WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Clean Win? 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:05.120 The following He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:14.680 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This he's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:18.599 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World Cowhoars at the 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:27.480 Star in friscoolowing to the goal line, Sat and now 0:00:27.880 --> 0:00:32.400 your hosts, I say a stand back Patrick Walker and 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:53.080 Kyle Yeoman's Dallas Cowboys. It is a victory Monday here 0:00:53.120 --> 0:00:57.200 on Talking Cowboys. For the eighth time in twenty twenty two, 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:01.440 the Dallas Cowboys are victory is this time on a 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:05.440 Thanksgiving holiday for the first time since twenty eighteen, twenty 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:08.120 eight to twenty over the New York Giants is the 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:11.280 Cowboys improved to eight and three and take over sole 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:15.560 possession of second place in the NFC East. Welcome into 0:01:15.600 --> 0:01:18.679 Talking Cowboys, presented by Black Rifle Coffee Company here on 0:01:18.720 --> 0:01:23.040 this victory bun Day alongside Patrick Nose, Walker, Isaiah stand back, 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:25.920 Crisp Beam in the back is always I'm Kyle Yeoman's gentlemen, 0:01:25.959 --> 0:01:30.160 how we doing fantastic, fantastic cobal Everybody have a good holiday? 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.959 Did did? How about you goes? It was awesome? So nice? 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:37.080 You're feeling all right? Man? Yeah? No, I feel like garbage. 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:42.160 But outside of that compost no, no, no, this is 0:01:42.200 --> 0:01:46.039 it may be recyclables, like maybe okay pops up on 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:52.200 the injury report with man if there was a questionable 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:57.040 tag on the beat writers and the reporters of the 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:02.440 Dallas Cowboys questionable or doubtful question before we were doubtful 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:05.480 on Sunday. I had a game on Saturday, and you 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:07.680 could ask heck My Harrison about this because we did it, 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:12.360 did the North Texas and Rice game together, and I 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:17.320 legitimately could barely stand that morning. Got there, got it done, 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:22.040 made it work. Yeah, Yeah, that was doubtful. And I 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.799 have never used and so peak behind the curtain. For broadcasters, 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:30.160 there's a cough button that you have to use in 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.840 order to like mask and mute it. Dude, I have 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:37.399 never used a cough button. So much was morse cot 0:02:37.680 --> 0:02:40.800 Yeah there was more. I was probably muted more time 0:02:40.800 --> 0:02:43.560 than I was talking in that broadcast. Wow. Yeah, Hey, 0:02:43.639 --> 0:02:47.480 fun fact. I used to no Morse code, Really you 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:51.200 used to? Why? I definitely forgot it? Yeah, because my 0:02:51.240 --> 0:02:53.120 mom wouldn't let me go to the hood middle school. 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:54.600 There was a couple of blocks from the house, so 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:56.119 her and the rest of the moms in the hood 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.200 sent me and my boys up to a school all 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:00.160 the way up on Queen Anne Hee on Seattle, the 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.040 Bougie Bougie area, Seattle, and we had in order to 0:03:03.080 --> 0:03:05.680 pass middle school, in order to graduate middle school, you 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:08.160 had to do Morse code. Are you serious? Promise you 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:10.880 so your school was teaching you Morris code. I was 0:03:10.919 --> 0:03:14.520 teaching me. The two different types of codes were going 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.680 on learning. Yeah, two different types. I thought we were 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:19.919 gonna say it was some Bill Belichick thing from back 0:03:19.919 --> 0:03:23.040 in the day. Now, all right, but let's go through it. 