Cowboys Break: What's Missing?

We are Lively s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star and today's Wednesday, so we get you guys ready. We start getting you guys ready for Cowboys versus Rams. We're gonna go through, uh some storylines with Nick. I know he writes the article every week on don how's a new baby on that? Cool? Yeah, we all knew, but you congratulations to mister. We're putting head. Yes, we had zones. Yeah, we do shows. We don't take calls off the bad

So were we taking calls? He might Let's take one today? Okay, Yeah, you guys want to call us calls eight eight eight eight five. We're gonna We're gonna take some phone calls today we are gonna take two minutes left in the show. Let's take your story right. That's where it is. I always forget about I know every Wednesday when I say it, I look over at Nick and inevitable he's like, oh, and he's on his phone trying to pull it up

but find out. Yeah. Dave is also going to UH to give us his breakdown of the la Rams offense to Marvell do defense, but today we'll break down the offense. That offense is looking a little better these last couple of weeks, so that will be something for us to pay attention to um and talk a little bit about. And as I said before, we will take some phone calls. The numbers eight eight eight eight five five two two

nine seven you can call us there. You can also hit me on Twitter at Derek Eagles and I'll take your halls. Are your questions from there as well. First we'll start though with some injury updates. Jason Garrett had his press conference this morning, talked about a few guys that would return and one that would not. Tell me what's up with the injuries for this team. I think everybody's healthy except for well healthy no able to participate

in practice and potentially play. Yes, specifically the three that were not at practice last or did not play last week in heath and would they're all out there right, yeah, back right. Layton vander esh Is is the one. And at this point, you know, it's fair to wonder if he's going to play again this year. I would lean toward no, honestly, at least not in the regular season. There's only three games left. If it's bad enough that when did he When did he When did they set

him down Detroit? Yeah? Or was it before? Was it the Giants game? It was a road game. He he hurt himself against the Eagles, didn't come back against the Giants, right, and then I don't remember if he played against the Lions and play. It definitely was a road game because walking off the plane, the flat tendant said, here, can you give this neck pillow to Layton Vanderesh They ask you, yeah, and I'm like, how do you always become the guy that's supposed to be doing that kind of what do

you mean you got to help Tony up to podiums? Okay, that's like ten years ago, I know, but still like I got you Well, I don't know because it took me a while to get my coat on whatever. And so the flattendant was like, here's here's his neck pillow. And I'm like, he doesn't want this, would you chase

him down? No? I didn't bring it to him, okay until like I brought it to work, but I'm not gonna take it in there until Wednesday of that week and I said, you know, I got your neck pillow and he was it was like a kid at towards our roster was like, you've got my neck pillow. And I was like, oh yeah, I'll bring it to you. He's like, oh, thanks, dude's got a neck. He has not played. He played against Detroit. He has the Detroit flight. That's what it was. Um one flight wasn't four am

when we got bang. It's fair to wonder if he's gonna play again this year, And I mean, it's a neck injury. Honestly, I'm not sure that he should think. You know, people saying why don't you just move him to I R because he's a really good player. And if there's even a slight chance that they think he can help them, especially if they make it to the playoffs,

I'm sure that's their thought process. But again for me, I mean, if it's a neck injury and he did have issues with it in college, if the fact, I mean we've brought it up before the fact that Jason Garrett said, we don't think it's career threatening, Like, if it's even a possibility, it's okay to just call it a year. I don't think anybody's gonna blame you for

that based on the injury in college. You got either of you guys know if this injury is is the same thing that's recurring or is this a different because you know, sometimes you can hear neck, you can hear back, you can hear arm, and you'll talk to medical trainers and they'll tell you, hey, that's not really the same thing. It's two different injuries. Even though it's the same area,

general area, it's two different issues. You guys know, if this is actually a recurrence of what was happening in college, I really don't. I honestly don't. And that's it's kind of the nature of the beast with like an NFL beat, Like there's so much stuff happening that it kind of works in a cycle like that where you're like, Okay, he's out for a while, don't need to worry about him. There's enough stuff other going enough other stuff going on,

he's not going to play. And then right around now you know he's gonna miss his fourth game in a row. Probably is when people are like, Okay, how big of how big of a problem is this? And so I think, you know, I think Todd Archer reported earlier that they were thinking about giving him more tests, but they decided not to. So I think people are going to start looking for more information about this because again before it's like, well, he needs some time to get right and there's enough

