WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Opportunity Lost 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:06.160 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:17.120 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:17.520 --> 0:00:20.959 screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hollowers at the 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:33.520 Star in Frisco, etc. Now, your hosts, micky' spagnola, Rob Phillips, 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:39.120 Everson Walls, and Bill Jones. Well, it's a beautiful Monday 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:43.240 here in Frisco, Texas. It is. It's not a cloudless 0:00:43.320 --> 0:00:50.920 guy as far as the weather goes in Prisco, Texas. Star. 0:00:52.680 --> 0:00:55.520 It was a fog shrouded morning once again for the 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:58.320 second straight day. Y'all aren't here to see it yesterday, 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:01.520 Mickey and Rob, But it was very foggy this morning. 0:01:01.560 --> 0:01:04.600 It lifted about three o'clock in the afternoon and then 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:09.039 the fog came back. Well, we experienced the fog early 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:11.600 this morning. By the way, it's right. I was concerned 0:01:11.959 --> 0:01:15.560 on your return from Philly, yes last night, if the 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.640 fog would hit and even after how long was the 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:21.280 delay the team charter leaving Philly last night. I don't know. 0:01:21.360 --> 0:01:23.720 It felt like three hours, but it was probably an 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:25.959 hour hour and a half it was. It was four hours, 0:01:26.319 --> 0:01:28.880 nearly four hours after the end of the game where 0:01:28.880 --> 0:01:32.080 the team charter finally took off, but just after ten 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:35.160 o'clock Dallas time. We made decent time. But it was 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:37.440 the perfect ending to a perfect Yeah that's what I 0:01:37.480 --> 0:01:40.040 was gonna say. Yeah, you know, you get your butts kicked, 0:01:40.840 --> 0:01:43.920 you really hand them the game, and then you have 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:45.880 to sit on the run way, right, were sitting on 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:49.080 the run like, no, you were sitting at at the 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:53.920 stadium on the bus. Yeah, that's even better. Yeah, it 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:56.960 was great. It was like one last kick in the ass. 0:01:57.800 --> 0:01:59.360 That was like me when I didn't make the Hall 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:01.600 of Fame and I told me, said, you gotta be 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:06.280 downstairs in five minutes, like, uh, hey, what you gonna 0:02:06.280 --> 0:02:10.320 do when I get ready to the bus. That was 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:17.959 just so depressing. Yeah, you especially in the plane, you're 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:20.840 all kind of spread out right in the bus, everybody's 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:23.000 on top of each other. And I know Rob was 0:02:23.040 --> 0:02:25.720 in the safe situation. We're we're going like, well we 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.480 might as well work, right, Well, everybody else has got 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:32.239 their phones going, music's playing, and you know, and you're 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:35.600 trying to I put my noise canceling headphones on and 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:38.799 it wasn't canceling enough and I had to do all 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:41.240 I could do was grip my teeth and like not 0:02:41.400 --> 0:02:45.280 yell out shut the you were you were been like 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:49.640 Textram after one of those sorry Cowboy games, saying Saint 0:02:49.680 --> 0:02:53.320 Louis right. I remember him standing between first class and 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:56.680 coach and he had his drink in his hand and 0:02:56.720 --> 0:03:00.560 he was just sneering at us, like, you guys, horrible 0:03:01.520 --> 0:03:03.960 look on his face. I'm surprised you guys didn't get 0:03:03.960 --> 0:03:05.760 a lot of that last Well, it's good thing Jimmy 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:08.639 wasn't there. He would have cut off food surface. That's right, 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:13.400 that's right. I see they're quiet in the dark, no noise. Okay, 0:03:13.480 --> 0:03:19.720 So where do we start at the bottom there? That's 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:23.360 that's where everyone seems to be at this point. Same old, 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:30.400 same old, right, it can't be consistent. Um, Look, I thought, 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:32.720 I thought the Eagles, and this is what I wrote 0:03:32.760 --> 0:03:39.400 in my column. They basically made two bets. The first 0:03:39.440 --> 0:03:44.240 bet was the Cowboys can't cover tight ends in running 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:47.600 backs in the passing game, and the Cowboys showed that 0:03:47.640 --> 0:03:49.960 in six of the last seven games. They could not 0:03:50.120 --> 0:03:53.440 covered tight ends in running backs. They were without their 0:03:53.520 --> 0:03:58.240 top three wide receivers, and they basically ran twenty two 0:03:58.280 --> 0:04:03.080 personnel the whole game, two tight uh, two tight, two 0:04:03.120 --> 0:04:07.400 wide receivers. Basically we had one back sorry uh and 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:10.920 and the Cowboys had no answer for it whatsoever. The 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:14.760 tight ends and running backs ended up catching uh twenty 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:19.240 four passes for two hundred and three yards in a touchdown, 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.000 which is exactly what the Eagles have been doing. They 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:30.520 did it anyway, that right, right, that's what they've been receivers. 