WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: A Critical December 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:05.560 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.600 --> 0:00:16.960 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:17.400 --> 0:00:20.800 Screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:32.440 Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Rob Phillips, and 0:00:32.720 --> 0:00:37.880 Bill Jones, and welcome into Talking Cowboys inside the SWBC 0:00:38.040 --> 0:00:41.680 Mortgage studio here at the Star in Frisco. Rob Phillips 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:45.400 hosting today for Bill Jones, joined as always by the 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:51.599 Great Everson Walls. Mickey Spagnola. It is December, and despite 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:54.640 two straight losses in the past week, your Dallas Cowboys 0:00:54.680 --> 0:00:58.480 have a one game lead in the NFC East, four 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:01.360 games to play exactly. Ever, since you're not gonna affect 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:05.080 by having just fairly they blew that one. They didn't. 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:09.160 They didn't just get beat. They lost. How about that 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:12.040 with a late play by Taco Charlton as well, Mick 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.520 to help those Dolphins out. Taco helped out a little bit, 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:22.160 and the Dolphins helped themselves, like us, Yeah, I'm gonna 0:01:22.200 --> 0:01:25.920 get my hand in there. He did more for us 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:28.480 not being on the team than he did while he 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:30.920 played for us. That's a many way to put it. 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:34.080 It's amazing. Yeah, wake up call for him. So breaking news. 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:37.160 It might be cold in Chicago. Ah, man, that's a surprise, 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:39.479 is that the report you got just now? Yeah? Yeah, 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.720 everybody was worried about winds blowing hard. It's gonna be 0:01:43.319 --> 0:01:46.600 the wind's gonna come off the lake that direction. Yeah, 0:01:46.680 --> 0:01:49.400 that's that's that's a change. Although I think from what 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:52.840 I saw, this is gonna be a balmy December evening. 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:58.240 It's gonna low of thirty one. Really, yeah, break on 0:01:58.360 --> 0:02:02.240 that ten percent chance of per dipicipation ten to I 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.520 think I saw eight to ten mile an hour win 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:07.200 gonna be out there with short sleeves on, you know, 0:02:07.240 --> 0:02:08.959 because the fans they really get into that, you know, 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:11.320 as much as they looked miserable when they come to 0:02:11.440 --> 0:02:14.000 games like that, the Patriots fans, you know, the cold 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.919 weather fans, they looked forward to the miserable weather. I 0:02:17.000 --> 0:02:19.400 remember Dennis Thurman telling me about when he was playing 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.280 at usc and every time they went up to Washington 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:24.679 and it would start to rain and the fans would 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:27.280 just go crazy, and that was that was there. That 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.280 was the thirteenth Man. You know, the weather itself, not 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:32.840 the twelfth Man, was that was the fans and the 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:36.760 thirteenth Man was was a mother nature and they loved it. 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:40.400 They loved it. I tell you a neat scenario. It 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.839 was like a christening for the Bearers. In eighty five 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:46.120 when they won the NFC title game there, I was 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:48.760 covering the game there and as the game was getting 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:51.440 ready to finish, and it was over, and the fans 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:53.960 are cheering, and all of a sudden, they just start 0:02:54.120 --> 0:02:57.880 snowing and snowing hard, and the cheering that louder and 0:02:58.040 --> 0:03:01.520 louder and louder. It's like you just got christened, right, 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:04.480 you are NFC champs for the first time. I would 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:07.919 imagine the players are down there, were just in the 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:11.400 worst conditions ever. They hate, they hate, their fans love it. 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:13.919 And then conversely, a year or two later, they were 0:03:14.000 --> 0:03:19.360 playing the forty nine ers at home in a NFC 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.200 title game, and everybody's like, oh, the forty nine ers, 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:24.280 they're coming in here from the West Coast. They are 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:25.880 not going to be able to deal with this weather. 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:30.799 This is Bears weather, right, they kick Bears clocks out 0:03:30.840 --> 0:03:33.640 of there. Weather had nothing to do with it, right. 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.200 They were just a better team at that point, so 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:41.320 weather weather, and it's they can kind of mimic the 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:44.040 weather a little bit today. That's why they're practicing outside 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:48.320 on a Monday. That's a Thursday, right, that's right. Hey, 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:51.920 I'm getting confused, and you confuse me with them. Jason 0:03:51.960 --> 0:03:54.480 always confuses you to just come to practice, and they 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.600 tell me to come to practice. Okay, I don't. And 0:03:56.720 --> 0:04:01.600 it's a grass field too, by the ways. Wow, So 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:04.000 that's why. That's another reason why they wanted to play 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:10.320 paint paint. Remember the pa is good. I remember my 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:12.800 front yard was in green in December. I can tell 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:16.880 you that, all right. So we have not convened since 0:04:17.760 --> 0:04:21.120 Wednesday of last week, since we made predictions for Cowboys bills. 