Cowboys Break: Back & Forth

We are live from the s WBC Mortgage studios at the Star and we've got so much to talk about today. We are not only going to start getting you guys ready for the upcoming game Cowboys versus Bears this Thursday, but because we haven't been on the air since Thanksgiving, we still gotta go back and see. Yes we do. It's just like the game film. You gotta go back and talk about it and talk about what happened on Thanksgiving Day. Cowboys loose to the Buffalo Bills twenty six

to fifteen, and something that happened yesterday. The Philadelphia Eagles also get a lost, so Cowboys maintain a one game lead in the division. No one's really battling to keep that to get that spot in the playoffs and win this division. But that may actually end up working towards the Cowboys advantage. I told Channon Gross this morning that the NFC East is like that mangy dog that's running around the street. Nobody wants it. Like it's like, oh, it would be nice to have a dog, but not

that one. It's like, nobody wants the NFC East, Like, no, you take it here. We lost to the Bills, Go ahead and beat the Dolphins. No, I'm not gonna beat the Dolphins. We're good. Yeah, nobody wants this just division. It's the worst division in football. This division exists every year like there's ally. But I didn't think it would be the East this year. I didn't either. I thought at least the Cowboys and the Eagles would have a nice battle and they'd be in. I think we all

got a nice battle. Yeah, nice depends on there's a battle. I don't know if it's a nice bat which I get. I mean, I thought it would be a two team race. I didn't think Washington or New York was really equipped to compete. But you know, I think out of it yet, not mathematically no, which the funny that tells you everything. They're two and nine and they're not mathematically out of it. That's not great, Bob, note great at all. We'll talk about that a little bit later, but I want to

start first by talking about this game, Cowboys versus Bills. Man, it was a tough day. But when you go back and you look at the statistics afterwards, I'm having a hard time feeling out putting my putting my finger on exactly what the problem was. So it's like the rest of the season. Yeah, right, yeah, it was absolutely well.

Let's let's look at this. DAK was thirty two forty nine, sixty five percent completion radio three and fifty five passing yards, two touchdowns, an interception, Zeke Att nineteen total touches, one hundred and thirty seven yards, five point nine average on the ground amar at eight for eighty five. Like it looked like Phistically. Offensively, the ball was moving, Cowboys were picking up yards. What do you guys think was the problem offensively with this team? They suck the red zone

and their offensive line doesn't push anybody around. They don't even try anymore. First and goal from the nine and fourth straight passes. Dak is really good in between the twenties, but I don't think he's really that great this year. In the red zone. That's one of the things that he's struggled at. They don't throw the ball well in there, and they don't even attempt to run, which takes away

any play action opportunities they get down there. They're not very good, and I think the fans and the media basically forced Jason Garrett last week to not kick the field goal and go for it on fourth and nine just because of what happened the week before and all that. I really think the smart play was to kick the field goal. Either way, it doesn't matter. But I just think right now they're just trying to find answers and

they don't have them. I still can't figure out why they haven't been able to find the solution for the red zone. That it's something that they were struggling with last year, and then for this year, we were thinking, oh, well, Jason Witten, he's going to be able to help in the red zone. Having Travis Frederick back, that's gonna be a big thing for the Cowboys with the line and what he does there at center and none of that has really changed anything. I mean, they're still unable to

get inside the red zone. Past that, getting to the end zone and getting points and then I'm sure we'll talk about brand Moher. But now, I mean, when you don't got a kicker making those field goals, then you're really screwed up. How about pressing well as a number, I mean, one of many issues. But I thought they were pressing and it killed them in this game. Try to set up the screen to Tony Pollard, it's not there at all. Any quarterback that's you know, a college

quarterback knows to throw that at the guy's feed. Dak tried to turn it into a play anyway, he's picked off by a d tackle. That kind of starts the snowball. That turns into an avalanche of bad stuff happening. Same thing on the strip sack, which you know you can criticize Xavier Suaphilo. You know he comes in and it was his first or second snapond snap, second snap after he comes in for Connor Williams beat on the first snap as well. Though they had a rough day against that. Oliver.

Maybe you pointed that out in the press box, you know, maybe I didn't give him enough credit for being a top ten pick. He is not a starter for that team, but he certainly looked like a top ten pick. He abused. He abused the interior or that line point being you can criticize the offensive line if you want to, and they deserve it. But the reason that strip sack happened is Dak was fixated on the long ball. To Michael Gallup, I mean he was hanging in there waiting for it

to come open. It felt like an eternity. So again, two plays that probably don't happen if you're not trying to press for the big play, and those two plays. You know, you can never single out one or two plays. But like I said, that's kind of starts the snowball effect where you know, one minute you're like, man, they kind of slowed down, and then five minutes later, like, holy crap, they're not in this game anymore. Like what happened?

