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Speaker 1: The Lion of Judah. Is that Michael Parsons on your shirt?
Speaker 1: The Lions always hungry, Lions always high? Right? No? That hello?
Speaker 1: I don't know what the face was. You just made
Speaker 1: one day the studio. Good day mate. We've also got
Speaker 1: robbed Phillips, I'm Kyle Yeoman's and gentlemen, how are we
Speaker 1: doing so? I'm here. Surprise he's here. Waits here too.
Speaker 1: Wait Hey, guys, I'm here. That's that's that's for you. You
Speaker 1: You didn't hear it? Wad Yeah, Wade was in the background.
Speaker 1: When he got hired. That was from his press conference
Speaker 1: when he got hired. Your rookie season. Yeah right, I
Speaker 1: don't feel I was listening. Yeah, I wasn't listening. Yeah, surprise,
Speaker 1: I'm here. These boots are back in Texas. Guys. Can
Speaker 1: I shot a question? Yeah? Why do people use this? Uh?
Speaker 1: Does that make sense? After everything? Why do people do that?
Speaker 1: Have y'all noticed the uptick? And does that make sense?
Speaker 1: It's for clarity? Is it? Like if you say also right? Right?
Speaker 1: Stuff on that right? Is that an overused word too?
Speaker 1: It is right. It's a filler. It is better when
Speaker 1: you're when you're done saying a statement, you go right.
Speaker 1: I mean it's like Mary had a little lamb. Does
Speaker 1: that make sense? Okay, kind of take a fense to
Speaker 1: it a little bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Like I got it, dude,
Speaker 1: It's the easiest thing in the world. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's just had to get it off. Did
Speaker 1: somebody to say it just now? Probably because I say
Speaker 1: it to heck me all the time? I see? Is
Speaker 1: that where this is from? It has to be it
Speaker 1: has Does that make sense? Oh? Man? I have heard
Speaker 1: that phrase from being before. Now that you said it,
Speaker 1: At first, I was like, oh, that's probably not what
Speaker 1: it was from. And then once you said it, yeah,
Speaker 1: I've heard that before from being Madam's a smart guy though,
Speaker 1: so like he's making sure we're on his level that
Speaker 1: I think that's what it said to my kids a lot.
Speaker 1: Oh well, thank you. Yeah, well there you go. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Situation this morning direct. Oh that's not good. Not in
Speaker 1: the Beamer household. Uh, everybody doing all right. We've had
Speaker 1: a couple days now to kind of loll and mole
Speaker 1: over the Cowboys loss to the Broncos. How that was
Speaker 1: a drop off? Not good? Oh, no, not good. Would
Speaker 1: you like to fill us in? Uh, drop the kiddo
Speaker 1: off at daycare for the first time? It didn't, It didn't.
Speaker 1: It's rough, bro man, four of them. I know we'd
Speaker 1: have been there before. So that sucks. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know, wife. I know when you don't go
Speaker 1: anywhere for twenty months of your life and then just
Speaker 1: kind of dump them. Yeah, I'm gonna power through though,
Speaker 1: power for us. Yeah. So what you're gonna go get
Speaker 1: her at lunch. Then you you're gonna make it to
Speaker 1: about eleven thirty, and then you're gonna go and get it.
Speaker 1: I might hop out there in the break. Yeah, come back.
Speaker 1: They have a camera that Do they have a live
Speaker 1: feed that you can tune into it? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: They said they'd send me pictures. Dare them not have technology? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I need a live feed. Yeah. My wife used to
Speaker 1: be all on the wife live feed. Yeah, yep, they're
Speaker 1: doing this. Yep, they're going to this room. It's a
Speaker 1: good question to ask them, Well, if you needed to
Speaker 1: hop out, we would cheer you on'y. I couldn't make
Speaker 1: it there in time. If I could, I probably would
Speaker 1: during the break. There's a guy in a building who
Speaker 1: has a helicopter. That's a good idea. So we've heard
Speaker 1: it on the field today. I don't think so, and I
Speaker 1: I don't think so today. Cowboys not on the field today.
Speaker 1: They got to wait until tomorrow until their first practice
Speaker 1: following the loss. But rob any news and notes emerging
Speaker 1: from the coordinators and coach McCarthy yesterday. Um well, I'm
Speaker 1: thinking immediately from Jerry's segment just now on the fan
Speaker 1: and the big question right now is Tyrant Smith. Could
Speaker 1: he play this week? And to a man, everybody has
Speaker 1: said we'll see with the ankle it's about resting those spurs,
Speaker 1: whatever he's dealing with there, and how much pain he
Speaker 1: can he can deal with? You know, can he can
Speaker 1: he move latterly? Can he do all the things he
Speaker 1: needs to do. They'll see how the week goes. I
Speaker 1: it sounds like it's far from a certainty he will play,
Speaker 1: so they have to prepare for other options like they
Speaker 1: did last week, whether that's Terrence Steel still left tackle
Speaker 1: or not. Jerry said, personally, I'd be in favor for that,
Speaker 1: but that's not necessarily what they will do. I have
Speaker 1: a question if you guys could say, hey, Tyring, just
Speaker 1: go ahead and take care of the bone spur, just
Speaker 1: just saying that down, Just get a shave down and
Speaker 1: he'll be out four to six weeks. Would you guys
Speaker 1: rather have that or would you guys rather have the
Speaker 1: up and down? Not really sure? Can he go? Can
Speaker 1: he play type scenario? Oh he can make it worse.
Speaker 1: He now he's out of two games, and see if
Speaker 1: you can get him back and then all he pisses
Speaker 1: it off again? Like which one would you prefer to have?
Speaker 1: I mean, we're we're pretty much in a perpetual limbo
Speaker 1: with injuries for tiring anyway. So I mean, if you
Speaker 1: we do that, then something else may flare up. Going
Speaker 1: back to going and just going back to the draft,
Speaker 1: I mean, there were guys that were talking about, look man,
Speaker 1: this is time for a left tackle. We need to
Speaker 1: start looking at certain aspects of offensive line. But I
Speaker 1: understand what you're talking about. I mean his value. We
Speaker 1: see it now, and so is this going to be
Speaker 1: an every week thing that we have to deal with.
