WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Big Bye Week Questions 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:05.040 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:08.239 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:11.920 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:16.279 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:20.640 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:26.400 Wait Well with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, Am bar Garcia 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:30.600 and Derek Eagleton. It is Tuesday, October ninth, twenty seventeen, 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:33.960 Season thirteen, episode number fifty three. Welcome to another edition 0:00:34.080 --> 0:00:37.120 of The Break Guy. AM Derek Eagleton and joined by 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:40.280 Nick Eatman, Dave Hellman, Amber Garcia. We're life from the 0:00:40.360 --> 0:00:43.479 s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. We're talking Cowboys football. 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:47.279 It's a Tuesday, it's the bye week, and so we're 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:49.400 gonna try to take a little bigger picture look today 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:51.199 at what's going on with this team and try to 0:00:51.200 --> 0:00:54.560 answer some questions for you guys, with the big overall 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:56.600 theme being that we're gonna look at this team and 0:00:56.640 --> 0:00:58.440 look at the things that they've done well so far, 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:00.320 the things they haven't done well so far, and try 0:01:00.360 --> 0:01:03.120 to answer some questions around how they can be better 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.240 and once they get back from the buy and they're 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:08.560 going down the stretch, how they can be better to 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:13.160 position themselves for playoff run. How's everybody doing this morning? Man? 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:16.960 I'm doing good good, I'm great, good, awesome. It don't 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:21.120 look great, better than great. You're right, I don't look great. 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:26.319 I look phenomenal, really really good stuff. Thanks Dave. We 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:29.760 can tell thank you. All right. Let's let's jump right 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:32.160 in and I guess the first thing I wanted to 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:34.880 just mention and then we can talk about it a 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:40.759 little bit. This NFC East after five weeks is looking, 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:43.920 I think, very different than probably what most people expected 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.280 it would look like going into the season. I know 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.400 it looks different than what I thought. Um I thought 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:50.280 the Cowboys and the Giants would be at the top 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:52.560 of the division. Right now. The Giants are sitting at 0:01:52.560 --> 0:01:55.240 oh and five, and it looks like they're they're just 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.920 in position where things are going to implode from here, 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:00.960 if they haven't already. They've now lost three wide receivers 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.080 for the season in one game, which is remarkable, and 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:07.880 then another receiver that's gonna be out for presumably maybe 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:10.480 a week two weeks, so it just doesn't look good 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:13.079 for them at oh and five. And then the Cowboys 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:16.799 one peg up at two and three, then Washington second 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:19.080 place at two and two, Philly at four and one. 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:22.960 What do you guys think about this division right now? Drinking? 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:25.919 What do you think that we're both drinking? Oh yeah, 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.160 something to say. I thought he meant, like the different 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.200 type of drinking, like, oh, drinking, After how this thing 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:35.360 started out, it might have to. I mean, I'm certainly 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:38.240 shocked that the Giants are as putrid as they are 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:39.840 because I really thought they were going to be the 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:44.440 Cowboys main competition for a playoff spot. So just to 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:47.280 see them just kind of have that start from hell 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.920 that really, I mean, crazier things have probably happened, But 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:52.920 I don't know how you come back from an oh 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:56.080 and five start where you know, probably well definitely your 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.520 best players out for the year and your biggest problem, 0:02:59.560 --> 0:03:01.480 you're off in the line isn't getting any better. So, 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:05.360 I mean, remember when I said they didn't really play 0:03:05.400 --> 0:03:08.519 that good against the Giants. Do you guys remember that? 0:03:08.800 --> 0:03:11.400 Do you guys think that? Do you remember when I 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:15.200 said that they didn't really play that well against the Giants? 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:18.320 They dominated an NFL team, the Giants all of their 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:20.639 losses except for the Cowboys game. Are you saying, yeah, 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:22.880 play that well against the Giants? Is that what you're 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:25.400 trying to say? Yeah, I said that before the cow 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:29.080 But now do you think differently from this Giants team? 