WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: After the Whistle 0:00:02.120 --> 0:00:04.240 The following. He is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:06.160 Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:15.960 No Cowboys This he's Talking Cowboys Straining live from. 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:19.000 The Dallas Cowboys World Head Course at the Star in Frisco. 0:00:21.000 --> 0:00:25.640 Touchdown six second past ten, twenty patient. 0:00:25.520 --> 0:00:32.400 Touchdown and now your hosts Isaiah Standback, Patrick Walker, Josh Rodriguez, 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:34.239 and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:40.800 It's a Talking Tuesday edition of Talking Cowboys, presented by 0:00:40.920 --> 0:00:44.000 Black Rifle Coffee Company, live from the Star in Frisco, 0:00:44.240 --> 0:00:48.800 Texas and the SWBC Studios. Welcome in, everybody. We've got 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:51.040 the whole cast and crew ready to rock for you today. 0:00:51.080 --> 0:00:55.960 We've got Patrick Noci Walker, Isaiah Stanback, Josh Rodriguez with 0:00:56.120 --> 0:00:56.959 Chris Beam in the back. 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:01.040 I'm Kyle Yeomans. Thirty four to ten Cowboys fall. 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:05.600 Houston Texans hand the Cowboys their seventh loss of the season. 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:11.200 They are now three and seven, ten games in. But 0:01:11.319 --> 0:01:12.199 there's still a chance. 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:16.480 Kyle, no quarterback, no tight end, no three fifths of 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:20.480 your offensive line, no edge rushers, no. 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:22.880 Corners, step on the field and you play a game. 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:24.480 You have a chance to run the table and get 0:01:24.520 --> 0:01:26.040 seventh straight. You have a chance. 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.320 So the best case scenario is you roll off seven 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:31.640 straight and you're ten and seven and. 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:34.120 You may get in. Yeah, but look at the team. 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.080 Look at the teams that you're playing that are left, Kyle, 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:39.559 there's so much optimism left, and you're. 0:01:39.440 --> 0:01:46.720 Gonna want we scored on that man? Are he's most 0:01:46.800 --> 0:01:49.200 of these teams, Most of the teams playoff team, Most 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:51.240 of the teams are about to play have losing records. Yeah, 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:53.960 you're gonna win some games, but come on, no seat, 0:01:54.080 --> 0:01:54.320 are you? 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:55.520 Yes? 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:05.280 I like the story of that reality. See yeah, come on, Kyle, 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:06.560 all listen. 0:02:07.680 --> 0:02:10.720 They're even if they know put this in science lab 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:12.359 last week, so check out check it out on the 0:02:12.440 --> 0:02:14.280 dot com, ladies and gentlemen. Even if the Cowboys had 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.200 won this game, their playoff odds would have gone. 0:02:17.040 --> 0:02:23.280 To a whopping there's a chance. 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:28.840 Because they lost, and it now drops to less than 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:32.000 one percent. They have a less than one percent chance 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:40.160 of making the playoffs. But right, I mean, mathematically speaking, 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:42.959 they have not been eliminated from the playoffs as we 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:46.720 have this conversation. Realistically speaking, don't expect them to be 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:48.799 in the playoffs as we have this conversation. 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.800 Listen, you cannot count them moundtil stuff starts falling from 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:52.080 this guy. 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:57.320 Oh well, I'm not going to hit that. We're not 0:02:57.400 --> 0:02:59.800 going to talk about that. We're not going to talk 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:01.959 about that. But this guy is falling. 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:07.359 Yes, absolutely proverbially speaking, Yeah you did. 0:03:07.560 --> 0:03:07.760 Yeah. 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:12.200 So yeah, things aren't well right now with the Dallas 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:13.520 Cowboys thirty four to ten. 0:03:14.200 --> 0:03:16.560 And I mean, there were good things in this game. 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.680 A lot of people were talk talking about all the bad. 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:22.079 There's a lot of bad, don't get me wrong. There's 0:03:22.080 --> 0:03:23.799 a spurt of good, but there was a little Yeah, 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:26.280 there's a like in between the first and the fourth 0:03:26.360 --> 0:03:29.280 quarters where you gave up fourteen unanswered points, you felt 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:30.680 decent about your second. 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:31.360 Takes a quarter. 0:03:31.840 --> 0:03:33.280 It's good spurts. 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.040 It's more than what we've had in the past. It 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.720 felt worse than what it was. I think it was ugly, 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:41.040 but it felt worse than what it actually was. I mean, 0:03:41.040 --> 0:03:42.480 you didn't have a bunch of turnovers. You put the 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:44.120 ball on the ground a bunch of times, but you 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.320 didn't have a bunch of turnovers. You were in I 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.280 don't think you're supposed to do that either. No, you're 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:49.960 definitely not supposed to do that, but I mean, you 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:53.839 should have had at least at least five interceptions. 