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I'm Derek Eagleton, Life and s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. Guy Nick Amber and Dave with me, and it's time for us to talk about this game yesterday, Cowboys get the win thirty seven to thirty four. Typically on a Monday, when we come in from a game, I usually start the show having you guys go around and talk about what for you was the story of the game. But I don't think we need to do that today. I think we're very clear on what the

story of the game was yesterday. Aside from the Cowboys getting a win, a much needed win, the story really is Dak Prescott and he gets injured during the game. A compound fracture and dislocation of his ankle. Nick qun'try first give us an update on kind of what we know as far as what happened post him actually being injured and then having to go to the hospital. Yeah, I mean, well you said right there he had to

go to the hospital. That's you know, right off. The bat had the surgery last night, and you know, cowboys have announced that the surgery went well, which you know, I think it's important, you know, and you could say, well, don't they all go well? And then no, they don't. And it was ironic that Alex Smith played yesterday for Washington. That's a good example that sometimes they don't always go like you want. And but I just thing, you know, it sounds like from what I've heard, is it's it

was a terrible situation and what it looked like. But the broken ankle and a fracture, you know, the bones can heal along with the surgery. It's done well, and so it sounds like he you know, will be able to come back next year and should should be fine with this. You know, you knock on wood and hold your breath and all that kind of stuff. But I think that you know, he can he can come, you know, come back from this and he would be fine, but you know, you left the stadium. We left the stadium

last night, and it's like, did they win? You know? I mean because it the loss was bigger than the win. Sorry, I let them kind of go. Amber. Tell me what was your mood when this this all happened? Could take me back to that moment and what you're thinking as as Dad goes down. Well, I think we all shared the same feeling. Watching that horrible injury was terrible, especially

seeing his reaction. Just when you see a guy so tough like him just have tears in his eyes and I can't even begin to imagine all the thoughts that went through his head at that specific moment. It was just very touching to see the support from everyone, the whole team, his players, even Jason Garrett coming up to him. It's it's just awful. But based on everything that Nick said and the reports that we keep hearing, at least it's something that that's not gonna be like career ending.

And the hope is that this is something that he can come back from, and we know how strong he is and he's gonna bounce back come back stronger. It's just very, very disappointing to see a guy like him, and also during a season that he was just doing absolutely great. Yes, they weren't getting the wins that you wanted them to, but statistically speaking, Dad had amazing numbers and his path was just going upwards. So it's just disappointing to see not the whole theme play out during

the season. Dave, what were your thoughts? Man, At the risk of sounding dramatic, I just this is tough, and I'm the guy that always says, you know, I don't let I don't let what happens on the field get to me too much. There's too many ups and downs in this job to let that happen. But like, I didn't, I didn't sleep well last night. Like it, I mean, it was just a devastating thing to see, and especially

from like from where it happened. You know, Dak already has this amazing receiving touchdown on a trick play, and this happens on a quarterback draw where he shakes off a tackler, just showing how ridiculously versatile and talented he is.

And yeah, you probably take his durability for granted at this point, he's never missed time due to injury in his career, and the swiftness which went with it went from like, oh, my god, Dak made this great play to oh, like he's already gesturing at the sideline, like he knew immediately that something was terribly, terribly wrong. And I just I don't know if I've ever I don't know if I've ever been a part of a moment

that was that surreal. I don't know if you remember, but the Giants kicked a fuel goal like a half hour after it happened, and you were like, Dave, how long is that fuel goal? I was like, Man, I don't know. I'm not I'm not here. I'm not mentally here which line I mean, I know that's my job, but it was just hard to focus on anything else. And I'm I'm still there. I'm still just trying to

process it. I just it sucks so much for him, and obviously it's also a devastating glow for the team too, you know, and that's and that you know how important he is, You know that he's the heart and soul of it, But not until a moment like this happens do you realize that just how big it really is, because you could make you wouldn't know, you never want to lose a game ever, but you can make that argument of would you rather lose that game and have him for the rest of the season or win that

