WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Under Pressure? 0:00:03.320 --> 0:00:05.840 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.840 --> 0:00:14.480 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This he's Talking 0:00:14.600 --> 0:00:19.040 Cowboys training live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:30.240 the Star in Frisco. And now your hosts Isaiah stand back, 0:00:30.560 --> 0:00:39.520 heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips and Kyle Yeoman's. Well, it 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:43.159 is Friday. We know what we do on Fridays. We 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:48.200 say everything with our chest. Here on Talking Cowboys presented 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:52.800 by Tostitos, helping fans get in on the game. And 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:57.760 we are joined today by our usual cast of all guys. 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.040 Rob p Island sitting over there with what what is that? Dotar? 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:06.320 What's going on with this happening? It was just a 0:01:06.360 --> 0:01:10.600 father's stay gift special. Its spicy spicy. It's just just 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:16.320 switch up for you and entrepreneur my guy, Isaiah, you 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.680 tell how many chairmans of the board boards do you 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:23.720 sit on? You own a gym, You're doing business, You're 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.280 helping people make money. What's going on with you? What else? 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:28.319 What else you got going on? Today? Guy puts me 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:30.000 in situations. I just tried to knock him out the park. 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:34.600 You know what I'm saying. Guys, we had so much 0:01:34.640 --> 0:01:36.920 going on? What be full? I get to that. How 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:39.000 are you guys doing today? I'm doing fan Tabby Loso 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.400 Tappy Loso like I know how he's doing. I'm doing 0:01:42.560 --> 0:01:46.440 xp alidoshu somemorrw you switched it up, all right? Spell it, man, 0:01:47.120 --> 0:01:52.080 don't do it. I don't know. Just gonna X that's 0:01:52.120 --> 0:01:54.640 how you do it. So people don't know. You gotta 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:56.520 kind of explain to the people. Man, you've been struggling 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:58.080 for the last couple of days. You've been coming in 0:01:58.120 --> 0:02:01.120 here with a heavy heart. And that's father's I mean, 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:04.600 we're all fathers in here, we're all married men in here. 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:08.560 Girl Dad's girl dadda right exactly. So it gotta tell 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.560 the people, man, why have you had a heavy heart 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.639 coming in here? I took Aim out during the break yesterday. 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.359 I was taking a call from the from the daycare. 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:19.960 It is the baby girls second day of daycare and 0:02:20.040 --> 0:02:22.960 it wasn't going so great. You know, she's been her 0:02:22.960 --> 0:02:26.359 first year or so. In the COVID world, she's she's 0:02:26.360 --> 0:02:28.079 at the house. She's a COVID baby. So this is 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:31.720 she turns two in February, and uh, she's the first 0:02:31.720 --> 0:02:34.240 time around humans you know, a lot of humans her agents, 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:37.400 and she's she's still adjusting to it. So that's hard. Man. 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:39.200 You know, dropping her off is tough. And there was 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.079 a couple of times yesterday where I completely lost my 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.520 train of thought trying to make a point. And uh, 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:45.200 but you guys, you guys are talking me through it, 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:47.480 so I appreciate it. Been there before. Man, It's it's rough. 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:49.960 We overcome hurdles every single day. We walk up in 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.600 this building, open cell block one, and it's getting them 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.519 inte gin pop. She just gotta get him out there. 0:02:56.600 --> 0:02:58.520 Hey man, it's slowly but surely. But I will tell 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:00.720 you this, Your time will come when she won't even 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:02.040 look at you when she gets out of the car. 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:04.239 I don't want to talk about that yet. Yeah, that's 0:03:04.240 --> 0:03:06.239 what Chris said, like his son just gets out of 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:09.519 the cars, buy out. I'll see you guys at ten o'clock. Jeez. 