Cowboys Break: Who’s Beating That?

The Break. We're Alive from that's WBC Morriage Studios at the Star. We are done with Christmas and the Cowboys have given everyone's a really really nice Christmas present. Yesterday. They gave Amber that game, as she's been asking for for the last several weeks, a fifty six to fourteen beat down of the Washington football team. Benches in all and uh and I like Nick's tweet bench please like that was really? That was that? We should have used that as a headline after the game. That would have

been pretty pretty perfect. But we're gonna break down the game for you guys, tell you guys what went right and if there was anything that went wrong for this team. So let's start nick. We didn't get a chance to get eighty four last week because he didn't get a chance to do our show. You want to give me an eighty four and eighty five real quick to get us kicked off here. I always been a big fan

of Joey Galloway, Yeah, eighty four. I know there's some other great tight ends, and there were eighty four, but I like I like Joey Galloway myself. I love how our personal things kind of filter into things sometimes. I got no issues with Doug Cosby, like Cosby eighty five. Yeah. Remember Ernie Mills, Yes I do, Yeah, or Arnie Mills. I liked him, I did too. How long was he here for? Like? Two years? Years? Noah Brown? Sorry, Dave

Keepson real was who's here that? Yeah? I think he's the only guy that's warrant that I can think of the whole time I've been here about Darren Chefferini, I remember the name? I remember? Then? All right, all right, let's get right into this. Craton was a good eighty four, it was. It was one of my favorites. I like Patrick just as a person, cool guy. All right, all right,

let's jump right in Cowboys win fifty six fourteen. Uh, it was a it was a game that was um, I don't know, just everything about it just seemed to work. But let's start first with some storylines, big picture storylines. What do you think coming out of that game? Games over, Cowboys win fifty six fourteen. What's your first thought? Nick, they get win the Super Bowl if they play like that? I mean, I'm sorry, I mean you can though, I mean,

that's that's not too far fetched. If you play like that, you're gonna beat any team, maybe other than the AFC Pro Bowl squad. I mean, that was that was an absolute perfect type game. That doesn't mean they're gonna play like that all the time. There's better quarterbacks, better teams, better offense that will challenge them them. But if you're gonna dominate on offense, defense and specialty, dominate all three. This team, this is a team that can go and win,

win games and get into the super Bowl. That's that's how good that they are. Well, they do it when it counts the most we'll see. But man, they have they put it out there. Amber it ain't that hard, is it? When you have the talent exactly exactly That's what I've been complaining about. We know the talent that's there on offense, on defense, even special teams. They showed up last night as well. Kellen Moore. We know he

has talent. So this is what I was waiting and complaining to be to see, to see finally, and it's not that complicated. Once they're clicking, it's freaking amazing. And I was probably that was probably the game I've enjoyed the most, just sitting there, I have my feet up, my laptop on my legs, watching the game and enjoying it.

No sweating, no nothing. So I expect the Cowboys to take this win and carry it over the next few weeks and hopefully that's something that's that doesn't go away with Arizona coming up next week and I know we'll talk about it later in the week, but this is a great start to end the final regular season. Dave Mbar reminds me of my dad a little bit, and that sounds weird, but my dad is only happy if his team is just blowing the doors off, or the

other days, if it's if it's remotely close. He's like, these guys are stressing me out. I can't watch this. I'm like, you chose the wrong league to be a fan of if that's the only way you're gonna be happy. But you're right they I mean, that's about as perfect as you can play a game of NFL football. And like they've beaten down four or five teams this year, and this still felt like it was in a different stratosphere than those games just beginning to end. Ass whipping

um that you just you get. You typically get those like once a generation in the NFL, and it's special that the Cowboys have managed to do that a handful of times this year. I mean that, don't take that for granted. Knicks totally right. You had the wonderful analogy last week or whenever it was that it was like they were playing a guitar out of tune. Well they tuned up, they tuned up. And yeah, I mean with what the defense is doing. I wrote about this last night,

like whole hum, whole hum. They only had two takeaways and still scored a defensive touchdown, So like they're still doing that and the offense did what it was supposed to do, didn't even really have to change that much. Like CD makes some tough catches instead of dropping the ball, Dak throws some fans. He puts it on the money, which is something he hasn't been doing is consistently. But it was there last night. And when they play even close to that level of potential, I just I think

they could beat anybody in the NFL. Yeah. My big picture from that game is really just this defense is great. They are great, and I love watching them play. I tweeted during the game, you know, after they score the first touchdown, I was like, all right, I don't really need to see the offense anymore. Just put the defense out that arrest of the game, and I just want to see him because every play you're looking like, who's

gonna do something, Who's gonna do something? Like? They are so much fun to watch because they have so many playmakers, and all their playmakers are making plays all the time, and so it's just a it's just a fun team to watch from a defensive standpoint, and the part I love the most about this team, and I think it was on display last night. When the defense is clicking, I think everything else will click. I think this defense has the ability to be able to be the catalyst

