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Speaker 1: a twenty five twenty two Dallas Cowboys law to the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals in week seventeen, and we are going to
Speaker 1: talk about it offense, defense, special teams. We have talked
Speaker 1: about complimentary wins on this show the last four weeks
Speaker 1: or so. This was a complimentary loss and we are
Speaker 1: going to break it down for you here from the
Speaker 1: Star in Frisco alongside heck My Harrison, Isaiah stand back
Speaker 1: back with Rob Phillips. Great news there that Rob is
Speaker 1: back on Talking Cowboys this week with Rob p Island.
Speaker 1: I'm Kyle Yeoman's Chris Beam running this thing in the back.
Speaker 1: But gentlemen, we'll start with just general thoughts about the
Speaker 1: loss of Cowboys come up short in a comeback effort.
Speaker 1: They fell behind at one point in the game twenty
Speaker 1: two to seven, and just really couldn't find their way back.
Speaker 1: Rob They had a couple opportunities, maybe some miscalls from
Speaker 1: the officials, but in the end, the Cowboys just didn't
Speaker 1: play well enough to win that football game. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think you said it, Kyle. Like I, I kind of
Speaker 1: got killed on social media after the game, and sometimes
Speaker 1: I'm a little sensitive about those things, but at this time,
Speaker 1: I held I held my ground because because look, yes
Speaker 1: there were misscalls. There was a huge miss call at
Speaker 1: the end of the game. But the bottom line is
Speaker 1: they did not do enough in quarters one through three
Speaker 1: to give themselves a good enough chance to win that game.
Speaker 1: That's the bottom line. And guys said that after the game.
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper said that the game doesn't go on forever.
Speaker 1: You don't get an eternal number of chances. And like
Speaker 1: you said, when you only have seven points deep into
Speaker 1: the game in the second half and you've got a
Speaker 1: single yard in the third quarter until the very end,
Speaker 1: you're digging yourself a huge hole. And Arizona came out
Speaker 1: and was the more desperate team. They were the more
Speaker 1: banged up team, coming off of three straight losses and
Speaker 1: missing a bunch of guys on defense. They found a
Speaker 1: way to win. The Cowboys did not, even though, yes,
Speaker 1: you can question some calls, and I understand why players
Speaker 1: are upset, but they didn't play enough well enough to
Speaker 1: win that football game, and now they're not in the
Speaker 1: position they would like to be, certainly in the playoff picture.
Speaker 1: As Rob p I'm not gonna let you do that.
Speaker 1: I agree with the second half of your sentiments. The
Speaker 1: first half sounds are much like Mike McCarthy or players
Speaker 1: on the Dallas Cowboys right now that are accepting this
Speaker 1: excuse for saying all the referees. Every time the Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys have lost this year, it's been the referees. If
Speaker 1: you go back to a look at all the postgame interviews,
Speaker 1: it's always the referees that are getting the fingerpointed at him.
Speaker 1: And that is such a victim mentality. I talked about
Speaker 1: it on a post game that play at the end
Speaker 1: of the game. First of all, no referee is seeing
Speaker 1: that play. Everybody could barely even see that the dog
Speaker 1: on replay that it was a fumble, right, You had
Speaker 1: to watch it six seven times in the road even
Speaker 1: identify as a fumble. And then it had they not
Speaker 1: gotten taken advantage of by Arizona earlier in that half,
Speaker 1: they would have had an additional time out where they
Speaker 1: could have challenged it. So there's a lot of things
Speaker 1: that went into this loss. The referees was not one
Speaker 1: of them. They needed to make more plays when it
Speaker 1: came back, came in and executed much better than Dallas did.
Speaker 1: And that's the more older story because stone Cole said so, well, well,
Speaker 1: I mean, look, I'm not gonna argue with that, man.
Speaker 1: It's uh, they came out flat. They came out flat,
Speaker 1: They played flat. Um. It was eerily reminiscent of the
Speaker 1: Denver game where they came out and just nothing with
Speaker 1: fire at all, um defensively, And I know we're gonna
Speaker 1: get into a lot of that. It's just look, man,
Speaker 1: I'm not into conspiracy theories, but I've watched a lot
Speaker 1: of dan Quinn football this year and I just didn't
Speaker 1: see the same thing, same play, same calls from the defense,
Speaker 1: So you know, I think it was very interesting, um
Speaker 1: as the game progressed some of the things that they
Speaker 1: tried to do to make Kyler uncomfortable. But let's just
Speaker 1: face it, man, Kyler Murray is a is a different
Speaker 1: beast altogether when it comes down to play in the
Speaker 1: quarterback position. We have to give them their respect in
Speaker 1: their kudos because they played a hell of a game.
Speaker 1: Being short and the way that they were, they picked
Speaker 1: up a lot of our stuff and again, they just
Speaker 1: did a really they did a phenomenal job where we
Speaker 1: did not. And blaming it on the referees, I obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, I can see it both ways. But Isaiah,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of with you on this. Man, you can't
Speaker 1: use that as an excuse because at this point in
Speaker 1: time in the season, you're supposed to be firing on
Speaker 1: all cylinders. And I think that's the most disconcerting thing
Speaker 1: about the about this game is the fact that even
Speaker 1: when you looked like you were the stronger team, the
Speaker 1: healthier team, you had all the momentum in the world,
Speaker 1: and you laid an egg in the first three quarters.
Speaker 1: And that's what that was. I mean, outside of the
Speaker 1: one drive right before halftime, or at least with the
Speaker 1: midway through that second quarter. You really didn't have any
Speaker 1: rhythm offensively until the fourth quarter, and then Arizona shorthanded.
Speaker 1: They hadn't had any kind of rhythm without DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 1: on the field, and a guy like Antoine Wesley comes
Speaker 1: up and makes two touchdown grabs. You have Christian Kirk
Speaker 1: as the leading receiver. AJ Greene turns back the clock.
Speaker 1: Zach Ertz was pretty much a factor until the second half.
Speaker 1: But all of these guys stepped up and filled in
Speaker 1: roles that they hadn't been over the last three weeks.
