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Speaker 1: heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeomans. It is

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Speaker 1: SWBC studios at the Star in Frisco. Heck My Harrison,

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Speaker 1: Isaiah stand Back, Rob Phillips, Chris Beam, I'm Kyle Yeomans.

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Speaker 1: In the final regular season episode of twenty twenty one,

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Speaker 1: did you finish off the Golden Grounds? Uh? Yeah, we

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Speaker 1: get upstairs, Yeah, lays Golden Grounds. Golden Grounds man don't

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Speaker 1: win you a bag because there's only like five that

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Speaker 1: they're giving away. Wow, five by whom by lays? Oh

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Speaker 1: I believe so. I thought it was like two hundred

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Speaker 1: they made two hundred that they're giving away five, or

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Speaker 1: maybe the Cowboys are getting I don't think I wont

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Speaker 1: i tweeted at them, I didn't get anything back. You

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Speaker 1: didn't win. I don't think so. Goodness, I put my

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Speaker 1: name in a hat, but that's probably you already tasted

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Speaker 1: the golden ground. I did taste the golden ground. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we had the nice crunch last week and they were delish. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but how's everybody doing? Is the recovery set in yet? Oh? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: His sunken already. It is sunken like Quicksand I don't know,

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Speaker 1: it feels very like like a freaking funeral around this part.

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Speaker 1: Man disappointment. I get it, I get it. Man sucks.

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Speaker 1: It's always like this on a Monday after a loss.

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Speaker 1: But I think you got to multiply it by ten

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Speaker 1: yep this week and yeah, missed opportunity. Yeah really, I mean,

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Speaker 1: as good as they've had in years, you don't get

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Speaker 1: them back. No, And you only get so many tries

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Speaker 1: at a super Bowl, and you only get so many

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Speaker 1: tries in the playoffs to even get that direction, and

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Speaker 1: the fact that you're not there it is. It's disappointing. Heck.

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Speaker 1: But if you had one word to describe the way

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Speaker 1: that cowboys feel cowboys, it has to be a clean word.

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Speaker 1: It has to be radio radio friend out commas. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I ain't trying to get me about it here right now.

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Speaker 1: Radio friendly. One word to describe how Cowboys Nation is

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Speaker 1: feeling right now, oh down, it just sucks. This is

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Speaker 1: this is pretty bad on the level. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: And after going back and watching the game again, we

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Speaker 1: were never even close in that game. And you know

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Speaker 1: what Jerry said it after the game in the tunnel

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Speaker 1: in so many words, No, I wasn't close, kind of

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Speaker 1: like Arizona. Arizona, that game came down at the very end.

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Speaker 1: But the better team that day clearly was the road team.

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Speaker 1: I mean but even when I look at the Arizona

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Speaker 1: how much different would it have been if they had Hopkins?

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Speaker 1: You know, how much more of that offense was just

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Speaker 1: it affects the way that you play and that's just

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Speaker 1: that's just it, and that's that's the killer about this

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Speaker 1: team right here, is that we heard for weeks and

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Speaker 1: it was a fact like while a lot of teams

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Speaker 1: were getting depleted and decimated by injuries, yes it was

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys were getting healthier, as healthy as you could

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Speaker 1: possibly ask for. Count O'Neill was inactive for that game.

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Speaker 1: beyond that, that was a healthy football team. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: But now the triple jab can't by by by right.

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Speaker 1: just like you came in hype last week, you know,

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Speaker 1: why is that the case? Though? But why is it

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Speaker 1: when it's when it's when it's a quality win. Its

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Speaker 1: period twelve and five. Yes, Isaiah, I was happy as hell.

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Speaker 1: You should you should be, you should be. No, I was.

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Speaker 1: his comfort zone. He doesn't want to be patient and

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Speaker 1: run a twelve to fourteen play drive. He wants it

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Speaker 1: couple plays in it, then he's taking a shot. But

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Speaker 1: Bilichick type defense. That's what we just faced Bill Belichick type.

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Speaker 1: We will let you work your way down the field

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Speaker 1: and then we're gonna try to tighten it up in

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Speaker 1: the red zone. That's what Sam Fran presented. And he said, Nah,

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Speaker 1: we're still gonna take our shots. Now we're good Scholten nagger,

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Speaker 1: you're wide open, but nah, we're running double undercons steps

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Speaker 1: on the outside of Nah, Dak take the shot down

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Speaker 1: the field. Well, Dak immediately. Admittedly, Will Will say he's

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Speaker 1: style as like when you play Madden and you're frustrated

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Speaker 1: and you just want to run go routes and try

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Speaker 1: to make it all back up. So but I don't.

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Speaker 1: I never felt like they were two behind where they

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Speaker 1: couldn't have stuck to the running game. And I watched

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Speaker 1: it again and I know they've they have struggled again.

