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Speaker 5: All right, today, we've got to talk about that game yesterday.
Speaker 5: It was It was a bad one for the Cowboys,
Speaker 5: about as bad as it's been all season. They lose
Speaker 5: forty one to seven after what seemed to be a
Speaker 5: pretty what's the right word encouraging first quarter. In the
Speaker 5: first quarter, it seemed like they were actually playing pretty
Speaker 5: decent football, and then it seemed like the wheels just
Speaker 5: fell off.
Speaker 2: This game flipped when Calcaterra caught the thirty four yard pass.
Speaker 2: We could talk about the third and one miss down
Speaker 2: the field. Yeah, but I think the Calcaterra play kind
Speaker 2: of woke Kellen Moore up, woke pick it up, woke
Speaker 2: the Eagles offense up a little bit. They you know,
Speaker 2: they had been struggling. Dallas had played pretty well on
Speaker 2: the run defense. Uh you know, really hadn't getten gashed
Speaker 2: with Barkley. They really Kellen Moore, did you have favor
Speaker 2: the first series of the game, he went three straight
Speaker 2: passes with the backup quarterback and I'm like, God, I
Speaker 2: love you Kellen Moore, you know, and yeah, not really. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but the Calcaterra play, I.
Speaker 3: Mean, no way this No.
Speaker 5: I guess what I mean by that is that was
Speaker 5: the thing that in Dallas, I think both people were
Speaker 5: upset about, was that he would get into these rhythms
Speaker 5: where he just like get away from the thing that worked.
Speaker 3: They know, they had a running game. He was just
Speaker 3: throwing the ball.
Speaker 2: There were there were a couple of things in that game.
Speaker 2: Like I say, the Calcutara play was big because it
Speaker 2: just opened things up for him. They're like, oh, okay,
Speaker 2: we could throw the ball down the field. The second
Speaker 2: thing was they figured out that listen, we're going to
Speaker 2: get a match up with with Bland on Brown and
Speaker 2: Booth is going to cover Smith. And once they figured
Speaker 2: that out, then that was all bets were off. And
Speaker 2: then there were a couple of different plays where they
Speaker 2: could have helped. They could have helped Booth. I for
Speaker 2: the life of me, I don't know why Mike Zimber
Speaker 2: did this. I mean, there was the touchdown that that
Speaker 2: Smith had, the first touchdown where it was to me,
Speaker 2: like he's dropping he's dropping. Uh, he's dropping Hooker into
Speaker 2: into like a deep look. But he's favored him to
Speaker 2: the side of Brown. Who's who's got Bland the guy
Speaker 2: on the other Side's guy needs to help. It isn't Bland.
Speaker 2: You put Bland over there for a reason. Why is
Speaker 2: Hooker opening to Brown side and then have to spin
Speaker 2: his hips and try and get back. And Hooker's not
Speaker 2: a fast guy. He's just not He's just not gonna
Speaker 2: play with a lot of range. And so to me,
Speaker 2: those are the things where we always talk about. Coaches
Speaker 2: say this, players say this. Got to put these players
Speaker 2: in position to make plays. You didn't. You didn't on
Speaker 2: a couple of different occasions you didn't do that. And
Speaker 2: the Calcatara catch was a great play. I mean it's
Speaker 2: a great catch, but yeah, there were plenty of plays
Speaker 2: in that game where you just had to say, okay,
Speaker 2: you weren't good enough, and it happened quite a bit.
Speaker 2: Started a game member said the turnovers, ag go ahead.
Speaker 7: I mean we've seen it before.
Speaker 8: Were like and we talked about it a couple of
Speaker 8: weeks ago, where it comes down to turnovers and who
Speaker 8: wins the turnover battle and that typically the one who
Speaker 8: gets the most typically wins the game, and that was
Speaker 8: unfortunate in McCarthy. He mentioned it after the game in
Speaker 8: the press conference. He talked about how he thought they
Speaker 8: had a good game plan, but it was difficult to
Speaker 8: execute some of the things that they had planned for
Speaker 8: when you couldn't just get there and when you're turning
Speaker 8: over the ball that many times, it's just gonna put
Speaker 8: you in a hole where you can't.
Speaker 7: Get out of.
Speaker 8: So that's essentially what happened. You weren't able to protect
Speaker 8: the ball. And two of those came because of Cooper
Speaker 8: Rush and him throwing two interceptions and then the two
Speaker 8: other ones just were not necessarily his fault. So it's
Speaker 8: just I don't really know what to say other than that,
Speaker 8: I will say back to what you mentioned earlier, I
Speaker 8: was impressed of their ability to have been able to
Speaker 8: come back after that first interception and be able to score.
Speaker 8: That's something that we typically don't see them being capable
Speaker 8: of doing. Just picking themselves back up in that way
Speaker 8: so quickly, typically takes maybe until the second half, but
Speaker 8: this time they were able to come back right away.
Speaker 7: And I'm with you. I thought, Okay, it might be.
Speaker 8: A competitive game here, and it might stay close, and
Speaker 8: even if we lose, at least we saw that competitiveness.
Speaker 8: And it didn't happen that way. Quickly started declining. The
Speaker 8: game got completely away from them, and you just there's nothing,
Speaker 8: There's nothing you could They weren't able to do anything.
Speaker 8: And that's the that's the most unfortunate part of it,
Speaker 8: is that, honestly, I expected them to go into that
Speaker 8: game losing because of how FEELI is playing currently, despite everything,
Speaker 8: even with jailing hurts out, you thought, Okay, this is
Speaker 8: gonna be competitive.
Speaker 7: But that's the part where they.
Speaker 8: They lacked is just not able to keep up, prevent
Speaker 8: mistakes and be able to put on a good show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, were you either? What do you happen to be
Speaker 2: in the locker room? When Turpin talked after the game,
Speaker 2: we were there. Did you hear what he said? Sad use
Speaker 2: of the of and I and I and sides of
Speaker 2: the athletic This was one of his quotes that actually
Speaker 2: had a thread that did this, and I'm just gonna
Speaker 2: read I'm quoting here. It's from Turpin on playing without
Speaker 2: ceed Lamb in this game, and I was wondering if
Speaker 2: I could get your thoughts on this real quick. He said, Man,
Speaker 2: I just feel like at the end of the day,
Speaker 2: with CD gone, we weren't really calling no pass place.
