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Speaker 1: The following He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com

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Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. He's Talking Cowboys, Screaming

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Speaker 1: live from the Dallas Cowboys World Headhoars at the Star

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Speaker 1: in Frisco. Elliot following to the goal live Sabo's got

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Speaker 1: tis twenty Bay today and now your hosts Isaiah Stanback,

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Speaker 1: heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeoman's. It's a

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Speaker 1: Wednesday edition of Talking Cowboys from the SWBC Mortgage studios

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Speaker 1: here at the Star in Frisco. It is the morning

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Speaker 1: after a thirty four seventeen loss at the hands of

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Speaker 1: the Baltimore Ravens. The Cowboys now at three and nine

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Speaker 1: on the twenty twenty season, and all of our weekly

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Speaker 1: routines and schedules are also It's a messed up because

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Speaker 1: we had Tuesday Night football, but hey, we've got three

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Speaker 1: days to put this one in the rearview mirror and

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Speaker 1: get ready for the battle for Pina Seul, a battle

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Speaker 1: for the third overall pick going into this weekend with

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Speaker 1: the Cincinnati Bengals coming to town. Kyle Yeoman's alongside Isaiah Standback,

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Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, and heck My Harrison, We're gonna break things

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Speaker 1: down for you as to what happened in that Ravens game.

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Speaker 1: But first I want to give a little credit where

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Speaker 1: credit is due and start off with some positivity this

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Speaker 1: Wednesday morning. Isaiah Standback made a call the other day,

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Speaker 1: and I just want to get this out of the

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Speaker 1: way early. I'm bringing positivity, but also I just don't

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Speaker 1: want to hear it all show long, so I'm just

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Speaker 1: gonna attack it up front, Rob and Heckma. But Isaiah

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Speaker 1: came out and said thirty four seventeen was his prediction

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Speaker 1: and the final score. He used those Laura lenses to

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Speaker 1: look ahead and see exactly what was going on. So Isaiah,

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Speaker 1: you've got ten seconds to gloat starting now. I just

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Speaker 1: want to thank my support system, you know, Kyle, Rob Pie,

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Speaker 1: you know, saying hey, I appreciate you guys for being

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Speaker 1: here for me. You know, I think to my sponsor,

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Speaker 1: Surf make sure that I could see the future. Thank

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Speaker 1: you your sponsor a sponsor. Now, oh my god, just

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Speaker 1: now that we've got that out of the way, I

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Speaker 1: wanted to get that out of the way, the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: losing thirty four seventeen. But the point of the matter

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Speaker 1: is is this really anything other than what we expected?

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Speaker 1: And I think that's the most frustrating part about this

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Speaker 1: loss is that it's pretty much exactly what we expected.

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Speaker 1: It's one of those things where you look at it

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Speaker 1: and you say, all right, Mike McCarthy, all right, Cowboys,

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Speaker 1: even though you're banged up, I want to see what

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Speaker 1: I want to see some sort of execution, because I

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Speaker 1: think that was the word of the day, rob But

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Speaker 1: whenever you look back at this game, mister Phillips, how

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Speaker 1: do you categorize it for the Dallas Cowboys? Because I

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Speaker 1: thought it was frustrating and I thought it was just

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Speaker 1: a poor lack of execution all the way through. Can

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Speaker 1: I throw out one more positivity before we get to

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Speaker 1: all the negativity? Why not? Reddy Robinson was active? Man,

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Speaker 1: he was active. He had three snaps special team snapps.

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Speaker 1: All right, we got that. Okay, now onto the bad stuff. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I mean I would say I was surprised about the

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Speaker 1: thought they had turned a corner in terms of let's

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Speaker 1: That that was a repeat of Cleveland a few weeks back.

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Speaker 1: I thought they turned a corner. Turned out that corner

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Speaker 1: is like a cul de sac where you kind of

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Speaker 1: just do a right back to where you were, and uh,

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Speaker 1: you know, Michael Irvan's on the NFL network this morning

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Speaker 1: saying it's over. Math says it's not over. But it

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Speaker 1: felt like that, like, you know, psychologically, you're down basically

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Speaker 1: can't stop the run, you beat yourself with turnovers, you

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Speaker 1: allow points off turnovers. They're up to one twenty points

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Speaker 1: it was just representative of a lot of the losses

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Speaker 1: It was Lamar Jackson did his thing the Kota second right.

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Speaker 1: this show. We don't we don't say what feels good.

