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Speaker 1: down what was not the ideal Sunday at at and
Speaker 1: T Stadium, Week nine of the NFL season. Ghost just
Speaker 1: like that perfect timing from Chris Pane, because the Cowboys
Speaker 1: did not score until four minutes and eight seconds left
Speaker 1: in the ball game. They were blanked thirty to nothing
Speaker 1: to start, tacked on a couple touchdowns late in the
Speaker 1: final score against the once even five hundred four and
Speaker 1: four Denver Broncos Denver thirty, Dallas sixteen, And I mean,
Speaker 1: what else can you say about it? This was just
Speaker 1: one of those weeks where nothing went your way. Heckma
Speaker 1: was at the game. Rob was at the game, Isaiah
Speaker 1: and I were in studio. But we'll start with Rob.
Speaker 1: Where does this one rank in terms of games where
Speaker 1: it was just one of those days as on a
Speaker 1: good Cowboys team. Yeah, I think Dak said it. I
Speaker 1: think twenty eighteen when they got shut out in Indie
Speaker 1: when they were rolling rolling after the Amari Cooper trade.
Speaker 1: That's the closest thing I can remember to a just
Speaker 1: a drop in momentum. Like I said it last week,
Speaker 1: the Vikings win in Minnesota was the best win of
Speaker 1: the McCarthy era. Then you around and have this. I
Speaker 1: just want to share a few words slash phrases from
Speaker 1: last night's postgame thumped, whooped, out, hit out, physical, punched
Speaker 1: in the face, embarrassing, the last one from Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 1: outplayed and outcoached. It sounds like a match with the Undertaker.
Speaker 1: You know you did there? Yeah, yeah, the other Taker
Speaker 1: was there and Rob Phillips got to interview the Undertakers.
Speaker 1: Best part of the day by far, by far. Yeah,
Speaker 1: by far, is a good day and a great day
Speaker 1: to you know, to honor the our armed forces as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but after kickoff, man was not funning, would you think,
Speaker 1: he man, it looked like one of those games where
Speaker 1: everything was out of sorts from the beginning. I mean,
Speaker 1: from the beginning, the vibes were just off and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I want to you know, you do you
Speaker 1: talk about the words out hit, outcoached. Embarrassing is the
Speaker 1: other word that I heard, because you you hear. You
Speaker 1: know this. This team knows that they're better than the
Speaker 1: performance that they put up. And everyone has been asking
Speaker 1: when is that let down game gonna come? When are
Speaker 1: we gonna have that roadblock? And unfortunate, well, fortunately for us,
Speaker 1: we got it at home and it was embarrassing and
Speaker 1: it was that kind of butt whipping that I think
Speaker 1: you can remember. I mean, I don't know if you
Speaker 1: guys have ever lost a fight in your life, but
Speaker 1: if you, if you ever, I mean look at me. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Rob's undefeated and fights. Well, look, it's something to be
Speaker 1: learned from getting your butt whoop, you know, And sometimes
Speaker 1: it's a humbling experience. And I just feel like, look, man,
Speaker 1: we got that humbling experience. And you saw guys take
Speaker 1: the podium and they looked humbled by the experience that
Speaker 1: they had. In credit credit the Denver Broncos and what
Speaker 1: they did because defensively, they showed up ready to go.
Speaker 1: They didn't have whatever the mountain time that they came from,
Speaker 1: they didn't affect them because they were right all the
Speaker 1: time when they got here, and defensively and offensively they
Speaker 1: were clicking on all cylinders. There was a few names
Speaker 1: we didn't even talk about, but I'm sure we'll get
Speaker 1: into and dissect here in just a minute. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: sat here all week in Gas passed up Dallas. We
Speaker 1: sat up here all we can. Talked about the matchups,
Speaker 1: the advantages that we had offensively, defensively, how our receivers
Speaker 1: can destroy their secondary even though that was the strongest
Speaker 1: part of their of their team. We also talked about
Speaker 1: some of the dangers, the number one danger being that
Speaker 1: even though on paper, even though historically based upon this season,
Speaker 1: we're a better team than them, that you still have
Speaker 1: to show up. We said that, We said you still
Speaker 1: have to show up and you still have to play.
Speaker 1: You have to respect them simply because these guys are
Speaker 1: professionals at what they do, too, right, and if you
Speaker 1: choose not to show up, you will get popped in
Speaker 1: your mouth, right or black. My mom says, my kids, right,
Speaker 1: her grandkids, don't make me spank that pal pal. Right,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys got their pal pals faked all right, because
Speaker 1: they chose not to show up. And it was very apparent,
Speaker 1: it was very obvious in that game that from the
Speaker 1: snap of the ball, they weren't there. They weren't there.
Speaker 1: I don't know now, we don't know why. We don't
Speaker 1: know if they just thought that they were gonna show
Speaker 1: up and Cadillac through it. We don't if they showed
Speaker 1: up and they were just out of sorts. We really
Speaker 1: have no idea. But I do know that in all
Speaker 1: aspects of the game, set for maybe special teams. Actually,
Speaker 1: he said, those guys didn't show up. Offense, Dak looked bad.
Speaker 1: Let's just call it how it is. People can yell
Speaker 1: at me all day long. Dak looked bad, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure he would stand behind here and say the same thing.
Speaker 1: His mechanics were off, his accuracy was off. But on
Speaker 1: the other side of that offensive line did not help
Speaker 1: the matters right. Officsive line looked like trash right at
Speaker 1: both tackles and interior. Wise, those guys running stunts in
Speaker 1: which created a lot of open seams. For their second, second,
Speaker 1: and third level defenders to be able to put pressure
Speaker 1: on dec as well our receivers when the ball did
Speaker 1: get to our receivers, drop balls on third downs, huge
Speaker 1: huge plays, right dropped opportunities. So offensively, it was it
Speaker 1: was trash. Defensively, we talked about the one thing that
Speaker 1: the one area that we can that we can get
Speaker 1: hurt was wearing in the running game. Even though we
Speaker 1: didn't really respect these backs, we had to respect the
Speaker 1: fact that these guys have a good running scheme right
Speaker 1: this zone, the zone offense. I alluded to the old
Speaker 1: school Terrell Davis days where you had to be aware
Speaker 1: of what these guys do because of that scheme. Well
Speaker 1: guess what they did that, right, they did that and
Speaker 1: our guys they switched that up. They went from zone
Speaker 1: they I mean, they changed a lot of what we
Speaker 1: had seen throughout the week from running the ball in
Speaker 1: the zone since, like you said, stretching U and they man,
Speaker 1: they had some counters going, They had a lot of
Speaker 1: different things that whatever they wanted on the ground. Well,
Speaker 1: but then you know, I was talking to Pee before
Speaker 1: we got in here, and it just seemed like in
Speaker 1: the first half defensively, I guys just just weren't getting set,
Speaker 1: you know. I don't know if they were waiting on
Speaker 1: the call or what it was. But once Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: went with a quicker up tempo, you saw guys still
Speaker 1: standing around the line of scrimmage while the Denver Broncos
Speaker 1: were already set. So I don't know if those things
Speaker 1: were a part of us not being off a little bit,
Speaker 1: but those just things that were happening in doing the game.
