WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Reacting To The Week 7 Win 0:00:01.880 --> 0:00:04.360 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:07.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:11.280 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:15.640 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:15.840 --> 0:00:21.000 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:21.760 --> 0:00:27.280 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:31.400 It is Monday, October twenty third, two Thy seventeen, Season thirteen, 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:34.440 episode number fifty nine. Welcome to another edition of The Break. 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:37.320 We're li from the s WBC Mortgage studios at the 0:00:37.360 --> 0:00:40.000 Star and it is a victory Monday. Cowboys get a 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:43.479 big win yesterday they beat to San Francisco forty nine 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:46.960 or is forty to ten? Been a while since the 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:49.840 Cowboys have had that dominating a performance on both sides 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:52.120 of the ball. And there are lots of things for 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:54.920 us to get into and talk about. How's everybody feeling 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:59.640 this morning? Awesome? Awesome, good, the Cowboys gonna win. Dave 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:03.760 and I are wearing comfy clothes. Yeah, yeah, everything's good. 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:06.200 You gotta let everybody now we're matching. Yeah. Yeah, the 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:09.760 flannel got five whole hours of sleep. Yeah, yeah, that's 0:01:09.800 --> 0:01:12.839 always great. Yes, full hours asleep. Actually, five full hours 0:01:12.840 --> 0:01:14.839 asleep coming off a road trip to the West Coast 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:18.000 is actually not bad at all. Right, you guys have 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:20.320 had worse, Anna say. The sad thing is You're right right, 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.600 you guys have had worse. I'm sure. Let's let's talk 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:25.120 a little bit about some of this stuff. And I 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.679 guess there were so many different things that happened in 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:30.280 that game, and so many different points. Why don't we 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:32.560 start first with going around the table? And I want 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.400 to hear everybody's if you had one thing that you 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.080 took from that game that was kind of the storyline 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:41.280 of the game, the biggest headline of that game, what 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:44.360 would it be. Let's start with you, Dave saw some 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:48.720 Cowboys football. Derek ran the ball at will Ezekiel Elliott 0:01:49.240 --> 0:01:52.640 seek stuff. He was ripping off Chunkyard as he took 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.440 a screen pass to the house. The offensive line was 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:57.840 blowing people off the ball. And yeah, I know that 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:00.360 the San Francisco forty nine ers are now owen seven, 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:03.800 but what were they eighteenth against the run going into 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.880 that game, giving up one hundred and eighteen yards per game. Well, 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:09.560 the Cowboys ran for two hundred and sixty five which 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.240 is the best that an NFL team has done in 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:18.480 twenty seventeen. So regardless of the opposition, that was impressive. 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.360 It was, it really was, and I think everybody listening 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.000 would agree that that's what they remember watching. Maybe it 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:28.080 wasn't always two sixty five, but that ability to remove 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.280 the ball on the ground seemingly at will, I think 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.200 is what this team has been missing for the vast 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:36.920 majority of this season. It was cool to see again, Amber, 0:02:37.720 --> 0:02:40.440 I mean, yeah, that would have to be the storyline here. 0:02:40.520 --> 0:02:43.240 But aside from that, one of the things that definitely 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:47.280 stood out for me was not Jason Witten catch one 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:52.000 handed catch, and especially because that's a heck of a kiss. 0:02:52.040 --> 0:02:56.960 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, So especially because during this past 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.000 couple of weeks, I mean, I've been getting a ton 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.560 of tweets talking about Jason Witten. Oh maybe he's too 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:05.480 old now that he can really play at the same 0:03:05.560 --> 0:03:09.600 level he used to. And clearly you got to see 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:13.079 Jason Witten make a great play right there. Another thing 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:16.680 that was exciting to me was on the defense side, 0:03:16.880 --> 0:03:19.600 all those sacks that they were able to make, and 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:24.040 I was sad to not see tackle kind of step 0:03:24.120 --> 0:03:26.840 up because I mean, they gave him the biggest I mean, 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:30.799 they gave him a big chance here to let him 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:34.680 play and hopefully make those kind of plays that we've 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:38.360 all been waiting for. And he wasn't really able to 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:42.320 do that once again. So that wasn't a great storyline. 