WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: The Week 4 Win 0:00:02.640 --> 0:00:05.200 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:17.000 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:17.000 --> 0:00:20.400 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:20.480 --> 0:00:31.600 Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian brought us, 0:00:32.120 --> 0:00:37.880 Rob Phillips, and Bill Jones. Can it be October already? 0:00:38.120 --> 0:00:42.680 Can it be Week five of the National Football League season? 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:47.760 Can it be a victory Monday at the Star? Welcome 0:00:47.880 --> 0:00:52.040 to Talking Cowboys, Bill Jones, Mickey Spagnola, Brian brought us, 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:57.160 Rob Phillips, Hello everybody, billow Jones, how are you going 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:00.400 very well? At a late night last night on CBS? Yeah? 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:03.040 Why were you guys so late? Because we CBS had 0:01:03.080 --> 0:01:07.119 the late game yesterday and it pushed us back, had 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.679 Giant Saints three twenty five, and so we go on 0:01:10.959 --> 0:01:13.240 late anyway at ten thirty and then if the game 0:01:13.319 --> 0:01:15.319 runs over. They showed the end of the San Francisco 0:01:16.400 --> 0:01:19.399 Charger game after that, and so we got done at 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:24.280 eleven fifty last night. Soon game. Huh, that's right, neon 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:27.800 game and you're done eleven fifty right? Yeah? Yeah? On 0:01:27.880 --> 0:01:31.039 a pregame show exactly at the stadium nine o'clock in 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.000 the morning exactly. But it's great to be here. I 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.319 hope everybody wasn't like me when you finished with the 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:41.080 Cowboys stuff, I went to bed. Well, the Cowboys stuff 0:01:41.080 --> 0:01:42.120 went all the way to the end of the day. 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:46.000 Now you started with golf and baseball, and don't start 0:01:46.000 --> 0:01:48.600 with no no, I said, you started when you started 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.120 doing it. I started start with it. You'll start with 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:55.760 ring Cowboys. That isn't want a Cowboys Sunday. I mean 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:57.640 even the Ryder Cup. Of course, the Ryder Cup, there 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:02.960 was nothing to report on from an American that we 0:02:03.040 --> 0:02:06.320 gave that twenty seconds at the very end. That's when 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:10.680 I left. You know how much time the Rangers got mention, 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:13.560 we got a farewell to Adrian Beltrey, and we got 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:17.079 fifteen seconds of the Rangers on man. I'll tell you what. 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:20.200 The ratings were much better last night than they have 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:22.560 been two of the first three weeks of the season, 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:25.200 because if the Cowboys win, they'll stay up to midnight 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:29.519 and watch you and they'll tune into talking Cowboys absolutely too. 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:33.600 All right, So what's the big take away from Sunday. 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:37.680 Let's start with the junior member of the four junior 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:43.720 member congratulation. It's higher than the good they Congratulations to 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.640 your aggies. You survived against the Hogs on Saturday. They 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:49.280 were they were mad, but thank you, thank you. Get 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:53.320 a buff to Jimbo Fisher. Welcome to Alabama this week. 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:58.160 Yeah yeah, good times. Right, um my takeaway, get that 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:01.519 breakfast spoon out, man Zeke eight and ate some more 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:04.519 and did it on a bad ankle and a sore knee, 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:07.200 as he said, And if they were gonna win this 0:03:07.200 --> 0:03:09.760 football game, they needed a game out of him like 0:03:09.840 --> 0:03:13.400 this one. And this, in my opinion, that's the best 0:03:13.440 --> 0:03:16.040 game I've seen him play as a Dallas cowboy when 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:18.480 you factor in how banged up he was and how 0:03:18.560 --> 0:03:20.680 much he was limping in the locker room after the 0:03:20.720 --> 0:03:23.840 game with you know, whatever was bothering him. It seemed 0:03:23.840 --> 0:03:25.600 to happen sometime in the first half. He missed a 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:28.600 couple of plays. But when you see what he did 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.000 running the ball and especially receiving the ball, and I 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:33.600 know we'll get into that. He just showed these complete 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:39.920 running back and they leaned on him. No, but we 0:03:40.040 --> 0:03:43.240 haven't seen him that dominant yet this season. And a 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.840 lot of it was opportunity said, hey, look what happens 0:03:45.840 --> 0:03:47.800 when you get a two score lead in the second half, 0:03:47.880 --> 0:03:49.200 you know you can kind of lean on him a 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:51.360 little bit, and sure that boy, they had to lean 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:52.960 on him in the last drive as well too. May 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:55.240 I heard it in his voice last week in the 0:03:55.240 --> 0:03:57.680 locker room. There was passion in his voice that I 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:01.080 hadn't heard, and he was bound and determined to not 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:03.320 only get his season on trap, they get this team 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.760 on track. I think. Yeah. Dak said the same thing 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:08.440 that when he called them up after their warm ups, 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:12.800 that he could tell the excitement in his voice, and 0:04:12.920 --> 0:04:17.120 he said on the postgame TV show that he basically 0:04:17.200 --> 0:04:19.760 told everybody this game is going to define our season. 