WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Dak’s Performance 0:00:03.960 --> 0:00:06.440 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:17.160 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. Are you ready 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:21.000 for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:25.360 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:25.560 --> 0:00:30.720 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:31.480 --> 0:00:35.800 with Nick Eatman, Brian brought Us and bar Garcia and 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:41.680 Derek Eagleton. It is Buddy. October twenty fourth, twenty twenty two, 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.440 Season eighteen, Episode number fifty seven. Welcome to the latest 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:47.120 edition of The Break. We're presented by Miller Lite, the 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:49.560 only beer of the Dallas Cowboys, and we're talking about 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:53.000 the Cowboys win. They beat the Detroit Lions twenty four 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:56.760 to six, and it was a game that was pretty tight. 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:00.120 The score doesn't, I don't think, necessarily reflect just how 0:01:00.120 --> 0:01:02.800 tight the game was throughout most of the game, but 0:01:02.920 --> 0:01:06.040 Cowboys do pull away at the end and make it 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:09.039 a big win for them. Let's start first with stories 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:10.480 of the game. What's the story of the game? Nick, 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:14.720 I think the story of the game is that and 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:16.800 I this is what I wrote. So I think that 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.440 Dak has a new team around him that he's not 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:22.000 used to, and I think he had to play that way. 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:24.320 This is the first time that he's able to play 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.080 with a defense that will carry them when when they're 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.000 not very good, and so I thought he stated, the 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:33.280 course did a good job kept it rolling until it 0:01:33.360 --> 0:01:35.600 was time, you know, to to score some points there 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:37.240 at the end. But not all games are going to 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.480 be that way. But I thought that once again, this 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:43.320 defense carried him along and he didn't make the mistakes. 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:45.760 He didn't make mistakes and just allowed the game to 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:48.200 flow to him. And I think this is going to 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:50.560 be the recipe for this team moving forward until they 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:54.120 get better on offense, which probably won't be you know, 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:56.320 this year. So I thought it was it was a 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.920 good win for him and good win, you know, to 0:01:58.960 --> 0:02:01.520 get back into it. But the defense just carried him through. 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:08.640 I mean, that seems pretty healthy. He didn't seem like 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:10.560 the thumb was an issue at all. He said it 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.000 after the press conference that it didn't bother him or 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:15.120 hurt him in any way. It wasn't even something that 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.680 came into thought while playing. So it was just good. 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:21.240 I know, he didn't have a good first half of 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:25.400 the game, and typically that tends to for it to 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:27.760 be that way. Like he always shows up in the 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.480 second half of games, and he did just that. I 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:32.440 was I like the way that he was able to 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:34.760 adjust some things a play calling and kind of changed 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:38.160 a little bit as well. So I'm just looking forward 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.280 to what this team is actually gonna look like in 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.640 the next weeks, next week, after they get through the 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:46.360 buy and all that, when they come back just the 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.359 second half of the year of the season. I mean, 0:02:49.800 --> 0:02:54.119 I'm excited to see what the team just overall looks 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:58.040 like with him back in the mix and then scoring touchdowns. 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:01.440 So that's something we're not being used to see in 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:04.680 throughout this year so far, it's just those touchdown so 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:06.520 we were able to tell these get two with Zeke 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:08.880 running the ball. Yeah, he didn't get to really practice 0:03:08.919 --> 0:03:11.639 all that much. They didn't practice at all. Mike McCarthy's 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:13.560 big thing is about trying to keep his team as 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.280 healthy as possible, and so they really didn't have any 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:18.520 real practices. You know, they got out and throw the 0:03:18.520 --> 0:03:21.640 ball around against air, like Mike was talking about, but 0:03:21.760 --> 0:03:23.880 you know, when they were coming off the Sunday night 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:27.399 game Monday, didn't do anything. Helmets and T shirts all week. 