WEBVTT - Hangin' w/ Talkin' Cowboys Break: What Went Wrong? 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:07.400 This is the Talking Cowboys Break, streaming live on Dallas 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:11.880 Cowboys dot Com and the officials Dallas Cowboys app. Welcome 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:15.160 inside the SWBC Mortgage Studio and welcome to Hanging with 0:00:15.240 --> 0:00:19.400 the Talking Cowboys Break. Rob Phillips joined by Nate Newton, 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:23.599 David Hellman, Brian broad Us, Kent Garrison producing next Door. 0:00:24.400 --> 0:00:29.720 Cowboys officially eliminated from playoff contention on Christmas Eve twenty one, 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:32.839 twelve loss to the Seattle Seahawks. I hope everybody, in 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:34.599 spite of that, had a great holiday. We're back at 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:39.360 the Star breaking it down, guys, and it's always it's rare, 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:41.559 actually in the last several years that the Cowboys have 0:00:41.720 --> 0:00:43.880 a game left to play and we know what their 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:46.000 fate is. So this is gonna be a little bit 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:47.519 of a different show. We're gonna break down the game 0:00:47.520 --> 0:00:49.560 and we can also we can also go big picture 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:51.559 here what's next for this team as well, although we 0:00:51.560 --> 0:00:54.160 have plenty of time to talk about that. Yeah, like 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.920 nine whole months, yeah least a few, Yeah, a little 0:00:57.920 --> 0:00:59.760 ways to go. That's a good I hadn't thought about. 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:01.680 That's two years in a row that we head into 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.319 week seventeen without a whole lot of you know, in 0:01:04.319 --> 0:01:06.480 the way of drama. At least last year was obviously 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:08.360 good this year or not so much. I mean, if 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:11.759 you go back to twenty fifteen, four and twelve, yeah, 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.120 not a good season. Twenty ten when Jason Garrett took 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:16.920 over his interim coach, you knew you were out of it. 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:19.440 But other than that, just about every year you go 0:01:19.480 --> 0:01:21.960 into Week seventeen thinking there's something to play for still 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:27.600 and they found out by losing Nate it's over. Yeah, 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:31.479 it's it's definitely over. Man. When I looked at this game, 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.880 Manu and me and brought us talk, you know, we 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:38.040 talked during the shows that we do together, and I'm 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:43.760 saying and I never doubt it kJ Wright and Bobby 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:46.640 Wagner being bad. I never doubted that. I never doubted 0:01:47.480 --> 0:01:50.640 been it. But I did know their mental makeup was 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:54.160 not right. This was a game that if the Cowboys 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:58.560 was just came in execute it, dude, with ahead to do, 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:02.160 and I turned the ball over that this was a 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:06.360 game to be had because we and I'm not a mathematician, 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.960 but eleven penaltist for one hundred and forty two and 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:13.480 your total offensive output is one hundred and thirty six 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:17.840 and the only thing that beat us with some bad 0:02:17.880 --> 0:02:22.600 play calling and some and three turnovers. We should It's 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:24.760 no way in the world we shouldn't be sitting up 0:02:24.760 --> 0:02:30.240 in him joking and having funds about talking about Bowl 0:02:30.320 --> 0:02:34.119 games instead of Yeah, where were sitting at Part nine? Unbelievable, 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.519 go ahead, hard to win that way, I'm Brian, Yeah, 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:40.280 I think you wasted a tremendous defensive effort. I think 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:42.840 going into the game, the one thing and even though 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:46.120 my gut feeling I picked Seattle to win and I 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.520 felt like they were gonna win because of Russell Wilson, 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:53.240 it's why. And you know it really wasn't Russell Wilson. 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.560 He made the one big run on a third and 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.200 nine for ten yards that you know, I thought, Man, 0:02:59.200 --> 0:03:01.800 we're gonna see more that they didn't have a downfield 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.160 passing game. We knew they couldn't run the football. They 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:06.360 didn't do a very good job of protecting him. I 0:03:06.400 --> 0:03:09.359 thought that Rod Marinelli in that group played as well 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:13.840 as they can play against that type of quarterback. But 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:16.640 for them not to get rewarded for that type of 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:19.519 effort offensively, the strength of this team all year long 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:23.040 we thought was the offense, and it really isn't. It 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:25.880 isn't the strength. I mean, maybe it's a year when 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:27.360 we go back and look at this and have that 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:32.400 reflective show where we misevaluated a lot of guys we misevaluated, 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:36.000 you know, And I think that if you look at 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:41.400 this though, was the quarterback exposed during the six games 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:45.600 where Ezekiel Elliott wasn't playing. That's into something I think 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:47.600 we need