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.280 Should have but you didn't, right, but you should have. 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:58.360 One of the most shocking things. 0:03:58.400 --> 0:04:00.360 I don't think Houston played very well, and I don't 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:02.520 think they're a really great team either. 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.840 I agree with you on both points. I just wonder 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.760 if Houston is caught in the in their own hype. 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:13.400 It's like my late grandma used to say, you're smelling yourself, right, Yeah, 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:17.880 I mean the coming off of the playoff berth last season, 0:04:18.000 --> 0:04:19.599 and then they kind of raded off to a hot 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.200 start this season and the kind of started feeling themselves 0:04:22.240 --> 0:04:24.600 and forgot that they got to actually play up to 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:27.039 a particular standard every single week, which is why they 0:04:27.080 --> 0:04:29.040 were on the two game losing streak in the first place, 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:29.640 one of those. 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:31.560 Losses being to the Jets. 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:35.480 Of all teams, they were competitive against the Lions, but 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:37.479 they let the Lions come back in the second half. 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.159 But if you saw what they were doing against the Cowboys, 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:41.839 it did feel like they were playing down a bit. 0:04:41.920 --> 0:04:44.240 But the Cowboys could have taken advantage of that, and 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.040 they just found ways to not take advantage of it. 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.840 So you know, whether it be lack of execution. Like 0:04:50.960 --> 0:04:53.320 you talk about the the interception from Cooper Rush, which 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:57.640 looked like a miscommunication between Rush and Ceedee Lamb. 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:00.760 Maybe I don't think he got knocked on the rock. Okay, 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:01.560 six yards deep? 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:04.080 It could have been should have been a legal contact. 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:05.479 It was definitely six yards. 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:07.720 They were talking about it on the broadcast and they're like, 0:05:07.880 --> 0:05:09.840 I could have been and then he was like, no, 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:11.880 I was right on the border of five yards. 0:05:11.920 --> 0:05:13.440 It's like, okay, I'm gonna count one. 0:05:14.520 --> 0:05:16.400 Sitting right next to Kyle when the game this morning, 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:18.240 I was like, that's a legal contact. 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:20.800 Yeah, fair enough, So we'll delete that. But what you 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:25.400 can't delete is the fake punt attempt interception and the 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:29.320 desperation move and the fourth down first, the decision to 0:05:29.360 --> 0:05:30.960 go for it on fourth down instead of take that 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.560 field goal. You took three points off of the board there. 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:35.240 That's six points that were left on the field if 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:39.280 you include Brandon Aubrey missing, and then I mean we'll 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:41.680 get into the point downhill from there. Yeah, we'll get 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.160 into the whole. I don't know, find me a new 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.240 table to stand on, because apparently the one I'm standing 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:47.359 on is just not working. 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:48.119 The Trey Lance. 0:05:49.200 --> 0:05:49.680 What what? 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:50.320 What? 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:54.680 Why not? Why not? Because he's not a good quarterback? Patrick, 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:58.120 That's where I'm saying he's not a good quarterback. Can 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:02.080 ask you a question, Yes, okay, you if you believe 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:04.320 let me free it this way? 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:09.239 When you're first in goal, yeah, and you can't score 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:12.719 and you can't score, yeah, would you would you prefer 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:14.800 to see Trey Lance in on that situation? 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:16.239 Yeah? Probably? 0:06:16.320 --> 0:06:19.000 Okay, So that means in that situation at least he's 0:06:19.040 --> 0:06:21.360 the better and that he's a better option. 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:22.520 He's a threat. 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:26.440 So we can agree, we can split the baby, and 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:30.440 we can agree situations where Trey Lance is a better option, yes, 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.039 and yet we are not seeing him on the field 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:34.560 in those circumstances at all. 