Cowboys Break: Don't Sleep on Bortles, Jags Offense

what episode is this? Fifty seven? Thank you very much? Very important information there, all right, So let's jump right into everything that's going on. A few roster moves have happened, and nothing major, of course, but they did release both Scarborough from the practice squad. Now there are two open. Ross is still one. I think I think they they're out there practicing. I mean, the Cowboys haven't yet to officially announce it, but I think that they're out there practicing.

So therefore they're signed, right, Dave Um Darian Thompson is here. I'm not who's who's the other guy? There's a guy named Goodwin Goodson. Yes, he Thompson's the safety drafted by the Giants in the third round a couple of years ago out of Boise State. Um, I don't know as much about good Goodwin for like, some names just you can't keep, you know what I mean. Like, I'm struggling with this guy, but I'm not one hundred percent sure he's here yet. It might not be official, but he's

expected to be here. Sounds like some some roster churning in the defensive backfield. Ibraheim Campbell's out. He was mainly a special teamer anyway. Thompson has started sixteen games. At one point in his career, honestly, kind of seemed like he had a role in New York's defense for a minute and then he just fell off and he was on Arizona's practice squads. So, um, you know, I don't know that he's gonna push for a starting job, but that is coming from Boise State. I don't know much

about it. All I know is that the guys coming from over there turn out to be pretty okay. I mean, you're not wrong. Scandrick was a great, great and maybe not great. Scandrick was a pretty good corner for a long time. DeMarcus Lawrence is arguably your best player. Tyrone is a solid, versatile guy, and then Lvee Kellen Moore did not win. I was waiting for that to come up. I'm talking about defense. But there's also a bunch of other guys I'm sure that played at Boise that are

not as good as these guys just mentioned. The vast majority of the the vast majority of the Boise guys that have come through here have been pretty good. Yeah, and they Bols. Those are guys that they drafted and they were pretty good. Right now, Darry and Thompson might I don't know. I doubt. I wouldn't expect him to do a whole lot, but he's out here. What's funny is that you say, well, he was a third round pick, and like, oh, third round pick, and then so Chatz

Green that happened, no doubt. But you can do that too all across the draft. Rood done those first rounders, second round, third rounders, whatever. The great, the Great Darius Jackson has replaced Bow on the practice squad. Didn't even realize he was cut by being back. Yeah, damn right, my guys back love him getting off the bus. Thing just didn't really play, you know. I mean, it's nice Scarborough, it looks good, but there was no there's no role for him. I guess, all right, well the guys our

black had practice. Now Cheeto he was. I guess wild quarter was that when he was taken out of the games third or fourth halftime, halftime he didn't come back in the game. He was struggling with an ankle injury. But he was at practice today. Now another big question mark is still David Irving, who is still out. He wasn't seeing out there today at least the portion that we get to see, and Jason Garrett did mention that

he was expected to practice this week. Now again, do we just go back to taking it day by the Garrett's famous quote and just seeing what actually happens with Earl. I think with David, when you see him and you see him on the field and you see him playing the game, then you're like, you know what, I think he's gonna play. But he'd had to run out on the field, not just not just national anthem, Like he's got to get on the field in the game about

to snap it, and you're like, he is going to play. Yeah, that's it. I need to see him in a uniform doing stuff on a game day Before I worry about it, he might take it away. Further, I need to see him on the field about to snap it. He was supposed to be here yesterday, he wasn't here. He's supposed to be here today, he's not here. Garrett hopes he'll be here tomorrow. They were confident as of last Friday that he was going to play in the game that Sunday.

