WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Question Marks 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:05.800 The following. Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:16.120 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys, Let's go. Are 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:19.000 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:19.040 --> 0:00:24.120 a break? Absolutely ready for a break? Yeah, and so 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:28.000 much for that. It's time for the break on Dallas 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:33.279 Cowboys dot Com. Were with Nick Eatman, Brian brought us 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:41.559 and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Wednesday, February eight, 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:45.120 twenty twenty three, Season eighteen, episode number one, fifteen. Welcome 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:47.120 to the latest edition of The Break Off s WBC 0:00:47.240 --> 0:00:49.839 Morgage Studios at the Star, represented by Miller Litte, the 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:53.120 only beer of the Dallas Cowboys. We don't have two 0:00:53.159 --> 0:00:55.520 of our folks in with us today, Nick Eatman Brian 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:58.880 brought us both. Actually Nick's heading to Super Bowl right now. 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:01.720 Brian's already at Bowl, so they got things they're doing 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:05.040 out in Arizona. We are blessed though, today to have 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:09.000 my guy hitting with us. Patrick No c Walker from 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:11.880 Talking Cowboys gets a chance to see how the real 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:16.240 big dogs do it. Yes, every time we can, we 0:01:16.360 --> 0:01:18.919 give you a chance to come over here and maybe 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:20.640 and as I was explaining before we went on the air, 0:01:21.319 --> 0:01:23.000 I don't know. You and Amver sit close to each other, 0:01:23.000 --> 0:01:25.319 so you might already know this. But on the air, man, 0:01:25.360 --> 0:01:27.400 she's a whole different person. On the air, she can 0:01:27.440 --> 0:01:29.600 get a little feisty. Sometimes we have to settle her 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:31.520 down a little bit so she's the exact same thing 0:01:32.520 --> 0:01:35.280 and all good, perfect, okay, good good. It won't be 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:38.680 a surprised. It will not be a surprise. Then when 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:42.080 she starts kind of giving her full full opinions on 0:01:42.480 --> 0:01:46.399 this team, Uh, we're gonna talk about today what we 0:01:46.440 --> 0:01:48.800 typically do this time of the year. It's the show 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:50.560 where we start trying to figure out how do we 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:55.160 fix whatever is wrong. Cowboys, although they had, in my opinion, 0:01:55.560 --> 0:01:57.880 what I would consider to be somewhat of a successful 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:00.320 season going twelve and five, getting the playoffs, getting a 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.520 playoff win, still didn't get over that hump that everybody 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:06.040 wants them to get over. And so now the question becomes, 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:08.840 Mike McCarthy, how do you get over that hump? He 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:10.880 got a team that we feel like has a good 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:13.000 amount of talent. How do we get them over that 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:15.799 hump to get them to that next level, to get 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.280 them to that championship game, possibly get them to that 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:21.680 Super Bowl and ultimately winning a Super Bowl. That's what 0:02:21.720 --> 0:02:24.239 we're gonna start talking about today. Before we get there, though, 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:28.160 I want to start with Brian Schottenheimer. Cowboys announced this 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.079 week that Brian Schottenheimer has been hired as a new 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.760 offensive coordinator. I want both of you guys to tell 0:02:33.800 --> 0:02:35.440 me what do you think this means. Obviously we know 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:39.120 Mike McCarthy's calling plays, but what does disposition mean and 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:41.240 what do you think it brings to this team. Well, 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:45.200 for me, it means that the Cowboys offense is going 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.840 to look slightly different going into twenty twenty three for 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.120 obvious reason. It's not simply because you're looking at the 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:55.800 difference between two offensive coordinators. But primarily the reason it 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:59.040 doesn't the promotion doesn't necessarily move the needle for me 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:01.480 too much right or too much left. It's because, at 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:03.400 the end of the day, it is it is Mike 0:03:03.480 --> 0:03:06.680 McCarthy calling in the plays. So I'm interested to see 0:03:07.120 --> 0:03:11.400 if Schottenheimer can bring the what i'll call prime Brian 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.360 to the equation. And the prime Brian would be three 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:16.320 of the four years he was in Seattle they had 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:18.280 a top ten offense. Now, granted that was with Prime 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:21.600 Russell Wilson. But we've also seen what Prime Dak can do. 