Speaker 1: That was one of the first times, at least dating
Speaker 1: back to the opening week of the season, where I
Speaker 1: looked at the defense and said, they don't necessarily know
Speaker 1: what's going on. I mean, there's a lot of different
Speaker 1: confusing jin looks. I mean, deer in the headlights on
Speaker 1: multiple occasions throughout. So that kind of brings me back
Speaker 1: to it to what you were saying earlier, because I mean,
Speaker 1: the Denver Broncos did their job of switching things up
Speaker 1: on film and then executing the adjustments that they made.
Speaker 1: Dallas stayed stagnant and it seemed like they didn't have
Speaker 1: any adjustment along the way. So were they out coached
Speaker 1: in this game? And how severely were they outcoached in
Speaker 1: the game? It's hard to say from from a viewer's perspective,
Speaker 1: is really hard to say that you're outcoached. I do
Speaker 1: know we can point out and say, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: we were inaccurate, Hey we didn't block all these kind
Speaker 1: of executions defensively. They were hesitant as all get out.
Speaker 1: We've been talking about how fast and physical our team
Speaker 1: has been all year long, and then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you see, I pointed out multiple times during the game
Speaker 1: where because he was sitting back there, just waiting for
Speaker 1: the for the guy to turn around to a three
Speaker 1: sixty and everything, he's still sitting there. Well, I'm like, bro,
Speaker 1: can we go hit somebody? Even Micah Mica as well
Speaker 1: as he as well as he played sideline the sideline,
Speaker 1: there were still some plays where he was he was hesitant.
Speaker 1: So there was a lot of I'm just pointing out
Speaker 1: those two guys. It was the first two to pop
Speaker 1: my head. There's a lot more than that, but guys
Speaker 1: were hesitant and to that point, were they thinking too
Speaker 1: much or were they just out of it? We don't know, right,
Speaker 1: but what we do know is that it equaled that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was gonna ask you about Kean O'Neill. Also, you
Speaker 1: saw those situations. It wasn't good, you know, it really
Speaker 1: wasn't And I saw down on the goal line where
Speaker 1: Luke Gifford was in the game. On the goal line,
Speaker 1: I don't know, but he was in the game. He
Speaker 1: was in the game, and number ninety nine Hamilton justin
Speaker 1: Hamilton's you know done, Terry Poe is gone, you know,
Speaker 1: but I'm telling you he reminded me. It reminded me,
Speaker 1: no doubt when I've seen him and getting thrown around
Speaker 1: my bro Now, that's that wasn't good. And I think
Speaker 1: upfront physically, that was where some of the problems were started.
Speaker 1: I just look, I think what was more frustrating than anything,
Speaker 1: it's just seeing the Broncos in situations like was it
Speaker 1: second and seventeen and then they get a fifteen fourteen
Speaker 1: yard pick up and we have situations where we can
Speaker 1: get the ball back. It just nothing was going our
Speaker 1: way at all, and he goes even from the punk
Speaker 1: locker good even did a bump block, right, So that
Speaker 1: was that was the hurt. Yeah, did that hurt? Hurt?
Speaker 1: And have you seen that? And I've seen it before,
Speaker 1: but have you been a part of a game, you
Speaker 1: see something like that. We're in a studio and Barry
Speaker 1: and I were actually up in arms about it, really
Speaker 1: going back and forth about, Hey, what the heck is
Speaker 1: a ruling on this, because in our head, if the
Speaker 1: Cowboys never possessed a ball, it should have never been
Speaker 1: a change of possession. But this is a funky rule, So,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's rules. It's a different word than funky.
Speaker 1: If it's not possessed by the player, even if it's
Speaker 1: half of the line of scrimmagery, why is it eternal?
Speaker 1: It's dumb and they need to look at it because
Speaker 1: I think you should have possession of the ball and
Speaker 1: then lose. It didn't to be a muff and a fumble, correct.
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy didn't shy away. He said, we know the rule,
Speaker 1: and Sean Right apparently knows the rule. It was an
Speaker 1: instinct thing, yep. You know, if you see the ball,
Speaker 1: go get the ball. See ball, get ball. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: so he's a young player, and young players make those mistakes.
Speaker 1: The one thing about that rule, that mistake, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I think anybody will can't. You can't fault in
Speaker 1: a Sean Right, a rookie trying to make a play
Speaker 1: on special sees the ball, He's like, yeah, let's you'll
Speaker 1: get it and have it. When he did that, it
Speaker 1: made me think about a play that I had a
Speaker 1: bad everybody think. I don't know if everybody has a
Speaker 1: bad play. But we're playing against Philadelphia Eagles with the
Speaker 1: old old Cowboys stadium and the dog one kicker kicked
Speaker 1: the ball a little squip kick, little joint um, little curball,
Speaker 1: and they dropped out and I came out to get
Speaker 1: it from the kickoff return position and it hit my
Speaker 1: hands and the dove right out underneath me. So it
Speaker 1: hit my hands and went into the end zone. Instinctively,
Speaker 1: what is what are you thinking? Crap? I touched the ball, right,
Speaker 1: I gotta go get this thing and win. Got it
Speaker 1: and we got tackled inside like the one yard line.
Speaker 1: Next play, Romo gets fumble for a touchdown. It was bad, right,
Speaker 1: and I like, in my head, I'm like, dude, I
Speaker 1: just screwed this whole thing up. And but the rule
Speaker 1: said as long as the momentimum of the ball keeps going,
Speaker 1: I could have downed it in the end zone. But
Speaker 1: to your point, instinctively, I gotta go do this right now.
Speaker 1: So it's hard to fault nashan split second. Yea split
Speaker 1: second decision. Maybe in March at the owner's meetings, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe it'll be discussed and changed, I mean on
Speaker 1: the competition committee. So yeah, hey, maybe circle that one.
Speaker 1: Come back to it. But whenever you're on offense and
Speaker 1: a ball is fumbled and a defender touches the football,
Speaker 1: even if it's bouncing forward, that's not an automatic change
Speaker 1: of possessionist. Now, if the defender picks it up, that
Speaker 1: holds it, makes a football move, that's different. Then he
Speaker 1: fumbles it again, that's a change of possession. No such things.
