WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Who to Blame? 0:00:02.000 --> 0:00:04.520 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:07.720 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Are you ready for 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:11.960 a break? Are you ready for a break? Absolutely ready 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:16.200 for a break? Yeah, and so much for that. It's 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:20.759 time for the Break on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Wall 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:27.440 with Nick Eatman, David Hellman, and bar Garcia and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:27.680 --> 0:00:31.160 It is Monday, No. Number six eighteen, Season fourteen, episode 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:33.920 number seventy three. Welcome to a new edition of The 0:00:33.920 --> 0:00:36.680 Break Life in the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:40.520 We've got so much to talk about today. Cowboys lose. Yesterday, 0:00:40.560 --> 0:00:44.040 Cowboys loose twenty eight fourteen to the Tennessee Titans, a 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:47.120 team that, as of last Friday, I think on this 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:50.120 show collectively we may have known four names. Now we 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:54.000 probably know about eight names and a team that buy 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:56.080 and large. You would think the Cowboys should have been 0:00:56.120 --> 0:01:00.279 able to beat at home, but surprisingly they were not. 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:05.800 Maybe surprisingly maybe not. How's abad doing some more? I'm awesome, awesome, great, 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:08.679 Let's let's jump right into this. And I want to 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:11.000 start as we do a lot of days for following 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.360 a game, going around the table, and I'd like you 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.399 guys to give me again, especially in a game like 0:01:15.440 --> 0:01:18.440 this had so many moments, give me what You're what 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:22.280 the biggest takeaway or the biggest storyline that you think 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:24.840 comes out of a game like this, Nicko, Let's start 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:27.760 with I mean, I just thought it was all there 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.560 for them to to have a big week. I mean, 0:01:30.640 --> 0:01:33.000 have it. I mean, this is this is a schedule 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:35.000 that's gonna get really tough, and this is probably the 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.039 easiest team on the schedule. You had two weeks to 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:39.440 prepare for it. They looked they didn't look different at all, 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:43.480 and I just thought, you know, they had opportunities that 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:45.880 they squandered. But I mean those opportunities started Sunday in 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:48.360 Washington when the when the Falcons won that game, it 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:50.920 was just sitting there for you to take advantage of it. 0:01:50.960 --> 0:01:53.160 They did not. H Yeah, there were parts in the 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:55.920 game that but I mean, of course we've talked about this. 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:57.520 I don't buy into the whole should have been up 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:00.760 seventeen nothing stuff. But um, well it was pretty funny. 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:02.120 Your tweet was pretty good. I mean, I mean it's 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:04.680 just because that's what this team is, and so I mean, 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:07.480 they just don't take advantage of opportunities. That are there 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.600 for them and you know they are what they are. 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:16.160 Three and five Amber, I mean, there's so much to say, 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:19.359 but just to keep it kind of simple, and it's 0:02:19.400 --> 0:02:22.960 frustrating and very very annoying when you see the way 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.760 that the defense started off, So I mean there was 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:30.040 fire everywhere. They were so pumped and doing things, making 0:02:30.080 --> 0:02:33.040 things Jalen Smith all over the field, making plays. And 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:36.000 when you see those kinds of things and you give 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.320 the ball back to your offense and then the offense 0:02:38.440 --> 0:02:40.840 isn't able to cash in and make something out of it, 0:02:40.840 --> 0:02:45.160 it's very frustrating and disappointing, especially again when we talk 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:48.799 about certain players that you don't want to waste them 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:51.359 and when I look back and we'll get into Dick 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:55.240 and all that stuff, but it's frustrating when you see 0:02:56.240 --> 0:02:59.960 life expectancy of a player, it's a great way, that's perfect. 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:03.280 I like that being wasted, yeah, and thrown away just 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:07.799 because your coaching is unable to utilize them the way 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:12.120 you should be. All right, Dave Um easily like a 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:15.480 top five loss of my time covering this team. Maybe 0:03:15.560 --> 0:03:18.960 five's worst loss, yes, sorry, worst maybe maybe top three, 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:22.280 uh ten to six and Tampa comes to mind, but 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:26.160 you didn't have to didn't have Tony Romo for that game. Uh, 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:28.440 the Falcons game last year comes to mind, but you 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.679 famously didn't have Zeke or Tyrn Smith. The Chargers game 0:03:31.720 --> 0:03:33.960 on Thanksgiving comes to mind, but you didn't have Sean 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:39.160 Lee or Zeke. The Broncos, well, it was bad, pretty bad. 