Speaker 1: It's a high ankle sprain, and for me, I just
Speaker 1: but connected to the high ankle sprain is what there
Speaker 1: it looked. Don't think it's a combination because he had
Speaker 1: the high ankle sprain earlier in the year and then
Speaker 1: the bone spurs were kind of what popped up and
Speaker 1: actually kept him out of the game. He played through
Speaker 1: the ankle than the spurs. To answer your question, to
Speaker 1: answer you a question, no, I want to come on
Speaker 1: back here. You get back you know, and look, man,
Speaker 1: we may have to deal with this later in the season.
Speaker 1: Um it may come back to bite us. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm just right now looking at still and what he
Speaker 1: put in after going back and watching it several times.
Speaker 1: He's just got to get better over there, man, they
Speaker 1: got to get him help this game. For sure, did
Speaker 1: he get better as the game went along when you
Speaker 1: looked at it on the tape, because I felt like
Speaker 1: as the game went along he had more success from
Speaker 1: a consistent standpoint, he still had his plays where he
Speaker 1: got blown up, no doubt. Wait, in the game there
Speaker 1: were a couple of them that I circled specifically where
Speaker 1: he did not play well, But I think he strung
Speaker 1: together better snaps as the game went along, whereas on
Speaker 1: the opposite side, I thought like o' collins got worse
Speaker 1: as the game went along. Na it was still, man,
Speaker 1: he still had a pretty bad game, and there's been
Speaker 1: talking about how bad played as well, and then he
Speaker 1: had the holding penalty also, But look, man, I think
Speaker 1: I think all of those guys would agree we didn't
Speaker 1: have our best out of the offensive line. So it's
Speaker 1: not it's a lot of blame to pass around on that.
Speaker 1: And got again credit the Broncos for just attacking those
Speaker 1: guys and making it where life was a living hell
Speaker 1: for Dak. Yeah, and Dak had thirty nine pass attempts
Speaker 1: in the game, and pretty quickly it became a pass
Speaker 1: only type of game, and so that's that's hard on
Speaker 1: a young tackle, especially Terren's still playing left side, who
Speaker 1: he's not used to doing, so they didn't have the
Speaker 1: balance that would help him out in terms of from
Speaker 1: the game plan standpoint. So yeah, I mean, I think
Speaker 1: you would expect him to be better the next week
Speaker 1: if he's got to play. Your question is a good one, Isaiah.
Speaker 1: And I asked McCarthy that last week about is rest
Speaker 1: just the solution for Tyrant and he said, well, you know,
Speaker 1: it's part of it, but they don't think it's a
Speaker 1: long term thing, so it sounds like it's something they're
Speaker 1: gonna try to manage, like with the Spurs thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper, I'm not saying it's the same thing, but
Speaker 1: he played through that last year and then had the
Speaker 1: procedure done after the season, and that's that's a wide receiver.
Speaker 1: You know, that's different than a tackle trying to play
Speaker 1: on it. But you know, he's obviously dealing with a
Speaker 1: lot of pain and a lot of mobility challenges. So
Speaker 1: I'll just have to see what goes. And I like
Speaker 1: the way that Heckima put this a couple of moments ago.
Speaker 1: It was very eloquent outlining Tyrant Smith. Like it's a
Speaker 1: bone spur one day, it's an ankle spring the other day,
Speaker 1: it's a neck the other day. I mean, you go
Speaker 1: further down the list and further into the schedule, You're
Speaker 1: you're gonna feel like you have You're getting closer to
Speaker 1: a Tyrant Smith injury. It's just get gotten to that
Speaker 1: point in his career. So I mean, you're gonna go
Speaker 1: back to the draft. Not yet. Okay, I'm not there yet,
Speaker 1: because Michael, that's the other thing is is, yes, I
Speaker 1: was really big on reshonse later. I wanted to response later,
Speaker 1: to be the pick at ten if he was available.
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons is playing out of his mind and there's
Speaker 1: nothing I can say about that. He has made a
Speaker 1: significant impact on that defense. But it would have been
Speaker 1: nice to have for Sean Slater as a part of
Speaker 1: this offense if Tyron Smith's not available, but hopefully you
Speaker 1: get him back, and it isn't a long term deal,
Speaker 1: but the long hands out if you had Slater instead
Speaker 1: of Parsons. Is this defense what they are today? See?
Speaker 1: And I don't think so you're just firing right now?
Speaker 1: What's going on? What a question? Got estions? He's not.
Speaker 1: Where would this defense be without Michael Parsons in this
Speaker 1: last game. I mean, I mean they would have lost.
Speaker 1: They would have lost. They would have lost. But you
Speaker 1: know what, every sack he had got him the ball back,
Speaker 1: including got him off the field before the block punt
Speaker 1: that wasn't a block Punt's true. Every play he made
Speaker 1: gave the offense an opportunity to do something with it.
Speaker 1: They just didn't do anything with it. It's a good
Speaker 1: point two and a half sacks. I'm not I can't
Speaker 1: do the draft thing with you. Man. No, it's okay.
Speaker 1: I can't. It's okay, I can't. You can't go back
Speaker 1: to last year and look at the defense and be like,
Speaker 1: we're not going to help this defense with our topic.
Speaker 1: I still I still feel that way. Plus, he's a baller, no,
Speaker 1: and he makes a significant impact on that defense. If
Speaker 1: he wasn't making an impact, I would be a little
Speaker 1: bit higher up on the on the horse of the
Speaker 1: Rashaan Slater train. But because of the way that Michael
Speaker 1: Parsons is playing, I'm okay with it. I'm good with
Speaker 1: having eleven on our side because he's he's a baller
Speaker 1: and he's playing really well. But tyrant is a question
Speaker 1: moving forward? Are you offering I just obviously we don't.
