Cowboys Break: Hurts the Same?

twenty twenty two, season eighteen, episode number ninety three. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break Life from s WBC Morrig Studios at the Star. We're presented by mill of Light, the only beer of the Dallas Cowboys. We're entering inching closer to Christmas, and I'm gonna go ahead and make an announcement now because it's the last time that we didn't have shows on a day. I got completely killed on twit and I should have announced it earlier.

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show that runs from two to seven. It's a great show actually called the g Bag Names. Listen every day and give us a We're gonna talk plenty of cowboys getting ready for this one. So if you miss, if you miss, if you you know, we miss everybody here. But if you want to just talk about some cowboys stuff two to seven on Friday, we'll get your cover and I will tell you this, Brian, if if you ever, if you ever want to your producer Lucius, Yeah, I'm

such a fan of his. If you ever want to bring him along, if you ever want to bring him along and just sit in with us, I would love to because Lucius is hilarious. Every day I'm listening to you guys, I laugh so much listening to that dude during his LA Live segment. Always funny stuff is Lucius. Alexander is our producer on the check and he does a heck of a job. He really does. Chris is not funny. Huh you're saying Chris is not funny, Chrissy. Oh, Ben, Sorry,

I don't know what you're talking about. What you're talking about, Well, you know what, we don't give Beam a segment like we give Lucius a segment like they give him as Lucius just kind of goes in and does his thing, like, we don't give Chris any any segments. So maybe we should give Chris a segment. Never know, you never in the off season. Maybe in the off season we ought to do a segment for Chris, you know, the Beamer

or something. I don't know, best stuff, best of them all right, um, lest he's all in, all right, let's jump in. I do want to talk first about we do have a game coming up here. We do. Brian has a game later in the show, but let's start first with Jerry Jones. He talked this morning on one of five to out three of the fan Um. He did mention that that Layton Vanderesh could miss a couple of games. That being said, I wanted to talk a little bit about what that could mean for this team.

Obviously these games are somewhat important. I don't know that. At first, after losing to Jacksonville, my thought was, well, maybe these three games are not as important. But then we here last night that there's a possibility Jalen Hurts doesn't play for the Eagles for a week, two weeks, whatever it might be, and so it became a little more important, like maybe there is a chance that. Being said,

let's talk about the linebacker position first. What do you think is the is the What did you take from the game, because I know Jerry mentioned in the in the in that same interview that Jacksonville took advantage of the fact that Laton vander Esh was out. Once he was out, what did you see from that game that made you think that, yes, they took advantage of it, and how those linebackers played for the rest of that game.

I don't think Anthony Barr is a natural linebacker, and I think that he's he sits out there in coverage, he gives up some plays. That's not what he's done a lot of Minnesota. He's a he's a versatile guy, and he's a pass rusher. But I do think that he's not as good as Layton Vanderesh is there from an awareness standpoint, I don't think Deman Clark is as well,

and why would he be, you know, being a young rookie. So, um, they lose some some stuff there and and he's and Layton's had a good year and it's just it's unfortunate that that happened. And the injury to his neck scares everyone because of his history. Um, but it sounds like it's better than it could have been. They're going to be cautious with it, but I do feel like he's going to be back in time. That's why they're not going to go on the outside and get anyone else.

They're going to bring to Moan Clark, you know, not bring him up, but you know he'll he'll play Jabril Cox might play some there. So I feel like they are confident in this situation. Yeah. There, that's you know, listening to Jerry talk about it this morning, he feels like that the problems that they do have at linebacker that they're able to handle within house. You know, you have guys like Nick was talking about playing out of

position a little bit. And the one thing that Layton Vandersch does, he's really he's like a calming effect on the front seven when they're very, very aggressive in the way that they play, you know, the way they would get after the passer, and Layton is kind of a guy that's there to kind of clean up things. I mean, when you know, maybe it's you know, they bust the line and he's there to make a tackle. It's only a gain of four and not a gain of twelve

or something like that. I mean, he has ability to read react when they started going with the counters and the reverses and stuff like that. When you get teams that are flying, that's why teams do this against the Cowboys. It's because they're so aggressive up front that they know that they're going to get a move in one way, they're gonna wall him off, and then the ball is

going to come back the other way. And the one thing that Layton does is he kind of sees through all that and he's like, he's not going to get fooled on a lot of plays. Whether it's point of attack, he's fine, or whether the ball goes the other way, he's fine. So that's what they really really missed in this game. I Mean, I feel like with Anthony Barr, a veteran guy that doesn't move as well as he

once did. You know, we haven't really you've seen Anthony Barr the rusher, and I don't know if it will ever see Anthony Barr the rusher. Right now, he's Anthony Bar the linebacker who played very well in the goal line stand against the Houston Texans. That's kind of in that small space, that's an Anthony Barr type of game. But when it turns into having to the movement and running, I don't know if he has the burst and that that extra gear that he once had as a player.

