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Speaker 1: episode number sixty one. Welcome to another edition of The Break,
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Speaker 1: Let's go Cowboys. We've got a lot to talk about today. UM.
Speaker 1: I was first looking at the Cowboys and where they
Speaker 1: sit in the NFC East. It's all still jumbled up.
Speaker 1: With one exception. The New York Giants are just plummeting,
Speaker 1: uh there at one in five, But all the other
Speaker 1: teams are right there, kind of lumped in together. The
Speaker 1: Washington Redskins are three and two, Cowboys three and three,
Speaker 1: Philadelphia three and three. Um. There are kind of two
Speaker 1: things that you can look at from the Cowboys schedule, UM,
Speaker 1: that you would probably call pretty good. One. Uh, they're
Speaker 1: playing the Sundry for the division lead after a not
Speaker 1: so great start to the season in my opinion. But
Speaker 1: the more important thing is they don't have three games
Speaker 1: left this season against teams that have winning records as
Speaker 1: of now, that would be New Orleans, and that would
Speaker 1: be the Washington Redskins, who they all play twice, who
Speaker 1: are at three and two, just barely barely above five hundred.
Speaker 1: Every other team is either at five hundred or below.
Speaker 1: And when you looked at the schedule going into the season,
Speaker 1: you certainly didn't think that about Atlanta. You thought that
Speaker 1: they would be much better than that. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: how many other of those other teams that you felt
Speaker 1: like that. You probably thought Philadelphia was going to be
Speaker 1: much better than they've been so far. But so far,
Speaker 1: just looking at the schedule, you have to feel pretty
Speaker 1: good about where the Cowboys sit and the opponents that
Speaker 1: they have to face. They don't have teams like Green Bay, Minnesota,
Speaker 1: Saint Louis. I'm not saying keep calling Saint Louis Los
Speaker 1: Angeles rams. They don't have those teams on their schedule.
Speaker 1: Those are teams that you would say are a lot
Speaker 1: better right now ahead. That's everything you just said is perception,
Speaker 1: like it's all for like bs. Basically, I mean, you're
Speaker 1: you're right, You're right, like I would have thought some
Speaker 1: of those teams will be better. But even just then,
Speaker 1: You're like, they don't have the Packers and the Vikings,
Speaker 1: like the three two and one three two and one
Speaker 1: Packers and the three two and one Vikings, like the
Speaker 1: Packers who needed Aaron Rodgers to be Aaron Rodgers to
Speaker 1: get past C. J. Beathard last night. Usually is Aaron Rodgers. No, No,
Speaker 1: for sure, And I'll say it for the ten millionth time.
Speaker 1: As long as you've got him, you've got a chance.
Speaker 1: But like, they don't look impressive by any stretch of
Speaker 1: the imagination. And really, I don't think anybody does, except
Speaker 1: for the Rams, the Chiefs, um, maybe the Saints and
Speaker 1: uh and I'll throw the Patriots in there just because
Speaker 1: they're the Patriots. I think that what happened on Sunday,
Speaker 1: it just just shows that you know, they're they're gonna be,
Speaker 1: they have the ability to be in every game. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is a this is a team that is starting
Speaker 1: to show that they've got something special and that's on defense. Now,
Speaker 1: if the offense can can kind of piggyback on that,
Speaker 1: which I believe is kind of what happened. I mean,
Speaker 1: the offense was able to take advantage of that that
Speaker 1: strong defensive performances, so I think that you're gonna be Yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't have those teams on the schedule. You also
Speaker 1: don't have some of the really bad teams. I guess
Speaker 1: would that be the Cardinals. I mean, you don't really
Speaker 1: have that either. So you know, the Giants game is
Speaker 1: coming up. They got to play the Giants on the road.
Speaker 1: That'll probably be tough, just because it always is the Giants,
Speaker 1: just because the Giants. But so you don't have those
Speaker 1: teams that are really really tough. You don't have those
Speaker 1: teams that aren't that good, and you're just gonna be
Speaker 1: in a fight every game. Yeah. I just after the
Speaker 1: game on UM, after the game on Sunday, I was
Speaker 1: sitting there and I was chatting with Todd Archer just
Speaker 1: about like the league, you know, the breakdown and the
Speaker 1: power rankings and who's good and like other. Like I said,
Speaker 1: there's about four teams that right now you feel pretty
Speaker 1: confident are good and are gonna have something to say
Speaker 1: about the playoffs. And then there's I don't even know. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals are pretty they look like they're pretty rough.
Speaker 1: Um Raiders aren't. The Raiders are terrible. The Raiders are
Speaker 1: so bad. Forty nine is record isn't great, but the
Speaker 1: forty nine is. And that's name name more than like
Speaker 1: four teams that you're confidence saying like they're they're awful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean the Giants because it's try same way. Their
Speaker 1: records bad, but they're pretty good team. They're not an
Speaker 1: easy out there. Well did you put in New England
Speaker 1: in that four first four? I just that of reputation alone,
Speaker 1: But yeah, they got beat by the Lions. For you
Speaker 1: look at the power rankings right now in the NFL
Speaker 1: and you probably like the Rams are number one, and
Speaker 1: then the Chiefs and the Pats are right there, and
Speaker 1: then the Saints have looked really good since they lost
Speaker 1: in Week one. And then I mean, seriously tell me
Speaker 1: because it's probably the Cincinnati Bengals if we're talking record,
Speaker 1: I would guess, and how they've played too, they've played
Speaker 1: really well. Is anybody really super duper buying the Bengals
Speaker 1: to next point? Like, probably not? Are you super duper?
Speaker 1: I mean the Vikings have a ton of talent, they
Speaker 1: haven't looked like it. The Packers still believe in the
Speaker 1: still believe in the Vikings. Well, and that's it's you know,
Speaker 1: you say the Redskins and the and the who else
Speaker 1: is the other? The Saints are the only teams of
Speaker 1: winning records that's going to change, like some somebody will
Speaker 1: go on up. The Eagles will figure it out. The
Speaker 1: everybody that get up in the top ten has other
Speaker 1: than you know, the Rams and the Chiefs. Other than
Speaker 1: those two teams, but everyone else has pretty much what
Speaker 1: you consider to be a bad loss. You know, the Vikings,
Speaker 1: are they the team that lost bad to the Bills?
