No, there are no Star Ups from this one. Let's go over all the negatives from this Cowboys ass-kicking at the hands of the Saints yesterday, from the absolute sieve that was the run defense to the offense that stagnated once they crossed the 50 yard line. How much blame are you putting on Dak's shoulders for this one?
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00:21And you said something last night and then in the commercial break, explain the snap
00:27disparity between Damone Clark and, and overshown 41 to 18.
00:34Yeah.
00:35I'd love to explain it.
00:36Uh, I don't understand it.
00:37Um, you have Damone, Damone Clark played 41 snaps.
00:40Uh, Maris Leofau played 39 snaps, Damarvian Overshown played 18.
00:44So Damarvian Overshown was essentially out of the guys.
00:48You exclude the guys you bring in and blow out time like Nick Vigil and Israel Makwamu.
00:53Uh, Overshown pretty much played the fewest snaps of any rotational defensive player.
00:58Try and explain it.
00:59Um, I, the only matchup wise would make Zimmer be like, all right, Overshown out here against
01:05these guys will not.
01:06You wouldn't want him out there with Camara.
01:08You wouldn't want to, he's too fast.
01:09You wouldn't want him.
01:11He's your lightest linebacker.
01:13So I don't know.
01:14They're worried about him being able to against a guy like Camara and against a physical game.
01:18They're worried about him coming off blocks.
01:19That's the only thing I can think.
01:20But I even still think that's silly.
01:22Is there a chance his knee was like just tight?
01:25Maybe.
01:26I don't, I don't think so though.
01:27Like, cause I asked around from people last night, like, is he hurt?
01:30Is he banged up?
01:31And everything I heard was like, Nope, no, he's good.
01:32Um, so to me it's, it was more about, it seemed like it was just a matchup thing.
01:37Um, because it was, and I guess it's just, they felt like he is like, like we've talked
01:42about, he's a thinner linebacker.
01:43He's not as stout as Leofow.
01:45He's not as stout as Clark or Kendrick's.
01:48And so the only thing I could think is this is going to be a power run game and we don't
01:51want him getting, you know, moved in there because he's a little lighter.
01:54Who else is on your stardown list?
01:56Ooh, uh, everybody.
01:58So I was, this is, I had put it in my mail last night.
02:01This is a game where you could honestly put 30 players with stardowns.
02:05So instead I just, I pulled up the roster while I was sitting up there at AT&T stadium
02:09doing my email and I just looked and from player number one, literally wearing Jersey
02:13one all the way down to 99, I just went down and I was like, let me pick out the ones who
02:16were the absolute worst as I just go down the list.
02:19So a very top of the list, number four, Dak Prescott.
02:22Uh, and I know like Brian said in the post game that he thought, here we go, Dak kept
02:27them in a lot of this game.
02:29Uh, I thought Dak was really timid early, uh, and then it was reckless late.
02:35And to me there was, there was never the right balance.
02:38He didn't strike the right balance with a lot of the stuff that he was doing at the
02:40line of scrimmage.
02:41But I will say, do you notice what Brady said during the game?
02:45I think it was like during the second quarter where he essentially said what we were talking
02:49about at the end of last week.
02:50He's like, this is not Mike McCarthy's offense anymore.
02:52Like this is Dak runs the offense and that's the offense was not good enough or consistent
02:57enough.
02:58And so if Dak is running the offense that falls on Dak, I don't, I don't, there was,
03:02they felt like there was a lot of Scott Linehan yesterday.
03:06I mean, I, I can't tell you the amount of, uh, passes that were thrown to stationary
03:11guys coming back towards the line of scrimmage.
03:13I don't know what they were trying.
03:14I don't know if it's just, they were, you see that too, it seemed like they were all
03:18coming back towards the line of scrimmage.
03:19I don't know what they were doing with the offense yesterday.
03:21There was stuff in there that we don't see consistently in there.
03:23They were, they were running Zeke outside.
03:25They were running Deuce Vaughn inside.
03:26They were throwing like these quick, like smoke routes to Kavante Turpin to try.
03:32I don't know if it's just, they felt like this team's too physical.
03:35We can't win between the tackles.
03:36So we've got to get guys in space.
03:37Um, but man, there was a lot of just quick throw.
03:40All right, let's try and put it out here on an Island and see if they can make a play.
03:44They, they almost called this game early on, like scared of the physicality.