WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Impressive or Sloppy? 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:04.720 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:15.040 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys, Let's go. Are 0:00:15.040 --> 0:00:17.920 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:17.960 --> 0:00:23.080 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah? And so 0:00:23.160 --> 0:00:26.920 much for that. It's time for The Break on Dallas 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:32.280 Cowboys dot Com Wall with Nick Eatman, Brian brought us 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:37.920 A bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Monday, November 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:41.360 twenty eight, twenty twenty two, Season eighteen, episode number seventy eight. 0:00:41.400 --> 0:00:44.360 Welcome to the latest edition of The Break. We're live 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:47.479 from the SWUBC Mortgage studios at the Star and we 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:49.559 are presented by Miller Lake, the only beer of the 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:53.960 Dallas Cowboys and Cowboys get a win Thanksgiving Day. It 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:56.080 seems like that was forever ago, but we're gonna break 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:57.200 it down for you. Guys. Are gonna tell you what 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.480 we thought of that game. Cowboys win twenty eight twenty 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.639 over the Giants. We'll start with the story of the game, 0:01:02.680 --> 0:01:04.120 but I do actually want to take it a little 0:01:04.120 --> 0:01:06.640 different direction, specifically for you, Nick, because I thought you 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:10.200 had a really interesting article, uh last week coming out 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:12.680 of that game where you said you thought this was 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:16.080 actually an even more impressive win than the victory over 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:19.080 the Minnesota Vikings the week before. Explain, I do I 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:22.720 think that you're not gonna beat teams about thirty seven 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:25.760 points in the playoffs, um, and especially on the road. 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:29.760 It'd be fun, but but it's not gonna happen, especially 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:32.720 if it's Tampa. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're not. You're not 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:35.280 a five seats not gonna go and play a division 0:01:35.280 --> 0:01:40.000 winner and do that. Um. Maybe if it's Minnesota, maybe 0:01:40.000 --> 0:01:42.679 you mention, you know, you know that that's not gonna 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:45.480 happen again like that, And for whatever reason, they kind 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:48.080 of rolled over. The Giants don't roll over. They fight. 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:50.240 That's what they are. That's why they have the record 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:52.480 they do. And I just think that when penalties are 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.080 mounting up in your offense is struggling and you got 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:57.840 to figure out a way to turn the tide those 0:01:58.080 --> 0:01:59.800 that's what happens in the playoffs, and they were able 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:01.440 to do that. Was not pretty, but they were able 0:02:01.480 --> 0:02:03.600 to do that. And I just thought that that type 0:02:03.600 --> 0:02:06.640 of grind out game is what this team is gonna need, 0:02:06.720 --> 0:02:09.480 you know, to be battle tested to win in the playoffs. 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:11.640 To me, is a little bit more impressive The Giants 0:02:11.639 --> 0:02:13.600 have already seen you before, They've seen your tricks. They 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.800 haven't seen Dak and this offense is starting to bit. 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:19.079 They see plenty, they've seen more than they want to. 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:23.400 They're probably tired of Dack at this point. I mean 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:27.040 twenty sixteen, his first two losses were against the Giants. Yeah, 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.520 you know, sandwiched around like an eleven game winning streaks, 0:02:29.520 --> 0:02:31.200 like he can't be the Giants. It's like, well, I'm 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:34.160 not losing them ever again. Ever. Yeah. Yeah, So I 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:36.919 have a story of game for you, Amber. I don't know, 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.959 I have a hard time agreeing with what Nick just said. No, 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:44.919 not to all of it. It's just to me, this game, 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:49.840 everything was in the Cowboys advantage and they couldn't get 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:53.600 out there and start strong like similar to what we 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.839 saw him in Minnesota. I think that's super super key 0:02:56.960 --> 0:03:00.320 to them. It's just be having an offense that can 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.919 start strong. And to me, when you look at everything 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:07.040 that like other players that were out that were hurt 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.120 from the Giants, this is a game they should have 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:12.520 gone in and dominated to begin with. The thing is 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.560 the Cowboys to me, a lot of the times, and 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:19.280 they do this a lot. They'll start off bad and 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:22.640 then they come in second half of the game played well, 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.280 and a lot of the times it not always works 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:28.600 in their advantage became Sometimes it's like too late and 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.760 you face teams for example, let's just say, just as 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:34.639 an example, I didn't think that game went down the 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:37.320 same way that I'm trying to use as an example. 0:03:37.360 --> 0:03:40.240 But Green Bay, when you get someone like that that 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.920 can't finish you at the end of the game and 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:46.360 win in the last few minutes seconds of the game, 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.200 that's a problem. And a lot of the times the 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:53.720 Cowboys fall short in those types of situations. In this instance, 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:57.720 they were able to beat out the Giants, and they 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:01.320 had every reason too, but they play against a better 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:05.320 team that it's not the Giants, someone else. I don't 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:08.520 even know who to use, but whoever else. This is 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:11.080 a game that they could have easily lost because by 0:04:11.080 --> 0:04:13.840 the time they kind of get their gears moving, sometimes 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:17.400 he's end up being way too late. Yeah, man, I 0:04:17.400 --> 0:04:19.680 think you made some really good points, because to me, 0:04:20.240 --> 0:04:22.080 it's like they turned the ball over three times in 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.760 the first half. If you think about the interceptions and 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:28.760 then the and then the turnover, run down down downs, 0:04:28.800 --> 0:04:31.320 and you and yeah, I thought, you're really fortunate. I know, 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:33.560 I know in our situation. On the radio, I was 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.560 doing the halftime and I'm like, man, I'm grateful you're 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:39.120 only down seven in this one right now for where 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:44.279 it's at. But the thing that, the thing that that 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.719 you have to like it looked like a team that 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:49.920 