WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Dissecting The Loss; Dak's Future 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:05.400 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:16.720 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:20.639 screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:20.720 --> 0:00:31.880 Star in Priscilla Elliott. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian brought us, 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:37.040 Rob Phillips, and Bill Jones, and a happy Tuesday to 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:40.240 all of you out there. And this is Talking Cowboys 0:00:40.280 --> 0:00:44.080 as we kick off another week after a Monday night 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:46.959 that was not so memorable at at and T Stadium 0:00:47.080 --> 0:00:51.680 last night. The Eagles await on Sunday. I'm Bill Jones 0:00:51.680 --> 0:00:54.760 along with Brian brought us and Mickey Spagnola, Rob Phillips. 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:57.080 Maybe we'll be joining us a little bit later and 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:59.200 let him a little bit of can we call it 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:02.360 breaking news this morning? You had an opportunity to do. 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:05.000 Joe Buck and Rob Phillips will be joining us at 0:01:05.040 --> 0:01:12.720 a moment. Yeah, that's right. Radio there, Yeah, yeah, Gamox absolutely, 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:16.839 Voice of Saint Louis and Aaron Andrews will be joining 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:18.840 us in Yeah, a little bit, there you go. Rob 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.000 Phillips will be joining us a little bit. He's working 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:26.399 on a story that um for the website that of course, 0:01:27.080 --> 0:01:30.560 Jerry Jones on his weekly radio show, basically made the 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:33.560 comment that Dak Prescott will be extended, and so that 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:38.759 sent writers scurrying about. He was asked towards the end 0:01:38.800 --> 0:01:42.840 of the segment about Dak Prescott, what he thinks of him, 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:46.120 what is his development, and what do you see of 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:48.920 him going forward? And he said, Dak is the quarterback 0:01:48.920 --> 0:01:52.600 of the Dallas Cowboys. He's young, He's going to get extended. 0:01:53.800 --> 0:01:58.440 And that created a very long, pregnant pause on the broadcast, 0:01:59.240 --> 0:02:02.880 and then they find caught themselves and they go, oh, oh, 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:06.080 we got some news. Yeah, so there you go. Sean 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.760 Lee's hamstring, Yeah, exactly all right, and he did not 0:02:08.800 --> 0:02:11.280 have an answer on how Sean Lee's hamstring is, which 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.919 brings us to last night against the Titans, a very 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:17.760 disappointing night for the Cowboys, the twenty eight to fourteen 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:20.120 loss that leaves them at three and five, two games 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:23.680 back of the Redskins, one game back of the Eagles, who, 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:27.080 of course they play this week. The only saving grace 0:02:27.440 --> 0:02:30.440 is the fact that Atlanta beat Washington on Sunday, and 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.960 that means they're still just two games back in first place. Yeah, 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.760 that's you know, that's the reason why you made the 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:40.079 moves you made, and to try and go and take 0:02:40.080 --> 0:02:43.280 a division. It just you know, it's the halfway point 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:45.240 you're kind of looking can you get in on a 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.359 wild card? I think this team to get in the 0:02:47.360 --> 0:02:49.680 playoffs is going to have to win the division. And 0:02:49.720 --> 0:02:52.959 then so I'm probably not saying anything that people out 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:55.680 there don't already know. And so you've got a position 0:02:55.720 --> 0:03:00.200 yourself the best best way you can really disappointing last night, 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:04.919 I felt like I misevaluated, uh, this team's ability to 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:08.160 take advantage of some of the things that Tennessee can do, 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:12.360 and uh, you know defensively, you look at it. I 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:15.480 just in my mind and when watching the game this morning, 0:03:15.639 --> 0:03:18.480 you know on tape, you know, bright and I'm real 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:21.440 real late last night that the thing I just kept 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:25.160 looking at and I couldn't get away from was how 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:28.760 well that Tennessee played on third down and seven and 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.000 plus yards. You know they were Those are usually bad 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:35.360 down in distant situations for NFL teams. Not many conversions 0:03:35.760 --> 0:03:40.560 or happened in that particular down in distance. But you know, 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:43.240 tip of the captain, Marcus Mariota, the way he played, 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:45.480 he was he had a lot of pressure in the 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:48.120 game he had to deal with. He made some clutch throws. 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:51.320 Their receivers did a great job of running some routes 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:55.080 getting open, and you know, I was that that to 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:58.680 me was was was shocking because you know, this is 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:03.080 a team that doesn't doesn't do very well on third down. 