WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: More Steps Backward 0:00:05.040 --> 0:00:07.560 The following He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:19.400 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. He's Talking Cowboys, Screaming 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:22.680 live from the Dallas Cowboys World Headhoars at the Star 0:00:22.800 --> 0:00:28.000 in Frisco. Elliot following to the goal live Sabo's got 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:33.440 tis twenty Bay today and now your hosts Isaiah Stanback, 0:00:33.760 --> 0:00:38.760 heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeoman's. It's a 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:43.440 Wednesday edition of Talking Cowboys from the SWBC Mortgage studios 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:47.120 here at the Star in Frisco. It is the morning 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:51.239 after a thirty four seventeen loss at the hands of 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:55.120 the Baltimore Ravens. The Cowboys now at three and nine 0:00:55.160 --> 0:00:57.840 on the twenty twenty season, and all of our weekly 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:00.960 routines and schedules are also It's a messed up because 0:01:00.960 --> 0:01:03.800 we had Tuesday Night football, but hey, we've got three 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:06.480 days to put this one in the rearview mirror and 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:10.200 get ready for the battle for Pina Seul, a battle 0:01:10.240 --> 0:01:13.640 for the third overall pick going into this weekend with 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:18.480 the Cincinnati Bengals coming to town. Kyle Yeoman's alongside Isaiah Standback, 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:20.960 Rob Phillips, and heck My Harrison, We're gonna break things 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:25.039 down for you as to what happened in that Ravens game. 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.240 But first I want to give a little credit where 0:01:27.240 --> 0:01:29.600 credit is due and start off with some positivity this 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:33.640 Wednesday morning. Isaiah Standback made a call the other day, 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:35.200 and I just want to get this out of the 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.160 way early. I'm bringing positivity, but also I just don't 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:39.600 want to hear it all show long, so I'm just 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:42.880 gonna attack it up front, Rob and Heckma. But Isaiah 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:46.720 came out and said thirty four seventeen was his prediction 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.760 and the final score. He used those Laura lenses to 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:53.720 look ahead and see exactly what was going on. So Isaiah, 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:58.720 you've got ten seconds to gloat starting now. I just 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:01.400 want to thank my support system, you know, Kyle, Rob Pie, 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:03.600 you know, saying hey, I appreciate you guys for being 0:02:03.640 --> 0:02:06.160 here for me. You know, I think to my sponsor, 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.680 Surf make sure that I could see the future. Thank 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:17.799 you your sponsor a sponsor. Now, oh my god, just 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:20.040 now that we've got that out of the way, I 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:21.840 wanted to get that out of the way, the Cowboys 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:24.799 losing thirty four seventeen. But the point of the matter 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:29.120 is is this really anything other than what we expected? 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:32.040 And I think that's the most frustrating part about this 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:34.600 loss is that it's pretty much exactly what we expected. 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:36.480 It's one of those things where you look at it 0:02:36.520 --> 0:02:39.560 and you say, all right, Mike McCarthy, all right, Cowboys, 0:02:39.560 --> 0:02:41.120 even though you're banged up, I want to see what 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.720 you've got. I want to see some sort of energy. 0:02:44.000 --> 0:02:46.440 I want to see some sort of execution, because I 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:48.799 think that was the word of the day, rob But 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.399 whenever you look back at this game, mister Phillips, how 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:55.080 do you categorize it for the Dallas Cowboys? Because I 0:02:55.080 --> 0:02:57.080 thought it was frustrating and I thought it was just 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:01.760 a poor lack of execution all the way through. Can 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:03.959 I throw out one more positivity before we get to 0:03:04.040 --> 0:03:08.959 all the negativity? Why not? Reddy Robinson was active? Man, 0:03:09.320 --> 0:03:13.400 he was active. He had three snaps special team snapps. 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:19.320 All right, we got that. Okay, now onto the bad stuff. Yeah. 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:24.519 I mean I would say I was surprised about the 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:26.880 run defense, and maybe we shouldn't be, but I I 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.560 thought they had turned a corner in terms of let's 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:32.200 not allow three hundred yards rushing in a game anymore. 