WEBVTT - Player’s Lounge: Giving Up the Edge 0:00:04.120 --> 0:00:06.560 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:08.200 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:12.879 Cowboys. 0:00:13.039 --> 0:00:18.320 This is the Player's Lounge, broadcasting live from Dallas Cowboys 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:23.800 World headquarters at the Star. Now your hosts, Barry Church, 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:27.680 Danny McCrae, Heckma Harrison, and New. 0:00:27.720 --> 0:00:28.480 He scrugs. 0:00:30.400 --> 0:00:34.440 Here we are to Monday where the Cowboys came to 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:38.440 Arizona and lost, and all of us had it wrong. 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:41.640 Sound brought to you by Tostinos. 0:00:41.680 --> 0:00:44.560 You know the crew. Danny McCrae, heckm Harrison, Barry Church, 0:00:44.640 --> 0:00:46.160 I'm New, he scrugs. 0:00:48.680 --> 0:00:54.720 Buddy, twenty eight sixteen. So that's ugly. 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:58.000 Yes, we all had it going a different way. I 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:00.840 had Dallas winning thirty two to sixteen. Church, you had 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:03.800 Dallas winning twenty eight ten. Heck May you had Dallas 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:07.119 winning thirty five thirteen. Danny, you had Dallas winning twenty 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:08.680 seven to ten. 0:01:08.840 --> 0:01:11.320 We all like cheesez. We all came up wrong. 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:13.960 I was real. We should have known. 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:16.520 I just want to say that because you came on 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:18.840 here and I was thinking about it. You came on 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:22.759 here and said something you thought was positive, and we 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.440 was all just were just so in the cheese. 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.160 So much we didn't even look at it to say what. 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:31.400 So you talked to Cede Lamb and Ceedee Lamb say, nah, 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:34.360 we know the real test ain't til week five. And 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:37.440 we came here and say you did say that? We said, 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:41.959 we was like, yeah, you're right, jo Is said. He said, yeah. 0:01:41.959 --> 0:01:45.800 They focused had kool aid, like, yeah, you're right. 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:47.840 A week five they know they know. 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.160 Ye a mischaracterization. 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:52.960 What'd you say? Okay, okay, I'm just so. 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:56.120 He talked about, all right, we're two and old. Everybody's 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:59.520 two and old, right, it's not really something to measure 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:02.240 it by. By about week five, we should know what 0:02:02.280 --> 0:02:05.080 we basically week five, we should kind of know where 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:06.480 we and where other teams are. 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:07.760 We should kind of get a better sense. 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:11.799 That's better than that's better. 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:11.519 A little better. 0:02:11.760 --> 0:02:17.000 So so Twitter right decided to put it out there. 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:17.680 We don't know that. 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:20.519 I tried to take that little and just say, hey, 0:02:20.560 --> 0:02:23.160 you're not worried about you're not worried about these guys 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:23.320 you were. 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:25.080 So it wasn't in that case. 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:30.600 But I'm sorry, CD, but uh, okay, week five, I 0:02:30.600 --> 0:02:33.920 hope we hope we know it was. 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:36.799 It wasn't good. So I can't. I can't wait to 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:38.680 hear your justifications. 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:42.880 Soon was standing straight up in the kool aid. That's 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.800 how much sugar. I can't wait to hear this. 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:46.360 I got. 0:02:46.800 --> 0:02:50.880 Yeah, come on, my bad, my bad, you want this week? 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:58.400 But yeah no, Texas my two schools man, they lost. 0:02:58.760 --> 0:03:01.280 Man, you know, come on rough weekend? 0:03:03.360 --> 0:03:04.359 Class have played around on. 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:11.919 Hurry, somebody sparking off. 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:13.320 I got to hear it. 0:03:13.560 --> 0:03:20.120 I got to hear it. Where go ahead now, I mean. 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.000 We already talked off lound about this. I want to 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:23.079 hear old on. 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:27.079 No no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no. 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:28.919 I shot the first text on this. 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:32.560 Oh yeah no, because I want I want to be 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.839 the first to say I got on here. Okay, two 0:03:35.840 --> 0:03:38.200 weeks in a row, I was like, Hey, as long 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.720 as our defense is playing this way and Big Mike 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:43.640 is gonna stick to the game playing and not let 0:03:43.680 --> 0:03:46.119 the noise get to them, Hey, kicking the field goal, 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.800 kicking kicking at the end every drive is good? 