for everything else. It started with that interception with Treyvon Diggs and from there the route was on. Yeah, and that's what I love about this defense. This has become a defensive team and that travels in the playoffs. I love that about this team right now. I don't think the Covers are going to get a Defensive Player of the Year award this year. I don't think it's going to happen. I think they got two guys though, that are worthy of it, that are probably gonna split some votes. Yeah,

because I think Treyvon Diggs. You know, we see what Parsons is doing, but Diggs should get some concern iteration as well. Um, obviously, eleven picks is amazing. Tis the Cowboys a record with Everson Walls, which I'm sure he'll have some things to say today on mix shots about that, but um, you know, he traveling with their best receiver. He's taken away your best option, or at least trying to and so that right there is helpful. And then you're getting picks on top of it. I mean, he

should get some some votes as well. You know that he had they had between the two games they've played against Washington the last three weeks, there have been ten targets to McLaren. McLaren only played the first half of that last game. He got hurt in the first series of the second half. But they've had ten targets him. He's at one in one completion. I mean, yeah, exactly. So I mean this is this is you talk about taking the top guy, and he was doing it earlier

this season too. He was taking the top guy every week and none of those guys were having great games. And so people can talk about his stats and he gives up yards and all this care The guy gets turnovers, he makes plays. He has over twenty past defenses, which is I think that's the first time in NFL history someone's had eleven interceptions and twenty past defenses in the

same season. Like, he is having a remarkable season, Nick, And but for the fact that he's overshadowed, shadowed by Michael Parsons, I think he would be like there would be a lot more people talking about him in that discussion. That's insane and I agree with you, but that's insane though, to say that he's being overshadowed by anybody because he has a chance to tie an NFL record that has stood since before the Super Bowl. I mean, that's the

type of territory that he's in. And it's crazy the degree to which he's kind of been discredited, and I think aig in my opinion, a big part of it's just that he plays for the Cowboys. People, if you don't love the Cowboys, you hate him and you're like, oh, so what if he's got picks he gives up and he's just eleven I mean eleven interceptions. I'm looking at McLaurin, got targeted six times last night, caught it once, just coldal on factor in that game. And I get it.

The Washington didn't really have a great quarterback situation, but I don't care if it's impressive. Yep, well you got surprise they went after him that first play. Yes, yeah, and the way they not only did they like Washington ran double goes Kelvin Joseph was carrying the exact same route on the other side of the field. First NFL start, first snap out there, at the very least, test him, Yeah, like,

test the rookie. Not the thing. It's gonna be all pro when the season's over and you're just like, yeah, we got this, We're gonna I'm just gonna check it out. Stupid and everybody Digs couldn't believe it. I think every player got asked about it and they were all just like why would you do that? Like why? Why? Why even chance it? If you're gonna test him, you think you try to bait him, like you try to work him throughout the game and then get him into a situation.

You got him thinking one thing and then try to get him. I don't know why they thought that would be a good idea to start the game, but fourteen is the record. I think he's gonna get there. He's got two games, he needs three interceptions. I think he's gonna get there. That's a lot in two games. Night Lane Lane. Seriously, like that record has been around since like running back. It's amazing just to just to say

Treyvon Diggs at night train Lane. Yeah, that even sounds funny. Again, I mean three and two games would be wild, but Kyler and I would be surprised. But I'm not gonna bet against him. Why Yeah, Kyl, you know he's had he had three against hers last year. Give it to you. That would be fun. I'd like to just him to get twelve for sure. You know, break the record for

the Cowboys. That would be cool. And Everson Walls we did talk to him about a last week and he said, hey, get it, but no one's ever gonna take my rookie record. You know. He said, no one's gonna break that. So because Everston got eleven as a rookie, so he's got the record and a rookie record. He's like, so nobody's coming into the league. I'm not being erased from the record. No, no, yeah, being there will no, there will not be another player to come in as a rookie to get eleven. And

if he is, I guarantee not undrafted from Grambling. Like that ain't happening. All right, We're gonna take our first break. When we come back. We got to talk about this offense. We're gonna start with Dak and the day that he had and how he performed it. More importantly, what was different for him yesterday, because it did seem like there were some things that were a little different. We'll talk about that we come right back. This is Dallas Cowboys

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Welcome back to the second segment of the Break Life Nest WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, we're talking about the Cowboys victory over the Washington football team. They win fifty six to fourteen. That still just sounds like I'm want to college football show that that is not an NFL score. That's how I felt last night, was like, you know, LSU's playing Sam Houston State, and like midway through they of course not sorry direct should know you.

