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Speaker 1: Star in Priscilla Elliott. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian brought us,
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, and Bill Jones, and a happy Tuesday to
Speaker 1: all of you out there. And this is Talking Cowboys
Speaker 1: as we kick off another week after a Monday night
Speaker 1: that was not so memorable at at and T Stadium
Speaker 1: last night. The Eagles await on Sunday. I'm Bill Jones
Speaker 1: along with Brian brought us and Mickey Spagnola, Rob Phillips.
Speaker 1: Maybe we'll be joining us a little bit later and
Speaker 1: let him a little bit of can we call it
Speaker 1: breaking news this morning? You had an opportunity to do.
Speaker 1: Joe Buck and Rob Phillips will be joining us at
Speaker 1: a moment. Yeah, that's right. Radio there, Yeah, yeah, Gamox absolutely,
Speaker 1: Voice of Saint Louis and Aaron Andrews will be joining
Speaker 1: us in Yeah, a little bit, there you go. Rob
Speaker 1: Phillips will be joining us a little bit. He's working
Speaker 1: on a story that um for the website that of course,
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones on his weekly radio show, basically made the
Speaker 1: comment that Dak Prescott will be extended, and so that
Speaker 1: sent writers scurrying about. He was asked towards the end
Speaker 1: of the segment about Dak Prescott, what he thinks of him,
Speaker 1: what is his development, and what do you see of
Speaker 1: him going forward? And he said, Dak is the quarterback
Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys. He's young, He's going to get extended.
Speaker 1: And that created a very long, pregnant pause on the broadcast,
Speaker 1: and then they find caught themselves and they go, oh, oh,
Speaker 1: we got some news. Yeah, so there you go. Sean
Speaker 1: Lee's hamstring, Yeah, exactly all right, and he did not
Speaker 1: have an answer on how Sean Lee's hamstring is, which
Speaker 1: brings us to last night against the Titans, a very
Speaker 1: disappointing night for the Cowboys, the twenty eight to fourteen
Speaker 1: loss that leaves them at three and five, two games
Speaker 1: back of the Redskins, one game back of the Eagles, who,
Speaker 1: of course they play this week. The only saving grace
Speaker 1: is the fact that Atlanta beat Washington on Sunday, and
Speaker 1: that means they're still just two games back in first place. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's you know, that's the reason why you made the
Speaker 1: moves you made, and to try and go and take
Speaker 1: a division. It just you know, it's the halfway point
Speaker 1: you're kind of looking can you get in on a
Speaker 1: wild card? I think this team to get in the
Speaker 1: playoffs is going to have to win the division. And
Speaker 1: then so I'm probably not saying anything that people out
Speaker 1: there don't already know. And so you've got a position
Speaker 1: yourself the best best way you can really disappointing last night,
Speaker 1: I felt like I misevaluated, uh, this team's ability to
Speaker 1: take advantage of some of the things that Tennessee can do,
Speaker 1: and uh, you know defensively, you look at it. I
Speaker 1: just in my mind and when watching the game this morning,
Speaker 1: you know on tape, you know, bright and I'm real
Speaker 1: real late last night that the thing I just kept
Speaker 1: looking at and I couldn't get away from was how
Speaker 1: well that Tennessee played on third down and seven and
Speaker 1: plus yards. You know they were Those are usually bad
Speaker 1: down in distant situations for NFL teams. Not many conversions
Speaker 1: or happened in that particular down in distance. But you know,
Speaker 1: tip of the captain, Marcus Mariota, the way he played,
Speaker 1: he was he had a lot of pressure in the
Speaker 1: game he had to deal with. He made some clutch throws.
Speaker 1: Their receivers did a great job of running some routes
Speaker 1: getting open, and you know, I was that that to
Speaker 1: me was was was shocking because you know, this is
Speaker 1: a team that doesn't doesn't do very well on third down.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the Titans. Uh, you know, but the
Speaker 1: Cowboys put him in some some bad down and distant situations,
Speaker 1: but they were able to come through. Uh. You know
Speaker 1: with this uh, with the to make the plays necessary
Speaker 1: to win that football game. And it's a it's unfortunate
Speaker 1: you didn't take advantage of some early opportunities, uh to
Speaker 1: cash in for yourself. The missfield goal clearly hurt you.
Speaker 1: The Prescott interception, I think that was just a bad
Speaker 1: read on his part. He felt like that, you know,
Speaker 1: probably during the week of practice when they went ran
Speaker 1: short yardage and goal line that when they got in
Speaker 1: twenty one personnel that they that Kevin Bayard was going
Speaker 1: to step up and instead he ran with uh Maury Cooper.
Speaker 1: And you know, Prescott thinking now cav got a clean
Speaker 1: throw there when he really didn't have a clean throw.
Speaker 1: So you know, the fumbles. A lot of things had
Speaker 1: happened in this game that that caused you not to win,
Speaker 1: uh win a game that I felt like you really
Speaker 1: really really had to have going here going forward these
Speaker 1: next few weeks. Bill, they had a great opportunity going
Speaker 1: into this game. You mentioned Washington getting beat. You're playing
Speaker 1: a team that's three and four, had not played well
Speaker 1: on the road, had lost three consecutive games going into
Speaker 1: this game, was offensively challenged, and by all rights, you
Speaker 1: should have been up seventeen to nothing at the end
Speaker 1: of the first quarter if you don't miss a thirty
Speaker 1: eight yard field goal, which was Mayters first miss less
Speaker 1: than forty eight yards, and then you got first in
Speaker 1: goal at the four yard line and you get no points. Yea,
Speaker 1: so to me at the end of the first quarter,
Speaker 1: instead of seven to nothing, it should have been seventeen
Speaker 1: to nothing. And they're on their way and this team's
Speaker 1: ready to fold. But you miss your scoring opportunities and
Speaker 1: then you can't get off the field. Defensively, for the
Speaker 1: first time all year, they converted eleven of fourteen third
Speaker 1: downs at seventy nine. Yeah, and by the way, to
Speaker 1: Brian's point on third and seven or longer. I just
Speaker 1: added it up. They were six for nine third and
Speaker 1: six or longer, they were seven for ten. And it
Speaker 1: wasn't like they you know, they were ahead of the chains.
Speaker 1: They were behind the chain. No that yeah, they were Well,
Speaker 1: you know, you didn't get a good enough pass rush.
Speaker 1: You let him come up with plays, uh kind of
Speaker 1: you know, some gotcha plays and uh, you know, Shawn
Speaker 1: Lee only played seventeen plays. I'm not making excuses for him,
Speaker 1: but this time I think they missed him. And by
Speaker 1: the way, we should point out that Shawn Lee, he
Speaker 1: obviously went out after the hamstring injury, but he was
Speaker 1: not in the game for the second and third series,
Speaker 1: including the eighty yard drive. He came in on the
Speaker 1: goal line on one play, the goal line play where
Speaker 1: they scored the touchdown on that drive. And I don't
Speaker 1: know if I was supposed to be his rest period.
