WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Battle of Backs 0:00:03.720 --> 0:00:06.280 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.280 --> 0:00:18.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Lets go. Are you 0:00:18.040 --> 0:00:22.160 ready for a Break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:26.480 Ready for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. 0:00:26.720 --> 0:00:31.840 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:32.640 --> 0:00:38.159 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:41.839 It is Wednesday, November six, twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, episode 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:44.680 number seventy six. Welcome to another edition of The Break. 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:47.519 We are alive from the s WBC Mortgage studios at 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.000 the Star, and today we're gonna talk a little bit 0:00:50.040 --> 0:00:52.519 about the NFC East, a little bit about the NFC 0:00:52.960 --> 0:00:56.639 where the Cowboys sits sit, and what these guys think 0:00:56.680 --> 0:00:59.200 about their chances of not only winning the division, but 0:00:59.640 --> 0:01:02.320 getting into the playoffs, winning maybe the NFC. We'll talk 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:04.560 about about all of that. Dave will give us this 0:01:04.840 --> 0:01:08.600 scouting report on the Minnesota offense in the second segment, 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:11.640 and then Nick also has his write up that he 0:01:11.720 --> 0:01:14.399 usually gives us every week on the storylines heading into 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:17.080 this game. We'll get into that later in the show 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:18.920 as well. But let's start our first talking a little 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:22.440 bit about the NFC East. Right now, the Cowboys are 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:24.839 leading the division, as they have been for the last 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:28.119 few weeks, really all season, right, Is there a point 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:29.640 this season when they haven't been the leader of the 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.720 NFC now, I don't know off the top of my head. 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:35.320 Maybe like week two. No, because the Eagles lost in 0:01:35.360 --> 0:01:37.760 Week two. Yeah, the Cowboys started talking. Yeah. Yeah, so 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:39.840 at the worst they were tied. But they've been in 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.000 the league, I guess since the beginning of the season. Yeah, 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:44.480 I think they have. Yeah, So they're a city in 0:01:44.600 --> 0:01:47.120 five and three. They have Minnesota coming up this week. 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.600 Philly is at five and four with a buy. You've 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:51.760 got the Giants at two and seven, all but out 0:01:51.760 --> 0:01:54.400 of it at this point. They're playing the Jets this week. 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.560 Don't count out the Jets. And then, of course you 0:01:57.680 --> 0:02:00.960 got the Washington Redskins and last play at one and eight, 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:04.920 they also have a buy. Right now, based on everything 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:07.880 you've seen, what's your confidence level on a rating, let's 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:10.000 say a rating scale of one to ten, ten being 0:02:10.040 --> 0:02:12.359 I feel absolutely certain this is going to happen, that 0:02:12.480 --> 0:02:18.040 the Cowboys win the NFC East six NI six six, 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:23.000 Oh wow, okay, to win the division six? All right? Yeah? 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:26.160 I'd say six or seven. I mean they got to 0:02:26.200 --> 0:02:29.440 go up there and play, Yeah, so you know that's 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:31.960 gonna be a tough one. What makes you what makes 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:35.400 you the most when you say a six? Is it 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:36.880 just the fact that you think it's all going to 0:02:36.919 --> 0:02:39.120 come down to that Philadelphia? Well, I mean they both 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:41.680 have tough schedules here, but I mean the Cowboys still 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:44.160 have to face some tough teams and they've only beaten 0:02:44.240 --> 0:02:46.360 one team with a winning record, and that's the Eagles, 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:49.000 who just got a winning record the other day. So 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:52.400 I mean they that's what they were saying yesterday, is 0:02:52.440 --> 0:02:54.720 that you know they're going to face better teams, and 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:56.520 when they face better teams, how do they handle it? 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:58.239 But this is a team that's lost to the worst 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:02.080 team in football, and they've you know, they've only they 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:04.639 haven't beaten a lot of tough teams. So I think 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.680 that they probably can and will. But it's not That's 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.160 why I say six. It's not even the Eagles that 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.560 give me pause. Like the Cowboys have been so good 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:15.520 against the division. They're seventeen and five since Dak took over. 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:17.680 They swept the Eagles last year, they beat the crowd 0:03:17.720 --> 0:03:19.480 out of them a couple of weeks ago with a 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:21.880 banged up team. You know the Eagles were missing guys too, 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:26.720 But whatever, it's everything else. It's everything else that worries me. 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:28.520 This is a team that lost to the Jets. This 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.200 is a team that has already lost tiebreakers to the 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.480 Saints and the Packers. I know that doesn't matter for 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:39.320 NFC East purposes, but they haven't handled business outside of 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:41.760 kicking ass in the division again. I know that's what's 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.120 important to winning the division, but you gotta play a 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:45.960 lot of other games. You've played four of your six 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.120 division games, so those gimmes are done with. You don't 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:51.800 get their redskins again until the season finale, by which 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.680 point you would assume it's pretty close to wrapped up. 0:03:54.720 --> 0:03:57.600 I mean, the NFC East hasn't come down to the 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:00.680 final weeks since twenty thirteen, I believe, right when the 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:05.000 last time the Cowboys played Week seventeen for the division title. 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:08.240 So and looking at it, Okay, when the Eagles come 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:12.280 off of their by, they're off this weekend. Keep going. Okay, 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:14.200 when the Eagles come off of their by, they've got 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:17.360 two really tough games against the Patriots and the Seahawks 0:04:18.240 --> 0:04:22.320 after that's over. It's scary how easy the schedule is 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:25.279 for them because they go Dolphins, Giants, Redskins, then a 0:04:25.320 --> 0:04:27.599 big game against Dallas, and then the Giants to close 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:32.039 it out. Gimmeas basically for the last like five six 0:04:32.080 --> 0:04:36.159 weeks of the season. So that's that's nerve wracking. Yeah, 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.800 but I'd say, you know, six or seven depending on 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:42.599 the day. That's how I feel. Amber I feel the 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:45.320 same way. I just think it all comes down to 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:48.680 what the Eagles are going to be doing for the 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:50.640 rest of the year. But I think very well the 0:04:50.680 --> 0:04:53.719 Cowboys could make it to the top and win the division. 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:58.240 Now my concern is can they make it past that? 