Cowboys Break: Carrying Momentum?

number forty. Welcome to another edition of The Break. We're live from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. Got Dave Nick, and we've got our very special Tuesday guest Danny Serect with us today. We're gonna be talking to some Cowboys football here with you guys for about forty five minutes. It's a gumbo show, so, as you guys remember from last year, we like to hit a lot of topics on Tuesday. We'll jump around. There'll be lots of different things we'll hit. We'll also take some

questions from you guys. You can also hit me on Twitter at Derek Eagleton and I'll get your questions there and we'll have a segment where we'll go through those questions and again, hit a lot of different topics out of where I feel in this morning, great, great, good, lovely, awesome, fantastic, Danny victory Tuesday, right, that carries over from Monday? Why not? I mean a victory like that that lasts longer than

just your standard twenty four hours. Right, so twenty four hour rule only applies to coaches and players anyway, good point. You can write that all week if it's if you want to. Yeah, absolutely, going all right, So let's first. I want to talk first about injuries. There were a couple of injury updates we had yesterday. Pretty remarkable that Cowboys finish this game, that not only did they play a great game, but they came out relatively clean. There

were two injuries though, of note. Tell us about those two injuries and what we can expect this week with regards to Randall Cobb and Jeff Heath. Jeff Heath, he's dealing with a couple of different things. But he spoke in the locker room yesterday. He you know, I believe he called it regular football stuff. He's going to be there Wednesday, he says that shouldn't be a problem. We didn't talk to cop, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and say, I think it's probably something similar.

I mean, football is incredibly violent, especially at the pro level, and every guy has something really painful happened to him in every game. So Cobb's got a lower rib thing, is what Jason Garrett described it as. I don't think it's severely limiting, but we'll see what he does tomorrow at practice. Ye, any question, I mean in those offensive linemen, I mean I think that Zack Martin, that's something he's

just going to have to deal with. I mean, he was able to go out of the game just because that you know the score, But I think that it's something Wednesday or Thursday. You're gonna see limit limited from him every week, and you know he's just gonna have to manage this thing. But he didn't play his best game, you know. I mean, he had a couple of penalties when I used to see in that out of him, but I think overall he played pretty well. What are the what do we what do we know about guys

like Donovan Wilson, Deary and Thompson. If anything, just because now you got Heath a little banged up, starts to wonder a little bit with those other two safeties also being they were out last week due to injury. What do you hear about them? Thompson it was a high ankle sprain. He's been out for a few weeks now. Um. I think he's been back with the trainers on the on the side fields doing some running. I would doubt that he's ready this week. And again I never knew

about Donovan Wilson. Was it high ankle sprain on him? Yes, or it's an ankle sprain. I don't know if it was high ankles, so I don't know if it's the dreaded high Yeah, but I'm serious when you'd put that high high, everybody gets rially nervous, right, Yeah. That it'll be interesting to see if if if Heath is kind of banged up, and if they can get Thompson back in there. But it was Stephen Jones was the one that said right around roster cuts that Wilson probably wouldn't

be available for the first few weeks. So, I mean thinking at least two games, maybe three, but we'll see. Yeah. So I mean, does that raising level of concern for you when you start thinking about the fact that last week they entered with three safeties, and now you'd be inter presumably be three. That one is a little banged up. I mean I was standing right there, Danny, you were too, And Jeff Heath I'm going to take him at his word,

and he didn't seem very concerned about it. And I mean, everybody gets hurt one way or another in every game. I also think the next two opponents maybe not so worried about what Washington Miami's pass game to kind of rush back right just writing them off. I love it, let's go. I'm just saying, like I I would not rush them back for the next two weeks if there's no need to. You mean you're talking about Wilson and yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I mean three three safeties does seem a

little light, but they made it through this game. I think Goodwin can play some safety if you needed to. It's probably I mean, he's not not ideal because he hasn't practiced it, but the guy really can run. I mean, that's one thing about him that he's one of the fastest players they've got on the team. We didn't talk about that tackle. From our angle on the press box, you could just see it coming a mile away. I mean, he was just flying down there, and you know that