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Speaker 1: I've talked about the old line winning up front, but

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Speaker 1: like the puzzling thing and the frustrating thing watching it

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Speaker 1: again was the one drive they had touchdown drive that

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Speaker 1: was not benefited by a takeaway TP. Yeah, they ran

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Speaker 1: it six times out of nine Zeke and Pollard and

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Speaker 1: Zeke and Pollard wound up with twelve carries in the

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Speaker 1: entire game. And that one drive that was there was

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Speaker 1: there was the balance and oh man, that was also

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Speaker 1: the most comfortable Dak Prescott looked on that in that

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Speaker 1: game and there was a severe lack of up tempo,

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Speaker 1: there was a severe lack of creativity. It really did

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Speaker 1: I wonder if they're waiting. I wonder if they're gonna

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Speaker 1: wait and they're gonna bring it whenever the playoffs come around,

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Speaker 1: and they're gonna bring that bag. Kelly Moore has a bag.

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Speaker 1: It's just fashed away for a little bit. But that

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Speaker 1: wasn't the case. Vanilla's okay, though, Kyle like Vanilla is okay,

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Speaker 1: and that's what I think he has to go back

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Speaker 1: and address. Vanilla's cool, right. I don't need the sprinkles.

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Speaker 1: I don't need the sprinkles. Let me be vanilla. Let

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Speaker 1: me just work my way down. Let me just work

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Speaker 1: my way down. It's boring, it's freaking boring. It's freaking boring.

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Speaker 1: But guess when you have that many weapons, that's what

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Speaker 1: teams are gonna do. Teams are gonna chill out. Hey,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna keep everything in front of a screw that.

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Speaker 1: We ain't letting you be us over the top. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: He has to work on that patience. That's what I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about. Patience. He has to work on that aspect

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Speaker 1: even after such a decip I needed that end. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we all needed a little bit. We're with you, Cowboys Nation.

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Speaker 1: We feel you because it does. It feels like roundhog

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Speaker 1: This is like, you know, I think I should have

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Speaker 1: asked you how it feels when the season ends. It

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Speaker 1: literally is like being on a roller coaster for six

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Speaker 1: months and then somebody just saying, get off, get out

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Speaker 1: of here. It's so funny you said that, because body,

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Speaker 1: you asked me that yesterday, and I very similar analogy.

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Speaker 1: I said, it was like being on a lightning rod

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Speaker 1: coaster feels like. Oh, that's twice twice in my life. Bad,

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Speaker 1: never again bad. Anal that's for me. It's like being

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Speaker 1: chased by bear for six months. A turn it around

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Speaker 1: and the bear isn't there anymore. So yeah, imagine taking

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Speaker 1: a garbage bag and going to clean out your locker.

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Speaker 1: Now that's that suck. That's a quick, sudden end, right,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what's up with that. Bad. It's just

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Speaker 1: a sudden ending. And immediately you get back to the

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Speaker 1: facility yesterday and it's it's a pause. You don't you

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Speaker 1: And it was it was. There was nobody out at

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Speaker 1: the Tostitos Plaza out front gorgeous facility, Monday night football

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Speaker 1: game playing on the big screen, nobody there. Ohta is

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Speaker 1: gonna strike back up and it we'll do it all

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Speaker 1: over again. It's true, no doubt about somebody's throw the cow.

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Speaker 1: You throw your cowbo jersey across the room, It'll be

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Speaker 1: there waiting on you when you're ready to pick it

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Speaker 1: up before you come on back, come on back. All right,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about Dak Prescott here. Let's talk about Dak.

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Speaker 1: And Isaiah wants me to start with heckmum, you really do.

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Speaker 1: Isaiah wants me to start with heckmus So I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: start with that. Mom. I agree with what you're about

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Speaker 1: to say because I know what you're about to say.

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Speaker 1: But is Dak Prescott still a quarterback? Is he still

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Speaker 1: a quarterback that could get the job done? Yes, yes

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Speaker 1: he is? Why is that? Yeah? Look, you know that's

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Speaker 1: obviously with the head coach and the quarterbacks. They keep

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Speaker 1: all the winning records. Right now, that one in three

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Speaker 1: playoff record, that ain't looking good, and you have got

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Speaker 1: to improve on that going into this offseason. It's got

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Speaker 1: to be the emphasis on the running game has to

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Speaker 1: be there, and that's for any quarterback. You look at

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Speaker 1: Colin Murray yesterday, you look at any quarterback, that that

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Speaker 1: balance your running game has to be there. Zeke coming

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Speaker 1: out saying that he had a PCL injury this all

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Speaker 1: year that is what gave me the mystery meet bubble

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Speaker 1: Guts because to me, he was a decoy all year long.

