WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Satisfied With the W? 0:00:07.480 --> 0:00:10.040 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:10.080 --> 0:00:22.200 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:22.239 --> 0:00:25.880 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:26.079 --> 0:00:30.280 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:35.640 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:41.919 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:42.040 --> 0:00:45.600 It is Tuesday, November fifth, in twenty nineteen, Season fifteen, 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:49.160 episode number seventy five. Welcome to another edition of The Break. 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:52.640 We're live from the s WBC Warrior Studios at the start, 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:54.639 and we got a lot to talk about. The day. 0:00:54.640 --> 0:00:57.000 Cowboys get a win yesterday, a big win and when 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:59.320 they need it in the division. They beat the New 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:04.000 York Giants final score thirty seven eighteen in a game 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:08.360 that I guess I would characterize it as a game 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:10.679 that on paper looks like a beat down. But if 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:13.520 you watch the game and you're a Cowboys fan or 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:16.560 an observer of the Cowboys, you probably have just as 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:19.160 many questions coming out of that game as you have answers. 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:21.119 What I'm gonna do? Those got my crew here, We're 0:01:21.120 --> 0:01:24.039 gonna talk about some storyline. Let's start off there, Amber, 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:25.880 what do you think was the biggest storyline coming out 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:32.959 of that game? Nice sound effect, I mean that's the 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.759 right answer, but go ahead, yeah, no, I mean yeah, 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.720 that was that was probably the best moment of the game. 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:42.000 The most entertaining moment was that black Cat hit in 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:46.039 the field, which turned out that his presence made everything 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:50.720 change for the Cowboys. But girl, definitely a girl. Why 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.280 I don't know just where you going with that? Where 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:55.440 are you going with that? Just all over the place, 0:01:55.600 --> 0:02:06.360 and you never bro all right back to football, back 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:11.480 to football. I you know, I'm just really frustrated and 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:14.720 annoyed and upset. I know that the Cowboys picked it up, 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:17.079 and then when you look at the teams that they 0:02:17.200 --> 0:02:22.760 have beat this season, it's just to me, that's unacceptable 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:26.000 going in against the Giants and starting the game playing 0:02:26.120 --> 0:02:31.200 that way. You're not gonna win many games playing this 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:35.280 way once you start facing bigger opponents. So I'm just 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:40.080 kind of disappointed because we know what the Cowboys can 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:43.800 do and they just don't do it. Wow. I love 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.080 that hit me five a g because it would be 0:02:47.160 --> 0:02:49.920 so easy to come in here on a victory Tuesday. 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.120 We didn't get a lot of sleep. They've won by nineteen. 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.320 It would be so easy to come in here, you know, 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:58.880 singing sunshine, and that's not the case. Like, good for them. 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:02.200 They handled business. It's an inferior team talent one out 0:03:02.240 --> 0:03:05.519 in the end. But honestly, for my money, the first 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:07.880 three quarters of that game looked a lot like Green Bay, 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:12.160 which is to say, move the ball on offense, but 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.679 sloppy got in their own way, turn the ball over, 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:18.200 untimely penalties. The defense played better, I'll give them that. 0:03:18.240 --> 0:03:20.280 The defense. You're right, the defense was much better. Oh 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:21.960 by the way, who were they playing the two and 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.680 six Giants with a rookie quarterback and not Aaron Rodgers. 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:29.360 So you play who you play. All wins are good wins. 