Cowboys Break: Playoff Carryover?

oh three. Welcome to the latest edition of The Break. Clear life in that s WBC mortgage studios at the Star were resented by Miller like the only beer of the Dallas Cowboys in today, we have to in the season, oh Man, hopefully ended better than the Cowboys did. Cowboys to lose on the Road to Washington twenty six to twenty. I'm sorry, twenty six to six. That would actually been a more interesting game twenty six to twenty, but no,

it was twenty six to six. And uh, you know, I'll open the show first today with asking you guys just the general question what happened? Well, I mean that called it right, that called it crappy. We had, Yeah, we had to bleep it out for the post game. You can't use crap on the radio. I think we know he used the word when I was in there. He said crappy, but I guess I missed the first part. He missed the first word. Yeah, yeah, yeah, as I wrote,

it rhymes with gritty, which they were not. So they got their ass kicked, as as McCarthy said, they got punched in the mouth and they got their ass kicked. And I don't think they were they were mentally prepared to play. So you gotta put that on the coach. Um, you know, they said they were they lied to us or or they you know. And then he comes back said they're human. But whatever, they didn't play well they got and they but they do have some issues. I

think that are going to lead into the playoffs. I mean, they can't run the ball. I think Dak played his worst game since the first game of the season, and um, you know, they still got issues at corner, especially now if Blands banged up. I think Bland's gonna be okay for you. Good. Yeah, I think Bland's gonna be okay for you. H yeah, just what I got late late

last night, So I think Bland's gonna be okay for you. Um, what's disappointing and a a little bit disheartening is it was a game that you had to go out and if you're going to have any chance of winning the division, you had to go out and win. You know, at least, you know, you never gave yourself a decision to pull guys. I mean you never felt good. I'll tell you I felt good about the defense at least getting put in some terrible situations. And you know the quarterback we talked about,

you know, the rookie quarterback. I mean, he made a mistake throwing the ball. He just does one of those plays they run it in practice and he throws it in. It never gets intercepted, the play is always a touchdown and all that. So he threw it with confidence that it wasn't be in a triple coverage. But that's really what it came down to. But yeah, your defense got thrown in some terrible situations yesterday and kind of held you in that football game. We all know they can't

run the football, and they can't run the football. I really do believe this is they have these breakdowns and it's not always with what goes on with Martin and Smith over on that right side. It wasn't a good game for McGovern It really really wasn't. And then you know, and they tried to run some creative stuff, their little reverse runs and stuff like that. They couldn't get Peters on the outside to get a block. I mean they I think the running aspect of it is the right idea.

The execution of like, Okay, well there's a hole. Why didn't the back cut it this way when it's blocked that? You know, does he see a flash of a white jersey there? Does it keep them inside? When he shoot a backounced the ball to the outside. But you got some guys yesterday they to Nick's point, physically got beat up a little bit. And and a lot of that has to do with you know, with you know, and

it having to Martin. I mean, I mean Ridgeway, who you drafted like back to back plays, was just throwing guys around and making tackles there. So that aspect of it is really really disappointing. Whender why they don't run the ball, it's they do not sustain any blocks at the point of attack. They just have not. And I think you missed that with steal with him and that ability to kind of get things sealed off so they could at least cut the ball. They have no ability

to even cut the ball anymore. And that's I think that's killing them a little bit in the running game right now. I thought the protection was okay. Your quarterback just didn't wasn't very accurate. I don't think he saw the field particularly well. Yesterday. The receivers clearly weren't open. They just could not get any separation on the outside. They doubled Lamb a couple of different times. That forced Dack to have to throw the ball to other people.

