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Speaker 1: Your hosts Mickey's Fagnola, Brian brought us Taylor Stern and
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips. Hi, everyone, and welcome into the SWBC Mortgage Studio.
Speaker 1: Of course, it is Monday here at the Star in Frisco,
Speaker 1: and we are getting ready to break down the game
Speaker 1: from last night Sunday Night football. Cowboys lose thirty seven
Speaker 1: nine in a tough one, and so here we are
Speaker 1: ready to break it all down for you guys. Of course,
Speaker 1: you have to figure out what went wrong. So autopsy
Speaker 1: this is what you do. Yeah, just run into it.
Speaker 1: When there's a death, you have to figure out what happened. Yes,
Speaker 1: pretty pretty? Can you sang a few bars from Mama's
Speaker 1: in the Papa's Monday Monday? Oh that's that was a
Speaker 1: good song though, right about everybody Hurts by r M.
Speaker 1: That's more yeah speed Yeah. When when was that song made?
Speaker 1: Everybody hurts? No, Mama's in the Papas That had to
Speaker 1: be late sixty Yeah, yeah, good song. How cruel are you? Yeah? Exactly?
Speaker 1: That game was cruel. It was hard to watch in
Speaker 1: the second half. Of course, the first half they hold
Speaker 1: him it. You win the first half and it's nine
Speaker 1: to seven of Mike Nugent just wonder leg for the day.
Speaker 1: But that was it. That was the only points they scored.
Speaker 1: What happens when you kick field goals and Nicky will
Speaker 1: tell you don't kick field goal. I don't know if Well,
Speaker 1: a couple of touchdowns wouldn't have helped either. It should
Speaker 1: have been up seventeen seven and a halftime. Well, let's
Speaker 1: start at the top arguing exception there, Dak's worst game
Speaker 1: of his entire career. Is that fair too for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys career or the Cowboys career? Yeah, first time he's
Speaker 1: had three interceptions in a game and you can put
Speaker 1: one of them on the receiver, but two of them
Speaker 1: on the receiver. Okay, what it was the miscommunication watching
Speaker 1: them play, I could see after the game what he said.
Speaker 1: He's scrambling and he's thinking that he's thinking that that
Speaker 1: Bryce Butler's going to go outside and it goes out spins.
Speaker 1: But I mean, it's one of those things where Dak
Speaker 1: was just trying to get rid of football because of
Speaker 1: the pressure and him and Bryce. It just wasn't right.
Speaker 1: But if you throw a ball behind Terrence Williams, you
Speaker 1: should know better. It's gonna go up in the air
Speaker 1: every time, especially if it's a contested catch. The one
Speaker 1: to DAEs, he just forced it double coverage, trying to
Speaker 1: make a play. He knows that, he knows it. He
Speaker 1: called it a bone head, as simple as that, and
Speaker 1: it was he forced it. M got late pressure in
Speaker 1: his last but again he's getting he's getting pressure. And
Speaker 1: I guarantee you that internal clock's ticking a little bit
Speaker 1: faster after these last two games. Yeah, yeah, about not
Speaker 1: wanting to fall flat on his face or get hit
Speaker 1: or get hit faster games. He's been set twelve times. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and they cut it in half, but still four times.
Speaker 1: Like Brian said, he's still under duress. And I think
Speaker 1: it's evident in some of his throws. Some of his
Speaker 1: throws especially, and you noted during the game he's on
Speaker 1: the run and he's missing guys high when he misses flat.
Speaker 1: To me, that's a sign of he's he's he's pressured.
Speaker 1: He's not comfortable in the pocket, he's not setting his
Speaker 1: feet and doing everything that he normally does when he
Speaker 1: throws the ball. In the move. He's usually money. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And that one throw he missed the Beasley on the
Speaker 1: third and ten would have been a fourth down decision
Speaker 1: for Garrett. But that's a throw he normally doesn't miss
Speaker 1: going to his left. Yeah, So that's what you feel
Speaker 1: when you feel like that, I've gotta move, i gotta
Speaker 1: go forward, i gotta try. You know, he had the
Speaker 1: ball flew out of his hand, and you know he
Speaker 1: had Beasley open on the sidelines. It was too high,
Speaker 1: and you know he had too many of those where
Speaker 1: it was he's had a ball that was short to
Speaker 1: does Bryant too, hit him, him at his feet and
Speaker 1: him at his feet? You know he hit set play
Speaker 1: with Bryant's a nine yard game. That does get a
Speaker 1: target on that probably does. He does target. I'm the
Speaker 1: official target giver here. Yeah, I'll tell you what though.
Speaker 1: And he made a poor decision too on another one.
Speaker 1: If I could just say, they run a special play
Speaker 1: with they throw to the screen. Nothing wrong with the
Speaker 1: one the screen to Dez Bryant. You know you're getting
Speaker 1: three yards, you're down there on the in the red zone.
Speaker 1: They through a screen to Brant. But they have a
Speaker 1: special call where they bring Beasley into the backfield, and
Speaker 1: it's the same play they usually run with with Ezekiel
Speaker 1: Elliot where they run two guys inside and pick and
Speaker 1: then get him to the flat and then flip the ball.
Speaker 1: If he goes to where he needed to go with
Speaker 1: the ball the design to the play and not run
Speaker 1: the screen. If he goes with the design, then they're
Speaker 1: likely gonna they're likely going to score on that play.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's it's a it's one of those
Speaker 1: things where Beasley's got uh McLeon in a leverage situation.
Speaker 1: He's in the flat, he's gonna be it's gonna be
Speaker 1: one on one down the sidelines, and I'll bet on
Speaker 1: Beasley on that one. But they ransom design things that
Speaker 1: that he didn't. He chose to go another direction in
Speaker 1: and that's again nothing wrong with Dez one on one
Speaker 1: on the outside, but if you're gonna make that throw,
Speaker 1: make sure though that's you're gonna get something out of
Speaker 1: it because you took yourself out of a you took
Speaker 1: yourself out of a design play that that likely would
Speaker 1: have scored. They missed Tyron Smith in this game. Again,
Speaker 1: it wasn't as evident with the sack total. Like like
Speaker 1: you said, Tay, it was in half. But they had
Speaker 1: to give Byron Bell a lot of help. Saw James
Speaker 1: Hannah chipping a lot. They even tried to, you know,
Speaker 1: be a little creative there where they'd have Hannah chipping
Speaker 1: and they'd run to the opposite side and trying to
Speaker 1: you know, disguise things a little bit. But it really
Speaker 1: showed up in the second half when they when they
Speaker 1: got into pass first mode, they were down. Obviously, the
Speaker 1: sack strip fumble was a was a notable play that
Speaker 1: Bell gave up. This team can't afford to play behind big,
Speaker 1: It can't do it. You know, it has to have balance,
Speaker 1: It has to be able to have that ability to
Speaker 1: sustain drives. It helps their play action game. You know,
Speaker 1: when they don't have that, then they're just a pretty
Speaker 1: mediocre team on offense, no doubt, actually got the running
Speaker 1: game going. I was just gonna say, let's get to
Speaker 1: Alfred Morris. I mean ninety one yards, big deal. It's
Speaker 1: the most against the Eagles this season, I think, yeah.
Speaker 1: But Mickey's argument is what they didn't didn't It didn't
Speaker 1: mean anything, didn't it didn't get them anywhere, didn't and
Speaker 1: you know. Sorry, they did have some lucky breaks. I
Speaker 1: mean you look at that that one where they don't
Speaker 1: get any points from the interception, and then you know,
Speaker 1: Alfred Morris has a long twenty two yard run. Just
Speaker 1: felt like they couldn't. How many touchdowns did they run for? Yeah?
