WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Playoff Carryover? 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:10.760 The following He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:21.040 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys, Let's go. Are 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:23.960 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:29.080 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah, and so 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:32.960 much for that. It's time for the Break on Dallas 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:38.640 Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, Brian brought Us and 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:46.520 bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Monday, January ninth, 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:50.159 twenty twenty two, twenty three, Season eighteen, episode number one 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:53.360 oh three. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break. 0:00:53.400 --> 0:00:55.520 Clear life in that s WBC mortgage studios at the 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:57.800 Star were resented by Miller like the only beer of 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:00.720 the Dallas Cowboys in today, we have to in the season, 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:03.960 oh Man, hopefully ended better than the Cowboys did. Cowboys 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:07.320 to lose on the Road to Washington twenty six to twenty. 0:01:07.400 --> 0:01:09.720 I'm sorry, twenty six to six. That would actually been 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:11.560 a more interesting game twenty six to twenty, but no, 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.039 it was twenty six to six. And uh, you know, 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:16.640 I'll open the show first today with asking you guys 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:23.280 just the general question what happened? Well, I mean that 0:01:23.600 --> 0:01:27.640 called it right, that called it crappy. We had, Yeah, 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:30.479 we had to bleep it out for the post game. 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:32.520 You can't use crap on the radio. I think we 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.960 know he used the word when I was in there. 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:38.000 He said crappy, but I guess I missed the first part. 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:41.080 He missed the first word. Yeah, yeah, yeah, as I wrote, 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:46.040 it rhymes with gritty, which they were not. So they 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.160 got their ass kicked, as as McCarthy said, they got 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.360 punched in the mouth and they got their ass kicked. 0:01:52.680 --> 0:01:55.160 And I don't think they were they were mentally prepared 0:01:55.200 --> 0:01:58.400 to play. So you gotta put that on the coach. Um, 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:01.760 you know, they said they were they lied to us 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.520 or or they you know. And then he comes back 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:08.079 said they're human. But whatever, they didn't play well they 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:10.040 got and they but they do have some issues. I 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.000 think that are going to lead into the playoffs. I mean, 0:02:12.000 --> 0:02:14.480 they can't run the ball. I think Dak played his 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:18.080 worst game since the first game of the season, and um, 0:02:18.120 --> 0:02:20.320 you know, they still got issues at corner, especially now 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:23.560 if Blands banged up. I think Bland's gonna be okay 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:25.799 for you. Good. Yeah, I think Bland's gonna be okay 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:30.200 for you. H yeah, just what I got late late 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:33.160 last night, So I think Bland's gonna be okay for you. Um, 0:02:33.639 --> 0:02:36.120 what's disappointing and a a little bit disheartening is it was 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:39.600 a game that you had to go out and if 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:41.760 you're going to have any chance of winning the division, 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:44.240 you had to go out and win. You know, at least, 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:48.200 you know, you never gave yourself a decision to pull guys. 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:51.040 I mean you never felt good. I'll tell you I 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:53.600 felt good about the defense at least getting put in 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:58.480 some terrible situations. And you know the quarterback we talked about, 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:00.600 you know, the rookie quarterback. I mean, he made a 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:02.639 mistake throwing the ball. He just does one of those 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:04.680 plays they run it in practice and he throws it in. 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:08.280 It never gets intercepted, the play is always a touchdown 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:10.120 and all that. So he threw it with confidence that 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:13.040 it wasn't be in a triple coverage. But that's really 0:03:13.040 --> 0:03:15.240 what it came down to. But yeah, your defense got 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:18.639 thrown in some terrible situations yesterday and kind of held 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:21.480 you in that football game. We all know they can't 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:23.919 run the football, and they can't run the football. I 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:28.120 really do believe this is they have these breakdowns and 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:30.680 it's not always with what goes on with Martin and 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.880 Smith over on that right side. It wasn't a good 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:37.000 game for McGovern It really really wasn't. And then you know, 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.400 and they tried to run some creative stuff, their little 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:42.760 reverse runs and stuff like that. They couldn't get Peters 0:03:42.840 --> 0:03:45.320 on the outside to get a block. I mean they 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:49.040 I think the running aspect of it is the right idea. 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:52.600 The execution of like, Okay, well there's a hole. Why 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:54.840 didn't the back cut it this way when it's blocked that? 0:03:55.000 --> 0:03:57.160 You know, does he see a flash of a white 0:03:57.240 --> 0:03:59.760 jersey there? Does it keep them inside? When he shoot 0:03:59.760 --> 0:04:02.840 a backounced the ball to the outside. But you got 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:06.640 some guys yesterday they to Nick's point, physically got beat 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:08.520 up a little bit. And and a lot of that 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:11.160 has to do with you know, with you know, and 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:14.400 it having to Martin. I mean, I mean Ridgeway, who 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:18.080 you drafted like back to back plays, was just throwing 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:23.080 guys around and making tackles there. So that aspect of 0:04:23.120 --> 0:04:25.920 it is really really disappointing. Whender why they don't run 0:04:25.960 --> 0:04:29.360 the ball, it's they do not sustain any blocks at 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:32.320 the point of attack. They just have not. And I 0:04:32.360 --> 0:04:35.200 think you missed that with steal with him and that 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:38.480 ability to kind of get things sealed off so they 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:41.200 could at least cut the ball. They have no ability 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:44.279 to even cut the ball anymore. And that's I think 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:46.200 that's killing them a little bit in the running game 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:50.280 right now. I thought the protection was okay. Your quarterback 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:52.839 just didn't wasn't very accurate. I don't think he saw 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:56.920 the field particularly well. Yesterday. The receivers clearly weren't open. 