WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Short Week, Short Memory 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:05.840 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:17.640 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:17.640 --> 0:00:21.040 screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:33.639 Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Brons, Rob Phillips, 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:39.040 and Bill Jones. What's up. Welcome inside thees WBC Mortgage studio. 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:45.240 This is Talking Cowboys on a Wednesday. Rob Phillips in studio, 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.199 hosting for Bill Jones, who's doing his TV thing just 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:51.160 down the hall, Kent Garrison producing next door. I'm joined 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:53.880 as always by Brian brought us and eventually Mickey Spagnola 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:56.680 might pop his head in here and join us. Do 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:00.560 his job. He's doing his radio job right radio, right now, 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:02.480 so I wouldn't be too critical of that. But he's 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:04.319 got this podcast job coming up here in a couple 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:07.760 of minutes. Yeah. And uh, like I said, cowboys back 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:11.040 to practice on a short week, probably good. That is 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.640 just absolutely it's good. Let's go play football. Put this 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:17.240 thing to bed, don't view this tape from Tennessee quickly, 0:01:17.880 --> 0:01:20.479 get it behind him and try to move on. Yeah, 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:22.280 the head coach, he even talked about that, you know, 0:01:22.319 --> 0:01:24.440 you look at some of the positive things that they 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:27.800 had happened in the game, talk about those, kind of 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:30.280 talk a little bit about the some of the other 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:33.560 things that didn't go as well as it needed to 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:35.959 clean that up, and yeah, it's a short week, quit 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:39.000 quick turnaround. The good thing about it, though, is that 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:40.920 you do have a little bit extra time because it 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.759 is a night game, so you know the next week 0:01:43.800 --> 0:01:45.720 after that is going to be the real trick where 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.120 you get back off a plane and then turn around 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:50.480 and have to get ready for a basically a noon 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.680 game against Atlanta the following week. So this is where 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:55.640 they gave you all that time off. This is where 0:01:55.680 --> 0:01:58.640 it all starts to shrink and compress, you know, and 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:02.680 the games start to become fast and furious, and you know, 0:02:02.720 --> 0:02:05.280 hopefully you're ready to handle that. Garrett was talking about 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:06.880 it was more of a mental thing that it was 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:09.480 physical with his team. So let's see if that's in 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:12.239 fact the case. You're right. Monday or Sunday night football 0:02:12.880 --> 0:02:15.880 at Philadelphia one of two matchups in the division, key 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.200 matchups obviously with the Cowboys two games back. You can 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:20.760 join us. By the way, eight five five to two 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:24.360 ninety seven is the number over the next hour. Mickey Spagnola, welcome, 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:27.160 I'm gonna join you. How are you They make you 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:30.120 pay for a bye, don't they Well, in this case 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:32.480 they do, yeah, in this case they try. They try. 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.000 You know, I was wondering, did any team and I'm 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:37.000 sorry this is off the track, but they give you 0:02:37.040 --> 0:02:39.480 also the option of, if you play in London, not 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:41.880 to take the bye right after, to go ahead and 0:02:41.919 --> 0:02:44.400 play the following week and then have a bye during 0:02:44.440 --> 0:02:48.480 another portion of the of the season. Has anybody done 0:02:48.520 --> 0:02:51.640 that this year? Tennessee? One year, I think the Colts 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:53.079 talked about doing I think it was a Colt that 0:02:53.120 --> 0:02:55.400 did it. But anyway, but yeah, these buys they give 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:57.760 you time off and then they say, okay, well now 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.360 you're going to be part of the rotation, like they 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:02.320 penalized you. Well, I don't know about that. I mean, 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:04.919 the Cowboys had an extra day after the buye they 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.200 had a Monday night game, so it was almost it 0:03:07.240 --> 0:03:09.600 wasn't like two buys, but I mean they had another weekend. 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:12.160 But now they're off. But now they're making you play 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:16.280 on the road on a short week at night and 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:19.760 then on the road again on an early week on 0:03:19.760 --> 0:03:23.360 an early week and then you play Thanksgiving and you 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:25.919 didn't get that time off after Thanksgiving and got to 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:29.760 play the next Thursday before you get your ten days Thanksgivings. 