WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: The Dak Discussion 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:05.040 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:06.640 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.960 --> 0:00:14.760 Cowboys, Let's go. 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:16.400 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:16.640 --> 0:00:16.880 Yes? 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:18.760 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:19.560 Absolutely? 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:21.560 Ready for a break? 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:22.200 Yeah? 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:23.919 And so much for that. 0:00:24.120 --> 0:00:28.120 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:29.600 --> 0:00:35.080 right with Ambar Garcia, Brian brought Us, Patrick Wolker, and 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:36.280 Derek Eagleton. 0:00:38.159 --> 0:00:41.839 It is Tuesday, October tenth, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen, 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:45.280 Episode number forty nine. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:45.320 --> 0:00:48.200 The Break. We are live from the SWBC Mortgage Studios 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:50.199 at the Star and today we've got a lot of 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:52.240 different topics we want to hit. We still have to 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:56.400 finish our post mortem on Cowboys versus Diners. We're going 0:00:56.440 --> 0:00:58.400 to go through and talk about some individual players and 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:01.680 how they perform during this game, both on the offensive 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:03.440 side of the ball as well as the defensive side 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:03.880 of the ball. 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:06.640 Got the whole show yesterday and didn't even mention. 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.320 Dak Prescott, so we've got to spend a little time 0:01:08.319 --> 0:01:11.080 on him today and talk about his performance versus the 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:14.039 Niners before we get to that, though, there were three 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:15.680 injuries coming out of that game. 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:19.160 That I don't know, it's sounding like right now. 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.920 There's some pretty significant injuries here, and so I want 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.040 to go through those injuries, talk about maybe what we 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.160 know at this point, and then also talk about how 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:30.360 the Cowboys move forward without some of these players. Let's 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.000 start first Ladon Vandersh. What are we hearing about his injury? 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:34.160 It's a knick injury. 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:37.800 The Cowboys are still, you know, trying to decide what 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:39.720 they're going to do with Lane vandor Risch. But there 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:43.240 is a possibility that he lands on injured reserve along 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:45.040 with c J. Goodwhen we'll get to him in a second. 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:47.760 But the report, there are reports out there that it 0:01:47.800 --> 0:01:50.080 could be a four to six week injury. So that means, 0:01:50.080 --> 0:01:51.720 you know, if you sit late for late, you sit 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:53.480 them on injury reserve. You got to sit him for 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:57.840 at least four weeks. But considering the type of injury, 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:00.960 his injury history when it comes to his neck, obviously 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:04.040 it was a massive concern because then you have to 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.840 wonder if it was career threatening. So if the worst 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:10.360 case it turns out to be four to six weeks, 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:12.400 you know, everyone will take that all day long. But 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:14.720 we're still waiting to hear what the organization does with him, 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:17.720 but strong likelihood he goes to IR same for CJ. 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:21.200 Good when torn pictorial muscle is what I'm told, Unlike 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:25.160 Lton vander Esh this could be and is likely season ending. 0:02:25.080 --> 0:02:25.440 For c J. 0:02:25.560 --> 0:02:28.880 Goodwin, massive massive loss for the special teams unit. In 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:32.320 Bonhem's fossil there Cavante Turpin, he wrote his ankle was 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:35.480 a high ankle sprain as described to me. But it 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.239 sounds as if he has a chance to practice based 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.079 on what Mike McCarthy said on yesterday. Now how much 0:02:40.120 --> 0:02:42.160 of that practice he'll get or not get. We'll see. 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:45.120 They do have an extra day of rest because they 0:02:45.120 --> 0:02:47.640 have Monday night football next week, so no practice on Wednesday, 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:51.000 resumes on Thursday. Let's see how Cavante Turpin looks. And 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:52.880 I mean, you hate to see himselfer that injury after 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:54.959 he makes the big play to kind of show you 0:02:55.040 --> 0:02:57.440 what he can be in the offense. Jordan Lewis he 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:59.640 went down with a foot injury. It was the same 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:02.519 foot and that created a lot of concern as well. 0:03:02.639 --> 0:03:04.560 But I spoke with Jordan in the locker room after 0:03:04.600 --> 0:03:06.520 the game. He said he was fine after everything got 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.239 checked out X rays were negative. MRI I came back 0:03:09.760 --> 0:03:13.000 showing no structural damage. So it's sore, but Jordan Lewis 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:14.800 says that he can run, he can still do everything, 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:16.600 so he should be good to go for Monday night. 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:20.040 Let's keeping out on him for practice as well. Am 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.400 I missing anyone because there was a long list of injury? 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:24.480 Did Donovan Wilson have something wrong with Donovan? 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:27.880 Donovan Wilson He exited the game, but he's fine. He's fine. 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:30.240 Talk to Donald, He's fine. No concerns from anyone in 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.799 the organization on Donovan Wilson either. I'm just making sure 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:38.080 because it was like a list. Tyler Beyadish Mike said 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:42.240 yesterday that Beyadish should get some practice this week. Doesn't 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:44.760 sound like the organization has a lot of concern there, 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.440 but definitely something to watch considering he's missed a game 0:03:47.480 --> 0:03:51.440 here recently with that ankle injury. So yeah, there you go. 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:53.800 The big ones will be lv E and good when good, 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:57.480 when likely done for the season, LVE likely IR candidate, 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:00.680 but good news is, as we have this conversation, sounds 0:04:00.720 --> 0:04:03.560 like he's a IR. I almost say it designated to return, 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:05.520 but you don't have to designate anymore, but that he 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:07.240 should return in the next month or so. 