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Speaker 1: from Thanksgiving break. Yes we could really call it that.
Speaker 1: I hope everybody had a wonderful Thanksgiving. And gentleman, the
Speaker 1: itis is sneaking in on me. I ate way too
Speaker 1: much food this weekend and I am dragging this morning.
Speaker 1: Tripp the fan, good, Yeah, it's too much turkey, too
Speaker 1: much of that stuff and it was delicious. Where did
Speaker 1: that come from? Ask me if I regret it? And
Speaker 1: I don't regret it, tripped a fan. Yeah, I can't
Speaker 1: spell it, but that's the thing. And I hear that
Speaker 1: turkey has a thing and some kind of chemical in
Speaker 1: it that makes you automatically tired. I discovered that's the one.
Speaker 1: That's the one. Yeah, that's it. Trip the fan. Yeah, wow,
Speaker 1: everybody learned that. I was a lot. I thought it
Speaker 1: was a lie. I said this, shut up. I telling
Speaker 1: all of my in laws, like, dude, that kid out here,
Speaker 1: stop it. It's a real thing. You come right in
Speaker 1: here and I'm sorry, and I say it. I say,
Speaker 1: it doesn't eat me. I don't have any of that
Speaker 1: in my system. I say, it feels great today. I'm grand.
Speaker 1: That mac and cheese looks fire though it was. It
Speaker 1: was fire, It was fire. I have to say I
Speaker 1: get better every year, you know, be great today. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Well the Cowboys were not super great on Thursday thirty six,
Speaker 1: thirty three in overtime a loss to the Las Vegas Raiders.
Speaker 1: As the Cowboys have now lost three of their last
Speaker 1: four games and four of their last five on Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: so the Cowboys fall again on the holiday. It's holiday
Speaker 1: that hasn't been kind to the Cowboys as of late. Rob,
Speaker 1: you were at the game, what was that like? The
Speaker 1: comeback and kind of the trailing that never really felt
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys got off the ground again in the defense,
Speaker 1: giving up thirty six points for the first time in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one. It was tripped to finish. Actually, it
Speaker 1: was a very tripp to finish. They just it was
Speaker 1: very reminiscent of Kansas City where they just offensively can't
Speaker 1: get anything established until late and I think, you know,
Speaker 1: encouraging in the fourth quarter that hey, they finally try
Speaker 1: to go deep, get Michael Gallup in single coverage, and
Speaker 1: they took advantage of that and they hit several exposive plays.
Speaker 1: So can they carry that into Thursday? I think that's
Speaker 1: that's the thing they got to do. But not only
Speaker 1: was it reminiscent of the Kansas City game four days ago,
Speaker 1: it's reminding me of twenty nineteen when they had Amari
Speaker 1: Cooper on that team. They went and lost three or
Speaker 1: four games in December, and I looked it up. Three
Speaker 1: of those losses. Want of them to Buffalo on Thanksgiving? No,
Speaker 1: I'm going back a couple of years. But they couldn't
Speaker 1: score more than seven points and a half. And it
Speaker 1: was the same We're talking about the same stuff. Slow starts,
Speaker 1: how do you get it going that they got to
Speaker 1: figure that out even against the Saints team that is
Speaker 1: challenged offensively. Right now, that's really interesting to think about
Speaker 1: because right there, you good, that was not sly at all.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the I appreciate the effort there. It didn't
Speaker 1: work all right, well though, let's just blow right past that, Isaiah,
Speaker 1: what did you see on the Thanksgiving matchup? I saw
Speaker 1: a team that wasn't focused, man. I saw a team
Speaker 1: that did not play discipline football. They did not execute,
Speaker 1: and you know when you're playing those teams, and we
Speaker 1: talked about it. We talked about how the Raiders were
Speaker 1: a team that built off of confidence and runs and
Speaker 1: if you allow them to stay close in the game,
Speaker 1: they'll start remembering who they are because they do have
Speaker 1: a roster full of very um you know, high high
Speaker 1: high caliber. Yeah, high caliber, you know, and guys that
Speaker 1: are established in this league. You know, these guys have
Speaker 1: have attained a lot big contracts. You know, big contracts
Speaker 1: come from you know, big plays, and they you know,
Speaker 1: they allowed these guys to stay around in the game
Speaker 1: and they just didn't do well. It's more of the same.
Speaker 1: Like Rob said, you know, incompletions, bad techniques, freaking penalties galore.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people are complaining about the referees,
Speaker 1: and I was really really disappointed in hearing coach McCarthy
Speaker 1: bring that into the postgame conference in terms of using
Speaker 1: that as an excuse. I did not like that at all.
Speaker 1: Regardless of how true or how how adamant you might
Speaker 1: be about that, as a real feeling, you cannot communicate
Speaker 1: that to your team because it allows them now to
Speaker 1: utilize that as an excuse. It creeps in, right. It's
Speaker 1: kind of like it's kind of like the uh, it's
Speaker 1: kind why can't I think today? It's kind of it's
Speaker 1: kind of like, you know, letting, like the complaining going
Speaker 1: on in the locker room, right, It's spreads like wildfire.
Speaker 1: And I feel like when you have a head coach
Speaker 1: somebody in that position, that it comes in the press
Speaker 1: conference and says, well, yeah, you know, there's something about
Speaker 1: the referees, it's like, crap, and what do I say?
Speaker 1: What I say? As soon as he said, I was like,
Speaker 1: that's bad, Yeah, that's real quick. He kind of backtracked
Speaker 1: the next day a little bit. He said, our our
Speaker 1: energy on the sideline was not good enough. It was
Speaker 1: too it was too negative, like we're just, oh, it's
Speaker 1: all the refs fault kind of thing. Yeah, you can't
Speaker 1: do that, especially when you're in that position, because every
Speaker 1: person who came in and did an interview after that said,
Speaker 1: what refs, refs, refs, refs. And at a certain point,
Speaker 1: everybody's had those games where the things just don't go
Speaker 1: your way in terms of referees. Right, you feel like
Speaker 1: the referees are against you, you're playing against the six
Speaker 1: man blah blah blah blah blas. You can't allow that
Speaker 1: to be the reason. The reality is guys were creating penalties.
Speaker 1: That's the reality. Technique was bad. That the reality. There
Speaker 1: are a bunch of flags that should have been thrown
Speaker 1: that weren't thrown. That's also the reality. So at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, you just didn't play good ball.