0:03:32.400 --> 0:03:35.240 That that was a repeat of Cleveland a few weeks back. 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:37.960 I thought they turned a corner. Turned out that corner 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:39.640 is like a cul de sac where you kind of 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:44.480 just do a right back to where you were, and uh, 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:47.120 that's that's where we are at three and nined. And 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:49.880 you know, Michael Irvan's on the NFL network this morning 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:54.120 saying it's over. Math says it's not over. But it 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:58.360 felt like that, like, you know, psychologically, you're down basically 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:00.600 two and a half three games to Washington with four 0:04:00.640 --> 0:04:03.520 to play, and if this was the game that cost 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:06.000 them a chance of the division, it's the type of 0:04:06.040 --> 0:04:09.080 game they've had for most of the season where you 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:12.080 can't stop the run, you beat yourself with turnovers, you 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.680 allow points off turnovers. They're up to one twenty points 0:04:15.760 --> 0:04:22.280 off turnovers allowed this season, and uh, you know, to me, 0:04:22.400 --> 0:04:24.560 it was just representative of a lot of the losses 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:27.200 they had. I didn't expect it to be this bad 0:04:27.279 --> 0:04:30.240 defensively after some strides they made, but there it was there. 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:38.440 It was Lamar Jackson did his thing the Kota second right. 0:04:38.160 --> 0:04:40.840 You might like, No, I didn't like that, like a 0:04:40.839 --> 0:04:43.800 little round about I like that. I like that with 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.440 a lot. Uh yeah, no, I mean Rogers hit it. 0:04:46.440 --> 0:04:48.240 I mean, these guys are they are what we thought 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.200 they were. Unfortunately, we knew Baltimore was a strong team. 0:04:51.240 --> 0:04:54.479 We knew Baltimore had all their dogs back, you know, 0:04:54.600 --> 0:04:57.200 fresh legs, you know, twelve days off, whatever it may be, 0:04:57.240 --> 0:05:00.600 for majority of their premier players. Come to find out 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:03.640 it wasn't even their premier players that killed us. So, um, 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.360 you know, these guys are just a better team than us. 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:08.280 I don't think any of us, I know, none of 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:10.960 any of us. None of us projected the Cowboys to 0:05:11.040 --> 0:05:13.960 win this game, unfortunately. But you know, we're realists on 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:15.600 this show. We don't we don't say what feels good. 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.080 We say what it is. And that's what it was, 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.200 you know, thirty four seventeen. I honestly thought that it 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.240 should have been a larger margin. You know, I felt 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:25.080 like that was gonna be the final score, obviously because 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:26.720 I guessed it, but I thought it should have been 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.560 a larger margin based upon how the game flowed. Um, 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:33.520 you know, the missfield goals unacceptable, just unacceptable. I mean, 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:36.440 we were in position to to be in the game, honestly, 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:39.520 and that just killed your drives m. Defensive, you know, 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:43.000 run defense just not there. We haven't seen it all 0:05:43.040 --> 0:05:44.520 year long. I think it might have been one game 0:05:44.520 --> 0:05:47.599 where we felt somewhat good about it, and this team 0:05:47.680 --> 0:05:51.279 just just lacks confidence. That one of the one positive though, 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:54.520 I know we said the one positive already. Any Dalton 0:05:54.560 --> 0:05:56.840 played the heck of a game. Any Dalton played the 0:05:56.880 --> 0:05:59.360 heck of a game. Any Dalton looked like any likes 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:01.480 look like any Dalton and I was boasted about as 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:03.680 soon as he got got in the game. But you know, 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:05.240 he was throwing that thing around. I think he threw 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.320 it over eight I think by eight receivers in the 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.719 first half of eight different guys. I mean, so, I 0:06:10.720 --> 0:06:13.960 mean he looked confident and he was rolling the interception. 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:15.880 It was just a heck of a play. It happens 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:18.919 tip ball m. But that's the one positive thing. But 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:22.120 everything else, man, the officsive line played pretty well, you know, 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.360 officsive line played pretty well. I mean they didn't have 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.760 any pressure with all these guys on their defensive line 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:29.680 that they have over there in Baltimore, So there were 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.120 there were definitely some positives. But Baltimore is just a 0:06:32.200 --> 0:06:36.839 much better team than we are. You guys are so nice. 