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Speaker 6: It is Monday, September eleventh, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen,
Speaker 6: episode number twenty eight. Welcome to the latest edition of
Speaker 6: The Break. We're live from that WBC Mortgage studios at
Speaker 6: the Star and today we are talking about.
Speaker 7: An absolute beat down.
Speaker 6: Cowboys going to New York on Sunday night football beat
Speaker 6: the Giants forty to nothing. Probably, in all the time
Speaker 6: that I've in with the Cowboys, probably the most dominating
Speaker 6: victory I've ever seen the Cowboys have Minnesota last year
Speaker 6: was pretty close, but just the way they did it
Speaker 6: last night was I think one of the most dominating
Speaker 6: formatives I've ever seen from this team. So let's start there.
Speaker 6: What I'd love from you, guys is just your big
Speaker 6: picture takeaway from that game. There was so much that happened.
Speaker 6: What will you remember most about that game, and what
Speaker 6: does it mean for you? I guess going forward, let's
Speaker 6: start with you Patrick.
Speaker 4: The defense is special. It's off to a special start,
Speaker 4: and all they need to do is, like Michael Parson
Speaker 4: said after the game, it just needs to be consistent
Speaker 4: and they need to perform like this weekend, week out
Speaker 4: all the way through January, hopefully into the beginning of February.
Speaker 4: But what we saw last night against the New York
Speaker 4: Giants on the visitors field, I mean that was greater
Speaker 4: than great. That was in fact special. From Michael Parson
Speaker 4: sat in the tone early with that sac on Daniel Jones.
Speaker 4: You had the New York Giants moving the ball on
Speaker 4: the first offensive drive of their content. But and they
Speaker 4: were aided by a penalty, the fifteen yard penalty. Brian,
Speaker 4: you talked about doing away with those nonsense penalties. It
Speaker 4: almost bit them in the face, but they mounted up,
Speaker 4: they held firm, and then that gave special teams the
Speaker 4: chance to be just that special. With the block pump
Speaker 4: by wan Ye Thomas, who in the course of five snaps,
Speaker 4: look at the block punt on that that offensive drive
Speaker 4: that was stopped, He stopped Sa Kwon Barkley by filling
Speaker 4: that gap. Then he had a big PBu on Darren Waller,
Speaker 4: a target to Waller. Wan Ye stepped up huge, Marquise
Speaker 4: Bell stepped up huge, and these young guys stepped up
Speaker 4: and matched the headliners the Marcus Lawrence, Michael Parsons also
Speaker 4: DIGGI zuwa jay Ron Curse. I mean, every single guy
Speaker 4: on that defense made a play, even the guys who
Speaker 4: came in on the back of the fourth quarter of
Speaker 4: the close out and keep it a shutout. So biggest
Speaker 4: takeaway for me is that, yeah, the offense it you know,
Speaker 4: it looked okay, and it had its moments, and it
Speaker 4: struggled a little bit to get going at first, but
Speaker 4: special teams and defense basically on the day. So again,
Speaker 4: which we're using that word special, That's what I want
Speaker 4: to see from this Cowboys defense because this is what
Speaker 4: I think they can be.
Speaker 8: Well, I think this game what it meant to me
Speaker 8: or not that I needed something extra, but I think
Speaker 8: my love for dan Quinn has been extra solidified and
Speaker 8: there's no going back. I absolutely freaking love the guy
Speaker 8: and something else. And I know Patrick, you posted a
Speaker 8: video and we always stand there when the players are
Speaker 8: coming off the field, and this is just it didn't
Speaker 8: happen just this game. This is something that dan Quinn does.
Speaker 8: He hangs by the door the entrance of the locker room,
Speaker 8: waits for every player, not just the guys on defense.
Speaker 8: He hugs, high fives, congratulates, or just a pat on
Speaker 8: the back to every single player that comes by. And
Speaker 8: you love to see that. So going back to last
Speaker 8: week in one of the shows, remember when we were
Speaker 8: talking about what players the most important and on defense
Speaker 8: and some of us, you know, aside from Micah Parson
Speaker 8: and all that, this is the perfect example. You don't
Speaker 8: have that type of defense without dan Quinn. You don't
Speaker 8: have a collective group of guys performed the way that
Speaker 8: that they did without the right coaching, which is dan Quinn.
Speaker 8: So credit to him. And it's just super super exciting
Speaker 8: to see this being the beginning of this season and
Speaker 8: knowing that typically when you get this going, like the
Speaker 8: hype starts going, and guys as competitive as they are,
Speaker 8: they want to keep performing in that level. And it's
Speaker 8: really really cool just to see everybody getting a piece
Speaker 8: of it, and it's just not being all about Micah
Speaker 8: Parsons and to be fair. We saw that Nick was
Speaker 8: showing us that play. Remember when Osa got that sacked.
Speaker 8: It was really cool to see because those are the
Speaker 8: type of opportunities that Micah Parson's just being on the
Speaker 8: field cre eight, which was they put him into the
Speaker 8: interior and he was double team protecting him or blocking him,
Speaker 8: and then that gave the opportunity for Osa to get around,
Speaker 8: go after the quarterback and sack. So it's just everything
Speaker 8: that they're building and just giving opportunities to everybody on
Speaker 8: defense is really amazing.
Speaker 2: This defense carried over what they did at training camp
Speaker 2: to the field for week one of this game. We
Speaker 2: saw the opportunities in Oxnard of how they attacked this
Speaker 2: Cowboys offense working against each other. We saw with Micah Parsons,
Speaker 2: we saw with Osa Odigi Zuwa. Where I was really
Speaker 2: impressed with the Cowboys last night was their ability to
Speaker 2: play on the Giant side of the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 2: The Giants played on their heels the entire night, and
Speaker 2: that was something that you want to do. They took
Speaker 2: the fight really to this Giant offense. As Patrick's talking about,
Speaker 2: the first drive is a little bit shaky's with the
Speaker 2: quarterback runs. The ability. The Giants were getting a little
Speaker 2: bit of traction. But what happens Michaeh Parsons gets a
Speaker 2: on a third and two, gets an illegal motion penalty.