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:11.679 That's that's the way it is. When man, you know what, 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.359 so much news came down the pipeline yesterday and one 0:03:14.360 --> 0:03:18.639 of those was, man, hit me in the calf. I 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:22.320 hope you guys calf okay, because look, it's it's a 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:25.440 it's a bug going on. Around here. Man, talk about it. Pee, 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:27.519 What's what's happening, what's in the news, Pete, you know, 0:03:27.600 --> 0:03:29.320 this is the problem with us, the one problem with 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:32.920 us doing the show firsts. Every now and then there's 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:34.639 something that pops up that we don't catch it. I 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:36.240 don't blame that on you, though. I don't blame that. No, 0:03:36.440 --> 0:03:40.000 because thank you, thank you, because they got a late 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:45.560 night MRI back on Wednesday night about Randy Gregory's calf. Now, 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.400 Mike McCarthy had said before Wednesday's practice he was gonna 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:52.400 be in the limited category on purpose limited reps because 0:03:52.400 --> 0:03:54.480 he's been dealing with a knee deal. He was on 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:57.960 the injury report Wednesday with a calf and it was like, oh, okay, 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:02.720 turns out happened in actice and here we go with 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:05.800 limited reps. Let me talk about bad luck. So now 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:09.640 we're looking at Randy Gregory on IR with Tank Lawrence. 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:14.000 This defense just can't get hold, They can't get right, 0:04:14.280 --> 0:04:16.960 and it's it's got to be really frustrating for the Cowboys. 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:21.320 So now what do you do Sunday against Mattie Ice? Man? 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.720 That is that is tough. That's news that I did 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.400 not want to hear no, uh, knowing that we were 0:04:26.400 --> 0:04:28.320 going to be without him for weeks. But I'm one 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:31.279 of those people, man, glass half full. I wanted to 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:34.560 turn my attention to who's gonna be in there? Come on, 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.280 it's gonna be in Come on, Isa against his heck. 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:38.920 But we all wanted you to get a little bit 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.960 of your wish, but we didn't want to under these circumstances. Okay, 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.239 we know you want to see the gun. I'm hosting 0:04:45.279 --> 0:04:54.640 the show candles candles wishing for all Right, come on, man, 0:04:54.680 --> 0:04:56.600 we got some other guys in the rotation that we 0:04:57.440 --> 0:05:00.400 talk about, those guys, Harold Armshaw on them guys. We 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:02.440 know Basha and Malden boys are gonna have to show up. 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:04.719 They have to show out because we need their presence. 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:06.400 But we know that who is going to have their 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:08.760 hand in the ground and I don't like it. I 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.200 want to see Parsons at the second level. But we 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:14.240 history has shown that every time we lose somebody at 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:17.480 this particular position, that Michael Parsons becomes the guy who 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:21.760 fulfills their role going forward. So the sixty five snap, 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:25.040 sixty plus snap Michael Parsons. We I don't think we're 0:05:25.040 --> 0:05:26.800 gonna see that. I think we're gonna see the thirty 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.600 thirty five snap Michael Parsons, and that hurts us defensively 0:05:29.680 --> 0:05:33.960 as a whole. I don't like it scheme wise. Scheme wise, 0:05:34.440 --> 0:05:36.480 Now you're starting to look at when we talked about 0:05:36.480 --> 0:05:39.599 Cardello Patterson and what he's doing out of the backfield. 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.080 Who does that matchup go to? You have to rely 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:47.520 heavily now on Kean O'Neill. Will that be LV? We 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.720 sure Michael Parsons playing d N Sunday. I'm pretty sure 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.080 of it, do you think so? I wonder about that 0:05:53.560 --> 0:05:56.920 just for that exact reason, because, well, for two reasons. 0:05:57.000 --> 0:05:59.880 That matchup with Patterson, who's covering him in space, and 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:04.520 that's been park parsons assignment in certain matchups against running 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:06.560 backs that can that can kick your butt in space. 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:08.760 The other thing, too, is they don't have as much 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:12.320 depth at linebacker as they did in the past. Say 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.599 what you want about Jalen Smith, but he's not here anymore. 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.880 He was playing thirty forty snaps at times if you 0:06:17.920 --> 0:06:21.600 needed him to. Jabril Cox is not on the active 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:27.520 roster right now, so behind Michael Parsons, LVEE and Kean O'Neill. 