Speaker 1: This he is Talking Cowboys screaming live on Dallas Cowboys
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Speaker 1: your hosts, Mickey Spagnola, Brian brought us, Taylor Stern and
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips welcome everyone into Talking Cowboys today, Monday, September eighteenth,
Speaker 1: of course, joined by Mickey, Rob and Brian in the
Speaker 1: SWBC Mortgage Studio. Last night it turned into night with
Speaker 1: an hour delay from the rain. But last night the
Speaker 1: Cowboys fall to one and one on the season, losing
Speaker 1: to the Broncos forty two seventeen in a game that
Speaker 1: became a blowout. And I speaking for myself here, but
Speaker 1: I didn't see that necessarily coming. But before we get
Speaker 1: to that, how are you guys doing today? You're hanging
Speaker 1: in there, You're keeping your heads up. Good to go,
Speaker 1: let's go, Ready to go, Ready go. These guys will
Speaker 1: break it down for you and tell you how the
Speaker 1: Cowboys will get back on track. And first of all,
Speaker 1: let's start with the main topic of it all. Ezekiel
Speaker 1: Elliott plays the game nine carries for eight yards total
Speaker 1: in the game. How were the Broncos just completely able
Speaker 1: to take him out of the game? Not even make
Speaker 1: him a threat be the Broncos. Brian, you want to
Speaker 1: take it, go ahead, if you got any thought, I
Speaker 1: think it's got to be credit to the Broncos defense
Speaker 1: first and foremost. I think this to me, this was
Speaker 1: the Giants game last December exaggerated in terms of the
Speaker 1: Broncos personnel stepping up and stopping running lanes. They did
Speaker 1: a terrific job. I mean their mo is to crowd
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage, load the box. As Brian watched
Speaker 1: the tape, he didn't see a ton of that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: saw that a little bit. But really they just they
Speaker 1: controlled the line of scrimmage. They dominated. That's really the
Speaker 1: only simple answer. Really. At four times they played eight
Speaker 1: man box, three times they played seven man box and
Speaker 1: some runs. So yeah, I didn't. I didn't feel like
Speaker 1: that they had to. I'll tell you where they that
Speaker 1: Cowboys had some problems is they had some individual guys
Speaker 1: lose in the running game. You know, individual blocks lose.
Speaker 1: Jason went and lost one time in a running game situation.
Speaker 1: Chaz Green lost in a one on one situation. But
Speaker 1: Rob's right, the Broncos just did a nice job of
Speaker 1: when it came to playing run defense, you know, and
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what really helped them in this game
Speaker 1: to control the run was the fact that they were
Speaker 1: able to make the Cowboys have to try and score
Speaker 1: along with them. I think that took the Cowboys out
Speaker 1: of their game plan to try and run. I mean,
Speaker 1: you didn't have some success all of a sudden, you
Speaker 1: kind of look up in the next CEO. They're they're
Speaker 1: driving the football and you and they're scoring, and they're
Speaker 1: scoring and their scoring, and You're now kind of in
Speaker 1: one of those modes where I got to figure out
Speaker 1: what we got to do to kind of get back
Speaker 1: in this football game. But the running game never materialized.
Speaker 1: And you know, a lot of it had to do
Speaker 1: with really what what the Broncos were able to do upfront.
Speaker 1: I thought the Broncos were basically movable with their defensive front,
Speaker 1: and I don't think it was one of the better
Speaker 1: games for the Cowboys offensive line, not only run blocking
Speaker 1: but also protecting the quarterback. There was a lot of
Speaker 1: dirty quarter dirty pockets for the quarterback. They just got
Speaker 1: beat up front. They just absolutely got whipped. And that's
Speaker 1: one of the things, you know, maybe we need to
Speaker 1: tap the brakes on Oh this is the best offensive
Speaker 1: line in the National Football League because the shirt and
Speaker 1: didn't play like it, which caused a lot of problems.
Speaker 1: When Zeke gets nine carries in only eight yards, there
Speaker 1: was nowhere to go. I thought they would run outside
Speaker 1: a lot more to get away from them three hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty pounders they had in the middle there. But
Speaker 1: you know they tried that too. Oh they couldn't get outside.
Speaker 1: Nothing was over. So what Jason Garrett said was they
Speaker 1: had to pass their way out of that problem, and
Speaker 1: they were incapable of passing their way. I know a
Speaker 1: lot of people want to say he was blaming it
Speaker 1: on Dak, but to me, he was blaming it on
Speaker 1: the entire passing game. The blocking up front. Some of
Speaker 1: the routes that were being run were not very crisp
Speaker 1: or accurate. Drop balls, drop balls for interceptions when you
Speaker 1: play like that on offense, and you know, look, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys aren't the eighty five Bears on defense, and they
Speaker 1: know they got to score points to win. And when
Speaker 1: you after two games only have three touchdowns and one
Speaker 1: was a gift on a fumble recovery at the three
Speaker 1: yard line, you're having problems offensively because You've got to
Speaker 1: score points to win. You're not gonna win playing defense
Speaker 1: with this team, You're right, Mickey. And last week a
Speaker 1: big discussion and going again to the Giants was going
Speaker 1: to be how is this team going to handle red
Speaker 1: zone efficiency? They didn't do it that well in the
Speaker 1: Giants and they definitely didn't do it well last night.
Speaker 1: Thirty three percent in the red zone compared to the
Speaker 1: Broncos obviously one hundred percent. Yeah, so how do you
Speaker 1: fix that problem? How do you get don't get behind
Speaker 1: thirty five seventeen start, But that's where the red zone
Speaker 1: problems came in at the end of the game. At
Speaker 1: the beginning of the game, they weren't getting to the
Speaker 1: red zone right, They were punting right, that was the problem.
Speaker 1: They at halftime, what did they have about one hundred
Speaker 1: yards total offense? If that they had less than two
Speaker 1: hundred and the fourth quarter, Yeah, they were at like
Speaker 1: one sixty seven midway through the fourth. I mean that
Speaker 1: that hasn't happened for this offense in years. I think
Speaker 1: it was like sixty something at a halftime. Sixty Where
Speaker 1: are you looking? I think I think the Broncos secondary
Speaker 1: had a lot to do with you know, we talk
Speaker 1: about the running game. I think the Broncos secondary had
Speaker 1: a lot to do with the Cowboys misery overall. I
Speaker 1: don't think the Cowboys. Mickey's right. And we could talk
Speaker 1: about the blocking up front, you know, we could talk
Speaker 1: about all the things like that and pressure and whatever
Speaker 1: you want to say. But I think the Broncos secondary
Speaker 1: was clearly better than what the Dallas receivers were, you know,
Speaker 1: and that's and that's if you're not getting open or
Speaker 1: you're not you know, you're you're not even having any
Speaker 1: type of success. I can't tell you how many times
Speaker 1: I looked up watching and thinking, Okay, somebody's gonna come
Speaker 1: open late. And nobody comes open late. I mean, they're
Speaker 1: playing single high and nobody's open, and you know, Dak's
Speaker 1: having to try and make some throws. Mickey's right. The
Speaker 1: Dez Bryant interception was really unfortunate. You know, that's something
Speaker 1: that you know, you don't see from him that the balls.
Speaker 1: Dak threw some really poor balls. The interception that went
Speaker 1: back for one hundred and three yards was a poorly
Speaker 1: thrown ball. He should have thrown that ball to Deaz.
