WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Is Dak Up to the Task? 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:05.880 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:09.080 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.799 a break? Yours? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely 0:00:12.920 --> 0:00:17.159 ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:22.520 It's time for the break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:23.320 --> 0:00:28.800 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:38.159 Good morning, guys, Today's Tuesday eleven. Do you stay eleven? 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:42.680 We have a lot to discuss today, but before we 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:46.560 get into it, how are you guys doing better than yesterday? Great? 0:00:46.560 --> 0:00:48.240 How are we doing? Guys? How are we doing? Guys? 0:00:48.240 --> 0:00:52.360 You're ready to go? Okay? Great? All right, Corel Dave Okay, 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.480 I'm awesome. So we have a lot to discuss, but 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:57.760 before we get into it, I wanted to touch on 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:02.400 a few things that um happened last night. Jason Witten 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:07.759 had his debut as a Monday night football analyst. He did, 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:12.640 so I wanted to see what you guys. First impression 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:15.640 of this was, um, I didn't know he was out there. 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:21.120 I mean seriously, like he he hardly ever talks. This 0:01:21.240 --> 0:01:23.640 is me Like, I didn't realize this was such a 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:27.720 big deal for Booger McFarland like this, he was his show. Yeah, 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:33.200 nobody told him to shut the front door. Ever, I 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:35.560 thought he was really good. Though. I didn't mind that 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:38.840 he kept talking. That's fine, I guess. I just the 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:42.559 whole point was, I was literally listening to Jason gonna 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.160 talk because it's just it seemed as though they were 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:47.440 kind of creating his moments for him talking. He just 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:49.480 didn't say anything, so I don't know. It was, yeah, 0:01:49.560 --> 0:01:53.040 were you expecting more? Though? Yeah, this was like this 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:55.880 huge deal that Jason Witten is now, you know, jumping 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.560 into the booth for Monday night football. And then he 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:02.800 looked like the third guy, you know, like he looked 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:06.760 he didn't hardly ever talk. I thought. I thought McFarland 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:08.680 talked the whole time. It felt like Jason was the 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:12.960 sideline guy exactly. Booger McFarlane was the color analyst. I think, 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.840 unfortunately for Jason, Booger McFarland's got a lot more experience 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.359 doing this than he does, and it showed last night, 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:22.160 which you'll get better. I'm sure. I didn't think he 0:02:22.200 --> 0:02:26.440 was bad. He did not seem comfortable to me, and 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:29.600 I don't yeah, like just I mean, I'm not best 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:32.040 friends with Jason Witten by any stretch, but knowing what 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.440 I know about him, I think that's going to be 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:38.160 a challenge for him to adapt to what he needs 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:40.040 to be like to be good at that. I think 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:42.040 he'll get there. I think it's it's just I mean, 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.000 it's with anything, you go from one career to another one, 0:02:45.400 --> 0:02:47.960 and he's going to have to adapt to the idea 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:50.760 that he's got to have something to say about everything. Yeah, 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:53.240 And I don't think that, And he might already and 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.079 he just doesn't know how to, Like he's not used 0:02:55.120 --> 0:02:57.440 to that. He's used to maybe as a player, being 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.600 a little more reserved, but he's got to learn that 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:02.440 every time there's an opportunity, you gotta jumping half something there. 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.160 I think it was in the first half yesterday, like 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:08.720 he said something and like it was so heavy in 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:11.440 football lingo that it didn't even make sense unless you 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:15.840 really follow football. When Joe Tessitur was like, expound on 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:19.360 that if you and like he it almost seemed like 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:21.120 he was like, what do you mean, expound on that? 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.960 Like that's it's football, said it, like, well, you gotta 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:27.360 do a little bit more for your average Joe sitting 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:31.359 at home, which the audience. Somebody told me a long 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.640 time ago that when you're doing that, you have to 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.880 figure out a way to say the same thing fourteen 0:03:36.960 --> 0:03:39.600 different ways, because if you keep saying it over and 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:42.640 over like, it'll be repetitive and it won't be good. 