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:05.960 I'm talking about the Titans. Uh, you know, but the 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:09.760 Cowboys put him in some some bad down and distant situations, 0:04:09.840 --> 0:04:12.200 but they were able to come through. Uh. You know 0:04:12.280 --> 0:04:14.960 with this uh, with the to make the plays necessary 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:18.240 to win that football game. And it's a it's unfortunate 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:22.120 you didn't take advantage of some early opportunities, uh to 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.839 cash in for yourself. The missfield goal clearly hurt you. 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:29.320 The Prescott interception, I think that was just a bad 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:31.880 read on his part. He felt like that, you know, 0:04:32.000 --> 0:04:34.080 probably during the week of practice when they went ran 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.440 short yardage and goal line that when they got in 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.039 twenty one personnel that they that Kevin Bayard was going 0:04:40.080 --> 0:04:44.880 to step up and instead he ran with uh Maury Cooper. 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:47.200 And you know, Prescott thinking now cav got a clean 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:49.080 throw there when he really didn't have a clean throw. 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.880 So you know, the fumbles. A lot of things had 0:04:51.880 --> 0:04:54.200 happened in this game that that caused you not to win, 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.200 uh win a game that I felt like you really 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:00.160 really really had to have going here going forward these 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:05.120 next few weeks. Bill, they had a great opportunity going 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:09.680 into this game. You mentioned Washington getting beat. You're playing 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.440 a team that's three and four, had not played well 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:17.240 on the road, had lost three consecutive games going into 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:24.159 this game, was offensively challenged, and by all rights, you 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:26.560 should have been up seventeen to nothing at the end 0:05:26.560 --> 0:05:29.520 of the first quarter if you don't miss a thirty 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:33.120 eight yard field goal, which was Mayters first miss less 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.120 than forty eight yards, and then you got first in 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:39.920 goal at the four yard line and you get no points. Yea, 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:43.080 so to me at the end of the first quarter, 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:45.960 instead of seven to nothing, it should have been seventeen 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:49.600 to nothing. And they're on their way and this team's 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:54.599 ready to fold. But you miss your scoring opportunities and 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.159 then you can't get off the field. Defensively, for the 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:01.320 first time all year, they converted eleven of fourteen third 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:04.400 downs at seventy nine. Yeah, and by the way, to 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.880 Brian's point on third and seven or longer. I just 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:10.240 added it up. They were six for nine third and 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.280 six or longer, they were seven for ten. And it 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:16.040 wasn't like they you know, they were ahead of the chains. 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:18.880 They were behind the chain. No that yeah, they were Well, 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:21.200 you know, you didn't get a good enough pass rush. 0:06:21.240 --> 0:06:24.400 You let him come up with plays, uh kind of 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:29.920 you know, some gotcha plays and uh, you know, Shawn 0:06:30.000 --> 0:06:33.440 Lee only played seventeen plays. I'm not making excuses for him, 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:37.320 but this time I think they missed him. And by 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.359 the way, we should point out that Shawn Lee, he 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:44.040 obviously went out after the hamstring injury, but he was 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:47.600 not in the game for the second and third series, 0:06:47.600 --> 0:06:50.120 including the eighty yard drive. He came in on the 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:53.240 goal line on one play, the goal line play where 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.280 they scored the touchdown on that drive. And I don't 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.320 know if I was supposed to be his rest period. 0:06:58.000 --> 0:07:00.719 Two consecutive series that he was not on the field. Yeah, 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.960 you know. And and the way that Tennessee was able 0:07:04.000 --> 0:07:07.520 to drive the ball that that ten that was fifteen 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:11.440 to nine minutes. That took a lot out of this defense. 0:07:11.600 --> 0:07:14.400 And you know they were uh we felt like going 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:16.880 in at least I shouldn't say we Brian felt like 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:21.320 that that that you could have handled the rotation would 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:23.240 have been good enough for you. You know, you could 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:26.840 have rotated the defensive tackles. But you know, playing without 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:29.880 David Irving, uh, you know, could have very well hurt 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:33.320 the rotation, and playing without you know, Randy Gregory very 0:07:33.320 --> 0:07:36.520 well could have hurt the rotation, especially if it was you. 