It doesn't I'm not picking on anybody, but you're just they're like, all right, let's get the freshman in here. Let's see what the young guys can do. And they even scored. Right. He gat Malakue Turner out there, just like running up and down the field. Belie Turner, I thought he was gonna house that thing. Yeah, he was not gonna go down. Yeah. That was the other That was just the epitome of like the Washington's checked out of this game. They're demoralized, and Malik Turner's like I'm

putting stuff on, yeah, things to accomplish here. Let's talk about one. Dak Prescott though, I think yesterday we got to see Dak. If you thought he was in a slump, which I don't know if i'd call it a slump, but if you thought he wasn't playing his best football, yesterday he got a little back, a little bit closer to where he was earlier in the season when he was playing really great football. He was twenty eight at thirty nine seventy two percent completion, which is I think

the most important thing. Three hundred and thirty yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions. Talk to me about Dak Prescott, he's back, baby, which I just I laugh the kind of quibbling and they'd almost sound superstitious where he's He's like, I never called it to slump. Y'all called it to slump, but I haven't been playing my best football, and now I would what that means. But hey, whatever whatever makes

feel better. Um yeah, But now he was incredible. He looked I mean, that was that was Dak at his best. That was Dak playing like an MVP candidate. That was the guy that we saw for the first seven eight weeks of the season, including Atlanta. But even like they beat Atlanta down, he didn't play that great I mean, like, I mean, he played very well against Atlanta, but he that was maybe his best game of the year, or

certainly top three, along with like New England and Tampa probably. Um. I mean, he he was putting it on a dime. He had had that throw to CD the crosser over the shoulder. I don't know what else you're gonna say. He looked, he looked amazing. Goody. I just thought he

was a complete quarterback too, you know. I mean when we noticed it very early in the game, even though it doesn't doesn't just jump out on the statuet, the runs him running the ball for a first down here and stepping up in the pocket and getting your seven eight and slide and getting out of there, and I thought all of that was kind of back to what type of quarterback he can be. He does not have to be this this dynamic runner that's gonna go and

get one hundred yards rushing and all that stuff. He's just got to be a guy willing to do it. And I thought last last night he did that. And then that opens up a lot of things. I Mean, the best play on top of that is the third and seven. It's like twenty one to seven. The game's, you know, is Washington's trying to get staying alive in this and he looks like he's gonna run, defense sucks up. He throws it over to Gallop for forty one yards

and then that kind of led to another touchdown. I just thought his ability to run was important last night.

He looked like himself in my opinion. I mean, he ran for twenty one yards and yet, like we've been saying, you don't have to need Dak Press got to run for more than ten fifteen yards in a game, but the ability to do that to extend plays, and then yeah, the scramble throw to Gallop, I mean, I just think that's such a staple of his game that we haven't been seeing consistently over the last five or six weeks, you know, and trying to figure out what was different.

It makes me wonder, Okay, did he play better because everybody else was playing better in the offense as a whole, or did everybody else play better because that was playing better. But then at the same time, you're like, Okay, you don't necessarily need to put the two against each other. You know, they're a whole unit. They play as a whole. I think that everyone was just working right. You had the running game, you had the tight end position doing

well as well, the old line. Nothing stands out. Do you guys have anything that stood out that was ness? I mean, there was one play, but in general they did a pretty nice job. Steel getting in the end zone, there was making amazing. There's so many things about that that was just awesome, like so many. I mean Steel scoring a touchdown, um spiking it into the stands. I think the best part is that if you saw on the TV. I don't know if you saw it on the on that on the TV's um the angle when

they're kicking the extra point. Zeke is in the end zone running across because he went and fetched the ball from the fans and told the fan, we're gonna get you something else or whatever, because make sure he got the ball for Steele. You know something that Steel wasn't thinking about in the moment. I'm so excited. He just scored a touch down and spikes it into the stands

and he's gonna want this ball, right. I think Zack Martin said that last year, Um Zeke scored and gave him the ball and he kind of you know, just kind of threw it down and spiked and they were all getting onto him about that was a terrible spike. I mean, you know, bring some authority, all right. You know he said he catches that he's never dropped that pass and in the you know, in practice or whatever. But I thought seventeenth person to catch a touchdown at

the time, Yeah, to have a touchdown. No, d Law broke the record at seventeen. Okay, the record was sixteen seventeen, Steel was eighteen nineteen. Now Colston was nineteen. So I got McGovern in the only twelve of the nineteen playoffense seven different non special record. I'm guessing that has to be a record. Right are we doing? You want to? Can we do? Can we do it? Joe Burrow segment? Danny, No, We're not doing it. Joe Burrows segment. Get out of here? Amazing, Like,

what are y'all talking about? Get out of here? Hey, listen, Danny McCrae, you have been saying, we looked I got nothing to say, although they didn't. Couldn't hear him on the mic? That was Danny McCrae interrupting our show? Is

that called a show? Bum? No? We're all, yeah, well, you just think we're sitting around the table having a conversation, Danny, we do the show in the studio, right, He's right, though, he is right, But behind that conversation, the three of us have Danny and I have been arguing about this defense since training camp, Like every day I come into work and He's like, top ten, top ten, and I'm like, okay, buddy, And like over the course of the season, I've been

like okay, and now I'm just like, you're You're right. I got nothing. Let be honest. I don't think even he thought they would be as good as they are, right, No, no, he did. Anybody could have imagined. It goes back to what I mean, even even the people that were banging the table for Mica, like the big diehard draft Micah people, even they had no idea what was coming. I mean, you could never have predicted how successful they've been. Yeah, Dan Quinn is just a remarkable defensive Quinn. I don't

think I was. Yeah, I don't think I was in the category of banging the table for Micah Parsons. I did. That was the guy I wanted them to draft, But no, I didn't. I didn't think he would be like this now when he watched his tape, nobody was blocking him. Yeah, that was that was you know evident nobody could block him. But to be able to utilize them the way they have, I think is amazing. And you know when when he can, you know, when he's on the field, he's really good.

