WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Can Momentum Carry? 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:10.560 The following He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:21.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:25.360 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the 0:00:25.440 --> 0:00:37.000 Star in FRISCOO and now your hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:44.239 My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeoman's for just the 0:00:44.320 --> 0:00:48.000 fourth time in twenty twenty, the Dallas Cowboys get to 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:51.600 celebrate a victory Monday. And that's exactly what we're gonna 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:55.320 do here on Talking Cowboys as Dallas goes up to 0:00:55.480 --> 0:01:00.640 Cincinnati and takes down the Bengals thirty to seven, the 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:04.679 final score and what was most arguably the most dominant 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:09.039 game from the Cowboys defense this season. They forced three turnovers, 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:11.120 all of which in the first half, and they take 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:14.800 advantage and hey, how about Alden Smith. Alden Smith a 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.360 bit of a fifth or excuse me, a seventy eight 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:21.479 yard touchdown return on the scoop and score probably my 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:24.240 favorite moment of the twenty twenty season. But we're gonna 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:26.039 break it down for you, and we're gonna talk about 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:29.120 everything that happened in that Sinci game and how it 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:32.399 relates to the twenty twenty Cowboys season, maybe even the 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.840 twenty twenty one Cowboys season. As we're here inside the 0:01:35.920 --> 0:01:41.520 virtual SWBC Mortgage Studios streaming live from the Star in Friscos, 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:43.440 Chris being doing great work in the back of Kyle 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:46.840 Yeoman's with you, Rob Phillips, Isaiah stand back, and then 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:53.160 Heck Mahrrison officially now a pro and college football so 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:56.720 we have something to celebrate here as Heck Maharrison made 0:01:56.760 --> 0:01:59.720 his ESPN college debut, but now he's back on the 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:03.880 pro football side of things. But you also, sir, might 0:02:03.920 --> 0:02:06.640 have won a Christmas tree. I hear, I think a 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:10.440 Christmas tree is on the way to your house, right, Isaiah, Yes, 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.680 I am a man of my word. I did put out. 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:17.080 I came at Heckma. I came at Heckma with a bet. 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:20.080 Um it was. I said it with my chest, and 0:02:20.080 --> 0:02:22.600 it was in the greatest of interest for the Cowboys 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:26.480 because should my bet have come true, we were definitely 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:28.959 um do a win. But we still got the win 0:02:29.400 --> 0:02:31.840 even without me winning my bet, which is really the 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:34.920 ultimate win because everybody wins that right. But Heckma, as 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:36.760 soon as the game was over and he dont did 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:38.519 not throw for three hundred yards. He did not throw 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:41.520 three touchdowns. So you did? You did, sir win that 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:43.799 bet and the tree has been ordered and it will 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:48.280 be on your doorstep within days. You know what they say, Well, 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:51.800 the millennials say this don't come from me unless I 0:02:51.919 --> 0:02:56.280 send for you. But I appreciate the tree, don't do 0:02:56.320 --> 0:03:03.280 the millennials really say that? But I think so so so. Yeah, 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:06.440 I don't know about that, but yeah, congratulations Hekma owner 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:08.440 of a new tree. Just so for those of you 0:03:08.600 --> 0:03:11.919 who may not have listened on Thursday or Friday, the 0:03:12.240 --> 0:03:15.520 bet was that if Andy Dalton threw for three hundred 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:22.280 yards and three touchdowns that Isaiah would upgrade upgrade, Uh, 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:26.400 heckmas tree in the background. Hackma's working with this tree. 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:36.000 Well that's what I get for listening to Beyonce. Heckma's 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:38.800 tree is being upgraded in Isaiah. What were the words 0:03:38.840 --> 0:03:40.760 you told me whenever I asked you how big the 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:44.400 tree was yesterday? Said it won't fit in his area. Yeah, 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:51.080 he's got to figure that out. Tree from the damn 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:55.120 Christmas vacations. You got to figure it out. Window, He's 0:03:55.120 --> 0:03:57.800 got to figure it out. He bought the tree up 0:03:57.840 --> 0:04:01.560 at the up at the what's it called thirty Rock 0:04:01.640 --> 0:04:04.600 and Sware up in Dallas. I really did it just 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:06.480 so his wife to side I am. That's that's really 0:04:06.480 --> 0:04:08.040 why I did it. His wife the side I am 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:09.800 when it shows up to the door, like really hanckling 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:11.840 with the hey and you know, and you know that's 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.640 what's gonna happen. So I appreciate that as well. No, 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:16.880 it's gonna be a lot of fun hooking that tree up. 0:04:16.880 --> 0:04:19.480 But Rob the Cowboys get the thirty to seven win 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:23.159 yesterday against the Bengals. Was this the best defensive outing 0:04:23.200 --> 0:04:25.760 of the season? First of all, I just want to 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:27.359 say I was a little nervous getting on with you 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:32.080 guys today. Kyle heckma ESPN fame Like, no, right, me 0:04:32.160 --> 0:04:33.599 and I they are gonna be watching you guys are 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:35.479 like on a sports centered commercial one day and be 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:37.800 like remember when remember when we knew? Hey, I'm just 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:39.760 happy that. I'm just happy that as of right now, 0:04:39.800 --> 0:04:42.280 they're still responding to our text messages, you know, I know, 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:46.440 I know, Yeah, they graced us with their presence. Best 0:04:46.480 --> 0:04:52.400 defensive performance of the season, yeah, probably probably. I mean, look, 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:55.800 they they forced fumbles on the first three possessions of 0:04:55.800 --> 0:04:58.360 a game for the first time in twenty five years, 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:02.200 So like that's that's a big deal. Did they leak 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:04.800 some yardage, Yeah, they did. It would have been interesting 0:05:04.839 --> 0:05:07.520 to see what Cincinnati would have done in the first 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.320 half with their running game with Geoe Bernard if they 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.720 hadn't turned the ball over every time. But look, they 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:15.520 came out and did what they had to do. They 0:05:15.560 --> 0:05:18.720 got ripped all week long for not showing effort at 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:20.719 the end of that game against the Ravens with the 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.480 easy money drive by Baltimore, and they came out and 0:05:24.800 --> 0:05:28.320 they showed they showed effort. They got the offense the 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:30.960 ball back, which hasn't happened much this season, and they 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:34.400 they kind of silenced some people for a couple of 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:38.400 days anyway, despite an opponent that clearly is like we 0:05:38.480 --> 0:05:40.719 figure out the tiers, right, we're figuring out the tiers. 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:42.520 You got the Jets, you got the Bengals. The Cowboys 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:44.599 are not in that tier. They're they're not having a 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:47.240 good season by any stretch, but they're above that. And 0:05:47.279 --> 0:05:49.240 they showed that kind of like Isaiah said, this is 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:51.520 this is gonna be one of those battle royale games 0:05:51.520 --> 0:05:54.320 where like, when it's two teams that are struggling, one 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:57.200 team's probably gonna probably gonna smack down the other one. 