WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Raising the Bar? 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:04.920 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:15.680 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. Are you ready 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:19.520 for a break? Yes? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely? 0:00:19.640 --> 0:00:23.840 Ready for a break? Yeah? And so much for that. 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:28.160 It's time for the break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:33.920 Wall with Nick Eatman, Brian brought Us and bar Garcia 0:00:34.240 --> 0:00:38.680 and Derek Eagleton. It is Money to Remember. Twenty first, 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:42.080 twenty twenty two, season eighteen, episode number seventy five. Welcome 0:00:42.120 --> 0:00:44.479 to the latest edition of the Break Life Nest WBC 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:47.000 Mortgage Studios at the Start, presented by Miller Lite, the 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:51.720 only beer of the Dallas Cowboys. And although a lot 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:54.440 of us throughout the building thought the Cowboys would get 0:00:54.440 --> 0:00:58.040 a win this last weekend, I don't think anybody predicted 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:01.360 the beatdown that we watched yesterday. Cowboys win over the 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:05.479 Minnesota Vikings forty to three. I'm not gonna say, probably 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:09.640 their most dominating win in quite a long time, certainly 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:13.440 this season, against what is or what many believed to 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.880 be one of the better teams in the NFC. We'll 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:17.480 break it all down for you here over the next 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:19.160 forty five minutes. We might even get into a little 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:20.880 bit of Giants talk. We got a short week this week, 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:23.800 coming up with a Thanksgiving Day game against the Giants. 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:26.240 So let's dive in. Let's go around the table. Let's 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:28.640 start where we start on Monday's give me your big 0:01:28.640 --> 0:01:30.959 picture storyline, because there were lots of things that came 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:33.679 out of this game. But what big picture six with 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:36.399 you following this game? Nicholas start, Well, big picture, the 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:40.840 Cowboys are a team that can compete and make a 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:44.240 run for a Super Bowl, as Jerry said, Yeah, and 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.360 that's the big picture. That's where the bar has been raised. Now. 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:47.840 The bar has been raised because they went out and 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:50.800 I only know one way to say it. They played 0:01:50.840 --> 0:01:54.040 a perfect game. It was a perfect football game against 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:56.480 a team that had the best record in the league 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.200 at that time. They don't anymore, but they did, and 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.480 it was a perfect game on the road. They just 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:05.440 dominated in every facet And so now you know, to me, 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:07.720 that's where it's like, Okay, well we've seen it then, 0:02:07.840 --> 0:02:10.320 we've seen it in Minnesota. Play like that where you 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:15.480 can put it all together, you know that's they can go. 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:17.280 And if they play like that, you can beat anybody. 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:22.400 You can beat anybody any place. If you play like that, Yeah, 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:27.080 I mean, this is this is how the Cowboys should 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:30.920 be playing football every time this they step on a field. 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:34.040 I mean, it's very impressive. And it was very impressive 0:02:34.160 --> 0:02:35.880 on the offensive side of the ball. And I know 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.080 we're gonna break it down and all that, but to 0:02:38.280 --> 0:02:42.400 think we were just recently, you know, talking about the 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.200 wide receivers and all that, and then you see a 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.600 game where you can use a guy like Tony Polter. 0:02:47.680 --> 0:02:51.920 He freaking balled out, balled out running the ball and 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:55.320 catching the ball. So it's just very very impressive. And 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:58.960 like Nick said, now you can't take a step backward. 0:02:59.000 --> 0:03:01.360 It's like you gotta keep it up. And maybe not 0:03:01.480 --> 0:03:04.000 every week scoring you know, forty points and all that 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.280 and shutting the other team to just three points, but 0:03:07.880 --> 0:03:12.560 now you gotta you have to maintain it. And you 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.680 mentioned super Bowl, and I was going to ask you 0:03:15.720 --> 0:03:18.120 there when you said big picture. We're talking big picture 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:22.600 super Bowl big picture or if you want to go there. No, no, no, 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:25.480 But I love it, love their energy and love the 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:28.200 way they responded after a loss against Green Bay. They're 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:31.480 capable of beating really good teams and losing the bad teams. 