Speaker 1: Two consecutive series that he was not on the field. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know. And and the way that Tennessee was able
Speaker 1: to drive the ball that that ten that was fifteen
Speaker 1: to nine minutes. That took a lot out of this defense.
Speaker 1: And you know they were uh we felt like going
Speaker 1: in at least I shouldn't say we Brian felt like
Speaker 1: that that that you could have handled the rotation would
Speaker 1: have been good enough for you. You know, you could
Speaker 1: have rotated the defensive tackles. But you know, playing without
Speaker 1: David Irving, uh, you know, could have very well hurt
Speaker 1: the rotation, and playing without you know, Randy Gregory very
Speaker 1: well could have hurt the rotation, especially if it was you.
Speaker 1: You were you were getting the ball driven on you
Speaker 1: and you didn't have those fresh bodies, because it looked
Speaker 1: like in the second half of the game there they
Speaker 1: hit some runs on you that they didn't hit early
Speaker 1: in the game, and that might have been a little
Speaker 1: bit because of the wear and tear that that Tennessee
Speaker 1: was able to inflict on those long drives and in
Speaker 1: the first half. So on the eighty yard drive in
Speaker 1: the first half, did you hear any reports of Sean
Speaker 1: Lee that was not looking at him or anything. I
Speaker 1: wonder if he was having an issue with a hamstring then,
Speaker 1: because why on a fifteen play drive like that, you
Speaker 1: would think that he would have been on the field
Speaker 1: at least for a portion of it, even though it
Speaker 1: was like at some point moving the ball. That's one
Speaker 1: let me get you on the field. That's one of
Speaker 1: the things Jerry Jones brought up after the game and
Speaker 1: then again this morning of one of the first things
Speaker 1: he brought up is he felt like his defense got
Speaker 1: tired in the second half of that game and probably
Speaker 1: in the course of that one night yard drive because
Speaker 1: of the rotation issues. Yeah, Tennessee did a nice job,
Speaker 1: you know, as you mentioned, Bill, and the third downs
Speaker 1: to me were huge, the way that they were able
Speaker 1: to convert, you know, into the passes that they were
Speaker 1: able to come up with, the throws that they were
Speaker 1: able to make the receivers and you know, this is
Speaker 1: a group of guys that you know, you could say,
Speaker 1: Cameron Batson, who's Cameron Batson, Well, Cameron Batson's making plays
Speaker 1: in the game for you you know who is you know,
Speaker 1: who is Darius Jennings. Darius Jennings making plays for the
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans. You know, that's kind of what you hoped
Speaker 1: the receiver by committee group that you had was going
Speaker 1: to make plays, but you know, they just didn't do
Speaker 1: a very good job. Mickey talks about the pass rush
Speaker 1: nearly wasn't consistent enough, you know, and and when they
Speaker 1: did get pass rush you know, the Mariota did a
Speaker 1: great job of getting the ball out and anticipating throws,
Speaker 1: and he had a guys that were opened down the field,
Speaker 1: and I think it was a it was a it
Speaker 1: was a bad night for the Dallas defense not to
Speaker 1: be at their absolute best. They've been carrying this team
Speaker 1: really all year long, and they had they had a
Speaker 1: bad game, especially on third down, and I think that's
Speaker 1: really one of the main reasons. You know, you look
Speaker 1: at offensively what the Cowboys did, and it's you know,
Speaker 1: it was nice to see him Mary Cooper get going.
Speaker 1: You could see, you can tell some of the things
Speaker 1: that he has, you know that he can bring. But
Speaker 1: you know that nearly wasn't wasn't enough for what they
Speaker 1: needed third down and in the red zone. I mean,
Speaker 1: they were four for five in the red zone and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys were one four in the red zone, right,
Speaker 1: you know. And it's nice to have a rotation on
Speaker 1: that defensive line, but when you start getting diminishing returns,
Speaker 1: like you don't have the two guys you just mentioned
Speaker 1: who you're rotating in there, right, do those guys need
Speaker 1: to be playing that much? Yeah, you know, you're down
Speaker 1: to Kuran read and then you lost Taco, and you
Speaker 1: lost Taco in the game, and and Crawford's got to
Speaker 1: almost play the entire game at right defensive end, where
Speaker 1: he moved because they didn't have a Randy Gregory to
Speaker 1: put out there. So yeah, they got spread a little
Speaker 1: bit too thin, and it caught up with him at
Speaker 1: that point. And in a moment, we have Rob Phillips,
Speaker 1: and we have him right now. In fact, Rob Phillips,
Speaker 1: how are you doing. I'm good, I'm you know, struggling
Speaker 1: through no sleep, but I'm sure everybody else is here.
Speaker 1: And how a little sleep did you get? I got
Speaker 1: a couple of hours. That's good enough. That's enough to
Speaker 1: try to make sense of what happened. And I'm sure
Speaker 1: you got a job of that so far. You get
Speaker 1: pressed into duty right off the bat this morning due
Speaker 1: to the owner's radio show. Yeah, yeah, he's doubling down
Speaker 1: on Dak Prescott. You know, that's his guy. And and
Speaker 1: look they're trying to make or run here. They're still
Speaker 1: not out of it. Of course he's gonna back his quarterback.
Speaker 1: But I also think he really believes it. I think
Speaker 1: he's got a lot of faith in Dak. And but
Speaker 1: what we've seen is clearly he needs help. He needs
Speaker 1: help around him, he needs the defense to play well.
Speaker 1: And when they don't get all those things, uh, they're
Speaker 1: They're not a successful football team, not even close to one.
Speaker 1: Last night just not a good game. That's probably the
Speaker 1: worst loss they've had of the season. And that's kind
Speaker 1: of saying something because you come out of the bye
Speaker 1: and you expect I Jerry sure sounded heat like he
Speaker 1: expected a much more efficient performance. I sure talk that
Speaker 1: way all week. I mean, you make, you make changes.
Speaker 1: You have a couple of weeks to integrate a new
Speaker 1: coach on the old line, a new receiver and who
Speaker 1: played pretty well by the way, but they just weren't
Speaker 1: good enough any way around. And the biggest surprise when
Speaker 1: I came in y'all talking about the defense, that was
Speaker 1: the biggest surprise to me. But at some point the
Speaker 1: offense has to help them out too, you know. They've been,
Speaker 1: like Brian said, they've been the backbone of this thing
Speaker 1: for eight games now, and at some point you got
Speaker 1: to help them out. Well, they were helping. They got
Speaker 1: those fumbles early in the game, should have had a
Speaker 1: third one. Yeah, uh, and they didn't take advantage seven
Speaker 1: to nothing. It should have been seventeen to nothing. You
Speaker 1: squander its least it's ast and at least thirteen because
Speaker 1: you could have kicked a field goal from the four yards.
