Speaker 1: The following He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This He's Talking Cowboys,
Speaker 1: screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the
Speaker 1: Star in Frisco. Following list and now your hosts Isaiah
Speaker 1: stand Back, Patrick Walker, and Kyle Yeomans. It is a
Speaker 1: Monday edition of Talking Cowboys, presented by Black Rifle Coffee Company.
Speaker 1: Here from the Star and Frisco in the s WBC studios.
Speaker 1: It is the Monday following a thirty one, twenty eight
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys loss to the Green Bay Packers in overtime
Speaker 1: up at lambeau Field, and we're here to break it
Speaker 1: down for you here over the next forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: Chris Beam in the back, Isaiah Standback, Super Bowl Champion.
Speaker 1: We've got Patrick no sleep Walker, he got a little
Speaker 1: bit of sleep last night. Smith toast and turned all
Speaker 1: night replaying the game. And I'm Kyle Yeoman's let's break
Speaker 1: this thing down. Let's not waste a whole lot of
Speaker 1: time because it wasn't pretty, No, it was not at all.
Speaker 1: Cowboys blow a fourteen point lead heading into the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: They led twenty eight to fourteen. Instead, Green Bay rattles
Speaker 1: off seventeen unanswered points. The three and six Packers come
Speaker 1: out on top, and they send you back home with
Speaker 1: your tail between your legs. And now you got to
Speaker 1: go up against an eight and one Minnesota team this week,
Speaker 1: which of course we'll talk about later on. But Patrick,
Speaker 1: you were there on site at Lambeau, you were on
Speaker 1: the flight home, you were on the ride home. What happened?
Speaker 1: Tell us? He looks angry. Yeah, I'm pissed, And I mean,
Speaker 1: there's there's no other way to say it. And you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not one to spin it, so it just is
Speaker 1: what it is. I'm pissed at what I saw. And
Speaker 1: you know, and this is when you look at Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy's postgame press conference, the level of frustration that he
Speaker 1: displayed is something that's rarely, if ever, seen from Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy publicly in front of a camera. Now, for me,
Speaker 1: there are several and I I used the words several loosely,
Speaker 1: there are several reasons the Cowboys lost this game. You know,
Speaker 1: gave up a fourteen point lead, and and all of
Speaker 1: them matter. So so let me lead by just saying
Speaker 1: that first, all of them matter. So for those that
Speaker 1: are saying, you know, well, it wasn't the bad cause
Speaker 1: or the no cause, Yeah it was, but it was
Speaker 1: that in addition to the inability to stop the run,
Speaker 1: it was the poor officiating, in addition to give allowing
Speaker 1: Watson to go off for three touchdowns for a defensive
Speaker 1: secondary that we routinely said and has proven that it's
Speaker 1: one of the best in the league. So to allow
Speaker 1: a rookie to go off like that, to have a
Speaker 1: Megatron day against you when he was basically of no
Speaker 1: consequence for the Packers up to this point to lose
Speaker 1: this game, it's inexcusable. And to put it in Tryvann
Speaker 1: Digs his words via his Twitter he said, unacceptable, and
Speaker 1: that's saying the least. At the end of the day,
Speaker 1: this was a game that the Cowboys should have hung
Speaker 1: forty plus points on the Packers should have absolutely decimated them.
Speaker 1: But you get one interception, what happens the Packers go
Speaker 1: down and they score a touchdown off of them, You
Speaker 1: get a second interception interception. What happens to the the Packers
Speaker 1: go down, they score a touchdown off of that? You
Speaker 1: just gifted them fourteen points. We all know you can't
Speaker 1: give Aaron Rodgers extra possessions, and you keep finding out
Speaker 1: what happens when you give them extra possessions. And you're
Speaker 1: at lambeau Field, so you have to know there's this
Speaker 1: curse that exists there right, be it tangible or non tangible.
Speaker 1: And then you see that curse show itself in overtime
Speaker 1: if you shouldn't have allowed it to get the overtime
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys are moving the ball, and then you
Speaker 1: get the questionable holding call on connomerc govern and then
Speaker 1: you get the Jalen Tilbert controversy. Offsides on Jalen tilbrit
Speaker 1: he said he checked with the official. You look at
Speaker 1: the broadcast. He was talking to the official, he says.
Speaker 1: Dak says Jalen said the official told him to scoot up.
Speaker 1: He did, and then he tried to scoop back too
Speaker 1: late offside. There you go, blah blah blah. But what
Speaker 1: really was the poetic injustice of it all is again,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys should have put this game away and put
Speaker 1: it to bid as early as the third quarter, maybe
Speaker 1: even the second quarter, without those interceptions. But to lose
Speaker 1: the game in the fashion in which they did, and
Speaker 1: to me, the icing on the Colonel Cheese was the
Speaker 1: non call on Alexander that would have given the Cowboys
Speaker 1: automatic first down at around the twenty five yard line,
Speaker 1: and that probably would have given the Cowboys a more
Speaker 1: chance to go ahead and finish this game. But I
Speaker 1: could argue that they didn't deserve that chance because before
Speaker 1: that point, you should should have nailed this coffin closed
Speaker 1: several times. So I'll throw it back to you guys,
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm pissed. And unlike the Bears game, and
Speaker 1: like I said, you couldn't use the Bears game as
Speaker 1: a barometer for the run defense because of what the
Speaker 1: score was, and the Cowboys are basically daring you to
Speaker 1: run the ball, like, Okay, you can't catch up by
Speaker 1: running the ball, that's fine. But what did I say
Speaker 1: in that same statement. I said, if it was a
Speaker 1: close game, then yeah, it's a barometer. And they got
Speaker 1: absolutely destroyed by Aaron Jones. They just did. And kudos
Speaker 1: to the Packers because what they did was used a
Speaker 1: lot of shovel passes up front. I think the first
Speaker 1: seven or eight pass attempts by Rogers were shovel passes
Speaker 1: to the edge to stretch those edges. Which is where
Speaker 1: the Cowboys were struggling and stopping to run. Those linebackers
Speaker 1: weren't helping as the Cowboys needed. And then Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: started going up the middle. Now Cowboys are completely off balance,
Speaker 1: so Aaron Rogers says, hey, thank you feetball twenty four
Speaker 1: carries one hundred and thirty eight yards in a touchdown
Speaker 1: for Aaron Jones. The Green Bay Packers ran for two
Speaker 1: oh seven against this Cowboys defense that of course, they
Speaker 1: struggled to stop the run. They gave up two hundred
Speaker 1: plus against Chicago just two weeks ago, and their fin
Speaker 1: most recent game, back to back games, they've allowed two
Speaker 1: hundred plus yards. That's only the third time that's happened
Speaker 1: in the last thirty five seasons for the Dallas Cowboys. Isaiah,
Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on the loss? Oh Man, Missed opportunities,
Speaker 1: can't stop the run, misscommunication, and again with your receiver
Speaker 1: slash tight ends and your QB one, that's really what
Speaker 1: it comes down to it. I don't I don't look
Speaker 1: at referees. I mean there is some there's always gonna
Speaker 1: be toss up calls. Yeah, there's always gonna be toss
Speaker 1: up calls. People are like, oh McGovern was, that was
Speaker 1: a weak call. His hands were outside the pets. I mean,
Speaker 1: no matter how much you want to say he held
Speaker 1: or he didn't hold, his hands were outside the pads.