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:41.440 That was bad, But I don't know that one does 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:46.040 Baltimore when they close out take the stadium. From an 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.800 all time trip standpoint, I mean from just from plane 0:03:49.800 --> 0:03:52.720 to plane, I mean Buffalo was looked there. Oh yeah, 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:54.800 that never That one didn't bother me as much as 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:56.160 it bothered the rest of you all I could get 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:58.560 like again, And that's my point is like you're starting 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.280 Kellen Moore in Buffalo on Christmas, Like, what are you 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:05.760 expecting to appen? Just the fans don't care that we 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.440 had to circle Houston a couple of times. That wasn't 0:04:08.440 --> 0:04:10.960 even all of it was. We got locked down at 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:17.000 the hotel. Regardless, it doesn't anyway off the rails. Sorry, 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:21.400 bad loss, Dave. What my point is, what's the excuse here? 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:23.880 Because I just listed out all the excuses for why 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.680 those other losses happened but what didn't you have here? 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:28.840 You added the first round, you know, you added your 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:32.039 first round pick, You had your you had your starting quarterback. 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:35.039 Sean Lee was healthy at least at the beginning of 0:04:35.080 --> 0:04:37.640 this game. Tyrann Smith was out there. Last I checked, 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:41.440 Zeke had forty yards after two possessions. Sure Travis Frederick 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:43.320 wasn't there. I don't want to hear that they've won 0:04:43.400 --> 0:04:46.200 three games without him this year. I'll bet anybody that 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:48.480 wants to bet ten dollars right now that this Titans 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:51.080 team is not making the playoffs. This is as winnable 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.400 a game as they have left on the schedule, and 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:57.800 they looked terrible. So that's really my my main impression 0:04:57.920 --> 0:05:02.679 is just that this was in a actually ugly, crappy loss, 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:04.720 you know, And to go back to you know, we 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:06.880 were talking about the reason why I don't think this 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.560 whole like well they should have been up so much 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:13.000 is because, I mean, defensively, they made one play. DeMarcus 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:14.920 Lawrence made one play and if it wouldn't have been 0:05:15.000 --> 0:05:17.840 kicked around, you know, twenty five yards. Used to say 0:05:17.880 --> 0:05:19.720 they even score a touchdown there because that ball was 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:21.320 like on the thirty five got all the way down 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:23.880 to the twelve when they but like, you know, they 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.120 didn't make up another play on that that fumble. They 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:28.640 just Tennessee just decide to fumble. Well they made to 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:32.600 play to make the recovery, but yeah, they recovered it. 0:05:32.640 --> 0:05:35.520 And I mean, I just they They're just not an 0:05:35.520 --> 0:05:39.680 opportunistic type team like that. And so you know, Tennessee 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:42.760 just stopped turning the ball over and you know they 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:44.640 made a play as well. I don't know, maybe the 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:46.520 Cowboys ran out of gas when you keep running to 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:49.520 the end zone to take pictures. I mean, maybe what 0:05:50.320 --> 0:05:53.440 happened with that? And then and Jerry Jones, Jerry Jones 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:55.520 said that a couple of times after the game, it's 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:59.120 like they had so much energy. This team was so 0:06:00.080 --> 0:06:02.760 like did they hide themselves out of the game? Can 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.400 I throw out something? And I do not take this. 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:08.280 I'm making this declaration at the beginning. Do not take 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:10.479 this as an excuse, because it should never be an excuse. 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:13.520 But do you think at all that the temperature in 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:18.279 the building affected their their energy level? What? What do 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:21.440 you mean? What it was seventy eight degrees at kickoff? 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:23.719 This was not a cool environment for the roof to 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:28.560 be open. Oh, Derek, No, No, no, I didn't. I 0:06:28.560 --> 0:06:30.680 didn't notice it. I can't go there with him there. 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:32.640 It was chilly when we went out there in the 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.360 fourth quarter. In the fourth quarter, yes, oh my quarter. Yes, 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:37.359 I can't believe you're saying this to me right now. 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:39.760 It was first of all, don't see. This is why 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:41.680 I didn't want to say it, because you're gonna make 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:43.560 this seem as though I'm making excuse. It's not excuse. 