WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: What Went Wrong in Seattle? 0:00:01.560 --> 0:00:04.040 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:07.240 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:10.959 a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:15.320 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:20.680 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:26.960 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, A bar Garcia, and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:27.200 --> 0:00:30.400 It is Monday, September twenty four, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen, 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:33.480 episode number forty six. Welcome to a new edition of 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:36.440 The Break, live from s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:38.840 Great show we got lined up for you guys today. 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:42.240 We're gonna dissect that game from yesterday. It is gonna 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:45.839 be great. It's always great when we have to. It 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:51.600 is a new edition because I think na, yeah, so 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:54.440 it's it is going to be a good show. We're 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:57.520 gonna tell you guys what went wrong for the Cowboys yesterday. 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:00.160 Maybe Dave will have one or two things that went right. 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:02.160 I don't know. We'll see. We could phil, we could 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:04.559 be done in five five minutes if we just wanted 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:06.880 to do what went right. We have top ten players 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:09.120 from the game going up on the website later. Well, 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:10.680 we're really going to do that today. I don't know, 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:14.440 are you really going to do that today? One? Yeah, 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:16.000 we did, and I thought, you know, if you could 0:01:16.040 --> 0:01:21.399 do it. Hey, sorry sorry it's not my original joke, 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.720 but well something else, if nothing else, fans would get 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:27.520 some jokes and some last today. Yeah, because they probably do. 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.039 They probably need it right now. It was a rough 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:32.039 one for the Cowboys. I mean, they lose this game 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:34.880 twenty four to thirteen, and it was more of the 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:37.280 same really from the standpoint of the offense. I don't 0:01:37.280 --> 0:01:41.120 think anybody was surprised by what you saw offensively, maybe 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:43.920 surprised that the Cowboys didn't do some of the things 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.080 that they'd done that were successful the week before, but 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:49.040 not surprised at the output and the and just what 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.120 happened with this offense? Um, what did you guys think? 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:53.800 Just overall? I want to get and I'd like to 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:55.520 do this as we start to show day after game, 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:57.200 just want to get a big picture. What did you 0:01:57.200 --> 0:01:59.760 think was the big picture takeaway from this game? Let's 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:03.120 start with you, Nick. Big picture to take well, I mean, 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.160 the guy you've been talking about for six months, that 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.639 we've been talking about for six months, you finally got 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.160 to see him up close and personal, and he was 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:13.560 the best player on the field. He was a game 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.840 changer and he you know he was. That's why you 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:18.920 wanted to get him, not only to have him on 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:20.799 your team, but to not have to face him because 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.480 he beat you in more ways than one yesterday. And 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:25.280 so you can talk about a lot of other things offense. 0:02:25.280 --> 0:02:27.760 I'll let him go that, but I'm just saying, Earl Thomas, 0:02:28.440 --> 0:02:30.200 you know that's why you wanted to go get him 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.480 because he went out and he played great for that game. 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:36.320 Can imagine really good player? Oh man, he's an amazing player. Um, 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:40.480 I don't disagree with that. Earl Thomas showed exactly why 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:42.040 you would want a player like that on your team. 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:44.400 He's exactly the type of player that this defense has 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.400 not had in the entire time that I've covered them, 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:52.560 just in terms of making plays. I mean, really, Darren 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:54.920 Woodson is the last good safety they had. What was 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:57.880 Darren Woodson? That? Though no disrespect to him, but I'm 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.079 not saying same kind of player. I'm saying just a 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.240 really good safety, like somebody that was a different playing safe, 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.800 but I mean that one. I mean a guy that 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:11.679 you can count on to flip the game for you. Yeah, anyway, 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:16.359 Williams maybe early. Regardless of that. Regardless of that, my 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:19.639 main takeaway, I can't look at the Seahawks here this. 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:23.520 My main takeaway is that this team cannot pass the 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:27.480 ball downfield to save its life, and it is beyond 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:29.760 a problem. That's I mean. I was sitting there in 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:33.680 the fourth quarter yesterday. This team did exactly what it 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.240 wanted to in the run game, honestly, and that was 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.800 even with you know, I was worried about Bobby Wagner 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:41.400 getting his feet underneath him. Bobby Wagner played a good game. 