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Speaker 1: We say what it is. And that's what it was,

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Speaker 1: you know, thirty four seventeen. I honestly thought that it

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Speaker 1: Um uh uh. This game, this game was a complete embarrassment,

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Speaker 1: But there you are, Isaiah. I mean, it's dog it's embarrassing.

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Speaker 1: the graphic of Jalen standing there, you know, got his

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Speaker 1: guess that that's last NFL. Okay, there's only thirty two

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Speaker 1: teams in the league, Thank you very much, But do

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Speaker 1: they show our sideline with our dB sitting there. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it is it's embarrassing to see, but it's also embarrassing

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Speaker 1: how do you how do you prepare a team that

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Speaker 1: was more than one play like that where nobody's around him.

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Speaker 1: and it's reached a point this season where like you

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Speaker 1: looked like a Madden glitch where it's just wide open

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Speaker 1: Dobbins and mark Ingram could have potentially been out this week.

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Speaker 1: That's the only reason people know who this guy is.

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Speaker 1: And he goes for one hundred and one yards against

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Speaker 1: the Cowboys, but big plays continue to gash at Isaiah.

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Speaker 1: Why was that the case? And why can't the Cowboys

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Speaker 1: somehow stop the run because it looked like they could

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Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago against Pittsburgh and Philly. Well,

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Speaker 1: at a second level. Who that's your that's your job

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Speaker 1: These guys get confused, they get days, they confused. Obviously, specifically,

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Speaker 1: you know lbe and Jalen Smith, those are the two

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Speaker 1: Because a guy should not be able to go across

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Speaker 1: the defense was in both of those games. Oh wait,

427
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Speaker 1: it's to Dallas Cowboys. The three hundred and seven yards

428
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Speaker 1: against Cleveland in Week four, two hundred and ninety four

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Speaker 1: on Wednesday against the Baltimore Ravens. That's where we stand

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Speaker 1: in terms of the rush defense, and at first it

431
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Speaker 1: was the defensive struggles. Is it fair to say that

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Speaker 1: we that we got better, oh Man silver Linings, I

433
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Speaker 1: like it. Hey, our defense got better, man, I mean

434
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Speaker 1: just six? But well, well yeah six? Three? Okay, Well jokingly,

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Speaker 1: I know you're saying that jokingly, but I do want

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Speaker 1: to ask this question, Isaiah, and I'll start with you

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Speaker 1: on this, since you're so eager to talk about it.

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Speaker 1: But we're the Cowboys defense better against teams like Philly

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Speaker 1: or Pittsburgh or did Pittsburgh just not want to run

440
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Speaker 1: the ball? And it's Philly just downright terrible and they

441
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Speaker 1: gave us a sense of false hope before you get

442
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Speaker 1: gashed by Minnesota and then you get gashed by Washington

443
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Speaker 1: and then again last night by Baltimore. Yeah, Philly is

444
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Speaker 1: just not a good team. In Pittsburgh is no longer

445
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Speaker 1: a running team, nor did they did they show up

446
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Speaker 1: to play that day? So there's your two answers. That is, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Pittsburgh just is a running period. I mean, and you

448
00:23:00,400 --> 00:23:02,679
Speaker 1: saw that, and they're lost to the football team. They

449
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,560
Speaker 1: can't they can't run the ball. I think they finished

450
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Speaker 1: that game with like twenty thirty yards rushing UM and

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Speaker 1: and so yeah, and Philly, Philly is just a dumpster

452
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Speaker 1: fire in the nfcas just like us. So that's just

453
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Speaker 1: what it is. Defensively, man, we don't we don't have it.

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Speaker 1: I mean when a guy like Gus Edwards, who no

455
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Speaker 1: one had on the radar to do what he did.

456
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Speaker 1: And Isaiah made a point before the show about the

457
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Speaker 1: Cleveland game and it was their third string running back

458
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Speaker 1: that gashed us as well. And so it seems like

459
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Speaker 1: we are we are we make you better. We are

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Speaker 1: the RNs, we are the RX. If you have a problem,

461
00:23:41,720 --> 00:23:44,480
Speaker 1: yes it is. And so we're like ELpH on the

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Speaker 1: shelf for your running game you need it, we can

463
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Speaker 1: give it to you. I think we talked about Baltimore

464
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Speaker 1: coming into this game and all the problems that they

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Speaker 1: were having on offense rolling, and it's what he's trying

466
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Speaker 1: to change, um, trying to change what Lamar jack doesn't.