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:01.520 And that's what happened. Look, let me let me just 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:05.440 say this that the Cincinnati Bengals they out Cowboy the 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:09.279 Cowboys in their first three drive. That was you know, 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:13.840 those three turnovers is something that we had done previously. 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:16.080 It's just I mean, not the three turnovers, but just 0:06:16.240 --> 0:06:18.840 it just seemed like nothing could get going for that offense. 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:21.920 But you're right, College did start to look good for 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:25.880 our defense, especially when you get Alton Smith running back 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:28.919 fumble for seventy eight yards. I mean, that's just a 0:06:29.040 --> 0:06:32.600 kind of energy that your defense that has just been 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.560 getting beat up all year long. That's that's something to 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.039 celebrate for those guys. But when you look at the numbers, 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:41.280 and I was looking at a treat a tweet from 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:45.919 Rob He's like, look, these guys are on pace. Cincinnati 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.680 was at one point to have a four hundred yard 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:51.520 outing and so there's still some things in our offense 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:53.960 that I believe all of you guys would would agree 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.640 that we need to fix, especially you know, some of 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:59.200 those drops by te Higgins. I mean, he was wide 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:02.200 open and hit him and he just he couldn't catch it. 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.359 So but this is a great victory no matter how 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.159 you look at it. I'm sure that defense they're they're 0:07:07.200 --> 0:07:11.040 celebrating it as well. Yeah, I mean this was this 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.120 was a huge, huge opportunity for these guys, and they 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:14.720 took advantage of it. They went out there and they 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.960 brought the energy. Uh they they tackled well for at 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:20.000 least a little bit, um and they came in. They 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:21.720 were hidden, they were flying around and hidden. I know 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:25.000 everybody was worried because Wilson are are designated hitter now 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.240 and least in the football term. Uh, he was out. 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.720 He was out. He wasn't in the game for us 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.320 this week. So I think we were I need to, 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.440 I know, at least for myself, I was worried whether 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:35.840 or how physical we were going to be out that 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:38.280 side of the ball. But everybody came out um swinging, 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:40.120 and you know, luckily we punched the ball out a 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.120 few times. So luckily somebody the office a linements but 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:44.800 punched the ball out another time, and um, you know 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:46.680 we had Alton Smith picked up the ball and he 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:48.720 worked on this. Lamar's breathing. You know he was out there, 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:53.080 you know, gassed that thing all the way down there. 0:07:53.120 --> 0:07:56.120 So you know that wasn't the change of the game 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.200 obviously early on, and he gave us an opportunity to 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:02.160 get ahead and stay ahead. Well, and you one of 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:04.720 the other big storylines, Isaiah and you kind of talked 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:06.920 about it yesterday on pre impost game show, but it 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:10.360 was Andy Dalton making his return to Cincinnati, and it 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:13.200 really didn't seem like he had an opportunity to actually 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.000 kind of show out. I mean, he managed the game, 0:08:16.160 --> 0:08:18.920 that's all he's really needed to do in a game 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.600 like that, but he didn't have the opportunity for the 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:24.720 big play, didn't put up some incredible numbers, but he 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:27.320 just did the right things along the way. What did 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.680 you think about Dalton's performance and kind of what he 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:31.840 brought to the table as he returned up to Paul 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:34.360 Brown Stadium. Yeah, he was balling. I know he didn't 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:36.360 hit the three hundred yards and three touchdowns like I 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:38.320 had bet Heckman, but I think he was on he 0:08:38.360 --> 0:08:40.240 was on pace for that. I think he had. They 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:42.959 had more opportunities had they not had the lead that 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:44.880 they had. You know, they try to run the ball 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:46.880 a lot more obviously to try to run a clock out. 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.040 But I mean he was throwing the ball on the money. 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:52.040 There is balls. I'm not sure how much people pay 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.360 attention to a ball placement, but that's really the different 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:57.840 the differentiator between good quarterbacks and great quarterbacks. And he 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.160 was putting his ball on the money to touchdown the 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:01.920 touchdown pass down here in the red zone. He put 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:04.800 the ball down low, lowing away, so that if it 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.040 wasn't if it wasn't a touchdown, it was gonna be incomplete. 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:08.960 How there's a lot of other balls that he put 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:12.120 over over a linebackers, over a secondary guys. Um. He 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.000 was just dropping dimes left or right, and you could 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:16.120 see he was focused. But you saw he was focused 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:18.120 last week. I mean, he just made all the right 0:09:18.160 --> 0:09:20.839 decisions this week for this WN and you could tell 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.160 how important it was to him, especially if we started 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:24.880 giving your wife shoutouts in the middle of the game, 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:27.600 you know, you know you're feeling good. Oh, he wanted 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.800 he wanted that one. And apparently after the game, uh, 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.000 teammates and coaches knew he wanted it too. He didn't 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:34.679 make it about himself during the week, but they gave 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:38.280 him a water douse. Uh. In the locker room after 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:41.000 the game, they gave him the game ball and yeah, 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.559 and you know, obviously that was an emotional moment signaling 0:09:43.559 --> 0:09:45.960 to his wife Jordan. Uh. They you know, they were 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.320 a big part of that Cincinnati community, so it had 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:50.920 to be weird for them going back as the as 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:54.320 the opponent. But but Isaiah, you know that that's uh 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:57.680 fifteen play, eighty eight yard drive that they had for 0:09:57.720 --> 0:09:59.959 a touchdown in the second quarter. That's that's Andy Dalton's 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:02.079 US drive. I think as a cowboy, and I think 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:04.280 he hit hit five different receivers on that drive. And 0:10:04.920 --> 0:10:07.600 we found out pretty quickly that that Cincinnati really couldn't 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.280 cover Mary Cooper in this game and really not Ceedee 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:13.240 Lamb either working from the slot and uh yeah, their 0:10:13.360 --> 0:10:17.160 their connection. You almost have to qualify this game a 0:10:17.160 --> 0:10:20.280 little bit, or some people will because Cincinnati is a 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.319 is a bad football team. But they came out and 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:23.960 did what they were supposed to do. It was a 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:30.040 good performance by the offense. ACMA. Now, I just I 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.960 felt good about the performance. I felt like Andy Dalton 0:10:33.080 --> 0:10:36.120 was poised. I really felt good about what philbin Moore 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.320 and coach Mike McCarthy did. As far as setting up protection. 