WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Critical Errors 0:00:02.520 --> 0:00:05.000 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.000 --> 0:00:13.800 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This he's Talking 0:00:13.960 --> 0:00:18.400 Cowboys Straining live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:29.640 the Star in Frisco. Elliott and now your hosts Isaiah 0:00:29.720 --> 0:00:43.920 stand Back, Patrick Walker, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeomans. It 0:00:44.200 --> 0:00:48.640 is a wonderful Monday edition of Talking Cowboys, presented by 0:00:49.479 --> 0:00:53.000 Black Rifle Coffee Company. Here from the Star in Frisco 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:57.640 and the SWBC studios. As we break down the Cowboys 0:00:57.720 --> 0:01:01.600 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles twenty six to seventeen on 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:04.760 Sunday Night, Football and world do so here over the 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.800 next forty five minutes. Chris being in the Backgrob Phillips, 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:11.800 Isaiah stand Back, Patrick No see walk around. Kyle Yeoman's. Gentlemen, 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:14.920 this is the last time the Cowboys will play on 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:17.759 primetime for a little bit of time. So that's probably good. Patrick, 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:20.640 What times you get in last night Wheels touched down 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.600 here at DFW a little bit before for you. Yeah, 0:01:23.680 --> 0:01:26.200 so you're bright and earlier, you're rested. You got your 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:32.000 black Holday No no sleep right, no sleep? Patrick? No sleep. 0:01:32.040 --> 0:01:34.680 Walker was the first time you stayed up to four o'clock, 0:01:35.000 --> 0:01:37.959 Not at all. That's just saying there. No, see, don't 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:40.039 make it like it's the first it was basically that's 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:44.600 bite like the first time. That's basically a carbon copy 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:46.959 of the New York trip. That's like literally exactly and 0:01:47.000 --> 0:01:49.160 I didn't go on this one. That's literally exactly when 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:52.080 we rolled in from New York. So those are tough ones. 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:55.480 So God bless you for being even if you're more 0:01:55.520 --> 0:02:01.680 so when you don't have the dope to ride in on. Unfortunately, Yeah, 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:04.000 you can't. You can't put on the cowboy hat and 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:08.080 you can't drink the tiger notice week. It's unfortunate. But 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.919 that's okay for the lion milk though, But we'll get 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:14.040 to that later in the week. Okay, we're going we're 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:17.639 going that far into the Lions rivalry. Don't know what 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:23.000 this is. We'll talk about those. Okay, nine point loss 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:27.520 for the Cowboys yesterday. Cooper rush eighteen of thirty eight passing. 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.360 He had more in completions than he had completions one 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:33.440 hundred and eighty one yards, one touchdown, three interceptions. He 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.399 had not thrown a pick prior to this game. This 0:02:36.480 --> 0:02:40.799 season and then throws three in the one game and Isaiah, 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:42.800 we had talked about it that the luck at some 0:02:42.880 --> 0:02:45.160 point for Cooper Rush was going to run out, and 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:47.359 it looked like it ran out a little bit last night. 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:50.119 He threw three interceptions. It could have been worse, really 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:51.640 if you look at some of the throws when you 0:02:51.680 --> 0:02:55.000 go back on the film. But in the game where 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:59.640 you we talked about it previously, you can't give up 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.000 the football. You have to hold onto the football, take 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:03.840 care of the football. He gave it up and that 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:07.360 ultimately was the difference. Yeah, it wasn't just him, but 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:10.440 this for people that are like, oh my gosh, I 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:15.440 can't believe he played like that. You've seen this from Rush, 0:03:15.480 --> 0:03:17.040 and and I don't want to make this like it's 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.639 just a Rush thing. Rush didn't lose you this ball game. Now, 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:23.560 but we saw this in Washington. We talked about this 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:26.600 last week that that was lucky as all get out. 0:03:26.600 --> 0:03:28.680 And that's why the whole conversation came up, because you 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.040 had two interceptions that got called back because of illegal 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:34.360 contact and holding or whatever else. So we've seen that 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:37.880 those Errand throws, you know, be kind of tossed up there. 0:03:38.320 --> 0:03:40.400 We've also seen it when he's under a little bit 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:42.920 of duress him not make the best decisions. Okay, the 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:45.760 velocity changes all those types of things, but we've also 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:48.840 seen it where we just can't move it up come 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:53.000 ball that effectively. And the biggest thing we said last 0:03:53.000 --> 0:03:55.480 week was the biggest threat to the Dallas Cowboys in 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:59.320 this weekend's game was getting behind. Because now you're gonna 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.320 ask somebody who you've tasked with being a game manager. 