WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Road Rash Continues for Dallas 0:00:03.480 --> 0:00:05.960 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.960 --> 0:00:07.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:17.280 Cowboys Let's go. Are you ready for a break? 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:17.840 Yes? 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:19.720 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:20.520 Absolutely? 0:00:20.680 --> 0:00:24.840 Ready for a break? Yeah, And so much for that. 0:00:25.040 --> 0:00:29.280 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:35.280 Were on with Mbar Garcia, Brian brought Us, Patrick Wolker, 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:37.200 and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:42.560 It is Tuesday, December twenty sixth, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen, 0:00:42.600 --> 0:00:46.000 episode number ninety five. Welcome to the latest edition All 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:48.880 of the Break. It is uh, it is a Tuesday, 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.440 but it feels like a Wednesday because the Cowboys are 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:54.040 getting ready for a Saturday game and we're talking about 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:57.440 a game that happened on Sunday, Sunday. 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:58.360 Sunday Sunday. 0:00:58.680 --> 0:01:01.360 It's we're all over the map today. We're gonna recap 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:04.760 that game. It was an interesting game. Although the Cowboys 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:06.800 lost it lost, there were lots of things I think 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:09.600 that came out of the game that were noteworthy that 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.280 we're going to talk about today. And then tomorrow we'll 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:14.160 jump right in and we'll start getting you guys ready 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:18.240 for Cowboys versus Lions. We'll talk about the Lions offense 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:21.560 tomorrow versus this Cowboys defense. But let's start first with 0:01:22.080 --> 0:01:26.039 the game versus Miami Dallas loses twenty two to twenty. 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:28.839 Tell me storyline a game. Let's go around the table. 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:30.120 Storyline the game Patrol, I'll start with. 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:30.560 You for me. 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.080 It was basically that this was Philadelphia all over again. 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:35.840 It is a winnable game from the Cowboys. If you 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:37.240 go in and you tell me that they're going to 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.560 hold the Miami Dolphins offense to only one touchdown, I'll 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.440 tell you they win this game. But they did just 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:46.120 enough to not win the game. Talk about the fumbled 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:48.480 handoff the hunterd lip Key on what was an exceptional 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:51.200 opening drive, and of course preceding that, Tony Poller gets 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.360 turned around he can't get in. That matters as well. 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.559 And then fast forward to the offense stalling largely because 0:01:57.600 --> 0:01:59.720 your offensive line just didn't hold up to what you doga. 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:02.760 We get him roses for playing well earlier the season. 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:05.160 He had a very very bad dad at the offense. 0:02:05.240 --> 0:02:08.640 Dak Prescott pressured on almost half of his dropbacks and 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:12.480 just couldn't get the offense going because of that, and 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:16.600 then penalties. Here we are t type and timing penalties. 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:20.000 That final offensive drive by the Dolphins, you get the 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:22.280 face mask when de moont Clark gives them fifteen yards 0:02:22.280 --> 0:02:25.440 helps Jym start what was an eventual game winning field 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:27.519 goal drive. So it was for me, it was the 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.320 Philadelphia game all over again, and that's what makes it frustrating. 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:32.359 This was not a situation where they got beat down 0:02:32.440 --> 0:02:35.160 like against the forty nine ers, where they got handled 0:02:35.160 --> 0:02:37.680 by the Bills because of penalties and then that train 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:41.320 went off the rails. They were competitive throughout this contest. 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:44.920 Defense bent didn't break, but ultimately the defense broke because 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:46.640 the complimentary football was not there. 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.600 Yeah, I don't know what to tell you. 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:54.360 I mean this tough loss. For sure. 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:57.360 I think we saw some improvement from the Cowboys playing 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.360 on the road against the team a very competitive team 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:06.080 like the Miami Dolphins. Patrick mentioned the opening drive and 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:10.160 that fumble, the recovery that Dolphins get it and all that, 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:14.040 and then they come back Cede Lamb he gets into 0:03:14.080 --> 0:03:16.880 the end zone they touched. So they responded really, really 0:03:16.919 --> 0:03:20.919 well to that mistake, which was good to see. They 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:25.080 were competitive, but it just wasn't enough. I did think 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:28.880 the defense was doing a good enough job. We knew 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:33.360 how many of like how many offensive weapons the Miami 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:36.640 Dolphins have and how explosive they are, how quick and 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.600 the defense. I thought they did a nice job all 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:43.520 in all, just being there fighting and doing what they could. 