Speaker 1: We don't be sure, we don't. We don't. No, no, no, Mike.
Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about the
Speaker 1: whole tyrant. Do you know? Again, we don't know. I'm
Speaker 1: not I'm not Britt Brown or gym Moore. But if
Speaker 1: if from what I understand about bone spurs, if that
Speaker 1: is the issue at hand, I'm much rather just take
Speaker 1: care of it. I'd much rather just take care of it.
Speaker 1: It was just like, we'd much rather that just sat
Speaker 1: out right instead of having this thing? And how as
Speaker 1: are we aggravating it? Are we making it worse? Isn't
Speaker 1: staying kind of the same? Can he play? Can he
Speaker 1: go one hundred percent? Like, just take care of it
Speaker 1: and then let's deal with this with the rest later.
Speaker 1: I much rather have tiring later on in the year
Speaker 1: than to have this up and down. See saw, Okay,
Speaker 1: still we need you this week. Okay, we don't need
Speaker 1: you this week. They still what you need you to get? Like,
Speaker 1: I just rather if that is an option, if taking
Speaker 1: care of it is an option, and he's only gonna
Speaker 1: be out like four to five week He's like most
Speaker 1: bone injuries, just just just do it. Does the schedule
Speaker 1: coming up change your thought process on that too? Because
Speaker 1: Kansas City, Las Vegas, New Orleans on the horizon, Because
Speaker 1: ultimately our battles are within the division? Okay, So I'm not,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I mean that it'd be nice to have
Speaker 1: those games, obviously, because you know you want that first
Speaker 1: round by and all that jazz down the road. But
Speaker 1: our number one is our number one is taking care
Speaker 1: of the division, and I feel confident that we can
Speaker 1: do that with or without tying. Does the do the
Speaker 1: expectations change for this team based off of what we
Speaker 1: saw on Sunday? Because I know earlier going into the week,
Speaker 1: and Heckman put this in our group message of the
Speaker 1: Cowboys were going into the week as number two, number three,
Speaker 1: number four, number five in these power rankings across the
Speaker 1: end FL. You drop a game like this, and it
Speaker 1: happens to every good team, even every great team. They're
Speaker 1: gonna have a game where they just do not show
Speaker 1: up and they do not play well. But how much
Speaker 1: does it temper your expectations moving forward? Is this something
Speaker 1: that maybe kind of takes you back a little bit
Speaker 1: from jumping out of the cake. No, I'm out the cake,
Speaker 1: but I'll just you know, but you answered that, You
Speaker 1: answered the question. You answered it though. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: good teams will have situations where they just have a sninker.
Speaker 1: They go out there and they get completely blown out
Speaker 1: by a team that shouldn't be on the field with him.
Speaker 1: It's not even close. And you go back and look
Speaker 1: over the season and you go, man, what happened right there?
Speaker 1: How did that happen? And you guys keep continue to say,
Speaker 1: did we expect them to be the Dolphins go undefeated?
Speaker 1: We did, and we knew that they were gonna lose
Speaker 1: a few more games. We knew that was going to
Speaker 1: be the case in this season. We have this kind
Speaker 1: of trap game lit down like we did last week. Yes,
Speaker 1: we needed to have that game. Now we can go
Speaker 1: into the Atlanta game with laser focus. What you're saying,
Speaker 1: what happened right there? All I can think about it
Speaker 1: just your kids having a blowout. It's just like you
Speaker 1: just had to blow out, Like you tried to Costco
Speaker 1: drug to Costco. Uh, the diapers and they just didn't work.
Speaker 1: Go back to the Huggies and go back to whatever
Speaker 1: else that works, because that was a blowout. That was
Speaker 1: a blowout. You was that dog on State Fair and
Speaker 1: your kid had to blow out, and you're like, let's go.
Speaker 1: Have you ever care of this? Have you ever been
Speaker 1: have ever been apart? Have you ever been a part
Speaker 1: of one of those blowouts? And you you do understand
Speaker 1: the dance, understand have you ever been a part of
Speaker 1: one of those blowouts? You see it, you smell it,
Speaker 1: but then you ignore it. Let your wife. I was
Speaker 1: a soccer trading with my daughter, get her some extra
Speaker 1: skills work, and this mom came in with her kid
Speaker 1: and it's obvious, like it's your your kids soiled and
Speaker 1: it's bad, and the mom's like, he's just not an issue.
Speaker 1: I'm like, yo, I got dump truck over. My wife
Speaker 1: would be like, gosh, you went again, dude? Really? Oh never,
Speaker 1: that's crazy, that's crazy on a call, real quick fact.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, goodness, guys blowout in more ways than one. Well,
Speaker 1: that was the thing is whatever you said blowout. My
Speaker 1: My first thought went to a tire. No, that's what
Speaker 1: I thought was like this year, like, oh, why would
Speaker 1: you even say something like that? But then I was
Speaker 1: like yeah. Nick Even's column was flat tired. It was, yeah,
Speaker 1: it was. It was actually a very good calling. It
Speaker 1: was a different type to expectations the same. My expectation
Speaker 1: is the same for this, for this team, for this organization.
