WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Blame Game 0:00:03.400 --> 0:00:05.880 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:15.520 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:19.360 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:19.440 --> 0:00:28.280 Star in Frisco. Elliot flowing to the Scott and now 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:34.960 your hosts, Isaiah stand Back, Patrick Walker and Kyle Yeoman's. 0:00:37.880 --> 0:00:41.760 In a week that included the largest comeback in NFL history, 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:45.800 a lateral attempt returned for a walk off touchdown, and 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:48.879 the worst team in the league pushing an odds on 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:54.080 Super Bowl favorite into overtime. Somehow, the most significant loss 0:00:54.120 --> 0:00:57.880 of the weekend belonged to the Dallas Cowboys forty to 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:01.920 thirty four in overtime against the Jacksonville Jaguars. And we 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:04.760 are here to break it down on Talking Cowboys, presented 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:08.160 by Black Rifle Coffee Company from the SWBC studios at 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:13.119 the Star in Frisco. Cowboys Nation not very happy with 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:16.720 what happened on Sunday afternoon in Florida, but we are 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:18.760 here to talk it through with you here over the 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:23.240 next forty five minutes. Patrick Nose Walker, Isaiah Standback, Kyle Yeoman's. 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.759 Glad you're with us, gentlemen. How are we doing. We're doing. 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:30.360 We're doing right. We're doing keep Monday. It is keeping 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:33.160 real Monday Monday. It's easier to do that whenever you 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:38.440 have a game like this, leading by seventeen points, three scores, 0:01:39.720 --> 0:01:43.080 and you lose to a lesser team, or at least 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:46.520 a team that on paper is lesser because yesterday they weren't. Okay, 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:49.840 they were on top, he said all week. Yeah, a 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:52.400 whole week, it's gonna be. This Jaguoys team was not 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.640 one to fool the round. We said that, Yes, the Cowboys. 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:57.720 As we sit here and have this conversation, the Cowboys 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:00.440 are still the better team. But we said, yeah, wars, 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.680 not the Texans. They're not the Coats. They have horses 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:07.280 on offense. They can put up points. You make the 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:10.120 mistakes and give them out of possessions, they will take 0:02:10.160 --> 0:02:12.320 advantage of it. So forth and so on. As now 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:14.480 as we sit here, we're talking about the defense in 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:17.000 the Cowboys that just allowed over five hundred yards of 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:20.359 offense thirty four points. I mean they had forty, but 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.160 you know that was the walk off pick six, So 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:24.880 that was a defensive touchdown that got them to the 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:28.360 forty burger. But thirty four points allowed by this Cowboys 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:32.160 off defense. Again, Trevor Lawrence, what we talk about, Isaiah 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:34.480 cow once you get home, because you will get home 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.359 once you get home. Bring him down, finish him. I 0:02:37.440 --> 0:02:40.440 said that he would escape a few. He'd escaped a few. 0:02:40.480 --> 0:02:42.440 To my counter, it was three sacks that he escaped. 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.440 There you go. The Cowboys could have had more than 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:48.120 one sack. They did get me my fumble when I 0:02:48.160 --> 0:02:50.200 said it with my chests. They got me my interception 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:52.160 when I said it with my chest. But they lost 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:56.480 the turnover margin and they should not have. Dak Prescott 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.480 throws that interception. Hit the first one can't happen. He 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:02.560 knows it. It can't happen. Take the sack, go down whatever, 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:05.200 Live to fight another day. But lobbing that, I mean 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:07.080 the target with Sholton, he just flew right over his 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:11.079 head into the defensive backs hands. Mistakes like that, self inflicted, 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:18.760 self inflicted? Self inflicted isam listen man. Again. The game 0:03:18.800 --> 0:03:25.880 plan was executed. The Dallas Cowboys game plan offensively was executed. 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.680 The thirty four we talked about Sydy scored thirty four. 