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:32.480 Part of the deal. We know that. And they do 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:36.280 have a noon kickoff the Sunday before Thanksgiving, but it's 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:38.120 on the road. It's on the road, but it's not 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:41.240 Didn't they have a night game at Philly? Oh yeah, yeah, 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:44.160 and they got they got beat bad on Thanksgiving, right yau. 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:48.600 Clearly time and travel lost Monday by time you got 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:52.680 back and you basically had Tuesday and Wednesdays a walkthrough 0:03:52.760 --> 0:03:55.000 and okay, let's go play. This is just like them 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:59.080 to go win this game against Philly, though you know, well, 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:01.680 you know what, yeah, I mean, if you look at it, look, 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.880 Philadelphia's been bad at home again. They lost two games 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:07.040 in a row, lost to Minnesota, and I watched that 0:04:07.160 --> 0:04:11.720 Carolina game. They're up seventeen and nothing. Imagine the Cowboys 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:13.960 being up seventeen nothing and losing a game in the 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.800 fourth quarter of the way they did. I'm sure philadelph 0:04:16.839 --> 0:04:19.240 their fans are pretty rugged too, but thinking they won 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:21.279 the Super Bowl, they'd be asking a fire to coach 0:04:21.839 --> 0:04:25.479 I mean, what's their best win Jacksonville before the bye? 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:29.920 Their best win beating Jacksonville is no big deal. Their 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:34.240 best win I would say season opener against Atlanta. Yeah, 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.440 they lost. Yeah, we didn't know what really what Atlanta 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:39.039 was then and we still don't really blew out the 0:04:39.040 --> 0:04:43.120 Giants on the road. The Giants then their backup quarterback 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:45.720 played on the first two weeks the season. I mean 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:48.000 they were on the same course the Cowboys were lose 0:04:48.200 --> 0:04:51.000 win one lose, one win, one lose win, then they won. 0:04:51.360 --> 0:04:53.720 They lost two in a row, and then won this 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.479 this last week coming off the bye. Yeah, we'll see 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:59.640 how they respond to that. Um. I mean they struggled 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:04.480 with jack Xonville, didn't they. Yeah, initially they I thought 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:06.960 that game was a little bit in control. The game 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:09.479 that was amazing me was Carolina. How they let that 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:11.880 one get out of their hands. You know, Cam Newton, 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:13.960 you watched the fourth quarter of that game, You're thinking, like, 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.760 where's the pass rush and where's their past defense, you know, 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.600 and the and they you know with Carolina, and I 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:22.840 was encouraged by some of the things. Usually when you 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:25.719 play Philadelphia, you don't think about running the football, but 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.200 their back was able to hit some players on the outside, 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:30.000 you know, able to bounce the ball a little bit, 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.440 get around the edge. I mean that's you know, you 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:34.400 think with Philadelphia that you're amalily not going to be 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.720 able to run the football because of Fletcher Cox and 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.640 what they had with Helodi Nada. Now if Fletcher Cox 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:42.200 is still a great player, don't get me wrong about that, 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:44.520 but I mean, you know, there were some things that 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.520 did give me some hope, you know, And there's some 0:05:47.600 --> 0:05:50.159 things offensively that gave me some hope. I was gonna 0:05:50.200 --> 0:05:56.039 ask you that coming out of You're full on tape review. Yeah. Yeah, 0:05:56.080 --> 0:05:58.800 I was encouraged by I was encouraged by the way 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:03.000 this is an office of line with Jason Peters now playing, 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.560 you know, and the way this is a big line 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.919 and the being i mean big, big in size, and 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:13.839 they don't move all that well. So if you're the Cowboys, 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:17.679 what's your strength your offense, your defensive line's ability to move, 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:22.479 your ability to to twist, to move the front. You know, 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:27.240 I see the Cowboys having some advantage against this Philadelphia 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:30.600 offensive line when it comes to rushing the passer. Now, 0:06:30.640 --> 0:06:32.600 you're gonna have to prove that you can, you know, 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:36.720 Corey Clement and Smallwood and Adams. You know, they're gonna 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:38.919 run three backs at you. But you got to be 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.800 ready for that. And you know, if you if you 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.800 can kind of handle that. And you know, I still 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:48.480 have my thoughts about Carson Wentz. You know, there's some 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:50.720 throw he made a couple of throws in a Jacksonville 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.320 game and I'm thinking, okay, what are you doing? You know, 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.400 pressure in the middle, he just tries to climb the pocket, 