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:01.000 They just could not get any separation on the outside. 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:04.359 They doubled Lamb a couple of different times. That forced 0:05:04.440 --> 0:05:06.640 Dack to have to throw the ball to other people. 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:11.159 Gallop doesn't look really comfortable catching the ball. Brown doesn't 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.040 look comfortable catching the ball. So yeah, I mean, you've 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:16.200 got a lot of issues on that offense right now. 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:18.560 That's kind of a little bit of a problem there 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:23.480 for you. Me personally, I don't really know how to 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:26.200 feel right now, Like I keep going back and forth, 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:31.600 and McCarthy mentioned he took the blame on himself and said, 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:34.680 you know, I put it on me, and we just 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:37.719 need to practice better so it comes out you would 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.880 say preparation. But I still have a problem with that 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:43.880 because you can talk about preparation and then come out 0:05:43.920 --> 0:05:47.080 and play like crap first half. But how are you 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:51.000 not able to do absolutely anything in the second half? 0:05:51.320 --> 0:05:55.919 Just whatever, during halftime, regroup, do what you need to 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:58.880 come out and do something that's better than what you've 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:03.320 been doing in the first half. So that and that's 0:06:03.440 --> 0:06:06.800 remembering like Washington wasn't even doing a whole lot, Like 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:10.640 if Washington should have had way more score more points 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:12.720 on the scoreboard than they did. They didn't even take 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:17.560 advantage of every mistake mistake that Dallas did. So they 0:06:17.560 --> 0:06:20.120 were in the red zone five times, by the way, Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:23.279 it's crazy. And then I think it was like ten 0:06:23.360 --> 0:06:27.080 times that the Colways went three and out. That's ridiculous. 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:33.840 It wasn't that's embarrassing. It's absolutely ridiculous that you were 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:39.200 so inefficient, like nothing. It was embarrassing. And everybody keeps 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:41.880 saying this was an embarrassing game. And the thing is 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.800 you go back to other games where they've lost or 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:49.120 even one, and they even times that they played bad, 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:51.880 they come out and do something that gives you some 0:06:51.960 --> 0:06:53.719 kind of hope. You're like, well they were able to 0:06:53.760 --> 0:06:55.839 do this or maybe you know, in the second half 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:58.320 they were able to start moving the ball and nothing 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:02.039 was working. The running game was absolutely gone, which is 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:05.800 one of my main concerns going into next week. It's like, uh, 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:08.880 it's completely and that's now. How many games are we 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:11.720 on now? For they haven't been able to last the 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:13.480 last three. I mean when you look at when you 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:15.960 look at it, though, they didn't run the ball against Philadelphia, 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.280 surely against Tennessee you didn't run the ball. And then 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:20.440 this last week you've played three teams in a row. 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:22.120 They're not gonna let you run the ball. And by 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:23.720 the way, you got one coming up, it's not gonna 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:25.480 let you run the ball. Yeah. So that's that's a 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:30.960 big concern of mine and we'll see. You know, part 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:35.680 of me I'm like, okay this in a way, I know, 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.360 I hate to say this. I'm not happy or glad 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.960 to see them lose or anything like that, but in 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.520 a way it makes me have a little bit more 0:07:44.600 --> 0:07:48.200 hope that they will prepare a lot better for this week. 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:52.400 They're they're gonna be mad and upset and just the 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:55.920 preparation wise, they're gonna be more upset how this game went. 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:57.920 Because if it was like one of those games where 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.800 they kind of play good bad then they end up 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:02.840 with the way and it's like, okay, well they still 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.640 managed to win, but the fact that they were so 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:09.720 embarrassed by the way they played against the team like Washington, 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:13.840 against that quarterback, and still the defense wasn't able to 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.600 give you as much as you And I'm sorry Brian 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:21.360 the quarterback. I mean, he wasn't that great at instance, 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:25.880 Like you know, I've seen plays and he did a 0:08:25.920 --> 0:08:28.960 couple of things, but at the end of the day, 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.200 he was still making mistakes and the Cowboys defense wasn't 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:36.000 able to take advantage of that either, and the pressure 0:08:36.080 --> 0:08:39.840 wasn't there. So it's just I expected a lot more. Well, 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:41.760 you know, I think the thing about it is, I 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:45.000 mean I think really the key here they weren't prepared. 