WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Passing Out Candy 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:05.600 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:16.480 and the Dallas Cowboys football clubs. Are you ready for 0:00:16.520 --> 0:00:20.200 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:24.520 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:29.880 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:30.680 --> 0:00:36.199 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:39.360 --> 0:00:43.839 It is Monday, November one, two Thy twenty one, season seventeen, 0:00:43.840 --> 0:00:46.720 episode number fifty one. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:50.199 The Break, live from the s WBC Mortgage studios. At 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:52.280 the start, got Nick Eatman here with me, and Amber 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:56.080 Garcia is here with me. Dave Hellman is not quite 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.880 back yet, man, he's still stuck in Minnesota waiting for 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.800 a flight, hopefully getting back later tonight. But Dave, thank 0:01:02.840 --> 0:01:05.800 you for joining us from your hotel room. I assume 0:01:05.880 --> 0:01:08.880 that is. And uh let's talk a little Cowboys football. 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:13.039 Cowboys take their record to UH six and one after 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:17.800 defeating the Minnesota Vikings twenty to sixteen on Sunday Night Football. 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:22.920 It was a really, really um telling game. I think 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:24.480 there were a lot of things you can take from 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:26.600 that game. So let's start first, what what do we 0:01:26.640 --> 0:01:28.759 have to do. Do I give you just a number 0:01:29.120 --> 0:01:31.399 or you give me a piece of like rubber band 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:35.080 to measure my finger right here? Like, how does that work? 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:38.840 Are we talking about? We're talking about rings? Is that 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:42.000 what we're talking about. I'm just saying they faced the 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:44.640 Cowboys have face. You already got a nice ring. So 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:49.240 many challenges, Well I want a different kind of ring. Okay, 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:52.040 this is they faced so many challenges and this was 0:01:52.200 --> 0:01:55.960 just another one that they come out with a win. Yeah, yeah, 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:57.640 that's true. All right, Well, here's what we're gonna do. 0:01:57.680 --> 0:01:59.800 Here's gonna do. We're gonna go around the table, and 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.280 I want everybody to tell me what their big picture story. 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:06.000 There's hers of this game. Right, we've already gotten yours. 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.440 We know, super Bowl Bus. That's what Amber's story of 0:02:08.440 --> 0:02:11.040 the game is. Uh, Nick, what yours? That this is 0:02:11.040 --> 0:02:13.320 a complete football team. I mean, this is not a 0:02:13.480 --> 0:02:16.880 great This isn't just a great offensive team. They are 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:19.040 they do have a great offense, especially when they got Dak, 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.720 But this is a great team that can play all 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:25.720 kinds of ways. They win with defense. They won they 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:29.000 beat the Chargers with defense. They've won this game last 0:02:29.080 --> 0:02:31.960 night with defense. Um, I think. I think they're just 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.919 a complete team now, and they're gonna have some better 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:37.480 teams that they're gonna face. But that was just another 0:02:37.480 --> 0:02:41.000 example they can win in a bunch of different ways. Dave, 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:47.680 I'm not sure Dave hears us. But Dave, if you 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:51.840 hear us guessing, he doesn't. All right, So we're gonna 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.160 move on. Let's keep talking. Let's get into some of 0:02:54.200 --> 0:02:56.079 the some of the points of the game, some of 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.600 the finer points of the game. Let's talk a little 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:01.519 bit about Cooper rush. Um Cooper rush in this game 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:04.160 was twenty four or forty. He had sixty percent completion rate, 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:09.400 three hundred and twenty five yards, two touchdowns, and one interception. Um. 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:12.079 They they also had it. He also had a game 0:03:12.120 --> 0:03:14.760 winning drive where he was six of nine for seventy 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:18.280 five yards five yard touchdown passed Tilmari Cooper to cap 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.160 that play, I mean to cap that drive to ultimately 0:03:21.160 --> 0:03:23.480 put the Mississipi in position to win that game. How 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:28.360 do you guys assess Cooper Russians play yesterday? Well, I 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:34.680 thought he played. You know who we got, Dave. We 0:03:34.880 --> 0:03:38.320 hear him breathing, but can't. I thought maybe Dave was 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:43.200 gonna jump in. Sorry. Yeah, Um, I thought he played. 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.120 He played well. I mean when nobody thought he was 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:48.000 gonna win the game, and nobody thought he was gonna 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:49.839 go out there and do that in play and enough 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.440 to win, and he did, and um, you know, he 0:03:52.520 --> 0:03:54.960 got better and better as the game went on, and 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:57.040 you know, I just thought it was it was one 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:00.520 of those games where you know, he just I mean, 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:04.040 it reminded me, honestly in a weird way. It reminded 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.360 me of the Jason Garrett game way back then, when 0:04:06.520 --> 0:04:09.080 when he just came off the bench and just said, 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:11.200 all right, second half, we're going to just be a 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:14.640 different team, different quarterback. He really did a great job. 