Cowboys Break: Dak’s Best Game?

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we've had a road playoff game. Oh that we were actually on a flight coming back and we weren't like, so we're gonna have shows this week, Like what are we gonna do this week? Like it was actually like, oh, we got another game. Yeah, draft show. Well, I will say this, I was already on the horn this morning, and I'm not stepping I hope I'm not stepping out my boundaries. But I told people, all right, guys, just

keep watching tape. Man, we'll get that. Keep just keep watching tape, you know, get your notes together, and eventually they're gonna ask us to come in there. But right now, right now, we're gonna we're gonna keep keep playing football here. It's what we're gonna do. I failed you, guys. You know, I told you I would. I was gonna capture a moment for y'all for YouTube, and I didn't. We were on the sideline and now we were looking the game and finished and all that, and I turned around and

then I see you too. Your faces were like lit up, like your eyes were You weren't crying, right, yeah, no, no, no no, but you can see the shine and the emotion you guys were talking about it. I'm like, oh crap, let me get my phone. And then I took I took it out and as I was about to start snapping, some of the linemens start running down and we're about to get run over. Uh. I did next week, I will capture that moment. I'll tell you what you have

it and you can frame it at your house. You will get tears of joy if somehow on Saturday the Giants find a way to beat Philadelphia and you find a way to beat San Francisco. Oh yeah, that would be tears of joy right here if you can somehow host this h NFC championship. But a lot of work

still to be by, a lot of teams. I gotta I got a little missd eide Nick when you came over in game, a little pound after the game, because I was like, Yeah, this is this new, this is different, this feels different, this feels very You know what's funny

is being as old as I am. I was at the game the last time, Like we've talked about the last time they won a road playoff game, and it was like thirty years ago, and so you think about it, you know, all these days of working with the team and stuff, and you've never you know, you never had that experience. So yeah, and really I'm happy for I'm happy for the you know, the coaching staff, happy for the players, happy for you guys too. It's it makes all our jobs so much easier when this team finds

ways to win. We always talk about that, but and honestly, it's it's the truth. It really does make a big, big difference as you get through this. Let's dive in because I think we have to start the show talking about the actually showing it on TV right now. But four last night, Dak Prescott played out of his freaking mind. Uh. He goes twenty five or thirty three, three hundred and five yards, four touchdowns, no interceptions, not even anything that

looked like it could have been an interception. In my opinion, one hundred and forty three point. The gall touchdown was close. Maybe I got it was like what gave me there? That was a little that was a little touchy, but day you got it there? Um and uh. And then he also had which I thought was really key, the

seven rushes with twenty four yards and a touchdown. We talked last week about the fact that if they were going to win, if Dak was going to be successful, he was going to have to be the deck that we grew up on, the dack from twenty sixteen and seventeen, where he was unafraid to run the ball when he saw opportunities. We saw a lot of that last night. What did you guys see from Dak and what were your impressions? I think you said at all. I mean,

like Dak, this was going into the game. This was probably the biggest game of his career because of the stage, the way he's been playing. Who's going up with facing on the other side, and he answered the call. I mean, he had the best game of his career. There's no doubt about it. I mean this, this was so important to him in his career and he went out and carried the team. And not everybody should get the credit. And I mean more people will get credit, but quarterbacks

take the blame. They get the bulk of the credit. Dak deserves it. It was the biggest stage of his career and I think he had the best game of his career. I freaking loved everything that he did yesterday. And just Nick said, he carried the team and that's one of the things we don't tend to see very much is him fully carry And that's what that game

felt like. It felt like Dak was being the quarterback that you need him to be and the fact that he was able to use his feet and be that, like the type of quarterback that can escape and run and use that ability, which I feel we haven't guying to see that whole lot this year. Either. He's done it a few times, but nothing close to what he

did yesterday. I thought it was amazing. And I love the way that he handled the whole week, coming back after that terrible loss against Washington to finish the season in such a sour note and then he plays this way. It's absolutely impressive and amazing. Yeah, we've talked about this a bunch on this show. Is if you get him a little bloodied, a little muddied, and maybe have a little clump of grass right in the side of his helmet, it kind of kind of makes him he gets a

feel of the game. The line did a tremendous job last night. Tampa pass rush nonexistent. You had to control the middle. They controlled the middle. They stood an injury to a tackle in the game until they shuffled around again. Kind of something they've been doing. You. Your Hall of Fame right, your Hall of Fame tackle at right tackle played really well for you last night, and so you know that's Those are the kinds of things. But when