0:03:32.240 --> 0:03:34.440 That's that's you know. I mean you can you could 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:36.520 say that the Green Bay game that should have been 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:39.600 a win. You know that that's which. You know, teams 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:42.880 that are gonna win championships find ways along the way 0:03:42.920 --> 0:03:45.880 to win those games. You know, whether you're however your 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:49.960 competition is, and they're capable. They're capable, like we're talking 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:53.960 about here, playing very well at a high level, making 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:58.320 somebody one dimensional, putting pressure on them, you know, playing 0:03:58.320 --> 0:04:01.640 to their strengths, using the running back as a wide receiver. 0:04:01.840 --> 0:04:03.800 You know, those are all the things that are capable 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:06.600 of doing. You know, the week before they didn't do that. 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:10.080 They lined up off sides, they held, they made mistakes, 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:12.120 they gave up big plays in the running game, they 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:15.440 gave up big pass plays. You know, they're capable. That 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:17.280 That's what proved to me, if you want to know 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:20.160 a big picture, that's that's the team that's what they 0:04:20.200 --> 0:04:22.960 should be, not the team that could play to the 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:25.760 level of the team you know that that aren't very good, 0:04:26.279 --> 0:04:29.440 and so you know, yeah, I hope, I hope this 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:33.800 is the start of more consistency with how this team 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.920 needs to play every week in order to win a championship. 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:41.320 That's the aspirations. You know, they're clearly capable of doing it. Yeah, 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:43.320 you look at this offense and I think you know 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.400 you We'll talk about the defense in just a second. 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.560 But offensively, they scored on their first seven possessions. It 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:53.360 was score after score after score after score. What do 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:55.720 you guys think was the key to their offense? Being 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:58.799 able to move the ball so effortlessly down the field 0:04:58.800 --> 0:05:00.320 and doing it in a lot of different way. He's 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:02.640 using a lot of different weapons. Well, I don't know 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:04.760 if this is the time to say it, but I 0:05:04.800 --> 0:05:06.800 will say it. I think lost in all of the 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:10.480 you know, Pollard and Parsons and Maha and all that, 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:14.000 I think Dak's coming back now, Like this is Dak. 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:17.640 This type of game was what we've been asking for. 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:20.480 Get off my back. You're not gonna sack me. You're 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:22.440 not big enough to sack me. I'm gonna roll over here, 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.039 I'm gonna run out. I'm gonna get it. You know, 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:27.159 I'm gonna say twelve thirteen yards just by making a play. 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:29.440 I'm gonna fly around over here. I'm gonna fake you here. 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:31.440 I was faked on one play. I was like, why 0:05:31.520 --> 0:05:33.799 is Pollard not running? He's you know, it was because 0:05:33.880 --> 0:05:37.000 Dak had the ball, you know, Dad, and then and 0:05:37.040 --> 0:05:39.040 then then you throw twenty two out of twenty five, 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.080 and that you could not throw the past to Pollard 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.159 even better for that sixty eight yard I mean that 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:46.320 was perfect. But he did he was back to him. 0:05:46.360 --> 0:05:49.080 I mean he ran the ball. I mean three for 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.080 sixteen yards. That doesn't really do it justice. I don't 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.479 think of what he was doing running the ball. So 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.359 you throw it like that running, I think Dad, you know, 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.599 and it all starts with Dak, But I think Dak 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:03.240 was kind of back to vintage him again. Yeah. Another 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.400 thing to help Dac, I think was that offensive line. 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.640 They've done a really good job. They've they've proven that 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:11.560 they can run block when they absolutely have to. And Minnesota, 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:15.039 you know that Minnesota's got two legitimate pass rushers and 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.040 they were able to hold up on the edges. That 0:06:17.160 --> 0:06:19.760 wasn't a problem. You know, they had a couple of 0:06:19.800 --> 0:06:23.039 times on some big plays, some throws made. Zeke stepped 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.000 up on one on a blitz pickup that went for 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:27.919 a big play. Polar got run over, but he stepped 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:31.200 up and made a big blitz pickup. You know, this 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.120 offensive line is starting to kind of figure some things out, 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:37.120 and you know, all year long, it's it's and we 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.880 got some questions at center and questions that left guard, 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.960 and maybe some questions at right tackle. As a group, 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:45.760 they're playing really really well right now and that and 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:48.600 last night was a really good example of when they 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.480 can get things going in the running game and then 