I mean, I think that he's got there's a lot of stuff going on right now. It sounds like he's got to clean up his life. And that's been the story with him for a while now. But and Jason Garrett said today is the same personal matter he was dealing with last week. He talked about it in the summer. He's just he had a lot of stuff going on in his life. You know, over the last six to eight months, you're suspending for four games. He didn't do anything at training camp, so basically, you know, he was

not with the team for about eight weeks. Figure it out. I know that's easier said than done. It is, and I don't know, but I mean, this is your profession, and this you have a very small window in your life where you can make two point six million dollars more more, and you need to figure it out. You have people that are counting on you, and I'm sorry, I know there's a lot going on, but money solves a lot of issues, and so you can be able to help certain things. You have eight weeks. I'm not

trying to to you know, overstate this. I'm not trying to say, well, that's not a big deal. There's a lot of big deals going on. But I'm just saying I think if being gone for eight weeks, I think you can get a handle of it and come back. I can play you knew this day was coming. I just I get what you're saying that until I guess, until and unless I hear more about his story, I'm

unwilling to go completely there. I get your right because as a as an adult, your responsibility is to provide for your family, and sometimes you have to figure out how to do how to handle your personal business, which we all have things that come up in our life. You have to figure out how to manage all those things and at the same time do whatever you do in order to bring money in for your family or

whatever your responsibility or role is within your family. But the only part that that I still get a little bit that I've slowed down a little bit on is I don't know the situation. And if there is legitimately a situation that's going on where you know it requires him to be there. And let's say you have kids, they'll say it involves his kids and he's got to be there in order to take care of the situation. I know, if it's me, I got to handle my kids.

My kids are the top priority. They're going to be a higher priority than my job. I know that's bad to say, but if it comes to it and I have to make it decision and I have to be at one or the other, I have to go and take care of what needs to be taken care of them. So again, I don't know what the situation is, but I just I pause a little bit at going too

hard to him on that. You're right, though, at some point he's got to figure it out, because if it keeps happening like this, eventually your employer says, hey, man, I just can't deal with the variability here and then

you and then now you got two problems. Now you don't just have one problem, you got two problems, then you would think the communications, the communication between him and the Cowboys would be better than that, because why is Jason Garrett or even Jerry Jones standing up during in front of cameras and basically saying, Oh, we'll have him for the game or oh he's gonna be here for practice. Well,

but maybe maybe the situation didn't happen until Saturday. Maybe the situation that kept him back didn't come up in the way that it came up that forced him not to go, didn't come up till Saturday. All I'm saying is, we don't know that. I think I just I feel a little bit hesitant on killing the guy when you

don't know what the situation is. And then you come back later and you find out the real situation, you're like, oh, wow, I feel bad about that, you know, I just I don't know until I would know more about that, I just I would be a little cautious, little cautious. Okay for her to say, well, that's fine, you'd be cautious with that, but when you you know, when do you cut ties? That's a Jerry call. That's a Jerry Stephen

will Jason Garrett call. Those guys will have to figure out at what point they feel like they're no longer willing to deal with whatever he's dealing with personally as an organization, because right now what he's dealing with personally is affecting the organization. At some point they're gonna have

to make a decision on that. The one thing I know about Jerry in watching him all these years, is he is one of those guys that tends to help his players as much as he possibly can, and is willing to even even to the detriment of himself, where his organization is willing to be there for his players when they're having tough times. So I wouldn't think that that time's coming anytime soon. But I don't know they'll have to make that decision. Well, you know they put

him on the roster. I think there's something else going on. If they put him on the roster and he's not gonna pull you know that he obviously gets paid for that week, So I think that might be something that's being involved here is trying to help him out from that standpoint maybe, And even so, if he was here, you let's say he comes tomorrow and does something you wouldn't expect him to be playing this weekend. Just depends

Jason Garrett. I mean, he hasn't had anything. I mean, if you're throwing him out there for ten to fifteen snaps, maybe they think he can do that. Right, there's a point in the week. Jason Garrett said this today. There's a point in the week where you have to make that call. And we talk about it all the time. It's usually Friday. So if he's here tomorrow and Friday and can handle the workload, hell yeah, I'll play him. I mean, not sixty snaps, but something. But let's see,

he's got to get here first. See, at this point in the game, you know he's already like nothing changes for him, you know, Irving. I mean, he's getting paid. He's getting paid because he's on the roster, So not playing or playing or whatever doesn't really matter to him, you know. I mean, I don't well I don't know if it doesn't matter to him, but he's getting paid. Either way, he's getting paid. The Cowboys haven't really no