When he's not, they're not, he's good. That was the one you remember. I'm going to say, we're actually gonna play a little game. I'm gonna throw out some names and I'm just gonna let you guys riff on them and how they played. And actually that was one of the reasons why I did is because Nick was losing his mind in the breast box during one series. In the game, Cowboys are probably up by four touchdowns, twenty one to nothing, because they they've even said it's twenty

one nothing. That not anymore. It ain't because it was like right when Gibson scored. But don't understand that Michael Parson's go Nick, I just the guy's the beast. I mean, when he's on the field, he helps everybody. Okay, get it, Lions need to rest too. Whatever. Into the I guess into the first core. They're driving. It's twenty one nothing, and they're okay, they're in the red zone in the court and he's sitting there helmet off, and there's like

three or four plays, and then the quarter ends. You go all the way down to the other field. Okay, okay, get your get your guy back in. No, he's still standing there, and they go and score touchdown on a running back out of the backfield type play that you know he can he can make those kind of plays. I mean, I'm just not understanding that one. I don't get why this twenty two year old lionbacker needs to needs a rest like that, especially after the end of

the quarter. You don't know everything that's happening here, don't. That's the thing. Like sometimes we might see a guy just on the sideline and we're like, what the heck, Like you should be on the field, But we don't necessarily know why he's sitting on the sideline. You know, he didn't know. We didn't know either. I mean, like, I'm not very happy with him. No, he didn't know. Smoke was coming out of his ear. And what happened the next time he was on the field, He got

sacked and he like hurt the guy. He was like, yeah, yeah, I just I can't Yeah, I can't bring myself to care. I don't know, well, you know honestly, and I told I told you just during the game. Like what we don't know is was this a situation where they've been looking at his numbers and they're like, man, he's getting

a lot of time on the field. We need to start, honestly, and we got our other guys back, so we can afford to do that, and so give him a series here and there because we really need to be at his best once we get to the playoffs. That is a wonderful guess at the reasoning because Mike McCarthy cares about that maybe more than anything. And I'm totally fine with that until the red zone. Okay, you want him back? Okay, that was cute, like all this you know, midfield stuff.

Now get back in there, you know. But the other thing might be like we trust our other guys. Now. I know they got end zone that time, but they got a lot of other playmakers on this defense. They don't have have to have him be the only guy to make plays, right. If if that's how they if that's how they approach it in the playoffs, I'll be upset. Maybe, yeah they did. It was obvious from like the second

possession that Washington wasn't gonna win that game. Yeah, I'm just like, okay, whatever you want to do, all right, let's move on to the next one. Zeke Elliott, what oh great? Awesome? Was he? Yeah? I thought so. He Look he's gonna I think he's gonna be dealing with stuff for the rest of the of the year, Like you're just not He's not gonna be as fresh as he would be if we had just landed in Oxnard,

probably for the rest of the year. But every week he looks fresher and fresher, which like I don't I don't understand. I wish we got more time with these guys like Zeke always he's always great with us. He's the first guy into the podium. He talks for like five or six minutes. But it's just not the same as when you can, like pre COVID times, when you can just kind of chill at his locker and shot. I'm so curious at the idea of like, Okay, every six days, you're still getting beat to hell, So how

do you why do you feel better? You know what I mean, Like it seems counterintuitive, but it's true. Like he he looks fresh, or he looks like he's got a little bit more burst. And yeah, I mean the running game, they I mean they it was a non factor by their standards. Zeke had thirty seven and Tony had thirty four. They didn't need to. But I thought he did the stuff that you needed him to do.

This was one of those games for me where the stats didn't say how how much I thought Zeke played well, Like if you watched him run, he looked He had several runs where he looked like the old Zeke, Like he looked like the Zeke deck in Make Things Happen, which you hadn't seen that a lot of this season.

