WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Fallout From The Seattle Loss 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:03.840 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:07.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.080 --> 0:00:10.720 a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:15.079 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:15.280 --> 0:00:20.440 It's time for The Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:26.760 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:27.000 --> 0:00:30.760 It is Wednesday, December twenty seven, twenty seventeen, Season thirteen, 0:00:30.760 --> 0:00:34.120 episode number ninety seven. Welcome to another edition of The Break. 0:00:34.200 --> 0:00:37.000 We are live from s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star, 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:41.080 back at studio following Christmas and already talk a little 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:44.600 bit of Cowboys football. How's everybody doing this morning? Well? 0:00:45.240 --> 0:00:48.920 Thanks Derek, good good, good, Um, it's we. We have 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:52.000 not been on the air since the game on Sunday 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:55.440 when the Cowboys lost twenty one I'm sorry, twenty one 0:00:55.520 --> 0:01:00.200 twelve and are now officially eliminated from playoff contention. Have 0:01:00.320 --> 0:01:03.680 one more game left though, this week against the Philadelphia Eagles, 0:01:03.680 --> 0:01:05.440 so I'm sure Dave can give us a scouttering report 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:09.240 on the Eagles in about two minutes. But I do 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:11.080 think because we haven't been on the air, I do 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:13.000 think we should talk a little bit about that game 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:15.440 and some of the things that came out of that game, 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.160 and then we'll take more a bigger picture look at 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:20.760 not just how the Cowboys are going to enter this 0:01:20.840 --> 0:01:23.800 final week, but more so, you know, what does it 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:26.080 mean for the future. Are there guys that maybe should play? 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:28.800 Are the guys that maybe shouldn't play because of the 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:30.680 fact that it's the final game and it really has 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:34.600 no no royal impact on this season, unless, of course 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:37.800 getting to nine and seven verses eight and eight somehow matters, 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:40.720 which maybe to the coaching and to the team it does. 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:44.200 But let's talk first about that game. I just want 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.360 to open it up first to get just some general 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:50.720 thoughts on why you thought the Cowboys loss. Nicho. Let's 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:53.040 start with you. You have that pondering, Look, what do 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:55.120 you think? I know you you've written probably a couple 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:57.000 of different stories about this at this point. I'm sure 0:01:57.000 --> 0:02:00.880 you have some pretty pretty pretty pretty good thought here. Well, 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.960 I thought that this was worse than the Rams game 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.880 of that they should have won, you know, I mean, 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:10.560 I understand that the Rams are a good team, but 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.680 they couples should have won that game, and they should 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:15.720 have won this one. In my opinion, they were better 0:02:15.720 --> 0:02:21.600 than than that team, but they they were out coached 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:23.840 in the game. I guess you could say that because 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.520 they just as I wrote, they just got too cute. 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.600 They got too cute down there. And and you know, 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:32.880 when eighty five thousand people are yelling for Zeke and 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:36.520 you don't give him the ball, that's dumb. That's dumb. 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:38.680 You've been waiting for six weeks to get this guy 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:41.000 the ball, and you finally down there, and you just 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:43.760 saw last week against Oakland that they couldn't get in 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:45.040 there and they had to settle for a field goal 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.440 and almost lost in the game. You give the ball 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:53.079 to Zeke, who they hadn't stopped all game. That that's inexcusable. 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:55.360 And to do it twice in a row like that, 0:02:55.400 --> 0:03:00.880 it's ridiculous. Amber I'm still confused. I mean, I keep 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:03.080 trying to figure it out and I just can't. And 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.960 they talk about they pride himself about their running game, 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:09.920 and then they get the one guy that they've been 0:03:10.040 --> 0:03:14.600 waiting for. And we've seen all season long how good 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:18.480 the running game works compared to the passing game. Why 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.600 let Dak throw the ball or run with the ball. 