WEBVTT - Hangin' w/ Talkin' Cowboys Break: #WASvsDAL Preview 0:00:02.000 --> 0:00:07.200 This is the Talking Cowboys Break, streaming live on Dallas 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:11.959 Cowboys dot Com and the officials Dallas Cowboys Out. Welcome 0:00:12.000 --> 0:00:15.960 inside the SWBC Mortgage Studio. This is hanging with the 0:00:16.000 --> 0:00:21.240 Talking Cowboys Break. Rob Phillips, joined today by Nate Newton, 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:26.760 Dave Hellman, Mickey Spagnola, Kick Garrison producer next door inside 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:29.400 the Garrison. Welcome, guys, hey and a host of our 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:33.520 other little friends here. Yes, yes, up, homie, what's up? 0:00:34.159 --> 0:00:37.080 I got your polly? Oh you got a pull for me? Yeah? 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:41.280 You should have them vote which apparel they like the most. 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:44.920 Your shirt, minor Nates or Dave's hat. My hat's gonna 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:47.559 win in a landslide, for whatever that's worth. It is 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.480 a special hat. It's starting to get cold outside, Beanie weather. 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.400 It is beenie season. And tell me this when you 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:56.160 when was it colder when you got here than when 0:00:56.200 --> 0:00:59.680 you left wherever you live? No, but only because I 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:02.320 live right down the street. It was freezing when I 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:05.920 walked from the parking garage to hear this morning. There 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:09.720 it is. We don't have tay to keep you in 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.800 line today. I'm gonna do that. That's your job. Yeah, 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:15.000 all right, let's talk some Cowboys. It is the eve 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:19.880 of Thursday night football. The moment is almost here. Color rush. 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:25.520 Can the Cowboys end this crazy three game slide there on? 0:01:25.600 --> 0:01:29.160 We're gonna talk about that over the next hour. Any 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:32.760 thoughts there off the top? Anybody feeling better about it 0:01:32.760 --> 0:01:36.920 than you did after Thanksgiving? I'll tell you this, after 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:40.000 I saw what Washington's wearing tomorrow night. They should never 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:42.319 win a football game? Is that right? I haven't seen it. 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:47.560 What is it? It's yellow yellow, mustard yellow with the 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:52.880 burgundy numbers, burgundy helmets doing I mean, yes, that doesn't 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:54.880 sound very good. That's a new look for them. The 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:56.600 rumors they're trying to get out of it, well they've 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:59.920 been out of it. Yeah, you're right. Can't they petition 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.520 the league that we are not wearing this? I think 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:07.480 Bruce Allen called the uniforms garish? So what what the players? However, 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:09.960 you pronounced the players saw it and we're like, yeah, no, 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:14.639 the unit the administration didn't like the color, so get 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.639 ready for it, all right? The Cowboys is kind of normal. 0:02:17.840 --> 0:02:20.600 It's just white with wood pants the one they've been wearing, right, 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:25.079 blue stars on the numbers. Yeah, it's nothing. I thought 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:28.639 it was gonna be all white. It's a clean look though. Yeah, yeah, 0:02:28.680 --> 0:02:32.280 but yeah, get ready for that yellow. Everything that happens 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:34.440 is going to look like a flag gut thrown or something. 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:38.959 Won't be any difficulty deciphering the teams. No, kind of 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:41.400 like Thanksgiving where you had two shades of blue. To 0:02:42.000 --> 0:02:46.360 answer your question. Yeah, sorry, I feel a little. I 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.359 feel better over the course of this week just looking, 0:02:49.600 --> 0:02:52.400 you know, you see the amount of guys missing for Washington, 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:54.919 it's a lot like this first game they played. Seems 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:56.680 like half their team is out and the ones that 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:00.799 will play are hurt. You know, Trent might come back, 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.040 but he's not at one hundred percent. It doesn't look 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:06.639 like Jordan Reid's gonna play. Ari Quanjo's playing left guard 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:08.640 for them. They're probably gonna be They're on their second 0:03:08.720 --> 0:03:12.160 or third center. They got a lot of issues. Having 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.359 said all that, you know, Anthony Hitchins looks like he's 0:03:14.400 --> 0:03:17.440 gonna play. Their hopeful le Collins is gonna play despite 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:23.160 not practicing. Having said all that, that deficit of seventy 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:25.520 points over the last three games is just kind of 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:27.360 hard for me to overcome in my mind, you know, 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:29.320 I mean, I thought that they were gonna thought they 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.079 were gonna have their backs against the wall and play 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:35.480 well on Thanksgiving, and they did the opposite. So little, little, 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.119 little more optimistic than I was over the weekend, but 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:40.880 still not really sure what to expect. Eight. These are 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.600 two imperfect teams right now, both banged up, as Dave said, 0:03:43.640 --> 0:03:46.440 and both have had losses this season, both five and six. 