Speaker 1: The Cowboys zero? Yeah. So when you want to talk
Speaker 1: about running yards, I'll take you back to twenty fifteen,
Speaker 1: when everybody talks about, uh, Darren McFadden rushing for a
Speaker 1: thousand yards. How many touchdowns did he rushed for? Yeah? Three?
Speaker 1: Do you think though the balance does hurt them the
Speaker 1: lack of at times? I think the threat hurts that.
Speaker 1: No threat in the running game hurts him. They didn't
Speaker 1: care how many yards the boys ran four it get
Speaker 1: it handed off thirty times. It's like, fine, you're not
Speaker 1: going to run in the end zone against us, but
Speaker 1: by god, we're not gonna let Dak Prescott beat us. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean how many times did you see zero blitzes?
Speaker 1: I mean they were coming that one time. I mean
Speaker 1: free Rushes just threw it up because he knew well
Speaker 1: the day he had if he could have, if he
Speaker 1: if he has seen it a little bit quicker, I
Speaker 1: think he would. He gets the ball to Beasley inside
Speaker 1: and he's like, I just gotta get it. I gotta
Speaker 1: get rid of the ball. And that's when he went
Speaker 1: to Bryant and Beasley had the inside route if he
Speaker 1: would have just seen it. But that's tough, you're right,
Speaker 1: zero blitz, zero coverage, all that. It's tough to you know,
Speaker 1: tough to know what you need to do there. They
Speaker 1: just they no running threat hurts you. Yeah, and they
Speaker 1: were no consistent running yeah, yeah, very true. It's like, okay,
Speaker 1: you pop with twenty all right, now what are you doing?
Speaker 1: I mean they had the getting the thirteen third about
Speaker 1: how about the third and two? Third and two and
Speaker 1: they're gonna hand off to rod Smith stuffed and he
Speaker 1: gets stuffed. Cooper gets backed right into the second drive
Speaker 1: of the game. You're inside the Philly ten or they
Speaker 1: got it first and ten of the twelve. Morris gets
Speaker 1: one yard and then they throw twice and they settled
Speaker 1: for a field. But you know they ran an option
Speaker 1: playoff that last week for a first down? Did they
Speaker 1: that same play? Same play? Yeah? They put Beas in
Speaker 1: the backfield. A matter of fact, the Eagles played it
Speaker 1: pretty well on their back end of it, though it'd
Speaker 1: been close. I mean it was the one where Daku
Speaker 1: took the ball, pulled the ball and then went, you know,
Speaker 1: whether he had the option to pitch it to beas
Speaker 1: on the edge yep. And but the Eagles played it
Speaker 1: pretty well. So you say, first and ten at the twelve, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I hear that like a week before. Yeah, and when
Speaker 1: did they get Well, they gave up a seven yard
Speaker 1: loss on a sack that yeah, last time. This time
Speaker 1: they kicked the field goal. Last time the field goal
Speaker 1: was off the upright, So two times in a row. Now,
Speaker 1: first and ten at the twelve and they get three points. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think that was the filling. Even after the
Speaker 1: first half and they're leading by two. Of course, three
Speaker 1: field goals later, he was still like, Okay, field goals
Speaker 1: aren't going to cut it against this team. You know,
Speaker 1: both offensive kind of thought, though, the defensively kind of thought.
Speaker 1: Defensively though, they could have hung in there, though, Yeah
Speaker 1: if they had and given up a seventy one yard
Speaker 1: run and thirty yard run and an eighteen yard run.
Speaker 1: How about the passes that kid made though under duress himself.
Speaker 1: They blitz they blitz him on third down, perfect call
Speaker 1: by Marinelli to get Damian Wilson in spot and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, boom hits out the gate. You know,
Speaker 1: one of those, and they were right in his face.
Speaker 1: David Irving had one time too on a third and
Speaker 1: third and six or so that he's a step away
Speaker 1: from I mean literally a half step away from just
Speaker 1: punishing Wins and Win stows the ball down the middle
Speaker 1: of the field to H to H the seventeen, you know,
Speaker 1: some two point conversion he had just shrugging off guys
Speaker 1: and finding the guy last minute and the ends. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was very Dac like in that game in terms
Speaker 1: of his his mobility a second half, the first half, yeah,
Speaker 1: he was all sucked. No his number and half he
Speaker 1: had great half his numbers, his numbers were not great,
Speaker 1: but but what he did for his team was great.
Speaker 1: Right if you look at how his ability to make
Speaker 1: plays with his feet and shrug off guys. Tacklers are
Speaker 1: around him, hitting him, you know, and he still finds
Speaker 1: ways to make play and he didn't make a mistake. No, Yeah,
Speaker 1: but he tried to write before half, right, he tried.
Speaker 1: He tried to give your ball and Anthony Brown didn't
Speaker 1: come up with it. That would have been you know,
Speaker 1: you could have maybe added points there. Again that to
Speaker 1: Rob's point, that might not have been enough. And with
Speaker 1: you take like you knew, field goals eventually weren't going
Speaker 1: to cut it because at some point the defense was
Speaker 1: going to give up some plays. Yeah. They had five
Speaker 1: straight three and outs defensively against Philly in the first half,
Speaker 1: which is outstanding. I looked it up. The most they'd
Speaker 1: had all season was two straight three and outs against
Speaker 1: Washington against Casey and this may arguably the best offense
Speaker 1: in the league. And that in those five the Dallas
Speaker 1: get any points out of any of those stocks, I don't, well, see,
Speaker 1: I should go back in, but three been a field goal?
Speaker 1: Is it just one field goal out of five stops?
Speaker 1: They got five stops and got one field goal. I
Speaker 1: think that they're trying to think about field goal at
Speaker 1: the end of the half because they opened with a Yes,
Speaker 1: they got one field goal off of it. See, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's losing football. I mean, he had a first half.
Speaker 1: I think his quarterback reading was like twenty or thirty.
Speaker 1: So I was just as bad as Dacks. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: both of them. Yeah, they're both awful and but he
Speaker 1: didn't make the mistake and he came back and you know,
Speaker 1: it looked like he lit him up the second half.
Speaker 1: I think he ended up completing seven of nine yards
Speaker 1: seven of nine passes for eighty eight yards. That's some
Speaker 1: tough that it was the running running They ran for
Speaker 1: a hundred and eighty yards the second half. One hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty. Yeah, that's that's the thing that you worried
Speaker 1: about when we were talking about Linz and I were
Speaker 1: doing the halftime show. What were you worried about? Second half? Yeah,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Why is the Eagles going away
Speaker 1: from the running game? Oh yeah, j yeah, why why
Speaker 1: would why all of a sudden? That's what my biggest
Speaker 1: concern was. I quite I didn't quite know why. You
Speaker 1: know that that Doug Peterson decided not to run the football. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's he was seven of eighteen the first half for
Speaker 1: eighty yards. Yeah, fifty three quarterback rating. What was Daca
Speaker 1: lit it up at ten of nineteen for sixty nine yards,
Speaker 1: two interceptions and in twenty one point five quarterback rating
Speaker 1: and the score was nine. So some ugly football. In
Speaker 1: the first half both teams, Philadelphia got some stops in
Speaker 1: the second half though, they absolutely did. And you know
Speaker 1: you're talking about the defense. I mean, then you lose Hitchens. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but that was late. That was late in the game.
