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Speaker 1: heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeoman's it is
Speaker 1: the final regular season version of Talking Cowboys of twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one. Welcome into twenty twenty, or actually I guess
Speaker 1: it was twenty twenty, but now it's twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: But either way, we're mixed, matched and mumbled because the
Speaker 1: Cowboys season came to a close yesterday twenty three to nineteen,
Speaker 1: a week seventeen loss the New York Giants. And if
Speaker 1: you're frustrated Cowboys Nation, we're right there with you, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna break things down about what happened to the
Speaker 1: Giants and how the Cowboys ended the twenty twenty campaign
Speaker 1: with a six and ten record. But first let me
Speaker 1: introduce the crew as always for one final time, at
Speaker 1: least regular season wise. We'll get into the off season
Speaker 1: coming up next Monday, but alongside our resident Super Bowl champion,
Speaker 1: Isaiah stand Back, Cowboys insider Rob Phillips and our professional
Speaker 1: football analyst Heckma Harrison with you as always. But gentlemen,
Speaker 1: first off, Happy new year. I haven't seen you guys
Speaker 1: since twenty twenty. It's kind of crazy to talk about.
Speaker 1: Except for you, Isaiah, I saw you yesterday, so a
Speaker 1: little less of a happy new year, buddy, Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: saw me yesterday too. Oh that's true. I did see
Speaker 1: Rob yesterday as well, but heck happy he forgot about you. Rob,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. Happy new year to you, but
Speaker 1: it wasn't necessarily a happy new year for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: As I want to spend the first segment kind of
Speaker 1: breaking down this game. The second segment we're going to
Speaker 1: kind of look at the biggest needs going into the offseason,
Speaker 1: and the third segment is going to be kind of
Speaker 1: a hodgepodge of what happened between Washington and Philly and
Speaker 1: was that okay or not? And we're gonna kind of
Speaker 1: talk about a lot of things throughout the course of
Speaker 1: this show. But let's start with the Cowboys in the Giants, Rob,
Speaker 1: what did you see yesterday that kind of stuck out
Speaker 1: to you? Because I felt like after three weeks of
Speaker 1: getting complimentary football from this football team. It was not
Speaker 1: so much yesterday. Yeah, heck and I talk just before
Speaker 1: the show started about how you know, an NFL season
Speaker 1: is a roller coaster ride and when you get done
Speaker 1: with it, it's like, Okay, it just stops suddenly when
Speaker 1: the season's over and go find your parents, like I said,
Speaker 1: And it's and it's even more so this year where
Speaker 1: you get off this ride and you're dizzy, because this
Speaker 1: season was like no other. And to your point, a
Speaker 1: lot of guys set it after the game, Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: said it. The game itself Sunday was a microcosm of
Speaker 1: the entire season in some ways where rough start, sloppy start,
Speaker 1: nothing went right, not complimentary football, like you said, second
Speaker 1: half of the game, like the second half of the season,
Speaker 1: you kind of get it together, but it doesn't end well.
Speaker 1: And that's this Cowboys season will be remembered as hopefully
Speaker 1: the strangest season, the strangest season that we've ever seen,
Speaker 1: and one that a team that fought through a lot
Speaker 1: but ultimately wasn't good enough to win games consistently owen
Speaker 1: six against teams that were winning records. Teams this season.
Speaker 1: That's that's how it ends. Egma, hey, Rob, I call
Speaker 1: the emotional stamina this season, right, they get through this season,
Speaker 1: um man, it was one heck of a year. And
Speaker 1: to go six and ten and obviously the last game
Speaker 1: still be in it just as indicative of the kind
Speaker 1: of year that it was. But this game, it was
Speaker 1: like the ghost of Christmas Pass coming back to visit
Speaker 1: us on defense, not being able to set the edge,
Speaker 1: blown coverages in the secondary when you talk about our
Speaker 1: offensive line, just man New York, the New York Giants
Speaker 1: beat us up at the line of scrimmage and whether
Speaker 1: it was missing assignment so whatever it was, if that
Speaker 1: was the actual call that letting Leonard Williams just come
Speaker 1: free on the quarterback, I don't know. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, it was just all of those things that
Speaker 1: we had been seeing over the season that has plagued
Speaker 1: this team. And look, I know that they fought. They
Speaker 1: fought all the way through and it was probably one
Speaker 1: of the hardest seasons for them to get through professionally.
Speaker 1: But I'm sure all of Cowboy Nation would echo those
Speaker 1: sentiments exactly because it was one of those seasons that
Speaker 1: was I would like to say as an outlier because
Speaker 1: of COVID nineteen. But man, what a strange season. But
Speaker 1: we got through it. Yeah, I mean you got through
Speaker 1: it because the season ended heck up. But I mean
Speaker 1: these guys, it looked bad yesterday. Yesterday. It was terrible.
Speaker 1: It was it was. It was embarrassing, it was it
Speaker 1: was the opposite of what you would have hoped to
Speaker 1: see um on the field for this, for a game
Speaker 1: of this caliber. You had guys that were out there
Speaker 1: we talked about on the postgame show, Kyle, but guys
Speaker 1: were getting literally drawn in. It's like it's like some
Speaker 1: remember the commercial we had had a little dollar bill like,
Speaker 1: oh you gotta be quicker like they like it was
Speaker 1: almost like you guys had a dollar bill out there
Speaker 1: and they were like, oh, oh you want to fight, Okay,
Speaker 1: here we're grabbed this and they just kept antagonizing us.
Speaker 1: And guess what we were biting on it. We were
Speaker 1: biting a bait. We just kept going for it, and
Speaker 1: we were getting emotionally irrational and getting penalties and doing
Speaker 1: dump stuff. Jamal you know, Jordan Jordan Lewis head button
Speaker 1: a guy. You know, we got you know, freaking you know,
Speaker 1: the Swipers swiping on on first down plays and all
Speaker 1: kinds of stuff. Guys are just doing stuff that was
Speaker 1: just out of the ordinary. Um, we like you already said, heck,
Speaker 1: but we couldn't. We couldn't stop a running nose yesterday. This,
Speaker 1: I mean the defensive line. You know, with Williams, he
Speaker 1: did whatever the heck he wanted to and when we
Speaker 1: and when he was when he even when we didn't
Speaker 1: want to allow him to do something, we just decided
Speaker 1: not to block him. We just say, hey, you just
Speaker 1: run free. You know, he run free and hit our quarterback.