Speaker 2: Now it's third and seven. Now you get a bad snap.
Speaker 2: Now you get a block field goal. Now momentum has
Speaker 2: swung your way. You know, what you're saying about Dan
Speaker 2: Quinn is so true. And all the coaches, I think,
Speaker 2: on the defensive staff, especially at what we saw in
Speaker 2: the game last night, everybody that dressed had a role
Speaker 2: in the way they played last night. They figured out
Speaker 2: ways to use Bell in that role of overshown to
Speaker 2: play as a linebacker, you know, yan Ye Thomas playing
Speaker 2: down in the role of maybe what we're going to
Speaker 2: see from Wilson. You know, guys like that, This is
Speaker 2: this is what this staff does. And you know, when
Speaker 2: they can take their players and then and then use
Speaker 2: them against you, that's the kind of results you're gonna
Speaker 2: get on a week in a week out basis. They
Speaker 2: completely choked the run. They completely took the run out
Speaker 2: of the game. They made the Giants very one dimensional.
Speaker 2: All week long. We talked about how poor the Giants
Speaker 2: were at certain spots of their offensive line. The Cowboys
Speaker 2: exposed them for their problems that they were going to
Speaker 2: have and probably problems that they're going to have throughout
Speaker 2: the season.
Speaker 4: And Derek, here's what I would add to that. And
Speaker 4: when I say the word special, I mean this is
Speaker 4: not hyperbole. This is absolutely ridiculous. How elite the Cowboys
Speaker 4: were last night defensively, seven sacks on Daniel Jones, three takeaways,
Speaker 4: they had a pick six. They did all of this.
Speaker 4: They constantly had the Giants playing on their heels. They
Speaker 4: dominated at the line of scrimmage. They dominated with the
Speaker 4: linebacker corps, They dominated at the corner. Stefan Gilmour gets
Speaker 4: his interception, his first interception as a Cowboy. Trevon Diggs
Speaker 4: forces two takeaways. Then from the safety unit they contribute
Speaker 4: as well. Marquise Bell, one Y Thomas, jay Ron Curse,
Speaker 4: Malik Hooker, and I talked to Melie Cooker. He definitely
Speaker 4: wants that potential interception back. He told me he will
Speaker 4: get that in the next game. So, I mean, when
Speaker 4: you talk about all of the things that occurred at
Speaker 4: MetLife Stadium, and then as I'm walking down to the
Speaker 4: locker room, it strikes me. Donothan Wilson wasn't in this game. No,
Speaker 4: Jordan Lewis wasn't in this game. So you mean to
Speaker 4: tell me they did this to a division rival, who
Speaker 4: we talked about all week is not a pushover. You
Speaker 4: did this to a division rival, and you're without two
Speaker 4: impact playmakers on defense, special special, special, and now again
Speaker 4: we've seen it. I want to see more, more, Give
Speaker 4: me more.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think that's the key for me. I won't.
Speaker 6: I'm not going to have anybody try to move the
Speaker 6: goalpost on me today. The New York Giants are a
Speaker 6: good football correct, and I know the Cowboys beat them down,
Speaker 6: and there will be some people start to say, well,
Speaker 6: are they really a good football No, they're a good
Speaker 6: football team as a playoff team from last year actually
Speaker 6: won a playoff game last year. Nobody suspected that last year,
Speaker 6: but coming into this year, the expectations this is a good,
Speaker 6: solid NFL football team, not the kind of team that
Speaker 6: should be beat forwarded and nothing at home and a
Speaker 6: season opener.
Speaker 7: The Dallas Cowboys did that.
Speaker 6: So you got to give the Cowboys credit for winning
Speaker 6: against a solid team and just destroying, dismantling a very
Speaker 6: very solid NFL team let's dive a little deeper into
Speaker 6: that defense. You've mentioned some of those numbers, but start
Speaker 6: thinking about the scope of these numbers. I saw a
Speaker 6: post earlier today from the Athletic check this out. No team,
Speaker 6: no team has ever one lost forty to nothing or worse,
Speaker 6: two lost the sack battle seven to nothing or worse,
Speaker 6: three lost the turnover battle three to nothing or worse,
Speaker 6: four had a block field goal returned for a touchdown,
Speaker 6: and five threw a pick six. Here's the interesting thing.
Speaker 6: No team in the NFL East history has ever had
Speaker 6: that happen to them in a season. Last night, it
Speaker 6: happened to the Cowboys, did it to the Giants in
Speaker 6: a game. That's the kind of stuff where when you
Speaker 6: start talking about special a special defense, that's got I
Speaker 6: think special defenses do.
Speaker 2: Now one game is.
Speaker 8: You asking me my finger size, my ring size, That's
Speaker 8: all I'm hearing. That's all I'm hearing. My ring size,
Speaker 8: That's all I'm hearing when you start pulling up numbers
Speaker 8: and stats like these.
Speaker 6: But that's the thing, like it still is one game
Speaker 6: and I you know, I couldn't through a show.
Speaker 4: Without talking about Texas.
Speaker 7: That's the same thing I said about Texas.
Speaker 6: Right, it's one game and it was a big win,
Speaker 6: and it showed you some things that you look at
Speaker 6: your team and you're like, Okay, there's some promise, but
Speaker 6: that can all come crashing down next week against the Jets.
Speaker 6: That they have to stay on top of this and
Speaker 6: they have to keep providing those types of performances. The
Speaker 6: offense is gonna have to get better. We're gona talk
Speaker 6: a little bit about the offense. There's some areas where
Speaker 6: they still got to get better. But all things considered,
Speaker 6: you love the way it starts because it does suggest
Speaker 6: that this team is ready to take that next step.
