Cowboys Break: Just Getting Bye

episode number sixty eight. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break, Live from the s WBC Bargats Mortgage Studios at the Star. They stopped yawning, man, seriously, what am I doing? I wasn't yawn and I was just kind of him Yeah, seriously, Nick, Dave, how are you guys doing. I'm awesome. We're good. Yeah, ready to roll into another week here. Coming off the bye, should have gotten plenty

of rest. I feel rejuvenated, awesome. Honestly, I feel weird, Like you just you get in, you know, you get into the grind of the season and every day's sort of you know, you kind of get into the schedule. And it was nice having what we had, like four days off, but it kind of throws you off a little bit. Yeah, it was weird. I couldn't relax this weekend. I kept telling my wife, like, I can't relax. I feel like I need to be doing something. It's hard to get out of that mode of just going, going,

going going. I had an easy time doing it day like, yeah, it was all good with me. I napped all day Friday, got a massage, Oh that's nice, partied on Saturday a little bit, and watch football yesterday. It was awesome. Yeah. I don't like it when it's like this and it's gonna be this way all week where it's just like it's really a Wednesday and Garrett's gonna sit up there and say, well, today's a Monday, and you're like, no, it isn't. But it's gonna happen all the way until

you get to the game. It's not gonna get normal again until Tuesday. What's gonna what's gonna be weird is Monday. You know, you watch a full day of games on Sunday and then Monday it's a Monday, like it's a weekday. You're used to working, but you're just gonna be waiting around for the game. Yeah. So yeah, but when's the last time we've had two weekends in a row where where we were able to watch football on a Sunday. It's gonna on a Saturday and a Sunday. Travel you

don't have a game on Sunday. That's that's actually pretty nice, not complaining, but it's still it's definitely throws you for a loop. Well, today we're going to talk a little bit. I know there was a topic Friday that we started up and we didn't get a chance to finish. We were talking about change. I threw out a couple changes that you guys that could possibly take place or just changes that we're worth talking about, and there were four others that I have for you guys. We're gonna talk

a little bit more about that. But before we get to that, I just wanted to recap a little bit on the weekend. I assume you guys watched a little football this weekend, and I mean I saw somebody say on Twitter, it feels like a victory Monday. Not really, because all the things that the Cowboys probably wanted to happen this weekend, two in particular, did not happen. You saw two division teams that you probably wanted to take a loss, both get a win. Washington beats New York,

which you probably could have expected. Yeah, on the road you thought maybe it was a chance, but obviously not. And then Philadelphia in London gets to win over Jacksonville, and Jacksonville continues to just look awful and it's it's amazing. Then at forty to seven wins, losing some luster, right, It's like one of those things where you thought at the time it was a really great win, but now you kind of wonder if it was just that's a

bad team. And really, looking at all the teams the Cowboys have beaten, you know, there's not a lot of there's not a lot there to say that that you can gauge how good the Cowboys are because the teams that they've beaten aren't very good. That's that's the NFL for me, though with very rare exceptions. I mean, if you go up to Foxborough and beat the Pats, you

should feel pretty good about that. If you beat this Rams team, if you beat the Packers while Aaron Rodgers is in there, okay, But for the most I mean, it's the NFL. Any. I mean, the Bills went on the road and beat the crap out of what we think as a decent Vikings team, which so you know, that looks like a statement win that the Saints put up last night. But is it? I mean, have the Vikings look like world beaters to this point and every one of they every one of the losses the Cowboys

have had or against teams now that are good. I mean at the time, Houston was not looking very good and neither was the Seattle looking good. Carolina looks really good. Why they all turned it around after they played the Cowboys. Yeah, still kind of early it is, or it's it's the NFL and everybody but about four teams looks mediocre as hell, Like that's the Saints, Rams, Uh, Pats and Chiefs all