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.600 They did it. We talked about Dallas cheap in Dak 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:35.760 Prescott to thirty or under throws. He had thirty throws 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.400 when he has seventy in completions. The bad part is 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:44.680 two of those seven incompletions actually were completions to the 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:49.240 other team. That's what hurts you defensively. We talked about 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:51.640 the absence of Jonathan Hankins and who can do what 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:56.160 he does. Nobody does what he does almost another two 0:03:56.200 --> 0:04:00.280 hundred yards on the ground for our team. You also lost. 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:03.840 You lost l that. We're wondering what the value was. Yeah, 0:04:03.960 --> 0:04:06.240 you saw it. So we talked about that and the 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.720 potential of that compromising you. We also talked about the 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:13.400 absence now of a Jordan Lewis and Anthony Brown and 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:17.880 what does that present. Now you're forcing young players into 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.440 positions and roles that they haven't been in, and we 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:22.719 also said, hey, this might be a great time to 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:26.120 do it. However, this team has more personnel and they're better. 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.080 We said this earlier in the week. They're better at 0:04:28.160 --> 0:04:31.640 receiver than we are at dB right now, and you 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.960 saw that on display. So if you guys haven't been 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:37.240 listening to Talking Cowboys, y'all probably should you too ahead 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.120 and put that as a reminder. Yeah, go ahead and 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:40.840 put it as a little ring the bell, Ring the 0:04:40.920 --> 0:04:43.200 bell on YouTube and make sure that you guys get it, 0:04:43.240 --> 0:04:46.200 put it on Twitter, because we previewed this now. We 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.720 all chose Dallas because we feel like Dallas should have 0:04:48.720 --> 0:04:51.440 won this game. But we also told you that they 0:04:51.640 --> 0:04:53.680 were not in a position to turn the ball over 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:56.640 like they did before. And unfortunately, back to back weeks 0:04:56.640 --> 0:05:01.880 now against these AFC South teams DAK, the Dallas Cowboys 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.600 have turned the ball over on their side of the ball, 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.360 on our side of the field in a very very 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:11.760 important portion of the game. Unlike the Texans they were 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:15.080 they capitalize on it. Versus Texans went the wrong direction 0:05:15.120 --> 0:05:17.760 on the handoff, the dog on Jaguars came back and 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.479 scored a touchdown. Yeah, I can't afford to do it. 0:05:20.560 --> 0:05:23.920 We said it, it happened, less and learn you're still 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.840 in the playoffs. Yeah, yeah, Cowboys do make the playoffs. 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:29.280 I don't think anybody really wants to talk about that 0:05:29.320 --> 0:05:31.880 one at all. What was that we got to though? 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:33.599 I mean you got to talk about both sides of 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:36.880 the coin because as yea and a week like this, Yeah, 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:40.440 because because again, even if you would feeling get the 0:05:40.440 --> 0:05:43.400 same spot. I get the feelings of it. But yeah, 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:45.400 but you you you were trying to make the playoffs 0:05:45.400 --> 0:05:48.000 regardless with ten wins, and you were already on your way. 0:05:48.040 --> 0:05:52.679 I hear you, but I still you accomplished the feet 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.400 of getting in to the second season, which is, you 0:05:55.400 --> 0:05:57.440 know what, everybody, you're in the tournament. You're in the tournament. 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.240 Make it happen. You I'm not I'm not excited about 0:06:00.279 --> 0:06:03.200 what's coming in the tournament. You know, last night, that's 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:06.839 a different conversation. Now last night I said different. Ready, 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.400 they're not ready. But guess what these are hard lessons. 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:12.120 These are hard lessons, and what you're finding out about 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.320 your team is that you're inconsistent. So now as coach McCarthy, 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:17.640 as a resident coach coaching staff, you have to figure out, 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.360 how can I make this team consistent. Whether it's whether 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:24.839 it's overconfidence, whether it's it's reading the dog on cliff notes, 0:06:25.240 --> 0:06:27.400 whether it's you're feeling yourself a little bit too much. 