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Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys. You don't like the word marvelous today, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of a mark. I don't know of another
Speaker 1: m word. Maddening munday, bady, do what we can't say here?
Speaker 1: That's about to say. We can only say certain things
Speaker 1: on the airways. We classify the today as Murky's murky
Speaker 1: because there's so many questions. Can't see what's ahead of you. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta look through something kind of slush and work
Speaker 1: through it. No, uh yeah, okay, that's fair. That's probably
Speaker 1: better than marvelous. All right, let me start over here.
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Speaker 1: here on Talking Cowboys, presented by Black Rifle Coffee Company,
Speaker 1: the official Coffee of the Dallas Cowboys here from the
Speaker 1: s WBC studios at the Star in Frisco, alongside Isaiah
Speaker 1: stand back Patrick, no sleep walker. We've got Chris Beam
Speaker 1: in the back. I'm Kyle Yeoman's gentleman. How are we
Speaker 1: doing after Georgia? Boy man? He's getting ready for game? Baby? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you got a game? Huhep. You do have a game today? Um,
Speaker 1: and I hope the Cowboys use would uh what they
Speaker 1: what happened on yesterday? Combine it with would almost happened
Speaker 1: to my dogs against against Ohio State. Do not play
Speaker 1: with your freaking food. My my dogs life flash before
Speaker 1: the very eyes they heard all all season and this
Speaker 1: is why. And you guys know from offline conversations, UM,
Speaker 1: so many people will no see. You know, your dog's
Speaker 1: gonna run through everybody. Nobody's gonna beat your dogs. What
Speaker 1: was my reply to all of that? I said, stop
Speaker 1: stop saying that. Stop saying it, because you say that
Speaker 1: Georgia had a warning shot. They smelled the game, They
Speaker 1: smelled themselves, They started smelling themselves and it almost ended.
Speaker 1: Oh well, let's let's kind of transition that to the NFL.
Speaker 1: Then let's transition transition to that into the regular season finale,
Speaker 1: the Washington Commanders take down the Dallas Cowboys twenty six
Speaker 1: to six. Cowboys took down the Dallas Cowboys, and Dallas lost.
Speaker 1: They lost that game. They were bad, lot, they were bad.
Speaker 1: Washington did what they needed to do. Twenty six to
Speaker 1: six was the final saint, the one to say it though.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, but if we're always gonna say no, we're
Speaker 1: not always gonna say, we're gonna say when you say
Speaker 1: the team just beat when it applies. Okay, So so
Speaker 1: you're telling me that the Commanders were good enough yesterday.
Speaker 1: They their coverage was incredible. Yesterday they did. Their coverage
Speaker 1: was all over the place. You had zero separation, you
Speaker 1: had a ton of pressure. I'm not saying they weren't.
Speaker 1: They didn't have their good moments. What I'm saying is
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys play even remotely service, they did it.
Speaker 1: Your question to me, Isaiah, was when are we going
Speaker 1: to say that a team actually defeated the Cowboys? Okay,
Speaker 1: yesterday was not that day. Of the five losses, which
Speaker 1: game did Dallas get beat Philadelphia? Okay? With a backup
Speaker 1: quarterback back of Philadelphia, they took the ball away Tampa Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tampa Verse Week one in Week eighteen are doppelgangers. It
Speaker 1: was the worst performances of the year Week one in
Speaker 1: Week eighteen. No coincidence to Cowboys lost those particular games.
Speaker 1: So if you look at yesterday, for example, you start
Speaker 1: the game um solid return by Kavante Turpin, callback because
Speaker 1: of the penalty on Tyler Coil, and let's keep it
Speaker 1: to special teams. Brian Anger fumbles to snapper, Covers gets
Speaker 1: tap code, Washington gets the ball in the red zone.
Speaker 1: Keep it the special teams. Kavante Turpin must the second
Speaker 1: point of the season, loses it, Washington recovers the ball
Speaker 1: in the red zone, and that's just special teams. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Then you go over and you look at the offense.
Speaker 1: You talk about the drops picked by Kendall Fuller. Okay,
Speaker 1: well let's try him again. Bad idea, mister Prescott pick
Speaker 1: six on the very next throw, and that is one
Speaker 1: hundred percent accountable to Deck and he knows it has
Speaker 1: to own it, and he does on it. But the
Speaker 1: list goes on and Norm couldn't get the run game established.
Speaker 1: We talked about it in the preview. We said that
Speaker 1: this defensive front is one of the best in the
Speaker 1: league as far as the Commanders goes, and you were
Speaker 1: going to have problems establishing the run. So then when
Speaker 1: you if you did have that problem again this week,
Speaker 1: where are you going to be able to pass the ball?
Speaker 1: Cowboys couldn't pass the ball, couldn't run the ball, couldn't
Speaker 1: pass the ball. When you pass the ball, you made mistakes.
Speaker 1: Special teams were making mistakes. The defense was the only
Speaker 1: ones that showed up to play, with the exception of
Speaker 1: the unbelievable struggles of Trayvon Mother. And we wanted to see.
Speaker 1: We wanted to see what that that backup cornerback position
Speaker 1: looked like opposite Bland and Digs, and we know what
Speaker 1: Nishan could do, but they showed his Trayvon Mother. They
Speaker 1: gave Mother more snaps yesterday than they gave Nashan right
Speaker 1: because they wanted to see if he was viable in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Well, now we know that he is not
Speaker 1: because from the penalties to you know, not getting his
Speaker 1: head around and then there was a DP I missed
Speaker 1: over the middle that would have been in the end zone,
Speaker 1: would put the Commanders on the one yard line and
Speaker 1: flag Mullin did not have a good game. So now
Speaker 1: you know it's Nashan, right, and then we'll see who's
Speaker 1: backing up right between Alexander and some of these other guys.
Speaker 1: Xavier Roads is in the building, Big XS in the building,
Speaker 1: former pro bowler, from former two time All Pro. He
Speaker 1: gets it done, We'll see if he can get it
Speaker 1: done for the Cowboys. But all I'm saying is all
Speaker 1: of that is to be said, or is for this
Speaker 1: to be said. That game yesterday was absolute trash, absolute trash.
Speaker 1: I'm proud of you, absolute trash. I'm proud of you. Know.
