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Speaker 1: It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and

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Speaker 1: Derek Eagleton. It is Monday, October two, twenty seventeen, Season thirteen,

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Speaker 1: episode number forty eight. Welcome to another edition of The Break,

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Speaker 1: live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star

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Speaker 1: in Frisco, and today we're talking about the Cowboys loss.

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Speaker 1: Cowboys lose to the Rams thirty five thirty in what

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Speaker 1: I would call an unexpected loss. I think all of

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Speaker 1: us picked the Cowboys to win. Um. I don't think

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Speaker 1: anybody really expect to see you yesterday. But I will

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Speaker 1: say this. It was twenty four to thirteen at in

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Speaker 1: the second quarter with one fifty one fifty one left

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Speaker 1: in the second quarter, and then for that yeah, and

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Speaker 1: then the wheels fell off. So I'll answered, I'll ask

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Speaker 1: you guys the question. We can go around the table.

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Speaker 1: What happened? Just in your own brief synopsis and we'll

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Speaker 1: get into the details, but in your own brief synopsis

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Speaker 1: what happened from that point to the Cowboys final of

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Speaker 1: thirty five thirty Well, I think, you know, I picked

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys to win by three touchdowns, and and I

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Speaker 1: definitely overestimated the Cowboys and more than anything, more than

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Speaker 1: the Rams or anything, they overestimated this team of what

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Speaker 1: they could do. They didn't make any adjustments either that

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Speaker 1: they should have. They kind of got got, you know,

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Speaker 1: set in their ways. The Rams did a nice job,

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Speaker 1: but they dominated up front on Brilli on both sides

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Speaker 1: of the ball. And you know, there's the Cowboys had

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Speaker 1: no business losing this game, and they did, and that's

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Speaker 1: this is gonna hamp them. This this loss will definitely

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Speaker 1: hamp them. Amber Well, clearly, they like Nick just said,

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Speaker 1: that didn't make any adjustments coming back after the first

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Speaker 1: half of the game. And then I was listening to

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Speaker 1: Dak Prescott and he answered that question. He basically said

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Speaker 1: that the Rams didn't do anything differently. It was just

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Speaker 1: on them that they weren't finishing plays and making the

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Speaker 1: right moves, which not that is true. But the Rams

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Speaker 1: did make some adjustment and they did come back stronger

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Speaker 1: I don't know what the Cowboys did in halftime. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. Dave, stop me if you've heard this before,

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Speaker 1: because it's gonna sound really similar to every time we've

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Speaker 1: ever talked about a loss in the five years i've

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Speaker 1: been here. This is a defense that isn't equipped to

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Speaker 1: carry a game if their offense isn't clicking. And that's

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Speaker 1: I mean, that's what I put it on. Clearly, the

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Speaker 1: offense looked great. Honestly, the first half of this game

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Speaker 1: looked like twenty sixteen. They did all of the stuff

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Speaker 1: that we got used to seeing last year on that

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Speaker 1: eleven game win streak, and you know, honestly, defensively, at least,

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Speaker 1: I was just watching the tape upstairs with Brian. The

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Speaker 1: Rams defense didn't look like they changed a whole lot.

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Speaker 1: It didn't look a lot different. But when you're not

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Speaker 1: hitting open receivers, when you're not secure in blocks on run,

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Speaker 1: not catching passes, and you're getting flagged on you know,

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Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if if you want to

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Speaker 1: they thought they had everything under control. Or whatever. They

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Speaker 1: just forgot how to execute. But this offense lost all

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Speaker 1: semblance of competency coming out of the break, and when

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Speaker 1: you put it on your defense to carry the game

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Speaker 1: against an offense like that, it's probably not going to

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Speaker 1: go very well. Yeah, we were upstairs before the show

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Speaker 1: and that was what the one thing this did to me, Dave,

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Speaker 1: Like every play it seemed like we're as we were

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Speaker 1: watching this, every play, it seemed like there was a

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Speaker 1: Oh that guy, that guy's routes should have been Cooper

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Speaker 1: It could have been higher. But again, I'm just saying

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Speaker 1: they're good in the running game. We saw Why are

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Speaker 1: you making that vague? I'm listening. We saw what the

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Speaker 1: like yesterday Dak was running for his life, specifically in

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Speaker 1: some of the situations they just got beat, they got beat.

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Speaker 1: Jonathan Cooper played horrible yesterday, And from what I saw

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Speaker 1: And I go back to these wide receivers, and they're

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Speaker 1: because the Cowboys had just scored two times in a

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Speaker 1: They had a long pass to to Girly and then

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Speaker 1: Terence drops the ball, because at that point you tie

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Speaker 1: Back to the Break Welcome Back. It's the second segment

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Speaker 1: of the Breaklock from the s WBC Mortgage Studios. At

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Speaker 1: the start, we're talking about the Cowboys loss. They lose

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Speaker 1: thirty five thirty at home against the Rams and a

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Speaker 1: little bit unexpected. But that's how the NFL is. You

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Speaker 1: just never know every single week. And that was as

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Speaker 1: you said, Dave in the break, it is a good team.

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Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm certainly not saying the Rams are not

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Speaker 1: a good team. They are a good team. I just

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Speaker 1: don't think they're a playoff team. Let me, I'll fully

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Speaker 1: elaborate that, which which you know Jason Garrett hates this,

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Speaker 1: but he's not here. That's not his job. It's my job.

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Speaker 1: The Rams are a good team, and I mean I

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Speaker 1: picked the Cowboys to win, so I'm not trying to

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Speaker 1: sit here and say I told you so. But I'm

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Speaker 1: not going to go as far as to say that

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Speaker 1: was unexpected. I did not. I was unexpected from a

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Speaker 1: standpoint of our picks. We all picked exactly. But I'm

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Speaker 1: not sitting here just like man, I can't believe they

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Speaker 1: lost to that dog crap team like it's it's the NFL.

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Speaker 1: But having said that, you look at the schedule and

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Speaker 1: what's coming for the Cowboys over the next six weeks

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Speaker 1: other than a road trip to San Francisco. This is

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Speaker 1: the most manageable game on the schedule. And if you

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Speaker 1: can't win this at Spells at home at Spells, trouble.

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Speaker 1: And here's the other part. And when I said, and

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Speaker 1: when I said in the break that I couldn't believe

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Speaker 1: they lost his game, it was less about the Rams

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Speaker 1: and way more about the fact that they were up

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Speaker 1: twenty four to three with less than two thirteen, with

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Speaker 1: less than two minutes left in the first half. Yes,

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Speaker 1: that at home against again, a team that I don't

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Speaker 1: think it's necessarily a playoff team. A good team, but

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're a playoff tam. I don't think

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Speaker 1: they're gonna win their division, and I don't think more

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Speaker 1: than one team's gonna come out of the NFC West.

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Speaker 1: So all that being said, I still can't believe the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys were in that position at twenty four to thirteen

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Speaker 1: right before the half and end up losing. If you

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Speaker 1: at home, if you had told me on Friday they

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Speaker 1: were gonna lose, I'd say, Okay, that's not ideal, but

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Speaker 1: it's not the most surprising thing I've ever heard. But

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Speaker 1: to have really full control of that game nearing halftime

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Speaker 1: and to just completely not even it's not like they

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Speaker 1: lose lost control, like the Rams just ripped it away

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Speaker 1: from them. They were like, hey, up yours, We're taking

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Speaker 1: this thing and right nothing you can do about it.

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Speaker 1: That's the part that's kind of surprised. It's hard to

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Speaker 1: that's hard to fathom when you, I mean, the way

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Speaker 1: we've seen this team win games in the past. To

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Speaker 1: have somebody just bossom around like that down the stretch

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Speaker 1: was surprising and the best and I mean I thought

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Speaker 1: the most interesting part when you look at that is

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Speaker 1: that they actually ran the ball. Well, you look at

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys in their running game, and we always say,

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Speaker 1: we said it last week, the Cowboys team is going

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Speaker 1: going to be successful if they can run the ball effectively.