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:50.160 Then we okay. 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:52.640 And then for some reason we get into the game 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:57.840 and the noise or something something we're gonna get this 0:03:57.880 --> 0:03:59.800 one and we don't kick the field goal, and that 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:03.120 let me know, everything I needed to know about where 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:05.760 we were in that game, about the fourth and four 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:09.760 and the four fourth and four week second half. Hey, man, listen, 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:12.080 you either trust your defense or you don't. Okay, even 0:04:12.080 --> 0:04:14.320 if you feel that confident in what you can do 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:18.440 in the red zone, your recipe for success over the 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:22.279 last two weeks has been what continue to drive the 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.080 ball down the field, get points, get out of there, 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:26.720 let your defense play. 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:27.640 Out the way, and then. 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:30.800 You know, we get it. I'm like, well, here we go. 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:35.200 The person's on. Person's on didn't feel good. Didn't feel good. 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:36.280 But I did get to the end of the game 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:38.080 and I said, man, I might understand why Big Mic 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:42.320 running the ball in the red zone because based on 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:46.320 how I finished, I guess we'll figured out it out. 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:47.840 But now I'm not going when you was going to church, 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.440 I'm gonna let you get that first. I'm not going 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.360 on the lab where we was mixing count out lab 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.080 was good. I mean, I sent a couple of text 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:56.960 message and I was like, Big Mic is cooking. You 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:58.560 know what I'm saying. The red zone we just we 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:00.560 stalled out. But I would rather just hey, man, if 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:01.599 you're gonna start kick. 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.120 The ball that's true. 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:03.920 That's true. 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:14.120 Go ahead, man don't okay, let me just read let 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.200 me read the text aside. 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:17.280 You don't have to do that, man. 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:20.120 I mean, initially my initial response after this game, I 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:23.920 was disappointed. I was disappointed because in the text he said, look, 0:05:23.960 --> 0:05:26.400 they sleepwalking, and that would have been the last thing 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.200 that I would have expected from this team because they 0:05:28.200 --> 0:05:31.440 are unproving they would come out and and play the 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:33.479 same way that they played over the first couple of weeks. 0:05:33.480 --> 0:05:36.279 But they came out and they just slip walk, especially 0:05:36.279 --> 0:05:41.080 through that first half. And to me, I think as 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:42.680 we were going through the game, there were things that 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:44.880 Mike was doing, like you were saying yourself, Okay, that's 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:45.560 a great call. 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:47.160 You're in your bag right now. 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:51.360 You're keeping the ball moving, really keeping this defense, letting 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:53.640 Dan Quinn make whatever adjustments that he needs to make 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:57.040 right now. Because obviously the Cardinals saw something on tape 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:02.279 that they exposed and it's the same old thing, run defense, run. 0:06:02.160 --> 0:06:03.560 Defense, over and over and over again. 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.480 And we know as we go through the week, we're 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:07.560 gonna talk about what this next team coming up is 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:11.040 going to expose as well. But man, I couldn't have 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:15.239 nothing could have prepared me for the lack of effort 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:17.039 on the defensive side. 0:06:17.640 --> 0:06:18.200 It just couldn't. 0:06:18.400 --> 0:06:21.080 Nothing could have prepared me for that, and I was 0:06:21.360 --> 0:06:22.839 it was one of those things like I kept saying 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.880 to myself, like, damn, we seriously underestimated these dudes. And 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.320 y'all may not remember this man, but Mike Tyson was 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:30.960 the baddest man in the world February tenth, nineteen ninety 0:06:31.360 --> 0:06:33.160 before he met Buster Douglas. 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:35.239 The next day and the next day. 