WEBVTT - Cowboys Break: Calling a Spade, a Spade 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:06.280 The following is the production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:07.880 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:18.160 Cowboys, Let's go. Are you ready for a break? Yes? 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:20.040 Are you ready for a break? 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:22.799 Absolutely? Ready for a break? 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:26.840 Yeah, and so much for that. It's time for the 0:00:26.960 --> 0:00:27.920 Break On. 0:00:28.080 --> 0:00:33.479 Dallas Cowboys dot Com were on with mbar Garcia, Brian 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:37.560 brought us, Patrick Walker and Derek Eagleton. 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:42.560 It is Monday, October ninth, twenty twenty three, Season nineteen, 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:45.320 episode number forty eight. Welcome to the latest edition of 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:48.720 The Breakway, Live from SWBC Mortgage Studios at the Star. 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:51.160 And uh yeah, this is gonna be one of those 0:00:51.240 --> 0:00:54.200 days when we got to try to make sense of 0:00:54.280 --> 0:00:56.680 what we all watched last night. Cowboys go to San 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:00.640 Francisco and take one like they really got it, got 0:01:00.680 --> 0:01:03.880 destroyed last night, and then San Francisco left no doubt 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:06.200 as to who is the better team at least at 0:01:06.200 --> 0:01:06.760 this point. 0:01:06.959 --> 0:01:08.360 They went forty two to ten. 0:01:09.520 --> 0:01:11.440 And now we get to figure out, like, what does 0:01:11.440 --> 0:01:15.199 this mean for this Cowboys team going forward? What if anything, 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:18.360 do we learn about this team last night in that debacle. 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:20.840 And I'll start first with the big picture. Look at 0:01:20.880 --> 0:01:22.560 that I want to go around the table and tell 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:25.720 me what your big picture storyline is coming out of 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:28.759 that game for this Cowboys season, start with you. 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:31.400 Patrick Well First and four, most Couboys got their asses kicked. 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:34.560 I mean three out of the first four games they 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:39.120 were the ones bullying. But yesterday and Santa Claira, they 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:41.360 absolutely got their ass kicked in every phase of the game. 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:44.160 They got out bullied, they got out muscled, they got 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:46.759 out physical, they got out coached, they got out executed. 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.120 Pick an adjective and put it after the word out 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:52.320 and that's what happened yesterday. The biggest takeaway for me 0:01:52.840 --> 0:01:56.680 is that they're not ready. They're not ready yet. When 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.760 the question is posed, is this Cowboys team in twenty 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:02.000 two three ready to take the next step and be 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.520 that contender that gets to the NFC Championship and then 0:02:04.520 --> 0:02:07.520 to the Super Bowl. This was the measuring stick. This 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:09.880 was the measuring stick we can enjoy and we did. 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:12.560 We enjoyed the seventy to ten deficit through week two. 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:15.600 We enjoyed them bouncing back after the loss of the 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:18.000 Jets and handing Bill Belichick the worst loss of his 0:02:18.320 --> 0:02:20.200 NFL career. But then, what do you do. You go 0:02:20.200 --> 0:02:23.120 out to Santa Clara and Mike McCarthy suffers the worst 0:02:23.120 --> 0:02:26.480 point differential loss in his NFL career, forty two to ten. 0:02:27.160 --> 0:02:32.760 And it's a game where you were outdone and you 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:35.320 had self inflicted wounds that made it that much worse. 0:02:35.639 --> 0:02:37.639 So through five weeks, I mean, still a lot of 0:02:37.639 --> 0:02:40.000 football to be played. But at a certain point even 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:43.560 that phrase gets stale because sooner or later there will 0:02:43.600 --> 0:02:45.720 not be a lot of football left to be played. 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.239 You have to turn it on sooner or later, and 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.760 it needs to be sooner than later. And the crux 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:52.600 of it all is you look at the time of 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.840 possession and it was just whoppingly in favor of the 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:57.760 forty nine ers. And it's going to bring me back 0:02:57.760 --> 0:02:59.359 to a singular point and I'll pass it off to 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.399 BB And I know Ambro wants to talk about this too. 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:05.360 Where the hell is this Texas Coast offense? Where's the explosiveness? 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:08.000 Love what I saw with the scheming of Cavante Turpin 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.320 in the slot. You get him on single high coverage 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:14.200 against Oliver the nickelback and you burn him. Okay, where 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:17.120 is that? In the aspect of using Cooks and Ceedee 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:19.560 Lamb as some of these players. We're still waiting for 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.639 the explosiveness, still waiting for this offense to come together. 