Speaker 2: We were just running the ball, throwing checkdowns. That's the
Speaker 2: plan in the receiver room. I thought we were going
Speaker 2: to go out there and show people it ain't all
Speaker 2: about c D. At the end of the day, we weren't.
Speaker 2: We wasn't getting down no downfield routes being called. We
Speaker 2: just had to see what we could do.
Speaker 5: I heard that, and to be honest with that kind
Speaker 5: of blew it off a little bit, because, Yeah, first
Speaker 5: of all, I don't think it's accurate I was actually
Speaker 5: charting a number of downfield throws and shit, and they
Speaker 5: had quite.
Speaker 3: A you especially, that's what, as a matter.
Speaker 5: Of fact, a third and one, which we'll get to
Speaker 5: the moment when they decided to go downfield Domingo. But
Speaker 5: I heard he said, I just honestly I didn't. I
Speaker 5: didn't think it was accurate. I thought they threw the
Speaker 5: ball downfield more. Now, he may have been looking for
Speaker 5: a specific plays. He may have been even been looking
Speaker 5: more for more specific plays for him. In that way,
Speaker 5: I could understand maybe what he's saying because the downfield
Speaker 5: throws weren't necessarily for him. But that being said, I
Speaker 5: thought they went down field more. I don't think it
Speaker 5: was all just checked out.
Speaker 2: I thought they went down more this field this time
Speaker 2: against Philly than they did the previous agreed, Yeah, And
Speaker 2: so I was just curious, I go, did he accurately
Speaker 2: does that? So that's accurately what he said?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, that's what I heard him say.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Okay, Well, I think sometimes coming off a game and
Speaker 8: having to speak that quickly with you having been able
Speaker 8: to go back and watch film just yet, you're answering
Speaker 8: based on what you lift yourself. The game, Well, you fell,
Speaker 8: how often did they target me? How often did my
Speaker 8: hands touch the ball? So it feels in that perspective.
Speaker 8: So I don't I mean, I don't fall him for
Speaker 8: saying what introduced I don't think.
Speaker 5: I don't think he has the perspective that we do.
Speaker 5: Like I was charting the game, he wasn't charting the game.
Speaker 5: He was out there playing. Yeah, so he he only
Speaker 5: has his perspective of what happened with him on specific plays.
Speaker 5: So I just, you know, I think he may have
Speaker 5: just you know, he may have been looking at something
Speaker 5: differently than what we were looking at.
Speaker 2: I was just wondering. I was just wondering because I
Speaker 2: didn't feel that way either. I felt now the first
Speaker 2: time around they played sure, I totally agree with him
Speaker 2: that time. Like watching the tape this morning, I didn't
Speaker 2: get the feeling that was the case.
Speaker 3: No, I agree with you.
Speaker 5: I agree with you on that mentioning Cooper Rush, he
Speaker 5: went fifteen to twenty eight fifty four percent completion, not
Speaker 5: very good, one hundred and forty seven yards.
Speaker 2: I gotta see it with my eyes again.
Speaker 5: You knowsceptions of fifty quarterback rating.
Speaker 3: What happened.
Speaker 5: Let's go back to the two interceptions. What do you
Speaker 5: think happened there, Brian, when you when you look those
Speaker 5: two interceptions.
Speaker 2: Well, like I went back and I just say I
Speaker 2: typed out my notes and stuff like that. So let
Speaker 2: me get let me get to the pick six. Okay,
Speaker 2: this is where this is where it to me, it
Speaker 2: appears to be man coverage ye with the free safety
Speaker 2: in the middle of the field, So they call it
Speaker 2: man free is what they play man underneath free safety
Speaker 2: in the middle of the field and try and navigate that.
Speaker 2: I think with Gardner Johnson and Bond the linebacker, I
Speaker 2: think they're doubling Ferguson on this play. I think they're
Speaker 2: they've they've they're gonna play man and they've determined they're
Speaker 2: gonna double one guy. And like we talked about that
Speaker 2: leading up with no ceedee lamb, what could potentially happen
Speaker 2: Take that guy away, take this guy. So I think
Speaker 2: they're trying to take away Ferguson on this one, and
Speaker 2: I think that rush is likely feels like he's gonna
Speaker 2: have a window to throw this when Ferguson breaks inside
Speaker 2: because they're running the slant behind behind that, So he's
Speaker 2: probably thinking that Okay, if Ferguson goes inside and they're
Speaker 2: doubling him, they're both going with and I'll have that window.
Speaker 2: And but when Ferguson breaks inside, Carter Johnson just he
Speaker 2: didn't even react. He's looking. You could see on film
Speaker 2: he's looking at Cooper Rush the whole entire time. There
Speaker 2: was nothing that took him away from There was nothing
Speaker 2: for him. Now. I think he was just being a
Speaker 2: football player because he's staring down the quarterback the ball,
Speaker 2: his man's going inside. He knows he's covered there with
Speaker 2: his with the route with the linebacker Bond going inside,
Speaker 2: and Rush is thinking he's going to go with him,
Speaker 2: and he didn't go with him. And I think that's
Speaker 2: where Rush got fooled there. And Cooks really didn't have
Speaker 2: I mean, it wasn't a clean route to get inside
Speaker 2: with anyway, But Garter Johnson there was no reason for
Speaker 2: him to move, especially when Cooper Rush was staring down
Speaker 2: the area and he knew guy going away, he's not
Speaker 2: throwing to him. Guy behind him, Yep, here's comes the ball.
Speaker 2: And that's I think what happened on that first on
Speaker 2: that pick six right there.
Speaker 5: It just seemed like he just he basically just didn't move.
Speaker 5: He thought he was going and he didn't go with
Speaker 5: the first guy and he sat in that spot and
Speaker 5: there you go.