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Speaker 1: He was a decoy. He was an extra blocker. That

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Speaker 1: is an indicative of how bad your offensive line is.

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Speaker 1: And anytime we saw TP that was actually the offense running,

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Speaker 1: you know, So those things have got to be corrected.

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Speaker 1: But I think you know Dak's numbers. Obviously, the the

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Speaker 1: NFL is it's a new it's a thrown passing league,

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Speaker 1: so everyone's numbers is escalated. Me and p have talked

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Speaker 1: about how the numbers, rushing numbers have completely gone into

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Speaker 1: the tank. There's got to be an identity with this

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Speaker 1: team that has to be addressed right the way offensively,

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Speaker 1: if Kellen Moore leaves, if he stays, whatever it is,

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Speaker 1: we've got to figure this part of it out. Is

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Speaker 1: it the running gun or we completely just ground and pound?

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Speaker 1: Which one is it going to be? Because we've got

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Speaker 1: to figure this. We got to figure this thing out

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Speaker 1: because we're leaving this guy out to dry, especially on

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Speaker 1: those games where we don't have any balance. I've never

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Speaker 1: gotten Dak confused with Aaron Rodgers. I've never gotten Dak

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Speaker 1: confused with Tom Brady. I know where his strong suits are.

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Speaker 1: He's a freaking leader, right, That's what he is. He

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Speaker 1: is a blue collar quarterback in a white town. And

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Speaker 1: you just better keep it real with yourself on that.

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Speaker 1: And if you can build around him, he can get

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Speaker 1: you there. But if you're just saying, hey, Dak, and

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Speaker 1: I know I hear what you're saying at your chee,

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Speaker 1: if you're gonna pay him like that, then he's got

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Speaker 1: a lead like that. Whatever the whatever, the outlaid for everybody,

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Speaker 1: the way they're getting paid. I just feel as though

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Speaker 1: Dak is a quality quarterback. You cannot give up on him.

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Speaker 1: And if you were, if you did it, you would

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Speaker 1: played for the forty nine is, you probably lose by

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Speaker 1: forty points. If Jimmy Garoppolo plays for the Dallas Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: he throws four interceptions, period. So dances and I like,

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Speaker 1: hell yeah, I like the way you brought up the

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Speaker 1: run game. And I've been looking at this this is

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Speaker 1: These are some of the totals running the football in

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Speaker 1: Wildcard weekend, look at the teams that moved on and

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Speaker 1: one football games. Eli Elijah Mitchell, of course for San

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Speaker 1: Francisco had ninety six yards, Devin Singletary had eighty one yards.

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Speaker 1: Joe Mixon had a fantastic season and ran the ball

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Speaker 1: have running attacks, and the Cowboys running attack had sixty

636
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,320
Speaker 1: yards prior to the final play. So it does. It

637
00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,440
Speaker 1: plays a massive role in how Dak Prescott's able to

638
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:54,920
Speaker 1: run this offense, how the play action is then working,

639
00:31:55,080 --> 00:31:57,200
Speaker 1: and it does. It makes an impact. And if a

640
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Speaker 1: quarterback has that eliminated, that rugg taken out from underneath them,

641
00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:04,360
Speaker 1: it makes your offense one dimensional and you have to

642
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Speaker 1: find another way to get it done. And really, I

643
00:32:06,880 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 1: didn't think there was another outlet for Dak Prescott to have.

644
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Speaker 1: What say he wasn't good, I will say that he

645
00:32:12,320 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 1: didn't play well, but he didn't necessarily have a whole

646
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 1: lot of help either. Proud of you heck, he standing strong.

647
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,360
Speaker 1: I'm proud of you, man. I know you love your Dak.

648
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:24,720
Speaker 1: I know you love your Dak. Man. Man, you know

649
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Speaker 1: I think you kept in one hunt it right there.

650
00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: I think that was well said. We should clip that

651
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Speaker 1: help me. I agree with everything that you said. I

652
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,120
Speaker 1: think that Dak is a very capable quarterback. I believe

653
00:32:37,280 --> 00:32:41,040
Speaker 1: that Dak is and should remain the leader of this team.

654
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 1: I do believe that Dak has to elevate his leadership

655
00:32:47,800 --> 00:32:50,760
Speaker 1: in the form of the expectations for this entire organization.

656
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Speaker 1: And when I say that, I mean that there should

657
00:32:54,680 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 1: be seventeen check boxes. There should be seventeen boxes that

658
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:01,000
Speaker 1: he has to check. Boom seventeen gay boom boom boom. Okay,

659
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:03,720
Speaker 1: that's cool. We're gonna take care of these. These ones

660
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:06,080
Speaker 1: are the ones that are necessary to propel us to

661
00:33:06,160 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 1: the ones that really matter. And I feel as if

662
00:33:09,880 --> 00:33:12,480
Speaker 1: if that comes from your leader on the field, your quarterback,

663
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: then that expectation of the entire offense and team will elevate.