Speaker 1: But yeah, that'll that'll have repercussions on Thursday though, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Philip Rivers just becomes the MVP once more. They
Speaker 1: find ways to lose games too. But having a Buffalo
Speaker 1: fifty four points, they gave up quarterback five interceptions at
Speaker 1: home quarterback change. No, they weren't at home, they were
Speaker 1: that was law in Los Angeles. Back up quarterback through
Speaker 1: five picks. He was the starting quarterback. Well he yeah,
Speaker 1: but they somehow putting they got it out of there,
Speaker 1: but he was the starting quarterback. If I was Tyrod Taylor,
Speaker 1: I'd say, you know, I got a hamstring. Let the
Speaker 1: rookie spinners. You know what, you're probably passed the point
Speaker 1: of no return there. If you're going to play the guy,
Speaker 1: if you've determined you want to go play him, go play, well,
Speaker 1: then why did they pulled him. That's a good point though, Yeah,
Speaker 1: well it was you know, they talked to Jason Garrett
Speaker 1: on the fan every more Monday morning, and they were
Speaker 1: talking to him today and they were like, why did
Speaker 1: you wait? You know, why did you pull Dak for
Speaker 1: Cooper this game but not last week? He said, that
Speaker 1: was just the decision we made then, you know, under
Speaker 1: four minutes. What why do people get worried about stuff
Speaker 1: that's not important? Well, he said last week it's we
Speaker 1: played for sixty minutes. Yeah, but what was the score
Speaker 1: last week? I think it was still twenty seven seven?
Speaker 1: And all right, and what it was at this time
Speaker 1: thirty seven nine, probably not coming back from that, right,
Speaker 1: probably coming back. And when they put Cooper Russian, what
Speaker 1: did they do? They handed off twice? Did through? Oh?
Speaker 1: It was over one. I gave up watching at that point. Yeah, oh,
Speaker 1: I would had to go down. I don't go down
Speaker 1: with seven minutes to go in the game, all right,
Speaker 1: I kind of wish we have to film something downstairs,
Speaker 1: so don't judge games. Gotta finish though, Okay, didn't Phil.
Speaker 1: I wanted it to end early last night, bigger mercy,
Speaker 1: bigger disappointment though, offense or defense. The way it finished out. Offense,
Speaker 1: I'd say offense. Defense gave you a half of really
Speaker 1: good football, as underman as they are. And I when
Speaker 1: I say underman no shan Lee and you had you
Speaker 1: had to get a touchdown or two in that first half,
Speaker 1: and you didn't do it. It was bad all around.
Speaker 1: I'll say that sure offense. The offense had to carry
Speaker 1: this team. You're gonna go up, as I wrote on Friday,
Speaker 1: against a team averaging thirty three point four points a game,
Speaker 1: chances are they're gonna score some points, so you better
Speaker 1: score two. And the backbone of this team has been
Speaker 1: the offense. And when it doesn't score a touchdown in
Speaker 1: a game, a touchdown and only sixteen points and consecutive games,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have problems. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean the first
Speaker 1: time in Dak's career with the Cowboys that they haven't
Speaker 1: scored at our show. Yeah, I was surprised how well
Speaker 1: the defense actually played for a half, And be honest
Speaker 1: with you, I was. I was pleasant surprised. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: was thinking, like, man, if they could just you know,
Speaker 1: second half adjustments to me was Okay, continue to do
Speaker 1: what you're doing on defense. Offensively, you got to figure
Speaker 1: out a way to make more big plays to you know,
Speaker 1: to take you can't be kicking field goals like we
Speaker 1: talked and all that. But well, it was just you know,
Speaker 1: and you get that huge kickoff return to start the game. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you're like, you kicked the field goal and I'm like,
Speaker 1: game seven yards. Yeah. I just was like, damn, how
Speaker 1: does that? You know? But that's well, that's what Mickey said.
Speaker 1: There needed to be a threat in that game, and
Speaker 1: there wasn't. You know, I don't felt like I didn't
Speaker 1: feel like they were threatened by Dez Bryan at all.
Speaker 1: You know, that's now becoming a it's becoming a storyline.
Speaker 1: It is becoming a storyline. It is absolutely becoming a
Speaker 1: story And it's one of those things that you don't
Speaker 1: want to sit there. You mean, we all love Dez,
Speaker 1: and we all want to say, well he means this
Speaker 1: and that and the other. But you know what, the
Speaker 1: there comes a point in time you have to say, Okay,
Speaker 1: is it routes, is it quarterback? Is it them together?
Speaker 1: You know, is it blocking? What is it that's not
Speaker 1: allowing them? Now? I think he got a terrible call
Speaker 1: that didn't happen for he got one in the end zone,
Speaker 1: he got interfered with. Yeah, that cannot you know, And
Speaker 1: and I'm watching the tape and the official standing right there,
Speaker 1: and I guarantee you every other official in the NFL
Speaker 1: throws a flag right there. It's way too much contact
Speaker 1: ten yards down the field. No, it was in the
Speaker 1: he granted the balls in the air hands. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean Dez is fighting to get away and he's I
Speaker 1: mean it is And again I'm not being a Homer
Speaker 1: guy here, but I mean referees call all that all
Speaker 1: the time. They call that all the time, especially in
Speaker 1: the red zone. Chris Chris Collinsworth called it that way.
Speaker 1: Somebody said Al Michael's and I love Al Michaels, but
Speaker 1: he said on the broadcast apparently that it could have
Speaker 1: been offensive. Pr Yeah, yeah, Al missed that one because
Speaker 1: collins Worth stuck to his guns and he said that
Speaker 1: that right there, and they stopped it when the guy
Speaker 1: had two hands on him in the end zone with
Speaker 1: the ball in the air, and they don't get the call.
Speaker 1: And then and then you get a red zone call
Speaker 1: against you, which probably was a red zone call with
Speaker 1: with Anthony Brown on the touchdown inside. You know, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's hey, it's tough. It's a tough. Uh.
Speaker 1: It's tough when when things kind of go against you
Speaker 1: that way. But you know. Yeah, it's uh, you know again,
Speaker 1: Dak gets hit you know, in the face, the hand,
Speaker 1: you know, I mean, he's officials. He's not going to
Speaker 1: get calls. I've now come to realization that Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: is not going to get calls in this league. It
Speaker 1: seems very similar to Cam. Yeah, he is not gave
Speaker 1: because people seem as a big, physical runner. Yeah he's
Speaker 1: gonna be, he's gonna run around, he's gonna make plays,
Speaker 1: and that's and he's not. And they're treating him like
Speaker 1: a running back. That's not treating him like an NFL quarterback.
Speaker 1: It's dangerous too. Yeah, you get into that. It's a
Speaker 1: slippery slip because look look at what happened to Cam.
Speaker 1: Look how much damn meeting he took this year. This
Speaker 1: you know this, Yeah, something bad. I just don't want
Speaker 1: anything bad to happen to Dac. But he is not
Speaker 1: going to get any calls. And I'm not one to
Speaker 1: complain about the fish shame because I well, let me
Speaker 1: do it, trust me, I don't. I mean, I as
Speaker 1: long as they let it go both ways. But I
Speaker 1: don't think they always let it go both ways. And
Speaker 1: but the rule is if you hit a quarterback in
Speaker 1: the face or in the head with at any time.
Speaker 1: That's an automatic call. And he gets hit a lot
Speaker 1: in the face and that and that that's a problematic.
Speaker 1: You know, the one on Anthony Brown that you mentioned.
Speaker 1: I thought it should have been holding. I didn't think
Speaker 1: the ball was in the I gotta go back, And yeah,
Speaker 1: I looked at it a couple of times. It was
Speaker 1: it just looked like he held him with well he
Speaker 1: grabbed out of the break. He grabbed him in the break.