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:48.680 But both all of you guys have been to more 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:51.840 practices around these guys more than a half. What I 0:03:51.920 --> 0:03:54.040 would like to know, what's the fit in of this team? 0:03:55.080 --> 0:03:57.480 Where are they at? Mentally? They just talking, just talking 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:00.320 to the guys during the week. I mean, give me 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:02.160 some feed on that I can. I can about to 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:06.160 tell you, Oh my ass out of that. What's been happening? 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:08.560 Like the pulse of the locker room? Yeah, what's been happening? 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.480 I mean I don't see a really down group during 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:13.960 the week. Now we're only in there for forty five minutes, Dave. 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:17.000 But yeah, I don't get the feeling that they've lost 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:21.320 all hope. No, I don't get that. But I think 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.520 there's frustration there though, especially and you know, somebody, we 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:26.680 just did a mail bag where somebody asked and was like, 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.480 you know, what's what's the deal? Why aren't these losses 0:04:29.520 --> 0:04:32.800 even competitive? And I don't have a great answer, and 0:04:32.839 --> 0:04:34.600 I'm not sure they do either, And I'm sure that's 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:38.760 really frustrating. I think frustrations. Okay, yeah, they don't seem 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:41.640 like they're down and out. Dude, would you guys there 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:45.159 for the beginning of practice yesterday, I can't remember. I 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.520 came in a couple minutes late late, but anyway, when 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.760 they broke after they did their stretch and everything, I 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.080 thought there was a little bit more bouncing their step 0:04:53.240 --> 0:04:57.240 that you know, they were kind of lively and short 0:04:57.279 --> 0:05:01.279 of playing it's the song gets Friday because it wasn't Friday, 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:04.120 although it was Friday in their schedule. I thought they 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:06.440 were moving around and I was kind of keeping an 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:09.360 eye on just what Rob said, and I thought their 0:05:09.480 --> 0:05:12.760 nature was pretty good. Yeah, and see that that's that's 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.159 the only thing that matters if they if they're feeling 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:19.560 good about this situation, and their body language dictates that. Uh, 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:24.840 because you you you you're facing two teams where uh, 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:29.120 they don't have no true identity. Uh, they're going out 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.880 playing the cheffling players. Whether it's injury or whether it's 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:36.479 the competition thing you chef you cheffling players, so you 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:38.560 don't know what you're gonna get. But as long as 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:42.120 the Dallas Cowboys come out and play hard, play smart, 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:47.080 they should be all right. They they're at home on 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:51.360 Thursday night, the fans that are there should be in 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:54.680 our favor and just go out and play. Run the 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:59.840 ball twenty five thirty thirty five times, make a few 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.479 jessament is not doing the game. I'm talking. Let's see 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.919 some of jestaments as the game go along. You know, 0:06:05.960 --> 0:06:08.880 in the first quarter, try to keep your defense off 0:06:08.960 --> 0:06:11.800 the field. Try your best to keep the defense off 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:13.840 the field. And the reason I want to run the 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:15.680 ball not just to say the defense. I want to 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:18.039 run the ball because I think it gives Dak a 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:22.120 better chance to be who he can be. Me. Yes, 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:24.039 I wanted to ask you this. Let's think about this 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:27.839 question coming in just for you because you're you're