WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: This One Hurts 0:00:04.440 --> 0:00:06.880 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:08.480 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:18.480 Cowboys. This He's Talking Cowboys, straining live from the Dallas 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:21.800 Cowboys World Head Course at the Star in Friscoe. 0:00:22.079 --> 0:00:24.800 Straight Stow. 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:28.800 Twenty patient touchdown. 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:34.440 And now your hosts Isaiah Standback, Nick Harris, John Mashoda, 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:36.199 and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:42.839 I hope you had your Black Rifle Coffee this morning. Everybody, 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:47.360 Cowboys Nation, welcome into a Monday edition of Talking Cowboys, 0:00:47.400 --> 0:00:50.760 presented by Black Rifle Coffee. You're gonna need it because 0:00:50.800 --> 0:00:53.040 there is a lot to talk about. Twenty eight to 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:56.360 twenty three the final score. Philadelphia takes down Dallas in 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:59.600 Week nine of the NFL season. Isaiah Standback is here, 0:00:59.720 --> 0:01:02.640 Nick Harris is here, I'm here, Kyle Yeomens. We've got 0:01:02.720 --> 0:01:05.920 Chris Beam in the back run and everything. And really, 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:11.920 I don't know outside of a playoff game, because playoff games, 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:14.440 every play matters. It always does NFL season, for the 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:18.200 most part, every play matters. I don't know if I 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:23.520 remember a game outside of playoff time where when we 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:27.120 go back and look at this football game, there is 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:33.000 legitimately every play was the deciding factor or could have 0:01:33.080 --> 0:01:36.319 been the deciding factor. It was one of those games 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:40.440 where the breaks go your way, the game goes your way, 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:44.640 the breaks don't go your way, the game doesn't twenty 0:01:44.680 --> 0:01:46.080 eight to twenty three. And there's a lot to hit 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:49.080 on this, So I'll let Nick start things off. You 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:53.520 were in the building at Lincoln Financial Field. I don't 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:54.680 even know where to start. 0:01:55.440 --> 0:01:58.720 Yeah, I'm with you, just your overall thoughts. 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:02.280 Yeah, this is about as as true of a game 0:02:02.320 --> 0:02:04.640 of inches as you could find, and and pretty much 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:08.440 any game. It had a playoff atmosphere from the very beginning. 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:10.919 I kind of wrote about it and last night on 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:13.720 Dallas Cowboys dot com. Uh, it's it's rare that you 0:02:13.880 --> 0:02:17.359 get a a playoff type feel in early November like this. 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:21.320 Whenever the both teams took the field, the energy it 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.200 was it was palpable in the stadium, carried throughout the 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:27.799 entire game, and it wasn't over until the all the 0:02:27.880 --> 0:02:31.480 clock at all zeros. I I look at good things 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:32.840 and I look at bad things out of this game, 0:02:32.880 --> 0:02:35.680 and I think, honestly, I feel like the good overways 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.800 the bad at times, but the bad is so. 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:44.560 It's so Plaguey that it just doesn't it doesn't go away. 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:46.880 Like there's some things that we've seen from this team 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.760 that are bad this season that just continue to pop up. 0:02:49.919 --> 0:02:52.120 And just when you think that it's okay, penalties, we've 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:54.880 they figured it out against the Rams Bam, it's right back, 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:57.280 you know, even if some were just some were unjust whatever, 0:02:57.800 --> 0:03:00.920 still being in a position to be in those situations. 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:05.440 We could start with the good Dak Prescott I man, 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:07.919 I think the confidence level it would have to be, 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:10.200 it would have to be increased after the last couple 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:12.240 of weeks coming out of the bye week. I think 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:15.120 there was something that probably happened during the bye week 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:19.200 that that allowed them to utilize Dak to his his 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.600 max efficiency. For me, it's his mobility once again. I 0:03:22.639 --> 0:03:24.720 mean he was he was working magic in the pocket 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.799 last night. His pocket presence was incredible. Even if he 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:30.200 was even if it did crash in on a couple 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.280 of times, he was still able to get outside and 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:35.360 avoid most of the pressures that Hassan Redick was in 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.520 the backfield quite a bit last night, as well as 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:43.440 Fletcher Cox. We could stay with the good, I you know, 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.560 limiting aj Brown to sixty six yards or whatever it was. 