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:03.279 That's the big question. It depends how they win these 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.600 upcoming games, because if they win it, how they've been 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.360 winning this one's I don't feel confident that you're gonna 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.080 get it any further than what you've been in past 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:16.680 year whatsoever. So it's it's so hard to tell at 0:05:16.680 --> 0:05:21.240 this point, because it's crazy, we're entering week ten and 0:05:21.279 --> 0:05:24.520 we still don't know what the Cowboys really are, you know, 0:05:24.640 --> 0:05:27.760 So it's just it's very confusing. I can see it 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:30.800 go either way. Can. I just I love that because 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.720 a g I feel like speaks for the fans more 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.599 than any of us, and like that's I'm sitting here, 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:38.400 like how can they get to the playoffs? Like can 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.000 they win the East? And ambers like who cares about that? 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:43.320 Are they gonna do better than they did last time? Like, 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:47.400 which that's probably how most people feel, like nobody cares. 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:49.680 I mean, obviously you want to make the playoffs, but 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.200 I feel like most fans would be like, if you're 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:54.280 telling me we're gonna make the playoffs and not make 0:05:54.320 --> 0:05:56.240 it further than we already have in the last two 0:05:56.320 --> 0:05:58.640 three years, then just screw it. Why what are we 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:00.839 even doing this for? But that's why maybe we do 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:02.800 a show every day so you'll go crazy if you 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:05.719 keep doing That's why the other day, Like y'all have 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.520 a different approach than I do, because if we everything 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:09.920 is what does it mean? What does it mean? What 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:11.760 does it mean to the end? And I get it, 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:13.320 like what does it mean that the final end? But 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.120 like we can't get there, so might as well just announce, 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:18.720 you know, analyze this one. I'm completely with you, and 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:21.320 that's I don't approach it that way either, but I 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.080 do appreciate that, and it's good to keep in mind 0:06:24.120 --> 0:06:26.320 because again, this is a team with a coach in 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:29.120 the final year of his contract. I mean, ultimately, that's 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.320 how it's going to be decided. Even if we don't 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:33.760 even know right now if they'll I just think, like, yes, 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:37.159 it's great that they want against the Giants. Obviously that 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:40.520 was Every game is an important game for the Cowboys 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:43.520 and any other team. But to me, it's like, when 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:45.960 you start looking at this first half of the season, 0:06:46.120 --> 0:06:50.000 how have they been performing, how have they been winning 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:52.920 those games and losing those games? And when you start 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:56.120 seeing this pattern of the way they've been playing, it 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.880 brings the question as to Okay, what happens when they 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.719 get there. Obviously there's still a whole second half of 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:06.520 the season where it could change completely and they could 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:09.720 become that team that we've been seeing in the fourth quarter. 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:12.560 They could become that team like starting off in the 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.480 first quarter, basically what we saw against the Eagles. But 0:07:15.800 --> 0:07:18.160 it's just like at this point, as I sit here 0:07:18.240 --> 0:07:20.760 right now and what I've seen so far, I don't 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:25.000 feel very confident of where it's headed. The one thing 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.200 I will say is, if you believe in the Gospel. 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:30.040 According to Bill Parcels, you used to always say you 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:32.440 don't know. You're not supposed to know at this point 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:34.200 what a team really is going to be. Talk to 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:36.880 me after Thanksgiving. And if you look around in the NFL, 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.120 I think there are some teams you feel pretty good 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.000 that they are good teams that are going to be 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:43.880 in the mix to your New Orleans. But what you 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:45.800 don't know is those things that are going to happen 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:49.040 between now and Thanksgiving that change the complexion of teams. 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:51.000 There will be some teams that right now nobody's really 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:52.880 talking about that will get on a role. There will 0:07:52.920 --> 0:07:55.000 be some teams that have been on a role that 0:07:55.000 --> 0:07:57.800 that will for whatever reason fall off and may not 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.080 be on a role by then. So I just think it, 0:08:00.240 --> 0:08:03.040 you know, right now, it's it's kind of a you know, 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:05.160 I kind of set you guys up a little bit 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.720 by asking you know what's going to happen because you 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:09.560 really don't know in the NFL, and we watch it 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:11.800 every year, you really don't know what's going to happen 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:13.440 in the NFL. You can look at this either way 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.480 you want. If you can, you want to be like 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.400 optimistic about it. You could say, well, you number five 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:22.280 and three and they've they've blown out every team that 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.720 they've beaten. I mean, I think the average margin of 0:08:24.800 --> 0:08:28.800 victory is nineteen almost three touchdowns. Every time they've lost 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:31.960 by combined fourteen points, two points, two points, and then 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:35.200 the ten points to the Packers, So you know they're 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:38.520 playing relatively close. And they got the you know, number 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:41.720 one offensive league, top number six defense in the league, 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:45.400 so things are looking good there. Or you could take 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.800 the negative side, which they lost to the Jetta. You know, 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.959 it's scary. It's injuries, and I know it happens all 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.720 around the NFL, but the fact that they've had to 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:59.480 deal with major injuries or not major, but important guys 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:02.920 that have been injured this early in the season, you 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:04.960 know they're not going to be healthy for the rest 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.160 of the season. They're gonna be battling with those But 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:10.200 we've seen how that affects the offense. But the key 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:12.560 part in that is, unlike some of the other teams, 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:14.800 they haven't got had those guys have to go on 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:16.959 ir and lose him for the year. Tyrone Crawford is 0:09:17.000 --> 0:09:20.040 probably your most important player that you've lost for the year, 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:22.320 and he was a role player, right, So when you 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.760 start thinking about it from that standpoint, you actually are 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:26.760 sitting into, I think, a really good position from an 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.280 injury standpoint that it's just you haven't had that major 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.640 injury just yet to a key player who's out for 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:33.559 the rest of the year. That certainly is a positive 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.240 for this team. I'm thinking that, I'm kind of thinking 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:39.640 while y'all were talking in the irony, and you're absolutely right. 