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:45.640 I'm saying. If you're gonna talk about if you're gonna 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:47.400 talk about no, if you're gonna talk about what could 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.120 have been a difference in their energy level as the 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:52.159 game we're on, think so, no one could this have 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.240 been part of I don't. I don't think so. I 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:59.359 think they they just did not tackle well. Now, a 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:03.200 better excuse to that would be, you know there two 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:06.400 of their two of their best defensive linemen are not 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:09.560 playing in the game. I mean that that. You know, 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:12.040 anytime that you have injuries like that, then Sean Lean 0:07:12.160 --> 0:07:14.600 goes out. I think that hurt him. I don't know. Well, 0:07:14.600 --> 0:07:16.800 I do know this that I'll say you say this 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:21.680 for Jalen. You talk about two different football games yesterday 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:23.760 at the beginning of the game, he was flying around. 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:25.360 By the end of the game, we saw a couple 0:07:25.400 --> 0:07:27.680 different plays. One play that you and I noticed, Nick 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:30.520 where he basically the runners coming and he did he 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:32.520 basically took himself out of the play by trying to 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.840 run around a blacker. And then there was another play 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:38.360 on the touchdown run where he basically just kind of 0:07:38.600 --> 0:07:42.640 played pattycake with with with Mariota rather than actually trying 0:07:42.680 --> 0:07:44.760 to tackle him or rather than actually putting a hit 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.120 on him. And so he certainly was not the same 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:48.720 player by the end of the game as what he 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:50.440 was earlier in the game when he was flying around. 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:53.120 That's a that's a thing. I mean, I've noticed it 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.200 going all the way back to the Eli Manning hit 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:59.080 in week two, the Deshaun Watson hit as good as 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:01.480 it was like and ninety nine percent of the time 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:04.760 he's right. Jalen Smith is a guy who clearly thinks 0:08:04.800 --> 0:08:07.480 that like running full speed and lowering the boom on 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:10.320 somebody's gonna put him on the ground, and Marcus Mariota 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:13.480 proved him very wrong on that run. You know, wrapping 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:15.280 up is still a thing that you should probably do, 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:17.440 and he really a boom on him on top. No, yeah, no, 0:08:17.560 --> 0:08:19.720 for sure. Well, I don't know. Maybe he thought he's 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:21.800 a quarterback and that should be enough, but it was not. 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:24.560 It's a bad look for a guy that's as physical 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:28.240 as he is, because when Jayalen Smith tackles the way 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.760 he can tackle, I mean, you know, he'll stop at 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.440 tight end dead in his tracks. And so that really 0:08:34.559 --> 0:08:37.760 was surprising to see that. I mean it looked like 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:40.560 he thought it was two hand touch basically. Yeah. So yeah, 0:08:40.760 --> 0:08:43.920 all right, let's talk about the quarterback yesterday. To me, 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.360 I think he was a highly inconsistent player for them yesterday. 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:49.480 You look at his numbers, though, and his numbers say 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.720 he had a pretty decent day talking about rain. Yes, Okay, 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:55.000 he was twenty one to thirty one, sixty eight percent 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:58.160 completion percent is two hundred and forty three yards, two touchdowns, 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:03.320 one interception, a ninety nine point three quarterback rating. So statistically, 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:05.880 that's a pretty good day for Dakota. Right, That's that's 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:08.839 not a bad day. But I think the two things 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:10.880 that stand out to me most are the fact that 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:13.960 in yesterday's game, in a game like that where turnovers 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.840 are important, there were two turnovers at the Cowboys hat 0:09:16.880 --> 0:09:20.400 and both the turnovers were his doing. The interception where 0:09:20.400 --> 0:09:23.000 he threw the ball into double coverage and then the 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:27.079 the fumble that he had there as well. What did 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.680 you guys think of of Dak yesterday and how he 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:34.760 performed for this team. I think the way you led 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:37.360 this off is proof that. And people say this all 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:39.640 the time, stats lie because I mean, I don't care 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:41.480 what I don't care what that says. He did not 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.000 play a good game. He played a really bad game. 0:09:44.120 --> 0:09:48.880 Actually is as uncharacteristic and interception as I've ever seen 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:52.839 from him, especially in the red zone. Just app I mean, 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.839 there's absolutely nothing there. Even if he puts more air 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.079 under that ball, Amari Cooper is probably gonna run out 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:01.040 of real estate. He did look confident in what he 0:10:01.080 --> 0:10:03.280 was seeing. I think, you know, he took five sacks. 