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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's Talking Cowboys,
Speaker 1: screening live from the Dallas Cowboys Worldwhours at the Star
Speaker 1: in Frisco, et flowing to the goal That's got kicks
Speaker 1: and now your hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck My Harrison, Rob
Speaker 1: Phillips and Kyle Yeoman's. You know, there are a couple
Speaker 1: of things that I've learned over the last forty eight hours,
Speaker 1: in really twenty four hours, I guess about this Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys football team and about there how there's also two
Speaker 1: types of people in this world. There's those types of
Speaker 1: people that go for it on fourth and three inside
Speaker 1: the twenty hard line with eleven minutes left in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter, and there's those that decide to actually kick
Speaker 1: the field goal and tie the football game up at twenty.
Speaker 1: That's what we saw last night as the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: fell to the Los Angeles Rams twenty to seventeen, the
Speaker 1: final score. As the Rams come out on top and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys start the twenty twenty season oh and one,
Speaker 1: and we're talking Cowboys, and we're gonna talk about those
Speaker 1: cowboys and talk about what happened. And it's week two,
Speaker 1: episode one, but we got to look back at week
Speaker 1: one because there are a lot of question marks to
Speaker 1: address after the loss on the road in Inglewood, California.
Speaker 1: I'm Kyle Yeoman's alongside the normal group. Heckma Harrison, Isaiah
Speaker 1: standback back this week after he was out on Friday,
Speaker 1: and the Great Cowboys Insider Rob Phillips and guys. It's
Speaker 1: definitely a disappointing feeling. There's not panic time by any means.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's week one of the season. There's still
Speaker 1: plenty of season to co but at the same time,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of concern around what happened last night. Rob.
Speaker 1: General thoughts and we'll start with you, Well you said it.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's probably too early to draw conclusions about
Speaker 1: the entire season based off of one game, given a
Speaker 1: short training camp that they had. By the way, are
Speaker 1: you happy you're the only guy that picked against the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I'm not happy, not happy at all. That's the thing
Speaker 1: is is what happened was kind of what I had
Speaker 1: that gut feeling about. But it's also yeah, no, I
Speaker 1: wish I was wrong, I really do. It's unfortunate. Well,
Speaker 1: we give we gave you props. You you were correct
Speaker 1: about this one, and you know, the thing to me
Speaker 1: that stood out was it's been one game, right, but
Speaker 1: they lost more than the game last night. You know,
Speaker 1: they've they've got some question marks and some spots that
Speaker 1: we already had questions about, the tight end positions, the
Speaker 1: depth there, potentially offensive line and then late vander esh
Speaker 1: at the linebackers. Isaiah has been talking about that for weeks.
Speaker 1: We'll see the severity there. But you're banged up on
Speaker 1: top of the fact that you didn't play as well
Speaker 1: as I think we thought they could, especially on defense,
Speaker 1: and the Rams just controlled the football game, really both
Speaker 1: lines of scrimmage for a good portion of the game.
Speaker 1: And when that happens, it comes down to, you know,
Speaker 1: you got to make a play here or there to
Speaker 1: go win the game, and they weren't able to do it. Ema. Yeah,
Speaker 1: oh man, you are absolutely correct. The line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: was dominated by the Los Angeles Rams. I know, we
Speaker 1: talked about it in the pre show yesterday and it
Speaker 1: showed up in a big way. Um, there's a dude
Speaker 1: by the name of Aaron Donald who came and was like,
Speaker 1: you know what, I feel disrespected by the fact that
Speaker 1: you guys are talking about you guys can stop me.
Speaker 1: Let me I was worried about that. Let me remind
Speaker 1: y'all who I am. And Aaron Donald came out and
Speaker 1: there are I know, there was one play instinctively where
Speaker 1: he just came down the line and washed everybody out
Speaker 1: and then came and decided to get a good hit
Speaker 1: on dec And it was pretty embarrassing, you know, to
Speaker 1: say the least, it was embarrassing, I mean to your point, Rob, Yeah,
Speaker 1: there there's a ton of question marks that we already
Speaker 1: had and guess what rightfully sold because now we're about
Speaker 1: to talk about it. In my hey man, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: and what I saw, Sean McVeigh called an excellent game,
Speaker 1: especially the first quarter. Rams came out and they dominated
Speaker 1: the first quarter. They played tempo, Rob. This is something
Speaker 1: that we talked about on Friday, just expecting that the
Speaker 1: Rams would come out and play tempo in a variation
Speaker 1: of formations. But man, they came out in their two
Speaker 1: minute offense in the first quarter. In it, I think
Speaker 1: it's zapped the defense and every team, if all the
Speaker 1: teams that I was all the games that I was watching,
Speaker 1: offenses were on quick tempo and that was only because, look,
Speaker 1: we hadn't had a preseason. You want to make sure
Speaker 1: our see our check and see if guys are in shape.
Speaker 1: And they got their answer. And for the most part,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense in the first quarter it was Lord,
Speaker 1: I tell you, I had a lot of moments when
Speaker 1: just seeing some of those wide receiver screens where it
Speaker 1: didn't look like for the guy was running for ten
Speaker 1: yards and there was no Cowboys defenders around them. So look,
Speaker 1: they took it to us, but the deepest shored itself
Speaker 1: up and they made the game interesting going down to
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter. Here's the thing, Yeah, that first right,
Speaker 1: well that first quarter, like you mentioned, and for a
Speaker 1: good portion of the game, it reminded me of the
Speaker 1: playoff game against the Rams a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: Just controlling everything, the line of scrimmage, the you know,
Speaker 1: the quick passes, the miss direction, that's what they do.
Speaker 1: And I know Chris Collinsworth on the on the broadcast said,
Speaker 1: well it's it's to counteract the Cowboys rushers. Now they
Speaker 1: to somebody extamp, but they also kind of did whatever
Speaker 1: they wanted to do and they didn't get three hundred
Speaker 1: rushing yards or whatever they had in the playoff game
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, but they dominated in terms
Speaker 1: of running up the middle and getting penetration and getting
Speaker 1: all the linebackers in the second level. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: it wasn't consistent enough for the defense upfront for sure,
Speaker 1: And you know you're looking at the scoreboard at half time,
Speaker 1: You're like, how are they winning this game? Because because
Speaker 1: the Rams were really in complete control for most of it.