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:21.680 We're are they going to be one in that attitude 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:23.880 they needed to have going into that and if we win, 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:26.719 we're two and two and things will be a lot better. 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.239 And I think they kind of played that way listening 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:31.520 to him. It's not often the game week four of 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.120 the season is the crossroads point of your season, but 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.120 I think that was yesterday. So if anybody thinks they 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:40.640 wanted to dismiss that it didn't matter when he missed 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:45.040 six games last year, just circle this performance. Yeah, I 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:47.479 tell you what I love what Rob said that. I 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:50.360 love with what we saw with the offensive line. Yeah, 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:52.760 I thought that. You know, when you look at their 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:57.359 ability to run, block to hats on hats, you know, 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:59.400 the tough running they got, they got help from the 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.159 wide receiver. They're tight ends actually helped in the running 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:05.760 game this week. You know, that's something that they had 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.839 to do. Everybody the buzzword was about wrinkles. It really 0:05:09.000 --> 0:05:12.320 was about more about getting back to what they do well. 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:14.920 This team. We've talked about it a bunch. They're not 0:05:14.960 --> 0:05:18.560 the Rams, but they have an identity when they run 0:05:18.600 --> 0:05:22.200 the football, they could be very difficult to defend. They 0:05:22.240 --> 0:05:25.360 put the quarterback in some situations play action wise where 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:29.000 it helped him. He made some quality throws. He missed 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:31.039 a couple here and there, but overall, you'd take his 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:34.800 stat line every day. The way he played. Mickey got 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:37.920 his protection yesterday to throw the football. I think that 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:41.560 was a real big, big plus. The thing that it 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.200 was a little bit disheartened to me. Oh, another positive 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.560 for me was the defense. I didn't think they could 0:05:47.560 --> 0:05:50.400 get pressure on this guy. I really did, and it 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:52.760 came early with a slot blitz on third down. It 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.479 kind of affected the way through. They were able to 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:57.680 take advantage of t J. Lange being out of the 0:05:57.720 --> 0:05:59.960 game at guard. I think that kind of a mess. 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.440 The lines up in a couple of different ways. My 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:05.400 biggest concern though, was the past defense, because I thought 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:07.239 that was going to be a strength of this team 0:06:07.279 --> 0:06:09.440 in the first three weeks. It really was the strength 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.360 of this team. But they caught a different animal yesterday. 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:15.400 Those three wide receivers are outstanding, The quarterbacks out standing 0:06:15.400 --> 0:06:17.840 for the Lions. I worried that was going to be 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:20.000 a repeat of the Green Bay game where all of 0:06:20.040 --> 0:06:21.440 a sudden, you know, they get the ball at the 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:22.920 end and they just kind of drive it on you 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.080 and scored ten seconds left. But you know, maybe maybe 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.320 a breakdown in the secondary helped you, you know, get 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:30.640 two seventeen on the clock so you can finish that 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:34.760 thing out. But time right, Yeah, But I just you know, 0:06:35.040 --> 0:06:37.480 it's a tough it's a tough matchup when you deal 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:39.480 with those guys. It's you know, we knew it going 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:42.760 in that those receivers are capable of doing that. We're 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:46.440 doing radio over here'd be okay, checking your voicemail. I'm 0:06:46.440 --> 0:06:49.560 trying to turn the volume down. Okay, well maybe we 0:06:49.680 --> 0:06:54.040 do that before we walk in. Well we waited for 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.520 you again. But you know, but anyway, it's it's you know, 0:06:57.600 --> 0:06:59.440 that's the things that you know, if you look at 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.240 the game. I said, the things offensively fell for him 0:07:02.279 --> 0:07:04.720 the right way, and that's good. I mean that they 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.080 did what they had to do defensively. They've got some 0:07:07.120 --> 0:07:10.040 work in that secondary to kind of figure some things out. 