had played three games and four it's gonna be three 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:53.120 games in twelve days, and I and sometimes you just 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:56.000 have to survive these games. Sometimes you just have to 0:04:56.040 --> 0:05:00.320 survive the matchup. Sometimes you have to take advance age 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:03.599 of the you know, of the other team being really 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.359 beat up and hurt and all that, and you know, 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:10.280 to Ambar's point, you know, I just you've seen this 0:05:10.360 --> 0:05:13.599 team start out fast. You have seen him start fast 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.000 and being able to kind of get things together and 0:05:16.040 --> 0:05:18.560 get it going. And then at other times you know 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.800 they're then they're falling behind and you're just kind of like, well, 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:23.919 what's the deal? Why why can't Why is there? And 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.400 I think it's all about the consistency, and I think 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:29.479 they lack it. I think they I just feel like 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.159 that at times it's like, you know, you have better 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:36.719 players than them, and you don't you know, you don't 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:40.440 do enough early to to kind of to take their 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:42.919 will away in this football game. I mean, you encourage 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:45.760 like the Giants to stay around in this game, you know, 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:48.240 and maybe this team plays to a little bit of 0:05:48.240 --> 0:05:50.800 the level of the teams that they play. I you know, 0:05:51.080 --> 0:05:53.880 to me, what's so disheartening as you wake up today 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.080 and you're the only team in the NFC East that 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.679 didn't beat the Packers. You know, it's stuff like that 0:05:59.680 --> 0:06:02.520 that when you look back on it, well, man, they 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:04.479 should have won that game, should have won this game. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:06.960 Oh hell, they beat Minnesota. I mean, I just think 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:10.919 the consistency or the lack of u is a problem 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.000 for this football team right now. But yeah, I will 0:06:13.040 --> 0:06:17.000 say this, and I saw a lot on Twitter day 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:18.800 the day of the game. There are a lot of 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:21.479 fans that agree with you Amber that, Man, here we go, 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.160 this team again. They can't really handle prosperity all those 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:27.200 kinds of things. But I just as I watched and 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:30.120 I sat and watched football all day yesterday, And when 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:33.440 you watch the NFL, that's the NFL. Like, I don't 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.640 care who you are, I don't care how good you are. 0:06:36.279 --> 0:06:38.320 The Kansas City Chiefs are gonna have those Sundays where 0:06:38.320 --> 0:06:40.440 it's just not clicking. They find a way to win 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:45.640 like they did yesterday, like yesterday, and they did right, 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:47.279 and they found a way to lose. But the point 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.040 is it's close, and I don't think I don't think 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:53.839 fans always appreciate just how close the NFL is. You 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.279 got three or four teams that are really really bad. Okay, 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:58.800 I'm not saying the Texans are in the category with 0:06:58.839 --> 0:07:00.880 all these other teams. There are a few teams that 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.680 are just really really bad. There are one or two 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:07.440 teams that are really really good everybody else the margin 0:07:07.520 --> 0:07:12.040 between them is very, very slight. And so from that standpoint, 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.400 I look at it and I kind of agree with you, Nick. 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:16.840 I think the Cowboys did what they needed to do. 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:19.760 They didn't have it early on, they had some mistakes 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.600 early on, they figured it out, they figured out how 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:24.760 to gut out a win that to me is is 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:27.960 just as valuable so as not. So this is before 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.600 your time a little bit. But but you guys remember 0:07:30.640 --> 0:07:33.280 the game. I mean, it's all about perspective. Did you 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:35.840 think Tony Romo had a good game against the Bills 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:41.440 back in oh seven? Figured out Winter said that was 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.760 the best game he's ever played. He had five interceptions, 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:46.280 he lost a fumble, they rallied, they figured out a way, 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.720 they rallied and won the game by one um. And 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.440 and so it was it's all about perspective. It's and 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:54.080 you know, and and we sell this stuff about teams, 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:57.760 you know, cowboys not starting fast, and they don't because 0:07:58.160 --> 0:08:01.200 I tell you who doesn't start fast instant that's the 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:05.000 other team like that. I don't think we're downplaying. That's 0:08:05.000 --> 0:08:08.720 a pretty remarkable feat that they have not given up 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:12.240 a first quarter touchdown this year. I mean that's eleven quarters. 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:15.160 Think about just any game eleven quarters without giving up 0:08:15.160 --> 0:08:17.560 a touchdown. I mean that's that's almost I mean that's 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:20.760 what almost three games. It's almost like the forty nine ers. 0:08:20.960 --> 0:08:25.280 Yeah right, yeah, I mean you're talking about this week 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:27.880 the forty nine ers. That they have eleven forty nine ers, 0:08:27.880 --> 0:08:29.760 they haven't given up a touchdown in the second half 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:33.200 in the last seven games or something. That's amazing. Shut 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:36.120 out a team this weekend. So yeah, who's their quarterback again? 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:38.560 Who was quarterback in the Saints? I mean, I don't 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:42.640 know it was. It was Dalton, Andy Dalton, Dalton, Yeah, 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:46.120 there there Saints are trying to give the Philadelphi Eagles 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.720 the first overall pick in the draft. They're trying, they 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:51.199 they really are trying hard to do that for I 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.760 don't know why they are. They are right, yeah, they're saying, 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:56.600 and the Eagles don't need a quarterback. No, they're not 0:08:56.640 --> 0:09:02.280 gonna get what's gonna happen. I know this is down 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:04.520 the road talk. Eagles will move that pick and get 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:06.640 another first round pick for the next year, and they'll 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:08.800 just keep They'll keep rolling it, keep rolling it, keep 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:12.640 rolling it into two exactly exactly. Somehow they figure out 0:09:12.640 --> 0:09:15.040 how to how to make that work. No, hey, let's 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.480 be honest. You know, it's a game. We all thought 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:20.040 that the Cowboys would win, you know, even no one 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:23.200 going in about all the things. It's just too you 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:26.600 know it it is you know when you when you 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.320 talk about how this team is able to kind of 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:31.959 flip it in the second half or they or a drive, 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:35.000 they're able to flip it and then it's able to 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.480 to you know, make plays in the second half, and 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:40.560 you're it makes you wonder. You're you're kind of going like, okay, 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:43.320 where was this earlier? Where was this? Why wasn't Why 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:46.120 was it the start like this? And maybe it has 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.040 something to do with the im Like I mentioned, you know, 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:53.239 three games in twelve days. Sometimes it's just you don't practice. 