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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, twenty three, Season eighteen, episode number one
Speaker 1: oh three. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break.
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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys in today, we have to in the season,
Speaker 1: oh Man, hopefully ended better than the Cowboys did. Cowboys
Speaker 1: to lose on the Road to Washington twenty six to twenty.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, twenty six to six. That would actually been
Speaker 1: a more interesting game twenty six to twenty, but no,
Speaker 1: it was twenty six to six. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: I'll open the show first today with asking you guys
Speaker 1: just the general question what happened? Well, I mean that
Speaker 1: called it right, that called it crappy. We had, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we had to bleep it out for the post game.
Speaker 1: You can't use crap on the radio. I think we
Speaker 1: know he used the word when I was in there.
Speaker 1: He said crappy, but I guess I missed the first part.
Speaker 1: He missed the first word. Yeah, yeah, yeah, as I wrote,
Speaker 1: it rhymes with gritty, which they were not. So they
Speaker 1: got their ass kicked, as as McCarthy said, they got
Speaker 1: punched in the mouth and they got their ass kicked.
Speaker 1: And I don't think they were they were mentally prepared
Speaker 1: to play. So you gotta put that on the coach. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, they said they were they lied to us
Speaker 1: or or they you know. And then he comes back
Speaker 1: said they're human. But whatever, they didn't play well they
Speaker 1: got and they but they do have some issues. I
Speaker 1: think that are going to lead into the playoffs. I mean,
Speaker 1: they can't run the ball. I think Dak played his
Speaker 1: worst game since the first game of the season, and um,
Speaker 1: you know, they still got issues at corner, especially now
Speaker 1: if Blands banged up. I think Bland's gonna be okay
Speaker 1: for you. Good. Yeah, I think Bland's gonna be okay
Speaker 1: for you. H yeah, just what I got late late
Speaker 1: last night, So I think Bland's gonna be okay for you. Um,
Speaker 1: what's disappointing and a a little bit disheartening is it was
Speaker 1: a game that you had to go out and if
Speaker 1: you're going to have any chance of winning the division,
Speaker 1: you had to go out and win. You know, at least,
Speaker 1: you know, you never gave yourself a decision to pull guys.
Speaker 1: I mean you never felt good. I'll tell you I
Speaker 1: felt good about the defense at least getting put in
Speaker 1: some terrible situations. And you know the quarterback we talked about,
Speaker 1: you know, the rookie quarterback. I mean, he made a
Speaker 1: mistake throwing the ball. He just does one of those
Speaker 1: plays they run it in practice and he throws it in.
Speaker 1: It never gets intercepted, the play is always a touchdown
Speaker 1: and all that. So he threw it with confidence that
Speaker 1: it wasn't be in a triple coverage. But that's really
Speaker 1: what it came down to. But yeah, your defense got
Speaker 1: thrown in some terrible situations yesterday and kind of held
Speaker 1: you in that football game. We all know they can't
Speaker 1: run the football, and they can't run the football. I
Speaker 1: really do believe this is they have these breakdowns and
Speaker 1: it's not always with what goes on with Martin and
Speaker 1: Smith over on that right side. It wasn't a good
Speaker 1: game for McGovern It really really wasn't. And then you know,
Speaker 1: and they tried to run some creative stuff, their little
Speaker 1: reverse runs and stuff like that. They couldn't get Peters
Speaker 1: on the outside to get a block. I mean they
Speaker 1: I think the running aspect of it is the right idea.
Speaker 1: The execution of like, Okay, well there's a hole. Why
Speaker 1: didn't the back cut it this way when it's blocked that?
Speaker 1: You know, does he see a flash of a white
Speaker 1: jersey there? Does it keep them inside? When he shoot
Speaker 1: a backounced the ball to the outside. But you got
Speaker 1: some guys yesterday they to Nick's point, physically got beat
Speaker 1: up a little bit. And and a lot of that
Speaker 1: has to do with you know, with you know, and
Speaker 1: it having to Martin. I mean, I mean Ridgeway, who
Speaker 1: you drafted like back to back plays, was just throwing
Speaker 1: guys around and making tackles there. So that aspect of
Speaker 1: it is really really disappointing. Whender why they don't run
Speaker 1: the ball, it's they do not sustain any blocks at
Speaker 1: the point of attack. They just have not. And I
Speaker 1: think you missed that with steal with him and that
Speaker 1: ability to kind of get things sealed off so they
Speaker 1: could at least cut the ball. They have no ability
Speaker 1: to even cut the ball anymore. And that's I think
Speaker 1: that's killing them a little bit in the running game
Speaker 1: right now. I thought the protection was okay. Your quarterback
Speaker 1: just didn't wasn't very accurate. I don't think he saw
Speaker 1: the field particularly well. Yesterday. The receivers clearly weren't open.
Speaker 1: They just could not get any separation on the outside.
Speaker 1: They doubled Lamb a couple of different times. That forced
Speaker 1: Dack to have to throw the ball to other people.
Speaker 1: Gallop doesn't look really comfortable catching the ball. Brown doesn't
Speaker 1: look comfortable catching the ball. So yeah, I mean, you've
Speaker 1: got a lot of issues on that offense right now.
Speaker 1: That's kind of a little bit of a problem there
Speaker 1: for you. Me personally, I don't really know how to
Speaker 1: feel right now, Like I keep going back and forth,
Speaker 1: and McCarthy mentioned he took the blame on himself and said,
Speaker 1: you know, I put it on me, and we just
Speaker 1: need to practice better so it comes out you would
Speaker 1: say preparation. But I still have a problem with that
Speaker 1: because you can talk about preparation and then come out
Speaker 1: and play like crap first half. But how are you
Speaker 1: not able to do absolutely anything in the second half?
