WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: What Now? 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:07.520 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:18.880 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys 0:00:18.920 --> 0:00:22.319 training live from the Dallas Cowboys World headlours at the 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:33.360 Star in Priscillo, Live says, and now your hosts Isaiah Stanback, 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:39.839 heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeoman's it is 0:00:39.880 --> 0:00:44.720 the final regular season version of Talking Cowboys of twenty 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.600 twenty one. Welcome into twenty twenty, or actually I guess 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.760 it was twenty twenty, but now it's twenty twenty one. 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:52.800 But either way, we're mixed, matched and mumbled because the 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:58.040 Cowboys season came to a close yesterday twenty three to nineteen, 0:00:58.160 --> 0:01:01.680 a week seventeen loss the New York Giants. And if 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.920 you're frustrated Cowboys Nation, we're right there with you, and 0:01:04.959 --> 0:01:07.880 we're gonna break things down about what happened to the 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:11.120 Giants and how the Cowboys ended the twenty twenty campaign 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:15.319 with a six and ten record. But first let me 0:01:15.319 --> 0:01:18.840 introduce the crew as always for one final time, at 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:21.840 least regular season wise. We'll get into the off season 0:01:22.160 --> 0:01:25.760 coming up next Monday, but alongside our resident Super Bowl champion, 0:01:25.800 --> 0:01:29.520 Isaiah stand Back, Cowboys insider Rob Phillips and our professional 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:34.160 football analyst Heckma Harrison with you as always. But gentlemen, 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:36.360 first off, Happy new year. I haven't seen you guys 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:39.039 since twenty twenty. It's kind of crazy to talk about. 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.440 Except for you, Isaiah, I saw you yesterday, so a 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:45.000 little less of a happy new year, buddy, Yeah, exactly, 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:47.520 saw me yesterday too. Oh that's true. I did see 0:01:47.600 --> 0:01:50.760 Rob yesterday as well, but heck happy he forgot about you. Rob, 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:55.560 don't worry about it. Happy new year to you, but 0:01:56.280 --> 0:01:59.120 it wasn't necessarily a happy new year for the Cowboys. 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:02.120 As I want to spend the first segment kind of 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:04.680 breaking down this game. The second segment we're going to 0:02:04.760 --> 0:02:06.919 kind of look at the biggest needs going into the offseason, 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:08.960 and the third segment is going to be kind of 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:13.320 a hodgepodge of what happened between Washington and Philly and 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:15.760 was that okay or not? And we're gonna kind of 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:17.680 talk about a lot of things throughout the course of 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:21.120 this show. But let's start with the Cowboys in the Giants, Rob, 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.120 what did you see yesterday that kind of stuck out 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:26.200 to you? Because I felt like after three weeks of 0:02:26.240 --> 0:02:29.359 getting complimentary football from this football team. It was not 0:02:29.440 --> 0:02:35.840 so much yesterday. Yeah, heck and I talk just before 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:38.920 the show started about how you know, an NFL season 0:02:39.320 --> 0:02:42.119 is a roller coaster ride and when you get done 0:02:42.120 --> 0:02:44.919 with it, it's like, Okay, it just stops suddenly when 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:47.440 the season's over and go find your parents, like I said, 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:51.079 And it's and it's even more so this year where 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:54.079 you get off this ride and you're dizzy, because this 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:58.480 season was like no other. And to your point, a 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:00.639 lot of guys set it after the game, Mike McCarthy 0:03:00.680 --> 0:03:04.239 said it. The game itself Sunday was a microcosm of 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:09.280 the entire season in some ways where rough start, sloppy start, 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:13.080 nothing went right, not complimentary football, like you said, second 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:15.080 half of the game, like the second half of the season, 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:18.200 you kind of get it together, but it doesn't end well. 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:21.960 And that's this Cowboys season will be remembered as hopefully 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:24.919 the strangest season, the strangest season that we've ever seen, 0:03:25.520 --> 0:03:29.200 and one that a team that fought through a lot 0:03:29.480 --> 0:03:33.480 but ultimately wasn't good enough to win games consistently owen 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:37.720 six against teams that were winning records. Teams this season. 0:03:37.840 --> 0:03:44.960 That's that's how it ends. Egma, hey, Rob, I call 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:49.600 the emotional stamina this season, right, they get through this season, 0:03:49.880 --> 0:03:52.360 um man, it was one heck of a year. And 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:55.520 to go six and ten and obviously the last game 0:03:55.600 --> 0:03:58.640 still be in it just as indicative of the kind 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.680 of year that it was. But this game, it was 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:04.160 like the ghost of Christmas Pass coming back to visit 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:07.480 us on defense, not being able to set the edge, 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.240 blown coverages in the secondary when you talk about our 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:15.400 offensive line, just man New York, the New York Giants 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:19.600 beat us up at the line of scrimmage and whether 0:04:19.680 --> 0:04:23.279 it was missing assignment so whatever it was, if that 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.720 was the actual call that letting Leonard Williams just come 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:28.200 free on the quarterback, I don't know. But at the 0:04:28.279 --> 0:04:30.720 same time, it was just all of those things that 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:33.280 we had been seeing over the season that has plagued 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:36.200 this team. And look, I know that they fought. They 0:04:36.240 --> 0:04:38.520 fought all the way through and it was probably one 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.120 of the hardest seasons for them to get through professionally. 0:04:41.200 --> 0:04:43.400 But I'm sure all of Cowboy Nation would echo those 0:04:43.440 --> 0:04:47.080 sentiments exactly because it was one of those seasons that 0:04:47.240 --> 0:04:50.320 was I would like to say as an outlier because 0:04:50.360 --> 0:04:53.120 of COVID nineteen. But man, what a strange season. But 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:57.320 we got through it. Yeah, I mean you got through 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.400 it because the season ended heck up. But I mean 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:03.480 these guys, it looked bad yesterday. Yesterday. It was terrible. 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:06.120 It was it was. It was embarrassing, it was it 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:07.680 was the opposite of what you would have hoped to 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.839 see um on the field for this, for a game 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:13.560 of this caliber. You had guys that were out there 0:05:13.720 --> 0:05:16.520 we talked about on the postgame show, Kyle, but guys 0:05:16.560 --> 0:05:20.279 were getting literally drawn in. It's like it's like some 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:22.600 remember the commercial we had had a little dollar bill like, 0:05:22.640 --> 0:05:24.400 oh you gotta be quicker like they like it was 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:26.200 almost like you guys had a dollar bill out there 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:28.520 and they were like, oh, oh you want to fight, Okay, 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:31.320 here we're grabbed this and they just kept antagonizing us. 