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:32.040 Absolutely not. The Cowboys played played their best game of 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:35.480 season in my opinion against the Giants. I know that. Yeah, 0:03:35.520 --> 0:03:38.040 I think that's what our point is. That's not so 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:41.360 great now, but it's still an NFL team, it is. 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.840 And you allow a goal to an NFL team, and 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.920 I mean every every component of your that defense is 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:51.920 sealed that defense, right what's different about that defense? They're 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.200 like last in the league in rush defense right now? 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:56.880 I mean, like, I get the point she's trying to make, 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:01.040 but she's not right because you still dominated in NFL team. Yeah, 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:02.880 that doesn't happen. I mean the Giants lost on the 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:05.360 last play of the game to Okay, maybe late in 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:08.240 the fourth quarter of the charters, they gave up the 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.600 backbreaking touchdown of the Lions with you know, less than 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.560 a quarter to play, whereas really against the Cowboys, they 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:16.520 were they were hardly in the game at all. They 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.080 got dominated in an NFL game, which you don't see 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.720 happen that often, right, especially a division opponent. So they 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:24.719 still I think played fairly well. Okay, no, they did, 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:27.120 but I think I don't know if this is what 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.679 you're trying to say or not, but I think maybe 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:33.360 what you were saying back then was, hey, nice win, 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:35.680 beat the Giants, the team you couldn't beat last year. 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:39.680 But it doesn't signal that everything is fine. They still didn't. 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.000 You're saying that they didn't play that well, and we're 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.960 seeing it. They go back the next week, they get crushed. 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.840 Then they beat a Cardinals team that isn't very good. 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:52.360 So I mean, i'll give you, I'll give you beating 0:04:52.400 --> 0:04:54.880 the Giants does not look good, and you know, it 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:56.520 does not look like as good of a win as 0:04:56.520 --> 0:04:58.480 you probably thought it was. But I still think they 0:04:58.520 --> 0:05:02.119 played overall pretty well that game, and they did, but 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:05.400 they made a lot of mistakes and it wasn't as 0:05:05.480 --> 0:05:08.320 great of a win as you would think it was, 0:05:08.360 --> 0:05:10.640 just because it was against the Giants, a team that 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.000 they haven't beat and they have ish. I mean, they 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:16.880 beat them one time last year, but um no, they didn't. 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:21.880 They lost both games. Oh yeah, that's right, duh. That's 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:25.800 why they became from last year when it goes to 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:28.480 like further than a year out of my mind, stylers 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:32.359 getting a little blurry. But that's my point. That's why 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:35.680 it was such a big win for the Cowboys because 0:05:35.720 --> 0:05:39.760 it was against a team they haven't beat. So aside 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:44.960 from that, it really really wasn't a wonderful win. And 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:48.320 the way they played, Yeah, I guess the way I 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:50.800 look at it is and maybe I'm different in how 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:52.840 I look at these games. I look at him game 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:56.200 the game, and when you play a division opponent, you 0:05:56.279 --> 0:06:00.080 beat a division opponent, you beat a division opponent by 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.479 difficultly beat them. And by the way, this is a 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.120 team you couldn't beat last year. And by the way, 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.400 I know the statistics are what they are. But at 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.479 Week one, that defense was as strong as a defense. 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:12.800 They were missing one guy I think that was a 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.960 starter last year that was a significant starter, the defensive 0:06:15.960 --> 0:06:19.560 tackle that went on to We're going to Atkins. Yeah, 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:23.440 but most of the giants, But I understand that. But 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:25.240 what I'm saying is most of the guys on that 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:29.440 defense that were the difference makers last year were right 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.520 back there and present in Week one of the season 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.599 this year, and the Cowboys played as good a game 0:06:35.720 --> 0:06:37.960 as they've played all season. So I get your point. 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.279 I understand that, yes, the Giants aren't great. But whether 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:44.320 that was the Giants, whether that's the Cleveland Browns, whether 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:47.000 that's you, you plug in, whatever team you think is 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.240 at the bottom of the league. When you go out 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.880 on a Sunday and a team gets win where they 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:55.040 beat up and dominate another team, that's still significant in 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.480 my book. And I think that still matters because, trust me, 0:06:57.560 --> 0:07:00.280 I have a college team that we struggle with every body. 