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Speaker 2: We are coming live from the beautiful start in Frisco.
Speaker 2: It's a little cold outside. Our heart's also a little
Speaker 2: cold this morning and all day as the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 2: season officially coming to an end after a heart stinging
Speaker 2: loss to the San Francisco forty nine Ers with the
Speaker 2: final score of nineteen to twelve. Ladies, what a game
Speaker 2: of course. Uh. I'm Jessina VARs, your host. I'm joined
Speaker 2: by Christie Scail, Asia Morrison, and we have our Haley
Speaker 2: Sutton here today. I'm very excited to have our Haley
Speaker 2: bring up our spirits a little bit. Let's just go
Speaker 2: around the table. Initial reactions. How are we all feeling?
Speaker 2: Christy will start with you, how are you feeling today?
Speaker 4: So disappointed? Mainly because the defense did every you know,
Speaker 4: I know they kind of faded a little bit at
Speaker 4: the end with a couple of long drives, but what
Speaker 4: a great effort in executing a great game plan. And
Speaker 4: it's just the fact that that cavalcade of all pros
Speaker 4: and Pro bowlers for San Francisco, the couple of their guys,
Speaker 4: George Kittle in particular, made the big plays when needed
Speaker 4: to be made, and Cowboys didn't. So I'm just really
Speaker 4: disappointed for in the production of the Cowboys offense and
Speaker 4: disappointed for the Cowboys defense that it was not a
Speaker 4: complimentary game.
Speaker 5: I agree. Yeah, well, my Mike get so loud. Hey, guys, Yeah,
Speaker 5: I agree.
Speaker 6: I think when you hold a team like San Francisco,
Speaker 6: a team that's averaging almost thirty points a game, to
Speaker 6: nineteen points, that's a that's a game you should win.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 6: The defense went out there and laid it all on
Speaker 6: the line, and they set the tone from the opening
Speaker 6: whistle osa getting in Perty's face. I mean, they did
Speaker 6: exactly what the game plan was, make Rock Purty look
Speaker 6: like a rookie. And it's unfortunate that you have a
Speaker 6: performance where your quarterback has the best game of his career.
Speaker 6: The week before and then kind of fizzles in the
Speaker 6: week prior. And so it's just, like you said, just
Speaker 6: kind of a disappointing Uh you feel it in your gut,
Speaker 6: kind of mourning where it's like gang like this really
Speaker 6: was the team.
Speaker 5: Jaron talked about that too, So yeah, just disappointed.
Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely. I second being is it third a thrifle
Speaker 7: being disappointed for this defense? Uh, this is a I
Speaker 7: think I think this is a second year that they've
Speaker 7: kept you in in these type of games, in this
Speaker 7: type of game, specifically against this team, and the offense
Speaker 7: was not able to find production there and then off
Speaker 7: obviously to we just we don't know, I personally don't know.
Speaker 8: We don't know.
Speaker 7: With dan Quinn getting all these interviews and things like that,
Speaker 7: just to so many questions being up in the air
Speaker 7: of what this that unit in particular is going to
Speaker 7: be next year and how hard they work to get
Speaker 7: to this point of being where they are.
Speaker 8: You start to see it all come together also too.
Speaker 7: And the disappointing part for me is just how the
Speaker 7: defense had worked their tails off and they weren't rewarded
Speaker 7: from the other parts of the ball.
Speaker 2: So yeah, disappointed times four around this table, and I'm
Speaker 2: sure everybody listening can agree with that same sediment. And
Speaker 2: I think what bothers me the most about it is
Speaker 2: everything that lost in this game are things that we've
Speaker 2: talked about all season being their downfall, So, you know,
Speaker 2: sloppy play, penalties, no mental focus, miscues, miscommunications, all things
Speaker 2: that we had talked about throughout the duration of the
Speaker 2: season that they had time to clean up throughout these
Speaker 2: you know, past few weeks specifically, just couldn't come through
Speaker 2: with the win at the end, of course, And like
Speaker 2: you said, that free agency list is pretty long when
Speaker 2: you go through it. There's a lot of key players
Speaker 2: on there that free agency list. I'm just glad we're
Speaker 2: not the ones that have to make those decisions pretty soon.
Speaker 2: But let's go back to that feeling, because Christy were
Speaker 2: there in Santa Clara. What was that gut feeling that
Speaker 2: you got being at the game early on? Did you
Speaker 2: get any kind of specific feeling and why did you
Speaker 2: feel that way early on?
Speaker 4: Well, you knew it was it was gonna be chippy.
Speaker 4: We knew it was going to be a physical game
Speaker 4: just because of the style of the forty nine ers,
Speaker 4: and then the Cowboys defense in particular, and Haley's right
Speaker 4: setting the tone early and Osa had the sack on
Speaker 4: that opening drive. Michael made a great play though you
Speaker 4: know taken away. You know, Perty was just gonna throw it,
Speaker 4: chuck it out to the left real quickly, but Micah
Speaker 4: was on the guy.
Speaker 5: But when it.
Speaker 4: Started pregame with Deebo, Samuel and the forty nine ers
Speaker 4: just getting in the way of what is part of
Speaker 4: the normal pregame routine. And so I don't know if
Speaker 4: we want to get into all that right now, but
Speaker 4: it's here's the thing. I want to point out one thing,
Speaker 4: and that is I think the league is going to
Speaker 4: take a look at what happened in this pregame. I
Speaker 4: do too, and see if there's something that can be
Speaker 4: done to make sure that you don't have players walking
Speaker 4: through in the line of sight and getting in the
Speaker 4: way of what was pregame operations for the Cowboys. So
Speaker 4: it wasn't just Brett Maher kicking off a tee, which
Speaker 4: he does early early in pregame, but this was actual
Speaker 4: operations where you had Matt Overton snapping the ball to
Speaker 4: Brian Anger, who's spotting the ball with the twenty nine
Speaker 4: yard line for Brett Maher and you've got Deebo Samuel
Speaker 4: another forty nine ers just standing right there and don't
Speaker 4: know if anything was said, but they definitely were trying
Speaker 4: to disrupt this operation and get in the head of
Speaker 4: Brett Maher whatever. But here's the thing. Why did you
Speaker 4: have the two different the players from the two different
Speaker 4: teams together that's on the same side of the field.
