WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: What Happened Against GB? 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:44.879 Cowboys, Rob Phillips, Brian Broadus, Mickey Spagnola inside the SWBC 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:49.479 Morgane Studio. Cowboys lose to the Green Bay Packers twenty 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:53.720 four at AT and T Stadium. Still tied, now tied 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:56.720 for the NFC East lead after five games at three 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:00.000 and two, but the second straight loss for this team, 0:01:00.280 --> 0:01:05.560 first at New Orleans, now Green Bay. We're gonna try 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:07.640 to make most of this or sense of this over 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:11.480 the next forty five minutes, guys, with a full breakdown. 0:01:12.040 --> 0:01:15.360 What do you what's your initial takeaways? I guess from 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:17.960 this loss, and there's obviously a lot to unpack. One 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:19.720 of the wilder games we've seen. I think in the 0:01:19.800 --> 0:01:24.679 last couple of years. The enemy is within. They keep 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:31.960 beating themselves with mistakes, turnovers. That's five and two games. 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:36.880 I know a couple of them had some complications to them. 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:41.000 They weren't just straight turnovers. But when you do turn 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:45.399 the ball over, when you can't stop the run and 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:52.480 when you can't make field goals on a consistent basis, 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.760 you're gonna have yourself in trouble against very good teams. 0:01:57.680 --> 0:01:59.800 And then let me throw in when you can't protect 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:03.880 the quarterback, and I thought they did a lousy job 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:08.520 of compensating for the loss of Tyrn Smith. And I 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:12.240 don't want to hear ever again that Cam Fleming started 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:16.200 in a Super Bowl. They got to have better than that. 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.120 And if they can't have better, then they got to 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:21.480 have better help that they didn't give him because they 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.600 fell behind and felt like all hands on deck in 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:27.080 the receiving game. So all in all, you get your 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:33.880 second consecutive loss, and you see a trend brewing with 0:02:33.919 --> 0:02:37.239 the five turnovers in two games, and maybe worse than that. 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:41.839 Go back and look at the five their last one, two, three, 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.080 four losses, and there's a running theme in most of 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:48.200 them that they can't stop the run, going back to 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:52.120 last year. Brian, Yeah, good points, Mickey all the way around. 0:02:52.120 --> 0:02:56.520 And I'll retract my statements about Super Bowl tackles for 0:02:56.560 --> 0:03:00.040 you next time. I think that to me that you 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.600 were the only ones saying, oh, I'm guilty of that. Um, 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:05.680 I think that to me, the biggest thing that came 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.280 out of that game was the lack of physicality which 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.360 the defense played with yesterday. You know, and the and 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.799 the Packers are not a team that has had much 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:17.960 success running the football. Teams have been able to shut 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.680 them down. You know, Aaron Jones is a nice back, 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:24.360 but the way that he ran the football yesterday, you know, 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:27.640 was exactly what the Green Bay Packers needed. They didn't 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:30.320 have to have their quarterback play great, even though I 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:33.160 felt like that he made the right throws, his ability 0:03:33.200 --> 0:03:36.600 to move and to buy time, and then to also 0:03:36.680 --> 0:03:40.000 put you in pressure throwing passes left hand and throwing 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:44.040 passes to the sidelines over the top of safety men 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.200 over there. You know, all these things that kind of 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:48.880 come into the game. But I thought the biggest takeaway 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:50.880 from me, and you know, and not to not to 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.640 piggyback Mickey stuff, because he's absolutely right, but I just 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:58.120 thought the physicality that the Cowboys defense lacked yesterday. Now, 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:01.280 the best defensive effort I felt like they gave was 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.280 on the goal line to keep the one time when 0:04:04.320 --> 0:04:06.840 they kept the Packers from scoring and made him kick 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:09.360 a field goal down there, that twenty yard field goal. 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:12.160 You know, that's the best they played defensively as far 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:15.640 as and stopping the run, Guys being square, guys playing 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:19.080 in gaps, guys beating blocks, guys getting to the ball. 