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:32.919 And guess what we were biting on it. We were 0:05:33.200 --> 0:05:34.800 biting a bait. We just kept going for it, and 0:05:34.839 --> 0:05:39.360 we were getting emotionally irrational and getting penalties and doing 0:05:39.440 --> 0:05:42.120 dump stuff. Jamal you know, Jordan Jordan Lewis head button 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:45.039 a guy. You know, we got you know, freaking you know, 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:48.760 the Swipers swiping on on first down plays and all 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:50.520 kinds of stuff. Guys are just doing stuff that was 0:05:50.600 --> 0:05:53.440 just out of the ordinary. Um, we like you already said, heck, 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:56.400 but we couldn't. We couldn't stop a running nose yesterday. This, 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.680 I mean the defensive line. You know, with Williams, he 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:01.719 did whatever the heck he wanted to and when we 0:06:01.839 --> 0:06:03.800 and when he was when he even when we didn't 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:05.720 want to allow him to do something, we just decided 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:07.200 not to block him. We just say, hey, you just 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.359 run free. You know, he run free and hit our quarterback. 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.159 Take us out of you know, good position on the field. Um, 0:06:12.279 --> 0:06:15.680 guys were dropping balls. Andy Dalton couldn't throw something on 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.000 the side of a barn obviously, line couldn't hold up, 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.640 defensive line couldn't get pressure all and Smith was standing 0:06:20.680 --> 0:06:23.000 straight up on his pass rushers and not giving for effort. 0:06:23.040 --> 0:06:25.760 I mean, it was bad all across the table. Um, 0:06:25.960 --> 0:06:28.160 throw throw the whole game away, and throw the whole 0:06:28.200 --> 0:06:31.000 season away. The only good thing is, Kyle, is that 0:06:31.279 --> 0:06:34.440 it had we won, we would be even more angrier today. 0:06:34.480 --> 0:06:38.960 But I know we're gonna get God's true. Yeah, it's 0:06:38.960 --> 0:06:41.960 true now, And I've got an opinion on that as well, 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:43.400 and we'll talk about that, like I said in the 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:46.320 third segment, because there is a lot of hypothetical around 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:49.160 what happened in the NFC East yesterday as a whole. 0:06:49.200 --> 0:06:51.080 But I kind of want to take something you just 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.520 talked about Isaiah and Andy Dalton, and it seemed like 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:56.680 the goal over the last four weeks, the final month 0:06:56.720 --> 0:06:59.359 of the season following that Baltimore game. This was the 0:06:59.400 --> 0:07:02.400 goal before, but it wasn't executed well, but it was 0:07:02.480 --> 0:07:05.479 keeping Andy Dalton upright, and it seemed like yesterday that 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.360 was the first game since that Baltimore game where Andy 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:11.200 Dalton didn't have time to throw, didn't feel comfortable in 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:14.160 the pocket, really kind of saw legitimate pressure and it 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:17.160 was from a front seven that at least going into 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:19.640 the game didn't scare you that much. And so my 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:23.720 question to you is is was it a false screen? 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.800 Was it just that that veil over the eyes of 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.760 the fact that we played Cincinnati and Philadelphia and won 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:35.760 those games versus actually playing a team that wanted it more, 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:40.640 a team that was ready to roll like New York yesterday. No, 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:44.440 not at all. We just didn't show up. There's no 0:07:44.800 --> 0:07:47.040 excuses we just didn't show up. We faced defensive lions 0:07:47.080 --> 0:07:49.480 that were substantially better than that we face. We have 0:07:49.600 --> 0:07:54.440 facing really good defensive lions this year, Baltimore, Cleveland, Atlanta. 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:56.600 I mean we faced some dogs out there now this year. 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:59.320 So when we look at this matchup, yeah, it should 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:01.640 have been easily handle. But guess what it wasn't. And 0:08:01.720 --> 0:08:04.200 we know one thing about Annie Dalton. I love any Dalton, 0:08:04.240 --> 0:08:06.720 but guess what. Andy Dalton does not do well whenever 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:09.040 he has pressure on him, he just doesn't. It's not 0:08:09.120 --> 0:08:10.760 something that he does. It's something that he has to 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.840 work on being able to overcome that that adversity. And 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.120 he didn't do well yesterday. Right, He got a little 0:08:16.120 --> 0:08:18.440 bit of pressure and you know, all of a sudden, 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:20.760 he throws inaccurately and his feet aren't moving as much. 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:22.560 He got a little step on the hand, his hands 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:24.360 jacked up, and guess what you can see that threw 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:26.120 him off his game for about a series or two. 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:27.680 So there's a there's a lot of things that he 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:30.720 had to work on. But holistically, as a team, we 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:33.240 got pushed in the mouth. It's like it's like we're 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.000 it's like we're facing dog on you know, Lennox Lewis, 0:08:36.000 --> 0:08:37.439 and Lennox Lewis came out and just popped us in 0:08:37.480 --> 0:08:38.960 the mouth and we were like, oh, wait a minute, Lennox, 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.079 I didn't know you still you still have that innue 0:08:42.000 --> 0:08:45.040 And it took us two quarters to bounce back and 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:48.680 we just didn't finish. And aside from that, I just 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.600 felt like we came out flat too. I said, absolutely. 0:08:51.880 --> 0:08:54.760 The tempo wasn't there, and it wasn't until they changed 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:57.800 the tempo on offense that you started to see the 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:01.160 offense start to come together. But you're right, man, if 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.319 it was from the beginning, it was from the beginning. 0:09:03.320 --> 0:09:06.880 And you know, the Giants had added that pressure on 0:09:06.960 --> 0:09:09.920 us that made Andy Dalton uncomfortable, but he just wasn't 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.760 able to find those quick reads that we became accustomed 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:16.000 to seeing him do over the last couple of weeks. 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:19.440 And to me and just looking at the scheme that 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.199 the Giants were playing, they were in man a lot 0:09:22.240 --> 0:09:25.280 of times, which I thought was advantageous for us. And 0:09:25.480 --> 0:09:28.200 it wasn't until Andy Dalton decided to stop trying to 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:30.280 elude the pressure and just go ahead and try and 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:32.559 get it up in there and get us the first 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:35.640 down that I thought that there was even any motion 0:09:35.760 --> 0:09:38.080 to our offense, and they pretty much said, hey, if 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:39.840 you're gonna be the one that beat us, we're gonna 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:42.360 let you beat us. And it was just points in time. 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:45.080 There were times in the game where Andy slid and 0:09:45.120 --> 0:09:47.680 I'm sure the concussion and everything else was on his mind, 0:09:47.720 --> 0:09:50.200 but those were just plays where you say to yourself, 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:53.720 if dad's in there, dad carries everybody to the end zone. 