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:26.120 Cowboys win twenty eight to twenty over the New York 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.680 Giants take over second place in the NFC East. Ezekiel 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.960 Elliott with ninety two yards on the ground, Tony Pollard 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:36.120 with sixty, but it was Dak Prescott and the tight 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:40.600 ends that uh that took the took the center stage 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:44.040 twenty one to thirty, passing for Dak two sixty one 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:47.080 two touchdowns. They had a couple interceptions early in the game, 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:49.600 but then he found Dalton Schultz a couple of times, 0:03:49.680 --> 0:03:52.320 Jake Ferguson a couple of times to Ceedee Lamb up 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:54.720 over one hundred yards receiving as well. What were your 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:58.440 thoughts overall, Isaiah, overall thought it was a good victory. Um, 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:02.000 nothing crazy, nothing crazy. I think the offense finally started 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:04.720 getting getting their little groove back. Yeah, that was that 0:04:04.800 --> 0:04:07.560 was exciting to see. And I think defensively they did 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.560 a pretty dog good job against the run. So I 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:12.800 was happy second straight week that the Cowboys defense has 0:04:13.040 --> 0:04:16.920 shown up against one of the top five, top three 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:19.120 if you're talking about sae Quon and Delvin Cook, top 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:24.040 three arguably halfbacks in the game, and not so coincidentally, 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:26.560 they won both of those outings. So one thing that 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:28.920 we were harping on coming out of the Minnesota victory 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:32.600 was consistency. Consistency, consistency. Can we see that from you know, 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:36.080 all three phases of the Cowboys offensively? Still a couple 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:39.560 of hiccups, right, Still, still a couple of misques there 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:42.880 in the interceptions came from. But they showed me a 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.840 lot from the aspect of run defense. And keep in mind, 0:04:45.880 --> 0:04:48.000 they were able to keep say, Quon Barkley to what 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:52.479 thirty nine yards when eleven carries without Jonathan Hankins on 0:04:52.520 --> 0:04:54.480 the field, who was out with an illness who was 0:04:54.520 --> 0:04:57.159 inactive with an elis. So. Yeah, saw some consistency in 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:00.000 the run defense that was great. Does it take away 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:04.360 the fact that they were going up against multiple backups? 0:05:04.600 --> 0:05:07.320 I mean, this is a New York Giants offensive front 0:05:07.320 --> 0:05:10.000 that was missing three of their five normal starters and 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:12.599 four guys that had at least started one game. I 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:15.040 don't care. This season doesn't matter. I don't care. Those 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:17.520 guys get backups get paid too. Yeah, but it's not 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:20.040 the same in terms of trying to Terence Still was 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:22.480 a backup at one point. So you're saying that if 0:05:22.520 --> 0:05:27.840 if he wasn't he started thirteen games as fresh his 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:31.679 rookie season, was he the starter? No? No, no, he wasn't. 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:35.280 Backups get paid as well. Backups can become starters if 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:38.320 they step in and step up. Should I don't feel 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:43.160 badly for the oppositions backups not stepping up and playing 0:05:43.200 --> 0:05:45.360 to the CALIBERO. Now, I get what you're saying. There's 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:48.640 there's levels to this, right, there's difference between all pro 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.680 and a backup. That's fair, that's completely true. That's just science, 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:55.640 that's just what it is. But my point being, if 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:59.120 the Cowboys had lost this game two backups. Right then 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:00.960 everybody be like, how do you? How do you? How 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.400 do you? How do you? Yeah, but they win this game, 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:05.080 and then there are people out there saying, oh, well, 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.960 you beat a bunch of backups hashtag keep that energy. Well, 0:06:07.960 --> 0:06:11.240 that's not what I'm necessarily. I'm talking more so on 0:06:11.279 --> 0:06:14.440 the confidence level, because yeah, they did shut down sa 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:17.200 Quon Barkley. Eleven carries thirty nine yards, that's three and 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:18.839 a half yards per pop. You had the one yard 0:06:18.880 --> 0:06:21.080 touchdown run that was set up by the big play 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:24.440 to Darius Layton, so he didn't have the numbers that 0:06:24.480 --> 0:06:27.880 a sea Quon Barkley should have. But you did it 0:06:27.920 --> 0:06:31.800 against Minnesota, which was great. That was full blown. You 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:35.440 shut down Dalvin Cook to the at least limited Dalvin 0:06:35.440 --> 0:06:37.960 Cook for the most part. That was a big confidence 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:39.960 boost for the run defense. I don't know if this 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:42.039 one has that same kind of Joel No, it doesn't 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:46.320 have the same energy as far as the explosiveness behind 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:49.240 the feeling of the victory. So you go into Minnesota 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.760 and you beat an eight and one Minnesota team, you know, 0:06:51.880 --> 0:06:54.360 with a healthy Dalvin Cook in Justin Jefferson and there's 0:06:54.520 --> 0:06:57.400 a rolling eight in a Row going to the game. 