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:23.400 But overall though, you know that Packer offensive line with 0:04:23.520 --> 0:04:27.840 a backup center was able to do things to you that, 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:32.120 like Mickey said, when they have problems, they don't play 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:35.080 well up front, and they don't play well enough that linebacker, 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:38.280 they tackle poorly, and people take advantage of that. And 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:40.760 that's exactly what the Packers were able to do yesterday 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.279 with their physicality. Now you look at Aaron Rodgers' final 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:47.159 stat line two hundred and thirty eight yards eighty five 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.640 passer rating. It would have been higher except you didn't 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:53.400 have to throw any touchdown passes. It was all Aaron Jones. 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:55.680 I don't think the Cowboys have ever given up four 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:58.360 rushing touchdowns to a player in a single game before. 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:00.920 You don't have to think, you know it had never happened. 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:06.880 And you know rod Packers record too. Dorsey Levins, I 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.279 think I remember seeing one of these the name of 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.200 Jim Jim Taylor lo shoe man. But yeah, no, I 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:15.039 think overall, Yeah, you know, Rogers did his thing. You 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.960 talked about some of his improvisational plays, especially on their 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:21.440 second touchdown drive. Sure, last second shovel pass. You said, 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.240 those over the top to the tight end and kind 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.520 of reminiscent of that. Jared could play in the playoffs 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.640 a couple of years ago. Yeah, but Jalen Smith talked 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.920 about angles too. How many times did Aaron Jones get 0:05:32.960 --> 0:05:36.200 to turn the corner just out running guys to the edge. No, No, 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.760 that's that's a problem. You have forced players that aren't 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:42.520 forcing and then guys who are not finishing the plays. 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:45.640 You know, Byron Jones was guilty that vander esh was 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.680 guilty of that. You know, even a Woozier one time, 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:51.279 even though he came up and made a nice stick 0:05:51.680 --> 0:05:53.520 you know, on that play that where they tried to 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:56.160 reverse the field on the team, you know, but he 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:58.480 had one where he got caught inside. I mean there 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.160 was a couple of different times where that ball spilled 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:03.360 at the edge and instead of being a minus one 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.520 or minus two or no game, turns into an eighteen 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:10.040 fourteen yard I mean fourteen eighteen yard run. So yeah, 0:06:10.080 --> 0:06:13.599 I mean that that was you talk about, uh, playing 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:16.680 your playing your technique, playing the gaps, playing where you 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:18.640 need to play, playing the angles. All those things you 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:22.840 want to say about defending the run and tackling or finishing, 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.279 We're all on bad display yesterday on the Cowboy Defense. 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:30.720 You know, you you mentioned Rogers numbers right right. If 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:32.560 I'd have told you they would have held them to 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.279 the eighty five quarterback rating in two hundred and thirty 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:39.800 eight yards passing and only four completions to his wide receivers, 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.800 you'd have taken it, right. Yeah, sure, off right off 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.440 the bat. But this is another game. This is this 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:49.560 is the second game though, Mickey, we've seen where if 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:53.080 you said Alvin Kamara did this, you'd have taken it, right, 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:56.120 If Aaron Rodgers would have done this, you'd have taken it. Yeah, 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:58.960 they're just I think the point you made earlier about 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:03.520 the turnover, I think that's just killers, you know. And 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.559 to me, and this is going to sound terrible to say, 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:11.440 but you saw and you know, you saw thirty five 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.840 million dollar quarterback out there playing yesterday. You know you saw. 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:18.720 Now the numbers don't say, but the plays that he makes, 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:22.480 protecting the football, what he has to do, you know, 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:26.280 getting his team in good situations, working the clock, you know, 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:29.080 all those things, A sixth sense for the rush. Yeah, 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.680 wha yeah see, And that's where to me, if you 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.040 want to talk about the great quarterbacks that you know, 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:36.920 the guys that if you want to get into the 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:40.920 whole money situation. You know, that's where you're at, and that, 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.240 to me is why that guy is worth what he is. 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:46.280 They're down to receivers. Mickey's right. They don't throw the 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:47.960 ball to the receiver. I was worried about in the 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:51.520 game them throwing the jump balls. But they run the football. 