WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Missed Opportunities 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:05.520 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:16.880 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's talking Cowboys 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:20.759 Screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:33.360 Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Brons, Rob Phillips, 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:38.520 and Bill Jones. It is a forty degree morning here 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:40.760 at the Star in Frisco, and I'm not sure what 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:45.440 the temperature is outside the SWBC Mortgage studios, but it 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:49.239 is a crisp morning inside these studios and things are 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:51.680 going to be heated up as we get going over 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:54.040 here today course of the next forty five minutes. And 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:58.440 outside on the practice fields here at the Star, the 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:02.160 all the equipment is out there for an outdoor practice 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.520 in forty degree weather. Yes, it is forty degrees outside 0:01:05.560 --> 0:01:07.720 here at the start. As the Cowboys get set to 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:12.000 take on the Detroit Lions. Bill Jones with Mickey Spagnola 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:14.679 and Rob Phillips, we take your phone calls at eight 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.200 eight eight, five five two two nine seven as we 0:01:17.280 --> 0:01:20.280 turn our attention to the Lions. But Mickey, I don't 0:01:20.319 --> 0:01:23.440 think the Minnesota game goes away very quickly. No, when 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:28.320 you lose games like that, and there's always you know, 0:01:28.800 --> 0:01:31.120 sometimes I think you're better off getting beat twenty eight 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:34.360 to seven than twenty eight twenty four. I don't know 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.680 about that, but well, there's less contention. You just got 0:01:37.680 --> 0:01:41.240 your button whipped and that's it, right. But now when 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:44.240 you lose close games to two pointers and a four pointer, 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:48.120 you find this play that play and this reason and 0:01:48.200 --> 0:01:51.400 that reason for getting beat and not because you weren't 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:57.120 good enough. The media likes it when there's contention, absolutely absolutely, 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:02.000 you think so. I think so Sota's talk radio too, by, 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:05.840 But you have a point, Mick. I mean, they've lost 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:08.079 four games this year. They've lost three by a total 0:02:08.120 --> 0:02:11.200 of eight points. And when you do that, it's always 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:13.600 a player two here, player two there. And in this 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:16.640 particular case, we're still talking about that last second to 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:21.080 last drive. We're still talking about Tavon Austin's fair catch. 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.040 And you know, you just hope that when you get 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:25.519 to the end of the season, those aren't the things 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:27.320 you look at and say, oh, if we'd done something 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:31.000 different here, maybe we'd have a different result of our season. 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:35.359 So like last year when you probably won about three 0:02:35.480 --> 0:02:38.960 or four games by that margin of points, but it 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:42.200 wasn't talked about because you won. And when they went 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.800 seven and one last year, the last eight games, it 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.200 was like, well, they blew everybody out. But the you know, 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.000 the the honest part of it is they beat Atlanta 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:57.480 by three points, they had a last late fourth quarter 0:02:57.639 --> 0:03:01.880 drive to beat Philadelphia the first time. They beat Philadelphia 0:03:02.000 --> 0:03:06.120 the second time in overtime. By the way, they had 0:03:06.120 --> 0:03:10.960 a close call with Washington, if I remember correctly. But 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:15.920 because you won, you beat everybody handedly. When you lose, 0:03:16.360 --> 0:03:18.959 and you lose close, then it becomes an issue. And 0:03:19.080 --> 0:03:22.120 Troy Aakman spoke to that on local radio this week 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.640 as well. And you know, for what it's worth, Troy 0:03:24.680 --> 0:03:27.200 didn't seem too bothered by the play calling at the 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:31.760 on that drive in question. But when you lose, you all, 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:33.600 I mean, it's fair game. You can open it up 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:35.520 and say we should have done this, maybe done this, 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:39.360 you know, and but you gotta live with it. So yeah, 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:41.680 on to Detroit. But no one brings up the second 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:44.720 to the last possession when they threw the ball. Should 0:03:44.760 --> 0:03:47.760 you bring it up? Brought it up? Mickey's banging that 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:51.560 drum man, Well should should they have run at that possession? 0:03:51.600 --> 0:03:54.760 If it worked. Sure, yeah, right, same thing with the 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:57.480 last possession and in what I yet, And I got 0:03:57.480 --> 0:03:59.560 a text from a friend this morning at how come 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:02.160 they didn't challenge the past interference in the end zone? 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:06.920 And that's another one. Yeah, but I mean theoretically sure 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:09.480 they could have and they would have lost the time out. 