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:38.800 You were you were getting the ball driven on you 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.520 and you didn't have those fresh bodies, because it looked 0:07:41.520 --> 0:07:43.240 like in the second half of the game there they 0:07:43.320 --> 0:07:46.360 hit some runs on you that they didn't hit early 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:48.119 in the game, and that might have been a little 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:52.760 bit because of the wear and tear that that Tennessee 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:56.400 was able to inflict on those long drives and in 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:58.600 the first half. So on the eighty yard drive in 0:07:58.640 --> 0:08:01.120 the first half, did you hear any reports of Sean 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.000 Lee that was not looking at him or anything. I 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:06.840 wonder if he was having an issue with a hamstring then, 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:10.040 because why on a fifteen play drive like that, you 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:11.600 would think that he would have been on the field 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:13.200 at least for a portion of it, even though it 0:08:13.320 --> 0:08:15.760 was like at some point moving the ball. That's one 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:17.320 let me get you on the field. That's one of 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:19.480 the things Jerry Jones brought up after the game and 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:21.640 then again this morning of one of the first things 0:08:21.640 --> 0:08:23.880 he brought up is he felt like his defense got 0:08:23.920 --> 0:08:25.960 tired in the second half of that game and probably 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:28.360 in the course of that one night yard drive because 0:08:28.400 --> 0:08:31.119 of the rotation issues. Yeah, Tennessee did a nice job, 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:34.400 you know, as you mentioned, Bill, and the third downs 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.200 to me were huge, the way that they were able 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:40.600 to convert, you know, into the passes that they were 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:42.880 able to come up with, the throws that they were 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:45.600 able to make the receivers and you know, this is 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:49.040 a group of guys that you know, you could say, 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:53.439 Cameron Batson, who's Cameron Batson, Well, Cameron Batson's making plays 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.360 in the game for you you know who is you know, 0:08:56.400 --> 0:09:00.440 who is Darius Jennings. Darius Jennings making plays for the 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:02.680 Tennessee Titans. You know, that's kind of what you hoped 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.640 the receiver by committee group that you had was going 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:08.840 to make plays, but you know, they just didn't do 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.600 a very good job. Mickey talks about the pass rush 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:15.080 nearly wasn't consistent enough, you know, and and when they 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:18.120 did get pass rush you know, the Mariota did a 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:21.280 great job of getting the ball out and anticipating throws, 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:23.640 and he had a guys that were opened down the field, 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:26.480 and I think it was a it was a it 0:09:26.520 --> 0:09:29.040 was a bad night for the Dallas defense not to 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:31.320 be at their absolute best. They've been carrying this team 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:34.000 really all year long, and they had they had a 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:37.839 bad game, especially on third down, and I think that's 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:40.400 really one of the main reasons. You know, you look 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:43.800 at offensively what the Cowboys did, and it's you know, 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:45.720 it was nice to see him Mary Cooper get going. 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.440 You could see, you can tell some of the things 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:51.280 that he has, you know that he can bring. But 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.440 you know that nearly wasn't wasn't enough for what they 0:09:54.480 --> 0:09:57.319 needed third down and in the red zone. I mean, 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.040 they were four for five in the red zone and 0:09:59.040 --> 0:10:01.040 the Cowboys were one four in the red zone, right, 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:03.839 you know. And it's nice to have a rotation on 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:07.679 that defensive line, but when you start getting diminishing returns, 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:10.240 like you don't have the two guys you just mentioned 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.800 who you're rotating in there, right, do those guys need 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.520 to be playing that much? Yeah, you know, you're down 0:10:16.559 --> 0:10:20.440 to Kuran read and then you lost Taco, and you 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.400 lost Taco in the game, and and Crawford's got to 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:26.360 almost play the entire game at right defensive end, where 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.959 he moved because they didn't have a Randy Gregory to 0:10:30.400 --> 0:10:33.480 put out there. So yeah, they got spread a little 0:10:33.480 --> 0:10:36.520 bit too thin, and it caught up with him at 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:39.680 that point. And in a moment, we have Rob Phillips, 0:10:39.720 --> 0:10:42.360 and we have him right now. In fact, Rob Phillips, 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:46.040 how are you doing. I'm good, I'm you know, struggling 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.320 through no sleep, but I'm sure everybody else is here. 