Speaker 1: Take us out of you know, good position on the field. Um,
Speaker 1: guys were dropping balls. Andy Dalton couldn't throw something on
Speaker 1: the side of a barn obviously, line couldn't hold up,
Speaker 1: defensive line couldn't get pressure all and Smith was standing
Speaker 1: straight up on his pass rushers and not giving for effort.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was bad all across the table. Um,
Speaker 1: throw throw the whole game away, and throw the whole
Speaker 1: season away. The only good thing is, Kyle, is that
Speaker 1: it had we won, we would be even more angrier today.
Speaker 1: But I know we're gonna get God's true. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: true now, And I've got an opinion on that as well,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about that, like I said in the
Speaker 1: third segment, because there is a lot of hypothetical around
Speaker 1: what happened in the NFC East yesterday as a whole.
Speaker 1: But I kind of want to take something you just
Speaker 1: talked about Isaiah and Andy Dalton, and it seemed like
Speaker 1: the goal over the last four weeks, the final month
Speaker 1: of the season following that Baltimore game. This was the
Speaker 1: goal before, but it wasn't executed well, but it was
Speaker 1: keeping Andy Dalton upright, and it seemed like yesterday that
Speaker 1: was the first game since that Baltimore game where Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton didn't have time to throw, didn't feel comfortable in
Speaker 1: the pocket, really kind of saw legitimate pressure and it
Speaker 1: was from a front seven that at least going into
Speaker 1: the game didn't scare you that much. And so my
Speaker 1: question to you is is was it a false screen?
Speaker 1: Was it just that that veil over the eyes of
Speaker 1: the fact that we played Cincinnati and Philadelphia and won
Speaker 1: those games versus actually playing a team that wanted it more,
Speaker 1: a team that was ready to roll like New York yesterday. No,
Speaker 1: not at all. We just didn't show up. There's no
Speaker 1: excuses we just didn't show up. We faced defensive lions
Speaker 1: that were substantially better than that we face. We have
Speaker 1: facing really good defensive lions this year, Baltimore, Cleveland, Atlanta.
Speaker 1: I mean we faced some dogs out there now this year.
Speaker 1: So when we look at this matchup, yeah, it should
Speaker 1: have been easily handle. But guess what it wasn't. And
Speaker 1: we know one thing about Annie Dalton. I love any Dalton,
Speaker 1: but guess what. Andy Dalton does not do well whenever
Speaker 1: he has pressure on him, he just doesn't. It's not
Speaker 1: something that he does. It's something that he has to
Speaker 1: work on being able to overcome that that adversity. And
Speaker 1: he didn't do well yesterday. Right, He got a little
Speaker 1: bit of pressure and you know, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: he throws inaccurately and his feet aren't moving as much.
Speaker 1: He got a little step on the hand, his hands
Speaker 1: jacked up, and guess what you can see that threw
Speaker 1: him off his game for about a series or two.
Speaker 1: So there's a there's a lot of things that he
Speaker 1: had to work on. But holistically, as a team, we
Speaker 1: got pushed in the mouth. It's like it's like we're
Speaker 1: it's like we're facing dog on you know, Lennox Lewis,
Speaker 1: and Lennox Lewis came out and just popped us in
Speaker 1: the mouth and we were like, oh, wait a minute, Lennox,
Speaker 1: I didn't know you still you still have that innue
Speaker 1: And it took us two quarters to bounce back and
Speaker 1: we just didn't finish. And aside from that, I just
Speaker 1: felt like we came out flat too. I said, absolutely.
Speaker 1: The tempo wasn't there, and it wasn't until they changed
Speaker 1: the tempo on offense that you started to see the
Speaker 1: offense start to come together. But you're right, man, if
Speaker 1: it was from the beginning, it was from the beginning.
Speaker 1: And you know, the Giants had added that pressure on
Speaker 1: us that made Andy Dalton uncomfortable, but he just wasn't
Speaker 1: able to find those quick reads that we became accustomed
Speaker 1: to seeing him do over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: And to me and just looking at the scheme that
Speaker 1: the Giants were playing, they were in man a lot
Speaker 1: of times, which I thought was advantageous for us. And
Speaker 1: it wasn't until Andy Dalton decided to stop trying to
Speaker 1: elude the pressure and just go ahead and try and
Speaker 1: get it up in there and get us the first
Speaker 1: down that I thought that there was even any motion
Speaker 1: to our offense, and they pretty much said, hey, if
Speaker 1: you're gonna be the one that beat us, we're gonna
Speaker 1: let you beat us. And it was just points in time.
Speaker 1: There were times in the game where Andy slid and
Speaker 1: I'm sure the concussion and everything else was on his mind,
Speaker 1: but those were just plays where you say to yourself,
Speaker 1: if dad's in there, dad carries everybody to the end zone.
Speaker 1: But I understand that's a conversation for another thing. It's
Speaker 1: a long off season, so I'm not gonna even start that,
Speaker 1: all right, Yeah, you know he uh The worst play
Speaker 1: obviously that he had was was the interception at the end,
Speaker 1: where you know, give you give your give your offense
Speaker 1: one more chance, you know, don't just chuck it up
Speaker 1: at the end and try to make a play. And
Speaker 1: that's what he said afterwards. I thought second half, they
Speaker 1: got a little bit of tempo going, they got into
Speaker 1: a little hurry up, and that that maybe shook him
Speaker 1: out of it a little bit, and the Giants were
Speaker 1: playing soft a little bit in their coverage and they
Speaker 1: were able to get some things going on the outside.
Speaker 1: But first half, man, you know he had several balls
Speaker 1: that were contested that you could have argued could have
Speaker 1: been intercepted, just just off. I know the weather wasn't good,
Speaker 1: and I know the protection wasn't great, but there were
Speaker 1: some throws he missed where he did have protection. Now,
Speaker 1: he was sacked six six times, he was hit nine times.
Speaker 1: So I do think while the Giants from a personnel standpoint,
Speaker 1: like Isaiah, I agree with you, they faced better fronts
Speaker 1: in terms of personnel. I do think their scheme is
Speaker 1: better than what they've seen defensively from the last three opponents.
Speaker 1: I think they challenge you, they give you different looks,
Speaker 1: and yeah, they just didn't respond early. It was like
Speaker 1: early in the season where these slow starts kind of
Speaker 1: make you play from behind. At least they didn't turn
Speaker 1: it over early. But then on the defensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball, you know, you want him to come out
Speaker 1: with emotion and not not look flat, but but there
Speaker 1: was too much emotion. Yeah, something about Nick Gates, their
Speaker 1: Giant's guard. I don't know, he's like a pro wrestler,
Speaker 1: cutting promos and after plays or something, but he was
Speaker 1: really ticking guys off and they lost their composure early
Speaker 1: and one of those penalties. I think it was Gregory's
Speaker 1: late late hit after oud yeah, led to a touchdown.