you look at Dak. It was one of those games where everything that was in front of him, he saw everything that opened up. When we're all you guys in the press box, me and a radio studio and he's running to his left and you're like, throw it away, throw it away, throw it away, and Dalton Schultz uncovers

himself and you're like, wow, he saw that. He saw, He anticipated Dalton Schultz making a move to get away from the corner and make himself open, and Dak fires in the ball and we're all screaming, thinking disaster and what does he do? Those are right to where he needed the throws. That's kind of his game last night, where it was just and we've I know, I've been super critical of Dak and how you see the field. He saw everything that the Buccaneers were trying to do

to him last night. Yeah. I think the thing for me coming out of that game is you can question a lot of things about Dak Prescott, and trust me, people have over the last couple weeks. Never should anybody question this guy's mental toughness because his ability after all the interceptions that had been thrown over the last I don't know how many weeks and all the talk that was going into this game. It takes to me, it takes a really rare person to be able to block

out all of that. Because you can talk about him listening to the radio or people like us. He didn't have to do that. Now all he has to do is just go in the locker room and talk to the media, because they're going to keep asking the same questions over and over what about the interceptions? What are

you doing about the interceptions? So it's gonna be in his head his ability to mentally block that stuff out and say, I'm not gonna go on a shell and get so conservative that I'm afraid to throw the ball. I'm gonna make that make me even more focused to where I am seeing the field, I am making the plays out of there. That to me was what I love about what I saw from Dak Prescott last night.

And if he continues to play like that, sky's the limits. Yeah, if they don't turn over the ball and they don't have penalties, they're gonna they could beat anybody in the league. You saw, you saw example last night of how this team can play when it's a clean game for them. You know, I mean the penalties have been non existent. They finally drew a holding call last night since week ten against Green Bay. I mean, it's amazing that they were able to get that, but you know they the

quarterback did a great job. He really really did. And I you know, we've been I know again I say we, I've been critical of Kellen Moore. Kellen Moore called a great game. I thought Mike McCarthy. Mike McCarthy I always a critical of him because I'm like, know the condition of your team, and he knew. He's like, listen, we're

playing against Tom Brady. I gotta go for it on fourth and three here, fourth and four, whatever that was, you know, and and they what a great play called the double you know, you get double pick and then you get you know, you get gall' seema get lamb out there, and that it's an easy throw for Dak to make. See that that's what this team is capable of every week, playing football like that. And so to the middle toughness part, you're you're absolutely right about that

as well. Well. And then also credit to all the receivers catching the ball. I mean, looked like a pretty clean game from their end too. And you know, We've seen it all throughout the season where Dak can throw a good pass but then the receiver just drops it or it bounces off of them or whatever it happens at that time. But I thought pretty much all of them Obviously they ain't catch every single pass, but it looked like a very very clean game from the receivers

as well. First drive of the game look terrible. Yeah, two drops by CD and then questionable drop on t Y Hilton and you're like, oh, oh, here we go. The change pretty quick because like, yeah, yeah, after all that and things change. Brian, that holding call um by on Parsons, you know on third down, I mean, I think that was huge too because it showed because Parsons first play of the game for the defense makes a

tackle in the back yea. Then then he gets a holding call and it's like, all right, so it's gonna be that kind of day for for our number eleven. Yeah, that's the you know, the thing with Parsons is, you know, you needed this defense to play really really well, and they they completely you know, and and talking to people this morning Tampa driving in, They're like, yeah, we just can't run the ball. And I'm like well, yeah, you

throw at sixty six times to go. Yeah, but we're not good throwing it at sixty six times either, you know, and if you got to go, even if you got to go. And that's I think that I think though, I think that they made it. I think dan Quinn and the staff made a strategic a really big play. When we saw the inactive list, we said, oh, wait a minute, no Gallimore, no bo Hannah, are they thinking

about playing the run. No. They knew that they could choke the run, just with Hankins and also with Wilson and also with vander esh They choked the run with those guys. And now it turned into let's get ghosted up the field, Let's get OsO Diggie up the field, Let's get Parsons around on some twist stunts against Donovan's Smith, who's not any good. You know. That's kind of that their game plan going in. They had Tampa wired offensively for what they needed to do. They really did affect

the way that Brady played that game. And I have a totally different opinion of what was going on in that game against Washington. Now, I mean, if you think about it, because just trying things well, I mean Mkuamu was inactive, didn't do anything. Then he comes back in this game and they put him right in the center of the field on nickel defense, and hey, you used to be a corner. Now you're safety. You got you know, stretched armstrong length, go make plays, and he did. He.

