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Speaker 1: after the Dallas Cowboys fall to the Seattle Seahawks thirty
Speaker 1: eight thirty one. And while there are plenty of question
Speaker 1: marks throughout the first three weeks of the season for
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys, I know one thing is certain. There's
Speaker 1: never a dull day as a part of this franchise
Speaker 1: in covering this team, because they can't just get blown out.
Speaker 1: They can't just win and take care of the right
Speaker 1: things on a daily basis. They can't just do things
Speaker 1: to where it's easy for Cowboys fans. They've got to
Speaker 1: make it tough. They've got to make it controversial. And
Speaker 1: it's for the third straight week to start the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty season, a one score game and a one score result.
Speaker 1: We're gonna break it down, We're gonna talk about it here.
Speaker 1: I'm Talking Cowboys. Glad you're with us. I'm Kyle Yeoman's
Speaker 1: alongside Isaiah Standback our residence, super Bowl champion, in former
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboy, Rob Phillips, our Cowboys insider, and the great
Speaker 1: heck Ma Harrison joining you as always, and guys, there
Speaker 1: are so many things we can impact right here once again,
Speaker 1: a laundry list of worth of issues, worth of problems,
Speaker 1: however you want to say it, even positive some that
Speaker 1: emerged out of that Alden Smith that we could talk about.
Speaker 1: But other than that, where do we start Whenever it
Speaker 1: comes to the Dallas Cowboys loss last night against the
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks on the road, Rob, really, what did you
Speaker 1: see in terms of your general thoughts and how do
Speaker 1: we start breaking this thing down? Man? It's one of
Speaker 1: the weirder two weeks stretch as I've seen with the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: with two of those games that were just strange, and
Speaker 1: the way I look at the game yesterday, it kind
Speaker 1: of evens out. This league always kind of evens out.
Speaker 1: They won a game a week ago they should not
Speaker 1: have run. They spotted too many points to Atlanta, found
Speaker 1: a way to win that game and lost this one
Speaker 1: for a lot of the same reasons that they fell
Speaker 1: behind a week earlier. Way too many mistakes and while
Speaker 1: you can say it evens out, it's still alarming because
Speaker 1: they're not doing the winning things you need to do
Speaker 1: to take care of business. And it's it's really at
Speaker 1: all three levels of the of the team, offense, defense,
Speaker 1: special teams, and you know they've got to get it fixed.
Speaker 1: This is you know, they're they're entering a stretch here
Speaker 1: where you might think it's an easy stretch, it's not.
Speaker 1: If they if they don't take care of business and
Speaker 1: and eliminate some of the sloppy things that we're gonna
Speaker 1: get into a lot of that, they're gonna have trouble
Speaker 1: against Cleveland on Sunday at home. That's that's that's just
Speaker 1: a fact. They did too many things to beat themselves
Speaker 1: in this game. Yeah, definitely, the the self inflicted wounds.
Speaker 1: It's troubling to see when we do, you know, do
Speaker 1: something good, get a sack and it's negated by pass
Speaker 1: interference or some type of penalty, and special teams, man,
Speaker 1: special teams. The just point after attempts are it's becoming
Speaker 1: an event and I don't think anyone is comfortable with that.
Speaker 1: And it's so crazy how one week can change things.
Speaker 1: Where we were just talking about how great our special
Speaker 1: teams is until this week, man, I think we really
Speaker 1: got we still have question marks there, but defensively the secondary,
Speaker 1: how do we get that fixed? Because we're, like you said, Rob,
Speaker 1: we're getting to a point of the season where every
Speaker 1: week we're gonna start to see some pretty pretty good receivers.
Speaker 1: So mans, so many things that we have to go
Speaker 1: over today, But the past interferences and special teams, man,
Speaker 1: big big question mark for me, you know, to kind
Speaker 1: of double back on what you just said, heck, you know.
Speaker 1: And Dallas Cowboys are the second week in a row
Speaker 1: have plexico bearers themselves. Okay, they have shot themselves in
Speaker 1: the laya. These I mean, every every facet of the
Speaker 1: of the game. Special teams, offense, defense, all played a
Speaker 1: part in this lost yesterday, and we send it in
Speaker 1: the beginning the week. You cannot make mistakes against this team.
Speaker 1: The Seattle Seahawks are too good of a team entirely
Speaker 1: on all in all three facets really to make those
Speaker 1: mistakes and expect to really come out of the victor.
Speaker 1: So we got some work to do today, fellows. Let
Speaker 1: just go ahead and break it all down. Yeah, forty
Speaker 1: five minutes is not enough in terms of the time
Speaker 1: for us to really get through this all. Luckily, we
Speaker 1: do have shows every day this week throughout leading you
Speaker 1: into the Browns week, which, like Rob said, it's not
Speaker 1: going to be any easy feat by any stretch of
Speaker 1: the imagination. But guys, whenever you talk about the mistakes
Speaker 1: that were made, I know early in the game we
Speaker 1: saw Dak Prescott throw his first interception in two hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty two or two hundred and ninety two rather
Speaker 1: passing attempts. That's a Cowboys franchise record. So he's taken
Speaker 1: care of the football for an extended period of time.
Speaker 1: Now he's moved into the fact of he threw a
Speaker 1: pick at the end of the second quarter. It allowed
Speaker 1: Seattle to go down and score with seven seconds remaining
Speaker 1: and take the lead heading into halftime. Then you come out,
Speaker 1: have a chance to really set the tone in the
Speaker 1: second half and really put on a very good show,
Speaker 1: put on a very good drive at the end or
Speaker 1: at the start of the third quarter, and set the tone.