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:09.280 Yeah, the injuries are starting to pile up. And the 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:12.440 one that I think is most concerning is Leydon Vander 0:04:12.600 --> 0:04:15.040 sch primarily because you look at the depth of the 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:17.800 linebacker position, there really isn't a lot of depth. And 0:04:18.320 --> 0:04:21.400 whatever you think of Layton's play this season, and whatever 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:23.839 his play was against the forty nine ers, he still 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:25.080 is the best linebacker that. 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.440 They have, and he had his moments against the forty 0:04:27.520 --> 0:04:28.680 nine ers, he had. 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:31.039 He's played. 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:34.080 So the point is like you're losing a major piece 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:36.880 in the middle of your defense. My question is how 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.159 do you think Dallas needs to and how do you 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:40.599 think they will respond to that? 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:42.039 From a standpoint of the personnel. 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:45.240 They have the depth at edge to put Michael Parsons 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.640 back at linebacker is what they'll do, and they'll have 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:52.600 to figure things out between Armstrong, Fowler, Sam Williams, all 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:53.400 those guys. 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:54.960 Goldston they're gonna have. 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.599 They've they've got enough edges to be able to move 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:01.760 Micah back. You know, we'll see what the you know, 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.960 we'll see with what they do potentially, you know, off 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:09.000 their uh, you know, off the practice squad. You know 0:05:09.080 --> 0:05:11.640 that's a possible. Michael Jones was a guy that they 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:14.360 signed recently. I was kind of hearing, you know, he's 0:05:14.440 --> 0:05:18.040 kind of a physical player. Uh, probably a better zone 0:05:18.080 --> 0:05:21.360 player than man player. If you talk about coverage, Uh, 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:24.000 could they go out and get you know, could they 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.839 go out and sign somebody off the street. I always 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:28.720 reach out and on radio, I call it my gang 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.960 of seven, which are my general manager friends, directors of 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:35.120 player personnel. Ask about training for guys. We won't get 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:37.040 into those because those guys are already kind of on 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:40.279 contracts with teams, so I'll avoid that. But names I 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:43.520 was getting was like Anthony Hitchins, Was it possibly a 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:48.599 name that my guy's like? Rai Rashid Evans, Damien Wilson. 0:05:48.600 --> 0:05:51.080 It was here. Jermaine Carter was another name. 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.239 And if you wanted, well, I don't we talk about 0:05:53.240 --> 0:05:58.320 practice squad poach guys? Okay, Well then there's just one 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:01.800 name on that. So what there are some options as 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.880 far as trading. Again, you probably have to avoid that 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.880 right now for the position that we're in here on 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:11.640 this show. But those were the names that Gang of 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:13.840 seven was telling me, Hey, these are guys that are 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:15.839 on the street. They might be able to add a 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:18.200 little depth to what you're trying to do. But I 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:20.520 think the big move would be just to move Michael 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:24.240 Parsons back to off ball linebacker him Clark, and then 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.559 they'll navigate what's going on at edge. Maybe they put 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.360 Micah down on some rush situations, but I think he's 0:06:30.360 --> 0:06:31.600 going to play more linebacker. 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.560 Those are some some interesting free agency names, especially the 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:37.720 two most familiar, Damian Wilson and Anthony Hitchins. Obviously they 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:41.159 have familiarity here, albeit with the you know, in the 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:44.520 Mary Nether regime, not in the Dan Quinn regime. So 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.000 I like those as possibilities. But it goes to what 0:06:48.040 --> 0:06:50.560 Brian was saying, and I asked Dan Quinn about it 0:06:50.600 --> 0:06:54.400 specifically yesterday, and he basically intimated largely that it is 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.200 going to be Michael Parsons and that versatility returning. You're 0:06:57.200 --> 0:06:59.920 going to see Michael Parsons drop back to off ball linebacker, 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:02.000 not to say he's not going to get in, you know, 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.919 to the backfield, opposing backfield. He's going to be on 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.359 blitz packages. He's going to be sent time and again. 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:09.559 But you just you don't have the luxury of dropping 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:11.440 him down to full time d without LV. 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:14.560 You just don't take me back to a pre draft 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.840 before they drafted Michael Parsons and we all thought Michael 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:19.880 Parsons was coming into the league to be an off 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:23.440 ball linebacker. What was your assessment of him as a 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.440 as a linebacker, not as a pass rusher, but as 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:27.960 a linebacker's ability to cover, his ability to. 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:29.840 Rally to the ball. What was your what were your 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:30.600 impressions there? 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:34.240 I'll tell you what, Patrick, If you got thoughts, I'm 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:36.000 just gonna pull up my draft notes. No, no, I've 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:37.520 got to pull up my draft notes and this thing 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.080 takes forever when it comes to drafting, because I wanted. 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.320 To go back and read to you exactly what. 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:43.360 I had while you're looking it up. 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:45.240 I'll throw another question at you in the same vein 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:49.000 though we saw what a great linebacker can mean to 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:50.960 a defense with Fred Warner and what he was able 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:52.000 to do in that game and. 0:07:51.960 --> 0:07:54.040 How many impact plays he was able to have. 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.680 Do you think that Micah has that level of athleticism 0:07:57.720 --> 0:07:58.960 to be able to provide that. 0:07:58.920 --> 0:07:59.640 For this defense? 0:08:00.000 --> 0:08:04.480 Athleticism, yes, the refinement not right now. Fred Warner not 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.720 only has crazy athleticism. He also has the refinement of 0:08:07.760 --> 0:08:10.600 having played x amount of reps in the NFL at 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:14.480 a superbly high level to be able to cover as well. 