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.040 I'm not trying to crap on them too much, but 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:35.040 my point is they played an ugly, sloppy first two 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.400 to two and a half quarters of that game, and 0:03:37.600 --> 0:03:40.120 they were really lucky to be leading at halftime, let 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:43.000 alone even be in the game. It gets you beat 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.560 against better teams. It already has this year. It got 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:47.720 them beat against a bad team in the New York Jets, 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:52.440 So kudos to them. I was really encouraged by the 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:55.760 way the defense played but it just looked a lot 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.480 like so many other games we've seen this year, and 0:03:58.520 --> 0:04:00.600 it will get them beat when they play teams that 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:04.560 aren't now two and seven. So I'm not that impressed, 0:04:04.600 --> 0:04:07.920 all things considered, Nick, I thought, this is about taking 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:11.920 care of business, and they did that. The defense, I thought, 0:04:11.920 --> 0:04:14.000 set the tone the whole game, and the defense, the 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.839 offensive line and the defensive line dominated the line of scrummage. 0:04:17.839 --> 0:04:20.320 And I thought that, that to me is why I 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:23.480 don't call this really an ugly game. Ugly win, just 0:04:23.560 --> 0:04:26.880 because if you win up front, you're gonna win. It 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:30.000 doesn't matter if it's five A football, six A football, 0:04:30.279 --> 0:04:33.600 you know, college pro, if you kick their ass up front. 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:37.200 And they did that, and so I thought, I think 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:40.599 Michael Bennett is from one game's worth. I think Michael 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:45.240 Bennett was an absolute outstanding acquisition. Let's see how it 0:04:45.320 --> 0:04:49.200 all plays out. But that's what they have missed right there. 0:04:49.240 --> 0:04:51.560 They have missed a push right up the middle. I 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:54.320 love Tyron Crawford. He doesn't really give him that though, 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:56.640 he really not, not from what he did in that game. 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.719 And so we can talk more about it. But I'm 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:03.240 not really, you know, annoyed by the way the game was. 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:05.839 I mean Monday night football playing against the Vision team 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.720 that there got more momentum. I thought the Cowboys, that's 0:05:09.800 --> 0:05:11.920 kind of what I thought it would be. And yeah, 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:14.600 and I do think it was two different storylines because 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:16.640 I agree with a lot of what you guys Amber 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:19.520 and Dave are saying, but I think it's to me, 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.880 it's it's the offense. The offense had a horrible I 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:25.279 unt say horrible. They had a game that was not 0:05:25.520 --> 0:05:29.080 very crisp. The quarterback I don't think played particularly well, 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:30.880 especially in the early parts. He got it going a 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.120 little bit later, but a lot of that was get 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:34.800 the ball to right guy, and those guys made some 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:37.360 plays to some big plays that got the big yardage 0:05:37.360 --> 0:05:40.320 and in touchdowns. But if you look at the defense, 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:42.720 I think the defense was really outstanding, the fact that 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.720 they were think about this. They had three turnovers, they 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:49.839 had five sacks, they had eleven quarterback hits, they stopped 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:53.520 the Giants. They were one of five in the red 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.920 zone last night. Five times they were in the red 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:58.240 zone and they ended up with four field goals and 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.560 one touchdown. It's starting with the first series of the game, 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:04.040 when Dad give up the interception and they start on 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:06.560 the freaking eight yard line. I mean, you look at 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:08.480 a game like that. To me, that is a dominant 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:12.200 defensive performance against a division rival. So I agree with 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:15.160 you guys offensively, I don't think defensively that's the right story. No, 0:06:15.240 --> 0:06:17.880 you're right, and they deserve a lot of cred I 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:21.880 think that's as impressed as I've been by the defense. 0:06:21.920 --> 0:06:24.920 And I think that even includes the Philly game, because 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:29.000 this was on the road Saints game, eating well better offense. 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.920 Obviously they were playing better offense. I just they just 0:06:32.120 --> 0:06:36.120 looked like tenacious, Like whether you're like Sean Lee attacking 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:39.440 stuff downhill, looking like it was five years ago. Not 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:41.960 that he's lost a step, but but you haven't. I 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:44.440 mean he clearly hasn't. Like when he gets the opportunity 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:47.119 and he's healthy, he hasn't lost anything. We just haven't 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.720 seen it recently. It seemed like the pass rush was 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:52.839 on top of Daniel Jones before he had time to 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:55.480 do anything. More often than not, I think we're finally 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:59.880 seeing Robert Quinn's success paying dividends for Tank Lawrence because 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:01.680 all of a sudden, he's getting one on ones and 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:07.440 just annihilating Mike Rammers at will. Basically, Bennett was impressive. 