Speaker 1: They got away with Jordan Lewis's penalty, but but not Gregory's. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there was emotion yesterday, and even on the offensive side
Speaker 1: of the football. Really quick to wrap that up. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you take the third quarter out of it, then
Speaker 1: the rest of the game it was stagnant. I mean,
Speaker 1: there was nothing. The third quarter was where Andy Dalton's
Speaker 1: kind of found his rhythm and then he got the
Speaker 1: hand stepped on, and then from then on out it
Speaker 1: was a struggle to find any kind of rhythm. Uh. Defensively,
Speaker 1: that's where I kind of want to go right now. Robin.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned that emotion, Isaiah. I know you were
Speaker 1: all over that yesterday as well. You've been in big
Speaker 1: games before. We've the Cowboys, at least with this current group,
Speaker 1: have not necessarily seen those big games as much, and
Speaker 1: if they have, they haven't been able to take advantage.
Speaker 1: Why is emotion so much of a bugaboo for this
Speaker 1: Cowboys organization? And we saw it again yesterday. I don't
Speaker 1: know why it's such a bugaboo, but I can tell
Speaker 1: you yesterday the lack of emotional intelligence. You guys have
Speaker 1: heard me referred to that here on the show before.
Speaker 1: Yesterday was a perfect example of it. If there, if there,
Speaker 1: if you had to look it up in the Dictionary
Speaker 1: of lack of emotional intelligence, that was it. That was
Speaker 1: a perfect display. And our guys were just unable to
Speaker 1: handle the task at hand that the giants were successful at.
Speaker 1: Just think about like, what was it. What's old boy
Speaker 1: used to play for Detroit Pistons back in today? Was
Speaker 1: that Lambrie or something like that. Yeah, yeah, Lambrier And
Speaker 1: you got like Dennis rob and those guys, they's just
Speaker 1: like kind of antagonist. Just they just pull and just
Speaker 1: they're just waiting for you, right, They're just just making
Speaker 1: you mad the whole time. You just they know that
Speaker 1: you're gonna snap at some point in time. That's what
Speaker 1: they did to us. But they did it in the
Speaker 1: first quarter, Like how do they do it in the
Speaker 1: first quarter? And they get you respond like that, Like
Speaker 1: we were literally responding like little boys on a pickup
Speaker 1: game on the field, you know what, say out there
Speaker 1: just out there in the playground, and like there was
Speaker 1: no referees and there was nobody else watching, Like No,
Speaker 1: there's there's rules, there's parameters what you can and can't do.
Speaker 1: And when you have emotional intelligence, you go ahead and
Speaker 1: chock it up right or you quote unquote, you let
Speaker 1: somebody punk you for the greater good of the team,
Speaker 1: and you say, you know what I got you when
Speaker 1: I come back. You know, I'm saying, when the when
Speaker 1: the popper play allows for it, I'm gonna bush you
Speaker 1: in your mouth, or I'm embarrassing him a round you up,
Speaker 1: or I'm gonna get a big catch on you or
Speaker 1: something like that. You don't go out there and you
Speaker 1: chin check somebody when they're not looking. You don't wait
Speaker 1: until Yeah, the oh boy made a dirty play, Gregory,
Speaker 1: But guess what he was trying to get you to
Speaker 1: react that way? So what did Gregory do? He was
Speaker 1: he didn't have a here to have emotional intelligence. So
Speaker 1: guess what I'm sticking up from my boy? My pride boom,
Speaker 1: get off, my boy. Guess what? You can't do that
Speaker 1: within the rules, buddy, You know that already. So there's
Speaker 1: things that, yeah, guys would get you emotionally routed up,
Speaker 1: but you have to get them back legally. Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't mind. I don't mind the mindset behind Gregory
Speaker 1: defending his teammate. That's not the issue. It was a
Speaker 1: jumped over the pile. You want your guys defend a
Speaker 1: guy that's fun, that's always going to be there, and
Speaker 1: you want that kind of fire. It was the fact
Speaker 1: that he jumped over a pile and shoved him off
Speaker 1: whenever he could have gone over and pulled him off
Speaker 1: and said some words to him at that point. I know,
Speaker 1: in the moment, there's a lot of a lot of emotion.
Speaker 1: Like I said, heckmuer and like Isaiah just kind of
Speaker 1: talked about, but you got to find a better way
Speaker 1: to control it at this point. Semantics, guys, because when
Speaker 1: you look at the way that they were playing up
Speaker 1: until that point, they were lifeless until number sixty five
Speaker 1: started agitating them. And then you all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you see the defense started to all of a set
Speaker 1: and play with the competitive anger that they needed to
Speaker 1: to be in this game. And yeah, they made Stirling
Speaker 1: Shepard look like Jerry Rice. Yeah. I mean there were
Speaker 1: points in this game where you're asking yourself, Okay, guys,
Speaker 1: when did we start to allow guys like this to
Speaker 1: just pop off on US and all year, and it's
Speaker 1: a reason for the fantasy points and all that we've
Speaker 1: given up more points to wide receivers all year, more
Speaker 1: points two running backs all year. And that's why I
Speaker 1: say things that we did before came back to visit
Speaker 1: US and the Giants were able to just kind of
Speaker 1: bottle that up and show the world that, look, we
Speaker 1: hadn't really changed much. And look, when I say a
Speaker 1: competitive anger, I expected these guys to come out with
Speaker 1: the fire because they knew what was at stake. But
Speaker 1: that didn't happen. And so for the Giants to then
Speaker 1: just bulldoze US with their offensive line and defensive line,
Speaker 1: I mean to me, like I said, you just frame
Speaker 1: that and that's your game. Yeah, you mentioned the plays
Speaker 1: in the past game. Heck, but I mean the run
Speaker 1: defense really it never got considerably better this season. I
Speaker 1: know they're in the three game stretch, Uh, the takeaways
Speaker 1: or what really galvanized them defensively. Yeah, but they but
Speaker 1: they you know, and they finished I think with twelve
Speaker 1: and their last four games, and that's that's that's really good.
