WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Frustrating Finale 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:06.120 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:16.200 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This he's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:19.599 screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:19.680 --> 0:00:30.639 Star in Frisco. Scott and now your hosts, I say 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:37.960 a stand back, Patrick Walker and Kyle Yeomans. It is 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.800 a marvelous Monday here on Talking Cowboys, presented by Black 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:45.839 Rifle Coffee Company, the official star or the official coffee 0:00:45.920 --> 0:00:50.080 of the Dallas Cowboys. You don't like the word marvelous today, Yeah, 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:52.640 it's kind of a mark. I don't know of another 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:59.000 m word. Maddening munday, bady, do what we can't say here? 0:00:59.040 --> 0:01:01.640 That's about to say. We can only say certain things 0:01:01.680 --> 0:01:04.840 on the airways. We classify the today as Murky's murky 0:01:05.160 --> 0:01:09.280 because there's so many questions. Can't see what's ahead of you. Yeah, 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:12.080 you gotta look through something kind of slush and work 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:16.559 through it. No, uh yeah, okay, that's fair. That's probably 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:18.600 better than marvelous. All right, let me start over here. 0:01:18.600 --> 0:01:22.800 We going three two one. It is a murky Monday 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:26.160 here on Talking Cowboys, presented by Black Rifle Coffee Company, 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:29.160 the official Coffee of the Dallas Cowboys here from the 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:33.000 s WBC studios at the Star in Frisco, alongside Isaiah 0:01:33.040 --> 0:01:36.399 stand back Patrick, no sleep walker. We've got Chris Beam 0:01:36.400 --> 0:01:38.640 in the back. I'm Kyle Yeoman's gentleman. How are we 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:42.119 doing after Georgia? Boy man? He's getting ready for game? Baby? Yeah, 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:45.399 you got a game? Huhep. You do have a game today? Um, 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:50.400 and I hope the Cowboys use would uh what they 0:01:50.440 --> 0:01:53.880 what happened on yesterday? Combine it with would almost happened 0:01:53.920 --> 0:01:58.440 to my dogs against against Ohio State. Do not play 0:01:58.560 --> 0:02:03.920 with your freaking food. My my dogs life flash before 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:07.360 the very eyes they heard all all season and this 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:10.560 is why. And you guys know from offline conversations, UM, 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.120 so many people will no see. You know, your dog's 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.360 gonna run through everybody. Nobody's gonna beat your dogs. What 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:17.040 was my reply to all of that? I said, stop 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.440 stop saying that. Stop saying it, because you say that 0:02:20.480 --> 0:02:22.480 Georgia had a warning shot. They smelled the game, They 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:26.400 smelled themselves, They started smelling themselves and it almost ended. 0:02:26.560 --> 0:02:29.560 Oh well, let's let's kind of transition that to the NFL. 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:33.800 Then let's transition transition to that into the regular season finale, 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:37.079 the Washington Commanders take down the Dallas Cowboys twenty six 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:42.600 to six. Cowboys took down the Dallas Cowboys, and Dallas lost. 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:45.640 They lost that game. They were bad, lot, they were bad. 0:02:45.800 --> 0:02:48.200 Washington did what they needed to do. Twenty six to 0:02:48.240 --> 0:02:50.640 six was the final saint, the one to say it though. 0:02:50.919 --> 0:02:52.919 I'm saying, but if we're always gonna say no, we're 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:54.720 not always gonna say, we're gonna say when you say 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.960 the team just beat when it applies. Okay, So so 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:00.560 you're telling me that the Commanders were good enough yesterday. 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:04.440 They their coverage was incredible. Yesterday they did. Their coverage 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:06.560 was all over the place. You had zero separation, you 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:09.000 had a ton of pressure. I'm not saying they weren't. 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.120 They didn't have their good moments. What I'm saying is 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.160 if the Cowboys play even remotely service, they did it. 0:03:15.320 --> 0:03:18.119 Your question to me, Isaiah, was when are we going 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:21.880 to say that a team actually defeated the Cowboys? Okay, 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:25.240 yesterday was not that day. Of the five losses, which 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:31.400 game did Dallas get beat Philadelphia? Okay? With a backup 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:35.640 quarterback back of Philadelphia, they took the ball away Tampa Yeah, 0:03:35.800 --> 0:03:40.200 Tampa Verse Week one in Week eighteen are doppelgangers. It 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.840 was the worst performances of the year Week one in 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:46.240 Week eighteen. No coincidence to Cowboys lost those particular games. 