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:25.200 You're now five weeks in and we still have no 0:03:25.320 --> 0:03:26.800 clue what you're capable of. 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:31.880 Where is it? Where is it? Feel good about me 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:35.720 talking about this? Go ahead, I'll go last, you go last. Yeah. 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:39.880 I think Patrick completely nailed everything that needed to be 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:40.680 addressed on that. 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:44.320 Where I'm was, where I was a little bit lost. 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:48.360 Dallas only created seven pressures last night, and the pressures 0:03:48.400 --> 0:03:51.560 that they were able to get actually resulted in big 0:03:51.640 --> 0:03:54.960 plays for the forty nine ers, and that's usually the 0:03:55.040 --> 0:03:57.280 recipe for at least causing the forty. 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:58.040 Nine ers some problems. 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:01.120 From what we observed in the previous the four games 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:03.720 was when you watch brock perty he'll throw off his 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.680 back foot. He will, you know, he'll take a sack, 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:10.120 he'll throw it away. You know, he will do something 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:13.560 that doesn't result in a big play. Your pressure started 0:04:13.560 --> 0:04:17.240 off well, the tip balls that you you know you're 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.880 able to get. The sack that you got from Curse 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:22.640 was a big play. And then after that though it 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:24.600 was downhill. You gave up a play of thirty eight. 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:26.200 You give up a play a nineteen. You give up 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:27.640 a play of twenty three and you give up a 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:30.560 play of eight. You know, so here you are. All 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:35.280 these throws that Perty's making, he's facing pressure ended up 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.119 being huge plays for the forty nine ers. They are 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.919 They're a well coached team. They they scheme very well. 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:45.479 They find ways to get their players in position. But 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:48.520 it's really not all about scheme. It's what Patrick's talking about. 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:52.520 They physically beat you up, and they beat you up 0:04:52.600 --> 0:04:55.039 with the you know, we talked a lot about the 0:04:55.080 --> 0:04:57.560 right side of that offensive line for the forty nine ers, 0:04:58.120 --> 0:05:00.640 a tip of the cap, helmet, stickers, game balls, whatever 0:05:00.640 --> 0:05:03.159 you want to give them. That crew held up pretty 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:05.719 well on that right side. Mckivitz and Beaufort did a 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.920 great job over there. You know, they had to double 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.239 Michael a couple of times. They had a great plan 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:15.920 for him when you watched him. They even moved him 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.440 over on the other side to try and get some 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:21.520 work against Trent Wimson. They were helping Trent Williams over there. 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.960 So they had a plan for hand how to handle. 0:05:23.720 --> 0:05:25.440 Micah in this football game. 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:29.039 But you know, it's the huge plays on defense is 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:31.520 you know, I think they were just backbreaking plays. 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:33.320 And you know a great job of. 0:05:33.320 --> 0:05:36.279 The forty nine ers kind of understanding what your coverage 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.800 was going to be, how to get the matchups that 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:39.599 they were able to. 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.560 You know, whether the one time I thought it was brilliant. 0:05:42.640 --> 0:05:46.239 They they take us check and put him in motion. 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:50.039 He's next duke, but he's got Hooker over the top 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:51.760 of him in coverage. Well they run him in motion, 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.640 which makes Hooker go across, and then all of a 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.080 sudden it's one on one on the outside and now 0:05:57.080 --> 0:05:59.520 the ball's going ayuk for a big game. So what 0:05:59.560 --> 0:06:02.839 they do is they affect you with the movement and 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:04.600 then you're one on one and then. 0:06:04.520 --> 0:06:05.320 It's a big play. 0:06:05.440 --> 0:06:07.840 So tip of the cap to the forty nine ers 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:10.360 for the way they played physically, the way that they uh, 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:14.040 the way they schemed you. And but yeah, your your 0:06:14.120 --> 0:06:16.560 bread and butter is your ability to play defense and 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.360 get pressure. And the times you got pressure, you gave 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:22.880 some huge chunk plays and that that was that was 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:24.039 a big problem in that game. 