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Speaker 1: twenty one, season seventeen, episode number seventy seven. Welcome to
Speaker 1: the latest edition of The Break, live from the s
Speaker 1: WBC Morgan Studios at the Star. We appreciate you guys
Speaker 1: joining us. We got a break down the Cowboys win yesterday,
Speaker 1: a division win twenty seven twenty. There were a lot
Speaker 1: of things at that we went right for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: There were just as many things I think that could
Speaker 1: have gone or it'd go wrong for them. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about all that in the course of today's show. We're
Speaker 1: not joined today by Dave. Dave is traveling today, but
Speaker 1: we got a special guest Dan with us, mister Nate
Speaker 1: Newton talk a little football with him. Of course, we
Speaker 1: love getting Nick and Nate together because that goes back
Speaker 1: to the Nick and Night days when Nick and Nate
Speaker 1: used to used to be together back in the day
Speaker 1: of Valley Rent. So we ay glad to be here, man,
Speaker 1: And I first to say, Man, I guess Washington telling
Speaker 1: all the guys. You know, hey, man, we was there.
Speaker 1: It was a moral victory. It was missing players. And
Speaker 1: so that moral victory thing is off of the Cowboys
Speaker 1: and back onto the risk, I mean reserves to reserve people.
Speaker 1: We'll see we started early, right, I'll just say we'll see.
Speaker 1: I mean if they if they win four in a
Speaker 1: row and to finish this season, then yeah, it certainly was.
Speaker 1: It was a moral victory. So we know that they
Speaker 1: happen to Thank you, Hey, Nick, real quick, give me
Speaker 1: a seventy seven. This is how we start off our show.
Speaker 1: And Nick using gives me the show number. He gives
Speaker 1: me a player associated with the number seventy seven. Give
Speaker 1: me a player first, first player that comes to mind,
Speaker 1: the seventy seven. Well not for me. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: good one, actually, really good. His son actually just won
Speaker 1: the Great Cup in Canada. They just his team just
Speaker 1: won the Great Yeah, Jack, Yeah, that's the one. Jim,
Speaker 1: Jim Jeff Coote was well, I mean, obviously right now,
Speaker 1: you know this team doesn't function if they don't have
Speaker 1: their seventy seven. Yes, it's Tyrn Smith. He's the guy.
Speaker 1: I remember we said if I could have one thing
Speaker 1: in the world, I would take his health. Does his
Speaker 1: health I think trickles to everybody else, and it's just
Speaker 1: not there right now. I hope he's going to be fine.
Speaker 1: I liked kind of the mannerisms I saw from him,
Speaker 1: but I don't think this is a long term thing.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if it's a short term thing either.
Speaker 1: All Right, we're gonna get to that. I want to
Speaker 1: talk a little bit later about injuries and where we
Speaker 1: stand right there, particularly on the offensive line. Before we do, though,
Speaker 1: let's start with the big picture. Give me a storyline
Speaker 1: from this game. What is the big picture storyline you
Speaker 1: think coming out of this game? Well, for me, it
Speaker 1: was the I mean, they went up there and they
Speaker 1: hand of their business. I mean, it doesn't matter how it.
Speaker 1: You know, people say, well, it's not how you start,
Speaker 1: how you finish. I don't know about that. That's how
Speaker 1: you start, especially when you go and you lay the
Speaker 1: SmackDown on them like they did. They they did. I mean,
Speaker 1: they absolutely kick Washington's ass up and down the field there.
Speaker 1: Now it's a division game. If they got any proud
Speaker 1: at all, they're gonna come back. And they did. And
Speaker 1: the Cowboys may let off something. But when they needed
Speaker 1: stops in the second half, they got it. Jordan Lewis
Speaker 1: with a fumble, Randy Gregor with the fumble, they got it.
Speaker 1: That defense led to them and they were a better
Speaker 1: team than Washington. They showed from start to finish they
Speaker 1: were better and they won. Nate, what's your big picture
Speaker 1: story of the game, you know, But it's three things
Speaker 1: I always say. You know, I don't do it a
Speaker 1: lot on my show because I'm always the joke man.
Speaker 1: But you know it's. Yeah, it's football understand at which
Speaker 1: the universe Texas to get on page. But anyway you
Speaker 1: gotta go there, go ahead, good finishing, hey, But anyway,
Speaker 1: when you go on the road, there's three things you
Speaker 1: have to have. And I believe it's my heart man,
Speaker 1: Coach Johnson bleed in the coach and landrul bleed in.
Speaker 1: It is when you go on the road, you got
Speaker 1: to have defense, you got to have a run game,
Speaker 1: and your special teams have to not hurt you. We
Speaker 1: had four field goals yesterday by Gregg's airline. Great job.
Speaker 1: We had great outstanding defense, I mean, dominating defense. Great job.
Speaker 1: And our run game. We had thirty five touches for
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty two yards. A lot of people
Speaker 1: don't the run game. Gotta get on track. The run
Speaker 1: game was there yesterday. When you have thirty five touches
Speaker 1: and your quarterback throw for thirty nine, that's almost a
Speaker 1: fifty fifty split, and so we don't want those extra
Speaker 1: fifteen touches to go to our quarterback. Who's who's having
Speaker 1: problems right now. So that was a great deal yourself.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, man. We came out with a victory.
Speaker 1: And this is the NFC East where wacky things happened.
Speaker 1: So we came out with a victory. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: all that matters. There really is all that matters at
Speaker 1: this point. It's not about style points, it's not about
Speaker 1: anything anything else. I mean, and I think we've we've
Speaker 1: kind of under it. We've kind of thought that this
Speaker 1: offense is what's carrying this team and the defense is
Speaker 1: gonna be okay, And that's just shifted at this point.