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:31.360 You've got Luke Gifford and Francis Bernard who's just back 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:36.080 from Iry, who plays special teams. Are special teams guys? Yeah, basically, 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:38.600 So can you afford for Michael Parsons to play fifty 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:40.880 snaps on the edge, that's my question. You're giving him 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.720 fifty Well, I mean, I'm thinking what I'm thinking week 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:46.240 two against the Charters. When when when Tank gets hurt 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:49.400 and it's like, yeah, you're playing, I hope. I mean, 0:06:49.560 --> 0:06:51.680 I believe that we'll see him at both. I think 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:53.520 we're gonna see him at both because to your point, 0:06:53.600 --> 0:06:55.320 we can't afford for him just to have his hand 0:06:55.320 --> 0:06:57.200 in the ground the entire game. If it was up 0:06:57.240 --> 0:06:59.960 to me, Michael Parsons would be a shadow in Patterson's 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.159 hit pocket. I would want him on him in the 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:04.480 entire game. Wherever you go, I go. You want to 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.040 run the ball, I'm busting in your mouth. You want 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.160 to widen out, I'm locking you up. That's what I 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:11.480 would prefer going into this game, to eliminate one of 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.760 their most dangerous guys. Okay, we're not worried about these guys, 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:18.880 and we're worried about they're tight end. Okay, we're worried 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:22.080 about probably one of their receivers, all right, and then 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:25.160 we're worried about dog On Patterson when he widens out. 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:26.480 He's a receiver him, he's in the the backfood, he's a 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:28.440 running back. When he's on punt return, he's a punt returner, 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:30.960 and he's a kick returning. All right. So I would 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:32.800 like to eliminate one of those guys and say, hey, 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:35.360 guess what this guy, Parsons, he's your he's your best 0:07:35.360 --> 0:07:37.240 friend today. But I don't think that we're going to 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.160 see that. So to that point, who step up, steps 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.880 up and fulfills that role? I don't know. I would. 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:45.240 I don't know. I don't know. Do we do We 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:47.960 bring down Curse and say, hey, Curse, you're you're now 0:07:48.000 --> 0:07:50.800 responsible for Patterson. Hey, Israel, mccuombo, get in here and 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:53.880 freaking guard guard piss because you have the best footwork 0:07:53.880 --> 0:07:56.480 out of anybody in our safety secondary. That's what I 0:07:56.480 --> 0:07:58.280 would if I had to make that alteration, That's what 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:01.480 I would do. Parsons, you got Patterson, dog On Israel, hey, 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:03.400 you're the next man up. Come up here and shut 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:05.280 down pit somehow, some way, with that footwork and that 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.560 heightened limp that you have. I'm kind of with you. 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:11.360 I think it's probably both. For Michael Parsons, that's largely 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:13.920 what we've seen from him. And this is this is 0:08:13.920 --> 0:08:16.880 a problem, I mean just because I mean, sack wise, 0:08:16.960 --> 0:08:20.440 Gregory is tied for first on the team with five sacks. 0:08:20.440 --> 0:08:24.720 Michael Parsons also has five sacks. Beyond the sacks, pressures, 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:29.240 Randy Gregory leads the Cowboys with twenty. Beyond that, it's 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:32.680 bash him with thirteen, Parsons with thirteen, who's a part 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:36.320 time rusher, and then jay Ron Curse at seven, Ohsa 0:08:36.400 --> 0:08:39.120 Digizo at seven. I mean, he has been their primary 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.160 pressure player. So this is something they got to figure out. 0:08:42.200 --> 0:08:44.640 And I wonder this is just purely a guess. I mean, 0:08:44.679 --> 0:08:47.240 do you give Michael Parsons kind of a package of 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:50.800 plays to rush like they normally do, and Dan Quinn 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:52.959 is prepared to say mid stream, if we're not getting 0:08:52.960 --> 0:08:56.960 pressure on Mattie Ice and he's dicing us up, go 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:58.760 go on the edge and handle it that way. I 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:01.000 wonder I wonder if they're you know, prepared to do 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.160 that if they need to. And I think with what 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.400 Curse has shown you that he could do close to 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.079 the line of scrimmage. I agree with you, Isaiah, both 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:10.600 of you guys, but I just feel like Curse it 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.360 may be the the the guy that you look to 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:15.880 to take care of some of those responsibilities, and Kyle 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:17.720 Pitts is going to be a problem