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.039 it helps so much as the passing game too. I'll 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.120 tell you another thing that was big in this football game, 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.599 and the reason why we talked about going to get 0:06:58.600 --> 0:07:00.800 Odell Beckham was to go get a guy that could 0:07:00.839 --> 0:07:03.839 snatch the football makee plays. He had receivers snatching the 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:06.279 football yesterday and that game. That's the difference. When the 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:10.400 slants are run, ball high, gallup, goes up, gets it inside, 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:13.000 tough catch and all that. You had guys going to 0:07:13.040 --> 0:07:16.320 get the football yesterday, and that's that's gonna make a 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.880 big difference going forward. You want to keep, you know, 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:24.400 keep pressure on opponents, find ways to make tough catches 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:28.240 in traffic and when you have to extend or you 0:07:28.280 --> 0:07:30.040 get coverage and maybe the ball is a little off, 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:34.440 go get it. They did that yesterday. Offensive line wide 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:36.760 receivers making plays in the outside I thought was really 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:38.800 big in that game. Yeah, I have to go back 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:40.360 and watch the game. There are a lot of things 0:07:40.360 --> 0:07:41.960 that I feel like I missed because by the time 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:44.480 I was making a graphic and being done, I look up, 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:46.960 They're already making another place. So I could hardly keep 0:07:47.040 --> 0:07:49.400 up with what was going on. They were playing so well. 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.720 But to me, credit to Kellen Moore and what he did. 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:56.760 I mean, I thought he They just played so much smarter. 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.840 They played to their strength. I thought the combination between 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.840 the passing game like Dak wouldn't have I don't think 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:06.480 he would have played such a good game had he 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:08.600 not been for the running game and how he was 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:12.040 working as well. Credit to them figuring out how do 0:08:12.080 --> 0:08:15.640 you utilize Zeke and Tony Poller. I thought they did 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:17.680 a really good job. There were a couple of plays 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:21.239 where okay, the exception, but in general you could see 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:23.560 this is when you need a guy like Zeke to 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.600 come in. This is when you need a guy explosive, 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:29.760 dynamic like Tony Pollard to carry the ball. So I 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:34.280 just think they just played to their strength and played smarter. Yeah, 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:36.839 and you look at the numbers yesterday with Zeke and Pollo, 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.720 Zeke had fifteen carriage for forty two yards two point 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:42.439 eight average, two touchdowns, and I think the two touchdowns 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:45.680 are key. Polo had fifteen carriage for eighty yards five 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:47.840 point three average. And if you do what what Brian 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:51.200 talks about, I call him zekerd the combination of the 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:53.640 two and two. One. You had thirty carriage, one hundred 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:55.719 and twenty two yards and two touchdowns. Like that's what 0:08:55.800 --> 0:08:58.440 you want, is that two of them combined. Yeah, you 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:00.400 don't have to you don't have to have one or 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:03.079 the other. You got buck, and when you've got both, 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.040 you can do what they did yesterday. And you could 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:07.280 see the variety of what you can get out of. 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:09.400 You can get a sixty eight yard touchdown pass where 0:09:09.400 --> 0:09:11.280 a guy runs a will route and just out runs 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:14.040 a defender. You can also get that one yard power 0:09:14.120 --> 0:09:15.840 run to get you into It's gotta be this has 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:18.240 gotta be over, like, yeah, I mean kill that. We 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.959 gotta kill it because we just saw in one drive, 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:25.040 we saw these are things that Zeke cannot do. He 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.360 cannot do these plays. And then they get down to 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:29.920 the two and we see these are things that Pollard 0:09:29.960 --> 0:09:32.280 can't do my favorite run and I pointed out to 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:34.480 you was one. It wasn't It was in the second quarter. 0:09:34.800 --> 0:09:36.720 I think it was like a second or third and two, 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:41.200 third and one, and Zeke is clearly stopped. Yeah, and 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:44.760 he just like just keeps the legs drive it and 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.640 just pushes the whole thing two yards. They showed it 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:50.520 from the aerial and you could see he was stopped 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:52.440 and it was just like it just the whole pal starter. 0:09:52.640 --> 0:09:56.040 He went horizontal and then but his feet were still 0:09:56.080 --> 0:09:59.760 on the ground and it just he just launched himself four. 