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:41.200 You saw them play a lot of cover twelve you know, 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:46.360 uh twelve personnel also just you know, putting those tight 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:48.960 ends on the same side of the ball, also showing 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:52.240 up you know, the running game, and just continuing to 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:56.439 move the sticks and drives. I really appreciate it, uh 0:10:56.920 --> 0:11:00.760 Zeke and his you know, the his ability to continue 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:02.360 to move the change as well. I thought they did 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:04.680 a really good job of bringing in Tony Pollock with it. 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:07.000 I know there were some questions about, you know, Zeke 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:09.240 coming in health wise, but he did his best and 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:13.640 I think that they saved him by incorporating polo, which 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:16.440 had he had a few gash runs in there also. 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:18.800 But you're right, mean he was just serving it around 0:11:18.800 --> 0:11:21.920 to all of his receivers except for that one big 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:26.400 miss h to Amari Cooper, and they paid to the sideline. 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:28.000 And you could tell both of them when they had 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.480 those mac the pros whatever they're holding and just like 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:35.160 a soft surface but the surface yeah, and they just said, look, 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.520 he missed me right there, because that was a sluggo 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:40.760 that was wide open and that could have been the 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:44.400 cherry on top for Andy Dalton, But either way, I'm 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:47.080 sure he'll take the victory. The way it was, yeah, 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:48.680 you can really tell. I mean, the way that he 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.040 ran out of the tunnel, the way that the crowd 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:53.360 kind of responded, the way the team responded. I think 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.920 all of those phases were around fourteen yesterday. And that's 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.199 a lot. I mean for a quarterback who had been 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.320 there for so long, and it'd been in Cincinnati for 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.520 so long, and then coming back there as a backup 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:07.800 that's now the starter. I mean, it's been a crazy 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.120 year for everybody, but it certainly has been one for 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:11.959 Andy Dalton and his family. So that was a lot 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.040 of fun to watch him get that win yesterday. And 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:18.319 I know there's there's a split between Cowboys Nation right now. 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.400 There's a split almost fifty fifty of Hey, let's win, 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.760 let's build a culture, let's try and stay in the 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.040 division race. Now we'll talk about the division later on 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:28.680 and maybe out of reach at this point. But there's 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:30.840 the other half that wants the tank for draft picks 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:32.840 and team tank and let's stay with the number three 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:37.080 overall pick, and that's now not in the picture anymore. 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.080 But with all of that being said, Rob Why was 0:12:40.120 --> 0:12:43.520 this a win that was a positive thing for the Cowboys? 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:45.280 Why was it good that they went out and got 0:12:45.280 --> 0:12:48.680 the w? I mean, imagine if they'd lost this game. 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.199 I mean, I mean, I mean, think about the think 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:54.080 about the alternate to it, right, Like, I mean, I 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:57.360 know a lot of people are Look, it was an 0:12:57.360 --> 0:13:01.679 interesting week. They got their effort questioned by a lot 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:03.679 of people. The head coach brought up in the press 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:07.000 conference the finish need to be better in games, and uh, 0:13:07.160 --> 0:13:08.880 you know, and Jerry Jones is on the fan on 0:13:08.920 --> 0:13:10.679 Friday talking about, like I wish I had to do 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.320 over defensively in terms of not being so aggressive with 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.040 the scheme. With no off season, you know, there was 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:20.360 a lot hovering around this team. So it's fun to say, yeah, 0:13:20.720 --> 0:13:23.480 you know we lost that we're going to have a 0:13:23.559 --> 0:13:26.520 higher draft pick. But it's also could you imagine how 0:13:26.559 --> 0:13:29.040 miserable this week would be if they lost to the Bengals, 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.959 who were ten or two win team that really had 0:13:32.000 --> 0:13:35.280 nothing going for themselves. Like, you know, that's the thing 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.640 about it with fans, it's like, and I keep saying this, 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:41.080 it's just you you want it one way, but if 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:43.800 it's the other way, you're not happy either. So I 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:46.920 think this team, after everything they have been through emotionally 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:50.400 too recently with Marcus Paul passing away, they needed something 0:13:50.400 --> 0:13:52.960 to feel good about. I know, the draft's important. You 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:54.680 know what, by the end of this thing, they're going 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:57.280 to have a high draft pick, you know, unless they 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:00.560 went out and somehow win this division. So you know, 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:03.520 they needed something to feel good about, and they got it, 0:14:03.559 --> 0:14:09.560 you know, for a couple of days here Teche, I 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:13.480 don't we're at the point where we're questioning wins. You know, 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:17.280 you yeah, I mean it, he said. Herman was saying, 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:19.840 you play the game to win. Hello, you know, like 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:21.880 you go out there, you do it, you know, and 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:25.360 it's just like h for this whole you know, sect 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.720 that believes that this team should just purposely go out 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:31.160 to try and lose games. That's just not the reality 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:33.720 of the sport that we play. I know, looking at Cincinnati, 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:36.400 I started to question them yesterday about it they were 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:39.960 organically taken or not? Uh with those fumbles in the 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:44.160 first one. I mean, you can't make you can't make 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:48.120 this stuff up, right, But it's just you know, to me, 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.840 I felt, as far as the defense was concerned, they 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:54.640 needed that. Our offensive line that's been obviously you've just 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:59.240 been journal they've been decimated by offense, by by injuries. 