the 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.400 former player, you're the six time pro bowler, you're the champ, 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.320 former champion. Have you ever been on a team in 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.080 this type of situation? Like I know you played a 0:06:36.120 --> 0:06:39.080 long time. You're on some bad teams, you're on a 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.320 one in fifteen team. You were on a championship team, 0:06:41.400 --> 0:06:43.640 multiple teams. Have you ever been on a team that 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:48.400 had high expectations and then something happened in the middle 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.720 of the season, whether it was a suspension, injury, and 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:56.200 then all of a sudden, the team doesn't look anything 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:59.359 like itself, and there's this there's this lull that you 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:01.320 guys went through, Like if you have you experienced that 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:04.559 as a player, Nah, because we were either very bad 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:08.839 very good, and even a year where we had where 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:12.280 we lost an NFC championship game to San Francisco, we 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:14.880 never had, Mick, Can you remember what we just had? Yes, 0:07:15.960 --> 0:07:21.840 I got two for you. Your first year nineteen eighty six. Yeah, 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:24.360 they were six and two. Yeah, they were six and 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:27.040 two at the halfway point, tied with the Giants for 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:30.840 first place, and they were playing the Giants and Danny 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:34.320 White broke his wrist. Yeah, and they won one more 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:37.360 game the rest of the season. That that right now, 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:41.480 I was a rookie and I wasn't you weren't, really, Bob. Yeah, 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:43.920 they you know, everything was moving around me and I 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.720 was just seeing it and I'm kind of like a rookie, like, man, 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.360 I'm just having to be a cowboy. I mean they 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:54.320 had the number one offense in the National Football League. Yeah, 0:07:54.360 --> 0:08:01.400 the offensive coordinator, um ah, what's out on them? What's amazing? 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:06.200 But they were they Herschel Walker, Tony Dorset, yeah, Tony Hill. 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:08.600 I mean they had it going and then they lost 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:12.320 the quarterback and Steve Pullur couldn't keep them together. And 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:14.440 then the other one that comes to mind is nineteen 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:17.080 ninety seven. You know, this team had been to the 0:08:17.120 --> 0:08:21.040 playoffs from ninety one through ninety six, so six straight years, 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:26.880 had won the NFC East title five straight years, and 0:08:27.400 --> 0:08:29.680 they get to the middle of the season, if I 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:33.480 remember correctly, they were struggling some six and five, and 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:37.960 you went to Greeny yeh man, freezing cold and got 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:40.360 the snot beat out of you and it fell out. 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:43.080 It would win another game. Let me say this, man, 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.040 see the bad things like that, you forget them, You 0:08:47.040 --> 0:08:50.559 get rid of them quick. And I remember that game. 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.600 I remember too, because I got I got hurt. I 0:08:53.679 --> 0:08:56.320 got hurt rep foot a half, I hurt my knee 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:03.320 and when the wheels to come off and we we 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:07.720 Switzer was our coach and his last year, yeah, Switzer 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:11.640 was our coach and even though I love him to death, 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:14.680 he had no control. The wheels had to came off. 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.200 So but this is I think it's different here. I 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.240 think the coach is secure, he has a whole of 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:24.040 his team. He can still talk and relate the guys. 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:27.920 Where it's coach Switzer, it was like, yeah, right, okay, 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:32.480 you know, and we were old and we were at 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.880 the end, so it was man just to just to 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:40.600 grind away on those games. What was was living, you 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:44.160 know what I mean, just to grind away. But these 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:48.880 guys here, nobody should be feeling that way. And just 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:51.160 my outside looking in, like I said, I don't I'm 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.400 not that close to the team, but nobody should be 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:57.840 feeling that way, you know. Uh. Now, my my biggest 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.960 question is and I hated to pose this question, that's 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:05.680 it to my phillies yesterday. Are we good enough? You know? 