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:48.440 I think if you had told me that would be 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:50.080 the case coming in, I'd be like, okay, so the 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:54.400 Cowboys won. Unfortunately that didn't happen. Looking at the bad 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:57.600 I talked about the penalties. Gosh, there's two players I 0:03:57.680 --> 0:04:00.320 look at and I'm like, man, if even one of 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:02.080 them has a better night, I think this ends up 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:02.960 being a different result. 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.840 It's Jordan Lewis and Terrence Steele. Terrence Steel probably more so. 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.440 It was on that final drive that's when it really 0:04:10.560 --> 0:04:15.320 became a plague Terrence Steele, and unfortunately they weren't able 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:16.880 to climb out of that late hole, and they had 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:20.000 two really good opportunities to do. So you look at 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:23.240 the Schoonmaker play and how just so very close it 0:04:23.279 --> 0:04:25.320 would have been to six added points there. 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:29.040 It's a game of inches. And you know, I know, 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:29.400 I know. 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:33.360 The officials are a big part of the dialogue this 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:35.320 morning on just kind of how things went in that game. 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:37.240 But the officials went against both teams. I mean, you 0:04:37.320 --> 0:04:39.599 look at that final drive with with Philadelphia. There were 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:41.440 a couple of calls there that were like, all right, 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:44.960 you know it even doubt I think at the end 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:47.800 of the day, Philadelphia was just a better team last night. However, 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:50.120 there was a lot of confidence in the locker room 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.039 after the game, like, yeah, they lost, like ceedee lamb. 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:54.840 He was kind of teared up whenever we first walked in, 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:56.640 and he kind of got himself together and he was fine. 0:04:57.640 --> 0:05:00.400 But everyone everyone kind of had the same view of 0:05:00.480 --> 0:05:02.120 the game, is like, hey, like we can contend with 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.320 this team, Like this is not what happened in San Francisco. 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.400 We were three four yards away from making this happen. 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:10.520 They still claim to be in the upper echelon. I 0:05:10.839 --> 0:05:14.000 think they're very clear in the second now after last night. 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:15.920 I mean, you have to beat a team like that 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:17.320 on the road before I can put you in. 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:18.080 The upper echelon. 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:20.640 But there's a really good opportunity to go three and 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:22.360 oh over the course of the next three weeks home 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:25.640 against the Giants at Carolina and then home against the Commanders. 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:28.760 If you're looking at eight and three welcoming Philly back 0:05:28.800 --> 0:05:31.760 into Dallas, then who knows, maybe maybe both teams are 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:33.480 looking at the same record with what with what the 0:05:33.560 --> 0:05:35.440 Eagles have coming up, they have the Chiefs, the Bills, 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:38.600 the Dolphins, so we'll see. I don't think this is 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:40.080 the end of the world. This is this is not 0:05:40.279 --> 0:05:41.960 I do not feel like how I felt like coming 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:45.680 after San Francisco. I think this is a much different feel. 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.040 And that's a team that they can beat, and I 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:48.880 think that's a team they'll see three times this year. 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:51.760 I'm proud of them. I don't. 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:56.080 I don't I understand the fandom side of it, where 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.040 people are like, oh man, we're really. 0:05:57.839 --> 0:05:59.920 Close and we hate the Eagles and we want to win. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:00.520 I get it. 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:05.960 The reality is you've closed the gap that was massive 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:08.080 After the first couple of games in the season, when 0:06:08.120 --> 0:06:12.719 you got beat up by San Francisco, you were far behind. 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:16.080 I mean, you're way behind San Francisco. Obviously, you're way 0:06:16.200 --> 0:06:20.440 behind Philadelphia. Since that game, you have closed the gap 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:23.560 in terms of the distance between you and those that 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:27.640 are considered to be better than you. And that's the positive. Right, Yeah, 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:29.680 you lost the game, but guess what. I look at 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:33.640 it like this, if you're racing against Usain Bolt. Okay, 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:35.279 a lot of people race against Ussin Boat. A lot 0:06:35.279 --> 0:06:37.200 of people lost to Usain Boat. But guess what, every 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:39.120 time if I get a little bit closer to Usain boat. 