Speaker 1: You fumble it a little strip zack fumble that ends
Speaker 1: up in another Seattle touchdown. It was a fifteen point swing,
Speaker 1: fourteen point swing that turned you around and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden put you down thirty to fifteen, and that's
Speaker 1: where the Cowboys had to come back. How do you
Speaker 1: take care of the football better in key situations? That's
Speaker 1: what I think I'm most frustrated about guys. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's got a professionals, right, I mean, these
Speaker 1: guys are pros. I mean, I've been there before. You know,
Speaker 1: mistakes happen, but they can't continue to happen, right, They
Speaker 1: cannot continue to have been special teams. Dropping the ball
Speaker 1: on a kickoff return on a perfectly kick kickoff return,
Speaker 1: that's just not an option, you know, taking care of
Speaker 1: the ball on offense. You know, we talked about this
Speaker 1: statistics going into this where Dak had two in the
Speaker 1: previous three I think appearances against Seattle, He's had two
Speaker 1: touchdowns versus five interceptions. And you know, on the opposing side,
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson had five touchdowns and zero interceptions. That continued
Speaker 1: on right, um, you know, you know he had another
Speaker 1: three turnovers, another two interceptions in the fumble. So I mean,
Speaker 1: these are things that you can't do and expect to
Speaker 1: win the games. And obviously on the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball, they had guys running around booty butt naked,
Speaker 1: you know, and just like you just can't. You can't
Speaker 1: do that and expect to win games. So these guys
Speaker 1: have to take it upon themselves for it to be
Speaker 1: important enough for them to actually, you know, cancel out
Speaker 1: these mental errors, canceled out these these mistakes that they're
Speaker 1: making and go out there and make the corrections needed
Speaker 1: to win games. Hey, Isaiah, quick question, man on that
Speaker 1: route from a Mark Cooper, the turnover and the interception
Speaker 1: by Dak on that route and he's thrown in between
Speaker 1: the hash and the numbers to a Mark Cooper, was
Speaker 1: it more of the route that caused the interception of
Speaker 1: was it just a throw that was behind that that
Speaker 1: Dak through? You know what, I have to understand a
Speaker 1: little bit more about the techniques that are being taught
Speaker 1: on their on their on that side of the ball
Speaker 1: for them. But you know, from my stance, it looked
Speaker 1: like he was just a bad ball by Dak. It
Speaker 1: was just actually, I wouldn't want to say it was
Speaker 1: a bad ball. It was just a heck of a
Speaker 1: play by play by Griffin that's called how it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, this is a great play by Griffin.
Speaker 1: I don't think Dak nor Cooper were in the wrong
Speaker 1: again without knowing what's being how they're being taught to
Speaker 1: run that route specifically. But I do know that watching
Speaker 1: that play, Griffin made a heck of a break on
Speaker 1: the ball and he snacked that thing out the air.
Speaker 1: He's definitely been on the judge machine. Yeah, he shot
Speaker 1: underneath it and he read it perfectly. But I thought
Speaker 1: that a Mark Cooper could have given Dak a little
Speaker 1: bit more of a target on that the way that
Speaker 1: he ran the route, I mean just from the beginning
Speaker 1: to the end, so either way, I mean the turnovers
Speaker 1: or what you have to look at that had the
Speaker 1: pendulum swing, especially in the second quarter where it looked
Speaker 1: like we got the stops that we needed. Right defensively,
Speaker 1: I know we're gonna kill these guys as far as
Speaker 1: some of the you know, sacks, turnovers, things that we're
Speaker 1: looking for, but defensively that from the first quarter up
Speaker 1: until that point, you know, look, aside from the sixty
Speaker 1: two yard bomb to Metcalf that wasn't right. There were
Speaker 1: just a lot of things defensively that I felt good about.
Speaker 1: As far as getting Russell Wilson off of his square
Speaker 1: and getting him out to make those throws. But look,
Speaker 1: you said it best man. The momentum swing at the
Speaker 1: end of the second quarter, in the beginning of the
Speaker 1: third quarter, I think was just we put so much
Speaker 1: against ourselves that it almost looked as though it was
Speaker 1: gonna be insurmountable. But still we gave ourselves an opportunity
Speaker 1: to win the game. The game had so many ebbs
Speaker 1: and flows because after those two turnovers, Mike McCarthy says,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm changing out my offensive line, Like I
Speaker 1: don't I don't want to typically change out more than
Speaker 1: one spot. Well I'm gonna go ahead and change three
Speaker 1: spots out and I put Zack Martin at tackle and
Speaker 1: it actually it actually worked. I thought they settled down
Speaker 1: and protected better until that last drive. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: Dak he said he threw a bad ball there. He
Speaker 1: threw it behind Himari and he kind of got away
Speaker 1: with one I think on the first drive where he
Speaker 1: threw into coverage and it could have been picked. But
Speaker 1: I you know, I have a hard time. I just
Speaker 1: have a hard time putting too much of this loss
Speaker 1: on him, I know, beyond beyond just the stats. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think I think once again, you know, we see
Speaker 1: what this offense is capable of in the passing game,
Speaker 1: and Troikman kept talking about on the broadcast over and over,
Speaker 1: you give it time they can get back in this game.
Speaker 1: Because the Seahawks so depleted in the secondary, the matchups
Speaker 1: were there, and you know, I think for part of
Speaker 1: that reason, we didn't see a lot of Zeke just
Speaker 1: because that wasn't where the the advantage was, and they
Speaker 1: were able to get some things going there. Like Heckma said,
Speaker 1: though defensively, while they settled down in the second half,
Speaker 1: I think they get up one hundred and forty four yards.
Speaker 1: There's just too many miscommunications back there. And I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if it's if it's there's too much on everybody's plate,
Speaker 1: like we talked about it at the end of the week,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know if it's that um, but
Speaker 1: there's got to be something to it. Because whenever there's
Speaker 1: miscommunications like Lockett running free, uh, like like the other
Speaker 1: touchdown where he goes across the field and Digs just
Speaker 1: kind of lets him go. Uh, they've got to get
Speaker 1: that cleaned up. And they did a better job of
Speaker 1: it because you saw some coverage pressure against Wilson in
Speaker 1: the second half, but it wasn't consistent enough. And that's
Speaker 1: kind of been the story of the season. They haven't
Speaker 1: been consistent enough in any area where you feel good about, Okay,
Speaker 1: they've got this short up. Yeah, Rob, you've been so
Speaker 1: gracious man, And I appreciate that. Rob us in the secondary,
Speaker 1: like like I said, I said, these guys are running
Speaker 1: butt naked free and whose man? Whose man is that right?
