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Here from the s WBCs studios at 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:53.160 the Star in Frisco, and we've got a special episode 0:00:53.240 --> 0:00:57.800 today and tomorrow for you all on Dallas Cowboys dot Com. 0:00:57.800 --> 0:00:59.720 And the reason for it is, this is not the 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:03.800 normal cast of characters all day long on our podcast. 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.000 We are switching things up for the bye week, and 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:08.800 of course we switched things up on Talking Cowboys with 0:01:08.920 --> 0:01:13.240 Danny mccraig. No, Isaiah stand back, I do have dreads, 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:18.280 but I am not him. He is not me. Thanks 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:20.720 Thanks CB for the Survivor music. I'm gonna say that 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.959 Survivor music in the back players loud, CB. You know 0:01:24.000 --> 0:01:26.640 he likes to play that every time New York or 0:01:26.680 --> 0:01:30.240 Bury bringing up Survivor, so you know we have that. Yeah, 0:01:30.319 --> 0:01:32.960 so you've got the former Cowboys side of you, you've 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:35.520 got the Survivor now side of you, as you were 0:01:35.560 --> 0:01:39.040 still on the show on CBS. Moving forward, I mean, 0:01:39.040 --> 0:01:41.640 at least at the moment heading into this week. Of course, 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:45.480 that airs tonight, right tomorrow. Tomorrow's right tomorrow was Wednesday. 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:48.600 I'm already makes listen. Survivor takes over the TV's on Wednesday, 0:01:48.640 --> 0:01:49.880 and we're trying to get it to take over the 0:01:49.920 --> 0:01:52.280 Cowboys Nation on Wednesdays as well. There you go. Well, 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:53.800 this is a great way to do it, and we'll 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:55.840 talk a little bit of Survivor, I feel like, throughout 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.680 the next two days. But we'll also have David Hellman 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:02.120 joining the show. It's point, but we are the early show. 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:05.640 We're the nine am show normally on Dallas Cowboys dot Com, 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:09.120 and Dame's usually up, but at least not today. It 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:12.119 doesn't seem like that him and him and Rob had 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:15.079 the adventure of a lifetime trying to get back from 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:19.000 Boston from the New England game the last couple of days. 0:02:19.000 --> 0:02:20.800 So I give Dave a pass on this one now 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:23.399 if he's laid again tomorrow. That's a difference. Well, yeah, listen, 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:25.320 you gotta think of it this way. Okay, So Dave, 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.080 we can pull out a big win at LSU on Saturday. 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:31.000 It's true. We pull out an overtime win on Sunday 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:35.360 in in Foxborough. Plane goes crazy. He's not able to 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.480 get home. So he's had a very very interesting weekend, 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:41.160 all right, so his mind is probably a little shaken up. Ye, 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.280 so you know, I'm sure he'll be back tomorrow on town. Yeah, 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.480 I'm sure he will be. And of course you and 0:02:46.720 --> 0:02:50.560 Dave both LSU homers there he is smiling. Oh, look 0:02:50.560 --> 0:02:53.639 at him, he's like ear to ear walking in. He's 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:59.320 frowning because coach's leaving. Oh that didn't looked a little 0:02:59.320 --> 0:03:02.000 offendion when you said that too. When y'all start the 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.320 show like that, I can't pretend like I wasn't late, 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:06.840 But we were just saying how late you where? We 0:03:06.880 --> 0:03:11.280 gave you many excuses and any reasons? Uh, the scene valid. 0:03:11.360 --> 0:03:14.040 I need to talk to management about making the guy 0:03:14.120 --> 0:03:18.240 who lives the furthest away do the earliest shown show. 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:23.639 What's going on? Hi? Hey buddy, Hello, Hi Danny till tigers. 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.680 We were just talking about how you had a long weekend. 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:30.960 You had two win LSU over Florida, Sure did, then 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:35.160 you had the overtime win with the Cowboys over the Patriots. Yes, 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.800 and then at an adventure getting back home. Yeah. Yeah, 0:03:37.920 --> 0:03:41.320 I love football season. It's just the best. It's just 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:46.840 nothing's better than watching football and acting like that's exhausting, 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.480 you know, like what a weekend I sat and watched 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:54.360 people kill themselves for my entertainment. Just I'm so tired. Obviously, 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:59.240 there's that emotionally exhausting game because the first three minutes 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.600 was like, oh man, who are we? And then we 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.600 settled down a little bit, and then you got some 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:07.040 in and it was like like a Game of Thrones 0:04:07.080 --> 0:04:09.760 episode where you know it just it was like up 0:04:09.800 --> 0:04:13.640 and down and super exciting, and then you're like, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:16.440 you know, we pulled it out. It's been a minute, man. 