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:11.320 Jalen Smith was very impressive. For the most part, Xavier 0:07:11.320 --> 0:07:13.840 Woods probably played the game of his career. So you're right, 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:17.960 they were. They were great. It's just the un character no, 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:22.360 not the very characteristic mistakes by the offense, the consistent inconsistency. 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:24.360 I agree with Nick to a point that it is 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:27.040 the NFL. And I think I said in our pregame 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:28.880 right up, I was like, you know, they're gonna win 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.720 this game by seventeen or twenty points, but it's going 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.480 to take them some time to pull away. But even 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:38.840 knowing that it's it's just was ugly at the start. 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.720 It just didn't look crisp. And you would have preferred 0:07:41.720 --> 0:07:43.760 to see better coming out of a bye week. You see. 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:47.200 I understand that you have to focus on each game 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:49.960 at a time, but we've seen it way too often 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:53.640 already during this season, and your defense can only do 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:57.880 so much to help you. And it's just, yes, they 0:07:58.000 --> 0:08:01.640 played a great game, but where is that gonna get 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:05.520 you in the next coming games? In my opinion, the 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.640 best well, I shouldn't even say that. Two of the 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:11.520 best three or four teams in this League right now 0:08:11.560 --> 0:08:14.640 are winning with defense, with outstanding defense, and their offenses 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:16.800 are a lot of what you saw last night from 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:19.040 the Cowboys. And I'm talking about the San Francisco forty 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:21.240 nine ers, I'm talking about the New England Patriots. Both 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.880 those teams are not having great offensive seasons, they're playing 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:27.440 outstanding defense. And I actually think that this move to 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:31.200 bring in Michael Bennett changes the whole complexion of this 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.600 team because I think he does give you, Dave, you 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:35.840 mentioned that you saw it last night. The dividends are 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.280 starting to pay off of Robert Quinn. What that means 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.480 for DeMarcus I actually think starting to pay off. In 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:44.559 just one game, we saw the difference out of Michael 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:48.000 Bennett makes the guy is so active and so disruptive 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:49.880 in the middle part of the defense when he's playing 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:52.080 defensive tackle and those other two guys on the field. 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.600 That first sack for DeMarcus was all about the fact 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.679 that he just collapsed the pocket and then here comes 0:08:56.840 --> 0:08:59.440 DeMarcus just swooping around in the inside and he had 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:01.920 a clear path to the quarterback. I mean, that's what 0:09:02.040 --> 0:09:04.240 you get from a guy like him, and I don't 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:06.800 think that's a coincidence that that in that game. You 0:09:06.840 --> 0:09:09.680 saw the turnovers, you saw the fumbles, you saw the interception. 0:09:09.840 --> 0:09:12.199 I think all that stuff works together. You get more pressure, 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.560 you get more quarterback hits. It's gonna result in the 0:09:14.559 --> 0:09:17.120 defense getting off the field and giving the offense a 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.760 short feel sometimes. And I guess that it goes back 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.680 to my point. I mean, we've we've seen games where 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.240 they've had they had five sacks against New Orleans. They've 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:28.120 gotten sacks at times this year, but it didn't look 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:30.480 like that in my opinion. You know, DeMarcus had a 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.520 sack against Teddy Bridgewater where Bridgewater moved up in the 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:36.360 pocket because he had room and Tank swiped him right 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:39.200 at the line of scrimmage. Like last night, Daniel Jones, 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.360 I mean, he just had guys on top of him 0:09:41.400 --> 0:09:43.480 before he had a chance to even read the defense. 