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.080 But I went to no, yeah, I started with the 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:49.640 excited part, but then it turned into yeah, let's talk 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:51.920 about tackling, and I think it's something worth talking about 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:53.520 and we will get it. Get into that, Nick, what 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:55.800 was your big storyline? I think those two said it. 0:03:56.440 --> 0:03:59.360 They ran the ball well, they rushed the quarterback well, 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:03.240 and you know they they when you get off the 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:06.280 field on third down and and create and create some turnovers. 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.960 That's the thing that they got. They got turnovers. I 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.400 guess they do come in bunches. So they did a 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:14.000 nice job there. Um I think I think, if you're 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.120 gonna say one more thing, I mean, just you know, 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:17.800 you can hate on them all you want, but but 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.440 being an athlete helps. And Jeff Heath, I thought, did 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:22.719 a really great job of going in there and and 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:27.240 and you know, making some kicks. Um you know, think about, um, 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:30.599 how tired you are at to play safety to go 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:32.800 out there and to make kicks like that, yeah, and 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.840 kick off like that. So I still think they're gonna 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.479 need a kicker obviously, uh if if Dan can't go 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:41.480 this week, but to know that you have that in 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.640 your in your hip pocket there, it was was a 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.400 good thing. He was saying how nervous he was about 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:49.360 doing that. I mean he didn't obviously get a lot 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:51.719 of time to prepare for it or anything. It was 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:54.440 just like, okay, and you're about to go out there, 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.159 get ready, and it was it was kind of cute 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:00.880 to listen to him talk. It was cute. He's like, 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:02.960 you know, I was really nervous, but it was fun. 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.800 And even the first one that hit the poll is 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:10.159 that how you call it? Yeah, the pole upright, the 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:14.799 metal part goal put and hit it and still winning. 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:18.279 He got lucky there, but it was cool. Now. He 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:19.960 did say he had more fun in that game he's 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:21.760 had in a long time in football, and it is 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.120 I think when you kind of go back to when 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:26.560 you played as a younger kid. I'm sure he had 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:28.159 an opportunity to a lot of different things on Fiel 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:30.039 because he's probably the best athlete on the field, so 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:31.840 this was probably just a lot of fun to just 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:34.799 go out and play football in a lot of different ways. 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.279 Let's back up and talk a little bit about Ezekiel Elliott, 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:39.760 Dave you mentioned him. He had twenty six carries for 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:41.520 one hundred and forty seven yards on the ground a 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:44.279 five point seven average, two touchdowns on the ground, and 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.920 then had the one big reception for seventy two yards 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:50.479 and a touchdown. It was the best day statistically of 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:53.440 his career. And the thing that I thought was most 0:05:53.520 --> 0:05:56.120 interesting is we have been talking a lot over the 0:05:56.200 --> 0:06:00.280 last few weeks about the Cowboys on first downs and 0:06:00.360 --> 0:06:02.640 how they were not getting the kind of production, particularly 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:06.360 in the running game on first downs. Yesterday, in the 0:06:06.440 --> 0:06:09.200 first half, they had thirteen carries on first down. They 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.440 had eighty seven yards on first down rushes a six 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:14.159 point seven average. That's what they were doing last year. 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.200 Right in the second half, they had seven carriage for 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:20.719 thirty eight yards five point four average on first downs. Again, 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:22.800 that's more of what they were doing last year. I 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:24.839 think that was really the key to the running game, 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:27.920 more so than them having the big overall production. It 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.560 was when they were doing it. It was on first downs, 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:32.719 and then in the second half when they wanted to 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:34.839 put the game away. They were running at will. What'd 0:06:34.839 --> 0:06:37.680 you guys think? I agree with that. The other thing though, 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:40.440 for me, and I don't know if I ever bought 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:45.159 into the storyline that Zeke was slow, overweight, or lost 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.719 a step, but I think you can go back and 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:50.400 find a lot of instances where he just wasn't running 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:54.680 decisively and with a clear plan in mind for what 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:57.640 he wanted to do. And I thought he didn't look 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.280 like that yesterday. I mean, I think the very one 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:03.120 