Speaker 4: The way the rules are structured, part of the pregame operations,
Speaker 4: sixty minutes before kickoff is when you have to be
Speaker 4: on your separate side. That's when the official pregame warm
Speaker 4: ups begin. This is over an hour and a half
Speaker 4: before the game. Okay, So when that happens, you, especially
Speaker 4: the kickers and punters, they go to all different parts
Speaker 4: of the field. And it's really important because for these
Speaker 4: outdoor games and Levi's Stadium yesterday it was so windy
Speaker 4: and the gusts, and then you have a natural grass
Speaker 4: field and like in Tampa the week before where the
Speaker 4: field was in bad condition. Anyway, these specialists and other
Speaker 4: players need to be able to go to different parts
Speaker 4: of the field. But I wonder if the league is
Speaker 4: going to address maybe extending that sixty it period, So
Speaker 4: I think that there could be repercussions for this moving forward.
Speaker 5: I just think it was so poor.
Speaker 6: And I mean, I get it, right, I'm all about
Speaker 6: the you know, the social media trash talk and the
Speaker 6: you know, building up, and there's there's a certain level
Speaker 6: of gamesmanship to it, but it takes it to another
Speaker 6: level when now you're impeding their preparation, right, Like this
Speaker 6: is something where like even if Brett hadn't had kicking
Speaker 6: issues before, it's still disrespectful.
Speaker 5: I mean, what are you doing? What did you hope
Speaker 5: to accomplish from that?
Speaker 6: And then just for Debo also to go on social
Speaker 6: media and tag Micah and all the posts to it
Speaker 6: just was it.
Speaker 4: Was so poor.
Speaker 6: And to me, if I'm a forty nine Ers fan
Speaker 6: and that's the type of stuff I see, it just
Speaker 6: it made me look at Debo differently, right because I
Speaker 6: think he's a tremendous player. I've never really known anything
Speaker 6: about him as a person, but now I see, Okay,
Speaker 6: well you were all up in Brett's space the day before.
Speaker 6: Now you're dragging Micah like when they're kicking them when
Speaker 6: they're down. It just it really didn't set right with me.
Speaker 4: And just to add one more thing to it when
Speaker 4: I say that, it's sixty minutes before where you have
Speaker 4: to stay on your respective side of the field. The
Speaker 4: officials are not out on the field until fifty minutes
Speaker 4: before the game. Okay, so there wasn't other than coaches
Speaker 4: stepping in or Jake McQuaid, who's our, you know, who's our.
Speaker 4: He's on entered reserve. But luckily no one had to
Speaker 4: totally be pulled apart. And they kind of, you know,
Speaker 4: they were kind of john then each other's face. Trent Williams,
Speaker 4: the All Pro left tackle and Jake McQuaid, but you know,
Speaker 4: Jake's trying to step in, you know, trying to get
Speaker 4: calmer heads to prevail. But petty is the word that
Speaker 4: was used. Yeah, but here's the thing. Some it could
Speaker 4: have escalated and not having officials out there, and then
Speaker 4: the fact that you're allowed to be on the opposite
Speaker 4: you know, all over the whole field. I just think
Speaker 4: it's going to be re examined.
Speaker 8: It's Robbie Gold was I'm sorry, no good, but Robbie
Speaker 8: Gold was right there too.
Speaker 4: All of them, all of them are there. It's very
Speaker 4: common that the special the specialists. Hey, that's a fraternity,
Speaker 4: just like quarterbacks were a fraternity. These guys they all
Speaker 4: know each other, okay, And there's a good chance that
Speaker 4: that you're you're deep snapper, you know, used to be
Speaker 4: with the other team, with the punter for the other
Speaker 4: team at another you know, at another point of his career.
Speaker 4: So those guys all know each other. But yeah, go uh,
Speaker 4: I kind of lost some I don't want to say
Speaker 4: I lost respect, but you see different thing I think
Speaker 4: you were saying about Deebo Samuel. Yeah, yeah, I think
Speaker 4: I think I was really disappointed with Will and.
Speaker 7: Trent has a you know, like I've watched him quite
Speaker 7: a while. I mean we watched him when he was
Speaker 7: with the now Commanders, but you know at that time Redskins,
Speaker 7: and yeah, he's always been kind of chippy.
Speaker 8: Like that, but to be.
Speaker 7: You know, just throwing many elbows and stuff, I just
Speaker 7: was like, that's a lot of what we've seen though,
Speaker 7: is like they take on this personality of.
Speaker 8: Like bullies the bullies and we bully you.
Speaker 7: And I think there again is a limitation to that,
Speaker 7: especially like what Haley said talking about preparation. But I
Speaker 7: mean they saw it, they saw it from the defense
Speaker 7: last yesterday. They probably felt it. Even though the offense
Speaker 7: didn't produce that defense. This Cowboys defense made some points
Speaker 7: in that game, and debo included McCaffrey, all of them
Speaker 7: they saw.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they are like. It was a physical very physical
Speaker 8: they were.
Speaker 7: I thought they were more physical on that side of
Speaker 7: the ball than even the forty nine ers were.
Speaker 2: So sure I think too, this is something this is
Speaker 2: a discussion we would be having even if the Cowboys
Speaker 2: won this game. Yeah, because it's just disrespectful. To put
Speaker 2: it lightly, it's disrespectful, it's toxic behavior. But no, it's
Speaker 2: it is something that I think the league needs to
Speaker 2: look into because next time, who's to say that doesn't
Speaker 2: turn into more of an escalated situation, And especially with
Speaker 2: those kind of teams that have this history of a
Speaker 2: rivalry and all this tension from last season this season,
Speaker 2: I mean to me, it's just protect your guys, protect
Speaker 2: your players, don't put them in situations that could escalate, essentially,
Speaker 2: But just making that clear, we'd be having this discussion
Speaker 2: even if the Cowboys won, because if you haven't seen
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Speaker 2: so we were talking about the little scuffle with the
Speaker 2: kicking unit ahead of the game, so let's start with
Speaker 2: some special teams. They're talking about our guy Brett money Maher,
Speaker 2: who made his way back to the bank at the
Speaker 2: end of this game. He had one mixed missed extra
Speaker 2: point after the ball was blocked, came back to make
Speaker 2: uh two field goals, one from twenty five yards the
Speaker 2: other from forty three. Not confident enough to say the
Speaker 2: Yips have subsided completely. However, we did get to see
Speaker 2: Brett kind of have his redemption moment, so that was
Speaker 2: good to see. A little side note there. Check the weather.
Speaker 2: It was fifty eight degrees with winds coming in the
Speaker 2: northwest at fourteen miles p hours, so, like you said, Christie,
Speaker 2: a little gusty there at Levi's Stadium.
Speaker 6: But that was a meteorologist, hands and everything.
Speaker 2: Sorry, now I needed like a green ball right here
Speaker 2: when you like do the little exit like I used to.