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:42.279 I could walk away with my chest poked. I said, oh, hey, 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:44.880 you got me, But I'm coming, right, I'm getting closer 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.200 to you. Right, I'm gonna get you one of these days, right, 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.600 And that's the that's the I ran ten oh two. Yeah, 0:06:49.600 --> 0:06:50.880 you know what I'm saying, like, Hey, you know you 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:52.840 ran a nine seven nine. The first time you beat me, 0:06:52.920 --> 0:06:54.720 I ran a ten to three. But this time I ran, 0:06:54.880 --> 0:06:56.480 I ran a nine to nine. I'm getting there, you 0:06:56.520 --> 0:06:58.200 know what I'm saying, Like, I'm coming, I'm getting close. 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:00.520 And that's where the cowboys are at. You have to 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:02.520 take the positives right. When you talk about trying to 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:05.280 achieve a goal, you have to have tangible goals along 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:07.240 the way. It's not just you just all all of 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:09.080 a sudden leap fraud from one side of the street 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:10.880 to the other and tadao, we've arrived. 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.080 There's baby steps that come with it. This was a 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:14.360 baby step you took. 0:07:14.480 --> 0:07:17.280 You took a team that on paper, you shouldn't be 0:07:17.280 --> 0:07:18.960 able to play with based upon some of the things 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:20.520 that you've done in the past. The opponents that you've 0:07:20.560 --> 0:07:22.720 lost to. You lost to Arizona that had a similar scheme. 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:26.240 You lost to San Francisco really bad, right, that's they 0:07:26.240 --> 0:07:27.440 were considered to be you. 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:29.640 Know, A and B. You know, a A one and 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:30.320 A two. 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:31.960 You know, however, you want to look at it, San 0:07:32.000 --> 0:07:34.000 Francisco and the egos and now all of a sudden 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:35.520 you've closed that gap. You don't get to play the 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:37.440 forty nine ers again, right unless you see them in 0:07:37.440 --> 0:07:39.320 the playoffs. But guess what, Philly is a team that 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:40.680 you look you can look at and say, you know what, 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:42.640 we put them on the same level as Sam fran 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:45.440 And if we're this close to almost beating Philly, that 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.000 we know how far we've come since losing that game. 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:49.760 And you have to be able to take that as 0:07:49.800 --> 0:07:52.440 a positive. And I think you look at what you did. Yeah, 0:07:52.440 --> 0:07:54.440 there's things that have to get cleaned up. Always is 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:56.200 every single game. There's always something that has to be 0:07:56.240 --> 0:07:58.400 cleaned up every single game. For those that are talking 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:00.760 about flags, there's a there's a flag that could be 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:02.960 thrown on every play. Yes, okay, it was what ten 0:08:03.000 --> 0:08:05.320 penalties each team? I believe it was right that both 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.680 teams had equal penalties, so that wasn't an issue. Okay, 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:10.880 you talked about the last drive, like is Dallas was 0:08:10.920 --> 0:08:12.600 given opportunities to get down the field and be in 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.240 the game. Decisions were made. Everybody's gonna look at coach 0:08:15.280 --> 0:08:17.160 McCarthy and sayd oh, you should have And I was 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:17.840 one of those people. 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:19.760 I would have taken the points in the one situation. 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.880 But guess what, either way, there's pros and cons to 0:08:22.960 --> 0:08:25.520 each right, there's always That's what's the thing about decisions. 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:27.680 There's pros and there's cons, and you hope that the 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:30.640 pros outweighed the cons. Unfortunately they didn't in this game. 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.839 But Dak Prescott played well. Your defense played their butts 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:36.840 off right. The offensive line has some struggles. You're running 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:38.760 game didn't really get going, but you didn't expect it 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:41.040 to because of this defensive front. There was a lot 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:45.160 of things that what you expected happened and what you 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:48.719 hope for happened. But sometimes the team is just a 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:50.719 little bit better. And that's exactly what you ran into 0:08:50.800 --> 0:08:53.800 last night. But you have closed the gap, and you 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.080 wonder why guys are walking around a lot more confident 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:57.840 in the locker room after losing. 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.719 Because they know we've closed the gap. It wasn't a 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:02.599 question and can we play with these guys? It was like, 0:09:03.120 --> 0:09:04.040 how close are we? 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:06.520 Right? The last memory we have a playing an opponent 0:09:06.559 --> 0:09:08.880 of this caliber was not a good memory, right, So 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:10.679 all of a sudden, now we play it. All Right, 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:12.880 We've come a long way in a short period of time. 0:09:13.120 --> 0:09:15.000 I'll take that as a victory all day long, even 0:09:15.040 --> 0:09:17.200 though on the record it says al yeah. 