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Speaker 5: thought process on what happened in Santa Clara.
Speaker 9: I mean, it's not I think a lot of people
Speaker 9: are overracting up. I don't think it's that big of
Speaker 9: a deal. I'm joking that that was so bad. I
Speaker 9: never would have seen that coming, Like them losing again
Speaker 9: to the Niners is one thing to be dominated like that.
Speaker 9: It just I mean, there's just so many levels to
Speaker 9: the having three interceptions and three consecutive possessions, which and
Speaker 9: it could have been more if they didn't put Cooper
Speaker 9: Rush in the game. I mean, there are just so
Speaker 9: many things about what happened in San Francisco that leaves
Speaker 9: you questioning everything. And it's of course, you know Jerry
Speaker 9: said on the Raid to day, like, we're not gonna
Speaker 9: play San Francisco every week.
Speaker 1: No, You're not.
Speaker 9: But if you're that far away from San Francisco and
Speaker 9: you look at the rest of this schedule, which is
Speaker 9: not easy, I don't know how like that was one
Speaker 9: of the things I was doing after the game is over.
Speaker 9: So I'm looking at the rest of the schedule and
Speaker 9: I'm going like, I don't see them getting back to
Speaker 9: twelve wins. Yeah, and getting back to double digit wins
Speaker 9: is not going to be an easy thing. I mean,
Speaker 9: this is a tough schedule that they have remaining. I mean,
Speaker 9: of course their teams can suffer injuries and all of
Speaker 9: a sudden the team that looked tough isn't whatever. Well,
Speaker 9: that could also be your team that happens too, So yeah,
Speaker 9: I mean it was to me, it's the worst loss
Speaker 9: that they've had since I've covered the team. The only
Speaker 9: one that would even be in the conversation is probably
Speaker 9: maybe I would say that Denver loss in twenty seventeen
Speaker 9: because they were coming off of that big twenty sixteen.
Speaker 9: But I still I factor in what the expectation is,
Speaker 9: what you are as a team, and where I had
Speaker 9: you projected to go, and that there's no business laying
Speaker 9: an egg like that. I'm sorry that you just cannot
Speaker 9: have that type of a performance when you finally have
Speaker 9: that starting five offensive line, you are relatively healthy. I mean,
Speaker 9: they lose Layton vandersh late in that game, but other
Speaker 9: than Trayvon Diggs and Demarvion Overshown, you have everybody that
Speaker 9: you want out there and to put out that product
Speaker 9: that I mean, it's I tweeted out during at the
Speaker 9: I think it was during the third court this is
Speaker 9: so bad because there's just nothing else like that. I
Speaker 9: even had to say, like, there's not breaking any little
Speaker 9: thing down. There's nothing that was great in that game.
Speaker 9: And I mean, I think San Francisco is the best
Speaker 9: team in the league right now, but they should not
Speaker 9: be that far ahead. I don't care where you're playing
Speaker 9: the game to beat the Cowboys the way they did
Speaker 9: in that game. And so because of that, man, there
Speaker 9: are a lot of a lot of questions going forward,
Speaker 9: and it's tough to put them in that same group
Speaker 9: right now with those top teams, especially coming off that
Speaker 9: Arizona Laws where you're like, oh, I thought that was
Speaker 9: the wake up call while that was then what is
Speaker 9: this thing?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Anything changed?
Speaker 5: Now that you've gotten an extra night's sleep over at
Speaker 5: Nick just based off of what you said yesterday.
Speaker 10: Yeah, definitely not, definitely not. It's it's still pretty rough
Speaker 10: looking at it, from even having an extra day to
Speaker 10: look at it, look at the film, even try to
Speaker 10: find some bright spots. One bright spot that I was
Speaker 10: able to find was Deron Bland. I thought he had
Speaker 10: a really strong game on Sunday night. I thought Tyler
Speaker 10: Smith did well in the trenches for the most part.
Speaker 3: Jonathan Hankins, I'd like to give.
Speaker 10: Jonathan Hankins for sure, for sure, But man aside from that,
Speaker 10: it's it was a rough outing. It's funny that you
Speaker 10: mentioned you were looking at the schedule afterward. That's kind
Speaker 10: of an exercise I do typically after a game, just
Speaker 10: to kind of see the entire body of work that
Speaker 10: they put it on the table and compare it to
Speaker 10: what they have left. I came out of it thinking
Speaker 10: they'll go nine and eight. Looking at the remaining schedule,
Speaker 10: I mean, after this, you got Chargers Rams Philly and
Speaker 10: you got to go to Buffalo.
Speaker 3: Gotta go to Miami.
Speaker 10: Later in the season, you got Detroit. I mean, there's
Speaker 10: there's there's not a layup really down down the stretch.
Speaker 9: The other thing I will say that was a little
Speaker 9: concerning thinking about it after the game. Is in Dak
Speaker 9: Prescott's last eight games, he's had what I believe are
Speaker 9: his three worst performances in his eight years is Cowboys quarterback.
Speaker 9: That's the Washington game ten last season, that's at San
Speaker 9: Francisco in the playoffs, and then that's that game that
Speaker 9: he just had Sunday night. Then that's not a great
Speaker 9: trend to have for your franchise quarterback, but also one
Speaker 9: that has been your franchise quarterback for so long.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's not a good sign by any stretch of
Speaker 5: the imagination.
Speaker 3: You kind of chuckled a little bit at the back
Speaker 3: end of that. What was going through your head?
Speaker 11: In my head, I just laughed because it's like, good news,
Speaker 11: is you only play Philly twice?
Speaker 1: Yeah, No, I mean potentially three.
Speaker 11: In man, they got their best kick. That's that's the
Speaker 11: moral of the story. And we talked about it extensively yesterday. Obviously,
Speaker 11: jam just hit him over the head as well. You
Speaker 11: got punched in the face a couple of times, and
Speaker 11: you left battered than bruised and embarrassed. You know, you
Speaker 11: probably peed on yourself a little bit and everybody saw it,
Speaker 11: you know, and now you got to walk home and
Speaker 11: wash yourself and change your draws and figure out the
Speaker 11: next outfit you're gonna put on, you know. And that's
Speaker 11: exactly where the Cowboys are at right now. They have
Speaker 11: a long ways to go. But you got a big
Speaker 11: week coming up. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: This was what it was.
Speaker 11: You know, exactly how far away you are from where
Speaker 11: you want to be or where you thought you were.
Speaker 1: It's good to know. It's good to know. We got
Speaker 1: work to do.
Speaker 11: Can we improve, absolutely, we can improve. Can we make
Speaker 11: the corrections, Absolutely, we can make the corrections.
Speaker 1: Did you nah?
Speaker 11: You know you did not, But now you have film,
Speaker 11: You have film from this team. You know, we talked
Speaker 11: about the psychological warfare.
Speaker 3: Your loss.
Speaker 11: Okay, your loss, but now I guess what, you got
Speaker 11: to figure it out because you do have a tough schedule,
Speaker 11: so you can look at it two ways.
Speaker 1: Hey, we got a tough schedule.