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:05.280 Don't be confused by having Cooper Rush as your game 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:08.240 manager versus being somebody who can go win you a game, 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:11.480 and the moment that you placed that responsibility on him, 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:17.040 that's what you're gonna see is what happened yesterday. Yeah. 0:04:17.279 --> 0:04:19.880 I didn't go on the trip, but I thought watching 0:04:19.920 --> 0:04:23.320 the broadcast, I thought Chris Collinsworth just summed it perfectly 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.960 up at the end when he said the Eagles had 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:29.039 more ways to win the game than the Cowboys did. 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.200 And I wrote this in gut feeling on Friday, I 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:34.000 felt like the Eagles are probably the better overall complete 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.680 team right now. I was still willing to ride with 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:41.440 the Cowboys defense, provided Cooper Rush takes care of the ball. 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:44.880 And they still because we've talked about it for weeks. 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.680 They've had to play a certain way to be able 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:51.080 to win football games, and it leaves a very slim 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:54.520 margin for error. And anytime you lose the turnover battle 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.359 three to nothing and really four to nothing, and you 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:01.240 gift a team that good the ball three times in 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:04.039 your own territory, you're probably gonna lose. Now. I was 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:06.719 really impressed with the way they fought back. Yeah, that's 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:08.560 the mark of a good team. That's a team that's 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.640 gonna They're still gonna go places, I think, and and 0:05:11.760 --> 0:05:13.719 they should probably be favored in at least the next 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:17.400 three games that they play. UM and Dak's coming back 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:19.960 based off of that pregame work out, no see, I 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:23.520 can't imagine he won't be back for Detroit. UM, but 0:05:24.160 --> 0:05:27.160 that that was the recipe for losing games with Cooper Rush. 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:28.760 That was the type of performance I think we thought 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.520 we'd see more often, to be quite honest, just because 0:05:31.880 --> 0:05:34.240 he's never really played a lot and it's and and 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:37.400 and as it is right like, it's not all on him, Um, 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:39.839 but they had to play a certain way to win games, 0:05:39.960 --> 0:05:42.200 especially to be a team that good, and they didn't 0:05:42.400 --> 0:05:43.840 you know it was too late for them to come 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:47.000 back in that game. Okay, so for me, this is 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:51.800 this is this is going to be a difficult fine 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:53.800 line to walk. But let's let's try to walk the 0:05:53.800 --> 0:05:56.680 line as best we can't. Um, let's let's use a 0:05:56.760 --> 0:06:01.600 compliment sandwich when it comes to Cooper Rush right first, foremost, 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:07.119 thank you Cooper Rush for your service, right hand class. 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:10.320 You know, he deserves an ovation for getting the Cowboys 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:13.320 to the point where you know, you hate that they 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:16.200 lost to Philly and in the fashion in which they did. However, 0:06:17.040 --> 0:06:20.480 if he doesn't play efficient efficiently and he doesn't give 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:22.800 the Cowboys that five percent that we kept talking about 0:06:22.839 --> 0:06:25.200 on a weekly basis, maybe this team is one in 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:28.640 five or or in six. Okay, instead they're four and two. 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:32.279 You hate losing, You hate losing to Philadelphia. You hate 0:06:32.279 --> 0:06:36.719 losing the Philadelphia in Philadelphia on prime time. However, Cowboys 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:39.440 as a whole are still in very good ship. Could 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:42.719 be better shape, but could be much much worse. So 0:06:42.960 --> 0:06:45.480 there's the positive. Thank you Cooper Rush most certainly for that. 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:50.720 What's also true is a large portion of this loss 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:54.279 is hanging on Cooper Rush. Your shoulders and leading into 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:56.720 this game when we did our predictions, and you know, 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.760 I'd love for them to prove me wrong in these 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:03.080 type predictions. But I felt like the defense would do 0:07:03.120 --> 0:07:06.080 what the defense has been doing, and for the most part, 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:08.400 they did, but they started to get gassed when you 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:10.880 started to look at at certain points in the game 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:14.000 the Eagles had a nine point time of possession or 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:16.840 nine minute time of possession advantage, ten minutes, eleven minutes. 