WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: No Sugarcoating It... 0:00:04.040 --> 0:00:06.560 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.600 --> 0:00:16.040 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:19.880 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:28.680 Star in Frisco. Elliot flowing to the Scott and now 0:00:28.760 --> 0:00:33.760 your hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips and 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:39.960 Kyle Yeoman's. It is a Monday edition of Talking Cowboys, 0:00:40.040 --> 0:00:43.440 presented by Toe Stido's, the official chip and the official 0:00:43.560 --> 0:00:46.479 dip of the Dallas Cowboys. Here from the Star in 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:51.000 Frisco in the s WBC studios, and we are breaking 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:54.640 down what was not the ideal Sunday at at and 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:59.640 T Stadium, Week nine of the NFL season. Ghost just 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:03.240 like that perfect timing from Chris Pane, because the Cowboys 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:06.440 did not score until four minutes and eight seconds left 0:01:06.480 --> 0:01:08.920 in the ball game. They were blanked thirty to nothing 0:01:08.959 --> 0:01:11.360 to start, tacked on a couple touchdowns late in the 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:15.319 final score against the once even five hundred four and 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:20.880 four Denver Broncos Denver thirty, Dallas sixteen, And I mean, 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:23.080 what else can you say about it? This was just 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:26.440 one of those weeks where nothing went your way. Heckma 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:28.760 was at the game. Rob was at the game, Isaiah 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:31.399 and I were in studio. But we'll start with Rob. 0:01:33.000 --> 0:01:35.240 Where does this one rank in terms of games where 0:01:35.240 --> 0:01:38.319 it was just one of those days as on a 0:01:38.400 --> 0:01:42.440 good Cowboys team. Yeah, I think Dak said it. I 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.040 think twenty eighteen when they got shut out in Indie 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.720 when they were rolling rolling after the Amari Cooper trade. 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:50.880 That's the closest thing I can remember to a just 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:54.240 a drop in momentum. Like I said it last week, 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:58.840 the Vikings win in Minnesota was the best win of 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:01.080 the McCarthy era. Then you around and have this. I 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.320 just want to share a few words slash phrases from 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:09.480 last night's postgame thumped, whooped, out, hit out, physical, punched 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:13.120 in the face, embarrassing, the last one from Mike McCarthy, 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:16.560 outplayed and outcoached. It sounds like a match with the Undertaker. 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:20.280 You know you did there? Yeah, yeah, the other Taker 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:23.080 was there and Rob Phillips got to interview the Undertakers. 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:26.320 Best part of the day by far, by far. Yeah, 0:02:26.800 --> 0:02:28.440 by far, is a good day and a great day 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:32.000 to you know, to honor the our armed forces as well. Yeah, 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:36.960 but after kickoff, man was not funning, would you think, 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:40.120 he man, it looked like one of those games where 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.359 everything was out of sorts from the beginning. I mean, 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.680 from the beginning, the vibes were just off and uh, 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:48.560 you know, I want to you know, you do you 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:51.560 talk about the words out hit, outcoached. Embarrassing is the 0:02:51.600 --> 0:02:53.680 other word that I heard, because you you hear. You 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:56.080 know this. This team knows that they're better than the 0:02:56.120 --> 0:02:58.880 performance that they put up. And everyone has been asking 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:00.880 when is that let down game gonna come? When are 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:05.320 we gonna have that roadblock? And unfortunate, well, fortunately for us, 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:09.080 we got it at home and it was embarrassing and 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:10.880 it was that kind of butt whipping that I think 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:12.560 you can remember. I mean, I don't know if you 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:14.560 guys have ever lost a fight in your life, but 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:18.560 if you, if you ever, I mean look at me. Yeah, 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:22.880 Rob's undefeated and fights. Well, look, it's something to be 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:25.800 learned from getting your butt whoop, you know, And sometimes 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:28.400 it's a humbling experience. And I just feel like, look, man, 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.600 we got that humbling experience. And you saw guys take 0:03:31.639 --> 0:03:35.800 the podium and they looked humbled by the experience that 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:38.600 they had. In credit credit the Denver Broncos and what 0:03:38.640 --> 0:03:41.240 they did because defensively, they showed up ready to go. 