Speaker 1: So why is it the Cowboys Isaiah as the team
Speaker 1: that had to be the one they had to figure
Speaker 1: it out against because there had to be something that
Speaker 1: they saw on film both sides of the football. We'll
Speaker 1: get into offensive defense specifically coming up in the next
Speaker 1: couple of segments, but there had to be something they
Speaker 1: saw that said we're gonna beat this team, because they
Speaker 1: came out with a boatload of confidence. Your professional athletes,
Speaker 1: you professional coaches, and you show up to a game
Speaker 1: and your competitors, you make a decision that you're gonna go,
Speaker 1: you know, a ball to the wall, and that's exactly
Speaker 1: what Arizona came in it did. They said, we're gonna
Speaker 1: throw everything at Dallas, and Dallas is gonna have to
Speaker 1: show us that they're capable of stopping it, and they weren't.
Speaker 1: When they came out and they lined up and they
Speaker 1: brought everybody at the line of scrimmage, Deck said, oh crap.
Speaker 1: The offensive line said, oh crap, there's only so many
Speaker 1: guys that you can block, and we're gonna get home.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to Deck. We're gonna disrupt Deck before
Speaker 1: he can get the ball off to these receivers. These
Speaker 1: receivers were not going to get off the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage and get these these you know, these short passing
Speaker 1: game options like Dak had been so great at earlier
Speaker 1: in the season. They totally disrupted that. So what started happening.
Speaker 1: Dak was coming up and he was having to totally
Speaker 1: redo all the protections, he was having to totally redo
Speaker 1: all the plays, and that cause hesitation. That did not
Speaker 1: enable them to go out there and play fast like
Speaker 1: they did last week. That was disruptive. And then offensively
Speaker 1: for Arizona, they just had Kyler Murray. Everybody's putting the
Speaker 1: finger at the defensive line saying, oh, where where was
Speaker 1: this that? You know? Heckman, you mentioned that, you know,
Speaker 1: you didn't see the dan Quinn type defense, and I
Speaker 1: kind of come back that because I feel as if
Speaker 1: they did a good job of getting back there. The
Speaker 1: only difference is you're not dealing with quarterbacks who have
Speaker 1: the inability to run the ball. This dude sees pressure.
Speaker 1: This dude sees defensive ends going up the field. He's coming,
Speaker 1: stepping in and out. We said it all week long.
Speaker 1: Pressure on the ends means nothing. If you don't have
Speaker 1: internal pressure against a running quarterback, it doesn't present a
Speaker 1: problem for him. And we did not have internal pressure
Speaker 1: this week, and that is why this game turned out
Speaker 1: the way that it was. They just wanted to win
Speaker 1: the game more in Dallas, unfortunately, this year has a
Speaker 1: record of that versus teams that are above five hundred
Speaker 1: in the win column. They were aiding one coming into
Speaker 1: the game versus the NFC. Okay, that's fine and Danny,
Speaker 1: but only one in one against the NFC. When it
Speaker 1: comes to games over five hundred, you know, the teams
Speaker 1: that have a winning percentage over five hundred. This was
Speaker 1: another one of those teams. So now you're eight and
Speaker 1: two against the NFC and you're one in two versus
Speaker 1: teams over five hundred. Rob totally agree. I mean we
Speaker 1: talked about it during the week or when I was
Speaker 1: on barely during the week last week, that this was
Speaker 1: a better test. I mean, they won four straight games,
Speaker 1: and give them credit, three of them more straight we're
Speaker 1: on the road, but that was a playoff team that
Speaker 1: they played yesterday and a playoff quarterback, and hey, a
Speaker 1: hell of a coaching job by Arizona in terms of
Speaker 1: the game plan that was executed better. I mean, they knew,
Speaker 1: as banged up as their defense was, they had to
Speaker 1: control the line of scrimmage, control time of possession, and
Speaker 1: keep Dak and the offense off the field and protect
Speaker 1: their defense. And they did that. They dominated time of possession,
Speaker 1: They kept the ball out of the Cowboys offenses hands,
Speaker 1: got them out of rhythm, like you said, with a
Speaker 1: lot of different pre snap looks, a lot of stuff,
Speaker 1: you know, not necessarily stuff Dak hasn't seen, but a
Speaker 1: lot of that after the snap, guys dropping back into coverage,
Speaker 1: flooding passing lanes. And they got the other thing too,
Speaker 1: is they completely shut down the run. That was a
Speaker 1: season low forty five rushing yards for the Cowboys. We've
Speaker 1: talked about it. They have been in a run offensively.
Speaker 1: We thought they got out of it against Washington, but
Speaker 1: they were not in this game, and they just didn't
Speaker 1: have enough cracks at it and weren't efficient enough when
Speaker 1: they had the football. Yeah, for me, Isaiah, it's really
Speaker 1: just you know, switching up the coverages. They stayed in
Speaker 1: the vanilla coverage the entire game. For me, I've seen
Speaker 1: them switch it up too many times and bringing pressure
Speaker 1: from different angles. But again I say this, man, Arizona
Speaker 1: did a good job of picking up the blissing. You're
Speaker 1: absolutely right that if it's any of the other quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the NFL, they have three four sacks yesterday because
Speaker 1: you know, look, Colin Murray was just able to get
Speaker 1: out of the pocket, outside of the pocket and just
Speaker 1: elude the defense. But it's you know, it's one of
Speaker 1: those things where when you look at this game in totality,
Speaker 1: the run game coming up missing is gonna be the
Speaker 1: story of this game. But also just the fact that
Speaker 1: we're not talking about the penalties. You know, this this
Speaker 1: team anytime they tried to steal any momentum. They shot
Speaker 1: themselves in the foot, and those third down penalties killed them,
Speaker 1: killed them. We talk about the running game and them
Speaker 1: only having forty fifty yards of rushing excuse me, forty
Speaker 1: five yards rushing, But you take some of those the
Speaker 1: big run from Ezekiel Elliott back, even a run from
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard that comes back as well on a penalty. Look,
Speaker 1: all of those things are relative. Again, if we had
Speaker 1: we had our opportunities. But all in all, this team
Speaker 1: just came out flatt and you can't do that. Um,
Speaker 1: you're right again, Isaiah with the you know, when you
Speaker 1: start facing those upper echelon teams and you want to
Speaker 1: if this is a measuring stick, in the words of
Speaker 1: Rick Flair, in order to be the best, you gotta
Speaker 1: beat the best, and we just didn't be. You know,
Speaker 1: we didn't measure up in this game, and a lot
Speaker 1: of it had to do with the way that we
Speaker 1: opened up the game. So heck, I'm gonna turn the
Speaker 1: first second I got I know, Rob, Rob, you really
Speaker 1: the only one that hasn't come up with one yet,
Speaker 1: So heck, I'm gonna I'm gonna put this right back
Speaker 1: on top of you. I'm gonna turn this right back
Speaker 1: around here for you just a second, because you talked
Speaker 1: about the preparedness, you talked about the play calling. You
Speaker 1: mentioned the fact that that there were multiple opportunities for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys to be in better positions, and the penalties
Speaker 1: as well. How severely out coached were the Cowboys on
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon. I mean, if Cliff Kingsbury and company, how
Speaker 1: much did they out coach Mike McCarthy and his staff? Look, man,
Speaker 1: you know, situational awareness is all coaching. And there was
Speaker 1: a situation where McCarthy got caught with his pants down,
Speaker 1: you know, and they called they called him, and that
Speaker 1: was all he could do was burn that time out,
Speaker 1: and so it came back to haunt them. And anytime
Speaker 1: you're in a close matchup and that's why timeouts in
Speaker 1: the second half are so pivotal. But that was one
Speaker 1: instance where look, that was just you know, that was
Speaker 1: a coaching and I'm sure he wishes that he had
Speaker 1: that that time out back because obviously that probably would
Speaker 1: have made the difference on that call that everybody wished
Speaker 1: that wasn't And where the hell is New York? You
Speaker 1: need him? I thought they called down and say, hey,
Speaker 1: that was actually a fun But why come we can't
Speaker 1: get in New York to place a call inside two minutes? Right?