Speaker 2: But I always wanted to check the wind too, because
Speaker 2: you could even see when the kicks were being kicked
Speaker 2: and from videos I saw from the warm up. So
Speaker 2: it's just a little sway And I'm trying to give
Speaker 2: our guy Brett the benefit of the doubt here and
Speaker 2: saying it was it was a little gusty. And when
Speaker 2: you're in a stadium and you just look at the
Speaker 2: rolls of how wind works, it's a little more gusty
Speaker 2: in the stadium than outside. So something to keep in
Speaker 2: mind there. But what did you ladies think about Brett
Speaker 2: Maher in this game? Specifically? We can even widen that
Speaker 2: to special teams. Of course, we know Kelvin Joseph having
Speaker 2: himself a play there with that strip that was fumbled
Speaker 2: and recovered by de Mont Clark. We can talk special
Speaker 2: teams there, so overall special teams. First reactions, what did
Speaker 2: you think, Christy will start with you.
Speaker 4: I've never been more entertained by a crowd than the
Speaker 4: one yesterday at Levi's Stadium. Because have you ever been
Speaker 4: to a college basketball game, college in particular, where the
Speaker 4: other team is shooting a free throw and so the
Speaker 4: student body section behind the you know, behind the backboard
Speaker 4: is you know, waving bricks or you know, fat heads,
Speaker 4: or just going crazy and trying to distract the free
Speaker 4: throw shooter. That's what it was like at Levi's Stadium yesterday,
Speaker 4: the people behind the uprights where they were going crazy
Speaker 4: and amongst the biggest buzz. I think the George kittleketch
Speaker 4: was the biggest chair of the game, followed by the
Speaker 4: touchdown run for San Francisco. But the three other moments
Speaker 4: were when Maher was on the field.
Speaker 5: He quieted him.
Speaker 4: With two of the field goals. But did you notice
Speaker 4: Haley all the fans going crazy trying to distract Mah yeah.
Speaker 6: I think on the broadcast you could you could hear it.
Speaker 6: I think that was something to be expected for Brett.
Speaker 6: I was really proud of him. I don't I and
Speaker 6: I said this in our pregame show too. I think
Speaker 6: that Monday's game last week was an anomaly for him.
Speaker 6: I really don't see that. As you know, we've talked
Speaker 6: about his pre game prep against Tampa and how he
Speaker 6: wandered the field a little bit and it might have
Speaker 6: psyched him out. The field conditions weren't great, so I
Speaker 6: was not particularly surprised that he had, you know, a
Speaker 6: performance that we're used to seeing. So I was just
Speaker 6: really proud for him to be able to get back
Speaker 6: out there and just bounce back quiet the noise, so
Speaker 6: to speak, especially after going through that pregame skirmish, if
Speaker 6: you will. But I thought Special Teams was one of
Speaker 6: the better units on the field. I thought, you know,
Speaker 6: Kelvin Joseph, you mentioned him getting that force fumble, always
Speaker 6: joke about him being a little reckless, and I think
Speaker 6: this was one time where you wanted him to be
Speaker 6: reckless and it paid off Damon Clark having the instinct
Speaker 6: to get down there and grab that fumble. And it
Speaker 6: would have been nice if they could have converted a
Speaker 6: touchdown as opposed to just three points there.
Speaker 5: That would have been a game changer for sure.
Speaker 6: But I think overall, just Special teams in general, I
Speaker 6: think they were phenomenal. Cavante Turpin put this team in
Speaker 6: some really good field position.
Speaker 5: He I think has.
Speaker 6: Felt the impact of playing two professional football seasons up
Speaker 6: until the last couple of weeks, and so for him
Speaker 6: to get out there and really continue to put his
Speaker 6: body on the line.
Speaker 5: He had some really great returns. I thought that was special.
Speaker 6: So it goes back to what we were talking about
Speaker 6: at the very beginning. It's unfortunate when you know you
Speaker 6: have a defense that's firing on all cylinders, your Special
Speaker 6: Teams is coming out here and being special, and that
Speaker 6: your offense can't match the energy. So it's for sure
Speaker 6: something I think on that front that the front office
Speaker 6: will have to think about in the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 6: But Special Teams was back to being special.
Speaker 8: I think absolutely.
Speaker 7: Yeah, came out to your point, I felt like Cavante
Speaker 7: Turpin put them in great situations because that was my
Speaker 7: concern is starting field position with going against that defense,
Speaker 7: is where were you at on the field?
Speaker 8: And you could tell he came out and.
Speaker 5: Decided to be explosive.
Speaker 8: I think he averaged thirty yards of return, which.
Speaker 5: Was he had four with the forty four? Is long?
Speaker 4: Can I ask? Am I just being Debbie Downer, but
Speaker 4: I thought that that should have been a touchdown on
Speaker 4: that kickoff returns. Oh, he's the one that initiated contact
Speaker 4: with the kicker, What are you doing turning and backing
Speaker 4: into the guy. I'm I respectfully disagree on that particular play,
Speaker 4: and there have been other instant I really like Cavante
Speaker 4: Turpin and what a great fine to have him on
Speaker 4: this team. But I'm sorry, there were too many plays
Speaker 4: this season that we're out there that were left on
Speaker 4: the field right there, and oh my gosh, that just
Speaker 4: would have changed everything. Yesterday It's like, yeah, what the heck?
Speaker 4: And the other one. The other one. Again, I'm not
Speaker 4: I'm not piling on Cavante, but there were the three
Speaker 4: series at the start of the third quarter, and one
Speaker 4: of them was not fielding the punt. Oh, letting it
Speaker 4: bounce and you lost twenty yards of field position and
Speaker 4: have the ball at your own nine yard line. I
Speaker 4: was standing next to a player on the sideline who's screaming,
Speaker 4: you get it, get You've got to field that punt.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So your point, there's there are areas specifically with
Speaker 7: Cavante's game that he can improve his vision. I think
Speaker 7: he can improve his awareness of the field, especially being
Speaker 7: like this is his first NFL years. He's a rookie
Speaker 7: in his own right, and he is in this league, Right,
Speaker 7: So I do agree with you that there were there
Speaker 7: were several instances this season where you were like, there
Speaker 7: was yards there, there's opportunity there, and I do think
Speaker 7: that could.
Speaker 8: Have broke the game wide open.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I also think too, there's these expectations that have been
Speaker 2: set for him since preseason when he took what was
Speaker 2: it to two punt returns all the way back to
Speaker 2: the end zone, and I think that set the standard
Speaker 2: higher than you would set for any other kind of
Speaker 2: punt returner in that situation. So, look, the man's put
Speaker 2: his body through a lot in the last two years.