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:04.000 So to go out and dominate a team that still 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:06.720 matters the Giant thought about that your colleges team, though, 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:08.719 I thought about that from last year. Remember they go 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:10.960 and they beat Notre Dame and overtime and it's like, wow, 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.800 this is great. Texas football is back. You know. Notre 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:15.960 Dame is not very good. And I think the point 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.800 is is that, like what looked good in Week one 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:22.000 is it doesn't look as good anymore. Yeah, that's that's it. 0:07:22.400 --> 0:07:25.160 What they played well in the game. But now you're 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:29.160 realizing that I think Auburn could beat them. Maybe. I mean, 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:34.840 I'm just saying, oh, the Giants are bad though, Giants, Giant, 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:36.960 They're gonna be even worse now because of those three 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:39.840 guys being but they one of them was gone when 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.960 they played the Cowboys, and it was noticeable. The New 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:46.840 York's margin of defeat so far this season is five, two, three, 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:51.240 fourteen and sixteen. I'm just saying, and I get it. 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:53.480 I get it. Is one of those games is without 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.560 their best player. And we'll see moving forward without their 0:07:56.560 --> 0:07:58.760 best player how they are. Oh, it's gonna get worse now, 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:03.000 it definitely, I'm just and theydn't play. They structure that team, 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:05.960 no running game, no offensive line. That's fine, we got Beckham. 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.720 I don't know what we're arguing about at this point anymore. Anyway, 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.240 I don't either. Fact is when they play at night, 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:13.200 they're good. When they play in the day, they haven't won. 0:08:13.600 --> 0:08:16.960 That's it. Yeah, night day, It's a night and day 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:20.880 difference of this team. It might be a headline on Arst. No, Um, 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.320 you don't control that the Giants. Giants being the Giants 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:29.840 being terrible is certainly pretty surprising. Um, giants break nothing 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:34.080 else really stunted me. I think the Eagles had the 0:08:34.160 --> 0:08:37.400 defense that I thought that they would be a competitive team, 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:40.160 and I would have said, however, good they're gonna be 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.959 probably rests on how well Carson Wentz plays, and so 0:08:43.000 --> 0:08:45.040 far he's playing really, really well. Did you expect their 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:46.679 offense to be as good as it's been, because their 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:50.160 offense has been really Yeah, no, I didn't. I'm you know. 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.240 I know they signed al Shan Jeffrey and Tory Smith, 0:08:53.360 --> 0:08:56.360 had moments in Baltimore, not really so much in San Francisco, 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:01.640 um and and they lost Aaron Sprowls, So I didn't 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:03.080 see a lot there that made me think they were 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:05.199 going to be a Jugger not But again, if your 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:07.880 quarterback is playing at an amazing level, it doesn't really 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:12.320 matter who's around him. Ask Aaron Rodgers. So it's a 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:14.280 little surprising that their offense has looked as good as 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:16.480 it has, But overall, I think that had the makings 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:20.120 of a competitive team. And then it always surprised me 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.920 that people were so eager to write off the Redskins, 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:24.920 like they didn't make a playoff push of their own 0:09:25.000 --> 0:09:26.679 last year. I mean, they were up, they were in 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:30.240 the wildcard race up until late December, and they took 0:09:30.280 --> 0:09:31.920 the week off, so it's kind of hard to judge, 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:35.280 but they gave the Chiefs everything they could handle on 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:37.720 the road on Monday night two weeks ago and just 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.679 and beat the crap out of Oakland when Derek Carr 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:46.360 was still playing. So they look formidable. So I think 0:09:46.360 --> 0:09:49.000 it's a it's I think this division is going to 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:50.920 be a dogfight all the way. I mean, I would 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:53.080 be surprised if Philly runs away with this thing one 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:55.720 way or the other. They haven't really beaten anyone yet. 0:09:55.960 --> 0:10:00.280 And the Eagles, oh the Eagles, and like you look 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.040 at the rest of their schedule, it's not going to 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:05.040 get that much worse for them. So they're in They're 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.679 in a good situation because they are beating well. They 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:09.920 beat the Redskins on the road, which is that was 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.800 a big win, you know, on the road obviously, Um, 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:16.040 they lost to the Chiefs. They beat the Giants by three, 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.760 it was a really close game. Uh. They beat the 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:22.559 Chargers by two on the road, and they beat the Cardinals. 