doesn't feel good for anyone. I mean, I can kind of see why they try to get the kickoffs limited and not because that's where this is nothing but like a train wreck going on there. It's the most dangerous play in the game. Probably that's fun why they're trying to take it within the next well, I mean, I guess it would have to be this CBA. Well maybe not. They're going to take that play out of out of

the NFL because it out of the Pro Bowl. I don't know, but out of something where I forgot what it was, but I was watching not too long ago, or I think that was going on this year they would do it. Oh the American Alliance of whatever, No something I watched. Um wow, I didn't watch that. Okay, no one else did either. Obviously that was no one else did either. NFL games are gonna just start at

the twenty five, like within the next decade. Well, you saw that this preseason when they had the game where they had the field that was jacked up and they were like, well, let's not do kickoff so we had an eighty yard field, Let's just start there and go. So all right, let's let's watch another topic. I want

to talk about Dak Prescott. After after his amazing day on Sunday, four and five yards, four touchdowns, no interception, a perfect hundred and fifty eight point three quarterback rating, UM, Jerry made the comment that his contract was imminent. That's

gotten a lot of press since then. It seems to me, at least you guys can tell me from what Jerry said this morning, it seems like he'd walked that back a little bit from the standpoint that, Okay, when I say imminent, it might not necessarily be imminent in Dak's mind. Is what he said sounded like a dictionary when he was asked about it, because it was like near close, you know, in other words, with everyone. He kind of

was backing it up just a little bit. But it doesn't sound like that's like this happening today, although it does seem like it's something that they want to happen relatively quickly. How close are you getting the sense that this deal is or is it any closer today than it was last week? Sounds like what him and Stephen Jones been saying the whole time of this can really just happen really quickly, kind of not out of nowhere, but it's not something that's drawn out necessarily for three

or four days. But things can just happen really quickly. And that's kind of the vibe I was getting when he was saying it's imminent, like he probably wishes he would have paid Dak before that game, so I think it'll happen soon. And he did say that if he would have had a bad game, it wouldn't have changed anything. I don't know if I buy it. Maybe that's maybe that's just just kind of saying it now because he was the other one, right, But I bet you you know,

he made his point. I mean, whatever the point they were making, he made it in a strong way. So I think it does affect it. And I don't think I want to let another game go by where he does it again. But that might be to Jerry's point.

He's like, in my mind, it's on the cusp. I don't that wasn't his Zach wording, but that's basically what he said, and he's like, you know, I don't know how Dak and his people feel, which now that makes me think, like what if Dack's like, let's let's ride this thing out and see if I really can put some more zeros on that check. If I do this a few more times, you know what I mean, whatever,

that would be amazing. What's kind of interesting because when he was asked about Cooper he said something like, well, I know Cooper is getting a deal done. You know well, and that's I mean, I didn't read too much into that because I Stephen and Jerry have said from the

beginning they're both getting deals. Like people try to make it this dramatic thing like, oh, then maybe they The only way, the only way the Cooper thing the trade ever made sense was if you sign him and the Cowboys know that, and he went out and had a like that's gonna happen. The only thing about Bill, he said, is this a lot like the Dack thing. And he said, well, I know that. The thing about Cooper, I know that

it's getting done. So he said that about Dak too, though he said, like, um, you just said the game. He was like, it would matter if you played a bad game. I think they asked them. They're like, you know, are you are you still evaluating and he's like, with the type of money that goes into this like we're way past the point of evaluation, right, Like that's so, I mean, I just feel very confident both are going

to get done. It would be awesome if it happened in the next week or so, but I don't know. So here's the question I have for you, guys, as of Saturday, what would you And I'm not talking about the team. I'm saying if you were the GM, what would you have been willing to pay Dak Is it around that thirty two million, which is kind of where you net out for guys like Wentz and Golf, or was it more? And now on Tuesday following the game that he had, has that price gone up at all?