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:17.800 And that's where going back to off ball linebacker at 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:20.080 Penn State, that's something that I had a question about 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.280 when it came to Michael. He has the athleticism, and 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:23.800 he can turn and he can react and get back 0:08:23.800 --> 0:08:26.400 and coverage and kind of drop that gear, but he's 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:28.800 not nearly as good as covering as he is as 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:32.920 pointing forward and saying, see guy hit guy, seaball, get ball. 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:36.480 Fred Warner is unique in the fact that he can 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:38.280 do both. You look at the fact that he had 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:40.200 on Dak Prescott. He blows up the play which was 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:43.120 coverage initially for him, but then that forced Dak Prescott out. 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:46.880 He immediately see guy hit guy. So Fred Warner is 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.920 only comparable to a guy like Bobby Wagner, for example, 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.480 Michael Parsons as the off ball linebacker. I think you're 0:08:52.480 --> 0:08:54.920 going to lose something there in the coverage aspect, But 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.520 I'm interested to see where he is now in run 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:01.400 defense Micah versus where he was as a run defender 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:03.800 as an off ball linebacker. Penn State because that was 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.440 something that you wanted to see him improve upon. But 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:08.760 he hasn't had that many reps as off ball linebacker 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:10.560 in the NFL with the Cowboys to be able to 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:13.840 say we know he's improved upon that. So playing the 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.160 run on the edge is different, as Brian will say, 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:19.520 is different from playing it as off ball. Two different worlds. 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:21.760 Let's see what it looks like once he comes off 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:22.200 of that ball. 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:24.640 Yeah, which you got to remember, man, when you get 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.840 in this one note thing, it takes forever. I've got 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:30.800 five I'm saying, you also have a lot of five 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:33.800 years of reports in my system now. And this is 0:09:33.840 --> 0:09:35.280 what and we got to remember about Michael when he 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:39.040 came out. He didn't play the twenty twenty season because 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:42.120 of COVID. He sat that out. And if you don't 0:09:42.160 --> 0:09:44.560 mind me reading from me, I appreciate it. Uh, you 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.360 know I said. You can't draw him up any better 0:09:46.400 --> 0:09:49.400 than when it comes to a linebacker physically well put together, 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:53.480 stout build appears big on tape, place with physical toughness, desire, 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:55.800 shows a burst with range in order to run down 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.960 the ball, can get forward sideways in a hurry. Best 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:01.520 when you can attack the line scrimmage. When he comes downhill, 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:04.560 he'll make some impressive plays. Body control can can come 0:10:04.559 --> 0:10:06.319 and go a little bit. There's snaps when you see 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:08.839 him jump around blocks and it takes him out of 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.080 a tackle. He'll use his hands his strength to get 0:10:11.160 --> 0:10:14.040 rid of blockers, but needs to be more consistent with him. 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.040 He can dominate, but it doesn't always do it. When 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.679 he puts himself in position, he could really finish tackles. 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:22.080 I thought he was better blitzer than a cover man, 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:26.040 but it's because he just drops in zones and reacts 0:10:26.360 --> 0:10:28.599 when he attacks the pocket. He could he could be 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.760 a load to handle, can see the burst to get there, 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:35.160 very good communication skills, is always directing his teammates. Has 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:37.880 ability to make every single tackle, but there's times where 0:10:37.920 --> 0:10:40.560 he doesn't always do that. So those were the notes 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:42.760 I had. I felt like more better a run player 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.439 than the coverage. And then you asked the question about 0:10:45.679 --> 0:10:46.439 you know, how does that? 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:46.720 You know? 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.000 How does you know Fred Werner? The one if I 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.520 read you Fred Werner's notes when he came out of BYU, 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:52.200 the number one. 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.200 Thing I remember about him was how well he covered. 0:10:54.720 --> 0:10:57.719 It was much better coverage than it was because you're 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:00.800 watching you're watching these BYU tape and he was such 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:04.800 an athlete. I just remember him always being around the ball, 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.880 but always running and then playing in coverage and having 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:10.920 that awareness there where if guys came inside, he was there, 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.000 or if he had to run with a back, he 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:15.760 was there. You know, his coverage skills were far more. 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:17.920 But I think MICA's might have been a little bit 0:11:17.960 --> 0:11:20.040 about more about what they're asking him to do at 0:11:20.040 --> 0:11:22.679 Penn State just dropped to his own kind of settle 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:26.760 and then react, where where BYU was different where they 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:28.960 asked their guys to actually play it coverage. 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:32.080 And I want to say it might have been year 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:35.120 one from Micah when we saw him. There was a 0:11:35.160 --> 0:11:37.360 play in a particular game. We saw him carry a 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:41.120 receiver downfield, deep downfield, and he made a play on 0:11:41.160 --> 0:11:41.520 the ball. 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:43.240 Yeah, I think, well there was a wheel. 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.000 Yeah yeah, And it was impressive to me that he 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:48.840 was able to do that. 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.360 But yeah, there was a wheel route one time somebody 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:52.719 had done a goal line and it might have been 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:54.839 Philadelphia in the game I think it was played here 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:57.560 at at and T where they tried to run the 0:11:57.559 --> 0:11:59.400 wheel on him and he carried the guy and just. 0:11:59.440 --> 0:12:02.079 Kind of just pushed him out of bounds. 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.480 You know, kind of was in a position to defend 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:07.440 the ball, but but his just his presence kept the 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:08.640 receiver wide. 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:12.240 And I think that's you and he ran with him. 