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Zach Wolchuk and Bryan Broaddus react to the Cowboys holding on to beat the Colts, 27-23.
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00:00Stap is back. Blue shirts are coming. He's hit as he throws. Intercepted! At the 36-yard line by Caleb
00:09Downs!
00:11Hey, brother! He's looking for his brother. Hey, my brother! He's pointing over to the Colts bench.
00:17Caleb Downs has his first professional interception on his brother's home field, and that's going to win the game.
00:27Boy, he picked a good time for that, huh? Never a doubt, Brian. There was never a doubt.
00:3227-23, Cowboys find a way. Shout out to Peyton Russell for getting some video there of that Caleb Downs
00:38interception of us here in studio.
00:41As Caleb Downs got a sack today, had two pass breakups, and then had that big interception, his first of
00:48his young career, to seal the deal.
00:5127-23, Cowboys get their third road win of the year. They're 3-2 away from AT&T Stadium.
00:57They improved to 4-5 on the year. Zach Wolchuk alongside the Super Bowl winning scout, Brian Broaddus.
01:03Boy, this one was interesting. I mean, the back-and-forth fourth quarter you got, you had that CeeDee Lamb
01:09play,
01:09which was, I mean, how do you even describe CeeDee's game today? Because he was so brilliant statistically,
01:15but he had the touchdown that wasn't a touchdown because he's not able to get that second foot inbounds.
01:20Then he has the big play where he realizes, I'm not down by contact, gets up, gets the fumble, Colts
01:27get the ball back,
01:28and an amazing play on the other end by Quinnen Williams to force a fumble, to keep points off the
01:33board there for Indy.
01:35The Cowboys, though...
01:36By the way, he had pass interference penalties. He had two of those today.
01:39He did. He had two OPIs, and the Cowboys had three OPIs in total as a team.
01:44Then you get the Colts' field goal to tie it up at 20. Dallas misses a field goal,
01:48and we've got to talk about Brandon Aubrey now because these 50-plus yarders since last year, it is not
01:54looking good.
01:55The Colts end up taking the lead 23-20, and then you had the Cowboys' quick touchdown, the big pass
02:02to Ryan Flannoy.
02:03Flannoy had not done much throughout the game. He is able to make an outstanding throw.
02:08Dak probably saved his best throw of the game for the end there to Ryan Flannoy.
02:12The Colts let Dallas score. You and I were both looking at each other like,
02:15ooh, could you find a way to try and milk this clock? Do you maybe sneak it? Do you find
02:19a way to just run it?
02:20But Indy lets them score, and then the interception to ultimately end it, 27-23.
02:25But a wild one. A lot of mistakes by both teams. A lot of questionable coaching decisions by both teams.
02:30But Dallas finds a way to get it done at the end.
02:32Yeah, no, Dallas absolutely needed to find a way to get a win.
02:36And the Giants were able to get it done against the Philadelphia Eagles this afternoon.
02:41So they continue on their march.
02:43So, yeah, if you wanted any hope of this division, you had to find a way to get this done.
02:47I think you're very fortunate today to play Daniel Jones at a football game.
02:52You know, I'm not going to sugarcoat that.
02:54I mean, you know, you made a ton of mistakes today.
02:58Yeah.
02:58I mean, all the penalties, you know, you're very, very fortunate that this game didn't go the other way.
03:05But, you know, tip of the cap to CD and, you know, the guys like Quentin Williams, you know, playing
03:11up front.
03:11You were really worried about Jonathan Taylor running the football.
03:15That was not a factor today.
03:16But, boy, the defense did a great job of getting after Daniel Jones today and forcing him.
03:22When he's running now outside the pocket, that's going to be a bad throw, you know.
03:26And then he's going to make some questionable throws.
03:29And so, yeah, you're able to get the interception to seal the game right there.
03:34But, yeah, it's like one of these games, like, who wants to try and lose this game is what it
03:39came down to.
03:40But, you know, good for Dallas to get a victory and get this thing to 4-5 with San Francisco
03:45coming to town next week.
03:47Yeah, I mean, ultimately, you never apologize for getting a victory.
03:50No, hell no.