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:25.959 So if Dak can reel end the interceptions, which I 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:29.600 believe he can because that's uncharacteristic of him, QB coach 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:32.120 change that could affect it as well. So if we 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:34.400 can get Prime Dak, the one who was an MVP 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.680 candidate or in that conversation not two or three years ago, 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:43.040 Schottenheimer brings over some intricacies that can help advance Mike 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:46.960 McCarthy's Green Bay play calling system. It could be something 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:48.840 that helps the Cowboys get over the hump because, like 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:52.040 you said, it was successful twelve and five twenty four 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.640 regular season wins over the past two years, but now 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.280 they're bumping their head up against the ceiling and that 0:03:57.480 --> 0:04:00.600 ceiling might require some changes. Well, he is a guy that, 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:04.920 like you mentioned, he has the experience, and I would 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:09.320 assume Mike McCarthy was part of this decision. Kellen Moore 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:11.840 was the guy that was already here, and he praised 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:14.240 Kellen Moore a whole lot when he was coming in. 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.960 He was excited to work with him. But now this 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:21.839 is all on Mike McCarthy's like, this is his decision. 0:04:21.960 --> 0:04:24.240 This is what he's gonna do. He's the one calling 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:28.919 the place. I thought something that was interesting Will McClay 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:32.480 he talked during the Senior Bowl and he did mention something. 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:36.359 You know, with his scouts, when they go out and 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.719 scout talent, it can be challenging sometimes when you have 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:44.680 a different coach position coach in those moving parts, because 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:48.440 you're still trying to learn what they're looking for, what 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:52.159 are they the type of players that they're attracted to 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:57.279 or wanting to incorporate in the team. And it's interesting 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:00.960 because this is a guy that has already been here 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:04.440 and you still have the Mike McCarthy. He's gonna be 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.400 calling the play, so you have continuity in that aspect. 0:05:07.400 --> 0:05:11.160 So I think having somebody that's not completely fully from 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:13.800 the outside it's going to help a little bit with 0:05:13.880 --> 0:05:17.520 that transition and still help the scouts in that way 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:21.239 to try to bring in guys that now Mike McCarthy's wanting. 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.640 He's wanting because what was his last year he was 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.560 kind of like a consultant. Yeah, he was a consultant. 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:30.640 He was he was with the team. Obviously spent a 0:05:30.680 --> 0:05:32.120 lot of time with team. I see him on the 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:35.280 plane yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, he was kind of up, 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:38.640 But I wonder how much he really was doing. Typically, 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:41.520 but that's the thing typically for consultants, like what they're 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:45.240 really doing. They're observing if there are special projects, Hey 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:47.120 we're looking at this team, what are your thoughts on this? 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:50.360 Like they're there for their expertise. They don't necessarily have 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:53.560 a role all the time. Now that we don't know 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.440 exactly what he's doing, but consultants in general typically don't 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:58.520 have a role all the time where it's like, hey, 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:00.599 every game you're gonna do this, this, this, this, and this. 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:03.520 It's more like, okay, well, hey, what are your thoughts 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.880 on this? How would you do this? Hey we need 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.080 this extra help over here? Can you help out with this? 0:06:08.200 --> 0:06:10.719 Like that's kind of the role I would assume typically 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.400 of a consultant. That's what I would assume he was doing. 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:15.400 But here's the deal. The reason why it matters, and 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.760 I think he goes to what you're saying, Amber is 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.120 the word I keep hearing around the building is alignment. 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:22.760 I think the way the way that I look at 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.479 this is this is just one more thing that tells 0:06:25.520 --> 0:06:27.800 me they want to get this thing all aligned and 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.680 really it's going to be aligned up to Mike McCarthy. 0:06:30.839 --> 0:06:33.479 Mike McCarthy's ultimately going to be responsible for this offense. 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.440 And so when you look at all the coaches that 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.960 aren't coming back to me, I look at it and say, alignment. 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:42.720 I think, you know, are you getting guys that are 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:46.440 going to be completely aligned with the direction and how 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:49.279 Mike wants to do the offense, how he wants the 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.159 offense to function. Because it was kind of pieced together 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.640 in a little different kind of way. Obviously, Kellen Moore 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:56.880 was already here and and Mike said he was good 0:06:56.880 --> 0:06:58.279 with that. He was he was okay with the idea 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:00.600 that Kellen was here, And quite frankly, I'm not sure 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:03.600 it would have necessarily changed had not. You know, my 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:07.000 personal opinion that maybe Kellen was as much a part 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:10.000 of that decision as the Cowboys that Kellen wanted to leave. 