WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Thanksgiving Recap 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:05.320 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:14.760 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:18.599 Screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World Headhours at the 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:27.440 Star in Frisco. Elliot flowing to the list and now 0:00:27.480 --> 0:00:32.360 your hosts Isaiah stand Back, heck Ma Harrison, Rob Phillips, 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:37.040 and Kyle Yeomans. It is a Monday morning edition of 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:41.760 Talking Cowboy is presented by Tostitos, helping fans get in 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:45.640 on the game. Welcome into the SWBC studios at the 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:49.279 Star in Frisco as heck Ma Harrison, Isaiah stand Back, 0:00:49.360 --> 0:00:52.080 Rob Phillips, Chris Beam, Kyle Yeomans. We are all back 0:00:52.159 --> 0:00:55.080 from Thanksgiving break. Yes we could really call it that. 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:58.880 I hope everybody had a wonderful Thanksgiving. And gentleman, the 0:00:58.960 --> 0:01:02.400 itis is sneaking in on me. I ate way too 0:01:02.480 --> 0:01:05.800 much food this weekend and I am dragging this morning. 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:09.840 Tripp the fan, good, Yeah, it's too much turkey, too 0:01:09.880 --> 0:01:12.360 much of that stuff and it was delicious. Where did 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:14.800 that come from? Ask me if I regret it? And 0:01:14.959 --> 0:01:18.080 I don't regret it, tripped a fan. Yeah, I can't 0:01:18.080 --> 0:01:20.959 spell it, but that's the thing. And I hear that 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.319 turkey has a thing and some kind of chemical in 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:26.880 it that makes you automatically tired. I discovered that's the one. 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:31.600 That's the one. Yeah, that's it. Trip the fan. Yeah, wow, 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.039 everybody learned that. I was a lot. I thought it 0:01:34.080 --> 0:01:36.319 was a lie. I said this, shut up. I telling 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:38.280 all of my in laws, like, dude, that kid out here, 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:40.760 stop it. It's a real thing. You come right in 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:44.360 here and I'm sorry, and I say it. I say, 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:45.760 it doesn't eat me. I don't have any of that 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:49.639 in my system. I say, it feels great today. I'm grand. 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.200 That mac and cheese looks fire though it was. It 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.440 was fire, It was fire. I have to say I 0:01:56.440 --> 0:02:00.280 get better every year, you know, be great today. Yeah. Yeah, 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:04.080 Well the Cowboys were not super great on Thursday thirty six, 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:08.200 thirty three in overtime a loss to the Las Vegas Raiders. 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:10.360 As the Cowboys have now lost three of their last 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:13.639 four games and four of their last five on Thanksgiving, 0:02:13.720 --> 0:02:16.400 so the Cowboys fall again on the holiday. It's holiday 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:19.520 that hasn't been kind to the Cowboys as of late. Rob, 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.040 you were at the game, what was that like? The 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:25.680 comeback and kind of the trailing that never really felt 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:29.240 like the Cowboys got off the ground again in the defense, 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:31.560 giving up thirty six points for the first time in 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:34.960 twenty twenty one. It was tripped to finish. Actually, it 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:36.960 was a very tripp to finish. They just it was 0:02:37.240 --> 0:02:41.800 very reminiscent of Kansas City where they just offensively can't 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:45.640 get anything established until late and I think, you know, 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:48.760 encouraging in the fourth quarter that hey, they finally try 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:51.720 to go deep, get Michael Gallup in single coverage, and 0:02:52.320 --> 0:02:55.520 they took advantage of that and they hit several exposive plays. 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:57.839 So can they carry that into Thursday? I think that's 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:01.240 that's the thing they got to do. But not only 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.359 was it reminiscent of the Kansas City game four days ago, 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:07.600 it's reminding me of twenty nineteen when they had Amari 0:03:07.680 --> 0:03:10.640 Cooper on that team. They went and lost three or 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:12.400 four games in December, and I looked it up. Three 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:14.760 of those losses. Want of them to Buffalo on Thanksgiving? No, 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.000 I'm going back a couple of years. But they couldn't 0:03:17.000 --> 0:03:19.320 score more than seven points and a half. And it 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.120 was the same We're talking about the same stuff. Slow starts, 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.280 how do you get it going that they got to 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:26.800 figure that out even against the Saints team that is 0:03:27.240 --> 0:03:30.760 challenged offensively. Right now, that's really interesting to think about 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:35.839 because right there, you good, that was not sly at all. 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:41.120 I appreciate the I appreciate the effort there. It didn't 0:03:41.120 --> 0:03:46.960 work all right, well though, let's just blow right past that, Isaiah, 0:03:47.000 --> 0:03:51.960 what did you see on the Thanksgiving matchup? I saw 0:03:52.000 --> 0:03:54.440 a team that wasn't focused, man. I saw a team 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:58.920 that did not play discipline football. They did not execute, 0:03:59.360 --> 0:04:02.080 and you know when you're playing those teams, and we 0:04:02.120 --> 0:04:04.640 talked about it. We talked about how the Raiders were 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.320 a team that built off of confidence and runs and 0:04:07.360 --> 0:04:08.920 if you allow them to stay close in the game, 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:11.320 they'll start remembering who they are because they do have 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:16.200 a roster full of very um you know, high high 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:18.960 high caliber. Yeah, high caliber, you know, and guys that 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:21.000 are established in this league. You know, these guys have 0:04:21.000 --> 0:04:23.880 have attained a lot big contracts. You know, big contracts 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:27.359 come from you know, big plays, and they you know, 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.000 they allowed these guys to stay around in the game 0:04:29.000 --> 0:04:30.920 and they just didn't do well. It's more of the same. 0:04:30.960 --> 0:04:35.360 Like Rob said, you know, incompletions, bad techniques, freaking penalties galore. 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:38.120 I know a lot of people are complaining about the referees, 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:44.960 and I was really really disappointed in hearing coach McCarthy 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:48.360 bring that into the postgame conference in terms of using 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:52.240 that as an excuse. I did not like that at all. 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:56.360 Regardless of how true or how how adamant you might 0:04:56.360 --> 0:04:59.200 be about that, as a real feeling, you cannot communicate 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.680 that to your team because it allows them now to 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:05.320 utilize that as an excuse. It creeps in, right. It's 0:05:05.400 --> 0:05:07.440 kind of like it's kind of like the uh, it's 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:08.920 kind why can't I think today? It's kind of it's 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:11.440 kind of like, you know, letting, like the complaining going 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:13.720 on in the locker room, right, It's spreads like wildfire. 