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Speaker 3: The Cowboys fall in Week three, thirty one fourteen, and
Speaker 3: I don't know if it was just classified as a fall.
Speaker 3: It felt like it was a stumble that led into
Speaker 3: a face plant that led into tuck and roll that
Speaker 3: maybe went downhill.
Speaker 1: A little bit.
Speaker 5: Drawers are down the whole time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like you got pants by a team that was winless. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not good.
Speaker 3: Not good in GB not in gb not great, bob uh.
Speaker 3: We're gonna break it down here over the next hour.
Speaker 3: First off, before we even get there, I would like
Speaker 3: to say thank you for listening, because we know you're
Speaker 3: frustrated too, but we're frustrated with you because it was
Speaker 3: frust embarrassing and frustrating.
Speaker 1: Loss, just plain and simple. It felt like you gave up.
Speaker 1: It felt like you man. Scheme wise was rough, execution
Speaker 1: wise was maybe even rougher, and yet here we are.
Speaker 1: I feel like No.
Speaker 3: C has a lot to say to dude. I'm I
Speaker 3: told you yesterday afterwards, I said, I think No C's
Speaker 3: gonna go Hamm on a Monday more name, especially after
Speaker 3: getting off the flight. What times y'all get back last night?
Speaker 1: Wasn't too bad?
Speaker 4: Too bad little after midnight? That's crazy trip. The trip
Speaker 4: started off weird and ominous. There was a two hour
Speaker 4: plus delay getting off the tarmac or even getting on
Speaker 4: the tarmac because we didn't have an airplane. An airplane
Speaker 4: for those didn't one of those to kind of get
Speaker 4: so was everybody just kind of chilling chartered right, you charted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, waiting in the But to be fair, it was
Speaker 1: an issue with DFW as a whole. So everybody grounded.
Speaker 4: Everybody got grounded, and I mean it was it was
Speaker 4: apropos because one thing that DFWS and Airport and the
Speaker 4: Dallas Cowboys had in common this weekend is.
Speaker 1: They didn't know how to communicate.
Speaker 3: So no takeoff either, couldn't get off the tarad so
Speaker 3: no air traffic control either, and no touchdown.
Speaker 1: Would you say that they were grounded? They we grounded
Speaker 1: the grounded. Yeah, rooted, rooted.
Speaker 4: That was last year, last years sorry, different different this year. Yeah,
Speaker 4: bottom line for the to avoid a fine. Let's just
Speaker 4: say it was a crap show. Crap show. Wow, what's
Speaker 4: what's because I know Cal's general question is what's your
Speaker 4: biggest takeaway?
Speaker 1: My takeaway is that I don't have a positive takeaway.
Speaker 4: Oh and the game started with a takeaway for the Bears,
Speaker 4: and it kind of went from there. You saw the
Speaker 4: defense get off to a quick three and our start.
Speaker 4: Javonte Williams gets the ball twenty six yard game, looking
Speaker 4: very much like Javante and then he gets his lunch
Speaker 4: money taken very uncharacteristic, and then what happens from there
Speaker 4: the next sequence of events that then lead to the
Speaker 4: first Bears touchdown it just all cascaded from there.
Speaker 1: Do you know why he had his lunch money taken?
Speaker 1: Talk by Zach. Allow people to go watch the film
Speaker 1: and figure out why.
Speaker 6: But I'll tell you there's one reason. One, yes, there
Speaker 6: is certain wide receiver did not finish his block.
Speaker 7: And let this is why we watch film. We do
Speaker 7: watch film. We watch film here Riguez was on it.
Speaker 7: We had not talked about this prior to the show,
Speaker 7: by the way at all.
Speaker 5: To your point, but my bull's eyes on a particular
Speaker 5: wide receiver.
Speaker 7: He ran good routes yesterday. He ran goo routes yesterday.
Speaker 7: But we talked about it last week. I believe it
Speaker 7: was we did the receiving group the running game.
Speaker 1: Big plays are dependent on the receiving group blocking downfield,
Speaker 1: and it is a decision two or not to based
Speaker 1: upon the effort. That's that's exerted, whether or not you
Speaker 1: want to engage in that smoke or not. And if
Speaker 1: you choose not to engage in that smoke and just
Speaker 1: kind of check the box and say, okay, I've got
Speaker 1: my hands on my guy. Now the running backs past
Speaker 1: me and I could just now let up. Hey, play
Speaker 1: still going, by the way, play still going. There are
Speaker 1: individuals who the thing called hustle. What's hustle? Effort? Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's effort. So certain plays, certain players are like, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: you might have quote unquote done your job, but I
Speaker 1: still see that there's an opportunity to go and make
Speaker 1: a play.
Speaker 7: So since you didn't finish me, I'm going to go
Speaker 7: take the ball. And that's what happened on that particular play. Now,
Speaker 7: we could point to a whole lot of things, but
Speaker 7: we're talking about a point that play.
Speaker 1: Javonte Williams did lose the ball. That's his responsibility to
Speaker 1: keep the ball. But I could tell you had somebody
Speaker 1: else finished their job, that person would not have been
Speaker 1: in position to take the ball away from Javontey. When
Speaker 1: this was a team thing, you saw the same thing, Josh, Yes, absolutely.
Speaker 6: It was Jalen Tolbert. And this is a criticism that
Speaker 6: we've had from week one. I mean even in the
Speaker 6: preseason and in training camp as far as like finishing
Speaker 6: those blocks, being able to be physical against your defensive
Speaker 6: player in front of you. He did not finish the play.
Speaker 6: That same player went out and snatched the ball away
Speaker 6: from Javontay Williams, who had an amazing game. I mean
Speaker 6: despite the fumble, he took his lunch money, like you said,
Speaker 6: going out of bounds. I was like that that was
Speaker 6: aut of bounds, that was out of bounds and it
Speaker 6: was not. But unfortunately it was that block from Jalen
Speaker 6: Tolbert that led to the fumble. So you say, but
Speaker 6: the takeaway really so they took it away from you.
Speaker 4: So you say, oh, that play notwithstanding your running back
Speaker 4: was having another great game.
Speaker 1: It was a great game, an amazing game. Ten carries,
Speaker 1: seventy six.
Speaker 6: Yards, ten carries seventy six yards, seven point six yards
Speaker 6: per carry, and he only had ten carries on the day.
Speaker 1: Okay, well that's because you were playing from behind the
Speaker 1: game started. How many carries did you have from the
Speaker 1: one yard line? Hold on? Still? Hold on? No, no, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: but hold on.
Speaker 4: Your running back is having another great day. So let's
Speaker 4: use your franchise wide receiver running back.