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:58.800 throws an interception, you know, Jalen Ramsey and the end 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.440 his end zone. Still working his way back and his 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:03.240 way back. But you know, and I'm not trying to 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.960 sugarcoat things here, but there's things you're watching the tape 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:08.760 that you say, Okay, well, it's not like watching the 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:11.520 Rams or the Saints or these Kansas City that where 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:13.880 the offense is just kind of humming along, you know, 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:16.400 and you're like, now they've made a big addition going 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.320 out and getting golden taps. Huge, that's gonna be that's 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:21.080 gonna be a that's gonna be a good gid for them. 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.920 But all Sean Jeffrey's difficult. But you know, Carson Wentz 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:27.080 has been a little erotic throwing the football. My guess is, 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:32.960 if the Cowboys didn't lay an egg against Tennessee going 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:35.520 into this game on Sunday, there would be some people 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:39.040 picking the Cowboys to go on the road and beat Philadelphia. Yeah, 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:45.040 because they haven't been Philadelphia. Yeah. But the Cowboys, certainly, 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.320 the way they played in this last game, it's like 0:07:47.360 --> 0:07:49.760 they give you a little hope. Yeah. I mean, it's 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.400 just you worry about all of a sudden, where did 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.280 this third down stuff crop up? From? Where did the 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.320 third down lack of You know, for seven weeks you've 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:02.200 been really good and past defense, if you want to say, 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:04.880 and you know, not giving up big plays or giving 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:08.840 up third downs opponents worth thirty nine percent converting third downs, 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:12.400 that's really good. Yeah, it's it's it's it's yeah, and 0:08:12.480 --> 0:08:15.480 that's solid. It's one of the that's that's that's where. 0:08:15.560 --> 0:08:17.680 That's where. Now you're saying, okay, we're now you're you're 0:08:17.720 --> 0:08:19.680 you're looking at this team and you're driving along the 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:21.400 highway and you've had a flat tire, and you think 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:24.120 you fix the flat tire, receiver, and then you think 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.160 you fix something else, and then and then oh wait, 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:28.760 well something the alternative lights on. Now you know where 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:30.720 did that come from? Well, do you think you just 0:08:30.880 --> 0:08:34.600 had a bad day at the dice table, rolling your 0:08:34.840 --> 0:08:38.200 third down calls like fake got you? Or did you 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:41.319 just play really bad? I think they played really bad. 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.360 I think they played bad. Garrett said this, and the 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.679 mirror in the walk up basically said that with a 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:49.640 woozy just wasn't aggressive enough. Want them to be more aggressive, 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.280 you know. I mean I think that I think that 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:54.400 says them. You talk about you know, heck that we've 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:57.679 been complaining about not getting turnovers. They get turnovers, you know, 0:08:57.800 --> 0:08:59.080 and then all of a sudden, I think they just 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:02.199 got war down. I think that. I think I think 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.240 that I think that fifteen play drive nine minutes took 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.640 a lot out of this defense, you know, in later part, 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:11.120 louder part of that game. I just think they got 0:09:11.160 --> 0:09:15.000 caught on a bunch of calls like they had plays 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.120 the Cowboys weren't ready to defend ye that the past 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.080 got in the middle at the pass down the middle, 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:24.280 the backbreaker, and they're playing their cover Tampa two with 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.800 Shaun Lee dropping underneath. And that's a tough one to 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:32.480 play if your safeties don't come up soon enough. Yeah, 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.679 he got decent drop and I heard somebody say, well 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:39.199 he didn't drop fire. Well, he's running with a wide receiver. 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:41.720 What you want to do is get underneath and make 0:09:41.760 --> 0:09:44.120 him throw it high enough so by time the ball 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:46.640 gets there, the safeties are there. That's a word pass. 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.760 That was a pretty pass though. I mean that was 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:52.560 I still can't believe not number one the guy caught it, 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:55.600 and number two he hung onto it. Third and long 0:09:56.360 --> 0:09:58.880 and there on that play. Yeah, on that one Mariota 0:09:58.920 --> 0:10:01.400 with the RPO. Was that pack of a third and long. 