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:43.400 But like, since the Patriots kind of started this second 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.559 run of four super Bowls in a row, it's been 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:49.520 that's not the point. It's not the point. They've been 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:51.839 very like the league has been very top heavy since 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.680 like sixteen, where I mean the top two seeds in 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.280 the conferences are the ones making the super Bowls. But 0:09:57.880 --> 0:10:01.520 overall since the league aged formats and O two, like, 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:05.000 it's very normal to see a team that was crap 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.280 in November make a run to a Super Bowl. The 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:10.960 Giants famously did it a couple of times. Yeah, the 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.800 Packers did it. Steelers did I think once or twice. 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:16.200 It's happened more times than you can count. And that's 0:10:16.320 --> 0:10:20.400 so yeah, all, I mean, I get your point that 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:23.400 the end result is ultimately what matters. But odds are 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:26.160 some crazy stuff's going to happen in the second half 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:27.680 of the season. You know, you look at the worse 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.520 he's hard. You look what the Patriots did getting Mohammed 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:34.920 Sanu and I think that that's a move that the Cowboys. 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:36.400 Now I'm not saying they should have done that one, 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:39.360 but I am a little concerned about the receiver position 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.240 in the depth. If there, if everyone's healthy, they're fine, 0:10:42.440 --> 0:10:45.640 but if not, this team can get lose to the Jets. 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:47.840 I mean, Amari Cooper plays that game, they win by 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.880 fourteen points, if not more. The Jets can't play that way, 0:10:50.880 --> 0:10:52.880 and they're gonna go up and down the field on them. 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:57.559 But after Cooper and then Gallop, it really drops off 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:01.400 because Cobb and Tavon are not outside sievers really, and 0:11:01.640 --> 0:11:05.400 Devin Smith and Cedric Wilson are barely in the league. 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.320 So let me ask you this. Smith wasn't available anyway 0:11:08.760 --> 0:11:10.760 for the Jets game. I mean just saying, I'm just saying. 0:11:11.080 --> 0:11:12.920 I mean, I'm saying, but if you had an injury, 0:11:12.960 --> 0:11:16.120 I'm talking about the depth. I'm sorry, Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.199 that's a spot. I mean, you don't have you know 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:22.640 the defensive line rotation. You don't have a Sean Lee 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:24.319 you could put in here, or Joe Thomas you could 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:26.520 put in. I don't I don't trust what's going on 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.679 at receiver in the back end. I think they need 0:11:28.720 --> 0:11:30.880 some more depth there. Do you think that is a 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.520 normal a normal occurrence around the league or is that 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:36.520 particular to this team? And the reason why I asked 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:38.880 that questions because if you look over the last several 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:43.320 years with this team, it seems like there's always that like, well, 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:45.680 we can't play without turn so that's why they lost 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:47.640 that game. Or they can't play without Sean Lee, that's 0:11:47.640 --> 0:11:50.080 why they lost that game, can't play without Amark Cooper, 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:52.840 so why they lost that game. Is that a typical 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:54.880 occurrence around the league, do you think or is this 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.040 something that the Cowboys for whatever reason, there are just 0:11:57.160 --> 0:12:00.960 players that when they're out, it just everything. I think 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:04.360 it's it's specific to the Cowboys because I think their 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:09.240 backups are not all around receivers like Gallop and Cooper. 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.480 They really don't have all around receivers. They have these 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:14.680 other guys that they want to put them in in 0:12:14.720 --> 0:12:17.080 packages and things like that. But if somebody goes down, 0:12:17.120 --> 0:12:19.720 You're asking Tavon to go out there and run route 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.680 line up correctly, you know, and that's not always going 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:25.240 to happen. So I think the depth that receiver, it 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.520 could be a problem because we've already seen if they 0:12:27.559 --> 0:12:31.439 don't have their top guy, you know, things change. I do. 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:34.120 I mean that that's a problem for everybody in the 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:36.600 NFL injuries, But like the best teams overcome it all 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:40.079 the time. And you know, I keep saying that paint 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:42.439 by numbers analogy, like that's the Cowboys to a t. 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:46.760 Like it never feels like they game plan. First of all, 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:48.960 they don't always gain plan to take advantage of the 0:12:48.960 --> 0:12:52.000 other team's weaknesses, do what we do, and they don't. 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:53.880 It's like they don't want to admit it when they 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:56.080 have a problem like that. I mean, we've covered this before, 0:12:56.440 --> 0:13:00.160 but they never you never see them switch it up 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:03.680 drastically to account for a deficiency. They typically just try 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:05.840 to do what they always do with a lesser player. 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.280 Sometimes it works out, like Cam Fleming and Brandon Knight 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:13.200 handled it pretty well. Chaz Green not so much. And 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.440 they didn't adjust, I mean throughout the game they didn't. 0:13:15.480 --> 0:13:19.400 They it's it's maddening. And you know, I always say 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:22.600 it's you know, I think Jason Garrett probably gets a 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.640 little bit too much hate, but that is a valid criticism, 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:28.320 and it's it's just is what it is a little 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:31.640 bit a little bit like not he deserves plenty of criticism. 0:13:31.920 --> 0:13:33.960 It's probably a little too much, but that is not 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:35.960 one that is not an area where he gets too 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:39.839 much criticism. That's like you're saying, don't you know, don't 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.640 don't message me about this, okay, you know, like from 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.439 fans and listen a little too much. I mean, I understand, 0:13:45.480 --> 0:13:49.560 I hear. Well, it happens everywhere. I mean, you know, 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:52.120 I don't think it's Jason Garrett's fault that Tony Pollard 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:54.360 drops a screen pass. I think I said that yesterday. 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.400 I do think it's Jason Garrett's fault that they don't 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:01.920 come up with more creative or more varied game plans 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:04.280 and try to work around their own deficiencies or the 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:06.560 opponents deficiencies. All right, we're gonna take our first break. 