WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Standouts From #KCvsDAL 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:03.840 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:07.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:10.760 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:15.079 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:19.440 It's time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:26.760 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:30.960 It is Monday, November sixth, twenty seventeen, Season thirteen, episode 0:00:31.000 --> 0:00:34.480 number sixty nine. Welcome to another edition of The Break 0:00:34.520 --> 0:00:37.559 Life Nest WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. And this 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:39.879 morning we were talking about a big win Cowboys, make 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:42.400 it three in a row. I picked the Chiefs. You 0:00:42.440 --> 0:00:44.560 did not even gonna let Derek get into it, okay, 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:48.400 chief I also picked the Chiefs and Amber did you? Yeah? 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:52.760 Didn pick Boat that week. I'm looking at it t here. 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:56.240 Derrek picked Dallas to win. Okay. Have you ever picked 0:00:56.280 --> 0:00:59.560 another team twin there? Yes? Picked, Yes, I have picked 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:01.520 another em to win. And I was actually going to 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:04.360 pick the Chiefs until my man Zeke came back. And 0:01:04.400 --> 0:01:06.720 I told you guys, when Zeke came back, they can 0:01:06.760 --> 0:01:10.280 beat anybody with Zeke. Like Zeke played well yesterday. But 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:12.240 let's not act like he like put the team on 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:13.920 his back and that it is not about it is 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.280 not about his number of yards. It is about the 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:19.319 thread of having Ezekiel it back there. It makes a difference. 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:21.200 Act like you're that naive day. Well, you know the 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:25.680 touchdown to Cole Beasley, the first one that that's all Zeke. 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:28.240 That is that the play action read, you know, and 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:29.959 then he just goes right over the middle. I mean, 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.759 that is the luxury of having him on the team. 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:35.120 And so uh and there there's a couple of other 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.759 runs that you know, it just how many times yesterday 0:01:39.000 --> 0:01:41.959 did it look like minus two, minus one? And then 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:44.960 he just grinds out four and it's second and six. 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:47.600 It's a huge difference in what they can do on 0:01:47.640 --> 0:01:51.080 second and third down. So he is a huge difference maker. 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:53.640 The number of times that Ezekiel Elliott just kind of 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:59.040 disappears into a mound of bodies and then well just 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:01.560 and then its five yards by the end of the carry. 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:03.760 It's crazy. You're like, all right, he's hit at the 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:06.960 lines probably zero one yard, oh he got five, okay. 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:09.720 And it's not like it's college football where these guys 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.480 are like pushing from the back all the time. Yeah, 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:14.040 I mean they don't. We don't see that a lot 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.680 out of this team. No, he's just been nice. If 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.320 they did, he's just a tank. He ended up with 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.000 twenty seven carries for ninety three yards, three point four 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.960 average and a touchdown. Not a great average, but like 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.600 you said, he was getting those really tough yards. And again, 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:29.880 this was a defense that yesterday, in a lot of instances, 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.640 was trying very hard not to let him get those yards, 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:35.480 and so I thought it did make a difference. And really, 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:37.760 to be honest with I think this game yesterday was 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.880 much more about the other two things, the passing game 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:43.720 and of course the defense. Let's start verse with the 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:46.840 passing game. Dak Prescott goes twenty one to thirty three 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:49.760 for sixty four percent completion rate, two hundred and forty 0:02:49.840 --> 0:02:53.040 nine yards, two touchdowns, no interceptions, and I think this 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:54.960 was probably the most important part of that. He had 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.640 three carries for twenty seven yards touchdown. The runs. Once again, 0:02:58.720 --> 0:03:01.840 the runs are what opens up everything yesterday, Nick, you 0:03:01.880 --> 0:03:03.320 and I in the game, we're talking about the fact 0:03:03.320 --> 0:03:05.200 they were running a lot of man, and when you 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.640 got teams running man against you, then it opens up 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.200 opportunities with the quarterback because everybody's got their back to 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.600 the quarterback, and he took advantage of that in some 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.920 key moments yesterday. Well, everybody was a threat yesterday and 0:03:15.960 --> 0:03:18.480 that that was a big key. I mean, Terrence Williams 