Speaker 1: And what happened is you have the wins is running forward,
Speaker 1: he's climbing the front of the pocket and letting it fly.
Speaker 1: And so you know, the officials probably felt like that
Speaker 1: that was Yeah, well they ought to look again. It
Speaker 1: wasn't a very highly penalized game. No, it's five a
Speaker 1: thing between both teams. But like Lane Johnson getting getting
Speaker 1: away with that hold on the play that bounced to
Speaker 1: the right on the outside, he wouldn't grab the linebacker,
Speaker 1: no call. Kelsey had a couple of grabs too. Well,
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Speaker 1: another thing, and this goes to show you when things
Speaker 1: are going bad. The other team loses his kicker early
Speaker 1: and you're thinking, Okay, that's a good thing. Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: it ended up being a bad thing because where they
Speaker 1: would have kicked an extra point, they went for two
Speaker 1: and got two of them, so that's two points. And
Speaker 1: then where they would have kicked a field goal, they decided,
Speaker 1: now we got no one to kick, let's go for it,
Speaker 1: and they score a touchdown. That's five extra points. You'd
Speaker 1: have never had a linebacker kicked off and it was
Speaker 1: probably their best kickoff of the night. It was a touchback.
Speaker 1: Was he was kicking off? Well, yeah, he just couldn't
Speaker 1: kick field goals to save us. Well, no, he only
Speaker 1: kicked one. Well, the other two landed about the fifteen
Speaker 1: or twenty yards Bunny. Yeah, well you guys are so
Speaker 1: that's when you know things are not going your way.
Speaker 1: And the Pittsburgh game last year, the Cowboys had some
Speaker 1: two point conversions and it's like, oh, they're getting these
Speaker 1: and make these right when things are going well, it's
Speaker 1: like everything goes well. And actually that Pittsburgh game, that
Speaker 1: was the last time des Brant had one hundred yards
Speaker 1: receiving seventeen games. Is that right? It's been seventeen games.
Speaker 1: Ryan was asking me about the Philly matchup on Friday.
Speaker 1: I looked it up, the last previous three games against
Speaker 1: Philly one hundred yard games. I think, yeah, five touchdowns receiving.
Speaker 1: He's played well against Philly, but the whole offense couldn't
Speaker 1: get anything going. Yeah, it just seems stalemate like. And
Speaker 1: you think, okay, rod Smith starting the game. Granted, of
Speaker 1: course that was just the play they called for the
Speaker 1: first one of the game, and you're saying, okay, they're
Speaker 1: going to do some things. Ask a question, take please
Speaker 1: do is it really halftime adjustments? Is that it is
Speaker 1: that low hanging fruit though it's I mean I just
Speaker 1: want to. I want to. I want to really add
Speaker 1: I want to. I mean, I'm asking to me, to me.
Speaker 1: It's a it's an easy fall back excuse, like in
Speaker 1: the Book of Excuses, right when you don't play well
Speaker 1: on the second half, you didn't make good adjusts, you
Speaker 1: didn't make good adjusts. I feel like I was gonna
Speaker 1: bring this up. I'm glad you did, because reck me
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong. But I feel like in today's NFL,
Speaker 1: you make your adjustments after possessions on the sideline, you got,
Speaker 1: the iPad, you got. It's not the days of you
Speaker 1: going in at halftime and you get on the chalkboard,
Speaker 1: you and you drop a new game plan. I feel
Speaker 1: like you're doing those adjustments on the fly throughout the game.
Speaker 1: So yeah, so you don't think in twelve minutes you
Speaker 1: kind of rework your game plan, don't. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: you talk about some things, but I think that's it's overrated.
Speaker 1: But I understand the question because once again, the third
Speaker 1: quarter has been by far the worst for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: of this season. I mean, it's not even close what
Speaker 1: they've been outscored by. So what in this game defensively
Speaker 1: would you have adjusted going into the third quarter. You
Speaker 1: held them to like one hundred and fifteen yards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thirty five rushing in the first half. Yeah, let me
Speaker 1: let me change. We gotta do better. Yeah. See. And
Speaker 1: somebody trying to point who somebody I think it was
Speaker 1: Jesse pointed out what you're doing postgame. He goes, well,
Speaker 1: you have to anti paid what they're gonna adjust, and
Speaker 1: you have to adjust to that. It's like, okay, that's
Speaker 1: that's pretty deep. Did you see anything vastly different from
Speaker 1: Philly in the second half? They started running the football,
Speaker 1: ran it better. Yea. Yeah, they ran the football and
Speaker 1: they started they're they're adjust executed. Yeah. Their adjustment to
Speaker 1: you was, Okay, we're gonna get back to do it.
Speaker 1: On the first drive, the first touchdown, four passes for
Speaker 1: four runs and they bam bam bam down the field.
Speaker 1: You know, they get seven three lead, So you know
Speaker 1: your adjustment to them. You should have known. You're sitting
Speaker 1: there thinking, Okay, what's what's the adjustment to them. Well,
Speaker 1: they're gonna come out and run the ball in the
Speaker 1: second half, be ready, you know, And that comes down
Speaker 1: to are you just good enough to stop the run?
Speaker 1: Are you good enough to run fit and you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: the seventy one yard run that they had it was.
Speaker 1: It was a very well executed play by the Eagles,
Speaker 1: a great trap play. They trapped, They trapped David Irving.
Speaker 1: They trapped David Irving and and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: now you've got guys pinned inside, They've got they've got
Speaker 1: to Hitchens blocked, They've got Smith blocked Byron Jones is
Speaker 1: coming up to fill on the outside, you know, and
Speaker 1: they run right past him. Where but he's filling on
Speaker 1: the other side. Now that's not a responsibility. Now Xavier Woods.
Speaker 1: Xavier Woods comes down, but he doesn't take a very
Speaker 1: good angle inside. He comes straight ahead. So now you
Speaker 1: have this natural lane, you got the trap block, You've
Speaker 1: got two linebackers pinned, and then all of a sudden
Speaker 1: you've got a safety wide and another one taken a
Speaker 1: bad angle. Okay, what's your adjustments there? If you're a coach,
Speaker 1: I mean that's you know, hey, we need to stop
Speaker 1: the run. We're trying to get everybody in the game.
Speaker 1: How about some like you said, Tay, how about some execution? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I can't tell you again, adjustments Rod third
Speaker 1: in two and Philadelphia is up. I think it's they're
Speaker 1: up by you know, seven at the time. So they
Speaker 1: run a third and two play where again I talked
Speaker 1: about Amy and Wilson blitzen on the play off the edge,
Speaker 1: perfect call by Marinelli, perfect call, Boom gets the gets
Speaker 1: what he wants. Damian Wilson doesn't get his guy on
Speaker 1: the ground. Is that Marinelli's fault on the execution? You
Speaker 1: know that was something that was that an adjustment they
Speaker 1: made at halftime? Hey, we can't let him, can't let
Speaker 1: him boot, We can't let him. We gotta do someone
Speaker 1: third down? Was that an adjustment? Yeah, let's bring a blitz.
Speaker 1: How about the play that went another one? How about
Speaker 1: the play that they threw to sell it that he
Speaker 1: acted like he was blocking in it went for twenty
Speaker 1: eight yards? Okay, here's here it is. They bring Anthony
Speaker 1: Brown on a blitz, a corner blitz from the side
Speaker 1: that they were throwing to. So what happened instead of
Speaker 1: instead of Byron Jones being right there ready to he
Speaker 1: had to go over and cover. So now you know,
Speaker 1: here's another example. Anthony Hitchens loses selle it because he's blocking.
Speaker 1: He goes ball over the top, big gain on third down.