Speaker 1: So why is that rule in special teams? And not
Speaker 1: necessarily got to ask Chris Beam about that. Man. Chris
Speaker 1: Beam was the punt return specialist. He's the guy that
Speaker 1: yelled Peter, Peter, so get away. He's the Peter guy.
Speaker 1: I do believe that I had that. Now, for those
Speaker 1: that have been on really good teams, right, if you've
Speaker 1: been on a really good team before, you've all everybody
Speaker 1: has had a game, right. I could think back to
Speaker 1: a basketball game back in high school where we were
Speaker 1: getting destroyed by this team that should not have been
Speaker 1: beating us, and then we finally at half time, we're like,
Speaker 1: you're all ready to play, all right, let's go play,
Speaker 1: and we just came back and took over the game.
Speaker 1: I felt like, this is the same instance, right, these
Speaker 1: guys were getting beat by a team that we shouldn't
Speaker 1: be getting beat by. The game was still close as
Speaker 1: a two possession game, and we're going to have and
Speaker 1: guys are like, you're ready to play, Yeah, all right,
Speaker 1: let's go. Let's go make some place. And then what happens.
Speaker 1: We come out boom blocked the punt and then we
Speaker 1: don't get gotta get the battle inside the thirty. But
Speaker 1: I feel like if that would have went our way,
Speaker 1: I think we were sit here talking about a victory,
Speaker 1: maybe because because I agree with him. Maybe they've been
Speaker 1: a second half team all year. What side it was, well,
Speaker 1: they missed so many opportunities, and especially offensively because because
Speaker 1: Dak was off. There's no doubt about it. Can't sugarcoat it.
Speaker 1: But they've been outscoring. I looked it up. First seven games.
Speaker 1: They outscored teams by a total fifty one points. They've
Speaker 1: been a second half team. But I think Mike Michael
Speaker 1: Strahan said at halftime when a team is running on
Speaker 1: you like this, Yeah, it's hard to come out and
Speaker 1: adjust to that. Yeah, And that was a problem all
Speaker 1: year long last year, the run defense, and I brought
Speaker 1: it up around bye week time. The Pats tested them, yep,
Speaker 1: and there were there were there were cracks there. Now,
Speaker 1: give them credit against Minnesota, they stood up strong against
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook, but you know that this is the first
Speaker 1: time they really a team, really pounded it, and they
Speaker 1: really had and it changed the course of the game.
Speaker 1: It really did. I think with the block punts, because
Speaker 1: I agree with you completely, time of possession was dominated
Speaker 1: by Denver, and I think that would have continued minutes
Speaker 1: forty one minutes on offensive I mean that that would
Speaker 1: continue whether or not you converted on the block punt.
Speaker 1: But you're talking about offensive momentum because if you get
Speaker 1: the ball inside the thirty. I'd have to go back
Speaker 1: and chart this. But how many times did Dallas even
Speaker 1: have the ball inside the Denver thirty until the fourth quarter?
Speaker 1: Probably not at all. Even in the first two drives
Speaker 1: of the game when they went forward on fourth down
Speaker 1: and they could have kicked the field goals, well, they
Speaker 1: didn't get into the red zone until the last two
Speaker 1: if you want to call them guard all the time touchdowns,
Speaker 1: So that could have jumped started the offense having the
Speaker 1: ball there, converting going and finding paid and then you
Speaker 1: find your your rhythm later on and made you can
Speaker 1: win that. I mean, it's it's all speculation, right, It's
Speaker 1: all speculation. It's all what if. But having been a
Speaker 1: part of teams like that in the past, it's it
Speaker 1: sounds really bad, but it's really a light switch. It's
Speaker 1: the same reason why I think Kansas City is about
Speaker 1: to turn it on. And I hope they don't turn
Speaker 1: it on until after us, But I feel like Kenna
Speaker 1: City is about to hit that light switch. But you
Speaker 1: just know what they're capable of, and it takes one
Speaker 1: little mojo moment. It takes one mojo moment and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, it's all right, let's go ball. You
Speaker 1: think part of that factored into their thinking of going
Speaker 1: for it twice on fourth and short early in the game.
Speaker 1: They have so much confidence in their offense and quite frankly,
Speaker 1: confidence in their defense, say if we don't get it,
Speaker 1: we'll get it back. Yeah, exactly, That's that's exactly why.
Speaker 1: I mean, you feel like you're like you're just that good,
Speaker 1: and again you need it. You need to the Heck's point,
Speaker 1: you need to get checked in the chin, right, You
Speaker 1: rather get checked in your chin early on in the
Speaker 1: season versus this happening later on and you're not recognizing
Speaker 1: how to respond to it. So I'm glad. I'm glad
Speaker 1: it happened early. If it was going to happen, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll be all right. Yeah, confidence and arrogance are twins.
Speaker 1: And then similar situations and that those fourth downs, and
Speaker 1: I know, this old school way of thinking about whether
Speaker 1: go forward or not. I just felt like there were
Speaker 1: certain points where you didn't have any rhythm at all,
Speaker 1: and those fourth those going forward on fourth downs cost you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and four Jesus. So that not only that and the
Speaker 1: time of the time possession like you pointed out, but
Speaker 1: you know, the momentum part of it. I mean, even
Speaker 1: from the start with Tony Pollard's kickoff, and that would
Speaker 1: to me it's like, oh, Mann, we came out, were
Speaker 1: ready to go, and then you go, you know, three
Speaker 1: and out with four and out him on the first play. Yep,
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying exactly. And so, uh, there's Carlos Watkins,
Speaker 1: you know, got that got that sack. And there's just
Speaker 1: so many things that's happening throughout the game that even
Speaker 1: the momentum aspect of it, we were not as up
Speaker 1: against the ropes as it seemed. But once Javante Williams
Speaker 1: started pounding, pounding, pounding, it just it made it where like, Okay,
Speaker 1: there's nothing we can obviously do to get back in
Speaker 1: this game. And Teddy Bridgewater man, look Teddy p Man.
Speaker 1: It loved Tko if y'all know, yea anyway anyway, but anyway,
Speaker 1: but he just he just found all the open receivers
Speaker 1: and he did a lot of good work yesterday. You know.
Speaker 1: One one part of the game that I highlighted, I
Speaker 1: was like, who big question mark was on the punt,
Speaker 1: the muff punt, the muff punt, whether it was says, yeah,
Speaker 1: that one that was tough, wasn't it? Man? Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the momentum killer. I was like, right through it could
Speaker 1: have been really bad, really bad that point it would
Speaker 1: have just added to but like it's little things like
Speaker 1: that hadn't gone downhill at that point. At that point,
Speaker 1: it hadn't gone downhill. I mean, but it allows these
Speaker 1: those negative thoughts to kind of come in your head.