Speaker 1: Just whatever, during halftime, regroup, do what you need to
Speaker 1: come out and do something that's better than what you've
Speaker 1: been doing in the first half. So that and that's
Speaker 1: remembering like Washington wasn't even doing a whole lot, Like
Speaker 1: if Washington should have had way more score more points
Speaker 1: on the scoreboard than they did. They didn't even take
Speaker 1: advantage of every mistake mistake that Dallas did. So they
Speaker 1: were in the red zone five times, by the way, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's crazy. And then I think it was like ten
Speaker 1: times that the Colways went three and out. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It wasn't that's embarrassing. It's absolutely ridiculous that you were
Speaker 1: so inefficient, like nothing. It was embarrassing. And everybody keeps
Speaker 1: saying this was an embarrassing game. And the thing is
Speaker 1: you go back to other games where they've lost or
Speaker 1: even one, and they even times that they played bad,
Speaker 1: they come out and do something that gives you some
Speaker 1: kind of hope. You're like, well they were able to
Speaker 1: do this or maybe you know, in the second half
Speaker 1: they were able to start moving the ball and nothing
Speaker 1: was working. The running game was absolutely gone, which is
Speaker 1: one of my main concerns going into next week. It's like, uh,
Speaker 1: it's completely and that's now. How many games are we
Speaker 1: on now? For they haven't been able to last the
Speaker 1: last three. I mean when you look at when you
Speaker 1: look at it, though, they didn't run the ball against Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: surely against Tennessee you didn't run the ball. And then
Speaker 1: this last week you've played three teams in a row.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna let you run the ball. And by
Speaker 1: the way, you got one coming up, it's not gonna
Speaker 1: let you run the ball. Yeah. So that's that's a
Speaker 1: big concern of mine and we'll see. You know, part
Speaker 1: of me I'm like, okay this in a way, I know,
Speaker 1: I hate to say this. I'm not happy or glad
Speaker 1: to see them lose or anything like that, but in
Speaker 1: a way it makes me have a little bit more
Speaker 1: hope that they will prepare a lot better for this week.
Speaker 1: They're they're gonna be mad and upset and just the
Speaker 1: preparation wise, they're gonna be more upset how this game went.
Speaker 1: Because if it was like one of those games where
Speaker 1: they kind of play good bad then they end up
Speaker 1: with the way and it's like, okay, well they still
Speaker 1: managed to win, but the fact that they were so
Speaker 1: embarrassed by the way they played against the team like Washington,
Speaker 1: against that quarterback, and still the defense wasn't able to
Speaker 1: give you as much as you And I'm sorry Brian
Speaker 1: the quarterback. I mean, he wasn't that great at instance,
Speaker 1: Like you know, I've seen plays and he did a
Speaker 1: couple of things, but at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: he was still making mistakes and the Cowboys defense wasn't
Speaker 1: able to take advantage of that either, and the pressure
Speaker 1: wasn't there. So it's just I expected a lot more. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, I think the thing about it is, I
Speaker 1: mean I think really the key here they weren't prepared.
Speaker 1: And to me, the preparation also showed itself in the
Speaker 1: fact that there were so many just mistakes, unforcedairs, you
Speaker 1: got the punter dropping the ball, you got muff punts,
Speaker 1: you've got bad snap on extra point. There's there's just
Speaker 1: all these things that to me, what it represented for me, Nick,
Speaker 1: you talk about it all the time. What were you
Speaker 1: doing on Wednesday and Thursday? And it felt to me, like,
Speaker 1: this team on Wednesday and Thursday of last week felt like,
Speaker 1: of course we're gonna win this game. And Seed even
Speaker 1: said it after the game, he was like, we all
Speaker 1: win this game. Thing, we were gonna win, and we
Speaker 1: didn't show up and play like that. And so it
Speaker 1: says to me they felt like, well, Washington isn't playing
Speaker 1: a lot of their guys, so we should be able
Speaker 1: to roll the ball out there, get a couple scores,
Speaker 1: wrap it all up, and head onto the bust and
Speaker 1: headoff into the playoffs. And that's not what Washington planning
Speaker 1: to do. Washington came out, gave him their best effort,
Speaker 1: and Dallas on the flip side, was not prepared. And
Speaker 1: that's how you get a game like what we saw yesterday. Well,
Speaker 1: the Commanders lost their playoffs shot the week before because
Speaker 1: they played like Dallas played against the Browns and then
Speaker 1: you know, they made a switch at quarterback and that
Speaker 1: killed him and that you know, they they totally, you know,
Speaker 1: lost everything there as far as that coast. But you
Speaker 1: know the thing about it is, you know the league
Speaker 1: is a hole through the whole thing with the Hamlin thing.
Speaker 1: Those players all went through that and some teams handled
Speaker 1: that obviously pretty well getting through it, and other teams didn't.
Speaker 1: And I'm not using it as an excuse, but you
Speaker 1: just don't know. I mean, I'm not I'm not out
Speaker 1: there on the practice field. I'm not in there every
Speaker 1: day in the locker room and listening to the players
Speaker 1: talk about it, and maybe they got affected by it. Maybe,
Speaker 1: like you said, the CD felt like that, hey, we
Speaker 1: just kind of can roll our helmet out there and play.