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:20.440 But so twenty nineteen was a disappointing season. Twenty twenty 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:25.000 was obviously terrible. So it's been at least three ish 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:29.200 years since the Cowboys have played like a classic, you know, 0:04:29.279 --> 0:04:31.360 like a game where you're like, yeah, that was that's 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:33.760 on a on a top, that's on a top ten 0:04:33.960 --> 0:04:36.800 somewhere of like just at least in the modern era 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:40.880 of like most entertaining games, like certainly certainly Mike McCarthy's tenure. 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:44.240 That's probably the best game of his tenure as head coach, 0:04:44.320 --> 0:04:49.200 just in terms of entertainment value the Atlanta game. You're right, 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.119 you're right, You're right. I think this was a better 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.560 game start to finish, though, I mean really, like you said, yeah, 0:04:55.600 --> 0:04:58.640 because minutes a blowout doesn't become interesting until the comeback. 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:01.760 So so that that was my one thing with it, 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:03.360 and I thought the same thing. I was trying to 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:07.159 stack this win in terms of where it ranks among 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:10.520 McCarthy's career among the Cowboys games that I've seen, at 0:05:10.600 --> 0:05:13.800 least as an employee here, and I don't think there's 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.080 one that was better, just in terms of a beginning 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:19.400 to end entertainment value. Of course, the lore of not 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:22.000 winning in New England since eighty seven, and of course 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.480 not beating Bill Belichick. I mean, there's so many different 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.359 storylines that all just kind of panned out the right way, 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:29.560 and it made it super entertaining. I don't want to 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.039 exaggerate too much, but so this is my ninth season, 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:33.960 I don't think. I think it's in my top ten 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:38.520 just best games that I have personally covered for Dallas 0:05:38.520 --> 0:05:41.320 Cowboys dot Com. It's right up there with like twenty 0:05:41.400 --> 0:05:47.520 sixteen in Pittsburgh twenty fourteen in Seattle. Yeah, I'm just 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:49.640 saying those are two great games. I mean, and I 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.240 think those two are both better than this one probably, 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:56.520 but man, it's just fun man. John Fossil took the 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:59.760 words right out of my mouth yesterday, which is funny 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.000 because he's coaching the game. But I appreciate that he 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.520 can stop and appreciate it. He's like, Yeah, sometimes you're 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:06.880 just in a game where even in the heat of 0:06:06.960 --> 0:06:09.359 the moment, when you're making the calls and worrying about this, 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:11.520 that and the other, you're still like, damn, what a 0:06:11.640 --> 0:06:13.359 what a game this is? And that's what I was 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.039 standing me, Nick and Rob watched the end of the 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:18.640 game from like jump we're not allowed on the field, 0:06:18.640 --> 0:06:21.440 but like just inside the tunnel at Gillette we're kind 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.080 of watching the field and looking at the JumboTron. I 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:26.600 was just like, God, this is this is incredible. Just 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:28.440 what a football game. I think. And I think that's 0:06:28.480 --> 0:06:31.920 the big difference too, because I was here and uh 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:34.680 And I've never actually been on the winning side of 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:36.680 a game like that. It's usually on the losing side. 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:39.440 I think back to uh to Denver when Peyton Manning 0:06:39.560 --> 0:06:42.560 was there and they came here, and I think nobody 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:44.960 can stop anymore from scoring, all right, it could be 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:49.000 an interception of something. Yeah, and we're playing the game 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:51.400 and you're hoping that it goes the way that he 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:54.640 went on Sunday. But you know, our history at that 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:56.760 time was just it just didn't work out for us. 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.480 So it was exciting, but we ended on the wrong 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:02.559 side of it. Let me ask you this, So, if 0:07:03.520 --> 0:07:06.480 let's say the Patriots had a better record than what 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.240 they are now, I mean what they're two and four 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:10.520 at the moment, yeah, now with the loss. So if 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.760 they were let's say reverse that they were at four 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:15.720 and one going to four and two, do you think 0:07:15.720 --> 0:07:19.360 that would be classified as a better game overall? Do 0:07:19.400 --> 0:07:21.200 you think just the fact that the Patriots with a 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.720 rookie quarterback, an offense that had been stagnant up until 0:07:24.800 --> 0:07:27.760 Week six, do you think that took away any from 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.800 what this game looks like from the grand scheme of things. 