Gallop doesn't look really comfortable catching the ball. Brown doesn't look comfortable catching the ball. So yeah, I mean, you've got a lot of issues on that offense right now. That's kind of a little bit of a problem there for you. Me personally, I don't really know how to feel right now, Like I keep going back and forth, and McCarthy mentioned he took the blame on himself and said, you know, I put it on me, and we just need to practice better so it comes out you would

say preparation. But I still have a problem with that because you can talk about preparation and then come out and play like crap first half. But how are you not able to do absolutely anything in the second half? Just whatever, during halftime, regroup, do what you need to come out and do something that's better than what you've been doing in the first half. So that and that's remembering like Washington wasn't even doing a whole lot, Like if Washington should have had way more score more points

on the scoreboard than they did. They didn't even take advantage of every mistake mistake that Dallas did. So they were in the red zone five times, by the way, Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's crazy. And then I think it was like ten times that the Colways went three and out. That's ridiculous. It wasn't that's embarrassing. It's absolutely ridiculous that you were so inefficient, like nothing. It was embarrassing. And everybody keeps

saying this was an embarrassing game. And the thing is you go back to other games where they've lost or even one, and they even times that they played bad, they come out and do something that gives you some kind of hope. You're like, well they were able to do this or maybe you know, in the second half they were able to start moving the ball and nothing was working. The running game was absolutely gone, which is one of my main concerns going into next week. It's like, uh,

it's completely and that's now. How many games are we on now? For they haven't been able to last the last three. I mean when you look at when you look at it, though, they didn't run the ball against Philadelphia, surely against Tennessee you didn't run the ball. And then this last week you've played three teams in a row. They're not gonna let you run the ball. And by the way, you got one coming up, it's not gonna let you run the ball. Yeah. So that's that's a

big concern of mine and we'll see. You know, part of me I'm like, okay this in a way, I know, I hate to say this. I'm not happy or glad to see them lose or anything like that, but in a way it makes me have a little bit more hope that they will prepare a lot better for this week. They're they're gonna be mad and upset and just the preparation wise, they're gonna be more upset how this game went.

Because if it was like one of those games where they kind of play good bad then they end up with the way and it's like, okay, well they still managed to win, but the fact that they were so embarrassed by the way they played against the team like Washington, against that quarterback, and still the defense wasn't able to give you as much as you And I'm sorry Brian

the quarterback. I mean, he wasn't that great at instance, Like you know, I've seen plays and he did a couple of things, but at the end of the day, he was still making mistakes and the Cowboys defense wasn't able to take advantage of that either, and the pressure wasn't there. So it's just I expected a lot more. Well, you know, I think the thing about it is, I mean I think really the key here they weren't prepared.

And to me, the preparation also showed itself in the fact that there were so many just mistakes, unforcedairs, you got the punter dropping the ball, you got muff punts, you've got bad snap on extra point. There's there's just all these things that to me, what it represented for me, Nick, you talk about it all the time. What were you doing on Wednesday and Thursday? And it felt to me, like, this team on Wednesday and Thursday of last week felt like,

of course we're gonna win this game. And Seed even said it after the game, he was like, we all win this game. Thing, we were gonna win, and we didn't show up and play like that. And so it says to me they felt like, well, Washington isn't playing a lot of their guys, so we should be able to roll the ball out there, get a couple scores, wrap it all up, and head onto the bust and headoff into the playoffs. And that's not what Washington planning

to do. Washington came out, gave him their best effort, and Dallas on the flip side, was not prepared. And that's how you get a game like what we saw yesterday. Well, the Commanders lost their playoffs shot the week before because they played like Dallas played against the Browns and then you know, they made a switch at quarterback and that killed him and that you know, they they totally, you know,

lost everything there as far as that coast. But you know the thing about it is, you know the league is a hole through the whole thing with the Hamlin thing. Those players all went through that and some teams handled that obviously pretty well getting through it, and other teams didn't. And I'm not using it as an excuse, but you just don't know. I mean, I'm not I'm not out there on the practice field. I'm not in there every day in the locker room and listening to the players

talk about it, and maybe they got affected by it. Maybe, like you said, the CD felt like that, hey, we just kind of can roll our helmet out there and play. But you know, they they they they they just for a team that the intent was to go try and win the game. If you're intents to go try and win the game and you play like that, you're you're going to get beat in the playoffs in the first round if you're intent. Now, it's one thing if you rest everybody and say Okay, we're not going to play