Speaker 1: You know, but the Patriots lost pretty bad to the Lions,
Speaker 1: and so you know, I mean it happens. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's another one in there, the two that has a
Speaker 1: has a pretty bad law. Who else is kind of
Speaker 1: up there high um, I mean the Saints. Saints lost
Speaker 1: their opener to the Buccaneers, who have not looked great since. Yeah.
Speaker 1: But I think that's also part of this too, is
Speaker 1: when you look at what the NFL traditionally is, it's
Speaker 1: about now week six, seven eight when you start to
Speaker 1: really start seeing teams teams kind of separate out of
Speaker 1: this pack. And I believe that some of those teams
Speaker 1: that we saw lose early in the season, that's just
Speaker 1: the nature of what today's NFL is because as much
Speaker 1: as there is a preseason, there really isn't a preseason.
Speaker 1: The veterans, I don't think, get as much out of
Speaker 1: the preseason. So they're really getting into their rhythm in
Speaker 1: those first several weeks of the season. And I believe
Speaker 1: some of these teams, like you look at Seattle, see
Speaker 1: that was a much different team than they were and
Speaker 1: what you thought of them in Week one and two, Like,
Speaker 1: they're playing pretty good football right now. So I think
Speaker 1: those teams are gonna start to kind of as they
Speaker 1: typically do around this time of the year. Pittsburgh's another one.
Speaker 1: They're gonna start kind of getting some momentum now, and
Speaker 1: that's one of the things that actually makes me feel
Speaker 1: good about where the Cowboys are. To play like they
Speaker 1: did at that stage of the season in Week six,
Speaker 1: maybe suggest that they could be one of those teams
Speaker 1: that finds its footing at this part of the year,
Speaker 1: because this is when you really got to make Hay,
Speaker 1: you know, this is the and I said this to
Speaker 1: you yesterday. I'll probably write something on this tomorrow, but
Speaker 1: this is the game of the year right here. This
Speaker 1: is the game where you have to you can stay
Speaker 1: on the track that you're on, or you can jump
Speaker 1: off and get on a different, different plane. And this
Speaker 1: is it, because this is a division game. This is
Speaker 1: one that shows the team that they could win on
Speaker 1: the road, you know. I mean, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I'm buying in that they're not a good road team
Speaker 1: or they're just good at home. Who knows. But this
Speaker 1: game right here, you can erase all that get a
Speaker 1: two game leading, you know, pretty much on Washington when
Speaker 1: you know, be two and own the division. It's just
Speaker 1: everything you want to happen. It starts right here with
Speaker 1: this game right here. If not, then you might just
Speaker 1: be on that track all year long. So I've asked
Speaker 1: this question before, I'll ask it again. I like to
Speaker 1: ask it every Tuesday, based upon what you know now
Speaker 1: and what you've seen to this point, what's your level
Speaker 1: of confidence that the Cowboys can be a playoff team?
Speaker 1: Scale of one to ten, ten being most most convicted
Speaker 1: that they're going to be in the playoffs. Again, it
Speaker 1: just comes down to what you think for this game.
Speaker 1: This is one of those can I can I answer
Speaker 1: it at seven o'clock, you know, on Sunday? Well, but
Speaker 1: I'm saying yes. Every week it'll change to Washington. Then no,
Speaker 1: I don't think this team is going to be in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. But did that change at all with what
Speaker 1: they did last week? As you sit here right now,
Speaker 1: based on what they did last week, are you more
Speaker 1: confident or less confident that they're going to be in
Speaker 1: the playoffs? I'm I'm a little more. I'm a little
Speaker 1: more confident, but it'll all go down. If they don't
Speaker 1: beat Washington, then I don't think, because then that game
Speaker 1: won't won't matter as much to me. It's kind of
Speaker 1: what we guys said on Monday, that game won't matter
Speaker 1: as much as we thought it would. This needs to
Speaker 1: be a trend. Let's this looks good. Stack wins together.
Speaker 1: If you lose to Washington and based off everything you
Speaker 1: know now you're three and four and oh and four
Speaker 1: on the road, I'll have I will have a lot
Speaker 1: of confidence that this team can turn this thing around.
Speaker 1: I would have put myself at like a two going
Speaker 1: into the Jags to make the playoffs. Yeah, and that
Speaker 1: win was impressive enough that I will bump it up
Speaker 1: to a four. Okay, but I got yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: that that doesn't mean anything. If they can't translate so yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta go beat Washington like this is they got
Speaker 1: to prove that they can stack two and even three
Speaker 1: and four types of wins together, especially and that you know,
Speaker 1: it's no use trying to forecast a month ahead of time.
Speaker 1: But everything after the Titans looks pretty brutal. I mean,
Speaker 1: you got at Atlanta at Philly back to back, I believe, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's Philly then Atlanta or as they landed
Speaker 1: they feeling I don't remember one of those two. And
Speaker 1: then but you got a three three game home stretch
Speaker 1: after that against the Saints and then a division game
Speaker 1: or a division game, and then the Saints and then
Speaker 1: another division game, right yeah, So I mean, yeah, this
Speaker 1: two division games Saints did into I mean Saints in
Speaker 1: between the two divisions. Yeah, from from like at Redskins
Speaker 1: and Titans with a buy in between. Looks pretty manageable,
Speaker 1: no doubt. And then you got about four games in
Speaker 1: a row that I would guess aren't going to be
Speaker 1: super easy, and so I don't feel super confident at all.