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:43.000 Um uh uh. This game, this game was a complete embarrassment, 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:47.039 uh for for our defense when you go into the game, 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.000 and we talked about this all week leading up to 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:53.839 to this game, knowing what the Baltimore Ravens were going 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.640 to bring to the table, a running game. They had 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.520 no other choice even if they started their backup quarterback. 0:07:00.279 --> 0:07:02.440 They had a running game that they were going to 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:06.320 bring to the stadium. What did we do to all 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:09.880 week scheme wise to stop the run? We did nothing. 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.320 This is the same two hundred and ninety four yards 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:19.160 is unacceptable for a three hansion stop. I'm so sorry 0:07:19.200 --> 0:07:22.560 that they were six yards away from hitting that mark. 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:27.080 But there you are, Isaiah. I mean, it's dog it's embarrassing. 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.680 It's embarrassing to see that. And then they put up 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.720 the graphic of Jalen standing there, you know, got his 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:35.320 arms all shaped butter down, and they got the number 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.800 thirty two thirty two, thirty two thirty two. I can 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:41.640 guess that that's last NFL. Okay, there's only thirty two 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:44.200 teams in the league, Thank you very much, But do 0:07:44.320 --> 0:07:46.440 you have to show us like that? And then they 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.320 cut right before they go to a commercial break and 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:52.280 they show our sideline with our dB sitting there. I mean, 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:57.040 it is it's embarrassing to see, but it's also embarrassing 0:07:57.080 --> 0:08:00.480 to see these guys just completely quit on themselves be 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:04.000 in a position to win the game. Third down, third 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:06.760 and ten, third and seven, you can get off the field, 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:11.679 and Lamar Jackson it's just like, oh, oh, you're gonna 0:08:11.680 --> 0:08:14.760 give me that. I'll take those fourteen yards for a 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:18.800 first down, Thank you very much, Cowboys. And on that touchdown, guys, 0:08:18.800 --> 0:08:21.800 that Lamar Jackson the thirty seven yard he could have 0:08:21.880 --> 0:08:27.000 hit his head on the goal post twice. What how 0:08:27.640 --> 0:08:30.800 how do you how do you prepare a team that 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:34.600 goes into a game they completely just with the band. 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:38.199 There's there's no leadership, there's the come on, man, come on, 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:40.800 give you what that you mentioned? I mean that set 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.240 the tone. The thirty seven yard touchdown by Lamar set 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.840 the tone. But what I kept thinking about was there 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:49.240 was more than one play like that where nobody's around him. 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:52.000 I think the boy can touchdown as well. And what 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:54.560 I kept thinking was in the Seattle game in Week three, 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:58.640 everybody was just astonished by it and and like my god, 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:01.000 I can't believe guys are run and wide open free, 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:03.679 and it's reached a point this season where like you 0:09:03.800 --> 0:09:07.400 just kind of not expected, but it doesn't surprise you 0:09:07.480 --> 0:09:09.719 when it happens these bus, whether it's the run game 0:09:09.800 --> 0:09:12.360 or the pass game. It's been all year long, just 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:14.880 about every game, there's been at least one of those, 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:19.000 and I mean it does. It takes away everything they 0:09:19.080 --> 0:09:21.400 did in the first half. I think Baltimore was only 0:09:21.440 --> 0:09:23.439 one of five on third down, Like that's pretty good 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.559 for your defense, but when you're given up four plays 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.040 of thirty plus yards, it doesn't matter, you know. And 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:31.920 that's been the story all year long. I kind of 0:09:31.920 --> 0:09:34.800 want to go into that that thirty seven yard touchdown 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:37.880 run because there was so much frustration with it. It 0:09:37.920 --> 0:09:40.319 looked like a Madden glitch, like it really did. It 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:42.560 looked like a Madden glitch where it's just