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:57.160 You don't me personally, Dak running around checking everything. I 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.719 know he said dummy calls and all that stuff like that. 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.079 Honestly felt like he was trying to get him in 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:04.880 the best play possible with no practice. I think he 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:08.000 probably was looking at the offense and like going, Okay, guys, 0:10:08.000 --> 0:10:09.920 this is what I know we can do, you know, 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:12.480 And this look right here, I'm gonna guys. He's moving 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:14.880 guys around, he's checking, he's doing all and you're kind 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.480 of like, man, this just looks more than normal. And 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:20.280 I'm stre thinking d and practice all week. He's just 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.160 trying to get him in the best damn play they 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:24.920 can to run, you know. So, I mean there's a 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:27.560 lot that goes in. Maybe that's one of the reasons 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:29.760 why they didn't start very quickly in this game, is 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:32.280 because they just don't practice very much for this Thanksgiving 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:36.400 Day game. Now, looking at that just to me and 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.920 I want to make sure and a thousand percent credit 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:42.640 to them for being able to come back into the 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.400 second half and finishing the game the way that they did, 0:10:45.840 --> 0:10:50.200 giving the ridiculous amount of penalties that they had. I 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.080 don't even know what the total was at the end 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:55.600 of the game, but it was way too many. My 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.960 thing is, my problem is right now with the Cowboys 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:03.240 is that sometimes it feels like they take two steps 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:07.120 forward and then one back. You're still ahead, you're still 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:11.800 moving forward, but it's like it's never again. And I 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.680 think that's the one word that people are using when 0:11:14.760 --> 0:11:18.480 describing the Cowboys right now, is that consistency aspect of 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.200 the full things. Can they be consistent enough to kind 0:11:21.200 --> 0:11:24.280 of keep repeating the same type of game week after week? 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.199 And that's the biggest problem is that when you see 0:11:27.280 --> 0:11:31.920 Minnesota that game is like perfect, and you're not. You 0:11:31.920 --> 0:11:34.280 can't expect the game to go like them to play 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:39.600 like that every single week. That's not exactly but at 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.200 the same time, it's not necessarily realistic. But then again, 0:11:42.240 --> 0:11:45.240 it's just little aspects of the game that you're like, Okay, 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:48.080 you did this, and then now you step back again, 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:51.280 and it's just that that consistency part of it that 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:55.680 it's just very frustrating, especially again when you look at 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:58.600 everything we talked about during the week, what the Giants 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:03.800 currently were heading into that weekend, you should have just 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:07.760 if they beat the Packers, they figure out a way 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:09.520 to win that in overtime. Do you think that they're 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:12.280 nine and two? You think the Cowboys are nine and two. 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.240 I think they beat the Packers and then beat Minnesota 0:12:14.280 --> 0:12:17.120 and the Giants you're thinking you're thinking that, Yeah, you're 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:19.480 thinking that maybe they split the I don't think so. 0:12:19.640 --> 0:12:22.560 They split the they split the Green Bay Minnesota games. 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:25.520 Something like that. Motion matters, And I think the way 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:28.800 they came back and beat Minnesota was a reflection of 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.480 the last week in Green Bay. And I think if 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:33.360 you tell Aaron Rodgers you're gonna go one and three 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:35.480 in the NFC East, He's gonna be like, well, we 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.800 better beat the Cowboys, you better beat Mike McCarthy. I mean, 0:12:38.800 --> 0:12:40.720 I think there's a reason why, you know, I mean, 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:43.240 they certainly not get in Jordan Love in the second 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:45.480 half like the Eagles got. I mean, I mean, that's 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.760 just the way, that's just the way it's gone. Yeah, 0:12:47.800 --> 0:12:49.920 I mean, I don't I don't think that they I 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:52.719 don't think they destroy Minnesota if they beat Green Bay 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:54.920 I just still think they beat Minnesota just because I 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:57.120 think Minnesota is a great matchup for the Cowboys yea, 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.080 and not a great matchup for Minnesota. I think that 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:01.440 was that was a game. Just you know, most people 0:13:01.440 --> 0:13:04.120 don't understand that what you just said. I really think 0:13:04.120 --> 0:13:06.599 that the fans don't don't think about what even and 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:08.720 I'm just fans think about it. Like in the media though, 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:12.360 who's top five teams at the NFC, You're like, for who? Right? For? 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:14.680 I mean, I mean, I'll tell you, I don't know 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:16.959 where Washington ranks on this list, but Washington is a 0:13:16.960 --> 0:13:18.680 bad matchup for a lot of team. Yes, they don't 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.800 let you run the ball. Washington in San Francisco are 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:23.840 the two teams I think are the worst matchups of 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.400 playoff FFC teams for the Cowboys. And they don't have 0:13:26.480 --> 0:13:28.160 the best record in the end. No, And that's and 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:31.840 that's the problem that I believe that the Commanders have 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.440 won two games now on the goal line defending the 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:36.480 goal line. I think they beat the Bears defending the 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:38.600 goal line, and I think and they just went and 0:13:38.640 --> 0:13:41.600 they and they beat the Falcons. So they've won two games. 