Speaker 1: And then you know, like the recency of the other
Speaker 1: five games are way too fresh in my mind. And
Speaker 1: that's I was gonna say that too. Is like you
Speaker 1: think the Redskins podcast or you know the uh you
Speaker 1: know talking Saints, like you think they're like, ooh, watch
Speaker 1: out for Dallas or are they like, oh, that's an
Speaker 1: Inconsist's a beatable team, that's an inconsistent team with a
Speaker 1: shaky offense. Especially they're coming to us. Yeah, like crap
Speaker 1: game though, that might call it. If yeah, you're watch
Speaker 1: out for Dallas, then they can put it together on
Speaker 1: you know. I said this though, And now the Saints
Speaker 1: that's a different story because you've got their their quarterback.
Speaker 1: But I've always thought any level of football, if you've
Speaker 1: got the best football player on the field, you know,
Speaker 1: especially one that's going to touch the ball a lot,
Speaker 1: you always have a chance. And I think that that
Speaker 1: any team when they're doing their you know who that
Speaker 1: talk or whatever it's called there who they sorry? No
Speaker 1: who that Sorry Dave, It's okay, sorry, um, then you
Speaker 1: know they're gonna be like you gotta stop seat because
Speaker 1: you know, if he gets if he gets crazy, then
Speaker 1: then that team can can be, you know, a factor.
Speaker 1: And so I think that's why and that's why Dallas
Speaker 1: I think has a chance in a lot of these games.
Speaker 1: Every game because they have a defense that's flying around
Speaker 1: the ball making plays, and they have a running back
Speaker 1: who has shown the ability to put them on his
Speaker 1: back and and and you know, win some games. So
Speaker 1: and I agree, I agree with you for what that's worth.
Speaker 1: And that's what you know, it was so frustrating going
Speaker 1: into that game last week. Is like, and I get
Speaker 1: I get fan frustrations, but like fans want to pull
Speaker 1: the plug on this season right now when you have
Speaker 1: the ingredients to win this division, like with what it's
Speaker 1: looked like so far, And that's I know the NFL
Speaker 1: is a league of parody and it has been for
Speaker 1: a while now, but it looks even more that way
Speaker 1: right now, like everybody, yeah, yeah, Like you know, I
Speaker 1: kind of my whole storyline. I didn't pick the Cowboys
Speaker 1: to make the playoffs in the preseason, and my thought
Speaker 1: process was like, look at all these good teams, like,
Speaker 1: how are you gonna get too enough wins to make
Speaker 1: the playoffs? Well, maybe what I should have been thinking
Speaker 1: was the NFC is gonna beat the crap out of
Speaker 1: each other, and maybe you don't need as many wins
Speaker 1: as you thought, because there's not that big of a
Speaker 1: difference between best in the NFC and middle of the pack,
Speaker 1: like the Rams are literally the only team that looks
Speaker 1: straight up better than everybody else, because, I mean, the
Speaker 1: Saints have a bad loss. They had to you know,
Speaker 1: scratch and claw to get past the Cleveland Browns, and
Speaker 1: they played a you know, they beat the Giants by
Speaker 1: two scores, but it wasn't a laugher by any stretch.
Speaker 1: So yeah, this this the whole conference looks pretty wide
Speaker 1: open at about the halfway point. All right, we're gonna
Speaker 1: take our first break. When we come back, I want
Speaker 1: to talk about this whole idea of the Cowboys on
Speaker 1: the road versus at home. Jason Garrett was asked about
Speaker 1: it yesterday. He laid out four different things that he
Speaker 1: thought could be factors or at least common themes. I'm
Speaker 1: going to pose the question, you guys, which of those
Speaker 1: things seems in your mind to be the biggest the
Speaker 1: biggest challenge for the Cowboys. We'll talk about them and
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Speaker 1: segment to of the Break Lock the s WBC Mortgage studios.
Speaker 1: At the start, we're having our gumbo show. It throwing
Speaker 1: in a lot of different topics. You're making me homesick
Speaker 1: right now, I'm making myself hungry, actually down, So let's
Speaker 1: let's jump back in now. I want to talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about the Cowboys and their own three road record.
Speaker 1: I think a lot's being made of this by the media,
Speaker 1: particularly in fans to some degree from the standpoint that
Speaker 1: I'm not saying sty legitimate. I'm saying a lots big
Speaker 1: made of it. Though. There's a lot of talk about
Speaker 1: Cowboys being one way at home versus being another way
Speaker 1: on the road. The question was asked to Jason Garrett
Speaker 1: yesterday during his press conference, and his response was that
Speaker 1: there are four common themes to those games that they've
Speaker 1: lost on the road. He said, good defenses that they've played,
Speaker 1: he said noise, he said blocking hasn't been great, and
Speaker 1: he said that they were inefficient in the throwing as
Speaker 1: far as throwing the ball. Of those four things, which
Speaker 1: do you think is the biggest of the challenges for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys based on those four those three games that
Speaker 1: they've lost on the road, I'm gonna remove my opinion
Speaker 1: from it and just go with what Zach Martin just
Speaker 1: told the Dallas media on his conference call because Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett gave the team the day off, so the locker
Speaker 1: rooms not open to day. But Zach got on a
Speaker 1: call with us and he was like, our communication and
Speaker 1: on the road has been terrible this year, Like it's
Speaker 1: been really bad. You know. Is that the noise is
Speaker 1: that what's causing it? And noise combined with having a
Speaker 1: new guy at center and new pieces there, and yeah,
Speaker 1: I think all that comes together, and Joe Looney has
Speaker 1: been awesome all things considered, but it certain obviously has
Speaker 1: been a trying thing for them for Zach to come
Speaker 1: out and say like, yeah, like we're not we're not
Speaker 1: getting on this page to the degree that we're used
Speaker 1: to when we go on the road. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I think all four of those things. I mean, I'm
Speaker 1: a big fan of the domino effect, I really do.
Speaker 1: I think one thing leads to another, to another to another,
Speaker 1: and every one of those things. I think you're going
Speaker 1: up against a good defense number one, so that's on there.
Speaker 1: And then when you have a good defense, the blocking
Speaker 1: is probably not as good. So then that's number two.