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:15.479 And I feel like when you have a head coach 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:17.320 somebody in that position, that it comes in the press 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.600 conference and says, well, yeah, you know, there's something about 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:21.760 the referees, it's like, crap, and what do I say? 0:05:21.880 --> 0:05:23.240 What I say? As soon as he said, I was like, 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:26.360 that's bad, Yeah, that's real quick. He kind of backtracked 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:29.720 the next day a little bit. He said, our our 0:05:30.000 --> 0:05:32.040 energy on the sideline was not good enough. It was 0:05:32.080 --> 0:05:34.720 too it was too negative, like we're just, oh, it's 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:36.680 all the refs fault kind of thing. Yeah, you can't 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.320 do that, especially when you're in that position, because every 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.680 person who came in and did an interview after that said, 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:45.680 what refs, refs, refs, refs. And at a certain point, 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:47.920 everybody's had those games where the things just don't go 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.080 your way in terms of referees. Right, you feel like 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:51.960 the referees are against you, you're playing against the six 0:05:52.000 --> 0:05:54.400 man blah blah blah blah blas. You can't allow that 0:05:54.480 --> 0:05:57.560 to be the reason. The reality is guys were creating penalties. 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:00.920 That's the reality. Technique was bad. That the reality. There 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:02.679 are a bunch of flags that should have been thrown 0:06:02.760 --> 0:06:05.120 that weren't thrown. That's also the reality. So at the 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:06.760 end of the day, you just didn't play good ball. 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.159 Don't defer and try to blame that out somebody else. 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:11.760 Yes there's bad calls, Yes there's good calls. Happens every 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:14.160 single game. You didn't play good, own up to it 0:06:14.200 --> 0:06:16.320 and figure out how to man allow this to happen again. 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:19.320 The AFC west owns you right now when you leave 0:06:19.360 --> 0:06:22.240 the field, and you leave a situation where there was 0:06:22.800 --> 0:06:24.960 some plays that you made that were called back because 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:28.760 of penalties. There were some miscalls, Like you said, the 0:06:28.800 --> 0:06:31.120 fumble to me, really was the one thing that stuck 0:06:31.320 --> 0:06:34.520 stuck out on the play. Ken O'Neill makes an amazing play. 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:36.560 That's a bumble that we should have had that the 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:40.040 referees did not go back and even look at. And 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:41.839 I don't even know what the situation was, why that 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:44.599 was not challenged or what have you. But you know, 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:46.839 I don't fault Mike McCarthy for that because in the 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:49.000 heat of battle and you see coaches get fined for 0:06:49.040 --> 0:06:50.960 that all the time, You're just getting off the field 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:53.680 and hell you you put it all out there and 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.560 you recognize that there were opportunities that you missed that 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.920 were due to obviously penalties that didn't go your wayt 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:02.280 so with human right and then obviously I don't know 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:03.919 if the players were listening to the conference at the 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:07.160 same time, but you know, going back to what you 0:07:07.240 --> 0:07:10.880 were saying, Rob, I felt as though that carry over 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:13.920 from Kansas City, just from an execution standpoint, from the 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:18.200 second half. We've had six quarters now of that kind 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:21.240 of football in for me. It points to what you're saying, 0:07:21.320 --> 0:07:24.560 poor execution, poor execution. We knew we're gonna be without CD, 0:07:24.600 --> 0:07:26.760 we knew we're gonna be without Amari, and then at 0:07:26.800 --> 0:07:28.760 some point you're looking at other guys to kind of 0:07:28.760 --> 0:07:31.200 step up what centric Wilson did seven catches one hundred 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:34.920 and four yards, although very silently, seven catches one hundred 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:37.480 four yards, and we just didn't have that big playability. 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.360 And you're talking about the FC Weston owning us right now. 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.000 It looks as though they have the formula, the recipe 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:46.480 to stop the Cowboys by just crowding the line of 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:48.600 scrimmage and playing man to man on the outside, but 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:53.040 albeit without our weapons. So the reality of the situation is, look, 0:07:53.200 --> 0:07:54.960 as much as we can be down on this team, 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:57.840 they're handicap. And if you look around the league and 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:00.560 you see teams that don't have their main doll, they're 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:03.080 head tocapped as well. And so look those all of 0:08:03.120 --> 0:08:06.520 these things are excuses because it's still a loss for us. 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:08.760 But you know, we have to point to the fact 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.720 that Dak did all that he could. The running game 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:15.800 right now is where I'm I'm most concerned. You know, 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.920 I think looking bad and not have having poor execution, 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:21.920 but the inability to run the ball right now is 0:08:22.280 --> 0:08:24.440 hurting this team more than anything. I think that's a 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:28.080 great point because with the weapons that you're missing, you're 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:30.640 going to miss your production. And sure, you ended up 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:32.840 having two one hundred yard receivers, but like you said 0:08:32.840 --> 0:08:33.920 that with a lot of that was late in the 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.320 ball game when they finally found the rhythm on offense. 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.320 Without Amari Cooper, without Ceedee Lamb bar none, you are 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:41.240 not a good football team. Are not as good of 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:43.120 a football team. You're still a good football team, just 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.360 not as good without those two guys in there. And 0:08:45.360 --> 0:08:48.320 that's for a big reason. However, you're not missing anything 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:51.200 in the run game right now. You got an offensive lineback, 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.280 you had Tyrn Smith back, you have Ezekiel Elliott. Yeah 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:56.400 he's a little banged up, but he's still out there playing. 0:08:56.480 --> 0:08:58.560 He's not banged up enough to miss some time. And 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:00.960 then you've got Tony Pollard who played decently well but 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.720 still never really had the kind of game that you 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:07.000 would expect. So is that the biggest concern right now, 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:10.360 at least in terms of a longevity problem, A long 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:14.400 term problem for the Cowboys. Yeah, I think. I mean, 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:16.959 I kind of go back to what I said after 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.400 Kansas City to me, and it ties into the run game. 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:22.120 The line is scrimmaged. They're not winning it. It's it's 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.880 you know, the offensive line, and they've had some changes 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:27.240 up front, and but Tyrant's back, and that's why you 0:09:27.280 --> 0:09:28.960 can't you know, I don't think you can go as 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.360 far to say, oh, it's because they're missing certain guys. 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.199 I think it compounds the problem. I'm with you. It's 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:36.000 not an excuse, it's a fact. But they're not also 0:09:36.160 --> 0:09:40.000 doing simple things to give them chances to win. Like 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.520 we talked about drops and miss throws and miss blocks 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.760 in space and things like that that probably get magnified 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.560 more when you lose a game than when you win it. 