Speaker 1: I mean, with the way the way that to Lee
Speaker 1: was playing Deaz all day. I would have stayed away
Speaker 1: from to Lee, but that didn't matter. If you go
Speaker 1: the other way, they're the two corners were just Harrison
Speaker 1: the But yeah, they were just as good. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean it was just as good. It was a it
Speaker 1: was as bad. They they talked about blueprints and whatever. No,
Speaker 1: their players were just clearly better. Yeah, they were better
Speaker 1: at they were better on they were better on the upfront,
Speaker 1: they were better in the secondary, and they surely tackled
Speaker 1: better than what we saw from the Cowboys defense. I'm
Speaker 1: glad Brian mentioned blueprint because that's kind of a narrative
Speaker 1: coming out of this game that, oh, now there's if
Speaker 1: you have those players, good luck, go play it all day.
Speaker 1: Now there's a template for stopping the Cowboys. Where was
Speaker 1: that template for most of last year? I mean, sure, okay,
Speaker 1: the players stop the run and play man to man
Speaker 1: and forced the Cowboys to throw. There's only certain number
Speaker 1: of defenses that can do that. We've seen the Giants
Speaker 1: be able to do it, and the Broncos had been
Speaker 1: able to do it. Minnesota played them well too last year.
Speaker 1: But the difference and we'll get to the Cowboys defense,
Speaker 1: I'm sure, but really efficient Broncos offense way more efficient
Speaker 1: than what the Giants were able to do. And a
Speaker 1: lot of that was the Cowboys I'm doing defensively, we're struggling.
Speaker 1: You brought up Dez Bryant and he talked about it
Speaker 1: just being a bad day at the office. He said,
Speaker 1: then he had a bad day and I called him out.
Speaker 1: I called him out on you got the prediction right,
Speaker 1: we got the over anxious out of his game. As Bryant,
Speaker 1: I sure got what the word you you used last Friday, volcano? Volcano?
Speaker 1: Does he he lost his composure, sure, and lost his
Speaker 1: especially after he dropped the slant that went for an interception.
Speaker 1: Then he wasn't running accurate routes. That's he wasn't on
Speaker 1: the same page with Dak. Dak's throwing back, shoulders stops
Speaker 1: and he's going and the cornerbacks are breaking. That's somewhat
Speaker 1: would happened in the end zone on that interception. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: Dak thought he was gonna stop and kept going. It
Speaker 1: was it was he let to leave undercut the route. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just to pour, I just thought, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's you're right though, that to me, you
Speaker 1: could talk about the Broncos front, but and von Miller
Speaker 1: and what, you know, what he was able to. In
Speaker 1: a matter of fact, you know, looking at the overall
Speaker 1: numbers for for Lhile Collins, you know on thirty four snaps,
Speaker 1: I had a thirty four gradable snaps for him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you had twenty plus his twelve minuses and two really
Speaker 1: ungradable plays. So you know that's you know, but von
Speaker 1: Miller ended up with two sacks. He also had four
Speaker 1: off sides playing. I just told you, really the desperation
Speaker 1: I didn't think. I didn't think that Lyle Collins was terrible. Again,
Speaker 1: I didn't, I really did. I've seen offensive tackles play
Speaker 1: far worse than that. And and but you know, the
Speaker 1: the the narrative, as Rob likes to use that word,
Speaker 1: the narrative is, oh, that Lyle Collins got his ass kicked.
Speaker 1: That's really not I don't think the case there. Now,
Speaker 1: if you want to say the offense as a whole
Speaker 1: got their ass king, yeah they did. They didn't do
Speaker 1: a very good job of run blocking. The quarterback was off,
Speaker 1: the receivers were off, like you said, and the Broncos
Speaker 1: secondary just did a great job of just choking anything
Speaker 1: else off you were trying to don His two sacks
Speaker 1: came late in the fourth quarter. Now, he did have
Speaker 1: five quarterback hits, right, so they were getting part of
Speaker 1: the bonuses. Yeah, they were. They were getting pressure on Dak,
Speaker 1: but the sacks came real late, and he should have
Speaker 1: been called for more off sides he than he did.
Speaker 1: They were jumping the snap count, and there was a
Speaker 1: couple of times it was obvious he was off size.
Speaker 1: They didn't throw a flag, so I think there's a
Speaker 1: couple of times he missed loile jumping out of his
Speaker 1: stance though too too. So yeah, it was probably a wash,
Speaker 1: Not sure, probably a wash. Those guys had probably a
Speaker 1: wash by the way. Yeah, but yeah, they they just
Speaker 1: didn't keep Dak clean. They were coming and they weren't
Speaker 1: really blitzing. They played their three fourth front right, you know.
Speaker 1: And and they kind of stayed with it too. They
Speaker 1: didn't play Nickel a lot. They said, no, we're gonna
Speaker 1: put a because there was a lot of times they
Speaker 1: had a linebacker in the slot. Uh. And but they
Speaker 1: were getting to Dak where he couldn't wait for guys
Speaker 1: to get open. It had to be quicker. They couldn't
Speaker 1: get down the field, and then when you get behind,
Speaker 1: well they they had their place, They had their safeties
Speaker 1: playing in Boulder. Yeah, you know, they were so deep
Speaker 1: and and the cornerbacks were you know, ten yards off
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and it's like, hey, big boy,
Speaker 1: eat all you want underneath, but you're not getting over
Speaker 1: the top. They didn't come out trying to run the
Speaker 1: ball though. The first fourteen plays they had three Zke runs,
Speaker 1: ten throws and one Dack scramble. So they tried early
Speaker 1: and I don't know if abandon is the right word,
Speaker 1: but they went past happy early on in the game. Well,
Speaker 1: I felt like though that once they once they felt
Speaker 1: like they couldn't run, once they saw some of the earth.
Speaker 1: I'd given credit to Denver's offense. I think Denver did
Speaker 1: exactly on offense to win that game what Dallas needed
Speaker 1: to do. I mean the run, the football, control, passing,
Speaker 1: game break. Some tackles put pressure on, put pressure on
Speaker 1: Trevor Simeon to have to make throws to keep up.
Speaker 1: Never had to, never had to. Never. You know, the
Speaker 1: one when it was seven to seven, you're thinking like, well,
Speaker 1: maybe Dallas is going to find some traction here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they didn't, you know, and then the mis tackles
Speaker 1: and all that started happening, And yeah, it's difficult. It's
Speaker 1: difficult to play from behind in this league, especially when
Speaker 1: you get way behind in this list. C. J. Anderson
Speaker 1: was terrific for that, and a lot of mistackles by
Speaker 1: the cow was Broncos take nine to fifteen on third down,
Speaker 1: and really Simon only had a couple real third and
Speaker 1: longs in the entire game. You to make nine third
Speaker 1: and eleven third and fifteen late when the game was
Speaker 1: already out of hand, you had to make it worse
Speaker 1: than that. It was nine of twelve till they got
Speaker 1: to the fourth quarter, right. All they were trying to
Speaker 1: do is burn clock right exactly. And you know, we
Speaker 1: well get really into the Cowboys defense and how kind
Speaker 1: of a little bit different narrative than the week one
Speaker 1: whenever it was ready to call this the best defense
Speaker 1: in the NFL. But going back to Dak pres say,
Speaker 1: everybody maybe not Mickey, I don't think anybody here said that.
Speaker 1: I thought they were going to play better than they
Speaker 1: thought they would have played. I thought the running game
Speaker 1: would travel, but deminishing returns when you're playing all those
Speaker 1: young kids in the backfield that hadn't played in the
Speaker 1: positions they were asking over play, but that was that
Speaker 1: was secondary. We'll get there, get there, we'll get there.