Speaker 1: How do ye man is that man? Going off of
Speaker 1: what Rob said and the way that he was talking
Speaker 1: about really how the turnovers affected the game and the
Speaker 1: defense just had those miscommunications and it really seemed like
Speaker 1: it got better as the game went along, but especially
Speaker 1: in that first quarter, second quarter, you could tell Seattle
Speaker 1: like Atlanta did, saw something on film and it turned
Speaker 1: in from it turned from week two, the word of
Speaker 1: the day was resiliency. Now it's consistency. You can't keep
Speaker 1: that consensus. The consistency from the Cowboys perspective has to
Speaker 1: start in the first quarter. You can't wait till the
Speaker 1: third quarter to get started again. It's the third straight
Speaker 1: slow start you've had. You had it against La you
Speaker 1: had it against Atlanta, you had it now against the Seattle.
Speaker 1: You can't wait until halftime to finally figure out your
Speaker 1: offense and figure out your defense to the point where
Speaker 1: you're able to put points on your opponent. And hecklo,
Speaker 1: I don't know where to start whenever it comes to
Speaker 1: getting off to a better start. But really they haven't
Speaker 1: been able to do it yet. But it's got to
Speaker 1: go back to the secondary though. For me, that's that's
Speaker 1: that's where they had the biggest problems. If you know,
Speaker 1: if DK Metcalf doesn't pull a Don Beebe in the
Speaker 1: super Bowl, it's six touchdown passes for Russell Wilson. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's you know, I agree, I agree with you,
Speaker 1: and I disagree with you. The secondary definitely has some issues. However,
Speaker 1: Schottenheimer must have been on the payroll for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: yesterday because he abandoned the run early on and Seattle
Speaker 1: was almost averaging five yards of pop with Carson and
Speaker 1: High and for some reason he got away from NAT
Speaker 1: to start throwing the ball around almost every dayn seemingly
Speaker 1: so that it definitely exposed the receiver, exposed the secondary
Speaker 1: because they Seattle was throwing so often, but they never
Speaker 1: stopped the run there was There was never a portion
Speaker 1: of the game where you feel like Seattle couldn't run
Speaker 1: the ball. And that's something that obviously, going into this
Speaker 1: next week they have to address. It's gonna be something
Speaker 1: that's really big for the Cowboys moving forward. But something
Speaker 1: else that I kind of wanted to point out if
Speaker 1: we wanted to look at a positive side of things,
Speaker 1: And Rob alluded to this a little bit earlier, but
Speaker 1: the way that the offensive line was able to kind
Speaker 1: of shift around and find a rhythm in terms of
Speaker 1: really taking care of the football or I guess blocking well,
Speaker 1: with the injuries that they have on that offensive front,
Speaker 1: they were able to do that later in the game
Speaker 1: whenever they moved Zack Martin out to tackle, then you
Speaker 1: had Joe Looney go to the right guard spot. Tyler
Speaker 1: Beotest came in and actually called the protections for the
Speaker 1: offensive line, and I thought did a pretty solid job overall.
Speaker 1: What did you guys think of the shift on the
Speaker 1: offensive line and how that could potentially play a role
Speaker 1: for this offense moving forward. Guys, well, I got it
Speaker 1: was Rob's tweet who and Rob tweeted that Zach Martin
Speaker 1: was at tackle and I looked at this. I've noticed
Speaker 1: it on the screen and I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 1: what happened? Why is Zack Martin at tackle? But it worked?
Speaker 1: It worked in miss what cools to beati. I'm need
Speaker 1: to say that the Beotish era has started here in
Speaker 1: Dallas because he's second half wise, he did a really
Speaker 1: good job. Dave Hellman can vouch for me. I tweeted
Speaker 1: or texted him the other week. This is that's the
Speaker 1: offensive line they need to have in the game, you know.
Speaker 1: And because and it's and you're switching out too many positions,
Speaker 1: then you probably want to. But if you're trying to
Speaker 1: get your best five healthy guys on the field, that's it.
Speaker 1: You know, Brandon Knight's probably your best backup tackle option,
Speaker 1: like pure tackle, even though maybe he can play guard
Speaker 1: two and Martin can play anywhere. I know we've been
Speaker 1: talking about it for six years. Maybe he could do this,
Speaker 1: maybe he could do that. But when you're in a
Speaker 1: situation where you know Terrence Steele has battled, but there's
Speaker 1: some tough matchups for him. Uh, you can move Joe
Speaker 1: Looney to tackle he's or to guard. Excuse me, he's
Speaker 1: done that before. And they like Beotist. I mean, they
Speaker 1: think he's he's got potential and that just seemed like
Speaker 1: the best way to try to settle things down a
Speaker 1: little bit. And it's it seemed to work. But all
Speaker 1: that said, it's still a problem because you're still you know,
Speaker 1: you've still got young players up front, and you know,
Speaker 1: the communications probably got to get cleaned up too, because
Speaker 1: you know, guys are playing out of position, bottom line,
Speaker 1: playing out of positions for this past week. Obviously, I
Speaker 1: think go for it, Isaiah Great. Okay, Now, I was
Speaker 1: just gonna say that, you know, you know, kudos to
Speaker 1: coach Philbin and coach McCarthy for making that call. Um.
Speaker 1: It was it was a very ballsy move and they
Speaker 1: paid off for them. I think obviously it did. It
Speaker 1: didn't happen early enough, but those guys did the heck
Speaker 1: of a job going out there and playing the positions
Speaker 1: that they were asked to play, and they and they
Speaker 1: started protecting Dak for the most part. Um, I think
Speaker 1: that the office of line rolls kind of start going
Speaker 1: away after this week, right. Obviously, hopefully we get tyres
Speaker 1: Smith back, you get you get Collins back. Um, the
Speaker 1: question remains, now, does Looney move over to guard or
Speaker 1: does he just not play because you got Connor Williams
Speaker 1: over there and then a bride beyond is do you
Speaker 1: let be honest, go ahead and take the center or
Speaker 1: do you put Looney in? So that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: question to this next week that I'm very curious to
Speaker 1: see what happens going off of that, though, Isaiah, and
Speaker 1: you're talking about this offensive line. We're going into week four,
Speaker 1: which means Lyle Collins should be available at some point
Speaker 1: this week. Hopefully Tyrant Smith who was out on the field,
Speaker 1: who was getting in reps trying to see if he
Speaker 1: was good to go. They were just making it a
Speaker 1: game time decision where he was not able to go.