I mean, that's the best game he's ever played. You know it if you want to, if you want the Brian Broadest knee jerk reaction thing. We talked about the issues of Xavier Rhodes. We saw it in the last two minutes of that game when that ball went down the side lines there and he was completely he just couldn't catch up, you know, that's the thing. And he played you know, there were a couple of chances. I mean he was okay, but playing mcquomu, I think now

maybe that's something going forward. You say, okay, I think Dan is trying his best and Joe Wit and Al Harrison, those guys are trying to figure out who could play that opposite corner. You know, how can we protect that side of the field. Let's just keep throwing bodies at it and see if we can make it work. Because yeah, we all know what a big challenge is coming up, you know. And these Tampa receivers aren't bad. It ain't like playing somebody that's talent poor out there. They did

a good job of holding up against these guys. But Dan keeps throwing stuff out there and trying to make it work, and I think that he deserves a lot of credit for this one. All Right, we're gonna take our first bake when we come back. I want to talk about the offensive line. He started off a bit shaky there in the second series, and then from that moment on we really didn't hear much from that defensive front in Tampa. We'll talk about that when we come back.

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got good food in this place. Yeah, d that was just gonna say, Oh, I was gonna say, I mean, off topic kind of. But the watch party was crazy amazing. Yeah, the amount of people that showed up. Wow, somebody told me that they think it was like ten thousand people. It was like what they showed a picture. It looked very much like when they showed the World Cup and they're liking, yeah, the fans I scored. It's like the whole I mean yeah, it was all the way to

the street. It's crazy, and that whole and that whole Tostig's plaza. It was completely and you're like going wow, because yeah, when they when I saw the stage, it gets through the pregame show out there, right, and I was like, that's cool. And then you see the crowd You're like, man, it's like a World Cup game. Well, actually they get the pregame show back here at at at the Star and they were out in the plaza and there was I say, that's what I'm saying, addition

to yeah, in addition to what was happening at the stadium. Yeah, right, Oh so there were two no, right, right, there were two. There was There was the watch party, which was at the stadium in the mill of Lighthouse and that's where I was. I see thousand people, and then there was and then there was the plaza. No, the plaza wasn't packed like that, but the plaza here at the Star. It had a nice number of people. K I was

thinking it wasn't. I was thinking I was because I saw the pre the the Kyle's tweet, Kyle Yeoman's tweet, and that was that was here about the stage. And then I'm thinking, oh, and then I saw the crowd and I went, oh, okay, that was the secondary crowd. That was the secondary crowd, that was the suburb crowd. Out were all the way to all the way to the street. I was like, we need to huddle up here.

I don't, I don't know. Of course, you know Dallas, you know Fort Worth Metroplex down you have multiple parties and that's part of it too. Like I was. I was talking to to our director of broadcast, Scott Procelle, and I was like, you know, the thing about it

is if you live in Frisco. I don't know how many people are listening to us, no kind of the geography, but if you live in Frisco, you're probably not driving all the way to the stadium for watch party, but you'll drop over at the Star and just pop in with you and the wife, kids and hang out like it's a nice little area. Your chair, Yes, didn't watch the game, so you really can't have two different locations

where people are popping in. And obviously it doesn't affect the numbers because I had a huge number out there at the stadium. So I think it worked and it was actually a really really good, really good party. And my hope is that they'll do it again this week and maybe next week and let's do I'm sure maybe next week we'll be at home, maybe we'll be planning. How about your boy, Jimmy? Yeah, that was my next read. Oh I'm sorry. By the way, here's this this segment

sponsored by blockchain dot Com. Hey, I'll do I'll do the back. Did you. Nick sent me a picture of Jimmy. Yeah, I told you I know this guy like he hung out with me one night we were in New Orleans. He looks like with that outfit on exactly. That was exact outfit on that night when I hung out with Yeah. He told me though this was like noon, he had like this. It looked like really nice, but yeah it's a pajama. It's really it looks kind of hot and flannel.