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.640 They made some great play calls. The shovel passed. I 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:08.720 know that was a second down play. That kid DeMarcus 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.440 Lawrence thought he read the play perfect. Crush the guy 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:13.760 and you know, I think you have to give Tennessee 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:18.280 some credit. I do, um, But yeah, I converting eleven 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:21.760 of fourteen third downs for a defense that's been pretty 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:24.520 good getting off the field and a lot of third 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:27.120 and longs is unusual. It's rare. You feel like the 0:10:27.160 --> 0:10:29.320 offense played the same and the defense just had a 0:10:29.360 --> 0:10:34.200 bad day. Yeah, that's gotta like some I think it 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:36.720 was a road type performance from this offense. And I 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:39.160 think Terrence Smith played better, though I will say that 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:42.200 I thought he did too. That gives me encouragement going forward. 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:45.200 This offensive line played pretty well as a group for 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:49.760 a half. Yeah, Collins was okay. You know the sacked 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:54.520 over there, he lined up badly. If he knows the 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.760 running backs gonna chip when he gave up that sack, 0:10:58.120 --> 0:11:01.160 then don't set to the out side, set to the inside. 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:03.280 Kind of look surprised. I think he was surprised that 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:05.280 he was getting help, that he got help. Yeah, because 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:07.480 if you watch it from the end zone, Mickey, it's 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:11.360 very clear that he's going to he's lunging to punch 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.200 to get and all of a sudden and he's got 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:17.040 Zeke punching the guy and now his hands he's off balance, 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.839 he's over extended, and he's too far and when the 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:23.240 rusher then comes inside because he's too far to the outside, 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:27.520 it was like he was surprised that Zeke ze helped out. Yeah, 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.360 Zeke kind of chipped him into position to get around 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:35.080 exactly exactly. So Yeah, there's there's a lot of things 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.280 that happened, but we feel like that the the you 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:40.520 feel like the offense played basically the same, didn't you. Yeah, 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:42.600 because you know what, they were coming down field to 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:46.359 tie the game. If the defense had played regularly, right, 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:49.120 they had their fourteen points. Okay, can we score a touchdown? 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:51.400 Can I kick a field goal? Just like the other 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.000 games they lost real closely. Yeah, except that when you're 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:57.080 gifted of a twenty eight yard field goal miss. Yeah, 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:01.640 and then I was expecting them to fire back, right, Yeah, 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.160 I was. I was hoping sometime. And the problem was 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:06.760 you missed a thirty eight yard field goal, and you 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:10.640 missed scoring points on first and goal at the four. Yeah, 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.760 if you do what you're supposed to do, they would 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:17.920 have scored thirty one points. Right. Well, we haven't. We've 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.360 seen it only one time. Yeah. Well, but but they 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:25.320 were on their way. Its just and then my trust 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:29.040 factor is really low right now with the offense, it's low. 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:32.160 I'm I'm not I'm just you know, I'm trying to 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:34.680 I'm trying to figure out ways, you know, I'm looking 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:36.920 at Philadelphia. I'm thinking, Okay, how can they block this, 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:38.560 how can they do this, how can they comp you know. 0:12:38.840 --> 0:12:40.959 I like the fact that they went and got the receiver. 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:43.560 I think he can be a difference maker. I just 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:45.880 hope they can do enough with him. But you gotta 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:48.520 get Beasley going. I mean, he that game. You know, 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.400 Mickey and I are talking about this at the end 0:12:50.440 --> 0:12:52.640 of the day, you know, your fourth quarter, you're getting 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:54.800 you know, he needs to be in there early going. 0:12:55.400 --> 0:12:58.559 You know, I just I just don't understand. I just 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:02.079 I mean, I you know, I call it low hanging 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.280 fruit with the coach and all that. But you know, 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.200 there's a side of me. There's a side of me, Mickey. 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.120 I know you're gonna hate me for saying this. There's 0:13:09.120 --> 0:13:10.800 a side of me for that. I'd like to see 0:13:10.880 --> 0:13:14.360 Jason Garrett start calling the plays. I don't I'm not 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:17.040 opposed to that. I just I just I just think 0:13:17.120 --> 0:13:20.800 there needs to be something different with the direction of 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:23.480 the offense. You know, I think there needs to be 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.840 a different thought process. Maybe he could, maybe he could 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.040 scheme his way out of this. You know, maybe he 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.360 could say, Okay, if I'm doing this, I think he's 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:35.040 doing a nice I shouldn't say nice. He's doing a 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:38.200 respectful thing to allow Scott to continue to call the plays. 