Speaker 1: Now you have to pass, and you're forced to pass.
Speaker 1: That's not a strength of the team. And then when
Speaker 1: you're doing that, you're doing it and it's harder to
Speaker 1: pass and getting the shotgun and all that when you
Speaker 1: have noise involved. So I think one thing leads to
Speaker 1: another and it really comes down to that second thing.
Speaker 1: Good defense, that's fine, we saw one this week, but
Speaker 1: you've got to be able to block them, and you know,
Speaker 1: if that's the noise or whatever. But I mean, I
Speaker 1: think they're all linked together. I don't think it's just
Speaker 1: I mean, I think there's four aspects of it, but
Speaker 1: I do think they're all linked in together. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I kind of agree with the day that communication
Speaker 1: and noise I think is the bigger of the ones.
Speaker 1: And the reason why I say that, I think you
Speaker 1: were You're onto something when you said, think about the
Speaker 1: different parts that they have in this offense. Particularly, you're
Speaker 1: talking about a different center, you're talking about a different
Speaker 1: left guard, you're talking about different tight ends. Number I'm
Speaker 1: talking to a number of different tight ends. You're talking
Speaker 1: a number of different wide receivers. There are just a
Speaker 1: ton of different parts here that weren't here last year.
Speaker 1: So to think that they're going to have the same
Speaker 1: kind of chemistry to understand without the convenience of being
Speaker 1: able to say it, going to be able to understand
Speaker 1: that when I motion you or when I you know,
Speaker 1: whatever signals that they use, then everybody's going to always
Speaker 1: be on the same page and everybody's gonna always see
Speaker 1: the same things, because that's a really a big part
Speaker 1: of it. Once the ball snap, are they all sing
Speaker 1: the same things to be able to adjust the same way.
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's necessarily happening because of lack
Speaker 1: of time. The more they play together, the more they'll
Speaker 1: have that kind of chemistry, and just right now, maybe
Speaker 1: they just haven't had it these first few weeks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm going to take the All Pro guard
Speaker 1: at his word, Like, if he says that that's a
Speaker 1: problem for them, I believe him, and I'm sure it's difficult.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, like these guys blast noise
Speaker 1: over practice every day starting in July. I mean, like
Speaker 1: you know, Connor Williams played in the Big twelve. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like every during the winning streak with Dak
Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, every week somebody was like, oh, you
Speaker 1: got to go into lambeau Field, and Dak was like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I've played at Bama and LSU like a big deal,
Speaker 1: and that's so I just kind of I'm surprised that
Speaker 1: if it is this big issue, I'm kind of surprised
Speaker 1: by that, because you know, it's pro football. I feel
Speaker 1: like you can kind of overcome that. But it hasn't
Speaker 1: been the case so far. Yeah, and the results are
Speaker 1: all you need to look at. I mean, the results
Speaker 1: say that something's amiss. Don't know quite what it is,
Speaker 1: and I don't know that it's because I don't always
Speaker 1: buy into just the home versus road thing. But I
Speaker 1: do think that tangible things like noise and communication are
Speaker 1: real because obviously, when you can't have the luxury of
Speaker 1: being able to speak the things that you need others
Speaker 1: to know, then you have to adjust. And if you're
Speaker 1: not if you don't know each other well enough that
Speaker 1: if you can't hear them, or you don't quite know
Speaker 1: that that sign that they just gave you that you
Speaker 1: just know from mixed past experience, here's what we typically
Speaker 1: do in this situation. Right, then you're gonna find yourself
Speaker 1: in a in a bad situation. And now you know
Speaker 1: the opposite side of that is Jason Witten did this
Speaker 1: for so long, Like I'm you know, right tackle and
Speaker 1: left tackle. It was probably muscle memory that they knew
Speaker 1: he was. He knew what was going on in the
Speaker 1: same thing with Travis and Zach. So you take those
Speaker 1: things out and replace him with guys who aren't assured themselves.
Speaker 1: It makes some sense. Zach is making the calls right,
Speaker 1: and Frederick did it before. Frederick did it before, and
Speaker 1: it's I mean, Joe Joe Looney said last week he
Speaker 1: was like, oh, like basically he was like, Zach does
Speaker 1: so much for us in terms of like identifying the
Speaker 1: defense and all that type of I mean, this is
Speaker 1: really getting kind of to another level here. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's this serious, but I mean you're talking
Speaker 1: about the center of the line making the calls down
Speaker 1: the road and to the one guy down, two guys down.
Speaker 1: Now you got the right guard that's doing it. Now
Speaker 1: he's now he's three players removed from tiring and two
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just saying from a tight end, Yeah,
Speaker 1: what what you say. I'm just saying I don't think
Speaker 1: that's that's it at all. I think the fact is
Speaker 1: that you have an average you know, you have an
Speaker 1: average quarterback throwing the ball and you have average receivers
Speaker 1: and I'm being not thinking, being nice, and you know,
Speaker 1: and then they're you know, that's just not the strength
Speaker 1: of the team. And when you get into an element
Speaker 1: where it's it's hard to run the ball against Caroline
Speaker 1: and hard to run the ball in Seattle, they did
Speaker 1: a nice job for the most part against them, in
Speaker 1: the same with them in Houston. So I'm not there yet.