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:44.080 Having to like it got down to the point I 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:46.040 was listening to the game driving around and I'm sorry, 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.400 I'm talking about the Commanders here. It got down to 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:51.280 the point where the Atlanta announcers are like going, you know, 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.920 maybe they'll let you score, you know, And then you're thinking, 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:56.400 because you're you're riding that line of like do you 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:58.240 let them score to get the ball back with a 0:13:58.280 --> 0:14:01.199 minute to go and all that, and then you're like, hell, no, 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:05.000 play defense and see play defense led to an interception. 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:07.719 You know. I will say this about the Cowboys, though, 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:11.000 can something they are consistent at and that's getting penalized, 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.280 That that part of it. I don't think that will 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:17.079 ever change. I don't think that'll change the presnap penalties 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:21.480 and stuff like that. I mean, concentrate you talk about 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:23.560 it all the time, you tell you mean, you could 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:26.280 talk about it. You could have officials, you could stop practice, 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:29.640 you could yell at everybody, you can make everybody run laps. 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:32.240 This team will continue to be the most penalized team 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:35.480 in the league. It just will. I mean, we you know, 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:38.520 Mike McCarthy, you can honestly hear the frustration in his 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.480 voice after the game when he was when he's talking 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:44.960 about it, and it's something that every time it's like 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:48.200 he's probably going, what more can I do? What more 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:51.640 can I do to stop this team from being penalized? 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.520 And I think that's I just think we need to 0:14:54.600 --> 0:14:57.000 stop talking him. No offense to you, Ember, but I 0:14:57.320 --> 0:15:00.200 think that that this they're just not it's not going 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:03.960 to change. It's just not gonna And that's fine. I mean, no, 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:07.280 it's not fine. But and we see them and in 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.920 every game usually there's something and I'm not saying that 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:12.360 it's gonna go complete little wait when, but when you 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.040 see this specific game back to back, it's like again, 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:17.800 here we go again and again, and it was just again. 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:19.760 I don't remember how many there were, but it just 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:23.240 seemed ridiculous the amount of times that he happened and 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:25.600 the amount of times that he happened back to back 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.560 to back. So that was in that aspect, it's just like, 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:30.800 what can you do at this point? I guess, I 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:32.680 mean how much they had I want to say it 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:37.040 was four false starts, yeah, this game, and there were 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.840 a lot of holding calls, which going to game, Nick 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:42.880 was awful. Boy, I know, but Nick, you mentioned before 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:45.600 the game you said that this crew is a crew 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:48.360 that is notoriously like they are the most one of 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:51.280 the most. They are one of the most punitive teams 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.360 when it comes to calling penalties. They call them all 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:55.080 the time, and they call a lot of them. So 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:56.880 we went into the game thinking this was going to 0:15:56.960 --> 0:16:00.320 be a heavily yeah, and then you had the Giants 0:16:00.320 --> 0:16:03.400 had seven. So yeah, it was very similar. Yeah, it 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:05.280 was seven. It was very similar to what we saw 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:07.680 last year on Thanksgiving. Or it is just penalty after 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.720 penalty after penalty. So and I do agree the false 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:13.000 start one is the one that are pre snapped. Dallas 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:16.360 has to clean it up. The holding calls, it becomes 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:17.960 a matter of those are kind of calls to me 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:21.360 that are about um, you know about it wasn't really 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:23.280 hood like it's a it's a it's a call that's 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.040 that's not necessarily black and white like a false start is. 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:28.920 And I would venture to say, just from my perspective, 0:16:28.960 --> 0:16:31.000 about half of those holding calls, I'd be like, ah, 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:33.800 I don't know if I necessarily great. Giants had a 0:16:33.840 --> 0:16:36.680 really bad penalty on them. The legal man down field 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:38.720 was kind of questionable. That was questionable, But the one 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:41.440 that saved you saved the drive for the Cowboys was 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:45.160 CD over the middle. They called defensive holding, and they 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:48.120 called it really late too, and when the receiver doesn't 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:51.680 even complain. Every receiver complains about getting hold, uh you 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:54.400 know held or you know pi and he didn't. He 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:56.680 was walking off the field like it was fourth down. 0:16:56.720 --> 0:16:58.600 And then that they called. They called a hold at 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.840 the start, which that was questionable. So both teams got it. Well, 0:17:01.960 --> 0:17:05.120 usually you had seven of the was it twenty penalties? 0:17:05.160 --> 0:17:08.480 You had seven of the twenty penalties were resulted in 0:17:08.520 --> 0:17:11.640 the first down for the other team. So, I mean, 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:13.800 that's just one of those days where the refs did. 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.199 They wanted it, Like I say all the time, they 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:18.000 wanted mom and they wanted mom and dad to see 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.679 I'm ref in the game. Well Thanksgiving. They wanted to 0:17:20.680 --> 0:17:22.760 be a part of the Yeah, they want to be 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:24.439 a part of the story. So it is what it is. 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:25.960 All right, We're gonna take our first break. When we 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:27.280 come back. We got more we got to talk about. 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:29.560 We'll dive into the offense and the defense and what 0:17:29.600 --> 0:17:31.359 they did well and not so well. 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He 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:03.520 was twenty one of thirty uh son, I'm sorry Thursday, 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:08.000 seventy percent completions, twenty two hundred and sixty one yards passing, 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:11.760 two touchdowns, two interceptions, a ninety one point one rating. 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:15.879 How would you characterize his play overall that day? Which half? 