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.000 I think the league has demonstrated that at the very 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.760 high bar to get those overturned. Yeah, it's got to be. 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:17.320 It's got to be Ram Saints yea. And as of 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:21.360 last week, the rate of that of a past interference 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:26.160 challenge being overturned it was ninety one percent against five 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:30.920 out of fifty three past interference challenges the first nine 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:33.280 ten weeks of the season. This was again a status 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.920 that was out there last week, only five out of 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:39.080 fifty three times was it overturned, which is why and 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.200 the going rate and around the league on coach challenges, 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:46.120 they are usually successful of forty six percent of the time, 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:47.720 So they might as well just get rid of the 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:50.080 rule and then there would be no discussion about you 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:53.640 should have challenged it, because it's it's it's worthless. Basically, 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:55.960 it didn't even cross my mind to challenge it because 0:04:56.040 --> 0:05:01.000 because of now Now, had the officials been overturning past 0:05:01.080 --> 0:05:05.279 interference challenges, then great, But it's they've they've proven and 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:08.679 in that stadium they've proven it too. They're not getting 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:10.599 that call, and you need those timeouts at the end 0:05:10.640 --> 0:05:12.760 of the game, right, And that's and that ends up 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:16.440 being the determining factor, not if I'm right to challenge this, 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.760 but if they're not going to overturn it, then I 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:22.280 just blew a time out and I'm behind, and I'm 0:05:22.279 --> 0:05:26.480 going to need all three timeouts. Yep, sou And by 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.360 the way, I was you're talking about close games, and 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:31.800 so I was going back to the nineties and the 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:35.359 Super Bowl teams of the nineties, and in hindsight, we 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:37.919 think of, oh, they just rolled through. I think this 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.080 a lot of times that oh, yeah, what great teams 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.240 those were in ninety two, ninety three, and ninety five. 0:05:43.279 --> 0:05:45.960 They rolled through, and we forget the fact that there 0:05:45.960 --> 0:05:49.360 were a lot of close games during those Super Bowl seasons. 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.760 But it's your ability to win those close games that 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:54.880 makes you a championship team, right, And you have to 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:58.400 be good enough to exactly and sometimes you're not. Yeah 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:00.760 you got And that's the bottom line. To give Minnesota 0:06:00.760 --> 0:06:03.320 credit for what they did, their game plan and their personnel. 0:06:03.839 --> 0:06:05.800 It was better on that day. They get off to 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:07.960 a better start and they were able to withstand a 0:06:08.080 --> 0:06:10.560 run by Dallas. But I think Jason Garrett had a 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.960 stat earlier in the season. You know, two thirds of 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:17.640 games or within one score in the fourth quarter. That's 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:19.800 just the life in this league. You know, you're not 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:22.080 going to have many games like you had first three 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:25.000 weeks of the season, where you're just dominating and these 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:28.680 things eventually even themselves out. You win a lot of 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.440 close games last year. This year, well, you're gonna lose 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:35.760 a few. You just kind of even which Yeah, which 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:38.080 is it? Does it even out? Or does it matter 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:40.360 that you're a good team and you win those games? 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:43.120 So is this team? Do you think this team is 0:06:43.160 --> 0:06:47.760 not better than last year's team? I thought it was 0:06:47.880 --> 0:06:50.919 coming in, but every year is different. I mean, the 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:54.400 record says so at this point with Amari Cooper, the 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:58.640 record says they are better against superior competition. They haven't 0:06:58.640 --> 0:07:02.440 shown it yet. They've been competitive against those teams, but 0:07:02.520 --> 0:07:04.680 they haven't shown it in the final score. But they 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.280 still have opportunities to show it. Just like a lot 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:10.320 this point last year, we were sitting here going all 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.800 right to top ten draft pick. You know, well this 0:07:13.840 --> 0:07:16.160 time last year they traded away that draft pick. Okay, 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:20.320 there's your risk, and what happened. They basically almost ran 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.080 the table the last half of the season. I think 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.080 Todd Archer from ESPN had the stat of the final 0:07:24.240 --> 0:07:27.040 seven opponents. It's like a thirty two, twenty and one record. 