0:14:06.559 --> 0:14:08.440 We'll come back. We're gonna let Nick talk a little 0:14:08.480 --> 0:14:11.000 bit about some of the storylines heading into this game 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:13.560 versus the Vikings. Uh this Sunday night. We'll talk about 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:15.280 that when we come back. This is Dallas Cowboys dot com. 0:14:15.360 --> 0:14:19.040 Radio Selor is a proud sponsor of the Dallas Cowboys, 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.760 helping fans see more and do more with our best 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:25.680 vision solutions. 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What you got, Well, Dalvin Cooks leading 0:16:59.680 --> 0:17:02.080 the league and rushing and he comes in here at 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:05.280 eight hundred and ninety four rushing yards. He's good. He's 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.080 pretty good. He's averaging ninety nine yards the game, so 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:11.200 that's that's pretty good. He's played nine games. Zeke's ninety 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:14.359 four or ninety three, so he's he's Zeke greg right now, 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.600 he's six six. Okay, yep, that's one of the Cowboys storylines. 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.399 But I'm just gonna focus on that. We'll get to 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:21.080 that when we get to it. Yeah, is it weird? 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:23.639 Sorry to interrupt, Like, I don't even think about that anymore, 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:26.000 because like Zeke has just been at or near the 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.159 top for so long that I just assume he's up 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:31.199 there somewhere, like, you know, if I'm sure, like the 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:34.919 Panthers are probably tracking Christian McCaffrey's progress because he's you know, 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:36.800 this is I don't know, it's a new territory for 0:17:36.840 --> 0:17:39.320 them to have this great running back. And I'm just like, yeah, 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.359 McCaffrey's leading the league in all purpose yards twelve forty 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:45.159 four and Cook's right there at twelve thirty two. So 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:48.600 he's catching the ball, running mainly running. But I mean 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.600 he's he's really good and he's healthy, you know, which 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:53.639 is it's good for them. So he's gonna be a problem. 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:57.520 Who's not healthy. Adam Feelin is not healthy. He suffered 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:00.840 a hamstring injury. Um, they try, he missed a couple 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:02.800 of games, try to bring him back. Last week, got 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:05.639 hurt again, so he's probably not going to play. Um, 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.879 they're Stefan Diggs is playing pretty well. They also have 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:12.160 Josh Dobson, so he's excited about a homecoming. He's off 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:17.080 of ir Uh. He's from TCU from Mansfield, so he's 0:18:17.119 --> 0:18:23.280 from you know, Mansfield Legacy. Okay, Kidden and I went 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:27.320 to the same well similar school. You went to Mansfield. Yeah, 0:18:27.359 --> 0:18:30.720 Mansfield Legacy. No, she went to Mansfeld. I was teammates 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:34.159 with Josh Dawson at Mansfield Legacy. You were teammates with him, 0:18:34.560 --> 0:18:37.840 But that was right there. What position did you play? 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:39.600 I was a corner, He was wide receiver, so he 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:41.639 went against each other every day. Who won that battle? 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:47.600 Who won that? I? Actually, no, you didn't. Over five years, 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:50.720 I won a couple of times, right, yeah, yeah, two 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:52.879 times over an NFL player. I'll take that, all right, 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:55.320 all right, all right. So, by the way, that was 0:18:55.400 --> 0:18:57.680 Kaden Gates out of our producers. So for you guys 0:18:57.680 --> 0:18:58.879 that are listening to that boys and don't know who, 0:18:58.880 --> 0:19:01.480 its a point real quick. The storyline. So the Vikings 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:03.960 are signing Katon Kates as a corner this week. I 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:07.560 probably need him help them out. Uh. Big plays kind 0:19:07.600 --> 0:19:10.080 of a problem for them last week. Ninety one yard 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:13.000 touchdown they gave up, so they're were worried about that. Also, 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:16.600 forty yard touchdowns the Tyreek Hill, a forty a couple 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:19.359 of forty yard plays the Tyreek Hill. So he's fast 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:20.960 and they don't have anybody on the team like that, 0:19:21.000 --> 0:19:23.760 but still that's a problem. Dan Bailey comes back he's 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:26.680 been thirteen of fifteen this year. Danny b missed two 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:29.160 extra points. You missed two last week, but he's two 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:32.040 extra points two. But two extra points he's missed, and 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:34.160 he's been perfect on field goals. Field goals he's missed, 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:37.320 and I know a distance on him. I don't. I 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:40.119 don't either, but he's been good enough to win Special 0:19:40.160 --> 0:19:42.160 Teams Player of the Week twice. I mean, he's having 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:47.720 a pretty decent thirteen of eighteen. Mahar's missed five and 0:19:47.760 --> 0:19:51.080 then Kirk Cousins comes back. He's won six with the 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:53.399 against the Cowboys, all with the Redskins. This is his 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:55.840 first game against the Vikings. He's third in the NFL 0:19:55.880 --> 0:19:59.199 one twelve as a quarterback rating. So I feel like 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:01.720 that kind of steals some of Dave's things that he talks. Maybe, 0:20:01.720 --> 0:20:03.840 but Dave's gonna go deeper, will be much deeper. We'll 0:20:03.880 --> 0:20:07.800 be okay. Yeah, I was watching tape of the Vikings. Uh. 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:11.000 I was watching him last night and yesterday afternoon on 0:20:11.160 --> 0:20:13.959 game Pass, and I thought about it because you know, 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:16.760 Lizzo is really popular right now, so I was thinking, 0:20:16.960 --> 0:20:21.720 this is a new plan for the Minnesota Vikings. Instead 0:20:21.720 --> 0:20:25.920 of a yeah, you get it. New Man Nah, there 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:28.120 you go. I should have sung it when when I 0:20:28.200 --> 0:20:30.560 heard that, I thought they were talking about Terence Newman 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:34.000 for the Minnesota No man on the man Annesota Vike, 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:36.360 that's true? Is he still there? No, he's not, damn it. Yeah, 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:38.960 he decided not to play his in twenty fourth season 0:20:39.000 --> 0:20:41.520 with the league, So we'll stick with new plan for 0:20:41.680 --> 0:20:46.560 the man Annesota by Kings. There you go. No, all right, um, yeah, 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:50.240 Nick did cover a lot of that, but let's go deeper. 