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.400 So if you look at yesterday, for example, you start 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:53.560 the game um solid return by Kavante Turpin, callback because 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.360 of the penalty on Tyler Coil, and let's keep it 0:03:56.400 --> 0:03:59.680 to special teams. Brian Anger fumbles to snapper, Covers gets 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.880 tap code, Washington gets the ball in the red zone. 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.640 Keep it the special teams. Kavante Turpin must the second 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:09.120 point of the season, loses it, Washington recovers the ball 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:11.600 in the red zone, and that's just special teams. Yeah. 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:13.680 Then you go over and you look at the offense. 0:04:14.720 --> 0:04:17.680 You talk about the drops picked by Kendall Fuller. Okay, 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:22.039 well let's try him again. Bad idea, mister Prescott pick 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:24.360 six on the very next throw, and that is one 0:04:24.440 --> 0:04:26.440 hundred percent accountable to Deck and he knows it has 0:04:26.480 --> 0:04:28.919 to own it, and he does on it. But the 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:31.800 list goes on and Norm couldn't get the run game established. 0:04:31.800 --> 0:04:33.320 We talked about it in the preview. We said that 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:35.240 this defensive front is one of the best in the 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:37.040 league as far as the Commanders goes, and you were 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.480 going to have problems establishing the run. So then when 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:42.159 you if you did have that problem again this week, 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:43.840 where are you going to be able to pass the ball? 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:47.440 Cowboys couldn't pass the ball, couldn't run the ball, couldn't 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:49.440 pass the ball. When you pass the ball, you made mistakes. 0:04:49.960 --> 0:04:52.719 Special teams were making mistakes. The defense was the only 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:56.440 ones that showed up to play, with the exception of 0:04:56.720 --> 0:05:02.120 the unbelievable struggles of Trayvon Mother. And we wanted to see. 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:05.719 We wanted to see what that that backup cornerback position 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:09.440 looked like opposite Bland and Digs, and we know what 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:12.400 Nishan could do, but they showed his Trayvon Mother. They 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:14.680 gave Mother more snaps yesterday than they gave Nashan right 0:05:14.720 --> 0:05:16.120 because they wanted to see if he was viable in 0:05:16.120 --> 0:05:17.599 the playoffs. Well, now we know that he is not 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.039 because from the penalties to you know, not getting his 0:05:20.080 --> 0:05:21.919 head around and then there was a DP I missed 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:23.680 over the middle that would have been in the end zone, 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:25.400 would put the Commanders on the one yard line and 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.880 flag Mullin did not have a good game. So now 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:30.920 you know it's Nashan, right, and then we'll see who's 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:33.360 backing up right between Alexander and some of these other guys. 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:35.800 Xavier Roads is in the building, Big XS in the building, 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:39.599 former pro bowler, from former two time All Pro. He 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:40.920 gets it done, We'll see if he can get it 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:43.560 done for the Cowboys. But all I'm saying is all 0:05:43.560 --> 0:05:46.279 of that is to be said, or is for this 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:51.440 to be said. That game yesterday was absolute trash, absolute trash. 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.800 I'm proud of you, absolute trash. I'm proud of you. Know. 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.240 I know I'm proud of you because normally you wouldn't 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:00.279 say that. You would give a reason normally as to 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:04.120 why they, Yeah, gave several because the Cowboys. What I 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:06.800 said before Mike's went hot, and I didn't, I'll change 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.480 the word. The Cowboys pissed in their own bed and 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.080 then rolled around in it for four quarters. That's basically 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:15.480 what they did in Washington, and it needs to serve 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:21.320 as a reminder of what's coming up. There's no more mulligans. 