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.400 He finds guys that are open, he makes plays. He 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:56.840 throws the shovel, they throw the screen. They do all 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:58.800 kinds of things well. And he got help in this 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.880 game because going into the game Green Bay, I think 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:05.160 near last in the league eighty six yard rushing a game, 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.400 no question. You know it's at some point with this 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:10.520 run defense. We keep saying they're good at it. They're 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.280 good at it, and they have been. They did a 0:08:12.280 --> 0:08:14.840 pretty good job against Camaro a week ago, Yeah, and 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:17.760 the previous couple games. But I think you do have 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:19.680 to look back to last year with a couple of 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.720 games and wonder what's the issue here. I know they're 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:25.280 missing a couple guys up front. Tyrone came back, played 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.320 twenty three snaps in the middle of the line. Woods 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:32.960 Antoine's still out, But what's what's holding this defense back? 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.400 Up front? With a point of attack all I know 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:38.600 is I got a list here of some guy named 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:41.600 Marlon Mack one hundred and thirty nine yards in a 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:45.560 loss to Indianapolis, C J. Anderson one twenty three, Todd 0:08:45.559 --> 0:08:48.760 Gurley one fifteen in the loss to the Rams. I 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:51.280 know they held Camaro to less than one hundred yards, 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:54.720 but New Orleans still ran for one seventeen and then 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:58.560 Aaron Jones for the second time in his three year career, 0:08:58.720 --> 0:09:01.920 rushes for a hundred yards against the Cowboys the Pack 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:06.600 one hundred and twenty. Those are their last losses right there, 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:10.280 and to me, that is significant, and I think that 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.680 is something now that we have to address and be 0:09:13.800 --> 0:09:16.160 worried about on how are they going to fix that, 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:20.760 Because if your defensive front is not holding down the fort, 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:23.880 then your linebacker is going to have trouble because they're 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:27.040 getting their offensive linemen on your linebackers and some of 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.520 those runs that they gashed them on, and then you 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:33.000 got to have your safeties coming up and making tackles 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:36.200 in your cornerbacks. You know, the best tackle, as Brian 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.920 pointed out, was a Woozier coming up and making that stop. 0:09:39.960 --> 0:09:43.840 And that ain't the way it should be. The first 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:47.320 on my list tier of tackles by defensive linemen is 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:51.960 Dorence Armstrong with three and Covington with three. After that, 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:55.600 you didn't have hardly anything from anybody else. They and 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:58.240 basically what they made their bet on is they were 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.640 not going to let MALIEK. Collins mess this thing up. 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.680 They double teamed him a heck of a lot. And 0:10:03.720 --> 0:10:07.080 then you really didn't get anything from your from your 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:10.160 defensive ends. And here's what's happening, And we talked about 0:10:10.200 --> 0:10:13.440 it last year, how teams were using the Cowboys aggressiveness 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.640 against him. You get the defensive ends coming up the field, 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:19.760 right and and so they're saying, okay, fine, and we're 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:21.680 running the ball. We're gonna let you come up because 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.280 we're going in the middle. We'll double team in the middle, 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:27.080 and you're gonna have a gap if your linebackers aren't 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:29.520 going to stop to play. Yeah, and another thing about 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.880 you mentioned all the things Rogers did, and his experience 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.320 told him when he fumbled the ball to flick his 0:10:36.400 --> 0:10:38.719 hand out like this, to act like he threw it. 0:10:38.880 --> 0:10:41.760 He didn't throw that ball, but they bought it. They 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:45.920 bought it. That crew. Don't don't get me we'll get there. 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:49.360 We'll get there. There's plenty to unpack on that side. 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:52.120 But but how smart of him. He knows he's losing 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.120 the ball and he goes like this to act like 0:10:54.200 --> 0:10:56.520 he threw it, not to get us off the road, 0:10:56.559 --> 0:10:59.760 because I've been grounding even if it's ruled it in completion. Yeah, 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:01.520 I mean, I thought that crew had a rough go 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:04.000 for both teams. And they did they watch the game? 