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:54.000 I don't I'm not saying it's I'm not saying it. 0:20:54.160 --> 0:20:56.520 Maybe it's a coincidence that Mike Zimmer and Jason Garrett 0:20:56.520 --> 0:20:59.200 are really familiar with each other, but this offense feels 0:20:59.200 --> 0:21:04.040 like Jason Garrett fantasy. Honestly, I looked at the stats 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:06.400 on this because, like you know, typically, like I write 0:21:06.400 --> 0:21:08.320 down the starting roster, then I watch, you know, I 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:12.360 watch a series or two, and then I start looking 0:21:12.400 --> 0:21:15.400 at stats, and like, I was struck immediately. I was like, 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:19.480 this offense is all tight ends and fullbacks and just 0:21:19.760 --> 0:21:23.000 super pro style. So I went and looked the Vikings 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:27.119 play eleven personnel, which is three receivers like the bass 0:21:27.800 --> 0:21:32.080 formation or the bass personnel in the NFL twenty nine 0:21:32.080 --> 0:21:37.439 percent of the time. That's insane. Like I mean, for 0:21:37.480 --> 0:21:39.399 those of y'all that aren't aware, I mean, the average 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:42.680 NFL team lines up in eleven personnel somewhere between sixty 0:21:42.680 --> 0:21:44.920 and eighty percent of the time. The Cowboys do at 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:48.280 seventy seven percent. And we think of them as being conservative, 0:21:48.320 --> 0:21:52.200 you know what I mean. They play twelve perconnel, which 0:21:52.240 --> 0:21:54.120 is two tight ends thirty four percent of the time 0:21:54.119 --> 0:21:56.960 and twenty one personnel, which is two backs twenty three 0:21:57.000 --> 0:21:59.240 percent of the time. And that's not like a Zeke 0:21:59.320 --> 0:22:02.600 Tony Pollard situation. They've they got their fullback out there 0:22:02.640 --> 0:22:04.960 a quarter of the time, at least recently. And for 0:22:05.000 --> 0:22:08.160 the running game, yeah, oh absolutely. It works in their 0:22:08.200 --> 0:22:10.560 passing game for the most part. I mean they're sixteenth, 0:22:10.600 --> 0:22:13.480 they're sixteenth passing not great, but they also have a 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:16.520 great running game, so they do what they want for 0:22:16.560 --> 0:22:18.919 the most part um And I don't think that's going 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:21.880 to change this week because Adam Deland's probably not gonna play. 0:22:22.280 --> 0:22:26.960 So Kyle Rudolph IRV Smith junior, the Alabama tight end, 0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:30.159 he's a rookie. Get to know those names. Um. I 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:33.679 wrote his name down. Where is he? Um? Oh? Yeah, CJ. 0:22:33.960 --> 0:22:39.679 Ham that's the I love that name. C J. Ham. Uh. 0:22:39.840 --> 0:22:45.240 He's got decent hands hams uh for a fullback. I'm 0:22:45.280 --> 0:22:50.640 trying to keep trying stay focused. Dave Um. Yeah, it's 0:22:50.640 --> 0:22:53.119 funny because like as much pub as Stefon Diggs and 0:22:53.160 --> 0:22:55.520 Adam DeLand got a couple of years ago when they 0:22:55.520 --> 0:22:59.119 made it to the NFC title game, Yeah, it ain't. 0:22:59.240 --> 0:23:01.560 It ain't there for him this year. Injuries is probably 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:03.720 part of that. But like Dalvin Cook is their number 0:23:03.720 --> 0:23:06.040 two receiver. They throw to him a lot. He's got 0:23:06.200 --> 0:23:08.760 He's played more games, but he's averaging two more touches 0:23:08.800 --> 0:23:10.680 per game than Seek. Just to give you an idea 0:23:10.720 --> 0:23:13.280 of like how much they lean on him. He's caught 0:23:13.280 --> 0:23:15.800 the ball thirty three times. I think they've targeted him forty. 0:23:18.320 --> 0:23:20.840 They love play action again, like you're running game works 0:23:20.840 --> 0:23:23.199 as well as it does, Like they get cousins on 0:23:23.240 --> 0:23:25.480 the move a lot, a lot of bootlegs stuff, a 0:23:25.520 --> 0:23:29.800 lot of misdirection stuff trying I think, trying to get 0:23:29.920 --> 0:23:33.120 him easy throws. It sounds it sounds weird to say, 0:23:33.160 --> 0:23:36.200 but I almost feel like the Vikings are afraid of 0:23:36.240 --> 0:23:39.600 their quarterback, for lack of a better word, a lot 0:23:39.640 --> 0:23:42.240 of positive sun. I just I think they want to 0:23:42.320 --> 0:23:46.680 make stuff easy for him and give him time because 0:23:46.800 --> 0:23:48.520 I don't have the stat in front of me unfortunately, 0:23:48.560 --> 0:23:52.720 but like he's he's not good Win pressured, or at 0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:55.520 least was not in this most recent game. I'll say that, 0:23:55.560 --> 0:23:58.680 like the Chiefs put bodies on him, and he missed 0:23:58.720 --> 0:24:00.320 a lot of throws in that game, to the point 0:24:00.320 --> 0:24:03.000 that Zemmer actually even came out and was talking about 0:24:03.080 --> 0:24:06.320 like how it looked like his mechanics were off. He 0:24:06.400 --> 0:24:09.280 was nineteen of thirty eight in that game. And we're 0:24:09.280 --> 0:24:12.040 not talking bombs away like I charted it. He missed 0:24:12.840 --> 0:24:16.000 six passes like that were to the flat or like 0:24:16.080 --> 0:24:18.520 you know, five six yards down the field. Like not 0:24:18.760 --> 0:24:23.440 difficult stuff. But yeah, this is this is a pro 0:24:23.560 --> 0:24:26.880 style team, Like I don't you're not going to see 0:24:26.920 --> 0:24:28.960 more than two receivers on the field very often. I 0:24:29.000 --> 0:24:32.479 don't think Rudolph and Smith can both flex out, so 0:24:32.520 --> 0:24:34.720 that gives you a little bit of versatility there, But 0:24:35.440 --> 0:24:39.399 a lot of guys piled up on the line of scrimmage. Oh, 0:24:39.480 --> 0:24:42.919 line's been a bugaboo. For them for years. I mean, 0:24:42.960 --> 0:24:46.240 it's been a talking point. I would have thought it 0:24:46.320 --> 0:24:49.000 would be better than it looked. Against the Chiefs. They 0:24:49.000 --> 0:24:51.399 have Pat elf Line playing left guard. He was a 0:24:51.400 --> 0:24:54.800 pretty highly regarded guy coming out of Ohio State, did 0:24:54.840 --> 0:24:56.880 not play well, and then they spent a high pick 0:24:56.880 --> 0:24:59.439 on a center by the name of Garrett Bradberry. I 0:24:59.440 --> 0:25:03.479 remember Brian loved him on the Draft show, and I 0:25:03.560 --> 0:25:06.119 was just like, well, he'll be good, kind of like 0:25:06.160 --> 0:25:08.040 Travis Frederick, like you just plug him in there and 0:25:08.040 --> 0:25:11.560 he'll be fine. He got bullied. He got bullied in 0:25:11.560 --> 0:25:13.960 this game against the Chiefs. So think about the fact 0:25:14.000 --> 0:25:16.520 that the Cowboys have Michael Bennett. Now, Malee Collins looked 0:25:16.520 --> 0:25:21.920 really good. I'm very encouraged about the ability to push 0:25:21.920 --> 0:25:24.680 the pocket on this offense, which is why I think 0:25:25.440 --> 0:25:27.760 you're going to see a lot of play action, a 0:25:27.800 --> 0:25:29.960 lot of moving the pocket to try to offset that, 0:25:30.359 --> 0:25:33.080 not just play action, but like bootlegs and stuff to 0:25:33.160 --> 0:25:36.240 try to just eliminate the need for Cousins to stand still. 0:25:39.119 --> 0:25:41.800 I don't like, I don't know. I don't see him 0:25:41.840 --> 0:25:43.880 getting the ball out as quickly as like an Aaron 0:25:43.960 --> 0:25:46.200 Rodgers or an Eli Manning. In his day. But I 0:25:46.240 --> 0:25:48.000 think they're going to design a lot of stuff to 0:25:49.240 --> 0:25:51.199 take the pressure off him to just stand back in 0:25:51.240 --> 0:25:54.040 the pocket because that hasn't gone well for him. Yeah, 0:25:54.480 --> 0:25:57.360 one thing I'll note right there is you're going back 0:25:57.359 --> 0:26:00.239 to when you're talking about the personnel that they use. Um. 0:26:00.520 --> 0:26:04.080 I wonder how much vander Eshion injury now plays into 0:26:04.119 --> 0:26:05.560 that because one of the things I've noticed from the 0:26:05.600 --> 0:26:08.760 Cowboys or the ever been games this season where they 0:26:08.800 --> 0:26:12.560 have they have tried very hard to stay within their 0:26:12.640 --> 0:26:15.640 base defense. Even when the other team went to eleven personnel, 0:26:15.680 --> 0:26:18.360 they still tried to keep their four down linemen three 0:26:18.400 --> 0:26:21.119 linebackers on the field. This is a game where it 0:26:21.160 --> 0:26:23.800 doesn't seem like that team. The opposing team even goes 0:26:23.880 --> 0:26:26.840 to eleven personnel very frequently, which means that they really 0:26:26.880 --> 0:26:29.920 can't stay in that base defense, which means all three 0:26:29.960 --> 0:26:31.880 linebackers stay on the field a little bit more. We'll 0:26:31.880 --> 0:26:35.920 see how that goes with like Vandereshan and what happens there. Yeah, 0:26:35.960 --> 0:26:38.000 this will seem like a kind of one of those 0:26:38.040 --> 0:26:42.680 old school type type matchups there. But you know, Rudolphin Smith, 0:26:42.720 --> 0:26:45.120 they don't have a ton of catches, right, No, they 0:26:45.280 --> 0:26:48.840 I mean they've been fine. They're not they have not 0:26:48.960 --> 0:26:51.800 to this point been dynamic. I think they're both. They're 0:26:51.800 --> 0:26:54.720 both pretty well rounded. Like I both they both block 0:26:54.800 --> 0:26:59.760 pretty well. Smith well for a rookie who's seen as 0:26:59.800 --> 0:27:01.920 more of a pass catcher, Like I'm not saying he's 0:27:02.240 --> 0:27:05.560 Martellis Bennett, but he can get the job done. Which again, 0:27:05.640 --> 0:27:07.320 like I would assume they're going to lean on the 0:27:07.400 --> 0:27:11.120 run game another I'm just reading notes I jotted down, 0:27:11.160 --> 0:27:13.560 Like you don't need to be told this, but Cook 0:27:13.640 --> 0:27:15.480 is the type of guy who can do He can 0:27:15.560 --> 0:27:17.960 just generate it himself. Like they're two or three plays 0:27:18.000 --> 0:27:20.359 per game where nothing will work the way it's supposed to, 0:27:20.400 --> 0:27:23.399 and he still turns it into you know, maybe not 0:27:23.520 --> 0:27:27.800 thirty yards but like six ten yards wide. Receivers only 0:27:27.840 --> 0:27:33.119 caught five of nineteen passes in this Chiefs game. Again, like, 0:27:33.359 --> 0:27:37.679 and the funny thing is so again boot boot action everywhere, 0:27:37.840 --> 0:27:40.080 throwing to tight ends in the flat, throwing to running 0:27:40.080 --> 0:27:42.280 backs in the flat, a mirror Abdullah, who you might 0:27:42.320 --> 0:27:44.400 remember is with the Vikings now, so that gives them 0:27:44.440 --> 0:27:47.560 a scatback