But he said this is just pre game. This isn't what he's gonna wear. For the game. Oh so so this get up is not game's Jimmy go to work with the flannel pajama. Look. I don't know. He might be he's a fan of just does that every day Dallas. He's got ten of them and he just rotates about. I guess so he's hoping to be the UH fan of the year. But we'll talk about that the next break. All right, let's let's talk about the offense. Barrel guy Denver, right,

the jet Sky Jet. All right, let's let's talk about the offensive line. I was a little worried there. Second series of the game, v just does a nice lit swim move on Beyondish quarterback. Yeah. Martin was like yeah, and I'm thinking, oh, this is gonna be one of those days. And then after that he went into witness protection. We didn't really hear much more from Vidavey and Nick. I think it was you that said that. Brian was

talking about how vitave is one of those guys. Where was that, Nate said no, you said, Nate said it. That's right. But we did a showing rate and Nate was talking about just lean on him, just keep leaving the whole game. And as the game keeps going, he'll be less impactful. Nate knows about those guys that Gilbert Browns and the big old dudes that play inside. He's seen them all. Yeah, seen them. Now. What I want

to talk about though, the offensive line. There was a that the Cowboys made the decision that they were gonna go with Peters at left tackle. I went with Tyler Smith at left guard. Moving beyondish back in McGovern was not a starter, but the expectation was that they were going to use him as a as a fullback. What do you guys think of those decisions and and kind of how it played out before the injury to Peters kind of surprising, honestly, you know, just because you didn't

know if Peters could play a whole game. Obviously he couldn't. It didn't, But I think that was more about getting some beef on those running situations with McGovern being the blocking fullback. So that didn't happen. Now he's back to left guard, but maybe Farniac has done this before, maybe it'll be the time for him to come back. So if they want to go that route again, maybe that's an option. Yeah, I think to me, we talked about this and I think we got ahead of this a

couple of weeks ago. How many snaps does Peters have in that body at forty years old. You know, they're asking him to pull, they're asking him to do things. He got hurt right before half, and he got hurt trying to just wall the end off on a pass play. I mean he's leaning, straining, trying to and then he comes up with the hip problem and you're thinking, okay, we used up all as snaps. He's this is that where?

Now this is what we got? So fortunately it was you know, and you got to give a big, big tip of the cap to Tyler Smith to go from guard and his assignment all week is don't let this number fifty kind of guy eat me alive when he's over me, play with power, be strong, And now it's like, oh cool, okay, yeah, now you got to play left tackle. So for him to mentally be able to go from that assignment to going out and having to play left tackle,

I think is it says a lot. And it says a lot about the you know, the Cowboys all season long, what have they been doing. They've been shuffling offensive linemen. Sometimes it worked sometimes last night it worked. They got back to the configuration that we thought that they were gonna go with to start the game. But the thing with Peters, it wasn't getting rolled up or anything like that. It was just a forty year old man trying to

trying to make an everyday block. And you know, you saw a forty five year old, forty five year old quarterback and what he could look like when it starts to kind of fall apart for you too. Well, well, when he came out of the game, part of me, even though I've seen the other combination before, part of me in my head, I'm like, God, damn, here we go, Like, oh God, but no credit to the old line coach.

I think he's done such an amazing job. Like I keep remembering, it's fresh in my memory, the times that it would only take one single player to come out. Usually he would be Darn Smith, but memory was yeah, and everything would just go to crap, like everything would nothing would work, And now you got Dad getting sag and Dad getting having to run for his life. But now we've seen so many different combinations, and like Brian said, it doesn't always work to the level that you wanted

to work. But it keeps you in the game, and it does enough for you. It allows you to do enough to keep going and for Dad to make some things happen, or the running game to do something. But just in general, the fact that they've had so many different combinations and still making it work, and also the fact that they haven't stuck to one single player and just being like, no, let's just keep keep going this way. No, they understand when it's not working and understand the need

to switch change things up. So that's another thing that I really really appreciate from the coaching and what they've done this year. Yeah, and I think further on that point. You think about Philip and you can think about Mike McCarthy. This is strategic. You think about how they practice these guys where they haven't working in different spots. You think about how early in the season we're seeing them in

games rotating offensive linemen. You don't see that, but they always said, and it was something that Mike McCarthy would talk about his press conferences, you may have to use some of these guys in different ways as the season goes on. So you got to give them credit for foreseeing that this may be a possibility and preparing themselves for the eventuality that they would have to do. McCarthy also told Nick that this isn't fantasy football though too

one time. No, Dave, Well, I'm just saying to me, like, you're talking about moving more. Yeah, it's like moving to tackle and stuff like. This is in fantasy football. Yeah, And I've asked Stephen Jones this question. That isn't fantasy football. But the thing about it is, no, I've asked Stephen Jones because Stephen Jones is the same way. He's like, I'm all about continuity, continuity, continuity, continuity, And I'm asking like,