to worry about without snooping around on Layton vandersh. But this, if this is something that's going to keep him out for potentially the final six weeks of the season, then yeah, it's it's something worth looking. But this is the kind of injury that it doesn't seem to be one of those where you can create a timetable for it, where it's kind of I would assume, do you feel good now or you don't? You know, you don't. You can't really when because it's like a stink what is it

called stinger? I mean, this is a neck injury. I'm not sure the details of the neck injury. It's just I thought I heard something about a sting. He suffered a stinger against the Eagles, and that's what limit initiated. Yeah, and I you would assume, you know, around the time this happened. It was like, well, this is an after effect of what happened to him in that game. And yeah, I do not have a ton more information, but it's not like you broke your hand then you know when

how long that's going to take to recover. This is one of those that it's just going to be really hard to figure out exactly when he comes back. Yeah, scary part is when you're talking about next and backs, like that's just that's never a good thing. And certainly, again I agree with you the fact that Jason actually said, there's you know, we don't think this is going to be career threatening. Fact you had to have that. The day he said that, I was like, that's a weird

thing to say. It jumped out to me for a second year player, right, And so you would hope that everything's going to be fine. They just need to let this thing settle down and eventually it'll get to a point where it's okay for him to be able to resume playing, but we'll see how that goes here in the next coming weeks. Let's go and jump into these storylines. Nick walk us through some of the storylines this week. Cowboys versus Rams. All right, the Rams, you know, we

all kind of know where they are. They're they're starting to play like the team that you know went to the Super Bowl last year. I mean, they're not as good, I don't think, but eight and five they kind of turned things not as good as they were last year. Well the record isn't I mean, I mean, I don't I don't know if they're as good. Sometimes you know,

first play, schedule, all that stuff goes into play. But they did get you know, beat forty five to seven at home by the Ravens, so that that's pretty ugly. But the last two games they've kind of turned around, big win over Seattle. One of their storyline storyline, sorry, is the fact that they are also a team that does not start really well. The last couple of games,

though they have scored touchdowns early in the game. That's just the second time out of ten games or the last ten games that they've scored on the opening drive. They're getting outscored by their opponents in the first quarter for eight forty two, but they can turn it on in the second. So that's that's something. There um only ten players in the NFL this season have caught seventy passes and nine hundred receiving yards, and two of them play for the Rams, so Cooper Cup and Robert Woods

also Marie Cooper doing that. So yeah, that's a lot of guys are problem. Two guys that catch and they also you know, get yards. Now, Cup has seven touchdowns. He's a red zone threat for sure. No day will talk about him. He's gonna get into also Todd Gurley and the fact that you know he's got seven hundred and seventy rushing yards. I think the biggest thing though, is that he only has one hundred and sixty eight receiving yards. He's not doing the double dual threat that

we've seen from him before. And then the last storyline is if you talk about guys, you've talked about Aaron Donald. He's a beast a song getting a quadruple teamed in a game the other day. He still has eleven sacks. He's only the second defensive tackle in the history of the league with four seasons of eleven sacks or more. And he's done it now three years in a row. You know, I wish, I wish fans. I wish fans

could see this guy. I don't know if some of them may have see this guy without pads on, Like he is the most impressive looking, Like he's the guy you get off the best the first because he's so just big. He's a massive dude. And he's not a fat dude at all, but he's just a rat, like just a un Yeah. But he is a big guy. And and you look at defensive tackles and you usually think they're gonna be fat, They're gonna be like just rolls head. Ain't that dude? Man? He is a He

is an impressive dude. I mean, you're not You're not wrong, You're absolutely not wrong. He's got like an eight pack, he's jacked, but he's like five ten yeah, And that's why, I mean, he should have been a top five pick, and his size hindered him in the eyes of value. N I want to say tenh. I mean he he absolutely he earned probably a million dollars with one play at the Senior Bowl. You know, people think Senior Bowl. You know, it's kind of sorry. Even other than that,