game and not happen easily because that I mean two and three, one and four. I mean you could still come back with that. But like, and I don't mean to sound that I'm too dramatic either, but they won the game. They might have lost the season though, we'll see, we'll see. But I mean, well, the Andy Dalton is here, so he can go and and and win games and all that. But like, it's just it's so crushing, and you woke up this morning and you're like, that didn't

feel like a win because it wasn't. They lost something way bigger than a game. What was the mood of the team yesterday, Nick, did Dave were about to say something? No? No, well no, Nick, Nick got to talk to the guys. I think that's more important than what I was gonna say. We can do both. Dave made me feel bad too, because he said he goes in a situation like this, like there's no way you go up to Cedric Wilson and say, hey, how was that passed? And I was like, dang,

I think that's exactly what I said. Yeah, right, I got I got eleven guys in about seven teen minutes. Seriously, it's like a whirlwind down there. And by the way, just for people that don't know, like right now, typically after a game, we would all be in the locks roroom and you would be talking to players. Everybody be talking to players right now, all the media. Nick is the only person that is literally face to face talking

to players. Some of them have press conferences that they'll do by zoom, but basically Nick is the only one that's down there. And so you're running players through and just talking to every almost every player that had some kind of influence on the game. You have an opportunity talk to him after the game, right, So and IM and I'm trying to mix in you know obviously what they did of why I'm talking to them, plus the deck if it works, maybe Jason Garrett, if if you're

you know. And the one person I did ask was Anthony Brown, which then I want he's answering, and I realized, oh, Anthony Brown was the one that called out the whole staff. But but they all were just I mean heartbroken, devastated, crushed. I mean, that's my guy, it's my dude. I mean all the everything that you can imagine. But you know, they also said that, you know, Dak wouldn't want us to, you know, to lay down. I mean, obviously he's still fighting for us, and he you know, we had to

fight for him as well. So um, you know, they were it would have been a different feeling that they lost and that happened. I think they were the highs of kind of coming back in winning. But I bet you there was a point last night and everybody felt it where he just kind of sinks in or it's

like dang, like that that that really happened. It's just it's crushing you feel, you feel for Dak, you know, and everyone's thinking financially, only a handful of individuals decide they want to tweet about it whatever, but but you know everyone's thinking it. I bet you. You You know Naber just said about what he's going through. He's probably thinking it too, you know, I mean just thinking like, oh man,

I bet on myself and this happened. Yeah, well I did want to get to the next conversation, which I think you have to start looking forward because that's the nature of the NFL. By the way, this is not the first time a player has gone through something like this. And if there is any player that I've ever witnessed in the NFL that I feel like, hey, he can go through a devastating thing like that, and I feel confident, completely confident that if it is medically possible, he will

be back and better than ever. Is Dak Prescott. This man has gone through more adversity than most people go through an entire lifetime. He's gone through in the last several years, and he keeps coming back, He keeps fighting. He doesn't allow it to get him down, and maybe it does get him down, he doesn't allow it to show, and he's still able to perform when he needs to perform. I have no doubt in my mind that if it's medically possible, which there's no reason to believe it's not sure,

that he will be back and better than ever. The question becomes right now for this team in the twenty twenty season. You go out and this is the first time I can recall in a long time that Dallas has actually taken the route of getting a really legitimate backup quarterback, and it happens that they do it in year when they really really need it, and you get

Andy Dalton. He goes nine of eleven there down the stretch, one hundred and eleven yards, beautiful pass to Michael Gallop to put them in position for the game winning field goal. So what does Dallas lose at this point, not having Dak and having to replace him with Andy Dalton, Dave, That's actually that's what I was gonna say a few minutes ago. And I mean, we'll get into that, but it's something I've been thinking about a lot because a few fans have been like, really, Dave, is this really

that unprecedented? This just happened to Tony Romo in twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen, And I don't think that's true because Tony, you know, Tony broke his collar bone in Philadelphia in Week two in twenty fifteen. He jogged off the field to the locker room to go get X rays, and if you remember, if you can go back that far, the conversation was can the Cowboys hold the rope for four to six weeks until Tony gets back? And that was. Honestly,

