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Speaker 1: Isaiah Stanback, heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeoman's
Speaker 1: It's a Monday edition of Talking Cowboys. I'm gonna bring
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Speaker 1: not gonna look like this football team on the sideline.
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Speaker 1: Monday edition of Talking Cowboys here from the Star in Frisco,
Speaker 1: the SWBC Mortgage Studios. Welcome in everybody here on Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys dot Com. Kyle Yeoman's, Heck Harrison, Rob Phillips, Isaiah's
Speaker 1: stand back Chris beam as always doing great work in
Speaker 1: the back and guys, there's no way to sugarcoat it, really,
Speaker 1: if we're being honest. There's a lot of things to
Speaker 1: hit on whenever it comes to the twenty five to
Speaker 1: three loss to the Seattle Seahawks, not to the Cleveland
Speaker 1: Browns or the Pittsburgh Steelers or the Baltimore Ravens. The
Speaker 1: twenty five to three loss was to the Washington football
Speaker 1: team on the road in an NFC East divisional battle.
Speaker 1: But yes, we are going to talk about it. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk through what exactly went wrong and where do
Speaker 1: they go from here in terms of this Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: football team that now sits at two and five. Glad
Speaker 1: you're with us. And I was told whenever I walked
Speaker 1: into the studio that Isaiah stand Back wanted the floor.
Speaker 1: And I love Isaiah and I've always been a big
Speaker 1: fan of his and of course getting to work with you,
Speaker 1: I've I've learned a lot about you and this is
Speaker 1: one of those days where I'm excited to give you
Speaker 1: the floor because of your pedigree as an announcer and
Speaker 1: as a as a media member. Now, but Isaiah, what
Speaker 1: were your initial thoughts over the game? And goodness, where
Speaker 1: do we start? Well? For those that are watching, can
Speaker 1: you see my face? Oh? Yeah? For those that kid,
Speaker 1: for those are just listening, I wish y'all could see
Speaker 1: my face. Listen up, man, I know it's not Friday,
Speaker 1: but we're gonna say with our chest today this was
Speaker 1: absolutely terrible. With a cherry on top. We lost to
Speaker 1: a team that doesn't even have a name, um called
Speaker 1: the football team. We lost a football team that just
Speaker 1: happened to play out of Washington. Uh, these guys came
Speaker 1: in or we went there to go to go score
Speaker 1: three points. We went there to get disrespected. We went
Speaker 1: there to let our quarterback get knocked out. Night night
Speaker 1: is what we called it in the league. He went
Speaker 1: night night okay, And everybody just came over and touched
Speaker 1: the mind his shoulder and said are you okay? Are
Speaker 1: you okay? With no response. We've talked about it in
Speaker 1: the past, we referred to it. I can't tell you
Speaker 1: how many times about how we say, you know what,
Speaker 1: we don't want to say there's a lack of heart.
Speaker 1: We don't want to say there's a lack of effort.
Speaker 1: We don't want to say that they don't have each
Speaker 1: other's back, that they're not even that they're that they
Speaker 1: are they're brothers keeper. But guess what, they've proved us wrong.
Speaker 1: They proved us wrong. Right. We've been trying to have
Speaker 1: the back. Can't have it back like a jam sport.
Speaker 1: No more, can't do it, no more, can't do it
Speaker 1: no more. We're here to tell the truth, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna tell the truth all day to day. I'm disappointed.
Speaker 1: I am. I am hurt by that showing yesterday. Rob.
Speaker 1: Do you feel the same way. I don't know if
Speaker 1: we've got robbed heck Man, Yeah, what happened to Rob?
Speaker 1: But of course I feel the same way. No way,
Speaker 1: no way that I back for our team to go
Speaker 1: to Washington and play as lifeless as they did, and
Speaker 1: you know, it's really uninspired. And man, we talked about
Speaker 1: it before we started the show. You know that we
Speaker 1: have no positive illusions to sell today because when you
Speaker 1: have a team that goes out and plays that lifeless
Speaker 1: and you have a situation where your quarterback is completely
Speaker 1: taken out. Bostick, he may be a good guy, but
Speaker 1: that was a sucker move, man, that's horrible. You don't
Speaker 1: and they talk, you talk about the fraternity of NFL
Speaker 1: players and guys not doing that, and we we just
Speaker 1: pretty much raped Tristan Hill over the colds for the
Speaker 1: Gator roll. What do you do to Bostick for that?
Speaker 1: Because that was that was a sucker move, but even
Speaker 1: more for not one soul on our team to respond
Speaker 1: to what he did to me Is, man, That's that's
Speaker 1: the that's the part about it. Uh. And Isaiah, I
Speaker 1: gotta give you, I gotta give you credit when you say, hey,
Speaker 1: these guys are not hanging out together, and obviously because
Speaker 1: of the COVID nineteen stipulations and all of that, they
Speaker 1: really can't. But that's just that's just a lack of
Speaker 1: heart for your own guy. We laughed about it about
Speaker 1: Kyle yos Is saying that, look, we know he's an
Speaker 1: Olympic civil medalist and calling nine one one. But Kyle
Speaker 1: would have did something in a situation like that, man.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've never called nine one one in my life,
Speaker 1: but I even in that moment, would have turned around
Speaker 1: and I would have. I would have known. And I
Speaker 1: made the joke before the show. I was like, if
Speaker 1: if any one of y'all were messed with and you
Speaker 1: guys are our podcast buddies, We're not going out and
Speaker 1: fighting other two hundred and eighty pound grown men. You
Speaker 1: guys and I talked football, But if somebody were to
Speaker 1: messed with you guys, I would have I would take
Speaker 1: exception to it, especially to the point where they would
Speaker 1: knock you out. Oh yeah, no, it's going down but
Speaker 1: I think we have rob back here. But I completely
Speaker 1: agree with you. Hackmakled check me out. I know we
Speaker 1: got CB back. There can't nobody sec He's back to
Speaker 1: our producer. But listen up, CBE likes to play Call
Speaker 1: of Duty right, lets to play a little look c D.
Speaker 1: If somebody takes out Kyle on a video game, it
Speaker 1: takes out you know, Chris a video game. I am
Speaker 1: coming for their head. I'm coming for the head. You
Speaker 1: got to worry about me the whole game. I don't care.