Speaker 1: It was outside of two minutes? Stuff? Is it outside
Speaker 1: they the call? I mean, well, we look that we
Speaker 1: can't bear for that. That's enough. That's another But I'm
Speaker 1: just saying that's that's that's that's a cove, that's a
Speaker 1: caveat of the game. Had it been inside two minutes,
Speaker 1: they would have got that call. But it was outside
Speaker 1: of two minutes. And because you got quote unquote out
Speaker 1: coached during that early situation earlier in the game, that
Speaker 1: disabled you from being able to challenge it. Well, hen
Speaker 1: is bad this morning, Isaiah our ass right now, boy,
Speaker 1: that's tell you what this is why I had hesitation
Speaker 1: earlier in the week, right, And I know you guys
Speaker 1: looked at me sideways, and a lot of other people
Speaker 1: probably did as well when we started coming. When we
Speaker 1: came off the Washington game and we're right, you know,
Speaker 1: everybody was writing high, oh, Dallas is killing it, Dallas
Speaker 1: is They're unstoppable. And what was my response? I want
Speaker 1: to see it this week. That was my first thing
Speaker 1: I said, I I want to see it this week.
Speaker 1: The reason why is because you're supposed to beat up
Speaker 1: on those teams, right, And I said that you're supposed
Speaker 1: to beat up on those seats. That's a little brother.
Speaker 1: What did I what did I refer to last week?
Speaker 1: That was a rotary boys and girls club that you
Speaker 1: beat up on them? That was a rotary league. Right,
Speaker 1: you had to go play the select games now, and
Speaker 1: these are the select games. It doesn't matter what you
Speaker 1: do against against the casts that you play around, that
Speaker 1: run around and play the same four or five team,
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. Right at NFC East, it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: when you go out there and you play the other
Speaker 1: boys that have to have played nationally ranked guys all
Speaker 1: the time. This is what the Dallas Cowboys have shown
Speaker 1: and they have to show different going into the playoffs. Slow,
Speaker 1: slowdown gym shoes. This is this is This is a
Speaker 1: C saw league. The NFL is a C saw league.
Speaker 1: And if you looked at the year that that has been, Oh,
Speaker 1: just look at the AFC, right, they are the best.
Speaker 1: The best record in the AFC is eleven and five.
Speaker 1: That's the that's the a FC. There. You come to
Speaker 1: the NFC. Obviously, the green Bay has the best record.
Speaker 1: So what I'm saying is it's been a good year
Speaker 1: of football. Anybody could beat anybody if you look at
Speaker 1: last year. Last night, oh yesterday, the Jets were supposed
Speaker 1: to beat the Bucks in New York. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: there's been strange things that have happened to all year.
Speaker 1: And all I'm saying is, look, we played flat. We'll
Speaker 1: see him again or whoever see. We just got to
Speaker 1: play better. It's not as though Arizona came in here
Speaker 1: and completely wiped the floor with us. It was self inflicted.
Speaker 1: Before this week, you were you know, hey, it was
Speaker 1: when a team gets back Montan sweating, and you know,
Speaker 1: when teams get these people back, or you know, Dak
Speaker 1: is not looking like himself anymore, and all of those things.
Speaker 1: But look, man, if Kelly Moore comes out and he
Speaker 1: scripts the first fifteen plays the way that he did
Speaker 1: against this team against Arizona, man throw those first fifteam
Speaker 1: plays away. You have to start all over with this thing,
Speaker 1: because look, that just didn't work for us. Man. And
Speaker 1: I mean, look, Isaiah, I rely on you heavily for
Speaker 1: a lot of this because I feel as though you're
Speaker 1: gonna tell it like it is, and I feel like
Speaker 1: that's we appreciate that part of it. But if you're
Speaker 1: looking around the rest of the league, man, you're seeing
Speaker 1: that that's a whole lot of parody. Bro anybody that
Speaker 1: could beat anybody, And that's absolutely correct. I don't, but
Speaker 1: I don't look around for everybody else, right, I'm looking
Speaker 1: at these and all the talk that I have that
Speaker 1: all my opinions come from that standpoint of where the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys are trying to go. And when you start
Speaker 1: talking about where they're trying to go and not who
Speaker 1: they had on their eleven and five schedule was based upon,
Speaker 1: It's all about what level of ball do you have
Speaker 1: to play in order to win those type of games?
Speaker 1: That's all That's where all my opinions always come from.