Speaker 1: I know I'm proud of you because normally you wouldn't
Speaker 1: say that. You would give a reason normally as to
Speaker 1: why they, Yeah, gave several because the Cowboys. What I
Speaker 1: said before Mike's went hot, and I didn't, I'll change
Speaker 1: the word. The Cowboys pissed in their own bed and
Speaker 1: then rolled around in it for four quarters. That's basically
Speaker 1: what they did in Washington, and it needs to serve
Speaker 1: as a reminder of what's coming up. There's no more mulligans.
Speaker 1: There's no more if we don't get this right, Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll bounce back next week. No, you're watching the Tampa
Speaker 1: and you play even remotely as poorly as you played
Speaker 1: in Washington and you're fishing can't happen. What do you
Speaker 1: think as there? I think they showed what we expect
Speaker 1: of them at this point in time of the year.
Speaker 1: I mean, unfortunately, they are a team that you just
Speaker 1: don't know what you're gonna get from week to week.
Speaker 1: And it sucks because when they're good, they're really freaking good.
Speaker 1: But when they play teams that they're supposed to beat
Speaker 1: up on, they don't. And it's very indicative of a
Speaker 1: I would classify it as a mentally immature team in
Speaker 1: the sense that they're not approaching every game the same
Speaker 1: and they're not performing at the same level or above
Speaker 1: that level every week. And I know if fans are
Speaker 1: probably tired of it, I just look at it as
Speaker 1: inconsistent ball, and they're going to have to have a
Speaker 1: complete one eighty. This is not the first bad game.
Speaker 1: I sat here last week, the week before, even though
Speaker 1: they were getting victories and some of those games, and
Speaker 1: I'm still saying that they're not playing good football, and
Speaker 1: people were like, oh, you're just hating. Okay, cool, they're
Speaker 1: not playing good football. You call it what you want
Speaker 1: to call it. You can win the ball game and
Speaker 1: have an ugly win. It's still a win, but it's
Speaker 1: an ugly win because you're the level of ball you're
Speaker 1: supposed to be competing at, and when you don't play
Speaker 1: to that level, you just fall into some victories just
Speaker 1: because you're more talented than teams. But when there's days
Speaker 1: like this, this is very indicative of what this team
Speaker 1: has been doing, putting on the film for the last
Speaker 1: six weeks, and it's very unfortunate, and you hope, but
Speaker 1: it is an h word. It's a hope that they
Speaker 1: can turn it around. There's nothing that shows any level
Speaker 1: of consistency in any three fastest of this team right now.
Speaker 1: And it used to be your defense. That's not the
Speaker 1: case anymore. We knew this as a defensively led team.
Speaker 1: Offense has not shown you much confidence at all in
Speaker 1: terms of what they're capable of doing on a consistent
Speaker 1: week to week basis, and then now it's rolled over
Speaker 1: into special teams. So at what point what are you
Speaker 1: leaning on to give you confidence to say, this element
Speaker 1: of our game, we know it's going to be president
Speaker 1: every single week. We can rely on this to be
Speaker 1: president every week because that's that's where we're that's where
Speaker 1: we're laying our head on. Yeah, there's nothing. There's nothing.
Speaker 1: So everything now turns into hope. You hope that your
Speaker 1: team shows up in plays. No, you're exactly right, because
Speaker 1: let's run it down. Let's go all the way top
Speaker 1: to bottom. This was a team loss, much like the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have had team wins throughout the season. Let's run
Speaker 1: it down. Who did their job right yesterday? Quarterback? No,
Speaker 1: not at all. Fourteen to thirty seven. Sorry, guys, if
Speaker 1: you're if you're a Dak fan, I'm a Dack fan.
Speaker 1: If you watch the game, then you know the answer
Speaker 1: is no. It's no. If. Even if you're a Dak
Speaker 1: fan and you defend Dak, you're doing him a disservice
Speaker 1: by saying he's doing his job lately. He's not. Fifteen
Speaker 1: interceptions in twelve games is not acceptable. And then you
Speaker 1: come out and you throw fourteen completions in thirty seven
Speaker 1: tries not going to get the job done, especially not
Speaker 1: against the Washington Commander. It's just wait until you face
Speaker 1: the Buccaneers, the forty nine ers, the Philadelphia Eagles. If
Speaker 1: you get a chance to get past Tampa Bay, in
Speaker 1: Round one. Running backs, did they do their job yesterday? No? No,
Speaker 1: they did not. Ten yards for Zeke, nineteen yards for
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard. Congratulations to hit a thousand yards, but there's
Speaker 1: still a long way to go. Tight ends no, not
Speaker 1: at all. Offensive line, no, not even a little bit.
Speaker 1: Jason Peters really struggled yesterday at left tackle. Connor McGovern
Speaker 1: had his lapses. I thought Zack Martin even struggled a
Speaker 1: little bit. The guy who you can rely on more
Speaker 1: than anybody, he even struggled and let up a couple
Speaker 1: of plays yesterday, A couple of pressures. Defensive line maybe
Speaker 1: as close as you can get. Yes, I'd only I
Speaker 1: think I would say a solid neutral. I would give
Speaker 1: it a neutral. I wouldn't even say yes. I didn't
Speaker 1: look at that defensive line yesterday and say, wow, Sam,
Speaker 1: how is under pressure consistently fair? The Yeah, they didn't
Speaker 1: go obviously they didn't go mall Sam Howe, But which
Speaker 1: they should have? Did they get back to the old ways?
Speaker 1: I think they'd hack now, Okay, I don't think that
Speaker 1: they looked at How's tar heel tape and they somehow
Speaker 1: forgot that he has legs, he can run, He can run.
Speaker 1: He took off and burned him a couple of times.