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:16.040 What do you think I thought it was about execution, execution, execution, 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:19.000 and don't make mistakes, like make sure you turn off 0:07:19.000 --> 0:07:22.720 your phone before you come into a But I you know, 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:26.480 I think there's a narrative out there that they fed Zeke. Well, 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:30.240 they fed Zeke last week two, but they didn't execute 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:32.760 last week. Zeke stepped out of bounds on a thirty 0:07:32.760 --> 0:07:36.080 one yard touchdown pass, he dropped a third down pass, 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:38.400 he fumbled it a long run. But if you look 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:42.320 at through three quarters of this week's game, Zeke had 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:45.440 twenty touches and the Cowboys had a ten point lead. 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.600 I'll bet you anything three quarters of last week's game 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:50.440 he had. They had tried to get the ball to 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:54.040 him eighteen times. Now, there were miscues on three of 0:07:54.080 --> 0:07:57.640 those and they were trailing by eighteen points, and so 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.680 that's why he didn't wind up with the pretty touches 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:03.480 that he had yesterday. I'll bet you anything in Detroit 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:06.120 right now, the talking heads are saying, carry on, Johnson. 0:08:06.160 --> 0:08:08.640 We got nine carries for fifty five yards the average 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:11.640 six yards of carry. They're behind in the second half, right, 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:14.760 And that's Zeke said it. To your point, Brian, we 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:16.440 got back to our old self and a lot of 0:08:16.480 --> 0:08:18.960 that is building a lead and wearing a defense down. 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.680 About two penalties for twenty yards, Well, we saw on 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:24.520 that one drive. I guess it was maybe in the 0:08:24.520 --> 0:08:28.160 third quarter where there was a ten yard penalty. Una. 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:30.960 It was maybe their first penalty of the game. They 0:08:31.000 --> 0:08:33.880 had no penalties that have to had one on special teams, okay, 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:36.559 so it was on offense. They had one penalty. They 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:39.200 were driving down the field and it was around the 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.440 thirty yard line. They had a hold or something like that. 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:44.400 I can't remember what it was in the back. Was 0:08:45.320 --> 0:08:47.440 that there was a block in the back, Yeah, and 0:08:47.760 --> 0:08:50.280 it set them back. I heard Mickey across the press box. 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.559 He didn't love that one, yeah, and then had a 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.080 block knock the hell out of him. Don't just have 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:58.520 your hands there. Nothing happened, But that was an illustration 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:03.120 of one mistake on the drive, even if it wasn't 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:06.480 a legitimate penalty, whatever, one mistake sets this team back 0:09:06.480 --> 0:09:09.160 and they can't overcome the one mistake. That's what happened 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:11.720 in Seattle last week. That's what happened the week in 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:15.439 Week one against Carolina. You get one mistake on a drive, 0:09:15.720 --> 0:09:18.120 you get behind the chains, and you can't overcome that. 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:22.240 This team right now doesn't have the ability to overcome that. Yesterday, though, 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:25.640 throughout the game, they were on point and they did 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:29.079 not make those mistakes, and the result was they had 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:31.880 a ten point lead going into the fourth quarter and 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.680 they almost blew that. Needed every bit of that exactly, 0:09:34.760 --> 0:09:38.400 you know. And and they gave Detroit credit for three sacks, 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.720 not five or six like they did when they got 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:45.120 beat and one sack he was running and he didn't 0:09:45.160 --> 0:09:47.000 get out of bounds. Then they gave him a sack 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:49.320 for a one yard loss instead of throwing the ball away. 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.880 So really two sacks really well the other one too, 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.559 he just turned his back right and she just gotten 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:57.240 rid of the ball to kick him out of field 0:09:57.280 --> 0:09:59.760 goal range. Yeah, he pentally spin out when he should 0:09:59.760 --> 0:10:02.600 have just that was the play with the drive with 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:04.640 the penalty the right. Yeah, and then he only got 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.520 hit four times instead of ten times. So now you 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:11.560 got time for routes developed down the field. And it's like, oh, 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.160 they threw deep to Michael Gallup. Well, they've thrown deep 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:16.520 to him before, right, You know a lot of times 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:18.679 they either didn't hit or he didn't catch it. And 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.319 this was a pretty contested catch he made. As a 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:24.000 