Speaker 1: It was really what the Cowboys did to the Rams
Speaker 1: in Week fifteen of last year, control the line of scrimmage,
Speaker 1: wear them down defensively with these short It was really
Speaker 1: death by needles type of plays. It was nothing within
Speaker 1: or outside of seven yards. It was just dinking and
Speaker 1: dunking down the field enough to where the Cowboys defense
Speaker 1: was lulled to sleep. And Isaiah, I know you and
Speaker 1: I were in the same room watching the football game,
Speaker 1: but it was the It was just frustrating because of
Speaker 1: how relaxed the defense looked and how easy it was
Speaker 1: that the offense was able to get chunk plays of
Speaker 1: six or seven yards, whether it was by a run
Speaker 1: or buy a short pass. Yeah, it reminds me. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you guys remember the movie Hitch and
Speaker 1: Will Smith was up there coaching, and man, he told
Speaker 1: him to come here. He said, that's exactly exactly what
Speaker 1: the ms on that opening series. They completely dominated it.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know, we'll get into the deep as
Speaker 1: a line in the line of scrimmage a little bit
Speaker 1: and a little bit more depth. But our defensive line
Speaker 1: looked like they had just came off the couch. I mean,
Speaker 1: these guys were getting blown off the ball. There was
Speaker 1: misdirection everywhere. I mean, you know, you talk about Jalen
Speaker 1: Smith and vanderash those guys eyes were caught in the backfield.
Speaker 1: The ball was on the opposite side when those guys
Speaker 1: are bootlegging and dumping it off. Robert Woods had four
Speaker 1: i think four catches and like sixty yards and like
Speaker 1: the first in the first series alone, and they just
Speaker 1: didn't know where to look. They were caught off guard
Speaker 1: until your until your point, Kyle, you know these guys,
Speaker 1: I mean, robbin you to your point. You know, these
Speaker 1: guys were still in the game. You know by halftime,
Speaker 1: they were winning by halftime. So that's inspiring Cowboys the
Speaker 1: nation that you guys were still in this game because
Speaker 1: in reality, it should have been a blowout. It really
Speaker 1: you look at third downs, thir third downs for the Rams,
Speaker 1: who I think is the most significant thing. I mean,
Speaker 1: the way that they were able to convert those third downs,
Speaker 1: and defensively, we just were not able to steal any possessions.
Speaker 1: It wasn't until the Woozier interception where we kind of
Speaker 1: had the momentum shift in our favor. But the whole
Speaker 1: time the game was going on, like you said, Isaiah,
Speaker 1: it just looked like our defense was running in sand
Speaker 1: and the Rams were on a quick track. The way
Speaker 1: that they were running those Robert Woods plays too. You
Speaker 1: mentioned all those yards, it was all yak. I mean,
Speaker 1: it was all yards after catch like like like Kyle said,
Speaker 1: you know, and they blocked it up downfield, like I said,
Speaker 1: they were able to get up in the second level
Speaker 1: and guys were just some of it was seemed like
Speaker 1: guys ride a position and some of it they just
Speaker 1: blocked it up really well. But the defense really just
Speaker 1: didn't have an answer for it, you know, they like
Speaker 1: you said, Heck, they kind of settled down a little
Speaker 1: bit in the second half, but it wasn't. It wasn't
Speaker 1: as consistent. And you know they did counteract that pass
Speaker 1: rush that we've been talking about all training camp. Hey,
Speaker 1: but Rob not not only that, you know, Kyle mentioned
Speaker 1: the fact that the defense was playing soft. Not only
Speaker 1: did the defense, did the entire defense get slapped up
Speaker 1: and down, but Mike Nolan got slapped in his face.
Speaker 1: I don't know what he was doing come into the game.
Speaker 1: I think he may have came into as saying, okay,
Speaker 1: let me be conservative in a sense and trying to
Speaker 1: figure out exactly what these guys are doing. But I
Speaker 1: think he was cut off guard because he there was
Speaker 1: no there was no point in the game where he
Speaker 1: or they actually there was one point I think in
Speaker 1: the third quarter we're here for a little bit aggressive.
Speaker 1: But aside from that, that was not the Mike Nolan
Speaker 1: of the past, and that was one no and not
Speaker 1: a lot of movement whatsoever, which is one of the
Speaker 1: It's funny after the game, and I tweeted this out
Speaker 1: this morning, I said, I've got a laundry list of questions.
Speaker 1: I counted him a minute ago. I have thirty six
Speaker 1: bullet points of questions that I have going into this week.
Speaker 1: Of what what happened on Sunday night, and I'm not
Speaker 1: going to read all of them, but one of the
Speaker 1: big ones was what happened to the movement that we
Speaker 1: saw in training camp. I mean, Rob, you and I
Speaker 1: were at the Ford Center here at the Star when
Speaker 1: we were looking at Mike Nolan's defense and we're saying,
Speaker 1: and we're reporting, we're throwing out there that this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot different than what we've seen in
Speaker 1: the past from these different staffs that we've seen. But Rob,
Speaker 1: last night, it looked like it was a lot of
Speaker 1: the same old, same old. From a defensive perspective, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there were some bright spots. I mean, Alden
Speaker 1: Smith looked fantastic. If there are any questions about him,
Speaker 1: you know, coming back, you know he didn't training camp,
Speaker 1: but what about your live live action at five years
Speaker 1: off man, he was he kind of kept a minute,
Speaker 1: you know, there were a couple of times in the
Speaker 1: first half it was him or DeMarcus Lawrence that you know,
Speaker 1: batting the ball down or forcing a pressure that that
Speaker 1: that's the only way Goff was getting in completion. So
Speaker 1: I thought they had some pressure on the defensive front,
Speaker 1: like I said it was more the interior and losing
Speaker 1: vander Esh to Kyle in the front seven huge. That
Speaker 1: hurts because you know Jaalen. I don't think they were
Speaker 1: able to use Jalen like they wanted to, and they
Speaker 1: were able to find Jalen in coverage too after that,
Speaker 1: and the results weren't too good. So that's why I
Speaker 1: go back to the injuries. Man. I think he felt
Speaker 1: the Gerald McCoy injury too. Yes, you get it. You
Speaker 1: got Tristan Hill playing a lot of snaps in there
Speaker 1: and done Terry Poe and Antoine Woods and it just
Speaker 1: wasn't um, you know, it wasn't It wasn't productive inside
Speaker 1: for much of the game. Yeah. Speaking of Tristan Hill,
Speaker 1: I he had some flashes in this game, but then
Speaker 1: there then there were other times man, where he was
Speaker 1: getting pinballed out of there, and that that worried me.