Speaker 1: We want up front, Hey, we'll get to that. I'm
Speaker 1: right before you had to dive into that. But let's
Speaker 1: talk more about Dak Prescott. We pre game, we're talking
Speaker 1: about how he is about to cross off this milestone
Speaker 1: at five hundred pass attempts with the fewest interceptions known
Speaker 1: to an NFL quarterback, and here he goes and has
Speaker 1: two picks. Mickey explained it to you about playing behind
Speaker 1: like that. Of course you're rushing your passes, but that's
Speaker 1: just so unlike him to have had one pick. You're
Speaker 1: calling the Dez won the goodness gracious, he's got to
Speaker 1: catch that and go twenty yards. Has saved a couple
Speaker 1: others he did well, Yeah, because that might have been
Speaker 1: their best defensive back yesterday. It could have been three
Speaker 1: slash four picks in that game potentially, but it wasn't.
Speaker 1: And one of them what shouldn't have been there? It
Speaker 1: should have been a twenty yard reception. But why was
Speaker 1: Dak so inaccurate? I told you he didn't get any protection.
Speaker 1: He was under fire the whole game. They were all
Speaker 1: around him. Who do you think was the weakest link
Speaker 1: the offensive line as a whole on the offense and
Speaker 1: the fact that they couldn't run the game. So now
Speaker 1: Denver said, huh, we got this run. Stop, let's go
Speaker 1: get him. The week is linked on the offensive line,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? It didn't to me. I
Speaker 1: thought the press, I thought the pressure wasn't bad until
Speaker 1: the very end of the just watching the film, just
Speaker 1: watching the film, I mean I was looking for I
Speaker 1: was looking for a Chaz Green bust. He had one,
Speaker 1: I was. I mean one where he just clearly, you know,
Speaker 1: gave up the guy. I was looking for Lyle Collins
Speaker 1: to really have a bunch of them. I mean, I
Speaker 1: didn't feel like that. Like I say, I gave you
Speaker 1: the breakdown to him. Twenty minus plays. That's gonna be
Speaker 1: some pressure there. That's gonna be some you know, some
Speaker 1: things where it's late pressure stuff. But I'm just telling
Speaker 1: you to me, there were no there was nowhere to
Speaker 1: throw this football, nowhere to throw this football. I think
Speaker 1: cowboys on the receiving corps. If you watched them as
Speaker 1: a whole was probably the best they'd been covering to
Speaker 1: some Giants games. Giants game last the Giants games. There
Speaker 1: have been some games where you're like, man, there is
Speaker 1: nobody open here. But when even even when Dak had
Speaker 1: time to make a throw, there was nobody down the fields.
Speaker 1: Some of the things he checked down or through to
Speaker 1: Zeke or throw underneath or made some of those shows
Speaker 1: there was nobody down the field that was open. Beasley,
Speaker 1: who you normally think is he wasn't open, you know.
Speaker 1: And then and then like the one like he makes
Speaker 1: a kind of a miracle pass on an off sides
Speaker 1: play down the field to Bryce Butler. Butler was open,
Speaker 1: but it looked like everybody kind of stopped on the
Speaker 1: play a little bit. And now that allowed Butler to
Speaker 1: get open. But other than that, I mean it, Jason Witton,
Speaker 1: I mean, think about what happened. Though Jason Winton had
Speaker 1: a touchdown, dropped a touchdown, Bryce Butler had drop dropped it,
Speaker 1: that would have been a fourth and one at at
Speaker 1: you know, it's a third and fifteen and he drops it,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be right at the sticks. They're gonna mark
Speaker 1: him a yard short. But I'm just looking at these
Speaker 1: receivers and I'm thinking, Okay, if it turns into a
Speaker 1: passing game, you gotta get open and then and nobody did.
Speaker 1: Nobody did and that and that's the thing that you
Speaker 1: know when you say, well, how do you stop the
Speaker 1: Cowboys were stopped the running? Well, no, just stop the receivers.
Speaker 1: Make make that Prescott have to make a bunch of
Speaker 1: tough throws. Da Dak put the blame on himself post game.
Speaker 1: He's the quarterback and he kind of fell on the sword.
Speaker 1: I think he had a part of it. Obviously, he missed.
Speaker 1: He missed some throws and he spoke to what you said, Brian,
Speaker 1: that there's tight windows and I've got to be able
Speaker 1: to make some of those throws. But but again you're right,
Speaker 1: guys aren't open. But it was it was interesting Tay
Speaker 1: watching Dak in the post game. It was like Mickey
Speaker 1: was there. It was it was like he was looking
Speaker 1: at all the media members like okay, you get my
Speaker 1: point here, like I'm this is the narrative, Like I'm
Speaker 1: I'm following on the sword here. Yeah, And you know
Speaker 1: that's what a quarterback does. I don't think it's all
Speaker 1: on him. Definitely not his best game, but yeah, there
Speaker 1: was some other factors in it that made made life
Speaker 1: difficult for him. I'll be honest, I thought he I
Speaker 1: thought the pressure was there. Now he got they marked
Speaker 1: him down for seven quarterback hurries or hits. I thought
Speaker 1: it was more than that. It felt like he got
Speaker 1: sacked six times. You watched you if you sit down
Speaker 1: and really and Mickey, I know, you go back and
Speaker 1: see this some more. If you go back and watch
Speaker 1: the tape. There are times where he has the ability
Speaker 1: to throw the football and there's no but and he
Speaker 1: but he has to come off the read so fast
Speaker 1: because of what's going on. I mean, it's like cover
Speaker 1: cover Now now you're now you get the leakage or whatever,
Speaker 1: a little bit of pressure that you have. Count the
Speaker 1: hurries or hits. Yeah, count count the times he had
Speaker 1: to run, which I think was three and those weren't
Speaker 1: called runs, right, and then to dump offs the dead sure,
Speaker 1: I mean to Zeke, those weren't called that. That was
Speaker 1: safety valve right, So that that probably was a dozen
Speaker 1: plays right there? Easy? Easy? Yeah, And so you didn't
Speaker 1: have let me beginning with sixty six I think, and
Speaker 1: then count the drops you know, it was just a
Speaker 1: horrible passing day. It wasn't all him, it was the
Speaker 1: entire unit. And that's what Jason Garrett said after the game.
Speaker 1: We had to pass our way out of here, out
Speaker 1: of that problem when we couldn't do it right. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: taking care of old Mickey over there, which I appreciate
Speaker 1: because it was a game where they needed to make
Speaker 1: some adjustments, and particularly to their secondary. Let's address some
Speaker 1: injuries that occurred during the game. Of course, Orlando Skendrick
Speaker 1: was inactive. People thought he was going to play. We
Speaker 1: knew it here, right, Brian, do your sign? He was out.
Speaker 1: Nolan Carroll gets a little bit banged up in the game,
Speaker 1: then it goes out with a concussion. Cheeto early in
Speaker 1: the game goes out with the same hamstring injury. How
Speaker 1: do they even evaluate these dbs now in the depth
Speaker 1: that they're going to have their Jordan Lewis, playing his
Speaker 1: first game, gets a pick. But Mick, what are they
Speaker 1: gonna do? Help us out? They gotta get healthy? How
Speaker 1: can they do that? Benet ben Wiker, were you better
Speaker 1: get ready to play? Because I got a feeling Carroll's
Speaker 1: not playing. I mentioned this Friday, just a possibility of
Speaker 1: Noah Brown being active. You guys surprised at that. I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess you can't predict that two of your corners
Speaker 1: are going to go down because you're saying it should
Speaker 1: have maybe been been a Well, they were in a
Speaker 1: tight situation there because okay, you're you're without Scandric, right,
Speaker 1: but you it's like on the other side of the ball,
Speaker 1: Terrence Williams in practice, Bryce Butler wasn't practicing the whole week,
Speaker 1: So you had two wide receivers that you didn't know
Speaker 1: if they can make it through the game. Also, so
Speaker 1: you kind of pick your poison there on who you
Speaker 1: keep active. I think between Noah Brown and Ben Rickery.