And I think, you know, that's just two big flash points that I think we're a big part of it. Does have any faith that any of the problems you just pointed out are fixable this season, well, I mean, yeah, they're fixable, because this team, I mean, somebody's got to go eat and eight, right, you know, somebody has to do it in all of the NFL. So there's great teams, there's really bad teams, and then there's teams right there in the middle. And this is what Dallas is. And

they haven't beat anybody with a winning record. They don't have to. They don't have to beat anyone with a winning record. Really, they could beat the Bears, they could even lose to the Rams. But they beat the Eagles and the Redskins. I mean, they're gonna be in the playoffs. Actually, they can lose both those teams, they both of the next two games, as long as they beat the Eagles and the Redskins, which, by the way, what had they've

done all you Yeah, you've beating the NFC. If they just keep being who they are, Yeah, we'll get in the playoffs. Cowboys, it's not it's not. But yeah, that tells you how bad the NFC East is. Cowboys fans took issue with me yesterday because I said they have a commanding lead in the division. They're like, it's one game with a month to play. That's not commanding. If all you have to do is beat a middling Eagles team and a bad Redskins team to make the playoffs.

It sounds pretty commanding to me. Like I said all last week, the Bills game didn't matter. These two games mathematically don't matter anymore because of what the Eagles did yesterday. Obviously you would prefer to get on a role. Getting into the playoffs at eight and eight isn't gonna make anybody happy, and it's not going to give you confidence that they can make a run. But from a mathematical standpoint, all they have to do is win those two division

games and they can make the playoffs. It's amazing. And if the Eagles somehow lose to the Giants next week and the Cowboys beat the Bears, I mean, it is really all but over because you know, then you can just lose to the Eagles, it doesn't matter because you've got assuming you beat the Redskins. At the last game, the Redskins beat the you know, Carolina, I just beat them,

beat the Brakes off of the bout eight. But if you watched the game like they were they were beating though, like that was not a I don't think that was a game where the score really reflected how well the Redskins thirty seconds ago. They were trying to tie the game,

but they took a thirty yard sack. It's like I said, every year this happens, Like the Vikings and the Panthers and the Bears and the Rams and the Seahawks are all like fuming that some mediocre NFC East team is gonna post a playoff game, whereas you know what three years ago, what you know, the thirteen and three year, you know, the Giants went what twelve and four and had to go on the road in the playoffs. I

mean happens every year, yeah, you know. And every year we talked about the schedule and we're like, man, there's gonna be a few teams that aren't as good as you think they are, So don't don't sit here and go, oh my god, we gotta play the Bears. Maybe the Bears aren't gonna be good, Maybe the Rams aren't gonna be good. Maybe the Cowboys aren't gonna be good. It turned out to be the Cowboys in the Eagles. Is the two teams that aren't as good as you thought

they would be. Well, the Bears, like, yeah, they're probably about four teams. The Rams probably be in the same boat. Like, they're not as good as even I thought they were gonna be after coming off a year when they went to the Super The forty nine ers, you know, are really good, and the Packers are better than they were last year. So I mean it always had Vikings as well. Yeah, Vikings, All right, talk talk to me a little bit about

Brett Maher and where you brought him up. He missed two field goals in that game, one of them being tipped, which just adds to the issues that they're having as a special teams unit. That was the thirty five yard but you also missed a forty seven yard or Cowboys had a workout yesterday brought in three kickers. Tell me about right now, what do you think as far as the Cowboys are looking at their crick of position? Do

you think that a change is imminent? And if not, what do you think would have to happen for them to actually make a change. I think I think it's right there. You know, this is you just miss against the Bears, and you have any kind of struggles against the Bears. You know, if they like what they saw yesterday, I'm not sure if they did, but if they like that they are we have a contingency plan that we like. If he struggles again, boom. I mean issue had never

gotten to this point. Do you think they should make a changed a long time ago? I mean, when I go back and I understand that that's just the position. It's easier. You can easily just bring someone in plucking man blah blah. But when you go back to training camp and just not bringing someone in when you know this ruggles that he had the year before, it's just like, why does he need to get to this point of the season for you to bring in three guys to try them out and see how they do it? Just

it doesn't make any sense to me. And when you have cut them, when would you have cut him? Like, but at least bringing someone to just check them out and add some competition to maher like, let them know, yes, you have his back, but be on your toes. Like. I don't think he's dumb or blind either, for when he makes those kinds of mistake, But it's very different when you have somebody next to you kicking the ball as to not having anybody and you're the only one kicking.