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.880 That's not what this was on Thanksgiving. So to your point, 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:04.560 it's not equivalent. However, it's still a meaningful when it's 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:06.440 not something that you will pop bottles over. You shouldn't 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:09.320 be popping bottles anyway, because it's still the regular season. Um. 0:07:09.560 --> 0:07:15.960 But it doesn't carry the same sense of wonderment as 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:19.160 what happened in Minnesota. But it still matters in such 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.800 a way because even though you the stats are not 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:23.280 going to show that they were backups, the stats are 0:07:23.280 --> 0:07:25.239 going to show that you beat a divisional rival. Stats 0:07:25.240 --> 0:07:27.160 are gonna show that you swept at the visional rival, 0:07:27.240 --> 0:07:29.960 a playoff team, playoff a playoff team right now, and 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:32.200 that you're only wanting to half one and a half 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:36.160 behind Philly to Philly. So I mean, the stats are 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:37.680 going to show and that the stadients are going to 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:39.880 show that you handle business. And that's basically what it is. 0:07:39.960 --> 0:07:42.720 I said they handled business. They shocked the world for 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:45.679 the most part in Minnesota, but they simply handle business 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:48.440 against New York, which is what they were supposed to do. Yeah, 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.600 that's that last statement. They did what they were supposed 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.680 to do. I mean, nothing amazing here. They the team 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.000 was beat up. They go, they gonly play the team 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:57.960 that shows up, so they took care of business. There 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:01.880 you go. Yeah, I think it say it's at least 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:05.960 somewhat of a conversation to be had about the defense 0:08:06.000 --> 0:08:08.360 and what they were able to do, because at least 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:10.480 going back, and I know, Isaiah, you've watched the film 0:08:10.480 --> 0:08:14.040 by this point too. Yeah, but I was really impressed 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:18.000 with Layton vander esh and Marcus Lawrence. I thought those 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:20.520 two guys some of the savvy vets of that defense 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:24.600 came up and stepped up big. I want to talk 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:26.680 about Layton for a second here because I don't think 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:30.080 he gets as much credit as he needs to. How 0:08:30.120 --> 0:08:33.800 much credit is he deserving of because of the way 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:35.720 this defense has been playing, in the fact that he's 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:37.240 the one that's right in the middle of it all, 0:08:38.120 --> 0:08:40.360 I can't speak to him just particularly. I think that 0:08:40.400 --> 0:08:42.800 he's having more opportunities this year to make plays because 0:08:42.880 --> 0:08:45.640 the front the front forest playing better. Yeah, So, I mean, 0:08:46.480 --> 0:08:50.240 I think the linebackers are usually products of the guys 0:08:50.240 --> 0:08:52.040 that are in front of them. So I think that 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:56.000 with the stress that he's under this year, the lack 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.959 there of extension of his contract, all those kind of things. 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:01.000 I think that he is trying to make a case 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:06.200 for why he should remain. Now, I've said it all season, 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:09.400 and obviously there have been some some valleys in his 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:12.120 mountain range as far as the totality of his season 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.720 thus far, but there have been far more peaks than valleys, 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.240 and I keep saying it. I tweeted, I put it 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:22.160 in you know articles, our lvee is having a resurgent season. Rather, 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:24.240 ladies and gentlemen, rather you like to admit it to 0:09:24.360 --> 0:09:26.560 not because you know, you came into the season and 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:28.480 you were standing on a particular hill when