look pretty awesome and everybody else. I'm just November is gonna tell it all because you got you got the Eagles twice I think technical December. Yeah, but that that whole stretch there, you have the Redskins coming back on Thanksgiving. I mean, all that's going to really determine what, you know, what this team does. So, um, you know there'll be

some swing games, has it? It feels like that at Atlanta game again about the same point in the season, it's gonna be a time where, you know, if the Cowboys are really going to do something like, they have to win that one right there, because Atlanta's getting hot now hot relatively speaking for their for for what this season has been for them. They've had a few wins here in a row, and so they're starting to get to a point where maybe they're finding their way. And

this happens every year in the NFL season. There's gonna be a team that was around that five hundred mark um at week five, weeks six, weeks, week seven that gets on a role and will be a player in the playoffs. It's obvious it mains to be seeing who that's gonna be, but it was definitely the Cowboys. Mary Cooper's here offense is coming on. Let's go maybe get

on the train. You know one thing that stood up to me this weekend as I started kind of I watched the rest of the game, I was wondering, if we're gonna get to that, we're gonna get to that fact you want to throw that out there. I mean I kind of almost didn't want to bring it up because I know on this show, our response to Johnson shouldn't have done that. Yeah, go ahead and tell them what you think. I think, Jimmy Johnson, because do your own thing, coach your own team. You mean, you don't

need to be standing up there. You're not coaching. Yeah you did coach, but you're not coaching anymore. And the thing that I didn't like about his comment, it's comment about Jason Garrett being at the Dodger game on on the BUYE weekend. But but he was like, it doesn't He said something like it doesn't really matter to him. It just does not a good look. It's not a good perception, perception when reality is his Why or should

he be worrying about perception? I mean if to me, it's like if you're an analyst, you're gonna say it, then say it, but don't throw it out there like a perception because at this point, does Jason Garrett really care about what the perception is? Did he care about what the perception? Let me ask you, this was he saying the perception with this with the general media and public.

Are you saying the perception to his team? Well? If it or is there a different does that matter to you that if fish players are over here working out, or if fish coaches over here working out. That's fine. I think it was ghost town, so if it if it was, I'm betting it was a ghost right. I know it was a ghost right, So I'm just say, you're up here, but yeah, you know it was Actually did come up here on Sunday, I for my phone charger died. I had to come get my spare. But

did you see it working out? I was here long enough, here long enough to see not a single car in the parking lot, you know, before I went back, not one? Not one? And nor should it be honest, it's the bye week, Yeah, which reason why you get a bye week. I don't have a problem with Jimmy Johnson saying it because to a degree, I think he's right. It is the perception. I mean, Jason Garrett could have gone to that game and sat in the back of a suite and no one would have been the wiser. But he

wanted to sit next to Brad Paisley. He knew he was going to wind up on national TV, and to his credit, I don't think he cares, nor should he. But if you're the head coach of the most visible franchise in American sports and they're not doing that well, people are gonna have stuff to say about that. That's just the nature of the job that comes with the dinner, as he always likes to say. But he's never cared

about that, nor do I think he should. He's paid handsomely and I don't have the slightest problem with it. It's the bye week, Like, everybody deserves a break from their job, no matter how much they're paid to do it. Like it's lunacy to think that he should be up here diagramming plays on a Friday night. I guarantee you he put in long hours before everybody took their break. Freaking everyone and their mother took a vacation. I mean, every player was out of town. San Jay Law went

out to the Bay Area to visit his parents. He told us that on Thursday before they broke Like, that's what you do on the bye week. However, however bad you might think he is, that, however bad you might think, Jason Garrett is at his job, He's well within his right to do that during the team's weekend off. It's fine, but you sit front row at a World Series game, having the job he has, it's gonna draw attention. That's just the nature. Yeah, it's just one of the things

that I've come to really despise about sports. I love sports, I love football, but I despise this one thing that there's this perception that in sports you have to be that sports test to be everything. And I don't think that's healthy, number one, But I don't think it's the right thing either. I'll give you an example. This last weekend,