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:21.359 got to give him credit. I mean, he's been criticized 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:23.520 as much as any player on this team, seems like 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:26.880 this year and even on this show. But we've asked 0:03:26.919 --> 0:03:29.079 him to step up, and he did. Not only did 0:03:29.080 --> 0:03:32.280 he have nine catches, he had nine targets. I mean, 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:36.280 you talk about a reliable player catching the football, extending 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.360 to play, getting first downs, getting up the field, and 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:41.520 then when it's time, you know what, when it was 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:43.840 time to get out of bound or stay in bounds, 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:47.320 he didn't. He hasn't always made the right call on 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:49.080 that one, but he did at the end of the game. 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:51.840 How he just had a really really nice game. Hopefully 0:03:52.120 --> 0:03:54.440 his ankle injuries not too bad. One of the best, 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:56.920 like two or three games of his every probably rest 0:03:57.040 --> 0:04:00.280 in the most meaningful game and he had Detroit playoffs, 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:04.240 probably the Green Bay the first Green Bay Playoff game 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:06.200 two for that matter. But I mean, yeah, he was 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:08.360 a phenomenal you look at some of the drives that 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:11.400 they had yesterday. Check this out. They had on the 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:14.280 four touchdown drives they had, it was seven plays for 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.159 seventy one yards. There was a seven plays for eighty 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:20.560 two yards. There's a twelve play for fifty eight yards, 0:04:20.839 --> 0:04:24.279 and then there's a thirteen play for eighty seven yards. 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.479 This offense yesterday was doing some things that really were 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.400 I think reminiscent of what they did last year when 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.560 they get on these runs where just offensively they were 0:04:33.600 --> 0:04:35.200 just turning it over and it wasn't like they were 0:04:35.200 --> 0:04:37.120 getting a tons of really big yards. They had some 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.600 big plays yesterday, but there were also some drives where 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.440 they just methodically moved down the field four yards, tier 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.880 five yards, tier three yards here, seven yards here, and 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:48.240 they would just move the ball. And the most important 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:50.960 thing I thought to note was that it was a 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:54.479 lot of those drives were more passes than there were runs. 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:56.359 Those first two drives I talked about the seven for 0:04:56.440 --> 0:04:59.440 seventy one, seven for eighty two. That six pass plays 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:03.480 and one run play on both those two drives. Are 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:05.720 we seeing what we're seeing right now? Are you guys 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.039 convinced that this offense is now really back to what 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:09.640 it was last year, because I know it wasn't at 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:11.279 the beginning of the season. And what do you think. 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:14.359 I still I mean, I'm still not one hundred percent 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:17.240 convinced because we just saw it in one game. I say, 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.479 they've been trying to get that to work, the passing game, 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:22.920 and they have been trying with they just haven't been 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.719 successful at it. And this was the one game where 0:05:25.720 --> 0:05:29.800 they finally were able to be successful. Example, Terrence Williams 0:05:29.800 --> 0:05:32.160 when he made that first catch. In my head, I'm 0:05:32.200 --> 0:05:35.560 my alright, well, here we go. There's his one play. 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.640 I mean, he always has one good play per game 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:41.440 and then that's basically it. But this game he was 0:05:41.520 --> 0:05:44.680 able to get it going and keep it going, and 0:05:45.160 --> 0:05:48.080 they were able to get Cold beastly involved. Dez was 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:51.200 able to start catching passes and have a better connection 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:55.920 with Dak. So we finally saw them be successful at 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:58.839 the passing game. And I would say it's a little 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.960 too soon to jump ahead and say, oh yeah, I'm 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:05.000 feeling great about it. I still need to see a 0:06:05.000 --> 0:06:07.680 couple more games before that. Well, you know, they scored 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:12.200 twenty eight points and I believe it's five straight games, 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:13.920 and so I think I think they are in a 0:06:14.040 --> 0:06:18.200 nice groove. You know, it's gonna be this is a 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.400 if you want to pick your poison type of offense, 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:24.280 it's gonna be games where today is Terence's day and 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:27.040 then Cole is the red zone guy. Jason Witten had 0:06:27.080 --> 0:06:29.839 one catch for five yards, but in Atlanta they could 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:32.560 be Jason Witten for seven or eight. So I think 0:06:32.560 --> 0:06:35.320 