03:50You've got to keep your season alive.
03:51You're 4-5.
03:52Yeah.
03:52I mean, going into it, obviously, you find out you don't have Joey Porter Jr.
03:55You don't have George Pickens.
03:57You're injured.
03:57You're without some of your key players.
03:59But the – I mean, and one of the things that I thought, Brian, was, and we talked about this,
04:04the tackling.
04:05Defensively, the tackling was outstanding.
04:07Much better.
04:07Much better this week.
04:08And then what happened?
04:08And P.J. Locke misses the one tackle, and they have their biggest explosive play of the day for the
04:13big touchdown.
04:14And that's when things started to go sideways, the Ashton Doolin 55-yard touchdown.
04:19Hopefully, P.J. Locke is okay.
04:20Well, P.J. Locke with, like, the second – it's likely another concussion.
04:24And back-to-back concussions, I think he's done for the year.
04:27I don't think they're going to let him go back out there.
04:29I mean, that was him coming up and trying to – you know, takes a shot in the side of
04:33the head.
04:33And, you know, you think of, like, a normal football play, and he's, you know, laying flat on the ground
04:39and, you know, then having to be helped off the field.
04:41So I would just go ahead and plan for P.J. Locke probably not to be in the lineup anymore
04:47for you.
04:48And, you know, and that's sad because I thought he did a really, really nice job for you today.
04:53Yeah, I mean, you do look at this, and, hey, a win's a win.
04:56You're always going to take it.
04:57But as Brad was saying to wrap that up, I mean, you are in some ways trying to put lipstick
05:01on a pig here.
05:02Yeah.
05:02I mean, you brought up the two offensive P.I.s for C.D.
05:06Yeah.
05:06And C.D., I mean, was incredible overall.
05:09I mean, 10 for 195 and a touchdown on 16 targets.
05:13But it could have been two touchdowns.
05:16The fumble was huge.
05:17Yeah.
05:17You had the penalty after the Quinn and Williams forced fumble were overshown runs onto the field.
05:24Right.
05:24That's a killer.
05:25Williams with a 15-yard run to start that drive, and then you have three straight passes when you have
05:31a chance to maybe go ice the game.
05:34The penalties, I mean, all in all on offense, it was like you can't get out of your own way.
05:38With the offensive pass interference, with the holds that were called, I mean, the amount of penalties today, it was
05:44ugly football.
05:45I mean, it was a game between two bad football teams that were trying to find ways to lose.
05:50And I tweeted it out.
05:51Bad football teams, that's what they do.
05:54They find ways to lose games.
05:56Fortunately, today, and I think you're right about Daniel Jones, and it's the NFL.
06:00I mean, these are all guys that are out there.
06:02They're getting paid.
06:02But this would have been a really disheartening loss just when you look at kind of both sides of this.
06:08Total yards, Dallas, 508.
06:10Indy, 271.
06:11Third down efficiency, neither team was good.
06:13Five of 16 for Dallas, three of 13 for Indianapolis.
06:17And that's the thing, the Colts had been good on third downs, I mean, defensively throughout the year.
06:21So, you know, you knew going in that was going to be a problem.
06:25Dallas running the football today.
06:26Yeah.
06:27I mean, and we talked about that, how that was going to come about.
06:31And, you know, they actually, they had a plan.
06:34Again, Schottenheimer stuck with it as far as running it on that left side, behind Smith, behind Guyton, and, you
06:42know, behind Spanford.
06:43You know, and they were able to get some of that going.
06:45It was nice to see, you know, them be able to do that after last week of averaging a little
06:54more than two yards a carry.
06:55It was.
06:56Yes, and you're right, I mean, 20 carries for 101 yards for Javante, plus the touchdown.
07:01Then Tyler Goodson, 12 for 77.
07:03And he had to come out of the game for a little while.
07:05We weren't sure what we see him in the second half.
07:07Yeah, the knee, he got bent back on a play and, you know, was able to shake that off.
07:11You kind of felt like at the end of the game there was going to be, you know, Hunter Lipke
07:15and Williams trying to kind of kill that football game.
