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Speaker 1: This he is Talking Cowboys Screaming live on Dallas Cowboys

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Speaker 1: dot Com and the Official Dallas Cowboys No. Your hosts Mickey'spagnola,

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Speaker 1: Brian brought us, Taylor Stern and Rob Phillips. Welcome everybody

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Speaker 1: into the SUBC Mortgage Studio. Of course we have had

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Speaker 1: a minute since we last talked to you guys. Cowboys

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Speaker 1: lose on Thanksgiving and then have a busy weekend with

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Speaker 1: different roster moves and other injury updates. Of course, today

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Speaker 1: is a Thursday in Cowboys world because they do play

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Speaker 1: this Thursday against the Redskins at home. So let's jump

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Speaker 1: right into it. But how is everyone's Thanksgiving? Quick? That's good,

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Speaker 1: it's good, it's good. Good. Yeah, you're one day off,

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Speaker 1: got the win, got the win, it's right, mxas A

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Speaker 1: and m Hey, New Mexico didn't either. Yeah, and maybe

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Speaker 1: we're getting a new coach. I'm gonna miss Vin your case.

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving kind of tied to football in that way, you know,

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Speaker 1: and and does your Thanksgiving? And I know we're all

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Speaker 1: thankful for things, don't get me wrong, but do you

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Speaker 1: feel like you're just when it's over, You're the game's over,

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Speaker 1: and you're like, man, you just you just don't. It

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Speaker 1: takes so much out of you. Thankful it's over about

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Speaker 1: this particular Chargers. Yeah, but it was one of those

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Speaker 1: games where you just couldn't nothing went right. You couldn't

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Speaker 1: stop them. You know, it's third down. You can't stop them.

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Speaker 1: You really can't do anything yourself, you know. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm not trying to be wet blanket guy,

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Speaker 1: but it's just you're dedicated to your craft. Well, no,

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Speaker 1: it's just Thanksgiving. I guess it's so tied to how

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Speaker 1: I you know, with my with my job. And then

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Speaker 1: you know, and I love being around people. I love

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Speaker 1: the holiday. I love all the food. Of course, I

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Speaker 1: love the food. But then when you don't have success

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Speaker 1: at kind of sours the rest of the weekend. Well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: taste good. No, no, the food tastes great. But I

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Speaker 1: know what you're saying, it's just it's just a it's

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Speaker 1: it's because you're you're you're so invested in this. You know,

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Speaker 1: we're all invested in this. Yeah, and then you know,

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Speaker 1: like I said, I you know, I was nice enough.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like we were here at the Star and

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Speaker 1: the folks made us a meal. And all that, and

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Speaker 1: it was really nice for them to do that. Didn't

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Speaker 1: have to do that. But then you know, you was

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Speaker 1: suppered to three in the morning watching tape trying to

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Speaker 1: figure things out, you know, and because you're so invested

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Speaker 1: in trying to say, okay, why, I mean, there's too many?

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Speaker 1: Too many? Last year were kind of rolling along, things

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Speaker 1: are going good, you know, this show was all happy

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Speaker 1: and everything, and now you're sitting there drinking. Okay, you

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Speaker 1: know you're you're basically now in playoff mode. Yeah, you

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Speaker 1: are in playoff mode. You don't think about the playofs,

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Speaker 1: but you are in playoff mode right now, no doubt. Well,

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Speaker 1: let's get to some of the roster moves that they

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Speaker 1: made this weekend, and then we can talk about the injuries,

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Speaker 1: and then we can get where Brian's at and trying

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Speaker 1: to figure it all out as we move forward. With

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Speaker 1: five games left Earth yep, five yeah, five games left,

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Speaker 1: so roster moves. Of course, they release Darren McFadden and

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Speaker 1: Mike Nugent. That was expected with Mike Nugent, and they

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Speaker 1: signed the pastor shirt. I always pronounced his name Wrongton

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Speaker 1: Jones Dayton Jones Ula, Yeah, great name and promote the

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Speaker 1: running back Trey Williams to the active roster, so Darren McFadden.

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Speaker 1: He had been inactive even after ezekiel As suspension. Was

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Speaker 1: that expected, do you guys think from this team, just

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Speaker 1: I thought was what was expected. Were you surprised to

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Speaker 1: hear that he had been released? Not really after it

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Speaker 1: I actually said this to Mickey walking out of the

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Speaker 1: They were waiting to see if rod Smith could handle.

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Speaker 1: They had an idea that Alfred Morris could do what

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Speaker 1: McFadden had played outplayed Morris. That's not true. No, I

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Speaker 1: clearly said that that he out that Morris outplayment, and no,

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Speaker 1: that that was the preseason. That's the reason why. Remember

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Speaker 1: what if it had been reversed and if McFadden had

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Speaker 1: so then how do you qualify getting him on the

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Speaker 1: do you think his inactivity the year before created more

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Speaker 1: Rob there was a couple of those games I remember

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Speaker 1: was awesome to wear the star in my helmet. I

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Speaker 1: how genuine that was. I believe it was. But you know,

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Speaker 1: That's just me, that's just my makes sense. You know

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Speaker 1: you know, but Rob's right. If if the shoe was

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Speaker 1: a weird season. But tell me, guys, okay, the defensive

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Speaker 1: The games I've watched. He was last in San Francisco

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Speaker 1: So they use him. Really is a defensive end. He's

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Speaker 1: what you know, And there's some initial quickness there off

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Speaker 1: Like again, that initial and then he tends to kind

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Speaker 1: goat Witten bobblehead you have over there in motion. That's

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Speaker 1: Eagles game. I like how. I like how. I like

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Speaker 1: let's play your game. I don't know if it's a game,

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Speaker 1: but I just want to is there one thing that

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Speaker 1: you can point at? The one thing? I mean, I

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Speaker 1: know maybe the thing about Zeke is that maybe, But

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Speaker 1: factor of this of this this either side or on

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Speaker 1: either side, if there's only you can only say one thing,

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Speaker 1: is you know, because we've gone through the shan Lee stuff,

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Speaker 1: You've gone through the Zeke yellot. We've had some poor coverage.

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Speaker 1: Your pass rush hasn't been as great. All that, all that,

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Speaker 1: is there one thing that if you said, Okay, Brian,

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Speaker 1: I need this to change today. I need this to

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Speaker 1: change today and this team will get back on the

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Speaker 1: path of winning football games. I think they need to

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Speaker 1: get their play action going again. And maybe that's only

480
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Speaker 1: because Zeke's in the game. When they get that going,

481
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Speaker 1: because it helps the receivers get open, it helps something

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Speaker 1: to freeze the defense and kind of loosen things up downfield.

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Speaker 1: They haven't done as much of it. And I just

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Speaker 1: go back to certain games when they're rolling. It's when

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Speaker 1: they've got Zeke and it's second and five and it's

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Speaker 1: uttered in two and DA's got the play action rolling

487
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Speaker 1: and there's more options and there's more things for the

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Speaker 1: defense to consider, and the defense, you know, the running

489
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Speaker 1: game hasn't been bad. It's been pretty solid. It hasn't

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Speaker 1: set up the fear, like Mick Yes says, you don't

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Speaker 1: have the fear of the it's it's just yeah, it's

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Speaker 1: it's it's another thing for the defense to honor and

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Speaker 1: consider and that big play threat, and it opens up

494
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Speaker 1: some of the boots and the waggles and all that,

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Speaker 1: and it's just it's not the same without him in

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Speaker 1: the game, There's no question about it. Does that mean

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Speaker 1: they should have three straight games with single digit scoring?