it's you know that Zeke's gonna be constant. You'd like 0:06:35.360 --> 0:06:37.880 to see Dez be constant, and then the other guys 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:40.000 just kind of whenever it's their turn to step up, 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:44.760 step up. Well, what's awesome is and I mean we 0:06:44.800 --> 0:06:47.760 are halfway through the season now and Dez has yet 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:50.440 to have that game and he got hurt yesterdays and 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:52.720 I'm not trying to dog him, but that's what kind 0:06:52.720 --> 0:06:54.960 of what we talk about, is like step up. You 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:58.000 know who's stepped up, and it doesn't it doesn't matter 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:01.720 who steps up because of this. It's Dak He's he's 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:07.320 balling out. And honestly, you know, I hear what you're saying, Amber, 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:11.520 and you know San Francisco they're they're a bad team, 0:07:11.560 --> 0:07:13.360 so you can take whatever you want from that. But 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:15.520 This is three straight games where they've really been on 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:19.120 a roll, and yesterday was maybe the most encouraging because 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:22.200 the like we just talked about, like the running game 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.640 wasn't that was not the way they want to run 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.120 the football, and which is hilarious because they ran it 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.880 pretty well. Thirty three yards, Yeah, a good day. But 0:07:29.960 --> 0:07:32.440 when you're coming off of two sixty three as a 0:07:32.480 --> 0:07:35.480 team against the forty nine ers and one ninety whatever 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:37.600 against the Redskins, like that's how they want to run 0:07:37.640 --> 0:07:40.360 the football. But Dak picked up the slack. I mean, 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:42.400 third and fifteen at the end of the first half, 0:07:42.440 --> 0:07:45.000 twenty one yards to days third and four. We were 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.400 talking about that last night. Five yards to Witten on 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:50.080 a play that would have been a pick six if 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.320 it hadn't been placed in just the right spot. Another 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:55.760 third and four on a scoring drive, Dak scrambles for 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:59.760 five yards. Like he is just I mean, like I 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.840 was talking about this earlier this morning on Twitter, and 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:05.160 he's going to start to get more love if he 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:07.720 keeps this up, especially if Zekee is suspended. But like 0:08:07.800 --> 0:08:10.520 he's playing at an MVP level in my opinion, just 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.360 in terms of you know, he's not making mistakes. He's 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:15.280 moving the ball. He's doing it with his feet, he's 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:19.080 doing it with his arm. He's got what twenty total 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:24.520 touchdowns with four turnovers, and he's just he looks masterful 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:26.160 with the way he's moving his offense. And I thought 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:29.920 yesterday he didn't complete them all, but his willingness and 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:33.520 his confidence to fire the ball downfield yesterday was really impressive. 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:35.640 I mean, he you know, people want to give him 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:38.280 all this crap for Dinkin and Duncan. He wasn't doing 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.400 that yesterday. He was throwing, you know, fifteen eighteen yards 0:08:41.400 --> 0:08:44.559 down field, firing in between cornerbacks, looking for gaps in 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:47.360 the coverage. I thought he looked like a piece. He 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.760 could have easily run the ball there at the in 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.800 the right before halftime, had a first down, could have 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.120 gotten in ten fifteen more yards got out of bounds, 0:08:55.160 --> 0:08:57.640 Terrence playing, but he decided to just sling it to Terrence. 0:08:58.120 --> 0:09:00.360 And you know, that was a huge play I mean 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.400 because I mean it was a nice throw on the run. 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.720 He gave him a chance. Terrence did a good job. 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:09.200 You know, a lot of times with receivers crossing over 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:12.480 the middle. It just bugs me when when they're running, 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:14.600 and then they want the ball in stride, of course, 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:16.280 because they want to catch it and go. That's what 0:09:16.320 --> 0:09:18.440 they want to do. But sometimes the ball's not there, 0:09:18.840 --> 0:09:21.440 and then they won't stop running and they'll just try 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:23.040 to catch it and still and then they don't make 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.240 the play. And he did a nice job of stopping 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:28.320 catching it. And then we'll see what happens because it 0:09:28.360 --> 0:09:30.800 was a little bit under thrown. But that's okay because 0:09:30.800 --> 0:09:33.520 you've given your guy a chance. I saw somebody say 0:09:33.520 --> 0:09:36.520 this on Twitter yesterday. I apologize. I don't remember who 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:40.160 it was, but Terrence is so if there's one thing 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:43.040 he really is phenomenally good at, it's like turning the 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:45.480 short route into the long game, like he'll take the 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:49.280 eight yard curl and then he's just great at maneuvering 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:51.240 around the tackler and turning that into a mine. And 0:09:51.320 --> 0:09:55.479 I talked about that. That That was DC Blue Forever twenty three. 