wide open 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:46.000 spaces in between the hash marks, and Lamar Jackson takes 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.199 it for thirty seven yards, by the way, longest touchdown 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.839 run I think for a quarterback in Cowboys history. But 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:54.400 you kind of compound that with the fact that you 0:09:54.600 --> 0:09:57.720 have two hundred and ninety four total yards one hundred 0:09:57.760 --> 0:10:00.720 and one of those coming from Gus Edwards mark Ingram, 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:04.559 not JK. Dobbins. Gus Edwards went seven of one oh one. So, 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.920 like Rob said, exactly, it's Gus Edwards. He's on the 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.880 bench of every fantasy team in the world because JK. 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:14.199 Dobbins and mark Ingram could have potentially been out this week. 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.199 That's the only reason people know who this guy is. 0:10:16.240 --> 0:10:18.760 And he goes for one hundred and one yards against 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:22.160 the Cowboys, but big plays continue to gash at Isaiah. 0:10:22.320 --> 0:10:24.920 Why was that the case? And why can't the Cowboys 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:27.960 somehow stop the run because it looked like they could 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:32.520 a couple of weeks ago against Pittsburgh and Philly. Well, 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:34.719 I think I had my slors on last week on 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.760 the show as well, whenever I talked about the misdirection 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:43.600 and how misdirection kills this defense, the Cowboys defense, especially 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:46.560 at a second level. Who that's your that's your job 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:48.559 is to be able to control that aspect of the game. 0:10:48.840 --> 0:10:52.600 These guys get confused, they get days, they confused. Obviously, specifically, 0:10:52.720 --> 0:10:55.439 you know lbe and Jalen Smith, those are the two 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:57.560 guys that are in the game for the most part, 0:10:57.600 --> 0:11:00.360 all the time, and Lbe, I think he came in 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:02.040 the post game and admitted it. You know that that 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.280 he screwed up. I mean, he was completely lost. He 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:08.199 took a bad step. He totally consumed himself on the 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:11.000 offensive line, Um with with the offensive alignement or actually 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:12.880 in the back of his defensive line to the point 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.560 where he couldn't see Um. And at the corner, at 0:11:15.559 --> 0:11:18.400 the corner of his eye, he saw his guy, his responsibility, 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.400 running back go the opposite direction. So what does he do. Oh, 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:23.040 I'm gonna follow him. I don't know where the ball 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:25.160 is at, but I'm following this guy. And then he's 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:29.079 literally running away from the ball. Um he realizes it's 0:11:29.120 --> 0:11:30.760 too late, and you know, you got one of the 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:32.640 fastest guys in the league running with the ball down 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:36.280 the middle. Um, this defense continues to get gashed. There's 0:11:36.320 --> 0:11:39.920 no there's no solid answer asida from the fact that 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:42.079 you have to point to the coaches. Um, it's not 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:44.800 just the coaches. Don't let me. Don't be bamboozled by 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:46.800 what I'm telling you. It's not just the coaches, but 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:49.199 it definitely starts with the coaches, and they have to 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:52.199 instill some form of what we always talk about culture 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:55.200 within this defense, and if guys are not getting get 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:58.200 done again, I already alluded to it, if Lvee, if 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:00.959 Jalen Smith, if these guys are getting done, then go 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.000 find some other dudes that are hungry. They want to 0:12:04.040 --> 0:12:05.599 do it because you did the same thing with the 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:08.240 defensive line. You got rid of Polled, you got rid 0:12:08.280 --> 0:12:10.320 of a Griffin, right, But all of a sudden, now 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.880 these linebackers, oh, these are guys. He were committed to. 