WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Breaking Down the W 0:00:02.759 --> 0:00:05.280 The following Here's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:15.640 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys, Let's go. Are 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:18.520 you ready for a break? Yes? Are you ready for 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:23.640 a break? Absolutely? Ready for a break? Yeah? And so 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:27.520 much for that. It's time for The Break on Dallas 0:00:27.560 --> 0:00:33.639 Cowboys dot Com with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:40.600 Garcia and Derek Eagleton. It is Monday, December thirteenth, twenty 0:00:40.880 --> 0:00:43.800 twenty one, season seventeen, episode number seventy seven. Welcome to 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:45.880 the latest edition of The Break, live from the s 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:48.879 WBC Morgan Studios at the Star. We appreciate you guys 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.480 joining us. We got a break down the Cowboys win yesterday, 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:54.080 a division win twenty seven twenty. There were a lot 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:57.240 of things at that we went right for the Cowboys. 0:00:57.320 --> 0:00:59.360 There were just as many things I think that could 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:01.600 have gone or it'd go wrong for them. We'll talk 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:04.039 about all that in the course of today's show. We're 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:07.160 not joined today by Dave. Dave is traveling today, but 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:09.560 we got a special guest Dan with us, mister Nate 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:13.200 Newton talk a little football with him. Of course, we 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.679 love getting Nick and Nate together because that goes back 0:01:15.720 --> 0:01:18.920 to the Nick and Night days when Nick and Nate 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:20.720 used to used to be together back in the day 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:24.120 of Valley Rent. So we ay glad to be here, man, 0:01:24.160 --> 0:01:27.479 And I first to say, Man, I guess Washington telling 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:29.520 all the guys. You know, hey, man, we was there. 0:01:29.560 --> 0:01:32.120 It was a moral victory. It was missing players. And 0:01:32.160 --> 0:01:34.839 so that moral victory thing is off of the Cowboys 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:39.440 and back onto the risk, I mean reserves to reserve people. 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:43.040 We'll see we started early, right, I'll just say we'll see. 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:44.680 I mean if they if they win four in a 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:47.560 row and to finish this season, then yeah, it certainly was. 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:49.800 It was a moral victory. So we know that they 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:52.040 happen to Thank you, Hey, Nick, real quick, give me 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:53.760 a seventy seven. This is how we start off our show. 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:55.920 And Nick using gives me the show number. He gives 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.480 me a player associated with the number seventy seven. Give 0:01:58.520 --> 0:02:00.760 me a player first, first player that comes to mind, 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:05.600 the seventy seven. Well not for me. Yeah, that's a 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:08.359 good one, actually, really good. His son actually just won 0:02:08.400 --> 0:02:11.360 the Great Cup in Canada. They just his team just 0:02:11.360 --> 0:02:15.359 won the Great Yeah, Jack, Yeah, that's the one. Jim, 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:17.600 Jim Jeff Coote was well, I mean, obviously right now, 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:19.960 you know this team doesn't function if they don't have 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:23.040 their seventy seven. Yes, it's Tyrn Smith. He's the guy. 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:25.040 I remember we said if I could have one thing 0:02:25.120 --> 0:02:27.640 in the world, I would take his health. Does his 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:30.400 health I think trickles to everybody else, and it's just 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:32.840 not there right now. I hope he's going to be fine. 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:36.119 I liked kind of the mannerisms I saw from him, 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.400 but I don't think this is a long term thing. 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.480 But I don't know if it's a short term thing either. 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:43.000 All Right, we're gonna get to that. I want to 0:02:43.000 --> 0:02:45.240 talk a little bit later about injuries and where we 0:02:45.320 --> 0:02:48.639 stand right there, particularly on the offensive line. Before we do, though, 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:50.880 let's start with the big picture. Give me a storyline 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:53.120 from this game. What is the big picture storyline you 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:56.079 think coming out of this game? Well, for me, it 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:59.600 was the I mean, they went up there and they 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:02.760 hand of their business. I mean, it doesn't matter how it. 0:03:03.000 --> 0:03:04.600 You know, people say, well, it's not how you start, 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:06.560 how you finish. I don't know about that. That's how 0:03:06.600 --> 0:03:08.520 you start, especially when you go and you lay the 0:03:08.520 --> 0:03:12.560 SmackDown on them like they did. They they did. I mean, 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:16.160 they absolutely kick Washington's ass up and down the field there. 0:03:16.200 --> 0:03:19.000 Now it's a division game. If they got any proud 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:20.640 at all, they're gonna come back. And they did. And 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:23.040 the Cowboys may let off something. But when they needed 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.440 stops in the second half, they got it. Jordan Lewis 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.400 with a fumble, Randy Gregor with the fumble, they got it. 