Speaker 1: I mean, again, a lot of this stuff sounds really bad,
Speaker 1: but this is the reality. Sorry. People. It allows those
Speaker 1: negative thoughts to come in your head and then guess what,
Speaker 1: Then something negative actually happens. You're like, oh, we rather
Speaker 1: have one of those days like a drop. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: a couple of those, couple of couple of those. You
Speaker 1: can say bad ball, but yeah, Cooper's right therapy dog
Speaker 1: and he's right there and below the belt. But you know,
Speaker 1: you still got to bring those in. So there's a
Speaker 1: lot of everybody in every Seemingly everybody had their part
Speaker 1: and it wasn't just like oh this one guy. Everybody
Speaker 1: had a part. So that's what that's what makes games
Speaker 1: like this very important. And actually these games games can
Speaker 1: bring you together. Games like this can bring you together
Speaker 1: because you can't go in the locker room and say, man,
Speaker 1: he was tripping, Man, heck didn't ball out. You say, hey,
Speaker 1: all we all saw, we all saw. Let's figure this
Speaker 1: thing out. Yeah, I was thinking about that this morning.
Speaker 1: Like in the NBA, you play eighty two games and
Speaker 1: you have a crappy game like that, you burn you
Speaker 1: just say forget it. We're not even gonna watch the film.
Speaker 1: You only get seventeen of these, and you have a
Speaker 1: young team, a very young team that, like jay Ron
Speaker 1: Curse said, this is not gonna be a fun film watch,
Speaker 1: but we gotta watch it. We gotta see what we
Speaker 1: did wrong because you're halfway through the season and you
Speaker 1: can chalk it up to just a bad game. But
Speaker 1: halfway through the year, this is where teams start to
Speaker 1: make adjustments and start to get a read on what
Speaker 1: you like to do, and so this is very important
Speaker 1: to see how they respond coming out of this. Hey,
Speaker 1: Cordello Patterson, he's not gonna look at it and say, oh,
Speaker 1: that was just a bad game. He's gonna be like,
Speaker 1: huh yeah, take my notes. He's right here. Everybody else
Speaker 1: isn't gonna chalk it up as a bad game. So
Speaker 1: if you want to chalk it up as a bad game,
Speaker 1: sorry for you. Well, you know, these guys have to
Speaker 1: go back and evaluate. Yeah, that's just important for them
Speaker 1: as how young they are in the culture that we've
Speaker 1: been talking about. And you're right, man, there's so many
Speaker 1: teams that would have just say, let's not even watch
Speaker 1: this beccause that wasn't US. I think for a young team,
Speaker 1: you have to go back and you have to dissect
Speaker 1: this and say what happened here? Even the coaches, I'm
Speaker 1: sure last night they were here. They're still here, you
Speaker 1: know from watching the game last night, but dissecting what
Speaker 1: did we act? What happened? Right? And I think everybody
Speaker 1: has to just take a step back from this and
Speaker 1: just say, man, we were off, but we cannot show
Speaker 1: up again like that. You cannot let it affect you
Speaker 1: going forward. Nope, you gotta put it in your review mirror,
Speaker 1: learn from it. I mean, in the grand scheme of things.
Speaker 1: Remember we've always talked about breaking the NFL season into
Speaker 1: quarters now quarters plus one. But through the first two quarters,
Speaker 1: you were three in one, and you were three in one.
Speaker 1: It's pretty good start to the season. If you want
Speaker 1: to continue that, let's continue it. Don't let this one
Speaker 1: loss affect you. You're gonna lose games along the way.
Speaker 1: In a seventeen game season, you will lose games. We
Speaker 1: weren't gonna finish sixteen and one. You can't let this one, though,
Speaker 1: bleed into Atlanta, which then goes to Kansas City, and
Speaker 1: then you've got Las Vegas because you've got a tough
Speaker 1: quarter coming up, and if you let this linger, you're
Speaker 1: gonna be in trouble and you might actually find yourself
Speaker 1: in a race for the NFC East. All right, when
Speaker 1: we come back, what was the most concerning part about
Speaker 1: the thirty to sixteen loss against the Denver Broncos will
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Speaker 1: Get that bread, Friday, stand back. I don't know what
Speaker 1: you're doing right there, making hell. I keep forgetting to
Speaker 1: know how flip in the corner or something. I thought
Speaker 1: he was flipping the coin too. It was coins, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you gold points, Yeah, I got you. Okay, Bitcoin, No,
Speaker 1: I don't have a big coin whatever. That fan has
Speaker 1: a bitcoin, yeah, the one in Tampa Bay got it
Speaker 1: from Tom Brady. All right. We're continuing to break down
Speaker 1: this thirty to sixteen loss against the dim ver Broncos,
Speaker 1: and like we said in the first segment, just wasn't
Speaker 1: right for the Cowboys from the beginning. A season low
Speaker 1: in total yardage, a season high and rushing yards allowed,
Speaker 1: gave up thirty points at home before you found the scoreboard.
Speaker 1: Everything went wrong. You could point it in a bunch
Speaker 1: of different directions. Can I say one more thing? What's
Speaker 1: that Cooper Rush had more points? Oh no, stop it,
Speaker 1: Oh no, don't don't go there a fact. Stop it.
Speaker 1: It's the lowest point to the year, right, isn't that?
Speaker 1: You are the consummate antagonist. He loves he loves that role.
Speaker 1: He's poking the digital bear, right. Yea, we're going down
Speaker 1: stats and I'm just saying, so, yeah, we score less
Speaker 1: points this week? Would be your intro music? If you
Speaker 1: were a wrestler, would you go with the Undertaker stone
Speaker 1: cold all day? You have to have the alcoholic less beer.
Speaker 1: That's it. That's it, you know, I can't have those
Speaker 1: Miller lights. Yeah, exactly, smash them together. I don't know
Speaker 1: who our drink sponsor is. That they have a non
Speaker 1: alcoholic something, don't they sure? Maybe they got to somewhere
Speaker 1: deja blue? All right, go on alcoholic? Actually all right?
Speaker 1: I want to point in one specific direction. What was
Speaker 1: your most concerning part of the loss. It doesn't have
Speaker 1: to be a specific player, doesn't have to be a unit.
Speaker 1: It could be a thought process, the mindset. But it
Speaker 1: can be a specific player and a specific unit as well. Heck,
Speaker 1: I'll start with you but when you look back at
Speaker 1: this loss in the future, what are you gonna say? Man,
Speaker 1: this scares me going into the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: Back to what Rob said during the bye week, Man,
Speaker 1: the running game, and I think it's all predicated by
Speaker 1: our defensive line. You saw some gaping holes in our
Speaker 1: defense that we hadn't seen previously, and so linebacker communication.