Speaker 1: I mean, the defense is the better that's got the
Speaker 1: better players, it's got the guys that are that are
Speaker 1: just difference makers. And something's wrong with that offense. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's no doubt that they were off scenc The quarterback
Speaker 1: is not on the same page with the receivers and
Speaker 1: it's just it's not there. But luckily, your defense is absolutely,
Speaker 1: you know, playing at an elite level. Now I'll say this,
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill and Taylor Heineken, you're not going to be
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, and if they are, they're not going
Speaker 1: to be there for long. So that's just it'll get
Speaker 1: better than that. Kyler Murray is better than that. Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, Matthew Stafford, they're better than that. So it'll
Speaker 1: be challenged more. But you know, they took advantage of
Speaker 1: a crappy offense and they you know, they dominated the team.
Speaker 1: That I know and I think you guys know, is
Speaker 1: that the guys that we're talking about on defense are
Speaker 1: guys that can start for other defenses. They the guys
Speaker 1: that he just mentioned the teams that each one of
Speaker 1: number eleven Parsons can start. Gregory can start, de Marcus
Speaker 1: Lawrence can start, Gallimo can be a hell of a
Speaker 1: role player because I don't know as much about him
Speaker 1: as the other guys. These guys can start. So what
Speaker 1: I'm saying is when we play these other teams, our
Speaker 1: level of defense can rise up. We know Gregory have
Speaker 1: much more to give. We know de Marcus, Lawrence and
Speaker 1: all of these guys have much more to give. Now
Speaker 1: our back end will be questioning. But the pressure we're
Speaker 1: bringing up front, yeah, we can answer that offensively. I'm
Speaker 1: with you, Nick, offensively. Yeah, we have one thing to fix.
Speaker 1: If we can get we can get a hundred yards
Speaker 1: or maybe thirty carries or thirty touches from our backs.
Speaker 1: I'm good with that. One thing we have to find
Speaker 1: out is what's wrong with number four. Once we figure
Speaker 1: out what's wrong with number four, this offense is gonna
Speaker 1: roll number four four. Something is not right. I can't
Speaker 1: figure it out. I'm not close enough to the players
Speaker 1: of coaches to tea create with that, So I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna make no speculations. We're gonna get to the offense
Speaker 1: in just a second, and we're gonna spend the majority
Speaker 1: of the show on the offense. I do want to
Speaker 1: give the defense it's due, though, you look at some
Speaker 1: of the numbers from yesterday. They only allowed two hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty four yards only one hundred and twenty four
Speaker 1: yards passing. They had five sacks, nine quarterback hits, three
Speaker 1: fumble recoveries, an interception, and a touchdown. Defense was outstanding.
Speaker 1: Talk to me about how they used their players, because
Speaker 1: they had for the first game, really for an entire game,
Speaker 1: they had Gregory, they had Lawrence, they had Mica, they
Speaker 1: had them all out there. Gallimore was back there. How
Speaker 1: did they use that rotation with those guys? What were
Speaker 1: they doing with Mica? That may have been a little
Speaker 1: different than maybe what we've seen having those two pass
Speaker 1: rushers now back. Well, you know, I have the same
Speaker 1: view as you did, and it wasn't always awesome. But no,
Speaker 1: from what it sounded like Mica, what it looked like
Speaker 1: was Micah was all over the place. I mean, I
Speaker 1: did notice him in probably three to four different spots.
Speaker 1: The only person that played more spots yesterday was Connor Williams.
Speaker 1: But I mean, I think for the most part it
Speaker 1: was just it was he was all over the place,
Speaker 1: and that's what that's what it's designed to be. When
Speaker 1: Gregory's back and Darren's Armstrong's there, and of course Tank
Speaker 1: on the other side, and then you got Gallimore in there.
Speaker 1: You've got this roaming, you know, freelance linebacker who can
Speaker 1: just play everywhere. And that's what he is. And that's
Speaker 1: what I keep saying. I want the quarterback. I don't
Speaker 1: care if if it's Tom Brady or a guy like
Speaker 1: Taysom Hill or Heineke. I don't care who it is.
Speaker 1: I want him to have to find eleven every time
Speaker 1: because I think back when when you were playing in
Speaker 1: the eight you know, eighties, late eighties, early nineties, and
Speaker 1: no matter who the quarterback was, Troy still had to
Speaker 1: find Lawrence Taylor, he had to find him, He had
Speaker 1: to find Rady Lewis. You have to find those guys.
Speaker 1: And I think that's the level that he's playing on.
Speaker 1: You know, it's just amazing. Four weeks ago, hey man,
Speaker 1: he's a defensive van and I'm like, okay, all right,
Speaker 1: he's earned the right to be at the defensive in
Speaker 1: But y'all, you do not understand from an offensive lineman
Speaker 1: point of view that you walk up to the line,
Speaker 1: here's Gregory, here's the Marcus Lawrence, and he said, okay, boom.
Speaker 1: Now we're getting ready to set our protection, which one
Speaker 1: we think the most dangerous, you know, even with even
Speaker 1: with Gallimore sitting there. Oh, we're gonna turn to this
Speaker 1: side because the extra pass rush is here. Then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you getting ready to turn from a
Speaker 1: left guard over here to help with the nose and
Speaker 1: to help with the defense. That's two on that's four
Speaker 1: on two. Guess what? Then this guy walked to my
Speaker 1: outside eye and I'm talking about number eleven, and I
Speaker 1: have to say straight, straight, straight, everybody's one on one.
Speaker 1: Now you got to handle your dog over you and
Speaker 1: if you ain't right, bro, this is number eleven, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna hurt you because it's a race to the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Now you went from three on two, possible four on
Speaker 1: two to all of a sudden, he brained this dude,
Speaker 1: and only the right guard and the right tackle have
Speaker 1: a and you'll send his naked. I'm naked and my
Speaker 1: left tackle his naked. But I mean, we buy ourselves
Speaker 1: and you're running back. Ain't chip, Please clarify what's that?
Speaker 1: Clarify what that means? Because we want we're one on
Speaker 1: one block. That good, we're one one block. You know,
Speaker 1: you know, yeah, I'm not gonna take my clothes off
Speaker 1: of him. But anyway, yeah about I was naked? Cool? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you want you never know, you got to clarify. Okay,
Speaker 1: how you doing? Yeah? Hey, and but real quick, give
Speaker 1: us your your big picture. What do you take away
Speaker 1: from yesterday's game? You were watching it along with everybody else.
