WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Boiling Point 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:07.760 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:18.640 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:19.160 --> 0:00:22.560 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:22.640 --> 0:00:32.120 Star in Frisco to the lives and now your hosts 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:37.720 Isaiah Stanback, heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeoman's 0:00:41.760 --> 0:00:45.640 It's a Monday edition of Talking Cowboys. I'm gonna bring 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:47.639 the energy no matter what. How about that because I'm 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:49.800 not gonna look like this football team on the sideline. 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:51.680 I'm gonna bring the energy no matter what. It's a 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:56.279 Monday edition of Talking Cowboys here from the Star in Frisco, 0:00:56.360 --> 0:01:00.480 the SWBC Mortgage Studios. Welcome in everybody here on Dallas 0:01:00.560 --> 0:01:05.120 Cowboys dot Com. Kyle Yeoman's, Heck Harrison, Rob Phillips, Isaiah's 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:08.720 stand back Chris beam as always doing great work in 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:11.880 the back and guys, there's no way to sugarcoat it, really, 0:01:11.920 --> 0:01:14.920 if we're being honest. There's a lot of things to 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:18.000 hit on whenever it comes to the twenty five to 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:22.880 three loss to the Seattle Seahawks, not to the Cleveland 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:26.120 Browns or the Pittsburgh Steelers or the Baltimore Ravens. The 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:30.240 twenty five to three loss was to the Washington football 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:34.200 team on the road in an NFC East divisional battle. 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:35.759 But yes, we are going to talk about it. We're 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:38.920 gonna talk through what exactly went wrong and where do 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:41.560 they go from here in terms of this Dallas Cowboys 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:45.120 football team that now sits at two and five. Glad 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.120 you're with us. And I was told whenever I walked 0:01:48.160 --> 0:01:52.080 into the studio that Isaiah stand Back wanted the floor. 0:01:52.400 --> 0:01:55.200 And I love Isaiah and I've always been a big 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.360 fan of his and of course getting to work with you, 0:01:57.400 --> 0:01:59.960 I've I've learned a lot about you and this is 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.280 one of those days where I'm excited to give you 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.840 the floor because of your pedigree as an announcer and 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.639 as a as a media member. Now, but Isaiah, what 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:12.200 were your initial thoughts over the game? And goodness, where 0:02:12.200 --> 0:02:16.920 do we start? Well? For those that are watching, can 0:02:16.960 --> 0:02:20.600 you see my face? Oh? Yeah? For those that kid, 0:02:20.760 --> 0:02:22.760 for those are just listening, I wish y'all could see 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:26.959 my face. Listen up, man, I know it's not Friday, 0:02:26.960 --> 0:02:28.600 but we're gonna say with our chest today this was 0:02:29.320 --> 0:02:34.200 absolutely terrible. With a cherry on top. We lost to 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:37.400 a team that doesn't even have a name, um called 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:39.639 the football team. We lost a football team that just 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:43.120 happened to play out of Washington. Uh, these guys came 0:02:43.160 --> 0:02:46.040 in or we went there to go to go score 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:50.760 three points. We went there to get disrespected. We went 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:57.320 there to let our quarterback get knocked out. Night night 0:02:57.480 --> 0:02:58.800 is what we called it in the league. He went 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.920 night night okay, And everybody just came over and touched 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:04.799 the mind his shoulder and said are you okay? Are 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:09.120 you okay? With no response. We've talked about it in 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:11.519 the past, we referred to it. I can't tell you 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:13.080 how many times about how we say, you know what, 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:14.640 we don't want to say there's a lack of heart. 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:16.480 We don't want to say there's a lack of effort. 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:18.160 We don't want to say that they don't have each 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.240 other's back, that they're not even that they're that they 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.400 are they're brothers keeper. But guess what, they've proved us wrong. 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:26.200 They proved us wrong. Right. We've been trying to have 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:28.600 the back. Can't have it back like a jam sport. 0:03:28.600 --> 0:03:31.280 No more, can't do it, no more, can't do it 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:32.639 no more. We're here to tell the truth, and we're 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:34.480 gonna tell the truth all day to day. I'm disappointed. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:40.000 I am. I am hurt by that showing yesterday. Rob. 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:47.840 Do you feel the same way. I don't know if 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:53.000 we've got robbed heck Man, Yeah, what happened to Rob? 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:58.760 But of course I feel the same way. No way, 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.480 no way that I back for our team to go 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:05.120 to Washington and play as lifeless as they did, and 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.960 you know, it's really uninspired. And man, we talked about 0:04:08.960 --> 0:04:11.600 it before we started the show. You know that we 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:15.160 have no positive illusions to sell today because when you 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:18.880 have a team that goes out and plays that lifeless 0:04:19.320 --> 0:04:22.479 and you have a situation where your quarterback is completely 0:04:22.520 --> 0:04:25.359 taken out. Bostick, he may be a good guy, but 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:28.719 that was a sucker move, man, that's horrible. You don't 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:32.200 and they talk, you talk about the fraternity of NFL 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:35.400 players and guys not doing that, and we we just 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:38.800 pretty much raped Tristan Hill over the colds for the 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:41.320 Gator roll. What do you do to Bostick for that? 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:43.880 Because that was that was a sucker move, but even 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:50.160 more for not one soul on our team to respond 0:04:51.200 --> 0:04:54.800 to what he did to me Is, man, That's that's 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:57.720 the that's the part about it. Uh. And Isaiah, I 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.680 gotta give you, I gotta give you credit when you say, hey, 0:05:00.720 --> 0:05:02.960 these guys are not hanging out together, and obviously because 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.400 of the COVID nineteen stipulations and all of that, they 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:08.320 really can't. But that's just that's just a lack of 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:12.159 heart for your own guy. We laughed about it about 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:14.320 Kyle yos Is saying that, look, we know he's an 0:05:14.560 --> 0:05:18.640 Olympic civil medalist and calling nine one one. But Kyle 0:05:18.760 --> 0:05:21.400 would have did something in a situation like that, man. 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:24.000 I mean, I've never called nine one one in my life, 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:27.160 but I even in that moment, would have turned around 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:29.560 and I would have. I would have known. And I 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:31.360 made the joke before the show. I was like, if 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:33.720 if any one of y'all were messed with and you 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.719 guys are our podcast buddies, We're not going out and 0:05:36.800 --> 0:05:39.680 fighting other two hundred and eighty pound grown men. You 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:42.000 guys and I talked football, But if somebody were to 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:44.000 messed with you guys, I would have I would take 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.720 exception to it, especially to the point where they would 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:49.039 knock you out. Oh yeah, no, it's going down but 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:51.440 I think we have rob back here. But I completely 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:58.040 agree with you. Hackmakled check me out. I know we 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:00.479 got CB back. There can't nobody sec He's back to 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:02.360 our producer. But listen up, CBE likes to play Call 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:04.640 of Duty right, lets to play a little look c D. 