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, the second interception Cooks. The officials missed a
Speaker 2: bad The officials missed the play here because Cooks gets grabbed. Literally,
Speaker 2: I mean you could see Mitchell grab his jersey like
Speaker 2: he's by it, but he has to grab him and
Speaker 2: it slows Cooks down. It kind of makes Cooks have
Speaker 2: to turn and he really he can't get up the field.
Speaker 2: His momentum stop. Now the ball's already gone, and if
Speaker 2: he doesn't pull his jersey, there's gonna be a chance
Speaker 2: because I don't think that Gardner Johnson playing in the
Speaker 2: middle of the field was going to get to the ball.
Speaker 2: I mean, if Cooks could have run, it could have
Speaker 2: been you know, wouldn't been held. I think there was
Speaker 2: a chance that you probably could have made that play.
Speaker 2: But when he got held, it slowed him down. It
Speaker 2: slowed down his momentum and he could but the official
Speaker 2: to that side, the back judge to that side, missed
Speaker 2: a blatant holding call in that in that situation because
Speaker 2: the protection was outstanding. And then but that was just
Speaker 2: a really really really bad miss by the official right there,
Speaker 2: because because Cooks got held on the play.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's that's that's unfortunate, but you know it
Speaker 5: happened to me.
Speaker 3: It happens.
Speaker 5: Those kind of things happen. Let's go ahead and take
Speaker 5: our first break. When we come back. I want to
Speaker 5: see how much you guys think CD was missed yesterday.
Speaker 5: Obviously he's missed. You can't have a game where you
Speaker 5: don't miss your star player. But how much did that
Speaker 5: affect maybe some of the things that were happening in
Speaker 5: that game, and goes back to maybe what Turpin was saying,
Speaker 5: how much did it did it affect them not having
Speaker 5: him in the game. We'll talk about that when we
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Speaker 5: All right, let's talk about the offense a little deeper.
Speaker 5: The question I had for you guys was how much
Speaker 5: and in what ways did you see that they really
Speaker 5: missed CD yesterday in that game?
Speaker 8: Well, to me, prior to him not even being on
Speaker 8: the field, he was about the only thing that the
Speaker 8: offense has as far as and this is taking now
Speaker 8: the time where now you're starting to build up that
Speaker 8: running game and including Rico Doll in there, but operational
Speaker 8: wise in the passing game, it just.
Speaker 7: This game was a clear show of.
Speaker 8: You have to have ceedy lamb to be able to
Speaker 8: operate correctly. And that's taken into account how well that
Speaker 8: first quarter.
Speaker 7: Went for the Cowboys.
Speaker 8: But I think that the opposing team, they're able to
Speaker 8: adjust quickly and start targeting you how they need to
Speaker 8: target you. So to me, when you look at the
Speaker 8: mistakes that happen, you have your guy, your boy.
Speaker 3: Which one?
Speaker 7: What do you mean which one? Boy? I'm just saying.
Speaker 3: He kind of looked over at me.
Speaker 5: You had the fumble, just kind of like I could see,
Speaker 5: I could feel her glare.
Speaker 2: Do you want to be honest with you? That was
Speaker 2: Cooper Rush's fault? It was, Yeah, looked at it.
Speaker 7: What it looks like he.
Speaker 2: Had two routes. He threw the ball. He should never
Speaker 2: thrown the ball inside he had he had churping downfield
Speaker 2: eighteen yards wide open.
Speaker 5: And that's probably what was talking about right there, That's
Speaker 5: probably what he was talking abou.
Speaker 3: Me Tobert, Okay, Tolbert, Tolbert was opened.
Speaker 2: So he threw the ball. He threw the ball. He
Speaker 2: threw the ball to Ferguson with three eagle defenders inside
Speaker 2: on him. There was nobody. There was nobody within. I
Speaker 2: mean Tolbert was standing. The play to me was designed,
Speaker 2: I felt like was designed to go to the outside
Speaker 2: to Tolbert, and he didn't throw the route, and Tolbert
Speaker 2: ran the out. He was standing eighteen yards away, eighteen
Speaker 2: yards away with nobody around him, and Rush moves to
Speaker 2: his right and throws the ball back inside. And what's
Speaker 2: happened now is there's three eagle defenders that are right
Speaker 2: on Ferguson.
Speaker 3: So he turns.
Speaker 2: As soon as he turns, that's Cooper Rush man. I mean,
Speaker 2: he's like the route, the route, the route down the field,
Speaker 2: the route down the field should have been, the ball
Speaker 2: should have gone to And that's and that's what happens
Speaker 2: when you get a guy that gets locked in which
Speaker 2: you miss him out having lambing again big plays. You
Speaker 2: missed the threat of having jet sweeps run after catch
Speaker 2: ball down the field. You know you miss us. But
Speaker 2: if you got a quarterback that's not even gonna throw balls.
Speaker 2: But like I can understand, Tolbert could have had a
Speaker 2: really big day yesterday catching footballs and Cooper Rush. You know,
Speaker 2: when you watch the play that that play, that that
Speaker 2: Ferguson fumbles, you're going, what are you doing?
Speaker 5: Bro?
Speaker 8: So how many of those types of plays do you
Speaker 8: feel like they're they're where like that happened where.
Speaker 2: Probably three Okay, well you just you're they're designed to
Speaker 2: go somewhere, They're designed to go somewhere, and he throws
Speaker 2: somewhere else, he'll check it down trying to he he
Speaker 2: threw the hardest ball you could throw to Ferguson. He
Speaker 2: made the hardest decision you can make, Like, the most
Speaker 2: difficult throw was the Ferguson. The easiest throw he could
Speaker 2: have made was to Tolbert. That's why that's why you
Speaker 2: lose foot.
Speaker 8: Well, I think looking back at one of the previous
Speaker 8: game against Tampa, I think that game it went to show.
Speaker 8: It goes to show like the connection that Cooper Rush
Speaker 8: was finally being able to build with Ceed Lamb. I
Speaker 8: mean he was going to him play after play, and
Speaker 8: he had a very successful game in that aspect and
Speaker 8: therefore was able so to find other targets as well.