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:44.400 They didn't have whatever the mountain time that they came from, 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:47.880 they didn't affect them because they were right all the 0:03:47.920 --> 0:03:51.720 time when they got here, and defensively and offensively they 0:03:51.720 --> 0:03:53.800 were clicking on all cylinders. There was a few names 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:55.760 we didn't even talk about, but I'm sure we'll get 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:58.560 into and dissect here in just a minute. Yeah, we 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:01.440 sat here all week in Gas passed up Dallas. We 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:03.680 sat up here all we can. Talked about the matchups, 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:08.000 the advantages that we had offensively, defensively, how our receivers 0:04:08.040 --> 0:04:10.280 can destroy their secondary even though that was the strongest 0:04:10.320 --> 0:04:13.440 part of their of their team. We also talked about 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:16.159 some of the dangers, the number one danger being that 0:04:16.680 --> 0:04:21.159 even though on paper, even though historically based upon this season, 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:23.600 we're a better team than them, that you still have 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:25.920 to show up. We said that, We said you still 0:04:25.920 --> 0:04:27.400 have to show up and you still have to play. 0:04:27.440 --> 0:04:29.760 You have to respect them simply because these guys are 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:32.080 professionals at what they do, too, right, and if you 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.919 choose not to show up, you will get popped in 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:38.800 your mouth, right or black. My mom says, my kids, right, 0:04:38.880 --> 0:04:42.320 her grandkids, don't make me spank that pal pal. Right, 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:45.560 the Cowboys got their pal pals faked all right, because 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.360 they chose not to show up. And it was very apparent, 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:51.719 it was very obvious in that game that from the 0:04:51.800 --> 0:04:54.839 snap of the ball, they weren't there. They weren't there. 0:04:54.960 --> 0:04:56.640 I don't know now, we don't know why. We don't 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:58.599 know if they just thought that they were gonna show 0:04:58.640 --> 0:05:00.640 up and Cadillac through it. We don't if they showed 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:02.920 up and they were just out of sorts. We really 0:05:02.960 --> 0:05:05.839 have no idea. But I do know that in all 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:10.440 aspects of the game, set for maybe special teams. Actually, 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:15.000 he said, those guys didn't show up. Offense, Dak looked bad. 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:17.480 Let's just call it how it is. People can yell 0:05:17.520 --> 0:05:19.240 at me all day long. Dak looked bad, and I'm 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:20.960 sure he would stand behind here and say the same thing. 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:26.039 His mechanics were off, his accuracy was off. But on 0:05:26.080 --> 0:05:28.760 the other side of that offensive line did not help 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.640 the matters right. Officsive line looked like trash right at 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:35.360 both tackles and interior. Wise, those guys running stunts in 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.039 which created a lot of open seams. For their second, second, 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:39.839 and third level defenders to be able to put pressure 0:05:39.839 --> 0:05:42.520 on dec as well our receivers when the ball did 0:05:42.520 --> 0:05:45.960 get to our receivers, drop balls on third downs, huge 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:49.600 huge plays, right dropped opportunities. So offensively, it was it 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:52.560 was trash. Defensively, we talked about the one thing that 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:54.200 the one area that we can that we can get 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.480 hurt was wearing in the running game. Even though we 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:58.680 didn't really respect these backs, we had to respect the 0:05:58.680 --> 0:06:01.040 fact that these guys have a good running scheme right 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.000 this zone, the zone offense. I alluded to the old 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.839 school Terrell Davis days where you had to be aware 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.320 of what these guys do because of that scheme. Well 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:12.160 guess what they did that, right, they did that and 0:06:12.200 --> 0:06:14.880 our guys they switched that up. They went from zone 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:16.920 they I mean, they changed a lot of what we 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.919 had seen throughout the week from running the ball in 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:23.160 the zone since, like you said, stretching U and they man, 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:24.880 they had some counters going, They had a lot of 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:26.920 different things that whatever they wanted on the ground. Well, 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:28.600 but then you know, I was talking to Pee before 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:30.120 we got in here, and it just seemed like in 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:33.360 the first half defensively, I guys just just weren't getting set, 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:34.640 you know. I don't know if they were waiting on 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.400 the call or what it was. But once Teddy Bridgewater 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.279 went with a quicker up tempo, you saw guys still 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:42.680 standing around the line of scrimmage while the Denver Broncos 0:06:42.720 --> 0:06:44.360 were already set. So I don't know if those things 0:06:44.360 --> 0:06:48.640 were a part of us not being off a little bit, 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:50.600 but those just things that were happening in doing the game. 