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:47.520 But the offense just couldn't catch up. And I'm concerned 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:50.160 right now. It's like, Okay, yeah they lost, Hey, let's 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.120 come back, rally up and all that. They're in the 0:03:53.200 --> 0:03:56.280 playoffs already, so you at least have that spot. But 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:58.720 I'm thinking, how are they going to be able to 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:01.960 survive with this O line? 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:03.120 I'm thinking about the old line. 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.720 I mean, I'm thinking, Okay, what if Tyron Smith it 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:11.360 rangers his back or maybe he's out longer than we think. 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:15.400 What are you doing to improve the offensive line? Because 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.200 that look that we got in this game, I don't 0:04:18.200 --> 0:04:20.880 think you're gonna get very far with what you've got. 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:26.040 And it's very very hard to improve anyone's game, for example, chum, 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.320 how do you improve that in the last couple of 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:32.080 weeks that are left heading into the playoffs. So I 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:36.520 just I like their performance as far as like them 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:40.880 improving or showing signs of improvement on the road, But 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:45.719 all in all, I am concerned about what the future 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:49.560 holds with the current situation as far as the O 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:50.200 line health. 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.760 When they don't hear the attention to detail, they're not 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:57.040 going to win games. That's just not gonna happen. There 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.480 were several times in this game. And by the way, 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:02.280 Adoga isn't as terrible as everybody says. I think the 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:05.320 mental mistakes that he made or farm worse than the 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:08.440 physical mistakes that he game. I think your quarterback made 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:10.840 a couple of mental mistakes too. I think there were 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:13.400 some hot reads that they missed on. I think one 0:05:13.440 --> 0:05:15.960 time they took a sack because they felt like that 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.960 they were he had something picked up that wasn't picked up. 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:22.200 You went away from creativity that you had early in 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.520 the game, you know, and you you you went and 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:28.240 focused on other areas of the game. When you had 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:32.000 an advantage with your receiver, you could have wore them 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.240 out in this game with your with cede lamp. Again, 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:39.919 attention to detail on that, continue on trying to attack mode. 0:05:39.920 --> 0:05:42.600 Did a good job playing run defense against these guys. 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:45.160 But you know, if you're if you're not, if you're 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:50.400 gonna let teams break you down with blitzes and and 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.640 make force you with mental areas you're not gonna win games. 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.920 And as simple as that right there, because they had 0:05:56.960 --> 0:05:59.400 ability to win this football game. And you know, like say, 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.160 you don't give up huge plays on defense. You got 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:04.840 fortunate though on the on the one play that Hill 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:07.480 dropped earlier, that could have been a touchdown right out 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:09.400 of the gate coming out of there. But you know 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.359 what did they do. They moved you with motion to 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:15.080 get create matchups. They did it a couple of times 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.080 during that game. You know, you just got to be 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:20.240 ready for that stuff. And it goes back to you know, 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:23.599 the penalties or a problem. You know, the things that 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:26.200 like I say, you know when you're supposed to blitz, 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.919 pick up being in the right spot. Quarterback moves the 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:31.200 back to one side, blitz comes from the side that 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:33.800 he moves the guy away from. Those are all attention 0:06:33.920 --> 0:06:36.080 to details you got to have to win football games. 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:37.359 You mentioned Dak Prescott. 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:39.960 He was twenty to thirty two, two hundred and fifty 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.280 three yards, two touchdowns, no interception on one hundred and 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:43.400 seven point nine rating. 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:44.719 But Brian, I agree with you. 