Or you still write where you were before. Let's start with you, Dave, I would be willing to pay him slightly more than what Jared Goff got, just because the resumes are comparable as of Saturday or as of today, No, as of Saturday like that. I mean, that's the way these things work. I've been saying that for six months. Is like, regardless of you know, whether or not he's elite or like definitively better, like the next guy just gets a little bit more money. Like Goff got a

little bit more than Wins. I think most people would agree Wins is better than golf to this point in their careers. Winz isn't as healthy. But that's just kind of how it is. Like the next guy gets a little bit more. I would be willing to pay Dak a little bit more than Jared Goff I would have been on Saturday. I definitely am. Now, Hey, what people that go to California teams or any any state with an income tax. I mean, it's completely different because if

you think about, like in any industry, a writer. We got writers that have left here that work in Los Angeles probably making way more money than we are just because of the cost of living. But in the NFL scope, it's not the same. I mean, I guarantee they can make exactly what Jared Goff is making, and Dak's going to see way more of it golf will and then cowboys are trying to put that figure that in factor it in and the agents not having any part of it. But I mean, it is a thing. It's a thing

for Wentz and golf and it's not a thing for Dak. No. I agree, I agree a lot with you. Dave of I would have paid him around the thirty thirty two before, and there's so many DAC caters and I don't I don't have a problem with paying him that. And the Cowboys know that this is who they want their long term quarterback to be. I think after his performance on Sunday, you have even more confidence in him. And I think it's helpful that now they have a lot more threats

as opposed to, you know, this point. Last year it was wide receiver by committee. I think I think Prescott's going to have a phenomenal year just with the people around him. I'm telling you where quarterback exactly where the

hold up is. The hold up is that guaranteed money because of golf and wins, and they got their money way beforehand, and so it's ballooning that price up to a hunt was one ten, one O five was the was the guarantee one ten and guarantees I believe, But twenty six of it was already from which previous contract and that's the DA didn't have anything like that. So it's really that's what the Cowboys. That's the big sticking

point right now is that guaranteed money. Yeah, but they're I mean, and it's not Dak's responsibility to care about this, but like the report is that he makes like fifty million dollars in endorsements, and I guarantee you Jared Goff doesn't make that much endorsement. And I think that's the Cowboys whole thing from the beginning. And I think it's a valid point for the Cowboys. I mean, like, you didn't get that because of you, You got that because of what? Because of us? Yep, and not only that.

And somebody pointed this out to me the other day, and it's so true. All they have to do is just look around the landscape of the NFL. And what I mean by that is the guys that are doing media, the guys that are getting opportunities to do big, big things in media, that's not because of anything more than they were good players, not even sometimes great, good players that happen to be playing for the Dallas Cowboys. So their brand is much higher elevated, their name recognition is

much higher. You have a much better chance of getting those opportunities. And so I think for some players who want have ambitions of doing things beyond football once they're done, this gives you just one. It gets you one step closer to being able to get some of those kinds of opportunities that other guys just won't get because they don't have the name recognition that the Cowboys can afford it. J Smith with this extent, I mean, that's basically what

he was saying. Why he took the money he did, was he understands the importance of this brand in long term to make money after football. He understood that. It's exactly right. All right, let's take our first break. We come back. I want to talk about a couple of guys that were inactive this last week that we didn't get a chance to talk about yesterday, and what that could mean for the future of those two players here with the Dallas Cowboys. We'll talk about that when we

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Welcome back. It is the second segment of the Break Life from this WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star and I want to talk about a couple of guys this last weekend that we're not active for the game and what that could possibly mean. Tuckle, Charlton Tristan Hill both missed the game. We're inactive. We started seeing some tweets. I guess the morning of I think of Sunday morning from Taco or actually it might have been Saturday when he started counting tweeting and letting people know in cryptic

ways that he wasn't going to be playing. And the question that I that kind of rang out to me, and I got this from someone on Twitter, is why is it that a guy like Taco is inactive when for fans who watched him during the preseason, at least in preseason games, he seemed to be performing pretty well as a defensive end, had some games where he had some sacks, and there seems to be there seemed to be an arrow pointing up at least from the standpoint,

how fan see him watching him in those preseason games. What have you guys heard behind the scenes as to why maybe he is still a healthy scratch here the first week of his third season. I mean, it's a it's a good question because it's kind of head scratching. He's better than Joe Jackson to play now. You could say that Joe Jackson's got position flex. I don't see him play a lot of defensive tackles, so I don't

know about that. I've seen Tacco play inside. I think if they're making a statement or or for just being honest, I mean, maybe they're trying to trade him. Maybe they've been working on something. Maybe they didn't want to Maybe they didn't want to play him for that reason that maybe he's not in their in their plans. Maybe they didn't want to get hurt because they have to cut somebody here in two weeks or in a week when Quinn comes when Quinn comes back. So it's hard to imagine.