my nephew plays college football. One of his teammates, a starting wide receiver in New Mexico, missed the game because his sister was getting married, and people are actually talking about it on the air. The people on the air talking about and they were talking about how you know some people that were like, well, how could he miss a game for a wedding? And never never heard of that before, And it just kind of stuck out to me that that's part of what's wrong a little bit

with how we viewed sports. Sports is entertainment, Sports is fun. Sports is not the end all be all. There are lives, and people's lives should trump that to some degree. And that doesn't mean you you miss practicing games just for flip reasons, but in a situation like this where a man is off from work, like it is designed to get guys away from work, and he went to enjoy what for some people would be a once in a

lifetime type experience. I'm not sure if he's been to a World Series before, but I would assume for most people that's a great experience to have, whether you're a coach or not. I think that it's kind of it's it's lunacy that people would have a problem with the fact that he took his off time to go and have an experience like that. Sports is not the end all be all, nor should it be, And if we know any thing, I mean, there's gonna be some kind of team message that comes out of it. You know.

I thought about our football team sitting maybe a sitting right behind the on deck circle at Dodger Stadium, Game three, and I thought about us, thought about our team. Yeah, I can see that it's gonna come back. It's no good but work. That's the That's the age old debate, though, isn't it. I mean it's this, you know, why do people get mad at players for holding out for a better contract, Like, oh, you have this amazing opportunity, like

you're the head coach of the Cowboys. But you make five million dollars a year to do this and people will kill for your job, so they expect that and keep in mind too, uh this, I mean, the whole reason this is as popular as it is is because it's an escape for the people that watch it, and a lot of people tie up, to be honest, too much of their self worth in how their football teams doing. So to see that as we do with our college program. Oh that, I mean everybody, we do it too. We're

part of this. We wouldn't be this, We wouldn't be doing this job if we didn't feel that way. Right, But sometimes you just got to take a step back and be like, the Cowboys aren't three and four because Jason Garrett is taking in a baseball game, right, I

want to buy to buy way I thought. I got a few tweets about it, some you know whatever fans had different opinions about it, But one of them was like, did you find it ironic at all that he was did he was sitting front row at a game that was pretty much tied, you know, for seventeen seventeen innings or whatever. That's my biggest beef. I don't have a by all means, Jason Garrett go to the game. I didn't like it, but i'd liked it. Yeah you did, um.

I just I believe he left early, which like, shame on you like you, Oh yeah you made that's your big pet peeve about sports. Hell yeah, yeah, you made the effort to gil you flew across the country the longest and one of the most epic baseball games in history, and it had to I mean the home He's clearly rooting for the Dodgers. He's friends with Tommy Letzorda and Clayton Kershaw. They win in a walk off after eighteen innings,

like you'll never see that again. And I believe he left early, which like that already had his T shirt idea, like that's all one game he didn't agree to do. He was back. It's the bye week, man, you can only get into one game. It's Friday night. I guarantee you he probably flew private like he shame on you stay for the whole thing. Stay, always stay, especially like if you already sunk the time and resources you got us, maybe the wife was ready to go, and why it's

ready to go then we're leading. Sorry for the Dallas Cowboys dot com alumni Rowan Kavner, who was a Dodgers He works for the Dodgers as it does work for the Dodgers. Just there, writer, writer. He texted me, which I you know I was. I was overserved? Well, no, no, no, on Friday night, Saturday night, I was overserved. But I was Friday, Saturday, Sunday. It's all the same, Rowan was. Rowan is one of my dearest friends. So I was in communication with him throughout the weekend and on I

get yeah, it was Saturday night. You know they they won that one, but they were then they're losing to go down three one and obviously they lost the series last night. And he texts me, and he's a lifelong Rangers fan too, so he's like, this is the second time I've had to watch a team i'm invested in lose back to backworld series. And he's like, what did I do to deserve this? Like, I don't know, man, that's just the crappy gotta hurts. The crappy hand you

got delt that's gotta hurt, hurt so bad. All right, let's take our first break when we come back. I do want to talk a little bit about that Washington Redskins run defense. I want to throw out some were about this that's where I was going. Okay, but you look at some of the names of the running backs that they faced this year, and some of the totals that they've that they've held them too. I think it's pretty it's pretty interesting and something worth noting. We'll talk