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:24.080 Is he you're running back? No, like give it to 0:03:24.080 --> 0:03:27.679 the running back. And I don't know. I just cannot 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:32.840 comprehend why they made the decisions that they did. Just 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:36.320 really awful execution, Like across the board you can say that. 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:39.280 I mean, bad execution by the coaching staff, play calling 0:03:39.280 --> 0:03:42.240 down by the goal line, bad execution by the quarterback, 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:46.920 some of the most inaccurate, poorly, you know, poorest decisions 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.200 of his season, no doubt about that. The pick six 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:55.640 comes to mind, bes Bryant getting stripped on routine catches 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:59.920 and letting not easy passes but catchable balls bounce off 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:04.000 your hands. I mean I thought the game plan was 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:06.800 there are bad execution by your running back and blitz 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:09.320 pick up all that type of stuff. I mean, he 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.720 had a decent day running the ball, but all that 0:04:11.760 --> 0:04:14.280 other stuff that we give him credit for was not there. 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:17.000 And you can attribute that to the six week layoff 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:21.320 if you want, but it just wasn't there. And I 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:25.800 really thought the game plan was not terrible for the 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:27.800 most part. I mean, they leaned on Zeke early. It 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:30.320 opened up some other things for him, all that stuff 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:33.040 we like to complain about. I mean, Terrence Williams had 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:35.479 fifty yards receiving. They got him involved, They got Jason 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:38.279 Witten involved. He was huge as that you know, easy 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.760 outlet pass you think about it. He set them up 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:43.760 to have that first down on the three yard line. 0:04:43.760 --> 0:04:45.840 I mean, they were doing the stuff that you want 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:47.919 to see them do. I think the Seahawks did a 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.880 good job of mitigating the play action and the boot 0:04:50.880 --> 0:04:53.440 action stuff, just because their pass rush is capable of 0:04:53.480 --> 0:04:57.000 doing that. But considering you lost Tyren Smith on the 0:04:57.000 --> 0:04:59.279 third play of that game, I thought the game plan 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.919 was not bad. I mean, it moved them down toward 0:05:03.000 --> 0:05:05.880 the red zone multiple times, and they just blew it 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:11.560 like nobody on that team. The defense, I mean, can 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:13.680 you can nitpick some problems there, but I thought the 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.120 defense played a pretty damn good game all things considered. 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:18.000 By one hundred and thirty six total yards, I think 0:05:18.040 --> 0:05:21.800 it wasn't. They gave up more penalty yards than offensive yards. 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:26.120 All three of their touchdowns came off of takeaways, and 0:05:26.240 --> 0:05:31.760 two of them were direct results of takeaways. So players, coaches, 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.520 everybody involved, mainly on the offensive side of the ball. 0:05:34.720 --> 0:05:37.400 Just like I said, like, I thought, the plan was 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:39.760 in place and they just did not execute across the board, 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:42.240 and if you go back and look at the game, 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.440 particularly in the first half, there were drives where their 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:48.000 ability to run the ball. I mean it really Seattle 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:51.080 had no answer for xicularity. By the time they got 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.400 to their third series. Let me tell you some of 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.240 the runs he had started off with a five yard run, 0:05:56.360 --> 0:05:58.839 then six yard run, then six yard run, then five 0:05:58.920 --> 0:06:01.360 yard run, then four yard run, then five yard run, 0:06:01.760 --> 0:06:04.719 two yard run. Then the next series nine yard run, 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:07.400 four yard run, six yard run. I mean, it was 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:11.480 like the Cowboys were consistently moving the ball, running the ball, 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.960 and then after that six yard run, Rod Smith comes 0:06:15.000 --> 0:06:16.960 in and finishes the rest of the series. They end 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:18.599 up in a field goal on that one as well. 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:21.039 It was just to me, there were just moments in 0:06:21.040 --> 0:06:23.920 that game where there were things that just didn't make sense. 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:26.880 You got a hot back in there, you put Rod 0:06:26.920 --> 0:06:29.520 Smith in there, you got a situation where you're running 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:31.719 the ball effectively, and then you get down into the 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.880 red zone and you decide you're going to pass. Everything 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.440 suggested that the more they ran the ball, the more 0:06:37.440 --> 0:06:40.560 effective they were being running the ball, and they took 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:43.920 the running game away from themselves rather than forcing Seattle 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:45.760 at some point to say we're gonna have to do 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:48.440 something different in order to stop this run and then 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.120 open up other things. They just literally said, hey, we 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:53.159 just we're going to concede the run to some degree. 