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Speaker 1: And yesterday they ran the ball effectively one hundred and

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Speaker 1: eighty nine yards on the ground. That included a big

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Speaker 1: run from a sect from the second running back in

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Speaker 1: Alfred Morris. But Zeke had a pretty good day. He

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Speaker 1: was averaging four yards per carry, so I mean they

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Speaker 1: were running the ball effectively. Even in the second half.

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Speaker 1: They were still when he touched the ball, they were

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Speaker 1: getting good yardage. Out of it. They just weren't able

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Speaker 1: to get enough out of the passing game to be

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Speaker 1: able to make it all work. I never would have

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Speaker 1: guessed that this. You know, in their current configuration, that

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Speaker 1: they could run for almost two hundred yards, which is

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Speaker 1: a lot in the NFL, by the way, Amber and

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Speaker 1: lose the game. It's okay, lose. I mean that's crazy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's crazy. Where is Jason Witton? Where is Cole Beastley?

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Speaker 1: I was telling you this, Derek yesterday. Where are they?

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Speaker 1: Why are they not using them? I just feel like

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Speaker 1: you don't need to keep throwing the ball as many

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Speaker 1: times to des Bryan. Let's say Terrence Williams after I

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Speaker 1: see him dropping a couple of plays again, I'm not

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Speaker 1: gonna keep throwing it that way. I'm gonna go for

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Speaker 1: the secure, even if it's shorter. I feel secure like

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Speaker 1: Cole Beasley can catch right there, even for a few yards.

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Speaker 1: So can Jason Witten. And you can keep moving the

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Speaker 1: ball just in a more secure way. Let me ask

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Speaker 1: you this question, And because I don't know this, and

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Speaker 1: maybe you guys saw it yesterday, was Cole open a

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Speaker 1: lot that he was just being missed? Or was this

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Speaker 1: a situation where they would just going to other people

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Speaker 1: with the ball. Well, I mean that can happen. I mean,

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Speaker 1: obviously Cole's gonna be open sometimes. I know, I'm just

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Speaker 1: saying that you can miss him. Yeah, he's easily missed sometimes.

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Speaker 1: But I think Dak's got to be looking for him

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Speaker 1: a little bit more. I mean, six targets only three receptions.

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Speaker 1: That's actually low for for him because he's usually you know,

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Speaker 1: he's usually gonna catch most of the passes that are

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Speaker 1: thrown his way. Some of them were too high. But

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Speaker 1: I think that I agree with her. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: think that Whitten and Beasley have got to be you

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Speaker 1: have a ball controlled offense where you don't have to

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Speaker 1: try to throw it down the field as much. You

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Speaker 1: don't try to have to throw you know, these outpass

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Speaker 1: passes to Dez and try to get him that involved.

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Speaker 1: He'll get involved if you just if you just kind

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Speaker 1: of if it goes to him. So I don't know,

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Speaker 1: I don't know why Witten and Beasley are not being

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Speaker 1: I mean, since Witten caught ten passes against Denver, he's

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Speaker 1: only had one two catches for twelve yards, so that

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Speaker 1: was gonna be and I think You're right, there isn't

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Speaker 1: an explosive element to this offense, but there wasn't last

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Speaker 1: year and they didn't need it. Like their whole m

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Speaker 1: is methodical, like you run the ball, you complete the

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Speaker 1: nine yard come back to witness and it works. It

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Speaker 1: works when when everything's humming the right way. And it

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Speaker 1: is kind of unbelievable to me to think that that

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Speaker 1: these guys just weren't ever open over the course of

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Speaker 1: a three hour game. And you look, you know, I

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Speaker 1: defended the amount of targets des was getting through the

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Speaker 1: first two weeks, but what I meant thirteen yesterday and

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Speaker 1: I think nine in Arizona. So I mean he's been

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Speaker 1: targeted fifty times in four games, which I just don't

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Speaker 1: think that's the way this team's going to be successful.

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Speaker 1: I think, you know, it goes back to what Dak

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Speaker 1: was so good at last year, which is just making

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Speaker 1: the easy throw to the guy that the defense isn't

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Speaker 1: focusing on. And I'm that's so simplified. I know it's

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Speaker 1: more complicated than that, but it just seems this whole

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Speaker 1: offense seems like they're forcing it and it's not. It

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Speaker 1: worked beautifully for thirty minutes yesterday, and that's probably as

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Speaker 1: well as it's worked all season, and the rest of

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Speaker 1: the time, it's just been very herky jerky. So not

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Speaker 1: to make an excuse, because I don't believe that an

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Speaker 1: excuse is warranted here other than the fact Cowboys didn't

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Speaker 1: play well in the second half. But do you think

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Speaker 1: there was at least something to the idea that the

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Speaker 1: Cowboys had a short week? They played a Monday night game,

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Speaker 1: then came back to play a Sunday at noon, and

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Speaker 1: their opponent played the previous Thursday, which meant they had

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Speaker 1: ten days to prepare for this game. Do you think

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Speaker 1: that maybe part of what we saw in the second

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Speaker 1: half yesterday could have been affected by Cowboys having less rest,

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Speaker 1: much less rest than than the Rams did. Well, I

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Speaker 1: don't know about the Rams, but let's just focus on

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Speaker 1: on the Cowboys part of it. Yeah, I mean, having

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Speaker 1: a short week, and even shorter because it's a noon game.

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Speaker 1: You know, you do you think Sean Lee could have

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Speaker 1: used one more day, one more day for a hamstring injury? Um? Perhaps,

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Speaker 1: but you know that's just the way that it goes.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't. I don't sit there and worry

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Speaker 1: about that. I mean the ram that they looked fresh,

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Speaker 1: they had a little bit more juice in the second half.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you can, you can make that case if

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Speaker 1: you want to. I know the NBA is changing their

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Speaker 1: rules all because of that, because they feel like, you know,

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Speaker 1: short and you know, back to backs and all that matters.

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Speaker 1: So maybe it does. But my favorite garotism that he

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Speaker 1: repeats all the time that I actually like and don't

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Speaker 1: roll my eyes at is when people ask questions like

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Speaker 1: this and he says, nobody feels sorry for you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: nobody cares. Sorry. I guess what if you don't like it,

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Speaker 1: you got to do it again this week because the

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Speaker 1: Packers have been off since Thursday, So I mean, what

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Speaker 1: do you want me to do? And honestly, I think

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Speaker 1: the defense getting tired out in the second half yesterday

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Speaker 1: has a lot more to do with the offense putting

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Speaker 1: up three plays, three plays, five plays, three plays for

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Speaker 1: the first four possessions of the second half than what

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Speaker 1: happened on Monday in Arizona. I don't it sucks. It's

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Speaker 1: not an ideal scenario, but nobody feels sorry for you.

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Speaker 1: I don't care. You have to do it again this week,

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Speaker 1: so figure it out. Did they have an Arizona off

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Speaker 1: a short week? I think they did the Cowboys Arizona

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Speaker 1: played you're talking about when the Cowboys played Arizona. Was

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Speaker 1: Arizona coming off a short week? I don't think so. Remember, No,

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Speaker 1: Arizona played the Colts on a Sunday heading into that game.

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Speaker 1: But I'm certain at this some point that year Cowboys

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Speaker 1: will be the benefactor of you would like to come

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Speaker 1: off short week? You would like I guess going back

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Speaker 1: to what point, That's why I was pointing it out.

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Speaker 1: It is because there will be Every team's gonna have

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Speaker 1: to deal with that, and that's kind of why you

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Speaker 1: hear Garrett talking about it. And I do agree with

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Speaker 1: the idea like you just got to be prepared to play,

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. I mean, that's the nature of the NFL.

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Speaker 1: You knew when the schedule came out that it was

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Speaker 1: going to be like that. So it is what it is.

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Speaker 1: You just gotta figure it out. Do I agree with

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Speaker 1: the NFL's thought process that grown men slamming into each

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Speaker 1: other two hundred times a game need to be playing

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Speaker 1: Thursday games. No, but they do. So you just gotta

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Speaker 1: make do. Yep, not really much. You can do about that.

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Speaker 1: All right, let's get some phone calls and some questions.