option. But by the fourth quarter of this game, 0:27:48.320 --> 0:27:50.960 the Chiefs had just sniffed it all out. Like the 0:27:51.040 --> 0:27:53.440 stuff that was working in the first quarter just stopped 0:27:53.440 --> 0:27:57.200 working because Cousins wasn't throwing downfield again, Like you didn't 0:27:57.240 --> 0:27:59.920 see much in the way of like take the snaps, 0:28:00.040 --> 0:28:02.560 stand in the pocket and look like they didn't do 0:28:02.720 --> 0:28:04.919 hardly any of that, Like it was all stuff that 0:28:05.080 --> 0:28:07.880 kind of got him on the move, or very obvious, 0:28:08.000 --> 0:28:11.359 like designed reads where you know there might be three 0:28:11.359 --> 0:28:13.920 receivers on the field, but you know where it's going, 0:28:14.080 --> 0:28:16.800 like the stuff that Dak does with Witten and Jarwin, 0:28:16.840 --> 0:28:19.600 to be honest with you, and by the fourth quarter, 0:28:19.640 --> 0:28:24.040 it just wasn't working. So I would assume they're gonna 0:28:24.080 --> 0:28:25.960 need to get more aggressive in this game because I 0:28:26.000 --> 0:28:28.359 think the Cowboys can limit the run well enough. You 0:28:28.400 --> 0:28:34.240 saw that last week and without feeling there's not a 0:28:34.280 --> 0:28:37.240 ton that scares you. They've They've got Lakwan Treadwell, who 0:28:37.960 --> 0:28:41.320 maybe the biggest whiff of my draft prognosticating career. I 0:28:41.360 --> 0:28:43.520 thought he was going to be Dez two point zero, 0:28:43.600 --> 0:28:47.720 and he barely has a role on this team. I'm 0:28:47.720 --> 0:28:49.400 not saying they're not good enough to hurt you. I 0:28:49.400 --> 0:28:52.040 mean they have a top ten red zone offense, they're 0:28:52.040 --> 0:28:54.920 eleventh and scoring, and again like the run game on 0:28:54.920 --> 0:28:57.720 its own, and obviously, like we've seen Cousins throw for 0:28:58.400 --> 0:29:01.880 four fifty in this building before. I just don't know. 0:29:02.760 --> 0:29:05.040 I don't think they're as explosive as they have been 0:29:05.080 --> 0:29:08.080 in the past, even those Redskins offenses. It almost sounds 0:29:08.120 --> 0:29:11.600 like this is a very similar scouting report to last week. 0:29:11.640 --> 0:29:13.480 You got a team that can run the ball really 0:29:13.520 --> 0:29:16.160 really well, that makes a concerted effort to run the 0:29:16.160 --> 0:29:19.520 ball really really well. They have one or two options 0:29:19.520 --> 0:29:21.200 that can get you in the passing game, but by 0:29:21.240 --> 0:29:23.640 and large you don't look at their passing their passing 0:29:23.680 --> 0:29:27.719 game as being just really great and if you can 0:29:27.720 --> 0:29:30.360 get pressure on their quarterback, you can affect the game. Right. 0:29:30.440 --> 0:29:32.760 It sounds like it's a very similar game plan to 0:29:32.840 --> 0:29:34.880 what you saw last weekend, one that the Cowboys defense 0:29:34.960 --> 0:29:38.600 executed pretty well, other than you know, just having a 0:29:38.640 --> 0:29:42.560 more veteran guy at quarterback. Although yeah, but as they've 0:29:42.560 --> 0:29:44.560 seen and that's part of it. But even with that, 0:29:44.600 --> 0:29:46.920 he's still like pressure gets him, Like pressure is the 0:29:46.960 --> 0:29:50.560 problem for him. I argued with you yesterday. I still 0:29:50.560 --> 0:29:53.080 maintain like Cousins has played some really good games against 0:29:53.080 --> 0:29:57.480 the Cowboys, but like it, does he like genuinely scare you. No, 0:29:58.160 --> 0:30:00.560 he doesn't scare me in the sense. You know. It 0:30:00.920 --> 0:30:03.840 kind of went viral on Sunday. Just I feel like 0:30:03.840 --> 0:30:06.400 it's maybe a microcosm of who he is. I think 0:30:06.440 --> 0:30:09.080 they had third and seven and the play broke down 0:30:09.080 --> 0:30:11.320 and he made a great play to scramble and then 0:30:11.320 --> 0:30:14.360 he slid after six yards. I mean, he had the 0:30:14.400 --> 0:30:16.640 first down easy and he slid too soon. And that's 0:30:16.640 --> 0:30:18.640 just kind of like who He had a play like 0:30:18.680 --> 0:30:22.680 that too. Dak's rookie year sixteen. The Cowboys won that game, 0:30:22.720 --> 0:30:25.240 I think twenty seven twenty three, it's pretty close. It 0:30:25.360 --> 0:30:27.840 was a fourth down play, fourth and ten. They're down 0:30:27.840 --> 0:30:30.040 to their own twenty yard line or whatever, and they 0:30:30.080 --> 0:30:32.920 got some pressure and he threw the ball away. That 0:30:33.360 --> 0:30:35.320 was the game, like two minutes to go, fourth down 0:30:35.480 --> 0:30:39.680 just to get throws it out of bounds. Yeah, I mean, 0:30:40.080 --> 0:30:42.600 what are you doing? Like that's that's the kind of stuff. 0:30:42.840 --> 0:30:44.320 And that was a few years ago. But it's like 0:30:45.920 --> 0:30:47.480 I thought about this while I was I don't know 0:30:47.520 --> 0:30:49.040 if I wrote it down, but while I was watching, 0:30:49.080 --> 0:30:52.960 like he is, he's everything you wanted a quarterback. As 0:30:53.000 --> 0:30:55.400 long as everything goes according to plan, like if the 0:30:55.480 --> 0:30:59.160 protections there by nature is not the quarterback position exactly exactly, 0:30:59.160 --> 0:31:01.280 but like if everything's perfect, he can hurt you. Like 0:31:01.320 --> 0:31:03.320 he's got a great arm. He made a great throw 0:31:03.400 --> 0:31:07.440 to Rootolf. Yeah, I got a little more. I like 0:31:07.560 --> 0:31:09.600 Stafford a lot more than you do. But I hear 0:31:09.640 --> 0:31:12.480 what you're saying. But he had a great throw to 0:31:12.560 --> 0:31:14.520 Rootolf in the back back of the end zone in 0:31:14.520 --> 0:31:17.840 this game where it went through three defenders, again perfectly clean. 0:31:17.920 --> 0:31:20.800 Pocket had time to stand there, wasn't really harassed. Like 0:31:21.120 --> 0:31:23.320 the minute somebody gets pushed back into him, or the 0:31:23.400 --> 0:31:27.480 proct protection breaks down or somebody's not open or whatever, 0:31:27.760 --> 0:31:30.280 it just don't I don't trust him. I don't trust 0:31:30.360 --> 0:31:33.440 him to improvise or make those gut check type of plays. 0:31:33.480 --> 0:31:36.400 And I think that's a huge difference, not just in 0:31:36.440 --> 0:31:38.200 this game, but like that's what I love so much 0:31:38.240 --> 0:31:41.200 about Dak is it's not always picture perfect, but he 0:31:41.240 --> 0:31:43.160 does make those type of plays. All Right, we're gonna 0:31:43.160 --> 0:31:45.120 take our final break. 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Kickoff 0:34:20.400 --> 0:34:22.719 is at eleven am. That's not great for that, but 0:34:23.000 --> 0:34:25.879 don't miss your opportunity to get tickets before they sell out. 0:34:26.080 --> 0:34:28.239 Not sure who's going to be in the game. You 0:34:28.320 --> 0:34:30.399 were so kind of got a feeling who's not gonna 0:34:30.400 --> 0:34:32.759 be You were so excited about that game last year. 0:34:32.960 --> 0:34:36.160 I was not. I had a reason to be exciting, 0:34:37.080 --> 0:34:39.520 So they got too excited about it. This year saw 0:34:39.560 --> 0:34:42.600 the committee took all the credit for beating Texas away 0:34:42.600 --> 0:34:44.719 from LSU last night and they're like, now, we're not 0:34:44.800 --> 0:34:48.239 impressed by that anyway. That well, after we lose the 0:34:48.239 --> 0:34:51.759 way we lost, Yeah, there's there's no credit to be given. 0:34:51.880 --> 0:34:54.800 Get a chance to go watch Oklahoma or Kansas State 0:34:54.960 --> 0:34:58.920 or Baylor or I don't know, I don't know who 0:34:58.920 --> 0:35:00.920 else can get in there. Texas, Yeah, I think it's 0:35:00.960 --> 0:35:05.719 gonna be Baylor and Oklahoma. Miss so glad. I don't 0:35:05.719 --> 0:35:08.560 care about college football. So you're not gonna go to 0:35:08.560 --> 0:35:10.719 sea dot Com. You don't want to be You don't 0:35:10.760 --> 0:35:14.920 want to be consumed by stress. Something is of the weekend. 0:35:15.120 --> 0:35:17.600 It really is stressful. It really is very stressful. College 0:35:17.840 --> 0:35:20.120 is way more stressful for me than NFL football. I 0:35:20.120 --> 0:35:22.240 would no doubt about it. I would think selling tickets 0:35:22.239 --> 0:35:25.080 to this game, it would be tough. Before you know 0:35:25.200 --> 0:35:27.600 what's happening, you know, Yeah, I mean you don't know 0:35:27.600 --> 0:35:29.560 who's going to be there. Right, last year, you did, 0:35:29.600 --> 0:35:33.200 you bought your ticketbook behind and yeah after they be Oklahoma, 0:35:33.239 --> 0:35:35.400 I went and boughtom last year. All right, but I 0:35:35.440 --> 0:35:37.440 won't be doing that this year. So there'll be more 0:35:37.440 --> 0:35:39.600 tickets for you guys. All right, we appreciate you join us. 0:35:39.680 --> 0:35:42.680 Let's let's get into some phone calls. You guys can 0:35:42.719 --> 0:35:45.200 call us eight eight eight eight five five two two 0:35:45.320 --> 0:35:48.200 ninety seven. We will start first with a call from 0:35:48.280 --> 0:35:54.319 Chris and Fort Wayne, Indiana. Chris, what up? How's it going? UM? 0:35:54.400 --> 0:35:56.920 I got a question. Um has to do with the 0:35:57.600 --> 0:36:02.319 dbs that play on that path to a Golden Tate 0:36:03.040 --> 0:36:06.680 that was on Byron Jones. It's a great catch by him. 0:36:06.680 --> 0:36:10.640 But have you guys noticed that most of the dbs 0:36:10.760 --> 0:36:13.759 now around the league, and especially with the Cowboys, on 0:36:13.960 --> 0:36:18.080 back shoulder passes, they seem to want to if I 0:36:18.080 --> 0:36:20.480 want to use a basketball reference, they want to get 0:36:20.480 --> 0:36:23.719 into like a rebound position, hands on with the guy 0:36:23.800 --> 0:36:27.960 instead of actually turning sideways and being able to look 0:36:27.960 --> 0:36:31.640 at the ball to actually go get the ball. That's 0:36:31.640 --> 0:36:35.160 what I kind of noticed around the league now, but 