and you lose the game. But man for them to have the intent going in that they were going to try and win this football game and play like that, that's that's a big indictment on this football team. Nick. Yesterday, after the game, you were in the locker room amber, you were in the locker room as well. What do you think was the mood of this team? What would you call how would you characterize the mood of the team in the locker room postgame, just you know, in general,

how what was the mood? It definitely was like a frustrating loss. It wasn't like, well, all right, you know, let's let's get past this and get onto the season. It was more like what was that? You know? And and you know, as I said on the radio this morning, like that's a I mean shocker, but that's that's a one of the worst locker rooms, you know. And and it's not it's never good, you know, it's it's crammed

in there and it's not big enough for an NFL team. Um, but but it's so it's never a good mood win or lose in that locker room. And so you know, it was just one of those that I think that it was. It was so it was such a crappy game for them. Um, You're just trying to figure out what was going on. And I bet the players are confused, you know, I mean, because were they were they really trying to win? I mean, because think about it, you

can say you're trying to win. But Terry McLaren had caught like two passes against this team in like three games, like he doesn't catch passes and against the Cowboys against Diggs, So why is Diggs not on him? If Diggs isn't on him, then are you just trying to throw Trayvon Mullin out there to see if he can play? Just see something? You know? There were some times third and five first series, run up the middle to Pollard, here's

another one fourth and inches. Dak is the guy that's supposed to be like, hurry up to the line when as Pollard pushed anyone like as Pollard going to be the guy that give Dak some some you know. It just there was just different combinations of lineups that you're just thinking, Okay, you say you wanted to win, but oh no, you make a good point because with the with the score thirteen to six and the second half, you're you're looking at Mullen playing left corner. Yeah, you know,

you're looking at me. You're looking at a lot of different guys. They played three different corners yesterday, three different left corners yesterday, is what they That's the part that doesn't make sense to me. Let's assume for a second that maybe they were trying out new things they were trying to do all these whatever just figuring stuff out. To me, I would rather say, if you're gonna do that, then just say, hey, we're not worried about whatever is

going to happen with the division. We'd rather just sit our guys and rest some of our guys, and you could test out all those guys, those other guys as much as you want you run third and five with Molie Davis, as much as you want on you know, up the middle, like that doesn't matter. You would at least had the benefit of taking some guys who maybe needed some rest, like a Michael Parsons, and giving them some rest. If you're gonna play everybody, then play the

freaking game, right. Yeah. See the thing, I think greg Olson made a really good point. And I know in the press box you guys don't get to hear the audio. Greg Olsen said, He goes, it's now become a point, with the way this game has gone, that you might have made it worse. That you know, by playing your guys the way you did and trying and keeping Doc in there and keeping CD, keeping everybody in there, that

you might have made it worse. You might have created even more, doubt more problems you think the Giants have that Like, no, you know, But the thing about it is, what's what really sucks is that Giants game turned into a six point game. Yeah, you know, and all of a sudden you're kind of going, oh, please, this is because Hurt started getting hit in the game, and he clearly was not They're not the same when he's getting hit.

And so now you're sitting there thinking, Oh, if the Giants somehow pull this thing out and you're messing around and and and and just getting would That's what I'm saying. And so to me, I agree with what Nick sand Where was the intent of going out there and winning this football game? You know it? It looked like to me, you were out there with the intent of winning a game, and they they just beat you up. I mean they controlled, they controlled the line of scrimmage. They let her rookie

quarterback make a few plays. First plus he ever throws in his career, it's a touchdown, you know, he throws it. He throws. He throws a bomb on a backup corner, a backup, backup corner for thirty something yards to McLaurin or more than that down the sidelines, you know, So I mean, where was the you know, I don't know.