it came 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:31.120 to Layton Vanderesh, and that hill basically said, oh, well, 0:09:31.120 --> 0:09:32.559 he's not what he was when he was a Pro 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:36.240 Bowl rookie. And at that point going into training camp, 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:40.120 that was justifiable. I understand. But you can't now look 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:44.160 at the film through what's about to be November as 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:47.839 we look forward to December and justifiably say that LV 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:50.960 is not having one of the better seasons for as 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:54.640 a Cowboys defensive player. He just absolutely is. And he 0:09:54.720 --> 0:09:57.959 was critical in helping the Cowboys to handle their business 0:09:57.960 --> 0:10:00.480 against the New York Giants. Critical and helping the Cowboys 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:03.280 to upset the Minnesota Vikings. Because even if you look 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:05.160 at the Giants, yeah they were playing backups cow But 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.280 on the film shows there were still lanes every once 0:10:08.280 --> 0:10:11.080 in a while that were being opened for say Quon Barkley. 0:10:11.120 --> 0:10:14.280 But those linebackers for the Cowboys, they were in those lanes. 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.360 They were filling those lanes. They were setting those edges. 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:17.920 Say Kwan, when he couldn't get the A and B, 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:19.439 he tried to take the C and the D and 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.400 the E and he couldn't get those those letters either, Right, 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:25.880 So shouts out to Lvee and Demon Clark as well. 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:31.040 Forty six snaps on Thanksgiving, third forty plus snap game 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:33.760 in his four game NFL career, and he was the 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.079 kid was flying around and he's taking his cues from 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:39.560 a veteran like Lvee. So the linebacker corps is starting 0:10:39.600 --> 0:10:42.160 to come alive and Anthony Barr's not even back yet. Now. 0:10:42.280 --> 0:10:46.120 I think Demon has been great at times. He's had 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:48.560 some good plays throughout. There are a couple of times 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:51.680 when his reads were off his awareness. He's a rookie 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:53.920 that hasn't had training, hasn't had to play a ton 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:56.240 of playing time, ton of practice time, with training count, 0:10:56.800 --> 0:10:59.800 there's a lot of excitement still for what demon's gonna be. 0:11:00.280 --> 0:11:02.320 He's not there yet. He's not there yet, but he's 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:04.520 still making place. And that's a good thing, is that 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:06.960 when he's not to where you want him to be, 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:09.960 but he's still making an impact. That's a huge plus 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:12.840 for this defense, especially when you've got guys around them. 0:11:13.400 --> 0:11:15.400 What did you think about the secondary when you went 0:11:15.440 --> 0:11:17.080 back and looked at it and how they played against 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:22.320 New York Anthony Brown, Treyvon Diggs, Dix didn't barely got 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:24.720 targeted in that. Yeah, they're not. They're not throwing the 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.839 ball his way. Um again, if I feel like this 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.360 game was very vanilla honestly, well, I want you to 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.960 make it not vanilla for me. I need you, I 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.080 need you to give me something here. I really ain't 0:11:36.080 --> 0:11:38.120 got much, man. I mean, it wasn't they didn't They 0:11:38.120 --> 0:11:40.800 weren't really a threat. And there's this offense of the 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.079 Giants wasn't really a threat. Why weren't they a threat? 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:45.720 This is a that was a seven and three team 0:11:45.800 --> 0:11:48.760 going in. Yeah, I that's somewhat of a threat. I mean, again, 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.160 that's analytics stats all that, Jass. I mean, that's that's 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:53.560 a record. Yeah, I mean, but I mean all teams 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:57.360 aren't the same, So records are you know, are dictated 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:59.480 paces upon who you're you gonna have opportunity to play again. 0:11:59.559 --> 0:12:03.680 So their record against Dallas is over two. That's that's 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:06.319 that's the facts, and then Dallas is just the records 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:07.800 were the same. I said this on a pregame show. 