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.640 But McCarthy was very clear in his press conference though 0:06:37.680 --> 0:06:40.880 that you know he regrets not putting Tree Lance there 0:06:40.920 --> 0:06:42.359 in correct, so. 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:46.200 Find being for what he did say it. Yeah, I 0:06:47.520 --> 0:06:49.440 he's owning it. That's the thing that we talked about 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:50.720 a couple of weeks ago. I agree with you. 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.240 I think they should utilize both guys. I think they 0:06:53.240 --> 0:06:55.840 should utilize Cooper Rush and Trey Lance. But if you're 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:57.520 telling me Trey Lance is going to make the difference 0:06:57.560 --> 0:06:59.240 between a thirty four to ten football game. 0:06:59.320 --> 0:07:01.080 No, it's not to happen, period. 0:07:01.120 --> 0:07:04.960 It was never My stance was evaluate them and if 0:07:05.040 --> 0:07:08.360 you if your argument, if your argument is that Cooper 0:07:08.440 --> 0:07:11.440 Rush gives you the best chance to win, the only 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.560 way to prove to me that your goal is in 0:07:14.680 --> 0:07:17.040 fact to win that game. If that is that that's 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:20.240 your goal, if that's your take, is in those situations 0:07:20.280 --> 0:07:23.040 wherein Trey Lance gives you the better chance of either 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:25.720 moving the chains or getting into the end zone, why 0:07:25.840 --> 0:07:26.800 is he not on the field. 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:30.680 Because I don't think McCarthy believes that. I think McCarthy 0:07:30.760 --> 0:07:32.920 believes Cooper Rush is the best chance to win. 0:07:33.360 --> 0:07:35.600 Because Ry Jones that it goes back to what, wait, 0:07:35.600 --> 0:07:37.880 does he regret what we've talked about it? I don't know. 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.240 J Jones said, again, that's McCarthy's thing. 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:42.239 We've talked about this before. 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.480 This is an evaluation process for everybody that is going 0:07:45.560 --> 0:07:48.240 to be around the Cowboys for a significant period of time. 0:07:48.480 --> 0:07:50.440 I don't think you can look at that coaching staff right. 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:52.320 Now and say one of those guys is going to 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:55.160 be here for a significant period of time. Everyone is 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:59.040 in question. Everyone on the staff on the staff right now. 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.800 So if they're not looking to evaluate. 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:06.240 They're looking to win games. And as sucky as it is, 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:07.480 you just don't have. 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:10.480 A very good football team, whether it's by injuries or 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:12.800 by depth. We talked about at the beginning of the 0:08:12.880 --> 0:08:15.000 year this show. We sat on this show in training 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:17.120 camp and said, the depth on this team is not 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:17.760 very good. 0:08:18.160 --> 0:08:19.720 We do not have a ton of depth. 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:21.320 You said it, You said it, you said it, I 0:08:21.440 --> 0:08:25.320 said it. And if there were injuries and specific spots 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:26.720 on the roster, and. 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:28.720 There were a lot of them, there will be problems. 0:08:28.960 --> 0:08:29.520 We got more. 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.040 Oh my goodness, yes you're ready for those news, and 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.439 but why not since we're just going ahead and your hand, 0:08:35.640 --> 0:08:36.679 I'm slapping somebody with the other. 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:40.280 Yeah, I'm here for I'm here for playing off of 0:08:40.360 --> 0:08:44.800 each other since you break up injuries. So we're not 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:46.959 going to have a ton of information quite yet because 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.160 it's a quick turnaround to this show from a prime 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:50.199 time game last night. 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:51.400 But here's what we do know. 0:08:51.760 --> 0:08:54.240 We do know that Jake Ferguson is officially in the 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:57.160 concussion protocol. That does not bold well for the Pro 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.719 Bowl tight end. Because this is a short week going 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:03.560 into to the Washington Commander's game, and it is very unlikely. 0:09:03.640 --> 0:09:06.079 We'll see how he progresses, but it is very unlikely 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:09.480 that Ferguson clears concussion protocol in time to make the 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:13.560 flight to the nation's capital to take on Dan Quinn 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:18.199 and those guys. Zach Martin, who has been dealing with 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:22.480 several issues, a back issue several weeks ago, shoulder issue 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:25.120 as recently as this week, and an ankle issue that 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:27.800 was prior to going into this game. He was knocked 0:09:27.800 --> 0:09:30.720 out of this game with an ankle issue. The other 0:09:30.920 --> 0:09:35.360 ankle okay, so future first ballot Hall of Famer. All 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:37.720 we can do is keep our fingers crossed and hope 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:41.040 that those weren't the final snaps for Zack Martin in 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.679 a Dallas Cowboys uniform. More information to come on that 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:47.000 as the yes the next several days move forward. Let's 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:49.800 keep it to the offensive line, because apparently fate hates 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:51.040 us so much. 