WEBVTT - Break_12_30.mp3 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.320 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.360 --> 0:00:06.920 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.240 --> 0:00:17.200 Cowboys Let's go. Are you ready for a break? Yes? 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:19.040 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:19.840 Absolutely? 0:00:20.000 --> 0:00:22.000 Ready for a break? 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:22.479 Yeah? 0:00:22.520 --> 0:00:24.239 And so much for that. 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:29.640 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com were. 0:00:29.320 --> 0:00:35.080 On with Mbar Garcia, Brian brought us, Nick Harris and 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:36.280 Derek Eagleton. 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:41.280 It is Monday, December thirtieth, twenty twenty four, Season twenty, 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:43.680 episode number ninety four. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:43.720 --> 0:00:45.960 The Break. We are live from the s WBC Mortgage 0:00:45.960 --> 0:00:47.880 Studios at the Start, presented by LG. 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:49.560 LG is the world's. 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:51.640 Number one OLED TV brand for eleven years in counting 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:55.760 See why at LG dot com Ford slash O led Evil. 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:59.640 All right, today, we've got to talk about that game yesterday. 0:00:59.680 --> 0:01:01.880 It was It was a bad one for the Cowboys, 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:04.839 about as bad as it's been all season. They lose 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:07.880 forty one to seven after what seemed to be a 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:14.360 pretty what's the right word encouraging first quarter. In the 0:01:14.400 --> 0:01:17.040 first quarter, it seemed like they were actually playing pretty 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:20.080 decent football, and then it seemed like the wheels just 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:20.560 fell off. 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.560 This game flipped when Calcaterra caught the thirty four yard pass. 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.160 We could talk about the third and one miss down 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.320 the field. Yeah, but I think the Calcaterra play kind 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:34.600 of woke Kellen Moore up, woke pick it up, woke 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.800 the Eagles offense up a little bit. They you know, 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:39.880 they had been struggling. Dallas had played pretty well on 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:43.360 the run defense. Uh you know, really hadn't getten gashed 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:46.280 with Barkley. They really Kellen Moore, did you have favor 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:48.320 the first series of the game, he went three straight 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.800 passes with the backup quarterback and I'm like, God, I 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:54.560 love you Kellen Moore, you know, and yeah, not really. Yeah, 0:01:54.600 --> 0:01:57.200 but the Calcaterra play, I. 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:58.840 Mean, no way this No. 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:01.560 I guess what I mean by that is that was 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:03.520 the thing that in Dallas, I think both people were 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:05.680 upset about, was that he would get into these rhythms 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:07.920 where he just like get away from the thing that worked. 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:09.600 They know, they had a running game. He was just 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:10.120 throwing the ball. 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.240 There were there were a couple of things in that game. 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.679 Like I say, the Calcutara play was big because it 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:17.360 just opened things up for him. They're like, oh, okay, 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:20.200 we could throw the ball down the field. The second 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:23.120 thing was they figured out that listen, we're going to 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:27.079 get a match up with with Bland on Brown and 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:31.440 Booth is going to cover Smith. And once they figured 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:33.680 that out, then that was all bets were off. And 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:35.960 then there were a couple of different plays where they 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:39.200 could have helped. They could have helped Booth. I for 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:41.040 the life of me, I don't know why Mike Zimber 0:02:41.040 --> 0:02:45.200 did this. I mean, there was the touchdown that that 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:49.440 Smith had, the first touchdown where it was to me, 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:55.720 like he's dropping he's dropping. Uh, he's dropping Hooker into 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.800 into like a deep look. But he's favored him to 0:02:58.840 --> 0:03:02.320 the side of Brown. Who's who's got Bland the guy 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.079 on the other Side's guy needs to help. It isn't Bland. 0:03:05.160 --> 0:03:08.240 You put Bland over there for a reason. Why is 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:13.120 Hooker opening to Brown side and then have to spin 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.040 his hips and try and get back. And Hooker's not 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:19.200 a fast guy. He's just not He's just not gonna 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.400 play with a lot of range. And so to me, 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.920 those are the things where we always talk about. Coaches 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:28.600 say this, players say this. Got to put these players 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:33.000 in position to make plays. You didn't. You didn't on 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:36.040 a couple of different occasions you didn't do that. And 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:39.320 the Calcatara catch was a great play. I mean it's 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:43.640 a great catch, but yeah, there were plenty of plays 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.760 in that game where you just had to say, okay, 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:50.200 you weren't good enough, and it happened quite a bit. 0:03:50.800 --> 0:03:55.120 Started a game member said the turnovers, ag go ahead. 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:57.680 I mean we've seen it before. 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:00.680 Were like and we talked about it a couple of 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.560 weeks ago, where it comes down to turnovers and who 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.280 wins the turnover battle and that typically the one who 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:11.040 gets the most typically wins the game, and that was 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:15.160 unfortunate in McCarthy. He mentioned it after the game in 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:18.400 the press conference. He talked about how he thought they 0:04:18.440 --> 0:04:20.840 had a good game plan, but it was difficult to 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.479 execute some of the things that they had planned for 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.640 when you couldn't just get there and when you're turning 0:04:26.680 --> 0:04:29.839 over the ball that many times, it's just gonna put 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:31.680 you in a hole where you can't. 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:32.240 Get out of. 0:04:32.600 --> 0:04:35.960 So that's essentially what happened. You weren't able to protect 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:39.719 the ball. And two of those came because of Cooper 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.880 Rush and him throwing two interceptions and then the two 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:48.200 other ones just were not necessarily his fault. So it's 0:04:48.279 --> 0:04:53.160 just I don't really know what to say other than that, 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:57.120 I will say back to what you mentioned earlier, I 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:01.240 was impressed of their ability to have been able to 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:05.160 come back after that first interception and be able to score. 