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:43.840 He had some stuffs, he stopped them on third down early. 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.480 They still ran for one hundred and sixty six yards. 0:03:46.520 --> 0:03:50.160 They ran for nine yards per per carry on the road, 0:03:50.480 --> 0:03:54.160 and it didn't matter even a lick. That's how bad 0:03:54.200 --> 0:03:57.280 the passing game was. Um what Dak finished with one 0:03:57.320 --> 0:04:00.080 hundred and sixty eight yards and I would be willing 0:04:00.120 --> 0:04:01.800 to guess I haven't done the math on it, but 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:04.520 like at least forty or fifty of that came, you know, 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:07.160 once the Seahawks had built a twenty four to sixth lead. 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:11.760 Anemic doesn't do it justice. It's it is a problem 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.480 that I don't know how to answer, and judging from 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:17.040 their answers last night, I don't think they know either. 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.560 And it's I got a bad feeling like it's going 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:21.680 to be something we're talking about for most of this season. 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:24.280 So that's I don't know how anything else, but that 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:28.080 can be the big takeaway Camber. I'm just confused, like 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:32.200 I don't I really don't know what to think about 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:35.520 this team anymore. And I know they have talent. They 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:37.920 do have players with a lot of talent, and I 0:04:37.960 --> 0:04:41.400 just don't understand why it's not really working out. Why 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:45.240 can't they convert on third downs? And even usually Dak 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:48.960 Prescott in his press conference, he always has like a 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:51.159 good answer to come back with, or like a good 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:54.800 political answer, you know, but he answered something last night. 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:58.080 I felt that he's answered. I mean, he didn't even 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:00.520 really have an answer to everything that was going on. 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.159 He I felt it very differently in the way that 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:07.520 he was answering his questions. And it's like, I don't 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.080 know what's happening here. I don't know why they can't 0:05:10.160 --> 0:05:13.440 freaking move the ball down and score points. And that's 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:15.640 a big problem right now, because you talk about the 0:05:15.680 --> 0:05:20.360 defense being great. Yeah, some people think defenses win games, 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:24.520 but I don't. I think defense can help you. And 0:05:24.600 --> 0:05:28.120 bringing a player, let's say, like Earl Thomas, and I've 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.440 changed my whole tune after last night. You know, I've 0:05:30.440 --> 0:05:32.560 been one of the biggest just like Nick wanting to 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.840 bring him over here. But my tune has changed completely. 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:40.560 It doesn't matter. Why give up a draft pick or 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:43.880 whatever trade you want to make to get him over here. 0:05:44.160 --> 0:05:48.000 Why do that when even if he was here, your 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:51.240 offense is not scoring points, your defense is not gonna be. 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.000 You can't rely on your defense to be making plays 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.599 and scoring points for you. If your offense is not 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:59.080 working out, there's no point of making a trade like 0:05:59.080 --> 0:06:02.159 this and bringing someone great to make your defense even better. 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:06.799 But I kind of disagree with that too after watching this. Basically, 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:12.640 you can't. And he's a great player and I really 0:06:12.680 --> 0:06:15.880 like him, and everyone does and all that, but how 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:18.719 often can you rely on a guy like that to 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:21.240 be making all this play every single game? Yesterday? It 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.800 was two interceptions that changed the game. That was the 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:25.880 difference in the game in my opinion, On top of 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:28.440 the fact that by the way, the Cowboys safety who 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:30.760 was out there at the time. Cavon Frasier was a 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:33.120 big part of the fifty two yard touchdown you gave up. 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.280 That doesn't happen if you've got a guy to calibover. 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.440 Earl Tom Spector playing the Seattle still scores point for you. No, 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:40.520 they do. But but the thing is is that they 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:42.839 don't have a great offense either. So my argument there 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:46.200 is like, if you're playing downhill, you stop them from 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:48.599 getting to midfield, you get a three and out early, 0:06:48.839 --> 0:06:50.880 you get a fair catch your ball, the balls at 0:06:50.880 --> 0:06:53.320 the forty forty five. Now you can go play downhill 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:55.440 for this offense to being as bad as it is. 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:57.400 And I get I get your point. But I'm saying, 0:06:57.400 --> 0:06:59.279 if you're going to compete at all this year and 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:02.360 maybe next year in the next few years, you've got 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:05.159 to have an amazing defense and he can make he 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:07.520 can get you. You know, Baltimore won a Super Bowl 0:07:07.560 --> 0:07:09.600 way back two thousand when you were like seven years old. 