WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Ground Game Not Rooted 0:00:01.840 --> 0:00:04.320 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:05.960 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:14.040 Cowboys Let's go. 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:15.640 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:16.200 Yes? 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:20.840 Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? 0:00:21.079 --> 0:00:23.239 Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:23.400 --> 0:00:27.639 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:33.440 Were on with Ambar Garcia, Brian brought us, Nick Harris 0:00:33.880 --> 0:00:35.279 and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:42.040 It is Monday. I'm sorry, it's Tuesday, October sixteenth, twenty 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:44.880 twenty four, Season twenty, episode number fifty. Welcome to the 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:47.919 latest edition of The Break. We are alive from the 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.120 s WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, we got our 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:51.040 mix up shows working. 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:51.400 This week. 0:00:51.400 --> 0:00:53.120 We got a whole different crew in here for the Break. 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:58.520 I got my longtime associate back with me, mister Nick Eatman, 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:01.320 who has not been on a Break for what a 0:01:01.440 --> 0:01:03.920 year now, because he's been doing some other show. I 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.640 don't know, it's storyline or something, and charging me for 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:08.800 T shirts and all kinds of crazy stuff. I don't know. 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.399 It's just crazy, but great, great job on that show. 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:13.880 I love it. I've been listening. It's good stuff. 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:16.440 Thank you up. We're doing it here in an hour. 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:19.040 Yeah, so I made you do double duty these todays 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:20.800 because I'm like, I want to have you back on 0:01:20.920 --> 0:01:22.480 the break. So here you go. 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:24.920 You love what you do. You never have to work, right, exactly. 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:25.840 I love that quote. 0:01:25.840 --> 0:01:29.440 It's exactly right. Tommy Yarsh, the newest member of the 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:32.440 Dallas Cowboys dot Com team. Welcome to the show. 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:33.240 Thank you man. 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:35.760 Tell the folks a little bit about your background, like 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:37.360 where you came from, how you got here. Of course 0:01:37.400 --> 0:01:40.399 you're a long one, which we got a lot of. 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:45.040 I'm sorry, sorry to box you out here, but I'm okay. 0:01:45.440 --> 0:01:49.200 He's okay. Things are going to be okay. 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:50.440 But uh no. 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:52.960 I covered Texas for for two years while I was 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:55.160 in school there and done some play by player work 0:01:55.160 --> 0:01:57.000 at the high school level as well. I'm just super 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:59.000 excited to be here working for the Cowboys and working 0:01:59.000 --> 0:01:59.760 with Cowboys Nation. 0:02:00.040 --> 0:02:00.360 Awesome. 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.920 We'll welcome to the crew, and of course Annie Joe 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:06.520 Laughlin comes from Girls Talk, Boys Talk, Yes, sir, tell 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:08.400 the folks a little bit on the break about you 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.960 and your background and interesting background, but making full circle. 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:14.120 The cheerleader for the Cowboys back in the nineties with 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.880 Akman Smith and Irvin and we were winning the good 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:17.360 old days. 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:18.400 Yeah, well, I like. 0:02:18.360 --> 0:02:19.919 Both reminists about those days. 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:21.800 And now you know, I'm back in Texas. 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.240 I was covering the Niners for ten years, don't hate me, 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.720 and then now I'm here. I'm happy to be back 0:02:28.080 --> 0:02:31.600 covering the team that I love, America's team and happy 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:32.640 to be with here at the break. 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.360 Awesome, awesome. We got our crew here today. We'll be 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.800 on for today and tomorrow covering the team. We got 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:40.120 a lot of stuff we're going to talk about it. 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:41.959 I like to do big picture kind of things whenever 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:44.120 we have these mix up shows, just to kind of 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.120 mix in some opinions. So I have a lot of 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.680 questions for you guys that we'll get into, just to 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:50.960 give people a good idea of where this team is 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.160 right now. I at the break not just so much 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:55.680 about what happened in the last game, because obviously that 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:57.880 wasn't very good, But they're just looking at it overall, 0:02:57.919 --> 0:02:59.880 looking at the entire team and then what they'll have 0:02:59.960 --> 0:03:02.160 to do in the next part of the season in 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:03.880 order to get themselves back on track. 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:04.360 Uh. 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:08.760 Nick. First, this morning, Jerry had an interview on the fan. 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:12.520 It was it was tense, It was for you texted 0:03:12.720 --> 0:03:14.799 You texted me and was like are you listening? Like, yeah, 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:18.200 I'm listening, and it was it was very intense. What 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:19.160 was your takeaway? 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.040 I guess from that fireworks for sure. 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:26.119 But but you know, he's this stemmed from from Sunday too, 0:03:26.120 --> 0:03:28.600 because after after the game, you know, some of the questions. 