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:46.400 I was going back this morning and I was watching 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:48.680 a lot of those pass plays, and one of the 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.160 things that stuck out stuck out to me, which hasn't 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:54.000 been something we've noticed a lot from Dak recently. He's 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:57.520 been really just hot and he knows very decisive with 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.279 the ball. Yeah, I don't think he was that in 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.440 that game Sat Sunday. I think there were a number 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:04.480 of different times where they ended up with a sack 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:08.240 or he ended up with pressure because he didn't he didn't. 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:10.600 I don't know if he wasn't seeing it or if he. 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:13.360 Was anticipating that a guy was gonna like cut off 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:15.880 the route, But there were times it appeared again from 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.280 our vantage point looking from that top camera. 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:20.400 You know, you're not behind the center, so you don't know, 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:21.160 but but. 0:07:21.120 --> 0:07:22.960 From our vantage point, it looked like there were guys 0:07:22.960 --> 0:07:24.760 that were open and all you had do was just 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:26.720 let it go. And it just seemed like, for whatever reason, 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:28.720 he was a bit more tentative. Did you guys see 0:07:28.720 --> 0:07:30.520 the same thing and what would you attribute that to? 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.320 I think that at times I did see this huge 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.120 I think that some of that goes to just the 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:39.680 offensive line struggles, and I don't think he felt comfortable 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.480 in most much of that game. On his drop back, 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:45.240 so it likely disrupted some of his time in some 0:07:45.280 --> 0:07:48.280 of his reads and and just his overall window of operation. 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.200 So I did see that a few times where it's 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:51.560 just like, okay, if you get rid of the ball 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:55.000 right now, then that's that's a first down potentially. But 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:57.800 he you know, the pressure was coming at several points. 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.240 Talk about chewmy Dogan. I mentioned this on my hit 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.160 with one O five to three the fan this morning. 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.200 When it comes to Chumu, I don't think Chuma got 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.400 beat up physically. That's not my issue with Chumua. My 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.000 issue with Chuma is choosing assignment. Like you don't let 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:13.160 Bradley Chubb run free to your quarterback trying to help 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:15.480 out Tyler Smith. Let Tyler Smith do what Tyler Smith 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:17.600 does and you get Bradley Chubb. So I think the 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.679 amount of pressure that Dak Prescott felt in that game 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:24.000 just completely kept him unsettled and because he never was 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.280 able to settle in it just was not the usual 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:26.960 Dak Prescott. 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.960 Yeah, but they missed a shot too. I mean they run, 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:33.120 they they remember the remember the play that Turpin scored 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:34.960 on where they put him in the slot and they 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.679 ran vertical and the commanders tried to carry him with 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:40.760 a safety down in the middle, went to the same play, 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:44.600 ran the same play against the split safeties, and Dak 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:47.400 didn't throw the ball. And I don't for the life 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:50.160 of me, no, because to me, you put Turpin in 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:53.840 that situation to run that play, you clearly have a 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:56.800 mind that they're gonna play. They're gonna play twin, they're 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:59.400 gonna play two safeties back there, and we're gonna send 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:02.240 Turpin on a vertical that for a forty yard dash 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:04.840 and nobody's gonna be able to pick him up. And 0:09:05.160 --> 0:09:08.360 for some reason, Dak just did not throw it. And 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.199 the play, I can say it's designed for him to 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:13.839 throw the ball, lay it out there and let Turpin 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.880 run underneath it. There were several there were several times 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.560 where he pulled the ball down and one time Gallop 0:09:19.679 --> 0:09:21.960 is on the outside, He's gonna throw the slam. Gallop 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:26.000 gets mugged. I mean, Ramsey is just beating him up. 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:29.040 And then so now what happens, you know, he falls down. 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:30.960 Now Dak forced to have to kind of try and 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:34.360 find play, go forward or throw it someplace else, you know. 