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  • how much of what we saw last night was about Dak Prescott not being there.

  • In your opinion.

  • Marcus Spears, G.

  • It was a lot.

  • It wouldn't have been that bad with that playing quarterback.

  • Now, I don't know if Dallas would have won the game, obviously, but we've seen them, turned the ball over early in games and still have opportunities to win.

  • We saw Cleveland take a lead, and that and this steroids and putting the ball where need to be.

  • And Atlanta obviously winning that game.

  • But being able to use his legs and come back making basically being Superman right like this is this is a part of what the recipe has been for Dallas.

  • And there was a significant drop off with Andy Dalton, Michael Gala, Mr Touchdown.

  • After I said he might be the best wide receiver on the roster, there were miscommunications upfront.

  • There's no one on this offensive line that the Dallas Cowboys planned on playing this year, let alone a game this year.

  • So when you look at this thing in totality that Prescott has been making up for a lot of this, that's been that's been there already.

  • It's been masked Zeke has already fumbled, uh, this season, the heat that turned the ball over, but they were able to overcome those things about what he was doing.

  • And look, if you can't look at last night and clearly see what that Prescott means that this football team, and not only how good it is in this league, in comparison to the guys that around them, you are blind, and you don't wanna admit that that guy is as important to the Cowboys as anything they've tried to do over the last three years.

  • That's a particularly poignant statement with those glasses on.

  • So, Jeff Saturday, let me come to you on that because you were making the point earlier that that offensive line and no one would know this better than you looked so bad last night.

  • That, in your view, maybe it doesn't make any difference with the quarterback, is Yeah, that's why I got his point.

  • Superman couldn't have one last night at quarterback.

  • I mean, I don't care how good Dak Prescott is.

  • This offensive line is an absolute travesty.

  • I mean, you're seeing guys run by its like subway turnstiles, and they're ripping through Andy Dalton had absolutely no chance to make plays.

  • And then when he does get a little chance, he's so freaked out, he finally has.

  • Sometimes you don't know where to go with the ball.

  • You got your best player on offense fumbling around.

  • Everybody looks bad.

  • This thing is, is out of control as possible from the offensive standpoint.

  • And listen whether Dak Prescott was at quarterback or not last night.

  • It makes no difference because it doesn't change the guys blocking form.

  • And that matters.

  • And I know we always talk about quarterbacks, receivers, running backs.

  • That's what we always talk about.

  • The bottom line is teams that win at every level in football, offensive defensive line, win games and this Cowboys offensive line.

  • They ain't gonna win games, and it's gonna continue to look the way it did.

  • And I don't care.

  • Andy Dalton.

  • You put it all on his feet.

  • He didn't play a great game.

  • One interception was his fault.

  • We saw it, but at the end of the day that Prescott didn't win that game.

  • Either way, this offensive line is playing Greg, pick up on that thought.

  • If you work, I know you have some tape on that offensive line and just how bad it was last night.

  • Yeah, and it wasn't as much about the execution.

  • It was about the communication, which is just day one stuff.

  • So let's take a peek at it.

  • I mean, this is a protection here where you have five guys that you're responsible for blocking.

  • You also have five blockers.

  • You're running backs and man, the man with the will linebacker, the right guard and the center have to see that Buddha bakers in the protection scheme like they have to figure out a way to come and get that guy.

  • There's five guys rushing.

  • You can't have the fifth guy make the sack, and then on this play is just awful.

  • You have four defenders left of the center.

  • You have a three man side.

  • You cannot run stretch zone to four defenders on that side.

  • Its numbers and its leverage, they lose in both.

  • So this was a scenario where it was a lot about the pre snap recognition.

  • You could clearly see that Andy Dalton and the center and the offensive line is the whole.

  • We're not on the same page, but it doesn't matter.

  • Dak was under center.

  • I don't care if you have Joe Montana under center.

  • It will not matter if your offensive line doesn't know who to account for and doesn't take the proper angles to get things played the way it's supposed to be played.

  • So it was a bad look, really from the offensive line from start to finish last night.

  • That said, Graziano, is my insider.

  • Is there any way to get a sense of whether Dak Prescott agent was sitting there watching that game last night with his feet up in a cigar and a bottle of champagne, counting all the money that was rolling in?

  • Because that's the one thing they have been doing is scoring points.

  • And last night they scored 10.

  • Yeah, look, I mean, that's how he's been watching every Cowboys game for the last couple of years.

  • That's gonna make it's money.

  • The key thing that's going thio determine what Jack makes is the top end of the quarterback market.

  • What I look at is can they really franchise him at $37.7 million next year?

  • If they have all these other holes to fill, they're going to be spending money on other positions.

  • The defense offensive line.

  • There's a lot to deal with.

  • Greg McElroy.

  • I do have one question.

  • Why wouldn't the quarterback being sync with that offensive line?

  • They're all backups.

  • That's who he's been practicing with.

  • So it's been that kind of bad.

  • We'll have much more on this as we go.

  • And Marcus, I just want you to get a sense of what your in store for.

  • Because in 20 minutes Stephen A.

  • Smith is going to join us and he's ready for you.

  • He tweeted Oh, hell, no.

  • Marcus put them glasses back on when you're talking about the Cowboys like you promised at the start of Get up and stop cussing.

  • Pastor, you brought this on yourself and he's laughing and he's ready.

  • Stephen A is ready for swag.

  • Ooh, and we will unite them 20 minutes Live right here on ESPN.

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