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.640 If somebody takes out Kyle on a video game, it 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:10.880 takes out you know, Chris a video game. I am 0:06:10.920 --> 0:06:13.760 coming for their head. I'm coming for the head. You 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.560 got to worry about me the whole game. I don't care. 0:06:16.560 --> 0:06:19.400 I'm fragging you, I'm throwing grenades. I'm coming after you 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.400 all day long. You gotta worry about me because guess 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:22.960 what you just did. You just got my dog and 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:25.520 it ain't going down like that. Remind me not to 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.480 play any Call of Duty with you, Isaiah, because I 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:29.240 feel like you're just gonna get us caught. Yeah, I'm 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.440 coming for it you rest of the game, coming for 0:06:31.520 --> 0:06:33.839 the rest of the game. But outside of the frustration 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.800 with the Dalton head, and that absolutely needs to be 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.880 talked about and addressed. And I assume that there's probably 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:44.040 gonna be a fine coming down, But heck, where do 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:47.599 you start from? A an exs and o standpoint because 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:50.719 right now there's a lot of going on wrong with 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:54.600 this team offensively, defensively. I think it starts in the trenches. 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:59.039 But I want to see where you lie. Well, look 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:02.039 the mirages. The mirage is over. I think you really 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:05.240 see that guys are just they don't have the talent 0:07:05.560 --> 0:07:08.560 to get it done. And you hear coach Mike McCarthy 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:10.880 talking about going back to basics. To me, that's this 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:13.840 code word for you know, I have some incompetent guys, 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.000 and it's hard for me to believe that guys are 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.160 incompetent that have played in this league for a while. 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:24.000 Our offensive line manage, we talked about it. The defensive 0:07:24.000 --> 0:07:26.240 line for the Washington football team was going to come 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:29.560 after Andy Dalton and they did six sacks, a couple 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:32.640 of strip sacks also, I mean they were all over him. 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:36.120 But we couldn't establish anything. And that's the one thing 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:39.240 about it that really is frustrated. Where do I mean, Kyle, 0:07:39.280 --> 0:07:41.320 you ask me from an excent old standpoint, where do 0:07:41.360 --> 0:07:44.040 you start with that when you're not getting anything that 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:46.440 you can at least hang your hat on to say 0:07:46.480 --> 0:07:49.320 we established the run, well, established the past, We'll establish 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:51.880 our run defense, we'll establish our pass defense. We have 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.520 none of that. So I mean maybe we should go 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.640 to Rob. Rob can tell us because I have no 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:01.560 answer for what I saw yesterday. No sorry, guys, I 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:04.760 got knocked off there. They have nothing that they can 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:07.720 lean on right now. And you said it on offense. 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:11.240 They can't run it, they can't throw it, they can't 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:15.640 sustain drives, and they have to be able to do 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:18.920 that because right now that's their only chance. Defensively, nothing 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.440 really has improved tangibly since the start of the season, 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:26.360 and until they get that fixed. And at nine games in, 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.200 I'm sorry, seven games in, with nine to go, you 0:08:29.240 --> 0:08:32.920 wonder how much better it's going to get. But they 0:08:32.920 --> 0:08:36.200 don't have anything offensively they can get to despite the 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:38.679 fact they're missing their quarterback. It's the offensive line, it's 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:40.960 really everything. And then you throw on top of what 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:44.720 you guys just talked about. Injuries are one thing. Injuries happen. 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.560 Injuries don't have to define your season. They're not defining 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:52.160 the Philadelphia Eagles season right now. They're in first place 0:08:52.240 --> 0:08:54.920 right now. They're not a great football team, but you 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:58.040 watch what they're able to do, fight back, stay in games, 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:01.000 Carson wentz. It helps having your quarterback, but they're they're 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.680 an example of a team that is still out there fighting. 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:05.720 And it's not just us saying it, it's the player 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.920 saying it. DeMarcus Lawrence said it after the game. We 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:12.120 need more fight, we need more belief. That's coming from 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:14.960 the players. It's not just us, uh saying that based 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:19.600 on what we see on the field. And until that changes, um, 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.720 this is this is going to continue. There's only three 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:27.319 losing teams, only three winning teams left on their schedule. 0:09:27.400 --> 0:09:30.160 But you know, based on what we've seen, guys, that 0:09:30.200 --> 0:09:32.600 doesn't matter. You know, if you you you come out 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:34.800 and you play and you you fail to execute the 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:38.320 way they've done consistently in games, there's gonna be more 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:40.840 of the games like this. It's just going to continue 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:42.240 for the rest of the season if they don't get 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:44.920 it cleaned up. Hey, Rob, you and you mentioned man, 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:46.280 I know it. Cole might have this on his list. 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.760 I gotta do my chest. Everybody's up here making excuses 0:09:48.800 --> 0:09:50.440 time about oh, you know, Dak is the leader of 0:09:50.480 --> 0:09:52.280 this team, and Dak is our guy. And guess what, 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:56.720 absolutely correct, Dak is your guy, no question about it. 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.199 No replacement is going to is going to do exactly 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:00.959 what he did. I have been the first one to 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:02.800 stand up here and say Andy Dalton is a dude 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:04.439 and he should have no problems stepping in and for 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.720 filling a roll. I still believe that because everybody wants 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:10.000 to put the blame on Andy Dalton yesterday, right even 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:11.960 before he got knocked out. This is not an Andy 0:10:12.040 --> 0:10:13.719 Dalton thing. I don't care what quarterback you would have 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:16.160 put in that game yesterday, they would have got destroyed. 