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:55.599 You know, it's funny, I'm taking it back, but I 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:59.159 remember back, like going back to like twenty thirteen when 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.880 Scott Linahan with the Lions. We we would have conversations 0:07:02.920 --> 0:07:06.120 here that's like, well, Lenahan gets a Megatron the ball, 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:08.560 like that's his thing, and he does it, like Megatron 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:11.080 will have eighteen targets and fifteen catches in a game. 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:14.360 Why don't we do that? Why don't And so Scott 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.600 Linehan got a ton of credit for that from AFAR 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:18.960 And now that we're here, like I mean, he's been 0:07:18.960 --> 0:07:21.640 in the offensive coordinator here for four years. Like it's 0:07:21.640 --> 0:07:25.000 not like again, you know, Nick said, they got too cute, 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.880 like they outsmart themselves, like they just like it's like 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:31.040 they're convinced that just doing the obvious thing can't work. 0:07:31.080 --> 0:07:33.680 It's like, well, this is the NFL, Like why don't 0:07:33.680 --> 0:07:35.760 you make somebody prove that it won't work? Right? You 0:07:35.760 --> 0:07:37.720 know what I mean? Like it never seems like they 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.200 want to do that, like they're always they're trying to 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:42.920 think a step ahead of the defense. But a lot 0:07:42.920 --> 0:07:44.920 of times I feel like they don't need to. I 0:07:44.960 --> 0:07:47.160 think that second down call down on the goal line 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:49.520 is probably we'll go down. It's the worst play of 0:07:49.560 --> 0:07:52.520 the year. I mean, when not just not giving it 0:07:52.560 --> 0:07:54.520 to Zeke going first down, you tried to throw it 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:58.360 and and Beasley's open over the middle. We see it, 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:00.600 the people on TV see it because you know, the 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:02.760 cameras are high and we're high. But when you're down 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:05.560 there low and like you bring the smallest guy over 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.800 the over the middle and you can't see him, and 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:11.120 then that's your play. And then on second down, though 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.080 after you haven't given it to Zeke on first down, 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.360 you roll to the right. Witten, as good as he's been, 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:19.760 he's he's not a He's not a great blocker on 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:22.760 the move, especially when you're trying to block Michael Bennett. 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:26.240 You've got two guys in the route, Terrence Williams and 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:29.280 Cole Beasley trying to get open in a small amount 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:32.320 of space. You've got Dak running on the move like that. 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:36.520 I mean, nothing about that play is good. Those guys 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:38.440 aren't going to get open. Whitten's not going to make 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.840 that block, and you're going away from Zeke and Dez. 0:08:42.040 --> 0:08:45.840 You're two guys that can make plays that did I 0:08:45.880 --> 0:08:50.360 say that was a stupid play? I mean, and I 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:54.040 tweeted this during the game, is like, I know, you 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.520 know Jason Garret or Scott Linahan's response to that would 0:08:56.559 --> 0:08:58.760 be that it's really hard to run the ball in 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.720 a situation like that where NFL defense knows that's what's 0:09:01.720 --> 0:09:05.240 gonna come. But like we did that reason. I mean, 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:08.240 I get that, it's true it is hard to do that, 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.400 but that's supposed to be what this team does better 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.800 than anybody else, even when they know it. That's why, Yeah, 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.199 that's why you pay your center fifty five million. That's 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.320 why your guard's gonna set the record for what a 0:09:18.360 --> 0:09:20.400 guard makes. And that's why you drafted running back in 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.320 the top five. Like where's the lodge? I get it. 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:24.959 I get that it's hard to do You're supposed to 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:26.719 be able to do it anyway, right, and to just 0:09:27.440 --> 0:09:29.920 assume that you can't do it when you have all 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:31.880 those pieces in place, it doesn't make sense to me, 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.840 and it's kind of insulting to the personnel that you've 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:36.840 put together that you don't think they can handle that, 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:39.120 and the fact that they'd had some mini series where 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:41.880 they did run it effectively over and over and over again, 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:44.120 to me, is why you get to first and goal. 