Speaker 1: What were your your thoughts as you watch the game?
Speaker 1: And at the end of the game. My thoughts, well,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm starting to panic a little bit, to be honest,
Speaker 1: because every week since Dak got back from the injury,
Speaker 1: every week, you know, he'll miss some passes bink assistant
Speaker 1: and you're like, what's dyk, He's shown he can do it.
Speaker 1: He'll be better next week. Then another game comes by
Speaker 1: and you're like, all right, well they wont okay, well
Speaker 1: they can get better. You got your receivers back, this
Speaker 1: and that. So every week it's like, you know, you're
Speaker 1: expecting them to get better. But then how many games
Speaker 1: has it been? And he's like, Okay, well maybe we're
Speaker 1: at that point where maybe it won't get better. So
Speaker 1: right now I am very concerned. I wasn't before, but
Speaker 1: after last night games I'm like, Okay, maybe this is
Speaker 1: the time that we might have a serious problem at
Speaker 1: quarterback and you might not have the kind of quarterback
Speaker 1: that you thought you had and maybe and I see
Speaker 1: a lot of people on Twitter, you know, wondering if
Speaker 1: he's still dealing with something with the injury or something
Speaker 1: else that it's maybe affecting the way that he's performing
Speaker 1: on the field. But right now, I'm worried and they
Speaker 1: should be worried too. All Right, We're gonna take a
Speaker 1: quick break. When we come back, I want to dive
Speaker 1: into that topic and I want to ask you, guys,
Speaker 1: what do you think is the biggest problem right now
Speaker 1: for this offense, particularly Dak Prescott and why he is
Speaker 1: not playing at the level that we've been accustomed to
Speaker 1: seeing and play well. That one come right back this
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Speaker 1: Second segment of the Break Life from the s WBC
Speaker 1: mortgage studios at the Star. Let's dive into the topic
Speaker 1: that I think most fans out there are thinking, and
Speaker 1: we're thinking yesterday, what is wrong with Dak Prescott? He
Speaker 1: was twenty two to thirty nine, fifty six percent complete
Speaker 1: ship percentage, two hundred and eleven yards, one touchdown, two
Speaker 1: interceptions that were kind of baffling even to me, and
Speaker 1: he took four sacks. What is wrong with Dak? I
Speaker 1: don't know. I mean, it's not something that you can see.
Speaker 1: He's not limping. He's not he doesn't have like his
Speaker 1: arm isn't you know, hurt, He's not on Enturyport. Let
Speaker 1: me change the question. What do you see from Dak
Speaker 1: that's different now than earlier in the season when he
Speaker 1: was actually functioning at it? Consistency, inconsistency in his throws,
Speaker 1: in consistency in the timing, and consistency in getting first downs.
Speaker 1: I mean the three an ounce that is all you
Speaker 1: need to know. I mean, that is ridiculous. In the
Speaker 1: first ten games of the season, they had nineteen I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: they had sixteen three and ounce sixteen times in ten
Speaker 1: games three and ouns an average, you know, one point
Speaker 1: six or whatever. They've had like twenty four in the
Speaker 1: last four, So they're averaging six a game now, six
Speaker 1: three and ouns a game. That's just I mean, that's
Speaker 1: actually consistent, which is terrible. Yeah, the fact that their
Speaker 1: defense can still play well under those kind of circumstances
Speaker 1: even speaks even more highly of this defense. Amber. What
Speaker 1: do you think's wrong with Dak? I never thought I
Speaker 1: would say this, but I think he has lost his
Speaker 1: confidence and that's coming. That's coming me seeing a guy
Speaker 1: that from the moment he was a rookie and had
Speaker 1: to step into that job, he has shown confidence one
Speaker 1: thousand percent. I feel that what I watched yesterday, I
Speaker 1: could tell that he's not that same confident guy because
Speaker 1: we've seen him play bad at times miss strows, but
Speaker 1: he'll go right back in it and he'll continue playing
Speaker 1: like the last play it never happened, and he'll keep
Speaker 1: his focus going. But this time around, you can see
Speaker 1: him kind of hesitating, you can see him out of
Speaker 1: his comfort zone, just nervous, just not that same confident
Speaker 1: guy that we've seen all alone. So I think that
Speaker 1: Nate has some good points about his mental aspect that
Speaker 1: that could be very concerning. If that's the case that
Speaker 1: it's all mental, because how do you fix that? You know,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you fix it, no more than
Speaker 1: you get into yourself, getting into your coaches, getting into
Speaker 1: your people that you trust. But you know I was
Speaker 1: selling Heckman earlier. I said when Dad it bothered me
Speaker 1: at the game as well, just trying to make a
Speaker 1: play that picks. You don't have to make a play.
Speaker 1: You got two minute horses, brother, Just get them the ball.
Speaker 1: I looked at Tom Brady over time last night. Just
Speaker 1: throw a crossing right route that went like sixty yards.
Speaker 1: Just get your horses the ball. And this is what
Speaker 1: bothers me is rookie Dak. You couldn't have made him
Speaker 1: throw that ball in a thousand years. And so go
Speaker 1: into what missus Garcia is saying. That is it He's
Speaker 1: lacking that that smoothness, that confidence that hey, another play
Speaker 1: will pump another play. He ain't thinking like our normal
Speaker 1: rational Dak. Don't force nothing. You don't have to. You
Speaker 1: got two minute horses to have to force something. So
Speaker 1: it could be the confidence thing. You know, do you
Speaker 1: think that maybe maybe what it is he's kind of
Speaker 1: a victim of his own success. And what I mean
Speaker 1: by that is you get away with doing things when
Speaker 1: things are rolling, and you you take some chances and
Speaker 1: you maybe throw some balls and they end up getting converted.
Speaker 1: You're throwing down fill into some situations maybe you shouldn't have,
Speaker 1: but they get converted, and you are thinking, I think
Speaker 1: I can do this. I think I can do this,
Speaker 1: rather than just take what's there, make the right throw
Speaker 1: and then live to fight another day. You think maybe
Speaker 1: Dad could be a part of it. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it comes down to it reminds me of
Speaker 1: last year when Dad got hurt and then Zeke. The
Speaker 1: next three or four games, he was fumbling a lot.