Speaker 1: You know, as it turned out, yeah, they could have
Speaker 1: used him because not only did you have to play
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis about I'm gonna guess about forty snaps more
Speaker 1: than you planned on, because he was just going to
Speaker 1: be out there on dime and play special teams. He
Speaker 1: had to be basically your starter. And then because you
Speaker 1: ran out of corners, Xavier Woods, your safety has to
Speaker 1: come in and play the nickel spot in the slot.
Speaker 1: But she's done that, But did that second or third time. Right, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he ain't doing it against Sanders and Thomas. That's a
Speaker 1: fair point, you know. So yeah, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: you got to the point where, okay, fine, you know
Speaker 1: it's a bold thing to say, next man up. But
Speaker 1: when the guys aren't prepared to do what they were doing,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you just get diminishing return. You want a
Speaker 1: bright spot in this one, I do. I'll give you
Speaker 1: one bright spot that I saw. It's the fact that
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis played and I'm and I'm okay with that.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know it sounds you know, we're we're
Speaker 1: you know, Mickey's right. The kid took absolutely no snaps
Speaker 1: during the week of practice with the ones. Maybe one
Speaker 1: or two. I mean, I just asked me, how much
Speaker 1: did he really he goes? He didn't. This guy goes.
Speaker 1: He didn't practice very much with the ones, the twos.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's gonna do it here he is. He
Speaker 1: plays similar to what Anthony Brown had to do the
Speaker 1: other day against the Giants, playing thirty five snaps in
Speaker 1: the slot. That to me was encouraging the fact that
Speaker 1: he was out there. Was he perfect? No, he wasn't.
Speaker 1: Was it good positioning on this interception. Absolutely he could
Speaker 1: have been. He could have been on the on the
Speaker 1: route that Thomas is stumbling and he could have you know,
Speaker 1: stumbled right along with him. Instead, he held his position,
Speaker 1: ball was to him, showed ball skills, got up the field.
Speaker 1: He tackled well in this game. They brought him in
Speaker 1: a couple of different times where he was like a
Speaker 1: slot slot player and to try and stop the run.
Speaker 1: He was able to do that. I think the physicality
Speaker 1: which he played with I thought was good. So yeah,
Speaker 1: if he has to play, I'm all for that. I
Speaker 1: like the fact that he didn't back down. No, he struggled,
Speaker 1: but you know what, he kept coming if you kept
Speaker 1: playing hard, if you've given up on Nolan Carroll, if
Speaker 1: Norland Carroll's But yeah, I can say Ben Wickery was
Speaker 1: a guy that I thought to get Demontre Moore back
Speaker 1: on the roster this week. Matter of fact, he gets
Speaker 1: to come off I think tomorrow because we got a
Speaker 1: money night game tonight. Yeah, the different week. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: tomorrow will be his first time that he can come back.
Speaker 1: I was thinking ben Wickery was going to be that guy,
Speaker 1: but I don't think it. Can't do it now because
Speaker 1: you've got to you've got to look at it. You're
Speaker 1: thinking about him possibly playing. So to me, you know what,
Speaker 1: it's a shame of Woozier went down because I was
Speaker 1: hopeful that him and Lewis and those guys and Brown,
Speaker 1: we're all gonna get opportunities to keep playing, just no
Speaker 1: matter how good or bad, just keep playing and figure
Speaker 1: it out with those guys. Maybe Jordan Lewis is better
Speaker 1: than Nolan Carroll. That that was my hope. I mean
Speaker 1: that when that was gonna be what I was thinking, Hey,
Speaker 1: if he's gonna have to start, put him out there,
Speaker 1: limb start. But you know, Scandrick Brown, Lewis, give me
Speaker 1: his Minio's cornerbacks that can cover. I just we'll see
Speaker 1: on a Woozier. But there's got to be some concern
Speaker 1: there that this is going to be another multi weak
Speaker 1: type injury. Oh, it will be. It's the same. He
Speaker 1: will being aggravated. That's why they try to bring those
Speaker 1: guys along slowly with those soft tissue injuries because you
Speaker 1: don't want to reaggravate it. And that's what he's done.
Speaker 1: And it's just a shame for a young guy to
Speaker 1: not have this on field reps. He missed enough time
Speaker 1: in camp already. I mean, what did he play two series?
Speaker 1: And basically yeah, yeah, so they've they've got a tough
Speaker 1: decision to make it. They want more on the fifty
Speaker 1: three man roster. Somebody's got to go. It was his
Speaker 1: man on the It was his man on the on
Speaker 1: the first touchdown. You know, let us go inside. You
Speaker 1: can't do that. I'm not on the goal line, you can't.
Speaker 1: Jane Rone Elliott was also inactive yesterday, the new linebacker
Speaker 1: they brought in. And surprisingly, guys, this team, even though
Speaker 1: they went against some of the best runners in the
Speaker 1: league last year, hadn't allowed a one hundred yard rusher
Speaker 1: since two thousand Alfred since yeah, the two thousand and
Speaker 1: fifteen season, Alfred Moors with the Redskins. Obviously, he didn't
Speaker 1: even play yesterday. Oh, he played a couple of snaps.
Speaker 1: Why did they put there? He did not pay? He did.
Speaker 1: He did play. A mistake, made a mistake there. He played.
Speaker 1: He did because I was curious. Mistake I was curious
Speaker 1: rod Smith at the end though, right, no, no, but
Speaker 1: he played one snap. He tried to they they they
Speaker 1: they were gonna run. I think that we're gonna run
Speaker 1: a screen, and he kind of checked up and then
Speaker 1: went out. But he did play in the game. I
Speaker 1: noticed that just watching the tape. So Shaun Lee comes
Speaker 1: out and he's just like Dak Prescott, the quarterback of
Speaker 1: the defense, basically saying, this was my worst game ever.
Speaker 1: And I saw you right about it, Brian. The tackling.
Speaker 1: Why was it not there for him? Yeah? That that
Speaker 1: I think the for him or just as the unit.
Speaker 1: I think as the team. Yeah, as the unit was bad,
Speaker 1: and you know, and then it's the great example though,
Speaker 1: was the twenty eight yard run that that Anderson had
Speaker 1: where you know he was able to just I mean
Speaker 1: it was it was incredible. Yeah, I mean he's running
Speaker 1: through Jeff Heath, He's running through Janal Smith, he's running
Speaker 1: through Sean Lee, he's running through uh Nolan Carroll, you
Speaker 1: know all these guys. He's just but yeah, as a group,
Speaker 1: it was really poor. They did they didn't They physically
Speaker 1: got beat up in that part that I thought felt
Speaker 1: like that the Broncos running the ball, catching the ball,
Speaker 1: it made it difficult that you know, where the Cowboys were.
Speaker 1: Their guys when they made a play got tackled, the
Speaker 1: Broncos made it very difficult the way their ball carriers
Speaker 1: and the open field and stuff, the running backs, the receivers,
Speaker 1: the tight end. I mean, they they made it. It
Speaker 1: seemed like every time they were their plays were finishing
Speaker 1: going forward, and you know there was somebody hanging on,
Speaker 1: you know, hanging getting drug an extra three or four yards.
Speaker 1: So yeah, when you when you don't wrap up. There
Speaker 1: was a lot of shoulder throwing in their body tackling.
Speaker 1: And when you do that, then you're not gonna You're
Speaker 1: not gonna have a very good day tackling overall. Is
Speaker 1: it blasphemous to say that they missed Anthony Hitchins in
Speaker 1: this game? Just insulted. I didn't think I didn't think
Speaker 1: that that Jalen Smith was terrible. Okay, I didn't think
Speaker 1: he was terrible, and I you know, some of the
Speaker 1: stuff right at him. I thought he handled very well.