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:50.640 And how a little sleep did you get? I got 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:52.360 a couple of hours. That's good enough. That's enough to 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:54.640 try to make sense of what happened. And I'm sure 0:10:55.040 --> 0:10:56.600 you got a job of that so far. You get 0:10:56.679 --> 0:10:59.079 pressed into duty right off the bat this morning due 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:03.760 to the owner's radio show. Yeah, yeah, he's doubling down 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:07.400 on Dak Prescott. You know, that's his guy. And and 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:09.640 look they're trying to make or run here. They're still 0:11:09.640 --> 0:11:12.680 not out of it. Of course he's gonna back his quarterback. 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:14.600 But I also think he really believes it. I think 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:17.360 he's got a lot of faith in Dak. And but 0:11:17.520 --> 0:11:20.680 what we've seen is clearly he needs help. He needs 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:23.200 help around him, he needs the defense to play well. 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.720 And when they don't get all those things, uh, they're 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.720 They're not a successful football team, not even close to one. 0:11:29.840 --> 0:11:32.080 Last night just not a good game. That's probably the 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:33.920 worst loss they've had of the season. And that's kind 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:36.439 of saying something because you come out of the bye 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.920 and you expect I Jerry sure sounded heat like he 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.960 expected a much more efficient performance. I sure talk that 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:45.440 way all week. I mean, you make, you make changes. 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.960 You have a couple of weeks to integrate a new 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.160 coach on the old line, a new receiver and who 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.800 played pretty well by the way, but they just weren't 0:11:54.920 --> 0:11:58.120 good enough any way around. And the biggest surprise when 0:11:58.120 --> 0:11:59.599 I came in y'all talking about the defense, that was 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.000 the biggest surprise to me. But at some point the 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:04.840 offense has to help them out too, you know. They've been, 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.920 like Brian said, they've been the backbone of this thing 0:12:08.000 --> 0:12:10.880 for eight games now, and at some point you got 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:13.760 to help them out. Well, they were helping. They got 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.520 those fumbles early in the game, should have had a 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:23.640 third one. Yeah, uh, and they didn't take advantage seven 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:26.840 to nothing. It should have been seventeen to nothing. You 0:12:27.000 --> 0:12:31.360 squander its least it's ast and at least thirteen because 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:33.360 you could have kicked a field goal from the four yards. 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:35.640 And that's what I mean, Mick. They gave him a 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:37.880 couple of short fields. Yeah, and it probably should have 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:40.200 been seventeen the first time. And they were fired up 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:44.920 and they're rolling and and everything's going well. Uh, and 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:50.080 you get another fumble that they overruled. Um, god, it 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.959 just and then it just turned around. And then third quarter, 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:55.640 the Cowboys give the Titans a short field and what 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:57.360 do they do with it? They go forty yards and 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:00.440 score a touchdown, right, you know. And and at some 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:04.120 point when it's third and I don't know what it 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.720 would it was like third and thirteen, and you're you're 0:13:06.720 --> 0:13:10.720 getting pressured at some point just take the sack and punt. Yeah, 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:12.840 you know, but he kept fighting, you know, And the 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:15.040 guy that sacked him was on the ground. They hadn't 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:17.160 blocked him, he was on the ground, got up and 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:21.080 hit him and pulled the ball out. Yeah. So that 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.760 was one of those things we talked about. Bad decisions. 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.720 They run those picks, they run those picks stunts where 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:30.640 you know, they they they take the they take the 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:33.760 linebacker or the defensive lineman. And you know, Brown in 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.480 this case just you know, he hammered right into Joe Looney. 0:13:36.520 --> 0:13:40.560 And unfortunately, though, you know, if Rod Smith just stays 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:43.720 on his feet, you know, he cuts, he goes low 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:47.120 to try and cut Brown. He cuts Brown, but he 0:13:47.200 --> 0:13:50.240 also cuts Looney in the play, you know, and and 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:52.760 it's a lot of it. You know, there's some self 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.440 inflicted stuff if you stay on your feet, keep the 0:13:55.480 --> 0:13:58.560 pocket clean. They had some things that were developing down 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:02.080 the field, but he just couldn't get to it because 0:14:02.080 --> 0:14:04.640 there was so much happening in front of him that 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:06.360 he had to pull the ball and he tried to, 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.160 you know, and get Brown a lot of credit coming 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.280 up off the ground, like Mickey said. And then and 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:15.240 then as Prescott's going forward to just try and fall forward, 