Speaker 1: And that's what I mean, Mick. They gave him a
Speaker 1: couple of short fields. Yeah, and it probably should have
Speaker 1: been seventeen the first time. And they were fired up
Speaker 1: and they're rolling and and everything's going well. Uh, and
Speaker 1: you get another fumble that they overruled. Um, god, it
Speaker 1: just and then it just turned around. And then third quarter,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys give the Titans a short field and what
Speaker 1: do they do with it? They go forty yards and
Speaker 1: score a touchdown, right, you know. And and at some
Speaker 1: point when it's third and I don't know what it
Speaker 1: would it was like third and thirteen, and you're you're
Speaker 1: getting pressured at some point just take the sack and punt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, but he kept fighting, you know, And the
Speaker 1: guy that sacked him was on the ground. They hadn't
Speaker 1: blocked him, he was on the ground, got up and
Speaker 1: hit him and pulled the ball out. Yeah. So that
Speaker 1: was one of those things we talked about. Bad decisions.
Speaker 1: They run those picks, they run those picks stunts where
Speaker 1: you know, they they they take the they take the
Speaker 1: linebacker or the defensive lineman. And you know, Brown in
Speaker 1: this case just you know, he hammered right into Joe Looney.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately, though, you know, if Rod Smith just stays
Speaker 1: on his feet, you know, he cuts, he goes low
Speaker 1: to try and cut Brown. He cuts Brown, but he
Speaker 1: also cuts Looney in the play, you know, and and
Speaker 1: it's a lot of it. You know, there's some self
Speaker 1: inflicted stuff if you stay on your feet, keep the
Speaker 1: pocket clean. They had some things that were developing down
Speaker 1: the field, but he just couldn't get to it because
Speaker 1: there was so much happening in front of him that
Speaker 1: he had to pull the ball and he tried to,
Speaker 1: you know, and get Brown a lot of credit coming
Speaker 1: up off the ground, like Mickey said. And then and
Speaker 1: then as Prescott's going forward to just try and fall forward,
Speaker 1: he's ripping at the ball. And that's you know, that
Speaker 1: that's that's a disaster. Dak is. His inability to protect
Speaker 1: the ball in the pocket has been a problem for
Speaker 1: this team this year. And one of the reasons he's
Speaker 1: got to protect the ball in the pocket is because
Speaker 1: there's pressure on him. They're coming after him. The same
Speaker 1: thing on the interception in the end zone. He's got
Speaker 1: a guy flashing in his face. He's got to mail
Speaker 1: that into the first row. Yeah, and he tried to
Speaker 1: throw it up. He thought he had a Cooper and
Speaker 1: he overthrew him and the guys behind him. And makes
Speaker 1: you hate to see interceptions when the guy's intercepting the
Speaker 1: ball behind your wide receiver and got to mail that.
Speaker 1: Just get rid of it. Because the guy was in
Speaker 1: his face and he tried throwing off his back. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's floating. I don't think he saw Kevin
Speaker 1: Biden did into a spot. Yeah. That's one of those
Speaker 1: Friday afternoon goal line practice plays like I was talking about,
Speaker 1: where they draw the card up and they say, okay,
Speaker 1: we're in twenty one personnel, run heavy group, we play
Speaker 1: action it, we're gonna get a safety reaction. Well, this
Speaker 1: guy's an All Pro player, you know, yeah, he's you
Speaker 1: know he's and Kins did a good job here showing it.
Speaker 1: If you're watching on the screen, you know, with us,
Speaker 1: and you might be listening to him. Sorry to go
Speaker 1: back and watch it, but Kevin Bayer never moved once
Speaker 1: once that Cooper flashed across his face. He went into
Speaker 1: trail mode and and rightfully celebration here. Yeah, yeah, exactly, so,
Speaker 1: you know, unfortunate. But Prescott, I'm sure in practice all
Speaker 1: week long when he threw that ball, there was not
Speaker 1: a safety trailing on the play. So if he intercepted
Speaker 1: the ball in Philadelphia, when he goes stood on the eagle,
Speaker 1: there's something about they've already beat they already beat the
Speaker 1: Eagles at home. Yeah, they didn't have to go stand
Speaker 1: on the eagle. Yeah, they have to stand on the Eagles.
Speaker 1: See Amory calling for that holding call and he didn't
Speaker 1: get it. Well, he got grabbed. He could have called it.
Speaker 1: You could have got you could have got yeah, you
Speaker 1: could have got Logan Ryan grabs him on the way by. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the official let him let it go, and that
Speaker 1: that that happens. You get down in the red zone,
Speaker 1: you know they let you play, and you know that's
Speaker 1: that's the result. He did get grabbed. He was going,
Speaker 1: I mean, he was exploding past Logan Ryan and and
Speaker 1: he grabbed him, I mean clearly grabbed him in that
Speaker 1: official stands right there. It's sour Graves right now. I'm
Speaker 1: not complained about the officiating. But I think this just
Speaker 1: goes back to what we talked about with Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: in his ability to see the field. At times, he
Speaker 1: assumed that there was not going to be a safety there.
Speaker 1: He gambled, he was wrong and resulted in a bad turnover. Well,
Speaker 1: when you're throwing off your bad back foot, bad things happened.
Speaker 1: And if it wasn't Dwight Clark, he would have gone
Speaker 1: up and cut the ball. I mean that's he just
Speaker 1: threw it up, figuring, Okay, I'm gonna give my guy
Speaker 1: maybe maybe have one on one situation. You throw it,
Speaker 1: you can get that. But but the fact that he
Speaker 1: got held off the lit for the guy. He didn't
Speaker 1: account for the safe because Michael Down was not behind Dwight. Yeah. Yeah, no, So,
Speaker 1: I mean that's what he was trying to do, and
Speaker 1: and he overthrew his guy, figured I'll throw it up there.
Speaker 1: If he can't get it, no one gets it. And
Speaker 1: Amari kind of fell on the sword and said, I
Speaker 1: let the guy hold me. If he hadn't held me,
Speaker 1: I would have gone up and made the play. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: we never let anybody hold us, right, just called throw
Speaker 1: the flag. Hey, I'm with you, with you, there's a
Speaker 1: couple that just just oh, it's amazing. Didn't quite know
Speaker 1: that somebody, if we're talking about a fish. And I
Speaker 1: don't quite understand what Layton Vanders can do any differently
Speaker 1: than what he did to try and tackle a quarterback.
Speaker 1: You know, he was going into the slide, you know
Speaker 1: he was, And here's a kid that's running full speed
Speaker 1: and he's trying to keep the quarterback from getting to
Speaker 1: the sticks, and he has it already started. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: started started slide and Vanders she's going down to try
Speaker 1: and tackle the game. Vanderas had already started his descent
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah. And I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 1: what you can do any different I you know, when
Speaker 1: they all got together there, I thought, Okay, they're gonna
Speaker 1: pick up the flag here, but then they go, oh,
Speaker 1: well it's helmet, the helmet, but it's a quarterback. We
Speaker 1: got to protectactly. And I don't know what Vanderesh can
Speaker 1: do any differently. I really don't. I don't understand. I
Speaker 1: understand protecting the quarterback if you're head hunting. I don't
Speaker 1: think Layton Vanderesh was head hunting in that particular case.
