out and even getting one of those other
Speaker 1: free agent safeties that was out there, right, But but
Speaker 1: you did nothing, which I'm firmly anti that they did. Not.
Speaker 1: I mean, they could have signed to any number of
Speaker 1: free agents. They could have drafted somebody. There were a
Speaker 1: lot of them that were available up through the training camp.
Speaker 1: Irwin James, if you're gonna, if you're gonna say that
Speaker 1: they could have gotten him, do you just remember that
Speaker 1: you don't have Layton vander Esh and Connor Williams, because
Speaker 1: you're not gonna you have to give up a second
Speaker 1: round pick, probably to move up three spots or well
Speaker 1: at least a third probably gonna say maybe not a second.
Speaker 1: If you had Derwin James, you wouldn't have Laton Vanderesh
Speaker 1: and Michael Gallup, which through three games, I'm sure a
Speaker 1: lot of people are sitting here like big whoop, Like
Speaker 1: Layton Vanderesh has ten tackles and Michael gall looks terrible. Which, okay,
Speaker 1: we're three games in Layton Vanderesh. They made that pick
Speaker 1: because they can't trust Sean Lee to play sixteen games.
Speaker 1: And Sean Lee is thirty two. He's way closer to
Speaker 1: the end of his career than the beginning. It looks
Speaker 1: like a pretty smart pick right now. The news coming
Speaker 1: out right now, I mean, it seems very unlikely Sean
Speaker 1: is going to play against Detroit. I would guess he's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be out multiple report Well, Sean Sean said
Speaker 1: last night that you know, we'll see he didn't sounds
Speaker 1: not sound optimistic. Rappaport came out this morning. Sources say
Speaker 1: he'll likely be sidelined for multiple weeks. And Jason Garrell
Speaker 1: talked this afternoon. But it doesn't sound like you know,
Speaker 1: last week it was I'll be ready for some last
Speaker 1: it was a cramp, yeah, and now it's a full
Speaker 1: blown hamstring. So I have a hard time killing him
Speaker 1: for drafting Layton Vanderesh right now, and especially I thought
Speaker 1: he played pretty well yesterday. Answer the question, do I
Speaker 1: wish I had Derwin James? No, of course I wish James,
Speaker 1: but not at that. This is different, And honestly I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not making the claim one way or the other.
Speaker 1: Here's that playoffs telling you about. I'm not making the
Speaker 1: claim one way or the other. The point is that
Speaker 1: I think it does beg the question did the Cowboys
Speaker 1: not do enough at the safety position, regardless of whether
Speaker 1: that was Derwin James, most way beyond the safety position.
Speaker 1: And it's like I've been talking about safety positions since
Speaker 1: I can remember Dave and I have been going at it.
Speaker 1: But this is past the safety position. This is all
Speaker 1: about the offense. And I don't care why you guys
Speaker 1: say about making this defense great and yes they can
Speaker 1: really help the Cowboys. I do believe that. Yes, right
Speaker 1: now you're relying on your defense, but at this point,
Speaker 1: looking at what you have, the safety position is the
Speaker 1: least of my worries At this moment, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't put it in that category because I think yesterday
Speaker 1: and what we've seen in the first two weeks of
Speaker 1: the season, this defense was actually pretty good to hold
Speaker 1: those teams to too much to like, you know, sixteen points.
Speaker 1: You gotta you can't. You gotta separate the like just
Speaker 1: because the offense is bad doesn't mean you just can't
Speaker 1: even focus on the defense. I mean, those are these
Speaker 1: are two different conversations. Yes, absolutely, But I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: if you're wanting to get somewhere and again, separate the two.
Speaker 1: You need the other to help you win games. As
Speaker 1: as of right now, the defense is pulling a ton
Speaker 1: of weight and the offense is doing very little things.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, again, if if the Cowboys offense keeps
Speaker 1: going in and out of the field, being there for
Speaker 1: like a minute. It's like you're putting more work on
Speaker 1: your defense, You're wearing them off, and it's like, how
Speaker 1: long are you gonna be able to keep this going?
Speaker 1: How long can you keep relying on your defense? At
Speaker 1: some point you have to help them and give them something.
Speaker 1: And even if you, like I said, even if they
Speaker 1: get a takeaway and get an interception, give the Cowboys
Speaker 1: the ball back, what does that matter? Why does it? How?
