WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: What Went Wrong In 2017? 0:00:01.920 --> 0:00:07.480 This he is Talking Cowboys Screaming live on Dallas Cowboys 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:16.960 dot Com and the official Dallas Cowboys Ast. No Your 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:23.120 hosts Mickey Spagnola, Brian Broadis, Taylor Stern and Rob Phillips. 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:28.400 Welcome everybody into the SWBC Mortgage Studio. It is Tuesday, 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:32.400 the first Tuesday of twenty eighteen, here at the Start 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:36.239 in Frisco. And my guys, they never stop working, not 0:00:36.400 --> 0:00:38.720 even on New Year's Eve, not New Year's Day. These 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:41.600 guys are grinders. But this this is our first show 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.319 as we start our new weekly show schedules, which will 0:00:44.360 --> 0:00:47.040 be Tuesdays at eleven am. So hope you can join 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:50.280 us every Tuesday as we get ready for the twenty 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:55.440 eighteen Dallas Cowboys football season. We're starting fresh. We're starting fresh, 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:58.520 start fresh. We're one to know today, guys, you're one 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:01.240 to know every day. We're winning today. We are winning today. 0:01:01.240 --> 0:01:04.000 But the Cowboys did have a winning season for the 0:01:04.000 --> 0:01:06.320 twenty seventeen season, if you can believe it or not, 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:09.400 because you might have whip last you might be suffering 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:12.039 from that right now after what a season it was. 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:14.840 But of course they ended nine and seven after six 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:21.880 zo shutout victory in Philly dominant, just absolute wreckage. Yeah, 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:25.720 Mickey's just busier throwing away all his papers he collected 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:28.240 over the season. He's throwing away twenty seventeen. No, I 0:01:28.240 --> 0:01:30.840 thought I was doing. I was printing out. I was 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:34.880 on the twenty seventeen schedules and I printed out the postseason. 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:38.720 But it printed out postseason for twenty seventeen instead of 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:41.800 twenty eighteen. Unnecessary for this team, you know. David Moore, 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:43.959 I think, mentioned this this morning on the radio of 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.119 the Dallas Morning News. This team, when I didn't even 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:49.760 think about this. This team finished the season winning four 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:52.920 out of five games. Yeah, I feel like that. They 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.720 were nine and seven, five and one in the division. Yeah, 0:01:55.800 --> 0:01:57.640 does it feel that way? And the shame of it 0:01:57.720 --> 0:01:59.840 was if they had won five straight, they still wouldn't 0:01:59.840 --> 0:02:02.320 have in the playoffs. Yeah. The thing about it is, 0:02:02.360 --> 0:02:04.960 though we kind of were in a season where it 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:08.600 was three different seasons. We talked about this the other day. 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:12.120 Our last show before we went to Philadelphia was just 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:14.959 how the the different you know, it's a it's a 0:02:15.040 --> 0:02:18.400 it's funny. It's sixteen games, doesn't appear like very much, 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:21.000 but in the in the grand scheme, of things. The 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:24.480 way twenty seventeen went, it was you know, it was 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:27.760 it was broken into Coaches usually don't look at as 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:31.320 breaking it up into sections, but the way it went, 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:35.119 it really was broken up for them by the off 0:02:35.240 --> 0:02:38.520 the field stuff, the court cases, you know, all the 0:02:38.520 --> 0:02:41.760 things that we talked about on we talked about on Friday. 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.640 You know that it's just it was too much. It 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:48.000 really was too much to have to overcome a lot 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:51.040 of the things that they did, you know, And that's 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:53.560 that's ultimately why you're not in the playoffs. Yeah, and 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:55.880 you know you're sitting here the second day of the 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:58.359 off season, if you would yesterday the players, of course 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.080 were here emptying their lockers and coach Garrett will speak 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:04.160 today at one thirty pm Central Time live on Dallas 0:03:04.160 --> 0:03:07.080 Cowboys dot com. But what I'm saying is this will 0:03:07.320 --> 0:03:09.520 this will affect the off season