WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Two Different Games 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:03.800 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:07.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:10.719 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:15.040 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:19.400 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:19.520 --> 0:00:25.560 Wall with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and 0:00:25.880 --> 0:00:30.080 Derek Eagleton. It is Monday, December tenth, twenty eighteen, Season fourteen, 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:33.800 episode number ninety three. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:33.840 --> 0:00:36.640 The Break, live from the SWBC Mortgage Studios. At the 0:00:36.640 --> 0:00:38.519 start and to day, we get to talk about the 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:42.520 thrilling Cowboys victory over the Philadelphia Eagles twenty nine twenty 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:46.040 three in overtime, a game that, as Dave told us 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:48.640 last week, puts the Cowboys right in position to be 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:52.239 what ninety eight percent to make the playoffs. Combined with 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:56.520 a Redskins loss yesterday, it's like ninety ninety nine. I'm saying, 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:59.720 it looks like they're gonna win the division after starting 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.560 these season three and five, to now be at eight 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:07.399 and five. You said, well, it's December tenth. The Cowboys 0:01:07.440 --> 0:01:10.199 lost to the Titans on November the fifth, which means 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.880 we did a show on November the sixth, so thirty four, 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:16.119 thirty five days ago, and I'm sure at that point 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:18.920 Ambrose like they're dead in the way. Oh, we definitely 0:01:19.000 --> 0:01:24.440 didn't say that. It was just Amber like obviously got 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.560 the Bryce. I knew it all on. I knew that 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.199 this the optimist on this show. Of course, I knew 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:34.000 the single most amazing turnaround in team history would happen. Absolutely, 0:01:34.000 --> 0:01:38.160 that's what Garrett does. What he finds a way to 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:40.680 turn it around. Yet you right there where he needs 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:43.920 to be. Garrett had never had never been in the 0:01:43.920 --> 0:01:47.960 position he was in back then, and he definitely never 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:52.320 done what he's doing right now. No, Yeah, absolutely different story. 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:55.880 I'm talking about the result itself of getting you right 0:01:55.920 --> 0:02:00.960 to the playoffs every other year, man, every even year. Nick, 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:03.080 tell me, give me a big picture coming out of 0:02:03.160 --> 0:02:05.240 yesterday's game. There was so much that happened in a 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.800 game like that, a lot of shifts. Cot was at 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:10.800 so many opportunities, they were dominant defense. What was your 0:02:10.840 --> 0:02:13.680 big picture thing that you left that game with, Dak. 0:02:14.360 --> 0:02:17.960 You know, typically I get an opportunity to write a column, 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:19.919 and that's that's all that I kept thinking of, was 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:25.440 just Dak Prescott and the fact that he was playing poorly. 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:27.600 I mean that this team had a chance to kind 0:02:27.600 --> 0:02:29.359 of put the Eagles away. They were out playing them, 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:31.440 They're moving the ball, but they just weren't getting it done. 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:33.080 He was missing some throats. He kind of got the 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.839 Eagles back in the game. And but I kind of said, 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:37.560 and I even said that to you, that you know, 0:02:38.040 --> 0:02:40.040 this is just Dak to go down the field and 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.240 drive him to win the game. I didn't think he 0:02:42.240 --> 0:02:43.840 was going to do it three times. I didn't think 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:46.600 he had to do it three times. But as Jason 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:48.720 Garrett said, I think Garrett lost character a little bit 0:02:48.760 --> 0:02:50.520 in the press conference and said that guy we got 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:53.680 playing quarterback, he's a tough son of a bitch, And 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.280 that's not typically what Garrett would do in a press conference. 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:58.600 There's the only way to say it. And that's that's 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.160 my thought. He's not Troy when he's not Tony Romo, 0:03:01.200 --> 0:03:04.000 He's Dak. It's what you got and it's pretty good. 