467
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Speaker 1: You saw this game. Lamar Jackson really needs to work

468
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Speaker 1: on this mechanics because a lot of a lot of

469
00:24:04,880 --> 00:24:07,200
Speaker 1: those balls sailed on him in the one and that

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Speaker 1: one throw, and I think even Xavier Woods didn't even

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Speaker 1: know how to attack it, which was one of the

472
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Speaker 1: most awkward safety closings that I've seen in a while.

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Speaker 1: But you know, I just think that defensively, you knew

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Speaker 1: that this running game was going to present a challenge,

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Speaker 1: and they just kept doing they can't. They stayed true

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Speaker 1: to it. I think Lamar Jackson finished with what one

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Speaker 1: hundred and one yards passing, So that's I mean, those

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Speaker 1: are the kind of statistics that we're gonna get versus

479
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Speaker 1: teams next week when we go to Cincinnati. They're gonna

480
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Speaker 1: do the same thing. They're gonna load up. They gotta

481
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Speaker 1: run that thing. You know, why what, why would you

482
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Speaker 1: have any other game playing versus the Dallas Cowboys. I

483
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Speaker 1: just googled the slogan we make you Better to see

484
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Speaker 1: if I thought it maybe a company had that title

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Speaker 1: slogan and I could I couldn't find it, but we

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Speaker 1: can trade market. Yeah, I think it's trademarked by some

487
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Speaker 1: elevator company. Unfortunately, anyway, the run defense, like I think

488
00:25:04,480 --> 00:25:08,320
Speaker 1: you guys are right, Like, you know, looking back maybe

489
00:25:08,359 --> 00:25:10,920
Speaker 1: it was fool's gold, but I didn't think in those

490
00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:15,159
Speaker 1: games they were better just alignment wise. Assignment wise, because

491
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Speaker 1: you know, some of the runs that the Ravens had

492
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Speaker 1: last night nothing special. You know, they just didn't they

493
00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:22,480
Speaker 1: didn't diagnose it right, they didn't make the play, you know.

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Speaker 1: I think I think it was the drive after Lamar's

495
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:29,879
Speaker 1: big touchdown early it was Gus Edwards for thirty six yards,

496
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Speaker 1: and it was just kind of what we saw early

497
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Speaker 1: in the season, where you know, off the line just

498
00:25:35,280 --> 00:25:39,120
Speaker 1: getting pushed out of the way and creating a crease.

499
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Speaker 1: And that's all it was, you know, just kind of

500
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Speaker 1: simple and and so they reverted back to that, right

501
00:25:47,640 --> 00:25:49,359
Speaker 1: Am I the only one that thinks that we ran

502
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:52,440
Speaker 1: the ball well with Zeke last night? Yeah? I thought so.

503
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,840
Speaker 1: I thought he ran really good early and he more

504
00:25:55,960 --> 00:25:58,480
Speaker 1: just took it out his hands, right. Yeah. He kind

505
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:01,520
Speaker 1: of went to Pollard after that, which surprised me. Um.

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00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 1: I give Kellen credit for like trying to stick to

507
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:07,000
Speaker 1: the run he got. He went past a couple of

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Speaker 1: times where I thought, okay, just stick with it. But

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Speaker 1: that's funny you brought that up, isaih, Because I was

510
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Speaker 1: gonna say that at the top of the show. Like

511
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:16,720
Speaker 1: the Cowboys plan offensively was to shorten the game and

512
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,760
Speaker 1: try to uh, you know, help the defense, keep the

513
00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,160
Speaker 1: defense off the field, you know, and and for large stretches.

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00:26:23,160 --> 00:26:24,600
Speaker 1: I mean they were able to do that. You know,

515
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 1: they were able to move the ball. I forget what

516
00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:29,639
Speaker 1: the time of possession was they won. I don't know

517
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Speaker 1: if they've won. I don't know if they've won time

518
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,959
Speaker 1: of possession all year long. Maybe a couple of times. Um.

519
00:26:35,280 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 1: But you know that that game plan doesn't work when

520
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,840
Speaker 1: your defense can't stop anything in the run game. And

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Speaker 1: that's that's the story of the game, story of the

522
00:26:42,960 --> 00:26:46,760
Speaker 1: season for a lot of these games. Now, yeah, go

523
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Speaker 1: for it to heck one, no, you know, it's pedestrian.