Speaker 1: I'm fragging you, I'm throwing grenades. I'm coming after you
Speaker 1: all day long. You gotta worry about me because guess
Speaker 1: what you just did. You just got my dog and
Speaker 1: it ain't going down like that. Remind me not to
Speaker 1: play any Call of Duty with you, Isaiah, because I
Speaker 1: feel like you're just gonna get us caught. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: coming for it you rest of the game, coming for
Speaker 1: the rest of the game. But outside of the frustration
Speaker 1: with the Dalton head, and that absolutely needs to be
Speaker 1: talked about and addressed. And I assume that there's probably
Speaker 1: gonna be a fine coming down, But heck, where do
Speaker 1: you start from? A an exs and o standpoint because
Speaker 1: right now there's a lot of going on wrong with
Speaker 1: this team offensively, defensively. I think it starts in the trenches.
Speaker 1: But I want to see where you lie. Well, look
Speaker 1: the mirages. The mirage is over. I think you really
Speaker 1: see that guys are just they don't have the talent
Speaker 1: to get it done. And you hear coach Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: talking about going back to basics. To me, that's this
Speaker 1: code word for you know, I have some incompetent guys,
Speaker 1: and it's hard for me to believe that guys are
Speaker 1: incompetent that have played in this league for a while.
Speaker 1: Our offensive line manage, we talked about it. The defensive
Speaker 1: line for the Washington football team was going to come
Speaker 1: after Andy Dalton and they did six sacks, a couple
Speaker 1: of strip sacks also, I mean they were all over him.
Speaker 1: But we couldn't establish anything. And that's the one thing
Speaker 1: about it that really is frustrated. Where do I mean, Kyle,
Speaker 1: you ask me from an excent old standpoint, where do
Speaker 1: you start with that when you're not getting anything that
Speaker 1: you can at least hang your hat on to say
Speaker 1: we established the run, well, established the past, We'll establish
Speaker 1: our run defense, we'll establish our pass defense. We have
Speaker 1: none of that. So I mean maybe we should go
Speaker 1: to Rob. Rob can tell us because I have no
Speaker 1: answer for what I saw yesterday. No sorry, guys, I
Speaker 1: got knocked off there. They have nothing that they can
Speaker 1: lean on right now. And you said it on offense.
Speaker 1: They can't run it, they can't throw it, they can't
Speaker 1: sustain drives, and they have to be able to do
Speaker 1: that because right now that's their only chance. Defensively, nothing
Speaker 1: really has improved tangibly since the start of the season,
Speaker 1: and until they get that fixed. And at nine games in,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, seven games in, with nine to go, you
Speaker 1: wonder how much better it's going to get. But they
Speaker 1: don't have anything offensively they can get to despite the
Speaker 1: fact they're missing their quarterback. It's the offensive line, it's
Speaker 1: really everything. And then you throw on top of what
Speaker 1: you guys just talked about. Injuries are one thing. Injuries happen.
Speaker 1: Injuries don't have to define your season. They're not defining
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Eagles season right now. They're in first place
Speaker 1: right now. They're not a great football team, but you
Speaker 1: watch what they're able to do, fight back, stay in games,
Speaker 1: Carson wentz. It helps having your quarterback, but they're they're
Speaker 1: an example of a team that is still out there fighting.
Speaker 1: And it's not just us saying it, it's the player
Speaker 1: saying it. DeMarcus Lawrence said it after the game. We
Speaker 1: need more fight, we need more belief. That's coming from
Speaker 1: the players. It's not just us, uh saying that based
Speaker 1: on what we see on the field. And until that changes, um,
Speaker 1: this is this is going to continue. There's only three
Speaker 1: losing teams, only three winning teams left on their schedule.
Speaker 1: But you know, based on what we've seen, guys, that
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You know, if you you you come out
Speaker 1: and you play and you you fail to execute the
Speaker 1: way they've done consistently in games, there's gonna be more
Speaker 1: of the games like this. It's just going to continue
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season if they don't get
Speaker 1: it cleaned up. Hey, Rob, you and you mentioned man,
Speaker 1: I know it. Cole might have this on his list.
Speaker 1: I gotta do my chest. Everybody's up here making excuses
Speaker 1: time about oh, you know, Dak is the leader of
Speaker 1: this team, and Dak is our guy. And guess what,
Speaker 1: absolutely correct, Dak is your guy, no question about it.
Speaker 1: No replacement is going to is going to do exactly
Speaker 1: what he did. I have been the first one to
Speaker 1: stand up here and say Andy Dalton is a dude
Speaker 1: and he should have no problems stepping in and for
Speaker 1: filling a roll. I still believe that because everybody wants
Speaker 1: to put the blame on Andy Dalton yesterday, right even
Speaker 1: before he got knocked out. This is not an Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton thing. I don't care what quarterback you would have
Speaker 1: put in that game yesterday, they would have got destroyed.
Speaker 1: And yes, dak Mann, it might have avoided a couple
Speaker 1: more plays and got out there and throw the ball
Speaker 1: out of the pocket a couple more times. Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: was nine for nineteen before we getting knocked out, nine
Speaker 1: for nineteen, and here was five drops from one player,
Speaker 1: and I think there's another drop of somebody else. So
Speaker 1: had those guys come count those balls, Andy Dalton would
Speaker 1: have been fifteen of nineteen, fifteen of nineteen. So don't
Speaker 1: make this an Andy Dalton thing, right. This was all
Speaker 1: around just terrible performance across the board. And for people
Speaker 1: that want to make excuses about the quarback player, I
Speaker 1: don't care if there's any Dalton, I don't care IF's Denucci.
Speaker 1: I don't care if there's a dog gone, Rob Phillips
Speaker 1: get in there. You take some snaps too. These guys
Speaker 1: were ineffective in every aspect of the game. If we
Speaker 1: dropped back and throw the ball, guess what. When we
Speaker 1: did throw the ball, they were dropped. When we did
Speaker 1: run the ball, we got stuck. When we did get
Speaker 1: a rush, guess what they took off. When they did
Speaker 1: play a little bit of coverage, guess what they got
Speaker 1: the ball off. It didn't matter what happened. We were
Speaker 1: getting got in every aspect of this game, and we
Speaker 1: kept doing the same things that we know that we
Speaker 1: have been ineffective doing all year long. Offensive line couldn't block,
Speaker 1: defensive line couldn't get a push. Secondary still trying to
Speaker 1: somehow play man to man versus number one receivers. That
Speaker 1: didn't work out too well. We keep doing the same things.
Speaker 1: The definition of insanity is what doing the same thing
Speaker 1: over and over again and expecting different results. That's what
Speaker 1: these guys are doing. I don't know what their culture
Speaker 1: or this team is. What is the culture and who's
Speaker 1: the stem from. Let's let's not just sit up here
Speaker 1: and say dak is the Heart and Solder team. And
Speaker 1: now that Dad's gone, Oh man, you know one of
Speaker 1: our guys is gone. We can't you know the rest
Speaker 1: of these grown man who get paid to do a
Speaker 1: job can't show up and do what they're supposed to do.