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:17.880 You know, I've had my doubts, of course. I started 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.920 off with Cooper Rush when he first got here, being 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:24.240 on the band whileing, oh let's go Cooper Rush, but 0:04:24.360 --> 0:04:28.480 then fell off and we talked about it last week 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:31.400 on Friday, how we felt on this situation. But with 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:33.240 Cooper Rush, you know, one of the things that I 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.919 really really liked is the fact that despite the mistakes 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:40.080 that he was making, he kept going and he didn't 0:04:40.120 --> 0:04:42.720 like start how do you say that startle him or 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:45.760 like threw him up to startle him or threw him 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:49.960 off or anything. He was focused, just kept competing, went 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:52.599 out there and kept the poise that you looked for 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:55.560 in a quarterback, especially a backup quarterback. So that was 0:04:56.040 --> 0:04:58.720 very impressive to me. Just hide the mistakes. How much 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:00.800 did that match up with what you expected to see? 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:03.760 Because I do think sometimes in the course of watching 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:06.680 the game, we get we get an impression from what 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:10.440 we're watching, and I think it is influenced by the outcome. 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.960 If they would have lost this game, there were plenty 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:15.800 of moments in that game where we would have looked 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.000 back and say, man, Cooper didn't do this right, He 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:20.560 didn't do this right, he missed this year he should 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.360 had it or maybe did have an interception here, Like, well, 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.240 how did this match up with what you expected from 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:27.080 him going into this game? Well, I mean I also 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:29.960 expected him to have his left tackle, you know, and 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:32.479 Tyron Smith didn't play and then that changed a lot. 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.000 I mean, the pressure there on that side of the field, 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:37.840 it was starting to to the pocket was collapsing a 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.760 lot more when that happened. So, um, you know, but 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.200 I think he played better than I thought he would 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:47.720 play because they're six and one man and he he 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:50.400 had some mistakes, but he also made some great throw 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:52.640 I mean he throw to Cedric Wilson for a touchdown 0:05:52.760 --> 0:05:56.479 was perfect throw. Yeah, um, second best throw of the 0:05:56.520 --> 0:06:02.080 game outside throw the CD on the run. Yeah, but yeah, 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:04.320 he I thought he he really did a great job 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:07.119 there of just putting him in position, and two minutes 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.000 to go, they get the ball down and they go 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:12.040 right down the field and score. Yeah. Well, to your point, 0:06:12.600 --> 0:06:14.760 if we look at it the other way, I'm a 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.200 pretty drastic person when it comes to football, So I 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.360 would have been in here and being like, what are 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:21.520 we doing? What are we what are they doing? They 0:06:21.600 --> 0:06:25.279 knew something could happen with Dak coming off an injury 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:28.480 from last year, so they decided to really just go 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:30.880 with Cooper Rush as the backup. So I'm very like 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:35.680 an extreme extremist. How do you say extreme extremist, extreme mix? Yeah, 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:41.040 something like that. Weird yea. When it comes to football, football, football, 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:44.120 I'm just Sings is the biggest extreme. Oh he's all 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:46.800 over all of all time. I call him that. I 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.120 don't even know if that's a real word, but it's 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:52.400 a word. It's just not using football gross is the 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:59.760 most He's the biggest extremist ever. Everything he does extreme beard, Yeah, 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:05.000 he do anything, work out, party, it's not gonna work out. 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:07.480 He's about to eat like everything. Ye have a good right, 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:10.080 He's like I'm gonna go people, or I'm gonna run 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:12.480 sixteen miles. All right, So how much did this performance 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:14.520 change your level of confidence in him? Because I think 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:17.240 last week, as we talked about it, we all thought, man, 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:19.800 I just don't know, cowboys maybe should have done a 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:21.880 little more in the off season to prepare for this 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.000 and shouldn't have put themselves in this situation. Do you 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:30.239 feel differently about that today? Um? Yeah, yeah. And also 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:32.520 the nature of the league too. What happened yesterday around 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:34.680 the league. You know, a lot of teams did that, 0:07:35.040 --> 0:07:38.400 and guys that couldn't beat out Cooper Rush three years ago, 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:42.320 we're winning games with you know yesterday. Yeah, I mean 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:45.200 that's incredible. But yeah, I mean I have a different 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.720 opinion about it. I mean I thought I thought going 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:51.960 into last week last night like all right, um, Dak 0:07:52.080 --> 0:07:55.080 doesn't play this game, probably play next week. And now 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:58.280 it's like we'll save that time. Well, we'll save that 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:00.880 topic because I do and I'm just doing has changed 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.240 my opinion because of that, because of what I saw 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:06.080 going in to beat Minnesota like that, I do think 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.600 they can beat Denver and Atlanta. They can also lose 0:08:09.640 --> 0:08:12.360 to them, but I do think they can beat them well, 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:14.800 and not just what Cooper rush. Hey, can y'all hear 0:08:14.880 --> 0:08:18.400 me now? Yeah? Yeah, coming in hot, just get in there. 