Speaker 2: Everybody's banged up, everyone's tired. But you saw that zoom
Speaker 2: in him, and for me, it was you hadn't seen
Speaker 2: that in the last few weeks from him, So it
Speaker 2: was it was a breath of fresh air that you know,
Speaker 2: it wasn't him necessarily, aside from that one kickoff return
Speaker 2: you're talking about, But it wasn't him that was putting
Speaker 2: the Cowboys offense behind the sticks. That was true, that
Speaker 2: was their own doing. And so point, let's go ahead
Speaker 2: and transition. My cord got stuck on my belt. Oh
Speaker 2: my goodness, let's go ahead and transition. Now to the offense.
Speaker 2: Let's talk stats first, because there's a lot to break
Speaker 2: down and I don't want to run out of time
Speaker 2: for that. So sixty total plays on the offense, fifteen
Speaker 2: first downs, they had five of fifteen with their third
Speaker 2: down efficiency two hundred and eighty two total yards, two
Speaker 2: hundred and six of which were passing, seventy six were rushing.
Speaker 2: Seven penalties for fifty yards to turnovers. Time of possession
Speaker 2: twenty seven minutes and seven seconds. A little side note,
Speaker 2: Dak Prescott passed Tony Romo for the fourth most completions
Speaker 2: in Cowboys post season history. So a little side note there.
Speaker 2: And as we know we're going through, girl, you kill me.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
Speaker 6: It was just it was killing me because you were
Speaker 6: reading those stats and immediately.
Speaker 2: I know, I know, I should I should have given
Speaker 2: you like a little warning to like brace yourself.
Speaker 5: There.
Speaker 2: Let's go back to the two turnovers, because the week
Speaker 2: before we were all talking about the turnover bug is done.
Speaker 2: It was gone. Dak had a clean game last week,
Speaker 2: not so much the first not so much of this game.
Speaker 2: The first interception, let's talk about it. It was Dallas's
Speaker 2: second drive pass was intended for Michael Gallup and Leonor
Speaker 2: came with the interception, who returned it to the Cowboys
Speaker 2: twenty one yard line. Second interception was on Dallas's fourth
Speaker 2: The pass it was intended for Ceede Lamb was tipped
Speaker 2: and picked off by Warner. Thoughts on interceptions, let's start
Speaker 2: over here, Aisha, how how are you feeling about that specifically,
Speaker 2: and seeing that you were strong enough to go back
Speaker 2: and watch the game kind of dissect it. What did
Speaker 2: you notice from those interceptions?
Speaker 7: I'm glad, hey, hey, hey, hey, I'm glad y'all recognizing
Speaker 7: it because my therapist is tired of hearing the bob
Speaker 7: sure the strength that I have that like, but no, seriously,
Speaker 7: the first interception, I one thing I've been taught that
Speaker 7: since I'm watching film is to not to give blame
Speaker 7: because I don't understand. We don't know what's supposed to
Speaker 7: be happening on that play. However, it looked like a
Speaker 7: comeback route and then Michael Galdann come back and that.
Speaker 5: Just that's that.
Speaker 8: But then moving old to the other one though.
Speaker 7: Moving old to the other one, though, is a situation
Speaker 7: where Fred Warner is fan. Fred Warner was everywhere yesterday.
Speaker 7: I am and he's not the norm. He's not the
Speaker 7: norm in which you would see a linebacker be able
Speaker 7: to break that quickly on the ball to make those decisions.
Speaker 7: And I really think that Dak in several instances playing
Speaker 7: against him, miss timed how fast that man is.
Speaker 8: But I also feel like you've been talking about it
Speaker 8: all year.
Speaker 7: You said it already with these with these route concepts
Speaker 7: and the way that this offense is Listen, the way
Speaker 7: that this offense is run and the way it's been
Speaker 7: run this year. I think we're gonna continue to see
Speaker 7: these type of things happen until there are different there's
Speaker 7: a different way that this offense is run. From a
Speaker 7: passing standpoint. Mike McCarthy's talked about it defens is playing
Speaker 7: mirror defense.
Speaker 8: Well, they're literally just waiting for the quarterback to make
Speaker 8: the decision.
Speaker 7: That's something we've seen numerous times, and I think a
Speaker 7: lot of that.
Speaker 8: I don't think Dak saw the field entirely well yesterday.
Speaker 8: I think he could have played better.
Speaker 7: He made some crappy decisions in certain situations. But I
Speaker 7: also feel like that what they do schematically from a
Speaker 7: wide receiver standpoint, and the way that they the routes
Speaker 7: that they run, the way they passed the ball around.
Speaker 7: I don't know if that's conducive to your offense being
Speaker 7: successful in this sense, like it's it does not seem
Speaker 7: like what these players are doing fits what fits what
Speaker 7: you I think you would need to do in these situations.
Speaker 7: And again I could be wrong, but I just don't
Speaker 7: know if what that, if that fits what that.
Speaker 8: Player does well in that situation.
Speaker 7: And that's just me, So I was just That's how
Speaker 7: I felt about the interceptions, and how I feel is
Speaker 7: that they're gonna they could definitely continue if we don't
Speaker 7: figure out what this.
Speaker 8: Player does well, Okay, let's do it. What does this
Speaker 8: player do? Well, let's do it.
Speaker 7: How about not how about no more mirror routes? How
Speaker 7: about we not do so many comeback routes? How about
Speaker 7: so not so many hitches? Because they were biting on
Speaker 7: everything they like, those dbs were biting on everything. They
Speaker 7: were focused on everything intermediate And at no point in
Speaker 7: time besides the deep pass to CD LAMB.
Speaker 8: Did you make them pay yep?
Speaker 7: And what reason did they have to back up and
Speaker 7: to not play you know, tight defense when.
Speaker 8: Your run game's not going.
Speaker 7: And I know we're gonna get to that, but there's
Speaker 7: a mint pressure at the court, and grant it, Dak
Speaker 7: did not play well.
Speaker 8: I'm holding him accountable.
Speaker 7: I'm not saying none of that, but there's a mint
Speaker 7: pressure on the quarterback to perform well when so many
Speaker 7: other things aren't going right around him, and we need
Speaker 7: to really look at that on that side of the
Speaker 7: ball moving forward.
Speaker 2: Perfectly said, let's go ahead and take a listen, Jazzy.
Speaker 2: Do we have that SoundBite from Dak about what he
Speaker 2: said concerning him regarding regarding his interceptions. We don't have
Speaker 2: that sound bite, but he basically said, you know, he
Speaker 2: promises this won't be the case going forward. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of offseason work for him to do. Ladies, how
Speaker 2: do you feel about that promise? Haley? How do you
Speaker 2: feel about that? I mean, that's we're talking about the
Speaker 2: highest interception rate of his career. I mean, does it
Speaker 2: get worse than that? Does it stay the same? Does
Speaker 2: it get better? What do you do during this offseason
Speaker 2: to ensure that it doesn't get worse and it doesn't
Speaker 2: stay the same, but it's improved.