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.520 Buster Douglas showed the world that he bleed like us, 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:40.400 right and after that the Kurt was down. I think 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.840 everybody know about this defense. That was every offensive tackle 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:46.160 in the world was scared of Michael Parsons. They ain't 0:06:46.160 --> 0:06:49.640 this morning because they saw this is how you beat them. 0:06:49.760 --> 0:06:52.240 You put twelve personnel out there, you bring those tight 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.760 ends out to his side, you wash him down, and 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.120 you take those guards and those tackles and crown on 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:00.600 them out on those safeties and James Connor, James Conner 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:03.440 should have had two hundred yards if he had any speed, 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:07.360 it had two hundred yards, you know. So look, it 0:07:07.480 --> 0:07:10.000 was it was disappointment on my side on what I 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:10.920 felt for this team. 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:13.840 I felt like they slept walked through it. Man. 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.040 But hopefully they'll take this look at the tape and 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:18.520 just take this as a learning experience, because man, they 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:21.239 have to be better than this, especially over these next 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:22.680 couple of stretches of games. 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:24.920 Now, you guys are both right, I mean, they got 0:07:25.000 --> 0:07:27.640 to play better overall. I mean in all three phases. Well, 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.120 I don't know Special Teams they bought out. I ain't 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:30.720 gonna lie. You know, that return from turfing could have 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:32.560 been huge. 0:07:32.880 --> 0:07:34.440 Twenty nine was out there making a whole bunch of 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:37.400 time too. I don't always want to shot like split 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:39.720 the spotlight on CJ. He was out there doing doing 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:41.600 what he was supposed to do. But yeah, so Special 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:43.600 Team did do things. But there was three things to 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:45.920 me that kind of kind of stood out in this game. One, 0:07:46.640 --> 0:07:48.520 they went back in time and got into the penalty 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.320 box again. Thirteen penalties for one hundred and seven yards. 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:54.680 We haven't seen those type of numbers since twenty twenty one. 0:07:54.760 --> 0:07:56.160 You know, we thought that was behind us. 0:07:56.160 --> 0:07:58.560 So the penalties definitely hurt this team overall to kept 0:07:58.600 --> 0:08:00.920 them behind the change and kept in those third and 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.720 long situations. Then you looked at it, y'all both already 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:05.600 hit on it. You talk about this defense, it was 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:08.320 disappointing at the fact that not only did they get 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:10.480 in twelve personnel and kind of just jam it down 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.720 this defense through the gut, but they. 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.560 Were also able to hit the edges as well. 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:16.440 You know, usually it's one of the other, either you're 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:17.880 gonna be able to cut this team or you're gonna 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:19.040 be able to hit the outside. 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:21.240 But Arizona was able to do both of those things. 0:08:21.320 --> 0:08:24.000 And then they got into that eleven personnel and you 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.200 know when dan Quinn loves to run that three safety, 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.280 that three safety you know, got the down safety and 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:29.160 the two guys up top. 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:30.160 They saw that. 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:31.600 And they exploited it with the run game. 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.280 They put more in the backfield, saw that speed and 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:36.679 he was hamstring busting guys all the way down the sideline. 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:38.480 So they got him in that eleven personnel and they 0:08:38.559 --> 0:08:40.880 ran it down the throat of those safeties and you 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.600 saw the holes were open. They were like five yards 0:08:43.600 --> 0:08:45.679 wide out there. So to me, that was another thing 0:08:45.720 --> 0:08:48.440 that stood out. And then you talk about the offensive 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:50.680 side of the football, there was a couple of mistakes, 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:53.240 you know, game plan wise, and just scheme wise out 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:54.640 there that that we saw. There was a couple of 0:08:54.640 --> 0:08:56.440 players where Mike McCarthy, he was doing his thing. He 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:59.200 was in his back getting CD lamb the ball early 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.720 and often you saw all gallop out there. He showed up. 