Speaker 1: There were a couple of times the outside that he
Speaker 1: was in position, Like you said, Mickey, I know your
Speaker 1: questioning that, and that's fair, but I felt like that
Speaker 1: that when he had a couple of times where he
Speaker 1: just fell off where it normally you might see him
Speaker 1: wrap up a little bit better. I think he led
Speaker 1: the team in tackle how he did with ten, probably
Speaker 1: could have had three more. But they ran for one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy eight yards. Yeah, And what did I
Speaker 1: say Friday, If they ran for one hundred and forty
Speaker 1: yards like they did against the Chargers, Cowboys were gonna
Speaker 1: get beat. Yeah, and they ran for one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy eight. That's not just Jaylen, that's Sean No. I'm
Speaker 1: saying front. Yeah, they had. The front was bad, and
Speaker 1: then they also had problems to the safety. The safety
Speaker 1: play was bad too, as far as when the guys
Speaker 1: came down, I mean Byron Jones had a couple of
Speaker 1: them where he missed one right in there. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: missed one till he was getting cracked. He was getting
Speaker 1: cracked by Thomas and he was gonna he's looking at
Speaker 1: the play next, you know, his eyes look, and then
Speaker 1: Anderson just goes right by him. He's missed a couple.
Speaker 1: He fell down once. Uh. MALIEK. Collins was m I A.
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened with him. He had an
Speaker 1: assisted tackle, yeah, early in the game, assisted tackle. Well,
Speaker 1: early in the game. Won early in the game. I
Speaker 1: thought he was better early in the game, you know,
Speaker 1: the matter of fact, when they got the fumbles, the
Speaker 1: twist stunt that they were able to run and get
Speaker 1: him home. But overall, you know, these uh, I'll tell you,
Speaker 1: Ron Larry had attack of a game for them. It
Speaker 1: makes a difference, you really did playing right guard and
Speaker 1: there and they're and they're you know, left guard has
Speaker 1: kind of been a revolving door over there for them.
Speaker 1: But they they up front, they were dated a nice job.
Speaker 1: You know, Tank got a couple of pressures and a
Speaker 1: couple of the sacks. But other than that, you got
Speaker 1: to give the Broncos a tip to Cap Again, everything
Speaker 1: that Dallas needed to do to win that football game,
Speaker 1: the Broncos did. That's if the game planned to win.
Speaker 1: The Broncos did. And they still can't find somebody to
Speaker 1: be effective at the right defensive end spot. Those guys
Speaker 1: did nothing, no, nothing. Yeah, Taco Taco had one time
Speaker 1: where he had spin move that got a little pressure
Speaker 1: forcing completion. Yeah, that was it. But other than that,
Speaker 1: I mean, they're they're looking they're looking for Yeah, he
Speaker 1: just he didn't do very well. Tyron Crawford was in there,
Speaker 1: he's tackle and yeah, but their right tackle spot for Denver.
Speaker 1: You wrote about this, that was the weak link for yeahson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Watson was the weak link and they and they were
Speaker 1: able to take advantage of that. And you know, but
Speaker 1: you couldn't never get them in a situation where it
Speaker 1: was third and long and you had to throw the football.
Speaker 1: You never would get him in that where like they
Speaker 1: had the Giants the other day, where they're able to
Speaker 1: get some pass us or generate some pass rush because
Speaker 1: of down and distance. They were in a lot of
Speaker 1: third and fourth. Yeah, they were way ahead of the
Speaker 1: change the second down, and I mean second down in one,
Speaker 1: A lot of that, second and two, a lot of that,
Speaker 1: either because they threw the football or they were able
Speaker 1: to run for six seven yards at the time. Well,
Speaker 1: we have a caller on the line. You guys can
Speaker 1: still call us the numbers two, one, four, eight seven, two,
Speaker 1: twenty one or two. But let's welcome in rocket from Orlando. Hi, guys,
Speaker 1: how y'all doing today? Good? Oh? Painful? Painful. It was
Speaker 1: painful to watch, not because we had our shirts handed
Speaker 1: to us, but because of the kind of attitude that
Speaker 1: was demonstrated throughout the game. I mean, nothing demonstrated this
Speaker 1: better to me than Zeke's response to the interception that
Speaker 1: was in his vicinity, and whenever the whenever Aikman on
Speaker 1: the other chap got the camera back, he just had
Speaker 1: his hands on his hits instead of running and chasing
Speaker 1: the ball. I was so irate when I saw that,
Speaker 1: just a really, really bad attitude Brady would have had
Speaker 1: people lit up on the sidelines, and we don't. We
Speaker 1: just don't have anybody with that intensity certainly that I
Speaker 1: saw in that game. Okay, well, so the second point,
Speaker 1: the second point I wanted to make quickly is that
Speaker 1: a number one receiver is not synonymous with elite, and
Speaker 1: we're paying Dez to the elite, and we just haven't
Speaker 1: seen that in the last few years. And Brian, you
Speaker 1: were right that Carol's really not an upgrade at that position.
Speaker 1: So I just I'll come off and listen to you
Speaker 1: guys chat. Thanks a lot for taking the call. Thank you. Rocket.
Speaker 1: Garrett on the fan this morning was asked about Ezekieli
Speaker 1: giving up on that plane, if he believed that he
Speaker 1: did or not, and I thought he had an interesting answer.
Speaker 1: You know, he's a coach, he knows how to handle
Speaker 1: these types of situations, so maybe this is just coach speak,
Speaker 1: but he said, of course, you always want guys to
Speaker 1: pursue the football. That's what you teach them. What what'd
Speaker 1: you coach them? But he thought this was a great
Speaker 1: coaching moment for the entire team to see that when
Speaker 1: you don't pursue the football, it's going to fire back. Sure. Sure, right,
Speaker 1: that's that's the foundation of their program, right and Zeke
Speaker 1: and Zeke's a competitor. I think I think these guys
Speaker 1: got frustrated. They got frustrated because I think we established it.
Speaker 1: I mean, they just got beat down up front, both
Speaker 1: lines of scrimmage, Denver dominated, and I think it wears
Speaker 1: on you after a while. No excuse for you, I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't do that. But yeah, that's that's that's where
Speaker 1: it came to. Essentially, people now taking shots at Zeke
Speaker 1: you know, oh yeah, fight you know, yeah, yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you know, and and and
Speaker 1: nothing against Rocket the caller. I'm saying. I'm just saying that,
Speaker 1: you know. It's it's amazing how we go this in
Speaker 1: this game from a week to week. We're like a
Speaker 1: week to week team is what we are as fans.
Speaker 1: Weird that's way, and you know, yeah, it was it bad. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think Coach Garrett addressed it, will address it in
Speaker 1: the meeting with everybody. Absolutely, he'll say that does Ezeki
Speaker 1: Elliott know that he should have probably chased that play? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: But I can also think about the times when Ezeki
Speaker 1: Elliott was really the only damn thing you had running
Speaker 1: the football, finishing things out, running over people, making plays,
Speaker 1: diving for the pylon, picking up guys on blitz, pickup
Speaker 1: so Dak Prescott. Yeah, you have a bad play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you have a bad game? Yeah? Was he frustrated? Yeah?
Speaker 1: But but you sit there and you want to sit
Speaker 1: there and pile things on him about one play. You
Speaker 1: got to remember where he's at right now. And I'm
Speaker 1: not saying because of the off the field stuff, but
Speaker 1: I don't blame him for being frustrated. I really really don't.
Speaker 1: Is this team too one dimensional with their run with
Speaker 1: Ezeki Elliott being their main guy? What do you mean
Speaker 1: is the team too one dimensional? In leaning completely on
Speaker 1: Ezeki Elliott? What would you lean on? Well, she's saying,
Speaker 1: I believe, I believe what you're saying. I'm not understanding.