Speaker 11: Coming up, and you know it's just gonna be you know,
Speaker 11: we're gonna be some ups, it's gonna be some downs,
Speaker 11: and you know we're hoping to you know, have enough
Speaker 11: wins to get to the playoffs, or you look at
Speaker 11: it and say, Okay, every week we get better, we
Speaker 11: take out these teams that are respected and they're all
Speaker 11: doing well seemingly that you have on your schedule, and
Speaker 11: by the time we're in position to hopefully play these
Speaker 11: guys again, we want some get back. That's how you
Speaker 11: have to look at it. Or you can sit up
Speaker 11: there and just be a sob story for the rest
Speaker 11: of the year. But competitively, you got your butt kick Cool,
Speaker 11: all right, I got beat up.
Speaker 1: Cool.
Speaker 11: Next time I see this bully, I'm gonna have some
Speaker 11: more stuff for him, right, But I can't talk about it.
Speaker 1: He has every right to talk about it.
Speaker 11: He has every right to wear the T shirts and
Speaker 11: show whatever you want to Dallas.
Speaker 1: They earn all.
Speaker 11: That, and you just let it happen. You let it simmer,
Speaker 11: and you go back and you get some new ingredients.
Speaker 9: Yeah, the only thing they can do is just play
Speaker 9: the teams that are ahead of them. But I will
Speaker 9: say this from my perspective covering this team, like there
Speaker 9: won't be any like oh, they responded by winning the
Speaker 9: next three games in a row, Like oh, they're right
Speaker 9: back on, Like nah, that's left such a bad taste.
Speaker 9: It's one thing if you lose that game and it's
Speaker 9: relatively close forever. That left such a bad taste that
Speaker 9: so they could win their next six seven games in
Speaker 9: a row and night, so they'll be like, yeah, I
Speaker 9: don't know, man.
Speaker 1: That's the good thing.
Speaker 11: But that's the good thing, right, that's the good thing
Speaker 11: about it. You get your butt kicked.
Speaker 3: So bad, doesn't sound you get No, it's good.
Speaker 1: It is good.
Speaker 11: I mean, if you want to look at there's multiple
Speaker 11: ways you canna always look at it, right, But you
Speaker 11: got you got beat up, right.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 11: I've never really gotten beat up physically by a bully
Speaker 11: or anything like that, but there are people that have
Speaker 11: gotten beat up.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 1: These dudes just got beat They just got the crap
Speaker 1: beat out of them, right, So to that point, you
Speaker 1: don't get over this.
Speaker 11: And because you don't get over this, if you have
Speaker 11: a competitive team, if you have competitive coaching staff, if
Speaker 11: you have competitive players, they are going to remember this
Speaker 11: and they're gonna take it out on everybody else along
Speaker 11: the way. That's one way that you can approach it, right,
Speaker 11: That's the way I would approach it, right, like you now,
Speaker 11: I have a hit list, Sorry, everybody else that's on
Speaker 11: my that's on my schedule. But y'all, y'all gonna feel
Speaker 11: all this, y'all gonna get up all these morsels you'
Speaker 11: all about to get because now I'm pissed off, right,
Speaker 11: I'm pissed off. I'm mad at myself, right, I'm mad
Speaker 11: at my performance. I'm mad as myself as a coach, right,
Speaker 11: as an organization, we are all mad right now? Okay,
Speaker 11: so what are you gonna do about it?
Speaker 9: The other thing I was gonna mention speaking when he
Speaker 9: said that made me think of this is after the game,
Speaker 9: I was thinking about just how we've seen a little
Speaker 9: bit more trade activity in the NFL a little bit
Speaker 9: earlier than normal, and Niners being one team going out
Speaker 9: and getting Randy Gregory who wasn't even on the field.
Speaker 9: The other My other takeaway when I left that stadium was, Yeah,
Speaker 9: you can't just roll with this exact same roster either.
Speaker 9: You need to be aggressive, You need to do some
Speaker 9: of the stuff that you know San Francisco last year,
Speaker 9: going to get Chritian McCaffrey, like, if this is really
Speaker 9: a season, if you really believe in everything that's there,
Speaker 9: I mean, you're gonna probably have to go out and
Speaker 9: make some type of a move, and maybe more than one.
Speaker 11: But I know we had this conversation last week in
Speaker 11: regards to Randon Gregory. But now you guys see them
Speaker 11: mentality that I'm coming from. Right, No matter where you
Speaker 11: think you are as an organization and as a team,
Speaker 11: you can always.
Speaker 1: Add somebody to get better.
Speaker 11: Now, I don't care if you feel they feel fully
Speaker 11: confident with their defensive line, but guess what, there was
Speaker 11: somebody out there that they feel can ask some more
Speaker 11: value down to roll. So guess what give me that
Speaker 11: we don't need it right now, but give me that
Speaker 11: right just in case I have them in my back pop.
Speaker 11: And that's what the approach I've always wanted Dallas to take.
Speaker 11: Like when there's somebody to go grab, go grab them,
Speaker 11: like go grab you. You cannot become complacent when you
Speaker 11: haven't you haven't attained what you want to attain. And
Speaker 11: I don't know how many years, twenty nine to twenty
Speaker 11: nine years you haven't attained it, and that long, go
Speaker 11: get everybody that you can that you actually can physically
Speaker 11: get without putting yourself in a bad position the next year.
Speaker 11: Right when I say bad position, like what is a
Speaker 11: bad position when you're when you could potentially put yourself
Speaker 11: personnel wise in position to win a dog on Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: So like that, that's that's my angle, right. So like
Speaker 1: that's the conversation we had last week.
Speaker 11: And obviously that afternoon they picked up Randy Gregory and
Speaker 11: I'm just sitting.
Speaker 5: There, like, the one thing about Randy Gregory specifically is
Speaker 5: I still don't have a guy on this roster. I
Speaker 5: would rather overturn to get him in here, at least
Speaker 5: from a defensive perspective.
Speaker 1: And you think San Fran did.
Speaker 3: San Fran isn't. I don't know. I don't know the
Speaker 3: deep depths of the roster.
Speaker 1: So San Fran just.
Speaker 11: Kicked your whole living tail and they still felt like
Speaker 11: they needed to to the roster.
Speaker 5: I get it, and they may have had a spot open.
Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know what the roster looks like
Speaker 5: for San Francisco, and I would argue Dallas has made
Speaker 5: moves like that in the past, but they've got to
Speaker 5: make another one or maybe two in order to get
Speaker 5: right back into it. Think about t Y Hilton last year,
Speaker 5: that was one where they needed some value. They went
Speaker 5: and got them over the off season. I mean Brandy Cooks, Stephan.
Speaker 9: And but I'm talking I'm talking bigger than you're talking bigger.
Speaker 12: This is it.
Speaker 9: If this is the team, you really believe this is
Speaker 9: the team.
Speaker 5: Yes, you have some trade pieces, you can put a
Speaker 5: package together, you have somebody you've had trade pieces.
Speaker 11: But so I don't want to make this. I don't
Speaker 11: want everybody out there. And I know we gotta get
Speaker 11: to the calls. But this is not just a personnel issue.
Speaker 11: I know we're talking personnel right now. This game was everybody.
Speaker 11: This game was everybody. It was a personnel issue. It
Speaker 11: was an execution issue as a coaching, it was a
Speaker 11: play called, it was across the board.
Speaker 1: So that's what I'm saying. Like that taste that you're
Speaker 1: saying is not going to get out of your mouth.
Speaker 1: That's a good thing. Like I need I need that anger.
Speaker 12: Right.
Speaker 9: Also, there's like at least with the Cardinals game, yeah,
Speaker 9: kind of knock up on us.