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:34.760 I mean, I get where you're going and yeah, like 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:37.880 you're going back to those that Seattle game, right, or 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:42.280 being Peyton Manning that the best statistical offense of all time, 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:45.720 or at least it was at the time. Maybe maybe 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:47.560 you puff your chest out a little bit more. Maybe 0:07:47.600 --> 0:07:50.080 it's more of a measuring stick because you were, like, 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:51.880 those guys are going to be there at the end 0:07:51.880 --> 0:07:55.520 of the year. I know they are, and I doubt 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:58.040 the Patriots are gonna make a ton of noise in 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:01.880 the playoffs this year. But even like you just you 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:04.640 don't apologize for wins in the NFL, like should it 0:08:04.720 --> 0:08:07.280 have been should it have been that thrilling? No, like 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.160 they should have scored two touchdowns in the red zone 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:14.600 and maybe won that game by ten or fourteen points honestly, 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:17.320 like they played a very sloppy game. But you don't 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:19.680 apologize for going on the road and beating anybody in 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.320 the NFL. Yeah, I actually think that that was a 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:25.360 good thing about it, right. I think when you're on 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:29.320 a team and you're trying to get to the Super Bowl, 0:08:29.320 --> 0:08:31.240 and you watch some of those teams that have made 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.280 it to the Super Bowl, you see them get lucky. 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.400 Sometimes you see them pull out wins in those sloppy 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:38.679 games where everything goes wrong, but they found a way 0:08:38.679 --> 0:08:40.559 to pull out the win. And I think that is 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:43.800 a signature for a team that's that's poised to make 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:45.720 a long run into the playoffs. I'm so glad you 0:08:45.760 --> 0:08:48.120 said that, Danny, because I've seen and I know it's 0:08:48.240 --> 0:08:50.320 it's always a vocal minority. I'm not saying a lot 0:08:50.360 --> 0:08:53.120 of people feel this way, but I've seen fans that 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:56.319 are like, super Bowl teams don't do this, super Bowl, 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:58.480 they don't play games like this. I'm like, the hell 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:02.760 they don't. Erfol teams play ugly games all the time, 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:04.520 like and that's I mean, that's the mark of a 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:07.560 good team, is winning a clunky game. Yeah, when when 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.120 you play terrible and can still find a way to 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:12.800 pull it out of the fire, that's that's the mark 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:15.200 of a good team. And so that's what I'm yeah, Like, 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:18.120 maybe if the Patriots still had Brady and you knew 0:09:18.120 --> 0:09:20.560 that they were gonna win thirteen games this year, you 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:22.680 feel a little bit, No, you feel a lot better 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.640 about that win, but you should still feel good that 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:28.880 you can go on the road play kind of crappy 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:31.720 in several aspects, of the game and find a way 0:09:31.720 --> 0:09:33.880 to win. And I wouldn't take anything away from the 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.840 fact that they're on a four game winning streak, Like 0:09:36.880 --> 0:09:39.320 it's so many things in their mind that can Like 0:09:39.320 --> 0:09:41.080 they're trying to get to the bye week, they're trying 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:42.920 to be healthy, but they but they are also trying 0:09:42.960 --> 0:09:45.280 to win that last game. So in your mind is 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.360 just a lot of stuff going on. And it's very, 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:49.280 very hard to go on a winning streak that long 0:09:49.320 --> 0:09:52.240 without making mistakes like we did on Sunday. How much 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:55.760 does something like that that mindset, those different things kind 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:59.120 of sneaking their way into a mindset heading into a game, 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:01.720 especially with the great coaching staff on the other side. 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:04.120 I mean, even if the Patriots aren't there in the playoffs, 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:06.720 they still have Bell Belichick as there as their head coach. 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:10.160 They still have McDaniels, They still Belichick two point oh. 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.360 They have so many guys on that sideline that can 0:10:12.480 --> 0:10:15.920 make mistakes for you, And of course the Cowboys did 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:18.000 show that they can make mistakes there. But with all 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.600 of those different things from a mindset standpoint, how hard 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:23.520 is it to keep it straight from a player's man 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:25.480 I will be lying to you if I said that 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:27.320 it's just you go out there and you just focus 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.120 on the task at hand, but it's really not that easy. 