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:46.959 Pound it in, like especially first and goal. What were 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.520 they first and goal at the five? I think first 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:51.800 and goal at e three, first and goal in the three. 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:54.679 If I get a yard every down, I'm gonna get 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:56.480 an the end zone before fourth down, all right, So 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:59.880 I'm like, pound it in and just see what happens. 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.000 You have. This is why you've been waiting for your 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.080 running back to come back, is because you feel like 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.000 he's the best or among the best in the NFL. 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:09.640 Your offensive line is the best or among the best 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:11.360 in the offensive line. You just say, how much money 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:12.960 you spent on your guard, I mean, how much money 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:15.240 spending you center, how much money you're about to spend 0:10:15.280 --> 0:10:17.800 on your guard. Run right behind those two big guys 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:22.000 and see what you can get between your linebacker quarterback 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:25.800 and your war horse running back. Running behind those guys, 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.199 like I just refused to believe that they couldn't pull 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:31.600 that off. Even fullback I know him too. I refused 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:33.480 to did you see what I thought about you last night? 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:35.800 Did you see what Kansas State did in their bowl game? No, 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.800 they got down on the goal line. Yes, they put 0:10:38.960 --> 0:10:41.680 three guys. They put their jumbo line on the line. 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.240 They put their quarterback right under them, and then they 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:46.600 lined like I don't even think they were offensive players, 0:10:46.600 --> 0:10:49.520 and they lined like three linebackers up behind the quarterback. 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:52.920 Quarterback sneaks it and these just big dudes just hashed 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:55.000 right into him and just pushed him into the end 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:57.800 It was genius. I thought. I was like, why don't 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.080 more people do this? Let's go up and gingerly get 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:02.600 him and then push, don't run into him ncause I 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:07.200 was like, smash into him. I'm like that big get 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.280 him into the end zone. However you gotta do it. 0:11:09.760 --> 0:11:12.040 And again you're acting like a quarterback is gonna have 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:15.599 back problems around here. And maybe I'm a gunshot. I 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.360 don't know. Maybe. Um so, so, did did you have 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:21.640 do you guys ever hear any read any rationalist? Why 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:23.880 maybe they went away from the run a little bit 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.080 more than they should have. Was that something? I'm sure 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:29.080 it was asked, Yeah, but Sarrett and said, he said, well, 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:30.920 you know, it's easy to make that call now. And 0:11:31.000 --> 0:11:34.439 he was actually pressed in the press conference by him 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:37.240 cal reporter. Yeah, he said no, it was pretty easy 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:41.120 at the time too, I mean like wow, really yeah. 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:43.400 Well then he came he came back later and and 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:46.800 just wrote, oh, I saw that, Yeah, I saw that. 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:50.199 That's and I don't He was asked about it there. 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:54.080 He was asked, I mean, but all throughout the last 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:56.720 five years, when a question like that is asked, like 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:00.000 you don't get a satisfactory answer. It's something like those 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:02.480 calls are easy in hindsight, or we just felt like 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:04.760 that was the best, you know, position to put our 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.680 team in at the time, Like, you know, he's not 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:10.080 gonna throw his offensive coordinator under the bus. And I 0:12:10.120 --> 0:12:12.319 heard a lot of people say that, you know, Scott Linahan, 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:14.920 it's time for him to go whatever, and you know what, 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:18.520 maybe it is, But I know this as a head coach, 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.000 you can this guy. He can make this call, this call, 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:23.760 this call. He has the freedom to make the call. 