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.240 But I understand that's a conversation for another thing. It's 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.760 a long off season, so I'm not gonna even start that, 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:03.360 all right, Yeah, you know he uh The worst play 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:05.720 obviously that he had was was the interception at the end, 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.760 where you know, give you give your give your offense 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:10.840 one more chance, you know, don't just chuck it up 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:12.599 at the end and try to make a play. And 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:16.360 that's what he said afterwards. I thought second half, they 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.439 got a little bit of tempo going, they got into 0:10:18.440 --> 0:10:21.040 a little hurry up, and that that maybe shook him 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:22.920 out of it a little bit, and the Giants were 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:25.000 playing soft a little bit in their coverage and they 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:26.920 were able to get some things going on the outside. 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:31.840 But first half, man, you know he had several balls 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:34.200 that were contested that you could have argued could have 0:10:34.240 --> 0:10:38.120 been intercepted, just just off. I know the weather wasn't good, 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:39.800 and I know the protection wasn't great, but there were 0:10:39.840 --> 0:10:41.960 some throws he missed where he did have protection. Now, 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:45.720 he was sacked six six times, he was hit nine times. 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:49.600 So I do think while the Giants from a personnel standpoint, 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:54.440 like Isaiah, I agree with you, they faced better fronts 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.720 in terms of personnel. I do think their scheme is 0:10:56.760 --> 0:11:00.440 better than what they've seen defensively from the last three opponents. 0:11:00.480 --> 0:11:02.480 I think they challenge you, they give you different looks, 0:11:02.800 --> 0:11:05.600 and yeah, they just didn't respond early. It was like 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:08.480 early in the season where these slow starts kind of 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.360 make you play from behind. At least they didn't turn 0:11:10.400 --> 0:11:12.880 it over early. But then on the defensive side of 0:11:12.920 --> 0:11:15.520 the ball, you know, you want him to come out 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:20.400 with emotion and not not look flat, but but there 0:11:20.480 --> 0:11:22.880 was too much emotion. Yeah, something about Nick Gates, their 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:25.960 Giant's guard. I don't know, he's like a pro wrestler, 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.120 cutting promos and after plays or something, but he was 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:31.880 really ticking guys off and they lost their composure early 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:34.679 and one of those penalties. I think it was Gregory's 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:38.280 late late hit after oud yeah, led to a touchdown. 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:42.200 They got away with Jordan Lewis's penalty, but but not Gregory's. Yeah, 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:45.160 there was emotion yesterday, and even on the offensive side 0:11:45.160 --> 0:11:47.559 of the football. Really quick to wrap that up. I mean, 0:11:47.600 --> 0:11:49.960 if you take the third quarter out of it, then 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.160 the rest of the game it was stagnant. I mean, 0:11:52.160 --> 0:11:55.120 there was nothing. The third quarter was where Andy Dalton's 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:56.520 kind of found his rhythm and then he got the 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:58.560 hand stepped on, and then from then on out it 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:01.959 was a struggle to find any kind of rhythm. Uh. Defensively, 0:12:02.760 --> 0:12:04.600 that's where I kind of want to go right now. Robin. 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:06.920 And you mentioned that emotion, Isaiah. I know you were 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.320 all over that yesterday as well. You've been in big 0:12:09.360 --> 0:12:14.199 games before. We've the Cowboys, at least with this current group, 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:16.920 have not necessarily seen those big games as much, and 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:19.720 if they have, they haven't been able to take advantage. 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:24.640 Why is emotion so much of a bugaboo for this 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:30.560 Cowboys organization? And we saw it again yesterday. I don't 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.280 know why it's such a bugaboo, but I can tell 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:35.000 you yesterday the lack of emotional intelligence. You guys have 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:36.839 heard me referred to that here on the show before. 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:39.640 Yesterday was a perfect example of it. If there, if there, 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:41.120 if you had to look it up in the Dictionary 0:12:41.280 --> 0:12:44.040 of lack of emotional intelligence, that was it. That was 0:12:44.080 --> 0:12:47.520 a perfect display. And our guys were just unable to 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:51.240 handle the task at hand that the giants were successful at. 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:54.800 Just think about like, what was it. What's old boy 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:56.400 used to play for Detroit Pistons back in today? Was 0:12:56.440 --> 0:12:59.640 that Lambrie or something like that. Yeah, yeah, Lambrier And 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:01.560 you got like Dennis rob and those guys, they's just 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.720 like kind of antagonist. Just they just pull and just 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:06.600 they're just waiting for you, right, They're just just making 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:07.960 you mad the whole time. You just they know that 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:09.920 you're gonna snap at some point in time. That's what 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:11.160 they did to us. But they did it in the 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:12.840 first quarter, Like how do they do it in the 0:13:12.840 --> 0:13:14.760 first quarter? And they get you respond like that, Like 0:13:14.840 --> 0:13:17.680 we were literally responding like little boys on a pickup 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:19.240 game on the field, you know what, say out there 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.120 just out there in the playground, and like there was 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.160 no referees and there was nobody else watching, Like No, 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:26.160 there's there's rules, there's parameters what you can and can't do. 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:28.959 And when you have emotional intelligence, you go ahead and 0:13:29.040 --> 0:13:31.600 chock it up right or you quote unquote, you let 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.120 somebody punk you for the greater good of the team, 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:36.560 and you say, you know what I got you when 0:13:36.559 --> 0:13:38.360 I come back. You know, I'm saying, when the when 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:40.360 the popper play allows for it, I'm gonna bush you 0:13:40.440 --> 0:13:42.400 in your mouth, or I'm embarrassing him a round you up, 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:44.040 or I'm gonna get a big catch on you or 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:45.599 something like that. You don't go out there and you 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:48.120 chin check somebody when they're not looking. You don't wait 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:51.040 until Yeah, the oh boy made a dirty play, Gregory, 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:52.680 But guess what he was trying to get you to 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.760 react that way? So what did Gregory do? He was 0:13:54.880 --> 0:13:56.640 he didn't have a here to have emotional intelligence. So 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:59.840 guess what I'm sticking up from my boy? My pride boom, 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:02.080 get off, my boy. Guess what? You can't do that 0:14:02.120 --> 0:14:05.079 within the rules, buddy, You know that already. So there's 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:07.480 things that, yeah, guys would get you emotionally routed up, 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.720 but you have to get them back legally. Yeah, I don't. 