Speaker 4: But it's like we talked about last week, it's not
Speaker 4: just the offense. We want the offense to match serve
Speaker 4: with the defense, bottom line, period, But we also want
Speaker 4: the defense. You asked me directly, how can this defense
Speaker 4: take the next step? One of the things I said
Speaker 4: was defensive touchdowns put some points on the board, become
Speaker 4: an offensive part of the offense, a defective part of
Speaker 4: the offense. That's what we saw last night. So when
Speaker 4: you're talking about going against teams like Aaron Rodgers and
Speaker 4: the Jets, or you know, the Philadelphia Eagles, and Jalen
Speaker 4: Hurts down the road. If the defense can continue to
Speaker 4: take the ball away, and they've already shown that they
Speaker 4: can the past two seasons, so this is not an anomaly.
Speaker 4: We can depend on that and we expect that to
Speaker 4: continue to occur. What we need to see is them
Speaker 4: putting points on the board. So they've done that in
Speaker 4: week one. Yes, there are still sixteen more regular season games,
Speaker 4: plus hopefully the ones in January, plus hopefully the one
Speaker 4: in February, so there's still a lot of football to
Speaker 4: be played. But we've seen enough evidence from this defense
Speaker 4: to be able to sit back confidently and say, well,
Speaker 4: now that we've seen it, we can rightfully expect it,
Speaker 4: and we don't expect to dip. There will be a
Speaker 4: bad game. There'll be a bad game or two because
Speaker 4: this is football and you're playing other professional athletes and
Speaker 4: other head coaches. They get paid too. But this is
Speaker 4: the standard. This is the standard, and that's what should
Speaker 4: excite Cowboys fans, all right.
Speaker 6: So let's dive in a little deeper. Talk to me
Speaker 6: about that first drive, because if you want to look
Speaker 6: at anything in the game and say, man, that kind
Speaker 6: of worried me, I think we all. As we were
Speaker 6: watching that first drive by the Giants occur, we were thinking,
Speaker 6: oh gosh, the run defense was supposed to be a
Speaker 6: little better. Yeah, and it was not in parts of
Speaker 6: that drive.
Speaker 2: What did you guys see, Well, what happened is the
Speaker 2: Giants did a really good job of getting into blocks
Speaker 2: and Dallas was trying to be aggressive and getting up
Speaker 2: the field. When you watched the game in the way
Speaker 2: it was played, I had a chance to watch it
Speaker 2: this morning, and you saw that the Giants they were
Speaker 2: actually able to get leverage in a lot of situations
Speaker 2: there where they were able to get inside, hands inside.
Speaker 2: After that first drive, it totally went away from them
Speaker 2: as far as the way that they were able to block.
Speaker 2: But the Giants did a good job of getting movement
Speaker 2: on your front. You were going to the plan was
Speaker 2: to try and get up the field and be aggressive,
Speaker 2: and as you got up the field then that also
Speaker 2: kind of puts you in bad positions with having to
Speaker 2: deal with the quarterback runs. But you know, they did
Speaker 2: a pretty good job of getting down blocks or double
Speaker 2: team blocks and then getting up on your linebackers. Your
Speaker 2: guys were fighting blocks that way, the Giants were able
Speaker 2: to get there were runs of five yards, eight yards,
Speaker 2: seven yards, the quarterback runs. We talked about that as
Speaker 2: a potential problem as well, and so you know, once
Speaker 2: they they kind of figured out that, Okay, we got
Speaker 2: to play with a little bit more discipline, we got
Speaker 2: to play with a little bit more pad level, We've
Speaker 2: got to play with a little bit more of getting
Speaker 2: off those blocks. Things kind of turned around for him.
Speaker 2: They did a much better job after that drive of
Speaker 2: making sure that the Giants weren't able to get inside
Speaker 2: on them and get that push and get second level blocks.
Speaker 2: But it was it was it was a concern that
Speaker 2: you know, the Giants were like you kind of felt
Speaker 2: like that, Okay, this is going to be one of
Speaker 2: those games where all of a sudden, Daniel Jones keeps
Speaker 2: running and then you know that you can't stop him
Speaker 2: from running the football. That's the one thing I.
Speaker 8: Just thought about you when when first.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the thing that to me, you know, Saquon Barkley
Speaker 2: is an outstanding back and he's a physical back, and
Speaker 2: you got to get bodies to him. Daniel Jones is
Speaker 2: the guy that can kill you on those third down
Speaker 2: situations running the football. That's that's the thing you have
Speaker 2: to he drops back. You lose contain, you know, because
Speaker 2: all of a sudden, you get blocked down inside and
Speaker 2: now he's out the door for a six seven eight
Speaker 2: yard game and he's getting a first down. But they
Speaker 2: settled down. But the Giants did a really good job
Speaker 2: of coming off the ball that first drive. The game
Speaker 2: to me, really flipped after that, after that aborted snap.
Speaker 2: That's when all of a sudden, it's you know, it's like, okay,
Speaker 2: dan Quinn and the staff were able to make some
Speaker 2: adjustments there in the second half and say, okay, this
Speaker 2: is the way we need to play these guys now,
Speaker 2: not the second half, but the second drive in that game,
Speaker 2: because the Giants did a good job of coming off
Speaker 2: the ball and then making things happen upfront for them.
Speaker 2: That allowed them to have some positive plays in in
Speaker 2: that first drive.
Speaker 4: And then the Cowboys basically off of that that botched snap.
Speaker 4: The Cowboys then double dipped in the demoralization by blocking
Speaker 4: because Graham gnot he didn't recover from that. He missed
Speaker 4: a field goal later in the game that you thought
Speaker 4: that he would have. So he finished zero to two.
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you gotta give you gotta give bones Fossil
Speaker 2: a lot of credit because because brettison the tackle on
Speaker 2: that side, they they they figured out and I bet
Speaker 2: you they watched Bretherson and maybe some some regular season
Speaker 2: stuff that he had involved maybe last year, or some
Speaker 2: stuff that he had done in the preseason, because they
Speaker 2: knew that they could stretch him. And what happened was
Speaker 2: when he's the right tackle, he he went forward and
Speaker 2: his his base was so wide that it put a
Speaker 2: natural scene between him and the wing. And they probably
Speaker 2: saw that during during the week and all their preparation
Speaker 2: that okay, if we can jump this gap and we'll
Speaker 2: find out today coordinators talk, he'll probably talk. Maybe he
Speaker 2: didn't want to give up his secrets, but you could
Speaker 2: clearly see that Bretherson is off balance, his base is
Speaker 2: too wide, there's a gap, and one ye Thomas is like,
Speaker 2: I'm going to take this opportunity to up through that gap.