Speaker 1: That worries me, uh to see because to see that
Speaker 1: happen to him, knowing how solid of a training camp
Speaker 1: that he had. But you know, look, it's it. We
Speaker 1: have to to say it. Safety wise, we still saw
Speaker 1: that there was some some deficiencies there that need to
Speaker 1: be fixed. We have to get on that immediately because
Speaker 1: down in the goal line that one play where I
Speaker 1: believe it was Thompson. I mean, look, it's just just
Speaker 1: it's just a football play. But still, man, that's a
Speaker 1: that's a tackle that you need to make. Oh my gosh, guys, Um,
Speaker 1: it's about to roll up as leaves. He's getting ready.
Speaker 1: You don't even have the sleeves, Kyle to answer your
Speaker 1: your your point that you brought into this this segment here, um,
Speaker 1: that you posed to rob in terms of what they
Speaker 1: look like in camp. Right. And and Mike Nolan had
Speaker 1: all this movement going on. Um, I think I've had
Speaker 1: a number of coaches in my football career say everybody
Speaker 1: has a plan until you're punched in the mouth, right, Um.
Speaker 1: And I think Mike Nolan had a plan coming into
Speaker 1: this game, but I think he got punched in the mouth,
Speaker 1: and by him getting punched in the mouth, he became conservative.
Speaker 1: And by him becoming conservative, I think it threw the
Speaker 1: players off. I'm speculating here, but I think the players
Speaker 1: anticipated him coming in being a lot more aggressive, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, the defensive coordinated person that's
Speaker 1: calling the plays becomes conservative and they're like whoa. It
Speaker 1: comes across as if he's being scared, right, if he's
Speaker 1: being conservative, we've been practicing. Yeah, I'm just saying if
Speaker 1: all we've been practicing is being aggressive to all of
Speaker 1: a sudden were coming here and now we're being conservative,
Speaker 1: what is that communicating to your defense? I mean, you
Speaker 1: guys started talking about particular players port Pole, Oh, Pole Pole,
Speaker 1: look Pole, Uh that last night. And we know how
Speaker 1: dominant a player he can. He can be, right um,
Speaker 1: and I hate talking about um, you know what players
Speaker 1: could be right um. However, he didn't look like he
Speaker 1: had any fire. And I hope that it was just
Speaker 1: a game one day and he'll figure it out because
Speaker 1: we know that he's a dominant player. But he didn't
Speaker 1: look like he even wanted to be near the ball.
Speaker 1: He was getting washed down the line of scrimmage a
Speaker 1: number of times. He never put his foot in the
Speaker 1: ground to change directions or to give any kind of resistance.
Speaker 1: He's three hundred and fifty pounds. Yah, there's no way
Speaker 1: that you're just pushing this guy down the line. So
Speaker 1: when he doesn't want to move, guess what, He's not
Speaker 1: going to move. So he didn't show any any urge
Speaker 1: to even want to make a play. Um, you had
Speaker 1: Griffin who showed up and made players. You had office
Speaker 1: Aldon Smith who came out and balled out. Had it
Speaker 1: not been for Alden Smith, this game would have been really,
Speaker 1: really ugly. Um, you got He'll. He'll was. I remember
Speaker 1: there's one player distinctively where hell was hustling his butt
Speaker 1: off there in the fourth quarter when they were trying
Speaker 1: to get things turned around. He ran He ran the
Speaker 1: ball down about a good thirty yards all the way
Speaker 1: across the field to get in on the tackle. Um.
Speaker 1: And then you had Gallimore, and Gallimore just looked like
Speaker 1: he just wasn't ready. Gallimour came into the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he came in, looked like a rookie. He was like, oh,
Speaker 1: these are grown man. I'm sorry. I mean they got
Speaker 1: him off off, they got him off the field. So
Speaker 1: a lot of things will work on you know. I
Speaker 1: think the edges were shured up pretty good that interior, though.
Speaker 1: We were to figure that out. Yea, So Champ, let
Speaker 1: me ask you this man, a lot of those presnap
Speaker 1: penalties that we had, I mean, oh yeah, open you
Speaker 1: opened the game with DeMarcus where I mean DeMarcus where
Speaker 1: I set thats n come on and I just did it.
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence jumped outside and he couldn't even get back
Speaker 1: to the other side. He was standing with the running back.
Speaker 1: But we had those presnap penalties that killed us and
Speaker 1: we made, you know, short field positions, short first downs
Speaker 1: for those guys. I mean, we didn't do ourselves any
Speaker 1: favors in this game. And when you talk about Mike
Speaker 1: Nolan and coming in being aggressive, doing certain things, I
Speaker 1: felt as though he could doll it up when he could,
Speaker 1: but I think after the Layton vander Esh injury that
Speaker 1: limited a lot of what we were gonna do defensively.
Speaker 1: But kudos to we got to talk Aldon Smith. Rob
Speaker 1: when you bring him up, man, the way that he
Speaker 1: played against the run, he did not look like a
Speaker 1: guy that's been out of the NFL for four years.