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.560 You know they're going to be tested down the stretch here, 0:07:29.600 --> 0:07:31.960 they know it. And they're in a four game stretch 0:07:32.080 --> 0:07:37.360 right now against four teams that have going into last weekend, 0:07:37.360 --> 0:07:40.720 we're twenty three, ten and one. The one team that 0:07:40.880 --> 0:07:42.760 did not have a winning record out of those four 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:46.240 the Detroit Lions, who are now after losing to the 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:49.640 Bears without Matthew Stafford, three five and one on the season. 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:52.280 But you want to talk about close games, look at 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:55.000 what the Detroit Lions have done this season, and you 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:59.480 talk about games that are within one score of going 0:07:59.520 --> 0:08:02.360 the other in the fourth quarter. Every single one of 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.880 their games has been within one score at some point 0:08:05.960 --> 0:08:09.800 in the fourth quarter. Seven Okay, they played nine games. 0:08:09.880 --> 0:08:12.920 Eight of the nine games have been decided by a 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:17.320 touchdown or less. Yeah. Yeah. Against some pretty good teams too. 0:08:17.400 --> 0:08:20.120 I mean, you know, Philly's got a winning record. Kansas 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:24.320 City with Mahomes, I believe Green Bay lost by a point, 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:27.240 so yeah, but their defense has not been the same 0:08:27.520 --> 0:08:29.600 did okay against the Bears last week, but it hasn't 0:08:29.600 --> 0:08:31.400 been the same the last month or so. But but 0:08:31.480 --> 0:08:34.640 it is against the Bears, and you want to if 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:37.040 you want to tune into talking Bears the last month, 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:41.720 they're talking about Mitchell Trubisky and so it's been a 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.720 struggling Bears offense. Not the same as as the season 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:48.200 he had last year exactly. But you're you're talking about 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:51.719 the Lions. Tied Arizona first game of the year. They 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.400 win by three against the Chargers, they win by three. 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:57.520 Against the Eagles, they lose by four. They played a 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.880 very good game against Kansas City and Patrick Mahomes. They 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:04.840 lost thirty four thirty and Matt Patricia kind of set 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.760 the tone for a lot of teams the blueprint on 0:09:07.840 --> 0:09:11.520 how you defend Mahomes in that game. Even though Mahomes 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:13.400 did they did get thirty four points in the game. 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:17.319 But then at Green Bay they lost by one. Minnesota 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:19.480 was the one game that they was not settled by 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.520 one touchdown. It was forty two to thirty, and it 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:25.200 was a five point lead with two minutes left in 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:29.040 that game. Minnesota at tacked on another touchdown. Giants they 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.679 went by five. Oakland they lose by seven, Bears, they 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:34.280 lose by seven. You think it's going to be a 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:39.160 tight fit in Detroit on Sunday afternoon. Yeah, they all are. Yeah, absolutely. 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:42.800 You know when you when you spoil everybody, when you 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.840 beat the Eagles thirty seven to ten, it's like, okay, 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.400 this is easy. You know, Well I forgot about that one. 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.640 That was the best game they played all year. Yeah, yeah, 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:54.120 the most complete game, and you know, and that shows 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.520 you what they can do if they are on point, 0:09:57.679 --> 0:10:02.600 don't make mistakes and don't have turnovers and you know, convert. 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.640 You know, we sit here and keep talking about you know, 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.400 third and six, the first two possessions they didn't convert. 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:11.640 I think they ended up what sixty percent third down 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:16.000 conversions in that game. Yeah, again, and so did the Vikings. Yeah, 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:20.320 so okay, let's go seventy percent or eighty. You know, 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:23.040 if you're in the forties, you're doing really good on 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:28.280 third down conversions. So they converted sixty percent, but it 0:10:28.360 --> 0:10:31.600 didn't win. And that's the bottom line. When in the 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:35.400 four losses, and I wrote about this yesterday, beyond third downs, 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:40.000 beyond slow starts, offensively, it's been unable to cash in 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:41.920 in the red zone, which is that was their problem 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:44.320 last year more than anything, because they were able to 0:10:44.320 --> 0:10:45.880 move the ball with a Mari Cooper, but they didn't 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.040 necessarily cash in even with a Mari down the stretch 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:50.400 as much as they'd like to. And if you look 0:10:50.400 --> 0:10:53.319 at those four losses, they're they're overall, they're much better 0:10:53.320 --> 0:10:55.360 this year than they were last year, but you know, 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:57.439 you factor in their percentages up, I don't have them 0:10:57.480 --> 0:10:59.800 with me right now. It's towards the bottom of the league. 