Speaker 2: And then he was clean all the way through. So
Speaker 2: just again good game planning, understanding who the opponent is
Speaker 2: and taking advantage of the opponent and the weakness that
Speaker 2: they have at certain spots.
Speaker 4: And we'd really be remiss if we didn't give roses
Speaker 4: to Noah Igbinoghany in his Cowboys debut, you know, and
Speaker 4: speaking with Noah going into the game, he talked about
Speaker 4: some of his mental struggles and you know, his time
Speaker 4: with the Dolphins and he quote unquote preyed for change
Speaker 4: and maybe the trade to the Cowboys was his prayer
Speaker 4: being answered and he's looking for a fresh start. Well
Speaker 4: he's Johnny on the spot after yy makes that block
Speaker 4: and there you go. You got to you got a
Speaker 4: first non offensive touchdown for the Cowboys. So shouts out
Speaker 4: to Noah Igbinogany for showing up big and his Cowboys
Speaker 4: debut and the Cowboys and staff making that trade. And
Speaker 4: you know, there were some that were asking, here come
Speaker 4: the strays. There were some that were asking, if you know,
Speaker 4: Deus Kevin Joseph make that play. We don't know, We'll
Speaker 4: never know. He didn't make it when he was here.
Speaker 4: Noah made it in his first game out with the Cowboys.
Speaker 4: So there there you go. We just we'll just let
Speaker 4: him make it.
Speaker 6: Let's make But you know, one thing I thought that
Speaker 6: was interesting though, is if you go back and look
Speaker 6: at the early part of that game, I think the
Speaker 6: Giants actually did the Cowboys a favor because that first
Speaker 6: drive you mentioned it, Brian, think about this run five yards,
Speaker 6: run nine yards. Then they passed for no game, right,
Speaker 6: then run nine yards, run five yards, run six yards,
Speaker 6: run eleven yards, run for no game, run for eight yards.
Speaker 2: Like.
Speaker 6: They were running the ball extremely well. And when they
Speaker 6: passed the ball was when bad things happen. Here's the
Speaker 6: interesting part. After they then ended up with that fumble
Speaker 6: snap and then had the field goal block, they came
Speaker 6: back on the field three straight passes.
Speaker 4: Which were they had anything.
Speaker 6: One got passed defense by fifty six.
Speaker 4: I want John to blink in his.
Speaker 6: Name, Fowler, Fowler by Folller, and then you've got a
Speaker 6: pass defense by one.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and then you got a sack by Micah. They
Speaker 7: come back on the next drive, they get the ball,
Speaker 7: pass pass pass. They were doing the Cowboys work for them.
Speaker 6: They went away from the run, right, They went away
Speaker 6: from the run even though it was working, and it
Speaker 6: created this opportunity where basically they were digging themselves an
Speaker 6: even deeper hole. And I told Nick, by the time
Speaker 6: you get to halftime and it's twenty six to nothing, like,
Speaker 6: how can they come back? There is no path for
Speaker 6: them to come back because that means they got to
Speaker 6: throw the ball, and they are not going to be
Speaker 6: able to throw the ball. Defense will not be offense
Speaker 6: will not be able to throw the ball effectively in
Speaker 6: most instances against this defense, because that's what they want
Speaker 6: to be able to do.
Speaker 4: Quarterbacks.
Speaker 8: The weather condition, which was indeed a factor and a problem.
Speaker 2: The way that the Cowboys rush the passer. Now that
Speaker 2: teams are going to commit more to running the football,
Speaker 2: they realized, you just if you're any NFL team about
Speaker 2: to play the Cowboys, the last thing you want to
Speaker 2: do is let them rush the passer, right, they are
Speaker 2: going to load up and try and run the football
Speaker 2: on you. And so, you know, the Giants had some success.
Speaker 2: The problem is that they were down and all of
Speaker 2: a sudden they thought we got to throw. Instead of
Speaker 2: sticking with a game plan. They started the three straight
Speaker 2: passes led to the sack and led to them, you know,
Speaker 2: led to the situation where they had to chase the
Speaker 2: rest of the game. And chasing rest of the game
Speaker 2: in throwing the football. The teams, I don't feel like,
Speaker 2: are going to let the Cowboys they're going to try
Speaker 2: and run the football. They're not going to even if
Speaker 2: they're down. They're going to still try and run the
Speaker 2: football because the last thing you want to do is
Speaker 2: be wearing parsons around your neck, be wearing osa around
Speaker 2: your neck, be wearing all these defenders that have to
Speaker 2: That's the thing about it is you when you throw
Speaker 2: the ball against the Cowboys, you're playing to their strength.
Speaker 2: You know, running the football now will be the way
Speaker 2: to try and neutralize any There's probably going to be
Speaker 2: some ugly games going forward because teams are not going
Speaker 2: to let you. You know, they're going to wear you
Speaker 2: down by trying to run the ball, and you know,
Speaker 2: it's hard playing run defense and then rushing the passer
Speaker 2: just when you know you could just rush the passer.
Speaker 2: It's a lot easier to play that way. But when
Speaker 2: you physically have to deal with the run to the
Speaker 2: entire game and then rush the passer also, that's a
Speaker 2: little bit of a difficult situation for me.
Speaker 4: It was always about shutting down the run for the Giants,
Speaker 4: and if the Giants did help the Cowboys by getting
Speaker 4: away from what was working Daniel Jones's mobile. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: once the game flipped, and it flipped early, and you know,
Speaker 4: Brian Dave Ball and Daniel Jones felt like, Okay, well
Speaker 4: it's gonna have to be Daniel Jones winning this game.
Speaker 4: I sat back in my seat in the press box.