Speaker 1: Oh we're going back. You want to go to that?
Speaker 6: Hear me out?
Speaker 1: Did we talk about this?
Speaker 4: We talked about this on Talking Tuesday, Talking Tuesday. I
Speaker 4: forgot who who made that call.
Speaker 1: I blame that was No, it's not.
Speaker 4: I know you call in every Tuesday Yeah, talked about
Speaker 4: this to but he did ask the question.
Speaker 3: He asked the question, asked the question, I want to
Speaker 3: see more CD Lamb in the run game, And I
Speaker 3: think all of us looked at it and said not Na, no, no,
Speaker 3: you were.
Speaker 4: All if you wanted to mix it up. That's why
Speaker 4: you have the Cavante Turpin package. And Cavante was fully cleared.
Speaker 4: You should have used him on that package if that's
Speaker 4: what you were going to do. Why why why why
Speaker 4: why why? For the most part, coming into this game,
Speaker 4: I've loved how Shody has called plays.
Speaker 1: Okay, this was not a mistake when it came to
Speaker 1: that CD Lamb handoff.
Speaker 4: This was a gaff of monumental proportions that could have
Speaker 4: resulted in you losing your all Pro record setting wide
Speaker 4: receiver for the entire season. Because if you look at
Speaker 4: how his leg was rolled up on it is the
Speaker 4: grace of every almighty being that his leg did not
Speaker 4: snap James connor the fact that he was able to
Speaker 4: even come back in the game and test the ankle out.
Speaker 4: The willingness, the willingness which he showed his great and
Speaker 4: toughness from last year playing through that shoulder.
Speaker 1: There was there were there were.
Speaker 7: There were examples of willingness in that game, of coming
Speaker 7: wanting to come back in the game, and there was
Speaker 7: examples of not.
Speaker 1: Gentlemen, we'll get to that in a second. Gentleman.
Speaker 4: When you so, if you could have seen me in
Speaker 4: the press box in Chicago, when I saw Cede Lamb
Speaker 4: in the single back formation, I said, he better motion out,
Speaker 4: snapped the ball and handed him the ball. And as
Speaker 4: soon as he started running and I saw the trailer,
Speaker 4: I said, please no, And then he went down with
Speaker 4: the tackle, and I'm just like, oh my god.
Speaker 1: We didn't get up.
Speaker 7: We did not get up to the to the linebacker
Speaker 7: because our old line didn't get up to the linebacker
Speaker 7: that linebacker.
Speaker 4: That was another sequence of a lemony snicket, a sequence
Speaker 4: of a series of unfortunate events. Ced Lamb should not
Speaker 4: have been the ball carrier in the first place.
Speaker 5: And it's not like it was a wrinkle.
Speaker 6: He lined up, he lined up, he lined up, and
Speaker 6: your running back is running seven yards a carry.
Speaker 1: What are you doing, louder? Please? What are you doing again?
Speaker 1: All several things can be true at the same time.
Speaker 1: Come to this game.
Speaker 4: I love how Sharty was calling the game. We said
Speaker 4: on Tuesday, though you have a running back that is
Speaker 4: doing numbers. He is leading the league in yards per carry.
Speaker 4: You have the top three rushing defense. You have an offense,
Speaker 4: you have a package specifically for Cavante Turpin at running
Speaker 4: back that you have practiced time and time again in
Speaker 4: training camp. Why for the for in the name of
Speaker 4: all that is holy and good, would you risk ceed Lamb?
Speaker 4: So now you lose CD Lamb for the rest of
Speaker 4: the game, and your identity went with him. You couldn't
Speaker 4: get a chunk play to save your life. Jake Ferguson
Speaker 4: shout out to Jay fergus tried his best to contribute.
Speaker 4: I think, yeah, thirteen receptions on fourteen targets, but he
Speaker 4: averaged a little more than six yards. They you played
Speaker 4: right into their hands because now they shaded all their
Speaker 4: coverage to George Pickens and they said, you.
Speaker 1: Can have the underneath, you can have it.
Speaker 4: Come on, no, no, no, Now, I need that that
Speaker 4: facial expression. Give me what's behind that facial EXPRESSI because
Speaker 4: I know where you're going with it.
Speaker 1: Come on with it. There's so much are we doing.
Speaker 1: On Monday said after a loss like that, So I
Speaker 1: am I too?
Speaker 7: Am upset that they utilize CD in the backfield. I
Speaker 7: don't think it gives you an advantage in any regard.
Speaker 1: No, I just there's no situation where I find it.
Speaker 3: In other ways, that doesn't put yourself in a procular situation.
Speaker 1: Coaches, And even with that, it's.
Speaker 3: One play, and that one play turned out in a
Speaker 3: negative fashion. It very easily could have been a normal tax. Absolutely,
Speaker 3: but I think you learned your last year. You still
Speaker 3: I agree.
Speaker 7: We said it before the stat the reward is not
Speaker 7: worth the risk, he said exactly one orbatim on this
Speaker 7: show last week.
Speaker 1: But again, so that is what it is. Unfortunately, players
Speaker 1: get hurt in football.
Speaker 7: We would have not have liked to see him in
Speaker 7: that position, to be hurt from that position, right from
Speaker 7: that alignment, from that position, from that responsibility. All right,
Speaker 7: that's done. I am more bothered as we fast forward
Speaker 7: towards the end of the game. You have five plays
Speaker 7: from the eleven yard lining in, and then you have
Speaker 7: four plays from the five yard lining in. How many
Speaker 7: yards are we running for?
Speaker 1: Again?
Speaker 7: Seven point six for him, six yard average for the
Speaker 7: team right from the one yard line. Yeah, how many run.
Speaker 3: Attempts from the inside the two they had zero, So
Speaker 3: it was two plays from the five, and then it
Speaker 3: was two plays from the one.
Speaker 1: Yes, four straight passes, yeah, zero run attempts. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: my problem.
Speaker 7: And I understand, I feel and I know that coach
Speaker 7: Scheinheimer is going to go back and wish that he
Speaker 7: did things differently. And we're playing Monday morning. I agree
Speaker 7: with this, absolutely, we're playing Monday morning.
Speaker 1: Quarterback. I get it.
Speaker 7: However, your identity right now, truly is you're running the
Speaker 7: ball effectively and your offensive line is blocking their butts
Speaker 7: off in the run game. I don't understand how you
Speaker 7: don't allow them that opportunity, the chance to put the
Speaker 7: ball in the end zone on the backs of your
Speaker 7: offensive line. That's what I can't comprehenmpletely agree. It's it's
Speaker 7: to me, it's it's very similar to you know, you
Speaker 7: go back to Seattle with Marshawn Lynch, is like, well,
Speaker 7: you got Marshawn Lynch and the old line has been
Speaker 7: doing good and you're on the one. You're out and
Speaker 7: give give them the ball. It's like, you know, giving
Speaker 7: all that play, give them the ball? You know who
Speaker 7: called that play?