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:27.920 It feels like this game man not Well, who's the closest. 0:04:28.720 --> 0:04:31.160 I might have been the farthest. I think I had 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:35.680 thirty one seventeen. Well, I told you would not be 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.080 that high. I tried to tell you that, You're right. 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:41.280 They held him to fifteen points. Buffalo did. And so 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:45.920 that's two losses to two more winning teams in a 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:50.320 five day stretch. And now your Dallas Cowboys are six 0:04:50.400 --> 0:04:53.240 and six with four games to play, and I think 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:58.080 we could talk about Buffalo, and I think we're kind 0:04:58.120 --> 0:04:59.920 of past that. I think we could probably get in 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.520 to the Bears more tomorrow with or without BILLI siff 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:08.039 he's here tomorrow. But mainly it's just kind of where 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.760 this team is at right now. What's the state of mind. 0:05:13.480 --> 0:05:16.240 Is the confidence still there with four games left that 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:18.720 they can get this thing done. I think we find 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:23.160 out the confidence level on Thursday, because I'm sure this 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:27.680 was a blow to the heart that you went out 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:31.760 there and at home and you know, and Buffalo comes 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:34.320 in here and dominate you. And it was no if 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:37.920 fans or butts and for as I was saying, there's 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:41.359 no one play or one circumstance that turned that game around. 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:43.760 Like so many of their other losses, they just got beat. 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:47.280 The other team was better. Man. I still got hot 0:05:47.320 --> 0:05:49.600 sauce in my mouth. Man, I got this hot sauce 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:53.520 taste in my mouth and it was killing me. I mean, 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:59.279 we have gone up against many defenses that have figured 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:04.840 out a way to contain Cole Beasley. We could not 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:09.600 contain Cole Beasley. Six catches, one ten, Yeah, yes, sir, 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:12.160 I mean that's just that's a ball that's balling and 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:15.200 a touchdown. That's balling. He comes in here. We know 0:06:15.320 --> 0:06:18.720 he's coming in here. Did we just say we're going 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:21.960 to you beat our man, and you know, if you 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:24.680 can beat our man, then you can have it. You know, 0:06:24.760 --> 0:06:26.960 we had no scheme to take him out of the game, 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:29.240 especially on third downs when we know he's key to 0:06:29.360 --> 0:06:32.280 the team and he's key to the situation. I mean, 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:33.600 I get it. You want to have a little bit 0:06:33.640 --> 0:06:36.680 of pride and say maybe whoever Jordan Lewis or whoever 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:39.720 would be guarding him, you would say, hey, you know, 0:06:40.120 --> 0:06:42.160 can you handle this? And then I'm gonna put that 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:45.640 on you. That's great too, That's great certain situations. That's 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.400 great certain times when we have to bring all the 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:50.520 guys and we have to bring the pressure. Okay, this 0:06:50.720 --> 0:06:54.440 is the challenge right now, Jordan Lewis to shut down 0:06:55.640 --> 0:07:01.000 Cole Beasley. But in the scheme of things, you should 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:04.440 have something to be able to take him and eliminate 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:08.160 him from the game. We've seen it happen by other 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.560 teams when he was with us. So I just don't 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:16.680 understand how he can be not contained or at least 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:19.320 because you got to know where he is, you got 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.080 to know how hot he has been, at least in 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:24.920 the last four games. He started off kind of slow 0:07:25.440 --> 0:07:27.000 and then all of a sudden, I think fourth games 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:28.840 the season, he caught a touchdown and now he's been 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:31.160 on fire and we all know that. So I just 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:35.920 don't understand why something wasn't considered to take him out 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.320 of the game. I mean, these weren't It was no 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:40.960 rocket science out there. We knew where he was going. 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.640 Alan was looking at him sometimes he eyeballed him the 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:47.360 entire play, and yet here we are seems like we 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.960 are very surprised at his effectiveness. I don't understand that, say. 