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:57.880 I'm sorry, DC Blue, but you guys did mention in 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.319 that in that in that series, right there before the half. 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:03.200 I thought the really the moment of that, and Dave 0:10:03.240 --> 0:10:05.439 you kind of mentioned it. There was a third and fifteen. 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:09.160 It made so much more sense just from a football perspective, 0:10:09.200 --> 0:10:12.040 you basically think about the scenario. It's a one minute, 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:15.040 thirty seconds left and a half, you're at your own thirteen, 0:10:15.120 --> 0:10:18.920 it's third and fifteen, and you're facing a team that 0:10:18.960 --> 0:10:22.599 you think is pretty good offensively. Right, in most situations, 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.720 you would think that's a you know, hand the ball off, 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:28.520 get as many yards you can punt. It forced them 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:30.520 to take that last time out. That's the importance of 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:33.480 running the ball right there, and then they have to 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.480 try to see what they can do there with maybe 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:40.360 a minute ten left and no timeouts. Cowboys, they didn't. 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.840 They were aggressive on third and fifteen at their own thirteen. 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.040 They converted with a pass or they converted with Was 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:47.959 it a penalty that next play that actually got the 0:10:48.000 --> 0:10:50.160 conversion or was it the pass it was a past 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:52.880 day it does It was twenty one yard passed today, right, 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:54.720 and that's how they convert and then they keep it 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.120 moving you get the fifty six yard or so. To me, 0:10:57.800 --> 0:10:59.719 you got to give credit to the offensive coordinator for 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:02.600 making the call. It's pretty ballsy. I don't know if 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:04.440 I would have made that call, but it was it was. 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:08.240 They made it work. Yes, go ahead, so no, I'm switching. 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:12.400 I just I'm I'm I'm not. I'm gonna pat myself 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:14.719 on the back because I said that I thought they 0:11:14.720 --> 0:11:17.280 needed to be aggressive right there against this and fifteen. 0:11:17.320 --> 0:11:18.920 You you were going for it. I would just that 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.200 drive in general, like that needed to be a drive 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:24.240 where you tried to get points. Obviously we know in hindsight, 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.600 we know that the Chiefs never really got their offense going. 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:28.560 But I just thought you had to assume that they would. 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:30.600 But did you even if and I agree with you, 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.480 and when that series start, I thought they need points 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:37.160 here and specifically need a touchdown. But did you did 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:38.720 you at all change when you got to the third 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:41.600 and fifteen. I don't like if you have a quarterback 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.319 of Dak's caliber, maybe if it's third and thirty or something, 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.559 but I don't. I don't believe in the give up 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:48.320 play at the NFL level, not if you have a 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.560 quarterback like that, Like that's what you do in college 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:52.840 when you don't trust your sophomore quarterback to get it, 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:54.560 you know, to throw it down field. But and they 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:56.920 clearly trust him now obviously putting him in that situation, 0:11:57.000 --> 0:11:59.560 you gotta trust And that's Sorry, That's my point is, 0:11:59.640 --> 0:12:02.280 you know, okay, Bryce, Bryce had a drop because of 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.360 the sun. Dez had a drop because of the sun. 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:08.319 There were definitely Dak had a bad misfire to James 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:10.400 Hannah early in the game on just one of those 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:13.080 little actions, and he came right back though and just 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:15.080 darted it right down field to Deaz. I think it 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:18.719 was the very next play. He didn't complete them all, 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:20.200 That's not what I'm trying to say, but he was 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:24.160 just firing the ball downfield yesterday with a confidence and 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:26.880 their willingness to do that. That really impressed me. Here's 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:29.800 what's interesting on that play. Let's say that third and fifteen, 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:32.840 they decide to run call time out. They have nice 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:36.480 punt by Chris Jones. With no timeouts, the Chiefs don't 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:39.079 really get anything. Maybe Kel always get a sack half 