offense was down to a science and an art form. And then
things started to go a little Haywire form. They got
an injury. Now, Michael Gallup is out. They lose to the
Arizona Cardinals in this game. 25:22 was the final score. But
what can we learn from this game? What did, what did we
with our Deep dive of Dallas? And we'll start with Dallas's
on the on offense. And I think that's the most interesting in
this
game. Definitely. It's like, what has happened at times.
Yeah. They've just been shut down completely and not even by
playoff teams know and so you wonder his deck a little Cough,
so big picture. You do have a little bit deeper into what's
going on with the Dallas office. Right?
It's sodac is still a little off.
It's not again, not to the, the ability. We saw earlier in
the year, but like,
to me, it's become official
where I kept giving like, you know, a silver lining like
Dallas will get things corrected. There's, there's
a little too much talent on the team. I think I'm past that
point
and not to say that, like, listen. I still think their
offense is dangerous. Of course it is. It's got weapons and Dak
Prescott still good. And Amari Cooper.
You know, Cedric Wilson and and CD lamb. I mean that's a damn
good group. You know, they're going to get Blake Darwin back
at sounds like a tight end,
but here if you want to give me, you know, if you want me to
give you, you know, the quick overview
of the Cowboys, there would be my broad statement. First off.
The running game, is not going to get better. It's not I've
given up on it. It's not going to happen their offensive lines
overrated. All right, that's the first thing I would tell
you just right off the bat. It's a good offensive line.
It's nowhere near the conversation, a dominant it.
Just good. It's middle of the road and I fell good. All
right, I mean, you know, Tyrone Smith is good. He's not great
anymore. Zack Martin. So Zack. Martin still great.
Lyle. Collins is good. Not great. The center and left
guard are below average. So they have real issues. There.
There below average. Hey, there. There the weak link.
So their running game doesn't happen. And you, I think you've
heard me say this before,
you know, the past games too simple. And we're going to show
that here in a minute. It's basic.
Now, it When you can run the ball and affect the game that
way because then you get some one-on-one matchups and their
guys are going to win a lot of these one-on-one matchups,
but you can I can tell. And I've been saying this for maybe
four or five weeks now, and I know you're not always here on
Wednesdays where I go.
There's just teams are all over there past game. They know what
they're going to get in certain formations and down and
distances and it's just way too simple in my opinion. Okay, so
we'll get to that. Let's start with Dak being off, right? And
is there
a play that you found really? Just kind of indicative of him.
Just not being on top of this game. Definitely, definitely.
And And yeah, I believe this is it right here. Here we go. And
you know, this is just kind of says it all. I mean, it's three
nothing Cardinals. Cowboys down here, you know and field goal
range. 24, yard line,
third and nine. All right, he's playing. Well, there's nine to
twelve or 84 yards right now.
All right, Cardinals.
Going to play a little, like, you know, man. Man,
man coverage here.
It's like robber, man, robber. It's not a blitz up here. And,
you know, you'll see it looks like Hicks is blitzing, right?
He's just blitzing the back. So he Can't run out and run
a route. So that's all he's doing. If Pablo did fly out and
say, run a swing route. He would go and cover them, you
know, so this is just the way people cry too.
Hey, we don't want to have to cover that guy in space with
our linebacker. We can just use them up this way. That's all it
is. It's a man everywhere else for the most part. This guy in
the middle lurking to help out across ER. All right,
and as we go here, you'll see.
All right protections, not bad,
right?
It stirred in nine. And and this is going to again, you're
going To see this is the Cowboys offense,
you know, there's too much of this. I see this every game
there are what I would call a stick steam. It stirred nine.
They run a bunch of routes to 10 yards to get the first down,
like the defense hasn't seen that on film and doesn't know
it like, oh,
that's a, I bet you the first thing they said, on third down
meeting that week. Hey Cowboys are sticks team. If it's third
and five, they're going to run six year old routes. If it's
third and 12, they're going to run a 13-yard route. That's
that's what they are. Right? Yeah. A little bit, like
a pizza in my ear like the Steelers last.
Yes, a little bit and as you're going to see here, it's
going to be curl route for 10-yards curl route for
10-yards curl route for 10 yards.
All right. So, whoa, my imagination is blown by that
great creativity. All right. And have enough people for
enough years were like, it's third and nine and you ran your
route at five yards idiot seems like we're not going to be
calling it. Right? Well, run em. All. It's
you know, not and you know, again, not that
not that this is a horrible idea. But when you start to do
it too much, and he's an issue, any pattern. Right is
recognized actly. Exactly. Right? That's the way to say
any pattern is recognizable. But here's a just, again,
a simple clip of
simple coverage.
So, I mean, it was still open, it was open,
it was open, no doubt because they got man-to-man
and like, we were just talking about with the chiefs of
the Bangles. I mean, you play too much, man to man. They got guys
that are here. So they're going to win the battle and Amari
Cooper. Won the battle,
but the throw is off the radar.
I mean off the radar, like not even close.
Amari Cooper wide open,
can't get a hand on. Football
on untenured curl route.
