Cowboys Break: Is Dak Up to the Task?

get into it, how are you guys doing better than yesterday? Great? How are we doing? Guys? How are we doing? Guys? You're ready to go? Okay? Great? All right, Corel Dave Okay, I'm awesome. So we have a lot to discuss, but before we get into it, I wanted to touch on a few things that um happened last night. Jason Witten had his debut as a Monday night football analyst. He did, so I wanted to see what you guys. First impression of this was, um, I didn't know he was out there.

I mean seriously, like he he hardly ever talks. This is me Like, I didn't realize this was such a big deal for Booger McFarland like this, he was his show. Yeah, nobody told him to shut the front door. Ever, I thought he was really good. Though. I didn't mind that he kept talking. That's fine, I guess. I just the whole point was, I was literally listening to Jason gonna talk because it's just it seemed as though they were kind of creating his moments for him talking. He just

didn't say anything, so I don't know. It was, yeah, were you expecting more? Though? Yeah, this was like this huge deal that Jason Witten is now, you know, jumping into the booth for Monday night football. And then he looked like the third guy, you know, like he looked he didn't hardly ever talk. I thought. I thought McFarland talked the whole time. It felt like Jason was the

sideline guy exactly. Booger McFarlane was the color analyst. I think, unfortunately for Jason, Booger McFarland's got a lot more experience doing this than he does, and it showed last night, which you'll get better. I'm sure. I didn't think he was bad. He did not seem comfortable to me, and I don't yeah, like just I mean, I'm not best friends with Jason Witten by any stretch, but knowing what I know about him, I think that's going to be a challenge for him to adapt to what he needs

to be like to be good at that. I think he'll get there. I think it's it's just I mean, it's with anything, you go from one career to another one, and he's going to have to adapt to the idea that he's got to have something to say about everything. Yeah, And I don't think that, And he might already and he just doesn't know how to, Like he's not used

to that. He's used to maybe as a player, being a little more reserved, but he's got to learn that every time there's an opportunity, you gotta jumping half something there. I think it was in the first half yesterday, like he said something and like it was so heavy in football lingo that it didn't even make sense unless you really follow football. When Joe Tessitur was like, expound on that if you and like he it almost seemed like he was like, what do you mean, expound on that?

Like that's it's football, said it, like, well, you gotta do a little bit more for your average Joe sitting at home, which the audience. Somebody told me a long time ago that when you're doing that, you have to figure out a way to say the same thing fourteen different ways, because if you keep saying it over and over like, it'll be repetitive and it won't be good. And there was a moment where in the first half

where he talked about a play. I remember the receivers running down the field, and he said the same thing three times, and that's kind of his way of describing the play. And I just remember thinking that, like, you know, he's gonna have to get better at that. But I thought it was just kind of all accorded the way that that booger McFarland was talking too much. I mean, maybe they just should need to put the three of them.

Then then it's just fair games. I think that you're supposed to view booger McFarland as a third member of the booth. He's just doing in the booth. That's like their new wrinkle is like, well, he's gonna have this thing move. Yeah, he follows the line of scrimmage. Okay, so he's sitting above the line of scrimmage wherever it is, seeing how he's kind of shaken them. He's on the camera card basically is where he is, and he's just honestly, that's a great view. I mean, yeah, you get a

better view there probably than they get upstairs. I am. I am encouraged by the first. I mean, yeah, Jason's gonna he's got some work to do, and I mean they all do. But I like the vantage point that Booger's got and he offered some insight. And I don't know, what do you guys think of the halftime what it was they did, like the music with video Tory Kelly Kelly and which I love both the ar Don't get me wrong, I love boys men, I love Tory Kelly.

It was just awkward the way they did it. Yes, I know entertainment is in their name, but like ESPN always tries to do stuff like that, they're trying to trick it up a little bit. I didn't stop. I remember this was years ago, but like they bait, Like when TRL on MTV was at its height, they tried to like they were like, We're gonna have live performances on Sports Center and it's like, no, stop, I want that. I'll go to MTV or wherever that is. Just do it.