And it's it's clear. I mean, he got caught in a bad situation and coverage, you know, for him to have to walk out. You know that Jacksonville was able to get him to have to cover a slot. You know that that in itself right there is when you know you kind of shake your head and like, okay, how does that happen? How does that? You know, coaches are watching it and they're like, oh damn, we got Bar in the slot on Kirk. This is gonna be a you know, and the next you know, it's a

twenty something yard game. You know. So those are the problems that you run into because, like I say, guys like Layton Vanderish could play. He plays all those different spots, and he's able to kind of play at such a high level because of his intelligence and how he sees it. So you take that out. Teams take advantage of that well, even with the injury, and it's good that it doesn't seem like it's gonna keep him out for a very long time. But I'm concerned on whether he's going to

be back back. And last week we were talking about it on the show, and it's crazy that I mentioned. I'm like, oh, I think he's finally over that mental block catch if you want to call it that way that he had after all the injuries he had with the neck and all that. I think it took him a while, and this was the one year where I feel he kind of let go of that and started playing freely and without that just hesitation and just playing

football without thinking about it. And it concerns me whether when he is back on the field, if now because he had that on the neck area again, is he gonna be playing with hesitation and just cautiousness, which is natural. It's just human nature to do that, you know. It's it's hard to get over that It's not that simple. So he concerns me because we've seen how crucial the way that the linebacker's play is for the run defense.

So I'm concerned not just for the little weeks for a couple of weeks that he's out, but also when he comes back at what level is he gonna really

be playing at. Talk about Jabril Cox, he is a guy that I think coming into this year, a lot of fans were excited to maybe see more of him, and it never really kind of material materialized, even to the point where Demon Clark, coming off the injury he did, he kind of surpassed him and is getting all of those opportunities that everybody, I think, going to your thought, Jabril Cox might get. What do we expect to see from Jabril Cox now that there is this opening in

this opportunity. I don't I honestly don't know. I mean, he didn't impress him enough to not sign Anthony Barr and then all, like you said, put Damon Clark out there. I feel like he you know, he is. Are some linebackers that are closer to defensive ends, and there's some linebackers that are closer to safety, and I feel like He has always been like that, you need to closer to safety, you need to be a fast range linebacker to play in the SEC, which he did for one year,

but he also did it at North Dakota or to State. Yeah, and you can get away with it there. I still feel like he's a little bit light to play inside linebacker in the NFL right now. Um, but that's that's just me. And he hasn't, you know, And this might be a chance to prove that he can do that. I mean, Daniel Jones doesn't think he's light because he knocked him out in a play. But for the most part, though, I still feel like he's got some some growth to

do there. Yeah, Nick has got him nailed. I Mean, this guy was kind of a twiner player. I mean, but he's two hundred and thirty three pounds or thereabouts, and you know, watching him play the one year, he was kind of a rusher. You know, he was more of an outside linebacker, like a three to four outside linebacker. Talk to people in the organization is they're happy with how he progresses, and they put him out there and

they're okay with some of the stuff he does. And then he has two or three mistakes in a game and they don't want to put him out there anymore. And so that's the you know, it's one of those things where you're like, it's kind of a little bit like it's like Kelvin Joseph. You know, it's like, Okay, we know we're probably gonna get mistakes, but you got to put him out there and find out. You hope it doesn't cost you a game, but you're definitely going

to see him this this week. And you know, I don't know if this team, I don't know if this team, with the linebacker situation it is, if it could morph into like a three or four front where you just play you know, maybe don't you have these guys that really aren't for three linebackers that they're looking more like the Jibril Coxes and stuff like that, and you know, do you you kind of just go with the two inside and you know, you maybe do something with one

of these defensive ends where it's Fowler or somebody like that. I you know, I don't know. That's I'm kind of wondering how you're because they don't have a they don't currently have a linebacker on the practice squad. They have Luke Gifford, but Luke Gifford is like, really one of your better special teams guys, Now, again, are you going to sacrifice some of the stuff on special teams to

