WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Zeke or LVE? 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:04.240 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:07.440 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:12.000 a break? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely ready 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:15.920 for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. It's 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:21.880 time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com with 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:27.160 Nick Eatman, David Hellman, A bar Garcia, and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:31.280 It is Monday, November twelve, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen, episode 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:34.680 number seventy eight. Welcome to another edition of The Break, 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:37.479 live in the SWBC Board of Studios. At the start, 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:39.360 I feel like I'm the only one with some energy 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:41.720 here today. Let's go. No, what is wrong with you? 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:46.080 I'm telling you, Espresso does wonders. Let's see when when 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:49.280 we we took off yesterday. Yeah, I mean, like I know, 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:52.880 Dave was grinding, working, pretty good working. I was working. 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:57.760 Amber wasn't working. I was sitting beside her. Amber was. 0:00:57.800 --> 0:00:59.520 At one point I looked over at Amber and Amber 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:03.800 was like knocked out, just like sitting there. But I tried. 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:06.560 I couldn't really go to sleep. Probably had a video 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:08.800 or something like that to do after that when she 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:12.760 landed or say, I think I got home at I 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:15.840 got home at about five o'clock and I was in 0:01:15.840 --> 0:01:17.880 bed by five thirty. I'm sure you guys had a 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:21.440 little more to do. Yeah, I know what they were like. Oh, 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:23.960 I was in the beauty of a three hour flight. 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.720 I was done with everything when we hit the tarmac. Yeah, 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:30.280 that game took It took a lot of everyone, really, 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:33.000 including the players. I don't think I've heard a and 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:35.600 it was late, but I never heard a plane so 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:37.640 quiet after a big win. Yeah, I know, it was 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:40.000 really quiet. I mean, like, I think they were spent 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:42.280 and a game like that took took it out of them. 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:44.000 Well they had to be, because I mean that was 0:01:44.040 --> 0:01:45.800 a that was a tough game that they went against. 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:47.880 We're gonna we're gonna talk about a lot of the 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:50.720 things that happens, but I don't want this one thing 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.160 to get lost in the conversation. Everything we talked about 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:56.520 last week, and it started with Dave's assessment of what 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.720 that defense was, said that the Cowboys would not be 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:02.680 able to do what they did last night, and they 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:04.080 were able to do it, and not only do it, 0:02:04.120 --> 0:02:06.200 but do it in a convincing fashion. And I think 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.919 that's where we should start talk about, particularly how to 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.480 got Cowboys were able to run against a defense that 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:14.000 it basically shut down most running games in the NFL 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.640 they faced, you know, and they what they did was 0:02:16.760 --> 0:02:18.840 is they they just stuck to the plan. I mean, 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:21.000 and because it wasn't really working that well early, but 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:22.800 they just kind of kept leaning on and kept leaning 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:25.160 on him. They figured it out. I thought, I thought, 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.679 I thought the addition there of Zavis Hula Philo was 0:02:28.840 --> 0:02:31.760 so important to the point where after one game, I 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:35.200 think everyone's looking around like, well, he's starting, right, I mean, 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:37.639 even I think so that could be wrong. You're talking 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.160 about even when even when Connor comes back, I think 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:43.480 this guy, he's probably he's probably the right the right 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:45.119 fit for you. I talked about for the game. He said, 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.280 it just took me a little bit to figure out. 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:50.919 Fletcher Cox is just just how how much burst he has. Unbelievable, 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:52.960 consistently great player, he said, took me a little bit 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:54.600 once I figured that out, though I thought it was 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:56.760 you know, it was pretty good, and we didn't hear 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:58.600 a lot of it in Fletcher Car. And the funny 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:00.400 part was, if you watched the early party game those 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:02.760 first couple of series, flet your consos everywhere, and it 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:04.600 was like, oh, this is gonna be a long, long day. 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:06.600 I thought it just stuck to what they were doing. Yeah, 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.080 I just I mean I said this last night. Um, 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:13.520 you're right, you're you're absolutely right. But that's where I 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:15.520 just keep going back to, is that in the last 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:17.919 what not even a week because they played on Monday 0:03:18.000 --> 0:03:20.200 last week, Like in less than a week, I just 0:03:20.320 --> 0:03:23.160 feel like I don't know anything about this team. Um, 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:26.960 and it's annoying. And not not that they I'm not 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:30.360 annoyed that they won, obviously, it's it's much much better 0:03:30.400 --> 0:03:32.320 when they win. I want them to win, but like 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:35.680 you know, we've been out, we've been doing this since July. 