0:10:16.280 --> 0:10:18.280 And yes, dak Mann, it might have avoided a couple 0:10:18.320 --> 0:10:19.760 more plays and got out there and throw the ball 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.680 out of the pocket a couple more times. Andy Dalton 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.880 was nine for nineteen before we getting knocked out, nine 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:29.000 for nineteen, and here was five drops from one player, 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:30.599 and I think there's another drop of somebody else. So 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:33.280 had those guys come count those balls, Andy Dalton would 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:37.520 have been fifteen of nineteen, fifteen of nineteen. So don't 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:39.880 make this an Andy Dalton thing, right. This was all 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:43.640 around just terrible performance across the board. And for people 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:45.240 that want to make excuses about the quarback player, I 0:10:45.280 --> 0:10:47.040 don't care if there's any Dalton, I don't care IF's Denucci. 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.120 I don't care if there's a dog gone, Rob Phillips 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:51.920 get in there. You take some snaps too. These guys 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:55.440 were ineffective in every aspect of the game. If we 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:57.120 dropped back and throw the ball, guess what. When we 0:10:57.120 --> 0:10:59.000 did throw the ball, they were dropped. When we did 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.240 run the ball, we got stuck. When we did get 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:03.120 a rush, guess what they took off. When they did 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:04.640 play a little bit of coverage, guess what they got 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.079 the ball off. It didn't matter what happened. We were 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:10.320 getting got in every aspect of this game, and we 0:11:10.440 --> 0:11:12.120 kept doing the same things that we know that we 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:15.400 have been ineffective doing all year long. Offensive line couldn't block, 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.319 defensive line couldn't get a push. Secondary still trying to 0:11:18.320 --> 0:11:20.560 somehow play man to man versus number one receivers. That 0:11:20.600 --> 0:11:23.079 didn't work out too well. We keep doing the same things. 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:27.560 The definition of insanity is what doing the same thing 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:31.280 over and over again and expecting different results. That's what 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:33.720 these guys are doing. I don't know what their culture 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.960 or this team is. What is the culture and who's 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:38.640 the stem from. Let's let's not just sit up here 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:40.840 and say dak is the Heart and Solder team. And 0:11:40.880 --> 0:11:43.360 now that Dad's gone, Oh man, you know one of 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.360 our guys is gone. We can't you know the rest 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:47.080 of these grown man who get paid to do a 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:49.199 job can't show up and do what they're supposed to do. 0:11:49.280 --> 0:11:51.520 That's bs as an excuse. These twos need to wake 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:53.840 up and go plus the dog on ball. But Isaiah, 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:55.880 here's the thing too. Do you think they got on 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:58.320 the plane and flew all the way to DC to 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:02.959 get a butt whooping. It's no, they can't sell that. 0:12:03.000 --> 0:12:06.280 They got it. They got it, they got it, But 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.320 there's a desired result of result. Anytime you line up 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:12.360 to play a football game and whatever's translating, and you 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:15.920 hear coaches say, oh, we had a great week of preparation. 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.800 Practice was lively. How is that not translating to the 0:12:20.800 --> 0:12:23.160 football field. I'm not arguing with you. I'm just saying, 0:12:23.440 --> 0:12:27.920 how does that piece not translate to play on the field. 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:31.120 When guys get into a situation like that first drive 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:34.000 from Washington, it was like, oh my god, here's a 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.880 team where they're saying they're giving you the numbers next 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:40.200 to lasting, Russian lasting and points per game, all of 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.200 these things they hadn't scored on an opening drive, and 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.720 here they are knocking on the door to score, and 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:49.240 it's just because they're in there. They're lifeless and they 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:53.840 had nothing even on offense. But we made them look 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:56.960 better than what they are. And I just don't get 0:12:57.040 --> 0:13:00.960 where where's the disconnected, where's the discon this team whether 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:04.680 not taking this to the culture. What's the culture? What's 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:06.640 the culture? We talked about it yesterday, Kyle on the 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.360 pregame show. Right on the pregame show, we said, Hey, 0:13:09.720 --> 0:13:11.920 this dog on quarterback right Alan, you guys are either 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:15.160 gonna make him look like he's just a dude, like 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:17.000 Nate talked to him and talked about yesterday. He's either 0:13:17.000 --> 0:13:19.360 gonna look like just a guy or guess what, he's 0:13:19.400 --> 0:13:21.600 one of the thirty two best quarterbacks in the world 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.679 right now, that's an NFL quarterback. NFL quarterbacks one of 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:26.360 the best in the world. So he's either gonna look 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:27.959 like a dude. We can make him look like that, 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:29.319 or we can make him look like he's one of 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:30.880 the best thirty two guys in the world. And guess 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:32.760 what we did yesterday. We made him look like he's 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:34.600 one of the best in the world. Okay, you can't 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.359 disrespect the fact that everybody in this league as a professional. 0:13:37.600 --> 0:13:39.640 They could either have a switch off and they could 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:41.720 just play like like I'm just here. I'm showing up 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:44.200 to do my job and get my check like some 0:13:44.240 --> 0:13:46.319 people may be doing this year. Or you can show 0:13:46.400 --> 0:13:48.520 up and say, guess what, I'm gonna get the same check, 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:50.600 regardless about ball out or not. But guess what, I 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:52.319 have pride about what I do, and I'm gonna show 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:54.720 up and knock somebody in the dog our mouth. Also 0:13:54.800 --> 0:13:58.640 not to mention, what would I go for it? Rob? Well, 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.679 just sorry, Kyle. When I just watching this team, and 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.280 I think it's been referenced at points in the season 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:07.559 by members of the front office or the team itself, 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:09.760 I just don't see a team that's playing with any confidence, 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:14.280 very very little confidence. And it's almost like it's almost 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.440 like they're waiting for the next bad thing to happen, 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:20.040 you know. And we've heard them talk about adversity and 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:23.400 handling adversity. They've had plenty of adversity. Everybody has been 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:25.160 in the same boat in terms of no offseason. But 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:27.960 these injuries are a problem. There's no question it's limiting 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.200 what they can do. But how do you respond to that. 0:14:30.440 --> 0:14:33.280 You know, they're not responding to bad things that happen 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:37.680 within games. And I think a perfect example is in 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.120 Isaiah and I talked about this at halftime at the Star, 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.200 right before the end of the half. They have a 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:46.280 good drive. They're putting a drive together. It's kind of 0:14:46.360 --> 0:14:48.640 dink and dunk and they're using the running backs in 0:14:48.680 --> 0:14:51.440 the flat, but they're making things happen. Washington is playing 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:54.560 their safeties back. They're playing kind of a too deep look, 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.760 and it's almost like they're forcing the Cowboys to continue 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:00.560 kind of this nickel and dime drive, waiting for them 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.200 to make a mistake. And you know what they did. 