greatly. You're gonna have 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.600 coaching talks right away. Sure, you're gonna have free agency 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.280 coming up in March. Combine, y'all are going right, So 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.280 many of this season that we just dealt with is 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.240 going to directly impact this off season as far as 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:23.880 just the storylines that you're probably all going to get 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:26.640 sick of pretty quickly. Well, the finality of it all, Yeah, 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.240 when the season ends. And you know, last night a 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:33.600 great example of finality was you know, Oklahoma and Georgia 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:36.120 and Clemson and Alabama. I mean, you know, you're in 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:39.040 you're in the limelight, and all of a sudden that 0:03:39.040 --> 0:03:40.760 season comes in. Now you're you know, if you're on 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:43.760 the losing side of that, you're kind of going, Okay, 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:46.000 what just happened? And you're like, okay, now, you know, 0:03:46.000 --> 0:03:48.560 you try and take a breath and reevaluate where you're at. 0:03:48.680 --> 0:03:51.360 And you mentioned it today, you know, there's a lot 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:53.560 of guys in that locker room yesterday that will not 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:55.920 be here with this team, and we some coaches that 0:03:56.000 --> 0:03:57.960 will not be here with this team, you know, I mean, 0:03:58.000 --> 0:04:01.440 it's that's what football really is really all sports. You know, 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:05.640 there's change every year, and you try and do everything 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.600 you can to set you up so you don't you're 0:04:08.640 --> 0:04:11.120 not the team that you're still the team that's playing. 0:04:11.560 --> 0:04:13.000 You know, that's the whole idea of this thing. You 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:15.760 want to be the team that's the last one standing. 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:17.560 And you know, the Cowboys have got a lot of 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:20.359 things that they have to do to get to that point. 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:22.520 I said, yeah, last week we talked about it. I 0:04:22.800 --> 0:04:25.039 break the season up into three chunks. I thought the 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.680 first month where they were really challenged by some defenses 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:31.000 up front, and then they kind of found their rhythm offensively, 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.120 and then that last stretch when Zeke got suspended and 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:36.920 came back, there were some struggles there, especially offensively. Defensively 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:39.880 they played well, but I think to Tay's point, you 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:42.839 know this time last year, you lose in the second 0:04:42.920 --> 0:04:45.000 round and it was really disappointing, but I think the 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.719 feeling was you build off some things. There's some plenty 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:51.320 to build on, Mick, and this year you look at 0:04:51.320 --> 0:04:53.280 this team and there's a lot to fix, and I 0:04:53.320 --> 0:04:55.640 think offensively specifically, you look at it and you've got 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:58.839 to figure out how can you find more consistency with 0:04:58.880 --> 0:05:01.200 the talent that you have up And it speaks more 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:05.200 to more than just being healthy at certain spots. Are 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:10.040 being suspended or being suspended right absolutely, you real quick question, yes, 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.600 the suspension or the poor offensive line play which was 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:17.040 the biggest for you. Poor offensive line play, and no 0:05:17.040 --> 0:05:20.719 one wants to talk about that. Everybody wants to talk about, well, 0:05:20.800 --> 0:05:23.400 what it does do? Right? What did Dak do? No? 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.920 I'm with you and with you and and the you know, 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:30.680 the narrative out there is all that other stuff. But 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.120 if you want to look at what happened, and all 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:35.400 you had to do is watch the game on Sunday, 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:40.080 the offensive line right, the left side right, look at 0:05:40.120 --> 0:05:44.479 all the plays that went wrong. There was folding, there 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.680 was blitz is that they couldn't pick up. I mean, 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:51.839 one after another after another, and you sit there and go, well, 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:53.839 how in the world did they end up driving ninety 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:56.599 nine yards for a touchdown? Crazy? It was a miracle. 