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Speaker 1: I don't think so. But he's certainly a factor, a

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Speaker 1: huge factor in what they do. I think the root

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Speaker 1: of all this is the inability of the offensive line

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Speaker 1: to play consistently. This no longer is the best offensive

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Speaker 1: line in the National Football League. Yeah, when Tyron's hurt,

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Speaker 1: not practicing and playing hurt, you're kind of okay with

504
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Speaker 1: Jonathan Cooper's there's games he's fine, there's games he's not.

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Speaker 1: Lele Collins is playing hurt. You lose Zach Martin to

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Speaker 1: a concussion. I mean, basically, you had one guy out there,

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Speaker 1: Travis Frederick Tyrn wasn't Tyrn right? You got Cooper Looney,

508
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Speaker 1: else's hurt. Zach's got to come out. I mean that's

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Speaker 1: the problem to me. You know, everybody wants to blame

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Speaker 1: the quarterback, you know, quarterback for six seven weeks. He

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Speaker 1: was all right, right, we were all there was nothing wrong.

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Speaker 1: We didn't think Yeah, we thought that We thought the

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Speaker 1: quarterback was carrying this football team, didn't we Then suddenly

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Speaker 1: he can't play now, Canny, No, he's had fourteen sacks

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Speaker 1: and twelve quarters and that doesn't count how many times

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Speaker 1: he's been hit or had to had to just escape

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Speaker 1: and try to make something happen down the field. And

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Speaker 1: he you know, he got pressured in the first part

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Speaker 1: of the season two, but not not like this too much.

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Speaker 1: And and and you know, you want to know why

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Speaker 1: he's not getting the ball down the field. Well, you

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Speaker 1: don't have the time of day in the pocket. You know,

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Speaker 1: there was times when he's going through the first progression, second,

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Speaker 1: third day. None of that's happening. Now it's got to

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Speaker 1: come out. I mean, we look at all this through

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Speaker 1: a three game prism. You know what's wrong with these

527
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Speaker 1: last three games. The first game is basically a wash

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Speaker 1: because Adrian Clayborne wrecked their entire game plan. I mean

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Speaker 1: that they had no shot he Dak had to do

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Speaker 1: that because Chaz Green wasn't able to maintain kind of

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Speaker 1: what Mickey's saying, like, oh sure that yeah, that goes

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Speaker 1: back to what MC saying about the offensive line. And

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Speaker 1: then I thought Dak made a good, good point yesterday

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Speaker 1: when he said, okay, so we struggled in the Atlanta

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Speaker 1: game because of the protection, right, and he kind of

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Speaker 1: suggested we might have overprotected in the Philadelphia game, right,

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Speaker 1: and we didn't give ourselves a chance to get the buck.

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Speaker 1: Garrett said that today in the walk. Garrett said it

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Speaker 1: too in the walk all right, yeah, yeah, so maybe

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Speaker 1: they got it right this last game, but they what

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Speaker 1: happened then, still getting sacked, still getting pressure, got sacked

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Speaker 1: twice in the first half. I think, but is it

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Speaker 1: because this is not the threat of the run. And

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Speaker 1: I still think teams don't they don't respect they don't

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Speaker 1: respect your they don't respect your running. We'll accept it,

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Speaker 1: We'll we'll deal with it. We'll let Alfred Morris get

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Speaker 1: his seven or eight yards where Ezekiel Elliot will get

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty a couple of runs where I said, hunt

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Speaker 1: if that was Zeke, Oh sure, he's busting screen screenplays

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Speaker 1: and stuff. He's easier to keep back in the pocket

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Speaker 1: in these situations. Is it about the running game? Oh

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Speaker 1: sure it is, yeah, because you just said it. The

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Speaker 1: play action game is not any good. It's not there. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's not there. They're not, they're not really using it.

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Speaker 1: They don't care. That's what I'm saying. You get you

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Speaker 1: get the like the rush in and they stay wide instead,

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Speaker 1: you know Zeke, they get those guys chase, they chase

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Speaker 1: the ball and all of a sudden, now you got

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Speaker 1: the boot and you got Beasley underneath and all that.

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Speaker 1: Now they're just kind of hedging on it. Sure, well,

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Speaker 1: you know and everybody. And they're saying that defenses aren't

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Speaker 1: changing what they do, but they're they're what they're doing

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Speaker 1: what they do. They're just priorities are different. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: get after Dak Prescott. Yeah, period. Yeah, and they know

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Speaker 1: they can period. Is there a concern that this team,

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Speaker 1: with all the instability that's happened, either with injuries or suspensions,

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Speaker 1: that they're not able to adapt as people had kind

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Speaker 1: of expected? And I say that, you know, the free

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Speaker 1: agency moves and this is a storyline people have been

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Speaker 1: talking about for a few weeks, so you know, bear

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Speaker 1: with me. But what I'm saying is, you know, is

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Speaker 1: this team just not able that Brian brought us mis

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Speaker 1: evaluate how good this team was coming out of training camp? No,

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Speaker 1: I don't think so, because we evaluated it with a

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Speaker 1: healthy offensive line, would Zeke on the field. Um, we

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Speaker 1: thought the defense would have a chance to be better

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Speaker 1: as the season went along, and I think it did

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Speaker 1: improve until until the suspension. I mean, yeah, look what

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Speaker 1: they did to Kansas City. That's by far one of

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Speaker 1: the best game. But you know, we look at Kansas City.

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Speaker 1: It looks like you look at Kansas City in Denver.

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Speaker 1: Those are two games Sackers. Yeah, granted, Packers is the

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Speaker 1: obvious one. We'll see people will say, the Packers last

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Speaker 1: night went without their running back, their quarterback, and here

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Speaker 1: they play a competitive game on the road at Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 1: I only played great last night. Yeah, I mean that's

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Speaker 1: people will say that. You know, hey, they look, well,

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Speaker 1: look what other teams backups are doing. They're not faltering.

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Speaker 1: They're not getting blown out of games. They might be

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Speaker 1: losing games, but they're not getting blown out. That was

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Speaker 1: really the one moniker of this guy of Jason Garrett,

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Speaker 1: was you wouldn't getting wouldn't getting blown out in games?

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Speaker 1: You know, weren't losing games by twenty something points and

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Speaker 1: they're not getting blown out from to start. It just

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Speaker 1: goes back to the second half and what's happening in

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Speaker 1: the second half to this team, it's seventy two to six.

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Speaker 1: I just wonder if it's incredible what's happened. I just

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Speaker 1: wondered if I felt like I overevaluated this team, if

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Speaker 1: I over evaluated Byron Jones, overevaluated Lyle Malik Collins, you

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Speaker 1: know who. I think he's got a good matchup this weekend,

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Speaker 1: by the way, or to our Thursday. But yeah, I

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Speaker 1: wonder if coming out of camp you feel like though

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Speaker 1: that you know, and maybe maybe maybe this staff overevaluated

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Speaker 1: what they had. Is that is that possible that this

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Speaker 1: team isn't really I know it was a thirteen win team,

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Speaker 1: but you had you had a lot of turnover in it.

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Speaker 1: You have a lot of young guys playing on defense.

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Speaker 1: I never I never have a problem with that. Well,

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Speaker 1: I know, but but that's something to consider here when

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Speaker 1: some of the struggles they've had. I mean, they're and

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Speaker 1: they're without their captain defensively, and I think that all

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Speaker 1: five games piles of play without him. Yeah, it's it's tough. Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't think Sean Lee could have prevented eleven explosive

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Speaker 1: plays in the passing game from Philip Rivers. That's not

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Speaker 1: all Sean leebying absent, but certainly not having him has

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Speaker 1: been a factor. Who did you feel worse about the

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia the backle and second half or what happened with

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Speaker 1: the charge of the Charger? I think the Chargers. I

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Speaker 1: mean you look at which would you feel like you

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Speaker 1: got dismantled the charge Chargers? Yeah, because in the Philly game,

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Speaker 1: you spoke to the five straight three and ounce against

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Speaker 1: Philly second half, they just they had a better run

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Speaker 1: that was seventy one yards, had five hundred. That's the

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Speaker 1: weird thing. They had five hundred and whatever yards total

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Speaker 1: offense and then run. But they only scored twenty two

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Speaker 1: points exactly. Yeah, twenty two points. You don't take away

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Speaker 1: the interception returned for a touchdown. Yeah, Well they got

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Speaker 1: screwed in the first half without their kicker. Yeah. And

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Speaker 1: the interceptions, I mean I just never expected that from Dak.

