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Speaker 6: I am your host, Jane Slater of the NFL Network,
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Speaker 6: get let's get right into it. News of the day,
Speaker 6: Dak Prescott. Here's how it all went down. Last night.
Speaker 7: Thought I jammed it. I mean I've hit my hand
Speaker 7: on helmets or bodies a lot my career and never
Speaker 7: really had anything maybe a jam finger here, and actually
Speaker 7: thought that's what it was. Just the next play he
Speaker 7: realized I couldn't grip the ball, let the sideline know.
Speaker 7: And then when I got off, Yeah, I told the
Speaker 7: trainers the same thing. I was just like, I can't grip.
Speaker 7: I feel like if you ain't it I'll be okay
Speaker 7: and no came in got X rays and things are different. Yeah,
Speaker 7: it was tough. I mean it was tough. Veteran defense
Speaker 7: there made it tough on us. We didn't help ourselves
Speaker 7: with penalties, just bad timing, just didn't play clean all together.
Speaker 7: And when you put all those things together, you get
Speaker 7: a three point game, as we just put out. Yeah,
Speaker 7: I'll be there to support him. I'll be there to
Speaker 7: support this whole team and coaching staff and everybody every
Speaker 7: step through it. And for Coop, just continue to prepare,
Speaker 7: continue to approach the way that he's done. I mean
Speaker 7: for five what six years now, so I mean going
Speaker 7: back to his rookie year. I mean, Coop's always been
Speaker 7: a guy that I've turned to, whether it be the
Speaker 7: scheme or whether it just be for help. And now
Speaker 7: I'll be able to help him in these next several
Speaker 7: weeks and just hopefully get the best out of him
Speaker 7: and the best out of the scene.
Speaker 5: All right, So let's break it down. It was so ugly.
Speaker 6: It was even uglier if you were there for the postgame, ladies.
Speaker 6: Jerry Jones typically waits in the owner's box before he
Speaker 6: comes down into the locker room. And he walked towards us,
Speaker 6: and you know, I've seen him disappointed rams lost playoffs
Speaker 6: on the road forty nine ers playoff loss last year.
Speaker 6: I don't think that any of us realized though, that
Speaker 6: the thing that was upsetting him obviously was a severity
Speaker 6: of Dak Prescott.
Speaker 5: So he most of the players typically come through.
Speaker 6: We see Ezekie Elliott, Cee Ceede Lamb, and we're asking questions,
Speaker 6: where are the rest of the players. They're not walking
Speaker 6: through the you know, the tunnel to the locker room
Speaker 6: the way they normally do. Sounds like they went in
Speaker 6: through the back.
Speaker 5: I've been meaning to ask people about that. I thought
Speaker 5: that was interesting.
Speaker 6: So Jerry then comes out and Chris Beam, who works here,
Speaker 6: tells Cowys informing me that my face said it all
Speaker 6: when Jerry said that we're going to be without Dak
Speaker 6: for a few weeks. I was absolutely shocked, because I
Speaker 6: think we all saw it happen, right. He sort of
Speaker 6: gets his his hands slapped away, and it felt very
Speaker 6: much like I covered the Saints too. It felt very
Speaker 6: much like the UCL injury to Drew Brees which had
Speaker 6: him out for five weeks.
Speaker 5: Of course, there they had Teddy Bridgewater.
Speaker 6: I think they went five and oh as a result
Speaker 6: of that, not the situation here in Dallas. They're saying
Speaker 6: it's gonna be about six to eight weeks. We just
Speaker 6: had Mike McCarthy doing the presser. He said he didn't
Speaker 6: have an update, but that surgery happened this afternoon. Talked
Speaker 6: to Dak in the locker room after Dak could have
Speaker 6: gone and gotten surgery last night. As he described it,
Speaker 6: that's how he's wired. But they're putting a it's going
Speaker 6: to be a pen and a plate and that right
Speaker 6: thumb to stabilize it not jammed. Pretty significant injury and
Speaker 6: a clean break.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 6: So that's the news and notes of the day as
Speaker 6: it relates to Dak Prescott. Let's get right into it. Aisha,
Speaker 6: your immediate reaction, because again I know.
Speaker 5: You weren't in the locker room.
Speaker 6: Where were you when you got the news update about
Speaker 6: the severity of Dak, Because as I said, as I'm
Speaker 6: standing there with Jerry even I'm shocked by it.
Speaker 8: I think I believe I was.
Speaker 9: I went to the game, yeah, and I was walking
Speaker 9: down I was walking down the stairs and I saw,
Speaker 9: you know, something flashed on Twitter about it. And I
Speaker 9: was just like, yeah, Trivi, you know wraw him. You know,
Speaker 9: like I figured he just hit his hand and it
Speaker 9: wasn't anything serious. And then you know, the flood of
Speaker 9: information of Jerry, you know, speaking on it started coming
Speaker 9: out and I heard Bucks fans going by like Jerry
Speaker 9: just came out and said that is like and I
Speaker 9: was like, oh my goodness, this is really happening. He's
Speaker 9: really injured again. What does this mean for this team
Speaker 9: right now? And as we look at like the backup
Speaker 9: quarterback situation, I know we're going to get into that later.
Speaker 9: This is it just was very disheartening. I could tell.
Speaker 9: It was very deflating. Uh And it's also deflating. I
Speaker 9: feel like it's also deflating because just for Dak as
Speaker 9: the player, you have to empathize for the fact that
Speaker 9: he has, you know, come back from the injury he
Speaker 9: had before and now he's here again.
Speaker 8: So I was.
Speaker 9: Immediately taken aback like you guys were, and my mind
Speaker 9: started processing where do we go from here?
Speaker 8: And I know we're going to talk about that later.
Speaker 10: Yeah. I was also at the game, and you know,
Speaker 10: my parents actually flew in for this game, and they
Speaker 10: were not happy very I know they were not happy,
Speaker 10: to say the very least. They flew in with some
Speaker 10: of their friends who also was their first Cowboys game.
Speaker 5: Wow. Yeah.
Speaker 10: So we were all walking out and my phone kind
Speaker 10: of started going off for the blog and the Boys
Speaker 10: channel that we have, and I saw Dak surgery. I
Speaker 10: just saw two words log on Twitter. I'm going through
Speaker 10: I'm walking out, bumping into people, just kind of central
Speaker 10: focused on my phone there and yeah, I saw it,
Speaker 10: and everyone around me heard me telling my dad. So
Speaker 10: all the fans are asking just as we're walking out,
Speaker 10: you know, what's going on? What happened?
Speaker 11: Is it bad?