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.160 I think it goes back to I think I said 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:57.160 this last week about self evaluation. You should be able 0:07:57.160 --> 0:08:00.040 to self evaluate yourself. Do I have somebody that and 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:03.520 cover him consistently one on one? The answer should have 0:08:03.560 --> 0:08:07.880 been no, And because no one everybody, no one does. Yeah, 0:08:08.000 --> 0:08:10.680 and everybody gives me grief about Jordan Lewis this and 0:08:10.840 --> 0:08:15.520 Jordan Lewis that. But they left him man the man 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:20.280 on Beasley and this wasn't practice out here, right, you know, 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:25.520 he he couldn't cover him, and so you know, maybe 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:29.480 they do, miss Anthony Brown, but he needed help. And 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:31.960 I don't him out of the matter. I don't think 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.040 it mattered who you put on him, because he hadn't 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:38.960 been stopped by anyone. I'm talking about veteran defensive backs, 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:42.880 more senior than ours, and he's he's been hot, he's 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:45.319 still been hot. He hasn't cooled off at all. So 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:48.920 for you to assume that you've got that guy, I mean, 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.000 I love Jordan Lewis. We talk about Jordan at times. 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:53.880 Guy's a great kid. But that's just not fair. It's 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.760 just not fair. Number One, you talk about in practice, 0:08:57.120 --> 0:08:58.880 you know, you do seven or seven one on one, 0:08:59.200 --> 0:09:01.360 and I remember the Bees would always say, oh, well 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:04.000 you will never have that much time. You know, the 0:09:04.280 --> 0:09:06.440 rush would have gotten to him by that time. Well, 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:09.160 our rush didn't get there. And there were times when, 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:13.800 you know, to George's disadvantage, Alan was running around back 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.480 there for a while and Geordie's trying to keep up 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:19.360 with Cole. And that's just not the position you want 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:21.760 to be in. To me, you just take him, you 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:25.160 take him out and make them go somewhere else. It's 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.800 the whole Belichick plan that I've always talked about it. 0:09:28.120 --> 0:09:30.640 I'm gonna make you do something different. Then show me 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:34.560 what you got. So I'm gonna take Cole Beasley out. 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:38.359 That's the first thing we're gonna do in these key situations. 0:09:38.440 --> 0:09:42.120 And we know it's every third down. It's not rocket science. 0:09:42.200 --> 0:09:43.800 We knew exactly what they were going to do it, 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.000 and I guess we just said, hey, if you can 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:47.880 hit this in the mouth, we'll take it. And you 0:09:48.000 --> 0:09:50.600 touched on another thing that I don't think was consistently 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.120 good enough, and I know they ended up with four sacks. 0:09:53.559 --> 0:09:57.360 The pressure on Alan just wasn't there on a consistent basis. 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:00.760 He was way too comfortable in the pocket. Uh one, 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:02.959 He looked like that back there a couple of times. Yeah, yeah, 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:04.679 just just didn't even have to pat his feet. He 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:09.319 just like flat footed, flat footed and just waiting. And 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:11.920 then his ability to run. They knew that was going 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:14.839 to happen, and they didn't take that away either. Put 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:17.679 the spy. Did we have a spy? Well, you know 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:20.640 a lot of times I didn't notice they went dime 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.199 and they brought but they brought in another safety. It 0:10:23.360 --> 0:10:26.079 wasn't another corner, was another safety, and I don't know 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:28.280 if that affected what was going on. Well, if you 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:31.600 bring another safety, then that's the guy you want to spot, right, Yeah, 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:33.960 it was. I believe that Josh Jones got to play 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.480 a little bit more than the normal in that game. 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.920 So I don't recall I don't recall anybody just hanging back. 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:43.000 I do not recall anybody eyeball on the quarterback making 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.440 sure he was contained, and because if they did, then 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:49.079 he must have got distracted running off the place and 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:52.880 throwing all over the plae Devin Singletary, they're young running back, 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.640 made plays with his feet as a runner and a receiver. 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.760 We talked about that during the week. And then offensively, 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:03.760 you mentioned the pressure on or not enough pressure on 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:08.520 Josh Allen Dak gets sacked four times, gets hit seven times, 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:13.679 and had two more turnovers, and the Cowboys lose the 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.120 turnover battle once again. And that's been the story pretty 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.480 much in all of their losses. I think they're minus 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.920 four for the season now in turnover margin, and when 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.000 you're not getting the takeaways on defense, it puts a 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.360 lot of pressure on only minus four I think, So 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.280 that's pretty good. Yeah, that's pretty good you're not getting 0:11:29.320 --> 0:11:32.000 because you're not getting anything, that's I am shocked. Yeah, 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.400 I thought they'd be like eight ten say, And that 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:38.080 was another another deal that came out of that game. 0:11:38.280 --> 0:11:39.880 And I don't know if other teams are going to 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.880 copy it, but they decided after that first series or 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.480 that first part of the game when the Cowboys were driving, 0:11:45.920 --> 0:11:49.600 it's like, Okay, Dak's not beating us, we're blitzing. We're 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:51.959 coming after a lot of blitzing. One that's been coming. 