Speaker 1: That's bs as an excuse. These twos need to wake
Speaker 1: up and go plus the dog on ball. But Isaiah,
Speaker 1: here's the thing too. Do you think they got on
Speaker 1: the plane and flew all the way to DC to
Speaker 1: get a butt whooping. It's no, they can't sell that.
Speaker 1: They got it. They got it, they got it, But
Speaker 1: there's a desired result of result. Anytime you line up
Speaker 1: to play a football game and whatever's translating, and you
Speaker 1: hear coaches say, oh, we had a great week of preparation.
Speaker 1: Practice was lively. How is that not translating to the
Speaker 1: football field. I'm not arguing with you. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: how does that piece not translate to play on the field.
Speaker 1: When guys get into a situation like that first drive
Speaker 1: from Washington, it was like, oh my god, here's a
Speaker 1: team where they're saying they're giving you the numbers next
Speaker 1: to lasting, Russian lasting and points per game, all of
Speaker 1: these things they hadn't scored on an opening drive, and
Speaker 1: here they are knocking on the door to score, and
Speaker 1: it's just because they're in there. They're lifeless and they
Speaker 1: had nothing even on offense. But we made them look
Speaker 1: better than what they are. And I just don't get
Speaker 1: where where's the disconnected, where's the discon this team whether
Speaker 1: not taking this to the culture. What's the culture? What's
Speaker 1: the culture? We talked about it yesterday, Kyle on the
Speaker 1: pregame show. Right on the pregame show, we said, Hey,
Speaker 1: this dog on quarterback right Alan, you guys are either
Speaker 1: gonna make him look like he's just a dude, like
Speaker 1: Nate talked to him and talked about yesterday. He's either
Speaker 1: gonna look like just a guy or guess what, he's
Speaker 1: one of the thirty two best quarterbacks in the world
Speaker 1: right now, that's an NFL quarterback. NFL quarterbacks one of
Speaker 1: the best in the world. So he's either gonna look
Speaker 1: like a dude. We can make him look like that,
Speaker 1: or we can make him look like he's one of
Speaker 1: the best thirty two guys in the world. And guess
Speaker 1: what we did yesterday. We made him look like he's
Speaker 1: one of the best in the world. Okay, you can't
Speaker 1: disrespect the fact that everybody in this league as a professional.
Speaker 1: They could either have a switch off and they could
Speaker 1: just play like like I'm just here. I'm showing up
Speaker 1: to do my job and get my check like some
Speaker 1: people may be doing this year. Or you can show
Speaker 1: up and say, guess what, I'm gonna get the same check,
Speaker 1: regardless about ball out or not. But guess what, I
Speaker 1: have pride about what I do, and I'm gonna show
Speaker 1: up and knock somebody in the dog our mouth. Also
Speaker 1: not to mention, what would I go for it? Rob? Well,
Speaker 1: just sorry, Kyle. When I just watching this team, and
Speaker 1: I think it's been referenced at points in the season
Speaker 1: by members of the front office or the team itself,
Speaker 1: I just don't see a team that's playing with any confidence,
Speaker 1: very very little confidence. And it's almost like it's almost
Speaker 1: like they're waiting for the next bad thing to happen,
Speaker 1: you know. And we've heard them talk about adversity and
Speaker 1: handling adversity. They've had plenty of adversity. Everybody has been
Speaker 1: in the same boat in terms of no offseason. But
Speaker 1: these injuries are a problem. There's no question it's limiting
Speaker 1: what they can do. But how do you respond to that.
Speaker 1: You know, they're not responding to bad things that happen
Speaker 1: within games. And I think a perfect example is in
Speaker 1: Isaiah and I talked about this at halftime at the Star,
Speaker 1: right before the end of the half. They have a
Speaker 1: good drive. They're putting a drive together. It's kind of
Speaker 1: dink and dunk and they're using the running backs in
Speaker 1: the flat, but they're making things happen. Washington is playing
Speaker 1: their safeties back. They're playing kind of a too deep look,
Speaker 1: and it's almost like they're forcing the Cowboys to continue
Speaker 1: kind of this nickel and dime drive, waiting for them
Speaker 1: to make a mistake. And you know what they did.
Speaker 1: And that's been the story of this season. When something
Speaker 1: can go wrong, it will go wrong. And when you're
Speaker 1: not playing confidently. Mike McCarthy spoke to this after the game.
Speaker 1: We're not cutting it loose, and basically, there's a fear
Speaker 1: of making a mistake. If you're not playing fast and
Speaker 1: you're not playing confidently, you're not going to have results
Speaker 1: in this league. Because guess what, Isaiah can speak to
Speaker 1: this better than anybody on the show. There is not
Speaker 1: much difference between the best team in the league and
Speaker 1: the worst team in the league since there became a
Speaker 1: salary cap era in this league, it does. The records
Speaker 1: do not matter. If you come into a game and
Speaker 1: you do not show up and execute, you're gonna get beat.
Speaker 1: And if you got if you got weaknesses on your
Speaker 1: roster because of injuries, they're gonna go after them and
Speaker 1: you better have an answer for it. And they just
Speaker 1: have not had an answer for the adversity they have
Speaker 1: faced within games and the seasons where they've really struggled
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. Chris mentioned it before the show started. That
Speaker 1: was the issue things went south. Didn't have your quarterback,
Speaker 1: how do you respond? Didn't respond well enough? You went
Speaker 1: for wealth. And I think you also look at it
Speaker 1: from a standpoint of the only time that they have
Speaker 1: let it loose, like all year long, throughout the seven
Speaker 1: weeks that we've seen from this Cowboys team, the only
Speaker 1: time that I think they've really let it loose and
Speaker 1: played their game and not let an opponent dictate what
Speaker 1: they're doing is probably whenever they were down by twenty
Speaker 1: plus points and they had nothing else to lose, And
Speaker 1: that was whenever you saw the comeback against Atlanta, and
Speaker 1: you saw the game after I guess Dak Prescott got
Speaker 1: hurt against New York and you finally were able to
Speaker 1: kind of play your game. Those are the only times
Speaker 1: that you can really point to this Cowboys team and
Speaker 1: say they played with confidence. And it was not necessarily confidence.
Speaker 1: It was more like desperation. And that's where it seems
Speaker 1: like we are as a Cowboys team right now. It's pride.