Speaker 1: As a very that's one of the main indicators that
Speaker 1: they're looking at. You know, Jay Alexander, you know whether
Speaker 1: or not that was pr That dude he's turning his
Speaker 1: head around, he's getting back around like he's going back
Speaker 1: and forth. It's a toss up call, right. There's guys
Speaker 1: pulling and grabbing. I mean, there's there's that going on
Speaker 1: on every play. If there was ever like, you could
Speaker 1: literally throw a flag on every play if you really
Speaker 1: wanted to. So I'm not going to rest it on that,
Speaker 1: but you can rest it on the fact that if
Speaker 1: you allow a team to continue to run the ball
Speaker 1: two hundred plus yards per game when you face opponents,
Speaker 1: they are always going to have a chance to win,
Speaker 1: always gonna have a chance. If you can't stop a
Speaker 1: team and get them off the field and they are
Speaker 1: allowed to continually move the chains down the field and
Speaker 1: you're not putting up points and you're creating and you
Speaker 1: are turning the ball over, teams are gonna have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to win ball games, and then you could then
Speaker 1: you compound those problems with a head coach that is
Speaker 1: makes an emotional, irrational decision in the most important time
Speaker 1: of the game, you're gonna lose, and that's going forward
Speaker 1: on fourth down and three in overtime. I'm just barely
Speaker 1: into your opponent's side of the field where you're actually
Speaker 1: you're within range from mahr. But you like not to
Speaker 1: kick it. You elect not to kick the but you're
Speaker 1: understand the situational awareness. If if it wasn't overtime, I
Speaker 1: might have been on the same page. Okay, let's if
Speaker 1: it wasn't overtime, sure, okay, but it was overtime, and
Speaker 1: in overtime you secure the points. And the reason why
Speaker 1: you secure the points is because you now put the
Speaker 1: opponents back against the wall to where they absolutely have
Speaker 1: to score. They have to score. You kick it out
Speaker 1: the end zone. You make them go the long way
Speaker 1: of the entire field, and you make your you let
Speaker 1: your defense pen their ears back and go ham because
Speaker 1: that's where you rest in. That's who is leading this
Speaker 1: team right now as your defense, and you take that
Speaker 1: opportunity away from them. Counterpoint and this is going to
Speaker 1: be the first time and hopefully the last time I
Speaker 1: pose this question regarding this this defense that is normally
Speaker 1: just stout outside of the run defense that needs to
Speaker 1: be figured out. What if, in that situation, because I
Speaker 1: mentioned it in regarding Cooper Russian Philly, if you know
Speaker 1: that a particular guy or segment of your team is
Speaker 1: not playing well, then you should scale that back and
Speaker 1: try to protect it a little bit from themselves. That
Speaker 1: was the Cooper rush situation in Philly. And what if
Speaker 1: that was the situation in Green Bay on yesterday and
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy not deciding to kick that field goal because
Speaker 1: he probably I'm not going to say he probably, but
Speaker 1: what if he felt like, because his defense had been
Speaker 1: giving up these big plays both on the ground and
Speaker 1: in the air the entire game, he's saying a field
Speaker 1: goal is just not going to do it. There's a
Speaker 1: chance that, because of the way the defense is playing,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers marches down this field and scores a touchdown
Speaker 1: and finishes the game. Anyway, So if that was the mentality,
Speaker 1: I'm not mad at it. I'm not mad at it
Speaker 1: at all. The only thing I would be mad at
Speaker 1: is Obviously the execution then would happen on the back
Speaker 1: end of that play. But if that in fact was
Speaker 1: his thought process, then I'm not mad at that aggression.
Speaker 1: I am why because statistically, I don't think Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: goes down and scores hitt and he did anybody by
Speaker 1: the way. I mean, yeah, he did that anyway. I mean,
Speaker 1: but the thing is like, it's all about what position
Speaker 1: are you going to put them into. It creates a
Speaker 1: totally different mindset. The response from Green Bay is substantially
Speaker 1: different if they know that they have to score, if
Speaker 1: they absolutely have to score, right It's different from your
Speaker 1: mindset saying we gotta go score a touchdown to win
Speaker 1: this game, versus we just got to get to that
Speaker 1: point right there because we got we got Crosby. We
Speaker 1: just need to get right there, that's all. We don't
Speaker 1: even about thirty yards. It doesn't matter. It's still Crosby
Speaker 1: at all matters. It doesn't. It's just like having Justin Tucker.
Speaker 1: If you have a Tucker on your team, you know
Speaker 1: that you're good, Like you know you just get to
Speaker 1: certain parts of the field where you know you're good.
Speaker 1: That's why we talked about the field goal. That's why
Speaker 1: we talked about the kicker all off season. That's why
Speaker 1: we're talking. That's why we're talking about it being a
Speaker 1: decision now. It's because you have Brett Maher. That's why
Speaker 1: it was a decision in the first place. Because you're
Speaker 1: not gonna punt that ball away, not from that point
Speaker 1: of the field. You're either going to kick the field goal,
Speaker 1: try it and put points on the board, or you're
Speaker 1: gonna go for it one of the two. That's where
Speaker 1: you're going putting my head coaching head on. I feel
Speaker 1: like there are two reasons that McCarthy decided not to
Speaker 1: kick that field goal. One is the one I just
Speaker 1: laid out. I feel like he saw his defense getting
Speaker 1: gashed in the air and on the ground the entire game,
Speaker 1: and normally it's just the ground and not in the air.
Speaker 1: So if it was a normal game in that capacity,
Speaker 1: then you could say, Okay, well, if we get this
Speaker 1: field goal, they're gonna have to score a touchdown. That
Speaker 1: means they're gonna have to get chunk plays after the kickoff.
Speaker 1: So I put trust in my secondary. But the secondary
Speaker 1: wasn't showing you much outside of Trivon Diggs for the
Speaker 1: most part. So you're like, hey, my defense isn't playing well.
Speaker 1: I'm going to try to protect them and get more
Speaker 1: aggressive and go for this touchdown. So now the boats
Speaker 1: they can do is match serve and then try to
Speaker 1: two point conversion. That's pressure in and of itself, but
Speaker 1: also the area of the direction of the field they
Speaker 1: were traveling in. That's the same direction that Crosby missed
Speaker 1: the field goal earlier in the game. And we're also
Speaker 1: talking about a head coach of Mike McCarthy that knows
Speaker 1: the dynamics of Lambou field very very well. Maybe he
Speaker 1: felt like there was some type of swirl effect down
Speaker 1: there that helped lead to Crosby missing that field goal
Speaker 1: that he didn't want to put Maha in a fifty
Speaker 1: plus yard situation to potentially do the same. And then
Speaker 1: guess what, Rogers gets the ball right where he got
Speaker 1: the ball anywhere, and he goes down to scores as
Speaker 1: he went down the scored anyway. So so many things
Speaker 1: that I could list that I have a problem with with,
Speaker 1: you know, that went wrong over the course of the game.
Speaker 1: That's just not one of them. I'm fine with that call,
Speaker 1: but you shouldn't that call never exists. Butterfly effect, that
Speaker 1: call never exists if you can if you communicate well
Speaker 1: with your wide receiver one and that's not an interception
Speaker 1: in the end zone, or don't show that, don't shoulter,
Speaker 1: if you communicate well with your wide receiver one and
Speaker 1: that interception across the middle of the field where you
Speaker 1: thought he was going to cross face. Going back to
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears, when Eddie Jackson did it, and he
Speaker 1: didn't cross face, he took the shoulder, he took the
Speaker 1: outside shoulder, he didn't flatten out his route. Another interception.
Speaker 1: Those types of mistakes, and of course the run defense.
Speaker 1: And you know, we all know how much we love DQ,
Speaker 1: and I love DQ to death. But when I see
Speaker 1: that Anthony Barr is out and Damon Clark finishes with
Speaker 1: only seven defensive snaps in a game where the opponent's
Speaker 1: rushing attack is just massacring you, I just I have questions.