You know, I don't know about that not a kicker. I don't agree with that because I think most kickers will tell you that they're competing with guys on the street all the time because you can just swat you. I would argue, though, if the Cowboys were going to do this, I think they waited too long, honestly, Oh, because most guys are I mean there will. There was a small pool of guys who have done it before that has been available on and off throughout the season.

Kai four Bat Young Hoku is another one. He's kicking pretty playing well for Atlanta. He's twelve and fourteen on the year. Um, those guys are gone, Nick Rose, your guy Longhorn only one of the three that they worked out with NFL experience. He went eleven of fourteen two years ago. The other two, um Tristan viz Kayano and um oh, Austin McGinnis both haven't. I think McGinnis kicked it in the the AAF, you know, in the spring, but he's never kicked in a regular season NFL game. Yeah,

and that's what I'm saying. Yeah, nothing, So viz viz Kayano is however, you know, sorry if I mispronounced it. He he went twelve of twenty in his final season at Washington, So that's college And I'm just like, is that definitively better than what you got? So I agree. I mean, if they were going to do this, they

should have done it when they had a more viable option. Um, I'd see that blocked though, and the yeah, I know he got blocked before the half, but that thing went really far, so like like it might have gotten blocked, but I don't know. I don't know if it was headed through the up breaks. Anyways, you know, it's been four days, like you kind of have a chance to get over the knee jerk, and you know, I'm not as worked up about this as I was on Friday.

But let's talk about the decision making process on that drive in the first place. You get the ball back with like a minute and a half, no urgency whatsoever. You just very deliberately let all the time bleed off the clock, which I get you don't want to give the Bills the ball back, but they had three timeouts and really didn't put themselves in position to do better than a fuel goal attempt with a kicker that they

don't really trust. And they even especially at that set up the fuel goal purposefully with a throw to the right hash, which is where we know he's not good. It's almost like they're stubborn with the with you know, with him, They're like, no, we're not good. I mean he called time out, wouldn't get And I kind of disagree with you there because if you just look at where the Bills were doing, they were not going to

give anything other than a field goal. I mean they were playing almost prevent in the end zone, no shots to the end zone. They're just gonna give you three points. But call time out and there's run Witten for ten yards. He could have done that on any hash. I now that goes to another problem. If your kicker has to be on a certain hash, you got a problem and you do, and I agree with you. I would probably

make this move. I really would. I'd find somebody I don't know who, maybe anybody that's kicked in the NFL before. Maybe I would do that because the guy has absolutely no confidence, which I think I would have just go full Kevin Kelly, which is the Arkansas high school coach who never kicks at like that's his claim to fame. Like he doesn't punt, he doesn't kick I would just operate as if I can't make a fuel goal unless it's from sixty or plus yards. Hey, guys, that's what

I would do. Is there any role that stubbornness plays in this? The fact that Maher is the guy that you let Dan Bailey walk, for the fact that maybe they can move on from Maha, but they don't want to be wrong. Again, I don't agree with that, because your head coach has no contract, so he needs to win games, and like now, he is stubborn, There's no doubt about it. But I don't think to the fault of that. I think he wants to cut him. Listen to the press garments. I mean he wanted to cut him.

I don't think the Cowboys do, but I think some of the coaches. If he doesn't need his shoulders to the kick, that's the thing. I even said that in the press box. The worst part is that Heath can't go out there and kick an extra You know what, what, just have Heath kick an extra point if you need to. I mean, if it was five yards or ten yards an end, I'd trot Jeff out there. This team can't make a two point conversion to save their life. So yeah,

I mean, you're just talking about their red zone. So I don't think I don't think they want to be right about Dan, like that's so far, that's so water under the bridge. But I think they want to be right in the sense that they're like, well, he's got this leg, he's made these kicks like blah blah blah blah blah, and there's nobody and there's not a lot of better options. So I do think stubborness is part

of it, but not necessarily because of Dan Bailey. But if you just look at how he performed last season, he was toward the bottom of the league in percentage of Phil Golds. So I agree with Amber from the standpoint I think during training camp, whether you're bringing him in for competition or not, I would have legitimately had a kicking competition, like I would have legitimately brought in somebody who I thought I could kick more reliably from all the way from the goal line to forty yards.