Speaker 1: It's pride, and you bring up a great point. Those
Speaker 1: are the two references that I would touched on as well.
Speaker 1: But it's pride. We keep using a term confidence. It
Speaker 1: is a sense of pride in how you take your
Speaker 1: approach to the game. I'm not going to allow somebody
Speaker 1: to keep punching me in the mouth. If you guys,
Speaker 1: walk on the sidewalk right now, somebody comes up and
Speaker 1: pushes you, all right, they push me. I'm gonna let
Speaker 1: them have that one right to push you again. At
Speaker 1: a certain point, You're gonna snap, right at a certain point.
Speaker 1: Everybody has different boiling on levels, right, but you're not
Speaker 1: going to continue to allow somebody to keep pushing you. Right.
Speaker 1: So that's what this That's what they were doing against Atlanta.
Speaker 1: Guess what. They kept getting punched in the mouth and
Speaker 1: they got for a certain point, they said, man, forget this,
Speaker 1: let's go right and they showed up and it came
Speaker 1: back and they fired off and they went down the field.
Speaker 1: It had nothing. It had Obviously Dak was there, But
Speaker 1: Dad has nothing to do with the determination and the
Speaker 1: pride that each one of those other men have that
Speaker 1: comes from internal. That is internal. That is a decision.
Speaker 1: You show up the player, you show up not to play.
Speaker 1: You decide to get beat on one player, decide not
Speaker 1: to get beat on one play. After a certain point,
Speaker 1: you have to decide that this is not gonna be okay.
Speaker 1: And right now, and when I keep bringing up the
Speaker 1: word culture, and we've talked about this in previous weeks, right,
Speaker 1: we talked about this, What is the culture of this team?
Speaker 1: When you face the Dallas Cowboys, what do you expect
Speaker 1: to face? Right? Are you gonna walk out of the
Speaker 1: beat up in brewe Are you gonna have to fight
Speaker 1: a play a team that's not gonna give up? Right?
Speaker 1: Are you gonna play a team that you know it
Speaker 1: at some point in time, they're gonna they're gonna quit.
Speaker 1: Right now, every team faces us, they know this team's
Speaker 1: gonna quit at some point in the game. And are
Speaker 1: you facing a team like specifically, are you facing a
Speaker 1: defense that trusts each other, that trust each other to
Speaker 1: make the right play and do their individual jobs to
Speaker 1: make a collective like that. That's that's been the thing.
Speaker 1: And you know, I know there's a lot of criticism
Speaker 1: on Mike Nolan, and there's a lot of people out
Speaker 1: there that want to change a defensive coordinator. But we
Speaker 1: talked about this last week. The same stuff we've been
Speaker 1: talking about defensively is the same stuff we heard last year, freelancing,
Speaker 1: not trusting each other, not being an assignment sharp and
Speaker 1: so coaching matters obviously, but it only goes so far.
Speaker 1: And I know Lady Vandrea said after the game it's
Speaker 1: not the scheme, Well, then it's got to be the
Speaker 1: better execution together right together, And he caught it out right.
Speaker 1: We talked about it last week, Hey, right, we talked
Speaker 1: about how these are high school coverages, these are high coverages,
Speaker 1: and Mike Nolan finally got tired of meat and like
Speaker 1: I said, it's that dog on bottle that that that's
Speaker 1: shaking up a dog on popcam right, or a bottle
Speaker 1: a little bit comes out right. We heard Griffin talking
Speaker 1: about it the first time, right about four weeks ago,
Speaker 1: when I said, hey, well, he said, I'm not I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm a hand in the ground guy. Who woa WHOA.
Speaker 1: We don't, we don't, we don't. You're not allowed to
Speaker 1: say that. That's not something that you say when you're
Speaker 1: on a team. Right, And we said we heard a
Speaker 1: little bit, we heard it. We heard that a little
Speaker 1: air get out right, and then we heard what then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, be car all of a sudden
Speaker 1: just gets released because he spoke up in in one
Speaker 1: of the team meeting rooms. That's the rumor, right, and
Speaker 1: he gets let go okay, okay, and then what oh,
Speaker 1: now we have an anonymous insider for the teams talking
Speaker 1: about the coaches. Oh it was you, it was you know.
Speaker 1: You turn a bottle cap, you turn the bottom cap,
Speaker 1: you let a little bit more out right. And then
Speaker 1: finally coach Nolan's like, the heck with this, They're not
Speaker 1: gonna keep blaming me. What are he's saying in a
Speaker 1: in an interview the other day on Friday or a Saturday,
Speaker 1: what do you say we're running high school defenses. Oh
Speaker 1: crack now, the coach on let it this this dog
Speaker 1: on bottle cat about to come off, And that's exactly
Speaker 1: what's going down. Man. These dudes are making excuses. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And we talked about it in our own group message
Speaker 1: yesterday when the video of Andy Dalton getting angry at
Speaker 1: his offensive line on the sideline came out. Whenever Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton was getting upset and getting red in the face
Speaker 1: as red as he is hairwise, then that's whenever you
Speaker 1: have some issues as in terms of anger and frustration
Speaker 1: on that sideline, and in that I love to see it.
Speaker 1: I did too. I like it. I like a little fire.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, like you said, it's the
Speaker 1: bottle cap. Somebody, if that's gonna end up happening, and
Speaker 1: if the bottle CAP's gonna gonna explode at some point
Speaker 1: pretty soon, or if it already has exploded, we don't
Speaker 1: know what happened in that locker room. When we come back,
Speaker 1: where do we make changes? Where are the changes made?
Speaker 1: Is that the coaching staff to playing personnel. Where do
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Speaker 1: more guys. We were talking about it during the break,
Speaker 1: and it just comes to a point when you just
Speaker 1: you just may not be good. And I feel like
Speaker 1: that's the most frustrating part about this lost yesterday is
Speaker 1: because even going into it, we had all had hope.
Speaker 1: We had all had that kind of hope that it's, oh,
Speaker 1: it's the division that's bad. We've had some injuries, we've
Speaker 1: had this, we've had that. You lose twenty five to
Speaker 1: three to a team that one had the worst rushing
Speaker 1: offense in the entire NFL and they go off and
Speaker 1: they rush for over two hundred yards against you. Two,
Speaker 1: a team that had lost five games in a row
Speaker 1: and they beat you by twenty two points. And then three,
Speaker 1: Kyle Allen, a quarterback who had lost his last eight starts,
Speaker 1: he comes out and shushes you in the cammera or
Speaker 1: flashes up a first down whatever that finger was for
Speaker 1: on the first down. He was taunting. Yeah, he was
Speaker 1: taunting the camera. Whenever a guy who's lost his last
Speaker 1: eight games as a starting quarterback in the NFL starts
Speaker 1: taunting you on camera, that's when you've got an issue. Well,
Speaker 1: that's all what happened yesterday. Glad you're with us. You're
Speaker 1: I'm talking cowboys, Rob Phillips, Isaiah Standback, Hecka Harris, and
Speaker 1: I'm Kyle Yeoman's glad you're sticking with us. You're a
Speaker 1: die hard fan at this point, and we love you
Speaker 1: for it. Not gonna lie. We love talking with you guys,
Speaker 1: and we're just as angry as you are as cowboys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're just as just as angry as you guys are.