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:47.040 And that was super fun and super encouraging if they 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:50.560 can keep that going. But remember who Daniel Jones is 0:09:50.840 --> 0:09:54.760 and being experienced there, so you gotta look at it 0:09:54.800 --> 0:09:58.200 in all different ways. Yes, great job for the defense 0:09:58.280 --> 0:10:01.680 and it is encouraging to see what Michael Bennett was 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.559 able to do, but keep in mind who you were 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:07.400 playing against I get all that. What hold on, They're 0:10:07.400 --> 0:10:10.439 playing against the best running back in football right now, 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:13.320 and that guy had you know, I mean, they did 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:15.320 a great job. I mean, he had a sixty five 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.320 yard play. That's what makes him so good, because I mean, 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:23.880 when you think about nineteen touches for Barkley gets him 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:27.520 thirty yards, nineteen touches for thirty yards, and then all 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:30.199 of a sudden, he gets another one sixty five yards 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.079 and he's doing most of that on his own. I 0:10:32.120 --> 0:10:33.240 mean it was a pass, but I mean it was 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.040 a short pass. But they are facing a great running 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:39.160 back and they're facing a rookie quarterback. It's gonna get 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.680 a lot tougher than that. But I just think, I 0:10:42.679 --> 0:10:44.719 don't know, I think like we're setting up maybe the 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.440 expectations are too high. Like I don't think this is 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:49.960 a great football team. I think this is a good 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:52.080 football team. I thought they were gonna be great, but 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:55.520 they're not. They're gonna be good and with a chance 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:59.079 to compete with anyone. But I mean, I think they 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:01.080 can compete with any team in the league. But I 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.200 also think that any team in the league's gonna hang 0:11:03.280 --> 0:11:05.120 in there with them, Like they did. The Dolphins hung 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:07.200 in there for a little bit, the Jets beat them, 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:10.160 the Giants hung in there. So I think this is 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:12.720 kind of what it is. Yeah, honestly, I just I 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:14.640 look at this game, and I probably am a little 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:17.439 bit more optimistic after this game than then. It saw 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:18.920 that most of you guys are. But it's because I 0:11:18.960 --> 0:11:22.280 look at this defense and I've seen I've seen teams 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.720 in this NFL where they get rolling. They get rolling 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:29.319 because their defensive front is so stout and so ferocious. 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:31.920 And so this gives me shades that. Look that giant 0:11:31.960 --> 0:11:34.280 team you be last night, they won two Super Bowls 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:37.080 in the two thousands doing that. That what they did 0:11:37.160 --> 0:11:38.880 last is what the Cowboys did last night. Having a 0:11:38.960 --> 0:11:43.000 defensive front that is just consistently after your quarterback, it 0:11:43.080 --> 0:11:45.559 changes games and it has a way of keeping you 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.000 in games when your offense is kind of sputtering until 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:49.760 they can get it going and until they can make 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:51.520 a play here and there, and then it gets rolling. 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:56.320 So do what how many games can you win with 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:59.040 field goals? I'm not saying you're gonna win a bunch 0:11:59.080 --> 0:12:01.400 of sas you need a good balance. I mean, yes, 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.680 your defense can be great and all that, but your 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:06.679 defense is not going to be able to win for 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.040 you every single game. I get that, but once again, 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:11.600 you look at the best teams NFL this year. Two 0:12:11.679 --> 0:12:13.520 of the best teams I just mentioned are doing it 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:16.120 with defense. Their offenses are not playing that great. I 0:12:16.200 --> 0:12:18.720 just I'm just optimistic about what I'm seeing defensively, and 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:20.880 again it may end up at that defense that was 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.200 an operation what we saw last night from them. Maybe 0:12:23.200 --> 0:12:25.080 they get into a game this week and they just 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:27.199 get run out of the building. Who knows all I'm 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.040 saying is watching that defense last night it gave me 0:12:30.120 --> 0:12:33.520 some level of optimism that maybe this defense can actually 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:35.640 put this team on his shoulder and they really can 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:38.080 make them make them. Hey, I don't think you're gonna 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.520 see them get run out of any buildings. They're clearly 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:43.280 very good. Like even in the games they've played poorly. 