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.640 Oh hey guy, Yeah, sorry, I was trying to wait 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:25.440 for a pause in the conversation. Hi, hey man. You 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.800 know it was funny because we went to you earlier 0:08:28.040 --> 0:08:29.600 and you just kind of sat there and looked at 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:31.960 the screen with that kind of weird look on your 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.040 face and just kind of gave a big side like 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:36.160 I wish we'd get the show started at some point. 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:38.880 So let's go back to you and tell us, Yeah, 0:08:38.960 --> 0:08:44.800 what's your big picture come take away from this game? Man? Well, 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:47.920 my big picture is, you guys know me pretty well, 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:50.880 the fact that I sat here for five minutes and 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:52.920 didn't say a curse word on a live mike, because 0:08:52.920 --> 0:08:56.720 it's incredible. I'm gonna pat myself on the back for that. 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:02.120 Um wow, man, I don't. I mean, my big picture 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:06.479 is that this is just one of the more impressive, 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:09.360 certainly one of the more impressive wins of Mike McCarthy's 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:12.520 short tenure here. Um, there were a couple of moments 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:14.600 like this last year, but you kind of felt like 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.720 the season was already lost with not knowing that Dak 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.440 wasn't coming back. That's the difference, right is you just 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.439 got to hold the line for a little while, as 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:26.920 opposed to knowing he's not coming back. And to come 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.000 up here in place such a complete and complimentary football 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:33.440 game and not even like not even the cleanest game, 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:37.199 like they were minus two and turnover differential and still 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:40.120 found a way to get it done against a not 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:45.320 a great team but certainly not a terrible teams. It's 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:48.240 pretty mind blowing, honestly, Yeah, it was. It was funny. 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:50.200 I was as I was toward the end of the 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:52.920 game and this was the last Cowboys possession and then 0:09:53.040 --> 0:09:56.080 obviously the last Minnesota possession. It was funny because I 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:57.840 was sitting there, Nick, you've already left the press box 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:00.439 heading down to the field. I kept can go over 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.080 at Dave and Rob and they both had these looks 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:07.120 on their face like wow, Wow, they did that, Okay, 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:10.400 and then next player do something, Wow, Wow, they did that, 0:10:10.440 --> 0:10:12.160 and I think we were all kind of thinking the 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:15.080 same thing, which was, man, this team is different. Like 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:18.080 this team, they're gonna find a way to win this game, 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:19.840 and then they're gonna find a way to stop them 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.400 to win the game. And that's what that's to me, 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:24.440 what I've really seen from this team. That's the big 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.320 picture I take away from this game. We got to 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.040 see the offense in the situation where they needed to 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.840 score to win, they got it. Defense, you need to 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:34.680 stop to win, they got it. That's the kind of 0:10:34.679 --> 0:10:37.120 thing that that's about championship football. That's how you win 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:40.360 championships in this league. Yeah, because fifty one seconds to go, 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:43.439 you know, most people would probably want to just want 0:10:43.440 --> 0:10:46.000 to see a run there, cut some time off. You know, 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:47.920 I thought they might do that on first and Golf 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:51.040 in the five, but you know now they decided to 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:52.599 throw it, and you know that's the first thing is 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.600 all right, is there any flags? That's what I looked 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:56.960 at the way, Okay, touchdown Cooper's there any flags though? 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:58.880 And then now that's a lot of time. It's a 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:01.719 lot of time. They don't have any timeouts. But they 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:03.880 stopped him. You know, fifty one seconds is a lot 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.840 of time, but they couldn't even get past the midfield. 