Just do sports. It doesn't You don't have to cover every Touchdow. You could have given me five minutes of analysis on the game and I would have been just as happy. Right, Well, let's hope that Jason Waitin thus get better as time goes on, as well as well we hope with this twenty eighteen Cowboys version. So before we move on into that, Jerry talked on the fan this morning and touched on a few things. I wanted

to mention Xavier Woods. He's supposed to be getting closer to plane, although his pride to maybe get a little limited this week. Randy Gregory seems like he is good to go. As far as health concerns and as far as the whole suspension thing or drug thing, I think that's still in the air. I think you got it flopped, which I thought he was good injury wise, and we'll see as alway, especially when you're talking about a concussion,

we'll see that. Jason Garrett said he's feeling better, but I guess I gathered that from that and then seeing Randy tweet about it saying he was good. But then I guess you can't hold waste. Well, the way that goes now. Back in the day, if the player felt great and he saw that you had two fingers in front of him, and then it was like all right, yeah, good.

But now there's a whole protocol they have to go through and and in a lot of instances, the doctor is going to be the final person to make that determination, regardless of what the player is I guess saying now, they could probably say they're feeling off fine and give them a great report, but yeah, I would assume the test that the doctors do will give him a little bit more indication and they'll have to pass that protocol

in order to get back on the field. But I do like what you said there with up in the air with the with the league talk, because Jerry Jones did go on the radio today and say, you know, as far as I know, everything's good, we're all in

the clear. And that's that's noteworthy. I mean, I mean, if Jerry Jones is going to have a better idea than we do about what's going on with that, at the same time, I'm always I'm taking that with a grain of salt basically until the end of time, Like that's just the story with Randy Gregory is that I don't know that it's I mean, you're never You're never just gonna feel great about that, you know what I mean.

Although I do think it's not worthy that Jerry said, as from a league standpoint, he expects him to be available Sunday, which is that's news. So but you know, Jerry's been saying since training camp that and I think people kind of just kind of took it as a grain of salt. But he said, Hey, when you're talking about these kind of situations where guys, guys are coming back from you know, drug rehabilitation, it is a process

that is not a okay, you're you're now go. It's not like a broken bone, like There's gonna be times when there may be hiccups, and so as long as you know you have the right people around them and you're giving them the right support and they're able to work through whatever hiccups may happen, I think that ultimately, I think if the league is being smart, they will

factor that in. And that's why they should have medical people involved in this so that they can help when there is a hiccup, get them immediate help and get them back on the right track, because don't I think it's foolish to assume that a person that's been addicted to any kind of substance is just going to at some point be whole. Right, It just doesn't happen like that. You hear anybody that's been addicted alcohol, drugs, whatever, they'll tell you like, this is a this is a lifelong thing.

Now I gotta deal with this for the rest of my life because it's now part of my life, right which as a member of the media, this whole thing with Randy makes me feel a lot of different types of ways because I understand the value of reporting, and if something's going on that ain't right, like that's the media's job, whether it's sports or politics, whatever, there's nothing

wrong with that. At the same time, this Randy thing is really sketchy because basically, anybody in Randy's situation is gonna be having There's gonna be a million things going on with him, probably for the rest of his career. I mean, you're gonna be you're gonna be getting tested maybe randomly, You're gonna be having dialogues, You're gonna have to be going to meetings with the league, like he did a couple weeks ago. That's probably got accountability people

you're dealing with. As yet, there's just gonna be stuff swirling with him, like that's just that's just part of his life basically, and it sucks for him. And it seems really unfair that, you know, whether it's leaks or whether it's reporters not being completely responsible, not pointing fingers anybody specifically, but just the basic idea of who he is and who he plays for. There's people trying to

pry into that. And I think about it from a fans of mindset is like you want it to be black or white, like is he good to go and I don't have to worry about this or is he suspended? And its not gonna be that way. And I just think, to quote Jerry, you gotta have some tolerance for ambiguity with that, and it just sucks you in tolerance for ambiguity, you have to have a tolerance for ambiguity that this You're probably always gonna have to have some level of

concern about Randy Gregory. But it sucks for him that his dirty laundry, so to speak, is being leaked out into the media. In one form or fashion, and it's just unfortunate. But you know, for the time being, sounds like he is okay. Yeah, right, so every week is gonna be kind of a pending status for him. But from what I'm gathering as of right now, it seems

that it's nothing major and it should be okay. Now, there was a comment that I thought was really interesting from part of Jerry Jones and yesterday we talked a lot about Dak Prescott and yes, and this morning he made a comment that he saw in Dak a mixture of Jared Goff and Canton. So I wanted to see what y'all's opinion was on that. Yeah, I know, I got a lot to say, just I don't know where to start so much to say, uh you know, I mean, I can hear the smart Alec comments about you know,