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:32.200 He didn't really love those as well. Obviously upset because 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:34.440 of the the loss and the way the team got 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:36.960 got manhandled in the game. So it kind of stemmed 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.560 over to some of the questions. Really, the the theme 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:42.320 that I took from it is there's not going to 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:46.720 be a lot of huge changes as far as personnel wise, players, coaches. Uh, 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:49.440 you know, they asked about the coach, which coaching changed that, 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:51.720 why would I do that? Not not changing that? And 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.440 then as players basically answered was where where do you 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:56.840 go get players? You know, Bill Parcels used always say 0:03:56.840 --> 0:03:58.280 you can't just go to the gas station down the 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:00.640 street and pick up players and so, and they have 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:04.760 already done that, They've gotten those guys. So like that 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:06.160 was kind of the theme that I took out. I 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:08.520 don't know what y'all thought, but it was more like, hey, 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:10.680 it's got to get better with then, but this is 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:12.760 who we've got for the most part, and we've got 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:13.880 to fix it right here. 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:15.600 Yeah, and I think he said he was happy with 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:17.840 the players he has is he's seen how effective they 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.800 can be, and that it thinks that there's obviously some 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.960 rookies and some growing pains. However, this is the team 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:25.479 and he knows that this is a team that he 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:28.680 thinks can eventually, you know, go to playoffs or deep 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:29.560 in the playoffs. 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.120 Yeah, and you know, I think the interesting part for 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.599 me was there's a lot of commonality in terms of 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:36.680 what Jerry talked about and what mich McCarthy talked about 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:39.640 yesterday in terms of the offensive line, specifically taking some 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.280 time to marinate. Obviously Tyler Goyiton was unable to start with. 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:44.640 Jerry said this morning that he is the left tackle 0:04:44.680 --> 0:04:47.159 for the Dallas Cowboys, so Tyler Smith probably expected to 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:48.719 move back to god. I know, we'll talk about that 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:51.600 a little bit later, but that's the position that I 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.440 think this team is looking to try and marinate so 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.400 that when they get in rhythm, it's a unit that 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:58.080 we know and love. 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:03.120 Like the Cowboys everything over, you know, everything works exactly. 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.039 But when you've got two rookies up front, you know 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:06.880 it's going to take time, right And something that Mike 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:09.400 McCarthy harped on yesterday was that the youth on this 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:11.719 team is going to pay off in the long term. 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:14.080 These are valuable reps that these guys are getting. So, 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.760 you know, patience is something that you know may be 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:18.800 running a little bit thin, but in the long run, 0:05:19.279 --> 0:05:20.479 it is what's going to pay off. 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:22.279 You know, when you look at the lines, I guess 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:24.240 on the offensive end defensive side of the ball, I 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:26.680 think that's where a lot of the problems are stemming 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:28.760 at this point. Offensively, I think, as you said, you 0:05:28.839 --> 0:05:31.159 got a lot of inexperience and they're having to figure 0:05:31.200 --> 0:05:33.640 it out. Defensive side, your compromised. You just don't have 0:05:33.680 --> 0:05:36.760 as many bodies, particularly on the edges, as you usually do, 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.440 so I think it doesn't go much farther than the lines. 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:41.560 You hear this from football people all the time. It's 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.440 about the trenches. What's happening in the trenches, And right 0:05:44.480 --> 0:05:46.880 now the Cowboys just aren't playing their best football in 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:48.719 the trenches, and that's why you're seeing I think some 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.360 of the results that you're seeing, and I don't know 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:53.200 if you're going to fix that by going out and 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.920 picking up whoever's out there, you know, wherever they are 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:58.400 at this point of the year. That's a hard thing 0:05:58.440 --> 0:05:59.880 to be able to do at this point to try 0:05:59.920 --> 0:06:02.440 to to rectify that with personnel. You just have to 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:04.760 hope those rookies come along and get better on the 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.480 offensive line, and then pray that you get your defensive 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:11.360 ends back from injury that you're missing, and hopefully that's enough. 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.560 But man, it's a it's a tough situation to be 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.160 in because that that. I don't think anybody enjoyed what 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:19.000 happened on Sunday from the Cowboys perspective. 0:06:19.000 --> 0:06:21.920 So, yeah, especially the way you got, you know, bullied 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.640 basically by a team like that has been bullied their 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:26.480 entire franchise. 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:27.680 I mean, that's sorry, That's what it is. 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:29.120 And that's why I thought it was kind of interesting 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.080 when you're like, well, Dan, you know, Dan Campbell, Jared Goff, 0:06:32.080 --> 0:06:33.440 did they run it up the score? 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:34.000 They did? 