Speaker 1: But you know, they they they they they just for
Speaker 1: a team that the intent was to go try and
Speaker 1: win the game. If you're intents to go try and
Speaker 1: win the game and you play like that, you're you're
Speaker 1: going to get beat in the playoffs in the first
Speaker 1: round if you're intent. Now, it's one thing if you
Speaker 1: rest everybody and say Okay, we're not going to play
Speaker 1: and you lose the game. But man for them to
Speaker 1: have the intent going in that they were going to
Speaker 1: try and win this football game and play like that,
Speaker 1: that's that's a big indictment on this football team. Nick. Yesterday,
Speaker 1: after the game, you were in the locker room amber,
Speaker 1: you were in the locker room as well. What do
Speaker 1: you think was the mood of this team? What would
Speaker 1: you call how would you characterize the mood of the
Speaker 1: team in the locker room postgame, just you know, in general,
Speaker 1: how what was the mood? It definitely was like a
Speaker 1: frustrating loss. It wasn't like, well, all right, you know,
Speaker 1: let's let's get past this and get onto the season.
Speaker 1: It was more like what was that? You know? And
Speaker 1: and you know, as I said on the radio this morning,
Speaker 1: like that's a I mean shocker, but that's that's a
Speaker 1: one of the worst locker rooms, you know. And and
Speaker 1: it's not it's never good, you know, it's it's crammed
Speaker 1: in there and it's not big enough for an NFL team. Um,
Speaker 1: but but it's so it's never a good mood win
Speaker 1: or lose in that locker room. And so you know,
Speaker 1: it was just one of those that I think that
Speaker 1: it was. It was so it was such a crappy
Speaker 1: game for them. Um, You're just trying to figure out
Speaker 1: what was going on. And I bet the players are confused,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, because were they were they really
Speaker 1: trying to win? I mean, because think about it, you
Speaker 1: can say you're trying to win. But Terry McLaren had
Speaker 1: caught like two passes against this team in like three games,
Speaker 1: like he doesn't catch passes and against the Cowboys against Diggs,
Speaker 1: So why is Diggs not on him? If Diggs isn't
Speaker 1: on him, then are you just trying to throw Trayvon
Speaker 1: Mullin out there to see if he can play? Just
Speaker 1: see something? You know? There were some times third and
Speaker 1: five first series, run up the middle to Pollard, here's
Speaker 1: another one fourth and inches. Dak is the guy that's
Speaker 1: supposed to be like, hurry up to the line when
Speaker 1: as Pollard pushed anyone like as Pollard going to be
Speaker 1: the guy that give Dak some some you know. It
Speaker 1: just there was just different combinations of lineups that you're
Speaker 1: just thinking, Okay, you say you wanted to win, but
Speaker 1: oh no, you make a good point because with the
Speaker 1: with the score thirteen to six and the second half,
Speaker 1: you're you're looking at Mullen playing left corner. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: you're looking at me. You're looking at a lot of
Speaker 1: different guys. They played three different corners yesterday, three different
Speaker 1: left corners yesterday, is what they That's the part that
Speaker 1: doesn't make sense to me. Let's assume for a second
Speaker 1: that maybe they were trying out new things they were
Speaker 1: trying to do all these whatever just figuring stuff out.
Speaker 1: To me, I would rather say, if you're gonna do that,
Speaker 1: then just say, hey, we're not worried about whatever is
Speaker 1: going to happen with the division. We'd rather just sit
Speaker 1: our guys and rest some of our guys, and you
Speaker 1: could test out all those guys, those other guys as
Speaker 1: much as you want you run third and five with
Speaker 1: Molie Davis, as much as you want on you know,
Speaker 1: up the middle, like that doesn't matter. You would at
Speaker 1: least had the benefit of taking some guys who maybe
Speaker 1: needed some rest, like a Michael Parsons, and giving them
Speaker 1: some rest. If you're gonna play everybody, then play the
Speaker 1: freaking game, right. Yeah. See the thing, I think greg
Speaker 1: Olson made a really good point. And I know in
Speaker 1: the press box you guys don't get to hear the audio.
Speaker 1: Greg Olsen said, He goes, it's now become a point,
Speaker 1: with the way this game has gone, that you might
Speaker 1: have made it worse. That you know, by playing your
Speaker 1: guys the way you did and trying and keeping Doc
Speaker 1: in there and keeping CD, keeping everybody in there, that
Speaker 1: you might have made it worse. You might have created
Speaker 1: even more, doubt more problems you think the Giants have
Speaker 1: that Like, no, you know, But the thing about it is,
Speaker 1: what's what really sucks is that Giants game turned into
Speaker 1: a six point game. Yeah, you know, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden you're kind of going, oh, please, this is
Speaker 1: because Hurt started getting hit in the game, and he
Speaker 1: clearly was not They're not the same when he's getting hit.
Speaker 1: And so now you're sitting there thinking, Oh, if the
Speaker 1: Giants somehow pull this thing out and you're messing around
Speaker 1: and and and and just getting would That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And so to me, I agree with what Nick sand
Speaker 1: Where was the intent of going out there and winning
Speaker 1: this football game? You know it? It looked like to me,
Speaker 1: you were out there with the intent of winning a game,
Speaker 1: and they they just beat you up. I mean they controlled,
Speaker 1: they controlled the line of scrimmage. They let her rookie
Speaker 1: quarterback make a few plays. First plus he ever throws
Speaker 1: in his career, it's a touchdown, you know, he throws it.