Speaker 1: Don't defer and try to blame that out somebody else.
Speaker 1: Yes there's bad calls, Yes there's good calls. Happens every
Speaker 1: single game. You didn't play good, own up to it
Speaker 1: and figure out how to man allow this to happen again.
Speaker 1: The AFC west owns you right now when you leave
Speaker 1: the field, and you leave a situation where there was
Speaker 1: some plays that you made that were called back because
Speaker 1: of penalties. There were some miscalls, Like you said, the
Speaker 1: fumble to me, really was the one thing that stuck
Speaker 1: stuck out on the play. Ken O'Neill makes an amazing play.
Speaker 1: That's a bumble that we should have had that the
Speaker 1: referees did not go back and even look at. And
Speaker 1: I don't even know what the situation was, why that
Speaker 1: was not challenged or what have you. But you know,
Speaker 1: I don't fault Mike McCarthy for that because in the
Speaker 1: heat of battle and you see coaches get fined for
Speaker 1: that all the time, You're just getting off the field
Speaker 1: and hell you you put it all out there and
Speaker 1: you recognize that there were opportunities that you missed that
Speaker 1: were due to obviously penalties that didn't go your wayt
Speaker 1: so with human right and then obviously I don't know
Speaker 1: if the players were listening to the conference at the
Speaker 1: same time, but you know, going back to what you
Speaker 1: were saying, Rob, I felt as though that carry over
Speaker 1: from Kansas City, just from an execution standpoint, from the
Speaker 1: second half. We've had six quarters now of that kind
Speaker 1: of football in for me. It points to what you're saying,
Speaker 1: poor execution, poor execution. We knew we're gonna be without CD,
Speaker 1: we knew we're gonna be without Amari, and then at
Speaker 1: some point you're looking at other guys to kind of
Speaker 1: step up what centric Wilson did seven catches one hundred
Speaker 1: and four yards, although very silently, seven catches one hundred
Speaker 1: four yards, and we just didn't have that big playability.
Speaker 1: And you're talking about the FC Weston owning us right now.
Speaker 1: It looks as though they have the formula, the recipe
Speaker 1: to stop the Cowboys by just crowding the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage and playing man to man on the outside, but
Speaker 1: albeit without our weapons. So the reality of the situation is, look,
Speaker 1: as much as we can be down on this team,
Speaker 1: they're handicap. And if you look around the league and
Speaker 1: you see teams that don't have their main doll, they're
Speaker 1: head tocapped as well. And so look those all of
Speaker 1: these things are excuses because it's still a loss for us.
Speaker 1: But you know, we have to point to the fact
Speaker 1: that Dak did all that he could. The running game
Speaker 1: right now is where I'm I'm most concerned. You know,
Speaker 1: I think looking bad and not have having poor execution,
Speaker 1: but the inability to run the ball right now is
Speaker 1: hurting this team more than anything. I think that's a
Speaker 1: great point because with the weapons that you're missing, you're
Speaker 1: going to miss your production. And sure, you ended up
Speaker 1: having two one hundred yard receivers, but like you said
Speaker 1: that with a lot of that was late in the
Speaker 1: ball game when they finally found the rhythm on offense.
Speaker 1: Without Amari Cooper, without Ceedee Lamb bar none, you are
Speaker 1: not a good football team. Are not as good of
Speaker 1: a football team. You're still a good football team, just
Speaker 1: not as good without those two guys in there. And
Speaker 1: that's for a big reason. However, you're not missing anything
Speaker 1: in the run game right now. You got an offensive lineback,
Speaker 1: you had Tyrn Smith back, you have Ezekiel Elliott. Yeah
Speaker 1: he's a little banged up, but he's still out there playing.
Speaker 1: He's not banged up enough to miss some time. And
Speaker 1: then you've got Tony Pollard who played decently well but
Speaker 1: still never really had the kind of game that you
Speaker 1: would expect. So is that the biggest concern right now,
Speaker 1: at least in terms of a longevity problem, A long
Speaker 1: term problem for the Cowboys. Yeah, I think. I mean,
Speaker 1: I kind of go back to what I said after
Speaker 1: Kansas City to me, and it ties into the run game.
Speaker 1: The line is scrimmaged. They're not winning it. It's it's
Speaker 1: you know, the offensive line, and they've had some changes
Speaker 1: up front, and but Tyrant's back, and that's why you
Speaker 1: can't you know, I don't think you can go as
Speaker 1: far to say, oh, it's because they're missing certain guys.
Speaker 1: I think it compounds the problem. I'm with you. It's
Speaker 1: not an excuse, it's a fact. But they're not also
Speaker 1: doing simple things to give them chances to win. Like
Speaker 1: we talked about drops and miss throws and miss blocks
Speaker 1: in space and things like that that probably get magnified
Speaker 1: more when you lose a game than when you win it.
Speaker 1: And they almost won that game, and maybe we'd be
Speaker 1: sweeping that under the rug if they pulled that out
Speaker 1: against Vegas, almost said Oakland. But but yeah, I think
Speaker 1: I think in Mike McCarthy spo to it a couple
Speaker 1: of days ago, the win rate, I don't know what
Speaker 1: metric he's using, but upfront, they're not they're not handling
Speaker 1: that as well. And that's in the run game. That's
Speaker 1: pass protection. Zach Martin spoke about and Mike talked about
Speaker 1: movement upfront with the defensive front and not being able
Speaker 1: to handle that as well. I think it starts up
Speaker 1: front for this team, and when you are missing your
Speaker 1: top two wide receivers, it's easier to key on the
Speaker 1: run game and say, hey, beat us in the past game.
Speaker 1: And so there's a lot of reasons why. But they
Speaker 1: gotta get it fixed, and it is fixable, but it
Speaker 1: goes beyond just hey, they're missing this guy and this
Speaker 1: guy and this guy. Yeah, I'm more concerned about the
Speaker 1: psychology of this team. The physical aspect. Those things are
Speaker 1: easily correctable. That's watch film. Make the corrections. Don't allow
Speaker 1: it to happen again. You see Terren still get blown
Speaker 1: off the line of scrimmage by Max Crosby. Hey it happens, bro.