Speaker 8: But then in this game you go back to and
Speaker 8: in this what is it undecisive indecisive quarterback where he
Speaker 8: he's not fully aware of his reads or like incapable
Speaker 8: of like really reading the field, And what's happened, and
Speaker 8: you should be able to do that. And this wasn't
Speaker 8: a game where he didn't have the protection. He was
Speaker 8: protected pretty well. I thought the offensive line did a
Speaker 8: very decent job.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Absolutely, So it goes back to maybe you take this
Speaker 8: element that you now found some sort of comfort in,
Speaker 8: it's taken out and now you're back into having to
Speaker 8: figure out, okay, shoot, like who's gonna be my reliable
Speaker 8: guy here? And he wasn't able to do that. But
Speaker 8: we've seen that all these weeks where Cooper Rush he
Speaker 8: does throw a ball like an invisible person or something
Speaker 8: like no one's there, what are you doing here? And
Speaker 8: I'm sure we'll talk about the Mingo one or Mingo
Speaker 8: like that guy.
Speaker 5: It's rare he gets a good a good ball. I
Speaker 5: think yesterday he got one ball that was catchable.
Speaker 2: In mind, twelve yards the sidelines was the one he
Speaker 2: had that actually was a good route and a good
Speaker 2: good play. I mean they had it was it was
Speaker 2: first and fifteen and he was able to kind of
Speaker 2: get where he needed to be and and and made
Speaker 2: and made a nice reception. But yeah, I mean that's
Speaker 2: that you're playing with Cooper Rush capable at some moments.
Speaker 2: But I think, you know, decision making or how about awareness,
Speaker 2: you know, because when we're break, I'm gonna show you
Speaker 2: this play and you tell me how if I'm wrong
Speaker 2: about about about how open Tolbert was on the play
Speaker 2: and where he should have gone with the ball. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean, because that he he makes decisions like that.
Speaker 2: And and you know it's to me also the third
Speaker 2: and one, that ball, the third and one that goes
Speaker 2: down the field of Mingo, that's going to Mingo all
Speaker 2: the way. I mean, And even though and I put
Speaker 2: this in my notes too, because I I when I
Speaker 2: was when I was watching the play, I'm thinking like, okay,
Speaker 2: what else, what else could it do? Okay, the deep
Speaker 2: shot Tomingo. The ball was going to Mingo all the way,
Speaker 2: is what I said. He's got three options underneath three
Speaker 2: He's got.
Speaker 3: Us on the third and one, third and one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, third and one. He's got three options underneath that
Speaker 2: he could have gone to just to keep the sticks going,
Speaker 2: just to keep the ball moving down the field. You know.
Speaker 2: And this is why sometimes I hate shotgun football. I
Speaker 2: tweeted it out, got murdered by people. You know, Oh
Speaker 2: it's you know, yeah, you're right. There were options. He
Speaker 2: that the play was designed. It was a it was
Speaker 2: a it was a stutter go for Mingo to try
Speaker 2: and they're gonna take a shot. If you do that
Speaker 2: on third and one and don't get it, you're telling
Speaker 2: me you're going for it on fourth down. Right. He punted, right,
Speaker 2: He punted on his side of the field. You know,
Speaker 2: you're telling me, right then and there, you take that
Speaker 2: deep shot on a stutter go. And actually they were
Speaker 2: doing it to both sides. He could have thrown it.
Speaker 2: He could have thrown the cooks on the other side,
Speaker 2: or he could have thrown to a Mingo, which he did,
Speaker 2: but he also could have thrown to Fergus underneath, got
Speaker 2: the first down inside, he could have checked the ball
Speaker 2: down to Elliott, who nobody was covering him. He could
Speaker 2: have checked it down to him, got a first down,
Speaker 2: didn't do it ball with The play was called. It
Speaker 2: was double stutter go, and he took the Mingo route.
Speaker 2: And you know, and that's McCarthy the post. I think
Speaker 2: you guys were probably working in the locker room. Maybe
Speaker 2: you didn't hear his conversation. Maybe you're scrambling to get
Speaker 2: on the bus. He says, well, the wind could have
Speaker 2: been a fact. Okay, there's a couple of things that
Speaker 2: are taught here. If the ball goes the sidelines, you
Speaker 2: teach quarterback to throw it to the sideline so only
Speaker 2: his guy can get it, or it's going to be
Speaker 2: out of bounds the Cooper rush do that maybe, or
Speaker 2: the way that because Mingo never looked to the outside right, everything,
Speaker 2: he was looking inside the whole way. And he and
Speaker 2: he's one, he is one on the outside. If the
Speaker 2: ball is inside, Garth Johnson's not going to get there,
Speaker 2: it's going to be a huge.
Speaker 5: Play in the game, like two yards separation. I mean
Speaker 5: he had some separation.
Speaker 2: He has some serious separation there. So McCarthy's like, well,
Speaker 2: you know, because Clari Till asked him about it, and
Speaker 2: the wind could have been a factor and all that.
Speaker 2: But I was kind of hearing that they were pissed.
Speaker 2: They were pissed, the coaches. I mean, they were pissed
Speaker 2: at the way that the ball was thrown. So I mean,
Speaker 2: like I said, we asked her, you asked me earlier.
Speaker 2: What other could you know? Get the first down? Just
Speaker 2: get the first down, if you know. But but the
Speaker 2: play was called, they pour the ex the play doesn't
Speaker 2: get executed. Now I'm thinking, well, jeez, he's going to
Speaker 2: go for them fourth.
Speaker 8: My thing is you haven't shown to be able to
Speaker 8: make anything work with Mingo so far, for whatever the reason,
Speaker 8: whether the pass is thrown bad or whatever. But he
Speaker 8: hasn't been a reliable target, even though at times he's
Speaker 8: well positioned and everything is just maybe the ball is
Speaker 8: not thrown well or whatever. So in a situation like that,
Speaker 8: it just makes me be like, Okay, then why why
Speaker 8: is that your option? You know, rather than go to
Speaker 8: everybody else that you mentioned that seem to be open.