I think Nick is onto something like, where were you in this game where you where half of you trying to play like it looked like it OsO Diggi, Zowa and Armstrong were like interested in playing football yesterday and everybody else was kind of interested that moan Clark and all,

you're not a bar. You didn't look like you were ready to play football yesterday, you know, I mean no. And that's the thing about it is, you know, you watch these receivers and the routes and who's open and who's not open and who's you know, it's just, you know, it's disappointing that that part of it was that you just go out there and I didn't know what the mission. I thought was to try and go win a football game and see what happens with the New York Philadelphia game.

But nah, that wasn't that wasn't the mission. They're just trying to fool us, you know, they're just trying to full Tampy and come outig and punch him in the mouth. Uh No. You know one thing that I thought was interesting that Mica said was I guess him realizing and him saying, you know, you're you gotta take advantage I forgot the exact quote he said, but basically, you gotta take advantage of the now. Like he realizes he's starting to notice like he's not gonna stay young. He's starting

to feel it in his body. He's not gonna stay young. And the time is now, and you got to look at yourself in the mirror and figure out exactly what is that you want as a team and as an individual as well. So it's there's literally zero positive of that came out of this game. I don't know as who would you say of a single person that had a good game. Well, the two that I watched it like an Osa and Osa and and and then Armstrong, they were they were into they were into playing your

game yesterday. Do you have a quiet eleven tackles for Gholston too? And yeah, like I didn't think, I don't know that was on the radar of eleven. I think the only positive is if dron Bland is pretty good, you know, and I think you'll be fun then that

that you know, that was one of them. Because you're playing the game, you're hoping you don't have any further injuries for this week because you got to turn around and play a physical, you know, the physical team against the Tampa So at the same time, you're hoping that those guys that you've been missing Hankins, Lvee be hottish. You're hoping that they're getting healthier so that you might have it right down the middle. Yeah, you're hoping you

get those guys back because you're gonna need them. You're gonna need them. You definitely need Hankins and and and Layton. I think that well, that that's hottish as much too.

I think yeah, I think too. You need to get this offensive line back to what it was and not what it is right currently the last couple of games, which is almost that's the weird part from me because I actually thought once they had this injury and they kind of had this new line up out there, I was like, Man, this line, I'd be it's hard to believe you're gonna have three Hall of Famers on an offensive line and they won't be at least as good.

But they're not. Right now. It's not there's not much cohesion between Smith, Tyrn Smith, and Martin when it comes to run blocking. The fourth and one play we saw this with Dak was the quarterback sneak kind of into the game. I mean I think it was sweat. I mean he's just he's just basically not tiring back. Yeah, not that happened much. Not the same not the same player,

not the same player out there playing tackle. And you know there was a couple of times where the quickness got him, you know, he was late to get out. It might be because you're playing a road game and stuff like that. It's like a lot of Dallas fans there, so maybe it wasn't too loud with Jacksonville. Yeah, it's crazy that that that guy. I think we're starting to see the I think we're starting to see the end.

I think we're starting to see the end, you know, of a guy that and I really believe that I thought they would be more powerful over there. It passed. Protection wise, I think that they do some better things, but they miss Steele as a run blocker. Yeah, they really really do. All right, we're gonna take our first break. We're gonna come back. We'll dive a little deeper into this game, see if there's some things we can kind of take from it. We'll do it when we come back.

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but do you think maybe I'm the reason that they played? Like? I think so, Teddy bad Luck Cowboys are officially owen one. When I when I high five the mascot of their team that that could help, we got into so many different little I thought that was so hilarious. That made my first song. And we first saw him was like he was coming and then and then no, Nick, He's walking across the field and Nick's like today Teddy and Teddy didn't pay attention to him. And then Tuddy's coming

back and Nick's like, so, what's up? And then he's like like he's his whole old friend and comes rolling over to Nick high five, let's get a picture, and the whole thing inside there. Every time he walks or something, he keeps having to readjustice belly, like he's picking up his bell and like readjusting. It's so bad. It's like it's like he's like he walks around with like an

inner tube. Yeah. Well but they just kind of it's almost like they stuffed him with like cotton or something, but it keeps falling, so he's having to kind of pull his belly up. Probably the most solid guy there is that those those those mascots have to be in great they really do. Yeah, the that's kind of the only thing that was wrong with their team yesterday though. Pretty much. Yeah, everything else works. You were the mascot was trying to get everything right yesterday. Everything else worked