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.200 There's no more if we don't get this right, Okay, 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.240 we'll bounce back next week. No, you're watching the Tampa 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:30.000 and you play even remotely as poorly as you played 0:06:30.040 --> 0:06:35.080 in Washington and you're fishing can't happen. What do you 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:39.719 think as there? I think they showed what we expect 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:41.520 of them at this point in time of the year. 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.039 I mean, unfortunately, they are a team that you just 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:45.600 don't know what you're gonna get from week to week. 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.720 And it sucks because when they're good, they're really freaking good. 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:50.840 But when they play teams that they're supposed to beat 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:55.200 up on, they don't. And it's very indicative of a 0:06:55.800 --> 0:07:00.440 I would classify it as a mentally immature team in 0:07:00.480 --> 0:07:02.839 the sense that they're not approaching every game the same 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:06.279 and they're not performing at the same level or above 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:09.560 that level every week. And I know if fans are 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:12.720 probably tired of it, I just look at it as 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:16.160 inconsistent ball, and they're going to have to have a 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:20.000 complete one eighty. This is not the first bad game. 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:22.800 I sat here last week, the week before, even though 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:24.480 they were getting victories and some of those games, and 0:07:24.480 --> 0:07:26.760 I'm still saying that they're not playing good football, and 0:07:26.840 --> 0:07:29.160 people were like, oh, you're just hating. Okay, cool, they're 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.280 not playing good football. You call it what you want 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:32.920 to call it. You can win the ball game and 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.480 have an ugly win. It's still a win, but it's 0:07:35.520 --> 0:07:38.640 an ugly win because you're the level of ball you're 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:41.200 supposed to be competing at, and when you don't play 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:43.800 to that level, you just fall into some victories just 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:46.560 because you're more talented than teams. But when there's days 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.240 like this, this is very indicative of what this team 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.480 has been doing, putting on the film for the last 0:07:51.520 --> 0:07:56.240 six weeks, and it's very unfortunate, and you hope, but 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.880 it is an h word. It's a hope that they 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:03.200 can turn it around. There's nothing that shows any level 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:07.000 of consistency in any three fastest of this team right now. 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.520 And it used to be your defense. That's not the 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:12.360 case anymore. We knew this as a defensively led team. 0:08:12.680 --> 0:08:15.400 Offense has not shown you much confidence at all in 0:08:15.480 --> 0:08:17.239 terms of what they're capable of doing on a consistent 0:08:17.240 --> 0:08:19.600 week to week basis, and then now it's rolled over 0:08:19.640 --> 0:08:22.600 into special teams. So at what point what are you 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:26.280 leaning on to give you confidence to say, this element 0:08:26.280 --> 0:08:28.480 of our game, we know it's going to be president 0:08:28.600 --> 0:08:30.880 every single week. We can rely on this to be 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:32.800 president every week because that's that's where we're that's where 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:36.160 we're laying our head on. Yeah, there's nothing. There's nothing. 