But I thought there were some moments in that game, and you go back to the touchdown he had last week, you start putting those two games together, I'm actually starting to feel like, Okay, Zeke is he must be feeling a little bit better because he's having some runs that

looked more like vintage Zeke. I'm quibbling, and I know this isn't what you meant, but like up until the injury, like first six weeks of the season, he did look like that, Like, yeah, he had a fifty yard or in one of the first four games of the year. Haven't seen that in forever. And that's what I'm talking about the injury period. Yeah, I don't know if we're going to see him do that again this year. But he's getting to the perimeter, like he's getting to the

edge when he runs outside. He's getting to the second level. He wasn't doing that against Denver and New Orleans and some of these other games. And he's falling forward like that was the part that was missing from his game. That's always been a big part of his game, is give me the extra two or three once you get hit. We're starting to see that again now. Yeah, we saw that in the touchdown, you know, where he basically carried those guys into the end zone. That wasn't my favorite

part of the play. I kind of liked big dog Lyle Collins just leading the way out there, and he hadn't seen that in a while either. After the game, I asked him about that and he was kind of disappointed. He was like, I kind of oh, he goes. I wish I would have finished that little dude off and knocked in. He wanted another. I mean people still tweet that clip of him against the Seahawks from like six years ago. He wanted to do that. He wanted that.

But let's also let's remember he's playing, you know, right tackle. He's on the left side leading the way. You got, you know, got to move your ass to get over there and get out there. Fantastic play on his part, but that's kind of to my point, that's a counterplay off of left tackle. So you got to get to the edge and then it's eleven yards. An explosive run is typically considered twelve depending on who you talk to. But so that's Zeke getting to the edge and then

getting down field for a twelve yard touchdown. He wasn't doing that a month ago. Right, It's crazy how just I keep imagining the thinking about the game last night, and it's just amazing the way they played. And you know, it's one thing people from the outside criticizing you and talking crap and all that, but it's another if you got your own teammates talking crap to you. And I'm talking about the defense versus the offense and the type

of bet that they made between each other. So I'm I'm assuming that has a lot to do as far as like energy wise, and the fact that everyone on offense just showed up from the get go at the beginning of the game. Everyone was playing with the different kind of energy. And I like to think that was the defense, our own defense talking crap to them. When you started talking about teammates talking crap to each other,

I actually thought you were going toward the Washington No. No, that's the kind of bad crap that you don't want. We got. There's the good kind of crap, which is what the Cowboys are doing. Yeah, a good cropping back crop. That was actually pretty funny that that whole thing, And I was actually I started listening in because I like to do this just for fun. I listened into a little bit of Washington sports talk this morning, and it was just so funny listening to them talk about that

whole situation and how it all went down. And I mean, obviously we've been there, Like if you're if you're an NFL fan, your city's going to be there at some point where you are you know your team is not playing well and something happens where you're the butt of the joke, right They are certainly the butt of the joke this morning, from the benches to the fight on the sideline, Like everything right now says Washington is a joke and they just got to deal with that. Man.

Well they you know, the Cowboys win the NFC East even before the game starts, and I mean, I'm asked on our pregame show about you think the air is going to be kind of let out of this, and I'm like, I don't think so. You know, it don't doesn't seem like it. But Washington was a team that had something to really really play for. You know, they were desperate to beat a division rival like that, that was a desperate team needing to hang on to for

the playoffs. And you've already kind of wrapped something up. I mean that that makes this win even more impressive. Yeah, I agree. Cowboys are working some stuff out last night. I mean, it's been a frustrating month and for nobody more than those guys, And I'm positive that they're tired

of hearing about it. And I bet they're not the type of thing they want to say publicly, but they're probably privately pretty pissed that people like us talk about them like the sky's falling when they've won three in a row and they're ten and four and so kind of you know, crack your knuckles like yeah, we're okay. That's also the interest thing, Like whatever you can say about this team, they've shown us so many different ways of winning this year. They've won ugly, They've won some

games that would defensive struggles. They've had some blowouts like last night, like it's all over the map. They can win in a lot of different ways, which is again a very good sign for a championship caliber team is how many different ways can you win? Because you're gonna have you're gonna be presented with different circumstances every game in the playoff against really good teams. Going back to Nick's point about they can win, I mean they can win the Super Bowl playing the way they did. I

was thinking about this last night. You never know what will happen, and obviously it definitely it gets scary if you're talking about like going to a place like Lambeau in January. But every time I've ever covered a good Cowboys teams fourteen, sixteen eighteen, every year I was like, yeah, they're good, but they're not as good as Seattle, or they're not as good as Green Bay or whatever. I

can't guarantee they'll beat those teams. But I don't think that there's a team in the NFC that's definitively better than them. All it is is And I was having this conversation with my nephews last night. There's one player that you're worried about. Yep, everybody else, all the other teams. I'm like, hey, I'll take this team up against that team. I'll take this team up against that. It's Aaron Rodgers. Is the guy are you looking at like? I just

don't know because he's Aaron Rodgers. Everybody else I feel like the Cowboys. I think the matchup is good. I think the Cowboys got a real shot to beat him. Are we gonna take our final break and we come back. We got some more names. Are gonna run through some guys that stood out in yesterday's game. Will do that when we come back. This is Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. I want to use what the pros use. How about the official men's skincare brand or the Dallas Cowboys Jack Black.