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:52.160 Tyler Smith. 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.440 Not long after you lose Zach Martin to an ankle injury, 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:57.960 you lose Tyler Smith to an injury. 0:09:58.040 --> 0:09:59.800 What was the injury? An ankle injury? 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:04.120 Can't make this stuff up, man, two words. Murphy's long 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:06.960 so Tyler Smith also dealing with the ankle injury. Now, 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.719 I will say Tyler spoke. Smith spoke in the locker room, 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:15.600 and he was in solid spirits in regards to the injury. 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.280 He didn't sound too concerned about it. Obviously, he voiced 0:10:18.280 --> 0:10:20.840 a lot of frustration for what's going on with the season, 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:24.760 how it's kind of circling the porcelain bowl. But he 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.959 said that you know, he's a competitor quote unquote, I'm 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.520 not fin a tank. I'm not Finnah go in the tank. 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:34.000 End quote. But nonetheless, we don't know what his availability 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.839 will be like on a short week either. So you 0:10:37.040 --> 0:10:40.000 have your two guards. That should be it for the offense. No, 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.800 that's not it for the offensive line because Tyler Geyton 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.160 was also knocked out of the game on a play 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:51.240 that involved not one fumble but two fumbles. Because the 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:56.120 offensive tackles in Dallas like to that. Yeah, they like 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:59.280 to become ball carriers. So on the play we're we're in, 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:03.880 Cooper us fumbled because the pressure was allowed by Tyler 0:11:03.960 --> 0:11:07.800 guydon pressure gets there, Cooper Rush fumbles. Tyler Goyton gets 0:11:07.880 --> 0:11:12.040 the ball that run and he gets absolutely lit up 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:13.760 and he fumbles and he. 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:16.000 Did not come back in the game after that. So 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:18.199 shoulder injury is what he entered the game with. 0:11:18.920 --> 0:11:20.880 And if you go back and look at the film 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:23.599 of that hit right dead on the shoulder, on that 0:11:23.800 --> 0:11:27.280 exact shoulder. So we don't know that Tyler Gotton will 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.920 be ready to go against Washington. So before I give 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:33.880 you this fifth and final injury from yesterday, you have 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:38.600 Tyler Goton, Tyler Smith, Zach Martin. You have three starters 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:41.600 on your offensive line who may or may not play 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:45.599 against the Commanders as you try to keep three and 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:49.760 eight away. So good luck Marquise Bell. He suffered a 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:55.439 marquis shoulder injury. Shoulder, Yeah, he walked out. 0:11:55.559 --> 0:11:59.080 Yeah bad. Initially it's bad. Yeah, it looks bad. 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.079 And I don't want to say probably, we'll wait for 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:03.880 more tests, but it does look bad. 0:12:04.000 --> 0:12:07.360 Does not look promising. Hoping for the best for Marquis Bell. 0:12:08.160 --> 0:12:09.800 Not to speculate, but it kind of looked like it 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:11.400 was like a hyper extension. 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:15.200 It just it looked very It wasn't where it's supposed 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:15.280 to be. 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:18.599 Yeah, a couple So the Cowboys entered this game with 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:22.439 eighteen guys on the injury report and they just added 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.360 some more as far as because Marquis Bell wasn't on 0:12:25.440 --> 0:12:29.599 there for one, Tyler Smith on there, but those that 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:33.840 are on there that but it's worse now, So they 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:35.640 didn't escape clean or anything remotely. 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:38.000 Things just continue to get worse for the cous. 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.280 And only have five days to play the next game. 0:12:40.200 --> 0:12:43.839 Right before travel. Yeah, and then you turn around you 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:45.920 play on Thursday too, So three. 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:50.400 Years, all of all the times to have this new spurt, 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:53.640 you like spurts, this new spurt of injuries. 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:55.400 Were getting spurted on for sure. 0:12:57.960 --> 0:12:59.480 Yeah, that's about right. 