Speaker 1: But if for some reason both of those guys are back,
Speaker 1: is there a chance that Connor Williams, who has been struggling,
Speaker 1: who has seen really I'm actually not even going to
Speaker 1: sugarcoat this. Whenever you get bullied by Puna Ford and LJ. Collier,
Speaker 1: I'm going to be disappointed in Connor Williams. And he
Speaker 1: was for the first couple drives of the game, especially
Speaker 1: he was getting bullied by Ford and Collier and exactly
Speaker 1: and throughout the rest of the game as well. He struggled.
Speaker 1: He has continued to struggle. Is there a chance that
Speaker 1: Joe Looney fills that spot, comes in at left guard?
Speaker 1: Whenever you get everybody back and healthy, Kyle, I think
Speaker 1: you have to go to that. I think you have
Speaker 1: to because you have enough tape out there to show
Speaker 1: you that Connor Williams is struggling, even when they had
Speaker 1: just three guys coming. That created the strack, the sack strip,
Speaker 1: and that was from Connor's side, So we have to
Speaker 1: address it. And I was thinking that going into this
Speaker 1: game that we definitely were going to get a heavy
Speaker 1: dose of Zeke simply because we had to undrafted free
Speaker 1: agents at the at the tackle position. How what a
Speaker 1: better way to get these guys in rhythm and to
Speaker 1: have them fired off the ball. But we you know,
Speaker 1: they were basically in pass protection literally the whole game.
Speaker 1: If if Dak is throwing the ball for fifty seven
Speaker 1: fifty seven attempts, I didn't know we had an air
Speaker 1: raid offense, but that's what we look like yesterday. Mike Hey,
Speaker 1: I think if my math is right, is that one
Speaker 1: hundred and ten passes over the last two weeks. That's
Speaker 1: a lot. That's a that is a lot, I mean,
Speaker 1: maybe too much for Dak Again, kudos, he had full
Speaker 1: fifty last week, four seventy two this week. If you're
Speaker 1: just into the statistics of football and not winning, then
Speaker 1: he's balling. Yeah, he is balling. But once again, statistics
Speaker 1: don't matter. They really don't, and we saw that yesterday.
Speaker 1: Alden Smith was visibly disappointed after the game. He had
Speaker 1: three sacks, four pressures, four hits, He was all over
Speaker 1: the place, and he was visibly frustrated with the fact
Speaker 1: that there wasn't a W in the win column yesterday.
Speaker 1: So I think really overall, stats of course don't matter.
Speaker 1: They're great because you can evaluate guys that way, but
Speaker 1: you need to win, and yesterday was one of those
Speaker 1: games where you just didn't make the right plays in
Speaker 1: key moments in Seattle did That's the difference in the game.
Speaker 1: And that's the difference between a great football team and
Speaker 1: an average football team. And right now, that's what the
Speaker 1: Cowboys look like. When we come back here on Talking Cowboys,
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Speaker 1: of a bet that I made with Isaiah on Friday. Now,
Speaker 1: we also are going to look at the secondary and
Speaker 1: break down what exactly happened between the safeties and the
Speaker 1: corners on that miscommunication. We've got a couple of things
Speaker 1: to take care of when we come back on talking Cowboys.
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Speaker 1: But before we get into this secondary, like I said,
Speaker 1: I have some I have some business to attend to,
Speaker 1: and I feel, you know, I'm actually excited for those
Speaker 1: who are listening to this podcast instead of watching it
Speaker 1: because this legitimately makes me makes my blood boil having
Speaker 1: to do this. But I made a bet with Isaiah
Speaker 1: last week that Ezekiel what was that this is easier
Speaker 1: than running to the Star and back is back. I
Speaker 1: would rather run to the Star and back, which is
Speaker 1: wow way the other the other bet that I've made,
Speaker 1: I need to stop opening my mouth on bets on
Speaker 1: air or on Twitter because I keep losing them. Now.
Speaker 1: The last time I ended up getting ceedee Lamb for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. I won't say it's me, but it helped,
Speaker 1: I guess uh, and a lot of people enjoyed things.
Speaker 1: But I made a bet that Ezekiel Elliott would have
Speaker 1: a hundred rushing yards or one hundred and fifty all
Speaker 1: purpose yards in this game, and obviously he did not
Speaker 1: thirty four yards on the ground twenty four yards through
Speaker 1: the air. And if I were to win that bet,
Speaker 1: Isaiah would have to wear a shirt of my choice,
Speaker 1: which I revealed to him yesterday as a Washington State
Speaker 1: Cougar's T shirt because he went to the University of Washington.
Speaker 1: Oh no, that's a low blow. It was a low blow,
Speaker 1: but it ended up working out for him because if
Speaker 1: I lost the bet, which is what happens, I would
Speaker 1: have to wear this jersey, which is an Isaiah standback,
Speaker 1: not replica. This is a game warned jersey from his
Speaker 1: time with the Seattle Seahawks. Uh. And I will wear
Speaker 1: this for the remainder of the segment because Ezekiel Elliott
Speaker 1: did let me down. But while we're on that topic,
Speaker 1: in terms of Ezekiel Elliott letting us down, I kind
Speaker 1: of want to go into the fact of what happened
Speaker 1: to him in the passing game, Isaiah, because really we
Speaker 1: talked about it a minute ago. He wasn't able to
Speaker 1: get going on the ground, but whenever he was through
Speaker 1: the air and they tried to get him involved through
Speaker 1: the air, he had six receptions on twelve targets and
Speaker 1: a couple drops in there as well. Yeah, and I
Speaker 1: appreciate you being a man at your word. After today,
Speaker 1: I'll swap you out for this one stand back. That
Speaker 1: one's a lot prettier. I'll wear that one all day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got you covered. Don't worry about it. Um No,
Speaker 1: but no, I mean they first of all, Zeke should
Speaker 1: not be getting twelve attempts, but the twelve passes should
Speaker 1: not becoming Zeke's way. Let's just start with that, right, Um.
Speaker 1: I think the only reason why you ended up in
Speaker 1: that situation because Tony Pollard you lost trust in him,
Speaker 1: right coming from last week and then coming into this
Speaker 1: week where he dropped the kickoff return. That's your third
Speaker 1: down back. That's the guy that you want receiving the
Speaker 1: ball and catching these screens and things of that nature,
Speaker 1: these swing routes and one on ones with linebackers. Um.
Speaker 1: So he got. Zeke ended up being in that situation
Speaker 1: that he didn't want to be in, and we saw
Speaker 1: that obviously he just didn't He didn't do enough this offseason.