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:41.040 So everything now turns into hope. You hope that your 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.920 team shows up in plays. No, you're exactly right, because 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:46.040 let's run it down. Let's go all the way top 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.280 to bottom. This was a team loss, much like the 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:51.160 Cowboys have had team wins throughout the season. Let's run 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:55.040 it down. Who did their job right yesterday? Quarterback? No, 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:58.120 not at all. Fourteen to thirty seven. Sorry, guys, if 0:08:58.160 --> 0:09:01.560 you're if you're a Dak fan, I'm a Dack fan. 0:09:01.679 --> 0:09:04.720 If you watch the game, then you know the answer 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:07.280 is no. It's no. If. Even if you're a Dak 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:10.920 fan and you defend Dak, you're doing him a disservice 0:09:11.000 --> 0:09:14.040 by saying he's doing his job lately. He's not. Fifteen 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.640 interceptions in twelve games is not acceptable. And then you 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.200 come out and you throw fourteen completions in thirty seven 0:09:19.280 --> 0:09:21.680 tries not going to get the job done, especially not 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.079 against the Washington Commander. It's just wait until you face 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.920 the Buccaneers, the forty nine ers, the Philadelphia Eagles. If 0:09:26.920 --> 0:09:28.920 you get a chance to get past Tampa Bay, in 0:09:29.040 --> 0:09:33.680 Round one. Running backs, did they do their job yesterday? No? No, 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:37.200 they did not. Ten yards for Zeke, nineteen yards for 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:40.600 Tony Pollard. Congratulations to hit a thousand yards, but there's 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:44.000 still a long way to go. Tight ends no, not 0:09:44.080 --> 0:09:47.199 at all. Offensive line, no, not even a little bit. 0:09:47.360 --> 0:09:51.280 Jason Peters really struggled yesterday at left tackle. Connor McGovern 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.319 had his lapses. I thought Zack Martin even struggled a 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:56.480 little bit. The guy who you can rely on more 0:09:56.480 --> 0:09:59.680 than anybody, he even struggled and let up a couple 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:04.839 of plays yesterday, A couple of pressures. Defensive line maybe 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:07.520 as close as you can get. Yes, I'd only I 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:10.559 think I would say a solid neutral. I would give 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:12.760 it a neutral. I wouldn't even say yes. I didn't 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.559 look at that defensive line yesterday and say, wow, Sam, 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:19.120 how is under pressure consistently fair? The Yeah, they didn't 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:22.040 go obviously they didn't go mall Sam Howe, But which 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:23.720 they should have? Did they get back to the old ways? 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.280 I think they'd hack now, Okay, I don't think that 0:10:26.320 --> 0:10:29.520 they looked at How's tar heel tape and they somehow 0:10:29.559 --> 0:10:31.679 forgot that he has legs, he can run, He can run. 0:10:31.800 --> 0:10:34.160 He took off and burned him a couple of times. 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.640 But I mean they were certainly positive to take away 0:10:36.640 --> 0:10:39.040 from the defensive line. Chauncey Ghost and for example, he 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:42.199 stood out Ohsa Diggi Zul. He had some plays um 0:10:42.240 --> 0:10:45.040 but as far as not defensive even Osa sack that 0:10:45.120 --> 0:10:48.040 was Sam how blowing the play call. So I mean 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:53.760 defensive line, they were above average. We'll say we'll give it, 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:57.720 We'll give it a halfwayfty yards giving up on the ground. Yeah, okay, 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:01.880 not good. Well, contextually speak, and when you're tasked as 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:04.440 a defense with going up against that time of position 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.320 because your offense goes four and eighteen on third down 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:11.040 plus one for one for three on fourth down. Yeah, 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:14.240 and unfortunately we talked, we talked about a guy like 0:11:14.280 --> 0:11:15.920 Treylon Mullin, and not to beat up on a guy, 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.320 but the secondary as a whole. And you know, sure 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:21.080 the glaring light is on treyvon Mullin. But because Sam 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:24.360 Howe was able to extend plays being with defensive pass 0:11:24.400 --> 0:11:27.320 interference and or big you know, catches to Terry mclurin. 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:31.160 Because they kept targeting Mullin. That stretched the field so 0:11:31.240 --> 0:11:33.920 you can't drop down and try to, you know, add 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:35.679 that extra man in the box to stop the run. 0:11:35.800 --> 0:11:41.080 So so yeah, there you go, let's keep going. Linebacker, No, 0:11:41.600 --> 0:11:45.360 not at all. Damon Clark, Anthony Brown did not play well. 0:11:46.280 --> 0:11:49.000 Anthony Bark, excuse me. And and Damon Clark did not 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:53.000 play well. Hanks hankins yit. They're gonna need him back 0:11:53.360 --> 0:11:59.800 coming back. Corners no, no safeties. Hooker, yes, he had 0:11:59.840 --> 0:12:05.920 the pick in the end Zoe took. He was out 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:08.600 of position on the He was out of position on 0:12:08.640 --> 0:12:15.840 the huge completion to uh Dotson number one. Uh that