524
00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:53,840
Speaker 1: And we got to the point and you know, trying

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Speaker 1: to run the ball, and I talked about it just

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Speaker 1: you know, some of the weird calls that that Kellen

527
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Speaker 1: was making. He came into this, and I thought that

528
00:27:00,880 --> 00:27:03,560
Speaker 1: it was really vanilla. He didn't get into anything weird.

529
00:27:03,680 --> 00:27:06,120
Speaker 1: But towards the end of the game, we just became predictable.

530
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:07,960
Speaker 1: And that's what happens when you get down by that

531
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Speaker 1: many points. But I thought that Zeke was giving us

532
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:13,240
Speaker 1: a lot in the running game, but they tried to

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Speaker 1: do the thunder and lightning tandem of those two and

534
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:17,840
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't blame him for that. I just

535
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 1: think that once Zeke starts to get on the roll

536
00:27:20,800 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 1: and he has a hot end, stay with him, don't stop,

537
00:27:24,119 --> 00:27:26,880
Speaker 1: you know, get keep getting him that because statistics show

538
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,119
Speaker 1: that once he has those carris and he gets over

539
00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: one hundred yards, the Cowboys typically win. And so you know, look,

540
00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:37,639
Speaker 1: you said it to Isaiah that Tony Pollard had to

541
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 1: have a good game, and for a lot of those

542
00:27:39,600 --> 00:27:42,399
Speaker 1: stretches he was getting us some chunk yards. But you know,

543
00:27:42,520 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard is that kind of running back where he'll

544
00:27:44,800 --> 00:27:47,879
Speaker 1: go negative two, negative three and then get your seven.

545
00:27:48,040 --> 00:27:50,240
Speaker 1: You know. So we just were not in the position

546
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,480
Speaker 1: last night to have that kind of flow be you know,

547
00:27:53,600 --> 00:27:56,479
Speaker 1: the defense disrupt our flow that way, and it happened

548
00:27:56,480 --> 00:27:58,440
Speaker 1: a lot to us where we were behind his third

549
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:01,320
Speaker 1: and fifteen and penalties at that just took us out

550
00:28:01,359 --> 00:28:04,439
Speaker 1: of any kind of rhythm offensively, are you right? I mean,

551
00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:08,360
Speaker 1: but Zeke was getting four point three yards per carry, Yeah,

552
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,719
Speaker 1: four point three yards per carry. Ninety million dollar Man

553
00:28:12,800 --> 00:28:16,440
Speaker 1: and you take it out of his hands. Why I

554
00:28:16,520 --> 00:28:18,720
Speaker 1: wouldn't be surprised, you know, and there was a play

555
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,880
Speaker 1: in this I was gonna say, I wouldn't be surprised

556
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys show or if Ezekiel Elliott shows up

557
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:27,240
Speaker 1: on the Cowboys injury report this week with maybe like

558
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,720
Speaker 1: a nagging thing, something that kept him out for a

559
00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 1: bit of for just a bit of time. It's easier

560
00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:35,920
Speaker 1: to hide that kind of thing in COVID nineteen whenever

561
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,760
Speaker 1: you don't have as many media personnel around the field

562
00:28:38,800 --> 00:28:41,320
Speaker 1: and watching every single movement, especially when they're on the road.

563
00:28:41,400 --> 00:28:44,720
Speaker 1: So I wouldn't necessarily be surprised if something comes out there.

564
00:28:44,800 --> 00:28:47,320
Speaker 1: But that's really kind of also just me looking for

565
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:53,600
Speaker 1: an explanation. Rob Well, I think Heck said it. I

566
00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: mean they tried kind of the thunder and lightning thing

567
00:28:55,520 --> 00:28:57,560
Speaker 1: they want. They've been wanting to get Tony more involved.

568
00:28:57,760 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 1: His biggest play was the kickoff return. That was a

569
00:28:59,760 --> 00:29:02,240
Speaker 1: great kickoff return off but but he only got two

570
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,360
Speaker 1: point eight yards of carry. And there was one play

571
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:06,200
Speaker 1: in the second half I forget which drive where he

572
00:29:06,320 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: hesitated to hit the hole and I think he got

573
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:10,440
Speaker 1: hit for a loss and they brought Zeke right in.

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00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:13,720
Speaker 1: You know, so Zeke, that was one of Zeke's best

575
00:29:13,880 --> 00:29:15,880
Speaker 1: just I don't know the rhythm, the way he was running.