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:19.320 At some point, it's it's going to wear on the defense, 0:07:19.360 --> 0:07:22.800 and in large part because Cooper Rush, the LEPrecon that 0:07:22.920 --> 0:07:25.160 was on his shoulder. As raw Peace so eloquently put 0:07:25.200 --> 0:07:27.720 it on a week to week basis, I stated that 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.400 I felt like in Philly it was going to take 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.600 a nap. It didn't just take a nap. It crawled 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:39.000 under a rock and it died. Those potential interceptions, those 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.160 potential interceptions that Cooper Rush would have thrown on a 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:45.920 weekly basis that were negated by penalties that were dropped 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:48.960 by other teams, most recently like Bobby Wagner for example, 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:51.600 I said, I don't believe the Eagles dropped these. I 0:07:51.640 --> 0:07:55.600 believe those those opportunities turning the giveaways for the Cowboys, 0:07:55.640 --> 0:07:58.960 and unfortunately that's what happened. I have a category that 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:03.160 I'm working on in my analytics and science called critical 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:07.320 error and critical error. I try to qualify because you 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:09.480 have errors, but critical errors are different. I try to 0:08:09.520 --> 0:08:12.880 qualify a critical error by either points left on the 0:08:12.920 --> 0:08:19.360 field point or momentum swing and or it results in 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:22.120 points the other way. Okay, like a pick six would 0:08:22.120 --> 0:08:25.240 be a critical error. Of the seven critical errors that 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:26.800 I have listed, I have to go back and watch 0:08:26.800 --> 0:08:29.880 the film, four of them belong to Cooper Rush. Three 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:34.160 obviously the interceptions, but there was a nearror, a near 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:37.160 interception on a target to Michael Gallup in the end 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.920 zone that left four points on the board because all 0:08:39.920 --> 0:08:42.640 they were able to get for three at that point. Yeah, 0:08:42.679 --> 0:08:46.000 so be a Cooper Rush or anyone. If any player 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:50.199 where in any number gets four out of is accountable 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.720 for four out of seven critical errors, then you have 0:08:52.800 --> 0:08:55.960 to kind of put the loss mostly on the shoulder. So, yes, 0:08:56.080 --> 0:08:59.680 this one is on Cooper Rush. But I go back 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:05.200 to the bottom bun So to speak of my compliment 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.320 Sandwich in that Cooper Rush did exactly what they needed 0:09:08.400 --> 0:09:11.199 him to do in a backup row. He stepped up. 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:15.280 He didn't lose the Cowboys any games before Sunday. Unfortunately, 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:19.240 the carriage turned back into a pumpkin, but it did 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:23.600 so in the days preceding, which would have probably happened anyway. 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.560 QB one looks like he's on the way back. Yeah, 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:29.520 so compliment sandwich, and I mean, this will be a 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:31.240 little bit of the meat on the outside of that bun. 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:34.040 Because you look at ten points off of turnovers in 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:37.160 the first half, the interception that led to a touchdown 0:09:37.200 --> 0:09:39.840 and only had a forty four yard field for Philadelphia 0:09:39.920 --> 0:09:43.000 to navigate after they just went fifteen plays eighty yards. 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:44.920 They had forty four yards and they went down the 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:47.520 field and they scored on the touchdown to a j. Brown, 0:09:47.679 --> 0:09:51.120 so short yardage seven points. And then right after that 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.839 turnover they come back and they only had the one 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:55.920 yard but it ends up in a field goal for 0:09:56.000 --> 0:09:59.520 Jake Elliot from fifty one yards out after that second interception. 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:02.000 So there's ten points right there. You take those ten 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:07.360 points away from the final score, then it's a Cowboys win. Now, 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:09.880 they wouldn't have gone for two in that situation. It's 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:12.120 got twenty points off of critical errors by my co 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:14.199 there you go. So I mean you can add add 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.560 one more because they would have they would have kicked 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:19.600 the pat it would have been a tie ball game basically. 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:22.000 I mean, it's not counted as a turnover, but when 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:25.080 you turn it over on downs at your own thirty four, 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:27.880 Philly got a field goal off of that, So okay, 0:10:28.200 --> 0:10:30.560 that's to me, that's thirteen points off turnovers. And like 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:32.200 no C said, if you want to count twenty off 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:35.520 critical errors, like you can't win that way. You just can't, 0:10:35.679 --> 0:10:37.960 not against a team that good. And Dante Fowler had 0:10:38.000 --> 0:10:40.640 a critical error as well, neutral zone infection in fraction 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:44.360 on fourth and fourth coaching staff, well, there were there 0:10:44.440 --> 0:10:46.240 was one play on the fourth and one. There were 0:10:46.280 --> 0:10:49.280 two critical errors on the fourth and one one m no, 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.240 the decision to not challenge the spot after Seed Lamb 0:10:52.240 --> 0:10:55.640 caught that ball, and then the play call out of 0:10:55.679 --> 0:10:59.040 the four and one that was an air it passed 0:10:59.120 --> 0:11:02.280 on a bootleg from Let's talk about that situation because 0:11:02.280 --> 0:11:03.920 I know a lot of fans are frustrated with it. 