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:50.400 And they almost won that game, and maybe we'd be 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.760 sweeping that under the rug if they pulled that out 0:09:52.760 --> 0:09:57.720 against Vegas, almost said Oakland. But but yeah, I think 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.520 I think in Mike McCarthy spo to it a couple 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.040 of days ago, the win rate, I don't know what 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:06.240 metric he's using, but upfront, they're not they're not handling 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:07.880 that as well. And that's in the run game. That's 0:10:07.920 --> 0:10:11.000 pass protection. Zach Martin spoke about and Mike talked about 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:13.640 movement upfront with the defensive front and not being able 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:15.640 to handle that as well. I think it starts up 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:17.559 front for this team, and when you are missing your 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.040 top two wide receivers, it's easier to key on the 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:22.160 run game and say, hey, beat us in the past game. 0:10:22.200 --> 0:10:25.880 And so there's a lot of reasons why. But they 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:28.560 gotta get it fixed, and it is fixable, but it 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:30.560 goes beyond just hey, they're missing this guy and this 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:32.800 guy and this guy. Yeah, I'm more concerned about the 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:35.600 psychology of this team. The physical aspect. Those things are 0:10:35.640 --> 0:10:38.480 easily correctable. That's watch film. Make the corrections. Don't allow 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:41.079 it to happen again. You see Terren still get blown 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.000 off the line of scrimmage by Max Crosby. Hey it happens, bro. 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:47.360 We talked about that. We knew that happen. We knew 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:48.880 that was going to happen. That wasn't even a question 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:52.040 mark should limiting it. But the reality is these guys, 0:10:52.040 --> 0:10:54.560 the psychology of this team is really being challenge right now, 0:10:54.640 --> 0:10:59.280 and I'm worried about their ability to to pull themselves 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:02.240 out of a hole. I'm really concerned about their ability 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.640 to pull themselves out of a hole. We talked about 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.880 I brought up emotional intelligence last week and about our 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:09.800 you know, the two weeks but two weeks ago, about 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.040 our ability to be able to handle those forms of adversity, 0:11:12.040 --> 0:11:14.360 and how do we step into these situations, these tight games, 0:11:14.360 --> 0:11:17.640 these competitive games. Well, we see all the penalties. That's 0:11:17.800 --> 0:11:20.959 emotional intelligence. That's being disciplined, that's not doing what you're 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.040 supposed to do. That's a lack of it. Well, now 0:11:23.040 --> 0:11:25.360 we're sudden, we're fighting after the game. Well, there we go. 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:28.079 It shows up again. Right, there's two back to back 0:11:28.160 --> 0:11:30.080 games that we just don't get out the hole. And yes, 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:31.880 you're missing your players, but guess what, we've been missing 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:35.199 players all year long. All year long. We've been missing 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:37.400 key guys on the offensive front. We've been missing key 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:39.760 guys at receiver, we've been missing key guys in the secondary. 0:11:39.840 --> 0:11:41.800 We've been finding a way, right, so the guys have 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:43.360 been finding a way. Now, all of a sudden, we 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.320 missed two guys at the same position. And now, all 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:47.000 of a sudden, now it's a problem. Now we're not 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:49.439 at full steam. So it's these excuses that are kind 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.320 of being let in there. We got to find a 0:11:51.360 --> 0:11:54.120 way to get out of this rut. And this next 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:56.080 game coming up is going to give us opportunity because 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:57.600 those guys have to try to find their way out 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.839 of a rut too. Those guys have lost four straight games, 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.040 we lost to Shade games. What the heck? Who's gonna 0:12:02.040 --> 0:12:04.400 step up and decide they come out the hole? Because 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:06.280 that's exactly where we're at. We're in a hole, and 0:12:06.440 --> 0:12:09.160 do you want to dig yourself out of it? The 0:12:09.200 --> 0:12:13.640 emotional intelligence part of it, I completely agree the fight 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:15.520 after the game with Tristan Hill and you don't want 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:19.040 to see that. Hell, if you're gonna fight, fight quarter 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:21.960 one of the let's get into it, do it then 0:12:22.200 --> 0:12:24.200 before the game is Yeah, you know, I'm just saying, 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:28.520 but you're right. I just I don't question there for 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:31.600 the two here, I think they've had some mistakes, they've 0:12:31.600 --> 0:12:34.720 had some success, and they can look over these last 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:36.760 couple of games in point two. Okay, this is where 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.000 we went wrong. The line of scrimmage right now is 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.160 where the battle has got to begin, and we've had 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:44.439 some shuffling. We've talked a lot about continuity maybe they 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.640 don't care as much about continuity is we think, because 0:12:46.640 --> 0:12:49.800 we saw them shuffling Stell and Layale, and I mean 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.000 we see that on the college level, never have seen 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.080 it much on the pro level. I don't know what 0:12:54.080 --> 0:12:57.079 they're fishing for, why they're doing this in these matchups, 0:12:57.080 --> 0:13:00.520 but obviously they're looking for something in game time. Um, 0:13:00.760 --> 0:13:03.240 but you know, look, man, these guys, these are tough. 0:13:03.400 --> 0:13:05.839 These are anybody that plays in the NFL. These are 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:08.960 tough people. And I don't doubt that they understand that 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:11.240 their backs are against the wall. But at some point, 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:14.199 with all the success that they had early, you recognize 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:17.480 that adversity was going to be on the table. Here's 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.880 that time. We could talk Mojoe moments, all the QUT 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:23.720 stuff all we want to, but adversity finally strikes and 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:26.560 all of the football cliches and stuff that you bang 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.840 up about next man up. Look, it gets to a 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.560 certain point where that stuff catches up with you. And 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:33.920 now it's caught up with us, And so I won't 0:13:34.160 --> 0:13:35.960 look as much as we want to pass the blame 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:38.280 around right now, there are just some guys that have 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:41.240 got to elevate their gaming. Whether they are injured, which 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:43.560 all teams right now are dealing with that. We're just 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:46.360 dealing in a situation where guys have to elevate their game. 