Speaker 10: And it's like, I don't know. We don't really have
Speaker 10: a lot of information right now. I'm just trying to
Speaker 10: get back to the car to figure out what's going
Speaker 10: on so I can walk and not be holding up
Speaker 10: traffic or anything, right, But you know, it was disheartening
Speaker 10: and I the last game that my family and I
Speaker 10: went to was the playoff game as well, So I
Speaker 10: will say that walk of shame.
Speaker 5: Allowed in the building anymore.
Speaker 12: I think I'm bad.
Speaker 9: I think I'm bad luck too, because I hadn't come
Speaker 9: to any games in the last couple of years because
Speaker 9: I've been deployed.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I went to candidate.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so we're not getting your credentials, your family, I'm
Speaker 6: allowed in the building.
Speaker 10: Here's the thing that walk of shame. After the forty
Speaker 10: nine Ers game felt very long to the car. This
Speaker 10: this one felt ten times longer. And the Bucks fans
Speaker 10: were actually being very nice. Yes, as we were walking
Speaker 10: to the car.
Speaker 5: That had a great game. Either you'll get into that
Speaker 5: and a bit. Kelsey, what was what was your thoughts? Uh?
Speaker 5: As this is all sort of unraveling.
Speaker 12: Yeah, I mean actually my parents too. You can hear
Speaker 12: my voice between the YouTube game this game, I was
Speaker 12: not having a good time, so I lost my voice
Speaker 12: because I'm just disheartening, is the best way to describe
Speaker 12: this weekend. And I actually took a little bit of
Speaker 12: an issue with the way Jerry described it. We'll talk
Speaker 12: about that later, I'm sure. And he called it a
Speaker 12: surprising and I have to honestly disagree. But it was shocking,
Speaker 12: and I do think it was shocking to see how
Speaker 12: bad it actually went down. And I don't know what
Speaker 12: my deal is with having a kinship with the Dallas
Speaker 12: Tabots quarterbacks, but I actually have had this same exact
Speaker 12: surgery the dak has got today. I didn't get I
Speaker 12: didn't get the plate, but I did get a pin
Speaker 12: in my right thumbs. And what's crazy is that I
Speaker 12: was that kid in middle school who was high school.
Speaker 12: Actually I did it during dodgeball, so like we couldn't
Speaker 12: play dodgeball the rest of the year. It was my fault.
Speaker 12: But it was like this small little injury that you
Speaker 12: just thought you kind of you know, stubbed your finger,
Speaker 12: and it turns out that it's actually way bigger than
Speaker 12: what you thought, and you have to get the surgery,
Speaker 12: and you have to get a cast, and it becomes
Speaker 12: like this whole issue, and I mean, now it's about
Speaker 12: a survival mode, like how do you keep this boat
Speaker 12: afloat for the coming week so that the second half
Speaker 12: of the season this team can actually be some similar
Speaker 12: to a contender. I mean, if there's one, I mean,
Speaker 12: we'll talk silver linings. But at least this is happening
Speaker 12: in the NFC East and not another division.
Speaker 6: Tell how long did your recovery take with the similar surgery.
Speaker 12: It was about the six to eight weeks mark. And
Speaker 12: I honestly like it's the worst because you literally have
Speaker 12: to get a cast that goes to like the base
Speaker 12: of your forefingers, like at the top of like it
Speaker 12: encompasses your hand. Your thumb is like all the way
Speaker 12: up and then your cast almost goes down to your elbow,
Speaker 12: so it looks like you like broke your forearm or
Speaker 12: something like that. And it's just like this big, booky,
Speaker 12: annoying cast and it Grant granted, this was fifteen years ago,
Speaker 12: but still like it was, it was one of the
Speaker 12: most painful and obnoxious injuries I've ever had. And you're
Speaker 12: talking to a girl that has broken her back, So
Speaker 12: it is just it's so annoying and it really does
Speaker 12: interfere with your life. And again, we talked about this
Speaker 12: last week when we were talking about our concerns about
Speaker 12: Dak behind this line and you know, expressing the the
Speaker 12: you know, the whole shoe issue. It's turned out to
Speaker 12: potentially maybe be a little bit more and going there, right, Like,
Speaker 12: this quarterback, this quarterback has some serious issues that he
Speaker 12: has dealt with injury wise, and I am genuinely concerned
Speaker 12: not only just for this team to recover from those injuries,
Speaker 12: but also his personal mentality and how he recruperates.
Speaker 5: Moving boards.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, I'm glad you brought up the you know,
Speaker 6: we discussed cleetegate at length. That's what I've called it,
Speaker 6: cleet gate last week at length because it felt more
Speaker 6: severe than what they were telling I just having covered.
Speaker 5: The lid well.
Speaker 6: And it's not so much that I want to say, look,
Speaker 6: I'm raising my hands to see I was right because
Speaker 6: the ankle didn't feel limited at all yesterday. Right, So
Speaker 6: that the ankle wasn't the issue is just they weren't
Speaker 6: as forthcoming with the information as I think a lot
Speaker 6: of us might have liked them too. It was more
Speaker 6: than just two tight of a claque, and I wish
Speaker 6: they had just stuck with the story. And Jay Glazer
Speaker 6: is very close with Stephen and Jerry and Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 6: and so when Jay Glazer puts it out there, he's
Speaker 6: getting it right from the source. And so when he
Speaker 6: said he felt like there was like a pop of
Speaker 6: some sort, and they're like, oh, it's just a pop
Speaker 6: of a scar tissue and that typically happens. Well, why
Speaker 6: didn't that happen last year? You did get X rays,
Speaker 6: is what it sounds like. But what was more concerning
Speaker 6: to me is Melissa Stark, who does the broadcast.
Speaker 5: We work in NFL Network together. She had a conversation
Speaker 5: with him.
Speaker 6: He said, well, I don't know where Jay got it,
Speaker 6: but I felt like it kind of felt dead and
Speaker 6: then it came alive again. Oh, And I got to
Speaker 6: be honest, I said, no, he didn't say that.
Speaker 5: Really.
Speaker 6: She's like, yeah, I mean that's kind of how he
Speaker 6: described it. I'm like, I hope to God that's not
Speaker 6: some nerve that's interesting to me. And so even Melissa
Speaker 6: was confused by it and ultimately didn't go with it
Speaker 6: on TV because I think we both just sat there
Speaker 6: and said, I don't know what to make of that.
Speaker 6: So I, honestly, heading into the game, was was nervous
Speaker 6: about the offensive line.
Speaker 5: Saw Connor McGovern go down. You know, Fartiac went in
Speaker 5: there and.