So that speaks to Dak being off and he's still alive. He's
still not the machine. He was that we saw, you know, early on
in the year. All right, so I'm gonna stay up here. So he was
off. Yes, and you've indicated there that this is a pattern
that
defense is can recognize. Yeah, there are other situations
where the offense is, just not complex enough. Yes, and then
see where it's scary in a game. Like this is sometimes
offensive coordinators go.
Well, they're complicated and do a lot of stuff on.
Defense. So I want to be simple, right?
But also it can play against you because now, the other team
goes, it's so simple. We can be even crazier. I know where
they're going to be
or what they're going to do.
So, let me do more shit and just mess with you. You think
Vance Joseph is good at stuff. Like I do. I think Vance
Joseph's one of the most creative defensive coordinators
in football. I love watching bands, Joseph's these. I mean,
watch this, this is just
says it all. But again, I think here they are at a point now
where it's the start of the second quarter.
Okay, we got used to the speed of the game and
You know, maybe what they're going to do to attack us
and we haven't seen anything new that we're scared about
schematically. And here's a Lego, looks like it's going to
be all out Blitz, right? It looks like everybody's coming.
That's the watch what they do. They're going to rush him.
Him the two outside guys. On each side are going to rush and
you're going to have the for inside, guys.
All drop back in coverage. All right. Yes, it's great. It
exposes the pass protection. Yes, all that, you know? And
again, what? I don't even love. About this is
I would think there's some numbers
that tell you who comes in these situations and who drops
like again some of the good offices. I was a part of
whether it be Gruden or or even working with McDaniels and and
New England
is they would still find a way to wait like we're going to
we're going to we're not going to have to use seven guys,
the block for
as we basically what I'm saying without me getting to In The
Weeds here. They got seven guys, the block for. All right,
that's not good. All out Blitz. Like bring everyone in here
right now. So now they're wasting people that could
stress the coverage down the field because they don't have
a creative way to kind of pick this up. All right, because you
got that. What is it a tight end and Pollard Taiwan? Yeah,
exactly. So you got them off
the edge. So now you got,
you have five Lyman, blocking
two defensive linemen
and your back and your tight end blocking to
secondary Edge rushers, right? Yes. Yeah,
right. It's not ideal to throw the ball.
Now. This is crazy coverage and they're playing like it's like
almost like a
like To invert. He's basically coming to be a cover to Corner.
He's kind of playing
like the Deep safety over here, even though he's in a different
position. Right guys? Back there. Yeah. They got seven
guys in coverage. That's so interesting though. Is that by
doing this? Yeah, you can get you've got three of your
offensive lineman basically doing nothing
and you've got Pollard with a really tough matchup on
the outside. Exactly. It's not gonna be able to win that and
that's going to get pressure on most likely, right. It's gonna
be Buddha Baker, who's there is a phenomenal Blitzer? It causes
issues.
And because of that, we have like,
We have a route concept of, let me just make sure I make this
point to run straight, run straight, and come down here
and sit in the hole, right at the sticks, right? Again, like
Elementary stuff for a defensive player in week. 17,
to think about and go,
I saw this 100,000 times in training camp. Let alone
the rest of the regular season and we're so coached up on this
crap. There's no way
and there's nowhere. There's nowhere for Dak to throw it.
He's going. What do you want me to do? You really want me to
try to squeeze this ball in here. So this guy can hit his
hand on it and tip it
in the air and be an interception.
And there they go a four-man Rush
against seven blockers
and they get there,
you know, and again, it's
there's ways to pick that stuff up to where you're not exposed
or don't have the mismatches that way. And here is the back
end of it. And then just to explain it a little more look.
I mean, it's Tampa to,
that's all it is,
you know, and it's as simple as can get its verticals. It's
for, as three. Calls
and they can't make the block here or figure out who's gonna
come or anything like that. And
as you see, you know, there's there's different ways you
could do this. I mean that it's so because I'm a big key right
for defense like can we get pressure with for right? Can we
get pressure with four?
And a lot of times you just assume that's
a couple defensive tackles two defensive ends. Right? Right,
right. It's like here's for but it's a safety and they're able
to do it in a different way. Yes, it totally screws.
Everything totally screws it up. And
again the you know, I
this is where I break downs.
Come into play. You know, who Blitz is the most out of these
situations and you can find ways to have rules for your
offense, a line to go.
You know, when they get in these sets, we're going to make
sure we block these four guys or whoever it is and then you
could figure ways to get guys out in the route, you know,
and, again, I mean,
just think if they,
if they could have figured out a way to
maybe block the to Edge blitzer's
right without having to use the title in the back. I mean,
this would be a play where.
Okay, now, he sits in the pocket and let's just say,
okay, we figured out a way to A
send like, you know, these three guys over here
so we can go, you got him,
you know, you get him,
you get him, you are responsible for him. But if he
drops out then you can run your route underneath right? Does
that make sense? That's what I'm trying to explain by people
of going. There's different ways to do this.