for the day. Yeah, so take that win. This wasn't the fattest one in that picture either. It's Clote borderline, it's Clote fair. But they didn't get two tuddies. Yeah three? Yeah? Was it three? It was like Dak was like, no, no, seriously, I'm throwing it at you. You're not gonna catch it, do it again, do it again, run it again. There you go, you guys, run this back. That wasn't any logic on that play. Yeah. The first the first one

that was amiss. He was trying to throw it. He was just trying to like he was throwing off his back foot and it was like he was trying to just throw it maybe to throw it away, and it ended up out there. And like you know, Dad's always going to try and make a play. That's Dak off back foot trying to throw. The second one is though they're playing what they call that cover two look with the two corner to squats the corners quarters. Responsibility is the flat. If they if you run a route to

the flat, that's that's his play balls right there. That's I mean, that's just you know, that's covered two look, you know. And I put that in as a five place to remember. I mean, this is the one that Dak probably would have liked. The first guy to catch. He intercepts the ball, you'd like to think you'd like to think Gallup touches him at the twenty two yard line. Then what they've already thrown a pick sly can't make

it field goal at all. I mean, like, would they have even scored, you know, I mean it was it, But the second one, the second one was I just don't know why you would run an out into a cover two look with a guy just squatted down the end of the sticks. Right. Yeah, it was third, Yeah, it was third. It was third and five, Okay, okay, yeah, but I still think it was it was right at the sticks. I don't Oh no, that's like to say.

He just he said, we're gonna try and throw this ball to the sideline to Noah Brown and hope for the best, you know. And the thing about it is, you know, it's funny with this this receivers and stuff. Even even even t Y Hilton had what a couple of drops. I mean, the second one, the long one down the sidelines, he get his hands on it. You know, we've seen him make long plays like that before. But the one inside that he dropped and hit him right. I was just a clear drops hit him right in there,

no hands. Yeah. I mean, you're like, okay, so your quarterback's not playing great and you're dropping balls and you're not getting open and he's kind of throwing it to the other team and you know, it's just I like this guy as a person. I really do might Gallo, but he is demeaner on and off sometimes. I mean he's there's been things he's kind of said in the past where you just think, you know, the fire the dog.

It's like not always there. Sometimes he makes some great plays, and then sometimes it's just kind of whatever, you know, And and that's I think that's he is. He is not necessary your typical number two receiver, and he's getting paid like it. Yeah, but I think they need more from him, They really do that. You've got a guy getting one hundred and seven catches on the other side. Yeah, I mean, see the thing about it too, is like with him, it's just every time it's just like even

the slants and stuff, it's just bad body position. You know. It's like he gets caught between do I want to cradle this thing or do I want to catch it? And as the ball gets closer, it just makes him kind of do weird things with his body to try and you know, you're like, it's just not a good position to catch the ball. And I'll tell you there

was one you remember, third down play. It was like a third and long play where they throw the ball in the middle of the field to Noah Brown and he's like it's just crushed, like you know, it's not even close. And this is Doc, this is this is what you learn about Doc loves Brown. That's I'm saying, Noah Brown, he's going to throw it into the teeth of just disaster. But you've got Lamb and also Shoult

standing there and you throw it to them. It's a it's gonna be a twelve yard game in a first down and you're wondering, like, bro, you had it right here. I mean, and this is where Dak, I think gets in trouble. I think it's like predetermined, I'm gonna fit the ball here and I'm not gonna look it here, and I'm not gonna look it here. And you can see during the game that Ceedee Lamb's like looking at

him like palms up, like ooh. There's one time a two throw another ball where it goes inside and they run a double move with Lamb and if if Dak just hangs with it, just lets him clear, it's gonna be a huge play. And he just he's like, nah, I'm throw it over here, you know. And the plays designed to and they get the get what they want, but he doesn't throw it to where you know, if he throws it far enough to the out, it's a big play. So what do you think? What do you