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:29.960 Maybe you're not watching enough film, Maybe you're not thinking 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:32.559 about your assignment enough right and playing your position instead 0:06:32.600 --> 0:06:35.120 of trying to do too much. Maybe I don't know. 0:06:35.200 --> 0:06:36.760 Whatever it is, you have to put your finger on 0:06:36.800 --> 0:06:39.040 it and figure it out, because it doesn't get easier. 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:42.359 You're about to face another freaking, ridiculously tough team in 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.880 the Philadelphia Eagles. We know what that's about. Okay, all right, 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:46.719 biggest game of the year to date. And then you 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:48.839 gotta go out there and face at Tennessee Titans, which 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.120 we know they boys are bloody your nose. Okay, you're 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.800 gonna get beat up and they've been beat up later. Yeah, yeah, 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.440 you're desperate, you're gonna be Yeah, they have to win, 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:58.400 so you're gonna you're gonna get everything that they have. 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:00.479 And then you're gonna play a play against washing the 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:04.640 Commanders that will have a Chase Young. So get your 0:07:04.640 --> 0:07:07.800 mind right going into the playoffs because you're gonna get 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:09.840 punched into the dog our mouth over these next three weeks. 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:14.160 Bottom line is two things are true. One, congratulations to 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.920 the Cowboys for making the playoffs for a second consecutive year. 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:20.600 Those ten wins matter, They matter, they matter, they matter, 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.360 especially being that four of them occurred with the backup quarterback. 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.320 This is a team that should have this season could 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:30.200 have been over effective, you know, early October. Okay, so 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:34.560 that's why I'm saying, clinching yesterday, regardless of how it happened, 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:38.040 it matters. Yeah, But what also matters and is also true, 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.720 is that the matter in which they clinched is not 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:44.280 how it should have happened. If you're concerned about this 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:47.280 particular team you saw yesterday going into the playoffs, you're 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:50.840 rightful in doing so, and that warrants a discussion that 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:52.640 should be had. So all of that is true, is 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.200 what I'm saying. I'm sure. Yeah, it's not a situation 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:59.360 where okay, well yesterday sucked and yesterday did suck. Listen 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:02.720 fellas true story. This morning, as I'm getting dressed, getting 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.840 ready to head out the door, I stepped on a nail. Barefoot. 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.679 Oh no, home alone, Yes, barefoot. It took twenty minutes 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:11.280 for me to stop the bleeding, only for me to 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:12.960 then see that there was blood on my carpet, on 0:08:13.000 --> 0:08:16.360 my bathroom floor, white dress shirts that were sitting over there, 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:19.880 et cetera, et cetera, and that made me less angry 0:08:20.200 --> 0:08:24.720 then watching the Cowboys losing seventeen point lead in Jacksonville. Yar. 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:28.240 So yeah, So I say that to say I get it. 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.800 Ladies in general, patricks liked, well, get after them because 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:36.960 they shouldn't have lost this game. But again, this has 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:41.640 to be another another lesson learned in that for me, 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:43.960 I thought about this on the on the plane ride home. 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:46.240 I thought about it on my drive to my front door. 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:50.240 More and more. The only team, especially when you see 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:53.000 the Texans have the halftime lead against the Chiefs and 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.520 Eagles struggling with the Bears, the only team that can 0:08:58.559 --> 0:09:04.520 beat this Cowboys team is this Cowboys team. And that's frustrating, 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:10.800 infuriating even However, just get in, clean this up and 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.840 let's see what happens. But big game of the season 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.160 moving up in five days from this conversation, Yeah, coming 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:20.120 up on Saturday. It's a little less big because now 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:24.199 your your chances for an NFC title hope is pretty 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:28.480 much diminished. However, you can avoid the Eagles wrapping up 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:32.040 the NFC title championship on your home turf because if 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:35.160 the Eagles win, they win, they win the division on Saturday, 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:39.360 and they will absolutely celebrate it on your playoff football. 