leverage there. He either helps him or he doesn't, but the paycheck the next week will be exactly the same, whether he comes back to Irving, I mean to Frisco or whatever and plays or not. Yeah, but that's I assume he's smart enough to know no, no, no, no, oh, go ahead, he's a he's weird. He's not dumb, David Irving is No, he's not dumb. He's eccentric, he's not stupid. Sorry,

go ahead. Smart enough to know what He's smart enough to know that if he wants the money to keep coming, he needs to get to work at some point, and especially point in future weeks and also in the future he's on a one year deal. But that's what also tells me that maybe that maybe this thing is a lot, whatever he's dealing with personally is a lot bigger than we know. And it's a situation where again maybe the organization in knowing that thing, as said, if you need

to go handle that, go handle that. Yeah, you know what I'm saying. I mean, okay, let's say he's done. I don't think he's a dumb guy. No he's not. I'm just saying he's gonna go back and forth, back and forth on this. He could do that. He could play one game, two game, whatever. He could just play one game in week seventeen of the season, three sacks, two forced fumbles. He's a free agent. He's gonna get paid,

Like he's about that. Yeah, he's gonna get You don't think I don't think he'll get paid if he doesn't like put together a resume of reliability and production to a point where a team wants to take that on. No, if that's the only game he plays and he gets three sacks, like somebody will hire him, it's not gonna be anything worth getting excited about. Right, But he's not gonna get a deal. He's not gonna get a pay

day if he plays one game after coming back in weekend. Again, honestly, honestly, I think at this point him coming If he came back now and came back this week and played through the rest of this year, and let's say he ended up with six sacks, that's a good number of sacks for those number of games, I still don't think he

get along and gets a long term deal. I think somebody would be willing to give him one turn, one year deal because I think teams are gonna look at it and say, yeah, he's a good player, but can't we rely on him. And that's been his issue from the beginning is is he reliable enough. He's been suspended a couple of times. He's had issues where he can't be there for whatever reason. So he's had injuries. Like, there's a lot of stuff there that says I don't

know if I can rely on him. So I think teams would be willing to give him a deal that gives them a little peak. I don't think there're gonna be a lot of teams willing to give him a long term deal. All right, let's take our first break and when we come back, we're gonna jump right into the Jags offense and see how that matches up against the Cowboys defense. If you're like me and you love I mean, if you have a heart thing, then cutting

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the Break. Welcome back to the second segment of Cowboy's Break. Now, there are a lot of bad teams around the league, but Jacksonville isn't necessarily one of them. Right now, they hold the number one defense in the whole NFL. But we will get into that tomorrow, which is going to be pretty painful, and but for today, listen, stay on the offense side. The team is currently three and two. They are coming off with a loss against Kansas City

thirty fourteen. So let's start off with their quarterback, Dave. Tell me about him. What are some of the things that this defense can possibly do against him and stop him? You guys know about Blake Bortles. Um, Yeah, this, I mean, it's funny. This offense in the grand scheme of things. No, not in the grand scheme of things, like they're it's they're weird, like they're they're not bad. Like let me, I thought you're gonna say bad. I didn't expect to

say weird. You sit here, you think like, oh, they lost nine six to the Titans. Oh they lost thirty to fourteen in the Chiefs, Like they can't move the ball. That's not really true. This is the ninth overall offense in the NFL. Uh, they're twelfth in passing, fifteenth and rushing. They average three hundred passing yards. Where are they in scoring? They are awful at touring. So I hate the status. I know. I know that I'm not saying move to football,

but I'm just saying, yeah, I'm just saying that. That's to me, that's the overrated status. When you start talking about yards on offense or defense, tell me how much are you scoring? Because that really is an indication of your offense or your defense, like twenty points, twenty thirty, four, thirty something. Again, they're scoring points, so don't tell me they're offul are they They're they're twenty six and so yeah, they're not down there. I disagree. No, I'm talking about

every game that they've played so far. That's that is. Yeah, that's internal. But it's still more than what the Cowboys are making, so it's not far off. They're about the same scoring I think, Yeah, yeah, Cowboys are averaging nineteen something, they're sixteen something. I mean the Cowboys are terrible, ye, but I think this team's probably this is my point, and I hear you like, yards don't matter at the

end of the day. But like you see, you think of Blake Borrels, you think about the fact that they're losing games nine to six, You're like, oh, they can't move the ball. They can definitely move the football, they just haven't figured out how to punch it in, whereas the Cowboys can't do anything. I mean, the Cowboys are what, they're twenty sixth in total offense, Like they cannot throw the ball. They're not averaging two hundred yards per game.