0:04:30.560 --> 0:04:33.120 They they've had to do that secret. It was the 0:04:33.120 --> 0:04:36.360 Minnesota template. We've seen it ever since the Minnesota game 0:04:36.400 --> 0:04:39.400 with Dalvin Cook. If you've got running backs that can 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:41.920 do that, run those kind of routes and be effective 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:45.800 in space, they're gonna challenge you. And Mickey's right, what 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:49.120 would Sanders have seven catches in the game something like that? 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:53.920 He had six six five catches for seventy seven yards 0:04:54.120 --> 0:04:56.120 and ever since talked about it too that you know, 0:04:57.320 --> 0:04:59.520 the offensive lines have been able to get out on 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.520 the second level and they've also been challenging the Cowboys 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.240 linebackers in space. And it's it's paid off for him. 0:05:05.440 --> 0:05:06.880 But you look at the scoreboard at the end of 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:09.359 the game and he says seventeen points huh ought to 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.840 be enough to win a football game. And for me, 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.320 Mickey's exactly right. But I want to get mixed. Second bet. 0:05:16.400 --> 0:05:18.440 What was the second Did you have a second? Second bet? 0:05:18.560 --> 0:05:23.760 Was by no circumstance. Was Ezekiel Elliott gonna beat us? 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.400 So they basically put eight guys in the box, almost 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:31.560 exclusively if the Cowboys had three wide receivers out there. 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:35.760 They basically said, okay, fine, we're manning everybody with a 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:39.560 single safety high and we're gonna bet that you can't 0:05:39.720 --> 0:05:44.200 beat us. Dak Prescott, they thought, you know, and maybe 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:48.840 they were right, Okay, he was throwing the ball. Fine, 0:05:48.880 --> 0:05:52.320 It didn't look like he was in any discomfort. He 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:55.760 hadn't practice all week, and it looked like he was 0:05:55.960 --> 0:05:59.919 uncomfortable in the pockets seeing things, and he was uncaref 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:05.160 characteristically inaccurate. They had open receivers down the field and 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:09.040 he missed Tis time and time again. Tavon Austin's got 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:12.760 to walk in touchdown right overthrows him by five yards. 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:15.560 Some of his other passes were just so inaccurate. And 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.479 I don't think it had anything to do with the shoulder. 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.360 I don't either, I just think and he finally kind 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:22.800 of admitted it he goes. I don't know. It might 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:25.800 have been not having any reps or something. He kind 0:06:25.839 --> 0:06:28.400 of alluded to it. I think he's too old for that. 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.680 It should have been down. He's a veteran. They made 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:33.560 the bet that he wasn't going to beat him in 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:36.080 the passing game, and even on the last play, the 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:39.920 fourth down play, if he doesn't underthrow Gallop, it's a touchdown. 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:43.480 But he underthrew it enough where Avonte Maddox was able 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.160 to come up and knock it away. Not that that one. 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.200 That's the only point I disagree with. I thought there 0:06:49.240 --> 0:06:51.200 was a chance for Gallup to go up and get it. 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:54.000 But the guy held his arm down right, he got 0:06:54.040 --> 0:06:56.320 hooked and so he I think Gallup would have I 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:57.760 think he would have gone up and got that ball. 0:06:57.800 --> 0:07:00.320 See he when he did his postgame interview you, he 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:03.960 said I made a mistake. He said, instead of going 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:08.160 straight up to catch the ball, he goes, I faded 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:10.760 and I was going backwards trying to catch it, and 0:07:10.840 --> 0:07:13.080 I allowed him to get into me. He goes, and 0:07:13.280 --> 0:07:16.080 he stopped and going up. Yes, I could, like a 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.960 defensive back, you stop him up. This is the highest point. 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.320 This is not yeah, but I don't think he had 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:25.280 a chance to even get to his highest point because 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:32.360 his arm was being held down. And they know they 0:07:32.400 --> 0:07:34.240 could have called it. They could have called it. They 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:35.800 actually could have called it. They would have been a 0:07:35.800 --> 0:07:38.440 good call. But to me, as far as I'm concerned, 0:07:38.960 --> 0:07:40.960 bass gotta be a little bit higher, It's gotta be 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:44.440 a little bit better thrown. Uh. The entire game was 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:47.640 all about that, can you make this play? No? I cannot. 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:50.080 He had gallop on a crossing route earlier in the 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.840 game where a little behind him. Four passes that was crucial, 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:57.240 and then drop in six drops by the way. See 0:07:57.240 --> 0:07:59.840 that's the other thing. That's the other thing. Like, I 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:01.960 don't know if the shoulder bothered him. He said it didn't. 