I think Odell was tenth. There you go, so he went third, Yeah, zag Martin went sixteen. Ah yeah, well yeah, shot, the internet says he They're sitting there now together, both of them. I'm there's no question where I'm going. I gotta take Donald. Yeah, Zach's really good, don't get me wrong, it was actually really great. Okay, Donald's better. I mean it's better. Yeah. I mean the thing about it is you you give me, you give me a great offensive guard, and he's got to be less impactful in a game

than a great defensive tackle. Right, So if you've got to split hairs between the two, I'm gonna take the great defensive tackle Andnald depends. If that great guard is facing that defensive tackle, then maybe he's not as impactful. Maybe we'll find out Sunday though, because they're gonna face each other a few times. But how often did that happen last year? Like it? See, it didn't seem like they were messed up. A hole was Connor the he's the whisperer for Donald, He got the whisper Yeah, there

we go. I can say that because he's not gonna play about to say this, Wow, Aaron Donald's gonna But the difference is we'll talk about that tomorrow. Is I mean, they don't have Sue who he was the one that really heard him. I'm sure they have someone else that's still have Mike Brocker's Who's I mean, I don't He's not Aaron Donald problem. He's not Sue. He might him

and Sue might be comparable at this point. They dude, they that when you start thinking about that defense, I'm surprised they haven't been better than they are with the guys that they've had it, even the guys that they've had it throughout the year this year. We'll talk about the defense to worrow. That's to worry about tomorrow. We got way to worry about on the offense today. So we're gonna take our first break when we come back. Day's gonna give us his breakdown on the ramps offense.

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offense and scattering port by Dave Hellman. Before we do that, though, we do have a phone call from James in California. James, what up? Hey, guys, are good? Good? It's uh cheers always Wednesday, but hoping it was Friday. But it's okay. This We're getting there. I UM, first and foremost one would like to thank you guys for giving us an opportunity, us fans a platform to vorce our opinion and concerns regarding the team and so on and so forth. UM just wanted to to see or to have your take

on UM the offense, especially dak Um. I think I would. I'll take him over Carson Wentz. But the one thing that Carson Winks does that I don't see. I don't think Dack does is UM Carson Wentz always on crucial situation, he always goes and take pick out his best receiver, which UM sackers all the time. UM the good quarterbacks always do that. Like Tom Brady, crucial situation, he looks for Edelman, Um Mahomes, Kelsey, Deshaun Watson. He's he's always looking for hop against and so on and so forth,

Drew Brees, Michael Thomas. UM. But that it seems like on crucial plays he's I don't know if it's all there as far as the read or if that was the play call. But third down crucial situation he's looking at Blake Drawin on deep pass who's being double covered by a corner in the safety, or another third down crucial situation, he's targeting the pullback all the while. I mean,

those plays matters and adds up. I don't know if you guys can do some Jedile mind tree, just like Bill Bettletrek did with the rest with the phantom calls, the tripping calls, and on the rest, if you guys can like just yea ask the questions as far as you know, if a Marius his first read or second read or something just to see I don't know, just to have him thinking about like using his best wide out ride receiver far then any anyone else on the

team effectively. All right, thanks to icall, we appreciate it. Guys. Thoughts on that well. As a fantasy owner of zach Ertz, I'll say that I don't think that Wentz goes to him as much as I as he's saying that in

crucial situations. But I get the point, and I do think it comes down to what the Cowboys say all the time as we do what we do, and what they do is they like to take what's there, so they're gonna they think that jamazl Wally is a great option if he's the one that's open with a mismatch, as opposed to saying third and six, I'm gonna find Amari Cooper and I think Romo would do that in years past with Whitton. And I don't know if Dak has what he can you know, what he deems to

be a security blanket type receiver right now. But in order to do that well, I think they have to That has to be a part of the scheme. So if you want to get your best player the ball, you have to scheme opportunities in those situations to get him open, because the other team knows that guy's your

best player as well. And so if you're just going to him and you're not doing something to get him open, then you're trusting that he's going to be able to in many instances, be able to beat a double team or sometimes three guys bracketing him. And that's not a

good situation either. We saw that for many years with Diz where there was a thought of it or they forced them the ball today as well, Yeah, you gotta you want to have a balance, and so I think that has to go to the scheme, and the coach is saying, hey, we want to be able to find ways and create opportunities for our best players to get open and not just tell Dak find your your best player. Yeah, I think all of I think it can all be