matter of fact, he bobbled it like twice before he 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:27.800 pulled it in. So when you make plays and you execute, 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:30.800 when you protect the quarterback, then you can get two 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.360 hundred and fifty five yards passing. But when the guys 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:36.160 on his butt the whole game, it's really hard to 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:38.560 throw for two hundred yards. But if you want to 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:40.800 talk about wrinkles, they did take some deep shots early 0:10:40.840 --> 0:10:43.120 in the game, and some of that is no cuddle. Yeah, 0:10:42.880 --> 0:10:46.440 no huddle was more of a couple of weeks here 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:49.079 that they needed to go tempo. Yep, that was more 0:10:49.120 --> 0:10:53.040 of the wrinkle than anything else. They went huntle real quick. 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:55.199 They didn't wait to round and as you wrote about, 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:59.400 I mean try to wear down those big Detroit linemens. Yeah, 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:03.320 I mean they I think it was if the Cowboys 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:05.280 would have never substituted, they could have played it a 0:11:05.320 --> 0:11:08.760 lot faster pace. But you can you saw clearly Jeff 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:10.920 rights the umpire. He has to stand over the ball 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:15.080 until the substitutions are made. And so that's where I 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:17.120 mean they if they would have Cowboys would just kept 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:19.760 say eleven personnel maybe on the field the whole time. 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:21.840 Boom there, they could have they could have played a 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:24.480 lot faster in that game, though, so, uh, you know, 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.160 hats off to uh, you know, to the coaching staff. 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:28.680 They did have a good I thought it had a 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.440 really good game plan when you you know, but like 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:35.200 everything everybody's mentioned here, the execution, the blocking, you know, 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:39.160 the coreback. Everything about that game offensively was how this 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:42.160 team is capable of playing. You know that. That's that's 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:43.920 how they That's how they're gonna have to win games. 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:47.240 They're gonna have to win games running the football, play action, 0:11:48.200 --> 0:11:51.040 the receivers making plays when they can make plays, take 0:11:51.160 --> 0:11:53.400 some shots down the field, throw a screen pass for 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:55.880 a big play. A lineman did a heck of a 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:57.960 job of getting out in space, not only on the 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:02.160 screenplays and stuff, but running the foot, pulling tackles, pulling guards, 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:04.680 pulling centers. You know, if you're gonna play four man 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:08.120 front against this team, get ready for number seventy to 0:12:08.200 --> 0:12:10.079 be on the edge blocking for you. Be ready for 0:12:10.200 --> 0:12:12.920 number fifty two being on the edge blocking. You know, 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.040 those are things that are all very very positive. And 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.120 if you're able to get teams to spread out and 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:20.079 have to defend that, now things are going to happen 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.679 up for you inside they can't crowd things up in there, 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:24.960 and you can maybe take a few more of those 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:27.719 opportunities to run the ball inside, like what they were 0:12:27.760 --> 0:12:30.600 doing with the readoption stuff. And number seventy three getting 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:32.480 out there and blocking two like I know, we call 0:12:32.559 --> 0:12:35.520 him Jumbo Joe, and he's jolly blocking some stuff for 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:38.000 him yesterday. And god, he was down there at the 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:40.600 end zone helping free Zeke to get into the end 0:12:40.679 --> 0:12:43.240 zone on that screen, all three offensive linemen on their 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:45.840 feet blocking, and that's key when you get guys outside 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:47.560 and you get linemen use the old cut and on 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:50.640 the ground and it looks bad, but all three of 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:53.520 their offensive linemen were up and running down the field 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:57.160 as that play was developing. Zack Martin said, Joe Looney's 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.920 the fastest offensive linemen on the team. He said, don't 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:03.720 go to sleep by Joe's speed, But he was down 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:07.600 there running quickly. I got to look up Joe Looney's speed. Well, 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:12.960 I'm sure, Zach never stop watch to him. We're gonna ask. 