Speaker 2: But no City Lamb. That's no City Lamb right there.
Speaker 5: I had no problem with any of that sequence until
Speaker 5: they don't convert the third and one.
Speaker 3: They get to fourth and one and they punt, and
Speaker 3: they punt, because my thought is like, why'd you do that?
Speaker 3: Why'd you do it right?
Speaker 2: Why would you call a double movie?
Speaker 5: Because I said it's nick right when they did it,
Speaker 5: I was like, well, of course they're going foo on
Speaker 5: fourth down.
Speaker 3: That's why they do that.
Speaker 5: You take a shot on third because, by the way,
Speaker 5: they've been running well in third and short, so maybe
Speaker 5: they thought, okay, we can catch him right here. They're
Speaker 5: going to load up and try to stop the run
Speaker 5: here on third and one, so let's try to get
Speaker 5: him Downfiel.
Speaker 3: It actually worked. The receiver was open. You just missed
Speaker 3: the throw.
Speaker 5: Fine, you're gonna go for it on fourth down. But
Speaker 5: to not go for it, No, go not go for
Speaker 5: it on fourth down. It almost said to me like
Speaker 5: that wasn't a well fed out thirty down and one.
Speaker 2: No, because there's how you understand. You're taking a you're
Speaker 2: taking a chance right to maybe hit a home run, right,
Speaker 2: but you got a plan like I'm gonna go for
Speaker 2: it if I don't either way exactly.
Speaker 5: And I just thought that was the part that I
Speaker 5: just didn't understand why you would do one and not
Speaker 5: do the other.
Speaker 3: Or if you're not gonna go for it.
Speaker 5: Then take the easy just move the chaine and we
Speaker 5: keep the drive going.
Speaker 2: Keeck the ball, keep the downs going, keep the key.
Speaker 2: You know that's the problem I have. You, Like you say,
Speaker 2: if you're gonna have a plan, have a plan, I
Speaker 2: don't think I think he had a plan until it
Speaker 2: was incomplete, and then his plan became okay, punt, Yeah,
Speaker 2: that that became his plan. Which then that in that case,
Speaker 2: you just killed yourself with an opportunity rights exactly right.
Speaker 5: I just thought it was it just it's almost like
Speaker 5: you know when you're when you're in these games, you
Speaker 5: have to be planning a few plays ahead. You don't
Speaker 5: call a play in isolation. The plays are to set
Speaker 5: up other plays or to advance other plays that you're
Speaker 5: gonna call later. Let's let's go ahead and take our
Speaker 5: final break. We're gonna come back. I do want to
Speaker 5: talk a little bit about Rico Dondell. He surpasses the
Speaker 5: one thousand rushing yard march mark for the season. We'll
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Speaker 5: studios at the star Let's Talk Rico Dowdle. He was
Speaker 5: twenty three of twenty three carries for one hundred and
Speaker 5: forty yard yesterday, a four point five average. He did
Speaker 5: have the one fumble, but he surpassed the one thousand
Speaker 5: rushing yard mark for the season. I don't want to
Speaker 5: beat a dead horse, but did.
Speaker 3: They just wait too long to get him his thing?
Speaker 3: Like you look at it now and you're like, yeah,
Speaker 3: they had opportunity.
Speaker 2: They're a different offense with him.
Speaker 5: They had had an opportunity to do this earlier in
Speaker 5: the season and they just didn't.
Speaker 2: They didn't and and uh, it's unfortunate. And I'm really
Speaker 2: looking forward to the autopsy at the end of this thing.
Speaker 2: I kind of have an idea how the patient died,
Speaker 2: but but there could be some other complications, other than
Speaker 2: that's why I got to do That's why you do it. Like, well,
Speaker 2: we thought he died of a heart attack, but no,
Speaker 2: he actually died of he was actually poison Yeah he was,
Speaker 2: Yeah he was, Yeah he was, he was, he was
Speaker 2: he was murdered, right, But no, this is this is
Speaker 2: where you know you this offense said, let's be honest.
Speaker 2: The offensive line wasn't good enough initially. Facts, you're talking
Speaker 2: your daughter again. There, my son says the same thing.
Speaker 2: Half dad, facts, my dad like my son. My son
Speaker 2: had a really interesting conversation. I hadn't hand with the
Speaker 2: dinner the night. He was telling me about if you
Speaker 2: hire a coach, what you need. He says, what you
Speaker 2: want to do is hire a head coach that had
Speaker 2: the worst joggers. The joggers, those those those pants, those
Speaker 2: short pants. And he says, on defense, you want to
Speaker 2: have an old, krusty veteran guy that you know how
Speaker 2: you see, that's how you do, that's what you's the
Speaker 2: coaching staff. He goes, offense, you want the guy the
Speaker 2: coach that wears the joggers. On defense, you want the
Speaker 2: old krusty veteran guy. That's so I was just thinking.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, not bad as analysis.
Speaker 2: No, no, And Jesse Holly actually texted me and said,
Speaker 2: he goes, Man, I should I think the same thing.
Speaker 2: Give me these coaches that were those jogger pants, they're
Speaker 2: the ones are calling all the really good plays. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, but anyway, uh yeah, I think what we
Speaker 2: do the autopsy is our coach doesn't wear joggers, you know.
Speaker 2: And and that's and that's the thing about it is
Speaker 2: that we we you know, we talk about this. But
Speaker 2: the offensive line wasn't good enough. The right guard wasn't
Speaker 2: good enough. He was really banged up. The right tackle
Speaker 2: was struggling the point of attack blockers. It took schoon
Speaker 2: Maker to almost be inactive every week before he got
Speaker 2: the message like, bro, you got a block, you got
Speaker 2: to block a little bit here, you know. And so
Speaker 2: you know, Hoppan went in there. You know, they bass
Speaker 2: went in there, they went they had different combinations. They
Speaker 2: started playing Chuma doga tackle. You know, they got up
Speaker 2: a little bit better combinations there. But I kind of
Speaker 2: felt like that that, yeah, it was late, a little
Speaker 2: late to the party there. You know, we're late to
Speaker 2: the party. We didn't show up with anything in our hands,
Speaker 2: you know, not even a bag of ice. You know,
Speaker 2: we were just we were real late to the party
Speaker 2: here when it came came to all this.