Speaker 4: I was like, this is exactly exactly what I wanted
Speaker 4: to see. I wanted to see Daniel Jones try to
Speaker 4: play hero because he's shown me he can't play hero
Speaker 4: if you bottle up sa Kuon Barkley, which the Cowboys did,
Speaker 4: and then you talk about that that hit Digs laid
Speaker 4: on Barkley to create that tip drill, which was a
Speaker 4: pick six for Deron Bland. I mean, at every point
Speaker 4: of attack after that first drive and on the back
Speaker 4: end of that first offensive drive for the Giants, it
Speaker 4: was just all Cowboys. They set the tone after the
Speaker 4: Giants thought they had set the tone, and then from
Speaker 4: there it just became a runaway training and there was
Speaker 4: nothing nothing that Daniel Jones and that offense could do
Speaker 4: about it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, we're gonna take our first break when
Speaker 6: we come back. Gotta full over to the offensive side
Speaker 6: of the ball. There were lots of things to discuss there.
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Speaker 6: All right, let's get back into Cowboys Versus Giants. Cowboys
Speaker 6: win forty kickoff the NFL season. Let's talk about the
Speaker 6: offensive side of the ball. Let's start first with Mike
Speaker 6: McCarthy and the play calling. This was the first game
Speaker 6: we got to see him as a Cowboy coach calling
Speaker 6: the offensive plays.
Speaker 7: Tell me what you saw that that.
Speaker 6: Kind of peaud your interest or that you had a
Speaker 6: problem with, maybe in how the plays were designed or
Speaker 6: how he called.
Speaker 2: The creativity was the first thing I noticed with some
Speaker 2: I love the fact that in trips formation, the big
Speaker 2: play the forty nine yard pass with the double picks,
Speaker 2: you know perfectly well, that's what the whole idea is.
Speaker 2: What we saw with Mike McCarthy and the Soffitts of
Speaker 2: staff was how do you find ways to get separation
Speaker 2: between these receivers and give Dak Prescott the best opportunity
Speaker 2: to make some throws. Great example right there the drive
Speaker 2: that they had where they used the unbalanced line down
Speaker 2: on the goal line where they brought Tyron Smith over.
Speaker 2: Those are little creativity, little wrinkles, little things that you
Speaker 2: can do to kind of put the defense in some
Speaker 2: bad spots. I felt like that that Mike did a
Speaker 2: pretty good job of calling plays and have a problem
Speaker 2: with what he was trying to do. You know, maybe
Speaker 2: Dak got let down a couple of times on some execution.
Speaker 2: The ball that there's you know, the third down pass
Speaker 2: that Ferguson should have caught. You know, that's a play
Speaker 2: that he makes nine out of ten times. He just
Speaker 2: dropped that one. That the pass that they had up
Speaker 2: the seam that that the tide end dropped as well,
Speaker 2: you know, it should have been with hindershot should have
Speaker 2: been a touchdown right there. So you know, yeah, there
Speaker 2: was a couple of just opportunities that they missed on
Speaker 2: that they loved that probably have had back. But I
Speaker 2: liked what I saw with the creativity. I liked how
Speaker 2: quickly they were playing with a little pace. It wasn't
Speaker 2: a hurry up attack, but you kind of felt like
Speaker 2: they weren't rushed in this scape. You know. The weather
Speaker 2: I think had a lot to do with how some
Speaker 2: of the stuff worked out. But overall though, you have
Speaker 2: to be pretty pleased with the way that Mike and
Speaker 2: Dak were able to kind of the communication, able to
Speaker 2: get the plays in and get them executed.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I'm right there with Brian. I'm impressed with
Speaker 4: what I saw for McCarthy. I think my biggest qualms
Speaker 4: would just simply be in the realm of execution. You
Speaker 4: talk about the drop by Jake Ferguson, which is a
Speaker 4: rarity for him. He has some very sure and sticky
Speaker 4: hands and on that flat that could have easily been
Speaker 4: at worst it would have been fourth in inches and
Speaker 4: maybe they have a chance to go forward, but at
Speaker 4: best he falls forward with momentum in the first, Now
Speaker 4: you had to drop by him to shot. So the
Speaker 4: tight ends, which you know, the irony beings, U jinxed him, Ambar,
Speaker 4: you jinxed him by saying tight ends have big days.
Speaker 8: That's why you need to shut up. Sometimes you could do. Yes,
Speaker 8: that was disappointing.
Speaker 4: So for me, it was just the execution and I
Speaker 4: you know, we'll get better from Jake Ferguson and pay
Speaker 4: your hindershot. We've seen those guys have short hands. Uh.
Speaker 4: And then there was you know, another example would be
Speaker 4: Tyler Biadda is kind of getting skinned up and turned
Speaker 4: sideways by Dexter Lawrence, which allowed a pressure on Dak Prescott.
Speaker 4: So just little things like that, you know. And when
Speaker 4: you're talking about forty to zero, yeah, we are nitpicking this,
Speaker 4: but we can because if you look at it, the
Speaker 4: Cowboys offense is looking to get off to a fast
Speaker 4: start in this you know, new regime of play calling
Speaker 4: with Mike McCarthy and Brian Schottenheimer help and coordinate.
Speaker 8: Uh.
Speaker 4: And I mean it was it was solid because it
Speaker 4: didn't have to be explosive, So that allowed McCarthy to
Speaker 4: kind of not have to pull go too deeply in
Speaker 4: the bag. So the bag is deep, I believe, but
Speaker 4: he didn't have to go too deeply into what we saw.
Speaker 4: Versatility in both play calling and how things were schemed up.
Speaker 4: My favorite play, you know, and soouts out to Tony
Speaker 4: Pollard for you know, his first game as lead back
Speaker 4: to rushing touchdowns. He was impactful in the passing game
Speaker 4: as well. But it is that trips left seed lamb
Speaker 4: forty nine yards catching run that I believe is a
Speaker 4: flash of what we're going to see when the Cowboys
Speaker 4: offense is starting to fire on all cylinders.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the fourth down play was nice too, the one
Speaker 2: that went inside the cooks the way they way they
Speaker 2: kind of you know, they caught the Giants playing off,
Speaker 2: which I don't understand on fourth and short while you're
Speaker 2: playing back. But the Giants had a lot of those
Speaker 2: kind of plays where you're kind of scratching your head.