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.080 That's something that we typically don't see them being capable 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:11.000 of doing. Just picking themselves back up in that way 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:15.440 so quickly, typically takes maybe until the second half, but 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.360 this time they were able to come back right away. 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:19.920 And I'm with you. I thought, Okay, it might be. 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.480 A competitive game here, and it might stay close, and 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:25.680 even if we lose, at least we saw that competitiveness. 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:29.279 And it didn't happen that way. Quickly started declining. The 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:32.920 game got completely away from them, and you just there's nothing, 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.080 There's nothing you could They weren't able to do anything. 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:39.839 And that's the that's the most unfortunate part of it, 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:43.680 is that, honestly, I expected them to go into that 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:49.040 game losing because of how FEELI is playing currently, despite everything, 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.200 even with jailing hurts out, you thought, Okay, this is 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:52.080 gonna be competitive. 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.440 But that's the part where they. 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:59.520 They lacked is just not able to keep up, prevent 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:03.000 mistakes and be able to put on a good show. 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:05.560 Yeah, were you either? What do you happen to be 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.960 in the locker room? When Turpin talked after the game, 0:06:09.320 --> 0:06:12.360 we were there. Did you hear what he said? Sad use 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:15.320 of the of and I and I and sides of 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:19.239 the athletic This was one of his quotes that actually 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.160 had a thread that did this, and I'm just gonna 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:24.400 read I'm quoting here. It's from Turpin on playing without 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:26.200 ceed Lamb in this game, and I was wondering if 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.839 I could get your thoughts on this real quick. He said, Man, 0:06:28.880 --> 0:06:30.400 I just feel like at the end of the day, 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:33.119 with CD gone, we weren't really calling no pass place. 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.640 We were just running the ball, throwing checkdowns. That's the 0:06:36.680 --> 0:06:39.359 plan in the receiver room. I thought we were going 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:41.480 to go out there and show people it ain't all 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.400 about c D. At the end of the day, we weren't. 0:06:43.680 --> 0:06:47.080 We wasn't getting down no downfield routes being called. We 0:06:47.200 --> 0:06:49.040 just had to see what we could do. 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:52.760 I heard that, and to be honest with that kind 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:54.400 of blew it off a little bit, because, Yeah, first 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.039 of all, I don't think it's accurate I was actually 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.440 charting a number of downfield throws and shit, and they 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:00.039 had quite. 0:06:59.839 --> 0:07:03.400 A you especially, that's what, as a matter. 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.040 Of fact, a third and one, which we'll get to 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:08.120 the moment when they decided to go downfield Domingo. But 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:10.880 I heard he said, I just honestly I didn't. I 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:12.920 didn't think it was accurate. I thought they threw the 0:07:12.920 --> 0:07:15.320 ball downfield more. Now, he may have been looking for 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:17.720 a specific plays. He may have been even been looking 0:07:17.720 --> 0:07:20.520 more for more specific plays for him. In that way, 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:22.760 I could understand maybe what he's saying because the downfield 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:25.960 throws weren't necessarily for him. But that being said, I 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:27.800 thought they went down field more. I don't think it 0:07:27.840 --> 0:07:28.640 was all just checked out. 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.480 I thought they went down more this field this time 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:33.760 against Philly than they did the previous agreed, Yeah, And 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:36.160 so I was just curious, I go, did he accurately 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:39.360 does that? So that's accurately what he said? 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:41.040 Well, yeah, that's what I heard him say. 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:41.400 Yeah. 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:43.800 Okay, Well, I think sometimes coming off a game and 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:47.280 having to speak that quickly with you having been able 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:51.120 to go back and watch film just yet, you're answering 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:56.360 based on what you lift yourself. The game, Well, you fell, 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:59.040 how often did they target me? How often did my 0:07:59.160 --> 0:08:02.280 hands touch the ball? So it feels in that perspective. 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:04.360 So I don't I mean, I don't fall him for 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.160 saying what introduced I don't think. 0:08:07.200 --> 0:08:09.040 I don't think he has the perspective that we do. 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:11.960 Like I was charting the game, he wasn't charting the game. 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:13.840 He was out there playing. Yeah, so he he only 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:17.360 has his perspective of what happened with him on specific plays. 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:19.480 So I just, you know, I think he may have 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.559 just you know, he may have been looking at something 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:23.040 differently than what we were looking at. 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:25.480 I was just wondering. I was just wondering because I 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.840 didn't feel that way either. I felt now the first 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:31.080 time around they played sure, I totally agree with him 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:34.240 that time. Like watching the tape this morning, I didn't 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:35.679 get the feeling that was the case. 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:36.560 No, I agree with you. 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.160 I agree with you on that mentioning Cooper Rush, he 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:41.880 went fifteen to twenty eight fifty four percent completion, not 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:44.520 very good, one hundred and forty seven yards. 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:48.560 I gotta see it with my eyes again. 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:52.000 You knowsceptions of fifty quarterback rating. 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:52.839 What happened. 