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it's not a defeat money, but it's not a defeat month. Correct. The bye week is great. People who don't like the bye week don't know what they're talking about them. Yeah, like your Longhorns didn't get it done on Saturday. I'm sorry. I'm not trying to rub salt in the wound. But I just got to sit back and chill like I didn't have to worry about all that. Yeah, it was a long weekend. Yeah, very long weekend. But let's talk about these Washington Redskins. Obviously, if the Cowboys after losing

the game that they played to them already. If they're going to get back into the mix for the division, I think it's a I think it is an absolute must that they win on Thanksgiving when Washington comes to town. But if you look at how they're playing football and how they're winning, one of the things that's most important I think for the Redskins is that they are stopping

the run at a very very very good pace. Like right now, they are second in the league and run defense only given up eighty point one yards per game on the ground. They have not checked this out. Only two teams NFL that have this stat They have not given up a single run over twenty plus yards, and there's only the only other team was I want to say, maybe I can't remember, that would make sense. It was one other team that hasn't done it as well that

has no It's Minnesota, That's who it is. It's Minnesota. But they've not given up a single run. The longest run they've given up is eighteen yards, and have not given up a running a running to a running play over twenty yards. And obviously that's what the Cowboys do. What we've seen from the Cowboys this season When they've had success, they're able to run the ball. When they don't have success, they're not able to run the ball.

Listening to some of these numbers, they faced David Johnson at thirty four yards, They faced mark Ingram fifty three, Alvin Kamar twenty four, Cam Newton forty three, Christian McCaffrey twenty, Zeke thirty three, Dac thirty three, Sequon Barkley thirty eight. So they're doing this across the board. This is not just one one time. They're doing this every week. They're holding teams that traditionally run the ball well, good runners,

they're holding them to literally practically nothing on the ground game. Yeah, that's the stats, the stat that went viral yesterday. Their last three games, Carolina Dallas and then New York McCaffrey, Zeke and Barkley combined for the less than a hundred yards combined, which, hey, you spend you spend first round picks I think number thirteen and number eighteen overall on these super free, athletic defensive tackles and you got two smart,

sure handed linebackers behind them. That's what happens. I mean, it's playing out the way they wanted it to when they made those picks. So thinking about all that, what do you think the Cowboys have to do? Is the signing of Amari Cooper enough to maybe give them that other option because they're gonna, i think, when they play Washington, unless they figure out a way to penetrate that defensive front that nobody else has figured out yet, they're gonna have to throw the ball in order to move the

ball down the field. Yeah. So do you think that's enough bringing in Amari Cooper to be able to do that? Yeah? I think I think it is. I mean, they're not far from from you know, winning these games and what And that's the thing about Washington. As good as their defense is playing, their offense isn't really good that good where they're gonna pull away from people. This isn't like you know, the Saints that they're defense is playing pretty

well and their offense is playing really well. So they're four the six and one or seven and one wherever they are right now. You know, same with the Rams. You know they're doing it on both ends of Washington really isn't so you know, they've their defense is dominating those games, but I believe they're all one score games and they were down to the end, and you know, you have a game manager and Alex Smith, and that's kind of what he is. Those guys aren't going to

run away from you. So I think you know you're talking about you know, the Cowboys lost twenty to seventeen. They give up a defensive touchdown. They need to you know, I think Rob Phillips had a stat the other day, I mean a touchdown a game. You know, maybe can Amari Cooper give you a touchdown a game? A touchdown a game would change you know, it would change the course of your season so far right now. So I think that that's kind of where they are. I mean,

that's asking for a lot from one guy. But I think, you know, I think they'll be okay. I mean, they're not that far off three and four, They're not that far off. I'm declining to put that much pressure on Amari Cooper. I just I need to see it, which I mean there's gonna be pressure on regardless they've gave up first round pick. I get that. I'm not saying I don't have expectations for him, but I need to see that to believe it as a baseline. Just starting out.