And I don't know if he'll be cut or traded or whatever, but like it's hard to imagine they have these huge plans for him if he's a healthy scratch in year three, week one, all that good stuff, and it's it is what it is. Um, yeah, I mean, you're right. I haven't seen Joe Jackson play a ton of defensive tackle that they say he's got that flexibility. I guess that's fair. But assuming they're not doing something like stashing him so they can trade him, the coaches

are in charge of those evaluations. They watched him in the preseason, probably considered okay, who did he do that against? And are those players actually any good? And we have DeMarcus Lawrence, Tyrone, Crawford, Dorn's Armstrong and Carrie Hyder who we all think are better than him. I think, I mean, It could be as simple as that, it's not a great look for Taco. But it's not just about the

preseason games. You're right, because you're not playing starters. It's also about practice and how you're doing throughout the week. I don't know. My gut feeling is I don't know that he'll be here throughout the whole season. I think maybe a trade. I agree, I just don't. I just don't know. Like Dave said, you everyone's saying it. I mean, how is he in your plans if that's the case. Now. I also, I said this before the game, and this is about both of them. You know, this is a

this is a really good football team. Like we know that. We knew that going into the game, and I think it was it was evident by the fact that you got a first round pick from a couple of years ago, a second round pick this year. You know, you got health, you got healthy scratches, a first and second round picks. It's tough to make the roster, it's tough to make the forty six. You talked to Stephen Jones about that in the pregame show. Just the depth Yea they have

on this. He said, it's the deepest team he could remember in many, many years. Yeah, it's a very good point, and it's totally true. It's it's still it's it's just not so much Hill but Taco. I mean, it's a bad look. He's the twenty eighth all pick. I mean, it's a bad pick. I think I think you could just say it was a bad pick. He's not been good at this point. If you if you're a healthy scratch at the start of year three, I mean, there's not many ways to sugarcoat that. What game was it

San Francisco? When he was talking like that, I was standing next to him, and I hated that. I hated that whole mantra thing he was going. He was saying that, you know what, I don't care if fans don't like me, they don't let me. Maybe I don't understand all of it, but I just didn't like the vibes he was saying. There just almost felt like he was sort of just kind of done with it, you know, it just kind

of I don't know. Maybe I haven't really talked to him about it, I mean, but I just it just felt like he was just like, I don't care anymore what people think and that's not a good thing. And I don't know if I don't know how he's perceived by his teammates or whatever. It's just a tough situation. Maybe he he needs a fresh start. I don't know. That didn't bother me that much because I think a lot of times players do need to let go of what people think. Because and and Taco, like, I don't

need to ask him about that. I can see it by his social media activity, like he there are players that are constantly chirping at fans and they're in you know, people's mentions on Twitter and Instagram, arguing their point, defending themselves, and like, I understand that very human impulse, but it ain't gonna take you anywhere good. And so sometimes I do think it's useful to let go of what the public perception is. Has have you seen a differences as

he stopped doing it? Seems like he has, although but I mean, I don't think it's a great look to basically passive aggressively tweet about the fact that you're going to be an active on Sunday on Saturday morning, being like, well, I'd love to play against you, Eli, but somebody's not gonna let me and it's not that good. No, But that also maybe a part of this um It may be part of it that the attitude is the issue. Yea.

You know, they may be seeing some things on the field that suggests he's got some talent, but he just may not have the attitude. The one thing I've seen from Taco quite a bit that I think could probably problematic for him is if you watch him during the preseason, he'd have those plays where he had some sacks. There were also a lot of plays where he would make his first move didn't work, and you would just see him kind of just okay, kind of live to play

the next play, right. He didn't seem to have that relentless motor that if you listen to guys like Rod Marinelli, that's all they care about is are you relentless? Are you keep do you keep coming to your motor go all the time? He doesn't seem to be, at least in my opinion, doesn't seem to be that guy. And I wonder if some of this last year, him being inactive, him being an active first game this year, it's more about the attitude and how you approach playing the game