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.280 You have to really really fight throughout the week to 0:10:33.320 --> 0:10:36.480 try to center your mind back onto the task at hand. 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:38.760 And then when you get out there and you're playing 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:40.360 a certain way and you're like, man, it's starting to 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:42.280 it's starting to look bad. And then you start to 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:44.000 think back to last year, like, man, we weren't able 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:46.440 to pull pull out these games when we made these 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.560 mistakes last year. And I think that's the sign of 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.320 how we've changed as a team. You look at it, 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:53.920 you look back, and you say, man, last year we 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:55.760 weren't able to do this, all right, But this year 0:10:55.800 --> 0:10:57.520 we're a different team. So we're gonna come out and 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:59.520 we're gonna make whatever play we have to make, no 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:02.480 matter what happens. Because think about the mindset. After Trayvond's 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:05.520 get that gets that interception for touchdown, and then you 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:08.520 get bombed the next one for seventy five yard touchdown, 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:11.839 usually your mind goes, man, we just cannot figure out 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.040 a way to get it done. Everything is going against us, 0:11:14.080 --> 0:11:17.680 the rough suck whatever, like nothing can fall in our favor. 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.560 But this year on this team, we come back and 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:23.520 we're like, all right, we're not budget come back. Ceedee 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.280 Lamb dances into the end zone for for a walk 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.720 off touchdown. It's just it's different, and not to you know, 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:32.400 say we're gonna win a super Bowl anything, but up 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:34.760 to this point in the season, it just looks different. 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.200 I completely agree, and I think you make great points 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:41.040 there because let's say, same scenario, same run of events 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:43.320 happens in the New England game this year, and it 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.880 happens last year in twenty twenty. You lose Tyrant Smith, 0:11:46.840 --> 0:11:49.520 you give up a seventy five yard touchdown with two 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:52.720 minutes left. You have I know it happened on the 0:11:52.760 --> 0:11:54.959 last play of the game, but Dak Prescott is banged 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.360 up a little bit. I mean, any of these things, oh, 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.280 one hundred and fifty yards of penalties, let's throw that 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:03.400 in there. Why not any of those things happen? Any 0:12:03.480 --> 0:12:05.920 multitude of those things happened last year, you think you're 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:09.400 gonna lose the football game, you automatically think, hey, there's 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:11.880 no way the Cowboys won that game, at least in 0:12:11.880 --> 0:12:15.040 a vacuum. This year, after every one of those things happened, 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.520 It's like, man, we're not playing the best, but still 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:19.920 feel like the Cowboys can pull this out, still feel 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:21.600 like they can win it, even after the seventy five 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:25.880 yard touchdowns. That's a sign of a team that's ultra confident, 0:12:26.000 --> 0:12:28.439 knowing that, hey, we just gave up a bomb to 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:31.400 Kendrick Bourne in an offense that's literally known for not 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:34.360 having the big playability, and we gave up a big play. 0:12:34.559 --> 0:12:36.400 Let's go down the field and let's kick a field Dave. 0:12:36.400 --> 0:12:39.720 Have we become that team that has the quarterback that says, oh, 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:43.000 you score too fast? Yes, yes, we become that team. 0:12:43.080 --> 0:12:46.040 I actually one of the highlights of my Monday. You know, 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.360 after any game, you just spend Monday digging through what 0:12:49.480 --> 0:12:52.120 everybody's saying about everything. And I don't I don't know 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.360 who it was or where it came from. But you know, 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:59.520 every time Rogers does that, there's always somebody's snapchat that 0:12:59.640 --> 0:13:01.480 leaks on to Twitter that's like they gave him too 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:03.079 much time, you know what I'm talking about. Yeah, they'll 0:13:03.120 --> 0:13:06.240 take like a selfie like they're celebrating even though Rogers 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:08.720 has forty seconds. Somebody did that for dak At Jillette 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:10.560 items I'm sorry, I don't know the guy's name, but 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.240 it was some guy. He's got his selfie cam and 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.559 he's like, all these pats fans are celebrating they gave 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:18.200 Dak too much time. I'm like, yeah, they did, da Yes, 0:13:18.280 --> 0:13:21.080 Dak is that dude? To answer your question, it's nice 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:23.200 to have. It's nice to be on the other side 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.920 of that, right because we've like we've usually been on 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:29.080 the side where we've getting given somebody too much time, 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:33.440 usually Aaron Rodgers. And now we're on the side of like, 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.200 if you give us forty seconds, we believe we can 0:13:36.240 --> 0:13:38.280 still make a play. I don't say that like I was. 