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:54.520 Let's go back to the two interceptions. What do you 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.439 think happened there, Brian, when you when you look those 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:57.840 two interceptions. 0:08:57.600 --> 0:09:00.120 Well, like I went back and I just say I 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:02.199 typed out my notes and stuff like that. So let 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:05.040 me get let me get to the pick six. Okay, 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.960 this is where this is where it to me, it 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:11.040 appears to be man coverage ye with the free safety 0:09:11.040 --> 0:09:12.240 in the middle of the field, So they call it 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:15.240 man free is what they play man underneath free safety 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.160 in the middle of the field and try and navigate that. 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:25.160 I think with Gardner Johnson and Bond the linebacker, I 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:28.040 think they're doubling Ferguson on this play. I think they're 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:31.120 they've they've they're gonna play man and they've determined they're 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:34.200 gonna double one guy. And like we talked about that 0:09:34.280 --> 0:09:36.880 leading up with no ceedee lamb, what could potentially happen 0:09:37.760 --> 0:09:40.120 Take that guy away, take this guy. So I think 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:43.080 they're trying to take away Ferguson on this one, and 0:09:43.160 --> 0:09:45.920 I think that rush is likely feels like he's gonna 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:49.760 have a window to throw this when Ferguson breaks inside 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:53.880 because they're running the slant behind behind that, So he's 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:58.280 probably thinking that Okay, if Ferguson goes inside and they're 0:09:58.360 --> 0:10:01.360 doubling him, they're both going with and I'll have that window. 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:06.880 And but when Ferguson breaks inside, Carter Johnson just he 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:09.520 didn't even react. He's looking. You could see on film 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.640 he's looking at Cooper Rush the whole entire time. There 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:16.200 was nothing that took him away from There was nothing 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:18.720 for him. Now. I think he was just being a 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:22.640 football player because he's staring down the quarterback the ball, 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:26.000 his man's going inside. He knows he's covered there with 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:29.040 his with the route with the linebacker Bond going inside, 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:31.480 and Rush is thinking he's going to go with him, 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:33.240 and he didn't go with him. And I think that's 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:36.040 where Rush got fooled there. And Cooks really didn't have 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.200 I mean, it wasn't a clean route to get inside 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:40.880 with anyway, But Garter Johnson there was no reason for 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:44.000 him to move, especially when Cooper Rush was staring down 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.400 the area and he knew guy going away, he's not 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.320 throwing to him. Guy behind him, Yep, here's comes the ball. 0:10:49.440 --> 0:10:51.600 And that's I think what happened on that first on 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:52.920 that pick six right there. 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:55.600 It just seemed like he just he basically just didn't move. 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:57.400 He thought he was going and he didn't go with 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:59.360 the first guy and he sat in that spot and 0:10:59.400 --> 0:10:59.760 there you go. 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:03.160 Oh, okay, the second interception Cooks. The officials missed a 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:07.720 bad The officials missed the play here because Cooks gets grabbed. Literally, 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.560 I mean you could see Mitchell grab his jersey like 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:13.080 he's by it, but he has to grab him and 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:15.800 it slows Cooks down. It kind of makes Cooks have 0:11:15.880 --> 0:11:19.440 to turn and he really he can't get up the field. 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:23.520 His momentum stop. Now the ball's already gone, and if 0:11:23.520 --> 0:11:25.880 he doesn't pull his jersey, there's gonna be a chance 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:28.640 because I don't think that Gardner Johnson playing in the 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:30.240 middle of the field was going to get to the ball. 0:11:30.480 --> 0:11:33.440 I mean, if Cooks could have run, it could have 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.160 been you know, wouldn't been held. I think there was 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.240 a chance that you probably could have made that play. 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:40.560 But when he got held, it slowed him down. It 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:43.360 slowed down his momentum and he could but the official 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:46.400 to that side, the back judge to that side, missed 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:50.520 a blatant holding call in that in that situation because 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:55.080 the protection was outstanding. And then but that was just 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:57.880 a really really really bad miss by the official right there, 0:11:57.920 --> 0:12:00.520 because because Cooks got held on the play. 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:03.960 Yeah, and it's that's that's unfortunate, but you know it 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:04.480 happened to me. 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:05.280 It happens. 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:07.800 Those kind of things happen. Let's go ahead and take 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:09.760 our first break. When we come back. I want to 0:12:09.800 --> 0:12:12.440 see how much you guys think CD was missed yesterday. 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:14.559 Obviously he's missed. You can't have a game where you 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.680 don't miss your star player. 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We are 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.640 lyve from that s WBC Mortgage Studios at the star 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:24.160 presented by this segment is presented by blockchain dot Com. 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:26.880 All right, let's talk about the offense a little deeper. 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:29.600 The question I had for you guys was how much 0:15:29.760 --> 0:15:32.120 and in what ways did you see that they really 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:34.400 missed CD yesterday in that game? 0:15:37.280 --> 0:15:42.600 Well, to me, prior to him not even being on 0:15:42.640 --> 0:15:47.960 the field, he was about the only thing that the 0:15:48.000 --> 0:15:51.520 offense has as far as and this is taking now 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:54.280 the time where now you're starting to build up that 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:59.320 running game and including Rico Doll in there, but operational 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.840 wise in the passing game, it just. 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:06.960 This game was a clear show of. 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:09.960 You have to have ceedy lamb to be able to 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.840 operate correctly. And that's taken into account how well that 0:16:15.320 --> 0:16:17.640 first quarter. 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:18.480 Went for the Cowboys. 