Speaker 1: I'm one game away from being like, Okay, this is
Speaker 1: the problem. I'm just not there yet. I think that
Speaker 1: I think they could have won the game in Houston
Speaker 1: and we're not even talking about this. But when you
Speaker 1: say that, though, I think I think checks have everything
Speaker 1: to do with that. If you do have, as you say,
Speaker 1: an average quarterback, and you do have age, as you say,
Speaker 1: average receivers, then being able to check out of that
Speaker 1: run that was called to be able to go to
Speaker 1: a pass play that you know, gives these average receivers
Speaker 1: an average quarterback an opportunity to be able to complete
Speaker 1: a pass because the coverage dick stays, they can complete
Speaker 1: a pass. You can do figure it out. I mean,
Speaker 1: third base coaches have been talking to batters for the
Speaker 1: last one hundred years and they don't speak, so yes,
Speaker 1: we can't figure out blue there. It takes sometimes, it
Speaker 1: takes time to figure it out and get eleven guys
Speaker 1: on the same page. And it sounds like from what
Speaker 1: Zach saying is that and I heard a couple other
Speaker 1: players saying this in a couple in the past couple
Speaker 1: of weeks as well, that all eleven guys. I think
Speaker 1: Cole was talking about it. They had these situations in
Speaker 1: a lot of these road games where he just didn't
Speaker 1: have all the eleven guys on the same page. Any
Speaker 1: given play, this guy may have had two bad plays,
Speaker 1: and this guy has another two bad plays. When you
Speaker 1: start adding it up over the course of the game,
Speaker 1: it's too many bad plays for them to win. And
Speaker 1: that's the issue is nobody is necessarily just every place
Speaker 1: screwing up. But if everybody's not on the same page
Speaker 1: on every player are as close to every play as possible,
Speaker 1: then you kind of in a bad situation. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's a coincidence that, um, you know, twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: you're talking about a very veteran team. I mean, what
Speaker 1: are the what are the new pieces on that team?
Speaker 1: Zach at right, guard and everybody else had been in
Speaker 1: place for at least a year or two sixteen. You
Speaker 1: got Dak and Zeke, but everybody else around him was
Speaker 1: on their yeah, right, And that's so, and like literally
Speaker 1: everything's different right now, like the whole you know, the
Speaker 1: line is shuffled, the receiving corps new, so there's probably
Speaker 1: something through that. I think that the biggest play from
Speaker 1: the game UM last week, last Sunday UM that's going
Speaker 1: to carry over is Dak's touchdown run. I think that
Speaker 1: play right there is gonna could change the whole kind
Speaker 1: of scope of this offense, and and maybe in how
Speaker 1: teams prepare for him that they have to do that more.
Speaker 1: I think one thing about Lenahan and Garrett that I've
Speaker 1: seen is when things work well, they overthink themselves the
Speaker 1: next week. Well, we threw it deep so many times
Speaker 1: against the James. We're not gonna throw it deep at all.
Speaker 1: And we ran Dak a lot in this game against
Speaker 1: the jam We're not gonna run them at all. I
Speaker 1: don't think you can do that. I think they have
Speaker 1: to the fact of Dak could run. You want that,
Speaker 1: You want that linebacker thinking that I don't know, and
Speaker 1: he's waiting for him, because then if Zeke gets it
Speaker 1: half the time, that that's one less guy he has
Speaker 1: to deal with. So I think that they're going to
Speaker 1: play this game a little bit differently now. I think
Speaker 1: they've figured it out. I hope so at least that
Speaker 1: Dat's better running the ball throwing it at times, the
Speaker 1: Cam Newton approach can work here, and I think that
Speaker 1: that's what they're gonna do. I'm not ready to say
Speaker 1: I think they've figured it out. I hope they have.
Speaker 1: We'll see. I mean eleven carries, that's I mean, that's
Speaker 1: not even They don't even do a fourth and one
Speaker 1: sneaks with him, I mean not really that have they
Speaker 1: done it all this year? Maybe once that with Dak, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've done it once or twice. If they don't do
Speaker 1: it a lot, how much do the factory though? I
Speaker 1: know Garrett said yesterday, well some of those are broken
Speaker 1: plays that that Daks scrambles. They aren't necessarily called run plays.
Speaker 1: You get it. You get into games like that where
Speaker 1: and I don't know, I'd have to go back and
Speaker 1: actually look at all of his runs. Do you guys
Speaker 1: have a feel for how often in these games? Even
Speaker 1: the games which seems like he's run more all those
Speaker 1: situations where they're called runs or situation, have they been
Speaker 1: fair because he Garrett made the claim, they've been fairly
Speaker 1: consistent when it comes to the number of called runs
Speaker 1: for Dak and I can't dispute that because I haven't
Speaker 1: gone back and actually looked at them. It doesn't feel
Speaker 1: like that to me. But I don't know. I wanted
Speaker 1: to get an opinion from you guys. I haven't gone
Speaker 1: back and charted it, but I disagree with that. I
Speaker 1: can think. I mean, Seattle and Carolina come to mine
Speaker 1: as if he was running it was for his life. No,
Speaker 1: no cold called and Jason Garrett's favorite thing to do
Speaker 1: is act like you're stupid for asking questions. So I
Speaker 1: don't That doesn't mean anything to me. No, I don't
Speaker 1: buy that at all. Any you know, yeah, some you know,
Speaker 1: the the spin and the twenty eight yard run that
Speaker 1: was that was pure improvisation. But even still that works too.
Speaker 1: Though eleven runs, if half of them were called, that's
Speaker 1: still six or seven and that's all I ever wanted.
Speaker 1: Six or six to eight called runs per game is plenty. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and then you throw away and scrambles and stuff, and
Speaker 1: you'll get you'll get where you want. And that's why
Speaker 1: I said that about that specific play, that touchdown play,
Speaker 1: because that's the type of play that was obviously called.