either way you 0:09:17.760 --> 0:09:20.680 look at it. So kind of marginal lines in his 0:09:20.760 --> 0:09:23.040 effect on this game is going to be important. But 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:24.640 I want to go back to what you said about 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.280 bash Him, you know, having thirteen pressures and Parsons having 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:32.800 thirteen as well. How do you look these rotational guys, Armstrong, 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:37.640 bash Him, even Chauncey Golston. Your expectation for them in 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:39.800 this situation, isn't it? You know, shut up or put 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:43.400 up for those three? Yeah, for sure. And one other 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:45.800 guy too to mention because he's not on this stat list, 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.880 is Doran's Armstrong. Yes, and Armstrong just because he's missed 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:50.440 a lot of time with an ankle injury. He's been 0:09:50.440 --> 0:09:52.840 back the last couple of games, and we didn't see 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:54.520 a lot of him so far in the regular season. 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:57.040 He did have a really good training camp preseason. To me, 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:58.880 this is a great opportunity for him to come in 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:01.840 and play. However, any snaps he needs to play. Maybe 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.559 it one spot, two spots on the edge and give 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:06.760 them something there. They're gonna have to, like you said, 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:11.040 bash them, Armstrong, Goldston, you name it. I don't know 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:12.680 if Bradley and I will be called up from the 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.400 practice squad. That's an option. Uh, it may be all 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:17.880 hands on deck and obviously some Micah Parsons because you 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:22.880 know he can do it. Rotation. It's this is yeah, 0:10:22.880 --> 0:10:24.320 I mean, I mean, these guys got to step up. 0:10:24.360 --> 0:10:26.280 I mean that's I mean, that's a moral story. You 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.160 guys have to step up. That's what happens when you 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:31.200 have your two aces. Both of our aces are gone 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:34.360 on a defensive line. Uh, we're missing other interior guys 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.559 as well, but are both are in our in caps 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.440 are gone. So who's gonna show up? It's an opportunity. 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:41.960 It's just plenty of stories and in the history of 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:45.600 sports of guys missing time due to injuries and the 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:48.520 next guy up comes up and shows up, or you 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:50.560 don't show up, and guess what when when it comes 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:54.440 roster time, Uh, next year, you'll be looking at you 0:10:54.480 --> 0:10:56.360 in a different light because they say, ah, I remember 0:10:56.360 --> 0:10:59.120 when that situation presented itself, they didn't take advantage of 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.439 the line like soul, I'm not gonna give them a 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.800 second chance. You know, we talked about a lot about 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:08.880 how last week the defense kind of exposed our offense, 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.439 but we didn't talk a lot about how their offense 0:11:12.760 --> 0:11:16.000 may have exposed some pieces in our defense now coming 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:19.680 into this week. I don't want to underestimate Matt Ryan. 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.600 Don't want to underestimate Matt Ryan, but he is a 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:25.720 quarterback that can he can make some throws, he can 0:11:25.760 --> 0:11:28.920 do something. So if we don't present that pressure on 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:32.480 Matt Ryan, he's a quarterback in this league that could 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:34.880 definitely pick us apart. I mean, do you see this 0:11:35.040 --> 0:11:37.240 as far as we just talked about moving these key 0:11:37.280 --> 0:11:40.520 pieces around in on the back half, how do they 0:11:40.600 --> 0:11:43.480 respond to that? Because as you've seen, guys, when we're 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:49.400 not getting turnovers, we don't even look average. Yeah, I 0:11:49.920 --> 0:11:52.840 totally agree with you. I mean, they've that was the 0:11:52.840 --> 0:11:55.079 biggest Well, there were two problems in this Denver game. 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:58.319 They didn't they did not get a pressure on Teddy Bridgewater. 