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:06.640 What were they doing? Yeah, it was it was bad 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.320 all the way eating popcorn. The thing I think that 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:13.600 to me that bothers me is how this defense wants 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:15.880 to get up the field. They want to attack. The 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:18.240 problem is when they don't get up, when they don't 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:19.800 get up the field and they're on the move, and 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.920 then they get caught on blocks and then now all 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:25.600 of a sudden, you're washed. And when you're washed, and 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:29.280 then here's a backside cut, here's a you know, when 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:31.600 they wanted to when they wanted to run the ball inside, 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:33.680 they were able to do that. They were able to 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.960 get guys, like Mickey said, up onto the linebackers vander 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:39.439 esh And there was a couple of times, let me 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:40.960 tell you what, Jalen Smith, there were a couple of 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:43.320 times there where he just flat looked like he was guessing, 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:45.760 he was guessing where the ball was going to be, 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:48.800 and took himself out of some plays. You know. Now 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.680 again they'll probably go back and watch that and say, Okay, 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:53.760 that hurt us there, That hurt us there, that hurt 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:55.800 us there. There was too many that hurt us their 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:58.840 plays where like you say, if you're going to attack 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:02.240 gaps and play the run, you know, play the quarterback 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.079 or play the run on the way to the quarterback, 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:06.480 you better make sure you beat your blocks. You don't 0:12:06.480 --> 0:12:08.679 get caught in a situation where they wash you, right, 0:12:08.679 --> 0:12:12.400 Because they wash you, then that's leaving that's leaving linebackers exposed. 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:15.320 And these linebackers have had their own share of problems 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.040 having to do with that. Sean Lee wasn't very good yesterday, 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:20.320 you know, lat and Vanders didn't do very well in 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.800 space yesterday. Caught in the open field, caught a couple 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:24.720 of times in the open field. And then Jalen Smith, 0:12:24.800 --> 0:12:26.160 you know, like I said, I think there were two 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:28.240 or three plays. If you have a chance to watch 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:30.440 the All twenty two, you'll see him on some end 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:32.640 zone stuff. Guests and where the ball was going to be. 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.160 Any guest wrong, you know. And I got a suggestion 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:38.520 for miss their next gen's stats. They need to add 0:12:38.520 --> 0:12:42.719 one for a quarterback extending the play. I'll guarantee you 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:45.840 if he threw thirty two passes at least twenty five 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:49.120 times he extended the play. They didn't. They didn't get 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:53.319 to him right. They covered and they kind of forced 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:55.160 him out of the pocket. But he got out of 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:57.960 the pocket and made plays and and and he did 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:01.079 the thing that daksh would have done. On the one 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:04.800 interception that was his fault. He had Zeke underneath all 0:13:04.840 --> 0:13:07.040 by himself. He could have dumped the ball there. Yet 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.480 he threw in the triple coverage all he had to do. 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:11.240 And he knew it. He said it after the game. 0:13:11.520 --> 0:13:13.720 I should have dumped it to the back, Yes, And 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:17.200 that's what Rogers did. He dumped it, dumped it, dumped it. 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:19.559 See that's the thing about two. Like last week, he 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:21.560 was seeing cover two in that game and they were 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:25.600 playing man underneath with their Cover two, and he likely 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:27.600 thought that they were still playing with two. They were 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:31.120 probably matching with man. But where like Mickey said, though 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:34.560 you had you had a corner to that side that 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.400 was dropping. You had a corner to the far side 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.600 that was coming. You know, there was just too much 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:42.800 clutter there to get the ball inside. But Micky's right, 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:46.080 you know, Elliott was wide open in the flat, you know, 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:49.040 and unfortunately though he you know, in the comeback he 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.480 took a sack, you know, trying to move to his right. 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:54.040 They didn't do a very good enough job blocking, said 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.839 Darius Smith. Smith trips. He's got Jason went and wide 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.160 open in the end zone. I mean he's standing there, 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:01.360 wide open, and it's one of those throws that if 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:04.080 he could have just had just to tick longer, he's 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:05.719 gonna load it up and throw the ball. And now 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.559 the Cowboys instead of taking the sack and then taking 0:14:08.600 --> 0:14:10.760 an incomplete and then having to you know, you know, 0:14:10.960 --> 0:14:13.800 kick a field goal or you know, then they that's 0:14:13.920 --> 0:14:16.960 it's it was. You know, they lost points there because 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:19.960 of just some you know, like Mickey said, protection breaks down, 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:23.160 they make a play, you have a guy open, quarterback 0:14:23.200 --> 0:14:25.240 can't get him the ball. You know, there's a lot 0:14:25.240 --> 0:14:27.200 of those things that happened in this football game. Yeah, 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:29.800 they lost they lost points on that other one when 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:32.560 they got knocked out of field goal Ranch with the sack. 