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:31.040 The first real, first real action he had was actually 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:33.959 really playing in that game where things were flying around 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:36.320 and all that. So I thought he was a little bit, 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:38.120 you know, trying to maybe do a little bit too 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:41.480 much early on some things. But overall though they scored 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:44.640 that touchdown before half, you know, that's a different game. 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:46.920 That's a second they come out in the second half. 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:50.240 You know, they get the turnover, and now you see 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:53.560 what happens when this football team when defensively teams have 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.240 to throw the ball. When teams have to throw the ball, 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.360 they can get after him and they've got some players. 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.840 That play was some great determination. Will you look at 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:06.800 what Michael Parsons did to chase that tight end down 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.840 on that screen and knock that you know, knock him 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.080 out of bounced there or knee down there at the 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:15.960 one and then the very next play the effort of Lawrence. 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:18.640 You're gonna win a lot of games playing with guys 0:04:18.720 --> 0:04:21.880 like that, and despite of what the offense might do. 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:23.919 I mean, I think Dak was ten of eleven in 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.680 the second half throwing the ball. You know, I mean 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:29.920 it's they're going to have some busts up front. They're 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:33.279 not always going to get open on the outside. You know, 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.600 things are going to happen to them. Offensively, they kind 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.560 of stop them along the way. But this defense is 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:41.400 really your calling card right now and the way that 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:44.000 they're playing the effort. But man, if they get people 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.880 into situation where they have to throw the ball, their 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.720 pass rush is really really good. They turn over. They 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.000 get people to turn the ball over, and you know 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:53.760 that's going to be the recipe for them. And they're 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.800 good enough on special teams, the kicker, the punt returner, 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.920 whenever they get those opportunities, they're going to do good things. 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.040 So it's a shame that they had a big punt 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.640 return and didn't get any points out of that, but 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.479 hopefully that's something that they can continue to kind of 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:09.600 work on here in the future. You mentioned those two 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:13.240 plays there. I guess it was in the third quarter 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:15.920 or maybe in the fourth quarter where you had the 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:20.880 Michael Parsons rundown right tackle him there and then obviously 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:24.840 the subsequent play, so the next play where they were 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:27.480 able to create the turnover. What do you guys think 0:05:27.520 --> 0:05:29.440 of that play? When Wright got taken down, do you 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:31.039 think he was in the end zone or he was down? 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.000 He was down? Now the end zone copy shows knee 0:05:34.000 --> 0:05:36.839 down is what it is. And I think Calvin Watkins 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:40.600 actually tweeted a picture this morning of a close up 0:05:40.640 --> 0:05:43.320 maybe the pylon cam where knee was down before he 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:46.040 was able to reach out there. I would have reviewed it. 0:05:46.080 --> 0:05:48.039 I mean, if I was Dan Campbell, I would have 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:52.680 thrown the flag there because they definitely missed the spot. 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:57.400 I think he I think he would have won the challenge, honestly. 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:00.279 I think I think if you challenged the spot, you 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:02.560 don't challenge the touchdown, you challenge the spot. I think 0:06:02.560 --> 0:06:04.720 you would have won the challenge. So you're saying it 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:07.000 may not have been a touchdown, but the spot would 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.200 have been different. Yeah, and then where he got hit 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.200 in the backfield, you know, maybe maybe he's already in 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.240 the end zone at that point, because that spot was 0:06:14.400 --> 0:06:17.320 ridiculous for where the ball actually because it was really 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.239 really close for being a touchdown. So I think if 0:06:20.000 --> 0:06:22.560 you have to word it that way, because if you say, hey, 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:25.280 I'm challenging I think he scored, now he didn't score, 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:27.120 you lose the challenge. But if you challenge throw it 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:30.359 and say your spot is off big time, like we 0:06:30.400 --> 0:06:32.960 should be nosed up on the line there. I think 0:06:33.000 --> 0:06:34.640 they would move it. I think he wins the challenge 0:06:34.760 --> 0:06:36.839 and then yeah, it's good Tack. I had never thought 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:38.760 about it from next I thought, you have to word 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:41.400 it though way that way. I remember chan Gaily one time. 