Speaker 1: But I mean they were certainly positive to take away
Speaker 1: from the defensive line. Chauncey Ghost and for example, he
Speaker 1: stood out Ohsa Diggi Zul. He had some plays um
Speaker 1: but as far as not defensive even Osa sack that
Speaker 1: was Sam how blowing the play call. So I mean
Speaker 1: defensive line, they were above average. We'll say we'll give it,
Speaker 1: We'll give it a halfwayfty yards giving up on the ground. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: not good. Well, contextually speak, and when you're tasked as
Speaker 1: a defense with going up against that time of position
Speaker 1: because your offense goes four and eighteen on third down
Speaker 1: plus one for one for three on fourth down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately we talked, we talked about a guy like
Speaker 1: Treylon Mullin, and not to beat up on a guy,
Speaker 1: but the secondary as a whole. And you know, sure
Speaker 1: the glaring light is on treyvon Mullin. But because Sam
Speaker 1: Howe was able to extend plays being with defensive pass
Speaker 1: interference and or big you know, catches to Terry mclurin.
Speaker 1: Because they kept targeting Mullin. That stretched the field so
Speaker 1: you can't drop down and try to, you know, add
Speaker 1: that extra man in the box to stop the run.
Speaker 1: So so yeah, there you go, let's keep going. Linebacker, No,
Speaker 1: not at all. Damon Clark, Anthony Brown did not play well.
Speaker 1: Anthony Bark, excuse me. And and Damon Clark did not
Speaker 1: play well. Hanks hankins yit. They're gonna need him back
Speaker 1: coming back. Corners no, no safeties. Hooker, yes, he had
Speaker 1: the pick in the end Zoe took. He was out
Speaker 1: of position on the He was out of position on
Speaker 1: the huge completion to uh Dotson number one. Uh that No,
Speaker 1: that one. That one was with Nashan and coverage. I
Speaker 1: saw one. There was a deep one he was also
Speaker 1: out of That was with mclauren. Mclauren's big completion was
Speaker 1: with Mullen and coverage, and Hooker was was trying to
Speaker 1: get there. It's time. So even then you have a lapse. Kicker, no,
Speaker 1: no punter, non return kick returner. So every single piece
Speaker 1: of this Cowboys roster has some sort of The blame
Speaker 1: is absolute, every single piece. You cannot get past anybody
Speaker 1: and say all right, man, hey, great job didn't work
Speaker 1: out for you today. We'll see you next week. We'll
Speaker 1: try and do better around you. Nobody zero, everybody in
Speaker 1: that locker room has a chip on their shoulder right
Speaker 1: now because they were all bad, all of them. And
Speaker 1: I'm I'm I'm the one that usually defends these guys.
Speaker 1: You can't after that much like Week one against the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers, not so coincidentally, um, as we get
Speaker 1: ready to face them here in the next few days,
Speaker 1: it was, like you said, it was a total team loss.
Speaker 1: All three phases just went to hell. Um. And and
Speaker 1: that's how I mean, even Brett Mayer. You know, you
Speaker 1: talk about Joey Slot missing his kids, right, but Mars
Speaker 1: Mara he missed a point after and that that's really
Speaker 1: when you know you're in the twilight zone where it's
Speaker 1: just like, I don't know what's going on here, but
Speaker 1: it's going on and this ain't pretty. So let's just
Speaker 1: try to get out of here. Hold and then now
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and kind of a quick news and notes
Speaker 1: tip bit de Ron Blanchester injury. He will be evaluated
Speaker 1: this morning. He was in good spirits on the flight back. UM.
Speaker 1: Rumor floating around that right now is that that's just
Speaker 1: the coaches. That was a coach. I'm totally fine, and
Speaker 1: I mentioned that in the Updates dot Com yesterday that
Speaker 1: it was most likely precautionary. But we'll get an update
Speaker 1: from he came back in in the third quarter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but because he played a little bit so. But that
Speaker 1: combined with the fact that he was in good spirits
Speaker 1: on the plane. Not good in the aspect of smiling,
Speaker 1: but good in the aspect of that. There wasn't any
Speaker 1: sense of concern on his face for whatever the injury
Speaker 1: might be. So it's not like he was being jovial
Speaker 1: on the plane or anything. You know, he just had
Speaker 1: a you know, not so downtrotten facial expression as if
Speaker 1: Home Grammer season. So it wasn't that kind of vibe
Speaker 1: coming off him. So that's that's good news. We'll get
Speaker 1: more update on Darron Bland. But I can't get over
Speaker 1: how and Nick even put it very well when we
Speaker 1: walked into the locker room. He said, this, this has
Speaker 1: been a full full circle regular season. You you ended
Speaker 1: the regular season exactly how he started. Signs you know,
Speaker 1: injury to Dak Prescott. But yeah, you went to bed
Speaker 1: in week one, you went to bed in week eighteen,
Speaker 1: and and now the Cowboys, who usually well I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say usually this season, some of the time has
Speaker 1: responded very favorably to getting punched in the mouth. All
Speaker 1: we can do is look at that and say, they
Speaker 1: have demonstrated with resiliency. Let's see it again, because you
Speaker 1: gotta have it now. I mean hope. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: it's hope based on evidence, because they've not suffered the
Speaker 1: two game losing streets, so it's not phantom hope. It's actual,
Speaker 1: evidential based hope. They lost to Tampa Bay, most people
Speaker 1: said the season was over, Wrap it up, it's done.
Speaker 1: We lost Dak Prescott. It's a rape. They beat the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals with Cooper Rush and they went on a
Speaker 1: you know, four game win street before dropping to the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles. They lose the Green Bay. They've mall Minnesota.
Speaker 1: See now that that is what I'm expecting to see
Speaker 1: from the Cowboys. You got you didn't even necessarily get
Speaker 1: punched in the mouth by Aaron Rodgers. But the fashion
Speaker 1: in which you lost that game shouldn't have happened. Fourteen
Speaker 1: point collapse, you bounce back, and you just destroy Minnesota. Vikings.