Speaker 1: But i'd tease the question before the break and whenever
Speaker 1: he comes to this loss, where do the changes need
Speaker 1: to be made? We can talk about pride, we can
Speaker 1: talk about coaching, we can talk about scheme all we want,
Speaker 1: but ultimately it comes down to the players executing. And heckma,
Speaker 1: they haven't executed. So where do we start in terms
Speaker 1: of making some changes? I mean, you gotta start with
Speaker 1: your front line. Your defensive line is just not the
Speaker 1: guys that you signed that you thought were going to
Speaker 1: be players for you. Uh, it's just not there. And
Speaker 1: even you have to look at your linebackers too. I mean,
Speaker 1: this it's not it's not even uh a strategy anymore
Speaker 1: to leave Jalen one on one out in the flat
Speaker 1: with a tight end or a running back. It's just
Speaker 1: it's just you gotta stop right uh. Safeties, safeties. You know,
Speaker 1: we've talked about this at length. The state the safety
Speaker 1: we just don't have it at all. But I tell
Speaker 1: you it was important the game yesterday, guys where I
Speaker 1: saw my my, my rookie corner. He got upset with
Speaker 1: Terry McLoughlin man a couple of punches being thrown out there.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, that's I like that. I like that
Speaker 1: rook I like you showing that emotion. And then Terry
Speaker 1: McLoughlin just drag racist. He gone for a was it
Speaker 1: fifty two? Fifty six yard? And I don't you keep
Speaker 1: going over the scheme. You keep going over why guys
Speaker 1: are playing, you know, or they thinking too much. We're
Speaker 1: just not getting that push up front. And Kyle Allen
Speaker 1: yesterday was just able to comfortably step up in the
Speaker 1: pocket and make some throws and when he needed to
Speaker 1: make a play with his leg he was making plays
Speaker 1: with his legs. Look offensive line wise, we can beat
Speaker 1: these guys down, but this is not the group that
Speaker 1: you anticipated you were going to have through the season.
Speaker 1: We're down to third stream guys. Right. And if I
Speaker 1: had told you before the season that this Sunday night,
Speaker 1: Benda Nucci would be your starting quarterback, There's no way.
Speaker 1: There's no way. That's the most twenty twenty thing to
Speaker 1: ever happen, is that Bend de Nucci is gonna start
Speaker 1: this Sunday. So I mean, you just you just I
Speaker 1: don't know, Man, Penateller the donkey pick a spot wherever
Speaker 1: you want to go on the defense. But you could
Speaker 1: just pick whatever you want, all right, as far as
Speaker 1: what we need, and that's where it needs to go. Man,
Speaker 1: our defense is just at this point as a laughing stock. Rob.
Speaker 1: I feel like fans want a major change, right, They
Speaker 1: want something to kind of shake the foundation, and a
Speaker 1: lot of people want to change a defensive coordinator. Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy has basically said he's not going to do that.
Speaker 1: He said it has even crossed my mind to do that.
Speaker 1: That's my curiosity is is that something that would actually,
Speaker 1: you know, shake things up and change a message and
Speaker 1: serve as a wake up call for everybody or not?
Speaker 1: Because I think he talks about staying the course, and
Speaker 1: based on what we've seen for seven games now, yes,
Speaker 1: something about the message from the coaching staff is not
Speaker 1: getting through. But these are assignments that are missed and
Speaker 1: execution that is missed. And you know, like Heck mentioned
Speaker 1: that the Treyvon Digs play, Look, he's not coached to
Speaker 1: do that, to keep his eyes in the backfield on
Speaker 1: the quarterback and not on a go route from the
Speaker 1: from the by far the best receiving threat they have downfield,
Speaker 1: you know, And so short of short of with the
Speaker 1: trade deadline coming up and making a big move to
Speaker 1: try to get somebody to help on your interior defensive line,
Speaker 1: I don't know what's really gonna change because there are
Speaker 1: so and I said this last week, there are so
Speaker 1: many things defensively that they've got holes to plug that
Speaker 1: I don't know if one player makes a difference. And
Speaker 1: I'm certainly not gonna screw up my salary cap um
Speaker 1: based on the way things are going right now, and
Speaker 1: saying one player is gonna make a big difference for
Speaker 1: me isah um Jesus Um called his name. Yeah him,
Speaker 1: listen up here, um. In terms of changes, okay, it's
Speaker 1: not the decordinator. It's not the decordina. Your decordinator can
Speaker 1: call the best schemes in the world. But guess why
Speaker 1: players have to execute them. Um, it's not solely that.
Speaker 1: Let me say that, I don't want to take full um.
Speaker 1: I don't good point sponsibility off of his of him,
Speaker 1: so it's not fully him. These these players, man um.
Speaker 1: This is the reason why it makes as a former player.
Speaker 1: It makes it these guys the way they're playing on this,
Speaker 1: on this defensive front, in other positions as well, but
Speaker 1: especially the defensive front. This is why owners, ownership general
Speaker 1: managers hate guaranteed contracts. This is why they hate it.
Speaker 1: They are making this is they're making players look terrible
Speaker 1: and making an art case harder for guys that are
Speaker 1: trying to go out and get guaranteed money. For this
Speaker 1: exact reason. You can't get rid of Pole. I hear
Speaker 1: everybody talking. I'll see you get everybody right now talking.
Speaker 1: You can't get rid of Pole, you can't get rid
Speaker 1: of Griffin, you can't get rid of any of these
Speaker 1: veterans that you brought in. You know why, because after
Speaker 1: the first week of the season, they're seeing their salaries
Speaker 1: are gay around ted. They're going to get their money,
Speaker 1: all right. So now that you have these guys and
Speaker 1: they're going to get their money. Guess what they get
Speaker 1: paid the same amount, whether they play hard, whether they're
Speaker 1: effective or not, the check is the same. So when
Speaker 1: you guys, so when you guys hear me talk about
Speaker 1: guys are out there collecting a check, Guys are out there.