Speaker 1: I have questions. I think everybody has questions about the
Speaker 1: run defense and what's been going on there and how
Speaker 1: do you fix it. Whenever I went back and watched it,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about the defense here in a couple
Speaker 1: of moments, But I wrote down just three sentences or
Speaker 1: three thoughts. I said, sloppy stunt work, lots of man coverage,
Speaker 1: and poor gap discipline and tackling. That's kind of what
Speaker 1: I had for this defense overall. And that's not an
Speaker 1: easy one week fix either. That's a long term overhaul
Speaker 1: that you would have to take in order to try
Speaker 1: and stop the run. Now, I want to talk about
Speaker 1: this fourth down and four decision a little bit more
Speaker 1: because from what I'm hearing, you're more upset Patrick at
Speaker 1: the execution, the execution of it, rather than the call. Correct.
Speaker 1: But the execution wasn't there a all game long, So
Speaker 1: you're talking about the lack of execution from the defense
Speaker 1: stopping the run. Isaiah. They weren't necessarily moving the football
Speaker 1: at will either, especially in the second half going into
Speaker 1: that that fourth quarter. They had no rhythm whatsoever on
Speaker 1: offense in the fourth Yeah, I'm I can't even get
Speaker 1: up my allow my mind space to do, my head
Speaker 1: space to go to that point. Like, I can't even
Speaker 1: get there, because to me, it was such a no
Speaker 1: brainer decision to take the point, to take the points, Yeah,
Speaker 1: like it really was, and or at least try for
Speaker 1: the points because it wasn't an easy, feel easy field goal.
Speaker 1: But where if you there's a lot of questions about
Speaker 1: Brett maher right and whether or not he can make
Speaker 1: the forties and thirties. Nobody questions the fifties. Nobody questions
Speaker 1: whether his ability to kick fifties. That's just that's his
Speaker 1: comfort zone. Like that's just his thing, right, everybody has
Speaker 1: their thing. That is his thing. So I felt very
Speaker 1: confident with his ability to score those points. And I
Speaker 1: felt like you had a good drive. You drove the
Speaker 1: ball down there. Boom, Okay, they stops you right there,
Speaker 1: bone kick the dog on field goal. Take those points. Defense,
Speaker 1: you know what to do defense, You know what to do.
Speaker 1: His backs against the wall. You know the point of
Speaker 1: the field that he needs to get to to win
Speaker 1: this ball game. Don't let him get there. Don't let
Speaker 1: him get there. That's a totally different mindset. Then crap.
Speaker 1: The entire playbook is open to Aaron Rodgers now, and
Speaker 1: he knows that all he has to do is marching.
Speaker 1: However many yards it was thirty yards, whether forty yards, like,
Speaker 1: that's all he has to do in his head. I
Speaker 1: just need to get to right there now, And they
Speaker 1: got it. All on one completion to Lazard over the
Speaker 1: metal Branford extra yardage, got inside the twenty, and then
Speaker 1: of course they took it down to the ten, took
Speaker 1: a knee, and it was a pat. That's what we're
Speaker 1: going to your point of execution. It's also in real
Speaker 1: time as well, because in real time your offense was
Speaker 1: moving the ball on that drive, So that drive specific
Speaker 1: right that on that drive specifically, your offense was moving
Speaker 1: the ball. So therein lies the confidence in Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: to say, hey, we might not have been moving it
Speaker 1: well over the course of the back half of this game,
Speaker 1: but hey, look we're moving it right now. So let's
Speaker 1: take advantage of us being able to move it right now,
Speaker 1: and then toss in the other factors that I mentioned
Speaker 1: a little bit ago, and I just I don't have
Speaker 1: a problem with the car. I have a problem with
Speaker 1: the execution. But to your question, well, if you've not
Speaker 1: been executing all, well, like the defense hasn't. With a difference, well,
Speaker 1: it's in that particular moment the offense was actually executing,
Speaker 1: so I would be again, I'm fine with the decision. Now,
Speaker 1: we could argue the play call itself and the execution,
Speaker 1: but the decision to go forward, I'm that I'm completely
Speaker 1: fine with. I have an extra grind in several other
Speaker 1: areas of the game, but that's that's well, first of
Speaker 1: all the secondary and of course the second that the
Speaker 1: success of the secondary is always going to be, or
Speaker 1: almost always going to be, predicated upon the success of
Speaker 1: the pass rush. Pass rush could not consistently get home
Speaker 1: and shouts out to DeMarcus Lawrence. Seems of gloween read
Speaker 1: I mean glowing golden circle from yesterday. He played out
Speaker 1: of his mind both in run defense uh when it
Speaker 1: came to his side and in the pass rush arena.
Speaker 1: But outside of DeMarcus Lawrence and Sam Williams shots out
Speaker 1: to Sam Williams, he had todown. He did absolutely outside
Speaker 1: of those two guys. And I don't have to go
Speaker 1: back and watch the film, but I don't know if
Speaker 1: it was because Michael wasn't one hundred percent and or
Speaker 1: if he just couldn't get off on yesterday. But whatever
Speaker 1: the case may be, the Packers did not feel the
Speaker 1: impact of Michael Parsons, not only with sacks but with
Speaker 1: disruptions overall. We didn't see the disruptions from Michael Parsons
Speaker 1: and that allowed Aaron Rodgers a little bit more time
Speaker 1: to do what Aaron Rodgers does. So the pass rush
Speaker 1: outside of Sam Williams and Marcus Lawrence was mostly ineffective.
Speaker 1: I have an extra ground with that. You're the best
Speaker 1: pass rushing in the league, pass rushing the league, and
Speaker 1: you didn't show up yesterday for the most part. That
Speaker 1: made it more difficult for your secondary against a quarterback.
Speaker 1: You know, if he has time, he's going to torch you,
Speaker 1: and that's exactly what happened. Trayvon Dixlay played mostly well,
Speaker 1: but we saw what him with Anthony Brown, you know,
Speaker 1: and then he ended up leaven with a concussion After
Speaker 1: that big play from Watson, Covid Joseph got targeted early
Speaker 1: once he became once he came in for that, Kelvin
Speaker 1: almost had a game breaking force fumble on Aaron Jones.
Speaker 1: But it just nothing broke right for the Cowboys. It
Speaker 1: just feeling like the one play that they needed was
Speaker 1: always right there. They were always right there on the
Speaker 1: event horizon, but it just couldn't go. It just couldn't.
Speaker 1: It couldn't make that leap. Where were your some of
Speaker 1: your bones to pick for this Cowboys loss, I mean
Speaker 1: the miscommunication Dalton Schultz was responsible for. I mean, back up,
Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz ran the wrong route on the red zone interception.
Speaker 1: He firstally got knocked off his route, he ran the round.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that's his explanation of it, and I'm
Speaker 1: not explaining it for him, And I'm saying it was
Speaker 1: a drive. It was a drive concept. Drive concept. The
Speaker 1: two receivers on the right side run clear outs to
Speaker 1: turn to try to just just back to the secondary off.
Speaker 1: Cede Lambs was running about a twelter fifteen yard and
Speaker 1: right on the goal line, and Dalton shots is supposed
Speaker 1: to be the low man to run a drive ride
Speaker 1: across well, Dawson Schultz run the same exact route as
Speaker 1: CD Lamb. Right, you know who was supposed to run
Speaker 1: a rout based off alignment alone. Ceede Lamb was off
Speaker 1: the ball off the ball Man's never gonna run shallow,
Speaker 1: He's always gonna run a deep route. Then on the
Speaker 1: ball man's was running shadow. Okay, he ran the wrong route. However,
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott seen that you don't throw the freaking ball. Yep,
Speaker 1: you don't compound a problem with another problem. So all
Speaker 1: the way wrong in that room came the receiver order
Speaker 1: in the tight end room messed up, and then the
Speaker 1: QB one didn't make it any better by throwing it
Speaker 1: and then throw your hands up and get frustrated. Cool,
Speaker 1: that's one bad decision what I have drawn up on
Speaker 1: my tablet right now. And teams are starting to do this.