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:05.240 I think he did. Yeah, he won't. He won't, And 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.200 and look he didn't use it as an excuse. And 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:10.000 when you're running, scrambling and falling right on top of it, 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:13.000 you know, I think he had to go for it, 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:16.000 didn't He first drive, he scrambled and uh, he had 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:18.200 to put his shoulder. Yeah, clearly he wasn't afraid to 0:08:18.280 --> 0:08:20.440 do that. Um, but Mickey's right, I do think there 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:22.840 was some kind of Russ factor there wasn't seeing things. 0:08:22.880 --> 0:08:27.280 And he does lead the league in explosive pass plays 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:29.480 over twenty years. He can make those throws. He didn't 0:08:29.520 --> 0:08:34.080 make them yesterday. But to me, and I'm sorry, you 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:37.600 had two bets there. That the three things that stand 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:39.480 out to me when they have not won games this year. 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:42.439 They've been bad in the red zone. They were owing 0:08:42.480 --> 0:08:46.360 two in the red zone again yesterday. Mickey mentioned not 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:49.000 running the ball. Well, I still thought there were opportunities 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.600 for Zeke to run and five carries in the first 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:54.680 half surprised me. It just it just surprised me because 0:08:54.720 --> 0:08:56.880 they went out in the third quarter and had some 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.040 success running the football and I thought we were coming 0:08:59.080 --> 0:09:01.120 back and got him abushed and then you saw the 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:03.280 play action working in and I was like, Okay, they're 0:09:03.280 --> 0:09:06.079 getting back some of the some of the rhythm. Fum 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.520 didn't we That was turning point of the game right there, 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:11.120 and that was going to be the key. That could 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.680 have been the key turnaround in the game because you 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:16.079 had the last possession in the first half and you 0:09:16.160 --> 0:09:19.040 milked it for a field goal and guy, God bless 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:22.680 Kai four bath right, he kept it, he kept respectable. 0:09:22.800 --> 0:09:26.160 He is cold And then the first possession of the 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:28.839 second half. You drive down, you're at the what were 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:31.360 they like, the twenty three yard line. They throw the 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.520 little pitch out to a Pollard and he's fighting for 0:09:34.640 --> 0:09:38.800 one yard and he gets stripped as he's going down. Now, 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.880 Cox makes a good play because it didn't get blocked. 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.040 You know what, I went back and looked at Did 0:09:44.040 --> 0:09:46.120 you go back and look at that. There's not a 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:48.920 single player they got a block on the nobody. No, 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:52.320 they're not. Not a single player blocked the man on 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.199 that play. Now, Garrett's coach, Garrett said this morning that 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:59.559 z got banged up. Well, he plays earlier, that's why 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:01.480 he was. I talked about that during the game. So 0:10:01.559 --> 0:10:03.920 it's a shame he's not in there. But the pitch 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:06.920 back in that situation, you need a yard. I mean, 0:10:07.160 --> 0:10:12.760 that wouldn't have been a call for Zeke anyway. Probably. Yeah. Yeah, 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:15.480 it's like we'll surprise him. We'll fake the handoff going 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:17.400 the other way and pitch it out to the left 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:21.439 and they didn't fall for it. It was yeah, yeah, 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:24.239 it does. But like you said, you gotta block somebody. 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:26.480 You have to block someone. I mean, because from what 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:29.400 I saw, it's one of those players where Okay, that's 0:10:29.400 --> 0:10:32.079 a great call if it works. Yeah. So and that's 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.800 a great call if it's executed. Well, it's not. It 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:38.240 doesn't just work magically. It has to be executed well. 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:40.719 And we didn't execute it well. So therefore it makes 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:44.520 a coach and the whole team looked degraded. Yeah, it's like, 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:46.480 what kind of play call was that? And that was 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:49.120 a that was thirteen personnel. It was three tight ends 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:50.600 that were lined up to the right, so it was 0:10:50.640 --> 0:10:53.199 a pitch an option to the left side, the week 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.760 side and fifty Duke Riley, who is only in the 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:58.840 game on defense when it's a three tight so it's 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.120 like the only play of the game he's out on defense. 