Speaker 1: He wasn't himself. You could tell he was he was pressing,
Speaker 1: was forcing the issue. He's never had this before. He's
Speaker 1: never had to take to carry at all. And I
Speaker 1: thought that interception it was a perfect example of that.
Speaker 1: He has no running game. They can't run the ball.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter who's the running back. Those old offensive
Speaker 1: linemen in the center is not going to push that
Speaker 1: pile so they can't run it. They'll close out this game.
Speaker 1: He feels like he's got to get first down and
Speaker 1: make a play. He doesn't have to do that. Take
Speaker 1: a sack, keep a clock going, make him burn the
Speaker 1: time out. I mean I put some of that on Kellen.
Speaker 1: Why are you throwing the ball anyways? I mean the
Speaker 1: clock is your best friend at this point. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're are up by thirteen points. Just you know, just
Speaker 1: pump the ball. If you're watching the game, Corey Clemence
Speaker 1: is having some type of success at the end of
Speaker 1: the game. It's not always about trying to tell people
Speaker 1: sometimes that three yards and the cloud of dust is
Speaker 1: all you need because the clock is continue to move.
Speaker 1: Now you have to go back into Okay, well, a
Speaker 1: three yard pass right here to Cede Lamb, a four
Speaker 1: yard pass here to Cooper. The clock it's moving and
Speaker 1: pressure is mounting on them. You gotta understand that they
Speaker 1: defense is trying to get us out the field, but
Speaker 1: for every four yards we get, they put them in
Speaker 1: a panic mode. I don't and so wow, it just
Speaker 1: you know, I don't see where you have to panic.
Speaker 1: And I promise you if we can give the ball,
Speaker 1: try running backs thirty five times and come up with
Speaker 1: our one hundred and twenty yards one hundred and ten yards.
Speaker 1: You know, the average may not be great, but the
Speaker 1: time of possession will mount up and that will give
Speaker 1: our defense a fresh defense, and they will make plays.
Speaker 1: They will make plays. But let me ask you this,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna challenge you a little bit on that name.
Speaker 1: When you all, when you're going three yards in a
Speaker 1: cloud of dust, if you're getting two three yards on
Speaker 1: a carry, you're still gonna need to pass in order
Speaker 1: to get that first down. And that seems and that
Speaker 1: seems to be their problem. Is yeah, they can pick
Speaker 1: up that two or three yards on any given run,
Speaker 1: but on the passing downs they're not being able to convert.
Speaker 1: And I know after the game, Mike McCarthy said, you know,
Speaker 1: we gotta get better in our control passing game. You know,
Speaker 1: when they take away the deep ball, we we got
Speaker 1: to be able to make things work in that type
Speaker 1: of scenario. The first question came to my mind is
Speaker 1: if they're taking away the deep bat pass, that means
Speaker 1: they probably got two safeties back. So if they got
Speaker 1: two safeties back, why are you having a hard time
Speaker 1: running against a seven man box like you ought to
Speaker 1: be able to run in that kind of scenario. That
Speaker 1: should be favorable for you. If they want to take
Speaker 1: away the deep ball, they got to give something up
Speaker 1: for that, and giving something up for that means you
Speaker 1: should be able to run. But they're not being able
Speaker 1: to run at a clip that can allow them to
Speaker 1: keep the change moving. But you know what I'm talking
Speaker 1: about running maybe first down, maybe down. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: the run. The run to me is always the second option.
Speaker 1: Dak ought to be able to look up and say,
Speaker 1: two safeties back. Now we all know if two safetists back,
Speaker 1: the middle of that field is free. Who's better than
Speaker 1: CD Lamb. I don't know. We haven't seen him going
Speaker 1: up to seem in a while. Yeah, I would just
Speaker 1: cross cross him in gallup, take a take CD on
Speaker 1: a long post and bring eighty six the young Bay
Speaker 1: shots right up under there and let him run a
Speaker 1: why option that Jason Jason went and greatest play forever.
Speaker 1: Let him run a wy option. It's they are refusing
Speaker 1: to throw the mid range game. You have to throw
Speaker 1: the mid range game. And I'm not saying Dak is
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. I am not saying that. But guess who
Speaker 1: had to learn that? The kid, the kid in Casey say,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm about to learn to cut you
Speaker 1: about thousand cuts exactly. I don't have to get it
Speaker 1: all play. Yeah, Dak has to go into that same mentality.
Speaker 1: Now every time you see him, it's twenty thirty yards.
Speaker 1: Its submit range game. And now that says, here's fifteen
Speaker 1: to twelve yards, let's take advantage of it. I'm just
Speaker 1: looking at this. I mean I put I'm put more
Speaker 1: on Kellen now than I did before. Yeah, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I mean it's four. They snapped that ball with four
Speaker 1: twenty four to go and back through an interception. You're
Speaker 1: up thirteen points. You should have run the football around
Speaker 1: second and six. You just got four yards with Corey
Speaker 1: Clement like like Nate saying, so with second and six
Speaker 1: with four to twenty four to go, you run two
Speaker 1: in a row. If Rivera wants to cause timeout's great.
Speaker 1: If he doesn't, then you're punting the ball with three
Speaker 1: eighteen to go, up thirteen points against Kyle Allen and
Speaker 1: whoever is playing quarter your defense playing off the charts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it so it was so bad or so good,
Speaker 1: depending on how you want to say it. That I
Speaker 1: said this to you in the press box. I have
Speaker 1: more confidence with the Cowboys defensive backs getting interceptions than
Speaker 1: I do the Cowboys making catching the ball. I mean
Speaker 1: I thought, I mean they were gonna make more plays
Speaker 1: on defense. Now we got to be careful. We don't
Speaker 1: know if that was a call run and and Dak
Speaker 1: checked out of it. We don't know that, but it
Speaker 1: certainly was whoever made that decision. True, you got to
Speaker 1: question that decision a little bit. But it comes a point.
