WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: No Más 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:05.200 The following. He is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:07.080 Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:16.759 No Cowboys This he's Talking Cowboys Straining live from the 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:20.600 Dallas Cowboys World Horse at the Star in Frisco. 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:27.840 Touchdown six, Second's got ten six today touchdown and now 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:38.440 your hosts Isaiah Standback, Patrick Walker, Josh Rodriguez, and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:38.720 --> 0:00:43.040 Twenty seven twenty on Monday Night Football, the Cowboys fall 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:48.560 to the Cincinnati Bengals and things just continue to snowball 0:00:48.720 --> 0:00:52.559 in this season of horrors for the Cowboys. Five and 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.160 eight is now the record. But really it's not even 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:57.920 about the record as much as it is about everything 0:00:57.920 --> 0:00:59.960 else that happened on Monday Night Football, and we're going to 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:02.880 dive into it here on Talking Cowboys, presented by Black 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:05.679 Rifle Coffee Company, Live from the Star in Frisco, Texas, 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:09.920 in the SWBC podcast Studio alongside Patrick No C Walker, 0:01:10.000 --> 0:01:13.000 Josh Rodriguez, Josh by the way, great job hosting last week. 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.520 My friend cooked. I don't want to be around anymore. 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:21.560 Oh don't say that. Turn that front upside down. Oh wow, 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:24.960 I gotta go, you gotta go. I'll see you later. Man, 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:29.320 it was good seeing you again. It's funny, like we 0:01:29.400 --> 0:01:31.320 joke about it, but that's kind of what the fan 0:01:31.360 --> 0:01:35.120 base feels like right now. A lot of time, I 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:39.080 know you're I know the so it's good to be 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:43.040 with you. The seven previous losses, there was always some 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:46.720 sense of frustration, there was some sense of anger, and 0:01:46.880 --> 0:01:49.080 everybody deals with a loss differently, so I'm sure there 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:51.400 are some Cowboys fans that are dealing with it in 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:54.320 a similar way for loss number eight as they did 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:56.440 for the first seven losses. And I'm not going to 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:58.760 tell anybody how to fan or how to feel whenever 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:04.200 it comes first loss. However, the general sense that I 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:09.320 have around what happened on Monday Night Football, it's everybody's 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:15.720 just bummed. The Cowboys nation is just dejected, and the 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:19.080 air whatever was left in the balloon, the era has 0:02:19.120 --> 0:02:21.800 now left the balloon and it just feels like, okay, 0:02:22.120 --> 0:02:23.320 So that's how it ends. 0:02:23.639 --> 0:02:28.480 Yeah, not that there ever was a party happening in 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.000 twenty twenty four, but there was a little bit of fun. 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:32.320 There was a chance for a party. 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:34.440 Yeah, there was a little bit of fun over that 0:02:34.440 --> 0:02:35.079 four day span. 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:37.680 Positive positivity, Yeah, especially. 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:42.160 In how you beat the Commanders in Washington, and how 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:44.639 wild and crazy that game was. And then you circle 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:47.920 back four days later and you finally snap the losing 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:50.160 streak at home against you know, and then it was 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:52.840 against the Giants on Thanksgiving with everybody watching, and you 0:02:52.960 --> 0:02:54.880 enjoy your turkey and the fixings and all that good 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:57.720 stuff and nobody. I'm not gonna say nobody. I don't 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:02.720 want to generalize. Yeah, but understood that while we were 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.720 enjoying that, you weren't going to make the playoffs. Yeah, 0:03:06.160 --> 0:03:11.120 but you were still enjoying it because the team was 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:14.480 less than it was not great, but you were enjoying 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:17.880 it because the team was showing fight. The coaches hadn't 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:19.480 lost the locker room, and they still haven't lost the 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:22.079 locker room. But then when you look at yesterday's game 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:26.240 and against Cincinnati, the defense again stepped up. We talked 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:28.560 last week about where we ranking this defense as far 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:31.280 as are they good yet are they above average? And 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.359 we said they're more than They're more than solid. They're 0:03:33.400 --> 0:03:36.360 piecing some things together for the most part. I mean, 0:03:36.400 --> 0:03:39.640 when you hold Jamar Chase and Joe Burrow and that 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:43.560 offense to only twenty points going into the final two 0:03:43.560 --> 0:03:46.560 minutes of the game, and it's a tie ball game, 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.480 you just have to feel good about it. And then 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:53.840 what happened immediately thereafter, it was quite literally the balloon 