664
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Speaker 1: It's one thing to hear from the coach, It's another

665
00:33:19,520 --> 00:33:21,280
Speaker 1: thing to hear from the player. When you think about

666
00:33:21,760 --> 00:33:24,440
Speaker 1: the NFL, you think about the head coach, and then

667
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: you think about who your quarterback, right, So those two

668
00:33:28,240 --> 00:33:30,640
Speaker 1: guys have to be speaking the same language. When I

669
00:33:30,760 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 1: was when I was in New England, I was wondering

670
00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:34,440
Speaker 1: because when I was in here Dallas, we won ball games.

671
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 1: We was kicking it. Oh, we was turning up you

672
00:33:36,880 --> 00:33:38,520
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Locker room live, all that kind

673
00:33:38,560 --> 00:33:40,440
Speaker 1: of stuff. And then carried over through the weekend. Who

674
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:42,520
Speaker 1: was out clubing? And when I got to New England,

675
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:44,400
Speaker 1: it was like, all right, guys, good game, come back

676
00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 1: in on Monday. Hand, we got film to study, get

677
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Speaker 1: ready for the next team. Look what the heck man Like,

678
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:51,240
Speaker 1: we just won a ball game. But it didn't feel

679
00:33:51,240 --> 00:33:52,560
Speaker 1: like you just want a ball game. You just feel

680
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 1: like check that box. You're supposed to do that. That's

681
00:33:56,600 --> 00:33:58,840
Speaker 1: just your job. Your job is to show up and

682
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 1: take care of these regular season game. We're preparing our

683
00:34:01,120 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 1: minds for the next level. And I don't think that

684
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: that step has been taken here obviously, it's been with

685
00:34:05,840 --> 00:34:09,839
Speaker 1: how many years, twenty five years since in twenty six years.

686
00:34:10,320 --> 00:34:13,919
Speaker 1: So the psychology in the communication between the head coach

687
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 1: and that quarterback has to be on the same wavelength

688
00:34:17,280 --> 00:34:19,879
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure if it's there yet. I don't think.

689
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:22,120
Speaker 1: I can't think about an instance this year where we

690
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: heard any any dialay between the head coach nor Dak

691
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:31,239
Speaker 1: in reference to postseason. And I'm not saying that's something

692
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:32,960
Speaker 1: they should be verbally just talking about all the time.

693
00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:34,520
Speaker 1: But I didn't even get it inkling that there that

694
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:38,239
Speaker 1: their mindset was higher goals than just the regular season,

695
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:40,960
Speaker 1: like this was the expectation. I felt as if it

696
00:34:41,080 --> 00:34:42,279
Speaker 1: was like, hey, we did a great job to day

697
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 1: when I'm like, I never got the sense that it

698
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,279
Speaker 1: was like, yeah, no, good, We're preparing for the next week.

699
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:49,080
Speaker 1: I never got that vibe. And I may be wrong.

700
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:51,000
Speaker 1: I'm just telling you what I feel, right, but I

701
00:34:51,080 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 1: don't believe that there's an instance where you got this,

702
00:34:53,040 --> 00:34:55,440
Speaker 1: the feeling that these guys are there there there, the

703
00:34:55,719 --> 00:34:57,840
Speaker 1: mind is set on this is we're supposed to be

704
00:34:57,920 --> 00:34:59,719
Speaker 1: doing this to these teams, and we need to be

705
00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:01,440
Speaker 1: have our mindset on what are we going to face

706
00:35:01,480 --> 00:35:03,000
Speaker 1: when we get to the playoffs. Well, and even if

707
00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 1: there was a little bit of that from Dak and

708
00:35:05,760 --> 00:35:08,319
Speaker 1: from McCarthy and the leaders of this team, even if

709
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: there was a sliver of that as the mindset with

710
00:35:10,800 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 1: the postseason in mind, that's still not enough because not

711
00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:15,880
Speaker 1: only do you have to have that mindset yourself, you

712
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 1: have to have a more locked in mindset than all

713
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:20,719
Speaker 1: thirty one other teams in the NFL if you really

714
00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:22,719
Speaker 1: want to achieve the goal and really get to the

715
00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:26,800
Speaker 1: expectation in which this organization requires them. Absolutely, but I

716
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:29,320
Speaker 1: think that it has to start somewhere. Whether it starts

717
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:31,080
Speaker 1: there or whether it starts somewhere else, I don't know,

718
00:35:31,200 --> 00:35:34,279
Speaker 1: but that that level of expectation has us. And you

719
00:35:34,400 --> 00:35:36,320
Speaker 1: hear it, right, you hear it in camp? Oh, you