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:19.160 And the response was the exact same as well, because 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.120 they started the game with a three and out defensively 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:23.520 and gave up a touchdown offensive or you know what 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:25.959 I mean, and they were able to respond off of 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:27.160 that tie the game and stayed in the. 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:31.240 Three out the game. So I'm looking at kind of 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.360 what I said earlier about the plays, right, There were 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:35.319 plays in this game that you can all go back 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:37.520 and circle, and I've circled four of them when I 0:09:37.559 --> 0:09:39.959 went back and watched the film because of points that 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:42.480 were left off the board, points that could have been 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:45.439 in your favor, or points that Philly tried to give 0:09:45.520 --> 0:09:50.920 you but ultimately res I guess reversed. I should say, 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:53.439 at some point down the line, I'll start with the 0:09:53.520 --> 0:09:58.200 two plays that Philly nearly gave Dallas but didn't. They 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:00.480 were both swift fumbles. One was in the setdecond quarter, 0:10:01.000 --> 0:10:03.040 It would have given the ball to Dallas at the 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:07.840 forty seven yard line instead Philadelphia just basically he grabbed 0:10:07.880 --> 0:10:09.440 it for a split second and then lost it again. 0:10:09.480 --> 0:10:11.480 I didn't know you could lose two fumbles on one 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:15.040 play like that. Swift did so apparently, but he gathered 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:16.839 it while he was on the ground. They called him down. 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:19.839 That was one play. Seven points. That's seven points, And 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:23.440 I understand from that point forward it's a butterfly effect. 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:26.400 One play happens a certain way. The rest of the 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:29.000 plays may not happen a certain way. But after that, 0:10:29.320 --> 0:10:31.720 Swift fumbles in the fourth quarter on that final offensive 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:35.439 drive for Philadelphia almost I mean the butt fumble, the 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:39.679 butt fumble, yeah, nearly the resurrection. 0:10:39.280 --> 0:10:39.960 Of the butt fumble. 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:41.920 It was the brown butt fumble. 0:10:42.360 --> 0:10:45.880 Micah Parsons had both hands on it. If he reels 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.679 that in instead of just bobbling it for a split second, 0:10:49.000 --> 0:10:51.120 that's Cowboys football. At the thirty yard line and then 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.439 all of a sudden, you're not going ninety yards to 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:57.120 score with forty five seconds left. Yeah, you're going thirty 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:59.240 yards to score with one oh seven left and a 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:02.920 timeout time out. Completely different ball game three to seven 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.120 points there. Probably seven is what you're going for, but 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.960 I'm just gonna say state facts there. You had points 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:11.600 on the board there. If you recover that fumble Peyton 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.280 hinders shot, non touchdown, that's six or seven points left 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:18.200 off the board. He runs one more foot into Schoonmaker, 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:22.360 that's a hindershot Luke Schoonmaker runs one more foot into 0:11:22.520 --> 0:11:25.160 the end zone and that's a touchdown. 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:25.520 That's it. 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:29.120 One foot. He takes one half of a step into 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:30.840 the end zone a little bit further on that route, 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.280 that's a touchdown. And then of course Dak Prescott stepping 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:35.520 out on the two point conversion. That plain and simple. 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:37.679 That's two points on the board, and all of a sudden, 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:40.440 it's a completely different ball game. Any of those plays 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.720 go in the opposite direction of what they did, four 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:47.640 separate plays. I think Dallas wins this game, but that's 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.520 part of it, and it happens on both sides. There 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.360 were penalty flags thrown late against Philadelphia. There were times 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.440 when Philadelphia had Jalen Hurts under pressure. There were times 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:58.880 when the defense had lapses. They gave up one hundred 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:00.960 and ninety one yards to see Lamb and. 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:04.120 Some of you have penalties, and you extended their drives. 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:05.760 You know what I mean, There's a whole lot of that. 