Speaker 1: As a head coach and as an offensive coordinator, you say,
Speaker 1: when you say, don't no, check with me that run
Speaker 1: to play and see that that and I go a
Speaker 1: step further. Zeke, I love you, but no, see players.
Speaker 1: When you start letting players run this ship that ain't
Speaker 1: been to the top of the mountain, explain that. What
Speaker 1: do you mean? Zeke? No, Zeke, No, you're not playing. No,
Speaker 1: you're not playing. See him down, dragging him off the field,
Speaker 1: like said, yeah, consider yourself, drug chin. I don't look
Speaker 1: like yeah, yeah, I'm just for the good of the team.
Speaker 1: For because one thing I did not know just looking
Speaker 1: at film and looking at TV. Homeboy was a cartoonist.
Speaker 1: The quarterback for the for Washington Reserves. He's a cartoonist. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right. You you look at number four, the original
Speaker 1: number four for Green Bay. You ain't that, and Neville
Speaker 1: will be that. You just a rubber arm, that's all
Speaker 1: you are. Because this defense showed you see, when you
Speaker 1: have a playoff caliber defense or defense that played on
Speaker 1: a on a in a caliber, high caliber way, you
Speaker 1: find out who the real guys are. And he's not real. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I hope he plays in two weeks, Yes, sir. I
Speaker 1: mean because every time Kyle Allen got in the game,
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, I'm the same dude that game
Speaker 1: to ATNT Stadium, Lascari. Yeah that was Alex Smith was
Speaker 1: at the first game, first game at home. Yeah, first game, LA.
Speaker 1: So he was scared. He was. He was a little
Speaker 1: bit more scarier than the other guy. Yeah, when he
Speaker 1: first came in, you and I both thach other like,
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know about this. I'd be happy,
Speaker 1: Well get him back whatever. Heineke was held to start
Speaker 1: the game. He was a little bit different after a
Speaker 1: number eleven laid on him and hurt him and forced
Speaker 1: the fumble. Like that play right, there was a huge
Speaker 1: play in the game. Now only did he get him
Speaker 1: a touchdown to make it eighteen nothing, but he wasn't
Speaker 1: feeling too good after that and um, you know, I
Speaker 1: mean it was just it was that right there. I mean,
Speaker 1: I saw two of the best defensive plays we've seen
Speaker 1: in a long time. But I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: where we're gonna get to Randy Gregory, but that, to
Speaker 1: me was the greatest defensive player that I can remember
Speaker 1: seeing ever. I mean that I couldn't stop just thinking
Speaker 1: that was a phenomenal play. I'm talking about the intercept. No,
Speaker 1: that was gonna be the other one. I thought he
Speaker 1: was gonna mention those are the two plays in that
Speaker 1: game to me defensively, while I was like, those were
Speaker 1: just phenomenal athletes. A hat trick. He got a hat
Speaker 1: trick in hockey that's three goals in one game or
Speaker 1: soccer or whatever. He bull rushed his guy, got a sack,
Speaker 1: hurt the quarterback, hurt the center. Yeah, and he's not
Speaker 1: trying to hurt anyone, but I mean, but he went
Speaker 1: through he went through both guys. Yeah, and you know this, Yeah,
Speaker 1: thirty fourteen weeks, thirteen years right in a while, guy
Speaker 1: like the guy just to run over a guy. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean it's been a while since Ratliffe. Maybe do
Speaker 1: you hear the show this morning on the fan, when
Speaker 1: I was talking a fan, they asked about when the
Speaker 1: last time the guys have been like this? And I
Speaker 1: kind of forgot about Ratliff. I should have mentioned him.
Speaker 1: But when's the last time that they've had this kind
Speaker 1: of success with all these different weapons on defense like that?
Speaker 1: And I really don't think it's it's it's it was
Speaker 1: probably too tall, Harvey Martin and Randy White. It was
Speaker 1: probably that because they tried with the Marcus ware to
Speaker 1: make that and rat Luff and Canty and spearits, but
Speaker 1: it just didn't work. They weren't that dynamic. This the
Speaker 1: thing that makes these dudes different. The one thing that
Speaker 1: makes them different is they all show up when we
Speaker 1: need the play. We've had guys that come in hire
Speaker 1: and be like, Okay, you got two sacks and no fumbles,
Speaker 1: no turnovers, came off. It was early in the game.
Speaker 1: It's the fourth quarter. We need somebody to make This
Speaker 1: is the difference in this defense. You get to the
Speaker 1: end of the game. Back back when we've had some
Speaker 1: of these other guys, you'd be like, oh, they had
Speaker 1: two sex and you don't even really remember it because
Speaker 1: it was inconsequential to some degree, these guys are making
Speaker 1: players and moments they need. And I'm gonna gohea and
Speaker 1: say it right now, like this is I don't care
Speaker 1: what's happening with the offense. They're gonna have to figure
Speaker 1: it out. But this is the kind of formula that
Speaker 1: the New York Giants won the Super Bowl with. They had,
Speaker 1: they had that NASCAR package where they put those guys
Speaker 1: on the field who could all get after the pastor,
Speaker 1: and they wrote it all the way to championship. Beat
Speaker 1: three of the top offenses in the league that year
Speaker 1: in the playoffs to ride that to a championship because
Speaker 1: they had such a dominant front on defense. That's what
Speaker 1: this defense can be if they can stay healthy and
Speaker 1: they can keep playing at the level that they're playing. Arose.
Speaker 1: It was rounded by Eli Manning. I mean, they weren't
Speaker 1: all right, they weren't great. They certainly weren't great, but
Speaker 1: they just kind of had to make a player two
Speaker 1: here or there each game. But that defense was smothering.
Speaker 1: That was the defense that came in here and beat
Speaker 1: the Cowboys when that offense that year was one. I mean,
Speaker 1: they were really really good. Now, I think they also
Speaker 1: beat Green Bay and it was one other team they
Speaker 1: beat that was a really good offense that year in
Speaker 1: the in the in the it'd be like Tampa and
Speaker 1: I mean New England. They beat New England and yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah they were good, they were nice. Yeah they're pretty good.