Speaker 1: How does that matter? If you're not able to score
Speaker 1: at you're being I mean, I think you're saying that
Speaker 1: this team, this offense is like absolutely like ineffective when
Speaker 1: they I mean, if they got the ball at midfield,
Speaker 1: they're gonna score points, are they? Yeah, they're gonna score
Speaker 1: They got the ball on the Giants half last week
Speaker 1: and kicked a field goal with it? Is that not point? Okay?
Speaker 1: If you're gonna win games not even scoring field goals? Cool? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Tennessee did because their defense was outstanding. Good
Speaker 1: point every time, not every time. But they're gonna score touchdowns.
Speaker 1: But they have they have a dynamic running back. They
Speaker 1: can they can score. They just keep giving them the
Speaker 1: ball in midfield and see what happens. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: not gonna have any dynamic running back. Didn't help this,
Speaker 1: but no, but no, Amber, I think I think the
Speaker 1: point of I think the point of it is. I
Speaker 1: think the point of it is, if you're gonna have
Speaker 1: a dynamic running game, if you're gonna be successful, and
Speaker 1: you don't have if you've got a very very mediocre
Speaker 1: quarterback play. Right if you got mediocre quarterback play, but
Speaker 1: you got a good running game, the only way, genus,
Speaker 1: the only way, the only way you're gonna be successful,
Speaker 1: in my opinions, if you have a great defense. And
Speaker 1: that's my point. The chances of this team being successful
Speaker 1: are better right now with them having a great defense.
Speaker 1: And that's about the safety position. I think that is
Speaker 1: the weakest link of this defense right now. You could
Speaker 1: solve You could have solved that problem. I think I
Speaker 1: think you could have had a better safety position and
Speaker 1: this defense would have had a chance to be great
Speaker 1: enough to where you do give yourself a chance even
Speaker 1: with an offense that's just ineffective. What would that very
Speaker 1: mixed feelings and again, you're just you're I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: just really upset. No, that's I love it when you
Speaker 1: bring like you're pissed off listening, And that's okay, because
Speaker 1: a lot of people listening right combine like twelve hours,
Speaker 1: we all agree, we all agree about the safety Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: you're probably right. Yeah, I don't know. We all agree
Speaker 1: about the safety position. And I'm not arguing that well
Speaker 1: I am right now just because I'm so upset. It's like, again,
Speaker 1: you look at the Cowboys offense and you see the
Speaker 1: talent that you have. I truly believe that they are
Speaker 1: capable of moving the ball, scoring points and getting this
Speaker 1: team going. But when you see Seek putting up those
Speaker 1: runs and looking at the numbers that they got and
Speaker 1: they're still coming out the game with the loss like that,
Speaker 1: it's it's upsetting. And that's just where I'm going at
Speaker 1: It's like when you see this offense not really producing
Speaker 1: what you expect them to or at least getting going,
Speaker 1: especially after what you saw worked last weekend. And remember
Speaker 1: when I said, okay, maybe they'll go back look at
Speaker 1: the film and clearly see what worked and what did it.
Speaker 1: I mean, that was a clear visual of the things
Speaker 1: that you can do and make it work right and
Speaker 1: what you. You know how to mess up the game anyways.
Speaker 1: Just when you see those those calls and those things
Speaker 1: happening on the field, it's just upsetting you. Like that
Speaker 1: um that Drake song that's out right now. I don't
Speaker 1: listen to Drake. I'm upset you. Just all right, we're
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Speaker 1: happens with that? This one was Weggie? What did he
Speaker 1: take it back? Yeah? They just got a pile. No,
Speaker 1: you don't have to smell him. Come on, man, I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, I mean, come on, I'm so sad that
Speaker 1: my microphone won't stay. You're still over there wrestling, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but didn't magically fix itself, just like the Cowboys exactly.
Speaker 1: It's like week two, the Cowboys are going into Seattle.
Speaker 1: Everything's gonna be great. What I am? Oh? Man? All right,
Speaker 1: let's get some phone calls. Um, I want to kind
Speaker 1: of hear from a fan on this. Joe and Merrill
Speaker 1: and Joe, what up, Joe? How's it going? Guys? I
Speaker 1: just wanted to say that I was one of the
Speaker 1: many fans trying to kick Tony Romo out of the
Speaker 1: door and uh, Dak Prescott although he has not been
Speaker 1: playing well, I don't think he should take most of
Speaker 1: the blame. I mean he can't play offensive line or
Speaker 1: can he account for not having a Chason Witten or
Speaker 1: Dez Bryant on the outside. That because the coordinators have
Speaker 1: to account for because right now you have one player
Speaker 1: that scares any kind of defensive coordinator, which is Ezekiel Elliott.