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:09.079 Sometimes what's your I mean, it's just again, it's it's 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:13.960 just amazing to see what this team has been capable 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:16.960 of in the past five weeks since the changes that 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:20.280 they made in the old line. Amari Cooper, all that 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:24.360 combined yesterday, I mean we were talking Year and I 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.520 and it was like, you know what, maybe they don't 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:30.120 get this way. You know, you start getting nervous and 0:03:30.160 --> 0:03:33.760 it's like, crap, maybe this is kind of it. But no, 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:38.280 they figure out to make it happen. And wow, Amary Cooper, 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.360 I'm just amazed by the things that he can do 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.640 and how well he's playing along with Dak Prescott and 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:48.600 how that has completely changed the offense and how they're 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:51.560 able to move Now. One of the things is the 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.320 red zone. I'm still pretty upset at that. We will 0:03:54.360 --> 0:03:57.600 get but we'll get to it. But just overall, Amari 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:02.600 Cooper combined with Dak, combined with Seek and Dave, you 0:04:02.640 --> 0:04:04.320 started the show shaking your head. No, I don't know 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:06.320 if it was because you're just in disbelief at where 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.640 we are and still hell yeah, I mean disbelief. I 0:04:09.720 --> 0:04:12.520 mean yeah. No. My main takeaway is all the fun 0:04:12.560 --> 0:04:15.280 things we can do with have yourself a Marie little 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:18.480 Christmas like that's coming out now. That's my main takeaway. 0:04:18.600 --> 0:04:22.240 That's all I care about. No, I'm kidding, um uh, 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:27.120 that game just encapsulates, uh, the absurdity and the greatness 0:04:27.120 --> 0:04:29.360 of football. Really, it's like, I mean, it was, it 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.520 was an awful game. Like, let's call it what it was. 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:36.640 It was crap for three quarters, okay, yeah, hell yeah 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:39.600 six six nothing lead, Like you're zipping up and down 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:43.400 the field, you're not scoring points. Dak, Dak was awful. 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:46.880 Dak was playing the worst game of his life up 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:50.560 until the fourth quarter. Really, um, the you know, it 0:04:51.839 --> 0:04:54.400 was ugly, Like literally, I was thinking about all the 0:04:54.400 --> 0:04:57.080 people who aren't NFC East fans who were had to 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.040 be subjected to America's Game of the week and and 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:05.960 it turned into must see, riveting, amazing, tell I mean, 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.880 I think everybody. And that was the anticipation of all 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:10.640 of that is that you knew at some point this 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:12.719 thing was going to exploit. But that's that's what makes 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.040 it so great, is like football really is the ultimate 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.120 team game. Like it really is like you know, a 0:05:18.240 --> 0:05:21.480 switch flips and all of a sudden, Dak is nails 0:05:21.960 --> 0:05:25.360 and Amari Cooper looks like he's worth three first round picks. 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:28.880 And then quietly, the defense does not look like the 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.360 unit that carried them to this point. You know, they 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:33.360 I mean, the Eagles were moving the ball at will 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:36.400 on them by the end of the game. And you know, 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:39.279 as they carried the slack in the first three quarters, 0:05:39.480 --> 0:05:41.719 Dak picks up the slack for them the rest of 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:46.960 the way. It just, uh, just absolutely crazy and fantastic. 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:51.440 And I agree with Nick like it's uh, there's so 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.120 much about Dak Prescott that you can't quantify on a 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:55.880 stat sheet. And I think you saw that, Yes, you 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.560 gave the ball three times, gave it to the Eagles 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.320 three times, and still able to make a comeback. It 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.120 was going to be the worst game of his career 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:07.280 until the fourth quarter. Like, there's just no doubt about it. 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:09.960 That's we taught you know the twenty nine twenty three, 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.880 Which that's another thing that it's eerie how similar that 0:06:12.920 --> 0:06:15.000 game was to the twenty sixteen one. I've been talking 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:18.599 about it on Twitter NonStop. But we criticized Dak for 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:20.320 playing poorly in that game, and he only turned it 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:23.839 over once. He turned over three times yesterday, almost four 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:27.640 would have been a fourth. You're absolutely right, And for 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:29.480 him to pull that thing out of the fire and 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:32.080 for his teammates to have the confidence that he would 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:34.560 like I don't know. I you know, there's like an 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.760 argument about whether clutch is a real thing in sports, 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:39.960 kind of like momentum, Like I don't have a definitive 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:43.760 answer to that, but Dak has it, and that's I mean, 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.920 that's been a component of his story since he got here, 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.520 but he just kind of emphasized that last night. Yeah, 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.640 