Speaker 1: No, this is the one that you talked.
Speaker 9: About week after week after week. So I was looking
Speaker 9: forward to before the season even started. This was going
Speaker 9: to be the measuring stick game. And then the play
Speaker 9: like that on top of it, there's no, oh, the
Speaker 9: bully snuck up on you didn't seem no, no, you
Speaker 9: knew they were squaring up with you.
Speaker 1: You were squaring up to you.
Speaker 9: And the other thing I keep thinking about, too, is
Speaker 9: like in the NBA, if you know that if you're
Speaker 9: some of the better teams, when you play the teams
Speaker 9: that you think that you're gonna play in the playfs
Speaker 9: in the radiar season, as soon as the game is
Speaker 9: about to start, Oh, so and so's not playing, so
Speaker 9: and So's not playing, they never go with the full No,
Speaker 9: you went with your full roster. Oh yeah, you went
Speaker 9: with the best of the best that you have. And
Speaker 9: if you just sit with that, there's no like, I
Speaker 9: don't even expect them to have this good of a
Speaker 9: roster if they don't make any moves at the end
Speaker 9: of the season, because there's gonna be more injuries.
Speaker 3: It's football, yep, you know.
Speaker 9: So if they just stay and pat with this roster,
Speaker 9: I think that speaks more to maybe they really don't
Speaker 9: believe that this is the type of team that can
Speaker 9: get over the top. But if they do believe that,
Speaker 9: you got to go out and make some type of
Speaker 9: at least one move that makes people go like wow,
Speaker 9: like okay, they're really all in on this.
Speaker 1: They're still going to try.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to go after this thing because Nick talked
Speaker 5: about it earlier. The schedule, going down the list, it's
Speaker 5: not easy. I really liked what Isaiah had to say
Speaker 5: though about taking it one week at a time, because
Speaker 5: right now, like all the way through, what is going
Speaker 5: to happen. If you beat Philadelphia twice, great, that's awesome.
Speaker 5: You're probably in a great field position for the for
Speaker 5: the playoffs, You're gonna be okay. You win a lot
Speaker 5: of these games down the stretch, like Seattle, Buffalo, Miami, Detroit.
Speaker 1: Maybe Philly twice.
Speaker 3: I would feel different.
Speaker 9: Maybe Philly twice, then that would be the only thing
Speaker 9: that would get me past this type of a loss
Speaker 9: where you can start being like, hey, maybe if you
Speaker 9: just get him at the right time, who knows, Maybe
Speaker 9: somebody get gets the Niners.
Speaker 1: Who knows.
Speaker 9: Maybe, I mean, look at last year black Perty gets hurt.
Speaker 9: Who would have ever have thought that would have happened.
Speaker 9: But that's about where we're talking that I would have
Speaker 9: to get.
Speaker 1: It would have to be Philly.
Speaker 5: Tw significant of an overturn from what you saw on Sunday,
Speaker 5: It would have to be a complete turnaround.
Speaker 3: And even if that happens, you're still looking at.
Speaker 5: San Francisco and saying, well, you didn't get over the
Speaker 5: hump two years in a row, you didn't get over
Speaker 5: the hump in week five.
Speaker 3: What's the point. I mean, yes, I know.
Speaker 5: It's any given Sunday in the NFL, and everything can happen.
Speaker 5: But from a mentality standpoint, your shot right now as
Speaker 5: a team, as a franchise San Francisco is the kryptonite.
Speaker 5: And I'm not saying you were Superman in the first place,
Speaker 5: but it certainly looked like he had a chance to be.
Speaker 10: And that kryptonite's only getting more lethal. It's only be
Speaker 10: getting more lethal.
Speaker 3: It's tough very quickly before we get the phone calls,
Speaker 3: any news and notes.
Speaker 1: That we should hit.
Speaker 10: Oh yeah, I just got a couple of things. We
Speaker 10: can start with what Jerry Jones said on the fan
Speaker 10: this morning. The thing that really stood out to me,
Speaker 10: just because there's been a lot of discourse, I guess
Speaker 10: within the fan base over the course of the last
Speaker 10: two days, just about Dak Prescott, Mike McCarthy, the play caller,
Speaker 10: the et cetera. And he said, make no mistake we
Speaker 10: have a quarterback that can get us there. We have
Speaker 10: a coaching staff that can get us there. There being
Speaker 10: a Super Bowl run.
Speaker 5: Yeah, putting confidence in the guys.
Speaker 1: That they have.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I don't know how you can say anything else though, No,
Speaker 9: I mean, he can't say that it would be it
Speaker 9: would be a complete through five games. That would just
Speaker 9: be terrible to say that.
Speaker 3: That would not be a good thing.
Speaker 10: And if we have room for one more. We were
Speaker 10: talking to the coordinators yesterday and offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer
Speaker 10: was talking about, you know, just being able to rebound
Speaker 10: from these types of losses. He mentioned back in twenty
Speaker 10: ten when he was with the Jets, I believe it
Speaker 10: was Mark Sanchez's rookie year, whenever they made that AFC
Speaker 10: Championship run and they lost to the Patriots on the
Speaker 10: road forty five to three.
Speaker 1: Six weeks later they beat.
Speaker 10: Them in the playoffs twenty eight twenty one. So if
Speaker 10: that offers anybody a little bit of historical confidence, then
Speaker 10: there you go.
Speaker 1: And it was Tom Brady we're talking about.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 9: I mean, I mean, if you yeah, I mean you
Speaker 9: can go back to that same season. I mean, the
Speaker 9: team that won the Super Bowl was Mike McCarthy's Packers,
Speaker 9: and they started out three and three at Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: So I mean it's tough to.
Speaker 9: Like really do apples apples after you watch that game.
Speaker 5: You've got some guys that can be all time greats
Speaker 5: on this roster, but just probably not at the quarterback
Speaker 5: position right now. You've got Michael Parsons that can be
Speaker 5: at all time greade if he continues to do what
Speaker 5: he does. The offensive line, if they stay healthy, maybe
Speaker 5: that continuity plays a factor as you go into it
Speaker 5: with all time grades like.
Speaker 3: Zach Martin and Tyron Smith.
Speaker 5: But it's just roster wise, you need your quarterback to
Speaker 5: be playing at his best.
Speaker 3: And the fact of the matter is Dak Prescott's.
Speaker 1: Not playing his best football.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, He's definitely not playing his best football. We've seen
Speaker 3: his best that early part of twenty twenty one.
Speaker 5: I keep going back to it. It's been there before,
Speaker 5: but it's not there right now. And he's got to
Speaker 5: get find a way to get back to a channel
Speaker 5: that and build some confidence because the confidence certainly isn't
Speaker 5: there either. All right, let's take our first break when
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Speaker 6: Still right.
Speaker 5: I was hoping I would get a thirty second warning
Speaker 5: coming back in, and I didn't get one.
Speaker 3: He goes ten seconds and I was like, oh no, this.
Speaker 1: Is a thank you guys. Yeah, don't blaming.
Speaker 3: Oh no, it's all my fault.
Speaker 10: You have like half a sandwich down is yeah?
Speaker 3: Pause? The all right? Nine to twenty?
Speaker 5: What time means it's time to take our calls. Anthony
Speaker 5: and Seattle is the first one on the line. Isaiah's
Speaker 5: got his Seattle Mariners had baby always. I just thought
Speaker 5: I thought i'd pointed out to you you're on talking Cowboys.