Speaker 1: I think he was trying to keep Marcus Mariota from
Speaker 1: getting any further down the field, and it just the
Speaker 1: way Mariota slid was the way he impacted him. And
Speaker 1: you know, those those are the calls that I think
Speaker 1: the officials need to look at and say, no, we're
Speaker 1: absolutely no, that's wrong. That's you can't call that. But
Speaker 1: there's needs needs to be somebody up in the booth
Speaker 1: who is actually seeing the replay without stopping play, and
Speaker 1: they can say whoa wait a second, yeah, this he
Speaker 1: had already started his tackle at the time that the
Speaker 1: quarterback started his slide. I mean, they just do what
Speaker 1: college does. Go go look at it again. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: he didn't slide targeting he went when he slid, he
Speaker 1: didn't go feet first. He went as yeah, but excuse me,
Speaker 1: that's fine, let me ask you guys. And and so
Speaker 1: when he slides like that, the head is where vander
Speaker 1: Ish is coming to hit him. And I don't care.
Speaker 1: He's not a quarterback anymore, you know, he's onto the pocket.
Speaker 1: That's that's what they said about dak in Washington that
Speaker 1: time he got whacked in the face and into the quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a runner, he's a runner. Let me ask you
Speaker 1: guys this though again, I don't want to complain about
Speaker 1: a fishing. Did you guys hear a whistle on the Prescott? Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: not on the fumble on the time out. He was
Speaker 1: telling me about this at two o'clock in the morning
Speaker 1: in the parking lot when they had Ross sack Mariota
Speaker 1: and they said they got the time out. No, no,
Speaker 1: there's I thought there was another There was a whistle,
Speaker 1: was whistle when when Prescott was more about something you're
Speaker 1: talking about, totally different play, Mickey on the press, the
Speaker 1: Prescott fumbed it out. Yea, the Prescott fumble. Swore, yes,
Speaker 1: there was a whistle that that uh Blakeman, Yeah, Clintman. Uh.
Speaker 1: He blew the whistle, And to me, that stops the play.
Speaker 1: I've when I played football, even the whistle blew, you
Speaker 1: stopped so I could slow doubt because sworn I heard
Speaker 1: a whistle, and and that's when the guys trying to
Speaker 1: rip the ball and then all of a sudden, so
Speaker 1: we didn't get a whistle down down by down right there,
Speaker 1: down forward, progress stopped instead. He comes out and said,
Speaker 1: there's been a fumble that that that done. I'm going,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, you blew a whistle. I heard the whistle,
Speaker 1: and when I was watching it, I said, well, the
Speaker 1: play's over. Yeah. I didn't even continue to follow the
Speaker 1: fumble because I heard the whistle. It was it was
Speaker 1: like an in the grass, the old in the grass exactly,
Speaker 1: And there was definitely a whistle. But it was a
Speaker 1: clear fumble recovery in their opinion, no question. But the
Speaker 1: whistle had blown, right, so the place should happen, So
Speaker 1: I can add another one to my list. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to make sure I do. I wasn't
Speaker 1: hearing things during the game, you know well, and there
Speaker 1: was not a wild scramble for the fumble. In fact,
Speaker 1: and as well as I remember it, the Tennessee guy
Speaker 1: kind of fell at his feet. Yeah. I mean, if
Speaker 1: you watched on tape, the lineman clearly are standing around,
Speaker 1: you know, Connor Williams. Those guys are kind of just
Speaker 1: waiting to see what's going. If there's no whistle, obviously
Speaker 1: everybody's diving in a pile like that recovery, which it
Speaker 1: can get kicked around, especially when you got line. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: trying to come up with the football. So you're right,
Speaker 1: I mean, there was no doubt and it was not
Speaker 1: just a whistle, it was a multiple, multiple whistle. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's right. Yeah, Okay, I just want to make sure
Speaker 1: that I was watching the same game. So I guess
Speaker 1: my whistle was when they gave him the time out,
Speaker 1: when they sacked Mariota. When't I freeze framed it. When
Speaker 1: the whistle blew the ball was this far past the center. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had already snapped it. Yea, So how do you
Speaker 1: give him the time out? You could hear the whistle
Speaker 1: on television when it when it happened, and the play
Speaker 1: had already started, and that that drives over We sound
Speaker 1: like terrible fans. I having said all of this, the
Speaker 1: having got a lot of issues. Having said all of this,
Speaker 1: the theme for Jerry Jones this morning on the radio
Speaker 1: with A Night to Sleep on It was he's not
Speaker 1: as concerned about the three and five record as he
Speaker 1: is about the fact that they're not playing any better
Speaker 1: than they all they need to play better. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: are not playing better, and it it goes, it goes
Speaker 1: throughout the You know, that was a bad night all around.
Speaker 1: You know, like Mickey said, you get the early turnovers,
Speaker 1: you don't cash in. You have turnovers yourself. You know,
Speaker 1: you give up a third and sevens all night. You know,
Speaker 1: these are things that you know, if you're gonna win games,
Speaker 1: you've got to do, and they didn't. They're just to
Speaker 1: take the bill parcels line. You are what you are
Speaker 1: and that's really you know, that's where the evaluation has
Speaker 1: to start. Now we got eight more games to continue
Speaker 1: to evaluate. I don't think he's going to make any
Speaker 1: coaching change, much to everybody's out there's angst. I guess
Speaker 1: is the right word. But you know, it's a situation
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Speaker 1: Now I've lost my thoughts? Where was I going? I
Speaker 1: was playing off what we're gonna play off what Brian
Speaker 1: said before the break, which was, well that's a mistake.
Speaker 1: This is a terrible loss, and I think Jerry's probably
Speaker 1: I'm putting words in his mouth, but Jerry's looking big picture.
Speaker 1: You know, Jason Garrett lives in the present. This is
Speaker 1: the worst team they're gonna face in the next five weeks.
Speaker 1: I feel pretty comfortable saying that that's fair. You've got
Speaker 1: a home game coming out of the bye week, and
Speaker 1: I guess it was our mistake. I think we all
Speaker 1: felt like, oh, I'll admit anything. You're about to say, No,
Speaker 1: we were right. They just didn't play the way they
Speaker 1: were I think we all felt like they were gonna
Speaker 1: just play efficient, good, home, clean football like they've been
Speaker 1: doing at at and T Stadium. They didn't. And defensively,
Speaker 1: I think we've expected maybe too much from this group.
Speaker 1: You know, they you can't expect them to be perfect
Speaker 1: every game, and they didn't play well against an offense
Speaker 1: that really has struggled to do anything this season. That
Speaker 1: was a big surprise. But at some point, your offense
Speaker 1: has got to score more than fourteen fifteen, sixteen seventeen points.
Speaker 1: Got to it's the only chance you have. And there's
Speaker 1: gonna be more of this if they don't If they
Speaker 1: don't pick it up. The other thing to remember is
Speaker 1: that Tennessee was coming off the bye two. That's true.