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:06.640 And that's been the story of this season. When something 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:09.200 can go wrong, it will go wrong. And when you're 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:12.040 not playing confidently. Mike McCarthy spoke to this after the game. 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.920 We're not cutting it loose, and basically, there's a fear 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:18.880 of making a mistake. If you're not playing fast and 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.480 you're not playing confidently, you're not going to have results 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:23.400 in this league. Because guess what, Isaiah can speak to 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:25.720 this better than anybody on the show. There is not 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.200 much difference between the best team in the league and 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:30.360 the worst team in the league since there became a 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:33.120 salary cap era in this league, it does. The records 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:35.000 do not matter. If you come into a game and 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:38.120 you do not show up and execute, you're gonna get beat. 0:15:38.160 --> 0:15:40.400 And if you got if you got weaknesses on your 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:44.000 roster because of injuries, they're gonna go after them and 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:45.600 you better have an answer for it. And they just 0:15:45.640 --> 0:15:48.320 have not had an answer for the adversity they have 0:15:48.400 --> 0:15:51.320 faced within games and the seasons where they've really struggled 0:15:51.320 --> 0:15:53.920 twenty fifteen. Chris mentioned it before the show started. That 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.960 was the issue things went south. Didn't have your quarterback, 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.560 how do you respond? Didn't respond well enough? You went 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:03.480 for wealth. And I think you also look at it 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:07.160 from a standpoint of the only time that they have 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:10.080 let it loose, like all year long, throughout the seven 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.480 weeks that we've seen from this Cowboys team, the only 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:15.000 time that I think they've really let it loose and 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:19.200 played their game and not let an opponent dictate what 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:22.040 they're doing is probably whenever they were down by twenty 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.320 plus points and they had nothing else to lose, And 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:26.960 that was whenever you saw the comeback against Atlanta, and 0:16:27.000 --> 0:16:29.560 you saw the game after I guess Dak Prescott got 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:31.520 hurt against New York and you finally were able to 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:34.880 kind of play your game. Those are the only times 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.160 that you can really point to this Cowboys team and 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:40.000 say they played with confidence. And it was not necessarily confidence. 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.280 It was more like desperation. And that's where it seems 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:47.120 like we are as a Cowboys team right now. It's pride. 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:49.680 It's pride, and you bring up a great point. Those 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:51.840 are the two references that I would touched on as well. 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.320 But it's pride. We keep using a term confidence. It 0:16:54.440 --> 0:16:56.920 is a sense of pride in how you take your 0:16:56.920 --> 0:16:59.320 approach to the game. I'm not going to allow somebody 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:01.320 to keep punching me in the mouth. If you guys, 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:03.400 walk on the sidewalk right now, somebody comes up and 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:06.439 pushes you, all right, they push me. I'm gonna let 0:17:06.440 --> 0:17:08.680 them have that one right to push you again. At 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.880 a certain point, You're gonna snap, right at a certain point. 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.000 Everybody has different boiling on levels, right, but you're not 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:16.520 going to continue to allow somebody to keep pushing you. Right. 0:17:16.600 --> 0:17:19.040 So that's what this That's what they were doing against Atlanta. 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:20.760 Guess what. They kept getting punched in the mouth and 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:22.760 they got for a certain point, they said, man, forget this, 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.320 let's go right and they showed up and it came 0:17:25.359 --> 0:17:27.160 back and they fired off and they went down the field. 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:29.880 It had nothing. It had Obviously Dak was there, But 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:33.159 Dad has nothing to do with the determination and the 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:35.639 pride that each one of those other men have that 0:17:35.720 --> 0:17:38.120 comes from internal. That is internal. That is a decision. 0:17:38.520 --> 0:17:40.240 You show up the player, you show up not to play. 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:42.040 You decide to get beat on one player, decide not 0:17:42.080 --> 0:17:43.880 to get beat on one play. After a certain point, 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:46.480 you have to decide that this is not gonna be okay. 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:48.639 And right now, and when I keep bringing up the 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:51.560 word culture, and we've talked about this in previous weeks, right, 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:54.359 we talked about this, What is the culture of this team? 0:17:54.560 --> 0:17:56.920 When you face the Dallas Cowboys, what do you expect 0:17:56.920 --> 0:17:59.119 to face? Right? Are you gonna walk out of the 0:17:59.359 --> 0:18:01.520 beat up in brewe Are you gonna have to fight 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:03.560 a play a team that's not gonna give up? Right? 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:05.040 Are you gonna play a team that you know it 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:06.760 at some point in time, they're gonna they're gonna quit. 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:10.119 Right now, every team faces us, they know this team's 0:18:10.119 --> 0:18:12.360 gonna quit at some point in the game. And are 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:15.119 you facing a team like specifically, are you facing a 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:18.520 defense that trusts each other, that trust each other to 0:18:18.640 --> 0:18:21.919 make the right play and do their individual jobs to 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:25.720 make a collective like that. That's that's been the thing. 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.359 And you know, I know there's a lot of criticism 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:30.240 on Mike Nolan, and there's a lot of people out 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:32.480 there that want to change a defensive coordinator. But we 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:34.960 talked about this last week. The same stuff we've been 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:39.760 talking about defensively is the same stuff we heard last year, freelancing, 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:44.000 not trusting each other, not being an assignment sharp and 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:47.480 so coaching matters obviously, but it only goes so far. 0:18:47.880 --> 0:18:50.200 And I know Lady Vandrea said after the game it's 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:51.840 not the scheme, Well, then it's got to be the 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:55.960 better execution together right together, And he caught it out right. 