WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Surprised or Shocked? 0:00:01.680 --> 0:00:04.200 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.200 --> 0:00:07.360 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:11.920 a break? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely ready 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:15.840 for a break. Yeah, and so much for that. It's 0:00:15.880 --> 0:00:21.799 time for the break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com with 0:00:21.880 --> 0:00:27.080 Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:28.440 --> 0:00:34.240 How about them Cowboys? Wow? The Cowboys beating the Saints 0:00:34.680 --> 0:00:39.800 thirteen ten. Although the scar doesn't seem too appealing, it 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:42.960 was a huge win by the defense, who was able 0:00:43.000 --> 0:00:47.760 to hold Drew Brees two ten points, just ten points, 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:52.640 the highest scoring offense in the NFL and they only 0:00:52.640 --> 0:00:56.560 got ten points. So I wanted to start off your 0:00:56.600 --> 0:01:00.520 first reaction of what this defense was able to do 0:01:00.640 --> 0:01:05.399 last night and what we witness. I mean, it was shocking. 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:08.119 I mean we talked about before, you know, about being 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:10.880 surprised and shocked and all that. It was everything. I mean. 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:14.000 I mean, I think there's everyone, um was shocked the 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.560 way the Cowboys defense played. I mean, they've moved to 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.399 another level in this game. Um. And I know that, Derek, 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:21.679 that's something you've talked about, but I mean they I 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:24.160 just didn't give them enough credit. There's no way that 0:01:24.200 --> 0:01:26.440 they that they could do that. I didn't think that 0:01:26.480 --> 0:01:29.119 they were good enough to something's gonna have to give. 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:30.800 The cowboy was going to score more than they're used to, 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:33.120 or the defense was gonna have to just completely shut 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:35.440 down the best offense in the league. And they did so. 0:01:36.319 --> 0:01:38.480 Like I said, they're on another level. Now I gotta 0:01:38.600 --> 0:01:41.680 raise the energy level here for a second. Holy crap, 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:48.080 are you kidding me? Are you get here? Absolutely for 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:52.160 real right now? Like that's really that's my That's my 0:01:52.360 --> 0:02:00.680 impression night, been my impression since probably Jordan Lewis interception 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.240 because I was standing behind the goal post on the 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.320 field saying, this is how it happens. The offense didn't 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:07.920 do their part, and now Drew Brees is going to 0:02:08.040 --> 0:02:09.760 drive down the field and break their hearts and win 0:02:09.880 --> 0:02:13.760 seventeen to thirteen or whatever, yeah, sixteen thirty, I don't 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.320 know whatever. Drew Brees was gonna drive down there and 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:19.120 bail the Saints out, and it was going to be terrible, 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:21.799 and it was gonna be the tough luck, loser defense thing, 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.080 and we were gonna have to go into that locker 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:27.079 room and listen to them just be heartbroken. And then 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:31.520 they did that ten points, ten points, one hundred and 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:34.799 seventy six yards, the lowest output that the Sean Payton 0:02:34.880 --> 0:02:38.320 Saints have ever put out. Super Bowl winning team teams 0:02:38.919 --> 0:02:41.800 the eleven twelve wins year in year out, always the 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:43.880 best in the league. That is one of the most 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:47.800 amazing things I've ever seen in a football game. Yep, sorry, 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:52.600 it's so perfect. That's exactly right. Literally, always Dave that 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:55.320 just that, you know, takes us to another energy level. 0:02:55.320 --> 0:02:58.360 But it had to be done. Like I don't like, 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.840 I just watched LSU and seven overtimes, seven overtimes. It's 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:03.960 not as amazing as holding that team to ten points, 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:09.000 no doubt about ten points one touchdown. Yep. Thursday were 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:11.800 averaging thirty seven points a game. And they never drove 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.399 the ball on them, No, not at once. At one 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:16.920 time did they take the ball and really drive it 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.960 and just beat the Cowboys down. The Cowboys basically handed 0:03:21.000 --> 0:03:25.720 them that drive. Yep. If if they you heard this 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:28.400 in the locker room throughout the game, if the offense 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:32.760 even plays marginally better, it is a emphatic win. Think 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:39.000 about thinking, I mean, you had seven sacks, Zeke didn't 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:40.560 get to a hundred yards. If we would have talked 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:42.240 about a Friday, we would have said, Okay, I'm gonna 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.320 lay this out for you. Ze's gonna be somewhere around 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:46.640 seventy five yards and they're gonna give up seventy five 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:48.600 I mean they're gonna go seven sacks. We would have 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.720 all immediately been like, they're gonna get blasted. Like that 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.520 means they got blasted. If Zeke's not running well and 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.200 they're given up sacks, that means they got blasted. And 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:00.520 that shows you just how lead the defense was. Like 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.040 this was a whole different level of defense. I always 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:05.440 thought this defense was good. This year, this was on 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:10.080 another plane of defensive play. Like this is like we 0:04:10.200 --> 0:04:14.200 talked about, Okay, now you called it it is elite game, 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.640 So now you feel confident about calling this defense an 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:21.039 elite defense. Last night I called their effort last night elite. Now, 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.200 when you start talking about elite defenses, they do it 0:04:24.240 --> 0:04:26.560 for a season or more. I don't know if the 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.080 Cowboys have been elite all season. What I know was 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:30.960 last night was an elite effort. And you and I 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.479 were having this debate, you were like, because I was saying, 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:36.359 at that moment, when Dave was questioning whether how Breeze 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:38.480 was gonna get the ball whatever, and I said, if 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.599 they can't stop them right now, this is not at 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:45.440 an elite defensive performance, because elite means not only do 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:48.280 you play well throughout the game, but you gotta finish. 