Speaker 1: And this has always been a question mark that subsitted
Speaker 1: over my head and over the Dallas Cowboys head. Can
Speaker 1: they deliver when you face these teams that are like,
Speaker 1: I don't give a dog on that we have a
Speaker 1: lot of injuries. I don't give a dog on that
Speaker 1: we don't have our full squad. This is what the
Speaker 1: type of ball that we're gonna play. Can you stop it?
Speaker 1: We're gonna give it everything that we have, and this
Speaker 1: is our approach. We're gonna blitch you seventy five percent
Speaker 1: of the game. That's what we're doing. What are you
Speaker 1: gonna do? Are you gonna run the ball because you
Speaker 1: because you're the Dallas Cowboys and you have all your
Speaker 1: office alignment back, or are you gonna say, now, we
Speaker 1: can't run the ball and bust through this first line
Speaker 1: of defense and get to the big plays because there's
Speaker 1: no second level of defenders. That was the approach that
Speaker 1: Keller Moore and the Dallas Cowboys took yesterday when they
Speaker 1: should have said, we got Tyrn Smith, we got Collins,
Speaker 1: we got Martin, We're coming at you. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: past this first layer. Yes, we're gonna hit our head
Speaker 1: on the wall a couple of times. But once we
Speaker 1: get through this first layer of defense, we're gonna be
Speaker 1: having nothing big big plays. And they didn't take that approach.
Speaker 1: They sat back on their heels and this was what
Speaker 1: they put on film, much like what they put on
Speaker 1: film when they played against Denver. So now other team, Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: all right, Philadelphia is now looking at that like, hmm,
Speaker 1: can we do the same thing? All right? We're not
Speaker 1: gonna take the same approach Arizona is gonna take. But
Speaker 1: there's two different examples, now, two examples of how Dallas
Speaker 1: has now left a window opened them for devot and
Speaker 1: you're right, heck, like there is parody in this conference.
Speaker 1: Like you watch those noon games and the Rams almost
Speaker 1: lose that game, and obviously the Bucks had everything that
Speaker 1: they had going on in that game. So yeah, but
Speaker 1: there's evidence going back to post By that offensively they
Speaker 1: are just not in a rhythm and Washington was maybe
Speaker 1: an operation. I don't know, like I had pause about
Speaker 1: this game too, but I picked the Cowboys based off
Speaker 1: the fact that they got back home the AT and
Speaker 1: T Stadium where they've averaged almost forty points a game,
Speaker 1: and you're thinking it's gonna be a track me, you know,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be a boat race. But that didn't happen.
Speaker 1: So the problem is going back to late October, there's
Speaker 1: just evidence that they are still not in a rhythm offensively.
Speaker 1: That is a concern going into the playoffs. And now
Speaker 1: they've got this situation where, Okay, are they the four seed,
Speaker 1: do they have a chance to move up? Do they
Speaker 1: play guys in week eighteen that's now on Saturday on
Speaker 1: a short week, or do they try to get ready
Speaker 1: for the playoffs, Like I'm not sure what Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: does right now, because I do think offensively they need
Speaker 1: to try to get some rhythm back going before the
Speaker 1: postseason starts instead of just sitting guys. It's it's an
Speaker 1: interesting position that they're in right now. Well, let's talk
Speaker 1: about that on the other side of the break, because
Speaker 1: I want to talk about one the Saturday's scenario in
Speaker 1: which is going to be placed this week, and then
Speaker 1: we'll talk about going into the playoffs there. But I
Speaker 1: also want to hear does it make you feel a
Speaker 1: little bit better the fact that they found a rhythm
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter, even though it was late in
Speaker 1: the game and they were trying to get back into it.
Speaker 1: Does it make you feel better moving into the final
Speaker 1: game of the regular season than, of course, into the
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Speaker 1: non victory Monday that we've had since right after Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: and so a little somber today, but we're gonna help
Speaker 1: get through it, and we're gonna talk about the Cowboys
Speaker 1: and what went right, what went wrong? And I want
Speaker 1: to start things off in this segment. I want to
Speaker 1: We will get to what I teased a little bit
Speaker 1: later in the next couple minutes or so, but I
Speaker 1: want to ask is who is the blame for the
Speaker 1: game yesterday? Because it could be a finger could be
Speaker 1: pointed a couple of different directions. I'll start with you,
Speaker 1: heck mu but offensive coordinator, quarterback, offensive line, running game.
Speaker 1: Which one do you start with here? Because I know
Speaker 1: a lot of people were going after Dak Prescott. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's necessarily all on his shoulders, but
Speaker 1: I want to hear it from you first. You know,
Speaker 1: I think you have to break this thing down in
Speaker 1: percentages as far as blame is concerned. I mean, the
Speaker 1: offensive line is definitely that they didn't play their best
Speaker 1: ball yesterday, and I'm sure they would agree. Dak didn't either.
Speaker 1: He had some throws that got away from him, He
Speaker 1: didn't read the defenses as well as he should have balls.
Speaker 1: He just looked off. I mean, the whole offense looked flat.
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore I talked about his play scripting from the
Speaker 1: beginning of the game, and it just man, the play
Speaker 1: calling was off. I mean a lot of the formations
Speaker 1: that he came out with, Budda Baker was reading them
Speaker 1: all right. Budda Baker was supposed to have three interceptions yesterday,
Speaker 1: they went through his hand. So this game was lopsided
Speaker 1: from the beginning, just from the from a scheme standpoint.
Speaker 1: But you know, there's a lot of blame to carry
Speaker 1: to get to pass out. But I think it starts
Speaker 1: with the offensive line. They didn't play well at all.
Speaker 1: And if you look at the way that we rushed yesterday,
Speaker 1: I mean forty five forty five rushing yards that ain't
Speaker 1: gonna get it. And you know, hey, Isaiah, hello, darkness,
Speaker 1: my old friend. We're back to that third down stat.
Speaker 1: We were three four eleven on third down, so you're
Speaker 1: not gonna win very much when the third down stat
Speaker 1: looks like that, Isaiah, I'm gonna put it on killing Moore.