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:08.760 I don't believe. No, I don't think so. If it was, 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.199 it was right there, But I mean in the confidence 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:14.720 that that Rush showed in Cooper to throw the ball 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:17.240 to him, like in that kind of situation. He was like, 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:18.960 he saw he was manned up out there. He's like, 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:20.800 of course I'm throwing it up. I'm giving him a shot. 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.199 And that's what Almar talked about after the game. He's like, 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.520 that's what we love about Cooper Rush is he's gonna 0:11:25.559 --> 0:11:27.360 take that shot. He's gonna give you a chance to 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:29.360 make that kind of play. And he sure did, and 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:31.320 it worked out for him, got him to touchdown, and 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.520 then the defense held for those that final minute of 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:35.000 the game. All Right, we're gonna take our first break 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.040 when we come back. I need to talk about Kella Moore. 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:40.080 He called what I thought was another really, really great game. 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.160 It's very clear what their their game plan was coming 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:45.240 in and showed us some wrinkles that we hadn't seen before. 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:46.800 We'll talk about all that when we come right back. 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:50.320 This is Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. Before there was 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:52.600 a draft you get sized up a cowboy by three 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:55.360 simple factors, the crease in his hat, the bend of 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.840 his brim, and his unbending attitude a man. 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Let's talk about 0:14:20.160 --> 0:14:23.480 Kellen Moore. It was, in my opinion, very clear that 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:25.840 their game plan going into the game was they were 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:27.440 going to try to run the ball. They were gonna 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:30.800 try to play bullyball. Basically, they showed us the whole package, 0:14:30.800 --> 0:14:34.080 which was brand new for us. Wishbone like I hadn't 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:37.240 seen Cowboys and a Wishbone maybe ever in the time 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:40.360 I've been covering the team. My question for you guys is, 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:45.440 what's wrong all you did? Johnny Wishbone? Sorry, Surprised that 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:47.800 they couldn't get more from the run game even when 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.480 they were in some of those bigger packages, or do 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:51.720 you think it was just one of those things where 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:53.400 in Minnesota said we're gonna sell out and we're gonna 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:57.280 stop the run. They did, They did sell out and 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:01.240 stop the run and I was waiting for you Minnesota. 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:03.560 That's finally changed that. But but they never did that. 0:15:03.640 --> 0:15:05.640 They were not going to let that happen. And you know, 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.600 with when you have Dak it's different. But with Cooper Russ, 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:10.080 I mean, that's that's what you have to do. You 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:11.920 have to say, this guy's gonna have to be this. 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:13.640 And in the first half he had three points and 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:15.640 they said, all right, you know, and I think that's 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:17.520 one of the reasons why they were so conservative there 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:19.080 at the end of the first half, and the fans 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:21.560 were booing all that. They probably were like, we're not 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:24.000 taking any chances here, we don't really need to. But 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.840 just a minute into it, when Cedric Wilson went over 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.280 the top of him, that changed everything. Really. That showed, hey, 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:31.080 this guy can hurt you if you if you, if 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:34.800 you're gonna play that kind of defense, I think that's 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.960 some of us. Yeah, I mean, I absolutely go ahead, Dave. 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:41.400 Oh sorry, ag go ahead, Oh you go ahead. You're 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:44.080 on you're actually on a microphone. Okay, damn it, I 0:15:44.840 --> 0:15:48.720 didn't miss this. I didn't miss this. Yeah. Um no, 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.360 I mean in the NFL, if if the opponent is 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:54.720 not afraid of your quarterback, it's hard to run the ball. 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:58.240 I fully expected that to happen. Minnesota's got talent on 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:02.320 that defense, if anything, and Nick Nick nailed it. Because 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:03.800 I was sitting there in the first half, I was 0:16:03.840 --> 0:16:08.400 tweeting about this. It was terrifying. Every time Cooper threw 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.560 over the middle, he was thrown behind guys he got 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:13.560 he nearly got picked off the second time. He did 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:15.960 get picked off. The first time, it was like they 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:19.600 don't respect him to do anything other than maybe curls 0:16:19.640 --> 0:16:23.120 and the occasional deep shot outside the numbers. But you 0:16:23.200 --> 0:16:24.800 make your money over the middle of the field. And 0:16:24.840 --> 0:16:27.400 it didn't. It didn't look like Cooper rush was up 0:16:27.400 --> 0:16:29.280 to it. And then on the first possession of the 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:32.080 second half, I think he flipped everything on its head 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.000 because not only do you hit the big play for 