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:43.000 This one right here, this is your preview to playoff football. 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:46.160 If if you're worried, if you're if you're questioning, or 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.440 if you never experienced playoff football before. What you're about 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:54.559 to experience this Saturday will be playoff football atmosphere, the environment, 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:58.280 the intensity, the emphasis on each individual play, and how 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:00.800 the importance of it. You were going to feel this, 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:03.120 I don't care. What's at stake, the dog on Pride's 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.800 at stake. And then Dallas Cowboys versus Philadelphia Eagles will 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:07.720 be the biggest game of the year, not only for Dallas, 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:09.800 not only for Philly, but also in the NFL. It 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:12.240 is about to go down like two flat tires. And 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:14.480 they better get their mind right and they better plug 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:16.400 these dog on holes. They better figure out what they're 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.400 gonna do a linebacker. They better figure out a big 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:20.679 boy that they just brought in could play, could replace 0:10:20.760 --> 0:10:22.800 Jonathan Hankins. They better figure out how to stop that 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.040 dog on bleeding at the run. Michael Parsons and this 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:27.520 defensive line, this front seven better figure out how to 0:10:27.520 --> 0:10:29.600 get home and get pressure on somebody when they're sitting 0:10:29.640 --> 0:10:32.200 up there running RPO at you all day long. We 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:35.199 talked about Philadelphia showing the blueprint for that earlier in 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.400 the season when they beat Dallas. Okay, and they wouldn't 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:39.160 have it, and they stopped his feet in saying he 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:40.760 was in quick saying because he didn't know where direction 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.080 to go. The missdirection was all over the plays, the 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.680 RPO was all over the place. There was no pass rush. 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.200 Lovey Smith watched that film. What did he do last week? 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:50.440 He figured out a way to incorporate that into what 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:52.360 they were doing. Had people running all over the dog 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:55.520 on field. What happened to the defensive pressure? Slim to 0:10:55.640 --> 0:10:58.000 Nune Right, he didn't get any sacks last week. Now, 0:10:58.000 --> 0:10:59.719 all of a sudden, you have a Doug Peterson who 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:02.120 comes in. He does the same exact freaking thing. Guys 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.160 running all over the place. Right, You get a little 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:05.760 bit of pressure on Trevor Lawrence, but you don't bring 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:07.720 him down like we talked about. He's a big fellok. 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:09.480 You gotta bring this dude down. And what does he do? 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:11.640 Go out there, he has time to deliver the ball. 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:14.400 He freaking torches you Tostino style. Okay, he finds your 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:16.520 weak spots in your hole and he took advantage of it. 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.240 The blueprint was set. Now all of a sudden, you 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:21.640 know what the blueprint is. You know where your weaknesses are. 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.000 Are you going to address those or not because if 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:26.600 you don't dog on Philadelphi, Ego's gonna come and swoop 0:11:26.600 --> 0:11:28.079 and pick you about the dog on water. And that's 0:11:28.080 --> 0:11:30.560 part of what's frustrating about this game specifically, is that 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:33.680 it felt like a carryover from Houston, except the opposite. 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:36.520 Houston was a slow start. It was Houston, it was Houston, 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:40.760 but this was a slow finish. This exactly what it was, 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:45.280 start and a slow finish. We weren't surprised by the 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:48.120 result of the score and how the game played out. 