Speaker 1: That's why I'm asking does this do they rely too
Speaker 1: much on the run, rely too much on the run,
Speaker 1: because I've seen him throw the ball and be effective.
Speaker 1: They just weren't effective again this team. I think they
Speaker 1: ran into a buzz all. I think they still their
Speaker 1: identity is to be physical, Tay and I and I'm
Speaker 1: passing and running, yeah, and if if the run can
Speaker 1: set up the pass, I'm all, yeah, that's that's what
Speaker 1: you have to do, you know. And I Rob's right,
Speaker 1: they ran into a better front, And I thought, I
Speaker 1: thought that the Giant's front was better than Denver's front.
Speaker 1: And I still, in my heart of hearts, believe that
Speaker 1: the Giants the way they play match up with the
Speaker 1: Cowboys better. But but but you saw what can happen
Speaker 1: if they If Cowboys have to play an offense that
Speaker 1: can generate points and generate yards like they like Denver
Speaker 1: was able to do, that puts them in a bind
Speaker 1: if they can't run the football. So to me, I
Speaker 1: do believe it's still their identity. I do believe it's
Speaker 1: the best way to win the football games. Because Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott throwing the ball fifty times is not the answer.
Speaker 1: It's not the answer for any team. Now, maybe it's
Speaker 1: Drew Brees or I remember talking to Sean Payton about this.
Speaker 1: He goes, Heck, I want to run the football, but
Speaker 1: every time I look up, we've thrown the ball forty
Speaker 1: one times and we've taken a loss. He goes, So,
Speaker 1: I think their identity is the right thing. Was it
Speaker 1: a bad game yesterday? Absolutely? It was all right. Well,
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Speaker 1: you guys were going s mellot in the frigerator upstairs. Yeah, nicky,
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Speaker 1: Well you guys could watch and eat some Papa John's
Speaker 1: tonight as the Giants will be playing Monday Night Football.
Speaker 1: Of course the Cowboys we'll be next week. But let's
Speaker 1: get some NFC East watching in tonight to see the
Speaker 1: Giants come back from their first loss and we go
Speaker 1: in two. That'd be nice, so by them down the hatchet? Sure?
Speaker 1: Why not? How many times did you watch the leverage penalty.
Speaker 1: I was confused by that one. I appreciate as a
Speaker 1: former long snapper in college that they're trying to protect
Speaker 1: the centers. But I don't know how you jumped straight
Speaker 1: up without putting your hand on the blocker. I didn't
Speaker 1: put his head down by toes. Yeah, I don't quite
Speaker 1: get that I wrote about that wasn't it was on
Speaker 1: the It wasn't the center either. It was one of
Speaker 1: the Yeah I've got there. Anybody with their head down,
Speaker 1: that's what they're trying to protect. They don't want you
Speaker 1: doing that. But I maybe I don't know the rules
Speaker 1: anymore in the NFL, I really don't. So what happens
Speaker 1: is they have these these new rules or the emphasis
Speaker 1: on these rules, and then the officials over exaggerate what
Speaker 1: they're looking at. Because when a guy dives at someone's
Speaker 1: foot to Marcus Lawrence, and that was his first move
Speaker 1: and protect yourself, and you pushed them down right, and
Speaker 1: then you said, okay, I'm gonna jump up. It wasn't
Speaker 1: like he ran put his hand on the guy right leap.
Speaker 1: The guy was already down. You're protecting yourself. But just
Speaker 1: a terrible call. And I know they got beat forty
Speaker 1: two to seventeen. But at that point in the game
Speaker 1: it was seven to seven. It was gonna be ten seven, right,
Speaker 1: ten seven, it would have been seventeen ten at halftime.
Speaker 1: What seems like to me a huge difference in twenty
Speaker 1: one ten. No, you're right, a field goal turned into
Speaker 1: a touchdown on that call. Can I ask another thing, please?
Speaker 1: Do Rob, you watch a ton of college football, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: both of you guys do, and you watch for college
Speaker 1: football too. So when Xavier Woods did he is there
Speaker 1: a college rule about you could be in the end
Speaker 1: zone and then come back to get a ball. I
Speaker 1: believe so. I think he was playing college rule. I
Speaker 1: think I think what happened when he had a chance
Speaker 1: to down the ball on the one about and I
Speaker 1: think Aikman explained it. He said, in college, it's not
Speaker 1: who's in the end zone, right, it's where the ball is, right.
Speaker 1: And I think he might have got confused, right, But
Speaker 1: I think he lost track to exactly where he was,
Speaker 1: Like he get back and up. It looked like he
Speaker 1: was in the end zone and he knew he was
Speaker 1: in the end zone and he was coming forward like
Speaker 1: he was playing college football. I need to ask, but
Speaker 1: when I saw it, because Chris Jones for two weeks
Speaker 1: has been outstanding that that ball should have been on
Speaker 1: the one yard line, you know, and Xavier Woods, he's
Speaker 1: a rookie, I get it, but I think he was
Speaker 1: in his mind he was playing college football, like I
Speaker 1: can go in the end zone. I just batted out
Speaker 1: and then batted out. Yeah, and where the ball is?
Speaker 1: I need to ask, I need to ask that. That
Speaker 1: was another Yeah, that was kind of a crazy There's
Speaker 1: a couple of plays where I went special teams play
Speaker 1: special teams well, and the one was it the was
Speaker 1: it a punt? No, it was a kickoff return. The
Speaker 1: guy went twenty nine yards. Yeah, and Woods got let
Speaker 1: up from behind and they didn't call blocking in the back.
Speaker 1: I thought that was another emphasis. We're right, it's killer penalty,
Speaker 1: but overall refs didn't decide. No, I'm not, but there's
Speaker 1: in the game. He has a couple of questions special
Speaker 1: teams wise, there's certain spots in the game that changed
Speaker 1: the momentum. Yeah, I mean when you when you when
Speaker 1: you get in a sack on third down and force
Speaker 1: a field goal, that was huge, right, and then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden they get fifteen yards. Agreed. Yeah, No,
Speaker 1: let's get back to special teams. Ryan Switzer finally how
Speaker 1: to be the punt returner that everyone wants him to be.
Speaker 1: Didn't quite see that showing what do you expect from
Speaker 1: him moving forward? Now? Well, I mean he had one
Speaker 1: return for nineteen yards, right, yeah, so like one, I'm
Speaker 1: okay with that. I've been asking if we can if
Speaker 1: you if Mickey's wanting him the block better, if if
Speaker 1: you get the blocking and you can get him in
Speaker 1: the open field, we're capable of seeing that. That's you know,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty almost twenty yards. That's too us first downs
Speaker 1: right there if you think about it. So, yeah, he can.
Speaker 1: He has the ability to make a difference. And I think,
Speaker 1: and I wrote again this last night, I think that
Speaker 1: he we're going to see a game where he is
Speaker 1: going to be the difference maker doing this, where all
Speaker 1: of a sudden fuel position, hidden yards is going to
Speaker 1: be because of Ryan Switzer's ability to carry the ball
Speaker 1: in punt return situations. I may offensive snaps. Did you
Speaker 1: see him get I think it was two he was couple.
Speaker 1: They double slide a couple of times. Yeah. One. At
Speaker 1: some point I'd like to see him more involved there too.
Speaker 1: I think he can get going in space for them.