0:05:57.040 --> 0:06:00.440 But if you look at all the other possession that's 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.760 what was going wrong. It wasn't that they don't have, 0:06:04.360 --> 0:06:09.040 you know, very imaginative routes the quarterbacks not accurate, or 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.159 whatever else you want to come up with. Look at 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.920 what happened on that offensive line. We were talking about 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.080 this yesterday in the office, just hanging out. If this 0:06:16.120 --> 0:06:19.520 team did sneak into the playoffs and they go to LA, 0:06:19.640 --> 0:06:22.040 that would have been the game right at the Rams. Boy, 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:24.840 that's a bad matchup for you upfront with those guys 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:28.200 Aaron Donald, Robert Quinn against an offensive line that very 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:30.400 well still could have been without Tyron Smith and probably 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.760 Jonathan Cooper the entire left side of your offensive line, 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:36.160 because because Cooper left the game and mixed right that 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:38.800 the offensive line, They've still got tons of talent, but 0:06:38.920 --> 0:06:42.920 injuries and they were inconsistent times, and that really did 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:46.719 affect the way the entire offense function. Dak, the receivers, 0:06:46.720 --> 0:06:49.520 the running game, everything. It's not all on the offensive line, 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.880 but but you do view that as the foundation of 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:53.760 your football team, and it didn't play as well this 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.279 year for a lot of different reasons. Yeah. No, and 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:58.200 I see what you're saying, brand because a lot of 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:01.599 people have kind of summed up this season into suspension 0:07:01.720 --> 0:07:03.960 and injuries. Yeah, and a lot of the injuries on 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:06.880 the offensive line, you quickly discovered that you didn't have 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:08.920 the depth for it. No, and that's where I think 0:07:08.920 --> 0:07:12.520 the misevaluation maybe started in Oxnard. Did you have the 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.400 right depth? You know, they felt like they protected themselves 0:07:15.400 --> 0:07:18.040 with Byron Bell, who's a veteran player. They went out, 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:21.200 you know, last year they got Jonathan Cooper. He ends 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:23.280 up being your starter. But it took you a while 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:24.680 to kind of figure out what you were doing at 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.880 left guard. You'd really didn't have an adequate backup for 0:07:27.920 --> 0:07:30.000 the left tackle. You didn't know the left tackle was 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:32.680 going to struggle with injury all year, and your right 0:07:32.800 --> 0:07:35.840 tackle he might have started off slow, but he got better. 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:37.760 But by that time you'd already lost a couple of 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:40.920 games along the way, and so that was really, you know, 0:07:41.000 --> 0:07:44.680 the one thing. You thought that the one constant would 0:07:44.680 --> 0:07:47.480 be the offensive line, and it really it was the 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:50.560 one thing that held you back. You know, we look 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:52.720 at the suspension stuff and you kind of go back, 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:55.040 did they run the ball well enough? Was it the 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:57.040 threat and all that? No, it really wasn't. But did 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:59.520 they run it well enough? It was pretty good? Pretty good? 0:08:00.040 --> 0:08:02.680 Wasn't It wasn't terrible. But it's that presence that zeke. 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.480 It's yeah, exactly. Mickey's talked about that you don't have 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.160 that threat, and he's absolutely right. When I look at 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:10.120 this season, I don't look I don't look at it 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:12.240 as the I don't look at as what happened with 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.240 the receiver, even though the receivers, you know, I just 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.840 keep going back to my head of if there was 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:20.200 going to be a Dak regression, what was it going 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:23.080 to be? Yeah, it's going to be because Dak, the 0:08:23.160 --> 0:08:28.040 players around Dak weren't good enough or didn't play well enough. 