a little bit true. I would quibble at first, like a lot of the guys, he just named, there's not a lot of other options like Carson Wentz. By the end of that Giant's game, there were no other reliable players on the field. Drew Brees, has Kamara and Michael Thomas like quick name the next Saints receiver behind him? Meet him? Uh Ted Ted gets well? They all have good games because there ye Dever Anderson, great guys, Trey Quan Smith and Ted Ginn or the answers, but like,

these are not game breaking receivers. And honestly, I would argue we always say, like we've we've talked about it before, like is Dak that type of Drew Brees quarterback at this point in his career who can put it on his guy always wherever he wants it, you know, throw open the back, shoulder, fade, all that type of stuff. He can do it at times, but can he do

it reliably? And so I don't like the idea of Dak forcing balls to Amari Cooper no matter what I agree, I think Dak would tell you his favorite receiver is whoever's open. And then that comes back to yes, scheme scheming looks that get Amar open sounds great. Throwing it to the fullback who's playing ten percent of the snaps on the season on fourth down. I don't like it at all. And you know people have been going back and forth, Well, Jamay's ran the wrong route. That's not

Dak's fault. Okay, just don't run that play. And I like Tony Pollard wasn't there, he wasn't playing in that game, and Zeke needed a blow. That's fine. I don't like the idea of like that being your primary look on fourth down. When jamay'zla Walle disappeared from this offense after Week one, he played twenty played twenty snaps, average twenty snaps a game first three weeks of the season. He has rarely gone over ten since then per game. I just I think that's ridiculous that that's you know, and

I get I mean, they're all pros. Make the catch, run the right route. I get that, but like, let's work with the guys that Dak has the experience with Randall Cobb was open on that play. He might not have been the first read, but go to the guys that have done it for you. And it's stuff like that that drives me crazy, not so much that he's not just trying to feed a Mara Cooper, I mean a Mari's gonna finish with like ninety catches this year.

That's pretty good. Well. And to add to that, to your point me personally, I don't trust this offense to handle injuries. So for example, if a Marie Cooper Versee has to miss another game, it's like, I don't trust Dak to find back that comfort of being able to connect with other receivers. We've seen him do it, you know, when he divides it up and throws it to Randol

and that works. But I think that when this offense all of a sudden has to miss a key element, they just freak out and don't really know how to handle that or how to adjust to that. So if you were to do that, then that creates, in my opinion, a bigger problem for when a bad time comes where you need to readjust and find other options. Yeah. I think that's a good point because you're right. If you're if you're relying on your best player that much, then

what happens when he's not there? And we saw this year that can happen. It happened in the Jets game, and it wasn't expected to happen. You just had an injury there early and he's out, and so how do you adjust when you're relying on that In those kinds of situations, I much prefer the Hey, find me the open guy, and if you want a scheme, guy's open scheme.

I'm open, but always go to the open guy. Yeah, I mean that we talked about this, I think before you got here the other day that the Jets game is no longer the one where you're like, they, you know, lose to the Jets. I mean, because the Cowboys are about to be the same record as the Jets. So yeah, it doesn't look as it doesn't look as awful right now because you thought they were going to be a top three pick and all of a sudden they're find

ways to win football game. Yes, their clutch, Actually they win games in the clutch. All right, let's go ahead. Let's go ahead, and it just sounds weird. Let's just go ahead and jump to the Jets clutch. That sounds weird. Um, let's go and jump to the scattering report. Dave tell us about this Los Angeles Rams offense. You alluded to it. Um, they they they haven't been good for a pretty large chunk of the season, but it seems like they are rounding into form at the right time. I think a

big part of that is their offensive line. Um, you know, we talk about injuries and nobody feels sorry for you, YadA YadA. The rams O line has been a disaster this year, and not just in terms of like players not playing up to their potential. They haven't been healthy. I read this this morning. They've only have one original starter playing his original position from week one. That's Andrew Whitworth. Who's you know, he's forty, he's good. He'd made the

Pro Bowl last year. He hasn't played up to the expectations he's set though, because you know, people thought his career was kind of done. He goes to LA he made the Pro Bowl. He hasn't been playing on that level. It seems like he's playing better. But they lost Joseph noe Boom early in the season. They lost Rob Havenstein their right tackle early in the season. They had to trade for Austin Corbett. They had to move their left guard,