Speaker 1: And my goodness was a pick up. Whatever McCarthy saw
Speaker 1: and him that day in the gym. My god, thank
Speaker 1: you for seeing that because he has come back in
Speaker 1: full force. And think about this, He's a guy that
Speaker 1: was on his way to Canton prior to his problems
Speaker 1: and now it's like, man, you know he has watched
Speaker 1: all of those things away, and I'm praying that he
Speaker 1: is continues that domination because in the run, man, he
Speaker 1: just did some things that we hadn't been seeing, what
Speaker 1: we didn't see last year. He had a couple of
Speaker 1: players where he just busted through a double team like
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, where he was he was knocking down bowling
Speaker 1: pins a couple of times, against offensive line a couple
Speaker 1: of times, and you know they had they handled him
Speaker 1: at times, but not not consistently. How many times was
Speaker 1: that talking about Aaron? Are you talking about Aaron Donald
Speaker 1: or Alden Smith? Both? Both? Yeah? But I mean go ahead,
Speaker 1: I say go ahead. All I'm gonna say is as
Speaker 1: we go into this um this second week, right, we
Speaker 1: got to finish up today obviously with the Monday night games,
Speaker 1: and then tomorrow who knows what happens tomorrow. But all
Speaker 1: I'm saying is, as we go forward into this week two,
Speaker 1: the best player on this defense is somebody who hasn't
Speaker 1: played in five years. Yeah. I want to let that
Speaker 1: sink in. Yeah, it's there. There's there's problems. And one
Speaker 1: of the biggest things that stuck out to me, especially
Speaker 1: when you talk about the defensive line, maybe with the
Speaker 1: exception of Alden Smith, they weren't being pushed around by
Speaker 1: the Tyrant Smith's and the Zach Martins and the Travis
Speaker 1: Fredericks of the world. They're getting pushed around by Austin
Speaker 1: blythe Joseph Nope Boom, Austin Corbett, and I mean, I
Speaker 1: know those guys are great in their own rights, but
Speaker 1: this is a Ram's offensive line that had a ton
Speaker 1: of question marks itself heading into last night. Well, they
Speaker 1: definitely showed out a lot more than what seemingly was
Speaker 1: an upgraded pass rush, at least outside of Alden Smith,
Speaker 1: thank goodness he was there. What was that? Well, I
Speaker 1: think maybe I was thinking that last night as we
Speaker 1: were watching the game. Maybe we just underestimated that line.
Speaker 1: I mean, they had some injuries, they had some injuries
Speaker 1: last year and they're healthy now. And look they they
Speaker 1: did get all three of those running backs, all three
Speaker 1: backs got involved. I think we talked about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe that was a smoke screen, but they got Yeah,
Speaker 1: they got everybody involved. And you guys talked about being
Speaker 1: conservative defensively, Man, the Rams, when they're rolling, that's what
Speaker 1: they can do to you because they put you on
Speaker 1: your heels the way they you know they don't. They
Speaker 1: keep it guessing with their pre snap. Look that tight
Speaker 1: formation of the line of scrimmage, and then if they
Speaker 1: get they hit a couple of plays. Here comes that
Speaker 1: tempo and they're dictating the tempo to you. And that's
Speaker 1: what happened early on. It just you know, it wasn't
Speaker 1: the Cowboys weren't dictating to them well. And we've spent
Speaker 1: the majority of this first segment talking about the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the football. When we come back here on
Speaker 1: Talking Cowboys, let's see how disappointing it was on the
Speaker 1: offensive side. As we get our thoughts on how Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott is Ekiel Elliott in the entire offense underneath Kellen
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Speaker 1: this twenty to seventeen Cowboys' loss to the Los Angeles Rams.
Speaker 1: That's what I've been really waiting for all week long. Heck,
Speaker 1: My Harrison, Isaiah stand back, Rob Phillips, I'm Kyle Yeoman's
Speaker 1: and guys. The offense, it wasn't necessarily bad from an
Speaker 1: offensive perspective. I mean, Dak Prescott I still ended with
Speaker 1: a day that he could at least lean on a
Speaker 1: little bit, but it really didn't look like he was comfortable.
Speaker 1: And that's really what I want to get into. It's
Speaker 1: not necessarily the stats. You can look at the stats
Speaker 1: all you want from Dak Prescott twenty five or thirty nine,
Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty six yards in a touchdown. Amari
Speaker 1: Cooper had ten receptions for eighty one yards. He was
Speaker 1: the leading receiver. Ezekiel Elliott really probably the most effective
Speaker 1: member of the offense all day long. He had a
Speaker 1: hundred twenty seven one hundred and twenty seven all purpose yards,
Speaker 1: including ninety six on the ground thirty one through the air.
Speaker 1: But guys, it really seemed like that offensive line struggled
Speaker 1: to contain Aaron Donald. We alluded to that in the
Speaker 1: first segment. But Rob, what was the biggest thing that
Speaker 1: stuck out to you in terms of this offense and
Speaker 1: just not getting off the ground and finding a bit
Speaker 1: of a rhythm. Well, they kind of settled in after
Speaker 1: the first drive. First drive, everything was sluggish that that
Speaker 1: first what eight nine minutes of the game. But third down,
Speaker 1: man three to twelve. I think on third down they
Speaker 1: just they couldn't they couldn't sustain drives, and um, that's
Speaker 1: that's what got him last year offensively up man. I
Speaker 1: will say this about Zeke, that's as good as I've
Speaker 1: seen him play in a couple of years. Just looked fantastic,
Speaker 1: looked and oh my god, he looked like he I mean,
Speaker 1: we watched him in training camp, but to me, he
Speaker 1: looked ten pounds lighter. He just I don't know, he
Speaker 1: looked he looked I don't know, he looked, he looked fantastic,
Speaker 1: and they you know, they were able to get some
Speaker 1: things going off of him in a couple of different ways.
Speaker 1: But yeah, third downs, they just couldn't sustain things. And
Speaker 1: you mentioned some of the pressure, especially late in the game. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, they went after Terrence Steele, who I thought
Speaker 1: I thought he battled at right tackle. That was kind
Speaker 1: of a surprised start. Yeah, but you know, I think
Speaker 1: they got him laid the game. I think Leonard Floyd
Speaker 1: got a sack on him, and and you know, the pressure,
Speaker 1: the pressure, you know, got him late, but just not
Speaker 1: consistent enough keeping drives going. Yeah, once they figured out
Speaker 1: where the weakest links were on the offensive line, we
Speaker 1: had to start moving coverage that way and the Rams
Speaker 1: took full advantage of it. With Brockers and number ninety
Speaker 1: nine he will forever be I won't even call him
Speaker 1: by his name. Number ninety nine was just so disruptive
Speaker 1: and the defensive line that we could, I mean a
Speaker 1: lot of our plays that we tried, it's ninety nine
Speaker 1: was just smack dab in the middle of our offense.