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:08.280 Are we That's that's been a question posed on our 0:10:08.320 --> 0:10:11.720 show this week, A million dollar question. Yeah, I would 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:15.079 have said, I mean, I think I'll sit right here 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.120 and say I thought, I'm pretty sure. I said four 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:19.160 and two in the six games that Zeke wasn't here. 0:10:19.520 --> 0:10:22.800 Well that's not doable anymore. Now you're just trying to 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.480 stick at five hundred, which will take some doing. And 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:27.679 it's three wins in a row, two of which are 0:10:27.720 --> 0:10:31.120 on the road, so it's it's gonna be tough. I 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:34.320 don't and I don't. I mean, like I said, I'm 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:36.520 still a little shell shocked at the way this thing 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:38.920 has gone. I mean, to lose three games is not 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:41.160 a big deal. To lose them in this fashion is 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.280 not something you see in the NFL. The first game 0:10:45.040 --> 0:10:48.640 back home without Zeke Philly, I felt like they kind 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:50.920 of emptied the bucket, at least in the first half. 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:53.560 I mean the not that they don't anything left this season, 0:10:53.600 --> 0:10:56.200 but they gave it everything they had emotionally in the 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:59.240 first half, five straight three and ounce and then Philly 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:01.360 just kind of swarmed him in the second half. And 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.520 maybe that speaks to that's a nine and ten and 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:08.000 one football team talent wise. It's just a different story 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.680 when you're missing Zeke, when you're missing Sean Lee, things 0:11:10.679 --> 0:11:15.280 of that nature. I felt that more that the Eagles 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:18.559 find found themselves. They were rushed in the first half, 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.000 and I find I figured that the coach said, come on, 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.840 let's let's run the ball, let's get ahead, let's stay 0:11:23.880 --> 0:11:25.720 even or get ahead of the chains and then let 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:28.400 our quarterback. Though, let's don't let our quarterback try to 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.080 win this game. Let's let's let the team win the game. 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:35.320 What what what I feel is this right here? You 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:39.160 cannot go away from what you think you are just 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:43.640 because you're missing a player you you have if you're 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:47.280 going to impose you will as a coach. And people say, well, 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:49.400 he's not making no adjustments, but he don't want to 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:53.720 make adjustments. He wants his team to stay as it is. Okay, 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:58.319 if you're gonna stay, run first now more than ever, 0:11:58.720 --> 0:12:01.680 you have to become run run first. And I'll go 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:05.040 back to what I said earlier two reasons. For your 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:09.480 defense sake and for your quarterback sake, you have to. 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:14.640 I don't care if if it's first in ten, run 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.280 the ball. If you get two yards, so big, it's 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:20.040 the second and eight, run the ball. If you get 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:24.079 two yards, you're throwing anyway. Don't start getting fans since 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:25.679 that all we're gonna throw the first down or we're 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:28.280 gonna throw the second down because these guys are not 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:32.520 up the party yet as the offensive line. So guess 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:36.120 what now? You you third and twenty five because we 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:39.240 don't got a penalty here, we don't got a sack 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:42.760 over here. I'd rather go down the field with thirty six, 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:46.640 third and five and trying to complete that then the 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.400 thirty nine, the third and eighths to third and fifteens. 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:53.000 Run the ball for two reasons, to keep your quarterback 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.400 standing and to keep your defense giving them a chance. 