WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: More Of The Same 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:07.960 The following He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:18.880 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's Talking Cowboys 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:22.720 Screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:34.360 Star in Friscoota. And now your hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:40.880 My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeoman's. Oh, it's a 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:45.880 Tuesday edition of Talking Cowboys here from the Star in Frisco. 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:49.800 And they asked WPC Mortgage Studios the morning after a 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:53.640 thirty eight to ten loss to the Arizona Cardinals on 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:57.160 Monday night. Football, Boy, do we have a lot to 0:00:57.240 --> 0:00:59.800 talk about here over the next forty five minutes? Forty 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:02.520 five minutes isn't gonna be able to contain this show? 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:05.760 I can feel it. Isaiah Standback is sitting across from me. 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:07.399 I know he's ready to let it rip. I know 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.039 hat My Harrison, who's in his household. I know he's 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:12.880 just ready to let all the frustration out. And then 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:15.080 Rob turn a hoodie this morning and that should tell 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:18.399 you everything, Rob Phillips, So we've got ourselves a show 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:20.720 for you here over the next five minutes. I'm Kyle 0:01:20.800 --> 0:01:24.080 Yeoman's and boys, where do we start. I mean talk 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:28.039 about the turnovers. Four turnovers for the Cowboys yesterday They 0:01:28.080 --> 0:01:30.720 lost to a quarterback that's from your hometown who only 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.720 had nine completions. Only time in the Super Bowl era 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:37.000 that has ever happened, especially whenever they get blown out 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.480 like they did. Thirty eight to ten was the final score. 0:01:39.480 --> 0:01:41.120 But Rob will start with you. You were in the 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:43.959 stadium for the one at and T Stadium, which had 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.160 twenty five thousand fans at least at the start of 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:47.560 the game. I don't know how many there were at 0:01:47.560 --> 0:01:49.040 the end of it. But what do you think of 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:53.520 last night's ball game? And what were your thoughts. We're 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:56.800 not doing the smelly sticker segments this week. No, no, no, 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:01.560 no smelly stickers. It's a great it's a great idea, 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:04.440 but we're not there today. To me, this is the 0:02:04.440 --> 0:02:09.200 worst loss of the season so far because it was 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:12.520 a repeat of the previous four games, except you didn't 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:15.560 have Dak Prescott to come in and fix it. And 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:17.880 because you have your backup quarterback in the game. I 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.040 know Andy Dalton is a starting caliber quarterback. He's had 0:02:21.080 --> 0:02:24.200 one week of practice. The starters. You've got to lift 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.079 him up. You do what you can to help him. 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:30.080 He didn't play his best game, but the turnovers continue 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:32.880 to be a problem. Big plays on defense continue to 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:36.080 be a problem. And you know, if you're going to 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.639 win games without your best player, you got to you 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:40.720 gotta focus up, and you gotta be sharp. And that 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:43.480 was the worst performance they've had of the season in 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:46.680 terms of turnovers, which is saying something four turnovers. They 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:49.520 haven't had more than three in the first five games 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:52.480 of the season. And there's there's your ball game, there's 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:55.200 your season right now minus twelve. We've talked about it 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:57.799 over and over and it's the same problem, and it's 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:59.840 the same story, and it's going to continue until they 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:09.360 get fixed. Em oh Man, what a morning to have 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:12.600 this responsibility, because it's it's one of those it's one 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:14.960 of those losses that doesn't sit right with you because 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:18.240 of the effort, uh you quarterback, quarter I guess if 0:03:18.280 --> 0:03:20.920 you just say first quarter, the defense was given us 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.000 everything that we had been looking for. It looked like 0:03:23.000 --> 0:03:25.920 it showed up a lot of their problems, communication errors, 0:03:25.960 --> 0:03:28.919 We were even getting some mush up front. And then 0:03:29.280 --> 0:03:32.040 you know, once the turnovers started to happen, it just 0:03:32.080 --> 0:03:33.919 seemed like it sucked all of the air out of 0:03:33.919 --> 0:03:38.000 the building, especially from our defense. They just went back 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:42.920 to some of their old habits. And it's from defense. 