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.680 I feel like yesterday in the mentions in the comment 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.720 sections that I saw from the postgame reaction, a lot 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:14.520 of it pointed to the third or the third down 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:17.560 dive by Cedee Lamb to try and pick up the 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:21.320 first down upon further review and ends up being a 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.600 first down. It should have been called a first down. However, 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:25.880 no challenge from the coaching staff. Then they rush up 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.320 to the line of scrimmage they run this errant play 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:31.680 that just didn't look like it was going to work 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:34.439 from the first place. Isaiah, when you look back at 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.640 what happened, there would one would you have challenged it? 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:39.720 Two would you have gone for it? And three would 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:41.199 you have called a different play if you would have 0:11:41.200 --> 0:11:44.160 gone for it? Should have never got to the point 0:11:44.160 --> 0:11:45.760 where they needed to call a play because they should 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:47.480 have challenged it. Should have it should have just been 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.120 done right there. Everybody's going to point at the referees 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:51.720 all the referee should have made that call. Yeah, they 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:53.839 should have. They make calls, they miscalls, But guess what, 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:56.080 that's why you ever read flag in your pocket, honestly, 0:11:56.160 --> 0:11:57.560 and you go. You can go back and watch on 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:00.280 the all twenty two for those of you listening, the 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:03.480 line judge at the top of the formation, at the 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:07.240 top of the screen, she actually marked it right. She 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:09.880 had a first down marked the line judge at the 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:12.719 bottom came forward and he was covered up by a 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.200 couple of extra bodies. She had the better look at it. 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:18.360 They should have deferred to her judgment, but instead they 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:20.079 deferred to the line judge at the bottom of the 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:22.400 field too, and they ended up marking at short. And 0:12:22.440 --> 0:12:24.960 it happens. But guess what all coach McCarthy had to 0:12:24.960 --> 0:12:27.440 do was reaching his little handy dandy waste man and 0:12:27.520 --> 0:12:30.680 throw that flag out. Yeah, and there's so many I 0:12:30.679 --> 0:12:35.480 think there's on average handy dandy waste man. I think, yeah, there. 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:39.200 He obviously season in real time. He has a head 0:12:39.200 --> 0:12:42.840 set on. He has his coaches in the booth. Offensive coordinators, 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:45.400 defensive coordinators are all up there, and they have all 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:49.440 kinds of not scouting, but all the other guys, I mean, 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:52.800 they have access, right, So somebody should have told him 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:56.000 to throw the flag, and for whatever reason, they didn't, 0:12:56.040 --> 0:13:00.439 and that hurt him. So here's here's McCarthy's explanation host game. 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:02.280 I'm going to read from his quote so so the 0:13:02.320 --> 0:13:06.360 fans can get his side of it down Judge Robert 0:13:06.400 --> 0:13:09.160 de Lorenzo, which kind of references what Kyle was saying 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:10.680 as far as who they should have deferred to, but 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.560 did not. On the sideline told me she had the 0:13:13.679 --> 0:13:17.480 knee down before he extended, before cite Lamb extended. So 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:19.959 my history has been when the official tells you that 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:23.320 it's usually pretty clear dot dot dot. There was no 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:25.480 replaying that sequence, and there wouldn't have been in the 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:29.400 forty seconds. My experience has been when I'm communicated with 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:33.400 by the official, I'm usually discouraged from challenging that play. 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.840 End quote. He went on to explain more. But that's 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:40.559 the context from the McCarthy standpoint. But I do agree 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:44.320 with Isaiah and most Cowboys fans in this aspect. You're 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:50.239 on the road, and even if it wasn't as seemingly 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.640 obvious as it actually was, I still would have been 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:55.800 okay with throwing the challenge flag on that because of 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.240 the magnitude of the game and who you're going against. 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:02.679 But you know, that's saying it was a little bit 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:05.760 more obvious and so obviously more so I would have 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:08.480 been willing to throw that flag and again critical error 0:14:08.520 --> 0:14:12.240 because and it could have been the consequence of it 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.720 could have been deleted by a better play call on 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:17.120 fourth and one, but instead the play calling fourth and 0:14:17.200 --> 0:14:19.240 one the bootleg to the right that ended up in 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:23.440 the sale pass. It compounded the critical error and what happens. 