Austin Blythe to center. They've had rookies starting at right guard and right tackle for most of the season, so it's it's been pretty rough, and it looks like they've kind of found a way to make it work. I think Havenstein should be available for this game. It sounds like, so you know, the Cowboys have caught breaks all season that's going in the opposite direction where he'll be in the lineup playing against the law most likely. Another big part of that is I think they've found out what

they have in their tight end position. They've got a couple of pretty good ones. And I mean you've heard you probably have heard of Tyler Higbee. I mean, we just played this team in January's He's much better than I give him credit for or one using him. Well, now they are, and it's kind of amazing what you can do when you have tight ends who can do

a little bit of everything. Because they are mauling guys with twelve personnel, with Higbee and another guy by the name of Johnny Munt who I never I had not heard of him yet, ugly gross last name mut Munt. I think I'm pronouncing that right. There's really not much you can do about that, No, there's not. There's not

five somebody can't control. They block well, and Higbee Higbee is he's like I watched the Seahawks game back, and like, that's what I came away most impressed with, because, like, I know, I know about Robert Woods, I know about Cooper Cup, I know about Todd Gurley, but he's mauling people in the running game and going down field like catching the ball ten twelve fifteen, fourth round in twenty

sixteen by the Rams, fourth round. H but I mean twenty sixteen though, I think, I mean, unless Dalton Schultz was a fourth round pick. Yeah, I was. I wasn't even well I was, I was gonna say, I mean, unless you're drafting like a T. J. Hockinson, like this ready made top ten tight end, it can take two three years for a guy to develop a good player, which, well, I'm gonna mean Dalton Schultz, you should should be the arrow should have moved a little bit off the ground

by now. Let's not make this his show. No, you're right, you're a point. But that so and so they are rediscovering their run game because their tight ends are helping offset their offensive line. Um, girlie's been playing well these last two weeks. Sean McVay had a great one liner last week where somebody was like, well, why you know why's girlies have been so involved the last two weeks? And McVeigh was like, because I decided to stop being an idiot and get my you know, best player involved.

Here we go. Um, so they remember when Garrett said that one time? I literally I heard that and I was like, imagine, imagine having a head coach who would like provide a funny, good headline for you just but honestly, there's more to it than that. It's not just that it's just saying, you know what, we were well, yeah, no, you're right, the arrogant level that, yeah, it has to just drop a little bit and be like, you know what, we've been doing some different things, get back to basics here.

I was thinking about it. Coach saying the same thing or similar thing a week or two ago, and I was thinking the same thing, like, it's kind of refreshing. It's kind of refreshing to hear and just be like, yeah, I got a guy doing some stuff. We said, you know what, this stuff works, Let's just go and run the ball and get girly involved. Which actually it's it's another great point because you know, the Rams got famous last year because it was like ninety five percent of

the time it's eleven personnel. It's the same three receivers. They don't change. They just they're good at it and that's what they do well. They're adjusting for their deficiencies this year because they're all the way up to twenty percent twelve personnel. Like they use it a lot because they have a good, versatile tight end and and a great running back. So it's working for them. Their receivers are scary because their versatile Cup and Woods and Cooks

can all line up anywhere. I mean good receivers can, but they do it a lot. You see Woods, Woods lines up in the slot, he lines up outside. I think Woods is Golf's guy. I know, I know Cup and him both have seventy plus catches, like you said, but it seems like Woods is to the caller's point, Woods is like the guy he's looking for. You know. He's one of the most wide receivers in the NFL's in the red zone and the red zone. Yeah, Cooper Cup,