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.960 We're gonna ask him tuesday, you know. To your point, Thoughbrien, 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:19.680 about the defense, and I don't think there shouldn't have 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:24.000 been anyone in the stadium that was surprised when the 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.920 Cowboys go up, they drive eighty five yards in sixteen plays, 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:31.800 take eight minutes, and then they have to settle for 0:13:31.880 --> 0:13:35.120 a field goal in a six point lead. There should 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.959 have been nobody in that stadium or watching on TV 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.480 surprise that Matthew Stafford was able to drive seventy five 0:13:41.520 --> 0:13:44.560 yards in six plays for a touchdown, and for that matter, 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.320 or even the drive before that. And that's where I've 0:13:47.360 --> 0:13:51.120 been concerned about the Dallas defense from the beginning of 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:54.480 the season. From that standpoint, when you go up against 0:13:54.480 --> 0:13:58.040 a potent offense that has to score, can you stop 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:00.520 can you stop them? Because that was not the case 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:04.000 against Carolina or Seattle, because of what especially by because 0:14:04.000 --> 0:14:07.320 of what was happening with Dallas. Offensively, once those teams 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:11.280 got leaves, they shut it down offensively, right, and so 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:17.320 you Stafford, And also to your point, I mean, the 0:14:17.400 --> 0:14:20.840 saving grace for the Cowboys is that they scored fast 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:22.640 enough that they left enough time on the clock for 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:25.680 they left two seventeen. Yeah, they left them two seventeen. 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:29.479 I think the thing that it was the most disheartening 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.680 to me, you know, with with offensively, if you want 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:34.680 to say it, is the fact that you know, the 0:14:34.720 --> 0:14:38.480 Austin drop costs them four points. And then also too 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:40.880 though you look at the you know not you know, 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:42.800 the past. You can say what you want the pasta 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.680 Rico gathers, whether it was well designed or poorly thrown 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.200 or whatever. You know, you can take whatever opinion you 0:14:48.240 --> 0:14:51.240 want there. But that was another opportunity right there. I mean, 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:53.840 you know, back in the day, and I was I 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:56.880 just again had these flashbacks of Green Bay in my 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:00.240 head last year, where you leave you know, you even 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:04.760 quality quarterback enough time, you're not covering their receivers all that. Well, yeah, 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:07.000 you're right, you knew going in this was gonna be 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.520 you know, I just worried about them driving the football 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:12.440 and taking the complete time off the clock, and then 0:15:12.480 --> 0:15:14.440 you get in back with ten seconds left with no 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:16.680 shot to win the game. Right, And you looked at 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:19.920 those that series and said, okay, run the ball four 0:15:19.960 --> 0:15:22.160 times there. I mean, I admire the coaches for going 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:24.720 forward on fourth and one. I learned something yesterday that 0:15:24.800 --> 0:15:26.920 you have to recover the fumble if it goes into 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:29.360 the endzone. I didn't know that rule, but you know, 0:15:29.640 --> 0:15:33.160 I think it's on fourth down, fourth down only well 0:15:34.240 --> 0:15:38.600 if you get inside the two. I knew that rule. 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:41.640 But when one official signal touchdown and then the other 0:15:41.960 --> 0:15:44.440 three went running in like, oh, we'll wait a minute, bro. 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:46.200 You know, no, you don't know the rule. You know, 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.800 and you're an official, But I think that to me 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.040 that that, you know, I give Garrett credit for going 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:55.640 for it that particular time. I thought that was the 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:58.680 absolute right thing to do, even though his defense was 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:01.040 playing with a little bit of peril. But man, you know, 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:03.480 we also learned that Blake Jarring can't make a catch 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:06.120 in an NFL game. That's true, Yeah, that's true. But 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.760 the thing about it is, I just wish they would 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:11.680 have just hammered that thing a beautiful drive. You know, 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:14.680 all the plays, the yardage, the way they were kind 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:16.680 of mixing and matching it, and you know, you just 0:16:16.680 --> 0:16:18.800 think it just finished this thing by hammering it in 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.160 four times, you know, and and but you know you 0:16:21.200 --> 0:16:23.360 get a little cute with it, and and and you 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:24.880 know you have to kick a field goal and it 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:27.200 puts you in harm's way first in goal at the 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:29.160 six that would have been I ended up with it. 0:16:29.320 --> 0:16:33.040 Okayle the past is swaying. That was way too high. 0:16:33.200 --> 0:16:35.320 Did it got to throw it earlier? Yeah, and it 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:37.600 looked like Swayin was open. He was open. You gotta 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:39.720 throw it earlier. And he did it on the waggle 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.720 to start the game. He threw the ball. There's sometimes 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:46.240 where Dak will he'll drift and drift and drift, and 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:50.480 we're and we're all in the box yelling what you know, 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.000 and he and he, But yesterday, what did he do? 