Speaker 2: I want to say this though, about the tight ends.
Speaker 2: I know we're talking about him dropping the ball, but
Speaker 2: the blocking though on the twenty five yard run the
Speaker 2: Pollard had, you had you had Hindershot and scoon Maker
Speaker 2: at that point of attack, and they just completely wiped
Speaker 2: out the right side there to allow Pollard to run
Speaker 2: through through that hole right there. So you know those
Speaker 2: kinds of things. There's maybe there's some things when we
Speaker 2: finally saw them use well Turpens and Hunter Lifty too
Speaker 2: as a blocker. Yeah, we hadn't seen it all a
Speaker 2: really preseason where Hunter Lipke was a blocker and he
Speaker 2: got an opportunity not only as a full back but
Speaker 2: also some inline stuff as well. So again some creativity there.
Speaker 2: The execution part of it I think was the one
Speaker 2: everything that I know I had kind of an issue with.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think there were I saw a lot of
Speaker 6: setting up things for future right, Yeah, you saw if
Speaker 6: you notice, there were a lot of times yesterday when
Speaker 6: Dak would hand the ball off and he's sprint, He's
Speaker 6: sprint out of the backfield, just giving the defense something
Speaker 6: else on tape for them to look at to say,
Speaker 6: hey might want to count for that guy who keeps
Speaker 6: running out out of the screen, right that. Those are
Speaker 6: things they're setting up for future weeks. Lefki is another one.
Speaker 6: There's something they're gonna do with him. They're bringing him in,
Speaker 6: they're integrating him in as a as a lead blocker.
Speaker 6: There will be opportunities to use him as a guy
Speaker 6: either runs the ball, maybe dips out into the flat
Speaker 6: and you got a nice little pass out there. There
Speaker 6: are things I saw yesterday that give me reason to
Speaker 6: believe this offense has so much more and so many
Speaker 6: more ways that they can they can evolve over the season,
Speaker 6: which is what you need an NFL season to be
Speaker 6: able to evolve as an offense as it goes along.
Speaker 8: Yeah, just a couple of things from me. One, I
Speaker 8: was gonna talk about Camanto Terpin. He We've seen it
Speaker 8: last year. How many times they've tried to incorporate him
Speaker 8: into the offense and it never was really productive in
Speaker 8: any way. Yeah, it was forced and it never really
Speaker 8: scared anybody any defenses. But this time around, it was
Speaker 8: really cool to see him get still get that opportunity
Speaker 8: and be involved and get that touchdown. Another thing, the
Speaker 8: O line, I thought they did a really nice job
Speaker 8: despite not having Tyler Smith.
Speaker 2: Doga.
Speaker 8: Yeah, so he shut us up a little bit too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's exactly what we needed to see that.
Speaker 8: So it's just it's it gives you that sense of
Speaker 8: comfort quote unquote that Okay, this isn't as bad as
Speaker 8: we thought it could be. And he held up pretty nicely.
Speaker 8: I thought Dak had a lot of times at times
Speaker 8: no s yes. And however, I will say this.
Speaker 10: I'm not.
Speaker 8: I wasn't super impressed overall. I'll differ from you guys.
Speaker 8: I wasn't super The spark was missing, But you got
Speaker 8: to take into account the weather. Mike McCarthy talk about
Speaker 8: the field being soft, and that obviously affects this the game.
Speaker 8: But also I took this as a I'm not freaking
Speaker 8: out or anything, because I know the talent that they
Speaker 8: do have, and like you guys talked about, you see
Speaker 8: those moments where you're like, Okay, that's gonna be good.
Speaker 8: That's good they're putting that on film and all that.
Speaker 8: But also I took this kind of like a preseason
Speaker 8: game for the offense and just them being out there
Speaker 8: getting that time of being together. They haven't done that.
Speaker 8: We know that, and it's a little different for offense
Speaker 8: versus defense not getting playing time during the preseason. So
Speaker 8: I'm not I know I've seen on Twitter fans kind
Speaker 8: of being really concer and freaking out this early on.
Speaker 8: I would say, take it from me, the main alarm
Speaker 8: ring or whatever. I go, you know, nuts with certain
Speaker 8: things and exaggerate but there are a lot of things
Speaker 8: to be positive about, and this offense can be really
Speaker 8: really special. They didn't need to be in this game,
Speaker 8: but I think it's not always going to rely on
Speaker 8: the defense don't be able to put their part.
Speaker 2: There was a lot of concern for a Doga because
Speaker 2: we I mean, let's be honest, and I think we
Speaker 2: have about him. You know, you go back and watch
Speaker 2: him and I studied him this morning. In the game,
Speaker 2: he played well, Did he play great? No? Did he
Speaker 2: play well yes? Was he all balanced some yes? You know,
Speaker 2: was he fighting throughout the whole game? Yes he was.
Speaker 2: He looked much better playing in the small space than
Speaker 2: he did play and tackle, you know. And if you
Speaker 2: were evaluating him as the way he played against not
Speaker 2: only Micah Parsons, but others during train camp, you know,
Speaker 2: there was not a lot to go on there. I mean,
Speaker 2: I'm I'm you know, I'm happy for him that he
Speaker 2: played that he wasn't a liability in this game. That's
Speaker 2: where I was worried about. They did a good job
Speaker 2: on the inside. Three of the giants in this game.
Speaker 2: They really did other than you know, Lawrence the one
Speaker 2: time getting beyonddish turned they really did a good job
Speaker 2: on the inside three that Zach Martin Beottish and adoga
Speaker 2: and so to me, I'm not playing a Doga anywhere
Speaker 2: other than guard. Yeah, you know, I I saw what
Speaker 2: was going on at tackle. I'm not going that route anymore.
Speaker 2: You know, if you want to say he's a guard,
Speaker 2: he's a guard, let's go for it. So, you know,
Speaker 2: good for you know, good for him, and good for
Speaker 2: the way he played. But you know that's you know,
Speaker 2: they having Tyler Smith back will help this team. I
Speaker 2: will absolutely help this team. And I say tip of
Speaker 2: the cap to a Doga for how he played. It
Speaker 2: wasn't pretty, but it was good enough to get the
Speaker 2: job done. They didn't need him to play at a
Speaker 2: high level, but he played it. He played at a
Speaker 2: good level.