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.320 That happened to them on a spot thing. You have 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:46.839 to say that to the to the officially, you have 0:06:46.880 --> 0:06:50.080 to tell him what you want them to look for. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.800 but yeah, you know, it's just just back to back plays, 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:56.480 you know, for you know, for him, I mean, Parsons's 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:59.040 five yards I mean he's up to field and he's 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:02.120 and literally, you know, the catch is made and now 0:07:02.160 --> 0:07:05.599 he's five yards seven maybe six yards behind, and he 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:10.200 just goes flying through the defense to run run the 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:12.840 tight end down and to make that play. And then 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:16.880 the very next play Tank does like he's it's like 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:20.600 he's pinballing off guys. You know, he's swimming through tight ends, 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:24.280 blocks and stuff like that, and his elbow knocks the 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:26.760 ball loose and and then happen you know, the you know, 0:07:27.000 --> 0:07:29.840 bars just waiting for it right there. They're all playing scheme. 0:07:29.880 --> 0:07:32.280 How many times we've seen ball out he ends up 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.040 in the end zone and the lineman falls on or 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.280 something like that. I mean, everybody was where they needed 0:07:36.320 --> 0:07:38.320 to be to make that play and that's why you 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:41.440 keep playing. I mean, Michael Parsons just showed you. It 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:43.520 might be one of the best plays he's ever made. 0:07:43.520 --> 0:07:45.960 You can talk about sacks and things that he's done 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:49.320 in his short career with the Dallas Cowboys. That might 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.880 be when they when they send him to Canton, that 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:54.360 might be the play that they show of him. And 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:58.240 how he saved He saved you a touchdown. He saved 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:00.800 you a touchdown right there. We talked about it last week. 0:08:01.080 --> 0:08:03.480 I think Mike McCarthy mentioned in his press conference that 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:08.640 Dan Quinn had some self scouting type meeting with Michael Parsons, 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:10.560 and Mica talked about it after the game yesterday and 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.400 he was talking about how he said, you know, one 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:16.160 thing that DQ told him was using your speed to 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.840 make plays out down the field. That's your superpower. If 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:22.160 you're not doing that, you're not using your superpower. That's 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:24.720 how he put it, and that play was exactly that 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:28.560 it was. You saw him literally run by Vanderesh because 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.200 Vanderes was closer to the play that he was up. 0:08:31.320 --> 0:08:35.480 He just literally just ran by him, getting blocked pretty good. Yeah, 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.160 but I'm saying at one point he was running and 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:40.040 you saw him just kind of go past him. And 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.400 the point was, like, Mica just has this rare ability 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:46.160 of size, speed, all the things that you kind of 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.880 put together in a player, and he can do some 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.599 remarkable things if he's willing to do those things. And 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.559 another thing about that too that he has is at 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:57.360 that point in the game, he has zero sacks. Yeah, 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:59.880 and he had zero sax until the very last drive 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.960 the game. Um, that pisses him off, Like he plays 0:09:04.160 --> 0:09:06.240 piss And we talked about this last week. I think 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:09.320 he when he's frustrated, he's out of his game. Right 0:09:09.360 --> 0:09:13.640 when he's pissed, watch out. Yeah, that's he's angry lion 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.800 at that point. Penny souled. Penny souled at a nice 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:20.120 job blocking him yesterday. That he's a very talented tackle 0:09:20.160 --> 0:09:22.960 from Oregon. He's very highly talented, maybe one of the 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:24.559 best tackles in the draft. He's going to be a 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:26.280 good one for a long time. I know he struggled 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:28.720 with some injuries and stuff, but he did. He did 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.000 a really good job in that football game that wasn't 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:34.599 like you, Micah can take advantage of some of some blockers. 