of the very first players of the game, the middle 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.440 was clogged and he kind of did his little jump 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:07.920 cut and bounced it around tackle and turned what could 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:09.720 have been a one or two yard game into six 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:13.320 or seven. And that's what he did so well last year, 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:16.080 and I think hasn't done as well this year. But 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.880 you saw that yesterday. He just I mean, you know, 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.440 the cliche is like running angry or whatever whatever you 0:07:21.480 --> 0:07:24.400 want to call it. He he just seemed decisive. He 0:07:24.440 --> 0:07:26.800 knew what he wanted to do, he knew where he 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:29.200 needed to take the ball in all situations. How much 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:32.440 do you think that is a product of this offensive line? 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.600 Because number one, the offensive line played great yesterday, especially 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:37.600 in the running game, you don't run that much without 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.920 them playing great. But I do think of all the units, 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:42.400 and we talked about this a lot, of all the 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:45.040 units on the team, the offensive line is the group 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.600 where it is way more important for them to work 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:49.880 as a group than even as individuals. And they had 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:54.040 two of their five pieces being new. Do you think 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:56.040 that maybe a part of what we're seeing, at least 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:57.920 yesterday and what you really started to see towards the 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:00.000 end of the game in Green Bay, is that maybe 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.080 this offensive lines getting to a point where it's starting 0:08:02.080 --> 0:08:04.800 to gel enough to where it does allow situations was 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:06.840 he can be more decisive because he knows what's going 0:08:06.880 --> 0:08:08.920 to happen when it's going to happen. Well, I think 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:12.520 Jonathan Cooper that they found a little something there. I 0:08:12.520 --> 0:08:14.880 don't think they're going to go back to chas Green 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.880 anytime soon, or I mean, you know, this is Cooper 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:20.920 starting to get a little bit more comfortable. And I 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:24.520 think coming off I think you saw the difference really 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:26.480 the last three games with the Cowboys. You see a 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:31.760 difference of teams that are that are fatigued and teams 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:33.880 that have rest. And I mean that's just kind of 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:35.240 the way it is. If you don't, we're not gonna 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:36.839 sit here and say it was an excuse. But the 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:40.760 Rams and Packers both had more time off than the Cowboys, 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.880 and you know, I think I think that helped. And 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:47.400 I think the Cowboys were fresh in this game. The 0:08:47.440 --> 0:08:49.880 offensive line looked good and they were healthy as well. 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:51.640 That's a big part of it. And you know, the 0:08:51.720 --> 0:08:53.679 forty nine Ers are a team that that's played now 0:08:54.120 --> 0:08:56.719 sixth straight or seventh straight games, and they played a 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:58.640 lot of these close games and you know, the bottom 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:00.400 just kind of fell out for them. So I think 0:09:00.400 --> 0:09:02.520 that that is a real thing in the NFL. We've 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:04.560 seeing the Cowboys on both sides of it. And we'll 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.560 see how much that matters this week because your next team, 0:09:07.600 --> 0:09:10.280 Washing Redskins, are going to play tonight and then turn 0:09:10.320 --> 0:09:12.520 around and play the Cowboys on Sunday. We'll see if 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:15.080 that day makes a difference in their preparation in them 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:18.959 being physically their games in Philly. Right, yes, yes, the 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:20.960 road tonight, Ye, that takes like an hour or something 0:09:21.000 --> 0:09:23.480 to get I guess do they drive for something like 0:09:23.520 --> 0:09:26.640 that train maybe? I don't know. Before well, before we 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:30.360 get too far away from Zeke, I just with how 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:34.000 boring this team can be quote wise, sometimes things really 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:37.719 jump out to me, which it jumps out when a 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:42.360 Cowboys player like Willing, like Willfully, of his own volition, 0:09:42.400 --> 0:09:44.680 brings up another game, you know, like it's usually the 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:46.760 media that does that. I don't want to compare players. 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:50.880 I don't want to compare games. So the media asked 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:53.640 Zeke last night, you know, this is the this is 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:55.480 the most that you looked like twenty sixteen. Do you 0:09:55.480 --> 0:09:58.400 think that's fair? Is this the closest you've looked to 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:00.600 what you looked like last year? And Zeke's said, I 0:10:00.640 --> 0:10:03.280 think it was we saw the Packers game before the bye. 