Speaker 1: Killing Moore. I felt a fella he tucked his tail yesterday,
Speaker 1: and that's yeah, it's unfortunate, Yeah, because you expect, you
Speaker 1: expect office a coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys with all
Speaker 1: these weapons, to have a freaking Napoleon company. Hsould just
Speaker 1: walk out there just chess, just just swollen, right, just
Speaker 1: fresh off some you know, there's some some pushups, just
Speaker 1: fresh off pushups, fresh on pull ups, all that, just
Speaker 1: chest swollen up. And and he didn't do that, and
Speaker 1: Arizona came at him and attacked him like Mike Tyson
Speaker 1: used to come out in the in the first round
Speaker 1: and just just coming with just a barrage of punches
Speaker 1: and just just swinging and upper cuts and overhand rights
Speaker 1: and and dank Kellen Moore was just like, oh crap, right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stop running the ball. I'm gonna stop my
Speaker 1: quick passing game. I'm not gonna change anything that I
Speaker 1: that my first fifteen or whateverybody's referring to right now.
Speaker 1: His approach to this game was different than what his
Speaker 1: execution was. And yes, Dak Prescott gets to the blame. Yes,
Speaker 1: the running the officer and line gets the blank because
Speaker 1: those guys are underneath his umbrella. But he is a
Speaker 1: leader of this offense. Does not forget that Dak gets
Speaker 1: paid forty million dollars a year, But he's not the
Speaker 1: leader of this offense Kellen Morris and they're gonna follow
Speaker 1: it suit in terms of what he calls in the
Speaker 1: positions that he puts them in. And I don't believe
Speaker 1: that he was aggressive enough in his approach in the
Speaker 1: game to rebut whatever it is Arizona brought yesterday, and
Speaker 1: that was them saying, Hey, we're gonna blitch you to
Speaker 1: death because we know that you're gonna play on your heels.
Speaker 1: So you wanted Kellen to come out like the ultimate
Speaker 1: warrior and just like shake the ropes and do all
Speaker 1: that stuff. And yes, absolutely, and he didn't do that.
Speaker 1: I had to get the wrestling. I like it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think you have to give the edge
Speaker 1: and the game plan and the execution to Cliff Kingsbury
Speaker 1: in this game, you know, and not not just the
Speaker 1: time out or the time out that they forced them
Speaker 1: to get. The Heck reference that that turned out to
Speaker 1: be the difference in the game at the end. But again, yeah,
Speaker 1: they did a better job of controlling the pace of
Speaker 1: the game throughout on their offensive side of the ball.
Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I'm with Heck and Isaiah like I
Speaker 1: think it's all the way around. Offensively, they were, they
Speaker 1: were out of sync, um. But the penalties to me
Speaker 1: or what stood out the most in terms of I
Speaker 1: think they had six drives in the first two quarters
Speaker 1: in the first half, five of them they had at
Speaker 1: least one penalty that stalled drives, and they were two
Speaker 1: of six on third down and they never got anything going.
Speaker 1: And I know everybody wants to talk about the refs
Speaker 1: and the miscalls, but when you dig yourself a hole
Speaker 1: like that, you're asking for everything to go right late
Speaker 1: in the game. That the refs they're human, that they're
Speaker 1: not going to make a mistake and not gonna do
Speaker 1: something that's gonna screw it up. That's that's what happened.
Speaker 1: They put themselves in a position where too much had
Speaker 1: to go right for them late, and that's that's ultimately
Speaker 1: why they lost, even though yes it was a miscall Lake, Yeah,
Speaker 1: go ahead, go ahead, and whatever whatever scheme that has
Speaker 1: Schultz blocking Chandler Jones, if we see this team again,
Speaker 1: let's just throw that way away and heck and that
Speaker 1: that's an example of that is a penalty like the
Speaker 1: holding that he had, Like, that's not and I know,
Speaker 1: look ten penalties, and I know that the guys are frustrated,
Speaker 1: but like, there are clear penalties out there, and they've
Speaker 1: been one of the most penalized teams in the league
Speaker 1: this year. This has been a problem, not just oh,
Speaker 1: it's the rest fault every time. Yeah, thank you very
Speaker 1: much for acknowledging that. But let me address this. The
Speaker 1: reason why I point the finger at Kellen Moore is
Speaker 1: because if you come out and you're playing against we
Speaker 1: talked about it, right, We talked about how aggressive Arizonia
Speaker 1: is on defense, how they have an all Pro guy
Speaker 1: at every level, and it reminded me of the Los
Speaker 1: Angeles Chargers and how aggressive these guys are at every level.
Speaker 1: Chandler Jones, Right, you guys, Zaiah Simmons, you got Buda Baker,
Speaker 1: all these boys we said, they play off a momentum, right,
Speaker 1: We said, all these things leading up the entire week,
Speaker 1: and you have to slow these guys down. So when
Speaker 1: they come up to the line of scrimmage and they said,
Speaker 1: we're blitzing all eight guys, what is your approach? Is
Speaker 1: your approach to say, Okay, we're gonna just drop back
Speaker 1: and we're gonna now just try to catch and hold
Speaker 1: as many guys as we can and hope that you
Speaker 1: guys don't get dat or are you gonna reverse the
Speaker 1: reverse course and say we're gonna come at you. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna bush you in your mouth, I'm gonna meet you
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage. I'm gonna drive you back
Speaker 1: because we're better than you upfront. That's when I talk
Speaker 1: about when I'm talking about the mentality of Kellen Moore.
Speaker 1: He dropped back and said, I'm gonna try to hold
Speaker 1: off as long as I can to try to get
Speaker 1: deck as much time as possible. And when you do
Speaker 1: that and you don't have enough blockers to block their
Speaker 1: guys that they're bringing, you are now in a catching position.
Speaker 1: And if you're in a catching position, guess what you're
Speaker 1: gonna catch? You're gonna catch some of them flags because
Speaker 1: you're now holding off for dear life instead of attacking.
Speaker 1: Now you think that's Do you think that is the
Speaker 1: thing that is bugging Dak the most, the way that
Speaker 1: teams are crowding the line of scrimage because you're no.
Speaker 1: You saw New Orleans do the same thing. We've seen
Speaker 1: a lot of teams do that show coverage one way
Speaker 1: to press the line of scrimmage and then bail at
Speaker 1: the last minute. I personally, that's just one of the things,
Speaker 1: Like I'm out there watching that. But Isaiah, I guess
Speaker 1: I'm asking you that question. Do you think that's making
Speaker 1: the biggest difference and how Dak is reading defenses? It
Speaker 1: should piss them off. And you hear that in this
Speaker 1: postgame interview where he's like, you know, for whatever reason, teams,
Speaker 1: you know, they come at me more than they come
Speaker 1: at to other teams. That's a freaking problem that and
Speaker 1: that's not just your problem. That's killing Moore. That teams
Speaker 1: are bullying killing Moore. They're not bullying you and your
Speaker 1: inability to be able to handle the blitz. They're saying,
Speaker 1: scheme wise, we can get to you and disrupt what
Speaker 1: you guys are doing more so when we blitch you.