more so than even the results. I buy that to a degree, but like there are so many examples across the league and this team, Like if you're a badass, you can be the biggest problem child, pain in the butt, like wrong attitude. But I'm not Let's be clear, I'm not talking so much about attitude from him being a bad person or malcontent in the locker room or anything like that. I don't think he's that. What I'm saying is he's not He's not the guy that is that

they're looking for. When they talk about the relentless defensive rushman, which is what they call them right, they want him to be relentless every play, every play until the whistle is blown. I don't think he's that. Gushes don't be the right fit. I think fresh stir. I don't think he's a bad player by any means. I mean, the Cowboys picked him in the first round for a reason. It might just be he doesn't doesn't fit the best

here that he could somewhere else. And you know, when you're talking about how people react to this, I think the same could be said with Tristan Hill. I'd like to see what happens with him. Um, you know, there's been some questions about his maturity levels and on and off the field, and let's see how he reacts to being a second round pick that was a healthy scratch

as well. And and that's and to be I don't want to defend it too much because again, I mean top sixty picks should should play regardless, and I mean maybe even start. I mean, you think about Malie Collins started as a rookie and he was picked later than where was Yeah, but having said that Malie Collins had a hell of a training camp, we would all agree. So I mean, it's certainly not surprising that he's not starting. And if you've only got really what didn't they roll

with three defensive tackles? So I'm a little more forgiving of that. Like I don't think that many people expected Tristan Hill to make this immediate impact when he was drafted. You know, the value of the position and the traits that he had made him somebody that they wanted. I will say, you know, hopefully that's you know, that's not a season long trend. Like you met Chris Covington's sixth round pick. He was inactive like every week last year,

and that is totally understandable. If Tristan Hill is a healthy scratch in November, that that's not great. Yeah, and that week one no big deal. Yeah, And I think what a lot of times fans forget, well this he's a first round pick, is second round pick, I mean, why aren't they there? Well, they've also got some wins on the back end too. I mean they just said, let's see if this Antoine Woods is worth anything any and look at him. He's starting, and he's better than

Tristan Hell and Dorn's Armstrong is better than Taco. I mean he fell in to the fourth round. I think they were surprised that he lasted that long. And Joe Jackson same thing. So, I mean for every one of these guys that are that are high picks that are kind of busting, they've also got guys. And I'm not gonna call Tristan Hell bust. I'm just saying guys like that that have had slow starts or it's not working out. They got guys in the sixth, seventh round undrafted that

are doing it all evens out. Yeah. The part that concerns me about any of this when you start talking about particularly Taco, about them letting him go or trading him or whatever. Is when I look at Byron Jones and how much everybody was willing to write him off. And we've seen this throughout, you know in the NFL. I know you and I watched with the same thing Halp with Flozo Adams. Everybody was convinced he needed to go and build Parcels came in and all of a

sudden he turned into this great player. Same thing with Byron Jones and christ Rah Shard. Sometimes it's about the coaching year here. Sometimes it's about other things that can help you get to the point where you need to be. Sometimes it's just development. I'm not saying that's going to happen for Taco. What I am saying is it does give me pause when you see some traits and you see him make a play here and there, and then you're like, are you giving up too soon on him?

I think you got to put a little bit more respect on Byron Jones's name there, because he had started every game of his career before he became an All Pro corner I mean, he was a serviceable to mass safety and then became a great cornerback. Taco, this isn't even his first healthy scratch. He has had a negligible role, to put it kindly, I don't think that's the same situation here. Like Byron was disappointing, but had played a meaningful role for this team for three years before he

finally broke through. We haven't seen that, TiO. Yeah, I agree. And also, you know Rod Marinelli can coach you know, defensive ends and all that. I mean, I'm not saying he's the best, because I'm sure there's other ones out there, and it might just be, like Danny said, just a just different start, different different situation might be better for him.