I mean I saw a stat the other day. I have to look at it closer, but it was like the first forty games of your career, the number one receiver in the NFL history, of touchdown catches is Randy Boss. Number two is Cooper cup Wow. Yeah he's stud and he doesn't have a ton of catches to go with it. In yards, he just goes down there and he just s. He's a great route runner. The guy that you guys loved on the draft show. I mean, I don't want to pat myself on the back back, I but loved

no He. I loved break I know the right man. I mean I've liked I liked Laquon Treadwell too, and that didn't work out for But yeah, we all have some good ones and some batt ones, right he It was just if you win Hester, remember that way back then, I was like, draft Hester, gotta have him. You were kind of right, but I don't I think I wanted to play him at offense. I don't care. You would have been right. Yeah, he's just I mean he's he's

a mismatch. I mean, he's a big bodied guy. Who's I mean like he's got slot receiver shiftiness in a Jordy Nelson type of body. He's he's really talented. I mean he's he's not small, but I mean, you know, I'll pull up his measurables. Yeah, he's like six three. I want to say, really, yeah, for some reason I thought he was a six to two hundred, like he is not a I mean, yeah, he's not a se

D It's okay. No, when you see a slot guy, you assume slot guys are gonna be a little smaller, and you know he's not a gym rat student of the game. No super smart slot receiver. I mean, halten, do you slot receiver? I mean he's not like that's He's a different. Receivers that are big like he usually doesn't happen. He different, He's a different breed. Um, he's a good player. I put words in a mud because that's not what I'm saying. I don't. I'm trying to

keep us on this on the rail series. I don't. I don't think Jared Goff is that good. I don't say it again. I don't think that was some conviction. I don't think he's that good. I don't. I'm good. I was needing a headline title for this show. He got one. Jared Goff isn't that good. He's fine, He's fine. He clearly, I mean, he got him to a super Bowl. He's he's you know, he's played well enough that you gotta keep him. I mean, you're not gonna start over

like Jared Goff can win you games. But I don't. I don't know. He's he's completing twenty seven percent of his deep balls. He's I don't think he's a great decision maker. He's he's throwing fifteen touchdowns and fourteen picks both.

He threw two picks in this Seahawks game, one which was returned for a touchdown by Quandre Diggs, which you know, get like we dissect everything Dak Prescott does and like nobody else misses open receivers is off and as Dak well, I watched Jared Goff just sail a crossing route like literally went two yards passed and one yard high on the receiver and right into Quandre digs his hands and he's like, oh damn, yes, thanks, touchdown. I never saw anyone else in the picture, but it's it almost like

he was the receiver. I mean it really did. Like if it's if the receiver's reaching his hands out over the middle, the ball was up here. He's like, oh well I was down here, Jared, what were you throwing one of those where you think it's got to be to somebody else. Yeah, where was the other guy was? To me? Which and I'm not trying to kill Jared Goff because that stuff happens, But if you listen to

Cowboys fans, it doesn't like it only happens to Dak Prescott. Yeah. Um, Honestly, I was watching the game, like on replay and was looking at some of the things that he's able to do. One, he can at times, he can get rid of the ball pretty quickly and still connect with his receiver or no, go Okay, he can get out of the pocket quickly and still make a decision, and yes he makes mistakes.

But facing this Cowboys defensive line and the way they've been playing, I started thinking, I'm like, oh my god, he can be really really good in this game going against the Cowboys, because if he's well, he played against Seattle. But even then, the fact that he was able to do those kinds of things there in that game, it started making me think about, oh boy, what is this gonna look like when they're facing this Cowboys defensive line.

I absolutely don't disagree, and I just I just kind of crapped on him, But I mean he's a talented player like he is, and for ever, for every what the hell was that? There's you know, he had a play rolling out where he found Woods, the coverage was good and he just rifled it in there. I mean he was the number one pick for a reason. He certainly can make plays, I question, and his decision making and his accuracy is not outstanding, not by NFL standards, But can the pass rush get to him? Can the

Cowboys cornerbacks cover these guys? I mean we just talked about you know, Robert Woods and Cooper Cup can both play in the slot. They're both big, and I mean that sounds like a problem for Jordan Lewis, honestly. And that's the other thing is Sean mcfay smart. He schemes easy throws for this guy all the time, like lots of crossing routes, lots of you see, like so many like layer concepts where there's a short option, an intermediate option.

I know that's obvious, but they do it all the time where it's kind of like, okay, roll out and whichever one looks the most appealing, hit him, and there's it's five yards, twelve yards and eighteen yards. It happens all the time, and they're not hard throws by NFL standards. So having said that, I don't think he's amazing. He's certainly good enough to hurt these guys because Jeff Driscoll did, and at Mitch Drubisky, the key took off is the

fact that he has the coach that he has. I think that always have to factor that into a quarterback because I think the better the coach, the more that you can hide some of those deficiencies and give them opportunities to succeed based upon what they do well. Because he definitely does have some talent, definitely has armed talent and can do a lot of things. Maybe you just hide some of those things he doesn't do so well.