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:27.200 The Eagles get some points after that. So I don't 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:28.960 want to I don't want a better play calling fourth 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:32.040 and one. I want to punt it. That was me. 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.240 I was surprised they did it. It's the second quarter. 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.280 You'd love your defense, you trust your defense, and you're 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:39.080 down fourteen nothing. I get it, you want to get 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.920 some momentum going. But I was surprised that they did 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.560 that that early in the game. Penned back, as far as, 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:46.800 I mean, we're seeing more and more teams do it. 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:50.280 Rams did it last week, McCarthy's done it before, but 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.160 Man did it a number of time. Yeah, I mean 0:14:53.200 --> 0:14:54.960 teams are getting more aggressive. But that's a that's a 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:56.960 tough situation to put your defense in. Well, even if 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.720 you throw the challenge flag and you don't get it, 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.600 which in this occasion you would have gotten it. But 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:05.120 if you throw in you don't get it. The worst 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.240 case scenarios, you call a time out, you get your 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.120 ducks in a row, and then you turn around and 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:10.880 you go out and you either pump the football the 0:15:10.920 --> 0:15:13.280 way because you have more time to think about this decision, 0:15:13.720 --> 0:15:16.320 or you come up with a better play call. Because 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:20.440 in McCarthy's explanation, they were up in that tempo, they 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:22.880 were up in the high tempo offense, the turbo that's 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:27.800 what his terminology was. Use that turbo or turbo look 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:31.000 as an excuse to say we were gonna go for 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.360 it on fourth down. Anyways, that doesn't make me feel 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:35.360 any better. Are you about the decision? Are you more 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:39.440 upset with the non challenge? Are you more upset with 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:42.960 the fourth down call? Oh, that's a good I think 0:15:42.960 --> 0:15:45.960 I'm more upset with the fourth down call just because 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:48.200 a challenge is bang bang. I'm not upset by the 0:15:48.240 --> 0:15:51.520 fourth down call. I hated the play call. I couldn't 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:53.200 stand the play call. I liked it a lot. You 0:15:53.280 --> 0:15:55.360 like going for it down there, you're already if you're 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:56.880 gonna go for it. I like it a lot because 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:00.480 where you're where your eyes at. As a defense, interior 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.480 worried about the interior. So getting out on the edge 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:04.040 is not a bad thing. You get the way that 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:08.160 there's I'm not I'm not I'm not a long developing 0:16:08.240 --> 0:16:11.280 play for a quarterback that doesn't move well. He's rolling 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.200 out to his rights, throwing off balance. He had some 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:17.320 inaccuracy issues. You were waiting on Noah Brown to make 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:19.320 a block on the edge. Still, then he gets tripped 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:22.520 up by CD. It's just yourself options. It's all bad. 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:24.680 You still get yourself options. He's out on the edge, 0:16:24.720 --> 0:16:26.200 so he has an option to throw the ball to 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:30.720 multiple guys that are open or run it. Maybe. Ye 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.880 if Noah Brown hits his block, then yes, actually he didn't. 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:35.960 But that's why you draw the playoff. You don't draw 0:16:36.000 --> 0:16:38.240 the playoffs saying what if my guys don't do their job? 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:43.400 But I don't say understanding, But you also have seven 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:45.240 hundred pounds of grown man sitting in the middle of 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.760 your formation, so I don't I'm not opposed to getting 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:49.720 out on the edge and giving Cooper Russia option to 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.000 tuck that thing should he at one the edge. It's 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:53.920 unfortunate that Noah Brown didn't pick up his block, is 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:56.120 unfortunate that he didn't throw a completion, But the play 0:16:56.120 --> 0:17:00.560 call is actually a dog on good play call that one. Yeah, 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:02.200 this is a difficult for me. This is a difficult 0:17:02.240 --> 0:17:04.080 one for me because I see what both of you 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.439 are saying You're right. You don't call plays based on 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:11.640 your expectation that they'll fail. True, that said, you had 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:13.640 to that point of the game, you had already seen 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:16.960 at least two sailed passes from Cooper Rush, some inaccuracies. 