Dak's Dak's not accurate, Jeric Goff. Last night, he didn't have a great night throwing the ball by any stretch of the imagination. I think he was about fifty percent so and look, I've seen the tape. I know Dak missed a lot of throws. I'm not giving him a pass for that, um, But so yeah, I agree it would agree. We know Dak can complete and acceptable percentage of passes he and he did on Sunday, although not

the ones that mattered. The thing for me what jumps out to me with that is if Dak has even augh iota of the mobility and running ability as Cam Newton does, where was it? Well? My question would also be, if he does have some of that, then why the heck isn't this offensive staff figuring out a way to have more calls mind for him to run the ball. It's painfully obvious that Cam's ability to run was a big part of Carolina's game plan, and they knew that they were going to lean on him to do that

to get past the Stallas defense. Happened with Dak And if they know that, and I would hope that they do, then that's borderline inexcusable for me that they didn't try to implement that a little bit more. I don't really see any kind of cross comparisons between the two. I mean, I don't. I think Goff's a different type of player. I think Cam is a different type of player. And what Jerry wants Dad to be riding between both of them,

You know, I didn't see either of that. What Cam does best Dad didn't show, as Dave just said, and what Goff does best, Dad didn't show and really doesn't show that hardly at all. So I think that's the ideal to be that type that would be your prototype quarterback, if you could be a combination with two guys. Don't know what that was. But but can't you Okay, everybody, okay, um, but no, I just think overall, I mean, that's the goal,

and I think he was really far from it. But you know, this is the biggest issue this team has, I think right now, it's just trying to figure out is their quarterback good enough to win games? Yeah, I will say this, and Dave you kind of alluded to it. We went back yesterday and I know I went and sat down with Brian to watch a little bit of what Dak did in this game, and Nicky came over saw some of it as well. There was some significant missus in that game. There were some opportunities and you

want to talk about these wide receivers. Let's not talk about the wide receivers right now. And the reason why I say that is because there were plenty of opportunities in that game. Tight ends included where they had opened They had open guys downfield opportunities in one instance with Jeff Swain where it was clearly a touchdown and Dak for whatever reason wasn't able to get them the ball, whether he didn't see it, whether he just didn't pull

the trigger, whatever the case might have been. But they had some opportunities that were left on the table yesterday because of Dak's inability to get the ball to them. And so I don't want to talk about receivers and wide receiver and tight ends for the until we see Dak improved there. Then I don't think it's fair to criticize this receiving group as we have in the past. There were more than enough open men. The Jeff swam

very obvious touchdown comes to mind. How about and hey, if you even if you're gonna say, all right, Dak's not a great downfield thrower, don't put that on him. Okay, how about the Michael Gallup crossing route seven yards past the line of scrimmage, where he had guys down field, he had green grass in front of him. It's probably at least a twenty five yard if not more game. If he just at full speed. It just put it where it needs to be instead of two yards behind him.

Just not a great day at all. The play that we're referring to with the Jeff swam he actually pulled the ball downs third and nine and it was he had to have the play and he ended up rushing for ten or a great and did a nice job. But I think what needs to be addressed there in the film room or whatever is did you see him and it looks like he is seeing him? Because what is he looking at? It looks like he's seeing him.

I don't know if he thinks he can make the throw because we see it from up Todd like there he is make the throw, but there's a certain type of velocity you've got to put on that ball to get it there. Yeah, he could, He could get the ball to Swain, But is every safety in the league gonna run over there and get it by that? Does that worry you if he can't make that yet, If he can't make the throw, he doesn't need to be

in the position. And I'm being honest, like that throw out there, if it comes down to he really doesn't trust himself. That's the job of you're not only all you do. I mean, your job is not only to hand off the ball to a runner. Your job as a quarterback is to throw the ball right. But I'm talking about making all of the throws. And yes, if nobody's around, everybody can make that throw. It might hit a cloud, but you're gonna get it there. He's got to get it there on a dime and split a safety.