Speaker 1: Literally there goes a million dollars right there. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go back to the house. I didn't get hurt. We're good.
Speaker 1: This is a this is an evaluating league. And if
Speaker 1: guys put in that tape out where they're not trying
Speaker 1: at all, that's you're not doing nothing but messing up
Speaker 1: for your future. And if this is this is the
Speaker 1: last this is a last stop for you, then this
Speaker 1: is a last stop for you. But all I'm saying
Speaker 1: is if you don't have if they could talk that
Speaker 1: scheme stuff, all they want to losing, contain what team
Speaker 1: have we stopped from getting around the outside? I will wait,
Speaker 1: we have teams. So just I mean, we made Scott
Speaker 1: Turner look like the next boy genius. He may get
Speaker 1: a head coaching job based off of what he was
Speaker 1: able to do yesterday and probably not. But still, how
Speaker 1: do we come into every week where offensive coordinators are
Speaker 1: able to just have their full catalog of plays that
Speaker 1: they want and that's what they're doing versus So, look,
Speaker 1: these guys that you're saying that are guaranteed contracts, they're
Speaker 1: gonna get paid tomorrow morning, whether the sun rises or not.
Speaker 1: That's on nim. And if you don't have that pride
Speaker 1: in yourself, if you can't take that as a man
Speaker 1: and say, this is my job, this is how I
Speaker 1: feed my family to do this, and you're put in
Speaker 1: that bas tape out there, then dog, you don't have
Speaker 1: no hard man. And again and I repeat, this is
Speaker 1: the reason why ownership tends to not to go with
Speaker 1: veterans because you have to pay veterans guarantee money. And
Speaker 1: guess what, veterans aren't worried about the future. Heck, most
Speaker 1: most veterans are at this point in their career. They're
Speaker 1: not worried about the future. They're worried about that check. Right,
Speaker 1: So you've got some guys that are gonna have pride.
Speaker 1: We keep using the I keep using that term today.
Speaker 1: You either have the pride to show up and play
Speaker 1: because you're getting the same check regardless. So pride is
Speaker 1: what drives you to be successful in the field, or
Speaker 1: guess what as ownership as general matters as a scouting department,
Speaker 1: like we've said in the past, you have to go
Speaker 1: get some dogs, whether they're vets or not, most likely
Speaker 1: vets that have a drive and a work ethic and
Speaker 1: a tenacious approach to the game at like no other.
Speaker 1: And there are still guys out there that we have
Speaker 1: passed on that will bring that regardless of what their
Speaker 1: locker room issues may be, because obviously we got locker
Speaker 1: rooms in locker rooms anyway, So bring some duza here
Speaker 1: that are gonna give you one thousand percent and that
Speaker 1: are gonna demand that of other guys around them. Any
Speaker 1: I'm not saying no names, Okay, Yeah, At what point
Speaker 1: do you just kind of lean into the locker room
Speaker 1: stuff and be like, well, you know, it is what
Speaker 1: it is, shouldn't get any worse. So but yeah, to
Speaker 1: heck much to your point, like the full compliment, the
Speaker 1: full menu of plays that opposing offenses have, it's the
Speaker 1: run defense. It's the run defense. And until that changes,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be the same story every week. They're
Speaker 1: gonna be on skates because they're gonna be on their
Speaker 1: heels because they can't. They're allowing offenses to dictate whatever
Speaker 1: they want to do offensively and two hundred and eight
Speaker 1: more yards. That that was the issue, Mike Mike McCarthy said,
Speaker 1: the gap integrity, the gap control was a little better,
Speaker 1: but the first place set the tone carrying defenders within
Speaker 1: yards after contact. So if it's not one thing, it's
Speaker 1: the other. And until they get that fixed, like White
Speaker 1: Isaiah said, with pride, with toughness, more toughness, this is
Speaker 1: gonna continue no matter who they're playing, and they're playing
Speaker 1: a lot of bad teams coming up below average team
Speaker 1: is based on record, but it's not going to make
Speaker 1: any difference, no like the Washington football team. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was about to say, you're you're looking at I think
Speaker 1: teams are looking at the Cowboys now as an opportunity
Speaker 1: to get back on track now kind of based off
Speaker 1: of what all three of you guys just said, And
Speaker 1: you're talking about basically one of two things here, or
Speaker 1: I guess one of three things. One is you just
Speaker 1: sit pat, which is probably the most likely to happen,
Speaker 1: which is extremely frustrating to every Cowboys fan. However, there's
Speaker 1: two other options. There's either you cut a player and
Speaker 1: just eat the money, and you just cut your losses
Speaker 1: and say we're sending a message. I think that's probably
Speaker 1: the second most likely thing, because the third one is
Speaker 1: trade for draft picks. Who's gonna trade a draft pick
Speaker 1: for what we've seen on film right now? Nobody's gonna
Speaker 1: come in draft picks right now. Draft picks. Also, not
Speaker 1: to mention, there's a lot more problems than one draft
Speaker 1: gonna fix in this football team at the moment. There's
Speaker 1: not gonna be one draft where you're gonna go out there.
Speaker 1: We had a fantastic draft as Cowboys Nation in this
Speaker 1: past April. We can see what that's turning into. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we've got Ceedee Lamb, treyvon Diggs, Neville Gallimore. Those guys
Speaker 1: are fantastic and they're going to continue to get better
Speaker 1: and they'll be game changers at some point. But whenever
Speaker 1: it comes to a draft, even if you have the
Speaker 1: best draft out of the thirty two other NFL teams,
Speaker 1: it's gonna take two or three of those put together
Speaker 1: before you start seeing some success. And the Cowboys haven't
Speaker 1: seen success yet because of the fact that you have
Speaker 1: so many different holes. It's not gonna take one draft class.
Speaker 1: And even if it did, you're not gonna get those
Speaker 1: picks from other teams for guys like Dontari Poe. Dontry
Speaker 1: Poe couldn't go for twenty bucks in a soda pop
Speaker 1: right now, like that's it wouldn't work at the moment
Speaker 1: in terms of the film that he's put on tape.
Speaker 1: It's frustrating. Well, sorry, hey go ahead, No, I go
Speaker 1: for it. No, I was just as far as the future,
Speaker 1: As far as the future is concerned, you can't. You
Speaker 1: can't trade away your future right now for anything. If
Speaker 1: there was a sign, if we had gone out and
Speaker 1: won that game yesterday, and you see yourself in a
Speaker 1: position or at least feel as though this team is
Speaker 1: gonna make a move on winning the division, the playoffs,
Speaker 1: any of that, then maybe you start considering. But right now,
Speaker 1: this is a lifeless team and it doesn't you're gonna
Speaker 1: bring somebody in on your nightmare. You just I think
Speaker 1: you save all of your picks. That's just my opinion. Man.