Speaker 1: That leads that leads the NFL over the last four
Speaker 1: games of the regular season. That's that's impressive. But you know,
Speaker 1: the run defense in the end proved to be the
Speaker 1: biggest problem that they had defensively all year long. And
Speaker 1: I just looked it up, you know, I think they
Speaker 1: held two opponent two opponents under one hundred yards and
Speaker 1: they gave up one twenty five yesterday, gave up forty
Speaker 1: eight rushing yards on the opening drive and the first
Speaker 1: touchdown by Sterling Shepherd, as you mentioned, heck was a reverse.
Speaker 1: And what if we said all year long, mister direction,
Speaker 1: I think you know, motion in the backfield. Those have
Speaker 1: been problems all year long. So while there was improvement
Speaker 1: defensively this year late in the season, uh, there are
Speaker 1: still some core things that that really ultimately proved to
Speaker 1: be the problem for them and and why that they
Speaker 1: struggled so much overall. And Kyle, can I say that
Speaker 1: it wasn't it wasn't just the anger or the lack
Speaker 1: there of control of anger. Uh, But it was also
Speaker 1: like the celebration, like I don't know if I'm the
Speaker 1: only one, but like the Jalen Smith continuous celebration as
Speaker 1: if he was the one, yeah, as if he was
Speaker 1: the one making plays like Bro, you're you're, you're swiping
Speaker 1: on other people's plays, bro, and you're swiping when these
Speaker 1: guys got first downs Like that, to me is a
Speaker 1: lack of emotion, of emotional intelligence as well, because like
Speaker 1: you're doing, do your job. Just just just just do
Speaker 1: your job, you know what I'm saying, Like these guys
Speaker 1: are moving the moving the chains. Why are we celebrating?
Speaker 1: Why are we celebrating? These guys are moving the sticks
Speaker 1: on us as they please, and we're celebrating that. Like, No,
Speaker 1: you don't celebrate until you get a dog on big
Speaker 1: third down stopping. You see that punter running on the field,
Speaker 1: that's when you celebrate. Yeah, it's comical. Fair, no fair,
Speaker 1: it's comical. What I mean it was we just jaws
Speaker 1: hit the floor whenever the first down happened, and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you saw fifty four come up
Speaker 1: and just swipe. And I know you're trying to build
Speaker 1: a brand, and I know that's really kind of your thing,
Speaker 1: but I mean there's different times, different places, and that
Speaker 1: was definitely not one of them. Maybe he didn't think
Speaker 1: he got the first down. There's definitely excuses, and honestly,
Speaker 1: I think he took more accountability postgame than he has
Speaker 1: all year long, so I respect him for that, but
Speaker 1: it is it's frustrating from a Cowboys standpoint. It was
Speaker 1: also frustrating on game management yesterday, and Mike McCarthy was
Speaker 1: asked about it yesterday in terms of game management. When
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Speaker 1: by talking about what happened yesterday. Kyle Yeoman's Isaiah stand back,
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, Heck Moharrison, and man, it was is frustrating
Speaker 1: from just a performance based standpoint. Yesterday, offense defense, I'll
Speaker 1: throw up special teams in their special teams kind of
Speaker 1: did their job, but it was it was frustrating from
Speaker 1: a baseline performance standpoint. But whenever you look at the
Speaker 1: game management from the coaching staff yesterday, I thought it
Speaker 1: was one of the more poorly managed games this season. Heck,
Speaker 1: did you think that same case about the way Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy kind of handled some of those situations. And we'll
Speaker 1: get to that challenge call here at a moment, But
Speaker 1: what did you think overall? You know, I remember last
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Speaker 1: and that was one of the pet peeves of the
Speaker 1: fan base, and it just seemed like it got ugly
Speaker 1: in this game will so, especially with the pettish challenge
Speaker 1: and the well, the lack there of a challenge, and
Speaker 1: it just you know, all of those things combined and
Speaker 1: when it comes down to a football game and the
Speaker 1: way that you evaluate it is there are so many
Speaker 1: other things that happened within a football game that make
Speaker 1: your demise at the end, you know it realistic, but
Speaker 1: you know, red zone inefficiency, a lot of those things.
Speaker 1: The play call and was just, man, it's as bad
Speaker 1: as I've seen it. But you know, offensive line didn't
Speaker 1: give us much. But for me, it obviously was the
Speaker 1: lack of challenging because Spotellian Green Bay Boy, he was
Speaker 1: quick all the challenge with that dance catch. When he
Speaker 1: was quick on that challenge that I was like, come on, dude,
Speaker 1: what you do Mike? And Mike didn't do so and
Speaker 1: people are definitely upset about it, but I've heard him
Speaker 1: say that it was a bang bang situation and it
Speaker 1: just didn't have time to evaluate whether he was going
Speaker 1: to throw it or not. Bright. Yeah, that's exactly what
Speaker 1: he said that, and he doubled down on it when
Speaker 1: he was pressed about not only that call, but you know,
Speaker 1: he's been questioned about game management stuff since week one.
Speaker 1: You know, fourth quarter against the Rams, he decided to
Speaker 1: go for it and throw the CD lamb and they
Speaker 1: didn't get it instead of kicking a field goal, and
Speaker 1: they lost the game by three. So you can point
Speaker 1: to things throughout the season where it didn't go right,
Speaker 1: and so he's questioned. And obviously, you know, thanksgiving the
Speaker 1: fake punt that that will go down in history, that
Speaker 1: one in particular. But ye know, I at first I
Speaker 1: thought he Pettis had it, and then when Mike Pereira's
Speaker 1: on the Fox broadcast saying had they challenged it, they
Speaker 1: probably would have gotten it overturned. It definitely was a
Speaker 1: questionable call. Now, I understand it's a one score game
Speaker 1: and you want to preserve your timeouts, but I was
Speaker 1: surprised he didn't challenge it. And ultimately, look, you know,
Speaker 1: you're driving at first in goal at the Giant seven
Speaker 1: inside of two minutes, and instead of kicking a field
Speaker 1: goal to win the game, you're trying to score touchdown.
Speaker 1: So it was a huge play in the game, no question. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we hit on disgession at Kyle. I mean, Rogers did
Speaker 1: a heck of a job kind of recapping the bad
Speaker 1: decisions that have transpired over the whole year. He's had
Speaker 1: an issue. I don't know if he was a year
Speaker 1: off or or he's just trying to instill confidence in
Speaker 1: his players or what. I'm not sure really what's going on,
Speaker 1: but that that was one of the many bad decisions
Speaker 1: that he made this year as a game manager, being
Speaker 1: the being a guy who gives the okay for plays
Speaker 1: to go through or flags to come out or not.