you look at his numbers yesterday. He was forty two 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:55.320 to fifty four, seventy eight percent completion percentage, four and 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:58.120 fifty five yards, three touchdowns, two interception, one hundred and 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:01.400 four point nine passer rating. But the most remarkable part 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:03.800 of that, and this was floating around the internet last 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:06.359 night I'm sorry at Twitter last night, was if you 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.080 look at just what he did in the fourth quarter 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:11.240 and overtime, that's where the remarkable nature of his play 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:13.960 yesterday came. It was seventeen of twenty, eighty five percent 0:07:14.000 --> 0:07:17.160 completion rate, two hundred and forty three yards, three touchdowns, 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:20.880 no interceptions, one hundred and fifty six point one quarterback rating. 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:23.560 That's in the fourth quarter and in overtime, the time 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:25.480 of the game when you really need your quarterback to 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:28.520 do big things, and he showed up in a huge way. 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:32.880 And no short I mean, no, no lack of giving 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.200 credit here to Amari Cooper because a lot of what 0:07:35.320 --> 0:07:38.280 happened for him was because of Amari Cooper making great 0:07:38.320 --> 0:07:41.000 plays with the ball once he had in his hands. Yeah, 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:42.800 I mean there's something to be said for that. Like, 0:07:43.120 --> 0:07:45.240 I mean, obviously a couple of that is just Amari 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:47.840 Cooper being a freak. But the throws still had to 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:50.480 be there, the drives still had to be engineered, and 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.640 what that's another you know, I'm just reciting things off 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:56.720 of Twitter right now, but it's crappy defense right there 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.520 by forty one, I don't even know he wasn't even 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.040 I mean, this is the guy again. Their secondaries really 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.240 beat up, and it was kind of shocking to me 0:08:04.320 --> 0:08:08.400 that in that situation where Amari Cooper is out there, 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.480 it's in the crunch time of the game, that they 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.040 would get this guy lined up, that the Eagles would 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:14.920 call a defense where he's in man coverage on the 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:18.800 outside without safety help. That was pretty That was just, 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.600 pretty much, in my opinion, a bad defensive call by 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:25.880 the Eagles, and the Cowboys made him pay. Stat guy 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:27.520 I love to follow on Twitter by the name of 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:31.520 Scott Kadzmar. He's a Pro Football Writers Association member and 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:36.720 Football Outsiders writer. Dak is thirteen and nine in game 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:40.080 winning drive opportunities since coming into the league. He's got 0:08:40.120 --> 0:08:43.800 an eighty three point one quarterback rating in those situations, 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:46.120 which is the highest in the NFL since two thousand 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:49.439 and six. Impressive, dude. I mean he's nails and that 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.559 it's fascinating because you can go back and forth all day, 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:55.360 like he was really bad leading up to that fourth quarter. 0:08:55.600 --> 0:08:59.080 He has his flaws. He's not all that accurate compared 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:02.520 to other NFL quarter backs. He's left plenty of throws 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.360 out there, including yesterday he missed Michael Gallup again on 0:09:05.360 --> 0:09:08.800 what could have been a huge play. When the game's 0:09:08.800 --> 0:09:12.480 on the line, the dude delivers, and maybe even more 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:15.800 importantly than that, like everybody in this organization trusts that 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:18.360 he will too. Like he's like I said, he's got 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.800 that it factor. There's no denying it. You wrote an 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:24.839 article last night, as you mentioned about him. Are you 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:26.800 at all concerned though I know you talked about this 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:29.160 is what Dak isn't, but are you at all concerned 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.920 about what you saw in the first three quarters? As 0:09:31.960 --> 0:09:35.839 you move forward knowing that you know, yeah, he might 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.240 get it together, but if you're playing a better team, 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:40.240 maybe you don't have a chance to get it together 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:42.000 to be able to win a game like without at 0:09:42.040 --> 0:09:43.640 I mean, you have to be concerned. I mean, if 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:46.480 the Saints would have kind of figured things out like 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:49.400 the Eagles did on that defense, they probably would have 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:51.800 won the game. Because Dak