Speaker 3: What's going on?
Speaker 12: I always lucy that Seattle with the home to Isaiah. Yes,
Speaker 12: it's funny because I'm originally from Texas, so I'm just moving.
Speaker 12: I moved to Seattle probably about ten years ago, so
Speaker 12: Seattle is like my second home, man, Rangers.
Speaker 1: That's I know, you're making too much money you move
Speaker 1: to Seattle.
Speaker 12: You know, let's not get started on you pay for
Speaker 12: the scenery here. So but hey, one bright spot. I
Speaker 12: didn't know if you guys pointed it out, but hey,
Speaker 12: it looks like we found ourselves a kicker. I mean,
Speaker 12: there's something that if there's something to hang out hats on.
Speaker 12: But look, you guys that kind of alluded to it
Speaker 12: a lot, especially you. Isaiah's just being a quarterback in
Speaker 12: the league. Man, I I it would appear. It would
Speaker 12: appear that on Sunday obviously, to say that Dak Prescott
Speaker 12: didn't play his best game, that's that's that's I mean,
Speaker 12: we've all beat that drum until it's dead. But at
Speaker 12: this particular point, if the team is not designed for
Speaker 12: Dak to be successful, then what do they do if
Speaker 12: Dak needs to have a substantial running game in order
Speaker 12: to be a successful quarterback. They have organized this roster
Speaker 12: to where I don't know if they really have that.
Speaker 12: Tony Power is still coming back from his knee injury.
Speaker 12: There was a couple of runs where he looked hesitant.
Speaker 12: And I know it's a team sport, it's not all
Speaker 12: on deck, but at the end of the day, the
Speaker 12: quarterback is the one that that that gets the brunt
Speaker 12: of the blows man. So I'm just wanting to, you know,
Speaker 12: wanting to know you guys feedback on that and you know,
Speaker 12: see see where we go from there, but definitely around
Speaker 12: around the comments with Deck. So I'll hang up and
Speaker 12: I'll listen to you guys feedback.
Speaker 3: And thank you for the call. Anthony.
Speaker 1: John.
Speaker 3: What do you think about what Anthony had to say.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean it's tough because that's the that's the
Speaker 9: position you pay so much for. It's the leader in
Speaker 9: your locker room. He's the longest ten urre quarterback in
Speaker 9: the NFL right now, and when you have questions there,
Speaker 9: it's tough to look past that and just say, well, no,
Speaker 9: you know, well the defense needs to step up or
Speaker 9: these receivers. I mean, it's just because again, like you're
Speaker 9: not your You're not just trying to make the playoffs.
Speaker 9: You know, you're trying to win a super and there's
Speaker 9: just not enough that you've seen, especially lately that makes
Speaker 9: you think like, oh no, no, everything's here that they
Speaker 9: can get in the playoffs and then win three tough
Speaker 9: games in a row to get to the postseason.
Speaker 3: Possibly on the road, depending on what you do in
Speaker 3: the regular season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's most likely.
Speaker 8: Everything.
Speaker 9: That's so tough for me to understand about it too,
Speaker 9: is that while I said that he's played three of
Speaker 9: his worst games in the last eight, he also probably
Speaker 9: played his best with that Tampa Bay game. And so
Speaker 9: that's the other one that kind of throws you off
Speaker 9: because when you see that, you're kind of thinking, like, Okay,
Speaker 9: can he have a couple of games like this in
Speaker 9: the postseason. I don't know, man, It's it's tough, but yeah,
Speaker 9: that was one of my biggest takeaways. I agree with
Speaker 9: the caller, and that was one of my biggest takeaways
Speaker 9: when I was leaving the stadium.
Speaker 10: I have a friend who's a Falcons fan, and he
Speaker 10: reminds me quite a bit that he's a Falcons fan,
Speaker 10: especially when the Cowboys lose. Of course, he sent me
Speaker 10: a text on Sunday night, like right as we were
Speaker 10: boarding the plane, and it's side by side Desmond Ritter
Speaker 10: and Dak Prescott in twenty twenty three. Desmond Ridder one
Speaker 10: seventy three yards, it's four touchdowns, three interceptions, Dak Prescott
Speaker 10: one thy sixty one yards, five touchdowns, four interceptions, And
Speaker 10: just looking at that side by side, I was like, man,
Speaker 10: just because of all of the criticism that Desmond Ritter
Speaker 10: has been getting in Atlanta, and it's tough looking at
Speaker 10: that side by side. Dak has had a horrible start
Speaker 10: to the season. He's averaging two hundred and twelve yards
Speaker 10: per game. And I know you're not a stats guy, isayah,
Speaker 10: But the stats kind of tell the story on that one.
Speaker 10: It's the offense is not producing, and I think it
Speaker 10: starts up top with Dak.
Speaker 11: I'm gonna say it starts with McCarthy. I know the
Speaker 11: call is in reference to Dak. It starts with McCarthy.
Speaker 11: He could be doing much better in terms of his
Speaker 11: play calling. I don't have a problem with the concepts.
Speaker 11: I have a problem with what the concepts are being
Speaker 11: ran out of formation wise, guys are just going out
Speaker 11: there and lining up. They're not there's no shifts, there's
Speaker 11: no motions, there's nothing that's gonna make the defense second
Speaker 11: guess what they're doing or makes up their responsibility. So
Speaker 11: I have no problem with the West Coast. I have
Speaker 11: a problem with the West Coast being utilized a way
Speaker 11: which it is being utilized. I also have a problem
Speaker 11: with your biggest weapons, you know. I like, now I'm
Speaker 11: gonna go ahead and trademark clear Out Cooks. It's clear
Speaker 11: Out Cooks. That's that's his name right now, because that's
Speaker 11: what he runs his clear out routes. And it's and.
Speaker 1: I really do.
Speaker 3: The more you watch it on film too, the more
Speaker 3: parent it it becomes. We broke it down last week
Speaker 3: the All twenty two It is frustrating.
Speaker 1: We did watch in film room. Was the film room.
Speaker 1: We did last week film room. Last week we broke
Speaker 1: down how Brandon.
Speaker 11: Cooks is clearing guys out, clearing guys out, so you
Speaker 11: have your best route runner not being utilized properly, and
Speaker 11: it's it's a ticking timebine.
Speaker 1: I don't want to project another week like this. Brandon Cooks.
Speaker 11: The mild temper you know, Amari Cooper ish type guy
Speaker 11: in terms of, you know, in terms of cool, being cool,
Speaker 11: calm and collected, He's.
Speaker 1: Probably gonna blow up here in a bit.
Speaker 11: I'm just telling you if you don't get him the
Speaker 11: right he's probably probably going to blow up because you're
Speaker 11: messing with his career.
Speaker 1: Now thousand yards six times over.
Speaker 11: Right, seven seven six times over a thousand yards, and
Speaker 11: he's not gonna scratch that at this pace. And he's
Speaker 11: a clear out. CD's a clearout on half the routes,
Speaker 11: and you're feeding the.
Speaker 1: Tightens, it feels.