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:43.480 in At seven to three, a four point lead, You'd 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.480 be feeling pretty good about that. They had a four 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:49.040 point lead, and they weren't feeling good about it. Nobody 0:12:49.120 --> 0:12:51.200 was feeling good about it. It's just kind of funny 0:12:51.240 --> 0:12:54.960 how one minute of play can change everything. Even if 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:58.160 the score seven to three, you'd been like, wow, this 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:01.360 defense is playing out standing offensives to pick it up 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.280 a little bit, but who would have thought this. Instead, 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.320 it was fourteen to ten, and I'm sure we'll segue 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:09.400 into that, and it was like, well it's over. Oh 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:11.640 my god, it's over. Yeah, that play there before the 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:15.200 half and I've I've as a Texas fan, experienced that 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:18.640 earlier this season, happened in the USC game. But it 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:23.319 it almost makes you wonder, like, what's the right answer there, 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:24.760 because you do want to have you guys back in 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:26.680 case you think they're gonna throw a hell Mary, because 0:13:26.920 --> 0:13:29.160 they were they hadn't. I mean, it was obviously where 0:13:29.200 --> 0:13:32.200 they were on the field, all hell Mary, huh, hell 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.480 he'll marry. Yeah, that was possible where they were on 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:38.520 the field. So conventional wisdom says, yes, get your guys 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.520 back and make sure you protected against that. I told 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:43.360 you in the present Pox, I believe it was either 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:45.560 you or to the other side. But I was like, 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:48.520 don't leave the middle this way. I remember just saying 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:51.199 ridiculous because you put two guys there right in the middle. 0:13:51.200 --> 0:13:52.880 You don't need seven in the back. Just put five 0:13:52.920 --> 0:13:55.480 in the back, two in the middle. If they do 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.560 that dump off play, those two blockers are just gonna 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.560 hit those two guys. I would put show on Lee 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:04.160 because when he back, I think he was back on 0:14:04.160 --> 0:14:06.520 the field. It was all it was all hands me 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.640 give me and Hitchens, gimme Wilson and Hitchens or somebody 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:11.280 right in the middle of the field. When they do 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:13.120 that play, Kelsey and the other tight end are just 0:14:13.160 --> 0:14:16.719 gonna blast them. Now it's hill against five guys, right, 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:19.680 I think I'll take my chances. You never know, you're 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:22.440 talking about a world class athlete though. I mean, that 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:24.480 just was a horrible coaching job. But I don't like 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:26.800 to blame the coaches all the time, but that alignment 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:30.080 was ridiculous. Now make the play. I get it, Scandrick. 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:32.040 I'd like for you to touch the guy. I'm not 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:35.400 asking you to run. You know, every touch him. Everything 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:37.560 you're saying is right, and they could have aligned it better, 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.920 but like everybody just kind of broke down, like everybody 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.000 was afraid of it was just right. But that's what 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:48.160 the that's what speed does to you. When you got 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:51.400 a guy that's that fast, everybody kind of freezes because 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:52.960 you're like, if I run him too if I go 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.600 at him too fast and he takes off I don't 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:57.440 have a chance to recover, and he's gonna run right 0:14:57.440 --> 0:15:00.280 by me. All that was was a stat grabbing play. 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.800 We're just gonna dump the ball off to very hill. 0:15:02.880 --> 0:15:05.160 He's gonna get some stats. My quarterback is gonna get 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:07.440 some stats, and maybe they'll face mask us and we'll 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:08.800 get a field goal out of that. I don't think 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:11.200 they thought like that. I think they this guy, I 0:15:11.240 --> 0:15:13.160 think they got it like this. You give you give 0:15:13.200 --> 0:15:15.120 him a chance, but there's no way they thought we're 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:16.960 gonna score. Well. But here's why. Here's why I think 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.160 they thought they would score is because when you think 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:21.520 about it, basically, you got a guy that's extremely fast, 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:23.360 was really good in the open field, already knows how 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:25.440 to return punts really well. You gave him a punt 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:28.160 return situation now with about thirty or forty yards to 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:31.240 get a touchdown. Right, don't you like that kind of matchup? 