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:09.599 Records were the same. But these are not two of 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:11.560 the same teams. Yeah, it's just not even They're not 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:13.880 even in the same realm, same ballpark. I think what 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:16.480 coach Dave Ball is doing over there as an amazing 0:12:16.559 --> 0:12:19.160 job patchwork. I mean, this dude literally was given a 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:21.920 broken puzzle and he's just putting it, you know, piecing 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:23.320 it together, and he's done a heck of a job 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:25.320 with it. I think they're a team that you better 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:27.000 have your eye on over the next few years when 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.360 he has opportunities stret getting his guys in there. But 0:12:29.440 --> 0:12:31.600 as of right now, they're just not on the same 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:34.840 level of playing field as Dallas. So what these guys 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.760 showed offensively, not a whole lot. You know, Dallas has 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:40.679 done a good job of playing safe defense for the 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:44.080 most part. And I you know what this with this 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:47.040 front seven is allowing for them to do is providing 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:50.120 them plenty of opportunities to play really good defense in 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.760 the secondary. They're not being forced to have to guard 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:54.240 guys out of the field. They're not being forced to 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:56.440 have the guard, you know, take big shots down the field. 0:12:56.679 --> 0:12:59.120 They're able to play safe, able to play patient and 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:00.880 sit there and watch their guys up front eating. Then 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:02.679 when the opportunities to present themselves, they're able to break 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:06.160 on place. I'll tell you what Asaia is correct in 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:09.960 the aspect of the Giants offense mostly being vanilla. They 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:12.800 don't have the downfield weapons. So if you equate vanilla 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:16.000 to snow, cowboys need to stop eating the yellow snow. 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.520 And the yellow and the snow is those penalties, the 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:22.000 penalties that they continue to commit on defense. The Cowboys 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.400 did that extended drives unnecessarily for Daniel Jones and the 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:27.480 New York Giants. That's what helped keep them in a 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:29.679 game that they should not have been in. I mean, 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:31.400 the Cowboys should have run away with this game in 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:34.520 the first quarter, particularly especially the second quarter, if not 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:37.080 for those penalties. What are we talking about thirteen penalties. 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:39.400 If you have thirteen penalties for eighty six yards. And 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.360 it's not just the penalties, but it's the type of penalty. 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.320 It's the timing of those penalties as well. Talk about 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:49.600 Carlos Watkins for example. Those penalties have to be cleaned up, 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:53.960 and you're not going to beat the better teams in 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:57.400 the league. And I'm eyeing towards the playoffs at the moment. 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.679 If you're in a game committing thirteen penalties, ten penalties, 0:14:00.720 --> 0:14:02.280 nine penalties, you're going to have to clean that up 0:14:02.320 --> 0:14:05.560 because if you're extending drives for Jalen Hurts, if you're 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:09.840 extending drives for Patrick Mahomes or Josh Allen, you're not 0:14:09.880 --> 0:14:12.360 gonna win that game. Yeah, you're just not. So that's 0:14:12.400 --> 0:14:14.480 the yellow and the snow Cowboys need to stop peeing 0:14:14.480 --> 0:14:17.560 in their own snow, right and and clean that up. 0:14:17.559 --> 0:14:19.840 And if they clean that up, then they can continue 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:22.240 to take care of business as they you know, kind 0:14:22.280 --> 0:14:24.120 of as forward to the AFC South coming up. This 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:29.240 weird there's a lot of unnecessary, unnecessary mental images being 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:34.360 thrown around. Yeah, don't do it today. I like what 0:14:34.400 --> 0:14:36.600 you're bringing up here, though, because if if there was 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.600 something that wasn't vanilla about this ball game. It's the 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:41.920 fact that you were down thirteen to seven at halftime. Yeah, 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.119 I mean, it's the fact that you had two turnovers 0:14:44.120 --> 0:14:46.520 in the first half and you had it. It's hard 0:14:46.560 --> 0:14:48.440 to call it a slow start because you were never 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:50.800 down by more than a possession, never down by more 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:54.120 than six points. Yeah, but it still wasn't the same 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.600 type of and they were moving the ball. Cowboys were 0:14:56.720 --> 0:15:01.360 The cowboys are hurting themselves. I mean, they're not being outplayed. 