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certainly against the talented Chargers defense. Not a good one, not a well coached one, but a talented one, and so Dak throws form about two hundred and forty yards a touchdown, couple of big throws on that final drive Brandon Cooks delivered tonight, and Matt Mosley, of course, you know Matt's been a friend of the volume for a long time. There's so many different areas to go, but let's start with Dak. He had better protection most of
the night. I thought he and Gallup don't work. It's clearly Ceedee Lamb and Brandon Cooks Tonight felt like he sort of arrived in this offense. But I thought Dak played pretty well. That fair.
I think it's fair.
I mean, I think had it gone the other direction, we'd be talking about that throw to Pollard. I mean that will route with Pollard was wide open, and I know Troy was trying to make the argument maybe Murray did something there. I don't really think there was much there. So he misses a wide open throw to kind of end the game there. But for the most part, you're right. I mean, I would still say this offense looks weird because the only time it really works is when he escapes.
So he makes the.
Huge play to Pollard, they have a mistackle, Pollard makes a nice play and goes for sixty. But in terms of like the timing of the so called Texas Coast offense, there's no real timing, like Dak kind of has to go make plays for it to happen. Now, the good news is he made him. I mean, he looked awful the week before, all the interceptions and everything he ran. I think he plays so much better when they get him running the football and on that RPO where he
keeps it for the eighteen yard touch. Yeah, like that's huge for his confidence the team. Everybody kind of feeds off that.
Yeah. I think Dak knows what he is more than we give him credit for. Dak is not a brilliant pocket passer, and I think Dak knows it. Dak's at his best. I thought the Cowboys were hyper aggressive and ran him in the first half, first couple series. They went out of their way to say and Aikman said this in the pregame. He said, I think you're gonna like what you see from the Cowboys tonight. He'd obviously had some intel. I think they made a mission tonight.
We're gonna run Dak. We're gonna have Dak run more, and I think he's more successful that way. There are people that are natural runners. Lamar Josh Allen, Jalen hurts and then there are people that are just what I would call they run. They run to escape, but they're like Russell Wilson and Dak kind of run to escape. But at times I think they're more effective out of the pocket. I think Lamar is a better thrower in the pot the people give him credit for. I think
Josh is great in the pocket. I think Jalen Hurts is better than the pocket. I think Dak and Russell Wilson are okay guys in the pocket. I just think they're okay. So I think I think Dak to your point, it is interesting if I said to you the game featured two teams with no chance to win a Super Bowl for the same reason. Twenty total penalties eleven on Dallas, nine on the Chargers. Neither one of these teams looks
well coached. That was my takeaway tonight. Third down defense for the Chargers, oh as a whole basic off sides for the Cowboys, motion penalties. These teams did not look well coached to me tonight. No Cowboys continue to be undisciplined. You know, on both sides. On the defensive line, you're right where they line up. You know, back to Dak a little bit, your point about the pocket is interesting. He was kind of still in the pocket, like his best throw of the night might have been when he
was backing up, which generally it is. It's interesting you don't like want your quarterback like going back there other than like Mahomes or Josh Allen or somebody and throwing kind of off their back foot. And yet the best touch he put on a ball was that throw to Cooks in the end zone where he's backing up and he's going in and he puts he puts a gorgeous ball on that.
So he he has the ability. I agree.
I mean, I think, first of all, you still have wasn't that interesting that you had Kellen Moore on the other sideline and you had both teams bogging down, got down there in the red zone, didn't really have a great plan for what they were going to do to which I was like, both Dallas, you know, both Dallas's offenses looked pretty bad in the red zone.
Right, you know, It's interesting when I look at this game overall, I thought my biggest take was the Dallas defensive front basically manipulated the Chargers O line. I think the Chargers had six holding calls, Herbert almost never had a clean pocket. Therefore he rushed it by the second quarter,
missing open throws justin. Herbert's a very good quarterback. But I think what happens in games sometimes is that when you get hit early, even if you don't get sacked, and you have to rush the throws, you start doing that automatically. You just hurry things up. And I thought they got Herbert out of rhythm by their pressure. I mean, he was running for his life for the first half.
They settled down a little in the second. But I think my big picture in the entire takeaway is the Chargers on occasion elected to block Micah one on one dumb, ineffective, huge trouble. But overall, if I'm flying back to Dallas the Cowboys, I feel like our defensive front, not McCarthy, our defensive front really controlled the football game.
I think that's right. I thought a Digazoo played brilliantly.