0:11:58.480 --> 0:12:01.120 He had too much time to throw, and the run 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:04.760 defense showed up in a bad way like twenty twenty 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:07.920 style that we had not seen except for little glimpses 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:11.880 throughout the season so far. The Pats game at times Minnesota, 0:12:11.920 --> 0:12:13.600 they did a really good job. But if you're gonna 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:17.360 allow an offense to stay balanced and control time of possession, 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:21.360 that's taking your offense off the field. The whole complimentary 0:12:21.360 --> 0:12:23.720 thing we're talking about gets out of whack. So yeah, 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.360 it's a big problem. And I think when Mattie Ice 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:28.640 has time, he's also seen every coverage you want to 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:30.679 throw him. The Dan Quinn chess match, to me is 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:33.920 very interesting because he played he played for Quinn forever. 0:12:34.280 --> 0:12:36.400 He's changed up a lot of parts of his scheme. 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.520 But if you give him too much time, it's gonna 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.240 be tough. It gonna be tough day, Isaiah. Did we 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:45.800 fool ourselves with these turnovers? Did we become enamored with 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.680 the turnovers and not look at the fact that this defense, 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.640 although they fixed some components to it, you see a 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:54.079 lot of these bad habits starting to revisit. You know, 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.959 after last week's game, I don't want to say that 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.760 we afford ourselves because I think some of those turnovers, 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:02.120 you know, I always get killed in Cowboys Nation for 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.000 saying that, you know, we got luckier or some of 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.360 these things fell into our hands. I know it is 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:07.800 what it is, but I call it how I see it. 0:13:08.080 --> 0:13:09.520 Some of those things we got that just they did 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:10.960 just fall into our hands. Some of the ones we 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.280 took away. All right, there's turnovers that fall into your hands. 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.720 There's turnovers that you force. We and I say we 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.160 probably seventy thirty split. I'll say you're probably seventy percent 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.960 for something thirty percent just fell into our hands. But 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:22.680 you know, you still got to go out there and 0:13:22.679 --> 0:13:25.839 play defense. And I don't think that we have a 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:28.480 glaring hole in our defense. There are things that we 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:30.920 obviously have to have to shore up this Denver game. 0:13:30.960 --> 0:13:32.400 I don't want people to put too much weight on 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:34.320 a different game because I just don't think guys showed up. 0:13:34.640 --> 0:13:38.440 I don't think this was a failure to execute on 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:41.319 all levels. This was just guys just did not show up. 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:43.400 And people don't like to hear that. Fans don't like 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:45.160 to hear that. But there are days where you show 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:52.000 up to work and you're just present, right, just you here, Yeah, exactly, 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:54.839 I'm just and everybody has those days. Every human being 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:56.800 listening to this right now has those days where you're 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.800 just present and sometimes you're able to snap yourself out 0:13:59.840 --> 0:14:02.120 of it. Sometimes it's just a bad day for you, 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:04.080 And guess what, tomorrow, I'll make sure that I'm on 0:14:04.120 --> 0:14:06.200 my piece and qes that was a day for them 0:14:06.240 --> 0:14:08.400 that they tried them snap themselves out of it with 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:10.440 the pump block and they didn't go away. So what 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.719 happens this is gonna be one of them days for 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:14.880 us back then. I don't want to put too much 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:16.400 weight on this because I know what these guys are 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:19.000 capable of doing, and I'm pretty dog unsure that they're 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:20.840 gonna snap themselves out of it and show up to 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:23.600 play at least compete. Now, what happens when you compete, 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:25.640 I don't know, but they're gonna at least show up 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:27.520 and compete because they're not going to allow themselves and 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:30.280 go back to back days. Right in terms of games 0:14:30.760 --> 0:14:33.320 with that same approach, that's a great point because this 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:35.920 defense has talent. I mean, they've got guys that can 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:38.520 make the Pro Bowl this year. They've got young ascending players, 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:41.080 but they're young and they're not whole. Like we just 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:43.480 talked about no Tank right now. No Randy Gregory for 0:14:43.520 --> 0:14:47.320 at least three games. Nevill Gallimore still in ir They 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:50.240 are not as experienced and as talented as they could be. 