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:29.680 I thought by the time you were done, I was 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.360 gonna be able to get my heart rate down. I'm 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:37.000 pretty trying to contain myself, say. 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:37.360 With your chiss. 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:43.919 Yeah, it's I don't know. 0:06:43.960 --> 0:06:46.159 I mean, just okay, hold on, let me get my 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:50.760 I'm just very trying not to cry because of the game. 0:06:54.920 --> 0:07:02.400 I'm just very emotional right now with all the heartbreaking, 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:08.599 scary stuff that's currently happening in the world right now. 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:13.960 And then okay, you gotta sit here and talk about this, 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:21.200 and I apologize for my emotions right now, just a 0:07:21.240 --> 0:07:26.960 lot going on, but then we got to sit here 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:33.840 talk about this game, and right now, specifically talking about football, 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:40.000 I just feel like there's not a whole lot of 0:07:40.040 --> 0:07:43.200 hope or like things to look forward to. You start 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:49.400 the season thinking you have all the right tools, and 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:54.120 once again and again, these tears are not because of football, 0:07:54.400 --> 0:07:57.240 So let me okay, I'm not crying because of football. 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:03.720 But you start a season having new hopes again and 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:06.880 thinking you got all the right weapons, and once again, 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:09.560 by the all the amount of years I've been here, 0:08:09.600 --> 0:08:11.520 I'm like, every time I've learned my lesson, I'm like, 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:13.240 I'm not gonna be full. I'm not going to be 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:16.840 full fall for it. But heading into the season, this 0:08:17.040 --> 0:08:21.440 was I really felt that they have all the right tools, 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:25.760 the right coaching, the right players, the right talent. You 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:29.600 were changing system offensively and you think, okay, maybe that's 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:33.200 gonna be improvement. You know, maybe Mike McCarthy learned from 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:36.240 what Kellen Moore was doing, not doing what was right, 0:08:36.280 --> 0:08:38.520 what was wrong, and decided to kind of change things 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:42.120 around and operate a different way and implement that for 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.520 it to be getting better. And it hasn't. The offense 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:48.440 hasn't been click. And then all of a sudden you 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:53.440 have the defense that you were holding onto all this 0:08:53.520 --> 0:08:56.160 season and then all of a sudden starting to crumble 0:08:56.559 --> 0:09:01.720 and a lot of injury. They've taken a hit there, 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:06.239 but there were no signs of anything that was exciting 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:08.760 or anything that you think and you talk about all 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:13.120 the pressure like that was not present there. So every 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.720 facet of the game, there were so many things, so 0:09:15.840 --> 0:09:19.440 many different things that were lacking. And it's hard, and 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.440 I get that there's a lot of football to play. 0:09:24.600 --> 0:09:28.720 It's a long season, but currently this Monday, it just 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:31.920 feels like, how are you going to fix this problem 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:36.520 fast enough? How are you going to improve on defense 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:41.480 when now you're starting to get injuries and crumble. How 0:09:41.480 --> 0:09:44.000 are you going to fix this offense that just cannot 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:48.400 simply click, and we know they have playmakers, but things 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:50.800 are just simply not working for them. So it's just 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.840 it's tough to see kind of the big picture. It's 0:09:54.840 --> 0:09:57.280 tough to see the areas where you fell, Like even 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.360 last weekend against the Patriots, where you thought the offense 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:03.040 was starting to kind of click and get moving and 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.120 then all of a sudden, all of that goes away 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:07.840 against the team that keeps beating you. This is the 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:10.160 third time in a row. So it's just like one 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.720 of those things where you're like, Okay, what what do 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.960 we currently have to look forward to right now? What's 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:19.200 an area of Like you're like, okay, well we have this, 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:23.439 well we have Mica Parsons. Well that didn't he didn't 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:26.320 show up last night, or so it's just it's hard 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:28.680 to find anything positive at this moment. 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.439 Yeah, but it's what you have to look at is 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.679 that is a unique football team that you played last night. 