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:04.400 I mean, was he was balling as well. But when 0:09:04.440 --> 0:09:06.360 you get down to the red zone, man, you gotta 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.400 punch it in. You gotta find a way to punch 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:10.120 it in. And we talked about this two weeks ago 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.040 when it was in what was at New York or 0:09:12.120 --> 0:09:13.680 was it, Yeah, where they were in the red zone. 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:15.800 I think they went two for six and we all 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:17.240 kind of brushed it off, like guy, you know, they 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:19.520 finished with a kick. But when you go against teams 0:09:19.559 --> 0:09:21.240 that are gonna test you a little bit, and nobody 0:09:21.320 --> 0:09:24.000 up here, including myself thout Arizona was gonna test Dallas, 0:09:24.280 --> 0:09:26.600 you gotta be able to finish those drives off, especially 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:29.160 when you're inside the ten yard line. We gotta find 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.280 a way to punch the ball into the end zone. 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:34.000 But to me, this was the first game where Mike 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.160 was kind of tested as an offensive play caller, because 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:36.880 if you look at. 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.559 It, the first two weeks, he didn't he didn't have 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:40.280 to really do much. 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:42.240 You know, in New York they were up nineteen nothing 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:44.760 before the national anthem was done. The following week, you 0:09:44.880 --> 0:09:47.280 up thirteen nothing. So he was kind he just had 0:09:47.280 --> 0:09:49.560 to play with play to his defense. This was the 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:52.920 first game where offensively this team needed to put it 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.320 on their shoulders, and they weren't able to get the 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:55.760 job done. 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:57.520 Last night, I heard you on the post game show 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:00.959 talk about that run deal more play, specifically about the 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.719 three safety look, and it was that scheme that's I'm 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:07.920 studying you. We got the personnel that we whoa. Y'all 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:09.600 came out with the look that we were looking for 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:12.120 all week, and it was like their eyes got that 0:10:12.200 --> 0:10:16.160 big when they saw Jaymon Curse sitting back there and 0:10:16.200 --> 0:10:17.439 they gave that. 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:17.800 That two way go. 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:20.960 Just as a safety, how do you attack a situation 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:23.640 like that when they got you walled off basically, and 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:26.040 it's you one on one with the guy you and 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:28.400 if you don't make that tackle, it's a rout. But 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:30.839 then not only do you not make the tackle, he 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:35.400 burned you hamstring busters. And you notice just as well 0:10:35.440 --> 0:10:36.640 as I do, when you were in that middle of 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.280 the field, you see those seeds part like that, and you. 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:40.760 See it's one with that running back. 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:43.000 That's one of the hardest things in football because he 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:44.720 has a two way go and you can he's running 0:10:44.760 --> 0:10:47.200 straight at you some either your flat foot or you're 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.240 trying to just go and shoot your shot. I was always, man, 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.120 look I'm gonna shot my shot. If I miss, I miss. 0:10:51.200 --> 0:10:53.160 But that's that's a tough situation, man. 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:55.160 I think one thing I just wanted to add to 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.319 one of the disappointing but then something that I'm I'm 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:01.160 feeling good out with the defenses. 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.079 If you watch our defensive line. 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:05.760 All right, we always talk about you got to earn 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:07.839 the right to pass rush, all right, it didn't look 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:09.840 like they like they just wanted to get out there 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:11.760 and pass rush. I think what we got caught doing 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:15.200 a few times as well, is we're taking on these 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:19.080 pulling linemen from the opposite side of traps and pulling 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:23.920 leads right encounters, and we're getting caught in those spikes, 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:28.480 right Micah going underneath, the three technique going underneath, and 0:11:28.520 --> 0:11:30.600 then they're getting washed. So when they come around, it's 0:11:30.640 --> 0:11:33.640 a tight edge and the safeties and the linebackers who 0:11:33.800 --> 0:11:36.160 need to get over the top, they're not getting over there. 