I thought he controlled, and I think Kellen Moore thought, I've got to go with the run. I've got to keep I cannot abandon the run game at all, And it really wasn't there. And then to your point, like seventy seven over on the left side. I mean, that was interesting what they said about Mica. He's like, well, he respects Slaton, so he's not gonna line up there
the whole night. He's going to go to the other side and think about how badly you have to be holding to get called on one of those quick running plays. They run Eckler over the left side and seventy seven gets caught in there because it was so incredibly obvious because he has a wrestling move where he took the
guy to the ground. And boy, we had our Leon Lett moment in this game where the Cowboys player inexplicably I guess thought the ball was touched by his teammates and slides in there at the last minute Jaalen Tolbert and and live to tell about it. I mean that really was. Cowboys do some boneheaded things. But there's a second year player that decides to come diving in after a football and hands it back to the Chargers. I mean, the Cowboys tried to give them that game.
Oh, no question. And the Chargers, Yeah, the Dallas was the better team tonight and tried to give it away. The Chargers have they really do have some good players. But when you live in Los Angeles, and I know they're not. They're not a national team. They're barely a popular regional team or a Los Angeles team. But with Brandon Staley being a defensive coordinator like Matt Eberflus in Chicago,
You're like, well, why is the defense so bad? The Chargers have more money on the defensive side than any team in the league, Khalil Mack and Bosa Derwin James. They whiffed on a cornerback acquisition, but they have active linebackers. The Chargers spent a ton on defense, two elite rush ends, have a defensive coach, and are as bad on fourth and third and long as any defense in the league. So at least Dallas can say, hey, we have an offensive coach. Dak had one of his best games. Brandon
Cooks was involved. I mean, I look at Dallas and I thought their O line play buy and large. Dak had a more comfortable pocket. Dak had a good game. They had a game plan. They moved Dak early. I felt like there was a plan by Dallas. Meanwhile, the Chargers off a bye week, no trick plays. I didn't what was the game plan. Maybe the Cowboys d line blew it up, But I didn't see anything.
Can we talk.
About what McCarthy was doing at the end of the first half, Like when even the clock operator thought, well, most any coach ever will stop the clock here with a timeout and take a shot at the end zone with eight seconds left, and McCarty's over there. No, no, I didn't call the time out. Wind this clock down for me, and they come back from a break. The broadcasters, everybody doing the game was like completely confused. They're like,
did we miss a play? What happened here? And and McCarthy because they stopped the clock, they had to get it down to three. Because McCarthy didn't want to take a shot at the end zone. I mean, like, think, I imagine that being a play caller and offensive guy, and you've got so little confidence in your guy or your offense that you're like, I do not want to see a ball go in the end zone from what to like the the eighteen yard line wherever they were, they're going to take a.
Rip at the end zone.
And he's like, no, I would rather I've got ceedee, lamb, I got all these folks. I'd rather just kick this thing and make sure we go in ten seven. I mean, you kind of you have one young head coach is kind of trying to it's probably lucky to still have a job, and then you have one coach who's kind of trying to extend his career. And they both did some baffling things. But Mike wants to be mister go for it them fourth down, but then he wants to get down there and like not even take a shot
and settle for the field goal. So, I mean, you've got some you got some weird, weird stuff going.
On in that game.
Yeah, twenty penalties. I thought Dallas the better team, almost gave it away. I thought these were I looked at these two teams and I thought those teams can't win a Super Bowl. They literally beat themselves. Philadelphia is still trying to find their offensive identity, but I never think they're poorly coached. Kansas City's trying to figure out their receiving cort. They're well coached. Detroit Dan Campbell may be goofy,
they look well coached. I mean Jacksonville dropped Jacksonville and Baltimore led the NFL and drops early, and then you watch them last couple of weeks They're like, oh, those are well coached teams. I felt like I watched two poorly coached teams. The Chargers O line basically limited anything
Herbert could do. The Cowboys had silly penalties. My takeaway at the end of the half on that was that between Mike McCarthy saying in the offseason we want to run the ball and that and that play call, Mike McCarthy does not trust Dak, and I thought tonight drat Dak was as trustable as he's been all year. He played well.