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.080 Because basically he's had what two three guys got You 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:35.960 got two or three guys in front of him. You've 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:38.040 got on that side of the field two or three, 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:40.800 four maybe guys. So all you need is this speed 0:15:40.840 --> 0:15:42.360 to be able to find acreasing get through it, to 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:44.600 get to a touchdown, and that's that's exactly what happened. 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:47.440 So it actually is a I think a very brilliantly 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:50.040 designed play. When teams are thinking, hey, let's just get 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:52.920 everybody back, it actually creates a great scenario for them 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:54.720 with the kind of personnel that they had. That's why 0:15:55.040 --> 0:15:57.440 they should never just get everybody back. That's why it's 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.360 a horrible alignment for the defense. There's no reason to 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:03.320 be everybody back. I mean, there's fifty three yards across. 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:05.600 If you put five guys, there are ten yards splits. 0:16:05.640 --> 0:16:08.000 That's plenty of space and time. Put a couple of 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.640 guys right up there or just I mean, now I 0:16:11.800 --> 0:16:13.600 just put two guys in the middle of the field 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:15.680 that I just thought marion Elli and then they just 0:16:15.920 --> 0:16:18.080 butchered that one. And that that may also be a 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.360 situation of a player like I don't know that there 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:22.320 are a problem. There may be two or three guys 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:24.640 in the league that would have gotten a touchdown in 0:16:24.640 --> 0:16:28.000 that play. Literally, you could you could run that every 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:29.760 if you ran that with every team in the league, 0:16:29.800 --> 0:16:31.840 Like they're one of a couple that has that type 0:16:31.840 --> 0:16:33.880 of playmate, right, and I know they have one. Obviously, 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:37.000 this sounds silly for us because every game we've ever 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:40.120 seen in our life is from a pie from the TV. 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:43.480 But when you have a dynamic player like that two 0:16:43.520 --> 0:16:47.800 tight ends, I guarantee you not everybody sees him at first. 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:50.560 That's what one of the reasons why Emmett was so good, 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:54.160 because linebackers would say, we didn't see Emmett for about 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:55.760 a half second, and then all of a sudden, there 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:57.680 he is because he's little, and then you got these 0:16:57.720 --> 0:16:59.720 blockers and you're down there, and then all the next 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:02.520 thing you know, he's here. And when he's fast, of course, 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:07.040 I mean blazing fast. So it worked out perfectly for 0:17:07.080 --> 0:17:09.239 the Chiefs. But I do think if they do that 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:11.600 ten times, I mean, I don't think the Cowboys, I 0:17:11.960 --> 0:17:14.640 don't think it's a touchdown. I mean maybe the one 0:17:14.720 --> 0:17:18.280 that's the one time so wild that I mean, well, really, 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:21.360 it's funny how the story is like. That's the difference 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:24.720 between this was a nice win against one of the 0:17:24.840 --> 0:17:27.560 NFL's better teams. It could have been a domination of 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:29.960 one of the NFL's right I mean, and I still 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:31.840 kind of put it in that category because I think 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.359 of that play as I don't take plays away. But 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.720 I do say that that play is not as reflective 0:17:37.720 --> 0:17:41.080 of how this game really was played. Like they that 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:43.000 was one of those flute plays where yes, you give 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.080 them the points and it was a great design and 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:48.200 they scored with it. But when I look at this defense, 0:17:48.240 --> 0:17:50.480 I don't really put the defense down too much of 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:52.320 that all makes no it does. It doesn't make sense, 0:17:52.359 --> 0:17:54.280 But you can't take it away right absolutely. I mean, 0:17:54.320 --> 0:17:56.480 but it's on the scoreboard. But you look at it 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:59.280 and say, two catches for fifty six years sixty four 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:03.720 yards he had. He I mean, I don't call me 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.240 a homer if you want to, like, he did not 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:08.000 have an impact on this game. I know that. I 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:10.359 know that sounds stupid. Nor did Kareem Hunt. He scored 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:12.919 a fifty six yard touchdown. I get how silly that sounds. 0:18:12.960 --> 0:18:16.359 But he had one catch for eight yards in the 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.800 real scheme of Kansas City's offense, when you're not when 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:21.240 it's not a gimmick at the end of the half, 0:18:21.280 --> 0:18:23.280 and let's actual, let's take our break when we come back. 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:24.600 I'll let you get to that. But we got to 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:27.000 talk about the reason why that happened, the reason why 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:29.439 Kareem hunt was held to what he was. This defense 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:32.239