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:13.800 But I'm saying they didn't have great quarterbacks. They had 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:17.080 an unbelievable defense. Jim McMahon wasn't a great quarterback, but 0:07:17.120 --> 0:07:19.280 he had a great defense, And I think that's the 0:07:19.320 --> 0:07:22.360 only way you can compete. You have too. Okay, Okay, 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:27.520 picture this scenario. Earl Thomas is playing for your defense, right, Okay, 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.200 makes an interception for you, gets you the ball. Here. 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:33.720 Now the offense, the Cowboys offen has the ball. They 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.960 move three plays, they're four second saying out of the field, 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.520 doesn't even get to the red zone, doesn't score a point. 0:07:39.560 --> 0:07:42.120 What's the point of doing that? You're absolute? No, I 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:44.840 get your point, and let's not sugarcoat it. This offense 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:49.560 is laughably bad. It's atrocious. But this, and basically that's 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:52.160 my point is, at this point, three games into the season, 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:54.520 I'm starting to think that this team will only go 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.280 as far as its defense can carry, right right, Which, yeah, 0:07:57.360 --> 0:08:00.400 I don't I'm not. I don't know if they're gonna 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.360 try to trade for Earl Thomas. I've said all along, 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:04.280 I don't expect it to happen, and I still feel 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:07.880 that way. But I feel better about making this defense 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:11.400 as good as it could possibly be, potentially winning some 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:15.160 turnover battles and giving the offense short fields more often 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.400 than not, because they sure as hell aren't gonna win 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:20.080 a ton of games doing it the way they're doing it. 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.440 Right now. That's the big thing is when you look 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.080 at a team like this that has struggles on offense, 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:28.400 the turnovo battle becomes huge because it makes a difference 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:31.800 in just sometimes those turnovers actually turned into points. Sometimes 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.840 those turnovers turned into field goals. Whatever the situation is, 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.680 you need those turnovers and you can't give them up. Yesterday, 0:08:37.679 --> 0:08:39.760 the Cowboys, I think they lost the turnovo battle three 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:42.880 to zero. Is that right? Yes? So? And with an 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.280 offense this bat, you're not going to win games when 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.800 you have a three zero So so let's say, for example, 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.920 Earl Thomas was not on that team. Let's say, for example, 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.400 Earl Thimis was on your team. I don't think there 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.720 was a safety on that field yesterday for either team 0:08:55.840 --> 0:08:58.640 outside of Earl Thomas. That makes those two interceptions. Both 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:00.679 those plays were amazing plays. I don't think most of 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:04.040 those guys make so, that being said, like you change 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:07.000 the whole complexion of that game by two interceptions not 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.640 being interceptions. That's a big defer. Cowboys don't have a 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:11.760 wide receiver that can make a play, that can make 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:15.320 make that I'm serious. Both those catches were unbelievable play 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:19.640 hand eye coordination, I'm just saying, I've seen our defense 0:09:19.960 --> 0:09:23.240 give turnovers and the Cowboys get the ball and they 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:25.360 still don't do anything with it. I'm just saying, and 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:29.600 you have a bad offense. But the problem is, like 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.320 they've said, the only chance you got right now unless 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:34.640 basically tooth in one of two exactly. I agree that 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:37.640 the offense is gonna have to get appreciably better in season, 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.120 which I don't know if that happens. How does that happen? Yeah, 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:42.640 or they're gonna have to the defense is just gonna 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:44.120 have to play out of their minds. I think you 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:45.880 have a better shot of the defense playing out of 0:09:45.920 --> 0:09:49.320 their minds then the offense getting appreciably better this season. Absolutely. 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:55.160 I why costs though second round pick? Yeah, maybe you're right, 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.960 but it went up who knows. It's like if if 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:01.280 they if doing that doesn't even get you to the playoff, 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:03.800 was it worth it? Yeah? Yeah, because you're going to 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:05.640 get him for the next few years. You have to 0:10:06.080 --> 0:10:07.840 only make this trade if you know you can resign 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:09.920 him if you're getting a long term deals on again. Yeah, 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.640 if someone just turned on like thirty seconds ago, they're like, 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:14.960 we're still just talking, like we've always talked. I don't 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:18.400 think it's anything closer, And if you're him, I'm less today. 