Speaker 1: We talked about that. We knew that happen. We knew
Speaker 1: that was going to happen. That wasn't even a question
Speaker 1: mark should limiting it. But the reality is these guys,
Speaker 1: the psychology of this team is really being challenge right now,
Speaker 1: and I'm worried about their ability to to pull themselves
Speaker 1: out of a hole. I'm really concerned about their ability
Speaker 1: to pull themselves out of a hole. We talked about
Speaker 1: I brought up emotional intelligence last week and about our
Speaker 1: you know, the two weeks but two weeks ago, about
Speaker 1: our ability to be able to handle those forms of adversity,
Speaker 1: and how do we step into these situations, these tight games,
Speaker 1: these competitive games. Well, we see all the penalties. That's
Speaker 1: emotional intelligence. That's being disciplined, that's not doing what you're
Speaker 1: supposed to do. That's a lack of it. Well, now
Speaker 1: we're sudden, we're fighting after the game. Well, there we go.
Speaker 1: It shows up again. Right, there's two back to back
Speaker 1: games that we just don't get out the hole. And yes,
Speaker 1: you're missing your players, but guess what, we've been missing
Speaker 1: players all year long. All year long. We've been missing
Speaker 1: key guys on the offensive front. We've been missing key
Speaker 1: guys at receiver, we've been missing key guys in the secondary.
Speaker 1: We've been finding a way, right, so the guys have
Speaker 1: been finding a way. Now, all of a sudden, we
Speaker 1: missed two guys at the same position. And now, all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, now it's a problem. Now we're not
Speaker 1: at full steam. So it's these excuses that are kind
Speaker 1: of being let in there. We got to find a
Speaker 1: way to get out of this rut. And this next
Speaker 1: game coming up is going to give us opportunity because
Speaker 1: those guys have to try to find their way out
Speaker 1: of a rut too. Those guys have lost four straight games,
Speaker 1: we lost to Shade games. What the heck? Who's gonna
Speaker 1: step up and decide they come out the hole? Because
Speaker 1: that's exactly where we're at. We're in a hole, and
Speaker 1: do you want to dig yourself out of it? The
Speaker 1: emotional intelligence part of it, I completely agree the fight
Speaker 1: after the game with Tristan Hill and you don't want
Speaker 1: to see that. Hell, if you're gonna fight, fight quarter
Speaker 1: one of the let's get into it, do it then
Speaker 1: before the game is Yeah, you know, I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: but you're right. I just I don't question there for
Speaker 1: the two here, I think they've had some mistakes, they've
Speaker 1: had some success, and they can look over these last
Speaker 1: couple of games in point two. Okay, this is where
Speaker 1: we went wrong. The line of scrimmage right now is
Speaker 1: where the battle has got to begin, and we've had
Speaker 1: some shuffling. We've talked a lot about continuity maybe they
Speaker 1: don't care as much about continuity is we think, because
Speaker 1: we saw them shuffling Stell and Layale, and I mean
Speaker 1: we see that on the college level, never have seen
Speaker 1: it much on the pro level. I don't know what
Speaker 1: they're fishing for, why they're doing this in these matchups,
Speaker 1: but obviously they're looking for something in game time. Um,
Speaker 1: but you know, look, man, these guys, these are tough.
Speaker 1: These are anybody that plays in the NFL. These are
Speaker 1: tough people. And I don't doubt that they understand that
Speaker 1: their backs are against the wall. But at some point,
Speaker 1: with all the success that they had early, you recognize
Speaker 1: that adversity was going to be on the table. Here's
Speaker 1: that time. We could talk Mojoe moments, all the QUT
Speaker 1: stuff all we want to, but adversity finally strikes and
Speaker 1: all of the football cliches and stuff that you bang
Speaker 1: up about next man up. Look, it gets to a
Speaker 1: certain point where that stuff catches up with you. And
Speaker 1: now it's caught up with us, And so I won't
Speaker 1: look as much as we want to pass the blame
Speaker 1: around right now, there are just some guys that have
Speaker 1: got to elevate their gaming. Whether they are injured, which
Speaker 1: all teams right now are dealing with that. We're just
Speaker 1: dealing in a situation where guys have to elevate their game.
Speaker 1: Who is that going to be? Our young guys, our rookies,
Speaker 1: our second year guys are elevating their game, But what
Speaker 1: about some other guys. There's a few guys right now
Speaker 1: that hell, I don't know where they've been for the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. No, you're right, who are some
Speaker 1: of those guys in your head? Ah? Man, right, Lvie,
Speaker 1: somebody can tell me where Vee is. I'm telling you
Speaker 1: they'll be a reward poster out because I'm trying to
Speaker 1: figure out what's going on in the running game. Kean O'Neill,
Speaker 1: I mean, he has some good plays, but there's just
Speaker 1: some things like the I mean, look, he's making tackles,
Speaker 1: the big play things, getting sacks, other things that we
Speaker 1: need from our guys. We're just not getting it up
Speaker 1: front by not being able to stop the run defensively
Speaker 1: the defensive line. When you saw not only from our
Speaker 1: offensive line, but their offensive line was able to establish
Speaker 1: drives and run. We talked about the raiders and the
Speaker 1: methodical drives that they were able to get gone. They
Speaker 1: did that and then and it just it just took
Speaker 1: us out. I mean it really did, man. And it
Speaker 1: was a point in the game where it just looked
Speaker 1: like we had nothing to offer except for the fourth quarter.
Speaker 1: Who would you guys have a wanted poster out for
Speaker 1: it because you were looking at him and you were
Speaker 1: looking for them, and then they came up missing the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks. For me, it's it's just I
Speaker 1: want to say, coach McCarthy, but say it. I do.
Speaker 1: I mean, I do want to say McCarthy. I just don't.
Speaker 1: We don't know what's being said in the locker room.
Speaker 1: Let me let me let me start out by saying
Speaker 1: that we don't know what's being said on locker room,
Speaker 1: but that that post game really, really, really because it's
Speaker 1: an excuse. It's an excuse if if you're if you're
Speaker 1: the leader, and you're making excuses, what do you think
Speaker 1: that everybody who's following you is gonna do. Regardless if
Speaker 1: it's true or not, it doesn't come out your mouth.
Speaker 1: The fact that you bring that to the press conference,
Speaker 1: you know what was said in the locker room, So yes,
Speaker 1: they don't hear the press conferences, but they hear it
Speaker 1: in the locker room, and so when they hear it
Speaker 1: in the locker room, they bring that up there. Now,
Speaker 1: guess what in a set of owning getting in saying
Speaker 1: outs us, let's fix it, is something going on with us.