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.800 They embarrass some of me. This is our organization that's 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.480 been embarrassed their entire life, you know, the Lions, That's 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:41.719 what how many times does that happen to them? So 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:43.520 you can't come back now and be like, look what 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:46.160 they did. No, they that's what they've done. That they've 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:49.000 learned because they've been on the other side, and rightfully so, 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:52.280 and they they took it to the Cowboys. The buy helps, 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:54.839 but I think the Niners are kind of played the 0:06:54.839 --> 0:06:59.400 same type of way and they've been so fix the 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.719 problems quickly because the Niners coming they really don't carry 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:04.320 and you've been on that other side of that robbery. 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.360 They don't really seem to care what the Cowboys are 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:10.000 going through right now anybody feeling sorry for but. 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:11.360 They have their own issues as well, you know, and 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:13.480 them coming off the bike, and it's going to help them, 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:15.640 you know, because they've got CHRISI McCaffrey, who they don't 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:17.360 even know it's going to come back the season. But 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.440 they've got Mason, a running back that's able to kind 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:21.560 of fill in, which you look at some teams in 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.040 the NFL, they've got these third string forest ring running 0:07:24.040 --> 0:07:26.600 backs that are able to impact, where the Cowboys seem 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:28.960 to keep struggling with finding a running back. 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:30.760 You know, Pollard, I didn't think it was going to 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:31.480 be a big loss. 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:32.960 I'm going to say because he wasn't like an every 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.000 down back, but now we're seeing, yeah. 0:07:34.920 --> 0:07:36.360 We kind of need him back, right, you know. 0:07:36.440 --> 0:07:38.120 Yeah, But you know the thing about that, to me, 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:41.000 it's not so much the running back in San Francisco, 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.000 it's the scheme. I was telling somebody this other day, 0:07:44.440 --> 0:07:45.160 and I don't that's. 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.600 The running back because he's sitting on my fantasy team. 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:52.440 But Nick, you will appreciate this. I'm not sure if 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.840 Tommy's too young for this. But remember back in the 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:57.480 day of the Broncos under Shannahan. Yes, it was like 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.960 every year in fantasy you would just say, who's the 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.920 running back for the Denver Broncos this year? Pick him first, 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.040 you're gonna have a great year. I mean that's where 0:08:05.080 --> 0:08:09.400 you got the guy like Ruben Drones, who, by all accounts, yes, 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.520 these are not weren't going to be necessarily great, you know, 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.960 running backs, but in that system, they know how to 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.280 run the ball in that system, and so I think 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:20.640 it's not surprising to me that Mason is. I think 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.160 he's he's the first, second, third somewhere in there in 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:26.080 rushing in the NFL this season. Yeah, I mean that's 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.720 not surprising to me because that system they just know 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.160 how to get the running the most out of the 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.240 running game, and it part of it starts with the 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:35.240 offensive line, but you can put whoever you want back 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.199 there running back. If they're a one cut guy that 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:39.520 knows how to get up feel quick, they can run 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:41.199 in that offense and they can be successful. And I 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.679 think that's that surprise, you know, just. 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:46.679 This system isn't that isn't that way, No, it's not. 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.400 When I watched the Money Night game, you know, in 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:52.400 eighty game, it seems like it feels like everybody's got 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:55.480 a really fast, quick running back, and I'm like, we 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:58.200 just don't see that type of play, even Rico Donald, 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.840 he's not. He's the fastest of the roop, the quickest, 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.040 but you don't see him in the open field like 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:04.920 that every time I want. I watched even the backup 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.439 for the Bills last night that came in Davis and 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:09.720 of course Brees Hall, But I mean, like they're so 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.120 fast and quick. I'm like, you need that kind of 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:13.320 juice here at the run. 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:15.920 You don't think Rico has that though, I kind of do, 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:17.640 and I just don't think he's getting a chance to 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.360 really show it as much with him. 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:25.800 Yeah, you would try to keep my traveling right, it's 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.000 always in a no win situation in this show, he's 0:09:28.040 --> 0:09:30.040 dealing with his boss and his boss and his boss. 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:31.240 Like that, we put him in a bathroom. 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.880 I mean, y'all see, I just don't see that enough 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.280 out of him, out of Rico. 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.280 But well, Shatanenheimer always says that he's hitting the hole 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.280 too fast. He needs to have patience and then wait 0:09:41.280 --> 0:09:43.080 for the hole to open up. And so there's things 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:44.680 I think that he's still trying to develop with his 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:47.040 O line. And that's what I think. Sean Himer said 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:48.920 that many many times his patients and Virtue. 