I would have brought in that guy, and then I would have made a decision, I'll take the guy and know what he's gonna do in those kind of situations. And it's really really iffy when you get beyond fifty, then take a guy that I know can maybe make a sixty two yarder, but it's really really if he thirty to forty. I would just rather have the knowledge of being able to rely on my kicker in certain situations.

And I don't think the Cowboys have that right now. Like, yes, all day, every day, Give me the guy that's automatic or close to it from closer than forty five, because honestly, I mean, Maher's leg gets them in trouble in the first place, because you're like, well, we know he can make it from sixty, and then you're doing stupid stuff that sets your opponent up at midfield anyway if he misses, and I just don't know that, you know, the fact that he hand hit those kicks is not as valuable

as maybe some people want it to be. All Right, we're gonna take our first break. When we come back, I want to talk about the offensive line. We mentioned it a little bit earlier. Ed Oliver had some exposed some issues and now an offensive lineman is done for the year. We'll talk about that when we come right back. This is Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. I'm Jay Nobachik. Former tight end for the Dallas Cowboys. Back in the day, I was the guy who always got the tough yards

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loss to the Buffalo Bills. They lose twenty six to nineteen, and it was miss our fifteen twenty six fifteen giving them four points there. It was I was trying to help him out, but it was a game that by and large, even with the score ending up where it was, it wasn't really that close. In my opinion, it looked like the Cowboys were struggling most of the day. Other than the first series, of course, which they got up to a fast start, give them credit for that, but

then everything kind of went south. It really like and and I don't know, maybe it's reckless, like because I, you know, I can't gauge their their hustle. I'm not saying they weren't trying, but like, it's so weird that the one time, the one time they really came out gangbusters, I mean, touchdown on the first drive, defense got off the field quick on the first Bills possession, and then they just went flat. It's almost like the thirty yard

run on the next possession. Yeah. And after that, watching that, it was almost like they were like, all right, we solve this flat start thing. And then they were they forgot it that there's fifty more minutes of football to play. Like this guy that I've heard use this analogy a thousand times this year about holding jello in his hand. Yes, yeah, he loves say you hold jello in your hand, you get a little bit here, but then this spills out over here and then oh that was that game completely. Yeah.

You start thinking like you got one thing fixed, and before you know it, one time Zeke season. Yeah, yeah, witting back in the end zone, fast starts. I forgot, I mean, so much bad stuff happened. I forgot about the Zeke run. I was like, okay, that's if Zeke's doing that on even a somewhat regular basis, nobody's gonna complain about him. Ever again, he was breaking tackles, he looked fast, and then you know, nothing but bad stuff happened for a half hour. One big thing that we

talked about a little earlier, mentioned a little earlier. The offensive line has some issues with add Oliver and Xavier Suefilo. I think was the culprit on the situation and on the play whether you have the strip sack, but um Connor Williams we find out this week has an ACL tear he has done for the year, which means now Suipilo is going to be your full time guy. How concerned are you or do you think he's more than capable to be able to handle that role for the

rest of the season. I feel is better. I mean, I believe that he's a better player than Connor Williams. I believe that. I believe that exactly what they need. And if you and if you're gonna throw out the Connor. I mean these Xavier Suafilo play then Mike Sure and show about twenty more from this year when Connor Williams does the same thing, if not worse that they They're not perfect. Connor's not perfect at guard. Sufilo is not perfect guard. That's what do you think? Do you think

you're better with Suphilo? Do you think you're about the same, because it sounds like what you're saying there is they're about the same. They're both gonna give a place. Yeah, I mean that's true, but seventy seven that you're all pro left tackle gives up plays, I mean, Travis Frederick, Zach Martin. But do you think they're better? Do you think they're better off with Shilo than Williams? Yeah? I do. I do. I think that. I think they can run

the ball better with him. But it's a small sample size, but we'll see. Yeah, I don't think so. I get I'll preface it by saying like they can survive with Davier Sufilo. They did it last year, So I mean, I don't think it's going to sync their offense, but I don't know, and I don't I'm not saying this to you like I'm you know, I'm bashing you. But I think Connor's just an easy scapegoat because he's, you know,

he's a project. He played tackle in college. He's the least drafted guy on the line, you know, the least amount of talent from a scouting standpoint. Uh And and Tyrn and Zach and these guys have been standards for all offensive line excellence, so it's easy to point out what he's not. I don't think he's been terrible by any stretch of the imagination this season. Um, but I also don't think the drop off is going to be severe. Um,