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:49.360 And to me, the preparation also showed itself in the 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:53.400 fact that there were so many just mistakes, unforcedairs, you 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:56.120 got the punter dropping the ball, you got muff punts, 0:08:56.520 --> 0:09:00.640 you've got bad snap on extra point. There's there's just 0:09:00.760 --> 0:09:04.560 all these things that to me, what it represented for me, Nick, 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:06.440 you talk about it all the time. What were you 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:09.880 doing on Wednesday and Thursday? And it felt to me, like, 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.440 this team on Wednesday and Thursday of last week felt like, 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.120 of course we're gonna win this game. And Seed even 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:17.439 said it after the game, he was like, we all 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:19.400 win this game. Thing, we were gonna win, and we 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.080 didn't show up and play like that. And so it 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:25.559 says to me they felt like, well, Washington isn't playing 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:27.679 a lot of their guys, so we should be able 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:30.079 to roll the ball out there, get a couple scores, 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:32.520 wrap it all up, and head onto the bust and 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:35.680 headoff into the playoffs. And that's not what Washington planning 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.640 to do. Washington came out, gave him their best effort, 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:41.160 and Dallas on the flip side, was not prepared. And 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.280 that's how you get a game like what we saw yesterday. Well, 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.560 the Commanders lost their playoffs shot the week before because 0:09:46.559 --> 0:09:49.760 they played like Dallas played against the Browns and then 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:51.680 you know, they made a switch at quarterback and that 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:54.600 killed him and that you know, they they totally, you know, 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.760 lost everything there as far as that coast. But you 0:09:57.800 --> 0:09:59.800 know the thing about it is, you know the league 0:09:59.880 --> 0:10:03.480 is a hole through the whole thing with the Hamlin thing. 0:10:03.920 --> 0:10:06.480 Those players all went through that and some teams handled 0:10:06.480 --> 0:10:10.319 that obviously pretty well getting through it, and other teams didn't. 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:13.240 And I'm not using it as an excuse, but you 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:15.920 just don't know. I mean, I'm not I'm not out 0:10:15.960 --> 0:10:17.880 there on the practice field. I'm not in there every 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:20.079 day in the locker room and listening to the players 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:22.800 talk about it, and maybe they got affected by it. Maybe, 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:24.520 like you said, the CD felt like that, hey, we 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:26.600 just kind of can roll our helmet out there and play. 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:30.600 But you know, they they they they they just for 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:33.280 a team that the intent was to go try and 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.120 win the game. If you're intents to go try and 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.120 win the game and you play like that, you're you're 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:39.720 going to get beat in the playoffs in the first 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.200 round if you're intent. Now, it's one thing if you 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.720 rest everybody and say Okay, we're not going to play 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:47.840 and you lose the game. But man for them to 0:10:47.920 --> 0:10:50.679 have the intent going in that they were going to 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.239 try and win this football game and play like that, 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:56.320 that's that's a big indictment on this football team. Nick. Yesterday, 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:58.400 after the game, you were in the locker room amber, 0:10:58.480 --> 0:11:00.400 you were in the locker room as well. What do 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:02.240 you think was the mood of this team? What would 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:04.200 you call how would you characterize the mood of the 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:07.640 team in the locker room postgame, just you know, in general, 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:10.160 how what was the mood? It definitely was like a 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:14.480 frustrating loss. It wasn't like, well, all right, you know, 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.080 let's let's get past this and get onto the season. 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:20.640 It was more like what was that? You know? And 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:23.120 and you know, as I said on the radio this morning, 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:26.120 like that's a I mean shocker, but that's that's a 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:28.600 one of the worst locker rooms, you know. And and 0:11:28.760 --> 0:11:32.120 it's not it's never good, you know, it's it's crammed 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:36.959 in there and it's not big enough for an NFL team. Um, 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:40.520 but but it's so it's never a good mood win 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.120 or lose in that locker room. And so you know, 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:44.720 it was just one of those that I think that 0:11:44.760 --> 0:11:46.880 it was. It was so it was such a crappy 0:11:46.920 --> 0:11:49.560 game for them. Um, You're just trying to figure out 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:52.000 what was going on. And I bet the players are confused, 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:55.040 you know, I mean, because were they were they really 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:58.560 trying to win? I mean, because think about it, you 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:03.719 can say you're trying to win. But Terry McLaren had 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:07.599 caught like two passes against this team in like three games, 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:10.960 like he doesn't catch passes and against the Cowboys against Diggs, 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:14.440 So why is Diggs not on him? If Diggs isn't 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:16.360 on him, then are you just trying to throw Trayvon 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:18.120 Mullin out there to see if he can play? Just 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:21.000 see something? You know? There were some times third and 0:12:21.040 --> 0:12:25.280 five first series, run up the middle to Pollard, here's 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:29.240 another one fourth and inches. Dak is the guy that's 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:31.600 supposed to be like, hurry up to the line when 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:34.640 as Pollard pushed anyone like as Pollard going to be 0:12:34.679 --> 0:12:37.520 the guy that give Dak some some you know. It 0:12:37.679 --> 0:12:42.439 just there was just different combinations of lineups that you're 0:12:42.480 --> 0:12:45.280 just thinking, Okay, you say you wanted to win, but 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:48.240 oh no, you make a good point because with the 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:50.520 with the score thirteen to six and the second half, 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:53.560 you're you're looking at Mullen playing left corner. Yeah, you know, 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:55.280 you're looking at me. You're looking at a lot of 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:58.000 different guys. They played three different corners yesterday, three different 0:12:58.080 --> 0:13:00.800 left corners yesterday, is what they That's the part that 0:13:00.840 --> 0:13:03.120 doesn't make sense to me. Let's assume for a second 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.600 that maybe they were trying out new things they were 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.400 trying to do all these whatever just figuring stuff out. 