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Speaker 1: twenty eight, twenty twenty two, Season eighteen, episode number seventy eight.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the latest edition of The Break. We're live
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Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys and Cowboys get a win Thanksgiving Day. It
Speaker 1: seems like that was forever ago, but we're gonna break
Speaker 1: it down for you. Guys. Are gonna tell you what
Speaker 1: we thought of that game. Cowboys win twenty eight twenty
Speaker 1: over the Giants. We'll start with the story of the game,
Speaker 1: but I do actually want to take it a little
Speaker 1: different direction, specifically for you, Nick, because I thought you
Speaker 1: had a really interesting article, uh last week coming out
Speaker 1: of that game where you said you thought this was
Speaker 1: actually an even more impressive win than the victory over
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings the week before. Explain, I do I
Speaker 1: think that you're not gonna beat teams about thirty seven
Speaker 1: points in the playoffs, um, and especially on the road.
Speaker 1: It'd be fun, but but it's not gonna happen, especially
Speaker 1: if it's Tampa. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're not. You're not
Speaker 1: a five seats not gonna go and play a division
Speaker 1: winner and do that. Um. Maybe if it's Minnesota, maybe
Speaker 1: you mention, you know, you know that that's not gonna
Speaker 1: happen again like that, And for whatever reason, they kind
Speaker 1: of rolled over. The Giants don't roll over. They fight.
Speaker 1: That's what they are. That's why they have the record
Speaker 1: they do. And I just think that when penalties are
Speaker 1: mounting up in your offense is struggling and you got
Speaker 1: to figure out a way to turn the tide those
Speaker 1: that's what happens in the playoffs, and they were able
Speaker 1: to do that. Was not pretty, but they were able
Speaker 1: to do that. And I just thought that that type
Speaker 1: of grind out game is what this team is gonna need,
Speaker 1: you know, to be battle tested to win in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: To me, is a little bit more impressive The Giants
Speaker 1: have already seen you before, They've seen your tricks. They
Speaker 1: haven't seen Dak and this offense is starting to bit.
Speaker 1: They see plenty, they've seen more than they want to.
Speaker 1: They're probably tired of Dack at this point. I mean
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, his first two losses were against the Giants. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, sandwiched around like an eleven game winning streaks,
Speaker 1: like he can't be the Giants. It's like, well, I'm
Speaker 1: not losing them ever again. Ever. Yeah. Yeah, So I
Speaker 1: have a story of game for you, Amber. I don't know,
Speaker 1: I have a hard time agreeing with what Nick just said. No,
Speaker 1: not to all of it. It's just to me, this game,
Speaker 1: everything was in the Cowboys advantage and they couldn't get
Speaker 1: out there and start strong like similar to what we
Speaker 1: saw him in Minnesota. I think that's super super key
Speaker 1: to them. It's just be having an offense that can
Speaker 1: start strong. And to me, when you look at everything
Speaker 1: that like other players that were out that were hurt
Speaker 1: from the Giants, this is a game they should have
Speaker 1: gone in and dominated to begin with. The thing is
Speaker 1: the Cowboys to me, a lot of the times, and
Speaker 1: they do this a lot. They'll start off bad and
Speaker 1: then they come in second half of the game played well,
Speaker 1: and a lot of the times it not always works
Speaker 1: in their advantage became Sometimes it's like too late and
Speaker 1: you face teams for example, let's just say, just as
Speaker 1: an example, I didn't think that game went down the
Speaker 1: same way that I'm trying to use as an example.
Speaker 1: But Green Bay, when you get someone like that that
Speaker 1: can't finish you at the end of the game and
Speaker 1: win in the last few minutes seconds of the game,
Speaker 1: that's a problem. And a lot of the times the
Speaker 1: Cowboys fall short in those types of situations. In this instance,
Speaker 1: they were able to beat out the Giants, and they
Speaker 1: had every reason too, but they play against a better
Speaker 1: team that it's not the Giants, someone else. I don't
Speaker 1: even know who to use, but whoever else. This is
Speaker 1: a game that they could have easily lost because by
Speaker 1: the time they kind of get their gears moving, sometimes
Speaker 1: he's end up being way too late. Yeah, man, I
Speaker 1: think you made some really good points, because to me,
Speaker 1: it's like they turned the ball over three times in
Speaker 1: the first half. If you think about the interceptions and
Speaker 1: then the and then the turnover, run down down downs,
Speaker 1: and you and yeah, I thought, you're really fortunate. I know,
Speaker 1: I know in our situation. On the radio, I was
Speaker 1: doing the halftime and I'm like, man, I'm grateful you're
Speaker 1: only down seven in this one right now for where
Speaker 1: it's at. But the thing that, the thing that that
Speaker 1: you have to like it looked like a team that
Speaker 1: had played three games and four it's gonna be three
Speaker 1: games in twelve days, and I and sometimes you just
Speaker 1: have to survive these games. Sometimes you just have to
Speaker 1: survive the matchup. Sometimes you have to take advance age
Speaker 1: of the you know, of the other team being really
Speaker 1: beat up and hurt and all that, and you know,
Speaker 1: to Ambar's point, you know, I just you've seen this
Speaker 1: team start out fast. You have seen him start fast
Speaker 1: and being able to kind of get things together and
Speaker 1: get it going. And then at other times you know
Speaker 1: they're then they're falling behind and you're just kind of like, well,
Speaker 1: what's the deal? Why why can't Why is there? And
Speaker 1: I think it's all about the consistency, and I think
Speaker 1: they lack it. I think they I just feel like
Speaker 1: that at times it's like, you know, you have better
Speaker 1: players than them, and you don't you know, you don't
Speaker 1: do enough early to to kind of to take their
Speaker 1: will away in this football game. I mean, you encourage
Speaker 1: like the Giants to stay around in this game, you know,
Speaker 1: and maybe this team plays to a little bit of
Speaker 1: the level of the teams that they play. I you know,
Speaker 1: to me, what's so disheartening as you wake up today
Speaker 1: and you're the only team in the NFC East that
Speaker 1: didn't beat the Packers. You know, it's stuff like that
Speaker 1: that when you look back on it, well, man, they
Speaker 1: should have won that game, should have won this game.