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:19.800 You had seen the interception. He was just not on here. 0:17:19.880 --> 0:17:21.320 So you say you played with scare of money. No, 0:17:21.320 --> 0:17:22.960 I'm not saying you played with scare money. I'm saying 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:27.760 you played in a success I say you played to 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:30.800 what's working at any given moment. You played what's working 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.159 at any given moment, and the passing attack what's not 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.320 working to that point in the game. Although the running 0:17:36.320 --> 0:17:40.880 attack was showing some signs with CD open, No it 0:17:40.920 --> 0:17:44.160 was not. CD was on the ground. I just called me. 0:17:44.160 --> 0:17:47.680 He threw it at Peyton Hendershot, who was covered behind 0:17:47.720 --> 0:17:49.920 from behind by half a step. He had a half 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:52.040 a step on a guy through it to Peyton Hindershot, 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:53.680 but then there was a linebacker in front of him. 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:55.320 Threw it on the backside of it. It should have 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:59.040 been intercepted. Call me milktoast. Okay, and people have and 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.720 they're in my life. But I'm punting. I'm I'm putting 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:04.679 him building him back I'm resetting with my defense, and 0:18:04.720 --> 0:18:08.080 I'm saying, what's resetting and and and not spot them? 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:11.199 Three more points that I can tell my coaches give 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:13.400 me that same play, give me out an I understand, 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:17.040 and you know what, like you're not cooking Rushta exactly. 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:22.280 Mike has had a great pulse scopability team extend to play. 0:18:22.680 --> 0:18:24.600 I like the call. I'm not opposed to call. Well, 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:28.159 he's he's been um, he's done this before, and he 0:18:28.160 --> 0:18:30.119 shows faith in his team and I appreciate it. He 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:31.879 knows his team and he knows his offense. But in 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.080 that moment, man, but the thing is, like, this is 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:36.440 the crazy part. I can say, I'll stand behind this. 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:39.399 It's unfortunate, it didn't work out. It happens. Okay, you 0:18:39.440 --> 0:18:40.680 go for it on fourth, you win some let me 0:18:40.720 --> 0:18:42.960 loose on But it was just like Friday and Pop said, 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:45.680 you live to see another day. Okay. But the reality 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:47.240 is if they would have turned around a hand in 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:49.639 the ball off the zeke and came downhill in Fletcher 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:52.440 Cox or freaking Jordan Davis would have freaking came into 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:54.520 it and just molly wapped up, the people would have 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:56.879 been pissed off. He would be like, oh, you you 0:18:56.960 --> 0:18:59.119 tried to run the ball at these two pel have 0:18:59.200 --> 0:19:01.760 been at that point. I'm more upset with the non 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:04.919 challenge than I would be with the play call. I hear, 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:10.359 I'm more upset sliding scale. I'm more upset with the 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:15.200 challenge me too, because it's the butterfly fick. Right, we're 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:17.760 not talking about what are called on fourth down. But 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:23.119 the thing was bothersome was bothersome is you don't not 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:26.159 challenge with he didn't let me run this back. The 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:29.920 best way to say this, let's I'm gonna assume because 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:32.359 we don't know, Okay, but there's a high probability that 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:35.080 he had all the information that he needed from upstairs 0:19:35.119 --> 0:19:39.200 to make an asserted challenge. Yeah, we've been in those 0:19:39.240 --> 0:19:42.200 boots before. We see the replays. We know how fast 0:19:42.240 --> 0:19:45.480 those things come through TV copies were running replays before 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:47.119 they even went up there and try to sneak the 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:48.680 ball or you try to try to run the fourth 0:19:48.680 --> 0:19:50.800 down play, and that's where he's relying on his information 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:54.680 yet upstairs. Absolutely, Yeah, and so I'm assuming that did 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:57.400 he come in, Yeah, there must have been some kind 0:19:57.400 --> 0:20:00.880 of technical error, because if I'm the offers a coordinator 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:04.200 or quality control wherever I'm yelling, hey, challenge, throw the 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:06.600 dog on flag. We see what you don't see. Throw 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:10.080 the flag and that's completely fair, which then brings us 0:20:10.119 --> 0:20:14.840 to the fourth down. Play run the ball, don't I'm 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:18.520 not opposed to the ball. Zeke had number one going 0:20:18.520 --> 0:20:21.720 into the game. We knew that Zeke has often played 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:23.840 some of his best games in Philadelphia. He was playing 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:25.879 strong last night. Cowboys kind of got away from the 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:29.560 run early. We've seen this recipe before. It ended in 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:31.960 the loss in Tampa against Tampa Bay. It ended in 0:20:32.000 --> 0:20:33.920 the lost in Philadelphia because by the time they got 0:20:33.960 --> 0:20:35.800