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.120 But when you get down there, you say, Scott, run 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:29.880 the football. I don't care if you run zeke left, right, right, 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:31.920 give the ball to twenty one. Put it in the 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:34.760 stomach and let's see what happens. Yep, you have that 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.640 ability to make that call. So that's on Jason in 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:40.160 my opinion. I mean maybe that you called the wrong 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.080 play or whatever on the run, but he should have 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:46.360 said we run the football here. Would you guys consider 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:50.480 the possibility because that this offense overall this season, part 0:12:50.520 --> 0:12:52.440 of it's been Zeke, part of it was not Zeke 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:55.560 because they were having issues offensively before Zeke went out 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:58.280 at the beginning of the season. Do you think maybe 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:01.080 there's a possibility or there should be possibility that Jason 0:13:01.160 --> 0:13:03.120 Garrett goes back to calling plays for this team. I 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:07.720 thought you were going to say that. I um, I wouldn't. 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:10.679 I wouldn't if I mean you guys, and it correct 0:13:10.679 --> 0:13:12.680 me if I'm wrong. You guys have said that you're 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:16.240 not the biggest fans of his game day management of 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.000 what's going on. So if he's not great at that, 0:13:19.080 --> 0:13:21.120 then why not have him call plays because that would 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:22.679 be the purpose of taking play calling from him so 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:24.840 he could focus on that he's not great at it, 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:26.760 Then what is he great at? I thought he was 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:30.280 a pretty good honestly coordinator. I just well, I disagree 0:13:30.320 --> 0:13:32.559 with that because, like taking play calling away from it. 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:34.520 I mean, sure, that's something he's got to worry about 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:36.760 on game day, but that's a whole thing during the 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:39.040 week he's got to worry about too, He's gotta put 0:13:39.160 --> 0:13:41.560 But there there are times when I'm sure they're head 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:44.160 coaches that call plays that they have someone else who 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.280 managed the coordination of all that drought the week, and 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:50.280 then he calls plays on Sunday. Well, I don't like 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:52.720 that either. I mean no, I mean, you're putting the 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:54.880 game plan together. That's this thing that you've spent all 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:57.040 week on. That's you mean to tell me you don't 0:13:57.040 --> 0:14:00.640 think Jason's involved in setting putting together the offensive plan. No, 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:03.200 but to like to just have him, you know, to 0:14:03.280 --> 0:14:05.400 just have him not even paying attention to it from 0:14:05.400 --> 0:14:08.240 Monday to Saturday. But I don't think that happens now. 0:14:08.320 --> 0:14:10.560 I don't think he's very much involved in of course, yes, 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:14.040 but that I think Jason Garrett's strength as a coach 0:14:14.360 --> 0:14:17.720 is from Monday to Saturday, and I think not being 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.320 the primary play caller frees him up to focus on 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.040 all of that type of stuff during the week. I 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.000 can hear people screaming at me that he's terrible at 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:28.280 everything right now, I'm just right now, I'm not happy 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.760 with him, I know, but I think his strength as 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.200 a coach. I think he's been a better head coach 0:14:33.240 --> 0:14:36.680 what he stopped calling plays in twenty fourteen. Yeah, he's 0:14:36.720 --> 0:14:39.200 been a better overall head coach in the years that 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.640 he hasn't been doing that. I think I wasn't. I 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:43.840 was only here for one year when he was calling plays. 0:14:43.960 --> 0:14:48.320 But really, yeah, I know, but I think I think 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:52.160 it it's more suited toward his He he's like a 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:55.120 college coach to me. Like he is. He sets up 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.120 the message and he's really good at getting people to 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:58.920 listen to it and buy a pruding too. He does 0:14:58.920 --> 0:15:00.680 a great job. I'm mooting. I don't know if he'd 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:04.600 be very good at that, but um, I think it's 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:08.120 better off without him calling the plays. So he's never 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:10.840 been I mean, I guess as a head coach calling 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.280 the play, they were eight and eight every time, right, 0:15:14.560 --> 0:15:16.600 I guess you got a point there. Yeah, I'm just saying, well, 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:18.520 but and then when he was but as an offensive 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:19.880 I give him credit for the years he was an 0:15:19.920 --> 0:15:23.520 offensive coordinator when Wade was here as well. Right, But see, yeah, 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:25.520 I understand that, but they they got talent now too. 