get Luke Gifford out there? They don't have anybody's sitting on the practice squad that you can say, oh, let's elevate him this week and see if if he did. Jefferson, Yeah, Malik Jefferson now and again maybe maybe easy. Yeah, I think he got a claimed. No, I didn't see him going anywhere, so to me, you may still be available. That's that's where I think that we might see some kind of move where, Okay, they bring him back and get somebody off the practice squad to make sure they

have at least some numbers there. Yep, because at one point, I mean, I think linebacker was the one position that still had some concerns all throughout the season. But just in general, looking at the defense as a whole, it sucks because I'm starting out. I remember feeling very comfortable with the roster and feeling like, you know, we got pretty good depth here, and there's talent in every area.

There was some talent in somebody, And now you're down to different bodies, back ups and backups, and it's at a point where I feel that the guys and it's stuff that's a hard ask for these guys to kind of step up to that level, especially in December. So it just sucks that it's kind of slowly starting to drift the other way when we started off so good and feeling very very good about the talent in these

younger guys too. That's the tough part about the NFL, Like, as the season wears on, you gotta lose guys, and right now I think that's the biggest problem with this defense is they're losing personnel. They've lost those two of their top three cornerbacks, They've now lost a linebacker, they lost the defensive tackle they brought in to help them

stop the run. Like, there are some significant losses that they've had, and you might not get some of those guys back, you might not get some of them back to the playoffs. And so now they're just having to figure out how they can make it work without them in the short term. And now it's about the offense. True now it's about the When the five games that Cooper Rush played quarterback, your defense was on pointe. And now you've got a quarterback, you've got an offensive line

that's probably better at right tackle. No offense to you, Terrence Steel. You proved me wrong all year. I'm just saying you're better at right tackle right now. Your offensive line as a whole is better. Your running game is you can get this thing going. You know, you could find ways. I mean, they'll commit to run in the football. They committed to the point so much last week. You're like, listen, you're throwing the ball and you're doing pretty well, you know.

I mean, they'll commit to run in the football if they have to, you know. And you know the problem is, like say they're chasing this receiver thing. They're trying to find somebody. Maybe t Y Hilton is a guy that comes in and gets those we talked about the Odell Beckham, the third and fours, the fourth and threes. You know, maybe that's what you're gonna have to lean on this offense. Now. It's it's all about that. I mean, your defense is just too beat up and maybe you could score enough

points to are all of a sudden on offense. You turned that other team into having to throw the football and you can find your pass rush again. Yeah, somehow, some way, you've got to find this pass rush again. But man, the defense got you to this point to where you're in the playoffs. The offense now has to do their part to pick up the pieces that the secondary players. Not defensive backs. I'm talking about your your number two guys in certain positions. They've got to step

up defensive, offensive, just across the board. Well, I mean it's happening at running back. Okay, those two. Whoever the number two guy is is plas take it for me. Well, but Michael Gallup is I mean, they got to get him more involved. He's got to help CD can't and he's getting double team. I mean, you shouldn't be able to do that. And another thing too, and I think he's a he's a great leader, and he's a he's an underappreciated run stopper. But they need more from Tank

or Darrence Armstrong or something. Jack can't keep doing that and you're not getting it at corner. You know. That's another thing. If you look at those five games with Cooper Rush, I mean, Jordan Lewis, Anthony Brown and then of course Digs, they were solids never know they weren't solid, they were really good at corner. Now that's why you got guys home in the rush, right, yeah, yeah, I mean because of the fact that you were able to

hold up on the back end. That's that's like the problem there is that Mica and Mica was so close that many times in this game got a lot, got held a ton and you know what, they just did not call it, And you got the Cowboys should appreciate that more than anything because they didn't call a lot in that game, pass interference, none of that stuff. So I think it worked out, but but it didn't work

out for Mica. Would you guys consider it all with what we're talking about at linebacker, maybe using Mike at linebacker over the next couple weeks until Laton vandrush is back. I know, you don't love him at linebacker or he's you know, I've made a complete switch on that he's a pass rusher. I mean, just that they got to

get creative. This is gonna be a weird week because you know, you have the Eagles coming in and I don't know what the Eagles are gonna what they're gonna do so much, you know, I mean, how different psychold with Gardner Minshew right, they'll still probably have some of their elements of the run option. I don't I don't seeing him do it. I remember at Washington State he was a big just thrower. I mean, he's capable scrambler and mover or you know, I mean when he was

in Jacksonville, Heineke type things. Yeah, he can't do it, can't do it, but yeah, and they're gonna try. I mean they're gonna try. You know. They they they activated Dallas Goddard this week. You know, so they're gonna so here they got, they got all the wide receivers. They're gonna they're gonna try and take advantage of your The one thing that they were able to, Yeah, the one thing they were able to do was they really rendered