it was the same conversation in sixteen with DAK. It was can this rookie pulled the rope for two months and keep them relevant? And obviously we know what happened. The rest is history. This is not the same. This is he's gone. He's not coming back until twenty twenty one, hopefully if everything goes perfectly for him. And to that end,

the Cowboys deserve a lot of credit. You know, we applauded the Dalton signing in whatever may when it happened, and it looks really smart right now because as devastating as this is, and if they played in another division, it would be even more devastating. But between having Andy Dalton and playing in this awful division, there's still plenty of reason for optimism that this team can reach the postseason. Amber what do you see as the differences here between

going from Dak to now going to Andy Dalton. Well, let me go back to this being the first year that I'm actually confident in a quarterback since I've been here. The Dallas Catboys have gone through several backup guys. Back then, I know what I know now. Back then, I thought, oh, Brandon Whitten is a good guy. Yes, he's gonna be good on the field. Let go then Kellen Morrow, he's a good dude. Well, I quickly learned that being a good dude doesn't mean you're good at football on the field,

so that didn't happen. But over those periods of years, I learned how how important the backup quarterback is and I started seeing a bigger value in there. So when this signing happened, I've been talking about it during training cap I talked about it. I kept my eyes on him and the way that he was practicing, and it made me feel comfortable to the point where, Okay, the offense is not gonna go completely down if something was to happen to that. Now, there are other factors that

are going to play. We know the whole thing that the offensive line has been going through, and that's that's gonna be an issue there. But if they can hold up against better teams and better defenses, I have confidence in Andy Dowton just being able to at least carry the team this season. Nick, what do you see the differences? Um? I think you know third and two from the or a two point conversion where the quarterback can can definitely sneak it or you know, quarterback draw and run into

the end zone and and that option. Uh you know that that's probably not the same. Uh, he can, he could move. I mean that one plays of the game was one of the one of the plays the game on that last drive, I mean he was rolling to his right man really nice throw. So he can. He's not like I wouldn't call him a mobile quarterback, but he's not just gonna be you know, sitting duck in

the in the pocket either. So the weird thing for me is that, and I wrote this yesterday in my column, is that, you know, going into the game, the Cowboys easily at the best quarterback in the NFC East, do they Now, It's debatable, definitely debatable. I mean because time every time I look up at Philadelphia, I see them showing Jalen Hurts. I mean whether or not they just want to play him or they're thinking about playing him or whatever. But it's not like Carson Wentz is lightening

it on fire over there. And he's definitely more decorated or more accomplished than Carson Wentz and the other two guys of course, or three or seven guys or whatever. Washington and the Giants are going to roll out there. But I'm just saying still right now, with the talent around it, I think Cowboys might have the better quarterback in the division. They also have the lead, so you can't just say, well, they can't do this they pointed out in this division when this year it still could

be possible. Ye, And you're looking at a guy that he has been a I would say out above average quarterback during his time in Cincinnati, especially in the years when AJ Green was at his best. And he's got essentially and not undervalue AJ Green, but he's essentially got three AJ Green' tire like he's got three premier wide receivers here where there he had one, and he's he was able to do some really good things in that offense. I think in this offense he's got more talent than

he had in that offense. So I would I expect that he is able to be able to do a lot of things. Maybe he doesn't do it in the same way that Dak did it. It's not going to be the guy that you're gonna necessarily line up to do a quarterback draw, but he does have the arm to be able to find some of these guys and as we saw yesterday, go down feel and he threw a pinpoint accurate ball yesterday to Michael Gallups to make

that catch to put him in position. That's what I expect to see is that he's gonna be able to really drive this offense from the standpoint of the passing game. David, you have something you're about to say. I mean, there's there's another similarity there, which is that his offensive line looks fairly leaky, just like the one that he was working behind in Cincinnati last year. I think the Cowboys still have Zack Martin, but I mean that's it's I'm

I'm interested obviously. You know, the Cowboys really got back to basics after the injury yesterday. You know, it felt. I mean, it was the Zeke Show right up until the final drive basically, and I don't think I don't think they can get away with doing that on a full time basis. I think a lot of that is, you know, people don't think about this, but you install a game plan for one quarterback and have to change

on the fly. You know, I don't think Kevin Moore is going to call the game the same way on short notice with Andy Dalton as he would with Dak. So I think it'll look different when you have a chance to go through a whole week with Andy Dalton preparing to be the starter. You can have some different tendencies and try some different things. I do think, I mean, running the ball is going to have to be a bigger aspect of it of this offense than it has been.