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:14.920 Now go to the athleticism. I believe that he has 0:12:14.960 --> 0:12:18.360 the athleticism to have that Fred Warner cump. But when 0:12:18.400 --> 0:12:20.760 you look at what Fred Warner does as far as 0:12:20.760 --> 0:12:23.240 pure coverage is concerned, I don't think that's a compared no. 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:26.120 And I'm not I'm not expecting him immediately to jump 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:29.200 in and be Fred Warner or Marcus Bang or anybody else. 0:12:29.320 --> 0:12:31.840 That's not what I'm expecting. What I'm expecting. 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:35.920 What I'm expecting is if you got a guy that 0:12:35.960 --> 0:12:38.320 you drafted in the first round, I'm expecting him to 0:12:38.320 --> 0:12:41.960 be good enough to where you don't lose anything by 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:45.920 Layton Vandersh being out. That's it was the delta between 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:47.640 him and Layton Vandersh is what I'm looking You. 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:51.000 Got to remember that's what you drafted for. You drafted 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:54.080 him to be a linebacker. This whole past rushing thing 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:58.160 came about later something that was a very nice surprise injury. 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.960 I said that for the yeah yeah, yeah, and then 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:06.480 gets here and it puts him there to replace some 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:09.520 of that or help help, and then you see the 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.400 magic happened. But now I mean you don't have You're 0:13:12.400 --> 0:13:16.920 starting to lose that luxury of having him as that 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:19.840 guy that can be just like wherever he wants to 0:13:20.320 --> 0:13:24.240 and let him be. Micah Parsons, Now you actually need 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:29.320 the help. And what didn't dar Own Bland? Did he 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:30.040 get hurt too? 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:31.360 Cramps? 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:37.680 He yeah, but that's the other day. No, no, no, 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:44.120 I remember something happening, but just another thing to look at. 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:48.400 I mean, he's fine, but still keeping in mind what's 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.040 happening in the in the secondary and the fact that 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:54.120 you lost Trevon Diggs is not there and that is 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.360 starting to get noticed. I mean, Darren Bland has done 0:13:56.360 --> 0:14:00.240 a really nice job, but you still see that a 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:04.280 guy like dis is being missed there. So again, now 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:07.320 you gotta make happen with what you got. 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.240 What's really interested about it is when you look at 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:12.640 this year's training camp, and it was something that I 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:14.560 kind of pointed at and it continued to be a 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:16.240 thing and now it's definitely a thing. When you look 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.640 at Layton vander Rish's snaps as far as where he 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.680 lines up on any given moment. In training camp, we 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:25.160 saw a lot of edgework for Layton vander USh. Okay, well, 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:27.400 now Layton Vanderrish goes off the field with injury for 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:29.640 a few weeks. Michael Parsons dropped back drops back in 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.120 the lv E RO. That's proof positive for me that 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:34.960 you know there's a package already waiting right there for 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.280 Dan Quinn to plot Michael Parsons in and say, Hey, 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:38.600 I know I'm going to ask you to play off 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:42.120 ball linebacker, but I guarantee you you're gonna get your 0:14:42.200 --> 0:14:43.160 edge rushes in sop. 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:45.320 All right, let's take our first break when we come back. 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:48.240 Let's jump into a little more on this Cowboys versus 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.240 Niners match up some of the intricacies of what we 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:52.640 saw and where it went wrong. 0:14:52.520 --> 0:14:54.600 For the Cowboys. We'll be back Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:57.560 Todd thought it would be secure to jog in the 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.160 Cheatah Savannah. 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You know, it's a lot of fun. 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:08.920 All right, let's jump back in. I want to start 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:11.760 with the offense. One thing that became very apparent to 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:15.680 me early in that game was that the Cowboys offense 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.000 I think by design, went into this game with the 0:18:19.040 --> 0:18:21.680 expectation they were going downfield. They were going to try 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:24.959 to challenge this offense, I mean this defense downfield. Check 0:18:25.000 --> 0:18:28.159 out one of these numbers I found. Dak averaged eleven 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:31.240 point five air yards per attempt in this game. It 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:34.280 was double double what he's averaged in the first four 0:18:34.359 --> 0:18:36.760 games at around five point nine, which was the second 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:37.880 lowest in the NFL. 0:18:38.720 --> 0:18:40.560 But the production just wasn't there. 0:18:40.880 --> 0:18:42.879 On twenty plus yard passes, he was only one of 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:46.160 three with one touchdown and one interception. Ten to twenty 0:18:46.240 --> 0:18:49.160 yard passes, he was only one of five with one interception. 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:51.760 Do you think this was the right strategy? Do you 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:54.040 think that maybe how they did it may have been 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:56.160 the problem? What do you think of their their decision 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:57.120 to go downfield more? 0:18:57.160 --> 0:18:59.720 I did you were there yesterday for Brian Schottenheimer R. 0:19:00.400 --> 0:19:04.240 What did he say about that man coverage? They they 0:19:04.320 --> 0:19:06.800 didn't expect to get. They didn't expect to get as 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:08.000 much man coverage. 0:19:08.080 --> 0:19:10.040 He did say they did. They the forty nine ers 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:11.919 were focused on a lot of press man. Yeah, that 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:14.040 was something that they had to kind of combat through. 0:19:14.200 --> 0:19:14.440 Yeah. 0:19:14.560 --> 0:19:15.719 Yeah, so he did mention that. 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:16.040 Yeah. 0:19:16.080 --> 0:19:18.320 See, that's where I think that to me, the plan 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:21.400 of going downfield, because the metrics told. 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:22.920 You and we went through it last week. 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:26.520 Through the next gen stuff was passes that were zero 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:30.040 to ten, they're like seventeen of twenty four. Beyond that, 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:34.240 they were still having success more on Lenor than on 0:19:34.480 --> 0:19:37.640 ward on the other side. So you know, but they 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:40.520 got they got a lot of man coverage in that game. 0:19:40.640 --> 0:19:44.040 And the things that I saw were that when you 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:46.040 look through all the plays, Yeah, there were some plays 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.679 where guys were open, but it wasn't to the point 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:51.200 where I thought, I mean running to get zone. 