0:10:59.800 --> 0:11:01.720 In the four losses, they're one of two or they're 0:11:01.760 --> 0:11:04.360 one of three, including this last game where they had 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.520 you know, didn't cash in twice in the fourth quarter 0:11:07.800 --> 0:11:10.520 and doesn't have that's a difference. And don't have Lenahan 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:15.600 to blame them anymore, you know. And but for much 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:17.760 of the first part of the season, when they were 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:22.880 playing against lesser opposition, the red zone percentage was amongst 0:11:22.920 --> 0:11:24.720 the tops in the league. And I'm looking it up 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:28.360 right now that has drifted for the Cowboys offense. They're 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:32.240 now seventeenth in the league in red zone percentage. Yeah, 0:11:32.240 --> 0:11:34.160 and a lot of the problem was inside the ten 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:39.560 yard line goal to go situations. I mean, that's that's 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:43.520 that's kind of been them, uh several times in these losses. 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:45.760 I need a new phone. My phone is charging right now. 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.480 I'll I'll look it up from my column yesterday and 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:51.280 read it after the first break. How about that. Okay, 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:53.120 I've got the goal to goal and the red zone 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.120 in these four Yeah, there you go, because that they 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.520 were dead lasting goal to goal last year. And they've 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.560 been better. They've been better, I think tied for thirteenth 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:04.800 or something like that, but um, they haven't cashed in 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:07.920 as well in these losses. 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Um, yeah, just real 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:04.240 red zone this year overall fifty eight percent, that's seventeenth 0:16:04.240 --> 0:16:07.200 in the league. Goal to goal they're seventy one percent, 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:10.640 that's tied for thirteenth. In the four losses that they have, 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.400 they're down to forty one percent in the red zone 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:15.880 and only sixty six percent and goal to goal if 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:17.720 you if you put that out over an entire season, 0:16:17.720 --> 0:16:19.840 that's twenty seventh and twentieth in the league. That's just 0:16:19.920 --> 0:16:22.480 not that's back kind of where they were last year, 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:24.840 and that's that's a huge part of why they're you know, 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:27.480 slow starts is definitely a problem, but you know it's 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:29.480 throughout the game. They haven't quite cashed in like they 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.600 need to. So so in the wins, I'm looking at 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.560 the goal to ghost situation, they were seven of eight. 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:39.800 In the losses, they're three of six. That can spell 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.560 the difference between winning and losing a game. And when 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:44.640 you lose three of them by eight points, right yep. 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:48.520 And then on inside the twenty when they've won, they've 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.320 been thirteen of nineteen. When they've lost, they've been five 0:16:51.360 --> 0:16:56.280 of twelve, So makes a difference. It does all right 0:16:56.640 --> 0:16:59.880 before we get into ye maybe maybe they don't know 0:17:00.160 --> 0:17:02.560 how to call plays once they cut it get inside there. 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:05.280 Sometimes they do. It's only when they win they know 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:07.359 how to call the plays, and when they lose, they 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.080 don't know how to call the place inside. Okay, in 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:13.840 goal togo situations, Let's go to Austin in Phoenix. You're 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:18.200 first up. I'm talking Cowboys. Hello Austin, Hey, what's going on? Guys? 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:20.320 So much is going on. I have to go to 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:25.080 Austin to get to Phoenix, you know what I'm actually, 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.200 you have to go to Phoenix to get to Austin 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:34.119 because Austin in Phoenix. Boy, I was coming today because 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:35.880 I feel like in some ways, you guys are kind 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:39.800 of misrepresenting why fans are trustrated with this season. And 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:42.359 I consider myself to be one of the more optimistic 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:45.840 Cowboys fands that I know. And the thing about this 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.639 season is, you know, there really isn't that big of 0:17:48.640 --> 0:17:52.000 a difference between average teams and really good teams. Like 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:54.840 when you look every week, you know throughout Vegas Lions, 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:58.520 you always see Vegas Lions. You know that by points 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:02.280 by lesson six points, So you know, we keep hearing 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:04.520 about how we've watched all these games by you know, 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:07.000 by teams the digits. But the thing is that we've 0:18:07.040 --> 0:18:09.400 caught all these teams at the right time. You know, 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:12.800 you go through a grind of an NFL season, and 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.280 some of it is about getting lucky, some of it 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:17.399 is about catching a team at the right time. And like, 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:20.080 I couldn't imagine what it would have been like if 0:18:20.119 --> 0:18:23.280 we had faced the same without Dak Prescott, or if 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:26.679 we had faced the Package without Samari Cooper, or if 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:31.000 we had faced the Vikings without Comari Cooper and DeMarcus Lauren. 