Speaker 1: So yeah, this matter. But you're right though, this team
Speaker 1: can do that. This team can win. They can't. They
Speaker 1: can win the Super Bowl. They really can't. I mean,
Speaker 1: every everybody's got their flaws, everyone's everyone's got issues. It's
Speaker 1: gonna get to the tournament and you gotta see what happens.
Speaker 1: But this defense is good enough to make plays. And
Speaker 1: their offense, I mean, yeah, they're not playing well, but
Speaker 1: I'll take my chances. I'll take my chances on an
Speaker 1: offense that's been ranked number one most of the year.
Speaker 1: Now they're struggling now, But you know, I was thinking
Speaker 1: about that this morning. I mean, cold weather is gonna
Speaker 1: factor into some of these games. There's one spot that's
Speaker 1: gonna be cold. And you know that the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: going there because of McCarthy. You know, you know it's
Speaker 1: gonna happen. They're probably to go to Green Bay. But
Speaker 1: I'm just saying Tampa, I mean Arizona, La you don't
Speaker 1: have to go to La probably unless they win to
Speaker 1: Night and beat Arizona. But the counter are hoping for hope. Well,
Speaker 1: when you start thinking about it like you want Arizona
Speaker 1: to lose because then you have an opportunity to beat
Speaker 1: Arizona as well, that pulls it back into the pack.
Speaker 1: Because that's the one thing you can remember about the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: If you get into a full tie where all those
Speaker 1: teams in the top four or five are in a tie, Cowboys,
Speaker 1: I think I want to say the first tiebreak is yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's up. It's gonna be division first, and then
Speaker 1: it's gonna yeah, but it's gonna be division, and then
Speaker 1: it's going to be your record in the conference. Dallas's losses,
Speaker 1: by and large I come against the AFC. Most other
Speaker 1: teams are not like that. So this is actually there
Speaker 1: is a path for the Cowboys if they can keep winning.
Speaker 1: But again, they're playing some bad teams down the stretch.
Speaker 1: If they can keep winning, they certainly will be in
Speaker 1: position and starts with they need Arizona to lose that
Speaker 1: game to Night. But let's go and take our final break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we'll talk a little bit more
Speaker 1: about this offensive line. Particularly, I want to talk about
Speaker 1: Tyren Smith, where he is from a health standpoint, and
Speaker 1: what that means for this team. If he is if
Speaker 1: he has to miss some time, We'll do that when
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Speaker 1: WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. Let's talk a little
Speaker 1: offensive line. We got Nate Newton with us, so of
Speaker 1: course we need to talk some offensive line. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: yesterday gave up four sacks. They ran the ball, as
Speaker 1: you said, Nate, you thought they did okay with the
Speaker 1: running game. Obviously, the number of times they were able
Speaker 1: to run kept the clock moving in some instances. Certainly
Speaker 1: weren't able to run it to the level that I
Speaker 1: think we want them to be able to run, especially
Speaker 1: if your passing game is not working. That all being saying,
Speaker 1: how would you have? What did you what did you
Speaker 1: see from the offensive line yesterday? Let's start with your
Speaker 1: nick Be honest, I think they play it okay. Uh,
Speaker 1: when you're dealing with Jonathan Allen and the round pain,
Speaker 1: that's different. Brother. That that's Pro Bowl, all pro level.
Speaker 1: That's first round picks that have not you know, have
Speaker 1: not failed. And so even though there's missing two outside
Speaker 1: guys and Sweat and the other kid, Chase Young, they
Speaker 1: still had a fortified front and then and they were good.
Speaker 1: So I knew we weren't gonna move the ball for
Speaker 1: what we got yesterday was perfect. So the offensive line
Speaker 1: does not bother me. Now we talked about off air,
Speaker 1: which left guard we want. I don't have a problem
Speaker 1: with either one of them. But what you cannot have
Speaker 1: going down the stretch is these penalties. We gotta cut
Speaker 1: out the costly penalties, the holdings, you know, the all sides,
Speaker 1: we gotta we can't have that. And so that's what
Speaker 1: I think they sked over Connor, is that that that
Speaker 1: at the wrong time, we're gonna get that holding and
Speaker 1: it's gonna cost us dearly. And that's what they're skeed
Speaker 1: up that happened in this game. I mean an eighteen
Speaker 1: to nothing pinned back there a little bit deep ball
Speaker 1: to uh gallop right from forty five yards and it
Speaker 1: was holding. I mean, Lyell was holding his guy. Um.
Speaker 1: But you think I got passed got off if he
Speaker 1: didn't hold like the guy was coming. Do you think
Speaker 1: he gets to dock if he didn't hold. Maybe, I
Speaker 1: don't know. It just can't happen. It cannot happen. And
Speaker 1: the funny thing that is Lyle has fallen so far.
Speaker 1: He worked so hard to get that right hand going
Speaker 1: now to just use that right hand. He was punching
Speaker 1: before he got hurt. He was punching with that right
Speaker 1: hand and dropping. He was playing Pro Bowl ball and
Speaker 1: now within within a year and a half with the
Speaker 1: COVID and in the operation, man, he's just a catcher.
Speaker 1: He's still physical, he's still mean, but he's a catcher.
Speaker 1: And it's gonna cost you down the stretch. You know,
Speaker 1: is that something you in your experience as a as
Speaker 1: an offensive linement, is that something that he still can
Speaker 1: get back to the level that he was, so you
Speaker 1: can get back to it. But now is he is
Speaker 1: he limber? Is he he had flexibility in his hipskin?