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:05.400 I would guess that on at least three of them. 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.319 You're talking about him holding the ball four or five 0:10:08.520 --> 0:10:13.240 or longer seconds just either which you know I haven't 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:14.719 gone back and watched the all twenty two. Maybe the 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.920 receivers aren't open. Well, that's problematic if they just traded 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:19.839 away a first round pick for a receiver. But you 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:21.000 still got to get rid of the ball. No, I 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:22.440 mean you got to you gotta get rid of the ball, 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.079 just little things. You know, people were killing him for 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:28.160 it on Twitter and rightfully so you you scramble out 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:30.160 of bounds and lose two yards when you can simply 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.000 just kind of flick it over the line of scrimmage 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:36.120 and lived to see another day. Just situational awareness, pocket 0:10:36.200 --> 0:10:39.440 awareness was not there. The decision making was not there. 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:43.240 And yeah, like I said, I don't ninety nine passer rating, 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:45.760 no way. I mean maybe that's what it came to, 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.280 but that's not what it looked like. And once again 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:50.280 Cowboys were not able to get him involved in the 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:53.320 running game. He had two rushes for eleven yards, So 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:56.760 they really didn't find a way to make him or 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.200 at least make the Titans defense have to contend with 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:01.839 the fact that he and run by creating opportunities for 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:03.760 him to round with the ball. I mean exactly. I 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:07.120 mean Marioda gets ten ten rushes for thirty two yards, 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:11.400 you know, and that gets two. I mean that's I 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:14.520 just don't understand when you have two weeks off like that, 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.920 I mean, what are they doing honestly, what what are 0:11:16.920 --> 0:11:19.679 they doing to fix some of these things? I mean, 0:11:19.720 --> 0:11:22.120 where's the where's the end of rounds, where's the jet sweeps? 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:23.920 Where the deep balls? I thought a Marie Cooper was 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:27.360 supposed to come in here and stretch the defensive around 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.000 a little bit. I mean, how can you not get Beasley? 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:32.720 Beasley got four targets, most of them were at the 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:33.960 very end of the game. I mean, I just don't 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:39.600 understand what they're doing. Um, you know, I I don't know. 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:44.040 They They've they've got to absolutely the only thing they've 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:46.880 got left to do is to change the play caller. 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.280 I mean, i'd seem like that's gonna happen. Well, I know. 0:11:50.360 --> 0:11:53.040 I mean also, I don't know what what's going on. 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:55.400 I mean, the fans are frustrated, you know, frustrated with 0:11:55.440 --> 0:11:57.520 the quarterback. Jerry comes out today and says he's gonna 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:00.959 get an extension. I mean that last night, that he's 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.480 not playing on making any more coaching changes during the season, 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:06.120 which would include the head coach, that would include the offense. 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:11.520 He made sure to specify nothing is personal here with us. 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:13.559 I mean, nothing's personal. We see these guys all the time. 0:12:13.559 --> 0:12:15.160 We see him on the plane. That's what makes it 0:12:15.240 --> 0:12:16.680 kind of tough for us. We see him walking in 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:19.840 the halls. I mean, I think everyone typically likes all 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:23.280 of these people, but I mean, Dave gott to remove 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:25.720 the offensive coordinator right now, they have to, They have 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:29.120 to remove the play caller is absolutely atrocious. To go 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:32.720 out in two weeks and do that, That's that's ridiculous. 0:12:33.360 --> 0:12:37.280 Dak Prescott, I mean Mary Ooder was picked what second overall? Okay, 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:39.719 he can run ten times. I mean he's okay, you can. 