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:50.200 Who is that going to be? Our young guys, our rookies, 0:13:50.920 --> 0:13:53.440 our second year guys are elevating their game, But what 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:56.080 about some other guys. There's a few guys right now 0:13:56.120 --> 0:13:57.839 that hell, I don't know where they've been for the 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:00.440 last couple of weeks. No, you're right, who are some 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.640 of those guys in your head? Ah? Man, right, Lvie, 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:06.440 somebody can tell me where Vee is. I'm telling you 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:08.559 they'll be a reward poster out because I'm trying to 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.240 figure out what's going on in the running game. Kean O'Neill, 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:12.840 I mean, he has some good plays, but there's just 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.400 some things like the I mean, look, he's making tackles, 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:18.360 the big play things, getting sacks, other things that we 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.840 need from our guys. We're just not getting it up 0:14:20.880 --> 0:14:24.440 front by not being able to stop the run defensively 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.240 the defensive line. When you saw not only from our 0:14:27.280 --> 0:14:30.720 offensive line, but their offensive line was able to establish 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.560 drives and run. We talked about the raiders and the 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.240 methodical drives that they were able to get gone. They 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:39.200 did that and then and it just it just took 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:40.880 us out. I mean it really did, man. And it 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:42.280 was a point in the game where it just looked 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:45.120 like we had nothing to offer except for the fourth quarter. 0:14:45.240 --> 0:14:47.800 Who would you guys have a wanted poster out for 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:49.920 it because you were looking at him and you were 0:14:49.920 --> 0:14:51.840 looking for them, and then they came up missing the 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:55.560 last couple of weeks. For me, it's it's just I 0:14:55.600 --> 0:14:59.040 want to say, coach McCarthy, but say it. I do. 0:14:59.080 --> 0:15:02.360 I mean, I do want to say McCarthy. I just don't. 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:04.600 We don't know what's being said in the locker room. 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:06.240 Let me let me let me start out by saying 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:07.760 that we don't know what's being said on locker room, 0:15:07.800 --> 0:15:12.000 but that that post game really, really, really because it's 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.280 an excuse. It's an excuse if if you're if you're 0:15:15.280 --> 0:15:17.640 the leader, and you're making excuses, what do you think 0:15:17.680 --> 0:15:21.280 that everybody who's following you is gonna do. Regardless if 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:23.160 it's true or not, it doesn't come out your mouth. 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.120 The fact that you bring that to the press conference, 0:15:25.120 --> 0:15:26.640 you know what was said in the locker room, So yes, 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.400 they don't hear the press conferences, but they hear it 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:30.320 in the locker room, and so when they hear it 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:31.720 in the locker room, they bring that up there. Now, 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:33.320 guess what in a set of owning getting in saying 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:35.920 outs us, let's fix it, is something going on with us. 0:15:36.000 --> 0:15:37.920 We can handle what we can. I told little kids 0:15:37.920 --> 0:15:39.520 I was coaching a couple weeks ago. If you don't 0:15:39.520 --> 0:15:42.240 like the result of something, you change it. You change it. 0:15:42.320 --> 0:15:44.920 Maybe he's maybe I'm just playing devil's advocate. Maybe he's 0:15:44.920 --> 0:15:47.239 trying to get them to change it through the media. 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.280 Whether I'm not saying he's gonna get fined, but I'm 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:52.560 saying if you because I think his frustration and I think, look, 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:55.960 you're right, like and you showed us a highlight tape 0:15:56.040 --> 0:15:59.240 last night of Anthony Brown's four pass interference penalties. And 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:03.160 there's technique problems, I mean, like the last one for sure, 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.840 like you have to turn around, you know. So there 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:09.160 were flags. I do think there was no rhythm to 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:11.800 the game. Twenty eight flags to me, come on, like, 0:16:12.280 --> 0:16:14.160 you know, the game should not be four hours long. 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:16.760 But you're right there there are penalties. I do wonder 0:16:16.800 --> 0:16:19.200 and I agree with him, And he talked about this 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:22.640 I think the next day is there's not a consistency, 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:24.480 Like if you go back and watch the Chiefs game, 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.760 guys are getting away with grabbing the Cowboys receivers and 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:29.800 all that kind of stuff and they let it go. Well, 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.960 the next week it's a new crew and it's so 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:35.480 tickie tack. If there's anything, there's a flag like there 0:16:35.520 --> 0:16:39.440 needs to be more consistency with players understanding what they 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:41.960 can do and not do week to week in a 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:43.880 game or what's going to be called and and I 0:16:43.920 --> 0:16:47.120 think he's voicing that through the media maybe to try 0:16:47.120 --> 0:16:50.120 to get a change, trying to even the playing field 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.920 a little bit. Playing devil's advocate to your devil's advocate. 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:58.760 Is the fact that Inception Advocate going into the game, 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:01.320 they were scouting or parts pretty much for the coaching 0:17:01.320 --> 0:17:03.760 staff on the referee crew that they were going to have, 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:05.480 and it was out there, it was in the open, 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:07.480 and they knew that was the type of crew going 0:17:07.560 --> 0:17:10.800 into the game. So does that play a factor into 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:12.560 it at all? The fact that you knew what you 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:19.240 were going into netlisten here, Yes, referees can affect the game. 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.720 Sure everybody knows that. And there's gonna be days. We 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:24.760 saw it on Thursday. It could be happening in your favor, 0:17:25.000 --> 0:17:27.600 it can happen against you, right and either way, you 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:29.239 know that that's gonna be a that's gonna be a 0:17:29.240 --> 0:17:31.119 factor somehow, someway you hope that it is not, but 0:17:31.200 --> 0:17:33.479 you know usually it's gonna be a factor. What can 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:35.760 you control? You can control coming off the ball and 0:17:35.800 --> 0:17:38.600 dominating the line of scrimmage, can't you? Did we do that? Nope? 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:40.439 Can we do? Can we dominate the ball? And can 0:17:40.440 --> 0:17:43.480 we dominate running the ball? We can? We have we 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:45.200 have the personnel to do it. We didn't do that. 0:17:45.400 --> 0:17:47.560 Can we dominate throwing the ball in the air? Yes, 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:49.880 we've been we've been bracking up four or five six 0:17:49.960 --> 0:17:52.600 hundred yards passing or maybe you know, a total offense, 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:53.919 a lot of it through the air head. Did we 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:57.320 do that? No, we didn't do that. Okay, what about defense? 0:17:57.320 --> 0:17:59.520 Did we play physical like we've been playing? Were they 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:01.800 running a flying flying around with the hair on fire, 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.359 where they hidden guys in their mouth enforcing turnovers like 0:18:04.359 --> 0:18:07.000 they've been doing. No. So, at the end of the day, 0:18:07.200 --> 0:18:10.800 you didn't do what you're capable of doing. That's the reality. Now, 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:14.199 did the referees assisting you're in your loss? Probably, but 0:18:14.280 --> 0:18:17.040 guess what, you didn't earn it. You didn't earn it. 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:19.920 Own that fact. Don't make an excuse for why why 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:21.800 it's something Oh yeah, well, yeah, that they didn't help. 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.119 Of course they didn't help. They're not supposed to help. 