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.320 They play well together. I mean, although they gave up 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:05.480 two sacks yesterday, you could tell that they were those 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:07.840 Max protective and a lot of things that they were 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:11.360 doing to keep Andy Dalton upright were working for this 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:16.720 offensive line, I mean, and again defensively, our defensive line 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:20.240 with Tank Lawrence, I believe that he was the one 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.520 that set the tone for the whole game just with 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.920 the energy that he brought. He played differently, you know, 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:28.280 he just played a different game, and he was sound, 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:31.600 fundamentally sound, doing all the things that you have to 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:36.400 do to play winning football. And defensive they look, man, 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:38.280 they showed up a lot of the things that we 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:40.400 had saw that they were doing wrong. In the running game. 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:43.240 Although they were giving up some yardage, they were not 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:45.880 giving up those big chunk plays like we had seen 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.120 them do in Baltimore. Right. And so although when the 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:51.320 one big chunk of I guess it was a touchdown 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:52.920 in the third quarter, I believe it was, it was 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:57.160 negated by a holding penalty, Thank god. On Jaylen Smith 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.520 was still I think I felt good about about the 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:03.080 defense and my man Antoine Woods, Mister, I will I 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:07.800 will dive on any pile number ninety Randy Savage off 0:16:07.800 --> 0:16:12.160 the top rope, baby, love it. You can't make this 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.960 stuff up. Man, It's just twenty twenty. In the nutshell, 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:20.040 it's him Antoine Woods diving on the pile. Bro that 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:23.800 was that was so funny that Brian Doctors right there 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:29.200 another Brian Doctors shot out weaponicks. He actually retweeted me 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.280 last night. I think I mentioned that like off the 0:16:31.280 --> 0:16:33.360 top rope, and he can gave me a Randy macho 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:38.240 man Savage gift last night he enjoyed himself. That was good, Yes, 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:40.880 he did. It's good, Isaiah. What do you think about 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:43.720 the Cowboys scenario here? I mean for the people that 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:45.720 are out there hoping that we lose so that we 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:47.960 can have a higher draft. Pick y'all can miss me 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:51.640 and the Cowboys for that matter. Um, there's there's no 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:57.680 there's no true competitor that losing on purpose ever crosses 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.480 their mind, just not a not an even a part 0:17:00.520 --> 0:17:02.440 of it. So if that's in your mind frame, if 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:06.760 that's okay with you taking um losing on purpose, UM 0:17:06.840 --> 0:17:09.359 losing for position all games going out of hand, we 0:17:09.440 --> 0:17:11.560 might as well shut it down. If that's even in 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:14.120 your blood at all. You're not a competitor. I'll call 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:17.680 you out directly. You are not a competitor. And that's it. 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:19.800 You're you know, you're not even in the same conversation. 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:22.920 So for everybody else, Um, you go out there, you 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:24.760 bust your butt, you give it all that you have. 0:17:25.080 --> 0:17:27.040 I mean, you hope that your best is enough. And 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:29.480 that's what you do every single day, every single week. 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:32.080 Whether you're showing up for practice, whether you're showing up 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:33.960 for film, whether you're showing up for the weight room. 0:17:34.000 --> 0:17:36.000 It doesn't matter. Every time that you have an opportunity 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:37.680 to give a give your one hundred percent effort, that's 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:39.280 what you do. I mean, when you step on the 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:41.480 game field, you hope that it's enough to get you wins. 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:44.400 And it was enough this week. So uh, shots out, 0:17:44.440 --> 0:17:46.320 you know how, Hats off to the Cowboys and hopefully 0:17:46.320 --> 0:17:48.840 they can win this thing out. Kyle. It really is 0:17:48.880 --> 0:17:52.560 a it's a fan dilemma. It's not a team dilemma. 0:17:52.640 --> 0:17:55.280 It's it's it's something fans struggle with, you know, Like 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.919 I'm a I'm a lifelong Mavericks fan. Okay, And there 0:17:57.920 --> 0:17:59.520 are a couple of years ago where they were bad 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:02.720 and I'm pulling for him, But after they win a 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.960 game they shouldn't win, I'm thinking that was that good. 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:08.320 They can't. They can't. Maybe they don't. Maybe maybe they 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.240 don't get Luca now and they wound up with him 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:13.359 or whoever. You know, But it's a it's a fandol emma, 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.360 like like Isaiah said, you know, and I mean, I'm 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.600 watching this game yesterday and they're down to they're like 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:23.840 their fifth and six quarterbacks, cornerbacks of the season. I 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:27.160 think it was Deontay Burton, Savian Smith or Shot Robinson 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:30.080 out there, and I'm thinking tank this man, Like are 0:18:30.080 --> 0:18:32.480 you kidding me? Like they were having to go so 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.920 deep in the bag because of injuries this year. Um, 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:39.480 it's just not a reality, not to mention. Like from 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:41.520 a player's perspective, there's a lot of guys that are 0:18:41.520 --> 0:18:43.400 coming up to be free agents. They're trying to play 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:45.520 as best as they can, put the best tape on. 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:48.720 They can't regardless of team goals. That's number one, but 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:51.360 that that's you know, for their career as well. It's 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:53.439 just a it's just it's fun to talk about, but 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:57.080 it's not a reality for for NFL football teams. And actually, 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:00.520 you know, Mike McCarthy reference after the game that he 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:02.760 really thought his first year in Green Bay, the way 0:19:02.800 --> 0:19:06.560 they finished it carried them to you know, over into 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:09.440 the off season next year and they built on it. Isaiah, 0:19:09.440 --> 0:19:13.479 I don't know if that's something you've experienced, but you know, 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:15.800 because it's months down the road, but that's what he 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:18.160 thinks it can do for a team if they played black, 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:21.320 complimentary football like this and actually play well, yeah, I 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:23.800 mean absolutely, and you you mentioned it, and I'm you 0:19:23.800 --> 0:19:26.320 guys know, I'm pretty dog on black and white. Everybody 0:19:26.320 --> 0:19:28.440 says there's no I in team that is b to 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:32.080 the s. There's always there's an eye before team because 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:35.720 without EI, there is no team. So so um, guys 0:19:35.760 --> 0:19:38.439 are out there playing for their resume. Guys, you have 0:19:38.640 --> 0:19:42.320 so many years to get to this level. You spend heck, 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:45.640 how old were you when you start playing football? Seven 0:19:46.200 --> 0:19:48.360 seven years old? So you spend you know, from from 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:52.720 about fourteen years right, fourteen years of your life for 0:19:52.960 --> 0:19:55.920 a career that might last anywhere from hopefully a year 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:58.920 to fifteen years on the top end for some of 0:19:59.000 --> 0:20:02.480 these guys right to p your position. So you're spending 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:04.880 fourteen years for an opportunity to play you know, called 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:07.720 it five years, called it five years, right, So you 0:20:07.720 --> 0:20:09.800 think these guys are really concerned about the team. First, 0:20:10.520 --> 0:20:14.280 let's be real, it doesn't sound good whatever, This is 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:15.959 the truth. So when you guys are talking about going 0:20:15.960 --> 0:20:18.080 out and taking you're asking these guys to go out 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:21.080 there and pretty much just just wipe mud all over 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:23.080 their resume. No, they're not gonna do that. Guys are 0:20:23.119 --> 0:20:24.960 gonna go out there and play their buds off because 0:20:24.960 --> 0:20:27.760 they want the next opportunity, whether the opportunity comes in 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:30.080 the form of a contract extension or whether it comes 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:32.639 in the form of another opportunity with another team. No 0:20:32.680 --> 0:20:35.160 matter what, what you put on film is your resume, 0:20:35.280 --> 0:20:38.800 that is your that's your calling card. So that comes first. 