Speaker 1: Oh hell, they beat Minnesota. I mean, I just think
Speaker 1: the consistency or the lack of u is a problem
Speaker 1: for this football team right now. But yeah, I will
Speaker 1: say this, and I saw a lot on Twitter day
Speaker 1: the day of the game. There are a lot of
Speaker 1: fans that agree with you Amber that, Man, here we go,
Speaker 1: this team again. They can't really handle prosperity all those
Speaker 1: kinds of things. But I just as I watched and
Speaker 1: I sat and watched football all day yesterday, And when
Speaker 1: you watch the NFL, that's the NFL. Like, I don't
Speaker 1: care who you are, I don't care how good you are.
Speaker 1: The Kansas City Chiefs are gonna have those Sundays where
Speaker 1: it's just not clicking. They find a way to win
Speaker 1: like they did yesterday, like yesterday, and they did right,
Speaker 1: and they found a way to lose. But the point
Speaker 1: is it's close, and I don't think I don't think
Speaker 1: fans always appreciate just how close the NFL is. You
Speaker 1: got three or four teams that are really really bad. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying the Texans are in the category with
Speaker 1: all these other teams. There are a few teams that
Speaker 1: are just really really bad. There are one or two
Speaker 1: teams that are really really good everybody else the margin
Speaker 1: between them is very, very slight. And so from that standpoint,
Speaker 1: I look at it and I kind of agree with you, Nick.
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys did what they needed to do.
Speaker 1: They didn't have it early on, they had some mistakes
Speaker 1: early on, they figured it out, they figured out how
Speaker 1: to gut out a win that to me is is
Speaker 1: just as valuable so as not. So this is before
Speaker 1: your time a little bit. But but you guys remember
Speaker 1: the game. I mean, it's all about perspective. Did you
Speaker 1: think Tony Romo had a good game against the Bills
Speaker 1: back in oh seven? Figured out Winter said that was
Speaker 1: the best game he's ever played. He had five interceptions,
Speaker 1: he lost a fumble, they rallied, they figured out a way,
Speaker 1: they rallied and won the game by one um. And
Speaker 1: and so it was it's all about perspective. It's and
Speaker 1: you know, and and we sell this stuff about teams,
Speaker 1: you know, cowboys not starting fast, and they don't because
Speaker 1: I tell you who doesn't start fast instant that's the
Speaker 1: other team like that. I don't think we're downplaying. That's
Speaker 1: a pretty remarkable feat that they have not given up
Speaker 1: a first quarter touchdown this year. I mean that's eleven quarters.
Speaker 1: Think about just any game eleven quarters without giving up
Speaker 1: a touchdown. I mean that's that's almost I mean that's
Speaker 1: what almost three games. It's almost like the forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: Yeah right, yeah, I mean you're talking about this week
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers. That they have eleven forty nine ers,
Speaker 1: they haven't given up a touchdown in the second half
Speaker 1: in the last seven games or something. That's amazing. Shut
Speaker 1: out a team this weekend. So yeah, who's their quarterback again?
Speaker 1: Who was quarterback in the Saints? I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: know it was. It was Dalton, Andy Dalton, Dalton, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there there Saints are trying to give the Philadelphi Eagles
Speaker 1: the first overall pick in the draft. They're trying, they
Speaker 1: they really are trying hard to do that for I
Speaker 1: don't know why they are. They are right, yeah, they're saying,
Speaker 1: and the Eagles don't need a quarterback. No, they're not
Speaker 1: gonna get what's gonna happen. I know this is down
Speaker 1: the road talk. Eagles will move that pick and get
Speaker 1: another first round pick for the next year, and they'll
Speaker 1: just keep They'll keep rolling it, keep rolling it, keep
Speaker 1: rolling it into two exactly exactly. Somehow they figure out
Speaker 1: how to how to make that work. No, hey, let's
Speaker 1: be honest. You know, it's a game. We all thought
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys would win, you know, even no one
Speaker 1: going in about all the things. It's just too you
Speaker 1: know it it is you know when you when you
Speaker 1: talk about how this team is able to kind of
Speaker 1: flip it in the second half or they or a drive,
Speaker 1: they're able to flip it and then it's able to
Speaker 1: to you know, make plays in the second half, and
Speaker 1: you're it makes you wonder. You're you're kind of going like, okay,
Speaker 1: where was this earlier? Where was this? Why wasn't Why
Speaker 1: was it the start like this? And maybe it has
Speaker 1: something to do with the im Like I mentioned, you know,
Speaker 1: three games in twelve days. Sometimes it's just you don't practice.
Speaker 1: You don't me personally, Dak running around checking everything. I
Speaker 1: know he said dummy calls and all that stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Honestly felt like he was trying to get him in
Speaker 1: the best play possible with no practice. I think he
Speaker 1: probably was looking at the offense and like going, Okay, guys,
Speaker 1: this is what I know we can do, you know,
Speaker 1: And this look right here, I'm gonna guys. He's moving
Speaker 1: guys around, he's checking, he's doing all and you're kind
Speaker 1: of like, man, this just looks more than normal. And
Speaker 1: I'm stre thinking d and practice all week. He's just
Speaker 1: trying to get him in the best damn play they
Speaker 1: can to run, you know. So, I mean there's a
Speaker 1: lot that goes in. Maybe that's one of the reasons
Speaker 1: why they didn't start very quickly in this game, is
Speaker 1: because they just don't practice very much for this Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: Day game. Now, looking at that just to me and
Speaker 1: I want to make sure and a thousand percent credit
Speaker 1: to them for being able to come back into the
Speaker 1: second half and finishing the game the way that they did,
Speaker 1: giving the ridiculous amount of penalties that they had. I
Speaker 1: don't even know what the total was at the end
Speaker 1: of the game, but it was way too many. My
Speaker 1: thing is, my problem is right now with the Cowboys
Speaker 1: is that sometimes it feels like they take two steps
Speaker 1: forward and then one back. You're still ahead, you're still
Speaker 1: moving forward, but it's like it's never again. And I
Speaker 1: think that's the one word that people are using when
Speaker 1: describing the Cowboys right now, is that consistency aspect of
Speaker 1: the full things. Can they be consistent enough to kind
Speaker 1: of keep repeating the same type of game week after week?