Speaker 1: Um does offense was not set up properly against this
Speaker 1: particular defense to be successful with with that, with that
Speaker 1: type of approach. Um, you saw towards the end of
Speaker 1: the game, you saw the other Griffin brother running around.
Speaker 1: He covered the sideline and sideline. He was running around
Speaker 1: like a like a man with his hair on fire.
Speaker 1: Um you had kJ Wright running all over the place.
Speaker 1: And it's just it just wasn't a good week to
Speaker 1: try to try to throw the ball to Zeke. T
Speaker 1: I can barely breathe him. This thing, I say, you
Speaker 1: can't say nothing with your chance in that This thing is,
Speaker 1: this thing is like suffocating. Oh my god, you uh.
Speaker 1: I feel I feel like I need to like work
Speaker 1: out a little bit more in that thing. This thing
Speaker 1: is tights in Franz in the house on the back too.
Speaker 1: M about the name on the back of the jersey
Speaker 1: way more than Isaiah to to to just go into
Speaker 1: what you said about Zeke, It's been it's always been
Speaker 1: my opinion of Zeke that he is great at at
Speaker 1: catching you know, out of the backfield. He's done a
Speaker 1: really good job over it over his four year career.
Speaker 1: Uh to this point, it was just yesterday he looked
Speaker 1: out of sorts for some reason. I hadn't seen him
Speaker 1: look that bad. And and a lot of times with
Speaker 1: the twelve targets, Uh, there were balls that may have
Speaker 1: been thrown behind him. He still has to make that
Speaker 1: catch and get up the field. But if you go
Speaker 1: back and look at it, Isaiah, there were points, there
Speaker 1: were times that he had some daylight. It may have
Speaker 1: been a bad pass or he just didn't get you know,
Speaker 1: didn't track it well enough. But I don't think that
Speaker 1: to go forward, we are going to start looking at
Speaker 1: Zeke's weakness is being catching passes out of the backfield
Speaker 1: when that's been one of his strong suits out over
Speaker 1: the years. And I don't I agree with you. I
Speaker 1: don't think that that's a weakness of his. But it's
Speaker 1: not what you want him doing right there. Should know,
Speaker 1: there should be no game in Cowboys history or Cowboy's
Speaker 1: future where he almost has as many passes to pass
Speaker 1: recession attempts as he does rushing attempts. That's just that
Speaker 1: should not even be in the same conversation, right, he
Speaker 1: had twelve twelve and tip passes versus fourteen rushes like correct,
Speaker 1: So that's that's something that should not happen. But in
Speaker 1: there when Zeke is successful catching the bass because he
Speaker 1: has been successful running the ball, so they never got
Speaker 1: that going. So you can't just all of a sudden
Speaker 1: abandon the run and go straight to passing him. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I wonder if it's some of that where he wasn't
Speaker 1: in a rhythm period in the game, and that because
Speaker 1: he had what two or three drops, and I mentioned
Speaker 1: the screens, and the screens just weren't I don't think
Speaker 1: they were dialed up at the right time anyway. But
Speaker 1: all we heard this offseason was I mean, I felt
Speaker 1: like he was gonna have a hundred catches instead of
Speaker 1: one hundred, you know, three hundred carries in this in
Speaker 1: this season because all we heard is he's running receiver
Speaker 1: routes in the off season. I agree with you, guys,
Speaker 1: I think he's still a threat there. Um. I just
Speaker 1: think they went where they thought the matchups were. You know,
Speaker 1: they thought they could win on the outside, and that's
Speaker 1: they just kept doing it. And as you guys said,
Speaker 1: by the time they got to the second half, those
Speaker 1: two turnovers. Now you're behind. Now you have to throw
Speaker 1: and that's how you get that's how you get sixty
Speaker 1: pass attempts. And it's it's way too much. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, if you feel like you can win and
Speaker 1: you want to go pass heavy, okay, if it's in
Speaker 1: the forties, fine against a depleted Seattle secondary, But fifty
Speaker 1: seven that that's a bad recipe because you're also putting
Speaker 1: your you're putting so much train on your offensive line
Speaker 1: to in pass pro over and over and over again,
Speaker 1: and it ultimately it didn't work out. At the end,
Speaker 1: you give up a sack and then you got to
Speaker 1: to the end zone. And another part to that that
Speaker 1: most people probably aren't thinking about is the time management
Speaker 1: side of the game. I think it was poorly managed
Speaker 1: by both of as the coordinators. Shottenheiderd He did a
Speaker 1: terrible job really contain again and really making sure that
Speaker 1: they ran the ball and control the clock so that
Speaker 1: Dallas didn't have those opportunities. And then on the flip side,
Speaker 1: Dallas through the ball so much that as they started
Speaker 1: creeping back up in the game right towards the end.
Speaker 1: You talk about that last series, Why are we Why
Speaker 1: are we throwing the ball towards the sideline. Why are
Speaker 1: these guys getting swing rids? Why are they getting flats
Speaker 1: towards the side on where they have to run out
Speaker 1: of bounds. You want to give that situation. You're either
Speaker 1: going to be up by one or up by five.
Speaker 1: Either way, either way, you don't you want to give
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson the least amount of time as possible. So
Speaker 1: mix in some dog on runs, dude, keep it in
Speaker 1: the middle of the field. Those guys are gonna be
Speaker 1: protecting that. So I mean, I just, I mean, there's
Speaker 1: a lot, there's a lot there, a lot of meat
Speaker 1: on the bone where we have to get better. You
Speaker 1: have to get better and really have to get better
Speaker 1: in the secondary as well on the other side of
Speaker 1: the football. And we'll take a break here in just
Speaker 1: a minute. But and that's when we'll address it. I
Speaker 1: know it t at the last segment. We're gonna save
Speaker 1: it for the last one, just to make sure we
Speaker 1: get every piece of that as well. But whenever you're
Speaker 1: looking at the offensive play calling, and I know I
Speaker 1: mentioned this yesterday on the postgame show, but it's really
Speaker 1: a simple, it's an easy, a lazy excuse to blame
Speaker 1: the play calling. What did you guys think about what
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore had to do? Don't don't go to the
Speaker 1: one shot on this thing. Don't you go to that
Speaker 1: one shot, Chris, I don't want to need to be
Speaker 1: taking up the full screen whenever it talking about the
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore play calling and the offensive play calling, trying
Speaker 1: to get Zeke involved, but ultimately it was the fifty
Speaker 1: seven pass attempts. Where did things go wrong on Kellen
Speaker 1: Moore's side and what he could improve going into the Browns.