We haven't seen him play yet. I just hope and think that he is enough of a threat that it will open things up for everybody else. I think defenses have to be more reluctant to put nine in the box and to focus as much as they have on Cole Beasley, knowing that a guy like Amari Cooper is out there and he needs to make the plays to cement that. I guess, but I think he has that potential, and I really think that's going to be the difference. Is just that his presence, you would like to think

will make things easier for everybody else. I actually don't think his presence will do that. I think they're gonna have to convert like they're gonna have to do it, because I think teams are gonna say, yeah, we see, but we're gonna until you show us that you can consistently do it. We're gonna still take the option that we'll take Zeke out of the game, and if you

beat us, you beat us. And I think the Cowboys are gonna have to beat a few teams throw the ball up and really going down filled with it in order to force teams to realize not only do they have the weapon, but that they're actually going to use it the right way because I don't think teams trust them to do it. You have to do that. I mean, Scott Lenahan, Jason Garrett, Dak Prescott, they have to do that.

They have to throw You're you're right. I mean, you can get it blocked, take four steps, go back and throw the ball deep. You can't. I mean, nothing stops you from doing that. I mean you may not be the best look that you want, but you can definitely do it. You can do back shoulder things, you can do things towards the sideline where you hope that a first round pick like Amara Cooper can go up and make the play. They have to do that, and if

they don't, then then it's on them. It's on Lenahan, it's on DAC because they have provided a weapon that can do that and that will help easily, that will help a line, that will help Zeke, that will help DAC. I mean that's the that's really the only way. So you're right about that. They have to do it, and I don't I don't know what other way you can say it. I feel like we've talked about this a few times and I mean, I agree, yes, obviously you

got to take shots down the field. But this goes back to a talking point from the Washington game, which is they burned him bad on the Michael Gallup double move for a touchdown, and the Redskins played off for the rest of the game. They're like, we're not gonna let you do that anymore because they burned him. Yeah, which well, and so I don't think it's realistic. You know, Dack's just not gonna suddenly start playing like Matt Stafford and just chucking the ball like that's not what he does.

But Amari Cooper, he damned well better if you trade a first round pick be able to just run the twelve yard comeback and not let the dB hook his arm and catch the ball. And if he's consistently doing that, then that's enough. On it really is, and people don't use and that's the point. They got to use him, yea. You know, they have to use him and force teams to realize that he is enough of a weapon that

they can beat you like that. If he can consistently make catches eight to twenty yards down the field, it will be enough. I genuinely think that I agree you know what's weird is that you think, well, is one player enough? Well, the way this team plays, think of it, I mean the whole touchdown a game, that's a good way to look at it. But what about, you know, two or three first downs a game? Can this guy

give you two or three first downs? Because there's a lot of times that this team is putting around the fifty yard line two or three first downs, and now that that's the year down at the thirty, you're kicking a field goal. We've seen two games already this year. Word, a field goal by the Cowboys would have been a difference maker. Even a field goal in Seattle would have been a difference maker when you're driving there at the end.