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.560 These guys. If they're not figuring it out, fellas, make 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:17.880 it competitive. I don't give a dog on what I'm 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.360 paying you. Carson Bey sure don't care what Carson Wentz 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.120 is getting paid over in Philly, right, sit his butt down, 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:25.160 Get somebody else in there that's going to compete. And 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.160 that's what they need to happen on this defense, and 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:28.480 that's the only way that they're going to find a 0:12:28.520 --> 0:12:31.680 resolution in these last four games. Hey asaid, we talked 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:33.840 at halftime about that play, and I think vander Esch 0:12:33.840 --> 0:12:36.079 said after the game too, he thought Lamar handed the 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:38.160 ball off and that's where he was going. He just 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:42.040 read the play completely wrong, you thought, And I think 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.719 Mike McCarthy spoke it after the game that they were 0:12:44.800 --> 0:12:47.280 in the right play to stop it. You said at 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:48.880 halftime you didn't really have a problem with the way 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:52.120 they were they were lined up, even though they went nickel. 0:12:52.240 --> 0:12:55.439 They had they had I believe Darian Thompson as a 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:57.959 safety in that situation. So you were okay with that 0:12:58.160 --> 0:13:00.520 look though. I was okay with that look, but I 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:03.720 wasn't okay with the actual call. Right. I was okay 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:05.439 with the alignment at guys. I was okay. I was 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.000 okay with the personnel. But one thing you don't do, 0:13:08.120 --> 0:13:09.719 and I talked to you about it a hand of time, 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:12.640 is you know I was a quote unquote running quarterback. Right, 0:13:13.160 --> 0:13:16.280 I was a running quarterback, so I faced similar defenses 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:18.840 a lot, and teams had to scheme against me, had 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:22.000 a scheme against other guys. Right, Um that they had 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:24.000 those same kind of assets in terms of the ability 0:13:24.000 --> 0:13:27.120 to run. And what happens is they went man to man. 0:13:27.200 --> 0:13:29.000 And when you go man to man against a quarterback 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.319 who can gash you with that kind of speed, you 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:35.599 have to have two guys spying. You cannot spy a 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:38.280 running quarterback, a quarterback that has four three speed like 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:40.920 Lamar Jackson. Okay, you can't spy him with one person. 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:43.440 The reason why because the first person is never going 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:46.120 to make the play on him, never a right Harley 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.320 ever with the one guy to make the play on him. 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:49.559 So what do you have to do. You have to 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:51.360 spy with two guys, and you have to trust that 0:13:51.400 --> 0:13:53.480 the rest of the guys on your defense and your 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:55.839 secondary can guard these the rest of their receivers and 0:13:55.920 --> 0:13:57.640 tire the ends and running backs, and you just have 0:13:57.720 --> 0:14:00.360 to trust that. But the moment that you'd say, one guy, 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:01.800 I don't care if it's Thompson, I don't care if 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.240 it's l Ve whoever. It is the moment that you say, 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.040 you know what he got he has Lamar, You're kidding yourself. 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:11.200 You're completely kidding yourself. And you saw that happen right there. Yeah, 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:12.840 I have a problem with that. I have a problem 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:15.559 when you go man in the situation like that, knowing 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.120 that Lamar Jackson wants to tuck and run it. And 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:20.440 if you're gonna have Darian Thompson up at the line 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:22.960 of scrimmage or in a linebacker set, at least give 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:26.400 him an opportunity, give himself an opportunity to make a 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:28.520 play on the ball. This guy doesn't know when he 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:31.200 is in that position. It is a fatal flaw for 0:14:31.320 --> 0:14:34.520 our defense because he can't jam, He can't do anything 0:14:34.600 --> 0:14:37.240 as far as stopping offensive lineman from getting on him 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:39.760 and pushing him out of the way, and obviously lvee 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.640 when he makes that many false steps, there's no way 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.360 that he can recover from that, whether it's defensive lineman 0:14:45.400 --> 0:14:47.120 in this face or not. But you talk about the 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.200 miscommunication on the backside for the defense, just look no 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.840 further than the mouse bnken thirty eight yard touchdown. Are 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:56.640 we in zone? Are we in? Man? What are we in? 0:14:56.920 --> 0:14:59.120 Because a guy should not be able to go across 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:04.040 the backside of your defense that easily untouched and there 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:06.720 are no cowboys even in the vicinity to stop it. 