0:18:56.040 --> 0:18:57.800 We talked about it last week, Hey, right, we talked 0:18:57.800 --> 0:19:00.520 about how these are high school coverages, these are high coverages, 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:02.240 and Mike Nolan finally got tired of meat and like 0:19:02.280 --> 0:19:04.280 I said, it's that dog on bottle that that that's 0:19:04.280 --> 0:19:06.560 shaking up a dog on popcam right, or a bottle 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:09.040 a little bit comes out right. We heard Griffin talking 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:10.960 about it the first time, right about four weeks ago, 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:12.520 when I said, hey, well, he said, I'm not I'm not. 0:19:12.600 --> 0:19:14.360 I'm a hand in the ground guy. Who woa WHOA. 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:15.800 We don't, we don't, we don't. You're not allowed to 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:17.760 say that. That's not something that you say when you're 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:19.480 on a team. Right, And we said we heard a 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:20.760 little bit, we heard it. We heard that a little 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:22.760 air get out right, and then we heard what then 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:24.480 all of a sudden, be car all of a sudden 0:19:24.480 --> 0:19:26.600 just gets released because he spoke up in in one 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:28.399 of the team meeting rooms. That's the rumor, right, and 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:30.640 he gets let go okay, okay, and then what oh, 0:19:30.720 --> 0:19:34.240 now we have an anonymous insider for the teams talking 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:39.840 about the coaches. Oh it was you, it was you know. 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:41.760 You turn a bottle cap, you turn the bottom cap, 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:43.280 you let a little bit more out right. And then 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:45.159 finally coach Nolan's like, the heck with this, They're not 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:47.080 gonna keep blaming me. What are he's saying in a 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:49.640 in an interview the other day on Friday or a Saturday, 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:53.159 what do you say we're running high school defenses. Oh 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:55.560 crack now, the coach on let it this this dog 0:19:55.600 --> 0:19:57.840 on bottle cat about to come off, And that's exactly 0:19:57.880 --> 0:20:01.200 what's going down. Man. These dudes are making excuses. Yeah, 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:04.240 And we talked about it in our own group message 0:20:04.440 --> 0:20:08.040 yesterday when the video of Andy Dalton getting angry at 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:11.359 his offensive line on the sideline came out. Whenever Andy 0:20:11.440 --> 0:20:13.880 Dalton was getting upset and getting red in the face 0:20:13.960 --> 0:20:17.000 as red as he is hairwise, then that's whenever you 0:20:17.080 --> 0:20:20.600 have some issues as in terms of anger and frustration 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:23.240 on that sideline, and in that I love to see it. 0:20:23.560 --> 0:20:25.840 I did too. I like it. I like a little fire. 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:27.439 But at the same time, like you said, it's the 0:20:27.440 --> 0:20:30.199 bottle cap. 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You lose twenty five to 0:23:39.040 --> 0:23:42.040 three to a team that one had the worst rushing 0:23:42.080 --> 0:23:44.320 offense in the entire NFL and they go off and 0:23:44.400 --> 0:23:47.280 they rush for over two hundred yards against you. Two, 0:23:47.480 --> 0:23:49.320 a team that had lost five games in a row 0:23:50.520 --> 0:23:53.640 and they beat you by twenty two points. And then three, 0:23:54.000 --> 0:23:57.360 Kyle Allen, a quarterback who had lost his last eight starts, 0:23:58.000 --> 0:24:00.399 he comes out and shushes you in the cammera or 0:24:00.480 --> 0:24:03.040 flashes up a first down whatever that finger was for 0:24:03.240 --> 0:24:05.520 on the first down. He was taunting. Yeah, he was 0:24:05.600 --> 0:24:09.280 taunting the camera. Whenever a guy who's lost his last 0:24:09.400 --> 0:24:12.480 eight games as a starting quarterback in the NFL starts 0:24:12.520 --> 0:24:15.800 taunting you on camera, that's when you've got an issue. Well, 0:24:15.880 --> 0:24:18.920 that's all what happened yesterday. Glad you're with us. You're 0:24:18.920 --> 0:24:21.840 I'm talking cowboys, Rob Phillips, Isaiah Standback, Hecka Harris, and 0:24:21.880 --> 0:24:24.359 I'm Kyle Yeoman's glad you're sticking with us. You're a 0:24:24.440 --> 0:24:27.119 die hard fan at this point, and we love you 0:24:27.240 --> 0:24:29.760 for it. Not gonna lie. We love talking with you guys, 0:24:29.840 --> 0:24:33.160 and we're just as angry as you are as cowboys. Yeah, 0:24:33.320 --> 0:24:36.040 we're just as just as angry as you guys are. 0:24:36.160 --> 0:24:39.639 But i'd tease the question before the break and whenever 0:24:39.680 --> 0:24:42.199 he comes to this loss, where do the changes need 0:24:42.240 --> 0:24:44.399 to be made? We can talk about pride, we can 0:24:44.480 --> 0:24:47.600 talk about coaching, we can talk about scheme all we want, 0:24:47.720 --> 0:24:50.560 but ultimately it comes down to the players executing. And heckma, 0:24:50.840 --> 0:24:53.360 they haven't executed. So where do we start in terms 0:24:53.400 --> 0:24:57.040 of making some changes? I mean, you gotta start with 0:24:57.119 --> 0:25:00.040 your front line. Your defensive line is just not the 0:25:00.800 --> 0:25:03.040 guys that you signed that you thought were going to 0:25:03.160 --> 0:25:05.600 be players for you. Uh, it's just not there. And 0:25:05.760 --> 0:25:07.919 even you have to look at your linebackers too. I mean, 0:25:08.680 --> 0:25:12.880 this it's not it's not even uh a strategy anymore 0:25:13.040 --> 0:25:16.000 to leave Jalen one on one out in the flat 0:25:16.080 --> 0:25:18.359 with a tight end or a running back. It's just 0:25:18.840 --> 0:25:23.200 it's just you gotta stop right uh. Safeties, safeties. You know, 0:25:24.040 --> 0:25:26.479 we've talked about this at length. The state the safety 0:25:26.880 --> 0:25:30.160 we just don't have it at all. But I tell 0:25:30.160 --> 0:25:32.639 you it was important the game yesterday, guys where I 0:25:32.720 --> 0:25:36.680 saw my my, my rookie corner. He got upset with 0:25:36.880 --> 0:25:40.080 Terry McLoughlin man a couple of punches being thrown out there. 0:25:40.119 --> 0:25:42.359 I'm like, yeah, that's I like that. I like that 0:25:42.560 --> 0:25:45.440 rook I like you showing that emotion. And then Terry 0:25:45.520 --> 0:25:51.320 McLoughlin just drag racist. He gone for a was it 0:25:51.400 --> 0:25:55.560 fifty two? Fifty six yard? And I don't you keep 0:25:55.680 --> 0:25:58.600 going over the scheme. You keep going over why guys 0:25:58.640 --> 0:26:01.760 are playing, you know, or they thinking too much. We're 0:26:01.840 --> 0:26:04.960 just not getting that push up front. And Kyle Allen 0:26:05.080 --> 0:26:07.680 yesterday was just able to comfortably step up in the 0:26:07.760 --> 0:26:10.119 pocket and make some throws and when he needed to 0:26:10.240 --> 0:26:12.160 make a play with his leg he was making plays 0:26:12.359 --> 0:26:15.440 with his legs. Look offensive line wise, we can beat 0:26:15.520 --> 0:26:17.840 these guys down, but this is not the group that 0:26:17.960 --> 0:26:20.240 you anticipated you were going to have through the season. 0:26:20.440 --> 0:26:24.119 We're down to third stream guys. Right. And if I 0:26:24.240 --> 0:26:26.679 had told you before the season that this Sunday night, 0:26:27.000 --> 0:26:31.280 Benda Nucci would be your starting quarterback, There's no way. 0:26:31.640 --> 0:26:34.520 There's no way. That's the most twenty twenty thing to 0:26:34.640 --> 0:26:37.400 ever happen, is that Bend de Nucci is gonna start 0:26:37.440 --> 0:26:40.040 this Sunday. So I mean, you just you just I 0:26:40.080 --> 0:26:42.639 don't know, Man, Penateller the donkey pick a spot wherever 0:26:42.680 --> 0:26:44.760 you want to go on the defense. But you could 0:26:44.800 --> 0:26:47.960 just pick whatever you want, all right, as far as 0:26:48.040 --> 0:26:51.359 what we need, and that's where it needs to go. Man, 0:26:51.440 --> 0:26:56.200 our defense is just at this point as a laughing stock. Rob. 0:26:59.040 --> 0:27:01.800 I feel like fans want a major change, right, They 0:27:01.920 --> 0:27:05.720 want something to kind of shake the foundation, and a 0:27:05.800 --> 0:27:08.360 lot of people want to change a defensive coordinator. Mike 0:27:08.480 --> 0:27:11.159 McCarthy has basically said he's not going to do that. 0:27:11.240 --> 0:27:13.000 He said it has even crossed my mind to do that. 0:27:14.480 --> 0:27:17.639 That's my curiosity is is that something that would actually, 0:27:18.800 --> 0:27:22.000 you know, shake things up and change a message and 0:27:22.640 --> 0:27:24.720 serve as a wake up call for everybody or not? 0:27:24.920 --> 0:27:28.960 Because I think he talks about staying the course, and 0:27:30.520 --> 0:27:33.720 based on what we've seen for seven games now, yes, 0:27:34.119 --> 0:27:36.200 something about the message from the coaching staff is not 0:27:36.280 --> 0:27:40.440 getting through. But these are assignments that are missed and 0:27:40.520 --> 0:27:43.959 execution that is missed. And you know, like Heck mentioned 0:27:44.040 --> 0:27:47.080 that the Treyvon Digs play, Look, he's not coached to 0:27:47.480 --> 0:27:49.240 do that, to keep his eyes in the backfield on 0:27:49.240 --> 0:27:51.119 the quarterback and not on a go route from the 0:27:51.280 --> 0:27:54.800 from the by far the best receiving threat they have downfield, 0:27:55.240 --> 0:27:58.720 you know, And so short of short of with the 0:27:58.800 --> 0:28:01.080 trade deadline coming up and making a big move to 0:28:01.160 --> 0:28:03.840 try to get somebody to help on your interior defensive line, 0:28:04.680 --> 0:28:09.000 I don't know what's really gonna change because there are 0:28:09.080 --> 0:28:10.600 so and I said this last week, there are so 0:28:10.720 --> 0:28:14.200 many things defensively that they've got holes to plug that 0:28:14.280 --> 0:28:16.119 I don't know if one player makes a difference. And 0:28:16.160 --> 0:28:19.160 I'm certainly not gonna screw up my salary cap um 0:28:19.800 --> 0:28:21.440 based on the way things are going right now, and 0:28:21.520 --> 0:28:23.240 saying one player is gonna make a big difference for 0:28:23.359 --> 0:28:33.480 me isah um Jesus Um called his name. Yeah him, 0:28:35.240 --> 0:28:39.800 listen up here, um. In terms of changes, okay, it's 0:28:39.800 --> 0:28:42.719 not the decordinator. It's not the decordina. Your decordinator can 0:28:42.760 --> 0:28:44.200 call the best schemes in the world. But guess why 0:28:44.360 --> 0:28:49.120 players have to execute them. Um, it's not solely that. 0:28:49.320 --> 0:28:51.520 Let me say that, I don't want to take full um. 0:28:52.480 --> 0:28:55.000 I don't good point sponsibility off of his of him, 0:28:55.040 --> 0:28:58.560 so it's not fully him. These these players, man um. 0:28:58.960 --> 0:29:02.160 This is the reason why it makes as a former player. 