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:42.280 You gotta run, Dak. That's his strength, That's what he's 0:12:42.679 --> 0:12:44.800 that's what he's good at. That will open up things 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:49.559 for everybody else, not just a mooticum of creativity. I mean, 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:52.760 how many, thank you, how many first down runs just 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:56.320 right into the line, you know, how many? How many 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.079 jet actions did we see, not even like not even 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:01.440 talking about trying to get people involved on that, just 0:13:01.520 --> 0:13:04.640 the illusion and which how many times have I said 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.120 that over the last six months, like give the defense 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:09.720 reason to believe that it's going to be anything but 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.320 a dive right up the gut. I know this sounds 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:14.760 like that we're just kind of nitpicking because this isn't 0:13:14.800 --> 0:13:18.720 a one of those premier positions. But the fact that 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.640 they do not have a tight end, that's that's good 0:13:21.640 --> 0:13:23.920 at all. They don't really have it. I mean, if 0:13:23.960 --> 0:13:26.280 these tight ends were available, I don't know how many 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.640 would be on a team. I really don't know. Maybe 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:31.240 Schultz would because if you know, he was drafted and 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.320 all that, but I don't know if the other two 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:36.280 would be that that's a problem for them. They don't 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:38.679 have a good balance there because these guys can't block 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:40.520 and they're not willing to block. We all saw them. 0:13:40.640 --> 0:13:43.839 I'm sure everybody saw the play on Twitter. I mean 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:45.960 it wasn't just him, though there were there was a 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.679 lot that was wrong that play. He's there. Everything was 0:13:48.679 --> 0:13:52.360 wrong with Sultz is there right? And it's like, okay, linebacker, Nah, 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:54.439 I don't want him. He could take him. There's a 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:55.599 guy in the ground over here. I'm gonna go and 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:57.439 see if I can touch him. Yeah, I'm gonna see it. 0:13:57.520 --> 0:13:59.760 Tire and needs help with this guy, and I'm just 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:03.160 leave their middle linebacker to I don't know. You know, 0:14:03.320 --> 0:14:05.800 before the press conference, I went in there and sat down. 0:14:05.880 --> 0:14:08.120 I'm like, I swear to God, if you come out 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:10.360 here and say we did some good things. We're gonna 0:14:10.400 --> 0:14:14.600 go back and watch the tape. Oh my god, Like again, 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:18.880 I didn't do anything about it, obviously didn't comment out. 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:24.800 I'm like, no, that's a lie. That's a lie, because clearly, 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.000 either you're watching the tape and not catching up on 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.360 what is actually going on on the field, or you 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:32.440 just don't care, or do you just not good enough. 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:34.680 I don't know, but I'm tired of hearing those things 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:37.040 because and I get that you have to say that, 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.640 because it's like okay to comment on certain things, you 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.480 kind of have to go back and watch exactly what happened. 0:14:42.960 --> 0:14:46.680 But stop saying that because you're not making changes things. 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.360 Oh there you go. You're not really making changes. You 0:14:49.400 --> 0:14:53.000 come back next week and do similar things again. Yeah, 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.600 and you don't repeat the things that are working for you. 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:58.680 So quit saying you're gonna watch the freaking tape and 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:02.480 come back and do change things up. No, just say 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:05.760 something else. But yeah, I mean, you're you're exactly right 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:07.680 on that one. Because I was there in the press 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.600 conference and it started off. I mean the guy just 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:13.880 asked him. I mean, the most Homer reporter there is, 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.600 and he's just happy to be there, and he's really 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:20.120 always bright side type of guy. He said, coach, what happened? 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:22.880 And he said, well, I thought we did some good things. 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.040 I thought they did some good things. Yeah, yeah, And 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.320 he paused a little bit, and then he said, in 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:32.720 really all three phases of our team false. What would 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:37.320 broad us say to this man? You didn't do any 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:40.920 good thing. You didn't do any good things. There's nothing 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:43.320 good about it. Scoring points in the NFL is not 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:45.800 a good thing. A touchdown, fourteen points is not a 0:15:45.840 --> 0:15:48.160 good thing. I honestly believe that he needed to come 0:15:48.200 --> 0:15:49.640 up there. Hold on, you need to come up there 0:15:49.680 --> 0:15:52.240 and say, you know what, this was unacceptable. This was 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:54.520 the one of the worst games ever. It starts with me. 