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:10.440 So I mean, defensively, man, we're lost all over the place. 0:15:10.480 --> 0:15:12.480 And I don't understand that. You know, it's enough to 0:15:12.600 --> 0:15:15.160 keep talking about scheme, but I just don't understand what 0:15:15.240 --> 0:15:18.920 it is that we're trying to accomplish on defense. Mike 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:21.360 McCarthy said after the game, Hack like, we're we're past 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:24.400 talking about scheme. You know. I don't blame him, you know, 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.480 And I mean he wasn't taking a shot at the players, 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:30.320 But what he didn't that question was about, you know, 0:15:30.560 --> 0:15:32.760 where are you with your scheme this late in the season. 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:35.720 And it's He's right, like, you can't talk about, oh, 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:37.560 we didn't have an off season when you're you know, 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:40.360 it's two weeks to Christmas. Yep, I mean it's too 0:15:40.440 --> 0:15:44.680 late for that. How does that still make sense? Though? Like, 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:47.200 I mean, that's the thing is why is there still 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:50.480 these kinds of lapses of breakdowns? And I know, Isaiah, 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:51.720 you said you don't want to blame it on the 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:54.560 coaching staff. Ultimately it comes down to the players. But 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:56.120 there's got to be a little bit for the coaching 0:15:56.200 --> 0:16:02.080 staff of that blame to be placed on him. Right, No, absolutely, no, 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.360 nobody is is exempt from fault here. Um, the guys 0:16:05.400 --> 0:16:07.240 that call the players, the guys that run the plays. 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:09.080 At some point in time, you have to go out 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:12.200 there and take over no matter what position you're playing 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:15.320 in this organization, and we're not seeing any of it. 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:17.920 We're not seeing much ownership. I think Lbe stepped up 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:20.520 and obviously took some ownership there, but the guys just 0:16:22.520 --> 0:16:25.440 it's not good. It said, you know, we can talk 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:27.360 about it to we're blue the face. It's just not good. 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.680 That defensive coordinator doesn't need to be here. I'm sorry, 0:16:30.880 --> 0:16:33.040 I'm not wanting to call for a man a man's job, 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:35.280 but this is not it. You know, maybe there's a 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.360 reason why he why he wasn't on a you know, 0:16:37.400 --> 0:16:40.520 on a coaching staff. He's this scheme is not working. Um, 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:43.120 you know he's he's he's made alterations to this scheme. 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:45.360 You know, with personnel changes. Guess what it is still 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.520 not working. Um. And you could look at the players 0:16:47.560 --> 0:16:49.080 and say, yeah, they need to be barried or better, 0:16:49.160 --> 0:16:51.360 but guess what whose jobs are to ensure that they're better? 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.640 Is your job? So you know, somebody has to make 0:16:54.680 --> 0:16:57.840 some move, whether it's players or or coaches. Um. But 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:00.440 there's gonna be some moving, some moving other chairs. Okay, 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:02.960 I can almost guarantee that following the season, there's gonna 0:17:02.960 --> 0:17:04.840 be a lot of changes with the personnel. I mean, 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:07.639 you've got a lot of free agents in the secondary 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:10.680 and don't I mean, you can't rebuild entirely through the 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:14.159 draft this year. But it's there's gonna be a lot 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.240 of changes on defense, There's no question about it. And 0:17:16.640 --> 0:17:18.520 you know, the other thing too, is and Jerry was 0:17:18.520 --> 0:17:21.240 asked about this on the Fan the Morning yesterday morning 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:23.960 about you know, two teams in your division that are 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:27.080 leading the division right now, Washington and New York have 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:30.800 new coaching staffs and and he said, it's fair to compare. 0:17:30.960 --> 0:17:34.359 You know, those teams are really or being led by 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:37.280 their defenses. So at this point you ought to be 0:17:37.359 --> 0:17:40.479 talking about progress, even though I think personnel wise they 0:17:40.520 --> 0:17:43.320 don't have the personnel, certainly at Washington does. But you 0:17:43.359 --> 0:17:45.399 should be talking about progress. And we were for a 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:47.480 couple of weeks, but it was like they took five 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:52.879 steps back last night. 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