0:29:02.600 --> 0:29:04.720 It makes it these guys the way they're playing on this, 0:29:04.840 --> 0:29:07.320 on this defensive front, in other positions as well, but 0:29:07.440 --> 0:29:10.880 especially the defensive front. This is why owners, ownership general 0:29:10.920 --> 0:29:14.200 managers hate guaranteed contracts. This is why they hate it. 0:29:14.640 --> 0:29:18.000 They are making this is they're making players look terrible 0:29:18.160 --> 0:29:20.200 and making an art case harder for guys that are 0:29:20.200 --> 0:29:22.360 trying to go out and get guaranteed money. For this 0:29:22.640 --> 0:29:24.840 exact reason. You can't get rid of Pole. I hear 0:29:24.840 --> 0:29:26.960 everybody talking. I'll see you get everybody right now talking. 0:29:27.160 --> 0:29:28.880 You can't get rid of Pole, you can't get rid 0:29:28.960 --> 0:29:30.480 of Griffin, you can't get rid of any of these 0:29:30.560 --> 0:29:32.360 veterans that you brought in. You know why, because after 0:29:32.440 --> 0:29:34.400 the first week of the season, they're seeing their salaries 0:29:34.400 --> 0:29:36.920 are gay around ted. They're going to get their money, 0:29:37.520 --> 0:29:39.520 all right. So now that you have these guys and 0:29:39.600 --> 0:29:42.040 they're going to get their money. Guess what they get 0:29:42.120 --> 0:29:45.520 paid the same amount, whether they play hard, whether they're 0:29:45.560 --> 0:29:49.080 effective or not, the check is the same. So when 0:29:49.120 --> 0:29:50.800 you guys, so when you guys hear me talk about 0:29:50.800 --> 0:29:53.280 guys are out there collecting a check, Guys are out there. 0:29:53.320 --> 0:29:56.880 Literally there goes a million dollars right there. I'm gonna 0:29:56.880 --> 0:29:58.480 go back to the house. I didn't get hurt. We're good. 0:30:00.080 --> 0:30:03.120 This is a this is an evaluating league. And if 0:30:03.160 --> 0:30:05.880 guys put in that tape out where they're not trying 0:30:06.080 --> 0:30:09.040 at all, that's you're not doing nothing but messing up 0:30:09.120 --> 0:30:11.000 for your future. And if this is this is the 0:30:11.120 --> 0:30:12.920 last this is a last stop for you, then this 0:30:13.000 --> 0:30:15.160 is a last stop for you. But all I'm saying 0:30:15.320 --> 0:30:17.560 is if you don't have if they could talk that 0:30:17.720 --> 0:30:21.640 scheme stuff, all they want to losing, contain what team 0:30:21.760 --> 0:30:25.080 have we stopped from getting around the outside? I will wait, 0:30:25.280 --> 0:30:28.520 we have teams. So just I mean, we made Scott 0:30:28.600 --> 0:30:31.360 Turner look like the next boy genius. He may get 0:30:31.400 --> 0:30:34.000 a head coaching job based off of what he was 0:30:34.080 --> 0:30:38.080 able to do yesterday and probably not. But still, how 0:30:38.160 --> 0:30:41.360 do we come into every week where offensive coordinators are 0:30:41.400 --> 0:30:44.440 able to just have their full catalog of plays that 0:30:44.520 --> 0:30:47.400 they want and that's what they're doing versus So, look, 0:30:47.480 --> 0:30:50.280 these guys that you're saying that are guaranteed contracts, they're 0:30:50.280 --> 0:30:52.920 gonna get paid tomorrow morning, whether the sun rises or not. 0:30:54.160 --> 0:30:56.520 That's on nim. And if you don't have that pride 0:30:56.560 --> 0:30:58.960 in yourself, if you can't take that as a man 0:30:59.040 --> 0:31:01.200 and say, this is my job, this is how I 0:31:01.320 --> 0:31:03.800 feed my family to do this, and you're put in 0:31:03.880 --> 0:31:06.720 that bas tape out there, then dog, you don't have 0:31:06.880 --> 0:31:12.080 no hard man. And again and I repeat, this is 0:31:12.160 --> 0:31:14.800 the reason why ownership tends to not to go with 0:31:14.960 --> 0:31:18.480 veterans because you have to pay veterans guarantee money. And 0:31:18.480 --> 0:31:21.360 guess what, veterans aren't worried about the future. Heck, most 0:31:21.480 --> 0:31:23.440 most veterans are at this point in their career. They're 0:31:23.440 --> 0:31:26.000 not worried about the future. They're worried about that check. Right, 0:31:26.080 --> 0:31:27.760 So you've got some guys that are gonna have pride. 0:31:27.840 --> 0:31:29.680 We keep using the I keep using that term today. 0:31:29.840 --> 0:31:31.520 You either have the pride to show up and play 0:31:31.520 --> 0:31:34.080 because you're getting the same check regardless. So pride is 0:31:34.120 --> 0:31:36.400 what drives you to be successful in the field, or 0:31:36.520 --> 0:31:39.320 guess what as ownership as general matters as a scouting department, 0:31:39.680 --> 0:31:41.720 like we've said in the past, you have to go 0:31:41.840 --> 0:31:45.120 get some dogs, whether they're vets or not, most likely 0:31:45.240 --> 0:31:48.480 vets that have a drive and a work ethic and 0:31:48.600 --> 0:31:51.680 a tenacious approach to the game at like no other. 0:31:51.800 --> 0:31:53.840 And there are still guys out there that we have 0:31:53.960 --> 0:31:56.600 passed on that will bring that regardless of what their 0:31:56.680 --> 0:31:59.040 locker room issues may be, because obviously we got locker 0:31:59.120 --> 0:32:02.000 rooms in locker rooms anyway, So bring some duza here 0:32:02.160 --> 0:32:04.200 that are gonna give you one thousand percent and that 0:32:04.280 --> 0:32:07.120 are gonna demand that of other guys around them. Any 0:32:08.440 --> 0:32:12.440 I'm not saying no names, Okay, Yeah, At what point 0:32:12.440 --> 0:32:14.000 do you just kind of lean into the locker room 0:32:14.040 --> 0:32:15.960 stuff and be like, well, you know, it is what 0:32:16.120 --> 0:32:19.560 it is, shouldn't get any worse. So but yeah, to 0:32:19.640 --> 0:32:22.560 heck much to your point, like the full compliment, the 0:32:22.640 --> 0:32:26.400 full menu of plays that opposing offenses have, it's the 0:32:26.520 --> 0:32:29.800 run defense. It's the run defense. And until that changes, 0:32:30.920 --> 0:32:33.800 this is gonna be the same story every week. They're 0:32:33.800 --> 0:32:36.239 gonna be on skates because they're gonna be on their 0:32:36.320 --> 0:32:40.320 heels because they can't. They're allowing offenses to dictate whatever 0:32:40.400 --> 0:32:43.440 they want to do offensively and two hundred and eight 0:32:43.520 --> 0:32:46.800 more yards. That that was the issue, Mike Mike McCarthy said, 0:32:46.800 --> 0:32:48.920 the gap integrity, the gap control was a little better, 0:32:49.200 --> 0:32:53.560 but the first place set the tone carrying defenders within 0:32:53.680 --> 0:32:56.120 yards after contact. So if it's not one thing, it's 0:32:56.160 --> 0:32:59.360 the other. And until they get that fixed, like White 0:32:59.440 --> 0:33:04.760 Isaiah said, with pride, with toughness, more toughness, this is 0:33:04.760 --> 0:33:07.320 gonna continue no matter who they're playing, and they're playing 0:33:07.320 --> 0:33:10.840 a lot of bad teams coming up below average team 0:33:10.920 --> 0:33:12.360 is based on record, but it's not going to make 0:33:12.360 --> 0:33:15.200 any difference, no like the Washington football team. Yeah, I 0:33:15.280 --> 0:33:17.400 was about to say, you're you're looking at I think 0:33:17.440 --> 0:33:19.840 teams are looking at the Cowboys now as an opportunity 0:33:19.920 --> 0:33:22.600 to get back on track now kind of based off 0:33:22.640 --> 0:33:24.560 of what all three of you guys just said, And 0:33:24.600 --> 0:33:27.480 you're talking about basically one of two things here, or 0:33:27.600 --> 0:33:29.280 I guess one of three things. One is you just 0:33:29.360 --> 0:33:31.840 sit pat, which is probably the most likely to happen, 0:33:32.000 --> 0:33:35.280 which is extremely frustrating to every Cowboys fan. However, there's 0:33:35.280 --> 0:33:38.760 two other options. There's either you cut a player and 0:33:38.920 --> 0:33:41.120 just eat the money, and you just cut your losses 0:33:41.160 --> 0:33:43.840 and say we're sending a message. I think that's probably 0:33:43.920 --> 0:33:46.240 the second most likely thing, because the third one is 0:33:46.280 --> 0:33:49.560 trade for draft picks. Who's gonna trade a draft pick 0:33:49.840 --> 0:33:52.680 for what we've seen on film right now? Nobody's gonna 0:33:52.680 --> 0:33:57.120 come in draft picks right now. Draft picks. Also, not 0:33:57.280 --> 0:33:59.840 to mention, there's a lot more problems than one draft 0:34:00.000 --> 0:34:02.400 gonna fix in this football team at the moment. There's 0:34:02.400 --> 0:34:04.680 not gonna be one draft where you're gonna go out there. 