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:56.200 We had two weeks prepare, and it looks like we 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:58.240 had two hours to prepare. We played like crap. A 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:01.800 lot of difference that we make changing what you say, 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:04.400 I mean, that would make a whirl of different Don't 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.840 we wear blue every day we come here and we 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.240 just keep doing the same thing. And you know what, 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:11.560 these fans are pissed off, and they should be. They 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:14.520 should be pissed off because they've given this team a 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:18.080 lot of support. And then they they're there every single time, 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.360 and they keep rolling out this stuff. I don't be 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:24.560 pissed off. I honestly think that Jason feels like he's 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.800 providing calm in the storm, like he's he's this steadying 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:30.480 influence for fans out there to make him realize look 0:16:30.600 --> 0:16:32.480 and everything. It's kind of like you're on the Titanic 0:16:32.520 --> 0:16:34.760 and it's the captain saying, don't worry, guys, you hear 0:16:34.800 --> 0:16:37.320 the music. We're all okay here, We're good, right. The 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:40.320 problem is that what it really tells fans, especially in 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.200 moments like this, is that he's oblivious. That's what fans 0:16:43.200 --> 0:16:46.040 take from it is he doesn't realize that the ship's 0:16:46.040 --> 0:16:49.640 actually going down, and he's not providing calm because they 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.560 see what they see. They see a team that had 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:54.680 enough tools to be able to win a game like 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.960 that yesterday and didn't. So I think he's actually not 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:01.280 accomplishing what he's trying to accomplish. He's actually doing the opposite. 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.119 Have you seen and have y'all seen Animal House? This 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:08.440 is a bad room to ask, remain come all as well? Yeah, Um, 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:11.919 I don't think Jason Garrett cares about what the fans 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:13.720 think and that I think he I think I think 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.879 he does. I think he thinks he's a steadying influence 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:19.160 for the team. He's you know, like, I'm the same 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:20.920 guy every day, no matter if it's good or bad. 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:23.320 I don't think he gives a crap what the fans 0:17:23.359 --> 0:17:26.040 thing now. I honestly think that Jason, I think that 0:17:26.040 --> 0:17:28.280 that's the right. That's why Jason when he first remember 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:30.120 when he first took over as a head coach, he 0:17:30.320 --> 0:17:32.320 had the lectern. Yeah, he didn't sit at the table 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:36.000 like he understands the image that he's trying to portray 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:38.680 to the general public. He gets that as the head 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:42.159 coach of the Dallas Cowboys, it is part being a 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.880 not a CEO, because Jerry's the CEO ultimately, but it's 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:49.800 part of being a figurehead in this organization. And he's 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.239 trying to represent a certain image. And I think that 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:54.760 when he says that he's trying to stay positive, he's 0:17:54.800 --> 0:17:57.439 trying to make everybody understand that, hey, it's what you 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:59.520 talked about last week. We're gonna keep pounding you. We're 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:01.440 gonna keep one of the things. We're gonna be steady. 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:04.520 And in being steady, he thinks that Eventually it's all 0:18:04.520 --> 0:18:07.440 gonna work out. The problem is fans aren't seeing that. 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:09.560 Fans are like that only works for so long, and 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:11.680 then it's like, Okay, we've been steady for a long 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:13.440 time and the results are still the same. Now it's 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:16.719 turning into insanity. Nope, nobody's seeing it. I mean, shoot, 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:21.160 I said as recently as yesterday morning, I was like, Okay, cool, 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:23.520 Amari Cooper's here, and that's great. But what I'm really 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:26.000 curious about is what that is going to mean for 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:30.240 the opportunities that creates for Cole Beasley, Zeke Elliott, Michael Gallup. 0:18:30.600 --> 0:18:33.560 Michael Gallup had a pretty nice day. Cole Beasley caught 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:36.200 three passes for sixteen yards and most of those are 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:38.440 on the last series a thing, and they forgot Zeke 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:42.080 was on the team after the second possession, which again, 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:44.640 I mean, I just again, I gotta watch the tape. 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:47.440 I guess. I know that's important. I know that's important, 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:49.959 but man, it's hard to believe that there was just 0:18:50.040 --> 0:18:51.800 nothing there for any of those guys. All right, let's 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:53.800 take our first break. When we come back, I do 0:18:53.840 --> 0:18:55.639 want to ask you guys the question. 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