0:11:36.200 --> 0:11:38.679 I saw my Marque's bell get stuck inside on one 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:41.400 of those and Vanderist didn't get over the top. And 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:43.000 it happened a couple of times, But a lot of 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.599 times when you see it, it's we're lined up the 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.560 lineman or going when we called spike, they're lined up 0:11:49.559 --> 0:11:51.240 in the outside gap and on the snap of the ball, 0:11:51.240 --> 0:11:54.640 they're going inside. And when you get pulling guards and 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.440 pulling tackles in those type of situations, if you're not 0:11:57.800 --> 0:12:01.719 knocking those guys off trackration, you in for a loan. 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:04.439 And that's when the safeties are looking at guys running 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:07.080 up on them like that with nobody touching them. And 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:09.480 we got caught in that for almost every single one 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:12.040 of those big runs twenty six yard run, forty yards. 0:12:12.120 --> 0:12:14.320 We got caught in that position every time. But the 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.040 thing about it is that's something that's correctable to me. 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:18.480 Like so when you go back and you watch the 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:21.120 film and you say, hey, what happened to us on display? 0:12:21.320 --> 0:12:23.240 All right, Hey, man, if you're gonna you're gonna spike, 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.520 you gotta knock those pulling guards off that track, because 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:28.400 if they could just come around and get up on 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.679 those safeties and those linebackers, then we don't have a shot. Okay, 0:12:31.679 --> 0:12:33.880 So maybe you run less of that, or maybe you 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.560 run in a different situation. But I think we got 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:39.040 called in some stuff that you can coach yourself out 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.120 of or call a different play to get you out of. 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:44.000 So I'm not feeling as bad, but we just got 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:47.200 caught in it so many times. And I don't want 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.240 to get back on this Monzie Smith thing. Okay, but 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:53.240 we drafted the first round for a specific reason and 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:56.040 we had thought kind of that we had changed it. 0:12:56.040 --> 0:12:58.080 But we do know New York got away from the run. 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:01.480 I mean not New York. Yeah, actually Jet. The Jets 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:03.440 got away from the run, and then we were up 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:05.640 so much on the on the Giants that they couldn't run. 0:13:05.760 --> 0:13:08.000 And now we're like, oh here we go. Here it is, 0:13:08.880 --> 0:13:11.800 and you know, we didn't show up. So that's unfortunate. 0:13:11.840 --> 0:13:13.719 But like I still got faith, I still got fake 0:13:13.760 --> 0:13:16.040 that Reizon office does have to get fag out. 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:20.640 So from the defensive standpoint, stay right there. 0:13:21.360 --> 0:13:27.960 The first half, five possessions, five scores, field goal, touchdown, touchdown, 0:13:28.160 --> 0:13:30.520 field goal, field just right there. 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:33.880 He gave up ten points up to that. 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:37.559 Then the second half to that, Arizona had the ball 0:13:37.840 --> 0:13:44.120 four times punt punt touchdown into game, so the defense 0:13:44.160 --> 0:13:45.720 did not get. 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:45.959 It done at all. 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:48.520 And then on the other side, we talked about the 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:52.840 Cowboys offensive line and we all got we all got 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:57.120 the text said, Okay, you know Zach Martin, Tyler Biattish 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:01.320 and Tyler Smith is a time decision and he ended 0:14:01.400 --> 0:14:02.920 up dressing but did not play. 0:14:03.760 --> 0:14:07.120 That did have an that was a part of the problem. 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:09.840 Just suppose when you talk about you got ten penalties 0:14:09.840 --> 0:14:12.320 in the first half a loan of the thirteen, they 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:16.040 clearly were not congruent in terms of what you need 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:17.319 to be on an offensive line front. 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:21.680 I'm telling you this, I ain't never been so mad 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:23.800 with how many times they cut to my man dressed 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:25.520 out in full pads on the sideline. 0:14:25.720 --> 0:14:27.240 Why, thank you? Thanks. 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:29.800 I'm just I'm watching the game and I'm like, what, bro, 0:14:29.920 --> 0:14:31.400 what why they keep showing this spin? 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:37.720 Why is he in full pads? What? Why captain? What's 0:14:37.720 --> 0:14:40.440 the captain that way he was? Why is he in 0:14:40.560 --> 0:14:41.240 full pads? 0:14:41.520 --> 0:14:43.840 Like, don't even now, were just putting the spotlight on 0:14:43.880 --> 0:14:46.280 we know this week, but you know why I'm on it. 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.600 You know why I'm on this on this topic all right? 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:53.000 And it just don't like I was just mad every 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:54.440 time I saw it. 