guys think is happening with Dak? Because I don't think he's the thing about Dak turnover, let's be freaking him out. They are, but let's be honest. There have also been some games here in December where he has played really, really great football. There have been some games where it's like, what the heck was that? And then obviously to see a game like yesterday where nothing went right, like he just had probably his worst performance, as you said, Nick,

since the way he started the season against Tampa. Was he bad against Houston in that game for up until like for fifty eight minutes the Houston game, we weren't very good, right, No, I mean that's exactly. It's been kind of up and down. It's been up and down. So what do you guys think is going on with Dak at this mo? I just I mean I wanted the turnovers I think are huge just because I think

it's reckless. I think there's just some I mean ball clanging off guys, not his fault, but every diame it happens. We're standing at the podium saying I need to do better, I need to do better, and then we get the fans calling him on our show last night, on the postgame show, going why is it the same speech? Tell me, you tell me every week you're doing better, and you're not doing better. You're still making some of the same mistakes. I don't think he sees the field all the time.

I think he gets fooled. I think he gets in the games and thinks I can throw it there, and he gets fooled on the coverage. I really do. I don't think he sees the secondary all the time and it comes and goes, Which is maddening because the throw he made for the touchdown was a great read. He knew exactly the spacing between the corner and then what was going on in the middle of the field and and and Lamb ran a great route and stopped and he fired it in there, and you're going, ha, he saw.

I think that is the one spot in that press box where we were like great view, yeah, oh yeah, yeah, literally you're seeing it from the and you said it immediate venue. That was that was he hadn't done on all this. That's the thing that's the That's the thing that's maddening about him is that you see you see a throw that he made, maybe with the greatest throws I've ever seen. I've seen a lot of them. The Giants game at the Meadowlands in the season, the Cole

Beasley across the back of the end zone. One of the greatest throws I've ever seen in the end zone in my life. I mean, just the way he threw that ball. You're like, that's it, that's what he can do. And then he does stuff where he throws that on that out and things or he doesn't see and you're going, why wait, wait, you saw that. Why didn't you see that?

You know? And that I think that's the thing that's the It's the inconsistency about how he sees things and how he reacts to things, and how he executes and how he throws the ball. You know, his rookie year, he wasn't throwing interceptions. He didn't have to. Zeke was Russia for sixteen hundred yards and he had a lot

of help. That offensive line was was was protecting him, and it was at a point where he could kind of throw it to the right guy and all that, and I just think, now you know, they're not running the football very well, and the routes aren't great either. Now aren't as good? So are we all right? Back to the same conversation we started with, which is without Amari Cooper, they just don't I just wish t Y Hilton wouldn't have dropped those balls yesterday because I'm the

guy champion in t Y Hilton. Make him plays, and we've seen him make plays. I worry about Gallop and I worry about now Noah Brown, I don't. I think it's like when when you don't have some success catching the ball, and Gallop, I mean, he hasn't had great success this year catching the ball. I think he's fighting that thing right now and the quarterbacks trying to help him.

But sometimes the ball's here, sometimes it's low, sometimes it's you know, he threw a ball to Schultz across the field, and Schultz had the kind of you know, Schultz is like throws his hands behind him, put it in front of him. Yeah, you know, but I get it. You don't probably have a lot of confidence that Jason Peters is going to hold up over here at left tackle,

so I've got to kind of throw the ball that way. Yeah, it's just there's so many things going on, and this offense is good and it could score points and it can look great. But when they look bad, they look really bad. We talk about we talk about his wings from one end. Oh my god. Like, there's only one other team I think of right now that's in the playoffs that's worse than Dallas at that nest Minnesota. Like Minnesota can be really great, they could also be extremely bad.