Speaker 1: The culture of this team has changed. But you know,
Speaker 1: to that point, you know, guys start feeling themselves. That's
Speaker 1: the reality to matter. That doesn't matter if we came
Speaker 1: in here until a heck, hey, you guess what. Heck,
Speaker 1: you're dog, and your dog's gonna fit it from the
Speaker 1: top down. We say it about ninety percent at a time,
Speaker 1: but if we said at one hundred percent at a time,
Speaker 1: heckman would start feeling some type of way. Heck, we're
Speaker 1: gonna come in with a little his nose up in
Speaker 1: the a little bit, right. So that's why we gotta
Speaker 1: say it ninety percent of the time and out one
Speaker 1: hundred and So they everybody started telling them that they
Speaker 1: was feeling good, that they were looking good, that they
Speaker 1: were playing good, that their cultures changed, right, that they're
Speaker 1: playing fast and physical offense can't be stopped. Oh but
Speaker 1: you know, killing Moore is in his bag. Oh, Dan Quinn,
Speaker 1: he's he's screwing these things up. So guys started oh
Speaker 1: we can just show up, Nah, player, you can't know
Speaker 1: we're playing against pros. Right. I put that one little,
Speaker 1: that little asterisk on there last week, right, we talked
Speaker 1: about how dinner was trash and all that kind of
Speaker 1: stuff because they were playing trash until they played the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and they showed up and we said, I said, what,
Speaker 1: we have to still show up because you're still playing professionals.
Speaker 1: And they did not do that. So that was a
Speaker 1: wake up moment, right, And now that they've had their
Speaker 1: wake up moment, now, guess what, you can't just show
Speaker 1: up Dan Quinn didn't even talk about Atlanta yesterday. Right
Speaker 1: then Quinn said, hey, we're never talking about Atlanta. We
Speaker 1: got some to clean up. Yeah, right, we got some
Speaker 1: stuff to clean up. We got we got to clean
Speaker 1: up that dog on blowout right before we can think
Speaker 1: about putting out a new pair of draws. That's right,
Speaker 1: all right. So that's that's that's where that's where they're
Speaker 1: at right now. And you're gonna see the old You
Speaker 1: gotta see that old team come back. Don't want that
Speaker 1: old thing back. See you clean yourself problems and if
Speaker 1: you're not using baby wipes out there, you get wrong,
Speaker 1: got some bleep to clean up now, And I understand,
Speaker 1: I completely understood where he was coming from. We have to,
Speaker 1: you know, dumpster dive and figure out where this, the
Speaker 1: whole thing is going. And there's been so many different
Speaker 1: thoughts on this. You know, you hear guys like you know,
Speaker 1: Michael Irvin say just throw the whole throw the tape away.
Speaker 1: You don't even go back to this again. I mean,
Speaker 1: but again, that's this's different schools of thought, absolutely on it.
Speaker 1: I don't think avoidance is it though, I don't think.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I think avoidance is it when you're
Speaker 1: dealing with a veteran team, right, when you have a
Speaker 1: veteran team that knows exactly what the heck they're supposed
Speaker 1: to be doing. All right, fellas, let's not even look
Speaker 1: at that because y'a already know. I don't even have
Speaker 1: to say nothing to y'all. Ye right, here's a new
Speaker 1: game plan, y'all. Just different. That's different. You're you're trained
Speaker 1: to instill a new way of thinking. You're trying to
Speaker 1: instill a new culture. We're seeing a lot of what
Speaker 1: we want to see in this new culture. But guess what,
Speaker 1: it's still it's still not tad at on you. It's
Speaker 1: not branded, right, Yeah, they have them, they're not they're
Speaker 1: not full fat yet. They're still gonna dog one. They
Speaker 1: haven't crossed the line yet. Okay, they ain't got brandy yet,
Speaker 1: so they need to get branded. They needed that game
Speaker 1: right there to go ahead and slap it them in
Speaker 1: the face. Now is that okay? Now, now you're ready
Speaker 1: to cross over. Now you're ready to cross over. Now
Speaker 1: they come out here and show me next week that
Speaker 1: you're ready to play. Plus the other thing is Kellen
Speaker 1: Moore and Mike McCarthy. They must have said copycat league
Speaker 1: five times ye in the last two days. That's part
Speaker 1: of the film evaluation is like Kellen said it, like
Speaker 1: what they had success against us doing, We're gonna see
Speaker 1: that again. We'll probably see it Sunday against Atlanta, because hey,
Speaker 1: it worked. And who's who's had any success against this team,
Speaker 1: this team's offense really nobody. I mean, you could say
Speaker 1: San Diego to a certain degree with the points, but man,
Speaker 1: they've racked up yardage against them. Nothing went right, and
Speaker 1: and Vic Fangio saying we played him the right way.
Speaker 1: We'll see, you know, we'll see the because the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are gonna make adjustments too, and they're gonna get Michael
Speaker 1: Gallant back this week and that's gonna help huge um.
Speaker 1: And Dak Prescott's not going to complete what was it
Speaker 1: thirty something percent of his passes again. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: do that again. So but they've got to evaluated and
Speaker 1: they and you know, I think you respect your opponent,
Speaker 1: but I wonder how much of this was you know,
Speaker 1: you win this emotional game on Sunday night, Dak comes
Speaker 1: back and you just kind of breathe a sigh of
Speaker 1: relief a little bit. You know, it just kind of
Speaker 1: not that you don't respect Denver because and dan Quinn said,
Speaker 1: I didn't see any evidence that we weren't we didn't
Speaker 1: respect this opponent, but did they just kind of take
Speaker 1: a deep breath and they got punched in the mouth
Speaker 1: and maybe they weren't expecting that from a team that
Speaker 1: just traded away. It's the best player, you know who
Speaker 1: needed this game more, Dak or Killen Moore. Oh, that's
Speaker 1: a good question. I'm gonna say Dak. I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: Dak because of the time that he was off. I mean,
Speaker 1: just to get back in rhythm with the offense, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean, I can obviously without not having a lot
Speaker 1: of thinking on it. I'm just gonna say that. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say Kellen Moore because he'd been, like you said earlier,
Speaker 1: he'd been filling himself a little bit. Everything he touched
Speaker 1: turned to gold from the first seven weeks of the season.