Speaker 1: This question, go for it. What aspect of the of
Speaker 1: the game of football. Do you know for sure will
Speaker 1: show back up for the Cowboys next week? You want
Speaker 1: to be honest, absolutely, I do. Well, I know the
Speaker 1: defense is going to show up. Hell, they showed up
Speaker 1: yesterday until they got gassed, and trayvon Mullin is not
Speaker 1: going to be you know CB two. It's going back
Speaker 1: to Nashan, right, So I think so showing up means
Speaker 1: defense is going to show up and do what you
Speaker 1: pay them to do. Get pressures, hopefully, get some sacks,
Speaker 1: get some takeaways they leave the league and takeaways. So
Speaker 1: I'm hanging my head on the defense under four hundred
Speaker 1: yards that, like, I'm trying to understand, like what is
Speaker 1: what would you doing their job? Showing up against Tom
Speaker 1: Brady and all, well, give me, give me showing up
Speaker 1: for me against Tom Brady and those weapons would be
Speaker 1: three sacks on Brady, um an interception, uh, forced fumble, slash,
Speaker 1: fumble recovery, all those. Yeah, that's not You're not asking
Speaker 1: a lot from a defense that showing you it can
Speaker 1: do it. And I didn't say, I'm just, of course
Speaker 1: I would love six or sevens asked this three. I
Speaker 1: asked this question because you just don't know. So that's
Speaker 1: why utilize the term hope facts and nobody likes that
Speaker 1: term because hope is not a real it's not over
Speaker 1: real thing. I hope I hit the lotto. It's not
Speaker 1: a strategy. That thing's over at Billy right now. I
Speaker 1: hope I hit the relative because what's what's been your success?
Speaker 1: I get it, I get it, but you just okay
Speaker 1: with this team. To go with your point though, going
Speaker 1: back to last year, come on, I'm not going back
Speaker 1: to red I am because the red flags were there
Speaker 1: all the way throughout. To go back to the history,
Speaker 1: we got to go back to history. You were twelve
Speaker 1: and five a year ago. We're talking about them right
Speaker 1: now in the NIXT But those who don't learn from
Speaker 1: history are doomed to repeat it. And I'm trying to
Speaker 1: say that moving forward. Come on with twelve and five
Speaker 1: last year, you had red flags all the way throughout.
Speaker 1: Where do those red flags rare their ugly head against
Speaker 1: San Francisco? It's correct, you have red flags all the
Speaker 1: way throughout this game. This season in a twelve and
Speaker 1: five record, great, congratulations, you won twelve regular season games.
Speaker 1: You've got to limit the turnovers. You've got to find
Speaker 1: a way to run the football against Yes, and you
Speaker 1: gotta find a way to get back to your identity defensively.
Speaker 1: All of those things haven't been working lately. So how
Speaker 1: can you sit here and tell me that it's going
Speaker 1: to all show up magically whenever you play one of
Speaker 1: the better teams you've played all years? Or did I
Speaker 1: you want to run that back? Did I say it
Speaker 1: was all magically going to show up? You just told
Speaker 1: me the defense is going to have what they help
Speaker 1: you that I expect. He asked me, what do I expect?
Speaker 1: Which phase do I expect to show up? Of the
Speaker 1: three phases, which do I most expect to show up?
Speaker 1: And you said, and I said, the defense, That's what
Speaker 1: I most expect to show up. Do you expect anything
Speaker 1: else to show up? I expect Dak Prescott to bounce
Speaker 1: back in the passing the tap. I expect that to happen.
Speaker 1: I do expect the Cowboys to have a difficult time
Speaker 1: establishing to run against the Detapa frontempt. I expect that
Speaker 1: to happen. But I expect Dak Prescott to show me
Speaker 1: that he can bounce back as he showed me in
Speaker 1: the past. My point being, I'm not saying it's magically
Speaker 1: going to show up anymore than I'm trying to apologize
Speaker 1: for yesterday. Run the tape back. What did I call
Speaker 1: the outing from yesterday? I said it was trade They
Speaker 1: peed in their own bed and then rolled around in
Speaker 1: it for four quarters. That is what I said. That
Speaker 1: is all true. We just sat here and went position
Speaker 1: group by position group, and we failed most of them
Speaker 1: and just gave an average grade to the defensive line.
Speaker 1: I agree those are my grades. They're all true. What's
Speaker 1: also true is there's evidence that the Cowboys have been
Speaker 1: punched in the mouth this season and have come back
Speaker 1: and have come back and won the very next game
Speaker 1: and going on runs more often than not. That is
Speaker 1: also true. That's what I'm saying. So I'm not apologizing
Speaker 1: for what happened because it's indefensible against that Washington team.
Speaker 1: But I'm also saying we can't see we can't look
Speaker 1: at the macro of what happened over the course of
Speaker 1: this season, and a week ago talk about how McCarthy
Speaker 1: and this coaching staff has fought through adversity and losing
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott and all these injuries and losing Hankins and
Speaker 1: losing lt Vanderesh and losing Toron Smiths before the season
Speaker 1: move a rookie first round picked Tim with Smith and
Speaker 1: left guard after not having him take any reps there
Speaker 1: and training camp. The list goes on and on, and
Speaker 1: still they find ways to not lose two in a
Speaker 1: row en route to a twelve and five season. There
Speaker 1: is evidence there that this team can bounce back. So
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is that's what I expect to happen.
Speaker 1: That's what they need to expect and demand of themselves
Speaker 1: in the locker room, in the meeting rooms, on the
Speaker 1: practice field every day this week, and when you get
Speaker 1: on that field against Tom Brady, you have a chance
Speaker 1: to not only bounce back from an embarrassing, nauseating loss
Speaker 1: against Washington, but to hand Brady his first loss loss
Speaker 1: against this franchise and possibly retire him in the process.
Speaker 1: The stage is set. Go do your job, because we
Speaker 1: know you can do your job. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be this frustrated if I didn't think you
Speaker 1: were as elite as I think you can be. But
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna say it like I would when
Speaker 1: I'm coaching, and you know, coaching Little league and things
Speaker 1: like that. These are grown man. But coaching is coaching.
Speaker 1: Parenting is parenting. It's the same thing. If I've seen
Speaker 1: that you can be great, I no longer accept anything
Speaker 1: less than what you've shown me. Bottom line, and you've
Speaker 1: seen it, and I've seen it. If I if I
Speaker 1: didn't see it at any point this year, I would
Speaker 1: be sitting here saying, you know what things are? Things are?
Speaker 1: You know, go ahead and wrap it up. We're gonna
Speaker 1: get blown out in Tampa Bay. I understand Isaiah makes
Speaker 1: valid points. You make valid points. Anyone who saw the
Speaker 1: game and actually watches film over the course of this
Speaker 1: season knows that there are valid points to be made
Speaker 1: for having concern about this Cowboys team going into these playoffs.