Speaker 1: So guess when we played the Dallas Cowboys absolute frequent lutely,
Speaker 1: we're sitting in the whole house because guess what their
Speaker 1: officer coordinator has improven that they're gonna make anybody pay
Speaker 1: well and earlier. You're ignoring the stat that that Dak
Speaker 1: is number one when facing the blizz Exactly, he's he
Speaker 1: has the best, keep the best, keep qbr and less lately,
Speaker 1: I feel like last month or so, but not in
Speaker 1: this game. Not in this game. Yeah, and you to
Speaker 1: your point, he is the best when he comes to
Speaker 1: the short passing game. Right when it comes to a
Speaker 1: short passing game, he was. He's at the top of
Speaker 1: the league. Absolutely heckling. But guess what, something's changed, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, now we don't have Michael Gallop
Speaker 1: and teams start building their confidence. When you have your
Speaker 1: twenty million dollar man out there at the receiver position
Speaker 1: and you're not getting him the ball, Guess well, we're
Speaker 1: no longer threatened by you. We're not threatened by you.
Speaker 1: If you're not gonna get a Mary Cooper the ball
Speaker 1: more than three or four times a game, I can
Speaker 1: blitch you thirty times a game. You know why, because
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get the ball in his hands right now,
Speaker 1: as teams go forward, they don't have a Michael Gallop
Speaker 1: on the other side. Oh guess what. Oh even more so,
Speaker 1: we're gonna bring these dogs, and even more so, we're
Speaker 1: gonna put hands on you. The line of scrimmage CD
Speaker 1: has now become the name receiver for these guys, and
Speaker 1: that is a problem when defensive start approaching us. How
Speaker 1: much of an effect does that have on the run
Speaker 1: game as well? Because we can't go away from this
Speaker 1: game and say forty five yards is gonna get it done?
Speaker 1: Nine carries for sixteen yards and along of six for
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott's second worst game of his career. That's not
Speaker 1: gonna get it done. So, Isaiah, how much does the
Speaker 1: blitzing packages have to do with the fact that the
Speaker 1: run game has been bad too? Is huge? And I again,
Speaker 1: I say it all the time. Dak is not built
Speaker 1: to drop back and throw the ball forty plus times
Speaker 1: a game. He's not built that way. He's not built.
Speaker 1: This offense isn't built that way. Can he do it? Yes?
Speaker 1: Are they going to be successful? Majority of the time. No,
Speaker 1: that's now. This team is still revolved around the running game.
Speaker 1: That is the identity of his team. I don't care
Speaker 1: how beat up the running game is. I don't care
Speaker 1: how how much Dak can throw the ball down the field.
Speaker 1: This team needs to run the ball. And when you
Speaker 1: blitz against the Dallas Cowboys, what is it known that
Speaker 1: they do they abandon the run? They abandon the run.
Speaker 1: Do they have the personnel up front to batter you
Speaker 1: and get through that first line? They're moving two three
Speaker 1: layers of defenders down to one. You're saying that you
Speaker 1: can't find a scene. You can't find one scene to
Speaker 1: break through that and make them pay. That's what you
Speaker 1: do with a teams that blitch. You walk all those
Speaker 1: guys up to the line of scrimmage if you want to.
Speaker 1: And yes, you're gonna get us a couple of times.
Speaker 1: You don't get us one, two, three times. But guess
Speaker 1: what in that second half, when you're dog tired and
Speaker 1: I still got Tyran Smith, and I still got a
Speaker 1: lay On Collins, and I still got Zack Martin over there,
Speaker 1: We're gonna get through this first layer. And guess what
Speaker 1: tp Zeke and Zeke was running hard. That's the healthies
Speaker 1: we've seen. Zeke, He's gonna bust out for twenty thirty
Speaker 1: forty plus yards and I bet you won't bring that
Speaker 1: blitz again. That's the mentality you have to have. But
Speaker 1: that's not the response that teams are getting when they
Speaker 1: face the Dallas Cowboys. Keller Moore is saying, Oh, let's
Speaker 1: just hard to hold him up, and I hope that
Speaker 1: my officive line doesn't get a holding penalty. That's b
Speaker 1: s attack them. Heck, well, I mean I say it's
Speaker 1: on fire right now. Man, let's go. We just go
Speaker 1: let him, let him simmer over there, because they you're right, man,
Speaker 1: for real, Like, they didn't get to the second level
Speaker 1: at all. And when they were pressing at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, whether they bailed or stayed blessing, our offensive
Speaker 1: line didn't do a good job. And when they did,
Speaker 1: when we finally did get a break, guess what, there
Speaker 1: was a penalty that went with that. So um, you
Speaker 1: know there was Jeff's never any way to capture any momentum. Man,
Speaker 1: this is an ugly game, man, and they really can't
Speaker 1: make any excuses for it. But at the same time, man,
Speaker 1: the penalties really stopped a lot of the momentum offensively,
Speaker 1: Uh that we had. Dak has to do a better job.