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.319 You know, they buckled down and limited Green Bay after 0:12:46.400 --> 0:12:47.960 a slow start, and a lot of that was because 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:50.840 the offense kept turning the ball over. I just think 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:54.559 the problem is, can they dominate a game like that 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:57.400 against a good quarterback if their offense keeps putting them 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.120 in bad positions. I mean, they did that as we 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:00.800 have to see. They did this in New Orleans. I 0:13:00.800 --> 0:13:02.600 mean they held the Saints out of the end zone 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:06.320 on four or five trips, again against an above average 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:10.000 backup quarterback, but still a backup. And you know, like, 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:12.000 I don't. I don't think we're trying to rain on 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:16.319 people's parades. But the offense just there's so much talent 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:20.560 and it isn't translating as consistently as it needs to, 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:22.440 and that sounds stupid. They had four hundred and twenty 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.640 nine yards and scored thirty points and they're number one 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:27.840 in the league, right I mean, I just I mean, 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:30.600 like you said, maybe they're not great, but they're really 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.000 really good. I don't know, Like I'm I think we're 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:34.640 just seeing a different game right now. I mean I'm 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:37.040 not I'm not saying that, oh you beat the Giants. Yeah, 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:38.560 I'm not going to go in the press box and 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:42.920 say super Bowl did I was a little high on 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:52.400 no sleep yesterday, but anything I said shadow boxing with 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:57.280 Dave it was a rough I'm sorry. If it takes 0:13:57.280 --> 0:14:00.600 you twenty five minutes to start playing competent football against 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:02.800 the better teams in the league, I don't think that's 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.280 a recipe for success. Did you kick their ass? Though? 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.199 Did they? Did the Cowboys kick the giants ass at 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:09.720 the left? No doubt that they were the better at 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:13.439 the end of the day. Sure, but it's a giant. 0:14:13.720 --> 0:14:15.840 We call that a we call that a front door cover. 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.280 That's I mean, we said you just said at the 0:14:18.280 --> 0:14:19.960 top of the show, like you and I looked at 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:21.720 each other on the sideline last night and we were 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.040 like people that look up and people that wake up 0:14:24.040 --> 0:14:25.760 at the morning and didn't finish this game and look 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:27.880 at the score are going to have the wrong impression 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.440 of what really happened there. They're not real fans. Well, 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:34.000 I'm not talking about Cowboy fans. I'm talking about Joe Blow, 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:37.480 some Joe Blow Panther fan who just didn't feel like 0:14:37.480 --> 0:14:40.680 watching the game. Let's say it's like with green Bay, 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.880 how they played against Green Bay and having a slow star. 0:14:44.080 --> 0:14:46.960 Once they finally started to move the ball, it was 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:50.040 just too late. Against a guy like Aaron Rodgers. Yes, 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.640 not everybody s Aaron Rodgers, but still, when you start 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:55.840 talking about veteran guys with a lot of experience who 0:14:56.800 --> 0:15:00.520 are better teams, you know, that's the kind of challenge 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.520 that you're gonna face when you end up starting slow 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.560 and picking it up later in the fourth quarter. Just 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:08.680 a challenge this week. I mean, I know we're not 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:10.840 gonna move on just yet, but I mean, hell yeah, 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.840 this is a challenge, right, Oh yeah, I mean so good. 0:15:13.880 --> 0:15:15.400 I mean, but this is a team very similar to 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:17.960 the Cowboys in my opinion, Like their team like nine Minnesota, 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:19.960 they're like, what team are we gonna get this week? 