Speaker 1: Everything he had such turned to gold, and there was
Speaker 1: really nothing he could do wrong. Well, guess what I mean,
Speaker 1: sometimes that gold turns into a being stock. I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's the right fairy tale or whatever the heck,
Speaker 1: but that's fine. I'm not a dad, so but yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't work out every time you needed
Speaker 1: a wake up call from a coaching staff standpoint in
Speaker 1: this game as much as you did, and now it's
Speaker 1: on the self scouting. You're gonna have to self scout
Speaker 1: what did you do wrong moving forward? Because if you
Speaker 1: don't figure it out, it's now a blueprint. The rest
Speaker 1: of the league knows it. I'm gonna go with Heck,
Speaker 1: I'll say Dak just because you guys are right. I mean, Kellen,
Speaker 1: he's a young coordinator. Hey, it's the chess game. Like
Speaker 1: he saw an adjustment that didn't work for them, So
Speaker 1: how do you adjust yourself. I think for Dak, he's
Speaker 1: the the team too, So he's the guy on the
Speaker 1: field vocal relaying the message to the guys about you
Speaker 1: got to bring it every day, you know. So I
Speaker 1: think his role on the team not only just being
Speaker 1: the quarterback. I think that's important for him to have
Speaker 1: seen that. And now how do they respond. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be interesting to see how they respond. Sunday. I love
Speaker 1: Vic Vangio pound in his chest saying that you know,
Speaker 1: we did it right, you know, and I hope everybody
Speaker 1: else does the same thing because we'll burn them down.
Speaker 1: We'll know, it'll be five hundred yards a game if
Speaker 1: they play us that way. So man coverage and yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: team can do that. You know, keep that same energy,
Speaker 1: you know, come right back in here and play that
Speaker 1: same defense. And Dak had an off night. But the
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos, did you know those guys were aggressive. There
Speaker 1: were certain things that we did in the game that
Speaker 1: you were just like, whoa, They were all over that.
Speaker 1: So whatever we did to tilt our hat to show
Speaker 1: them what we were doing, they studied those tendencies and
Speaker 1: they took advantage of it. We have to adjust. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say Kellen Moore, I'm say keller More because Dad
Speaker 1: had a bad game. Physically, physically he had a bad game.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I didn't see too many mental errors
Speaker 1: from my art understanding of the offense. I didn't see
Speaker 1: too many mental errors or bad decisions in that regard.
Speaker 1: I did see a lot of physical physical issues with him.
Speaker 1: He was not on point. His technique was was what
Speaker 1: shot the crap? His delivery was not there, as accuracy
Speaker 1: was not there. All that, I think we saw those
Speaker 1: things Kellen Moore for the first time this year. I
Speaker 1: did not sense that Kellen Moore dialed up anything specific
Speaker 1: for Denver. I felt like every game, every game we've
Speaker 1: had this year, you've seen something like, oh shoot, Kellen Moore,
Speaker 1: he dialed that up, right, he had that ready for
Speaker 1: these guys. Right, whether it's in the first fifteen or
Speaker 1: whether it was later on in the game the week
Speaker 1: before last, What do we see his dog on the
Speaker 1: new wishbone? Right, We've never seen that before. We before that,
Speaker 1: we were seeing double passes the week before. Every week.
Speaker 1: It's been something that has kept that defense at bay
Speaker 1: for the first time. I feel like Kellen Moore came
Speaker 1: out and was just like, yeah, and how hard is
Speaker 1: that to do when you only have the ball for
Speaker 1: nineteen minutes in your down? Yes, for sure, for sure,
Speaker 1: I totally I get it. But but we've seen I'm
Speaker 1: not debunking with you. I'm asking you, like, if you're
Speaker 1: down by that much, how hard it throws your bag?
Speaker 1: It throws your game plan all the way off. That
Speaker 1: first fifteen goes out the window. Right if you come
Speaker 1: out and get busted them out, you're down by two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: whatever it may be. You know, things have to change. Yeah,
Speaker 1: things have to change. But I feel as if Uncle
Speaker 1: Rico came to town. He was out there Uncle Rico,
Speaker 1: and Fangiol was Uncle Rico. It was like, oh, I
Speaker 1: got your number. Yeah, you ain't seen this young. But
Speaker 1: he chucked it over the mountains. He checked that thing
Speaker 1: or I bet you I could throw this ball over
Speaker 1: that year mountain and Kella Morris Hi, yeah, right, Uncle
Speaker 1: Rico throw that thing over the mountain. Right now, Keller
Speaker 1: Moore has to go back and say, crap, I maybe
Speaker 1: I do need to go in my back every single
Speaker 1: week for seventeen weeks. That's I mean that said, there
Speaker 1: were some some of its execution. I mean there's oh,
Speaker 1: of course passes and throws. That's the thing about those
Speaker 1: fourth downs. It's like I had no problem with the
Speaker 1: first fourth down. Second fourth down, it's two yard. Maybe
Speaker 1: you're a little too confident there, but he should have
Speaker 1: made the play, Like Dak said it, I should have
Speaker 1: That's a throw he can make a million times in
Speaker 1: his sleep. Yeah, it wasn't like there weren't holes in
Speaker 1: the dim for defense. They weren't suffocating to the point
Speaker 1: where Dallas just couldn't do anything. I mean, yeah, there
Speaker 1: were options, and there were opportunities, and I mean the
Speaker 1: execution just was not there. And that goes back to
Speaker 1: what we had talked about yesterday and then really for
Speaker 1: the first twenty minutes today about that just not being
Speaker 1: a game that this Cowboys team is used to see.
Speaker 1: I know, we got a break break. I just want
Speaker 1: to say one more thing about tiring. I just looked
Speaker 1: at the schedule. They got four games coming up in
Speaker 1: eighteen days, So I wonder how much that factors into
Speaker 1: because can you expect him a lot? I mean, it's
Speaker 1: that is a difficult stretch lot and I asked Mike
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago about tying practicing. He said,
Speaker 1: you know, we're getting and he said it again yesterday.
Speaker 1: We're getting to the point of the season with vet guys.