Speaker 1: He throws. He throws a bomb on a backup corner,
Speaker 1: a backup, backup corner for thirty something yards to McLaurin
Speaker 1: or more than that down the sidelines, you know, So
Speaker 1: I mean, where was the you know, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I think Nick is onto something like, where were you
Speaker 1: in this game where you where half of you trying
Speaker 1: to play like it looked like it OsO Diggi, Zowa
Speaker 1: and Armstrong were like interested in playing football yesterday and
Speaker 1: everybody else was kind of interested that moan Clark and all,
Speaker 1: you're not a bar. You didn't look like you were
Speaker 1: ready to play football yesterday, you know, I mean no.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing about it is, you know, you
Speaker 1: watch these receivers and the routes and who's open and
Speaker 1: who's not open and who's you know, it's just, you know,
Speaker 1: it's disappointing that that part of it was that you
Speaker 1: just go out there and I didn't know what the mission.
Speaker 1: I thought was to try and go win a football
Speaker 1: game and see what happens with the New York Philadelphia game.
Speaker 1: But nah, that wasn't that wasn't the mission. They're just
Speaker 1: trying to fool us, you know, they're just trying to
Speaker 1: full Tampy and come outig and punch him in the mouth.
Speaker 1: Uh No. You know one thing that I thought was
Speaker 1: interesting that Mica said was I guess him realizing and
Speaker 1: him saying, you know, you're you gotta take advantage I
Speaker 1: forgot the exact quote he said, but basically, you gotta
Speaker 1: take advantage of the now. Like he realizes he's starting
Speaker 1: to notice like he's not gonna stay young. He's starting
Speaker 1: to feel it in his body. He's not gonna stay young.
Speaker 1: And the time is now, and you got to look
Speaker 1: at yourself in the mirror and figure out exactly what
Speaker 1: is that you want as a team and as an
Speaker 1: individual as well. So it's there's literally zero positive of
Speaker 1: that came out of this game. I don't know as
Speaker 1: who would you say of a single person that had
Speaker 1: a good game. Well, the two that I watched it
Speaker 1: like an Osa and Osa and and and then Armstrong,
Speaker 1: they were they were into they were into playing your
Speaker 1: game yesterday. Do you have a quiet eleven tackles for
Speaker 1: Gholston too? And yeah, like I didn't think, I don't
Speaker 1: know that was on the radar of eleven. I think
Speaker 1: the only positive is if dron Bland is pretty good,
Speaker 1: you know, and I think you'll be fun then that
Speaker 1: that you know, that was one of them. Because you're
Speaker 1: playing the game, you're hoping you don't have any further
Speaker 1: injuries for this week because you got to turn around
Speaker 1: and play a physical, you know, the physical team against
Speaker 1: the Tampa So at the same time, you're hoping that
Speaker 1: those guys that you've been missing Hankins, Lvee be hottish.
Speaker 1: You're hoping that they're getting healthier so that you might
Speaker 1: have it right down the middle. Yeah, you're hoping you
Speaker 1: get those guys back because you're gonna need them. You're
Speaker 1: gonna need them. You definitely need Hankins and and and Layton.
Speaker 1: I think that well, that that's hottish as much too.
Speaker 1: I think yeah, I think too. You need to get
Speaker 1: this offensive line back to what it was and not
Speaker 1: what it is right currently the last couple of games,
Speaker 1: which is almost that's the weird part from me because
Speaker 1: I actually thought once they had this injury and they
Speaker 1: kind of had this new line up out there, I
Speaker 1: was like, Man, this line, I'd be it's hard to
Speaker 1: believe you're gonna have three Hall of Famers on an
Speaker 1: offensive line and they won't be at least as good.
Speaker 1: But they're not. Right now. It's not there's not much
Speaker 1: cohesion between Smith, Tyrn Smith, and Martin when it comes
Speaker 1: to run blocking. The fourth and one play we saw
Speaker 1: this with Dak was the quarterback sneak kind of into
Speaker 1: the game. I mean I think it was sweat. I
Speaker 1: mean he's just he's just basically not tiring back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not that happened much. Not the same not the same player,
Speaker 1: not the same player out there playing tackle. And you
Speaker 1: know there was a couple of times where the quickness
Speaker 1: got him, you know, he was late to get out.
Speaker 1: It might be because you're playing a road game and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. It's like a lot of Dallas fans there,
Speaker 1: so maybe it wasn't too loud with Jacksonville. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: crazy that that that guy. I think we're starting to
Speaker 1: see the I think we're starting to see the end.
Speaker 1: I think we're starting to see the end, you know,
Speaker 1: of a guy that and I really believe that I
Speaker 1: thought they would be more powerful over there. It passed.
Speaker 1: Protection wise, I think that they do some better things,
Speaker 1: but they miss Steele as a run blocker. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: really really do. All right, we're gonna take our first break.
Speaker 1: We're gonna come back. We'll dive a little deeper into
Speaker 1: this game, see if there's some things we can kind
Speaker 1: of take from it. We'll do it when we come back.
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Speaker 1: When I when I high five the mascot of their
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Speaker 1: is that those those those mascots have to be in
Speaker 1: great they really do. Yeah, the that's kind of the
Speaker 1: only thing that was wrong with their team yesterday though.