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.040 And there was a moment where in the first half 0:03:45.320 --> 0:03:47.840 where he talked about a play. I remember the receivers 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:50.760 running down the field, and he said the same thing 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:54.080 three times, and that's kind of his way of describing 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:56.800 the play. And I just remember thinking that, like, you know, 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:58.400 he's gonna have to get better at that. But I 0:03:58.440 --> 0:04:00.680 thought it was just kind of all accorded the way 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:04.160 that that booger McFarland was talking too much. I mean, 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:06.840 maybe they just should need to put the three of them. 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:13.480 Then then it's just fair games. I think that you're 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.359 supposed to view booger McFarland as a third member of 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.120 the booth. He's just doing in the booth. That's like 0:04:19.200 --> 0:04:21.960 their new wrinkle is like, well, he's gonna have this 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:26.640 thing move. Yeah, he follows the line of scrimmage. Okay, 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:29.960 so he's sitting above the line of scrimmage wherever it is, 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:32.000 seeing how he's kind of shaken them. He's on the 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:34.719 camera card basically is where he is, and he's just honestly, 0:04:34.720 --> 0:04:36.479 that's a great view. I mean, yeah, you get a 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:39.479 better view there probably than they get upstairs. I am. 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:43.520 I am encouraged by the first. I mean, yeah, Jason's 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:45.440 gonna he's got some work to do, and I mean 0:04:45.480 --> 0:04:47.960 they all do. But I like the vantage point that 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:50.920 Booger's got and he offered some insight. And I don't know, 0:04:50.920 --> 0:04:54.080 what do you guys think of the halftime what it 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:57.560 was they did, like the music with video Tory Kelly 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.600 Kelly and which I love both the ar Don't get 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.040 me wrong, I love boys men, I love Tory Kelly. 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.320 It was just awkward the way they did it. Yes, 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:08.040 I know entertainment is in their name, but like ESPN 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.280 always tries to do stuff like that, they're trying to 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:12.160 trick it up a little bit. I didn't stop. I 0:05:12.440 --> 0:05:15.440 remember this was years ago, but like they bait, Like 0:05:15.480 --> 0:05:18.200 when TRL on MTV was at its height, they tried 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:20.600 to like they were like, We're gonna have live performances 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:24.200 on Sports Center and it's like, no, stop, I want that. 0:05:24.279 --> 0:05:27.800 I'll go to MTV or wherever that is. Just do it. 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:31.040 Just do sports. It doesn't You don't have to cover 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:33.160 every Touchdow. You could have given me five minutes of 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.080 analysis on the game and I would have been just 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:38.720 as happy. Right, Well, let's hope that Jason Waitin thus 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:41.920 get better as time goes on, as well as well 0:05:41.960 --> 0:05:47.080 we hope with this twenty eighteen Cowboys version. So before 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:50.160 we move on into that, Jerry talked on the fan 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.640 this morning and touched on a few things. I wanted 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:58.120 to mention Xavier Woods. He's supposed to be getting closer 0:05:58.160 --> 0:06:01.680 to plane, although his pride to maybe get a little 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:06.400 limited this week. Randy Gregory seems like he is good 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:10.480 to go. As far as health concerns and as far 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:15.120 as the whole suspension thing or drug thing, I think 0:06:15.200 --> 0:06:18.040 that's still in the air. I think you got it flopped, 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:22.800 which I thought he was good injury wise, and we'll 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.640 see as alway, especially when you're talking about a concussion, 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.640 we'll see that. Jason Garrett said he's feeling better, but 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.280 I guess I gathered that from that and then seeing 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:34.440 Randy tweet about it saying he was good. But then 0:06:34.520 --> 0:06:36.720 I guess you can't hold waste. Well, the way that 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:39.200 goes now. Back in the day, if the player felt 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:41.080 great and he saw that you had two fingers in 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:42.760 front of him, and then it was like all right, yeah, good. 