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:03.600 He set the edge, he got out beyond a block 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.920 by Tyrons, attempted block by Tyron and set the edge, 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:09.360 and and it was everybody else was there to And 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:12.200 that's strong side about offensive line. So yeah, you would 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:13.679 think that they'd be a little bit more. Well, we 0:11:13.679 --> 0:11:15.640 asked for polo and we got them. Yeah, that's right. 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:17.400 I mean I was saying in the press box and 0:11:17.440 --> 0:11:19.080 I know it was on Twitter. Two where is he? 0:11:19.640 --> 0:11:22.040 You know, one hundred and thirty one yards the week before. 0:11:22.080 --> 0:11:24.280 But that's the thing. So now everyone complains with that 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:28.440 Zeke Wedden in the age and yeah, back, not everyone, 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:31.440 the same people. They're saying, how come Pauler doesn't get 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:34.920 more touches than Wedden Zeke in the game now? And 0:11:35.679 --> 0:11:37.400 that was the turning point in the game. And then 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:40.240 the third thing for me is takeaways. They just ball 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:42.839 hits Xavier Woods right in the hands, could be a 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:45.240 pick six, or at least you finally give your offense 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:48.760 some you know, some prime real estate there. Those are 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.560 the things that are that's the recipe for the losses 0:11:51.559 --> 0:11:54.280 they've had this year. That sounds all of this sounds 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:58.160 very familiar days of which which usually those are the 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:01.720 things in a playoff game game, and this was a playoff. 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:05.480 It was like all your little hiccups during the season, 0:12:05.880 --> 0:12:08.560 they show up when you start playing better teams. It's 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.600 like they expose the things that you should. So it 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:15.600 shows that as a team with steal, that team that 0:12:15.880 --> 0:12:18.360 had the three game losing streak. Yeah, really that's the 0:12:18.360 --> 0:12:21.440 way they show. This shows that the Rams game was 0:12:21.480 --> 0:12:24.400 an exception to the rule. To me, that's what it 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.600 seems like. You know, this this is us And there's 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.400 only been really two exceptions to the rule. Two exceptions 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.480 the Rams game and the first philadelph first Philadelphia game. 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.000 And that's what drives fans crazy is that you watch 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.439 them play like that and you say, why can't they 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:40.760 do that all the time? Because they're capable of it. 0:12:41.040 --> 0:12:43.800 But at some point, when you're seven and eight, you're 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:46.360 not capable of doing it consistently. That's just who you are. 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:49.800 And Zeke said something interesting after the game. He was asked, 0:12:50.040 --> 0:12:53.760 I think about losing to a team you're better than 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.240 when when you're expected to be in the super Bowl 0:12:56.280 --> 0:12:58.680 and people expect that from and Zeke flat out said, 0:12:58.840 --> 0:13:01.319 how can you say that they won the game? They 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:03.800 played better when it counted, Like, I think we're better, 0:13:04.200 --> 0:13:06.240 but we didn't show it, and we haven't showed it 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:10.320 really all year. Yea, on a consistent basis, we are. 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:14.240 We are who everyone said we'd beat. Yeah, I mean 0:13:14.280 --> 0:13:16.360 that's where we are right now. Even if we win 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.160 next week, you know, which I look forward to us doing, 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:21.720 we'll probably come out and do all the things that 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:23.920 we couldn't do in Philly and all the other games 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:26.440 that we thought we could do it and then we're 0:13:26.440 --> 0:13:31.440 gonna back into possibly possibly back into the playoffs. And 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:34.040 I wouldn't even feel comfortable making it. We don't deserve 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.520 the playoffs. And of course if you make it, you 0:13:36.640 --> 0:13:38.920 make it. Like you said, you know, how can you 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.679 say that, you know, if we keep getting beat how 0:13:41.720 --> 0:13:43.280 can you say they would deserve to be in the 0:13:43.280 --> 0:13:49.040 playoffs the way they've time and time again underachieved that. 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:51.280 That's to me, that's the question. How do you feel 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.920 going to the playoffs if you're still the same team. Yeah, 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:56.560 especially if you back in, because even if you take 0:13:56.559 --> 0:14:00.160 care you have it, you got to sit there and say, oh, 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:03.160 rookie quarterback Daniel Jones, can you help us out here 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:06.240 a little bit? Because we need you to beat the Eagles, 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.559 which is not out of the question. It's not out 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.040 of the question. They've been sneaking by all the what 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.520 they've won now what well? They got to play in 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:15.840 New York. They got a garbage touched down at the 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.680 end against Washington, Otherwise they would have won that by 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.120 three points. They beat Cowboys by eight, and they had 0:14:21.120 --> 0:14:23.520 to go into overtime to beat the Giants the week before. 