576
00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:19,400
Speaker 1: It was good. Yeah, he did, he did. And the

577
00:29:19,520 --> 00:29:22,280
Speaker 1: problem was they didn't. They weren't able to set that

578
00:29:22,360 --> 00:29:24,520
Speaker 1: up with any chunk plays in the passing game. You know,

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00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:27,160
Speaker 1: I don't think they got an explosive pass play till

580
00:29:27,240 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: late in the game. For a long stretch. It was

581
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,560
Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz for like fifteen yards, So you know, some

582
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 1: of that was probably trying to get the ball out

583
00:29:34,840 --> 00:29:38,160
Speaker 1: quick to protect the offensive line. Um, but they just

584
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:41,800
Speaker 1: never really made him pay, you know. And um. And

585
00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:43,440
Speaker 1: you know when you miss the thing when you only

586
00:29:43,880 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 1: can settle for three field goals and you miss them all, Uh,

587
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 1: you're you're really putting stress on your defense. And they weren't.

588
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,280
Speaker 1: They were not going to bail you out last night.

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Speaker 1: stand by, No, stand stand by the other that's go on.

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Speaker 1: Oh now, I know what friends, you're going to Now,

639
00:33:01,280 --> 00:33:03,200
Speaker 1: I know what that is. Oh man, I didn't do

640
00:33:03,320 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 1: that game out of left field. Oh wow. All right, Well,

641
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,320
Speaker 1: we've got about eight minutes to push past that comment

642
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 1: and continue on here on talking Cowboys. Glad you're with this.

643
00:33:12,560 --> 00:33:16,640
Speaker 1: Isaiah Stanback, Rob Phillips at Harrison, I'm Kyle Yeomans and

644
00:33:17,840 --> 00:33:20,160
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy. I was asked this this morning on the fan,

645
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: and I think it's an interesting question because I think

646
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:26,720
Speaker 1: so a couple others in the media, national media. I've

647
00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:29,360
Speaker 1: said so. Jimmy Johnson was the most recent to say it.

648
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:33,720
Speaker 1: But is Mike McCarthy the right man for the job

649
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,280
Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboys, because right now we're sitting at

650
00:33:36,360 --> 00:33:38,960
Speaker 1: week fourteen in the NFL season, he is three and

651
00:33:39,200 --> 00:33:41,920
Speaker 1: nine as a head coach. It's a losing season for

652
00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,959
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. The Cowboys not really in the spot right

653
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 1: now anyways to win the division because of the recent

654
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,080
Speaker 1: wins from New York and from Washington, but also if

655
00:33:52,080 --> 00:33:53,840
Speaker 1: you want to go all the way back to October

656
00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:58,280
Speaker 1: of twenty seventeen, since Mike McCarthy defeated the Cowboys in

657
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:03,120
Speaker 1: October twenty seventeen, he is seven and twenty one as

658
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:06,960
Speaker 1: a head coach. So it hasn't been good for Mike lately.

659
00:34:07,120 --> 00:34:09,120
Speaker 1: But heck, we will start with you on this one.

660
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:11,320
Speaker 1: Do you still think Mike McCarthy's right man for the

661
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,359
Speaker 1: job and does he have the right staff around him

662
00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:17,560
Speaker 1: as well. I may not agree with the staff, but

663
00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 1: I agree that Mike is and I just feel as

664
00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:24,399
Speaker 1: though he's in a very peculiar situation when you look

665
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: at what he has to deal with with the cap,

666
00:34:26,520 --> 00:34:28,880
Speaker 1: the decisions that he has to make, whether he's to

667
00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:33,719
Speaker 1: resign Dak, the guys that are making Bookoo money on

668
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,880
Speaker 1: this roster, and how to maneuver and get out of

669
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,600
Speaker 1: some of that. I mean, I think he really has

670
00:34:39,680 --> 00:34:42,719
Speaker 1: to look at the totality totality of this and see

671
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:46,520
Speaker 1: how he can make this roster better. He's gonna be limited.

672
00:34:46,640 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 1: He's gonna be limited in that, especially with some of

673
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:51,600
Speaker 1: the wrong guys getting paid. But I just feel like

674
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,239
Speaker 1: it feel as though it's gonna be it's the job

675
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 1: that he's gonna have to do to get that under

676
00:34:56,640 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: wraps and get the talent that we need on this roster.