Speaker 8: I do?
Speaker 1: I do? He looks familiar give them the ball.
Speaker 3: It was shades of that truceive thoughts is what I
Speaker 3: put on Twitter last night or act. Yes, but I
Speaker 3: said intrusive thoughts came in.
Speaker 5: There's some overthinking.
Speaker 1: Is there a reason why why I mentioned that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't understand.
Speaker 7: I can't comprehend when you're winning the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 7: why you do not while you line up five yards
Speaker 7: away from the one yard from the goal line and
Speaker 7: then you then in turn proceed to pass it numerous times. Now,
Speaker 7: the interception that Dak had, there's an individual who did
Speaker 7: not get their block. They got beat on that particular
Speaker 7: play was bro Kaffman. Brock Kaffman lost his one on
Speaker 7: one assignment. The nose tackle beat him, put pressure in
Speaker 7: Dak's face. Dak threw the ball up. Nobody was open anyway.
Speaker 7: It was four down interception.
Speaker 6: Hence no EyeBlack today exactly.
Speaker 7: So that's what bothered me more than anything. There was
Speaker 7: a bunch of other things that I could point you
Speaker 7: to another one.
Speaker 4: Here's another one. Okay, go ahead, Matty Refleus. Your defense
Speaker 4: is three weeks in. It had a stellar outing against
Speaker 4: the Philadelphia Eagles week one, Week one, and we had
Speaker 4: some high hopes. Yep, two consecutive weeks in a row.
Speaker 7: How about how many safeties did they play in that game?
Speaker 7: Primarily say safeties one high or too high. I have
Speaker 7: the gout camera. It was two years.
Speaker 1: It was the receivers did nothing.
Speaker 4: Two weeks beyond that game, You've now played a wildly
Speaker 4: underperforming Giants offense that you may look like a historic
Speaker 4: Giants passing offense. And you've now played a historically bad
Speaker 4: through the first two weeks offense and Caleb Williams and
Speaker 4: the Bears, and you let them look fantastic. Caleb Williams
Speaker 4: left yesterday's game for the first time in his NFL
Speaker 4: career without.
Speaker 1: Being sacked a single solitary time. His quarterback rating was
Speaker 1: one forty two point six a single sack.
Speaker 6: Not a single sack.
Speaker 5: And as I was told that we could scheme pressure.
Speaker 1: I was told that we could scheme pressure.
Speaker 4: I was told we could scheme pressure, and it's it's
Speaker 4: not happened through those two games. I was also told
Speaker 4: that Jade was brought here to contribute, but he was
Speaker 4: in a track suit yesterday.
Speaker 3: I don't I don't fault that you don't spend a
Speaker 3: week he hasn't had training camp.
Speaker 6: If the Cowboys had had let him go with his
Speaker 6: first visit without without a contract.
Speaker 1: Been a rep count, maybe maybe maybe maybe even then I.
Speaker 7: Think, Okay, so I'm next week. I'm not going to
Speaker 7: speak to the what what Jadevian could have brought to
Speaker 7: this game? I'm not going to bring that conversation. But
Speaker 7: what I what I will address is that you've given
Speaker 7: up seven passing touchdowns in two weeks.
Speaker 1: That's that to who? Everybody the issue? No?
Speaker 8: No, no, no?
Speaker 5: Who are the quarterbacks?
Speaker 4: Can the Bears and the and did you see what
Speaker 4: did Russell Wilson do against the Chiefs yesterday? What did
Speaker 4: maliite neighbors do against the Chiefs yesterday? Elite neighbors barely
Speaker 4: clocked in yesterday. Okay, can I give you the difference
Speaker 4: Week one? I mentioned it was too high safety. Primarily
Speaker 4: you took away their ability to throw the.
Speaker 1: Ball down the field. Did you get a pass rush? No,
Speaker 1: but you took away the receivers.
Speaker 7: And I said, you have to make a decision on
Speaker 7: whether or not you want to stop their ability to
Speaker 7: pass the ball or you want to allow Jalen Hurts
Speaker 7: to hurt you.
Speaker 1: Every now and then by running the ball in front
Speaker 1: of you.
Speaker 7: Sure pregame show yesterday, I mentioned if you had to
Speaker 7: make a decision on what approach you want to take,
Speaker 7: I said, I would much rather you take the bend,
Speaker 7: but don't break method while you keep everybody in front
Speaker 7: of you, because they have a lot of weapons that
Speaker 7: can hurt you, both at tight end and at receiver.
Speaker 7: I said, And if you give Caleb Williams time, he
Speaker 7: can't hurt you. He could throw the ball. There's not
Speaker 7: a pass that he can't make. So you have to
Speaker 7: make a decision. Take away the receiver threat or take
Speaker 7: away Caleb Williams threat. They went single high, right, I
Speaker 7: mean I said it many times. I said, go to
Speaker 7: do what you did week one. Last week you tried
Speaker 7: the single high thing that did not work at all.
Speaker 7: This week you tried the single high thing again and
Speaker 7: in the two high zones. Your guys seemingly don't understand
Speaker 7: what to do. And that I also cannot comprehend because
Speaker 7: those coverage calls that Iberflus is calling, and I know
Speaker 7: the finger's going to get pointed at him because he's
Speaker 7: responsible for the men that's touched the field. Those coverage
Speaker 7: calls are not difficult.
Speaker 8: He is not.
Speaker 1: And I say this just this is me backing him
Speaker 1: in this regard. He's not calling complex coverages. This is
Speaker 1: very simple.
Speaker 7: Now simple for your defenders also means simple to dissect
Speaker 7: for the opposing offenses. Yes, but he has to find
Speaker 7: some kind of effective way to communicate responsibilities to primarily
Speaker 7: I'm speaking to his safeties because that's where a lot
Speaker 7: of these issues the last two weeks have lied. There's
Speaker 7: been a Donovan Wilson issue, has been a Bleak Hooker issue.
Speaker 5: But what you're asking Donovan Wilson to do is not
Speaker 5: play last week.
Speaker 1: That was last week, and this week changed up as
Speaker 1: we could change it up.
Speaker 5: He was going downfield a little more, he.
Speaker 7: Was carrying because they were playing single high, right, So
Speaker 7: he has a responsibility for certain zones, right versus if
Speaker 7: you're playing too high, but everything's coming towards you.