Speaker 1: And I don't from London and I have all season.
Speaker 1: I haven't bought into this home versus road thing. I
Speaker 1: think you if you're a good football team, you can
Speaker 1: play on the road too. Oh they've done it before, yeah, before,
Speaker 1: And so it's you know, to me, it's it's you know,
Speaker 1: it's there's there's there's always that everybody wants to pile on,
Speaker 1: you know, the coaching staff and all that. I get it,
Speaker 1: I get it, you know, but I think I think
Speaker 1: that you know, this is all really part of the
Speaker 1: evaluation of it. If at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: if they don't win enough games there it goes your evaluation.
Speaker 1: You have to figure this out. You know, he's trying
Speaker 1: to evaluate the quarterback. He's you know, he's made some
Speaker 1: comments about that. He's got evaluation already on that he's extending.
Speaker 1: You know, but okay, does that is he extending the
Speaker 1: quarterback with a new staff? Is it going to be
Speaker 1: the same staff. I mean, these are things you I
Speaker 1: think you have to play. To me personally, I would
Speaker 1: let play out. I would let this play out and
Speaker 1: I would say, Okay, am I making a change? Am
Speaker 1: I not making a change? And you know, if I'm
Speaker 1: making a change, do I need to do I need
Speaker 1: to have the input of the staff that's here to say, hey,
Speaker 1: I can win with this guy or I can't win
Speaker 1: with this guy. That's that's why I think you have
Speaker 1: to be careful about, you know, what saying. And he's
Speaker 1: obviously got to support his guy. Now he does. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he can't say he can't say anything different, surely can't.
Speaker 1: And you know, but that's I think me personally. Let's
Speaker 1: let's evaluate, let's evaluate where we're at here and and
Speaker 1: and make and make the best decisions, you know, for
Speaker 1: the team going forward. Okay, would you like to hear
Speaker 1: what Troy Aikman is saying? Sure? Yeah, it was interesting.
Speaker 1: What was on the ticket this morning? I guess and
Speaker 1: I just ran across this on Twitter. Here these are
Speaker 1: his comments from Troy Aikman. This team, over a long
Speaker 1: period of time has been what it's been, and it
Speaker 1: hasn't always mattered who the head coach has been. To me,
Speaker 1: if you're asking me, I'd say there has to be
Speaker 1: a complete overhaul of the entire organization. You just can't
Speaker 1: simply replace head coaches and say now it's going to
Speaker 1: be better. No, it's been shown that it's not better.
Speaker 1: You have to address how everything is being done. And
Speaker 1: there's been times where I've heard Jerry say, Okay, look
Speaker 1: we're going to do it differently. I'm going to do
Speaker 1: I'm going to do it differently. But it's the same.
Speaker 1: Nothing changes. That to me is the bigger issue. Yes,
Speaker 1: coaching is important, personnel and all those things are important,
Speaker 1: but how are you going about evaluating? How are you
Speaker 1: going about cutting the organization whatever that looks like. And
Speaker 1: everyone has an opinion of what it does look like.
Speaker 1: But I'm not in the building. I have no idea.
Speaker 1: I talk to people. I talk to people have been
Speaker 1: inside the building and have been pretty good understanding of
Speaker 1: how things are run. In a lot of ways, there's
Speaker 1: a lot of dysfunction and that has to change that
Speaker 1: this team is going to be able to compete on
Speaker 1: a consistent basis, like the teams you look to around
Speaker 1: the league that are seemingly in the hunt each and
Speaker 1: every year. So in honor of election day, it sounds
Speaker 1: like he's campaigning for a job. Oh think so GM job? Interesting? Yeah, intersting, well,
Speaker 1: what do you think, you know? You know, it's but
Speaker 1: this is guys have come out of the booth before
Speaker 1: and got GM jobs. And there's also a guy's one
Speaker 1: in seven right now are two and seven at San Francisco.
Speaker 1: So you know, I think that you know, the guy
Speaker 1: at Denver's not exactly lighting him up right now either,
Speaker 1: And there was a guy in Detroit that didn't, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he didn't light it up. Nice man though God bless him,
Speaker 1: he's having a heart problems. But Matt Millen, But you know,
Speaker 1: I there's a side of me that that I completely
Speaker 1: understand what Troy Agman is saying. But there's also a
Speaker 1: side of me of working in this organization, you know,
Speaker 1: on that side of it that I know that the
Speaker 1: general manager aspect of not as not going to change
Speaker 1: unless he says to make it change. Unless he changes
Speaker 1: it by saying, Okay, it's now Steven's a general manager,
Speaker 1: or Will's a general manager, or somebody else's the general manager. Well,
Speaker 1: I just don't see that part of it changing. You
Speaker 1: know that he I think he's dug in. I think
Speaker 1: he's dug in, and I think he wants to fix
Speaker 1: this the best he can, but I I you know,
Speaker 1: I don't. There's things I don't disagree with Troy Aikman there,
Speaker 1: and nobody wants to see these you know them have success.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean more than me, I really do.
Speaker 1: Makes our job a hell of a lot easier when
Speaker 1: that works. But there, But he's not wrong. But but
Speaker 1: what's going to change, Well, this thing has evolved a
Speaker 1: little bit over the past several years. Will McClay has
Speaker 1: a lot of over what they do. He's not the
Speaker 1: general manager. You're right, he's not. Stephen Jones is heavily involved,
Speaker 1: way more than he's been maybe ten years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so this thing has evolved. But you're right. I mean,
Speaker 1: Jerry is the general manager of this team and he's
Speaker 1: gonna make the final decision. But I'm not trying to
Speaker 1: read into put words in Troy's mouth. But Jerry is
Speaker 1: not a one man uh committee here. I mean this
Speaker 1: he leans heavy, like to talk about that they're all
Speaker 1: having decisions. Yeah, so you know, the comments seemed directed
Speaker 1: probably towards Jerry. And I wouldn't say that it's Jerry's
Speaker 1: ruling this thing with an iron fist anymore. I think
Speaker 1: he's seeding a lot of control in recent years. Now
Speaker 1: is it working right now? Look at the record, No,
Speaker 1: it's not. In my opinion, they're in transition right now.
Speaker 1: As far this team is in transition right now, the
Speaker 1: on the field product, it sounds like Traitman doesn't see
Speaker 1: them in transition being any better, right. That's that's that's
Speaker 1: the thing, you know, If is that the is that
Speaker 1: the reality is that what they are? Is it? Is it?
Speaker 1: You know? Is it? Is? It? Not as simple as
Speaker 1: changing the head coach? You know that that That's where
Speaker 1: I I mean, I but but in my heart, I
Speaker 1: know that I know how this works. I know I
Speaker 1: know he's not going to change. And you know he
Speaker 1: could say, Okay, Stevens now this, or Will's now this,
Speaker 1: or he can bring somebody in from the outside. But
Speaker 1: I don't see that part of it. If Troy is
Speaker 1: trying to get Jerry to change, if that's what he's
Speaker 1: pointing at, then Troy's just those are just words. Know
Speaker 1: this You know that this is gonna stay. You know,
Speaker 1: as long as Jerry Jones is able to keep his
Speaker 1: hand on the wheel, then that's where this is going
Speaker 1: to go. And you know that's you know, it's you
Speaker 1: could say what you could say. I mean, he learned
Speaker 1: from a guy like Al Davis. You know, Al Davis
Speaker 1: didn't give up control. He said, you know, He's like, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna run this team. This is the way I'm
Speaker 1: gonna run this team. I'm gonna do this team. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think Jerry is more flexible than what Al Davis was.