So maybe the case for Carolina too. So you know, just a few first downs, that's how close this thing is. And it's and it's close the other way the Cowboys have lost, I mean have won a close game too. So um, I just I just feel like, yes, if you if you simplify things a little bit, I do believe that this this guy will help just enough. They don't need a lot to kind of win some games here. They're right there, their defense is really good, their offensive

solid at home. They need they need to figure out how they need Yeah, that's another thing, but we don't have to worry about about that this week, two more weeks. Yeah, they should win this game. I'm surprised the line wasn't a little bit more than that for four points. It just came out. I guess is it four points? Yeah? I mean, whose favorite? Dallas by four. That's which I'm surprised it's not a little more too. That tells you

something like Vegas does not respect Washington at all. Because they were one point underdogs against a sorry New York team. I know it was well they underdogs. I thought they were. They were favored by one okay either way even there either way either way. But still like I'm surprised by that because they've looked really good the last three or four weeks. I mean, I know they got shellacked by

the Saints, but that was a month ago. But didn't you also kind of think this was a week end where if Giants are gonna get that, that that win. This part of seeing this would be the win they would get. Not really division teams. I just think division teams. It's always kind of a crap that it is. That's how sorry he is. That's how sorry the Giants have been. I mean se Quon Barkley or do you realize what

he's doing. He's on pace for two thousand all purpose yards, like he's gonna run and through and catch for a thousand and it doesn't matter. Like that's how bad they are that they can't even make use of that. If I was the Giants, I would trade whatever it takes man man, not whatever it takes, but I would trade maybe a second round pick whatever to to Oakland for Derek Carr. You're the second or third person i've heard suggest that, and I yeah, I'm here for it. I mean,

give up your up, young versions he's pretty young. You needs something, give up a shit and oh I just cursed on the are Sorry my bad, I got it's I told you I've been thrown for a loop. I've been thrown for a loop. Um what Oakland would then have four first round picks? Yeah, well, no, said a second, not the Giants first. I'm not throwing that. I'm not trading their first I mean if if, if, if a quarterback is what you need to help fix that thing.

It's kind of the same logic. As the Cowboys in that. I mean, but that's is the guy you're gonna get in the draft better than Derek Carr when Derek Carr has any but would take that second round pick because it's gonna be a high second. And I can't believe that they would demand a first for Amari Cooper and then let their franchise quarterback go for a second round.

And my thing is, if I'm going to give up that that pick, are there other back I mean, other quarterbacks out there that maybe I think are better options in the draft. Like no, I'm saying I'm saying that are in the Like I might opt for a guy like Teddy Bridgewater who you might have to give up less he's sitting on someone's bench. Maybe you can get that trade for a little less than a second round.

I can't imagine why the Saints would trade him because he's the third quarter but like he's your insurance policy. I mean, you know, I think they love Taysom Hill. I think he's gonna he only plays every Yeah, snap, I just think he's gonna end up being their quarterback. Taysom Hill is their gadget guy. I get everything. But that's just because They can't put him at quarterback right

now because their quarterback is Drew Brees. If Drew Brees gets concussed against the Rams next week and can't play, Big Bridgewater, Yeah, absolutely, that's what he's their face. And you talked about not having games on Sunday. Um, there's gonna be some good ones of what Sunday afternoon? This coming Sunday, yeah, or Sunday, right, don't the Saints Ramsay's on Sunday. Packers pages at night, right, that's a Sunday night game, right, that's good stuff. That'll be fun. All right,

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be on the Field with America's team. Find steps and hats in the Pro Shop or at Stetson dot com. Today. Back to the Break, Welcome back to the Break. We're in the final segment life in the SWBC Mortate Studios. At the start, it's Monday, following the bye week. We're get you guys ready for Cowboys versus Titans. That happens Monday Nights, Monday Night football next week. So we got a long week to get you ready. Dave's already started watching the Titans. He'll start breaking that down on a

Wednesdays show. Will do a Wednesday and Thursday and Friday, get you guys ready for the show. Not sure yet whether we'll have shows on Monday. I'm thinking probably not. I'll probably get you guys ready over the end of this week and then we'll just head right into that game Monday. So let's get some calls, you guys, calls eight five five two two nine seven. Again it is eight eight eight eight five five two two nine seven. Before we do that, Nick tell us a little about