Speaker 1: They know that when they see Ceedee Lamb in the
Speaker 1: slot that a lot of times he's either running an
Speaker 1: over route okay based upon play action, or he has
Speaker 1: a read route on the inside where he's his read
Speaker 1: is middle of field open or middle of field closed.
Speaker 1: Teams are starting to show single high and then playing
Speaker 1: a dual coverage, so instead of playing one or three
Speaker 1: was single high, they're showing single high priests and in
Speaker 1: post snap they're going to cover two on one side
Speaker 1: and cover four on another side. And it is creating
Speaker 1: a lot of confusion for him in terms of what
Speaker 1: he's supposed to do. So when you see him run
Speaker 1: that route, it looked like it was going to be
Speaker 1: a single high coverage. One safety is actually the first
Speaker 1: substantially further back from the line of scrimmage than one,
Speaker 1: which gives the illusion of a single high. But that's
Speaker 1: why you saw he was in between do I run
Speaker 1: the post or do I run the end route? Dak
Speaker 1: is reading it one way like it's single high, when
Speaker 1: reality is too high. It's a lot of confusing crap
Speaker 1: going on right now. But they have to find some
Speaker 1: solution offensively to say, hey, if this is the look,
Speaker 1: this is the route, because right now they're reading, they're
Speaker 1: not reading the same language now. And I think Dak
Speaker 1: was off early as well, like early in the ballgame.
Speaker 1: He was not good at all. Because I looked at
Speaker 1: it and my notes written down Dak off early with
Speaker 1: a bad throw on third down, tight window near pick
Speaker 1: to Brown on the next play, additionals because I wrote
Speaker 1: that down, and then I kept seeing bad throws, said additionals,
Speaker 1: throwing into the ground against lamb, throw behind the lamb
Speaker 1: two A couple plays later, then I put additional additionals
Speaker 1: and I said throw wide to gallop and then throw
Speaker 1: out a bounce. I mean, he was not good yesterday.
Speaker 1: So when we come back here on talking Cowboys, where
Speaker 1: do you go? Where do you start with the offense?
Speaker 1: You ran the football effectively. You had one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifteen yards of Tony Pollard, Dak Prescott through for forty times.
Speaker 1: It didn't look good. A couple big time mistakes. Where
Speaker 1: does the offense take a step forward when we come
Speaker 1: back with more talking cowboys after this. When you build,
Speaker 1: you start with the foundation, and homeownership is a foundation
Speaker 1: of a stable future. The Bank of America Community Homeownership
Speaker 1: Commitment has helped over thirty four thousand people lay the
Speaker 1: ground work so far. With up to ten thousand dollars
Speaker 1: to at your down payment or three percent of the
Speaker 1: purchase price, whichever is less. The satisfaction of owning your
Speaker 1: own place can become a reality. Visit Bank of America
Speaker 1: dot com slash homeowner to learn more. What would you
Speaker 1: like the power to do? Bank of America an a
Speaker 1: equal housing lender, credit and colarior Luthi to approval restrictions apply.
Speaker 1: This is not a commitment to lend this sweet. Did
Speaker 1: you get to work on time? Yeah? But I just
Speaker 1: realized it's Sunday. Little sweets his head on home. Doctor
Speaker 1: Pepper's on its way. Maybe there's nothing better. I'm You've
Speaker 1: probably done something you investionistic in an NFT Yeah, and
Speaker 1: I don't even know what that is. It's a non
Speaker 1: functable total somethings at Todd thought it would be secure
Speaker 1: to jog in the cheetah Savannah. Todd believed the big
Speaker 1: Cat repellent he bought online was reliable, and now Todd
Speaker 1: is trying to be faster than this cheetah that can
Speaker 1: run eighty miles per home. But the good news is
Speaker 1: Todd has AT and T five G. It is fast, reliable,
Speaker 1: and secure, and he learned the best thing to do
Speaker 1: is stop running and toss her the backpack with the
Speaker 1: beef stew At and T five G. Fast, reliable, secure,
Speaker 1: It's not complicated. Five G requires compatible plan and device.
Speaker 1: Five G may not be available in your area. See
Speaker 1: at dot com slash byg for you for details. Are
Speaker 1: you ready to take coffee off your grocery list forever?
Speaker 1: Black Rifle Coffee Club is here to help. As a
Speaker 1: Coffee Club member, you'll get your favorite coffees, roasted package
Speaker 1: and ship to your door free of charge on your
Speaker 1: preferred schedule. Set it, forget it, and never run low
Speaker 1: on coffee again. Members also get exclusive deals on coffee
Speaker 1: products and discounts from partner brands. Ease your mind and
Speaker 1: let Black Rifle. Worry about your coffee supply. Go to
Speaker 1: Black Riflecoffee dot com to join the coffee club today
Speaker 1: to Talking Cowboys. Welcome back here to Talking Cowboys, presented
Speaker 1: by Black Rifle Coffee Company, the official coffee of the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys experience. The most electrifying event of the holiday season,
Speaker 1: Cowboys Christmas is Extravaganza powered by Reliant. Every Friday and
Speaker 1: Saturday night from November eighteenth through December seventeenth, Cowboys Christmas
Speaker 1: Extravaganza ignites the Star in Frisco with an unforgettable holiday experience,
Speaker 1: showcasing the world renowned Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, your favorite Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys football heroes, and Santa Claus two. Visit the Star
Speaker 1: District dot com slash Christmas for more info. That is
Speaker 1: a long goodness gracious, all right, now that we're through that, Isaiah,
Speaker 1: we were talking in the break here, and I'm actually
Speaker 1: super intrigued by this. I want you to show your
Speaker 1: camera here and I want you to kind of show
Speaker 1: me some of the things. It's just one instance on
Speaker 1: what Green Bay was doing to kind of confuse Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: and I need you to audibilize it. For the people
Speaker 1: that are listening. But if you're watching, this is really interesting.
Speaker 1: All right, So as I go to my tablet here,
Speaker 1: sorry about on my chicken scratch. But can you hear me,
Speaker 1: good beamer. Sorry, what you're seeing here is a single
Speaker 1: high safety. Okay, I'm trying to do it backwards. What
Speaker 1: you're seeing here is a single high safe. So that's
Speaker 1: what Dak Prescott sees whenever you have ceedee lamb over
Speaker 1: here in the slot. Okay, he's running up and a
Speaker 1: trying to run in right, that's the first single high
Speaker 1: He's gonna run an in route in front of the safety. Okay,
Speaker 1: So that's what he did not do versus the Chicago
Speaker 1: Bears a couple of weeks ago. Right, But if he
Speaker 1: has the middle of the field to open, or if
Speaker 1: there's two safeties, or if there's two safeties going out, okay,
Speaker 1: so cover two, cover four, he's supposed to split those safeties. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's supposed to split those safeties. So right now, you
Speaker 1: guys seeing the pre snap bread where it looks like
Speaker 1: a single high this safety is about five yards deeper
Speaker 1: than this safety down here in the strong safety. Easy
Speaker 1: read in pre snap. But what happens is there's a
Speaker 1: pre and there's a post snap. So as you snap
Speaker 1: the ball, okay, boom, no, that's my other player. Sorry.