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Speaker 1: You guys can call us a numbers two one four

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Speaker 1: eight seven two twenty one O two. Again it is

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Speaker 1: two one four eight seven two twenty one O two.

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Speaker 1: You can also hit us on Twitter at Cowboys Break.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to Twitter first. Well, I'm just seeing a

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Speaker 1: lot of questions, I mean a lot of comments, not

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Speaker 1: necessarily questions in regards to Dak Prescott's performance, and it's

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Speaker 1: kind of upsetting to me. I just think that's dumb, because, yes,

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Speaker 1: Dad didn't really play his best. He made a lot

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Speaker 1: of mistakes, but at the same time, he's good. He's

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Speaker 1: gonna be as good as the offensive line is. And

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Speaker 1: yesterday we could all see how much pressure he got

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Speaker 1: and how how that affects him and his success in

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Speaker 1: twenty sixteen came off what the offensive line did came

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Speaker 1: off the running game. Yesterday we had the running game going,

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Speaker 1: but again, the offensive line wasn't performing at their highest level.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to disagree a little bit when you said

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Speaker 1: that he's going to play as well as the offensive

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00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:38,160
Speaker 1: line will. I think he played better than that because

643
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Speaker 1: the offensive he had to make plays in spite of

644
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 1: the offensive line. There's one about one drive. There was

645
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: three times on that one drive where he was spending in.

646
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Speaker 1: I mean, it looked the whole thing looked like Romo,

647
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:53,440
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, yeah, but you can't go a

648
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:56,080
Speaker 1: whole game being pressured like that. Oh, I know. And

649
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 1: I know what I'm saying is is that he actually

650
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:03,200
Speaker 1: outperformed the offensive line. Yea, if it wasn't for his

651
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:07,480
Speaker 1: upper body strength and you know, throwing off Aaron Donald

652
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:09,520
Speaker 1: like that and then going and turning and spending and

653
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:12,120
Speaker 1: going back and throwing the ball to Dez Brian across

654
00:32:12,160 --> 00:32:15,200
Speaker 1: the middle. I mean, he made some plays. He made

655
00:32:15,240 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: some plays that most quarterbacks are not going to make

656
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:19,320
Speaker 1: because they don't have the body structure to do that.

657
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:25,200
Speaker 1: It's it's unfortunate for him that the third down throw

658
00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,800
Speaker 1: to Dez where he literally shook off a blindside hit

659
00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: from Aaron Donald, which is amazing. And then on the

660
00:32:30,440 --> 00:32:32,760
Speaker 1: same drive he does the same thing and finds Bryce

661
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:36,479
Speaker 1: Butler for a touchdown. I mean, those are like when

662
00:32:36,600 --> 00:32:38,520
Speaker 1: Dak retires, those will go in the reel. You know.

663
00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:41,800
Speaker 1: It's very reminiscent of the JJ Watt play that Romo made.

664
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Speaker 1: In twenty fourteen, but they will be completely overshadowed by

665
00:32:45,360 --> 00:32:50,080
Speaker 1: the fact that they lost this game. And honestly, I'm

666
00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: gonna go out on a lemon say there's not a

667
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,480
Speaker 1: bigger Dak fan in here than me. I'm I'm very

668
00:32:55,600 --> 00:32:59,240
Speaker 1: much hitched to the Dak Prescott bandwagon. Whatever. You can

669
00:32:59,280 --> 00:33:02,400
Speaker 1: disagree if you want. That's life in the NFL. If

670
00:33:02,440 --> 00:33:05,160
Speaker 1: you're a quarterback, Yeah, that's your job in the NFL's

671
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:07,960
Speaker 1: and your job in the NFL dictates that you're gonna

672
00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,040
Speaker 1: take some heat if you make some bad plays in

673
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 1: a loss. The offensive line was not great, it did

674
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 1: not give him a lot of help. A lot of

675
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,960
Speaker 1: other guys around him made mistakes too, but you're the quarterback.

676
00:33:18,080 --> 00:33:19,520
Speaker 1: You're the guy that has to go to the podium

677
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:24,280
Speaker 1: and account for that. So I mean, nobody feels sorry

678
00:33:24,320 --> 00:33:26,200
Speaker 1: for you. Basically, that's the way. That's the way this

679
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: league works. And what he's gonna be judged on even

680
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,720
Speaker 1: more than that is that final drive. You had one

681
00:33:32,040 --> 00:33:34,200
Speaker 1: something left I think it is almost two minutes left,

682
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: one fifty one, and you had your opportunity at that

683
00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: point to drive your team down to win the ball game,

684
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:43,280
Speaker 1: and no matter what the circumstances are. That's how quarterbacks

685
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,080
Speaker 1: are judged. Every time those situations come up, they say,

686
00:33:46,360 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: this quarterback is won this number of games in a

687
00:33:48,880 --> 00:33:52,320
Speaker 1: comeback situation, and that is a that is to me,

688
00:33:52,800 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: that was what Tony Romo did so well. Is you

689
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,040
Speaker 1: got Tony. And I know Tony took a lot of

690
00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 1: flak from people about, you know, bombing out in in situations,

691
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,000
Speaker 1: but way more often than not, if you got into

692
00:34:04,000 --> 00:34:06,560
Speaker 1: a situation where you got the ball back and you

693
00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,879
Speaker 1: had two minutes and you just needed the offense to drive,

694
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,279
Speaker 1: drive down and score, Tony was usually going to deliver that.

695
00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:16,279
Speaker 1: I thought, especially in a regular season game. You think

696
00:34:16,320 --> 00:34:20,359
Speaker 1: it was weird. Did you listen to that? I heard

697
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 1: some of the stuff I wasn't in there. I mean,

698
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:26,719
Speaker 1: he's pretty blunt after losses. And he said on the

699
00:34:26,880 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: last play, he said, you know, I thought I could

700
00:34:29,320 --> 00:34:31,040
Speaker 1: dump the ball off to Zeke. I thought he could

701
00:34:31,040 --> 00:34:32,800
Speaker 1: maybe make one guy miss so we could get a

702
00:34:32,880 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: first down. I mean, if you were for nitpicking here,

703
00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to, you know, make this a

704
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:42,160
Speaker 1: bigger issue, but it was. I thought it's kind of

705
00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:44,680
Speaker 1: surprising that he would say that you know, because it

706
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:47,719
Speaker 1: did kind of sound like I thought Zeke would do it.

707
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:49,440
Speaker 1: You know, I gave it to him and he and

708
00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,120
Speaker 1: if you go back and watch it, he did make

709
00:34:52,200 --> 00:34:54,400
Speaker 1: that guy miss and he made another guy miss, and

710
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:56,560
Speaker 1: he was like kind of bulldozing his way. There's no

711
00:34:56,760 --> 00:34:58,800
Speaker 1: he had no business getting nine and a half yards,

712
00:34:59,080 --> 00:35:00,800
Speaker 1: but he did. I really he thought. I thought he

713
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:02,879
Speaker 1: was going to get to the sticks. I really did.

714
00:35:03,560 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: And honestly, that's you know, I know he played well

715
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,560
Speaker 1: in some of those touchdowns. Yeah, yeah, he had a

716
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:12,520
Speaker 1: good day. He had a really good day, which is again,

717
00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:16,520
Speaker 1: why so surprising they lost is Yeah, it's a very

718
00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 1: it's a perplexing loss. And actually, I mean, you know,

719
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,720
Speaker 1: talking about going back and watching the tape, it pains

720
00:35:21,800 --> 00:35:25,240
Speaker 1: me to say it. In that situation, Dak Dak probably

721
00:35:25,280 --> 00:35:29,680
Speaker 1: had three, maybe four throws that he probably really wants back,

722
00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 1: and there might not be a worse one than the

723
00:35:32,520 --> 00:35:35,520
Speaker 1: third down before that Zeke play. Yep, he had deaz

724
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,440
Speaker 1: on a on a seven out route to the sidelines.

