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Are you ready for a break?

Yes.

Are you ready for a break?

Absolutely.

Ready for a break?

Yeah.

And so much for that.

It's time for the break on Dallas Cowboys.com. We were on the break with Nick

Eatman, David Hellman, Ambar Garcia, and Derek Eagleton. It is Monday, January 14th, 2018,

season 14th, episode number 112. Welcome to another edition of The Break. We are live in SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star.

And yeah, it's one of those days. It's that day following the playoffs, following a

playoff loss when everything just kind of comes crashing to a halt. Cowboys lose to the Rams,

30 to 22 out in L.A. And we're going to break down for you guys for the next hour, what we think happened in that game, why the Cowboys are now sitting outside the playoffs. We might even get into a little bit of talk on some, I don't know if it was news, but something Jason Garrett had to say this morning about the offensive coordinator, which I think is a big topic right now for fans. But let's start first with that game. And let's go around the table. I know there were a lot of things that went wrong for the Cowboys. I want each of you to tell me what do you think was the biggest problem for Dallas in the game against the Rams. Let's start with you, Nick. Well, I'm going to steal everyone's then and say that they couldn't stop the run. That was the biggest problem. And they obviously couldn't run the ball, but they couldn't stop the run at all. I had no answers for it. And the defensive line, as good as they played all year, they did not show up in that game. And that's too bad because it was a great opportunity for them to really show

what kind of hot boys that they were and have been all year and they didn't stop the run they didn't even touch golf at all they couldn't get any pressure

and it was brought to my attention and I don't know if I believe this first drive of the game two off sides

almost maybe changed their aggressiveness

a little bit?

I mean, it seemed like a bit because they didn't do anything on that side of the ball all game.

Yeah, I think you can extend that as well to the linebackers too, the whole front seven kind

of no-showed in this game.

You know, we talked a lot before the game about misdirection and pre-snap motion and all the, you know, the play fakes the Rams like to use and they did it.

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