720
00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:38,279
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. Our goals get to the NFC,

721
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:40,640
Speaker 1: you know, a championship NFC when the NFC East, and

722
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:42,840
Speaker 1: then you know, get to the champion I hear you,

723
00:35:43,200 --> 00:35:45,680
Speaker 1: I hear you. But what are your actions saying? What

724
00:35:45,800 --> 00:35:48,719
Speaker 1: are your actions saying? Like have fun when your ball games,

725
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:51,080
Speaker 1: but then like hey, your mindset, you should feel the

726
00:35:51,200 --> 00:35:54,320
Speaker 1: vibe that all the when they losing. Given the Cowboys

727
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: lose a game, what do we hear referees like you

728
00:35:56,760 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: know what's being said, you know what's being said behind

729
00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,880
Speaker 1: the scene when you listen to some of these other teams,

730
00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 1: listen to the leadership, listen to where their conversations are

731
00:36:06,960 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: leading to. Aaron Rodgers wins a game, is he hyped

732
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: about that game? Where he talking about like what's gonna

733
00:36:12,160 --> 00:36:14,880
Speaker 1: happen down the road? Ye? Like, it's just the futurists.

734
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: It's what am I trying to attain? And I've gotten

735
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:18,560
Speaker 1: be enough here you beat me up. I'm like, dang

736
00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 1: it as a you know, like you are you You're

737
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:21,880
Speaker 1: so hard on these guys. I'm like, yeah, because this

738
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:25,200
Speaker 1: is not this isn't the goal. The regular season is

739
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 1: not the goal. That's that's that's set you up to

740
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:29,920
Speaker 1: be in position to go take care of business. That's

741
00:36:29,960 --> 00:36:32,960
Speaker 1: why losing that Arizona game was so important, right because

742
00:36:32,960 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 1: we want to know you still wouldn't get the first

743
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:36,839
Speaker 1: round by because you know, because of green Bay, because

744
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:39,440
Speaker 1: of green Bay, but positioning yourself the best you can

745
00:36:39,840 --> 00:36:43,520
Speaker 1: for the playoff run, because that's all that matters in

746
00:36:43,600 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 1: this league. Nobody cares. They could have went freaking like

747
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Speaker 1: the dog on New England Patriots went sixteen and no

748
00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:51,600
Speaker 1: or whatever it was, right, they went undefeated season, lost

749
00:36:51,640 --> 00:36:54,120
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. Yep, they don't give a dog on

750
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:56,319
Speaker 1: about that regular season. I guarantee you that nobody wears

751
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,440
Speaker 1: an AFC or NFC Championship ring. Nobody does you throw

752
00:36:59,480 --> 00:37:00,880
Speaker 1: that in the clo You might even give it to

753
00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: your auntie. There's one thing that matters in this league,

754
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: and it is walking away with the dog On Trophy

755
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 1: in a ring. That's the only thing that you walk

756
00:37:09,280 --> 00:37:11,640
Speaker 1: away with your stats and you walk away with your jewelry,

757
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:14,839
Speaker 1: because only two things you walk away within your career. Now, absolutely, man,

758
00:37:15,560 --> 00:37:17,759
Speaker 1: that is I've heard so many Hall of Fame like

759
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:19,879
Speaker 1: Chris Carter just said it on television the other day,

760
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,120
Speaker 1: I trade my yellow jacket in for a Super Bowl

761
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:26,319
Speaker 1: ring any day, and God said, and they made said. Yeah.

762
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:31,600
Speaker 1: So the level of success that comes with the Lombardi

763
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 1: for players that sacrifice so much, you're right, you know

764
00:37:34,400 --> 00:37:37,160
Speaker 1: it's it's I think that when you have an organization

765
00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: that has that stayed in at eight that five hundred

766
00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:44,000
Speaker 1: level throughout seasons. Man, you celebrate when you get above that.

767
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,640
Speaker 1: But the organizations that you're talking about that, hey man,

768
00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 1: all right, we want a game. Come on, let's move

769
00:37:49,280 --> 00:37:52,239
Speaker 1: on to the next thing. That's a couple of Super

770
00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: Bowl rings to boot to go with all of that,

771
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:59,160
Speaker 1: you know, So it's a formula that works, and that's

772
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,359
Speaker 1: where we got to come up with man which which

773
00:38:01,440 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 1: is which formula works? Yeah, I'm made a lot of

774
00:38:05,200 --> 00:38:08,279
Speaker 1: great points, Isaiah. And as as Heck was talking, I

775
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:09,960
Speaker 1: was like a bobblehead. I was just doing this. You

776
00:38:10,000 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 1: could just tap the time, because I mean, I believe