725
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: He has room whiffed it as bad as I've ever

726
00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 1: seen him with a throw like it just I mean,

727
00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:46,719
Speaker 1: it's sailed on him and it's definitely a first down

728
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:49,440
Speaker 1: definitely gets Daz out of bounds and keeps the game

729
00:35:49,480 --> 00:35:52,480
Speaker 1: alive if he gets it. Um, you get a hindsight

730
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 1: here for sure. But I mean it's kind of I

731
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:57,839
Speaker 1: even said it to you on the field that it's

732
00:35:57,920 --> 00:36:00,359
Speaker 1: kind of reminded me of the of the Packer game

733
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. But you get down there, and I

734
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:08,920
Speaker 1: know that they're moving fast, But in hindsight, do you

735
00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:11,960
Speaker 1: stop the clock there? You got forty eight seconds? You're

736
00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 1: talking about the spike. Yeah, you spike the ball because

737
00:36:14,840 --> 00:36:17,560
Speaker 1: you need every one of these plays, and if you

738
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 1: can get to the twenty five yard line, now you

739
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: have a legitimate shot. Even with like one second on

740
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,879
Speaker 1: the clock, you've got you've got a shot to throw

741
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: it into the end zone and make a play. Because

742
00:36:30,520 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 1: you have dead you're not gonna maybe do a hell Mary.

743
00:36:32,719 --> 00:36:35,120
Speaker 1: But if you get in the twenty five twenty eight range,

744
00:36:35,520 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 1: so I think everything counts, every snap counts to get

745
00:36:40,160 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 1: everything you can to get down into that twenty yard line,

746
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: and then even with one or two seconds, you can

747
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,200
Speaker 1: still make plays. And I think spiking it there. I

748
00:36:48,280 --> 00:36:51,279
Speaker 1: know it's hindsight, but that to that point though, and

749
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:53,799
Speaker 1: you know, like Derek was talking about, you can put

750
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: a little bit of this on everybody because on that

751
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: same drive, if Terrence Williams catches that pass, he's got

752
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:01,600
Speaker 1: a good to get out of bounds. You probably stop

753
00:37:01,760 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 1: the clock with something like one thirty one brought us

754
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: and I did the math on this, you're probably talking

755
00:37:05,719 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 1: one thirty one. Instead, he drops it. You run the

756
00:37:08,960 --> 00:37:10,520
Speaker 1: ball with sak just to make sure you get a

757
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:12,759
Speaker 1: fresh set of downs, and then you're taking your next

758
00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,120
Speaker 1: snap at like one oh eight, So you're talking twenty

759
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 1: twenty five seconds off the clock that didn't need to

760
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: come off the clock. Just a regrettable second half by

761
00:37:22,560 --> 00:37:24,840
Speaker 1: basically everybody involved. And that's the thing. It's like a

762
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: little thing here, a little thing there, a little thing there,

763
00:37:27,040 --> 00:37:29,719
Speaker 1: a little thing there, and it one thing in isolation.

764
00:37:29,800 --> 00:37:32,040
Speaker 1: If you have that one play, it doesn't kill the game,

765
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 1: but you put them all together and it spells how

766
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: you lose a game when you had, when you had

767
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:39,320
Speaker 1: a really good game going, how you can lose a

768
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:41,680
Speaker 1: game in that What do you think Terrence Williams's timeline

769
00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:44,520
Speaker 1: looked like yesterday? I don't know because he blocked me right,

770
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:49,120
Speaker 1: but bet it wasn't good. Oh, I'm sure it wasn't good.

771
00:37:49,200 --> 00:37:51,799
Speaker 1: But that's also that also comes with the territory. When

772
00:37:51,840 --> 00:37:54,720
Speaker 1: you play well, then it's you know, it's Terence Williams.

773
00:37:55,480 --> 00:37:57,920
Speaker 1: But when you have a rough game then' he did.

774
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:00,960
Speaker 1: He did. Let everybody know it was his bad. He

775
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:04,640
Speaker 1: didn't hate that, oh after the play like that's not me.

776
00:38:05,320 --> 00:38:08,720
Speaker 1: Yeah he did die? Why like fifty times ninety thousand

777
00:38:08,760 --> 00:38:11,640
Speaker 1: people in the building. Oh, you know, I think you

778
00:38:11,680 --> 00:38:14,440
Speaker 1: didn't catch the ball. I hate twelve players do it too.

779
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:17,480
Speaker 1: You know I missed the last They tucking to his teammate.

780
00:38:17,560 --> 00:38:19,680
Speaker 1: He's not talking to the risk his teammates. No, they know.

781
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 1: Maybe they weren't looking busy blocking dack. That was my bad, man,

782
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:26,080
Speaker 1: I didn't catch that. Let's work my bad or the

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Speaker 1: a call. And before we go to this call, just

834
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Speaker 1: want to say my thoughts and prayers it with all

835
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Speaker 1: those folks out in Las Vegas. Rob is calling from

836
00:40:54,520 --> 00:40:58,799
Speaker 1: Las Vegas. What you got robbing you? Luckily I came

837
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Speaker 1: in for the game. I was at the game yesterday

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Speaker 1: for my fifty birthday, Happy birthday, birthday. Thank you. So

839
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Speaker 1: I woke up to what happened in Vegas and you

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00:41:09,400 --> 00:41:10,960
Speaker 1: still in doubt where you? Did you wake up in

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00:41:12,840 --> 00:41:16,560
Speaker 1: I'm still in Dallas. Okay, okay, okay, all night. I

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Speaker 1: and she was, you know, freaking out and shooting. I

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Speaker 1: think I know them? Kay, yes, okay, all right, Well,

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Speaker 1: our thoughts and prayers with you, guys, man. I appreciate it.

848
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Speaker 1: You know, being at the game first here in Texas,

849
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Speaker 1: it was a it was a pretty cool scene. But

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Speaker 1: I disagree a little bit. I don't think they ran

851
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Speaker 1: the ball that good at all. I mean, if you

852
00:41:47,920 --> 00:41:50,960
Speaker 1: take that seventy something, you'd run them what they have?

853
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:54,719
Speaker 1: What Zeke? You know? They didn't really they held them

854
00:41:54,760 --> 00:41:57,960
Speaker 1: in check. And I think what's really hurting his team? Come,

855
00:41:58,400 --> 00:42:01,840
Speaker 1: let's compare it to last year. This team lived second

856
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:05,280
Speaker 1: and five last year. I think first down is killing

857
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 1: this team. It seemed yesterday a start off play action

858
00:42:09,719 --> 00:42:12,640
Speaker 1: they throw to jump out the DEAs and everybody's like great.

859
00:42:12,680 --> 00:42:15,360
Speaker 1: It took everybody, buddy by surprise, because you just assume

860
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:17,279
Speaker 1: it's going to be a run up the middle. And

861
00:42:17,400 --> 00:42:21,600
Speaker 1: then they got away from that, and then it was

862
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:23,719
Speaker 1: it was second half. It was second and nine. It

863
00:42:23,800 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 1: was second and eight. Last year they used to do

864
00:42:27,080 --> 00:42:29,759
Speaker 1: those uh swing passes, he'd roll out. I think he

865
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:31,840
Speaker 1: throw to swing. I don't think swings could bowl the

866
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:34,800
Speaker 1: whole year. And I think number eighty four, I forget

867
00:42:34,840 --> 00:42:37,279
Speaker 1: his name, and touchdown pass. I think that was his

868
00:42:37,360 --> 00:42:41,239
Speaker 1: first catch all year. Yea, it's like they throw to

869
00:42:41,640 --> 00:42:46,640
Speaker 1: only a handful of guys. Des Beasley Witten and Williams.

870
00:42:46,719 --> 00:42:51,680
Speaker 1: That's it. And these defenses are squeezing back yesterday. If

871
00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:55,600
Speaker 1: he doesn't make kind of Tony Romo plays, they're going

872
00:42:55,640 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 1: to get blown off this field. And the difference to

873
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 1: me in the game Golf was just too comfortable. I mean,

874
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:04,920
Speaker 1: he's not going to run. He's not a big guy.