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:05.040 We saw in the Packers game before the bye, the 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.120 offense really started clicking in the fourth quarter and the 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.200 running games started to open up. And I think we 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:12.560 carried that over to today. Yeah. I mean, you don't 0:10:12.600 --> 0:10:13.960 need him to tell you that you saw with your 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:16.559 own eyes. But anytime a player says something like that, 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:20.439 I think it carries a little more weight. Like I said, especially, 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:21.760 you know, players go out of their way to be 0:10:21.800 --> 0:10:24.800 so boring. So and eighty five yards in the fourth quarter, 0:10:24.920 --> 0:10:28.760 two hundred and sixty five yards yesterday. So again, I 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.880 mean consider the opposition, but that's not I mean, the 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.439 front seven is not the worst part about the San 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.640 Francisco forty nine ers, So I think you have to 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:41.040 view that as a really big positive heading into what 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.360 is a really tough stretch of games coming up here. 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.800 So yeah, and the two new offensive lineman I thought 0:10:45.920 --> 0:10:48.920 yesterday in particular, are there were specific moments in that 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:50.839 game when I saw both of them make some really 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:53.920 nice blocks, both by all Collins and Jonathan Cooper. And 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.400 if they get to the point where they're really working 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:58.840 well in tandem with those other three guys, now I 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.120 think you're onto something. If you remember back to training camp, 0:11:01.160 --> 0:11:03.240 one of the things I was really interested to see 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:06.160 was Jonathan Cooper. I mean, people forget he was a 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:08.520 first round pick, like you put him with other first 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:10.400 round picks. Maybe he hadn't lived up to that in 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:13.599 other places. People forget that, well, maybe they do. I 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:15.480 don't know if fans, I don't know if fans really 0:11:15.480 --> 0:11:17.240 think about that. They think of Jonathan Cooper as it 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.040 has they think of not a shot it has been. 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.079 They think of Jonathan Cooper as a guy that isn't 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:24.280 really that great, right, And I don't. I still don't 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:25.920 think they put him in the category of the first 0:11:25.960 --> 0:11:27.920 round picks that are on this offensive line, and may 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:30.400 I think you're rewriting that story a little bit. I 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:32.720 think the story about Jonathan Cooper when he got here 0:11:32.840 --> 0:11:34.720 was this guy was a top ten pick. Talking about 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.360 when he got here, I'm talking about as of this 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:39.280 training camp, he still wasn't a starter, and I don't 0:11:39.280 --> 0:11:41.200 think most people were thinking that he was going to 0:11:41.240 --> 0:11:43.280 be the starter at that point. So no one says 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.440 four first round picks. Yeah, no, they don't. But they 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:49.559 somebody they say, if the storyline around Jonathan Cooper since 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:51.760 he got here and through training camp was if there's 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:53.760 a line that can bring out that talent in him, 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.440 it's probably this one. I'm just saying, we don't have 0:11:56.480 --> 0:11:58.199 to get into an argument about it. I think I 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:00.240 think the point is. The point I'm trying to make 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:04.439 is that this offensive line with Jonathan Cooper. To me, 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:07.960 maybe you can see the first rounder in Jonathan Cooper. 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.280 You put him with these other guys, and maybe that's 0:12:10.280 --> 0:12:12.480 what you're starting to see a glimpse of. They still 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:14.080 got a little ways to go. But that's maybe what 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.000 you're starting to see a glimpse of. I actually asked, 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.959 I talked to Jonathan Cooper last night. I'm gonna write 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:21.400 a story about it later just as a teaser, but 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:24.280 I was like, you think, you know, obviously this is 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:27.560 your third start, it probably helps that you know, you 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:29.680 know what Tyrn's gonna do, and you know what Travis 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.080 is gonna do a little bit better. And he's like, oh, whoa, 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.080 they know what I'm gonna do. Like, let's you know, 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:36.000 those are two of the best players in the league, 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:39.679 and like, you know, working with them this experience helps 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:44.000 them help me more so than I'm helping them. But yeah, 0:12:44.040 --> 0:12:46.120 I mean, it looks like it's certainly starting to clip 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:48.400 for them. All right, let's let's move on. Let's talk 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:54.120 about Dak Prescott. Yesterday, he has stat line of so 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:57.480 you go, sixteen of twenty five, sixty four percent completion rate, 0:12:57.640 --> 0:13:00.600 two hundred and thirty four yards, three touchdowns, one hundred 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:04.000 and thirty four passer rating, and then also rushes four 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:08.880 times for twenty six yards and a touchdown. Overall, I thought, 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:11.800 this is the vintage what you want to see from Dak, 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:15.120 primarily because the running game was so good. He didn't 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:17.520 throw too much, but when he had to, made some 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:19.480 plays and then made a few plays with his with 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:22.240 his legs as well. Yeah, I mean it's there's no 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:25.839 secret that Zeke's the one that's that's driving this busum 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:31.040 and you know, seventy two yards of that is because 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:33.360 of him. I mean he throws a screen pass there, 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:36.240 but but that that is kind of that is set 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:37.800 up by the fact that they could run the ball. 