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.080 And I think that Dak concluded, he'll admit it. You know, 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.480 the things that he had to do mechanically in the 0:08:33.559 --> 0:08:36.480 pocket weren't good enough. You know, some throws he had 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:38.679 to make. Does Bryant ran a beautiful route for him 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:41.600 the other day on early in that football game, and 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:43.719 you got to reward him with the ball at him 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:45.880 to you know, make sure that he you know, he 0:08:45.960 --> 0:08:47.720 runs it on the sidelines, he runs out, he gets 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:50.160 the defensive back to spin. You know, he's at a 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:54.680 position and all that ball's too high. So you're like going, okay, well, 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:56.640 now you don't know what your problems are. You get 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.520 you finally get a route that is great, and you 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:02.760 get a ball it's too high. But protection probably wasn't great, 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.160 you know. I mean, there's so many things that factoring 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:07.760 what goes on with your season. Yeah. Absolutely. I really 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:10.680 liked what Terrence Williams said yesterday in the locker room 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.960 talking about you know that him, dakas all the guys 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.240 kind of spoke on the plane about what they need 0:09:16.240 --> 0:09:17.600 to do in the off season as far as to 0:09:17.640 --> 0:09:20.440 build the chemistry. A lot of people keep talking about 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.440 this chemistry, and they said, hey, we just need to 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:24.320 know what Dak stream when he's coming out of the scramble. 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.679 I want to know where he's going. They have to 0:09:26.720 --> 0:09:29.319 know these things, and I think that's great self awareness 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:31.520 on their part to understand that, Well, you need to 0:09:31.520 --> 0:09:34.280 figure things out. You need to figure them out. And 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.880 I don't know if if running routes and you know, 0:09:36.920 --> 0:09:39.440 one hundred degree weather every day is going to be 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:42.960 the answer, but you know, it's a start. That's what 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:44.920 you have to do. You have to evaluate where you're at. 0:09:45.200 --> 0:09:48.320 You have to evaluate, Hey, what are we doing incorrectly? Now, 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.400 Traitman and Michael Urban will say it was route after 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:54.360 route after route. You know I knew. Eight Men will 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:56.120 tell you I knew that when I threw the ball 0:09:56.200 --> 0:09:58.360 with certain coverage, if it was here, I needed to 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:00.880 throw the ball there, you know. I mean, Eightman's one 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:02.760 of the most accurate quarterbacks ever played the game, so 0:10:02.760 --> 0:10:05.199 it's a little bit easier for him than Dak, but 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:07.600 you still, yeah, being on the same page, I think 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.560 it's the right direction. Let's see if they follow through 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:12.800 on that. That's going to be the key. The other 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.360 thing Terrence said that I thought was interesting was Scott 0:10:15.400 --> 0:10:18.360 Linahan calls great plays, Jason Garrett, the offense is fine, 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:21.120 we just gotta get it done. Derek Dooley. Derek Dooley, 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.960 he said, you know, as players, we've got to execute better. 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:25.760 I think it all goes together, and think coaches are 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:27.280 going to look at themselves and say, we've got to 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:30.960 do a better job. What your sigh is making noises, 0:10:31.120 --> 0:10:35.079 not sighing at what you're saying, finish, I'm sighing at 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:38.840 the whole thing. That all this stuff came up after 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:42.480 eight games. It all came up after they went six 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:45.400 games in a row, scoring at least twenty eight I thought, 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:48.240 so the chemistry all of a sudden just disappeared. I 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.680 thought you'd like what Terrence said, because it's it comes 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:52.400 down to yeah, but it did about none of that. 