Speaker 6: Now you get with your wide receivers in the offseason
Speaker 6: and you run those routes and you look at the
Speaker 6: interceptions that you're throwing and you figure out why the
Speaker 6: timing wasn't working.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think it's it's.
Speaker 6: Challenging, right, because you want to believe everything that he says, Like,
Speaker 6: Dak is an incredible guy. He's an incredible leader, He's
Speaker 6: an incredible quarterback. Regardless of what the national narrative or
Speaker 6: the fan base narrative is surrounding him. He is a
Speaker 6: talented quarterback who has done a lot for this franchise.
Speaker 6: Very similar to Brett Maher's performance last Monday. I think
Speaker 6: that this season for Dak is a blip, right, It's
Speaker 6: an asterisk because you know, he hasn't we haven't seen
Speaker 6: him operate like that, and he's coming back from a lot,
Speaker 6: you know, a broken ankle a couple of seasons ago,
Speaker 6: just to come back in and then you break your thumb.
Speaker 6: I mean, this is a guy who's really been through
Speaker 6: the ringer. And I really think that missing those five
Speaker 6: games at the beginning of the season it put this.
Speaker 5: Team back further than what you thought.
Speaker 6: And so when you're getting into a postseason and you're
Speaker 6: facing a defense that's going to press you, you're facing
Speaker 6: a front seven that's going to make your offensive line work,
Speaker 6: and you're going to have to be the one to
Speaker 6: dictate when you lose your star playmaker, you know, in
Speaker 6: the second quarter like it. It's frustrating and it's hard
Speaker 6: to believe at this point hearing him say, oh, I'm
Speaker 6: going to fix it.
Speaker 5: It won't happen again.
Speaker 6: If it's me personally, I would rather just said listen,
Speaker 6: I know that this was hard. I know that this
Speaker 6: was not the season that you expected of me. All
Speaker 6: I can promise is that I'm going to work to
Speaker 6: be the best I can going forward, because I think
Speaker 6: what happens with this fan base is is is they
Speaker 6: latch on, you know, they last onto the history and
Speaker 6: you know, oh, this season was such a disappointment because
Speaker 6: we didn't make it to the super Bowl, and you
Speaker 6: hold on to that instead of focusing on, you know,
Speaker 6: the positives that did happen. Now you've got your starting
Speaker 6: quarterback saying I promised to get us past the divisional titles.
Speaker 6: I promised to make it better. And while the intention,
Speaker 6: for sure is there, I don't want to promise that.
Speaker 6: You can't guarantee that you're going to keep if that
Speaker 6: makes sense. So I appreciate Dak. I appreciate him taking
Speaker 6: that accountability. I think that's the first step that a
Speaker 6: lot of quarter this season in particular didn't do.
Speaker 5: But I don't want to promise that.
Speaker 6: I don't feel confident that may or may not come true.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think the way you address it moving forward is,
Speaker 4: first of all, you upgrade your receiving core. I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: but seven targets to wide receivers not named ce d Lamb,
Speaker 4: and one of those was to turp In on that
Speaker 4: trick play at the end, So I'm going to throw
Speaker 4: that out. So six six targets, three of them to
Speaker 4: Michael Gallup, zero receptions, and I think that there's equal
Speaker 4: fault on that first interception towards Michael Gallup the second
Speaker 4: interception that was really even though Warner had the interception,
Speaker 4: and Ayisha, you're right, what a fabulous player. He had
Speaker 4: a fantastic game, But credit ward for that. It's a
Speaker 4: zone defense. He's watching Dak the whole time. That's a
Speaker 4: great thing about his own You can watch the quarterback
Speaker 4: and go with him.
Speaker 5: And so he reacted.
Speaker 4: He's the one that tipped the ball up and uh,
Speaker 4: subsequently it was intercepted by Wards. So yeah, it's just
Speaker 4: also that one deep ball to Michael Gallup that was
Speaker 4: oh so close, but the ball was just off. I
Speaker 4: think two factors with that. I think the wind caught
Speaker 4: it a little bit, But mainly Dak was getting pressure
Speaker 4: from his right side. Tyrone was basically Bulrush kind of
Speaker 4: pushed back into Dak's lap almost and so Dak had
Speaker 4: to take a step to the left and didn't have
Speaker 4: his feet set and the proper mechanics when you're gonna
Speaker 4: throw along pass because of that pressure coming from the
Speaker 4: right side. So it's not an excuse, just a reason.
Speaker 4: I'm just telling you what I saw from the sideline.
Speaker 4: But but yeah, you have to upgrade the receiving court
Speaker 4: and get some guys other than c. D. Lamb who
Speaker 4: can win on routes.
Speaker 10: Yep.
Speaker 4: And when when you got the when when the officials
Speaker 4: are letting the guys play and it's very physical, you
Speaker 4: have got to come through for your quarterback.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and you and to your point, that's what sant
Speaker 7: Fran did. That's what sant Fran had, That's why they hit.
Speaker 7: They had to me, that's what they did that last drive,
Speaker 7: that they scored on that really felt like, Okay, this
Speaker 7: game is this this game has gotten away from them.
Speaker 7: Was the fact they didn't do nothing crazy. They did slants,
Speaker 7: They went at one week point in your defense and
Speaker 7: just decided to get the ball in.
Speaker 8: Their playmakers' hands.
Speaker 7: As we've seen through the playoffs all year, I mean
Speaker 7: this whole weekend and you just that didn't happen there.
Speaker 7: I mean Don Schultz, I mean like there were so
Speaker 7: there were no other receivers except for ceed Lamb, and
Speaker 7: I think it's clear like, of course Ceede Lamb had
Speaker 7: a dope day. He's the one that can really get
Speaker 7: busy against. He's better than a lot of guys. It's
Speaker 7: one on one, and I think that's a lot of
Speaker 7: what the playoffs are is are you better than the
Speaker 7: next guy?
Speaker 8: Are you better than the guy across from you? Can
Speaker 8: you go make a play right now? And that's not
Speaker 8: what happened.
Speaker 2: So it's almost like going back to the basics, which
Speaker 2: is what we've been hearing for the past few weeks
Speaker 2: when when they have these kind of losses, and obviously
Speaker 2: this one stings more considering its season ending, but going
Speaker 2: back to the basics and doing what works and we've
Speaker 2: seen that. That's what's frustrating is we saw it against
Speaker 2: Tampa Bay. Going back to the basics and what works
Speaker 2: for this offense. But the inconsistency within this offensive game
Speaker 2: plan is just killing everybody.