So that there. I mean, I think regardless of which one is in the lineup, it's the weak link of the offensive line. It's just as what it is. It always has. There's always that that guy. I mean, back in the day when they had three All Pro Bowlers back in oh seven, Kyle Kozer was the weak link and he was pretty damn good. Yeah, so, I mean it happened Mark Colombo was also the non Pro bowler. They're just like people hated Doug Free for a long time. Tell you, but I mean, I I think that he'll

he'll do better. I really do I think he'll be He'll be fine. Um, you know, have all week to prepare when in there. Yeah, he prides himself on being prepared, and he certainly wasn't. Those first two plays. You're standing there without a helmet on. Next thing you know, you're making a tackle because you you know, got drove back there. Now, if you listen to the broadcast Romo, which I don't know,

does Romo really critical of Dak a lot? But he he was on that play, he was like, you gotta get rid of the ball, step up and get rid of the ball. Either way, he was getting drove all the way back. Yeah, I mean that's the play where he also had like two or three guys underneath who were open, and he becau There was a play I saw on Twitter somebody was pointing out and I don't remember if it was that play, but it was like the point they were making was there are options underneath.

Sometimes you take the option underneath because you don't have to wait for the other place, especially when you're in situations where you're under a bit of dress. Yeah, the strip sac Yeah, he's still I mean, it felt like six seconds and it probably wasn't, but that's I mean, Xavier got driven back, there's no question, but he held that ball for a long long time. He was asked that question Sophila was do you think that Dak held

the ball for too long? And he said, um, I don't know how long he held it, but our goal is to make sure he can hold it for a minute. Okay, so lofty goals and he like no, but I'm just saying it doesn't matter, right, yea, yeah, block until until find an offensive lineman who's ever going to say that anyway? Yeah? Yeah, oh Jesus staff for the ball. I actually stopped and turned around and looked at him, like, dude, what are

you doing any day now? You know. I know all of these offensive linemen are struggling with some kind of injury and stuff, But one of the things that concerns me is canny Xavier go ahead and play the rest of the season healthy and be healthy because he has it passed with where he has been dealing with injuries on his knees and that's something that is just not gonna go away. And I can't remember how many games he's able he's been able to play back to back

fully healthy. Yeah, I don't know, but it doesn't feel like it's been more than two or so where he's like, he played all eight games last year, but I don't know if you're if he was banged up. I mean, it's kind of like, when's the last time Tyran was healthy's rookie year. I mean, like he still plays, but he played in the last eight games of the season. They did get poked in the eye, Yeah, missed the games or so, what are their options at this point?

If it lets assume for a second, either if he's not healthy or if he's not playing well, does Joe Looney become an option? What are there other options here? I asked Jason about that. Go ahead, and I, oh, well, sorry, they did sign Caleb ben and knock um. He's a he's been a knock it's been around. He has been around. Well, he's a fifth round pick by the Bucks. He started for them for several years. He's spent short stints with New England and Carolina this year, but short stints like

he wasn't there. Oh yeah, he started, Let's get him in here yet. Here's what they like is they like his versatility to do both. I mean, so, I mean he's he's a new Adam Redman. If I had to guess um, I asked Garrett today about Looney, like we never talked about Joe as an option at left guard, and it was a very Jason Garrett response. He was like, you know, he's a good player. We like him better as a center, and we think Xavier can handle that.

So if Joe Looney were to get time at left guard, it says a lot about how poorly they think Xavir Suva Philo is playing, basically, like I think that would only be a break glass in a case of emergency thing. But Connor McGovern, like Jason Garrett also, he said last week they haven't closed the book on him coming back, but he's not ready. And if you can just do a rudimentary level of math, you realize that the season's

running out. Like if you activate a guy off ir, he gets three weeks before you have to put him on the fifty three. That means he would have to start practicing next week. He hasn't done anything all year better than somebody else. It's very it's admirable that Jason Garrett doesn't want to close the book on that, but like I can't imagine Connor McGovern can do a lot to help you with He's never played in a preseason game now he hasn't. I think he's taken Ota snaps

in shorts. He's never he has not put on pads in the NFL. Well, he did practice for like one day here at the Star and think reaggravated it, right, remember so, But but that was OTA's right, which isn't even fully padded. Remember like at the end of training he comes back and then you're right, they hate when that happens. But I mean, he's he It doesn't mean that his career is like a wash or anything, but that's he's a twenty twenty guy. That's play and he's