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Speaker 1: I mean, all those are that was our product. A

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Speaker 1: lot of that's a product of the score. I think

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Speaker 1: the one that bothers one that bothered me was the

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Speaker 1: Beasley one because he was late. He was way late,

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Speaker 1: and he had wit and seen him throw that ball

635
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Speaker 1: to Witten down the middle so many times and you're

636
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: worried about the time because he ran side. He's staring

637
00:32:08,600 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: at guys sitting there. I mean Witton is sitting right.

638
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 1: I mean it's a it's a whole shot right there,

639
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:17,040
Speaker 1: and he usually will take it, and he didn't take it,

640
00:32:17,080 --> 00:32:20,160
Speaker 1: and that that right there. I keep saying this. When

641
00:32:20,240 --> 00:32:23,320
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott makes mistakes on the move throwing the ball,

642
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:25,440
Speaker 1: then you know he's not playing well well. And if

643
00:32:25,480 --> 00:32:28,320
Speaker 1: you looked at his feet, he never set He tried

644
00:32:28,320 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 1: to throw off wrong foot, but he never sets his

645
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 1: feet me, I know. But that one was he's he's

646
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Speaker 1: one of the best. Is spray late. That's we've seen

647
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:42,120
Speaker 1: it before. You know, we've seen it before. But you're right,

648
00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 1: he was late, and that was still critical because they

649
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:48,520
Speaker 1: were at the thirteen yard line. Sure, so you're thinking, well,

650
00:32:48,560 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: ain't gonna score here. I'm gonna make a twenty two thirteen.

651
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: Yeah right, you're still kind of in the games. The

652
00:32:55,360 --> 00:32:59,120
Speaker 1: last one, I don't that doesn't bother me. Which one

653
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: was that? The one at the end of the game.

654
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: You're just trying to do something to to get the

655
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 1: ball on the field. Same thing with the other game.

656
00:33:08,240 --> 00:33:11,080
Speaker 1: You know, you have a dropped interception for a touchdown.

657
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:13,800
Speaker 1: You're trying to make something happen the end zone. Late.

658
00:33:14,080 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 1: He had one bad interception that three interception game. So

659
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:22,120
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. Romo will tell you, you know, when

660
00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:27,320
Speaker 1: when it's forced down and you're behind by two three touchdowns,

661
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 1: what are you gonna do? Throw the ball away? No,

662
00:33:30,000 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: you're gonna wing it. Yeah, hope for the best. Absolutely well, Mike,

663
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:35,800
Speaker 1: you brought up earlier that Zach Martin was injured on Thursday,

664
00:33:36,240 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 1: and he was present and participating in the open portion

665
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Speaker 1: of today's practice. Leo Collins, Shaun Lee, Anthony Hitchins, and

666
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: Durant We're all absent today. Leo Collins, the back, Shaun Lee,

667
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:51,920
Speaker 1: the hamstring, Anthony Hitchins the concussion right right, and then wait,

668
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:55,080
Speaker 1: Durants the concussion. Rants the concussion. What do they say

669
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Speaker 1: about about Yeah, what it was the Hitchens hamstring as well.

670
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:02,480
Speaker 1: They probably they probably just gave him because I think

671
00:34:02,520 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 1: he played through some stuff. Yeah, I do too. On thanks,

672
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:09,480
Speaker 1: your O line and your linebackers are hurting right now, struggling, yep.

673
00:34:09,640 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 1: And Tyron Smith. Tyron Smith was there, he was out

674
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:16,080
Speaker 1: there participating, of course, I'm assuming they'll put limited yeah

675
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:19,399
Speaker 1: on the practical yeah, because that's what he was last week,

676
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:22,479
Speaker 1: so right, they'll probably keep it the same. Yeah. So

677
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:24,719
Speaker 1: you know you're looking right now to see this old

678
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:28,800
Speaker 1: line as drastic change, like Mickey was talking about, especially

679
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:33,240
Speaker 1: now with somebody that you never miss, Zach Martin. Yeah.

680
00:34:33,280 --> 00:34:35,680
Speaker 1: I mean, if he's participating in doing something today, that's

681
00:34:35,680 --> 00:34:37,680
Speaker 1: a great sign. Oh, it's an absolutely great sign. The

682
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:39,440
Speaker 1: thing you need to worry about is the right tackle

683
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 1: like s Now. Yeah, that's that's the one you're gonna

684
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 1: have to worry about. And the right tackle to me,

685
00:34:44,400 --> 00:34:46,680
Speaker 1: I mean, you're clearly going to play Byron Bell over there.

686
00:34:46,680 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: You're not going to play Chaz Green, So I mean

687
00:34:50,280 --> 00:34:53,040
Speaker 1: they'll get him both ready, But who plays guard if

688
00:34:53,080 --> 00:34:56,920
Speaker 1: if Zach can't go, that's Looney? You think Looney will

689
00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 1: start at guard? Yeah, and then Green's the back swings player, yes, yeah,

690
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,719
Speaker 1: or everything everything right? Yeah, So then you're looking at

691
00:35:04,760 --> 00:35:09,200
Speaker 1: your line is okay, so you'd have hopefully Tyrn if

692
00:35:09,200 --> 00:35:11,239
Speaker 1: he's a go for your left Redskins are just as

693
00:35:11,280 --> 00:35:14,960
Speaker 1: much trouble as you are. Jonathan Cooper, Frederick maybe they're

694
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: next man up. And then iron iron Bell. Yeah, but

695
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you're too it Earlier. The Redskins are down, Elsie,

696
00:35:22,640 --> 00:35:25,399
Speaker 1: You'll be there, three starters, and they've lost their top

697
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 1: two running backs. Now their top two running backs aren't Zeke.

698
00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:32,080
Speaker 1: But they're dealing with some stuff too. But these guys

699
00:35:32,080 --> 00:35:35,120
Speaker 1: just seem to, like somehow become stars even when they

700
00:35:35,160 --> 00:35:37,000
Speaker 1: go down. I mean, you look at the Eagles, Brian,

701
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,319
Speaker 1: and they've had serious injuries. I mean, Jordan Hicks their

702
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:44,239
Speaker 1: middle linebacker. Yeah, gone Peters, Jason Peter's gone. Yeah, they're

703
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 1: they're they're playing well as a team though, they really are.

704
00:35:46,480 --> 00:35:49,600
Speaker 1: They they they have. They've done a great job defensively.

705
00:35:49,840 --> 00:35:51,920
Speaker 1: They've made a lot of stops, they've created a lot

706
00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,279
Speaker 1: of turnovers. They sack you. And then you got a

707
00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:57,120
Speaker 1: quarterback that's he's having this very similar year to what

708
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,720
Speaker 1: Dak had last year. You know that everything he's thrown

709
00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:03,840
Speaker 1: up is going right, low interceptions, high touchdowns. You know,

710
00:36:03,880 --> 00:36:05,759
Speaker 1: he's moving in the pocket, and you got to give

711
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:08,040
Speaker 1: them a lot of credit. Personnel that is very good.