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.720 Kind of pride yourself on, you know, we're here to 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:41.120 tell people what what's going to happen, and they just 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:44.640 dumped it on on our head twice in a twice 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:46.880 in a row. Like, well, what can you count on 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:48.680 this team to do? They're inconsistent. When you can count 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.280 on to win at home, Nope, no you can't, Well 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:52.920 what you can You can't count on them to run 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:54.640 the ball against the best front and football and one 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:56.920 on the road. Nope. Yeah, you know, actually they're gonna 0:03:57.000 --> 0:04:00.680 dominate the second best rushing defense in the league, like 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:04.080 it's gonna look like men playing with boys eight yards 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.880 per carry against that front one hundred and seventy one 0:04:07.000 --> 0:04:12.480 rushing yards. Dak looked like old Dak, which, ironically that's 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:17.200 just the quarterback position perfectly encapsulated. Is that Dak actually 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:20.640 didn't play very well, but he got the job done. 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:23.320 He didn't turn the ball over, he led him on 0:04:23.360 --> 0:04:25.479 a couple of crucial scoring drives, and he looked like 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:28.520 a hero, which, by the way, when everything else is 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:31.240 working as it should, yeah, that's what you need from Dak. 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:33.039 Dad doesn't have to be great for this team to 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.760 win if everything else is working as it should. That 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.960 starts with the offensive line, then goes to the running game, 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:41.360 then goes to the ability for the receivers to get 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:44.920 open in critical moments. If those things work, Dak can 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:46.479 be good for you. And that I know a lot 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:48.599 of people want you want your quarterback to be better 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:50.680 than that. They want your quarterback to be Aaron Rodgers. 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:54.280 But the reality is the way this thing is put together, 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:56.479 that's what they need from Dak. And I think we've 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:58.359 we said that going all the way back to the 0:04:58.400 --> 0:05:00.839 summer is like Dak is not and Rodgers and that's 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:04.279 okay because this, this and this, and it hasn't really 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.719 been there for them the vast majority of the times, 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:10.680 and so past the halfway point of this season, against 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:14.160 one of the better defensive fronts that they've played, it 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:19.120 was eye opening and surprising and pretty unexpected to see 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:20.720 them do that. I get, you know, I don't think 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:23.040 anybody's surprised that they won. I picked him to lose, 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:24.960 but I'm certainly not surprised that they won. But the 0:05:25.000 --> 0:05:28.640 way they did just absolutely having their way with Fletcher 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.400 Cox and those guys. I wasn't ready for it. And 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:34.680 I wrote about Dak last night he said, you know, 0:05:34.680 --> 0:05:36.520 He's like, I don't want to talk about twenty sixteen. 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:39.200 It was two years ago. But this is the team 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:41.320 that we have, and this is what we're capable of 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:44.480 when we play up to our standards. And so again 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:48.280 I'm just like, well, where has it been? What's going on? Yeah, Ambro, 0:05:48.560 --> 0:05:50.520 give me your big picture thoughts coming out of the game. 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:54.480 To be honest, I'm not surprised. Nothing surprises me now 0:05:54.720 --> 0:06:00.400 and this team Cowboys veteran right there, Nothing surprised. It's like, 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:03.039 we've seen this team do this kind of thing. The 0:06:03.160 --> 0:06:06.520 problem is, and like Dave mentioned, is the consistency of it. 0:06:06.680 --> 0:06:09.120 They haven't been consistent enough to keep it going and 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:13.600 make it work week by week, and last night, somehow 0:06:13.640 --> 0:06:16.480 it ended up working out for them into their advantage 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.920 and clicking. And to me, initially going into this week, 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:23.040 I'm like I had something just a feeling that they 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.279 were going to get this win just because and not 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:28.640 necessarily because they're a better team, just because it's gonna 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.120 end up working out and Garrett's gonna find a way 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.840 to make it work and keep you there. And that's 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:37.960 exactly what they did. As far as the offense goes. 0:06:38.240 --> 0:06:40.600 You know, I am surprised that Si was able to 0:06:40.640 --> 0:06:43.680 do everything that he did, especially going up against the 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:47.720 defense like the Eagles. But at the same time, there 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:51.520 were a lot of things that I wasn't very pleased with, 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:53.960 and when you talk about Dak Prescott and the little 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:57.000 mistakes that, like you said, if you take the running 0:06:57.000 --> 0:07:01.080 game away, then you're back to one and how this 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:05.679 thing where the problem originates from. But when you flip 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.039 it to the defense, they did an amazing job and 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:12.760 I think the victory, even though Zeke ran his bot 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.960 off last night, I think that this victory comes from 0:07:16.120 --> 0:07:18.480 the Cowboys defense and what they were able to do. 