Speaker 1: As you snapped the ball right now, you're seeing that
Speaker 1: far side safety that was about five yards deep. What
Speaker 1: is he doing right here? No, see, he's running to
Speaker 1: the second half, so he's playing half right. He's playing
Speaker 1: covered two right over here in the cornerback. The cornerback's
Speaker 1: playing down. So on that half of the field, they're
Speaker 1: playing cover two perfect. But on the half of the
Speaker 1: field where Cede Lamb is supposed to make his read route,
Speaker 1: they're playing quarters coverage. Quarters coverage means the corner has
Speaker 1: a quarter of the field, the safety has a quarter
Speaker 1: of the field. It's still a two high I read,
Speaker 1: but it still looks really odd because one safety is
Speaker 1: so much further back than the other. So when cd
Speaker 1: Land comes up to the point of his route where
Speaker 1: he has to now distinguish whether it's single high or
Speaker 1: dual high, you saw the confusion and you saw the
Speaker 1: indecisiveness because he's reading it. He's like, it looks like
Speaker 1: two safeties, but that safety is way back there. So
Speaker 1: do I cross his face or do I run the
Speaker 1: post route and Dak Prescott was still reading it as
Speaker 1: what a single high so he's throwing the en route
Speaker 1: right now. He has thinking CD is going to cross
Speaker 1: face because of that, But the confusion of having the
Speaker 1: two safeties on that side of the field allowed CD
Speaker 1: to have to make a decision. He decided to go
Speaker 1: back behind and then they were on the on a
Speaker 1: different page there. So Dak, when you look at it
Speaker 1: based upon the rules, DAK isn't the wrong based upon
Speaker 1: the rules, and I'm going back on my word now.
Speaker 1: That's why I usually different than don't talk, is different
Speaker 1: than the Chicago deal. Based upon the rules of the concept,
Speaker 1: DAK is wrong because it's two high safety. But they're
Speaker 1: giving both looks of a two high coverage. They're giving
Speaker 1: the cover four look and the cover two look. If
Speaker 1: he runs the posts based off this look right here,
Speaker 1: it's going to be intercepted. If he runs the end route,
Speaker 1: he's good. But there's nothing on here that says run
Speaker 1: the end route based upon their rules. Really confusing, but
Speaker 1: teams are starting to do this because they understand when
Speaker 1: CD's in there, he's usually running some form of a
Speaker 1: middle of the field open or middle field closed, and
Speaker 1: they understand that this distinguishment, this disparity between one safety's
Speaker 1: level and the other safety's level is causing a ton
Speaker 1: of the decisions that are that are not in favor
Speaker 1: of Cowboys. This is very smart by Green Bay. And
Speaker 1: those those interceptions and this one also obviously when you're
Speaker 1: talking about interceptions, but those are the tail of the game.
Speaker 1: And again, all of this matters, right, So the officiating matters,
Speaker 1: and you know, the interceptions matter, and all of it matters.
Speaker 1: All of it matters. But when I look at these
Speaker 1: numbers and you try to figure out why the Cowboys
Speaker 1: lost this game, it's because of the takeaways by Green Bay.
Speaker 1: So twenty four first downs by the Cowboys only twenty
Speaker 1: first downs by the Packers. Cowboys took the edge there.
Speaker 1: In third down conversion Cowboys only five or fifteen when
Speaker 1: the Packers only six thirteen, so they almost broke even there.
Speaker 1: Total net yards four hundred and twenty one for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: four or fifteen for the Packers. That's pretty much a
Speaker 1: wash as well. Here's where it starts to break in
Speaker 1: favor of the Packers. The Cowboys had seventy nine offensive plays,
Speaker 1: the Packers only had sixty one, which means they were
Speaker 1: either more efficient on their plays, which is true, but
Speaker 1: something else happened in which they didn't have to, you know,
Speaker 1: field the ball as many times offensively, and that's takeaways
Speaker 1: in big plays, the chunk plays. It's what goes to
Speaker 1: the Cowboys having to run more because the Cowboys didn't
Speaker 1: get nearly as many chunk plays as Washington excuse me,
Speaker 1: as Green Bay did, and then it kind of goes
Speaker 1: from there. So for me, when the question is where
Speaker 1: do you go from here? Because the run defense was
Speaker 1: working and the passing attack was working, but it was
Speaker 1: the two instances in which it went awry be at
Speaker 1: those two interceptions that the Packers capitalized on. And so
Speaker 1: the answer is, don't turn the ball over. But the
Speaker 1: Packers had two turnovers as well, and the Cowboys could
Speaker 1: not capitalize on those as the Packers capitalized on. The
Speaker 1: Reason why I bring that up, though, is because you're saying, obviously,
Speaker 1: you don't turn the ball over. That always put you
Speaker 1: in a bad situation. But the turnovers neutralize each other
Speaker 1: based upon just stats. The first ones did, and then
Speaker 1: the second one they had two interceptions. They had two fumbles,
Speaker 1: right right, okay, so I'm but look at the outcome. Now,
Speaker 1: what happens after that? That's that's what I mean, right,
Speaker 1: But in terms of turnovers, they had equal opportunity because
Speaker 1: we're happening after after de Marcus, after Lawrence's sack fumble
Speaker 1: and recovery by curse that should have been points. What
Speaker 1: the Cowboys do? They realized my point, that's why, and
Speaker 1: I when it happatistically, that's why the stats on the
Speaker 1: whole story, that's why I don't all the way on
Speaker 1: the stats because that's where does the penalty situation come in? Where?
Speaker 1: Because they were and I marked it down, I said,
Speaker 1: penalties that turned into points or cost you points. When
Speaker 1: it happens four different times. You had eight penalties for
Speaker 1: or for sixty three yards I think is what The
Speaker 1: final stat was, nine for eighty three, nine for eighty three.
Speaker 1: So I got the numbers mixed up. But penalties for
Speaker 1: points or no points. There were four of them that
Speaker 1: either cost you points or allowed for Green Bay to
Speaker 1: score points at the other end of the field. So
Speaker 1: where does that play into it? Because there was a
Speaker 1: ton of them. It's it's the wind, it's the wind
Speaker 1: butterfly effect. If you don't turn the ball over, which
Speaker 1: then doesn't allow Green Bay to get fourteen points, and
Speaker 1: then you're probably blowing this team out to the point
Speaker 1: where when you get down to the late third quarter
Speaker 1: into the fourth quarter, then these penalties probably don't exist.
Speaker 1: Be it you know, conspiracy theories or otherwise, they just
Speaker 1: don't exist because they're irrelevant. They don't matter. The outlook
Speaker 1: of the game is different. The Cowboys are running the
Speaker 1: ball because they're trying to burn the clock dot dot dot.
Speaker 1: So I'm with you, hours, it's the win, it's the wind.
Speaker 1: I do want to hit this just real quickly. The
Speaker 1: same play that Isaiah just broke down the interception over
Speaker 1: the middle of the field, Kingsley ignant bare the rookie
Speaker 1: out of South Carolina. He got a tip of He
Speaker 1: tipped that ball just barely. It didn't change anything. It
Speaker 1: would have been an interception either way. Dak was looking
Speaker 1: at down that safety was there. It didn't change anything.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to make it. Yeah, people, it was tipped.
Speaker 1: People are making that as an excuse. It was not change.
Speaker 1: It was gonna be a picture. Dak red single high
Speaker 1: CD red to a dual high late and because the
Speaker 1: thing is indecisiveness at the receiver position will screw you over.