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:13.240 To me, I would rather say, if you're gonna do that, 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:15.679 then just say, hey, we're not worried about whatever is 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:18.079 going to happen with the division. We'd rather just sit 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:19.559 our guys and rest some of our guys, and you 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:21.280 could test out all those guys, those other guys as 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:23.200 much as you want you run third and five with 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:25.360 Molie Davis, as much as you want on you know, 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:27.760 up the middle, like that doesn't matter. You would at 0:13:27.920 --> 0:13:30.360 least had the benefit of taking some guys who maybe 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:33.400 needed some rest, like a Michael Parsons, and giving them 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.599 some rest. If you're gonna play everybody, then play the 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:38.000 freaking game, right. Yeah. See the thing, I think greg 0:13:38.000 --> 0:13:40.120 Olson made a really good point. And I know in 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.480 the press box you guys don't get to hear the audio. 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:46.520 Greg Olsen said, He goes, it's now become a point, 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.600 with the way this game has gone, that you might 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.920 have made it worse. That you know, by playing your 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:55.280 guys the way you did and trying and keeping Doc 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.320 in there and keeping CD, keeping everybody in there, that 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:00.600 you might have made it worse. You might have created 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:04.080 even more, doubt more problems you think the Giants have 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:07.840 that Like, no, you know, But the thing about it is, 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:12.079 what's what really sucks is that Giants game turned into 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.120 a six point game. Yeah, you know, and all of 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.439 a sudden you're kind of going, oh, please, this is 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.960 because Hurt started getting hit in the game, and he 0:14:20.040 --> 0:14:23.200 clearly was not They're not the same when he's getting hit. 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.600 And so now you're sitting there thinking, Oh, if the 0:14:26.640 --> 0:14:29.920 Giants somehow pull this thing out and you're messing around 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:33.200 and and and and just getting would That's what I'm saying. 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:36.360 And so to me, I agree with what Nick sand 0:14:36.680 --> 0:14:38.840 Where was the intent of going out there and winning 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:42.600 this football game? You know it? It looked like to me, 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:45.360 you were out there with the intent of winning a game, 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:50.280 and they they just beat you up. I mean they controlled, 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.800 they controlled the line of scrimmage. They let her rookie 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:55.240 quarterback make a few plays. First plus he ever throws 0:14:55.240 --> 0:14:58.360 in his career, it's a touchdown, you know, he throws it. 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.160 He throws. He throws a bomb on a backup corner, 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:05.040 a backup, backup corner for thirty something yards to McLaurin 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:08.120 or more than that down the sidelines, you know, So 0:15:08.200 --> 0:15:11.800 I mean, where was the you know, I don't know. 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:14.720 I think Nick is onto something like, where were you 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:17.200 in this game where you where half of you trying 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:20.560 to play like it looked like it OsO Diggi, Zowa 0:15:20.800 --> 0:15:24.400 and Armstrong were like interested in playing football yesterday and 0:15:24.480 --> 0:15:27.680 everybody else was kind of interested that moan Clark and all, 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:30.400 you're not a bar. You didn't look like you were 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:35.480 ready to play football yesterday, you know, I mean no. 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:37.520 And that's the thing about it is, you know, you 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.520 watch these receivers and the routes and who's open and 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.840 who's not open and who's you know, it's just, you know, 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.160 it's disappointing that that part of it was that you 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.280 just go out there and I didn't know what the mission. 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:51.280 I thought was to try and go win a football 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:54.960 game and see what happens with the New York Philadelphia game. 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:59.400 But nah, that wasn't that wasn't the mission. They're just 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:01.560 trying to fool us, you know, they're just trying to 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:05.600 full Tampy and come outig and punch him in the mouth. 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:08.320 Uh No. You know one thing that I thought was 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:13.880 interesting that Mica said was I guess him realizing and 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:19.160 him saying, you know, you're you gotta take advantage I 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.800 forgot the exact quote he said, but basically, you gotta 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:25.360 take advantage of the now. Like he realizes he's starting 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.040 to notice like he's not gonna stay young. He's starting 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.320 to feel it in his body. He's not gonna stay young. 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.480 And the time is now, and you got to look 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.080 at yourself in the mirror and figure out exactly what 0:16:37.240 --> 0:16:40.200 is that you want as a team and as an 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:48.560 individual as well. So it's there's literally zero positive of 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:50.720 that came out of this game. I don't know as 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:53.560 who would you say of a single person that had 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:55.880 a good game. Well, the two that I watched it 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.880 like an Osa and Osa and and and then Armstrong, 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:02.480 they were they were into they were into playing your 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:05.359 game yesterday. Do you have a quiet eleven tackles for 0:17:05.880 --> 0:17:08.600 Gholston too? And yeah, like I didn't think, I don't 0:17:08.640 --> 0:17:11.560 know that was on the radar of eleven. I think 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:16.640 the only positive is if dron Bland is pretty good, 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.680 you know, and I think you'll be fun then that 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:21.840 that you know, that was one of them. Because you're 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:24.960 playing the game, you're hoping you don't have any further 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:26.880 injuries for this week because you got to turn around 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:30.080 and play a physical, you know, the physical team against 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:33.240 the Tampa So at the same time, you're hoping that 0:17:33.320 --> 0:17:37.960 those guys that you've been missing Hankins, Lvee be hottish. 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:40.360 You're hoping that they're getting healthier so that you might 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:42.560 have it right down the middle. Yeah, you're hoping you 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:44.479 get those guys back because you're gonna need them. You're 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:48.440 gonna need them. You definitely need Hankins and and and Layton. 