All right, and then within that, okay, let's just say that
happened, right? We're like, yeah, like I talked about,
like, he clocked him. He kicked out to him,
you know. The center is over here for the other third guy
who's dropping out over here. And if Pollard was responsible
for Simmons in the middle.
Now if he can get out and check down over the ball, right? Easy
little. He but he might have got the first down and look at
the guys are running away with their backs turned. They're not
even looking. So like you pause it right here and go. It
Pollard was right here and act like, oh, I don't
like what I see them. Throws the ball.
He's probably gonna run and get the first down. Right?
Does that make my point earlier there?
Okay, cool. If you're the Cardinals are, if you're
another team like the Cardinals, have
A lot of players who can do a lot of different things.
Definitely kind of built their defense on that. Yes. I get
like the Isaiah Simmons type where it's just like, he's
a hybrid. You can do a whole bunch of different things. So
it's like they have
perhaps an ability to do this, where the team's do. No doubt
they do, they're one of the few teams in football that can
really do this type of stuff. I mean, you know another angle,
I just want to show you is like,
you know, this is where you could throw wide receiver
screens running back screens, you know
shifts and motions and movements
will scare this way,
right? But they don't do any of that.
In Dallas, either. They're very simple.
So again, you know, what would have happened if they lined up
in this and now it's oh wait, you shift over here? And oh,
no, then come back over here. And now we got three receivers
to the side. Like they would have had to change some of
the rules and it would have dictated whose blessing and
who's not. But because they're so
simple and stationary
Vance, Joseph is like
this. Let's do this crazy
defense right here
and do that. And then the last thing I want to bring it up or
not the last thing, but the point I want to make a point
off of your point. Yes, you're right
the versatility things real. That's why
that is what one of the key.
Components. That makes
Arizona special and you said the right name.
Isaiah Simmons. I don't give a shit what the statute says.
He is such a weapon and so versatile. It gives them
an advantage where,
you know, they play. They can play three, four base defense
and the Cowboys have three receivers in one tight end. One
back right 11 personnel, which is,
you know, more of a
passing Personnel set,
but
Isaiah Simmons is such a freak Show. They go, you go cover
the slot, you go pie, nickel at 240-pound linebacker.
Yeah, so they're now you thinking well, we will get them
in a
nickel. And now we'll run the ball on them. No, you're not.
There's they're still got big people on the field because
they got three linebackers who can really fly around the field
and do that Isaiah Simmons being like the ultimate
mismatch nightmare
this more of that's right. Hawks troll lugger. Yeah. This
is hey Christina middle of the Pod
Hawks drollinger Hawk stralla jerok stralla jur,
like an astrologer
looking into the Stars. They love the pot especially
the addition of the poems. Oh, he likes the poem. Yeah. How did
the Cardinals shut down the Cowboys Run game win or lose?
How
will the Hawks Rashad Penny? Continue? The Run game, hot
streak, this Sunday? I don't think I don't think so. Yeah,
you know, one thing I've complained about with
the Cardinals, a little bit is
that they,
you know, I've said in the past they don't they don't have
enough big people. They do have enough big people. They might
not have enough difference, making big people, but I would
think
the Hawks are going to fall into the little bit of
the category of what we see here to simple with the pass game.
Going to allow them to call Crab the line of scrimmage and
do some stuff that way.
Penny is pennies good. I mean, he's shown to be pretty special
but I wouldn't expect him to go off like the way
we've seen him. Go off the last two weeks. Not against this D.
Do you want to show one more simple play? By the couch? We
go. That you want to do that
real quick. I'll be fast. So this so the podcast is in seven
and a half hours long here. All right, but you know again, it's
a second and 10.
Here we go. It's a five-man rush here.
All right.
It's Nothing special. But
again, what are we looking at here?
It's second and ten.
It's look, look Hook. Is he for right? Here we go. I mean, how
many times can I watch a game and go?
We're going to run
for curl routes.
I mean, he ran out, route, kind of crows curl. It's ker, let's
curl. I mean,
wow. All right, and then the other thing I don't like about
this is yes, the Simplicity. But I mean,
here's here's my other thing with DAC being off look.
Back in the pocket here.
Walk first off. This is not a great position to be in to
throw the ball. Look how locked out his front. Knee is
right and you're going to see
like, you know cut to me Peter Christen just for a real quick
when your knee is locked out. You have no choice but to do
this as a thrower,
which is going to throw
warm burners balls, into the ground and people speak. And
that's what happens for him here. I mean, look at that. He
has kind of CD lamb.
He just got to drive the ball.
But he has no chance.
And then, you know,
what's makes it worse to. As you see, CD lamb here.
Listen, I don't,
I mean, I don't think that's pass interference. I'm sorry
that,
you know, the Cowboys are complaining about the referees
a lot. I saw just actual more plays go against the Cardinals
and I did against the Cowboys,
but that was just a little bit of the Simplicity again of
the offense
Dak being off like you're saying
Run games. It's just not going to happen unless they just
play. They get the lucky to play some. Team, who just can
absolutely not, stop the run. Yeah, but I've given up on
thinking, like
it's going to revive itself.