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:21.840 But I think that the opposing team, they're able to 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:26.760 adjust quickly and start targeting you how they need to 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:30.840 target you. So to me, when you look at the 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:34.280 mistakes that happen, you have your guy, your boy. 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:35.480 Which one? 0:16:35.600 --> 0:16:42.720 What do you mean which one? Boy? I'm just saying. 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:43.760 He kind of looked over at me. 0:16:44.040 --> 0:16:45.760 You had the fumble, just kind of like I could see, 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:47.200 I could feel her glare. 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:48.440 Do you want to be honest with you? That was 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:52.240 Cooper Rush's fault? It was, Yeah, looked at it. 0:16:52.360 --> 0:16:53.120 What it looks like he. 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:56.240 Had two routes. He threw the ball. He should never 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:59.239 thrown the ball inside he had he had churping downfield 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:00.640 eighteen yards wide open. 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:02.960 And that's probably what was talking about right there, That's 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:05.440 probably what he was talking abou. 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.040 Me Tobert, Okay, Tolbert, Tolbert was opened. 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:10.960 So he threw the ball. He threw the ball. He 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:13.840 threw the ball to Ferguson with three eagle defenders inside 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:17.359 on him. There was nobody. There was nobody within. I 0:17:17.400 --> 0:17:22.120 mean Tolbert was standing. The play to me was designed, 0:17:22.119 --> 0:17:24.320 I felt like was designed to go to the outside 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:27.600 to Tolbert, and he didn't throw the route, and Tolbert 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:32.280 ran the out. He was standing eighteen yards away, eighteen 0:17:32.359 --> 0:17:35.080 yards away with nobody around him, and Rush moves to 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.399 his right and throws the ball back inside. And what's 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:41.119 happened now is there's three eagle defenders that are right 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:43.119 on Ferguson. 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:43.240 So he turns. 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:46.200 As soon as he turns, that's Cooper Rush man. I mean, 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:51.240 he's like the route, the route, the route down the field, 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:53.760 the route down the field should have been, the ball 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:57.440 should have gone to And that's and that's what happens 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:00.160 when you get a guy that gets locked in which 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:03.119 you miss him out having lambing again big plays. You 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:07.800 missed the threat of having jet sweeps run after catch 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.960 ball down the field. You know you miss us. But 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:13.840 if you got a quarterback that's not even gonna throw balls. 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:17.280 But like I can understand, Tolbert could have had a 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:21.600 really big day yesterday catching footballs and Cooper Rush. You know, 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:23.879 when you watch the play that that play, that that 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.560 Ferguson fumbles, you're going, what are you doing? 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:26.800 Bro? 0:18:27.320 --> 0:18:29.800 So how many of those types of plays do you 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:33.119 feel like they're they're where like that happened where. 0:18:32.880 --> 0:18:36.639 Probably three Okay, well you just you're they're designed to 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:40.320 go somewhere, They're designed to go somewhere, and he throws 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:44.240 somewhere else, he'll check it down trying to he he 0:18:44.600 --> 0:18:48.359 threw the hardest ball you could throw to Ferguson. He 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:52.119 made the hardest decision you can make, Like, the most 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:56.040 difficult throw was the Ferguson. The easiest throw he could 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:59.479 have made was to Tolbert. That's why that's why you 0:18:59.520 --> 0:18:59.960 lose foot. 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:04.120 Well, I think looking back at one of the previous 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:10.080 game against Tampa, I think that game it went to show. 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:12.760 It goes to show like the connection that Cooper Rush 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:16.040 was finally being able to build with Ceed Lamb. I 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:20.080 mean he was going to him play after play, and 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:23.360 he had a very successful game in that aspect and 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:26.520 therefore was able so to find other targets as well. 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:30.280 But then in this game you go back to and 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:36.080 in this what is it undecisive indecisive quarterback where he 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:41.679 he's not fully aware of his reads or like incapable 0:19:41.720 --> 0:19:44.720 of like really reading the field, And what's happened, and 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:47.080 you should be able to do that. And this wasn't 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:49.080 a game where he didn't have the protection. He was 0:19:49.119 --> 0:19:52.080 protected pretty well. I thought the offensive line did a 0:19:52.200 --> 0:19:53.080 very decent job. 0:19:53.160 --> 0:19:53.320 Yeah. 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:57.400 Absolutely, So it goes back to maybe you take this 0:19:57.480 --> 0:20:01.679 element that you now found some sort of comfort in, 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:06.080 it's taken out and now you're back into having to 0:20:06.119 --> 0:20:09.159 figure out, okay, shoot, like who's gonna be my reliable 0:20:09.200 --> 0:20:12.000 guy here? And he wasn't able to do that. But 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:15.480 we've seen that all these weeks where Cooper Rush he 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:20.120 does throw a ball like an invisible person or something 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:22.320 like no one's there, what are you doing here? And 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:25.720 I'm sure we'll talk about the Mingo one or Mingo 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:28.320 like that guy. 0:20:28.359 --> 0:20:30.320 It's rare he gets a good a good ball. I 0:20:30.359 --> 0:20:32.880 think yesterday he got one ball that was catchable. 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:34.720 In mind, twelve yards the sidelines was the one he 0:20:34.840 --> 0:20:37.080 had that actually was a good route and a good 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:39.560 good play. I mean they had it was it was 0:20:39.720 --> 0:20:42.919 first and fifteen and he was able to kind of 0:20:42.920 --> 0:20:45.560 get where he needed to be and and and made 0:20:45.720 --> 0:20:48.600 and made a nice reception. But yeah, I mean that's 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:52.160 that you're playing with Cooper Rush capable at some moments. 0:20:52.600 --> 0:20:57.760 But I think, you know, decision making or how about awareness, 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:00.960 you know, because when we're break, I'm gonna show you 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:02.800 this play and you tell me how if I'm wrong 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:07.200 about about about how open Tolbert was on the play 0:21:07.400 --> 0:21:09.520 and where he should have gone with the ball. Yeah, 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.880 I mean, because that he he makes decisions like that. 0:21:13.040 --> 0:21:17.280 And and you know it's to me also the third 0:21:17.320 --> 0:21:19.760 and one, that ball, the third and one that goes 0:21:19.800 --> 0:21:22.760 down the field of Mingo, that's going to Mingo all 0:21:22.760 --> 0:21:24.840 the way. I mean, And even though and I put 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:27.159 this in my notes too, because I I when I 0:21:27.240 --> 0:21:30.040 was when I was watching the play, I'm thinking like, okay, 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:31.720 what else, what else could it do? Okay, the deep 0:21:31.760 --> 0:21:33.880 shot Tomingo. The ball was going to Mingo all the way, 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:37.520 is what I said. He's got three options underneath three 0:21:38.119 --> 0:21:38.639 He's got. 