is this just an unusual year? Where are we starting to see a turn in the NFL where the continuity is not really what it changed so many injuries through a year, continuity is really kind of out the window. Oh you say that, And I asked that question. Is Zach Martin the other day and wants the same five guys? I said, do you does this kind of changed your opinion a little bit on the Continuity's like, no, but he's appreciative of what the guys have done, and he

praised Philip and all that. But if his preference would be yeah, well, yeah, I think everybody would prefer to well, you're just stick to one thing, keep doing the same thing over and over, right, But that's also I mean lucky for him. He stayed in the same position, like he has to move around time guy, the one guy, the one guy. Yeah, going back to like just just

McCarthy too. I don't know where this is going to go in your rundown, but I think that he deserves a ton of credit for for getting them ready to go. You get to remember too, like when it's not their problem that they haven't won a playoff game on the road in thirty years. That's not this team's issue. But what does he do Because most coaches would be like, I'm not worried about that. He embraced it. He leaned into it. He said, hey, hey, bring your baby picture.

If you're older than thirty years old. I want to see a baby picture of you, because we're gonna put it in front of the whole team. We're gonna show all of this last time we want a playoff game. There's Zach Martin. Here's yeah, right, his dad holding him, Yeah, him, his dad on the long no shirt on cigarette hang another quarter of his mouth. It was pretty funny. Yeah, because I can see you, I can see well. The funny thing is I always thought my son was gonna

be like Zach Martin. Ye can't block like that, but road block I don't know yet. Yeah, yeah, but no. But but just I thought that was really good for them to kind of say, hey, we're gonna just hit this head on and we're not worried about it, but we're gonna have some not have fun with it, but just bring some light to it. And and just showed that it doesn't matter. And it didn't. Yeah, real quick, let's flip over to the defensive side of the ball.

This defensive performance last night. They held Tampa Bay to six points with fourteen minutes left in the fourth quarter. Um, and I'll ask you guys just in general, Yeah, right, what was the key last night? What do you think was the key defensively to them being able to just completely shut them down? Man, I've only seen a little bit of the of the first half. I didn't get a chance to not working on a lot of sleep here, you've probably seen it. Yeah me. I mean I thought

though Micah Parsons set the tone again. He had one of those games where he was just he was just the effort. I mean just okay, he was you just couldn't lock him. Yeah, you said Donald Smith was going to have a problem. Yeah, and it was the first series of the game. Yeah, that just going in you could it was one of those things that Tampa people even knew that themselves that that was going to be

an issue for them. I think the really the difference in this game is you you were able to affect Brady in a way with your pass rush that you know, and that goes with Goldston, Parsons, Osa, you know, all these guys. You know, they were able to just kept rotating those guys and and the more that the game wore on where it was like they're not going to run the ball, They're not even gonna try to run

the ball. You know, when you get Tampa and they don't complete they try two screens that go nowhere, get tipped knocked away. All that you're thinking, Okay, now you're locked in to what's going on there. I think that I think having vander esh back was huge because of his ability to get to the football. Curse was an m effort two, and so was Wilson. Both those Donovan Wilson was not going to let this team lose last

night the way that he was playing. And I think that's a I think that's a real you know, plus to those guys that you know, I know in the pregame show and we've talked about it, make every ball a contested ball, and they did. They made every play that Brady had to throw a contested play, and I think that was going to be pressure contested ball. You saw the result last night. Guy averaged about five yards

of completion throwing the ball sixty six times. That's a Hall of fame maybe the best quarterback ever to play this game, you know. And you went out and you you made him look really, really ordinary to the point where people are saying, do you really want Tom Brady coming playing for your team next year? Do you really

want that? You want that? Okay, that's what you want? Y? Yeah. No. And again I think having Hankins back and late in venderation with Layton, I had my concerns prior to this game, just because I'm the mental aspect of things, because I've seen him come back from different injuries from like the neck, shoulder area, and it had taken him a while every time it just mentally he just wasn't just going out there and tackling without any hesitation, Like there was always

something in his game that kind of was always like a step back. But he played so well and that was not a word or he was not thinking about his neck whatsoever. He played really really good And it's surprising coming back from what even last year. But I feel like maybe the last two years talking about a guy that you're like, Okay, should he even be on the team anymore? A guy that when you sign it back, it was kind of like trending down and he just wasn't,