Speaker 1: The point of the matter is he said, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you know, we had three timeouts and it was a
Speaker 1: very close game, so obviously those timeouts are precious. Well
Speaker 1: obviously possessions are precious. Uh you're talking about as it
Speaker 1: was inconclusive, you know, so I couldn't really tell if
Speaker 1: he cut it or not. Isn't that why we challenge?
Speaker 1: Don't we challenge when we can't tell? Um? So, everything,
Speaker 1: every from my perspective, every reason that he gave as
Speaker 1: to why he did not challenge, is why he should
Speaker 1: have challenge. Uh, you know, I was, I was. I
Speaker 1: was torn a little bit obviously because Pettis is a
Speaker 1: utub guy, you know. But but aside from that, um,
Speaker 1: you know, it was it was a close play. It
Speaker 1: was a close playing. Yes it's a bang bang, but
Speaker 1: guess what, bang bang throw your flag so that you
Speaker 1: can get an opportunity to get the ball. But because
Speaker 1: that was just too important, because those guys got the
Speaker 1: first down, and obviously what the game change if they
Speaker 1: don't get that first down to guess what, they're trying
Speaker 1: to kick something right, so or you know, or punt.
Speaker 1: Actually they're out of field goal range. They're trying to punt,
Speaker 1: so big, big opportunity missed. And yes, we can scrutinize
Speaker 1: him on the back end all day long, but I
Speaker 1: can truly say, throw the dog on flag. The game
Speaker 1: is too close. The game was too important for you
Speaker 1: to decide whether that was a catch or not. So
Speaker 1: and I thought, you know, I thought Hellman made up
Speaker 1: a good point on Twitter during the game that you know,
Speaker 1: college gets it right, College reviews all this stuff, and
Speaker 1: you don't put the coaches in a position to have
Speaker 1: to do it. But you know, that's part of the game,
Speaker 1: that's part of part of the job description. And and
Speaker 1: when you're on the road, you don't get much help
Speaker 1: in terms of video replay from the opposing stadium, so
Speaker 1: you know, that's heck, that's part of it too. But
Speaker 1: but you gotta you gotta make the decision in the moment,
Speaker 1: and uh, we'll never know, but I think they certainly
Speaker 1: would have had a chance to get it reversed. Kind
Speaker 1: of value. That's what you guys are talking about. And
Speaker 1: this let me say this. I think I said what
Speaker 1: you and is the responsibilities incumbent of the position. You know,
Speaker 1: it's your job to do that when you see something
Speaker 1: that's you, that drive that catch, right, there's a difference
Speaker 1: between them a sixty yard field gold or whatever it
Speaker 1: was going to be at that time. You place your
Speaker 1: ball club in a really bad position by not challenging.
Speaker 1: And we talk about the analytics of football and all
Speaker 1: of that, not going for two and all the situational things.
Speaker 1: It just felt like yesterday, all of those things failed.
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy. Well, whenever it came down to what Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy said after the game in terms of the timeouts
Speaker 1: being valuable in a low scoring game like that, where
Speaker 1: I mean your offense is struggling to put points on
Speaker 1: the board. Aren't points a little bit more valuable than
Speaker 1: the timeouts? Especially at that point because even if it's
Speaker 1: a fifty fifty they get it, they don't get it.
Speaker 1: And I think it was more than fifty percent chance
Speaker 1: the Cowboys were going to have that call overturned if
Speaker 1: you would have thrown the challenge flag. I absolutely think
Speaker 1: it was way more than fifty And even if it
Speaker 1: was a fifty fifty chance, I think the risk reward
Speaker 1: was much greater throwing that challenge flag. I think if
Speaker 1: this was Week one, it would be a little bit
Speaker 1: more of a little bit more of a pass a
Speaker 1: little bit, not a lot, but a little bit, because
Speaker 1: you don't know what your team can do. You don't
Speaker 1: know where you're at team wise. You know your team
Speaker 1: struggles in the red zone. You know that, and if
Speaker 1: any possibility that you could keep that game within a
Speaker 1: field goal is on the board, you got to figure
Speaker 1: out how to do it. And that was what that was.
Speaker 1: That was a chance to keep it within a field
Speaker 1: goal and it ended up making it a four point
Speaker 1: game and the Cowboys needed a touchdown. Guess what happened.
Speaker 1: They went down, got into the red zone through an interception,
Speaker 1: and thus there was the end of the ball game.
Speaker 1: So I'm just saying at that point, situational awareness you
Speaker 1: gotta keep it within three points because you know how
Speaker 1: your offense struggles in the red zone. You're already seeing
Speaker 1: that your offense has been stagnant against this Giant's defense,
Speaker 1: and rob they just couldn't figure out a way to
Speaker 1: score points. You got to take advantage of not putting
Speaker 1: points up on the board. Yeah, and in terms of
Speaker 1: you know, it's got to be conclusive evidence, right if
Speaker 1: if it's going to go to review. So but to me,
Speaker 1: it was different than you know, the Wayne Gallman fumble
Speaker 1: at the end, which you know the season ends on
Speaker 1: a butt recovery. I mean, how fitting is that? Right? Right?
Speaker 1: But like, at least on that one, and that obviously
Speaker 1: went straight to review. But you know, you wouldn't challenge
Speaker 1: that one because if it's challenged, then the officials would
Speaker 1: have to determine based on a pile where you can't
Speaker 1: see anything that oh, yeah, the Cowboys got it, and
Speaker 1: and so that that you know, when you're watching that replay,
Speaker 1: it's like there's to me, anyway, there's a serious question
Speaker 1: of did he trap trap the ball with the ground?
Speaker 1: You know? And so but again it does come down
Speaker 1: to what's a catch in the NFL. I mean, since
Speaker 1: the death catch in twenty fifteen, I still don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know what the officials are going to call,
Speaker 1: uh play to play a game to game, So there's
Speaker 1: that at least. My issue fellas with that call, and
Speaker 1: I know we're probably gonna be done this here in
Speaker 1: the second, But my issue with that call was if
Speaker 1: that was just a regular first down, I don't challenge.
Speaker 1: I don't challenge regular first down, but a first down
Speaker 1: that takes them from a punt to a potential field
Speaker 1: goal right sounds. That's where you challenge had had it
Speaker 1: had it been further back, had it been all the
Speaker 1: way back on the thirty or somebody that's twenty or thirty.