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:50.600 I think what we were surprised about is that Dallas 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:53.480 didn't finish. They had a chance to finish on multiple occasions. 0:11:53.640 --> 0:11:55.480 I mean I wrote it down, by the way, I 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:59.360 wrote four notes or four pages of notes on this 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:01.440 game compared to the normal two that I do on 0:12:01.480 --> 0:12:04.439 film study. And it's not double space. It's all single 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:07.560 I mean, I don't even take space. Show everybody right here. 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:10.880 That's that's two of the four pages I took on 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.040 this game. You can even look at it, screenshot at 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:14.520 look at my notes. I don't care. You're gonna write 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:16.760 my book, So I don't know if I can write 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:18.800 a book. I will. I do want to write a book. 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:22.199 One day uh. Here's the summary of what I put. 0:12:22.320 --> 0:12:25.480 Misdirection and complex play calling led to the defense guessing 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:29.080 and confusion upfront. Boom. There was a ton of misdirection. 0:12:29.120 --> 0:12:31.359 They did a lot in the first half and they 0:12:31.480 --> 0:12:33.640 led to open holes. In the second half, they took 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.720 advantage and also on the defense in the back half 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:40.080 of the game. Plenty of chances late to to to 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.880 ice the game, but came up short. Talk about j 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:45.560 Ron Curse pulling Evan Ingram to the ground and bounce 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:47.720 clock runs. You have to use your final time out. 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:49.760 You don't have the full field at that point, with 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:51.480 eleven seconds left, you got to take a shot at 0:12:51.520 --> 0:12:53.560 the end zone because if you get it complete in 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:55.679 the middle of the field or maybe to the sideline, 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.280 you gotta hurry up and get a field goal unit 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:01.720 out there for Jacksonville. Makes things exponentially tougher. Talk about 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:04.480 a near sack in the middle of the game as well, 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:08.160 Armstrong had his hands around Trevor Lawrence dumped it off 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.920 to us his tailback. That would have been huge for 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.480 clock management, absolutely huge. And then of course the offense 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.559 trying to just get a first down instead of running 0:13:17.600 --> 0:13:20.560 three vertical routes on a third down and ten mccock 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.840 fifteen twenty yards down the field for everybody stopping the clock, 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.640 and then there's a time out left over. There's so 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.640 many ways they could have closed this game, but they didn't. 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:33.160 They did so against Houston. They found a way against Houston. 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.440 Today they found a way to lose it. Or it's Sunday. 0:13:35.440 --> 0:13:37.840 They found a way to lose it against Jacksonville. I 0:13:37.920 --> 0:13:40.360 said it last week, Houston lost the game. Now, sure, 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:42.880 I don't believe Dallas won last week. I think that 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.040 I don't disagree with I think any other team would 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.840 have beat Dallas last week because, yeah, Dak do a 0:13:47.840 --> 0:13:49.840 pick againside of ten. They got the ball inside the five, 0:13:50.000 --> 0:13:52.240 the quarterback went the wrong direction on a handoff, which, okay, 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:53.480 that would have put him up by ten. The game 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:55.560 would have been out of hand any other team. So 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:58.120 this is really in my eyes, this is back to 0:13:58.120 --> 0:13:59.679 back losses. I don't care what the record says. I 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:01.080 don't go where people have to say about it. And 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:02.959 that kind of adds to what I was talking about. 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:05.800 That's where the frustration comes from. Because you were talking 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:07.920 about the wake up calling, the lessons and these are 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:10.400 hard lessons to be learned. I completely agree with you. 