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:20.200 You guys talk, I mean, you talked a little bit 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.880 about what Dak did, and Davey talked about it a 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.840 little bit as well. Dak with twenty six or thirty six, 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:28.640 seventy two percent completion rate, that's a pretty high number. 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:32.520 Two hundred and seventy yards, one touchdown, no interceptions. One 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:35.720 hundred and two point eight was his passer rating. He 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.560 ran the ball six times for only nine yards, one 0:07:38.560 --> 0:07:40.720 of them being a play that I thought was a 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:43.760 really really great heads up play by him. We thought 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.480 he's gonna maybe spike the ball. He runs up, he 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:48.280 gets the snapp, he puts the ball over into the 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:50.600 end zone that gets in the touchdown there before the half. 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.720 Talk about just assess how he played yesterday. I know 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:55.160 you guys said there was something you didn't like. What 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:57.440 were the things you didn't like? Did not like? Did 0:07:57.440 --> 0:08:00.160 not like? He's not accurate all the time, and he's 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:02.440 just that's just not his game. I mean, and that's 0:08:02.440 --> 0:08:04.840 too bad because he's a quarterback and there's just there's 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:07.520 some throws. There's just some throws that he misses. He 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:09.880 missed one to zeke I. It took me about five 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:13.960 minutes to get over that when it was right there 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.800 on the flat by the goal line. You just can't 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.520 miss that throw. He misses some other ones, but Cole 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:23.720 on the out. Yeah, but you know what I was 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.520 right before the fake punt, right yeah, yeah, But then 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:29.640 they get that fake punt and they're and they're driving, 0:08:30.000 --> 0:08:32.400 and then he goes and does another out to Beasley 0:08:32.440 --> 0:08:34.760 and he hits it. I mean, he's just he's one 0:08:34.760 --> 0:08:37.680 of those guys. And I know, you know he what 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:40.120 he's dealt with with his personal life, you know, with 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:42.719 with losing his mom to cancer. And the reason why 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:45.200 I say that because when you deal with stuff like that, 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.079 missing a throw here and stuff that doesn't fade you 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:50.120 to the point where you still you still have confidence 0:08:50.160 --> 0:08:51.679 to go and do that. I know I'm taking a 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:53.920 little deeper, but I'm just saying, that's it. That's why 0:08:53.960 --> 0:08:57.720 we love Dak because even though he's got shortcomings, he 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.679 still said, you know what, I believe what I can do. 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:03.520 Just look at the when he got that hit, the 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:09.079 big hit last night, and then runs again. You're right, 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:13.160 I mean very next play. Yeah yeah, And we can 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:17.040 talk more about Dac later on. He's just not he's 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.840 he's gonna frustrate you at times because he says there's 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:24.440 nothing he does that's great. Nothing, But I think, what 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:26.840 does he do that's great? The intangibles that you just 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:30.680 talked about are great, and that's important. That's important, which 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:34.840 this is speaking of. I think that was Kent leadership. Leadership. 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.719 Yeah yeah, I mean yeah, which those are, but those 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:39.800 are things you can't really measure, so it's really hard 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:44.079 to know. You're absolute well that this this might have been. 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:47.240 This might have been like the quintessential Dak game because again, 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:49.720 like you look at the stats, you're like, he completed 0:09:49.720 --> 0:09:52.479 seventy two percent of his passes. He did that. He 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:54.760 he had a nice night, but he had there when 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:56.440 he could have been a lot better. He left some 0:09:56.520 --> 0:09:59.959 throws there, He made some questionable decisions. The Beasley through, 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:04.800 I'm just like, you're you're an NF you're starting NFL quarterback, 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:07.720 and you missed that throw. But then right before the half, 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:11.560 he looks like Joe freaking Montana just zipped him, like literally, 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:16.040 I mean, oh, my god, and then Herns and I 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:18.079 think the other one was to I want to say 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:20.880 it was Basi on the yeah, it was Beasley. Both 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:23.160 those throws I thought were really really great. The drive 0:10:23.240 --> 0:10:26.960 to take the final lead twenty seven twenty like again, 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:29.760 you know, Winz is doing his Wentz stuff