No, 0:12:15.960 --> 0:12:19.560 that one. That one was with Nashan and coverage. I 0:12:19.559 --> 0:12:22.000 saw one. There was a deep one he was also 0:12:22.080 --> 0:12:26.640 out of That was with mclauren. Mclauren's big completion was 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:29.000 with Mullen and coverage, and Hooker was was trying to 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:33.560 get there. It's time. So even then you have a lapse. Kicker, no, 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:40.320 no punter, non return kick returner. So every single piece 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:43.360 of this Cowboys roster has some sort of The blame 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:47.840 is absolute, every single piece. You cannot get past anybody 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:50.760 and say all right, man, hey, great job didn't work 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.200 out for you today. We'll see you next week. We'll 0:12:53.240 --> 0:12:57.880 try and do better around you. Nobody zero, everybody in 0:12:57.880 --> 0:12:59.720 that locker room has a chip on their shoulder right 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:03.800 now because they were all bad, all of them. And 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:07.040 I'm I'm I'm the one that usually defends these guys. 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:11.079 You can't after that much like Week one against the 0:13:11.120 --> 0:13:16.080 Tampa Bay Buccaneers, not so coincidentally, um, as we get 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.120 ready to face them here in the next few days, 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:22.440 it was, like you said, it was a total team loss. 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:26.280 All three phases just went to hell. Um. And and 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:28.760 that's how I mean, even Brett Mayer. You know, you 0:13:28.800 --> 0:13:31.200 talk about Joey Slot missing his kids, right, but Mars 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:33.440 Mara he missed a point after and that that's really 0:13:33.440 --> 0:13:35.679 when you know you're in the twilight zone where it's 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:37.760 just like, I don't know what's going on here, but 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:41.000 it's going on and this ain't pretty. So let's just 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.200 try to get out of here. Hold and then now 0:13:43.240 --> 0:13:45.240 the Cowboys and kind of a quick news and notes 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:48.239 tip bit de Ron Blanchester injury. He will be evaluated 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:51.040 this morning. He was in good spirits on the flight back. UM. 0:13:51.720 --> 0:13:54.079 Rumor floating around that right now is that that's just 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.920 the coaches. That was a coach. I'm totally fine, and 0:13:56.960 --> 0:13:59.800 I mentioned that in the Updates dot Com yesterday that 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:02.600 it was most likely precautionary. But we'll get an update 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:04.720 from he came back in in the third quarter. Yeah, 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.640 but because he played a little bit so. But that 0:14:08.040 --> 0:14:09.720 combined with the fact that he was in good spirits 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:12.920 on the plane. Not good in the aspect of smiling, 0:14:13.120 --> 0:14:15.840 but good in the aspect of that. There wasn't any 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.360 sense of concern on his face for whatever the injury 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.000 might be. So it's not like he was being jovial 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:21.920 on the plane or anything. You know, he just had 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:27.360 a you know, not so downtrotten facial expression as if 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:29.440 Home Grammer season. So it wasn't that kind of vibe 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:31.160 coming off him. So that's that's good news. We'll get 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:34.400 more update on Darron Bland. But I can't get over 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:37.760 how and Nick even put it very well when we 0:14:37.760 --> 0:14:39.360 walked into the locker room. He said, this, this has 0:14:39.400 --> 0:14:42.840 been a full full circle regular season. You you ended 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.760 the regular season exactly how he started. Signs you know, 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:49.520 injury to Dak Prescott. But yeah, you went to bed 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.160 in week one, you went to bed in week eighteen, 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:56.920 and and now the Cowboys, who usually well I'm not 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:00.920 gonna say usually this season, some of the time has 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:05.560 responded very favorably to getting punched in the mouth. All 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.480 we can do is look at that and say, they 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:11.680 have demonstrated with resiliency. Let's see it again, because you 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:15.240 gotta have it now. I mean hope. Yeah, it's it's 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.640 it's hope based on evidence, because they've not suffered the 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.920 two game losing streets, so it's not phantom hope. It's actual, 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:30.000 evidential based hope. They lost to Tampa Bay, most people 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:31.880 said the season was over, Wrap it up, it's done. 