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.520 But now there's a whole protocol they have to go 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:48.640 through and and in a lot of instances, the doctor 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.200 is going to be the final person to make that determination, 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.520 regardless of what the player is I guess saying now, 0:06:54.560 --> 0:06:56.520 they could probably say they're feeling off fine and give 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:58.880 them a great report, but yeah, I would assume the 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:00.760 test that the doctors do will give him a little 0:07:00.760 --> 0:07:02.880 bit more indication and they'll have to pass that protocol 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:04.440 in order to get back on the field. But I 0:07:04.480 --> 0:07:07.200 do like what you said there with up in the 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:11.000 air with the with the league talk, because Jerry Jones 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:13.400 did go on the radio today and say, you know, 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:15.280 as far as I know, everything's good, we're all in 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:18.520 the clear. And that's that's noteworthy. I mean, I mean, 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:20.760 if Jerry Jones is going to have a better idea 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:22.920 than we do about what's going on with that, at 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.800 the same time, I'm always I'm taking that with a 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:27.960 grain of salt basically until the end of time, Like 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:31.400 that's just the story with Randy Gregory is that I 0:07:31.400 --> 0:07:33.560 don't know that it's I mean, you're never You're never 0:07:33.600 --> 0:07:35.480 just gonna feel great about that, you know what I mean. 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:38.040 Although I do think it's not worthy that Jerry said, 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:40.480 as from a league standpoint, he expects him to be 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.640 available Sunday, which is that's news. So but you know, 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:46.680 Jerry's been saying since training camp that and I think 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:49.160 people kind of just kind of took it as a 0:07:49.160 --> 0:07:50.880 grain of salt. But he said, Hey, when you're talking 0:07:50.920 --> 0:07:54.559 about these kind of situations where guys, guys are coming 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:58.840 back from you know, drug rehabilitation, it is a process 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:02.560 that is not a okay, you're you're now go. It's 0:08:02.560 --> 0:08:05.080 not like a broken bone, like There's gonna be times 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:09.400 when there may be hiccups, and so as long as 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:11.760 you know you have the right people around them and 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.520 you're giving them the right support and they're able to 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:18.080 work through whatever hiccups may happen, I think that ultimately, 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:21.000 I think if the league is being smart, they will 0:08:21.080 --> 0:08:23.600 factor that in. And that's why they should have medical 0:08:23.640 --> 0:08:26.600 people involved in this so that they can help when 0:08:26.600 --> 0:08:29.160 there is a hiccup, get them immediate help and get 0:08:29.160 --> 0:08:31.720 them back on the right track, because don't I think 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.520 it's foolish to assume that a person that's been addicted 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:36.719 to any kind of substance is just going to at 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.679 some point be whole. Right, It just doesn't happen like that. 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:43.320 You hear anybody that's been addicted alcohol, drugs, whatever, they'll 0:08:43.360 --> 0:08:45.719 tell you like, this is a this is a lifelong thing. 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:47.320 Now I gotta deal with this for the rest of 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.559 my life because it's now part of my life, right 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:51.760 which as a member of the media, this whole thing 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.200 with Randy makes me feel a lot of different types 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.200 of ways because I understand the value of reporting, and 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.920 if something's going on that ain't right, like that's the 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:02.600 media's job, whether it's sports or politics, whatever, there's nothing 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.240 wrong with that. At the same time, this Randy thing 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:10.920 is really sketchy because basically, anybody in Randy's situation is 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:13.240 gonna be having There's gonna be a million things going 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:15.760 on with him, probably for the rest of his career. 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:17.880 I mean, you're gonna be you're gonna be getting tested 0:09:18.080 --> 0:09:20.679 maybe randomly, You're gonna be having dialogues, You're gonna have 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:22.360 to be going to meetings with the league, like he 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.480 did a couple weeks ago. That's probably got accountability people 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:28.800 you're dealing with. As yet, there's just gonna be stuff 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.760 swirling with him, like that's just that's just part of 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:34.440 his life basically, and it sucks for him. And it 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:38.319 seems really unfair that, you know, whether it's leaks or 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:42.559 whether it's reporters not being completely responsible, not pointing fingers 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.080 anybody specifically, but just the basic idea of who he 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:48.160 is and who he plays for. There's people trying to 0:09:48.200 --> 0:09:50.160 pry into that. And I think about it from a 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:52.320 fans of mindset is like you want it to be 0:09:52.360 --> 0:09:54.200 black or white, like is he good to go and 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.480 I don't have to worry about this or is he suspended? 