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:30.280 That defense led to them and they were a better 0:03:30.320 --> 0:03:32.760 team than Washington. They showed from start to finish they 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:34.680 were better and they won. Nate, what's your big picture 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:36.760 story of the game, you know, But it's three things 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:38.440 I always say. You know, I don't do it a 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:40.720 lot on my show because I'm always the joke man. 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:44.760 But you know it's. Yeah, it's football understand at which 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:48.000 the universe Texas to get on page. But anyway you 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:51.960 gotta go there, go ahead, good finishing, hey, But anyway, 0:03:52.480 --> 0:03:54.200 when you go on the road, there's three things you 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.160 have to have. And I believe it's my heart man, 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:59.120 Coach Johnson bleed in the coach and landrul bleed in. 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:01.440 It is when you go on the road, you got 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.000 to have defense, you got to have a run game, 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:07.040 and your special teams have to not hurt you. We 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:11.240 had four field goals yesterday by Gregg's airline. Great job. 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:16.359 We had great outstanding defense, I mean, dominating defense. Great job. 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:20.520 And our run game. We had thirty five touches for 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:22.320 one hundred and twenty two yards. A lot of people 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.719 don't the run game. Gotta get on track. The run 0:04:24.800 --> 0:04:28.280 game was there yesterday. When you have thirty five touches 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.440 and your quarterback throw for thirty nine, that's almost a 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.559 fifty fifty split, and so we don't want those extra 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.760 fifteen touches to go to our quarterback. Who's who's having 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:41.040 problems right now. So that was a great deal yourself. 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:43.400 I'm with you, man. We came out with a victory. 0:04:43.520 --> 0:04:46.120 And this is the NFC East where wacky things happened. 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:50.159 So we came out with a victory. I mean, that's 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:52.160 all that matters. There really is all that matters at 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.680 this point. It's not about style points, it's not about 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.960 anything anything else. I mean, and I think we've we've 0:04:58.040 --> 0:04:59.800 kind of under it. We've kind of thought that this 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.080 offense is what's carrying this team and the defense is 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.800 gonna be okay, And that's just shifted at this point. 0:05:05.800 --> 0:05:08.039 I mean, the defense is the better that's got the 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:10.800 better players, it's got the guys that are that are 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:14.640 just difference makers. And something's wrong with that offense. I mean, 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.480 there's no doubt that they were off scenc The quarterback 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:20.320 is not on the same page with the receivers and 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:25.720 it's just it's not there. But luckily, your defense is absolutely, 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:30.280 you know, playing at an elite level. Now I'll say this, 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:32.720 Taysom Hill and Taylor Heineken, you're not going to be 0:05:32.760 --> 0:05:34.600 in the playoffs, and if they are, they're not going 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:37.760 to be there for long. So that's just it'll get 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:41.000 better than that. Kyler Murray is better than that. Aaron Rodgers, 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:45.640 Tom Brady, Matthew Stafford, they're better than that. So it'll 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:49.160 be challenged more. But you know, they took advantage of 0:05:49.400 --> 0:05:53.520 a crappy offense and they you know, they dominated the team. 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:57.280 That I know and I think you guys know, is 0:05:59.040 --> 0:06:02.720 that the guys that we're talking about on defense are 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:06.479 guys that can start for other defenses. They the guys 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:08.560 that he just mentioned the teams that each one of 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:13.800 number eleven Parsons can start. Gregory can start, de Marcus 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.320 Lawrence can start, Gallimo can be a hell of a 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:18.360 role player because I don't know as much about him 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:20.960 as the other guys. These guys can start. So what 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:24.160 I'm saying is when we play these other teams, our 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:27.159 level of defense can rise up. We know Gregory have 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.080 much more to give. We know de Marcus, Lawrence and 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:32.360 all of these guys have much more to give. Now 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.440 our back end will be questioning. But the pressure we're 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:39.200 bringing up front, yeah, we can answer that offensively. I'm 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:43.320 with you, Nick, offensively. Yeah, we have one thing to fix. 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:46.120 If we can get we can get a hundred yards 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.599 or maybe thirty carries or thirty touches from our backs. 