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:58.600 popping and you could hear all the air gets sucked 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:01.760 out of the stadium, could hear in the press box, 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:03.960 you could hear the air get sucked out of the 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:07.200 press box. So as soon as Nick Vigil blocked that punt, 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:10.400 you talked about emotional whiplash. Everybody, including those in the 0:04:10.400 --> 0:04:12.760 press box, they're like, holy crep. And before you could 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:15.320 finish that statement, everybody was turned to yell and don't 0:04:15.360 --> 0:04:17.880 touch the ball, don't stay away from the ball. And 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:20.280 once he touched that ball and muffed it and they 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:24.640 recovered it, that's that, Yeah, turned lights out everybody. 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:28.800 And I think Nick Eatman said this in the press box. 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.400 It's like everybody knew in their heart, like you could 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:32.800 just hear her when like, stay away from the ball, 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:33.320 stay away. 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:33.520 From the ball. 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:37.880 As soon as the pump was blocked, everybody except for 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:38.640 the one person that. 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:39.920 Needs to for the one person. 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:42.000 Uh, And that's tough for Ao. 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:46.400 Of course, he was activated just before the game, and 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.200 you look at the locker room, you know, like him 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:51.800 walking to the locker room with a towel over his head, 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:55.240 just absolutely bummed because he knows that he just lost 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:59.240 this game for the city of Dallas, for every Dallas 0:04:59.279 --> 0:04:59.760 Cowboy fan. 0:04:59.839 --> 0:05:03.320 Right then they go to the media. 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:05.040 Of course, you know, it's like, all right, well, we've 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:07.680 got to talk to him, right yeah, But C. J. 0:05:07.800 --> 0:05:10.919 Goodwin does what a leader does, and he stepped in 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:12.680 for him and he said, well, you know, I understand 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:16.040 it's your job to ask him about this performance, ask 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:18.120 him about the play, but it's also my job to 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:24.400 lead the special teams and protect him basically from the 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:28.560 bombardment of of inquiries that you're going to have for 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:30.039 you know, a player that was just trying to do 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:31.560 the right thing and you know that stuff. 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:33.919 And what sucks about it is, well, even more so 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:38.680 that play is it's not the only reason the Cowboys lost, 0:05:38.720 --> 0:05:42.039 but it is sure the defining moment. 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:44.480 He blocked the punt that put them in. 0:05:44.320 --> 0:05:46.240 Of not only that game, but that will go down 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:49.359 as a microcosm of how the season has gone for 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:50.200 the Cowboys. 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:51.840 Has there been so many of those plays though, But. 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.120 That that's going to go and I hate this for Ao, 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.080 but that's going to go down in infamy. That that's 0:05:56.160 --> 0:05:58.720 up there with leon Lett, Terrence Williams not running out 0:05:58.760 --> 0:06:02.440 of bounds at least fair you will. 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.279 And that season was a little bit more high intensity, 0:06:05.640 --> 0:06:08.400 I think the leon Lette situation, and Nate Newton talked 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.480 about it in post game. He said, leon Let hit 0:06:10.560 --> 0:06:13.240 in the X X ray room after the game and 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:15.520 you had to pry them out of there, and so 0:06:15.880 --> 0:06:19.919 the same kind of feeling from Ammonio will Warria. But 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:22.720 let's not get a twist. I mean, the Cowboys were 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:24.279 at five and seven. It goes back to what Patrick 0:06:24.360 --> 0:06:26.680 was saying a moment ago. Cowboys were at five and seven. 0:06:26.720 --> 0:06:28.479 You had to win out to give yourself a shot 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:32.360 to even get into the postseason. Still have a minus 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:35.400 one percent chance to get there. Still, if you went 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:37.680 out and there's no room for error, zero room, you 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:41.880 can't lose again. So the the I don't think they're 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:44.480 on the same level, but they're going to be compared 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:48.040 because it was a special teams blunder on a similar 0:06:48.080 --> 0:06:50.800 play that could have won the football game but instead 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:51.920 of lost the football game. 