0:07:10.120 --> 0:07:12.640 But all that being said, I do think a lot 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.440 of this has to do with alignment. If Mike's gonna 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:17.240 call the plays and Mike's gonna run the offense, my 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:20.600 suspicion is Mike's gonna want guys that know what he 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:24.120 wants that aligns with his philosophies offensively so that it 0:07:24.160 --> 0:07:26.080 makes it a lot easier to accomplish the things he 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.440 wants to accomplish, and do it quickly. He don't have 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.720 four or five years to figure this out. He's got 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:33.080 to do it pretty quick. And for me, going back 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.160 to and I love the fact that Ambery you touched 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:38.960 on what McClay said about his scouting department. The play 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:42.080 calling style that's now about to be deployed via Mike 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:45.840 McCarthy with an in coordination with Brian Schottenheimer. It's going 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:47.960 to be more of the West Coast style. So if 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:50.120 you go back, if you look at some of the 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.760 more successful West Coast offenses. Let's talk about the team 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.800 that has now elimited the Cowboys in two consecutive postseasons, 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.400 Kyle Shanahan and that West Coast offense in San Francisco. 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.080 He deploys a lot of motions, but at the base 0:08:01.120 --> 0:08:03.720 of it, it still get the ball out quickly, depend 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.080 on your playmakers. Tell your playmakers to turn this four 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:10.240 yard catch into a ten yard overall reception. The Cowboys 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:12.640 need to make sure they have the personnel to operate 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:16.240 efficiently in the offense that's to come Ceedee Lamb has 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:19.280 proven he can be that guy. Michael Gallup win healthy 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.160 and now he will have a complete offseason. He's now 0:08:21.160 --> 0:08:23.040 recovering from the scope on the right knee and the 0:08:23.080 --> 0:08:25.400 right ankle for those that didn't know, that's also not 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.720 the same knee and that he told the ACL Lamb. 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:32.320 But if a healthy Michael Gallop plus Ceedee Lamb and 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.400 you would have to look at free agency. Maybe. I 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:37.240 know they're going to try to develop Jaylen toil More, 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:39.600 but they're gonna go back after Obj. See if that happens, 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:41.200 I would love for them. I'm on the record I 0:08:41.240 --> 0:08:43.680 want t Y Hilton back in the building. If you 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:47.839 can get the right personnel, those playmakers. Jake Ferguson will 0:08:47.840 --> 0:08:50.559 talk about the tight end position here shortly. Peyton Hendershot, 0:08:50.600 --> 0:08:52.520 he's a playmaker. When you get the ball in his hands, 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:56.360 You're gonna have to stack your offensive weapons for Dak Prescott. 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.080 Those types of players that you can get the ball 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:02.320 out quickly and then depend on them to get yet 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:05.640 because this West Coast offense and any kind of type 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:09.000 of variation for it, sorry requires yards after the catch. 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:10.800 So make sure you have that personnel. I will say 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:12.600 this though, and I want to be clear about this, 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:17.240 even though we think that might happen. Fact the matter is, 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:19.400 we don't know how Mike's gonna handle. It's true, Mike 0:09:19.440 --> 0:09:21.200 could go into this whole thing and say, you know, 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:24.000 I'm gonna be calling plays, but I like what Kellen 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.640 Moore was doing from an offensive philosophy standpoint, and we 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.679 might continue to do that. Or he might say, you know, 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.079 I figured out a hybrid between maybe some of the 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.080 stuff Kellen's doing and some of the stuff I used 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:35.880 to do, and now that's what we're gonna do. So 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:38.120 I wouldn't go as far as to say it is 0:09:38.160 --> 0:09:40.520 a foregone conclusion that this will be a West Coast 0:09:40.520 --> 0:09:43.600 style offense. What I would say is that's what Mike 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:46.880 did before Kellen's been doing what he's been doing. Where 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:50.240 does this end up? How has Mike evolved? Because my 0:09:50.320 --> 0:09:53.560 suspicion is Mike has evolved. He's probably not the same 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:55.560 play caller that he was when he was in Green Bay, 0:09:55.559 --> 0:09:58.199 and by the way, he probably at that point had 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:01.080 different person Probably he had different personnel at that point. 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:04.200 He may not think that personnel fits here, or that 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:07.800 philosophy fits here, that scheme fits here with the players 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:09.640 that he has. So we'll wait and see, and I 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:11.560 want to say I'll be interested to see once we 0:10:11.559 --> 0:10:14.000 get the training camera what this offense looks like with 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:16.880 Mike call in the plays and implementing whatever he decides them. 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.840 And we spoke about it off the offline, off the record. 