0:06:49.960 --> 0:06:52.800 I'm good with that. One thing we have to find 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.920 out is what's wrong with number four. Once we figure 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:58.920 out what's wrong with number four, this offense is gonna 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:02.320 roll number four four. Something is not right. I can't 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.280 figure it out. I'm not close enough to the players 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:06.600 of coaches to tea create with that, So I'm not 0:07:06.640 --> 0:07:09.120 gonna make no speculations. We're gonna get to the offense 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:10.960 in just a second, and we're gonna spend the majority 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:12.320 of the show on the offense. I do want to 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:14.360 give the defense it's due, though, you look at some 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:16.560 of the numbers from yesterday. They only allowed two hundred 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:18.400 and twenty four yards only one hundred and twenty four 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:23.080 yards passing. They had five sacks, nine quarterback hits, three 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:27.840 fumble recoveries, an interception, and a touchdown. Defense was outstanding. 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:30.080 Talk to me about how they used their players, because 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:33.800 they had for the first game, really for an entire game, 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:37.680 they had Gregory, they had Lawrence, they had Mica, they 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.200 had them all out there. Gallimore was back there. How 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.200 did they use that rotation with those guys? What were 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:43.960 they doing with Mica? That may have been a little 0:07:43.960 --> 0:07:46.200 different than maybe what we've seen having those two pass 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:48.280 rushers now back. Well, you know, I have the same 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:52.240 view as you did, and it wasn't always awesome. But no, 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.960 from what it sounded like Mica, what it looked like 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:56.880 was Micah was all over the place. I mean, I 0:07:57.400 --> 0:08:00.760 did notice him in probably three to four different spots. 0:08:00.760 --> 0:08:03.400 The only person that played more spots yesterday was Connor Williams. 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:05.160 But I mean, I think for the most part it 0:08:05.280 --> 0:08:06.920 was just it was he was all over the place, 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:09.080 and that's what that's what it's designed to be. When 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.920 Gregory's back and Darren's Armstrong's there, and of course Tank 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:13.920 on the other side, and then you got Gallimore in there. 0:08:14.120 --> 0:08:19.240 You've got this roaming, you know, freelance linebacker who can 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:22.880 just play everywhere. And that's what he is. And that's 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:25.480 what I keep saying. I want the quarterback. I don't 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:28.280 care if if it's Tom Brady or a guy like 0:08:28.360 --> 0:08:30.400 Taysom Hill or Heineke. I don't care who it is. 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:33.360 I want him to have to find eleven every time 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:35.839 because I think back when when you were playing in 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:39.000 the eight you know, eighties, late eighties, early nineties, and 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.320 no matter who the quarterback was, Troy still had to 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:43.440 find Lawrence Taylor, he had to find him, He had 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:45.480 to find Rady Lewis. You have to find those guys. 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.480 And I think that's the level that he's playing on. 0:08:48.000 --> 0:08:52.280 You know, it's just amazing. Four weeks ago, hey man, 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:56.520 he's a defensive van and I'm like, okay, all right, 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:58.280 he's earned the right to be at the defensive in 0:08:58.840 --> 0:09:03.040 But y'all, you do not understand from an offensive lineman 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:06.600 point of view that you walk up to the line, 0:09:07.160 --> 0:09:11.960 here's Gregory, here's the Marcus Lawrence, and he said, okay, boom. 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:14.199 Now we're getting ready to set our protection, which one 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:18.040 we think the most dangerous, you know, even with even 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.200 with Gallimore sitting there. Oh, we're gonna turn to this 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:23.920 side because the extra pass rush is here. Then all 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:26.439 of a sudden, you getting ready to turn from a 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:29.560 left guard over here to help with the nose and 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.000 to help with the defense. That's two on that's four 0:09:32.080 --> 0:09:35.320 on two. Guess what? Then this guy walked to my 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.720 outside eye and I'm talking about number eleven, and I 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:42.480 have to say straight, straight, straight, everybody's one on one. 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.760 Now you got to handle your dog over you and 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.160 if you ain't right, bro, this is number eleven, I'm 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.439 gonna hurt you because it's a race to the quarterback. 0:09:50.760 --> 0:09:54.160 Now you went from three on two, possible four on 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.680 two to all of a sudden, he brained this dude, 0:09:57.480 --> 0:09:59.600 and only the right guard and the right tackle have 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:02.880 a and you'll send his naked. I'm naked and my 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:05.480 left tackle his naked. But I mean, we buy ourselves 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:08.839 and you're running back. Ain't chip, Please clarify what's that? 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.440 Clarify what that means? Because we want we're one on 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:13.480 one block. That good, we're one one block. You know, 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:15.040 you know, yeah, I'm not gonna take my clothes off 0:10:15.040 --> 0:10:19.200 of him. But anyway, yeah about I was naked? Cool? Yeah, 0:10:21.840 --> 0:10:25.960 I mean you want you never know, you got to clarify. Okay, 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:29.400 how you doing? Yeah? Hey, and but real quick, give 0:10:29.440 --> 0:10:30.880 us your your big picture. What do you take away 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:33.480 from yesterday's game? You were watching it along with everybody else. 