875
00:43:05,000 --> 00:43:06,920
Speaker 1: You hit him. I mean he was going to fly,

876
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 1: but he was just too comfortable. And I tweeted Dave

877
00:43:13,520 --> 00:43:16,640
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith. Everybody likes Jalen Smith. I mean, he's just

878
00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:20,000
Speaker 1: a class guy. But you're asking a guy who cannot

879
00:43:20,440 --> 00:43:24,719
Speaker 1: really run at one hundred percent play middle linebacker where

880
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 1: you have to cover both sides of the field, and

881
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:29,520
Speaker 1: now you're going to try to have to cover their

882
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:32,560
Speaker 1: best offensive weapon. And that's the best to come up with.

883
00:43:33,040 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 1: You couldn't put maybe another safety, but somebody he was.

884
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 1: That was the difference. He was the difference for them.

885
00:43:42,239 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 1: And I think the difference with us was Dak just

886
00:43:45,800 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 1: wasn't comfortable. And I don't know what to deal with

887
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:50,359
Speaker 1: this offensive line. It's hard to watch an offensive line

888
00:43:50,440 --> 00:43:53,120
Speaker 1: during the game, So I can't tell you who to

889
00:43:53,200 --> 00:43:56,000
Speaker 1: breakdowns are. But what I'm noticing is Tyrren Smith's not

890
00:43:56,120 --> 00:43:59,320
Speaker 1: the same guy, and maybe that's because next it is

891
00:43:59,360 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 1: not doing what he supposed to do. And I gotta

892
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 1: tell you the president there, the guard on the right side,

893
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:09,359
Speaker 1: who's probably regarded as the best, Zack Martin, he didn't.

894
00:44:10,560 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: So I think I don't think they're gonna flip it

895
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:19,960
Speaker 1: during the season, but I think bytions now you're affecting everybody.

896
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:22,600
Speaker 1: And I don't know if they're gonna I don't know

897
00:44:22,640 --> 00:44:24,120
Speaker 1: if they're gonna take a chance and try to put

898
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:27,000
Speaker 1: it back where Collins goes back to guard. But this

899
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 1: offense needs to get back to little little passes. Get

900
00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:34,480
Speaker 1: let's get comfortable second and five, and that's where I

901
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,440
Speaker 1: think Zeke could be more effective. But all right, right now,

902
00:44:37,600 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 1: unfortunately I'm starting to see an eight and eighteen. All right,

903
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:43,520
Speaker 1: thanks for the call. The one thing I will disagree,

904
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:45,319
Speaker 1: and this is one of my pet peeves. I don't

905
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:48,200
Speaker 1: like when when fans say, hey, if you take this

906
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:50,560
Speaker 1: one runaway, well that's the point. You can't take that

907
00:44:50,640 --> 00:44:53,919
Speaker 1: one runaway. Is that seventy yard run was a part

908
00:44:53,960 --> 00:44:55,880
Speaker 1: of what they did yesterday. But if you if you

909
00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:59,120
Speaker 1: don't talk about the two runs from Alfred Morris. I

910
00:44:59,239 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 1: still think you look at Ezekiel Elliott and you say

911
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 1: the guy was averaging four yards to carry. They ran

912
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:07,200
Speaker 1: the ball well, they ran the ball effectively yesterday. I

913
00:45:07,400 --> 00:45:10,120
Speaker 1: just think personally, their passing game failed them in moments

914
00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:12,200
Speaker 1: when they needed their passing game. I don't think there

915
00:45:12,280 --> 00:45:14,400
Speaker 1: was anything wrong with the running game yesterday. I know

916
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:17,640
Speaker 1: that there are there still has been this this pension

917
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:20,680
Speaker 1: this season for these negative runs that we really didn't

918
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 1: see last year, like on first down, and so yes,

919
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:26,400
Speaker 1: that can be a problem, but in a lot of

920
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:29,080
Speaker 1: instances yesterday and a lot of instances yesterday, the Cowboys

921
00:45:29,160 --> 00:45:31,200
Speaker 1: overcame that and they were picking up first downs on

922
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:33,719
Speaker 1: second and eight. So I don't think that that was

923
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:37,440
Speaker 1: the biggest problem the Cowboys experience yesterday. I think I

924
00:45:38,080 --> 00:45:40,160
Speaker 1: agreed with a lot of what the coller just said.

925
00:45:40,280 --> 00:45:43,839
Speaker 1: Some of it not so much, but for whatever reason,

926
00:45:44,000 --> 00:45:46,800
Speaker 1: and it's hard, it's hard to try to simplify it.

927
00:45:46,960 --> 00:45:50,200
Speaker 1: But so offensive line is not as dominant as they

928
00:45:50,200 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 1: were last year. I think everybody can agree with that.

929
00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:57,240
Speaker 1: I think the number of negative zero and one yard

930
00:45:57,320 --> 00:46:01,000
Speaker 1: games we've seen in the running game is shockingly larger

931
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:03,040
Speaker 1: than it was last year. I don't know that you

932
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:05,600
Speaker 1: can even argue that fact. I still think they ran

933
00:46:05,680 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 1: the ball pretty well. I still think they found a

934
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:10,880
Speaker 1: way to get the job done more often than they didn't.

935
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:12,640
Speaker 1: Even if you want to play that game and take

936
00:46:12,840 --> 00:46:15,160
Speaker 1: the Morris run out of it, they still ran for

937
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty yards, which is good by nil standards.

938
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:22,040
Speaker 1: It is more than four yards per carry. I can't

939
00:46:22,080 --> 00:46:25,560
Speaker 1: really kill him too much for that. Um, Dave, add

940
00:46:25,600 --> 00:46:28,239
Speaker 1: this up in your head. They're asking the wrong guy.

941
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:31,200
Speaker 1: That was like a wrong guy. He had five runs

942
00:46:31,239 --> 00:46:35,120
Speaker 1: on first down in the second half, Okay, minus one zero,

943
00:46:36,280 --> 00:46:41,800
Speaker 1: two zero, So we're at we're at one. What was

944
00:46:41,840 --> 00:46:45,360
Speaker 1: the last one? Five? About six? He had six yards

945
00:46:45,480 --> 00:46:48,759
Speaker 1: on first down and five and five attempts. Yeah, and

946
00:46:48,880 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 1: that was all in a row, all in the second half.

947
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:53,560
Speaker 1: Those are your second half runs. Now, only one of

948
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:57,480
Speaker 1: those times did they get a first down in that series,

949
00:46:57,520 --> 00:46:59,719
Speaker 1: and it's a Dak went for twelve yards on a

950
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:01,880
Speaker 1: run which probably was more of a scramble where he

951
00:47:01,920 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: did his own there. My question would be how much

952
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:05,480
Speaker 1: did they do that in the first first in the

953
00:47:05,560 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 1: first quarter, first and second quarter. I'll start talking about

954
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:10,399
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, now we gotta start. It's gonna take

955
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 1: a while, which als I'll check out of I really again,

956
00:47:14,040 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 1: it's it's hard to try to simplify this too much. Sorry,

957
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 1: you're just gonna call him out four five, nine, three, twelve,

958
00:47:23,360 --> 00:47:28,799
Speaker 1: one thirteen, three sixteen. It's first quarter right there. That's

959
00:47:28,840 --> 00:47:30,640
Speaker 1: way better than the second sixteen on how many was

960
00:47:30,680 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 1: it four or five carries? It sounded like four, so

961
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:37,279
Speaker 1: roughly four the first down. Here's the first down run

962
00:47:37,360 --> 00:47:40,120
Speaker 1: for seventy. Here we go that one counts. That'll blow

963
00:47:40,160 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 1: up your average, though. And then and then Zeke on

964
00:47:43,640 --> 00:47:47,279
Speaker 1: first and goal and zero, so yeah uh. And then

965
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:49,279
Speaker 1: he get first and goal again from the from the

966
00:47:49,320 --> 00:47:55,800
Speaker 1: two and scored um three. And that's whether whether you

967
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:59,680
Speaker 1: want to blame Green Cooper and Lyle Collins or get

968
00:47:59,719 --> 00:48:03,799
Speaker 1: out of here maybe oh good, great, hey shan, Whether

969
00:48:03,840 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 1: you want to blame the newcomers or whether Zach Martin,

970
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:09,319
Speaker 1: Travis Frederick and Tyrn Smith aren't playing up to their

971
00:48:09,360 --> 00:48:13,400
Speaker 1: old level, whatever however you want to pinpoint this, I

972
00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:17,439
Speaker 1: don't think that they're capable of just dominantly running the ball.