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:51.320 And this defense really for a few years, I think 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:53.760 has been good enough to where they keep their team 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.000 in games sometimes and that kind of stuff. But when 0:04:56.000 --> 0:04:58.160 it comes down to that final drive and you got 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:00.520 Aaron Rodgers on the other side, or you got you know, 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.719 you name the good quarterback, they just can't win the game. 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.040 Last night, they finished it. Not only they finished, they 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:09.480 finished it by taking the ball from him. And that, 0:05:09.560 --> 0:05:11.880 to me is where you look at teams going from 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:15.880 being good defenses to being elite defenses. Starting in twenty fifteen, 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:19.000 I would describe this defense as like sneaky good. Yeah, 0:05:19.040 --> 0:05:22.600 like they don't give up touchdowns and you know you 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:25.200 can win, you can. They won't lose you games. They 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:28.080 just won you a game against Arguably the NFL is 0:05:28.120 --> 0:05:32.560 the best team I've never seen a Cowboys team where 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:36.040 the offense basically no showed and they won against a 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:38.839 good team. I mean, you know, beat you beat the 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:42.600 Cleveland Browns, the old Cleveland Browns. That's one thing, right, 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:46.680 beating this team basically getting next to no help from 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.360 your offense after the first quarter. It's amazing, you know. 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:52.400 It is on the Saints break right now that they're 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:54.480 talking about. I mean, it was a bad performance for 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.320 their offense, but I'm telling you this that that right 0:05:57.360 --> 0:05:59.880 there is probably your favorite to win the whole thing 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:04.599 in my opinion. But yeah, still yeah, because because that defense. 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:06.960 I didn't give him enough credit. I really didn't. They 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.599 run the you know, the number one run def agreed, 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:12.760 their defense was really good too, So I mean, and 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:15.840 was Cam Jordan that said it, which puts you know 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:19.120 that it's it's actually complimentary for the Cowboys. He said, Oh, 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.400 that's cool. Maybe we'll see him again in New or 0:06:23.920 --> 0:06:26.440 want to. I wish them the best because I want 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:28.640 to play him again. Yeah, I would too if that 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:33.440 was him. Now, I'll say this, um number seventy seven 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:35.280 is going to probably be there in that game a 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:38.080 little different that that is so impressive that this offensive 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.080 line and I'm not going to call him three backups. 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.359 I don't like that anymore. Because Connor Williams is healthy 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:46.560 he's not starting over. Was not healthy in that game, 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:48.080 There's no doubt about it. He had a he had 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.400 a tough night on that ankle. But they will get healthy. 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.760 That's what's so impressive is that they were able to 0:06:53.800 --> 0:06:56.400 win a game like this. It will sloppy at time, 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:59.960 especially on offense, you know, and Dak twenty four, twenty eight. 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.279 Everyone's talking about one incomplete past there, which is a 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.560 big play. I mean, it's one that he needs to make. 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.520 But man, I mean, I just thought with his offensive 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:10.119 line when you think about it, to beat the Saints 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:11.800 the way they did and did now to get ten 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.720 days off, you know, the number ten has been thrown 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.239 out a lot here lately. You know, ten game winning streak, 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:19.720 ten points by the Saints. Now ten days off. To 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:23.360 get better than that performance, that's impressive and get those 0:07:23.400 --> 0:07:26.360 guys back that you that you just coverage seventy seven 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:30.720 fish on Lee speaking of ten, maybe ten, ten maybe ten. 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:36.360 I saw him running around last night. He's been dancing around. 