Speaker 1: Even Jerun Curse looked a little bit off, and we've
Speaker 1: been talking about how great he looked. So I think defensively,
Speaker 1: there were just some things that we have to work on.
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn wasn't as sharp as we are accustomed to
Speaker 1: seeing him as far as the play calling, but you know,
Speaker 1: calling these defenses, we just didn't dial up anything, and
Speaker 1: it seemed to be everything that we did try to
Speaker 1: If there were any adjustments that were made, the Broncos
Speaker 1: made an adjustment as well. It just kept the party going.
Speaker 1: Early in the game, it seemed like the defensive line
Speaker 1: was getting pushed. I mean, Randy Gregory, Carlos, Watkins, Olsa,
Speaker 1: Odiggy Zoa, my goodness. Well, the first three series he
Speaker 1: was in the backfield almost every play and they continued
Speaker 1: that same mindset throughout. But what happened. What switched from
Speaker 1: the pass rush being at least somewhat successful to just
Speaker 1: getting completely blown off the ball and then opening gaping
Speaker 1: holes for Javonte Williams and Melvin Gordon to run through. Yeah, possession,
Speaker 1: you know, time of possession and the amount of plays
Speaker 1: that they have versus I mean, your defense can't say
Speaker 1: if you stay out there for seventy three plays that
Speaker 1: just attrition is gonna It's gonna happen. Guys are gonna
Speaker 1: get tired, These big, gashing players are gonna start to happen.
Speaker 1: And I just feel like that's you know, over time,
Speaker 1: I think you pointed out the first quarter of how
Speaker 1: our guys were playing that Broncos found something they found
Speaker 1: like different guys to pin the tail on the donkey.
Speaker 1: We were worried about Judy and Sutton, and we never
Speaker 1: said anything about eighty one. Who. I mean this guy
Speaker 1: turned in Patrick, you know Patrick and guy from Utah
Speaker 1: that came out involved and just exposed us in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways in our secondary I think, you know,
Speaker 1: young guys that have to step up. I mean, we
Speaker 1: talked about Trey vun days. I've been the guys saying, man,
Speaker 1: Trey vun days e lead. He does so many great things.
Speaker 1: This guy can go down baby prime all of that.
Speaker 1: That was bad last couple of last couple of games.
Speaker 1: We've seen some holes in his game. So I mean,
Speaker 1: he's got to get back to what made him, you know,
Speaker 1: got him to the seven picks. You think teams were
Speaker 1: trying to counter his aggressiveness and say, we know you're
Speaker 1: gonna you're gonna gamble at times, and we're gonna play
Speaker 1: off of that. I mean that seems like, what that's
Speaker 1: what they're doing, that double double moves, you know that
Speaker 1: kind of thing. I mean, that's the flip side. But
Speaker 1: he gives you so much with taking the ball away.
Speaker 1: That's that's yeah, that's Bear. Church is one of the
Speaker 1: first guys that I heard talk about Trayvon Diggs in
Speaker 1: the way that you know he the double move is
Speaker 1: going to affect him eventually. And somebody must have heard
Speaker 1: that and picked up on him, because that's they thrown
Speaker 1: a lot of double moves that Trayvon and in Ohio
Speaker 1: and it's beat from Ohio. Man, he offended the whole thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he gave the secret sauce. I had never really answered
Speaker 1: that call against heb, what do you think the lack
Speaker 1: of want to that's what you're most concerned about. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't like it. I didn't like it. The reason being,
Speaker 1: even if you have a game like this, you rather
Speaker 1: get beat rather didn't say that your team just let up.
Speaker 1: And I feel like it both occurred yesterday. I feel
Speaker 1: like we got beat and I feel like we our
Speaker 1: guys did not give everything that they had. I think
Speaker 1: we all can point to a number of plays where
Speaker 1: you were just like, what the heck man? Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just a lack of effort, not necessarily lack of execution,
Speaker 1: because execution comes based upon the effort that you put out.
Speaker 1: Guys just didn't weren't putting forth their best effort, and that,
Speaker 1: to me was the most concerning thing. We can coach
Speaker 1: up better, right, We can coach up better to guys
Speaker 1: being better gaps, We can coach up guys to schemes,
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. I can't coach you to
Speaker 1: have better effort. I can't make you want to make
Speaker 1: a play. I can't make you want to go hit somebody,
Speaker 1: to go want to block somebody, to want to give
Speaker 1: that extra little bit that's going to give us opportunity
Speaker 1: to have a big play. I can't make you do that.
Speaker 1: And the fact that you that you will listen, that
Speaker 1: you show me that you're capable of pulling off, lets
Speaker 1: me know that I don't know when the next time
Speaker 1: that's going to rear is a little ugly head. When's
Speaker 1: the next time that you don't want to do something?
Speaker 1: When's the next time that you just don't want to
Speaker 1: go out there and put out everything that you have?
Speaker 1: Because that's what I'm expecting now, that you whant to
Speaker 1: put you on the field regardless of how the game's going,
Speaker 1: the choice getting their butt kicked all year long. You
Speaker 1: guess what them boys are still playing hard, right, they're
Speaker 1: just getting beat Yeah right. They don't have any talent,
Speaker 1: they don't have any town right, But you're not questioning effort.
Speaker 1: We question effort with one guy last year and he
Speaker 1: can't be kicked out button last week? Right, we quick
Speaker 1: question effort one time. So I don't wonder. I don't
Speaker 1: want to see that present itself, because that to me
Speaker 1: is concerned to ask that as we talk about culture councel,
Speaker 1: culture counsel that out asap. Yeah, y'all even mentioned cancel
Speaker 1: culture Z y'all are dead on. I mean, Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: throughout training camp always talked about play style, play style,
Speaker 1: which means physical as hell, energy, fast, and I'm really
Speaker 1: thinking more defense than anything. And everybody said it. They
Speaker 1: were more physical than us. That's the first time this
Speaker 1: year where they really got beat soundly on both sides
Speaker 1: of the line, both sides of the ball, on the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, especially defensively. And you know, guys, guys
Speaker 1: don't want to say, hey, we didn't give enough effort.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you just get your ass kicked. But you know,
Speaker 1: Dak did say. I mean, he was asked, did you
Speaker 1: guys get too high in yourselves? Basically, you know, chin
Speaker 1: held high? He said, he said maybe, he said, he said,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Maybe, he said. I I think sometimes
Speaker 1: you just think you can roll it out there and
Speaker 1: get it done, even when adversity hits. And they haven't
Speaker 1: been tested a ton lately. I mean, the Patriots game
Speaker 1: was a hell of a game. Yeah, these last two
Speaker 1: games were. I think that's why it's so surprising, you know.