Speaker 1: All of that is true. What's also true is anyone
Speaker 1: who's watched this season, watched the film from this season,
Speaker 1: knows that there's also a chance this Cowboys team might
Speaker 1: benefit from being punched in the mouth. As much as
Speaker 1: we hate that they that it had to happen. That's
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. I hate that they lost that game
Speaker 1: in Watchington, I hate the fashion in which it happened,
Speaker 1: But if it had to happen if if Week eighteen
Speaker 1: had to be the sacrificial lamb to get to the
Speaker 1: promised Land, and they put the head off that goal
Speaker 1: manad off that I've got a stat that's gonna back
Speaker 1: your point up here, and I've got a stat that's
Speaker 1: gonna destroy the point at the same time. And fourth,
Speaker 1: I mean, depending on how you want to take it,
Speaker 1: perception is reality. I'm going to give it to you.
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Speaker 1: six to six in the regular season finale against the
Speaker 1: Washington Commanders. So I want to go back and talk
Speaker 1: about Patrick's point in that first segment and valid points
Speaker 1: across the board, because, like I said, perception is reality.
Speaker 1: Right now, where right now, you can perceive this Cowboys
Speaker 1: team as they've got the weapons, they've got the talent.
Speaker 1: If they play their best football, the only team that
Speaker 1: can beat them is the Star And you saw that
Speaker 1: again yesterday. They can bounce back, absolutely, they can. They
Speaker 1: can bounce back. And yesterday I put this out on
Speaker 1: Twitter actually for this point, because there are six games
Speaker 1: from the start of last year that I have had
Speaker 1: as losses, six losses that stick in the back of
Speaker 1: my mind. Twenty twenty one against Denver, Week nine, get
Speaker 1: blown out at home against a bad different the Blueprint game,
Speaker 1: Week twelve, which is Thanksgiving against Las Vegas last year,
Speaker 1: penalty penalty, penalty, penalty penalties, and that was even an
Speaker 1: overtime loss. You should have won that game, you didn't.
Speaker 1: And then the wild card game in twenty twenty one
Speaker 1: against San Francisco. This year, the three games are Week
Speaker 1: one against Tampa Bay, Week fifteen against Jacksonville when you
Speaker 1: were up by seventeen, and now twenty twenty two, Week
Speaker 1: eighteen against Washington. The part of that stat that's going
Speaker 1: to go toward Patrick's point, what did they do in
Speaker 1: each of the weeks After all of those games they won,
Speaker 1: They won every single one of the weeks after that.
Speaker 1: They were six and oh following those six games, those
Speaker 1: are the games that stuck out in my mind as
Speaker 1: signature losses. Absolutely just did not play well. Performances across
Speaker 1: the board bad. They won all six games after that, which,
Speaker 1: to their credit, that's huge. So for everybody that's saying
Speaker 1: this guy is falling, let's tup, let's tap the brakes.
Speaker 1: They've got a game next week. You can say it
Speaker 1: next week. If they lose, you can say sky is falling.
Speaker 1: So we'll tell me Isaiah. Then, from your standpoint as
Speaker 1: a player, how much do you have to rely on
Speaker 1: your own motivation? Because the motivation wasn't necessarily there in
Speaker 1: week eighteen, but now it is. It's either win or
Speaker 1: go home. Your motivation can't be dictated upon the opponent
Speaker 1: that you're facing. That's first off, Then why is it?
Speaker 1: Why is it? See, you can't speak to that because
Speaker 1: I weren't. I was not in locker rooms that that existed. Okay,
Speaker 1: so I cannot speak to that mindset. I can identify it,
Speaker 1: I can I can acknowledge it and say that that's
Speaker 1: I've played teams that are that are wishy washy and up, up,
Speaker 1: sometimes down, sometimes going with the tide, you know, but
Speaker 1: you gotta remain steadfast as as a team, as an organization.
Speaker 1: You got the right mindset, and unfortunately this team has not.
Speaker 1: To date, they have not been a pinnacle of consistency
Speaker 1: in any facet of the game. I guess you can
Speaker 1: say Special Teams has probably been the most consistent out
Speaker 1: of out of all the units, and that fell apart yesterday.
Speaker 1: So I can't speak to their mindset, but I can
Speaker 1: speak and say this is what needs to take place
Speaker 1: going for it. Yesterday was yesterday. I don't even know
Speaker 1: if they're going to review the tape. I probably wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I probably wouldn't view the table watch on the flight.
Speaker 1: I'm sure. Yeah, But once you land be done with it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And that's yeah, once you land be done with it,
Speaker 1: because now it's all about film study going forward. If
Speaker 1: you don't, if you have to get up for a
Speaker 1: playoff game, you just should not be in the locker room.
Speaker 1: So I'm not even going to I'm not even gonna
Speaker 1: project that anybody on the roster has to get up
Speaker 1: for that game. I'm not gonna put that out there
Speaker 1: because I don't think they have those type of competitors
Speaker 1: on this team. I do think that collectively they need
Speaker 1: to come together and figure out what the ultimate, real,
Speaker 1: the realistic goal is for this team. It's easy for
Speaker 1: every single body to sit in the locker room at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the year when coach walks in and says,
Speaker 1: we're going for the Super Bowl this year, We're going
Speaker 1: NFC Championship, then we're going you know, we're you know,
Speaker 1: we're going to Division championship, NFC Championship, and then we're
Speaker 1: gonna win a super Bowl. Everybody says it, Okay, cool, Ray, Ray,
Speaker 1: what's your realistic expectation? What what's the identity of your team?
Speaker 1: And you can know I talk about culture and identity
Speaker 1: a lot because when it comes down to the nitty griddy,
Speaker 1: like we just saw yesterday, like it matters who want
Speaker 1: So when I ask the question, you know, to no ce,
Speaker 1: not to not being a jerk, I'm just saying, like,
Speaker 1: what do you truly expect to that you know you're
Speaker 1: gonna rest your head on, You're gonna yeah, what can
Speaker 1: you teams that have such a church? Isaiah and I
Speaker 1: sit on the postgame show yesterday, there are certain teams
Speaker 1: that have that have an identity. He's not really a joy.