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:25.040 You know, all three of those teams are really are 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:30.800 struggling right now. They'll face the Panthers on the road. 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:35.400 I'm trying to push this week forward, but it's just 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:38.320 not going that fast. I actually this morning kind of thought, 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:40.120 is it is it Friday? And it was Tuesday. That's 0:10:40.160 --> 0:10:42.280 really the worst thing to think is it's Friday and 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:45.480 it's Tuesday. Anyways, they play the Redskins again forty nine 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:48.240 Ers Broncos Cowboys. I mean, that's the thing. And you're 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.600 down two games to the a team that you're gonna 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.520 face twice. So yeah, I agree, day they're not going 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.720 to run away with anything, but they are playing pretty well, 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:00.720 and they they're doing it with receivers that you don't 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:03.280 you wouldn't expect to be that great. I mean, Alshan 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.760 Jeffreys good, but you know, they're finally getting that some 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:08.040 stuff out out of call learn and I think the 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:09.839 key of there is is the tight end and they 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:11.800 just move the ball with the tight end there nerds. 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.719 So all right, let's um, let's bring I did want 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:18.920 to hit a bigger topic today, Like I said, I 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:20.960 want to kind of look at what this team does 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:24.360 well and what the team does they haven't done so well, 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.320 and see if we can figure out, you know, how 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:29.840 they need to progress down the stretch in order to 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.600 get themselves into position to make a play to make 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:34.280 it to the playoffs number one, but then be able 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.280 to make a push in the playoffs So I started 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.760 looking at some of the numbers and I found a 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:40.600 couple of things that are that are kind of trends 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:42.720 that I'll be interested to see if you guys agree 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:44.840 with these things. These are things that the Cowboys do well. 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:47.920 Looking at them statistically and how they rank to the 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.880 rest of the league. Scoring, Uh, they are right now 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:54.120 ranked in points per game ninth in the league with 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:58.160 twenty five, doing pretty well there. They are limiting the 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.079 number of turnovers. They have zero fumble, which is always 0:12:01.120 --> 0:12:03.520 a good thing. They only have a few interceptions, but 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.200 again nothing that's alarming. So they're limiting the number of 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.240 turnovers that they're having. And they're running the ball. Okay, 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:12.640 if you look at the yards per carry, they're actually 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.080 third in the league with four point seven yards per carry. 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.760 Doesn't feel like that though, as you're watching the game, 0:12:17.800 --> 0:12:19.800 So I think that that number can probably be a 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:23.160 little bit misleading. So I'll ask this question, based up 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:25.000 on those things and any other things you guys can 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:26.920 think of, what do you think is the best thing 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:30.480 the Cowboys do right now? Based on the first five games? First, 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:32.080 what do you think is the best thing that they do? 0:12:32.120 --> 0:12:34.880 Are we talking offense? Offense? Just on offense right now. Yea, 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:39.319 the best thing the Cowboys do what Dad does. I 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:44.600 was gonna say, play quarterback, just whatever goes along with that. 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.719 He's He's the best thing about this team right now, 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:49.640 in my opinion. I actually looked at this. I know 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:52.839 you can't take out I know you can't take out 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:54.760 the bad stuff and only look at the good stuff. 