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.959 I mean, there's there were some. There were some blitzes 0:09:38.000 --> 0:09:40.439 that I think there were a couple, like I mentioned 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:44.160 the hots. You know, one time, like he's got Cooks, 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:47.120 He's got a blitzer coming on it into his face 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:51.280 and it's like you see, Cooks sees it's gonna be hot, 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:53.720 and he's eighty for it. I know, DA pulls it 0:09:53.800 --> 0:09:55.880 and you're like, God, just hit him. Yeah, you know, 0:09:55.960 --> 0:09:57.920 it's it's a five yard game. But at least you're 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:01.160 not taking an incomplete or a sack or a negative 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:04.600 play there. So you wonder, you know, what was going 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:06.760 through because there was a period of time for very 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:08.880 early in the game. I felt like he saw what 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:11.520 he needed to see, and they did some They did 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:15.000 some really good things, and it wasn't until the end 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:18.640 of the game that they started kind of getting Lamb 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.080 back in the game, you know, And I think that's 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.680 where all of a sudden, you know, it's the third 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.760 and six. I'll give you an example of that. Finally 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:30.480 McCarthy is able to scheme Lamb open and it's trips 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:34.400 to the right. Torbert motions away to the sidelines. And 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.080 now what they did was they got they got the safe, 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:39.560 they got the corner out of the way and then 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.360 the route comes to the corner, route comes to the sidelines, 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:45.520 ball goes right there. There you go. That's the kind 0:10:45.520 --> 0:10:47.480 of stuff that you know, you saw it early in 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:49.720 the game, but then it's the in the like for 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:52.280 two quarters you were like, what offense is this running? 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:54.920 Or you know, what offense is this playing football right now? 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:58.240 And you know, whether it was the blind, the line, 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:04.160 the receivers, quarterback, the head coach, the play caller, there 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:07.680 was just a disconnect for a couple of quarters there, 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:09.839 and then they kind of figured things out at the end. 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:11.720 You know, it's probably a little bit too late that. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.400 There was another play I noticed early on in the game. 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:17.599 And this is again where I questioned, you know, was 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:20.200 it a situation where the pressure really got to Dak 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:22.560 Because some of these things were happening early enough in 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:25.160 the game where it was before he was just you know, 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:28.480 feeling that extra pressure. But there was one play where 0:11:28.600 --> 0:11:30.120 literally I kind of stopped it. 0:11:30.280 --> 0:11:31.559 I stopped the play. 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:34.080 And you've got Dak standing in the pocket, He's got 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:37.400 the ball up and there's gallop on the outside. He's 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:39.600 got two steps on the outside deep. If you want 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:41.319 to go there, you got another guy. I think it 0:11:41.360 --> 0:11:44.080 was CD in the slot that's coming across the field. 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.080 He's open, like he's coming clear of the window. So 0:11:47.120 --> 0:11:49.319 there are these opportunities and Dak is ready to throw 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:51.120 and then he pulls it down for whatever reason and 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:53.160 then ends up in pressure or sack. I don't remember 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:54.600 what happened on the at the end of the play, 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:56.480 but it wasn't a good turnout and it was. 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:59.120 A situation where he had to play. And that's what 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:00.120 I think was to me. 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.640 That's what I take from this game is that as 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:05.440 though as as much as we want to say the 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:08.880 offensive line didn't hold up, Dak I think has to 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.000 take just as much accountability on that because I think 0:12:11.000 --> 0:12:12.079 he was just he was just. 0:12:12.040 --> 0:12:14.480 A little bit not willing to pull the truckle. 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:18.439 Well, dad comes into the mental game of things. When 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:21.680 you go into a game knowing what who is protecting you, 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:25.000 it's gonna change the way you're thinking because now that's 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:28.679 an added thing that you're trying to take account for. Like, 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:33.160 it's very different. I'm trying to find a scenario. It's 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:35.679 like someone that let's say, someone that cuts my hair 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:37.360 all the time, I'm gonna go in like is if 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:40.240 I'm not even gonna say anything worry about it might 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.719 be on my phone as opposed to someone that's new 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:44.720 cutting my hair, I'm like freaking out and just like 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:47.480 looking over my shoulder the whole time. So I think, 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:50.920 and I'm not to put I don't. I hate putting 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:53.840 all of the blame on somebody. 