677
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:01,840
Speaker 1: It's gonna be scientific job by this coach. And so

678
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: if you know, if his past is any indicator of

679
00:35:06,280 --> 00:35:09,080
Speaker 1: future performance, let's just hope that he's passed at seven

680
00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: and twenty two or whatever the record that you just said,

681
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: because he's gonna need to conjure up something. Because the

682
00:35:15,239 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 1: other teams in your division, to walk the football team

683
00:35:18,360 --> 00:35:21,279
Speaker 1: and New York based off of their salary cap, they're

684
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:23,799
Speaker 1: going to be a lot better than what they are

685
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,000
Speaker 1: right now because they're going to have the money to

686
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:29,360
Speaker 1: pay players. And so maybe Philadelphia is not in that

687
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:32,600
Speaker 1: situation because of where they are with Carson Wentz, but

688
00:35:33,719 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 1: Dallas is in a real tricky situation right now. They're

689
00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:44,200
Speaker 1: in a deal pickle. Yeah, it's a pickle. I don't

690
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,800
Speaker 1: I wish I can comment on this with a full,

691
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:50,279
Speaker 1: full head of confidence. The reason why I can't it's

692
00:35:50,320 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 1: because I haven't been able to see practice. I haven't

693
00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:55,080
Speaker 1: been able to see how he coaches in practice. I

694
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:58,360
Speaker 1: haven't been able to see his facial expressions, reader's lips,

695
00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: haven't been to be able to see any of that stuff.

696
00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:03,040
Speaker 1: All I can see is the decisions that he allows

697
00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:08,480
Speaker 1: to happen. He allows, He's allowed bad coaching decisions this year.

698
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:13,440
Speaker 1: He's allowed bad schemes defensively, He's allowed bad offensive calls

699
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:15,919
Speaker 1: early on in the season, specifically in the first half

700
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 1: of the season. He's allowed bad special teams calls to

701
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:22,200
Speaker 1: get pushed through or you gonna pass him all the

702
00:36:22,280 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 1: way to the field. So, based upon those things that

703
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,200
Speaker 1: I can see, I don't believe that he's the right

704
00:36:28,239 --> 00:36:30,959
Speaker 1: person for this job right now. But again, I don't

705
00:36:31,080 --> 00:36:34,120
Speaker 1: know how he coaches. I have been able to witness

706
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 1: that personally, to be able to get my full scope.

707
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,359
Speaker 1: But based upon the things that I've seen this year,

708
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 1: performance wise, it doesn't appear like it. There hasn't been

709
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,760
Speaker 1: a culture change. Things haven't gotten better in any regard.

710
00:36:44,840 --> 00:36:47,440
Speaker 1: I don't feel I think I know Roule alluded to

711
00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 1: the defense getting a little bit better there for a second,

712
00:36:49,640 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: But in terms of overall overarching effort, overarching efficiency, overarching wins,

713
00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:58,319
Speaker 1: we haven't seen any of that. We haven't seen any

714
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:02,600
Speaker 1: seismic change in that nor expectation levels this season, so

715
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:07,279
Speaker 1: as of right now, based upon that information, the answers, No, Yeah,

716
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: that's a good point, Like it's it's such a weird

717
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:12,239
Speaker 1: year and that it's really hard to get a feel

718
00:37:12,360 --> 00:37:15,160
Speaker 1: for like the culture that he's brought in with the

719
00:37:15,200 --> 00:37:17,440
Speaker 1: player because you're you're not around the players, you know,

720
00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:19,520
Speaker 1: even in kind of a casual setting to talk more

721
00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 1: about stuff like that. You know, you're just on these calls.

722
00:37:23,440 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 1: And I mean I said this during the bye week,

723
00:37:26,800 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 1: I think when we were all doing different shows, like

724
00:37:29,000 --> 00:37:31,800
Speaker 1: I think you we're gonna have a much better idea

725
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 1: by mid season twenty twenty one where they're at because

726
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:37,279
Speaker 1: I'm I'm willing to give I've said this over and

727
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:39,200
Speaker 1: over again. You know, it's got to be somewhat of

728
00:37:39,239 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: a mulligan here. I know that sounds probably like an excuse,

729
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:44,640
Speaker 1: but I mean the bottom line is, like, I mean, look,

730
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:49,919
Speaker 1: the offense is going to be should be miles better

731
00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 1: next year when you get some healthy guys back and

732
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,360
Speaker 1: run it back defensively. They've got to figure something out. Ye,

733
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,040
Speaker 1: whether it's scheme, it's probably it's a combination of scheme

734
00:37:59,080 --> 00:38:01,920
Speaker 1: and personnel they're gonna have that change is there, and uh,