Speaker 1: And that's the biggest problem is that when you see
Speaker 1: Minnesota that game is like perfect, and you're not. You
Speaker 1: can't expect the game to go like them to play
Speaker 1: like that every single week. That's not exactly but at
Speaker 1: the same time, it's not necessarily realistic. But then again,
Speaker 1: it's just little aspects of the game that you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: you did this, and then now you step back again,
Speaker 1: and it's just that that consistency part of it that
Speaker 1: it's just very frustrating, especially again when you look at
Speaker 1: everything we talked about during the week, what the Giants
Speaker 1: currently were heading into that weekend, you should have just
Speaker 1: if they beat the Packers, they figure out a way
Speaker 1: to win that in overtime. Do you think that they're
Speaker 1: nine and two? You think the Cowboys are nine and two.
Speaker 1: I think they beat the Packers and then beat Minnesota
Speaker 1: and the Giants you're thinking you're thinking that, Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: thinking that maybe they split the I don't think so.
Speaker 1: They split the they split the Green Bay Minnesota games.
Speaker 1: Something like that. Motion matters, And I think the way
Speaker 1: they came back and beat Minnesota was a reflection of
Speaker 1: the last week in Green Bay. And I think if
Speaker 1: you tell Aaron Rodgers you're gonna go one and three
Speaker 1: in the NFC East, He's gonna be like, well, we
Speaker 1: better beat the Cowboys, you better beat Mike McCarthy. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think there's a reason why, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: they certainly not get in Jordan Love in the second
Speaker 1: half like the Eagles got. I mean, I mean, that's
Speaker 1: just the way, that's just the way it's gone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't I don't think that they I
Speaker 1: don't think they destroy Minnesota if they beat Green Bay
Speaker 1: I just still think they beat Minnesota just because I
Speaker 1: think Minnesota is a great matchup for the Cowboys yea,
Speaker 1: and not a great matchup for Minnesota. I think that
Speaker 1: was that was a game. Just you know, most people
Speaker 1: don't understand that what you just said. I really think
Speaker 1: that the fans don't don't think about what even and
Speaker 1: I'm just fans think about it. Like in the media though,
Speaker 1: who's top five teams at the NFC, You're like, for who? Right? For?
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I'll tell you, I don't know
Speaker 1: where Washington ranks on this list, but Washington is a
Speaker 1: bad matchup for a lot of team. Yes, they don't
Speaker 1: let you run the ball. Washington in San Francisco are
Speaker 1: the two teams I think are the worst matchups of
Speaker 1: playoff FFC teams for the Cowboys. And they don't have
Speaker 1: the best record in the end. No, And that's and
Speaker 1: that's the problem that I believe that the Commanders have
Speaker 1: won two games now on the goal line defending the
Speaker 1: goal line. I think they beat the Bears defending the
Speaker 1: goal line, and I think and they just went and
Speaker 1: they and they beat the Falcons. So they've won two games.
Speaker 1: Having to like it got down to the point I
Speaker 1: was listening to the game driving around and I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the Commanders here. It got down to
Speaker 1: the point where the Atlanta announcers are like going, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe they'll let you score, you know, And then you're thinking,
Speaker 1: because you're you're riding that line of like do you
Speaker 1: let them score to get the ball back with a
Speaker 1: minute to go and all that, and then you're like, hell, no,
Speaker 1: play defense and see play defense led to an interception.
Speaker 1: You know. I will say this about the Cowboys, though,
Speaker 1: can something they are consistent at and that's getting penalized,
Speaker 1: That that part of it. I don't think that will
Speaker 1: ever change. I don't think that'll change the presnap penalties
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. I mean, concentrate you talk about
Speaker 1: it all the time, you tell you mean, you could
Speaker 1: talk about it. You could have officials, you could stop practice,
Speaker 1: you could yell at everybody, you can make everybody run laps.
Speaker 1: This team will continue to be the most penalized team
Speaker 1: in the league. It just will. I mean, we you know,
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy, you can honestly hear the frustration in his
Speaker 1: voice after the game when he was when he's talking
Speaker 1: about it, and it's something that every time it's like
Speaker 1: he's probably going, what more can I do? What more
Speaker 1: can I do to stop this team from being penalized?
Speaker 1: And I think that's I just think we need to
Speaker 1: stop talking him. No offense to you, Ember, but I
Speaker 1: think that that this they're just not it's not going
Speaker 1: to change. It's just not gonna And that's fine. I mean, no,
Speaker 1: it's not fine. But and we see them and in
Speaker 1: every game usually there's something and I'm not saying that
Speaker 1: it's gonna go complete little wait when, but when you
Speaker 1: see this specific game back to back, it's like again,
Speaker 1: here we go again and again, and it was just again.
Speaker 1: I don't remember how many there were, but it just
Speaker 1: seemed ridiculous the amount of times that he happened and
Speaker 1: the amount of times that he happened back to back
Speaker 1: to back. So that was in that aspect, it's just like,
Speaker 1: what can you do at this point? I guess, I
Speaker 1: mean how much they had I want to say it
Speaker 1: was four false starts, yeah, this game, and there were
Speaker 1: a lot of holding calls, which going to game, Nick
Speaker 1: was awful. Boy, I know, but Nick, you mentioned before
Speaker 1: the game you said that this crew is a crew
Speaker 1: that is notoriously like they are the most one of
Speaker 1: the most. They are one of the most punitive teams
Speaker 1: when it comes to calling penalties. They call them all
Speaker 1: the time, and they call a lot of them. So
Speaker 1: we went into the game thinking this was going to
Speaker 1: be a heavily yeah, and then you had the Giants
Speaker 1: had seven. So yeah, it was very similar. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was seven. It was very similar to what we saw
Speaker 1: last year on Thanksgiving. Or it is just penalty after
Speaker 1: penalty after penalty. So and I do agree the false
Speaker 1: start one is the one that are pre snapped. Dallas
Speaker 1: has to clean it up. The holding calls, it becomes
Speaker 1: a matter of those are kind of calls to me
Speaker 1: that are about um, you know about it wasn't really
Speaker 1: hood like it's a it's a it's a call that's
Speaker 1: that's not necessarily black and white like a false start is.