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:59.719 And its not gonna be that way. And I just think, 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.679 to quote Jerry, you gotta have some tolerance for ambiguity 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:06.360 with that, and it just sucks you in tolerance for ambiguity, 0:10:06.600 --> 0:10:08.640 you have to have a tolerance for ambiguity that this 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.840 You're probably always gonna have to have some level of 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:15.400 concern about Randy Gregory. But it sucks for him that 0:10:15.840 --> 0:10:18.480 his dirty laundry, so to speak, is being leaked out 0:10:18.520 --> 0:10:21.880 into the media. In one form or fashion, and it's 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:25.440 just unfortunate. But you know, for the time being, sounds 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:29.079 like he is okay. Yeah, right, so every week is 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:32.120 gonna be kind of a pending status for him. But 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.720 from what I'm gathering as of right now, it seems 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:39.000 that it's nothing major and it should be okay. Now, 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.360 there was a comment that I thought was really interesting 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:45.240 from part of Jerry Jones and yesterday we talked a 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:48.840 lot about Dak Prescott and yes, and this morning he 0:10:48.920 --> 0:10:51.920 made a comment that he saw in Dak a mixture 0:10:51.960 --> 0:10:55.880 of Jared Goff and Canton. So I wanted to see 0:10:56.240 --> 0:11:03.640 what y'all's opinion was on that. Yeah, I know, I 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.440 got a lot to say, just I don't know where 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.679 to start so much to say, uh you know, I mean, 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.080 I can hear the smart Alec comments about you know, 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.360 Dak's Dak's not accurate, Jeric Goff. Last night, he didn't 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:17.400 have a great night throwing the ball by any stretch 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:19.720 of the imagination. I think he was about fifty percent 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.800 so and look, I've seen the tape. I know Dak 0:11:22.880 --> 0:11:24.599 missed a lot of throws. I'm not giving him a 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:28.959 pass for that, um, But so yeah, I agree it 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:32.360 would agree. We know Dak can complete and acceptable percentage 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:35.559 of passes he and he did on Sunday, although not 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.200 the ones that mattered. The thing for me what jumps 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:41.560 out to me with that is if Dak has even 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:46.480 augh iota of the mobility and running ability as Cam 0:11:46.520 --> 0:11:52.000 Newton does, where was it? Well? My question would also be, 0:11:52.080 --> 0:11:54.880 if he does have some of that, then why the 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:58.160 heck isn't this offensive staff figuring out a way to 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.400 have more calls mind for him to run the ball. 0:12:01.520 --> 0:12:04.520 It's painfully obvious that Cam's ability to run was a 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.160 big part of Carolina's game plan, and they knew that 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:08.679 they were going to lean on him to do that 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:12.640 to get past the Stallas defense. Happened with Dak And 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:16.480 if they know that, and I would hope that they do, 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:20.520 then that's borderline inexcusable for me that they didn't try 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:24.559 to implement that a little bit more. I don't really 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:28.839 see any kind of cross comparisons between the two. I mean, 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.240 I don't. I think Goff's a different type of player. 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.000 I think Cam is a different type of player. And 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.600 what Jerry wants Dad to be riding between both of them, 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:41.560 You know, I didn't see either of that. What Cam 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.840 does best Dad didn't show, as Dave just said, and 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:49.120 what Goff does best, Dad didn't show and really doesn't 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:52.240 show that hardly at all. So I think that's the 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:55.440 ideal to be that type that would be your prototype quarterback, 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:58.360 if you could be a combination with two guys. Don't 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:08.080 know what that was. But but can't you Okay, everybody, okay, um, 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:12.040 but no, I just think overall, I mean, that's the goal, 0:13:12.320 --> 0:13:14.319 and I think he was really far from it. But 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.719 you know, this is the biggest issue this team has, 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:20.600 I think right now, it's just trying to figure out 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.360 is their quarterback good enough to win games? Yeah, I 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:25.360 will say this, and Dave you kind of alluded to it. 