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:06.679 There's a lot of it. 0:12:06.720 --> 0:12:08.000 That's a lot of it, man, And that's why you 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:10.480 can't just put your finger on one thing and say, oh, 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.120 this was the deciding factor. There was a lot of 0:12:13.160 --> 0:12:15.520 deciding factors, right, There were deciding factors in the first quarter. 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:16.679 If you really want to come down to it. In 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:20.080 that regard, it's a close game against two really good 0:12:20.200 --> 0:12:24.920 competitive teams. This is what you expected, right whe whether 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:28.360 it's whether it was for your team or your other team, 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:30.959 you know, this was the type of game that you expected. 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:34.360 And this is the reason why why they chose not 0:12:34.480 --> 0:12:34.880 to give. 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.280 Up this game on Sunday, to flex it till a 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:38.760 Sunday night game, because they knew it was going to 0:12:38.760 --> 0:12:39.520 be about Royale. 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:43.079 And and it's awesome. It's freaking awesome, you know. And 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.600 you look at it from the standpoint you went in there, 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.160 you made these boys have all kinds of question marks. 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.559 Now Philly is like, oh crap, all right, they okay, 0:12:52.320 --> 0:12:54.280 what we saw against sand friend, that is not that's 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:57.160 not what we expected. Okay, all right, these boys came 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.800 to play and then you left Philly beat up. You 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:02.160 beat up Philly, You left some of their main players 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:04.319 batter than bruised. And now you never asked, never in 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.160 your intention to go out there and hurt guys. But 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:09.720 the reality is a very violent, physical game, and you're 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:11.599 going out there trying to impose your will, and you 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:13.760 left them lesser than what they came in. 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:17.120 I thought that was a huge positive for this team 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:20.480 is in games against good teams, at least over the 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:24.360 last two years, you've been the lesser physical team. You 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:27.200 were just as physical as Philadelphia all the way through, 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:29.480 beginning to end. You had the chance all the way through. 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:35.120 The Dallas Cowboys were just as physically imposing as Philadelphia. 0:13:35.400 --> 0:13:36.520 Philadelphia took their. 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.240 Lumps on offense, they took their lumps on defense, and 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:41.760 their front seven. Man, they get after the football, don't they. 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.719 They gave trouble to the entire offensive line. I know 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.720 we talked about Terrence Steele, we talked about Tyler Biada. 0:13:47.800 --> 0:13:49.920 It wasn't just those two guys that struggled up front. 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:53.880 The offensive line struggled against one of, if not the 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:55.240 best front seven in football. 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.600 Well, I would say Tyron Smith and Tyler Smith had 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:00.720 arguably one of their best games. There were times when 0:14:00.760 --> 0:14:03.920 they still got beat two Yeah, I mean oall beat 0:14:05.080 --> 0:14:07.000 overall when you look at what they did over the 0:14:07.040 --> 0:14:09.520 course of the game against that defensive front, like the 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:11.640 left side held up, like the left side was fine. 0:14:11.679 --> 0:14:14.400 If those two guys at all five play like those 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:16.679 two guys, they have a clean pocket for most of 0:14:16.720 --> 0:14:17.000 the night. 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:19.440 I just wanted to throw that in there. 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:22.960 No, I'm not downgrading Tyron Smith and Tyler Smith, but 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:26.240 for everybody that wants to point fingers at just one 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.760 person or two person, two people up front, that's not 0:14:29.840 --> 0:14:31.640 the case. There were times when Tyron Smith was in 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:33.720 the lap of Dak Prescott. There were times when Tyler 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:35.680 Smith was missing a block when he was trying to 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:37.280 get up to the second level. There were times like that. 0:14:37.640 --> 0:14:40.040 But from a grand scheme of things, I mean, that's 0:14:40.360 --> 0:14:43.080 part of the reality of playing offensive line. You have 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:45.280 ninety snaps in a game, and I know they don't 0:14:45.280 --> 0:14:49.160 play ninety snaps, but just for the sake of an argument, 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:52.440 six fine sixty five snaps. If you have three bad 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.760 snaps from an offensive lineman, you're not having a great day. 0:14:55.360 --> 0:14:56.800 I mean, that's just how it is. It's part of 0:14:56.840 --> 0:15:00.200 the position. I could say the same thing about Dak 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:04.080 Prescott too. He wasn't perfect, don't get me wrong, but 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:08.560 he played his butt off. He absolutely played. Well, you're 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:11.040 not in that game late. If Dak Prescott doesn't play 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:11.800 as well as he does. 