to look at itself. I'm not trying to 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:49.640 throw Dak under the bus, but I'm just saying for 0:03:49.720 --> 0:03:51.880 some of the things that you needed to do. I'm 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:53.880 the one guy came on this show and talked about 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:57.520 Scott Linahan will benefit by having Ezekiel l a back. Boy, 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:01.480 was I wrong about that? He really was? Well, Scott Lillihan, 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:03.360 I mean and that and that. No, I'm just saying 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:06.320 that that to me, you've got to find a way 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:09.480 to use him to open up other things. And I 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:11.680 didn't feel like that they had a good enough game 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:15.080 plan offensively. Now give Seattle some credit for the front 0:04:15.120 --> 0:04:18.320 they have, you know, for the line boxers they have. Yeah, 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:22.240 they create turnovers, the punch out, all that stuff. But 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:25.640 you know, overall though Seattle did the right thing. They 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:29.080 knew that Dallas's offense was so inept that they even 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:31.200 ran the ball on third down at times just to 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:33.480 get off the field. They weren't. They weren't, and they 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:35.720 were like, Okay, yeah, we'll play defense today because they're 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:37.719 not doing anything that'st us. It was not an overly 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.600 aggressive game plan by the Seattle and that's we went 0:04:40.600 --> 0:04:43.480 into it. You know, I wasn't surprised that they lost, 0:04:43.560 --> 0:04:46.000 but if I was surprised by what it looked like 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:50.080 because you mentioned it. Russell Wilson really had one drive 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:54.239 where he looked like Russell Wilson. He's seventy something yards, 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:57.080 scrambled for scrambled for ten when he needed nine. I 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.359 think he went four or five for thirty five yards 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:01.680 and a touchdown, and he drew a big pass interference 0:05:01.720 --> 0:05:03.640 to put him down in the red zone. Other than that, 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.120 I mean, that wasn't that wasn't up to his snuff. 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.720 He ran for twenty nine yards and through for ninety three. 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:10.560 I mean, if you tell me that's his stat line, 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.560 I assume the Cowboys are gonna win somewhat comfortably. You know. 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:18.039 The amazing thing about it is, you know, a man, 0:05:18.120 --> 0:05:20.480 And like I said, you know, we've been brought us 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:22.920 going back and forth between all but you know the 0:05:22.960 --> 0:05:27.680 bad words I was using during the game, and he 0:05:27.800 --> 0:05:32.479 said they wanted to keep it close because of Russell Wilson. 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:35.880 I'm saying, yeah, I'm great witch, and because they believed 0:05:35.880 --> 0:05:39.280 in their mind, if they overthin seven with two minutes left, 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:43.040 either way defensively or offensively, they could make the play. Yeah. 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:47.560 That's a veteran savvy team, a coach that knows this team, 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:49.760 and they're like, we're not gonna try to make no 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.880 great plays. We're just gonna run it. We're gonna're gonna 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:54.920 play it by the book. You know, you hear guys, 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:57.360 let's played this by the book. They played this game 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:02.000 raped by the book and let us fall apart. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:06:02.080 --> 0:06:04.279 Zeke kept saying it after the game. We beat ourselves. 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:08.000 We referenced, I think David reference earlier, the three turnovers, 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:12.760 one pick six for Dak So really Seattle gets fourteen points. 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:15.440 That's all the defense allowed in this game. So that's it. 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:18.440 That's like Brian said, that's a wasted defensive effort. But 0:06:18.520 --> 0:06:20.160 I don't think you're wrong and saying I think all 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:22.520 of us felt like Zeke coming back off suspension in 0:06:22.520 --> 0:06:25.960 this game was gonna kind of restore things off posively 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:28.680 the way the offense functions. Didn't it look like the 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:30.440 defense did it looked like it was going to in 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:34.760 the first quarter or something. Yeah, absolutely, I never I 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:40.840 What happened was three and then again three and then 0:06:40.839 --> 0:06:48.600 a punch out. Yeah. You know, uh you you you've 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.839 played I don't know how many weeks without Zeke and 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:55.120 will ze Yeah, and I'm talking about Dad. You played 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:59.600 and you would calm. Now Zeke get back and you 0:07:00.160 --> 0:07:03.320 lose it for some reason. Yeah, you got to keep 0:07:03.360 --> 0:07:06.400 the same calmness because now you'd went out of character 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:10.760 and it hurts you. Yeah, because wow, you know what, 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:12.640 you know what and maybe this is a whole other 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:15.680 thing for a whole other time. But now he opened 0:07:15.760 --> 0:07:22.600 himself up, in my opinion, for the consideration of like, okay, 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:25.600 what do we need to do