Speaker 6: Did as good a job as I guess as you're
Speaker 6: gonna do, but you could only you could only be
Speaker 6: serviceable for so long. And so I was literally keeping
Speaker 6: an eye on the ankle the whole game. But when
Speaker 6: this hands situation happened, we watched it when Shaq Barrett
Speaker 6: came across at him, and I honestly I thought I
Speaker 6: thought the same thing that Dak did.
Speaker 5: I thought, Okay, he's just jammed it.
Speaker 6: And so when we went in the locker room and
Speaker 6: we're interviewing Ceede Lamb and I revealed a CD no
Speaker 6: he's out for a few weeks, he goes, oh, well,
Speaker 6: it's the first I'm hearing it. And Cooper Rush, so
Speaker 6: a lot of these guys didn't have the full.
Speaker 5: Compliment of information.
Speaker 6: And then one of the the things that will stand
Speaker 6: out to me as I look over at Dak and
Speaker 6: you know, kind of whispered to him like sorry, like
Speaker 6: mouthing to him. He's kind of gripping the wrapped hand
Speaker 6: the whole time, and he just looks like he's just
Speaker 6: in a daze, just like sort of staring out in
Speaker 6: the space. Because I'm just thinking, you guys are talking
Speaker 6: about mentality. If he felt some sort of weird pop
Speaker 6: last week with the ankle, you've got to be nervous
Speaker 6: about that. If you had surgery twice, now you've got
Speaker 6: this hand situation.
Speaker 5: It's like you go into.
Speaker 6: Season last year it was shoulder, calf, ankle, all of
Speaker 6: that stuff, and then now you're dealing with this. It
Speaker 6: does start to get in your head when the injury
Speaker 6: starts stacking up. Yeah, and so that's what I kept
Speaker 6: thinking of it, and Kelsey, I know you're kind of
Speaker 6: alluding to it. I think the frustrating part for all
Speaker 6: of us is in camp we had questions about the
Speaker 6: wide receivers, which we'll get into. We had questions about
Speaker 6: this offensive line, and we had questions about the depth
Speaker 6: of your quarterback room, and all of it is coming
Speaker 6: to bite you right now.
Speaker 9: It's very reminiscent of, like I'm just being honest, going
Speaker 9: to that forty nine Ers game, all of the Cowboys
Speaker 9: efficiencies were on full display.
Speaker 1: Yep.
Speaker 8: There was no way to avoid it. You couldn't hide it.
Speaker 9: You saw the penalties, you saw the offensive line struggle,
Speaker 9: you saw literally the run defense struggle.
Speaker 8: You saw every single thing.
Speaker 9: And then you come to this game and you see
Speaker 9: the exact same situation and there's no like, what are
Speaker 9: we doing? And I understand, like you said, the DAC
Speaker 9: was just sitting in the daze. What does he have
Speaker 9: to feel like right now? I mean, there has to
Speaker 9: be something they can do that's better on this offensive
Speaker 9: line for him because that I don't know. I just
Speaker 9: feel like we talk about it all the time. This
Speaker 9: quarterback is not He's a top ten quarterback. And we
Speaker 9: understand that offensive line is not something that comes, you know,
Speaker 9: just regularly. It's not an easy thing to come across.
Speaker 9: But you just would think that there would just be
Speaker 9: more of an urgency to take care of this gentleman,
Speaker 9: given his story, given where what he's done to get
Speaker 9: to this point, he's done for this organization.
Speaker 8: So I'm I'm just.
Speaker 9: Extremely frustrated for him and just this whole situation as
Speaker 9: at all.
Speaker 6: And I think, and real quick, guys, I think the
Speaker 6: issue is now, given where we're at in the season tracking,
Speaker 6: I mean, already you're seeing Tampa's they're gonna obviously have
Speaker 6: issues now with their They've they've got their offensive line
Speaker 6: woes that they're dealing with. I mean, injuries are popping up,
Speaker 6: fining these guys out in the street. It's tough to find.
Speaker 6: You're not gonna find a wide receiver right now. You're
Speaker 6: not going to find a quarterback right now. Although Mike
Speaker 6: McCarthy and the presser said they had a list of
Speaker 6: available quarterback.
Speaker 9: List of all the quarterbacks in the NFL in front
Speaker 9: of them.
Speaker 6: Right but you're not gonna go out the Eagles aren't
Speaker 6: gonna give you Gardner Minshew. I don't think the forty
Speaker 6: nine ers are going to just be interested in necessarily
Speaker 6: training Jimmy Garoppolo within the division is Josh McCallen around. Seriously,
Speaker 6: I'm dead serious on that, Ryan Fitzpatrick, I honestly like
Speaker 6: your Amazon job.
Speaker 9: Honestly, if they're talking about keeping it in house, which.
Speaker 8: Is typically yeah, that's why they're gonna to do it.
Speaker 9: I understand the conversation of Cooper Rush and all that
Speaker 9: good stuff, But if you want to not Micha McCarthy said,
Speaker 9: they're not changing the playbook at all. But if you
Speaker 9: wanted to insert a gentleman that can maybe do some
Speaker 9: of the things that Dak does.
Speaker 8: Wouldn't that be a Will Greer? Wouldn't that wouldn't he
Speaker 8: give you?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 6: What was interesting is, guys, we were having a conversation
Speaker 6: in training camp that Will Greer until he got insured,
Speaker 6: and so a lot of fans didn'tet to see him.
Speaker 5: In the preseason. Will Greer was pushing Cooper Rush.
Speaker 10: I Can'tyeah, he was.
Speaker 9: So It's so odd to me and I and I get,
Speaker 9: you know, him being a veteran, you know, Cooper Rush
Speaker 9: being a veteran having snaps. But then you you just
Speaker 9: say to yourself, like, that's what I'm looking at if
Speaker 9: you want to compete. I think if they're trying to
Speaker 9: continue to compete, he gives them the best chance. And
Speaker 9: that's just how I feel, especially with the offensive line
Speaker 9: possibly like not being you.
Speaker 8: Know, super well put together. You want a guy that's
Speaker 8: a little bit more mobile.
Speaker 6: Note I just I think having covered this team, the
Speaker 6: last couple of your guys, I think that they're because
Speaker 6: I know Dak is.
Speaker 5: A huge fan of Cooper Rush.
Speaker 6: Try you and I understand, and so I think because
Speaker 6: of their time together his knowledge of the playbook, Cooper
Speaker 6: makes the most sense at this point, given the urgency
Speaker 6: of the situation.
Speaker 5: If this had happened in.