Speaker 1: Weeke look, I mean when you throw the ball fifty
Speaker 1: seven times anyone that you don't even have to be
Speaker 1: a football person to say that's that's way too many
Speaker 1: throws and just looking at the numbers, and you didn't
Speaker 1: win the game just to getting that balance. And I
Speaker 1: know there's going to be a lot of people call
Speaker 1: for Mike McCarthy to take over play calling, and that's
Speaker 1: that's been the going theme now for a couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: just trying to figure out what this offensive identity is
Speaker 1: going to be because obviously we're not a run first
Speaker 1: team and We are obviously a pass first team, and
Speaker 1: for a good reason, because we have three guys out
Speaker 1: there that we believe in can stretch the field. But
Speaker 1: at some point, because of the guy that we have
Speaker 1: running the rock, we're going to have to get him
Speaker 1: involved in this game. Whether it was adjustments at halftime
Speaker 1: or something that Kellen Moore saw prior to this game.
Speaker 1: As far as throwing the ball to Zeke twelve times,
Speaker 1: I don't know. But at the same time, as far
Speaker 1: as the play calling is concerned, we have just we
Speaker 1: just have to put Dak in a position to where
Speaker 1: he can lead this team to these first downs. We
Speaker 1: didn't have enough of those possession receptions to you know,
Speaker 1: change the field position, give ourselves an opportunity to be
Speaker 1: a part ahead of the pitch count. It just got
Speaker 1: away from us too soon where it seemed like every
Speaker 1: down was a second and a third and third and long.
Speaker 1: We just didn't have any advantages as it related to
Speaker 1: down and distance. And we talked about that in the
Speaker 1: beginning of the week, right, Hey, and we talked about
Speaker 1: the fact that you know that Moore was gonna have
Speaker 1: to try to stay away from the candy, right you guys,
Speaker 1: mayber Ill talking about the dangling candy right in the lineups, right,
Speaker 1: how you had these guys that are gonna be one
Speaker 1: on one matchups that then they should have a field
Speaker 1: day against in Seattle Secondary. And they did, right, they did.
Speaker 1: They ate up Trade Flowers, that ate up Griffin. They
Speaker 1: did a heck of a job. You had Wilson show up,
Speaker 1: Noah Brown showed up once again. So you had five
Speaker 1: dudes out there with the ever ball in instead of
Speaker 1: just the three, and even shots got off a little
Speaker 1: bit our kJ right too, right, So you you had
Speaker 1: to you had that at your at your at your
Speaker 1: at your at your pleasure. However, you still had to
Speaker 1: try to get the running game going and you had
Speaker 1: to give it enough chance, right, enough opportunities to establish
Speaker 1: that because that helps your quarterback. Yes, you're having a
Speaker 1: bunch of receivers out there, Yes you have great matchups,
Speaker 1: but you have to find a balance. Even if it
Speaker 1: was seventy thirty balance, right, even it doesn't have to
Speaker 1: be fifty fifty. If seventy thirties your balance, fine, that's
Speaker 1: your balance. But it's fifty seven throws to fourteen rushes
Speaker 1: for for for zeke, Come on, man, I'm as big
Speaker 1: a fan as Zeke as anybody just what he brings
Speaker 1: to the entire offense in a lot of different ways.
Speaker 1: But I need to watch the game back. I didn't
Speaker 1: have a huge problem with what they did. I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I think they need more balance. You've got to be
Speaker 1: better than fifty seven pass attempts. But you know, five
Speaker 1: hundred twenty two yards thirty one points, it ought to
Speaker 1: be enough to win the game. And that's with turnovers.
Speaker 1: That's with probably you're basically losing the turnover battle for
Speaker 1: one if you count the safety there too that they
Speaker 1: gave up, and yet you still put up thirty one.
Speaker 1: That's got to be enough, you know, And maybe that
Speaker 1: leads into the next segment because defensively, you know, it's
Speaker 1: just not consistent enough throughout the game to get you
Speaker 1: in position where your offense is doing enough to win
Speaker 1: the football game. Yeah, I think that's a great way
Speaker 1: to transition into it, because also the offense really put
Speaker 1: the defense in a couple of tough situations, especially early
Speaker 1: in the game and throughout the second quarter, third quarter.
Speaker 1: I hate how you keep going to this one shot
Speaker 1: at me, but we're gonna take a break when we
Speaker 1: come back. The secondary is where we're going. It's so tight,
Speaker 1: especially like right down here. I need to work out more.
Speaker 1: I need to run the start back. When we come back,
Speaker 1: let's talk about the secondary. What happened on misscommunications between
Speaker 1: Xavier Woods and Dary and Thompson and how could that
Speaker 1: get better before they take on the Browns and Jarvis
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Speaker 1: I'm wearing this jersey because I lost a bet to
Speaker 1: mister Isaiah Standback who's in the box below me. And
Speaker 1: of course I did. I know. I came at him
Speaker 1: and I was wrong, and it's paying off for him.
Speaker 1: It's somebody said I have a Somebody said I have
Speaker 1: a retired punter's body, uh in the comment section, And
Speaker 1: I take that as a compliment because I mean, Pat
Speaker 1: McAfee looks pretty good right now and he's making some money,
Speaker 1: so I'll take that. If if that's what it takes,
Speaker 1: I'm cool with it. I said, I looked like I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, McBriar man, Oh, no, one of one
Speaker 1: of my favorite guys all time. Oh, I love that.
Speaker 1: I love Matt. Would he would agree with that, he
Speaker 1: would have. That's probably true. I was a quaid to
Speaker 1: like a like a tight end, and I'm talking tight
Speaker 1: end because this jersey is so tight, like it's cutting
Speaker 1: off my circulation. Jankowski. Yeah, there you go. Janikowski's a
Speaker 1: bad oh man. But hopefully we can give you guys
Speaker 1: a couple of couple laughs on a day where it
Speaker 1: is frustrating to be a Cowboys fan as they fall
Speaker 1: to the Seahawks yesterday thirty eight thirty one. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You guys might have to get pliers and scissors to
Speaker 1: get this thing off of me. We'll see. But whenever
Speaker 1: we looked at yesterday's game, the first thing that stuck
Speaker 1: out with was the secondary. And Isaiah broke it down
Speaker 1: yesterday really well on the postgame show. But I wanted
Speaker 1: you to do it again here, Isaiah, what exactly happened
Speaker 1: on that first Tyler Lockett touchdown where he was wide open?