But who knows, I mean, who knows what's going to happen with this team, And you know, there might be another suspension down the road for this for this team. We I mean we videos have come out. I don't know. I don't know what's gonna happen. I'm just saying that having some depth on this defensive I'm not really trying to imply we all saw it. I mean I heard

you haven't seen it. No, I heard about it, though I heard about say him, it's talking about Crawford, Yeah, I mean, different video came out tmzy and they definitely let you know. It's where Crawford is in every step of the video, and it's it's not great. I don't know. Maybe the NFL has already seen that, maybe they haven't. I don't know, but I'm just saying having depth on

the defensive line, it wouldn't be bad. And you know, you also have some injuries coming in totally put like it's you know, and I think this conversation is totally justified. There's nothing wrong with it, but like, it would be so typical if we're like the writings on the wall for Taco and like, and he's here all year and has a role to play, right, You just never know. I just never know. All Right, we're gonna take our

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Castle Show. And then mar they have the wife of a Randall Cobb, who is if you don't know a lot about her, she is just she's bad. She's an attorney, very very smart lady. She is. I was gonna say something else, but yes, she's bad and she's she's an attorney. And so it's gonna be a show that's gonna just talk about football from a ladies perspective, but also life around football and working in football and having family members playing in football and that kind of thing. So again,

really interesting show. Make sure you check it out tomorrow. It's called Playmaker. And those are two new shows are gonna be starting up this week. I hope you guys enjoy. All Right, let's get to this question I have for you guys. This is a kind of a big, big picture question. After the first game, Cowboys played extremely well. Everybody's still riding the high of how well they performed. Based on that, though, what is the thing that kind

of pulls you back? What is the one lingering concern if you had to point to one that you still have for this team as they move forward into Week two and throughout the remain of this season. Let's start with you, Danny Um. I guess maybe run defense. I mean, I know we're playing Saquon Barkley, so that alone is a challenge. I think a lot of it also played into the fact that it was the first regular season. I mean, we saw the Cowboys defense had kind of

a slow start. They didn't, you know, recover the force fumble. There were what I write down four hundred and seventy yards given up. But they improved in the second half, and so I think it'll get better. I think that's just kind of things that happened in the first game. But I think that would probably be one of my only concerns that I really saw that stood out from that game. Yeah, they weren't many, Yeah, Dave. I just hotel hotels in South Beach are hard to get in February.

That's pretty much all I got. Kidding, I'm kidding, Okay, I'm yeah, does it starting first go and go all the way to Arlington through Dallas. How are we doing this such an absurd Please don't hold that against me, No, please please hold that We need to use that throughout the year here look good or bad. They did exactly what I've been wanting them to do on offense for

three years. Like I couldn't have dreamed it up any better with the you know, the tricker not trickery, but the presentation, the motion and the and the play action, all that stuff. We always talk about the jet action blah blah blah. But they're going to play better defenses, Like I'm you know, you can only play who's in front of you. But the Giants aren't a good football team. Um, they were. They threw a rookie out there. He got

him exposed, as you probably expect. There's gonna be defenses that can that can limit that, starting probably Sunday, even without Jonathan Allen. There's some studs on that Washington defense and we'll get into that. Um what what's it gonna look like when it's not that effortless? Um? That's probably my biggest concern is I'm I'm not ready to declare them the new Rams after one win against the probably

very bad team. UM yeah, that's probably it, right, Yeah, I mean I think that to Dave's point, let's see what happens when you know you have to counter something else. Right, you could do anything you wanted to in that game, and they were are always two or three steps ahead. But but you know what happens. Do you come back and try the same things, or you're gonna try to be different, or you're gonna try to be innovative. You know, we've seen last year and I'm not trying to compare

Lenahan two more. I'm just saying we saw Tavon Austin really involved in one game. In the next game he's not at all. And we saw Dak run eleven times and the next game he didn't run at all. So like, let's just see if if if they if they stick to what works, and how he comes back with a week two, week three, things like that. But I mean,

it's hard to complain about anything. Yeah, I actually I was gonna say, I really actually, That's one of the things I'm really kind of paying attention to is how does Kellen Warren calling this offense allow one game to

build on the other. Um, I was interested here. After the game, when he was talking to the media, he said, you know, there were some things that that we didn't necessarily want to throw out this first week, and we were able to hold some of those things back, which is a good thing because again, the biggest problem you would have is if you threw everything out there and now everything's on tape, because I guarantee you all that stuff that was on tape that looks so easy last