Michael Parsons useless. Because maybe now it's okay, playment, playment linebacker. Don't make him have to be read guy on the end, you know, put like Hank and you know, or the guys on you know, Fouler, those guys. Goldston is another guy I mean that, you know. I mean, there's there's options. I would play him at linebacker, and then if you get to where you can rush the pass or even at linebacker, bring him from depth if you have to.

Let's not forget what happened in that Eagles game. He wasn't doing a whole lot and they were winning and Eagles and I believe that I don't know which one, but one of those tackles went down because you kept saying, if sixty four whatever has to play, it's a problem. And he came in the second half, second quarter and had to play, and Micah exposed them. So that's I think the problem with the Eagles is that both their tackles were really good. They're they're starting tackles or like

Pro Bowl level good. And John's yeah, he's not a he's not a he's kind of a I'm not saying he's not an effective there, but it's it's an all day challenge. Well, I also think the other part to that is you would just watch that Jacksonville game. The Eagles have to be looking at and saying, we may not need to run that that style of offense that

we run with with Hurts. We can literally let minh you kind of chop them up with some passes because that secondary can't hold up right and we can get the ball out quickly enough where we negate the secondary. I mean, we can negate the pass rush and we can beat their secondary. So that's the problems. Take Michael completely out of the game, right, Who do you trust more? Cowboys,

defensive line or the linebackers? If MICA's where just put him on the side, right, you got him, You got him on without him with everybody else, what who do you trust more? Is that what you're saying, Yes, defensive line? Yeah, me too. That's I mean, that's where I think you're talking about. It's like, Okay, you got an area where

a linebacker you're missing something. Mica hasn't been as productive right now rushing the passer and playing on the line there, So in this scenario right now, it just makes more sense to just put him in linebacker and see how much he can help there. Where you're liking I mean you're saying no, But I just feel like the defensive line that has more talent right now to be able to steal, create some type of pressure, or make the quarterback a little bit uncomfortable on their own without the

need of my account, the whole game. If mentions the quarterback, though, I gotta get after his ass. I mean you have to and and you got to force him into say he played the JV game last year, remember the end of the year, the JD game. I mean, he is going to he is going to make some throws. He is going to miss some throws. He is not hurts, he's not that ability to run the ball. That's the one thing. It takes that that element out. Now it's like, you know, to me, it's all about this offense again.

Score enough points and put pressure on them to have to score along with you, you know, make guard make if you can't win a game with your quarterback against Gardner mentioned and it might be just because of the the secondary for the Eagles is damn good. They can cover. That's the thing. If you ask me, like, what's the most kind of underrated thing about the Eagles and we get into that, I'm gonna tell you it's their secondary. So you know you're gonna have to find a way

to win in that game. And you talk about getting after Gardner minshew, Yeah, but it's also going to be about can you you know, are you going to let them run the ball and let them be in second and two and second and three, all day finding them. I'm looking at wild cat package is like, I'm thinking about all that kind of stuff just to take advantage

of a poor Dallas Runde. Yeah, the Cowboy fans that are rubbing their hands together like, oh okay, I mean, don't forget Davis Mills and Jeff Drisco carved him up a couple of weeks ago. This guy can kind of do it too. But he's a backup quarterback. He is, but but he's had some success as a backup. And that's the part I think that fans have to be aware of. This is not your typical backup quarterback that you just throw out there. And exactly it's their equipment.