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We're talking about the Cowboys win fifty six to fourteen over the Washington football team. We're gonna wrap this show up, but starting tomorrow, we're gonna start early, getting you guys ready because we have shows for Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. This week we'll talk about Arizona, and Friday we won't be having any shows, so we'll try to wrap this thing up by Thursday. So tomorrow we're gonna try to get Bucky on Tomorrow and Wednesday and see how that is. Eve. Yeah,

that's exciting. I didn't you didn't know. I told you you never tell me anything. What I'm kind of side with the side with their Dave on I told you what you were supposed he tells, yes, you were supposed to tell you your team. That's why I'm looking at you like this. Fine. First of I've heard of anyway, and I've told you guys, what about being my directors? Someone please can y'all direct about Chris, how about the producer? He didn't even know. Anyway, we'll be on we won't

be have any shows on Friday, so everybody knows. Won't we have any shows on Friday days? From now? We kill one, we go hour to hour over here. That's true, That is very true. Here all right, we got some names we need to talk about. Let's talk about one of Mark Cooper. He had seven catches, eighty five yards, one touchdown. What'd you think of his performance? The irony is that he dropped like three passes last night. That's uncommon for him. But it's funny because that's one of

the things we've been talking about. And CD had a drop too, which totally is offset by the work he did in the first half. I mean, I think it was a pass from Cooper rush who cares at that point, but uh yeah, like if something happens, but it was not. He played great, and they they can downplay it. I don't think they went into the game like Mari's got to get the first target, but they made a concerted effort to get him the ball and I think that

paid off. And um, it's just it's just emblematic of everything that was clicking on offense that hasn't been And it's just it's funny to me that they were clicking so well that it didn't even matter that they still had some execution issues. What's funny. So he was complaining about not getting enough targets, so I mean, there he is. But which that comment made me think. You know, I like to like sometimes over analyze things and just like it gets in my head and I'm okay, are they

starting to lose some kind of chemistry? You know, because we've been like, okay, all of these receivers are happy that each other are getting as many targets as they are, and no one it's complaining or being a diva or anything. So that comment made me wander. I'm like, huh oh, you know, kind of keep an eye on it. But it seemed that it worked out fine even regardless of those drop passes. You don't know how much I love

that play that they did. I love that play. I think about that sometimes, like they should teams college, they should do that way every game. Well, I mean, but what it does is that when you can catch the ball over the middle of the way the defenses are playing, you would you know they're playing it back like that.

It's there and the most the simplest part of that is for him to catch that pass, and he dropped that when kind of messes the whole thing up, you know, because he wouldn't have got a first down, but it would probably been like fourth and three, fourth and four. But it's good to have when you're gonna play that kind of coverage, to say, you know, and it was set up perfectly, you know that he was he was

there for it. I love the play, just like I love the flea flicker, but it hasn't worked out so well the last couple of times that I mean, and Kellen every Monday watches tape from around the league and looks for stuff. And then Jets ran that a week or two ago and then they got like forty yards off of it. I loved the decision to put it in. Yeah, you would think you'd catch a lateral, but no, I thought Amari was good. And that's um like they didn't

they didn't do anything different, Like they didn't. They weren't calling all these crazy plays that they haven't been calling. That's what that's what made it so frustrating these last few weeks. Is like Washington's was still playing a lot of too high, like Dak found gallop for forty when he broke contain and extended to play. But like playing within the script, it was a lot of the same stuff. I mean, they just he was throwing better balls, they

were making better catches, like CD comes to mind. If he does that, we said that last week. If he does that against the Giants, it looks way different. And I so just little little tweaks, guys executing on stuff that they weren't before. Dalton Schultz eight catches, eighty two yards, one touchdown. That's not two games in a row when he's been pretty pretty good. What are we thinking. I'm wondering how he feels today. He got absolutely blasted at the end of the first half, right he did? Yeah?

He No, he did. But I know, well, I guess what I'm getting as more, we can at least rule out concussion because he would not have been back on the field if it was a concussion. And I was worried that maybe it was a concussion, but I don't know, stop it. Yeah, we can rule out the fact that it wasn't a concussion. He would not have been back on the field. No, I didn't say, okay. I just was looking at that look on Dave's face. Later though,

the concussion doesn't just pop up though, right. I don't know. No, I think he came back. He said he's fine. I talked to him. He said he was fine. He said he got two fingers. No, he got the win knocked out of him. Oh good. Yeah, that's a hard hit. A hell of an effort by him to hold onto it. Yeah, yeah, because it was it felt like it looked like the ball was kind of scorting down. He was just like everything he could to hold on to it. You know,

it's encouraging. What did he finish with Dalton? Two eight catches? We said it before the Giants game because he played well against the Giants too. It's like, why isn't this here? If if everybody's committed to sitting back and taking the receivers away, where's the tight end? And so it's it's a pretty reliable target most of the time. Yeah, and and he's stringing together some good games. I'd have to go back and watch to know if he's always been