Speaker 11: Man.
Speaker 2: I mean to me personally, I don't even have a
Speaker 2: foot to stand on when it comes down to giving
Speaker 2: any kind of speculation or analysis on these wide receivers.
Speaker 2: Wouldn't see any of them, wouldn't see anything. We saw
Speaker 2: CD Yeah, ten receptions for one hundred and seventeen yards. Cool,
Speaker 2: we should see that. We also saw Dalton Schultz five
Speaker 2: receptions for twenty seven yards and one touchdown. Okay, but
Speaker 2: get your foot get your second foot down.
Speaker 4: Yeah, well you're going out of bounds.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, gosh right right.
Speaker 5: But we also so maddening.
Speaker 2: We also just we didn't see anything. And again that
Speaker 2: goes back to they're putting themselves in these third and
Speaker 2: long situations that we talked about all season they can't
Speaker 2: be doing. And it was like they would have one momentum,
Speaker 2: one spark of momentum, and then killer penalty. Like, guys,
Speaker 2: this is the same stuff all season that just wasn't
Speaker 2: working for you, And so it's it's just daunting to
Speaker 2: me that the same exact things that haven't been working
Speaker 2: is what ended their season in a way in not
Speaker 2: the similar way from last season's playoff loss to the
Speaker 2: forty nine ers, in a heartbreaking way that the game
Speaker 2: ends and you're like, what just happened? What was that?
Speaker 4: What have we been saying since the first week we
Speaker 4: were doing this show the day after a game? The
Speaker 4: team that wins in the NFL is the one that
Speaker 4: makes the least mistakes, the one that doesn't shoot itself
Speaker 4: in the foot. Truisms are truisms because they're true, Okay,
Speaker 4: And so whether it was the two first half interceptions
Speaker 4: that lead to the six points or oh my gosh,
Speaker 4: the killer penalties on the defense, George Kittle getting that
Speaker 4: defensive holding call on Donovan Wilson, yes, I think it
Speaker 4: was the correct call, but George Kittle knew exactly what
Speaker 4: he was doing and getting his head in there and
Speaker 4: he oh my gosh, she's.
Speaker 8: But that made me so mad because y'all got to
Speaker 8: be consistent.
Speaker 4: Exactly, and and the and the the defensive holding call
Speaker 4: on the run and but then but then they did,
Speaker 4: but then they didn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, holding.
Speaker 5: Okay, right, let's be consistent here.
Speaker 7: But you that's such a good point because you had
Speaker 7: the hold on Donald. I believe you had the hold
Speaker 7: on Donald, and I think that negated that dope sack.
Speaker 4: It was society they would have had to settle for
Speaker 4: a field goals back. And also but the other thing
Speaker 4: is they were able to run more time off the clock.
Speaker 4: That was in the fourth.
Speaker 7: Quarter, and then CMC ended up scoring on that drive exactly,
Speaker 7: and he was a ghost.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry that. I think they think the penalty may
Speaker 4: have happened third, But yeah.
Speaker 5: C MC got the one at the end there.
Speaker 2: Speaking of ghosts, I was wanting to see more t
Speaker 2: Y Hilton where where where one target? Like it goes
Speaker 2: back to what I'm saying is, yes, you should rely
Speaker 2: on CD. He's your number one guy, But where is
Speaker 2: everybody else in this game plan? Where do they fit?
Speaker 2: Does anyone? Does anyone know where they fit in that
Speaker 2: game plan? Do they know? Does anyone know? I don't.
Speaker 7: I think I think the game plan went to I
Speaker 7: can't say the word, but Tony Potter going down. It
Speaker 7: was the countdown because if I'm the same, if I'm
Speaker 7: saying France defense and we had listened to them. I
Speaker 7: listened to the audio about them all week. Their intention
Speaker 7: was to stop ye tp in Dalton Shultz.
Speaker 8: They didn't even care, like crazy enough. I think that
Speaker 8: they knew CD was gonna get his and they really.
Speaker 5: Have the secondary.
Speaker 8: So yeah, yeah, he cooked them.
Speaker 7: But when Tony Pollard goes down, that's a huge part
Speaker 7: of their play like the Cowboys play making ability, and
Speaker 7: from there it's like the bite on everything. You gotta
Speaker 7: you gotta worry about the backfield like that, because no
Speaker 7: disrespect to Ezekiel Elliott or and then Malik Davis didn't
Speaker 7: get that much burn either, but they they those linebackers
Speaker 7: and that defensive line.
Speaker 4: Where were you guys? Surprised? They didn't give it to
Speaker 4: Maleak a few times for.
Speaker 7: Two seconds he missed, he missed the block on the
Speaker 7: pass pro and they I think they passed it because
Speaker 7: they don't want that getting hurt. But at that point
Speaker 7: in time, this offensive line, I thought blocked pretty well.
Speaker 7: Considering the fact that, uh that you know that their
Speaker 7: defensive line is insane, this offensive line opened up some holes.
Speaker 7: When I watched went back and watched that game, and
Speaker 7: it just was like a tick too slow not getting
Speaker 7: through them, not you know, not pushing through them. And
Speaker 7: I think Malik Davis might have been able to get
Speaker 7: through them or a TP.
Speaker 2: I just I think the run was abandoned at that point.
Speaker 2: I don't think we were going to see Malik Davis
Speaker 2: or TP or Zeke running at that point, even if
Speaker 2: TP didn't go down, because the run was already abandoned.
Speaker 2: And we've seen time and time again that same trueism
Speaker 2: Christy throughout the season of Once the Run's not working
Speaker 2: and Kellen Moore decides the run's not working, you're not
Speaker 2: going to see it throughout the rest of the game.
Speaker 4: Yes, but you can only bound your head into a wall,
Speaker 4: so at times you can't do it if it's not effective.
Speaker 4: But the thing is, when a game is that close,
Speaker 4: it's a one score game, and you have twenty two
Speaker 4: rushing attempts. Now that includes two by CD Lamb. I
Speaker 4: really like that one conversion. That was a nice little
Speaker 4: play on that flip. Four of them by Dak Prescott.
Speaker 4: But anyway, Elliott and Pollard combined for sixteen rushing attempts,
Speaker 4: and just to put that in perspective, twenty two overall,
Speaker 4: including the Lamb Mike McCarthy was saying, I don't know
Speaker 4: if this was on the record or off the record,
Speaker 4: but he did say, La sweet, that it needs to
Speaker 4: be thirty two touches or more those two guys combined.
Speaker 4: And when I say touches, that would be rushing, okay,
Speaker 4: not just you know, dump off passes and stuff like that.