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:02.959 That's what he does. And I think you're absolutely right 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.440 about it. You know, they tried to score with Pollard 0:10:05.480 --> 0:10:08.720 on the goal line. They really legitimately tried. Yeah, and 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:11.760 you know, and let's be honest though, I mean when 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:13.679 you watch it and you guys go back and see it, 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:18.400 you know they got I mean, Ferguson got just destroyed 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:20.360 at the point of attack on the first time they 0:10:20.400 --> 0:10:23.080 handed him the ball and then you know, McEwan is 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.040 trying to find a spot and he runs right in 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.760 the back of Ferguson, so now it's all muddy and 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:30.680 he can't get home. The second one, they don't block 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.160 it really cleanly as well on the second one, but 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:36.000 still he's like stopped. He can't pattern. Then they put 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:38.120 Zeke in and here like he just you know, he's 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:41.000 able to kind of find that gap and finish forward. 0:10:41.160 --> 0:10:43.840 You know. That's the thing. That's that's why having these 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:46.360 backs the way they are. When you get in third 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:48.320 and one and you get down on the goal line 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:50.640 and you hand them the ball, you've got to keep 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:54.760 drives going. You can't get stopped. And you're right, Nick, 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:58.560 there's things that that Zeke can no longer do. They 0:10:58.600 --> 0:11:00.520 can't do the stuff we're all of a sudden, they 0:11:00.640 --> 0:11:03.040 check and they run, they run the wheel, you know, 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:06.240 because they realized that they've got a matchup against a linebacker. 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:09.040 Dak was looking at He's like, okay, I got my guy, 0:11:09.120 --> 0:11:11.439 and they got the safety comer. And great job by 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:14.600 Schultz running a route to get the you know, to 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:18.479 get Smith out of the way when Smith and Peterson, 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:21.080 he gets them both out of the way and that's 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:23.280 up the sidelines. And that's the stuff that you don't 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:26.160 get to see with Zeke. You know, when you see 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:29.200 a one on one matchup, Okay, that linebacker is not 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.839 going to cover my guy. He's not and they did 0:11:32.880 --> 0:11:35.040 a great job of doing that. Romo pointed this out 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.320 in the in the in the broadcast afterwards, is that 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.040 the best part of that play was the offensive line. 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:43.120 And I think he pointed to Zach Martin specifically, but 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:45.800 because to get him out in the wheel route that 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:47.720 takes a little bit of time, you know, And so 0:11:47.760 --> 0:11:49.840 that was great. And then you mentioned Schultz on that 0:11:49.880 --> 0:11:52.560 play running down the field, which was impressive. But I 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.240 couldn't get over the fact on the first touchdown past 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:59.679 the Pollard. I mean, Schultz is not just walls off yea, 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:01.839 but he I mean he checked him off thirty He 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.560 sat him on the bench. Yeah, he was like, you're 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:06.920 with the cheerleaders. Yeah, like you're hanging out over here. No, 0:12:07.040 --> 0:12:08.800 it was you know that That's the thing. I think 0:12:08.800 --> 0:12:11.120 that when you look at Schultz overall, you know, he 0:12:11.160 --> 0:12:13.520 gets a lot of criticism and flack for the way 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:16.160 he blocks. I think these young guys have helped him 0:12:16.160 --> 0:12:19.280 along the way, you know, develop a little bit more. Okay, 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:22.559 I just can't be a liability as a block or 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.880 he's done it much better. He was really good yesterday 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:26.520 in that game. Yeah, all right, let's move on. Let's 0:12:26.520 --> 0:12:28.560 talk a little bit about the defense. You look at yesterday, 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:30.800 the fact they held him to three points. Again, Nick, 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:34.040 going back to your perfect game scenario. The offense scores forty, 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:37.360 the defense as into three. They had seven sacks, and 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:39.920 you're not even done. Yeah, I'm not even done because 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:43.200 you got you gotta do the third level the special teams. 0:12:43.280 --> 0:12:44.840 Oh yeah, well we'll get to that. I'm just saying 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.200 it was made it perfect. Yeah, we'll get to that. 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:49.960 But but looking at the defense again, seven sacks and 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:51.640 a lot of that. Once they got to the second 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:55.199 half and they had this this lead, devil was really insurmountable. 0:12:55.240 --> 0:12:57.160 Then it was like, all right, now they get to 0:12:57.200 --> 0:13:00.000 do what they always what. Parsons didn't want to come 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:01.920 off the field. Yeah, you like, this is sounding to 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:04.640 sack up some numbers, you know. And the problem, by 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:08.760 the way to that ablem, somebody's got to get they 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.320 won't take his helmet away. That kid he wants to play. 