never really did figure it 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:54.559 out in that game. So you know, every game is 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:56.600 a little bit different. You're gonna lose like that, and 0:09:56.640 --> 0:09:59.200 I even wrote that you're gonna lose with him playing 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:02.040 that way, and and you have to kind of take 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:04.640 that chance. But like Dave said, when he gets to 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:07.520 that point in the game, the defense allows him to 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.080 be that kind of quarterback right now. The defense will 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.920 help him. But yeah, I mean the fans that are 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.920 upset with him and they think he has bad throws 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:18.200 and all that, and he misses some open guys. He does. 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:22.640 He's not a accurate quarterback all the time, but he's 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:26.440 got those those measurables that you just can't quantify sometimes 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:28.480 and he knows how to get it done. I think 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:30.040 the thing that helps him as well is when you 0:10:30.040 --> 0:10:32.200 look at him, Mark Cooper. I think the best part 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:33.959 of his game. Oh, I shouldn't say the best part. 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:35.960 One of the great things about his game is his 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:38.520 ability to move the chains. He look at yesterday or 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:40.360 four times on third down they went to him, three 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:43.720 or those four got converted. He is a chain moving 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:47.320 wide receiver and I'm sorry, no, I'm sorry no. And 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:49.439 I think that that's a real value not only for him, 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:51.440 but it also helps Dak Prescott when you have a 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:54.320 receiver who has such precise routes and gives you a 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:57.000 great opportunity on third down to get an open receiver 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:58.480 that he can get the ball in his hands. And 0:10:58.559 --> 0:11:01.600 by the way, there's time he'll turn that short route 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:04.240 that wrote this is just the first down that's touchdown. 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:06.800 That gives you the complete wide receiver. And that's what 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:08.559 we're seeing from him. That's what I was about to say. 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:10.440 When you look at them, I think he's got four 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.920 big plays here for touchdowns the last a couple of games. 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.520 Three games he had obviously the seventy five and the 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:19.640 ninety and then the forty yard and then this one 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.800 was what was that one was the only one where 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.600 he kind of just ran by deep. The other three 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:29.080 are like short to to you know, mid range, and 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:31.439 then he does rest. I mean it was kind of 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.640 a deep throw. The seventy five was deep, but then 0:11:33.679 --> 0:11:36.920 he did the other half himself, because you can't understate that. 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:38.840 With how bad this team is in the red zone too. 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.680 He scored out four of his six touchdowns from outside 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.760 the red zone. I think your tweet was really important 0:11:44.840 --> 0:11:46.640 that you said in the middle of the game. Now, 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:48.440 they did get good play from the tight end, but 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:50.440 when they get down in that red zone, I think 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:56.000 that's what they're missing. Get in the red zone way behind. 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:59.560 They're missing a tight end that is capable of to say, 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:01.679 all right, if you want to play this way, this 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:04.000 tight end will block and we'll move it. Or you 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:05.520 want to play it this way, this tight end will 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:07.920 get The Cowboys don't have that. I wasn't impressed last 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:11.120 night though. He targeted a tight end eleven times, and 0:12:11.200 --> 0:12:14.800 out of the eleven times, everybody caught the ball. Blake 0:12:14.920 --> 0:12:17.600 jarwin Rico was backwards, but that's okay, Hey he's still yeah, 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:21.000 he's still caught it. It was one player. Everybody. Everybody 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:25.440 was eleven eleven. Yeah, Jar was seven h seven for 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:27.800 fifty six yards. Shelves was three or three for thirty 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:29.560 seven and then Rico was one of one for ned 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.560 was by far their best game. He caught it. Yeah, uh, 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:34.679 And I mean I thought Jarwin made one of the 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:38.120 underrated players of the whole night with you know, the 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.600 spinning adjustment to the ball that Dack threw behind him. 