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:06.000 So that brings my conversation piece to kind of what 0:13:06.120 --> 0:13:07.960 Jerry Jones said on the Fan today because he had 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:09.760 some updates on one oh five three the Fan. 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.040 Initially earlier this. 0:13:13.080 --> 0:13:17.600 Season, he was asked how do injuries affect your evaluation 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:20.599 of the coaching staff, and he, at least in the 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:22.839 initial interview, said it doesn't affect it. We're going to 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:27.000 evaluate the coaching staff as its own, as its own entity, 0:13:27.240 --> 0:13:28.040 as its own thing. 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:30.080 Injuries are a part of the game, so we're going 0:13:30.160 --> 0:13:31.400 to evaluate as such. 0:13:32.080 --> 0:13:34.960 He was asked the same question today and he had 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:38.840 a different answer to He said, absolutely it does change. 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:40.400 The way that we look at the coaching staff. 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.360 So I don't want to talk about jobs or lost 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:47.160 thereof or anything like that, but just from a microcosm 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:50.920 of the twenty twenty four season, how much can you 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:55.480 put on injuries because it's starting to become unbelievable the 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:58.640 list that is being rolled out there a week to week. 0:13:58.720 --> 0:14:00.600 I like what Isaia said a couple of weeks ago, 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:02.679 where it's like the when you're losing like this, the 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:04.360 injury lists tends to grow. 0:14:05.840 --> 0:14:07.280 I think that's an apt. 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:11.600 Reasoning behind a lot of it, and obviously a lot 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:14.240 of bad luck too. I don't know what we did 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:18.800 god to deserve the injury bug that we've been bitten by, 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:23.440 but it is disheartening when you see your best players 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:26.240 go down like this. It's disheartening to see a player 0:14:26.360 --> 0:14:31.360 the caliber of Zach Martin struggle to stand up after 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:36.320 taking another injury to his different ankle, right, it is 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:38.240 really really disheartening. 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:40.960 I mean, it's just, yeah, it's not going our way, man. 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:43.800 And I don't think you can necessarily say it is 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:47.000 just the injuries, because before this, even at New York, 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.080 when you were at full strength for the most part, 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:53.480 it wasn't looking great. Granted he won that game, granted 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.400 you won Pittsburgh. It just it just felt like a down, 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:01.040 downward spiral, even with full health. I just don't think 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:05.920 this team was built to withstand the season. Like we 0:15:06.120 --> 0:15:08.560 talked about death coming into the season, and here we 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:09.600 gorease its head again. 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:14.440 That's where I am with it. The last thing, the 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:16.280 least portion of what Josh said, is kind of where 0:15:16.280 --> 0:15:18.960 I am with it. First of all, it's the NFL. 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:21.720 Every team deals with injuries, and I get it. Every 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:25.840 team deals with different levels of injuries, different magnitudes of injuries. 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:26.440 I get it. 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:31.880 That being said, they were playing bad football before the 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.720 injury started to ravage them. So for me, that means 0:15:35.760 --> 0:15:38.680 it's a wash for me because you were really low 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:42.720 on your playoff percentage as far as possibly making the playoffs. 0:15:42.760 --> 0:15:45.560 You were almost out the door before you lost that Prescott, 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:47.720 before you started to lose some of these other major guys. 0:15:47.800 --> 0:15:51.200 So you can blame some of this on the injuries. 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.920 But once this season is in the books, anyone who 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:57.480 comes up to me and tries to hang whatever this 0:15:57.600 --> 0:16:00.560 final record is solely on injuries, say, oh well, no, 0:16:00.680 --> 0:16:02.880 see it was because I'm going to laugh at you 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:07.320 that no injuries at after you got past the event 0:16:07.440 --> 0:16:11.200 horizon of virtually being eliminated from the playoffs, that's when 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:13.280 the injury bug really or when you were teetering there, 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:15.600 that's when the injury bug really started to kind of 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.440 make sure that you wouldn't make the playoffs. But you 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:21.520 got there before the injury bug went crazy. So yeah, 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:22.600 I think that's a watch for me. 