I don't think else is that bad yet, but certainly like they're on that trajectory of when they're good, they're good. When they're bad, man, it can be just a really really poor performance. All right, we're gonna take off. But I was gonna say I think the fact that they've been winning games has affected kind of their mentality and

the way they attack things. That's why you get Dak at the podium every time saying, well, we're gonna keep being aggressive and I'm taking away obviously those two less losses, you know, this one and then the one in Jacksonville, But in general, every game it's been a trend where he turns over the ball and then you go into after the game question, Oh, here we go again, the interceptions, blah blah, And in every game he has made one or two or three plays that are like really good

passing and you're like, okay, well that's why you keep trying to be aggressive and at the end of the game, you guys manage and find the way to win. So I think that has affected the whole and I'm just trying to look for a reasoning because, like you said, Brian, we hear the same speech speech every game and it doesn't change, and they don't go out saying, you know, we're gonna be more careful with the ball or anything. It's not. We're gonna work at it, try to clean up,

but we're gonna stay aggressive and be aggressive. So we'll see how they start changing the game. Planet. I don't. I don't kind of how can I ask a question, yea, we got a break. I was gonna ask back to the Michael Gallup thing. Do we feel that we're past the whole injury thing too, where now he's just flat out now producing how he should be, Because I feel like at the beginning of the season we were kind of cutting him some slack because of the injury and

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just before the break. The question was, are we through past the injury for a Michael Gallup is part of what we're seeing a result of the fact that he just isn't completely back from from his injury and recovering from it. I think that would be a really convenient thing to say. I think that, you know, there was some probably early in the season, he didn't want to play in that game, the Monday night game in New York.

I really do think that he was like, listen, let me have one more week, let me get this singer, you know in my mind right and all that. I think that very early in the season he struggled with that, and I don't think the Cowboys wanted him to play in that game. There's a lot of history on that turf. Yeah, yeah, it's a bad. It's a bad. You're absolutely right about I think it's a combination. I mean, all it takes is one person putting it in your head, yeah, or

one of the then it's like whoa wa. Yeah, I mean just visiting with people like you guys do it was not it was not a game. But I think we're past that point. I do two. I think we're past that. And you know, I mean they're he's just um, he's inconsistent. I mean, because there are sometimes he makes some great catches. I mean, if you're throwing the ball on the sideline, I think I wanted to go to him more than any other player. But he's just it's I don't know, I don't know what it is about him.

It's just not always there. And that's what a number two receiver probably is. If you look around the league at all number two receivers, do they have the ability to go for one forty and two touchdowns? Yes? Do they also can can they go one for four four yards and and not? You know, and maybe four or five targets that incomplete? Yeah, that's what a number two does,

or you'd be a number one. So I think all number two receivers are pretty inconsistent with you know, they they're highs and lows, I mean, and they you want them to be somewhere in between. What has been as high what we say is as high this season as he had as high Yeah, I mean my yards. I'm just saying in general game, and you're like, man, he was the difference here too high? Well, I mean plays

that he's made. I remember the play I think it was against the Colts where Dak sprints was right, He's a stationary receiver in the middle of the field and he takes off running with Dak and he throws in the ball and then he skirts in. I think that was against the Colts. He had to play against the Philadelphi Eagles in the corner at the pylon. Nick's right about that sideline plays where it's not a contested but it's all about him kind of getting hands to body

to ball to tow sixty three. Yeah, I mean, those are those are all those three? That's his best five cats to sixty three against the Giants on Thanksgiving and which that wasn't really that memorable. You know what, I'm really really pissed right now. Yeah, this is what I was waiting for. The ladies should not be using the

word piss but I am. And the thing is, you know what bothers me is why are we talking about the wide receiver group right now at this point of the year when this is exactly the conversation we were having a training camp. These were issues and we've had opened the ups and downs with the wide receiver group. I think Noah Brown did a really really good job during his time with Cooper Rush and all that, and

that was working. So there were times where you thought, Okay, they're doing okay, enough enough to get you by because also how the defense was playing for you. Now that's not the case. Now you need the offense to play a lot better than what the defense is helping you with. And now even though they got Tye Hilton and he's shown some things, it's still not there yet, not there