Speaker 1: I'm just joke. Yeah, I mean we watched everybody, everybody
Speaker 1: at home set there and watch that Detroit in Green
Speaker 1: Bay game yesterday for the most part, and that team bald.
Speaker 1: One thing you know about Detroit is what they're gonna
Speaker 1: They're gonna freaking fight. They're gonna bust you in the mouth.
Speaker 1: That's their identity. It doesn't matter if they win or lose.
Speaker 1: You're gonna leave. You gonna leave LIMPN. Everybody's not going
Speaker 1: back healthy. But that's the identity of a team, right,
Speaker 1: And there's certain individuals and certain cultures that are established.
Speaker 1: And I'm just waiting to see Dallas is we know
Speaker 1: that Dallas is fully capable of being a freaking amazing
Speaker 1: team when they play all together, when they figure it out,
Speaker 1: when they when they come together, it can't play. Oh
Speaker 1: they're they're a problem. And everybody knows that. Everybody league
Speaker 1: knows talent wise, based upon the roster, based upon their
Speaker 1: coaching staff, the capabilities that that Dallas possesses. But it's
Speaker 1: a mindset to go out there and put that on
Speaker 1: the show every single week. So you have to go
Speaker 1: back and watch a crapload a film. I mean there
Speaker 1: is no video games, there is no TV, there's not
Speaker 1: even no reading. Okay, this is all you're when you're
Speaker 1: on the toilet, you're watching film. When you're when you
Speaker 1: should go you should go to bed falling asleep to film,
Speaker 1: wake up first and you grab your tablet watching more film.
Speaker 1: Like everybody has to be on one accord, and then
Speaker 1: you have to have meetings on top of meetings. I
Speaker 1: go back to our time on our on our Super
Speaker 1: Bowl run, and we would have we would watch film
Speaker 1: like crazy. Then we would have installed, and we have practice,
Speaker 1: then we have walkthroughs, and then we will come back
Speaker 1: and in Eli would have a whole other film of
Speaker 1: the package that he had put together, and he'd bring
Speaker 1: all the people who are gonna catch a ball and
Speaker 1: we would sit in a room and we would watch
Speaker 1: film based upon from his perspective, and you would just
Speaker 1: I mean, it was so much so that we were
Speaker 1: all on one accord, so that the non verbal communication
Speaker 1: was one on one accord, all the install, everything that
Speaker 1: you were seeing, everything that I was seeing, we were
Speaker 1: all seeing the same exact thing. That's where this team
Speaker 1: has to get to within the span of seven days,
Speaker 1: and they just happened to have to do it against
Speaker 1: the best dude to ever touch the touch the football field,
Speaker 1: who's had his own share of struggle. Absolutely. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: here's what I'm interested in, the same um you mentioned
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. So let's talk about the back end
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty one for a quick moment, and as
Speaker 1: it relates to the back end of twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: The seasons wise, Cowboys went into Week eighteen against the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles last season and just walk the dog. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they did fifty plus points. Walk the dog. Everybody was
Speaker 1: feeling good. Everybody was feeling great, from the fandom to
Speaker 1: the analysts to everybody inside of the building feeling great,
Speaker 1: feeling wonderful going into the playoffs twelve and five on
Speaker 1: the heels of that kind of a win against the
Speaker 1: division rival. Absolutely let's goal. And then what happened in
Speaker 1: the wild card Fast forward to now, the exact opposite
Speaker 1: has now taken place. The Cowboys are still at twelve
Speaker 1: and five, exactly what they were last season, but they're
Speaker 1: entering the playoffs having been punched in the mouth in
Speaker 1: Week eighteen. Okay, it'll be very interesting to see if
Speaker 1: they can flip the script. Maybe they were riding too
Speaker 1: high off of that fifty point bomb against the Eagles.
Speaker 1: In Week eight, team went into a ten t against
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers and thought, oh, we got this.
Speaker 1: They can come in with their boomboxes and whatnot. We're
Speaker 1: gonna walk oh and and oh right, So maybe, and again,
Speaker 1: nobody wanted to see that. We all predicted this team
Speaker 1: would win in big fashion against Washington. Nobody wanted to
Speaker 1: see what we what we watched at FedEx Field on
Speaker 1: yesterday that said, it will be very interesting to see
Speaker 1: because that we've seen the Cowboys going to the playoffs
Speaker 1: twelve and five, you know, hanging a fifty brisket? Is
Speaker 1: that what we're doing? Fifty brisket fifty hanging a fifty
Speaker 1: brisket on a divisional rival. Well, now you're going into
Speaker 1: the playoffs. You're still twelve and five, just like last season,
Speaker 1: but you're you're missing some teeth, So now what are
Speaker 1: you gonna do? Okay, let me just play at Devil's
Speaker 1: Advocate here though, ye playing Devil's Advocate here yesterday When
Speaker 1: you went into that game, you had everything still on
Speaker 1: the table at kickoff, and now of course that that
Speaker 1: left it at halftime, right, you had everything still on
Speaker 1: the table, could have been the top seed in the NFC,
Speaker 1: could have won the division at least go into and
Speaker 1: following in your favor exactly. The last game of the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one season where everything mattered for the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: or something outside of seating mattered, was Arizona Week seventeen.
Speaker 1: You got beat in that game. You got beaten that
Speaker 1: same game, So yesterday was the last game everything mattered
Speaker 1: in the regular season. Just so happy to be the
Speaker 1: last game in the regular season. You went into that
Speaker 1: Week eighteen matchup against Philly resting guys. Are talking about
Speaker 1: resting guys. Now they didn't. They played in the first half,
Speaker 1: and then you won fifty one twenty six. So I've
Speaker 1: I've always looked at that Philly game as false hope,
Speaker 1: fool's goal old because you didn't play in the game
Speaker 1: that mattered most against Arizona the finale last year, correct
Speaker 1: as fools gold because you you went into Arizona needing
Speaker 1: a win to improve your seating. You could have been
Speaker 1: the two seed in the in the NFC at that point,
Speaker 1: and you didn't win that game yesterday, same thing. You
Speaker 1: went into it. You needed a win to improve your seating,
Speaker 1: and you didn't win it. So that's my that's my
Speaker 1: one devil's advocate point there of talking about you were
Speaker 1: riding high, sure because you won fifty one twenty six,
Speaker 1: but was it really did it really feel the same Isaiah?