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:36.640 But you know, you get those guys that they're kind 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:38.760 of evenly matched there. That's that's kind of a one 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:42.000 on one thing. Right, Was that Bar's best game or 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:44.719 or up there? I think there was some times there 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.160 was when you watched him play, he Bar, to me 0:09:47.320 --> 0:09:50.640 is a fifty fifty player. There's times where he gets 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.280 the ball. When they went on a crossing route and 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.680 Hackinson caught a ball in the flat that was a 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.880 waggle and it's Bars guy and he just he's like 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.600 staring at the quarterback with the titing going by him 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:05.360 and that's this guy, and it just and it's a 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.240 big play. I mean, you know, it's it's one of 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.040 those things you look up. But there was a couple 0:10:10.080 --> 0:10:12.200 of tackles that he was able to make. I just 0:10:12.240 --> 0:10:14.840 feel like that there's there's times where he doesn't react. 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:16.520 They used him as a blitzer in this game a 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:20.200 little bit yesterday, and it just it wasn't what we've 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:22.240 seen from him from a guy that's had a pretty 0:10:22.280 --> 0:10:24.000 good career doing that. You know, who else is a 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.320 fifty fifty player and it was probably skipping around your 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:31.199 offensive line. But Terrence Steele like he had some issues 0:10:31.240 --> 0:10:33.920 in the passing. You know, like you said pass block, 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:38.640 I mean Aidan Hutchinson man run blocking. I mean he's 0:10:38.640 --> 0:10:41.320 just walls off the him and he's a really good 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.319 athlete with that him when they when they blocked d Yeah, 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:47.839 when him and when Martin and Steele get together like that, 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:51.079 they can really run block. The first thing was Steele's 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:54.120 played really well as a pass blocker since the first week. 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.520 But you know on that first sack that they gave up. 0:10:57.400 --> 0:11:01.600 If not Tyler Smith, it was gonna be Terrence Steele 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:05.960 Skoy different. You know What's like, what's really the difference there? 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.559 Because in my mind, I just feel like sometimes like 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:12.800 blocking for a run game and like a run play 0:11:13.360 --> 0:11:17.520 seems harder than having to block for a passing play. 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:20.480 The way that they block, it's really convenient for him, 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.880 or it lends to his skill set because it's movement, 0:11:24.240 --> 0:11:26.719 it's being an athlete, it's you know, when he has 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.680 to pass block, it's about power and kind of holding on, 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:33.119 you know, and being in position when he run blocks. 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:35.600 He's got a good feel for how to work with 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.360 Martin next to him and then get off on the 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:41.360 next guy or wheel himself to get to make the 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:45.040 defender have to run over him to get to the football. 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:48.800 So he plays with much better position as a run 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:52.760 blocker because of how he moves as opposed to how 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:55.640 he passed blocks. He's still not a bad pass blocker, 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.319 but you see the things when they get this, when 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:00.880 they get the shoulder on him sometimes tis he can't 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:03.760 get over and stop somebody from just running up the field. 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:05.920 And think about it like this too. Amber When you're 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:08.800 when you're pass blocking, you're having to react to the 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:11.920 other guy, so you're you're taking your steps and then 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:14.520 literally you're like, Okay, what is he gonna do? Is 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:16.600 he gonna come out with your power? Is he gonna 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:18.960 use a move? Is he gonna spin? Like you're having 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.440 to react when it's run. It's like, Okay, I know 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:23.520 where I need to move this guy, so I'm gonna 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:25.400 get engaged with him and I'm trying to move him. 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:28.440 So you can be on the offensive because you now 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.040 know exactly what you're trying to do rather than having 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:33.320 to react to what he's doing. That's why I think 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:35.959 it's harder a lot of times for and I think 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:39.079 offensive lineman personally, you listen to them talk a lot 0:12:39.120 --> 0:12:41.559 of them. I think prefer run blocking because they can 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.000 go on the offensive. They can say, they can dictate 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.240 to the other person, I don't care what you're trying 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:47.439 to do. I know what I'm trying to do, and 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:49.280 I'm gonna move you from point A to point B, 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:51.480 as opposed to I have to just kind of figure 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:53.120 out what you're doing and then react to that. So 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:54.760 I think that's why run blocking is a little a 0:12:54.800 --> 0:12:57.720 little easier. All right, um, let's talk about about Dak 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:02.160 prescott um yesterday. It's interesting because if you watch the game, 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:06.160 there's probably more reason for you to be concerned than 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:08.160 if you just look at his stat line. His stat 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:11.319 line yesterday, nineteen to twenty five. That's a seventy six 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:14.920 percent completion rate, really good, two hundred and seven yards, 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:18.800 one touchdowns, no turnovers, one hundred and thirteen point two rating. 