Speaker 1: And you know, I felt as though Dak had his
Speaker 1: moments like the balls some of the balls that he threw,
Speaker 1: I mean right on the money, especially the one of
Speaker 1: the pi and I'm sure we're gonna talk about the
Speaker 1: pi uh from Ramsey, But I thought that I thought
Speaker 1: that ball was right on the money, guys, So that
Speaker 1: to me played well. Uh Man. When Jarwin went down,
Speaker 1: it was that was a moment, you know, as as
Speaker 1: a cowboy fan, and I was like, this is the
Speaker 1: one guy that we don't need to have this problem.
Speaker 1: And then Schultz came in with one catch for eleven
Speaker 1: yards and just a couple of drops man in moments
Speaker 1: where it hid him right in his hands. That he
Speaker 1: gets that opportunity again, Schultz is definitely gonna have to
Speaker 1: take advantage of that. Yeah, all an offeners, the offense
Speaker 1: did pretty good. But obviously, um you know, the offense
Speaker 1: and coordinator did not read that Zeke's new tattoo where
Speaker 1: it said feed me. So look at that, I said,
Speaker 1: and I know you guys reference him with being a
Speaker 1: little bit lighter. He didn't want it to say feed me.
Speaker 1: He just wanted to say feed me. So that's why
Speaker 1: he lost couple of pounds. But explosive, right, and they
Speaker 1: gave they gave him the rock, but they didn't give
Speaker 1: them the rock enough. And that was one of my
Speaker 1: fears going into this game, is that they would establish
Speaker 1: or run like we we all know that they would,
Speaker 1: but that they would go away from it to try
Speaker 1: to initiate the pass because of the receivers that they
Speaker 1: have on this team. And I felt that that's what
Speaker 1: they did. I felt like they really try to force
Speaker 1: the issue in terms of passing. UM. That's the struggle
Speaker 1: right as we as we talked about it in the past,
Speaker 1: with all this talent on the team, if you have
Speaker 1: something that's working right what they say, old school, if
Speaker 1: it's not broke, don't don't it. So forget the fact
Speaker 1: that you got these three goons at receiver, forget the
Speaker 1: fact that you had Jarn went out there hand the
Speaker 1: ball to Zeke. That's where the Rams were struggling. They
Speaker 1: had no answer for that. Zeke was falling for six yards, right,
Speaker 1: So why would you go away from that to throw
Speaker 1: the ball and then end up three for twelve on
Speaker 1: third down? You put yourself in those situations. UM. So
Speaker 1: I hope, I hope, I hope that the OC learns
Speaker 1: from that. UM In terms of the receivers, I think
Speaker 1: they did a great job. I mean they they were
Speaker 1: catching the rock. There was a couple of drops in there,
Speaker 1: but these guys were doing what they were supposed to do.
Speaker 1: There was too many dog on crossing routes, good and
Speaker 1: its gracious, it was crossing routes to good lord. These
Speaker 1: guys didn't have the opportunity to go out there and
Speaker 1: run routes the way that they really wanted to. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, they were forced to try to look across
Speaker 1: covers as they were running crossing routes to try to
Speaker 1: look ahead to see if they're going to get their
Speaker 1: head knocked off. So all, all in all, they did
Speaker 1: a good job. But hey, if you got the ball
Speaker 1: and you and you're feeding the ball to Szeke, keep
Speaker 1: giving it to him. Man. You guys were down by
Speaker 1: three majority of the game, right right, majority of the game.
Speaker 1: You guys were barely down. Keep giving him the rock.
Speaker 1: You will run yourself back into the game. Well. And
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy said following the loss that he felt good
Speaker 1: about the offense and how they were moving the ball.
Speaker 1: It's one of the reasons why he elected to go
Speaker 1: for it on fourth and three rather than turn around
Speaker 1: and kick the field goal and tie the game up
Speaker 1: at twenty. But one of the that was a key play, absolutely,
Speaker 1: But I think another key play was one of the
Speaker 1: ones that were being about over the last twelve hours
Speaker 1: has been that class interference penalty that Heckma was alluding
Speaker 1: to just a moment ago, whenever there was the deep
Speaker 1: seam route on the left side of the field to
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup that would have ultimately put the Cowboys back
Speaker 1: into field goal range on what was the last drive
Speaker 1: of the ball game. Jaitalen Ramsey was in coverage in
Speaker 1: the It was called a push off for Michael Gallup.
Speaker 1: And I know Cowboys fans are up in arms. It's
Speaker 1: controversial call. People think they got robbed. I'm not on
Speaker 1: that boat. I think it was a good call, and
Speaker 1: I know Cowboys fans don't want to hear that, but
Speaker 1: that's not the reason you lost. Even if you don't
Speaker 1: like hearing that, it's not the reason you lost. You
Speaker 1: lost because the interior are both are offensive and defensive lines.
Speaker 1: I'm saying it. I'm saying it, I know, but I'm
Speaker 1: it was a push off. He extended all the way through.
Speaker 1: It was a that's a good play. It's a veteran play, buddy,
Speaker 1: it's a veteran play from MS. Okay, it's not. It's
Speaker 1: it's not why they lost. But if Amari Cooper had
Speaker 1: done that, I think maybe he gets away with it.
Speaker 1: If a four time pro bowler does that, Michael Lervin
Speaker 1: made a career out of doing that. You're the receiver.
Speaker 1: How I'm telling you, tell how many times? How many
Speaker 1: times have you seen Michael Irvin do that? It's all
Speaker 1: damn career. Can I put this arrest? Can I put
Speaker 1: this arrest? Okay? Please? If you extend your arm as
Speaker 1: an offensive receiver or tight end, if you extend your
Speaker 1: arm to create space, you're going to get a call
Speaker 1: for offensive pass interference. You guys are referencing Michael Irvin,
Speaker 1: who hasn't played in seventy seven years. Okay, the rules
Speaker 1: are a little bit different back then. Okay, yeah, different.
Speaker 1: The game is a lot tougher if the game is
Speaker 1: soft now, it's softest tissue paper. Was it a deliberate push? No?
Speaker 1: It was it enough to push Ramsey one hundred one
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars that's in his back pocket. No, But
Speaker 1: you leave yourself susceptible to the call if you extend
Speaker 1: your arm. So yes, his offensive passing affairs now to
Speaker 1: combat that, you wouldn't even been in that situation, all right,
Speaker 1: It wouldn't even be in a position to score had
Speaker 1: the call been made on the opposite side of the ball.