Speaker 1: Pretty much. Yeah, everything else works. You were the mascot
Speaker 1: was trying to get everything right yesterday. Everything else worked
Speaker 1: for the day. Yeah, so take that win. This wasn't
Speaker 1: the fattest one in that picture either. It's Clote borderline,
Speaker 1: it's Clote fair. But they didn't get two tuddies. Yeah three? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Was it three? It was like Dak was like, no, no, seriously,
Speaker 1: I'm throwing it at you. You're not gonna catch it,
Speaker 1: do it again, do it again, run it again. There
Speaker 1: you go, you guys, run this back. That wasn't any
Speaker 1: logic on that play. Yeah. The first the first one
Speaker 1: that was amiss. He was trying to throw it. He
Speaker 1: was just trying to like he was throwing off his
Speaker 1: back foot and it was like he was trying to
Speaker 1: just throw it maybe to throw it away, and it
Speaker 1: ended up out there. And like you know, Dad's always
Speaker 1: going to try and make a play. That's Dak off
Speaker 1: back foot trying to throw. The second one is though
Speaker 1: they're playing what they call that cover two look with
Speaker 1: the two corner to squats the corners quarters. Responsibility is
Speaker 1: the flat. If they if you run a route to
Speaker 1: the flat, that's that's his play balls right there. That's
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just you know, that's covered two look,
Speaker 1: you know. And I put that in as a five
Speaker 1: place to remember. I mean, this is the one that
Speaker 1: Dak probably would have liked. The first guy to catch.
Speaker 1: He intercepts the ball, you'd like to think you'd like
Speaker 1: to think Gallup touches him at the twenty two yard line.
Speaker 1: Then what they've already thrown a pick sly can't make
Speaker 1: it field goal at all. I mean, like, would they
Speaker 1: have even scored, you know, I mean it was it,
Speaker 1: But the second one, the second one was I just
Speaker 1: don't know why you would run an out into a
Speaker 1: cover two look with a guy just squatted down the
Speaker 1: end of the sticks. Right. Yeah, it was third, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was third. It was third and five, Okay, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: but I still think it was it was right at
Speaker 1: the sticks. I don't Oh no, that's like to say.
Speaker 1: He just he said, we're gonna try and throw this
Speaker 1: ball to the sideline to Noah Brown and hope for
Speaker 1: the best, you know. And the thing about it is,
Speaker 1: you know, it's funny with this this receivers and stuff.
Speaker 1: Even even even t Y Hilton had what a couple
Speaker 1: of drops. I mean, the second one, the long one
Speaker 1: down the sidelines, he get his hands on it. You know,
Speaker 1: we've seen him make long plays like that before. But
Speaker 1: the one inside that he dropped and hit him right.
Speaker 1: I was just a clear drops hit him right in there,
Speaker 1: no hands. Yeah. I mean, you're like, okay, so your
Speaker 1: quarterback's not playing great and you're dropping balls and you're
Speaker 1: not getting open and he's kind of throwing it to
Speaker 1: the other team and you know, it's just I like
Speaker 1: this guy as a person. I really do might Gallo,
Speaker 1: but he is demeaner on and off sometimes. I mean
Speaker 1: he's there's been things he's kind of said in the
Speaker 1: past where you just think, you know, the fire the dog.
Speaker 1: It's like not always there. Sometimes he makes some great plays,
Speaker 1: and then sometimes it's just kind of whatever, you know,
Speaker 1: And and that's I think that's he is. He is
Speaker 1: not necessary your typical number two receiver, and he's getting
Speaker 1: paid like it. Yeah, but I think they need more
Speaker 1: from him, They really do that. You've got a guy
Speaker 1: getting one hundred and seven catches on the other side. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, see the thing about it too, is like
Speaker 1: with him, it's just every time it's just like even
Speaker 1: the slants and stuff, it's just bad body position. You know.
Speaker 1: It's like he gets caught between do I want to
Speaker 1: cradle this thing or do I want to catch it?
Speaker 1: And as the ball gets closer, it just makes him
Speaker 1: kind of do weird things with his body to try
Speaker 1: and you know, you're like, it's just not a good
Speaker 1: position to catch the ball. And I'll tell you there
Speaker 1: was one you remember, third down play. It was like
Speaker 1: a third and long play where they throw the ball
Speaker 1: in the middle of the field to Noah Brown and
Speaker 1: he's like it's just crushed, like you know, it's not
Speaker 1: even close. And this is Doc, this is this is
Speaker 1: what you learn about Doc loves Brown. That's I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Noah Brown, he's going to throw it into the teeth
Speaker 1: of just disaster. But you've got Lamb and also Shoult
Speaker 1: standing there and you throw it to them. It's a
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a twelve yard game in a first
Speaker 1: down and you're wondering, like, bro, you had it right here.
Speaker 1: I mean, and this is where Dak, I think gets
Speaker 1: in trouble. I think it's like predetermined, I'm gonna fit
Speaker 1: the ball here and I'm not gonna look it here,
Speaker 1: and I'm not gonna look it here. And you can
Speaker 1: see during the game that Ceedee Lamb's like looking at
Speaker 1: him like palms up, like ooh. There's one time a
Speaker 1: two throw another ball where it goes inside and they
Speaker 1: run a double move with Lamb and if if Dak
Speaker 1: just hangs with it, just lets him clear, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a huge play. And he just he's like, nah,
Speaker 1: I'm throw it over here, you know. And the plays
Speaker 1: designed to and they get the get what they want,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't throw it to where you know, if
Speaker 1: he throws it far enough to the out, it's a
Speaker 1: big play. So what do you think? What do you
Speaker 1: guys think is happening with Dak? Because I don't think
Speaker 1: he's the thing about Dak turnover, let's be freaking him out.