The Jags are there, they can do that. So it just scares me to think that, yeah, they're not clicking in the red zone, but they have the pieces that they can or at least it looks like it anyway getting it. But Blake Bortles is Blake Bortles. Like you know, they got to the a FC title game. He sort of elevated his game, like he he definitely is capable of playing a great game. Yeah, one great game earlier this year. He no, yeah, he lit up them. He

lit up the Pats. He played great against the Pats, and he's played adequately in four of the five games. And then he just chunked up a stinker of all stinkers against the Chiefs. He threw five picks. Uh, these are their red zone trips. You know, you talk about the Cowboys played this inspired defense in the red zone against the Texans. The Jags just fell apart. I mean they went to the red zone five times. They turned

it over on downs. Bortles threw a pick, then he threw a touchdown, then they turned it over on ounds, then he threw another pick. This he threw a football into the back of Aligneman's helmet and it ricocheted and was intercepted. He also threw an interception from the from the Chiefs twenty two, which is not a red zone turnover, but it might as well be. I mean, like he played so that play where the Chiefs returner was like not going down, Like yes, yeah, it was one of

the best. Yeah. He took it all the way out to midfield, like these guys never get the ball and they're like, I'm not giving it up. Like put him on offense. I thought it might have been Trevarious Ward, but it wasn't him. Stand there's some interesting similarities I think here between these two offenses. Your quarterback has potential. I think he's athletic. Blake Bortles is. You don't think of him as being an athletic guy, at least I

didn't until I watched him. But why because he's tall and white, Like he looks I mean, he's he's he's he looks like a statue when he stands back in the pocket. Seller here that there's something. I mean, I know I didn't say that you could. I don't think of Blake Bortles as being this athletic quarterback. I just don't but whatever. But he can escape pressure and he has had at least twenty seven rushing yards in every game. They've had um longs of twenty one, twenty three, and

forty one like he'll wait, he'll hurt you. Forty one yard run, yes again two. I believe that one was in the opener against UMIs Group. No, that was the Pats. He did it again. Who'd they open with? I don't remember, but he's gone from the No. One yard run. It doesn't matter who. But I mean, some of them are some of them are designed, some of them are scrambles. But he's had a run like that in damn near every game they've played. Um Alex Smith like kind of sneaky,

but sneaky. That's a good one. Yeah, that's a good one. Um. His offensive line is not amazing. They signed Andrew Norwell. He was the highest paid guard in football before Zach got his deal. Mart, thank you. That absolutely going to raise it to hear the left side of him and Josh Wells looks pretty good. The right side, aj Can at guard and our old friend Jeremy Parnell at right tackle me. They're awful. They're bad, Jeremy, Jeremy Parnell looks like he got paid. He got a pretty decent deal. No,

he did not. He did not add the e um Jeremy, it's Jeremy. He's Jeremy. He looks like he's moving in quicksand I think that's something to watch. With DeMarcus Lawrence primarily playing on the left side. I know, it seems like we've said that every week and sometimes it's worked out really well. It didn't work out agree against Houston or Seattle, but you're starting to see and that Houston really gave a lot of attention to him. To Lawrence, he didn't. He didn't get a lot of opportunities. He

wasn't a lot of one on one with him. Now, he did make a big play at the end of the game him Jalen Smith got after Watson. Yeah, No, he did have a nice pressure at the end of that game. But which is kind of shocking to me that with them paying so much attention to him as somebody else didn't get off that that was kind of surprising. Well, we can talk about ninety four. I mean, he's really not doing anything for you. I mean, positively, he's doing some things for you, you know, as far as the