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:41.520 And while while I'm taking care of myself, oh yeah, 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:43.720 I'm also a part of this bigger picture, which is 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:46.359 a team. And when we all do that collectively, we 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:48.480 go out there, we put out good performances. So when 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:50.760 you talk about you know what coach McCarthy's talking about, Yeah, 0:20:50.760 --> 0:20:52.560 he wants to go out there and these guys that 0:20:52.680 --> 0:20:55.320 play well because now he has an idea. What am 0:20:55.320 --> 0:20:57.280 I looking at for next year? Do I want to 0:20:57.359 --> 0:20:59.800 keep this guy? Does he work hard? Is he taking 0:21:00.160 --> 0:21:03.399 is he is he loafing on plays? On plays or 0:21:03.440 --> 0:21:05.040 even I know he can't even get to the play 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:08.760 Xavier Woods. Is he still giving one hundred percent effort? Right? 0:21:08.800 --> 0:21:11.479 So those are the things that everybody is watching. And 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:14.280 when you go to camp, they're watching everything you do. 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:16.560 They're watching who you're conversing with, They're watching who you're 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:19.080 having lunch with. They're watching how hard you watch film? 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:21.040 Are you taking notes when you're in the meeting room? 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:23.680 Are your eyes heavy? Right? Are you all these things? 0:21:23.720 --> 0:21:26.479 Everything is monitored. So yes, they want to go out 0:21:26.520 --> 0:21:27.879 there and they want to take care of business. And 0:21:28.160 --> 0:21:30.119 if you're not doing that, you're probably not gonna be 0:21:30.160 --> 0:21:32.480 around next year. And if there is a silver lining 0:21:32.520 --> 0:21:34.840 to all this this season, the injuries, it's that Mike 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:38.399 McCarthy has gotten a look at guys that maybe played 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:42.160 that much if not for injury. I think if fans, 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:45.160 I don't know, if fans aren't asking them to try 0:21:45.160 --> 0:21:47.399 to lose games, I think they're t it's a you know, 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:49.960 let's look at all the young guys we possibly can. Well, 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:52.640 for the most part, they're already doing that. There's only 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:57.040 a few guys, haven't you know. It's it's ronde I know, 0:21:57.119 --> 0:22:00.680 it's Bradley and I Rondell Carter up until yesterday being active, 0:22:02.720 --> 0:22:05.879 Reggie Robinson, Francis Bernard, and that's that's really about it. 0:22:05.960 --> 0:22:08.560 Now there's fans that may want to Nuchi to play 0:22:08.640 --> 0:22:12.159 quarterback because olet's get you know whatever, what is what 0:22:12.280 --> 0:22:15.000 is Reggie Robinson? What has to happen in order for 0:22:15.080 --> 0:22:16.760 him to be on the field on defense for a 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:19.399 sentient period of time, Like, honestly, does this Does I 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:21.159 have to go put a helmet on first or a 0:22:21.200 --> 0:22:24.600 white But no, no, let's let's let's let's keep me real. 0:22:24.920 --> 0:22:27.440 You know, there's I feel like, you know, obviously there's 0:22:27.480 --> 0:22:31.280 something going on with Reggie Robinson not to have been 0:22:31.400 --> 0:22:34.879 on on defense because I see guys, I see guys, 0:22:35.080 --> 0:22:37.919 I see guys that I'm saying, Okay, well, we couldn't 0:22:37.920 --> 0:22:41.160 have got that from Reggie Robinson. You know that that 0:22:41.160 --> 0:22:43.960 that effort. But again, I'm gonna stay out of that 0:22:44.040 --> 0:22:48.000 part because I know that that's the coaches making the evaluation. 0:22:48.040 --> 0:22:50.000 But I gotta but I gotta ask you guys something, 0:22:50.280 --> 0:22:53.000 and Isaiah, I'll ask you this right all right there, 0:22:53.359 --> 0:22:56.440 there seems to have been something that changed through the weekend. 0:22:56.480 --> 0:22:58.640 I know, we don't get an opportunity to watch practice, 0:22:59.040 --> 0:23:01.359 you know, but this team was a little bit different. 0:23:01.359 --> 0:23:04.080 They played with it, and granted they played the Cincinnati Bengals. 0:23:04.160 --> 0:23:06.760 I'm just talking about from an energy level, from a 0:23:06.800 --> 0:23:10.600 personnel level, from just a scheme, from the way that 0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:13.800 they you know, went out there and the energy that 0:23:13.840 --> 0:23:15.919 they showed. It seemed to me like this was a 0:23:15.960 --> 0:23:18.439 team that had a good week of practice. There were 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:20.600 some things that may have changed with a defensive line. 0:23:20.720 --> 0:23:23.560 They may have went to half line drills, inside drills. 0:23:23.560 --> 0:23:26.400 Something changed because I saw that these guys just played 0:23:26.400 --> 0:23:29.399 a lot faster in the scheme. You know what. Heck, 0:23:29.560 --> 0:23:32.280 that's a great point. I hope, you know, I'm gonna say, 0:23:32.320 --> 0:23:35.080 I hope I hope that they that they did have 0:23:35.080 --> 0:23:37.480 a great week of practice. I hope that that they 0:23:37.520 --> 0:23:40.440 had some meetings around the effort thing and that they 0:23:40.040 --> 0:23:42.359 came together and decided that they're gonna go out there 0:23:42.359 --> 0:23:44.760 and give it everything right and go balls to the wall. 0:23:45.160 --> 0:23:48.439 That's my hope. Also, my hope is that they didn't 0:23:48.560 --> 0:23:51.680 identify the Cincinnati as a lesser opponent and all of 0:23:51.760 --> 0:23:53.320 a sudden, you get the kind of the big dog 0:23:53.320 --> 0:23:55.479 on the playground role, right. It's like, oh yeah, every 0:23:55.520 --> 0:23:57.440 now I'm the big dog. I've been getting bullied, but 0:23:57.480 --> 0:23:59.840 now I'm a bully you. I hope that's not the 0:24:00.119 --> 0:24:02.280 tell you. You You know, after, you know, the day before 0:24:02.320 --> 0:24:03.840 the game, I want to go watch my daughter play 0:24:03.840 --> 0:24:06.080 in a tournament soccer tournament and they, you know, they 0:24:06.119 --> 0:24:08.399 got their butts kicked by one team that they placed 0:24:08.440 --> 0:24:10.199 in the past, that was a pretty tough team. And 0:24:10.200 --> 0:24:11.639 then they came back later on that night and they 0:24:11.640 --> 0:24:13.159 played a team that was that they've played before and 0:24:13.240 --> 0:24:14.840 that they beat before, and they knew it was a 0:24:14.920 --> 0:24:16.879 lesser opponent, and all of a sudden, who did it go? 0:24:16.960 --> 0:24:18.600 They're all over the field and they're playing hard and 0:24:18.640 --> 0:24:20.840 all that, And I'm like, is it because they just 0:24:20.880 --> 0:24:22.920 needed one game underneath their belt or is it because 0:24:22.920 --> 0:24:25.119 they knew that they were better than this team? So 0:24:25.840 --> 0:24:27.080 I think we have to wait in a round for 0:24:27.200 --> 0:24:28.960 one more week to find out what that was. But 0:24:29.280 --> 0:24:31.960 basing off of the Baltimore game. I feel as if 0:24:31.960 --> 0:24:34.200 they had another good week and that they built upon 0:24:34.240 --> 0:24:38.000 the previous previous week, and they did get that win, 0:24:38.119 --> 0:24:40.479 thirty to seven the final score, and it was I mean, 0:24:40.520 --> 0:24:42.760 it was high energy from the offense. You talk about 0:24:42.760 --> 0:24:44.720 the defense and what they were able to bring juice 0:24:44.720 --> 0:24:46.440 wise up front. I think it was something that the 0:24:46.480 --> 0:24:49.720 Cowboys can build on moving into the final three weeks 0:24:49.720 --> 0:24:52.560 of the season. He got San Francisco coming up on Sunday, 0:24:52.600 --> 0:24:54.880 They're coming off a loss to Washington, and you got 0:24:54.880 --> 0:24:57.879 two divisional games to round out the season against Philly 0:24:57.920 --> 0:24:59.760 and then New York. So there's a lot of p 0:25:00.000 --> 0:25:02.159 positives to take from this game. 