Speaker 1: So that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 7: You're asking guys to do things outside on themselves when
Speaker 7: you try to go to single high. When they went
Speaker 7: too high yesterday, when they did, and when they went
Speaker 7: too high yesterday in one of the red ze situations,
Speaker 7: Malik Hooker had his eyes on DeAndre Swift in the
Speaker 7: backfield going to a flat route when that's not even
Speaker 7: his responsibility. That's where I had the criticism was Malie
Speaker 7: Hooker looked lost multiple occasions yesterday.
Speaker 1: And I mean.
Speaker 3: It's notable to have a bad game as a safety,
Speaker 3: but to look lost in a system with a defensive
Speaker 3: coordinator as one of the few players on this defense
Speaker 3: that have actually played with this defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: Because remember before Malie Cooker was here, where was he?
Speaker 3: He was an Indianapolis who was his defensive coordinator and
Speaker 3: passing game coordinator during his time in Indianapolis, Matt.
Speaker 1: Eberflus, So out of anybody on that defense.
Speaker 3: You should be able to know where to communicate, where
Speaker 3: to be, what type of coverages you're playing, and whether
Speaker 3: it's two high or one high, I don't care. You
Speaker 3: should be in the right place at the right time,
Speaker 3: and there were too many times where he was not
Speaker 3: in the right place at the right time.
Speaker 7: You're absolutely and I will back up your statements by
Speaker 7: giving two examples, two touchdown examples from yesterday, one of
Speaker 7: which was the touchdown to DJ Moore in the back
Speaker 7: in the end zone. That was that was that was
Speaker 7: a match zone right where if somebody comes in your area,
Speaker 7: you're responsible for taking them.
Speaker 3: And you guys can go back and watch this on
Speaker 3: the film. Okay, fans, So is everybody break it down
Speaker 3: last night on game?
Speaker 7: So every j Moore window, well there was a barn
Speaker 7: window there because everybody else who was in coverage on.
Speaker 1: That play had their guy. There's another reason. So people
Speaker 1: come into your zone, you walk my way. I got you.
Speaker 1: You go that way. He has you. Your eyes now
Speaker 1: have to be who comes in my area. Well, Malik
Speaker 1: Hooker was back there at too high looking at the
Speaker 1: running back go to the flat. His eyes were five
Speaker 1: yards behind the line of scrimmage versus the guy that's
Speaker 1: creeping up behind him. He never saw him.
Speaker 7: So that's why that touchdown happened. On the touchdown to
Speaker 7: commit right on the steam route where he was running
Speaker 7: around butt neck it okay, the house she was on
Speaker 7: that was cover three. There was two receivers to the left.
Speaker 7: There was a two tight end set to the right
Speaker 7: that was attached to the line of scrimmage. I mean
Speaker 7: to to the lineman. When those guys, both of those
Speaker 7: tight ends went on a seam route. Malik Hooker was
Speaker 7: on the far left hash. This was that the ball
Speaker 7: was on the right hash. Okay, the ball was on
Speaker 7: the right hand, so the centers lined up on the
Speaker 7: hash right hash. Milik Hooker's body was lined up on
Speaker 7: the far left hash over by the two receiver side.
Speaker 1: He never came off the left hash. As a single
Speaker 1: high safety, Donovan Wilson did not help because he didn't
Speaker 1: get a jam while he was going out to his flat.
Speaker 1: Your responsibility as a flat defenders if somebody threatened your vertical,
Speaker 1: I have to get her what we call a redirect.
Speaker 1: Early in the game, Maris Leafou was in there, gave
Speaker 1: one hell of a redirect to Loveland. Loveland still made
Speaker 1: the play, but that's not on Marrits. He did what
Speaker 1: he could based upon the coverage.
Speaker 7: Donovan Wilson did not get a redirect, and there was
Speaker 7: no safety over there to even remotely make a play
Speaker 7: on either one of those tight ends going to the seam.
Speaker 7: That's why that touchdown happens. So when we start talking
Speaker 7: about communication and we started talking about responsibilities, these are
Speaker 7: the things that we're referring to. Based upon the film
Speaker 7: and based upon the understanding of the coverages that are
Speaker 7: being called. These are not complex defenses. So I again,
Speaker 7: I know people are going to get on Eberflut. This
Speaker 7: is his unit, this is his responsibility. Something's not getting
Speaker 7: conveyed properly. But these are coverages that you learn in
Speaker 7: high school, in middle school. You master them in high school,
Speaker 7: and then you add wrinkles to them in college, and
Speaker 7: then at the NFL you start messing around with the
Speaker 7: way in which they look and pre snapping all that stuff.
Speaker 7: These are simplistic line up, this is your area type
Speaker 7: plays and the ball is getting dropped.
Speaker 4: You know what would make worse on top of everything
Speaker 4: being true, is you came into this season, you had
Speaker 4: the overhaul in the coaching staff, bringing Matt abra Flus
Speaker 4: Herald at linebacker's coach.
Speaker 1: You know you know what he can do.
Speaker 4: He's coming back to the Dallas Cowboys as DC great, wonderful,
Speaker 4: all the field goods. Okay, now you're three weeks in,
Speaker 4: and two of those three weeks you've your defense for
Speaker 4: all of the reasons that we are saying, has become
Speaker 4: the punching bag and the punchline. So other teams are
Speaker 4: now using you as the get right game that that
Speaker 4: is this early in the season, this early in the season.
Speaker 1: You're the get right game. The Giants use you as
Speaker 1: a get right game.
Speaker 4: They couldn't transfer it over because the Chiefs looked at
Speaker 4: what the Cowboys did against Russell Wilson and elite neighbors
Speaker 4: and Onondale Robinson Is said do the opposite of that. Okay,
Speaker 4: now you go against Caleb Williams. You're the only team
Speaker 4: that can't get a sack on Caleb Williams. You can't
Speaker 4: knock them off his spot consistently. Guy is wide open
Speaker 4: in the back of the end zone, just sitting there
Speaker 4: filing their taxes proactively.
Speaker 1: And let me get this out the way. Oh by
Speaker 1: the way, look what I found a touchdown? Right? It
Speaker 1: just at every level. And then when you talk about
Speaker 1: you mentioned the name.
Speaker 4: How many times are we going to say Mary Cleaphile,
Speaker 4: can we get more reps from Mary Cleaphile? You're going
Speaker 4: against these mobile quarterbacks, and you don't have a linebacker
Speaker 4: on the field that has the speed and the athleticism to.
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Speaker 1: But I know fans are frustrated, and I mean hit it.