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:19.000 You gotta do it as one as one whole? How 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:20.879 do you how do you characterize he played? You know, 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:22.760 in the second half, I thought he threw the ball 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:24.879 really well. He had some nice throws in there, and 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:26.960 he let his receivers go make plays. I mean those 0:20:26.960 --> 0:20:29.200 receivers had to help for some of those penalties. We 0:20:29.280 --> 0:20:31.760 just talked about five yards here and there, and Schultz 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:33.480 bails him out with the nice catch in the back 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:36.560 and the CD. I thought CD had an outstanding game, 0:20:37.040 --> 0:20:40.120 better than the numbers show because of all the penalties 0:20:40.119 --> 0:20:42.560 that he drew. I thought Dak had a good game. 0:20:42.560 --> 0:20:46.000 But in the first half, though, there obviously was a miscommunication. 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:48.080 He thought that that was going to be a false 0:20:48.320 --> 0:20:52.080 a free play with a defense Tibadeau jumps in into 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:54.040 neutral zone. He should have got the college one that 0:20:54.119 --> 0:20:57.760 Novak and then clearly missed. Yeah it wow, the one 0:20:57.840 --> 0:21:00.720 they met. Yeah, so I think he no, he clearly 0:21:00.720 --> 0:21:04.000 missed that. That that the line Judge two decide. It 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:08.560 was on this Cowboys bench. Cowboys were screaming and you know, so, yeah, 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:10.320 you think you're going to get the free play out 0:21:10.320 --> 0:21:12.880 of that one for sure? Yeah. Well, I mean it 0:21:12.920 --> 0:21:15.359 wasn't It wasn't his best game, but he cleaned it 0:21:15.440 --> 0:21:16.920 up in the second half. You know, had a couple 0:21:16.920 --> 0:21:20.320 of those turnovers and three or four possessions out of touchdown. Yeah, 0:21:20.400 --> 0:21:23.480 it's pretty impressive, you know what. I to me, I'm 0:21:23.520 --> 0:21:26.360 all about getting Michael Gallop going anyway we can here, 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:28.120 you know, And I think early in the first half, 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:30.680 some of the sketches that Michael Gallup was able to make, 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:33.360 I thought were really some nice ones going to get 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:36.520 in the football making some adjustments the route running stuff 0:21:36.520 --> 0:21:39.399 like that. And Dac, you know, as long as he 0:21:39.440 --> 0:21:42.600 can reward those guys for running great routes and throw 0:21:42.640 --> 0:21:44.879 the ball where it needs to be thrown, you know, 0:21:45.000 --> 0:21:47.679 I'm all about that. I thought. You know, when you 0:21:47.720 --> 0:21:50.919 look at the receivers overall, though, like I say, with 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:53.280 Gallop with Lamb and the way that they're able to 0:21:53.320 --> 0:21:56.359 play that that that to me is just a real positive. 0:21:56.400 --> 0:21:58.800 And these young tight ends, we can go on all 0:21:58.880 --> 0:22:01.600 day about them. But you know, Dak, it's great when 0:22:01.640 --> 0:22:03.520 he can throw the ball the guys that are open. 0:22:03.600 --> 0:22:05.320 And you know, there were a couple of plays that 0:22:05.359 --> 0:22:08.159 were contested plays that guys may catch. I mean, Gallop 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:11.040 made a catch along the sidelines for a big play 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:14.400 when Dak was sprinting too, you know, sprinting on the outside. 0:22:14.400 --> 0:22:16.840 They blocked Nolah Brown on the edge and it's you know, 0:22:16.880 --> 0:22:18.800 they're gonna it's really one of those rpo kind of 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:21.360 throws and he's running to his right. It's a tight 0:22:21.400 --> 0:22:23.960 window throw and he makes it. Gallop does a great 0:22:24.000 --> 0:22:25.760 job of not letting it get on him. That's what 0:22:25.800 --> 0:22:28.119 always complained about is that ball getting on Gallop and 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:30.600 kind of getting knocked up in the air. But man, 0:22:30.680 --> 0:22:32.359 he went out, kind of got the hands up and 0:22:32.400 --> 0:22:34.879 stuff like that. So Dak put him on, put it 0:22:34.920 --> 0:22:37.119 on his receivers in this game, it was it was 0:22:37.160 --> 0:22:39.679 good to see it that way. Yeah, I think this 0:22:39.880 --> 0:22:43.520 is just kind of Dak. I mean, that's just good 0:22:43.520 --> 0:22:47.640 old Dak and the way that he plays. But the interceptions, 0:22:47.640 --> 0:22:49.720 I was just looking at them again to get a 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:52.359 reminder of how that looked. And I mean on both 0:22:52.359 --> 0:22:56.480 of them, he didn't necessarily it wasn't necessarily his fault really. 0:22:56.720 --> 0:23:03.280 I mean on the first one to Gallop, he I 0:23:04.440 --> 0:23:06.280 we could see. I don't know if it was maybe 0:23:06.320 --> 0:23:09.040 he threw it a little too earlier, gallup just wasn't 0:23:09.119 --> 0:23:11.320 quick enough and him turning around and all that. And 0:23:11.359 --> 0:23:14.840 then you look at the one with ceed Lamb and 0:23:15.680 --> 0:23:17.920 that was a pretty contested ball, but it was more 0:23:17.920 --> 0:23:21.080 on CD than I would say got Dak, and it 0:23:21.119 --> 0:23:24.439 was just very well protected. Like the Guyant Stephens did 0:23:24.480 --> 0:23:26.880 a good job. You're absolutely right about that. Holmes made 0:23:26.880 --> 0:23:28.639 a great play on the ball. He got around and 0:23:28.720 --> 0:23:31.240 knocked it in the air. The problem was that Tyler 0:23:31.280 --> 0:23:33.200 Smith was in his lap when he threw the ball, 0:23:33.520 --> 0:23:36.119 and and and people said, oh, you're defending Dak. No, 0:23:36.640 --> 0:23:39.720 it's hard to step and throw a football when your 0:23:39.800 --> 0:23:43.520 offensive tackle is right there and you've already broke your 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:46.880 damn thumb, you know on a play earlier in the year. 0:23:47.240 --> 0:23:49.480 You know, with a guy in your face, you know, 0:23:49.520 --> 0:23:51.919 it's so for him to step up and have to 0:23:52.000 --> 0:23:54.800 make that throat. Yeah, it was. It was a little tight. 0:23:54.840 --> 0:23:56.960 I mean they're there, like we caught that cover two 0:23:57.040 --> 0:24:00.880 look and you know they're the safety's both go wide 0:24:01.400 --> 0:24:03.879 and then you know you get the other one come back. 0:24:03.960 --> 0:24:05.800 It's like they go wide and then they come back 0:24:05.840 --> 0:24:08.000 at Holmes knocked the ball in the air. Man. I 0:24:08.000 --> 0:24:09.560 mean he made a good play. He just turned around 0:24:09.560 --> 0:24:12.639 and he contested the ball. It's tough throw, tough play. 0:24:12.760 --> 0:24:15.440 But but also on that throw when you watch it, 0:24:15.800 --> 0:24:19.879 Dak can't step and throw because he's got Tyler Smith 0:24:19.960 --> 0:24:22.359 sitting right in his lap. Yeah. Final two minutes of 0:24:22.400 --> 0:24:25.040 a half and Dak the CD over the middle Nothings 0:24:26.400 --> 0:24:30.600 Barras intern backers interception and then this one. I mean 0:24:30.760 --> 0:24:32.560 the Vikings, I mean they can do you know, they 0:24:32.560 --> 0:24:34.320 didn't anything they want. This is one Mike needs to 0:24:34.359 --> 0:24:37.439 say as soon as as soon as Kelly brings it up. No, 0:24:37.440 --> 0:24:39.560 no, no no, no no. Right now, when you when you 0:24:39.560 --> 0:24:41.320 watch that there right now, when you see the all 0:24:41.359 --> 0:24:43.760 twenty two, you see why Dak made the throw because 0:24:43.800 --> 0:24:46.719 the safeties do go wide and there's going to be 0:24:46.760 --> 0:24:50.399 a hole right there. Again, the problem is this was 0:24:50.480 --> 0:24:52.880 this was a tough game for Tyler Smith. I mean, 0:24:53.240 --> 0:24:56.159 Thibodeau came to play for the Giants and I was 0:24:56.200 --> 0:24:58.720 talking to the Giants personnel before the game and they're like, listen, 0:24:58.720 --> 0:25:01.320 Thibodeau has just been okay, and then all of a sudden, 0:25:01.359 --> 0:25:03.880 it's like, oh, tiboo looks a lot better than okay. 0:25:03.880 --> 0:25:07.479 Had five quarterback hits. Yeah, he was a factor, and 0:25:07.520 --> 0:25:10.520 they had problems with the twist, they had problems with 0:25:10.920 --> 0:25:14.399 you know, he had problems with late blitzes. Maybe it 0:25:14.440 --> 0:25:16.920 was one of those things again, no practice, you're out 0:25:16.960 --> 0:25:19.640 there playing, you're your rookie. Wait a minute, this guy 0:25:19.680 --> 0:25:22.359 blitzes forty eight percent of the time. What am I 0:25:22.440 --> 0:25:25.320 doing out here? Kind of a thing and not making 0:25:25.359 --> 0:25:27.439 excuses for the kid. But it wasn't one of his 0:25:27.520 --> 0:25:29.800 better