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:57.560 Every time you were you mad that you saw or 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.920 were you mad because you saw Tuma struggle? 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:04.880 Now listen, listen. As much as the offensive line struggle, 0:15:04.920 --> 0:15:07.280 I still think we still we still had a shot shot. 0:15:07.400 --> 0:15:08.720 I think we still had a shot. Yes, I would 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:10.360 have I would have I would have hoped. I'm more 0:15:10.360 --> 0:15:12.680 mad because I'm like, we already knew this was gonna happen. 0:15:12.960 --> 0:15:15.080 But I am I mad that I saw him struggling? 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:16.800 Or am I mad that we continue to put ourselves 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:19.920 in a situation where you know there's a guy or 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:23.800 grouping whatever it is you you the guy behind them 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:26.760 needs to be a possible starter because they're gonna get 0:15:26.760 --> 0:15:27.280 a lot of time. 0:15:27.480 --> 0:15:30.640 What I didn't get is when and this happened to 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.640 the pre game Christy Scales talked about it on the 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.480 pregame show Adoga Left Tackle. 0:15:35.720 --> 0:15:39.840 I was surprised Tom Smith was coming back. 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:42.400 That was my bigger surprise is if I'm going to 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:46.080 move somebody left tackle, even though it's Tyler Smith's first game, 0:15:46.120 --> 0:15:49.240 I'd rather have him out there than than seems more 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:50.040 like a guard than me. 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:50.680 I was. 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.160 I wasn't. I wasn't surprised at that. I mean, I 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:56.240 was more surprised at how he struggled, especially how good 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:59.080 he looked at guard for just playing for the first 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:02.200 time at guard. I figured they've been practicing all week 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:08.440 with Tyler Smith at left guard and probably Tyring at 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:10.800 so you show up on game day, we just can't 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:12.880 switch it right here on the spot, especially with a 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.760 guy like Idoga who has the most experienced by playing 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:18.680 by playing tackle. But it's just look, the thing for 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:20.280 me is they're not going to give the Cowboys any 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:22.720 excuses about the offensive line period. That's not gonna happen, 0:16:22.720 --> 0:16:25.880 all right. But the play calling. You've been talking about 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.480 guys like Brandon Cooks, all right, Brandon Cooks being the 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:31.200 difference maker for the wide receiver room, bringing these guys together, 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:32.040 and it seemed like. 0:16:32.040 --> 0:16:33.840 To me the wide receiver room took a step back, 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:37.600 all right. And I don't know if it's if it's look. 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.040 I know, if you play football, you play on the helmet, 0:16:39.040 --> 0:16:41.120 you used to contact and you're not scared of nothing. 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:43.880 So I don't never say football player scared. But when 0:16:43.880 --> 0:16:45.480 I looked at Brandon Cooks, it was a it was 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:46.320 a third down. 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:47.920 He catches a curl route. 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.400 He's he could turn around, He's got yack opportunity and 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:59.280 he backs up for five yard that usually they are. 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:02.960 Come on first thing, you know, like what you're doing? Bro? 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.960 When I said it turn around from him, he was 0:17:06.960 --> 0:17:11.560 probably this, dude, I'm saying this. Why I'm not gonna 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:13.760 fight be Cooks on that because he played the game 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.520 long enough and probably got got hit after catching that 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:18.760 ball so many times when he's like, all right, I 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:19.400 just I just. 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:22.800 Need he mad for that's the only reason that that's on. 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:25.679 You don't get nobody no excuses. No, he was that 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:29.040 was zone that linebackers coming out. He knew that all 0:17:29.040 --> 0:17:31.480 I gotta do is throttle down on this curl. The 0:17:31.560 --> 0:17:36.480 guys behind me all got this. Come on, Mike Tomlin here, Okay, 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:38.440 I ain't gonna make your excuse for getting the first down. 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.000 The route, he ran the round, he caught the ball, 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:44.760 he got the first down. I ain't gonna can he 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.360 gets some yack. Yeah, I will talk about Hey man, 0:17:47.520 --> 0:17:49.320 we gotta throw the ball a little deeper, my man. 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:53.800 Every every deep passes like stop, wait, come back, almost 0:17:53.800 --> 0:17:55.200 back showed like, hey. 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:57.080