Speaker 1: And I would venture to say, just from my perspective,
Speaker 1: about half of those holding calls, I'd be like, ah,
Speaker 1: I don't know if I necessarily great. Giants had a
Speaker 1: really bad penalty on them. The legal man down field
Speaker 1: was kind of questionable. That was questionable, But the one
Speaker 1: that saved you saved the drive for the Cowboys was
Speaker 1: CD over the middle. They called defensive holding, and they
Speaker 1: called it really late too, and when the receiver doesn't
Speaker 1: even complain. Every receiver complains about getting hold, uh you
Speaker 1: know held or you know pi and he didn't. He
Speaker 1: was walking off the field like it was fourth down.
Speaker 1: And then that they called. They called a hold at
Speaker 1: the start, which that was questionable. So both teams got it. Well,
Speaker 1: usually you had seven of the was it twenty penalties?
Speaker 1: You had seven of the twenty penalties were resulted in
Speaker 1: the first down for the other team. So, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's just one of those days where the refs did.
Speaker 1: They wanted it, Like I say all the time, they
Speaker 1: wanted mom and they wanted mom and dad to see
Speaker 1: I'm ref in the game. Well Thanksgiving. They wanted to
Speaker 1: be a part of the Yeah, they want to be
Speaker 1: a part of the story. So it is what it is.
Speaker 1: All right, We're gonna take our first break. When we
Speaker 1: come back. We got more we got to talk about.
Speaker 1: We'll dive into the offense and the defense and what
Speaker 1: they did well and not so well. We'll do when
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Speaker 1: was twenty one of thirty uh son, I'm sorry Thursday,
Speaker 1: seventy percent completions, twenty two hundred and sixty one yards passing,
Speaker 1: two touchdowns, two interceptions, a ninety one point one rating.
Speaker 1: How would you characterize his play overall that day? Which half?
Speaker 1: You gotta do it as one as one whole? How
Speaker 1: do you how do you characterize he played? You know,
Speaker 1: in the second half, I thought he threw the ball
Speaker 1: really well. He had some nice throws in there, and
Speaker 1: he let his receivers go make plays. I mean those
Speaker 1: receivers had to help for some of those penalties. We
Speaker 1: just talked about five yards here and there, and Schultz
Speaker 1: bails him out with the nice catch in the back
Speaker 1: and the CD. I thought CD had an outstanding game,
Speaker 1: better than the numbers show because of all the penalties
Speaker 1: that he drew. I thought Dak had a good game.
Speaker 1: But in the first half, though, there obviously was a miscommunication.
Speaker 1: He thought that that was going to be a false
Speaker 1: a free play with a defense Tibadeau jumps in into
Speaker 1: neutral zone. He should have got the college one that
Speaker 1: Novak and then clearly missed. Yeah it wow, the one
Speaker 1: they met. Yeah, so I think he no, he clearly
Speaker 1: missed that. That that the line Judge two decide. It
Speaker 1: was on this Cowboys bench. Cowboys were screaming and you know, so, yeah,
Speaker 1: you think you're going to get the free play out
Speaker 1: of that one for sure? Yeah. Well, I mean it
Speaker 1: wasn't It wasn't his best game, but he cleaned it
Speaker 1: up in the second half. You know, had a couple
Speaker 1: of those turnovers and three or four possessions out of touchdown. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pretty impressive, you know what. I to me, I'm
Speaker 1: all about getting Michael Gallop going anyway we can here,
Speaker 1: you know, And I think early in the first half,
Speaker 1: some of the sketches that Michael Gallup was able to make,
Speaker 1: I thought were really some nice ones going to get
Speaker 1: in the football making some adjustments the route running stuff
Speaker 1: like that. And Dac, you know, as long as he
Speaker 1: can reward those guys for running great routes and throw
Speaker 1: the ball where it needs to be thrown, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm all about that. I thought. You know, when you
Speaker 1: look at the receivers overall, though, like I say, with
Speaker 1: Gallop with Lamb and the way that they're able to
Speaker 1: play that that that to me is just a real positive.
Speaker 1: And these young tight ends, we can go on all
Speaker 1: day about them. But you know, Dak, it's great when
Speaker 1: he can throw the ball the guys that are open.
Speaker 1: And you know, there were a couple of plays that
Speaker 1: were contested plays that guys may catch. I mean, Gallop
Speaker 1: made a catch along the sidelines for a big play
Speaker 1: when Dak was sprinting too, you know, sprinting on the outside.
Speaker 1: They blocked Nolah Brown on the edge and it's you know,
Speaker 1: they're gonna it's really one of those rpo kind of
Speaker 1: throws and he's running to his right. It's a tight
Speaker 1: window throw and he makes it. Gallop does a great
Speaker 1: job of not letting it get on him. That's what
Speaker 1: always complained about is that ball getting on Gallop and
Speaker 1: kind of getting knocked up in the air. But man,
Speaker 1: he went out, kind of got the hands up and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. So Dak put him on, put it
Speaker 1: on his receivers in this game, it was it was
Speaker 1: good to see it that way. Yeah, I think this
Speaker 1: is just kind of Dak. I mean, that's just good
Speaker 1: old Dak and the way that he plays. But the interceptions,
Speaker 1: I was just looking at them again to get a
Speaker 1: reminder of how that looked. And I mean on both
Speaker 1: of them, he didn't necessarily it wasn't necessarily his fault really.