penalty wise, what's that last penalty was really tough? That was a football play too. Yeah, I don't think that was a I don't like that call. Now, the one in Seattle where he kind of hits the guy right in the face in front of everybody world, that was that was an issue. Yeah. Um, it would be great

if Randy Gregory could play well in this game. Actually, because if you watch the Chiefs game, d Ford, who is a He's a three four type of rusher, small linebacker type, speed guy, pretty mediocre career considering how highly he was drafted. He looked like he looked like von Miller out there against Jeremy Parnell and some of their other guys. So I think you can get to him off the edge, and I definitely think you can take advantage of the right side of that. Um, what's happened

to tackle? Good question? Yeah, no, at the start of season, the first two games about to really make some playing and it's just the last few weeks is just I haven't really seen him. He has fallen off in the last three games. I don't think we've played that drop in a while. It was just like, oh, this drove me crazy. So I went back and look, Um they they squeaked out a win over the Giants in week one. I remember that. Now sae Quon had that big seventy yard run. Um. Yeah, but here's so I feel bad

saying this reminds me of the Dallas offense. But like just case in point, the Jags let Alan Robinson and Alan Hearns go and they didn't do a ton to replace him. Like they brought in Dante Moncrief from Indie. They drafted my guy DJ Shark from LSU. They have d D Westbrook and they found Keelan Cole who's in his second year, and like these guys are good. Um, Keelan Cole's actually bigger than I thought he was. He's like six one to something. Um, but they all where

did Lee go? Lee's hurt? Um, he's on I R I believe, Yeah, I didn't know he's own. Yeah, I believe these are their top three guys. Um a Cardinal's top four. But he really is. He's the receiver's coitch, is he? I say they remind me the Cowboys because I just don't they don't have like a stud I mean, Cole Cole can do some nice things. He's already halfway to his reception tally from last year. Westbrook is scary and that he's fast, but like they don't have just

this guy that can do everything. And that's so my point is they really do two things in my opinion, like this. You know, we talked about the Texans and all this motion and you know, newfangled stuff. The Jags don't really do that. They're way more traditional and they use the speed of these receivers because they're all burners. They send them deep and they either do that so they can clear out space for somebody to run underneath,

or they just bomb it to him. Like literally, Bortles is going to take at least five, if not eight, to ten deep shots in this game, like literally, like you'll see possessions where he does at three plays in a row. In other words, that's why they either score little points or they just go crazy like they did against New England. If they can hit those big plays,

they love to live with the deep ball. But then also, and you know he hasn't been consistent, but Dede Westbrook can really hurt you because again, you know, they'll hit him on a crossing route after clearing out space with these deep routes and if you don't make the first tackle, big time yak stuff. He had. He had nine for one thirty against the Jets two weeks ago. But they and to get back to the red zone. They don't.

They haven't figured that out one much like the Cowboys, I don't think they have a guy who can consistently win when the field shrinks. And as much as they built this team, they think they want to run the ball like, they're not great at it obviously. Fournette, guy, Fournette's not gonna play. Although interestingly, and this goes back to last year, Like, you know, I love Leonard Fournette. His yards per carries not amazing, you know, Like, but they can with a guy like him, you can afford

to give it to him a lot. Yeah, especially when you have an offense and doesn't have a lot great receiving options and afford to give it to him a lot. He gets hurt a lot, That's true. He's Fred Taylor talking about old Jacks. TJ. TJ. Yelden is averaging like four and a half per carry, So like he's I mean, he's fine. And there they can run the ball when they want to but it's it doesn't wow me. I mean,

it looks like Lamar Miller to me. Mine. I mean, like I said, there's not you don't see anywhere near as much motion. Like this is a very traditional looking offense, at least by modern standards. Um, they've targeted yelled in thirty three times. He scares me more as a receiver than as a runner. Like, I don't think he's gonna dominate this game, but they could throw it to him a lot um and yeah, like this is a big play offense. But when they don't get them, they kind