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:03.080 It is not like they're facing these opponents that have 0:15:03.160 --> 0:15:05.200 these great schemes against them. Sure, and they're you know, 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.040 they're struggling to try to work their way through that 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.080 until the second half. You know, to you know, to 0:15:09.200 --> 0:15:11.600 no Sea's point, you know, penalties are keeping teams in 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:14.960 the game. You know, Dak's decision making is keeping teams 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.920 in the game. These are things that are reoccurring that 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:19.640 they they're going to have to find a way to 0:15:19.680 --> 0:15:22.560 stop them because you can't, like you already mentioned, you 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.520 can't have thirteen penalties a game think that you're gonna 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:26.800 keep winning ball games. It's just you have one of 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:28.520 the worst you know, the easiest schedules in the league 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.600 that's been talked about. Okay, regardless, you play whoever shows up. 0:15:31.640 --> 0:15:33.800 But when you start getting to those games that really matter, 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.320 this is that that formally doesn't work. And when you 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.200 start playing teams that matter, DAK, you got to understand 0:15:39.240 --> 0:15:40.480 the dog on coverage and where you can go with 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:42.040 the ball. You can't just be throwing it down the 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:44.600 dog on field versus two man and thinking that your 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:46.840 guys are just gonna make plays because they're your guys. 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:48.920 So these are things that have to get cleaned up 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:52.040 because those same types of plays, those same types of penalties, 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:54.440 and those characteristics will destroy you and will keep you 0:15:54.480 --> 0:15:57.440 back home again after a week one matchup in the playoffs. 0:15:57.440 --> 0:15:59.240 All they gotta do is clean that up. And what 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:01.880 I will say positively as far as the defense is concerned, 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:03.920 and not only did they set the edges against se 0:16:04.040 --> 0:16:07.120 Quon Barkley, but they did not allow Daniel Jones to 0:16:07.240 --> 0:16:09.680 use his legs at all. There's one play in particular 0:16:09.720 --> 0:16:12.560 where I recall Donovan Wilson Daniel Jones. The play was broken, 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:15.280 the interior pressure got there, DJ broke out to the 0:16:15.360 --> 0:16:17.480 left and he started his thought process was I'm going 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:19.400 to scramble. I see nothing but greening from him. I'm 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:22.320 taking this and moving the change. Donovan Wilson comes streaking 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.200 across the field and you could see it in Jones's 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.680 eyes when he changed his mind and was like, Oh, 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:30.880 this isn't gonna happen, and then ended up being a 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:33.240 tackle at the line of scrimmage. So if the Cowboys 0:16:33.320 --> 0:16:36.480 defense can continue to set the edge and continue flying 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:38.800 around like that, not only will they be able to 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:42.400 continuously stop the run from the aspect of a halfback 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.120 out of the backfield, but these mobile quarterbacks and I'm 0:16:45.120 --> 0:16:48.320 looking at Jalen Hurts, these mobile quarterbacks will then have 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:51.360 much more of a challenge. So take that playbook that 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:54.600 you used against Daniel Jones, dan Quinn, refine it and 0:16:54.640 --> 0:16:57.360 get it ready for Philadelphia in a few weeks. So 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:00.920 you brought up the fact that there be themselves and 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.360 that this has been a problem and it's a compounding 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:05.720 problem that you'd have to be better at. And it's 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.600 not just penalties. Penalties do play a factor into that, 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.680 but it's the mistakes, it's the interceptions early in the game, 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.840 it's forcing the ball into a tight window, it's missing 0:17:14.840 --> 0:17:17.760 a block. I thought Tyler Smith and Tyler Bottish were 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:23.000 taking advantage of On Thursday, those guys had a rough day. 