735
00:38:02,200 --> 00:38:04,320
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know if if, if Mike's staff

736
00:38:04,360 --> 00:38:07,239
Speaker 1: will come back fully intact. We'll see. But I think

737
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:08,960
Speaker 1: on at least one side of the ball, I think

738
00:38:08,960 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 1: you come back next year and you feel much better

739
00:38:10,760 --> 00:38:14,040
Speaker 1: about the situation with Dak healthy and all that. Defensively, though,

740
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:15,479
Speaker 1: they've got to find a way to make more plays

741
00:38:15,520 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: and just make sound plays, make make just plays that

742
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 1: don't lose your games. If they can find a way

743
00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:23,080
Speaker 1: to do that and have a better offense, they're going

744
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:26,920
Speaker 1: to be much more competitive this year, regardless of you know,

745
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:28,759
Speaker 1: talking about fit with Mike and all that. I just

746
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:31,400
Speaker 1: think they'll have better players. So that's a start. And

747
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:34,240
Speaker 1: you mentioned earlier there is going to be personnel changes,

748
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,719
Speaker 1: and I agree with you in that standpoint. But with

749
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,200
Speaker 1: what you're saying, there is Mike Nolan still kind of

750
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: on the hot seat here over the last four weeks

751
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 1: of the season. If this defense doesn't see some kind

752
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:49,520
Speaker 1: of improvement, I don't know that. I mean, I know

753
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:54,360
Speaker 1: Mike has been very you know, defensive, but been a

754
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:57,160
Speaker 1: staunch defender of his all year long that you know,

755
00:38:57,520 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 1: they've I think they feel pretty good about what they've

756
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,719
Speaker 1: done scheme wise and when and trying to tail things

757
00:39:04,800 --> 00:39:07,160
Speaker 1: back when they feel like it was I think two

758
00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,520
Speaker 1: weeks in they said we scaled back, you know, But

759
00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:11,759
Speaker 1: I think ultimately when you have to look at it

760
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:15,080
Speaker 1: and say it's it's never just one thing. I mean,

761
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:18,120
Speaker 1: what is causing players not to succeed in what you're

762
00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:19,800
Speaker 1: trying to ask them to do? I mean, that's the

763
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:22,720
Speaker 1: coach's job. So they've they've got to evaluate that heavily

764
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:25,719
Speaker 1: in the offseason. Figure out what's you know, beyond personnel.

765
00:39:26,239 --> 00:39:29,080
Speaker 1: Why can't we because you know, I mean there's defenses

766
00:39:29,120 --> 00:39:32,120
Speaker 1: out there that I mean, I'm thinking back to Bill

767
00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:34,439
Speaker 1: Parcel's first year that I covered in two thousand and three.

768
00:39:34,560 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 1: It wasn't like a super talented team, but they just

769
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 1: kind of did their job in one games ugly, and

770
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:41,719
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of what we thought this team

771
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,839
Speaker 1: could do without Dak at least some games, and they

772
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:51,480
Speaker 1: just haven't. They haven't played winning football nearly enough. Sorry,

773
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: are you? Are you staying with your coaching staff? Rob

774
00:39:53,400 --> 00:39:56,880
Speaker 1: or No? Well, I mean I don't, I don't. I

775
00:39:57,000 --> 00:39:58,920
Speaker 1: don't know that it's certain that they're gonna make like

776
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:02,280
Speaker 1: coordinator changes because I just think he's he hasn't sounded

777
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:05,759
Speaker 1: like some guy that's really questioning the scheme side of it.

778
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:07,879
Speaker 1: But I think they have to look at that and say,

779
00:40:08,280 --> 00:40:10,840
Speaker 1: you know, what's causing guys not to have success because

780
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:13,319
Speaker 1: they do have some talent on that side of the ball,

781
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:18,400
Speaker 1: especially up front. They've got guys who can make plays. Isaia,

782
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:22,080
Speaker 1: are you you can make every now? I already said

783
00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:24,279
Speaker 1: what I already said based upon what I see right

784
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,680
Speaker 1: now and McCarthy and he's allowed I don't believe that

785
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:30,640
Speaker 1: he's the right guy right now. So that's how I'm

786
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:33,000
Speaker 1: able to see other things like I mentioned already, behind

787
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:35,680
Speaker 1: the scenes stuff practice. Um, I don't know how he

788
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:38,200
Speaker 1: facilitates practice any of those things. So I can't make