Speaker 6: I at least it's frustrated and looking Yesterday, one of
Speaker 6: my favorite pieces from yesterday, Nick Eatman had a column
Speaker 6: about what the problem is on defense? Oh, the problem
Speaker 6: being the pass rush and being non existent. You're not
Speaker 6: able to get to the quarterback, there's no threat there.
Speaker 6: And he argued that with a certain pass rusher that
Speaker 6: you have that is now in Green Bay, the Cowboys
Speaker 6: might be three and zero. And now that's a bold statement,
Speaker 6: and I understand where he's coming from. He loves the
Speaker 6: way that Michael Parsons plays. Of course, I can counter
Speaker 6: that and say, I imagine if we did have Michael Parsons,
Speaker 6: I don't think we would be allowing only three yards
Speaker 6: per carry in the run game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a give and take there.
Speaker 5: Kenny Clark is a big part of it.
Speaker 6: But I'd argue that two of the guys that you
Speaker 6: let go in the off season because you were trying
Speaker 6: to sign Michael Parsons would have changed your record by now,
Speaker 6: that being Jordan Lewis, who had has two interceptions on
Speaker 6: the season already. DeMarcus Lawrence's playing really well in Seattle.
Speaker 6: If the Micah Parsons trade conversation was a little earlier
Speaker 6: on in the off season, had you had that forethought,
Speaker 6: of course, you couldn't foresee what the Michael Parsons drama
Speaker 6: would lead to. But it's really painful to see that
Speaker 6: two of the best guys that you had on the
Speaker 6: defensive side of the ball. Who contribut did a lot
Speaker 6: to you? And who were the leaders on your team?
Speaker 6: Who are you were in desperate lack of this year?
Speaker 6: Are being leaders for other teams and guys that you
Speaker 6: could use right now.
Speaker 4: All I'm saying is I hope that that the fans,
Speaker 4: that small pocket of fans that couldn't, you know, find
Speaker 4: a way to appreciate Jordan Lewis.
Speaker 1: I hope you found it.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 1: There.
Speaker 3: I think most of our listeners, because we've talked about
Speaker 3: it over and over again.
Speaker 1: On That's why I say that small pocket small most.
Speaker 3: Of the listeners to talk and know the value of
Speaker 3: Jordan Lewis, and when he left, knew the value of
Speaker 3: Jordan Lewis. I think it may have been a split
Speaker 3: opinion on the Marcus Lawrence, but the fact is he's
Speaker 3: playing decent football with Seattle.
Speaker 6: And those are guys you could be right now use
Speaker 6: you would have the cap space for right now.
Speaker 3: Absolutely totally what And I know there's a conversation of
Speaker 3: go get a pass rusher, go get I know I
Speaker 3: know there's a guy in Cleveland that people want to
Speaker 3: trade for. I get all that. I understand this team
Speaker 3: is not one guy away in my opinion. I mean,
Speaker 3: I see and I don't even agree with and I
Speaker 3: think that's a debate from everybody.
Speaker 5: I think it's a solid I think it's a solid argument.
Speaker 1: It's a real argument. But I don't think so.
Speaker 3: I think I would say, maybe you get the Philly
Speaker 3: game because you get one extra close, but you also
Speaker 3: probably don't shut down sakuon Barkley and they just run
Speaker 3: it over and over and over and over and over it.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so let's saying you have to take the good one.
Speaker 6: Yet I think Kenny Clark is adding to your defense
Speaker 6: right now.
Speaker 5: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: I just don't think even with Kenny Clark here now,
Speaker 3: in this current situation, this defense is not one player away.
Speaker 3: Judavian Clowney might help. Sounds good, love it. You've already
Speaker 3: made that decision. Let's see what he can do once
Speaker 3: he ramps up and gets in the game shape.
Speaker 1: I don't think. Yeah, the back end is not good.
Speaker 1: You might get dron blam back this week.
Speaker 3: Who knows Trayvon Diggs is not either one hundred percent
Speaker 3: healthy or not the same.
Speaker 5: Just as an end as a whole, arguably a liability.
Speaker 1: This season, it has been so far, so there's a
Speaker 1: lot to slip defensive side. You didn't like that last night?
Speaker 6: Why would you have? I'm up there to press.
Speaker 1: She went over this last night. Tell me we were
Speaker 1: talking about the flee flicker.
Speaker 7: Yeah, yes, yes, Two players on the flee flicker were
Speaker 7: able to dissect exactly what was going on. That was
Speaker 7: Ready Ready Stewart and Kenneth Murray only two players that
Speaker 7: were able to look at the offensive lineman and understand
Speaker 7: that they were not blocking downfield and that it was
Speaker 7: a pass. They immediately retreated. Ready Stewart immediately put his
Speaker 7: arm up and said cross or crosser. For whatever reason,
Speaker 7: Malie Hooker, being eighteen nineteen yards away from where the
Speaker 7: action was taking place, stepped forward as if he was
Speaker 7: coming downhill to go play the run from twenty yards away.
Speaker 7: Two players, two players got past him cover three deeper
Speaker 7: than the deepest a lot two players to get there.
Speaker 7: Because you're playing run from twenty yards away. This is
Speaker 7: the communication and the understanding of your responsibility is that
Speaker 7: it's hard for us to comprehend.
Speaker 5: That's overplaying your hands.
Speaker 1: That's overplaying your responsibility.
Speaker 6: Responsibility if you're trying to clean up further when you
Speaker 6: need to.
Speaker 5: Worry about there.
Speaker 7: There's certain keys, by the way, as as your position.
Speaker 7: Your position requires certain keys to help you do your
Speaker 7: job more effectively. The front seven, okay, or mainly the
Speaker 7: linebackers okay, the second level defenders, and even at the
Speaker 7: third level defenders. I'm looking at the office, a linement
Speaker 7: at the office alignment or never crossing the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 7: Most likely a pass, all right, right, most likely to
Speaker 7: pass right. So that's why huge town. That's why Ready Stewart,
Speaker 7: and that's why Murray. Both they step forward and they
Speaker 7: immediately retract it because they're like, oh pass, Oh no,
Speaker 7: I can't see the ball right now, but this is
Speaker 7: a pass. It's a pass, right, So ready Stewart media
Speaker 7: put his hand up. Now they did that from seven
Speaker 7: yards away from from the action. Yeah, twenty yards away.
Speaker 7: We have somebody stepping forward. And when you step forward
Speaker 7: when other guys are running full speed, your your chances
Speaker 7: of opening your hips up and catching them slim to none. Right,
Speaker 7: So now your deepest guy, who supposed to be deeper
Speaker 7: than the deepest, is now trailing, and that's why you
Speaker 7: have a touchdown. So that's what happened on the flea
Speaker 7: figure for those that are that have not had an
Speaker 7: opportunity to go watch the film, So.