That might be but I guess, but I guess that's part of the game. I'm just saying, this is what we're finding out. Maybe he it's those type of throws that you determine you really can't do this job. But that's why I think, personally, I think that's not the issue because I tend to believe he can make that throw. I tend to believe that it was more of a situation where he didn't recognize it as it was or he felt something was he was he skittish about the pressure?

Was it? I mean, there was nobody really on him at that point, But was he skittish about the pressure to where he was like, I'm gonna have to really step into this throw. I don't think I can have enough time to do that. And that's why, you know, he kind of ends up taking off running. I don't know what it was. I don't Maybe I'm just giving him the benefit of doubt that he can make that throw, because that's that's a that's not a tough throw where you got a tight end basically around the hash marks

about twenty five thirty yards downfield. This was after he shorted the throw to Jarwin, right yet, So man, Well, but I just I will say this, and Brian point pointed this out on this situation with Jarwin Byron. I mean, Brian thinks that what happened there was Dak was expecting him to stop, and he kind of kept floating. And if you notice, as he was running, he stopped running full speed. Jarwin did and he was kind of just jogging a little bit and then kind of went a

little bit too far. So he thinks there was kind of a miscommunication there on what Dak was saying. Not that Dak couldn't get it to him, but Dak thought he was gonna stop, and he actually just kept floating backwards. Um, and that's what made the ball short. That's fine, it didn't I mean, it wasn't complete, that's all. I know, but and that's what y'all have been talking about, is why I said what I says, like, Okay, you don't trust yourself to make that throw, which an NFL quarterback

should be able to make. But let's just even let's even just allow acknowledge that, Okay, you can't make that throw, make five or six pretty easy ones and the game is still probably different. Then there were quite a few. I know there are five or six. There were about five or six plays at me and Brian walked through. He had another one. He had an opportunity to get the ball to a guy and he just he missed it for whatever reason. I just wonder if he's seeing ghosts.

Do you think last year from we got six six acts this game from from last year from this year from you know, does he trust Joe Luni and Conn Williams. Does he trust Lyle Collins? Does he trust is he to pick up his blitz? I don't know. But again, I know every game we play, we get further away from twenty sixteen. I understand that, but we still to quote Jerry again like we've seen him do these things, like he's made those types of throws in the past. He has and that's what makes it even harder for

me to understand like where it went. And to me, that comes back to that says confidence to me, or confidence that he can make the throw, or confidence that he's you know, is he worried about if he throws picks? You know? Maybe is the contract in his head is

I don't know, I don't know. Me and Nick were talking about that the game Sunday on another subject, but it was the whole idea of when you're when you're young and you you don't have much, then you're willing to go all out because you don't really you're not worried about losing anything, right, because you don't have anything to lose. That could be a rookie player, right. But then you get a few years in and now you've got elect you got something built, you got a little

something built, and now you're trying to hold on. And when you're trying to hold on, you get a lot more conservative. And we all do it in our everyday lives. Think about how carefree you were when you were in your early twenties relative to how you may be when you're in your forties and you've got a wife and kids, you gotta support, like your chance, your ability, or your ability to take chances, or your your willingness to take

chances decreases quite a bit. And so it could be the same thing with a player like Dak where the most after you got that success of twenty sixteen, now he may not be maybe a little bit more tentative because he's like, I gotta make sure I make the right decision because I've got something I'm building here and

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safety position. We've talked about it every single show. Now to our surprise, I would say that was one of the least things you noticed on a negative side watching this last game, this first game of the Cowboys, So

I could say it's one of the positives. Yeah, exactly exactly, But when gave you say it was one of the positives with an asterisk that they got beat well, given the fact that you expected, okay, you have these expectations for the offense and stuff like that, and then it turns out that right, it was very similar to practice with the fact that and I even said this several times, like this offense isn't going to be testing these safeties up and down the field to be like, wow, you know,

great job. And I don't think Carolina tested the same tis vertically down the field where I mean, were these guys could have a chance to make make a lot of plays good or bad. So it'll get tougher for Heath and Frasier than this game. But it certainly was a good start, and Frasier did a nice job of when he was around the ball, he did a nice job.

