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Crusty's Corner: Broaddus takes a look at the ALL 22 game film of the Cowboys Offense
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Krusty's Corner is every afternoon 340 here in the G-Bag Nation, brought to you by Reliant. He's so loaded with film takeaways that were back right here in the 440 for Krusty's Corner Part Two, The Offense. Here's Brian. - Thank you very much, Sean. I appreciate that. Appreciate the latitude of allowing me to do this. - I want to know were either of Dak's picks a problem in your eyes? - The second one was because I didn't feel like he had a chance on the play. The way that, I felt like that he forced the ball in there to lamb, the way the coverage was playing, it was really just a, he's maybe like kind of a Yolo ball. - I think it was. The one to Brooks, and I was going to get into that, matter of fact, the Brooks one, when we were coming back, I was wanting to start with that if I could, because it's going to be a big play. - Yeah, he keeps his feet. - Brooks stumbles. I mean, literally, he is, as he's running out of his break, he literally loses his balance and Dak's thinking like, okay, I'm going to put the ball right where it needs to be. And if Brooks keeps his feet, that thing's got a chance. And instead, he's running, and as he tries to cut off his right foot, he just completely stumbles and falls. And I thought it was one of those things when we first saw it. Zach, you and I were talking at the halftime show. I was thinking maybe a little bit of lack of courage. - On Brooks part? - Yeah. - Maybe I heard some footsteps. - Well, you never know when you make those in-breaking cuts, are you doing it thinking like you're going to get whacked? You know, with the inside route there. And are you not sure? And then your body will go limp as you're running the route. And then you'll, he legitimately slipped. I mean, he just fell. It was, I thought that, 'cause sometimes you get a guy like Tyron Matthew that's playing in the middle of the field, and you're thinking like, oh my gosh, if he's anywhere around, I'm about to get hit. We saw what happened with Tolbert. That was a whole other thing with Tolbert. You know, that's a play deck by his time throws you the ball. Just extend your hands. - Attack the football. - Go get the ball. Don't sit there and wait on it. You, by waiting on the ball, and maybe another young guy thing that we're talking about, but yeah, go get the football. Don't sit there and wait for the ball to get to you. But by doing that, you gave Tyron Matthew the opportunity to drive and knock it away from you. - Yeah. - Go attack that football. That's your ball, go get it. Unfortunately though, it ended up being an incomplete pass. - I hear what you're saying on that Brooks pick though. I feel like that clumsiness is just, you know, you're not present because you're thinking about something else, like the tackle, or your in your own head. - I kind of felt like I'm like, this is a young guy and you're going inside here and you're thinking, this could be a big collision if I go get this football. - Now, how bad were the running backs? I tweeted mid-game like, we gotta get a different runner. I talked about it a couple of times last week. What was the biggest reason that they only got three yards in attempt? - Yeah, a lot of it was when, for example, I'll walk you through some of the red zone stuff and I'll tell you why. And then once you hear as I walk through the plays, you'll get a theme. You'll get a theme for this, okay? Okay, first red zone play. And I just want to, 'cause I think there's an issue here. I think there's a red zone issue. And is it execution? Is it play call? Is it all the above? - Yes. - But here we go, here we go. Vaughn at left tackle. Lipke doesn't control his man. Unable to get blocker up on Davis makes the tackle for a three yard game. Reverse to cooks. Brooks can't control Taylor off the edge. Loses sustained. Tackle for loss. Granderson sack. Prescott appears to want to hit Tolbert inside. It's bracketed. Cooks adjust wide to try and get open. He's able to. Granderson spins inside on steel for a sack. So there was that pass play. Prescott short to Elliot. Play had a chance for a walk in. Prescott has Granderson closing, but can't get enough on the pass to get it to Elliot incomplete. Flip to Elliot, steel laid out to secure block. Saints have more defenders than blockers. Smith and Beebe appeared to go the wrong way. Line backers run to make the tackle. The linebackers they were responsible for. Prescott sack. No route open. Prescott tries to climb to pocket to escape. Has a lane. Breezy able to reach around Martin and knock the ball loose. Caught a break to recover the fumble by Tolbert. Prescott fade to Lamb. Good