But that would have been the case with Dak because again, a big part of that's just because they can't stop turning the ball over. But I'm I'm worried about the offensive line with Andy more than I would be with Dak. That's that's something that we have to watch to see if they can give him enough time because I don't I don't know that he can create his own plays as well as Dack does. And we will dive into

that topic big time tomorrow. I want to take a bigger picture look at this offensive line and really the offense and how much it has to adjust to the changes that you'll have to see here between those two quarterbacks. Let's go and take our first break. When we come back. There are some secondary stories of this game that I think we need to talk about including the offense off to another slow start and having to dig their way out, just as they've had to do so many times this season.

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maybe Dallas shouldn't have to work as hard against. Let's talk about some of the other secondary stories of this game. I think one of the things that stood out once again is the offense got out to a really slow start. I mean, I guess you could say as a team they got off to a really slow start because they get they dig themselves a hole and they're down seventeen

to three early in the second quarter. But once again, as we've seen them do so many times this year, they dig themselves out and by halftime they're up twenty four twenty. So why is this happening? Is there anything? And what we know right now is it's no longer just happenstance, this is a pattern. What do you think is happening and how do you think they managed to

get out of this. Let's start first with you, Amber, I wish I had an answer for you, but I don't even know if the team themselves have an answer as to why this issue keeps happening. I mean, every time you ask certain players, including Dyke or Seager, even coach Mike McCarthy, they don't necessarily have a good answer for you. They just say they know they need to

do better and start off better. And it's been an issue, but as nothing that I've seen, aside from the mistakes and little turnovers, which obviously has been a big problem this year so far. Other than that, I really don't know what it is at the beginning of the game that they're unable to do during the second half of the game. So hopefully Nick and Dave have a good answer here, because I really don't. Nick, I don't either, and then of course the coach will say, well, if

I had that answer, it wouldn't happen. But I mean it's on the coaches too. I mean that they're not prepared. I mean they get the ball to start the game, the fur doesn't matter. I mean, this seems like the opposing team has a much better plan of going out and doing something then the Rams did it. The Falcons did it. The Seattle did it. Um actually Seattle's first drive, they didn't score, but they got on you know quickly there.

The Giants, I mean, they just everyone seems to be more prepared than the Cowboys, or at least at least that they execute better. So I don't I don't know what the problem is. I wonder if when you keep coming back, do you just kind of feel like it's early we can come back, because they will and they have, but they can't always keep doing that, Dave. The only the only thing I can come up with is like an attitude problem. And I actually, um, there are a couple guys and I pick up I say that just

picking up on context clues from earlier in the week. Uh, you know, Zeke Elliott and Antoine Woods both kind of said something to the effect of, uh, you know, we don't we don't worry about criticism because that's the nature of football. And you know, if if we come out and win against the Giants, everybody will be praising us again. And I was like, no, no, we won't, No, we won't. Like the Giants are bad, you don't deserve praise for that, like,

and it just makes me wonder. I don't know, it makes me wonder how focused they are at the start of the games, because like, go go, look at go, look at the rundown. The only time the Giants drove the field for a touchdown was the first possession of the game. And then Dak responds to that by making a pretty terrible throw on the ball that got intercepted

and returned. The Giants got seventeen points off of turnovers, and that dumb twelve minut on the field penalty seventeen of thirty four get literally gifted to them, you know, because because the Cowboys fumbled on their own twenty four as well the Andy Dalton fumbles, So seventeen points out of thirty four. You know, you're probably feeling a little bit better if the Giants scored twenty then if they

scored thirty four. And I don't get it. It's just and going all the way back to last year, it seems like it takes them twenty minutes to kind of shake the cobwebs off and realize that they're playing in the NFL. And I remember last year it was all about the three and ode start where they were just kicking everybody's but that's ancient history at this point, so if that's still in your head, I don't get it at all, because the last year of results says that

you're a pretty mediocre team. So God, it would be nice to see a better level of focus at the start of a game. And I don't understand why they can't do it. You know I will, And I'm gonna say this at the risk of not knowing what the answer is, but I think I know the answer. I think the answer is turnovers. And I'm going to go back after this show. I don't know one of you guys might know this off the top of your head.