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:13.520 We thought they learned it against Houston and they didn't 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:18.840 green Bay go back. Yeah, we thought they learned it 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.080 from in Green Bay and then that Houston served as 0:14:21.080 --> 0:14:25.080 a reminder. Great not not the case so much. And 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:27.960 again to your point, this game played out for the 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:31.600 most part how we saw it would. We knew Jacksonville 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:33.800 head horses. We knew that this was going to be 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:36.120 a close game. I know. My prediction was thirty four 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.960 twenty seven, thirty four thirty for me, and thirty five 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:42.600 thirty one. It was all right there and then here here, 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:45.880 here they are thirty four thirty one, and I say 0:14:45.920 --> 0:14:48.520 to myself, I said, okay, self, I think this is 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:50.960 where the Cowboys. This is where the Cowboys closed this game. 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:52.920 Out's where it's done. This is where it's done. And 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:58.040 Trevor escapes the sell so, I said self. Trevor escapes, 0:14:58.080 --> 0:15:00.320 the sack rolls out to the left. My heart drops. 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:03.160 I'm like, oh crap. And then jay Rod Kurr steps 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:07.080 up forces the fumble, fumble is recovered. Here it was done. 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.360 And then I said to myself self, I told you 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.240 this is where it ends. And then the next offensive 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:16.360 sequence happened, which includes the third and ten that we're 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:19.360 talking about, the deep run. Talk about the lack of 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:21.640 talk about the lack of four minute offense. Okay, the 0:15:21.720 --> 0:15:24.000 lack of four minute offense. First first play after the 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.040 fumble was the same play that they ran earlier in 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.360 the game that didn't work. It was where they pulled 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.560 Zack Martin. They pulled Tyrant Smith to the left and 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:34.760 I expected Ezekiel Elliott to outrace ninety one coming off 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.640 the edge. Guess what didn't happen. Zeke didn't get to 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:39.520 the edge because it got muddied up in front of him, 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:41.480 and ninety one caught him from behind, tackle for loss. 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:44.200 Second play, hinder shot misses a block on the edge 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.520 that would have gotten Pollard to the outside. He just 0:15:46.560 --> 0:15:48.720 whipped on him. It was a tackle or I think 0:15:48.760 --> 0:15:50.720 Pollard cut up field. He got a couple yards out 0:15:50.760 --> 0:15:54.200 of it and made it interesting. No, uh, straight vertical 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.760 Jake Ferguson was missed yesterday too, by the way, straight vertical. 0:15:57.920 --> 0:16:02.360 On third play following the humble, nothing underneath playing to 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:06.440 the sticks and I legitimately put really question mark nothing 0:16:06.440 --> 0:16:10.000 to the sticks on a third down and seven to 0:16:10.040 --> 0:16:12.120 try and get a first down and keep keep the 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:15.120 clock moving. Was a sequence said he was going for 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:18.560 the kill shot, which is fine, let's do it eleven 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.400 yards down the field, not thirty one. I'm just telling 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:23.200 Beamer what happens when you go for the kill shot 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.560 and call the dudio shot. You better hit you better 0:16:26.600 --> 0:16:29.920 hit it, You better hit it, or or what happens Beamer? 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.640 The rest of the squad comes over and wipes you. 0:16:33.640 --> 0:16:35.680 You better make it. And I saw a clipped the 0:16:35.720 --> 0:16:37.840 other day on inches Gram somebody said, we just faced 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:44.720 still team six. I call it now. I don't want 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.360 to get off the Sundays, so I just made me 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.520 think about it. But it was ultimately after the defense. 0:16:51.000 --> 0:16:55.040 And again I can't get over the thought that this 0:16:55.120 --> 0:16:58.840 is a team that beats itself. There's I haven't seen 0:16:58.960 --> 0:17:01.400 a team in the league if the Cowboys are running 0:17:01.400 --> 0:17:03.680 on all cylinders that can beat that version of the Cowboys. 0:17:03.680 --> 0:17:05.440 But the version that we see in these losses or 0:17:05.480 --> 0:17:09.000 these very close wins, are versions of the Cowboys that 0:17:09.400 --> 0:17:12.040 find ways to lose or almost lose the game. And 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:15.159 that's what they have to figure out. Consistency. Consistency consistency 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:17.760 going into the playoffs, in more specifically this game coming 0:17:17.840 --> 0:17:20.879 up before you go into the playoffs. But it was 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:24.639 the defense. You gotta figure out what's going on opposite 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:27.840 Trevon Diggson. Outside of Duran Bland. You saw Kelvin Joseph 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:30.800 give up the big, big play to Zay Jones and 0:17:30.840 --> 0:17:33.400 then get put in the blender by Marvin Jones. Touchdown. 