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:53.880 I felt like that the Cowboys were like, Okay, they're 0:19:53.920 --> 0:19:55.879 just going to eat them up. But when they but 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:57.119 the Cowboys. 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:59.320 Struggled with that that when they got on the line 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:03.080 of scrimmage to have to get off those and I 0:20:03.119 --> 0:20:05.919 think it affected the way that Dak through the football, 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:08.840 you know, And we were talking about if they could protect, 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:11.600 they could make some plays. But we were thinking they 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:14.119 were gonna probably play more zone coverage. They said, no, 0:20:14.240 --> 0:20:17.199 we're gonna play man. And it goes back to a 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:21.040 little bit of what Arizona did against you you know, 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:25.080 and how they played with more man coverage than than zones. 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:27.480 So you know, it's I think that I think that 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:30.000 caught them by surprise a little bit, that that they 0:20:30.000 --> 0:20:33.199 weren't able to win enough in those one on one 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:34.840 on one situations off the line. 0:20:34.960 --> 0:20:37.719 Yeah, that was very clearly their plan to get you know, 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:40.280 middle deep and just deep against this forty nine or 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:42.879 secondary that for the most part. I mean, you have 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:45.639 Travarius Ward, he does well, and in the backfield you 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:47.520 have to Shawn Gibson he does well as well. But 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:50.320 Lenora was the glaring the blinking light, as the Cowboys 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:53.080 like to say. But to Brian's point, coming into this game, 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:56.600 the forty nine ers tend to protect their secondary by 0:20:56.680 --> 0:20:59.439 spacing them and having them give that space. And the 0:20:59.480 --> 0:21:01.359 Cowboys came in and thought, hey, okay, well we can 0:21:01.400 --> 0:21:03.439 attack this, and they could, but when they saw a 0:21:03.480 --> 0:21:07.520 press man from snap one and then continually throughout. Now 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:10.840 the onus is on the receivers to get separation off 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:12.760 of the jam, off of the press and the problem 0:21:12.880 --> 0:21:15.080 was that we talked about yesterday. The receivers were not 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:18.760 able to get that, and that completely disrupted timing. And 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:21.760 this is a timing based offense. The Cowboys have said 0:21:21.800 --> 0:21:24.320 it time and again. Dak has said it, Brian Schottenheimer said, 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:26.520 Mike McCarthy said it. And so that means when you 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:29.520 disrupt the timing and kudules to Kyle Shanahan, he realizes this. 0:21:29.520 --> 0:21:32.520 When you disrupt the timing, that's it. It's a wrap. 0:21:32.680 --> 0:21:35.600 So that's why while Dak Prescott was airing it out 0:21:35.800 --> 0:21:37.760 much more or trying to air it out much more, 0:21:37.880 --> 0:21:39.800 it wasn't nearly as effective because go back and look 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:42.440 at the separation rates, I think only one receiver or 0:21:42.480 --> 0:21:44.359 maybe no receivers had more than three yards. 0:21:44.600 --> 0:21:47.359 I think cd Al something like that. 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:48.800 So I don't think any of the receivers had more 0:21:48.840 --> 0:21:51.400 than three yards of separation. Most separation came from Jake Fergus. 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:52.320 Oh, I should throw this out. 0:21:52.359 --> 0:21:54.879 This stat I noticed was interesting, the open percent and 0:21:54.920 --> 0:21:57.920 this is the number of times when they were targeted 0:21:58.119 --> 0:22:01.760 they had three plus yards of separation. For the Cowboys, 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:04.080 it was only thirty four point six percent of the time. 0:22:04.119 --> 0:22:07.520 That is their lowest percentage of open receivers in this 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:10.919 entire season. So yeah, absolutely it affected what exactly what 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:13.960 San Francisco was doing it definitely felt effected. 0:22:13.600 --> 0:22:14.359 The Cowboys offense. 0:22:14.480 --> 0:22:17.119 Go back and look at the interceptions they had. Okay, 0:22:16.960 --> 0:22:19.320 the one and just a great example that we actually 0:22:19.320 --> 0:22:22.199 were two that I the one the ball that was 0:22:22.520 --> 0:22:25.520 thrown inside the gallop on the slant that was tipped 0:22:25.520 --> 0:22:25.960 in the air. 0:22:27.080 --> 0:22:27.880 There was no chance. 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:30.359 I mean, it was just really a nice defensive play, 0:22:30.600 --> 0:22:32.879 you know, but there was coverage there. And then if 0:22:32.920 --> 0:22:35.919 you go back and watch the interception Bert's the linebacker 0:22:35.960 --> 0:22:39.520 had when he jumped the route underneath Cooks is getting 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:41.760 mugged on the top of the of the route too. 0:22:41.760 --> 0:22:43.720 I mean that ball, if that ball gets through, that's 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:46.439 probably going to be incomplete too. So, you know, the 0:22:46.480 --> 0:22:50.080 Cowboys have had some success running these slants and being 0:22:50.119 --> 0:22:53.240 effective at doing it, but in those two particular times, 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:57.160 it really resulted in two of the interceptions were off slants, 0:22:57.520 --> 0:22:59.159 and that's kind of a bread and butter play for 0:22:59.200 --> 0:22:59.879 the Cowboys. 0:23:00.119 --> 0:23:03.240 As the game went on, how should they have adjusted 0:23:03.440 --> 0:23:06.399 or what should hit the Cowboys have done differently or 0:23:06.480 --> 0:23:08.040 Mcarthy's final play call. 0:23:07.920 --> 0:23:10.120 It you know to me and and I'm not a note, 0:23:10.160 --> 0:23:12.399 I'm not an offensive coordinator, and I and I but 0:23:12.640 --> 0:23:14.720 to me what I have done. The cowboys could get 0:23:14.720 --> 0:23:18.240 into bunch formations and scatter, you know, all of a sudden, 0:23:18.240 --> 0:23:22.040 it's like, okay, instead of playing wide and allowing the 0:23:22.080 --> 0:23:24.160 forty nine ers to pick you up one on one 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:27.760 and then potentially either you know, shade a safety one 0:23:27.800 --> 0:23:30.359 way and try and you know, take seat, getting bunch 0:23:30.359 --> 0:23:32.240 of formations and scatter that thing. 0:23:32.440 --> 0:23:34.560 You know, if you look the touchdown they. 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:39.720 Threw to h to Turpin trips right and they motion 0:23:40.160 --> 0:23:42.919 they motioned him in and then ran him on the 0:23:43.040 --> 0:23:45.920 on the corner that gets off the press of the nickel. 