with his contract? What 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:27.720 do we And I know and I know it's not 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.440 just now. I mean I shouldn't say it as that 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.720 just that one game, but now you're in now you're 0:07:33.760 --> 0:07:36.400 in a state where you're going, Okay, it's twenty some 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:39.920 odd straight games without a hundred yards. You know, it's 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:42.520 I've said this a couple of times on Twitter, even 0:07:42.520 --> 0:07:45.920 as recently as like Sunday morning. I'm you know, I'm 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.320 sitting there like his receiver really that big of a 0:07:48.320 --> 0:07:50.360 problem for this team, Like these guys can get back 0:07:50.360 --> 0:07:53.720 on track, you know. The funny joke is like, there's 0:07:53.720 --> 0:07:55.480 no way all of them forgot how to play in 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.680 the span of like five months, you know, because i 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.280 mean even they had good training camps. All of them 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:03.800 did right. Um, And then you see this and you're like, 0:08:03.840 --> 0:08:06.920 how do you defend it? Especially? I mean the twelve 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:08.920 million dollar elephant in the room is you put a 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:11.880 game like that on tape and that's the last real 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:14.440 impression you're gonna make this Eagles game, isn't you know? 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.760 It's not a sure meaningful game, so that the lasting 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:19.400 impression for the year. Of course, people are going to 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:21.520 talk about. No, he you know, if you look at 0:08:21.520 --> 0:08:24.080 the big picture like Rob was talking about, and you 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:27.440 evaluate the whole team, that's a position you're absolutely going 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:29.440 to have to evaluate and you're gonna and as you 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.800 said it, the elephant in the room is that, Okay, 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:36.880 this guy has paid this to do what And if 0:08:36.960 --> 0:08:39.880 you're not doing what you're supposed to do, then you've 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:43.560 opened yourself up to that. You know, you open yourself 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.640 up to that, to that that that scrutiny. And you know, 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:49.480 I think there's a lot of guys on this team 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.600 that have opened themselves up to scrutiny, which you know, 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.880 and you briefly mentioned the quarterback, and I mean Dak 0:08:55.920 --> 0:08:58.160 Prescott did not play well. No, not at all. No, 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:00.720 he had a he had a bad you know, I tried, 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.680 I beg and I told everybody when that kid got 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:08.160 hit the second time against Atlanta, I said, don't do 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:10.240 this to him. Yeah, that's the first thing hit in 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:13.480 my mind, I said, because the thing that I called 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:17.520 Zeke the MVP every time we get on this show, 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:22.840 because he covered up all of my man's deficiencies. Yeah, 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.840 of being a young quarterback. I'm not saying what he 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:28.400 won't be in a year from now, but I'm saying 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:34.160 what happens to most young quarterbacks absence of a run game. Well, 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:35.920 and that's I guess that's the point I was gonna make. 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:38.040 Is I just you know, looking around Twitter, looking around 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:40.160 the different places where you can talk about the Cowboys. 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:44.040 There's a lot of criticism of Dak Prescott and he 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:45.679 didn't have he didn't play a good game, and it 0:09:45.679 --> 0:09:47.560 hasn't been a season that was up to the level 0:09:47.600 --> 0:09:51.440 of expectation. But the second year player too. This game 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:55.280 is a fantastic microcosm of just how bad everybody's been. 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.000 I mean, the pick six is arguably the worst throw 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:01.559 of Dak's young career. Arguably just up there, just missed 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:08.120 him right trying to dump it off, and just had 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:11.480 arguably two open men in front of him and Jason 0:10:11.480 --> 0:10:14.280 witch right, so and so the reason I bring that 0:10:14.360 --> 0:10:16.480 up is I'm not trying to absolve Dak of blame. 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:20.120 But his receiver gets stripped on his first reception of 0:10:20.160 --> 0:10:23.440 the game, his twelve million dollars receiver, let's maybe a 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:26.120 poorly thrown ball, but still hit both of his hands, 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:30.560 bounce off for a red zone interception. Um his his 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.439 offensive line doesn't do a great job of protecting him, 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:35.600 His running back doesn't do a great job of protecting 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:39.120 his offensive coordinator gave him no healthy offensive coordinate like this. 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:41.240 You know, to sit here and try to pin this 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.320 cluster on one person is a mistake in Maya. But 0:10:44.360 --> 0:10:46.880 it isn't that kind of where this team goes. Isn't 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:49.520 it where all year long? It's hard to pin it 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.600 on one guy. I think there are some games the losses. 