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:26.520 And to your point, it was fourteen flags apiece. Yeah, 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.760 it was all the way around. Two just played better 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:32.600 and you've been you know, look, I think I've I've 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.280 watched enough NFL football to know like those back in 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:38.840 the days when Oakland Raiders were the most penalized team 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.160 in the league, and you expected that for them, even 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:43.719 when they had good teams, just because they were the Raiders. 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:46.960 They just got flagged or unnecessary roughness all the time. 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:49.080 Right now, I just feel like the Cowboys are not 0:18:49.119 --> 0:18:51.560 getting the benefit of the doubt. If you watch enough football, 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:54.480 you see plays like Anthony Brown made in a call 0:18:54.720 --> 0:18:56.639 not get And I'm not saying that this technique was 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.080 good was good, or that the other pis that he 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:02.080 got were not warranted, but on that last one, you know, 0:19:02.520 --> 0:19:05.199 you have a guy's face guarding basically, and you have 0:19:05.240 --> 0:19:08.080 a receiver pulling the guy into you that sealed the game, 0:19:08.119 --> 0:19:11.480 and you don't want to see referees decide the game 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:14.480 for you. I know you you have and I understand 0:19:14.480 --> 0:19:17.000 where you're coming from with the approach because it's old school. 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:20.360 Control what you can control. Don't bitch about the whistles 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:22.239 when you could do what you're doing right here on 0:19:22.240 --> 0:19:24.520 the field. But there are certain points in that game 0:19:24.560 --> 0:19:26.520 where it was like, well, come on, bro, you're gonna 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:28.679 make that call, then you're not gonna make this up 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:31.960 going over. And I feel like these referees whatever that 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:35.639 whoever that crew is, they should no, don't say that. 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:39.399 That crew should basically be under They should look, they 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:44.000 should watch these guys under review whatever it is, because 0:19:44.200 --> 0:19:46.720 they're trying to make themselves the focal point in the game. 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:48.920 I think they're taking away from the game. The game 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:51.760 shouldn't have been four hours long, and that had a 0:19:51.760 --> 0:19:53.840 lot to referees had a lot to do it. I 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:56.120 don't disagree with you. However, we've shown this three out 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:58.359 of our last four games, So who's whose fault is it? 0:19:58.480 --> 0:20:00.600 And they look, you know what I'm saying like that, 0:20:00.680 --> 0:20:03.040 So I hear you, and I don't disagree with you. 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:07.600 This characteristic. This performance has shown up seventy five percent 0:20:07.640 --> 0:20:12.680 of our last four games. Yeah, no, no, no, no, 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:15.720 just the penalties, just the lack of execution. But they 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:18.800 have been one of the higher penalized teams. Yeah, great, cowboys, 0:20:19.000 --> 0:20:20.359 you know what. You're the cowboy. You know it. You 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:21.840 know it's just like the raider, you know it. So 0:20:21.960 --> 0:20:23.760 guess what. Step up and make sure they can't call it. 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:25.280 Don't let these boys up the line of screamas you 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:27.720 wanted to worry about holding down the field, right, blow 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:29.480 them off the growls. Throw these guys around like it's 0:20:29.480 --> 0:20:32.840 like there's some little little Tonka toys. You have to 0:20:32.880 --> 0:20:35.040 be more dominant when you know that you're gonna face 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:37.800 another opponent, go out there and then destroy them so 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:40.840 bad that they can't even throw a dog on flags. Yeah, 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:43.040 and that's the thing defensively is you can't let this 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:47.760 performance affect your aggressiveness. They can't now be afraid to 0:20:47.760 --> 0:20:49.960 get flags. And we've been seeing that guys have been 0:20:50.080 --> 0:20:52.320 been hesitant to hit. Guys have been coming from the 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:54.000 secondary kind of they're kind of backing up. We were 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:56.879 talking about in the studio, like you rather hit them, Kayzy, 0:20:57.240 --> 0:20:58.880 freaking Neil. Some of these guys. I mean, these guys 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:01.760 aren't hitting like they were hitting four. Yeah, remember at 0:21:01.840 --> 0:21:04.399 ten point three of your last four games, you have 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:08.560 not performed. Well, that's the issue addressed that stopped talking 0:21:08.560 --> 0:21:11.240 about the dog on referees. Fix what's going on in 0:21:11.320 --> 0:21:13.280 this locker room and within these meeting rooms that if 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:14.520 you make sure you don't go out there and perform 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:17.280 like you've been performing, especially when over the last six games, 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:19.879 all of which are winnable for this Cowboys team. You 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:22.000 could talk about the Arizona game. I still think that's 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:24.480 a very winnable matchup for the Cowboys, especially if they 0:21:24.560 --> 0:21:26.440 have some of their guys back. But this is a 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:29.760 crucial stretch coming up for the Cowboys and it starts 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:32.400 on Thursday against the New Orleans Saints. When we come back, 0:21:32.640 --> 0:21:34.639 I want to talk about the Saints matchup a little bit, 0:21:34.720 --> 0:21:36.199 but before we get to that, I want to talk 0:21:36.240 --> 0:21:38.800 about Anthony Brown and the game that he had. Was 0:21:38.840 --> 0:21:40.879 it as bad as we thought? Was that something that 0:21:41.240 --> 0:21:43.199 was at a sign of the future. Will kind of 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:45.000 address it and talk about it when we come back. 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:50.120 You're on talking Cowboys. 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Oh no, no, no, season, dude, that 0:24:25.040 --> 0:24:27.920 is a team player at its finest. Rob goes, what 0:24:28.000 --> 0:24:29.920 do you want me to look up? He didn't even 0:24:30.000 --> 0:24:31.639 understand what you were talking about, but he was on 0:24:31.840 --> 0:24:34.359 top of it. He was ready to get It's a 0:24:34.400 --> 0:24:38.960 back pocket break, all right. Thirty six thirty three the 0:24:39.040 --> 0:24:43.399 Cowboys fall to the Raiders on Thanksgiving. They've lost three 0:24:43.440 --> 0:24:45.520 of their last four. And we just talked about some 0:24:45.720 --> 0:24:48.239 of the high points and buy high points, I mean 0:24:48.320 --> 0:24:50.840 low points of that loss to the Raiders. Now I 0:24:50.960 --> 0:24:53.359 want to continue with the low points here. And Anthony Brown. 0:24:54.080 --> 0:24:57.439 He's played well all season, He's played above expectations all season, 0:24:58.080 --> 0:25:01.720 but this was this was rough one for big old 0:25:01.880 --> 0:25:04.520 a B on the edge. Heck, moll, what did you 0:25:04.560 --> 0:25:06.560 think about Anthony Brown? I'll let you start this off 0:25:06.640 --> 0:25:10.600 because we could just rip the stick smelly stickers out 0:25:10.640 --> 0:25:13.119 of there. Now we're gonna keep a spell on there, 0:25:15.080 --> 0:25:16.800 you know. I mean, some of these problems start to 0:25:16.880 --> 0:25:19.040 rid their heads all over again, and I just wish 0:25:19.119 --> 0:25:23.240 to Sean Jackson would just retire already or signaud we 0:25:23.359 --> 0:25:25.919 just sign it. You know it's gonna be a problem. 