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:47.160 I guess it's the communication problems among the defensive backs. 0:03:47.200 --> 0:03:50.280 It just seems like they're out of sorts. Are I'm 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.200 tired of the excuse of maybe I don't know what 0:03:52.200 --> 0:03:54.800 they're doing, but just out of sorts. I can't. I 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:56.680 can't go with that note that they don't know what 0:03:56.680 --> 0:04:01.280 they're doing. I just just it really bothers me to see, uh, 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:05.200 these big plays and guys running free knowing that they 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.360 have to get a stop, can't get a stop, or 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:10.240 can't get off the field, you know. And you know 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:13.080 I said, talked about it beforehand. It's just saying, look, 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:14.720 these are the things that we need to look for. 0:04:14.920 --> 0:04:17.760 Showed in film session. We talked to Bude Baker, and 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:20.440 I mean, man, if Bude Baker that go to the 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.640 Pro Bowl off of this one game, I don't know, man, 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.560 because he had himself, He had himself quite quite an evening, 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:32.160 all right, as man man um in the world or 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:38.479 Charles Barkley just terrible, terrible, um, terrible, terrible for you. 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.120 It was not good Man Um, you know, I guess 0:04:41.160 --> 0:04:42.480 the good news is you know we want to time 0:04:42.520 --> 0:04:46.200 a possession. Um that's yeah. We wanted it, did they? 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.920 So there goes. That was my tip for the game 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.640 and want that. But we did definitely didn't win the game. 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.120 Um no, I mean this is just was not a 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.000 good performance. And there's no fans or bunts about it, 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:03.400 you know, any Dalton. You know, I I tooted his 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.320 horn all week and I think he still will pay 0:05:05.320 --> 0:05:07.800 off for the Cowboys. I'm down to stretch. I'm you know, 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:10.279 probably starting this week. You know, as you already attested 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:12.080 to Rob. You know, he had one week you know, 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.280 and you guys, everybody saw it. I mean, people can 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:16.400 can drag his name through the mud all day long 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:18.800 because we lost the game and he didn't play very well. 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.040 But you know, as a backup quarterback, you don't get 0:05:21.040 --> 0:05:22.760 a lot of reps with the ones. You just don't. 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:24.440 You don't get a lot of reps in period. In 0:05:24.440 --> 0:05:26.800 practice period you might get you know, you might get 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:32.039 some seven out seven rests, but you're running. You could 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.120 tell that their timing was out of whack. They had 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:37.000 no they were not in sync by any means, you know, 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:39.960 seeing a play on paper, seeing it on video, you know, 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:41.680 and the coaches tell talking about it in the meeting 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:43.440 room is one thing, but when you take it to 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:45.680 the field, there's so many other elements that come into play. 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.159 As a quarterback, you have to be able to have 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:49.520 your timing with the receivers. You gotta know when they're 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:51.039 gonna break their routes off. You got to know the 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.440 non the non verbal communication as far as their body languages, 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:56.560 and when they're gonna make breaks and cuts. And there's 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.680 so much, so many elements to the game that you know, 0:05:58.839 --> 0:06:01.880 fans most most likely are not gonna necessarily be that 0:06:01.920 --> 0:06:04.640 empathetic too. But as a former player, I'm just gonna 0:06:04.720 --> 0:06:07.040 caution you to say, everybody out there just to be patient. 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:09.120 Um it's hard to say when you're two and four, 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.560 but be patient with with Andy Dalton, you know, And 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:13.520 I said it in the pregame show. He would not 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:15.680 be the reason why why the Cowboys lost, and he 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.560 was not the sole reason why the Cowboys lost. Um, 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:21.000 this defense played well as you as you mentioned, Heck, 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:23.400 these guys, these guys looked like they had sued things up. 