Speaker 6: Training camp, I think there would have been a competition,
Speaker 6: uh for that starting job. But I think at this
Speaker 6: point it's Cooper's job unless there's somebody that there. I mean,
Speaker 6: look the Jason Peters thing, I'd thrown out a couple
Speaker 6: of names before Jason got here. Uh, they got lucky
Speaker 6: because he's from these text That's what I'm saying. Look,
Speaker 6: Josh and the McCowan brothers are right there in Jacksonville, Texas.
Speaker 5: Still I believe. I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 12: I just honestly, you guys, like I feel like the
Speaker 12: thing Isa that you just said, and I actually want
Speaker 12: to kind of dive into this for a quick second,
Speaker 12: is we've heard this team tell us, you know, as
Speaker 12: people in the media, as as people that are fans,
Speaker 12: several narratives. But I think it's important for us to
Speaker 12: kind of have our eyes wide open as you know,
Speaker 12: people that are ingesting this information. You heard last week
Speaker 12: about the quote non injury or whatever it was with
Speaker 12: Dak and then maybe you're hearing that something else is
Speaker 12: actually the truth, like McCarthy saying they're not changing the playbook,
Speaker 12: Like that's I honestly, spare me with that, with that
Speaker 12: conversation whatsoever, because there's absolutely no way that you don't
Speaker 12: have to make adjustment when you go from your franchise
Speaker 12: starting quarterback to a guy who you know, honestly he's
Speaker 12: had minimal starting opportunities in the league. You cannot tell
Speaker 12: me that any smart person who is looking at the
Speaker 12: lay of the land knows that that's impossible and impossible, and.
Speaker 5: You won on the road.
Speaker 6: They keep bringing up the fact he had the one
Speaker 6: win in Minneapolis, and granted it was a huge win,
Speaker 6: but you had Amari Cooper, who.
Speaker 5: Remember was telling us give me the ball when CD
Speaker 5: wanted it.
Speaker 6: It was like, give me the ball, and we're going
Speaker 6: to get in to the wide receiver conversation after this break.
Speaker 6: I don't I've been already like telling you guys, I
Speaker 6: don't know how I feel about that wide receiver room
Speaker 6: and Celam being the eighty eight, but the stats up
Speaker 6: the other day. Guys, Let's go ahead, just jump into
Speaker 6: a break real quick, because I know we want to
Speaker 6: deep dive into this offense and how.
Speaker 5: Rough it was. So we'll go ahead and we'll get
Speaker 5: in the break. We come back.
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Speaker 6: One of the questions that came up today of Stephen
Speaker 6: Jones on one of five through the Fan was the
Speaker 6: lack of playing your starters in the preseason.
Speaker 5: Was that an issue?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 5: It was Stephen Jones.
Speaker 6: Who said that everything's going to be up for scrutiny.
Speaker 6: I asked Mike McCarthy that specifically, and he said he
Speaker 6: didn't necessarily think so, because they opened up the game
Speaker 6: with a fourteen play drive. It was fourteen plays for
Speaker 6: fifty four yards five point fifty eight there, and yes
Speaker 6: they got three points on the board. And that was
Speaker 6: the last time because a Cowboys saw the scoreboard. There
Speaker 6: was a commitment to their run. So I liked that.
Speaker 6: But then let's talk about the second drive for the Cowboys.
Speaker 6: Ellie gets you seven yards. Then what do we say
Speaker 6: on Friday death taxes and penalties for the Cowboys.
Speaker 5: That was their first penalty. They had a five yard
Speaker 5: false start.
Speaker 6: For the penalty, you had two It completes to Lamb
Speaker 6: and Schultz three plays for two yards. All right, Then
Speaker 6: let's get into your third Cowboys drive to knock out
Speaker 6: your first quarter, Turpin brings out twenty yards. Rico'donald gets
Speaker 6: the penalty for holding that gives you ten yards. You
Speaker 6: get pollered for one, Schultz for five yards, go three
Speaker 6: and out. That's eighteen plays, three drives, three point seven
Speaker 6: yards to play, forty eight yards passing, nineteen rushing.
Speaker 5: They were two for four and third.
Speaker 6: Down efficiency time of possession eight sixteen. The biggest thing
Speaker 6: that stood out to them today when Mike McCarthy was
Speaker 6: asked about their deficion Was there their issues on third downs?
Speaker 5: I think they were what three for fifteen? Yep, Yeah,
Speaker 5: they had this problem last year.
Speaker 6: And so I'll start with the ii issha because I
Speaker 6: love the fact that you're such a film junkie. We
Speaker 6: joked about this last week that I needed to bring
Speaker 6: up the article and I wish that I had. There
Speaker 6: was an article by Peter King talking about the vic
Speaker 6: Fangio blueprint and what Key did to the Cowboys. You
Speaker 6: can expect to see more teams do to them this year.
Speaker 6: It was a fascinating article. Did you see that when
Speaker 6: you looked at the film?
Speaker 9: And yeah, I mean Tampa Bay really honestly, they ran
Speaker 9: their base and they rushed for and then they dropped,
Speaker 9: you know, six seven guys in the coverage, and it
Speaker 9: kind of it was frustrating for me because last year,
Speaker 9: I like, I just was telling you guys, I felt
Speaker 9: like that defenses were doing that to the Cowboys and
Speaker 9: they were daring you to run the ball.
Speaker 8: They were daring the Cowboys to run.
Speaker 9: The ball because they knew that the Cowboys gonna run
Speaker 9: the ball, and well they're dan and pass the ball
Speaker 9: and they couldn't run the ball, so it was a
Speaker 9: mixture of both. So now this year you saw success
Speaker 9: in the run. I believe that Zeke average like five
Speaker 9: yards of carry like it was.
Speaker 5: It was success.
Speaker 9: They were successful. Some of the schemes were successful early
Speaker 9: in that game running the ball, but then there was
Speaker 9: no separation from the receivers. There was no there's you know,
Speaker 9: Dak was to deliver in the ball late he was
Speaker 9: double clutching because he wasn't sure because those windows were
Speaker 9: so tight.
Speaker 8: There's the lack of a vertical.
Speaker 9: Threat on this team just completely demoralized them last year.
Speaker 9: It allowed it allowed Tampa's DB's to play down on everything.
Speaker 8: They were key and on everything.
Speaker 9: Even Mike McCarthy talked about today that they were biding
Speaker 9: on every route like they knew, like they were jumping
Speaker 9: every route like and when that happens, like the forty
Speaker 9: nine ers game, somebody been studying, somebody know what you
Speaker 9: do well and what you don't do well?
Speaker 6: What did they say in yours past with Jason Garrett,
Speaker 6: how predictable the offense was that they would literally all
Speaker 6: out to play across the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 9: And the even more frustrating thing is that there were
Speaker 9: in the beginning of that game when the run was working.