week may not look as easy. If a team is preparing knowing what they like to do this in this situation, they like to do this in this situation, when they're in this formation and they have these motions, this is what they like to do. Teams will build that kind of dossier on them over the next four or five, thank you sir, four or five games, and they'll know

they'll have some tendencies for them. Right. So, if he is able to take what they did this game and then use that knowing that that is now what the other team is thinking, their next opponents thinking, and now be able to play off of what he anticipates they'll do to react to it. Now you got yourself something. That's how you keep longevity in doing that job. It's not just about the one game. It's about the game and how it follows up to the next game, in

the next game, in the next game. I'm really I'm not worried about that with Calamar, which I just said I need to see more, but like, I just I'm not worried about that with him. Like I don't think you're just gonna be scratching your head, like where where'd Tavon go? Where? Where's you know? Why? What are they doing? Why? Like I think it's gonna be consistent, and the consistency

will be kind of what you're talking about, unpredictability. To Danny's point, I feel not troubled at all by the defensive struggles like struggles in scare quotes, and I'm not It's just things that happen in the first game. I'm not saying that's who this defense is. That's not their identity. It sounded like I was contradicting you, but I'm actually not, because what I was gonna say is, you know, Darius guys probably isn't going to play in this game. But

what does that mean. It means that they're gonna be going against the Hall of Famer who's a little bit of sim he's a little bit angry, and one thing you know about him, when he's angry, he has a way in his career when he's angry, he has a ways showing you he's things. So if it is a problem that actually persists, then where I feel like we'll find out on today that was not what I was

talking about. Go ahead, and well we're gonna find out if it's a problem because Adrian Peterson is still really damn good at thirty three, and he'll probably be running angry right So, and I it's going to your point, Danny, I don't just look at this as one rushing out in standing by itself like this. Now, I take it back and put it back to put put it back to last year as well. In this season, got the Rams in December, you had the Colts. Like that's now

three out of the last five games. I think it is where the Cowboys have not been able to stop the well stop the run effectively. And there are gonna be other good running backs. And they may be able to stop a running back that's kind of middle of the pack, but they're gonna have other good running backs. They're gonna have to play the rest of this year. What does that mean? What happens when you go to New Orleans and you got Alvin Camaro you got to

deal with, right. So I just think that that is something worth in my opinion, that's something worth looking at and keeping an eye on and we'll see what happens. Yeah, I wouldn't put that game in the other two because I don't think you know, it's not like the Giants for just running the ball into the end zone and all that stuff. I mean, yeah, they had they boasted out a big run. They did that in last game up in the Meadowlands. He had a fifty something yard

run like that too. I mean, he's great. But they when they needed to, they shut it down. So I thought the defense played pretty well. It's just a perfect offensive performance. So therefore the defense is going to have a hard I keep going back to first possession was bad. By the it wasn't good. But then from when they tie the game at seven seven, from then until it was thirty five to ten, the defense was pretty good.

And that is Maybe it's just I don't know, bias or selective reasoning on my part, but like that's what I focus on more than the blob final ten minutes when there's a twenty five point lead. And I mean they were bad at the start of the game, but stuff like that happened such a good game. Mix, right, you have to if the offense layed so well, okay, well then let's just let's look to the defense. Sure, yeah,

all right. Let's take a question from Kyle Ransom. He says, what are the chances we get to one two, one thousand yard receivers this year in Gallop and Cooper. Well, then if that's the case, you know, we're gonna be wondering if Zeke's worth that much money, you know, because he's not gonna have probably that much. You know, you're not gonna have a sixteen hundred yard rushing season if you got that much going on. Unless you're gonna do this what you did to the Giants, to every team, well,

then yeah, then you better get a hotel room. And I just don't think. I don't know, I don't think that's gonna be there for them. I really don't. I think teams I think it's like, we gotta stop Zeke, stop Zeke. And then they tried, and they did a decent job, but look what happened. Next week, it'll be different. They're gonna take away some of the other stuff, and then other guys will come in. I just don't and the reason why I said, and then, how do you

mean interrupted will they though? Because the way I look at this, I wonder if teams are gonna be like you know, I'd still rather go the route of stopping Zeke. Then I'm gonna make Dak do this for half this year before I say I'm going to start worrying about yeah, And so I do wonder if I do wonder if for a good part of the season we see the Cowboys at least trying to do those kind of things, going aggressively in the passing game. Because teams are like,