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:54.439 But. 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:59.360 I think because if you look at everything, that's really 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:00.920 the only change that has happened. 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:03.720 You still have the same weapons. On offense. 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:07.600 You have been playing really well the past few weeks, 0:13:07.720 --> 0:13:12.640 and you've been clicking. You've been accustomed to Mike McCarthy's 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:16.800 play calling. But then as soon as some element changes 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:17.640 in the online and. 0:13:17.640 --> 0:13:20.840 He's played with that before. But I don't know. I'm 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:21.760 just trying to find. 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.640 The reason as to why, because there's no injuries there 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:27.440 on him. He's still the same dick as he's been. 0:13:27.559 --> 0:13:29.959 There's nothing else that has happened to be big. 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:32.640 They run a double screen. They ran a double screen 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:34.200 on the play, and you can see after the play, 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.200 Dak is pissed and Lamb is pissed. They run a 0:13:37.240 --> 0:13:39.719 double screen. Dak makes the decision to throw it to 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.640 the left with three blockers when he's got four blockers. 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.000 And he said after the game, yeah, probably should have 0:13:44.040 --> 0:13:44.520 gone out. Yeah. 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.400 See, And that's the thing about it when you have 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:48.160 it and you have a game where you're kind of 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:51.560 struggling with the protection. Screen's a good play. Screen's a 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:54.280 good play, especially when you get upfield. But what happens. 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.840 Give the Dolphins some credit. Dolphins take they take Chubb 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.640 and van Inkle and they put him watch and they 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:02.760 kind of put them off the ball. So they're like, 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:06.360 they're like, anticipate, you're probably gonna run either slant or screen. 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.680 So they're they're they're they're playing the defense. Like so 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.880 maybe it's something you check out of. Maybe you're thinking, like, Okay, 0:14:12.960 --> 0:14:15.000 I can't get my blocker out there. You know, I 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.439 can't get a doga out there on Chubb. 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:18.600 You know I can't. 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:20.720 So I've gotten to think of something. But you know, 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:23.840 like I say, three blockers one side, four blockers the other, 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:26.120 and you have a clear advantage, but you choose the 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:29.160 three blocker side. Those are the kinds of things Attention 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.440 to detailing the game will get you hurt. 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:32.480 I'll tell you this too. 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:34.840 You say nothing had change, and so you're right from 0:14:34.880 --> 0:14:38.240 the standpoint of the personnel. But I do think part 0:14:38.280 --> 0:14:40.720 of what I saw, at least my opinion, is he 0:14:40.840 --> 0:14:44.240 was playing a defensive coordinator that clearly Dak has a 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:46.120 lot of respect for. You talked about it after the game. 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:49.320 They asked him about the question about CD and not 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:51.480 having CD, and CD said, in the locker room he 0:14:51.520 --> 0:14:53.960 thought it was He agreed with a reporter that it 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:55.840 was kind of strange that in the second and third 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.120 quarter he was not used as much, and they asked 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:00.760 Dak about that, and Deck says, I mean, strange is 0:15:00.800 --> 0:15:02.800 a fair word, I guess, he said, but you got 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:06.040 to remember that we're playing a defensive coordinator that's very, 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:09.560 very seasoned, and he has ways of not letting you 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:12.000 continue to do the things that you were getting success with. 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:13.960 And so yeah, he said he could fall. He had 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:15.800 a way of kind of fogging things up. And it 0:15:15.840 --> 0:15:18.760 makes me wonder if again, you take a player or 0:15:18.760 --> 0:15:21.520 two where he shows you something that kind of jarji 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:23.480 and does that make you a little more tentative? Now, 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:25.840 does that make you now think a little bit more 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.480 about those throws before you make them? And that could 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:31.160 be what we were seeing. And I think there are 0:15:31.400 --> 0:15:33.400 that could be a part of this. And then the 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.040 way they play defense too. They have one of those 0:15:35.080 --> 0:15:37.040 kind of defenses that they have a lot of guys, a. 