as a group at the wide receiver position. And it's just that's it makes me mad that we're literally at the time where you think you should have most of everything figured out, you don't. And we're going headed to Tampa Bay next week. Here kind of saying, well, Michael Gallup hasn't been the guy that he needs to be. Well, now you're throwing passes and Noah Brown, who according to Nick is the best base volleyball player in the United States,

but they're competing for big screen. Oh my gosh. No. But it's it's just upsetting when we have seen this, and this is a topic of conversations since training camp, and here we are sitting at the end of the season, heading into the playoffs, still kind of having this conversation. And I love what t Y Hilton has done since the moment he got here, but it's not to the he's not there every play like, it's not to the point where now that's your guy and you're fully giving

that responsibility to him. Just yeah, if you feel better about t Y Hilton, then you do Gallop, then you probably need you probably need more reps from t Y Hilton, which, by the way, I do expect in the playoffs, get more last week's game. Last week's game, he was a guy that they were relying on on third downs, particularly, so I expect in the playoffs you're gonna see a

lot more of that. With CD you have, you guys thought about with the playoffs here, what about like Odell you know what with about a minute and forty five seconds, let me ask you this, about a minute five seconds left in the show. You really just drop that out there? Yeah, yeah, tomorrow and maybe he'll be asked about it. More concerned about the cornerback situation, the wide receiver situation. Cornerback, No doubt, it's not because because like you said, they'll find those

bad players. Yeah, if you can exploit them. And Mike, Mike Evans, I mean the quality, the quality they've tried to fix the cornerback spot. They've brought every corner that's been on the street, they've brought in. You know, we'll see what happens with Xavier Rhodes, Mike. Guys in the league. Tell me listen, he's he's a long player. Dan likes those kind of guys. He's a tough guy. He can't run as well as he once didn't. You know, so now maybe you throw your situation out there. He's a

veteran guy. George Edwards knows him from his days in Minnesota. They've thrown everything. I don't expect Mullin or any of these other guys to play anymore, not right too far into the matchups, though. This is where I look at Xavier Rhodes and say, can you put veteran against veteran? Put him out there with Julio. Julio is a guy I worry about in a playoff game because he hasn't

been a guy who's been killing teams all season. But you get those kind of vets who just have that natural raw ability into the playoffs, Like, I start worrying a little bit about that, and I think Xavian might that might be somebody could put out there to handle him a little bit other than Tom Brady, of course, And even though he has a play great this year, he's still I mean still, he gets it done at

the end, and that's a credit to their defense. But the guy that worries me the most is for Nett to me seem Tom Brady in Week one didn't have to be Tom Brady. Leonard Fournette had one hundred and twenty eight yards and it looked and him six yards a shot. And I still haven't seen the Cowboys consistently be able to stop the run. Every time we think they maybe getting a little better at it, they have a game where it just brings you right back to it, like I don't think they can stop the run, and

Layton vander esh are huge in this game. They they've got to come back and we come back an immedia, come back ready to play, and your your quarterback has to He played so badly against Tampa in Week one, you know, I mean, and hopefully this is the pressure. Do you remember in that game? And I know the defense and even Tom Brady looked very different than what they are now, But I don't remember. I don't. I just still had about four false stars. He was awful

because that was the first week terrible. Yeah, that was the first week that I remember thinking because people were going, well, the broaders, you're right, because I was the guy that said, oh, he's gonna be a liability. And then he played like that in week one and you're kind of like thinking, Okay, maybe I wasn't so stupid. But now he played better since then, So yeah, I mean, you gotta go back,

but we gotta do. If you can watch you all twenty two, go watch Cincinnati, go watch the games that they like, because they Cincinnati really disrupted the way Tampa's offense looked. So maybe that's something that Dallas can draw from in this football game. All Right, guys, we appreciate you, John Us. We'll be back on tomorrow. We'll start kind of flipping the script a little bit here, looking forward to the first playoff game. Cowboys travel to Tampa Bay.

Till then for Nick Eatman. Brian brought us in Amber Garcia. 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.