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:15.120 I love that about him. Well he realizes he realizes like, okay, 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:16.920 now I get to rush the pastor I don't have 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:18.679 to play the run. I don't have guys diving in 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:21.840 my leg I've earned the right at that point, because 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:24.000 that's what they kept talking about last week. Earned the 0:13:24.120 --> 0:13:26.360 right to pass rush once you're able to get a 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:28.120 lead and once you put a team in a situation 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:30.840 where they can't run the ball. They had that yesterday. 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:32.560 But I will I do have this question for you 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.280 because I say something real quick sure about the defense. 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.640 I think you learned a big picture thing yesterday that 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.520 you can travel diggs no matter what you can't. You 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:43.560 can travel digs no matter what you mean. Let's not 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:45.959 act like anymore it's like, well, you know, I don't 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:47.880 know if they really want to do this. No, if 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:51.560 the other team has a star player, you can function 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:55.200 by traveling digs and everybody else will adjust. That defense 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.160 did a great job in the secondary of playing for 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:00.280 each other. They really did. And we always talk about, well, 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.080 assignments were bad here. They didn't twist tier, they got 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.560 a step here, they got to fill there. You know, 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:07.760 you look at the first the very first play when 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:10.400 you talk about the secondary, they're gonna try and run 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:13.480 the very first pass that Minnesota throws. They're running pick 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:16.520 routes and they're dragging feeling across the field. Jay run. 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.080 Curse is standing right there, and what happens. What is 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.520 that quarterback sees that He's like, I can't throw that. 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:24.640 He's expecting that thing to be clear across nobody there. 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:27.280 I'm gonna throw the ball. They cover for each other, 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:31.160 and then now it's now it turns into moving pocket 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:34.120 and now number eleven running from the backside. Good luck 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:37.040 on that. Yeah, So you had a secondary yesterday that 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.840 really played for each other. They did, they led, and 0:14:39.880 --> 0:14:42.640 that number seven he traveled. He went with that guy. 0:14:43.080 --> 0:14:44.960 And you know, other than I could say there was 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.840 one pass on the outside to Osborne that he could 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:49.720 have that went on the out that he could have. 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:51.480 I mean, he just a little bit better out. But 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:53.760 that's that's nippicking right there. If you want to talk 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:55.960 about it, you know, it's I've seen him make the play, 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:59.200 come downhill, drive on the ball. But he traveled with 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.160 that guy. So we you'd never ever, ever not The 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:05.280 question should be if they have a great receiver and 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:07.960 it takes taking him out of the game, that number 0:15:08.000 --> 0:15:10.160 seven can go walk with him and play with him 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:12.360 anywhere in the field. I love that. Yep, that's right. 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.920 Another thing that was that was really evident, and even 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:18.760 on the Vikings drive for a field goal, But if 0:15:18.800 --> 0:15:22.640 you go back and watch it, they knocked the crap 0:15:22.640 --> 0:15:25.440 out of that team, Like even on the Cooks seventeen 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:27.320 yard run that got a few more yards because it 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:31.360 was a holding whatever. Donald Wilson just blasts them out 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:34.480 of bounds and then another time tank and curse. I mean, 0:15:34.520 --> 0:15:38.040 they are flying around. They hit them hard like they 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:40.280 were And Dad said it in his post a post game, 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:41.640 he was like, I knew this was gonna be a 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.040 problem because they were running around in practice whole week 0:15:44.080 --> 0:15:46.560 like that. They were pissed off, said it. I asked 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:49.000 Stephen Jones before the game, you know, I said something 0:15:49.000 --> 0:15:50.680 about I've never been in the jungle, but I would 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.160 imagine a pissed off Lions gotta be worse than anything. 