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percent off your first order. Awesome, Thank you, Nick. Do you have something? No? I thought you about to say something, all right, So let's go into some phone calls. We got a call from Ken in New Mexico. Ken, what up? Hey, it's good to talk to you guys. You know what, I haven't talked to the Cowboy Network since I talked to Frank Lusk and burnemun Quist way back in the sixties. WHOA, I wasn't even alive, Uncle Verne, And that means if

I wasn't alive, nobody else and this crew was alive walks. No, but I was my friends. Hey passed some month in. Nate Newton form me real quick. He said the other day that Valdez is coming, and he said he was talking about that in from Louis Lamar, the writer, but it was from Elmore Leonard. Okay, I read like Nate. Okay. The other thing that I have is they need to run Chris Jones. I've watched the right side of the

Washington Redskin defense. Every time Chris went into formation, the guy on the end came around and left the pass straight up the side for Chris Jones to run a lot of yards. If they ran in Houston, Cowboys win. If Chris ran once in Washington, Cowboys win that game. They've got to use Chris Jones's speed or they're wasting him. That's all I got. Thank you, my brothers, thank you. Okay, Well, I mean it's one of those things where you'll do it once a season, and I think that they will

do it. You've seen it, and you're right, his beat is good enough to do that. They're just you just kind of find the right time and rights, you know, formation, and you know look that you're looking for. I mean, it'll happen, but I mean it's not something it happens every week. It's not like, oh, they need to Yeah, I wouldn't recommend it. So this is not the same for you as like uh, fleeflicker, Well you would flee flicker.

You say it, I'll do that every week because the worst case scenario, that means the safety just stays back. And I'm okay with the safety standing back regularly. I don't think, um, I don't think you're gonna get the looks that you want. And I don't think he would benefit you to do it, to do it too much. I mean, actually he's a pretty good punter too, So I mean you don't want to. I mean, that's that's the thing. You don't want him taking a lot of any hit. Did you see your boy Michael Dixon from

the You of t at Austin yesterday? Michael Dixon. H Yeah, yeah, what do you see what he did yesterday? Yesterday? No, he won the game for the Seahawks. Well sort of, they were up by fourteen. Now I didn't see it. He faked like they got a good look punting out of his own end zone. The Seahawks wanted him to take a safety, and because they were up by fourteen, so you know, we'll kick. We're still up twelve, he saw a good look and just took off running out

of his own end zone. If he doesn't get it, the Lions get the ball on like their own four with a chance to score, and he picked it up and iced the game. Wow, it's pretty amazing. Hey, and he freelanced it like he did not get he did not have the Greelancing doesn't always work out, as we saw last night, right with your boy in Green Bay, who decides after the coach tells him, don't take the ball out of the end zone, we're gonna let our million dollar man go out there and win the game

for us. He decides on his own that he's gonna just run the ball out was at Montgomery. Yeah and uh, and then promptly fumbles and you should have seen the look on Aaron Rodgers. Really pretty much everybody on that teams like, we got Aaron freaking Roger at least saying Aaron Rodgers was gonna drive it down and win. Yeah, yes I do. Now the question is, can did anybody anybody think he wasn't? That's the better question. I mean, of course he's gonna drop. He only needed a field goal.

I could look this up, but I'm just gonna ask, did um I know Aikman did the game? Did Joe Buck do the game? Foot all? No? It was Tony Well he was so he was in la world. That's what I was wondering, because I didn't notice any difference. I was like, did it maybe he held? How would he do that? Like? Do you think that's possible for him to get from one to the other? Seems like the count Oh wait, oh no, no, I forgot they played No, because yeah, the Dodgers played at seven. No,

he couldn't have done that. Yeah, I think so. For some it's too much of return. If the World Series had ended on Saturday night, I wouldn't be surprised, right, Yeah, I could see that. But the same same day, like back to back out it was Tom Burnaman point. All right, let's get another call. We got a call from Derek in Baltimore. Derek, what up? Hey, So that's how y'all doing a long time listen the first time call up. Appreciate Hey, I'm asking about l L team. We supposed

to be like a power running team. I think we need to shake up l offensive line a little bit. Maybe put Colins in inside. Well, maybe even Smith Tyland Smith, because he's one of our most powerful guys and we need to inside push. Zeke has nowhere to go, and Dak is scared in the pocket. I mean he's jumping now. Well, what do you guys think? You know, We appreciate the call. I don't think Tyrn Smith is would ever be a guard.