Speaker 11: I'm just telling you the frustrations that I experience amongst
Speaker 11: my receiver group when I was here in Dallas, when
Speaker 11: we had Jason Garrett as an OC right coach, Phillips
Speaker 11: was the head coach, and Dak was I mean not Dak,
Speaker 11: but but but Wit was eating a lot right. He
Speaker 11: was getting Romo with Romo with Romo Wit. The reason
Speaker 11: why is because very similar things are happening with this
Speaker 11: offense right now. A lot of clearouts on the outside
Speaker 11: and you're trying to vacate your tight ends on their
Speaker 11: on their inside out routes or corner routes.
Speaker 1: That's what's taking place.
Speaker 11: That's predominantly what's going on, and it's really unfortunate from
Speaker 11: that regard. The second standpoint is the receivers they're not
Speaker 11: getting when they do have man covers, they're not really
Speaker 11: freeing themselves up.
Speaker 1: So they have to do better. The receivers have to
Speaker 1: do better. But the receivers.
Speaker 9: Can I ask you one quick question, Yes, though, when
Speaker 9: you not getting the ball yep, and you're running, let's
Speaker 9: just say, Chris Brow being your guy and stuff like that.
Speaker 9: I understand that your professional athlete and you're so you're
Speaker 9: mentally tough and all that, but I just feel like
Speaker 9: it's got to get in your discourage. All right, yep,
Speaker 9: I'll run this again. Absolutely know this play is never
Speaker 9: coming to me, but here we go.
Speaker 3: Absolutely do my best.
Speaker 1: And that's what I was just about to hit on.
Speaker 11: Right, they're getting discouraged, so when they do get manned, man,
Speaker 11: it doesn't sound good.
Speaker 1: But to your point, yeah, you're like, right that like
Speaker 1: Dak's not reading coverages correctly. I can't. I don't know
Speaker 1: how many times I had a question about that.
Speaker 5: On the text line two six zero, Kevin from Fort Wayne, Indiana,
Speaker 5: says Isaiah talked about Dak not reading coverages correctly.
Speaker 1: Why not?
Speaker 3: He's eight years in. Shouldn't that be locked down by now?
Speaker 11: I can't tell you why it's And Kyle's tired of
Speaker 11: me saying, and we're watching the games like.
Speaker 3: For four years straight. I do get on Isaiah.
Speaker 9: Four years straight now because everyone's got their own strengths.
Speaker 11: Stop players, listen. I can deal with bad balls at times.
Speaker 11: I could deal with bad play, right. It says like
Speaker 11: that's part of playing. Like those things just happen. Right,
Speaker 11: I'm gonna have my good games, I'm hav my bad games.
Speaker 11: I'm gonna have five or four hundre yards pass. I'm
Speaker 11: gonna have two hundre dards pass.
Speaker 1: Like those things fluctuate bad decisions.
Speaker 11: There's nothing that anybody else can do but Dak to
Speaker 11: make better decisions. When you're throwing slants into cover two,
Speaker 11: when you're when you're trying to throw slants versus press
Speaker 11: inside man, when you're throwing flat routes to Tony Pollard
Speaker 11: into cover two corners, you're you're.
Speaker 1: Not seeing the field.
Speaker 11: So like I said last year, and I'm just calling
Speaker 11: what I see on film, you're either not seeing coverages
Speaker 11: and not comprehending what you're seeing and choosing the right side.
Speaker 1: Like I said, is what this West Coast offense is.
Speaker 11: Right, There's usually a covered two high beater on one
Speaker 11: side and a one high beater on the other side.
Speaker 1: That's how most of the time how West Coast is.
Speaker 11: So the reason why Dak was so effective early on
Speaker 11: in the season because he was choosing right right.
Speaker 1: I come up, this is the coverage.
Speaker 11: Boom, I go here, alright, awesome, right, it makes it easy.
Speaker 11: You can get a lot of plays off, and it's
Speaker 11: really quick under your decisions.
Speaker 1: But what did I say?
Speaker 11: After the first four or three or four games, things
Speaker 11: start changing because defensive coordinators say, oh, that's what you're doing.
Speaker 1: Oh how can I take be Cooks out the game?
Speaker 1: You're just gonna line them up on the outside. I'm
Speaker 1: a roll coverage. I guess what Bee Cooks is gonna do?
Speaker 1: Clear out right?
Speaker 11: Okay, Now I know Dak is wanting to really get
Speaker 11: the ball to these guys over here. Well, let's go
Speaker 11: ahead and just just just put press up over here.
Speaker 11: He can't get it over there. He's still gonna try
Speaker 11: to force it. So it's just the decision making and
Speaker 11: the adjustments right. So that's why I say McCarthy and
Speaker 11: Dak go hand in hand. McCarthy has to do a
Speaker 11: better job of mixing things up. You never know what
Speaker 11: San Frans doing. You never know. They're motioning, they're shifting,
Speaker 11: they're putting their guys, they're doing Canadian type shifts like
Speaker 11: you just don't know. Right, You're they're overloading zones if
Speaker 11: you do want to play zone. So what, I'm gonna
Speaker 11: split your safety this way, I'm gonna spit your safty
Speaker 11: this way. I'm gona run a guy underneath, I'm gonna
Speaker 11: pull his linebacker out. Like they know what you're doing,
Speaker 11: and they have an answer for it. And they have
Speaker 11: combination routes where based upon what you what you're running,
Speaker 11: we can also run that run, run this rider instead
Speaker 11: of running the corner, I'll run a comeback right like
Speaker 11: whatever it might be. They have that in there. One
Speaker 11: of their misses they had during the game on Brandon
Speaker 11: iu can Purty should have been a big play, but
Speaker 11: party thought it was too high and it was really
Speaker 11: single high, so you snapped off his route instead of
Speaker 11: taking it to the corner.
Speaker 1: But it was wide open.
Speaker 11: But there's a lot of that going on, and it's
Speaker 11: frustrating for me because they aren't complicated. There are teams
Speaker 11: that you watch and you're like, man, I told I, like,
Speaker 11: I really can't tell it.
Speaker 1: I think it was Arizona. It was Arizona.
Speaker 11: I was like, man, they do a great job of
Speaker 11: disguising their coverages, and like you just it's hard to
Speaker 11: tell what they're running. It really is hard to tell
Speaker 11: what they're running. But this sand Fran is simple. It's simple.
Speaker 11: But I'm saying, like you either not seeing the coverages
Speaker 11: or your complete disregard for what the responsibilities are. You're like,
Speaker 11: you know what, I don't care. These rules don't apply
Speaker 11: to me. I don't know which one it is.
Speaker 10: My question for you, then, is if this has been
Speaker 10: a prolonging issue with dak, then how is he able
Speaker 10: to get away with it in twenty twenty twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: He's a great guy. I I mean, I'm just being
Speaker 1: real with you.
Speaker 9: I find because like, even if they move on from him,
Speaker 9: he's starting in the NFL for another team.
Speaker 11: Like, there's not a lot of quarterbacks in this world. Yeah,
Speaker 11: that's just the reality. That's why all the rules are
Speaker 11: predicated on protecting the quarterback because there's just not a
Speaker 11: lot of them out there right there just aren't. People
Speaker 11: aren't developing quarterbacks the way they used to. So when
Speaker 11: you do get somebody who's.
Speaker 1: Capable, which Dak is capable.
Speaker 11: Right, and Dak can be effective to the point of
Speaker 11: the caller, right, if you run the ball and you
Speaker 11: can do play action.
Speaker 1: Dack's one of the most dangerous quarterbacks in the league.