coverage by McKistory to hold Lamb up and can test the ball. Harris breaks well in order to help knock the ball loose. That was the big hit that Lamb took that was incomplete. Prescott to Tolbert. Move the pocket to the right. Tolbert covered well by Adobo on the play. Nowhere to place the ball has to throw it wide. Span forward, forward down. Could have been the defensive holding on Harris, but not called. Prescott tries to work him from the middle of the field, but he's unable to adjust tough chance there. Several plays on the running plays and things like that. Was it unblocked guys? When you know, here are the Saints. They're had on hat with every one of your guys. And then when you have to be able to try and run the football, you can't get a block on a linebacker. You don't, you miss a sustained block. They put you in position to block on the play like a Tolbert. And you can't sustain or Brooks and you can't sustain blocks. They're asking guys to throw blocks and get blocks. And then all of a sudden they're thinking that the play, the, the, how the play is going to work is, hey, all right, we're putting you in a position to block. You got to get somebody on the second level. Can't let the linebackers run over the top. We can't go the wrong way. Hey, Mike Vlinny here host a cash to ticket alongside my partner, Jim Costa. It's really simple. Are you tired of podcasts claiming there are a bunch of pro betters when they live in their mommy's basement? Are you tired of podcasts that claim they hit 80% of the games when really they just lose like most of us? I think cash to tickets the spot for you. We're real, we're transparent. We're having a hell of a good time with it. And we sit there and we're there for the sweat with you guys. We're just trying to figure it out just like you. Follow and listen to Cash the Ticket on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts. (upbeat music) Hey here. We got to get a guy over there. We got to get this block. It's a lot of the common theme for the Dallas Cowboys right now in offense when it comes to some of the running game stuff. Yeah, that's what Mike McCarthy said in the pressure. Young guys making mistakes. Yeah, you've got guys that they're counting on, they're counting on BB, they're counting on Guyton, they're counting on Tolbert, they're counting on these guys to get blocks or to in order for the plays to have some success and they're counting on Vaughn, they're counting on these guys to make plays and they're just not making the plays. But the stuff to me, the Red Zone stuff, you know, I just kind of, okay, they're trying to trick you here, trying to do this, trying to do that and you're wondering like, okay, is this really the best way to do things? I mean, the quarterback himself made a couple mistakes. That's a veteran quarterback right there. You know, their quarterbacks not making mistakes, your quarterbacks making some mistakes here. You know, so I kind of feel like that some of the Red Zone, I think it's on McCarthy. I think they're asking some of their young guys to maybe do a little too much and then also the veteran quarterback has got to help you with some of the plays that he needs to make. I mean, in fairness to them, it is a young team as they're going through their version of a rebuild, you know? Yeah, you know, I just, to me it's, I don't think they'll ever, they'll tell you that it's not a rebuild, but you're right, you're right. I mean, I just can't believe they were just so bad, they were so bad, the defensive stuff was bad, but there's the, if the defense was so bad, it really, well, the defense being that overshadowed the offense and some of the struggles they had, you know? And both Mike and Dak were saying, hey, we weren't super satisfied with the Cleveland game. So this is like three games in a row. Yeah, we said the same thing about that. I just, I don't, and I don't think it's scaling it back 'cause you got the veteran quarterback, but I think you have to look at it like, okay, some of these guys were asking, are we asking some of these guys too much? Are we asking too much of some of these guys? For sure. Are we setting them up for success as well? Yeah, that's what I think the coaching is all about. When you sit there and you look at red zone problems, yeah, the veteran quarterback, but okay, you're trying to throw the ball, you're looking at, you're looking at Tober to try and throw the ball inside there, you know, and all of a sudden you get sacked where a veteran receiver has found himself open. He's worked himself, he's breaking inside, but he sees what's happening. So now he works outside, you know, and you can see he's kind of looking around like, bro, just throw me the ball. We'll, I'll walk this thing in, but he's looking for Tolbert on the inside break