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:52.960 That was one of the first times, at least dating 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:55.000 back to the opening week of the season, where I 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:57.600 looked at the defense and said, they don't necessarily know 0:06:57.640 --> 0:06:59.560 what's going on. I mean, there's a lot of different 0:06:59.560 --> 0:07:01.960 confusing jin looks. I mean, deer in the headlights on 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:05.360 multiple occasions throughout. So that kind of brings me back 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:07.920 to it to what you were saying earlier, because I mean, 0:07:07.960 --> 0:07:10.920 the Denver Broncos did their job of switching things up 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.040 on film and then executing the adjustments that they made. 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:16.920 Dallas stayed stagnant and it seemed like they didn't have 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:20.000 any adjustment along the way. So were they out coached 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.160 in this game? And how severely were they outcoached in 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:25.160 the game? It's hard to say from from a viewer's perspective, 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:27.400 is really hard to say that you're outcoached. I do 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.400 know we can point out and say, hey, you know, 0:07:30.480 --> 0:07:32.600 we were inaccurate, Hey we didn't block all these kind 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:37.240 of executions defensively. They were hesitant as all get out. 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:39.440 We've been talking about how fast and physical our team 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.240 has been all year long, and then all of a sudden, 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:43.200 you see, I pointed out multiple times during the game 0:07:43.240 --> 0:07:46.120 where because he was sitting back there, just waiting for 0:07:46.240 --> 0:07:48.200 the for the guy to turn around to a three 0:07:48.440 --> 0:07:50.480 sixty and everything, he's still sitting there. Well, I'm like, bro, 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.120 can we go hit somebody? Even Micah Mica as well 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:55.000 as he as well as he played sideline the sideline, 0:07:55.040 --> 0:07:56.760 there were still some plays where he was he was hesitant. 0:07:56.920 --> 0:07:58.640 So there was a lot of I'm just pointing out 0:07:58.640 --> 0:07:59.920 those two guys. It was the first two to pop 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.520 my head. There's a lot more than that, but guys 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:04.800 were hesitant and to that point, were they thinking too 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:07.560 much or were they just out of it? We don't know, right, 0:08:07.560 --> 0:08:10.200 but what we do know is that it equaled that. Yeah, 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.080 I was gonna ask you about Kean O'Neill. Also, you 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:15.440 saw those situations. It wasn't good, you know, it really 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.520 wasn't And I saw down on the goal line where 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:19.520 Luke Gifford was in the game. On the goal line, 0:08:20.040 --> 0:08:22.360 I don't know, but he was in the game. He 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:26.280 was in the game, and number ninety nine Hamilton justin 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.800 Hamilton's you know done, Terry Poe is gone, you know, 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.880 but I'm telling you he reminded me. It reminded me, 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:34.120 no doubt when I've seen him and getting thrown around 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.400 my bro Now, that's that wasn't good. And I think 0:08:36.480 --> 0:08:40.360 upfront physically, that was where some of the problems were started. 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.320 I just look, I think what was more frustrating than anything, 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:47.040 it's just seeing the Broncos in situations like was it 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:50.720 second and seventeen and then they get a fifteen fourteen 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:54.320 yard pick up and we have situations where we can 0:08:54.400 --> 0:08:57.040 get the ball back. It just nothing was going our 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.520 way at all, and he goes even from the punk 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:03.840 locker good even did a bump block, right, So that 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:06.880 was that was the hurt. Yeah, did that hurt? Hurt? 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:08.920 And have you seen that? And I've seen it before, 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:10.319 but have you been a part of a game, you 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:12.200 see something like that. We're in a studio and Barry 0:09:12.240 --> 0:09:14.040 and I were actually up in arms about it, really 0:09:14.040 --> 0:09:15.920 going back and forth about, Hey, what the heck is 0:09:15.960 --> 0:09:18.240 a ruling on this, because in our head, if the 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.840 Cowboys never possessed a ball, it should have never been 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:23.440 a change of possession. But this is a funky rule, So, 0:09:23.480 --> 0:09:26.840 I mean, it's rules. It's a different word than funky. 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:29.200 If it's not possessed by the player, even if it's 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:31.600 half of the line of scrimmagery, why is it eternal? 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:33.720 It's dumb and they need to look at it because 0:09:33.720 --> 0:09:35.800 I think you should have possession of the ball and 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:38.680 then lose. It didn't to be a muff and a fumble, correct. 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.200 Mike McCarthy didn't shy away. He said, we know the rule, 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.560 and Sean Right apparently knows the rule. It was an 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:46.440 instinct thing, yep. You know, if you see the ball, 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:48.040 go get the ball. See ball, get ball. Yeah. And 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:52.520 so he's a young player, and young players make those mistakes. 