Speaker 1: When when Jared golf through an interception after getting Mike
Speaker 1: Tyson k old in his helmet. So yeah, yeah, they
Speaker 1: get away with one there. Yeah, that and so you
Speaker 1: got one big, big one. The passing inferience was a
Speaker 1: judgment call, right, we can all agree to that. That That
Speaker 1: was a judgment call that could have went either way.
Speaker 1: Getting pushed in your face at the quarterback that should
Speaker 1: have been automatically a penalty in the game. It wouldn't
Speaker 1: even been as close as it was. I mean, should have,
Speaker 1: would have, could have if but it didn't. That's the
Speaker 1: thing that's that's a great point. No. I love what
Speaker 1: you're saying. I love what you're saying. Hold on, man,
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Isaiah, you have hand thought with your son
Speaker 1: harder than what Ramsey exactly we're doing. And if the
Speaker 1: top of that route, if you're talking about Gallup having
Speaker 1: his hand extended and Ramsey holding only he was trying
Speaker 1: to disrupt the route the whole time. He was knocking
Speaker 1: all the way down the field, and that little in
Speaker 1: this little emotional when you start seeing that if yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I say it with your chest. Hey, I don't know
Speaker 1: me like that. Don't do it like that like that
Speaker 1: today it's Monday. Disagree with you. Heck it was ticky
Speaker 1: tack as a Hey, listen, they were both hand fighting. However,
Speaker 1: if you extend your arm as a receiver, I can't
Speaker 1: believe you as a receiver saying that. Hey, I'm telling you,
Speaker 1: if you're going five miles over the speed limit, is
Speaker 1: it speeding, yes, speeding back? No, But guess what, You're
Speaker 1: still speeding, so you don't say so susceptible to getting
Speaker 1: pulled over. It's the same thing. Is it a whack call? Yes?
Speaker 1: Is it a legal call? Yes? Here, I just wanted
Speaker 1: to be like the NBA. Swallow your whistle, man, let
Speaker 1: them let them exactly, Rob, Rob, that's it right there,
Speaker 1: Swallow your whistle, because how many times do you see
Speaker 1: in championship moments a referee stymey or the deliberately I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say, deliberately make call, make a call that changes
Speaker 1: the complexion of the game. What that's Dak Prescott's moment.
Speaker 1: He puts the ball all the money and you call
Speaker 1: no way, dolls, you swallow your whistle. You don't call that.
Speaker 1: It's not egregious. Push off. You've seen some of you
Speaker 1: push Come on, you have to look at it from
Speaker 1: the other end. Had the Cowboys capitalized off that interception,
Speaker 1: it really went on and just had the momentum shift.
Speaker 1: What would the rams to be sitting here saying about
Speaker 1: the no call hit to the helmet that everybody could
Speaker 1: agree wasn't fair. I say, I don't care what the
Speaker 1: rams will have been saying today. I mean they missed
Speaker 1: the call. I can't talk about a miss call versus
Speaker 1: the call they made. I mean, come on, look at
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sure that was several times they could
Speaker 1: have called holding against Arion Donald because we were holding
Speaker 1: the hell out of Aridonald was last interference. It was
Speaker 1: passing interference. I know, we all go to the next day.
Speaker 1: It was passing experience. Okay, okay, passing interference, but it
Speaker 1: was okay, okay, I accept okay. So hey, what did
Speaker 1: you guys think about the fourth and three? Oh? Would
Speaker 1: you have gone forward? Would you have kicked it. I
Speaker 1: thought I thought they knew. I thought they knew they
Speaker 1: were going forward. Also, of Dalton Shotz runs that that
Speaker 1: route a little bit deeper. It gives Ceedee Lamb more
Speaker 1: of an opportunity to catch that ball and walk into
Speaker 1: the end zone. Do you not have one of the
Speaker 1: best field goal kickers in the league. I don't know.
Speaker 1: You might fifty three yard in the first quarter. So
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, I'm just this was gonna this was
Speaker 1: gonna be what a thirty yarder? I don't don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know where they're out on the field, but
Speaker 1: I know they're a pretty dog one close. You kicked
Speaker 1: the dog on field goal. You have been fighting all
Speaker 1: the game to get back to where it can be
Speaker 1: zero zero, and then you go out there and you
Speaker 1: do that. I understand. Coach had a big call and
Speaker 1: it could have went either way. He could have been
Speaker 1: he could have been the savior of all Saviors going
Speaker 1: into this first game had he capitalized on that. But
Speaker 1: you didn't, and you had an opportunity to get yourself
Speaker 1: back to zero zero and which you hadn't had all game,
Speaker 1: and you missed out. So kicked the field goal and
Speaker 1: go out there and play some defense, like I know,
Speaker 1: go ahead, Kyle, No, you go for it. Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: if it were Jason Garrett, he would be and down
Speaker 1: for that. But you know, I think I'm with Isaiah
Speaker 1: on this one, mainly because you're not guaranteed to get
Speaker 1: the ball back. I mean, the Rams, the way they
Speaker 1: were controlling time and possession throughout the game, except for
Speaker 1: a couple of drives here and there. I take the points,
Speaker 1: and I at least put myself in position to have
Speaker 1: a tie and hope you get the ball back. I
Speaker 1: just I wasn't the way the defense had been playing
Speaker 1: overall in that game, and I would take the points,
Speaker 1: but defense. But your defense in the fourth quarter force
Speaker 1: three punts, and so by that point you it saw
Speaker 1: the momentum start to change by the way that we
Speaker 1: were playing defense. And they knew that they were gonna
Speaker 1: go forward on fourth down. They knew they were, so
Speaker 1: that's why they ran it on third and six. I
Speaker 1: agree with you there. Let's say we can say we
Speaker 1: can say, oh, oh my god, you know, why would
Speaker 1: he call that? But that's the aggression. Those are the
Speaker 1: kind of plays that we've been begging for. It, So
Speaker 1: now that we got it, it's like, oh god, Mike,
Speaker 1: what are you doing. No. I like the aggression by Mike.
Speaker 1: I like him going forward on fourth and three. That's
Speaker 1: what that's what we need to see. If he ties
Speaker 1: it up, then what we go to all the time
Speaker 1: and we lose by a field goal something like that.