He had one is he throw late that like they were talking about, like Troy was talking about, you kind of hope he was throwing that ball away because if he's on target, it's a pick six in a game in so there's always a real curious thing that he does. I mean, you can't miss that throw to Pollard, like you can't, like just the game's over and he's running wide open, you can't. You can't miss that. But he
was better and they were forty two to ten. And by the way, I didn't know why the Eagles were throwing there on third down at the end of that game. I mean, again, I agree, they're a well coached team and everything. But and maybe they just they have such trust in Jalen. But you got to know who you're playing against. I mean, look who the quarterback is on the other team, and and you I mean, that's one time, you know, I know, sometimes we celebrate guys who go
for it on fourth down. Why in the world don't you punt that ball and make that guy. I mean, Zach, he's got to go like eighty or ninety yards. You like, feel great about that. I mean to me, the Eagles did sort of kind of give that game away at the end, and by the way, that made Jerry Jerry has a whole new outlook on life because it was like the forty nine Ers lost and the Eagles lost, and Jerry's now back. You know, hey, we're one game back, we got the Eagles coming up. We can get right
back in this division race. And so it's in his mind it's like that forty nine Ers game never happened.
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Buffalo has scuffed it. You know, I think in the NFL, you know, Thanksgiving, half the league is done by Thanksgiving and then the second half of the league almost feels like it takes a leap in Thanksgiving. I do feel like, and I've felt this for some time. As the league becomes more quarterback centric, I do believe there's a big separation between the haves and have nots in the NFL. I see now on a weekly basis three lines of nine, ten, eleven,
twelve point favorites. That's very collegiate. And I think if you just don't have a quarterback, you don't have a shot. And I never felt that in the sixties seventies. Well, I'll say this the late seventies, eighties, nineties, ten years ago, that you could win with Tannehill a great run game. About seven years ago, I felt like a defense Tannehill. They became a number one seed. Boy, I start looking around to these, I mean, go right now and look
around the divisions. Hurts and Dak lead their division. Brought Purty and Stafford. You are near the top of theirs. Jared Goff, best quarterback in his division, leads his. Josh Allen and Tua. Here comes Joe Burrow and Lamar Jackson. Trevor Lawrence leads his, and Patrick Mahomes leads his and I feel like you can say what you want about Dak, and I've always thought he's a B to a B
plus quarterback. But you start looking around this league right now, Matt, there's about seven really elite quarterbacks and then Dak's in the next group, and it falls off a cliff by about rock Perty at thirteen fourteen. It falls off a cliff. There's a lot of there's a lot of ugly hell. I would say that rookie down in Houston right now, CJ. Stroud has been a revelation. Yeah, he may be like
thirteen fourteen. So I think if you're Dallas today, you could say this, we just went and physically pushed around a team that many regard playoff team last year, many regard as one of the more talented in football. That should be a happy flight home. How will it play in Dallas Radio in Dallas tomorrow.
Well, for once, we're all like on the Rangers, right this is a feeling like a baseball town because they've gone up two to oh on the Astros and this is the first time they've ever faced off in the postseason. But tonight, I mean the ratings will bear it out. I mean it was you know, people will well be excited about the Cowboys, and I think McCarthy there's still a lack of trust in him. I think they won the game, so that end of the first half thing
becomes a little bit less of the story. I mean, if they lose that game, especially on a special team's gaff, they would have just been lit up. But now at four and two, I think people, you know, feel okay about them and they can get right there in this division race. And that's why it's just crazy from week to week. I mean, you go from thinking the Eagles are like going to run away with the division and maybe vying for like best team in football, to like, what happened?
What was that? Why couldn't they?
And it reminds Dallas fans that other quarterbacks throw interceptions right. We you have a tendency in your city to go, we're the only this is the only quarterback who throws picks right and.
Hurts through some picks and through a.
Horrible one in the end of the game, which set up a team that an inferior team and allowed him to win the game.
And they didn't have to do that.
So I think to your point on Dak, this just sort of calms folks down, because what's hanging over everything is the fact that they have to turn around soon and pay him fifty million dollars a year or try to see what they have in Trey Lance figure something out. But the truth is this kind of that whole Dak future hangs over everything. For a limited time, you can save up to forty percent off on an NFL Plus Premium annual subscription when you sign up through Plus Play
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there anything like running back depth? Their on line played pretty well tonight, Brandon Cooks, I do feel like they could use a burst at tight end. They don't get much production from tight end. Will they make a move at the trade deadline?
The Cowboys?
You think no.
Look, I mean they've made big wide receiver moves before. I honestly think they would be looking for safety or cornerback help because as much as they like Yo Moore and you see Bland playing well, it's just like we did without Diggs. Jordan Lewis is coming back from an injury, and he looks a little slow right now. He's trailing a lot of plays. I think they could use some help. They're playing safeties at linebacker right Van der Esh is out and that was a good player tonight fourteen. You
saw Marquise Bell. That's a safety though he's having to Deumont Clark and Marquise Bell are are both you know, they're having to play linebacker. Marquise had moved the linebacker but he's playing linebacker at about two fifteen, so they need some reinforcements they could use.