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:34.200 The sack, yeah, you know, I know they were only 0:14:34.240 --> 0:14:37.720 at the thirty four, but okay, fifty two yard field 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:39.640 goal least you're gonna try and kick it. Yeah, but 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:41.400 he hits his back foot and then all of a 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.400 sudden as Zadarius Thomas is all in his face. Kurt Smith, 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:49.440 excuse me, it's got to be better, and they can't 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:53.280 go into the next game. Letting Cam Fleming play that 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:57.160 many games one on one with the defensive end. Brian 0:14:57.280 --> 0:14:59.760 hinted at it that, oh, Mickey, Mickey was on it. 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.880 I mean him an opportunity, and yeah, a lot of 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:05.960 times you had to quote Mickey, you had Witten kind 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:08.040 of in his back pocket, but then he'd he'd go 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:10.400 out in the in the patterns. What they started to 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.360 do was Zeke was starting to chip Zeke. There was 0:15:13.400 --> 0:15:15.680 a couple of times where Zeke threw a shoulder in 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:17.800 there to try and help him a little bit. And 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:20.200 then there was one time where they just completely set 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:22.560 the formation to that side and put the two tight 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:24.760 ends over there and let the two tight ends handle him, 0:15:24.960 --> 0:15:27.280 and then he was able to slide down inside, which 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.960 allowed them to double the other side. You know, I'll 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:34.680 give Brandon Knights some credit. Brandon Knight only practiced on Thursday. 0:15:34.960 --> 0:15:37.360 That's the only work he got all week. He doesn't 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:39.440 get much work playing, you know, he doesn't get much 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:41.520 first team reps, you know, even as you know and 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.560 helping out there. Yeah, it's practice squads, practice squad stuff 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:46.280 that he gets. So I mean for him to go 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.560 into the game and hold up as the best that 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:51.680 he could, I got to give that guy a lot 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:55.200 of credit for playing on some guts when he could 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.440 have been really really like I thought. I mean when 0:15:57.480 --> 0:15:59.680 it first happened, when when Lyle Collins went out with 0:15:59.720 --> 0:16:02.520 them cl spraying and MRI to day by the way, 0:16:02.520 --> 0:16:05.400 on that when he went out, I'm thinking they're gonna kick, 0:16:05.520 --> 0:16:08.240 They're gonna kick Connor Williams outside and bring in. We 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:10.640 were debating that in the Presscott what do they do? Yeah, 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.160 and I guess they didn't want to swap two positions 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:16.160 out and that Brandon Knight's the guy that was hurt 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.640 in training camp for a spell and also started camp 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:22.600 at guard. I'm sorry. Moving the guard right, so you know, 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:26.120 moving back outside did pretty well, but overall, yeah, Dak 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:29.240 sack three times. Um, what do you guys make of 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:33.400 his just overall game? I mean career wise, passing, yardage wise, 0:16:33.520 --> 0:16:36.680 it's it's a career day. Uh. This is this is 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:39.880 where I fight with the analytics guys. To me, Dak 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:45.560 Prescott throwing the ball forty forty five times? How many times? Yeah? 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:47.360 You know who? And I know what you're gonna say. 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:50.680 This is where I have my my argument with them. 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:53.160 You know, I don't think that Dak Prescott's built to 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:56.160 throw the ball forty five times a game. I really don't. 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:58.960 I think Dak Prescott needs a supplement of a running game, 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:01.240 which I think they would have had yesterday had they 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:03.680 not been run out of it. You know, they had 0:17:03.720 --> 0:17:06.520 no choice. Prescott had no choice to throw the football. 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:08.840 But I just feel like, though making him throw the 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.359 ball forty five times in the game, you start to 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.720 see some of the things that happened. You know, you 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.560 see the absolute some brilliant throws, but you see those 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:19.040 ones where you go, oh my gosh, he didn't see it. 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:20.960 Oh my gosh, she didn't see that. Oh he didn't 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:22.760 see that, you know, and then all of a sudden, 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.440 now you're dealing with turnovers which could have had another 0:17:25.480 --> 0:17:28.399 one if they didn't get the penalties on the throwing. Absolutely, 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:32.000 that was a terrible throw. There's another drop by green 0:17:32.040 --> 0:17:35.160 Bay one. But here's Nie had one. Whose record did 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:39.760 he break for passing yards in a single game, Tony 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:43.080 Romo's And guess what that was in a loss against Denver? 