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:34.800 We lost Dak Prescott. It's a rape. They beat the 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:36.760 Cincinnati Bengals with Cooper Rush and they went on a 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.480 you know, four game win street before dropping to the 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:44.320 Philadelphia Eagles. They lose the Green Bay. They've mall Minnesota. 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:47.520 See now that that is what I'm expecting to see 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.200 from the Cowboys. You got you didn't even necessarily get 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.960 punched in the mouth by Aaron Rodgers. But the fashion 0:15:52.960 --> 0:15:54.800 in which you lost that game shouldn't have happened. Fourteen 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:58.400 point collapse, you bounce back, and you just destroy Minnesota. Vikings. 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:04.520 This question, go for it. What aspect of the of 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:06.840 the game of football. Do you know for sure will 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.000 show back up for the Cowboys next week? You want 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:11.920 to be honest, absolutely, I do. Well, I know the 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:13.400 defense is going to show up. Hell, they showed up 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:15.840 yesterday until they got gassed, and trayvon Mullin is not 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:18.160 going to be you know CB two. It's going back 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:20.160 to Nashan, right, So I think so showing up means 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:22.800 defense is going to show up and do what you 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:25.120 pay them to do. Get pressures, hopefully, get some sacks, 0:16:25.600 --> 0:16:27.800 get some takeaways they leave the league and takeaways. So 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:31.600 I'm hanging my head on the defense under four hundred 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.040 yards that, like, I'm trying to understand, like what is 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:39.400 what would you doing their job? Showing up against Tom 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:42.760 Brady and all, well, give me, give me showing up 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:45.000 for me against Tom Brady and those weapons would be 0:16:45.000 --> 0:16:50.600 three sacks on Brady, um an interception, uh, forced fumble, slash, 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.760 fumble recovery, all those. Yeah, that's not You're not asking 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:55.280 a lot from a defense that showing you it can 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.560 do it. And I didn't say, I'm just, of course 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.440 I would love six or sevens asked this three. I 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:05.000 asked this question because you just don't know. So that's 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:08.280 why utilize the term hope facts and nobody likes that 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:10.399 term because hope is not a real it's not over 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:12.159 real thing. I hope I hit the lotto. It's not 0:17:12.200 --> 0:17:14.000 a strategy. That thing's over at Billy right now. I 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:17.960 hope I hit the relative because what's what's been your success? 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:20.639 I get it, I get it, but you just okay 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.480 with this team. To go with your point though, going 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:25.520 back to last year, come on, I'm not going back 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:28.480 to red I am because the red flags were there 0:17:28.520 --> 0:17:30.040 all the way throughout. To go back to the history, 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:31.560 we got to go back to history. You were twelve 0:17:31.600 --> 0:17:33.520 and five a year ago. We're talking about them right 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.000 now in the NIXT But those who don't learn from 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:38.159 history are doomed to repeat it. And I'm trying to 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:42.080 say that moving forward. Come on with twelve and five 0:17:42.160 --> 0:17:44.439 last year, you had red flags all the way throughout. 0:17:44.480 --> 0:17:47.159 Where do those red flags rare their ugly head against 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.600 San Francisco? It's correct, you have red flags all the 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.119 way throughout this game. This season in a twelve and 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:55.600 five record, great, congratulations, you won twelve regular season games. 