Speaker 1: I've said that a thousand times.
Speaker 11: If he has a running game, and you have a
Speaker 11: running game, right, I notice thatt line shows different, but
Speaker 11: they if you have. But you have to at least
Speaker 11: threaten me with the run, right, nor for you to
Speaker 11: ad me to respect it. If you want my linebackers
Speaker 11: to come up and you'll be able to hit your
Speaker 11: tight ends, if you want your safeties to have to
Speaker 11: come down from too high and roll down to a
Speaker 11: single high like you have to actually try to run
Speaker 11: the ball, and there's nobody that's really stopped you from
Speaker 11: running the ball except for yourself. You get out of
Speaker 11: it and you start passing, and you line your receivers
Speaker 11: up on the outside. CD's on the outside, Cooks is
Speaker 11: on the outside. I'm gonna throw the ball of FROGGI.
Speaker 11: I'm a throw ball ball to schoon maker. Like you're
Speaker 11: not You're not being creative enough. You don't have to
Speaker 11: change your plays, just change how it looks and then
Speaker 11: Dak just read the coverages, Bro, choose the right side.
Speaker 11: There's too many times in this game where I'm literally marketing.
Speaker 11: I'm like, Bro, I don't, I don't, I don't. I
Speaker 11: don't see what you were going for. Like, I don't,
Speaker 11: I really don't know what you were going for. Like
Speaker 11: you're throwing a flat route to Poller, there's a cover two.
Speaker 11: There's literally clearly two high safeties. You know they're gonna
Speaker 11: run press too. You're throwing a flat route into a corner.
Speaker 11: You're running a slant route into a linebacker. Like, go
Speaker 11: to the backside. That's two. So that means you got
Speaker 11: to go to this concept on the backside. Now that
Speaker 11: I don't care how bad I want to throw the
Speaker 11: ball to Kyle if they run the right coverage, I'm sorry, Bro,
Speaker 11: you know you know they roll coverage.
Speaker 1: I got to I got to go to John. I gotta go
Speaker 1: to you anyway.
Speaker 3: So it's it's it's.
Speaker 1: Really frustrated for me anymore.
Speaker 11: Because this is not complicated stuff, right, it's not compiscated stuff.
Speaker 11: The team deserves better, he deserves better, right. But I
Speaker 11: don't know what's going on in those rooms. I really don't.
Speaker 1: And that's why I said I'm not gonna get into that.
Speaker 11: There are certain people around here who held people accountable
Speaker 11: and they're some of those people aren't here anymore.
Speaker 1: And I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 11: I can't speak to what's going on, but I do
Speaker 11: know that accountability has to be had across the board,
Speaker 11: across the board that starts. I don't care a QB, room,
Speaker 11: dB all that kind of says everybody. Everybody has it,
Speaker 11: but you have to hell the whole guys accountable. And
Speaker 11: this is not acceptable in the league.
Speaker 5: And I don't want to skip our next callar Troy
Speaker 5: and Philly is on talking Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Troy, what's going on?
Speaker 16: Hey guys, what's happening?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 3: So what's on your mind?
Speaker 16: I'm kind of right what you guys are so sounded
Speaker 16: like the last caller was there. Hopefully I don't repeat
Speaker 16: anything that they said. I got it as much as
Speaker 16: a change me.
Speaker 12: Man.
Speaker 16: I'm out on dak Man. I am I live in Philadelphia, like,
Speaker 16: this is getting way, way, way too hard to send.
Speaker 16: I've descended this guy to know in I mean, I
Speaker 16: can't even tell I can tell you a couple of things.
Speaker 16: I can't say all of them. I've heard whack Presscott,
Speaker 16: slack Presscott. I mean, they're just a couple of that
Speaker 16: can say on air in Philadelphia. This is just getting
Speaker 16: too hard to defend. I'll give you one moment they
Speaker 16: told me everything about who Dak Prescott is. Fifty one
Speaker 16: seconds on your twenty, Well, I think the first you
Speaker 16: guys had to play play sheet. I think the first
Speaker 16: the first play was an out route that didn't work out.
Speaker 16: The second play was a sack, and between Dak McCarthy
Speaker 16: Shotten Hammer on the wheel was they just gave up.
Speaker 16: We can't we can't move thebout ball on these guys.
Speaker 16: So it was twenty five seconds when Dak got sack,
Speaker 16: had two timeouts, they gave up. By contrast, I'll say
Speaker 16: this and now that you guys listened looking at the
Speaker 16: Eagles game, very similar to the situation. The Eagles get
Speaker 16: the ball right before the half thirty two seconds on
Speaker 16: their thirty thirty five yard line, score a touchdown, I'm
Speaker 16: out on this guy. Man, I'm tired of defending that.
Speaker 16: I hang up and listen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I appreciate the call, Troy, and you can hear
Speaker 5: the pain in his voice and saying that you can
Speaker 5: really do.
Speaker 3: And honestly, I feel that I do. I'm not out
Speaker 3: on Dak Prescott. Let me let that be known. I
Speaker 3: am not out on Dak Prescott. But it is getting
Speaker 3: harder to offend Dak Prescott.
Speaker 5: If he's continuing, if it's starting to become more of
Speaker 5: the norm that this is a performance as opposed to
Speaker 5: the norm that it used to be his performances in
Speaker 5: twenty sixteen, twenty eighteen, and early in twenty twenty, early
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty one, that used to be the norm
Speaker 5: of Okay, if he had a bad game, it's.
Speaker 3: A bad game.
Speaker 1: We'll put it over.
Speaker 5: But John outlined it very well early. This is the
Speaker 5: third time in eight games that you could argue he's
Speaker 5: had his worst performance as an NFL quarterback.
Speaker 3: That's hard to defend.
Speaker 10: I'm glad this is the topic that was brought up
Speaker 10: because Almost brought it up with the last caller and Troy,
Speaker 10: I'm sorry, man, go get you a good Philly Cheese
Speaker 10: and sit in. This season just kind of settle in.
Speaker 10: But I had another opportunity to go back and watch
Speaker 10: yesterday obviously, and a lot of the criticism on DAK
Speaker 10: I've already kind of explained it both yesterday and early
Speaker 10: on in this show. I don't think it's time to
Speaker 10: necessarily start abandoning ship on DEK. If I'm Jerry Jones,
Speaker 10: if I'm Will McLay, I'm going to that scouting department
Speaker 10: and I'm saying, hey, well, let's let's start looking at
Speaker 10: early around quarterbacks, Like let's start let's let's see if
Speaker 10: we can find a guy in this year, next year,
Speaker 10: in the first or second round that can be ready
Speaker 10: if needed, because I don't feel like Trey Lance will
Speaker 10: be ready when needed, at least at this point. So
Speaker 10: I'm starting to plan for the immediate future rather than
Speaker 10: the distant future.
Speaker 3: That's never a bad thing either.
Speaker 5: Like Isaiah just said, quarterbacks, good quarterbacks don't grow on
Speaker 5: trees regardless. And there are teams that pick up quarterbacks
Speaker 5: like clockwork. I mean, they're picking up guys just here
Speaker 5: and there, just trying to see if one would work
Speaker 5: down at Lasco, San Francisco's are very good.
