WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: A Missed Opportunity 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:08.720 The following He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.720 --> 0:00:18.160 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.000 Screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:33.080 Star in Frisco. Elliot Flowing and now your hosts Isaiah Stanback, 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:40.120 heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeomans. It is 0:00:40.159 --> 0:00:44.760 a Monday edition of Talking Cowboys presented by Tostitos, helping 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.600 fans get in on the game and our favorite chip 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:51.960 and our favorite tip of Talking Cowboys. Welcome into the 0:00:52.200 --> 0:00:56.720 virtual s WBC studios at the Star in Frisco. Following 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:00.840 a twenty five twenty two Dallas Cowboys law to the 0:01:01.000 --> 0:01:04.480 Arizona Cardinals in week seventeen, and we are going to 0:01:04.480 --> 0:01:08.319 talk about it offense, defense, special teams. We have talked 0:01:08.360 --> 0:01:12.440 about complimentary wins on this show the last four weeks 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:15.040 or so. This was a complimentary loss and we are 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.080 going to break it down for you here from the 0:01:17.120 --> 0:01:20.399 Star in Frisco alongside heck My Harrison, Isaiah stand back 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:23.520 back with Rob Phillips. Great news there that Rob is 0:01:23.840 --> 0:01:27.040 back on Talking Cowboys this week with Rob p Island. 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:30.520 I'm Kyle Yeoman's Chris Beam running this thing in the back. 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:34.440 But gentlemen, we'll start with just general thoughts about the 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:36.959 loss of Cowboys come up short in a comeback effort. 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.760 They fell behind at one point in the game twenty 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.920 two to seven, and just really couldn't find their way back. 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:46.720 Rob They had a couple opportunities, maybe some miscalls from 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:49.680 the officials, but in the end, the Cowboys just didn't 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:53.720 play well enough to win that football game. Yeah, I 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:56.600 think you said it, Kyle. Like I, I kind of 0:01:56.640 --> 0:02:00.360 got killed on social media after the game, and sometimes 0:02:00.400 --> 0:02:02.800 I'm a little sensitive about those things, but at this time, 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:07.200 I held I held my ground because because look, yes 0:02:07.280 --> 0:02:09.560 there were misscalls. There was a huge miss call at 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:11.680 the end of the game. But the bottom line is 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:16.160 they did not do enough in quarters one through three 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:19.360 to give themselves a good enough chance to win that game. 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.440 That's the bottom line. And guys said that after the game. 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.000 Amari Cooper said that the game doesn't go on forever. 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:28.359 You don't get an eternal number of chances. And like 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.840 you said, when you only have seven points deep into 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.480 the game in the second half and you've got a 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.160 single yard in the third quarter until the very end, 0:02:37.760 --> 0:02:41.160 you're digging yourself a huge hole. And Arizona came out 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.079 and was the more desperate team. They were the more 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.960 banged up team, coming off of three straight losses and 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:49.440 missing a bunch of guys on defense. They found a 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:52.480 way to win. The Cowboys did not, even though, yes, 0:02:52.560 --> 0:02:55.800 you can question some calls, and I understand why players 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:59.120 are upset, but they didn't play enough well enough to 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.840 win that football game, and now they're not in the 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:04.240 position they would like to be, certainly in the playoff picture. 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.320 As Rob p I'm not gonna let you do that. 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:10.840 I agree with the second half of your sentiments. The 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:14.440 first half sounds are much like Mike McCarthy or players 0:03:14.440 --> 0:03:17.399 on the Dallas Cowboys right now that are accepting this 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:21.080 excuse for saying all the referees. Every time the Dallas 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.959 Cowboys have lost this year, it's been the referees. If 0:03:23.960 --> 0:03:26.280 you go back to a look at all the postgame interviews, 0:03:26.480 --> 0:03:29.240 it's always the referees that are getting the fingerpointed at him. 0:03:29.240 --> 0:03:31.840 And that is such a victim mentality. I talked about 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:33.800 it on a post game that play at the end 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:37.160 of the game. First of all, no referee is seeing 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:39.560 that play. Everybody could barely even see that the dog 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:41.600 on replay that it was a fumble, right, You had 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:43.320 to watch it six seven times in the road even 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.120 identify as a fumble. And then it had they not 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:50.960 gotten taken advantage of by Arizona earlier in that half, 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:52.840 they would have had an additional time out where they 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.240 could have challenged it. So there's a lot of things 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:57.720 that went into this loss. The referees was not one 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:00.280 of them. They needed to make more plays when it 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:03.360 came back, came in and executed much better than Dallas did. 