0:25:26.040 --> 0:25:28.800 And obviously speed on the outside is a problem, and 0:25:29.640 --> 0:25:32.639 many they found it. They found the weakness in the defense, 0:25:32.680 --> 0:25:35.000 and they explored it at the entire game, and they 0:25:35.119 --> 0:25:38.680 made it a pentatil on the donkey moment for Anthony Brown, 0:25:38.760 --> 0:25:42.280 and he just couldn't he couldn't escape it. And look, 0:25:43.160 --> 0:25:45.280 he's been so good over the last couple of games 0:25:45.680 --> 0:25:48.919 and you know, getting pis and getting turnovers for us, 0:25:49.000 --> 0:25:52.560 interceptions for us, being strong in the running game. But 0:25:52.680 --> 0:25:54.920 that wasn't a good showing. There's no positive spin that 0:25:54.920 --> 0:25:57.359 I could put on it for him. Um, he looked 0:25:57.560 --> 0:26:00.879 like hot garbage out there. And the only way to 0:26:01.320 --> 0:26:04.560 recoup and get this back is you know, getting our 0:26:04.640 --> 0:26:07.399 pass rush back going. That's what we haven't had. And 0:26:07.480 --> 0:26:10.919 a lot of guys are not having success. When quarterbacks 0:26:10.960 --> 0:26:13.199 like Derek Carr, I don't care how good are our 0:26:13.240 --> 0:26:15.520 bad they are when they you give an NFL quarterback 0:26:15.600 --> 0:26:18.359 that kind of time, they're gonna exploit some of your 0:26:18.400 --> 0:26:21.160 weaknesses on the back end. And we just aren't getting 0:26:21.160 --> 0:26:23.600 to the quarterback efficiently enough to make a difference for 0:26:23.680 --> 0:26:27.320 our secondary not playing complimentary enough. What type of receiver 0:26:27.520 --> 0:26:31.960 causes him the most issues. I think small, fast receivers 0:26:32.359 --> 0:26:36.280 um get him. That's that's been a problem. Antonio Brown. 0:26:36.320 --> 0:26:40.359 Week one, Yeah, route runners and so when in the 0:26:40.480 --> 0:26:44.480 edges route runners, but you know, like we're getting to 0:26:44.520 --> 0:26:47.520 the playoffs, they got they gotta have a plenty of those, yes, 0:26:47.720 --> 0:26:51.359 but they're everywhere. So I mean he's struggling right now. 0:26:51.480 --> 0:26:57.560 Think about Cooper Cup Junior on the other side. I mean, 0:26:57.880 --> 0:27:02.119 I'm not necessarily Randall Cobb for the Packers, but then 0:27:02.240 --> 0:27:05.400 you'll have you'll have Anthony Brown, you'll have Gregory Brown, 0:27:05.800 --> 0:27:08.480 You'll have Gregory back, and you'll have Tank back. So 0:27:08.680 --> 0:27:11.400 that will make help. That will make a difference as well. 0:27:11.480 --> 0:27:14.439 Right now, pass, especially on Thursday, it just wasn't there. 0:27:14.520 --> 0:27:15.760 We didn't We didn't have a lot of He had 0:27:15.800 --> 0:27:18.400 way too much time and even with Waller going out 0:27:18.480 --> 0:27:20.320 of the game, you think that, you know, those things 0:27:20.359 --> 0:27:24.040 would that was for us, but then we still couldn't 0:27:24.080 --> 0:27:26.720 exploit any weaknesses. Really, the only guy that got in 0:27:26.760 --> 0:27:29.960 the backfield a whole lot was probably Micah Parsons. We 0:27:30.080 --> 0:27:32.480 really wouldn't be league with tackles for losses at what 0:27:32.520 --> 0:27:36.000 I read fifteen. It's incredible. He's all over it, dude. Yeah, 0:27:36.280 --> 0:27:39.520 it's legit special Bazuka. He's the high point out of 0:27:39.600 --> 0:27:41.359 the low points at the moment right now, and this 0:27:41.480 --> 0:27:46.399 three of four games stretch, he's been consistently player on defense. 0:27:46.640 --> 0:27:50.119 He welcomes the challenge. He welcome to the challenge. And 0:27:50.200 --> 0:27:52.480 we started we started talking about emotional intelligence and some 0:27:52.560 --> 0:27:55.679 of these things. He loves it. He loves the pressure. 0:27:55.760 --> 0:27:57.920 Some guys love it, some guys responding well to it 0:27:58.119 --> 0:28:00.639 right there. They love this heightened sense of stress and 0:28:00.720 --> 0:28:02.399 they and they like to go. That's their opportunity to 0:28:02.440 --> 0:28:04.000 go out there and not only prove to others, but 0:28:04.040 --> 0:28:05.800 they're trying to more so prove it to themselves that 0:28:05.840 --> 0:28:08.520 they're capable. And he's that type of guy. What you're 0:28:08.520 --> 0:28:11.480 looking for is a whole team of those guys. And 0:28:11.640 --> 0:28:13.919 I'm not sure that that we have that right now. 0:28:14.000 --> 0:28:16.520 I'm not sure that the Cowboys are have that identity 0:28:16.600 --> 0:28:20.080 right now. It's questionable. It's easy when things are going awesome. 0:28:20.320 --> 0:28:23.040 When things aren't going so well, how do you respond 0:28:23.760 --> 0:28:25.359 when you look at him? You know how he's going 0:28:25.400 --> 0:28:27.800 to respond When you look at everybody else you have 0:28:27.920 --> 0:28:29.879 question marks. So how does dan Quinn go back in 0:28:29.960 --> 0:28:33.200 his bag and fix this defense? Because right now, without 0:28:33.240 --> 0:28:35.720 those key pieces that you these guys are not coming 0:28:35.760 --> 0:28:37.159 back for this game, and they're not going to be 0:28:37.280 --> 0:28:39.440 back for the other Tank might be back this week, 0:28:40.360 --> 0:28:42.200 I think takes back this week. He's got a chance 0:28:42.200 --> 0:28:43.880 to be back this He was on the field last week, 0:28:43.880 --> 0:28:45.520 which is good. You jumping up and down. That's why 0:28:45.560 --> 0:28:48.000 they I think they got him back into practice, even 0:28:48.040 --> 0:28:50.240 though it's one light practice last week, to try to 0:28:50.320 --> 0:28:53.360 get him started on hopefully getting back. And that's and 0:28:53.480 --> 0:28:56.880 so I guess that's my question is now, with those 0:28:56.960 --> 0:28:59.200 key pieces back, how much different is that going to 0:28:59.280 --> 0:29:02.520 be for this defense because obviously we've got to generate 0:29:02.640 --> 0:29:04.920 some pressure, we've got to get some stops. You saw 0:29:05.120 --> 0:29:07.880 the time of possession for the Raiders again, it was 0:29:07.960 --> 0:29:10.640 those long, methodical drives that they had, and they scored 0:29:10.960 --> 0:29:13.200 on those drives. We couldn't take advantage even when we 0:29:13.280 --> 0:29:15.920 tried to steal some momentum back. Our defense just came 0:29:15.960 --> 0:29:18.440 out flat. We were not attacking. You saw guys trying 0:29:18.480 --> 0:29:21.520 to shy away from getting tackles. We're not the physical 0:29:21.600 --> 0:29:23.880 team that we are anymore. So that culture that we 0:29:24.000 --> 0:29:26.960 started the season with has dissipated. How do we get back? 0:29:27.680 --> 0:29:29.440 I think you called him out. You call everybody else 0:29:29.440 --> 0:29:31.280 as a man. This is a team made up of 0:29:31.320 --> 0:29:33.720 a bunch of individual men, and you have to challenge 0:29:33.760 --> 0:29:35.800 these guys you you highlighted on the film and you 0:29:35.880 --> 0:29:37.360 call them out and say, what the heck are you 0:29:37.440 --> 0:29:42.400 doing here? La, what the heck are you doing here? 0:29:42.400 --> 0:29:44.840 And everybody's like, oh, you know what's holding your breath 0:29:44.880 --> 0:29:46.560 and make sure you're not the next man that he highlights. 0:29:46.800 --> 0:29:48.880 But you challenge each guy as a man and say, 0:29:49.040 --> 0:29:50.920 how are you going to respond to this? You know? 0:29:51.000 --> 0:29:53.720 And so this is when the culture of competitiveness really 0:29:53.760 --> 0:29:55.760 comes in because if you're not gonna do it, guess what, 0:29:56.480 --> 0:29:58.920 I bet you he will, right, I bet you he will. 0:29:58.960 --> 0:30:00.400 And so you have opportunity to go out there and 0:30:00.400 --> 0:30:01.720 show me that you're not gonna allowed has messed to 0:30:01.720 --> 0:30:03.680 happen again, that you guys you're gonna execute show me 0:30:03.720 --> 0:30:05.800 at your physical showman as you can run this defense, 0:30:05.840 --> 0:30:07.680 and if you can't, I'm going to the next man. 0:30:08.160 --> 0:30:09.880 And I think some of it falls to the offense. 0:30:09.960 --> 0:30:12.400 I mean drink every time we say complimentary on this show, 0:30:12.520 --> 0:30:14.680 but if you guys want to and we got a 0:30:14.680 --> 0:30:18.360 fruit cup over there, but that was my Martin Ellis 0:30:19.480 --> 0:30:21.600 can't get. You know, these three and ounce Cowboys had 0:30:21.640 --> 0:30:24.200 five three and outs offensively in the game, two out 0:30:24.200 --> 0:30:26.360 of their first three drives, and you're you're putting the 0:30:26.440 --> 0:30:28.160 defense out in the field for a long time. And 0:30:28.320 --> 0:30:30.560 I think when they've been successful, it's been in part 0:30:30.640 --> 0:30:34.320 this year because playing with the lead, more fresh and 0:30:34.680 --> 0:30:37.080 Cowboys offensively controlling the last scrimmage and hasn't happened. So 0:30:37.080 --> 0:30:39.000 I think it kind of goes hand in hand a 0:30:39.040 --> 0:30:40.600 little bit. Well, that's where a lot of the struggles 0:30:40.640 --> 0:30:45.040 came from last year, was not playing complimentary football, drinking drink. 0:30:45.760 --> 0:30:49.280 But that's the thing for me, is you're asking who 0:30:49.480 --> 0:30:52.040 is the guy that steps up? Who who does who 0:30:52.280 --> 0:30:55.880 gets to challenge this team? I think Tank Lawrence is 0:30:55.880 --> 0:30:57.320 one of those guys that has to come in and 0:30:57.400 --> 0:31:00.800 immediately play up to the caliber that Lawrence can play, 0:31:00.800 --> 0:31:03.040 because that's a reality that leader What was that? Do 0:31:03.080 --> 0:31:05.640 you think that's a reality. I don't know if it's 0:31:05.680 --> 0:31:07.920 the reality yet I'm saying. I'm saying, do you guys 0:31:08.040 --> 0:31:10.000 have those expectations of Tint that come in and be 0:31:10.200 --> 0:31:12.720 what Tank was. Hell, yeah, yeah I do. I don't. 0:31:13.440 --> 0:31:17.040 Why is that I do? Okay, I don't. Why not reps? 0:31:17.680 --> 0:31:19.640 You just don't think he's there. Ye gonna have to 0:31:19.680 --> 0:31:21.880 get into it. Even as a veteran player that's been 0:31:21.920 --> 0:31:23.680 in the league as long as he has. You just said, 0:31:23.760 --> 0:31:25.680 the rust is gonna be there and you're not gonna see. 0:31:26.120 --> 0:31:28.520 I think he bring him in a limited action obviously 0:31:28.720 --> 0:31:30.840 in rotation. You know, maybe he doesn't well he starts 0:31:30.880 --> 0:31:32.720 the game, but you know, keep he doesn't take all 0:31:32.720 --> 0:31:35.760 the snaps, you know, and use him sparingly. You still 0:31:35.800 --> 0:31:38.120 have bash him, you still have Ghost and you have 0:31:38.240 --> 0:31:40.960 some guys at Armstrong that have you know, played up 0:31:41.000 --> 0:31:44.080 to part been his in his with his absence. But 0:31:44.360 --> 0:31:46.200 if he comes in with a full workload, I would 0:31:46.240 --> 0:31:49.080 be very very surprised. Yeah, I don't think they're doing 0:31:49.120 --> 0:31:52.440 him like that. Isaiah's point different injuries obviously, but when 0:31:52.480 --> 0:31:54.240 he had the shoulder surgery a couple of years ago, 0:31:54.800 --> 0:31:57.560 he talked about like he missed a lot of time rehabbing. 