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:14.360 I don't mind. I don't mind the mindset behind Gregory 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:16.920 defending his teammate. That's not the issue. It was a 0:14:17.600 --> 0:14:20.360 jumped over the pile. You want your guys defend a 0:14:20.400 --> 0:14:23.400 guy that's fun, that's always going to be there, and 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:25.720 you want that kind of fire. It was the fact 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:28.080 that he jumped over a pile and shoved him off 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:30.000 whenever he could have gone over and pulled him off 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:31.960 and said some words to him at that point. I know, 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.200 in the moment, there's a lot of a lot of emotion. 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.400 Like I said, heckmuer and like Isaiah just kind of 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:38.880 talked about, but you got to find a better way 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:44.360 to control it at this point. Semantics, guys, because when 0:14:44.400 --> 0:14:47.360 you look at the way that they were playing up 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:50.880 until that point, they were lifeless until number sixty five 0:14:50.960 --> 0:14:53.760 started agitating them. And then you all of a sudden, 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.640 you see the defense started to all of a set 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:00.080 and play with the competitive anger that they needed to 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:03.080 to be in this game. And yeah, they made Stirling 0:15:03.120 --> 0:15:06.320 Shepard look like Jerry Rice. Yeah. I mean there were 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:09.120 points in this game where you're asking yourself, Okay, guys, 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.960 when did we start to allow guys like this to 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:18.320 just pop off on US and all year, and it's 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:20.480 a reason for the fantasy points and all that we've 0:15:20.480 --> 0:15:23.560 given up more points to wide receivers all year, more 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:25.840 points two running backs all year. And that's why I 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.720 say things that we did before came back to visit 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:31.320 US and the Giants were able to just kind of 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:33.720 bottle that up and show the world that, look, we 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.920 hadn't really changed much. And look, when I say a 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:39.600 competitive anger, I expected these guys to come out with 0:15:39.640 --> 0:15:42.960 the fire because they knew what was at stake. But 0:15:43.280 --> 0:15:46.280 that didn't happen. And so for the Giants to then 0:15:47.320 --> 0:15:52.200 just bulldoze US with their offensive line and defensive line, 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:55.080 I mean to me, like I said, you just frame 0:15:55.200 --> 0:15:59.560 that and that's your game. Yeah, you mentioned the plays 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.520 in the past game. Heck, but I mean the run 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:07.480 defense really it never got considerably better this season. I 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:10.440 know they're in the three game stretch, Uh, the takeaways 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.360 or what really galvanized them defensively. Yeah, but they but 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.400 they you know, and they finished I think with twelve 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:20.840 and their last four games, and that's that's that's really good. 0:16:20.840 --> 0:16:23.440 That leads that leads the NFL over the last four 0:16:23.480 --> 0:16:26.520 games of the regular season. That's that's impressive. But you know, 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.480 the run defense in the end proved to be the 0:16:29.480 --> 0:16:32.600 biggest problem that they had defensively all year long. And 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:33.960 I just looked it up, you know, I think they 0:16:34.000 --> 0:16:37.720 held two opponent two opponents under one hundred yards and 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:40.680 they gave up one twenty five yesterday, gave up forty 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.560 eight rushing yards on the opening drive and the first 0:16:43.600 --> 0:16:47.000 touchdown by Sterling Shepherd, as you mentioned, heck was a reverse. 0:16:47.160 --> 0:16:51.160 And what if we said all year long, mister direction, 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.640 I think you know, motion in the backfield. Those have 0:16:54.720 --> 0:16:58.040 been problems all year long. So while there was improvement 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:00.920 defensively this year late in the season, uh, there are 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:04.679 still some core things that that really ultimately proved to 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.040 be the problem for them and and why that they 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:10.720 struggled so much overall. And Kyle, can I say that 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:13.680 it wasn't it wasn't just the anger or the lack 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.600 there of control of anger. Uh, But it was also 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:19.040 like the celebration, like I don't know if I'm the 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:23.400 only one, but like the Jalen Smith continuous celebration as 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:25.600 if he was the one, yeah, as if he was 0:17:25.640 --> 0:17:28.760 the one making plays like Bro, you're you're, you're swiping 0:17:28.800 --> 0:17:31.399 on other people's plays, bro, and you're swiping when these 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:33.760 guys got first downs Like that, to me is a 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:36.159 lack of emotion, of emotional intelligence as well, because like 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:40.760 you're doing, do your job. Just just just just do 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.040 your job, you know what I'm saying, Like these guys 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:45.760 are moving the moving the chains. Why are we celebrating? 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:48.520 Why are we celebrating? These guys are moving the sticks 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:51.919 on us as they please, and we're celebrating that. Like, No, 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:53.960 you don't celebrate until you get a dog on big 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.040 third down stopping. You see that punter running on the field, 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:59.760 that's when you celebrate. Yeah, it's comical. Fair, no fair, 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:04.719 it's comical. What I mean it was we just jaws 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:07.760 hit the floor whenever the first down happened, and then 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:09.560 all of a sudden you saw fifty four come up 0:18:09.560 --> 0:18:14.240 and just swipe. And I know you're trying to build 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:16.440 a brand, and I know that's really kind of your thing, 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:19.280 but I mean there's different times, different places, and that 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:21.000 was definitely not one of them. Maybe he didn't think 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:23.680 he got the first down. There's definitely excuses, and honestly, 0:18:23.680 --> 0:18:26.160 I think he took more accountability postgame than he has 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:28.520 all year long, so I respect him for that, but 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:31.359 it is it's frustrating from a Cowboys standpoint. It was 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:35.320 also frustrating on game management yesterday, and Mike McCarthy was 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:37.680 asked about it yesterday in terms of game management. When 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:40.520 we come back here on Talking Cowboys presented by Geico, 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:43.840 was it the right call not to challenge on the 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:47.080 pettish catch. We're gonna talk about that and maybe some 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:50.840 other game management hiccups yesterday in The Cowboys twenty three 0:18:50.880 --> 0:18:56.119 to nineteen lost when we returned on Talking Cowboys. 