Speaker 1: You know, yes, but you know, I think I think
Speaker 1: that Troy's asking for something that fundamentally will not change
Speaker 1: here unless it's, like I said, passed down to somebody
Speaker 1: that's currently in this building. Let's go to Rashim in Pennsylvania. Rashim,
Speaker 1: how are you doing? How you doing, guys? Good? Um?
Speaker 1: My question is, do you guys think that Jason Garnett
Speaker 1: would do a better dog and play caller that Scot?
Speaker 1: In my hand? I think I think Stott hand he
Speaker 1: did outstanding job against the jack balls. He was letting
Speaker 1: a glass up, passed the ball on first down, and
Speaker 1: then he just went back to being theisode of Scott.
Speaker 1: I'm letting hand. What's you guys think about that? All right?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Rashim. So I didn't hear the broadcast, really,
Speaker 1: I watched the condensed version back this morning. So you
Speaker 1: don't hear a lot of the comments from Jason Witten
Speaker 1: or or Booger McFarland. There was my ure saying, there
Speaker 1: are quite a few towards the play calling, in the
Speaker 1: approach running on first down that kind of thing, right, sure, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and guess what they threw more on first down than
Speaker 1: ran the ball on first down they did? Yeah, go
Speaker 1: go let count them up. Zeke wasn't exactly having a
Speaker 1: great day, so go count them up. How many yards
Speaker 1: was that kid said, Zeke wasn't exactly having a great
Speaker 1: day for several days this season. Two and sixty yards?
Speaker 1: I think seventeen carries, one thirty run one thinks the
Speaker 1: seven yards hen yards total for catches maybe? I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think in the second half he had he can't.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, but I'm not with you because he
Speaker 1: had ninety six total yards at halftime. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: He was effective at half at halftime. How many possessions
Speaker 1: do they have the second half? Four and three? I
Speaker 1: think the first three possessions they got twenty six. After
Speaker 1: the miss field goal they had they had three plays
Speaker 1: for minus ten right the first Okay, the first twenty
Speaker 1: five minutes of the second half. This is when Tennessee
Speaker 1: won the game. As you all know from watching the game,
Speaker 1: Tennessee went from up to the point where Dallas got
Speaker 1: the ball back with four thirty eight left in the game.
Speaker 1: Down twenty eight to fourteen, Tennessee had twelve at an
Speaker 1: advantage of twelve to two in first downs, and one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy six yards to forty one in the
Speaker 1: second half. Are you down? Yeah, yeah, they got cowboy.
Speaker 1: I mean that's what the Cowboys like to do. Yep,
Speaker 1: grind you down in the second half. But you look
Speaker 1: at these first three drives out of four in the
Speaker 1: second half. It was either a penalty, multiple penalties, or
Speaker 1: sack that wrecked. You're down in distance and now you're
Speaker 1: behind the chains to meet Ken that was that played
Speaker 1: as much into it was Zeke as anything. Then they
Speaker 1: got behind the scoreboard. Oh you got a gift with
Speaker 1: a miss field goal. That's like a turnover. You get
Speaker 1: him twenty would he missed twenty six yard field goals
Speaker 1: like shorter than an extra point? Yeah, you're all in.
Speaker 1: Couldn't block those guys, Yeah, So I mean the second half, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: you go three. You go three plays and go minus ten. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that on that series, on that sequence, you know he can't.
Speaker 1: That's that's impossible. Yeah. And Zeke and the first half
Speaker 1: had twelve carries forty five yards and three catches for
Speaker 1: fifty one for ninety six total. Yeah. And then having
Speaker 1: the second half the second half he sixtches, five carries
Speaker 1: for sixteen yards and one catch for zero. Yeah. Six
Speaker 1: touches in the second half. Yeah, it's not good. No,
Speaker 1: it's not did you sell which one? But the first
Speaker 1: two plays of the second half were Zeke runs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he had four. After that, Zeke ran for six,
Speaker 1: Zeke ran for one, and he hit Gallop for twenty
Speaker 1: and then an incompletion and then Zeke for six of
Speaker 1: his touches in the second half came in the first
Speaker 1: five place. And then they threw under to Thompson for
Speaker 1: six and then spots for a false start. So what
Speaker 1: are you gonna do? You're gonna get hand it to
Speaker 1: Zeke You're third and thirteen. Yeah, and then you get
Speaker 1: the fumble sack, right, and then so many six yard runs?
Speaker 1: Why did they completely abandon that? Well? They okay, okay,
Speaker 1: Then the next possession down twenty one to fourteen. Arguing
Speaker 1: for that, I just saying, you want Zeke to be
Speaker 1: more effective in this game? No, you do. And then
Speaker 1: the next possession Zeke for three complete zero. After the completion,
Speaker 1: it was a Cooper completion for nine. Now you're first
Speaker 1: and ten Zeke plus zero. And then they got real
Speaker 1: aggressive and through deep and he was incomplete right, And
Speaker 1: now it's still at one possession game at twenty one
Speaker 1: fo teen. Next time you get the ball and it
Speaker 1: was Dak sack minus two completion to Zeke plus zero
Speaker 1: and sack. But that's what I'm saying, minus ten on
Speaker 1: that on the right, right, you got a gift and
Speaker 1: then it's twenty eight fourteen, and you're you're in three
Speaker 1: wide throwing the ball, trying to beat the clock because
Speaker 1: now you got to score twice. Yeah, now you're out
Speaker 1: of it's two minute offense. Did you see anything different
Speaker 1: Brian watching it back white for the offensive line in
Speaker 1: the second half. Did they do something defensively Tennessee to
Speaker 1: get more pressure? Oh? They this. Now they ran their
Speaker 1: twist stunts up front. That's so that's they got home more. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they got home. They got guys home on that that's
Speaker 1: what they're you know, I mean I when you sat
Speaker 1: down and when you watch Tennessee, that's how they get pressure.
Speaker 1: The fact that they got a lead and they were
Speaker 1: able to they caught the Cowboys in some situations where
Speaker 1: they just didn't handle it well enough. Sen some blitz
Speaker 1: is too yeah, you know, and they they they're secondary.