0:23:46.160 --> 0:23:49.160 The nickel had no When you move people or bunch 0:23:49.200 --> 0:23:52.240 them and scatter them, then you you're making you know, 0:23:52.320 --> 0:23:53.960 and that that helps him in their pick. 0:23:53.760 --> 0:23:56.440 Game too, you know. And some of the the. 0:23:56.200 --> 0:23:59.120 Dak Dak took a sack. They try to run a pick. 0:23:59.160 --> 0:24:01.240 They knew that forty niners. Okay, they're trying to run 0:24:01.280 --> 0:24:05.480 a really a man beater. They run Ferguson across, but 0:24:05.560 --> 0:24:08.159 they picked the wrong guy, so they you know, all 0:24:08.160 --> 0:24:11.600 of a sudden, the Nichols able to get through and 0:24:11.640 --> 0:24:14.920 now everybody's covered. And then you got Warner who avoids 0:24:14.960 --> 0:24:17.880 the pick and now he's chasing and he's gonna run 0:24:17.920 --> 0:24:22.240 you down. So to me, movement, they scored a touchdown 0:24:22.280 --> 0:24:22.560 off it. 0:24:22.840 --> 0:24:24.879 They also, I don't know if it was you or 0:24:24.960 --> 0:24:26.160 Nick that mentioned it during the game. 0:24:26.720 --> 0:24:29.239 Again, I'm not a coordinator. Yeah, I'm just telling you 0:24:29.280 --> 0:24:29.879 what they. 0:24:29.720 --> 0:24:33.359 Score on a play where they lined up ceedee lamb. 0:24:33.400 --> 0:24:36.000 He was kind of out on the outside and then 0:24:36.040 --> 0:24:39.080 he comes back and just stays like in instead of 0:24:39.280 --> 0:24:41.960 being spread out. Like you said, that was. 0:24:42.119 --> 0:24:44.080 Well, that was Nick mentioned that, and it was it 0:24:44.119 --> 0:24:46.800 was I think Nick's point is why run the ball 0:24:46.840 --> 0:24:48.639 when you have a receiver out wide that has a 0:24:48.640 --> 0:24:51.040 corner out and you bring that receipt that corner in 0:24:51.560 --> 0:24:55.399 and then it just adds another guy to the body. 0:24:55.640 --> 0:24:58.240 Missed the block, I missed the block and so and 0:24:58.240 --> 0:24:59.760 then you see him kind of clap his hands and 0:24:59.800 --> 0:25:03.080 I'm well, you know, you're asking him. And then they 0:25:03.119 --> 0:25:05.440 put Tolbert in the game to run the cracked toss, 0:25:05.480 --> 0:25:07.760 but they don't do anything else with Tolbert. They just 0:25:07.840 --> 0:25:10.359 ask him to come down and sign block. So to me, 0:25:10.600 --> 0:25:13.000 it's kind of like it's almost like the Noah back 0:25:13.000 --> 0:25:15.960 in the day. The Jason Garrett administration. When you bring 0:25:16.000 --> 0:25:18.320 Noah Brown in and all he's gonna do is block, 0:25:18.800 --> 0:25:20.880 you know, you got to show. And that's the great 0:25:20.880 --> 0:25:24.119 thing about putting Turpin in the game. You're thinking jet sweep, 0:25:24.119 --> 0:25:25.960 you're thinking some type of little running play, but then 0:25:26.000 --> 0:25:28.760 they run him through the formation and then it ends 0:25:28.880 --> 0:25:29.520 being a big play. 0:25:29.600 --> 0:25:32.320 Yes, speaking of you talking about that strategy of bunching 0:25:32.359 --> 0:25:34.960 your guys or pressing your guys, watch how San Francisco 0:25:35.040 --> 0:25:37.480 runs their offense. They do a ton of that. It's 0:25:37.520 --> 0:25:40.040 why it makes it so difficult to control them, is 0:25:40.080 --> 0:25:42.879 because they'll put all those guys in tight and then 0:25:42.960 --> 0:25:43.600 they'll scatter. 0:25:43.720 --> 0:25:45.600 Yeah, the ball is snapped and they're all. 0:25:45.480 --> 0:25:47.199 In different parts of the field and it's hard to 0:25:47.240 --> 0:25:50.240 really get hands on them within that first five yard cushion, 0:25:50.440 --> 0:25:52.520 and that allows them to get open and create the separation. 0:25:52.600 --> 0:25:53.240 What they want, what. 0:25:53.200 --> 0:25:56.080 They do with their tight formations and bunches is they'll block. 0:25:56.480 --> 0:25:58.960 Those guys are like they'll run it. So you're like thinking, Okay, 0:25:58.960 --> 0:26:01.360 they're gonna get tight and they're gonna run it here, 0:26:01.760 --> 0:26:03.800 and then all of a sudden, no wait, they're throwing boom, 0:26:03.800 --> 0:26:06.400 they scatter, and now they're you know guys are they're 0:26:06.440 --> 0:26:08.760 they're replacing guys. I've seen them run routes where they 0:26:08.760 --> 0:26:11.400 go up and cross and then a guy falls up 0:26:11.560 --> 0:26:13.720 and then stops, and so they got a cross or 0:26:13.800 --> 0:26:15.840 with a stop, and now they give the guy the 0:26:15.880 --> 0:26:17.000 option throw it there, throw. 0:26:16.880 --> 0:26:19.040 It there, you know, and it's just it's it's a 0:26:19.080 --> 0:26:20.400 fun offense to watch. 0:26:20.520 --> 0:26:23.200 Really, it really is because of how they use their 0:26:23.200 --> 0:26:25.600 personnel in a way that you're going man, that that 0:26:25.720 --> 0:26:27.679 is really an intelligent way of doing that. 0:26:27.760 --> 0:26:30.600 And then another benefit of using motion is it it 0:26:30.720 --> 0:26:34.080 reveals more often than not zone versus man. Right when 0:26:34.119 --> 0:26:36.640 you when you move this particular person from this side 0:26:36.640 --> 0:26:39.640 of this side, if you see that player, chase that player, okay, 0:26:39.640 --> 0:26:40.879 that player is in man. And then if you do 0:26:40.920 --> 0:26:43.680 a double motion, send somebody else and that person doesn't move, okay, 0:26:43.680 --> 0:26:46.400 Well this is a mixed coverage. You can help yourself 0:26:46.440 --> 0:26:49.440 by pre snap by using more motion. I just feel 0:26:49.440 --> 0:26:51.440 like the Cowboys. I'm not saying they don't use motion, 0:26:51.680 --> 0:26:53.760 but when you compare it up against what Kyle Shanahan 0:26:53.800 --> 0:26:55.199 does and they're eighty six percent of. 0:26:55.160 --> 0:26:57.520 The time they have motion in this well, Dallas, again, 0:26:57.560 --> 0:27:01.480 according to the Great net jet Net. Next section stats 0:27:01.920 --> 0:27:04.440 is that every week Dallas has gotten less and less 0:27:04.440 --> 0:27:06.159 on the motion part of things. And you're kind of 0:27:06.160 --> 0:27:07.879 like going, okay, is that just because the way the 0:27:07.920 --> 0:27:10.119 game is going, But you could also the way the 0:27:10.119 --> 0:27:11.800 forty nine ers do it and teams do it is 0:27:12.000 --> 0:27:14.720 they'll motion guys too, and they'll move guys over to 0:27:14.800 --> 0:27:18.040 get a linebacker on, like they'll move McCaffrey out, and 0:27:18.080 --> 0:27:19.640 all of a sudden, it's like, wait a minute, they 0:27:19.640 --> 0:27:23.040 bump a corner out to get a linebacker on McCaffrey, 0:27:23.520 --> 0:27:26.520 and now or use check is now you know used 0:27:26.560 --> 0:27:27.920 check has got. 0:27:27.760 --> 0:27:28.479 A corner on him. 0:27:28.520 --> 0:27:31.160 But wait, they got a linebacker on a safety inside 0:27:31.200 --> 0:27:33.879 and you're like going, you know, so it's it's on 0:27:34.000 --> 0:27:36.880 the receiver inside. So it's it's really creative the way 0:27:36.920 --> 0:27:37.640 that they do things. 0:27:37.680 --> 0:27:39.800 Yeah, you mentioned Kyle Shanahan, but we also got to 0:27:39.840 --> 0:27:44.120 give a tip our cap to Steve Wilks. Steve great 0:27:44.119 --> 0:27:46.399 game plan went up against this Cowboys offense, and I 0:27:46.440 --> 0:27:49.040 think that's a big part as to why the offense 0:27:49.200 --> 0:27:50.720 was so staggering throughout the day. We're going to take 0:27:50.720 --> 0:27:53.560 our final break, we'll come back talk about Dak Prescott 0:27:53.560 --> 0:27:56.400 in his day and how much that contributed to the loss. 0:27:56.440 --> 0:27:58.280 We'll talk about that in just a moment. Stouts Cowboys 0:27:58.280 --> 0:27:58.880 dot com Radio. 0:28:00.359 --> 0:28:02.080 Todd thought it would be secure to jog in the 0:28:02.119 --> 0:28:05.040 cheetah Savannah. Todd believed the big cat repellent he bought 0:28:05.080 --> 0:28:08.000 online was reliable. 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Let's talk about Dak Prescott. 0:31:29.000 --> 0:31:32.200 He was fourteen of twenty four fifty eight percent completion rate, 0:31:32.400 --> 0:31:34.960 only one hundred and fifty three yards, passing, one touchdown, 0:31:35.000 --> 0:31:39.480 three interceptions, fifty one point six rating. How much do 0:31:39.560 --> 0:31:44.320 you attribute the struggles of the offense to DA's play in. 0:31:44.320 --> 0:31:46.760 That particular game. I think that you could. 0:31:46.920 --> 0:31:49.440 You could point the finger to a lot of different players, 0:31:49.440 --> 0:31:52.440 but you can also I say the quarterback always is 0:31:52.480 --> 0:31:54.800 going to take the lion's share of the blame. We're 0:31:54.800 --> 0:31:57.840 some oping guys, you know the past, the Scoon Maker. 0:31:58.120 --> 0:32:00.000 If you when you watch the All twenty two, especially 0:32:00.080 --> 0:32:02.840 from the end zone he's opened, We'll see if Schoomaker 0:32:02.840 --> 0:32:05.080 would have caught it, but I mean it he was opened. 0:32:05.120 --> 0:32:06.000 The ball went a little high. 0:32:06.000 --> 0:32:08.960 I thinka Dak was a little, you know, a little 0:32:09.000 --> 0:32:12.360 amped up in this game as it started. It's unforgedate 0:32:12.480 --> 0:32:15.880 the long pass they threw out a bounce to Cooks. 0:32:15.960 --> 0:32:18.160 I just felt like that when you watch him, he 0:32:18.280 --> 0:32:20.680 was having to move to his left and to try 0:32:20.680 --> 0:32:22.760 and get that ball as far as he could down 0:32:22.800 --> 0:32:24.760 the field. His momentum carried him that way, and I 0:32:24.760 --> 0:32:27.320 think it pulled the ball that way. It's physics. I 0:32:27.360 --> 0:32:28.280 know you have science. 0:32:28.320 --> 0:32:30.440 That's physics, physical physics. 0:32:31.080 --> 0:32:32.920 And I'm making an excuse for him because he had 0:32:32.960 --> 0:32:36.360 some throws that were open. But there was also I 0:32:37.200 --> 0:32:40.480 give Steve Wilkes the forty nine ers their plan, the 0:32:40.480 --> 0:32:43.640 way they covered. I gave Arizona a lot of credit 0:32:43.720 --> 0:32:45.040 for what they did in their game. 0:32:45.120 --> 0:32:46.640 You know, with the way they played defense. 