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Yesterday, offense defense, I'll 0:22:06.119 --> 0:22:08.000 throw up special teams in their special teams kind of 0:22:08.040 --> 0:22:11.080 did their job, but it was it was frustrating from 0:22:11.080 --> 0:22:15.159 a baseline performance standpoint. But whenever you look at the 0:22:15.400 --> 0:22:18.760 game management from the coaching staff yesterday, I thought it 0:22:18.800 --> 0:22:23.440 was one of the more poorly managed games this season. Heck, 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:26.920 did you think that same case about the way Mike 0:22:27.000 --> 0:22:29.480 McCarthy kind of handled some of those situations. And we'll 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:31.359 get to that challenge call here at a moment, But 0:22:31.400 --> 0:22:35.760 what did you think overall? You know, I remember last 0:22:35.840 --> 0:22:39.679 year we always were on Jason Garrett about situational awareness 0:22:39.800 --> 0:22:41.959 and that was one of the pet peeves of the 0:22:41.960 --> 0:22:44.600 fan base, and it just seemed like it got ugly 0:22:44.680 --> 0:22:48.040 in this game will so, especially with the pettish challenge 0:22:48.320 --> 0:22:51.199 and the well, the lack there of a challenge, and 0:22:51.480 --> 0:22:53.679 it just you know, all of those things combined and 0:22:53.720 --> 0:22:55.359 when it comes down to a football game and the 0:22:55.400 --> 0:22:57.400 way that you evaluate it is there are so many 0:22:57.440 --> 0:23:01.000 other things that happened within a football game that make 0:23:01.400 --> 0:23:06.040 your demise at the end, you know it realistic, but 0:23:06.400 --> 0:23:09.160 you know, red zone inefficiency, a lot of those things. 0:23:09.160 --> 0:23:11.480 The play call and was just, man, it's as bad 0:23:11.520 --> 0:23:14.520 as I've seen it. But you know, offensive line didn't 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:17.359 give us much. But for me, it obviously was the 0:23:17.480 --> 0:23:21.480 lack of challenging because Spotellian Green Bay Boy, he was 0:23:21.560 --> 0:23:24.359 quick all the challenge with that dance catch. When he 0:23:24.480 --> 0:23:28.040 was quick on that challenge that I was like, come on, dude, 0:23:28.040 --> 0:23:31.520 what you do Mike? And Mike didn't do so and 0:23:31.680 --> 0:23:34.040 people are definitely upset about it, but I've heard him 0:23:34.040 --> 0:23:36.480 say that it was a bang bang situation and it 0:23:36.640 --> 0:23:38.679 just didn't have time to evaluate whether he was going 0:23:38.720 --> 0:23:44.880 to throw it or not. Bright. Yeah, that's exactly what 0:23:44.920 --> 0:23:47.320 he said that, and he doubled down on it when 0:23:47.359 --> 0:23:50.760 he was pressed about not only that call, but you know, 0:23:51.119 --> 0:23:54.080 he's been questioned about game management stuff since week one. 0:23:54.440 --> 0:23:56.760 You know, fourth quarter against the Rams, he decided to 0:23:56.760 --> 0:23:58.639 go for it and throw the CD lamb and they 0:23:58.640 --> 0:24:00.280 didn't get it instead of kicking a field goal, and 0:24:00.280 --> 0:24:03.000 they lost the game by three. So you can point 0:24:03.000 --> 0:24:05.640 to things throughout the season where it didn't go right, 0:24:05.720 --> 0:24:08.480 and so he's questioned. And obviously, you know, thanksgiving the 0:24:08.520 --> 0:24:11.800 fake punt that that will go down in history, that 0:24:11.880 --> 0:24:16.800 one in particular. But ye know, I at first I 0:24:16.800 --> 0:24:21.800 thought he Pettis had it, and then when Mike Pereira's 0:24:21.840 --> 0:24:24.840 on the Fox broadcast saying had they challenged it, they 0:24:24.840 --> 0:24:27.800 probably would have gotten it overturned. It definitely was a 0:24:27.920 --> 0:24:31.160 questionable call. Now, I understand it's a one score game 0:24:31.160 --> 0:24:34.520 and you want to preserve your timeouts, but I was 0:24:34.560 --> 0:24:37.760 surprised he didn't challenge it. And ultimately, look, you know, 0:24:37.800 --> 0:24:41.359 you're driving at first in goal at the Giant seven 0:24:41.400 --> 0:24:43.960 inside of two minutes, and instead of kicking a field 0:24:43.960 --> 0:24:48.040 goal to win the game, you're trying to score touchdown. 0:24:48.080 --> 0:24:53.640 So it was a huge play in the game, no question. Yeah, 0:24:53.760 --> 0:24:56.080 we hit on disgession at Kyle. I mean, Rogers did 0:24:56.119 --> 0:24:57.760 a heck of a job kind of recapping the bad 0:24:57.760 --> 0:25:00.399 decisions that have transpired over the whole year. He's had 0:25:00.440 --> 0:25:01.760 an issue. I don't know if he was a year 0:25:01.800 --> 0:25:04.199 off or or he's just trying to instill confidence in 0:25:04.200 --> 0:25:06.199 his players or what. I'm not sure really what's going on, 0:25:06.280 --> 0:25:09.440 but that that was one of the many bad decisions 0:25:09.440 --> 0:25:12.680 that he made this year as a game manager, being 0:25:12.720 --> 0:25:15.520 the being a guy who gives the okay for plays 0:25:15.520 --> 0:25:17.680 to go through or flags to come out or not. 0:25:18.720 --> 0:25:20.600 The point of the matter is he said, oh, well, 0:25:20.640 --> 0:25:22.800 you know, we had three timeouts and it was a 0:25:23.119 --> 0:25:26.000 very close game, so obviously those timeouts are precious. Well 0:25:26.600 --> 0:25:29.919 obviously possessions are precious. Uh you're talking about as it 0:25:29.960 --> 0:25:31.760 was inconclusive, you know, so I couldn't really tell if 0:25:31.760 --> 0:25:34.560 he cut it or not. Isn't that why we challenge? 0:25:35.000 --> 0:25:39.800 Don't we challenge when we can't tell? Um? So, everything, 0:25:39.800 --> 0:25:42.040 every from my perspective, every reason that he gave as 0:25:42.040 --> 0:25:43.960 to why he did not challenge, is why he should 0:25:44.000 --> 0:25:46.679 have challenge. Uh, you know, I was, I was. I 0:25:46.720 --> 0:25:48.720 was torn a little bit obviously because Pettis is a 0:25:48.800 --> 0:25:52.600 utub guy, you know. But but aside from that, um, 0:25:52.640 --> 0:25:54.119 you know, it was it was a close play. It 0:25:54.160 --> 0:25:55.679 was a close playing. Yes it's a bang bang, but 0:25:55.720 --> 0:25:58.040 guess what, bang bang throw your flag so that you 0:25:58.040 --> 0:26:00.000 can get an opportunity to get the ball. But because 0:26:00.320 --> 0:26:02.480 that was just too important, because those guys got the 0:26:02.520 --> 0:26:04.760 first down, and obviously what the game change if they 0:26:04.760 --> 0:26:06.440 don't get that first down to guess what, they're trying 0:26:06.440 --> 0:26:08.640 to kick something right, so or you know, or punt. 0:26:08.720 --> 0:26:10.520 Actually they're out of field goal range. They're trying to punt, 0:26:10.680 --> 0:26:14.639 so big, big opportunity missed. And yes, we can scrutinize 0:26:14.680 --> 0:26:16.399 him on the back end all day long, but I 0:26:16.400 --> 0:26:19.560 can truly say, throw the dog on flag. The game 0:26:19.680 --> 0:26:22.480 is too close. The game was too important for you 0:26:22.560 --> 0:26:24.800 to decide whether that was a catch or not. So 0:26:24.920 --> 0:26:27.119 and I thought, you know, I thought Hellman made up 0:26:27.160 --> 0:26:30.159 a good point on Twitter during the game that you know, 0:26:30.560 --> 0:26:33.440 college gets it right, College reviews all this stuff, and 0:26:33.520 --> 0:26:35.719 you don't put the coaches in a position to have 0:26:35.840 --> 0:26:38.720 to do it. But you know, that's part of the game, 0:26:38.800 --> 0:26:41.080 that's part of part of the job description. And and 0:26:41.119 --> 0:26:42.679 when you're on the road, you don't get much help 0:26:42.720 --> 0:26:45.160 in terms of video replay from the opposing stadium, so 0:26:45.640 --> 0:26:47.480 you know, that's heck, that's part of it too. But 0:26:47.480 --> 0:26:49.840 but you gotta you gotta make the decision in the moment, 0:26:49.960 --> 0:26:52.480 and uh, we'll never know, but I think they certainly 0:26:52.480 --> 0:26:54.280 would have had a chance to get it reversed. Kind 0:26:54.320 --> 0:26:57.560 of value. That's what you guys are talking about. And 0:26:57.720 --> 0:26:59.639 this let me say this. I think I said what 0:26:59.720 --> 0:27:03.560 you and is the responsibilities incumbent of the position. You know, 0:27:03.600 --> 0:27:06.240 it's your job to do that when you see something 0:27:06.320 --> 0:27:09.800 that's you, that drive that catch, right, there's a difference 0:27:09.840 --> 0:27:14.119 between them a sixty yard field gold or whatever it 0:27:14.160 --> 0:27:16.080 was going to be at that time. You place your 0:27:16.560 --> 0:27:19.480 ball club in a really bad position by not challenging. 0:27:19.520 --> 0:27:22.000 And we talk about the analytics of football and all 0:27:22.040 --> 0:27:24.960 of that, not going for two and all the situational things. 0:27:24.960 --> 0:27:27.520 It just felt like yesterday, all of those things failed. 0:27:27.560 --> 0:27:31.160 Mike McCarthy. Well, whenever it came down to what Mike 0:27:31.240 --> 0:27:34.399 McCarthy said after the game in terms of the timeouts 0:27:34.400 --> 0:27:37.359 being valuable in a low scoring game like that, where 0:27:37.680 --> 0:27:40.239 I mean your offense is struggling to put points on 0:27:40.240 --> 0:27:42.879 the board. Aren't points a little bit more valuable than 0:27:42.960 --> 0:27:46.720 the timeouts? Especially at that point because even if it's 0:27:46.720 --> 0:27:49.399 a fifty fifty they get it, they don't get it. 0:27:49.440 --> 0:27:51.960 And I think it was more than fifty percent chance 0:27:51.960 --> 0:27:54.520 the Cowboys were going to have that call overturned if 0:27:54.520 --> 0:27:58.080 you would have thrown the challenge flag. I absolutely think 0:27:58.119 --> 0:28:01.239 it was way more than fifty And even if it 0:28:01.320 --> 0:28:03.680 was a fifty fifty chance, I think the risk reward 0:28:04.240 --> 0:28:07.280 was much greater throwing that challenge flag. I think if 0:28:07.320 --> 0:28:10.440 this was Week one, it would be a little bit 0:28:10.480 --> 0:28:13.159 more of a little bit more of a pass a 0:28:13.400 --> 0:28:15.520 little bit, not a lot, but a little bit, because 0:28:15.560 --> 0:28:18.160 you don't know what your team can do. You don't 0:28:18.160 --> 0:28:21.000 know where you're at team wise. You know your team 0:28:21.040 --> 0:28:24.399 struggles in the red zone. You know that, and if 0:28:24.440 --> 0:28:27.719 any possibility that you could keep that game within a 0:28:27.760 --> 0:28:30.760 field goal is on the board, you got to figure 0:28:30.760 --> 0:28:33.199 out how to do it. And that was what that was. 0:28:33.359 --> 0:28:35.320 That was a chance to keep it within a field 0:28:35.359 --> 0:28:37.639 goal and it ended up making it a four point 0:28:37.680 --> 0:28:40.200 game and the Cowboys needed a touchdown. Guess what happened. 