0:10:19.920 --> 0:10:22.920 As far as I believe that to your point, he's 0:10:22.960 --> 0:10:25.199 going to take the best of Kellen Moore, I don't 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:27.480 think he's going to scrap the entire tire Kellen Moore 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:30.360 playbook because that would be kinterproductive in trying to get 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:33.440 Dak Prescott back to prime level. Right, So there has 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.640 to be, to your point, Ambar, some type of continuity, 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:39.680 not only in whom you're naming the offensive coordinator someone 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.240 who is in the building, but in the playbook as well, 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.120 in the language as well. So there's going to be 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.640 For me, I believe a lot of the best of 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.520 Kellen Moore that remains, but you'll see that mixed with 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.200 some of the best of the Mike McCarthy Super Bowl 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:55.000 Green Bay era and then see how Schottenheimer can kind 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.520 of mix it in into that. Yeah, I think that's 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:03.960 that's the really cool part. And I hate every year 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:08.719 because we get to the end result that's not obtained, 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.920 the major goal is not obtained. But and now I'm like, 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:16.040 you know what, I'm done. I'm done. I'm freaking done. 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.360 But then we hit this point where we start looking 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:23.520 at things that we're interested in seeing and possibly it 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:28.199 sparking a new little fire in you of excitement and 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:30.360 wanting to see because I think it is pretty cool 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:33.559 that he has that kind of experience where you've experienced 0:11:33.600 --> 0:11:36.840 both types of offense and then you can start picking 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:41.440 out what really works and then hopefully now figure out 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:46.960 exactly how to better cater to a quarterback like Dak Prescott. Yeah, 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:49.720 it's interesting you say that. I was Mencini's my wife. 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:52.800 We were literally having this conversation two or three days 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:56.600 ago about fandom and how you kind of manage that 0:11:56.679 --> 0:11:58.959 feeling you're talking about, and I was like, you know, 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:01.920 I've come to this conclude and it's not just the Cowboys, 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:05.640 it's Texas for me, because they are the organizations mirror 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.640 each other so much, just in the fan basis, how 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:11.640 the world looks at us versus how we look at ourselves, 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:15.160 Like oh, it's just so just the same thing. But 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.240 I told my wife. One of the things I figured 0:12:17.240 --> 0:12:19.640 out that that I think is a healthy perspective is 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.520 I'm gonna take it season by season, and what that 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.800 means is, by February or March of every year, I'm 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.880 going to allow myself to just say I don't care 0:12:28.920 --> 0:12:31.360 about what happened in the past. I'm gonna start over 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:33.240 with this team and we'll see where it takes me. 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:36.400 And I'm gonna get excited in the moments I get excited. 0:12:36.440 --> 0:12:38.720 Big wins will mean something to me. I will not 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:41.199 allow myself to be like, but what's gonna happen when 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:43.720 it comes time for the real game, like the big game. 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:45.640 I'm not gonna do that. I'm just gonna take every 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.439 season as it is and take the ride, and wherever 0:12:48.480 --> 0:12:50.640 it takes me, that's where it's gonna take me. If 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.640 it ends in disappointment, I'm gonna have that disappointment, I'm 0:12:53.679 --> 0:12:56.760 gonna get to February. I'm gonna tuck that away, and 0:12:56.800 --> 0:12:59.120 I'm gonna move on to the next season, because otherwise 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.400 it doesn't make sports fun, right if you're If you're 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.760 the other way, then you're like, man, what's after a while, 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:07.680 it's like, why am I even doing this? And it 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:09.920 kills the whole fun of sports. So I ain't doing it. 0:13:10.280 --> 0:13:12.800 I'm not getting on that. I'm doing it from now on. 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:15.800 I'm not gonna allow myself year and like that that 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:18.880 was me last year. I'm like, I might work, this 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:22.240 is work. Let me just stay. We gotta do this, 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:25.240 we gotta get through this. But then things start happening 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:28.160 throughout the season that you get start getting pulled back 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.240 in and reeled back in, and I'm like, dare it? 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:36.000 Are hated this? But um, there's still there's always there's 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:38.960 always something to look forward to. So well, the good 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:42.800 news is is the Cowboys are showing progress. And granted, 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.120 two things can be true at the same time. One, 0:13:45.520 --> 0:13:48.320 they did not achieve their ultimate goal last year. That's 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:51.960 that's effect. What's also affect is they made progress last year. 