Speaker 4: That he did. And there still has to be a
Speaker 4: lot said about the usage, the utilization of Cavante Turpin.
Speaker 4: I mean, you know, well, you have six six or so.
Speaker 4: He had five touches on six or six targetsu, three targets,
Speaker 4: two catches, three runs and then three of his runs
Speaker 4: he averaged four point seven per carry. That was only
Speaker 4: point zero three less than Tony Poler, the lead back
Speaker 4: and he got one of the touchdowns. So Cavante Turpin
Speaker 4: is clearly going to be a part of this Cowboys
Speaker 4: offense going forward. And that shit terrify O posing defenses
Speaker 4: because guess what, the Cowboys haven't even mixed in duce
Speaker 4: Van just yet. So duce Von was getting some reps
Speaker 4: on the back end of the of the game when
Speaker 4: it was well well well out of hand. But the
Speaker 4: fact that Cavante Turpin can now come in and not
Speaker 4: only be that return guy but also be that change
Speaker 4: of pace guy out of the backfield slot receiver at
Speaker 4: times left end to a touchdown. I mean, creativity is
Speaker 4: just endless in this offense.
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Speaker 6: you can have a forty point win and you get
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Speaker 6: do just that. We're going to talk about Dak Prescott
Speaker 6: and what we saw from him yesterday in that forty
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Speaker 6: mister Dak Prescott when thirteen for fifty four percent completion rate,
Speaker 6: one hundred and forty three yards, no interceptions, no touchdowns,
Speaker 6: but his team came away with a forty point to
Speaker 6: nothing victory. What were your thoughts in his performance?
Speaker 4: I mean any stat and box score watchers who will
Speaker 4: look at his stat line and say, oh, that was
Speaker 4: pedestrian or a couple of things here. Number one, he
Speaker 4: didn't he and the offense didn't need to explode. They
Speaker 4: just needed to continue to manage the game, not do
Speaker 4: too much, because then you get into situations where you
Speaker 4: might start letting the other team get back into the game. McCarthy, Dak,
Speaker 4: the Cowboys learned that lesson from Aaron Rodgers and the
Speaker 4: Green Bay Packers, Jaxonville Jaguars, and Trevor Lawrence. But what
Speaker 4: I did see from Dak Prescott was that, you know,
Speaker 4: he did well and keeping the game where it needed
Speaker 4: to be, keeping the Cowboys offense movie once they got going.
Speaker 4: But bigger than anything was he made the plays he
Speaker 4: needed to make when those plays needed to be made.
Speaker 4: We talked in the last segment about that Trips Left
Speaker 4: formation big play forty nine yard game or the Ceedee
Speaker 4: Lamb that was a big one. Talk about the Dak
Speaker 4: to Cooks on the five your game on fourth and
Speaker 4: three to convert on the Giants thirty eight yard line,
Speaker 4: which then led to more points for the Cowboys. So
Speaker 4: when you start talking about Dak Prescott's performance against the Giants,
Speaker 4: don't just look at the box score. You need to
Speaker 4: go back and look at the plays that he made
Speaker 4: when they needed to be made. To keep the chains moving,
Speaker 4: which then keeps the defense on the sideline so that
Speaker 4: they can be rested when they come back in to
Speaker 4: make more plays.
Speaker 8: I think the environment could very well have led to interceptions,
Speaker 8: you know, the climate, the rain, that could have led
Speaker 8: to that. So my point will be quick here. I think,
Speaker 8: well not. I think I am glad that he was
Speaker 8: able to not make those mistakes because we would be
Speaker 8: here once again talking about Dak exactly exactly. That's my point.
Speaker 8: So I thought, despite of everything that we talked about
Speaker 8: earlier on them needing to pick it up a little more,
Speaker 8: they didn't need to. I thought he protected the ball
Speaker 8: well and did what he needed to do. So I'm
Speaker 8: excited to see what happens next week in a game
Speaker 8: where I think they'll need a little more spark.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Ryan, this offense, it didn't have to be great,
Speaker 2: and it surely wasn't great. And you're talking about the quarterback.
Speaker 2: You know, he didn't do anything to cost you the game.
Speaker 2: The game was. The best drive of the game was
Speaker 2: the start of the drive that started the second half. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that was it. I challenged and I know on one
Speaker 2: five to three on our halftime show, I challenged the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: I said, come out in the second half, take the
Speaker 2: ball and go get points, Go get seven, Go make
Speaker 2: me feel better about what's going on here offensively, And
Speaker 2: they did just that. It started off the pass to
Speaker 2: Gallop for ten yards. Then you get the Pollard run,
Speaker 2: you get Turp and gets a run, You get the
Speaker 2: pass for nine yards from Prescott, the lamb Pollard again
Speaker 2: with the twenty five yard run. We talked about the
Speaker 2: blocking at the point of attack. Recal Dowbtle gets in
Speaker 2: there for four yards. You know, Dak misses a hindershot
Speaker 2: though down down the deep left you know very well
Speaker 2: could have been it could have been a big play
Speaker 2: right there. But there's where you know, you're starting to
Speaker 2: see plays play after play after play. You're seeing rhythm
Speaker 2: to the offense. You're seeing Dak mix up the run pass.
Speaker 2: Him and McCarthy are on the same page. It was
Speaker 2: a really, really pretty drive. It was the best drive
Speaker 2: they had during the game in a game where the
Speaker 2: offense didn't have to be great. And but I needed
Speaker 2: to see that. And Ambar's talking about maybe some of
Speaker 2: the preseason rust and things like that, they practiced a
Speaker 2: lot against this defense. You know, I felt like that
Speaker 2: that was a good tune up for them. But that
Speaker 2: was the drive that I needed to see because that's
Speaker 2: how they're capable of playing football. The rest of that stuff,
Speaker 2: that stuff you need to evaluate. You need to see, well,
Speaker 2: how was how was the blocking? Was the routes good enough?