Speaker 1: It was a third and one call. Is that you know?
Speaker 1: Is that an adjustment? Yeah, they're bringing a blitz and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden and they're adjusting the safety to
Speaker 1: cover and it's a big play. Is that an adjustment?
Speaker 1: I you know that that. I think it's I think
Speaker 1: it's again low hanging fruit when you say they don't
Speaker 1: make adjustments, Yeah, I think they make adjustments. I think
Speaker 1: that the execution coaches will always tell you this, it's
Speaker 1: our job to put the players in positions to make plays.
Speaker 1: Marinelli did and in this case Marionelli, did you know
Speaker 1: he did make he put he put him in a
Speaker 1: perfect position to make a play. It's like Scott Linahan
Speaker 1: down on the goal liner in the red zone putting
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley in a game to run a play a
Speaker 1: special play? How many hatan is Cole Beasley line up
Speaker 1: in the backfield? Hey, here's an adjustment, here's an adjustment.
Speaker 1: We're gonna we're gonna we know they're gonna play man
Speaker 1: coverage down here, so let's adjust this way. Well, what
Speaker 1: happens A quarterback throws a smoke screen for three yards
Speaker 1: and now you've just burned a play. Where if you
Speaker 1: ran the play, it could been a touchdown. I think
Speaker 1: we have to be a little care full about saying
Speaker 1: it's all about execution. It's xuly, it's all about adjustments.
Speaker 1: It's not always all about adjustments. It's about execution. And
Speaker 1: if you want to blame their execution, I'm all for it.
Speaker 1: I am all for it because it's poor at times.
Speaker 1: That book of excuses. Yeah about offensively, well, you know what,
Speaker 1: and before you go there, right, and here was another
Speaker 1: big play in the game, that first possession quarter. They
Speaker 1: got him third and nine at the thirty seven yard line.
Speaker 1: He had all day in the pocket, they got pressure late,
Speaker 1: and then he hits el Shan Jeffrey for eighteen yards. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's wide open by but he had all day, you know.
Speaker 1: But it's third and nine. You get off the field there,
Speaker 1: you know you're gonna have the ball, decent field position.
Speaker 1: And then they go and it turns into a They
Speaker 1: had it. They had a situation I was talking about
Speaker 1: in the David Irving play on third down. If David
Speaker 1: Irving is a half step sooner, it just right there,
Speaker 1: a half step, it's gonna be a sack and it's
Speaker 1: gonna knock them out of field goal range. Instead they
Speaker 1: get a first down and now they hand the ball
Speaker 1: to the burner and eleven yard touchdown, you know, and
Speaker 1: then they get the two point play, which were ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Everybody's standing around out there, may oh mayo. It didn't
Speaker 1: even move now, nobody moved. Nobody moved me. Orlando Scandrick,
Speaker 1: he just stood there for some reason. He didn't try
Speaker 1: and tackle the guy, and Anthony Hitchins took another terrible
Speaker 1: angle inside. I mean, you want to blame coaches because
Speaker 1: it's easy. It's really easy to blame the coaches. And
Speaker 1: trust me, you guys know how I feel about the
Speaker 1: head coach. At times, he and I have gone at
Speaker 1: it a bunch, you know, and and rightfully so I
Speaker 1: respect him for I respect him for that. But you
Speaker 1: have to be a little careful about, Hey, does the
Speaker 1: front office getting enough guys I think, you know, are
Speaker 1: the right guys on the field. I mean, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of things you can point out here.
Speaker 1: It's just not halftime adjustments. It's not that I think
Speaker 1: where a lot of this is coming from, adjustment wise. Really,
Speaker 1: though his offensive would be Tommy John No, no, adjustment there.
Speaker 1: Justment's needed, right because what happened. Look, look at the
Speaker 1: last two games, they've had twenty three drives offensively, they've
Speaker 1: scored one touchdown. Yeah, and so the question becomes, this
Speaker 1: is in like Tay mentioned twenty fifteen, it's the same thing.
Speaker 1: It's like without Tony on the field back then and
Speaker 1: now without Zeke and Tyrn two? Is it? Do those
Speaker 1: guys mean that much? I mean, can I think Zeke
Speaker 1: is the foundation of the offense? I mean that he
Speaker 1: everything runs off of Zeke, But can you be a
Speaker 1: little more successful than that? You know, we ran the
Speaker 1: last night and didn't and didn't and didn't have I
Speaker 1: mean they ran, they ran the ball, Philadelphia didn't care. Well.
Speaker 1: That's that's and that's the flip side, right they kind
Speaker 1: of you're saying, they kind of gave it to him
Speaker 1: in a way. They got behind in the second half,
Speaker 1: they got outscored thirty to nothing in the second half.
Speaker 1: Look the the the the first possession after they fell
Speaker 1: behind fifteen to nine, they got first and ten at
Speaker 1: the thirty nine Morris loses a yard. They get a
Speaker 1: pass behind Terrence Williams. He catches it, but they lose
Speaker 1: a yard. Yeah, and now you're third and twelve and
Speaker 1: Byron Bell has a jailbreak. Yeah. Yeah, Hey, I was
Speaker 1: all into the theory of this as a pride game.
Speaker 1: That was my I totally I sold that. I sold
Speaker 1: that whole idea of desperate team. And I think it too.
Speaker 1: I think for a half defensively, they played with desperation.
Speaker 1: I really do. I think for a half they played
Speaker 1: as a desperate football team. They just couldn't finish it.
Speaker 1: Just don't give up a seventy one yard run? Is
Speaker 1: that's what broke the game? Over the momentum chain hunt
Speaker 1: the ball, Yeah, you don't get a first down, and
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden you punt the ball to
Speaker 1: them and they go ninety yards basically, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: it's second they they were, they were second and what
Speaker 1: five six at the fourteen yard line. Yeah, that guy
Speaker 1: goes seventy one yards. Seriously. Yeah, Well, those first three
Speaker 1: scoring drives sent five nine eighty five. But yeah, that
Speaker 1: second possession of the three that broke the damn open, well,
Speaker 1: it just seems you know, I hear what you guys
Speaker 1: are saying about momentum shifts, and I think they are real.
Speaker 1: But this needs to be a team, at least in
Speaker 1: my eyes that once there was a momentum shift, they
Speaker 1: still have the resilience to come back and keep fighting. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: how do you know they didn't keep fighting? They just
Speaker 1: weren't successful. They weren't good enough. They weren't good enough.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you're just not good enough. He's right about that.
Speaker 1: They don't have to come up with all these silly excuses.
Speaker 1: See where everybody's looking for reasons. And again this is
Speaker 1: where and this is my experience of being in the
Speaker 1: front office, and this is why I always apologize to
Speaker 1: Dave Campo. We never gave him enough good players. Never did.
Speaker 1: And so you have to as a value as an organization,
Speaker 1: you have to evaluate it is do we have the
Speaker 1: right guys? Do we have the right guys to you know,
Speaker 1: if you lose and there's teams all over that that
Speaker 1: team yesterday lost, they lost their starting left tackle and
Speaker 1: they lost lost their starting middle linebacker. They beat you
Speaker 1: by thirty twenty something point and just it's these last Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, sometimes you just have to Sometimes you have
Speaker 1: to say, Okay, do you have to go trade for guys?
Speaker 1: Do you have to bring guys in Timmy Jernigan was
Speaker 1: a guy that was discarded by the Ravens. Obviously a
Speaker 1: Gia was discarded by the Dolphins. They made a made
Speaker 1: a huge pitch to give a bunch of picks to
Speaker 1: go get Carson Wins. Sometimes you can just not sit
Speaker 1: there and let this happen, you know, And that's that's that.