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.800 You got the best partner in the league. He's doing 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:02.720 it right. Job. That's an interesting thought because I feel 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:05.640 like most people would say, and I hear you, but 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:08.880 I'm same. You could also argue you're setting yourself up 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:10.800 to be punting a lot if you're just trying to 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:13.560 run into a concrete wall. And the running game hasn't 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.400 been bad at all over this three game losing streak, 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:20.200 but coupled with what the passing game doing is, you 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:22.199 can't say it's been good enough, can you. I think 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:25.520 they're averaging four point seven yards of carry without Zeke 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:29.000 the season, so it's not bad. That's not bad. Mickey's 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.240 point is that how many times have they run it 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:37.120 into for a touchdown? None, I believe, or well, Dak yeah, no, oh, 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.280 you're right, well Rod yeah, but it was a two 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:41.600 yard run yeah, yeah, right, And what was Dax It 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:45.160 was inside ten Yeah, something like that. And they started 0:13:45.200 --> 0:13:47.120 that drive at the twenty and the one time they 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:49.719 did with an explosive play, he got called back for 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:53.000 holding last week. Yeah, I'm one with you, mag I agree. 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:59.240 If if if everything was intanch is Zeke was going 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:01.600 and everything was attack, I agree with you one hundred percent. 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:06.240 Everything ain't intact. They mentally not on par I got 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:08.920 to make it as simple, you know, and as easy 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:12.880 as I can, because you know, at the end of 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:16.160 the day, when this season is over, it's one guy 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:19.440 that I got to have that's one hundred percent ready 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.400 to go. That's Dak. I got to have him ready 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:26.840 to go. And and I know from playing in this league, 0:14:27.640 --> 0:14:32.760 it don't take year. Offensive lineman, you can beat me 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:36.000 down over the year. You know. That's what I'm built 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.800 to do. I'm built to get with you, right. I 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:41.600 don't think quarterbacks are built to be hit the way 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:44.520 this kid is being hit in this second year now. 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:49.400 Troy Aikman survived it. Yeah, and you know pay for 0:14:49.480 --> 0:14:52.520 it at the end. But I don't want Dak, and 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:56.240 I know he has supreme confidence, but man, I want 0:14:56.320 --> 0:15:00.640 him more than that after the season. So and that's 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:02.760 kind of being seven as Nate being seven, I think 0:15:03.960 --> 0:15:07.560 I think opposing defenses are just fine with the Cowboys 0:15:07.640 --> 0:15:10.200 running the ball. They almost hope they just run the ball. 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:14.040 And the longest run Nate last week was nine yards. 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:18.280 They're not getting anywhere. And I understand being persistent, but 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.160 at some point, when the game gets away from you 0:15:21.240 --> 0:15:24.280 in the second half, you can't just keep running for 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:27.479 three or four yards. And the other teams scoring touchdowns 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:29.800 from forty two yards out, well, they abandoned the run 0:15:29.800 --> 0:15:32.520 in the fourth quarter last time. If you're behind by 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:34.360 twenty eight to six, what are you gonna do? If 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:36.840 they were hind by thirty seven to nine, are you 0:15:36.880 --> 0:15:41.440 gonna do? I'm with you, I'm with you, I'm with you. 0:15:43.600 --> 0:15:45.920 But Jason Getty, we was ten to seven this and 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.800 then Jason Garrett said, we disclose so seconds. So the 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:51.520 second half we felt good about what we were doing 0:15:52.720 --> 0:15:57.000 until the game becomes a blowout. You got to run 0:15:57.040 --> 0:16:00.480 the ball until it Once it becomes a blowout, then 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:04.800 you do whatever you gotta do. And it's a thin 0:16:04.880 --> 0:16:08.920 line between when do you decide the game is to blowout. 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:14.840 I've seen us be down ten twelve points and I 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.560 know it is. Zeke is there. So we don't consider 0:16:17.640 --> 0:16:20.560 the blowout because we feel we in every game, well, 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:23.640 you know what, we got to keep that same mentality 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:28.320 because and I'm saying that, I'm saying it's from a 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:33.280 purely selfish point of view. It's gonna come a point 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:38.320 with Dad gonna say no more. Whether he want to 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:42.200 say it out loud, he gonna say it any way. 