Speaker 1: What was the term you guys used earlier? What was that? There?
Speaker 1: You go? He was that in the end zone because
Speaker 1: of a missmimmunication. But what exactly happened on that play,
Speaker 1: and it really happened throughout the game. Yeah, So in
Speaker 1: that particular play, actually, even prior to that, right, even
Speaker 1: last game against against the Falcons, Dallas exposed themselves that
Speaker 1: they are susceptible. They're susceptible to over routes, deep over routes,
Speaker 1: deep post routes, any routes that are crossing the safety's face.
Speaker 1: They are struggling with that. So what happened on that
Speaker 1: play is you had a Cover two right, So Cover two,
Speaker 1: you had two safeties that are sitting back there. You
Speaker 1: had Woods and you have Thompson Right. Both of those
Speaker 1: guys who are sitting back there, and when you're playing
Speaker 1: Cover two, they each have a half, Right, they're responsible
Speaker 1: for a half of the field. Anything that comes in
Speaker 1: in that deep secondary they're responsible for as long as
Speaker 1: it's on their half of the field. So what you
Speaker 1: had was you had DK Metcalf who was on who's
Speaker 1: on wood side? He was on he was on woodside,
Speaker 1: and he faith as he ran a post route and
Speaker 1: he acted as if he was going to run a post.
Speaker 1: All the way across wood space all the way over
Speaker 1: into Thompson's area, but he didn't run on all the
Speaker 1: way over there. He broke off the post route. He
Speaker 1: put his foot in the ground, and he broke it
Speaker 1: back towards the sideline. Meanwhile, Woods had locked in all
Speaker 1: the way on DK Metcalf. He wasn't worried about anything else.
Speaker 1: And while he was so locked in, he had gradually
Speaker 1: started working his way down from his secondary position, which
Speaker 1: should have been about twenty yards deep. And then on
Speaker 1: the other end you had Lockett, who was who was
Speaker 1: running a true over route and ended up crossing Thompson's
Speaker 1: face and getting behind Woods as he came into woods
Speaker 1: half of the field in which he should have been
Speaker 1: passed off. When guys are crossing the crowl they're supposed
Speaker 1: to pass it off. Hey, heck, this guy's coming into
Speaker 1: year zone. Hey, Rob, he's coming into year zone. And
Speaker 1: they did not make that communication. Woods got his eyes
Speaker 1: caught on DK Metcalf and Lockett crept behind him, and
Speaker 1: Thompson was expecting Woods to pick up that crosser. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they've been on a lot of routes yesterday and the
Speaker 1: ball was just thrown right over their head and so
Speaker 1: you saw that it was it was easy work for
Speaker 1: Russell on that pass because as soon as he saw
Speaker 1: twenty five bite up. I mean it was it was
Speaker 1: a race to the pilm and I raced to the
Speaker 1: polum to the goal post for Lockett and he made
Speaker 1: didn't look easy. And there were a lot of throws
Speaker 1: like that that looked easy. You talk about communication and
Speaker 1: passing off. Just on that last the last touchdown for
Speaker 1: DK where Thompson had him and he knew he had
Speaker 1: deep responsibility and he comes right across his face to
Speaker 1: that corner route and burns him for a touchdown. It's
Speaker 1: just little things like that that we're doing in the
Speaker 1: secondary that I don't know if going into the season
Speaker 1: we thought that these guys were going to make those plays,
Speaker 1: and godly guys like Jordan Lewis that had a really
Speaker 1: rough day yesterday. It's just I mean, if you want
Speaker 1: to pass the blame hat around, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people that you could put that hat on. But those
Speaker 1: are just communication errors. Those are just when you especially
Speaker 1: when you see guys running booty buck naked and heck.
Speaker 1: And to add on to that, right, the thing that's
Speaker 1: more worrisome to me than just the communication areas, because
Speaker 1: you can fix communication, right, you can fix communication, you
Speaker 1: can watch film, you're gonna do walk throughs, you can
Speaker 1: do all those things, and coaches will make those corrections.
Speaker 1: The thing that's worrisome to me is the route that
Speaker 1: dk Metcalf ran in order to grab Cheetah's attention, not Cheatah,
Speaker 1: but but Wood's attention. Was the fact that was not
Speaker 1: in the route treat That's something that you draw up
Speaker 1: specifically because it's something that you saw on film and
Speaker 1: you know he has a tendency to keep the tip
Speaker 1: bite on things. They drew that play up just for that,
Speaker 1: so it worked perfectly. And if they find any other
Speaker 1: witnesses want us to this next week, they better if
Speaker 1: they better share those things up, because that means that
Speaker 1: these guys can target them and get exactly what they
Speaker 1: want based upon the coverage. You know, even in the
Speaker 1: even in the Metcalf what should have been a touchdown
Speaker 1: and Diggs punched it out. That was some kind of
Speaker 1: miscommunication too, because I don't think Diggs he wasn't playing
Speaker 1: like he was in man coverage and it looked like
Speaker 1: Xavier should have been deeper or helping or something. And
Speaker 1: I don't Isaiah, is that like it's not a product
Speaker 1: of the defense being not simplified enough, right, That's just
Speaker 1: that's just that's that's the coverage, that's that's just being
Speaker 1: a discipline. They found. Seattle saw that that Woods likes
Speaker 1: to have his eyes in the backfield. That's it's just
Speaker 1: pure facts. And you could do enough to kind of
Speaker 1: draw him down in there. That's why they ran stutter
Speaker 1: a little stutter go on the outside and got they
Speaker 1: ran right by Digs obviously right in Woods was nowhere
Speaker 1: near to help because his eyes were in the backfield.
Speaker 1: I mean, they were in the right defense on that play.
Speaker 1: And actually it happened into the third quarter same they
Speaker 1: were in the same go route basically, and and they
Speaker 1: and the cowboy the communication was cleaned up and they
Speaker 1: stopped it. But it only takes a couple of plays
Speaker 1: like that to lose a football game. I mean, it
Speaker 1: just you know, and and it happened, you know, the
Speaker 1: crossing route you guys talked about also the two point conversion.