Speaker 4: And so when you only have those two guys combined
Speaker 4: for sixteen and I know that Pollard missed the second half,
Speaker 4: but yeah, that's but again, you know it wouldn't working.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I think it was tough, right, Like
Speaker 6: you knew that the forty nine ers didn't allow a
Speaker 6: lot on the ground. You knew that going into it, right,
Speaker 6: So you give it a try. It wasn't working, and
Speaker 6: then you lose Tony. So it's a game of guesses, right,
Speaker 6: And I really just think at the end of the day,
Speaker 6: it was just more it was a poor offensive execution,
Speaker 6: you know what I mean? It was there was there
Speaker 6: was even a moment where and I tweeted about it,
Speaker 6: and it's the play now that everybody has been talking about.
Speaker 6: But third and whatever, when we settled for the field
Speaker 6: goal and Dak's trying to thread the needle into CD
Speaker 6: in double coverage and Ty is standing like this, yep, yeah,
Speaker 6: and he it was a walk in touchdown. And that's
Speaker 6: why I say, like, it's on Dak to get with
Speaker 6: these guys in the off season, and it's on him
Speaker 6: to figure out, Okay, like, why was I laser focused
Speaker 6: on getting this pass to you? Like sure, like you're
Speaker 6: my guy, that where I'm at, that's my first read.
Speaker 6: But you've got when the offensive line is allowing you
Speaker 6: that much time to you had time, You had time,
Speaker 6: like the pressure was coming.
Speaker 5: But you had a second to go, you know. And
Speaker 5: I'm not a professional football.
Speaker 6: Player obviously, but I just think, like that's the kind
Speaker 6: of stuff that you want out of Prescott. That's what
Speaker 6: he did well in that best game of his career
Speaker 6: on Monday, And those are the performances. I don't necessarily
Speaker 6: care about the performance against Tampa Bay if we're not
Speaker 6: replicating or at least getting close to that performance the
Speaker 6: very next week, right because it it negates everything you
Speaker 6: just did. And so for me, he's got to get
Speaker 6: out there. He's got to work with these guys. He's
Speaker 6: got to figure out that timing issue that they talked
Speaker 6: about all season and why.
Speaker 5: You know, and even t Y.
Speaker 6: I think they even showed on the broadcast, Like Ty
Speaker 6: came over and he was like, hey, man, like yeah,
Speaker 6: or are you doing?
Speaker 4: And yeah, I think it's just seeing the field. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, he didn't see it yesterday. But you know,
Speaker 4: let's credit the forty nine ers. They are the number
Speaker 4: one defense for a reason. There's number one scoring, number
Speaker 4: one total, number two rushing and man, now it was
Speaker 4: so physical.
Speaker 11: Gosh.
Speaker 4: I wish I just wish that Cowboy fan. I wish
Speaker 4: everybody had an opportunity to just one game down on
Speaker 4: the sideline to see what it's really like when you
Speaker 4: have two physical teams. And I mean it's like gladiators anyway.
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Speaker 2: this game ten combined total tackles, Donovan Wilson having eight,
Speaker 2: Tank having six total combined tackles, one sack, and two
Speaker 2: of those tackles were tackles for loss. Keep in mind
Speaker 2: Tank is somebody who has talked about this bad taste
Speaker 2: in his mouth. Hayley, We've talked about this before from
Speaker 2: last year's game. We'll talk about his performance in a bit,
Speaker 2: but he recorded this sack in the first quarter. Has
Speaker 2: three career sacks in the postseason, tied for seventh in
Speaker 2: team history. So something to keep in mind there. Molly
Speaker 2: Cooker having eight to combine tackles, Jyron having five, one
Speaker 2: of those tackles for loss, Dort's Armstrong having three osa
Speaker 2: Odiggy zuap five tackles, one sack and one tackle for loss.
Speaker 2: So let's talk about what that meant for San Francisco.
Speaker 2: They had sixty three total plays, twenty one first downs
Speaker 2: they were seven and fourteen, and third down efficiency thirty
Speaker 2: my goodness, three hundred and twelve total yards, one hundred
Speaker 2: and ninety nine of which are rushing, one hundred and
Speaker 2: thirteen passing, or excuse me, flip that one ninety nine passing,
Speaker 2: one thirteen rushing. But y'all, I don't know about y'all.
Speaker 2: I I didn't sleep well last night, and one of
Speaker 2: the things that kept for playing in my head is
Speaker 2: that George Kittle bobbled miracle catch just stuck with my head.
Speaker 2: It's one of those things that you watch and you're like, dang,
Speaker 2: that was great. But we'll talk about that. Christy, I
Speaker 2: know you specifically wanted to talk about this catch. What
Speaker 2: was interesting? What did you hear from the San Francisco
Speaker 2: locker room? Well, just interesting about this place.
Speaker 4: Just the fact that it was improv and that, you
Speaker 4: know what, it wasn't really intended for Kittle at all,
Speaker 4: and just how impressed I was that a rookie rock
Speaker 4: party can come off. The first read on that was
Speaker 4: Brandon Ayuk, the forty nine er receiver on a crossing route,
Speaker 4: as I say, Kittle and they were saying who was
Speaker 4: Kyle use Check the full back were on the backside,
Speaker 4: and so it was an adjustment. Kittle saw what was
Speaker 4: happening and saw that there was an opening up the
Speaker 4: middle of the field and took off and pretty recognized
Speaker 4: that and hit him not quite astray. But you know,
Speaker 4: it wasn't the fact that it was a tip. You know,
Speaker 4: he tipped the ball to himself and made this awesome
Speaker 4: juggling catch. It was side adjustments on the on for
Speaker 4: both of those players, and the fact that the rooky.
Speaker 5: Was on one side of it.
Speaker 4: I just thought that was outstanding.
Speaker 2: Chunk plays was the name of the game. We knew
Speaker 2: that this was going to come down to it that
Speaker 2: San Francisco offense gonna have those chunk plays. But other
Speaker 2: than that, this defense played one heck of a game.
Speaker 2: So impressed by the defense, Aisha, You're talking about your
Speaker 2: guy Osa, how he continues to be impressive in what
Speaker 2: he's done and what he's doing, impactful overall defensive scoring.
Speaker 2: How did you feel the defense did yesterday in just
Speaker 2: overall performance, keeping some hope alive again until they were
Speaker 2: just gassed at the end of this game.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean, I thought the DT's played so well
Speaker 7: to start that game. Hankins Watkins Osa, those guys set
Speaker 7: the tone early and say what you want to say.