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:40.040 Us on the third and one, third and one. 0:21:40.119 --> 0:21:43.119 Yeah, third and one. He's got three options underneath that 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:45.399 he could have gone to just to keep the sticks going, 0:21:45.640 --> 0:21:48.439 just to keep the ball moving down the field. You know. 0:21:48.480 --> 0:21:51.000 And this is why sometimes I hate shotgun football. I 0:21:51.000 --> 0:21:54.000 tweeted it out, got murdered by people. You know, Oh 0:21:54.040 --> 0:21:56.800 it's you know, yeah, you're right. There were options. He 0:21:57.680 --> 0:21:59.800 that the play was designed. It was a it was 0:21:59.840 --> 0:22:02.800 a it was a stutter go for Mingo to try 0:22:02.840 --> 0:22:05.080 and they're gonna take a shot. If you do that 0:22:05.160 --> 0:22:07.159 on third and one and don't get it, you're telling 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:10.680 me you're going for it on fourth down. Right. He punted, right, 0:22:10.720 --> 0:22:13.239 He punted on his side of the field. You know, 0:22:13.480 --> 0:22:15.959 you're telling me, right then and there, you take that 0:22:16.000 --> 0:22:18.239 deep shot on a stutter go. And actually they were 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:20.320 doing it to both sides. He could have thrown it. 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:22.119 He could have thrown the cooks on the other side, 0:22:22.400 --> 0:22:25.120 or he could have thrown to a Mingo, which he did, 0:22:25.320 --> 0:22:27.600 but he also could have thrown to Fergus underneath, got 0:22:27.640 --> 0:22:30.240 the first down inside, he could have checked the ball 0:22:30.280 --> 0:22:33.240 down to Elliott, who nobody was covering him. He could 0:22:33.240 --> 0:22:35.399 have checked it down to him, got a first down, 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:39.160 didn't do it ball with The play was called. It 0:22:39.200 --> 0:22:42.760 was double stutter go, and he took the Mingo route. 0:22:43.119 --> 0:22:46.280 And you know, and that's McCarthy the post. I think 0:22:46.280 --> 0:22:48.480 you guys were probably working in the locker room. Maybe 0:22:48.520 --> 0:22:51.120 you didn't hear his conversation. Maybe you're scrambling to get 0:22:51.119 --> 0:22:54.280 on the bus. He says, well, the wind could have 0:22:54.280 --> 0:22:57.280 been a fact. Okay, there's a couple of things that 0:22:57.320 --> 0:22:59.879 are taught here. If the ball goes the sidelines, you 0:23:00.080 --> 0:23:03.399 teach quarterback to throw it to the sideline so only 0:23:03.480 --> 0:23:05.159 his guy can get it, or it's going to be 0:23:05.200 --> 0:23:09.680 out of bounds the Cooper rush do that maybe, or 0:23:10.160 --> 0:23:14.199 the way that because Mingo never looked to the outside right, everything, 0:23:15.200 --> 0:23:17.399 he was looking inside the whole way. And he and 0:23:17.440 --> 0:23:20.800 he's one, he is one on the outside. If the 0:23:20.800 --> 0:23:23.160 ball is inside, Garth Johnson's not going to get there, 0:23:23.160 --> 0:23:25.360 it's going to be a huge. 0:23:25.080 --> 0:23:28.040 Play in the game, like two yards separation. I mean 0:23:28.040 --> 0:23:28.800 he had some separation. 0:23:28.880 --> 0:23:32.200 He has some serious separation there. So McCarthy's like, well, 0:23:32.280 --> 0:23:34.199 you know, because Clari Till asked him about it, and 0:23:34.480 --> 0:23:36.320 the wind could have been a factor and all that. 0:23:36.680 --> 0:23:39.040 But I was kind of hearing that they were pissed. 0:23:39.240 --> 0:23:41.439 They were pissed, the coaches. I mean, they were pissed 0:23:41.440 --> 0:23:44.160 at the way that the ball was thrown. So I mean, 0:23:44.520 --> 0:23:46.880 like I said, we asked her, you asked me earlier. 0:23:47.119 --> 0:23:49.760 What other could you know? Get the first down? Just 0:23:49.800 --> 0:23:51.919 get the first down, if you know. But but the 0:23:51.960 --> 0:23:55.440 play was called, they pour the ex the play doesn't 0:23:55.480 --> 0:23:57.520 get executed. Now I'm thinking, well, jeez, he's going to 0:23:57.560 --> 0:23:58.200 go for them fourth. 0:23:58.440 --> 0:24:02.359 My thing is you haven't shown to be able to 0:24:02.480 --> 0:24:05.400 make anything work with Mingo so far, for whatever the reason, 0:24:05.440 --> 0:24:08.760 whether the pass is thrown bad or whatever. But he 0:24:08.880 --> 0:24:13.000 hasn't been a reliable target, even though at times he's 0:24:13.160 --> 0:24:15.720 well positioned and everything is just maybe the ball is 0:24:15.760 --> 0:24:18.199 not thrown well or whatever. So in a situation like that, 0:24:18.240 --> 0:24:21.720 it just makes me be like, Okay, then why why 0:24:22.000 --> 0:24:24.720 is that your option? You know, rather than go to 0:24:25.200 --> 0:24:27.919 everybody else that you mentioned that seem to be open. 0:24:28.720 --> 0:24:31.320 But no City Lamb. That's no City Lamb right there. 0:24:31.440 --> 0:24:34.920 I had no problem with any of that sequence until 0:24:35.880 --> 0:24:37.880 they don't convert the third and one. 0:24:38.400 --> 0:24:40.480 They get to fourth and one and they punt, and 0:24:40.480 --> 0:24:42.840 they punt, because my thought is like, why'd you do that? 0:24:42.880 --> 0:24:43.840 Why'd you do it right? 0:24:44.480 --> 0:24:45.920 Why would you call a double movie? 0:24:46.040 --> 0:24:47.480 Because I said it's nick right when they did it, 0:24:47.520 --> 0:24:48.840 I was like, well, of course they're going foo on 0:24:48.880 --> 0:24:49.240 fourth down. 0:24:49.280 --> 0:24:50.080 That's why they do that. 0:24:50.200 --> 0:24:51.639 You take a shot on third because, by the way, 0:24:51.680 --> 0:24:53.920 they've been running well in third and short, so maybe 0:24:53.920 --> 0:24:55.720 they thought, okay, we can catch him right here. They're 0:24:55.720 --> 0:24:57.360 going to load up and try to stop the run 0:24:57.359 --> 0:24:59.080 here on third and one, so let's try to get 0:24:59.160 --> 0:24:59.760 him Downfiel. 0:25:00.280 --> 0:25:02.680 It actually worked. The receiver was open. You just missed 0:25:02.680 --> 0:25:03.000 the throw. 0:25:03.480 --> 0:25:05.639 Fine, you're gonna go for it on fourth down. But 0:25:05.720 --> 0:25:07.480 to not go for it, No, go not go for 0:25:07.560 --> 0:25:10.639 it on fourth down. It almost said to me like 0:25:10.800 --> 0:25:13.040 that wasn't a well fed out thirty down and one. 0:25:13.200 --> 0:25:15.600 No, because there's how you understand. You're taking a you're 0:25:15.640 --> 0:25:18.440 taking a chance right to maybe hit a home run, right, 0:25:18.720 --> 0:25:20.439 but you got a plan like I'm gonna go for 0:25:20.480 --> 0:25:22.359 it if I don't either way exactly. 0:25:22.400 --> 0:25:23.919 And I just thought that was the part that I 0:25:23.960 --> 0:25:26.320 just didn't understand why you would do one and not 0:25:26.400 --> 0:25:26.840 do the other. 0:25:27.160 --> 0:25:28.480 Or if you're not gonna go for it. 0:25:28.359 --> 0:25:30.760 Then take the easy just move the chaine and we 0:25:30.880 --> 0:25:32.160 keep the drive going. 0:25:32.320 --> 0:25:35.280 Keeck the ball, keep the downs going, keep the key. 0:25:35.280 --> 0:25:38.360 You know that's the problem I have. You, Like you say, 0:25:38.359 --> 0:25:40.720 if you're gonna have a plan, have a plan, I 0:25:40.760 --> 0:25:42.840 don't think I think he had a plan until it 0:25:42.880 --> 0:25:46.320 was incomplete, and then his plan became okay, punt, Yeah, 0:25:46.440 --> 0:25:49.240 that that became his plan. Which then that in that case, 0:25:49.480 --> 0:25:52.560 you just killed yourself with an opportunity rights exactly right. 0:25:52.600 --> 0:25:54.440 I just thought it was it just it's almost like 0:25:54.480 --> 0:25:56.960 you know when you're when you're in these games, you 0:25:57.040 --> 0:25:59.360 have to be planning a few plays ahead. You don't 0:25:59.400 --> 0:26:02.000 call a play in isolation. The plays are to set 0:26:02.080 --> 0:26:04.960 up other plays or to advance other plays that you're 0:26:04.960 --> 0:26:07.879 gonna call later. Let's let's go ahead and take our 0:26:07.920 --> 0:26:09.720 final break. We're gonna come back. 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He did 0:29:06.520 --> 0:29:08.920 have the one fumble, but he surpassed the one thousand 0:29:09.040 --> 0:29:12.600 rushing yard mark for the season. I don't want to 0:29:12.600 --> 0:29:15.800 beat a dead horse, but did. 0:29:15.680 --> 0:29:18.640 They just wait too long to get him his thing? 0:29:18.760 --> 0:29:21.560 Like you look at it now and you're like, yeah, 0:29:22.280 --> 0:29:23.280 they had opportunity. 