0:10:35.280 --> 0:10:38.160 That is a there's a reason why, and I think 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.439 a lot of circles people would have them even before 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:43.480 the Dallas game, would have them as the best team 0:10:43.520 --> 0:10:46.160 in the National Football League. You could talk about Buffalo 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.760 and you know, they went across the you know to 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.280 England and got beat by by Jacksonville, so they're kind 0:10:52.280 --> 0:10:52.600 of back. 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:52.800 You know. 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:55.600 Last week they have they beat the Dolphins, so they're 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:58.600 up and yeah, you know, you're going to play some 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:01.920 games along the way. Yeah, there's gonna be some difficult matchups. 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.840 We'll see how you know, this Charger one plays out. 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.400 The injuries are a tough part of this thing. Losing 0:11:08.559 --> 0:11:11.280 Digs a few weeks ago, very difficult. 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:12.000 Thing to have to deal with. 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:16.360 But the thing that kind of I know about going 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.520 and moving on and you try and put it behind you, 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:22.520 you try and learn, is that that team you play, 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.520 I don't think I'm going to face another one like that. 0:11:25.840 --> 0:11:27.040 I really don't. 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.719 You know, we'll see what Philadelphia brings. Heck, we'll even 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:31.040 see what the Chargers. 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:32.680 Bring offensively and scheme wise. 0:11:32.760 --> 0:11:35.760 But the way that they the way their personnel is, 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.040 the way that they're coach, the way that they They 0:11:38.559 --> 0:11:41.679 smothered you yesterday, and there's very few teams in the 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:43.760 league that could really smother. 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:46.320 You, and they did a great job of that yesterday. 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:50.800 So your hope is that there are there things, you know, McCarthy, 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:52.880 the thing that bothers me the most and maybe this 0:11:52.920 --> 0:11:55.720 is where I'm kind of sad like you in this way. 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:58.679 Is Mike McCarthy stands up in front of you guys 0:11:58.760 --> 0:12:01.439 last night in the media and says, I. 0:12:01.400 --> 0:12:02.160 Need to be better. 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:04.040 You know, I need to be better with the red 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:05.640 zone stuff. I need to be called the game I 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:08.400 need to do, you know. And I'm like, okay, but 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:10.640 I need you to be better now. I don't need 0:12:10.679 --> 0:12:13.440 you to every week tell me you need to be better, sir. 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:16.319 You're the primary play caller. You're the one that decided 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:19.160 because of your position that you can move on and 0:12:19.200 --> 0:12:22.120 take the play calling role and then bring in Brian 0:12:22.160 --> 0:12:24.440 Schottenheimer to help you and then make a bunch of 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:27.440 changes offensively. One of the things we talked about at 0:12:27.480 --> 0:12:29.920 training camp was we were worried about with all the 0:12:30.000 --> 0:12:32.920 changes in the coaching staff. I know, I was, you know, 0:12:33.000 --> 0:12:35.800 and you're thinking, well, this defense, this offense really just 0:12:35.880 --> 0:12:37.800 isn't clicking like it needs. 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:40.120 To click, and you know, is it. 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:44.200 I don't recognize that quarterback out there, the quarterback I've 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:47.520 seen play here has Maybe maybe I'm okay with living 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:49.640 with the interceptions if I know he's gonna if I 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:51.640 know he's going to attack and throw the ball eight 0:12:51.720 --> 0:12:54.720 yards every time he throws the ball. But if he's 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:56.880 throwing the ball short on third and five and they're 0:12:56.880 --> 0:12:58.360 getting three yards. 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:00.480 You know that That's That's. 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.400 The thing that makes me pause and think, well, this 0:13:03.520 --> 0:13:06.320 needs to be fixed. And maybe it needs to be 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:10.439 fixed in a way I don't know right now, but 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.080 there's I know I'm not going to play a defense 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:16.080 and an offense that's like that bunch until later on 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:16.559 in the year. 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:17.120 Maybe. 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.559 Yeah, And that's what And you circled it back around 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:23.679 in a great way for me and to to segue 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:24.280 to the following. 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:27.720 That's the problem I have with it. 