Speaker 1: He twitched and turn and that's what I'm scared he
Speaker 1: can't do. So now you got still who's not as strong,
Speaker 1: not as physical, but he plays with technique and technique
Speaker 1: to save you down the stretch. You know, I think
Speaker 1: there's something else I think we need to talk about too,
Speaker 1: with the offensive line, and Nate is perfect to talk
Speaker 1: about that too, because he was a part of it
Speaker 1: back in the nineties. You know, when there's there's other
Speaker 1: team in some big, bad bullies that got your number
Speaker 1: and they feel like they own you and you have
Speaker 1: to take it. You have to take it back. And
Speaker 1: I know that. You know they didn't play as great
Speaker 1: in the offensive line, but there was something that happened
Speaker 1: in that game that can't be overlooked. Okay, because a
Speaker 1: year ago Andy Dalton got hit and everybody's sitting watching
Speaker 1: him by how that looked like that hurt dang And
Speaker 1: they didn't do a damn thing. They didn't do one
Speaker 1: thing about that. In all fifteen yards, you're rejected, like, oh, okay,
Speaker 1: who's in now? De Nucci? This time that gets pushed
Speaker 1: out of bounds. Zeke goes after him, and Lionel says,
Speaker 1: I don't give an f I'm going over there to head,
Speaker 1: but this guy punched him. I don't know what's gonna happen,
Speaker 1: but that right there, to me was a turning point
Speaker 1: and a lot of things. You're not gonna come over
Speaker 1: here and bullet us around and push us around. We
Speaker 1: came into your house, but kicked your ass, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna keep kicking your ass. I thought that was a huge,
Speaker 1: huge point and it could take I could carry this
Speaker 1: team on for a while. Believe I know you were
Speaker 1: asking for it. You get an opportunity to talk to life.
Speaker 1: I did talk to like, what do you have to
Speaker 1: say about all that? Hey said, I'm gonna protect my
Speaker 1: quarterback at all. Hold on getting Nate to talk about this,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna I'm gonna read the quote because I
Speaker 1: can't paraphrase. That is good and I have it right.
Speaker 1: Nate O. There times as an offensive lineman where you
Speaker 1: say I don't care if I get kicked out of
Speaker 1: the game. I gotta make a point. I was. I
Speaker 1: was the easy at all of our officive line. I
Speaker 1: was the most easy going guy you know and then
Speaker 1: want no problems. But they knew. Everybody knew that. Okay,
Speaker 1: big Neon, They'm gonna do that, and he gonna play
Speaker 1: his game. He's gonna be physically gonna try to mal you.
Speaker 1: But if you touch Troy, you touch Mike, you touch
Speaker 1: him and in the wrong way, his own, his own,
Speaker 1: and its popping. And see the thing about it, I
Speaker 1: ain't gonna I ain't gonna fight you, ain't gonna we
Speaker 1: ain't fin the tussle. I'm just gonna look at his
Speaker 1: name at homeboy, you got to watch out for the
Speaker 1: rest of the game. Protake your ankles, protaking I'm telling them.
Speaker 1: They looking at me and I'm saying, now, you may
Speaker 1: think it's a joke, but you better look out for
Speaker 1: the rest of the game. And when I roll up
Speaker 1: on him, you know, three hundred and thirty pounds rolling
Speaker 1: up on your on your knee ain't nothing nice. Because
Speaker 1: they knew I don't play that way. But if you
Speaker 1: touch my boys, because that was my money maker off.
Speaker 1: You know, I was like, I had three Super Bowl tickets,
Speaker 1: but then I get extra super Bowl tickets. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna let you hurt my money makers. But yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: So I asked, I, like, y'all about the hit on
Speaker 1: the sideline. He said, it wasn't really the late hit
Speaker 1: for me. It was more or so. I felt like
Speaker 1: he was rolling towards Dak's leg. It was on called for.
Speaker 1: I'm here to protect my quarterback at all costs, and
Speaker 1: that's the bottom line. It sounds like the rock here.
Speaker 1: But I asked them, you saw the play last year
Speaker 1: with Andy Dalton. He said, I was at home in
Speaker 1: my bed when I saw that play. It irked me.
Speaker 1: It made me feel some kind of way. You don't
Speaker 1: take cheap shots on guys. We don't play that type
Speaker 1: of game. We line up and go out there and
Speaker 1: play ball. We don't play dirty, we don't do none
Speaker 1: of that. At the end of the day, We're not
Speaker 1: gonna take no bullshit. That's what he said. And I
Speaker 1: apologize for that, but I mean that that's what he said.
Speaker 1: We could beat it out, we want to, but that's
Speaker 1: that's what it comes down to. And they end up
Speaker 1: taking that crap. They didn't take those crappy benches. They
Speaker 1: put that off the side and not gonna take the
Speaker 1: crappy play like that. I thought it was very, very
Speaker 1: important to establish that and and you know, we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens to play him again Christmas tay after Christmas.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, that this thing just got ratcheted up one
Speaker 1: more notchet Really, what you think about those two go ahead?
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, I great, protect your quarterback or whatever,
Speaker 1: but I want to see them play better. I don't
Speaker 1: care about that ruffling, pushing, punching when you're hitting a
Speaker 1: helmet at the end of the day, hurt your hand.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I've never been in that kind of
Speaker 1: fighting before, but have you ever been any kind of
Speaker 1: fighting before? Not really good but and I hopefully keep
Speaker 1: it that way. But you know, this whole thing is
Speaker 1: very confusing to me because initially, first half of the season,
Speaker 1: we look at how the offense was playing and we
Speaker 1: were just like, Okay, the only thing we really gotta
Speaker 1: fix here is red zone and the old line, you know,
Speaker 1: Connor Williams and all that. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you look at what they are now, and although they
Speaker 1: seem very close to be in that kind of offense again,
Speaker 1: dynamic scoring points and all that, it seems so far
Speaker 1: at the same time, because not only is it the
Speaker 1: old line, you got you're now talking about the running game,
Speaker 1: You're now talking about Dak Prescott, You're now talking about
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore and the amazing playbook that he had put
Speaker 1: together in such a creative guy. Where did that all go?
Speaker 1: So it's just it's hard to fig around exactly how
Speaker 1: I feel right now with this offensive, with the offense
Speaker 1: in general, because like I said, it seems very fixable,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't at the same time, and you look
Speaker 1: at the teams that they've been going up against lately,
Speaker 1: and I've learned my lesson never never underestimate an opposing team,
Speaker 1: no matter how they've been playing. In this season, I
Speaker 1: have learned that. But now we can talk about the
Speaker 1: past games, you know, looking at those teams and how
Speaker 1: they played, I feel it's it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing the
Speaker 1: way that Dallas has been performing in the past few weeks.