But were they not tested a few times from the standpoint of the running game with McCaffrey getting loose and they had to get him, like none of those turned into touchdowns, those those plays where Cam got loose, plays where McCaffrey got loose, I think from the standpoint of just how they played overall, yeah, like yeah, you're right, they didn't get tested back downfield and patting the passing game because that's not the offense of the Carolina Panthers.

But they certainly got tested in the running game, I thought, right, But I'm just saying the running game and the short passing game with McCaffrey, you'll be tested even more if you're having to play you know, way back like in Rowan Oak. You know, when you're trying to play you know, when they get to Arlington. Seriously, Carolina, you've be way back there. I don't know Winston Salem. I didn't have a good one for way back in Charlotte. I thought

Roan was good. Yeah, you're way got the picture, and then all of a sudden, anybody's running. But you will play Washington and have you know Thompson that the guy, yea Chris Thomps, Thompson, I mean somebody like that. So when they and they do have some some little bit more vertical passing game, But overall, I thought they played well. My point though, I'm not one hundred percent sure Woods comes back. I mean I don't think Woods start Woods

was a given starter when we got into the season. Sorry, before getting into the season, now, being watching the way that Cavon played this in this game, are you guys voting for him just to automatically just keep an in there. I'm gonna be really aggravated if Xavier Woods isn't the starter when he comes back, because if Cavon freight and they're like, oh, he's really more of a box safety, but he played well so he can do the job. Well, then how come Tyron Matthew's not here or any of

these other guys. If it's as interchangeable as it's as that suggests, then why didn't you do anything before? So because the excuse we always are was that's not our kind of safety that I hope if it's a column if Xavier Woods, if he comes back and they go with that guy, that's ridiculous. So you're challenging guys. It's against Cavon at all. I mea culpa, Cavon, I assume you don't listen to the show, but maybe he does. I doubt it. I've been talking. I mean, I don't.

We haven't been talking bad, but we've been doubting you for months. And I thought he played great. I really did for a guy making you know, uh, for a guy making his first start. I thought he was really good. But Xavier Woods is the free safety with the skill set that nobody else has. And so if you just automatically pull the plug on that because he missed a game or two, that tells me that that was a crock of crap. So yeah, I hope these other all

these other safeties that weren't scheme fits and all that stuff. Now, let me change this up a little bit. Let's say I think that our perspective change because there were so much negative things coming from the office. Now, had the offense played well enough and the offense was moving, now you start pinpointing things that stand out more the way that he played, would it be good enough to where you would have still being like, okay, Kevin's good there, I think. So I didn't see I didn't see plays

where Cavon missed his assignment. I didn't see plays where Cavon miss tackles. I didn't see plays where Cavon had a bad angle, Like I didn't see that. Maybe it was there and I missed it. I didn't see that. So I think he played well. I thought overall the safeties played pretty well. Heath had a chance to get an interception, it would have been a great play, but he had a chance saved a touchdown. Um you don't. Yeah, I mean he's always around the ball, but you know,

you gotta you gotta come up with that play. He I thought he played pretty well other than that, but um, I thought, you know, the safety were good. They'll be tested more than they'll be tested this week. Oh yeah, more than that time. Oh yeah, because they have a runner that you can catch the ball out of the backfield, and they've got receiving threats that can go down the field, and their runner is going to get to the safety

a few times. Yeah, he'll get there. I got a feeling he's going to get to the safety a few times. And he's big. Yeah, he's a big dude and he can run. Yeah. So tomorrow we'll we'll get it deep into the Giants Tomorrow. I want Dave to tell me whether he thinks after he reviews this team. I want him to tell me if he thinks that the runner in New York is better than the runner in Dallas. I want to know I've already gotten it. Wait, save until tomorrow. I've already gotten a john like I'm I

have started. So I'll let you know teaser times you studied him in college soup with the draft shows. I just want to I just want to know, like, do you think which one you think is? We can get into that, but after after having watched the first I've watched the first half of the season opener, Giants and Jacks way more worried about the guys out wide than the guy in the ball really yes, well, yes, his