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:26.560 L Vee came in obviously him him coming back. There's 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:28.480 a lot of question marks and you could see the 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.799 leadership that he has on the field. He was literally 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:32.360 hitting dudes on a hip, hitting him on the butt, 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:34.520 getting them lined up properly. Guys were and you know 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:36.400 you see Jalen looking at him like, oh, okay, this 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:37.800 is where I'm supposed to be at. You know, like 0:06:37.880 --> 0:06:39.840 he came over and he took the he took the 0:06:40.240 --> 0:06:43.520 you know, the realm. But all in all, Man, you know, 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:45.480 turnovers was the it was the thing, you know, and 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.920 Kyler Murray, Um, Kyler Murray did exactly what we said 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:50.160 he was gonna do right when we talked about it 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:52.120 in film session. You know, he was soon. I think 0:06:52.120 --> 0:06:54.160 the defensive ends did they what they were supposed to do, right, 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.560 they were upfield. I think the interior d lineman did okay, 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:59.679 but they got two wide right, just like we talked about. 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:02.080 As soon as he saw that whole he's gone. Um. 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:04.960 I think guys had leverage, right, I mean, against any 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:08.440 other quarterback aside from Michael Vick. You know, these guys 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.600 would have been able to contain him. But he is 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:12.720 who he is, and he, you know, he broke what 0:07:13.000 --> 0:07:15.920 was good containment us. He's one of the best athletes 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:17.920 in the league. I mean, you give him that respect. Um, 0:07:17.960 --> 0:07:20.080 and then we talk about yeah, lightning and not even 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:22.160 only just fast, but he's quick as all get out, right, 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:24.400 So even when you have leverage, he can make you 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:27.160 change your leverage based upon him just making one move. Right. 0:07:27.160 --> 0:07:29.280 So kudos to the defense. I think they played a 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:31.440 lot better than what they have played in the past. 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:34.800 In the front seven, in the secondary, Oh my gosh, 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:37.760 I'm sure we'll get to it. This cover four, they 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:39.760 just toss it out the window. We're watching the game 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.680 yesterday robbed. This Cover four has to stop because teams 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:46.440 are literally I'm sitting here watching team's scheme against cover 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.720 four in our in our inability to run it the 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:52.520 way it's supposed to be ran. Um. Larry Fitzgerald was 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.440 a decoy for d hop right on passes that weren't 0:07:55.440 --> 0:07:58.440 even completed, but they were still there. Um. Buddha Baker 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:01.320 on defense was at complete dog. He is who he 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:04.480 said he was, so all in all, I noticed so 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:07.520 much to unravel. But it just wasn't a good game 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:09.160 for the Cowboys, and they just want to fast forward 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:12.640 to Washington. Well, I mean that's all we got to 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:14.920 talk about. All right, that's it for talking Cowboys today. 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:19.400 We just hit every piece of Oh. I mean, here's 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:21.120 some stats for you. This is the first time since 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.640 twenty fifteen that the Cowboys have started sub five hundred 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:27.880 through weeks six of the NFL season, and the last 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:29.840 time they did so, they went three and thirteen, and 0:08:29.880 --> 0:08:32.320 of course drafted Dak Prescott and Ezekie Elliot in the 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:36.840 twenty sixteen draft. Since two thousand and seven, Tony Romo's 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:38.960 first season as a full time starter for the Cowboys, 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:43.959 Cowboys replacement quarterbacks quote unquote non week one starters are 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:47.760 a combined seven and twenty one, pretty close to what 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:51.960 Andy Dalton's career record in primetime is. Six and twenty 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:55.120 one now is his career record in primetime. So things 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:57.319 didn't go right from a quarterback perspective. You could say 0:08:57.360 --> 0:08:59.440 that about the offensive line, You could say that about 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:01.560 the second you can say that about the defensive line 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:06.359 as well. But I think you start with turnovers. Four turnovers. 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.880 He took it, and even Mike McCarthy started his press 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.079 or last night with it. Rob and he talked about 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:15.880 how you have a minus twelve turnover differential. No other 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.640 team in the NFL has more than twelve turnovers, and 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:22.320 you have a minus twelve turnover differential. It's hard to 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.880 win games whenever you put your defense in that bat 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:30.360 of a situation on multiple occasions each week, every single time. 