0:34:04.720 --> 0:34:07.000 We had a fantastic draft as Cowboys Nation in this 0:34:07.080 --> 0:34:10.040 past April. We can see what that's turning into. Yeah, 0:34:10.120 --> 0:34:13.040 we've got Ceedee Lamb, treyvon Diggs, Neville Gallimore. Those guys 0:34:13.080 --> 0:34:15.160 are fantastic and they're going to continue to get better 0:34:15.360 --> 0:34:19.160 and they'll be game changers at some point. But whenever 0:34:19.239 --> 0:34:21.040 it comes to a draft, even if you have the 0:34:21.120 --> 0:34:23.680 best draft out of the thirty two other NFL teams, 0:34:23.680 --> 0:34:25.920 it's gonna take two or three of those put together 0:34:26.080 --> 0:34:28.879 before you start seeing some success. And the Cowboys haven't 0:34:28.880 --> 0:34:31.360 seen success yet because of the fact that you have 0:34:31.480 --> 0:34:34.040 so many different holes. It's not gonna take one draft class. 0:34:34.080 --> 0:34:36.160 And even if it did, you're not gonna get those 0:34:36.200 --> 0:34:39.480 picks from other teams for guys like Dontari Poe. Dontry 0:34:39.520 --> 0:34:42.520 Poe couldn't go for twenty bucks in a soda pop 0:34:42.640 --> 0:34:45.479 right now, like that's it wouldn't work at the moment 0:34:45.760 --> 0:34:47.800 in terms of the film that he's put on tape. 0:34:48.040 --> 0:34:53.320 It's frustrating. Well, sorry, hey go ahead, No, I go 0:34:53.400 --> 0:34:55.440 for it. No, I was just as far as the future, 0:34:55.480 --> 0:34:58.239 As far as the future is concerned, you can't. You 0:34:58.320 --> 0:35:00.880 can't trade away your future right now for anything. If 0:35:01.160 --> 0:35:03.360 there was a sign, if we had gone out and 0:35:03.600 --> 0:35:06.040 won that game yesterday, and you see yourself in a 0:35:06.120 --> 0:35:09.160 position or at least feel as though this team is 0:35:09.200 --> 0:35:12.240 gonna make a move on winning the division, the playoffs, 0:35:12.320 --> 0:35:15.279 any of that, then maybe you start considering. But right now, 0:35:15.640 --> 0:35:19.080 this is a lifeless team and it doesn't you're gonna 0:35:19.120 --> 0:35:22.200 bring somebody in on your nightmare. You just I think 0:35:22.280 --> 0:35:25.480 you save all of your picks. That's just my opinion. Man. 0:35:25.960 --> 0:35:29.000 You've got I guess a week plus left until the 0:35:29.040 --> 0:35:31.840 trade inline. I think it's November third. I wouldn't necessarily 0:35:31.960 --> 0:35:34.680 rule it out that they do something, but like I've 0:35:34.719 --> 0:35:37.000 been saying, I don't, I don't think one player is 0:35:37.040 --> 0:35:39.759 gonna make a huge difference. And what I guess to 0:35:40.840 --> 0:35:43.360 explain what I was saying earlier, I wouldn't because we 0:35:43.440 --> 0:35:45.400 don't know what the CAP's gonna be next year. It's 0:35:45.440 --> 0:35:47.320 gonna drop. I don't think there's any question about that. 0:35:47.760 --> 0:35:51.560 I don't think you can take on a player in 0:35:51.680 --> 0:35:54.760 the situation like a Maori was, where he's gonna require 0:35:55.239 --> 0:35:57.920 a large, large deal soon. I think it would have 0:35:58.080 --> 0:36:00.279 to be. It'd have to be a younger player with 0:36:00.440 --> 0:36:02.200 years left on his deal that could still help you. 0:36:02.560 --> 0:36:05.600 And but but again, even doing that, I don't know 0:36:05.800 --> 0:36:08.800 what difference it's gonna make in terms of really turning 0:36:08.840 --> 0:36:13.000 this thing around defensively, Rob. Anybody's sitting at home right 0:36:13.080 --> 0:36:15.200 now that is worthy of getting on the team and 0:36:15.320 --> 0:36:18.839 making an immediate impact will take a lot less money 0:36:18.880 --> 0:36:21.000 than what they typically would take for a one year deal. 0:36:21.320 --> 0:36:23.400 They will come in here and take less money for 0:36:23.680 --> 0:36:25.160 what are we in now? How many games? We gotta have? 0:36:25.320 --> 0:36:28.200 Nine games? They'll come back and pay these cats for 0:36:28.400 --> 0:36:30.279 nine games to come out here and let them prove 0:36:30.360 --> 0:36:32.600 themselves for an opportunity for next year. That's what you 0:36:32.719 --> 0:36:34.319 do with veterans who are in a position of these 0:36:34.360 --> 0:36:36.240 guys who are sitting at home right now, and there's 0:36:36.280 --> 0:36:39.360 still good talent out there that's sitting at the crib 0:36:39.440 --> 0:36:41.920 that will come in here and compete. That's what this 0:36:42.000 --> 0:36:45.680 team is lacking right now. Competition and all that comes 0:36:45.760 --> 0:36:47.839 from pride, all that comes from heart, all these words 0:36:47.880 --> 0:36:50.600 that you're seeing on the chat and everything else, that's 0:36:50.640 --> 0:36:53.319 all rooted inside of you. And again, I keep going 0:36:53.400 --> 0:36:56.080 back to, what is the culture of this team? What 0:36:56.239 --> 0:36:58.920 can you count on when these guys show up and 0:36:59.000 --> 0:37:01.480 play in a positive of light? What what can we 0:37:01.560 --> 0:37:03.600 rest our hat on and say these guys are gonna 0:37:03.600 --> 0:37:06.160 bring this every time they step on the field. I 0:37:06.239 --> 0:37:09.440 don't know what that is. Do you guys hear him? 0:37:09.560 --> 0:37:12.239 Do you guys hear Isaiah? Because even in where we're 0:37:12.320 --> 0:37:14.680 going into week eight of the season, you're hearing the 0:37:14.840 --> 0:37:19.960 themes and you're hearing the the reoccurrence of Earl Thomas, 0:37:20.239 --> 0:37:23.279 Earl Thomas, Earl Thomas. He's not saying the name, but 0:37:23.400 --> 0:37:25.719 he's he's he's definitely throwing it out there. He's still 0:37:25.800 --> 0:37:27.759 trying to get that to happen. And will it to happen? 0:37:27.840 --> 0:37:36.759 I don't that Anonymous sources source stamp. Yeah, or it's 0:37:36.800 --> 0:37:38.800 it's not. It's not just him, it's is it is. 0:37:39.760 --> 0:37:41.120 I mean, at a certain point, you just got to 0:37:41.160 --> 0:37:43.360 recognized we don't have we don't have a culture, and 0:37:43.400 --> 0:37:46.680 the culture is very important, very important. You guys, there's 0:37:46.760 --> 0:37:48.960 nobody on this on this on this podcast right now, 0:37:49.040 --> 0:37:51.720 can name one one team that has a good record 0:37:51.880 --> 0:37:53.759 that doesn't have a culture. I think the only one 0:37:53.800 --> 0:37:55.759 that we could probably name is Chicago. We just don't. 0:37:55.880 --> 0:37:57.480 We don't see them enough right to know what the 0:37:57.520 --> 0:37:59.719 heck's going on with them. Every other team we would 0:37:59.719 --> 0:38:02.279 that we were referenced Baltimore radis. We know what they are, 0:38:02.680 --> 0:38:06.799 the city, we know what they are. Right, Hey, Baker 0:38:06.840 --> 0:38:10.920 Mayfield's gonna dance on you, right, he showed right, And 0:38:11.160 --> 0:38:12.759 all these people are talking about, hey, let's get rid 0:38:12.800 --> 0:38:14.520 of coach, right, let's get rid of one of our coaches. 0:38:14.600 --> 0:38:17.040 Lets get rid of the Cartha, let's get rid of Nolan. Hey, 0:38:17.080 --> 0:38:18.880 the Falcons got rid of their head coach. And guess what, 0:38:19.000 --> 0:38:21.080 they still gotta had to come back on them yesterday 0:38:21.960 --> 0:38:27.200 though they were but shots at the Falcons and you 0:38:27.280 --> 0:38:30.239 know what, you know what, and you're right because you're 0:38:30.400 --> 0:38:32.920 you're talking You've been in a lot of different spots 0:38:33.080 --> 0:38:35.920 where there was a strong culture in the locker room. Yeah, 0:38:35.960 --> 0:38:40.200 like you're speaking from experience in New England, Seattle, the Giants, 0:38:40.320 --> 0:38:43.320 even you know, the Cowboys were very competitive when you 0:38:43.400 --> 0:38:45.239 were here. So there there was a culture in that 0:38:45.320 --> 0:38:50.359 locker room. Defensively too, So you're speaking from experience. Yeah, 0:38:50.600 --> 0:38:53.680 and I Rock and you were here. Catch was fighting. 0:38:54.000 --> 0:38:57.600 We were having fights in practice. In practice. If somebody 0:38:57.680 --> 0:38:59.400 got a route ran on him, guess what pac Man 0:38:59.520 --> 0:39:01.759 was calling them back to was calling them back, right, 0:39:01.880 --> 0:39:03.839 it didn't matter. Brady James was calling them back, Jay 0:39:03.920 --> 0:39:07.120 Ratlin right, Marcus spears like. There wasn't there at every 0:39:07.239 --> 0:39:09.360 level on both sides of the ball. It was not 0:39:09.520 --> 0:39:12.799 going to be okay that I was beat not acceptable. 0:39:13.360 --> 0:39:18.600 And we're talking about practice, practice, okay, practice to the field, yeah, 0:39:18.640 --> 0:39:20.960 not a game. We're talking about practice. And that was 0:39:21.040 --> 0:39:23.120 the culture. If you got, if you got, if you 0:39:23.160 --> 0:39:25.960 got punked in practice, then you were gonna get shown up. 0:39:25.960 --> 0:39:28.040 They were gonna put you on film right in practice, 0:39:28.040 --> 0:39:30.160 because as you should be embarrassed to show up like that. 0:39:30.440 --> 0:39:32.520 Don't you even think about bringing that mess to the game. 0:39:32.560 --> 0:39:36.840 It's been frustrating, it's been embarrassing, and we're continuing to 0:39:36.880 --> 0:39:38.720 break it down. We do have to take a break 0:39:39.000 --> 0:39:41.000 before we close things out, so let's go ahead and 0:39:41.000 --> 0:39:43.359 step aside. When we come back, we'll wrap things up 0:39:43.440 --> 0:39:46.360 and look ahead till Week eight of the twenty twenty 0:39:46.440 --> 0:39:48.759 season and what the Cowboys can expect coming up in 0:39:48.840 --> 0:39:51.279 this week in practice when we were When we return here, 0:39:51.360 --> 0:39:55.759 i'll talking Cowboys. 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Final segment here of Talking 0:42:01.960 --> 0:42:05.200 Cowboys here on the Monday after a Cowboys loss to 0:42:05.280 --> 0:42:07.600 the Washington Football team. Don't miss your chance, though, to 0:42:07.640 --> 0:42:10.160 get your tickets and see the Cowboys at AT and 0:42:10.200 --> 0:42:13.240 T Stadium this season. With home matchups remaining in against 0:42:13.280 --> 0:42:17.080 the Pittsburgh Steelers, that very same Washington football team, the 0:42:17.120 --> 0:42:20.319 forty nine Ers, and the Philadelphia Eagles. A limited number 0:42:20.360 --> 0:42:22.880 of tickets are on sale now. Get yours today at 0:42:22.960 --> 0:42:27.640 Dallas Cowboys dot com slash tickets. Now, with that being said, 0:42:27.840 --> 0:42:29.880 they're not coming back home this week. They've got a 0:42:29.960 --> 0:42:33.839 road game again against the nfcast faux Philadelphia. And while 0:42:33.920 --> 0:42:38.600 this just feels absolutely wrong to say, it's completely the truth. 