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.440 It's that you can we believe they can handle the 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.040 Philadelphia Eagles, even if you split that series. We know 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:35.079 they can handle the Giants. We know they can handle 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.800 the Commanders. You can handle the majority of your division 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.240 to the point where you you could probably stack on 0:13:40.240 --> 0:13:42.280 some outside wins. And yeah, I believe this team will 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:44.120 get into the playoffs. I do believe they're going to 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.720 get tough though. Yeah, it might be absolutely agree especially 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:49.240 if they keep playing up and down exactly. 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:50.959 Yeah, but once you get in the. 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:53.400 Playoffs, let's say you do go on a heater, right, 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:54.560 you get hot at the right time. 0:13:54.679 --> 0:13:56.360 Guess who you're going to likely meet in. 0:13:56.280 --> 0:14:00.320 Them the same team that beats you the last three times. 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.840 But two out of those three times demoralized you, bullied you, 0:14:03.920 --> 0:14:04.600 humiliated you. 0:14:04.720 --> 0:14:05.920 That's what's concerning for me. 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:09.240 There is now very clearly a red and gold wall 0:14:09.400 --> 0:14:12.440 between the Cowboys and any possible shot at a super Bowl. 0:14:12.520 --> 0:14:14.520 But here's the thing, and I agree with what you 0:14:14.559 --> 0:14:16.960 guys are saying, but I'm a little bit in a 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:20.320 situation where the best way I can describe it is, 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:22.760 if you've ever known anybody who's had to deal with 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:25.840 infidelity in their marriage, I've known some people like that, 0:14:26.040 --> 0:14:28.440 and one of the things they always say is it 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:32.040 now makes me question everything, Like I start to think back, 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:34.480 like what did I do? What did I not see? 0:14:35.600 --> 0:14:37.800 Who is this person I thought I knew? All those 0:14:37.840 --> 0:14:40.400 things kind of come up. And that's what's happening to 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:42.480 me right now with the Cowboys. I'm looking at them 0:14:42.480 --> 0:14:45.520 now and I'm saying I thought going into this game 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:48.720 they were something that this game has made me rethink 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:51.120 if I think they're that right. 0:14:50.880 --> 0:14:53.360 They have beaten some really really bad teams. 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.360 Let's be clear the way the Giants are playing and 0:14:55.400 --> 0:14:57.400 the way New England's playing, they may be two of 0:14:57.440 --> 0:14:59.320 the worst. They may be picking one and two next year. 0:14:59.360 --> 0:15:02.200 They like they are playing horribly. So we know the 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:05.240 Cowboys beat up on some bad teams, right, They beat 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:08.320 the Jets, just not a great team. They lost Arizona 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.680 in convincing fashion, it wasn't a close game, and then 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:12.800 they get it handed. 0:15:12.520 --> 0:15:14.880 To them in San Francisco. And what I'm left with 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:16.640 is is this. 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:18.760 Team just not only just not good enough to be 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:21.960 San Francisco, but are they really more of an average 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.240 team or maybe a little bit above average that can 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.920 really destroy bad teams that can't figure them out early. 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:28.360 You get a lead on them, and they can just 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:32.120 destroy those teams. And when it comes to the average 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.720 to better teams, they're gonna be kind of fifty to 0:15:34.760 --> 0:15:37.080 fifty and the best teams in the league. Maybe they 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:38.960 can't compete in that way. Like that's the part that 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:41.880 now I'm left wrestling with because I don't have enough 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:44.120 of the sample size to tell me what I thought 0:15:44.160 --> 0:15:46.120 I saw of this team going back to training camp 0:15:46.400 --> 0:15:47.680 is what actually exists. 0:15:47.840 --> 0:15:50.240 Well, and then there was nothing in this game like 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:54.520 literally nothing other than the two touchdowns or like seeded 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:56.360 Lamb getting in the end zone and then you got 0:15:56.440 --> 0:16:02.080 Kavanta turping sorry in there as well. Other than that, 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:05.240 there's like nothing else that was promising. You talk about 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:08.160 a game that we've been talking about since they lost 0:16:08.320 --> 0:16:11.960 against them in the playoffs. We've this has been building up, 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:15.800 building up, building up week one. The media every time, 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.440 every week it gets brought up, forty nine ers, forty 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:20.880 nine ers, and then we get here and you just thought, 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.200 and I shouldn't say this because I'm not them, I'm 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:26.760 not in there. I don't know how they feel, but 0:16:26.880 --> 0:16:30.920 you just thought you would see a lot more fight 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.200 in the game, and there wasn't that. 0:16:33.480 --> 0:16:34.000 Yeah, Dak. 0:16:34.080 --> 0:16:36.480 Last week, you know, with Todd Archer's question was asked 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.240 about pissed, you know, and he was and that was 0:16:39.320 --> 0:16:42.000 his Yeah, that was his attitude about it. And you're 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:44.720 absolutely right. There was a lot talked about. There was 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:48.080 even things changes made to the roster, you know, in 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.400 getting preparation to try and find a way to beat 0:16:51.440 --> 0:16:55.240 San Francisco. So that's what makes it even more demoralizing. 