0:29:23.280 --> 0:29:24.600 They're a different offense with him. 0:29:24.760 --> 0:29:26.600 They had had an opportunity to do this earlier in 0:29:26.640 --> 0:29:27.720 the season and they just didn't. 0:29:27.800 --> 0:29:33.280 They didn't and and uh, it's unfortunate. And I'm really 0:29:33.320 --> 0:29:35.880 looking forward to the autopsy at the end of this thing. 0:29:35.960 --> 0:29:38.800 I kind of have an idea how the patient died, 0:29:39.800 --> 0:29:43.120 but but there could be some other complications, other than 0:29:43.840 --> 0:29:46.720 that's why I got to do That's why you do it. Like, well, 0:29:46.760 --> 0:29:48.440 we thought he died of a heart attack, but no, 0:29:48.520 --> 0:29:50.720 he actually died of he was actually poison Yeah he was, 0:29:50.800 --> 0:29:52.720 Yeah he was, Yeah he was, he was, he was 0:29:52.760 --> 0:29:56.320 he was murdered, right, But no, this is this is 0:29:56.360 --> 0:30:01.480 where you know you this offense said, let's be honest. 0:30:01.520 --> 0:30:08.000 The offensive line wasn't good enough initially. Facts, you're talking 0:30:08.040 --> 0:30:11.560 your daughter again. There, my son says the same thing. 0:30:11.600 --> 0:30:19.240 Half dad, facts, my dad like my son. My son 0:30:19.280 --> 0:30:21.800 had a really interesting conversation. I hadn't hand with the 0:30:21.840 --> 0:30:23.640 dinner the night. He was telling me about if you 0:30:23.720 --> 0:30:26.200 hire a coach, what you need. He says, what you 0:30:26.200 --> 0:30:28.160 want to do is hire a head coach that had 0:30:28.200 --> 0:30:32.720 the worst joggers. The joggers, those those those pants, those 0:30:32.720 --> 0:30:35.320 short pants. And he says, on defense, you want to 0:30:35.360 --> 0:30:38.680 have an old, krusty veteran guy that you know how 0:30:38.680 --> 0:30:41.080 you see, that's how you do, that's what you's the 0:30:41.200 --> 0:30:43.880 coaching staff. He goes, offense, you want the guy the 0:30:44.160 --> 0:30:47.120 coach that wears the joggers. On defense, you want the 0:30:47.160 --> 0:30:49.880 old krusty veteran guy. That's so I was just thinking. 0:30:49.840 --> 0:30:51.800 Okay, yeah, not bad as analysis. 0:30:51.840 --> 0:30:54.960 No, no, And Jesse Holly actually texted me and said, 0:30:55.280 --> 0:30:57.280 he goes, Man, I should I think the same thing. 0:30:57.760 --> 0:31:00.200 Give me these coaches that were those jogger pants, they're 0:31:00.200 --> 0:31:02.040 the ones are calling all the really good plays. Yeah, 0:31:02.120 --> 0:31:04.720 you know, but anyway, uh yeah, I think what we 0:31:04.800 --> 0:31:08.520 do the autopsy is our coach doesn't wear joggers, you know. 0:31:08.880 --> 0:31:11.000 And and that's and that's the thing about it is 0:31:11.040 --> 0:31:16.080 that we we you know, we talk about this. But 0:31:16.120 --> 0:31:18.840 the offensive line wasn't good enough. The right guard wasn't 0:31:18.880 --> 0:31:21.240 good enough. He was really banged up. The right tackle 0:31:21.320 --> 0:31:23.920 was struggling the point of attack blockers. It took schoon 0:31:24.000 --> 0:31:27.040 Maker to almost be inactive every week before he got 0:31:27.080 --> 0:31:29.200 the message like, bro, you got a block, you got 0:31:29.200 --> 0:31:31.360 to block a little bit here, you know. And so 0:31:32.200 --> 0:31:35.240 you know, Hoppan went in there. You know, they bass 0:31:35.280 --> 0:31:38.240 went in there, they went they had different combinations. They 0:31:38.280 --> 0:31:41.400 started playing Chuma doga tackle. You know, they got up 0:31:41.400 --> 0:31:44.520 a little bit better combinations there. But I kind of 0:31:44.560 --> 0:31:48.280 felt like that that, yeah, it was late, a little 0:31:48.360 --> 0:31:50.240 late to the party there. You know, we're late to 0:31:50.280 --> 0:31:52.160 the party. We didn't show up with anything in our hands, 0:31:52.560 --> 0:31:54.719 you know, not even a bag of ice. You know, 0:31:54.760 --> 0:31:56.560 we were just we were real late to the party 0:31:56.560 --> 0:31:58.360 here when it came came to all this. 0:32:00.120 --> 0:32:06.680 I'm just thinking of our tailgating food talk referring back, 0:32:06.760 --> 0:32:08.400 you're like him, bring even a. 0:32:08.320 --> 0:32:12.200 Bag of ice? Yeah, you empty handed? Yeah, you show 0:32:12.280 --> 0:32:15.200 up to a party six pc just for yourself. Yeah 0:32:15.720 --> 0:32:18.240 that's another one. There's another one. Don't you show up 0:32:18.240 --> 0:32:20.120 if it's like a tailgate, you show up with just 0:32:20.200 --> 0:32:24.200 six pack? You can go to the drink eight yeah, yeah, exact. No, 0:32:24.400 --> 0:32:26.520 you put the you'rs in there and you're drinking everybody 0:32:26.520 --> 0:32:29.280 else's spirit. You're leaving the bad beer. Yeah yeah, yeah. 0:32:29.280 --> 0:32:32.560 But no Rico Daddle. You know he had the twenty 0:32:32.560 --> 0:32:36.160 three attempts. Ten of those were successful runs against that defense. 0:32:36.200 --> 0:32:38.400 You know that was you know, so, I mean, real 0:32:38.480 --> 0:32:40.600 good against four and a half yards of carry. 0:32:40.800 --> 0:32:43.400 Yeah, and congratulations to him and why he was able 0:32:43.400 --> 0:32:47.880 to accomplish this season. I wish it would have happened sooner. 0:32:48.160 --> 0:32:50.320 And it's also one of those things that it sucks 0:32:50.320 --> 0:32:53.480 that it happened in this game too, because you see 0:32:53.520 --> 0:32:56.560 who the other running back is and you see what 0:32:56.640 --> 0:33:00.840 they just celebrated on the sideline for and Don where 0:33:00.880 --> 0:33:04.040 everybody congratulated him. Yeah, and stopped the game a little 0:33:04.040 --> 0:33:08.560 bit there. I'm like, I told Nick, I'm like, if 0:33:08.640 --> 0:33:11.800 fre Co hits his mark, are we stopping the game 0:33:11.880 --> 0:33:12.600 to congress? 0:33:12.600 --> 0:33:13.120 I'll tell you what. 0:33:13.400 --> 0:33:17.400 And that's not a I'm not trying to talk crap. 0:33:17.440 --> 0:33:20.200 It's great for him in his situation, but it's just 0:33:20.600 --> 0:33:22.280 it sucks when it happened in a game like that. 0:33:22.320 --> 0:33:24.480 And the other running back that you're facing. 0:33:24.320 --> 0:33:26.880 Double Philodel. If you ran the ball like Dallas did 0:33:26.960 --> 0:33:29.480 the first six weeks of the season, yeah, Gain will 0:33:29.480 --> 0:33:33.320 have an average one point three h Kenny Pickett at 0:33:33.360 --> 0:33:37.600 two point three for the Davis price. You know, they 0:33:37.760 --> 0:33:40.960 had some bad rushing numbers. Take Barkley out of it. 0:33:40.960 --> 0:33:43.080 It's like you you've crushed him on the in the 0:33:43.160 --> 0:33:46.520 running game, but you know Barkley, he's It took him 0:33:46.520 --> 0:33:49.480 thirty one carries to get one hundred and sixty seven yards. 0:33:49.520 --> 0:33:50.360 I mean it's five yards. 0:33:50.360 --> 0:33:52.080 And really a lot of it happened the second half. 0:33:52.240 --> 0:33:55.680 Second first half. It wasn't They weren't really getting week now. 0:33:55.920 --> 0:33:58.360 No, I mean Dallas did a pretty good job with 0:33:58.440 --> 0:34:00.960 the run stuff. So they had four of them, you know, 0:34:01.040 --> 0:34:04.560 but half his runs were successful. Thirty one said six 0:34:05.000 --> 0:34:08.200 sixteen successful runs. That's four more yards of carry. 0:34:08.360 --> 0:34:09.359 What did they struggle most? 0:34:09.360 --> 0:34:11.440 Though, if you look at how they were stopping the 0:34:11.520 --> 0:34:13.719 run as particularly in the second half, where were they 0:34:13.719 --> 0:34:14.280 having struggle. 0:34:14.360 --> 0:34:16.520 They were getting that the pinning poll stuff, the old 0:34:16.560 --> 0:34:17.560 the old Arizona car. 0:34:17.800 --> 0:34:19.160 We go all the way back to there. 0:34:19.239 --> 0:34:22.080 Yeah, it's like, you know, it's like all of a sudden, 0:34:22.120 --> 0:34:25.319 it's down down and two guys around and now now 0:34:25.480 --> 0:34:29.680 blockers are fighting. They struggled inside with the linebackers. You know, 0:34:29.719 --> 0:34:32.520 they got guys that got hooked and the down guys 0:34:32.520 --> 0:34:35.880 got blocked, the edges got hooked. Yeah, it was they 0:34:36.040 --> 0:34:38.520 they started to kind of figure out. Initially it was 0:34:38.560 --> 0:34:40.080 like they were trying to kind of run the ball 0:34:40.080 --> 0:34:42.319 inside and Dallas was doing a pretty good job. But 0:34:42.719 --> 0:34:44.920 then the ball bounced. There was that there was a 0:34:45.040 --> 0:34:47.319 there was a run that one of his first long 0:34:47.400 --> 0:34:49.319 runs I had. I think it went for twenty two 0:34:49.400 --> 0:34:53.440 or three yards. This is this shows you how poor Booth. 0:34:53.960 --> 0:34:55.919 I mean, he had a chance to come up fill 0:34:55.960 --> 0:34:58.680 in the hole and he hesitates, and as soon as 0:34:58.719 --> 0:35:02.320 he hesitated, Barkley bounce. Yep. I mean it's like Lewis 0:35:02.320 --> 0:35:05.840 did a great job of keeping his outside shoulder free 0:35:06.000 --> 0:35:09.160 and squeezing the play, and he squeezed it. If he 0:35:09.160 --> 0:35:12.239 would have squeezed it to say Donovan Wilson, it's a 0:35:12.239 --> 0:35:14.799 game to two. He squeezed it. To Booth, it's a 0:35:14.800 --> 0:35:17.040 gain of twenty two. Yep, that's the problem. 