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.440 You look at that and you say, he did his job. 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:24.400 He did a really good job yesterday. But you watched 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:27.280 the game and there were moments where, oh wow, why 0:13:27.280 --> 0:13:29.000 did he throw it into that? Oh man, he threw 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.520 it into some coverage there he got got away with one. 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:34.000 What did you guys think as you put all that together. 0:13:34.040 --> 0:13:36.640 What did you think of his performance yesterday? You know, 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.920 I thought he was he was okay. I mean it 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:43.959 was it was okay early on. He just he had 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:46.199 like like Brian said, I mean, obviously you're going to 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.920 be rusty because he you know, he didn't even get 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:53.000 to get the flow back into of the week. But yeah, 0:13:53.040 --> 0:13:55.320 he did some things that we saw in that Tampa 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:57.319 game too, where he throwing it in there when you 0:13:57.360 --> 0:13:59.959 don't really need to. One time he got away with it. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.760 He threw a past and the CD made a really 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:06.920 nice catch on there. Um. But you know, I think 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.360 he's still having to learn how this this team works. 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:13.160 Like you don't have to do everything. Two or three 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.280 years ago, he had to do everything. He the offense 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:17.679 had to do everything. You don't have to do that 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.120 right now. So I think he's going to continue to 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:22.520 get better and better. I think they'll finish off a 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:25.360 couple of drives and and this is a recipe for 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:27.720 a team that that can have success. I mean, like 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.280 you look at this schedule and you're going to be 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:33.200 able to really to win some games and and and 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:37.040 and maybe blow him out. But he's just gotta, you know, 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.920 keep it going. And don't f it up like that's 0:14:40.000 --> 0:14:43.200 that's that's that's the model right now. And he's not 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.680 used to that, but that's what it is. Just don't 0:14:45.440 --> 0:14:49.000 mess it up. Just keep playing punt. You saw. I'm sorry, 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:50.720 but you saw that field goal. I think that you 0:14:50.760 --> 0:14:53.360 see usually they would have gone for it down there, 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:55.240 but they're like, you know what, take the point, Take 0:14:55.280 --> 0:14:59.960 the point, right, And I was fine with that too, 0:15:00.000 --> 0:15:02.800 because just this points points points points. It'll add up 0:15:02.800 --> 0:15:05.840 because this team's not given up much. Yeah, there were 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:09.600 you know with Dak and I. You gotta remember, and 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.920 I mentioned it last week too, he didn't have a preseason. 0:15:13.240 --> 0:15:16.520 He just played one game all seasons. So keeping that 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.600 in mind, okay, you gotta expect that now he had 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:23.480 been out what was it a total of six weeks, Yeah, 0:15:23.880 --> 0:15:27.720 it was five weeks, five week weeks. The point is 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:30.240 he hasn't been out there, so of course you're gonna 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:33.880 get some rusts. He's gonna be rusty and he has 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:35.920 to go out there get the field. I thought he 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:37.800 did a really good job in the second half of 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:41.560 the game, but there were moments that I also thought 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:45.600 he he had some risky throws in there. There were 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:48.680 times where you could look at Michael gallups Cede Land. 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:52.200 They had two or even three defenders at times, and 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:55.800 he's throwing the ball that could have easily been intercepted. 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:58.400 I mean that was Those were not even fifty fifty balls, 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:01.600 So moments like that that he could have been bad. 0:16:01.680 --> 0:16:07.200 It wasn't even those were even catches. But just like Nix, 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:11.000 it just play it safe, get back in the groove, 0:16:11.120 --> 0:16:13.560 I thought even I think it was in the second 0:16:13.560 --> 0:16:16.000 half where he they were in the red zone and 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:18.520 he kind of took off on his feet. He didn't 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:21.800 gain much, but just seeing him doing that, Yeah, gives 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.760 me the belief that, Okay, he has his feet where 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:28.440 he feels comfortable. That is something that he hasn't lost. 