Speaker 1: It was a second and ten and it's a play
Speaker 1: that that you know, they feel like you're you're basically
Speaker 1: piggybacking off the fact of what what you know you
Speaker 1: can do in there with ze and so I think
Speaker 1: that they've got to do that more. That's that's a
Speaker 1: weapon that they can utilize and that will help everybody
Speaker 1: around him quit thinking that this quarterback is, you know,
Speaker 1: this franchise player that's got to be in the pocket
Speaker 1: all the time. That's not a strength. You have to
Speaker 1: play to a strength, and that's what I believe his
Speaker 1: strength is. Let's take the final break, we come back.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about Tava and Austin. Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: said something really interesting this morning. He compared his groin
Speaker 1: injury to the groin injury of another player that used
Speaker 1: to be here, and he sat off a quite a
Speaker 1: bit of quite a bit of time. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: about that when we come back. This is Dallas Cowboys
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Speaker 1: It is the final segment of The Break live from
Speaker 1: the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Start. Nick take
Speaker 1: it away. Hey, the Big Twelve Championships returning to a
Speaker 1: T and T Stadium on December the first be there
Speaker 1: when the top two teams in the Big Twelve Conference
Speaker 1: face off. Somebody's hooked into thinking that they are going
Speaker 1: to be there. Please please to become the conference champion
Speaker 1: of the Big Twelve. Gets your tickets down SeatGeek dot com,
Speaker 1: the official ticketing provider of AT and T Stadium. That's December,
Speaker 1: the first you are going. Last week I bought eight
Speaker 1: tickets after we beat Oklahoma, I bought eight tickets. Guess
Speaker 1: what he didn't do? Uh? What what would you do
Speaker 1: if you were gonna think about your team being in
Speaker 1: the didn't worry about that, what would you do? You're like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to the SEC Championship. What would you look at?
Speaker 1: I would look at airfare because the games in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: but the game to worry about names in Dallas. Okay,
Speaker 1: So you're just gonna say I'm going to the game.
Speaker 1: That's what he did this week? Yeah, no, I'm not following.
Speaker 1: What should he have done? Well, you also need to
Speaker 1: probably look at the Cowboys schedule and see how things
Speaker 1: are gonna shape up and not worry about that. Well, well,
Speaker 1: no games have played on Saturday. It's the first Saturday
Speaker 1: of December. That's what I was thinking. So i'mwhere in
Speaker 1: that time? Whatever? You didn't know? No, I didn't, but
Speaker 1: I was like, I didn't you, Like I told pay ninth,
Speaker 1: I thought it was one of those two weekends. Either way,
Speaker 1: I wasn't worried. He's the boss, so I would have
Speaker 1: I would have I would have flown to wherever we
Speaker 1: were going to play that next morning and would have
Speaker 1: been there in time for the game. So you got
Speaker 1: eight tickets. The Texas are going to be one of
Speaker 1: the top two teams, I don't know, but it got
Speaker 1: a lot better this weekend when West Virginia lost, because
Speaker 1: now I'm assuming they have to play each other. West
Speaker 1: Virginia Oklahoma have to play, so one of them is
Speaker 1: going to have two losses in the conference. It's only
Speaker 1: gonna lose more than one more conference game. Never thought
Speaker 1: about this scenario one time. But so you're saying Texas
Speaker 1: and Oklahoma could play a good player. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: don't want that to happen. I feel no, I feel
Speaker 1: like our chances of beating Oklahoma twice in one years
Speaker 1: and kid, take it from someone who championship statum, yeah,
Speaker 1: take it from someone who lost a national title game
Speaker 1: to their biggest rival. You don't want to do it.
Speaker 1: It's not I don't want to do that. I quick
Speaker 1: shout out to my guy Mitch because back a friend
Speaker 1: of mine, but back during the Auburn weekend when LSU
Speaker 1: beat Auburn, y'all beat somebody, y'all beat USC that weekend,
Speaker 1: and like he rooted for LSU, and so I returned
Speaker 1: the favor and root for Texas, And ever since we've
Speaker 1: both been having these great seasons. We are, and that's
Speaker 1: why I think, Like when you brought it up earlier
Speaker 1: today about the about the possibilities that maybe we could
Speaker 1: end up in a bowl against each other, I was like, man,
Speaker 1: that would be so great because we both have that
Speaker 1: kind of season where and then you'll necessarily think you
Speaker 1: gotta be in a title like in the playoff. All
Speaker 1: this good will, you just all this good will fly
Speaker 1: out the window and I'll just start being obnoxious and
Speaker 1: hating texts. Okay, it's okay, okay, you can hate us
Speaker 1: for a week and you go back to beings talking
Speaker 1: about college football. Sorry, especially Nick, Yeah, okay, sorry, sorry,
Speaker 1: mid Western though diss They were ranked, right, are they not? Still? Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't get me started on that. I told you, but yeah,
Speaker 1: you told about that. That That was a little messed up.
Speaker 1: But anyway, they're they're a good team. They're a good team,
Speaker 1: all right, all right, So let's go on. Um, let's
Speaker 1: talk about Tavon Austin. Um. We know that he has
Speaker 1: has a groin injury that happened in the third quarter,
Speaker 1: I think it was um. Jerry then this morning on
Speaker 1: his radio show said here was his quote. We had
Speaker 1: something similar to what he has, something similar to what
Speaker 1: Mo Claiborne had a few years back when he was
Speaker 1: with us there in his groin area. Um he went
Speaker 1: on to talk about, well he didn't go on to
Speaker 1: talk about, but we know looking at Moe's career that
Speaker 1: that injury led to him being out for about nine
Speaker 1: weeks of the season. So my question for you guys
Speaker 1: at this point, obviously, if he's gonna be out at
Speaker 1: nine weeks, you would be pretty I would assume you'd
Speaker 1: be pretty worried. How much does how much does Tavon
Speaker 1: Austin fit into this offense and make this offense go
Speaker 1: for whatever his role is, so that if he's out
Speaker 1: it's a problem. Well, there's nobody that really does what
Speaker 1: he does from a speed standpoint. They're not using anybody
Speaker 1: that way right now. That doesn't mean they can't change it.
Speaker 1: I'm hesitant to compare guys to Mo Clayborne. The nine
Speaker 1: week injury wasn't that at the end of the season two,
Speaker 1: wasn't that kind of I mean, I think this team
Speaker 1: was out of it, and I don't like comparing anybody
Speaker 1: to Mowe because that there was a more going on
Speaker 1: there with him so it's a significant injury. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: not day to day. I get it. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: play this week. He's gonna have a buy He's probably
Speaker 1: not coming back for a little bit. I get it.