Speaker 1: I mean on the first one to Gallop, he I
Speaker 1: we could see. I don't know if it was maybe
Speaker 1: he threw it a little too earlier, gallup just wasn't
Speaker 1: quick enough and him turning around and all that. And
Speaker 1: then you look at the one with ceed Lamb and
Speaker 1: that was a pretty contested ball, but it was more
Speaker 1: on CD than I would say got Dak, and it
Speaker 1: was just very well protected. Like the Guyant Stephens did
Speaker 1: a good job. You're absolutely right about that. Holmes made
Speaker 1: a great play on the ball. He got around and
Speaker 1: knocked it in the air. The problem was that Tyler
Speaker 1: Smith was in his lap when he threw the ball,
Speaker 1: and and and people said, oh, you're defending Dak. No,
Speaker 1: it's hard to step and throw a football when your
Speaker 1: offensive tackle is right there and you've already broke your
Speaker 1: damn thumb, you know on a play earlier in the year.
Speaker 1: You know, with a guy in your face, you know,
Speaker 1: it's so for him to step up and have to
Speaker 1: make that throat. Yeah, it was. It was a little tight.
Speaker 1: I mean they're there, like we caught that cover two
Speaker 1: look and you know they're the safety's both go wide
Speaker 1: and then you know you get the other one come back.
Speaker 1: It's like they go wide and then they come back
Speaker 1: at Holmes knocked the ball in the air. Man. I
Speaker 1: mean he made a good play. He just turned around
Speaker 1: and he contested the ball. It's tough throw, tough play.
Speaker 1: But but also on that throw when you watch it,
Speaker 1: Dak can't step and throw because he's got Tyler Smith
Speaker 1: sitting right in his lap. Yeah. Final two minutes of
Speaker 1: a half and Dak the CD over the middle Nothings
Speaker 1: Barras intern backers interception and then this one. I mean
Speaker 1: the Vikings, I mean they can do you know, they
Speaker 1: didn't anything they want. This is one Mike needs to
Speaker 1: say as soon as as soon as Kelly brings it up. No,
Speaker 1: no, no no, no no. Right now, when you when you
Speaker 1: watch that there right now, when you see the all
Speaker 1: twenty two, you see why Dak made the throw because
Speaker 1: the safeties do go wide and there's going to be
Speaker 1: a hole right there. Again, the problem is this was
Speaker 1: this was a tough game for Tyler Smith. I mean,
Speaker 1: Thibodeau came to play for the Giants and I was
Speaker 1: talking to the Giants personnel before the game and they're like, listen,
Speaker 1: Thibodeau has just been okay, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, tiboo looks a lot better than okay.
Speaker 1: Had five quarterback hits. Yeah, he was a factor, and
Speaker 1: they had problems with the twist, they had problems with
Speaker 1: you know, he had problems with late blitzes. Maybe it
Speaker 1: was one of those things again, no practice, you're out
Speaker 1: there playing, you're your rookie. Wait a minute, this guy
Speaker 1: blitzes forty eight percent of the time. What am I
Speaker 1: doing out here? Kind of a thing and not making
Speaker 1: excuses for the kid. But it wasn't one of his
Speaker 1: better games. There at Tyler Smith for sure. But you
Speaker 1: know what I really liked about Dak is that despite
Speaker 1: those two interceptions in the first half, I mean, they
Speaker 1: didn't shy away from keeping like throwing the ball and passing,
Speaker 1: and they were really successful in the second half in that.
Speaker 1: So that's an aspect that I think he did a
Speaker 1: really really nice job that he's the type of player
Speaker 1: that he s tastes very mentally there where he needs
Speaker 1: to be. But also in Kellen Moore trusting him in
Speaker 1: his arm and not deciding to Okay, let's just kind
Speaker 1: of stick to the run and just run the ball. No. No,
Speaker 1: they did a really nice job in balancing the game
Speaker 1: and just trusting the passing game. This pipe for somebody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: for a team that blitz us like the Giants too, Yeah,
Speaker 1: to trust the passing game in that situation says a
Speaker 1: lot about the confidence they have in Dac. There was
Speaker 1: an interesting moment in the first half actually was in
Speaker 1: the first series. At the end of the first series,
Speaker 1: Cowboys have the ball, they're moving it, okay, they're at
Speaker 1: their own forty and then they decide on third and
Speaker 1: two they're gonna throw the ball deep in completion. Then
Speaker 1: on fourth and two, they decide to go for it.
Speaker 1: How do you like that decision? Was that the right
Speaker 1: decision in your opinion? Obviously not the right decision when
Speaker 1: he gets stopped. But third and two, I mean it
Speaker 1: comes down to I mean, you know, I deal with
Speaker 1: this too. I watch college football, you know, I'm just like,
Speaker 1: if you that look of exasperation, Yeah, if you're gonna
Speaker 1: if you decide what you're going to do, I just
Speaker 1: feel like third and two, if you're going for it
Speaker 1: on fourth down, I just don't think they're gonna stop
Speaker 1: Zeke twice. Right, I don't believe that, you know, are
Speaker 1: they're not gonna stop kJ twice or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: But whatever whoever your team is, you're not you know,
Speaker 1: that's really what you want to see. In first place,
Speaker 1: you get go ahead. But it's the offensive coordinator and
Speaker 1: the head coach beat on the same page saying all right,
Speaker 1: we're going for it here and then just looking at
Speaker 1: it and go. And I don't think third and two
Speaker 1: is this free play where you can just throw it
Speaker 1: deep and then fourth and two you can get it. No,
Speaker 1: fourth and two is tough. It's a two point conversion.
Speaker 1: That's tough. To get, so cut it in half or
Speaker 1: get it, you know, spread them out on third and
Speaker 1: two and then run the ball. Maybe you get a yard.
Speaker 1: Maybe if you get stopped for two yard loss, then
Speaker 1: you can punt it. But I didn't like the call.
Speaker 1: I didn't like the third down call. If you're going
Speaker 1: to go for it on fourth down, yeah, My thought
Speaker 1: on the third down two is like, if you're gonna
Speaker 1: if you're gonna pass it, I still want to take
Speaker 1: a higher percentage pass play. Don't give me a fifty
Speaker 1: fifty ball on a third and two. If I knew
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go forward on fourth down. For me, I'm like,
Speaker 1: give me a ball that I think I can convert.