Stuff is bringing extra boxes to this game. And I say that, I mean they've got little hats that have a Eagles logo on a an NFC East champions. They would love to open those boxes on the Cowboys sideline and they can. I mean, it's gonna be a tough game. This is this is going to be a really play doesn't Yeah, all right, we're gonna take our first back. We're gonna come back. We got a game from Brian to that in Dallas, Scott, We'll be back Dallascowboys dot

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I go back to you with this one. All right, it's the second time we've heard Kellen Moore say that he needs to get Michael Gallup more involved. Is that on him or the player? That's a good question. Brian doesn't bring questions that aren't. Yeah, I would say I would say that's probably more on the offensive coordinator. And I'm going to use the example of what happened on third and ten in this last game. Jerry actually mentioned it this morning and Sean and RJ on on the

Fans Morning they were talking I don't. I think they kind of missed what he was saying. They were talking about the fact that he didn't really want to comment about the decision to go to throw it right down. I really thought the point was what he said after that, because he started talking about it's not really so much that they decided to pass, it's how you decide to pass and who you're throwing the ball too. I totally agree on that, and that to me said said everything,

and we talked about it on the show yesterday. I didn't have as much of a problem with the fact that is, if you want to be aggressive, be aggressive. But there are ways to be aggressive that are probably more more have a greater chance of success than that, you know, throwing a fifty fifty ball to Noah Brown.

So back to your point, if if you're no in my opinion on this team, when it comes to receivers who have had the most experienced catching deep balls and doing it well, I think Michael Gallup is right up there at the top of the list. Contorning bodies. Yeah, the drawing back pass interference exactly, the fact that you're going to get in that situation, you're gonna take that kind of chance to be risked. I mean to say, we're just gonna go for the win. You should have

put your best guy out there. They did not. That says to me they're not using him enough, They're not thinking about him enough to use his skills the right way. Handbar, Yeah, I agree with that. I think it's on Kellen and he. I think having Michael Gallup on the team has been a waste for the Cowboys. It has because you don't use him. You've literally that's your second guy and you have not There are times I forget about Michael Gallup

and I should not forget about him ever. And it's not like teams are just completely covering all the time and like, oh they're taking him out. No, it's not that either. So it's just very frustrating when he does make plays that you're like, yes, that's Michael Gallut. That is why he's on this team because he has talent and he's very athletic and talented, but you don't find

ways to use him. So I think that definitely comes down to Kellen Moore and what he's doing and not being able to kind of just give him chances and create opportunities for a guy like Michael Gallup. Nick I couldn't disagree more with both of them. I put it on Michael Gallup, get open, get open, make plays, be a ten million dollars a year guy, show some dog. That's something that I think that needs to happen a

little bit more with him. So I get it. There's times where I think they could they could use him a little bit more. And maybe maybe also when people forgetting too maybe it's Dak also because Dak loves to throw to the guy who's open, and sometimes that's not always the case. And Michael Gallup has proven that he can make some tough catch. It's probably better and it's definitely on the sideline. But I still I wouldn't put this all. This isn't one game, this is a couple games.

I put this on Michael Gallup as well. Let's be clear, I'm not saying all the blames. You got to choose

one or two. Then then to me, that was an example of why, Yeah, you had an opportunity to use him in a critical situation where he is the best that you have on your team at this particular role, and you chose that to And this is for me, I like Michael Gallup a lot, but I as a person, but as a as a player and as a receiver, there's spent some times where I just kind of questioned, like the dog the foxhole type guy in him, and and and I think he's a great teammate, and sometimes

that can be bad, you know what I'm talking about. I mean there's just that one game I guess where he said that that I just don't I don't love. So I feel like third or four, you gotta want to be that guy to go make some place, and he he does at times. But I never liked the signing. I didn't like. I didn't like the thing. And I agree with your point that you're making right now, but to me, it's like that's okay, that's done, We're over it, over it. That's the guy you decided to go with

you sign He's been here. And when you look at not just this passing, look at the whole season from beginning to where we're at right now, is how can you not find like why are we right now discussing this Like you should have found a really good role

for a guy like him, and you haven't. So I put that down on the people who decided that he should be here and Kellen Moore, You're not love to know is how often does Kellen call his offense based upon, Hey, this play, I'm designing this play for this guy, you know, because he may not do that very much. It may be one of the things, like you said it with Dak,

Dak's looking for the open guy. His offense may be really predicated on We're going to create scenarios and based on those scenarios, it's gonna go to the open guy. And they rotate their receivers so much that you don't know who that guy's going to be on any given place, so they don't really call it like, hey, we're designing this place specifically to get gallop open or you know it ceed open. You know it when they go max protection and they're trying and run the deep cross, you know.