big run came later though, right. Yeah, I hope that Zeke is is better at running back because if not, and if you're just doing that, you know, checks on each side offensive line, Cowboys, running back. I hope it's Cowboys right now with Zeke at Barkley Ride receiver, it is You're not about to win. The next two is not tied end and it's not quarterback. I don't care what people just kind of face them Ali man, I think it's a push at quarterback. I personally think it's

a push. I don't know how you can say that watching how Eli played last season and how he played better than one of them is going to go to the Hall of Fame. I know that. I'm saying, how can anyone say Dak is better than Eli? Oh? Oh, I'm I've just understood you. I thought you were saying Dak is better than I think you're both playing. Neither one of them is playing. I'm sorry if I said that. I'm sorry that Dak is not. He was two years ago rookie year looked like, you know, Arrow was going

this way, But no, he's he's not. About two years ago, he was playing out a pretty high light. Giants should be last year. The Cowboys should be more worried about what Eli can do than what that can do. Um, definitely throwing the ball. Yeah, I don't know. I think they got to be worried about what those receivers can do, and that that's in some respect has to do with

the quarterback. But I also think he can get the ball out quick, and those receivers can turn a little bit into a ton, right, So that's the part I'm more worried about, is that receiver. Well, you're stealing my thunder, so it's fine. Thanks for bringing it up. Well, both teams are oh and one right now, and if you were talking yesterday about how important these early games can matter when he comes down to later in the season.

Now both teams and the Cowboys playing at home I believe they've maybe beat the Giants the last like four times. I think they haven't lost them. Well, they lost to him at home in twenty sixteen, and they beat him last year, and they beat him in fifteen, and they beat him in fourteen. But what I'm getting and it's like at this point, this whole home field advantage that people like to bring up, I don't think that's a factor right now with what you have in the NFL

home field. There's probably two or three stadiums, in my opinion, where home field really matters. In my opinion, I think by and large in the NFL, it's you get out there on the field and it's these teams are very adept at being able to be able to operate their offense and their defense even when there's noise coming from

the crowd. You look at some of the upsets this last weekend, there was some pretty good home teams that got beat So I just I don't believe home fiel advantage is it's a huge a deal in this particular sport, as it may be another like basketball, I think it's a huge deal. I don't think so on football. I'm conflicted about that. I think the thing with home field advantages, I mean, and you're right. I mean the Saints jump right out to me, that is a nice home field

advantage that was good for nothing on Sunday. Yeah, and that's one of the places I would have said and the home field advantage actually matter. There were a couple of others, But I do think home field advantage is in poor but I think it's I think home field advantage is what makes things go from bad to worse. Like if you're you know, Cowboys, case in point, like maybe they play a little bit better at at and T Stadium. They might not win the game, but it

might not be that bad. And you know, the Seahawks are the same way. I think when you get a good thing role in that crowd helps, you know, like it keeps the other team off their game. And but yeah, for the most part, I don't think you're going to lose a game because of home field advantage. I think you can lose a game worse than you should because

of home field advantage. So right now, at this point, we've gotten a chance to watch every team play and get a feel of what it is like at this point, and based on the results that we saw this whole weekend, a lot of ugly games, a lot of disappointment happening around the league. I would say, but at this point, where do you think the Cowboys stand versus all the other teams in the league power rankings? They would be

in the low twenty, twenty three, twenty four. I think they definitely did not put up the worst game of the weekend, right, but they are in the running and put it that way. I mean, and nobody should feel worse than the Detroit Lions today, in my opinion, given up fifty at home to a rookie quarterback. Five picks from your franchise guy, who I've been a big defender of Nick doesn't like him. Maybe he's right because that was terrible. Matthew Stafford, who I'm talking about the Saints

again to bring them up. I mean, ten point favorites have not. Here's the I don't think that the Saints can look at that game and be like so worried because they did they still did put up forty points and so offensively they got to feel like, hey, number one, we got to tighten up some stuff defensively, and you know, we just got to figure out some things I don't

think they worry as much as like the Cowboys. You look at the Cowboys, and the reason why I said they're probably mid to low twenties is because if you go back and look at the problems they've had over the last span of games, not just one game, but span of games, you start to wonder, is this offense gonna find his mojo? And if you can't score points. You said this yesterday, If you can't score points, you're not gonna win games. Unless you've got a historically great defense,