Speaker 1: It's what It's what Aaron Rodgers has been dealing with
Speaker 1: all season long, the indecisiveness. Yesterday he dealt with drops. Okay,
Speaker 1: prior to this game, he's been dealing with receivers not
Speaker 1: knowing where to go, not knowing what to do. Cede
Speaker 1: Lamb in that instance they have, That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have to go back. And Kellen Moore's got
Speaker 1: to say, hey, listen up, we're starting to see this now.
Speaker 1: We're not just starting to see the base found the
Speaker 1: base coverages. Now we're starting to see combination coverages. So
Speaker 1: when we see these combination coverages, this is what the
Speaker 1: route's going to be. It's no longer a read route.
Speaker 1: This is what it's going to be because it looks
Speaker 1: like two different things and the defenses know that. So
Speaker 1: along those same lines of the offense not executing, there
Speaker 1: was some execution that went well for they They ran
Speaker 1: them all back exceptionally well. They did battle back. They
Speaker 1: built a lead, they got up twenty four or twenty
Speaker 1: eight to fourteen. They built this lead based on the
Speaker 1: way that their offense blocked. I thought the offensive line
Speaker 1: had a pretty solid day for the most Parrot, Campbell
Speaker 1: and Gary on the field. Yeah, yeah, exactly. I thought
Speaker 1: they had a pretty nice day the offensive line. So
Speaker 1: I want to give credit where credit is due there.
Speaker 1: I thought Ceedee Lamb answered after making a mistake early on,
Speaker 1: he had a phenomenal game, big time stats, big time plays.
Speaker 1: He did what you needed to and then some of
Speaker 1: the play calling I really liked. I thought they got creative,
Speaker 1: but not outside of themselves at times. But then we
Speaker 1: got to the fourth quarter, and that's where I want
Speaker 1: to go next with this offense. What happened? Why do
Speaker 1: you go away from the run? Why are you forcing
Speaker 1: screens outside? It goes back to what you've talked about.
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna give Isaiah a lot of credit here
Speaker 1: because he saw this thing coming from a mile away.
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore will be within himself for only as long
Speaker 1: as it takes for him to get outside of himself,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, those decisions are made.
Speaker 1: MB always wants to be. He's fighting himself. He's literally
Speaker 1: fighting himself. And listen, we talked about this. I sat
Speaker 1: here and told you guys last week if Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: throws with forty plus times, was the result probably a loss?
Speaker 1: I said, I said it, if Dak storm forty plus times,
Speaker 1: that's not what he does. He is a play action quarterback.
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong with that. Let him play off the
Speaker 1: play action. That's when you were most successful as an
Speaker 1: offense with the Dallas Cowboys. Tony Pollard is toting the ball.
Speaker 1: You were getting a ton of yards underground. He was
Speaker 1: averaging five point two yards per carry, twenty two attempts,
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifteen yards. Why would we go away
Speaker 1: from that? Why at what point in the game did
Speaker 1: you have to abandon that and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: start taking things to the air. Yeah, there's no need
Speaker 1: for it. And that's when I say that Kellen Moore
Speaker 1: is a really good, really good offensive coordinator. But there's
Speaker 1: these things where he's times where he's just literally it's
Speaker 1: a it's an inner struggle, it's an inner rally. He's
Speaker 1: wrestling with himself and he's like, Okay, I know what
Speaker 1: I should do, but this is what I'm going to do.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately, when you have somebody that's making those decisions
Speaker 1: and then you have a quarterback that's not throwing the
Speaker 1: ball as actively as you like, and then you have
Speaker 1: receivers that are confused based on coverages. All this stuff
Speaker 1: compounds and you can easily just take all those problems
Speaker 1: away and see me saying, hey, we're getting five yards
Speaker 1: per tote. Yeah, five yards per tote. Give the freaking
Speaker 1: ball to Tony Polar and to that point. And this
Speaker 1: is something that we've talked about because Kelling himself kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, jokingly admitted it weeks ago. He said, if
Speaker 1: it were to me, I throw the ball one hundred
Speaker 1: percent of the time. So this is this is one
Speaker 1: of those games where giveaway. That's one of those games
Speaker 1: where McCarthy mentioned it coming out of the Week one
Speaker 1: loss against Tampa Bay he said, we need to make
Speaker 1: smarter decisions in certain situations and going into the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: this is one of them. Now, the special team's penalties,
Speaker 1: you can't keep giving your offense along face. Hey, Luke
Speaker 1: Gifford had a heck of a game. Shout out to
Speaker 1: Luke Gifford. So did C. J. Good Ones. Yeah a game.
Speaker 1: He made some amazing tap absolutely and shot out to
Speaker 1: Turpin too. Yeah. Yeah, but Turpet almost had another one yeah,
Speaker 1: he did. Man, he almost had another. But but to
Speaker 1: that point as far as changing up things, so you know,
Speaker 1: you get the penalty home Payton hinder shot unnecessary roughness
Speaker 1: on that point. That gives the Cowboys a long field.
Speaker 1: So they're starting in the fourth quarter and on first
Speaker 1: and ten from their own five yard line. First play
Speaker 1: was a pass. But we just talked about how the
Speaker 1: running game is averaging almost six yards of carry and
Speaker 1: you're in your own goal post is staring at your back.
Speaker 1: The first one was a pass. Dak Prescott was sacked. Okay,
Speaker 1: next play, Tony Pollard up the good five yards. Okay,
Speaker 1: what if that had been the first down play? Okay. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: Tony shortens it and now it was third and six
Speaker 1: and they go back to a pass and it doesn't work.
Speaker 1: It's no a brown, it's three yards, so it's three
Speaker 1: yards short. Now, special teams does what it does best.
Speaker 1: C J. Goodwon on that punt. He goes down, he
Speaker 1: forces the fumble. So that worked out for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: They were able to get the ball back and they
Speaker 1: would be able to get a touchdown. But it just
Speaker 1: goes to the over arching point that Kyle is saying
Speaker 1: that in the fourth quarter when you need it, when
Speaker 1: you really really need it to continue to exploit what
Speaker 1: was working, which was the run game. You didn't and
Speaker 1: you should have. Yes, just want to throw this out here.
Speaker 1: I'm not a big stat guy. Sometimes it backs your point.
Speaker 1: I'm only a stat guy when I'm right, right way.
Speaker 1: Thirty one rushing attempts. It's like PFA, it's right when
Speaker 1: it's thirty one rushing attempts for an average of five
Speaker 1: point one yards per carry, forty six passing attempts for
Speaker 1: an average of five point eight yards per reception. Okay,
Speaker 1: not great, five point one versus five point eight. Greater
Speaker 1: chance of bad things happenings on one versus the other.
Speaker 1: And your offensive line can run downhill, you can get
Speaker 1: into a rhythm, you can bully some people, You can
Speaker 1: do so many different it was playing, will exactly correct.
Speaker 1: Just one more stat on the offense before we switch
Speaker 1: to the defense. We go to our second break. Yesterday
Speaker 1: was the twentieth time in Dak Prescott's career number twenty
Speaker 1: that he's thrown for at least forty pass attempts in
Speaker 1: a single game. He is now six and fourteen in
Speaker 1: those games. Now I know a lot of that is
Speaker 1: caused and I don't even don't even remember the term.
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of that's throwing from behind. Basically
Speaker 1: you're trying to catch up and so he's throwing those
Speaker 1: pass attempts. But well, last night was not the case.
Speaker 1: That was not the case. A lot of these are
Speaker 1: really those games in it didn't go in their favor
Speaker 1: because that's that's kind of how it goes. All right,
Speaker 1: when we come back here on talking Cowboys, let's slip
Speaker 1: to the defensive side of things. How do you stop
Speaker 1: the run? That's the biggest question in this building right now,
Speaker 1: and it's not looking like it's going to slow down
Speaker 1: anytime soon. We'll be right back after this. Todd thought
Speaker 1: it would be secure to jog in the cheetah Savannah.