just a little bit less than Tristan Hill. That's that's just fair. That's just the fact. That's what it is. Good days Thornhill got an interception for a touchdown where everybody got tweeted about it. Right, you know what I like, don't it. I'm not mad at me. It is, which you know, draft classes are about so much more than

one season. But it's completely fair to say, man like, for a team that's trying to get over the hump, you're not getting anything from your rookie class, which like look all around the league, like if good teams get production from their rookies, I mean and not just teams drafting at the top of the round either, Like and they're just not in a team where they needed, they've been needing forever the safety that could come in and

actually make plays for them. Right, Tony Pollard is the only member of this draft class that has made a tangible contribution to the season. That's just not that's not going to get it done when Taco's not doing anything for you. But DeMarcus Lawrence is something, Well he did yesterday, Yeah he made a play. But when DeMarcus Lawrence is playing well, and then that's you're like, okay, well, why's

Taco not playing well? That's one reason. But when Tristan Hill's not playing and you have to go out and make a trade so you can get a help with Michael Bennett and they're still not playing well in the middle, and you know what, he made a tackle the other day,

like Antoine Woods out and he made a play. But the tackles position is really hurting this team right now because the guy's getting all day to just sit there, and they end, and they step up and there's they shouldn't have anything to step up to, but they do.

I bet I can. I can go through the playoff chase and look at every team and think about contributions that their rookies are making, and like Nick Bosa is easy obviously, but like you know, DK metcalf is coming on for Seattle and wan Thorne Hills pretty damn good. As it turns out, Taylor Rapp also had a pick six yesterday, which is another safety they considered. So um, it's a bummer. It doesn't mean that, it doesn't mean that they're definitely somebody will probably say Paulo does that

for the Cowboys. No, I don't think they've used them ano. No. Yeah, that's you know, not nearly a big enough when you think about what rookies have done for this team in the recent past, that doesn't even register on the radar. All right, we're gonna take our final break. We will come back. We're gonna get a quick scouting report on Chicago offense. We're gonna chain turn the page now start looking at this Bears team. Do that when we come

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a commercial. Really cool opportunity for kids, obviously, But if you got a kid, send it in. Let's see what happens, all right, Uh, Dave, let's talk about the Chicago Bears. Give me a quick scatter report. We got about eleven minutes. Yeah, give me a quick scatter report on the Yeah, this Thursday's Wednesday. On the Chica Wednesday. I'm sorry, Chicago Bear offense. No, it is Thursday. Wow, I'm an idiot, You're right, believe all. I'm all out of sorts. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm not

a superstitious person. I think I've made that clear. But I'm gonna try. I'm gonna try it the other way this time. I'm just gonna say this Bears offense, Holy caw are they good? Holy cow do they have a lot of weapons. I don't know how the Cowboys could possibly stop them all they're so good. The quarterback man Mitch Drubisky, Pro Bowl, Alan Robinson one of the best deep threat receivers in the league, pretty good. Tarik Cohen mismatched, can line up in the slot, can play running back.

The Cowboys cannot stop these guys. They are amazing, all right. I'm being sarcastic. I didn't have a very high opinion of the Bills. Every time I don't have a high opinion of an opponent, they come back and kick some ass. So you know, maybe a little bit of reverse psychology works. But the Bears, the Bears are they are going through it. On offense, they are struggling. They're twenty ninth in the league. They're twenty seventh and scoring. They they don't really do

anything well. And I didn't. I mean, I'm serious, I didn't have a ton I didn't have a ton of time to deep dive on this like I normally do. But I mean, if you followed the season at all, I don't think you should be surprised by that. Trubisky is just app I feel bad for the guy. Honestly, he's he is a lightning rod for for everything that is wrong with the Bears, probably because you know, the two quarterbacks drafted after him are looking like the future

of the NFL and he's just not. He's the other one. Mahomes and who Watson. He's good. Yeah, he's good too. Decisions they you know, they drafted David Montgomery out of Iowa State. Tarik Cohen is one of the most fun gadget players in the league. But they don't even really run the ball. Well, they're running, you know, three and

a half yards per carry. Trubisky six point one yards per attempt on the season, which is less than Tom Brady, and we spend a lot of time talking about how Brady's lost it and can't go down field with these receivers. He did play really well against Detroit twenty nine thirty eight for three thirty eight and three touchdowns. Have a stat on that form my storylines that Derek neglected. But we're gonna do tomorrow. You're gonna go and give it away.