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:40.680 He saw him run so and he seems good, and 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:44.480 I think that that will help all that help mean energy, 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:47.200 the energy that he has and the energy that he 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:50.080 would bring onto the field. That would be an amazing 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.520 addition to have back. I've never I've said this a 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.520 half dozen times since like yesterday, so forgive me, or 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:58.200 even in the last couple of weeks. I just I've 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:02.640 never had less of an idea about a team at 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:06.240 this stage in the season, like you, like, by by December, 0:08:06.280 --> 0:08:08.840 which is basically December, you pretty much know if the 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:10.960 teams are you still there or are you saying this 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:13.520 was before this game? Just I've never seen a swing 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.880 like this well, I mean no, I mean yes, I'm 0:08:16.920 --> 0:08:19.800 i this is amazing, Like, this is such an amazing 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:23.400 performance that you have to take them seriously. You've seen 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:25.880 swings like this before, though, I mean no, Okay, go 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.120 back maybe the one that jumped in my mind and 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:29.680 the one job I'm not talking about Cowboys, I'm talking 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:33.080 about around lad I'm talking about the Dallas Okay. I 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:36.800 Usually by December you're like, this team is not very 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:38.880 good or this team is really good, and then you 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:40.920 come you know, you come out here on Thursdayay of football. 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.120 They're supposed to lose to the Saints and you're the 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:46.559 only one that picked them. Congaculations, and then and then 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:48.319 they do that, and I mean they only won by 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:51.200 three points. I get it, but they looked dominant, at 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:53.760 least on the defensive side of the ball. And anybody 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:55.880 that watched that game, which is the highest rated Thursday 0:08:55.920 --> 0:09:00.000 night football game ever, so everybody history ever, So everybody 0:09:00.120 --> 0:09:04.120 he watched it, and so even the most but even 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.920 the biggest cowboy hater in the world has to acknowledge 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.520 that this team, Well, did he just something to be reckoned? 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:11.360 Did he? This morning? I don't know who that is. 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:15.000 It's ESPN guy. I don't pay attention to that. I 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:18.480 don't either. It's all it's all stick just wanted pro 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:23.199 wrestling for football. But also, let's say I'm talking about 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:24.880 the picks. I mean, it just feels like the elephant 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:26.880 in the room. And that's why you were freaking out 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:29.200 on the siline this. I've never seen you like that before. 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.120 I was freaking out of the press box. You did 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:33.000 have to be like, are you the one? Are you 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.920 the one that pounded on the table when miss gallup? RP? 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.280 I mean, actually, p R that's what I mean saying No, 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:40.920 that was not me, No, that that moment was not 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:42.800 p But I was getting a little loud, like I 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:45.400 was getting a little loud. At one point, Nick was 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:48.840 kind of like, dude, Mickey Junior, and I'm just saying, 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:52.200 which is funny that me telling anyone dialogue Just so 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:54.480 you guys know, there's no cheering in the press box. 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.439 That's why we're talking there. But anyways, let's talk about 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:01.760 most people you pick the Cowboys, and you did. You 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:05.679 picked them a lot this year. But what there was 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.080 some game that you said though, that was that that 0:10:08.160 --> 0:10:12.400 really played out here. You talked about this football team 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:16.199 is six and five on paper, but this team, this 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:19.120 team that is playing here, is not a six and 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:22.160 five team. It's playing at a different level. Vander esh 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.280 just taking them to another level. Dlass take them. Cooper 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:28.280 has taken the offense all rolled into one too. This 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.280 team is better and which is kind of what you said. 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.560 It's like, it's hard to say, are they seven and five? 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.120 This is a four and one team? Yeah? I mean, 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:37.720 is there any who else has won four in a row? 0:10:37.760 --> 0:10:42.000 I was thinking, are they highest team? Houston one? No? Actually, 0:10:42.000 --> 0:10:44.440 I literally you know, I had this dumb idea. I 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.080 was like, are the is this the two longest winning 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:49.000 streets in the NFL right now? It's it's not closets seven, 0:10:49.280 --> 0:10:53.080 Houston's won eight, Chicago's won five. I think Minnesota's won 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.240 a few in a row. I believe like there's there's 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.640 a few. There's a few like that. There's a few. Yeah, well, 0:10:57.679 --> 0:11:01.080 I mean it's still that doesn't diminish four wins in 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.760 a row and they play. They played five games in 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.920 the month of November one four of them, which the 0:11:06.960 --> 0:11:08.760 fact that they've looked as good as they have makes 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:12.360 the Tennessee Laws even more perplexing. But whatever it was. 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:15.120 A month ago, wrote a quick story about they already 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.800 named vander Es the defensive Rookie of the Month and 0:11:18.880 --> 0:11:21.319 for November with one game to play, it was kind 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:23.400 of like, well, you know, it's Thursday game, as someone's 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:25.199 got to do it. And you know, I thought, man, 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.040 I wonder if this is gonna like jinx him, you 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:28.720 know what I mean? No, not at all. And I 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:31.640 love the wolf Hunter Howling. I love the Wolf Hunter. 