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:20.200 I feel less likely it's going to happen than I 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.760 did even Friday. Yeah, I really do no, And that's 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.079 we're kind of getting lost in the weeds here. It's 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.920 a fun thing to talk about, and you're you. You 0:10:28.320 --> 0:10:31.280 make a great point, Amber, because as we sit here 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.600 in week three right now, it's hard to imagine this 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.040 team making the playoffs. Obviously there's a lot of time left, 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:39.320 but doing that deal for a team that might not 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.319 make the playoffs could be risky, although I would argue 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:44.360 you get three more years of that. He does not 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:47.080 look like a guy that's planning on slowing down, and 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:51.000 I still think that is your bet. Your best chance 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:52.720 for this team to be successful is to have a 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.920 top five ten defense and eke out what you can 0:10:56.040 --> 0:10:59.199 on offense, because even if this offense gets appreciably better, 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.360 it's clearly not jumping to the top of the league. 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.280 I mean again, I mean that, and that's that is 0:11:05.640 --> 0:11:07.440 that is what is so disheartening to me as we 0:11:07.480 --> 0:11:10.840 sit here, is that the Cowboys run game, you know, 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:14.040 I mean, Zeke had a fumble, Z Zeke maybe played 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:19.280 his worst game as a pro yesterday. Honestly, say that 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:21.960 this is why you lost, is that your best player 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.400 on the field was your worst. He was the best 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:26.520 player on the field, he had the best game of 0:11:26.559 --> 0:11:28.439 anybody on the team, and he actually had one of 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:31.120 the worst games. It's hard to win like that, it is, 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.920 but well, you're right he did. I mean, he left 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:35.720 a touchdown on the field that would have made it. 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:38.520 What seven to seven changed the whole complexion of the 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:40.880 first half. I have my doubts that it changes the 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:43.640 outcome just because it was so anemic the rest of 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:46.520 the time, but you never know. And then obviously the 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:48.920 fumble in the open field when it was still possible 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:52.160 to make it a game. Having said that, they did 0:11:52.240 --> 0:11:54.439 exactly what they want to do on the ground, they 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:56.920 I mean, I would have liked to see some more 0:11:56.960 --> 0:12:00.319 design runs by Dak, but I'll even allow that when 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:02.720 you have a linebacker like Bobby Wagner, the Seahawks can 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.400 kind of dictate that. But to see them put up 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:07.920 one hundred and seventy rushing yards in a road game 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.960 and still look that bad, Like, I don't know what 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:14.760 to say, because typically in a Cowboys loss, You're like, well, yeah, 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:16.080 they took away the run, what do you want them 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:18.040 to do? Like, that's kind of what we've always said. 0:12:18.080 --> 0:12:20.040 They didn't yesterday and it didn't matter. But I think 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:23.240 what we saw yesterday is this team, constructed as it is, 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:25.600 has to be perfect to win. Because if you take 0:12:25.640 --> 0:12:28.160 away the touchdown, if you if you look at that 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:29.880 touchdown as Ke stepped out of bounds, if he doesn't 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:31.440 step out of a bound, you get that score. If 0:12:31.559 --> 0:12:34.760 Randy Gregory doesn't have the dumb play where he hits 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:37.840 the guy and and basically gives up three points, right, 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.120 you take those two things, that's ten points right there. 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:43.360 The Cowboys have to be perfect. They cannot have room 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:47.560 for the stupid mistakes, right, They can't. They don't have 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:50.120 room for that if they're going to win. And that's 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:51.360 a hard thing to do to say, you're going to 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.840 go through a sixteen week season and you're not gonna 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.680 have mistakes, like you're gonna play perfect every week. That's 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.200 where they are right now because they just offensively can't 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:01.880 get anything going. It's I mean, people don't want to 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.160 hear me talk about my college football team, but it 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:06.760 reminds me of watching LSU, Like there's there's talent there. 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:09.120 They can do things, but the minute it gets off 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:11.000 of their schedule or what they want it to be, 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.280 it falls apart. Uh. You know, I think I speak 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:17.520 for anybody listening to this when I say I don't 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:19.439 want to hear about being behind the chains this week. 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:21.160 I know we're going to Oh they talk about it 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.200 last I know. I know we're going to talk about 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:25.360 And I get it, like second and third and long 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.079 is not where you want to be in football, but 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:29.760 good offense has overcome it all the time. It's part 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:32.760 of the game. Uh. And if you if third and 0:13:32.800 --> 0:13:34.800 eight is a death sentence to your hopes of moving 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:38.400 the ball downfield, you suck. Sorry, I'm sorry, there's nothing 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.640 else to say. WHOA. That's usually my quote is that, 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.319 But and here we are, I mean, welcome to the 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:50.000 break the offense is. I just you know, when you 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:54.040 see thirty two carries for Carson for one hundred and 0:13:54.080 --> 0:13:56.959 two yards and you see sixteen carries for Zeke for 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:59.960 one twenty seven. I mean, but I'm going through the 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.600 play by plays and I'm not really finding a lot 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:05.440 of plays. I'm not I'm not trying to say, well, 0:14:05.600 --> 0:14:07.920 you know, the Cowboys. You know, I'm going to defend them. 