973
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 1: We know we're doing it. You know we're doing it

974
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:22,080
Speaker 1: tough cookies. This is what's coming and we're gonna get

975
00:48:22,120 --> 00:48:24,719
Speaker 1: five yards like I think they could do that last year.

976
00:48:25,160 --> 00:48:26,759
Speaker 1: Doesn't look like they can do that this year. Is

977
00:48:26,800 --> 00:48:30,120
Speaker 1: this all about though, the left guard and the right tackle,

978
00:48:30,320 --> 00:48:32,279
Speaker 1: Like I said, the changes, and what I mean by

979
00:48:32,320 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 1: that is you have different Those are only two pieces

980
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:36,560
Speaker 1: that are different. Is it all about them and whatever

981
00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:39,520
Speaker 1: you're seeing as a result of their play and those

982
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:41,920
Speaker 1: other guys maybe trying to do more than they should

983
00:48:42,000 --> 00:48:44,120
Speaker 1: do because they're trying to make up for them, or

984
00:48:44,239 --> 00:48:46,360
Speaker 1: is it more just about sixty four? Like what what

985
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:48,960
Speaker 1: can it be? This is a cop out, But that's

986
00:48:49,000 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 1: a question for broad us really, Like, I'm not the scout.

987
00:48:52,080 --> 00:48:53,560
Speaker 1: I can't. I'm not going to try to tell you

988
00:48:53,680 --> 00:48:55,719
Speaker 1: that this guy's not pulling the right way and this

989
00:48:55,840 --> 00:48:58,480
Speaker 1: guy is too worried about his weak side. Help. I

990
00:48:58,560 --> 00:49:00,319
Speaker 1: don't have those answers. I am going to go back

991
00:49:00,320 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 1: and watch it again because I'm curious. Um, But I

992
00:49:03,880 --> 00:49:06,400
Speaker 1: if I had to guess, it's a combination of everything.

993
00:49:06,480 --> 00:49:08,399
Speaker 1: I think your left guard and your right tackle aren't

994
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:10,200
Speaker 1: as good as they were last year. I think your

995
00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:14,000
Speaker 1: three all pros are probably overcompensating. Plus they've played some

996
00:49:14,120 --> 00:49:17,560
Speaker 1: pretty dominant fronts. When you think about Aaron Donald, Michael

997
00:49:17,600 --> 00:49:22,520
Speaker 1: Brocker's Damon Harrison Denver obviously, um, and then on top

998
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:25,080
Speaker 1: of the US, who sucks on defense? Can we get

999
00:49:25,800 --> 00:49:28,160
Speaker 1: that's a valid that's about Guess what I mean this

1000
00:49:28,440 --> 00:49:33,000
Speaker 1: defense coming up is even though God is coming to town, like,

1001
00:49:33,160 --> 00:49:37,160
Speaker 1: I still think that that. Oh I'm like who she's

1002
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:43,160
Speaker 1: talking about? Wow? Um, I pray he's one more One

1003
00:49:43,200 --> 00:49:45,800
Speaker 1: more thing that I wanted to point out is I

1004
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:48,799
Speaker 1: throw some on Ezekiel Elliott as well, because we were

1005
00:49:48,840 --> 00:49:50,640
Speaker 1: talking about it this morning too. I mean, you can

1006
00:49:50,719 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 1: go back and find plays where there's a hole that

1007
00:49:53,080 --> 00:49:55,479
Speaker 1: he doesn't hit, or there's something that he doesn't happen

1008
00:49:55,520 --> 00:49:59,360
Speaker 1: a few times. Yeah, it's all as is usually the

1009
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:02,799
Speaker 1: case in these situations, Like to successfully run the ball

1010
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:06,040
Speaker 1: in the NFL, you have to seamlessly do about six

1011
00:50:06,160 --> 00:50:08,920
Speaker 1: things right on every play, and it's just it hasn't

1012
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:11,319
Speaker 1: been there for him on a consistent basis this year.

1013
00:50:12,640 --> 00:50:14,359
Speaker 1: That's not to say I don't think they can get

1014
00:50:14,400 --> 00:50:16,319
Speaker 1: it right. And again that goes back to our point

1015
00:50:16,360 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 1: from last week. I think continuity is your best bet.

1016
00:50:19,520 --> 00:50:23,160
Speaker 1: It sucks for everybody that Chads Green couldn't start this game.

1017
00:50:23,360 --> 00:50:25,320
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna dog the guy for getting hurt, you know,

1018
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:27,800
Speaker 1: I don't like to do that, but he needs to

1019
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:29,719
Speaker 1: be in there getting snaps. But the fact is, and

1020
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:31,080
Speaker 1: I know you don't want to dog him, and I

1021
00:50:31,080 --> 00:50:32,760
Speaker 1: don't want to dog him either because of his injury.

1022
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:34,560
Speaker 1: But the fact is is if you went into this

1023
00:50:34,640 --> 00:50:37,279
Speaker 1: season assuming that Chaz Green was going to play sixteen games,

1024
00:50:37,600 --> 00:50:41,000
Speaker 1: then you're probably the fool because his history does not

1025
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 1: suggest that that's going to be the case, and as

1026
00:50:42,600 --> 00:50:44,840
Speaker 1: we saw this weekend, wasn't. But here's what I'm a

1027
00:50:44,880 --> 00:50:47,759
Speaker 1: fool about. How are you getting hurt in practice? Or

1028
00:50:47,840 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 1: what's happening? What's happening where you have a hip in practice? Well?

1029
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:54,279
Speaker 1: When was it in the game practice? I was just

1030
00:50:54,360 --> 00:50:56,680
Speaker 1: making an out, Okay, I was gonna say, I mean

1031
00:50:56,800 --> 00:51:00,239
Speaker 1: we're talking about yes, well what are they doing? Is

1032
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:03,520
Speaker 1: this like the program? Like what what do they get

1033
00:51:03,560 --> 00:51:06,719
Speaker 1: around in the circle as bullrush? And I means I

1034
00:51:06,760 --> 00:51:09,280
Speaker 1: will say this other injury, I will say this. Okay,

1035
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:11,759
Speaker 1: you're right, you're probably foolish if you were counting on

1036
00:51:11,880 --> 00:51:14,280
Speaker 1: Chatz to play sixteen games. Based on his prior history,

1037
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 1: but having just come out of this game, we all

1038
00:51:18,200 --> 00:51:21,120
Speaker 1: feel like Chaz Green has had the better outings at

1039
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:23,800
Speaker 1: left guard this season. He's well, you want him starting

1040
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:25,480
Speaker 1: if you have. The One thing I will say though,

1041
00:51:25,600 --> 00:51:28,479
Speaker 1: is no, I mean Chaz hasn't faced Darren Don Chazz

1042
00:51:28,520 --> 00:51:31,440
Speaker 1: would have, so yeah, I don't know if I know

1043
00:51:31,560 --> 00:51:34,680
Speaker 1: sixty four wasn't the answer against Iron. Donald was slapping

1044
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:36,960
Speaker 1: Zack Martin around on a case. And that's my point.

1045
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:38,919
Speaker 1: So I don't know the Chaz would have fared any

1046
00:51:39,000 --> 00:51:43,440
Speaker 1: better yesterday. Zekel throw him down on his ass. I'm serious,

1047
00:51:43,840 --> 00:51:46,680
Speaker 1: go back and watch that play that he couldn't believe

1048
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:49,960
Speaker 1: that plays believe the guy could whiff that much that

1049
00:51:50,160 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 1: quick and then all of a sudden it was just

1050
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 1: it was just like one on one with and he

1051
00:51:54,800 --> 00:51:58,759
Speaker 1: kind of tossed him around so fast. Protector. He's gonna

1052
00:51:58,760 --> 00:52:01,799
Speaker 1: play left guard and Alfred Morris can run the ball

1053
00:52:02,360 --> 00:52:05,279
Speaker 1: since he's so great, right Alfred Morris? And does that

1054
00:52:05,360 --> 00:52:07,319
Speaker 1: mean we get to mark? I mean that that Darren

1055
00:52:07,400 --> 00:52:09,880
Speaker 1: McFadden is now active, maybe he could be active running

1056
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 1: back now. Yeah, it's uh anyway, keep tweeting me, keep

1057
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 1: tweeting me on that one like that, oh hide score.