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:33.480 Now that they're doing that in the stadium, that's awesome. 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.640 He um, he's not the leader of that group. We 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:39.400 can talk about what d Law said and that was unbelievable. 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:43.160 It basically a script writer. But vander esh is the 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.400 best defensive player on the team in my opinion, do 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:48.280 y'all y'all agree with that? Is my opinion. I honestly 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:52.880 still think player. But you're I don't think you're crazy 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:58.079 like I don't agree. I mean, well as a leader obviously, DeMarcus, 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:01.320 but as of right now, I would say for sure, 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.760 Vander Okay, so let me ask you this. You go ahead, 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.280 I mean it was your tweet. So which one the 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.600 one about DeMarcus is with that line? Oh? Yeah, No, 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.640 I mean, I mean so far the season he let's 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:14.720 give him. I mean, he makes the fourth down stop 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:16.440 on a goal line stand that keeps the Saint Sad 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.000 of the end zone. He had four tackles, a sack, 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.480 and a forced fumble, and should have had another sack 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.280 and another forced fumble if not for a bogus off 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:27.280 side call. So he played himself a pretty damn good game. 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:30.480 He's And the thing about it is, to me, what 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:33.680 makes him so much better than even the stats is 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.680 what he does for everybody else. He makes everybody else 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.320 on that defense because guess what going into every game, 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:42.000 every offense is he's the guy we gotta worry about. 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:43.960 And in spite of that, he still puts up numbers 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:47.120 like that and manages to take a double team and 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:49.760 manages to give these other guys the leadership they need 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.640 in order to be the best versions of themselves they 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:54.960 can be. I just don't I don't think Vanderesh is 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.760 there yet from the standpoint of making everybody else better. 0:12:57.800 --> 0:12:59.840 He's a great player, I don't think he's making everybody 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:02.680 else better when you had everything else like that off 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:06.680 the field stuff and the energy and the leadership. For sure, 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:10.760 hands down DeMarcus Lawrence. But I'm saying, like specifically playing 0:13:10.800 --> 0:13:14.480 on the field without being aware of those untangible things. 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:18.760 Vanders He's been all over the field. You see him 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.480 everywhere on the press box. All I hear is La 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:26.240 Vendors made the tackle that probably I was about to say, 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:28.199 it's a different he's a different name every time, but 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:35.679 go ahead on DeMarcus Lawrence went down the line on 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:37.959 that fourth and one and made and made the tackle. 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:40.560 But most of the time, when you the defensive end 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.400 goes and makes that play, it's because the running back, 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:45.120 you know, the quickest running back in the league, didn't 0:13:45.160 --> 0:13:47.480 get there. So I went I actually looked at that play. 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.160 I saw it a couple of times. Crawford, by the way, 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:53.400 Tyron Crawford to me, Keim and Looney to be of 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:55.600 the most underrated players on this team right now. Of 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:57.839 course they didn't give up seven sacks, so I would say, 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.440 right now, Crawford at the league but a little bit. 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.040 But you know who else was kind of stuff to 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:05.640 run on that play? Vander Esh I mean, he's right 0:14:05.640 --> 0:14:08.880 there too, so he's a freak. And then quiet, not 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:11.760 quietly because he swipes every play, but fifty four if 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:14.160 he's your third best guy right now, like he makes 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:18.440 it well known that he made a play about that 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:22.920 guy as quiet, I say that admiration in my voice. 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:26.160 But then you know you're talking about the defensive line 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:30.160 and the linebackers. Six pass deflections. You were counting an 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:33.680 all game long those four in the first two series, 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:35.520 and by the way, they were both three and out, 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:39.080 so in six plays they had four pass deflections. Drew 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.840 Brees has been playing pro football since most of these 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:45.400 guys were in middle school, and he had never started 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:48.360 a game owing four in his entire career. Yep, and 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:50.680 think about this. We talked about this last week about 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.240 how the Saints play offense and how breeze. He doesn't 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:55.600 need separation. He's one of those quarterbacks that just puts 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:58.320 the ball right on the money and typically defenders can't 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.480 get tight enough coverage to be able to make affect 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:02.960 the play. That was exactly what they did last night. 