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.440 What were your your thoughts as you watch the game? 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.600 And at the end of the game. My thoughts, well, 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.520 I'm I'm starting to panic a little bit, to be honest, 0:10:41.840 --> 0:10:46.600 because every week since Dak got back from the injury, 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:50.679 every week, you know, he'll miss some passes bink assistant 0:10:50.720 --> 0:10:53.760 and you're like, what's dyk, He's shown he can do it. 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:57.120 He'll be better next week. Then another game comes by 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:00.400 and you're like, all right, well they wont okay, well 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.080 they can get better. You got your receivers back, this 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:06.160 and that. So every week it's like, you know, you're 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:10.000 expecting them to get better. But then how many games 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.400 has it been? And he's like, Okay, well maybe we're 0:11:12.440 --> 0:11:16.760 at that point where maybe it won't get better. So 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:21.040 right now I am very concerned. I wasn't before, but 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:24.080 after last night games I'm like, Okay, maybe this is 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:28.040 the time that we might have a serious problem at 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.120 quarterback and you might not have the kind of quarterback 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:33.959 that you thought you had and maybe and I see 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.480 a lot of people on Twitter, you know, wondering if 0:11:36.520 --> 0:11:39.920 he's still dealing with something with the injury or something 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:43.280 else that it's maybe affecting the way that he's performing 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:46.000 on the field. But right now, I'm worried and they 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:47.920 should be worried too. All Right, We're gonna take a 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:49.640 quick break. 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He 0:14:32.360 --> 0:14:35.000 was twenty two to thirty nine, fifty six percent complete 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.560 ship percentage, two hundred and eleven yards, one touchdown, two 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:42.640 interceptions that were kind of baffling even to me, and 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:48.600 he took four sacks. What is wrong with Dak? I 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:51.480 don't know. I mean, it's not something that you can see. 0:14:52.000 --> 0:14:54.480 He's not limping. He's not he doesn't have like his 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:57.160 arm isn't you know, hurt, He's not on Enturyport. Let 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:59.240 me change the question. What do you see from Dak 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:02.840 that's different now than earlier in the season when he 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:07.040 was actually functioning at it? Consistency, inconsistency in his throws, 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:11.400 in consistency in the timing, and consistency in getting first downs. 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:13.880 I mean the three an ounce that is all you 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.520 need to know. I mean, that is ridiculous. In the 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:20.520 first ten games of the season, they had nineteen I'm sorry, 0:15:20.640 --> 0:15:24.600 they had sixteen three and ounce sixteen times in ten 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.080 games three and ouns an average, you know, one point 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.360 six or whatever. They've had like twenty four in the 0:15:30.440 --> 0:15:34.160 last four, So they're averaging six a game now, six 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:37.360 three and ouns a game. That's just I mean, that's 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:40.440 actually consistent, which is terrible. Yeah, the fact that their 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.720 defense can still play well under those kind of circumstances 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:46.280 even speaks even more highly of this defense. Amber. What 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:50.360 do you think's wrong with Dak? I never thought I 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:54.200 would say this, but I think he has lost his 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:58.800 confidence and that's coming. That's coming me seeing a guy 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:00.880 that from the moment he was a rookie and had 0:16:00.920 --> 0:16:04.240 to step into that job, he has shown confidence one 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:08.320 thousand percent. I feel that what I watched yesterday, I 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:11.440 could tell that he's not that same confident guy because 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:14.440 we've seen him play bad at times miss strows, but 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:17.600 he'll go right back in it and he'll continue playing 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:20.120 like the last play it never happened, and he'll keep 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.360 his focus going. But this time around, you can see 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:25.920 him kind of hesitating, you can see him out of 0:16:26.000 --> 0:16:29.840 his comfort zone, just nervous, just not that same confident 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.600 guy that we've seen all alone. So I think that 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:37.040 Nate has some good points about his mental aspect that 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.280 that could be very concerning. If that's the case that 0:16:40.360 --> 0:16:42.920 it's all mental, because how do you fix that? You know, 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:45.760 I don't know how you fix it, no more than 0:16:45.840 --> 0:16:48.120 you get into yourself, getting into your coaches, getting into 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.280 your people that you trust. But you know I was 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:57.760 selling Heckman earlier. I said when Dad it bothered me 0:16:57.840 --> 0:16:59.200 at the game as well, just trying to make a 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.760 play that picks. You don't have to make a play. 