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:35.800 Rob he's got to be pulling his hair out. And 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:40.640 you know, he said it starts with me, but you 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:43.840 know the foundation of his program in Green Bay, what 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:46.400 we're learning, the way he's harping on these turnovers. I 0:09:46.440 --> 0:09:48.760 went back and looked at it, and he made reference 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:51.520 it a while back to that. I mean, they were 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:53.920 they were plus in the in the differential every year 0:09:54.120 --> 0:09:56.240 in Green Bay. Every year I think they were. He 0:09:56.400 --> 0:09:59.199 was close over thirteen seasons, it was like plus one 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:04.240 hundred or something close to it. They just don't take 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:08.600 care of the ball at all. And and when it's 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:13.080 your best players, that's what makes it even worse. And 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:17.280 you guys spoke about Andy Dalton and what Isaiah said, 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.199 he wasn't gonna He's not the reason you're gonna lose games. 0:10:20.240 --> 0:10:23.080 That shouldn't be his responsibility coming in as the backup. 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:25.120 And Jerry actually spoke to that on the fan on 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:29.000 Friday and this is what they're talking about. You know, 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:32.240 they they never gave him an opportunity to have any 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:33.760 sort of balance. That's why I said it was just 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:37.319 like the first last four games, fifty four pass attempts. 0:10:37.360 --> 0:10:40.800 It's the same thing over and over again, where now 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.679 you're asking not Dak but his backup to come in 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.440 and try to save the game just on the strength 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:48.600 of his arm. And you know, they wanted to get 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:51.480 the run established, but that's Zeke's own fault. And he 0:10:51.520 --> 0:10:54.240 admittedly that they didn't get the run established because of 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.560 two turnovers. And I don't know. I don't know what's 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:00.240 happening there. I know that on Twitter the discussion was 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:03.400 the sleeves and all that. Oh that they went on 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:05.680 a giant winning streak two years ago when he and 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:07.560 Dak wore the long sleeves. So I don't I don't 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:11.480 know if it's that um, but Kyle, yes, they they're 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.360 not going to win very many games at all if 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:16.559 they don't get this fixed. And and and it's it's 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.560 partially the defense too, you know, they I think they 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.199 have I don't know, is it three takeaways this year, 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:25.840 three or four that have led to ten ten points? 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:28.840 Field goal and a return for a touchdown. So it's 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.360 just the whole complimentary football thing that we keep talking 0:11:31.400 --> 0:11:34.760 about over and over again, that's just not there. And 0:11:34.840 --> 0:11:36.960 the one player I think that you believe coming into 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:40.440 this game that you absolutely needed to have a big 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.560 game was Zeke, right, and you know, we talked about 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:46.040 it at length and just not giving up on on 0:11:46.080 --> 0:11:49.640 the running game and making sure that you just pounded 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:53.840 it and the offensive line getting some momentum behind this 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:57.320 backup quarterback man. Those two fumbles just crippled us. But 0:11:57.360 --> 0:11:59.720 it wasn't the ball game, all right. We gave up 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:03.360 those fourteen points, Okay, we still were in a position 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:06.600 that we could at least try to make this a game. 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:09.680 We never got to that point, and it just seemed 0:12:09.720 --> 0:12:12.800 like one big play after another big play and the 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:18.360 adr bomb, Like to me, that was it. Everybody could 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.120 have just packed up and left after that, because to me, 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.840 it was like the team said right then in that moment, Okay, 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:28.839 this is who we are. These monumental first half collapses 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.680 is just who we are. And look, if you look 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:36.679 at Andy Dalton's performance, Yes, all right, he was under 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:41.319 pressure a lot last night, but you also saw how 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:45.000 Dak was having to escape that pressure for five games 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:48.280 and get out and make these heroic efforts to bring 0:12:48.400 --> 0:12:51.120 us back from behind. We just don't have that anymore. 