Speaker 1: And this last last stretch of the season. We got
Speaker 1: the division opponents and you look at them, You're like, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: they can go and be the Giants very well. But
Speaker 1: then are you getting better? Like, yeah, you can't get better.
Speaker 1: But it makes me wondering question, Okay, how is this
Speaker 1: gonna really look once you start facing playoff opponents. And
Speaker 1: I get it. The defense it's playing well, but you
Speaker 1: can't just rely on your defense either, you know, I
Speaker 1: get it. You just talked about that, and many people
Speaker 1: say defenses win championships, don't get Michael Ervis thought on that,
Speaker 1: by the way, he don't believe it. But I mean,
Speaker 1: at some point you need your offense to perform and
Speaker 1: you need your and your defense can get tired. And yeah,
Speaker 1: you can have the explosive guys and this three headed
Speaker 1: monster which we are all in for and love and
Speaker 1: are really looking forward to see what else can they do.
Speaker 1: But it's just it sucks right now. I'm excited, but
Speaker 1: then it's like, what are we doing? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm just very mixed feeling. It doesn't suck, And I
Speaker 1: mean that's your opinion, and I respect that, but like,
Speaker 1: I don't think it's embarrassing and I don't think it sucks.
Speaker 1: I think it's December football on the road. You've won
Speaker 1: two road games in a row. It doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be pretty. It won't be pretty. It won't be pretty
Speaker 1: this time of year. But I mean, you go on
Speaker 1: the road with this banged up team as this has
Speaker 1: been it's been dysfunctional, and it's not. This won't be
Speaker 1: like this. This offense won't won't be a team that
Speaker 1: can go to the Stuper Bowl. Like I said that
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes ago, the offense is gonna have
Speaker 1: to turn it around to do that. But I'm just
Speaker 1: saying I believe that that this this is winning football.
Speaker 1: Like they are figuring out ways to win. Uh, they
Speaker 1: figured out a couple ways to lose, you know, but
Speaker 1: they they played, they were battling against Kansas City that
Speaker 1: that wasn't gonna happen. They're battling against the Raiders. Raiders
Speaker 1: that Raiders suck, right team, But they beat the A
Speaker 1: bad loss, there's no doubt about it. That's bad loss.
Speaker 1: You can say all you want. If they had any receivers,
Speaker 1: they would have been all right. But they didn't, and
Speaker 1: they lost. No one cares about what Washington had. No
Speaker 1: one cares about what you didn't have. No one cares
Speaker 1: about that lost. So they lost. So that's your opinion.
Speaker 1: If you think it's embarrassing that, I don't think so,
Speaker 1: because I just feel like, hey, they figured out I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a three game stretch on the road. That's
Speaker 1: the first thing we saw when the schedule came out.
Speaker 1: Well I did, I'm like three in a row in December.
Speaker 1: You gotta kidding me. And they've won two of them
Speaker 1: right now they have a good chance to win three.
Speaker 1: And I think that's great. But I'll say it again,
Speaker 1: it is embarrassing and it does suck. And like I said, yeah,
Speaker 1: everyone can have their opinion. But how I see it
Speaker 1: is when you look at this roster, you look at
Speaker 1: all the talent all the way down from receivers. We
Speaker 1: praised about the tight end position, how well they were playing.
Speaker 1: We talk about the talent on the old line, despite
Speaker 1: the mistakes that they've made. But you look at just
Speaker 1: the roster of a law overall and see the way
Speaker 1: that they're performing, that does suck. Before we end the show,
Speaker 1: real quick, Nate, I want you to tell me, and
Speaker 1: I've always had this belief that all teams, championship teams included,
Speaker 1: all teams have portions of their season where there are challenges,
Speaker 1: where there are moments where everybody's like, man, this team
Speaker 1: and they got some problems. Go back to those nineties days,
Speaker 1: because we all in retrospect look back at those days
Speaker 1: as the Chlory days, everything was great. Did y'all have
Speaker 1: part portions of seasons Yeah, where it was like, man,
Speaker 1: everybody's looking at your sideways like, man, that team, I
Speaker 1: don't know, they're not championship quality, they're not doing this.
Speaker 1: Did y'all have that? And how did y'all manage to
Speaker 1: work through that to get back to a level where
Speaker 1: you then in the playoffs were playing at a championship level.
Speaker 1: The only problem this team has and we're like, okay,
Speaker 1: obviously I'm finished state something that's so simple. The only
Speaker 1: problem that this team has is they have never played
Speaker 1: two or more consistence weeks on a high level to
Speaker 1: know where they're at. They don't know where they're at,
Speaker 1: and they don't know how good they are, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to somehow in the next three or four
Speaker 1: weeks find that. So if they get into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: you got to know who you are. And what kept us, man,
Speaker 1: is those three guys I told y'all hurt somebody about.
Speaker 1: They knew that level. The coaches knew that level. Everybody's
Speaker 1: trying to find out who they are. We know who
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons is, we know this young guys just playing lightside.
Speaker 1: We know that right there. But the rest of the team,
Speaker 1: they don't know who they are. They don't know how
Speaker 1: good they can really be. And we've had some guys
Speaker 1: had some success in college, but it's in college. So
Speaker 1: until they have that two or three game stretch where
Speaker 1: they'd be like, boy, we we as a team laid
Speaker 1: and own somebody, they just don't know. They just don't know. All.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you, guys, Jonas. We'll be back tomorrow. We're
Speaker 1: gonna get into some big picture items. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: this NFC and where the Cowboys stand there and what
Speaker 1: has to happen this weekend and maybe next to maybe
Speaker 1: wrap up the division. We'll talk about that tomorrow. Till
Speaker 1: then for Nick Keapman, Amber Garcia, Nate Newton. I'm Derek Eagleton.
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