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:10.200 But if you just go through the play by play, 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.480 you can't really find a ton of plays where you're like, 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.079 should have run there, should have run there. I mean 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:17.720 there's there's a couple of the Cowboys. Yeah, well, I 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.080 think the really I think the thing about it is 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.320 as far as I look at it, and and this 0:14:22.400 --> 0:14:24.400 is going to go into a whole different conversation, but 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:27.440 I just think that the Cowboys offense wasn't diverse enough. 0:14:27.840 --> 0:14:30.160 We saw the week before and then it starts and 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:32.880 stops with this. We saw the week before how successful 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.560 they were and how much it helped the offense move. 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.480 When they use his own read, it just made a difference. 0:14:38.760 --> 0:14:40.840 And to say that they didn't use it until I 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:43.680 think it was like the late third or early forth 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.520 before they get it one time. I mean it was. 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:50.000 It was a clearly a successful part of their offense 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.600 in week two. It just made no sense that they 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:54.240 want to go back to what else was big in 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:58.280 week two about like throwing the ball down the bild. Yeah, 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.920 and honestly, you can even don't do it again, make 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:03.840 argument Synchy. You can even make arguments as far as 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:05.840 throwing it down the field that there was so much 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.160 pressure that they didn't have time to do it. I'll 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:10.720 even allow for that whatever, But the point is to me, 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:13.200 the zone read. There's nothing about pressure. This is a 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:15.200 matter of fact, that would have slowed down the pressure 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:17.520 that was coming at you if you would hit them 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:19.240 with a few a few zone reads. I just think 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:22.520 that it's just it's baffling to me that offensively, it 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.960 doesn't seem like they're taking the things that are actually 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:28.040 successful and continuing to do them. It's almost like they 0:15:28.120 --> 0:15:32.160 outthink themselves, like yeah, just like yeah, they're they're gonna 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.080 see that deep ball coming, So let's don't do that, 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:35.600 all right, We're gonna take our first break when we 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:37.440 come back. I do want to talk about this offensive 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:39.360 line because I think a lot of the problems that 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:42.160 they're having offensively is coming from the offensive line, and 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:44.680 this is supposed to be what we all thought was 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:46.240 the best part of this team. We'll talk about that 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:47.840 when we come right back. 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We're talking about the Cowboy we're talking. 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:59.080 We're talking about the Cowboys lost thirteen at Seattle. This 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:01.040 is what's what's what am I looking for? This is 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:07.399 a representation of the team. It's okay, sorry, pretty and 0:18:07.880 --> 0:18:10.680 get your stuff together over there? Please? It broke, man, 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:12.439 I guess I'll just how did you break it? I 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:15.160 was trying to tea he is always messing with I've 0:18:15.200 --> 0:18:17.919 never even touched this. Why do you always do that? 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:19.679 What do you want for me not to do that? 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:22.080 You know what? He reminds me of. He reminds me 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:23.920 of the guy that's in concert that's always like at 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.000 his mic and always fixing his mic as he's about 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:27.960 to seeing like Dave is all whatever, you bring your 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:30.760 own headphones down here. That's and what does it have 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:32.719 to do with messing with the microphone? This is not 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:34.639 my fault? All right? Well you just stand there like 0:18:34.760 --> 0:18:38.040 just gonna have it all the time, and now you 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:41.720 cut a compilation of how many times it's been Yeah, 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.520 I like, what do you do that? What do you 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:48.040 think that the reason that this thing's broke? I'll have 0:18:48.080 --> 0:18:55.680 to investigate after I didn't definitively say who sits there for? Rob? Rob? 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:59.280 It's fine, Yeah, just leave me alone. Let's just talk 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:01.639 about this game, all right. So let's get back into it. 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:06.919 Cowboys at Seattle, and I wanted to talk about the 0:19:06.960 --> 0:19:10.400 offensive line. Do you think this offensive line is not 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:13.440 good enough for them to have the type of offensive 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:16.560