Speaker 9: Then you saw Kelen come in there and start doing
Speaker 9: some like I don't know.
Speaker 8: That put you behind the chains.
Speaker 9: And when you start talking about the penalties, they did
Speaker 9: throw on first down a couple of times, but they
Speaker 9: were pretty successful when they were in those first few plays.
Speaker 9: After that, after that penalty, they couldnot overcome the penalties.
Speaker 8: They cannot overcome getting behind the chains.
Speaker 9: And when you don't have a vertical threat or when
Speaker 9: you have guys that can stretch the field, that's what
Speaker 9: happens because who cares.
Speaker 8: I can play over the top of I can play
Speaker 8: over the top.
Speaker 9: Of everyone that you have right now. I don't have
Speaker 9: to respect what you're doing. And you could see on tape.
Speaker 9: I watched that game this morning. They had no respect
Speaker 9: for what our receivers brought to the table, to include
Speaker 9: CD Land and.
Speaker 5: Real quick guys.
Speaker 6: I think the biggest The other thing that really stands
Speaker 6: out to me about this team is there ability to
Speaker 6: make halftime adjustments. Yes, when they came out the first
Speaker 6: drive out of the half, they went to Elliott twice.
Speaker 5: They get a penalty Elliott again.
Speaker 6: Then you go to Pollard for a third and six,
Speaker 6: and then that's when Devin White sacks Stack and your
Speaker 6: pat and you're literally punning it away. And then when
Speaker 6: you look at the Bucks, they come out for net
Speaker 6: eleven yards, nine yards, seventeen yards. They just keep going
Speaker 6: at them. And so you had all of these power
Speaker 6: runs from the Bucks and you got the sense that,
Speaker 6: you know, while the defense I thought did a great
Speaker 6: job for Dallas, and we'll get into that, the Cowboys
Speaker 6: just didn't have answers at the half. And I said,
Speaker 6: having covered quite a few Tom Brady games, there was
Speaker 6: a Falcons game that stood out to me about two
Speaker 6: years ago. He put up more points in the third
Speaker 6: quarter that he did in the entire first half. He
Speaker 6: is so good at halftime adjustments. Yeah, and I just
Speaker 6: thought that was something that the Cowboys absolutely struggled with.
Speaker 10: Well, and here's the thing too, is we Yeah, sorry, Kelse,
Speaker 10: I need to get this off my chest because last week, Jane,
Speaker 10: we left because I said, I'm the most confident that
Speaker 10: we're going to see penalties. Remember that, and what did
Speaker 10: we do? But what ended up killing us like it
Speaker 10: did the last time we played Tampa Bay, but even
Speaker 10: worse this time, because all we've heard all of this
Speaker 10: off season was how the discipline issue is fixed and
Speaker 10: it's corrected, and that's not going to be an issue
Speaker 10: going forward. I'm sorry, but of course the Bucks aren't
Speaker 10: going to respect a team that's doing the exact same
Speaker 10: thing that they ruined their playoff game with last season
Speaker 10: in penalty penalty penalty, one hundred and twenty seven penalties
Speaker 10: last season. And I'm sorry, but the amount of penalties
Speaker 10: during this game I expected from the rookie players, the
Speaker 10: younger players. They were not all coming from them, and
Speaker 10: to me, it just showed the extreme lack of chemistry
Speaker 10: within the offense. And that's the scary part is they
Speaker 10: couldn't establish a run. They ditched the run early. We
Speaker 10: see these fancy trick plays from Kellen Moore early on. Okay,
Speaker 10: if you're going to do that, do that, but.
Speaker 5: Keep doing it.
Speaker 10: You're going back to the same thing that does not work.
Speaker 10: You're trying to force these passes. And I asked Jane earlier,
Speaker 10: does this fall on Dak calling off the run or
Speaker 10: does this fall on Kellen Moore, Because at the end
Speaker 10: of the day, if you established that run, Zeke was
Speaker 10: trying to bust for some holes if you kept establishing him.
Speaker 10: Let's see, he had ten carries for fifty two yards.
Speaker 10: There is no reason Ezekiel Elliott should only touch that
Speaker 10: ball ten times within that game. Absolutely no reason.
Speaker 12: Oh Gonestly, you talked about respect, and I think that's
Speaker 12: a really great point. But here's the thing about respect
Speaker 12: is it has earned and I do not know what
Speaker 12: this Dallas Cowboys team, and quite frankly, while we're talking
Speaker 12: about the team, this front offense has done to earn
Speaker 12: the respect of other teams in the league, I actually,
Speaker 12: you know again, took issue with Vick Kanzi was saying
Speaker 12: that they had the blueprint. But you know what, maybe
Speaker 12: they do and it really is a definition of insanity
Speaker 12: to keep doing the same thing over and over again
Speaker 12: and expecting results. Fact, I think David Hellman, one of
Speaker 12: my dear dear friends, I know you guys are all familiar,
Speaker 12: had a really great point on his show the other
Speaker 12: day and he talked about the fact that you go
Speaker 12: out and you pay your franchise quarterback right, and then
Speaker 12: what are you doing to equip him with the weapon?
Speaker 12: It's not fair and nor is it logical for being
Speaker 12: frank to expect a guy to go out there, you
Speaker 12: pay him, and you're like, oh, I paid him so much.
Speaker 12: We could go all all day and talk about how
Speaker 12: it's the markets work a certain way. Yeah, you're gonna
Speaker 12: pay him a lot of money. But you've got to
Speaker 12: give them the tools, you guys. You've got to give
Speaker 12: them the tools. The chiefs they went out and got
Speaker 12: Patrick Mahomes what he needed. What is your front office
Speaker 12: doing besides not paying guys that could literally be starters
Speaker 12: on this offense, key impact players on the line as
Speaker 12: offensive weapons for this team, and they go, no, you
Speaker 12: know what, I'm going to go down down the street
Speaker 12: to the dollar store and expect me mean Marcus results.
Speaker 12: It's it's absolute insanity and it makes no sense.
Speaker 5: I actually really loved the analogy.
Speaker 6: I think the issue that I have, though, is Dak
Speaker 6: felt off in that game too, and I think, look,
Speaker 6: I'm a huge fan of Dak, and this is not
Speaker 6: this is not trashing Dak.
Speaker 5: I can't play one. But there were questions.
Speaker 6: Even when I was looking at the eleven targets intended
Speaker 6: for Ceedee Lamb and he only hauled in two of those.
Speaker 6: I think some of those were absolutely Ceedee Lamb. I
Speaker 6: watched the game. I did not watch back the All
Speaker 6: twenty two this morning, but I just wanted a I
Speaker 6: when I even asked CD and Dak, you know how
Speaker 6: much extra work you oh every time we get a chance,
Speaker 6: But when you're not playing and you're putting more emphasis
Speaker 6: on the joint practices versus live game.