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.880 Year over year, they went twelve and five for two 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:58.840 consecutive seasons, two consecutive postseason appearances, got eliminated in the 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:03.120 wild card last postseason, made it to the divisional round 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:06.319 this postseason. Well, logic dictates that as long as you 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.840 can make the necessary tweaks at minimum, maybe you should 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:11.600 be I mean, the next step in progress is the 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.480 NFC Championship, right, So that's they're trying to make the 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:17.880 next step. The needle is pointing in that direction, the 0:14:18.000 --> 0:14:20.760 trajectory is aimed in that direction. So that's that those 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.000 are things to get excited about. You know that you're 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.040 going to get a one hundred percent Michael Gallup back 0:14:25.080 --> 0:14:27.640 in camp versus the Michael Gallup who is trying to 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:31.200 return from a torn acl in season and trying to 0:14:31.240 --> 0:14:33.480 regain his swagger on the fly, which is a much 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.200 more difficult task. You know that they're going to be 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:38.560 at least more aggressive in free agency than they have 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:40.240 been in the past because they just showed you that 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:44.120 Jason Peters Anthony Barr, you're going to trade for Jonathan Hell? 0:14:44.160 --> 0:14:46.080 Does that? Is that more aggressive or is that more 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:47.920 of what they've been willing to do because what they've 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.160 been willing to do over the years is, well, we 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.200 will we will go out and get the guys that 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.560 we can get at a time and a price that 0:14:54.680 --> 0:14:57.560 makes sense. A better hit rate. Let's say that. Okay, 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.400 that's better hit rate because you're talking about Anthony bar 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:04.120 and a Jason Peters versus let's say a Gerald McCoy 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.440 and a Don Terry Poe, so better hit rate. I'd 0:15:06.480 --> 0:15:09.600 say the caliber of name would be similar respective to 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.440 their off seasons that they were brought into Dallas. 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This is not a commitment to 0:17:58.040 --> 0:18:07.480 lend back to The Break. Welcome back. It is the 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:10.639 second segment of The Break live from the SWBC Mortgage 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.199 Studios at the Star. This segment is brought to you 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:17.000 by blockchain dot Com. All right, here's what's gonna do. 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:18.879 We're gonna go through each position. We're gonna start with 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:20.359 the offensive side of the ball, and I want you 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:23.000 guys to tell me what do you think is the 0:18:23.040 --> 0:18:26.119 biggest thing that the Cowboys need to be focused on 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:29.080 trying to fix this offseason at that position. It can 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:32.080 be about a particular player, It can be about a contract, 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:34.600 it can be about a player's performance. It can be 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:37.959 how that position is being coached. Whatever it is, just 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.800 about this position. If you had to line out, here's 0:18:40.840 --> 0:18:42.679 the thing I think is most important for them to 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:45.400 work on. This is what it would be. Let's start 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:48.439 first with the quarterback position. It always gets the most attention, 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:50.840 and quite frankly, it should because it is probably not 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:54.119 probably it is the most position in sports, most important 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:56.840 position in sports. Right now, looking at the Cowboys and 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.280 what they have and what they've done, what do you 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:01.360 think is the most important thing they have to address 0:19:01.480 --> 0:19:04.880 This offseason. You got to get the interceptions in order. 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:07.760 With Dak Prescott, and like I mentioned earlier, those are 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:11.040 uncharacteristic characteristic of him if you look at the body 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:13.959 of work that he's put on film in the NFL. 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:17.680 And I don't know if because he wasn't throwing these interceptions. 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:19.840 And this is not a shot to Douglas Smyer think 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:23.120 he did a great job, but the fact is the fact. 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:26.080 And when John Kittner was the quarterbacks coach, as one example, 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:28.600 you didn't see Dak Prescott throwing these interceptions. What you 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.520 did see with Dak Prescott find another gear and become 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:35.800 prime Dak Prescott, MVP caliber Dak Prescott. But something happened 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:38.320 over the past couple of years, and particularly over the 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.479 back half of this past season, that the interceptions just 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:44.520 completely ran away. Now I think I did some quick math, 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:47.119 and I think only, not only, but sixty percent of 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:50.560 the interceptions were attributable to Dak Prescott making poor decisions 0:19:50.560 --> 0:19:53.400 and or poor throws. The other forty ish percent were 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:57.760