0:32:46.920 --> 0:32:49.400 They didn't allow you any ability to run the football 0:32:49.600 --> 0:32:51.960 very well, and they didn't allow the receivers on the 0:32:52.000 --> 0:32:54.840 outside to win nearly enough. When these receivers are winning, 0:32:55.200 --> 0:32:58.440 you see Dak Prescott have that ability. But there was 0:32:58.480 --> 0:33:01.880 some tough, tight window throw. The interceptions were all tight 0:33:01.920 --> 0:33:04.120 window throws, just the way the balls were tipped and 0:33:04.160 --> 0:33:06.680 knocked in the air. You gotta, you know, tip the 0:33:06.720 --> 0:33:09.000 cap to those guys. But you know it's on the 0:33:09.080 --> 0:33:11.960 quarterback too, you know, when they have to make some plays, 0:33:12.000 --> 0:33:15.160 They have to make some plays. They can't let plays 0:33:15.200 --> 0:33:17.719 go by. You can't leave those plays on the field. 0:33:18.000 --> 0:33:20.000 And it happened to him a couple of different times. 0:33:20.200 --> 0:33:23.400 When Dockett plays that way where he's off, this team 0:33:23.440 --> 0:33:24.320 will generally lose. 0:33:24.840 --> 0:33:25.840 That's just the way it is. 0:33:27.600 --> 0:33:30.640 It has to play better. Definitely, not one of his 0:33:30.720 --> 0:33:35.040 best outings in many capacities. And I keep circling back 0:33:35.040 --> 0:33:36.520 in my mind as I go to this game, and 0:33:36.560 --> 0:33:39.640 I say, you know what was the early tail as 0:33:39.680 --> 0:33:42.200 far as how this game was going to go, And 0:33:42.280 --> 0:33:44.520 it was the sailed past the Schoolmaker. If you if 0:33:44.560 --> 0:33:47.640 you make that throw and assuming Schoolmaker comes down with that, 0:33:47.640 --> 0:33:50.600 that is a huge boost and early boost momentum wise, 0:33:50.640 --> 0:33:54.160 and you know, morale wise for the Cowboys offense to say, hey, 0:33:54.160 --> 0:33:56.400 we can do what we want to do against this defense. 0:33:56.640 --> 0:33:59.280 But that misses and then things just kind of slowly 0:33:59.360 --> 0:34:01.960 crumbled from there until it started to rapidly crumble from there. 0:34:01.960 --> 0:34:04.800 And so their passes and and again, I said it yesterday. 0:34:04.840 --> 0:34:07.880 The level of difficulty on that pass to Cooks one 0:34:07.880 --> 0:34:10.880 to ten, that's an eleven. But you know, if you 0:34:10.960 --> 0:34:13.040 throw it just a little bit, if you throw more 0:34:13.080 --> 0:34:16.279 vertical sooner too. Yeah, but he I think he had. 0:34:16.520 --> 0:34:19.480 I think he really had to move his body. 0:34:20.280 --> 0:34:23.279 You know, the angle. The angle threw him completely off. 0:34:23.320 --> 0:34:24.400 And it's not an excuse. 0:34:24.520 --> 0:34:26.400 Just watch the throw from the end zone and you'll 0:34:26.440 --> 0:34:29.120 see where his body position is to try and get 0:34:29.120 --> 0:34:30.000 that ball out there. 0:34:30.080 --> 0:34:32.040 Yeah, we're not We're not going to say that was easy, 0:34:32.120 --> 0:34:34.239 even remotely easy. Those who know No, that's why we're 0:34:34.239 --> 0:34:37.480 sitting here saying that that throw was extremely difficult. But 0:34:38.000 --> 0:34:40.000 if the ball gets out a little bit earlier, if 0:34:40.040 --> 0:34:42.160 it goes a little bit more vertical than horizontal, then 0:34:42.200 --> 0:34:44.440 Cooks has an actual shot of making that play. So 0:34:44.520 --> 0:34:46.400 things like that, and then when you look at the 0:34:46.400 --> 0:34:49.319 mobility of deck, there were opportunities where he could have 0:34:49.360 --> 0:34:52.759 taken off and pushed the envelope and kind of moved 0:34:52.760 --> 0:34:54.839 the change or at least created you know, more third 0:34:54.880 --> 0:34:57.160 and short situations if he would have just been more 0:34:57.160 --> 0:34:59.439 decisive and saying, okay, I see green, I'm taking green. 0:34:59.680 --> 0:35:02.120 But it was yet another game in which there was 0:35:02.280 --> 0:35:04.480 green to be taken, but he didn't. He kept his 0:35:04.520 --> 0:35:07.480 eyes downfield. And sometimes that's great. But in a game 0:35:07.600 --> 0:35:10.160 like this, where you can't get any kind of offensive 0:35:10.239 --> 0:35:12.560 chemistry going and kind of flow going, you have to 0:35:12.600 --> 0:35:16.080 take any positive that you can get. So the Fred 0:35:16.120 --> 0:35:19.239 Warner sack, for example, if Jack had decided to just 0:35:19.239 --> 0:35:22.640 go ahead plays, breaking down, quickly, go through progressions, nothing's there, 0:35:22.680 --> 0:35:25.800 take off and run, you probably beat Warner on that edge. 0:35:25.840 --> 0:35:29.200 There was another sack that he take. He took that game. 0:35:29.560 --> 0:35:31.960 You probably beat the guy if you just go ahead 0:35:31.960 --> 0:35:34.440 and quickly determine that this play is blown up. I'm 0:35:34.480 --> 0:35:37.200 going to take this so from the aspect of being 0:35:37.200 --> 0:35:39.520 more decisive and using his legs, which is something we 0:35:39.560 --> 0:35:42.319 want to see from Dak Prescott, and you know some 0:35:42.360 --> 0:35:44.960 of the throws that he definitely wants back that he 0:35:45.040 --> 0:35:48.040 needs to make to help a struggling offense. It's most 0:35:48.080 --> 0:35:51.400 certainly a grade that you look at and say, okay, 0:35:51.440 --> 0:35:54.160 well A to F. Where's this? This is an F 0:35:54.200 --> 0:35:56.000 for deck, This isn't F for deck, and there's no 0:35:56.080 --> 0:35:57.919 other way to put it. So can he be better? 0:35:58.000 --> 0:35:59.560 Yes he can. He's shown he can be better, and 0:35:59.600 --> 0:36:01.640 he's going to have to prove it again against Los Angeles. 0:36:01.719 --> 0:36:04.920 Yeah, it's very My emotions are still very high right now, 0:36:04.960 --> 0:36:08.640 and it's super frustrating this because there are days that 0:36:08.760 --> 0:36:11.120 you're gonna have to rely on your defense, there are 0:36:11.160 --> 0:36:13.239 days you're gonna have to rely on your running game, 0:36:13.440 --> 0:36:16.239 there are days that you need to rely on your quarterback. 0:36:16.320 --> 0:36:18.360 And I'm not putting all the blame on Dak because 0:36:18.440 --> 0:36:22.760 everyone played bad in this game, but you gotta do better. 0:36:23.760 --> 0:36:27.680 We've seen games where Dak has been great. Even last year. 0:36:27.719 --> 0:36:31.759 He has won of the best game in his career. 0:36:31.520 --> 0:36:34.480 The Tampa game. The playoff game was outstanding, he was amazing. 0:36:34.600 --> 0:36:39.040 So you've seen him being capable of doing those things. 0:36:39.080 --> 0:36:43.919 And I love Dak, but at some point, you gotta 0:36:44.120 --> 0:36:47.640 be able to show up in important games like this 0:36:47.760 --> 0:36:50.640 where nothing is working, and you gotta be the guy 0:36:50.800 --> 0:36:53.759 that kind of takes that lead, because that's kind of 0:36:53.760 --> 0:36:57.360 what quarterbacks do at times when nothing is working. You 0:36:57.480 --> 0:36:59.239 got to show up and be the one to kind 0:36:59.239 --> 0:37:01.480 of say or try to save the day. 0:37:02.800 --> 0:37:05.279 Lastly, on this point, the thing that kind of frustrated 0:37:05.320 --> 0:37:09.240 me was it wasn't that nothing was working. The Cowboys 0:37:09.280 --> 0:37:11.759 actually found one or two things that were working. Jake 0:37:11.800 --> 0:37:15.359 Ferguson for example. Yes, So then when you look at 0:37:15.400 --> 0:37:17.320 it from that aspect as well, you look at that 0:37:17.480 --> 0:37:20.520 and say, okay, well, Cooks, that connection is not working. 0:37:20.560 --> 0:37:23.280 CD he's frustrated. That's not working. Gallup's not getting a separation. 0:37:23.360 --> 0:37:28.280 That's not working. What is working? Jake Ferguson, Okay, one, two, three, three, catches, 0:37:28.560 --> 0:37:31.200 three receptions, This is working. I'm going to tear this 0:37:31.320 --> 0:37:33.759 up until they take this away, and them taking this 0:37:33.840 --> 0:37:37.400 away might open up something else. But they completely got 0:37:37.440 --> 0:37:39.839 away from Jake Ferguson. And I put that on as 0:37:39.920 --> 0:37:42.600 much of the play calling as I do the quarterback 0:37:42.640 --> 0:37:44.560 because the quarterbacks on the field, he's seeing this in 0:37:44.600 --> 0:37:47.000 real time. You're seeing these guys aren't getting separations. So 0:37:47.000 --> 0:37:49.279 where's the green light is? Jake Ferguson, And you went 0:37:49.320 --> 0:37:50.879 away from that completely for the. 0:37:50.800 --> 0:37:54.120 Remainders, which is weird and odd because we've seen the 0:37:54.400 --> 0:37:57.920 tight end be the guy to be the safety blanket 0:37:58.000 --> 0:38:00.600 to Dak. So that's so strange that he happened. 0:38:00.640 --> 0:38:02.319 Now, well, he can be better, he will be better, 0:38:02.360 --> 0:38:05.239 and the connection between he and Jake Ferguson. It's there, 0:38:05.320 --> 0:38:07.600 it's growing. We've seen it over the past several weeks. 0:38:07.880 --> 0:38:10.840 But to walk to see that just get a hard 0:38:10.960 --> 0:38:13.160 stop in the game where you need it something to 0:38:13.239 --> 0:38:16.040 start going right, that's very disheartening. And that's one of 0:38:16.080 --> 0:38:19.400 the many reasons, one of the many reasons the Cowboys 0:38:19.440 --> 0:38:19.960 got thumped. 