Speaker 5: I just thought they needed preseason chemistry. That was my
Speaker 5: opinion on it.
Speaker 6: And then I would also submit there are a lot
Speaker 6: of other quarterbacks in the league, Aaron Rodgers who have
Speaker 6: done more with less, right, and so I'm not sitting
Speaker 6: here knocking Dak necessarily, and I think you will. I mean,
Speaker 6: let's talk about the fact that Jalen Tolbert, who you
Speaker 6: picked up in the draft this year, wasn't even dressed out. Instead,
Speaker 6: you had Houston out of San Antonio, untraft target who was.
Speaker 9: Out there, who got prime targets, He got important targets
Speaker 9: at it.
Speaker 6: I remember I was asked on ESPN Radio when I
Speaker 6: was doing a hit last week Dennis Houston, and I
Speaker 6: said who, And then here's a guy that's stressing out
Speaker 6: over Jalen Tolbert and so.
Speaker 10: Well, and you can I think Dak was trying to
Speaker 10: force the chemistry with him, and it just was not
Speaker 10: clicking after and again, I don't ever.
Speaker 6: And again I don't know if that was because the
Speaker 6: pressure that he was getting in his face, if it
Speaker 6: was the if the guy, if if their receivers were
Speaker 6: not in the right place.
Speaker 9: I know they started playing a lot of man coverage.
Speaker 9: It was a mixture of a lot of things. But
Speaker 9: I will I will say that I do think I
Speaker 9: used to be very about preseason, but with the being
Speaker 9: so short, you need at least one you see the Bills.
Speaker 9: Even like, even though the Bucks didn't look super special
Speaker 9: yesterday with some of the things they did, tom it
Speaker 9: was in a preseason He did play in a preseason game.
Speaker 9: I watched the preseason game, and let me tell you,
Speaker 9: it's so funny because we talk about the preseason.
Speaker 5: We shayn't.
Speaker 8: We say they're not gonna show you anything.
Speaker 9: They're not gonna I watched the preseason game of the books,
Speaker 9: and a lot of what they did to us yesterday
Speaker 9: offensively was pretty much the same.
Speaker 8: It's just quickouts, quickouts.
Speaker 9: They I mean, obviously they got some play down the field,
Speaker 9: you know, before Chris Godwin got hurt, they got a
Speaker 9: couple of plays down the field, but prior to that,
Speaker 9: it's quickouts, quick release, quick and not a lot of
Speaker 9: quarterbacks can do what Tom does, so it's difficult to replicate.
Speaker 9: But I do agree, like I'm at at that point
Speaker 9: where I do think that preseason is starting, at least
Speaker 9: the game, at least the drive something.
Speaker 5: But let's talk about that.
Speaker 6: Tom didn't have a great, great game yesterday either. Okay,
Speaker 6: he found the end zone once you lost Chris Godwin,
Speaker 6: your wide receiver in that game.
Speaker 5: I mean, with the exception of that absurd.
Speaker 6: Julio Jones catch Julio Jones had today, they were trying
Speaker 6: to give you the game. Mike McCarthy even conceded that
Speaker 6: it's like, as much as you even tried to San
Speaker 6: Francisco tried to give you the game and the playoffs.
Speaker 6: I think my concern sometimes with this team is I'm
Speaker 6: told the work ethics great, they're motivated, remember last week,
Speaker 6: ause they've turned it up a notch. They're locked in.
Speaker 6: They don't feel it's like you punch them in the face.
Speaker 6: There's no counter, and sometimes I worry that they don't
Speaker 6: get back up. It was the minute Tom scored in
Speaker 6: the end zone I felt is when that's when it
Speaker 6: felt like again, we're in the fourth quarter seven oh
Speaker 6: eight now, right after as we're watching it here in
Speaker 6: the studio, right here, it started to feel like they
Speaker 6: felt like this game had just gotten away from them.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they weren't playing. Remember you played through the whistle.
Speaker 5: I worry about this team sometimes.
Speaker 10: Well, go ahead, something that I was gonna say that
Speaker 10: how much of that falls on the discipline aspect that
Speaker 10: we have been mocking over and over and over, Because
Speaker 10: here's my thing, Terrence Steele. You have three penalties in
Speaker 10: a row. Not one, which is bad enough, not two,
Speaker 10: which is even worse. You have three, and given I get,
Speaker 10: we don't really have a options. The Cowboys don't really
Speaker 10: have other options to put in there. I'm sorry as
Speaker 10: as a fan, I don't want to see any more
Speaker 10: of him. Sit him for at least one series, make
Speaker 10: a statement, or take him out of the game. That
Speaker 10: is unacceptable for me to see a player have three
Speaker 10: penalties in a row, and especially going into a game
Speaker 10: where the penalties were already hurting us the entire game.
Speaker 10: You look back and those penalties ended up being vital
Speaker 10: points in something that could have given the Cowboys momentum
Speaker 10: and they killed it every single time.
Speaker 5: Penalties for seventy three yards.
Speaker 9: And it is frustrating with Tang still because like he
Speaker 9: has worked his tail off, but we he has worked
Speaker 9: his tail yet. But they're just the accountability that has
Speaker 9: to be taken on this team.
Speaker 8: And it's not just for fans or anything. It's for
Speaker 8: each other.
Speaker 9: Because we're sitting here talking about this offense and this
Speaker 9: defense held them to nineteen points.
Speaker 8: It felt I was It felt like the.
Speaker 9: Chiefs game again, where you're my does all they can,
Speaker 9: The defense comes out, the offense is inept where I
Speaker 9: remember I think Coop and CD had to covid if
Speaker 9: I'm not mistaken, they were.
Speaker 8: Out and I remember the struggle.
Speaker 9: But seeing this defense just battle back, battle back, and
Speaker 9: so we I look at the other side of the
Speaker 9: ball and your defense was on the field so much
Speaker 9: that towards the end of the game you start seeing
Speaker 9: them getting gassed out. There's some injuries that came up
Speaker 9: as well, and there's when you talk about camaraderie in
Speaker 9: the locker room and stuff like that, like they talk
Speaker 9: about playing for each other.
Speaker 8: I'm like, where is that? Where is that right now? Y'all,
Speaker 8: because I didn't feel that at all yesterday. Go ahead, Kelsey, Sorry, No.