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.600 And without that piece, man, we're dead in the water 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:59.280 whenever you look at And I do put that Christian 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:03.480 kirk Adr touchdown reception as a huge point in this 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.240 football game. But even after that, you drove down the field. 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.480 You had an opportunity after the two minute warning to 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.640 throw it to Michael Gallup who was wide open in 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:13.480 the end zone, and he dropped a touchdown pass that 0:13:13.480 --> 0:13:15.200 would have made it twenty one seven. You got the 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.640 ball to start the second half, you drove down the 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:19.360 field again, and I believe that ended up in a 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:21.640 turnover or are they just stalled out again? And that 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.240 drive as well, so you had a chance to make 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:26.800 you twenty one fourteen, and I think it slipped through 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:29.880 the fingertips of Michael Gallup, which I'm not gonna put 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:32.480 this game on Michael Gallup by anymore, by any stretch 0:13:32.559 --> 0:13:35.160 of the imagination, because he just didn't catch the ball 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:38.400 that one time. How did we know at that point 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.680 that that was going to be the final opportunity to 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:42.679 really get back in this game. But Isaiah and I 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:44.520 kind of want to go off of what Heckma said here. 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:48.800 He said Dak Prescott kind of masked and hit a 0:13:48.840 --> 0:13:51.400 lot of the problems that we saw on this offensive line. 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:53.640 I think that came to light again this week, and 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.240 maybe we relied a little bit too much on the 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.280 performance against the New York Giants defense that just really 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.120 isn't that good. And we moved into this week with 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:03.920 a little bit more confidence, and then as soon as 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:05.760 Zack Martin was out, it was ball game over. But 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:08.360 what did you see from the offensive line and how 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:11.079 Andy Dalton reacted behind it? I think there were two 0:14:11.120 --> 0:14:12.880 things that was taking place. I think you had a 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.679 quarterback who hasn't had enough time with either his line 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:19.080 or with either his line and his receivers, right, So 0:14:19.320 --> 0:14:23.560 timing was off, communications seemed off. I'm sure it just 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:25.360 they just haven't had to have time together, so that 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:27.600 that was not seamless by any means. So you could 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.720 tell that's going on. And then the offensive line, obviously, 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:34.400 once Frederick went down, I mean, geez, I mean these guys, 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:38.480 uh yeah, these guys just you could tell that they 0:14:38.480 --> 0:14:40.720 just they were just demoralized. Right. You could tell that 0:14:40.720 --> 0:14:43.720 they they just lost their confidence. All the air in 0:14:43.720 --> 0:14:45.480 the stadium was taken out. It was like, no, not 0:14:45.480 --> 0:14:47.480 not this one, all right, and we've already lost two 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:49.080 other you know, two other Pro bowlers, not the third 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:51.520 Pro bowler, you know, and um, once that happened, it 0:14:51.600 --> 0:14:54.040 was just like, um, oh crap, we already we have 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.000 we have a regular offensive line when no all pro 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.960 guys playing right now. And it was like, you know, 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:00.600 like I said, Dallas has been and spoil for a 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:03.880 very long time, right, very long time. It's been a 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:05.920 while since they had an offensive line without a Pro bowler, 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:07.200 you know. And there's a lot of there's a lot 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.120 of teams in this league that at half offensive lines 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:10.960 with our Pro bowlers, right, and this is what you 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:13.960 have now, and it's and it shouldn't be that mentality 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.960 like these guys are all professional athletes. Like dang, our 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.720 dogs are gone. But guess what, so and Sol's been grinding, 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:22.360 let's go. Right, they didn't have anybody on the defensive 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:24.560 line that was magnificent that you were scared of. Their 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.080 guy had been he's on ir the guy that you're 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:29.520 worried about. Right, But what they did was to make 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:32.000 up for that. Their defensive coordinator said, we are sending 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:36.160 the entire house and our tents and everything else we got, right, 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:38.120 get your dog on. I don't care what you got. 