Speaker 1: They are, but let's be honest. There have also been
Speaker 1: some games here in December where he has played really,
Speaker 1: really great football. There have been some games where it's like,
Speaker 1: what the heck was that? And then obviously to see
Speaker 1: a game like yesterday where nothing went right, like he
Speaker 1: just had probably his worst performance, as you said, Nick,
Speaker 1: since the way he started the season against Tampa. Was
Speaker 1: he bad against Houston in that game for up until
Speaker 1: like for fifty eight minutes the Houston game, we weren't
Speaker 1: very good, right, No, I mean that's exactly. It's been
Speaker 1: kind of up and down. It's been up and down.
Speaker 1: So what do you guys think is going on with
Speaker 1: Dak at this mo? I just I mean I wanted
Speaker 1: the turnovers I think are huge just because I think
Speaker 1: it's reckless. I think there's just some I mean ball
Speaker 1: clanging off guys, not his fault, but every diame it happens.
Speaker 1: We're standing at the podium saying I need to do better,
Speaker 1: I need to do better, and then we get the
Speaker 1: fans calling him on our show last night, on the
Speaker 1: postgame show, going why is it the same speech? Tell me,
Speaker 1: you tell me every week you're doing better, and you're
Speaker 1: not doing better. You're still making some of the same mistakes.
Speaker 1: I don't think he sees the field all the time.
Speaker 1: I think he gets fooled. I think he gets in
Speaker 1: the games and thinks I can throw it there, and
Speaker 1: he gets fooled on the coverage. I really do. I
Speaker 1: don't think he sees the secondary all the time and
Speaker 1: it comes and goes, Which is maddening because the throw
Speaker 1: he made for the touchdown was a great read. He
Speaker 1: knew exactly the spacing between the corner and then what
Speaker 1: was going on in the middle of the field and
Speaker 1: and and Lamb ran a great route and stopped and
Speaker 1: he fired it in there, and you're going, ha, he saw.
Speaker 1: I think that is the one spot in that press
Speaker 1: box where we were like great view, yeah, oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: literally you're seeing it from the and you said it
Speaker 1: immediate venue. That was that was he hadn't done on
Speaker 1: all this. That's the thing that's the That's the thing
Speaker 1: that's maddening about him is that you see you see
Speaker 1: a throw that he made, maybe with the greatest throws
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. I've seen a lot of them. The
Speaker 1: Giants game at the Meadowlands in the season, the Cole
Speaker 1: Beasley across the back of the end zone. One of
Speaker 1: the greatest throws I've ever seen in the end zone
Speaker 1: in my life. I mean, just the way he threw
Speaker 1: that ball. You're like, that's it, that's what he can do.
Speaker 1: And then he does stuff where he throws that on
Speaker 1: that out and things or he doesn't see and you're going,
Speaker 1: why wait, wait, you saw that. Why didn't you see that?
Speaker 1: You know? And that I think that's the thing that's
Speaker 1: the It's the inconsistency about how he sees things and
Speaker 1: how he reacts to things, and how he executes and
Speaker 1: how he throws the ball. You know, his rookie year,
Speaker 1: he wasn't throwing interceptions. He didn't have to. Zeke was
Speaker 1: Russia for sixteen hundred yards and he had a lot
Speaker 1: of help. That offensive line was was was protecting him,
Speaker 1: and it was at a point where he could kind
Speaker 1: of throw it to the right guy and all that,
Speaker 1: and I just think, now you know, they're not running
Speaker 1: the football very well, and the routes aren't great either.
Speaker 1: Now aren't as good? So are we all right? Back
Speaker 1: to the same conversation we started with, which is without
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper, they just don't I just wish t Y
Speaker 1: Hilton wouldn't have dropped those balls yesterday because I'm the
Speaker 1: guy champion in t Y Hilton. Make him plays, and
Speaker 1: we've seen him make plays. I worry about Gallop and
Speaker 1: I worry about now Noah Brown, I don't. I think
Speaker 1: it's like when when you don't have some success catching
Speaker 1: the ball, and Gallop, I mean, he hasn't had great
Speaker 1: success this year catching the ball. I think he's fighting
Speaker 1: that thing right now and the quarterbacks trying to help him.
Speaker 1: But sometimes the ball's here, sometimes it's low, sometimes it's
Speaker 1: you know, he threw a ball to Schultz across the field,
Speaker 1: and Schultz had the kind of you know, Schultz is
Speaker 1: like throws his hands behind him, put it in front
Speaker 1: of him. Yeah, you know, but I get it. You
Speaker 1: don't probably have a lot of confidence that Jason Peters
Speaker 1: is going to hold up over here at left tackle,
Speaker 1: so I've got to kind of throw the ball that way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's just there's so many things going on, and this
Speaker 1: offense is good and it could score points and it
Speaker 1: can look great. But when they look bad, they look
Speaker 1: really bad. We talk about we talk about his wings
Speaker 1: from one end. Oh my god. Like, there's only one
Speaker 1: other team I think of right now that's in the
Speaker 1: playoffs that's worse than Dallas at that nest Minnesota. Like
Speaker 1: Minnesota can be really great, they could also be extremely bad.
Speaker 1: I don't think else is that bad yet, but certainly
Speaker 1: like they're on that trajectory of when they're good, they're good.