Well yeah, I mean go ahead, and I mean the story it's on the website for the world yesterday anyway, seventeen of nineteen on first Down, Dad, like he was against the against the Lions. His two best games this year have been against the Lions. I'm very I'm very had a big game against the Lions. True. Oh yeah, I thought about that immediately, and on I'm I'm frustrated with NFL game pass because the all twenty two for the Lions game is not up, even though it was

played on Thanksgiving. That seems ridiculous to me. So I couldn't watch it, at least not from that angle. Um, but Trubisky, I just you know, it seems so much like he just struggles to see the field, a lot of locking onto receivers, a lot of throwing it to what I assume as his first read, regardless of how

good the coverage is. Had a terrible pick against the Giants where he again like nothing suggested that the play was open, and he was like, well, this is this is what the red tells me that I'm supposed to do. And again you just kind of see that, you like, he locks onto stuff even before the snap. One thing that really stood out to me is again like Tarik Cohen is he's so exciting. He's so fast and quick. He's caught fifty four passes. This sh don't really run.

He's a receiver, right, but fifty four passes. How many yards would you guess he has? Man less I mean less than ten pop probably probably four hundred. I'm thinking even maybe thing like about three fifty four catches for three hundred yards. That's awful. Yeah, that that's like, clearly you understand that he's a priority, but there's no creativity or or truebisky can't do it one way or the other.

A lot of screen passes that don't go anywhere, a lot of routes to the flat that get like one or two yards Like that's I could have sworn I wrote it down. But that's an average of like four point eight per catch, which is awful for anybody, let alone a guy who's as quick as he is, and you would think he can make people miss. So granted, you know the Cowboys struggle with that sometimes. And Devin Singletary he was a problem, just like we thought he'd be. Um,

so that's something to watch. Um their line, it's okay, it's not terrible, it's not great. Um, it's funny as somebody that does the draft show. The Bears have picked early a lot the last few years because last year was really their first good season in a while. Like they got they got a lot of talent. I mean, we mentioned Cohen. Anthony Miller is a guy that we loved coming out. Um slot receiver out of Memphis. Doesn't really do a lot because they're not a dynamic passing offense.

James Daniels, good left guard out of Iowa. Cody Whitehair another guy that we really loved. Their center. Like the talent yeah, he well he tackle Kansas thing. I think it was a guard he could, but he could. He's a He's like a four or five position type of guy. He's a good player. Um what else do I think? Um, So here's my question. Alan Robinson's a super underrated player. He's a good I mean, he's a good downfield player.

The problem is Mitch Rubisky's quarterback. So so, thinking about all things you just said, Let's assume for a second that this offense has a day. They just have a day that's which uncommon. Sure they could what abody else does, whether they say they're bad, right, what are the piece is of this offense that can really hurt the Cowboys. I'll I mean, like for the however many times, and

however many weeks, like the running backs scare me. Not because the Bears are great at running the ball, but this team has struggled at times with defending the run. They definitely struggled at times with tackling. You know, yards after contact are big for them. Quarterback with it and and Trubisky is an athlete, There's no doubt about that.

So if I were them, expect, like, the weather's not gonna be terrible, but it's going to be thirty something degrees Like, well, yeah, I would love not crazy clue. I would lean into that, give me some of that run option. I mean, you know, Josh Allen, he didn't kill him the same way that Jeff Driskell did, but he scored from seventeen yards out and made it look easy. Have those wins been at home or like you guys never ceased to ask a question that I didn't think,

I'm like, all right, here we go. Sorry, Well, they won in Detroit last week, so not exclusively. I want to say honestly that they're not good at home. Let's look, they're probably three and three they're three and three at home and on the road. Boom oh, so they're media they're equally mediocre on the road as they are at home. I thought about that, actually, I was like, well, the Cowboys just they don't win on the road. But they're what They're three and three on the road, aren't they. Yes,

they beat they lost to the Pads. They beat the Lions, they beat their Redskins, they beat the I have a question, okay, yeah, okay, the Josh Allen fumble that he picked it up and got a yard and got a first down. That really was the play of the whole game. Yeah, you have that play? I do, right? How far it gets cut off? Because I don't know. No, I haven't said this to anyone. They lost, Okay, Cowboys lost, no excuses, They're gonna lose anyways.