Speaker 1: So until this team can get someone else on offense
Speaker 1: that poses any kind of threat to any opposing teams,
Speaker 1: we're going to run into the same problem week after weeks.
Speaker 1: And that's all I have to say to you guys.
Speaker 1: And I don't think there's anything we could possibly do
Speaker 1: midseason to bring someone in, um besides des Bryant. But um,
Speaker 1: I just like to hear your thoughts on that and
Speaker 1: Amber it goes down in the DM. Can I ask
Speaker 1: you a question? Can I ask you a question? Was
Speaker 1: he shooting a shot at you? He was trying? UM,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this question. So you said the
Speaker 1: only thing they can do is bring in Dez Bryant.
Speaker 1: Was the same thing happening last year when des Brian
Speaker 1: was here. I think he's gone already, man, But don't
Speaker 1: do that. No, I really want to ask the question
Speaker 1: because I think I've heard this from fans before. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: because I want to hear from fans when they say,
Speaker 1: and I've heard them say it on Twitter multiple times,
Speaker 1: des is the answer to this problem. But I don't
Speaker 1: see that because Dez was a part of this problem
Speaker 1: last year. I don't think having Dez here solves your problem.
Speaker 1: And I want to hear from someone who believes that.
Speaker 1: Why they think that all of a sudden Deaz was
Speaker 1: gonna be better when last year dead was here and
Speaker 1: it wasn't the answer to the problem. I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't feel like the fact that he
Speaker 1: said that, you know Witton and he didn't have Witten
Speaker 1: and Dez. I mean Dak is one of the reasons
Speaker 1: for that. I mean, the Cowboys made the decision that
Speaker 1: they didn't think this could work together, so they went
Speaker 1: with Dak, and that that they cut de Witt. That's
Speaker 1: another lemonade question right there. But I gues you think
Speaker 1: Jason Witten walks away to Monday night football if he's
Speaker 1: got a quarterback that can that can throw him the ball.
Speaker 1: I don't, honestly not if he did, I don't in
Speaker 1: my opinion, he didn't have confidence in in this offense,
Speaker 1: the calling, the quarterback, and he's like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I'm going to Monday night. I agree with that. I
Speaker 1: think that said all he had to said. The weapons
Speaker 1: is part of this is, you know, because they said
Speaker 1: we're gonna go here with Dak and we're gonna make
Speaker 1: this friendly offense and we're gonna do this, but it's not.
Speaker 1: It's not friendly because as you asked Amber, as you
Speaker 1: asked Dak in the very first press conference of the
Speaker 1: season of being after Carolina, you said, do you have
Speaker 1: too many receivers running around? And he was like, no, no,
Speaker 1: of course not, but they do. They do. They have
Speaker 1: too many guys trying to figure this out, and nobody
Speaker 1: gets in a flow. Nobody can do anything special. I mean,
Speaker 1: you start off a game with three tight ends, are
Speaker 1: you serious? And one of them barely even knows the position.
Speaker 1: I mean that just that just tells you right there
Speaker 1: that like and the other guy, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll go back to him, I'll go back to Jarwin.
Speaker 1: How big is Randy Gregory's penalty? Three points? No big deal?
Speaker 1: Imagine it. Let's just say it plays out this way.
Speaker 1: And imagine you're down eight driving with five minutes to go.
Speaker 1: Do you have to force the ball to to Blake Jarwin,
Speaker 1: who's made zero plays in the NFL. Do you have
Speaker 1: to force it in there to him? You don't, you
Speaker 1: can you played a little differently. It's just comes down
Speaker 1: to it. They just don't have any guys that can
Speaker 1: make any plays. Yeah, no, I mean I again, I'm
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm pretty high up in the Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott fan club, But I don't know how you can
Speaker 1: absolve him of this. There's plenty of stuff that he's
Speaker 1: doing wrong. But that's the beautiful thing about what's happening
Speaker 1: right now is that this bed has been perfectly made
Speaker 1: by everybody in the organization. The front office didn't think
Speaker 1: they needed to spend a premium on playmakers at safety,
Speaker 1: at receiver, at tight end. What else have I mean,
Speaker 1: they went in this direction. This was the mode, and
Speaker 1: it has not worked out through three games really at all.
Speaker 1: Some of the plenty of that's on the quarterback, plenty
Speaker 1: of it's on the offensive line, a lot plenty of
Speaker 1: it is definitely on the fact that they don't have
Speaker 1: a reliable playmaker in the passing game. I mean, you
Speaker 1: tell me, I think I thought this yesterday. Like good
Speaker 1: stuff has generally happened when they've thrown it to Alan Hearns.