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:52.680 So a lot of their success this year has been playstyle, 0:14:52.840 --> 0:14:56.840 just playing their ass off, energy, physicality, and when you 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:00.520 don't bring that, then you're you're not max remizing what 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:01.920 you can be as a defense. And that's when you 0:15:02.000 --> 0:15:04.120 get in trouble, especially when your offense is, like you said, 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:07.080 is not helping them out. You know, that's been a 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:10.320 They've been playing with leads a lot this season, and 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:13.640 when they don't have that, on top of they're getting 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:16.040 beat in the run game. That's not a good recipe 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:20.000 for them. 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Isaiah's got 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:00.560 all the amexes and the black cards out over there, 0:18:00.560 --> 0:18:03.040 and gentlemen, you know who got the paper in here? 0:18:03.480 --> 0:18:07.439 He smelled like money. I wish I smell like platform. 0:18:09.040 --> 0:18:11.320 I know that's right, I know that's right. But today, 0:18:11.359 --> 0:18:14.000 guys is the is our Pickham Series where we let 0:18:14.000 --> 0:18:17.120 the fans pick. The number is eight eight eight eight 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:20.120 five five two two nine seven. And if you hadn't 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:24.120 got an opportunity to call and pick games, please call now, 0:18:24.480 --> 0:18:26.919 Please call now for the pickhams Man. We got some 0:18:26.960 --> 0:18:31.919 people the struggling, got some people that's on the struggle bus. Yeah, 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.040 in the Pickham Series. But what we all look like, 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:35.760 we're don't talk about old stuff. We'll get to that 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:38.200 in the last segment. But I think Peg, you're somewhere. 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:40.760 Never mind, I'll get to that in the last segment. 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:46.679 But guys, we talked about identity, the identity to you. 0:18:46.880 --> 0:18:50.520 Who are you? You are? Who we got you are 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:55.480 right now? And after eight games? After eight games, do 0:18:55.600 --> 0:18:58.360 you guys feel as though you have a bead on 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:02.200 who and what this team's identity is? Isaiah, I will 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.240 start with you, Yes, I think so. And I think 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:08.359 that we have overcome different forms of adversity during the season. 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:11.359 I think we have shown you who we're capable of, 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:14.119 who the Cowboys are capable to be. I think they 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:17.240 have also you've also seen their their character in terms 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:19.680 of when they face with adversity and a form of injuries, 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:22.480 in terms of turnovers, in terms of referees, and there's 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:25.080 all those different hurdles. They have overcome all those things. 0:19:25.160 --> 0:19:29.760 Now people are entitled, teams are entitled, organizations are entitled 0:19:29.760 --> 0:19:32.760 to having bad days, and what they sustain was a 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:35.720 bad day. There's all. There's a difference between having a 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:38.280 bad day and having a crack in your armor, right, 0:19:38.359 --> 0:19:42.600 there's there's just there's two different things. An it's a 0:19:42.640 --> 0:19:45.600 heck of a fine line. If you repeat it, it's 0:19:45.600 --> 0:19:47.960 a crack in your armor. If it happens one time, 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:51.879 bad day, that's how I write it off, right, because 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:54.360 again I don't think it was you just got beat up. 0:19:54.440 --> 0:19:58.560 It's just you just weren't there, manum. And that contagious. 0:19:58.560 --> 0:20:00.320 It's a reason why people get bad egg without their 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:02.800 locker room, because that's that's contagious. Having a bad day, 0:20:02.880 --> 0:20:06.280 having no energy kind of being a Debbie downer or 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:10.200 a lack there of effort giver is contagious. And that's 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:12.280 what if he's getting his butt kicked and yeah, I'll 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:13.679 try to go and if it doesn't go my way, 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:16.320 this man, I forget it, bro, you know, and you 0:20:16.320 --> 0:20:18.480 don't want to think about that, but that's the reality. 0:20:18.680 --> 0:20:21.119 So I don't think there's a cracking of armor. I 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:23.600 think the identity is sound, but again we'll find out 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:27.720 this week. Totally agree, and especially with the character part. 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:29.439