712
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:09,879
Speaker 1: And we saw it with our own eyes. I mean

713
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:12,239
Speaker 1: it's when they want to, you know, to give the

714
00:36:12,280 --> 00:36:14,480
Speaker 1: Cowboys some credit for stopping them all those times, but

715
00:36:14,600 --> 00:36:16,480
Speaker 1: when they wanted to get it going in the second half,

716
00:36:16,520 --> 00:36:18,279
Speaker 1: they were able to do it. That's gonna be a

717
00:36:18,280 --> 00:36:20,839
Speaker 1: sign of a good team. Yeah. Absolutely, we are going

718
00:36:20,880 --> 00:36:22,880
Speaker 1: to get to our phone lines. We have Horse from

719
00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:26,680
Speaker 1: Atlanta on the line. Horse, what's your question? Hey, what's up? Guys?

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00:36:26,800 --> 00:36:28,400
Speaker 1: You know, I've just been listening to you and I

721
00:36:28,440 --> 00:36:30,920
Speaker 1: think you know, it's a lot of things to be honest.

722
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,240
Speaker 1: I mean, I look at and you could put fault

723
00:36:34,239 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 1: on a lot of places, but I think that Jerry hasn't.

724
00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:43,640
Speaker 1: Our depth is bad. Jerry refuses to spend money in

725
00:36:43,680 --> 00:36:45,719
Speaker 1: free agency. I understand that you want to go through

726
00:36:45,719 --> 00:36:47,880
Speaker 1: the draft. Well, if you want to go through the draft,

727
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,840
Speaker 1: and you better start hitting, especially on your first round ticks.

728
00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 1: You can't tick a guy like Taco and say, oh,

729
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:57,799
Speaker 1: we're going to develop him a slow hanging fruit Jajjat.

730
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:00,399
Speaker 1: Then you can say I'm going to develop a guy.

731
00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:05,360
Speaker 1: But unless you have someone out there that's dominating, and

732
00:37:05,480 --> 00:37:08,560
Speaker 1: we haven't had anybody since dominating. Set to market Lawrence.

733
00:37:08,560 --> 00:37:12,359
Speaker 1: He's been finally coming into his own on a contract year,

734
00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:15,880
Speaker 1: which is good. What about your offensive lineman, Horse, Sorry,

735
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 1: what about your offensive lineman that you're drafted offensive lineman

736
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 1: have been exceptional. But yeah, when you said when you

737
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:25,360
Speaker 1: give away, when you let one of those key people

738
00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:28,240
Speaker 1: go like Learry and you try and get a Barbain

739
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 1: basement deal they signed him and can't do that. You

740
00:37:31,480 --> 00:37:35,560
Speaker 1: can't do that. You can't expect to fill in uh

741
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,279
Speaker 1: to the to the ace there and then oh, well

742
00:37:38,400 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 1: I can get a two clubs and that's gonna no,

743
00:37:41,920 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: not yeah, get them. So you can't you can't say everywhere. Yeah,

744
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:47,719
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. I'm kind of looking at that,

745
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 1: and I love and I understand it. Yeah, but who

746
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:54,720
Speaker 1: would you rather have Ron Larry or Zach Martin? Yeah,

747
00:37:54,800 --> 00:37:57,759
Speaker 1: because that's what it comes down to from a financial standpoint.

748
00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:01,440
Speaker 1: Sure can't have everything, you know they give. This is

749
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:03,640
Speaker 1: where I give the general manager some credit. There's a

750
00:38:03,640 --> 00:38:05,760
Speaker 1: lot of people that had Ron Larry off the board,

751
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 1: and you know, and I remember the night of the draft,

752
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:13,879
Speaker 1: the final the final draft press conference. The first thing

753
00:38:13,880 --> 00:38:16,880
Speaker 1: that Jerry Jones, he was so excited about Ron Larry

754
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:19,439
Speaker 1: that he had gotten word and we're all like looking

755
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:21,440
Speaker 1: at each other, like, man, he's more excited about Ron

756
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:23,239
Speaker 1: Larry than these guys he draft. I ever tell you

757
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:25,960
Speaker 1: when I interviewed Ron Larry when he came in for

758
00:38:26,000 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 1: his pre draft visit, and he was wearing like a

759
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,440
Speaker 1: three piece suit. Yeah, and he's about the only guy

760
00:38:31,480 --> 00:38:33,480
Speaker 1: to Memphis, the only guy I've ever seen do that.

761
00:38:33,640 --> 00:38:36,000
Speaker 1: And I think he knew there were questions about him,

762
00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,240
Speaker 1: you know, and he wanted to put on the best,

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00:38:38,719 --> 00:38:41,040
Speaker 1: best impression he could, you know. And he turned out

764
00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:43,200
Speaker 1: to be a great pro. And the Cowboys, Yeah, Cowboys

765
00:38:43,200 --> 00:38:45,600
Speaker 1: took a chance on him, low risk, I mean after

766
00:38:45,640 --> 00:38:47,960
Speaker 1: the draft, but yeah, yeah, I think you know, I

767
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:52,040
Speaker 1: understand Horse's question too about depth. I think where now

768
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: some questions need to be focused is are you doing

769
00:38:55,120 --> 00:38:58,279
Speaker 1: enough on the pro side? You know, are you doing enough? Yeah,

770
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,080
Speaker 1: you had to hit with David Irving looks like, but

771
00:39:01,160 --> 00:39:04,280
Speaker 1: are you doing enough of rating practice squads or bringing

772
00:39:04,280 --> 00:39:10,480
Speaker 1: in those lower well or budgeted defensive lineman or cornerbacks

773
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:13,160
Speaker 1: or safeties or whatever you want to you know, if

774
00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:15,680
Speaker 1: that's going to be your way of getting depth, then

775
00:39:15,719 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: you can make sure those those guys can actually play.

776
00:39:18,239 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: And we spoke to it earlier in the season that

777
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:22,799
Speaker 1: there's no way around it. I mean, they made three

778
00:39:22,840 --> 00:39:25,239
Speaker 1: free agent signings that didn't work out. They're not on

779
00:39:25,239 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: the roster right from the spring, the Montree More Stephen

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00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:31,000
Speaker 1: Pie retired right and then Nolan Carroll didn't work out.

781
00:39:31,040 --> 00:39:33,200
Speaker 1: And then now you're going with a younger secondary and

782
00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:35,320
Speaker 1: there are going to be growing pains with that, especially

783
00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:37,680
Speaker 1: with yeah, a guy like you know, Jordan Lewis miss

784
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Speaker 1: some time early Woozier, even Xavier Woods in training camp.

785
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Speaker 1: So they they had to know this was this was

786
00:39:45,520 --> 00:39:49,400
Speaker 1: an issue potentially with these guys being so young. All right, well,

787
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Speaker 1: let's take our final break here and when we come back,

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Speaker 1: hear Curtis from Las Vegas. What is your question? Hey,

842
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:51,319
Speaker 1: doing man? Sir? Good? Thank you? All right? But I

843
00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 1: think the biggest mistake we made is probably letting somebody

844
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:57,399
Speaker 1: like Barry Church go. I think we could have kept

845
00:42:57,480 --> 00:43:00,520
Speaker 1: Church and maybe even let Terence william To go and

846
00:43:00,880 --> 00:43:03,399
Speaker 1: got another, you know, receiver, you know, just as good

847
00:43:03,480 --> 00:43:06,800
Speaker 1: or better than Terrence Williams. But Barry Church to expect,

848
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:11,239
Speaker 1: to expect Heath to come in and replace Barry Church

849
00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:13,879
Speaker 1: and will Cox team behind both of those guys. So

850
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:16,399
Speaker 1: for him to go to three to one, you know

851
00:43:16,480 --> 00:43:19,200
Speaker 1: that that was kind of suspect to me. But I

852
00:43:19,239 --> 00:43:22,800
Speaker 1: think the biggest that's the biggest free agency mistake we made.