Speaker 1: And I'm I don't know if we talked about rust
Speaker 1: as a factor for Dak enough that maybe three weeks
Speaker 1: off essentially was going to create some rust and maybe
Speaker 1: we shouldn't have because god, look how he played in
Speaker 1: Week one yep, with no preseason. So he'll be better,
Speaker 1: he'll get back to work, they'll get better. You guys
Speaker 1: really took probably my top two. Well, the other one
Speaker 1: I would say, I think you have to point out
Speaker 1: left tackle didn't work out like they hoped. Terrence Steele
Speaker 1: fought out there, but it did, but it didn't go.
Speaker 1: Well are you laughing he call it that one? Well, no, no,
Speaker 1: you're right. I mean we talked about it during the week.
Speaker 1: How there's a line of thinking of let him stay
Speaker 1: where he's at and be successful. I don't think they
Speaker 1: had a great answer either way because Lyle Collins has
Speaker 1: never played out there at the NFL level. He's been
Speaker 1: in the league since twenty fifteen. And they went with
Speaker 1: what they thought was the more practical decision. Terrence Steals young,
Speaker 1: but he played a lot of left tackle in training camp.
Speaker 1: Let's just do that. It didn't work. I don't fault
Speaker 1: the decision, but I mean, going into the thought process
Speaker 1: that way was, oh, Terrence Steal is going to take
Speaker 1: exactly what he did at right tackle and he's going
Speaker 1: to be just as good on the left side. And
Speaker 1: even in the middle of the week last week we
Speaker 1: had a conversation about it. We were saying, are we
Speaker 1: sure that's the case? Now we're completely unsure, And now
Speaker 1: there might be another conversation on whether or not Terrence
Speaker 1: Steal stays at left tackle, because well, he did so
Speaker 1: well on the right side, you can stick him right
Speaker 1: back there, and now you can try it the other way.
Speaker 1: I don't fault the decision because with everything that they
Speaker 1: had seen with the snap counts dating back to Oxnard,
Speaker 1: with the way that he had played throughout the season
Speaker 1: at right tackle, there was nothing showing that Terrence Steele
Speaker 1: was going to go to left side and just completely
Speaker 1: not play the same way. And the other side of
Speaker 1: that too, that we had mentioned was, you know, maybe
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins becomes the right tackle again at some whole time. Anyway,
Speaker 1: let him play at right tackle and get his feet
Speaker 1: back underneath him. It just didn't work out, you know,
Speaker 1: And and and you know, they really attacked the edges man,
Speaker 1: but Jonathan Cooper, seventh round draft pick Von Miller's not there.
Speaker 1: He was in the backfield a lot. Thank god, wasn't there,
Speaker 1: Thank God was gone. I mean we talked about like,
Speaker 1: you know, how does that defense react? How do you
Speaker 1: know what's your mindset when you trade away the franchise player.
Speaker 1: They went the opposite direction. They didn't mail a damn
Speaker 1: thing in. No, they didn't. They played with a chip
Speaker 1: on their shoulder. No, And just going back to that,
Speaker 1: I think the whole rhythm of the offense was thrown off.
Speaker 1: Dak seemed a bit out of swords. You talk about
Speaker 1: him selling balls, it's not getting his feet set. And
Speaker 1: obviously the stay impacted us as well. But from a
Speaker 1: pressure standpoint, it was in Dax's head. He was counting,
Speaker 1: you know, recognizing that that pressure was coming off the
Speaker 1: left side. And so I mean, what do you do
Speaker 1: about that? You know, with Terrence still, you have to
Speaker 1: go if if let's just say Terren Smith is out
Speaker 1: against Atlanta, you got you gotta put Terren Steal back
Speaker 1: at left tackle. You can't. You can't, ye at this point,
Speaker 1: you can't. You can't. You can't change this, and you
Speaker 1: gotta allow Leo College. You're not gonnae right, I agree
Speaker 1: with right, Yeah, And so I just think that the
Speaker 1: experiment itself maybe you didn't get what you wanted. A
Speaker 1: lot of people are not gonna want to hear that.
Speaker 1: But how else is this guy gonna be able to
Speaker 1: get any better? You put him on the right side,
Speaker 1: you gave him help, and he started to show improvement
Speaker 1: that you didn't have to give him as much help.
Speaker 1: Now you put him on the left left side, he
Speaker 1: has a horrible game. He has a horrible game. Where
Speaker 1: else do you go from there? You gotta put his
Speaker 1: back out there and allow him to get that time.
Speaker 1: And you said it best. You're paying him as a
Speaker 1: swing tackle. That's what he is. The SEC and Terence
Speaker 1: Steele are guys that are competing at that swings tackle position.
Speaker 1: You can't just abandon ship. Now, it didn't work like that. Man,
Speaker 1: Do you think Tyan Seki instead of Terrence still out there?
Speaker 1: Do you stick with them? Never? Okay and no way.
Speaker 1: If he played well in their mind, I just my
Speaker 1: thoughts against the Vikings, he would have been the left
Speaker 1: tackle Sunday, which you think. I agree? And look, people
Speaker 1: want to see best five. Well, this was kind of
Speaker 1: their version of the best five, you know, just from
Speaker 1: what they have, from what's available. Yeah, and we'll see
Speaker 1: if Tyrn can come back this week, maybe a week off.
Speaker 1: I asked Mike McCarthy last week, is it just a
Speaker 1: rest thing, let it calm down, and he said, I
Speaker 1: don't think it's long term. Now does that mean it's
Speaker 1: back after one game and we'll see he's not on
Speaker 1: IR which is also a good good sign. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: So he could either be back in two weeks or hey,
Speaker 1: he could be back this week. Maybe that's the case,
Speaker 1: and maybe it was a one week plug in play
Speaker 1: sort of deal. But heckma made a fantastic point. If
Speaker 1: you had to pick one guy from twenty twenty to
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one on the offensive side of the football
Speaker 1: that was most improved, it would probably be Terrence, Yeah,
Speaker 1: or no, doubtly it would be Terrence. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: would say Terrence still too. Cedric had flashes though in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, Yeah, but he just Terrence Steele did not
Speaker 1: have any flashes unless they were negative. Yeah. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: would say Terrence Steele far and above the most improved players.
Speaker 1: So why did not give him an opportunity to try
Speaker 1: and write some of the wrongs and improve going into
Speaker 1: the week. He had a really good mindset following the game,
Speaker 1: owning up to the fact that he did not have
Speaker 1: a good game, that the team didn't have a good game,
Speaker 1: and that he's got to get better moving forward. What
Speaker 1: else could he say? Everybody kind of had to say,
Speaker 1: you know, Isaiah's an all week that I couldn't do it.