and just 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:33.640 punching back and just calmly, coolly. I don't like bringing 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:35.360 it up. Dad doesn't like bringing it up either, but 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:37.720 it reminded me of twenty sixteen. Is like every time, 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:40.160 you know, they always they had an answer. We haven't 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:41.480 seen it this year. We didn't see it for a 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.560 lot of last year. But that's what it looked like. Um, 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:47.720 it's bird game right, yeah and shot you know it 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:49.839 when you're good enough against a good team to do 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.160 that and actually get a win, which to be to 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:57.000 be fair, it probably helped that the Eagles secondary was 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:59.719 down to it's you know, you know true, I don't 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:01.240 even know the names of the guys that were playing 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.160 cornerback by the end of that game, but you still 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:07.160 it's the NFL style. Points still matter. You still got 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.720 to do the job. And speaking of quotes, I think 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.480 Zack Martin, who you know, for my money's probably the 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.320 best player on this team, him or Zeke Um. He 0:11:16.440 --> 0:11:18.200 kind of he took me a back last night because 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.920 he he was like, yeah, Dak is He's the best 0:11:20.920 --> 0:11:24.280 competitor I've ever been around in my career, which you 0:11:24.280 --> 0:11:27.400 know that carries some weight comes from him. So get 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:31.640 the intangibles. If Dak does something great, it's that. And 0:11:31.760 --> 0:11:34.520 you know, for whatever doubters he might have outside the 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:37.120 locker room, I don't think he has any inside the 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:40.839 locker room, which that is way more important. So exactly right, 0:11:40.960 --> 0:11:44.080 And he has some lucky moments too. It's like he 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:47.959 almost had an interception, Yeah, then where he lost the ball, 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:50.520 he just kind of came out of his end. I 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:52.440 don't know where you And that was a touchdown too, 0:11:52.440 --> 0:11:55.920 he was able up. You don't think, No, I don't 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.920 necessarily think because I've seen Cooper running free twice in 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:01.160 the game that he didn't well the difference because he 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:03.680 saw it doesn't mean the difference. The difference here is 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:07.520 he had gotten loose. The defensive backs stumbled, he gotten loose, 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:09.280 and it would have been a throw to a target 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.320 rather than a throw to a moving target. You're right, 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:14.880 because the end zone was right there, yeah, I would 0:12:14.880 --> 0:12:17.240 have said that he that he would have thrown a 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.280 touchdown there, But I mean Cooper rent free a couple 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:23.320 other times. Actually doesn't make it go ahead. I'm sorry, No, 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.120 I'm just saying, just because he saw him and recognized 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:28.200 him doesn't mean it was a touchdown, but it would 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:30.199 have been. It would have been right there. He probably 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:33.400 would have underthrown him and still made the catch. But 0:12:33.880 --> 0:12:36.400 that ball just bounces right back to him. I don't 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:38.640 know that's happened like two or three times this year. 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.160 From yep. You mentioned that that deep passed the deep 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.040 pass on the left sideline when they were going down 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:46.400 the field. Actually, Cooper said after the game that that 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:48.680 was his fault. He said, he said, when I released 0:12:48.720 --> 0:12:50.440 off the line, I was basically trying to read the 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:52.640 defensive back, so I didn't just run like he was 0:12:52.679 --> 0:12:54.760 expecting me to, and that's why I didn't get to 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:56.959 the spot where he expected me to be. So it 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.320 looked like he overthrew him. But Cooper said that was 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:01.440 on him. Said, that's the kind of thing that you know, 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:03.560 working together a little bit more will get a little 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:08.480 better chemistry each other. It's actually pretty good. Other than 0:13:08.520 --> 0:13:11.720 his price tag. But but I do, I'd like everyone's 0:13:11.720 --> 0:13:13.800 got to bring it no, bring it down. No, I'm 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:16.800 just saying I don't love that. But that was the price. 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:19.240 That was the price. It wasn't like it was they 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.240 could have done anything better. I mean, that was the 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:25.320 price for him. But he his stats aren't aren't flashy. 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:26.920 I don't know if they will be in this offense, 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:29.679 but you can just tell that he just knows how 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:32.840 to play. He's got a big, strong body noticeable. Yeah 0:13:32.960 --> 0:13:35.240 to the other receivers, Yes, yes he is. His stats 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:37.120 are exactly where they need to be for the way 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.480 the Cowboys want to play offense. And I did the math. 