Speaker 1: This is offseason talk right now. Yeah, this is offseason talk,
Speaker 1: but it's but it's relevant now when you play an
Speaker 1: opponent that has better players than you, They really do,
Speaker 1: and they've added some players that have even better than
Speaker 1: what you have. They didn't have these guys to start
Speaker 1: the year. Now they've got these guys. Well, and look
Speaker 1: at the difference. I mean, people compare Dak and Wentz
Speaker 1: all the time, and a lot of people said, well,
Speaker 1: he just didn't have the guys. Yeah he has the guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got it. He's got They still had some drops yesterday,
Speaker 1: Yeah they still had some guys speaking of, But he's
Speaker 1: got it. He's got a monster running game. Now, he's
Speaker 1: got two backs that can really run the football. They've
Speaker 1: got a kind of like Dallas. They've got an athletic,
Speaker 1: good offensive line, and they do have some receivers that
Speaker 1: they they did not beat you with zach Ertz yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean they didn't need zach Ertz in that game yesterday.
Speaker 1: He he was hey Byron Jones. Give him credit, hey,
Speaker 1: give and also give give Zack Martin credit for not
Speaker 1: let Fletcher Cox kill him in this game. Only heard
Speaker 1: his name a couple of times. Yeah, he had a
Speaker 1: tackle for loss on one play. But you know, but yeah,
Speaker 1: that could have been a disaster right there, and it wasn't.
Speaker 1: You just don't have enough guys making play. That's that's
Speaker 1: a big, big factor in this game, well and in
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks for sure, even even after
Speaker 1: they fell behind twenty three nine. So you get the
Speaker 1: ball back, you get a first down, and then on
Speaker 1: second down, who drops a pass. It's third and seven.
Speaker 1: Terrence William drops the ball. Oh no, it was third
Speaker 1: and two. The first play was an eight yard run.
Speaker 1: It's third and two. And that was the one I
Speaker 1: talked about. Jernegin blew up the middle Smith, no gain.
Speaker 1: They go for the try and run the option. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they're gonna run the option third and two. And now
Speaker 1: now you're punny and it's like you're third and two,
Speaker 1: whereas you think if you think twenty one's there, third
Speaker 1: and two they get it. See every time you get
Speaker 1: inside the twelve. To me, it's hand the ball three
Speaker 1: times to twenty one. Yeah, but this is what you
Speaker 1: are now. You don't have twenty one here to do
Speaker 1: this to help you anymore. You've got to figure out
Speaker 1: ways to do it. But are you good enough? And
Speaker 1: that's that's where the adjustments. I don't think that talk's
Speaker 1: gonna stop because of what you just said, whether it's
Speaker 1: fair or not, because seventeen are the adjustments you're making
Speaker 1: good enough for the personnel you have, And that's a
Speaker 1: that's that's a fair question because Zeke does mean that
Speaker 1: much to this offense. Trenth Tyren Smith does too, and
Speaker 1: so does Sean Lee, you know, show does Ron Leary.
Speaker 1: Yeah oo ooh maybe that Maybe that's a discussion with
Speaker 1: very church we have. That guy struggled a little bit
Speaker 1: yesterday too. Yeah. Yeah, Well, let's take our final break
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Speaker 1: to Rob's Twitter poll because I think it's gonna it's
Speaker 1: gonna go one way or the other here, especially with
Speaker 1: these guys. This is um what's the word. It's kind
Speaker 1: of a crossroads. You got a crossroads as poll here,
Speaker 1: this is a crossroads Monday right here. With a short week,
Speaker 1: you still got two more games in what ten days?
Speaker 1: The Cowboys can still make a run to the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Currently at five and five, do you agree or do
Speaker 1: you disagree? They got six games left and they're technically
Speaker 1: still in the thick of the wild card spot give
Speaker 1: or take playoffs? You kidding me? Playoffs? I just hope
Speaker 1: we can win a game, how a boy, Jim another game?
Speaker 1: Jim knew that well done, got whacked. They they're they're
Speaker 1: five and five and there's only one game left on
Speaker 1: the schedule that a team has a better record than
Speaker 1: five and five Seattle Christmas, Seattle. I'm not counting phil
Speaker 1: I should say five. Philadelphia is at the end. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but yeah, Seattle Christmas Eve. Everybody else is either four
Speaker 1: and six or two and eight. I wish I felt
Speaker 1: better about what we're seeing offensively here. I do too,
Speaker 1: because if if you don't have the offense to carry
Speaker 1: this defense, we're gonna be might as well get the
Speaker 1: draft show ready, you know, but I worry if you
Speaker 1: better figure out you're you're you know what you need
Speaker 1: to do personnel wise, because defense is now really compromised
Speaker 1: with no Sean Lee. And you know, and even if
Speaker 1: you get Seawan Lee back and he can stay healthy
Speaker 1: through the month of December, you know, anthy hitches I
Speaker 1: guess Garrett said this morning anthy Hitchins felt better dead
Speaker 1: on his on his morning show. Yeah, he said he
Speaker 1: felt better this morning. Let's see. Yeah, with a short week, maybe,
Speaker 1: you know, we'll see tonight with the walkthrough, and I
Speaker 1: think Tyrn has a chance on Thursday. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: he was getting close yesterday, but not close enough. Right,
Speaker 1: So you know, you never know, a couple more days,
Speaker 1: they might have to just send them out there and
Speaker 1: prop them up. Yeah, you don't have to take any moves,
Speaker 1: just stand there and hopefully they won't try to take advantage.
Speaker 1: But if this, if this offense doesn't improve, yeah, they've
Speaker 1: got no shot. Yeah. I think it was interesting as well.
Speaker 1: Coach Garrett was talking about it this morning. He said,
Speaker 1: you can either go five and eleven or eleven and five,
Speaker 1: it's all. That's what he told the team last night.
Speaker 1: Crossroads Jack said, yeah, and I'm with Brian this this
Speaker 1: stat just boggles my mind. They've they've been outscored seventeen
Speaker 1: sixteen in the first half of the last two games,
Speaker 1: second half forty seven to nothing. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's insane.
Speaker 1: That's insane. It's not good. It's not Kent Jason. They
Speaker 1: got to figure that out. Yeah, And I don't know
Speaker 1: if if you can, you can be better than that.
Speaker 1: But you don't have Zeke for another If there's three
Speaker 1: games though that you can win. You know, the Archers,
Speaker 1: the Chargers, I know they had a great win against
Speaker 1: Buffalo yesterday, a big but San Diego, if you go
Speaker 1: back and watch them play, they find ways to creative
Speaker 1: ways to lose games. They are a snake bit team
Speaker 1: when it comes to losing games, kind of the crazy way,
Speaker 1: and maybe you need them to have a crazy another
Speaker 1: loss you But you gotta start somewhere. You gotta get
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta find a way to get this
Speaker 1: one and then the next week load up against the
Speaker 1: Giant or the Redskins and get that one, and then
Speaker 1: go to the New York and win one. I mean,
Speaker 1: you gotta put something together to at least if you
Speaker 1: get Zeke back for the couple of games that it
Speaker 1: gives you, but it might not be enough. Yeah, those
Speaker 1: games gotta be meaningful. Yeah. And yeah if you keep
Speaker 1: scoring nine seven yeah, I mean one touchdown in two games.