Speaker 11: Dallas did it too, And I know people are kind
Speaker 11: of like looking sideways at Tree Lance because of how
Speaker 11: unproductive he was in San Francisco. But every team's different,
Speaker 11: every organization is different, every situation is different. So they
Speaker 11: did a good job by going out there and acquiring
Speaker 11: a good talent.
Speaker 1: Now they just have to develop them.
Speaker 11: And none of us know right now where he stands
Speaker 11: right now in terms of his development in this system.
Speaker 10: If anybody lot of time, there's been a lot of
Speaker 10: time watching pregame workouts and over the course of the
Speaker 10: last few weeks, and there is improvement, but he's not
Speaker 10: gonna be ready. He's not gonna be ready. Yeah, I
Speaker 10: don't feel like he'd be ready even next season if needed.
Speaker 10: There's a reason why Cooper rushes the backup, and he's
Speaker 10: the solidified backup. But one more point on deck, to
Speaker 10: your point, I've always been a Dak defender, and to
Speaker 10: Troy's point, I've always defended him. I think since the
Speaker 10: day he stepped on the field in twenty sixteen preseason.
Speaker 10: It's like, man, I think he's built for this, but
Speaker 10: it is becoming harder to defend him. I can kind
Speaker 10: of feel my mindset starting to shift a little bit
Speaker 10: and stuff.
Speaker 9: The issue that I have with the Lance thing has
Speaker 9: nothing to do with Trey Lance. It just has to
Speaker 9: do with history. And there just isn't that was top five,
Speaker 9: top ten type quarterbacks that don't work out with the
Speaker 9: team that they're on go to another team and have success.
Speaker 9: There just isn't like and especially especially if we're comparing
Speaker 9: it to Dak to then go on and having a
Speaker 9: success that's even comparable to Dak Prescott. I'm talking about
Speaker 9: just even being like good or solid, much less being
Speaker 9: to a level where, oh no, this is the franchise quarterback.
Speaker 9: He's gonna be one of the highest paid a monkst
Speaker 9: But with the forty nine ers thing, and then you're
Speaker 9: saying about how difficult to find a quarterback, I mean,
Speaker 9: look at it's not like it's not like the the
Speaker 9: Eagles and Niners, two best teams in the NFC, have
Speaker 9: just found like the secret sauce. You swing and miss,
Speaker 9: but you gotta keep You gotta at least swing the bat.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yes, swing bag. I mean you got to look
Speaker 11: over to New York. They're paying and they've got forty
Speaker 11: million dollars to do what he's doing. I mean, so
Speaker 11: like people are desperate. Yeah, at that position, you're desperation.
Speaker 9: Kids get outside and seriously throw a dog on ball
Speaker 9: or kicking one of the two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one of the two. Yeah, there's not thirty two
Speaker 3: of them onfensive lineman too if you want. I mean,
Speaker 3: that's just a thought process, all right. I want to
Speaker 3: take our second break. Yeah, I don't know about that.
Speaker 5: Uh. I want to take our second break when we
Speaker 5: come back. We have a caller that's on the line.
Speaker 5: He owns my favorite call in Talking Cowboys history, and
Speaker 5: I want to I'm going to give him the floor
Speaker 5: because he's he's fantastic. I'll give that call whenever we
Speaker 5: come right back with more Talking Cowboys right after this.
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Speaker 5: all right. Last year, going into the Wildcard round. We
Speaker 5: got a phone call. It was from Jeff in Upper
Speaker 5: Marble Marlborough, Maryland. I can't say that, but Jeff and Maryland,
Speaker 5: and he presented a show some Faith plea to Dak Prescott. Jeff,
Speaker 5: is I believe a pastor? I'll get the clarification here
Speaker 5: in a second. Jeff, are you a pastor in Maryland?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, pastor's voice right there.
Speaker 3: Oh, it's fantastic.
Speaker 5: It was my favorite call of all time since I
Speaker 5: took over the show back in twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: I mean, Jeff, what you got this week? Because the
Speaker 3: show some Faith?
Speaker 5: It needs to be said again, I think from from
Speaker 5: some point along the way because there's a lot of
Speaker 5: people doubting this football team.
Speaker 6: Well, yeah, I understand why they would be doing that.
Speaker 6: I mean, I'm looking at the game myself very disappointed. However,
Speaker 6: everybody's covered that part. I know the time is short.
Speaker 6: So what I want to say is these guys need
Speaker 6: to be rebuilt from the inside out because their heads
Speaker 6: are going to be really filled with more and more
Speaker 6: doubt coming from everywhere, maybe even within their own locker room.
Speaker 6: Because they need to from my perspective, they need to
Speaker 6: reconnect with the one that made them in the first place,
Speaker 6: to have these skills, to have these gifts, and to
Speaker 6: have confidence that He has created them to play at
Speaker 6: a high level. If they're playing down to everybody else
Speaker 6: and playing under fear, they can't really rely on the
Speaker 6: fact that God has made them each unique and very
Speaker 6: effective in their position. So when they start losing sight
Speaker 6: of that, they'll they'll play at a low level and
Speaker 6: we'll see what we saw. Okay, we'll see what we saw.
Speaker 6: If I had a chance and I could, I don't know.
Speaker 6: I have a book that I wrote that may help
Speaker 6: them if they could reconnect with God who made them
Speaker 6: to be these very powerful, gifted players. And when you
Speaker 6: have that. When I talked to you last year, I
Speaker 6: talked about David. How did David go in through the
Speaker 6: fight with Goliath? He didn't go on there without God.
Speaker 6: He went in there with God, and God helped him
Speaker 6: overcome a giant. We're kind of like at that place again.
Speaker 6: Does that make sense?
Speaker 3: Definitely does?
Speaker 5: Jeff, thank you for the call as always, And Jeff
Speaker 5: even was at the Star last.
Speaker 1: Week and he sounds like my father in law.
Speaker 3: I love it, man, I love it. He does a
Speaker 3: great job.
Speaker 1: Absolutely.
Speaker 5: I mean there's a lot of a lot of things
Speaker 5: unpacked there for the most part, and I think basically
Speaker 5: the individuality of this team is going to get in
Speaker 5: the way if they don't start coming together and playing
Speaker 5: as a team. That's one thing that Jeff kind of
Speaker 5: pointed out there is take your individual gifts, use it
Speaker 5: in the right way. Brandon Cooks Seedy Lamb were the
Speaker 5: first ones that came to mind in that regard, both
Speaker 5: of which are frustrated at the moment. But it also
Speaker 5: it still comes back.
Speaker 3: Down to Dak Prescott and what he's able to do.
Speaker 3: But appreciate the call. Jeff.
Speaker 5: We have one more call before we get out of here.
Speaker 5: Sam and Philly is on the line. Sam, what's going on?
Speaker 18: Hey, yeah, you guys doing i'a try to be quick
Speaker 18: if I cam.
Speaker 1: But I don't know if I Kim sounds disappointed or.
Speaker 6: Dak.
Speaker 18: So my thing with Dak is like he was drafted
Speaker 18: in the fourth round. He was like, I don't know
Speaker 18: why everybody's surprised that he's not a good passer in
Speaker 18: the pocket. Like his his thing was his legs, to
Speaker 18: use his legs, and they got how.
Speaker 6: He got to the NFL.
Speaker 18: Well, he snapped his ankle and he doesn't do that anymore.