It seems to me that most of the turnovers are happening in the first half when they're getting into these holes. Now that might be incorrect, but it just feels like that. I'm gonna go back after the show and I'm going to count those up because I think that's actually if it's true, I think that's your simple answer is that if they stop turning the freaking ball over, then they won't get in this hole because you don't have the defense that can just recover. Or when you give the

opposing team the ball at the fifty yard line. Yeah, they're gonna give up a touchdown. That's just how it's gonna go. Because this defense. We know, this defense is not very good, but look at the you know, and I'm laughing because when you're like, I don't know the answer, but I think I know, which is just that's you to a t. It's like, is there a reason why they're turning the ball over here? But yeah, there is, there is a reason why. I go back and look

at it. Why did why did the Dak fumble gains Cleveland with Miles Garrett because offensive line came along? Why did he throw a past that to Zeke? You know that he that maybe Shack could have caught because the offensive line was I mean, the offensive line is, but you also have to count for Zeke putting the ball

in the ground offensive line or yeah right. But I'm saying the turnover problem has been a problem that has been bigger than just the offensive line, and it's been a problem that that may go back to what Dave is talking about. I think when you're having a lot of turnovers, to me, that is a mental problem because you're not paying enough attention when you have the ball to take care of it and not do something careless

where an offender can come and take it from you. Right, I think those are the things that right now I'm saying it to me, seems like that's if I had to pin all of these early holes that they get in on at least on one thing, I would say it has to be the turnovers. All right, let's move on to the next topic, secondary topic of the game. The defense once again struggles. But the one thing that you have to point to is that they're at the

end of the game. It is the time of the game when you need the defense to make a stop. Giants get the ball with two minutes left, they have to drive the field in order to get a field goal and they can win, which, by the way, against this defense, I wasn't so sure that wasn't gonna happen. Not only do they stop them, they stop them in a minute and give their own offense to the ball back with a minute left to go, they go down,

they score the game winning field goal. Talk about this defense, and here's my real question, is this kind of the ceiling of what we can expect from this defense. They're not gonna be a great defense, but if they can just make one two great stops in the game. That's the ceiling of what they can be. Well, Jason and Garrett I thought I had t shirts about four or five years ago that ga TA. That's what they did.

I mean that that's what they did. They got after their ass, I mean, and they hadn't been doing it all game. But Tyron Crawford, Alden Smith, I know I'm missing some Jalen. They were running all over the place. And I asked the unlet after the game, did y'all do something different? And he was like, no, they just started to play. They just finally cranked up the intensity and played was kind of pissed off about it, and it was just like they just played, I know, I

mean they did. I mean they were I mean, I thought Crawford, I don't know, he may not even have a stat He was fun Neville Gallimore was throwing, you know, and I almost got a penalty get the sideline, which would have been devastating. But they did a really nice job of just just kind of wearing down that offensive line, I think, and finally got to Daniel Jones. Ambers is the best that we can expect to see from this defense.