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:09.320 And that's the more older story because stone Cole said so, well, well, 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:11.520 I mean, look, I'm not gonna argue with that, man. 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.800 It's uh, they came out flat. They came out flat, 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:18.680 They played flat. Um. It was eerily reminiscent of the 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.640 Denver game where they came out and just nothing with 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:25.520 fire at all, um defensively, And I know we're gonna 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:27.960 get into a lot of that. It's just look, man, 0:04:28.000 --> 0:04:30.480 I'm not into conspiracy theories, but I've watched a lot 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:34.799 of dan Quinn football this year and I just didn't 0:04:34.800 --> 0:04:39.160 see the same thing, same play, same calls from the defense, 0:04:39.200 --> 0:04:42.159 So you know, I think it was very interesting, um 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.960 as the game progressed some of the things that they 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:48.279 tried to do to make Kyler uncomfortable. But let's just 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.600 face it, man, Kyler Murray is a is a different 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:54.120 beast altogether when it comes down to play in the 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.240 quarterback position. We have to give them their respect in 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.360 their kudos because they played a hell of a game. 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.000 Being short and the way that they were, they picked 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:05.000 up a lot of our stuff and again, they just 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:07.440 did a really they did a phenomenal job where we 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.640 did not. And blaming it on the referees, I obviously, 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.320 you know, I can see it both ways. But Isaiah, 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:14.920 I'm kind of with you on this. Man, you can't 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.159 use that as an excuse because at this point in 0:05:17.200 --> 0:05:19.479 time in the season, you're supposed to be firing on 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:23.520 all cylinders. And I think that's the most disconcerting thing 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:26.960 about the about this game is the fact that even 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.479 when you looked like you were the stronger team, the 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:31.719 healthier team, you had all the momentum in the world, 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.640 and you laid an egg in the first three quarters. 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:36.359 And that's what that was. I mean, outside of the 0:05:36.400 --> 0:05:39.320 one drive right before halftime, or at least with the 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.279 midway through that second quarter. You really didn't have any 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:46.960 rhythm offensively until the fourth quarter, and then Arizona shorthanded. 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:49.960 They hadn't had any kind of rhythm without DeAndre Hopkins 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.480 on the field, and a guy like Antoine Wesley comes 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:55.560 up and makes two touchdown grabs. You have Christian Kirk 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.479 as the leading receiver. AJ Greene turns back the clock. 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:01.600 Zach Ertz was pretty much a factor until the second half. 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.440 But all of these guys stepped up and filled in 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.920 roles that they hadn't been over the last three weeks. 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:11.120 So why is it the Cowboys Isaiah as the team 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:13.040 that had to be the one they had to figure 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:15.599 it out against because there had to be something that 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:18.280 they saw on film both sides of the football. We'll 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:21.400 get into offensive defense specifically coming up in the next 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:23.520 couple of segments, but there had to be something they 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.000 saw that said we're gonna beat this team, because they 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:31.640 came out with a boatload of confidence. Your professional athletes, 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.039 you professional coaches, and you show up to a game 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.839 and your competitors, you make a decision that you're gonna go, 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:38.559 you know, a ball to the wall, and that's exactly 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:40.760 what Arizona came in it did. They said, we're gonna 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:42.720 throw everything at Dallas, and Dallas is gonna have to 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:45.960 show us that they're capable of stopping it, and they weren't. 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:47.520 When they came out and they lined up and they 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:50.200 brought everybody at the line of scrimmage, Deck said, oh crap. 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:52.520 The offensive line said, oh crap, there's only so many 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:54.920 guys that you can block, and we're gonna get home. 