Let's go. But if the last two weeks or any indicator, I mean they're gonna try to set it up with Gurly though and that, and then I mean it looks like he's he should be fresh. He's only got one hundred and seventy carries on the year. And how much is that scare you? Knowing? How how tough the cowblt have so much, so much they don't I mean, good running backs have killed them Sony Michelle is like the only really good running back that they had. A lot

of bad running backs have had. I shouldn't say bad, but average running backs have had decent days against them. But but yeah, I mean, I'm but I'm thinking about Dalvin Cook. Yeah, I'm thinking about both scarbro Yeah, who I mean, he hasn't He's not even a decent level yet. Yeah, and he had it. He had some good runs. Like running backs have had good days against Ronnie. We leave that. So that does that? Should I think that should scare everyone going into this game for sure. All Right, we're

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through December twenty. First, make sure you get out there. The tonson and parting are free, really really cool for the kids. They'll enjoy it and get you in the crystal spirit. All right, so let's let's get back in. We've got some phone calls already rolling in, you guys, calls eight five, two two nine seven. We have a call from Sean and North Carolina. Sean, what up, Hey, guys, how's it going? All right? I would just um had a few observations, but you guys can touch on a little.

But um, I feel like, um, these guys, like it's just basic things, like just like fundamentals and stuff that you know is trouble and this team and I know coaching takes a lot of flatcoard and everything, but like you have guys, listen, tackles, you got lanes and gap INTEGRITYESH receivers dropping balls. You know you can here like you know, I'm listening and watching you guys, uh sound from the sidelines and you can hear Mary Nelly basically saying, you know, I mean, time's gonna have to say the

same thing. You know, I mean, these guys, your best guys, the Marcus Lawrence, you know, for se just watching him a couple of weeks ago against uh Alan and you know, same thing with Trabinsky. You know, these guys doing us read option and I'm just like, how many times he goes, you know, bite down and tackles the guy without the ball and watch the quarterback roll outside and there's no contain you know. And um, that's just one thing. Another thing.

You know, this team preaches about having the right kind of guys. Well, I just want to know, dude, we got the right kind of right kind of guys? Because yeah, okay, um, can I tell you this that as saying all this, like the first part of it, in my mind, I was questioning, do the Cowboys have the right kind of guys? I mean, it's seriously what I was thinking. So here's the question, though, when you say that, what do you

mean by the right kind of guys? Because I think there's a lot of different interpretations of what that means. Is that really good players? Is that guys that love football? Is that guy? Like, there's a lot of different ways you can dice that they don't have enough guys that are good enough to win. Okay, So right kind of guy for you is about ability? Yep, And that's the that's the right kind of guy for every coach in the NFL, because I don't care what they say about

the right kind of guy. If he's KP and Kant play, they're not going to use them. I mean, that's just that's not the right kind of guy. Right kind of guy? Line one is playing well in the NFL. Line two through nine, they'll figure it out depending on how in

line one goes. I completely agree with you. But but I again and again and again think that a lot of the guys on this team are talented, which makes me wonder, are are there guys on this team that aren't is just consumed by being great at football as others? Is it a motivation issue? And I think that's a fair thing to wonder right now with the way that they've played and the way that they've lost some of these games. I mean, and the message that they're getting, yeah,

is the same. I guess, you know, like that's what it is like, because I don't think I don't think the coaching staff is all of a sudden it's not a good staff, but I just think it's all kind of come to a head where the message and how he delivers it is this constant and at this point it's just I think these guys are probably tired of it. Yeah, I do wonder if they're winning on Wednesay, Thursday, and Friday.

We talk about that. We've talked about that a lot on this show over the years of you know, you can say the talent is one thing, and going out there and competing. They go out there, they compete hard.