You know that when you see everybody stand in and blocking, you know they're trying to get the ball to somebody's specific But I wonder if they're doing that how often now and that relative to like to the point of this conversation, to the point where you would actually be designing plays from Michael Gaup to get him involved let's also and I'd just referred to the player, Let's not forget this year. This twenty twenty two year is when

he did tear his ACL. So he tore his ACL earlier this year, back in January, waited in February to have the surgery, not because because that's when it was not that he did. That's when you're supposed to do it. And then now he's back and we're in this conversation. So acls on receivers, I mean, you gotta get them a little bit pass. But I do believe that it's it's it's on a little bit of everyone. I think.

I think we're all probably on board with that. And bar you've lost leads of fourteen and seventeen on the road, likely a playoff path is on the road. It's a concern for you or is that just a trend in the NFL? No lead is safe. I mean it look called the World Cup Final. Um yeah, it seems to be kind of the theme. There are some comebacks that have just blown my mind how it's worked out. So I just think it's the nature of no game, like nothing's guaranteed and you got to play your hardest from

beginning to end and finished finished the game. I think that that comes down to. I don't know, because even looking at this game specifically I look at it, I'm like, Okay, what change other than you're taking out Tyren Smith and putting Jason Peters on offense in the second half of

the game, Uh, what really changed? They figured out that Kelvin Joseph was playing left corner for him and that's two touchdowns just like ye, yeah, well offense, I'm talking no, no, like Cowboys offense when they were working so well in the first half of the game. They were moving, things were flowing, and then you come back after halftime, which is unusual for them, they tend to show you the opposite.

So to me, it was like, Okay, why can't you just be consistent in that aspect of just carrying over the whole thing. The turnover might have affected to the first interception that gave them, Yeah, that gave them hope. But what was your question? Again, It's about fourteen You're you're losing, You're playing games and the playoffs on the road likely and you've lost the fourteen point lead in

Green Bay and a seventeen point lead in Jacksonville. Is that worrying you going forward, losing leads on the road, Well, we got two more games on the road, so yes, it is concerning. It does worry me, And to me, what I'm really looking at is preparation during the week.

And that's something I've heard just talking to people that lately, you know, because of the changing and we've talked about it on the show, just kind of practice time, the lack of practice, you know, and that's something Mike McCarthy talked about it. You know, this is the time you got to give these guys a little rehabbing, a little break for their bodies to you know, be in shape because of the toughness in December. But I think it comes down to the preparation and the amount of time

they take during the week leading up to the game. Derek, you know it concerns you, but not for the reason that it's on the road necessarily. What concerns me is I'm starting to one if this is just a it's gonna sound weird, but if this is just an immature team, And what I mean by that is, do they get in situations where they get a lead and they get comfortable and so they let up a little bit, and for you know what, teams back in it do they go into a game against a team like Houston where

they're like, yeah, we can beat this team. We'll roll out of the practice ball we find and they get into that game and then they get to the last couple series and realize, oh god, we were about to lose this game, and then they turn it on and play football. Those to me are just signed sometimes that

the team's just a little immature. A team just doesn't they don't approach every situation with the same level of intensity, and because of that, their results tend to be like this, where situations that they really shouldn't be in they find themselves in. In basketball, if your team is up three with five seconds to go, what are you doing? If your team is up three and they got the ball, what are you doing? You foul UPO three? You're gonna foul your foul? Why because you don't want to get

a foul to give? Yeah? Well but but I but even if you don't, though problem, the only thing that's going to hurt you here is if they make a three. And so it's the same with football. The only thing that's gonna hurt you when you're up fourteen in the fourth quarter or seventeen or whatever is if they score quickly. And in the Bronch I mean and the Packers game, it's fourth and nine and the games the game's over and they throw a deep ball and over Anthony Brown

or no, over Bland, sorry old touchdown. In this game, you're up seventeen. They're not going to come back unless they scored in five seconds here, which they did a deep ball. So I put some of it on Dan Quinn as well. And you're up at seventeen or fourteen or whatever. You know. The prevent defense. People hate it because there's a stigma about it. Oh, it only prevents you from winning. No, no, it prevents them from scoring quickly.