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.279 We're gonna get to Deck. We're gonna disrupt Deck before 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.400 he can get the ball off to these receivers. These 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:00.760 receivers were not going to get off the line of 0:07:00.800 --> 0:07:03.640 scrimmage and get these these you know, these short passing 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:06.800 game options like Dak had been so great at earlier 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:10.600 in the season. They totally disrupted that. So what started happening. 0:07:10.800 --> 0:07:12.400 Dak was coming up and he was having to totally 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:15.200 redo all the protections, he was having to totally redo 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:18.160 all the plays, and that cause hesitation. That did not 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:19.840 enable them to go out there and play fast like 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:23.160 they did last week. That was disruptive. And then offensively 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:26.080 for Arizona, they just had Kyler Murray. Everybody's putting the 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.480 finger at the defensive line saying, oh, where where was 0:07:28.520 --> 0:07:30.520 this that? You know? Heckman, you mentioned that, you know, 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.480 you didn't see the dan Quinn type defense, and I 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:35.720 kind of come back that because I feel as if 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:37.760 they did a good job of getting back there. The 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:39.920 only difference is you're not dealing with quarterbacks who have 0:07:40.000 --> 0:07:42.600 the inability to run the ball. This dude sees pressure. 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:44.960 This dude sees defensive ends going up the field. He's coming, 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:47.320 stepping in and out. We said it all week long. 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:49.800 Pressure on the ends means nothing. If you don't have 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:52.600 internal pressure against a running quarterback, it doesn't present a 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:55.160 problem for him. And we did not have internal pressure 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:58.240 this week, and that is why this game turned out 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:00.920 the way that it was. They just wanted to win 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:04.440 the game more in Dallas, unfortunately, this year has a 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.840 record of that versus teams that are above five hundred 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.200 in the win column. They were aiding one coming into 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.920 the game versus the NFC. Okay, that's fine and Danny, 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.240 but only one in one against the NFC. When it 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.200 comes to games over five hundred, you know, the teams 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:19.280 that have a winning percentage over five hundred. This was 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:21.800 another one of those teams. So now you're eight and 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:24.360 two against the NFC and you're one in two versus 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:30.920 teams over five hundred. Rob totally agree. I mean we 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:32.720 talked about it during the week or when I was 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:35.040 on barely during the week last week, that this was 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:37.920 a better test. I mean, they won four straight games, 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.000 and give them credit, three of them more straight we're 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:43.520 on the road, but that was a playoff team that 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:47.760 they played yesterday and a playoff quarterback, and hey, a 0:08:47.920 --> 0:08:50.760 hell of a coaching job by Arizona in terms of 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:54.240 the game plan that was executed better. I mean, they knew, 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:57.600 as banged up as their defense was, they had to 0:08:57.640 --> 0:09:00.120 control the line of scrimmage, control time of possession, and 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:03.280 keep Dak and the offense off the field and protect 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:05.880 their defense. And they did that. They dominated time of possession, 0:09:06.080 --> 0:09:08.360 They kept the ball out of the Cowboys offenses hands, 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:10.240 got them out of rhythm, like you said, with a 0:09:10.800 --> 0:09:13.320 lot of different pre snap looks, a lot of stuff, 0:09:13.400 --> 0:09:16.120 you know, not necessarily stuff Dak hasn't seen, but a 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:20.040 lot of that after the snap, guys dropping back into coverage, 0:09:20.040 --> 0:09:23.680 flooding passing lanes. And they got the other thing too, 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:25.720 is they completely shut down the run. That was a 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.800 season low forty five rushing yards for the Cowboys. We've 0:09:28.800 --> 0:09:31.520 talked about it. They have been in a run offensively. 