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:18.440 he's ripping at the ball. And that's you know, that 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:21.720 that's that's a disaster. Dak is. His inability to protect 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:23.480 the ball in the pocket has been a problem for 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:27.520 this team this year. And one of the reasons he's 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:29.640 got to protect the ball in the pocket is because 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:32.280 there's pressure on him. They're coming after him. The same 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.200 thing on the interception in the end zone. He's got 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.600 a guy flashing in his face. He's got to mail 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:41.440 that into the first row. Yeah, and he tried to 0:14:41.480 --> 0:14:44.960 throw it up. He thought he had a Cooper and 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.880 he overthrew him and the guys behind him. And makes 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:51.400 you hate to see interceptions when the guy's intercepting the 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:54.960 ball behind your wide receiver and got to mail that. 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:56.800 Just get rid of it. Because the guy was in 0:14:56.880 --> 0:14:58.960 his face and he tried throwing off his back. I 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:02.680 don't think he's floating. I don't think he saw Kevin 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:05.800 Biden did into a spot. Yeah. That's one of those 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:09.840 Friday afternoon goal line practice plays like I was talking about, 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.080 where they draw the card up and they say, okay, 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.800 we're in twenty one personnel, run heavy group, we play 0:15:14.840 --> 0:15:17.800 action it, we're gonna get a safety reaction. Well, this 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:21.760 guy's an All Pro player, you know, yeah, he's you 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.240 know he's and Kins did a good job here showing it. 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:26.600 If you're watching on the screen, you know, with us, 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.200 and you might be listening to him. Sorry to go 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:31.200 back and watch it, but Kevin Bayer never moved once 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:34.760 once that Cooper flashed across his face. He went into 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:39.360 trail mode and and rightfully celebration here. Yeah, yeah, exactly, so, 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.960 you know, unfortunate. But Prescott, I'm sure in practice all 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.400 week long when he threw that ball, there was not 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:48.000 a safety trailing on the play. So if he intercepted 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:50.240 the ball in Philadelphia, when he goes stood on the eagle, 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.280 there's something about they've already beat they already beat the 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:56.320 Eagles at home. Yeah, they didn't have to go stand 0:15:56.360 --> 0:15:58.040 on the eagle. Yeah, they have to stand on the Eagles. 0:15:58.040 --> 0:16:00.440 See Amory calling for that holding call and he didn't 0:16:00.480 --> 0:16:02.680 get it. Well, he got grabbed. He could have called it. 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:04.200 You could have got you could have got yeah, you 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.120 could have got Logan Ryan grabs him on the way by. Yeah, 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:10.480 and the official let him let it go, and that 0:16:10.640 --> 0:16:12.760 that that happens. You get down in the red zone, 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:16.360 you know they let you play, and you know that's 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.280 that's the result. He did get grabbed. He was going, 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:22.480 I mean, he was exploding past Logan Ryan and and 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.160 he grabbed him, I mean clearly grabbed him in that 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:28.160 official stands right there. It's sour Graves right now. I'm 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:31.520 not complained about the officiating. But I think this just 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:33.800 goes back to what we talked about with Dak Prescott 0:16:33.800 --> 0:16:36.560 in his ability to see the field. At times, he 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.320 assumed that there was not going to be a safety there. 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:43.600 He gambled, he was wrong and resulted in a bad turnover. Well, 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.440 when you're throwing off your bad back foot, bad things happened. 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.600 And if it wasn't Dwight Clark, he would have gone 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:52.360 up and cut the ball. I mean that's he just 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:54.960 threw it up, figuring, Okay, I'm gonna give my guy 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:57.640 maybe maybe have one on one situation. You throw it, 0:16:57.680 --> 0:16:59.440 you can get that. But but the fact that he 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:02.040 got held off the lit for the guy. He didn't 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:07.399 account for the safe because Michael Down was not behind Dwight. Yeah. Yeah, no, So, 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:10.920 I mean that's what he was trying to do, and 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.600 and he overthrew his guy, figured I'll throw it up there. 