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:54.640 But none of that made any difference in the first 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:59.160 eight games. And it just fell apart. They had six 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:01.439 games in a row where no one talked about Dak 0:11:01.559 --> 0:11:04.800 not having chemistry with this receiver and this receiver not 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:08.440 running routes. They were scoring twenty eight points a game 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:12.080 and it and it just fell apart. So what happened, 0:11:12.640 --> 0:11:15.280 that's what's got to be answered. Yeah, okay, then then 0:11:16.080 --> 0:11:20.320 just help me educate me then on your autopsy. I mean, 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:22.559 I think I got you to say the offensive line 0:11:22.640 --> 0:11:25.960 was the biggest problem. And if you look at but 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:30.800 I'm trying to I just saw something where somebody had 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:34.880 a stat the game's tyrant. Smith played and finished right 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.160 in the games. He didn't right. The difference in the 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:42.440 sacks right was astronomical. Right, pressures too, and the pressures. Yeah, 0:11:42.720 --> 0:11:46.719 and once you lose, once you didn't have Zeke, then 0:11:46.800 --> 0:11:49.800 team said, you know what, we're blitzing, right, Dak Prescott's 0:11:49.840 --> 0:11:51.880 not going to beat us. Right, they made Prescott, and 0:11:51.920 --> 0:11:54.880 then all of a sudden the chemistry fell apart. And 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:56.319 then all of a sudden, no one knew how to 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:59.480 run routes, and then the offensive coordinator didn't know how 0:11:59.520 --> 0:12:05.440 to hall plays. You know it. It was. It was 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:08.559 fine until that point and then all and then we 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:12.520 get all these different narratives of what exactly happened, and 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:16.080 I think we miss what exactly happened. Smith's defensive line 0:12:16.120 --> 0:12:20.080 didn't play well, Zeke wasn't there, and things start falling 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:24.520 apart on defense on offense to the point where I mean, look, 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:28.080 here's what I posed yesterday in my column. If I'd 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.040 have told you this defense would have finished in the 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:33.559 top eight, you'd have said there you said top ten. 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.400 Last Yeah, top ten? I mean yea, And they finished eighth. Yeah. 0:12:36.840 --> 0:12:39.280 And a lot of their points where returned, had five 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:44.040 touchdowns returned U turnovers returned for touchdowns. So the defense 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.760 did its job, which I know they struggled in those 0:12:46.840 --> 0:12:49.600 three games. There was a struggle, but there was also 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:52.880 a struggle on offense too. Your points valid. And I 0:12:52.880 --> 0:12:56.200 brought this up last week from Arizona in Week three 0:12:56.640 --> 0:12:58.880 to the game before Zeke got suspended. It's a six 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:03.040 game stretch again against Kansas Central City. They put up 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:05.520 thirty one point six points per game. That's I mean, 0:13:05.559 --> 0:13:10.840 that's what they were doing last year. Injuries, suspensions, every 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.000 the whole dynamic of the offense changed when they lost 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:15.320 Tyron and they lost zek. But they did get Zeke 0:13:15.360 --> 0:13:19.240 back on Christmas Eve, and the offense struggled. Now, I know, 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:21.760 Tyron played one series. I think people point to that 0:13:22.080 --> 0:13:25.600 and say, well, why why didn't he fix everything? You know, 0:13:25.800 --> 0:13:28.160 with two games to go, I think if people, I know, 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:29.959 we said it, we thought the offense would go back 0:13:29.960 --> 0:13:32.160 to normal, yes, and it didn't. It didn't. And if 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:35.880 you didn't miss two field goals, it's twenty one eighteen 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:39.200 and you got a chance at the end. The way 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:41.960 the defense was playing in that Seattle game, I understand 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:44.760 making the field goal there, and then you know you're like, okay, 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:46.520 but if you got the touchdown, that would have been 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.240 even better. But you know, if you score the touchdown, 0:13:49.280 --> 0:13:51.560 you're thinking, Garrett's got to be thinking, I'm gonna get 0:13:51.600 --> 0:13:53.400 the ball back here. Yeah, I'm gonna get a chance 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:54.920 to win this football game, and I'm gonna put it 0:13:54.920 --> 0:13:57.520 in Dan Bailey's hands to win it, you know. And 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:01.840 unfortunately that to me, it's funny because you look at 0:14:01.880 --> 0:14:04.839 these the players that they lost, you know, the Sean 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.000 Lee injury. I mean, we made a lot about that. 