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:27.200 We went back yesterday and I know I went and 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:29.800 sat down with Brian to watch a little bit of 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:31.920 what Dak did in this game, and Nicky came over 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.520 saw some of it as well. There was some significant 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.120 missus in that game. There were some opportunities and you 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.400 want to talk about these wide receivers. Let's not talk 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.280 about the wide receivers right now. And the reason why 0:13:41.320 --> 0:13:44.360 I say that is because there were plenty of opportunities 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:48.240 in that game. Tight ends included where they had opened 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.920 They had open guys downfield opportunities in one instance with 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:55.000 Jeff Swain where it was clearly a touchdown and Dak 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.000 for whatever reason wasn't able to get them the ball, 0:13:57.040 --> 0:13:58.960 whether he didn't see it, whether he just didn't pull 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.520 the trigger, whatever the case might have been. But they 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.040 had some opportunities that were left on the table yesterday 0:14:04.080 --> 0:14:06.800 because of Dak's inability to get the ball to them. 0:14:06.840 --> 0:14:09.320 And so I don't want to talk about receivers and 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.200 wide receiver and tight ends for the until we see 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:15.199 Dak improved there. Then I don't think it's fair to 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.200 criticize this receiving group as we have in the past. 0:14:18.240 --> 0:14:21.280 There were more than enough open men. The Jeff swam 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.920 very obvious touchdown comes to mind. How about and hey, 0:14:25.400 --> 0:14:27.640 if you even if you're gonna say, all right, Dak's 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:30.200 not a great downfield thrower, don't put that on him. Okay, 0:14:30.200 --> 0:14:33.080 how about the Michael Gallup crossing route seven yards past 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.120 the line of scrimmage, where he had guys down field, 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:38.680 he had green grass in front of him. It's probably 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:42.040 at least a twenty five yard if not more game. 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.080 If he just at full speed. It just put it 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:47.640 where it needs to be instead of two yards behind him. 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.320 Just not a great day at all. The play that 0:14:50.360 --> 0:14:53.880 we're referring to with the Jeff swam he actually pulled 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.200 the ball downs third and nine and it was he 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:58.800 had to have the play and he ended up rushing 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:01.280 for ten or a great and did a nice job. 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:05.040 But I think what needs to be addressed there in 0:15:05.080 --> 0:15:07.960 the film room or whatever is did you see him 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:09.800 and it looks like he is seeing him? Because what 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:11.640 is he looking at? It looks like he's seeing him. 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:13.680 I don't know if he thinks he can make the 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:17.160 throw because we see it from up Todd like there 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:20.560 he is make the throw, but there's a certain type 0:15:20.560 --> 0:15:23.440 of velocity you've got to put on that ball to 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:25.560 get it there. Yeah, he could, He could get the 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.080 ball to Swain, But is every safety in the league 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:29.680 gonna run over there and get it by that? Does 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.600 that worry you if he can't make that yet, If 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.600 he can't make the throw, he doesn't need to be 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.200 in the position. And I'm being honest, like that throw 0:15:38.280 --> 0:15:40.400 out there, if it comes down to he really doesn't 0:15:40.400 --> 0:15:44.400 trust himself. That's the job of you're not only all 0:15:44.480 --> 0:15:47.400 you do. I mean, your job is not only to 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:49.680 hand off the ball to a runner. Your job as 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.760 a quarterback is to throw the ball right. But I'm 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.800 talking about making all of the throws. And yes, if 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:59.320 nobody's around, everybody can make that throw. It might hit 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:01.920 a cloud, but you're gonna get it there. He's got 0:16:01.920 --> 0:16:04.320 to get it there on a dime and split a safety. 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:06.280 That might be but I guess, but I guess that's 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:08.840 part of the game. I'm just saying, this is what 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:12.360 we're finding out. Maybe he it's those type of throws 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:16.560 that you determine you really can't do this job. But 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:19.840 that's why I think, personally, I think that's not the 0:16:19.880 --> 0:16:23.120 issue because I tend to believe he can make that throw. 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.480 I tend to believe that it was more of a 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.800 situation where he didn't recognize it as it was or 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:33.080 he felt something was he was he skittish about the pressure? 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:35.160 Was it? I mean, there was nobody really on him 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:37.240 at that point, But was he skittish about the pressure 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:38.680 to where he was like, I'm gonna have to really 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:40.400 step into this throw. I don't think I can have 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:42.440 enough time to do that. And that's why, you know, 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:44.240 he kind of ends up taking off running. I don't 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:46.600 know what it was. I don't Maybe I'm just giving 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:48.320 him the benefit of doubt that he can make that throw, 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:51.440 because that's that's a that's not a tough throw where 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:54.360 you got