Speaker 1: You've got I guess a week plus left until the
Speaker 1: trade inline. I think it's November third. I wouldn't necessarily
Speaker 1: rule it out that they do something, but like I've
Speaker 1: been saying, I don't, I don't think one player is
Speaker 1: gonna make a huge difference. And what I guess to
Speaker 1: explain what I was saying earlier, I wouldn't because we
Speaker 1: don't know what the CAP's gonna be next year. It's
Speaker 1: gonna drop. I don't think there's any question about that.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can take on a player in
Speaker 1: the situation like a Maori was, where he's gonna require
Speaker 1: a large, large deal soon. I think it would have
Speaker 1: to be. It'd have to be a younger player with
Speaker 1: years left on his deal that could still help you.
Speaker 1: And but but again, even doing that, I don't know
Speaker 1: what difference it's gonna make in terms of really turning
Speaker 1: this thing around defensively, Rob. Anybody's sitting at home right
Speaker 1: now that is worthy of getting on the team and
Speaker 1: making an immediate impact will take a lot less money
Speaker 1: than what they typically would take for a one year deal.
Speaker 1: They will come in here and take less money for
Speaker 1: what are we in now? How many games? We gotta have?
Speaker 1: Nine games? They'll come back and pay these cats for
Speaker 1: nine games to come out here and let them prove
Speaker 1: themselves for an opportunity for next year. That's what you
Speaker 1: do with veterans who are in a position of these
Speaker 1: guys who are sitting at home right now, and there's
Speaker 1: still good talent out there that's sitting at the crib
Speaker 1: that will come in here and compete. That's what this
Speaker 1: team is lacking right now. Competition and all that comes
Speaker 1: from pride, all that comes from heart, all these words
Speaker 1: that you're seeing on the chat and everything else, that's
Speaker 1: all rooted inside of you. And again, I keep going
Speaker 1: back to, what is the culture of this team? What
Speaker 1: can you count on when these guys show up and
Speaker 1: play in a positive of light? What what can we
Speaker 1: rest our hat on and say these guys are gonna
Speaker 1: bring this every time they step on the field. I
Speaker 1: don't know what that is. Do you guys hear him?
Speaker 1: Do you guys hear Isaiah? Because even in where we're
Speaker 1: going into week eight of the season, you're hearing the
Speaker 1: themes and you're hearing the the reoccurrence of Earl Thomas,
Speaker 1: Earl Thomas, Earl Thomas. He's not saying the name, but
Speaker 1: he's he's he's definitely throwing it out there. He's still
Speaker 1: trying to get that to happen. And will it to happen?
Speaker 1: I don't that Anonymous sources source stamp. Yeah, or it's
Speaker 1: it's not. It's not just him, it's is it is.
Speaker 1: I mean, at a certain point, you just got to
Speaker 1: recognized we don't have we don't have a culture, and
Speaker 1: the culture is very important, very important. You guys, there's
Speaker 1: nobody on this on this on this podcast right now,
Speaker 1: can name one one team that has a good record
Speaker 1: that doesn't have a culture. I think the only one
Speaker 1: that we could probably name is Chicago. We just don't.
Speaker 1: We don't see them enough right to know what the
Speaker 1: heck's going on with them. Every other team we would
Speaker 1: that we were referenced Baltimore radis. We know what they are,
Speaker 1: the city, we know what they are. Right, Hey, Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield's gonna dance on you, right, he showed right, And
Speaker 1: all these people are talking about, hey, let's get rid
Speaker 1: of coach, right, let's get rid of one of our coaches.
Speaker 1: Lets get rid of the Cartha, let's get rid of Nolan. Hey,
Speaker 1: the Falcons got rid of their head coach. And guess what,
Speaker 1: they still gotta had to come back on them yesterday
Speaker 1: though they were but shots at the Falcons and you
Speaker 1: know what, you know what, and you're right because you're
Speaker 1: you're talking You've been in a lot of different spots
Speaker 1: where there was a strong culture in the locker room. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like you're speaking from experience in New England, Seattle, the Giants,
Speaker 1: even you know, the Cowboys were very competitive when you
Speaker 1: were here. So there there was a culture in that
Speaker 1: locker room. Defensively too, So you're speaking from experience. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I Rock and you were here. Catch was fighting.
Speaker 1: We were having fights in practice. In practice. If somebody
Speaker 1: got a route ran on him, guess what pac Man
Speaker 1: was calling them back to was calling them back, right,
Speaker 1: it didn't matter. Brady James was calling them back, Jay
Speaker 1: Ratlin right, Marcus spears like. There wasn't there at every
Speaker 1: level on both sides of the ball. It was not
Speaker 1: going to be okay that I was beat not acceptable.
Speaker 1: And we're talking about practice, practice, okay, practice to the field, yeah,
Speaker 1: not a game. We're talking about practice. And that was
Speaker 1: the culture. If you got, if you got, if you
Speaker 1: got punked in practice, then you were gonna get shown up.
Speaker 1: They were gonna put you on film right in practice,
Speaker 1: because as you should be embarrassed to show up like that.
Speaker 1: Don't you even think about bringing that mess to the game.
Speaker 1: It's been frustrating, it's been embarrassing, and we're continuing to
Speaker 1: break it down. We do have to take a break
Speaker 1: before we close things out, so let's go ahead and
Speaker 1: step aside. When we come back, we'll wrap things up
Speaker 1: and look ahead till Week eight of the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: season and what the Cowboys can expect coming up in
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Speaker 1: this just feels absolutely wrong to say, it's completely the truth.
Speaker 1: And Isaiah brought it up, and Heckman brought it up
Speaker 1: during the break, But guys, even at two and five,
Speaker 1: you're still completely in this division. Now, I just wanted
Speaker 1: to throw that out there. I'm not going to go
Speaker 1: into it because it is frustrating and I'm angry and
Speaker 1: I don't want to even want to talk about the
Speaker 1: Silver linings. But you're still in there, Isaiah, you really
Speaker 1: are right now, Rob, Rob feels like the furthest thing.