Speaker 1: He's got he's got to own it. I mean in
Speaker 1: the film, and the film is out there and everybody
Speaker 1: saw it. I mean, he probably had the worst fourth
Speaker 1: quarter of any left tackle in the league. It's just
Speaker 1: it's horrible. Yeah, it's bad, all right? When we come back,
Speaker 1: how does it get fixed? Where did the Cowboys go
Speaker 1: to try and rip up? Rip up the blue print
Speaker 1: positivity that the Broncos brought to the table yesterday for
Speaker 1: the rest of the NFL. We'll talk about a next
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Speaker 1: Isaiah's making a sad face, which is hints. That was
Speaker 1: the most sad Mike flip I've ever seen. Don't ruin
Speaker 1: read like that got glasses because of you. You gotta
Speaker 1: do the flip, man, Come, I did it. That was
Speaker 1: a sad Monday said Monday. He summed up everything right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my screenshot that for Twitter man, No, it's not accurate.
Speaker 1: It was good. No, it's accurate. We're happier than that
Speaker 1: to have our lens. Well they know that, Yeah, they do. Yeah.
Speaker 1: If they don't know that, they need to just watch
Speaker 1: the The best part is that Rob's never got to
Speaker 1: do an Essler spot ever. Dude. He went on Friday. Here, Chris,
Speaker 1: he's pulling your your camera up. Oh that's awesome. Okay,
Speaker 1: how do we fix it? Where do we go from here?
Speaker 1: Cowboys lose thirty to sixteen to the Denver Broncos. Heck
Speaker 1: Ma Harrison, Isaiahs stand back Rob Phillips Kyle Yeoman's final
Speaker 1: couple minutes here of a Monday edition of Talking Cowboys. Isaiah,
Speaker 1: I'll start with you on this one. Where did the
Speaker 1: Cowboys go? Because Denver provided a blueprint and maybe that
Speaker 1: was a blueprint that was kind of stolen a little
Speaker 1: bit from the Patriots and what they did well against
Speaker 1: the Cowboys a couple weeks ago. However, Denver actually executed
Speaker 1: it through a full four quarters. How does the Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys rip up? How did they rip up that blueprint? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think they just identified that they played like crap.
Speaker 1: I think go back and watch it and to see exactly.
Speaker 1: I think some of it was scheme, some of it
Speaker 1: was assignment, and then a lot of it was just effort.
Speaker 1: That's what I really think. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: it was just they just didn't care enough. They didn't
Speaker 1: care enough, they didn't care that somebody walked in their
Speaker 1: house and punched them in their mouth like they didn't
Speaker 1: fight back. I don't know if you guys ever been
Speaker 1: in a fight before, but I got I got cursed
Speaker 1: out by my mom when I was young. We was
Speaker 1: at a dog on a church bowling event and a
Speaker 1: kid it was standing over me talking mess to me,
Speaker 1: and I didn't stand back up. When I got home,
Speaker 1: I got my butt whoop because she said, don't you
Speaker 1: ever let somebody come in your dog on crib, in
Speaker 1: your bubble and talk mess to you right and threaten
Speaker 1: you better stand up for yourself. And Dallas didn't do that.
Speaker 1: So I feel like they will be perfectly fine. I'm
Speaker 1: fully confident that they'll be perfectly fine because I think
Speaker 1: the culture of this team now is they will not
Speaker 1: allow this to ever rear his head again, and they
Speaker 1: will bounce back next week and say, hey, what I
Speaker 1: just realized we may be related. Yeah, I think we. Also,
Speaker 1: I got my pow power. But also, did you say
Speaker 1: you were bowling? Oh I'm a bowler, baby. You said
Speaker 1: you got in a a guy trash talk to you
Speaker 1: while bowling. Yeah, well they stood over me. It got
Speaker 1: in some kind of, um, you know, a little dispute,
Speaker 1: and and and the person came and stood over me,
Speaker 1: and I didn't I didn't get up. So my mom
Speaker 1: was like, don't you ever let somebody feel like they
Speaker 1: have the advantage over you type of du You got
Speaker 1: Alan Iverson in a bowling alley? Yeah, never again. Though,
Speaker 1: ever since then, I've been like, I should be in
Speaker 1: the PBA bowling. Remember he's played PC before. I just
Speaker 1: ballow by the trash talking and the bowling alley and
Speaker 1: then the fact that you almost got in a fight,
Speaker 1: dropped the gloves hockey styles straight up in the in
Speaker 1: the middle of like pink and orange balls just rolling
Speaker 1: around next to you. Ever seen Big Lebowski. Yeah, stuff happens.
Speaker 1: So he told the whole story, and you missed. You
Speaker 1: missed the most important part of that story. I heard that.
Speaker 1: I had to put that back in the view mirror.
Speaker 1: It's too late, too late. Thinking about the bullet balls. Wait, wait,
Speaker 1: he got no fight too, Kyle. Kyle would have been
Speaker 1: sitting there with his phone like nine one one. I
Speaker 1: tried it, oh, man, But how do you make it
Speaker 1: back from that? I mean, I just pickyback, pickyback what
Speaker 1: Isaiah just said. Man, I think you have to effort,
Speaker 1: has to be there. You see a team that comes
Speaker 1: out flat, Uh, they can't. They can't just roll the
Speaker 1: helmets out there anymore. I feel like they can. And
Speaker 1: you know, you can't drink the kool aid. Brother, you
Speaker 1: just have to you have you can't do that. You
Speaker 1: have to every week. You don't have to work towards this.
Speaker 1: And honestly, you know, sometimes you just have a bad day.
Speaker 1: And we had a bad day, you know, Lord knows,
Speaker 1: I've had a few days here talking cowboys. When I
Speaker 1: went home and like Derek is gonna fire me, you know,
Speaker 1: And I can't wait to hit you know, no Harry
Speaker 1: up to get back to get that bad taste out
Speaker 1: of my mouth, because it's just like, man, it stays
Speaker 1: with you because you want to be at your best
Speaker 1: at all times. And I know that while these guys
Speaker 1: are watching this film, they have a bad taste in
Speaker 1: their mouth, and it's going to be there all week
Speaker 1: until Sunday, until the dirty Birds show up. Jacksonville beat
Speaker 1: the Bills Giants one. Yesterday, Packers lost, Rams lost. I
Speaker 1: mean it's not wasn't a terrible day at the end
Speaker 1: when you look at the big picture there, But yeah,
Speaker 1: stuff's got to get corrected. I think a lot of
Speaker 1: it was they were off Dak Prescott's not gonna play
Speaker 1: like that the rest of the year. I'm pretty confident
Speaker 1: of that. Good news is as much as he was
Speaker 1: having to buy time with his legs Catholic fine, So
Speaker 1: that's good. I did have a question for you guys, honestly,
Speaker 1: because because you mentioned blueprint and Mike McCarthy mentioned the
Speaker 1: way they played coverage and the way they played the
Speaker 1: kind of match game defensively against the Cowboys offense. Did you, guys,
Speaker 1: what'd you guys see there and you think that is
Speaker 1: a blueprint going forward? Because I'm not sure because when
Speaker 1: this this offense is at their best, they're hard to stop.