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:54.080 Yeah, I mean, it's it's a will be compared. Yeah, 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:57.159 it's a football like you play that that cost the 0:06:57.200 --> 0:07:00.360 Cowboys a game. So, whether it be Leon or like 0:07:00.400 --> 0:07:02.839 I said, rather it be more recently Naseean Wright or 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:05.840 a little less recently Terrence Williams. Although that was an 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:09.160 offensive play. But for those of you who remember that game, 0:07:09.240 --> 0:07:12.960 Dez Bryant is literally screaming and pointing at get out 0:07:12.960 --> 0:07:14.400 of bounds. Get out of bounds because they didn't have 0:07:14.400 --> 0:07:17.040 any timeouts. He didn't catch the ball goes out because 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:18.480 he was trying to be a hero. He was trying 0:07:18.520 --> 0:07:20.080 to get a few more yards, and that few more 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:20.920 yards cost the game. 0:07:21.000 --> 0:07:23.640 And that goes underguard this situation. 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:27.920 The AO was trying to be the hero, but the 0:07:28.000 --> 0:07:30.480 Cowboys didn't need a hero, and in that moment, they 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:33.320 just needed you to get out of the way. And 0:07:33.560 --> 0:07:35.160 Nick Vigil was already the hero on that p Yeah, 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.240 Nick Vigil was the hero. So and there's just a 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:40.679 reason that that kind of play the ball is called poison. 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:42.920 You can get away from the poison, right, just leave 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.360 it be because and I know some people are like, well, 0:07:45.400 --> 0:07:47.560 that's a stupid rule. Well, whether it's you believe it's 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:49.480 a stupid rule or not, it's the rule. And it's 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.600 coached into the players, and this is a seven year 0:07:52.000 --> 0:07:55.280 veteran and he's playing special teams. And then the other 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:58.440 thing that crossed my mind was, Okay, well does Tyres 0:07:58.560 --> 0:07:59.960 Weed touch that ball? 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:00.240 Right? 0:08:00.280 --> 0:08:03.080 Because Tyris we a good special teams guy. He was 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:05.760 made inactive yesterday, AO was up for depth things like that. 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.040 But those are all things that can be second guests. 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.640 But what should not be second guests is the fact 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.160 that this is a seven year player who's being coached 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:16.920 up by arguably the best special teams coordinator in the game, 0:08:17.600 --> 0:08:21.320 and before that play happens, before you run onto the field, 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:26.040 you need to understand and let your coaching overrun your 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.800 instinct and know that, hey, if this ball is blocked, 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:32.120 no one else needs to touch it, including myself. So 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.960 it's more than tough. It is absolutely devastating. And then 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:42.679 what also sucks the remainder of whatever molecule of oxygen 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:46.360 was remaining in the room is the demarveion overshown. Yeah, 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:49.280 so not only do you lose this game in the 0:08:49.280 --> 0:08:52.080 fashion in which you lose this game, but you lose 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:58.040 a Pro Bowl caliber, all Pro caliber talent for not 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:00.000 just the rest of this season, as Jerry Jones told 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.000 one oh five three, the fan to Marion Overshown will 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:06.040 require surgery to repair the damage in his right knee. 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:09.120 His left knee is what was repaired his rookie season 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:12.400 ahead of his rookie season, but given the timing of it, 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.640 and although tests are still being run to get his cardinosis, 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:18.520 it's safe to say it. And I would love to 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:20.800 be wrong here, but it's safe to say that we 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.600 may not see to Marion Overshown until twenty twenty six. 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:29.320 That hurts no or the word fits it, but devastating, gutting, 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:34.880 heartbreaking pain. Bad things do happen to good people, and 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:37.040 this is an example of that. And all we can 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:41.040 say is prayers and positive energy to the Marion Overshown. 0:09:41.200 --> 0:09:43.880 If anyone can overcome it, he absolutely is the one 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:47.000 who can overcome it. But you just in a season 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:51.320 that we said this a few weeks ago, they're seemingly 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:53.680 just when you think you hit rock bottom, yep, a 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.280 new rock bottom appears, and here we are at a 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:57.160 new rock bottom. 0:09:57.240 --> 0:09:59.439 And this one was unfortunate because there's nothing you can 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.720 do about. I mean, he's playing hard, he's gonna he 0:10:02.840 --> 0:10:05.479 was he always won the player. 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.520 Went into his leg and I saw someone on Twitter said, old, 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:09.960 maybe we should have the turf versus grass conversation. Well, 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:13.120 maybe you should watch the game because this. While that's 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:17.040 a valid conversation in some aspects, that's not what happened here. 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.720 He was in the middle of a play and another 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:22.640 guy just got thrown into his list football. That was 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:24.120 a football of the injury. 