Speaker 1: Todd believed the big Cat repellent he bought online was reliable.
Speaker 1: And Todd is trying to be faster than this cheetah
Speaker 1: that can run eighty miles per hour. But the good
Speaker 1: news is Todd has at and T five g. It
Speaker 1: is fast, reliable, and secure, and he learned the best
Speaker 1: thing to do is stop running and toss her the
Speaker 1: backpack with the beef stew At and T five G fast, reliable, secure,
Speaker 1: It's not complicated. Five G requires compatible plan and device.
Speaker 1: Five GMI not be available in your areas. He att
Speaker 1: dot com slash big for you for details. Black Rifle
Speaker 1: Coffee Company says premium coffee to people who love America.
Speaker 1: When you drink Black Rifle Coffee, you are directly supporting veterans,
Speaker 1: law enforcement, and first responders in your community. Black Rifells
Speaker 1: expert roasters love coffee almost as much as Texas loves football,
Speaker 1: so it makes sense that America's coffee partner with America's team.
Speaker 1: Go online at Black Riflecoffee dot com and fuel up
Speaker 1: with the official coffee of the Dallas Cowboys. That's Black
Speaker 1: Riflecoffee dot Com. To fuel up today? This sweet? Did
Speaker 1: you get to work on time? Yeah? But I just
Speaker 1: realized it's Sunday. Little sweets his head on home. Doctor
Speaker 1: Pepper is on its way. So sweet, baby, there's nothing better.
Speaker 1: I bet you've probably done something. You invest in nest
Speaker 1: egg and NFT and I don't even know what that is.
Speaker 1: It's a noun punchable token. Something has a doctor about that.
Speaker 1: I want to use what the pros use? How about
Speaker 1: the official men's skincare brand of the Dallas Cowboys, Jack Black.
Speaker 1: Right now you can get the Jack Black Starter, a
Speaker 1: curated collection of Cowboys locker room favorites, for just ten
Speaker 1: bucks with free shipping. The Starter includes four Jack Clack
Speaker 1: skincare favorites plus a full size and tense therapy lipbomb.
Speaker 1: Go to get Jack Black dot com slash Cowboys and
Speaker 1: use the code word team JB. That's get Jack Black
Speaker 1: dot com slash Cowboys The Jack Black Starter ten bucks,
Speaker 1: free shipping to Talking Cowboys. Tis the season for Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys holiday youth camps presented by Invisiline. Registration for one
Speaker 1: day football and Dance Academy camps are now open. Don't
Speaker 1: miss your chance to send your athlete to camp at
Speaker 1: at and T Stadium on December twentieth and twenty First
Speaker 1: register today at Dallas Cowboys dot com slash Academy and
Speaker 1: use the code XMAS twenty five to get twenty five
Speaker 1: dollars off x MS twenty five All Capital to get
Speaker 1: twenty five dollars off. Back here with Patrick Nose Walker,
Speaker 1: Isaiah stand Back, Chris Beam in the Backham Kyle Yeoman's
Speaker 1: glad you're with us here on this Monday, following a
Speaker 1: thirty one twenty eight over time loss to the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers. And we've already established this. It wasn't pretty
Speaker 1: stopping the run two hundred and seven yards on the
Speaker 1: ground for the Dallas Cowboys. It's a second straight game
Speaker 1: they've allowed two hundred plus rushing yards to an opponent.
Speaker 1: And I tweeted this out last night. But it's not
Speaker 1: a promising schedule for the Cowboys struggling run defense. Dalvin Cook,
Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley, Jonathan Taylor, Damian Pierce, Travis etn the Eagles
Speaker 1: in week sixteen. I don't even I don't even want
Speaker 1: to just name one guy there because it's the Eagles.
Speaker 1: And then Derrick Henry in week seventeen. Oh he's the
Speaker 1: King King Henry. Uh yeah, it doesn't get much easier.
Speaker 1: Got to figure it out. This defense has been fantastic
Speaker 1: all season long, elite level defense, except in one area.
Speaker 1: They're Achilles heel. You can't stop the run. But you
Speaker 1: got to figure that out. You know what I saw
Speaker 1: on the film? What you see you about chee and
Speaker 1: scratch again. But I don't know how Dan Queen handles
Speaker 1: is here I know he will. They're going from what
Speaker 1: I'm seeing, at least in a yesterday's game, I have
Speaker 1: to go back and make sure that it's that checks
Speaker 1: the box. On other games the X I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people are talking about all the you know,
Speaker 1: the guys are getting to the edge and they're tearing
Speaker 1: us up on the edge. Dallas's defense is going too
Speaker 1: heavy to the strength of offenses. So if I line
Speaker 1: up three receivers on one side, one receiver on our
Speaker 1: left side, I'm going to the strength. I'm gonna load
Speaker 1: my defense to wherever the tight end is at. Wherever
Speaker 1: the tight end goes, that's where the strength of the
Speaker 1: defense goes. Okay, so literally in the entire front, wherever
Speaker 1: it is, guys, the interior linement, the d NS, all
Speaker 1: that stuff is dictated based upon where the tight end goes.
Speaker 1: What happened yesterday is every time green Bay lined up
Speaker 1: with their tight end, whatever side that is, Dallas went
Speaker 1: super heavy over there. So you ended up with from
Speaker 1: the center. Say it's say the tight end line up
Speaker 1: to the right side. You line up with four guys
Speaker 1: lined up to the right for green Bay, but Dallas
Speaker 1: would have six. But what they would end up doing
Speaker 1: was running a motion with Watson or running a motion
Speaker 1: with the tight end, and then they ended up with
Speaker 1: the advantage on the backside. So where Dallas was super
Speaker 1: heavy towards the tight end, green Bay was running opposite
Speaker 1: of the tight end because that's where Dallas was let
Speaker 1: was weak at numbers wise right, and with the motion,
Speaker 1: the fly motions, the return motions, all this stuff they
Speaker 1: were doing, they ended up with the numbers advantage on
Speaker 1: the back side, which is why they were doing that.
Speaker 1: Plus they were pulling two offensive linement for most of
Speaker 1: the game, so they were ending up where Dallas thought
Speaker 1: they were playing the strength. Green Bay actually went backside
Speaker 1: and actually ended up with the strength. Six on four,
Speaker 1: seven on five, whatever it might have been. They always
Speaker 1: had a one or two man advantage on those outside
Speaker 1: run plays, which is why they kept going to the
Speaker 1: whale line. It because Dallas was out leveraged. So in
Speaker 1: Layman's terms, it's pre snap we were running to the
Speaker 1: weak side. However, post snap, very quickly it turns to
Speaker 1: the strong ste Well, it's just it's just Dallas. It's like, okay,
Speaker 1: where's the tight end. End tight ends over there on
Speaker 1: the left side, Okay, cool, we're going heavy left. We're
Speaker 1: going heavy left right. That's where they must be going there.
Speaker 1: We're going heavy left. And green Bay's like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: go ahead and load up this side. Yeah, go ahead
Speaker 1: and load it up this side. We're gonna go backside.
Speaker 1: We're gonna run a motion over there, so we're gonna
Speaker 1: gain the leverage. Our receivers are outside of your dbs.
Speaker 1: Your dbs are lined up inside because they're trying to
Speaker 1: protect what they're trying to put. Dallass is trying to
Speaker 1: protect the runs or everybody's kind of squeeze in the box. Well,
Speaker 1: these receivers now opposing offenses are now lining up outside
Speaker 1: of those guys, which gives them what angle crackback angles.