Speaker 1: We can handle what we can. I told little kids
Speaker 1: I was coaching a couple weeks ago. If you don't
Speaker 1: like the result of something, you change it. You change it.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's maybe I'm just playing devil's advocate. Maybe he's
Speaker 1: trying to get them to change it through the media.
Speaker 1: Whether I'm not saying he's gonna get fined, but I'm
Speaker 1: saying if you because I think his frustration and I think, look,
Speaker 1: you're right, like and you showed us a highlight tape
Speaker 1: last night of Anthony Brown's four pass interference penalties. And
Speaker 1: there's technique problems, I mean, like the last one for sure,
Speaker 1: like you have to turn around, you know. So there
Speaker 1: were flags. I do think there was no rhythm to
Speaker 1: the game. Twenty eight flags to me, come on, like,
Speaker 1: you know, the game should not be four hours long.
Speaker 1: But you're right there there are penalties. I do wonder
Speaker 1: and I agree with him, And he talked about this
Speaker 1: I think the next day is there's not a consistency,
Speaker 1: Like if you go back and watch the Chiefs game,
Speaker 1: guys are getting away with grabbing the Cowboys receivers and
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff and they let it go. Well,
Speaker 1: the next week it's a new crew and it's so
Speaker 1: tickie tack. If there's anything, there's a flag like there
Speaker 1: needs to be more consistency with players understanding what they
Speaker 1: can do and not do week to week in a
Speaker 1: game or what's going to be called and and I
Speaker 1: think he's voicing that through the media maybe to try
Speaker 1: to get a change, trying to even the playing field
Speaker 1: a little bit. Playing devil's advocate to your devil's advocate.
Speaker 1: Is the fact that Inception Advocate going into the game,
Speaker 1: they were scouting or parts pretty much for the coaching
Speaker 1: staff on the referee crew that they were going to have,
Speaker 1: and it was out there, it was in the open,
Speaker 1: and they knew that was the type of crew going
Speaker 1: into the game. So does that play a factor into
Speaker 1: it at all? The fact that you knew what you
Speaker 1: were going into netlisten here, Yes, referees can affect the game.
Speaker 1: Sure everybody knows that. And there's gonna be days. We
Speaker 1: saw it on Thursday. It could be happening in your favor,
Speaker 1: it can happen against you, right and either way, you
Speaker 1: know that that's gonna be a that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: factor somehow, someway you hope that it is not, but
Speaker 1: you know usually it's gonna be a factor. What can
Speaker 1: you control? You can control coming off the ball and
Speaker 1: dominating the line of scrimmage, can't you? Did we do that? Nope?
Speaker 1: Can we do? Can we dominate the ball? And can
Speaker 1: we dominate running the ball? We can? We have we
Speaker 1: have the personnel to do it. We didn't do that.
Speaker 1: Can we dominate throwing the ball in the air? Yes,
Speaker 1: we've been we've been bracking up four or five six
Speaker 1: hundred yards passing or maybe you know, a total offense,
Speaker 1: a lot of it through the air head. Did we
Speaker 1: do that? No, we didn't do that. Okay, what about defense?
Speaker 1: Did we play physical like we've been playing? Were they
Speaker 1: running a flying flying around with the hair on fire,
Speaker 1: where they hidden guys in their mouth enforcing turnovers like
Speaker 1: they've been doing. No. So, at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you didn't do what you're capable of doing. That's the reality. Now,
Speaker 1: did the referees assisting you're in your loss? Probably, but
Speaker 1: guess what, you didn't earn it. You didn't earn it.
Speaker 1: Own that fact. Don't make an excuse for why why
Speaker 1: it's something Oh yeah, well, yeah, that they didn't help.
Speaker 1: Of course they didn't help. They're not supposed to help.
Speaker 1: And to your point, it was fourteen flags apiece. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was all the way around. Two just played better
Speaker 1: and you've been you know, look, I think I've I've
Speaker 1: watched enough NFL football to know like those back in
Speaker 1: the days when Oakland Raiders were the most penalized team
Speaker 1: in the league, and you expected that for them, even
Speaker 1: when they had good teams, just because they were the Raiders.
Speaker 1: They just got flagged or unnecessary roughness all the time.
Speaker 1: Right now, I just feel like the Cowboys are not
Speaker 1: getting the benefit of the doubt. If you watch enough football,
Speaker 1: you see plays like Anthony Brown made in a call
Speaker 1: not get And I'm not saying that this technique was
Speaker 1: good was good, or that the other pis that he
Speaker 1: got were not warranted, but on that last one, you know,
Speaker 1: you have a guy's face guarding basically, and you have
Speaker 1: a receiver pulling the guy into you that sealed the game,
Speaker 1: and you don't want to see referees decide the game
Speaker 1: for you. I know you you have and I understand
Speaker 1: where you're coming from with the approach because it's old school.
Speaker 1: Control what you can control. Don't bitch about the whistles
Speaker 1: when you could do what you're doing right here on
Speaker 1: the field. But there are certain points in that game
Speaker 1: where it was like, well, come on, bro, you're gonna
Speaker 1: make that call, then you're not gonna make this up
Speaker 1: going over. And I feel like these referees whatever that
Speaker 1: whoever that crew is, they should no, don't say that.
Speaker 1: That crew should basically be under They should look, they
Speaker 1: should watch these guys under review whatever it is, because
Speaker 1: they're trying to make themselves the focal point in the game.
Speaker 1: I think they're taking away from the game. The game
Speaker 1: shouldn't have been four hours long, and that had a
Speaker 1: lot to referees had a lot to do it. I
Speaker 1: don't disagree with you. However, we've shown this three out
Speaker 1: of our last four games, So who's whose fault is it?
Speaker 1: And they look, you know what I'm saying like that,
Speaker 1: So I hear you, and I don't disagree with you.
Speaker 1: This characteristic. This performance has shown up seventy five percent
Speaker 1: of our last four games. Yeah, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: just the penalties, just the lack of execution. But they
Speaker 1: have been one of the higher penalized teams. Yeah, great, cowboys,
Speaker 1: you know what. You're the cowboy. You know it. You
Speaker 1: know it's just like the raider, you know it. So
Speaker 1: guess what. Step up and make sure they can't call it.