Speaker 8: I'm just thinking of our tailgating food talk referring back,
Speaker 8: you're like him, bring even a.
Speaker 2: Bag of ice? Yeah, you empty handed? Yeah, you show
Speaker 2: up to a party six pc just for yourself. Yeah
Speaker 2: that's another one. There's another one. Don't you show up
Speaker 2: if it's like a tailgate, you show up with just
Speaker 2: six pack? You can go to the drink eight yeah, yeah, exact. No,
Speaker 2: you put the you'rs in there and you're drinking everybody
Speaker 2: else's spirit. You're leaving the bad beer. Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2: But no Rico Daddle. You know he had the twenty
Speaker 2: three attempts. Ten of those were successful runs against that defense.
Speaker 2: You know that was you know, so, I mean, real
Speaker 2: good against four and a half yards of carry.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and congratulations to him and why he was able
Speaker 8: to accomplish this season. I wish it would have happened sooner.
Speaker 8: And it's also one of those things that it sucks
Speaker 8: that it happened in this game too, because you see
Speaker 8: who the other running back is and you see what
Speaker 8: they just celebrated on the sideline for and Don where
Speaker 8: everybody congratulated him. Yeah, and stopped the game a little
Speaker 8: bit there. I'm like, I told Nick, I'm like, if
Speaker 8: fre Co hits his mark, are we stopping the game
Speaker 8: to congress?
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 8: And that's not a I'm not trying to talk crap.
Speaker 8: It's great for him in his situation, but it's just
Speaker 8: it sucks when it happened in a game like that.
Speaker 8: And the other running back that you're facing.
Speaker 2: Double Philodel. If you ran the ball like Dallas did
Speaker 2: the first six weeks of the season, yeah, Gain will
Speaker 2: have an average one point three h Kenny Pickett at
Speaker 2: two point three for the Davis price. You know, they
Speaker 2: had some bad rushing numbers. Take Barkley out of it.
Speaker 2: It's like you you've crushed him on the in the
Speaker 2: running game, but you know Barkley, he's It took him
Speaker 2: thirty one carries to get one hundred and sixty seven yards.
Speaker 2: I mean it's five yards.
Speaker 3: And really a lot of it happened the second half.
Speaker 3: Second first half. It wasn't They weren't really getting week now.
Speaker 2: No, I mean Dallas did a pretty good job with
Speaker 2: the run stuff. So they had four of them, you know,
Speaker 2: but half his runs were successful. Thirty one said six
Speaker 2: sixteen successful runs. That's four more yards of carry.
Speaker 3: What did they struggle most?
Speaker 5: Though, if you look at how they were stopping the
Speaker 5: run as particularly in the second half, where were they
Speaker 5: having struggle.
Speaker 2: They were getting that the pinning poll stuff, the old
Speaker 2: the old Arizona car.
Speaker 3: We go all the way back to there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like, you know, it's like all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: it's down down and two guys around and now now
Speaker 2: blockers are fighting. They struggled inside with the linebackers. You know,
Speaker 2: they got guys that got hooked and the down guys
Speaker 2: got blocked, the edges got hooked. Yeah, it was they
Speaker 2: they started to kind of figure out. Initially it was
Speaker 2: like they were trying to kind of run the ball
Speaker 2: inside and Dallas was doing a pretty good job. But
Speaker 2: then the ball bounced. There was that there was a
Speaker 2: there was a run that one of his first long
Speaker 2: runs I had. I think it went for twenty two
Speaker 2: or three yards. This is this shows you how poor Booth.
Speaker 2: I mean, he had a chance to come up fill
Speaker 2: in the hole and he hesitates, and as soon as
Speaker 2: he hesitated, Barkley bounce. Yep. I mean it's like Lewis
Speaker 2: did a great job of keeping his outside shoulder free
Speaker 2: and squeezing the play, and he squeezed it. If he
Speaker 2: would have squeezed it to say Donovan Wilson, it's a
Speaker 2: game to two. He squeezed it. To Booth, it's a
Speaker 2: gain of twenty two. Yep, that's the problem.
Speaker 5: You know. We had a question from Roderick doth It.
Speaker 5: He says, why is Booth still playing cornerback?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: And I mean we talked about, but we talked about
Speaker 5: in the last week. We talked about going into this game,
Speaker 5: would you go with mcuamu more than more than him
Speaker 5: because he's a bigger, longer guy.
Speaker 3: They didn't choose to do that.
Speaker 2: I you know, you can only work with what you have.
Speaker 2: And last time they listened to me, Derek was two
Speaker 2: thousand and five, you know, And so that's you know,
Speaker 2: I bring it up. I would have I would have gambled.
Speaker 2: I would have gambled on maybe interchanging Izzy and changing
Speaker 2: Lewis from inside to outside. Okay, if you're committed to
Speaker 2: taking Brown out of the game with Bland, now let's
Speaker 2: deal with the other two. And they didn't even have
Speaker 2: They didn't even have Dallas Goddard in this game, so
Speaker 2: you didn't really have to worry about that.
Speaker 3: And Jordan would have battled with Smith.
Speaker 2: He would Jordan, Jordan would have battled with Smith, and
Speaker 2: you would have felt better. You would have felt better,
Speaker 2: like if Jordan Lewis is getting beat by Smith, you're like,
Speaker 2: just a better man today, just a better man cap
Speaker 2: But you can't, you know. And it got to the end,
Speaker 2: and what do they do? And I said it on
Speaker 2: our halftime showing me and Walchuck, I said, Mike Zimmer's
Speaker 2: proven one thing. He is not going to let Booth
Speaker 2: continue out there and can get continue to get beat
Speaker 2: And eventually they did. They took him out, and they
Speaker 2: put pride in, you know, and there's like Wolchick looked
Speaker 2: at me and goes, who's pride, And I said, well,
Speaker 2: he got called up today.