Speaker 1: But when I say good stuff, I mean like a
Speaker 1: fifth teen yard game. You know it's not it's not
Speaker 1: anything that is gonna make Sports Center. Well, right now,
Speaker 1: the best playmaker on offense outside of is Equel Elliott
Speaker 1: is a lot of Oh you know, I was gonna
Speaker 1: right there, and quite frankly, Tavan Austin, they're not. I
Speaker 1: don't think they're they're integrating him enough into the offense
Speaker 1: to say he's the second best, second most productive offensive player.
Speaker 1: I think he needs to be. He needs to have
Speaker 1: a way more opportunities with the ball in his hands
Speaker 1: than he does. I want to say, his carry against
Speaker 1: the Giants was for fifteen and he had an eighteen
Speaker 1: yard So he's averaging fifteen yards a carrier right now? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. Yeah, they don't. They don't use him enough,
Speaker 1: which I'm not being facetious when I say this. Are
Speaker 1: they afraid that they're gonna break him? Like? Are they
Speaker 1: afraid that he can't stand up against an NFL defense?
Speaker 1: Because that's the only explanation I can come and touch
Speaker 1: the ball eight times yesterday for forty yards, I mean,
Speaker 1: and and a lot of those is some punt returns
Speaker 1: and some wide open spaces and all that. So I
Speaker 1: mean how many of those were returns though, I mean
Speaker 1: I wouldn't count those in the same way before offense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if your offense is having problems, that's where you need
Speaker 1: to be using anymore. But but also, I mean this
Speaker 1: helps my unlimited maths skills. Four for twenty so that's
Speaker 1: also five. So I mean an offense, he got the
Speaker 1: ball four times twenty yards. Now one of that was
Speaker 1: was a run, you know, or a three yard pass.
Speaker 1: What would tax rating be like without that bad rule?
Speaker 1: Like if if that little pop pass counts as a
Speaker 1: touchdown pass, you take that away? Was it looked like? Then? Again,
Speaker 1: both those interceptions aren't on him either. All I'm saying
Speaker 1: is when he went down Phil, we've seen good things happen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when he's taking the ball on the reserve on the reverse,
Speaker 1: we've seen good things happen. When he had the little
Speaker 1: the little pass there yesterday for the touchdown, we saw
Speaker 1: good things happen. He is he is giving them good
Speaker 1: production when he has the ball in his hands on offense,
Speaker 1: and to say he went through a game and only
Speaker 1: had it four times in an offense that that wasn't
Speaker 1: functioning and wasn't consistently being able to move the ball,
Speaker 1: that to me just seems like a miss. Given given
Speaker 1: the lack of success everywhere else, it certainly would be
Speaker 1: nice to see him get more of an opportunity. But
Speaker 1: and I think it actually helps Zeke even more when
Speaker 1: teams have to factor in that there's this other guy
Speaker 1: whipping around May yeah, I mean it just to me, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: make sure you gotta go out there to stop him
Speaker 1: just in case he gets the ball. That only helps
Speaker 1: like that, there's nothing wrong with that. If they say
Speaker 1: we're gonna stop Tavan, awesome, Great. That means that's one
Speaker 1: less guy is dedicated to trying to stop Ezekiel Elliott.
Speaker 1: So I just I don't see the downside of having
Speaker 1: him way more involved in the offense. But for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: it's the same thing in the zone read for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: and they may they must have some I don't pretend
Speaker 1: to be smarter than these guys. They do it every
Speaker 1: day all day. They must have some reason. Buff for
Speaker 1: whatever reason, they're deciding that those two things are things
Speaker 1: that they just don't want to do. Yeah, yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: real quick, before we end the show, let's talk about
Speaker 1: this defense, because overall the defense has played really well
Speaker 1: for the first two weeks. Yesterday they had a lot
Speaker 1: more moments when it wasn't what we've seen so far
Speaker 1: this year. Are you at all concerned or are you
Speaker 1: backing off how good you think this defense can be?
Speaker 1: H Do you think it was just a bad day.
Speaker 1: I don't even know if it was a bad day. Seriously,
Speaker 1: I mean I think it. I think they played all right,
Speaker 1: but we're asking them to play phenomenal and this is
Speaker 1: this defense is to me just not built to be
Speaker 1: a phenomenal defense. It's been to be pretty good. You're
Speaker 1: gonna get beat by a Pro Bowl quarterback at times.