Speaker 1: I don't care who they're playing. Well, I mean, vic
Speaker 1: Vangio has been been a defensive coordinator, been in the
Speaker 1: NFL as a coordinator for thirty three years. I mean,
Speaker 1: this guy knows his stuff. He's seen everything, so there's
Speaker 1: not you're not gonna fool him. And I think they
Speaker 1: did a really good job of loading up on first downs.
Speaker 1: Where Dallas Dak came out throwing on first downs, He
Speaker 1: wasn't until I think the end of the first quarter
Speaker 1: that we even started run, getting the trying to establish
Speaker 1: the run on first down. That just was how many
Speaker 1: guys they were loading into the box. And once you know,
Speaker 1: Dak started seeing that, then they were getting pressure with
Speaker 1: just four guys and dropping seven into coverage. And so
Speaker 1: they did a lot of great things. Did the Broncos
Speaker 1: to fool Dak because you saw him pumping like I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take that back. And then finally I think it
Speaker 1: was the fourth quarter, end of the third where he
Speaker 1: did finally throw an interception, But it was just like, man,
Speaker 1: they were dropping guys into coverage and those little open screen,
Speaker 1: litle little throws that he's used to making. That was
Speaker 1: a Bronco standing in there, and you can't do that
Speaker 1: from a defensive coordinator standpoint unless you have smart guys
Speaker 1: that can play. I mean, Kyle Fuller was a guy
Speaker 1: that had fell out of favor with the Broncos, he
Speaker 1: comes back and he has a get back in favor
Speaker 1: game yesterday. So I mean there were a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that were playing out of their mind and they
Speaker 1: looked they played like it. And I think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: probably went into that matchup looking at Denver and saying
Speaker 1: they had the third highest blitz rate in the NFL
Speaker 1: entering last week, and said, we're gonna see blitzes in
Speaker 1: every shape, fashion and horn blitz and they didn't blitz
Speaker 1: at all. They got pressure with three and four guys,
Speaker 1: they didn't need the blitz too. And they've watched Dak
Speaker 1: chew up blitz is all year long, exactly, and I
Speaker 1: think that might have gone into the thinking of Fangio
Speaker 1: and what he said, and he's like, you know what,
Speaker 1: we blitzed a lot. It hasn't really worked for us.
Speaker 1: Let's just try and get pressure with three four guys
Speaker 1: and maybe we'll throw an extra guy in there every
Speaker 1: now and again. But from this point forward, we need
Speaker 1: to make sure Dak Prescott doesn't beat us over the top.
Speaker 1: We'll stop the run. We have no problem with that.
Speaker 1: But then, yeah, how many times do you think Dak
Speaker 1: would miss that throw the CD let CD puts his hand,
Speaker 1: I mean he doesn't touch down it and he overthrows
Speaker 1: it even you know, passes that just were at guy's feet. Said,
Speaker 1: you know, Wilson couldn't couldn't get his hands on some
Speaker 1: of those ball balls and Almark Cooper dropped football after
Speaker 1: not dropping. I mean, it just wasn't a night man.
Speaker 1: It was not. It was not Isaiah. Do you have
Speaker 1: anything to add on that before we go? You know, man, listen,
Speaker 1: I want to hurt him and get to Atlanta week. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, it's just they just didn't
Speaker 1: show up. Man. You know, you know, you know there's
Speaker 1: always a risk of it, which is why I said,
Speaker 1: you know, you still got to show up and play
Speaker 1: against professionals, but your's always a risk. There's always a chance. Um,
Speaker 1: and it's just unfortunate that we saw that they allowed
Speaker 1: that to happen. Um, kudos to the Broncos were showing up.
Speaker 1: Cowboys did not real quick no more red strip from
Speaker 1: I liked it. I liked to look good. No, I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm playing around. I'm glad we honored them, but
Speaker 1: we didn't honor them to what we wanted to real
Speaker 1: quick from your time in the league. What is a
Speaker 1: Monday like after a loss like this For the players
Speaker 1: going through film, it's everybody understands. I mean, you just
Speaker 1: understand what just happened. You know, you get in there,
Speaker 1: you get your your weight, you know, you get your
Speaker 1: you lift your weights, and um, you know, you try
Speaker 1: to talk about everything but the game. And then you
Speaker 1: get in there and you watch your film and you
Speaker 1: take your lumps. You know, you take your lumps, and
Speaker 1: like I said, it's better because this wasn't one or
Speaker 1: two guys that that cost you the game. This was
Speaker 1: a everybody sucks, right, So I mean the coach can't
Speaker 1: even just highlight, and he's gonna get tired of highlighting.
Speaker 1: You might go through the first the first two or
Speaker 1: three series of highlighting people that do things wrong, and
Speaker 1: after that it's just like, y'all watch the rest of
Speaker 1: this on your own. It really gets to that point
Speaker 1: because it's just so much bad that you just you
Speaker 1: don't have enough time in the day to beat down
Speaker 1: everything that happens. So it's just you get your grades,
Speaker 1: so you your the film will come on, you'll watch
Speaker 1: a little bit as a team, and then you break
Speaker 1: out to your individual meeting rooms when coach gets tired
Speaker 1: of it, and you, your coach will drop them a
Speaker 1: little packets on your on your desk, and every play
Speaker 1: is gonna have a plus or a minus, and you're
Speaker 1: gonna have them things up and most of the guys
Speaker 1: are gonna have a nice little D grade or or
Speaker 1: worse on the under paper, and you understand what happened,
Speaker 1: You digest, you watch it today, and then you go
Speaker 1: on to the next one, and you recognize that you've
Speaker 1: got some boys that are playing well coming in here. Yep,
Speaker 1: Atlanta has won a couple of big games. They won
Speaker 1: a game this week over New Orleans. I mean, albeit
Speaker 1: New Orleans had a backup quarterback, but that doesn't matter. Cowboys.
Speaker 1: The way they played yesterday, they're not gonna beat a
Speaker 1: ton of teams. So Cowboys gonna have to figure it out.
Speaker 1: And we're gonna talk about it throughout the week as well.
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