Speaker 1: Don't let these boys up the line of screamas you
Speaker 1: wanted to worry about holding down the field, right, blow
Speaker 1: them off the growls. Throw these guys around like it's
Speaker 1: like there's some little little Tonka toys. You have to
Speaker 1: be more dominant when you know that you're gonna face
Speaker 1: another opponent, go out there and then destroy them so
Speaker 1: bad that they can't even throw a dog on flags. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and that's the thing defensively is you can't let this
Speaker 1: performance affect your aggressiveness. They can't now be afraid to
Speaker 1: get flags. And we've been seeing that guys have been
Speaker 1: been hesitant to hit. Guys have been coming from the
Speaker 1: secondary kind of they're kind of backing up. We were
Speaker 1: talking about in the studio, like you rather hit them, Kayzy,
Speaker 1: freaking Neil. Some of these guys. I mean, these guys
Speaker 1: aren't hitting like they were hitting four. Yeah, remember at
Speaker 1: ten point three of your last four games, you have
Speaker 1: not performed. Well, that's the issue addressed that stopped talking
Speaker 1: about the dog on referees. Fix what's going on in
Speaker 1: this locker room and within these meeting rooms that if
Speaker 1: you make sure you don't go out there and perform
Speaker 1: like you've been performing, especially when over the last six games,
Speaker 1: all of which are winnable for this Cowboys team. You
Speaker 1: could talk about the Arizona game. I still think that's
Speaker 1: a very winnable matchup for the Cowboys, especially if they
Speaker 1: have some of their guys back. But this is a
Speaker 1: crucial stretch coming up for the Cowboys and it starts
Speaker 1: on Thursday against the New Orleans Saints. When we come back,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the Saints matchup a little bit,
Speaker 1: but before we get to that, I want to talk
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Speaker 1: it as bad as we thought? Was that something that
Speaker 1: was at a sign of the future. Will kind of
Speaker 1: address it and talk about it when we come back.
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Speaker 1: Cowboys fall to the Raiders on Thanksgiving. They've lost three
Speaker 1: of their last four. And we just talked about some
Speaker 1: of the high points and buy high points, I mean
Speaker 1: low points of that loss to the Raiders. Now I
Speaker 1: want to continue with the low points here. And Anthony Brown.
Speaker 1: He's played well all season, He's played above expectations all season,
Speaker 1: but this was this was rough one for big old
Speaker 1: a B on the edge. Heck, moll, what did you
Speaker 1: think about Anthony Brown? I'll let you start this off
Speaker 1: because we could just rip the stick smelly stickers out
Speaker 1: of there. Now we're gonna keep a spell on there,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, some of these problems start to
Speaker 1: rid their heads all over again, and I just wish
Speaker 1: to Sean Jackson would just retire already or signaud we
Speaker 1: just sign it. You know it's gonna be a problem.
Speaker 1: And obviously speed on the outside is a problem, and
Speaker 1: many they found it. They found the weakness in the defense,
Speaker 1: and they explored it at the entire game, and they
Speaker 1: made it a pentatil on the donkey moment for Anthony Brown,
Speaker 1: and he just couldn't he couldn't escape it. And look,
Speaker 1: he's been so good over the last couple of games
Speaker 1: and you know, getting pis and getting turnovers for us,
Speaker 1: interceptions for us, being strong in the running game. But
Speaker 1: that wasn't a good showing. There's no positive spin that
Speaker 1: I could put on it for him. Um, he looked
Speaker 1: like hot garbage out there. And the only way to
Speaker 1: recoup and get this back is you know, getting our
Speaker 1: pass rush back going. That's what we haven't had. And
Speaker 1: a lot of guys are not having success. When quarterbacks
Speaker 1: like Derek Carr, I don't care how good are our
Speaker 1: bad they are when they you give an NFL quarterback
Speaker 1: that kind of time, they're gonna exploit some of your
Speaker 1: weaknesses on the back end. And we just aren't getting
Speaker 1: to the quarterback efficiently enough to make a difference for
Speaker 1: our secondary not playing complimentary enough. What type of receiver
Speaker 1: causes him the most issues. I think small, fast receivers
Speaker 1: um get him. That's that's been a problem. Antonio Brown.
Speaker 1: Week one, Yeah, route runners and so when in the
Speaker 1: edges route runners, but you know, like we're getting to
Speaker 1: the playoffs, they got they gotta have a plenty of those, yes,
Speaker 1: but they're everywhere. So I mean he's struggling right now.
Speaker 1: Think about Cooper Cup Junior on the other side. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not necessarily Randall Cobb for the Packers, but then
Speaker 1: you'll have you'll have Anthony Brown, you'll have Gregory Brown,
Speaker 1: You'll have Gregory back, and you'll have Tank back. So
Speaker 1: that will make help. That will make a difference as well.
Speaker 1: Right now, pass, especially on Thursday, it just wasn't there.
Speaker 1: We didn't We didn't have a lot of He had
Speaker 1: way too much time and even with Waller going out
Speaker 1: of the game, you think that, you know, those things
Speaker 1: would that was for us, but then we still couldn't
Speaker 1: exploit any weaknesses. Really, the only guy that got in
Speaker 1: the backfield a whole lot was probably Micah Parsons. We
Speaker 1: really wouldn't be league with tackles for losses at what
Speaker 1: I read fifteen. It's incredible. He's all over it, dude. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's legit special Bazuka. He's the high point out of
Speaker 1: the low points at the moment right now, and this
Speaker 1: three of four games stretch, he's been consistently player on defense.
Speaker 1: He welcomes the challenge. He welcome to the challenge. And
Speaker 1: we started we started talking about emotional intelligence and some
Speaker 1: of these things. He loves it. He loves the pressure.
Speaker 1: Some guys love it, some guys responding well to it
Speaker 1: right there. They love this heightened sense of stress and
Speaker 1: they and they like to go. That's their opportunity to
Speaker 1: go out there and not only prove to others, but
Speaker 1: they're trying to more so prove it to themselves that
Speaker 1: they're capable. And he's that type of guy. What you're
Speaker 1: looking for is a whole team of those guys. And
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that that we have that right now.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that the Cowboys are have that identity
Speaker 1: right now. It's questionable. It's easy when things are going awesome.