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I 0:27:43.880 --> 0:27:46.080 gotta get me some Esler lenses. I'm tired of these 0:27:46.080 --> 0:27:48.720 old glasses. I need some news. I gotta give me 0:27:48.760 --> 0:27:50.840 some Esler lenses. Just want to throw that out there 0:27:50.880 --> 0:27:52.879 so I can wear them on pregame and postgame and 0:27:52.920 --> 0:27:55.679 everything else in between. Book work on that. Yeah, well 0:27:55.760 --> 0:27:59.320 we'll get something. Come on, right, Rob, Rob p Island 0:27:59.400 --> 0:28:01.760 is doing and work over there, making sure that that 0:28:01.880 --> 0:28:04.720 we're all taking care of. But always all right. So 0:28:04.760 --> 0:28:07.640 the Cowboys got the win, and it was a dominant win, 0:28:07.720 --> 0:28:10.119 and the Cowboys of course take down the Bengals thirty 0:28:10.160 --> 0:28:12.960 to seven. But there were some negatives, so we talked 0:28:13.000 --> 0:28:14.760 a lot about the positives. But I do want to 0:28:14.760 --> 0:28:17.000 spend a couple of moments here to see what the 0:28:17.040 --> 0:28:20.520 Cowboys need to fix going into Sunday's matchup with San 0:28:20.560 --> 0:28:23.720 Francisco and then moving forward the final couple weeks of 0:28:23.760 --> 0:28:25.560 the season. So Isaiah, I'll start with you, what did 0:28:25.600 --> 0:28:28.000 you see yesterday that stuck out of something that the 0:28:28.040 --> 0:28:31.000 Cowboys have to turn around. I'm gonna go right back 0:28:31.000 --> 0:28:34.040 to them linebackers around that second level. These guys were 0:28:34.480 --> 0:28:36.320 not where they're supposed to be, or maybe they are 0:28:36.320 --> 0:28:38.120 where they're supposed to be, and then they jump out 0:28:38.120 --> 0:28:40.360 of where they're supposed to be. Um, there is there. 0:28:40.400 --> 0:28:44.480 I know there's one play in particular where where lvee 0:28:44.800 --> 0:28:47.280 just I just I don't, I don't understand it. He 0:28:47.400 --> 0:28:50.400 was in the hole. The fullback came at him like 0:28:50.920 --> 0:28:53.520 like old school, right, like you're talking about Daryl Johnson 0:28:53.560 --> 0:28:59.360 and freaking uh Ken Norton. Right. Yeah, just like once 0:28:59.400 --> 0:29:00.880 he coming at you, you you know this is it's on. 0:29:01.080 --> 0:29:03.640 We're just what we're doing. Yeah, and looked at him. 0:29:03.640 --> 0:29:05.560 He said yeah, and he ran around him and he 0:29:05.680 --> 0:29:07.840 ran around the opposite hole. He was in the A 0:29:07.960 --> 0:29:10.000 gap originally about to go ahead up with a fullback, 0:29:10.360 --> 0:29:13.080 ran through the B gap, ran back around the office. 0:29:13.080 --> 0:29:15.440 A linement came around him and try to grab him 0:29:15.440 --> 0:29:17.440 by the ankles. And I just looked at that. I'm like, 0:29:17.600 --> 0:29:21.800 where's the physicality, where's the physicality? You're jumping around holes. 0:29:21.840 --> 0:29:24.040 That's not what you do as a linebacker, especially a 0:29:24.080 --> 0:29:26.760 team that's that's running the defense we're running where we 0:29:26.800 --> 0:29:28.760 only have a couple of linebackers in the game. Anyway, 0:29:28.960 --> 0:29:31.560 you have to be physical. We're relying you to be that. Um. 0:29:31.640 --> 0:29:34.400 So I was still disappointed and that play and others 0:29:34.400 --> 0:29:37.080 that I saw him and Jalen. They have to figure 0:29:37.080 --> 0:29:39.480 it out. Man. They're more physical than that. They're they're 0:29:39.480 --> 0:29:42.560 they're more aggressive than that. They showed flashes yesterday. They 0:29:42.560 --> 0:29:44.800 did show some flashes of what we saw a couple 0:29:44.840 --> 0:29:46.440 of years ago when they were running around and you 0:29:46.480 --> 0:29:50.520 saw the guy swipe in and we howling, but it 0:29:50.560 --> 0:29:56.520 wasn't enough. I agree with you, Isaiah. I call one 0:29:56.520 --> 0:29:59.440 of my old coaches call that the Matador technique. And 0:29:59.440 --> 0:30:04.800 when you when you ol a technique, man, you don't 0:30:04.800 --> 0:30:06.720 want no parts of it. And I don't know what 0:30:06.880 --> 0:30:08.520 that was about, because if he would have been able 0:30:08.560 --> 0:30:11.080 to make that tackle based off they could just send 0:30:11.160 --> 0:30:12.760 him straight to the Hall of Fame if that's how 0:30:12.800 --> 0:30:14.360 he's gonna do it for the rest of his career. 0:30:14.800 --> 0:30:16.760 But I mean, there was a lot of things. I mean, 0:30:16.760 --> 0:30:20.440 when you talk about our our secondary and just guys 0:30:20.480 --> 0:30:22.640 playing where they're being where they're supposed to be, and 0:30:22.680 --> 0:30:25.520 obviously with the injuries and all of that, you kind of, 0:30:25.600 --> 0:30:29.200 you know, you hesitate to be overly critical. But these 0:30:29.200 --> 0:30:32.560 guys are professionals. They're being paid paid to play this game. 0:30:32.640 --> 0:30:34.800 So I saw a lot of that's still in the 0:30:34.840 --> 0:30:40.000 secondary where these guys are taking bad angles. Xavier Woods. Look, 0:30:40.080 --> 0:30:43.440 I don't know what his strong points off of the 0:30:43.480 --> 0:30:46.680 coaching staff to continue continue to keep starting him. But 0:30:46.760 --> 0:30:48.640 I just feel like when it's when it comes down 0:30:48.680 --> 0:30:51.120 to attacking a lot of scrimmage or at least attacking 0:30:51.960 --> 0:30:54.560 to tackle someone, he just doesn't have it. He's kind 0:30:54.560 --> 0:30:58.040 of he's catching basically. But when it comes down to 0:30:58.040 --> 0:31:01.120 to guys like Jay Lou, I thought he played a 0:31:01.160 --> 0:31:03.120 little bit better. I mean he played, he was aggressive, 0:31:03.160 --> 0:31:05.760 besides the one where the guy gave him a little 0:31:05.760 --> 0:31:08.320 shoulder and launched him off of him going out of bounds. 0:31:08.960 --> 0:31:12.840 But linebacker wise, linebacker wise, you know, the guys definitely, 0:31:13.280 --> 0:31:16.000 uh they didn't That wasn't their best work. And when 0:31:16.040 --> 0:31:17.800 you say the eye and the guy don't lie, that's 0:31:17.840 --> 0:31:20.040 something that they got to go back to today and 0:31:20.080 --> 0:31:22.600 look at the way that they performed, especially with running 0:31:22.600 --> 0:31:27.360 around those blocks. Yeah, I think I think Cincinnati had 0:31:27.360 --> 0:31:31.120 almost almost two hundred yards at halftime. You know, they 0:31:31.120 --> 0:31:33.880 were on pace for a lot of yardage. They beat 0:31:33.920 --> 0:31:36.960 themselves in a lot of ways, So you gotta look 0:31:36.960 --> 0:31:38.800 at that side of it with the defense. But I 0:31:38.880 --> 0:31:42.040 thought the way that they fought through a lot of 0:31:42.080 --> 0:31:44.520 injuries in the secondary and were able to get off 0:31:44.520 --> 0:31:47.000 the field in some fourth town situations in the second half. 0:31:47.080 --> 0:31:49.880 That that was impressive. If there's a concern for me, 0:31:49.920 --> 0:31:51.600 I'll put me to the offense Kyle and just say, 0:31:52.080 --> 0:31:53.920 you know, while the offense looked good and a Dalton 0:31:53.960 --> 0:31:56.520 had a really good game and they grind it out yards, 0:31:56.560 --> 0:31:58.840 they were able to kind of manage the game because 0:31:58.840 --> 0:32:01.360 they actually had a lead. We haven't seen that too often. 0:32:02.080 --> 0:32:05.480 But you know, they're still having problems in the in 0:32:05.520 --> 0:32:07.320 the red zone, you know, two or four in the 0:32:07.320 --> 0:32:10.840 red zone, and I know people on Twitter questioning Kellen 0:32:10.880 --> 0:32:13.560 Moore's play calling down around the two yard line with 0:32:13.640 --> 0:32:15.960 two straight passes instead of give it to Zeke. Well, 0:32:16.480 --> 0:32:18.920 they've had trouble in short yardage and it was also 0:32:19.000 --> 0:32:20.880 other parts of the game trying to pick up runs 0:32:21.240 --> 0:32:23.800 first down running the ball. So I think they missed 0:32:23.880 --> 0:32:27.200 Zack Martin a lot. And you know, you know, we'll 0:32:27.200 --> 0:32:29.200 see where they are with the playoff race. It's looking 0:32:29.400 --> 0:32:33.720 thinner and thinner, dimmer and dimmer. But you know, to 0:32:33.840 --> 0:32:35.600 try to win the rest of these games, they can't 0:32:35.600 --> 0:32:38.000 just continue kicking field goals, you know, that's been too 0:32:38.120 --> 0:32:40.360 much of a prop especially coming off of turnovers. You know, 0:32:40.400 --> 0:32:43.960 they just aren't able to capitalize and score touchdowns. And 0:32:44.320 --> 0:32:46.000 I think a lot of it is due to being 0:32:46.560 --> 0:32:48.880 banged up on the offensive line, not getting that push 0:32:48.920 --> 0:32:51.760 that they need. And I'm glad you brought that up 0:32:51.800 --> 0:32:53.880 because I think one of the big things for me 0:32:54.280 --> 0:32:56.640 yesterday was the fact that Zeke ends up with twelve 0:32:56.720 --> 0:32:59.160 carries for forty eight yards. I mean, he and twenty 0:32:59.200 --> 0:33:01.400 six of those were one run. He had that one 0:33:01.440 --> 0:33:04.280 big twenty six yard run and the rest of the time, 0:33:04.320 --> 0:33:07.760 I mean it was one, two, three yards. And I 0:33:07.840 --> 0:33:10.560 asked this question yesterday on postgame because Nate Newton was 0:33:10.600 --> 0:33:13.120 talking about the three four yards in a cloud of 0:33:13.200 --> 0:33:16.480 dust type of mentality. Whenever it comes to Ezekiel Elliott, 0:33:16.320 --> 0:33:19.000 and normally he's gonna get you those yards. He's gonna 0:33:19.000 --> 0:33:20.840 get you three. He was gonna get you four. If 0:33:20.880 --> 0:33:23.040 you need it, he's gonna get those yards. But lately 0:33:23.480 --> 0:33:26.080 it hasn't been as automatic as it has been for 0:33:26.120 --> 0:33:29.600 the entirety of his career. But if that's the only 0:33:29.640 --> 0:33:32.440 thing he can do well now, then isn't that a 0:33:32.440 --> 0:33:34.720 big worry for you? Because I saw that against a 0:33:34.920 --> 0:33:39.200 bottom four rush defensive Cincinnati yesterday where they just couldn't 0:33:39.680 --> 0:33:43.520 get the run game going for the Cowboys. But you've 0:33:43.560 --> 0:33:47.480 got a bottom four offensive line and this, uh and 0:33:47.560 --> 0:33:50.000 I understand that that, you know, the great Nate Newton 0:33:50.080 --> 0:33:51.880 says that three yards in a cloud of dust. That's 0:33:51.880 --> 0:33:54.760 a mentality that I feel like a lot of teams 0:33:55.360 --> 0:33:58.480 don't incorporate. Maybe Tennessee does because of the kind of 0:33:58.560 --> 0:34:00.960 running back that they have. But if you look at 0:34:01.160 --> 0:34:03.760 you know Zeke over the last five years, his numbers 0:34:03.800 --> 0:34:06.040 are trending down. And you're talking about a guy that 0:34:06.080 --> 0:34:09.200 has had a ton of carries and a guy that's 0:34:09.239 --> 0:34:12.759 also now