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:55.199 The one thing about that rule, that mistake, Yeah, I 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:58.920 mean I think anybody will can't. You can't fault in 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:00.920 a Sean Right, a rookie trying to make a play 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:03.240 on special sees the ball, He's like, yeah, let's you'll 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:05.400 get it and have it. When he did that, it 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:06.880 made me think about a play that I had a 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:08.800 bad everybody think. I don't know if everybody has a 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:11.640 bad play. But we're playing against Philadelphia Eagles with the 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:15.320 old old Cowboys stadium and the dog one kicker kicked 0:10:15.320 --> 0:10:18.000 the ball a little squip kick, little joint um, little curball, 0:10:18.000 --> 0:10:19.560 and they dropped out and I came out to get 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:21.600 it from the kickoff return position and it hit my 0:10:21.640 --> 0:10:23.839 hands and the dove right out underneath me. So it 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.160 hit my hands and went into the end zone. Instinctively, 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:29.080 what is what are you thinking? Crap? I touched the ball, right, 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:30.960 I gotta go get this thing and win. Got it 0:10:31.000 --> 0:10:32.760 and we got tackled inside like the one yard line. 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:37.040 Next play, Romo gets fumble for a touchdown. It was bad, right, 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:38.439 and I like, in my head, I'm like, dude, I 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:40.320 just screwed this whole thing up. And but the rule 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.880 said as long as the momentimum of the ball keeps going, 0:10:42.960 --> 0:10:44.480 I could have downed it in the end zone. But 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:47.680 to your point, instinctively, I gotta go do this right now. 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.560 So it's hard to fault nashan split second. Yea split 0:10:50.600 --> 0:10:53.800 second decision. Maybe in March at the owner's meetings, you know, 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.160 maybe maybe it'll be discussed and changed, I mean on 0:10:56.960 --> 0:10:59.920 the competition committee. So yeah, hey, maybe circle that one. 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.160 Come back to it. But whenever you're on offense and 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.960 a ball is fumbled and a defender touches the football, 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:10.120 even if it's bouncing forward, that's not an automatic change 0:11:10.120 --> 0:11:12.480 of possessionist. Now, if the defender picks it up, that 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.440 holds it, makes a football move, that's different. Then he 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:18.719 fumbles it again, that's a change of possession. No such things. 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:20.800 So why is that rule in special teams? And not 0:11:20.840 --> 0:11:23.320 necessarily got to ask Chris Beam about that. Man. Chris 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:26.120 Beam was the punt return specialist. He's the guy that 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:31.560 yelled Peter, Peter, so get away. He's the Peter guy. 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:35.560 I do believe that I had that. Now, for those 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:37.679 that have been on really good teams, right, if you've 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.080 been on a really good team before, you've all everybody 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:41.760 has had a game, right. I could think back to 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:43.520 a basketball game back in high school where we were 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:45.480 getting destroyed by this team that should not have been 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:47.360 beating us, and then we finally at half time, we're like, 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:49.160 you're all ready to play, all right, let's go play, 0:11:49.240 --> 0:11:50.920 and we just came back and took over the game. 0:11:51.480 --> 0:11:53.360 I felt like, this is the same instance, right, these 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:55.520 guys were getting beat by a team that we shouldn't 0:11:55.520 --> 0:11:57.600 be getting beat by. The game was still close as 0:11:57.640 --> 0:11:59.679 a two possession game, and we're going to have and 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:01.679 guys are like, you're ready to play, Yeah, all right, 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:03.400 let's go. Let's go make some place. And then what happens. 0:12:03.440 --> 0:12:05.640 We come out boom blocked the punt and then we 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:07.880 don't get gotta get the battle inside the thirty. But 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.160 I feel like if that would have went our way, 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:12.120 I think we were sit here talking about a victory, 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:20.120 maybe because because I agree with him. Maybe they've been 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:25.120 a second half team all year. What side it was, well, 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:30.360 they missed so many opportunities, and especially offensively because because 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:33.240 Dak was off. There's no doubt about it. Can't sugarcoat it. 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:37.199 But they've been outscoring. I looked it up. First seven games. 