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.640 But how do you know he's not in the headset 0:13:40.960 --> 0:13:43.480 over rulings. I just wish he had the play sheet 0:13:43.520 --> 0:13:46.320 in his hand. That's all I ask. If you're gonna 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:48.720 make the change with the offensive line coach and add 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.760 a receiver, the last thing you can do, the last 0:13:51.800 --> 0:13:54.480 thing you could do now is change the play caller. 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:57.880 And I would be okay with Jason Garrett taking over 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:00.240 the play calling, much like he did when he came 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:03.240 the interim head coach. You know, let him you know, 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.480 the team was five and three. Heck, you get on 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:08.319 a five and three run right now, you'd be lated 0:14:08.640 --> 0:14:12.839 or sort of Well, was he not there in New 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:16.120 York when that happened? When they took the play calling 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:20.000 away from was it Sean Payton? Yeah? That was that 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.080 was Yeah, that was that was Jim Fossil. Fossil did 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.480 that and took it over. We're going to the playoffs, 0:14:25.480 --> 0:14:28.080 and they did, and they did when they Super Bowl. Yeah, 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.720 and they did. Jason was asked about this, would you 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:34.360 consider at some point taking the play calling from Scotland 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.400 a hand? And I think you left it open. He said, 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:39.320 right now, Scott's gonna call the play. Sure. A lot 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:41.280 of people took that as a qualifier. Did you guys 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:44.960 take that as a qualifier somewhat. Yeah. I took it 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:47.520 as we're going to go ahead and do it, you know, 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:49.720 go ahead and do I don't want this, you know, 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.280 I'm looking at the season right now, and I'm looking 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:55.200 at Tennessee the game that that game gut punched me. 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.040 That's a gut punch game right there, you know, because 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:00.440 I'm thinking, Okay, four and four going to fill knicks, 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:02.200 you know, figure out a way to win it, Philly, 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:03.960 figure out a way to win it Atlanta. Okay, then 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:07.000 take our chances with Washington, you know, a Thanksgiving Day 0:15:07.000 --> 0:15:08.880 and that, you know, try and figure out a way 0:15:08.880 --> 0:15:11.400 to kind of stay afloat here. But now you're you've 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:13.520 just you've lost a game to a team you should 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:15.960 have beaten, and you're you're you know, you've well, you've 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:17.760 lost a couple of games of teams you should have been. 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:19.360 I think you should have beaten Houston. I think you 0:15:19.400 --> 0:15:22.640 should have beaten Washington. I think you should have beaten Tennessee. 0:15:23.160 --> 0:15:25.400 So now we're in the situation we're in right now, 0:15:25.680 --> 0:15:28.200 got three should have got three? Shouldoves? You know, And 0:15:28.600 --> 0:15:30.560 I'm if you're gonna change the like I said, if 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:33.480 you're gonna change the offensive line coach and get a 0:15:33.520 --> 0:15:36.960 new a new weapon, Jason Garrett, you started calling the plays. 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:41.320 You know what the Tennessee game reminded me of. It 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:44.720 was this step dog. You know what was this year's 0:15:45.280 --> 0:15:49.000 Rams game where you look back to last year and 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:52.160 we said this game is gonna come back and hand them. Yeah, 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:54.240 this loss gonna come back and hot, Well, look at 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:57.760 the schedule on paper. Are they gonna play a worse 0:15:57.880 --> 0:16:00.560 team in the next five weeks. They're not. They're not. 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:04.360 But they're at home too, an opportunity to and again, 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:05.960 and I think a lot of it is you come, 0:16:06.040 --> 0:16:10.040 you have a week off, you get juice from a 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:13.120 new wide receiver coming in right, a new voice in 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.480 the offensive line room, which I think is going to 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.440 make a difference. I do. I do believe that it's 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:19.880 going to make a difference. And I'm Alari Cooper clearly. 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.320 I hope it's not too late. It's already comfortable. Yes, 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.080 But could Colombo come in and play tack guard? Now? 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:27.960 Rob's gonna get to that. I have a feeling of 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:32.480 the day. No, he can't. And that's and that's another issue. Sorry, 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:35.040 I didn't mean to detract you, but yeah, they're in 0:16:35.040 --> 0:16:38.520 a spot. Now what they've they've got there. That's a 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:41.080 team that's won three games in a row. So they're 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:44.720 due to lose, but probably not if they lose this week. 