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:50.880 I think that well, that that's hottish as much too. 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:52.720 I think yeah, I think too. You need to get 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:55.160 this offensive line back to what it was and not 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:57.800 what it is right currently the last couple of games, 0:17:57.880 --> 0:18:00.400 which is almost that's the weird part from me because 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:02.760 I actually thought once they had this injury and they 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:04.399 kind of had this new line up out there, I 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:06.639 was like, Man, this line, I'd be it's hard to 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:08.679 believe you're gonna have three Hall of Famers on an 0:18:08.680 --> 0:18:11.040 offensive line and they won't be at least as good. 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:14.200 But they're not. Right now. It's not there's not much 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:18.280 cohesion between Smith, Tyrn Smith, and Martin when it comes 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:21.520 to run blocking. The fourth and one play we saw 0:18:21.560 --> 0:18:24.520 this with Dak was the quarterback sneak kind of into 0:18:24.560 --> 0:18:28.280 the game. I mean I think it was sweat. I 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.560 mean he's just he's just basically not tiring back. Yeah, 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.359 not that happened much. Not the same not the same player, 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:36.680 not the same player out there playing tackle. And you 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:38.520 know there was a couple of times where the quickness 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:40.360 got him, you know, he was late to get out. 0:18:40.480 --> 0:18:42.320 It might be because you're playing a road game and 0:18:42.359 --> 0:18:44.720 stuff like that. It's like a lot of Dallas fans there, 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.680 so maybe it wasn't too loud with Jacksonville. Yeah, it's 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:52.199 crazy that that that guy. I think we're starting to 0:18:52.240 --> 0:18:54.080 see the I think we're starting to see the end. 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:56.159 I think we're starting to see the end, you know, 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:58.080 of a guy that and I really believe that I 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:01.080 thought they would be more powerful over there. It passed. 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:03.640 Protection wise, I think that they do some better things, 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:05.800 but they miss Steele as a run blocker. Yeah, they 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:07.880 really really do. All right, we're gonna take our first break. 0:19:07.920 --> 0:19:09.880 We're gonna come back. We'll dive a little deeper into 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:11.520 this game, see if there's some things we can kind 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:13.080 of take from it. We'll do it when we come back. 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:16.480 Dallas Cowboys dot com Radio. 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Like? 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:56.280 I think so, Teddy bad Luck Cowboys are officially owen one. 0:21:56.560 --> 0:22:00.200 When I when I high five the mascot of their 0:22:00.240 --> 0:22:02.800 team that that could help, we got into so many 0:22:02.840 --> 0:22:07.280 different little I thought that was so hilarious. That made 0:22:07.280 --> 0:22:09.000 my first song. And we first saw him was like 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:12.560 he was coming and then and then no, Nick, He's 0:22:12.600 --> 0:22:16.199 walking across the field and Nick's like today Teddy and 0:22:16.240 --> 0:22:18.320 Teddy didn't pay attention to him. And then Tuddy's coming 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:20.320 back and Nick's like, so, what's up? And then he's 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:24.000 like like he's his whole old friend and comes rolling 0:22:24.040 --> 0:22:26.280 over to Nick high five, let's get a picture, and 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:34.160 the whole thing inside there. Every time he walks or something, 0:22:34.240 --> 0:22:37.639 he keeps having to readjustice belly, like he's picking up 0:22:37.720 --> 0:22:41.479 his bell and like readjusting. It's so bad. It's like 0:22:41.760 --> 0:22:44.560 it's like he's like he walks around with like an 0:22:44.560 --> 0:22:47.040 inner tube. Yeah. Well but they just kind of it's 0:22:47.040 --> 0:22:49.560 almost like they stuffed him with like cotton or something, 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:52.080 but it keeps falling, so he's having to kind of 0:22:52.080 --> 0:22:55.840 pull his belly up. Probably the most solid guy there 0:22:56.000 --> 0:22:59.639 is that those those those mascots have to be in 0:22:59.760 --> 0:23:02.840 great they really do. Yeah, the that's kind of the 0:23:02.840 --> 0:23:05.160 only thing that was wrong with their team yesterday though. 0:23:05.280 --> 0:23:08.480 Pretty much. Yeah, everything else works. You were the mascot 0:23:08.520 --> 0:23:11.600 was trying to get everything right yesterday. Everything else worked 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:15.520 for the day. Yeah, so take that win. This wasn't 0:23:15.520 --> 0:23:20.920 the fattest one in that picture either. It's Clote borderline, 0:23:20.920 --> 0:23:28.119 it's Clote fair. But they didn't get two tuddies. Yeah three? Yeah? 0:23:28.400 --> 0:23:32.120 Was it three? It was like Dak was like, no, no, seriously, 0:23:32.440 --> 0:23:34.560 I'm throwing it at you. You're not gonna catch it, 0:23:35.400 --> 0:23:37.480 do it again, do it again, run it again. There 0:23:37.520 --> 0:23:40.720 you go, you guys, run this back. That wasn't any 0:23:40.800 --> 0:23:43.840 logic on that play. Yeah. The first the first one 0:23:43.880 --> 0:23:45.760 that was amiss. He was trying to throw it. He 0:23:45.840 --> 0:23:47.639 was just trying to like he was throwing off his 0:23:47.680 --> 0:23:49.960 back foot and it was like he was trying to 0:23:50.000 --> 0:23:52.560 just throw it maybe to throw it away, and it 0:23:52.760 --> 0:23:55.760 ended up out there. And like you know, Dad's always 0:23:55.800 --> 0:23:58.200 going to try and make a play. That's Dak off 0:23:58.240 --> 0:24:01.359 back foot trying to throw. The second one is though 0:24:01.400 --> 0:24:03.560 they're playing what they call that cover two look with 0:24:03.640 --> 0:24:07.399 the two corner to squats the corners quarters. Responsibility is 0:24:07.440 --> 0:24:09.800 the flat. If they if you run a route to 0:24:09.800 --> 0:24:13.720 the flat, that's that's his play balls right there. That's 0:24:13.800 --> 0:24:15.840 I mean, that's just you know, that's covered two look, 0:24:15.920 --> 0:24:17.360 you know. And I put that in as a five 0:24:17.400 --> 0:24:19.639 place to remember. I mean, this is the one that 0:24:19.760 --> 0:24:21.800 Dak probably would have liked. The first guy to catch. 0:24:21.920 --> 0:24:24.720 He intercepts the ball, you'd like to think you'd like 0:24:24.800 --> 0:24:27.080 to think Gallup touches him at the twenty two yard line. 0:24:27.119 --> 0:24:29.960 Then what they've already thrown a pick sly can't make 0:24:29.960 --> 0:24:33.840 it field goal at all. I mean, like, would they 0:24:33.880 --> 0:24:36.280 have even scored, you know, I mean it was it, 0:24:36.320 --> 0:24:40.000 But the second one, the second one was I just 0:24:40.040 --> 0:24:44.080 don't know why you would run an out into a 0:24:44.119 --> 0:24:46.639 cover two look with a guy just squatted down the 0:24:46.720 --> 0:24:49.320 end of the sticks. Right. Yeah, it was third, Yeah, 0:24:49.520 --> 0:24:52.359 it was third. It was third and five, Okay, okay, yeah, 0:24:52.600 --> 0:24:54.640 but I still think it was it was right at 0:24:54.640 --> 0:24:57.000 the sticks. I don't Oh no, that's like to say. 0:24:57.080 --> 0:24:58.919 He just he said, we're gonna try and throw this 0:24:58.960 --> 0:25:01.520 ball to the sideline to Noah Brown and hope for 0:25:01.520 --> 0:25:03.919 the best, you know. And the thing about it is, 0:25:03.960 --> 0:25:07.040 you know, it's funny with this this receivers and stuff. 