0:28:40.240 --> 0:28:43.160 They went down, got into the red zone through an interception, 0:28:43.400 --> 0:28:45.160 and thus there was the end of the ball game. 0:28:45.280 --> 0:28:48.880 So I'm just saying at that point, situational awareness you 0:28:48.960 --> 0:28:51.240 gotta keep it within three points because you know how 0:28:51.240 --> 0:28:53.800 your offense struggles in the red zone. You're already seeing 0:28:53.800 --> 0:28:57.320 that your offense has been stagnant against this Giant's defense, 0:28:57.360 --> 0:28:59.520 and rob they just couldn't figure out a way to 0:28:59.560 --> 0:29:02.719 score points. You got to take advantage of not putting 0:29:02.720 --> 0:29:06.800 points up on the board. Yeah, and in terms of 0:29:06.880 --> 0:29:09.360 you know, it's got to be conclusive evidence, right if 0:29:09.520 --> 0:29:12.520 if it's going to go to review. So but to me, 0:29:12.560 --> 0:29:15.160 it was different than you know, the Wayne Gallman fumble 0:29:15.200 --> 0:29:17.200 at the end, which you know the season ends on 0:29:17.240 --> 0:29:23.440 a butt recovery. I mean, how fitting is that? Right? Right? 0:29:23.480 --> 0:29:25.600 But like, at least on that one, and that obviously 0:29:25.600 --> 0:29:28.320 went straight to review. But you know, you wouldn't challenge 0:29:28.320 --> 0:29:32.320 that one because if it's challenged, then the officials would 0:29:32.320 --> 0:29:34.840 have to determine based on a pile where you can't 0:29:34.880 --> 0:29:37.320 see anything that oh, yeah, the Cowboys got it, and 0:29:37.320 --> 0:29:40.480 and so that that you know, when you're watching that replay, 0:29:40.520 --> 0:29:44.400 it's like there's to me, anyway, there's a serious question 0:29:44.440 --> 0:29:47.280 of did he trap trap the ball with the ground? 0:29:47.440 --> 0:29:50.240 You know? And so but again it does come down 0:29:50.320 --> 0:29:52.480 to what's a catch in the NFL. I mean, since 0:29:52.880 --> 0:29:55.360 the death catch in twenty fifteen, I still don't know. 0:29:55.600 --> 0:29:57.320 I don't know what the officials are going to call, 0:29:57.920 --> 0:30:01.320 uh play to play a game to game, So there's 0:30:01.360 --> 0:30:04.680 that at least. My issue fellas with that call, and 0:30:04.720 --> 0:30:06.360 I know we're probably gonna be done this here in 0:30:06.360 --> 0:30:08.920 the second, But my issue with that call was if 0:30:08.960 --> 0:30:12.760 that was just a regular first down, I don't challenge. 0:30:13.400 --> 0:30:16.440 I don't challenge regular first down, but a first down 0:30:16.640 --> 0:30:21.000 that takes them from a punt to a potential field 0:30:21.000 --> 0:30:25.960 goal right sounds. That's where you challenge had had it 0:30:26.080 --> 0:30:27.960 had it been further back, had it been all the 0:30:28.000 --> 0:30:30.080 way back on the thirty or somebody that's twenty or thirty. 0:30:30.600 --> 0:30:32.520 Guess what, I don't have a problem with you, not 0:30:32.560 --> 0:30:34.800 so much. Right, I don't go ahead, let them and 0:30:34.880 --> 0:30:36.120 let him have it. Right, we still have a chance 0:30:36.120 --> 0:30:39.440 to play defense if they don't. If this call gets overturned, 0:30:39.440 --> 0:30:43.440 they punted, that is a change of possession. That's where 0:30:43.440 --> 0:30:45.400 the that's where the weight of this call, where the 0:30:45.680 --> 0:30:47.720 no call was the no the no throw right, he 0:30:47.720 --> 0:30:49.640 didn't throw the red flat, That's where the weight of 0:30:49.680 --> 0:30:51.800 this was at because of the fact he did not 0:30:51.920 --> 0:30:55.560 challenge he gave them an opportunity to get the first down, right, 0:30:55.600 --> 0:30:57.720 and not only first down, put them and put points 0:30:57.720 --> 0:30:59.880 into it. Yeah yeah, but when you get you had 0:30:59.880 --> 0:31:02.240 a between to get the ball back. You had opportunity 0:31:02.240 --> 0:31:03.560 to get the ball back. And that's where the s 0:31:03.600 --> 0:31:06.440 why everybody's looking at this so seriously. Yeah, it was, Hey, 0:31:06.440 --> 0:31:08.320 what do you guys think about the I was going 0:31:08.320 --> 0:31:09.920 to let me yeah, let me go ahead and clarify 0:31:09.960 --> 0:31:12.160 this real quickly. It wasn't a first down on the play. 0:31:12.200 --> 0:31:14.600 It was third and sixteen, and he gained about twelve, sorry, 0:31:14.800 --> 0:31:18.520 gained about twelve and put them in the field goal 0:31:18.560 --> 0:31:20.520 range for a fifty yard attempt. So if you don't 0:31:20.560 --> 0:31:23.440 gain the twelve, it's a sixty two yard field goal 0:31:23.600 --> 0:31:26.120 versus a fifty yard field goal. And it was nailed 0:31:26.120 --> 0:31:28.240 from fifty yards out, go ahead, Rob. As to what 0:31:28.280 --> 0:31:33.120 you were saying, oh, well, speaking of you know, game management, 0:31:33.160 --> 0:31:34.680 I just want to see what you guys thought about 0:31:34.720 --> 0:31:39.080 the two point non two point decision midway through the 0:31:39.120 --> 0:31:42.040 third quarter where it becomes a twenty to fifteen game 0:31:42.520 --> 0:31:44.800 and they elect to kick the extra point instead of 0:31:44.840 --> 0:31:47.160 going for two, and Mike said it was too early 0:31:47.200 --> 0:31:49.840 in the game, And honestly, on that one at the time, 0:31:49.880 --> 0:31:52.160 I'm thinking, well, I've watched a lot of football, and 0:31:52.920 --> 0:31:55.400 usually that's what coaches do. They don't they don't try 0:31:55.400 --> 0:31:57.920 to chase the points too early. I don't know what 0:31:57.960 --> 0:32:00.400 do you guys thought about that one? That that didn't 0:32:00.440 --> 0:32:02.440 bother me so much? That that didn't that didn't really 0:32:02.440 --> 0:32:04.080 bother me. What bothered me is when we get down 0:32:04.120 --> 0:32:06.960 to the red zone and we're going going empty sets. 0:32:07.000 --> 0:32:11.000 That bothers me because we're obviously having a problem blocking 0:32:11.400 --> 0:32:13.760 that game. We're obviously having a problem keeping our quarterback 0:32:13.840 --> 0:32:15.600 up right, So why are we going to take one 0:32:15.640 --> 0:32:17.640 of the league's best blocking running backs out of that 0:32:17.720 --> 0:32:20.960 situation that protect him and or potentially run the ball? 0:32:20.960 --> 0:32:23.240 And I know Zeke wasn't running, he was really playing hurt. 0:32:23.520 --> 0:32:26.760 But you know, he's a good blocker, you know, so 0:32:27.120 --> 0:32:29.960 so why do we take him out of that situation? 0:32:30.040 --> 0:32:32.239 And then, oh, by the way, the guy who's been 0:32:32.280 --> 0:32:38.480 sacking us all day, how about we just don't block him? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, none, 0:32:38.840 --> 0:32:41.000 None of that worked for us, man, And hope just 0:32:41.240 --> 0:32:44.760 isn't a strategy and hoping that somebody realizes that, oh 0:32:44.880 --> 0:32:47.760 he's coming off the edge. Hey, Terence Steel, you may 0:32:47.840 --> 0:32:50.600 want to block that guy, but Terce, you know, obviously 0:32:50.600 --> 0:32:53.040 the protection and I've read that, you know, the protection 0:32:53.200 --> 0:32:56.600 was what it was, that was his responsibility. But back 0:32:56.600 --> 0:32:58.840 to what you were saying, Rob, you know, look, we've 0:32:58.880 --> 0:33:01.440 been a part of so many of these decisions where 0:33:01.520 --> 0:33:03.200 we're asking our sails, so why are you going for 0:33:03.280 --> 0:33:06.840 two now? We've become accustomed to those kinds of decisions, 0:33:06.840 --> 0:33:09.920 and when you don't do it, you find yourself kind 0:33:09.920 --> 0:33:13.320 of bewildered, like, okay, this is a situation where you 0:33:13.400 --> 0:33:17.560 would point to your analytics and going for two now 0:33:17.720 --> 0:33:20.120 versus worrying about it later. It really for me, look, 0:33:20.160 --> 0:33:22.360 it didn't. It didn't. It wasn't a game break. It 0:33:22.400 --> 0:33:24.040 wasn't the thing that I said at the end was 0:33:24.080 --> 0:33:26.160 the reason why we won to lost the game. I 0:33:26.240 --> 0:33:29.000 just felt as though, look, man, here here, finally you're 0:33:29.000 --> 0:33:32.240 getting that momentum, go for it now versus waiting for 0:33:32.320 --> 0:33:34.800 it later. But still you know that it was what 0:33:34.880 --> 0:33:37.400 it was. There were plenty of decisions, there were plenty 0:33:37.440 --> 0:33:41.520 of plays throughout the game, throughout the season. That's the 0:33:41.560 --> 0:33:43.960 reason that the Cowboys are not in the playoffs. I mean, 0:33:43.960 --> 0:33:46.280 it wasn't just one play here, one played there. There 0:33:46.360 --> 0:33:49.520 was a compounding struggle all the way through Week one 0:33:49.560 --> 0:33:52.480 through seventeen, and we saw that. 