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:59.000 You've got to limit the turnovers. You've got to find 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:01.600 a way to run the football against Yes, and you 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.520 gotta find a way to get back to your identity defensively. 0:18:04.920 --> 0:18:07.560 All of those things haven't been working lately. So how 0:18:07.560 --> 0:18:09.119 can you sit here and tell me that it's going 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:11.440 to all show up magically whenever you play one of 0:18:11.440 --> 0:18:13.480 the better teams you've played all years? Or did I 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:14.920 you want to run that back? Did I say it 0:18:15.000 --> 0:18:16.560 was all magically going to show up? You just told 0:18:16.560 --> 0:18:18.240 me the defense is going to have what they help 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:20.640 you that I expect. He asked me, what do I expect? 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:22.479 Which phase do I expect to show up? Of the 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:24.639 three phases, which do I most expect to show up? 0:18:24.680 --> 0:18:26.600 And you said, and I said, the defense, That's what 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:28.879 I most expect to show up. Do you expect anything 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:30.919 else to show up? I expect Dak Prescott to bounce 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:33.120 back in the passing the tap. I expect that to happen. 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:35.600 I do expect the Cowboys to have a difficult time 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:39.399 establishing to run against the Detapa frontempt. I expect that 0:18:39.400 --> 0:18:43.840 to happen. But I expect Dak Prescott to show me 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:46.359 that he can bounce back as he showed me in 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:48.960 the past. My point being, I'm not saying it's magically 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:51.879 going to show up anymore than I'm trying to apologize 0:18:51.880 --> 0:18:53.679 for yesterday. Run the tape back. What did I call 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:56.040 the outing from yesterday? I said it was trade They 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:58.000 peed in their own bed and then rolled around in 0:18:58.000 --> 0:19:00.359 it for four quarters. That is what I said. That 0:19:00.520 --> 0:19:03.200 is all true. We just sat here and went position 0:19:03.280 --> 0:19:05.920 group by position group, and we failed most of them 0:19:06.240 --> 0:19:08.920 and just gave an average grade to the defensive line. 0:19:09.040 --> 0:19:11.720 I agree those are my grades. They're all true. What's 0:19:11.760 --> 0:19:14.479 also true is there's evidence that the Cowboys have been 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:16.880 punched in the mouth this season and have come back 0:19:16.920 --> 0:19:20.080 and have come back and won the very next game 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:23.560 and going on runs more often than not. That is 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:26.400 also true. That's what I'm saying. So I'm not apologizing 0:19:26.440 --> 0:19:30.800 for what happened because it's indefensible against that Washington team. 0:19:31.240 --> 0:19:34.360 But I'm also saying we can't see we can't look 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:36.359 at the macro of what happened over the course of 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:41.040 this season, and a week ago talk about how McCarthy 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:43.400 and this coaching staff has fought through adversity and losing 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:45.679 Dak Prescott and all these injuries and losing Hankins and 0:19:45.680 --> 0:19:48.280 losing lt Vanderesh and losing Toron Smiths before the season 0:19:48.440 --> 0:19:50.280 move a rookie first round picked Tim with Smith and 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:52.680 left guard after not having him take any reps there 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:55.080 and training camp. The list goes on and on, and 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:57.240 still they find ways to not lose two in a 0:19:57.320 --> 0:20:00.680 row en route to a twelve and five season. There 0:20:00.800 --> 0:20:04.040 is evidence there that this team can bounce back. So 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:07.160 what I'm saying is that's what I expect to happen. 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:09.959 That's what they need to expect and demand of themselves 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:12.320 in the locker room, in the meeting rooms, on the 0:20:12.320 --> 0:20:15.360 practice field every day this week, and when you get 0:20:15.359 --> 0:20:18.320 on that field against Tom Brady, you have a chance 0:20:18.320 --> 0:20:24.040 to not only bounce back from an embarrassing, nauseating loss 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:28.400 against Washington, but to hand Brady his first loss loss 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:32.680 against this franchise and possibly retire him in the process. 0:20:33.640 --> 0:20:37.240 The stage is set. Go do your job, because we 0:20:37.400 --> 0:20:39.320 know you can do your job. That's what I'm saying. 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:42.399 I wouldn't be this frustrated if I didn't think you 0:20:42.440 --> 0:20:44.480 were as elite as I think you can be. But 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:47.320