Speaker 1: If I don't, then I'll go for it on fourth
Speaker 1: and two. But that's if you want to pass. But
Speaker 1: I agree with you running it twice. I feel like
Speaker 1: most teams, the Cowboys can convert that. Yeah, a fourth
Speaker 1: and if you give them two downs to get two yards,
Speaker 1: I think they can do it on the ground if
Speaker 1: they do it with Zeke. There are a couple of
Speaker 1: fourth down plays in that game that could have been
Speaker 1: big plays. The one that the Giants missed on was
Speaker 1: a big play too. That they're through the Barkley man.
Speaker 1: That thing could have gone for a touchdown. Ye, I
Speaker 1: mean they were, they were. Dallas was in trouble on
Speaker 1: that call. The Giants had a lot of moments. Oh no,
Speaker 1: they did. All right, you're looking, you're looking, look out.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the thing about it was I think on
Speaker 1: the fourth and two they're gonna probably get it. The
Speaker 1: problem is that hinder shot man like that's this is
Speaker 1: a tough one because I'm thinking, if you watch the
Speaker 1: way the play was blocked, if he blocks down on Smith,
Speaker 1: they're probably gonna run in behind it, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a first. Instead, he blocks wide and he let it
Speaker 1: and let Smith have a free run at you know,
Speaker 1: at the ball carrier. So if he just goes down
Speaker 1: inside and lets the furthest guy from the ball free.
Speaker 1: We've seen Zeke a thousand times take the ball and
Speaker 1: fall forward for two yards. But it was one of
Speaker 1: those like you're thinking, Okay, was it a bust or
Speaker 1: was there something going on here? I mean it made
Speaker 1: me question because you don't let a guy inside, You
Speaker 1: don't let the linebacker Smith just have a free run
Speaker 1: on that play. You just don't. I don't miss that
Speaker 1: guy at all. Y'all see the play? Yes, where how
Speaker 1: did he not get flak for that? Smith? And if
Speaker 1: you just you kind of watch the whole play, not
Speaker 1: just not just the flying in the air the people's elbow.
Speaker 1: He runs around here, he hits nobody, then he just
Speaker 1: runs over here and like the play's over. I don't understand.
Speaker 1: Maybe one of the best games he's played this year. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: and there was some moments in the games, moments, Okay,
Speaker 1: Jalen's got a little something. We've heard a lot his
Speaker 1: name a lot. I think more than what were you?
Speaker 1: He's always flying. I just don't want to. I don't
Speaker 1: understand the thought process for him when he runs into
Speaker 1: a pile and just basically jumps in with his elbow.
Speaker 1: I don't get that. But I also don't understand how
Speaker 1: a crew that's penalizing everything besides nah, that's good that
Speaker 1: that that's football right there, Like it just didn't make sense,
Speaker 1: you know what. The thing about it is like old
Speaker 1: Krusty got like me didn't like going for it there
Speaker 1: because just because the fact that don't give the giants
Speaker 1: and encouragement, don't give them any reason to you know,
Speaker 1: punt it back, make them drive, maybe they turn over
Speaker 1: the ball and then you get the ball. I'm not
Speaker 1: helping the Giants in this game. They don't have any blockers,
Speaker 1: they don't have this, they don't have that, they don't
Speaker 1: have any real wide receivers. I mean, I'm just sitting there.
Speaker 1: I'm not doing anything to help them. I'm not giving
Speaker 1: them the ball right there, you know, in case something happened.
Speaker 1: But you know, he's gone forth four on fourth down
Speaker 1: like that and made it every single time. So I've
Speaker 1: just kind of kept I just go, well, this is
Speaker 1: what analytics and stuff do that people say fourth and one, fine,
Speaker 1: fourth and two. I'm like, I don't know, man, I
Speaker 1: don't know if especially we're not going to block the
Speaker 1: you know, maybe they thought, hey, we don't have to
Speaker 1: block Smith, he won't make the tackle. You know, maybe
Speaker 1: that's we know him. Yeah, maybe that was the thought.
Speaker 1: It's like, it's like the NBA three point guy, Hey,
Speaker 1: don't cover him, you know, don't worry about him shooting
Speaker 1: over here. He's not gonna do anything. Well, let's be honest.
Speaker 1: I actually like the fact that Mike McCarthy is aggressive
Speaker 1: when it comes to fourth downs. I want him I
Speaker 1: just didn't love the play call on third down. If
Speaker 1: you didn't, if you know you're gonna go for it
Speaker 1: on fourth, we'll see. They tried to on the previous play,
Speaker 1: they tried to go max protection and it kind of
Speaker 1: got a little the pressure. They got pressure on him,
Speaker 1: so they tried to leo max in order to set
Speaker 1: it up to try and get the home run like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah they did, yeah, first Giants, Yeah, exactly, exactly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they tried to go max and set it up and
Speaker 1: it didn't work. And and so now you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: fourth and two, do you punt this? Now, let's go
Speaker 1: for it. We'll find we're good here. You know, I'm like, okay,
Speaker 1: which I think once I get to that point, I
Speaker 1: probably do punt. But go ahead. Amber. Now you said,
Speaker 1: why do you that if you know you're gonna go
Speaker 1: for it on fourth down? I guess that's something I
Speaker 1: never really thought about that much. But how far how
Speaker 1: much in events? Like how many plays ahead are you thinking?
Speaker 1: If you know? Well, I mean, and that is I
Speaker 1: think every every coach when you're getting to third and short,
Speaker 1: they're probably having that thought process. All were gonna go
Speaker 1: forward here on fourth because that does influence the kind
Speaker 1: of play that you should call on third down? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, you're gonna go forward. On to your point.