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:51.440 So yeah, well, I mean it all starts with the 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:54.400 offensive line, right. You said earlier you win games in 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:56.960 the trenches in the NFL really across all levels of football, right, 0:09:57.000 --> 0:09:59.079 If you have a good offensive line, good defensive line, 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:00.880 you're gonna win games. It's part of the reason why 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:02.439 San Francisco scheme works so well. 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:03.280 Not just Kyle. 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.360 Shanahan, you know, being able to run the ball so well, 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.439 but they've got a great offensive line and they make 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:09.880 gaps for Mason and any running back they've got in there. 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:11.520 I mean, any of the four of us could suit 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:13.800 up in that apartment probably run for a good sixty 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:18.640 to seventy yards. Yeah, Trent Williams to help you out. 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:21.800 But you know, in terms of the Cowboys, I think 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.280 something interesting that I took away from mich McCarthy yesterday 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:26.680 was saying that he wants to get Rico Dowdle more touches. 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:28.520 And it was kind of surprising to me. I don't 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:30.120 know about you guys, the fact that he only got 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:33.080 five last week. After he has a career game against 0:10:33.120 --> 0:10:35.400 the Steelers, he still goes for twenty five yards runs 0:10:35.400 --> 0:10:38.600 for five yards of carry. Ezekiel Elliott had more touches 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.120 than he did. I know that the Cowboys had said, hey, 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:43.600 we're saving Ezekiel Elliott for when we need him, but 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:47.360 in this game, I didn't see a situation where they 0:10:47.440 --> 0:10:50.000 necessarily needed him to get the run game going. If 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:51.199 you're going to lean on a guy to get the 0:10:51.320 --> 0:10:53.280 run game going, you go on the guy who just 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:55.120 had eighty seven yards on the ground for you in 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:57.160 the best run game he's had in his career. So 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.360 that puzzled me a little bit. I think that Mike 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.720 McCarthy maybe leaned away from the run a little bit 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.040 too early. I was telling Nick about this yesterday when 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:08.320 the Lions went up seventeen to three. After that Sam 0:11:08.400 --> 0:11:11.200 Laporta touchdown, they ran the ball one time for no 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:14.280 game the rest of the first half. I understand, you're 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:16.040 in a hole and you've got to try and move 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:18.959 the ball downfield and score quickly. But your passing game 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:20.439 is not going to open up. If you're a run game, 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.520 run existent. If you're one dimensional, it's just not going 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.000 to work for you. So you know that that kind 0:11:26.040 --> 0:11:28.440 of raised my eyebrow a little bit. But if Rico 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:31.240 Dawdle gets more touches and he really can be leaned 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:33.920 on more to try and establish this run game, I 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.680 think that helps. And with a young offensive line that's 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.439 just trying to get better, getting them those run blocking 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:41.400 reps is going to help too in the long term 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:42.120 of their development. 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:44.320 Yeah, because Nick, this is that's their only choice. Really 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:45.199 thinking about it. 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:48.040 It is Rico And if you like what you said, Tommy, 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.240 if you don't have the running game, you don't have 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.320 you can't open up the offense. You can do play action, 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:54.839 you know, you put pressure on deck that receivers ares 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.800 no separation between receivers and the dvs. I mean, it 0:11:57.840 --> 0:11:59.960 causes so many problems and we didn't we can't stop 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:00.760 to run, Derek. 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.600 I wish they had like hard knocks going on right 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:04.320 now so we could. 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:06.640 I want to know really, like what they're saying behind 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:09.760 this is what I want to I got a question 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:10.160 about that. 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.760 Well, yeah, that's that's the big question, Like what is it? 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:16.040 Because you know, I always say they see and they 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.200 are in the meetings, in their on field, they see 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:20.080 more than we do and they evaluate it so they 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:22.600 know the situation. I just want them to share it 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:25.079 with us because I don't know what's going on, because 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.120 it's not like, you know, I can't get him on 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:27.520 the field. 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:31.040 No, they're begging for a running back to get on 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:31.360 the field. 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.240 He's proven, he's the fact that he's quick, he's verse, 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:36.040 and he even says he's like yeah, they kept saying 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:37.880 that he needed the terminology to playbook. 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:38.600 He goes, I'm ready. 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:40.040 When I spoke to in the locker room, he said, 0:12:40.040 --> 0:12:41.640 I'm ready to make an impact because I know I 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:42.520 can help this team. 0:12:42.960 --> 0:12:43.959 Why are we trying that? 