They weren't the better team, the worst. But the worst late hit you've ever seen happens on that play. Here you go two angles at it? Where okay, Byron Jones, Stay on, Byron Jones. How's that not a penalty? You see that? Yeah? Like, I mean guy's on the ground, he's about to get up and start. I mean it doesn't matter, but I mean it seems kind of late for Byron Jones. He's here, he's down. Yeah, late, I mean that's what That's what Jerry Hughes got flagged four

later in the game when Dak trucked White. Oh yeah, and that was not even a penalm. Dack trucked White and Hughes kind of jumped on top at the end and got flagged for. I just it just looked kind of weird to me I was watching, I know, especially the way they called that in the game that the Bills got flagged for a couple that were kind of questionable, but they didn't obviously didn't call for that one. Doesn't matter. I'm just good. Good job for having that. That's my best.

That's the closest I've looked at it in the last couple of days, Like people are killing Jalen Smith on that play for not seeing what was going on. Yeah, which is Christian is the one you gotta look like on top of the ball. And I don't understand how that season. I mean that that is what the Cowboys. You you get a fumble that you didn't even force, but you get a fumble it's on the ground. It doesn't even matter who gets it. I mean if the

Bills get it, great, doesn't matter it's fourth. But no, not only does he get it, he picks it up and gets a first down. And then then the next play is this reverse pitch pass that Dallas could never do, but the Bills do it at the guy's wide open. Could they ever get a play like this, I mean pitch oh, I mean the guy that plays receiver that used to play quarterback. I mean I would think maybe, I mean something like Dez did that once, des and

Witten did that. That's I mean. The Cowboys have a lot of problems, but their inability to run a reverse wide receiver pass, I don't know. I mean it was a great play by the Bill, but they run things like that and it just gets stuffed for like four yards. Yeah. Oh well every time they try something fun like that, it never works. Yeah. My big thing going back to the fumble play is yeah, I mean, I'm stealing it

right from you. Like, they're not clutch. They don't have a killer instinct that like the quarterback puts the ball on the ground on fourth and inches and at least one, if not two guys have a shot at it and all of a sudden Josh Allen's you know, celebrating six yards downfield. Somehow I thought that that was no doubt the play of the game, because they had Dak had thrown a pick. They stop them on defense missive field goal. Then Dak fumbles the ball they were about to stop

them again. It's like, okay, we just gave you two presidents under the tree and you gave him back to us, and it's like, okay, well, like we're gonna go win this game. It's still seven seven, but that fumble and then they score and then it went and it seemed like it changed the whole momentum of the game. After that is when it just seemed to go downhill. All the miss field goal before the half was it's like,

oh okay, here's Ella golden. You know, like it was a really bad nime for the halftime show when everybody was like I whenever, the mood, the mood permeating that whole building was as bad as I can remember it being. The only time it's been worse was when they closed that Texas Stadium after getting routed by the Baltimore Ravens in the rain and they're having a whole Yeah, it's cold and rainy, and you're having a celebration of this building that's now going to go away, and fans are

just like, I'm old for it. I'm so done with it. Yeah, that's how that's the that's the mood I get, which you know, we're turning the page to Chicago, but I don't think a lot of people are ready to let that mood go. But there's a reason why those two things, and they they are the same that year two thousand and eight. I mean, coming off of the two thousand and seven season, they're gonna win the Super Bowl. They started out three and oh yeah interesting, and then all

of a sudden, the bottom dropped. And that's what this season has been. He started off three, oh, you have high expectations, and then these losses are just like unexplainable. But they're gonna win this next four games, all right. I mean they we're very autamant after the game. You know, the way that were unbelievable after the game was unbelievable. You know, you're right, which all was shocked. I think we all were expecting fire brimstone and it was just

the opposite. We're gonna go run the table like that's I mean, I guess, I mean, we're out of time anyway. But we didn't really get into the whole, you know, basically the media trying to convince Jerry Jones that he was gonna fire Jason Garrett right there on this. He's like, we're about to go run this, you know, run the table that said we still control our own destiny. I'm like, well, at any point, if you want to grab the wheel and get it out of the ditch, would be great.

I don't know, We're all kind of just sitting here right now. Nobody's actually grabbing this wheel. The cars just kind of going Jesus, take the wheel. Recch, you guys join us. We'll be back tomorrow. We'll wrap up this old thing Cowboys versus Bears to then for Nick Even, Dave Hellman, Ambergarcia. I'm Derek Eagleton. This has been The Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.