0:25:07.080 --> 0:25:10.040 Even even even t Y Hilton had what a couple 0:25:10.040 --> 0:25:12.280 of drops. I mean, the second one, the long one 0:25:12.320 --> 0:25:14.720 down the sidelines, he get his hands on it. You know, 0:25:14.720 --> 0:25:16.760 we've seen him make long plays like that before. But 0:25:16.840 --> 0:25:18.800 the one inside that he dropped and hit him right. 0:25:18.880 --> 0:25:20.600 I was just a clear drops hit him right in there, 0:25:20.640 --> 0:25:23.239 no hands. Yeah. I mean, you're like, okay, so your 0:25:23.320 --> 0:25:25.840 quarterback's not playing great and you're dropping balls and you're 0:25:25.880 --> 0:25:28.000 not getting open and he's kind of throwing it to 0:25:28.040 --> 0:25:32.000 the other team and you know, it's just I like 0:25:32.640 --> 0:25:35.600 this guy as a person. I really do might Gallo, 0:25:36.720 --> 0:25:41.640 but he is demeaner on and off sometimes. I mean 0:25:41.640 --> 0:25:43.879 he's there's been things he's kind of said in the 0:25:43.920 --> 0:25:47.480 past where you just think, you know, the fire the dog. 0:25:47.600 --> 0:25:51.480 It's like not always there. Sometimes he makes some great plays, 0:25:51.480 --> 0:25:54.760 and then sometimes it's just kind of whatever, you know, 0:25:54.880 --> 0:25:58.960 And and that's I think that's he is. He is 0:25:59.080 --> 0:26:03.119 not necessary your typical number two receiver, and he's getting 0:26:03.119 --> 0:26:05.800 paid like it. Yeah, but I think they need more 0:26:05.880 --> 0:26:08.320 from him, They really do that. You've got a guy 0:26:08.359 --> 0:26:11.080 getting one hundred and seven catches on the other side. Yeah, 0:26:11.119 --> 0:26:13.800 I mean, see the thing about it too, is like 0:26:13.840 --> 0:26:16.520 with him, it's just every time it's just like even 0:26:16.560 --> 0:26:19.879 the slants and stuff, it's just bad body position. You know. 0:26:20.160 --> 0:26:22.000 It's like he gets caught between do I want to 0:26:22.000 --> 0:26:23.880 cradle this thing or do I want to catch it? 0:26:24.200 --> 0:26:26.679 And as the ball gets closer, it just makes him 0:26:26.760 --> 0:26:30.040 kind of do weird things with his body to try 0:26:30.080 --> 0:26:32.400 and you know, you're like, it's just not a good 0:26:32.440 --> 0:26:35.719 position to catch the ball. And I'll tell you there 0:26:35.760 --> 0:26:37.520 was one you remember, third down play. It was like 0:26:37.520 --> 0:26:39.960 a third and long play where they throw the ball 0:26:40.000 --> 0:26:42.600 in the middle of the field to Noah Brown and 0:26:42.640 --> 0:26:45.399 he's like it's just crushed, like you know, it's not 0:26:45.440 --> 0:26:48.480 even close. And this is Doc, this is this is 0:26:48.520 --> 0:26:51.720 what you learn about Doc loves Brown. That's I'm saying, 0:26:52.200 --> 0:26:54.159 Noah Brown, he's going to throw it into the teeth 0:26:54.200 --> 0:27:00.480 of just disaster. But you've got Lamb and also Shoult 0:27:00.680 --> 0:27:03.080 standing there and you throw it to them. It's a 0:27:03.480 --> 0:27:05.679 it's gonna be a twelve yard game in a first 0:27:05.720 --> 0:27:10.280 down and you're wondering, like, bro, you had it right here. 0:27:10.960 --> 0:27:13.440 I mean, and this is where Dak, I think gets 0:27:13.440 --> 0:27:16.720 in trouble. I think it's like predetermined, I'm gonna fit 0:27:16.800 --> 0:27:18.960 the ball here and I'm not gonna look it here, 0:27:19.000 --> 0:27:20.760 and I'm not gonna look it here. And you can 0:27:20.800 --> 0:27:23.040 see during the game that Ceedee Lamb's like looking at 0:27:23.119 --> 0:27:25.879 him like palms up, like ooh. There's one time a 0:27:25.960 --> 0:27:29.440 two throw another ball where it goes inside and they 0:27:29.520 --> 0:27:32.400 run a double move with Lamb and if if Dak 0:27:32.520 --> 0:27:34.800 just hangs with it, just lets him clear, it's gonna 0:27:34.800 --> 0:27:37.520 be a huge play. And he just he's like, nah, 0:27:37.760 --> 0:27:40.320 I'm throw it over here, you know. And the plays 0:27:40.400 --> 0:27:43.200 designed to and they get the get what they want, 0:27:43.880 --> 0:27:46.080 but he doesn't throw it to where you know, if 0:27:46.119 --> 0:27:47.639 he throws it far enough to the out, it's a 0:27:47.640 --> 0:27:49.200 big play. So what do you think? What do you 0:27:49.280 --> 0:27:52.160 guys think is happening with Dak? Because I don't think 0:27:52.160 --> 0:27:55.560 he's the thing about Dak turnover, let's be freaking him out. 0:27:55.640 --> 0:27:58.240 They are, but let's be honest. There have also been 0:27:58.280 --> 0:28:02.080 some games here in December where he has played really, 0:28:02.080 --> 0:28:04.800 really great football. There have been some games where it's like, 0:28:05.160 --> 0:28:07.720 what the heck was that? And then obviously to see 0:28:07.760 --> 0:28:10.240 a game like yesterday where nothing went right, like he 0:28:10.359 --> 0:28:12.560 just had probably his worst performance, as you said, Nick, 0:28:12.720 --> 0:28:14.840 since the way he started the season against Tampa. Was 0:28:14.840 --> 0:28:17.240 he bad against Houston in that game for up until 0:28:17.320 --> 0:28:20.080 like for fifty eight minutes the Houston game, we weren't 0:28:20.160 --> 0:28:23.040 very good, right, No, I mean that's exactly. It's been 0:28:23.119 --> 0:28:24.800 kind of up and down. It's been up and down. 0:28:25.200 --> 0:28:27.320 So what do you guys think is going on with 0:28:27.400 --> 0:28:31.240 Dak at this mo? I just I mean I wanted 0:28:31.680 --> 0:28:35.120 the turnovers I think are huge just because I think 0:28:35.160 --> 0:28:38.240 it's reckless. I think there's just some I mean ball 0:28:38.280 --> 0:28:42.200 clanging off guys, not his fault, but every diame it happens. 0:28:42.240 --> 0:28:44.600 We're standing at the podium saying I need to do better, 0:28:44.760 --> 0:28:46.680 I need to do better, and then we get the 0:28:46.680 --> 0:28:48.720 fans calling him on our show last night, on the 0:28:48.760 --> 0:28:52.280 postgame show, going why is it the same speech? Tell me, 0:28:52.320 --> 0:28:54.800 you tell me every week you're doing better, and you're 0:28:54.840 --> 0:28:57.520 not doing better. You're still making some of the same mistakes. 0:28:57.920 --> 0:29:00.000 I don't think he sees the field all the time. 0:29:00.040 --> 0:29:02.120 I think he gets fooled. I think he gets in 0:29:02.200 --> 0:29:04.000 the games and thinks I can throw it there, and 0:29:04.040 --> 0:29:06.560 he gets fooled on the coverage. I really do. I 0:29:06.560 --> 0:29:10.240 don't think he sees the secondary all the time and 0:29:10.960 --> 0:29:14.480 it comes and goes, Which is maddening because the throw 0:29:14.560 --> 0:29:17.760 he made for the touchdown was a great read. He 0:29:17.920 --> 0:29:21.680 knew exactly the spacing between the corner and then what 0:29:21.760 --> 0:29:23.360 was going on in the middle of the field and 0:29:23.600 --> 0:29:26.760 and and Lamb ran a great route and stopped and 0:29:26.840 --> 0:29:29.480 he fired it in there, and you're going, ha, he saw. 0:29:29.640 --> 0:29:31.960 I think that is the one spot in that press 0:29:32.000 --> 0:29:35.480 box where we were like great view, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, 0:29:35.520 --> 0:29:37.280 literally you're seeing it from the and you said it 0:29:37.280 --> 0:29:40.480 immediate venue. That was that was he hadn't done on 0:29:40.560 --> 0:29:43.280 all this. That's the thing that's the That's the thing 0:29:43.320 --> 0:29:46.600 that's maddening about him is that you see you see 0:29:46.640 --> 0:29:48.680 a throw that he made, maybe with the greatest throws 0:29:48.680 --> 0:29:50.760 I've ever seen. I've seen a lot of them. The 0:29:50.840 --> 0:29:53.760 Giants game at the Meadowlands in the season, the Cole 0:29:53.800 --> 0:29:55.960 Beasley across the back of the end zone. One of 0:29:56.000 --> 0:29:57.760 the greatest throws I've ever seen in the end zone 0:29:57.760 --> 0:29:59.560 in my life. I mean, just the way he threw 0:29:59.560 --> 0:30:02.840 that ball. You're like, that's it, that's what he can do. 0:30:03.200 --> 0:30:05.040 And then he does stuff where he throws that on 0:30:05.120 --> 0:30:07.600 that out and things or he doesn't see and you're going, 0:30:07.680 --> 0:30:10.760 why wait, wait, you saw that. Why didn't you see that? 0:30:11.360 --> 0:30:13.200 You know? And that I think that's the thing that's 0:30:13.480 --> 0:30:18.000 the It's the inconsistency about how he sees things and 0:30:18.040 --> 0:30:21.080 how he reacts to things, and how he executes and 0:30:21.120 --> 0:30:23.280 how he throws the ball. You know, his rookie year, 0:30:23.320 --> 0:30:26.160 he wasn't throwing interceptions. He didn't have to. Zeke was 0:30:26.240 --> 0:30:29.160 Russia for sixteen hundred yards and he had a lot 0:30:29.200 --> 0:30:31.960 of help. That offensive line was was was protecting him, 0:30:32.200 --> 0:30:33.920 and it was at a point where he could kind 0:30:33.920 --> 0:30:35.680 of throw it to the right guy and all that, 0:30:35.760 --> 0:30:38.600 and I just think, now you know, they're not running 0:30:38.600 --> 0:30:42.040 the football very well, and the routes aren't great either. 