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.200 So it's just the fact that we couldn't have taken 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:37.000 advantage of two of those games, or at least one 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.800 of those games. It just it just makes you realize 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:43.119 that this is an average or slightly above average for 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:45.119 that team. And I guess that's what's really hard to 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:49.600 come come to terms with. Well, how about how about conversely, 0:18:49.640 --> 0:18:52.240 what if you had faced the Packer or the Jets 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:55.280 with your two starting tackles and your starting wide two 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:58.600 starting wide receivers. Well, I mean, that's one of the 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:00.439 worst teams in the league. When you look of teams 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:02.520 like the San Francisco forty nine ers or if they 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:05.800 have to most out there for the last three or 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:09.080 four weeks ago. But you started this, but you started, 0:19:09.119 --> 0:19:11.680 but you started this saying that that there's not much 0:19:11.720 --> 0:19:14.800 difference in the teams in the league. No, but between 0:19:14.840 --> 0:19:16.919 the average teams and the good team there's a big difference. 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:20.800 Oh okay, okay, Well, I mean think about it. Like 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:22.960 you know, there's not much difference in the teams in 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:25.040 the if you if you don't have your two starting 0:19:25.040 --> 0:19:27.400 wide receivers in your two tackles, it's not an excuse. 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:30.359 Every team goes through this stuff. But in and it 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:33.360 was a twenty four, twenty two game, but it happens 0:19:33.400 --> 0:19:36.960 in the league. I mean, just it's to your point. 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:39.119 I'm agreeing with you, but you got to include the 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:41.919 Jets in that. I mean, every every team is like that. 0:19:42.720 --> 0:19:46.920 The Dolphins won two straight games. How that happened? That's fine. 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:49.280 I get what you're saying that. I guess I just 0:19:49.320 --> 0:19:51.480 feel like if you are actually a good team, and 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:55.280 you're more than a slightly above average team, we are right. Yeah, 0:19:55.480 --> 0:19:59.600 but right, but is anybody disputing that? I mean, I 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:02.000 think i' said a few minutes ago, they haven't shown 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:04.760 against the better teams that they can win consistently. I mean, 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:07.639 they've beat a five and four Philly team, but they haven't. 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:09.680 And I think I think the Jets game is a 0:20:09.760 --> 0:20:11.959 missed opportunity despite the injuries that they had. I think 0:20:12.000 --> 0:20:15.600 you still expect you to win that game, um, but 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:20.160 but they still That is what's you know, frustrating for fans, 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:22.320 I'm sure, is that the Philly game at home showed 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:25.120 the potential of this team, and there just hasn't been 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:28.879 necessarily the consistency that you want game to game, especially 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:31.680 We're only going to get games the rest of the season, 0:20:31.760 --> 0:20:34.160 so we you know, we kind of missed our chances 0:20:34.440 --> 0:20:38.760 to gain some round on some of these really good 0:20:39.119 --> 0:20:41.680 but we actually we don't know that we're going to 0:20:41.840 --> 0:20:44.920 have tougher games because look where the Rams are going 0:20:44.960 --> 0:20:47.080 with their season right now, Look where the Bears are 0:20:47.080 --> 0:20:49.639 going with their season right now. As the season began, 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:52.520 we thought that the Bears and the Rams, you know 0:20:53.160 --> 0:20:56.280 what a tough second half schedule that is. But but 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:59.240 that doesn't mean that they aren't fully capable of beating 0:20:59.240 --> 0:21:02.320 this Cowboys because this Cowboys team is five and four 0:21:02.440 --> 0:21:04.879 right now. Just as you said, Austin, they are an 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:07.600 average to above average team and the record indicates that 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:10.480 because they haven't had that consistency to put away opponents. 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:14.440 And I'm I'm I've never been someone that's been as 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:17.360 critical as most about Jason Garrett, because I do think 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:19.600 he's a lot those than most people will get him 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:21.760 credit for us, But I have finally kind of come 0:21:21.760 --> 0:21:24.200 to the realization this year that you know, he is 0:21:24.280 --> 0:21:26.520 kind of just slightly above average head coach, and he 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:30.080 will probably get another job, you know this, and probably 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:32.160 when we let him go after this year, whether that's 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:35.159 in college or in the pros. But it's just, you 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:37.359 know it, just it just seems like we have a 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:40.240