Speaker 1: He beat them with some with some throws. Um. I
Speaker 1: think they played well enough to win a game. Two
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety five yards of offense, two point nine
Speaker 1: yards per carry, uh, twenty four points. They were negative
Speaker 1: which they're negative three in turnovers, which can't have that
Speaker 1: from the offense. It's also, if there's one valid criticism,
Speaker 1: they're not getting the ball enough they have no picks
Speaker 1: through three weeks. Yeah, and they talked about that in
Speaker 1: the in the locker room after the game. Third down,
Speaker 1: that's not gonna cut forty four percent, you know, seven
Speaker 1: out of sixteen. They could have got off the field
Speaker 1: a little bit better there, but I can't, and I
Speaker 1: mean what And they had a busted coverage for a
Speaker 1: fifty two yard touchdown, which is uncharacteristic of a Rod
Speaker 1: Marinellie Deep. They really don't give up chunk touchdowns. And
Speaker 1: that's how you know that they're having problems is when
Speaker 1: they do. And I don't think it's a coincidence that
Speaker 1: Jeff Heath was getting his ankle x rayed when it happened.
Speaker 1: And if you saw the play, the corner released a guy,
Speaker 1: you could tell corner was playing up safety was suppose
Speaker 1: a deep and Cavon just wasn't there. A classic It
Speaker 1: is a classic case. And I'm I'm not making excuses.
Speaker 1: I got in a lot of hot water for quote
Speaker 1: unquote making an excuse for Randy Gregory yesterday, which I
Speaker 1: was not trying to do. But what did you say?
Speaker 1: I said, this is the third youngest roster in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and Randy Gregory's playing his fourth game in the last
Speaker 1: two years. Dumb stuff like that happens in those types
Speaker 1: of situations and people just did not which but in
Speaker 1: the same bit's true. But it's also just like you
Speaker 1: gotta be smart than that. In the same vein well,
Speaker 1: you gotta be better at safety than that. But when
Speaker 1: Xavier Woods and Cavan Frasier have three combined starts at
Speaker 1: the position in their careers on the road, these things happen.
Speaker 1: It's not an excuse for it. I'm trying to explain
Speaker 1: how that stuff happens. I mean, you don't have Earl Thomas,
Speaker 1: you don't even have Kenny Vaccaro. You've got guys who
Speaker 1: are learning the positions though, and Cavan I love what
Speaker 1: he does, but he really shouldn't be playing a lot
Speaker 1: of deep safety. He is a third to fourth safety
Speaker 1: on your team. Great special teams guy can play some
Speaker 1: nickel coverages and dime packages, but doesn't need to be
Speaker 1: about there playing and doing all that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have that kind of range and every he
Speaker 1: is beat up right now. He is not one hundred
Speaker 1: percent healthy. He's fighting through what he's playing. I think
Speaker 1: with the shoulder injury that he's just gonna wait to
Speaker 1: the season. I mean, he's not healthy. He's not healthy.
Speaker 1: Which I'm gonna remember this game too, because anytime the
Speaker 1: storyline is just that obvious, don't bank on it. Like
Speaker 1: NFL teams play, the players are too talented and the
Speaker 1: coaches are too smart. We saw that throughout the NFL
Speaker 1: this week. Yeah, well one hundred percent. But I mean, oh,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are going to have fifty sacks because the Seahawks. No,
Speaker 1: the Seahawks are going to spend all weeks scheming away
Speaker 1: to give Russell Wilson time to do his job. Two
Speaker 1: sacks is good. I mean, you know, the pass rush
Speaker 1: was fine considering his release time was insane, but it's
Speaker 1: never gonna be that obvious in the NFL. These people
Speaker 1: get paid way too much money to figure out ways
Speaker 1: to work around it. So I thought, I thought the
Speaker 1: defense was fine, that you could win a game with
Speaker 1: your defense playing that way, but the offense just didn't
Speaker 1: meet him halfway. All right, guys, appreciate you joining us.
Speaker 1: We're back tomorrow. We're gonna do a little bit more
Speaker 1: in breaking down the bigger picture of some of the
Speaker 1: stuff we saw yesterday and starting to look forward a
Speaker 1: little bit as to how the Cowboys recover from this
Speaker 1: get themselves ready for this next opponent, who, by the way,
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions beat the New England Patriots like there
Speaker 1: will be. That game just got a lot more interesting
Speaker 1: than we thought it was last week. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: that tomorrow. This is for Nick Even, Dave helm and
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