Speaker 1: Or is what was it? Again? Back to the hope
Speaker 1: that we're talking about as hope, it's always hoping until
Speaker 1: you show me that you can consistently give me the
Speaker 1: same performance. Yeah, it's always old, always, and the people
Speaker 1: a goat as a bad word. It is a bad word.
Speaker 1: It's just like saying somebody has potential, because that's what
Speaker 1: we're talking about. Dallas has the potential of showing up
Speaker 1: next week and smacking Tampa upside to head. They got
Speaker 1: the potential, absolutely, but you don't have the confidence in
Speaker 1: it right now. And anybody who says they have confidence
Speaker 1: in it right now is because you're hoping, because you
Speaker 1: don't have any any work over the last five weeks
Speaker 1: to show that. Yeah, these boys show up and they
Speaker 1: do this every single time. You don't. So if you
Speaker 1: don't know that, there's no coach that's gonna pick a
Speaker 1: player that you don't know what they're gonna get every
Speaker 1: single game. Okay, So here's Devil's advocate. So now I'm
Speaker 1: gonna play that. I'm gonna piggyball devil. Advocateness, new word,
Speaker 1: go with it, different advocacy, Let it work. Um. I
Speaker 1: don't think hope is a bad word unless it's blind. Okay, Right,
Speaker 1: So I have to I keep harping on the fact
Speaker 1: that there is evidence to support the fact that you
Speaker 1: if you choose to have hope, I can tell you
Speaker 1: if you or not. We just put the facts out
Speaker 1: there and you see it with your own eyes and
Speaker 1: then your terms what you want to do. But if
Speaker 1: you choose to subscribe to hope, I choose to subscribe
Speaker 1: to hope. Here's why I choose to subscribe to hope. Again,
Speaker 1: Cowboys have shown a proclivity to bounce back after losses
Speaker 1: this season. That's one. Two. You're getting Jonathan Hankins back,
Speaker 1: Hankins back for the playoffs. You're getting a key player
Speaker 1: and your defensive play caller and laying Vanderesh back, And
Speaker 1: there's a very good chance to put a pin in it.
Speaker 1: But there's a very good chance you get your starting
Speaker 1: center back for a super wild car weekend. Combine those
Speaker 1: variables into a cauldron. Sprinkle in some coaching staff praise
Speaker 1: that we've been giving as far as overcoming adversity and
Speaker 1: the hope. It's not a bad thing, because to me,
Speaker 1: it's not blind. If the Cowboys had shown you nothing
Speaker 1: to believe in back their way into the playoffs, then
Speaker 1: you could probably say, you know what, Okay. You could
Speaker 1: look at the Giants, for example, say well, they backed
Speaker 1: their way into the playoffs that season and then they
Speaker 1: went on the running. There you go. You just gotta
Speaker 1: get hot at the right time. Fair. But even that
Speaker 1: was closer to blind hope than anything. Because they backed in,
Speaker 1: they didn't look great on the back end of that
Speaker 1: season or for the majority this season. This Cowboys team,
Speaker 1: which goes back to my frustration, this Cowboys team has
Speaker 1: shown that when they come to play and when they
Speaker 1: don't play down to the level of competition, they can
Speaker 1: beat every other team in the league. Now show me
Speaker 1: once again that you can take a punch in the
Speaker 1: mouth get up off of the mat. But now the
Speaker 1: task is more daunting because now everything's on the line
Speaker 1: against Tom Brady on his field. So yes, degree of
Speaker 1: difficulty through the roof exponentially higher. But the hope is
Speaker 1: not blind. It's what I'm saying. I like your point.
Speaker 1: I like your point, and we'll talk more about this
Speaker 1: album obviously as the week goes on, Cher, then I
Speaker 1: have to go and I'm not This is no set
Speaker 1: conclusion for me, right, I still have a ton more
Speaker 1: film to watch and a bunch of other stuff, right, yea,
Speaker 1: As of right now, what's the strength of your team?
Speaker 1: What portion of your team is a strip? It's supposed
Speaker 1: to be your pass, your pass rush? Okay, Tom Brady
Speaker 1: hold the ball. Okay, they get it out pretty quick. Okay, Um,
Speaker 1: where's the weakness of your team right now? Secondary? Okay,
Speaker 1: where's the strength of their team? So as we're looking
Speaker 1: at this Hope and then we look at the matchup, right,
Speaker 1: that's where my mind's going with it. I'm not in again,
Speaker 1: I'm not set on it. It's not Friday. I haven't
Speaker 1: said it with my chest in terms of where I'm
Speaker 1: going whatever. I'm just looking at the reality, Like the
Speaker 1: areas that we suck right now is the areas that
Speaker 1: they excel in the portions that you think that you
Speaker 1: can usually take advantage of the game. You can't because
Speaker 1: he's not gonna give you an opportunity to get there, right.
Speaker 1: So you start looking at it and you start saying, okay, well,
Speaker 1: where else can we can we figure things out? Okay,
Speaker 1: we gotta be able to run the ball. Well, they
Speaker 1: got some dudes that kind of make it hard to
Speaker 1: run the ball right. And then you start looking at okay, well,
Speaker 1: when we thought the ball on it right, we got kill.
Speaker 1: The more we got that, we got that, and you
Speaker 1: start thinking some of the decisions that are being made.
Speaker 1: So I hear you on the hope, But it's the
Speaker 1: same reason why you wouldn't put Russell Russell Westbrook on
Speaker 1: your your basketball team right now. You know, you she's
Speaker 1: showing you what he's capable of, but you know, but
Speaker 1: you know what he's capable of, right, you've seen it before.
Speaker 1: I'm saying, but you've seen it before. You know what
Speaker 1: he's capable of. But he's not somebody that you're gonna
Speaker 1: pick out your roster right now because you're hoping that
Speaker 1: the old school Russell Westbrook shows up. Hope's not a strategy.
Speaker 1: I understand the hope from the beginning. I understand it
Speaker 1: not being blind hope as well, but you also don't
Speaker 1: want to be You don't want to be negligent to
Speaker 1: what could come. Absolutely, because the red flags are there,
Speaker 1: They're all there again, and they're waving right in front
Speaker 1: of your face, much like it did last year. We
Speaker 1: chose to ignore it and then went right into it.