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:15.159 If he can't get it, no one gets it. And 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:17.439 Amari kind of fell on the sword and said, I 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:19.639 let the guy hold me. If he hadn't held me, 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:21.280 I would have gone up and made the play. Yeah, well, 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:24.600 we never let anybody hold us, right, just called throw 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:27.879 the flag. Hey, I'm with you, with you, there's a 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:31.600 couple that just just oh, it's amazing. Didn't quite know 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:33.520 that somebody, if we're talking about a fish. And I 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:36.640 don't quite understand what Layton Vanders can do any differently 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:39.960 than what he did to try and tackle a quarterback. 0:17:40.040 --> 0:17:42.280 You know, he was going into the slide, you know 0:17:42.400 --> 0:17:44.960 he was, And here's a kid that's running full speed 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.879 and he's trying to keep the quarterback from getting to 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:51.680 the sticks, and he has it already started. Yeah, he 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:54.160 started started slide and Vanders she's going down to try 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.399 and tackle the game. Vanderas had already started his descent 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:00.240 as well. Yeah. And I don't know. I don't know 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.000 what you can do any different I you know, when 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:03.840 they all got together there, I thought, Okay, they're gonna 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:05.480 pick up the flag here, but then they go, oh, 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:08.320 well it's helmet, the helmet, but it's a quarterback. We 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.679 got to protectactly. And I don't know what Vanderesh can 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:13.760 do any differently. I really don't. I don't understand. I 0:18:13.840 --> 0:18:17.000 understand protecting the quarterback if you're head hunting. I don't 0:18:17.040 --> 0:18:19.640 think Layton Vanderesh was head hunting in that particular case. 0:18:19.840 --> 0:18:22.600 I think he was trying to keep Marcus Mariota from 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:24.919 getting any further down the field, and it just the 0:18:24.960 --> 0:18:28.360 way Mariota slid was the way he impacted him. And 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:30.680 you know, those those are the calls that I think 0:18:30.680 --> 0:18:33.160 the officials need to look at and say, no, we're 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:36.480 absolutely no, that's wrong. That's you can't call that. But 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:38.479 there's needs needs to be somebody up in the booth 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.639 who is actually seeing the replay without stopping play, and 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:44.359 they can say whoa wait a second, yeah, this he 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:47.560 had already started his tackle at the time that the 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:50.399 quarterback started his slide. I mean, they just do what 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:53.440 college does. Go go look at it again. Yeah, because 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:56.600 he didn't slide targeting he went when he slid, he 0:18:56.600 --> 0:19:00.919 didn't go feet first. He went as yeah, but excuse me, 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.520 that's fine, let me ask you guys. And and so 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:07.040 when he slides like that, the head is where vander 0:19:07.200 --> 0:19:09.560 Ish is coming to hit him. And I don't care. 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:12.280 He's not a quarterback anymore, you know, he's onto the pocket. 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:15.080 That's that's what they said about dak in Washington that 0:19:15.200 --> 0:19:18.000 time he got whacked in the face and into the quarterback. Yeah, 0:19:18.040 --> 0:19:19.600 he's a runner, he's a runner. Let me ask you 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:22.120 guys this though again, I don't want to complain about 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:26.160 a fishing. Did you guys hear a whistle on the Prescott? Yeah, no, 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:28.760 not on the fumble on the time out. He was 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:30.480 telling me about this at two o'clock in the morning 0:19:30.520 --> 0:19:34.960 in the parking lot when they had Ross sack Mariota 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:37.159 and they said they got the time out. No, no, 0:19:37.200 --> 0:19:39.399 there's I thought there was another There was a whistle, 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:42.919 was whistle when when Prescott was more about something you're 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:45.600 talking about, totally different play, Mickey on the press, the 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:50.680 Prescott fumbed it out. Yea, the Prescott fumble. Swore, yes, 0:19:50.840 --> 0:19:55.879 there was a whistle that that uh Blakeman, Yeah, Clintman. Uh. 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:59.280 He blew the whistle, And to me, that stops the play. 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:03.199 I've when I played football, even the whistle blew, you 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:06.520 stopped so I could slow doubt because sworn I heard 0:20:06.520 --> 0:20:09.000 a whistle, and and that's when the guys trying to 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:10.560 rip the ball and then all of a sudden, so 0:20:10.920 --> 0:20:14.920 we didn't get a whistle down down by down right there, 0:20:14.960 --> 0:20:17.520 down forward, progress stopped instead. He comes out and said, 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:19.800 there's been a fumble that that that done. I'm going, 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:22.480 wait a minute, you blew a whistle. I heard the whistle, 0:20:22.560 --> 0:20:24.399 and when I was watching it, I said, well, the 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:27.719 play's over. Yeah. I didn't even continue to follow the 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:30.840 fumble because I heard the whistle. It was it was 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:33.520 like an in the grass, the old in the grass exactly, 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:37.719 And there was definitely a whistle. But it was a 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:40.639