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:56.080 He got Swaying kind of swaying. They sold it hard, 0:16:56.320 --> 0:17:00.440 play action left and it drew everybody. Swaying just pivoted 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:03.000 and went up the sidelines. Yeah, but he got him 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:04.680 the ball quick and then they allowed Then you got 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.480 some blocks down the field. If he throws the ball 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:09.520 on that play the way it was designed on the 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:11.840 on the goal line. He's got him. He's just gotta 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.200 gotta go with it. He just can't keep drifting. You 0:17:15.320 --> 0:17:18.320 run out of space. So I'm wondering if if he 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:20.919 knew he was late with it, and it can be 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:23.440 a dangerous pass, right, all that thing could be clanging 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:26.639 around in there. So he tried to put it high 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:29.159 where Swain was the only one who could get it, 0:17:29.200 --> 0:17:31.560 and it just sailed well. He had he had an 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:35.600 had somebody behind swaying the other thing. Gallup was behind him, 0:17:35.640 --> 0:17:38.720 and I'm thinking, oh, Gallup, you know what. That play 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:41.840 was destined to fail because they had to call time 0:17:41.840 --> 0:17:44.640 out before they ran that play. And I saw him 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:49.320 going tap Tavon Austin on the helmet because he was 0:17:49.400 --> 0:17:53.480 lined up like the shovel play slot slot back or 0:17:53.520 --> 0:17:56.160 whatever they used to call those guys. And and then 0:17:56.200 --> 0:17:58.040 he lined up there again and I said, oh, they're 0:17:58.040 --> 0:17:59.480 going to give it to him on a round And 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:03.000 they didn't, Rob Rob. I mean all that said, like 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:06.399 Brian said, first and goal at the six, zeke average 0:18:06.440 --> 0:18:08.639 six yards of carry, Just run it four times. This 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:10.760 is just this is just me. It's just me too, 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:14.080 but hand it to him. I couldn't stop him. I'm thinking, 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.639 every time you throw the ball it's incomplete. The clock 0:18:16.760 --> 0:18:19.119 is not moving, and you did a hell of a 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:22.600 job to get it to that point. Just keep the 0:18:22.640 --> 0:18:26.560 clock moving, you know, you know, run it okay, it's 0:18:26.600 --> 0:18:29.320 another minute, keep it, run it again, it's another you know. 0:18:29.440 --> 0:18:33.639 Just don't leave them any time to do anything. And 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:36.920 then if you score now, they're they're in harm's way. 0:18:37.080 --> 0:18:39.560 They can't come back and win that way. Stand up 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:43.119 throwing it twice right and there was five left. You 0:18:43.119 --> 0:18:46.000 had run run, give me a kip, made a been 0:18:46.080 --> 0:18:50.919 down to three fifty. Exactly exactly was Zeke? Did he 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:53.359 come off on that drive? Well he was getting spelled 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:57.720 a little bit by Rods for one minus one. Well 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:00.680 he took the first carry first and goal at the sixth, 0:19:00.680 --> 0:19:02.720 all right, he ran for two. But I wonder if 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:05.600 he was hobbled a little bit where they that might 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:07.240 have played a role in their thinking that he did. 0:19:07.320 --> 0:19:09.160 I'm Gary Brown. I look at him and they're like, bro, 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:11.320 I need you right now, I need you to go 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:13.320 in there and score me a touchdown. I've got to, 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:16.000 you know, you've got me to this point, just please 0:19:16.040 --> 0:19:18.920 finish this thing off for me. Although they only needed 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:21.520 two twenty two to go down and score. Oh I know, 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:23.639 but but if you maybe, if you score the touchdown, 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:25.240 put a little more pressure. You put a little bit 0:19:25.280 --> 0:19:27.479 more pressure on them to have to make Yeah, all right, 0:19:27.560 --> 0:19:30.120 let's take our first break here. We want to take 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:33.600 your phone calls as well, and we continue, and I 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:36.280 want to find out what went wrong on that Golden 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:40.040 hate second touchdown when we come back on Talking Cowboys 0:19:40.040 --> 0:19:43.160 in a moment has been helping Cowboys fans see better 0:19:43.200 --> 0:19:45.280 since nineteen seventy two. He said, they don't miss a 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:48.280 moment on the field. Get glasses with slurs, best vision, 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:52.440 clarity and protection with the Ultimate Lens Package, three innovative 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:55.119 technologies in one lens for a limited time. 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