Speaker 1: Guess what, I don't have a problem with you, not
Speaker 1: so much. Right, I don't go ahead, let them and
Speaker 1: let him have it. Right, we still have a chance
Speaker 1: to play defense if they don't. If this call gets overturned,
Speaker 1: they punted, that is a change of possession. That's where
Speaker 1: the that's where the weight of this call, where the
Speaker 1: no call was the no the no throw right, he
Speaker 1: didn't throw the red flat, That's where the weight of
Speaker 1: this was at because of the fact he did not
Speaker 1: challenge he gave them an opportunity to get the first down, right,
Speaker 1: and not only first down, put them and put points
Speaker 1: into it. Yeah yeah, but when you get you had
Speaker 1: a between to get the ball back. You had opportunity
Speaker 1: to get the ball back. And that's where the s
Speaker 1: why everybody's looking at this so seriously. Yeah, it was, Hey,
Speaker 1: what do you guys think about the I was going
Speaker 1: to let me yeah, let me go ahead and clarify
Speaker 1: this real quickly. It wasn't a first down on the play.
Speaker 1: It was third and sixteen, and he gained about twelve, sorry,
Speaker 1: gained about twelve and put them in the field goal
Speaker 1: range for a fifty yard attempt. So if you don't
Speaker 1: gain the twelve, it's a sixty two yard field goal
Speaker 1: versus a fifty yard field goal. And it was nailed
Speaker 1: from fifty yards out, go ahead, Rob. As to what
Speaker 1: you were saying, oh, well, speaking of you know, game management,
Speaker 1: I just want to see what you guys thought about
Speaker 1: the two point non two point decision midway through the
Speaker 1: third quarter where it becomes a twenty to fifteen game
Speaker 1: and they elect to kick the extra point instead of
Speaker 1: going for two, and Mike said it was too early
Speaker 1: in the game, And honestly, on that one at the time,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, well, I've watched a lot of football, and
Speaker 1: usually that's what coaches do. They don't they don't try
Speaker 1: to chase the points too early. I don't know what
Speaker 1: do you guys thought about that one? That that didn't
Speaker 1: bother me so much? That that didn't that didn't really
Speaker 1: bother me. What bothered me is when we get down
Speaker 1: to the red zone and we're going going empty sets.
Speaker 1: That bothers me because we're obviously having a problem blocking
Speaker 1: that game. We're obviously having a problem keeping our quarterback
Speaker 1: up right, So why are we going to take one
Speaker 1: of the league's best blocking running backs out of that
Speaker 1: situation that protect him and or potentially run the ball?
Speaker 1: And I know Zeke wasn't running, he was really playing hurt.
Speaker 1: But you know, he's a good blocker, you know, so
Speaker 1: so why do we take him out of that situation?
Speaker 1: And then, oh, by the way, the guy who's been
Speaker 1: sacking us all day, how about we just don't block him? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, none,
Speaker 1: None of that worked for us, man, And hope just
Speaker 1: isn't a strategy and hoping that somebody realizes that, oh
Speaker 1: he's coming off the edge. Hey, Terence Steel, you may
Speaker 1: want to block that guy, but Terce, you know, obviously
Speaker 1: the protection and I've read that, you know, the protection
Speaker 1: was what it was, that was his responsibility. But back
Speaker 1: to what you were saying, Rob, you know, look, we've
Speaker 1: been a part of so many of these decisions where
Speaker 1: we're asking our sails, so why are you going for
Speaker 1: two now? We've become accustomed to those kinds of decisions,
Speaker 1: and when you don't do it, you find yourself kind
Speaker 1: of bewildered, like, okay, this is a situation where you
Speaker 1: would point to your analytics and going for two now
Speaker 1: versus worrying about it later. It really for me, look,
Speaker 1: it didn't. It didn't. It wasn't a game break. It
Speaker 1: wasn't the thing that I said at the end was
Speaker 1: the reason why we won to lost the game. I
Speaker 1: just felt as though, look, man, here here, finally you're
Speaker 1: getting that momentum, go for it now versus waiting for
Speaker 1: it later. But still you know that it was what
Speaker 1: it was. There were plenty of decisions, there were plenty
Speaker 1: of plays throughout the game, throughout the season. That's the
Speaker 1: reason that the Cowboys are not in the playoffs. I mean,
Speaker 1: it wasn't just one play here, one played there. There
Speaker 1: was a compounding struggle all the way through Week one
Speaker 1: through seventeen, and we saw that. That's why Week seventeen
Speaker 1: was a microcosm of the entire twenty twenty season because
Speaker 1: it looked the same throughout and the struggles continued to
Speaker 1: compound as the season went along. So when we come
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Speaker 1: in the brain, not even in the head this time,
Speaker 1: that's impressed in the brain. Well, we've been talking a
Speaker 1: lot about the brain here the last couple of a
Speaker 1: couple of moments and decisions that we're made, we're not made.