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:27.000 The other thing about Demarvi and overshown is there's two ways, 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:30.880 two paths that can happen now with his career. Either 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.800 because it was his right knee that got hurt last night, 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:37.040 it was his left knee previously that was hurt in 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:40.600 the preseason last year, last year, going into twenty twenty three, 0:10:41.360 --> 0:10:44.439 so one of two things. Either one, he's going to 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.400 come back, continue to play at a high level, and 0:10:46.400 --> 0:10:48.199 he's going to overcome this adversity and it's going to 0:10:48.240 --> 0:10:53.240 be one of the best resilient stories on the Cowboys roster, 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:57.560 franchise history, whatever, because he's come back from two severe 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:00.599 knee injuries to the point where he's playing at a 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.960 very high level. So boom, there's one road. The other 0:11:04.040 --> 0:11:07.079 road is a realistic chance as well. I don't want 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:10.160 to count out to Marvin Overshown, but he would become 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:13.080 one of the biggest what ifs in Cowboys history. And 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.840 I would say, it's just even saying those words maybe 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.880 sick makes me sick. It absolutely does, because he's been 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.439 I mean, going into the preseason last year, he showed 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:24.520 all that fire, all that that intensity, all that aggressiveness, 0:11:24.720 --> 0:11:27.600 got hurt and then it's like, Okay, okay, people have 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:29.959 come back from worse. We're gonna make this work. He's 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:32.480 going to get through rehab, get back on the field 0:11:32.480 --> 0:11:34.920 for twenty twenty four. Sure enough, he did. Was playing 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.880 at a significantly high level. I don't know about All 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:39.920 Pro this year, but he was definitely in the Pro 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.920 Bowl in the conversation, and then the All Pro conversation 0:11:43.000 --> 0:11:45.600 in the future was certainly there. Now you've got to 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:49.959 wait maybe not one but two full seasons to really 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:51.320 or not full seasons, but. 0:11:51.320 --> 0:11:55.200 You get what I mean, more than one and a 0:11:55.200 --> 0:11:58.280 half calendar years is basically what it would amount to. 0:11:58.640 --> 0:12:01.240 And now you got to wait for that significant on 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:03.840 the other knee to rehab and get back to it. 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:06.680 Michael Parson said it last night, and I couldn't agree more. 0:12:06.760 --> 0:12:09.800 You would never wish that upon anybody. Nonetheless, somebody like 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:12.600 Demo who people love being around, love playing with, love 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:13.240 watching play. 0:12:13.240 --> 0:12:16.520 At the same time, Marvin Overshown said on his ex account, 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:18.960 wouldn't want this for anyone else, one of God's toughest 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:21.880 told soldiers, keep me in your prayers and regardless of 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:25.280 what you believe. I think just the pain kind of 0:12:25.320 --> 0:12:27.080 comes through on that comment. 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.560 And he was just talking about the rehab back from 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:33.800 last year in the locker room on Wednesday. He was 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:35.000 just talking about it. 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:40.319 And if you want to know exactly how much de 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:43.319 Marvion Overshown already means to this team, in this organization, 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:46.760 look at the Michael Parsons postgame interview yesterday. Michael Parsons 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.640 was choked up, literally wiping tears away from his face, 0:12:50.840 --> 0:12:54.080 thinking about, you know what Demarvia the road Demarveon has 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:57.120 ahead of him. After the road he's already taken to 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:00.960 get to this point with the devastating twenty cl suffered 0:13:01.280 --> 0:13:04.960 in preseason ahead of his rookie season. So if there's 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:07.640 anything positive to be taken away from it, again, we've 0:13:08.200 --> 0:13:11.000 seen evidence that the Marvion Overshown can come back from 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:15.720 from a tragic knee injury. And the other silver lining, 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:17.520 if that's what you want to call it, is that 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:21.160 it's not the same knee as it was last year. 0:13:21.200 --> 0:13:23.000 So when we talk about like John Stevens Junior, you're 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:26.760 concerned because he retore that acl which weakens it that 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.360 much more. So we're worried about what he looks like 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.040 when he gets back. But de Marveon it's just a 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:35.920 matter of go have the surgery and we'll see what 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:38.959 the extent of it is. But I do get the 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.360 the implication that it is more than just a torn 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:43.319 a cl So. 0:13:43.320 --> 0:13:45.600 You see these injuries happen all the time. 