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:45.400 U was, that's another pass by Dakwards Like it's easy 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.640 and you threw it too hard kind him. But he 0:12:47.720 --> 0:12:51.160 still made. He made. He was bad until the fourth quarter. 0:12:51.200 --> 0:12:53.839 There's no way. I mean, the Jarwin ball um, the 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.360 set the pick to Gallop, the pick that he threw 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.680 that set up the Eagles touchdown was just this. You 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:02.600 can't miss like that Carolina, This is Carolina. You know 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:04.920 he was playing poorly, but but the difference is is 0:13:05.160 --> 0:13:07.840 you know, Carolina had scored just enough that you know 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:11.400 he couldn't bring him back in time. But I mean, yeah, 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:13.600 playing that way is gonna get you beat. But you 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.679 know one thing I will say on those when you're 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:19.200 getting those goal to go type situations. Yesterday was a 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.000 good example of it. When the Cowboys were first and 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:24.920 goal at the five, they did exactly that Philadelphia Eagles 0:13:24.920 --> 0:13:28.040 did exactly what Lenahan says that they're seeing, which is 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:29.680 they put eight men in the box and the Cowboys 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:32.120 spread them out. They had three wide, they still put 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:34.520 eight men in the box, and they manned up on 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.000 all three of those guys. And when you see that, 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:40.480 the natural inclination is basically this team is daring you 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.199 to throw the ball. And I'm starting to get to 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:43.920 a point where I'm like, Okay, I get it. So 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:45.960 if you want to say that we just it doesn't 0:13:45.960 --> 0:13:48.440 make sense to run in that situation, He's probably right, 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:50.760 it doesn't make sense. So here's the thing. You got 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:52.520 one or two options. If you can figure out how 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.440 to run against an eight man box, or you better 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:56.960 be better passing the ball. And if you got man 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:59.160 coverage on all three of those guys on the outside 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:01.680 and you can't managed to get touchdowns at a better 0:14:01.920 --> 0:14:05.080 percentage in there doing right now, that's the problem. You 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.360 need to figure out how to pass better in those situations. 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:09.400 I tell you, did you see the Bears last night 0:14:09.440 --> 0:14:11.120 when they get down in there. Do you see that 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:13.760 package where they had four defensive players on the field 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:15.959 and then they threw it to alignment. I mean, I've 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.640 been saying it all year. You need to get some 0:14:18.720 --> 0:14:20.960 beef in there. You need to get an Antoine Woods 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:23.600 or maybe a Fleming or a Connor Williams or whatever. 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:26.520 You need to get bigger guys. Ola Walli's not that 0:14:26.560 --> 0:14:28.840 type of fullback. They need that kind of stuff. If 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.200 you want to go eight man, we'll take our guys. 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.280 And it doesn't work with your tight ends because your 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.760 tight ends are light and ass they're not big. They're 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:37.920 not big tight ends. They don't push people off the ball. 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.320 So you need big, fat guys that can push people 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:42.320 off the ball. And they figured out in the rest 0:14:42.320 --> 0:14:44.360 of the part of field when they spread it out. 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:46.880 Now teams are basically backing off. You're not seeing that 0:14:46.960 --> 0:14:48.920 safety down in the box nearly as much when the 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.160 Cowboys spread it out when they're in you know, twenty 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.520 to twenty. But when they get down the red zone, 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:54.920 they figure out that's the way to do it. So 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.440 maybe going wide at that point is not the best thing, 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:59.760 like you said, maybe it is scrunching in there. Get 0:14:59.800 --> 0:15:02.200 your best, your biggest guys on the field, and then 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:04.880 you got all these different areas where you feel like 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:06.560 you can find your running back and find a hole 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:08.760 and be able to maybe Tavon can help her if 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.320 he comes. That's a really good point. It helps a lot. 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:15.000 It's hindsight's twenty twenty. It's it's always going to be. 0:15:15.160 --> 0:15:17.440 It will be the age old debate, you know, and 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:19.720 you know, we'll say, why aren't you running the ball? 0:15:19.720 --> 0:15:22.040 And they'll say the look is terrible for running the ball. 