0:38:19.960 --> 0:38:22.960 Are you seeing a difference this year between Dak Prescott's 0:38:22.960 --> 0:38:24.880 play and what you saw from him last year to 0:38:24.880 --> 0:38:27.719 where you can attribute some of it to the offensive 0:38:27.719 --> 0:38:29.000 play calling in the scheme? 0:38:29.440 --> 0:38:32.920 I think that to me, there's a side that you know, 0:38:33.000 --> 0:38:35.080 I'm okay with the interceptions if I can throw the 0:38:35.080 --> 0:38:39.000 ball eight yards a shot, you know, if I'm I'm 0:38:39.040 --> 0:38:41.799 okay with Dak you know, the turnovers and stuff like that. 0:38:41.840 --> 0:38:43.960 I guess you know a lot of people were complaining 0:38:44.000 --> 0:38:47.080 about it, but I honestly don't recognize this guy playing 0:38:47.160 --> 0:38:48.920 the dank and dunk. It's third and five and you 0:38:48.960 --> 0:38:51.120 throw the ball for three yards, you know, I don't. 0:38:51.200 --> 0:38:51.840 I don't get that. 0:38:52.160 --> 0:38:53.960 I know there's guys that were covered, and you know 0:38:54.000 --> 0:38:57.120 there are things going on there, but I just don't 0:38:57.120 --> 0:39:00.560 feel like this offense suits Dak that way. And I 0:39:00.600 --> 0:39:02.399 know that Jerry Jones came on one oh five three 0:39:02.440 --> 0:39:04.880 the Fan this morning and talk about no changes in 0:39:05.000 --> 0:39:06.919 this and that he's confident all and that's good. 0:39:07.080 --> 0:39:09.480 That's his job to be confident. But I just feel like, 0:39:09.520 --> 0:39:10.280 though the way. 0:39:10.120 --> 0:39:14.040 That Dak plays to me, I think playing open, loose, fast, 0:39:14.120 --> 0:39:16.240 the way he does, I think that's a better suited 0:39:16.280 --> 0:39:18.600 game for him. You know, you're trying to kind of 0:39:18.600 --> 0:39:22.160 throw it, be controlled, limit the turnovers and stuff. Hell, okay, 0:39:22.200 --> 0:39:24.560 you threw two slants. Both of them were intercepted. You know. 0:39:24.840 --> 0:39:26.839 I mean, if you're gonna that's what you're gonna do, 0:39:27.080 --> 0:39:28.759 well that you're still throwing interceptions. 0:39:29.040 --> 0:39:29.279 You know. 0:39:29.800 --> 0:39:32.600 I just don't know if just Nickel and Diamond people 0:39:32.600 --> 0:39:34.520 with Dak Prescott's the way to play football. 0:39:34.600 --> 0:39:37.640 I say this morning with r J, Sewan and Bobby 0:39:38.239 --> 0:39:41.720 is that I think I feel like Dak is being 0:39:41.920 --> 0:39:45.600 shrunk at the moment as far as risk mitigation. And 0:39:45.680 --> 0:39:47.879 I'm right there with Brian and it's like, yeah, you're 0:39:47.880 --> 0:39:52.480 trying to eliminate or minimize the number of interceptions, but 0:39:52.880 --> 0:39:56.960 at the risk of losing the Dak Prescott that we 0:39:57.040 --> 0:40:00.839 know can throw forty nine hundred yards and thirty seven touchdowns, 0:40:01.160 --> 0:40:04.759 and honestly, I'm not saying, you know, I want him 0:40:04.800 --> 0:40:07.759 to throw it up and just like he did against Cooks, 0:40:07.760 --> 0:40:09.400 I don't want to see that down down the midday. 0:40:09.560 --> 0:40:12.040 Don't do that. Don't do that. That's not playing football, 0:40:12.080 --> 0:40:13.799 that's just heaving it up there. And then you know, 0:40:13.920 --> 0:40:16.200 seeing what happened for no, which is why he kind 0:40:16.200 --> 0:40:16.880 of smirked coming. 0:40:18.320 --> 0:40:18.480 Right. 0:40:18.840 --> 0:40:22.240 But I feel like Dak Prescott needs to be allowed 0:40:22.360 --> 0:40:25.279 more leeway to say, you know what, let's open up 0:40:25.320 --> 0:40:27.400 deep mintle of the field, let's take some of these shots, 0:40:27.400 --> 0:40:32.080 because I would rather you know, thirty touchdowns to thirteen interceptions, 0:40:32.080 --> 0:40:34.600 fourteen interceptions, as long as the Cowboys continue to win 0:40:34.640 --> 0:40:37.239 and it's not costing them games versus oh, he only 0:40:37.280 --> 0:40:39.480 finished with eight interceptions this season. Then you look at 0:40:39.640 --> 0:40:41.600 you know, the Cowboys record and it's nine to eight, 0:40:41.640 --> 0:40:43.400 and then you look at the fact that Dak Prescott 0:40:43.440 --> 0:40:45.960 only has you know, twenty one touchdowns, like, what did 0:40:45.960 --> 0:40:48.719 you really gain from that risk mitigation? So I think 0:40:48.760 --> 0:40:51.480 that the scale has flown too far to the left 0:40:51.480 --> 0:40:53.360 and it needs to come back to dead suns. 0:40:53.800 --> 0:40:56.239 Great point, all right, real quick, before we end the show, 0:40:56.840 --> 0:40:58.560 solo lap cooat what you got for us today? 0:40:59.080 --> 0:41:04.319 So labcoat, yes, science going. 0:41:04.320 --> 0:41:06.239 To bring me in Beamer good stuff, all right, So 0:41:06.360 --> 0:41:09.680 really quickly after a game like what we saw in 0:41:09.680 --> 0:41:11.560 Santa Clair, we're not going to dig too deep into 0:41:11.560 --> 0:41:14.160 the stats because it's a glaring The magic number is 0:41:14.200 --> 0:41:16.880 sixty seven. This is what we're going on, ladies and gentlemen. 0:41:17.000 --> 0:41:19.560 Sixty seven. That's thirty five and thirty two. The Cowboys 0:41:19.560 --> 0:41:22.680 defeated Bill Belichick by thirty five points. The following week, 0:41:22.719 --> 0:41:24.960 they lost to the forty nine Ers by thirty two points. 0:41:24.960 --> 0:41:28.000 That is the worst swinging point differential from a victory 0:41:28.040 --> 0:41:31.479 to a loss in franchise history. This is a team 0:41:31.520 --> 0:41:34.800 that has existed in its current form since nineteen sixty 0:41:34.840 --> 0:41:36.720 and what we just witnessed in a two week spread 0:41:37.000 --> 0:41:40.040 has never happened before. We want to talk about resiliency. 0:41:40.280 --> 0:41:42.000 Let's see it. That was the worst loss ever to 0:41:42.040 --> 0:41:44.720 the forty nine Ers, twelfth worst loss in the history 0:41:44.760 --> 0:41:47.399 of the Cowboys, only two point shy of being top 0:41:47.440 --> 0:41:50.880 ten worst losses in Cowboys history. They're going to have 0:41:51.000 --> 0:41:54.719 to really show what resiliency looks like. It's a team 0:41:54.760 --> 0:41:57.120 that hasn't lost back to back game since November of 0:41:57.120 --> 0:41:59.680 twenty twenty one. They're really up against it now because 0:41:59.680 --> 0:42:01.919 they're all were going against the Los Angeles Chargers team 0:42:01.920 --> 0:42:04.400 whose offense is not afraid to air it out, not 0:42:04.520 --> 0:42:06.640 worried about risk mitigation, and know by the way their 0:42:06.680 --> 0:42:09.560 offensive coordinator has a point to prove. And you're also 0:42:09.560 --> 0:42:12.440 going to have to do this without Lve on defense. 0:42:12.440 --> 0:42:14.080 You're gonna have to do this without c. J. Goodwhen 0:42:14.120 --> 0:42:17.480 helping you on special teams. Talk about adversity, it has arrived, 0:42:17.480 --> 0:42:20.200 and it has arrived in space sixty seven points. That's 0:42:20.239 --> 0:42:23.600 the swing differential from last week to the week prior 0:42:23.640 --> 0:42:25.560 to this past week. So let's see what it looks 0:42:25.600 --> 0:42:26.319 like in week six. 0:42:26.440 --> 0:42:29.200 We talked about this following the Arizona game. Since twenty 0:42:29.280 --> 0:42:32.160 twenty one, though the Cowboys have been eleven and one 0:42:32.560 --> 0:42:35.560 in games following a loss, they have been really good 0:42:35.560 --> 0:42:37.560 in those games following a loss. We will see if 0:42:37.600 --> 0:42:39.440 that trend happens this week. 0:42:39.760 --> 0:42:41.719 Derek, real quick, Yeah, remember we went to that game 0:42:41.760 --> 0:42:43.759 we played in the Saints in New Orleans where it 0:42:43.800 --> 0:42:46.200 was so bad. That game reminded me of that Saints 0:42:46.280 --> 0:42:47.280 game and. 0:42:47.160 --> 0:42:48.960 I think, yeah, that was one of those that it 0:42:49.000 --> 0:42:49.479 was just like. 0:42:50.320 --> 0:42:52.799 Nothing's working today. Everything bad that could happen happen. 0:42:52.960 --> 0:42:55.440 Yeah, that dog on song, it was a lot. 0:42:56.560 --> 0:42:58.279 Yeah, they crunked this up pretty y. 0:42:58.400 --> 0:43:01.280 Yeah, that was but the the lab was good today. 0:43:01.320 --> 0:43:02.919 You got to have these thoughts about it. And they've 0:43:02.920 --> 0:43:05.160 had some bounce back. You know that that record is 0:43:05.200 --> 0:43:07.480 that's that's for real. That bounce back is for real. 0:43:07.520 --> 0:43:08.759 It ain't something we just made up. 0:43:08.800 --> 0:43:09.399 It's for real. 0:43:09.520 --> 0:43:12.840 Tomorrow we will start the process of turning the page. 0:43:12.880 --> 0:43:15.480 We will get into this next game. Brian will give 0:43:15.520 --> 0:43:18.560 us a little lead in on Cowboys offense versus the 0:43:18.640 --> 0:43:19.560 Chargers defense. 0:43:19.560 --> 0:43:22.400 I hope I'm right this week and we'll get that 0:43:22.520 --> 0:43:24.279 roll in till then. For Patrick Walker. 0:43:24.320 --> 0:43:26.560 Brian brought us Ambergarciim Derek Eilton. This has been The 0:43:26.560 --> 0:43:28.960 Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. 0:43:29.920 --> 0:43:32.920 This has been a production of Dallascowboys dot Com and 0:43:33.040 --> 0:43:36.040 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.