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:28.600 My biggest fear is that we will make it. That's 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:31.600 my biggest fear that Okay, here we are glooming Dome. 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:36.200 Then then you're gonna play Then Philly will go in 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:40.080 after all this emotion and probably going in later. So 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:43.400 you play a team that lost Arizona yesterday, yeah, or 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:45.640 a team that lost to the Atlanta last week at home. 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.720 Go figure out a team were lost Arizona at home yesterday, 0:14:48.840 --> 0:14:54.120 or a team that lost because both teams to achieve. 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.240 That's what's crazy about this. If you back into this thing, 0:14:57.520 --> 0:15:00.560 you have a home playoff game against team that haven't 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:04.760 necessarily played a yeah. I mean, the division round is 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.360 not out of the possibility. But that's what's so insane 0:15:07.360 --> 0:15:09.720 about this this season. I can't think of a season 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.800 like this one where I'd be embarrassed to win. I 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:15.200 would I'd be embarrassed to win the first playoff game. 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.560 I don't know. I'm just you take your hat home, 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:23.280 you know, I'd be parading up and down the street. 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:26.760 But now it's it would just add to the confusion 0:15:27.320 --> 0:15:30.880 of what do we do next year? I mean, we'll 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.080 always we have to look forward to next year. You 0:15:33.200 --> 0:15:38.160 got two games, hopefully two games left. What do you 0:15:38.240 --> 0:15:41.560 do that we're gonna go through this again the entire 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:45.440 off season. Okay, I mean probably Dak would get his money, 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:49.600 you know exactly, that would be comfortable there. What do 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:54.760 we go through this again? Huh? I just what this 0:15:55.480 --> 0:16:01.720 to me? What Philadelphia did without three starting wide receivers 0:16:01.760 --> 0:16:04.480 in there and then managed to get enough points and 0:16:04.840 --> 0:16:07.080 by the way, zach Ertz got hurt too. By the 0:16:07.080 --> 0:16:09.840 way it came back in the kid missed like a 0:16:09.880 --> 0:16:13.680 dozen snaps. They end up they hunt up with four 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:17.040 hundred and thirty one yards. Think about what they would 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:18.880 have been saying if they lost the game, because four 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:21.720 hundred and thirty one yards and translated to seventeen point 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:23.840 one hundred and twenty five in the first quarter something 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:26.120 like that. Yeah, where And they were thrown to their 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:29.120 wide receivers in the first quarter. J j R. Segoeside 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.680 hadn't kind of passed in a month, and he catches 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:34.560 two in the first drive of the game and the 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:36.760 rest of the day, the like we were cold, what 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:39.200 we looked like, we were stiff, and they just looked 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:40.920 like they were ready. They looked like they've been sitting 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:42.960 in front of a fireplace. We looked like we've been 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:45.760 sitting outside in the cold, you know. And it's the 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.560 weird thing is but when when they out fox you 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.560 and things they did, it looks like, wow, we came 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:53.640 out with no energy. Well then how do you get 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:56.040 energy after you get down ten to nothing? You know, 0:16:56.080 --> 0:16:59.760 I don't get that. They just had an offensive plan 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:03.560 or early the Cowboys couldn't handle and then they didn't 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:05.600 handle it the rest of the way. When they said, okay, 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:07.719 we're just gonna throw the tight ends when it was 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:09.880 what was its second it was its second in goal 0:17:10.240 --> 0:17:13.320 on the touchdown pass to god Her, I sat there 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:15.760 and I said, this was going to the tight end. Well, 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:17.560 how many times was there's that little cushion in the 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:19.680 middle underneath the middle of the field where they're giving 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:23.800 him eight yards. That's the same play. Score. Yeah, when 0:17:23.800 --> 0:17:25.920 they score, we give up that same play. 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