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.360 We most I'm thinking we're gonna see more of that 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:36.960 as the season goes. And he just think I think 0:16:36.960 --> 0:16:41.560 he did a nice job taken into consideration everything that 0:16:41.640 --> 0:16:44.560 has happened till this point. He got fooled on that pass. 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:49.280 It almost got intercepted. Coverage, Yeah, the one Kirby Joseph 0:16:49.400 --> 0:16:51.680 the safety. They're playing a single high look with that 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.600 safety in the middle of the field, and then and 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:57.880 Joseph just they rotate him and he goes straight back 0:16:57.920 --> 0:17:00.760 into two and I think he thought he had a shot. 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.880 I think he when he when he saw the initial read, 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:06.879 he's thinking, single high, I could fit it. I got lamb, 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:09.520 it's gonna run the route, and all of a sudden 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:13.600 that that safety Joseph that was down went back and 0:17:13.640 --> 0:17:15.560 he and it's like the next thing, you know, now 0:17:15.600 --> 0:17:18.080 it's a little bit of a wait a minute, that 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.760 guy's not where I thought he was gonna be. So 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.439 that particular time, I felt like that, like you know, 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:28.639 sometimes quarterbacks get fooled. Sometimes they see something they think, okay, 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:30.800 single high, I could fit it on the hash right 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.760 there before that safety gets over. But then you got 0:17:33.800 --> 0:17:36.040 the drop safety. That kind of gave him a little 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:38.840 bit of a problem there the first pass of the game, 0:17:38.880 --> 0:17:41.440 and that was one of those times where you're thinking. 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:43.640 He even said he felt like that he was going 0:17:43.720 --> 0:17:47.760 to run and then he just kind of just really 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:50.520 didn't make a great throw. I mean it, you know, 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:52.200 it's one of those things where he could have led. 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:54.080 He could have just tooked the ball and fired it 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:56.320 to Noah Brown in it and just carried Noah Brown 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.760 to the sidelines, and it would have been a completion, 0:17:58.960 --> 0:18:01.400 much like what the lines did in their first play 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:03.399 of the game, the same kind of throw out front. 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:05.879 You know, it's a big play up the sidelines. So 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:07.639 he got it, got caught in no man's land there, 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:11.280 just fired the ball of the outside. There was there 0:18:11.320 --> 0:18:13.720 was a play that they got sacked on on the 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:17.359 third and two where he was in a situation where 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:19.680 they had no they had they ran CD from the 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:22.880 slot on the out and then Noah Brown curl behind him. 0:18:23.000 --> 0:18:25.560 He's looking at Noah Brown the whole time, or I 0:18:25.640 --> 0:18:29.080 think the first read was the lamb Brown and then 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:32.560 he tries to come back inside. So you can't, Bro, 0:18:32.680 --> 0:18:35.120 you gotta just you see it. You see where that's 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:38.560 gonna happen. There's there's space there, there's three lines. There's 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:40.600 space to throw the ball in the third and two. 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:44.720 So when he's bad, it's usually because he's not reading 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:47.520 it the right way. Yeah, that's when Dak struggles. When 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:50.320 it's like, okay, I think I could throw this ball. 0:18:50.359 --> 0:18:52.159 Even said, oh my thumb was feeling good and I 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:54.000 thought I could throw it all the way down the field. 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:57.520 You're like, okay, cool, you're great, Just don't throw an interception. 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:01.800 But when Dak is not at his appolute best is 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:05.560 when he doesn't see it cleanly. And that third two 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:07.159 he could have fired the ball to Noah Brown and 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:09.119 it's gonna be a first down, you keep it going. 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:13.000 Instead he gets sacked, you know, I mean steel strange, 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:16.000 Steel gets knocked back. They have problems and all that, 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:18.840 you know. So, yeah, he had three different reads, but 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:23.080 he didn't get the right He went from the first 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:26.280 read and said, Okay, that's not gonna work. Second read, boom, 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:29.720 just fire the ball because the lions were all around 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.919 where it was, there was nothing keeping him. But but 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:35.560 he got a flash because they got a flash off 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:39.919 the edge because of what happened was steel. So I 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:43.520 think when Dak's bad, it's reading, that's the thing. I 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:46.800 think that that the most problems. And also a field too, 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:49.160