Speaker 1: It did a nice job, you know if you look
Speaker 1: at it overall. I mean the pressure that Prescott faced
Speaker 1: and he couldn't get the ball down the field or
Speaker 1: it couldn't get it to an open guy. You know. Now,
Speaker 1: the touchdown to Hearns was similar to what we saw
Speaker 1: with the Chargers game, where yeah, guy just freezes. Yeah, Noah,
Speaker 1: And you know, but thinking, okay, they can take advantage
Speaker 1: of the secondary. That's what something we talked about during
Speaker 1: the preparation for the week. Every time you watch somebody
Speaker 1: played Tennessee, they get him on a double move or
Speaker 1: they get him on a pass down the field. Right,
Speaker 1: so you know that that kind of holds true. Now
Speaker 1: the next person next time, but Tennessee's playing Houston or
Speaker 1: something like that, Well, the Houston people look and say, oh, look,
Speaker 1: they keep giving up touchdowns on double moves. And vertical
Speaker 1: passes and stuff like that. So so that first possession
Speaker 1: in the third quarter, they're moving first and ten at
Speaker 1: the forty five holding on Williams. Now it's first and
Speaker 1: twenty and they picked up twelve on the first two plays,
Speaker 1: and then you get a false start, so now it's
Speaker 1: fifteen yards of penalty. Didn't snap the ball on that play.
Speaker 1: They called it on Lyle coll I did to see
Speaker 1: him move. He never snapped the ball. He never snapped.
Speaker 1: Everybody moved, everybody but moving. But they called it on
Speaker 1: They called it on Lyle Collins because he was the
Speaker 1: guy exactly right. So if you go from third and eight,
Speaker 1: you worked really hard to reduce it for third down,
Speaker 1: and now it's third and thirteen and then you get
Speaker 1: the act fumble. Yeah, so this team can't help itself offensively.
Speaker 1: You're right, they really can't. You're right. I mean, we
Speaker 1: say it should have been seventeen nothing in the first quarter. Well,
Speaker 1: good offenses capitalized. Offenses that struggle don't, and so you know,
Speaker 1: maybe we expected too much either, But you did have
Speaker 1: a first and goal at the four yard line, and
Speaker 1: I would have probably just ran my star running back
Speaker 1: three times and gotten in the end zone. Really, I
Speaker 1: know he had a minus plan the first time. Yeah,
Speaker 1: minus two and I'll try again. Yeah, what was the
Speaker 1: second play? Interception on a bad decision? Bad decision, no doubt.
Speaker 1: You want your quarterback to be aggressive, you do, but
Speaker 1: double coverage. Look he wanted he wanted that one back. Oh,
Speaker 1: I know he did. That's just that's what happens when
Speaker 1: you want your quarterback to be too aggressive. What's the
Speaker 1: evaluation this quarterback? So far? Overall? Just overall, not not
Speaker 1: this year, just overall. How about we come back with that? Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: we need we're up against a break. We're going to
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Speaker 1: Big twelve Championship's not set, it's not set and there's
Speaker 1: still some some things. But I just wanted to sing.
Speaker 1: I love that song. It is a good song. Virginia.
Speaker 1: Who you plays West Virginia in the last regular season? Ye,
Speaker 1: you can arrest your starters and well did they could
Speaker 1: well as well? Well, we have bigger fish to fry.
Speaker 1: You're trying to get him, depending on we need an
Speaker 1: upset right on the cusp, I might I might be
Speaker 1: dead wrong about this, and I use got to lose.
Speaker 1: I'm usually I think that Oklahoma is the only team
Speaker 1: that could beat Alabama because of their offense, because of
Speaker 1: their offense, because their defense. That's what I'm saying. Though
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, right,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. The only you got to get two
Speaker 1: two to three stops, and you've got to and you
Speaker 1: then you've got to turn around and turn those into points.
Speaker 1: The only time Alabama ever struggles is when you spread
Speaker 1: them out and you have a big time quarterback play
Speaker 1: I got the only time I got. Ye. The only
Speaker 1: time Alabama ever struggles is when they play Oklahoma. That's true. Yeah,
Speaker 1: But if you try to play Alabama football against Alabama,
Speaker 1: if you play toe to toe, they'll kill you exactly
Speaker 1: the other night. Really, And the thing that Oklahoma has
Speaker 1: is they've got a quarterback who can run the ball
Speaker 1: on on busted plays, the Shawn Watson like you can do.
Speaker 1: Why do you think Clemson gave him trouble? Exactly? Shaun
Speaker 1: Watson should have beat him twice. Yeah, he should have
Speaker 1: really beat him twice. Unfortunately, Nick Saban went out and
Speaker 1: got himself the future number one pick in the draft
Speaker 1: at quarterback, last thing he needed. So yeah, but thanks
Speaker 1: to Oklahoma's awful defense, they probably will not get a
Speaker 1: shot at it because they need help. They need an
Speaker 1: other Dame or Michigan loss. But a big ten teams
Speaker 1: is going to be in regardless. Watch Ohio State that
Speaker 1: that talking college truck. It's probably better than talking. Try
Speaker 1: trying to evaluate Dak and we're talking Oklahoma. That's okay.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah. But the one thing is Michigan has yet
Speaker 1: to be under the horriball administration to beat Ohio State.
Speaker 1: So they got to even get that done first. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they don't get that done. Good good night Michigan. Ever,
Speaker 1: the other thing is Michigan might be the only team
Speaker 1: that can hang with Alabama's offense. Right, can't score enough
Speaker 1: point another case to have an eighteen tournament exactly, all right,
Speaker 1: So let's evaluate dak Prescott, the owner, president and general manager,
Speaker 1: on the radio this morning, said what when he was
Speaker 1: asked to assess dak Ah, he said he's capable he's
Speaker 1: completely capable of diagnosing what happened in this game, them
Speaker 1: stakes that he made, and he's also capable physically of
Speaker 1: going out and cleaning it up and playing better the
Speaker 1: next ballgame. That's what Jerry has seen Dak do in
Speaker 1: the past, and that's what he expects him to do
Speaker 1: in the future. And then on the heels of that
Speaker 1: is when he said that he will be extended. Here's
Speaker 1: the deal they are with him. He needs to be perfect.
Speaker 1: Can't make a mistake, thank you, Mickey, because they're not
Speaker 1: good enough to overcome a mistake. Yeah, Troy Aikman ever
Speaker 1: throw an interception in the end zone, I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe know he eat my Danny White throwing any receptions?
Speaker 1: Lent the lot, right, But this guy's got to be
Speaker 1: perfect for them to function offensively. And he's not a
Speaker 1: perfect quarterback. No, that's the problem. And to me, and
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Mickey, I just cut you off there. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm just saying no. I mean it's like,
Speaker 1: you know, look, even with the interception, what was his
Speaker 1: quarterback rating? It was almost one hundred. It was almost
Speaker 1: one hundred. Yeah, right, Yeah, every quarterback doesn't complete every pass. Now,
Speaker 1: there's some critical ones. It felt like he was and
Speaker 1: what was his completion Yeah, he was twenty twenty nine
Speaker 1: or something like that. Yeah, it was didn't had many many.
Speaker 1: He was one nineteen point nine. Yeah, Dak was ninety nine.
Speaker 1: What was his completions? What twenty one of twenty nine?