0:30:42.120 --> 0:30:45.920 Now aren't as good? So are we all right? Back 0:30:45.920 --> 0:30:49.000 to the same conversation we started with, which is without 0:30:49.000 --> 0:30:52.640 Amari Cooper, they just don't I just wish t Y 0:30:52.680 --> 0:30:55.320 Hilton wouldn't have dropped those balls yesterday because I'm the 0:30:55.320 --> 0:30:57.880 guy champion in t Y Hilton. Make him plays, and 0:30:57.920 --> 0:31:02.040 we've seen him make plays. I worry about Gallop and 0:31:02.080 --> 0:31:04.160 I worry about now Noah Brown, I don't. I think 0:31:04.200 --> 0:31:08.080 it's like when when you don't have some success catching 0:31:08.080 --> 0:31:10.680 the ball, and Gallop, I mean, he hasn't had great 0:31:10.760 --> 0:31:13.920 success this year catching the ball. I think he's fighting 0:31:13.960 --> 0:31:16.680 that thing right now and the quarterbacks trying to help him. 0:31:16.680 --> 0:31:20.600 But sometimes the ball's here, sometimes it's low, sometimes it's 0:31:20.800 --> 0:31:23.280 you know, he threw a ball to Schultz across the field, 0:31:23.320 --> 0:31:25.720 and Schultz had the kind of you know, Schultz is 0:31:25.760 --> 0:31:28.680 like throws his hands behind him, put it in front 0:31:28.680 --> 0:31:31.040 of him. Yeah, you know, but I get it. You 0:31:31.040 --> 0:31:33.600 don't probably have a lot of confidence that Jason Peters 0:31:33.720 --> 0:31:35.480 is going to hold up over here at left tackle, 0:31:35.520 --> 0:31:37.880 so I've got to kind of throw the ball that way. Yeah, 0:31:38.360 --> 0:31:41.160 it's just there's so many things going on, and this 0:31:41.240 --> 0:31:43.239 offense is good and it could score points and it 0:31:43.280 --> 0:31:46.000 can look great. But when they look bad, they look 0:31:46.280 --> 0:31:49.600 really bad. We talk about we talk about his wings 0:31:49.600 --> 0:31:51.760 from one end. Oh my god. Like, there's only one 0:31:51.800 --> 0:31:53.280 other team I think of right now that's in the 0:31:53.280 --> 0:31:55.960 playoffs that's worse than Dallas at that nest Minnesota. Like 0:31:56.000 --> 0:31:59.160 Minnesota can be really great, they could also be extremely bad. 0:31:59.480 --> 0:32:02.280 I don't think else is that bad yet, but certainly 0:32:02.440 --> 0:32:05.440 like they're on that trajectory of when they're good, they're good. 0:32:05.560 --> 0:32:08.160 When they're bad, man, it can be just a really 0:32:08.160 --> 0:32:10.360 really poor performance. All right, we're gonna take off. But 0:32:10.480 --> 0:32:12.080 I was gonna say I think the fact that they've 0:32:12.120 --> 0:32:17.000 been winning games has affected kind of their mentality and 0:32:17.040 --> 0:32:19.520 the way they attack things. That's why you get Dak 0:32:19.640 --> 0:32:21.800 at the podium every time saying, well, we're gonna keep 0:32:21.840 --> 0:32:26.560 being aggressive and I'm taking away obviously those two less losses, 0:32:26.600 --> 0:32:29.600 you know, this one and then the one in Jacksonville, 0:32:29.680 --> 0:32:33.640 But in general, every game it's been a trend where 0:32:33.680 --> 0:32:37.400 he turns over the ball and then you go into 0:32:37.520 --> 0:32:40.560 after the game question, Oh, here we go again, the interceptions, 0:32:40.520 --> 0:32:44.800 blah blah, And in every game he has made one 0:32:44.960 --> 0:32:47.480 or two or three plays that are like really good 0:32:47.520 --> 0:32:50.040 passing and you're like, okay, well that's why you keep 0:32:50.080 --> 0:32:51.960 trying to be aggressive and at the end of the game, 0:32:52.080 --> 0:32:55.400 you guys manage and find the way to win. So 0:32:56.080 --> 0:33:00.800 I think that has affected the whole and I'm just 0:33:00.840 --> 0:33:03.719 trying to look for a reasoning because, like you said, Brian, 0:33:04.120 --> 0:33:06.880 we hear the same speech speech every game and it 0:33:06.920 --> 0:33:08.880 doesn't change, and they don't go out saying, you know, 0:33:08.920 --> 0:33:10.840 we're gonna be more careful with the ball or anything. 0:33:10.840 --> 0:33:14.600 It's not. We're gonna work at it, try to clean up, 0:33:14.960 --> 0:33:18.480 but we're gonna stay aggressive and be aggressive. So we'll 0:33:18.520 --> 0:33:20.400 see how they start changing the game. Planet. I don't. 0:33:20.480 --> 0:33:23.320 I don't kind of how can I ask a question, yea, 0:33:23.480 --> 0:33:25.720 we got a break. I was gonna ask back to 0:33:25.760 --> 0:33:29.800 the Michael Gallup thing. 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The question was, are we through 0:36:22.640 --> 0:36:26.000 past the injury for a Michael Gallup is part of 0:36:26.000 --> 0:36:28.319 what we're seeing a result of the fact that he 0:36:28.360 --> 0:36:31.280 just isn't completely back from from his injury and recovering 0:36:31.320 --> 0:36:33.480 from it. I think that would be a really convenient 0:36:33.520 --> 0:36:35.640 thing to say. I think that, you know, there was 0:36:35.680 --> 0:36:37.640 some probably early in the season, he didn't want to 0:36:37.640 --> 0:36:40.719 play in that game, the Monday night game in New York. 0:36:40.760 --> 0:36:42.680 I really do think that he was like, listen, let 0:36:42.680 --> 0:36:44.520 me have one more week, let me get this singer, 0:36:44.560 --> 0:36:46.080 you know in my mind right and all that. I 0:36:46.120 --> 0:36:48.480 think that very early in the season he struggled with that, 0:36:48.600 --> 0:36:50.719 and I don't think the Cowboys wanted him to play 0:36:50.719 --> 0:36:53.279 in that game. There's a lot of history on that turf. Yeah, yeah, 0:36:53.719 --> 0:36:55.919 it's a bad. It's a bad. You're absolutely right about 0:36:55.920 --> 0:36:57.680 I think it's a combination. I mean, all it takes 0:36:57.760 --> 0:36:59.440 is one person putting it in your head, yeah, or 0:36:59.480 --> 0:37:01.239 one of the then it's like whoa wa. Yeah, I 0:37:01.280 --> 0:37:03.719 mean just visiting with people like you guys do it 0:37:03.760 --> 0:37:05.319 was not it was not a game. But I think 0:37:05.360 --> 0:37:07.359 we're past that point. I do two. I think we're 0:37:07.400 --> 0:37:12.800 past that. And you know, I mean they're he's just um, 0:37:12.800 --> 0:37:15.640 he's inconsistent. I mean, because there are sometimes he makes 0:37:15.680 --> 0:37:17.680 some great catches. I mean, if you're throwing the ball 0:37:17.680 --> 0:37:20.279 on the sideline, I think I wanted to go to 0:37:20.400 --> 0:37:23.000 him more than any other player. But he's just it's 0:37:23.560 --> 0:37:25.480 I don't know, I don't know what it is about him. 0:37:25.560 --> 0:37:28.080 It's just not always there. And that's what a number 0:37:28.080 --> 0:37:30.719 two receiver probably is. If you look around the league 0:37:30.719 --> 0:37:33.880 at all number two receivers, do they have the ability 0:37:33.920 --> 0:37:36.880 to go for one forty and two touchdowns? Yes? Do 0:37:36.960 --> 0:37:39.480 they also can can they go one for four four 0:37:39.560 --> 0:37:42.600 yards and and not? You know, and maybe four or 0:37:42.600 --> 0:37:46.000 five targets that incomplete? Yeah, that's what a number two does, 0:37:46.160 --> 0:37:48.480 or you'd be a number one. So I think all 0:37:48.560 --> 0:37:53.279 number two receivers are pretty inconsistent with you know, they 0:37:53.480 --> 0:37:55.680 they're highs and lows, I mean, and they you want 0:37:55.760 --> 0:37:57.319 them to be somewhere in between. What has been as 0:37:57.360 --> 0:37:59.200 high what we say is as high this season as 0:37:59.239 --> 0:38:02.879 he had as high Yeah, I mean my yards. I'm 0:38:02.920 --> 0:38:05.399 just saying in general game, and you're like, man, he 0:38:05.520 --> 0:38:08.120 was the difference here too high? Well, I mean plays 0:38:08.120 --> 0:38:10.120 that he's made. I remember the play I think it 0:38:10.120 --> 0:38:12.440 was against the Colts where Dak sprints was right, He's 0:38:12.480 --> 0:38:14.520 a stationary receiver in the middle of the field and 0:38:14.520 --> 0:38:17.000 he takes off running with Dak and he throws in 0:38:17.080 --> 0:38:18.600 the ball and then he skirts in. I think that 0:38:18.640 --> 0:38:20.360 was against the Colts. He had to play against the 0:38:20.400 --> 0:38:23.080 Philadelphi Eagles in the corner at the pylon. Nick's right 0:38:23.160 --> 0:38:26.200 about that sideline plays where it's not a contested but 0:38:26.280 --> 0:38:29.840 it's all about him kind of getting hands to body 0:38:29.920 --> 0:38:32.799 to ball to tow sixty three. Yeah, I mean, those 0:38:32.840 --> 0:38:35.759 are those are all those three? That's his best five 0:38:35.840 --> 0:38:39.359 cats to sixty three against the Giants on Thanksgiving and 0:38:39.520 --> 0:38:44.000 which that wasn't really that memorable. You know what, I'm 0:38:44.040 --> 0:38:47.320 really really pissed right now. Yeah, this is what I 0:38:47.360 --> 0:38:49.279 was waiting for. The ladies should not be using the 0:38:49.320 --> 0:38:52.759 word piss but I am. And the thing is, you 0:38:52.800 --> 0:38:55.920 know what bothers me is why are we talking about 0:38:55.920 --> 0:38:59.200 the wide receiver group right now at this point of 0:38:59.239 --> 0:39:01.600 the year when this is exactly the conversation we were 0:39:01.600 --> 0:39:05.000 having a training camp. These were issues and we've had 0:39:05.040 --> 0:39:07.799 opened the ups and downs with the wide receiver group. 