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:24.920 What the Ravens did do you It's like that that 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:28.720 was what the Saints did do. That's that's the team 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:29.800 that Yeah, that was weak. 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:33.880 Two. Well, I completely agree with that sentiment because. 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:39.800 I think going into the Atlanta game, I'll say, going 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:43.080 into Atlanta, you probably thought that this is a normal 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:45.120 level of injuries outside. 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:47.960 Of maybe your edge rushers. Your edge rushers, you got 0:16:48.000 --> 0:16:50.040 decimated for sure, Yeah, all the way through. 0:16:50.120 --> 0:16:52.840 And you didn't have DeMarcus Lawrence, Sam Williams, Michael Parsons, 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:57.480 those guys. You you had one position that was overly 0:16:57.600 --> 0:17:00.360 decimated with injuries. Other than that, you have a healthy 0:17:00.440 --> 0:17:02.480 offensive line, you had a healthy running back room, you 0:17:02.560 --> 0:17:04.960 have a healthy wide receiver corps except for Brandon Cooks. 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:09.359 You've got a healthy linebacker corps. For the most part, 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:11.119 your corners are banged up, but. 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:14.520 At that point you only were really missing Doron Bland 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:15.679 as a guy that was going to be. 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.880 A starter moving forward, So your running back corps was whole. Yeah, 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:19.280 I said that. 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:23.640 So there's I think there's ways that you can look 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:25.800 at it and say, yeah, they were decimated by injuries 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:29.800 throughout the season. Absolutely in certain spots, but there are 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.800 a lot of parts of your football team that just 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:38.080 weren't having success with or without injuries previously. Now it's 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:41.600 snowball significantly, and it's not just like what Isaiah said 0:17:41.640 --> 0:17:43.240 last week where he was saying there's a difference between 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:46.520 being hurt and injured that I think that plays a 0:17:46.600 --> 0:17:48.320 factor in a season like this. There are just a 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:52.360 lot of guys that are actually injured, especially yesterday, Martin. 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:54.239 Being one of them, Bell being another one of them. 0:17:54.359 --> 0:17:57.560 Jake Ferguson Jerry Jones said this morning that he has 0:17:57.920 --> 0:18:00.119 some concern, a level of concern whenever it comes to 0:18:00.160 --> 0:18:02.560 the concussion because it was an immediate thing where he. 0:18:02.680 --> 0:18:03.600 Was pulled out of the game. 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:07.280 So this is this is a not only is it 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:10.480 a bad football team from what we saw previously, but 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:12.960 now it's a bad and banged up football team. That's 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:15.680 where we are for the twenty twenty four Dallas Cowboys. 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:19.200 And yet I still think that there's a glimmer of hope, 0:18:19.920 --> 0:18:20.600 young fellas. 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:21.240 I don't believe you. 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.080 It's okay, Kyle's I'm not here to convince you. 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:25.800 I'm just here to tell the truth. I want you 0:18:25.960 --> 0:18:28.160 to convince me. I don't need to convince you, Kyle. 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:29.359 The facts that are facts. 0:18:29.400 --> 0:18:32.040 These guys, if they can figure out how to muster 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:36.400 up some form of offense, this defense is starting to somewhat. 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:37.520 Look like they're respectable. 0:18:37.640 --> 0:18:41.399 M There's there's actual flashes there. Now you have Demo, 0:18:41.680 --> 0:18:44.040 you have Micah. Those guys are adding pressure. Those guys 0:18:44.040 --> 0:18:46.960 are causing problems for all the quarterbacks we were able 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:50.120 to see on third down situations. Demo, you know obviously, 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.880 now when you walk have Michael Parsons and a Demo 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:55.359 and the other guys up there Kendricks on the field, 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:56.840 and now all of a sudden, that double a gap 0:18:56.880 --> 0:18:58.399 looks a little bit better, it looks a little bit 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.600 more effective. I'm not saying up here trying to sell 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:04.600 wolf dreams at all. Woof tickets. But I think if 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:07.600 you can get something going on offense, you will see 0:19:07.640 --> 0:19:08.200 a spark. 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:10.159 I truly do think that you. 0:19:10.160 --> 0:19:13.679 Will see a spark because right now you're seeing flashes. Right, 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:15.960 it's like dog going like your car just won't turn over, 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:17.000 you know what I'm saying. 0:19:16.840 --> 0:19:20.520 Like this offense will turnover. 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:25.000