0:31:57.720 --> 0:32:00.320 His technique wasn't what it was because he's big on 0:32:00.400 --> 0:32:02.560 that right when he came back. So maybe there's some 0:32:02.640 --> 0:32:04.520 of that, But I'm with Heck, like, I think, hell 0:32:04.720 --> 0:32:07.400 get him in there in a rotation and that motor 0:32:07.520 --> 0:32:09.680 is going to be big. I think he can set 0:32:09.720 --> 0:32:11.880 a tone for them and help establish that physical part 0:32:11.920 --> 0:32:14.200 because that's just that's who he is. And we mentioned 0:32:14.240 --> 0:32:17.200 this whenever Jalen Smith was released earlier in the season, 0:32:17.280 --> 0:32:19.560 but the guy who they turned to to look at 0:32:19.640 --> 0:32:22.000 it wasn't necessarily Jalen Smith, but he was one of 0:32:22.040 --> 0:32:24.440 the ones that wanted the attention on him. Tank Lawrence 0:32:24.480 --> 0:32:26.160 is the same kind of guy right now. And at 0:32:26.200 --> 0:32:29.160 the moment you're looking at Micah Parsons, your defense is 0:32:29.200 --> 0:32:30.880 looking at a rookie and saying, all right, where do 0:32:30.960 --> 0:32:33.200 we go next? You need a veteran to step into 0:32:33.280 --> 0:32:36.480 that role and to take that that that figurehead of 0:32:36.520 --> 0:32:38.640 the defense. Micah said the other day, like he can 0:32:38.720 --> 0:32:40.640 have all these chips, all these you know, the chip 0:32:40.720 --> 0:32:42.320 blocks and all that stuff. Yeah, but come on back, 0:32:42.320 --> 0:32:45.680 I'm getting shipped every player. Yeah, it's gonna help out 0:32:45.720 --> 0:32:47.840 a lot. Yeah, you're right. I hope it does. I 0:32:47.920 --> 0:32:50.400 hope it does. The only concern that I have is 0:32:50.480 --> 0:32:53.320 that Tank comes back trying to beat Tank and then 0:32:53.360 --> 0:32:57.840 he when he's not, what's his response, M And I 0:32:57.880 --> 0:33:00.800 don't think he would fold. Yeah, going to the psychology, 0:33:01.080 --> 0:33:03.600 you've talked a lot about the culture of you know, 0:33:03.760 --> 0:33:06.200 this team and what dan Quinn brings to it. And 0:33:06.640 --> 0:33:09.160 if a guy is out he's feeling like he's being 0:33:09.280 --> 0:33:11.160 left out of the party. I think that's a lot. 0:33:11.400 --> 0:33:14.320 I think Tank feels that right now that he's been 0:33:14.440 --> 0:33:16.280 left out a lot of the fund that's been going on, 0:33:16.400 --> 0:33:18.320 and now that they're in the slump, he could be 0:33:18.400 --> 0:33:20.760 a part of the reason that they get back in 0:33:20.880 --> 0:33:23.440 the win column. I mean, for Mary Cooper, imagine how 0:33:23.480 --> 0:33:25.760 he feels being out for the last two games and 0:33:25.880 --> 0:33:28.920 recognizing that his team has struggled without him. We hadn't 0:33:28.960 --> 0:33:31.240 been able to get a lot going as far as 0:33:31.360 --> 0:33:34.640 drives because of the attention that's played to Mary Cooper 0:33:34.720 --> 0:33:36.480 in the last two games. So you know, I just 0:33:36.560 --> 0:33:39.240 think that that absence cannot be under something. We can't 0:33:39.480 --> 0:33:41.720 say enough about that. But if Tank can come back 0:33:41.800 --> 0:33:43.880 and he can have an impact on this defense, I 0:33:43.920 --> 0:33:45.560 think it's going to mean a lot. Yeah. I hope, 0:33:45.600 --> 0:33:47.480 I hope that he can And I don't disagree I 0:33:47.560 --> 0:33:49.600 believe that he's hyped up is more than anybody ever 0:33:49.640 --> 0:33:51.680 could be in terms of coming back. But my concern 0:33:51.880 --> 0:33:53.480 is when you're that hype and when you know that 0:33:53.520 --> 0:33:56.640 everybody's looking at you, you know that you're the an 0:33:56.680 --> 0:33:58.760 now as the leader, what happens when you come back 0:33:58.800 --> 0:34:01.800 and you're just a guy? What's your response then? Do 0:34:01.920 --> 0:34:04.400 you still lead with? What? Do you still lead in 0:34:04.440 --> 0:34:06.200 the locker room? Do you still lead on the field 0:34:06.360 --> 0:34:08.120 or are you going to show your frustrations and now 0:34:08.239 --> 0:34:10.919 let that continue to snowball onto other people. That's that's 0:34:10.960 --> 0:34:12.480 what my concern is. I hope he comes back and 0:34:12.520 --> 0:34:14.359 he's freaking d law and he balls out. But if 0:34:14.400 --> 0:34:17.040 he doesn't, what is his response because if that is 0:34:17.080 --> 0:34:19.200 just as as important as him coming back and balling. 0:34:19.280 --> 0:34:21.840 But that's integrity and character, all the things that you know. 0:34:22.120 --> 0:34:25.759 It's also frustration. It could be frustration. We will see, 0:34:25.880 --> 0:34:27.359 We'll see. But how did you how did you guys 0:34:27.440 --> 0:34:30.640 think about about Gallup his his his resume in terms 0:34:30.640 --> 0:34:32.920 of his opportunity to be the number one guy. It 0:34:33.040 --> 0:34:34.880 took it till the fourth quarter for it to show up, 0:34:35.040 --> 0:34:37.520 but he had a little bit there. He showed he 0:34:37.640 --> 0:34:39.920 can do it, I think, but it's going to be 0:34:39.960 --> 0:34:42.960 a question on will he do it. Yeah. I mean 0:34:43.000 --> 0:34:45.839 it showed up late a fourth quarter offensively, they didn't 0:34:45.840 --> 0:34:49.560 get going anything until the fourth quarter. Um. I agree 0:34:49.600 --> 0:34:52.200 with Jerry after the game when he said we probably 0:34:52.360 --> 0:34:55.240 could have thrown just thrown it up more and challenged 0:34:55.280 --> 0:34:59.239 and said, hey, throw the flag flags. That's what Vegas did. 0:34:59.560 --> 0:35:02.879 So I think late he showed everything we talked about, 0:35:02.960 --> 0:35:04.759 like what he could add coming back. He showed in 0:35:04.760 --> 0:35:07.839 the fourth quarter with the you know, contested catches down 0:35:07.840 --> 0:35:09.879 the field, take the top off all that stuff. Oh. 0:35:10.000 --> 0:35:12.960 I cannot wait to have those guys back, with Michael 0:35:13.000 --> 0:35:17.200 Gallop and having Lamb and Cooper and everybody back and healthy. 0:35:17.520 --> 0:35:19.640 I want Dalton Schultz to play better. It just it 0:35:19.800 --> 0:35:21.640 was it's all together Dak too. And I was going 0:35:21.680 --> 0:35:23.239 to ask you this. I felt like in the last 0:35:23.320 --> 0:35:26.640 those last couple drives fourth quarter, Dak's footwork looked better. 0:35:26.800 --> 0:35:28.600 He just looked more in rhythm when they got more 0:35:28.680 --> 0:35:30.640 up tempo. I don't know if they can do that 0:35:30.719 --> 0:35:32.279 the entire game. I swear to God, we have these 0:35:32.320 --> 0:35:34.799 same conversations in twenty nineteen. Yep, should they go up 0:35:34.840 --> 0:35:36.440 tempo more. Should they do that to try to get 0:35:36.520 --> 0:35:38.799 him out of this rut, because it's the same conversations 0:35:38.840 --> 0:35:41.080 we've had. Well, when you have five, three and ounce, 0:35:41.200 --> 0:35:44.000 it's really hard to get any rhythm going. And that's 0:35:44.000 --> 0:35:46.000 the only thing that you can do. You see him college, 0:35:46.080 --> 0:35:48.680 high school, all of that. How do you get in rhythm? 0:35:48.760 --> 0:35:50.759 You go up tempo, you get things moving a little 0:35:50.760 --> 0:35:52.680 bit faster. You saw Kansas City do it in the 0:35:53.040 --> 0:35:56.759 in the Super Bowl versus San Francisco. They went up 0:35:56.800 --> 0:35:59.280 tempo in the second half to get back in rhythm. 0:35:59.560 --> 0:36:01.839 We're just finding it, and I think the offensive line 0:36:01.920 --> 0:36:07.200 continuity not being there, and obviously Steele did I say, yeah, 0:36:07.200 --> 0:36:10.200 I did. It's the way I don't have to worry 0:36:10.200 --> 0:36:13.200 about a rotation. Unfortunately that week, Ye, there's not going 0:36:13.280 --> 0:36:15.280 to be one. And why is that Rob Phillip because 0:36:15.440 --> 0:36:18.520 he is in COVID protocol, who is with Terrence Steele 0:36:18.680 --> 0:36:24.279 along with multiple assistant coaches, all three strength coaches, Joe 0:36:24.320 --> 0:36:27.400 Philbin on the offensive line coach, Jeff blasco his assistant 0:36:29.120 --> 0:36:32.600 and hopefully that's it. Yeah, I'm moving forward because you 0:36:32.640 --> 0:36:35.400 don't know about that. That whole situation they're in the 0:36:35.520 --> 0:36:40.040 extended protocols again today. Umi was out last week, wasn't 0:36:40.080 --> 0:36:42.560 he yea yeah, yeah, there were three coaches out that 0:36:42.680 --> 0:36:45.880 missed the game, and now it's more Scott Tolzine an 0:36:45.880 --> 0:36:49.120 assistant coach, another assistant coach, like and guys are being 0:36:49.160 --> 0:36:52.800 tested now daily, vaccinated or run vaccinate, I believe, and 0:36:53.080 --> 0:36:56.160 try to cross your fingers there's no more cases over 0:36:56.200 --> 0:36:58.359 the next couple of days. So that's so scary, man, 0:36:58.440 --> 0:37:00.960 because everybody the NFL is been dealing with it. It 0:37:01.080 --> 0:37:04.000 seemed to subside for a little while, and I don't 0:37:04.040 --> 0:37:07.520 know if everyone relaxed, but it's it's going to continue 0:37:07.560 --> 0:37:10.560 to rear its head over the NFL season, and you 0:37:10.680 --> 0:37:13.840 just don't want this to happen at pivotal times in 0:37:13.960 --> 0:37:17.600 the season. So I applaud the organization for starting this 0:37:18.200 --> 0:37:22.319 process of hey, daily testing, starting to isolate guys right 0:37:22.400 --> 0:37:26.080 now because pretty soon, man's it's just going it's going 0:37:26.120 --> 0:37:27.759 to keep continue to go up the ladder and it's 0:37:27.760 --> 0:37:30.480 going to be somebody that we can't miss like that. 0:37:30.880 --> 0:37:33.359 It sounds like a Mario be back today, So that's good. 0:37:33.440 --> 0:37:38.200 You hope, hope Terrence is doing well. But yeah, they actually, 0:37:38.280 --> 0:37:41.680 we're gonna league mandates this now. 