853
00:43:22,920 --> 00:43:25,719
Speaker 1: But I was thinking about, you know, I'm looking at

854
00:43:25,760 --> 00:43:28,520
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask broadest about the calls. I mean,

855
00:43:28,920 --> 00:43:31,240
Speaker 1: I know he's probably set a record for not getting

856
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:34,000
Speaker 1: holding calls this year, and it's just weird to me

857
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:36,600
Speaker 1: because I you know, I watch everything and It's like, well,

858
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 1: you know, they can call holding on every place, but

859
00:43:39,239 --> 00:43:41,879
Speaker 1: I saw I saw a couple of calls this game,

860
00:43:41,960 --> 00:43:44,000
Speaker 1: you know, just like I do every game, and I'm

861
00:43:44,080 --> 00:43:47,000
Speaker 1: thinking maybe I'm just you know, you know, you know,

862
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:50,080
Speaker 1: of course everybody wants called for their team, but I

863
00:43:50,120 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 1: mean we get stuff like, you know, well, I want

864
00:43:53,520 --> 00:43:56,279
Speaker 1: to know what that when that scored a touchdown the

865
00:43:56,440 --> 00:43:59,080
Speaker 1: call they called on on Tyrn Smith? Did that look

866
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 1: like a whole did you got? Yes, they do a

867
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: quick screen out to the side and dud just hit

868
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: hit a Jesse right in the bat Yeah, right on

869
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:11,239
Speaker 1: our side and really crazy and no call. I mean,

870
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:13,680
Speaker 1: but you can block that way. You can block along

871
00:44:13,719 --> 00:44:16,360
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage that way on a screen in

872
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:19,600
Speaker 1: the back. Yeah, on a screen you can. Okay, yeah, okay. Now,

873
00:44:19,840 --> 00:44:21,480
Speaker 1: if you want to, if you want to complain about one,

874
00:44:21,520 --> 00:44:24,360
Speaker 1: if you want to complain about one the past that

875
00:44:24,680 --> 00:44:27,520
Speaker 1: the past that they they completed with Keenan Allen, the

876
00:44:27,640 --> 00:44:32,480
Speaker 1: forty six yard pass that was holding. They got Lawrence

877
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:35,360
Speaker 1: Scott held on that play, I mean got got held

878
00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:39,239
Speaker 1: similar to what they called Tyrant Smith for. And so

879
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 1: if you want to, if you want to, and and

880
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:42,919
Speaker 1: it was right in front of the umpire right there,

881
00:44:43,040 --> 00:44:44,880
Speaker 1: and so yeah, you didn't get that call. I know

882
00:44:44,880 --> 00:44:46,920
Speaker 1: what you're talking about. I know exactly what I mean.

883
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:49,399
Speaker 1: We don't get those. It's tell me how we don't

884
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:51,879
Speaker 1: get those. And they call it every picky tack thing

885
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 1: against us. I mean it's like, well, if you're gonna

886
00:44:54,520 --> 00:44:56,600
Speaker 1: call it, call it both ways. That doesn't see it, right,

887
00:44:56,640 --> 00:44:59,480
Speaker 1: we get that. I'm right, don't call us America's team

888
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:06,120
Speaker 1: all that. Yeah, that's right, good one. You know, maybe

889
00:45:06,160 --> 00:45:09,719
Speaker 1: they need Yeah, but maybe the Cowboys need to start

890
00:45:09,760 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 1: acting like the rest of them flopping Well, that guy

891
00:45:12,960 --> 00:45:16,000
Speaker 1: got his arm up in the air. Ye please brings

892
00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:19,240
Speaker 1: to noble in here as a consultant, you know, watching soccer.

893
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:20,799
Speaker 1: I put this in my notes the other day. The

894
00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:24,800
Speaker 1: Cowboys had the least amount of penalties of opponents penalties

895
00:45:24,840 --> 00:45:27,640
Speaker 1: called against them? Oh yeah, how many games has it been?

896
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:31,680
Speaker 1: No holding? Eight? Wow? Yeah? But they but they that's

897
00:45:31,719 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: half the season. Going into last week's game. I think

898
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 1: they were at fifty three, and then the league average

899
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 1: was sixty eight. David think put something up about that

900
00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 1: yesterday some of my notes I had. I but yeah,

901
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:46,400
Speaker 1: they're the they're the the opponents the least penalized, and

902
00:45:46,560 --> 00:45:49,040
Speaker 1: when they play the Cowboys, and and you know, usually

903
00:45:49,239 --> 00:45:51,560
Speaker 1: you know it's again, you know, my favorite saying, the

904
00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:54,799
Speaker 1: low hanging fruit. We usually complain about things that you

905
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:57,880
Speaker 1: know are that way, but no, but it is, we

906
00:45:58,120 --> 00:46:00,759
Speaker 1: it is. It is very strange how it happens, though.

907
00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 1: And the word the one I've come to expect now

908
00:46:03,840 --> 00:46:08,520
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys, the peno I've always expect is third down,

909
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:11,600
Speaker 1: ball goes in the air. I'm always expecting defensive holding.

910
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:14,400
Speaker 1: That that's that's you know. Now, I watched the games

911
00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:16,319
Speaker 1: in the Star and you guys are actually at the game,

912
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:18,879
Speaker 1: and I'm always ready for that FoxBox in the right

913
00:46:18,920 --> 00:46:22,400
Speaker 1: corner to hit yellow and say flag. You know, just

914
00:46:22,520 --> 00:46:27,760
Speaker 1: too many, just Cowboys, just too many penalties on key downs.

915
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: You know, we were talking about Anthony Brown. Jason Garrett

916
00:46:31,600 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 1: even said it this morning. You know, you talk about confidence, technique, frustration.

917
00:46:38,200 --> 00:46:40,879
Speaker 1: He is technique. It's just so bad and he gets

918
00:46:40,880 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 1: called for holding and you're just I've just grown to

919
00:46:43,840 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 1: expect it, which is sad but true. Thanky, you look

920
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:51,040
Speaker 1: like you're about to say something, But I disagreed with

921
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:54,320
Speaker 1: the four yard penalty for a first down on fourth

922
00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 1: down on him, Yeah, because if it was only a

923
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,760
Speaker 1: four yard penalty, then you can hit the guy within

924
00:47:00,960 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 1: five yards, right, which he did. And then when the

925
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:07,560
Speaker 1: guy broke away, he didn't put a hand on him

926
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:11,040
Speaker 1: and he knocked the ball away. So why wasn't that Okay? Well,

927
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:14,160
Speaker 1: they it, but we've grown to just realize. I mean,

928
00:47:14,160 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 1: that was one that I totally disagree, and that was

929
00:47:16,680 --> 00:47:19,520
Speaker 1: fourth and one. Yeah, caller made a good point about

930
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:21,920
Speaker 1: Barry Church, though I agree with that doing a nice

931
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:25,080
Speaker 1: job and always I agree. You know what, and if

932
00:47:25,120 --> 00:47:27,279
Speaker 1: it meant going if if you can go out and

933
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 1: say Noah Brown could be a guy for you next year,

934
00:47:30,160 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 1: I mean you went out and you drafted a guy

935
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:35,040
Speaker 1: like Noah Brown. Maybe Noah Brown, maybe somebody else steps up,

936
00:47:35,120 --> 00:47:38,480
Speaker 1: maybe you know that's that's your guy. But I agree,

937
00:47:38,640 --> 00:47:41,080
Speaker 1: I go back, Yeah, you go back to the I mean,

938
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:43,239
Speaker 1: they allowed so many big plays in the passing game

939
00:47:43,360 --> 00:47:46,879
Speaker 1: last week, and when Church broke his arm last year,

940
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 1: that's when they kind of started leaking those. Yeah, and

941
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:51,200
Speaker 1: when he came back, they kind of got it under

942
00:47:51,200 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 1: control a little bit. Sure, he was he was a

943
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:56,360
Speaker 1: big part of that. I don't disagree with that at all. Yeah. Absolutely.