Speaker 1: Maybe we're not practicing them as much. I'm interested to
Speaker 1: see how they manage this, you know, even if he's
Speaker 1: not playing this week, how does it work the next
Speaker 1: stretch coming up to Thanksgiving. This is the first time
Speaker 1: having to deal with seventeen games. Yes, there's an extra game,
Speaker 1: but it's a lot of games crunched together for a
Speaker 1: guy who's who's dealing with a nagging ankle injury. So yeah,
Speaker 1: be interesting. Yeah, gotta find some some opportunity to rest,
Speaker 1: even though there's not a whole lot of days in
Speaker 1: between those games. Man, four games in eighteen days and
Speaker 1: my math sucks. But there, that's pretty wild. I believe
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Speaker 1: Anthony from Miami. You're on Talking Cowboys? How's going? What's
Speaker 1: going on? Kyle, y'all doing Fellers and we're doing good fantastic, man,
Speaker 1: jealous that you in Miami and I'm in Dallas. I'm
Speaker 1: heading up done man for the new year. Many friends.
Speaker 1: So I don't call just because of cow I do
Speaker 1: call because of the Lord to in respect, because he
Speaker 1: wasn't producer, just life being and being matter show. I
Speaker 1: will call him. But I actually called you guys, knowing
Speaker 1: that I'm hanging with the boys. Guy. I call you
Speaker 1: guys because you guys got great camaraderie, man, and I
Speaker 1: love the show them, so I'm gonna watch it regardless.
Speaker 1: Thank you appreciate that. Okay, let's go all right, man,
Speaker 1: since temper the things I asked for, you know, the
Speaker 1: running game and forcing the running game has happened. Da
Speaker 1: not throwing all the many passes and still benefficient and
Speaker 1: us winning. I said that it's happened now this game. Sorry, Ham,
Speaker 1: we have to take your door out. Were I to
Speaker 1: you this master card? Man, It's like it's like we
Speaker 1: okay players wise, players wise, we were out, we were
Speaker 1: out played, checked me out, we were out will we
Speaker 1: were hearted right, we were out hearted right. Coaches, we
Speaker 1: were out school and we were our coach. It's no
Speaker 1: excuses people are saying, Nan just saying nad wake up,
Speaker 1: called bunch of them. No, they your b two things
Speaker 1: that worried me to moving forward, and I'll finish on this.
Speaker 1: K has not been the same safety man since the incident.
Speaker 1: I don't know if y'all notice this. I don't know
Speaker 1: what this guy's going back there, man, I don't know
Speaker 1: if he needs a replacement of what And on the
Speaker 1: left colcol thing. Let me tell you something, Buddy should
Speaker 1: have stayed on the right side, because even if we
Speaker 1: give him another chance, that thing with that when the
Speaker 1: guy jumped on his back, that could have been bad
Speaker 1: for the ankle and that cow. We got to think
Speaker 1: about that moving forward. So I love y'all guys, man,
Speaker 1: Like I said, I'm gonna be calling both shows here
Speaker 1: and there. So love y'all are still listening. Oh good,
Speaker 1: that's the real Anthony right there for Miami. And yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a He's a constant caller on hanging with the
Speaker 1: boys all the way from when I was doing the
Speaker 1: running the podcast back there when I first got hitting.
Speaker 1: There's a chance. There's always a chance. Yeah, yeah, I like,
Speaker 1: I liked what he has to say there, because the
Speaker 1: Terrence Steel thing is is certainly a worry Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: that's the blind side. You gotta find a way to
Speaker 1: protect him, especially when he's dealing with a couple of
Speaker 1: these nagging injuries. But what did you guys think about
Speaker 1: what he had to say? It was a good call.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I think there's two ways you
Speaker 1: can look at this loss in this start of the season.
Speaker 1: You can have the glass half empty approach and say,
Speaker 1: we're talking about the same concerns that we talked about
Speaker 1: it in training camp going into training camp. Swing, tackle,
Speaker 1: run defense, yes, like safety, tackle depth, Yeah, and those
Speaker 1: as you go forward, those are still spots quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those are still well rushes. I know, I'm just throwing
Speaker 1: it out there. Rush was in his bag. Those are
Speaker 1: still things that you look at and say, ah, this,
Speaker 1: this could this could bite us at some point. And
Speaker 1: then the half full approach is there's a lot of
Speaker 1: evidence that this is a good football team and that
Speaker 1: when they play with a certain energy level and bring
Speaker 1: it and finish plays. That was the biggest thing everybody
Speaker 1: keep talking about, especially on defense. They didn't finish plays.
Speaker 1: They didn't there weren't enough hats to the ball in
Speaker 1: the running game, those kind of things that is energy
Speaker 1: type of play style that you can fix. That's fixable.
Speaker 1: So I don't think it's it's too early to panic
Speaker 1: about this loss, but stuff's got to get fixed in
Speaker 1: a hurry, because look, man, all it takes is one
Speaker 1: bad game like this in January and you're done. You're
Speaker 1: done for the year. Rather have it now, right for sure,
Speaker 1: Danny mcran I'm talking about that yesterday. Yeah it now.
Speaker 1: You know, one of the things that you can control
Speaker 1: in life, and I talk to my kids about this
Speaker 1: is effort. You know, it's your effort. You can be
Speaker 1: on time, Being on time and effort, you know, those
Speaker 1: are just the things that you could control. And I
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, the effort was not there for
Speaker 1: the team we had a bad day and we're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna bury this game, get rid of it, and
Speaker 1: look forward to the next game. But you know, you
Speaker 1: talk about the not finishing players in that whole I
Speaker 1: love with dan Quinn talks about the two point three
Speaker 1: seconds to end to play, you know, being on top
Speaker 1: of the offense before it even gets started, before those
Speaker 1: big gash players even happen. When you miss fourteen, when
Speaker 1: you miss fourteen tackles and teams have those long drives
Speaker 1: like they have on you, it's almost impossible for your
Speaker 1: offense to have any kind of rhythm to be in
Speaker 1: a ball game. So, look, this was a bad one
Speaker 1: and we just have to talk this one up. That's
Speaker 1: what it is. I don't really have much to add.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's it. That's it. No, I agree
Speaker 1: with with both of you guys there as well. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Ted in Houston. Ted, you're on talking Cowboys.