games. There at Tyler Smith for sure. But you 0:25:29.840 --> 0:25:33.240 know what I really liked about Dak is that despite 0:25:33.280 --> 0:25:35.840 those two interceptions in the first half, I mean, they 0:25:35.840 --> 0:25:39.280 didn't shy away from keeping like throwing the ball and passing, 0:25:39.320 --> 0:25:42.159 and they were really successful in the second half in that. 0:25:42.280 --> 0:25:45.040 So that's an aspect that I think he did a 0:25:45.080 --> 0:25:48.639 really really nice job that he's the type of player 0:25:48.720 --> 0:25:51.720 that he s tastes very mentally there where he needs 0:25:51.760 --> 0:25:54.399 to be. But also in Kellen Moore trusting him in 0:25:54.560 --> 0:25:57.160 his arm and not deciding to Okay, let's just kind 0:25:57.160 --> 0:26:00.439 of stick to the run and just run the ball. No. No, 0:26:00.800 --> 0:26:03.200 they did a really nice job in balancing the game 0:26:03.240 --> 0:26:06.680 and just trusting the passing game. This pipe for somebody. Yeah, 0:26:06.760 --> 0:26:09.600 for a team that blitz us like the Giants too, Yeah, 0:26:09.720 --> 0:26:12.800 to trust the passing game in that situation says a 0:26:12.840 --> 0:26:15.600 lot about the confidence they have in Dac. There was 0:26:15.600 --> 0:26:17.840 an interesting moment in the first half actually was in 0:26:17.840 --> 0:26:19.679 the first series. At the end of the first series, 0:26:19.720 --> 0:26:23.600 Cowboys have the ball, they're moving it, okay, they're at 0:26:23.680 --> 0:26:27.679 their own forty and then they decide on third and 0:26:27.720 --> 0:26:30.760 two they're gonna throw the ball deep in completion. Then 0:26:30.760 --> 0:26:33.280 on fourth and two, they decide to go for it. 0:26:33.600 --> 0:26:35.520 How do you like that decision? Was that the right 0:26:35.520 --> 0:26:38.600 decision in your opinion? Obviously not the right decision when 0:26:38.640 --> 0:26:42.119 he gets stopped. But third and two, I mean it 0:26:42.200 --> 0:26:45.840 comes down to I mean, you know, I deal with 0:26:45.880 --> 0:26:49.000 this too. I watch college football, you know, I'm just like, 0:26:49.119 --> 0:26:52.639 if you that look of exasperation, Yeah, if you're gonna 0:26:52.720 --> 0:26:55.840 if you decide what you're going to do, I just 0:26:55.880 --> 0:26:59.280 feel like third and two, if you're going for it 0:26:59.320 --> 0:27:01.640 on fourth down, I just don't think they're gonna stop 0:27:01.680 --> 0:27:04.880 Zeke twice. Right, I don't believe that, you know, are 0:27:04.880 --> 0:27:07.000 they're not gonna stop kJ twice or whatever it is. 0:27:07.040 --> 0:27:09.760 But whatever whoever your team is, you're not you know, 0:27:09.800 --> 0:27:11.400 that's really what you want to see. In first place, 0:27:11.440 --> 0:27:14.720 you get go ahead. But it's the offensive coordinator and 0:27:14.760 --> 0:27:16.679 the head coach beat on the same page saying all right, 0:27:16.720 --> 0:27:18.679 we're going for it here and then just looking at 0:27:18.680 --> 0:27:20.560 it and go. And I don't think third and two 0:27:20.800 --> 0:27:22.760 is this free play where you can just throw it 0:27:22.840 --> 0:27:24.800 deep and then fourth and two you can get it. No, 0:27:24.920 --> 0:27:26.840 fourth and two is tough. It's a two point conversion. 0:27:26.880 --> 0:27:29.320 That's tough. To get, so cut it in half or 0:27:29.680 --> 0:27:31.600 get it, you know, spread them out on third and 0:27:31.600 --> 0:27:33.680 two and then run the ball. Maybe you get a yard. 0:27:33.920 --> 0:27:36.240 Maybe if you get stopped for two yard loss, then 0:27:36.280 --> 0:27:38.640 you can punt it. But I didn't like the call. 0:27:38.800 --> 0:27:41.440 I didn't like the third down call. If you're going 0:27:41.480 --> 0:27:43.400 to go for it on fourth down, yeah, My thought 0:27:43.400 --> 0:27:45.080 on the third down two is like, if you're gonna 0:27:45.160 --> 0:27:47.320 if you're gonna pass it, I still want to take 0:27:47.359 --> 0:27:51.200 a higher percentage pass play. Don't give me a fifty 0:27:51.280 --> 0:27:53.920 fifty ball on a third and two. If I knew 0:27:53.920 --> 0:27:56.159 I'm gonna go forward on fourth down. For me, I'm like, 0:27:56.359 --> 0:27:58.120 give me a ball that I think I can convert. 0:27:58.200 --> 0:28:00.320 If I don't, then I'll go for it on fourth 0:28:00.320 --> 0:28:02.520 and two. But that's if you want to pass. But 0:28:02.600 --> 0:28:05.040 I agree with you running it twice. I feel like 0:28:05.160 --> 0:28:08.359 most teams, the Cowboys can convert that. Yeah, a fourth 0:28:08.400 --> 0:28:10.240 and if you give them two downs to get two yards, 0:28:10.280 --> 0:28:11.520 I think they can do it on the ground if 0:28:11.520 --> 0:28:13.920 they do it with Zeke. There are a couple of 0:28:13.960 --> 0:28:15.920 fourth down plays in that game that could have been 0:28:16.520 --> 0:28:19.119 big plays. The one that the Giants missed on was 0:28:19.160 --> 0:28:21.880 a big play too. That they're through the Barkley man. 0:28:21.920 --> 0:28:23.879 That thing could have gone for a touchdown. Ye, I 0:28:23.920 --> 0:28:25.840 mean they were, they were. Dallas was in trouble on 0:28:25.880 --> 0:28:28.120 that call. The Giants had a lot of moments. Oh no, 0:28:28.200 --> 0:28:31.400 they did. All right, you're looking, you're looking, look out. 0:28:31.680 --> 0:28:34.040 But yeah, the thing about it was I think on 0:28:34.119 --> 0:28:37.080 the fourth and two they're gonna probably get it. The 0:28:37.240 --> 0:28:42.640 problem is that hinder shot man like that's this is 0:28:42.640 --> 0:28:45.560 a tough one because I'm thinking, if you watch the 0:28:45.600 --> 0:28:48.960 way the play was blocked, if he blocks down on Smith, 0:28:49.440 --> 0:28:51.720 they're probably gonna run in behind it, it's gonna be 0:28:51.720 --> 0:28:55.240 a first. Instead, he blocks wide and he let it 0:28:55.320 --> 0:28:58.280 and let Smith have a free run at you know, 0:28:58.360 --> 0:29:01.040 at the ball carrier. So if he just goes down 0:29:01.040 --> 0:29:03.480 inside and lets the furthest guy from the ball free. 0:29:04.040 --> 0:29:06.479 We've seen Zeke a thousand times take the ball and 0:29:06.520 --> 0:29:09.120 fall forward for two yards. But it was one of 0:29:09.120 --> 0:29:12.520 those like you're thinking, Okay, was it a bust or 0:29:12.640 --> 0:29:14.600 was there something going on here? I mean it made 0:29:14.640 --> 0:29:17.920 me question because you don't let a guy inside, You 0:29:17.960 --> 0:29:20.600 don't let the linebacker Smith just have a free run 0:29:20.640 --> 0:29:22.800 on that play. You just don't. I don't miss that 0:29:22.840 --> 0:29:28.320 guy at all. Y'all see the play? Yes, where how 0:29:28.360 --> 0:29:33.240 did he not get flak for that? Smith? And if 0:29:33.240 --> 0:29:35.200 you just you kind of watch the whole play, not 0:29:35.240 --> 0:29:38.800 just not just the flying in the air the people's elbow. 0:29:39.080 --> 0:29:42.600 He runs around here, he hits nobody, then he just 0:29:42.720 --> 0:29:48.000 runs over here and like the play's over. I don't understand. 0:29:48.120 --> 0:29:52.600 Maybe one of the best games he's played this year. Yeah, yeah, 0:29:52.680 --> 0:29:55.640 and there was some moments in the games, moments, Okay, 0:29:55.720 --> 0:29:58.240 Jalen's got a little something. We've heard a lot his 0:29:58.440 --> 0:30:00.960 name a lot. I think more than what were you? 0:30:03.640 --> 0:30:07.560 He's always flying. I just don't want to. I don't 0:30:07.640 --> 0:30:11.000 understand the thought process for him when he runs into 0:30:11.080 --> 0:30:14.400 a pile and just basically jumps in with his elbow. 0:30:14.440 --> 0:30:16.880 I don't get that. But I also don't understand how 0:30:16.920 --> 0:30:22.520 a crew that's penalizing everything besides nah, that's good that 0:30:22.640 --> 0:30:26.040 that that's football right there, Like it just didn't make sense, 0:30:26.400 --> 0:30:29.280 you know what. The thing about it is like old 0:30:29.320 --> 0:30:31.880 Krusty got like me didn't like going for it there 0:30:31.960 --> 0:30:34.840 because just because the fact that don't give the giants 0:30:34.880 --> 0:30:39.000 and encouragement, don't give them any reason to you know, 0:30:39.080 --> 0:30:41.520 punt it back, make them drive, maybe they turn over 0:30:41.560 --> 0:30:44.840 the ball and then you get the ball. I'm not 0:30:44.960 --> 0:30:47.680 helping the Giants in this game. They don't have any blockers, 0:30:47.760 --> 0:30:49.920 they don't have this, they don't have that, they don't 0:30:49.920 --> 0:30:52.719 have any real wide receivers. I mean, I'm just sitting there. 0:30:52.760 --> 0:30:55.040 I'm not doing anything to help them. I'm not giving 0:30:55.080 --> 0:30:57.880 them the ball right there, you know, in case something happened. 0:30:58.360 --> 0:31:01.000 But you know, he's gone forth four on fourth down 0:31:01.040 --> 0:31:02.800 like that and made it every single time. So I've 0:31:02.800 --> 0:31:05.000 just kind of kept I just go, well, this is 0:31:05.040 --> 0:31:09.000 what analytics and stuff do that people say fourth and one, fine, 0:31:09.200 --> 0:31:12.280 fourth and two. I'm like, I don't know, man, I 0:31:12.360 --> 0:31:14.480 don't know if especially we're not going to block the 0:31:14.800 --> 0:31:16.320 you know, maybe they thought, hey, we don't have to 0:31:16.360 --> 0:31:19.200 block Smith, he won't make the tackle. You know, maybe 0:31:19.240 --> 0:31:21.320 that's we know him. Yeah, maybe that was the thought. 