07:17But lo and behold, they were able to kind of pull it off the way that they needed to at
07:22the end with the huge pass play from Prescott to Flannoy.
07:26Huge, absolutely huge.
07:27You needed it, and they made it happen there.
07:29I mean, we were, I'm sure, when you go back and you watch the tape, I mean, the previous drive,
07:34which we were talking about with the Williams run and the three straight passes.
07:38That is amazing.
07:39And that throws deep to CD.
07:40Just throw it and get the first down.
07:42Yeah, that's, you know, and I'm just, to me, there's sometimes we get a little greedy as a player, and
07:47CD is having one of those games, and you're thinking, throw the ball down the field, and you're going to
07:51get the play and all that.
07:53But, you know, it didn't happen.
07:55But just get the first down.
07:56But, you know, with Schottenheimer, I'm in that mode of, I'm in that mode of kind of like, you know,
08:01just if you get first down and, yeah, first to 10 and you run the ball and you get 15
08:06yards, just keep running the ball until they stop you from running the football.
08:10And just take time off the clock, maybe get in a little bit better field goal range, so you're not
08:15kicking 57-yard field goals or whatever.
08:17You know, I think we put a lot on the kicker, but he's a $7 million a year player for
08:21you.
08:21No, he's put those expectations on himself.
08:23I don't mean to pocket watch there, and I absolutely am, and I hate when I do things like that.
08:29But he's got to make those kicks, but you also got to find a way.
08:32Hey, you know, that's another situation where getting the ball and they're really not stopping you run the football.
08:38You get 15.
08:40Just what's keeping you from, you go heavy play action.
08:43I mean, just keep running the ball and try to take as much time off the clock, wear them down.
08:50You know, maybe you get a situation where you get a couple of first downs, three first downs, and now
08:54they're burning timeouts.
08:55You know, and then you just, you know, and then we get down to the goal line thing, and you're
09:00right.
09:01You and I are kind of like, how do you play this?
09:03They're going to let you score.
09:04Do you just sneak left, sneak left, and make them use those timeouts, and then, you know, you're right there
09:09at the one.
09:10You just try and score right there.
09:11But, you know, listen, hey, the bottom line is they won.
09:16Daniel Jones got the ball with the chance to, you know, to bring them back, and he'd been playing like,
09:21you know,
09:21he'd been playing like hot garbage all day, and so, you know, you probably knew what you were doing there.
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09:38Zach Wolchuk, alongside the Super Bowl winning scout, Brian Broad is 27-23.
09:43Cowboys win an ugly one on the road, but a win is a win.
09:4727-23 over the Colts.
09:49Colts now 2-7.
09:50They're 1-3 at home, but absolutely, the penalties, a big storyline today,
09:55and it felt like all of them were coming on the offensive side,
09:58but 14 penalties for 153 yards for Dallas, 9 for 67 for Indianapolis, and you're right.
10:05That is so surprising because, on average, this crew was calling about 16-17% less,
10:13and all of a sudden they got their quota up really, really fast.
10:17But you made mention of this, this is two teams like, well, especially Dallas' case.
10:24Dallas will play some sloppy football on you.
10:26They will absolutely play some sloppy.
10:28But what's really unfortunate is they had some huge plays that were called back because of some penalties.
10:35They did a huge screen play.
10:36Yeah, oh, gosh.
10:37CeeDee Lamb with a big play.
10:38Right.
10:38Then afterwards he was looking over like, what the heck's going on?
10:41Yeah.
10:41And he clearly, I mean, our buddy Bobby Belt, or Cowboys insider of 105.3 The Fan,
10:46the flagship in the morning show with Sean and RJ, and catch them 6 to 10 a.m.,
10:50but he tweeted out that CeeDee went and sat by himself on the bench
10:54and was really down about that fumble.
10:57Flannoy ended up going and joining him, and then as they walked into the tunnel,
11:00CeeDee still was like kicking himself about the fumble.
11:03Ryan Flannoy like, man, I was made for this when it comes to making that big catch down the field.
11:07Hey, Flannoy's a dude that believes in himself.
11:09That's why I've kind of always loved that dude.
11:10He definitely has the right mentality.
11:12Came up with a huge play to win him.
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