Speaker 1: When things aren't going so well, how do you respond
Speaker 1: when you look at him? You know how he's going
Speaker 1: to respond When you look at everybody else you have
Speaker 1: question marks. So how does dan Quinn go back in
Speaker 1: his bag and fix this defense? Because right now, without
Speaker 1: those key pieces that you these guys are not coming
Speaker 1: back for this game, and they're not going to be
Speaker 1: back for the other Tank might be back this week,
Speaker 1: I think takes back this week. He's got a chance
Speaker 1: to be back this He was on the field last week,
Speaker 1: which is good. You jumping up and down. That's why
Speaker 1: they I think they got him back into practice, even
Speaker 1: though it's one light practice last week, to try to
Speaker 1: get him started on hopefully getting back. And that's and
Speaker 1: so I guess that's my question is now, with those
Speaker 1: key pieces back, how much different is that going to
Speaker 1: be for this defense because obviously we've got to generate
Speaker 1: some pressure, we've got to get some stops. You saw
Speaker 1: the time of possession for the Raiders again, it was
Speaker 1: those long, methodical drives that they had, and they scored
Speaker 1: on those drives. We couldn't take advantage even when we
Speaker 1: tried to steal some momentum back. Our defense just came
Speaker 1: out flat. We were not attacking. You saw guys trying
Speaker 1: to shy away from getting tackles. We're not the physical
Speaker 1: team that we are anymore. So that culture that we
Speaker 1: started the season with has dissipated. How do we get back?
Speaker 1: I think you called him out. You call everybody else
Speaker 1: as a man. This is a team made up of
Speaker 1: a bunch of individual men, and you have to challenge
Speaker 1: these guys you you highlighted on the film and you
Speaker 1: call them out and say, what the heck are you
Speaker 1: doing here? La, what the heck are you doing here?
Speaker 1: And everybody's like, oh, you know what's holding your breath
Speaker 1: and make sure you're not the next man that he highlights.
Speaker 1: But you challenge each guy as a man and say,
Speaker 1: how are you going to respond to this? You know?
Speaker 1: And so this is when the culture of competitiveness really
Speaker 1: comes in because if you're not gonna do it, guess what,
Speaker 1: I bet you he will, right, I bet you he will.
Speaker 1: And so you have opportunity to go out there and
Speaker 1: show me that you're not gonna allowed has messed to
Speaker 1: happen again, that you guys you're gonna execute show me
Speaker 1: at your physical showman as you can run this defense,
Speaker 1: and if you can't, I'm going to the next man.
Speaker 1: And I think some of it falls to the offense.
Speaker 1: I mean drink every time we say complimentary on this show,
Speaker 1: but if you guys want to and we got a
Speaker 1: fruit cup over there, but that was my Martin Ellis
Speaker 1: can't get. You know, these three and ounce Cowboys had
Speaker 1: five three and outs offensively in the game, two out
Speaker 1: of their first three drives, and you're you're putting the
Speaker 1: defense out in the field for a long time. And
Speaker 1: I think when they've been successful, it's been in part
Speaker 1: this year because playing with the lead, more fresh and
Speaker 1: Cowboys offensively controlling the last scrimmage and hasn't happened. So
Speaker 1: I think it kind of goes hand in hand a
Speaker 1: little bit. Well, that's where a lot of the struggles
Speaker 1: came from last year, was not playing complimentary football, drinking drink.
Speaker 1: But that's the thing for me, is you're asking who
Speaker 1: is the guy that steps up? Who who does who
Speaker 1: gets to challenge this team? I think Tank Lawrence is
Speaker 1: one of those guys that has to come in and
Speaker 1: immediately play up to the caliber that Lawrence can play,
Speaker 1: because that's a reality that leader What was that? Do
Speaker 1: you think that's a reality. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: the reality yet I'm saying. I'm saying, do you guys
Speaker 1: have those expectations of Tint that come in and be
Speaker 1: what Tank was. Hell, yeah, yeah I do. I don't.
Speaker 1: Why is that I do? Okay, I don't. Why not reps?
Speaker 1: You just don't think he's there. Ye gonna have to
Speaker 1: get into it. Even as a veteran player that's been
Speaker 1: in the league as long as he has. You just said,
Speaker 1: the rust is gonna be there and you're not gonna see.
Speaker 1: I think he bring him in a limited action obviously
Speaker 1: in rotation. You know, maybe he doesn't well he starts
Speaker 1: the game, but you know, keep he doesn't take all
Speaker 1: the snaps, you know, and use him sparingly. You still
Speaker 1: have bash him, you still have Ghost and you have
Speaker 1: some guys at Armstrong that have you know, played up
Speaker 1: to part been his in his with his absence. But
Speaker 1: if he comes in with a full workload, I would
Speaker 1: be very very surprised. Yeah, I don't think they're doing
Speaker 1: him like that. Isaiah's point different injuries obviously, but when
Speaker 1: he had the shoulder surgery a couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: he talked about like he missed a lot of time rehabbing.
Speaker 1: His technique wasn't what it was because he's big on
Speaker 1: that right when he came back. So maybe there's some
Speaker 1: of that, But I'm with Heck, like, I think, hell
Speaker 1: get him in there in a rotation and that motor
Speaker 1: is going to be big. I think he can set
Speaker 1: a tone for them and help establish that physical part
Speaker 1: because that's just that's who he is. And we mentioned
Speaker 1: this whenever Jalen Smith was released earlier in the season,
Speaker 1: but the guy who they turned to to look at
Speaker 1: it wasn't necessarily Jalen Smith, but he was one of
Speaker 1: the ones that wanted the attention on him. Tank Lawrence
Speaker 1: is the same kind of guy right now. And at
Speaker 1: the moment you're looking at Micah Parsons, your defense is
Speaker 1: looking at a rookie and saying, all right, where do
Speaker 1: we go next? You need a veteran to step into
Speaker 1: that role and to take that that that figurehead of
Speaker 1: the defense. Micah said the other day, like he can
Speaker 1: have all these chips, all these you know, the chip
Speaker 1: blocks and all that stuff. Yeah, but come on back,
Speaker 1: I'm getting shipped every player. Yeah, it's gonna help out
Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah, you're right. I hope it does. I
Speaker 1: hope it does. The only concern that I have is
Speaker 1: that Tank comes back trying to beat Tank and then
Speaker 1: he when he's not, what's his response, M And I
Speaker 1: don't think he would fold. Yeah, going to the psychology,
Speaker 1: you've talked a lot about the culture of you know,
Speaker 1: this team and what dan Quinn brings to it. And
Speaker 1: if a guy is out he's feeling like he's being
Speaker 1: left out of the party. I think that's a lot.