Not I hope. I hope not. But watching the game, you know, when they made certain good plays, I would get really excited. I'm like, okay, yes, finally, and then I would have to stop myself and take it back. I'm okay. Remember they are playing the Giants. This is the Giants who they're playing again. So it's really it's really hard to fully evaluate what this means for the defense as far as those good moments that they did have in the game. But at the same time, I'm

just I'm gonna take it. I'm gonna take it and be glad that at least we saw somewhat of an improvement in certain occasions. I guess having Mike Nolan on the field maybe had something to do with it and helped with the whole communication thing, because we did get to see, even though they allowed way too many points against the New York Giants, even then, we still got to see little moments of certain flashes of good things that the defense was finally able to show. Dave, Dave,

you there, I think we lost him. This isn't good. Okay, tell you what, tell you what. I will say this though, and I think both of you, guys, Nick and Amber, I think both of you guys painted the picture of I hope not. I hope this isn't the best that we can see. But to be quite honest with you, I actually think if this is the best that we can get and they are going to be this consistently, I actually think this works with this team. I didn't come into this season season thinking this defense was a

shutdown defense. What I came into this season thinking is you have a high powered offense, and if you can get a defense that can make critical stops, if you get a defense that in those kind of moments can get after the quarterback and actually make it rough on the quarterback in those one or two series in the game that make the difference, that's a winning formula for

this football team. That's what I kind of expected. So if this is the best they could be and they can be this consistently, I think the Cowboys are gonna win far more games. And but the problem I was gonna say the problem is like now, I mean, we got to see a very small amount of Andy Dalton, and we all agreed that we believe he's gonna be a good quarterback and do everything that he can possibly do on the field. But we still don't know how that's gonna play out with the whole offense and if

the offense is still gonna be as productive. If they're not, then what happens with the defense? Now it's a show I do not want to watch. No, it's a great point, and I do think that now now it all comes down to can that offensive line give Andy Dalton the time that he needs right because if they can do that, then you still can do what you need to do offensively. You didn't have to worry about that quite as much with Dak because defenses did have to respect the fact

that he could break out a pocket. He could be gone, Dave. I'll go back to you. We got you back on the line. Now, is this the best that we can expect from this Cowboys defense? What we saw yesterday? I alluded to this a few minutes ago, and like, if you go look at the box score, you probably find yourself pretty surprised by what you see. The Giants have three hundred yards of offense. They averaged three point three

yards to carry Daniel Jones. Daniel Jones averaged like six and a half Daniel Jones six and a half yards per attempt, and like I said, special teams gifts the Giants a field goal, Dak throws a pick six, and Dalton gives them a possession inside the red zone. So you look at the scoreboard and say, thirty four points is terrible, and then you look at what the defense actually did and it's kind of encouraging. Yeah. Having said that, having said that, it's the New York Giants. It is

the New York Giants. I do not care. I don't care do it. And for that matter, there is one stat that really jumps off the page seven of thirteen on third down, like couldn't could not get off the field to save their lives on third down. Seemed like they were constantly either letting Jones extend plays to find guys or just losing guys or losing guys in coverage.

And if the Giants can do that to you, other teams absolutely will so encouraging, sure, maybe, but but I don't take it to be this sign of great improvement or like a trend that makes me feel great. I need to see it against not the worst offense in the league before I get too excited about it. I'll say this, David, if you're getting another thing, Dave. If you're hold on, if you're gonna miss up that that guy's name, do it with Daniel Jones. Don't do it

with any other Jones. Like mess up with the Giants quarterback. That's my fault. That's what I don't think. I don't getting it. I'm sorry. If you're gonna mess up with Jones, if you're gonna mess up the word Jones, do it when you're talking about the Giants quarterback and maybe not one year seven bosses. That's what I was. Yeah, yeah, for sure, Yeah yeah, yeah, go ahead, that failed go

um I was. I was gonna add. Don't forget. Don't forget the fact that the Giants scored two touchdowns and they were taking back because their offense got a penalty, so he got taken away. But the defense, the Cowboys defense had allowed two more touchdowns from the Giants. They just ended up getting lucky. At the fact that the Giants themselves can get one of those clean plays, I

will say, no, yeah, sorry, go ahead. Now, I'm just saying one of those special team well the special teams, maybe they get lucky, which we can talk about special teams. They were awful yesterday. They continue to be a problem. I don't want to hear any more about how they're supposed to be so much better under John Fossil because they've been a liability like four of the five weeks um.