944
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:57,839
Speaker 1: Now I got a question for you guys. Of course,

945
00:47:57,840 --> 00:48:00,399
Speaker 1: they had five games left. A lot of these games

946
00:48:00,440 --> 00:48:03,360
Speaker 1: from the outside looking in, look very winnable for this team.

947
00:48:04,360 --> 00:48:07,040
Speaker 1: What is your confidence factor with this team moving forward

948
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:09,120
Speaker 1: for these five games? Of course, the last two games

949
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:11,600
Speaker 1: as egel it does return for the Seahawks and the

950
00:48:11,719 --> 00:48:14,399
Speaker 1: Eagles game, Well, you're gonna be about Shaun Lee again

951
00:48:14,480 --> 00:48:18,200
Speaker 1: this week. And the Redskins have the capability of score points,

952
00:48:18,320 --> 00:48:20,799
Speaker 1: especially if you're not going to cover routes. Yeah. Now

953
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:25,719
Speaker 1: after this week you get a ten day turnaround. Of course. Yeah.

954
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:28,919
Speaker 1: The Giants, I mean that game, and honestly, that game

955
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:31,400
Speaker 1: can go either way. I know the Giants have been

956
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:34,320
Speaker 1: turned very true. I mean it's it's a division opponent.

957
00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 1: They've you know, I mean they've asked me about confidence

958
00:48:37,600 --> 00:48:40,600
Speaker 1: after they win one. Yeah, when do you think they will?

959
00:48:41,920 --> 00:48:45,800
Speaker 1: How can they? There's no way, you know. And I've

960
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:48,919
Speaker 1: been guilty and gut feeling the last three weeks all

961
00:48:48,960 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 1: three games Philadelphia now Atlanta, Philadelphia and Chargers. I picked

962
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:58,160
Speaker 1: wins in all three. My confidence level and getting away,

963
00:48:58,280 --> 00:48:59,840
Speaker 1: I don't know if they can score enough points to

964
00:48:59,840 --> 00:49:04,360
Speaker 1: be Washington. Are they beat down too, you know Washington? No,

965
00:49:04,480 --> 00:49:06,760
Speaker 1: I mean I know Washington's down. I mean this team

966
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 1: just that confidence factor as well. Yeah, I mean I

967
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:13,080
Speaker 1: think after three games like this, you're you start questioning

968
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 1: what are we? How do we never? Yeah? How does

969
00:49:16,600 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 1: it keep from snowballing? Because yeah, I mean it reaches

970
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:22,719
Speaker 1: a point where there's so many things going on you

971
00:49:22,719 --> 00:49:25,799
Speaker 1: don't really know what one thing to pinpoint. Yeah, and

972
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:28,120
Speaker 1: it's not just getting a certain player back. I mean

973
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:29,800
Speaker 1: Tyrn came back and I don't know if he was

974
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:32,560
Speaker 1: one hundred percent. I don't think he was, but I

975
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:34,479
Speaker 1: thought that would kind of settle things down a little

976
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:36,799
Speaker 1: bit in the past protection and he did. I give

977
00:49:36,840 --> 00:49:41,720
Speaker 1: him credit for playing, but they still weren't able to field.

978
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:43,920
Speaker 1: They've got to be able to do that if they're

979
00:49:43,960 --> 00:49:46,440
Speaker 1: going to win the game, any game. Well, this is

980
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:47,840
Speaker 1: the thing that you got to kind of look for

981
00:49:47,920 --> 00:49:50,520
Speaker 1: it to. Again, we talked about Dez and games and stuff.

982
00:49:51,000 --> 00:49:53,719
Speaker 1: At least with des against Washington, we have seen him

983
00:49:53,719 --> 00:49:56,200
Speaker 1: make plays down the field. Yeah, we've seen those routes,

984
00:49:56,239 --> 00:49:59,440
Speaker 1: those deep end routes, the crossing routes, things like that

985
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:02,759
Speaker 1: to get him the football. No, maybe that's that's you know,

986
00:50:02,840 --> 00:50:04,879
Speaker 1: maybe the ball will go down the field this week.

987
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:07,840
Speaker 1: Maybe you can get enough protection, you can, you know,

988
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:10,160
Speaker 1: firm everything up, get the ball to go down the field.

989
00:50:10,480 --> 00:50:13,080
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna have to do something. You're gonna

990
00:50:13,120 --> 00:50:15,840
Speaker 1: have to find a way to make some of those plays.

991
00:50:15,880 --> 00:50:18,799
Speaker 1: You can't just keep throwing him slants all day. You know,

992
00:50:18,880 --> 00:50:22,560
Speaker 1: they'll buzz linebackers, they'll take safeties. I mean, you got

993
00:50:22,560 --> 00:50:24,359
Speaker 1: to find a way to get him the ball down

994
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:27,640
Speaker 1: the field. Stay away from Josh Norman and work on

995
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:29,800
Speaker 1: the other side of the field. Whatever you have to do,

996
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:32,040
Speaker 1: do it. You know. I think you're gonna see some

997
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:34,839
Speaker 1: of that. Yeah, yeah, but I don't. I mean, I

998
00:50:35,360 --> 00:50:37,160
Speaker 1: this team. I used to think this team every time

999
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:39,680
Speaker 1: he got inside the thirty was going to score a touchdown,

1000
00:50:40,160 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 1: And now I just they did. Yeah for a while.

1001
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:45,000
Speaker 1: I just can't. You know, Mickey's talking about you had

1002
00:50:45,000 --> 00:50:46,560
Speaker 1: to turn over on the twelve. I mean we've seen

1003
00:50:46,640 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 1: him turn the ball over now a couple of different times.

1004
00:50:50,200 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 1: It's it's difficult to watch offensively. There just seems to

1005
00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:56,759
Speaker 1: be no flow to their office. Every every play now

1006
00:50:56,880 --> 00:51:00,440
Speaker 1: is is anguish. Yeah, you know, oh, gotta hit. But

1007
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:03,280
Speaker 1: that but that goes back to Zeke because everything flows

1008
00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:05,800
Speaker 1: off of Zeke and what he does the play action game.

1009
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 1: It's I just I hate saying that he means that

1010
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:14,160
Speaker 1: much because when's the last time you saw a non

1011
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:19,120
Speaker 1: quarterback create this much of a of a of a

1012
00:51:19,200 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: collapse offensively when he wasn't in the game Payton, but

1013
00:51:24,239 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 1: they were struggling even when he was in the game.

1014
00:51:26,320 --> 00:51:29,280
Speaker 1: I'm trying. I'm thinking back to Kayton Manning and Rogers

1015
00:51:29,280 --> 00:51:31,879
Speaker 1: and Green Bay. But a running back, you know, and

1016
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:35,960
Speaker 1: he's and he's a special back. But see Zeke makes

1017
00:51:37,160 --> 00:51:40,839
Speaker 1: Scott Linehan a better play caller. I think he does.