But if you're not, if you don't have that same level of enthusiasm and commitment on Wednesay, Thursday, Friday to prepare, then it'll show up at points in games when you just don't know what's going to happen, don't have a good enough read on your opponent because you maybe didn't study enough, or maybe your body's just not prepared because you didn't take good enough care of your body to be able to have that push in the fourth quarter

when you're tired. Right, there's lots of things that are about what you do on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday that ultimately lead to success on Sundays, and all those things, in my opinion, are fair right now because of the way they're playing. Yeah, I mean, it's hard for me to think you are winning during the week when again, I mean the Chicago offense sucks like it's so bad, and they looked and Truebisky wasn't you know, he wasn't

throwing dimes. He's like I think I read he was averaging like three and a half air yards per completion, which means he wasn't throwing the ball downfield. And it didn't matter because tight end screens and checkdowns to quarterrel Patterson are going through for thirty five yards. You have four straight scoring drives when you've been that bad all year, and that's an indictment of any defense that allows it.

And it may just like, how well are y'all actually preparing for this stuff when this is happening totally, And you know, I do think that, you know, I've said it before about the talent, I don't think these players are as good as they as they as we thought they were. I definitely don't think they're as good as as the coaching staff thinks they are because I think that they continue to do what we do with these

guys and it doesn't work. And again, I put a lot of it on the players, but it is very clear that the coaching staff is getting out coached in in these other games to these other staffs, because as soon as you say we're going to do what we do, you can just hear the coaches on the other side just rubbing their hands together, like, all right, we know what they're gonna do. What if we did this, Because we know what they're gonna do, They're gonna do it now.

Like I love I love it. I agree with everything you said. You said it in a funny way. They're getting out coached. They're getting out coached. And it's not just Jason, it's the other it's the scheme, it's all of that stuff. And you know when when you can't stop Jeff Jeff Driscoll from running and Mitchell Trubisky, you know those guys like that, I mean, you know, it's just that they just don't have an answer for It's

really when it's the same common theme. Right when you got these quarterbacks that are just rushing for all these yards that, by the way, aren't guys that necessarily are doing it to anybody else, and you're not going into the game saying, Okay, we know this is a deficiency from last week. We have to make that a priority to stop it this week, and then the same thing happens, right that's the part that that works. Here's here's the thing.

Like I've seen a lot of college football games, a lot, and I've seen I've been on both sides over where this team's gonna be. You know, you haven't you're playing a team that they're not gonna beat you tonight, you know. But the first play of the game says a triple reverse passed to the receiver back to the quarterback and he throws it over here to the running back and they get fifty yards. And you're like, all right, well that was a good play, but you're not gonna win.

And you know you're not gonna win because you had to do that on the first play to tell your guys we're gonna do this. But you really know you can't win because you had to do that kind of stuff. At least they're trying, though, See the Cowboys, I don't think they the Cowboys like we're taking the ball to start the game, we're gonna go, we're gonna score and all that. Like they think they're gonna win, but I don't believe that they have the talent to do it.

So when do they figure out? When does the talent isn't playing up to part to be able to do it. Okay either way, I mean, it's the results the same. So when are they gonna when are they gonna flip the switch and go we can't beat the Rams like this. We need to do different things. And I'm not saying you have to run trick plays, but trick plays or show you that you're gonna try to go into the bag a little bit to do some different things. And

this team doesn't. They're just like, we're gonna keep doing this because we have done it in the past, not against a winning team, but they've done you know, you know what I'm saying. Where it's like, yes, that's where the arrogance comes into play. Okay, we're not good enough to beat them. And like Jason's first year when when they were two one and seven and then he took over, they played games against the Saints and the Eagles that were they were really good teams that year. They didn't

win the games, but they hung in there. They almost won the Saints. They probably should have won that Thanksgiving Day game, but they played a different way where they had to slow everything down because they knew their defense was terrible. Slow down. We get into drives right, he just ran ran norm rambling. All I'm saying this is that there's there's You have to at some point realize, okay, almost cussed. This stuff isn't working. And because it's not stuff,

it's the other one and it's not working. So do something different, take your ego, put it over here, and try to win the game. All right, guys, appreciate you joining us. We'll be back tomorrow. We're gonna talk defense tomorrow, that Rams defense. You think the offense is good, We got some dusies for you tomorrow. We'll talk about that for Nick Eatman, Dave helm and Amber Garcia. I am Derek Hilton. This has been The Break live on Dallas

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