Speaker 2: You know? Where was the quarterback's eyes? Was he throwing?
Speaker 2: They didn't turn over the ball, That's the number one
Speaker 2: thing right there in a bad condition game. They didn't
Speaker 2: do anything to put their defense in harm's way, but
Speaker 2: they needed that drive to start the second half. That
Speaker 2: makes me feel good about going forward here. Regardless of
Speaker 2: anything else. You want to focus in this game.
Speaker 4: When you go ten plays seventy five yards and it
Speaker 4: burns just under five minutes and it's pouring down rain, yeah,
Speaker 4: I think that's good. I think that's good stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: That's if you go back and listen to or watch
Speaker 6: our postgame locker room video that we had of coach
Speaker 6: McCarthy addressing the team. What he said to them was
Speaker 6: you protected the ball. You took the ball away yeap,
Speaker 6: And I think that was the key yesterday.
Speaker 7: The Giants didn't protect the ball.
Speaker 6: The Cowboys did, and the Cowboys defense just took it
Speaker 6: away and the Giants didn't. So I think that was
Speaker 6: ultimately in a game like that, that was the difference. Really,
Speaker 6: the offense didn't have to be great, as you guys said,
Speaker 6: It really didn't have to be great. They just needed
Speaker 6: to manage the game. And I think they did a
Speaker 6: great job of managing the game.
Speaker 2: Yes, So one thing that you know, the thing that
Speaker 2: with defensively for the Cowboys that is as well as
Speaker 2: they play, that really to me was Isaiah Hodgens catches
Speaker 2: the ball the Giant's biggest play. Isaiah Hodgens catches the
Speaker 2: ball on Diggs and he's running away. What does Diggs do?
Speaker 2: He goes and hammers that ball to get it back.
Speaker 2: That's what you're going to have. If you're going to
Speaker 2: give up a huge chunk play, you make sure that
Speaker 2: you go and try and make amends for that. So,
Speaker 2: you know, we're all kind of, oh, what a great play.
Speaker 2: By day, that was a great play, but you know
Speaker 2: we also that he gave up a big play, you know,
Speaker 2: but to hustle, he put himself in position to, like
Speaker 2: Derek's talking about, take the ball away. That says a
Speaker 2: lot about how these guys were playing defense last night.
Speaker 2: Even in a bad situation, Diggs found a way to
Speaker 2: turn it into a positive for this defense.
Speaker 6: I look at the fact that I mean and Nick,
Speaker 6: we're talking about this on the plane ride back. Really,
Speaker 6: the weather to me, for both offenses was a challenge.
Speaker 6: The difference was boys held onto the ball. Like there
Speaker 6: were situations where they, just like the Giants, offense just
Speaker 6: got lit up and they didn't hold onto the ball
Speaker 6: in situations where the Cowboys did. The weather was bad
Speaker 6: and it was it affected both offenses, and then the
Speaker 6: offense was going to do great things.
Speaker 2: Last night, Pollard had a fumble. Pollard got hit and luckily,
Speaker 2: luckily it was a screen where you had and the
Speaker 2: guy who handles the ball every single play was there
Speaker 2: to make the recovery. The guy that's comfortable grabbing the ball,
Speaker 2: you know, Zach Martin's gonna dive in there, but be
Speaker 2: oddish right there where he needed to be. Ball gets
Speaker 2: hammered out of Pollard's hands. Now it's on the ground.
Speaker 2: But the Cowboys did a great job. And that's what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. When the ball's on the ground for you,
Speaker 2: you got to find a way to go get it.
Speaker 2: You know how many times we've seen you know, guys
Speaker 2: standing around and the balls on the ground and the
Speaker 2: next thing you know, the other team's on it. You know,
Speaker 2: very good awareness by Bey Oddish to get on that ball.
Speaker 7: All right, that's a wrap for us. What we're going
Speaker 7: to do is tomorrow quickly.
Speaker 4: We got to do this. We got to give Brandon
Speaker 4: Aubrey some roses. The resiliency in Aubrey, I mean, obviously
Speaker 4: coming out of camp and going into the regular season,
Speaker 4: we're still wondering, you know, if he's going to be
Speaker 4: the long term solution at kicker.
Speaker 2: And we're still my Twitter feed wasn't pretty.
Speaker 4: We're still hoping that he builds. But the fact that
Speaker 4: he misses the extra point and then immediately everybody's like, oh,
Speaker 4: here we go. That young man stayed for mentally, and
Speaker 4: he made the remainder of his extra points. He made
Speaker 4: the entirety of his field goal attempts, and every single
Speaker 4: one of his his kickoffs were touchbacks out of the
Speaker 4: back of the end zone.
Speaker 7: In tough condition. That's what also needs to be mentioned.
Speaker 6: There is in tough conditions, and I certainly was, Yeah,
Speaker 6: at one point in that game, multiple points in that game.
Speaker 6: It was a really big torrential downpour.
Speaker 2: It was you walked down on the field at the
Speaker 2: end of the game.
Speaker 8: No, no, I did not.
Speaker 4: But do you hear a cole.
Speaker 2: No, there's all these great pictures from that stadium of
Speaker 2: Ambar bundled up like she's like she's ice station zebra.
Speaker 2: You know it's Siberia or something like that.
Speaker 7: Oh, it was beautiful before the game yesterday.
Speaker 6: We were all down there on the sidelines, nice breathe
Speaker 6: and drop starting.
Speaker 7: And then soon as we get up it's like the
Speaker 7: rain came.
Speaker 8: But those are the type of sprinkles that got you sick.
Speaker 6: All right, we appreciate you. Johns' back tomorrow. Tomorrow we're
Speaker 6: gonna get into some player evaluations. I got a number
Speaker 6: of players. I'm gonna throw out for these guys and
Speaker 6: let them tell you what they thought of these players
Speaker 6: and what they did yesterday. Until then, for Patrick Walker,
Speaker 6: Brian brought us Amber Garcia.
Speaker 7: I'm Dereky.
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