Speaker 12: Accountability is a great way to describe it, though, Asha like,
Speaker 12: I love that you guys are saying that, and Jess
Speaker 12: like I feel that mentality you talk about you want
Speaker 12: to sit a player. My whole concern though, is that
Speaker 12: I really do feel like accountability needs to spread to
Speaker 12: the front office as well, And because when you talk
Speaker 12: about wanting to rotate someone out because they are not
Speaker 12: being disciplined enough, and like a Terrence feels, you may
Speaker 12: love that guy as a coach, you may think he's
Speaker 12: quote the right type of guy, but if he's not
Speaker 12: performing on the field and you need to make a switch,
Speaker 12: what puzzle pieces do you have to plug in besides noting?
Speaker 12: And who's faults that?
Speaker 10: Right?
Speaker 9: Right?
Speaker 12: I mean genuinely, whose fault is that? Because I just
Speaker 12: I think it really does go back to again, I
Speaker 12: don't feel like this team has done a good job
Speaker 12: of setting up these players or these coaches for success
Speaker 12: because you really do have limited resources, and I just
Speaker 12: think we have to again be accountable to that. And
Speaker 12: when I say we, not me because I wasn't the
Speaker 12: one making a call, but like I think the front
Speaker 12: office has to wear that mantle and understand it like
Speaker 12: you are the reason. Look at the mirror like this
Speaker 12: is largely your doing.
Speaker 10: And you know what's interesting too, is we heard from
Speaker 10: Terrence Steele in the locker room and we have that
Speaker 10: sound jazz. If you want to play that sound real
Speaker 10: quick so we can listen to it, that'd be good.
Speaker 3: Especially you know with me three, I think priestnot pilonies.
Speaker 3: It's unexcusable. That's something we can't have. You know, Coach
Speaker 3: puts a big infasis on that. So there's definitely something
Speaker 3: I'm not the work on in the future for sure,
Speaker 3: but you can't have that.
Speaker 10: Here's the thing. Why do we have to work on
Speaker 10: it now? You should have been working on it. Every
Speaker 10: single person on this team should have been working on penalties.
Speaker 10: After the one hundred and twenty seven penalties, I'm going
Speaker 10: to keep that number going all year and you're going
Speaker 10: to get so sick of hearing me say it that
Speaker 10: the penalties are going to be what kills us, and
Speaker 10: they kill the momentum, which I mean you see what
Speaker 10: you see, what happens exactly what you were talking about, Jane,
Speaker 10: that fourth quarter absolutely, no momentum, no motivation, no accountability,
Speaker 10: nothing from the Cowboys that said, hey, we're even going
Speaker 10: to try to push to just get in the end zone.
Speaker 10: Being the only team in the NFL on Sunday the played,
Speaker 10: given we haven't seen any Monday night games, to not
Speaker 10: make a touch down unacceptable.
Speaker 6: I think what stands out to me too, though, is
Speaker 6: when you talk about Mike puts such an emphasis on it.
Speaker 5: If I screw up in my job right.
Speaker 6: On Sundays, so like we do game days and it's
Speaker 6: forty second hits, if I go forty three forty five,
Speaker 6: they truck it. It sounds dumb, but it's that's three.
Speaker 6: That's three seconds, then five seconds, then ten seconds that
Speaker 6: I've taken away from our studio analysts.
Speaker 5: They'll bench us.
Speaker 6: In other words, you don't get to do game day
Speaker 6: the following week. And I've seen them do it to reporters.
Speaker 5: There are.
Speaker 6: There are consequences when you don't meet expectations.
Speaker 5: That we have for our show.
Speaker 6: What are the consequences when these guys aren't living up
Speaker 6: to the standard. That is, we have to miniate because
Speaker 6: the field possessions, the field.
Speaker 5: Position is important.
Speaker 8: I was going to talk about that.
Speaker 6: When you have these penalties that are costing you field
Speaker 6: positions and you're you're going three and out or it's
Speaker 6: a second and sixteen or a second and twenty. That's
Speaker 6: that's why the penalties are a big deal. And again,
Speaker 6: coming off of last year and Mike is I'll never
Speaker 6: forget it was before the Broncos game, Mike said it
Speaker 6: was a point of emphasis, something we worked on. I
Speaker 6: think that was one of one of their most heavily
Speaker 6: penalized games, was it not the Broncos last year?
Speaker 5: So it was a rough one, and.
Speaker 10: So the Raiders game, let's not forget one.
Speaker 6: I feel like Mike has done a sort of a
Speaker 6: good job of endearing himself to this team. He's almost
Speaker 6: become like, uh, the players coach, right, you know, he's
Speaker 6: given them some of the off days.
Speaker 5: We're gonna cut practice earlier. We're focusing on the bodies.
Speaker 6: We're not going to play your body and preseason players
Speaker 6: love that, right because it allows their bodies that you're
Speaker 6: not putting so much tread on their tires.
Speaker 5: Is that a good thing though.
Speaker 10: I think it is if they're being productive. Yeah, if
Speaker 10: you're working on the things that need to be worked on.
Speaker 10: You're not giving me seven penalties in a game. You're
Speaker 10: not giving me how many yardage and penalties? Jane, when
Speaker 10: you're doing those things, sure take your off day until then,
Speaker 10: Absolutely not. There's too much work that needs to be done.
Speaker 10: There is way way too many mistakes that were made.
Speaker 10: I mean, man, going through those locker room sound bites,
Speaker 10: you had Zeke saying, hey, we need to clean up penalties,
Speaker 10: clean up protection. You had Tyler Smith saying, hey, we
Speaker 10: had flags and missed opportunities. You had Dalton Schultz talking
Speaker 10: about too many penalties. You had every almost every single
Speaker 10: player in those post game interviews in the locker room
Speaker 10: saying penalties, penalties, penalties. Why are we still talking about penalties?
Speaker 10: I'm so sick of hearing the word penalties and Dallas
Speaker 10: Cowboys in the same sentence.
Speaker 12: Honestly, though, like I feel like this, I keep saying this,
Speaker 12: I will get a guy like a Terence Steel, and
Speaker 12: I know this coaching staff loved him.
Speaker 6: But it was not that long ago, you guys, and
Speaker 6: buy not that long I.
Speaker 12: Mean last season, we're sitting here saying this man has
Speaker 12: not been set.
Speaker 1: Up for success.
Speaker 12: He's an undrafted free agent. I had a Texas text.
Speaker 12: He literally the commentary about the Terrence Steel experiment needs
Speaker 12: to be op.
Speaker 5: They like him though, they love it.
Speaker 6: When I was at Combine, listening to Mike McCarthy and
Speaker 6: this staff talk about their love of Terrence Steele was
Speaker 6: the most fascinating conversation his agent. His agent is Eric Burkhardt,
Speaker 6: who also represents Kyler Murray.