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:57.480 If you're you know, if you're you know, a cot 0:16:57.520 --> 0:16:59.520 if you're you know on that side of the building 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:02.120 over there, that a lot was put into this game, 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:05.520 and you know they I'm not going to say they 0:17:05.520 --> 0:17:07.600 weren't ready to play, because I think they were ready 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:07.920 to play. 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:10.680 I just think the team they played and and I'm 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:12.800 not sitting there patting myself, but I picked that team. 0:17:12.840 --> 0:17:14.200 I picked San Francisco to win. 0:17:14.280 --> 0:17:16.520 When we all went around the room, I just felt 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:17.879 like but I felt like the game was going to 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.439 be a lot closer. I just some of the things 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:24.359 scheme wise, gave me pause that can the Cowboys really 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:29.040 handle this? And obviously they can't. They can't handle what 0:17:29.119 --> 0:17:33.800 San Francisco does defensively, and they surely can't handle uh, 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.360 you know, at least in this matchup. The previous two 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:40.240 they played pretty well on defense. The defense wasn't the problem. 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:42.600 Everybody was kind of hanging their hat on Well, wait 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:45.240 a minute, Dan Quinn's got to handle on this Kyle 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:49.600 Shanahan offense. But Kyle Shanahan said, no, not today, Dan, 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:53.479 not today. And you know, so that's that's your problem 0:17:53.560 --> 0:17:56.439 right there, that that you know what things you we 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:59.679 all thought were really not And to your point, they 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:01.880 have it, you know, have they you can only play 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.000 who's on your stat Absolutely, you can only play so 0:18:04.240 --> 0:18:06.760 But you know, you lose to Arizona, and you know, 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:09.119 you're like, well that was bad, you know, after you 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:12.679 see what Arizona's doing right now. But I don't think 0:18:12.720 --> 0:18:15.520 there's any shame to lose into San Francisco because of 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.080 the type of team they are. But if this kind 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:22.960 of spirals into continued bad play, and to Patrick's point, 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:26.760 this Texas Coast offense that we don't ever see any 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:28.200 movement from. 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:31.879 It, you gotta score, like and your defense kept you 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:35.520 in the first half game and can you exhausted your 0:18:35.560 --> 0:18:38.000 defense and yet you're not able to score at some 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:39.600 point your defense can do it all for you. 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:41.679 And then and this is the conversation you have in 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:44.040 June in the off season, when you say, Week seven, 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:47.800 don't be surprised at Brian Schottenheimer's calling plays. That's the 0:18:47.840 --> 0:18:50.639 conversation that you start in June. You know, if you 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:52.600 start to look at the season and you say, and 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:54.439 we do it in the radio all the time, you know, 0:18:54.840 --> 0:18:58.320 talk you have, don't be surprised that Brian Schottenheimer's calling plays. 0:18:58.320 --> 0:19:01.160 After the after the Chargers game, if you know that's 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:04.840 the you know, something has to be done differently. But 0:19:05.000 --> 0:19:09.280 also we talked about this, they changed their entire coaching staff. 0:19:09.640 --> 0:19:12.760 Now that was something that we were concerned about. It's 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:15.160 not working the way it needs to work. Right now, 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:16.320 all that's a good problem. 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:18.159 We're going to take our first bake break. 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:20.760 We're going to come back and we'll dive into a 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:22.640 little more of the details of this game. We'll talk 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:25.399 about the offense and the defense and where things really 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:25.920 went wrong. 0:19:25.960 --> 0:19:28.160 All right, we'll be back to Dallas. Cowboys dot Com reo. 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:30.879 Todd thought it would be secure to jog in the 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:33.560