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Well, we've been talking a 0:37:07.040 --> 0:37:09.759 lot about the brain here the last couple of a 0:37:09.800 --> 0:37:13.919 couple of moments and decisions that we're made, we're not made. 0:37:13.960 --> 0:37:15.600 And I want to talk about one more here in 0:37:15.600 --> 0:37:18.200 our final segment, and I don't want to end talking 0:37:18.200 --> 0:37:21.239 about Philadelphia, So I'm gonna say it really quickly. We're 0:37:21.239 --> 0:37:23.239 gonna talk about it real fast, and then we'll fix 0:37:23.280 --> 0:37:28.400 the Cowboys for everybody, But wow, last night UM Washington 0:37:28.480 --> 0:37:31.960 Philadelphia Lincoln Financial Field, they sit Jalen Hurts in a 0:37:32.000 --> 0:37:36.160 one score game in the second half and seemingly tank 0:37:36.320 --> 0:37:39.879 the season away and tank the matchup with Washington New 0:37:40.000 --> 0:37:43.879 York's upsets NFL is upset. What did you guys think 0:37:43.920 --> 0:37:47.279 about that, Rob, about the decision that Doug Peterson made 0:37:47.280 --> 0:37:49.560 to sit down Jalen Hurts and what was kind of 0:37:49.560 --> 0:37:54.800 a crazy turn of events in an NFC's battle. I 0:37:54.880 --> 0:37:58.480 thought of you, Oh, I thought of you away. That 0:37:58.520 --> 0:38:03.320 makes me feel great about myself because because like Peterson 0:38:03.360 --> 0:38:05.600 said after the game that uh, you know, I was 0:38:05.640 --> 0:38:08.279 coaching to win. I wanted to get sut Felt some 0:38:08.360 --> 0:38:11.880 snaps for next season if they need him. Okay, fine, 0:38:12.080 --> 0:38:15.080 you know, but look, he's getting ripped and it's it's 0:38:15.120 --> 0:38:17.560 even even if it's just a perception of tanking, right, 0:38:17.600 --> 0:38:20.200 that's the perception by by a lot of people. That's 0:38:20.200 --> 0:38:22.040 why I thought of Kyle. That's why I thought of 0:38:22.120 --> 0:38:25.040 Kyle because that's what team tank gets you. It gets 0:38:25.040 --> 0:38:27.640 you a lot of a lot of criticism and and 0:38:27.800 --> 0:38:30.080 I'm sure a lot of players on the Eagles didn't 0:38:30.080 --> 0:38:33.000 like it either. I know Jason Kelsey's comments a few 0:38:33.040 --> 0:38:35.320 weeks back about you play to win. It was basically 0:38:35.400 --> 0:38:40.240 herm Edwards channeled through Jason Kelsey. Heck and so uh 0:38:40.560 --> 0:38:43.680 it was just wild. I mean, Collinsworth and al Michaels 0:38:43.719 --> 0:38:45.880 didn't know what to say. No, I mean they literally 0:38:45.880 --> 0:38:49.120 didn't know what to say. They sounded beside themselves, both 0:38:49.440 --> 0:38:54.320 muff Well, Dougie Pee. What he did, man, that should 0:38:54.360 --> 0:38:57.720 be against the law man, And I'm just happy. I'm 0:38:57.800 --> 0:39:01.840 just happy it wasn't us last night, you know, wanting 0:39:01.880 --> 0:39:04.200 these series to get a win, I would have walked 0:39:04.280 --> 0:39:07.160 to Philly. Man. I couldn't. I just didn't. I really 0:39:07.280 --> 0:39:10.120 did not believe that they did. And when it happened 0:39:10.160 --> 0:39:12.920 in real time, I was just like, Wow, this is 0:39:13.440 --> 0:39:16.360 this is criminal. How can you know? Get on Goodell, 0:39:16.480 --> 0:39:19.200 get on line one, get you know, call this guy 0:39:19.239 --> 0:39:21.000 and tell him, no, bro, you can't do this on 0:39:21.120 --> 0:39:25.160 national television. And he did it. Cried two chills in 0:39:25.200 --> 0:39:31.600 a bucket. I would never go compete for the Philadelphia Eagles, 0:39:32.000 --> 0:39:34.560 never as a player. Had I had, I would still 0:39:34.560 --> 0:39:35.840 be in the league and had an opportunity to go 0:39:35.920 --> 0:39:37.440 play there, that would be a team that I would 0:39:37.520 --> 0:39:43.080 not go play for simply because that that displayed yesterday 0:39:47.080 --> 0:39:48.520 only time you would ever do that, as if you're 0:39:48.520 --> 0:39:50.640 playing against like your little brother and you want to 0:39:50.680 --> 0:39:52.680 build his confidence up, right, so you don't want to 0:39:52.719 --> 0:39:54.880 hurt his feelings. So I guess what, you let him win, right, 0:39:54.920 --> 0:39:56.880 I let you win today. Right. But the fact that 0:39:56.960 --> 0:39:58.960 they sat, the fact that they sat nine at their 0:39:59.000 --> 0:40:01.360 best players, the fact that they were in a competitive 0:40:01.440 --> 0:40:03.600 game where Jalen Hurts was doing all right and they 0:40:03.640 --> 0:40:05.520 guess what he had already scored and oh, by the way, 0:40:05.760 --> 0:40:07.759 you're only down by three points. Oh let me pull 0:40:07.880 --> 0:40:08.960 him out. Oh yeah, I just want to get this 0:40:09.040 --> 0:40:11.239 guy some reps. B to the s if you want 0:40:11.239 --> 0:40:12.840 to give him some reps, if you wanted to protect 0:40:12.880 --> 0:40:15.200 all your players from next year, Jalen Hurts would have 0:40:15.200 --> 0:40:17.960 never been in the game, player, would ever play, would 0:40:17.960 --> 0:40:20.759 have never field. And that's what really shocked me was 0:40:20.880 --> 0:40:22.400 that I think I said it during the week, like 0:40:23.880 --> 0:40:26.279 if Carson Wentz isn't gonna play, then you need to 0:40:26.360 --> 0:40:28.880 get every look at Jalen Hurts that you possibly can 0:40:29.000 --> 0:40:31.319 for next season because there's a chance Carson Wentz they 0:40:31.360 --> 0:40:34.160 maybe move on from him and if he's your guy, 0:40:34.360 --> 0:40:37.759 which I think he probably will be, like, let him 0:40:37.800 --> 0:40:40.080 get some reps and give him, let him continue to 0:40:40.120 --> 0:40:42.279 build some confidence before before the season ends. I was 0:40:42.400 --> 0:40:46.040 just shocking. So I want to preface this this opinion 0:40:46.120 --> 0:40:48.840 of my own based off of the fact that I 0:40:48.960 --> 0:40:52.359 don't agree that of what Doug Peterson did, I think 0:40:52.400 --> 0:40:54.720 it was it was BS. I think it was something 0:40:54.800 --> 0:40:58.680 that is spineless, if anything, from a good fore staff. 0:40:58.760 --> 0:41:01.000 I don't agree with that at all. I will say, 0:41:01.080 --> 0:41:04.640 though New York and the Giants fans that are upset, 0:41:05.120 --> 0:41:07.840 and and everybody, even Giants players that are upset. I 0:41:07.960 --> 0:41:10.960 know that sucks. It really does. It's not fun. However, 0:41:11.640 --> 0:41:13.880 win more than six games. Don't put yourself in that 0:41:14.000 --> 0:41:17.520 situation to have another team control your Deskinay, that's my thing. 0:41:17.640 --> 0:41:19.719 I mean that I might not have said that same 0:41:19.800 --> 0:41:21.680 thing with the Cowboys. I would have been just as upset. 0:41:21.760 --> 0:41:24.960 I'm right there with you. Sports fandom is a thing. However, 0:41:25.400 --> 0:41:27.480 win more than six games, then you can kind of 0:41:27.520 --> 0:41:30.560 start whining a little bit more about a team. Tank Coyle, 0:41:30.760 --> 0:41:35.200 I I agree, However, I think people are more angry 0:41:35.840 --> 0:41:38.200 about the end. I don't. I don't obviously the Giants 0:41:38.239 --> 0:41:41.080 are angry that they're not going to the playoffs. They're curious, right, obviously, 0:41:41.480 --> 0:41:44.560 very very much. They should they should be. However, on 0:41:44.880 --> 0:41:47.040 a on another level, I feel like they're actually more 0:41:47.200 --> 0:41:50.920 angry about the integrity of the game. I agree. I agree. 0:41:51.000 --> 0:41:55.640 It's it's it's about everybody in this game. That's what anybody. Yeah, 0:41:55.680 --> 0:41:58.800 what's a football fan should be? Yeah, whether whether you 0:41:58.960 --> 0:42:00.840 whether you have a good team or whether you have 0:42:00.920 --> 0:42:05.080 an amazing team. Everybody's a freaking competitor in a league now, right, 0:42:05.280 --> 0:42:07.400 whether you're whether you're swiping, or whether you're going on 0:42:07.440 --> 0:42:11.120 about the next play. Everybody is a competitor, right, And 0:42:11.239 --> 0:42:13.440 so that this was the least competitive thing that you 0:42:13.560 --> 0:42:17.240 ever can do. And everybody understands that. At the same level, 0:42:18.000 --> 0:42:20.560 everybody steps on this field has a respect of the 0:42:20.640 --> 0:42:23.000 other man, no matter how good or bad you are, 0:42:23.200 --> 0:42:25.640 simply because guess what, I know that you compete. You're 0:42:25.719 --> 0:42:29.560 one of You're one of one percent, right, You're you're 0:42:29.640 --> 0:42:31.400 one percent of one percent of the world as doing this. 0:42:31.480 --> 0:42:34.040 So guess what, I know you're competitive? What that what 0:42:34.200 --> 0:42:36.600 they just showed yesterday. I don't want any part of it. 0:42:37.000 --> 0:42:38.719 What Colin first said at the end of the game, 0:42:39.040 --> 0:42:41.080 I turned to my wife and I said, he's like 0:42:41.200 --> 0:42:42.960 in my head right now. It was like a symphony 0:42:43.040 --> 0:42:46.120 in my head when he when he said he said, 0:42:46.160 --> 0:42:48.600 can you imagine kind of to your point, he could 0:42:48.640 --> 0:42:51.280 you imagine if the Cowboys were in the Giant situation 0:42:51.440 --> 0:42:55.640 last night? The conspiracy theories about how the Eagles just 0:42:55.680 --> 0:42:57.719 didn't want the Cowboys to make the playoffs and all 0:42:57.719 --> 0:42:59.680 that is a little less with the Giants because that 0:42:59.760 --> 0:43:02.759 the that rivalry is not quite the same, but that 0:43:02.920 --> 0:43:05.040 was abundant. It would have been all over the place 0:43:05.480 --> 0:43:07.800 if that was the case and the Cowboys were the 0:43:07.840 --> 0:43:10.400 ones on the losing side of it. Now, we've got 0:43:10.480 --> 0:43:12.440 had four minutes left in the show. I'll give you 0:43:12.480 --> 0:43:14.279 guys four minutes. We're gonna go a little bit over. Sorry, 0:43:14.320 --> 0:43:16.680 Chris Beam, you do fantastic work in the back. Uh. 0:43:18.040 --> 0:43:20.919 I want you to fix the Dallas Cowboys. And one 0:43:21.040 --> 0:43:23.120 I want you to fix the Dallas Cowboys. What is 0:43:23.160 --> 0:43:27.560 the biggest impact need for the Cowboys going into this offseason. 