of stagnate. And then when the field shrinks and you can't go over the top of people, they haven't figured out how to get into the end zone. How much does that help the Cowboys that um with a guy like excuse me, a team like this that that's that loves to throw the ball deep, which means you gotta take a little bit more time to allow those routes to develop. And an offensive line like you said that the right is at the right side or the lift side, right side of the right side on the right side,

that's a problem. How much has that contributed it to them getting a lot of sacks because they want to take the time and let the play develop, but their their offensive line can't hold up. Yeah. No, he's been sacked eleven times in five games. It's not a huge number though, right, it's probably middle of the league. Yeah, I mean the Cowboys have given up what thirteen So yeah,

it's not great. It's not among the league's best. I don't it's not among the league's worst either, but yeah, And like I said, speed, for me is the thing, because like Jeremy Parnell just cannot deal with a guy with like a great first step. But then Bortles is athletic enough to deal with some of that. And I think a lot of these are like, you know, he doesn't wait to do to take that shot, you know,

like these aren't long developing plays. But I don't he doesn't get the ball out anywhere near as fast as the last two quarterbacks that they've played. So I feel like we say this every week, but there's plays to be made in the past rush if they can get home, which I'd love. I know it did not work against the Shawn Watson they blitzed and it did not work, but I think it could against this guy. You know,

I wonder, excuse me, I wonder. I'll ask you guys the question, do you think against Houston, the reason it didn't work is because in the first half he was kind of leaking out quite a bit, really in the first quarter, and that maybe the defense decided and maybe the coordinators decided, hey, it's a better operator. It's better for us to just stay in our lanes and keep him in the pocket then to rush aggressively and allow

him to leak out. Do you think that maybe that was a part of the reason why they weren't getting home as frequently. Well, I mean I think they weren't getting home because because he gets out of that. I mean, I agree with with some of that that there was a change there in philosophy, but I do think that you know, they the defensive tackles as they did play pretty well, but a lot of that pressure came from the outside. Then when he steps up and does come out,

I mean, there's the linebackers. You know, they have to a decision to make every time. I know there was a play where he was out there and Anthony Brown had to decide do I go after you or do I stay home? So that's just what a mobile quarterback does.

I don't know if if it be is aggressive with Bortles, right, But that was kind of my point is maybe if that was their strategy, if that was their thought in that game, maybe you don't have to worry about that as much in a game like this because you know, when you when you're dealing with a guy that's athletic, Yeah, that's different than dealing with the guy who's completely mobile. You know, I think you have to be a lot

more cautious when you're dealing with a Deshaun Watson. They have to be Not only that, but I just think Deshaun Watson his nails, you know, like he's he's got it. And I don't know, ports like that sounds like a hot take like I've never met Blake Bortles, But I don't think. I don't think he's got it. I don't think he's like poised and is just always gonna be. He seems like he's got it. I don't think you have to meet the guy well, I know, well, when

you say got it, can he play? Well, that's saying here's the thing about athletic quarterbacks, and I think this is what you know, you see guys in college do some great things. Uh. You see some athletic guys that don't ever get drafted. Uh. You know what's the difference between a Dak and Deshaun Watson. This guy gets picked pretty high or Mahomes gets picked pretty high. Um. I think it's it's being able to throw on the move, like actually running and throwing at the same time. I

don't think Dak is really that good at that. I kind of agree with you. I think he could run out there and then he needs to kind of stop and all that. But when he's just slinging it. You know, there's a lot of times we see on tape. You're like he's open, he's there, and I'm like, okay, but he's on his back foot and he doesn't have that Farve could do it, Mahomes could do it. He doesn't have it. He's got to set his feet. That's the difference to me between a fourth round pick and a

first round pick. And that's what I don't know. If not Bordles on the other hand, yeah, athletic, that's fine, but you still need to set your feet and throw it. If you're in Watson though, you saw him just slinging the ball, So I think I disagree, Like it seems like one of Dak's mo consistently good throws is when he's drifting in a direction and then just fires it in there, which, like, I think he's a pretty good

thrower on the run. The problem is, and Jason Garrett talked a lot about this today, is like if he has to move in the pocket and re establish himself, he's not good at it. He's he just isn't. But he seems like Jason did not say that, I'm I'm just knowing Jason. He did not say that. Jason just talked a lot about the art if you will of