777
00:38:14,960 --> 00:38:18,200
Speaker 1: in Dak. I've been on Dak for for years because

778
00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 1: of his work ethic, because I think he truly wants

779
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 1: to be great. The second half of the season was

780
00:38:23,640 --> 00:38:26,120
Speaker 1: completely different from him after he came back from the

781
00:38:26,120 --> 00:38:28,160
Speaker 1: strain calf. And I'm not saying the injury was a

782
00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:31,239
Speaker 1: major factor there, but we talked about schematically, there were

783
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 1: some things there. I don't know exactly what the answer

784
00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,960
Speaker 1: is why. I don't know if anybody really knows exactly

785
00:38:37,040 --> 00:38:39,160
Speaker 1: what has gone wrong with this offense, because I think

786
00:38:39,200 --> 00:38:41,480
Speaker 1: one of the things with Dak that impressed me so

787
00:38:41,640 --> 00:38:44,279
Speaker 1: much early in the season was just how quick, how

788
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:48,080
Speaker 1: how advanced he's gotten in terms of complete command of

789
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:52,960
Speaker 1: this offense. Boom boom, boom, read reread falls out, you know,

790
00:38:53,560 --> 00:38:56,680
Speaker 1: total command. We didn't see that as much and and

791
00:38:56,800 --> 00:38:58,880
Speaker 1: I think the running game is a huge factor there.

792
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:01,799
Speaker 1: I'm not putting it all away from Dak Prescott because

793
00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:06,600
Speaker 1: if you watch clips of guys breaking it down, Dan Orlovsky, whoever, like,

794
00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:09,440
Speaker 1: there there's miss throws, there's miss reads, there's all there

795
00:39:09,560 --> 00:39:14,200
Speaker 1: is that stuff. But again, it helps to have things

796
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 1: around you a little more stable. And I've said this

797
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:20,480
Speaker 1: team was the best team I've Cowboys team I've seen

798
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: since O seven. I might amend that and say sixteen,

799
00:39:23,719 --> 00:39:25,560
Speaker 1: even though Dak was a rookie, even though Zeke was

800
00:39:25,560 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: a rookie, and they were a young team, because they

801
00:39:28,280 --> 00:39:31,520
Speaker 1: had that offensive line so dominant and something that they

802
00:39:31,600 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: could just lean on and just moving people out of

803
00:39:35,080 --> 00:39:37,040
Speaker 1: the way. And again I'm not putting it all on

804
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:40,080
Speaker 1: the offensive line here, but that that's not the strength

805
00:39:40,120 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: it used to be. No, They've spent all season trying

806
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 1: to figure out the right five, the most effective group,

807
00:39:46,640 --> 00:39:49,719
Speaker 1: and they never got that continuity. And I think the

808
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 1: running game and not having that and some of it's

809
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:55,600
Speaker 1: Kellen Moore maybe not sticking to it enough, but that

810
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 1: to me was a huge factor in why this offense,

811
00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: to your point to Kyle, was not as effectiveness down

812
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 1: the stretcher. Yeah, that offensive line was probably the spot

813
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814
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Speaker 1: the defense in the game. We talked about it yesterday

815
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816
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: your defense, even after the slow start, even after the

817
00:40:15,280 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 1: big play the Deebo Samuel following the turnover, it wasn't enough.

818
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Speaker 1: It should have been enough to get your offense and

819
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Speaker 1: give them a chance to win the football game, and

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Speaker 1: they didn't do that. All right, when we come back

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Speaker 1: Breaking a pain. Yeah, whether you're watching from home or

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Speaker 1: See more Two more eslore here on Talking Cowboys. Isaiah

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Speaker 1: stand back with the Mike flip the final one of

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Speaker 1: the regular season and the eyebrow and eyebrow that wasn't

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Speaker 1: the flip that was like a Mike slap. Players, get

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Speaker 1: out of here? What is this? Heck Harrison, Rob Phillips,

869
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Speaker 1: Chris Beam, I'm Kyle Yeoman's and guys, I want to

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Speaker 1: I want to bring some positivity, I said Isaiah second ago.

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Speaker 1: What's that what's the positive? What's positivity? I want to

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Speaker 1: bring some sort of what does that even mean? Right now?

873
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Speaker 1: I know nobody, nobody. I'm trying to figure out, what

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Speaker 1: are you about to do? I want to hear your

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Speaker 1: favorite part of this season. It could be on the field,

876
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Speaker 1: it could be off the field, it could be a

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Speaker 1: part of these shows. I want to hear your favorite

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Speaker 1: part to wrap up this season because we had a

879
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Speaker 1: lot of fun in here. We had a lot of

880
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Speaker 1: fun throughout the year on different shows, different things, different games.