Speaker 1: I think Tank feels that right now that he's been
Speaker 1: left out a lot of the fund that's been going on,
Speaker 1: and now that they're in the slump, he could be
Speaker 1: a part of the reason that they get back in
Speaker 1: the win column. I mean, for Mary Cooper, imagine how
Speaker 1: he feels being out for the last two games and
Speaker 1: recognizing that his team has struggled without him. We hadn't
Speaker 1: been able to get a lot going as far as
Speaker 1: drives because of the attention that's played to Mary Cooper
Speaker 1: in the last two games. So you know, I just
Speaker 1: think that that absence cannot be under something. We can't
Speaker 1: say enough about that. But if Tank can come back
Speaker 1: and he can have an impact on this defense, I
Speaker 1: think it's going to mean a lot. Yeah. I hope,
Speaker 1: I hope that he can And I don't disagree I
Speaker 1: believe that he's hyped up is more than anybody ever
Speaker 1: could be in terms of coming back. But my concern
Speaker 1: is when you're that hype and when you know that
Speaker 1: everybody's looking at you, you know that you're the an
Speaker 1: now as the leader, what happens when you come back
Speaker 1: and you're just a guy? What's your response then? Do
Speaker 1: you still lead with? What? Do you still lead in
Speaker 1: the locker room? Do you still lead on the field
Speaker 1: or are you going to show your frustrations and now
Speaker 1: let that continue to snowball onto other people. That's that's
Speaker 1: what my concern is. I hope he comes back and
Speaker 1: he's freaking d law and he balls out. But if
Speaker 1: he doesn't, what is his response because if that is
Speaker 1: just as as important as him coming back and balling.
Speaker 1: But that's integrity and character, all the things that you know.
Speaker 1: It's also frustration. It could be frustration. We will see,
Speaker 1: We'll see. But how did you how did you guys
Speaker 1: think about about Gallup his his his resume in terms
Speaker 1: of his opportunity to be the number one guy. It
Speaker 1: took it till the fourth quarter for it to show up,
Speaker 1: but he had a little bit there. He showed he
Speaker 1: can do it, I think, but it's going to be
Speaker 1: a question on will he do it. Yeah. I mean
Speaker 1: it showed up late a fourth quarter offensively, they didn't
Speaker 1: get going anything until the fourth quarter. Um. I agree
Speaker 1: with Jerry after the game when he said we probably
Speaker 1: could have thrown just thrown it up more and challenged
Speaker 1: and said, hey, throw the flag flags. That's what Vegas did.
Speaker 1: So I think late he showed everything we talked about,
Speaker 1: like what he could add coming back. He showed in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter with the you know, contested catches down
Speaker 1: the field, take the top off all that stuff. Oh.
Speaker 1: I cannot wait to have those guys back, with Michael
Speaker 1: Gallop and having Lamb and Cooper and everybody back and healthy.
Speaker 1: I want Dalton Schultz to play better. It just it
Speaker 1: was it's all together Dak too. And I was going
Speaker 1: to ask you this. I felt like in the last
Speaker 1: those last couple drives fourth quarter, Dak's footwork looked better.
Speaker 1: He just looked more in rhythm when they got more
Speaker 1: up tempo. I don't know if they can do that
Speaker 1: the entire game. I swear to God, we have these
Speaker 1: same conversations in twenty nineteen. Yep, should they go up
Speaker 1: tempo more. Should they do that to try to get
Speaker 1: him out of this rut, because it's the same conversations
Speaker 1: we've had. Well, when you have five, three and ounce,
Speaker 1: it's really hard to get any rhythm going. And that's
Speaker 1: the only thing that you can do. You see him college,
Speaker 1: high school, all of that. How do you get in rhythm?
Speaker 1: You go up tempo, you get things moving a little
Speaker 1: bit faster. You saw Kansas City do it in the
Speaker 1: in the Super Bowl versus San Francisco. They went up
Speaker 1: tempo in the second half to get back in rhythm.
Speaker 1: We're just finding it, and I think the offensive line
Speaker 1: continuity not being there, and obviously Steele did I say, yeah,
Speaker 1: I did. It's the way I don't have to worry
Speaker 1: about a rotation. Unfortunately that week, Ye, there's not going
Speaker 1: to be one. And why is that Rob Phillip because
Speaker 1: he is in COVID protocol, who is with Terrence Steele
Speaker 1: along with multiple assistant coaches, all three strength coaches, Joe
Speaker 1: Philbin on the offensive line coach, Jeff blasco his assistant
Speaker 1: and hopefully that's it. Yeah, I'm moving forward because you
Speaker 1: don't know about that. That whole situation they're in the
Speaker 1: extended protocols again today. Umi was out last week, wasn't
Speaker 1: he yea yeah, yeah, there were three coaches out that
Speaker 1: missed the game, and now it's more Scott Tolzine an
Speaker 1: assistant coach, another assistant coach, like and guys are being
Speaker 1: tested now daily, vaccinated or run vaccinate, I believe, and
Speaker 1: try to cross your fingers there's no more cases over
Speaker 1: the next couple of days. So that's so scary, man,
Speaker 1: because everybody the NFL is been dealing with it. It
Speaker 1: seemed to subside for a little while, and I don't
Speaker 1: know if everyone relaxed, but it's it's going to continue
Speaker 1: to rear its head over the NFL season, and you
Speaker 1: just don't want this to happen at pivotal times in
Speaker 1: the season. So I applaud the organization for starting this
Speaker 1: process of hey, daily testing, starting to isolate guys right
Speaker 1: now because pretty soon, man's it's just going it's going
Speaker 1: to keep continue to go up the ladder and it's
Speaker 1: going to be somebody that we can't miss like that.
Speaker 1: It sounds like a Mario be back today, So that's good.
Speaker 1: You hope, hope Terrence is doing well. But yeah, they actually,
Speaker 1: we're gonna league mandates this now. But they actually started
Speaker 1: it last week with the protocols because they had guys
Speaker 1: out last week. But this is I mean, it's still reality.