the thing not going to win games. And that's the part that probably worries the Cowboys more than any other franchise right now. There are probably a few other teams that are in that boat, but there are a lot of teams to score points. This week that lost. Cowboys weren't one of them. They lost and didn't score anything. One more. I will eats. I will stop bringing up the New Orleans Saints for the day after I'm done

with this. But I think it's pertinent because the stat that's floating around right there is if you start owing to you know what, like eighty ninety percent of teams that do that don't make the playoffs. Well the Saints. Well, it sounds like I'm defending the Cowboys. The Saints started in two last year and made the playoffs. At the problem is what the Saints have. They had the offensive rookie of the year, their whole I mean, their draft class.

It rivals the twenty sixteen Cowboys in terms of draft class making an impact, and Drew Brees, who was going to the Hall of Fame, played the most efficient season of his career. Did you see anything on Sunday that gives you confidence that the Cowboys can can engineer a turnaround like that? And yeah, I honestly don't know what because I can't remember back to what New Orleans, not that I even watch those games. What New Orleans did in those two losses. How did they perform? Like did

they look as bad as the Cowboys offensive? I can tell you right now that they probably didn't enter the season just thinking that Kamara was going to be the guy that they have to just lean on or you know, profile him that much in the offense. He had done some nice things. He has an expanded role. Next thing, you know, he is one of the more dynamic players in this league. So then the question becomes were there guys yesterday? Did we see things from guys yesterday that

maybe could give you a reason to believe? I'm sorry, Sunday, that maybe gives you a reason to believe. Like, let's say, for example, did you see anything from wide receivers and tight ends. It makes you say, hey, if this quarterback figures out how to get the ball to the right place at the right time, you got some some different options in the right there. Okay, I like your questions, but you guys can answer you when we come back

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one in the draft and suck you don't want. Okay, but before Miles comes back, um, I think that right? Yeah, I think this is a pretty big game though, for a lot of reasons. One of them is you need to decide kind of where you're going to go if the Cowboys, if there is a trade that they still want to make, If you're O and two and you lost to the Giants, it changes the course of things

a little bit now out. I mean, because it's like, what type of team are you going to have if this is a if you're going to bring a player in that might help you and kind of get over the top and fit, you know, fill a hole, that's fine. But if not, then I mean, I don't know when your defense can't do all the work. I honestly believe though, that that's the kind of decision that I make after three or four games. I don't think after two. I know what the statistics say, but I'm I still and

again maybe this is just my own personal optimism. I don't believe after two games in a sixteen game season, anything is determined. So okay, mister optimistic, Yeah, before we went into break, you post the question of did you see anything from this team that offensively Yes? Yes, that will make you feel better going or moving forward into

the season. Yes, And my answer your own the way I would answer that question is yes, I did not expect that the wide receivers and tight ends would be open as much as they were until after the game. I'm standing there in the locker room, Cole Beasley is talking to the media and says, go back and watch the film. You will see that wide receivers were open. It made my eyebrow go up because I was like, Wow,

did he just say that? And then I went back and I talked to Brian first because I didn't have a chance to watch watch it before he went on the air yesterday, and he was like, he's absolutely correct. And then after the show I went back and watched it and he was absolutely correct. There were wide receivers

and tight ends open throughout that game. And so that gives me, like, personally makes me think, Okay, this is not a bigger problem, and it makes me think that although I do think I do think offensively they probably could have done more to create more diversity in the offense. It does make me think that even without that, they had opportunities. There were plays where they got guys open, they schemed guys open on plays and for whatever reason, they didn't get the ball. So all I'm saying is

that does make me feel better. It still means your quarterback's gotta be good enough to do it, and we have to see if he can do that consistent And and this is one of my biggest pet peeves. I always hate it when people just they start off blaming the quarterback every time when a guy is open every time, like it's like, well, day's open. But it's like, why didn't you get him the ball? I mean, you don't see all the time. You can't see he was running

for his life. You said, for whatever reason it didn't get the ball. The reason was that the line couldn't block him at all. Well, but there was I don't think that's the case. I don't think you can say that every time either, because there were some times when he had time, He had plenty of time. There was nobody within three yards of him, so time, Okay, I got it, missed, he missed Gallup and met Gallup should have made the catch. But he missed Gallup. Gallup should