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.240 Well? I think that the interesting part for me is 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:49.760 I wonder if part of This is if you look 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:53.160 at Zeke and you look at Dalvin Cook, you say, well, 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.960 those are two of the same kind of running back. 0:12:56.360 --> 0:12:59.839 And I don't know if that is the evaluation. I 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:01.520 don't know if the Cowboys would be in a position 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:03.199 where they would want to say, Okay, we're going to 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:06.720 make Zeke Elliott and inactive, like, because do you really 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:09.480 need two of those guys active? Especially right now you 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:11.880 got so many injuries that you're dealing with. Do you 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.720 really want to make both? I mean, make both those 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.960 guys active when they kind of play a similar role, right, 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:20.640 And so that's where I look at it. I just 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.600 don't know if I don't know how the Cowboys evaluate 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:26.439 Zeke in that whole Dalvin Cook thing. I think they 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:29.600 believe that Zeke still has a role on this team, 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.680 whether they're using him in that way or not. I 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:33.800 think they still feel like he has a role on 0:13:33.840 --> 0:13:36.160 this team. And because of that, I don't think that 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:39.080 they're willing to necessarily make him an active put Dalvin up. Now. 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:42.079 I think a lot of fans and by myself included, 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:43.920 want to see We just want to see it. It's 0:13:43.920 --> 0:13:46.319 just like, just let me see what Dalvin Cook they're 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:48.199 seeing it in practice. I just want to see it 0:13:48.240 --> 0:13:50.760 for myself. Like Ken, Dalvin Cook adds something to this 0:13:50.840 --> 0:13:53.360 offense that's not there right now. I just don't know 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:53.800 if they're. 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:54.560 Willing to pull that truck. 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:56.480 There is a reason they signed to the practice squad, 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:57.000 right they do. 0:13:57.080 --> 0:13:59.199 Yeah, that may be an insurance policy, right, they could 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.240 be looking at hey, as we keep going, we know Rico. 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.040 One of the things about Rico is he hasn't been 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:05.680 able to stay healthy. They may be looking at that 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.120 as estate insurance policy, you know, break glass in case 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.640 of emergency type thing, and that's the way they're looking 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:13.000 at it. Again, these are all suppositions because they're not 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.560 really saying much on why they're not righting Dalvin Cook 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:17.160 out there. But those will be the things that I 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:18.439 would at least I. 0:14:18.360 --> 0:14:19.800 Want to see. I want to see. 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:22.360 We all want to see, right, Yeah, I mean there's nothing, 0:14:22.520 --> 0:14:24.640 there's nothing in their way that you wouldn't want to 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.000 I mean, you've got to get better. I mean we 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:29.120 even want to see deuce Van. I mean, I think 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.160 we've seen that enough. But like you just want to 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:35.320 see something better than this, because Rico Zeke, it's just 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:36.200 it's not working. 0:14:36.400 --> 0:14:38.800 You know, they're they're either their. 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:40.640 Last or second to last in the league in rushing. 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:43.720 They were they were last two weeks ago, probably back 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:44.400 to last again. 0:14:44.640 --> 0:14:45.560 So it's not good enough. 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:48.760 We're gonna go, Well, I'll just kind of hypothetical before 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.400 we go to break. Let's say we do bring Dalvin 0:14:51.440 --> 0:14:54.000 Cook up. If he doesn't get the touches, what difference 0:14:54.040 --> 0:14:54.640 is it going to make? 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:55.160 Right? 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.200 I think that's been part of the problem is that 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:01.440 the run game hasn't been established. So Cowboys getting a holder, 0:15:01.480 --> 0:15:03.120 they feel like they can't establish the run game. 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:03.840 They just go back and. 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:04.240 Throwing the ball. 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:08.600 It's like chicken and egg theory. I mean that how 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:10.480 do you start how do you establish the run without 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.800 establishing the run? I mean, how do you know it's 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:16.480 established if you don't run the ball. So that's that's 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:21.160 always been kind of the problem here. But I mean, 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:23.280 this is the time to try some new things, and 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:25.440 you know, if you're not bringing in other players, go 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.320 with what you have and he's he's still here. 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:28.800 Well. The other part to that too is if you 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:30.960 remember back, I think it was during training camp when 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:33.240 Mike McCarthy was talking about the running game. He said, 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.640 we're going to have to be committed to it. And 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:38.480 to me, when I look at that, I say, they 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:41.680 aren't showing a commitment to it, because way too many 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:43.400 times we've heard this year, well, the game got us 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:45.080 out of it, game got a still position where we 0:15:45.080 --> 0:15:47.600 couldn't do it. My thought is, in that game last week, 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.320 you're getting your butt whooped. Trying to throw the ball 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:52.120