0:31:21.320 --> 0:31:23.480 It's like, it's like the NBA three point guy, Hey, 0:31:23.520 --> 0:31:25.520 don't cover him, you know, don't worry about him shooting 0:31:25.560 --> 0:31:27.400 over here. He's not gonna do anything. Well, let's be honest. 0:31:27.400 --> 0:31:29.920 I actually like the fact that Mike McCarthy is aggressive 0:31:29.960 --> 0:31:32.719 when it comes to fourth downs. I want him I 0:31:32.760 --> 0:31:35.320 just didn't love the play call on third down. If 0:31:35.320 --> 0:31:36.880 you didn't, if you know you're gonna go for it 0:31:36.920 --> 0:31:40.120 on fourth, we'll see. They tried to on the previous play, 0:31:40.200 --> 0:31:43.200 they tried to go max protection and it kind of 0:31:43.200 --> 0:31:46.280 got a little the pressure. They got pressure on him, 0:31:46.320 --> 0:31:49.680 so they tried to leo max in order to set 0:31:49.720 --> 0:31:52.080 it up to try and get the home run like that. 0:31:52.280 --> 0:31:56.040 Yeah they did, yeah, first Giants, Yeah, exactly, exactly. Yeah, 0:31:56.080 --> 0:31:58.480 they tried to go max and set it up and 0:31:58.560 --> 0:32:01.440 it didn't work. And and so now you're like, okay, 0:32:01.440 --> 0:32:03.760 fourth and two, do you punt this? Now, let's go 0:32:03.800 --> 0:32:05.920 for it. We'll find we're good here. You know, I'm like, okay, 0:32:06.000 --> 0:32:07.360 which I think once I get to that point, I 0:32:07.440 --> 0:32:10.080 probably do punt. But go ahead. Amber. Now you said, 0:32:10.760 --> 0:32:12.959 why do you that if you know you're gonna go 0:32:13.200 --> 0:32:15.959 for it on fourth down? I guess that's something I 0:32:15.960 --> 0:32:19.800 never really thought about that much. But how far how 0:32:19.880 --> 0:32:24.440 much in events? Like how many plays ahead are you thinking? 0:32:24.840 --> 0:32:26.640 If you know? Well, I mean, and that is I 0:32:26.640 --> 0:32:29.800 think every every coach when you're getting to third and short, 0:32:30.080 --> 0:32:32.920 they're probably having that thought process. All were gonna go 0:32:32.920 --> 0:32:35.360 forward here on fourth because that does influence the kind 0:32:35.400 --> 0:32:37.040 of play that you should call on third down? Yeah, 0:32:37.040 --> 0:32:38.880 you know, you're gonna go forward. On to your point. 0:32:38.920 --> 0:32:41.240 The Green Bay game where they went forward on fourth 0:32:41.240 --> 0:32:42.560 down at the end of the game and had it 0:32:42.600 --> 0:32:45.400 really a bad play, McCarthy clicked over, he said, He 0:32:45.440 --> 0:32:47.440 told the media, I clicked over on second down, and 0:32:47.440 --> 0:32:50.320 since you got two plays, yeah, so that helps Kellen 0:32:50.400 --> 0:32:52.640 in his mind think, Okay, I got two downs. I 0:32:52.640 --> 0:32:55.400 got two downs to pick up this two yards. You know, 0:32:55.400 --> 0:32:57.200 I've got two downs. I got to figure this out, 0:32:57.240 --> 0:32:59.520 you know. And so that's usually when they click over 0:32:59.520 --> 0:33:01.800 the he'll say, hey, I'm gonna go forward, year, have 0:33:02.000 --> 0:33:04.040 two plays ready, and then that kind of lets me 0:33:04.200 --> 0:33:07.080 know that put that back on Kellen of your running 0:33:07.080 --> 0:33:09.080 the ball on them. 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Sequon Barkley was held to eleven 0:36:07.560 --> 0:36:11.000 carriage for thirty nine yards three point five yard average? 0:36:11.160 --> 0:36:14.680 Have they solved the defense? Have they solved it? Is? It? 0:36:14.880 --> 0:36:16.640 Is it done? Is that a done topic? Can we 0:36:16.719 --> 0:36:20.880 wait till next Monday? Jonathan Taylor come? Yeah? And a 0:36:21.000 --> 0:36:24.080 team that's committed to it like that? Yeah, I think 0:36:24.200 --> 0:36:27.160 I think they're I think they've gotten better. But also 0:36:27.280 --> 0:36:29.880 the game and the scores kind of dictated that. But 0:36:30.000 --> 0:36:32.919 they did a nice job with Barkley. I thought they Yeah, yeah, 0:36:32.920 --> 0:36:35.200 they really really did that. It's it's tough to deal 0:36:35.280 --> 0:36:38.920 with him. Uh. And you know when no one that man, 0:36:39.000 --> 0:36:42.320 I mean, and the quarterback didn't kill him either in 0:36:42.440 --> 0:36:44.279 this game too. That's one of some of the things 0:36:44.360 --> 0:36:46.279 I thought the best chance for them to win the 0:36:46.400 --> 0:36:48.759 Giants to win this game was for Barkley to get 0:36:48.840 --> 0:36:51.839 like one hundred and fifty and then maybe Daniel Jones 0:36:51.880 --> 0:36:54.920 having to rush somewhere between eighty and one hundred yards themselves. 0:36:55.040 --> 0:36:57.120 You know, I didn't think that they could drop back 0:36:57.160 --> 0:36:59.759 and throw the ball and be effective enough. But they 0:37:00.000 --> 0:37:01.600 did a great job of you know, and there were 0:37:01.640 --> 0:37:04.719 times where Barkley got screen passes and stuff like that 0:37:04.920 --> 0:37:07.680 and they never let him get going. I mean, Layton 0:37:07.760 --> 0:37:11.759 vander esh played really really well in this football game. 0:37:11.880 --> 0:37:14.880 I mean, he he was on point, you know. I mean, 0:37:15.040 --> 0:37:18.720 he his responsibility getting to Barkley, getting him on the ground. 0:37:19.280 --> 0:37:20.840 You know, there were times there where like it was 0:37:20.920 --> 0:37:22.440 a you know, a third down play, they throwed a 0:37:22.480 --> 0:37:24.600 bark on the screen. It keeps him a yard short. 0:37:24.800 --> 0:37:27.319 You know, they have to paunt. You know, those are 0:37:27.360 --> 0:37:29.160 the kinds of things that you know when you're playing 0:37:29.200 --> 0:37:31.800 against a back. I mean, this guy had like a 0:37:32.040 --> 0:37:35.200 well over I think twelve hundred yard scrimmage yards coming 0:37:35.239 --> 0:37:37.560 into this game, and you know, so you always worry 0:37:37.600 --> 0:37:40.040 about that. But for him, the only average three and 0:37:40.080 --> 0:37:41.600 a half yards that carry I'd say that was a 0:37:41.680 --> 0:37:43.879 big win for the Cowboys. Yeah, there was a play 0:37:43.920 --> 0:37:49.000 where h vander Esh got blocked and yeah, got knocked 0:37:49.000 --> 0:37:51.279 off his off his point, you know a little bit, 0:37:51.400 --> 0:37:53.840 and he still recovered and made the tackle short of 0:37:53.880 --> 0:37:55.919 the first down. I remember, and that happened. I feel 0:37:55.960 --> 0:37:57.880 like it happened a couple of times where you know, 0:37:57.960 --> 0:38:01.799 he was locked but still you know, fought off the block, 0:38:01.960 --> 0:38:04.800 made the play. I mean, anytime he's howling, you know, 0:38:04.920 --> 0:38:07.880 anytime they got that going on, you know, it feels 0:38:07.920 --> 0:38:10.759 like forever ago when that was happening. I mean, it 0:38:10.960 --> 0:38:13.000 is kind of strange to think, you know, just what 0:38:13.600 --> 0:38:16.400 four years ago and him and Jalen are together and 0:38:16.440 --> 0:38:18.720 they're thinking, these are the two best linebackers in the league, 0:38:18.840 --> 0:38:21.560 you know, and they're gonna be paired up forever. And 0:38:21.640 --> 0:38:26.400 then four years comes by and Layton we thought was 0:38:26.440 --> 0:38:29.360 going to leave, and Jalen was cut and Mica Parson's 0:38:29.840 --> 0:38:32.279 linebacker or whatever, he's the best in the league. It's 0:38:32.320 --> 0:38:35.480 it's just weird how things can change kind of quickly. Well, 0:38:35.600 --> 0:38:37.359 you know, and if you go back to Vanderish too, 0:38:37.400 --> 0:38:39.120 and I was looking at my notes, there was a 0:38:39.239 --> 0:38:41.279 time when in the game. It was a third down 0:38:41.360 --> 0:38:44.560 play where they where he was in coverage and actually 0:38:44.800 --> 0:38:47.200 they were too deep and he went deep middle. I 0:38:47.239 --> 0:38:49.640 mean he carried the inside guy all the way up 0:38:49.640 --> 0:38:52.040 the middle and you could see Daniel Jones is trying 0:38:52.080 --> 0:38:54.320 to throw the ball in the middle of the field 0:38:54.480 --> 0:38:57.600 and but Vanderish is so deep on the play in 0:38:57.719 --> 0:39:00.640 coverage that Jones just has to throw it away. That 0:39:00.760 --> 0:39:03.040 mean the play was called and that just shows you. 0:39:03.080 --> 0:39:05.000 I mean, he's playing around the line of scrimmage, he's 0:39:05.040 --> 0:39:07.880 making tackles, he's getting off blocks. I mean on the 0:39:08.000 --> 0:39:10.640 on the goal line play, jumps over the pile, makes 0:39:10.680 --> 0:39:13.719 a tackle there. You know, times it perfect. You know, 0:39:13.920 --> 0:39:15.920 that's just kind of what Layton vander ess. This is 0:39:15.920 --> 0:39:17.960 a kind of game that's perfect for him. You know. 0:39:18.080 --> 0:39:19.880 It's they're gonna run the ball, are gonna try and 0:39:20.000 --> 0:39:22.080 run the ball, you know, and he's gonna have to, 0:39:22.280 --> 0:39:24.560 you know, be playing a physical style of the game, 0:39:24.600 --> 0:39:26.799 which he very well did. Do you guys feel any 0:39:26.880 --> 0:39:29.919 better about Dallas's ability to stop running quarterbacks? They hold 0:39:30.719 --> 0:39:33.239 Daniel Jones the only three carries fourteen yards. I think 0:39:33.239 --> 0:39:35.359 there's two part to that one that she held into 0:39:35.400 --> 0:39:37.719 only running three times, which means he didn't see a 0:39:37.760 --> 0:39:39.640 lot of open lanes to be able to run and 0:39:39.800 --> 0:39:41.759 in fourteen yards on the times he did run. How 0:39:41.760 --> 0:39:43.239 