have made that catch, though he dropped the ball. I mean, that's one of the slick conditions. I don't know, maybe maybe not, No, he should have made the catch, but the way it was thrown, it wasn't going to be the game then it right could have been a big game. And that's what I think receivers do, and I think selfish receivers do this. I'm not calling him that, but

selfish receivers sometimes will do a crossing route. They want that ball right there, like they're Jerry Rice, so they can go fifty yards with it, which it could have been a forty fifty yard. That wasn't the case. He should have stopped completely make the catch and it might have only been ten twelve yards, but still, you know, you have to do that. But that was a horrible throw. All I'm saying is is that he was sacked six times. If Dak wasn't as big and strong and agile as

he is, it could have been ten. It could have been more than that, you know. I mean, Eli Manning probably would well, he would have get the ball out a lot quicker, you know, than that he hadn't taken six, right, but he's not taken six. But all I'm saying is is that they this offensive line. That's where the issue was was was the line. So the receiver's getting open is a good positive thing. Can they get it blocked. Yeah, and I think that the here's the deal. You can

look at the offensive line. You can say you have offensive line has some problems. But I think it was you or Dave that was telling me yesterday when you go back and look at it, the rookie actually only had a few bad plays, right. I know two of them turned into sacks, but it was only two or three where he really had bad plays. That's what can

happen with an offensive line. Two plays can turn into two sacks, and that means a horrible day when the fact of the matter is it wasn't as bad as it may have may have sounded, or may have even looked on the field, especially when you're going up against a guy like going short. I'm not worried about any of this. Like the receivers were more open than they got credit for. Dak had a bad day. I'm not ready to just abandon all confidence that I had in Dak.

Like I think that's gonna be fine. Can and I said this yesterday, but like can Ezekiel Elliott just be part the part the part of this offense that he needs to be. Like, I mean, did I know you did we talked about it already Todd Gurley, which honestly, like his numbers aren't that much different than what Zeke did. Todd got targeted five game, five times in the game last night, but it was how he was targeted. You know,

they were throwing wheel routes to him down field. He had he scored a touchdown on a pop pass, which is literally like a jet sweep. He goes in motion and you just flick him the ball and yeah, no, seriously, he only had twenty carries. He I mean, and they diced the Rams defense up. I'm you know, that's a different story. I don't want to compare defenses because I

don't know enough about them. Sorry, but that's that is what's going to need to happen for the Cowboys offense to be successful, is for Ezekiel Elliott to be the star of the show and in a variety of ways, and we didn't see it Sunday. Part of that is the defense your plan. Again, it's not time to close

the book, but it's got to be better. But I mean that's also a part of if you got a stud player, you got to feed him, and I don't feel like they fed him in different ways, like whether it's in the passing game like you say yesterday, I'd love to see them runs that Texas route more frequently. I think that is an indefensible route unless you're gonna zone them, unless you're gonna play zone, which then creates a lot of other opportunities for you. It is hard

for for a got to keep up in. What I mean by Texas route basically, you flare out and then you come back in, you get back into the middle. It's almost impossible to cover that man to man for most linebackers or most safeties because of the nature of the route. And I just think they ought to use it more when talking about what they should use a little bit more, When did this team just decide that they don't need a fullback? I mean, the type of offense that they want to run, why not use a fullback?

And I don't know if Ola wallis the smashmouth fullback that they're that they've had in the in the path, they didn't have it. He's not the same guy as Keith Smith. But I'm saying, you know, why does Zeke have to do all of the work right there? I mean, it's a different mindset. You want to spread them out a little bit, but they don't. It'd be one thing if they just say, we don't want the fullback because we want to spread things out. But when Terrence Williams,

who's got zero pancakes probably in his life. He's a good blocker, but not to the point where you should be in the line of scrimmage and blocking. I don't know why we're not using more of a fullback there. Well, I don't know. Zeke is Zeke gives this offense the best chance to be very successful, and you got to do more with him to make that happen. In my degree, I hope they listen to you. They've so see tomorrow we will dissect the Giant's offense for real and we'll

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