a tight end basically around the hash marks 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:57.560 about twenty five thirty yards downfield. This was after he 0:16:57.680 --> 0:17:02.040 shorted the throw to Jarwin, right yet, So man, Well, 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:04.680 but I just I will say this, and Brian point 0:17:04.720 --> 0:17:07.880 pointed this out on this situation with Jarwin Byron. I mean, 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:11.080 Brian thinks that what happened there was Dak was expecting 0:17:11.160 --> 0:17:13.560 him to stop, and he kind of kept floating. And 0:17:13.560 --> 0:17:15.960 if you notice, as he was running, he stopped running 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:18.120 full speed. Jarwin did and he was kind of just 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:20.800 jogging a little bit and then kind of went a 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:22.719 little bit too far. So he thinks there was kind 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:25.320 of a miscommunication there on what Dak was saying. Not 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:27.600 that Dak couldn't get it to him, but Dak thought 0:17:27.600 --> 0:17:30.800 he was gonna stop, and he actually just kept floating backwards. Um, 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.080 and that's what made the ball short. That's fine, it 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:35.800 didn't I mean, it wasn't complete, that's all. I know, 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:39.960 but and that's what y'all have been talking about, is 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:43.320 why I said what I says, like, Okay, you don't 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:45.879 trust yourself to make that throw, which an NFL quarterback 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:48.800 should be able to make. But let's just even let's 0:17:48.800 --> 0:17:51.760 even just allow acknowledge that, Okay, you can't make that throw, 0:17:52.040 --> 0:17:55.080 make five or six pretty easy ones and the game 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:57.760 is still probably different. Then there were quite a few. 0:17:57.760 --> 0:17:59.520 I know there are five or six. There were about 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:01.400 five or six plays at me and Brian walked through. 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:03.320 He had another one. He had an opportunity to get 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:05.080 the ball to a guy and he just he missed 0:18:05.080 --> 0:18:08.040 it for whatever reason. I just wonder if he's seeing ghosts. 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:11.640 Do you think last year from we got six six 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.000 acts this game from from last year from this year 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:16.879 from you know, does he trust Joe Luni and Conn Williams. 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:19.159 Does he trust Lyle Collins? Does he trust is he 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:22.280 to pick up his blitz? I don't know. But again, 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:25.960 I know every game we play, we get further away 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:29.600 from twenty sixteen. I understand that, but we still to 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:32.520 quote Jerry again like we've seen him do these things, 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:34.800 like he's made those types of throws in the past. 0:18:35.240 --> 0:18:38.720 He has and that's what makes it even harder for 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:42.000 me to understand like where it went. And to me, 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:45.399 that comes back to that says confidence to me, or 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:48.800 confidence that he can make the throw, or confidence that 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:51.520 he's you know, is he worried about if he throws picks? 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:55.159 You know? Maybe is the contract in his head is 0:18:55.240 --> 0:18:56.760 I don't know, I don't know. Me and Nick were 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.080 talking about that the game Sunday on another subject, but 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:01.520 it was the whole idea of when you're when you're 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:04.800 young and you you don't have much, then you're willing 0:19:04.840 --> 0:19:07.000 to go all out because you don't really you're not 0:19:07.040 --> 0:19:09.719 worried about losing anything, right, because you don't have anything 0:19:09.720 --> 0:19:12.199 to lose. That could be a rookie player, right. But 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:14.480 then you get a few years in and now you've 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.320 got elect you got something built, you got a little 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:19.679 something built, and now you're trying to hold on. And 0:19:19.720 --> 0:19:21.320 when you're trying to hold on, you get a lot 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:23.359 more conservative. And we all do it in our everyday lives. 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:25.679 Think about how carefree you were when you were in 0:19:25.720 --> 0:19:28.280 your early twenties relative to how you may be when 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:30.000 you're in your forties and you've got a wife and kids, 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:34.040 you gotta support, like your chance, your ability, or your 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:39.240 ability to take chances, or your your willingness to take 0:19:39.320 --> 0:19:42.159 chances decreases quite a bit. And so it could be 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:44.439 the same thing with a player like Dak where the 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:47.600 most after you got that success of twenty sixteen, now 0:19:47.600 --> 0:19:49.480 he may not be maybe a little bit more tentative 0:19:49.480 --> 0:19:51.480 because he's like, I gotta make sure I make the 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:53.760 right decision because I've got something I'm building here and 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:55.399 I don't want to lose what I have. You know, 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:58.040 all right, Well, let's take our first break and when 0:19:58.040 --> 0:20:01.520