Speaker 1: It feels like the furthest thing away from your grasp
Speaker 1: right now, and everyone really does. Everybody's frustrated, everybody's angry,
Speaker 1: and it seems like this this season is terrible. Your
Speaker 1: most people are talking about, Oh, let's play for a
Speaker 1: top five pick. Listen up, this this season can It
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like it will. But this season can turn
Speaker 1: around and they can't get in the playoffs and they
Speaker 1: can make a run because these guys still have the
Speaker 1: guys I know. Heck, I'm just talking facts. You know.
Speaker 1: I don't I take I take a motion out of things.
Speaker 1: These are the facts. They still have a shot, even
Speaker 1: though it feels like they shouldn't and they don't. There's
Speaker 1: there's a cowboy fan. There's a cowboy fan out there
Speaker 1: that just said, every time I try and get out,
Speaker 1: you pull me back in. He just back. I feel
Speaker 1: like that ropes get a little thinner in the middle.
Speaker 1: I just feel like those strings are barely holding on
Speaker 1: at this point. Rob. I mean, oh, the streets are slick, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the roads are slick. There icy Yeah, No, it. You're right,
Speaker 1: And the truth on no matter is they can make
Speaker 1: a decision. The light could come on and these guys
Speaker 1: go out there with reckless abandon Kyle Allen was an
Speaker 1: undrafted quarterback. Let's not act like this guy was a
Speaker 1: first round guy, all right. He was playing behind a
Speaker 1: offensive line that was second and third string guys just
Speaker 1: like us. So, I mean, how were they able to
Speaker 1: do what they did versus? The question still begs we
Speaker 1: have to get that answer. Why is this defense that
Speaker 1: is full of first round draft picks and guys that
Speaker 1: we've seen do it on other rosters on other teams
Speaker 1: not doing it here? So I mean, look, we could
Speaker 1: beat ourselves over the head with this question all day long.
Speaker 1: But when they go out there and put the tape
Speaker 1: out there that they don't give a damn about it,
Speaker 1: what are we arguing about? Do you know what this said?
Speaker 1: This is the concern I have because you guys are right,
Speaker 1: they're not. Technically, they're not out of it. No, but
Speaker 1: Washington's gonna hang around this race because everything starts up front,
Speaker 1: and they've got a d line that can screw up
Speaker 1: a game, screwuping off and some games fan that can
Speaker 1: keep them in games. Philly still has their heart and
Speaker 1: soul in terms of offensively. You know, even when things
Speaker 1: are breaking down around them, Carson Wentz is still fighting,
Speaker 1: still trying to make things happen. And the Giants don't
Speaker 1: look now, but they're getting better. They're not good, but
Speaker 1: by the time they face the Cowboys after January first,
Speaker 1: they might be a competitive football team. So the other
Speaker 1: three teams in the division are getting better and are
Speaker 1: fighting through things. The Cowboys are not. Now that can change.
Speaker 1: But we're almost halfway through the season, fellas, and there's
Speaker 1: reaches a certain point where is it going to change?
Speaker 1: What kind of season do you want to have? Do
Speaker 1: you want to let it keep going this way or
Speaker 1: you want to make a change. They're at a tipping
Speaker 1: point right now, while and it starts today, rap and start.
Speaker 1: I totally agree with you, guys. I'm probably the least
Speaker 1: optimistic guy because you guys know, I deal with facts.
Speaker 1: I don't deal with emotion, right, But I could tell you, guys,
Speaker 1: when I went to go join a New York Giants
Speaker 1: team right in twenty eleven, it felt like this, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you from it felt like this, right,
Speaker 1: What happened eleven. I walked away with a ring, right.
Speaker 1: I walked away with a super Bowl ring, right, because Hey,
Speaker 1: the light switch came on. And I'm just telling you
Speaker 1: guys from experience, it felt like this. It felt hopeless.
Speaker 1: It felt like the season was done. Oh my gosh,
Speaker 1: start thinking about next year, and I guess what. You
Speaker 1: win a game and cast get a little okay, hold on, hell, okay,
Speaker 1: that's that's who we are. And guess what. Boom? You
Speaker 1: win another game. It's like, oh shoot, let me pull
Speaker 1: out the good suits. Then let me button this button up,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And he guess what in
Speaker 1: this swag comes back? And then and then guys play
Speaker 1: like that like you expected them to play whenever you
Speaker 1: put it on paper, whenever you formulated this team. So
Speaker 1: there's a chance I am not the guy, but I'm
Speaker 1: telling you the way things are set up right now,
Speaker 1: a losing record is going to win this division. A
Speaker 1: loser record is gonna win this division. So it's frustrated,
Speaker 1: as mad, as hopeless as everybody feels. Right now, this
Speaker 1: can turn around. Now it's up to them to decide
Speaker 1: if if it is or not. But this can turn
Speaker 1: around because on paper, these guys are dudes. They haven't
Speaker 1: played dudes. But I'll tell you it's a light switch.
Speaker 1: Whether they gonna cut it on or all, we're gonna see.
Speaker 1: So three things based off of that to close the show.
Speaker 1: First Off, you're right, I think a losing record will
Speaker 1: win this division. But even to obtain a seven and
Speaker 1: nine record, the Cowboys have to win five of their
Speaker 1: next nine games and go five and four the rest
Speaker 1: of the way. So with that being said, you're still
Speaker 1: going to you still have a long way to go
Speaker 1: in terms of getting a winning record to get to
Speaker 1: the playoffs a little bit later on. Secondly, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to discount what you just said, but no team
Speaker 1: has ever made the Super Bowl after starting two and
Speaker 1: four or two and five, and the Cowboys are of
Speaker 1: course in that boat at the moment. And Isaiah, I
Speaker 1: don't know about your New York Giants team in twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: I don't know how they started through the first seven weeks,
Speaker 1: but I know it wasn't two and five. I'll tell
Speaker 1: you that much before they getting on a run and
Speaker 1: finding their way. But I just think overall, it's disappointing
Speaker 1: and there's much more that we need to break down
Speaker 1: XS and OZ wise, We're gonna do that tomorrow. It's
Speaker 1: fans on the fifty Tuesday, so sending your fans are
Speaker 1: out today and tomorrow on the Parishcape stream. But that
Speaker 1: is gonna do it here for Talking Cowboys today once again,
Speaker 1: forty five minutes not enough to contain this show, because man,
Speaker 1: we've got a lot more to talk about following the
Speaker 1: twenty five to three loss to Washington yesterday. But we'll
Speaker 1: be back tomorrow for Heck Harrison, for Rob Phillips, who
Speaker 1: are Isaiah stand back and Chris Beam holding it down
Speaker 1: in the back. I'm Kyle Yeoman saying so long from
Speaker 1: the Star in Frisco. We'll see you tomorrow on Talking Cowboys.
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