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.720 The only difference was the Cowboys defensive backs were on it. 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:07.480 Like when I mean they were on it. They were 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.720 right on those receivers hips and they were able to 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.840 knock the balls down. That was the difference because in 0:15:13.040 --> 0:15:15.280 most games, he completes a lot of those passes that 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:17.720 they ended up knocking down. To me, those defensive backs. 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:19.720 We can talk as much we want about vander esh 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:23.960 and about and about Tank, but to me, the MVPs 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.040 of that defense last night were the secondary. I think 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:30.160 those guys played a phenomenal game. Anthony Brown gave up 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:32.760 a thirty yard touchdown and I don't even care pushed 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:34.400 off but but well yeah, yeah, I mean like he 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:36.480 played it. He had a sack, he had two pass 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.200 for like, he played fantastic touchdown and be damned that 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.480 they all did. I believe that they did not call 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:46.600 a holding on Lawrence. I mean Lawrence was getting oh 0:15:46.640 --> 0:15:49.560 he got tackle hug to the ground, and I'm like, well, 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:52.480 this is coming back. You know that's not in a 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:56.600 poorly officiated game. And I'm sure the Saints on both sides, 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:58.720 the Saints fans probably say the same thing, and they'll 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:00.400 be right. I mean, I thought there were some really 0:16:00.400 --> 0:16:03.200 bad calls. And it's not college football, because if it 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.200 was Jalen Smith wasn't going to play the rest of 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:07.280 that game and probably wouldn't play next week if it 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:10.200 was he hit. There is no targeting call in the NFL, correct, 0:16:10.320 --> 0:16:13.240 because it's targeting, is there? Because I kept every here 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:15.360 and everybody talk about that should have been targeting. But 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:17.400 I didn't think there was an actual targeting call. I 0:16:17.760 --> 0:16:20.920 thought there was a personal file of launching yourself out 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:22.440 at a pump, but I didn't think there was like 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:26.120 targeting a targeting call. Don't put me on the spot. 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:28.920 I think I think there is now, but it's escaping me, 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:31.880 but not one that is like reviewable like this in college. 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:33.720 And then and they so they don't get into the 0:16:33.720 --> 0:16:36.160 next game. They missed, They missed the hit on Jalen 0:16:36.240 --> 0:16:38.640 should have been a flag. They missed the face mask 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:43.040 on Dak Randy Gregory, like that offside on that, like, 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:46.320 are you absolutely kidding with me right now? Like that? 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.080 And by the way, there were a number of plays 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:49.720 earlier in the game where I thought it should have 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.080 been a false start on on New Orleans. You and 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:54.480 I talked about it, Like one play Kamar took off running. 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:56.760 That's why the Prey even got a trend for this 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:01.200 entire season across the NFL. Is these guys moving early. Yeah, 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:04.760 it's very starting to look like Canadian football out there. Seriously, 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:06.800 these guys are like, like really quick. I mean, I 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:09.200 don't know, and it seems like that's within the rules 0:17:09.200 --> 0:17:11.120 to do it, and some teams are taking advantage on him. 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.680 But that guy's as quick as anything. He doesn't need 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.359 any more of a head start. I can't you know. 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:19.440 I'll say this too great hit on that third down 0:17:19.480 --> 0:17:22.960 play by um Jalen Smith, But Byron Jones made that play. 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.320 It's just Byron Jones and Kamara. I mean a lot 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:27.320 of guys don't even get a hand on him, and 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:29.800 he slowed him up just enough for Jalen to come 0:17:29.840 --> 0:17:31.600 over there. I thought that was a huge play by 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:34.680 Byron Jones. I agree, a huge play by Jalen Smith, though, 0:17:34.720 --> 0:17:36.719 I mean like Kamara got free from the tackle, and 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.640 it seemed like he had enough scheme that you would expect. 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:43.360 But it's most players. He's gonna clamor his way into 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:46.000 the end zone. And when Jalen Smith hits you, you 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:50.120 just stopped. We've seen the first time he gets out 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:52.680 there outside, it's almost like a train. Just run somebody over. 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:56.159 The next stops. Then next time a ball carrier falls 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.840 forward against Jalen Smith will be the first time. Right, 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:04.119 it's on Annie. This defense indeed choked them out and 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:06.880 they give them in the mouth. So everything, let's take 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.200 our first break when we come back. Let's move on 0:18:09.480 --> 0:18:12.720 into the Cowboys offense and what they were able to 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:17.639 do and what they didn't do. All Right, you're like 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:20.199 me and you love. I mean, if you have a 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.239 part thing, then cutting the chord is scary. But then 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:25.119 I found out I could switch to DirecTV Now and 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:27.400 still get the live sports I love. 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