1018
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:43,200
Speaker 1: I think he makes him a better And the problem

1019
00:51:43,239 --> 00:51:46,439
Speaker 1: now is that Lenahan is is in that mode where

1020
00:51:46,480 --> 00:51:48,640
Speaker 1: he's like so many times and he's like, Okay, I

1021
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:50,320
Speaker 1: could call this play, can call his play, hang my

1022
00:51:50,360 --> 00:51:52,279
Speaker 1: hat on this play, and call this play. And now

1023
00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:54,439
Speaker 1: he's back to kind of like what it was two

1024
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 1: years ago when he didn't have Romo. He's trying to

1025
00:51:57,080 --> 00:52:00,719
Speaker 1: find plays you know that that his guys can execute,

1026
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 1: you know, and that's including this quarterback. So you know,

1027
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:06,399
Speaker 1: that's a difficult thing when you when you can kind

1028
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:08,720
Speaker 1: of hang your hat on a few plays and scheme

1029
00:52:08,840 --> 00:52:11,879
Speaker 1: related then, you know, I don't think it's about adjustments

1030
00:52:11,920 --> 00:52:14,640
Speaker 1: all the time. I don't. I think it's about execution.

1031
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:16,480
Speaker 1: I think the head coach has said that a bunch,

1032
00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:19,879
Speaker 1: you know, But they're looking for some plays to hang

1033
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:22,759
Speaker 1: their hat on, and without Ezekiel Elliott, they don't have

1034
00:52:22,880 --> 00:52:26,360
Speaker 1: that right now, and it's affecting the way that Lenahan's

1035
00:52:26,360 --> 00:52:30,960
Speaker 1: calling games. I believe need to get the ball on

1036
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:33,080
Speaker 1: the outside, and they can't do it because they don't

1037
00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:37,439
Speaker 1: have enough speed that receiver and running back. Running back

1038
00:52:38,160 --> 00:52:40,239
Speaker 1: think about it. Well, then there's how are they trying

1039
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:42,640
Speaker 1: to get the balls outside? They kept they kept trying

1040
00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:44,680
Speaker 1: to run a jet sweep or an end around right

1041
00:52:44,760 --> 00:52:48,040
Speaker 1: first series of the game, yeah, yeah, it's sign six. Yeah.

1042
00:52:48,080 --> 00:52:51,000
Speaker 1: And then they tried to end around to Terence Williams

1043
00:52:51,000 --> 00:52:52,920
Speaker 1: and he got three yards. I mean, that's a lot

1044
00:52:52,920 --> 00:52:56,200
Speaker 1: of effort for three yards. Too many things can go

1045
00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:59,560
Speaker 1: wrong with that. So he understands he's got to get

1046
00:52:59,560 --> 00:53:01,839
Speaker 1: the ball in the outside. They just haven't been able

1047
00:53:01,840 --> 00:53:04,960
Speaker 1: to do it, and I think that comes from a

1048
00:53:05,040 --> 00:53:07,719
Speaker 1: lack of speed. Let's get to another call. We have

1049
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:12,120
Speaker 1: Bobby from Washington Online. Bobby, what's your question. I don't

1050
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:14,560
Speaker 1: really have a question. I'll just have a statement. I

1051
00:53:14,640 --> 00:53:19,200
Speaker 1: wanted to say that Ezekiel Elliott is pretty much the

1052
00:53:19,239 --> 00:53:23,120
Speaker 1: foundation of this team with that offensive line. Yeah. Yeah,

1053
00:53:23,160 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 1: it covers up the defense, It covers up the offense.

1054
00:53:26,520 --> 00:53:28,600
Speaker 1: He covers up a lot of things. It's it's sad

1055
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:31,400
Speaker 1: to say that one player, you know, not being a quarterback,

1056
00:53:31,480 --> 00:53:34,280
Speaker 1: does that, but yeah, I mean he's just that special.

1057
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:37,200
Speaker 1: You know, we said that Rob Mary Mary signed off

1058
00:53:37,680 --> 00:53:41,759
Speaker 1: with this, you know, the drafting Zeke because it keeps

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00:53:41,880 --> 00:53:44,719
Speaker 1: defense fresh. And yes, sir man, that's where we miss.

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Speaker 1: You know. You think about those five stops that we

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00:53:47,640 --> 00:53:50,879
Speaker 1: had against h Philly. I think we could have won

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00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:53,120
Speaker 1: that game if Zeke would have been there. Now hang

1063
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:56,440
Speaker 1: up to listen time of possession against the Chargers. Chargers

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00:53:56,440 --> 00:53:58,840
Speaker 1: had the ball for thirty six minutes, Cowboys had it

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00:53:58,880 --> 00:54:02,920
Speaker 1: for twenty three. Both at eight eight possessions. But they

1066
00:54:03,040 --> 00:54:05,799
Speaker 1: their their possessions were explosive. Look at their Look at

1067
00:54:05,840 --> 00:54:08,160
Speaker 1: their yards, look at the yards on the touchdowns they had.

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00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:11,239
Speaker 1: What are they like seventy five nine? I mean it

1069
00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:13,359
Speaker 1: was great. You put them into a hole and they

1070
00:54:13,400 --> 00:54:18,040
Speaker 1: go ninety yards they had one, two, three, four, five

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00:54:18,200 --> 00:54:22,040
Speaker 1: at least seventy yards of offense. Yeah, that's what you

1072
00:54:22,160 --> 00:54:24,600
Speaker 1: used to do to them, you know, that's what That's

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00:54:24,600 --> 00:54:26,880
Speaker 1: how you played. Yeah, And I think that's why so

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00:54:26,920 --> 00:54:29,160
Speaker 1: many people, at least from what I'm seeing from different tweets,

1075
00:54:29,239 --> 00:54:32,919
Speaker 1: hearing just from different conversations, so many people are confused

1076
00:54:33,120 --> 00:54:37,280
Speaker 1: because this switch of identity all of a sudden. Well,

1077
00:54:37,520 --> 00:54:40,200
Speaker 1: it's it's not a switch. It's a six games of

1078
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:43,440
Speaker 1: twenty eight points. Yeah, it's it's it's reality. It's reality

1079
00:54:43,520 --> 00:54:46,680
Speaker 1: that they don't have their they don't have the engine

1080
00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:50,080
Speaker 1: that allows them to do what they do offensively, and

1081
00:54:50,160 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 1: that it helps the quarterback, it helps the receivers, it

1082
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:55,520
Speaker 1: helps the tight end, and it helps the offensive line.

1083
00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:57,880
Speaker 1: That was Bobby in Seattle, right? Is that was his name? Bobby?

1084
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:00,440
Speaker 1: Was that the gentleman's Yeah? Washington, Yeah, Washington, Yeah. He

1085
00:55:00,560 --> 00:55:03,200
Speaker 1: I mean he's right, I mean it it's it's it's

1086
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 1: it's remarkably different to look at this team with ezekiellet

1087
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:10,120
Speaker 1: and without him. He's over to the defense. You can

1088
00:55:10,160 --> 00:55:12,680
Speaker 1: see that. And Mickey's time about the offensive line, you know,

1089
00:55:12,800 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 1: he is he's that he is the someone described him

1090
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:19,279
Speaker 1: as the old spice. He's the deodorant because he kind

1091
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:23,320
Speaker 1: of can mask some things that you There's no negative

1092
00:55:23,360 --> 00:55:25,880
Speaker 1: plays with him, you know, even even it looks like

1093
00:55:26,080 --> 00:55:28,000
Speaker 1: a negative play, it ends up being a four yard

1094
00:55:28,000 --> 00:55:30,000
Speaker 1: game and everybody kind of like, oh wow, we got

1095
00:55:30,040 --> 00:55:31,680
Speaker 1: lucky there. But and then the next time what happens

1096
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:33,920
Speaker 1: Then they block it well, and you know, he gets

1097
00:55:34,120 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 1: seventeen yards. I give grod Smith growth. I thought he