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.280 He started to throw that ball, I promise you. I 0:16:45.360 --> 0:16:48.040 don't have the number, but I guarantee you in the 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:51.320 first half of these last three games, I bet it, 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.800 it's been very close to a fifty fifty split and 0:16:53.880 --> 0:16:56.240 I'm the ball, and I need for it to be 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:59.360 that same way in the third quarter until it becomes 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:04.080 a blowout. Almost like you're just you're game planning for 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.359 an eventual blowout. You're like, well, let's run the ball. 0:17:06.800 --> 0:17:08.920 You have to know it, like well trying you're trying 0:17:08.920 --> 0:17:11.439 to keep him off a dock. To some he's been 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:15.359 sacked twelve times in fourteen fourteen twelve times in how 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:18.679 calm twelve quarter or something like that, because we've not 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:23.239 been pass blocking well in fourteen sacks and twelve, our 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:25.760 receivers ain't been getting open. If the same guys that 0:17:25.760 --> 0:17:29.199 aren't pass blocking, well are they run blocking? Well they 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:32.760 run blocking? Are good enough? Because you know? And I'm not. 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.280 And it's always the eye test, because that's what the 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:38.760 coach is looking at. Right, Jason Garrett is looking at 0:17:38.800 --> 0:17:42.240 the eye test, and I'm with you. I'm with you. 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:45.120 It comes a point where you gotta pass the ball 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:47.359 just to stay even, or you gotta pass the ball 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:52.280 to win the game. The question is, if you got 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:58.879 a defense that ain't stopping nobody, you got to slow 0:17:58.920 --> 0:18:02.919 the game down. Be it by you break the hubble 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:06.960 with ten seconds left? Are you get are you run 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:09.280 the ball? However you want to do it? You gotta 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:13.280 save your defense. You gotta save your defense because no 0:18:13.320 --> 0:18:16.119 matter what you do, teams have been able to figure 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:18.720 out that we got we can get them doing this 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:24.639 and doing that is Uh. A Woozier is a combination 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:27.760 of woods and all the competition is supposed to have 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:33.080 them gonna gonna make that change. I don't think so. Uh. 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:39.400 It's about giving guys opportunity and trying to figure out 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:42.880 a way to win the game. I agree with you. 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:46.000 If Ezekiel Elliott was playing running back right now. But 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:48.159 I just don't know that they have the juice in 0:18:48.200 --> 0:18:51.119 that running game to try to dominate the game that way. 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:53.680 And I get you know, it's football one on one 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:55.760 that you don't want to have your quarterback get hit. 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:58.840 But this guy's built like a truck, Nate. I mean, 0:18:58.920 --> 0:19:01.120 if anybody can handle and it's twenty four year old 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:03.520 Dak Prescott, Like I think, yeah, you gotta give you 0:19:03.560 --> 0:19:05.119 gotta give him a chance, you know, I gotta, I 0:19:05.119 --> 0:19:08.359 gotta rap, I gotta raptor. And long as I'm running 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:12.360 over VW bugs, I'm pretty good that Matt eighteen will 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:14.679 have hit me by eight times. I'm gonna be like, 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:20.880 oh my god. But I'm not saying don't throw it. 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:25.880 I'm saying, give us a better percentage. Third and eight 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:29.000 is way worse than third and five or third and four. 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:32.280 Give us a better percentage. You're right about that. Yeah, 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:34.359 that's all I'm axing for. I'm not saying we can't 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:37.960 throw the ball, but give us a better percentage. They 0:19:37.960 --> 0:19:40.040 do need to get some chunk plays down the field. 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:43.040 I'll say that they've had three of twenty plus yard 0:19:43.040 --> 0:19:47.240 passes in the last three games, and La hit eight 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:50.080 on them alone on Thanksgiving. They've got to be able 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:51.720 to stretch the field to some degree and eight and 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:53.560 and be balanced. I agree with you there. Let's take 0:19:53.600 --> 0:19:58.400 our first break on hanging with him there too. Yeah 0:19:58.440 --> 0:20:00.520 we are, Yeah we will now. Oh, I got some 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:04.480 numbers to combat you. Nicky's got those when I'm going 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:07.480 about with Jason got hot content. 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