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.080 And I thought Dak did a nice job but just 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.440 kind of managing the game. I mean, there's nothing wrong 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:44.760 with being the game manager. There really isn't. And you 0:13:44.800 --> 0:13:46.840 can have good stat lines, it doesn't mean you're not 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.920 a good fantasy quarterback. And that I think he does 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.880 it really well. He manages the game well, and he's 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.520 okay with throwing in complete passes when the sack is 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:57.559 is about to happen, and he knows where to find 0:13:57.800 --> 0:14:00.559 an eligible receiver and throw it at their feet. I mean, 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.920 I think he avoids sax he avoids bad plays pretty well. 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.680 So I thought overall he had really a nice game. 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:09.720 That's I mean, yeah, you said it, that's how you 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:13.400 want Dak to play and we've seen that he can 0:14:13.480 --> 0:14:15.160 kind of put the team on his back a little 0:14:15.200 --> 0:14:17.679 more so than he had to. But it doesn't that's 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:20.240 not necessarily going to be good because that's not how 0:14:20.240 --> 0:14:23.560 you want this offense to play. Like he completed sixteen passes, 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.040 I don't think he threw the ball more than twelve 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:30.560 or fifteen yards downfield. I mean, how did he was 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.880 His touchdown to winning was eighteen Yeah, so maybe the 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.400 longest one and that just had a longer one than 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:38.880 that though, but it wasn't. It wasn't. It was like 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:41.320 twenty seven yards, but most of it was running. It's 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:44.440 that's exactly and it's not that Dak can't do that stuff. 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:46.680 That's not the conversation. It's that that's how you want 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:48.400 to play offense. If you want to set things up 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.480 with the run, you want the defense not know him 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:52.080 for sure what's going to happen. You want to miss 0:14:52.080 --> 0:14:54.760 direct and then he can make plays on the ground 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:58.120 as well. That's I mean, that's exactly how you want 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:00.600 Dak to play in this offense. However, the most interesting 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:02.120 thing is if you go back and you look at 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.880 the numbers in the first half before the game was 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.000 out of hand, it actually was much closer to a 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:09.760 fifty fifty split. There was nineteen pass I mean nineteen 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:13.920 rushes seventeen passes. So in the earth, this could have 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:15.800 easily have been a game. Let's say they were playing 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:17.880 a team where like Green Bay, where they got to 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:19.760 score a lot. This could have easily been a game 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:22.200 where he threw as much as they ran, or maybe 0:15:22.240 --> 0:15:24.880 even more, just depending on how the game went. But 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:27.680 the beautiful part is again the running game was working 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.080 on first downs, and in the second half they had 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:33.480 a lead, and the running game was actually effective in 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:35.600 the second half, so they really could put the game away. 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.000 And you know, I don't even think of the play 0:15:38.000 --> 0:15:41.280 calling like the balance in terms of, you know, whether 0:15:41.280 --> 0:15:42.840 they're playing the way they want to play. They were 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.760 averaging six yards per carry at halftime. That's the difference. 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.000 And you mentioned the stat about running on first down. 0:15:48.320 --> 0:15:51.800 You're giving Dak second and fives and second and fours 0:15:51.840 --> 0:15:55.160 and ones. It's that, I mean, this isn't an offense 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:58.800 that's meant to be converting long distances, and they don't 0:15:58.840 --> 0:16:00.640 have to when they're running that way, nor our most 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:04.200 offenses around the league. You you get teams in second, third, 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.000 and long and typically you're going to be able to 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:07.880 get them off the field if your defense I can 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:10.920 do that if they don't have Aaron right, if your 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.400 defense con manage to do that. Okay, let's take our 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.200 first break. 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