Speaker 5: Eric kept telling me they love him.
Speaker 6: He's I'm like I, there's a lot of people that
Speaker 6: I like that aren't great at their jobs. Kelsey, I
Speaker 6: work with a lot of people in this business that
Speaker 6: are very likable, but I don't think they're particularly good
Speaker 6: at their jobs. Yeah, both can be the same, both
Speaker 6: can be right, right, So, I don't know.
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Speaker 5: Welcome back to Girls Talk, Boys Talk.
Speaker 6: We are live here from the start breaking down an
Speaker 6: absolutely catastrophic day at ETNT Stadium night.
Speaker 5: Rather, it was a long one for me, guys.
Speaker 6: I got there at six forty five in the morning,
Speaker 6: did all the pregame coverage, had to go back cover
Speaker 6: this game and then the post game, which.
Speaker 5: Was just brutal, just an huge, absolute mess.
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Speaker 5: Oh that's a good one, right.
Speaker 6: I loved it that Romo was trending too on Twitter today.
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Speaker 6: I know he hasn't turned in his retirement papers, but
Speaker 6: knock it off. Okay, silver linings, let's do the silver
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Speaker 5: This year's opener.
Speaker 6: Brett Maher putting three points on the board.
Speaker 5: Can you image? And if he did it and they
Speaker 5: were shut out of this one?
Speaker 6: All right, are Yisha, I'm sorry you're silver lining my
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Speaker 10: Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 9: With McGovern going down, you do got some insurance and
Speaker 9: Jason Peters there you go.
Speaker 6: Who by the way, we were asked, We asked Mike
Speaker 6: McCarthy about that, and he said that he is still
Speaker 6: up in their ramp up face.
Speaker 8: Yes, I heard that.
Speaker 5: Can you accelerate coming down that this week?
Speaker 9: Can I?
Speaker 5: Okay? Go ahead?
Speaker 10: Silver lining for me, I'm gonna go with the obvious. Michaeh. Parsons.
Speaker 5: He showed up.
Speaker 10: He was ready to give Tom Brady the point of
Speaker 10: view of a lion attack, if you will, And he
Speaker 10: really I think his first the first half the game
Speaker 10: was better for him. And you know, to be quite honest,
Speaker 10: I don't blame him for the second half of not
Speaker 10: getting another sack at that point. Really, who was doing
Speaker 10: much But Micah Parsons. You have to that guy. You
Speaker 10: have to root for him, and he really he showed
Speaker 10: Tom Brady. What was that SpongeBob meme or the Quarry's like,
Speaker 10: we want more of this old man, like he was
Speaker 10: ready to go and he was disrespecting his elders. You
Speaker 10: just love to see it.
Speaker 12: Kelsey, I love the Micah Parsons one. That was one
Speaker 12: of my lists too. His two sacks actually marked his
Speaker 12: fourth three or multi sack game, which I think is great.
Speaker 12: He's actually the only player in Cowboys history with four
Speaker 12: multi sacks games in his first few seasons, beating to
Speaker 12: Marcus Ware, so we'll take it as a silver lining.
Speaker 12: I like that Dultan Schultz. That would be a key
Speaker 12: to the game for me, and he did nothing less
Speaker 12: than follow through with his promises and continue to step
Speaker 12: up for this team. So he was a big silver
Speaker 12: lining for me, a little victory if you will. Sure
Speaker 12: we'll talk to more this week. But yeah, Kelsey, why honestly,
Speaker 12: I just for me. I really respect hal Dalton has
Speaker 12: been able to He's kind of like what he's just
Speaker 12: kind of been like the safety net. And that's saying
Speaker 12: the lot for a guy that has had had minimal
Speaker 12: expectations coming onto this team. You didn't expect him to
Speaker 12: be a key part of this offense. Blake Jarwin goes down,
Speaker 12: he becomes one of your lead receivers. He's learning more
Speaker 12: so about being a better like in past particularly. I
Speaker 12: appreciate what he's been able to do for us and
Speaker 12: again yesterday too. Let's face it, guys are wide receivers.
Speaker 12: What wide receivers. It's a little it's a little evisital
Speaker 12: right now. And Dalton Schultz has consistently been the woob
Speaker 12: bee and I respect that. And he's going to continue
Speaker 12: to be the woobe because Cooper Rush is going to
Speaker 12: need a big target to help him get through these
Speaker 12: couple of games.
Speaker 5: You need a guy needed to be a bigger woo
Speaker 5: Be last night.
Speaker 8: Will Be, I still had my woodby. I kept it.
Speaker 17: Am.
Speaker 10: I the only one that doesn't know what.
Speaker 5: I just disgusted talking about this team today.
Speaker 6: All I've like, literally, I'm just like, can we get
Speaker 6: can we get done with.
Speaker 5: The show, because that's how I feel about. Sorry, I
Speaker 5: know you guys are fine. People like, where's the optimism?
Speaker 4: James?
Speaker 5: Sorry, Uh, it's just it's rough.
Speaker 6: I've covered this, this will be now my tenth season.
Speaker 6: It's just it's all the same, Okay. Cowboys safety jay
Speaker 6: Ron Curse. I know people are curious about jury updates.
Speaker 6: That knee is going to give him problem. Looks like
Speaker 6: he's out. We'll see how long that is left. Guard
Speaker 6: Connor McGovern the ankle, he told me in the locker
Speaker 6: room he was in a boot. He said they were
Speaker 6: looking for more X rays to confirm how long it's
Speaker 6: going to be. It seems like it was the same
Speaker 6: one that gave him problems last time. And Stephen Jones
Speaker 6: said today about a month, month and a half and
Speaker 6: we're still waiting on Toreal BASHAM News Mike McCarthy didn't
Speaker 6: have an update on him that looked painfully.
Speaker 5: It looks as he was coming off the field.
Speaker 6: So as we wrap up this show, Mike McCarthy said
Speaker 6: that the mantra this year is resilience, told the fans
Speaker 6: stick to the journey, keep believing in us. We need
Speaker 6: to perform better. I need to perform better. I will
Speaker 6: perform better on a Wednesday after I've had a night
Speaker 6: of sleep, and we can look forward to the Bengals game,
Speaker 6: which saw an epic collapse of their own last weekend
Speaker 6: against the Dealers. But guys, for all of you who
Speaker 6: have tuned in and listened, we look forward to chatting.
Speaker 5: With you tomorrow. And I will not be on the show.
Speaker 5: Kelsey Charles will be leading the charge.
Speaker 12: Hey, okay, we'll miss.
Speaker 10: You, Jane.
Speaker 6: I won't be asleep for one whole day.
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