0:39:07.800 --> 0:39:10.239 I think Noah Brown did a really really good job 0:39:10.840 --> 0:39:14.239 during his time with Cooper Rush and all that, and 0:39:14.280 --> 0:39:17.120 that was working. So there were times where you thought, Okay, 0:39:18.640 --> 0:39:22.080 they're doing okay, enough enough to get you by because 0:39:22.360 --> 0:39:25.919 also how the defense was playing for you. Now that's 0:39:25.920 --> 0:39:28.600 not the case. Now you need the offense to play 0:39:28.600 --> 0:39:32.040 a lot better than what the defense is helping you with. 0:39:32.600 --> 0:39:36.160 And now even though they got Tye Hilton and he's 0:39:36.200 --> 0:39:40.279 shown some things, it's still not there yet, not there 0:39:40.320 --> 0:39:42.799 as a group at the wide receiver position. And it's 0:39:42.840 --> 0:39:47.440 just that's it makes me mad that we're literally at 0:39:47.440 --> 0:39:49.880 the time where you think you should have most of 0:39:50.080 --> 0:39:54.000 everything figured out, you don't. And we're going headed to 0:39:54.160 --> 0:39:57.560 Tampa Bay next week. Here kind of saying, well, Michael 0:39:57.640 --> 0:40:00.440 Gallup hasn't been the guy that he needs to be. Well, 0:40:00.719 --> 0:40:03.400 now you're throwing passes and Noah Brown, who according to 0:40:03.480 --> 0:40:08.520 Nick is the best base volleyball player in the United States, 0:40:08.680 --> 0:40:18.200 but they're competing for big screen. Oh my gosh. No. 0:40:18.239 --> 0:40:22.560 But it's it's just upsetting when we have seen this, 0:40:23.480 --> 0:40:26.600 and this is a topic of conversations since training camp, 0:40:26.640 --> 0:40:28.880 and here we are sitting at the end of the season, 0:40:28.960 --> 0:40:32.160 heading into the playoffs, still kind of having this conversation. 0:40:32.160 --> 0:40:35.280 And I love what t Y Hilton has done since 0:40:35.320 --> 0:40:38.440 the moment he got here, but it's not to the 0:40:40.040 --> 0:40:42.319 he's not there every play like, it's not to the 0:40:42.400 --> 0:40:45.879 point where now that's your guy and you're fully giving 0:40:45.880 --> 0:40:48.520 that responsibility to him. Just yeah, if you feel better 0:40:48.520 --> 0:40:50.759 about t Y Hilton, then you do Gallop, then you 0:40:50.800 --> 0:40:53.879 probably need you probably need more reps from t Y Hilton, which, 0:40:53.920 --> 0:40:56.560 by the way, I do expect in the playoffs, get 0:40:56.560 --> 0:41:00.040 more last week's game. Last week's game, he was a 0:41:00.120 --> 0:41:02.560 guy that they were relying on on third downs, particularly, 0:41:02.719 --> 0:41:04.520 so I expect in the playoffs you're gonna see a 0:41:04.560 --> 0:41:06.759 lot more of that. With CD you have, you guys 0:41:06.800 --> 0:41:09.440 thought about with the playoffs here, what about like Odell 0:41:14.280 --> 0:41:17.760 you know what with about a minute and forty five seconds, 0:41:17.840 --> 0:41:20.200 let me ask you this, about a minute five seconds 0:41:20.239 --> 0:41:24.359 left in the show. You really just drop that out there? Yeah, yeah, 0:41:24.520 --> 0:41:27.040 tomorrow and maybe he'll be asked about it. More concerned 0:41:27.040 --> 0:41:30.960 about the cornerback situation, the wide receiver situation. Cornerback, No doubt, 0:41:31.080 --> 0:41:34.120 it's not because because like you said, they'll find those 0:41:34.160 --> 0:41:36.919 bad players. Yeah, if you can exploit them. And Mike, 0:41:37.080 --> 0:41:40.680 Mike Evans, I mean the quality, the quality they've tried 0:41:40.719 --> 0:41:44.000 to fix the cornerback spot. They've brought every corner that's 0:41:44.000 --> 0:41:46.399 been on the street, they've brought in. You know, we'll 0:41:46.440 --> 0:41:49.920 see what happens with Xavier Rhodes, Mike. Guys in the league. 0:41:49.960 --> 0:41:52.879 Tell me listen, he's he's a long player. Dan likes 0:41:52.880 --> 0:41:55.239 those kind of guys. He's a tough guy. He can't 0:41:55.320 --> 0:41:57.480 run as well as he once didn't. You know, so 0:41:57.520 --> 0:41:59.560 now maybe you throw your situation out there. He's a 0:41:59.640 --> 0:42:03.360 veteran guy. George Edwards knows him from his days in Minnesota. 0:42:03.520 --> 0:42:06.400 They've thrown everything. I don't expect Mullin or any of 0:42:06.400 --> 0:42:08.640 these other guys to play anymore, not right too far 0:42:08.640 --> 0:42:11.040 into the matchups, though. This is where I look at 0:42:11.120 --> 0:42:14.040 Xavier Rhodes and say, can you put veteran against veteran? 0:42:14.280 --> 0:42:16.880 Put him out there with Julio. Julio is a guy 0:42:16.880 --> 0:42:19.359 I worry about in a playoff game because he hasn't 0:42:19.360 --> 0:42:21.560 been a guy who's been killing teams all season. But 0:42:21.640 --> 0:42:23.480 you get those kind of vets who just have that 0:42:23.680 --> 0:42:27.320 natural raw ability into the playoffs, Like, I start worrying 0:42:27.360 --> 0:42:29.319 a little bit about that, and I think Xavian might 0:42:29.400 --> 0:42:31.680 that might be somebody could put out there to handle 0:42:31.760 --> 0:42:33.840 him a little bit other than Tom Brady, of course, 0:42:35.640 --> 0:42:37.719 And even though he has a play great this year, 0:42:37.760 --> 0:42:39.719 he's still I mean still, he gets it done at 0:42:39.719 --> 0:42:42.520 the end, and that's a credit to their defense. But 0:42:42.520 --> 0:42:44.640 the guy that worries me the most is for Nett 0:42:45.640 --> 0:42:49.880 to me seem Tom Brady in Week one didn't have 0:42:49.960 --> 0:42:52.320 to be Tom Brady. Leonard Fournette had one hundred and 0:42:52.360 --> 0:42:54.399 twenty eight yards and it looked and him six yards 0:42:54.440 --> 0:42:57.880 a shot. And I still haven't seen the Cowboys consistently 0:42:57.920 --> 0:42:59.799 be able to stop the run. Every time we think 0:42:59.800 --> 0:43:01.480 they maybe getting a little better at it, they have 0:43:01.480 --> 0:43:03.840 a game where it just brings you right back to it, 0:43:03.880 --> 0:43:05.400 like I don't think they can stop the run, and 0:43:06.000 --> 0:43:08.760 Layton vander esh are huge in this game. They they've 0:43:08.840 --> 0:43:11.360 got to come back and we come back an immedia, 0:43:11.400 --> 0:43:13.640 come back ready to play, and your your quarterback has 0:43:13.680 --> 0:43:17.040 to He played so badly against Tampa in Week one, 0:43:17.080 --> 0:43:19.280 you know, I mean, and hopefully this is the pressure. 0:43:19.320 --> 0:43:21.520 Do you remember in that game? And I know the 0:43:21.600 --> 0:43:23.960 defense and even Tom Brady looked very different than what 0:43:24.000 --> 0:43:27.160 they are now, But I don't remember. I don't. I 0:43:27.239 --> 0:43:29.840 just still had about four false stars. He was awful 0:43:29.880 --> 0:43:32.880 because that was the first week terrible. Yeah, that was 0:43:32.920 --> 0:43:35.440 the first week that I remember thinking because people were going, well, 0:43:35.560 --> 0:43:38.279 the broaders, you're right, because I was the guy that said, oh, 0:43:38.320 --> 0:43:40.480 he's gonna be a liability. And then he played like 0:43:40.520 --> 0:43:42.400 that in week one and you're kind of like thinking, Okay, 0:43:42.440 --> 0:43:44.839 maybe I wasn't so stupid. But now he played better 0:43:44.880 --> 0:43:47.279 since then, So yeah, I mean, you gotta go back, 0:43:47.320 --> 0:43:49.160 but we gotta do. If you can watch you all 0:43:49.160 --> 0:43:52.640 twenty two, go watch Cincinnati, go watch the games that 0:43:52.719 --> 0:43:57.600 they like, because they Cincinnati really disrupted the way Tampa's 0:43:57.640 --> 0:44:00.960 offense looked. So maybe that's something that Dallas can draw 0:44:01.080 --> 0:44:03.319 from in this football game. All Right, guys, we appreciate you, 0:44:03.360 --> 0:44:06.000 John Us. We'll be back on tomorrow. We'll start kind 0:44:06.040 --> 0:44:08.399 of flipping the script a little bit here, looking forward 0:44:08.400 --> 0:44:10.839 to the first playoff game. Cowboys travel to Tampa Bay. 0:44:10.840 --> 0:44:12.920 Till then for Nick Eatman. Brian brought us in Amber Garcia. 0:44:12.920 --> 0:44:14.960 I'm Derek Eagleton. This has been The Break live on 0:44:15.080 --> 0:44:18.840 Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. This has been a production 0:44:18.960 --> 0:44:22.680 of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.