I think what makes Tyrn Smith so good is is, you know, just his athletic ability to play on the edge. I don't know if he would even be a strong, powerful guy up front. I don't know that. I mean he does everything really well, so maybe, but they're not doing it, so they're really not worth it talking about that now. I did ask Paul Alexander the other day that very question. I go, and this is what fans want to know. Why not move Connor Williams outside Lyle

Collins inside. And his answer was, when you get halfway down the road, you're already halfway down the roads. You should keep driving, which I hate hate that answer. If you get halfway down the road, you're already halfway down the road. So why so that does that mean like you shouldn't worry about adjustments, just stick with what you've been doing, even if it's not working. Is that what he's trying to say. I think he's that doesn't make sense. Probably.

I think he's probably saying more about Connor Williams. This is this is what they're they're working on making him a guard, and they've been trying here and he's got some you know, good moments here and there. Some moments he he struggles a little bit with power, which is why fan I could see why they say why not move him outside? But I think his thought is is that we're making him a guard and every time something happens,

we shouldn't just pull it. And that does affect players when when when they keep having this position flex, they never really figure it out. I think that's what he's saying there. Um and I I mean and look, I don't think people are crazy for suggesting that. I get it, we've seen Lyle play well at guard. The offensive line is not playing up the snuff, But I really don't. I don't think that's the right I don't think that's the right call because you're hindering the development of two

different players. And let's not forget I know it hasn't been as good as you would prefer. They're still third in the league in rushing offense. Like, I don't think that's the problem. Obviously, they missed Travis Frederick. I'm tired of making that excuse, but they do. On top of that, the passing game is what's hindering the running game, Like they thought any part of that is that you're not being able to protect right right, Well, they thought they

would have made more strides. They absolutely did, Like I mean, going back to the spring than like it's going to be rough in the early going and then it'll come on. It hasn't happened, and that's why they made a blockbuster trade to try to fix it. But I think I would rather try to find a way to fix the passing game and open things up than mix all that around and hinder Connor's development and my hell's you know, I know he's not playing well, but he's not going

to switching him again. It's not going to do anything either, I don't think, And to be quite honest with you, I think that if you want to talk about everything, and I've been probably the biggest voice on this show at least talking about the offensive line and the problem there, we haven't talked enough about the offensive line coach. I mean, I think Paul Alexander deserves a significant amount of whatever blame is going to go out because he is a new part there, and before that this was an all

world offensive line. I understand Travis Frederick isn't there, but some guys who have in there are not playing to the level that we've been used to them seeing, and so the question should be asked. I think, you know, is he a part of the problem here or these players really regressing even though they're being coach properly. I think that's a fair question asking. I do wonder, I do wonder if if he's a part of this problem here.

It really do especially troubling when you see that the Cincinnati offensive line is playing pretty well, the significantly better with Frank Pollock, which they did a straight swap. Yeah. I mean, I was Lyle's biggest cheerleader all through the second half of last season. I thought he was playing great despite you know, what people wanted to say about him, and it hasn't translated. So two of your I mean,

Tyrn and Lyle both have regressed a lot. I don't think Connor has been bad by any stretch, but he's had his struggles and Zach has gonna Zach. But it's it's it's been. It's been troubling to watch. And I think I said this on the last show last week, like if there had been a change during the bye week, I would have guessed it would have been that, but it wasn't, and so you know, we'll see if it gets any better in the second half. All right, guys,

we appreciate you joining us. We're back tomorrow. We'll be at our normal time eleven forty five till then. For Nick Eatman, Dave helm and I'm Derek Eagleton. 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.