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Oh yeah, I'm saying, Oh my gosh. 0:40:40.320 --> 0:40:42.719 All right, final couple of minutes here of talking Cowboys. 0:40:42.840 --> 0:40:44.920 Chris Beam in the back, We've got Rob Phillips, We've 0:40:44.920 --> 0:40:47.960 got Isaiah stanback. Heck My Harrison, I'm Kyle Yeoman's and gentlemen, 0:40:48.040 --> 0:40:51.560 the Cowboys and the Saints coming up on Thursday. We've 0:40:51.600 --> 0:40:53.839 got just one more show after this. We've got one 0:40:53.880 --> 0:40:56.520 on Tuesday, and then it's game day on Thursday. So 0:40:57.080 --> 0:40:58.880 pack it all in tomorrow. Yeah, we got we got 0:40:58.920 --> 0:41:02.640 both the offense and the defense tomorrow and pick them 0:41:02.880 --> 0:41:06.080 jam pack show. And are you feeling good about you 0:41:06.160 --> 0:41:07.919 perked up a little bit? I don't. I just haven't 0:41:07.920 --> 0:41:12.600 looked at it either. I haven't no idea at this point. 0:41:12.680 --> 0:41:17.080 I just at this point, I know I'm good game. 0:41:17.080 --> 0:41:20.400 I always picked right, always picked that game right in 0:41:20.480 --> 0:41:24.120 two goodness. Sorry, Yeah, you're catching us just on the couch, 0:41:24.280 --> 0:41:27.520 just on the Cowboys alone. That's not good. So not 0:41:28.160 --> 0:41:31.239 at all. Um, What are some of the early things 0:41:31.320 --> 0:41:33.279 that you've looked at with the Saints and some of 0:41:33.320 --> 0:41:36.920 the early challenges that could potentially be there. The biggest 0:41:36.960 --> 0:41:39.360 thing jumps out to me is their defensive front and 0:41:39.719 --> 0:41:42.600 their run defense. And you know, like Carolina had a 0:41:42.640 --> 0:41:45.680 great run defense early in the season. Cowboys blew that up. 0:41:46.239 --> 0:41:49.040 But now we're ten eleven games in and the Saints 0:41:49.080 --> 0:41:50.960 are given up three point four yards and carry. They're 0:41:51.040 --> 0:41:53.279 very good up front. Yeah, and uh, you know there's 0:41:53.280 --> 0:41:55.680 been some questions the media, how much zeken playing this game? 0:41:55.920 --> 0:41:58.359 Could they consider resting him. I don't think he wants 0:41:58.400 --> 0:42:00.920 to rest, he said yesterday, you can manage it. Nobody 0:42:01.000 --> 0:42:02.399 to this point has come to him and said, would 0:42:02.400 --> 0:42:05.640 you consider resting? But they're watching his snaps. You know, 0:42:05.760 --> 0:42:07.440 he hasn't had fifty snaps in a game in like 0:42:07.680 --> 0:42:12.200 last four games, So even if he does play, they'll 0:42:12.239 --> 0:42:14.960 probably try to manage him. Tony Pollard, can they get 0:42:15.080 --> 0:42:18.320 that going in this game? You know that? That's to me, 0:42:18.440 --> 0:42:20.360 that's the key because they heck said it early in 0:42:20.360 --> 0:42:22.759 the show. They gotta get some balance back offensively here. 0:42:23.120 --> 0:42:24.800 Ye Zeke not gonna let them trick him out of 0:42:24.800 --> 0:42:28.000 his spot. If the same people selling you the rest 0:42:28.040 --> 0:42:29.600 that if at the end of the season telling you 0:42:29.680 --> 0:42:32.759 you're overpaid and trying to look to PFF and analytics, 0:42:33.320 --> 0:42:35.600 yeah exactly. I don't let them do that to you. Zeke. 0:42:35.680 --> 0:42:37.600 You know, tough it out, and that's exactly what I 0:42:37.640 --> 0:42:40.840 feel like he's gonna do. But I'm with you, Cameron 0:42:40.960 --> 0:42:44.439 Jordan worries me yea, And wherever he lines up, we've 0:42:44.480 --> 0:42:46.440 got to pay some attention to that. But then on 0:42:46.560 --> 0:42:48.640 the back half, of their defense. They have some guys 0:42:48.719 --> 0:42:52.359 Malcolm Jenkins and Marshaw and Lattimore. You know, look, they 0:42:53.280 --> 0:42:56.040 they have some guys and some dudes that they're gonna 0:42:56.080 --> 0:42:59.000 do the same thing that the Raiders did. They're gonna 0:42:59.000 --> 0:43:00.719 do the same thing that the Chiefs. They're gonna pack 0:43:00.760 --> 0:43:02.920 the line of scrimmage and they're gonna bear. You dare 0:43:03.000 --> 0:43:05.080 us to beat them on the back half with all 0:43:05.120 --> 0:43:07.960 of our weapons back if they played like that on Thursday, 0:43:08.160 --> 0:43:12.600 I think we score forty burger. Now here's the thing. Offensively, 0:43:13.360 --> 0:43:17.880 our defense cannot allow the Saints and Trevor Simeon to 0:43:17.960 --> 0:43:22.000 get going. They off there and apt offensively. And it's 0:43:22.000 --> 0:43:24.080 really kind of surprising to say that from a Sean 0:43:24.120 --> 0:43:27.080 Payton coach team that they have the problems that they have. 0:43:27.360 --> 0:43:31.040 But but without Jamis Winston and obviously with Bridge retiring, 0:43:31.160 --> 0:43:33.880 they've had some trouble getting this offense back going. But 0:43:33.960 --> 0:43:36.839 they run on confidence. Also, you're gonna be down there 0:43:36.880 --> 0:43:40.040 in the in the dome, and brother, it's gonna be loud. 0:43:40.480 --> 0:43:42.800 If you had problems before with noise, you're gonna have 0:43:42.920 --> 0:43:46.120 it again. And you know, if they have anything going, 0:43:46.320 --> 0:43:50.080 trust me, they're gonna continue to keep those things going. 0:43:50.120 --> 0:43:53.000 But special teams wise, I've been loving what we've been doing. 0:43:53.120 --> 0:43:56.279 Like Tony Pollard ran back when Look, that's not enough 0:43:56.320 --> 0:43:58.520 to be said about that, especially with the rule changes 0:43:58.520 --> 0:44:01.400 on kickoffs. To be able to run kickoff back in 0:44:01.480 --> 0:44:04.759 twenty twenty one is something. But you know, special teams watch, 0:44:04.800 --> 0:44:06.800 we're gonna have to do it in all three phases 0:44:06.880 --> 0:44:17.000 and play complimentary ball. Well, the Saints are owing four 0:44:17.200 --> 0:44:20.040 in their last four games. They don't have a quarterback 0:44:20.120 --> 0:44:22.279 that can move the ball. They're not effective in a 0:44:22.280 --> 0:44:24.880 passing game right now. The running game has been very minute. 0:44:24.960 --> 0:44:27.560 Obviously Kamara has been out for the most part. Ingram 0:44:27.800 --> 0:44:31.520 did nothing and um, they're so their offense is in 0:44:31.600 --> 0:44:34.440 a bad, bad way right now. So our defense, opportunity 0:44:34.640 --> 0:44:37.759 to get your mojo back, mojo moment, whatever you want 0:44:37.800 --> 0:44:40.399 to call it this week, opportunity to get your swag back. Okay, 0:44:40.480 --> 0:44:43.680 so that's a swag back game. Offensively, we have to 0:44:43.680 --> 0:44:45.360 figure out a way to move the ball against a 0:44:45.480 --> 0:44:48.760 team that has some goons on defense. That's just the reality. 0:44:49.480 --> 0:44:52.200 It's not just talent. These boys are goons. They built different, 0:44:52.280 --> 0:44:56.040 they have different makeup, they're upbringing. It is different if 0:44:56.080 --> 0:44:57.719 you if you at Tristan Hill you want to punt 0:44:57.719 --> 0:44:59.080 somebody in the mouth, this is not the team to 0:44:59.120 --> 0:45:01.120 do it against, because all these boys will step up 0:45:01.160 --> 0:45:03.160 to you real quick in a hurry, in the form 0:45:03.239 --> 0:45:06.759 of Cameron Jordan, Malcolm Jenkins, Damario Davis, Geez. I like 0:45:06.880 --> 0:45:09.200 him a lot. They have some dudes on defense, So 0:45:09.960 --> 0:45:13.600 we have to take advantage holistically on defense. Special teams 0:45:13.640 --> 0:45:15.719 own that we should at least own two thirds of 0:45:15.800 --> 0:45:18.200 this game, and then offensively, offensively, we have to find 0:45:18.200 --> 0:45:20.000 a way to get something rolling. I think that's the 0:45:20.080 --> 0:45:22.759 biggest thing for this is defensively. You look at it 0:45:22.800 --> 0:45:24.320 and you say, this is gonna be a tough matchup. 0:45:24.440 --> 0:45:27.200 The Cowboys offense needs to find a rhythm against a very, 0:45:28.000 --> 0:45:31.120 very talented Saints defense. The Saints defense hasn't played well 0:45:31.160 --> 0:45:33.279 though They've had their lapses over the last couple of 0:45:33.320 --> 0:45:35.239 weeks to give up thirty one points to Buffalo on 0:45:35.320 --> 0:45:38.279 Thanksgiving too. They haven't played necessarily well, so they'll have 0:45:38.360 --> 0:45:41.040 a chip on their shoulder going into the game. You've 0:45:41.120 --> 0:45:43.400 got to win that matchup. If you win that matchup, 0:45:43.440 --> 0:45:46.760 I feel pretty confident about slowing down the Saints offense, 0:45:46.880 --> 0:45:48.960 there's not a ton of threats there. Even though they 0:45:49.040 --> 0:45:52.040 may get album Kamara back, they're expected to get Alvin Kamara, 0:45:52.160 --> 0:45:55.279 of course they are. I think even then, I'm still 0:45:55.360 --> 0:45:59.560 not uber uber worried about that offense. I think you 0:45:59.640 --> 0:46:01.480 can figure out a way to find some mojo on 0:46:01.560 --> 0:46:04.040 the defensive side. But man, that's gonna be two matchups 0:46:04.080 --> 0:46:06.399 we're talking about tomorrow, and we'll outline it a little 0:46:06.440 --> 0:46:09.680 bit more in depth when we return nine am Central 0:46:09.760 --> 0:46:12.759 Time on Tuesday. That's gonna do it for us here 0:46:12.800 --> 0:46:15.359 on this edition, though, for Chris Beam in the back, 0:46:15.600 --> 0:46:18.160 for heck Ma Harrison, Rob Phillips, Isaiah stand Back, I'm 0:46:18.200 --> 0:46:22.160 Kyle Yomen saying so long from Talking Cowboys presented by Tostidios. 0:46:22.280 --> 0:46:25.400 We will see you tomorrow. 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