Speaker 1: When they're bad, man, it can be just a really
Speaker 1: really poor performance. All right, we're gonna take off. But
Speaker 1: I was gonna say I think the fact that they've
Speaker 1: been winning games has affected kind of their mentality and
Speaker 1: the way they attack things. That's why you get Dak
Speaker 1: at the podium every time saying, well, we're gonna keep
Speaker 1: being aggressive and I'm taking away obviously those two less losses,
Speaker 1: you know, this one and then the one in Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: But in general, every game it's been a trend where
Speaker 1: he turns over the ball and then you go into
Speaker 1: after the game question, Oh, here we go again, the interceptions,
Speaker 1: blah blah, And in every game he has made one
Speaker 1: or two or three plays that are like really good
Speaker 1: passing and you're like, okay, well that's why you keep
Speaker 1: trying to be aggressive and at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: you guys manage and find the way to win. So
Speaker 1: I think that has affected the whole and I'm just
Speaker 1: trying to look for a reasoning because, like you said, Brian,
Speaker 1: we hear the same speech speech every game and it
Speaker 1: doesn't change, and they don't go out saying, you know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna be more careful with the ball or anything.
Speaker 1: It's not. We're gonna work at it, try to clean up,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna stay aggressive and be aggressive. So we'll
Speaker 1: see how they start changing the game. Planet. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't kind of how can I ask a question, yea,
Speaker 1: we got a break. I was gonna ask back to
Speaker 1: the Michael Gallup thing. Do we feel that we're past
Speaker 1: the whole injury thing too, where now he's just flat
Speaker 1: out now producing how he should be, Because I feel
Speaker 1: like at the beginning of the season we were kind
Speaker 1: of cutting him some slack because of the injury and
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Speaker 1: SWUBC Mortgage Studios at the Star Amber posed a question
Speaker 1: just before the break. The question was, are we through
Speaker 1: past the injury for a Michael Gallup is part of
Speaker 1: what we're seeing a result of the fact that he
Speaker 1: just isn't completely back from from his injury and recovering
Speaker 1: from it. I think that would be a really convenient
Speaker 1: thing to say. I think that, you know, there was
Speaker 1: some probably early in the season, he didn't want to
Speaker 1: play in that game, the Monday night game in New York.
Speaker 1: I really do think that he was like, listen, let
Speaker 1: me have one more week, let me get this singer,
Speaker 1: you know in my mind right and all that. I
Speaker 1: think that very early in the season he struggled with that,
Speaker 1: and I don't think the Cowboys wanted him to play
Speaker 1: in that game. There's a lot of history on that turf. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a bad. It's a bad. You're absolutely right about
Speaker 1: I think it's a combination. I mean, all it takes
Speaker 1: is one person putting it in your head, yeah, or
Speaker 1: one of the then it's like whoa wa. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean just visiting with people like you guys do it
Speaker 1: was not it was not a game. But I think
Speaker 1: we're past that point. I do two. I think we're
Speaker 1: past that. And you know, I mean they're he's just um,
Speaker 1: he's inconsistent. I mean, because there are sometimes he makes
Speaker 1: some great catches. I mean, if you're throwing the ball
Speaker 1: on the sideline, I think I wanted to go to
Speaker 1: him more than any other player. But he's just it's
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what it is about him.
Speaker 1: It's just not always there. And that's what a number
Speaker 1: two receiver probably is. If you look around the league
Speaker 1: at all number two receivers, do they have the ability
Speaker 1: to go for one forty and two touchdowns? Yes? Do
Speaker 1: they also can can they go one for four four
Speaker 1: yards and and not? You know, and maybe four or
Speaker 1: five targets that incomplete? Yeah, that's what a number two does,
Speaker 1: or you'd be a number one. So I think all
Speaker 1: number two receivers are pretty inconsistent with you know, they
Speaker 1: they're highs and lows, I mean, and they you want
Speaker 1: them to be somewhere in between. What has been as
Speaker 1: high what we say is as high this season as
Speaker 1: he had as high Yeah, I mean my yards. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying in general game, and you're like, man, he
Speaker 1: was the difference here too high? Well, I mean plays
Speaker 1: that he's made. I remember the play I think it
Speaker 1: was against the Colts where Dak sprints was right, He's
Speaker 1: a stationary receiver in the middle of the field and
Speaker 1: he takes off running with Dak and he throws in
Speaker 1: the ball and then he skirts in. I think that
Speaker 1: was against the Colts. He had to play against the
Speaker 1: Philadelphi Eagles in the corner at the pylon. Nick's right
Speaker 1: about that sideline plays where it's not a contested but
Speaker 1: it's all about him kind of getting hands to body
Speaker 1: to ball to tow sixty three. Yeah, I mean, those
Speaker 1: are those are all those three? That's his best five
Speaker 1: cats to sixty three against the Giants on Thanksgiving and
Speaker 1: which that wasn't really that memorable. You know what, I'm
Speaker 1: really really pissed right now. Yeah, this is what I
Speaker 1: was waiting for. The ladies should not be using the
Speaker 1: word piss but I am. And the thing is, you
Speaker 1: know what bothers me is why are we talking about
Speaker 1: the wide receiver group right now at this point of
Speaker 1: the year when this is exactly the conversation we were
Speaker 1: having a training camp. These were issues and we've had
Speaker 1: opened the ups and downs with the wide receiver group.
Speaker 1: I think Noah Brown did a really really good job
Speaker 1: during his time with Cooper Rush and all that, and
Speaker 1: that was working. So there were times where you thought, Okay,
Speaker 1: they're doing okay, enough enough to get you by because
Speaker 1: also how the defense was playing for you. Now that's
Speaker 1: not the case. Now you need the offense to play
Speaker 1: a lot better than what the defense is helping you with.