like moving in the pocket. He's like, you know, it's not always noticeable to the naked eye or to somebody who doesn't play the position, but like the best quarterbacks have to move in the pocket and re establish their watch watch him operate in the pocket. He never runs what he does, he just moves, He slides, and when he gets to where he's going, he re establishes and

he throws. And he's so good at case in point, like one of the better players Dak made the other night was when it all went to hell, and he was running for dear life and through that prayer to Tavon, And I mean it was a well placed ball. Tavon had to go get it, but it went where it needed to be. It's when he has to stit sept somebody and move and then there's a guy in his face. He doesn't re establish his mechanics to the point where

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know how big of a deal this will be. But they did sign Jamal Charles. They lost they lost Corey Grant to a list frank injury, and Leonard Fournette has already been ruled out. So he'll be your number two. I wonder, just like t J. Yeldon, I don't know. I worry more about them in the passing game than the running game, like they're gonna run the ball. I trust the Dallas front seven. This is the what I already said it. This is the fifteenth best rushing offense.

They can move the ball, but it's it's not something that breaks me out. Do you remember going to games ut when he was there? No, that was he was way after Sorry. Sorry. He seems like an old guy. He's been around the league for a long time. But I'm also an old guy, so true. Yeah, I was. I was back in school. What I was actually gonna bring up? Quarterback? This is a fun little brothers. I'm listening. Yeah, thank you, I know you are fun little stat that

I would not have guessed. We'll talk about the Jags defense tomorrow. But how many takeaways do you think they have this year on defense? How many? Not very many? Because I have them in fantasy and they're not getting me points that I thought they'd be getting me. Sorry man. Six they're stopping yards or not. Teams aren't scoring a lot on the most part. But yeah, turnovers aren't happening. Five. It is won a game. Miles Jack had to pick six in Week one and they've basically been mad ever since.

How many times have they given the ball away? Twelve? They lead the league. Bortles wants to give you this fall. He does still have a winning record. Yeah, that tells you how good that defense really is. It is, but I mean we've seen it firsthand your offense. If your offense isn't a guarantee to score seventeen points in any given week, it doesn't matter how good your defense is, you'll still lose more games. How many picks does that has that throne for? Four five touchdowns and four picks?

Four picks? I mean, of all of those picks, every one of them has been knocked up in the air, right, I mean, and this isn't a this isn't a good thing about that, both the ones in Seattle and both of the ones in Houston. I mean, he's not just like staring down a guy throwing it and it's not you know, but that's not necessarily a good thing. I'm

not saying, oh, it's all great. I mean, because he's forcing the ball in there when he maybe he shouldn't enforce it into players that he really shouldn't be like Thompson is one of them, Jarwin is another gallup was the one that dropped it? That earl cough a shoe? What's the one? What's the and Tavan all four of those. Yeah, again, that's when you need your receivers to be able to make plays. I could have, that's true. And the first side of that, we always talked about Deaz and he

knocked a few ball. You know, he played volleyball a little bit last year too, But he also caught some. That's one thing we're not seeing out of these guys. They're just not like you know me versus you like he caught that. Yes, how often are you seeing them at one specific guy going up against another defender? You're compared to des brian to what des Briant was used to getting. It's not I'm saying Dez got a lot of chances to go fifty fifty right and go up

against a defender. These receivers are not getting that same amount of time. You feel comfortable with any of them doing that, like doing any of those guys. I would like to give them a try and see if just having them in there a little bit longer would help them out, because clearly the whole rotation thing isn't working. Oh, you're talking about opportunities just in the game, not necessarily throwing up fifty fifty balls. I'm sorry. I get you, Yeah,

I got you. Yeah, I'm just saying they don't when the balls in the air. I don't think it's fifty fifty ball right now. That's the problem. I don't think this is a fifty fifty ball. I think it is a thirty seventy ball. And seventy thirty is that you're gonna catch it. Seventy is that it's hitting the ground or it's going to another team, And that's not really good at all. This isn't fifty fifty. Well mean, yeah, my question would be, how do you fix that? Though?