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:39.360 They outscored teams by a total fifty one points. They've 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.400 been a second half team. But I think Mike Michael 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:44.480 Strahan said at halftime when a team is running on 0:12:44.520 --> 0:12:48.040 you like this, Yeah, it's hard to come out and 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.800 adjust to that. Yeah, And that was a problem all 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:54.920 year long last year, the run defense, and I brought 0:12:54.920 --> 0:12:59.240 it up around bye week time. The Pats tested them, yep, 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.680 and there were there were there were cracks there. Now, 0:13:01.880 --> 0:13:04.800 give them credit against Minnesota, they stood up strong against 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:08.520 Dalvin Cook, but you know that this is the first 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:10.880 time they really a team, really pounded it, and they 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:12.920 really had and it changed the course of the game. 0:13:12.960 --> 0:13:16.880 It really did. I think with the block punts, because 0:13:16.880 --> 0:13:19.200 I agree with you completely, time of possession was dominated 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:21.440 by Denver, and I think that would have continued minutes 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:24.560 forty one minutes on offensive I mean that that would 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:26.760 continue whether or not you converted on the block punt. 0:13:26.840 --> 0:13:30.000 But you're talking about offensive momentum because if you get 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:32.199 the ball inside the thirty. I'd have to go back 0:13:32.240 --> 0:13:34.439 and chart this. But how many times did Dallas even 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:37.600 have the ball inside the Denver thirty until the fourth quarter? 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:41.440 Probably not at all. Even in the first two drives 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:43.160 of the game when they went forward on fourth down 0:13:43.200 --> 0:13:45.640 and they could have kicked the field goals, well, they 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:47.880 didn't get into the red zone until the last two 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:50.720 if you want to call them guard all the time touchdowns, 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:54.040 So that could have jumped started the offense having the 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:57.679 ball there, converting going and finding paid and then you 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.280 find your your rhythm later on and made you can 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.240 win that. I mean, it's it's all speculation, right, It's 0:14:02.240 --> 0:14:04.520 all speculation. It's all what if. But having been a 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.360 part of teams like that in the past, it's it 0:14:07.480 --> 0:14:10.160 sounds really bad, but it's really a light switch. It's 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:11.880 the same reason why I think Kansas City is about 0:14:11.920 --> 0:14:13.200 to turn it on. And I hope they don't turn 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.440 it on until after us, But I feel like Kenna 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:16.800 City is about to hit that light switch. But you 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.160 just know what they're capable of, and it takes one 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:21.880 little mojo moment. It takes one mojo moment and all 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:23.320 of a sudden, it's all right, let's go ball. You 0:14:23.360 --> 0:14:26.320 think part of that factored into their thinking of going 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.760 for it twice on fourth and short early in the game. 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:31.440 They have so much confidence in their offense and quite frankly, 0:14:31.480 --> 0:14:33.240 confidence in their defense, say if we don't get it, 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.720 we'll get it back. Yeah, exactly, That's that's exactly why. 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.000 I mean, you feel like you're like you're just that good, 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.160 and again you need it. You need to the Heck's point, 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:41.720 you need to get checked in the chin, right, You 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:43.400 rather get checked in your chin early on in the 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:46.640 season versus this happening later on and you're not recognizing 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:48.680 how to respond to it. So I'm glad. I'm glad 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:52.560 it happened early. If it was going to happen, yeah, 0:14:52.600 --> 0:14:55.680 we'll be all right. Yeah, confidence and arrogance are twins. 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.440 And then similar situations and that those fourth downs, and 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:01.480 I know, this old school way of thinking about whether 0:15:01.600 --> 0:15:03.400 go forward or not. I just felt like there were 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:05.720 certain points where you didn't have any rhythm at all, 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:10.160 and those fourth those going forward on fourth downs cost you. Yeah, 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:14.640 and four Jesus. So that not only that and the 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:17.240 time of the time possession like you pointed out, but 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:20.160 you know, the momentum part of it. I mean, even 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:23.680 from the start with Tony Pollard's kickoff, and that would 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:25.120 to me it's like, oh, Mann, we came out, were 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:27.040 ready to go, and then you go, you know, three 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:30.440 and out with four and out him on the first play. Yep, 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:35.320 That's what I'm saying exactly. And so, uh, there's Carlos Watkins, 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:37.280 you know, got that got that sack. And there's just 0:15:37.320 --> 0:15:39.800 so many things that's happening throughout the game that even 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:42.880 the momentum aspect of it, we were not as up 0:15:42.920 --> 0:15:46.480 against the ropes as it seemed. But once Javante Williams 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:51.360 started pounding, pounding, pounding, it just it made it where like, Okay, 0:15:51.440 --> 0:15:53.680 there's nothing we can obviously do to get back in 0:15:53.760 --> 0:15:58.240 this game. And Teddy Bridgewater man, look Teddy p Man. 