0:11:52.120 --> 0:11:54.880 That's been happening since the Jets and lately too, Yeah, 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:57.839 since Greg Williams. That has been happening. And that's the 0:11:57.920 --> 0:11:59.679 smart way to go. That's the only way to go 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.240 when you have a team as exciting as this. We 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:04.760 have an offense with all that talent, and you see 0:12:04.840 --> 0:12:06.679 Dak sitting back there like we said, like some kind 0:12:06.679 --> 0:12:08.120 of statue you. I don't know if he's card board, 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.559 if he's real. That's how still he is most of 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:12.839 the time. So you were like, we gotta change this 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.360 nagative as well. Now when I don't let the receivers 0:12:15.440 --> 0:12:17.920 run free through the zones, we're gonna get up in 0:12:17.960 --> 0:12:21.360 their faces. You don't need an all pro defensive back 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.800 to shut down an all pro wide receiving. All you 0:12:23.880 --> 0:12:25.719 just need to do is get on his nerves, just 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.839 ruin his timing between he and the quarterback. And that's 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:32.559 what they're doing. Everything right now is going to be uncomfortable. 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.960 I'm not going to allow you to have these beautiful 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:38.560 play action passes and things of that nature. We're bringing 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.199 it no matter what. And Dak's been hanging in there. 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:43.040 He has, but he just might as well get ready 0:12:43.040 --> 0:12:46.559 to see it. Weekend coming. There was a bunch of 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:49.720 double blitzers. They were coming, like on the screen paths 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.120 that he tried to throw that get intercepted. They were 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.040 coming from his right, two guys and they're coming untouched, 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:57.839 and they had a could play great design, was a 0:12:57.920 --> 0:13:01.960 great screen to the left, Yes, and the defensive tackle 0:13:02.400 --> 0:13:04.920 intercepts the ball. How many times have you seen you 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:07.240 gotta throw that thing right in the dirt, Yes, you know, 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.800 and just get get rid of it. Just don't even 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:12.040 give him an opportunity. How many times did you see 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.800 something in that game and you go, gosh, I don't 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.920 know if I ever saw that before. But the guy 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:22.280 with an interception right, the Cowboys try a field goal, 0:13:22.320 --> 0:13:24.920 it gets partially deflected. At the end of the half, 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:27.200 their guy tries to field goal it hits the upright 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:30.679 and bounces in and then you got Alan recovering a 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:35.120 quarterback sneak fumble. Yeah that the ball just lays there 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:37.080 and he picks it up like he dropped a loaf 0:13:37.160 --> 0:13:39.360 of bread. I gotta say, I was so upset that 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:43.439 you got these big guys, man, and you know, we 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:45.760 want to I want to vilify him so badly because 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:48.200 they're big, you know, the big guys. And the ball 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.640 is right on the stomach. Man. You know it was 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:55.680 right by his nose. Come on, he's right there. When's 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:57.079 the last time you've been that close to the ball 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:00.400 except for doing before the snap count right right? I 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.120 was so upset about that. I could not We are 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.880 a Murphy's Law team at this point, you know that, right, Yes, 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:11.440 everything that can't in this game we talked about that. Yeah, 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:13.680 I mean, how many times have you seen the cornerback 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:16.560 you fumble usually dive on it, right, No, he picks 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:20.800 it up and dives himself first down. No one saw it. 0:14:20.960 --> 0:14:24.640 But I still go back to the interception in New England. 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:27.920 Everybody's dropping the ball. Give him comes with a one 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:31.360 handed off of Coop's leg. Somehow it stayed up and 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:34.160 he catches a I don't know what kind of interception. 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:37.000 That was one of the more underrated, amazing interceptions I've 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:39.000 ever seen, because you really couldn't see what happened on 0:14:39.080 --> 0:14:41.560 that play. It just I think it was Coop's leg 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.520 stopped it from going down as he's trying to to 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:47.120 knock it down his fuehand. Just little things like that 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:50.240 to where you go, Wow, if you just think of 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:53.920 not just the Murphy's Law that we we're dealing with, 0:14:54.080 --> 0:14:57.680 we're also dealing with our own incompetence. That's my question 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:01.960 for you. That is it just unlucky bounces or we're 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:04.240 talking about lack of execution on top of it. That's 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:07.280 that's that helps. That helps, the lack of execution helps. 