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:10.280 I just wonder if Tyren Smith was the most important 0:14:10.280 --> 0:14:13.000 piece in this thing. Was he the most important because 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.400 maybe you could have outscored people when you struggled on 0:14:15.559 --> 0:14:18.880 defense because they had the firepower on offense to do that. 0:14:19.440 --> 0:14:22.280 But when you can't block up front and you can't 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:26.120 run your plays, accurately. Then I'm sure that affects how 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:29.760 the offensive coordinators call and plays, not how to protect 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:34.240 the left tackle. You're protecting yourself instead of being aggressive. Right. 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:37.160 Game the other day was very similar. It wasn't quite 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:40.160 as dramatic as the Atlantic game with the protection upfront 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:42.440 with allowing however, Mace it was eight nine sacks in 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:44.440 that game, but it was similar and that they just 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:48.280 they weren't functioning offensively without him left tackle, that left 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:52.120 side of the line. Dak was inconstant disarray and pressure 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:54.360 the other day, which is so odd because you know, 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:57.360 of course injuries, you can't prevent those. But Tyren Smith 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.440 was just a guy who just you always counted on, 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.160 no doubt, you know, And I'm not I'm not saying 0:15:02.200 --> 0:15:03.880 that he didn't do anything. I mean, the man is 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:06.120 an iron man. What he played through this past season 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:08.720 I cannot even fathom. But what I'm saying is, you 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.680 know that was just something you never even banked on, 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:13.240 like this could be an issue. Yeah, well, last year 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:15.480 it was one of your most consistent groups. The five 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:17.920 guys that played last year were one of the big 0:15:17.960 --> 0:15:20.320 reasons why. And I think that that's why they won 0:15:20.360 --> 0:15:22.080 that Award at that Yeah, yeah, they were. They were 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.360 the best offensive line in the National Football League, and 0:15:24.360 --> 0:15:26.480 this year they were really you know, even with even 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:30.360 with Pro Bowl All Pro caliber, can't say they were 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:34.800 caliber players at guard and at center. It wasn't enough. 0:15:35.840 --> 0:15:38.440 You know, you needed him to be the lynchpin to 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:41.280 kind of hold everything together there, and they never again, 0:15:41.320 --> 0:15:43.640 they just never the whole season was there. There was 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.240 not the consistency at the left tackle spot because of 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.080 the injuries, and then you know, you had the left 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:51.840 guards problems, and then the right tackle. It was you know, 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.680 he developed along the way. You kind of felt like 0:15:54.720 --> 0:15:56.320 if there was going to be an issue, that it 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.680 was going to be at the right tackle. Yeah, and 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:01.120 it really wasn't at the right Well, what you said, 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.840 you're right about how Lyell played probably his best football 0:16:03.880 --> 0:16:06.280 down the stretch, and he wasn't healthy. He had a 0:16:06.320 --> 0:16:09.280 bulging disc in his back and was missing practice time, 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:12.720 and I thought, you know, I think the experience he 0:16:12.760 --> 0:16:15.600 got playing rusher after rusher who's really good in the NFL, 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:17.440 I think helped him by the end of the season. Yeah, 0:16:17.440 --> 0:16:19.240 so that's something to build off of. But I liked 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:21.520 what you said earlier in the segment about how I 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:23.520 don't know if you can ask for a better supporting 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:25.520 cast than what Dak got as a rookie for a 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:28.720 rookie quarterback. Yeah, best offensive line in football, best running 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:31.520 back in football, you know, and he don't have Zeke 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.880 for six games this year. You don't have the same line. 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.040 And those are the results. And Dad can be better too, 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:38.320 But the supporting cast was just different this year for him, 0:16:38.360 --> 0:16:40.440 no question about it. Yeah, he had the shoulder way 0:16:40.440 --> 0:16:43.000 too much. He didn't and he did it for the 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:45.840 first part, Remember he did. No one was sitting here 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.560 talking about Dak struggling. 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