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.000 the touchdown, but now the Vikings have to keep that 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.760 in the back of their mind, like, Okay, we were 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:40.720 going to get hurt if we were playing the way 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:44.720 that we keep playing as aggressively downhill. And I don't 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:46.920 think it's a coincidence that the passing game kind of 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:50.840 opened up a lot after that play happened. One thing 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:53.840 that I wanted to add to the whole conversation is 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.760 when talking about Kellen Moore and how he impressive the 0:16:57.760 --> 0:17:00.600 work that he's doing has been. It's like in the 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:05.119 past we've seen occasions where a player goes out on 0:17:05.240 --> 0:17:07.360 offense and then all of a sudden, the whole thing 0:17:07.400 --> 0:17:10.000 just kind of falls apart and you cannot make it work. 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:12.520 You cannot move the chains and keep going and make 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:16.040 it happen. But yet you have so many missing pieces. 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:19.160 Then you get your quarterback unable to play, and then 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.879 you plug in Cooper Rush, and the way that Kellen 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:25.399 Moore was able to adjust and cater certain place to 0:17:25.600 --> 0:17:30.000 Cooper Rush, to me is absolutely impressive. It's also impressive 0:17:30.040 --> 0:17:32.480 the fact that you hear a lot of those players 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:35.440 the way they speak about Cooper Rush a backup quarterback 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.320 and just having their full on support and being confident 0:17:38.440 --> 0:17:41.400 in him obviously helps with the whole energy and being 0:17:41.400 --> 0:17:44.440 on the field, in the chemistry and everything. But just 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:48.000 everything that Kellen Moore has done so far, I am 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:50.800 to be fair like I've never really knew he had 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:55.520 that much in him, and I'm absolutely excited and looking 0:17:55.560 --> 0:17:58.800 forward to seeing more, hopefully beyond this year. You know, 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:01.440 as you were just talking, I just thought to myself, 0:18:01.480 --> 0:18:04.320 they actually last night were exactly where they loved were 0:18:04.400 --> 0:18:06.480 last year. They didn't have either one of their tackles 0:18:06.480 --> 0:18:09.320 and didn't have their quarterback. And I thought last year, 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:11.560 I was like, you take those three guys out of 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:14.440 this team, and there's no way they're going to be 0:18:14.520 --> 0:18:17.480 able to win because the offense is what they do best, 0:18:17.840 --> 0:18:20.679 and without those three players, there's no way your offense 0:18:20.720 --> 0:18:22.520 can really function. You won't be able to run the ball, 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:24.520 you won't have time to be able to throw the ball, 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:26.439 you don't have a trigger man a quarterback that can 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:29.000 actually get it out quickly. So there's no way to 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:31.520 win last night. The fact that they were able to 0:18:31.520 --> 0:18:34.359 get this to work, I think speaks a ton about 0:18:34.440 --> 0:18:36.280 Kellen Moore and what he was able to do and 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:38.880 how he called this game. I think it speaks just 0:18:38.960 --> 0:18:41.440 as much about the defense, because that's really the big 0:18:41.440 --> 0:18:44.479 difference is that this defense came to play last night 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:46.080 and they played in a way that we haven't really 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:48.879 seen defense in Dallas play in quite something now. Their 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:51.360 backs were against the wall several times there, they came back, 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:54.080 they led, they held them to field goals. I mean, 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:56.560 just if you I would have loved if somebody would 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:58.960 have come by after that first drive where it was 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:03.320 just boom boom, boom boom boom, touchdown, fireworks, horn, cannons, 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:05.920 all that, right, and then you're just like, man, that's 0:19:05.920 --> 0:19:10.639 a snow snow inside the stadium. Yeah, and then and 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:13.119 then it's a touchdown. And then you look around everybody 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:14.960 and be like that, that's a good touchdown. Too bad 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:16.960 they won't score another one again. The rest of the game. 0:19:17.119 --> 0:19:20.160 You're like, okay, because justin Jefferson's running down the sideline 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:22.800 on the next drive that easily could have been a touchdown. 0:19:22.840 --> 0:19:26.240 But the fact that they buckled in like that, I'll 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:29.080 say this, I don't think Randy Gregory, I don't think 0:19:29.359 --> 0:19:32.680 de Marcus Lawrence has ever played in a stretch like this, 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:37.120 Like Randy is playing nothing knock against DeMarcus. He's been great, 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:39.119 He's been a pro bowler. I think this is the 0:19:39.160 --> 0:19:41.680 best five games of a defensive end that we've seen 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:44.280 since de Marcus where was here? That's I mean, And 0:19:44.840 --> 0:19:46.760 and I can't wait for Tank to come back. And 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:49.080 you and I talked about this last night during the game. 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:52.240 Fact that like, this is the beautiful thing about Randy 0:19:52.240 --> 0:19:54.600 Gregory is he doesn't just get you sacks. He gets 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:56.960 you pressure in sacks in moments when you need it most, 0:19:57.280 --> 0:19:59.960 in parts of games where you absolutely gotta make stop. 0:20:00.560 --> 0:20:03.400 He's that guy that's creating disruption. He's that guy that's 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:05.920 making plays Like that's the part that's what you really 0:20:05.960 --> 0:20:07.880