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:54.720 Do you say, well, Garrett took the blame for the 0:10:54.760 --> 0:10:57.680 lost in Atlanta. There are some games that coaches didn't 0:10:57.720 --> 0:10:59.480 do that very good job. There are some games where 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:03.520 it's easier than others Atlanta for instance, and then there 0:11:03.520 --> 0:11:05.800 are others where just everything falls. I mean, they looked 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.040 at they looked at the Charger game and said, we 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:10.120 got to do something the secondary. We can't give up 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.840 a five hundred yard passing game anymore. Yeah, it's funny 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.240 you said that. My father in law and Christmas yesterday 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:16.880 was talking to me about the Cowboys and the way 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:18.960 he described it as a fan was whack a mole 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:22.080 and trying to determine what's wrong with this team. It 0:11:22.120 --> 0:11:25.000 hasn't been just one thing every year, every every week. 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:27.320 It's been like you said, they they made efforts to 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:31.120 change up the lineup in the secondary. That helped. With 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.480 Scander getting hurt too, they lost some experience there. But 0:11:34.520 --> 0:11:37.320 those guys have been playing well at times. But like 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:40.240 Dave said, sometimes it's the receivers, sometimes the offensive line. 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.040 I think you've got to point out the offensive line. 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:44.439 Oh sure, especially you know during that three game losing 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:47.400 streak when Tyrone was out, he last one series in 0:11:47.440 --> 0:11:51.280 the game with the spring knee, Nate and Byron Bell 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.880 comes in there. Da, It's not all on him, but 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.120 Dak winds up getting sacked four times in this game. 0:11:56.320 --> 0:12:00.240 He was under a lot of duress, you know. And 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.319 you know, and uh, I got to tell people, you know, 0:12:03.360 --> 0:12:05.520 I used to fight this hard. You know. I ain't 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:09.920 talking about the draft until but I totally believe this 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:14.079 right here and and everybody got their pick. Oh my 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:18.160 pick is what guy you can find in the draft 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:21.800 that can come in here and contribute to this team 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:25.400 in a meaningful way. I don't care what position is it. 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:27.640 We don't need a kicker, Yeah, we got a kicker. 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:29.400 We don't need a partner. We got a punt it, 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:33.400 we got a long snapper. But every other position is 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:37.000 wide open in my in my book, I mean that 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:41.079 can come in and play and impact this team. Because 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:44.160 one thing has been proven over the last eight years 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:49.360 that we cannot absorb one suspension or one injury. We 0:12:49.400 --> 0:12:53.400 can't we can't absorb that one player leaves and it's 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:57.000 just mass destruction. That's that's disheartened. As a as a fan, 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:00.079 I'm like, wow, we lost one guy. We get this guy, 0:13:00.240 --> 0:13:04.400 but we lost this guy. Now we can't play like 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:07.640 a game of jinga almost or like a house of cards. 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:12.840 It is it is, And you know, there's as Nate said, 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:16.440 there's there's multiple areas they can fix. Yeah, going forward 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.280 to Jerry actually spoke to that on the fan this 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:22.800 morning specifically about the offense that we've got to look 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:26.160 at ways to maximize the skills of Dak Prescott, Zeke, 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:30.200 our receivers. They still feel the strength of this team's 0:13:30.200 --> 0:13:33.839 the offensive line. We have a cut of it. Huh 0:13:34.000 --> 0:13:35.680 do we have a cut of Jerry saying that. I 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:38.920 don't know if we do, but the day after Christmas, Nate, 0:13:38.920 --> 0:13:41.360 We're only gonna know so much. Okay, Well, you know, 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:46.040 man brought his work, you know, But I think that 0:13:46.360 --> 0:13:49.520 when when that that's where Jerry, I think that's Jerry's 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:51.520 way of saying, Scott Linahan, why didn't you run the 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.320 ball in the one yard line? Well, he actually said 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:55.400 that earlier in the segment. Yeah, that he you know, 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:57.480 and he says, look, I second guess a lot of things. 0:13:57.480 --> 0:14:00.480 He thought they should have gone forward around the goal 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:02.560 line in Oakland, he was right by the way. Yeah, 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:05.400 but you know that was his feeling. To your point, Brian, 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:08.480 about this game the other night, is that pound? It 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:10.839 was Zeke. He's the guy that was getting five yards 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:12.560 a pop for you earlier in the game. See. This 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:14.880 is where I think the frustration level of the owner 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.880 was that he was excited to have Zeke back, and 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.800 he was excited to like think, okay, and Dave, you 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.040 sat there over my shoulder all week long. I remember 0:14:23.040 --> 0:14:26.120 I kept turning around saying, wait, look at Jacksonville running 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:28.040 in here. Oh, look at the Rams running in here. 