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:46.760 That was That was the duel with Peyton Manning nine. 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:49.480 Very similar because Romo had to just sling it around 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:52.200 all day and there were some critical mistakes made, yeah, 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:54.359 by Tony in that game as well. I'll guarantee you 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:57.000 go look at quarterbacks that throw for that many yards 0:17:57.040 --> 0:17:59.440 and a lot of times. I mean I remember Troy 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.160 Aikman's games. It was because they were behind and they're 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.040 thrown and thrown and thrown and you end up losing. See, 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:08.119 you gotta be you gotta be somewhat balanced. These people 0:18:08.160 --> 0:18:10.160 about all just put it on his back and let 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:12.560 him slinging around. Don't even worry about running the ball. 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:16.000 If they could have not fallen behind like that, Zeke 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:18.320 might have ran for two hundred yards. That's the thing is, 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:20.800 I think he would have been Aaron Jones. On the 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:22.280 other end of it, I think he would have been 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:24.680 the Cowboys would have been the one controlling the game 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:26.760 the way they did with their offensive line and then 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.199 controlling it with the running game. And you know that 0:18:29.280 --> 0:18:32.000 way thinks you know that that that the fact that 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:33.879 they got to stop on the first possession and then 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:35.800 drove the ball the way they did as quickly as 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:38.159 they did down the field, and they get say you 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:40.639 get seven there, you know, great job of of you know, 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:43.520 of a route becoming open. You know, Dak, I mean 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:46.280 Amari Mitz. He has to catch that football, puts the 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:48.080 ball out in front. Though it's a walk in six. 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:50.119 Maybe the game is a little bit different when you're 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:51.840 doing all of a sudden, it's seven nothing, and now 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:53.800 the Packers are going to have to, you know, have 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:55.639 to do a little bit more, no question about it. 0:18:55.720 --> 0:18:59.000 Zeke and Pollard only sixteen carries, but they were getting 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:03.000 about five yards up early in the game. And I 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:06.240 looked it up. After four drives, they piled up one 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:09.280 hundred and sixty eight yards first four drives. But they 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:11.480 get the ball for their fifth possession and it's seventeen 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:13.960 to nothing. Tell me, tell me it's changes the whole 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:15.639 course of the game. I tried to bring this up 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:18.560 on the postgame show, tell me where the drives stopped. 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:24.240 The first five drives stopped for the Dallas Cowboys. Tell 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:28.320 me first drive green Bay thirty eight okay, green Bay 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:32.520 forty four, So interception, sack okay, green Bay thirty five 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:37.520 interception great, Dallas forty seven hunt yeah, green Bay thirty six, 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:42.119 missus field goal? They that right, can't finished drive? That 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:45.080 That right there, That right there, to me, told the 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:47.680 whole story of the game, because that first one should 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:50.600 have been points. Yeah, third one should have been it 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:52.480 could have been. The second one could have been points 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:54.520 if you don't take the sack on third down, right, 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:57.320 the next one interception you're at the thirty five right, 0:19:58.000 --> 0:20:00.640 next one, okay, you punted at the forty Evan, I'll 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:03.359 deal with that. Then you get a miss field goal. Yeah, 0:20:03.400 --> 0:20:06.120 those were those were points each time you're leaving them 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:07.840 on the See. That's what I felt like. That's how 0:20:07.880 --> 0:20:09.800 you had to beat Aaron Rodgers. It was gonna be 0:20:09.880 --> 0:20:12.080 a to me, I said thirty one, twenty eight game, 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:14.399 and it felt like it was gonna Okay, Now you 0:20:14.480 --> 0:20:16.280 just have to find a way to out score the 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:19.360 Packers defense was right for the take and yesterday Amari 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:24.199 was running free before the Alexander had no answer for him, 0:20:24.240 --> 0:20:26.080 and I thought, Alexander, I'm Likeking. Oh he's one of 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:29.199 the top coin Mary Cooper just turned him around. The 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:33.440 whole day before the game, I was told that they 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:37.440 hoped Kevin King would play. Yeah, and I said, well, okay, fine, 0:20:37.520 --> 0:20:42.320 And then does Alexander you know, shadow Cooper And they said, 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:45.760