we know about that. I mean, we know about Zeke, we know what he can do to you. We're gonna make Dak do it regularly and consistently to us before we would change maybe let's sorry, go ahead. I think you know what, Now that I think about it, it probably won't happen. But the one way that it could is that when you think back to the game, there was deep balls to gallop, perfect throat down the sideline and a perfect throat to the touchdown to Cooper. They

both have that ability. They also both caught passes over the middle that they turned into forty and sixty two yard plays, and then Cop can kind of do both of that as well. So the fact that you've got receivers that can kind of hurt you deep, short, short, to deep, all that stuff, they may be able to rack up some yards like that. Yeah, if even if

let's just assume that they just keep this going. Maybe like not like that, but like, let they just keep rolling, like this is a top seven or eight offense in the league. Like even still, there's so many people to spread the ball to Cooper, Gallop, Cob Witten, Jarwin Zeke Pollard, Tavon. I think I got them all. I just like I would I would be I did, I would have. I would need to see two one thousand yard receivers to believe it, just because teams do that. MS. Harrison and

Reggie Wayne. If the Falcons haven't done it since they got some new they've come awfully closed. They would have done it back when what was the guy's name, I'm John a blank right now, Roddy White, Roddy White, When Roddy White and there together what happens. But I just well, digs and digs and dealing, and that's a good one. Just I know it didn't look like it on Sunday. But I still think like an eighty nine rushing yards is not going to be the norm for this team.

I don't think we even saw that in previous seasons with Zeke. His numbers were so much lower in the first two or three weeks of the season, So I

think you still have to take that in consideration. It's easy to forget because they just pummeled them, but Zeke was on a pitch count and so and and they teams will they might they might prefer to make Dak do this, but they will correct, like they're not just gonna if Dad keeps doing stuff like this, They're not gonna put eight and nine in the box like they're

just not going through. Its very fun. It's awesome about that pitch count, though, I think that a lot of those carries he would normally get that we'll probably see him get as the season goes on, will be those ones that Paulo was getting at the end of the game. That will be when they will put teams away because they will try to pound them just into the ground because they have a lead. They're trying to solve that

lead away. He will probably will He'll be more effective than what Tony Pollitt was just because it's Zeke, right, But the point is he's gonna get POLITI will decrease. So even if you think of it from that standpoint,

you probably could have into that game. They would have played that game as they will probably play the games four weeks from now, and you have that kind of offensive firepower early in the game, you could still put up those kinds of numbers in the passing game, and Zeke could still get close, if not over that hundred yard mark in that second half. This is vintage nineties football for the Cowboys, right, You get get a lead

and then you just pound them with Emma Smith. And again, I mean the pitcher of kool aid is just like absolutely three feet tall right now. Absolutely great. They looked awesome. They deserve like it's the NFL, it's not college football. Style points aren't a thing, but like it won't be that easy every week. It will just won't be it will. You're absolutely right about that, and that's why again, we're

kind of pulling this back just a little bit. All I'm saying is that's what they're going for, that's the back. But at the same time we're like, well, yeah, when they're up by forty in the second half, that's when early on. Michael Gallup was talking to the meet in the locker room yesterday and I asked him how important it was to connect with press got the first game of the season, because they struggled three quarters of the pretty much most of the regular season until the playoffs

to really hit those long balls. He said, it's incredibly important. They've been working a lot in the offseason and for confidence, you want to be able to show that you can connect on those long balls. So even though this probably won't happen many other games in the season, I think it was so really important that this is what happened the first game of the season. And you know, Zeke can miss a whole month and a half or whatever,

come back and still contribute like that. Dak would have done that, and then comes back, they're not hitting those passes like that, they're not playing like that, and Dak knows that, he knows that it's different for him to and he's in a different situation, but he knows that he had to be there to kind of keep this thing going. All right, guys, appreciate you joining us. We

were back tomorrow normal time, eleven forty five am. We're going to get into the Redskins offense versus the Cowboys defense. Day will have his breakdown, We'll talk about some other issues and face this team heading into this week two matchup against the Washington Redskins. Till then for Nick Even, Dave Hellman, and Danny Serect. This is 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.