Speaker 3: You know, and he's like, and they got kicked out
Speaker 3: of the game.
Speaker 2: And they got kicked out of the game. So give
Speaker 2: him some credit for being a little feisty about it,
Speaker 2: no doubt question.
Speaker 8: So last week we were talking about, Okay, let's see
Speaker 8: what happens in the last two weeks of the season
Speaker 8: as far as preparation, and that's where it comes down to,
Speaker 8: you know, because they showed up even though they were eliminated.
Speaker 8: They played Tampa with a really good game plan and
Speaker 8: went in there played really well. Now looking back, and
Speaker 8: I'm I was happy that we were off on Wednesday,
Speaker 8: don't get me wrong, but that was all about it.
Speaker 8: But looking at the changes because because this is something
Speaker 8: that typically doesn't happen on the side of football, they
Speaker 8: gave the players that they completely off and they kind
Speaker 8: of did a switch around.
Speaker 3: They didn't get an extra day off.
Speaker 5: Basically they take a normal day off on Tuesdays moved
Speaker 5: to Wednesday, so they practiced on Tuesday, off on Wednesday
Speaker 5: back to practice.
Speaker 8: So technically, but I'm saying they did, but maybe that's
Speaker 8: how the story comes well too, you know, but they
Speaker 8: were able to adjusts. Yeah, But my point is, aside
Speaker 8: from you missing ceed Lamb, I'm looking at preparation, even
Speaker 8: with making it switch like that, which again I was
Speaker 8: very high before and all for it, but sometimes when
Speaker 8: you switch schedules around or whatever, I'm just on a
Speaker 8: question as far as preparation.
Speaker 3: They would not have switched things around. I still think
Speaker 3: it the same reason. But here's why.
Speaker 5: It's for the same reason that you're pointing to, which
Speaker 5: is I think and I thought Nick's article did a
Speaker 5: really good job of laying this out yesterday.
Speaker 3: It's it's as though, like it is human nature.
Speaker 5: When they went into that Tampa game, they practice all
Speaker 5: week with the anticipation that the play, well, we have
Speaker 5: a chance, and so we're going for we're giving it all.
Speaker 5: We got that fell flat. They've played the game great,
Speaker 5: but this is one of those where you lose during
Speaker 5: the week individual and and and that's not even if
Speaker 5: that if their days would have been the same last week,
Speaker 5: I still think it's hard for me to believe that
Speaker 5: on Christmas Day, even if you go to practice, are
Speaker 5: you going to have a Chris practice? Are you really
Speaker 5: there or is your mind really back at home with
Speaker 5: your little kid you just left opening Christmas presents with
Speaker 5: right your family's in town. You're not with your family?
Speaker 5: Is your head really in it? When you finish practice,
Speaker 5: are you gonna stick around and watch some film or
Speaker 5: do that extra stuff that you would do if you were.
Speaker 3: Playing for something. Maybe not.
Speaker 5: And again this is not pointing to anyone necessarily as
Speaker 5: much as it's just saying in general, the natural tendency
Speaker 5: for people is that this time of the year you
Speaker 5: slow down a little.
Speaker 8: Bit because even and I allmit it, like Eve and
Speaker 8: I, I was walking around the building with my.
Speaker 7: Eyes half closed. It's what happens.
Speaker 5: And then and then on top of that, and I
Speaker 5: think this may have been even more of a of
Speaker 5: a problem, not a problem, but something that probably affected
Speaker 5: them is when they shut CD down.
Speaker 2: That's it.
Speaker 3: I think it's mentally.
Speaker 5: It becomes a mental thing that yeah, we're waving the
Speaker 5: white flag. And they did. You guys all agreed this
Speaker 5: was what they needed to do with CD. But you
Speaker 5: combine that with this time of the year and all
Speaker 5: the distractions that happen around the holidays, and you got
Speaker 5: eliminated from the playoffs last week, and then CDs out
Speaker 5: and you're looking around like who's left because Dak's gone,
Speaker 5: thanks gone, all.
Speaker 3: These players you're missing. I just think this was just
Speaker 3: a culmination of all those things, and this is this part.
Speaker 2: This was the final straw. As they say, Yeah, when
Speaker 2: CD was put on injured reserve, that's when you know
Speaker 2: and and listen, you're around the holidays, You're right, you're
Speaker 2: around the families. I mean, we've seen this done both
Speaker 2: ways since we've been here. We've seen coaches that give
Speaker 2: them the morning off practice in the afternoon. We've seen
Speaker 2: coaches that have practiced in the morning, given them the
Speaker 2: act you try. I mean, you were holidays. That's part
Speaker 2: of what you do. It's part of what you sign
Speaker 2: up for. We all do that, and I think I
Speaker 2: think not so much the Christmas. I think the Eagles
Speaker 2: are a good football team. Don't get me wrong. I
Speaker 2: think they're very well coached. When it comes to Kellen
Speaker 2: Moore and and uh and and Vic Fangio and what
Speaker 2: they do. They've got a really good roster. That was
Speaker 2: gonna be a hard game to win. I didn't think
Speaker 2: they were going to win it. And I know we
Speaker 2: didn't predict this score, but I didn't. I wasn't if
Speaker 2: I had to, I wasn't. I mean I said Philadelphia
Speaker 2: twenty six, Dallas thirteen on the pregame show. I didn't
Speaker 2: think they were going to win this football game. But
Speaker 2: you know what it really I think when they when
Speaker 2: they saw CD go out, they looked at each other
Speaker 2: and said, what more can happen to us this year?
Speaker 2: What more, the one element do we have that's a
Speaker 2: legitimate all pro type player now we have you know now,
Speaker 2: and that's and I think that's what got this team.
Speaker 2: I think there you also get into like survival mode too.