Speaker 1: Everybody has to be better. Uh the next time that
Speaker 1: we face a team like this, if this is going
Speaker 1: to be the measuring stick game that we need, uh,
Speaker 1: now it's gonna come down to you know, a winner
Speaker 1: takes all approach for the playoffs, and so we have
Speaker 1: to be better no matter what. Rob Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: The other thing too offensively is they didn't we heard
Speaker 1: about the fastball offense for a week straight and they
Speaker 1: that tempo wasn't that tempo wasn't there. I mean, they
Speaker 1: got on the ball quick in the first drive, but
Speaker 1: after that, I didn't really see it. And I think
Speaker 1: part of it was they just they stalled out for
Speaker 1: the reasons you guys mentioned, And you know, the defense
Speaker 1: is on the field a ton and maybe you don't
Speaker 1: want to, you know, hanger defense out to dry as
Speaker 1: much because you know, if if you don't convert those drives,
Speaker 1: then you're hurrying up for what you know. So I
Speaker 1: think that was something they got into against Washington that
Speaker 1: was very helpful for them that they weren't able to
Speaker 1: establish in this last game. But you're right. Heck like,
Speaker 1: they're looking at a situation now if you're looking big
Speaker 1: picture where you had the two seed. Now it's the
Speaker 1: situation where you very well, you have to win two
Speaker 1: road games to get to the super Bowl. And you
Speaker 1: know the way they played yesterday, that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: tough that's a that's a tough task. They got to
Speaker 1: be more efficient. So we're five. Were five and three
Speaker 1: at home, now at six and two on the road. Hey,
Speaker 1: maybe it works out that way. Maybe that's what we
Speaker 1: should be doing. They've won three straight on the road, right,
Speaker 1: they're gonna play on the road this week. Let's see
Speaker 1: if they could get four straight on the road. So
Speaker 1: all of that in tougue in cheek, of course. But
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Speaker 1: and what's on the docket for the Cowboys moving into
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Speaker 1: Heck My Harrison, Isaiah stand back, Rob Phillips, Chris Beam,
Speaker 1: I'm Kyle Yeoman's Green Bay with their win last night
Speaker 1: over the Minnesota Vikings locking up the one seed in
Speaker 1: the NFC. So the one seed, the bye. It is
Speaker 1: gone for everyone, including the Dallas Cowboy. Green Bay locked
Speaker 1: it up with their win dominant fashion thirty seven to
Speaker 1: ten over the Vikings on Sunday Night Football. So where
Speaker 1: does it line up for the Cowboys? Now? How can
Speaker 1: they get out of the four seed? Because right now,
Speaker 1: almost every scenario except for two, has them as the
Speaker 1: four seed. Here's the two scenarios. If they want to
Speaker 1: be the two seed, Let's say they want to get
Speaker 1: up and have that chance at a second home game,
Speaker 1: and then also maybe play a team like Philadelphia, maybe
Speaker 1: a San Francisco, the seventh seed in the NFC in
Speaker 1: the first round. They would need the Panthers to beat
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers, the Seahawks to beat the Arizona Cardinals, and
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers to beat the Los Angeles Rams.
Speaker 1: So every team that you were in the conversation with
Speaker 1: that's right around that twelve and four, eleven and five
Speaker 1: realm with you, you would need all three of those
Speaker 1: teams to lose, and of course the Cowboys to win
Speaker 1: their game on Sunday against the Eagles. You would need
Speaker 1: that to happen in order for the Cowboys to beat
Speaker 1: the two. So likelihood of that happening pretty slim, and
Speaker 1: we would need a lot to happen there. But you're
Speaker 1: saying there's a che there is a chance, and they
Speaker 1: could also be the three seed if they wanted to,
Speaker 1: which would most likely pit them up against maybe a
Speaker 1: San Francisco or I don't even know who else could
Speaker 1: be the sixth seed, But they would need the Seahawks
Speaker 1: to still beat the Cardinals, the forty Niners to still
Speaker 1: beat the Rams, So basically, you need the NFC West
Speaker 1: to lose, and then if the Buccaneers beat the Panthers,
Speaker 1: you would still be the three seed if that's the case.
Speaker 1: Of course, if you take advantage of the Eagles on Sundays,
Speaker 1: So there's a chance still for the Cowboys to be
Speaker 1: the two seed and to be the three seed, But
Speaker 1: there's only two scenarios where that works out, because any
Speaker 1: other win from the Rams or the Cardinals or the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers kind of throws that all out of whack. Rob
Speaker 1: Am I missing anything in terms of the playoffs scenarios?
Speaker 1: There No. What you're saying is they missed a huge
Speaker 1: opportunity yesterday, a huge opportunity. Um, but yeah, a lot
Speaker 1: has to go right, and I guess that I brought
Speaker 1: it up earlier. Like what do you guys do in
Speaker 1: this situation? Do you just play everybody and try to
Speaker 1: go win the game and hope for help and try
Speaker 1: to stay sharp, or do you say, hey, Zeke, you've
Speaker 1: been playing up on a bang knee for since week three,
Speaker 1: why don't you take a rest for this game? Like?
Speaker 1: What how do you how do you approach it? If
Speaker 1: you're Mike McCarthy, Isaiah, everybody got to play. Everybody's playing
Speaker 1: because the last thing you want to do is going
Speaker 1: to the playoffs with this as your last memory? What's
Speaker 1: this as your as your mojo? Should we say yeah baby, okay,
Speaker 1: we need we need some of that yeah baby to
Speaker 1: get on the field because the last this last game
Speaker 1: was not it, Washington, you're riding high. You were. We
Speaker 1: would have hoped that would have been your last game
Speaker 1: going into the playoffs, so that you can have the confidence.
Speaker 1: But you have to play everybody now, and that's a
Speaker 1: situation that you've put yourself in. Seatings matter, freaking a
Speaker 1: seatings matter. That first round buy is absolutely everything, and
Speaker 1: that's that's gone now. So now you want to set
Speaker 1: yourself up to have the easiest road for a three
Speaker 1: game Winnie Street. What is or at least all you
Speaker 1: can control is the first game. But who can you
Speaker 1: Who do you want to face that first week? It
Speaker 1: matters And a lot of people are gonna say, oh,
Speaker 1: you know, everybody's kind of equally yoked bs, They're not.
Speaker 1: You much rather play a San fran or much rather
Speaker 1: play a Philly than you ever want to play a
Speaker 1: freaking Tampa or La or any of those guys. So
Speaker 1: it matters. So you have to do what you can
Speaker 1: to control what you can because you have put yourself
Speaker 1: where you're at. Back they have to they have to
Speaker 1: get you know, look that we talk about being a scene,
Speaker 1: we talk about the offense and where they are right now,
Speaker 1: no matter what they have to get some type of
Speaker 1: you know, continuity going again it fits against the Philadelphia Eagles,
Speaker 1: then fine, let's get it. We have to get it.
Speaker 1: You can't feel good about the way that the offense played.