you know, having those type of games anymore. Us you had seen his rookie year, but then the year he's had so far this year has been very, very outstanding. And the fact that he played the way that he did after the injury, I think what was a really really good sign in this is usually in these games where it's a physical running team, Layton vander esh is

the guy that always shows up. It turned into a passing game, and what was Layton vanderss doing having to play from depth almost like what they call a robber in the middle of the field and kind of like taking things away that way. And usually you don't think of Layton vander Esh, the the past defender. You think of Layton Vanderesh run go get ball, you know, ce ball, hit ball. You know. He broke up two passes, some of them they have been a touchdown if he didn't

get his hands on it too. They could have had three interceptions last night. Yeah, they had their hands so many usually they had. I mean they got Brady. His eye level, as we always talk about, was bad. You know, the receivers were now Dallas didn't give him any room back there. They did not give them any room throwing that football. Put numbers of what you're saying, Brian about being able to put pressure and also being able to

contest passes. Last night, the Cowboys had nine quarterback pressures, second most of any game this season in the NFL. Cowboys had ten I think earlier in the season. But they also had twelve. Yeah. Maybe they also had twelve pass defended defenses last night. So when you think about that, they had a ton of batted down balls and they also had a ton of pressure. Like all night, they had pressure, and you could see there was so much pressure that even on plays when they didn't get pressure.

You could sense that Brady was just getting rid of the ball really quick because he felt like the pressure was coming. So they really affected him. And that's how you have to beat to Brady. The great example of that is like after every play when it was an incomplete, you see Brady kind of you know, he's like tell him.

You know, you can see he's mad. He's like run you know, and right, no, dude, you just couldn't get him the ball, right, you know, I mean you got you threw it out there a little bit too soon. You threw it not to get hit. That's what you did. Yeah, all, we're gonna take our final break when we come back, we kind of talk about special teams. We got to

talk about the kicker. Rough night for him, And to be quite honest with you, if you go out of leave a game where you win thirty one to sixteen and the worst thing to happen was the kicker, you're probably in a pretty good position. But we do have to talk about it. We'll go when come right back. Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. The season is finally here. For months, we've been gearing up to win. Now it's

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you're not offended by it. Yeah. Yeah, the lost person you saw in in Tampa. I want to tell everybody about who he saw him to the stadium. Oh my god, I was crazy so not w No, not only was there, not only that was there. I tell you who I

didn't see. I walked down there. I was a little bit ahead of you guys going down in the field before the game went I mean at the end of the game, went down there, and I could tell everybody was looking did you see and I mean Tom Cruise, Yeah, I just missed his tiny just went over there and like his entourge that they're like, look there he is a Mike. I don't see him. I see the bodyguards, but I missed him. But anyways, that had been cool to see Maverick. But before the game, you're not surprised

you missed him some auto race one time. Maybe I saw him, Yes, I think yeah. Um we're walking And if you've seen this on social media, the video that we posted after the game about about the captain Dak saying I'm the captain now he Derek is showing me this video. We're in the we're in downstairs under the

stadium for the game. He's showing me this and he's just like, and I know it scares you to think, like, oh my god, Like, hope nobody posts this, because if we don't win this game, that better going to trash, right right, And so he's like, and so he's saying, Okay, if the Cowboys win and Dak has a good game, that we're gonna post this. And as he's saying this, we kind of look up and man, I tell you, there's one guy by himself except for this one person.

No no entourage, no camera crew, nothing, just Tom Brady and his jaw walking right at this and we and all the four of us, we had four people with this Patricks with us in and we just stopped. Were just like like we were eight years old. We were just like, hey, how's it going. He's just like, hey, what's up and just walked on by as he's got this video out of this street, you know, like with a dak and a pirate hat. You know, it's saying

I'm your captain. He walks by, and I really wish I would have said, hey, captain, but I didn't say that. So we just kept going. And then all of a sudden we look back and we're like, okay, so then we're gonna put play this video and then yeah, I don't want to see what would have happened if we could say it, Hey, Tom, what do you think about Like I want to see what you think about this. We're thinking about it after the game, after kick your butt, Like,

we want to see what you think about this. Dad, there it goes. You want to know exactly how to lose this game? You don't have to him and just show him like, this is what we're gonna play after the game, and it would have been it would have been a little different. I'm guessing Tom, you're really good with the social media stuff. Hey, what do you think about this one? Yeah? You know, can't give him your phone, he might break it. Wow? Is that what we're doing?