Speaker 1: But I think there's different circumstances there of why that
Speaker 1: that lasted so long. You don't buy that nine weeks
Speaker 1: from Moe means nine weeks for Table because I don't
Speaker 1: think I think they were out of there going on.
Speaker 1: I think I think you're one of us is misremembering,
Speaker 1: because if I remember it was he was he was
Speaker 1: off to a great start. I apologize for not getting
Speaker 1: all of Mo's injury. No, No, you're fit. That's totally fair.
Speaker 1: They all kind of run together. If we're talking Abo,
Speaker 1: we're talking about what I think we're talking about. Moe
Speaker 1: was off to a great start twenty sixteen. They went
Speaker 1: up to Lambeau and he actually like he made a
Speaker 1: play that led to a takeaway, hurt his groin, and
Speaker 1: then he was done basically until it was time to
Speaker 1: start talking playoffs. I believe if I think that's right,
Speaker 1: um okay, And that's and that's kind of how Anthony
Speaker 1: Brown sort of got into the mix and got more
Speaker 1: playing time. I could be misremembering, but it was a
Speaker 1: long time. Um, I'm not. I'm not ready to be
Speaker 1: worried that he's out for nine weeks, because if he was,
Speaker 1: if that was the timeline they were thinking, then we
Speaker 1: would already be hearing stuff about i R even at
Speaker 1: this early date, I think, Which doesn't mean it can't happen.
Speaker 1: I mean they just delayed an IR decision with two
Speaker 1: guys for forever, so that could happen. Um. My main
Speaker 1: thing is I'm not worried about it because they're not
Speaker 1: using him the right way anyway, like Tavon Losing Tavon
Speaker 1: Austin should be a big deal for this offense, but
Speaker 1: they just haven't been using him that way. Like he's
Speaker 1: got far too few touches, considering he's averaging nine yards
Speaker 1: per carry and had a sixty four yard touchdown, and
Speaker 1: he's way more involved last week even when he didn't
Speaker 1: get the ball. I mean that's so I'm going across
Speaker 1: and them motioning like they were going to give him
Speaker 1: the ball several times, which to me should have been
Speaker 1: just as value. To me, that's just as valuable as
Speaker 1: giving him the ball. And you don't get that at
Speaker 1: Deontay Thompson's coming across, right, I probably not no, because
Speaker 1: they don't have that speed, but like they can do
Speaker 1: that with somebody, you know, they don't have a guy
Speaker 1: that replicates that that skill set exactly. But Jason Garrett
Speaker 1: even said that yesterday. He was like, you know, we've
Speaker 1: got we've done those types of things with other players before.
Speaker 1: I think you said it yesterday that Terrence did it
Speaker 1: a few times. Not great, but Michael Gallup and Deontay
Speaker 1: Thompson like guys who can do that, which I hope,
Speaker 1: I hope they do because it's something I think this
Speaker 1: offense needs. But I just don't. I don't think they
Speaker 1: did it enough with Tavon that it turned into this
Speaker 1: amazing thing that they can't live without. Right, So all right,
Speaker 1: let's let's move on. Let's let's one other thing I
Speaker 1: wanted to hit real quick. DeMarcus Lawrence has five and
Speaker 1: a half sacks right now. At one point earlier in
Speaker 1: the season, he was leading the league. He had at
Speaker 1: least half a sack in the first four games. Last
Speaker 1: two games, he hasn't had a sack. Um. I think
Speaker 1: it came out last week that he had a shoulder
Speaker 1: injury that he's been having for a while, it sounds like,
Speaker 1: and has not had surgery on it, thinking maybe he
Speaker 1: might do it in this offseason. I'm not so much
Speaker 1: concerned about him as the player. I think he's a warrior.
Speaker 1: He's going to be a great player for the Cowboys regardless.
Speaker 1: Are you at all concerned about him from the standpoint
Speaker 1: of what this might mean for the contract? And I mean,
Speaker 1: he took a gamble on himself and he's been a
Speaker 1: team player with this all the way. Like when they
Speaker 1: franchise him, he jumped right in, like all right, cool,
Speaker 1: I'm signing it. I'm happy to take the seventeen million.
Speaker 1: But do you think that this is could be a
Speaker 1: problem for him as he approaches this contract. I'm actually
Speaker 1: way more worried about what it means for right now
Speaker 1: than the future. Because fourteen and a half sacks last year? Cool,
Speaker 1: do it again? He did five? I mean, or you know,
Speaker 1: he was on his way five and a half sacks
Speaker 1: in four games. It's certainly looked dominant, made a huge difference.
Speaker 1: Nobody could block him. Blah blah blah. So like you
Speaker 1: know that that talent is there, the thing that scares
Speaker 1: me is he's got a torn laboram which the fact
Speaker 1: that that's not just this season ending disaster, just football
Speaker 1: players are crazy, like the play the pain threshold to
Speaker 1: play in the NFL is insane and like bait. Like
Speaker 1: we talked to him on Friday, he was like, well, yeah, Like,
Speaker 1: it's at the back of my shoulder, so it's not
Speaker 1: a big deal. It's like your muscle's torn, man, that's
Speaker 1: not that's how I can actually push. I just can't
Speaker 1: pull it. Exact, No, serious, he's like, And so that's
Speaker 1: why when it got hit that way, I was in
Speaker 1: tears on the sideline. But it'll be fine, Okay. To Mark,
Speaker 1: tears are temporary. But the thing that scares he had
Speaker 1: a shoulder injury and played through it in sixteen and
Speaker 1: they gave him so much credit for it, and it's
Speaker 1: part of the reason why they love him. But let's
Speaker 1: be real, Like he was out there. He wasn't the
Speaker 1: guy we've gotten used to seeing over the last twenty games.
Speaker 1: He wasn't for he wasn't fifteen sa tank. He was right.
Speaker 1: And that's kind of my point is it doesn't hurt him.