But it's hard. I mean, I don't feel like the defense got lucky on that on that offensive pass interference that was an egregious pick like that that should have been flatting, but that the play doesn't happle them too bad for that? Yeah right, yeah, okay, So here's what's gonna do with which that was a play? What it were there was like the illegal shifting or yea, that

was special special fake field goal touchdown? Yeah, oh yeah, and we and I think we need that's That's another one of those topics that I'm gonna say for tomorrow because we need a little time to dig into this special teams because it's just not working for the Cowboys right now. All right, We're gonna take our final back when we come back. I do want to ask you guys the question you look at this Cowboys team. They've won two games this year. Both games have been against

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policies prior to arriving at AT AT and T Stadium. Visit Dallas Cowboys dot com slash safe Stadium for details. Welcome back to the final segment of the break Life and s WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, before I move forward, real Quickly, our trusty producer was able to give us some stats. In the break, I was talking about turnovers in the first half. Check this out. Eight of the eleven turnovers the Cowboys, if had this season, have happened

in the first half. So that's where your problem is. Stop turning the ball over. Maybe you don't dig a hole, maybe you don't have to dig out of it, and maybe those become points at the end of the game that create a deficit where you actually can win a game by more than three points. All right, Nick, Yes, real quickly. You mentioned in the break to me that you saw something yesterday that was more personal to you

that you just wanted to kind of out there. I know we're not gonna have time for moments that matter, and we usually when you do that you're talking about the game, but this moment mattered to me. It's it's not really about football. But you know, maybe it's ironic or not, but the only two coaches that Dak Prescott's ever had and in the pro level are standing over him as he's in the worst moment of his career.

And Jason Garrett has always said he loves the book by Woody Hayes, former Ohio State coach, and there's a big sign up there and that say you win with people. You don't you know, you could excess and os all you want, but you win with people and how you treat people. And with Jason Garrett have gone across the field if it was on the other side of the field, and probably not, it happened right there, but for him to be out there and standing out there, you know

right there that that's my quarterback. Yeah, I'm wearing the blue and all that. And I was a little mad at Jason Garrett for finally running a damn fleeflicker after ten years, but we but him standing on the field right there, even just a tap with Mike McCarthy that to me showed this guy he might not have what you want as the head coach and all that he's

got class and you can win with people. And I just thought that was a great moment, and that was touching to me for Jason Garrett to kind of be right there and just he didn't even say a whole lot, but he was like he was there. That meant up to me. Maybe I'm overthinking it, but I don't know. I thought it was a good I mean, quite frankly, that whole sequence was just really touching. I mean, just the whole thing. I know, I talked to my wife and she was just bawling at the house, as I'm

sure a lot of people were. She had a tear just watching that whole scene because it just it was sad. It was sad. You don't like to see that. And this game is a very very violent game. We know that, but it still doesn't make it any easier when you have to watch that, especially with a guy you really like. All Right, Um, the question going to go ahead, Dave. I just I'm gonna remember for a long time, it was almost like everybody's holding their breath trying to see

what's happening. There were eighteen people surrounding Dak for for what felt like forever. And then when when everybody sort of realized that he was about to be carted off, seventy five percent of the Cowboys sideline just started running over there, you know, the defensive guys who were doing their meetings and their adjustments and not worried about what's going on on the field, just sprinting across the field to get there, to be able to, you know, be

in front of Dak before he went away. I just think it said a lot by what he means to that locker room that almost every single guy on the team wanted to be able to, you know, high five him or whatever before he was gone. It was it

was really moving. And not only that, but Nick, you mentioned to me before we got on the show, there was an article we put up cow Buzz that we put up where it was it had all the different tweets that were happening out there from all kinds of people in sports, out of sports, in the NFL, out of the NFL. I think it just showed, quite frankly, the amount of respect that Dak Prescott has around this

league and just around this country. There were a lot of people that were tweeting their support for him and how much they felt for him in that moment, Like that matters. I think there's no better one than the Eagles fan with the with the light lime green hair.