Speaker 1: I think he's kind of vision with some folks. I
Speaker 1: think they had a plan for him, and the way
Speaker 1: that the game went took them out of that plan
Speaker 1: because you couldn't nibble underneath. Yeah, they were going to
Speaker 1: let you nimble underneath them, Oh day long after you're
Speaker 1: up by fourteen. There's some things that they were willing
Speaker 1: to do with him, and they just I don't think
Speaker 1: they could get to it. And that's we'll see maybe
Speaker 1: the future here. A lot of fans are very upset
Speaker 1: with Bryce Butler. You talked about his drop earlier, but
Speaker 1: how has he been able to help this team? How's
Speaker 1: he at all? I should be They should be upset
Speaker 1: at me for telling you that Bryce Butler has done
Speaker 1: a nice job of finishing. Because Bryce Butler knows he's
Speaker 1: in training camp, he's not gonna get many He's not
Speaker 1: gonna get many opportunities. And when he gets an opportunity,
Speaker 1: he can't drop that football. He can't drop the football
Speaker 1: on third and fifteen because he catches the ball. It
Speaker 1: might be fourth and one and maybe Jason Garrett says,
Speaker 1: you know what we need to try and get this going.
Speaker 1: Maybe they get your team going, but all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you drop a ball. There, he comes back, makes a
Speaker 1: nice play. But you can't be fifty percent player if
Speaker 1: they're gonna if you're gonna have two opportunities to make plays,
Speaker 1: and every time you're only making half of those plays,
Speaker 1: you know, then that your shame on him for that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I to me and I'm the guy all along
Speaker 1: that said, Hey, you know what, here's a guy breakout season.
Speaker 1: He's gonna finish blah blah blah blah blah, and he's
Speaker 1: making me look pretty bad right now. Well, you can
Speaker 1: just go off of what you've seen though, and it
Speaker 1: tastes said him. Preseason, he was one of their most
Speaker 1: consistent players offensively. Yeah, you know, he beat himself up.
Speaker 1: He's last week over the drop he had against the Giants,
Speaker 1: but he did come back and almost scored a touchdown
Speaker 1: with a deep reception. There. You see his potential. You
Speaker 1: see it there, And I don't know if it's as
Speaker 1: Brian said, he doesn't get that many opportunities. Are you pressing?
Speaker 1: You know, are you try are you you know? Are
Speaker 1: you pressing too much to try to make something happen
Speaker 1: with a few opportunities you get I'm not sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but make plays. You gotta make plays. You know he
Speaker 1: allowed that. He allowed to one. Uh didn't run a
Speaker 1: good route on that that slant pass last week, loud
Speaker 1: the guy to hook him. So yeah, I mean he's
Speaker 1: got to make plays. He had a chance to heay
Speaker 1: and and he's if you get two chances, you should
Speaker 1: be two for two. Those are the first ball was catchable.
Speaker 1: He coming. He does a nice job running around. Coming
Speaker 1: back to the football. Go secure that football. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: let's go secure a phone call. We have Bobby from
Speaker 1: California on the line. Bobby, what is your question? Hello, guys, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm feeling bad. I'm I'm a long time Cowboy fan,
Speaker 1: and I've been trying to get through on the wonderful
Speaker 1: two shows since the summer. I'm so I'm happy to
Speaker 1: get through. I wish it was on better circumstances. But
Speaker 1: I guess my question might be primarily for mister Brian
Speaker 1: broad Us, because I believe he was alignment at LSU.
Speaker 1: If I was mistaken, and here is my question. After
Speaker 1: watching the game, Yes, we have a moonted offensive line.
Speaker 1: They're great and everything. Yeah, we got stuffed. We all
Speaker 1: admit that. But my question is, I'm sure Brian may
Speaker 1: have had a game like that in his past, and
Speaker 1: it's not what's happened, it's how are we going to
Speaker 1: go forward? Can we be smart and have heart? Can
Speaker 1: we do you think this offensive line can because they're
Speaker 1: a fraternity, can they get together and say this is
Speaker 1: not going to happen again? You know? And I'm just
Speaker 1: wondering if you know how that might transpire in the
Speaker 1: next couple of days. And I'll hang up and listen
Speaker 1: to your answer, and thank you very much. I love
Speaker 1: you guys. Yeah, Brian, that's that's your question. I was
Speaker 1: gonna ask you Mickey, Yeah, he said, Brian, I'm sorry
Speaker 1: ask you Mickey. Was alignment in high school? That's right now.
Speaker 1: We have the thought maybe you run out there and
Speaker 1: do some secondary help. Yesterday, the guys, did you say
Speaker 1: that last week? Did you ask that same question last week?
Speaker 1: He's got a number three to Jersey, could put it on.
Speaker 1: Don't worry, just just just be. Don't be one game.
Speaker 1: This is the end of the world type of person.
Speaker 1: What have you done? You see it for two or
Speaker 1: three games in a row. I mean if if if
Speaker 1: you read my column on Friday, I told you don't
Speaker 1: jump to conclusions after one game, right, and so now
Speaker 1: don't jump to conclusions after the next game. Right. It's
Speaker 1: two games into the season. You know what the Cowboys
Speaker 1: record was last year at this time? One or one?
Speaker 1: Thank you? When was the last time they were able
Speaker 1: to get to three? And? Oh, that's what I want
Speaker 1: to know. Even in that twenty fourteen season, they lost
Speaker 1: the first game against the forty nine ers they were
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eight. I remember that. I guess
Speaker 1: you missed the playoffs. But go ahead, heart, you know,
Speaker 1: did you see did you see lack of heart? Just
Speaker 1: don't don't don't sweat the little stuff and come up
Speaker 1: with reasons why I got beat. I just Denver was
Speaker 1: awfully good. I thought Jerry Jones was comment after the
Speaker 1: game was right on the on the button. He said,
Speaker 1: this wasn't our team, that might be Denver. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I thought that was a really good comment in a
Speaker 1: short sentence by Jerry Jones. I felt like, though Tay
Speaker 1: watching the tape though, that it really you know that
Speaker 1: Denver was the team upfront that did a really nice
Speaker 1: job and their offense. Their offense helped them in this
Speaker 1: football game. Their offense put a lot of pressure on
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. Well, we do have some breaking news here.
Speaker 1: The judge has denied the NFL's emergency stay request in
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott's case, So he will, like Jones, which which court,
Speaker 1: a US district court judge in Texas on Monday, didn't
Speaker 1: I thought he'd already done that. He still hadn't done
Speaker 1: that yet. We're still Yeah, we're still but you gotta
Speaker 1: wait on the New Orleans. Yeah, which five your means
Speaker 1: the case will now move to the fifth year, Okay,
Speaker 1: and that's the one we're waiting now. The final briefs
Speaker 1: had been turned in for that one, so the NFL
Speaker 1: asked them for a ruling by less hopefully for by tomorrow,
Speaker 1: no later than the twenty six. So yeah, since the nineteenth,
Speaker 1: tomorrow tomorrow, Okay, so we'll see, we'll see. Yeah. Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones did say last night he can't comment on any further.
Speaker 1: He does believe he'll play Monday and moving forward with
Speaker 1: that now, we talked a little bit about Alfred Moore's
Speaker 1: playing a little bit. Judge Mozan he was passive aggressive,
Speaker 1: They watered it on Friday and said, you know what,
Speaker 1: what did I say, Patson? No, you said PATSI I
Speaker 1: thought that was true, okay, And he said, no, do
Speaker 1: this on my time? Should do it on Monday? Yeah,
Speaker 1: my time? He could have said the say they got Friday,
Speaker 1: Alfred Morris. Would you have liked to have seen Darren
Speaker 1: McFadden in this game at all? Could he have helped
Speaker 1: spur the run game? No? I just learn about the
Speaker 1: wrong stuff. I just think there's just there was nowhere
Speaker 1: to run. Walter Payton could have been out there and
Speaker 1: they weren't going to run for ten yards. They just
Speaker 1: weren't lanes open at all. It was it was really give,
Speaker 1: just give the Broncos again, tip of the cap. They
Speaker 1: had a great plan and they and they physically were
Speaker 1: better than you know what was going on up front.