Speaker 1: But then also Mike McCarthy his finger on the post
Speaker 1: of this team. And if this is a situation where
Speaker 1: and look, you're going into the Philadelphia game with some
Speaker 1: with some injuries in places, and you may be able
Speaker 1: to wrest some guys, maybe this is the time to
Speaker 1: do it because you're already where you are. If it
Speaker 1: can't get any better than three or four, you're gonna
Speaker 1: be You're gonna play one of the teams that Isaiah
Speaker 1: just mentioned. So no matter what it's, you know, it's playoffs,
Speaker 1: and it's it's winner take all, you know, when to
Speaker 1: go home. And that's that's the way that this team
Speaker 1: has to approach it. I'm looking at it as look, man,
Speaker 1: we gotta get our defense back on track. Um, we
Speaker 1: gotta get our defense back you know, sacking, getting getting turnovers.
Speaker 1: We were not able to do any of that. Well,
Speaker 1: we got one tack yesterday, but we were not able
Speaker 1: to create those turnovers. You know. Well, Jern curtse had
Speaker 1: won on his finger taps. But there are several situations
Speaker 1: like that where you want to see this defense play
Speaker 1: a lot better. And like I opened up the show
Speaker 1: just basically saying, like, I don't believe in conspiracy theories.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, I didn't see the same
Speaker 1: defense out there, Isaiah, I didn't. I didn't see Dan
Speaker 1: Quinn attacking it the same way. But I did see
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia excuse me, the Cardinals picking up Blitzer is
Speaker 1: they did some great things also, So look it went
Speaker 1: both ways. But this defense, this offense, these guys have
Speaker 1: got to get back and sing. Cast you a question. Hey,
Speaker 1: go ahead, If the Dallas Cowboys don't have a turnover,
Speaker 1: don't don't you know what I'm saying, don't force a turnover.
Speaker 1: Do you feel good about this team's ability to win games?
Speaker 1: I do? I do. And on the reason I feel
Speaker 1: like feel good about this because I think they do
Speaker 1: so many other things. You can still get sacks, you know, pressures,
Speaker 1: they could they stop the run, and if they could
Speaker 1: clearly do that the last time that we saw the
Speaker 1: last time we saw Arizona Cardinals, man, they ran for
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty five yards. You know, again, they
Speaker 1: still had. Well they have one D one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty seven yards. So those are the things that I'm
Speaker 1: saying that you gotta get fixes on. You gotta fix that,
Speaker 1: And that's what going into that playoff game that I
Speaker 1: want to see them fix. And hey, man, you're not
Speaker 1: guaranteed to get a turnover every game, you know, it's
Speaker 1: just when you get your opportunity used to get them
Speaker 1: New York call, don't do that. I think it does
Speaker 1: illustrate how complimentary this team has gotten, where the offense
Speaker 1: has been somewhat reliant on. Hey, these extra possessions, it's happened.
Speaker 1: To answer your question, it's happened four times this season. Ye,
Speaker 1: no takeaways yesterday, Vegas on Thanksgiving loss, Denver loss, Minnesota,
Speaker 1: the Cooper Rush Show came down to the very end.
Speaker 1: So uh, that's been a huge part of them. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: one and three, Yeah, one and three. So Rob, what
Speaker 1: would you do in that regard in terms of playing everybody,
Speaker 1: trying to get everybody back on track both sides of
Speaker 1: the football, defense, offense doesn't matter. Would you play these
Speaker 1: guys and try and go for that second seed, third seed,
Speaker 1: or do you try and set yourself up for success
Speaker 1: and potentially most likely going to play in Arizona coming
Speaker 1: around on the wild card round. It's tough. I mean
Speaker 1: I I leaned towards Heck and Isaiah that I would
Speaker 1: play guys and try to stay sharp or get sharp
Speaker 1: going in, because I think rust in the playoffs is
Speaker 1: a real thing. I've seen it with the Cowboys in
Speaker 1: the past, even when they have been really sharp going
Speaker 1: in and had the top seed. So I think that
Speaker 1: it's a long time off when you're talking about sitting
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys. However, the thing that gives me
Speaker 1: pause beyond guys. You know, I mentioned Zeke Tyrant's been
Speaker 1: banged up. Now all of a sudden, it's a short week,
Speaker 1: So how do you treat that. You turn it around
Speaker 1: and now you're traveling on Friday to go play this game.
Speaker 1: So I don't know that's what makes it a little
Speaker 1: different wrench in it for me. But but I do
Speaker 1: think there's value in getting out there and competing, and
Speaker 1: maybe it's not so much about the seeding but just
Speaker 1: trying to get back to playing your best football going
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. And Isaiah, what did you say last
Speaker 1: week whenever one of the biggest factors in Super Bowl runs.
Speaker 1: It's not necessarily the best team, but what kind of
Speaker 1: team makes the Super Bowl runs? The team that's playing
Speaker 1: best at day and when the playoffs hit, the hottest
Speaker 1: team that was not it yesterday, not it yesterday. But
Speaker 1: if you get a win against Philadelphia, you turn around,
Speaker 1: you win this week, and then you go into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: You've still won five of your last six games going
Speaker 1: into the postseason, so you can still categorize that as Hey,
Speaker 1: maybe the Arizona game was the exception as opposed to
Speaker 1: the reality, and hopefully that's the case. I think the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: I'm on your side. I would play everybody. Let's get
Speaker 1: a win, go six and o in the division, build
Speaker 1: some confidence, and then get going and for the playoffs,
Speaker 1: try and jump start this thing, because right now you
Speaker 1: might have that dead battery if you if you try
Speaker 1: and rely on that Arizona game a little bit too much.
Speaker 1: You need to get that jump start going, get those
Speaker 1: cables out, and that Philadelphia game is the way to
Speaker 1: get it done. But that's gonna do it for us
Speaker 1: here on talking Cowboys. Be sure to tune in tomorrow.
Speaker 1: We're gonna take your questions either over the phone or
Speaker 1: on Twitter on Talking Tuesday, So we will answer your
Speaker 1: questions from Cowboys Nation what went wrong yesterday, and then
Speaker 1: we'll of course start looking ahead to the Philadelphia game
Speaker 1: here in Week eighteen of the NFL season for Chris
Speaker 1: Beam running this one for HECKM. Harrison, Isaiah Stanback, Rob
Speaker 1: Phillips and Kyle Yeoman's We'll see you tomorrow. Thanks for
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