Speaker 1: The Green Bay game where they went forward on fourth
Speaker 1: down at the end of the game and had it
Speaker 1: really a bad play, McCarthy clicked over, he said, He
Speaker 1: told the media, I clicked over on second down, and
Speaker 1: since you got two plays, yeah, so that helps Kellen
Speaker 1: in his mind think, Okay, I got two downs. I
Speaker 1: got two downs to pick up this two yards. You know,
Speaker 1: I've got two downs. I got to figure this out,
Speaker 1: you know. And so that's usually when they click over
Speaker 1: the he'll say, hey, I'm gonna go forward, year, have
Speaker 1: two plays ready, and then that kind of lets me
Speaker 1: know that put that back on Kellen of your running
Speaker 1: the ball on them. Leek Davis is running the ball
Speaker 1: on them, so as Pollard, of course, why why is
Speaker 1: not one of those are running? Yeah, you know, that's
Speaker 1: that's what's frustrating. Back to that game. But all right,
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Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. Let's talk about the defense. They held
Speaker 1: the New York Giants in ninety yards rushing a four
Speaker 1: point three average. Uh. Sequon Barkley was held to eleven
Speaker 1: carriage for thirty nine yards three point five yard average?
Speaker 1: Have they solved the defense? Have they solved it? Is? It?
Speaker 1: Is it done? Is that a done topic? Can we
Speaker 1: wait till next Monday? Jonathan Taylor come? Yeah? And a
Speaker 1: team that's committed to it like that? Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I think they're I think they've gotten better. But also
Speaker 1: the game and the scores kind of dictated that. But
Speaker 1: they did a nice job with Barkley. I thought they Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they really really did that. It's it's tough to deal
Speaker 1: with him. Uh. And you know when no one that man,
Speaker 1: I mean, and the quarterback didn't kill him either in
Speaker 1: this game too. That's one of some of the things
Speaker 1: I thought the best chance for them to win the
Speaker 1: Giants to win this game was for Barkley to get
Speaker 1: like one hundred and fifty and then maybe Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: having to rush somewhere between eighty and one hundred yards themselves.
Speaker 1: You know, I didn't think that they could drop back
Speaker 1: and throw the ball and be effective enough. But they
Speaker 1: did a great job of you know, and there were
Speaker 1: times where Barkley got screen passes and stuff like that
Speaker 1: and they never let him get going. I mean, Layton
Speaker 1: vander esh played really really well in this football game.
Speaker 1: I mean, he he was on point, you know. I mean,
Speaker 1: he his responsibility getting to Barkley, getting him on the ground.
Speaker 1: You know, there were times there where like it was
Speaker 1: a you know, a third down play, they throwed a
Speaker 1: bark on the screen. It keeps him a yard short.
Speaker 1: You know, they have to paunt. You know, those are
Speaker 1: the kinds of things that you know when you're playing
Speaker 1: against a back. I mean, this guy had like a
Speaker 1: well over I think twelve hundred yard scrimmage yards coming
Speaker 1: into this game, and you know, so you always worry
Speaker 1: about that. But for him, the only average three and
Speaker 1: a half yards that carry I'd say that was a
Speaker 1: big win for the Cowboys. Yeah, there was a play
Speaker 1: where h vander Esh got blocked and yeah, got knocked
Speaker 1: off his off his point, you know a little bit,
Speaker 1: and he still recovered and made the tackle short of
Speaker 1: the first down. I remember, and that happened. I feel
Speaker 1: like it happened a couple of times where you know,
Speaker 1: he was locked but still you know, fought off the block,
Speaker 1: made the play. I mean, anytime he's howling, you know,
Speaker 1: anytime they got that going on, you know, it feels
Speaker 1: like forever ago when that was happening. I mean, it
Speaker 1: is kind of strange to think, you know, just what
Speaker 1: four years ago and him and Jalen are together and
Speaker 1: they're thinking, these are the two best linebackers in the league,
Speaker 1: you know, and they're gonna be paired up forever. And
Speaker 1: then four years comes by and Layton we thought was
Speaker 1: going to leave, and Jalen was cut and Mica Parson's
Speaker 1: linebacker or whatever, he's the best in the league. It's
Speaker 1: it's just weird how things can change kind of quickly. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, and if you go back to Vanderish too,
Speaker 1: and I was looking at my notes, there was a
Speaker 1: time when in the game. It was a third down
Speaker 1: play where they where he was in coverage and actually
Speaker 1: they were too deep and he went deep middle. I
Speaker 1: mean he carried the inside guy all the way up
Speaker 1: the middle and you could see Daniel Jones is trying
Speaker 1: to throw the ball in the middle of the field
Speaker 1: and but Vanderish is so deep on the play in
Speaker 1: coverage that Jones just has to throw it away. That
Speaker 1: mean the play was called and that just shows you.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's playing around the line of scrimmage, he's
Speaker 1: making tackles, he's getting off blocks. I mean on the
Speaker 1: on the goal line play, jumps over the pile, makes
Speaker 1: a tackle there. You know, times it perfect. You know,
Speaker 1: that's just kind of what Layton vander ess. This is
Speaker 1: a kind of game that's perfect for him. You know.
Speaker 1: It's they're gonna run the ball, are gonna try and
Speaker 1: run the ball, you know, and he's gonna have to,
Speaker 1: you know, be playing a physical style of the game,
Speaker 1: which he very well did. Do you guys feel any
Speaker 1: better about Dallas's ability to stop running quarterbacks? They hold
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones the only three carries fourteen yards. I think
Speaker 1: there's two part to that one that she held into
Speaker 1: only running three times, which means he didn't see a
Speaker 1: lot of open lanes to be able to run and
Speaker 1: in fourteen yards on the times he did run. How
Speaker 1: do you feel about that? I feel I'll tell you
Speaker 1: what I did. You know, there was remember the play
Speaker 1: that Dallas got her and on in week three where
Speaker 1: that where Jones they're gonna run the RPO going to
Speaker 1: the left and he sprints out and then there's the
Speaker 1: like the tight end was over in the flat and
Speaker 1: he throws I mean they like digs adjust to him,
Speaker 1: it comes up and he throws the ball all in
Speaker 1: the flat. They tried the same play and Dallas defended
Speaker 1: it perfectly, and because you know, Jones could have run
Speaker 1: and no he had and now he's like, oh wait,
Speaker 1: I can't run and he just had to throw the
Speaker 1: ball away. That just shows you, though, when you're playing
Speaker 1: these RPO teams and stuff like that, that you after
Speaker 1: you see him one time, you kind of see their
Speaker 1: best play. Then you're like, okay, this is a down
Speaker 1: and distance that we could get. And sure enough they
Speaker 1: try to run it where he sprints out, they're on
Speaker 1: top of him, he tries to throw it. It's incomplete
Speaker 1: because they had it covered. So those are the types
Speaker 1: of now I think that's what. You know, the first game,
Speaker 1: he killed them running the football. This game, they didn't
Speaker 1: allow him to get going running the football because of
Speaker 1: the way they were playing in lanes and the way
Speaker 1: the linebackers were playing, in the way they were playing
Speaker 1: in coverage. Running quarterbacks with some dynamic receivers, I think
Speaker 1: that that could be a problem. I mean, I think
Speaker 1: with the way those receivers that the Cowboys don't have
Speaker 1: to do a whole lot other than just cover them.