Speaker 1: And now even though they got Tye Hilton and he's
Speaker 1: shown some things, it's still not there yet, not there
Speaker 1: as a group at the wide receiver position. And it's
Speaker 1: just that's it makes me mad that we're literally at
Speaker 1: the time where you think you should have most of
Speaker 1: everything figured out, you don't. And we're going headed to
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay next week. Here kind of saying, well, Michael
Speaker 1: Gallup hasn't been the guy that he needs to be. Well,
Speaker 1: now you're throwing passes and Noah Brown, who according to
Speaker 1: Nick is the best base volleyball player in the United States,
Speaker 1: but they're competing for big screen. Oh my gosh. No.
Speaker 1: But it's it's just upsetting when we have seen this,
Speaker 1: and this is a topic of conversations since training camp,
Speaker 1: and here we are sitting at the end of the season,
Speaker 1: heading into the playoffs, still kind of having this conversation.
Speaker 1: And I love what t Y Hilton has done since
Speaker 1: the moment he got here, but it's not to the
Speaker 1: he's not there every play like, it's not to the
Speaker 1: point where now that's your guy and you're fully giving
Speaker 1: that responsibility to him. Just yeah, if you feel better
Speaker 1: about t Y Hilton, then you do Gallop, then you
Speaker 1: probably need you probably need more reps from t Y Hilton, which,
Speaker 1: by the way, I do expect in the playoffs, get
Speaker 1: more last week's game. Last week's game, he was a
Speaker 1: guy that they were relying on on third downs, particularly,
Speaker 1: so I expect in the playoffs you're gonna see a
Speaker 1: lot more of that. With CD you have, you guys
Speaker 1: thought about with the playoffs here, what about like Odell
Speaker 1: you know what with about a minute and forty five seconds,
Speaker 1: let me ask you this, about a minute five seconds
Speaker 1: left in the show. You really just drop that out there? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: tomorrow and maybe he'll be asked about it. More concerned
Speaker 1: about the cornerback situation, the wide receiver situation. Cornerback, No doubt,
Speaker 1: it's not because because like you said, they'll find those
Speaker 1: bad players. Yeah, if you can exploit them. And Mike,
Speaker 1: Mike Evans, I mean the quality, the quality they've tried
Speaker 1: to fix the cornerback spot. They've brought every corner that's
Speaker 1: been on the street, they've brought in. You know, we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens with Xavier Rhodes, Mike. Guys in the league.
Speaker 1: Tell me listen, he's he's a long player. Dan likes
Speaker 1: those kind of guys. He's a tough guy. He can't
Speaker 1: run as well as he once didn't. You know, so
Speaker 1: now maybe you throw your situation out there. He's a
Speaker 1: veteran guy. George Edwards knows him from his days in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: They've thrown everything. I don't expect Mullin or any of
Speaker 1: these other guys to play anymore, not right too far
Speaker 1: into the matchups, though. This is where I look at
Speaker 1: Xavier Rhodes and say, can you put veteran against veteran?
Speaker 1: Put him out there with Julio. Julio is a guy
Speaker 1: I worry about in a playoff game because he hasn't
Speaker 1: been a guy who's been killing teams all season. But
Speaker 1: you get those kind of vets who just have that
Speaker 1: natural raw ability into the playoffs, Like, I start worrying
Speaker 1: a little bit about that, and I think Xavian might
Speaker 1: that might be somebody could put out there to handle
Speaker 1: him a little bit other than Tom Brady, of course,
Speaker 1: And even though he has a play great this year,
Speaker 1: he's still I mean still, he gets it done at
Speaker 1: the end, and that's a credit to their defense. But
Speaker 1: the guy that worries me the most is for Nett
Speaker 1: to me seem Tom Brady in Week one didn't have
Speaker 1: to be Tom Brady. Leonard Fournette had one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty eight yards and it looked and him six yards
Speaker 1: a shot. And I still haven't seen the Cowboys consistently
Speaker 1: be able to stop the run. Every time we think
Speaker 1: they maybe getting a little better at it, they have
Speaker 1: a game where it just brings you right back to it,
Speaker 1: like I don't think they can stop the run, and
Speaker 1: Layton vander esh are huge in this game. They they've
Speaker 1: got to come back and we come back an immedia,
Speaker 1: come back ready to play, and your your quarterback has
Speaker 1: to He played so badly against Tampa in Week one,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, and hopefully this is the pressure.
Speaker 1: Do you remember in that game? And I know the
Speaker 1: defense and even Tom Brady looked very different than what
Speaker 1: they are now, But I don't remember. I don't. I
Speaker 1: just still had about four false stars. He was awful
Speaker 1: because that was the first week terrible. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: the first week that I remember thinking because people were going, well,
Speaker 1: the broaders, you're right, because I was the guy that said, oh,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be a liability. And then he played like
Speaker 1: that in week one and you're kind of like thinking, Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe I wasn't so stupid. But now he played better
Speaker 1: since then, So yeah, I mean, you gotta go back,
Speaker 1: but we gotta do. If you can watch you all
Speaker 1: twenty two, go watch Cincinnati, go watch the games that
Speaker 1: they like, because they Cincinnati really disrupted the way Tampa's
Speaker 1: offense looked. So maybe that's something that Dallas can draw
Speaker 1: from in this football game. All Right, guys, we appreciate you,
Speaker 1: John Us. We'll be back on tomorrow. We'll start kind
Speaker 1: of flipping the script a little bit here, looking forward
Speaker 1: to the first playoff game. Cowboys travel to Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: Till then for Nick Eatman. Brian brought us in Amber Garcia.
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