Speaker 1: Guys guys just running free and it's just it's it's
Speaker 1: just a communication issue on top of you know, Lockett
Speaker 1: did the same. It was the same route to lock
Speaker 1: it as well. I mean Hollister, the tight end. Hollister
Speaker 1: he burnt us twice on play action. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's it's in the red zone. They make it look
Speaker 1: so simple and you know, a crossing route right even
Speaker 1: to lock it in the in the red zone. So man,
Speaker 1: they were just having it that way yesterday. It's it's tendencies, guys, right,
Speaker 1: So like we all have tendencies, even speaking on you know,
Speaker 1: speaking on here, there's things that we do naturally that
Speaker 1: we have to identify and we have to try hard
Speaker 1: to work ourselves out of whether it's saying whether it's
Speaker 1: saying um or whatever it may be. Right, there's things
Speaker 1: that we have to acknowledge, and in football is no different.
Speaker 1: You might have a tendency to creep up right out
Speaker 1: of your depth, right, you might have a tendency to
Speaker 1: go back on the kickoff return. There's things that your
Speaker 1: body naturally does, but you have to be able to
Speaker 1: identify them and make the corrections. Because the other teams
Speaker 1: are professionals and they are paid to watch enough film
Speaker 1: to find your tendencies, and when they find them, they
Speaker 1: are going to test you and expose them. My tendency
Speaker 1: is to make stupid bets and get those things on there.
Speaker 1: That Yeah, and I'm being exposed for it pretty much.
Speaker 1: I mean, expose it a little bit more. But I mean,
Speaker 1: whenever you look at some of the tendencies and some
Speaker 1: of the miscommunications, this final question before we get out
Speaker 1: of here. I know we're already running long, Chris, but really,
Speaker 1: whenever it comes to Mike Nolan's defense, a lot of
Speaker 1: the blame can go his direction on the fact there
Speaker 1: is that miscommunication, Rob, I think even you mentioned it
Speaker 1: in the first segment. Is it because there's too much
Speaker 1: on these guys plates? Is it because there's too much
Speaker 1: to learn in such a short offseason. The fact that
Speaker 1: he didn't have those OTAs, he didn't have the full
Speaker 1: training camp, you didn't have the full preseason. Is that
Speaker 1: catching up to the Cowboys now? And the fact that
Speaker 1: there's just confusion in the backfield. I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: know if it's a product of a scheme that's just
Speaker 1: way too complicated, though I don't. I don't see that
Speaker 1: when I watch it. And I mean a lot of
Speaker 1: what what you're talking about with disguising things pre snap
Speaker 1: is with your front seven. Yeah, and you know, I
Speaker 1: thought the front seven was pretty solid overall in this game.
Speaker 1: I mean, there's some things you definitely can nitpick. But
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson looked out of sorts at times, yeah, and
Speaker 1: and was missing open perceivers. And I think it was
Speaker 1: it was a product of not only not being comfortable where,
Speaker 1: you know, in the pocket, but also they weren't a
Speaker 1: lot of times, they weren't given him way to scramble.
Speaker 1: They were being disciplined in their rushes. That part of it, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think that part of it you you
Speaker 1: definitely can build on. I don't really I know that's
Speaker 1: a talking point, but I don't I don't see a
Speaker 1: scheme that's just overly complicated right now. I don't know
Speaker 1: about you guys. Know, these guys are facing some dudes
Speaker 1: at receiver, and they're facing some really good offensive coordinators
Speaker 1: that are exposing their weaknesses. That's simply put. There's there's
Speaker 1: no excuses that are made the schemes that these guys
Speaker 1: are running. You guys, asked Kyle, I sat there and
Speaker 1: watch it. I'll call out coverages before the balls he
Speaker 1: gonna stamp. These are basic, basic coverages that these guys are,
Speaker 1: that guys are running in high school. The thing. The
Speaker 1: only problem is these guys are not used to playing
Speaker 1: with each other and they're not communicating well, and they're
Speaker 1: using that as a scapeboat to say, oh no, we
Speaker 1: have to pull back on stuff. The heck with that.
Speaker 1: Figure it out that this week we have a guy
Speaker 1: by the name of Odell Beckham coming to town and
Speaker 1: we can't lose track of him. Dry, Let's just let's
Speaker 1: just start with that. And a pretty good running game too, Yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty good. I mean you talking about Nick Chubb and
Speaker 1: Kareem hunting yesterday. Yeah, really a good running game and
Speaker 1: somehow Baker Mayfield starting to figure it out. The Browns
Speaker 1: are above five hundred for the first time since twenty fourteen,
Speaker 1: and that's who the Cowboys got this week. It'll be
Speaker 1: a ton of fun. We're gonna break down that game
Speaker 1: starting on Wednesday. Still a lot to get too when
Speaker 1: it comes to this thirty one or thirty eight, thirty
Speaker 1: one loss for the Cowboys on Sunday against Seattle. Bring
Speaker 1: your questions tomorrow, Fans on the fifty, don't hold back.
Speaker 1: Bring them on Twitter, bring them on periscope. I don't
Speaker 1: care to send me a carrier pigeon with your question.
Speaker 1: I don't care. I just need the fan questions. That way,
Speaker 1: we can break it down, answer those for you and
Speaker 1: figure out what exactly the Cowboys need to do to
Speaker 1: get back to five hundred this week against Cleveland and
Speaker 1: then start making a run for the playoffs. But if
Speaker 1: there is any silver lining, they're still tied for first
Speaker 1: place in the NFC East. Thank you Washington, thank you Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: thank you New York, because right now the NFC East
Speaker 1: is just looking pretty least at the moment, and thank
Speaker 1: goodness for that. But there's a chance, there is definitely
Speaker 1: a chance. You're's definitely a chance get in the tournament.
Speaker 1: Anything can happen, anything can happen. But that's gonna do it.
Speaker 1: Here for talking Cowboys, here on this Monday, for Hecka Harrison,
Speaker 1: for Rob Phillips, for Isaiah stand Back. I'm Kyle Yeoman
Speaker 1: saying so long from the Star in Frisco. We'll see
Speaker 1: you tomorrow. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys
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