Speaker 1: You know, they don't have to put a lot of
Speaker 1: his own defense all that kind of stuff. But problem
Speaker 1: is when you face like an Eagles team that has
Speaker 1: those receivers on the outside, and then they're going to
Speaker 1: have a tied end that will be back probably, you know,
Speaker 1: probably for that game. And then of course you've got
Speaker 1: the running back and the running quarterback, which we saw,
Speaker 1: I mean I saw last night. I mean there was
Speaker 1: a play last night early in the game where they
Speaker 1: they send the running back in motion and the linebacker
Speaker 1: just comes flying with them and you're like you they
Speaker 1: just snapped the ball and hurts. It has like a
Speaker 1: lane to run like forty yards. You know, like exactly,
Speaker 1: we did exactly what we wanted to do. We got
Speaker 1: your linebacker out of the way, and we go and
Speaker 1: make plays. So when you have a lot of weapons,
Speaker 1: I think that's what I'm trying to say. When you
Speaker 1: have a lot of weapons, it is going to be
Speaker 1: a lot harder for the Cowboys. Okay, stop the running quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: have the running back, stop the two guys. You know,
Speaker 1: something they will have to figure out Dallas defensively, is
Speaker 1: what's going on with with Anthony Brown because he you know,
Speaker 1: he gave up the big play and he could have
Speaker 1: given up another big play the first I mean you
Speaker 1: look at the yeah four two yeah, yeah, exactly he
Speaker 1: I mean that's and teams are attacking him. Teams are
Speaker 1: they're staying away there there, it's like, let's go after
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown here. So you're gonna have to figure something out,
Speaker 1: whether it's the shade of safety. And I thought on
Speaker 1: the long pass play that they completed it down to
Speaker 1: the one. I thought that Hooker was late, but when
Speaker 1: I watched the tape, Hooker couldn't have done anything about that.
Speaker 1: The ball was just really well thrown and Anthony's just
Speaker 1: going to do a better job of playing the ball
Speaker 1: in the air. I mean, he's just he's he's like
Speaker 1: he's losing track of it and stuff. But they're going
Speaker 1: to continue to attack him. Do you guys think that
Speaker 1: the plays, the big plays that he does give up
Speaker 1: outwaits Like I guess, I don't know if I'm saying
Speaker 1: it backwards, but there are a lot of other plays
Speaker 1: that I watched him and I'm like, oh, wow, that's
Speaker 1: pretty good, you know, and it just reminds me of like, Okay,
Speaker 1: well that's the reason he is where he's at, you know.
Speaker 1: So it goes back and forth. I was like, Okay,
Speaker 1: he does give up these big plays, but at the
Speaker 1: same time, he does protect the ball like some good plays.
Speaker 1: So which one does one outwits the other? Right now?
Speaker 1: I think personally, you can't be giving up forty four
Speaker 1: yard passes, I mean, like one on one, Like I
Speaker 1: understand there's gonna be some great throws and these receivers
Speaker 1: are big time, but you're gonna play better receivers than
Speaker 1: what you played against the Giants. And I just wonder
Speaker 1: if somebody's just gonna load up and say he can't
Speaker 1: play the ball down the field and now all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, Dallas is playing great defense, and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden they get it, they need a big play,
Speaker 1: and then they launch one on him. That's the things
Speaker 1: I worry about, you know, in these games. Well, but
Speaker 1: I think saves him a lot is not many teams
Speaker 1: will get a lot of deep throw opportunities because this
Speaker 1: pass rush is so ferocious. That's that's that's what saves him.
Speaker 1: That's ultimately, that's yeah, and he's not going up against
Speaker 1: a lot of number one because Diggs has got it right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So maybe the teams the Eagles, maybe yeah. Yeah, But
Speaker 1: that's that's the tough part of this thing is or
Speaker 1: the good part for the Cowboys is you can't hide
Speaker 1: a little bit of deficient secondary play because your pass
Speaker 1: rush is so good. I mean, what are you gonna do?
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know that. I'm just saying this.
Speaker 1: Maybe the safety. Maybe it's one of those things where
Speaker 1: you're like, listen, Digs is so good. You don't gonna
Speaker 1: play the safety in the middle of the field. We're
Speaker 1: gonna say, we're gonna shade the safety over. So at
Speaker 1: least you give Hooker the chance to have a run
Speaker 1: at it. You know like I thought, I thought Hooker
Speaker 1: was no help when Slaton when he caught the ball.
Speaker 1: I'm like, Hooker's got to get over. And then when
Speaker 1: you watch on tape, it's like the route in the
Speaker 1: middle of the field kind of holds him for a second.
Speaker 1: And Hooker's not the quickest guy. He's just not and
Speaker 1: so that's a problem. But maybe you have to shade
Speaker 1: him over to that side just to give him a
Speaker 1: little bit better opportunity to make a run to help.
Speaker 1: All Right, we appreciate you, guys, Jonas. We'll be back tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We'll start looking at the big picture of what's happening
Speaker 1: around the NFC right now. All the teams in the
Speaker 1: NFC EA star in the playoffs as of this moment,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about that in a couple other topics.
Speaker 1: We'll do that tomorrow. Till then, for Nick even Brian
Speaker 1: brought us Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Eagleton. This has been
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