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:54.920 I mean, And that's what it felt like. The whole 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.960 team was that way. They hit harder on the Vikings. Yeah, 0:15:58.040 --> 0:15:59.800 you look at those numbers. I mean, it just was 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.160 amazing what they were able to do against an offense 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.560 that many thought were was one of the better offenses 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:06.840 in the league, if not the best offense in league. 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.800 Right up there were you could feel as the game 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:14.360 wore on the anxiety of Kirk Cousins. You could feel it, 0:16:14.520 --> 0:16:19.240 you know. His it was the throw and duck throw 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.880 and duck and moved throw, you know. I mean he 0:16:21.960 --> 0:16:25.840 was he knew that he was compromised, you know, even 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:29.400 with Derissau in there. I mean the play that he 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:31.840 got hurt on was a sack. I mean, he got 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:34.960 driven right back into I mean it was a great 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:37.680 job by Armstrong and just driving him and then there's 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.520 all kinds of you know, problems there. But yeah, I mean, 0:16:40.560 --> 0:16:42.600 this is the great thing about this defense when they 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:45.760 when they know that they can rush the passer, it 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:49.800 makes a defense is a whole different defense the way 0:16:49.800 --> 0:16:52.480 they play. Yeah, and I'll throw this outjestra perspective. You 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:55.880 talked about Digs traveling with Jefferson. Yesterday, Jefferson had three 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:59.320 catches on five targets for thirty three yards. Absolutely, I 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:01.520 didn't go back to look at his season, at every 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:03.520 game from his season, I'm guessing that's going to be 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:05.680 on the lower end of he hates playing the Cowboys. 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:09.159 Got five for fifty five. That's what he's got previous. No, 0:17:09.280 --> 0:17:12.320 that that's what he's got against the Cowboys for two years. Yeah, 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:16.239 he hates. I mean, there's something about this book and 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:19.840 that's what I'm saying. We should never never ever say that. 0:17:19.920 --> 0:17:21.879 Like listen, if you're going into a game and the 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:25.240 other team has a star player, that should never be 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:28.040 something that Dan Quinn doesn't automatically think about it. And 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.760 you know what, and it's more than just that star players. 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:34.360 There's not beeny. I mean, they've already faced i think 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:38.040 the best receiving tandem in the league, like in Week 0:17:38.080 --> 0:17:41.959 two when it was Chase and then Higgins and Boyd 0:17:42.000 --> 0:17:44.240 and all that. So it's going to be really hard 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:46.680 pressed to find a better receiver that you're gonna face 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:51.119 with a complimentary two that that Minnesota has, you know, 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:53.880 I mean, and that's the Philadelphia game on Christmas Eve 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:55.719 will be the one where you have to deal with 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:58.639 size and Smith and all that kind of you know, 0:17:58.680 --> 0:18:01.399 and depending on if the tight ends back you know 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:05.040 that tight well he might be he might be Yeah. 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:07.159 So that's you know that that will be your next 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:10.080 time where you're gonna have to say, Okay, is it 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:12.919 going to be how do you match them up? You know? 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:15.679 But like I said, there should never be a question. 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.400 Now it shouldn't be like anbar at a press conference. 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:21.240 Haven't asked a question about were you gonna travel with 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:23.800 you know, well, you know traveling takes a lot. No, 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.720 you proved you could travel with the best receiver in 0:18:26.760 --> 0:18:29.480 the National Football League and go find a way to 0:18:29.520 --> 0:18:32.440 do it. When you mentioned the tight ends yesterday, it 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:35.200 was clear that Minnesota went into that game thinking Hockintson 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:36.840 was going to be a target that they wanted to 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:39.760 try to exploit. He had nine targets, only five receptions 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:42.240 for thirty four yards. Cowboys did a really really good 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:45.959 job on him. Yeah, different curse. Yeah, sometimes they were 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:48.320 in zone. Sometimes they had a guy on him, like. 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:51.080 They did it in different ways, but they were not 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:54.320 allowed way to really get away. Curse got through. Well. 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:56.200 Hawkinson dropped the ball in the back of the end zone. 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:58.320 I mean that that was a drop. Yeah, but the 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:02.399 way that kur we've throw that pick and that's what 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:05.480 they were trying to do, that was a pretty That 0:19:05.520 --> 0:19:08.000 was impressive play. I don't I'm not saying he made 0:19:08.000 --> 0:19:10.760 the difference in there because Hawkinson's a first round time. 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:12.359