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.400 I wasn't. I wasn't doubting him. I have supreme confidence 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:45.600 in Dak Prescott. But you know, the Patriots punted in overtime, 0:13:46.040 --> 0:13:48.480 which I thought was kind of a questionable decision. Honestly, 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.600 I agree to not a great punt. Dak gets the ball, 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.080 like I mean, they punted it, and I assume in 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.240 hopes of pinning Dak inside the ten, they get the 0:13:57.240 --> 0:13:59.560 ball on the twenty, right at the twenty where CD 0:14:00.160 --> 0:14:02.880 caught it, And in my head, I'm just like, if 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.120 you're worth forty million dollars you win this game, Like 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:06.720 that's just that's all there is to it. And I 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:08.920 don't say that as if like I'm doubting him. I'm 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.800 just saying that this is this is why you're this 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:14.960 is why you're worth this money, and like not didn't. 0:14:14.960 --> 0:14:17.440 Obviously he delivered, But like, at no point did I 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:20.640 even think it wasn't going to happen. You know, yeah, 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:22.480 it was awesome. You're not alone in that fact. We 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:25.320 were in the studio watching the game and Barry Church, 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:27.640 who you're on the Players Lounds with with, was standing 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:30.040 right next to me. He goes, all right, one hundred 0:14:30.040 --> 0:14:32.240 forty million dollars man, one hundred sixty million dollars. Man, 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:35.160 this is the guy, Like, get after it. Uh, Like, 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:37.440 this is what you're what you're paid for. And I 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:40.240 want to just play Devil's advocate here. Is it so 0:14:40.320 --> 0:14:42.640 much Dak Prescott or is it just the offense and 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.160 Kellen Moore and and just the momentum they have as 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:47.880 a whole on that entire unit. Well, that's I mean, 0:14:47.920 --> 0:14:50.920 that's everything, right. I Mean, Kellen is in his bag. 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:54.640 Obviously he's doing a great job. Offensive line is awesome. 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:57.920 Zeke's having maybe the best year of his career, or 0:14:57.920 --> 0:14:59.640 at least the best year since he was a rookie. 0:14:59.640 --> 0:15:01.880 Proble in all a rome as being all around, but 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:04.800 he was, he was. He was amazing in that game. 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:07.560 I thought, you know, like that he got seven passes. 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:09.640 He had a couple of catches where he like, I 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:12.000 don't think of him as this like amazing receiver, but 0:15:12.040 --> 0:15:13.960 he made some crazy catches. I think he had a 0:15:13.960 --> 0:15:16.600 bobbled one that got called back by a penalty, A 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:18.880 little bit of first down. Yeah, yeah, I mean the 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.640 way he was running, like he only had like one 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.360 really big one, but just grinding for those four or 0:15:24.400 --> 0:15:27.320 five six yards. I thought he was great anyway. It's 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:30.280 the whole thing. But the trigger man makes it run right, 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:33.480 And uh, I'm not I'm not saying he's the best, 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:35.720 and I don't. I don't think it matters, to be 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.360 honest with you, I think I'm stealing this point from 0:15:38.400 --> 0:15:41.240 The Athletic Football Show, which I love. But it's like, 0:15:41.240 --> 0:15:44.040 like who cares? Like one, two, three, four, five, Who cares? 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:45.960 It doesn't matter. Do you have a guy who can 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:49.080 deliver in those circumstances or don't you If if the 0:15:49.120 --> 0:15:52.120 answers yes, awesome, and he's worth that much money. If 0:15:52.120 --> 0:15:56.960 the answers no, I'm sorry, but that ain't the Cowboys problem. 0:15:57.240 --> 0:15:59.080 It's really all there is to it. I don't care 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:02.440 if Dak is better than Mahomes, Rogers or whatever. Can 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:04.560 he deliver in those situations like do you have a 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:07.200 guy that makes the difference when it matters? And the 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:10.480 Cowboys do And I will say this everything that Dave said, 0:16:10.600 --> 0:16:15.360 plus they punt it right. Well, so the defense came in, like, 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:19.200 I think we're to a point now where you can 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:22.440 you see that we have a difference maker at every 0:16:22.560 --> 0:16:24.760 level of the defense. We have a difference maker on 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:26.760 the d line or Randy Gregor. You have a difference 0:16:26.760 --> 0:16:30.280 maker possibly coming back soon with Tank Lawrence. You go 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:32.560 to the second level, you have a Michael Parsons at 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:34.680 the linebacker level. You go to the third level, you 0:16:34.720 --> 0:16:37.000 have a tray Mund Dix. You have somebody each level 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:39.480 who can turn the game. And we saw two of 0:16:39.520 --> 0:16:42.080 the three levels turn the game, all right. You saw 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.680 Randy Gregory come in get two big sack, sack, force fumble. 