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:40.520 We're sending everybody. And he just yeah, the whole kid 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:44.400 just said. He brought everybody seemingly every play. And like 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:46.600 we talked about, this team was going to do this. 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:48.200 This was something that was known. They were going to 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:49.960 apply pressure that way. They were going to test out 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:51.680 this offensive line. They were going to get up in 0:15:51.720 --> 0:15:53.200 our receiver's face and see if they can make and 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:56.360 tested catches. So collectively, as a you know, I think 0:15:57.280 --> 0:15:59.120 it was a bad combination of any dog not having 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.480 enough reps with this guy and being in continuity with them, 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:03.120 and then this offers a line just looking at each 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:06.360 other saying, Okay, who's now the leader? Rob, whenever you 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:10.520 look at go for it, go ahead, go ahead. No 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:12.640 I was. I was just gonna say, guys, you know what, 0:16:12.960 --> 0:16:15.920 consider yourselves blessed that you didn't have to watch this 0:16:16.000 --> 0:16:20.280 on the broadcast and listen to Greasy last night. I'll 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.920 tell you, man, he's probably one of my least favorite 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:26.280 people this morning. Yea, he is one of my least 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.440 favorite people, because if you lit a cowboy hayda do 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.240 color commentator for a three hour game, man, that's just 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:34.960 like And I didn't mute my television. Usually I'll mute 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:39.360 the television. But Greasy, I got you dog. Yeah, yeah. Well, 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.480 and Steve Weavey was in that boat as well. There 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:44.920 were a couple shots in there talking about the desert 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:48.760 and then they had the graphics. They were trampling defense 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:50.720 a little bit. They got after it a little bit. 0:16:50.720 --> 0:16:54.160 They kept taking shots from baymakers back and forth, which 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.600 is fine. I mean, at the end of a thirty 0:16:56.600 --> 0:16:58.400 eighth to ten ball game, what else are you gonna 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:03.280 do as a broadcaster? It's and it's America's team. When 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.280 they're down it, boy, it's fun to kick him, right, 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:09.520 That's what the media does. And when they're up, they're 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:12.000 at the highest pedestal. Right, That's just that's just what 0:17:12.080 --> 0:17:14.200 comes with it. And you get everybody's best shot. Mike 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:17.280 McCarthy spoke to that during the week, and they got 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:20.120 the best shot from Arizona. And what Isaiah said about 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:23.520 the offensive line with with Dalton, he just didn't look 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:26.840 comfortable for basically the entire game. I thought, I thought 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.880 there were times of protection held and and give them 0:17:29.920 --> 0:17:35.000 credit for fifty four dropbacks and trying to hang in there. Um, 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:37.520 but you know, he did get sacked three times. I 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:40.840 thought there was some coverage sacks two or coverage pressure 0:17:40.880 --> 0:17:42.680 where there weren't a lot of there were some tight 0:17:42.720 --> 0:17:47.360 windows there. Um, the way they were covering the Cowboys receivers. 0:17:47.359 --> 0:17:49.959 He got it hit eight times. And but yeah, I mean, 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:51.840 when you're looking, we'll see what We'll see what Zach's 0:17:51.880 --> 0:17:53.680 status is this week. He's going to be in concussion 0:17:53.720 --> 0:17:56.480 protocol and see how he does as the week goes on. 0:17:56.600 --> 0:18:02.800 But undrafted last year rookie at left tackle, Connor Williams 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:04.960 is your old man at left guard, yep, and he's 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:06.480 in his third year in the league. You've got a 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:10.520 rookie center, you've got Connor McGovern, who everybody's been wanting 0:18:10.560 --> 0:18:13.440 to see him play, draft pick last year didn't play, 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:16.120 and then an undrafted rookie at right tackle. I mean, 0:18:16.200 --> 0:18:19.080 oh god, it's a it's a that's a tough situation. 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:21.840 And then you throw on top of the fact that 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.960 they completely threw out any semblance of balance. Step boy, 0:18:25.040 --> 0:18:27.879 I mean, it's just a recipe for a disaster, and 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.359 it looked like a disaster, especially at the beginning of 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:33.479 that football game, and really didn't find a rhythm at all. 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:35.439 And it's gonna be a tough week, a short, shorter 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:37.960 week now before you take on Washington. We'll talk about 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:40.480 Washington a little bit tomorrow. 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