Speaker 1: And I want to talk about one more here in
Speaker 1: our final segment, and I don't want to end talking
Speaker 1: about Philadelphia, So I'm gonna say it really quickly. We're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about it real fast, and then we'll fix
Speaker 1: the Cowboys for everybody, But wow, last night UM Washington
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Lincoln Financial Field, they sit Jalen Hurts in a
Speaker 1: one score game in the second half and seemingly tank
Speaker 1: the season away and tank the matchup with Washington New
Speaker 1: York's upsets NFL is upset. What did you guys think
Speaker 1: about that, Rob, about the decision that Doug Peterson made
Speaker 1: to sit down Jalen Hurts and what was kind of
Speaker 1: a crazy turn of events in an NFC's battle. I
Speaker 1: thought of you, Oh, I thought of you away. That
Speaker 1: makes me feel great about myself because because like Peterson
Speaker 1: said after the game that uh, you know, I was
Speaker 1: coaching to win. I wanted to get sut Felt some
Speaker 1: snaps for next season if they need him. Okay, fine,
Speaker 1: you know, but look, he's getting ripped and it's it's
Speaker 1: even even if it's just a perception of tanking, right,
Speaker 1: that's the perception by by a lot of people. That's
Speaker 1: why I thought of Kyle. That's why I thought of
Speaker 1: Kyle because that's what team tank gets you. It gets
Speaker 1: you a lot of a lot of criticism and and
Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of players on the Eagles didn't
Speaker 1: like it either. I know Jason Kelsey's comments a few
Speaker 1: weeks back about you play to win. It was basically
Speaker 1: herm Edwards channeled through Jason Kelsey. Heck and so uh
Speaker 1: it was just wild. I mean, Collinsworth and al Michaels
Speaker 1: didn't know what to say. No, I mean they literally
Speaker 1: didn't know what to say. They sounded beside themselves, both
Speaker 1: muff Well, Dougie Pee. What he did, man, that should
Speaker 1: be against the law man, And I'm just happy. I'm
Speaker 1: just happy it wasn't us last night, you know, wanting
Speaker 1: these series to get a win, I would have walked
Speaker 1: to Philly. Man. I couldn't. I just didn't. I really
Speaker 1: did not believe that they did. And when it happened
Speaker 1: in real time, I was just like, Wow, this is
Speaker 1: this is criminal. How can you know? Get on Goodell,
Speaker 1: get on line one, get you know, call this guy
Speaker 1: and tell him, no, bro, you can't do this on
Speaker 1: national television. And he did it. Cried two chills in
Speaker 1: a bucket. I would never go compete for the Philadelphia Eagles,
Speaker 1: never as a player. Had I had, I would still
Speaker 1: be in the league and had an opportunity to go
Speaker 1: play there, that would be a team that I would
Speaker 1: not go play for simply because that that displayed yesterday
Speaker 1: only time you would ever do that, as if you're
Speaker 1: playing against like your little brother and you want to
Speaker 1: build his confidence up, right, so you don't want to
Speaker 1: hurt his feelings. So I guess what, you let him win, right,
Speaker 1: I let you win today. Right. But the fact that
Speaker 1: they sat, the fact that they sat nine at their
Speaker 1: best players, the fact that they were in a competitive
Speaker 1: game where Jalen Hurts was doing all right and they
Speaker 1: guess what he had already scored and oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: you're only down by three points. Oh let me pull
Speaker 1: him out. Oh yeah, I just want to get this
Speaker 1: guy some reps. B to the s if you want
Speaker 1: to give him some reps, if you wanted to protect
Speaker 1: all your players from next year, Jalen Hurts would have
Speaker 1: never been in the game, player, would ever play, would
Speaker 1: have never field. And that's what really shocked me was
Speaker 1: that I think I said it during the week, like
Speaker 1: if Carson Wentz isn't gonna play, then you need to
Speaker 1: get every look at Jalen Hurts that you possibly can
Speaker 1: for next season because there's a chance Carson Wentz they
Speaker 1: maybe move on from him and if he's your guy,
Speaker 1: which I think he probably will be, like, let him
Speaker 1: get some reps and give him, let him continue to
Speaker 1: build some confidence before before the season ends. I was
Speaker 1: just shocking. So I want to preface this this opinion
Speaker 1: of my own based off of the fact that I
Speaker 1: don't agree that of what Doug Peterson did, I think
Speaker 1: it was it was BS. I think it was something
Speaker 1: that is spineless, if anything, from a good fore staff.
Speaker 1: I don't agree with that at all. I will say,
Speaker 1: though New York and the Giants fans that are upset,
Speaker 1: and and everybody, even Giants players that are upset. I
Speaker 1: know that sucks. It really does. It's not fun. However,
Speaker 1: win more than six games. Don't put yourself in that
Speaker 1: situation to have another team control your Deskinay, that's my thing.
Speaker 1: I mean that I might not have said that same
Speaker 1: thing with the Cowboys. I would have been just as upset.
Speaker 1: I'm right there with you. Sports fandom is a thing. However,
Speaker 1: win more than six games, then you can kind of
Speaker 1: start whining a little bit more about a team. Tank Coyle,
Speaker 1: I I agree, However, I think people are more angry
Speaker 1: about the end. I don't. I don't obviously the Giants
Speaker 1: are angry that they're not going to the playoffs. They're curious, right, obviously,
Speaker 1: very very much. They should they should be. However, on
Speaker 1: a on another level, I feel like they're actually more
Speaker 1: angry about the integrity of the game. I agree. I agree.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's about everybody in this game. That's what anybody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: what's a football fan should be? Yeah, whether whether you
Speaker 1: whether you have a good team or whether you have
Speaker 1: an amazing team. Everybody's a freaking competitor in a league now, right,
Speaker 1: whether you're whether you're swiping, or whether you're going on
Speaker 1: about the next play. Everybody is a competitor, right, And
Speaker 1: so that this was the least competitive thing that you
Speaker 1: ever can do. And everybody understands that. At the same level,
Speaker 1: everybody steps on this field has a respect of the
Speaker 1: other man, no matter how good or bad you are,
Speaker 1: simply because guess what, I know that you compete. You're
Speaker 1: one of You're one of one percent, right, You're you're
Speaker 1: one percent of one percent of the world as doing this.
Speaker 1: So guess what, I know you're competitive? What that what
Speaker 1: they just showed yesterday. I don't want any part of it.
Speaker 1: What Colin first said at the end of the game,
Speaker 1: I turned to my wife and I said, he's like
Speaker 1: in my head right now. It was like a symphony
Speaker 1: in my head when he when he said he said,
Speaker 1: can you imagine kind of to your point, he could
Speaker 1: you imagine if the Cowboys were in the Giant situation
Speaker 1: last night? The conspiracy theories about how the Eagles just
Speaker 1: didn't want the Cowboys to make the playoffs and all
Speaker 1: that is a little less with the Giants because that
Speaker 1: the that rivalry is not quite the same, but that
Speaker 1: was abundant. It would have been all over the place
Speaker 1: if that was the case and the Cowboys were the
Speaker 1: ones on the losing side of it. Now, we've got
Speaker 1: had four minutes left in the show. I'll give you
Speaker 1: guys four minutes. We're gonna go a little bit over. Sorry,
Speaker 1: Chris Beam, you do fantastic work in the back. Uh.
Speaker 1: I want you to fix the Dallas Cowboys. And one
Speaker 1: I want you to fix the Dallas Cowboys. What is
Speaker 1: the biggest impact need for the Cowboys going into this offseason.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start with you, Isaiah on this one. Where
Speaker 1: did the Cowboys start this offseason as to getting back
Speaker 1: into contenders? In twenty twenty one. I think they got
Speaker 1: they have to fix the defensive line. I think I
Speaker 1: think our OFFICSI line gets healthy. But I think they
Speaker 1: have to fix the interior defensive alignment. Uh, you have
Speaker 1: to fix the interior defensive alignment. You need one more
Speaker 1: linebacker and you need one more solid corner that honestly,
Speaker 1: you need to get a shutdown corner. If you can
Speaker 1: pick up a shutdown corner in free agency, I think
Speaker 1: you'll be good. Um And obviously if we can get
Speaker 1: some help at say but I think you work your
Speaker 1: way up. You go d line, linebackers safety and get
Speaker 1: corner safety. Em I say, I agree with everything that
Speaker 1: you just said. For me, for the front office and
Speaker 1: the coaches, I want these guys to go through an
Speaker 1: unrelenting evaluation process with every player on this roster. They
Speaker 1: have got to find their dogs. They've got to find them, right.