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.840 You relied on Dak. You he threw the ball forty 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:18.080 four times, forty four passes. 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:19.520 Was it you that said last week he needs to 0:15:19.560 --> 0:15:21.040 throw at least like thirty five in this game. 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:23.560 I think you listen here, you don't want him thrown 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:24.560 over forty I can tell you that. 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.080 Yeah, okay, but the reality is you weren't going to 0:15:27.160 --> 0:15:29.720 run a ball effectively against this front as you You're 0:15:29.840 --> 0:15:32.520 just not. These guys are just too good up front. 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:34.480 They held you to three and a half yards per 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:38.040 carry on twenty one rushes. That's what you can expect 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:39.800 out of that, right, So you have to throw your 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:42.920 way to a victory against this Against this team, their 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:44.960 secondary is are weak spot in their team, and that's 0:15:45.000 --> 0:15:48.040 what you try to expose. And Dak went twenty nine 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:50.360 to forty four, sixty five. You know, roll it up 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:54.040 to sixty six percent completion, no turnovers. All right, I'm 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:57.720 gonna say that again. No turnovers, yep, against a really 0:15:57.760 --> 0:15:58.720 good defense, and. 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:00.920 There wasn't There wasn't even an our like, oh that 0:16:01.000 --> 0:16:03.280 could have been bad. It was like the one sack 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:04.960 late where he was like kind of throwing. 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:11.520 Over the last few weeks, he's he has he's controlled himself. 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:14.080 There have been throws that he almost made that he 0:16:14.200 --> 0:16:16.920 decided to take sacks on instead of throwing the ball 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:19.000 up in the air, and super proud of him for 0:16:19.120 --> 0:16:22.040 making that progress, right because old Dak, or early in 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:24.680 the season, Dak would have just chucked it, just trying 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:26.320 to make play, trying to make a play. But guess what, 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:28.360 he tucked it right. He he held back. That was 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:31.360 his instinctively, he wanted to release the ball, but he 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:32.920 pulled back. He's like, no, I'm just gonna take this 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.040 sack and live to play another down. He gave this 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.440 team every opportunity possible to win the ball game, and 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:40.400 he's gonna look back and yes, people are gonna. 0:16:40.200 --> 0:16:41.640 Say, oh, well he overthrew. 0:16:41.960 --> 0:16:45.120 He overthrew c or Michael Gallup on the one pat Yeah, okay, yeah. 0:16:45.400 --> 0:16:47.960 Every quarterback usually has a ball that they wish they 0:16:47.960 --> 0:16:50.760 could have back in every game. AB's a freaking looting Okay. 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.560 Just to add to your point, who's the number one 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:57.720 film buff and somebody that was uber critical of their 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:04.000 own mistakes throughout their career at quarterback? Tom Brady, I 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.480 mean you've told me that before. I'm kind of surprised 0:17:06.520 --> 0:17:10.680 you didn't know. I mean, but Tom Brady could, I 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.280 mean across the board is known as the most lethal 0:17:13.359 --> 0:17:17.760 quarterback in NFL history, and he still had mistakes. It's 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:19.400 just how it goes, part of the game. 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:21.880 But you learn from it, you know. And so yes, 0:17:21.920 --> 0:17:24.440 there's a gazillion negatives. Yes there's a lot of good positives. 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:26.840 But the reality is you guys, you gained ground. You 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:27.480 gained ground. 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:29.639 So Cowboys Nation out there, I know you're frustrated. I 0:17:29.680 --> 0:17:30.200 know you're hurting. 0:17:30.240 --> 0:17:32.200 I know you got to listen to all all the 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.080 little Eagles fans. You probably got to pay up on 0:17:34.160 --> 0:17:36.800 your bets, all that jazz you take it, give your money, 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:39.159 do your push ups, you know, buy the lunches, and 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:41.000 just say, Okay, I'll see I'll see you. 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:42.480 I'll see you in a little bit, I'll see you. 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:43.320 I'll see you next month. 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:47.040 You know, we'll reconvene on this all right, because you 0:17:47.800 --> 0:17:50.880 just took a huge leap and now they're Yeah, you're 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:52.399 back two and a half games. That's the that's the 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:54.920 second part, big part. That's the part that sucks. You're 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.520 back two and a half games. Now that gap can 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:01.159