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:31.280 Brian likes to mutter his notes to himself while he 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:34.040 watches tape. Yeah, I kept seeing on the one two 0:14:34.120 --> 0:14:36.720 yard line teams running the football in and I just 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:40.200 cannot believe. I think the direct quote was, well, these 0:14:40.280 --> 0:14:42.080 guys do not want to stop you on the goal line. 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:45.200 They don't. They don't, and that's the problem I had, 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:49.960 you know, And yeah, I like to if you're gonna lose, 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.440 you're gonna lose it all you know, you're your best player. Yeah, 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.720 that's that. And Nate made that point in our post 0:14:55.800 --> 0:14:58.560 game show. He's like, how could you not hand the 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:01.400 ball to him? How can you not do that? And 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.720 to me, that's where that's where sometimes and I've been 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:06.720 accused of this or not accused, I say it all 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.320 the time. Coaches take turn to the trainer, take give 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.040 me the two stupid pills and a cup of gaate 0:15:11.080 --> 0:15:14.120 or aid and let's go. You know, I've never called 0:15:14.120 --> 0:15:16.440 a third down defense. I've never called players. But you 0:15:16.480 --> 0:15:18.680 know what, I always tried to find my guys players 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:21.280 that could help the coach. And every time I mean, 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.280 they found a player that can successfully get the ball 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:28.480 in the end zone, why not use him in that situation. See, 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:30.760 that's where I that's where I have a problem with 0:15:30.760 --> 0:15:33.680 this well, and that's probably Brian. That's probably the hottest 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.320 topic coming out of this game. Decision around the goal line, 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:38.320 just real quick, just to reset it. Yeah, first in 0:15:38.440 --> 0:15:41.400 goal from the three yard line after the Winton pass. Yeah, 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.320 you're down twenty one twelve midway through the fourth quarter. Yeah, 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:46.920 they have an RPO run pass option with Dak and 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:50.080 you can argue that Dak made the right read in 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:53.240 terms of the way the front looked right. Did they score? 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.840 They didn't score. Mate. Now, the question that fans and 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:00.240 observers are saying, Nate is do you take it out 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:03.480 of your quarterbacks hands and say let's just run the foot? 0:16:03.480 --> 0:16:07.000 Who was your best player, Zeke? See that's what And 0:16:07.000 --> 0:16:10.400 we've seen the RPO backfire a couple different times. Nate 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:12.400 feels a type of way about this. We feel. We 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:15.240 saw the RPO struggle at opening day against the Giants. 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:18.360 We saw the art. This same sequence happened against the Giants. Yeah, 0:16:18.360 --> 0:16:21.080 and then the RPO failed against the Packers where you 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:22.920 should have run the ball and kept the clock going, 0:16:23.160 --> 0:16:26.960 where they threw the fade to death. I understand in 0:16:27.040 --> 0:16:29.120 the in and oh my god, if you if you 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:32.000 have somebody other than Ezekiel Elliott running the ball, I 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.520 understand the RPOs. I do I get it. I would 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:37.800 even and I'm not trying to defend it. Please God, 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:40.720 don't think I am. But it's it's worked. It's at 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.480 times this year throws to Beasley, throws to Witton, But 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.080 you did, but that's without that's six games a lot. 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:48.840 It's worked this year. But without Ezekiel in the lineup? 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:51.160 Am I right about that? I want to say they 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:53.160 did it against Green Bay when Zeke was there, and 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:55.240 then the Chiefs for that matter, They've done it in 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:57.320 games where he was there because he's a hell of 0:16:57.360 --> 0:16:59.600 a he's a hell of a bait. This No, he 0:16:59.720 --> 0:17:02.960 is a bit. But the problem, the problem is the 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:05.840 problem is though you didn't need to be cute. And 0:17:06.200 --> 0:17:08.520 that's that's that's where I fall on it. This is 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:11.000 a game, this is a game where you weren't going 0:17:11.040 --> 0:17:13.200 to have a whole hell of a lot of opportunities. 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:17.280 You've got to score right there. You cannot. If I 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.480 would rather go down, I would rather die. Yeah, I 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:23.199 would die handing the ball to my best guy. And 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:26.080 again I would trying to make fifty fifty throws. I'm 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:29.480 I'm not interested in defending it. I think maybe maybe 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:31.680 I defended a little harder. If it's the first quarter, 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.480 if it's a scoreless game, but you're down two possessions 0:17:34.520 --> 0:17:37.960 and in crunch time, do you need that touchdown? Keep 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:40.600 it simple? Stup? 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