there and Dack's just been overlooking it. And that is a plausible explanation, and when you go back to the whole aggressively take what they give you. Things like stop, you don't have to force the fancy plays. Dalton's hanging out right there between the hash mark. If he has decent games the name two weeks, not nothing crazy, just decent. He's probably he's gonna be close to he's gonna have eighty catches for eight hundred yards. Wow, and he's got

six touchdowns, so maybe seven or eight. But it's like great year for I think he's at like he's like sixty eight or sixty nine catches for over seven hundred right now, but he's he's getting close to the eighty eight hundred range. It's ironic because and I'm not saying this is fair, but like he was. He was fantastic for the first like six weeks, and then the Pro Bowl voting window opens and he kind of drops off. And now he's going again. Now that the Pro Bowl

teams have been decided. I want I wouldn't what I heard they have as many as like ten alternates. Yeah, Cowboys, I bet he might be one of them. Pits and Kittle, and it's hard to no, that's no like the guys that got it. He deserved it more than Evan Ingram did last year. Yeah, the guys that got named to the Pro Bowl this year are deserving. So I'm not saying Dalton got snubbed, but if he has two or three better games in November, he might have been in

there right saying. It could be said for Dak and for Zeke and you know, to Marcus, that's the next guy we got on this list. Marcus Lawrence missed a lot of games, but would you think of his play yesterday. He's he's a beast. It's it's and I keep saying this, but it's so impressive the way that these guys have just kind of hit the ground running, like to miss to miss two months and just I mean, he's been phenomenal. He's played like an All Pro in every game that

he's been back. Like I forgot that he got a sack too last night. Yeah, it was it was like a pursued play and he kind of dragged him down at the line of scrimmage. But he's he's been disruptive and dominant. I think, not trying to take anything away from him, but it just makes a world of difference. That they you can't key on him the way that you used to be able to the touchdown. I mean, that was an impressive play, but I do have to ask this is maybe what they're asking on that Washington show.

You were you were listening to what was Heineck doing after on that touchdown? I didn't see that? You didn't see that. What was he doing? It looks like he was sliding into second for like a ground roll double or something. He just went down. He's like, don't hit me. He he just it look him up. I mean like like I just watched it. Yeah, like what what are we doing here? Like like everyone's focused on Tank, so you're like, is he gonna be in down? SCAD's gonna score?

He's don score? Oh my god, Tank. But if you just watch from the quarterback standpoint, you're like, what are you doing? Like that that right there, and you're you're into soccer, you're kind of a late a later life soccer fan. That he's going like studs up, slide tackle right there, Like he looks like a defensive midfielder. So I don't know, I don't know what that was, but thanks, I mean, get him, try to get him down anyway

you can't. And I guess, yeah, I'd rather my quarterback try to do something like that than like, actually, you know, put his body in the way of DeMarcus Lawrence, Like you don't want that. And at that point in the game, it was it was fourteen to nothing. But you know the Cowboys offenses. You watching this, okay, right second, he say, he say he's safe. Good, good job, Yeah he de Marcus is safe in the end zone. Yeah, and you're safe to play again. But um, you know, and then

they have red zone issues. They didn't last night, but they they've had some. And then you know, at least they want to do is tackle him, you know, get him out of bounds, push him out of bounds, and then maybe hold him to a field goal or whatever. But yeah, didn't didn't happen like that. I think I don't think he's very good. I'm sorry, no, And I know that there's the moxie, toughness, all that stuff. Yeah,

that works at Old Dominion. He's playing better than you thought a guy that's coming in and those circumstances would play. That doesn't mean he's good. I think that's sometimes when we kind of get it bixed. Up like he can have a player or two and you're like, oh okay, But that doesn't mean he's he had a baseball night because he threw the ball into the first base like six times one he was just trying to get rid of the ball like he was getting no shot. I

really getting just harassed back there. There's no way. I'm not trying to say he's like not tough. He's definitely got a lot of moxie. But like he had to he especially with his experience at FedEx, he had to have just felt hopeless standing like making those calls. He's like, oh my god, like stop, don't hit me anymore. Or he even stepped up to the to the live scrimmage, he was probably thinking, oh God, this is not gonna be good. And they're not gonna they're about to face them.

It's gonna be a challenge now. I mean, because this guy can run. I mean Kyler Murray. You know I said what I said a couple of weeks ago. He's not he's not my favorite quarterback in the world, but I mean he's a great athlete. I'll see that run last week that that's just like the one that where he ran for almost such. I think he got down to like the one, but he basically he went through

the defense. He was scrambling. He goes through the defense and you could just see the speed because everybody's running. But you know how you see certain guys running and everybody else is running, but they're running way faster, and that tells you just how fast they are. It was an amazing place. He every time I've ever seen him play like, he has eight yards whenever he wants it. It's just a matter of do I want to settle for that or look for the bigger play downfield, and

that's the Cowboys are uniquely positioned to combat that. I can't wait to see what it looks like because every time I've ever seen Kyler play eight yards on the

ground is guaranteed if he wants to do that. And not to get too far into the conversation, because I think that's going to be the conversation we'll be having over the next couple of days, But I think the one this is the one game where I want to see how does Micah match up, because this is a game where you might be able to have the one anecdote that no other team seems to have to him running,

which is a linebacker who can spy him, who can run. Now, I'm not saying he can run as fast as Kyla, but he can run, and so that's gonna make for a really interesting match up. Yeah, it's gonna be a really interesting matchup at how Dallas plans to play against him.