dealing with some injuries. So look, I think 0:34:12.760 --> 0:34:14.600 we can ride him on that. He did that that 0:34:14.719 --> 0:34:16.520 one run that you're talking about. We broke off the 0:34:16.520 --> 0:34:19.080 twenty yards over twenty yards. It looked good. It looked 0:34:19.120 --> 0:34:22.279 like vintage Zeke, and then it went right back to 0:34:22.719 --> 0:34:24.719 you know, guy's crowd in the line of scrimmage and 0:34:24.760 --> 0:34:27.960 taking him away. You gotta understand that teams understand that 0:34:28.040 --> 0:34:31.759 how hard, how bad our offensive line is, and they 0:34:31.760 --> 0:34:33.720 can cry od the line of scrimmage and take certain 0:34:33.760 --> 0:34:36.799 things away and they're they're taking away one of our 0:34:36.880 --> 0:34:40.080 main weapons, and that Zeke Elliott. So I mean as 0:34:40.160 --> 0:34:42.879 much he's gonna take the brunt of the criticism on that, 0:34:43.040 --> 0:34:45.080 but we really have to come back to twenty twenty 0:34:45.080 --> 0:34:47.480 and look at what teams have done against us to 0:34:47.600 --> 0:34:51.759 nullify his impact. No, you said it, heck, I mean, 0:34:51.920 --> 0:34:54.840 our officer line is where it starts. You can have it. 0:34:54.840 --> 0:34:56.719 I mean, just just think about think about some of 0:34:56.719 --> 0:34:59.440 the greatest rhetor backs ever played, and think about what 0:34:59.560 --> 0:35:01.640 they would have been without an office, without a solid 0:35:01.640 --> 0:35:04.439 officive line. You know this, this this cowboy's officier line 0:35:04.520 --> 0:35:07.160 is not what it was once and it's definitely not 0:35:07.200 --> 0:35:10.440 what it is with this current roster. Um. You think 0:35:10.440 --> 0:35:12.959 about guys like Barry Sanders, right and my eyes, Barry 0:35:12.960 --> 0:35:15.560 Sanders is a goat. Barry Sanders was able to make 0:35:15.800 --> 0:35:18.319 crazy amount of yardage even with the officive line that 0:35:18.360 --> 0:35:22.399 everybody would rate as subpar. Right. Um, He's not that 0:35:22.440 --> 0:35:24.439 type of running back, you know. Zeke's not that type 0:35:24.440 --> 0:35:26.560 of running back. Zeke needs a line that creates some 0:35:26.640 --> 0:35:28.520 holes for him and then once he gets through the 0:35:28.520 --> 0:35:30.320 line of scrimmage, then he will make some things happen. 0:35:30.880 --> 0:35:33.520 But he's not this this willing deal, shake you up, 0:35:33.560 --> 0:35:35.320 you know what I'm saying, Get everybody to make nasty 0:35:35.360 --> 0:35:37.799 and then take off for seventy yards. That's not him. 0:35:37.880 --> 0:35:40.239 He's not Tyreek Hill. Um, so we have people have 0:35:40.239 --> 0:35:42.920 to stop sitting their expectations that way until this officive 0:35:42.920 --> 0:35:45.400 line gets back to where they once were. Don't expect 0:35:45.400 --> 0:35:47.520 too much out of Zeke in that regard. He's still 0:35:47.520 --> 0:35:50.200 consistent when he gets past the line of scrimmage, he's 0:35:50.239 --> 0:35:53.319 still falling forward, he's still running cats over, he's still 0:35:53.320 --> 0:35:55.640 doing those things. Um No, he's not. No, he's not 0:35:55.680 --> 0:35:58.160 breaking for forty yards. He's he's he's he's got a 0:35:58.160 --> 0:36:00.200 couple years under his belt. Yeah. Now, but is he 0:36:00.280 --> 0:36:03.640 being worth the ninety million, ninety million dollar contract he's 0:36:03.640 --> 0:36:05.919 being given, because I think that's the biggest worries. Sure, 0:36:05.960 --> 0:36:08.560 he does things right, he does these little things good 0:36:08.600 --> 0:36:12.000 along the way, but whenever it comes to the money 0:36:12.040 --> 0:36:15.040 he's being given. He's not being paid to be a 0:36:15.239 --> 0:36:18.640 subpar or below average back. He's being paid to make 0:36:18.680 --> 0:36:21.600 plays and change the game and be a lit and 0:36:21.640 --> 0:36:25.160 that's necessarily so my question. So my question is who's 0:36:25.160 --> 0:36:27.879 calling him subpar or below average right now. The things 0:36:27.920 --> 0:36:29.920 that Zeke does well, he still does well. He's an 0:36:29.960 --> 0:36:33.120 age or say, but I'm saying. What I'm saying is 0:36:33.239 --> 0:36:35.799 people are asking him to be Superman right now when 0:36:35.800 --> 0:36:39.120 that's never been his style. But still contract says. His 0:36:39.200 --> 0:36:41.680 contract says, do what you kept doing, which was run 0:36:41.719 --> 0:36:43.680 behind his great office A line and when they get 0:36:43.680 --> 0:36:45.560 through the whole runs of cats over and makes them 0:36:45.560 --> 0:36:48.000 do his miss That's what his contract says. That not 0:36:48.320 --> 0:36:50.240 all of a sudden, Oh now you're playing with their 0:36:50.480 --> 0:36:52.799 third third string of office A line. Now we need 0:36:52.840 --> 0:36:55.600 you become Barry Sanders. No, that's not in his contract. 0:36:55.800 --> 0:36:57.840 That's not that's not in this contract. His contracts to 0:36:57.920 --> 0:36:59.880 be the same consistent running back he was, and he 0:37:00.000 --> 0:37:02.080 he can't only be that if he has an officive 0:37:02.080 --> 0:37:04.919 line that creates those gaps for him. And by the way, 0:37:05.080 --> 0:37:07.120 I just wanted to mention, I know it's it's a 0:37:07.120 --> 0:37:10.040 five man offensive line, but I think Zach Martin really 0:37:10.080 --> 0:37:13.680 does His absence is felt, you know. You know, I'm 0:37:13.719 --> 0:37:15.719 just looking at when he missed the Washington game with 0:37:15.719 --> 0:37:18.520 a concussion, they had eighty three rushing yards. He came 0:37:18.520 --> 0:37:21.719 back for three straight games one thirty three, one forty four, 0:37:21.880 --> 0:37:25.640 one eighty against Minnesota rushing and then he goes out, Yeah, 0:37:25.680 --> 0:37:31.160 he goes out against Washington right on Thanksgiving and sixty 0:37:31.200 --> 0:37:34.120 yards one eleven against Baltimore. You know, the line just 0:37:34.200 --> 0:37:38.200 has not been as as you know, physical and dominant 0:37:38.280 --> 0:37:42.160 upfront without him, and that's why he is arguably the 0:37:42.200 --> 0:37:45.080 best guard in the league, maybe a top two three 0:37:45.200 --> 0:37:47.480 offensive lineman in the entire league. They really miss him, 0:37:47.520 --> 0:37:49.759 not to mention what they've been missing already this year. 0:37:49.920 --> 0:37:53.360 That does affect Zeke. I mean, I thought Barry Sanders too, Isaiah, 0:37:53.440 --> 0:37:57.000 Like that's Barry Sanders made something out of nothing throughout 0:37:57.000 --> 0:38:00.320 his career in Detroit. But you know, every great running 0:38:00.320 --> 0:38:02.920 backs still needs, still needs the best line possible to 0:38:02.920 --> 0:38:06.120 make things happen. My argument, Rob is this, and whenever 0:38:06.120 --> 0:38:08.360 this conversation comes up around Barry centers, so this is 0:38:08.360 --> 0:38:10.800 we're talking into context of like, Zeke, if you took 0:38:11.000 --> 0:38:13.839 Emmett Smith, no disrespect to em imm It's amazing. If 0:38:13.880 --> 0:38:16.120 you took Emmitt Smith and put him on Detroit back 0:38:16.160 --> 0:38:19.960 in the day, what would Immit have been? Maybe not 0:38:20.080 --> 0:38:27.440 im it would leading Russia. Same person, right, same capabilities, 0:38:27.880 --> 0:38:30.400 different situation because of what the officer line presents you 0:38:30.560 --> 0:38:32.400 now due to opposite. If you take Barry Centers an 0:38:32.440 --> 0:38:36.560 elusive running back, right, I'm play playmaking running back. Put 0:38:36.600 --> 0:38:38.520 him with the Cowboys officer line at that time, does 0:38:38.560 --> 0:38:40.160 he have the same stats as he had in Detroit? 0:38:40.800 --> 0:38:42.360 Now I got something for you. I got something for 0:38:42.360 --> 0:38:45.319 you as there so and people that are down on 0:38:46.120 --> 0:38:48.880 that are down on Zeke. If you put Zeke in 0:38:49.120 --> 0:38:53.439 Kevin Stefanski's offense in Cleveland, then you get the Zeke 0:38:53.520 --> 0:38:55.960 that you have zac in two in his sixteen So 0:38:56.040 --> 0:38:58.600 you're not you're not having these same questions. And the 0:38:58.680 --> 0:39:01.319 thing about his contract is he earned his contract. He 0:39:01.440 --> 0:39:04.280 earned it based off of the carries and the yards 0:39:04.320 --> 0:39:07.440 and all of that. And I understand it's really hindsight 0:39:07.520 --> 0:39:09.799 to turn back and say, oh, well, look, you're not 0:39:09.840 --> 0:39:12.400 what you used to be and not give credence to 0:39:13.000 --> 0:39:16.120 what he has to deal with to create all of that. So, 0:39:16.360 --> 0:39:18.919 I mean, look after twenty twenty and we come back 0:39:18.920 --> 0:39:21.240 over there and look at the totality of this season, 0:39:21.280 --> 0:39:22.680 there are gonna be a lot of things that you 0:39:22.760 --> 0:39:25.480 have to criticism that you have to sit back on 0:39:25.840 --> 0:39:29.080 because of the way that this offensive line, those injuries 0:39:29.080 --> 0:39:30.839 that they've had to deal with. So, I mean, it's 0:39:30.840 --> 0:39:33.319 easy to critique and judge Zeke, but then you got 0:39:33.320 --> 0:39:35.319 to look at everything, man, before you you come up 0:39:35.320 --> 0:39:38.120 with that conclusion. And I get it. I get it, Kyle. 0:39:38.160 --> 0:39:40.920 I mean it looked the twenty six yard run. Look, 0:39:40.960 --> 0:39:42.920 he hasn't had those twenty yard runs and that's that 0:39:43.000 --> 0:39:45.879 opens up to criticism because he got more of those 0:39:45.960 --> 0:39:47.680 his first year or two in the league than he 0:39:47.719 --> 0:39:51.480 has now. But I just think when you get your 0:39:51.680 --> 0:39:57.719 your entire offense healthy and he's healthy, I still think 0:39:57.719 --> 0:40:01.359 he's a productive running back for you. Yeah, I think 0:40:01.360 --> 0:40:03.080 it is something that you have to look at though, 0:40:03.120 --> 0:40:05.880 whenever it comes to this offense, and of course the 0:40:05.920 --> 0:40:08.759 offensive line plays a massive factor. I'm not disagreeing there, 0:40:08.840 --> 0:40:11.440 but I think just whenever he comes to the contract 0:40:11.480 --> 0:40:14.120 of what it says, yeah, it says be consistent, but 0:40:14.280 --> 0:40:17.840 consistency right now has been below what is consistency was 0:40:18.040 --> 0:40:20.279 whenever he was playing earlier. And yes, like I said, 0:40:20.520 --> 0:40:24.080 the offensive line has has a big deal and playing 0:40:24.080 --> 0:40:26.040 a role in that. All right, let's take us our 0:40:26.120 --> 0:40:28.399 second break. We'll running a little bit long. So when 0:40:28.400 --> 0:40:30.600 we come back, we'll wrap things up and we'll look 0:40:30.600 --> 0:40:33.439 ahead at the NFC East and just what the road 0:40:33.480 --> 0:40:36.399 looks like for the Cowboys should they try and went 0:40:36.440 --> 0:40:38.680 out and go to the playoffs. When we return here, 0:40:38.680 --> 0:40:43.000 I'm talking Cowboys presented by Geico. 