0:42:38.640 --> 0:42:41.120 And Isaiah brought it up, and Heckman brought it up 0:42:41.680 --> 0:42:44.680 during the break, But guys, even at two and five, 0:42:45.760 --> 0:42:50.319 you're still completely in this division. Now, I just wanted 0:42:50.360 --> 0:42:51.560 to throw that out there. I'm not going to go 0:42:51.640 --> 0:42:54.080 into it because it is frustrating and I'm angry and 0:42:54.120 --> 0:42:55.520 I don't want to even want to talk about the 0:42:55.560 --> 0:42:59.560 Silver linings. But you're still in there, Isaiah, you really 0:42:59.600 --> 0:43:03.359 are right now, Rob, Rob feels like the furthest thing. 0:43:03.520 --> 0:43:05.439 It feels like the furthest thing away from your grasp 0:43:05.600 --> 0:43:09.160 right now, and everyone really does. Everybody's frustrated, everybody's angry, 0:43:09.440 --> 0:43:11.759 and it seems like this this season is terrible. Your 0:43:11.800 --> 0:43:13.960 most people are talking about, Oh, let's play for a 0:43:14.000 --> 0:43:18.080 top five pick. Listen up, this this season can It 0:43:18.160 --> 0:43:20.879 doesn't feel like it will. But this season can turn 0:43:21.000 --> 0:43:23.160 around and they can't get in the playoffs and they 0:43:23.320 --> 0:43:25.600 can make a run because these guys still have the 0:43:25.640 --> 0:43:28.200 guys I know. Heck, I'm just talking facts. You know. 0:43:28.280 --> 0:43:30.520 I don't I take I take a motion out of things. 0:43:30.760 --> 0:43:33.200 These are the facts. They still have a shot, even 0:43:33.239 --> 0:43:35.359 though it feels like they shouldn't and they don't. There's 0:43:35.480 --> 0:43:38.040 there's a cowboy fan. There's a cowboy fan out there 0:43:38.120 --> 0:43:40.399 that just said, every time I try and get out, 0:43:40.600 --> 0:43:46.160 you pull me back in. He just back. I feel 0:43:46.200 --> 0:43:49.160 like that ropes get a little thinner in the middle. 0:43:49.280 --> 0:43:52.040 I just feel like those strings are barely holding on 0:43:52.239 --> 0:43:56.439 at this point. Rob. I mean, oh, the streets are slick, Yeah, 0:43:56.560 --> 0:44:00.520 the roads are slick. There icy Yeah, No, it. You're right, 0:44:00.840 --> 0:44:02.640 And the truth on no matter is they can make 0:44:02.680 --> 0:44:05.200 a decision. The light could come on and these guys 0:44:05.280 --> 0:44:08.600 go out there with reckless abandon Kyle Allen was an 0:44:08.719 --> 0:44:11.040 undrafted quarterback. Let's not act like this guy was a 0:44:11.120 --> 0:44:14.160 first round guy, all right. He was playing behind a 0:44:15.000 --> 0:44:18.279 offensive line that was second and third string guys just 0:44:18.480 --> 0:44:21.120 like us. So, I mean, how were they able to 0:44:21.239 --> 0:44:24.920 do what they did versus? The question still begs we 0:44:25.080 --> 0:44:27.920 have to get that answer. Why is this defense that 0:44:28.120 --> 0:44:30.800 is full of first round draft picks and guys that 0:44:31.120 --> 0:44:34.840 we've seen do it on other rosters on other teams 0:44:35.120 --> 0:44:37.879 not doing it here? So I mean, look, we could 0:44:37.880 --> 0:44:40.319 beat ourselves over the head with this question all day long. 0:44:40.400 --> 0:44:42.040 But when they go out there and put the tape 0:44:42.080 --> 0:44:44.160 out there that they don't give a damn about it, 0:44:44.560 --> 0:44:47.120 what are we arguing about? Do you know what this said? 0:44:47.719 --> 0:44:49.600 This is the concern I have because you guys are right, 0:44:49.760 --> 0:44:52.239 they're not. Technically, they're not out of it. No, but 0:44:53.120 --> 0:44:57.200 Washington's gonna hang around this race because everything starts up front, 0:44:57.280 --> 0:44:59.000 and they've got a d line that can screw up 0:44:59.040 --> 0:45:01.440 a game, screwuping off and some games fan that can 0:45:01.560 --> 0:45:04.960 keep them in games. Philly still has their heart and 0:45:05.040 --> 0:45:08.600 soul in terms of offensively. You know, even when things 0:45:08.640 --> 0:45:10.799 are breaking down around them, Carson Wentz is still fighting, 0:45:10.880 --> 0:45:14.239 still trying to make things happen. And the Giants don't 0:45:14.280 --> 0:45:17.320 look now, but they're getting better. They're not good, but 0:45:17.520 --> 0:45:20.440 by the time they face the Cowboys after January first, 0:45:21.000 --> 0:45:24.359 they might be a competitive football team. So the other 0:45:24.480 --> 0:45:26.839 three teams in the division are getting better and are 0:45:26.920 --> 0:45:30.200 fighting through things. The Cowboys are not. Now that can change. 0:45:30.719 --> 0:45:33.359 But we're almost halfway through the season, fellas, and there's 0:45:33.400 --> 0:45:36.440 reaches a certain point where is it going to change? 0:45:36.480 --> 0:45:38.920 What kind of season do you want to have? Do 0:45:39.000 --> 0:45:40.400 you want to let it keep going this way or 0:45:40.440 --> 0:45:42.400 you want to make a change. They're at a tipping 0:45:42.440 --> 0:45:45.759 point right now, while and it starts today, rap and start. 0:45:46.000 --> 0:45:48.359 I totally agree with you, guys. I'm probably the least 0:45:48.480 --> 0:45:50.959 optimistic guy because you guys know, I deal with facts. 0:45:51.000 --> 0:45:53.279 I don't deal with emotion, right, But I could tell you, guys, 0:45:53.320 --> 0:45:55.160 when I went to go join a New York Giants 0:45:55.239 --> 0:45:59.040 team right in twenty eleven, it felt like this, right, Yeah, 0:45:59.040 --> 0:46:01.799 I'm just telling you from it felt like this, right, 0:46:03.160 --> 0:46:06.560 What happened eleven. I walked away with a ring, right. 0:46:06.640 --> 0:46:10.560 I walked away with a super Bowl ring, right, because Hey, 0:46:10.680 --> 0:46:12.239 the light switch came on. And I'm just telling you 0:46:12.280 --> 0:46:15.600 guys from experience, it felt like this. It felt hopeless. 0:46:15.719 --> 0:46:17.919 It felt like the season was done. Oh my gosh, 0:46:18.160 --> 0:46:20.160 start thinking about next year, and I guess what. You 0:46:20.280 --> 0:46:25.080 win a game and cast get a little okay, hold on, hell, okay, 0:46:25.120 --> 0:46:26.840 that's that's who we are. And guess what. Boom? You 0:46:26.880 --> 0:46:29.000 win another game. It's like, oh shoot, let me pull 0:46:29.040 --> 0:46:31.120 out the good suits. Then let me button this button up, 0:46:31.280 --> 0:46:32.320 you know what I mean? And he guess what in 0:46:32.400 --> 0:46:34.319 this swag comes back? And then and then guys play 0:46:34.400 --> 0:46:35.960 like that like you expected them to play whenever you 0:46:36.120 --> 0:46:38.239 put it on paper, whenever you formulated this team. So 0:46:38.360 --> 0:46:40.879 there's a chance I am not the guy, but I'm 0:46:40.920 --> 0:46:43.080 telling you the way things are set up right now, 0:46:43.160 --> 0:46:45.840 a losing record is going to win this division. A 0:46:45.920 --> 0:46:48.800 loser record is gonna win this division. So it's frustrated, 0:46:48.840 --> 0:46:51.400 as mad, as hopeless as everybody feels. Right now, this 0:46:51.719 --> 0:46:53.720 can turn around. Now it's up to them to decide 0:46:53.719 --> 0:46:55.759 if if it is or not. But this can turn 0:46:55.800 --> 0:46:59.680 around because on paper, these guys are dudes. They haven't 0:46:59.680 --> 0:47:02.160 played dudes. But I'll tell you it's a light switch. 0:47:02.440 --> 0:47:04.319 Whether they gonna cut it on or all, we're gonna see. 0:47:04.760 --> 0:47:07.480 So three things based off of that to close the show. 0:47:07.600 --> 0:47:10.319 First Off, you're right, I think a losing record will 0:47:10.360 --> 0:47:13.360 win this division. But even to obtain a seven and 0:47:13.520 --> 0:47:15.759 nine record, the Cowboys have to win five of their 0:47:15.840 --> 0:47:17.960 next nine games and go five and four the rest 0:47:18.040 --> 0:47:20.959 of the way. So with that being said, you're still 0:47:21.080 --> 0:47:23.680 going to you still have a long way to go 0:47:24.040 --> 0:47:25.920 in terms of getting a winning record to get to 0:47:26.000 --> 0:47:29.600 the playoffs a little bit later on. Secondly, I'm not 0:47:29.680 --> 0:47:31.879 going to discount what you just said, but no team 0:47:31.920 --> 0:47:34.279 has ever made the Super Bowl after starting two and 0:47:34.360 --> 0:47:37.120 four or two and five, and the Cowboys are of 0:47:37.200 --> 0:47:39.920 course in that boat at the moment. And Isaiah, I 0:47:39.960 --> 0:47:42.560 don't know about your New York Giants team in twenty eleven. 0:47:42.600 --> 0:47:44.759 I don't know how they started through the first seven weeks, 0:47:44.800 --> 0:47:46.799 but I know it wasn't two and five. I'll tell 0:47:46.800 --> 0:47:49.400 you that much before they getting on a run and 0:47:49.600 --> 0:47:53.319 finding their way. But I just think overall, it's disappointing 0:47:53.320 --> 0:47:54.839 and there's much more that we need to break down 0:47:55.040 --> 0:47:57.399 XS and OZ wise, We're gonna do that tomorrow. It's 0:47:57.520 --> 0:48:00.480 fans on the fifty Tuesday, so sending your fans are 0:48:00.520 --> 0:48:03.400 out today and tomorrow on the Parishcape stream. But that 0:48:03.600 --> 0:48:06.439 is gonna do it here for Talking Cowboys today once again, 0:48:06.600 --> 0:48:09.839 forty five minutes not enough to contain this show, because man, 0:48:09.960 --> 0:48:12.120 we've got a lot more to talk about following the 0:48:12.200 --> 0:48:15.399 twenty five to three loss to Washington yesterday. But we'll 0:48:15.440 --> 0:48:18.200 be back tomorrow for Heck Harrison, for Rob Phillips, who 0:48:18.200 --> 0:48:20.759 are Isaiah stand back and Chris Beam holding it down 0:48:20.960 --> 0:48:23.319 in the back. I'm Kyle Yeoman saying so long from 0:48:23.360 --> 0:48:25.760 the Star in Frisco. We'll see you tomorrow on Talking Cowboys. 0:48:27.080 --> 0:48:29.759 This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:48:30.000 --> 0:48:32.040 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.