That plays off. One more thing I wanted to say about DeMarcus, and we touched on it last week, is like this this has to be the most freakishly athletic front that I've ever watched, at least like from a professional standpoint, Like the athletic ability that these guys have, Like what Randy did it at FedEx, what DeMarcus did last night. Micah speaks for himself, and they're just there aren't a lot of offensive lines that can cope with that,

and there aren't a lot of quarterbacks. Kyler Murray might be one of them, but even and I don't want to get too far ahead of myself, but like Aaron Rodgers has killed them so many times over the years by like extending plays and you just can't get to him. They can they can do something about that, and can't move the way he normally would move with that toe.

So yeah, there's there's a lot of intrigue even that's how Dallas is going to match up with a lot of these teams down that them stretching into the playoffs. Neville Gallimore too, like he's he's not athletic on that level like a Micah Parsons, but like he's just a big dude who can move and move you Also, like the pocket, I mean, he's a I think he's a really big part of what they've been doing since he got back, even if his stats don't always show it.

That's another thing about about Heineke, Like he's he's shorter. Kyler Murray is obviously short as well, but he can he runs a lot better. But but still, when you're standing in that pocket and it's getting collapsed, you become order. You know, those guys get tall and it's a tougher throw to make. So that's about tipped passes, right, So that's gonna be the key in a game like that. It just keep getting that interior pressure real quick. Before we end this show, I do need to get some

some thoughts from you guys. On Kelvin Joseph, he got a lot of play last night. What do you guys to think of his play? I thought he was great for all things considered, Like, he couldn't have known he was going to be playing that many snaps he played fifty seven. Couldn't have known that until Friday at the earliest, maybe even Saturday. Um, they put him out there. I mean they didn't let him. They tried to keep him away from McLaren. I think that's a big part of Diggs.

Probably traveled even more than he usually does, which is smart, but so he didn't have to go against McLaurin, but he also had to do more stuff like you're not just like, hey, Kelvin, he's traveling, Kelvin, you're on the left side. Just worry about the left side. They didn't really do that. Um, he should have had a pick. Yeah, I'm sure he didn't. I'm sure he lost sleep about that last night. But I'm not going to kill him

for that, no doubt. I was gonna say. I wonder what they are actually doing different this year, because I feel like most guys that have been out when they come back, even if it's not for the whole game or anything limited or whatever, they seem to do pretty well. Like in the past year, I feel like guys that have been injured or out for a while, it kind of takes them a few games to get going. And this year, man, whatever they're doing over there, it's freaking amazing.

And I am so impressed by the coaching staff. I am so impressed by the medical staff and everything how they've handled because I can't think of a single guy that has come back and just had to who maybe Dak what you got to ruin my thing? You know what? As I say that he came back, okay, but you know what, you're actually right because when he came back, he was amazing. When he came back from the Atlantic game, right, No, No, he came against Denver first. Yeah, defense have been good

along a similar line, just in general. I was so impressed, and we talked about Digs. Obviously he's the headliner, but I was so impressed by the secondary just bullied those guys, and that's it's fun to see what the pass rush can do for a secondary, Like, obviously you're gonna have more opportunities at picks, but you also know the ball's got to come out so fast. They were just camping on every route last night. Like ab had at least

two breakups Diggs hadn't. Diggs had that play on the crosser where he just like batted it away like Mtumbo basically jumped over him to do it. Yeah, it was. It was pretty amazing. Kelvin had at least one. Like they just they were ready for everything because they knew, they knew it was gonna be eight to twelve yard routes because Heiniki didn't have time to do it more than that, and they were just swatting everything away. They

were really impressed. And when when the referees are gonna call it that wayboys, because they certainly did both sides of the ball. We saw a couple of times it looked like, I mean, some of those plays on Thanksgiving would would have been I mean arrest, not just penalties, but arrest I mean against the Raiders. But this game they let them play. I think it benefits the Cowboys for that because they're gonna get their plays on offense as well. So if you can get their hands on

the guys like that, that helps Dallas. All right, that's a rap. We'll be back tomorrow. We're gonna get you guys ready for Cowboys versus Cardinals. That should be an interesting game, fun game, a good game to be able to test kind of where this team is heading into the playoffs. We'll talk about that tomorrow. So they're for Nick Eaton, Dave helm and Amber Garcia. I am Derek Eagleton. This has been The Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot

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