Speaker 1: How's it going. How's it going, guys? Good? Um, first
Speaker 1: time caller. I just wanted to say, a great show.
Speaker 1: And I think the Ski played better had the left
Speaker 1: tackle than Still, And I'm not sure why they made
Speaker 1: that switch to move Still to left tackle. I just
Speaker 1: wanted you guys to touch on that and see if
Speaker 1: that would be an option going forward. Tyron Smister is out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well man, thanks for calling. Man, I can tell you
Speaker 1: right now the heck but told them not to play
Speaker 1: in a seck. So that's that's really how that decision
Speaker 1: went down. Call you call on the red phone. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I don't know, man. I mean they go
Speaker 1: through camp, right, um. Camp is the biggest evaluation period.
Speaker 1: Preseason is the biggest evaluation period. Coaches make their depth
Speaker 1: charts based upon what they seem in both of those things.
Speaker 1: OTA's camp, training camp, all right m preseason. They came
Speaker 1: out of that feeling like Terren Steele was the best
Speaker 1: swing tackle. That's what the reps showed leading up to
Speaker 1: the season. And then Terren still backed that up by
Speaker 1: filling in for Lao when he had to step out
Speaker 1: after the first game. He showed why he was that dude. Yes,
Speaker 1: n Seki came in there when earlier and a couple
Speaker 1: of games ago when when Tyrn had to go out
Speaker 1: and he did he did okay job. He did okay job.
Speaker 1: But I think that Terrence still earned the right to
Speaker 1: be that next man up and now that he's that
Speaker 1: next man up, now that the starter is back. I
Speaker 1: mean LYO Collins, guess what, You're still the number one,
Speaker 1: the next man up on swing tackle. So guess where
Speaker 1: you go? You swing over to the other side. And
Speaker 1: that's just the reality of the depth chart. Um. Now
Speaker 1: what we see this week, who knows, But in terms
Speaker 1: of what we saw last week, that was his right
Speaker 1: you know, his rightful, rightful place on that left side.
Speaker 1: So you think when Tyron's back, you think Elsie just
Speaker 1: stays at that spot. Yeah, and Terence is now the
Speaker 1: swing tackle? Yes, okay, what do you think? No? I mean,
Speaker 1: I I agree with everything this guy said. I just
Speaker 1: feel as though Ninsecki almost sent Everson Griffin to the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame and just a half, you know, and
Speaker 1: that was not good. And if he had had a
Speaker 1: whole game to play then it would it would even
Speaker 1: been worse. You know. I just think we've been trying,
Speaker 1: because of our insecurities at the swing tackle position, to
Speaker 1: kind of be overstopped at that position. And look, at
Speaker 1: some point we're gonna have to go ahead and say
Speaker 1: that this guy is our swing tackle. And we still
Speaker 1: don't feel good. I don't think we still feel any
Speaker 1: better about the left guard position because people are talking
Speaker 1: about moving Connor Williams out, who's in the contract situation
Speaker 1: as well. So look offensive line wise again, I just
Speaker 1: have to say we had our worst day and I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna give up on Terrence still. I gave up
Speaker 1: on the last year. I fel like he you know,
Speaker 1: with the stars that he had, man, that is no good.
Speaker 1: We need to move on. He's shown us otherwise and
Speaker 1: that's why coach Philbin is the coach and developer and
Speaker 1: teacher that he is, and so I trust that it's
Speaker 1: a good call and a good question. I will say
Speaker 1: I thought fans wanted best five. I thought that's what
Speaker 1: fans want to see, and that's what the that's what
Speaker 1: they did. It's what they put up, what they tried
Speaker 1: to do, because I think that's that's the line of
Speaker 1: thinking there, because I don't think it was an easy
Speaker 1: decision for Mike McCarthy. He does not want to change
Speaker 1: out two spots out of five if he can help it,
Speaker 1: and that's what they did. And Joe Philbin told us
Speaker 1: during the bye week that really Terrence Steele left tackle
Speaker 1: could probably do it right. Tackles more his home, So
Speaker 1: I think they wrestled with that. And but I will
Speaker 1: say I said this on the pregame show. People within
Speaker 1: the organization they really like Terrence Steele's approach for a
Speaker 1: young guy, He's gonna work at it, so I wouldn't
Speaker 1: discount him being better at that spot next time if
Speaker 1: he has to play it than before. Was not good,
Speaker 1: No doubt the whole line struggle, but they believe in
Speaker 1: this young guy. So we'll see how it goes. Hopefully
Speaker 1: it's a little bit better coming up this week against Atlanta.
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Speaker 1: Jerry Jones, and I think from the amount of time
Speaker 1: that he's played and made an impact, you could argue
Speaker 1: it both ways. It's right on the line. But I
Speaker 1: don't think it was the worst contract that Cowboys have
Speaker 1: had in that amount of time. But what do you
Speaker 1: guys think on that They missed him Sunday. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: missed him a lot Sunday because he's he I always
Speaker 1: say it and yeah, fans want to see sacks and
Speaker 1: I get it. I mean, that's that's a large reason
Speaker 1: why you're getting paid. But leadership for sure, um playstyle
Speaker 1: like he's gonna bring it, so I think that would
Speaker 1: have added to what they needed Sunday. I think the
Speaker 1: other thing too is edge containment. A lot of those runs,
Speaker 1: those stretch runs, bouncing outside. He is so good at
Speaker 1: setting the edge on the left defensive end spot, and
Speaker 1: they missed that Sunday. They missed that allows a big
Speaker 1: reason why they struggled against the run. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: we missed more than in physical I think we missed
Speaker 1: his leadership this past week. I think when you're in
Speaker 1: a game like that where you need somebody to really
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Speaker 1: we what I know about about d Law is he
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Speaker 1: a professional locker room like that, It's important because you
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Speaker 1: because that's not what we do here. We don't lay down. No.