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:49.520 You saw Traymund Diggs with a pick six. Uh. You 0:16:49.560 --> 0:16:50.800 know at the end of the game. You know, I'll 0:16:50.840 --> 0:16:52.640 be he did get you know, even at out with 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:56.000 the with the touchdown, but he still made the play. 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.200 It all goes together, right because it's easy to focus 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:00.520 on the offense because of all the penalty and the 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:04.920 two turnovers in the end zone. But this was this 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:08.159 was not a great effort by the defense overall, you know, 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:11.440 I mean, seventy five yarder that just can't happen to Bourne. 0:17:12.040 --> 0:17:14.720 Uh and the way that I mean, um dan Quinn 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:16.640 said it himself, He's like, we got our ass kicked 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:18.440 in the first quarter. I mean, they came out there, 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:21.680 they were they they came out in personnel and packages 0:17:21.720 --> 0:17:26.360 that they just weren't ready for. And what fourteen fourteen 0:17:26.400 --> 0:17:28.760 points in the first like two possessions, right, Yeah, they 0:17:28.760 --> 0:17:30.800 scored touchdowns on each of the two. Now and short 0:17:30.880 --> 0:17:33.360 field does help the first proportion does, but you still, 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:36.400 I mean, they still do it. And but kudos to them. 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:40.040 The Patriots had like the Patriots had I think one 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:42.680 hundred and forty yards in the first quarter and then 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:45.919 then they had fifty until like midway through the fourth, 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:49.800 like they clamped down. Obviously, the Patriots got it back, 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:53.119 and that's how they wound up in overtime. But um, 0:17:53.160 --> 0:17:55.640 I just thought it was a remarkable job of responding 0:17:55.680 --> 0:17:57.800 to not your best stuff. Yea, because because the way 0:17:57.840 --> 0:17:59.359 the game started, you could have said, hey man, this 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:01.640 is gonna be one of those games for us. On defense, 0:18:01.760 --> 0:18:04.680 I had the meanest tweet written out about the defense. 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:07.440 I had the meanest tweet like it was going to 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:09.480 be something about I was like, well, it's fall and 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:12.040 we're in New England, this feels like a good time 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:14.280 for the defense to turn back into a pumpkin, I guess, 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:17.320 And I held off on it. I held off on 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.000 sending it and lowing me, and I wound up deleting 0:18:20.000 --> 0:18:22.159 it because I was just like, well, clearly I was 0:18:22.160 --> 0:18:25.080 wrong about this. They needed some time. I think I 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.280 think people are finally starting to see why I have 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:31.360 the ultimate faith in my man. DQ dan Quinn had 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:33.800 backwards sitting up in the booth, like I have the 0:18:33.880 --> 0:18:35.600 ultimate faith in the fact that he's going to get 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:37.360 it figured out. You come into the game, you said, 0:18:37.359 --> 0:18:39.040 oh man, we gave up some points. We can't stop 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:40.560 the run. We can't do this, we can't do that, 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.320 And then like you said, third second and third quarters, 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:47.320 half of the fourth. We played great defense. Now, you know, 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:49.200 we gave up some points at the end of the game, 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:52.200 some yards of seventy five yard whatever. But I also 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:54.159 think that is something that you're going to have to 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:56.440 live with when you have a player like Traymon Dix 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.280 who's going to make those type of plays ninety percent 0:18:59.320 --> 0:19:00.960 of the time and then he's gonna give up a 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:03.240 touchdown every once in a while. You've seen, you know, 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:05.520 great cornerbacks in the past that coaches are like, you 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:08.680 know what, we'll we'll take that because what we've seen 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:11.399 opposite of that is what we really need and we 0:19:11.400 --> 0:19:13.360 want him to continue to be aggressive as we moved 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:15.880 throughout the season. Keep doing you, buddy, Yeah, I mean 0:19:16.400 --> 0:19:20.240 that's the seventy five yard or just I hate to 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:22.480 like make excuses or whatever, but that was such It 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:25.320