Speaker 1: Not diagnosing the play, yeah, well, or quickly enough or
Speaker 1: at all.
Speaker 3: I like the way that Floyd just put this in
Speaker 3: the comments. He just said, that's just not being good
Speaker 3: at football. So it doesn't have to be brained.
Speaker 1: Speak speaking is not good at football. I don't hear that.
Speaker 1: I don't want to up some people.
Speaker 7: I don't want to pour salt on the woe, but
Speaker 7: I'll do it because I've already watched the film. The
Speaker 7: touchdown that you had to to George Piggins, Yep, it's
Speaker 7: not a touchdown. We have men down the field office,
Speaker 7: linemen across the line of scrimmage. You know what that
Speaker 7: brings me to. That brings me to the next next
Speaker 7: topic of the next topic of we're.
Speaker 3: Talking about is you're talking about the pickens one handed
Speaker 3: because one hand grab.
Speaker 7: We had linemen in the end zone past the line
Speaker 7: of scrimmage. It ain't called luckily. I'm just saying, like,
Speaker 7: even your.
Speaker 1: Positive play should have been should have been a flat.
Speaker 4: Which goes to the next area of concern. The discipline
Speaker 4: is moving in the wrong direction. Now, it was great
Speaker 4: in Philly, great discipline in Philly. Now we're starting to
Speaker 4: see those issues crop back up.
Speaker 1: It's like you're guess, second guessing everything. Yeah, second guessing
Speaker 1: yourself and in the wrong direction.
Speaker 6: It is indicative of a team that has not fully
Speaker 6: changed their culture like they have claimed to have. This
Speaker 6: feels a lot like those losses with McCarthy, where this
Speaker 6: is a team, it's the Bears, it is the Chicago Bears,
Speaker 6: it is Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1: I would argue it's worth a one point six quarterback exactly.
Speaker 3: I would argue because of all that, it's worse also
Speaker 3: not to make sure the USC US some of those
Speaker 3: those losses that we're talking about, other than maybe the
Speaker 3: San Francisco loss that was like a week this felt
Speaker 3: like the Saints loss. Saints loss that was in week two.
Speaker 3: I didn't see as much frustration and just downright bad
Speaker 3: communication in that game as we did in this game.
Speaker 1: And it's week three and it felt like they threw
Speaker 1: in the flag. They threw in the towel in Week three.
Speaker 3: This is in a week fourteen, Week fifteen where you're
Speaker 3: eliminated from playoff contingent.
Speaker 1: This is a different, different look across the.
Speaker 6: Pad we speaking of throwing in the towel. I want
Speaker 6: to bring up from our post game last night and
Speaker 6: we're talking about one Joe Milton. We did talk about
Speaker 6: that five or six minutes left in the game and
Speaker 6: it was four.
Speaker 1: To one, four twenty one left, three possession game. Reverend
Speaker 1: spam Ford.
Speaker 3: Reverend spam Ford broke open. It was a holding call
Speaker 3: that had to have everything he could just try to
Speaker 3: score on that plank too. That was pretty sweet though.
Speaker 6: Isaia SAand back. What were your thoughts on Joe Milton
Speaker 6: entering the game at four minutes in fifteen seconds.
Speaker 7: Well, first of all, I apologized on our t because
Speaker 7: I miscalculated the point differential.
Speaker 1: In my head we were there's a two point a
Speaker 1: two possession game. It wasn't. So I apologized for all
Speaker 1: those that were that are angry at me for that
Speaker 1: I missed.
Speaker 7: Both like two different tweets, both you and I appreciate
Speaker 7: and I sometimes apparently yeah, apparently not. We were emotional
Speaker 7: last night. Yeah, we were emotional last We were so
Speaker 7: we were. I apologize for that.
Speaker 1: I understand it now.
Speaker 7: So I go back and I apologize to coach for
Speaker 7: my my sentiments in the first word segment.
Speaker 1: I still would have liked to see Dak.
Speaker 7: In there, but I understand think it was too early,
Speaker 7: but I understand why, and that in all respect to Shaddy,
Speaker 7: he might have got a phone call. He might have
Speaker 7: got a phone call because I think a player two
Speaker 7: before that, those guys feel right at the knees.
Speaker 1: Of that that was the one that got rolled up
Speaker 1: on and so or the rough in the past.
Speaker 7: That might have been a get him out of there
Speaker 7: type of deal. So I'm not I don't know right,
Speaker 7: but again I apologize to him for my initial sentiments.
Speaker 7: Not understand the differential points, but I understand if that
Speaker 7: was his decision, that was right off the heels of
Speaker 7: Dak almost getting his knee blown out, Yeah, so I
Speaker 7: could I could be a little empathetic to the fact
Speaker 7: that get him out of there. So in any other scenario, yeah,
Speaker 7: I would say maybe too early, but I do understand
Speaker 7: if that was a fear for him, you were this
Speaker 7: close to losing your quarterback. Matter of fact, I jumped
Speaker 7: out of my seat and was like, holy crap, because
Speaker 7: they panned away from it and you didn't see what
Speaker 7: happened to Dak.
Speaker 1: All I saw was to do going right at his knee.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was rough.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Isaiah thought it was really bad. And I don't
Speaker 3: blame him because I missed it. I was looking at
Speaker 3: the ball, I was looking at whatever else was happening,
Speaker 3: So I wasn't watching Dak in the backfield. And when
Speaker 3: they went back and looked at it, it very easily
Speaker 3: would have been a bad situation.
Speaker 7: But good, good on But good on him for coming
Speaker 7: in and being prepared. He came in and threw some
Speaker 7: nice balls. Yeah, he came in through some nice ball.
Speaker 4: And they fought back from down fourteen three fourteen, all right,
Speaker 4: And then think again, Ceedee Lamb left the game and
Speaker 4: the identity went with it, and you're one in two
Speaker 4: and the two losses that you have are because either
Speaker 4: CD Lamb didn't show up for you and feel like
Speaker 4: you needed to in the second half, or he wasn't
Speaker 4: available to play in the game. So you have two
Speaker 4: losses tied around Ceedee Lamb. You have, and that's credit
Speaker 4: to emphasize the import that's credit to the importance and
Speaker 4: the value of ceed Lamb. But you also have to
Speaker 4: adapt quickly, and it's not as if you don't have
Speaker 4: We talked about George Biggins. It's not as if you
Speaker 4: don't have an alternate wide receiver one. He's not Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 4: But in these instances, which is likely one of the
Speaker 4: reasons that he was so frustrated yesterday, in these instances,
Speaker 4: you have to be the one to take over there.