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:37.720 Lot of scrimmage. 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:40.240 You don't know in any given play who's coming, if 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.560 all of them are coming, if none of them are coming, right, 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:44.200 And I think that can also cause you to be 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:46.840 a little more tentative. So I think the difference was 0:15:46.880 --> 0:15:49.520 not necessarily in the personnel he didn't have as much. 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:51.400 I think it was more about who he was playing 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:52.600 and the way they play. 0:15:52.880 --> 0:15:57.680 Maybe the fumble with Hunter Lipke that early in the game, 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:02.200 that that could have a role in his mental aspect 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:04.320 of thing of now he's trying to be a little 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:08.240 more hesitant and now trying to risk throwing an interception 0:16:08.600 --> 0:16:09.320 or something else. 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.560 I wouldn't say that on that particular play because they 0:16:12.600 --> 0:16:15.000 bounced back from that, and like you said, yeah, got 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.440 the CD lamb the big game, your ceed lamb touchdown, 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.280 and then you know you take the lead and at 0:16:20.320 --> 0:16:23.040 that point, your defense because keep in mind, even your 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:25.200 defense responded to that, Yeah they gave up the fifty 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:27.760 yard fifty yard or on third down to waddle with 0:16:27.840 --> 0:16:30.280 the you know, backs against the wall for the Dolphins, 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:32.120 and you hate that, but they didn't break, they fought. 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.040 They kept it to a fifty seven yard field goal 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:38.320 by Sanders. So your defense was holding, not the penalty wise, 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:39.960 but your defense was doing what they needed to do. 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:42.760 And as an offense, all you needed to do was 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:45.600 build on that ced Lamb touchdown and then start to 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:48.400 create distance. And then now you put them into the 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:50.440 blueprint that you want them into, which you want them 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:53.240 to pass the ball, because you've also shown that you 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.600 were doing well in the run defense right coming off 0:16:55.640 --> 0:16:58.120 of a horrible game in Buffalo, you did well in 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:01.800 containing Moster in a chain and Jeff Wilson. So all 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:04.440 the Cowboys offense had to do was continue to find 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:07.120 ways to put up points. But when you go, they 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:10.480 had that sequence where it was like third consecutive punts. Yeah, 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:13.360 your defense is bending, not breaking. So it's field goal 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:15.399 for the Dolphins, field goal for the Dolphins. Field goal 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:17.760 for the Dolphins. But the whole time that's happening, you're 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:20.520 looking at your offense not put up points. So it's like, Okay, 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:24.040 punt punt Aubrey, punt, punt, punt Aubrey, and you're like, 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:25.760 you're not going to win this type of a game 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:28.720 against this offense, because sooner or later this offense is 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:30.600 going to do what they did with that no huddle, 0:17:31.160 --> 0:17:33.359 and it was just lethal, the no huddle at the 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:36.399 back end of the first half, the hurry up at 0:17:36.400 --> 0:17:38.320 the back end of the game for that game winning drive. 0:17:38.600 --> 0:17:40.600 Your defense is tired. You got to help them out 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:43.200 and compliment them. So kudos to the defense. I mean, 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:46.600 obviously they did break eventually, but if the complimentary football 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:49.400 was there and that offense had put up points, then 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:50.680 the Cowboys win this game. 0:17:50.760 --> 0:17:54.760 I just didn't feel like that really that they did 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:58.639 anything defensively different. You know, to me that the drastic 0:17:58.800 --> 0:18:00.640 move to try and take LANMD out of this game 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:04.040 would have been to walk Ramsey over there. I just 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:05.879 kind of felt like there were a couple of different 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:09.399 times where they passed him through zones, buzz linebackers in 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.040 front of him, you know. But to me, it was 0:18:12.119 --> 0:18:17.240 really about Howard Ramsey and who those guys covering him. 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.000 You know, you didn't see stuff really on the back 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:22.800 end or or where. Like I said, my answer to 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.760 that was like, if I'm thinking Lambs killing me, I'm thinking, God, 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:28.000 I've got to do something different. I think that I 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:31.520 think the blitzing of the linebackers bothered Dac in this game. 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:34.199