1098
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:38,000
Speaker 1: had a couple of runs in the game that were

1099
00:55:38,080 --> 00:55:41,120
Speaker 1: Zeke like in terms of fighting for extra yards. You

1100
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:44,680
Speaker 1: feeling the tackles, yeah, short yardage, yeah, goal line. He's

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00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:46,560
Speaker 1: trying to make up for that in some area. Have

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00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:48,480
Speaker 1: you seen how they what they've had to do to

1103
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:51,040
Speaker 1: try and get a third and one though they get

1104
00:55:51,080 --> 00:55:54,520
Speaker 1: they getting pistol formation at the run a reverse to

1105
00:55:54,719 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 1: you mean that that's it used to be third and

1106
00:55:57,560 --> 00:55:59,799
Speaker 1: one hand the ball to Zeke. It's a four yard game,

1107
00:56:00,080 --> 00:56:02,360
Speaker 1: you know, I mean it just it's now instead of

1108
00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:05,560
Speaker 1: just calling blast ride or whatever, they have to come

1109
00:56:05,640 --> 00:56:08,840
Speaker 1: up with some special put Beasley in the backfield, faked

1110
00:56:08,880 --> 00:56:12,160
Speaker 1: the option, you know, run a reverse. It just it's

1111
00:56:12,160 --> 00:56:16,400
Speaker 1: just it's so different without him, And it's a but

1112
00:56:16,520 --> 00:56:17,880
Speaker 1: do you feel like, let me ask you guys this,

1113
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:20,479
Speaker 1: do you feel like that that Rod Smith has run

1114
00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:24,040
Speaker 1: the football like he did in preseason? I saw I

1115
00:56:24,080 --> 00:56:26,399
Speaker 1: had the ball at San Francisco, but it was into

1116
00:56:26,480 --> 00:56:28,200
Speaker 1: game and all that. But do you feel like that

1117
00:56:28,560 --> 00:56:31,680
Speaker 1: he's run it with the same physicality that well I

1118
00:56:31,719 --> 00:56:33,680
Speaker 1: saw in the preseason. I saw a couple of times

1119
00:56:33,680 --> 00:56:37,600
Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving. Now maybe you can argue consistently no, Yeah,

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00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:39,279
Speaker 1: I don't know. I was kind of hopeful that in

1121
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:42,120
Speaker 1: the six games that he would take over for Alfred Morrison,

1122
00:56:42,239 --> 00:56:44,960
Speaker 1: be that guy and be the hammer and keep the

1123
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 1: offense on track. It just it really hasn't been that way.

1124
00:56:48,960 --> 00:56:51,800
Speaker 1: I don't know how well he sees things. That's fair.

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00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:57,520
Speaker 1: How do you improve that? That's that's Repso it's also

1126
00:56:57,560 --> 00:57:01,080
Speaker 1: an ability. It's an ability, And I just hope all

1127
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:04,680
Speaker 1: those people that were very critical of the Cowboys draft

1128
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 1: and Zeke, you know, go ahead and put your hand

1129
00:57:06,719 --> 00:57:08,960
Speaker 1: up in the air right now. Sure, Oh, you can

1130
00:57:09,000 --> 00:57:11,440
Speaker 1: have found a third round running back to do that.

1131
00:57:11,520 --> 00:57:13,600
Speaker 1: You didn't need to use a first round pick. Sure,

1132
00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:16,920
Speaker 1: any running back at oh Darren McFadden rushed for a

1133
00:57:17,000 --> 00:57:21,160
Speaker 1: thousand yards. They're not running the ball in the end zone.

1134
00:57:21,800 --> 00:57:25,120
Speaker 1: Two yard run for a touchdown. Yeah, they had one.

1135
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:27,840
Speaker 1: Dak goes thirty four and it gets called back, right,

1136
00:57:28,120 --> 00:57:31,040
Speaker 1: But that's it. No one's running in the end zone.

1137
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:35,120
Speaker 1: See if it changes this week. Oh you hope so,

1138
00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:39,440
Speaker 1: you know, you hope so. And it's it's tough, tough days.

1139
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:41,280
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I think these we're all looking

1140
00:57:41,320 --> 00:57:43,600
Speaker 1: for answers. Oh, you're looking at they haven't had a

1141
00:57:43,640 --> 00:57:47,880
Speaker 1: three game stretch like this in Garrett's era. Yeah, they haven't. No,

1142
00:57:48,040 --> 00:57:49,600
Speaker 1: I mean you look back at it. Even in the

1143
00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:53,880
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen season, four and twelve, there were not games

1144
00:57:53,880 --> 00:57:56,840
Speaker 1: like this. I mean there were games where you definitely

1145
00:57:56,880 --> 00:57:59,400
Speaker 1: couldn't get your offense rolling. One in particular was the

1146
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:03,680
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay game. I think the final score was ten six. Yeah,

1147
00:58:03,720 --> 00:58:07,040
Speaker 1: but there were still just a closeness to it. Some way,

1148
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:09,840
Speaker 1: somehow they're they're they're hanging in there at halftime every game,

1149
00:58:10,040 --> 00:58:13,080
Speaker 1: but they're they're having breakdowns in the second half of games.

1150
00:58:13,120 --> 00:58:17,680
Speaker 1: And it's execution and maybe maybe it's adjustments coaches. Ah,

1151
00:58:18,680 --> 00:58:20,640
Speaker 1: I think you could say the defense got tired in

1152
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:23,800
Speaker 1: the second half. I would I would say that um

1153
00:58:23,840 --> 00:58:27,160
Speaker 1: and guys start pressing when things start going downhill and

1154
00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:30,160
Speaker 1: you're not you know, you're not sticking to your fundamentals,

1155
00:58:30,160 --> 00:58:33,760
Speaker 1: and that's when some lapses come. Defensively, I put it

1156
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:36,280
Speaker 1: more on that than you know, a question about effort

1157
00:58:36,320 --> 00:58:38,200
Speaker 1: or something like that. I think they're just I think

1158
00:58:38,200 --> 00:58:39,960
Speaker 1: they're just getting outplayed in the second half. You've got

1159
00:58:39,960 --> 00:58:41,960
Speaker 1: a fine ways to adjust and and be a little

1160
00:58:42,800 --> 00:58:45,640
Speaker 1: fundamentally sound. We're gonna hear a lot about the game.

1161
00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:47,919
Speaker 1: We're gonna hear a lot about the effort question, and

1162
00:58:48,040 --> 00:58:50,640
Speaker 1: I don't I don't subscribe to that. I think you're

1163
00:58:50,640 --> 00:58:52,960
Speaker 1: either good enough or you're not. And a lot has

1164
00:58:53,000 --> 00:58:55,000
Speaker 1: to do with and we've seen it. If you're good

1165
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:56,800
Speaker 1: enough to cover, you can make plays. If you're not

1166
00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:58,640
Speaker 1: good enough to cover, you're gonna give up plays. The

1167
00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:01,919
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen touchdown, the long where you eluded five different guys.

1168
00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:04,000
Speaker 1: This guy's just trying to make a big hit instead

1169
00:59:04,040 --> 00:59:06,720
Speaker 1: of just making the tackle getting to the sideline. Yeah,

1170
00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:08,479
Speaker 1: that's just And it goes back to the point earlier

1171
00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:10,760
Speaker 1: about a Bury Church. Maybe that you know, okay, maybe

1172
00:59:10,840 --> 00:59:13,440
Speaker 1: Jeff heath is you know you're playing with guys that

1173
00:59:13,640 --> 00:59:16,960
Speaker 1: probably shouldn't be your starter. That's that's, that's the reality

1174
00:59:17,080 --> 00:59:20,720
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah all right, well, thanks guys for joining us.

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