They've got Donovan.
Wilson's good player, curse pretty good player. But you see them from a speed standpoint. If you put some of those guys in space, they're in big trouble, right. They ran a very basic They put a they put a receiver in motion. Wasn't it Keenan Allen. They literally put Keenan Allen in mo and like they got lost. It wasn't even like, oh, there's a pick play. They just got lost in motion, like the defensive bat never arrived.
And that's the easiest thing in the world, which makes you think, Okay, how do you guys, how does Kellen Moore in that offense foul it up when at times in that game it looks so incredibly easy, you know, to get it done down there in the red zone, I mean both teams really, you know, in some ways you struggled in that area to I you know, I.
Thought the thing you said early in our thirty minute pod here that makes a lot of sense. Instead of the West Coast they call it the Texas Toast offense, what do they call it what's Dallas calling their.
Offense Texas Coast?
Yeah, okay, all right, that really the Dallas plays of note tonight were essentially Dak flushed out of the pocket. And when you watch Dallas tonight, it really wasn't Dak virtualso performance it really was. It wasn't a out a clever I wrote down for Dallas. I did write early. I did there's there was a clever play early for Dallas. Where did I see it? At? Hold on, hold on, guys, this is a podcast. I'm looking that, Oh, Chargers clever
opening drive. But your point early was that Dak's elusiveness and mobility really was the offense tonight almost every big play was based on that, And so eighteen for twenty four to two hundred and thirty eight and a touchdown. If you're a Dak fan, I'm you know. I've said I've always said he's Kirk Cousins with a better brand. I think there's limitations to what he can do, but he's certainly a franchise guy good. I think his intangibles
have always been better than his tangibles. I don't think he's a great throw over the football, but I think you're right. I think Dak and and Greg cosbelt Sale has been saying he's been reduced to a pocket pass right almost like McCarthy said, you know what, We're gonna make a point to get him out tonight. And it worked.
Yeah, the run was good, and to your point, he just kept like escaping. Some of his escapes were kind of Romo esque, and he was kind of Romo used to do the pirouette and kind of sneak out the backside and they and he would do that, and he looked nimble at times after the ankle injury, being banged up, not having a strong bass, he's played and looked stiff tonight at times he looked kind of nimble and when he goes out and leaves the team with like a run.
The thing that maybe some people miss about Dak is that from the intangible standpoint, his teammates feed off of him like crazy. Now c D left him last week. CD got his head down and went kind of some old too type stuff. And I'm not talking about going crazy on the sideline, but it was just kind of like he kind of tapped out on him and and they had to all talk, Like Mike had to go to CD and Dak had to go to CD and basically say, hey, come to me, don't be doing all
that other stuff. And I think that kind of helped kind of get CD focused. And then to your point, Cooks, it's kind of like, kind of like the Cowboys had to go, wait, we brought Cooks in, do you know, remember we traded for him and and and he runs nice routes and and he he was in on.
A bit that was a great throw late that Dak made.
They needed it on third and nine and he goes back, hits the back foot and he just lets it rip.
And I think that was Cooks on that one.
And it was a gorgeous ball and it was like one of the biggest throws of the night because it gave him a first down and it allowed him and I really thought McCarthy was looking to maybe when it about three minutes left, Colin was looking to kick on second down.
Okay, just kind of just go ahead and get it over with.
Yeah, yeah, I have that Cooks written down, Yeah, CD and then Cooks then I have multiple penalties by Dallas. Again, I think we've touched on this multiple times to night. I felt like Dallas was getting in their own way. So okay, Cowboys win, what are they foreign to now? They have to feel good on the Philadelphia loss. I think San Francisco, Detroit, Philadelphia. Maybe we can insert now Dallas into that fourth NFC team. Saints forget it. I
watched Derek Carr this weekend. I'm over. I've defended him for years. I'm done with it. All right, Matt. It's good seeing you again. Always a pleasure to see you. Text as often as you'd like. We need to sit and talk off the air as well sometime, Buddy.
I would like to do that.
And if you'll fax me these notes from the games that you keep alluding to, I'd love to see some of those, I really think.
I yeah, I could really.
Get some homeline.
Oh that's good stuff. Yeah?
Please really?
All right, okay, thank you.
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