do you feel about that? I feel I'll tell you 0:39:43.280 --> 0:39:45.439 what I did. You know, there was remember the play 0:39:45.520 --> 0:39:48.279 that Dallas got her and on in week three where 0:39:48.360 --> 0:39:50.880 that where Jones they're gonna run the RPO going to 0:39:50.960 --> 0:39:53.200 the left and he sprints out and then there's the 0:39:53.680 --> 0:39:55.520 like the tight end was over in the flat and 0:39:55.600 --> 0:39:58.600 he throws I mean they like digs adjust to him, 0:39:58.600 --> 0:40:00.200 it comes up and he throws the ball all in 0:40:00.239 --> 0:40:03.360 the flat. They tried the same play and Dallas defended 0:40:03.440 --> 0:40:06.600 it perfectly, and because you know, Jones could have run 0:40:06.760 --> 0:40:08.960 and no he had and now he's like, oh wait, 0:40:09.200 --> 0:40:10.840 I can't run and he just had to throw the 0:40:10.880 --> 0:40:13.439 ball away. That just shows you, though, when you're playing 0:40:13.520 --> 0:40:16.160 these RPO teams and stuff like that, that you after 0:40:16.239 --> 0:40:18.759 you see him one time, you kind of see their 0:40:18.840 --> 0:40:21.600 best play. Then you're like, okay, this is a down 0:40:21.680 --> 0:40:23.680 and distance that we could get. And sure enough they 0:40:23.800 --> 0:40:26.160 try to run it where he sprints out, they're on 0:40:26.280 --> 0:40:28.520 top of him, he tries to throw it. It's incomplete 0:40:28.640 --> 0:40:31.000 because they had it covered. So those are the types 0:40:31.000 --> 0:40:33.120 of now I think that's what. You know, the first game, 0:40:33.520 --> 0:40:36.479 he killed them running the football. This game, they didn't 0:40:36.520 --> 0:40:39.480 allow him to get going running the football because of 0:40:39.520 --> 0:40:41.600 the way they were playing in lanes and the way 0:40:41.680 --> 0:40:43.719 the linebackers were playing, in the way they were playing 0:40:43.760 --> 0:40:49.759 in coverage. Running quarterbacks with some dynamic receivers, I think 0:40:49.800 --> 0:40:51.680 that that could be a problem. I mean, I think 0:40:51.760 --> 0:40:54.279 with the way those receivers that the Cowboys don't have 0:40:54.400 --> 0:40:56.399 to do a whole lot other than just cover them. 0:40:56.400 --> 0:40:58.040 You know, they don't have to put a lot of 0:40:58.080 --> 0:41:00.360 his own defense all that kind of stuff. But problem 0:41:00.440 --> 0:41:02.879 is when you face like an Eagles team that has 0:41:02.960 --> 0:41:05.200 those receivers on the outside, and then they're going to 0:41:05.280 --> 0:41:07.520 have a tied end that will be back probably, you know, 0:41:07.680 --> 0:41:09.359 probably for that game. And then of course you've got 0:41:09.400 --> 0:41:11.719 the running back and the running quarterback, which we saw, 0:41:12.160 --> 0:41:13.920 I mean I saw last night. I mean there was 0:41:13.920 --> 0:41:15.920 a play last night early in the game where they 0:41:16.160 --> 0:41:18.280 they send the running back in motion and the linebacker 0:41:18.400 --> 0:41:21.600 just comes flying with them and you're like you they 0:41:21.680 --> 0:41:23.560 just snapped the ball and hurts. It has like a 0:41:23.640 --> 0:41:26.080 lane to run like forty yards. You know, like exactly, 0:41:26.160 --> 0:41:27.799 we did exactly what we wanted to do. We got 0:41:27.840 --> 0:41:29.840 your linebacker out of the way, and we go and 0:41:29.920 --> 0:41:32.440 make plays. So when you have a lot of weapons, 0:41:32.480 --> 0:41:33.640 I think that's what I'm trying to say. When you 0:41:33.640 --> 0:41:34.960 have a lot of weapons, it is going to be 0:41:35.239 --> 0:41:38.120 a lot harder for the Cowboys. Okay, stop the running quarterbacks, 0:41:38.160 --> 0:41:40.520 have the running back, stop the two guys. You know, 0:41:40.680 --> 0:41:43.480 something they will have to figure out Dallas defensively, is 0:41:43.920 --> 0:41:47.719 what's going on with with Anthony Brown because he you know, 0:41:47.840 --> 0:41:49.480 he gave up the big play and he could have 0:41:49.520 --> 0:41:52.600 given up another big play the first I mean you 0:41:52.719 --> 0:41:55.160 look at the yeah four two yeah, yeah, exactly he 0:41:55.280 --> 0:41:58.200 I mean that's and teams are attacking him. Teams are 0:41:58.280 --> 0:42:01.760 they're staying away there there, it's like, let's go after 0:42:02.040 --> 0:42:04.719 Anthony Brown here. So you're gonna have to figure something out, 0:42:04.760 --> 0:42:07.239 whether it's the shade of safety. And I thought on 0:42:07.320 --> 0:42:10.279 the long pass play that they completed it down to 0:42:10.360 --> 0:42:13.279 the one. I thought that Hooker was late, but when 0:42:13.320 --> 0:42:16.160 I watched the tape, Hooker couldn't have done anything about that. 0:42:16.280 --> 0:42:19.400 The ball was just really well thrown and Anthony's just 0:42:19.440 --> 0:42:20.920 going to do a better job of playing the ball 0:42:20.960 --> 0:42:23.520 in the air. I mean, he's just he's he's like 0:42:23.600 --> 0:42:25.359 he's losing track of it and stuff. But they're going 0:42:25.400 --> 0:42:27.759 to continue to attack him. Do you guys think that 0:42:27.960 --> 0:42:30.799 the plays, the big plays that he does give up 0:42:32.200 --> 0:42:35.080 outwaits Like I guess, I don't know if I'm saying 0:42:35.080 --> 0:42:37.520 it backwards, but there are a lot of other plays 0:42:37.560 --> 0:42:39.520 that I watched him and I'm like, oh, wow, that's 0:42:39.560 --> 0:42:42.319 pretty good, you know, and it just reminds me of like, Okay, 0:42:42.360 --> 0:42:45.320 well that's the reason he is where he's at, you know. 0:42:45.560 --> 0:42:47.959 So it goes back and forth. I was like, Okay, 0:42:48.040 --> 0:42:49.960 he does give up these big plays, but at the 0:42:50.080 --> 0:42:54.120 same time, he does protect the ball like some good plays. 0:42:54.840 --> 0:42:59.000 So which one does one outwits the other? Right now? 0:42:59.640 --> 0:43:02.000 I think personally, you can't be giving up forty four 0:43:02.080 --> 0:43:04.800 yard passes, I mean, like one on one, Like I 0:43:04.960 --> 0:43:08.240 understand there's gonna be some great throws and these receivers 0:43:08.280 --> 0:43:10.440 are big time, but you're gonna play better receivers than 0:43:10.480 --> 0:43:12.839 what you played against the Giants. And I just wonder 0:43:12.840 --> 0:43:15.719 if somebody's just gonna load up and say he can't 0:43:15.800 --> 0:43:17.759 play the ball down the field and now all of 0:43:17.800 --> 0:43:19.960 a sudden, Dallas is playing great defense, and all of 0:43:19.960 --> 0:43:21.520 a sudden they get it, they need a big play, 0:43:21.560 --> 0:43:24.680 and then they launch one on him. That's the things 0:43:24.760 --> 0:43:26.719 I worry about, you know, in these games. Well, but 0:43:26.800 --> 0:43:29.560 I think saves him a lot is not many teams 0:43:29.600 --> 0:43:32.080 will get a lot of deep throw opportunities because this 0:43:32.160 --> 0:43:35.120 pass rush is so ferocious. That's that's that's what saves him. 0:43:35.200 --> 0:43:37.640 That's ultimately, that's yeah, and he's not going up against 0:43:37.640 --> 0:43:40.120 a lot of number one because Diggs has got it right. Yeah, 0:43:40.200 --> 0:43:44.520 So maybe the teams the Eagles, maybe yeah. Yeah, But 0:43:44.760 --> 0:43:46.960 that's that's the tough part of this thing is or 0:43:47.040 --> 0:43:49.200 the good part for the Cowboys is you can't hide 0:43:49.920 --> 0:43:53.600 a little bit of deficient secondary play because your pass 0:43:53.680 --> 0:43:55.360 rush is so good. I mean, what are you gonna do? 0:43:55.600 --> 0:43:58.040 I mean, I don't know that. I'm just saying this. 0:43:58.360 --> 0:44:01.040 Maybe the safety. Maybe it's one of those things where 0:44:01.040 --> 0:44:03.359 you're like, listen, Digs is so good. You don't gonna 0:44:03.360 --> 0:44:04.719 play the safety in the middle of the field. We're 0:44:04.719 --> 0:44:08.160 gonna say, we're gonna shade the safety over. So at 0:44:08.239 --> 0:44:10.960 least you give Hooker the chance to have a run 0:44:11.040 --> 0:44:13.680 at it. You know like I thought, I thought Hooker 0:44:13.840 --> 0:44:16.000 was no help when Slaton when he caught the ball. 0:44:16.040 --> 0:44:18.040 I'm like, Hooker's got to get over. And then when 0:44:18.040 --> 0:44:20.520 you watch on tape, it's like the route in the 0:44:20.600 --> 0:44:22.640 middle of the field kind of holds him for a second. 0:44:22.680 --> 0:44:25.759 And Hooker's not the quickest guy. He's just not and 0:44:26.120 --> 0:44:29.000 so that's a problem. But maybe you have to shade 0:44:29.080 --> 0:44:31.680 him over to that side just to give him a 0:44:31.719 --> 0:44:34.160 little bit better opportunity to make a run to help. 0:44:34.280 --> 0:44:36.240 All Right, we appreciate you, guys, Jonas. We'll be back tomorrow. 0:44:36.239 --> 0:44:38.560 We'll start looking at the big picture of what's happening 0:44:38.560 --> 0:44:40.440 around the NFC right now. All the teams in the 0:44:40.520 --> 0:44:43.280 NFC EA star in the playoffs as of this moment, 0:44:43.520 --> 0:44:45.200 and we'll talk about that in a couple other topics. 0:44:45.280 --> 0:44:47.160 We'll do that tomorrow. Till then, for Nick even Brian 0:44:47.200 --> 0:44:49.200 brought us Amber Garcia. I'm Derek Eagleton. This has been 0:44:49.200 --> 0:44:52.800 The Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. This 0:44:52.960 --> 0:44:55.719 has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and 0:44:55.880 --> 0:44:57.680 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.