That's what Brad Sham said last night. He goes, if you can make this a two iPad game, you're probably doing pretty well. Bunny. Nobody, none of y'all know, bad Bunny, Bad Bunny. Most people here, your crowd not the right crowd. Trying to say no, I'm just saying, well, but the thing is to say where like really, he gets really like frustrated when fans come up to him with like

the phone in his face. So he's kind of no now from for taking people's cell phones and just throwing it away or like throwing it in somewhere else just and nobody's punched him over there. Huh No. Usually it's people that kind of invade his space. He's like, I'm cool if you asked for or whatever he's get Is he a spokesman for Apple? Now? What he's Yeah, he's

got he's got a little loot up guessing. All right, let's talk about this because coming out of this last game, there really weren't a lot of things that went wrong for Dallas, but this area went really wrong. Um Brett Mohar goes one of five on extra points, not field goals, extra points. When you guys are able to look at it, was there anything that was happening with the operation that that could have been the culprit here? I found only one time where Overton snapped the ball inside and then

they had to move it. The last week we talked about the commanders mismiss extra point, a great job, you know, anger smothering it, getting up laces away, and then you do have to worry about operation. You do have to worry about is he on the correct hash? For him, that's the correct hash. He kicks the ball to the the left hash, he tends to push it right there through the middle, and or he can even little draw it a little bit. And but I didn't see anything where

laces were to him. I didn't see any foot slippage. I didn't see anything that would make me say other than that it's just maybe it's not Maybe it's a concentration problem. You know, you overcorrect, you push one, you push one, you hook one, you know, trying to make that to make that work. But yeah, you have to look at everything, you know, you have to study the

timing of it, steps, approach, equipment, you know. Um, like Christie Scales, We're gonna have her on today on a one oh five three the Fan on our show from two to seven to day, and I think she's got something that she learned from the sidelines yesterday. So I'm looking forward, if you know, maybe tomorrow we can kind of revisit that. But there was nothing on tape that I saw that was just that, Oh that's the issue. It wasn't good in pre game either, really, yeah, not

really at all. And uh but you know that was a lot of the long field goals, you know that you see it. Don't really study the shorter ones, but the longer ones. I know, he was having a hard time getting it through there. So you never tried a field goal, you know. And and I thought there were some times in the game where I was like, you know, there was what what was it when it was twelve to nothing and they got down there about the two yard line they ended up scoring. I guess I can

go eighteen to nothing. But I think that was the possession where I said, you know what a field goal here, especially down at the two or three yard line when they short Dak ran it in on that play. The play that yeah, I know what you're saying, kicked the field goal. Yeah, it just tried. I mean just was when it was. This was when it was probably eighteen to nothing because because you obviously knew there was a problem going on. But but I didn't think that way

at six nothing. But when was the eighteen nothing, I was thinking, you know, let's get it, let's get that field goal here, especially a short one like this. Yeah it was eighteen because I was thinking go up twenty one to nothing. I don't know how did they score to go at twenty four? What was that touchdown? I have it here? Gallop two yard pass? Yeah, gallop two

yard pass. So that was the one where I was like, you know, be conservative, kick a short field goal, get him on the board at twenty one to nothing, because that would probably be easier than your extra point, right, you don't have a lot of time to miss when

it's pretty short like that. But they scored, you know, greedy red zone offense scores again, was there any point in the game where you thought they should just not bring him back out, they should go for two or do you think it was a situation and they needed to stick with the trying it And even though he dug himself into a massive holes and there was the side of me that almost and I was listening to I had this thought in my head after the Commander's game,

was Greg Olsen saying, why are these guys continuing to play on offense? It's getting worse? You know, what kind of confidence are you building with Dac and the offense is it's getting worse. And I also I was thinking, no, as long as the score was what it was, keep kicking, keep kicking, keep kicking. And then Greg Olsen came in my head and goes, it's getting worse, you know, and unfortunately you made that last extra point. Yeah. Fortunately that

you know, that's the one thing. And you know, and I think that guys like Dalton Schultz, I know, you guys are in the locker room. You know, hey, we got your back, you know. And he stood up there and answered the questions and stuff like that you had to. But I'm man just laughing because she Chilton, I mean, okay, don't bring it to the air. No, no, no, no, I'm just saying Schultz didn't talk to the media. I