Speaker 1: Come on, man, that's not one one. Come on it.
Speaker 1: We'd all be junking it. But that's not what's going on.
Speaker 1: I said, come on, man, hey, I hear you. I
Speaker 1: know calgoy Nation has been waiting for somebody to be
Speaker 1: a lot more aggressive than they've seen in the past. However,
Speaker 1: you have to be smart, and you have to be smart.
Speaker 1: You have to give your team a real chance, and
Speaker 1: by by playing from behind the entire game, you give
Speaker 1: them a chance by saying, hey, fellas, it's zero zero,
Speaker 1: let's go out there and it's a new game. As
Speaker 1: a former player. As a former player, though, because I
Speaker 1: when he when I heard his explanation, it made more
Speaker 1: sense to me. You know, first, basically he said, look,
Speaker 1: first time coaching my guys in a game situation, I
Speaker 1: wanted to basically show them that I trusted them. You know,
Speaker 1: does that does that Gerry Waite. As a player, you can't. No,
Speaker 1: it doesn't because your job as a coach is to
Speaker 1: position us for the best opportunity to win. Right, So,
Speaker 1: by by giving Greg zero a chip shot to make
Speaker 1: the game zero zero, that gives us a great position
Speaker 1: to win. By giving us a fifty fifty chance, that
Speaker 1: does not. Right. So, no disrespect to coach. He's coached
Speaker 1: a lot more games than I ever have. He's an
Speaker 1: amazing coach. He's a super Bowl winning coach. However, I
Speaker 1: don't agree with him in this regard because you also
Speaker 1: not only are you thinking about this game, but you
Speaker 1: also have to think about the games you have coming up.
Speaker 1: How does this position you did a loss right here?
Speaker 1: How does that set me up for these next few games?
Speaker 1: And there's a real opportunity, I know we talked about
Speaker 1: this in a break. There's a real chance that the
Speaker 1: Cowboys can start this year oh in three, And you
Speaker 1: have to take that consideration whenever you go into that.
Speaker 1: We still we've still got we've got some time to
Speaker 1: talk about three. Let's let's get past the O and
Speaker 1: one first, and let's we'll move fast this now. I
Speaker 1: haven't given my input on this. I liked the aggressiveness.
Speaker 1: I still think in that spot when there's eleven and
Speaker 1: it's left in the game, I think you kick it
Speaker 1: and you tie the football game up and then go
Speaker 1: from it for from there later in the game. Any
Speaker 1: later than that shirt, I mean, that's fine. And I
Speaker 1: get the analytics side of it as well. Forty fourth
Speaker 1: and three analytically is something you should be able to convert.
Speaker 1: And that's exactly what Mike McCarthy looked at. But he
Speaker 1: wasn't necessarily all in on the analytics side of it.
Speaker 1: He was he was on the fence and it ended
Speaker 1: up being a fifty fifty call. But guys, for the
Speaker 1: fans out there, I know they know this as well.
Speaker 1: This is Dallas Cowboys football. You can't just take care
Speaker 1: of business or get blown out. It's got to be
Speaker 1: a fifty fifty on the fence call that we have
Speaker 1: to debate for the next seven days until we get
Speaker 1: to see football again. And that's exactly what we've got
Speaker 1: again here in twenty twenty. Well, we've run over time
Speaker 1: here in this segment. When we come back Layton vander
Speaker 1: esh Blake jar went out for an extended period of time.
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Speaker 1: see more, do more lurs. The Cowboys do fall by
Speaker 1: three in the opening week matchup against the Rams, and
Speaker 1: we've been we've been breaking it down and we've been
Speaker 1: debating over the debatable calls that were made both on
Speaker 1: a referee side and on a coaching perspective side in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter of the loss. But there's some cut
Speaker 1: and dry stuff out of this as well, injuries for
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys, and it's something that is going to
Speaker 1: impact this team throughout the rest of the season. And
Speaker 1: first off, we'll start on the offensive side of the football.
Speaker 1: Blake Jarwin out for a long period of time, still
Speaker 1: getting reevaluated today, but it looks like a feared hamstring injury,
Speaker 1: something that was non contact. You saw it on the
Speaker 1: broad cash if you were watching, just kind of running around,
Speaker 1: turning around on a curl and just falling to the ground.
Speaker 1: Not necessarily what you want to see. And then on
Speaker 1: the other side, Layton vander esh defensively with a fractured
Speaker 1: clavicle out for some time. Rob, what are some of
Speaker 1: the updates on those injuries if you've heard any, and
Speaker 1: what is the next step for the Cowboys. Well, like
Speaker 1: you said with Jarwin, when you when you fear that
Speaker 1: ACL that that for your knee, usually they have a
Speaker 1: pretty good idea, but they'll they'll do the MRI to
Speaker 1: confirm today. Um, you know with with vander Esh, it's
Speaker 1: going to depend on I think where where the fracture is,
Speaker 1: because if they could, if they can plate it and
Speaker 1: do surgery, he can come back, you know, in a
Speaker 1: shorter period of time. But if if it's not surgery,
Speaker 1: as we've seen with the Tony Rummo injuries in the past,
Speaker 1: it it's gonna be a couple months probably at minimum.
Speaker 1: So not good, not good. And then Cam Irving had
Speaker 1: a knee injury too. When you're talking about your offensive
Speaker 1: line depth and I think that you're probably hoping that's
Speaker 1: a sprain knee there. But man, you're talking about a
Speaker 1: couple of key guys that are gonna be out for
Speaker 1: a lot of weeks and and Jarwin potentially the season.
Speaker 1: Ask somebody who has sustained their fair share of injuries.
Speaker 1: I feel for all of these guys and I pray
Speaker 1: that these guys all get back healthy as soon as possible.
Speaker 1: I know what it does to you mentally, UM as
Speaker 1: a player. UM, I can tell you right now, M
Speaker 1: Blake Jarwin, it's acl most likely and he's he's done right.
Speaker 1: So these guys are gonna have to really rely on
Speaker 1: their on their next two guys to step up and
Speaker 1: feel that void. I don't nobody's gonna be able to
Speaker 1: feel the void of that vertical threat that he provided. UM.