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:49.240 This week, so yeah, and two road games coming up 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.720 where you haven't played as well for whatever reason, I've 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:55.120 played well at all. It's a huge miss opportunity this 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:57.720 last game. And it's maybe it is good that it's 0:16:57.720 --> 0:16:59.560 a short week because you have to move on. And 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:03.119 now you're facing the division champs who nobody Bowl champs, Yeah, 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.560 super Bowl champs. Nobody's gonna give you a chance to 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:07.760 win this game. Nobody's gonna pick you to win this game. 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:10.320 So you know, Ius, you're not giving them any reason 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:13.840 to right, Yeah, we could four on the road, Mickey said, 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:15.840 and I said in our post game show, you went 0:17:15.840 --> 0:17:17.640 out and laid an egg. You went out and laid 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.720 an egg. You played poorly against a team you should 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:22.200 have beaten. You know, we all had that as a 0:17:22.640 --> 0:17:24.719 We all had that as a w moving forward and now, 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:27.040 okay forward four. Let's go take our chances with the 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:29.560 next three opponents. Let's see how this thing works out. 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:32.320 But that didn't That didn't happen. It didn't happen. No, 0:17:32.600 --> 0:17:35.000 and that's and that's the problem. And that's why the 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:38.920 last the last yeah, I hope it's I'm not saying 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.600 something wrong. The last bullet that I would I would 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:45.359 fire would be Jason Garrett now taking over the play calling. 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:47.359 That's what I would do. That would be my that 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:51.160 would be my final move to try and fix things. Offensive. 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:52.840 I was gonna ask you guys that go ahead, mix. 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:54.800 I was just gonna say, the next two teams they 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:58.720 they're playing right now are four and four right right? 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:03.679 And none of us are really fired up about Washington. 0:18:04.320 --> 0:18:07.480 I think that Washington can. I think Washington can clearly 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:12.760 come back to the phil Washington game. The toughest game 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:17.320 they've got coming up is New Orleans. Sure, but you 0:18:17.359 --> 0:18:20.399 know Washington to be a matchup. Do what now? You 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:21.919 don't think this trip is going to be tough. Oh, 0:18:21.920 --> 0:18:25.040 I'm saying. But they haven't played consistently, No, they haven't. 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:28.439 They have the quarterback for a couple of assistently. Washington 0:18:28.600 --> 0:18:30.719 is what they are. I think New Orleans and then 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:33.480 what's after New Orleans? If Philadelphia again? Yeah, I think 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:35.720 I think our that's at home. I think our tone 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:39.600 will be really different if they lose these next two games. 0:18:39.640 --> 0:18:42.399 Oh yeah, I think our tone will be really I 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.000 think the tone will be, you know, And and I'm 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.640 I'm anxious to see how they're gonna play. I really, 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:50.480 because I am I have no clue about this team. 0:18:50.800 --> 0:18:52.600 I have no no clue. But you know what, that's 0:18:52.680 --> 0:18:54.760 kind of how we started the season. Yeah, but I 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:57.680 hate that feeling, Mickey. I know, I'm getting here Thanksgiving 0:18:57.720 --> 0:18:59.960 and I don't know how these guys are gonna play. 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.680 And that was exactly how we started the season. Yeah, 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:05.280 we didn't know. Some uncertainty on the offers of line, 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:09.359 total uncertainty. We thought, more uncertainty at certain positions. I 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:13.960 don't think we thought there was uncertainty at that wide receiver. 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:18.640 There was uncertainty at tight end. You didn't know at 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:22.040 that point what vander esh would be. You didn't know 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:27.320 if Jalen Smith really was a different guy. We didn't 0:19:27.359 --> 0:19:29.879 know if Byron Jones was going to make that switch 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:34.840 from safety to cornerback successfully. Dude didn't know about the 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.840 safety position. I mean, think about the stuff we didn't 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:41.040 know about. And now here we are, what seven games in, 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:43.640 and we're still sitting there going, well, I'm just not sure. 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:45.760 We got a mail back question kind of along that 0:19:45.840 --> 0:19:49.760 topic this morning. Where should we be surprised at this 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:53.359 situation because it's a young team and they've been trying 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:57.760 to retool spots. They're young on defense, they definitely retooled 0:19:57.800 --> 0:20:03.040 their skill positions on offense. I think our expectations days now. 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:04.800 Let me tell you why I'm pissed off, because I 0:20:04.840 --> 0:20:07.320 see what you shouldn't be mad, No, I'm mad. Well, 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:10.360