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:36.440 All right, you have the double move, stole some ankles. Okay, 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:39.000 Eventually it was Nashan right that winning the game. But 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:43.440 you claimed Trayvon Mullen last week, McKinsey, Alexander the week before. 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:48.600 Kendall Sheffield is on the practice squad this week. You're 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:52.640 gonna have to it's an open competition, and it's open competition. 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.240 Understand that you wanted Kelvin Joseph to be the front 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:58.560 runner of that position to replace Anthony Brown because former 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:00.320 second round pick. I get it, I get it, I 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:04.159 get it. But no, from a GM standpoint, I get it. 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:07.000 You want to give the kid the shot, Nope, I'm 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:08.720 fine with But they gave him the shot and then 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:10.480 they ripped it away from him. Right Na Sean Wright 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:12.400 was was the corner at the end of the game, 0:18:12.880 --> 0:18:15.800 they took Joseph out of the game, no disrespect to 0:18:15.920 --> 0:18:17.679 any player on his team. Okay, this is an all 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:21.600 opinion basis is my opinion. I sat here with y'all. Okay, 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:23.480 all right, No, see wasn't here yet, but it sounds 0:18:23.480 --> 0:18:27.240 like you're referencing, you know, this is this this all season, right, okay? 0:18:27.280 --> 0:18:30.480 And I said, when Nick Kelvin Joseph's situation presented itself, 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:34.440 that was Dallas's opportunity to walk away, because it was 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:39.480 it was he is not a contributor on the defensive 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:41.800 side of the ball, and you drafted him to be 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:46.920 drafted him to be a starter second round pick. So again, yeah, 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:52.200 they're continually giving chances to somebody who at this point 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:55.560 in time in their career is not capable of making contributions. 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:57.720 And I agree with that. And I don't want anyone 0:18:57.800 --> 0:18:59.920 listening or watching this after the live or after the 0:19:00.160 --> 0:19:03.119 fact to think that NOC is saying it is defending. 0:19:03.480 --> 0:19:06.440 I'm not. I'm saying he has ability. I'm also saying 0:19:06.440 --> 0:19:08.600 he hasn't shown the ability. And I'm also saying I 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:10.880 had my pre draft question marks on if he would 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:12.879 be with the Cowboys wanted him to be. It's not 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:14.920 working out that way. It's not working out in their 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:18.280 favorite It's unfortunately working out the way I thought it would. 0:19:18.640 --> 0:19:22.520 But I'm saying I understand why they gave him the front, 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:26.480 the front running position for this. Now. What I saw 0:19:26.720 --> 0:19:30.520 in them putting Nashun right in after those two touchdowns 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:33.840 is that Mike McCarthy and Dan quinn basically said, Okay, 0:19:34.560 --> 0:19:38.800 saw it, saw enough of it. We're done here. Open competition, 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:40.880 and that's what I'm interested to see this week going 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:45.199 into the Eagles game. But defense, Kelvin Joseph in the secondary, 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:48.080 not Treyvon Diggs, not Deron Blad, but some of the 0:19:48.160 --> 0:19:50.720 other guys. The run defense, you lose LV. And we 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:54.280 have pounded the table weekly on this program and said 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:58.000 the value of Lve this season is insane. He's playing 0:19:58.200 --> 0:20:00.880 out of his mind. That also goes to helping show 0:20:00.960 --> 0:20:03.520 up the run defense. LV goes down with the Nick injury, 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:10.080 doesn't return in Travis atn He his speed became such 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:13.639 a problem for Anthony Barr, it became a problem. Damon 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:17.520 Clark is ramping up quickly, but he can't do it all. 0:20:17.680 --> 0:20:21.600 He needs that complimentary guy, right now and Barr couldn't 0:20:21.600 --> 0:20:24.560 handle the speed of at N whereas LV could but 0:20:24.720 --> 0:20:28.119 no LV, no LV, so forth and so on. The 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:33.879 defense gave up the cheeks on several plays, but then 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:37.160