1058
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:21,759
Speaker 1: I mean that. I think that was my point though.

1059
00:52:21,840 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 1: My point all along was about juice, a guy that

1060
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:27,720
Speaker 1: can bring you a little bit. I don't trusted Darren McFadden.

1061
00:52:27,840 --> 00:52:31,960
Speaker 1: I'll bet you fifty dollars. I don't trust you, Aaron Donald.

1062
00:52:32,080 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 1: Darren McFadden's not getting that ball to the end zone either. Yeah,

1063
00:52:34,640 --> 00:52:36,640
Speaker 1: I don't trust you no way. How are you gonna

1064
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 1: bet me fifty dollars? I can't, obviously I can, but

1065
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:42,680
Speaker 1: I just prove it. Hey, the Packers are coming to town.

1066
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 1: I remember twenty fifteen, Darren McFadden had a hole the

1067
00:52:46,239 --> 00:52:48,200
Speaker 1: size of the Red Sea and couldn't get into the

1068
00:52:48,280 --> 00:52:50,360
Speaker 1: end zone. I mean, and he was running by himself

1069
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:54,080
Speaker 1: for about twenty yards and got brought down. There aren't

1070
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:55,640
Speaker 1: a lot of running backs that are scoring from there,

1071
00:52:55,680 --> 00:52:59,880
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliot. It's one of them, unfortunately, but unfortunately be

1072
00:53:00,000 --> 00:53:01,719
Speaker 1: because he didn't have able, he didn't have the ball

1073
00:53:01,719 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 1: in his hands. Yes, well, they end up scoring anyways,

1074
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:08,080
Speaker 1: it's to go back. We kind of deviated from the call,

1075
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:11,960
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean there's some really very real concerns

1076
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:14,080
Speaker 1: with the way the offense is playing and really their

1077
00:53:14,200 --> 00:53:18,480
Speaker 1: rhythm in their consistency more than anything else. Again, that

1078
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:21,120
Speaker 1: was great. The first half was amazing. If they play

1079
00:53:21,200 --> 00:53:23,319
Speaker 1: like that all the time, they'll win thirteen games again.

1080
00:53:23,400 --> 00:53:26,520
Speaker 1: But they've only managed to reach that level of play

1081
00:53:26,680 --> 00:53:31,080
Speaker 1: for I don't know, eight of their seventy some odd

1082
00:53:31,120 --> 00:53:33,719
Speaker 1: possessions this season. Yeah, I mean, how many possessions this

1083
00:53:33,800 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 1: season have they looked like that? Probably four in the

1084
00:53:37,080 --> 00:53:39,840
Speaker 1: first half, one against the Giants, which resulted in a

1085
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:45,480
Speaker 1: Jason Witten touchdown. None against Denver, and even against the Cardinals.

1086
00:53:45,560 --> 00:53:47,919
Speaker 1: Not really, because you're just chunking up fifty fifty balls

1087
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:50,799
Speaker 1: to Bryce Butler and hoping for the best. It's it's

1088
00:53:50,880 --> 00:53:53,000
Speaker 1: been disjointed. That's the word that I would use to

1089
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:56,719
Speaker 1: this point. I don't get Jason Witten back involved. Get

1090
00:53:56,840 --> 00:53:59,640
Speaker 1: him back involved, to move the sticks a little bit,

1091
00:53:59,800 --> 00:54:03,759
Speaker 1: because it's there. It's there, and like he can get

1092
00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:06,799
Speaker 1: eight to nine yards when you want to, So quit

1093
00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 1: trying to be cute and try to go for all

1094
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:12,279
Speaker 1: these great big plays and you can decondunc with him

1095
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:14,719
Speaker 1: because he him and Beasley, these guys they can move

1096
00:54:14,800 --> 00:54:16,839
Speaker 1: the ball down the field. And I don't know why

1097
00:54:16,880 --> 00:54:19,520
Speaker 1: they don't use it as much because every single time

1098
00:54:19,600 --> 00:54:21,399
Speaker 1: when they need to, you see it in two minute

1099
00:54:21,440 --> 00:54:23,359
Speaker 1: drill and they like really need to move the ball.

1100
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:26,200
Speaker 1: It's Jason Witten and there Jason Witten for ten, Jason

1101
00:54:26,239 --> 00:54:28,680
Speaker 1: went for twelve. And I know defense is played differently

1102
00:54:28,840 --> 00:54:33,000
Speaker 1: in a two minute but I promise you Jason Witten

1103
00:54:33,800 --> 00:54:37,920
Speaker 1: is available to move the sticks and get first down

1104
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:40,359
Speaker 1: if they went that route. It's got another question from Twitter.

1105
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:42,920
Speaker 1: We kind of talked about this already, but do you

1106
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:47,040
Speaker 1: guys think that this would be a solution to pass

1107
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:50,439
Speaker 1: more on the first down to give Seek a little

1108
00:54:50,520 --> 00:54:54,520
Speaker 1: more running room. I mean, honestly, I don't think that

1109
00:54:54,640 --> 00:54:57,880
Speaker 1: passing more is their answer. Like the amount of times

1110
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:01,920
Speaker 1: that they've been passing this season win. Like, if this

1111
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 1: team's gonna win, their route success is going to be

1112
00:55:04,719 --> 00:55:06,520
Speaker 1: running the ball now again, they're gonna have to vary

1113
00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:08,399
Speaker 1: it up. I think they need to do some more.

1114
00:55:08,800 --> 00:55:10,960
Speaker 1: I was I was happy that they handed the ball

1115
00:55:11,080 --> 00:55:14,040
Speaker 1: to to Switzer on a play yesterday because I do

1116
00:55:14,200 --> 00:55:16,440
Speaker 1: think that they need to do something else in the

1117
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:19,600
Speaker 1: running game. It can't just always be about giving Zeke

1118
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 1: the ball in first downs. Um, But I do think

1119
00:55:22,239 --> 00:55:24,799
Speaker 1: the running game is how this team's gonna gonna win.

1120
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:27,439
Speaker 1: And so I don't think the answer is let's throw more.

1121
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:29,279
Speaker 1: I just think they have to be more creative and

1122
00:55:29,360 --> 00:55:32,759
Speaker 1: find better ways to run the ball than than saying

1123
00:55:32,840 --> 00:55:34,560
Speaker 1: let's get away from running the ball. And I throw

1124
00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:37,439
Speaker 1: something out there that I hate myself for even saying

1125
00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:41,279
Speaker 1: out loud. I think these guys miss Lucky Whitehead at all.

1126
00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:46,480
Speaker 1: Well that role, Yeah, I think I'm talking about Yes,

1127
00:55:46,560 --> 00:55:49,960
Speaker 1: I don't care about his snap stories or or you know, uh,

1128
00:55:50,120 --> 00:55:52,120
Speaker 1: he won't mind the crap in the locker room. I'm

1129
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:56,480
Speaker 1: talking about defenses for whatever reason, respected the hell out

1130
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:59,399
Speaker 1: of him going in motion across that formation. But that's

1131
00:55:59,480 --> 00:56:02,440
Speaker 1: not about them all. He averaged ten yards, Yeah, but

1132
00:56:02,480 --> 00:56:04,000
Speaker 1: that wasn't I don't think that was as much about

1133
00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:05,840
Speaker 1: him as they haven't really done it this year like

1134
00:56:05,920 --> 00:56:08,960
Speaker 1: they have. They could try it with Switzer that yesterday

1135
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:11,800
Speaker 1: was the first time they tried it he has, and

1136
00:56:12,320 --> 00:56:14,120
Speaker 1: they got what four yards on that play? They got

1137
00:56:14,200 --> 00:56:16,080
Speaker 1: three yards when they actually gave it to him, but

1138
00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:18,319
Speaker 1: he motioned a few more times other than that word.