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.520 We thought they got out of it against Washington, but 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.199 they were not in this game, and they just didn't 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.400 have enough cracks at it and weren't efficient enough when 0:09:39.400 --> 0:09:45.400 they had the football. Yeah, for me, Isaiah, it's really 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:48.120 just you know, switching up the coverages. They stayed in 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:52.880 the vanilla coverage the entire game. For me, I've seen 0:09:52.920 --> 0:09:55.040 them switch it up too many times and bringing pressure 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:59.559 from different angles. But again I say this, man, Arizona 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:01.480 did a good job of picking up the blissing. You're 0:10:01.480 --> 0:10:04.959 absolutely right that if it's any of the other quarterbacks 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:10.040 in the NFL, they have three four sacks yesterday because 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.480 you know, look, Colin Murray was just able to get 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:15.240 out of the pocket, outside of the pocket and just 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.320 elude the defense. But it's you know, it's one of 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.319 those things where when you look at this game in totality, 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:25.760 the run game coming up missing is gonna be the 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.960 story of this game. But also just the fact that 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:31.720 we're not talking about the penalties. You know, this this 0:10:31.840 --> 0:10:34.960 team anytime they tried to steal any momentum. They shot 0:10:35.040 --> 0:10:38.640 themselves in the foot, and those third down penalties killed them, 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.000 killed them. We talk about the running game and them 0:10:42.160 --> 0:10:45.720 only having forty fifty yards of rushing excuse me, forty 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:48.640 five yards rushing, But you take some of those the 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.960 big run from Ezekiel Elliott back, even a run from 0:10:52.000 --> 0:10:54.720 Tony Pollard that comes back as well on a penalty. Look, 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.560 all of those things are relative. Again, if we had 0:10:58.080 --> 0:11:00.720 we had our opportunities. But all in all, this team 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.080 just came out flatt and you can't do that. Um, 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.560 you're right again, Isaiah with the you know, when you 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.160 start facing those upper echelon teams and you want to 0:11:08.160 --> 0:11:10.640 if this is a measuring stick, in the words of 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:12.280 Rick Flair, in order to be the best, you gotta 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:14.880 beat the best, and we just didn't be. You know, 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:16.600 we didn't measure up in this game, and a lot 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:18.000 of it had to do with the way that we 0:11:18.040 --> 0:11:21.160 opened up the game. So heck, I'm gonna turn the 0:11:21.240 --> 0:11:26.240 first second I got I know, Rob, Rob, you really 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.040 the only one that hasn't come up with one yet, 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:32.280 So heck, I'm gonna I'm gonna put this right back 0:11:32.320 --> 0:11:34.840 on top of you. I'm gonna turn this right back 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:36.960 around here for you just a second, because you talked 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:40.680 about the preparedness, you talked about the play calling. You 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:44.280 mentioned the fact that that there were multiple opportunities for 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:47.120 the Cowboys to be in better positions, and the penalties 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:52.920 as well. How severely out coached were the Cowboys on 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:57.200 Sunday afternoon. I mean, if Cliff Kingsbury and company, how 0:11:57.280 --> 0:12:02.160 much did they out coach Mike McCarthy and his staff? Look, man, 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:06.720 you know, situational awareness is all coaching. And there was 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.880 a situation where McCarthy got caught with his pants down, 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:12.839 you know, and they called they called him, and that 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:15.880 was all he could do was burn that time out, 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.920 and so it came back to haunt them. And anytime 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:21.360 you're in a close matchup and that's why timeouts in 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:23.960 the second half are so pivotal. But that was one 0:12:24.080 --> 0:12:27.719 instance where look, that was just you know, that was 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:29.840 a coaching and I'm sure he wishes that he had 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:33.360 that that time out back because obviously that probably would 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:36.480 have made the difference on that call that everybody wished 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:39.120 that wasn't And where the hell is New York? You 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:41.840 need him? I thought they called down and say, hey, 0:12:41.880 --> 0:12:43.800 that was actually a fun But why come we can't 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:48.120 get in New York to place a call inside two minutes? Right? 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:53.920 It was outside of two minutes? Stuff? Is it outside 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:57.920 they the call? I mean, well, we look that we 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:02.120 can't bear for that. That's enough. That's another But I'm 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.480 just saying that's that's that's that's a cove, that's a 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:07.000 caveat of the game. Had it been inside two minutes, 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:08.959 they would have got that call. But it was outside 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:11.680 of two minutes. And because you got quote unquote out 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:15.680 coached during that early situation earlier in the game, that 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.559 disabled you from being able to challenge it. Well, hen 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:21.559 is bad this morning, Isaiah our ass right now, boy, 0:13:21.960 --> 0:13:27.079 that's tell you what this is why I had hesitation 0:13:27.120 --> 0:13:28.680 earlier in the week, right, And I know you guys 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:30.360 looked at me sideways, and a lot of other people 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:32.599 probably did as well when we started coming. When we 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:34.400 came off the Washington game and we're right, you know, 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.040 everybody was writing high, oh, Dallas is killing it, Dallas 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:40.120 is They're unstoppable. And what was my response? I want 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.120 to see it this week. That was my first thing 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:43.600 I said, I I want to see it this week. 