Speaker 1: And we've heard players say this before and I actually
Speaker 1: hate it. I love the way this guy does it,
Speaker 1: and even Tyron Crawford's the same way. But there have
Speaker 1: been guys that are like, I ain't putting bad tape
Speaker 1: out there, especially when I'm up for a contract. So
Speaker 1: if I'm hurt, I'm not necessarily getting out on the field.
Speaker 1: I get it doesn't scare like. I've seen enough of
Speaker 1: him being dominant that I trust that he can do
Speaker 1: it and he's a warrior and he's gonna play, which
Speaker 1: so like it doesn't change my opinion about whether or
Speaker 1: not I would want to resign him at all. It
Speaker 1: does change my opinion about what he can do for
Speaker 1: me right now, and that's going to severely impact how
Speaker 1: good your defense is. I actually think personally, if I
Speaker 1: were the one writing the check, which I am not,
Speaker 1: If I were the one writing the check, I would
Speaker 1: actually that actually makes me want to sign the guy
Speaker 1: even more. The fact that he can battle through that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff and still give me good production, still
Speaker 1: give me a player that has to be reckoned with
Speaker 1: the teams are still recognizing as a guy they got
Speaker 1: a double like that, to me is valuable if I'm
Speaker 1: the one writing in check, so I don't know that
Speaker 1: it hurts him. I think actually him continuing to play,
Speaker 1: you know, he's gonna get some more sacks. He's not
Speaker 1: gonna get shut out the rest of the year. He'll
Speaker 1: get more sacks if he gets at eight nine ten range.
Speaker 1: I still think that's great, and I still if I'm
Speaker 1: the one writing a check, I'm still willing to sign
Speaker 1: him as one of the top pass rushers in the league. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think what he did in his first four games
Speaker 1: of the season kind of helps with that. So you're right,
Speaker 1: if he's got more and more things going on here
Speaker 1: and doesn't have the same kind of production, I think
Speaker 1: he's done enough, coupled with what he did last year,
Speaker 1: to probably, you know, get a big time deal with anybody,
Speaker 1: which I agree with you. I think doing it here
Speaker 1: and showing that he's going to continue to fight through
Speaker 1: this and be a part of it. And what I
Speaker 1: liked about him all along is then he's kind of
Speaker 1: been the leader of this, this whole team. I mean,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize he had this kind of leadership qualities.
Speaker 1: We thought Sean Lee would be that guy. It's really
Speaker 1: been him, and he's kind of taking that whole defensive
Speaker 1: line and the hot boys and all that, and and
Speaker 1: really playing with an attitude. I think, you know, I
Speaker 1: think he's shown a lot where where he is a captain.
Speaker 1: Whether or not he's a captain, you know that that
Speaker 1: goes out there on the coin flip. He's been a
Speaker 1: leader of this team real quick. I do want to
Speaker 1: get at least one question in from a fan. Tanner
Speaker 1: Carlson hit Us on Twitter said, was last week's game
Speaker 1: against the Jacks more of an anomaly or more so
Speaker 1: sign of things to come? I mean, that's that's the
Speaker 1: question that all of us have. That's that's what we're
Speaker 1: trying to figure out. Um, you know, this team has
Speaker 1: had some big wins like that, Um, you know, and
Speaker 1: they've come back and been like, what happened there? Why
Speaker 1: can't they do that again? So that's that's the biggest question.
Speaker 1: But that's what every team in the league is trying
Speaker 1: to figure out too. I mean, you're trying to figure
Speaker 1: out what was that the real Saints against the Bucks
Speaker 1: or are they actually going to be better than that?
Speaker 1: You know, was that the Vikings that played the Bills.
Speaker 1: There's a different team. So everybody's kind of got those
Speaker 1: games where a headscratcher is good or bad, We'll find
Speaker 1: out this week. That's why I think this week is
Speaker 1: so important to actually show that, hey, mindset, we're not
Speaker 1: going to be this back and forth team. I will
Speaker 1: say this, I think it was an anomaly. Not from
Speaker 1: the standpoint I don't think the Cowboys can be that good.
Speaker 1: I think it was an anomaly just because the Cowboys
Speaker 1: won't face that every other week. There will be different
Speaker 1: kinds of challenges they're gonna face another weeks. I talked
Speaker 1: about it yesterday. I think that what they saw this
Speaker 1: last weekend was a team that has a certain way
Speaker 1: that they played defense. They don't trick it up, they
Speaker 1: don't do a lot of schemes stuff. They are basically,
Speaker 1: our guys are better than your guys, and that's the
Speaker 1: way we're gonna play it. And the Cowboys found a
Speaker 1: weakness in that and exploited it. And I think that
Speaker 1: that's not what they're gonna see most weeks. What they're
Speaker 1: gonna see most weeks this team saying we're gonna throw
Speaker 1: a little of this at you in a little that
Speaker 1: at you, and they're gonna have to adjust to that,
Speaker 1: and especially on the road, when you're talking about communication
Speaker 1: issues and stuff like that. That's where it becomes extremely
Speaker 1: vital that they are clicking on all cylinders. So it's
Speaker 1: an anomaly only because of the opponent, not necessarily because
Speaker 1: the Cowboys don't have the potential to be good. I
Speaker 1: tried to get to the bottom of this yesterday. It's like, Okay, great,
Speaker 1: you knew you could beat Tyler Patman. What are you
Speaker 1: gonna do to get Cole Beasley involved? When somebody's like,
Speaker 1: we're taking him away? Right? They don't have an answer
Speaker 1: to that, which is why you know, in this hot
Speaker 1: take society, if you're not just like, oh yeah, they're
Speaker 1: on the right track, like, then you're a hater. Like
Speaker 1: that's not the case at all. I just that they
Speaker 1: have five weeks of bad stuff to go with this
Speaker 1: one very good week, So I want to see where
Speaker 1: they go from here. All right, guys, appreciate you join us.
Speaker 1: We're back tomorrow. We'll start jumping into Cowboys versus Redskins.
Speaker 1: Dave will give us a scouting report till then for
Speaker 1: Nick Eaton, Dave him and I'm Derek Eagleson. This has
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