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.440 Let's not act like this is a talent a talentless team, 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:30.560 but a talent on this offense. But again, that's been 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:32.520 a ton of money. That's a job where all you 0:15:32.680 --> 0:15:35.880 that's his only responsibility is putting out putting together the 0:15:35.880 --> 0:15:37.680 game plan and calling the plays. Like if you wanted 0:15:37.720 --> 0:15:40.560 him to be the offensive coordinator, that's fine. I don't 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:43.400 know that he would take that demotion. But if he's 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:44.840 going to be the head coach, I don't think he 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:46.760 needs to be doing you don't think both. No, I 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.320 don't know how many coaches in the NFL do all 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:54.680 of that, but maybe two or three. Yeah, I've had 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:59.160 plenty of different thoughts to jump in to the cowboy, 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:04.880 you know. I keep thinking. And it's hard for me, 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:07.680 obviously to say about him calling place and all that, 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.800 because I wasn't here. I didn't know anything about that 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:14.840 before when that happened. But as a boss, because he's 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:18.240 essentially the boss of all of them. If you're a boss, 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:21.520 you hope you can trust the team around you to 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.320 do their job, the guys you have working with you 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:27.320 to do their own job. But if you're not doing 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:30.880 your job as a good boss, you step in however 0:16:30.960 --> 0:16:34.040 you can help that person figure it out because at 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.480 this point, obviously during the season you can't make that 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:40.400 kind of change, So you become more involved. And we've 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:43.440 seen game after game all the mistakes that they've been making. 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:46.840 How haven't they been able to figure all that out 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:50.480 and improve on it? Because if had we been seeing 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:53.320 some improvement, I would be feeling better about it, but 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:56.240 we haven't. That's a really great point. I think that's 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.880 a really great point, mainly because when you see, like 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:03.200 you said, when you see problems on your team, then 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.040 you got to step in and maybe pay a little 0:17:05.080 --> 0:17:07.000 bit more attention to this area of the team that's 0:17:07.000 --> 0:17:09.280 having issues. And it seems like the offense has been 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:12.919 consistently having some poor games, and there's been, you know, 0:17:13.000 --> 0:17:16.760 guys that are having just uncharacteristically bad seasons. I put 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:18.920 Dez in that category. I don't think I don't think 0:17:18.960 --> 0:17:22.000 anybody can say Dez has had a normal season for him. 0:17:22.359 --> 0:17:24.159 And and so what do you do. Is there a 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:25.880 way that a coach can maybe spend a little more 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:27.760 time with him, spend more a little more time with 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:29.840 the wide receiver, spend a little more time in between 0:17:29.880 --> 0:17:31.879 the quarterbacks and the wide receivers because you think that 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:33.560 the passing game isn't doing what you needed to do. 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:35.760 We don't know if they don't. And my question is, 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:38.160 and that would be the question. If he did, then 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:42.399 it didn't work. Yeah. If he didn't, then he didn't right, 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:44.800 and he should have right. So either way, it didn't 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.000 come out good. He did, he wasn't able to supply 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:49.480 for that part of the team. Maybe what they need. 0:17:49.480 --> 0:17:52.239 But if we've seen it goes beyond the talent on 0:17:52.280 --> 0:17:54.760 the field. We've seen that. Okay, yes, they do have 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:57.760 issues with certain players on the field and there needs 0:17:57.760 --> 0:18:00.760 to be some changes there, But I've also seen that 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:04.760 it goes way far beyond just the guys are playing 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:06.560 out there. All right, let's take our first break. When 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:08.119 we come back. I do have a couple of questions 0:18:08.119 --> 0:18:11.000 for you guys on some specific players, des Bryant being 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:13.360 one of them, and also Tyren Smith. He was only 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:15.320 able to play the first series of that game and 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:17.600 then had to leave the game. Again. 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