Speaker 2: You do not want to get hurt these last couple
Speaker 2: And it's not that they didn't try or they quit
Speaker 2: or anything like that. They just you just don't want
Speaker 2: to get hurt in week seventeen. You just don't because
Speaker 2: that turns into well, now I might miss the season
Speaker 2: or you know. But you know, they they played really
Speaker 2: well the first quarter. I mean to answer that pick
Speaker 2: six back with a touchdown. They gave you hope that like, okay,
Speaker 2: there's still some some fighting here and all that, but
Speaker 2: they just when they started giving up plays and the
Speaker 2: team's looking at it and they're like, damn, we're playing
Speaker 2: with seven different corners now and boos out there and
Speaker 2: we're getting beat in it. It's frustrating.
Speaker 5: But you know that that also plays into like my
Speaker 5: thought of what happened is as the game started steamrolling,
Speaker 5: it almost felt like you could feel just the here's
Speaker 5: where we are, like, yeah, two weeks don't have any
Speaker 5: we don't have any way to fight back and and
Speaker 5: it almost felt like that versus this, Oh, we can
Speaker 5: still do this.
Speaker 3: I think at the end of the game you kind
Speaker 3: of have some hope and then and they may.
Speaker 5: Have had some hope, and then when it started to
Speaker 5: fall apart, it just you know, I just.
Speaker 2: You knew Barkley was going to get the ball and
Speaker 2: you couldn't stop it, you know. To be honest with you,
Speaker 2: I'm surprised they took him out. I'm surprised they didn't
Speaker 2: try and just in the four just keep running him
Speaker 2: and get that thing to where it was.
Speaker 3: Like, I mean to see what they do this next week.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got to get one hundred yards by half.
Speaker 2: It's really what he's got to do, you know, against
Speaker 2: the Giants. And boy, that's what a night Giant fans,
Speaker 2: what a night that owner in New York. I would
Speaker 2: go to the game. I would the game.
Speaker 7: But speaking of did you, did you guys see on
Speaker 7: social medium where Jerry was sitting?
Speaker 2: Yeah, they got they got after him.
Speaker 8: I didn't see it, but like where he was sitting
Speaker 8: the sweet It's so weird because it's out in the open.
Speaker 8: Basically you have the fans riding your face, like literally
Speaker 8: riding your face and everybody's just booing and yelling, and
Speaker 8: like Jerry's just sitting there looking straight and all these
Speaker 8: fans are literally right.
Speaker 2: Ye mean yeah, we have the press boxes and so uncomfortable. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and Jerry keeps the windows open on that thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So I mean that's tough. That's a tough way.
Speaker 7: I just thought it was very aware for an owner
Speaker 7: to be sitting this.
Speaker 2: We can't have something to play for to be the
Speaker 2: sixth seed. It'll be interesting to see how they you know,
Speaker 2: I was thinking if they had things wrapped up, how
Speaker 2: would Mike play us. Mike seems to be much like
Speaker 2: an honor guy, play it on the end. Like sometimes
Speaker 2: you get these teams that like will mail it in
Speaker 2: at the end, at the very end, and it'll be
Speaker 2: like a preseason game. I kind of think that if Mike,
Speaker 2: I think Mike would continue to play this with the try,
Speaker 2: with trying to win, just to make sure the integrity
Speaker 2: of the game. How many times have you been in
Speaker 2: a situation, well, so and so has to win and
Speaker 2: they're like, no, waiting, hell, they're gonna win, They're not
Speaker 2: gonna try today. I think Mike's the opposite of that
Speaker 2: I think Mike is going to try and win. I'll
Speaker 2: be interested to see if he play, if he starts,
Speaker 2: if he starts Trey Lance though.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the interesting thing is will Washington play.
Speaker 7: Start Lance at this point if.
Speaker 5: You want to just I think it's clear in my opinion,
Speaker 5: I just think it's clear that they just don't have
Speaker 5: much faith in him.
Speaker 2: No, that's that's probably right.
Speaker 5: I mean, because if they did, there's been every reason
Speaker 5: for them to get him more involved in the game.
Speaker 3: They just have it. So the only thing I'm left
Speaker 3: to believe is that they just.
Speaker 2: Don't commanders have something to play for, because they could
Speaker 2: be the sixth seed. If they win, they're the sixth seed.
Speaker 2: If they lose in Green Bay wins, they could be
Speaker 2: the seventh seed. And now you then they'll go to Philly.
Speaker 2: If you're the sixth seed, you go to play the Rams.
Speaker 2: The Rams have been struggling to score some points here
Speaker 2: of a late So who who do you want? And
Speaker 2: besides that, with everything being crazy the way it is,
Speaker 2: if you're the sixth seed and all of a sudden
Speaker 2: it falls funny where all the top teams that are
Speaker 2: you know, they lose games, you want to be in
Speaker 2: the best position to host a game. Didn't the Rams
Speaker 2: do that one year when they went to the Super Bowl? Yeah,
Speaker 2: you know, everything fell apart next to you know, they're
Speaker 2: on the Rams on the road, and then they get
Speaker 2: to host the NFC Championship game.
Speaker 5: There's a weather part to that too, having to go
Speaker 5: to Philly. Yeah, you don't know what you're going to
Speaker 5: get weather. That's a great point versus having to go
Speaker 5: to la Well, you know it's going to be seventy
Speaker 5: two degrees and dry you're inside.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know that Washington has a reason to play
Speaker 2: this week. They really really do. Yeh, whether they want
Speaker 2: to go to Philly or go to the Rams.
Speaker 3: Yeh. All right, I appreciate you, guys. Jones. We'll be
Speaker 3: back tomorrow. We'll start moving forward.
Speaker 2: People want to dress, by the way, well.
Speaker 5: We have a lot of we have a lot of
Speaker 5: a lot of questions I'm sure Brian will have for
Speaker 5: us Tomorrow. We might do a whole show of Brian's
Speaker 5: brain and what kind of questions he can come up
Speaker 5: with us, just.
Speaker 2: You and I and Tommy tomorrow.
Speaker 3: Right, we're doing We're doing a lot of people have
Speaker 3: decided they're leaving US. So it's gonna I.
Speaker 7: Was replaced like this, it's.
Speaker 5: Gonna be a whole different but but definitely looking back tomorrow.
Speaker 5: So then for Brian Brad Stambergarci, I'm Derek Eagleton. This
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