Speaker 1: When Tyron Smith doesn't make a cutoff block and Lyle
Speaker 1: Collins doesn't make a cutoff block, and then Chaz Green
Speaker 1: doesn't make a block, you know, a guy with a
Speaker 1: guy on his nose, you're gonna have problems. Do you
Speaker 1: think the size bothered him? No, those guys were pretty big,
Speaker 1: I don't think. Just move them. Yeah, the big. Really.
Speaker 1: The interesting was even on the goal line. I remember
Speaker 1: they ran the ball on the goal line that first
Speaker 1: first play. That that's where you looked and you said, wow,
Speaker 1: they're not getting any not getting any penetration, not getting
Speaker 1: any type. Yet they didn't move him, could not move them.
Speaker 1: But then again, I'll tell you what a couple of
Speaker 1: times though I felt like that Zeke. The times he
Speaker 1: had there was go back and watch, you'll see there
Speaker 1: was he kind of cut into some stuff where if
Speaker 1: he just stayed yeah, if he just stayed outside, maybe
Speaker 1: they'd had a little bit. But there was no traction there.
Speaker 1: I mean, this was no traction at all. I know
Speaker 1: because if anybody complained that they ran the ball on
Speaker 1: the goal line there at that time, so through it
Speaker 1: like one you can find a tweet here there. The
Speaker 1: tweets were, what do you do run on the ball?
Speaker 1: You're not running it? Well throw it. I'm apologizing right
Speaker 1: now to all the people I muted yesterday? Did you
Speaker 1: mute a lot yesterday? I spent halftime muting people. I
Speaker 1: apologize for not reading at all. It's calmed down today
Speaker 1: on Twitter. I think Twitter is a little calmer. Maybe
Speaker 1: the hour delay of rain helped here maybe maybe a
Speaker 1: little bit. And that was a little interesting to me
Speaker 1: because going into that game, I hadn't really expected the rain,
Speaker 1: you know, making you were on the sidelines with us
Speaker 1: rob you guys it was sunny out there. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: there was fifty percent chance of rain between two and three,
Speaker 1: and it went up to eighty percent and it came.
Speaker 1: And there were some people said, well, I didn't see
Speaker 1: any lightning. Well, it was behind us where we sat
Speaker 1: in the press box. The lightning was behind us. We
Speaker 1: couldn't see it. I talked to people that were down there.
Speaker 1: They saw the light A funny tweet was apparently there's
Speaker 1: a sign in the stadium. I don't know where this
Speaker 1: sign is located, but it says Denver Broncos ride through
Speaker 1: any weather, any storms. Like just kind of here, pretty
Speaker 1: sophomore with their signs. Because the door to the Cowboys
Speaker 1: locker room when you walk out, all the big the
Speaker 1: big painted sign about Denver, Colorado is a mile high,
Speaker 1: five thousand, two hundred and eighty feet, and it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: thank you very much. You know, with Sophomore, we can,
Speaker 1: we can. We might as well just go paint the
Speaker 1: locker room pink. I kind of told you though, did
Speaker 1: we think about that if your players were better, altitude
Speaker 1: really didn't matter? Yeah? Oh yeah. And it had nothing
Speaker 1: to do what none? Yeah, not one bit. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: just got beat. Yeah, it's awesome. Tweeds that were saying,
Speaker 1: should they have been more acclimated to the weather, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they should have been more acclimated to what the Denver
Speaker 1: defense was going to do? And the delay made no
Speaker 1: difference at all. I mean they were struggling actually, the
Speaker 1: way they struggled after the breath and maybe redesign things,
Speaker 1: could it? Yeah, well, Mickey, you're right, it gave them
Speaker 1: a break. Could they have really taken advantage that? Hey,
Speaker 1: they're not opening any running lanes? Can you receivers get
Speaker 1: ready here? Yeah? It's it's surprisingly I shouldn't say surprising
Speaker 1: because Denver's got it a really good secondary man there.
Speaker 1: If you go back on you know, on the game
Speaker 1: pass and watch it, you will not see cowboy receivers
Speaker 1: opening in this football. Well we always talk about that,
Speaker 1: I mean consistently down after down after down. Bond is
Speaker 1: great and he's the he's the cornerstone of that franchise.
Speaker 1: But when they won a Super Bowl, a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, the best overall unit they had was their secondary. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that was no fly zone, and they a couple
Speaker 1: of phases have changed on that group, but that that
Speaker 1: was literally championship level defense yesterday, and the Cowboys didn't
Speaker 1: match it well. Their linebackers played well, they did Marshall yeah,
Speaker 1: Barrett Yeah, and uh Simmons right, the Simmons is safety.
Speaker 1: The safety. Yeah, he came down in the box and
Speaker 1: played pretty well at times. But yeah, those linebackers played
Speaker 1: awfully well. There's there's gonna be a lot of look
Speaker 1: in the mirror moments for the Cowboys today as they
Speaker 1: get the next couple of days. As they watched that tape, Yeah,
Speaker 1: look in the mirror and seat, Hey, did I do
Speaker 1: exactly what I needed to do? Did I win enough
Speaker 1: out block? Again? You know? I mean to me, I
Speaker 1: just I just don't feel like that they look at that.
Speaker 1: They did. You know, Mickey is watching the TV in here.
Speaker 1: If you guys are listening, they can't see their TV's terrible.
Speaker 1: They did the leverage, They did the leverage play again,
Speaker 1: they showed it. Yeah. Did the Cowboys put a blueprint
Speaker 1: out there now for other teams to kind of Oh,
Speaker 1: here we go. They're not asking that. I'm asking their
Speaker 1: seventeen games last year there was there, yes, and what
Speaker 1: was the record? And no one had a blueprint after
Speaker 1: seventeen giants. The Giants figured them out. But it's it's
Speaker 1: really the personel. It's the personnel. I just like asking
Speaker 1: this question because everybody jumped on that angry. But but
Speaker 1: if you to me, you could say, teams can go out.
Speaker 1: They're smart coaches around the league. They're smart coaches around
Speaker 1: the league and say, you know what, we could do this,
Speaker 1: and we could do this, and we could do this.
Speaker 1: And then another coach will say, wait a minute, do
Speaker 1: we have to leave Do we have Harris? Do we
Speaker 1: have Robie? Well, no we don't. Okay, do we wait
Speaker 1: do we have you know, then you can't leave your
Speaker 1: corners on an island? Yeah, and gamble that way. I
Speaker 1: thought whatever good best qualities Jimmy Johnson had was self evaluation.
Speaker 1: He knew what his players could do and what they
Speaker 1: couldn't do right, and they planned accordingly. A lot of
Speaker 1: coaches fooled themselves, Oh yeah, we can do this. No,
Speaker 1: you can't do that. You don't have the talent. They
Speaker 1: had the talent to pull off what they did. Everybody
Speaker 1: tried that last year and they couldn't do it. Yeah, everybody,
Speaker 1: you can try and stop the run. But if, like
Speaker 1: you said, if you don't have three hundred and thirty
Speaker 1: pound guys inside, and you don't have linebackers that are active,
Speaker 1: you don't have a safety that walks, then you're probably
Speaker 1: gonna have some some problems. And this schedule is not
Speaker 1: going to let up for the Dallas Cowboys. They're going
Speaker 1: to face some big time defenses and they're going to
Speaker 1: face the sooner rather than later. I think making you
Speaker 1: brought it up, Patrick Peterson is waiting there for Dez Bryant,
Speaker 1: waiting for that that matchup. So it's not going to
Speaker 1: be easy for these guys. But are they ready for it?
Speaker 1: Are they going to reevaluate? And as Garrett Garrett would say,
Speaker 1: recommit commit, Yeah, better recommit, better find something, better, find something.
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