Speaker 4: You should be enough in that you have to be
Speaker 4: the one to take over the game. And he wants
Speaker 4: to prove to the league that he can be that guy.
Speaker 4: When a guy like Ceede Lamb goes down, it has
Speaker 4: to be your show.
Speaker 1: And let's talk about that when we come back on
Speaker 1: the other side of the break.
Speaker 3: How if Cede Lamb is going to miss time, which
Speaker 3: certainly seems like a possibility, where do you go outside
Speaker 3: of that going into this Week four matchup with the
Speaker 3: Green Bay Packers.
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Speaker 3: I don't even know what's the monday? What's the I
Speaker 3: know it's a Monday, but like what's an M word for? Like?
Speaker 1: Messed up Monday? Yeah, manic Monday? Oh yeah, Okay, yeah, Monday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right that one too. I can't even do the acronym.
Speaker 1: How about this embarrassing Monday. That's a that's a little,
Speaker 1: that's a read.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, Patrick knows you Walker Chock Isaiah stand back.
Speaker 1: I give it all.
Speaker 3: I give it an effort all the time, all the time.
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Speaker 3: in the back of Kyle Yeomans.
Speaker 1: All right, we just started the conversation.
Speaker 3: Ceedee Lamb a big part of the Week one loss
Speaker 3: because of the drops and some of the miscues in
Speaker 3: the second half of that game. He was not available
Speaker 3: for the entirety of this game. So you're one and two,
Speaker 3: one and zero. When Ceedee Lamb is available and a.
Speaker 1: Threat and playing and playing well.
Speaker 3: He of course goes down with that injury early in
Speaker 3: the game. He did say after the game he feels
Speaker 3: like he can play going into weeks We'll see. It's
Speaker 3: different when you get on the flight and you get
Speaker 3: home and then you get get get.
Speaker 1: Yeah, flow to that area.
Speaker 3: There's a little bit of time between now and that
Speaker 3: Week four matchup with that Green Bay Packers team that's
Speaker 3: going to challenge him again.
Speaker 1: So we'll see. We'll see if Ceede Lamb is not
Speaker 1: available or if he is available going into.
Speaker 6: That matchup, it's a Sunday night game, a little extra.
Speaker 1: Time, a larkie Monday lark. Your ankle requires you to
Speaker 1: change directions? Yes, it does. And what is CD best
Speaker 1: at doing changing direction?
Speaker 4: I don't see him practicing in all this week? And
Speaker 4: then we'll see if he even takes a few.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Josh, when you looked at the offense without him,
Speaker 3: of course they weren't able to adjust in this matchup.
Speaker 3: But how do you adjust with an entire week of
Speaker 3: heads up that you're not going to have your playmaker
Speaker 3: and you have a playmaker that is either not playing
Speaker 3: well or not giving complete one hundred effort of the time.
Speaker 6: Well, of course you want to look at George Pickens.
Speaker 6: You want to look at George Pickens and what he's
Speaker 6: able to provide to you in just terms of talent.
Speaker 6: But if he's going to be your number one guy
Speaker 6: for the foreseeable future, that being you know, a week,
Speaker 6: maybe two, I don't know, who knows, but he needs
Speaker 6: to be more disciplined and when it comes to run blocking,
Speaker 6: that's a big thing for George Pickens. I think it's
Speaker 6: been arguably sloppy. I don't want to use that float
Speaker 6: just throw that term around, but it's just not clean.
Speaker 1: You can say borderline sloppy, borderline sloppy. It's not completely clean,
Speaker 1: but it's not completely sloppy at the same time.
Speaker 6: And Dak's interception wasn't a bad throw.
Speaker 1: That was just a drop.
Speaker 6: That was a drop that was bad concentration on George
Speaker 6: Pickens party. He's trying to make a play completely understandable,
Speaker 6: but you're putting your team in a bad situation. I
Speaker 6: like George Pickens that the way he can bribe to you,
Speaker 6: but he needs to be disciplined. If he's going to
Speaker 6: be the number one guy for you. It's one thing
Speaker 6: for him to take a step back and just do
Speaker 6: his thing when he has CD on the other side,
Speaker 6: But when he's that guy, he is that guy. Cavanti
Speaker 6: Turpin people in the comment saying that he needs to
Speaker 6: step up. I don't know what else more he needs
Speaker 6: to do. But if you saw that shot he took,
Speaker 6: going thirty seven yards down the field, holding onto that
Speaker 6: ball while getting demolished on the sideline while dealing with
Speaker 6: the next singer, he showed out for you.
Speaker 5: He really did.
Speaker 6: I don't think the Cowboys put enough there for you.
Speaker 6: And a big thing, Dak, I mean fourteen attempts to one.
Speaker 6: Jake Ferguson, I know he was my offensive X factor
Speaker 6: of the week.
Speaker 1: This is my fault. I get it.
Speaker 6: I understand because I thought he was going to clean
Speaker 6: up all but seventy yards, you.
Speaker 1: Know on twelve checkdown.
Speaker 5: I mean that that's rough. You don't want to see that.
Speaker 6: You want to see Jake Ferguson get down the field man,
Speaker 6: the yak yardist isn't there for Jake Ferguson when he's
Speaker 6: catching the ball, he's getting tackled. That to me is
Speaker 6: not great for a guy that you just extended to
Speaker 6: a large contractor you know, a team friendly contract, but
Speaker 6: a large contract. Nonetheless, he needs to be an X
Speaker 6: factor for you more than what we give him credit for.
Speaker 6: Uh And Javonte Williams is your best weapon currently without ceedee,
Speaker 6: lamb out there and please run on lean on the
Speaker 6: run game because if anything, that's going to let you
Speaker 6: hold onto the ball longer.
Speaker 1: Now, now, you just need to give George Pickins a handoff.
Speaker 6: No, let's not do that, please, don't do that, George, George,
Speaker 6: I think we're done with that now.
Speaker 7: My frustration, please George, of fact, that my frustration with George.
Speaker 7: I know that's kind of what we were kind of hitting.
Speaker 7: George is fully capable of a lot. Yes, I mean
Speaker 7: the Javonte Williams run that he got chicken stripped on.
Speaker 7: That play doesn't happen if that play doesn't happen, if
Speaker 7: George Picker doesn't get a block. Yeah, George Pickens got
Speaker 7: the hot spring that that that sprung that rightist. It's
Speaker 7: the consistency, is the willingness to exert that effort that's
Speaker 7: required on a per down basis.
Speaker 1: Now you can look and say, well you can't. Who
Speaker 1: is it that we had here? That was the safety?