Speaker 1: I think the expectation comes with the money that he
Speaker 1: was paid. And you know, we haven't had double digit
Speaker 1: sacks for him from him in years and the fan
Speaker 1: base is getting frustrated with that. DeMarcus Lawrence even in
Speaker 1: you know, the run game, we've seen him be stout,
Speaker 1: but all the talk about him being chipped in double team,
Speaker 1: that's not true either, you know. So there's the pressure
Speaker 1: is on him, reasonably so, and he has to live
Speaker 1: up to it. And I'm sure he understands that when
Speaker 1: the team starts to evaluate where they are with contracts,
Speaker 1: he's gonna have to be one of those guys to
Speaker 1: put the numbers together. As well. Him being hurt is
Speaker 1: not helping him as far as where this team is
Speaker 1: right now. I agree with Isaiah. They need him, They
Speaker 1: need that leadership on that side because when you have
Speaker 1: the young guy being the one that's the apex out there.
Speaker 1: You want to have your veteran guy also pique everybody
Speaker 1: up right now, I don't know if if Micah feels
Speaker 1: comfortable with being a verbal leader, and yet he's not there,
Speaker 1: he's just yeah, exactly. It takes time. But DeMarcus Lawrence
Speaker 1: getting him back and Dan Quinn even talking about him
Speaker 1: on those stunts and different things where he's going to
Speaker 1: be valuable. We see Randy Gregory doing it and showing
Speaker 1: his value, but what about both of those guys working together?
Speaker 1: And I know that's gonna make us a lot better.
Speaker 1: But I also want to point to what he was
Speaker 1: saying about developing a defensive tackle. Steve this guy also
Speaker 1: Diggi Zul. I don't know if you're watching him, but man,
Speaker 1: he is definitely a work in progress and he is
Speaker 1: making doing some really good things out there. Where I
Speaker 1: really question right now is what's going on with Bohannah.
Speaker 1: You know what's happening with Bohannah? Why hasn't he been
Speaker 1: able to make the impact that we thought that he
Speaker 1: could make, because right now it's just not there. Can
Speaker 1: I answer that question? He's a sixth round pick. We
Speaker 1: put too much expectations on Quentin Bohanna as a rookie.
Speaker 1: I mean he's a big trash canful of dirt. I
Speaker 1: mean he is a big dude who takes up space.
Speaker 1: He's not going to create pressure. He's supposed to be
Speaker 1: there on the run defense. But in the end, if
Speaker 1: he was a really good, talented trash bag or trash
Speaker 1: canful of dirt that's taking up space, he would have
Speaker 1: gone on the third round or the fourth round. He
Speaker 1: went into the sixth round because teams over and over
Speaker 1: and over and over and over again passed on him,
Speaker 1: and then as soon as we picked him up from
Speaker 1: the sixth it was like, oh my gosh, here's our
Speaker 1: run stopper. That's not necessarily fair to him. If we're
Speaker 1: expecting him to do that in the first ten weeks
Speaker 1: of his career, I think that's that's a little bit quick.
Speaker 1: I'm guilty of it as well. I saw it in
Speaker 1: training camp, just like how you guys did, and said, hey,
Speaker 1: he could turn into a pretty good player here, even
Speaker 1: as a rookie, and he hasn't had any impact. That's
Speaker 1: that's just expectations. We were off there. Yeah, and the
Speaker 1: heat a battle. I don't think anybody cares where he
Speaker 1: was drafted and we're just looking at it. That's what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. I'm saying the expectations for us to jump
Speaker 1: the gun and say this six rounder is about to
Speaker 1: be a starter at the nose tackle spot is a
Speaker 1: little bit out of the case. And ASA probably raised
Speaker 1: our expectations for the for the rookie class too, just
Speaker 1: what he's done as a third round pick. Not on
Speaker 1: that line. Justin Hamiltons to your question, I mean, is
Speaker 1: taking his snaps and it was a tough day for
Speaker 1: everybody up front, I think in that last game. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean Hamilton gave them good snaps last year. It's
Speaker 1: just no, they wanted they wanted to keep all this
Speaker 1: draft class together, and they've had Hamilton on the practice
Speaker 1: squad and Brent Urban is not in there too, and
Speaker 1: that that might be affecting this interior defense too. I
Speaker 1: expected without Brent Urban being in the fold, I expected
Speaker 1: Bohannah to get more steps and he still didn't get any. Though.
Speaker 1: That's that's what's gonna make interesting when Gallimore comes back.
Speaker 1: How is Neville gonna be used and how is that
Speaker 1: rotation gonna look Because you know, just go back to
Speaker 1: the play on the goal line. Man, our guys were
Speaker 1: getting pushed all the way back into the end zone
Speaker 1: and that just didn't look good. But again, we had
Speaker 1: a bad game. I don't expect for these guys to
Speaker 1: come out there and play like that versus Atlanta, especially
Speaker 1: the way that Denver was decimated at the offensive line,
Speaker 1: and they still had success in the running game. Man
Speaker 1: three missing three starters and just blew us off the ball.
Speaker 1: Blew the Cowboys off of the ball. Not no excuses.
Speaker 1: But guess what we get to put this one in
Speaker 1: the review nit mirror. Now is it done? We don't
Speaker 1: have to talk about this over. Thank you more. We
Speaker 1: can reference it in the future, but we are not
Speaker 1: talking about this game any longer. Tomorrow we move on
Speaker 1: to Atlanta. It's the Atlanta offense versus the Cowboys defense.
Speaker 1: What do the Cowboys do to pick things up on
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn's side of the football. We'll talk about it
Speaker 1: tomorrow on Talking Cowboys. For Chris being, Rob Phillips, Isaiah
Speaker 1: stand back in the Great heck Ma Harrison, I'm Kyle
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