Speaker 1: They've got to find the guys that are going to
Speaker 1: put it on the line and be dialed in each
Speaker 1: and every game. Not the guys that's talking about I
Speaker 1: don't play hard every snap, Not those guys. Right. They
Speaker 1: need to find the guys in and this whole plug
Speaker 1: and play mentality that any guy can be a part
Speaker 1: of your you know, with our offensive line, you could
Speaker 1: put anybody in there do your job. That's disrespectful, that's
Speaker 1: disrespectful to the guys that were before them, because obviously
Speaker 1: that don't work either, right, But they have to evaluate
Speaker 1: these guys from top to bottom. Asks an organization. We
Speaker 1: have got to get back to playing winning football. However
Speaker 1: we do that, right, however we do that. They you know,
Speaker 1: show Emma Smith running in Week eighteen in nineteen ninety
Speaker 1: three with a bum shoulder, and you look at all
Speaker 1: the names that are out there, but we don't have
Speaker 1: a shadow of that talent right now. So get back
Speaker 1: to and let's find and I know that it was
Speaker 1: in the nineteen hundreds, but still we need to get
Speaker 1: back to our winning ways. Yeah, get Dak Prescott healthy. Ye,
Speaker 1: Dak gets healthy, and get him signed. Get him signed
Speaker 1: because the salary cap is gonna loom over this offseason.
Speaker 1: You know, we don't the Cowboys don't know what it's
Speaker 1: gonna be. They don't know right now what they have
Speaker 1: to work with because of all the revenue laws due
Speaker 1: to the pandemic. So you know, if he's franchised, it's
Speaker 1: like thirty eight million bucks if you get a long
Speaker 1: if you get a long term deal done, I assume
Speaker 1: you can probably structure in a way where that you
Speaker 1: can lessen that a little bit. And that's I say
Speaker 1: that because of what you guys said, like they need
Speaker 1: help in a lot of spot, particularly on defense, and
Speaker 1: I just wonder how much you know financial resources. They're
Speaker 1: gonna have to really do that because of the strain
Speaker 1: with the cap this year, so the draft is going
Speaker 1: to be absolutely huge. And then what can you do
Speaker 1: in free agency with with a little bit of wiggle room,
Speaker 1: Because yeah, defensively, I think you point what Isaiah pointed to,
Speaker 1: what Heck pointed to, a lot of spots have to
Speaker 1: be looked at and addressed rob really quickly. What is
Speaker 1: the date that the Cowboys can start talking again with
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. I believe it's once the season ends. Today
Speaker 1: you can get back to the table now, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because you can't. You can't date ends, you can't talk
Speaker 1: until the season ends. So I believe that's the case. Yes, Okay,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to make sure I thought that was
Speaker 1: the case, and I think you're correct on that one
Speaker 1: as well. But I agree with heck, I think you
Speaker 1: have to go through every single one of these players defense, offense,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, and evaluate where they're part is, where their
Speaker 1: mindset is going into this off season to find the
Speaker 1: type of players that you need to be a contender.
Speaker 1: Because I agree, we're not there yet. And you see
Speaker 1: that six and ten. It's six and ten. There's no
Speaker 1: way to dress it up and make it look like
Speaker 1: anything better than what it is. But ten losses in
Speaker 1: a season, double digits not there. We would have said
Speaker 1: the same thing if it were seven to nine and
Speaker 1: you somehow found a way into the NFC's playoffs or
Speaker 1: at the NFL playoffs rather out of the NFC's fine,
Speaker 1: but it's still a lot of lack of talent on
Speaker 1: this roster, and I just hope the Cowboys go into
Speaker 1: the off season with a clear eye view of where
Speaker 1: they are talent wise, and hope they fix that just
Speaker 1: overall whenever it comes to player evaluation. Anyways, that's going
Speaker 1: to do it for us on talking Cowboys. But I
Speaker 1: wanted to take take a moment and thank every single
Speaker 1: one of you guys that have tuned in over this
Speaker 1: entire season. You guys are fantastic. You guys are so
Speaker 1: much fun and it makes our jobs fun. I mean,
Speaker 1: we get up in the morning early and watch film
Speaker 1: and prepare for this show and all sorts of stuff,
Speaker 1: and it's it's fun because we know what we're waiting
Speaker 1: for whenever these shows comes or come around, and we
Speaker 1: have a blast. We really do. And I mean I
Speaker 1: want to thank you guys as well. Heckma, Rob, Isaiah, Chris.
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys are fantastic. Thank you for making
Speaker 1: my job easier by being awesome yourselves. And it really
Speaker 1: is a blast getting to work with you guys, And
Speaker 1: I'm excited to go into the off season and we're
Speaker 1: going to continue to fix this Cowboys roster together. Gentlemen,
Speaker 1: we appreciate you, young Luke Skywalker. Yes, it's been a blast.
Speaker 1: Let's do it, Mondays now going forward, Yes, sir, see Beasy,
Speaker 1: thank you very much, See Beasy, And thank you guys
Speaker 1: for letting me win the projections this year. Oh whatever whatever,
Speaker 1: that's not officially done, so we'll give our final standing
Speaker 1: next week. So we'll give our final standings next week
Speaker 1: whenever the Monday night games stick around. But I think
Speaker 1: you're out of that out when Isaiah, sorry, about you.
Speaker 1: But well, guys, by the way, for those of you listening,
Speaker 1: we are on Monday's eleven thirty. It'll be an hour
Speaker 1: long show eleven thirty to twelve thirty starting next Monday.
Speaker 1: But that's it for us this week on Talking Cowboys.
Speaker 1: That's it for us in the twenty twenty season. Twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one is here. Let's go win a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one. How about that, gentlemen, Let's go
Speaker 1: on a run in the next season and figure things out.
Speaker 1: There's a long way to go for it. But for
Speaker 1: Chris Beam, for Rob Phillips, for heck Ma Harrison and
Speaker 1: Isaiah stand Back, I'm Kyle Yeoman's one final time saying
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