and stuff like that. So, and then Tolbert has to find a way to try, you know, and he's not open. Brooks has to run around inside, where does Dak throw the ball, throws it to Brooks? He's stumbling interception right there. You know, there's, there's, there's just a lot going on for some of these young guys, and especially it showed up yesterday in that football game. Okay, so we're talking about young skill guys failing to block. I might be fishing for something positive here. Scuny had a couple of catches. How did he look? - Yeah, Scuny was, to me, they needed Scuny to make some plays. The one-headed catch was, was really athletic on his part. There was times like I say that when they got down the red zone where when I mentioned the, the, the play on the reverse, like he had his guy taking care of downfield, but they don't get, you know, Brooks loses his guy. And now, so here's Scunemaker. He's going to get a plus for his block, but you know, that's, they need more from that, from Scunemaker like that. They need more, I mean, I, I don't know why Dak threw the ball to span Ford on Forkdown. I know the game was out as, was out of hand and you're just trying to, but he's not open. - You don't have a coach that's giving you easy buttons. - Yeah, that, that was, there was nothing, there was nothing easy about them playing offense yesterday. - We all think Dak Prescott's better than Derek Carr. What was the difference? He had a coach that was helping him out for four quarters. - Yeah. - Or three. That's all it took to just kick your ass. - Yeah, I, I think you're, I think you're on. - The car made all the plays. - They did, he made it. - When he was there, Derek Carr made the plays. - Made a lot of plays. - Derek Carr was better yesterday. - Oh, for sure. - He absolutely was. - But his play caller was really good though. - He was, he was. - And his teammates were good too. - You even mentioned, right, Dak didn't at times. Dak, there was stuff there, Dak didn't hit it. - I just feel like that there's throws that we've seen Dak make before, that, that, that, like that pass the through short to Zeke. That could, that's easily, you know, that's something I've seen him make. That's a throw, an off-balanced touch pass, you know, seeing him make throws on the wheel route down the field. - Right. - You know, lead him out there. Don't, don't bring it, don't bring the ball back, you know, where the defender can make the play. There were a couple passes like that where you still the ball out in front, and you got a shot there to make a big play. - Dak would have had been perfect yesterday, but you know, it's- - Well, they needed him to be perfect. You know, they needed, they needed something. Their defense wasn't going to stop the Saints. - No. - You know, but he has an opportunity, but so the play-callers got to help him too. - For sure. - You know, the play-caller, the schemes got to help him. I mean, if you continually put young guys in position to think that, okay, well, let's see if they can make a play. Now you know, now you know like, hey, we can't put Brooks in that situation. We can't put Tolbert in that situation. You know, we've got to think of other ways to get blocks or don't run the plays. You know, if you're going to have negative plays down on the red zone, then don't run the plays. No. - Yeah, yeah, indeed, man. Red zone issues a big problem for the Cowboys. I feel like they have been quite a few years in Dak post-God's career. And usually it's only good when they have a good running game going. - Yeah, I think we've got to do to consistently score. Field gets crunched. You're asking Dak to re-titer windows and throw with more anticipation, don't be surprised. I asked you about that yesterday in post-game, right? Like, that can make things easier. - Yeah. - You figure out a way to get your running game going in the red zone, that's going to help a lot. - All righty, in addition to the finest is coming up next, Eric, what do we got? - We'll take a next-gen look at the football weekend and we'll ponder the meaning of this cowboy audible next year in the nation. - Hey, Mike Valenti here, host a cash to ticket alongside my partner, Jim Costa. It's really simple. Are you tired of podcasts claiming there are a bunch of pro betters when they live in their mommy's basement? Are you tired of podcasts that claim they hit 80% of the games? When really, they just lose like most of us. Think cash to tickets, the spot for you. We're real, we're transparent, we're having a hell of a good time with it, and we sit there and we're there for the sweat with you guys. We're just trying to figure it out just like you. Follow and listen to Cash The Ticket on the free Odyssey app or wherever. You get your podcasts. 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