0:36:35.880 --> 0:36:39.240 I see it more with the Cowboys, especially Buying Jones 0:36:39.320 --> 0:36:42.399 lately than a lot of times with a Woozier. Didn't 0:36:42.400 --> 0:36:44.440 know if you guys had noticed that or wanted to 0:36:44.480 --> 0:36:46.319 talk about that a little bit. All right, thanks for 0:36:46.320 --> 0:36:50.560 a call. We've talked about it specifically with Cheeto and 0:36:50.600 --> 0:36:52.959 how it just doesn't ever seem like he plays the ball, 0:36:53.000 --> 0:36:55.399 which like in my head, I'm like, well, maybe they're 0:36:55.400 --> 0:36:58.360 coaching him that way because it's so easy to draw DPI, 0:36:58.600 --> 0:37:01.400 but the quickest way to draw DPI and my experience 0:37:01.480 --> 0:37:04.840 is by not playing the ball. I don't have an 0:37:04.840 --> 0:37:08.640 awesome answer for you, unfortunately. I think somebody, um our 0:37:08.680 --> 0:37:11.440 friend Bobby Belt had a great stat I'm paraphrasing, I'm 0:37:11.440 --> 0:37:16.080 going to ruin it, but basically, Jordan Lewis has way 0:37:16.120 --> 0:37:20.839 more takeaways in way fewer games than any other dB 0:37:21.040 --> 0:37:23.520 on the roster, and maybe and by this point in 0:37:23.560 --> 0:37:25.920 his career, Byron Jones made a joke about it himself 0:37:25.960 --> 0:37:29.520 like he has bad ball skills. He just does. And 0:37:29.719 --> 0:37:32.640 it seems fair to question that about Cheetoh as well 0:37:32.680 --> 0:37:36.080 at this point too, even though he has made some 0:37:36.239 --> 0:37:39.520 crazy athletic plays. One of those was in the preseason. 0:37:40.000 --> 0:37:43.400 But maybe that's just a factor of, well, if you 0:37:43.400 --> 0:37:45.960 don't trust your ball skills, then try to trust your 0:37:45.960 --> 0:37:48.720 coverage instead. I don't know. Yeah, I'm not really worried 0:37:48.719 --> 0:37:51.120 about you know, if guys are gonna make catches like that, 0:37:51.239 --> 0:37:53.719 I mean, there's not much you can do. You'll take 0:37:53.719 --> 0:37:56.000 the percentages that the player is not going to make 0:37:56.000 --> 0:37:58.080 that catch all the time. But I don't I don't 0:37:58.120 --> 0:38:00.600 have a good answer as far as how they're playing 0:38:00.640 --> 0:38:03.640 the back shoulder fade and all that stuff. And I mean, 0:38:04.000 --> 0:38:08.200 if it's thrown correctly, it's really almost impossible to stop. Man. 0:38:08.239 --> 0:38:11.279 So I kind of wish the Cowboys would do it more. 0:38:11.560 --> 0:38:14.480 I wish, And I don't understand why teams don't do 0:38:14.520 --> 0:38:17.680 it more. Why you have to do it right by 0:38:17.719 --> 0:38:19.799 the goal line, think, I mean, if it's third and 0:38:19.960 --> 0:38:21.839 two or third and three, you even have a more 0:38:21.880 --> 0:38:23.600 of an advantage because you have all this room, or 0:38:23.600 --> 0:38:25.600 you can run by somebody if you do a back 0:38:25.640 --> 0:38:28.719 shoulder fade at midfield, like you're gonna probably be wide open. 0:38:28.960 --> 0:38:31.120 Wasn't there? It seemed like to me it didn't. Just 0:38:31.280 --> 0:38:33.200 may have been four or five years ago, it seemed 0:38:33.200 --> 0:38:35.799 like that was like a lot. It was used a 0:38:35.840 --> 0:38:37.440 lot more in the NFL. It seemed like there was 0:38:37.440 --> 0:38:40.439 a period where back shoulder fades were happening every week 0:38:40.480 --> 0:38:42.840 in every game. And now it doesn't seem like you 0:38:42.880 --> 0:38:45.239 see that nearly as normally as you saw it back. 0:38:45.400 --> 0:38:47.520 I don't know. For whatever reason, that just how it 0:38:47.560 --> 0:38:49.440 felt to me is that it felt like that was 0:38:49.480 --> 0:38:53.439 a very InVogue thing to do. Marcus Marcus Colston made 0:38:53.440 --> 0:38:56.680 a Pro Bowl career basically only catching that pass. YEA. 0:38:57.040 --> 0:38:59.880 I will say this, and this is a story point 0:39:00.520 --> 0:39:02.840 with when Dez was still here the you know, the 0:39:02.920 --> 0:39:05.879 last two years of his career. I think you got 0:39:05.880 --> 0:39:09.200 to have a really, really accurate quarterback to really make 0:39:09.239 --> 0:39:11.440 your living throwing that pass. And I think Dak is 0:39:11.480 --> 0:39:13.439 more accurate than he gets credit for. But I don't 0:39:13.440 --> 0:39:15.719 know if that's a route that he really excels at. 0:39:15.760 --> 0:39:18.760 And we saw it not really work out right before 0:39:18.840 --> 0:39:22.520 des left town. So again, he's more accurate than he 0:39:22.520 --> 0:39:24.719 gets credit for, but to really excel at that, like 0:39:24.800 --> 0:39:27.040 Drew Brees is incredible at it because he can put 0:39:27.040 --> 0:39:30.240 the ball exactly where he wants to every single time. 0:39:30.880 --> 0:39:33.839 I don't think that's Dak's specialty. And maybe that's why 0:39:33.880 --> 0:39:35.719 they've kind of gone away from it. All Right, let's 0:39:35.719 --> 0:39:38.120 get a call from Horse in Atlanta. Horse, what up? Hey, 0:39:38.160 --> 0:39:42.279 what's up? Guys? Hey, I've been I feel like a 0:39:42.320 --> 0:39:45.120 lot like about what Amer said. You know, my expectations 0:39:45.120 --> 0:39:47.239 coming into the season. We're just out the roof. I 0:39:47.280 --> 0:39:50.000 expect us to be in the super Bowl, and you know, 0:39:50.160 --> 0:39:52.600 feel like we have the talent to do that. But 0:39:52.800 --> 0:39:56.440 if we don't get to the championship game, which I 0:39:56.480 --> 0:40:01.000 really don't feel like our coaching will allow us. And 0:40:01.080 --> 0:40:03.920 I say that because if you look at how we 0:40:03.960 --> 0:40:07.359 played against the Jets, you know, for example, not once 0:40:07.400 --> 0:40:10.160 did we ever really bliss them. And as you look 0:40:10.200 --> 0:40:12.760 at the other some of the other you know, Belichick, 0:40:12.840 --> 0:40:14.560 some of the other guys, they didn't give that guy 0:40:14.760 --> 0:40:18.560 anytime whatsoever. They blissed them and he folded up like 0:40:18.600 --> 0:40:22.040 a launch air. And to me, that is what you're 0:40:22.080 --> 0:40:24.320 coaching has to do. They have to see these weaknesses 0:40:24.320 --> 0:40:27.680 and exploit them, and our coaches just don't do that, 0:40:27.920 --> 0:40:31.720 and that is what is really depressing me. I guess 0:40:31.719 --> 0:40:34.600 about this season. We have so much talent and yet 0:40:34.719 --> 0:40:38.080 we just can't seem to get out of our way, 0:40:38.200 --> 0:40:41.040 and that to me is coaching. And so, yeah, David, 0:40:41.040 --> 0:40:42.600 I understand what you're saying. You don't want to throw 0:40:42.640 --> 0:40:45.880 it all on Garrett, but you know what, when it 0:40:45.880 --> 0:40:48.560 comes down to what he is the head coach, he is, 0:40:49.480 --> 0:40:52.319 he is the straw that stirs the glass. You know, 0:40:52.520 --> 0:40:56.040 he makes that team. They make that they make peop 0:40:56.080 --> 0:40:59.520 Awards and call these you know, trophies, Lombardi Trophies and stuff. 0:40:59.520 --> 0:41:02.839 Because these guys motivated me and to do better than 0:41:02.880 --> 0:41:05.560 what they can do. So he needs to do better 0:41:06.280 --> 0:41:09.400 if our team needs to get to that home, I 0:41:09.480 --> 0:41:11.799 expect more from him. All right, thanks for the call, 0:41:12.600 --> 0:41:15.360 which I agree with what he just said for the 0:41:15.400 --> 0:41:18.480 most part. Is again, I don't think it's Jason Garrett's 0:41:18.480 --> 0:41:20.400 fault when a player drops a wide open pass that 0:41:20.400 --> 0:41:24.200 could have been a touchdown. But yeah, not really blitzing 0:41:24.200 --> 0:41:27.440 Sam Darneld, not doing anything to make him uncomfortable. I remember, 0:41:27.560 --> 0:41:30.120 I don't know if it was Jets week, or maybe 0:41:30.160 --> 0:41:32.040 it was even this week heading into the Giants game, 0:41:32.440 --> 0:41:35.640 Chris Richard like, it sounds really good. It sounds like 0:41:35.680 --> 0:41:40.160 this awesome quote where he's like, we don't really we're 0:41:40.160 --> 0:41:42.000 not really focused about what they do and we talk 0:41:42.040 --> 0:41:44.200 about this all the time. He's like, it's not about them, 0:41:44.280 --> 0:41:46.319 it's not about what they're doing. It's about us, and 0:41:46.360 --> 0:41:48.600 are we executing our stuff? And like it sounds great 0:41:48.680 --> 0:41:51.359 until you really think about it, Like, so you're going 0:41:51.400 --> 0:41:53.520 to approach a rookie quarterback the same way you would 0:41:53.640 --> 0:41:56.040 like Drew Brees, Like, you don't change anything about the 0:41:56.080 --> 0:41:58.919 way you're gonna do this. You're not You're gonna throw 0:41:59.000 --> 0:42:01.680 nothing different at this guy as if it was another guy, 0:42:01.800 --> 0:42:03.920 Like you don't think you can get away with zero 0:42:03.960 --> 0:42:07.960 blitzing Sam Darnold a little bit easier than Tom Brady. Yeah, 0:42:08.000 --> 0:42:10.640 And I it's disconcerting to me, and I think it's 0:42:10.680 --> 0:42:13.120 a deficiency of this coaching staff and has been for 0:42:13.160 --> 0:42:15.880 a while. It's interesting that he mentioned Lombardi there, because 0:42:15.920 --> 0:42:19.640 what I've read of Lombardi is he was actually the 0:42:19.760 --> 0:42:22.799 Jason Garrett type of head coach. He was more of 0:42:22.800 --> 0:42:24.960 that line of thinking of we're going to have a 0:42:25.000 --> 0:42:27.799 certain few things that we do extremely well, Like we're 0:42:27.800 --> 0:42:30.319 gonna be so good at these few things that we're 0:42:30.320 --> 0:42:32.200 not going to necessarily go into a game and do 0:42:32.280 --> 0:42:35.719 things differently to address what the other team has a deficiency, 0:42:35.760 --> 0:42:37.480 And we're just gonna do these things really really well. 0:42:37.520 --> 0:42:39.080 And we feel like if we can do those things 0:42:39.120 --> 0:42:41.520 really really well, we can win most of our games, 0:42:41.520 --> 0:42:43.520 if not all of our games. And obviously did that 0:42:43.560 --> 0:42:47.440 for a very long time to great success. And not 0:42:47.480 --> 0:42:50.160 only that, but he mentioned like they can motivate men. 0:42:50.520 --> 0:42:52.640 That's the part that I actually think Jason does a 0:42:52.680 --> 0:42:54.440 pretty good job at. I think he does a really 0:42:54.440 --> 0:42:56.759 good job of motivating his team. Where I kind of 0:42:56.760 --> 0:42:59.600 agree with the caller though, is I really would like 0:42:59.680 --> 0:43:03.480 for this team to adapt more to those situations because 0:43:03.600 --> 0:43:06.400 I believe the best coach in the NFL today, in 0:43:06.480 --> 0:43:10.040 today's NFL and how it looks today, Bill Belichick. That's 0:43:10.080 --> 0:43:12.920 what he does. And it's kind of baffling to me 0:43:13.000 --> 0:43:15.320 that no other coaches, well I shouldn't say no other coaches, 0:43:15.640 --> 0:43:18.120 but it doesn't seem like anybody's been able to figure 0:43:18.160 --> 0:43:21.480 out that this formula that he's using of being able 0:43:21.520 --> 0:43:24.919 to adapt every week to whoever he's playing and take 0:43:24.960 --> 0:43:27.240 away their best offensive weapon. That is going to happen 0:43:27.280 --> 0:43:29.400 every single week. You just look at the numbers. Whoever's 0:43:29.440 --> 0:43:31.960 the best offensive player, they're gonna take him away. And 0:43:32.000 --> 0:43:34.640 then I'm sorry, well, I mean he is coming off 0:43:34.719 --> 0:43:38.799 or just getting killed by Lamar Jackson. That is an 0:43:38.800 --> 0:43:41.880 anomaly for the New England Patriots, that is totally an anomaly. 0:43:42.200 --> 0:43:44.239 But every week they go and they look at the 0:43:44.239 --> 0:43:46.920 best offensive player and they say, how can we neutralize 0:43:46.960 --> 0:43:49.520 the best offensive player and force them to win with 0:43:49.560 --> 0:43:52.160 their second best offensive player? Right? That's what they do 0:43:52.200 --> 0:43:55.120 every week, and so I love that and it's obviously 0:43:55.160 --> 0:43:57.640 been extremely successful. He did everything he could get those 0:43:57.680 --> 0:43:59.560 guys in position. But if you can't tackle it, you 0:43:59.560 --> 0:44:01.120 can't catch. And that's where it gets to do that 0:44:01.160 --> 0:44:02.840 thing we talked about earlier, where at the end of 0:44:02.840 --> 0:44:05.240 the day, you can't if your guy's missing a wide 0:44:05.239 --> 0:44:08.239 open you know, screen passed, and that's not on the coach. 0:44:08.360 --> 0:44:10.480 I will say that. Sorry, Nick, go ahead, well just 0:44:10.560 --> 0:44:13.239 remember about you know one thing, when you blitz, I mean, 0:44:13.400 --> 0:44:16.239 you have a chance to give up ninety yard touchdowns. 0:44:16.400 --> 0:44:18.560 So I mean I don't know if if if that's 0:44:18.560 --> 0:44:20.880 scared off them to blitz more. But I mean, if 0:44:20.880 --> 0:44:22.759 you've got a corner who's going to fall down in 0:44:22.840 --> 0:44:25.880 our safety, who's gonna misplay the ball for nine two 0:44:25.920 --> 0:44:28.680 yard touchdown to an average receiver, it probably is going 0:44:28.719 --> 0:44:31.480 to limit what you do blitzing more. Now, I don't 0:44:31.560 --> 0:44:33.239 I'm not saying that they shouldn't have done it more, 0:44:33.280 --> 0:44:36.200 but I mean that wasn't something they normally do, and 0:44:36.239 --> 0:44:38.400 they gave up a big one, So I would imagine 0:44:38.440 --> 0:44:40.840 that backs them off will bit like maybe doing that again. 0:44:41.080 --> 0:44:43.399 You know, I kind of disagree with the caller when 0:44:43.440 --> 0:44:46.319 it comes to the talent. I think I don't think 0:44:46.320 --> 0:44:48.560 this team is as talented as everyone says. I think 0:44:48.560 --> 0:44:50.839 it's such an easy thing to say this team's got 0:44:50.880 --> 0:44:52.560 the talent. They got the talent to be pretty good, 0:44:52.560 --> 0:44:55.759 but I don't think they've got talent that that's far 0:44:55.800 --> 0:44:58.680 and above about everybody else. I don't I think they've 0:44:58.719 --> 0:45:01.120 got they've got They're very top heavy, they got a 0:45:01.160 --> 0:45:04.040 lot of Pro bowlers, but I don't think they've got 0:45:04.080 --> 0:45:07.399 this talented roster. Because if they did, they had all 0:45:07.400 --> 0:45:09.960 this talent, you don't lose two or three guys and 0:45:10.040 --> 0:45:12.160 then get beat by the worst team in football. I 0:45:12.200 --> 0:45:14.000 don't think they have as much talent as you think. Well, 0:45:14.000 --> 0:45:17.520 it goes back to adjusting and how the coaches adjust. 0:45:17.600 --> 0:45:20.280 I think I always go back to the same reference 0:45:20.280 --> 0:45:23.080 and just looking at what Chris Richard was able to 0:45:23.080 --> 0:45:26.040 do with Byron Jones, a guy that everyone was getting 0:45:26.040 --> 0:45:29.120 ready to get rid of, and here comes Chris Richard 0:45:29.400 --> 0:45:33.319 and changes everything for Byron, turning him into a pro 0:45:33.360 --> 0:45:37.080 bowler guy. So to me, it does come from the 0:45:37.120 --> 0:45:39.160 coach and you do have the talent, and it's like, 0:45:39.200 --> 0:45:44.680 how do you utilize it? And it upsets me or 0:45:44.800 --> 0:45:47.799 frustrates me. I would say the fact that you look 0:45:47.840 --> 0:45:51.600 at how much resource you have here, and you have 0:45:51.640 --> 0:45:55.800 a whole staff that looks at other teams and watches 0:45:55.840 --> 0:45:59.360 their games and gets all this preparation to give to 0:45:59.400 --> 0:46:03.400 the coaches as they prepare each week to face the opponent, 0:46:03.440 --> 0:46:06.719 and it's like, how are you preparing? Like you you 0:46:06.800 --> 0:46:09.520 should have a very very good idea of what this 0:46:09.560 --> 0:46:12.040 team is going to look like as far as the opponent, 0:46:12.120 --> 0:46:16.160 and you should have a great game plan as to okay, 0:46:16.200 --> 0:46:18.480 here's a B or C depending on what they do. 0:46:18.520 --> 0:46:21.359 This is how we're going to attack, and we don't 0:46:21.400 --> 0:46:25.160 really get to see that, So I don't know. The 0:46:25.320 --> 0:46:27.440 resources are there, you should be doing it, They're not 0:46:27.480 --> 0:46:30.400 doing it, So I don't know. I'm right there with you. 0:46:30.440 --> 0:46:34.200 And I've complimented Jason Garrett so many times for the 0:46:34.280 --> 0:46:39.080 Monday to Saturday motivating. Is it showing up on game 0:46:39.160 --> 0:46:42.240 days this year? Honestly? I mean it takes them about 0:46:42.280 --> 0:46:44.560 a half to really get cranked every week. But you 0:46:44.600 --> 0:46:48.640 know something, and again, sorry, I'm sitting here saying, well, 0:46:48.680 --> 0:46:51.680 it's not Jason Garrett's fault that guys are dropping passes 0:46:51.680 --> 0:46:54.640 and getting penalized, And I really I it's hard to 0:46:54.680 --> 0:46:56.920 determine where to come down on that, but the bottom 0:46:56.920 --> 0:47:01.000 line is they haven't. They've come out firing like one 0:47:01.080 --> 0:47:06.959 time in eight attempts. So who's making the adjustments though? Absolutely? 0:47:07.080 --> 0:47:08.560 Or I mean if it was the other way around 0:47:08.640 --> 0:47:10.680 and they came out and then that kept losing, they 0:47:10.680 --> 0:47:12.520 would be like, this team can't make adjustments in the 0:47:12.520 --> 0:47:14.720 second half. So yeah, I don't know. It's a sixty 0:47:14.760 --> 0:47:17.239 minute game, that's the thing. Like, I know that they 0:47:17.280 --> 0:47:19.560 need to get a faster start. I have less of 0:47:19.600 --> 0:47:21.200 a problem with them having a slow start if they 0:47:21.200 --> 0:47:23.799 can win, right, because I look at there's some good 0:47:23.800 --> 0:47:25.799 teams around the NFL that are similar, Like I've seen 0:47:25.800 --> 0:47:28.880 Seattle several several times this year get off slow starts 0:47:28.960 --> 0:47:30.600 and then they get it going and for by the 0:47:30.680 --> 0:47:32.239 end of game they win. You're not going to score 0:47:32.239 --> 0:47:34.200 a touchdown on your on you know, you're not gonna 0:47:34.320 --> 0:47:36.719 score twenty one points in three possessions every week. I 0:47:36.800 --> 0:47:40.399 understand that, but it's just the general competency of it all, 0:47:40.480 --> 0:47:42.960 like they just they don't see him ready sometimes. And 0:47:43.040 --> 0:47:44.759 again I think that's why Amber and I were so 0:47:44.880 --> 0:47:47.480 down on the Giants win is they started like that 0:47:47.520 --> 0:47:49.960 against the Packers, who are a good team, and it 0:47:50.080 --> 0:47:52.280 killed them. But the Giants were not. In my opinion, 0:47:52.280 --> 0:47:54.239 the Giants game was not a situation of them not 0:47:54.360 --> 0:47:56.880 being ready because if you notice they were moving the ball, 0:47:57.080 --> 0:47:58.960 it was mistakes that killed them. So that's not a 0:47:58.960 --> 0:48:01.680 matter of being ready. That's yeah. I'm not trying to 0:48:01.680 --> 0:48:03.719 put it all at the coaches. Yeah I'm really not. 0:48:03.800 --> 0:48:08.120 But again, like if it is, why does it keep happening? 0:48:08.280 --> 0:48:10.759 Can't And that's that's all I'm saying, is you're not 0:48:10.760 --> 0:48:12.759 going to score a touchdown on every possession, But just 0:48:13.440 --> 0:48:15.360 do the basic stuff and you'll probably be in a 0:48:15.400 --> 0:48:18.600 better position. I don't know, all right, Well, appreciate you guys. 0:48:18.640 --> 0:48:20.560 You want us for back tomorrow normal time, eleven forty 0:48:20.560 --> 0:48:23.480 five will get into this Vikings defense till then. For 0:48:23.560 --> 0:48:26.280 Nick Eatman, Dave Helmant Amber Garcia. I am Derek Eagleton. 0:48:26.320 --> 0:48:28.640 This has been The Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot 0:48:28.640 --> 0:48:34.360 Com Radio. 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