Is it what Amber says that maybe you need maybe you need to limit down. I mean, you got you still got to play this season, right, So what do you do this this season? Like? Is it what Amber saying where you limit you kind of shrink your your rotation with wide receivers and you use specific guys a lot more. Is it the kinds of routes that they're running that maybe you need to be doing more of another kind of thing using these using the skill set

of these wide receivers versus what they're doing right now? Like, how do you fix that? Lenahan is this is his playbook this is his playbook. So if this is I mean, I don't know. I don't know if he's if he just hasn't flipped to like the exotic pages of all the cool stuff that is exotic. Yeah, here's something I don't understand this whole, Like, oh, why not let Jason Garrett do the play calling when you're at this point and so much is a stake right now and the

place is getting so heated up? Why not just do it? And who cares? Who cares what people have to say about it? Who cares about pride? Put that aside. Your goal is to win a game. Let's do it, no matter what it takes, and just give it a try and see how it works out for the team. But the coach has to get to a point where he feels like that's the biggest problem. How can you not feel that way? I'm not talking you might feel that way.

I see it. The coach has to get to that point, and I'm not stay that he does that he feels like that's the biggest problem that needs to be changed. The second where Jason Garrett go to school Princeton. That's typ clear pretty smart school. Yeah, okay, I'm gonna do the play call in this week, we're gonna play Jacksonville. Guess what Jacksonville's deef. I need to be able to run in football. Okay, well you don't. You don't do that, you don't pass, and you lose maybe not whatever, game right,

right right right? Let let Ahan take this one and then all of a sudden, you know what, I'm gonna take over for Washington and whatever. Its very smart, right. Let let Ahan get one more with the Jaguars and then it's time and then we may because if he does it, can you imagine, Okay, he takes over the play call, let's say this week, and everyone knows about it, and the three and out is zeke for two incomplete

here sack on third down punt? The I mean, how many tweets are gonna be like, oh, look, if he takes over play calling, none of us will know. None of us will know about it publicly. We might hear rumors and people might tell us off the record, you're not gonna announce, Hey, Jason's taken over. Next week when you get to talk to Scotland and Scott will just kill Scott will still be talking pay and what you continue to do what we do. We do what we do.

Covered your mouth the whole game, and Lenahan was eating the hot dog the whole first half, like, what's going on here? They don't get out If something like that I'm saying, I'm saying, there will be rumors. They will never admit to it. I mean, it's happening right now in my school. The head coach is called. You cannot convince me he's not calling the place. And you cannot convince me he wasn't calling the place starting earlier in the season than just when the offensive Cordy was out.

Let me ask this question again, where did Garrett go to school? Okay, so the flip side always scored twenty eight points and they win twenty eight to ten offen dack those for three fifty. Garrett, what was the issue? Well, you know, I started calling the place this week. He's not gonna say that, you know, Garrett, you talk about it all the time. He walks in that same blue outfit. He's not he's not giving anything away, Red, don't give anything work. Well, Dave, you gave it us a pretty

good scouting report. It was pretty bad. You made him sound pretty bad, which is good. So it's good job, pretty good. Hey, you know, like I said, I always try to do my own homework, but I'd be stupid not to cross check with Brian. I didn't realize we were at a time, so yeah, we're running out, but really quick. Ran watch this offense and was like this, they can they match up well with these guys, And I agree. I mean, that is a favorable matchup. The

tough one is tomorrow defense. But I mean, these corners can stay with these These corners can stay with these, these receivers. I worry about the underneath stuff. Westbrook catching a ten yard pass and going sixty. That scares me. But they haven't. They haven't given up more than twenty four points this season. They can hold these guys to less than that. I believe that, barring unless the defense is scoring touchdowns for him, they can keep this offense

to twenty four or less. There's no doubt in my mind. Go nice. I like that. Thank you, Dave, Thank you guys for listening. For Derek Eagleton, Nick Eatman, David Hamlin, a member GARCIA. This has been the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. This has been a production of Dallas cowboys dot com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club