0:43:27.600 --> 0:43:30.040 We're gonna start with you, Isaiah on this one. Where 0:43:30.080 --> 0:43:33.279 did the Cowboys start this offseason as to getting back 0:43:33.360 --> 0:43:38.120 into contenders? In twenty twenty one. I think they got 0:43:38.160 --> 0:43:40.520 they have to fix the defensive line. I think I 0:43:40.560 --> 0:43:42.880 think our OFFICSI line gets healthy. But I think they 0:43:42.960 --> 0:43:46.400 have to fix the interior defensive alignment. Uh, you have 0:43:46.480 --> 0:43:48.960 to fix the interior defensive alignment. You need one more 0:43:49.040 --> 0:43:53.280 linebacker and you need one more solid corner that honestly, 0:43:53.280 --> 0:43:54.719 you need to get a shutdown corner. If you can 0:43:54.760 --> 0:43:57.160 pick up a shutdown corner in free agency, I think 0:43:57.239 --> 0:43:59.359 you'll be good. Um And obviously if we can get 0:43:59.400 --> 0:44:01.040 some help at say but I think you work your 0:44:01.080 --> 0:44:04.160 way up. You go d line, linebackers safety and get 0:44:04.200 --> 0:44:10.640 corner safety. Em I say, I agree with everything that 0:44:10.760 --> 0:44:14.600 you just said. For me, for the front office and 0:44:14.840 --> 0:44:17.440 the coaches, I want these guys to go through an 0:44:17.719 --> 0:44:22.560 unrelenting evaluation process with every player on this roster. They 0:44:22.640 --> 0:44:25.600 have got to find their dogs. They've got to find them, right. 0:44:25.680 --> 0:44:27.800 They've got to find the guys that are going to 0:44:27.840 --> 0:44:30.120 put it on the line and be dialed in each 0:44:30.200 --> 0:44:32.600 and every game. Not the guys that's talking about I 0:44:32.680 --> 0:44:36.279 don't play hard every snap, Not those guys. Right. They 0:44:36.440 --> 0:44:39.080 need to find the guys in and this whole plug 0:44:39.200 --> 0:44:42.719 and play mentality that any guy can be a part 0:44:42.760 --> 0:44:44.799 of your you know, with our offensive line, you could 0:44:44.840 --> 0:44:48.239 put anybody in there do your job. That's disrespectful, that's 0:44:48.320 --> 0:44:51.719 disrespectful to the guys that were before them, because obviously 0:44:51.840 --> 0:44:55.359 that don't work either, right, But they have to evaluate 0:44:55.440 --> 0:44:57.960 these guys from top to bottom. Asks an organization. We 0:44:58.080 --> 0:45:01.280 have got to get back to playing winning football. However 0:45:01.400 --> 0:45:03.680 we do that, right, however we do that. They you know, 0:45:03.840 --> 0:45:07.959 show Emma Smith running in Week eighteen in nineteen ninety 0:45:08.000 --> 0:45:10.040 three with a bum shoulder, and you look at all 0:45:10.080 --> 0:45:11.840 the names that are out there, but we don't have 0:45:12.520 --> 0:45:15.600 a shadow of that talent right now. So get back 0:45:15.640 --> 0:45:17.040 to and let's find and I know that it was 0:45:17.080 --> 0:45:20.359 in the nineteen hundreds, but still we need to get 0:45:20.400 --> 0:45:26.839 back to our winning ways. Yeah, get Dak Prescott healthy. Ye, 0:45:27.600 --> 0:45:30.240 Dak gets healthy, and get him signed. Get him signed 0:45:30.280 --> 0:45:35.000 because the salary cap is gonna loom over this offseason. 0:45:35.320 --> 0:45:37.399 You know, we don't the Cowboys don't know what it's 0:45:37.400 --> 0:45:39.400 gonna be. They don't know right now what they have 0:45:39.840 --> 0:45:42.279 to work with because of all the revenue laws due 0:45:42.320 --> 0:45:46.239 to the pandemic. So you know, if he's franchised, it's 0:45:46.440 --> 0:45:48.359 like thirty eight million bucks if you get a long 0:45:48.480 --> 0:45:51.320 if you get a long term deal done, I assume 0:45:51.360 --> 0:45:53.120 you can probably structure in a way where that you 0:45:53.200 --> 0:45:55.640 can lessen that a little bit. And that's I say 0:45:55.719 --> 0:45:58.560 that because of what you guys said, like they need 0:45:58.680 --> 0:46:01.520 help in a lot of spot, particularly on defense, and 0:46:02.160 --> 0:46:06.040 I just wonder how much you know financial resources. They're 0:46:06.080 --> 0:46:09.080 gonna have to really do that because of the strain 0:46:09.160 --> 0:46:11.279 with the cap this year, so the draft is going 0:46:11.320 --> 0:46:13.600 to be absolutely huge. And then what can you do 0:46:13.760 --> 0:46:16.040 in free agency with with a little bit of wiggle room, 0:46:17.040 --> 0:46:21.000 Because yeah, defensively, I think you point what Isaiah pointed to, 0:46:21.080 --> 0:46:23.440 what Heck pointed to, a lot of spots have to 0:46:23.480 --> 0:46:26.520 be looked at and addressed rob really quickly. What is 0:46:26.600 --> 0:46:30.480 the date that the Cowboys can start talking again with 0:46:30.640 --> 0:46:35.760 Dak Prescott. I believe it's once the season ends. Today 0:46:35.840 --> 0:46:39.719 you can get back to the table now, Yeah, yeah, 0:46:39.840 --> 0:46:44.560 because you can't. You can't date ends, you can't talk 0:46:44.680 --> 0:46:48.040 until the season ends. So I believe that's the case. Yes, Okay, 0:46:48.239 --> 0:46:49.719 I just wanted to make sure I thought that was 0:46:49.760 --> 0:46:52.719 the case, and I think you're correct on that one 0:46:52.760 --> 0:46:54.680 as well. But I agree with heck, I think you 0:46:54.760 --> 0:46:57.840 have to go through every single one of these players defense, offense, 0:46:57.880 --> 0:47:00.839 doesn't matter, and evaluate where they're part is, where their 0:47:01.239 --> 0:47:03.759 mindset is going into this off season to find the 0:47:03.880 --> 0:47:05.880 type of players that you need to be a contender. 0:47:05.920 --> 0:47:08.839 Because I agree, we're not there yet. And you see 0:47:08.880 --> 0:47:11.360 that six and ten. It's six and ten. There's no 0:47:11.480 --> 0:47:13.000 way to dress it up and make it look like 0:47:13.320 --> 0:47:16.200 anything better than what it is. But ten losses in 0:47:16.280 --> 0:47:19.120 a season, double digits not there. We would have said 0:47:19.120 --> 0:47:20.520 the same thing if it were seven to nine and 0:47:20.600 --> 0:47:24.080 you somehow found a way into the NFC's playoffs or 0:47:24.120 --> 0:47:27.160 at the NFL playoffs rather out of the NFC's fine, 0:47:27.280 --> 0:47:30.239 but it's still a lot of lack of talent on 0:47:30.360 --> 0:47:33.040 this roster, and I just hope the Cowboys go into 0:47:33.040 --> 0:47:35.600 the off season with a clear eye view of where 0:47:35.920 --> 0:47:39.719 they are talent wise, and hope they fix that just 0:47:39.960 --> 0:47:45.080 overall whenever it comes to player evaluation. Anyways, that's going 0:47:45.160 --> 0:47:47.880 to do it for us on talking Cowboys. But I 0:47:48.000 --> 0:47:51.320 wanted to take take a moment and thank every single 0:47:51.719 --> 0:47:54.600 one of you guys that have tuned in over this 0:47:54.960 --> 0:47:57.840 entire season. You guys are fantastic. You guys are so 0:47:58.000 --> 0:48:01.160 much fun and it makes our jobs fun. I mean, 0:48:01.200 --> 0:48:03.319 we get up in the morning early and watch film 0:48:03.400 --> 0:48:06.360 and prepare for this show and all sorts of stuff, 0:48:06.400 --> 0:48:09.600 and it's it's fun because we know what we're waiting 0:48:09.719 --> 0:48:12.160 for whenever these shows comes or come around, and we 0:48:12.520 --> 0:48:15.000 have a blast. We really do. And I mean I 0:48:15.080 --> 0:48:18.480 want to thank you guys as well. Heckma, Rob, Isaiah, Chris. 0:48:18.640 --> 0:48:21.600 I mean, you guys are fantastic. Thank you for making 0:48:21.719 --> 0:48:25.040 my job easier by being awesome yourselves. And it really 0:48:25.200 --> 0:48:27.040 is a blast getting to work with you guys, And 0:48:27.120 --> 0:48:29.040 I'm excited to go into the off season and we're 0:48:29.040 --> 0:48:32.160 going to continue to fix this Cowboys roster together. Gentlemen, 0:48:34.320 --> 0:48:38.320 we appreciate you, young Luke Skywalker. Yes, it's been a blast. 0:48:38.520 --> 0:48:41.560 Let's do it, Mondays now going forward, Yes, sir, see Beasy, 0:48:41.640 --> 0:48:44.080 thank you very much, See Beasy, And thank you guys 0:48:44.120 --> 0:48:49.239 for letting me win the projections this year. Oh whatever whatever, 0:48:49.920 --> 0:48:53.120 that's not officially done, so we'll give our final standing 0:48:53.320 --> 0:48:56.440 next week. So we'll give our final standings next week 0:48:56.480 --> 0:48:59.440 whenever the Monday night games stick around. But I think 0:48:59.480 --> 0:49:01.400 you're out of that out when Isaiah, sorry, about you. 0:49:02.080 --> 0:49:06.440 But well, guys, by the way, for those of you listening, 0:49:06.520 --> 0:49:09.719 we are on Monday's eleven thirty. It'll be an hour 0:49:09.840 --> 0:49:14.120 long show eleven thirty to twelve thirty starting next Monday. 0:49:14.600 --> 0:49:17.160 But that's it for us this week on Talking Cowboys. 0:49:17.200 --> 0:49:19.480 That's it for us in the twenty twenty season. Twenty 0:49:19.600 --> 0:49:21.640 twenty one is here. Let's go win a Super Bowl 0:49:21.680 --> 0:49:24.080 in twenty twenty one. How about that, gentlemen, Let's go 0:49:24.200 --> 0:49:27.200 on a run in the next season and figure things out. 0:49:27.239 --> 0:49:28.680 There's a long way to go for it. But for 0:49:28.800 --> 0:49:31.200 Chris Beam, for Rob Phillips, for heck Ma Harrison and 0:49:31.280 --> 0:49:34.319 Isaiah stand Back, I'm Kyle Yeoman's one final time saying 0:49:34.360 --> 0:49:38.520 so long Here from Talking Cowboys, presented by Geico. This 0:49:38.680 --> 0:49:41.440 has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and 0:49:41.640 --> 0:49:43.439 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.