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:58.840 But he was He was pretty mediocre to bad by 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.160 his standards in the first two weeks of the season, 0:13:01.240 --> 0:13:06.520 even against the Giants, to Amber's point. Since then, in 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:08.599 the three games since then, his average pass rating is 0:13:08.640 --> 0:13:11.160 one thirteen point five, which would put him in the 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:15.040 top five in the league. He's been outstanding. He's the 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.160 only reason why the Rams game was even as close 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:20.040 as it was, and he certainly gave them every opportunity 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.400 you could want to beat the Packers as well. Um, 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:26.480 they run the ball all right, but again, like it's 0:13:26.520 --> 0:13:29.440 just it's not what it was, which is disheartening because 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:31.720 that was I think that was the key to everything 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:35.040 last year. So it's weird. I mean, they I don't 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:36.880 know the stats off him, but they probably run the 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:38.679 ball better than two thirds of the league. But it 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:42.080 doesn't feel like it. Well, it's very obvious that the 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:45.960 teams have decided that Dak Prescott has to beat them. 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:49.520 And you know, right now he's two and three, so 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.720 I mean as great as as we think that he 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:54.920 is playing, and he has played well, but this is 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.000 the this is the game plan, this is what teams 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:00.160 are betting on, is that we're gonna we're gonna put 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:01.920 it in Dak's hands and see if he can get 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:04.640 it to the receivers who don't scare us and the 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:08.080 tight end who doesn't scare us. You know, they're letting 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:10.440 those guys try to beat them, and you know it's 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:13.600 a recipe that that's so far is you know, it's 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:15.920 work that they have three losses this year, three losses 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:18.839 last year, so they're not letting them run the ball 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.480 like they did last year. But Dak is playing well, 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:26.960 but I mean they're it's not resulting in victories, not many. 0:14:27.080 --> 0:14:28.960 Do you think that's the best thing they do is 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:31.600 Dak in the passing game? The best thing. Sorry, but 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:33.680 this looks a lot like it did three or four 0:14:33.760 --> 0:14:36.280 years ago when Tony. When Tony was the best thing 0:14:36.360 --> 0:14:40.440 that they did, and sometimes it was good enough. Sometimes 0:14:40.480 --> 0:14:42.800 it wasn't And you know what, did you just finish 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:44.960 eight and eight? And this is the path that this 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:48.280 team is on. I mean they're gonna finish eight and eight, 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:50.920 nine and seven, just depending on how things go. If 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:54.120 it doesn't change, if they don't start dictating what they're 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.440 gonna do and say, now we're gonna run it regardless 0:14:56.480 --> 0:14:58.480 of what you think, we're gonna run it. And but 0:14:58.560 --> 0:15:00.360 do you think that's the best thing they do? Dak 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.880 Prescott in the passing game, yeah, I said a Dak, 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:06.480 And then I mean for the running game again, the numbers, 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:08.440 like Dave said, it's not too bad, but I just 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:10.920 think it's because we were spoiled from last year that 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:13.680 we expected to be a certain way and we just 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:17.360 haven't seen it be that way. So aside from that, 0:15:17.480 --> 0:15:21.480 I think every other area. There's an issue in every 0:15:21.520 --> 0:15:25.760 other area, aside from quarterback and even quarterback. But it 0:15:25.800 --> 0:15:29.320 goes back to what the offensive line is doing. I mean, 0:15:29.880 --> 0:15:34.560 Dak has been doing a phenomenal job just making sure 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:38.920 he's not sacked or he's been under pressure a lot. 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:42.680 So defensive line, there are some issues there. We've seen 0:15:42.720 --> 0:15:47.680 issues at the wide receiver position again, tight end some white. 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.840 I mean, we barely start seeing Jason Winn doing some things, 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:54.560 so there's a problem in every area. You know. We 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:56.200 didn't talk about it because we talked about the end 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.440 of the game. But the first drive of the game 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.800 he made to Bryce Butler give him getting out of 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:05.480 the sack, and it felt like or it looked like 0:16:05.560 --> 0:16:08.080 the guys were on his legs like trying to bring 0:16:08.160 --> 0:16:10.560 him down and he still had enough arm string to 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:13.240 get it out there to Bryce. I thought that, I mean, 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:16.640 that's just another example that this guy, like you said, Embert, 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:20.560 he's he's getting harassed on every play. The things that 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.560 they're doing is because of him. And you said the 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:25.320 best thing him in the passing game. I don't even 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.240 think it's the passing game. It's just like, but he's 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:30.360 moving the change and he's moving them. He's doing a 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.280 great job with that. And it's interesting you say that 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.440 because right now the Cowboys are ranked six in the 0:16:34.520 --> 0:16:37.040 number of sacks loud with only seven. But as you 0:16:37.080 --> 0:16:39.440 watch the game, you know, you know, sometimes that's a 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:41.320 number that you look at the offensive line, but if 0:16:41.320 --> 0:16:43.680 you watch the games, you know that he's he should 0:16:43.680 --> 0:16:46.720 have been sacked way more than that it's his ability 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:48.760 to be able to escape pressure and be able to 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.200 make plays that's allowing this team to not have as 0:16:52.240 --> 0:16:55.880 many statistical sacks, although he's being pressured a ton and 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.920 he's kind of flirting with danger on interceptions too, Like 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:02.800 he's he's had probably five or six that you're like, 0:17:02.840 --> 0:17:05.439 oh wha. I mean, he's's kind of gotten lucky that 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.960 they haven't been picked out. Unlucky with the Terrence pick 0:17:08.080 --> 0:17:11.240 six that lost the game for him, But for the 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.600 most part, he's had a lot that should have been picked. 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.359 That's the nature of it though. I mean his first 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.359 pick in Denver was was on Dez, and his pick 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:21.919 against the Packers was on Terrence. And then you know, 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:23.680 you think the Rams game, he had to throw to 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:27.280 Terrence that probably should have been picked a play action. 0:17:27.400 --> 0:17:29.320 Terrence was coming across and he just didn't throw it 0:17:29.359 --> 0:17:31.600 the right way. Guy got a hand on it. Happened. 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:34.160 I think it happened on a throw to Witton in 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.600 this last game, where you know, the defender had a 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:38.679 pretty good beat on it and it got batted away. 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:43.400 So des leads the league and pass breakups. Yeah, he's 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:45.400 playing some good corner He tried to throw that one 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.960 on Alfred Morris. Hit Alfred Morrison the head and the 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:50.080 head and bounced up and he could have been I mean, 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:53.440 it's he's doing a good job of avoiding sacks, but 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:56.760 he's gonna get more interceptions doing it that way. This 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:59.600 is a frustrating question to answer, like the more I'm 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:02.760 really thinking about it, because you know, the fourth quarter 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.720 against the Packers is best rush offense in the league. 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:08.320 They're doing whatever they wanted to. I mean, you're running 0:18:08.520 --> 0:18:11.840 the crack sweep and Zeke's just plowing through guys. And 0:18:12.400 --> 0:18:16.720 you know, you've seen some electric passing plays You've seen 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:21.040 in every game except Denver. You've seen flashes of what 0:18:21.080 --> 0:18:23.880 we know that they can be. And again they haven't 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:25.840 been able to sustain it for a whole game. And 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:27.800 you keep thinking this will be the week when they 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:30.200 kind of get it on track, and they still haven't 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.159 quite gotten everything flowing the way that you expect it 0:18:33.200 --> 0:18:36.760 to flow. And I'll cater, you know, to the fan 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:39.160 who's about to throw his iPad out the window at 0:18:39.200 --> 0:18:41.479 me right now. I mean, it's very easy to argue that. 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:44.840 I mean, I know I said the opposite yesterday, and 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:47.720 I still feel that way, but it's hard to It's 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:50.280 hard to reasonably demand much more from your offense than 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.199 what you saw in that Green Bay game. I mean, 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:55.119 one hundred and sixty three rushing yards, two hundred and 0:18:55.119 --> 0:18:58.879 fifty passing yards, three touchdowns, an interception that's not the 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:02.800 quarterback's fault. Thirty one points should win you a lot 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:04.680 of football game. You would think, you would think a 0:19:04.680 --> 0:19:06.760 lot of footballs too. This season that they've had, we've 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:11.840 scored plus thirty and have won. So maybe just well 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:15.399 that other ono it was on them rather than the 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:19.119 opposing team. Well, either whoever you want to give, whoever 0:19:19.200 --> 0:19:20.959 you want to say was at fault. The point is, 0:19:21.200 --> 0:19:23.680 you score thirty plus points in the NFL at home, 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:26.879 you would you would think in most circumstances, And I 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:28.680 don't know what the statistic is, but I would say 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:31.320 if you look across the league, the percentage probably is 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:34.000 extremely high that you win those games. So um, it 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:37.200 still does point to the fact that offense just isn't 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:39.240 seeming to be enough at this point for the Cowboys 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:41.960 to get wins, even when they score an inordinately large 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:43.760 number of points. All right, let's take our first break 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:45.560 when we come back. I want to talk a little 0:19:45.560 --> 0:19:47.639 bit about what this offense doesn't do so well, and 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:49.239