Speaker 1: Twenty one of twenty nine. Yeah, so scandages were almost
Speaker 1: the same. Yeah, with some big plays down the field
Speaker 1: to the big plays field for twenty eight yards to
Speaker 1: the fifteen yard line. Was was it was a great
Speaker 1: play dime me through thirty six yard or on the
Speaker 1: second touchdown. I mean he made key throws and they
Speaker 1: dialed up some They had some great play calls in
Speaker 1: that game. The quarterback keeper on the RPO I think
Speaker 1: on the first touchdown run it's a great call. Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: they and then the Cowboys got caught. Vanderas got blocked
Speaker 1: on that play. Yeah, they had a great call because
Speaker 1: they had they had both ends on the slant and
Speaker 1: they had that covered for the inside handoff and Jalen
Speaker 1: got outside and Vanderas tried to get outside and then
Speaker 1: the tackle Jack Jack Conklin got him enough of him
Speaker 1: to knock him, and then that gave Marioda the path,
Speaker 1: but they had a nice call with how they do it.
Speaker 1: They had crash and scrape to try and make the play,
Speaker 1: but Marioda was able to. Okay, that shovel pass he
Speaker 1: had too was beautiful. I mean he's pulling that ball
Speaker 1: out when I mean that was that was a great,
Speaker 1: beautiful play. Nailed Was it Henry or Diana Lewis? I
Speaker 1: can't remember which they nailed him, but he didn't have
Speaker 1: the ball all right. In an evaluation of Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: right now, yeah, after last night's game, Brian, what is
Speaker 1: your evaluation of the Cowboys offensive line compared to the
Speaker 1: Titans offensive line right now? Well, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: Going into the game, that's why I thought Dallas would
Speaker 1: win because I thought Dallas's offensive line, even with all
Speaker 1: the changes and stuff with the coaching, you know, I
Speaker 1: felt like that Dallas was going to be more consistent,
Speaker 1: you know, being able to run the football and then
Speaker 1: also passed to set some things up. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's been a struggle for It's been a struggle
Speaker 1: for them all year. It's been a struggle to be consistent.
Speaker 1: They get penalties and things happen to them. And they
Speaker 1: get you know, they miss blocks, they don't communicate, there's
Speaker 1: you know, it's there's a lot of things going on
Speaker 1: with this offensive line. But if I go back to Dak,
Speaker 1: I think the worst thing that happened to Dak is
Speaker 1: he had the success he had his first year, because
Speaker 1: I think we're kind of seeing, not kind of. I
Speaker 1: believe that we're seeing what Dak Prescott really is. I
Speaker 1: think Dak Prescott's a good quarterback. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: a great quarterback. And Mickey's right, I think he has
Speaker 1: to be perfect, and I don't think he's perfect. It
Speaker 1: was the offensive line two years ago as close, no pfect,
Speaker 1: and exactly everything lined up the worst. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: the worst thing that happened to Dak Prescott is that
Speaker 1: he got behind one of the best offensive lines in
Speaker 1: the league with one of the best young running backs
Speaker 1: in the league, and he had a slot player that
Speaker 1: was tremendous and that and he just wore out. He
Speaker 1: had guys like Jason Witten out there catching the football
Speaker 1: for him too. It's I think that was the best
Speaker 1: thing that happened to him. Yeah, and now the worst Yeah,
Speaker 1: and we and we look and we look and we say,
Speaker 1: you know why, but why? But why? We keep asking why?
Speaker 1: And maybe the why was you know what, though you
Speaker 1: caught him, you caught it right, you caught her. And
Speaker 1: that's but that goes again, goes where scouts go and
Speaker 1: they say, well, if you've seen it once, you'll see
Speaker 1: it again. And I think that we I think that
Speaker 1: we ask a lot of Dak Prescott, and I don't
Speaker 1: believe that Dak Prescott is always capable of delivering everything
Speaker 1: that we think he can deliver. There's so much to
Speaker 1: like about Dak as your starting quarter tremendous. The toughness
Speaker 1: is incredible, he's the toughest hell. He fights, he'll take
Speaker 1: a hit, he leads the huddle, guys follow him. There's
Speaker 1: so much to like, a lot of intangible stuff. But
Speaker 1: I've said this many times, like to Brian's point, he's
Speaker 1: he's part of a large group of quarterbacks in the
Speaker 1: NFL that need help around them. And he had a
Speaker 1: damn near perfect supporting cast as a rookie. And it's
Speaker 1: just a different it's a different dynamic, it's a different
Speaker 1: group right now. And uh, like you, like Mickey said,
Speaker 1: he's got to be perfect. He's not a perfect quarterback.
Speaker 1: He's gonna mis throws, he's gonna misreads, he's gonna fumbles. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's just a different We've got to stop comparing
Speaker 1: this to twenty sixteen. It's just a different group around him.
Speaker 1: And uh, but that being said, and that's what Jerry sees.
Speaker 1: He still sees a guy that's capable of going out
Speaker 1: and winning a football game for you, and because he's
Speaker 1: seen it and he's done it this year. But I'm
Speaker 1: still trying to figure out what happened from the Jacksonville
Speaker 1: game offensively when they put up forty points to now
Speaker 1: losing two straight games and you're back to just struggling
Speaker 1: its sustained drives. So I don't know what's happened since then,
Speaker 1: because is this the best defense they've played at home? Well,
Speaker 1: but again, this we've seen this on tape. We've seen
Speaker 1: this Tennessee defense. Big player, I was watching that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think so. Maybe I don't know. I'm just asking.
Speaker 1: I think Jacksonville. I thought Jacksonville's defense was better. I
Speaker 1: think that that everything just came together, much like Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott's first year. Everything came together. They didn't make mistakes.
Speaker 1: They ran the football, they got out. They they played
Speaker 1: against the quarterback that was challenged. You know, if if
Speaker 1: you know Bortles didn't play. If Bortles is another top pick,
Speaker 1: a very high pick, that it's kind of fumbled around
Speaker 1: in this league. Much like Marcus Mariota may may having
Speaker 1: a similar conversation on talking raiders with Derek Carr. Sure,
Speaker 1: great offensive line in front of him a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, and now they're player already got hurt and
Speaker 1: they they weren't already extended him for a lot of money.
Speaker 1: There you go, There you go. I got one question,
Speaker 1: You got a minute, hurry up. I need to know
Speaker 1: what the rule is on offensive lineman downfield on screens? Yes,
Speaker 1: do they as long as the balls behind I think
Speaker 1: it's like a four or five yards five yards if
Speaker 1: it's a screen, Yeah, it's got to be behind the
Speaker 1: line though, Okay, and then the line judge misses out.
Speaker 1: At the college rule has always been that there wherever
Speaker 1: any they could be ten yards downfield strong as the
Speaker 1: passes behind them, right, Okay, I think they give them
Speaker 1: three or four yards or something. Mickey's right. Those guys
Speaker 1: will travel down they'll be in the safety box before
Speaker 1: you know it. Yeah, all right, for talking to cowboys.
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