789
00:40:38,239 --> 00:40:40,279
Speaker 1: a full statement, but based upon the information I have,

790
00:40:40,719 --> 00:40:46,160
Speaker 1: the things that he's allowed, I'm not a believer. Em now,

791
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:49,040
Speaker 1: I don't. Yeah, I don't know how I mean looking

792
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 1: at let's just start from from the defensive side. I mean, uh,

793
00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 1: these these guys are teachers and this is you know,

794
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:58,080
Speaker 1: film study. Everything they're teaching this scheme and what they

795
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:01,880
Speaker 1: expect from this team from their players. In personnel and

796
00:41:02,080 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 1: they get out there and they cannot execute it. And

797
00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:06,719
Speaker 1: guys all the way up until this week seem to

798
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 1: not know where they need to be position wise on

799
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,400
Speaker 1: the field. They've gone through all of the looks and

800
00:41:12,520 --> 00:41:15,759
Speaker 1: this situational awareness all the time that's being taught. But

801
00:41:15,880 --> 00:41:18,280
Speaker 1: if how does that not get conveyed to the field,

802
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,440
Speaker 1: is what I'm seeing, And so I don't know if like,

803
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:25,840
Speaker 1: like he said, let's give him a mulligan for this season,

804
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 1: I'm okay with that. But when you get into twenty

805
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 1: twenty one, if we see any of these same things

806
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,840
Speaker 1: sought to happen, it's X name he gotta go. I mean,

807
00:41:36,160 --> 00:41:39,600
Speaker 1: it's how much how much longer is this rope? And

808
00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:42,600
Speaker 1: we can blame twenty twenty, we can say all that,

809
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:45,840
Speaker 1: but at some point your fan base and everybody around

810
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 1: is not going to accept that. Right. You cannot continue

811
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:52,280
Speaker 1: to accept that, whether it's the guys, the personnel scheme,

812
00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:55,800
Speaker 1: whatever it is, it's not being conveyed and bones fossil.

813
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:58,840
Speaker 1: It's probably one guy that definitely should be looked at

814
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:01,640
Speaker 1: immediately to find that what's going on with special teams.

815
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,360
Speaker 1: And I think that's something that the Cowboys will have

816
00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 1: to address this offseason or even the last four games

817
00:42:08,160 --> 00:42:10,640
Speaker 1: of the year. I mean, this is evaluation time, not

818
00:42:10,760 --> 00:42:12,920
Speaker 1: only for the players, but for the coaching staff who

819
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,440
Speaker 1: is going to be here in twenty twenty one to

820
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:18,879
Speaker 1: quote unquote run it back. That's what the decision making

821
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:20,919
Speaker 1: is going to come down to, is what we've seen

822
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 1: so far and what we're going to see the next

823
00:42:22,880 --> 00:42:24,960
Speaker 1: four weeks of the season. There was plenty of frustration

824
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:27,960
Speaker 1: around the special teams. We're gonna hit that tomorrow. Don't worry.

825
00:42:28,000 --> 00:42:30,640
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about the three miss kicks some of

826
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:33,480
Speaker 1: the special teams they hit and misses from Bones, Fossil

827
00:42:33,520 --> 00:42:35,959
Speaker 1: and that unit of the Dallas Cowboys. But that's gonna

828
00:42:35,960 --> 00:42:38,720
Speaker 1: do it for us here today on Talking Cowboys. Tomorrow,

829
00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 1: we'll also preview the Cincinnati offense in the Dallas defense.

830
00:42:42,600 --> 00:42:45,560
Speaker 1: Can the Cowboys not give up three hundred yards of rushing?

831
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:47,799
Speaker 1: Of course, like Isaiah said, they didn't give up three

832
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:50,000
Speaker 1: hundred yards of rushing? How about that? We got it

833
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 1: underneath three hundred thank goodness, oh wow, two hundred and

834
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Speaker 1: ninety four. Frustrating week after the thirty four or seventeen

835
00:42:57,520 --> 00:43:00,279
Speaker 1: loss to the Baltimore Ravens, but for Rob Phil Loops,

836
00:43:00,280 --> 00:43:02,200
Speaker 1: for hack My Harrison, Isaiah stand Back and the great

837
00:43:02,280 --> 00:43:04,799
Speaker 1: Chris Beam as always doing work in the back. Um

838
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:07,640
Speaker 1: Kyle Yeoman saying so long from the star in Frisco.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you tomorrow. I'm talking Cowboys. This has been

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Speaker 1: a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas

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