don't know what the what the issue there is. Yeah, he did say that with mar gained a lot of respect from Mahard for talking like that and not only talking once, but then twice when the NFL network shows up. So's sorry we didn't get the first time around. But he seems like he's always Yeah, he's always been He's gonna stand upy I think now, and I don't know if you can afford to do this. I don't know if you. I mean, if you bring a practice squad kicker on and you have him ready for game day,

do you make another kicker on the forty eight? Do you? I mean, I mean, you know you have those extra call ups. Can you afford to elevate a kicker? You know, if all of a sudden in San Francisco, it's the opening drive and you you know, you drive it and you're you need points and you miss a field goal, do you just immediately say we're going to the other guy. We're not gonna We're not gonna go through this again. I will tell you this. For me, I would I would feel better if I was a person that was

coaching this team having another option. Now that doesn't mean I have to use them, but like you get into a tight game and you've already had a couple opportunities where you missed. I would I would be like, Okay, I gotta have some kind of option other than just going for two every time, Like, I've got to have some other options. I think this week to me, because it's a short week. I mean today's Tuesday, tomorrow's way, and you got a game of Sunday night. I mean,

we're you're in a short week right now. And if you if you have a kicking derby out here and now, maybe they won't show the kicking derby out here to you guys. You know, maybe they'll go inside. But man, if you if you look at the wave we kick on grass please well but if we if we you know, if we look at the waiver wire today and they are on Wednesday and they brought in four kickers, you know, hire Allah who and everybody else that you know, Gara Bay and whoever else, then you know, then now you

know what they're thinking. Yeah, but that does that even hurt the kickers confidence even more? Can't you get any worse though, I mean, I don't has to know he has to know that that is a concern. I mean, you can't. I don't understand. I can't get mad about that. I don't have a problem with it. I mean, obviously, yesterday was bad, but I feel that historically bad. Yeah, yes, yes, but he's has such a great season, and I keep going back to, Okay, this is not who he's shown

us this year. He's been one of the best play yers on the team, just doing his job and getting it done. At the same time, Gotta remember there are games where people just simply have a bad game and things click, and I get it, like the kick. The kicking thing is a very mental thing, like we know how much it affects, like it all it takes is a game like going for it to go down. Yes, yes, but I do have confidence, and I really appreciate even though by the third time I'm like, okay, start going

for two now, let's just put that to the side. Afterwards, I do appreciate the fact that the team stuck with it and kept giving him tries and let him at least make that last one, which was very important, important for him to end that game like that, but just in general, to see the support that the team showed Sideline erupted. Yeah, I mean a couple of bucks man

that even cheer after he made that last one. But I just appreciate the fact that everyone's staken by him because again, we've all had pretty bad days, and based on what he's shown us through the season this year, I'm not ready to say, Okay, you saw get out of here. But it's the playoffs too, and I get it. I would bring a second option just in case you never know, but I would stick with this. Yeah, my thing.

I agree with you. I think you don't get rid of him because he's had such a good year, but that doesn't mean you don't have a backup option like I think. And to me, it wasn't just one game. If this was just this game he didn't have the missing in Washington, I might feel a little differently no matter how bad it was this one game, I might feel like it was just one game was terrible. I get it, but it does it does for me starts.

I get it, but when my point is it's still spanned two games, and that's where I start to say, I'm getting a little bit worried about the mental side of this for him, And yeah, and what and that's we've seen this in the NFL a number of times. You have kicking is a mental thing because all they do in practice, like that's your only job every day. You're just kicking, kicking, kicking, so they can do it.

It becomes a mental thing at some point where just mentally, for whatever reason, I can't quite do what I wanted to do. Kick. There's such a thing as kicking too much. You can't allow them to kick, to just spend the whole practice kicking and kicking and kicking. It doesn't work that way. So there's like a limited amount of kicks they make him do. But we'll see how he does I practice. But I think I don't know. I don't know what it was last night. I don't know, I

don't know what from the environment. They weren't even close. They weren't even close. That's the problem. They weren't either of the one where hit the upright right. Yeah, they weren't even pretty hard gloss, I mean, how bad those kicks were. All right, we'll be back tomorrow. Man's a short week. We got to jump right on it. Tomorrow we will be talking about the San Francisco forty nine ers. It's right here. Cowboys versus forty nine. Is this Sunday

Sunday evening? I guess depending on where you are, depend on where you are. Back here in Dallas, it'll be a night game, but there it'll be an afternoon game. We'll talk about that starting tomorrow. We'll get into San Francisco's office versus Dallas Defense. Sild In for Nick Eatman. Brian brought us an Ambergarcia. I'm Derek Higelton. 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.