1139
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:21,680
Speaker 1: They didn't hand it him. No, But even still, it

1140
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 1: certainly seemed like teams respected it when Lucky did it,

1141
00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:27,279
Speaker 1: and I don't think they respect Switzer doing this. Yes,

1142
00:56:27,360 --> 00:56:30,040
Speaker 1: they respected it after If you go back to last season,

1143
00:56:30,360 --> 00:56:32,759
Speaker 1: the Cowboys were regularly running that every game for like

1144
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 1: the first how many games, Like they were consistently running

1145
00:56:35,640 --> 00:56:37,960
Speaker 1: that play every game, so teams had to respect it.

1146
00:56:38,160 --> 00:56:40,200
Speaker 1: They haven't run it enough for teams to respect it yet.

1147
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 1: He's come across, but they have only handed it to

1148
00:56:42,600 --> 00:56:44,399
Speaker 1: him one time in four games. So do you think

1149
00:56:44,640 --> 00:56:46,719
Speaker 1: if you were the defense, would you respect that much

1150
00:56:46,760 --> 00:56:48,360
Speaker 1: and say, yeah, we gotta make sure we watched that

1151
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 1: guy coming across. Well, he hasn't done it, so that

1152
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:54,400
Speaker 1: doesn't make me respect it. So just I don't know

1153
00:56:54,520 --> 00:56:57,160
Speaker 1: that they respect that Ryan Switzer's gonna gash him for

1154
00:56:57,680 --> 00:57:01,080
Speaker 1: until he does it. Well, yeah, we'll see. Um it's

1155
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:04,720
Speaker 1: a funny catch twenty two because I think just about

1156
00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:08,799
Speaker 1: everybody would agree that this offense looks fairly predictable right now.

1157
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:12,160
Speaker 1: But you know, you can sit here and say, maybe

1158
00:57:12,200 --> 00:57:14,000
Speaker 1: you throw the ball on first down instead of handing

1159
00:57:14,040 --> 00:57:15,799
Speaker 1: it off to Zeke. But if you if you throw

1160
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:17,800
Speaker 1: it in completion, then it's second and ten, then you're

1161
00:57:17,840 --> 00:57:20,960
Speaker 1: behind the eight ball. Where now you gotta pick up

1162
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:23,160
Speaker 1: five yards on second down or you're in third and long.

1163
00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:25,800
Speaker 1: So I just knocked it up. Damned if you do.

1164
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:28,280
Speaker 1: Damn it didn't. I didn't count it, but it looks

1165
00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:33,160
Speaker 1: like about almost fifty fifty pass on first down. Yeah,

1166
00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 1: it might be a little bit more run, but that

1167
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:37,240
Speaker 1: was because when they got down there at the five

1168
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:40,240
Speaker 1: yard line. They got down there and they they should

1169
00:57:40,240 --> 00:57:43,400
Speaker 1: do it three times. So I don't. I think they're

1170
00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:46,560
Speaker 1: mixing it up pretty good there, run pass first up.

1171
00:57:46,840 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 1: I'd just like to see a little bit more creativity,

1172
00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:50,880
Speaker 1: try try the Switzer play a little bit more. I

1173
00:57:50,920 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 1: think there are other things you can do just to

1174
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:55,280
Speaker 1: kind of um use your running game a little more effectively.

1175
00:57:55,520 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 1: We saw it yesterday. When you have Alfred Morrison. There

1176
00:57:57,680 --> 00:58:00,120
Speaker 1: sometimes defenses you bring in the second running back and

1177
00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:02,000
Speaker 1: they're not keying on him like they would the first

1178
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:04,400
Speaker 1: running back, and so it does create some opportunities for you.

1179
00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:06,600
Speaker 1: I'd like to see some of those kinds of things happen.

1180
00:58:06,680 --> 00:58:08,520
Speaker 1: That's not saying take Zeke out a game a lot,

1181
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:10,760
Speaker 1: but I want that second running back to be able

1182
00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 1: to give me a little something like he did yesterday.

1183
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:14,960
Speaker 1: What if you sorry, nick. What was the what was

1184
00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:17,520
Speaker 1: a two point conversion at the three yard line? It's

1185
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:21,480
Speaker 1: pretty much yeah, No, it's at the three yeah, I mean,

1186
00:58:21,520 --> 00:58:23,440
Speaker 1: so that's a three yard play. I mean, I'd like

1187
00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 1: to see that more often. I think it just in

1188
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:28,200
Speaker 1: the middle of the field, you know, spread out a

1189
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:32,160
Speaker 1: little bit and and use dak in a situation like that. Um,

1190
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 1: I just think at holding call, I didn't. I don't know.

1191
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:38,600
Speaker 1: I don't think he really was holding. I think he

1192
00:58:38,720 --> 00:58:41,600
Speaker 1: was more dominating the play. I don't think he was either.

1193
00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:44,280
Speaker 1: But he had his hand on That's that's the thing.

1194
00:58:44,760 --> 00:58:46,560
Speaker 1: And when you have your hand outside right and you

1195
00:58:46,680 --> 00:58:49,400
Speaker 1: hand outside in the other hand, it's just just handcaking

1196
00:58:49,480 --> 00:58:53,760
Speaker 1: the guy. Um. Because because when you hold a guy,

1197
00:58:54,360 --> 00:58:56,560
Speaker 1: you know, you're holding him up for something. Usually it's

1198
00:58:56,720 --> 00:58:59,360
Speaker 1: he's standing up and you're that's why he's not moving

1199
00:58:59,400 --> 00:59:01,920
Speaker 1: forward because you're holding him. But when you're smashing him

1200
00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:05,280
Speaker 1: to the ground, I don't really think that hand, that

1201
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:07,320
Speaker 1: left hand is doing you know, but it's hard to

1202
00:59:07,720 --> 00:59:09,800
Speaker 1: You just see hand and you have to make the call.

1203
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:11,880
Speaker 1: But it's a tough break. But I can't fault the

1204
00:59:12,080 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 1: ref for throw because of what he saw, you know,

1205
00:59:14,040 --> 00:59:18,000
Speaker 1: if Terrence catches that ball, he catches that ball and

1206
00:59:18,080 --> 00:59:19,680
Speaker 1: tie the game, they go win, you win it with

1207
00:59:19,720 --> 00:59:23,760
Speaker 1: a field goal. We're talking about Dak's strength. We're talking

1208
00:59:23,800 --> 00:59:28,520
Speaker 1: about a guy that's getting tackled, still pointing, tackling, fires

1209
00:59:28,560 --> 00:59:30,600
Speaker 1: it over there. That was a heck of a player.

1210
00:59:30,880 --> 00:59:34,080
Speaker 1: I really don't think Dak played poorly. He had some

1211
00:59:34,240 --> 00:59:36,800
Speaker 1: throws he could take back. But I think they were

1212
00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:40,840
Speaker 1: in this game because of Dak, not because they didn't

1213
00:59:40,880 --> 00:59:43,160
Speaker 1: lose because of him. I think they I think if

1214
00:59:43,200 --> 00:59:46,160
Speaker 1: it wasn't for him and his athletic ability, I don't

1215
00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:48,640
Speaker 1: think they're even as close as they were. I think

1216
00:59:48,680 --> 00:59:50,520
Speaker 1: that's fair. It is fair. All right, we appreciate you

1217
00:59:50,560 --> 00:59:52,840
Speaker 1: guys us. We're back tomorrow. We'll take a bigger picture

1218
00:59:52,880 --> 00:59:55,120
Speaker 1: look at what's going on around this CNFC East to

1219
00:59:55,200 --> 00:59:58,800
Speaker 1: Nichael Rochington Redskins play the undefeated Kansas City Chiefs, so

1220
00:59:58,840 --> 01:00:00,800
Speaker 1: we'll see how that plays out. We'll talk about all

1221
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:03,640
Speaker 1: that tomorrow. So then for Nick even, Dave hellmant amber Garcia,

1222
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Speaker 1: I'm Derek Eaglem. This has been the Break live on

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