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.840 But I'm just talking about the times when we have 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:13.200 made the first down or made a touchdown and we 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.160 shot ourselves in the foot with a big play or 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:19.120 a big call against us. And uh, if you were 0:15:19.160 --> 0:15:21.360 to just add all of those up with the Murphy's 0:15:21.440 --> 0:15:25.360 law situations that we're talking about this team here. Ron 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.400 Springs used to watch The flint Stones and he always 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:32.720 talked about the the bad luck slept Rock. Remember that character, 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.600 slept Rock yes, sir, that's what this team is. We're 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:40.320 full of slept rocks. Everybody's just Murphy's Law happening all 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.480 over the place, bad luck happening at every turn. When 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:47.240 it raises his head, well about losing your starting left guard. 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.640 And then two plays, Letters once again gives up a sack. 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:51.800 Wasn't two, there was one, it was it was two. 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:53.720 It was two because they had a completion. And then 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:57.120 the next play came in sack fumble and they recover. 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:00.760 So next man up, huh, that's not that's always worry 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:03.160 about next man up there. Well, it's gonna have a 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:05.720 reason they're the next man up. It's gonna be. It's 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.920 gonna be Xaviers to a Philo once again at left guard, 0:16:08.960 --> 0:16:12.040 with Connor Williams set for surgery on his acl a 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:15.760 torn a cl to your point, Everson, before we go 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:17.720 to break that, there's a drive in the third quarter 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.720 that just to me, it sums up when they've had 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:23.280 problems this year. This summed it all up. They get 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:29.640 to the Bill's twenty five yard line first down and 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:34.080 Dak gets sacked for minus seven false start on Connor Williams, 0:16:35.800 --> 0:16:38.360 and then they're during third and nineteen and they wind 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:41.240 up kicking a field goal that has missed. I was 0:16:41.240 --> 0:16:43.720 gonna say, yeah, we did not make it. 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Yeah, exactly exactly. 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:04.760 Jalen Hurts, Welcome back, to talking Cowboys inside the SWBC 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:08.320 Mortgage studio. Cowboys back to practice. They practiced on Sunday, 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:13.479 which Everson was like a Wednesday schedule, and now second 0:20:13.600 --> 0:20:17.440 of three full practices this week comes down today. They're 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:21.320 outside getting set for the Chicago Bears Thursday night football. 0:20:22.720 --> 0:20:24.680 Bears trying to get a big win, stay in the 0:20:24.760 --> 0:20:29.680 wildcard race. Cowboys trying to keep pace with their one 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:33.080 game division lead. And we covered some of the game 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:35.520 from last Thursday. Since we weren't with you guys for 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:39.000 a few days, I got to talk about Jerry Jones 0:20:39.080 --> 0:20:44.600 and his comments after the game, very emphatic, not making 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:49.639 a coaching change. Sticking with Jason Garrett looking for one 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:51.480 of his quotes, he said, quote, this is not the 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:54.760 time for me. I'm looking ahead at another ball game, 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:57.040 and I'm looking ahead at winning four or five straight 0:20:57.480 --> 0:20:59.879 and helping write a story that they'll talk about. How 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:01.840 it looked like you were down and out and you 0:21:01.960 --> 0:21:07.160 got it back. Jerry full of optimism and preaching unity 0:21:07.240 --> 0:21:09.800 with this football team with four games left. What did 0:21:09.840 --> 0:21:11.920 you guys make of his comments? I mean, that was 0:21:12.000 --> 0:21:14.359 the that was more the story than the game itself. 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:16.359 It shouldn't have been. It's a no brainer. I mean, 0:21:16.400 --> 0:21:18.359 who's gonna give you the coach right now? You just 0:21:18.440 --> 0:21:20.520 don't do that. You're still in the first place. That's 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:23.800 not gonna happen now. But trust me, his eyes on 0:21:23.840 --> 0:21:27.480 the prize for later on in January. If something doesn't 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:29.360 go down by then, of course he knows what he's 0:21:29.400 --> 0:21:32.720 gonna do. He's not gonna tell us. But no, I 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:35.000 don't know why such a story. It's just the fact 0:21:35.080 --> 0:21:38.399 that this is this is truly not the time to 0:21:38.560 --> 0:21:41.119 do it. You know, this is not one of those uh, 0:21:42.160 --> 0:21:45.600 vengeance firings. You know, if you just really hated somebody, 0:21:45.840 --> 0:21:48.960 maybe if he was the late great Buddy Ryan, you know, yeah, 0:21:49.000 --> 0:21:51.200 you fire him now because he was just crazy. But 0:21:51.560 --> 0:21:54.240 you don't do somebody like Jason like that, or this organization. 0:21:54.359 --> 0:21:56.879 They just don't practice like that. This is not one 0:21:56.880 --> 0:22:00.439 of those things, and it doesn't help any thing, right, 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:03.200