Speaker 1: And then as you go over to UM, as we
Speaker 1: go over to vander Esh. Okay, how many times have
Speaker 1: we talked about the depth and heast my concern for
Speaker 1: the linebacker depth. M. Vander Esh already had a neck
Speaker 1: injury that we talked about in his hesitation to be
Speaker 1: able to go in there and make contact. Right. We
Speaker 1: questioned that leading up to this first week because he
Speaker 1: didn't have any preseason to hit anybody. UM, And it
Speaker 1: was we saw it on that on that that goal
Speaker 1: line stand where he went in there. He had an
Speaker 1: opportunity to go in there and field the gap on
Speaker 1: Malcolm Brown, and he hesitated that hesitation that we talked about, right,
Speaker 1: he turned his head sideways and instead of delivering it blow.
Speaker 1: He absorbed a blow, and I believe that's when he
Speaker 1: really sustained that initial m that initial injury. UM, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't foresee him coming back any sooner than probably
Speaker 1: the last the last quarter of the season. Um you know,
Speaker 1: I just the compounded injury with this neck, his previous
Speaker 1: injury with his neck, compounded with this, with this classical
Speaker 1: deal you put both of those together. Not even when
Speaker 1: he comes back physically right, how is he going to
Speaker 1: be mentally right and no different than he was when
Speaker 1: he did this this original game where he wasn't confident
Speaker 1: in his ability to deliver deliver a blow. Irving. Irving
Speaker 1: will be back. You know, he'll probably miss a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. He guys get rolled up on all the time.
Speaker 1: Luckily he probably had on a knee brace. So um, big,
Speaker 1: big time concerns these guys. They need to do some
Speaker 1: work and bring some guys up from the practice squad
Speaker 1: and Scow. I think they're gonna have to find an
Speaker 1: interior defensive alignment. Um, you know, injuries aside to right
Speaker 1: now to go out there and get a big dog
Speaker 1: because um, you know, even though we didn't have any
Speaker 1: injuries there, we might as well have. Yeah, when when
Speaker 1: I look at all of this, the potential of losing
Speaker 1: two starters week one is devastating. I mean, who has
Speaker 1: that kind of luck. But also the cam Erman injury
Speaker 1: as well, with the depth at right tackle, it's concerned.
Speaker 1: And especially the game that still had. And you know
Speaker 1: that other other teams on our schedule have that film
Speaker 1: out and they will definitely be trying to utilize a
Speaker 1: mismatch against him. And so all things being considered, Guys,
Speaker 1: like I said, the injuries to vander esh for the
Speaker 1: defense is it's gonna be it's gonna be big. And
Speaker 1: you talked about that Isaiah, the depth that linebacker, So yeah, man,
Speaker 1: that's uh, that's gonna be a big one for us.
Speaker 1: But man, also Blake Jarwin going into the season, he
Speaker 1: was somebody that we really had high hopes for and man,
Speaker 1: I know they're doing an MRI just just to see
Speaker 1: if there's any potential that it wasn't that, but if
Speaker 1: it is, and losing him for the season, that's a
Speaker 1: big blow. And they could have used him in that
Speaker 1: game too, because yes, it seemed like they're playing their
Speaker 1: safety deep and there were opportunities for a guy like
Speaker 1: Jarwin to make plays and try to get some things
Speaker 1: going because they didn't really go down field a lot
Speaker 1: in the game. And man, yeah, you're right. Heck they're
Speaker 1: gonna miss him because he provided. You put him on
Speaker 1: the field with the three top receivers and you got
Speaker 1: some mismatches most weeks. And kudos, I know we were
Speaker 1: talking about a lot of negative stuff here, Kudos that
Speaker 1: Joe Thomas were stepping up your step in the game.
Speaker 1: He came in and played a heck of a game.
Speaker 1: He came in and field the gap. He was He
Speaker 1: was president, just as president as Alton Smith was from
Speaker 1: the time that he entered a game. And we talked
Speaker 1: about those those linebackers of how we didn't think there
Speaker 1: were gonna be two me three linebacker sets the majority
Speaker 1: of the game, there were two true linebackers in there,
Speaker 1: and when he had to step in, he did a
Speaker 1: heck of a job. Yeah, I thought there was kind
Speaker 1: of what we expected to see from the linebackers. I mean,
Speaker 1: we saw Anthony Brown really as that nickelback that that
Speaker 1: third linebacker quote unquote, even though it was really two
Speaker 1: true linebackers and Sean Lee he'll be back week three.
Speaker 1: You've got to Francis Bernard on the practice squad that
Speaker 1: you could potentially elevate and hopefully fill that role at
Speaker 1: least for a little bit there and have some at linebacker.
Speaker 1: I mean there's free agents out there as well. I
Speaker 1: know Isaiah's probably looking at the secondary free agency. Wait
Speaker 1: for tomorrow's show. Do you have a do you have
Speaker 1: a prediction? As we're out of time, but you have
Speaker 1: a very quick ten second prediction. Well, the first week
Speaker 1: of the season ends tonight, which means that guys are
Speaker 1: eligible veterans are eligible to sign tomorrow. Yeah, Earl Thomas,
Speaker 1: So you see in the Star tomorrow morning. Okay, Okay,
Speaker 1: so there you go. I knew that was happening, So
Speaker 1: I just wanted to throw that out there for the
Speaker 1: fans there. Whether it's Earl Thomas, Nax Harrison, Clay Matthews,
Speaker 1: who cares, there's there's options out there. The Cowboys have
Speaker 1: options in house, but hey, why not at least explore
Speaker 1: your options whenever you have injuries like you did last
Speaker 1: night in the twenty to seventeen loss. That's gonna do
Speaker 1: it here for talking Cowboys, Thanks for sticking around. With
Speaker 1: us and breaking down last night's game here over the
Speaker 1: past forty five minutes. We'll be back tomorrow nine thirty am.
Speaker 1: Bring your questions. Is we've got We've got fans on
Speaker 1: the fifty tomorrow will be either taking your calls or
Speaker 1: reading them off of the periscope and Twitter. So bring
Speaker 1: your questions. I know we've got plenty. You've got plenty
Speaker 1: as well. But for now, for heck Ma Harrison, Rob Phillips,
Speaker 1: and Isaiah stand back. I'm Kyle Yeoman's that's it for
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