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Speaker 1: day to day out the season. Gotta keep an eye
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Speaker 1: pack it all in tomorrow. Yeah, we got we got
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Speaker 1: jam pack show. And are you feeling good about you
Speaker 1: perked up a little bit? I don't. I just haven't
Speaker 1: looked at it either. I haven't no idea at this point.
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Speaker 1: at all. Um, What are some of the early things
Speaker 1: that you've looked at with the Saints and some of
Speaker 1: the early challenges that could potentially be there. The biggest
Speaker 1: thing jumps out to me is their defensive front and
Speaker 1: their run defense. And you know, like Carolina had a
Speaker 1: great run defense early in the season. Cowboys blew that up.
Speaker 1: But now we're ten eleven games in and the Saints
Speaker 1: are given up three point four yards and carry. They're
Speaker 1: very good up front. Yeah, and uh, you know there's
Speaker 1: been some questions the media, how much zeken playing this game?
Speaker 1: Could they consider resting him. I don't think he wants
Speaker 1: to rest, he said yesterday, you can manage it. Nobody
Speaker 1: to this point has come to him and said, would
Speaker 1: you consider resting? But they're watching his snaps. You know,
Speaker 1: he hasn't had fifty snaps in a game in like
Speaker 1: last four games, So even if he does play, they'll
Speaker 1: probably try to manage him. Tony Pollard, can they get
Speaker 1: that going in this game? You know that? That's to me,
Speaker 1: that's the key because they heck said it early in
Speaker 1: the show. They gotta get some balance back offensively here.
Speaker 1: Ye Zeke not gonna let them trick him out of
Speaker 1: his spot. If the same people selling you the rest
Speaker 1: that if at the end of the season telling you
Speaker 1: you're overpaid and trying to look to PFF and analytics,
Speaker 1: yeah exactly. I don't let them do that to you. Zeke.
Speaker 1: You know, tough it out, and that's exactly what I
Speaker 1: feel like he's gonna do. But I'm with you, Cameron
Speaker 1: Jordan worries me yea, And wherever he lines up, we've
Speaker 1: got to pay some attention to that. But then on
Speaker 1: the back half, of their defense. They have some guys
Speaker 1: Malcolm Jenkins and Marshaw and Lattimore. You know, look, they
Speaker 1: they have some guys and some dudes that they're gonna
Speaker 1: do the same thing that the Raiders did. They're gonna
Speaker 1: do the same thing that the Chiefs. They're gonna pack
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage and they're gonna bear. You dare
Speaker 1: us to beat them on the back half with all
Speaker 1: of our weapons back if they played like that on Thursday,
Speaker 1: I think we score forty burger. Now here's the thing. Offensively,
Speaker 1: our defense cannot allow the Saints and Trevor Simeon to
Speaker 1: get going. They off there and apt offensively. And it's
Speaker 1: really kind of surprising to say that from a Sean
Speaker 1: Payton coach team that they have the problems that they have.
Speaker 1: But but without Jamis Winston and obviously with Bridge retiring,
Speaker 1: they've had some trouble getting this offense back going. But
Speaker 1: they run on confidence. Also, you're gonna be down there
Speaker 1: in the in the dome, and brother, it's gonna be loud.
Speaker 1: If you had problems before with noise, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: it again. And you know, if they have anything going,
Speaker 1: trust me, they're gonna continue to keep those things going.
Speaker 1: But special teams wise, I've been loving what we've been doing.
Speaker 1: Like Tony Pollard ran back when Look, that's not enough
Speaker 1: to be said about that, especially with the rule changes
Speaker 1: on kickoffs. To be able to run kickoff back in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one is something. But you know, special teams watch,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to do it in all three phases
Speaker 1: and play complimentary ball. Well, the Saints are owing four
Speaker 1: in their last four games. They don't have a quarterback
Speaker 1: that can move the ball. They're not effective in a
Speaker 1: passing game right now. The running game has been very minute.
Speaker 1: Obviously Kamara has been out for the most part. Ingram
Speaker 1: did nothing and um, they're so their offense is in
Speaker 1: a bad, bad way right now. So our defense, opportunity
Speaker 1: to get your mojo back, mojo moment, whatever you want
Speaker 1: to call it this week, opportunity to get your swag back. Okay,
Speaker 1: so that's a swag back game. Offensively, we have to
Speaker 1: figure out a way to move the ball against a
Speaker 1: team that has some goons on defense. That's just the reality.
Speaker 1: It's not just talent. These boys are goons. They built different,
Speaker 1: they have different makeup, they're upbringing. It is different if
Speaker 1: you if you at Tristan Hill you want to punt
Speaker 1: somebody in the mouth, this is not the team to
Speaker 1: do it against, because all these boys will step up
Speaker 1: to you real quick in a hurry, in the form
Speaker 1: of Cameron Jordan, Malcolm Jenkins, Damario Davis, Geez. I like
Speaker 1: him a lot. They have some dudes on defense, So
Speaker 1: we have to take advantage holistically on defense. Special teams
Speaker 1: own that we should at least own two thirds of
Speaker 1: this game, and then offensively, offensively, we have to find
Speaker 1: a way to get something rolling. I think that's the
Speaker 1: biggest thing for this is defensively. You look at it
Speaker 1: and you say, this is gonna be a tough matchup.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys offense needs to find a rhythm against a very,
Speaker 1: very talented Saints defense. The Saints defense hasn't played well
Speaker 1: though They've had their lapses over the last couple of
Speaker 1: weeks to give up thirty one points to Buffalo on
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving too. They haven't played necessarily well, so they'll have
Speaker 1: a chip on their shoulder going into the game. You've
Speaker 1: got to win that matchup. If you win that matchup,
Speaker 1: I feel pretty confident about slowing down the Saints offense,
Speaker 1: there's not a ton of threats there. Even though they
Speaker 1: may get album Kamara back, they're expected to get Alvin Kamara,
Speaker 1: of course they are. I think even then, I'm still
Speaker 1: not uber uber worried about that offense. I think you
Speaker 1: can figure out a way to find some mojo on
Speaker 1: the defensive side. But man, that's gonna be two matchups
Speaker 1: we're talking about tomorrow, and we'll outline it a little
Speaker 1: bit more in depth when we return nine am Central
Speaker 1: Time on Tuesday. That's gonna do it for us here
Speaker 1: on this edition, though, for Chris Beam in the back,
Speaker 1: for heck Ma Harrison, Rob Phillips, Isaiah stand Back, I'm
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