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.240 The reason why is because you're supposed to beat up 0:13:46.280 --> 0:13:48.760 on those teams, right, And I said that you're supposed 0:13:48.800 --> 0:13:50.360 to beat up on those seats. That's a little brother. 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:52.280 What did I what did I refer to last week? 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:54.120 That was a rotary boys and girls club that you 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.240 beat up on them? That was a rotary league. Right, 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:58.640 you had to go play the select games now, and 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:00.960 these are the select games. It doesn't matter what you 0:14:01.040 --> 0:14:03.440 do against against the casts that you play around, that 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:05.240 run around and play the same four or five team, 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.680 It doesn't matter. Right at NFC East, it doesn't matter 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:09.240 when you go out there and you play the other 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:11.960 boys that have to have played nationally ranked guys all 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:14.800 the time. This is what the Dallas Cowboys have shown 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.520 and they have to show different going into the playoffs. Slow, 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:22.800 slowdown gym shoes. This is this is This is a 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:25.480 C saw league. The NFL is a C saw league. 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:29.480 And if you looked at the year that that has been, Oh, 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:32.160 just look at the AFC, right, they are the best. 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.520 The best record in the AFC is eleven and five. 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.080 That's the that's the a FC. There. You come to 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:41.600 the NFC. Obviously, the green Bay has the best record. 0:14:41.640 --> 0:14:43.680 So what I'm saying is it's been a good year 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:46.080 of football. Anybody could beat anybody if you look at 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:49.400 last year. Last night, oh yesterday, the Jets were supposed 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:51.040 to beat the Bucks in New York. I mean, there's 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:53.800 there's been strange things that have happened to all year. 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:57.520 And all I'm saying is, look, we played flat. We'll 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:01.240 see him again or whoever see. We just got to 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.120 play better. It's not as though Arizona came in here 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:08.560 and completely wiped the floor with us. It was self inflicted. 0:15:08.840 --> 0:15:10.960 Before this week, you were you know, hey, it was 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:13.840 when a team gets back Montan sweating, and you know, 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:16.480 when teams get these people back, or you know, Dak 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:19.280 is not looking like himself anymore, and all of those things. 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:22.640 But look, man, if Kelly Moore comes out and he 0:15:22.760 --> 0:15:25.520 scripts the first fifteen plays the way that he did 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:30.000 against this team against Arizona, man throw those first fifteam 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:32.480 plays away. You have to start all over with this thing, 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:36.200 because look, that just didn't work for us. Man. And 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:38.960 I mean, look, Isaiah, I rely on you heavily for 0:15:39.040 --> 0:15:40.960 a lot of this because I feel as though you're 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:44.120 gonna tell it like it is, and I feel like 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:48.480 that's we appreciate that part of it. But if you're 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.640 looking around the rest of the league, man, you're seeing 0:15:50.680 --> 0:15:52.920 that that's a whole lot of parody. Bro anybody that 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:56.600 could beat anybody, And that's absolutely correct. I don't, but 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:59.280 I don't look around for everybody else, right, I'm looking 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:01.880 at these and all the talk that I have that 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:04.440 all my opinions come from that standpoint of where the 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:07.240 Dallas Cowboys are trying to go. And when you start 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:09.600 talking about where they're trying to go and not who 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:13.560 they had on their eleven and five schedule was based upon, 0:16:14.120 --> 0:16:16.320 It's all about what level of ball do you have 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:18.640 to play in order to win those type of games? 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:21.080 That's all That's where all my opinions always come from. 