Speaker 1: Patrick's wearing the Georgia red the day walking red flag.
Speaker 1: Now I'm just kidding. Uh, when we come back, we're
Speaker 1: gonna wrap things up. We're gonna turn the page a
Speaker 1: little really, okay, let's do It's playoff week, please, No,
Speaker 1: we're gonna turned the page a little bit earlier. This one,
Speaker 1: this one hurts. Oh no, it's win or go home
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Speaker 1: By the way, uh Broncos as of ten minutes ago,
Speaker 1: a little bit more than that, Broncos have requested permission
Speaker 1: to interview Cowboys defensive coordinator Dan Quinn for their head
Speaker 1: coaching job. Perch Soorts that has reports from Adams are
Speaker 1: talking to every week. Everyone is Sean Payton, dan Quinn everywhere. Ryan. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now they're talking to everyone. Demko's already waved off. They're
Speaker 1: gonna call you next. Demicos already waved off that job
Speaker 1: in South Texas. I don't want no parts. It's like no,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you. All right, if you had to
Speaker 1: pick one area of improvement that you want to see
Speaker 1: from Week eighteen to the wild card, you only get one,
Speaker 1: get one card. Where are you gonna play it? Where
Speaker 1: do you want to see the Cowboys in order to
Speaker 1: get a win against Tampa set, not even in position
Speaker 1: collective mindset. Okay, what would you want to see? I
Speaker 1: want to see a killer instinct. I want to every
Speaker 1: facet of others game. These guys, every player that takes
Speaker 1: the field has to not only understand their assignment, execute
Speaker 1: their assignment, and be relentless in their approach to the game.
Speaker 1: That's what I need to see. That's what we have
Speaker 1: not seen across the board. Where does that start? Does
Speaker 1: that started? Your coach started your quarterbacks and always starts
Speaker 1: with your coach. But the only thing is your coach
Speaker 1: can't make players play, okay, so it starts with your coach.
Speaker 1: He can, he can have all the meetings he wants to,
Speaker 1: he can instill all the practice. You know, scripts and
Speaker 1: schemes and you know everything else. But at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, that your players have to make the
Speaker 1: decision to go out there and be dogs. That was
Speaker 1: a huge talking point in the off season when they
Speaker 1: were drafting, when they were adding free agents. We want
Speaker 1: to go out there and add dogs. We want to
Speaker 1: add guys that have that killer instinct, that have that
Speaker 1: second hand mentality of we don't care who you are
Speaker 1: on the other side of the football. We're going to
Speaker 1: do our own thing. I haven't seen that. Over the
Speaker 1: last month and a half. They've been winning games great,
Speaker 1: they haven't been showing that. It hasn't been that killer
Speaker 1: instinct yet. The playoffs you have to have an etching
Speaker 1: sketch mentality, wipe and repeat every player. That happens. Oh
Speaker 1: that was nice, Okay, shake it off. Next one for me,
Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not concerned with the mindset in the
Speaker 1: aspect of all season, we've been concerned that this team
Speaker 1: has been playing down to his competition. Valid fair, We've
Speaker 1: said it, we've seen it, we've criticized it. Side. On
Speaker 1: the flip side, they're theoretically no bad teams in the playoffs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm not worried about you playing down to your
Speaker 1: competition because you know what true you know tru up against.
Speaker 1: So here we go locking low. But to answer your question,
Speaker 1: passing the tech passing offense from Week eighteen to Super
Speaker 1: Bowl car weekend, passing offense has to get it has
Speaker 1: to get firing. There were so many miscues in Washington,
Speaker 1: and some of it, a good bit of it was
Speaker 1: accountable to Dak Prescott. You saw some arrant passes I
Speaker 1: remember one in particular the shows that kind of sailed
Speaker 1: over that would have been a first down over to
Speaker 1: the left hand side. Uh. Um. But then also in
Speaker 1: the passing attack, uh talk about the MISSQ to Ezek
Speaker 1: Elliott out on the screens. He didn't even know the
Speaker 1: ball was coming his waist so he didn't turn around.
Speaker 1: Um and Zeke can make that play. But I wonder
Speaker 1: why Paula wasn't there so kind of looking at Kellen
Speaker 1: Moore for that one. Uh t y one of the
Speaker 1: more shorthanded pass catchers in the history of the game.
Speaker 1: Two drops I registered and one of those was on
Speaker 1: the big third down play. Would you know he had
Speaker 1: to climb the ladder, hit him right in the hands.
Speaker 1: Right passing attack. That means the quarterback Dak Prescott has
Speaker 1: to play cleaner football, has to make better decisions. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying no, it's all passing attack. And like I said,
Speaker 1: you took you took an umbrella with the question too,
Speaker 1: so he can take take an umbrella. He took more
Speaker 1: than umbrella, the whole team putting the tarp the top
Speaker 1: over the over the building. But no, for me, it's
Speaker 1: passing attack. Dak Prescott not saying anyone needs to new
Speaker 1: to him. We say that last week. That's not what
Speaker 1: we're saying. But be smarter with your decision making. Make
Speaker 1: better throws than what we're made in week eighteen. On
Speaker 1: the opposite side of that, receivers, get your hand on
Speaker 1: the ball. Catch the ball, because those possessions are going
Speaker 1: to count in a big way against Tom Brady, because
Speaker 1: all he ever needs is you to give him one
Speaker 1: more possession than you should have. Yeah, you've lost five
Speaker 1: games this season, one to Jalen Hurts in Philadelphia, one
Speaker 1: to Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay, one to Jacksonville and
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, who's on fire and now a playoff team.
Speaker 1: Sam Howe added his name to that list with the
Speaker 1: Washington Commanders. But the first one that handed you a
Speaker 1: loss could also be the one that hands you your
Speaker 1: final loss, and that's Tom Brady. Monday Night Football seven,
Speaker 1: seven fifteen Central Time kickoff coming up next week. We've
Speaker 1: got an entire week of shows to preview it and
Speaker 1: to break it down tomorrow. Just exercise this demon man.
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