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To 0:42:41.480 --> 0:42:48.960 Talk in Cowboys, final couple minutes here of talking Cowboys, 0:42:49.000 --> 0:42:52.720 and of course, whether you're listening to Talking Cowboys, working 0:42:52.800 --> 0:42:55.799 out or maybe even watching highlights or trading those draft 0:42:55.880 --> 0:42:59.280 Kings fantasy players. With those quiet Comfort earbuds, You'll experience 0:42:59.600 --> 0:43:02.520 audience at a whole new level from bows. Make sure 0:43:02.560 --> 0:43:05.759 and go check out your bows quiet comfort earbuds. Much 0:43:05.800 --> 0:43:09.560 like heck Ma Harrison is rocking as always. I got 0:43:09.560 --> 0:43:12.920 my bows quiet comfort headphones on. These are the headphones 0:43:13.280 --> 0:43:15.120 got the big over the ear ones. I don't have 0:43:15.200 --> 0:43:17.680 those those earbuds. I wasn't fancy enough to get those. 0:43:17.800 --> 0:43:21.640 But love my bows and we use them all the time. 0:43:21.719 --> 0:43:25.120 Here on Talking Cowboys presented by Guy Coo, Kyle Yeoman's 0:43:25.160 --> 0:43:28.360 Isaiah Stanback, heck Ma Harrison and the Great Rob Phillips. 0:43:28.400 --> 0:43:31.839 And well, guys, it doesn't look good whenever it comes 0:43:31.840 --> 0:43:34.759 to the NFC East anymore. We got to week fifteen 0:43:35.640 --> 0:43:38.080 before we said, oh well, the Cowboys are in a 0:43:38.120 --> 0:43:41.640 bit of trouble, even though they are still sitting at 0:43:41.680 --> 0:43:44.239 four to nine. They got the win yesterday, but the 0:43:44.280 --> 0:43:46.120 big reason why they are still in a bit of 0:43:46.120 --> 0:43:50.239 troubles at Washington also got a win. They've now won 0:43:50.360 --> 0:43:53.640 three straight. They beat the Cowboys, they beat the Steelers, 0:43:53.680 --> 0:43:55.799 and they took down the forty nine Ers, and they 0:43:55.840 --> 0:44:00.759 are sitting at six wins right now with two game 0:44:00.840 --> 0:44:03.319 lead in the division and with three games to play. 0:44:03.400 --> 0:44:05.239 So what does that mean for the Cowboys. It means 0:44:05.239 --> 0:44:09.400 if it Washington wins one more game and the Cowboys 0:44:09.480 --> 0:44:13.000 lose one more game than the Cowboys are eliminated. Actually, 0:44:13.000 --> 0:44:15.919 either or one of those two things to happen. One 0:44:15.920 --> 0:44:17.840 of those two things has to happen. Not an end, 0:44:17.960 --> 0:44:21.080 it's no more ends. It's basically Cowboys have to win out. 0:44:21.280 --> 0:44:23.440 Washington has to lose out in order for the Dallas 0:44:23.480 --> 0:44:26.480 Cowboys to win the division and go to the playoffs 0:44:26.480 --> 0:44:29.280 here in twenty twenty. So what is the message heckma 0:44:29.320 --> 0:44:32.560 whenever it comes to Mike McCarthy and this coaching staff 0:44:32.600 --> 0:44:34.799 moving into these final three weeks of the year, when 0:44:34.800 --> 0:44:38.000 the division looks the way that it does. So I'm 0:44:38.000 --> 0:44:41.360 gonna talk and coaches speak right now, and they always 0:44:41.400 --> 0:44:44.920 say control with two can control, right, So that is 0:44:44.960 --> 0:44:47.879 that's gonna be the Monstra if Frisco at the Star 0:44:48.120 --> 0:44:50.200 control with you. If you control, do what you can 0:44:50.239 --> 0:44:53.760 do and prepare for every week like it said last 0:44:53.800 --> 0:44:55.879 and that's what this team has to do. When if 0:44:55.880 --> 0:44:59.560 you watch the Washington football team and also the Giants game, 0:45:00.000 --> 0:45:02.080 you know, the Washington football team and their defense and 0:45:02.160 --> 0:45:04.560 oh my god, Chase Young defensive Rookie of the Year. 0:45:04.600 --> 0:45:06.000 If you don't vote for that, I don't know what's 0:45:06.000 --> 0:45:07.920 wrong with you. And I don't think that the Giants 0:45:07.920 --> 0:45:09.520 are what we thought they were going to be. But 0:45:09.560 --> 0:45:11.839 the Cowboys, if they have any hope, like you said, 0:45:11.840 --> 0:45:15.600 they have to win out and looking at Washington's schedule, man, 0:45:15.600 --> 0:45:18.960 it's hard pressed to see that they can't win, at 0:45:19.000 --> 0:45:25.160 least against the Panthers. Rob, I just keep playing hard. 0:45:25.239 --> 0:45:27.839 You know, you're not out of it yet. It's not 0:45:27.920 --> 0:45:31.680 looking good obviously, but you know, I said it earlier 0:45:31.680 --> 0:45:34.440 in the show, and it's it's not twenty ten. You know, 0:45:34.440 --> 0:45:37.520 it's not the same situation as when they started one 0:45:37.560 --> 0:45:41.080 and seven and Jason Garrett took over for Wade Phillips 0:45:41.400 --> 0:45:43.919 and they basically, you know, put everybody on notice. Instead, 0:45:43.960 --> 0:45:47.000 we're evaluating for next year. It's not that you know, 0:45:47.080 --> 0:45:49.560 Mike McCarthy is established as the head coach, but I 0:45:49.560 --> 0:45:51.839 think he's still trying to get that foundation laid down 0:45:51.880 --> 0:45:54.920 for next year. So they need to spend the last 0:45:55.680 --> 0:45:59.120 four weeks of the season, you know, evaluating guys and 0:45:59.160 --> 0:46:01.640 seeing who fits, you know, especially defensively, they have so 0:46:01.640 --> 0:46:04.239 many questions to answer defensively and what they're gonna look 0:46:04.280 --> 0:46:06.200 like scheme wise, who's going to be part of the 0:46:06.239 --> 0:46:09.560 defense and uh, and so I think it's very important 0:46:09.560 --> 0:46:12.560 to see how guys performing and have guys play well 0:46:12.840 --> 0:46:15.440 so they can make that decision afterwards, because there's going 0:46:15.520 --> 0:46:17.000 to be changing on that side of the ball in 0:46:17.120 --> 0:46:20.400 terms of personnel with guys leaving through free agency, and 0:46:20.680 --> 0:46:22.920 they've got to see if the scheme they have works, 0:46:23.080 --> 0:46:24.919 you know what they want to do going next year. 0:46:26.239 --> 0:46:28.680 No heck, but tigu right out of my right, right 0:46:28.719 --> 0:46:30.479 out of my mouth man when he said, you know control, 0:46:30.520 --> 0:46:32.920 would you can control? Um? You know I would tell 0:46:32.920 --> 0:46:34.640 the guy's control, would you control? And the eye and 0:46:34.640 --> 0:46:37.320 the sky don't lie? That's it. You know what what 0:46:37.440 --> 0:46:39.280 you what you put on the field, that is your resume. 0:46:39.360 --> 0:46:41.839 So whether this for you, whether it's for this team, 0:46:41.960 --> 0:46:43.719 it is important. So go out there and do what 0:46:43.719 --> 0:46:47.400 you can do. And with the final three games on 0:46:47.440 --> 0:46:49.960 the schedule, they're all three winnable. You can win against 0:46:49.960 --> 0:46:53.000 San Francisco, New York and Philadelphia, even though Philadelphia looks 0:46:53.000 --> 0:46:56.239 pretty good yesterday with Jalen Hurt says the quarterback. I 0:46:56.239 --> 0:46:58.120 mean they look solid. I mean that's kind of what 0:46:58.160 --> 0:47:00.640 we expected. Whenever Carson Wentz will spin. But I'm not 0:47:00.640 --> 0:47:04.760 going to go there. Whenever it comes to the Philadelphia Eagles, 0:47:04.760 --> 0:47:07.560 but these are winnable games, and whenever it comes to 0:47:07.600 --> 0:47:12.239 the Cowboys. Overall, four wins compared to seven wins, even 0:47:12.239 --> 0:47:14.759 though for draft nuts you don't want to hear that. 0:47:14.840 --> 0:47:16.759 You want to hear the four wins top ten pick. 0:47:17.239 --> 0:47:20.000 But if you finish seven, tell me this right now. 0:47:20.040 --> 0:47:22.880 I mean, if you finish seven and nine, with what 0:47:23.000 --> 0:47:26.000 you've had to work with and what your team looks 0:47:26.000 --> 0:47:29.200 like right now, completely in shambles, you cannot tell me 0:47:29.600 --> 0:47:33.000 that's a fantastic coaching job. You cannot tell me that 0:47:33.040 --> 0:47:36.000 this coach did extra work and put in extra work 0:47:36.040 --> 0:47:39.320 to get to that point and to make something happen 0:47:39.600 --> 0:47:42.400 moving into twenty twenty one that you can be positive 0:47:42.440 --> 0:47:45.120 about it. I don't care about the draft picks at 0:47:45.160 --> 0:47:47.640 that point. If you're winning seven games this year, you've 0:47:47.640 --> 0:47:49.319 got a lot to be happy about, and you've got 0:47:49.320 --> 0:47:51.759 a lot of excitement going into twenty twenty one when 0:47:51.840 --> 0:47:54.080 you get all these guys back, and I think that's 0:47:54.080 --> 0:47:56.760 something to think about here in the final three weeks 0:47:56.760 --> 0:47:58.920 of the year. But it's going to be certainly something 0:47:58.960 --> 0:48:00.759 to look for. The Cowboys got to build on this 0:48:00.880 --> 0:48:04.080 thirty to seven win over the Cincinnati Bengals. But that's 0:48:04.080 --> 0:48:06.960 gonna do it for us here on Talking Cowboys. We'll 0:48:07.000 --> 0:48:10.319 be back tomorrow nine thirty. Will continue looking backwards at 0:48:10.360 --> 0:48:12.320 the Cincinnati game. We'll take a look at the tape, 0:48:12.320 --> 0:48:14.440 and we'll start looking ahead a little bit as the 0:48:14.480 --> 0:48:17.840 San Francisco forty nine ers come to town this Sunday. 0:48:17.880 --> 0:48:20.640 But for Heck Harrison, for Rob Phillips, for Isaiah stand 0:48:20.680 --> 0:48:22.880 back and back at the Star, mister Chris Bean putting 0:48:22.880 --> 0:48:25.799 in the work. I'm Kyle Gilmans saying so long. We'll 0:48:25.840 --> 0:48:29.200 see you tomorrow. I'm Talking Cowboys. Presented by Geico. This 0:48:29.320 --> 0:48:32.120 has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and 0:48:32.280 --> 0:48:34.120 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.