Have you seen that? Yeah, that's that's he's about, I don't know, eight nine maybe, and he's got his Carson wins Jersey, I think, and he's talking about that, and it's it's it's that's that's like the best thing that I've seen today, I think is from that, because that's

that's what sports is. Yep. And I think that you know, there are a lot of you know, you root for teams, you root against teams, but the fact matter is the good guys you have a certain amount of respect for them, whether they beat your team or you beat them or they're on your rival team, if you respect them, you respect them, and and that I think goes beyond sports. Right. Um, So here was the question I was posing you guys before we went to the break. Cowboys now have two

wins on the season. Both of those wins that come against teams that still have not gotten to win through four games. Um, and they are reeling. They are gonna be among you. It looks as though they're gonna be among the very worst teams in the NFL. Not only did the Cowboys have to beat them, the cow beat both of them with walk off field goals in order to win, like literally at the buzzer, they have they win those two games. That being said, what if anything

is that say about this Dallas Cowboys team. Let's start with you Amber. Why did he go with me? I mean everyone is just still trying to figure out what the Dallas Cowboys can be. Every week, me personally, every week I go and watch the game, see certain things that I'm like, Okay, we can build off of this, this is good, we can take this on. Especially on the offense side of the vall. You see a lot of potential, a lot of great things, especially in that

second half of the game. You're like, Okay, we just need to tweak little things here and there and then everything's gonna play out fine. At the same time, you see things that you're like, are you freaking kidding me? Why is this still happening in week four? Week five? You've got to be kidding me. So it's just a

mixture of both emotions. My feelings constantly changed because, like I said, I see certain potential, but At the same time, I see a lot of things that that just need to be corrected, and I do think it can be corrected. But the problem is how long is it going to take for the Cowboys coaching staff to be able to correct those issues aside from the injuries obviously affecting the Cowboys and even the whole league as a whole. So to me, it's just a matter of timing and it's

just difficult to do in the mid of the season. Dave, what do you think this says about this team? Let me be Let me be mister Sunshine for a sec because I never do that. Who have they lost to? Who are the teams that they've lost to? Yeah, they went down to the final drive against the final drive against the Forum one Rams, who are off to an amazing start, staged a furious comeback against Cleveland. Didn't deserve to win that game, but they managed to at least

put some drama in the end. And then they go down to the wire against the only five and no team in the league. So I guess my answer is, I mean, first of all, your record is what it said. You know you are what your record says you are. And two, nobody should be impressed by either of these wins. But I also think that they're talented enough to hang in there against almost anybody, provided that they can stop

doing stupid stuff. The big thing for me it just it changes so drastically without Dak in my opinion, And that's not a knock on Dalton, but I've got to see him go out there and play at a high level. So you know, this is a This is an average to above average team that plays uncharacteristically sloppy, stupid football. If they can stop doing that, I think they could win, you know, win the division, let's put it that way.

But there's so much evidence that says that they can't stop doing that that maybe that we should temper our optimism a little bit. Nick, What's what's the actual question? What does the fact that they've only won two winless

teams ye say about this team? If anything? I think Dave makes a great point there, just because it's like, if you could say, well, they barely beat these teams, well, nobody cares that they barely lost either to all four and one teams, right, everybody that they've lost to is four and one. I was telling you in the break that They've the two minute warning of every game this year. They've been down every single game, and I think I got to go back and look, I think it's at

every two minute warning first half as well. They've they've been trailing, so at the end of the game, end of the half, you know they haven't had leads. Um, it doesn't it doesn't really matter. I mean, it's taken a miracle kick extra point, I mean on site kick to beat the Falcons. And you know, yesterday was kind of a weird game all from starting to finish. But you know, I think the better team won. But I don't think they were better than Seattle and I don't

think they were better than the Rams. I said that at the time, and they weren't better than Cleveland. So Dave, yeah, you are what you are. I mean, they were close to those teams, not good enough to win and just good enough to win against those bad teams. All Right, we will tomorrow get more into this. We still do. We might go through some of those moments that mattered

in this game. We definitely got some player performances we gotta go through because there were some players that I think had some really, really great efforts yesterday against the Giants. We'll do all that tomorrow. Join us till then for Nick Eatman, Dave Hellman, Amber Garcia. I am Derek Hilton. 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.