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:41.760 I mean two games is a small sample size, but 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:45.000 if you average it out over sixteen, he's on pace 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:49.280 for eleven hundred yards and something like uh seventy five 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:51.800 eighty catches or something like that, five or six touchdowns 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:53.800 something like that. Yeah, he had he was he had 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:56.440 six catches last night or seventy five yards um. And 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.520 then the last game he had five catches, fifty eight 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:00.920 yards and a touchdown. So yeah, he's doing He's doing 0:14:00.960 --> 0:14:02.520 there they want him to do. And like I always 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:04.760 tell you, whenever he catches a pass. You see how 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:06.480 open he is, like he just has a way of 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:09.520 being able to get separation. That not that the other 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:12.199 receivers haven't shown that they can consistently do. But and 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:15.880 I know we've argued this, you know, forever about do 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.160 they need a number one? Did they need or number one? 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.400 I just think that you're seeing that the fact that 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:23.320 he's got those skills to be a number one receiver, 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:25.840 and all of a sudden, Beasley's open a little bit more. 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:28.080 At least he wasn't this game hearns is open more. 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.440 I think those guys need that player that they really 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.880 do to help him and that needs you know, that 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:35.720 number one two and Zeke needs it. I mean, they 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:39.360 all kind of need it. But we talked really about 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.440 Zeke Zeke, I mean, like his game and everything about it. 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:44.320 We didn't we didn't. But I actually want to take 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:46.280 our first break and we come back from break and 0:14:46.400 --> 0:14:48.680 let's take let's talk about Ezekiel Elli. He had a 0:14:48.760 --> 0:14:51.880 monster monster game, did he? And uh and we'll talk 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:55.560 about maybe something maybe some of the reasons why we 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:57.880 saw that performance yesterday. We'll talk about that when we 0:14:57.880 --> 0:14:59.680 come right back. This is Dallas Cowboys Dot com radio 0:15:00.880 --> 0:15:05.880 are there. If you're like me and you love I mean, 0:15:05.880 --> 0:15:08.680 if you have a right thing, then cutting the chord 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:10.400 is scary. 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They 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:15.159 win twenty seven to twenty in a close game, a 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:18.119 fun game to watch, and it all sets up for 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:21.440 the Cowboys to at least be playing for something over 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:23.440 the next couple of weeks. If they would have lost, 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:25.879 I think it would have been a much more different situation, 0:17:26.640 --> 0:17:28.359 and by Thanksgiving you could have had a team that 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:30.680 really didn't have much to play for. But this keeps 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:32.880 it in the keeps it alive. Even though the Redskins 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:35.440 win yesterday, still keeps the Cowboys in the mix for 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:37.200 the division and we'll see how it all plays out 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:41.080 down the stretch. We gotta talk about Ezekiel Elliott. Yesterday 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:44.840 was a phenomenal day for him. He rushed for ninth 0:17:44.960 --> 0:17:47.239 He rushed nineteen times for one hundred and fifty one 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:52.080 yards average seven point nine yards per carry, thirty five 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.920 was his longest, and he had a touchdown, a rushing touchdown. 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.359 In addition to that, he caught six passes for thirty 0:17:57.400 --> 0:18:00.840 six yards and a touchdown. So total twenty five touches, 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:05.440 one hundred and eighty seven total yards and two touchdowns. Yep, 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:08.440 what were gonna know? I keep going what was what 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:12.159 was different yesterday? Because Cowboys have been wanting to do 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:14.960 this since the season began. This is what they want 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.359 from him every week. And you can't tell me it 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:19.359 was the defense that they were playing against, because this 0:18:19.520 --> 0:18:22.120 was a defense that coming into this game had only 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:25.000 this kind of day, had only been replicated once this 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:27.840 season against them. It was Saquon Barkley and the Giants, 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:32.560 but they had been shutting down Russia's all season. Yesterday 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:34.359 the Cowboys were able to be success. Thank you did 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:36.600 point out though, and Dave put the stats in front 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:39.040 of you, but we both saw it. They weren't the 0:18:39.160 --> 0:18:41.560 guys they were shutting down were not elite players. When 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:45.240 they faced the elite guy at Barkley, he will be 0:18:45.320 --> 0:18:47.879 if he's not elite right now, but he's up there. Um. 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:50.560 They struggled against that. So you could tell that it 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:52.560 was there if you if you could really, you know, 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.680 bring a good player like that. And so I thought, 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:57.919 I don't know what was different. I mean you can 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:00.919 say I thought, you know, Sue Field definitely helped. I mean, 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.440 he was really good. I think Cooper helped. I think 0:19:03.440 --> 0:19:06.040 that you got a little bit more balanced there. Um, 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:08.920