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:49.120 You see this like you're saying, Coyle, it couldn't happen 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:54.319 to a better person, And I don't know, at least 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.600 whenever you see these injuries happen, it's kind of like, 0:13:56.600 --> 0:14:00.000 all right, well, you know that sucks. See him next year, right, Yeah, 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:03.000 this one is gonna hurt for a really long time. 0:14:03.000 --> 0:14:03.719 And not just. 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:07.880 Selfishly, I'm not just speaking for myself, but if you're 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:11.360 talking about the people that support this team and the defense, 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:14.800 the players on this defense, where you see Demarvin Overshown 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.120 being the heart of it, he is the energy. He 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:20.080 is the young buck that has come up to be 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:22.400 a you know, a star, a star in the making, 0:14:22.480 --> 0:14:27.240 right playmaker just all over the field. To see that 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:30.880 happen to him is really devastating, and just like it 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:32.720 really does feel like, what did we do wrong? 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.680 Who is the season is claiming souls? 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:36.200 Yes? 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.360 And I'm not even going to what did we do wrong? 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:41.080 Just go to my Twitter if you want the Chiefs 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:42.760 joke about that. I'm not going to make it here. 0:14:42.800 --> 0:14:44.400 I saw it because I don't feel like making it here. 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:48.120 But yeah, man, I mean, the list goes on and on, 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:53.760 and unfortunately, it feels like nearly every week, which not 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:56.120 even it feels like it's true, nearly every week the 0:14:56.160 --> 0:14:58.880 Cowboys lose someone for the. 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:02.400 Season and a tenth pole of your team. 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:06.520 And now it's at the point where, well, like we said, 0:15:06.560 --> 0:15:09.440 the balloon has popped, right, anybody who was holding on 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:12.480 to that minuscule hope for the playoffs throwed it out 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.520 the window. So now you want to finish these last 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:16.360 four games. You want to finish them strong, you want 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:18.360 to have some fight, You want to do your evaluations 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:21.240 on some of these younger players, But you have to 0:15:21.280 --> 0:15:24.560 have a very real concern about who who might drop next. 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:29.000 Yeah, because again we're talking about twenty five at this point. 0:15:29.160 --> 0:15:31.120 We're that late in the season where you are talking 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:32.800 about twenty twenty five, and we want to wish the 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:36.680 best to Demo in that recovery because, like you said, 0:15:36.920 --> 0:15:40.920 injuries are awful no matter what happened, who they happened to, 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:43.240 and the rehabits started to back up no matter what. 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.720 But it doesn't matter when it's someone like exactly the 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:47.760 way that he's gotten to this point and pushed through 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:50.200 adversity and was really the bright spot of the twenty 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.800 twenty four season for the Cowboys, especially on the defensive side, 0:15:53.800 --> 0:15:55.960 and one of the reasons why they have been playing 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:59.720 so well as of late. Him and Micah Parsons, both 0:15:59.760 --> 0:16:02.520 those guys have stepped up in a big way. And 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:07.200 we're looking to push this thing into a twenty twenty 0:16:07.200 --> 0:16:10.520 five season where the defense looked legitimate again and we're 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:12.320 not going to get that, at least without Demo. 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:14.680 No, and he was who you were looking at along 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:18.360 with Michael Parsons to build off of Andrevon Diggs Andron 0:16:18.400 --> 0:16:22.280 plan for next season. You know, it's like exactly a 0:16:22.320 --> 0:16:25.120 cornerstone to say, this is what you build on for 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.520 next season. You put pieces around this guy and you 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.600 are going to be fine, and you don't have that anymore. 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:34.480 Fire this season into this seriously, so. 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:37.720 We can't do that. Unfortunately, we've got four more games left. 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:39.600 When we come back on Talking Cowboys, I don't want 0:16:39.600 --> 0:16:42.800 to give a pass to Dallas for losing this game 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:46.960 at all. There were reasons for them and opportunities for 0:16:47.000 --> 0:16:49.440 them to win the game. I want to talk about 0:16:49.640 --> 0:16:53.760 the specific moment after the blocked punt and the punt fiasco, 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:57.560 the Bengals blunder as I called it last night on postgame. 0:16:58.040 --> 0:17:00.160 I want to talk about the moments after that there 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:02.760 was still a chance for you to win that game 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:05.160 and you did not. When we come back with more 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:09.919 on Talking Cowboys. 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