And that's what you're trying to do. So, especially when your corners are struggling like that, don't give up the deep ball as much. Maybe play everything a little bit more in front and let them work, work, work where the clock's going off, play a little clock and back off a little bit. But let me ask you this. I hear that, and I think it's fair good. My question, my question is, my question is on the play on

the first touch down that Joseph gave up? Was he not kind of pleading him in a situation where he's off, he's trying to play a little conservative. He bites on the route, lets the guy go buy him, and then you're filling him a ball cap for this game. Yeah, I think you go back that special team. But that all special. I think that's also kind of the problem here is that you may even put guys in position.

You got such young players, inexperienced players, players that may not be as good as you want them to be, yet that just are making these kinds of mistakes that they shouldn't. That he that that you can't really have right now, you know, especially when you got that kind of league. All right, this is my last one. I think we're running out of time here, but this is my last one for you, Nick. And this is just

a personal opinion here. I have no problem with Jalen Hurts being out Winning against their best is a myth. All that matters is winning. How do you feel about that? Oh? Of course all that All that matters is winning. Nobody. I don't care about you playing the best. I don't care no when when I'll take it back thirty years thirty years the Cowboys beat the Bills in the Super Bowl fifty two to seventeen. All these great plays and remember Leon lad and all the stuff. Nobody really remembers

that Jim Kelly hurt his knee in that game. No one cares it. I don't think it would have mattered, but I'm just saying, but they don't care. And no one cared that that Dak was out for five games and they lost to the No One, no one cared about. One cares about the cornerbacks right now. Nope. So it, you know, deal with it. If you know, you can't expect quarterback with that name not to get hurt. That happens, deal with it. Jed, how about how are you about that? Bad?

That's my bad joke of the day. Okay, good, Um, now we're having anymore. No more coming bad jokes. We'll see TVD on that. You know. There may be good ones, but that was a bad one. No. I think as Parcels used to always say, no one cares, and I think that's absolutely I could care less. It's just about when every every team has losses based on every team

loses players. That's the nature of the NFL. I ain't getting caught up in who you lose or who the cowboy Like, at the end of the day, you still got to go out and play and it is what it is. Well, I mean before you answer that, I mean Mica Parsons doesn't care, because I thought Michael Parsons went on and say that's not it's not hurts anyways. It's the whole team, it's the defense and all that stuff.

So I mean this shouldn't matter at all, right, right according to Mica, I mean, he's just he's just a piece in their little puzzle. I don't. I don't agree with that, and neither did Von Miller whoever was asking him, Yeah, this week, do you want to play the best or you want to just go out and win games? How do you were you looking at it? How do you

give a crap who we're playing better win? I don't care at this point of this many years and I haven't been a Cowboys fan for as long as many people have been, and I've been here, why like close to ten years maybe yeah, And I've suffer enough in just that span of time. I am, so to me, it's it's had a point that I don't care when when when that's all it matters, cast one more real quickly and just give it a real quick one here. Okay, let's go with you, agn this one go back to you.

Is there really competition at left cornerback or is this going to be nashun right playing in this game? Dan Queen came out. I know, I know, I know, I just don't know not thinking about it. I know he said that what I'm thinking of is like, is there really competition? Yeah? Right? This week? Yeah? What all? Like how much can another guy do to show you that he's better than who you've decided to stick with for

this for the last game? Yeah, the last game, which is Kelvin Joseph, which I feel all of us have seen it before he even got the job to replace Anthony Brown. We've all known like he doesn't have it, but when maybe see something in him and now he's maybe clearly changing his opinion. But with the guys that you have left, I don't know who really has much to for it to be a like a real competition. Yeah, you know, so I think Nishan maybe the guy just because the nice guy up. Really I think it's a

competition because I don't think anybody clearly is necessarily. I don't think Nashan nor Calvin, Joseph has clearly separated themselves from a group, and so I think these other guys that they brought in, they brought in for a reason. They're going to see what they could play for me personally, I would look at Joseph, Nishan, right, McKenzie, Alexander, Mullen and Sheffield who has played the best game in their career? Like,

is there anybody has played the best game? Whoever that is, That's who I'm gonna lean to that You've done it experience, and I'm praying that a sterling more situation falls into your lap. Remember they just brought this guy in and he played pretty well. Done somebody like that McKinsey, Alexander. It's slot and land on the outside, and that's exactly what I want to support. All right, appreciate you guys.

Jump We're back tomorrow. Sorry we will tomorrow. We'll jump in and go offense versus defense and give you guys some updates. All right, some what we think is gonna happen this weekend with the Eagles Cowboys match up. Till then for Nick even Brian brought us 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.