Speaker 1: I say, you can't give one hundred percent every play.
Speaker 1: It was Exavier Woods. Xavier Woods said that, No, No,
Speaker 1: it was that was Adobe, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you can say that, right, there's no way to
Speaker 3: give one hundred percent effort everything.
Speaker 1: That was, Yes, it was Hm, you got picking. I
Speaker 1: don't know, pick and choose your battles, I guess, but
Speaker 1: you need you need to see more at a draw.
Speaker 7: I did not see a sense of urgency to step
Speaker 7: into the one spot after c D left, and that's
Speaker 7: that's what more Soul was like, I'm watching it and
Speaker 7: I'm waiting and I'm looking. I'm like, it doesn't it
Speaker 7: seem like his effort level stepped up. It doesn't seem
Speaker 7: like his route running stepped up. He was there was
Speaker 7: a sticky paper on him when he did have one
Speaker 7: on one matchups, there was no separation. There was times
Speaker 7: where he ran slants that ball got deflected his he
Speaker 7: kind of stair stepped his slant routes instead of coming flat.
Speaker 7: There was times where he ran stop routes and a
Speaker 7: guy literally ran the route for him. So like there
Speaker 7: wasn't a sense of this is your now your number
Speaker 7: one guy. Tolbert ran really good routes. But we have
Speaker 7: our our you know, evidence on Tolbert as well, but
Speaker 7: you know that. But he is your returning touchdown, you know,
Speaker 7: leader from last year. So I mean there's a lot, man,
Speaker 7: there's a lot. You know, you expect George to step
Speaker 7: into it because we've talked about there's no one A,
Speaker 7: there's no one beat. It's just you know us, it's CD,
Speaker 7: it's CD, and then it's everybody else.
Speaker 4: It's more dis points the expectation, like you need George
Speaker 4: to step into that facts. So in the event CD
Speaker 4: misses time, even if it's just one week against the
Speaker 4: Green Bay Packers, George is trying to earn himself some
Speaker 4: money this year.
Speaker 1: You're trying to earn yourself some money.
Speaker 4: You have to show every play, whether you're the target
Speaker 4: or not the target, that you are full speed through
Speaker 4: the route, through the break, that you're a full speed
Speaker 4: through the run block every single time. Like you pointed out,
Speaker 4: great run block on that Javonte Williams break, great run block.
Speaker 4: Do it again, and then do it again, and then
Speaker 4: do it again. But as it stands, cowboys are one
Speaker 4: and two. Could be two, and one, could be three
Speaker 4: and oh could be but you're not.
Speaker 1: You're one and two.
Speaker 4: Now you're going up against a pissed off Green Bay
Speaker 4: Packers team that just lost at the wire to the
Speaker 4: Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 5: I thought there were world beaters.
Speaker 1: They weren't. They got to be by the Browns.
Speaker 6: Huh.
Speaker 1: However, it doesn't exactly work in your favorite Yeah, but
Speaker 1: don't because they're piss but the Brown but also also
Speaker 1: the Brown.
Speaker 7: The Browns have the number one defense in the league, Like,
Speaker 7: let's give the respect there like this, it's not like
Speaker 7: they're playing something just the Browns were just terrible on
Speaker 7: The Browns have the number one defense in the league,
Speaker 7: so they said, were able to stop the running attack
Speaker 7: in the passing of green Bak right, they have a
Speaker 7: pass rush out of this world. They have guys that
Speaker 7: can cover in the secondary. They will hit you in
Speaker 7: your mouth. So let's let's give the respect to Cleveland
Speaker 7: and that regard. They're not world beaters. Green Bay had
Speaker 7: did not have the data they wanted, but it was
Speaker 7: because of the defense that Cleveland had.
Speaker 4: Yes, No, that being said, who has run out of
Speaker 4: the worst defense or one of the worst listen, Okay,
Speaker 4: so my point being.
Speaker 7: You needn't be worried about that number one. You need
Speaker 7: to be worried about everything, all of it, all of it.
Speaker 7: At this point, coming out of that Bears game, you
Speaker 7: can't piecemeal it.
Speaker 4: Now, coming out of the Giants game, you could say, okay, well,
Speaker 4: the offense can shoot you out right, can shoot it
Speaker 4: out with you get maybe win a barn burner like
Speaker 4: they did against the Giants and defense. That will give
Speaker 4: you some time to figure it out. But then you
Speaker 4: saw Ceedee Lamb go. Now, we don't know if he's
Speaker 4: available against the Packers. Now you're wondering can they shoot
Speaker 4: it out on offense while your defense is possibly giving
Speaker 4: up more chunk plays. And then you throw in the
Speaker 4: fact that number one is over there wanting he's going
Speaker 4: to get sick, you know what I mean, So that
Speaker 4: you have very real concerns because what you can't do,
Speaker 4: but this is what you're facing, a possible one in
Speaker 4: three star. Let's say, let's say you get right again
Speaker 4: the JITs in the Panthers.
Speaker 1: I don't know that you can.
Speaker 9: You just.
Speaker 1: Bears.
Speaker 4: Okay, so who knows this back end of the season.
Speaker 4: Good God, Okay, you're gonna we got it.
Speaker 5: We got it, Josh, Yeah, just really quickly.
Speaker 6: I don't think I know that with the full arsenal
Speaker 6: he has, even if Ceedee Lamb is one hundred percent healthy,
Speaker 6: even if you have George Pickens out there, there is
Speaker 6: nothing that the offense can do to outplay how bad
Speaker 6: this defense is performed. No, you can't take any game
Speaker 6: for granted. This was the part of the season where
Speaker 6: the Cowboy was supposed to stack those wins. Because it's
Speaker 6: not getting an easier in the last half of the season.
Speaker 6: You're supposed to win these games. You don't. And this
Speaker 6: is where we're at.
Speaker 3: And that's what happens when you have Pete Carroll Colin
Speaker 3: pass plays at the one yard line. I mean, Brian
Speaker 3: Shott and I am are calling pass plays at the
Speaker 3: one yard line over and over again.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of things to break down.
Speaker 3: Like we just talked about for the last fifty one
Speaker 3: minutes and thirty seconds, you gotta get something right. You
Speaker 3: gotta find some level of positive. There were positives in
Speaker 3: week one, there were some less positives, but at least
Speaker 3: a win in week two.
Speaker 1: Tough stuff. Here. Go watch the film. People, you have
Speaker 1: access to it, Go.
Speaker 3: Find it, Go get it done for Patrick Docy, Walker,
Speaker 3: Josh Rodriguez, Isaiah standback. I'm Kyle Yewmens. We'll be back tomorrow.
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