Speaker 1: Who would have ever thought? Yeah? And Dak Prescott being
Speaker 1: the guy. I was surprised too witting yesterday only one
Speaker 1: catch well because he was blocking, not doing a lot,
Speaker 1: don't you think it was? He was in But man,
Speaker 1: there's a time when I think Witton blocking and I think,
Speaker 1: you know what, Let's find a way to get hand
Speaker 1: over there, find a way to get Jeff Swamo, get
Speaker 1: Witten in the route. There's things you could do with
Speaker 1: Whitton and Mickey, And I'm not trying to, I know,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I know how important Witton is. And
Speaker 1: if Witten is in route catching the ball for first
Speaker 1: play of the game, well designed, you know all really
Speaker 1: all hook for seven yards and that was it. And yeah,
Speaker 1: that was it. And you're thinking, okay, when things to
Speaker 1: kind of get Philadelphia off you a little bit, where
Speaker 1: are those where's that first down past to Witton for
Speaker 1: seven or six yards? He's not going to run away
Speaker 1: from anybody, but it's six yards. It's better than handing
Speaker 1: the ball off to somebody getting two yards, no yards whatever.
Speaker 1: You know, throwing the ball to him is never a
Speaker 1: bad option to kind of get your offense going a
Speaker 1: little bit. They gotta do something. Seventy percent of the
Speaker 1: fandom all they're out disagrees that the Cowboys can still
Speaker 1: make a playoff run. Sure. Sure, it's a tough day.
Speaker 1: It's a tough day to be thinking positive. Right, Well,
Speaker 1: I think they see two more games, you know, right
Speaker 1: right back to back like that. Those Thursday games are hard. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's down everybody though, Yeah yeah, but you but you know,
Speaker 1: it's go playing. This is what the league is. Though.
Speaker 1: You've got to find ways to go. You can't lose
Speaker 1: to the Rams. You can't lose to Green Bay. When
Speaker 1: you have leads, you can't. You know, you can't go
Speaker 1: get blown out in Atlanta. You can't get blown out
Speaker 1: against the Eagles. You can't do that. You know, you
Speaker 1: had a nice little streak where you're winning some games,
Speaker 1: and but that was with Ezekiel. It was starting to
Speaker 1: run the football. You're back to your identity, Sean Lee.
Speaker 1: The defense was playing well, You're scoring points. So what's
Speaker 1: their identity? Now? They're shell of themselves without Ezekiel. I
Speaker 1: believe that's a great question to I don't think they
Speaker 1: have They don't have one, and it's it is like
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen because all of a sudden, we're watching a
Speaker 1: different football team. Yeah, with what's their strength? We don't know.
Speaker 1: The strength is their quarterbacks ability to run? That would be, yeah,
Speaker 1: this ability to to buy time. But when he's buying time,
Speaker 1: he has to make the throw. But there's their identity?
Speaker 1: Is dak with balance back about that? They're absolutely right,
Speaker 1: they don't have that right now and you're putting too
Speaker 1: much on him. It's Wentz went through the same thing
Speaker 1: last year. Yeah, in Philly. It's it's every quarterback the
Speaker 1: way that the defense survives because of your offense. They're
Speaker 1: just not good enough defensively to play on their own.
Speaker 1: That that that's that's that's reality. Yeah, well let's go
Speaker 1: to the phone lines. We have justin from Portland on
Speaker 1: the line, justin. What is your question? I got a
Speaker 1: question of comment. First off, Terry Glenn rest in peace
Speaker 1: and that's uh, that was a sad thing here this morning. Um,
Speaker 1: first time, long time started listening with Bill Jones and
Speaker 1: Mickey back in the day. Now I just kinda follow
Speaker 1: wherever Brian goes. But thank you. I'm excited flying in
Speaker 1: tomorrow with our son for the first game tomorrow, touring
Speaker 1: the Star in the stadiums, So we're pretty excited. Now.
Speaker 1: Now that's out of the way, My question is I
Speaker 1: think was talking a couple of weeks about a go
Speaker 1: against their success against the chief and how it helped
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and how it helped their confidence and the
Speaker 1: belief in what they could do. It had me thinking
Speaker 1: last night watching this old line and the O period
Speaker 1: and what you guys have been talking about, like for example,
Speaker 1: with Green having things go wrong and then it gets
Speaker 1: in his head and snowballs. I don't believe Philly had
Speaker 1: more talent than us last night. I just believe they
Speaker 1: executed better. So oh and then it just kind of
Speaker 1: snowballed from there. So do you think the old line
Speaker 1: or offense is dealing with confidence issues after these last
Speaker 1: two games? And if so, does it just come down
Speaker 1: to coming out and getting the W on Thanksgiving Day?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't. I see I see more
Speaker 1: of a lack of execution and I do see confidence.
Speaker 1: You know, And when when this team was when it
Speaker 1: and it win of the three games, it was rolling
Speaker 1: along on offense, they were making plays, they were running
Speaker 1: the football. Yeah, they had balance. The run pass ratios
Speaker 1: were really really good. You know, confidence is you know,
Speaker 1: I think if you want to say confidence or lack
Speaker 1: of I think that would be on the defense, especially
Speaker 1: if some young kids having to play a little bit.
Speaker 1: I think I think Anthony Brown right now is not
Speaker 1: a very confident football player. You know. I want to
Speaker 1: know why everybody wants a tiptoe around the elephant in
Speaker 1: the room. There's no Ezekiel Elliott out there. You want identity, Yeah,
Speaker 1: go go quit Zekiel Elliott back on the field. No,
Speaker 1: I that's I mean, I know it sounds like I'm
Speaker 1: almost simplifying it, but it's no coincidence what's happened here.
Speaker 1: I don't disagree with you, Mickey. I mean that to
Speaker 1: me is you know, I understand the fight, and I understand,
Speaker 1: but now I understand even more. The fight was more
Speaker 1: about the injustice of the way the process, not the
Speaker 1: trying to clear your name. The fight was about, Hey,
Speaker 1: I was wronged by my investigation by the league. That's
Speaker 1: what he fought against. That is that's right there, That's
Speaker 1: exactly what it is. So I understand that part of
Speaker 1: the fight and I respect that. But right now you're
Speaker 1: in a bad situation because he is really the identity
Speaker 1: of your football team. He's the one that the defense.
Speaker 1: He is the he is the ultimate deodorant for the defense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he really really is. And he's the ultimate life source.
Speaker 1: He's the blood and guts for this offense. That's what
Speaker 1: he is. He that's he is the blood and guts
Speaker 1: for Dak Prescott, you know. And when Dak Prescott has
Speaker 1: him in the game, this offense flows better. It moves better,
Speaker 1: there's play action, there's guys open. It makes it difficult
Speaker 1: for guys to defenses to game plan for them. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it helps the receivers, helps everything, don't you think. Don't
Speaker 1: you think the opponents recognize this and they're going, oh,
Speaker 1: there's no Zeke. Oh we don't have to worry about that.
Speaker 1: You know, you've had some guys that have had some struggles.
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley getting open now has been a struggle. They
Speaker 1: can't get him the ball, and when they do get
Speaker 1: him the ball, I mean the ball gets knocked away.
Speaker 1: I had a third down opportunity there or it's really
Speaker 1: short stuff. Yeah, it's really it's you know two, but
Speaker 1: it's it's been, it's been. The whole offense has shut it.
Speaker 1: As bad as things are without Tyren Smith, they're worse
Speaker 1: without Ezekiel Elliott, no doubt. And that's the truth, no doubt. Stuff.