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Speaker 1: It all kind of just boiled down. What was your

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Speaker 1: favorite part. We'll start with Isaiah. The culture changed that

883
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Speaker 1: Dad Quinn brock Okay and the hope on that side

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Speaker 1: of the football alone or just in general the whole

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Speaker 1: team and affected the whole team. I think it gave this.

886
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Speaker 1: I think without dan Quinn there wouldn't be No. Twelve

887
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Speaker 1: and five and there wouldn't have been the hope going

888
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Speaker 1: into the playoffs that this team and organization had. I

889
00:44:10,840 --> 00:44:13,759
Speaker 1: think he was a complete culture shock for in a

890
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Speaker 1: good way, and obviously it showed up on the field.

891
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Speaker 1: So dan Quinn most definitely Heckles damn, That's where I

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Speaker 1: was going. But Dan Quinn. You know what, man, not

893
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Speaker 1: to be too much you about all of this. Man,

894
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Speaker 1: I think just doing this podcast with you guys each

895
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Speaker 1: and every day, and the approach and professionalism that you

896
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Speaker 1: guys have, I mean, it's it's always humbling. I bring

897
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Speaker 1: my best shit every time I'm coming here with y'all,

898
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Speaker 1: and it's just you know, Cowboy Nation and everybody that

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Speaker 1: over the seasons, you know that have embraced me and

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Speaker 1: taken me in. I man, this is you know, don't

901
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Speaker 1: wake me up, because this is this is crazy to

902
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Speaker 1: be in this environment, to be around so many great people.

903
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Speaker 1: I mean not only just you guys, but you know

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Speaker 1: Chris Beam, Rosa Medina, Uh, Derek Eagleton, Nick you know

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Speaker 1: Nick Eatman. It's just it's just a lot of it's

906
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Speaker 1: just you're You're surrounded by so many quality people that

907
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:17,359
Speaker 1: it's it's it's intimidating. It's intimidating, and so you try

908
00:45:17,400 --> 00:45:19,560
Speaker 1: and find your place in it. And you gotta be

909
00:45:19,680 --> 00:45:22,040
Speaker 1: badass each and every day when you come into a

910
00:45:22,120 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 1: studio that you know that David Hellman is gonna walk

911
00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:28,680
Speaker 1: into after you, so you gotta be funky baby. That

912
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Speaker 1: Dave brings a high standard co sign that love you

913
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Speaker 1: heck you got Yeah, you know, everybody brings it every day.

914
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Speaker 1: It's a lot of fun. Um. I hope they can

915
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Speaker 1: keep dan Quinn. I don't know. He's got about eighteen

916
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Speaker 1: job interviews for head coaching vacancies around. A lot of

917
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Speaker 1: teams are interested in him and for good reason. Um,

918
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Speaker 1: that's tough. I would say, just watching Michael Parsons play

919
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Speaker 1: football and listening to Michael Parsons every day, he's my

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Speaker 1: favorite guy to talk to during the week. UM. I

921
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Speaker 1: think you listen to him after this game Sunday and

922
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Speaker 1: you you you hear him talk and talk about accountability

923
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Speaker 1: and we got to clean up penalties and it's so

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Speaker 1: it's not it's not just his play on the field,

925
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Speaker 1: but you listen to him talking, you're thinking this, this

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Speaker 1: young guy is gonna be a leader of this team. UM,

927
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Speaker 1: And he kind of already is. Um. He's definitely a

928
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Speaker 1: building block and a huge bright spot in what they've

929
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Speaker 1: done this season. And if they without him, with all

930
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Speaker 1: the guys they were missing early in the season, he

931
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Speaker 1: really kind of saved this defense in a lot of

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Speaker 1: ways early on. He really did. And he's I mean,

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Speaker 1: there's so many expectations around him. Whether or not he

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Speaker 1: lives up to the numbers that he put up in

935
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Speaker 1: a rookie season, that's gonna be tough because he did

936
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Speaker 1: set such a high bar. But yeah, I agree with you,

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Speaker 1: Michael Parsons, Dan Quinn, this podcast and how much fun

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Speaker 1: it is to do this each and every day. Chris,

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Speaker 1: do you have a favorite moment throughout the season? My

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Speaker 1: favorite moment? Yeah, yeah, I got a favorite moment. What

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Speaker 1: is it five o'clock? Why when five o'clock rolls? Yeah? Yeah,

942
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Speaker 1: five o'clock is always got a lot of fun? Can

943
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Speaker 1: go outside? Is it? Is it usual? Uh? This is

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Speaker 1: my favorite moment. It is straight up when or lose

945
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Speaker 1: pick The cowboys picked the Vikings, and we're gonna let

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Speaker 1: it happen and say it with your chest. You're on

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Speaker 1: talking cowboys, b We'll start with you who you got on?