Speaker 1: So now these receivers could come down and block down down,
Speaker 1: and they're starting to pull their now they're tight ends.
Speaker 1: They're starting to pull their tackles. We call it down,
Speaker 1: down and around. So guys are cracked backing on the DBS, DVA,
Speaker 1: the officivel lignement are cracking down on those other defensiveligement
Speaker 1: and then you're pulling your tackles, you're pulling your guards,
Speaker 1: and these guys are now coming around and getting up
Speaker 1: to the second level. And it's a numbers game. It's
Speaker 1: simply just pure numbers. They're leaving one guy for were
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones leaving one guy for Dylan, and these guys
Speaker 1: are saying cornerbacks Diggs. Diggs doesn't want to tackle. No, No,
Speaker 1: he does, right, he does. It's not his thing. He's
Speaker 1: not a Jalen Ramsey. We talked about this during the
Speaker 1: Rams week. He's not a Ramsey. He doesn't have that mentality.
Speaker 1: Can he. I'm sure he can't. Is he willing? He's
Speaker 1: absolutely not willing to tackle. So now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you got these guys that have lineman coming at them
Speaker 1: and they don't want no part of that contact. There
Speaker 1: were a couple of times before we get to Patrick,
Speaker 1: there were a couple of times that, once again I
Speaker 1: was frustrated and watching the film because of Diggs not
Speaker 1: wanting to step up and make a play. Kelvin Joseph
Speaker 1: did it a couple of times. He wants to heat
Speaker 1: special teams. He's got to. He's kind of he's worked
Speaker 1: in there. He wants to. He wasn't great in coverage
Speaker 1: yesterday a lot. I mean, he got beat multiple times
Speaker 1: with Kelvin Joseph, but at least he wants to come
Speaker 1: up and hit and run defense. That at least gave
Speaker 1: me a nice little positive on on his game. You
Speaker 1: can't and I can't stress this enough. We say going
Speaker 1: into this game that the Packers did not have a
Speaker 1: receiver cord that you needed to be concerned with. So
Speaker 1: all you need to do is make sure that the
Speaker 1: no names and I would even throw Sammy Watkins into that.
Speaker 1: Just make sure the no names remain no names after
Speaker 1: the game is over. You can't allow Watson to buy
Speaker 1: to subscribe to Twitter Blue against you and get the
Speaker 1: verification the buck. You can't allow a guy like Watson
Speaker 1: dollars to get the blue check mark against you when
Speaker 1: he didn't earn it. I got eight. I got eight
Speaker 1: on it. See what I'm saying, Watson hadn't earned that
Speaker 1: blue check matches the number right, Watson went and subscribe
Speaker 1: to Twitter Blue on Sunday to get his check mark.
Speaker 1: You know you know what else? Don't see? That was
Speaker 1: off for bothersome for me. Watson dropped two touchdowns. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I disagree on that one. They were not touchdowns,
Speaker 1: they were big plays. Let me back it up, big play.
Speaker 1: Watson dropped two major plays. They wouldn't have been. Here's
Speaker 1: the thing though, and and going back to if he
Speaker 1: could have had even more. Aaron Ron needed just one
Speaker 1: guy to be an animal, and he didn't know going
Speaker 1: in who would be it. He didn't know that anybody
Speaker 1: would actually step up and do it. But he identified
Speaker 1: and Matt Lafleur identified pre snaps where Tryvaughn was and
Speaker 1: they said, let's put Watson where Treyvon he's not right,
Speaker 1: and it worked. It worked against Anthony Brown, it worked
Speaker 1: on that that cross drag when he had Bland chasing
Speaker 1: him from behind. It just it worked. They schemed Watson
Speaker 1: everywhere Tryvon wasn't and it was just effective. Time and again,
Speaker 1: all three of Rogers's touchdowns were to Watson. He was
Speaker 1: he was the reason. Now, what did you want to happen?
Speaker 1: Because I feel like you want to say it, but
Speaker 1: you're not saying it. Say it travel I should have traveled, Trayvon.
Speaker 1: Thank you. When you have a guy going off like this,
Speaker 1: thank you, throw that pregame scheme in the trash and
Speaker 1: adapt and say, you know what, that's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 1: I know we didn't want to travel Treyvonn because coming
Speaker 1: into this game, none of there were receivers demanded that
Speaker 1: kind of respect. But in real time a guy who
Speaker 1: has flamed on. So we're gonna put our ex under Madden.
Speaker 1: So I needed McCarthy and dan quinn to look at
Speaker 1: Travann and say, we're gonna put an ice box with
Speaker 1: my heart used to be Marion. Just go full and
Speaker 1: just say that is your guy, and I guarantee you
Speaker 1: you grabbed by the collar. Right. Watson is clamped from
Speaker 1: that point because what you were asking. You saw the
Speaker 1: you know CB two and Anthony Brown he would he
Speaker 1: couldn't do it to right, So then he leaves with
Speaker 1: a concussion. So then you look at the young guy
Speaker 1: and Kelvin, Right, you look at the young guy and
Speaker 1: Kelvin you say, you go do it, and durn Bland, hey, rookie,
Speaker 1: you go do it and watch it. It's like, thanks
Speaker 1: for not putting CB one on me again. You look
Speaker 1: at that, You look at the fact that Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: completed only fourteen passes, and of those fourteen passes, the
Speaker 1: first five or six were shovels, right, It was just
Speaker 1: some drop balls in there, right, But it was the
Speaker 1: big play that was successful when it didn't have to
Speaker 1: be successful. This is one game that in real time
Speaker 1: I would have loved Dan Quinn to look at treyvon
Speaker 1: Dixon say, you know what, typically that you're half of
Speaker 1: the field, But no, we're moving you. No. See, I
Speaker 1: am so proud of you. See, I'm so proud he
Speaker 1: got it off your chest a little bit. You didn't
Speaker 1: have to set it with your chest. I said it
Speaker 1: last night. He probably the guys probably got tired of me.
Speaker 1: I'm saying last night that last night, like grab him
Speaker 1: by the collar. That's Trayvon I'm talking about, and say,
Speaker 1: wherever he goes, you go. If he goes to the
Speaker 1: freaking toilet, right you go, you grab a baby wipe,
Speaker 1: you hand it to him. Say but I'm right here
Speaker 1: with you, right no matter where he's at, turn your back,
Speaker 1: I'm right the exactly right now. You know, the guy
Speaker 1: who comes in for the drug test, we call him
Speaker 1: to P man. You know why because he follows you
Speaker 1: to the bathroom and watch you drop your drawers and
Speaker 1: pe in the cup. Y'all need you to be Trayvon.
Speaker 1: I need you to be the p man yesterday. Follow
Speaker 1: him to the dog on toilet. We're ever he goes,
Speaker 1: you go, that's your man's a new Okay, we gotta go.
Speaker 1: Beamers getting mad at us, but I'm about to fall
Speaker 1: out of my chair. All right, that's it for us.
Speaker 1: You're on Talking to Cowboys. We're taking calls tomorrow eight
Speaker 1: eight eight, eight, five five two two ninety seven. Give
Speaker 1: us a call, tell us what's going on with this
Speaker 1: Cowboys team. We're gonna talk to you guys all day tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We're gonna give some news and notes early on, and
Speaker 1: then it's fan calls the rest of the time. We
Speaker 1: want to hear from Cowboys Nation. But that's it for
Speaker 1: us today. For Chris Beam, Isaiah standback, Patrick Nosey, walk around,
Speaker 1: Kyle Yomen saying, so long from Talking Cowboys. We'll see tomorrow. Yeah.
Speaker 1: This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dellas Cowboys Football Club.