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.119 Williams is back too. I was about to say Williams 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:30.000 and Dexter Lawrence and Cavon Thibodeau not gonna make it easy. 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:33.040 He was in the backfield quite a bit. And credit 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:34.800 to New York they did a great job of scheming 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:38.160 up against Bottish and Tyler. They fought, They got some dudes. 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:41.720 They fought, but they were not very good in that game, 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:46.199 which one worries you more the twenty twenty one Cowboys 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:48.200 and the fact that they beat themselves quite a bit, 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:51.600 and that was kind of the early warning signals of 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:53.520 what was to come in the wild card round against 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.840 San Francisco. Or do you feel like you're more confident 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.880 in that area of the game this time around this year? 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:06.600 Two penalties, self inflicted wounds, whatever it may be. I'm 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:09.880 more confident in the twenty twenty one last years, Yeah, 0:18:10.000 --> 0:18:15.960 why because that offense can overcome. Could you not say 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:20.160 the same thing about this defense? Though? This defense is 0:18:20.240 --> 0:18:23.720 more patient, This defensive defense is more solid upfront, I 0:18:23.720 --> 0:18:27.040 would say than last year. The penalties. Those are decisions. 0:18:27.760 --> 0:18:30.919 Penalties are decisions. That's that as a product of you 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:32.960 being lazied, as a product of you being out of position, 0:18:32.960 --> 0:18:35.600 as a product of you having bad hand placement technique, 0:18:35.600 --> 0:18:37.520 all those things, that's where the penalties come in, right, 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.520 So those are things that are always correctable. The difference 0:18:40.680 --> 0:18:44.000 is this year they have more playmakers on defense. Okay, 0:18:44.320 --> 0:18:47.640 last year they made bigger plays on defense. You look 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:51.239 at this year, this offense is not as explosive as 0:18:51.320 --> 0:18:55.760 last year. So the ability to overcome penalties, the ability 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:59.560 to overcome turnovers was greater last year than it is 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:02.040 this year. So that's why I'm like Hesita, like, hey, okay, 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:03.880 you're winning ball games. You're doing good, but you better 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:06.119 clean this mess up because you don't have the same 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:08.479 You don't say you don't have the same room for 0:19:08.640 --> 0:19:11.320 error as you did last year, at least offensively. Yeah, 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:13.399 at least offensively. You don't have the same room for 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:15.520 error because you have to fight and claw and scratch 0:19:15.520 --> 0:19:18.199 your way back into a ball game. Last year, if 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:21.040 you get down by ten, thirteen, whatever it is, Okay, 0:19:21.119 --> 0:19:23.960 you get down like that, You're like, okay, whatever, two 0:19:24.000 --> 0:19:26.160 plays later, we will you know we'll get a touchdown. 0:19:26.200 --> 0:19:29.359 This year, you don't have that same feeling. You just don't. 0:19:29.400 --> 0:19:31.040 And it's not even just a feeling, it's just the 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:34.159 reality this this offense cannot strike as fast as it 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:36.920 did last year, so you don't have that room for error. 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:39.680 You can't keep putting yourself in these positions. And I'm 0:19:39.680 --> 0:19:41.520 sure they're working out the kinks, and I'm sure that 0:19:41.560 --> 0:19:43.360 they feel like they're like they're in control of the game. 0:19:43.440 --> 0:19:45.480 So you take more risk when you feel like, Okay, 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.719 we're just that much better, but they better clean it up. 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:50.359 Would it think of that oldel guy? Would you feel 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:52.680 would you would it change your sentiment? No? Not until 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:55.960 I can see what he does. That's fair, and that's 0:19:56.080 --> 0:19:58.200 very fair. As a matter of fact. What I would say, though, 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:01.719 is the defense if we're looking at the Giants game, 0:20:01.760 --> 0:20:03.520 because that's the most recent one and it's not the 0:20:03.840 --> 0:20:05.720 first time, no will be the last time. The defense 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:07.960 will have to kind of save the day. But the 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:15.600