0:35:17.080 --> 0:35:19.600 You know. We had a question from Roderick doth It. 0:35:20.000 --> 0:35:23.120 He says, why is Booth still playing cornerback? 0:35:23.200 --> 0:35:23.399 Yeah? 0:35:23.440 --> 0:35:25.160 And I mean we talked about, but we talked about 0:35:25.160 --> 0:35:27.319 in the last week. We talked about going into this game, 0:35:28.120 --> 0:35:30.520 would you go with mcuamu more than more than him 0:35:30.760 --> 0:35:32.319 because he's a bigger, longer guy. 0:35:32.600 --> 0:35:33.799 They didn't choose to do that. 0:35:33.880 --> 0:35:38.799 I you know, you can only work with what you have. 0:35:39.440 --> 0:35:42.000 And last time they listened to me, Derek was two 0:35:42.080 --> 0:35:45.239 thousand and five, you know, And so that's you know, 0:35:45.320 --> 0:35:48.680 I bring it up. I would have I would have gambled. 0:35:49.040 --> 0:35:54.320 I would have gambled on maybe interchanging Izzy and changing 0:35:54.400 --> 0:35:58.279 Lewis from inside to outside. Okay, if you're committed to 0:35:58.520 --> 0:36:02.720 taking Brown out of the game with Bland, now let's 0:36:02.719 --> 0:36:04.520 deal with the other two. And they didn't even have 0:36:04.680 --> 0:36:07.279 They didn't even have Dallas Goddard in this game, so 0:36:07.320 --> 0:36:08.799 you didn't really have to worry about that. 0:36:08.880 --> 0:36:10.440 And Jordan would have battled with Smith. 0:36:10.560 --> 0:36:13.080 He would Jordan, Jordan would have battled with Smith, and 0:36:13.120 --> 0:36:16.120 you would have felt better. You would have felt better, 0:36:16.200 --> 0:36:19.120 like if Jordan Lewis is getting beat by Smith, you're like, 0:36:19.680 --> 0:36:22.040 just a better man today, just a better man cap 0:36:22.640 --> 0:36:24.640 But you can't, you know. And it got to the end, 0:36:24.680 --> 0:36:26.160 and what do they do? And I said it on 0:36:26.160 --> 0:36:29.160 our halftime showing me and Walchuck, I said, Mike Zimmer's 0:36:29.200 --> 0:36:30.879 proven one thing. He is not going to let Booth 0:36:31.400 --> 0:36:34.080 continue out there and can get continue to get beat 0:36:34.760 --> 0:36:36.960 And eventually they did. They took him out, and they 0:36:37.000 --> 0:36:39.839 put pride in, you know, and there's like Wolchick looked 0:36:39.840 --> 0:36:42.000 at me and goes, who's pride, And I said, well, 0:36:42.040 --> 0:36:43.440 he got called up today. 0:36:43.239 --> 0:36:45.480 You know, and he's like, and they got kicked out 0:36:45.480 --> 0:36:45.759 of the game. 0:36:45.800 --> 0:36:47.120 And they got kicked out of the game. So give 0:36:47.160 --> 0:36:49.120 him some credit for being a little feisty about it, 0:36:49.360 --> 0:36:50.720 no doubt question. 0:36:51.600 --> 0:36:55.280 So last week we were talking about, Okay, let's see 0:36:55.640 --> 0:36:58.640 what happens in the last two weeks of the season 0:36:58.719 --> 0:37:01.360 as far as preparation, and that's where it comes down to, 0:37:01.760 --> 0:37:04.480 you know, because they showed up even though they were eliminated. 0:37:04.640 --> 0:37:07.600 They played Tampa with a really good game plan and 0:37:07.640 --> 0:37:12.000 went in there played really well. Now looking back, and 0:37:12.040 --> 0:37:14.960 I'm I was happy that we were off on Wednesday, 0:37:14.960 --> 0:37:18.279 don't get me wrong, but that was all about it. 0:37:18.719 --> 0:37:22.720 But looking at the changes because because this is something 0:37:22.760 --> 0:37:25.279 that typically doesn't happen on the side of football, they 0:37:25.360 --> 0:37:28.600 gave the players that they completely off and they kind 0:37:28.600 --> 0:37:29.680 of did a switch around. 0:37:30.040 --> 0:37:31.160 They didn't get an extra day off. 0:37:31.200 --> 0:37:34.439 Basically they take a normal day off on Tuesdays moved 0:37:34.480 --> 0:37:37.040 to Wednesday, so they practiced on Tuesday, off on Wednesday 0:37:37.040 --> 0:37:37.920 back to practice. 0:37:37.960 --> 0:37:43.239 So technically, but I'm saying they did, but maybe that's 0:37:43.239 --> 0:37:46.000 how the story comes well too, you know, but they 0:37:46.040 --> 0:37:51.640 were able to adjusts. Yeah, But my point is, aside 0:37:51.680 --> 0:37:56.600 from you missing ceed Lamb, I'm looking at preparation, even 0:37:56.800 --> 0:37:59.480 with making it switch like that, which again I was 0:37:59.640 --> 0:38:03.480 very high before and all for it, but sometimes when 0:38:03.520 --> 0:38:07.640 you switch schedules around or whatever, I'm just on a 0:38:07.760 --> 0:38:09.120 question as far as preparation. 0:38:09.560 --> 0:38:12.439 They would not have switched things around. I still think 0:38:12.440 --> 0:38:14.240 it the same reason. But here's why. 0:38:14.520 --> 0:38:16.640 It's for the same reason that you're pointing to, which 0:38:16.719 --> 0:38:19.520 is I think and I thought Nick's article did a 0:38:19.560 --> 0:38:21.640 really good job of laying this out yesterday. 0:38:22.160 --> 0:38:25.320 It's it's as though, like it is human nature. 0:38:25.800 --> 0:38:28.400 When they went into that Tampa game, they practice all 0:38:28.440 --> 0:38:32.160 week with the anticipation that the play, well, we have 0:38:32.239 --> 0:38:34.480 a chance, and so we're going for we're giving it all. 0:38:34.520 --> 0:38:38.680 We got that fell flat. They've played the game great, 0:38:39.360 --> 0:38:41.919 but this is one of those where you lose during 0:38:41.960 --> 0:38:44.719 the week individual and and and that's not even if 0:38:44.719 --> 0:38:46.839 that if their days would have been the same last week, 0:38:46.880 --> 0:38:50.520 I still think it's hard for me to believe that 0:38:50.840 --> 0:38:54.480 on Christmas Day, even if you go to practice, are 0:38:54.480 --> 0:38:56.960 you going to have a Chris practice? Are you really 0:38:57.000 --> 0:38:59.480 there or is your mind really back at home with 0:38:59.560 --> 0:39:03.319 your little kid you just left opening Christmas presents with 0:39:03.560 --> 0:39:06.520 right your family's in town. You're not with your family? 0:39:06.680 --> 0:39:09.120 Is your head really in it? When you finish practice, 0:39:09.280 --> 0:39:11.319 are you gonna stick around and watch some film or 0:39:11.360 --> 0:39:13.239 do that extra stuff that you would do if you were. 0:39:13.120 --> 0:39:14.759 Playing for something. Maybe not. 0:39:15.120 --> 0:39:18.360 And again this is not pointing to anyone necessarily as 0:39:18.440 --> 0:39:21.600 much as it's just saying in general, the natural tendency 0:39:21.680 --> 0:39:26.200 for people is that this time of the year you 0:39:26.360 --> 0:39:27.400 slow down a little. 0:39:27.160 --> 0:39:31.440 Bit because even and I allmit it, like Eve and 0:39:31.480 --> 0:39:33.359 I, I was walking around the building with my. 0:39:33.480 --> 0:39:36.120 Eyes half closed. It's what happens. 0:39:36.680 --> 0:39:38.600 And then and then on top of that, and I 0:39:38.640 --> 0:39:41.360 think this may have been even more of a of 0:39:41.400 --> 0:39:44.040 a problem, not a problem, but something that probably affected 0:39:44.080 --> 0:39:46.080 them is when they shut CD down. 0:39:46.200 --> 0:39:46.560 That's it. 0:39:46.920 --> 0:39:48.480 I think it's mentally. 0:39:48.520 --> 0:39:50.960 It becomes a mental thing that yeah, we're waving the 0:39:51.600 --> 0:39:54.480 white flag. And they did. You guys all agreed this 0:39:54.640 --> 0:39:57.120 was what they needed to do with CD. But you 0:39:57.200 --> 0:39:59.879 combine that with this time of the year and all 0:40:00.040 --> 0:40:02.520 the distractions that happen around the holidays, and you got 0:40:02.560 --> 0:40:05.920 eliminated from the playoffs last week, and then CDs out 0:40:06.280 --> 0:40:09.239 and you're looking around like who's left because Dak's gone, 0:40:09.360 --> 0:40:10.800 thanks gone, all. 0:40:10.680 --> 0:40:13.360 These players you're missing. I just think this was just 0:40:13.400 --> 0:40:15.719 a culmination of all those things, and this is this part. 0:40:15.840 --> 0:40:18.239 This was the final straw. As they say, Yeah, when 0:40:18.320 --> 0:40:22.359 CD was put on injured reserve, that's when you know 0:40:22.520 --> 0:40:25.040 and and listen, you're around the holidays, You're right, you're 0:40:25.040 --> 0:40:27.160 around the families. I mean, we've seen this done both 0:40:27.160 --> 0:40:30.399 ways since we've been here. We've seen coaches that give 0:40:30.480 --> 0:40:33.640 them the morning off practice in the afternoon. We've seen 0:40:33.680 --> 0:40:35.960 coaches that have practiced in the morning, given them the 0:40:35.960 --> 0:40:39.279 act you try. I mean, you were holidays. That's part 0:40:39.280 --> 0:40:40.879 of what you do. It's part of what you sign 0:40:41.000 --> 0:40:44.040 up for. We all do that, and I think I 0:40:44.080 --> 0:40:46.880 think not so much the Christmas. I think the Eagles 0:40:46.880 --> 0:40:48.680 are a good football team. Don't get me wrong. I 0:40:48.719 --> 0:40:50.880 think they're very well coached. When it comes to Kellen 0:40:50.960 --> 0:40:53.840 Moore and and uh and and Vic Fangio and what 0:40:53.880 --> 0:40:56.120 they do. They've got a really good roster. That was 0:40:56.120 --> 0:40:57.839 gonna be a hard game to win. I didn't think 0:40:57.880 --> 0:40:59.279 they were going to win it. And I know we 0:40:59.320 --> 0:41:01.440 