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.000 Like they're just as inconsistent as the Cowboys. From the 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:25.040 standpoint of one week they'll show up and they look 0:15:25.080 --> 0:15:26.840 like world beaters, and next week they show up and 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:28.720 like what's this? Who is this team? Like it's just 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:31.000 these are two teams that are kind of trying to 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.520 figure out what their identity really is. This quarterback is 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.200 and that. I mean, he's never really hurt the Cowboys, right, 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.920 He's always been every time I've watched him. I'm like, 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:42.640 I don't want to be like that Eagles linebacker that 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:44.600 said he's not very good. But he has not been 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:46.960 very good against the Cowboys. I would we're talking about 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:49.720 the Minnesota Vikis for those Cousins has played some really 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:52.960 good games against the Cowboys. Just not good. I mean 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:55.480 he bombed away on them for like four or sixty 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.920 a couple of years. Two fifteen sixteen, I think No 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:04.240 Outher Watt das Dak's first road game, he killed him. 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:06.000 I mean, he threw a terrible pick in the end 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.800 zone to our guy, Barry Church. I mean, I'm with you, 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:11.880 he's I think he's overrated. I think I saw last night. 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:14.360 He's won in twenty seven against teams with a winning record. 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:18.800 He doesn't necessarily terrify me, but he's played some good games. 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:21.200 He came here that same season, he came here on 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:24.240 Thanksgiving and through for four or something, and Dak just 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:26.520 outdueled him. That was a really fun game. All Right, 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:28.360 we're gonna take our first break, and no, we're gonna 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:29.960 take a first break when we come back. I do 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:31.760 want to talk about this offense a little bit more. 0:16:31.800 --> 0:16:33.920 We talked about the struggles they had, but that was 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.160 one thing they did really, really well. We'll talk about 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.120 that when we come back. This is Dallas Cowboys dot 0:16:38.120 --> 0:16:41.440 Com Radio. 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Yeah, sometimes I just wish 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:49.920 we just go right through breaks and just keep talking 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:53.600 because the conversation is good. So anyway, um, we talked 0:18:53.600 --> 0:18:56.479 about the offense and some of the struggles. One thing 0:18:56.480 --> 0:18:58.040 that we need to talk about, Nick, you alluded to 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:01.440 it a little earlier. The offensive line was absolutely dominant 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:05.120 yesterday and it reflected in the rushing yards. Zeke talked 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:06.200 about it after the game. It was like, it was 0:19:06.200 --> 0:19:08.240 the easiest hundred and thirty nine yards he's ever gotten. 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:10.640 He's like, because the offensive line was just mauling him 0:19:10.640 --> 0:19:13.399 and creating these huge gaps for him. He does have 0:19:13.440 --> 0:19:15.760 twenty three carries one hundred and thirty nine yards a 0:19:15.880 --> 0:19:20.160 six point zero average on twenty three carries. That's impressive. Yeah, 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:22.440 that's extremely impressive. Talk about this offensive line in the 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:25.200 running game. Yeah, I thought that. You know, you asked 0:19:25.240 --> 0:19:26.840 me at one point in the game, how many yards 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.080 of Zeke cav and about seventy eight and it was 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:30.800 one seventeen and it was you know, it was a 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:34.240 quiet one seventeen. But they you know, it's nothing flashy 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:38.560 with him, but but ten twelve yards you know at 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:41.040 a time, and then you know, down in the red 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:45.159 zone on that second possession. I mean, you know, we 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:49.080 all want to see Tony Pollard at some point, but 0:19:49.440 --> 0:19:51.240 at that point in the game, I don't know. I 0:19:51.240 --> 0:19:53.000 thought that was a little too early to be putting 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.960 him out there. And a couple of plays like that, 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:57.919 but you know, they did stall there. But for the 0:19:57.960 --> 0:20:00.840 most part, I thought Zeke and Pollard helped in there, 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:03.399 and it was it was a good effort. It felt 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:06.080 like Kellen Moore like listened to the break because he'd 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:09.320 gave Pollard a chance. Maybe that would be so cool. 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:14.080 What's up, Kellen? Appreciate appreciate you're listening. Um. He tried 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:16.160 to get Pollard involved in all the ways that we 0:20:16.200 --> 0:20:19.239 talk about we want them to and it's just so, 0:20:19.400 --> 0:20:20.879 I don't know, maybe the lights were a little too 0:20:20.920 --> 0:20:23.359