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:24.000 And this has always been a question mark that subsitted 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:26.480 over my head and over the Dallas Cowboys head. Can 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:28.840 they deliver when you face these teams that are like, 0:16:28.880 --> 0:16:30.280 I don't give a dog on that we have a 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:32.080 lot of injuries. I don't give a dog on that 0:16:32.080 --> 0:16:34.040 we don't have our full squad. This is what the 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.560 type of ball that we're gonna play. Can you stop it? 0:16:36.760 --> 0:16:38.840 We're gonna give it everything that we have, and this 0:16:38.880 --> 0:16:40.840 is our approach. We're gonna blitch you seventy five percent 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:42.720 of the game. That's what we're doing. What are you 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:44.600 gonna do? Are you gonna run the ball because you 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:46.560 because you're the Dallas Cowboys and you have all your 0:16:46.560 --> 0:16:48.680 office alignment back, or are you gonna say, now, we 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:51.120 can't run the ball and bust through this first line 0:16:51.120 --> 0:16:53.440 of defense and get to the big plays because there's 0:16:53.440 --> 0:16:55.760 no second level of defenders. That was the approach that 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.160 Keller Moore and the Dallas Cowboys took yesterday when they 0:16:58.160 --> 0:17:00.880 should have said, we got Tyrn Smith, we got Collins, 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.080 we got Martin, We're coming at you. We're gonna get 0:17:03.120 --> 0:17:04.919 past this first layer. Yes, we're gonna hit our head 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:06.520 on the wall a couple of times. But once we 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:08.760 get through this first layer of defense, we're gonna be 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:11.199 having nothing big big plays. And they didn't take that approach. 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:13.719 They sat back on their heels and this was what 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:15.720 they put on film, much like what they put on 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:19.560 film when they played against Denver. So now other team, Philadelphia, 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:22.040 all right, Philadelphia is now looking at that like, hmm, 0:17:22.400 --> 0:17:24.119 can we do the same thing? All right? We're not 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:26.199 gonna take the same approach Arizona is gonna take. But 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:29.359 there's two different examples, now, two examples of how Dallas 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:32.600 has now left a window opened them for devot and 0:17:32.720 --> 0:17:35.520 you're right, heck, like there is parody in this conference. 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:38.320 Like you watch those noon games and the Rams almost 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.119 lose that game, and obviously the Bucks had everything that 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:43.760 they had going on in that game. So yeah, but 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:48.960 there's evidence going back to post By that offensively they 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:53.560 are just not in a rhythm and Washington was maybe 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.600 an operation. I don't know, like I had pause about 0:17:56.640 --> 0:17:58.640 this game too, but I picked the Cowboys based off 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:01.000 the fact that they got back home the AT and 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:03.720 T Stadium where they've averaged almost forty points a game, 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:06.040 and you're thinking it's gonna be a track me, you know, 0:18:06.160 --> 0:18:08.359 but it's gonna be a boat race. But that didn't happen. 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:13.560 So the problem is going back to late October, there's 0:18:13.560 --> 0:18:15.960 just evidence that they are still not in a rhythm offensively. 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:18.400 That is a concern going into the playoffs. And now 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:22.000 they've got this situation where, Okay, are they the four seed, 0:18:22.040 --> 0:18:24.320 do they have a chance to move up? Do they 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:27.040 play guys in week eighteen that's now on Saturday on 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:29.080 a short week, or do they try to get ready 0:18:29.119 --> 0:18:32.160 for the playoffs, Like I'm not sure what Mike McCarthy 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:35.880 does right now, because I do think offensively they need 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:38.159 to try to get some rhythm back going before the 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:40.600 postseason starts instead of just sitting guys. It's it's an 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:42.680 interesting position that they're in right now. Well, let's talk 0:18:42.680 --> 0:18:44.400 about that on the other side of the break, because 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:47.439 I want to talk about one the Saturday's scenario in 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:49.520 which is going to be placed this week, and then 0:18:49.520 --> 0:18:52.960 we'll talk about going into the playoffs there. But I 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:55.199 also want to hear does it make you feel a 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:57.120 little bit better the fact that they found a rhythm 0:18:57.160 --> 0:18:59.800 in the fourth quarter, even though it was late in 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:01.800 the game and they were trying to get back into it. 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:04.440 Does it make you feel better moving into the final 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:06.679 game of the regular season than, of course, into the 0:19:06.720 --> 0:19:11.920 playoffs when we come back with more talking cowboys. There's 0:19:12.000 --> 0:19:15.919 nothing as unique as our eyes, which is why SLOR 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:20.359 pioneers ways to make lenses as unique as you Varilux 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:24.680 for super sharp vision, Essential Blue for protection, and Crisolve 0:19:24.800 --> 0:19:28.560 for freedom from glare. Three cutting up solutions in a 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:33.120 single unique lens. 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