Speaker 1: It does not feel good here. But you know, hey,
Speaker 1: we have to go back to the phone lines. We
Speaker 1: have Philippe from France on the line. Philip, Hey, I
Speaker 1: get you've watched all the games and we appreciate it,
Speaker 1: but we were struggling here today, so so bear with us. Also,
Speaker 1: as you know, I'm living far away and I'm not
Speaker 1: a believer on a great conspiracy and it's not a
Speaker 1: bad uh excuses try but but I'm gonna rent a
Speaker 1: little bit. We all know some owners and the pet
Speaker 1: the commission and his gang don't want another Cowboys dynasty,
Speaker 1: not during this era with a big band. The mannings
Speaker 1: the brady Um to make sure that dynasty doesn't emerge.
Speaker 1: M the Commissioner and his crew decides decided on his
Speaker 1: own and in full agreement of the honors, who is
Speaker 1: appointing to to suspend the best running back in football.
Speaker 1: That's why we're struggling. I noticed another thing in the
Speaker 1: last two games. The rest are making some strange calls
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys for almost nothing, but mysteriously become They
Speaker 1: become blind when alignment are technic defenser defenders are facemasking
Speaker 1: or eating the quarterback in the strange, isn't it. Thanks
Speaker 1: for taking Michael, have a nice day at Thanksgiving book
Speaker 1: Cowboys boot Tigers. Hey, thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that. We gotta we gotta, we gotta one
Speaker 1: of the guys from London here. Yeah, he's gonna be
Speaker 1: his first Thanksgiving because you know they don't have things
Speaker 1: bad bad day. Yeah, Yeah, he's looking forward to things.
Speaker 1: Yeah good, good gap, Yeah good? I mean fine, that's
Speaker 1: you know, did did so? The Eagles never got called
Speaker 1: for offensive holding? Did they know? So? That stretches the
Speaker 1: streetcare of how many games? Six seven? Incredible? That is amazing.
Speaker 1: I know, it's the number of quarters is now incredible.
Speaker 1: I mean the fact that you could call you really
Speaker 1: could call that any play, any play, there's always holding.
Speaker 1: You could find it if you're really looking for it.
Speaker 1: So that's INCREDI and I'm not subscribing to his theory.
Speaker 1: I'm not here. There was a there was a false start,
Speaker 1: got turted into it off sides. Yeah, how did that happen? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I worry more about not the holding. I worry about
Speaker 1: your quarterback getting hit in the head. That's that. I
Speaker 1: think he deserves respect for how he plays the game.
Speaker 1: But if they continually take shots at him that way,
Speaker 1: hands the phase, elbow's head, whatever, hit him while he's
Speaker 1: on the ground. But unusual tackling, I take more exception
Speaker 1: to that. Really, Cam's a great comparison. Somebody in our
Speaker 1: group said Shack last night as a comparison, like in
Speaker 1: the NBA, he never got enough foul's called because he's big,
Speaker 1: physical guy. You know, you just call it differently, and
Speaker 1: that's you know, you can't do that same thing with Will.
Speaker 1: Just go ahead and beat up on him. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: not hurt him because he's seven foot Yeah, something to
Speaker 1: look at. They gotta look at it. Now. I'm with you, Brian,
Speaker 1: I don't. I just don't want Dak to get no.
Speaker 1: And that's saying this brush. There's there's there's a there's
Speaker 1: holdings every day. I mean I can. I could show
Speaker 1: you the Cowboys got away with a few hole holdings themselves,
Speaker 1: but that's okay. I can live with the holding. I
Speaker 1: can't live with my quarterback getting hit in the head.
Speaker 1: I can't, especially when the rules clearly say don't hit
Speaker 1: the quarterback in the head, hands the head, anything to
Speaker 1: the head is a foul, you know. And perfect example
Speaker 1: the Flacco concussion player. Now he you could argue, yeah,
Speaker 1: he slid late, but he got hit in the head.
Speaker 1: So regardless it's a penalty. Yeah, you know, regardless of
Speaker 1: how early he went, you can't do it. I hate
Speaker 1: I hate complaining about the officials because I always feel
Speaker 1: like something you can always complain about a fish shame
Speaker 1: when you lose. It's it's not a sour grapes thing.
Speaker 1: I just I'm just asking the league. I'm saying, hey,
Speaker 1: when the quarterback gets hit in the head, both teams,
Speaker 1: what call it? Don't don't let that part of it go.
Speaker 1: I wonder if they go back and find those guys
Speaker 1: but the look at him, No, no, the guy that
Speaker 1: hit him, the hits in the head. I wish, I
Speaker 1: wish the league would come out and tell me that
Speaker 1: when this week at Hockley will not referee because he's
Speaker 1: made miss three calls this week, that they'll start penalizing yet,
Speaker 1: start start keeping the official from not calling games, and
Speaker 1: then we will then we'll have then we'll have you.
Speaker 1: You don't want full time officials, great, that's fine, but
Speaker 1: take these officials off when they're making consistently bad calls.
Speaker 1: They wait till the end. You're like, oh, you don't
Speaker 1: get to work a playoff game. They still, well, what
Speaker 1: I'm not getting in the playoffs now because I had
Speaker 1: to give away a game because you've missed three calls
Speaker 1: this year? For me, you know that that's the problem
Speaker 1: I had with officiate. And then what goes on? They
Speaker 1: don't make these guys accountable for what happens during these games.
Speaker 1: They really don't. That's my rant about officials away. They
Speaker 1: get on an airplane, get in their first class seat,
Speaker 1: and fly to their next game and screw up somebody
Speaker 1: else's life. That's what they do. They're pigeons stage. They
Speaker 1: need to they need to at some point implement my idea.
Speaker 1: They need to have officials on the field in those
Speaker 1: volleyball towers and then you can see what's going on. Well,
Speaker 1: they have a guy upstairs in the booth. He does
Speaker 1: what's going to limit what he guys? Knee was down?
Speaker 1: Did you see seventeens knew that we got replay? We
Speaker 1: got replay. There they show it. He's clearly down. I
Speaker 1: was confused because I thought I thought they overturned it
Speaker 1: and they were marking the ball there, and it's like, no,
Speaker 1: this is the two point conversion. I know. I And
Speaker 1: a guy reviews that. A guy reviews that. That would
Speaker 1: be Lewis Nizarro. I've never heard of you. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: they missed. They'd send that to New York. No, but
Speaker 1: it's the replay officials, a guy named Lewis Nazarro. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he should have buzzed down and then they should have
Speaker 1: called New York. Yeah, well Bill Vinovitch too, you know, seriously,
Speaker 1: when they they would just say Bill Vinovich. Yeah, Bill
Speaker 1: Vinovitch is not referee in this week because he missed
Speaker 1: three calls in the game. The scout and Brian coming out. No,
Speaker 1: this is the guy that if I'm one game short
Speaker 1: of the playoffs because I lost because of some bad
Speaker 1: calls too. That that's those guys. Well, he doesn't get
Speaker 1: the work of playoff games. I don't get to go
Speaker 1: to the playoff games, and you know what, I get
Speaker 1: fired because they didn't win enough games. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: big problem. So you guys are coming around to my
Speaker 1: side of this. Yeah, Nick, he's been on the dark
Speaker 1: side for a while now. I don't know. That's just
Speaker 1: I just had to finish that. Cowboys got they got
Speaker 1: their ask, they did and where it is. But but
Speaker 1: it is it's the truth. They get away with everything. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's the truth. Be good, that's what you're getting paid
Speaker 1: for it. Exact good, be good, be better than good.
Speaker 1: And if it got to get corrected, corrected, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: what replaced for quarterbacks getting hit in the head. Bad,
Speaker 1: bad for business. Before we leave today's show. Yes, all
Speaker 1: our thoughts and prayers with Terry Glenn's family. Thinking of
Speaker 1: you guys, but thank you so much for joining us
Speaker 1: on a Monday. We will be back tomorrow in the
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