Speaker 7: San France struggled to run the ball too. They just
Speaker 7: figured out how to get it going in the passing
Speaker 7: game to a degree, but they struggled to run the
Speaker 7: ball too. And you're talking about a team that I
Speaker 7: think it's averaged over like is that over one hundred
Speaker 7: yards a game since Christian McCaffrey's been there. The way
Speaker 7: that the Cowboys were able to bottle him up and
Speaker 7: for him to not truly be a factor in this
Speaker 7: game besides short really short yardist situations incredibly impressive. The
Speaker 7: game plan that dan Quinn had in place to really
Speaker 7: make Brock Purdy have to win this game.
Speaker 8: I think it worked for the majority of.
Speaker 7: A time until you just, you know, towards the end
Speaker 7: of the game where you didn't get enough. I really
Speaker 7: do wish they could have capitalized out of the opportunities
Speaker 7: they had to take the ball away.
Speaker 8: I think that could have shifted things.
Speaker 7: But I just don't know how much you could complain
Speaker 7: about how they tackled, how they hit. I mean, Donovan Wilson, yeah,
Speaker 7: definitely made his presence felt known everything. But it's yeah,
Speaker 7: I thought the defense played as well as I think
Speaker 7: they could have in those situations, and I thought it
Speaker 7: was enough in my opinion.
Speaker 2: You're talking about a forty nine ers team where the
Speaker 2: storyline was the yack ability during this gamet Hayley, how
Speaker 2: do you feel like the Cowboys defense capitalized on and
Speaker 2: making sure that that yack ability was shut down early
Speaker 2: on and really through most of the game.
Speaker 5: Just look at Debo's numbers.
Speaker 6: He's seven of forty five and was really a non
Speaker 6: factor in the second half. I thought he had an
Speaker 6: okay first half, but I mean that was kind of it.
Speaker 6: I mean, when when George Kettle is your guy that's
Speaker 6: leading the way in that category and just yardage in general.
Speaker 5: And that's no disrespect to George Kettle.
Speaker 6: I thought, not only was he the most entertaining part
Speaker 6: of the game, but he was the best player on
Speaker 6: the field for sure, at least from an offensive perspective.
Speaker 5: So listen, We've said it this entire time.
Speaker 6: I think that the defense did everything and more that
Speaker 6: they could have done to win this game. You held
Speaker 6: to San Francisco's forty nine ers roster that is littered
Speaker 6: with offensive weapons to nineteen points, and.
Speaker 8: That's almost the net right because it was the pick right.
Speaker 4: Well, we had the two interceptions led to two field goals,
Speaker 4: so you were the defense was put on the spot
Speaker 4: and just holding him to field goals.
Speaker 13: Sorry, go ahead, No, I mean that's it, Like, that's
Speaker 13: there's nothing really more that this team could have done,
Speaker 13: you know, from a defensive standpoint anyways, and then you
Speaker 13: mix in special teams and them getting in there and
Speaker 13: tackling physically like you mentioned, I think they did well.
Speaker 6: I think the good news is that there's a foundation built.
Speaker 5: I think where it gets tricky.
Speaker 6: Is that the list of free agents that we have,
Speaker 6: especially on the defensive side of the ball, is extensive.
Speaker 6: You've got Donathan Wilson on that list, Leyton vanderash Is
Speaker 6: on that list, Anthony barr Is on that list.
Speaker 5: Just the name of a couple off the top of
Speaker 5: the dome.
Speaker 6: So the tricky part becomes, do you sustain that defensive
Speaker 6: foundation that you've built?
Speaker 2: Yep, Christy, one last thing before we run out of time.
Speaker 2: We were talking about injuries and of course sending all
Speaker 2: of our well wishes prayers to Tony Pollard, but also
Speaker 2: Carlos Watkins went down and you wanted to talk about
Speaker 2: that a little bit.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he had worked his way up into the starting
Speaker 4: role at defensive tackle and he suffered the calf injury
Speaker 4: late in the first quartery up only playing seven plays.
Speaker 4: And so I think that especially that ninety one yard
Speaker 4: series by the San Francisco offense in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 4: you could see that the defense was getting worn down. Well,
Speaker 4: you were missing one of your top DT's in there,
Speaker 4: part of the defensive tackle rotation. So I think that
Speaker 4: that had something to do with it. But I'm so
Speaker 4: glad that both of you mentioned Donovan Wilson along with
Speaker 4: Leyton vander esh I am. I think Donna, I'm sure
Speaker 4: that the Cowboys are going to make him a priority
Speaker 4: signing free agent to re sign him. But you know,
Speaker 4: it's just I think he's one of the most underappreciated
Speaker 4: players on the entire team.
Speaker 7: This is his first full year, this is his first
Speaker 7: full year playing a full season, So shout out to him.
Speaker 7: Shout out to him for taking care of his body
Speaker 7: and being able to stay healthy and be an impact
Speaker 7: on this team, because I think that that's a big
Speaker 7: part of why he hasn't been able to because he's
Speaker 7: been injured in So yeah.
Speaker 4: What do we say in the first week of the
Speaker 4: regular season that he was the Golden Whistle Award winners
Speaker 4: from coach McCarthy and from the strength and conditioning staff
Speaker 4: for all of his hard work and coming overcoming injury
Speaker 4: and that, and so I'm I'm so happy that it
Speaker 4: paid off for him this whole season.
Speaker 8: JK two, Right, we got to say he was fintech.
Speaker 8: We gotta send well wishes to him as well.
Speaker 7: Sounds like he has a torn labroom he's gonna have
Speaker 7: surgery on the chap.
Speaker 8: He played through numerous injuries spring me.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so you definitely to that list of you know,
Speaker 7: gentlemen like I would love to mention him and say
Speaker 7: that I hope he's good too.
Speaker 2: Definitely a lot of banged up guys in this locker room,
Speaker 2: and now they have time to rest, plenty of time
Speaker 2: to rest.
Speaker 4: You know what the busiest room is going to be
Speaker 4: for the next two months, the operating room, because everybody
Speaker 4: goes in and gets their off season surgeries.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, please hope. All right, Well that is all
Speaker 2: for us here on Girls Talk, Boys Talk. I still
Speaker 2: hope you all enjoy the rest of your day, the
Speaker 2: rest of your week, or try to you can. You
Speaker 2: can be in mourning for a little while, and then
Speaker 2: let's move along and let's focus on the off season.
Speaker 2: We're not done. A lot of free agency, a lot
Speaker 2: of draft stuff coming up as well, so plenty to
Speaker 2: continue to talk about. Just wish it toon end in
Speaker 2: the way it did. But thank you so much for
Speaker 2: joining us. This has been Girls Talk, Boys Talk with
Speaker 2: Christie Scales, Hayley, sun Nisha Morrison, are Jazzy Marshall in
Speaker 2: the back. I'm Jessinvariz. We'll talk to you soon. Have
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