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Speaker 1: Before I answer that real quick, I'm gonna go ahead

949
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Speaker 1: and say it with my chest. Man as they are

950
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 1: stand back, you stand back. You about to get burnt

951
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Speaker 1: in the forty yard dash from your boy be Church.

952
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:45,439
Speaker 1: I can't wait, I can't wait. We all go burn

953
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Speaker 1: out the question with the cowboys. They're gonna take this stuff.

954
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Speaker 1: It's over. Kurt Cousins ain't got nothing for us. All

955
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Speaker 1: the mule's buried on them because nobody in there. Nobody

956
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:12,800
Speaker 1: was so funny that that that that is That was

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Speaker 1: probably my favorite moment. I love that was so fun

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Speaker 1: that Chris and Barry. The franking thing is. It took

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Speaker 1: Heckma probably a good like five minutes be like, hold

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Speaker 1: on a second, that that that's Barry. I think I

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Speaker 1: took Yeah, yeah, Heckma realized it. I was like, that's Barry.

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Speaker 1: And then it took me even more. Wait a second,

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Speaker 1: I was actually Barry. I don't think I identified it

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Speaker 1: until he said the players and that I was like, oh,

965
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Speaker 1: you sneak. He's like, he's like, don't do this, don't

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Speaker 1: do this. He only said that like five times. But

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Speaker 1: I didn't think at that point he didn't really know

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Speaker 1: who it was. You had to do it. You thought

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00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:57,040
Speaker 1: he was just challenging you. Taking Barry side like that.

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Speaker 1: That was probably my favorite. That was my favorite. That

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Speaker 1: was hilarious. That calmed down fight, oh and all the

972
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Speaker 1: other great Here we go, it's off season, so we

973
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Speaker 1: got to get the race going. Danny McCrae start jumping

974
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Speaker 1: on the wrong thing. So calm down, fight. Oh so

975
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Speaker 1: many fun moments, my I mean, you guys hit so

976
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:20,400
Speaker 1: many great points. Mine is really the interaction we got

977
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Speaker 1: to have with Cowboys Nation this year as opposed to

978
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Speaker 1: what we were having last year because it was all

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Speaker 1: virtual last year, we didn't really get to do a

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Speaker 1: whole lot. We got to go to trading camp this year,

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Speaker 1: we got to do some outdoor stuff. This year. We

982
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Speaker 1: had fans on our pickup segments every single week and

983
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Speaker 1: it was so much fun. So for real, Cowboys Nation,

984
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Speaker 1: you were the best. I've been very sentimental and thankful

985
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Speaker 1: over the last couple of days. I'm not I'm not

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Speaker 1: okay voice now that that's called losing my voice, still

987
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:50,960
Speaker 1: trying to get it back. That's a great point. And

988
00:49:51,120 --> 00:49:53,840
Speaker 1: also you got to credit this football team for giving

989
00:49:53,960 --> 00:49:56,319
Speaker 1: us a chance to have fun, because it wasn't fun

990
00:49:56,400 --> 00:49:58,680
Speaker 1: to talk about this team last year. And obviously the

991
00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,080
Speaker 1: COVID was a huge factor too, And that's why the

992
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 1: way this season ended is so disappointing. Because the team

993
00:50:03,760 --> 00:50:06,520
Speaker 1: did have a good season. It's angry because you had

994
00:50:06,640 --> 00:50:09,600
Speaker 1: higher expectations last year. We were talking about the draft

995
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:14,480
Speaker 1: in like three weeks before the season. So yeah, we uh,

996
00:50:14,960 --> 00:50:17,120
Speaker 1: we are so much. We are so thankful to be

997
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Speaker 1: a part of this, be a part of Cowboys Nation,

998
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:21,600
Speaker 1: and of course we'll be here throughout the off season.

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Speaker 1: Eleven am Central Times on Tuesday, Tuesdays Tuesdays. From here

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Speaker 1: on out, it is Talking Tuesdays, popping tomorrow nothing, Yes,

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Speaker 1: Isaiah's on tomorrow for like a media Oh yeah, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna do tomorrow. Cool. Well, Isaiah will be on there,

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Speaker 1: so that's fun. Yeah, I was popping tomorrow, will be

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Speaker 1: on tomorrow. And I think Kyle, you're on on Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Oh I am oh you are there? You go, Eric

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Speaker 1: News Kyle, great, guys. All right, well I'll see you

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Speaker 1: on Thursday for whatever show it is. But for the

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Speaker 1: final time in the regular season for Talking Cowboys, presented

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Speaker 1: by Tostitos, for Chris being, Rob Phillips, Isaiah standback, heck Ma, Harrison,

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Speaker 1: I'm Kyle, y'all, and saying so long, We'll see you

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Speaker 1: next time. Thanks again, Cowboys Nation. This has been a

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