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:02.560 It loved Tko if y'all know, yea anyway anyway, but anyway, 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:04.600 but he just he just found all the open receivers 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:06.360 and he did a lot of good work yesterday. You know. 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:08.200 One one part of the game that I highlighted, I 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:10.520 was like, who big question mark was on the punt, 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.880 the muff punt, the muff punt, whether it was says, yeah, 0:16:14.000 --> 0:16:16.560 that one that was tough, wasn't it? Man? Yeah, that's 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.560 the momentum killer. I was like, right through it could 0:16:19.600 --> 0:16:22.200 have been really bad, really bad that point it would 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:23.960 have just added to but like it's little things like 0:16:24.040 --> 0:16:25.880 that hadn't gone downhill at that point. At that point, 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:28.040 it hadn't gone downhill. I mean, but it allows these 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:29.920 those negative thoughts to kind of come in your head. 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.120 I mean, again, a lot of this stuff sounds really bad, 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.400 but this is the reality. Sorry. People. It allows those 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:36.320 negative thoughts to come in your head and then guess what, 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:38.640 Then something negative actually happens. You're like, oh, we rather 0:16:38.680 --> 0:16:41.000 have one of those days like a drop. Yeah, yeah, 0:16:41.040 --> 0:16:43.240 a couple of those, couple of couple of those. You 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:45.600 can say bad ball, but yeah, Cooper's right therapy dog 0:16:45.640 --> 0:16:49.880 and he's right there and below the belt. But you know, 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:51.280 you still got to bring those in. So there's a 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.880 lot of everybody in every Seemingly everybody had their part 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.800 and it wasn't just like oh this one guy. Everybody 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.200 had a part. So that's what that's what makes games 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:02.400 like this very important. And actually these games games can 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:04.200 bring you together. Games like this can bring you together 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:05.600 because you can't go in the locker room and say, man, 0:17:05.680 --> 0:17:07.639 he was tripping, Man, heck didn't ball out. You say, hey, 0:17:07.720 --> 0:17:10.200 all we all saw, we all saw. Let's figure this 0:17:10.280 --> 0:17:12.680 thing out. Yeah, I was thinking about that this morning. 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:15.080 Like in the NBA, you play eighty two games and 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:18.480 you have a crappy game like that, you burn you 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:20.280 just say forget it. We're not even gonna watch the film. 0:17:21.040 --> 0:17:22.600 You only get seventeen of these, and you have a 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:26.719 young team, a very young team that, like jay Ron 0:17:26.800 --> 0:17:28.480 Curse said, this is not gonna be a fun film watch, 0:17:28.560 --> 0:17:30.240 but we gotta watch it. We gotta see what we 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:33.080 did wrong because you're halfway through the season and you 0:17:33.119 --> 0:17:35.000 can chalk it up to just a bad game. But 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:36.760 halfway through the year, this is where teams start to 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:38.600 make adjustments and start to get a read on what 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.880 you like to do, and so this is very important 0:17:42.040 --> 0:17:43.959 to see how they respond coming out of this. Hey, 0:17:44.040 --> 0:17:46.439 Cordello Patterson, he's not gonna look at it and say, oh, 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:47.879 that was just a bad game. He's gonna be like, 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:53.080 huh yeah, take my notes. He's right here. Everybody else 0:17:53.080 --> 0:17:54.480 isn't gonna chalk it up as a bad game. So 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:55.920 if you want to chalk it up as a bad game, 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:58.359 sorry for you. Well, you know, these guys have to 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:01.680 go back and evaluate. Yeah, that's just important for them 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.000 as how young they are in the culture that we've 0:18:04.040 --> 0:18:07.600 been talking about. And you're right, man, there's so many 0:18:07.680 --> 0:18:10.200 teams that would have just say, let's not even watch 0:18:10.320 --> 0:18:12.960 this beccause that wasn't US. I think for a young team, 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:14.800 you have to go back and you have to dissect 0:18:14.840 --> 0:18:17.320 this and say what happened here? Even the coaches, I'm 0:18:17.320 --> 0:18:19.840 sure last night they were here. They're still here, you 0:18:19.960 --> 0:18:23.159 know from watching the game last night, but dissecting what 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:26.560 did we act? What happened? Right? And I think everybody 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:28.440 has to just take a step back from this and 0:18:28.560 --> 0:18:31.480 just say, man, we were off, but we cannot show 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:33.879 up again like that. You cannot let it affect you 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:36.840 going forward. Nope, you gotta put it in your review mirror, 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:39.440 learn from it. I mean, in the grand scheme of things. 0:18:39.680 --> 0:18:42.680