Speaker 18: So it's gonna be tough to get what you want
Speaker 18: to get out of Dak. My thing is, you got
Speaker 18: to eight years with the guy. Dude, like, how long
Speaker 18: are you gonna wait? It's like they need to start
Speaker 18: looking for a new quarterback.
Speaker 6: I know it's not.
Speaker 18: Really possible right now, so you kind of got like,
Speaker 18: what two years.
Speaker 6: Left with this dude.
Speaker 18: But I would seriously start looking for a new quarterback,
Speaker 18: and I'd have to be drunk to do this.
Speaker 6: Just hear me out.
Speaker 18: I would think about trading Parsons whoever has the first
Speaker 18: pick in the draft, and getting the best quarterback in
Speaker 18: the draft.
Speaker 12: I'll hang up and listen.
Speaker 16: To you, guys.
Speaker 3: You want to you want to address it.
Speaker 1: Thanks for the call.
Speaker 11: Sam is his name, mister Sam. I. I do not
Speaker 11: agree with your sentiments on a number a number of reasons.
Speaker 11: I'm not abandoning ship on DAK. What I am saying
Speaker 11: about Dak is know what you have, be realistic about
Speaker 11: what you have, and that's that's what you have to
Speaker 11: do at every position. Okay, know who you have and
Speaker 11: know what they're capable of. Know where they're struggling at
Speaker 11: and address them where they are, including Michael Parsons. So Dak,
Speaker 11: coach him up, coach him up. I don't give a
Speaker 11: Professionals need coaching too. That's why there's a thousand coaches
Speaker 11: on every coaching staff. Coach him up, right him, get
Speaker 11: him coached up on understand not only just a comprehension
Speaker 11: of coverages. I don't think that he doesn't know what
Speaker 11: these coverages are and even knows these coverages. But the
Speaker 11: decision making, Okay, run them through simulators. I don't care
Speaker 11: what you gotta do, right, but like program him to
Speaker 11: make the proper decisions. Dak doesn't have a problem throwing
Speaker 11: the ball. He could throw the ball.
Speaker 1: That ink was not.
Speaker 11: Bothering him anymore. He can be as accurate as you
Speaker 11: can be when necessary. Okay, but like put him in
Speaker 11: a situation be successful. And then on the Mica thing
Speaker 11: like you're yeah, you're did you drink?
Speaker 1: You know? He said you might have had to be
Speaker 1: drunk to do this, but had a couple. You're not
Speaker 1: millions he must have. He must be real high. Doesn't
Speaker 1: even the best quarterback in the pack.
Speaker 3: Michael Penix Junior. All right, now I mean say that,
Speaker 3: say quarterbacks pretty good too. Came from a carnate word.
Speaker 9: But but you you do understand that he Caleb Williams,
Speaker 9: will be the first pick of the draft.
Speaker 3: You do at least I don't care.
Speaker 9: About Okay, Okay, I'm just making he doesn't mean he's
Speaker 9: the best, Okay, just making sure.
Speaker 5: But either way, I'm not getting rid of Michael Parsons.
Speaker 5: I'm keeping him right here, and.
Speaker 3: It's going to be here for a lot.
Speaker 11: There's a lot of there's a lot of people abandoning,
Speaker 11: abandoning ship right now on deck.
Speaker 1: Don't do it. Don't do it.
Speaker 11: That is fully capable, but he does have to stop
Speaker 11: making bad decisions.
Speaker 10: I'm not abandoning ship, but I'm pulling out my binoculars
Speaker 10: and I'm looking for the shore line. I'm trying to
Speaker 10: maybe see if there's another ship that might be better.
Speaker 10: This ship might get me to the shore line, but
Speaker 10: I'm not one hundred percent sure that it will.
Speaker 1: But this is from from my standpoint.
Speaker 11: This shouldn't been the first time, because what you're seeing
Speaker 11: is what you what you've seen.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And like that was part of his point, is
Speaker 5: the fact that this is year eight longest tenured quarterback
Speaker 5: in the NFL.
Speaker 9: Yeah, and there's some belief that, Ay, the longer you're there,
Speaker 9: you know, they always say with quarterbacks, what are you
Speaker 9: going to show him that he hasn't seen? When you've
Speaker 9: played that many games and against God, against that many
Speaker 9: different defensive coordinators that teams, that you start to get
Speaker 9: to a point where you're like, oh, there's not anything
Speaker 9: that they're going to show him that he hasn't seen already,
Speaker 9: which is true, Which is true.
Speaker 1: He's not seeing complicated stuff. But he's just making bad decisions.
Speaker 3: So I'm saying, like, is it just playing hero ball?
Speaker 3: Is that what it is?
Speaker 1: I can't speak. That's why he can answer that, you know,
Speaker 1: but I don't know.
Speaker 3: They're not taking any chances.
Speaker 1: Yeah, true, this is this is bad decisions. So it's
Speaker 1: like stop, just stop. You you know what you see?
Speaker 11: Just stop, like understand what they're doing, Stop forcing stuff,
Speaker 11: make better decisions, put your team in positive perspective.
Speaker 1: When you it's just it's just frustrating.
Speaker 11: It's frustrated because there's so much work that goes into
Speaker 11: every week and I know he puts in his work too, right,
Speaker 11: And it's not just Dak again, like I'm bringing back
Speaker 11: it's not just Dak, a lot of us your quarterback,
Speaker 11: You're going to get a lot of the attention.
Speaker 1: But the decisions are bad, The decisions are matter. It's breakdowns.
Speaker 11: We talked about Tyl to be honest and like getting
Speaker 11: blocks with you know, the Hoffman is missing blocks on
Speaker 11: here as well. Pressure is getting in Dak's face. There's
Speaker 11: a whole lot of things that took place in the game,
Speaker 11: and a whole lot of people deserve blame. But that
Speaker 11: is a highly touted position that has a tremendous impact
Speaker 11: on the game, and when they make it this bad
Speaker 11: decision or a mistake, it affects everything. Much like a kicker.
Speaker 11: If a kicker makes one mistake, it affects everything. Right,
Speaker 11: So you just can't make those bad decisions because you
Speaker 11: don't get opportunities to get it back and against good teams.
Speaker 3: Speak of kicker.
Speaker 10: I don't want to jinx it, but Brandon Aubrey is
Speaker 10: four kicks away from time the NFL record for consecutive
Speaker 10: makes to start a career, and.
Speaker 9: I remember you predicted that when we talked about it
Speaker 9: as a training camp.
Speaker 3: Yeah, good job, well done, Nick, Well done. All right,
Speaker 3: That does it for us.
Speaker 1: Great calls, pretend that happened.
Speaker 5: Great calls Anthony and Seattle, Troy and Philly, my guy.
Speaker 3: Jeff and Marlborough, Maryland.
Speaker 10: You're in East text you say Marlborough.
Speaker 1: If you're from eastextas you.
Speaker 3: Say Marlborough, Marlborough, Marlborough, Red, Marlborough, Sam and Philly. All
Speaker 3: great calls. We had some great text messages too.
Speaker 1: I wish we could get to them all drinking. This
Speaker 1: is where.
Speaker 5: He was having a couple of those those Miller lights
Speaker 5: up there for Chris be Am, I saying stand back,
Speaker 5: John Machoda, Nick Harris and Kyle Yeomans.
Speaker 3: We will see you tomorrow.
Speaker 5: We're previewing the Dallas defense versus the Los Angeles offense
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