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:25.240 And at this point, we've seen him try to outsmart 0:15:25.280 --> 0:15:27.960 everybody weekend and week out and it hasn't ever worked. 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:31.360 It's at no point this season hasn't really worked on it. 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:35.520 How many times have they scored the up until this 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:37.920 point of the season when they're in the red zone. 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:40.560 Do you know I wish you wouldn't put me on 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.160 the spot like this was on a Monday morning. Their 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:48.640 last the red zone, their best touchdown percentage, Yeah, in 0:15:48.720 --> 0:15:52.000 gold to ghost situations or in red zone, yeah, it 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:53.920 would have to be red zone. Yeah. I haven't seen 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:57.160 that gold to ghost situation. But that's where that's why 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:01.240 they really struggles. Say anything. To finish off my point, 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:04.760 it's just like just try, Why not just try? Man? 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.320 I mean, I know your offensive line is hurt. It's 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:09.000 not the offensive line you thought you'd have at the 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:11.960 start of the season. They're still pretty good from what 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:15.240 I hear every single week. The runner matters, and so 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:18.000 give him a chance because it can't be any worse 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:22.360 than not connecting on any of these passes. So I 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:24.480 would at least try it. I feel like if they 0:16:24.560 --> 0:16:27.720 tried it more on first down. You know, we said 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:29.200 it in one of the plays. On first down, they 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.760 threw it to Beasley, which he's never going to be 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:33.440 opened on that one. He's not going to go up 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:35.520 and get it, So I don't I didn't like that 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:37.160 call at all. And then on second down they got 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:38.960 two yards and then third down the hand. But on 0:16:39.000 --> 0:16:41.200 first down, if you can get one to two yards 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:43.320 and then you're just kind of slowly inching it to 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:45.720 the point where you might be a four down territory 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:47.800 if you can get down inside that one on fourth 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.040 down if not scoring before that. So I just feel 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:52.000 like they need to do a much better job. And 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:55.040 I agree with Dave. You know, let zee he's the 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:56.880 guy that got you down there for the most part. 0:16:56.760 --> 0:16:58.400 Let's let's figure it out. Let's see if they can 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:01.400 stop him. Play was that where I can't remember where 0:17:01.520 --> 0:17:04.320 Zeke ran in and he had like six guys on 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.400 him and he's still got like three yards. You'll remember 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:12.960 it was one specific player last night, yes, yes, well yeah, 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.280 My point is, yeah, he can push. He can push. 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:19.680 He can get one at least one, but even three 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.040 yards even if he has like five guys on top 0:17:22.080 --> 0:17:27.400 of him he has. It's crazy the strength he can 0:17:27.440 --> 0:17:30.720 push it in and move the chains up and get 0:17:30.760 --> 0:17:33.520 you a touchdown. Yeah. Yeah. I think at the end 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:35.000 of the day, the Cowboys just gonna have to figure 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:37.320 out something, whatever it is. And to be honest with you, 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:38.880 I don't care whether they run the ball or pass 0:17:38.920 --> 0:17:40.960 the ball. Whatever they're gonna do, they better be getting 0:17:40.960 --> 0:17:43.960 better at it because right now they can't sustain getting 0:17:43.960 --> 0:17:45.840 in the red zone with the regularity that they are 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:50.000 because they're maintaining the ball at forty five minutes of 0:17:50.640 --> 0:17:57.000 time of possession yesterday. That's amazing plays right stuff, and 0:17:57.160 --> 0:18:00.400 not have the points to show for it. They can't 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:03.320 sustain that when they're playing up against good teams, especially 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:05.440 when they get into the playoffs. And so I really 0:18:05.680 --> 0:18:08.320 I love everything they did yesterday. I love the game plan. 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:10.080 They just got to figure out the red zone. If 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.639 they figure that out. They are gonna be extremely deadly 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:14.399 when it comes time to play in the playoffs. All 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:16.120 we're gonna take our first break. When we come back, 0:18:16.320 --> 0:18:19.080 we'll talk a little bit about this defense. Cowboys defense 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:21.959 showed up again yesterday, played a monstrous game. We'll talk 0:18:21.960 --> 0:18:23.719 about when you come right back. This is Dallas Cowboys 0:18:23.760 --> 0:18:27.280 dot Com Radio. 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