didn't predict this score, but I didn't. I wasn't if 0:41:01.480 --> 0:41:04.120 I had to, I wasn't. I mean I said Philadelphia 0:41:04.239 --> 0:41:07.319 twenty six, Dallas thirteen on the pregame show. I didn't 0:41:07.320 --> 0:41:09.520 think they were going to win this football game. But 0:41:09.680 --> 0:41:12.799 you know what it really I think when they when 0:41:12.800 --> 0:41:16.440 they saw CD go out, they looked at each other 0:41:16.440 --> 0:41:19.600 and said, what more can happen to us this year? 0:41:20.000 --> 0:41:23.560 What more, the one element do we have that's a 0:41:23.680 --> 0:41:28.240 legitimate all pro type player now we have you know now, 0:41:28.560 --> 0:41:31.000 and that's and I think that's what got this team. 0:41:31.080 --> 0:41:34.120 I think there you also get into like survival mode too. 0:41:34.719 --> 0:41:36.800 You do not want to get hurt these last couple 0:41:36.880 --> 0:41:38.920 And it's not that they didn't try or they quit 0:41:39.040 --> 0:41:42.239 or anything like that. They just you just don't want 0:41:42.280 --> 0:41:46.160 to get hurt in week seventeen. You just don't because 0:41:46.440 --> 0:41:49.040 that turns into well, now I might miss the season 0:41:49.400 --> 0:41:53.040 or you know. But you know, they they played really 0:41:53.040 --> 0:41:55.959 well the first quarter. I mean to answer that pick 0:41:56.080 --> 0:41:58.919 six back with a touchdown. They gave you hope that like, okay, 0:41:58.960 --> 0:42:01.600 there's still some some fighting here and all that, but 0:42:02.120 --> 0:42:04.840 they just when they started giving up plays and the 0:42:04.920 --> 0:42:07.760 team's looking at it and they're like, damn, we're playing 0:42:07.760 --> 0:42:10.920 with seven different corners now and boos out there and 0:42:11.120 --> 0:42:13.319 we're getting beat in it. It's frustrating. 0:42:13.440 --> 0:42:16.120 But you know that that also plays into like my 0:42:16.239 --> 0:42:19.759 thought of what happened is as the game started steamrolling, 0:42:20.080 --> 0:42:23.520 it almost felt like you could feel just the here's 0:42:23.520 --> 0:42:25.719 where we are, like, yeah, two weeks don't have any 0:42:25.760 --> 0:42:27.640 we don't have any way to fight back and and 0:42:27.680 --> 0:42:30.520 it almost felt like that versus this, Oh, we can 0:42:30.560 --> 0:42:31.080 still do this. 0:42:31.280 --> 0:42:32.719 I think at the end of the game you kind 0:42:32.719 --> 0:42:35.040 of have some hope and then and they may. 0:42:34.880 --> 0:42:37.160 Have had some hope, and then when it started to 0:42:37.200 --> 0:42:39.279 fall apart, it just you know, I just. 0:42:39.360 --> 0:42:41.040 You knew Barkley was going to get the ball and 0:42:41.080 --> 0:42:43.400 you couldn't stop it, you know. To be honest with you, 0:42:43.480 --> 0:42:46.080 I'm surprised they took him out. I'm surprised they didn't 0:42:46.120 --> 0:42:48.279 try and just in the four just keep running him 0:42:48.680 --> 0:42:49.880 and get that thing to where it was. 0:42:49.880 --> 0:42:51.399 Like, I mean to see what they do this next week. 0:42:51.520 --> 0:42:54.200 Yeah, he's got to get one hundred yards by half. 0:42:54.239 --> 0:42:56.360 It's really what he's got to do, you know, against 0:42:56.360 --> 0:42:59.120 the Giants. And boy, that's what a night Giant fans, 0:42:59.520 --> 0:43:04.200 what a night that owner in New York. I would 0:43:04.239 --> 0:43:05.879 go to the game. I would the game. 0:43:09.239 --> 0:43:11.880 But speaking of did you, did you guys see on 0:43:11.920 --> 0:43:14.120 social medium where Jerry was sitting? 0:43:14.400 --> 0:43:16.279 Yeah, they got they got after him. 0:43:16.280 --> 0:43:18.840 I didn't see it, but like where he was sitting 0:43:19.040 --> 0:43:22.320 the sweet It's so weird because it's out in the open. 0:43:22.360 --> 0:43:26.640 Basically you have the fans riding your face, like literally 0:43:26.840 --> 0:43:29.640 riding your face and everybody's just booing and yelling, and 0:43:29.680 --> 0:43:32.520 like Jerry's just sitting there looking straight and all these 0:43:32.560 --> 0:43:34.160 fans are literally right. 0:43:35.040 --> 0:43:39.200 Ye mean yeah, we have the press boxes and so uncomfortable. Yeah, 0:43:39.680 --> 0:43:42.439 and Jerry keeps the windows open on that thing. Yeah, 0:43:42.680 --> 0:43:45.040 So I mean that's tough. That's a tough way. 0:43:45.280 --> 0:43:46.880 I just thought it was very aware for an owner 0:43:47.000 --> 0:43:48.960 to be sitting this. 0:43:49.040 --> 0:43:50.799 We can't have something to play for to be the 0:43:50.840 --> 0:43:54.120 sixth seed. It'll be interesting to see how they you know, 0:43:54.160 --> 0:43:56.040 I was thinking if they had things wrapped up, how 0:43:56.080 --> 0:43:58.799 would Mike play us. Mike seems to be much like 0:43:58.880 --> 0:44:03.280 an honor guy, play it on the end. Like sometimes 0:44:03.280 --> 0:44:05.040 you get these teams that like will mail it in 0:44:05.160 --> 0:44:06.719 at the end, at the very end, and it'll be 0:44:06.760 --> 0:44:09.759 like a preseason game. I kind of think that if Mike, 0:44:10.520 --> 0:44:13.360 I think Mike would continue to play this with the try, 0:44:13.360 --> 0:44:16.400 with trying to win, just to make sure the integrity 0:44:16.440 --> 0:44:18.600 of the game. How many times have you been in 0:44:18.600 --> 0:44:20.440 a situation, well, so and so has to win and 0:44:20.480 --> 0:44:22.759 they're like, no, waiting, hell, they're gonna win, They're not 0:44:22.840 --> 0:44:25.600 gonna try today. I think Mike's the opposite of that 0:44:25.960 --> 0:44:27.799 I think Mike is going to try and win. I'll 0:44:27.840 --> 0:44:29.680 be interested to see if he play, if he starts, 0:44:30.160 --> 0:44:31.520 if he starts Trey Lance though. 0:44:31.600 --> 0:44:38.280 Yeah, the interesting thing is will Washington play. 0:44:36.680 --> 0:44:39.640 Start Lance at this point if. 0:44:39.440 --> 0:44:43.080 You want to just I think it's clear in my opinion, 0:44:43.080 --> 0:44:45.279 I just think it's clear that they just don't have 0:44:45.400 --> 0:44:46.319 much faith in him. 0:44:46.400 --> 0:44:47.640 No, that's that's probably right. 0:44:47.680 --> 0:44:50.200 I mean, because if they did, there's been every reason 0:44:50.239 --> 0:44:52.160 for them to get him more involved in the game. 0:44:52.200 --> 0:44:54.120 They just have it. So the only thing I'm left 0:44:54.160 --> 0:44:55.520 to believe is that they just. 0:44:55.440 --> 0:44:58.719 Don't commanders have something to play for, because they could 0:44:58.719 --> 0:45:01.880 be the sixth seed. If they win, they're the sixth seed. 0:45:02.360 --> 0:45:05.279 If they lose in Green Bay wins, they could be 0:45:05.360 --> 0:45:07.960 the seventh seed. And now you then they'll go to Philly. 0:45:08.000 --> 0:45:10.000 If you're the sixth seed, you go to play the Rams. 0:45:10.400 --> 0:45:12.399 The Rams have been struggling to score some points here 0:45:12.400 --> 0:45:15.399 of a late So who who do you want? And 0:45:15.440 --> 0:45:18.399 besides that, with everything being crazy the way it is, 0:45:19.239 --> 0:45:21.160 if you're the sixth seed and all of a sudden 0:45:21.320 --> 0:45:23.640 it falls funny where all the top teams that are 0:45:23.760 --> 0:45:26.279 you know, they lose games, you want to be in 0:45:26.280 --> 0:45:28.320 the best position to host a game. Didn't the Rams 0:45:28.360 --> 0:45:30.319 do that one year when they went to the Super Bowl? Yeah, 0:45:30.680 --> 0:45:32.959 you know, everything fell apart next to you know, they're 0:45:32.960 --> 0:45:34.480 on the Rams on the road, and then they get 0:45:34.520 --> 0:45:36.560 to host the NFC Championship game. 0:45:36.600 --> 0:45:38.520 There's a weather part to that too, having to go 0:45:38.520 --> 0:45:40.239 to Philly. Yeah, you don't know what you're going to 0:45:40.280 --> 0:45:42.279 get weather. That's a great point versus having to go 0:45:42.320 --> 0:45:44.640 to la Well, you know it's going to be seventy 0:45:44.640 --> 0:45:47.480 two degrees and dry you're inside. 0:45:47.640 --> 0:45:50.480 Yeah, you know that Washington has a reason to play 0:45:50.520 --> 0:45:53.359 this week. They really really do. Yeh, whether they want 0:45:53.360 --> 0:45:55.160 to go to Philly or go to the Rams. 0:45:55.600 --> 0:45:57.480 Yeh. All right, I appreciate you, guys. Jones. We'll be 0:45:57.480 --> 0:45:59.720 back tomorrow. We'll start moving forward. 0:46:00.360 --> 0:46:02.440 People want to dress, by the way, well. 0:46:02.400 --> 0:46:04.120 We have a lot of we have a lot of 0:46:04.400 --> 0:46:06.400 a lot of questions I'm sure Brian will have for 0:46:06.480 --> 0:46:08.400 us Tomorrow. We might do a whole show of Brian's 0:46:08.400 --> 0:46:10.319 brain and what kind of questions he can come up 0:46:10.320 --> 0:46:10.879 with us, just. 0:46:10.880 --> 0:46:11.880 You and I and Tommy tomorrow. 0:46:11.960 --> 0:46:13.480 Right, we're doing We're doing a lot of people have 0:46:13.760 --> 0:46:16.080 decided they're leaving US. So it's gonna I. 0:46:16.120 --> 0:46:19.760 Was replaced like this, it's. 0:46:18.800 --> 0:46:22.480 Gonna be a whole different but but definitely looking back tomorrow. 0:46:22.600 --> 0:46:24.759 So then for Brian Brad Stambergarci, I'm Derek Eagleton. 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