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:06.720 You got two minute horses, brother, Just get them the ball. 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:09.240 I looked at Tom Brady over time last night. Just 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:13.160 throw a crossing right route that went like sixty yards. 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:16.480 Just get your horses the ball. And this is what 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:20.760 bothers me is rookie Dak. You couldn't have made him 0:17:20.760 --> 0:17:23.280 throw that ball in a thousand years. And so go 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:26.760 into what missus Garcia is saying. That is it He's 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:30.960 lacking that that smoothness, that confidence that hey, another play 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:34.520 will pump another play. He ain't thinking like our normal 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:37.879 rational Dak. Don't force nothing. You don't have to. You 0:17:37.960 --> 0:17:40.600 got two minute horses to have to force something. So 0:17:40.720 --> 0:17:43.119 it could be the confidence thing. You know, do you 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:45.840 think that maybe maybe what it is he's kind of 0:17:45.880 --> 0:17:47.760 a victim of his own success. And what I mean 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:50.280 by that is you get away with doing things when 0:17:50.359 --> 0:17:52.680 things are rolling, and you you take some chances and 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:55.080 you maybe throw some balls and they end up getting converted. 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.639 You're throwing down fill into some situations maybe you shouldn't have, 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.920 but they get converted, and you are thinking, I think 0:18:00.960 --> 0:18:02.080 I can do this. I think I can do this, 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:04.840 rather than just take what's there, make the right throw 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.240 and then live to fight another day. You think maybe 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.040 Dad could be a part of it. Yeah, I mean, 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.040 I think it comes down to it reminds me of 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:15.960 last year when Dad got hurt and then Zeke. The 0:18:16.080 --> 0:18:18.680 next three or four games, he was fumbling a lot. 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.439 He wasn't himself. You could tell he was he was pressing, 0:18:21.640 --> 0:18:23.960 was forcing the issue. He's never had this before. He's 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:25.960 never had to take to carry at all. And I 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:28.840 thought that interception it was a perfect example of that. 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:31.200 He has no running game. They can't run the ball. 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:33.959 It doesn't matter who's the running back. Those old offensive 0:18:34.000 --> 0:18:35.680 linemen in the center is not going to push that 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:38.600 pile so they can't run it. They'll close out this game. 0:18:38.760 --> 0:18:41.440 He feels like he's got to get first down and 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:43.400 make a play. He doesn't have to do that. Take 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:46.399 a sack, keep a clock going, make him burn the 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:48.359 time out. I mean I put some of that on Kellen. 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:50.480 Why are you throwing the ball anyways? I mean the 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:52.679 clock is your best friend at this point. I mean, 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:56.440 you're are up by thirteen points. Just you know, just 0:18:56.960 --> 0:19:02.480 pump the ball. If you're watching the game, Corey Clemence 0:19:02.680 --> 0:19:05.520 is having some type of success at the end of 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:09.560 the game. It's not always about trying to tell people 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:12.760 sometimes that three yards and the cloud of dust is 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:15.120 all you need because the clock is continue to move. 0:19:15.600 --> 0:19:19.359 Now you have to go back into Okay, well, a 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:22.560 three yard pass right here to Cede Lamb, a four 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:27.600 yard pass here to Cooper. The clock it's moving and 0:19:27.760 --> 0:19:30.760 pressure is mounting on them. You gotta understand that they 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:33.320 defense is trying to get us out the field, but 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:36.760 for every four yards we get, they put them in 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.359 a panic mode. I don't and so wow, it just 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:44.000 you know, I don't see where you have to panic. 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:46.880 And I promise you if we can give the ball, 0:19:46.960 --> 0:19:49.879 try running backs thirty five times and come up with 0:19:49.960 --> 0:19:52.600 our one hundred and twenty yards one hundred and ten yards. 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:55.320 You know, the average may not be great, but the 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:58.360 time of possession will mount up and that will give 0:19:58.400 --> 0:20:01.000 our defense a fresh defense, and they will make plays. 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:03.119 They will make plays. But let me ask you this, 0:20:03.160 --> 0:20:04.640 I'm gonna challenge you a little bit on that name. 0:20:04.680 --> 0:20:06.280 When you all, when you're going three yards in a 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:09.159 cloud of dust, if you're getting two three yards on 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:11.679 a carry, you're still gonna need to pass in order 0:20:11.680 --> 0:20:13.520 to get that first down. And that seems and that 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:15.520 seems to be their problem. Is yeah, they can pick 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:17.360 up that two or three yards on any given run, 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:20.320 but on the passing downs they're not being able to convert. 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:23.480