WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Finding A Way 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:05.880 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.880 --> 0:00:14.480 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys This He's Talking 0:00:14.640 --> 0:00:19.080 Cowboys Straining live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at 0:00:19.120 --> 0:00:28.000 the Star in Price Joe Elliot, flowing lists, and now 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:33.080 your hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:47.640 Kyle Yeoman's. There is no such thing as an ugly 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:51.560 win in the NFL. As the Dallas Cowboys get the 0:00:51.720 --> 0:00:57.000 job done over the New Orleans Saints twenty seven to seventeen. 0:00:57.080 --> 0:00:59.280 The final score down in the Bayou. It was a 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:03.720 Bayou bounce back. Still some concerns around this Cowboys team, 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.120 but we're gonna talk about that over the course of 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:09.200 the next forty five minutes. Glad you're with us here 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:13.320 on Talking Cowboys presented by Tostitos, helping fans get in 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:16.679 on the game. Welcome into the Star in Frisco. Heck 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:19.760 My Harrison, Isaiah stand back, Rob Phillips, We've got Chris 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:24.000 Beam in the back. I'm Kyle Yeoman's and gentlemen, the 0:01:24.080 --> 0:01:29.000 Cowboys got it done there, eight and four. It's a win. Nonetheless, 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:33.160 even though the offense definitely does have some concerns, but 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.600 we're gonna talk about it. We will. We're gonna hit it. 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.120 Rob Phillips, you were down in the Superdome. How was 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:41.160 that win on the road. Well, there is such a 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:43.320 thing as an ugly win in the NFL. That was 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:48.680 an ugly win in the NFL. Quickly before I took 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:52.840 the flight to New Orleans on Wednesday, I was late 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:57.760 taking the kid to daycare. Okay, so I went dressed 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:03.800 in Batman pajamas, a black and red plaid checkered sweatshirt, 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:07.680 and dress shoes. I love that. Just the worst outfit 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:10.440 you've ever seen. Who cares? I got the job done. 0:02:11.680 --> 0:02:14.839 That I like what you did there. That's that's how 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:17.400 I feel about this game. You know, it wasn't pretty 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.639 like you said, It wasn't pretty. Offensively, they're eight and four, 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.520 and after the week they had all the stuff they 0:02:23.520 --> 0:02:28.440 went through, no coach, no weight room during the week, 0:02:29.160 --> 0:02:31.960 virtual meetings, all that stuff. They got it done. If 0:02:32.000 --> 0:02:34.160 we're not going to make excuses for the games they 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:36.560 lost that didn't play well, then who cares? If they 0:02:36.600 --> 0:02:38.600 want ugly last night that was That's a tough place 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:40.520 to play, and that's a tough game to win on 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:48.480 the road. I love that it was Charter like that. Yeah, 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:50.400 you showed up to the Charter like that. Not exactly 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:54.720 business cash, Chris. They probably drug tested him right away. 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:01.160 That he's lost it. But you know, I don't understand 0:03:01.160 --> 0:03:03.560 this whole ugly win thing. Man. It's like being called 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:07.800 an ugly billionaire. You know what what, I'll take that 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:11.360 any day. I'll take it however you put it. You know, 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:15.080 it's a w again. This this defense. It's finally the 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:17.200 game that we got for the defense to to show 0:03:17.320 --> 0:03:19.960 up and the one that we were looking for. Uh. 0:03:20.000 --> 0:03:22.440 Tysom Hill Man, I want to Tasom is it Tysom 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:26.000 or Taysom t Taysom Hill Uh put some respect on 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:29.480 his name because as a runner he is dynamic. Uh. 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.320 You know it's a poor man's t bow whatever you 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:34.200 want to call him. But he did this thing. UH 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:36.680 love the way that he passed the ball last night, 0:03:36.760 --> 0:03:40.360 you know, mostly to our team, and look, man, good luck. 0:03:41.600 --> 0:03:45.640 Four interceptions, mostly to our team, mostly to the Cowboys. 0:03:45.680 --> 0:03:49.160 A lot of that late, but I mean four interceptions 0:03:49.480 --> 0:03:52.440 unbelievable from from that side of things, And the most 0:03:52.440 --> 0:03:54.720 impressive one was the one early to Jay Rn curse. 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:59.080 What a play from curse to to drag the toes 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:01.960 to make that play. But you're right. I mean, Taysom 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:04.200 Hill can run it, but damn still came throwing a 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:05.960 little bit more tough and he was dealing with that 0:04:06.080 --> 0:04:08.240 that finger injury too, so I'm sure that probably played 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:12.760 was the factor he still played. You're exactly right. This 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:14.080 is I mean, I don't know. I don't want to 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:16.480 be deva doubted. This is what I say, this is 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:18.960 what I expect, this is what should have happened, This 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:21.039 is what should have happened. This is this Saints team 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:23.320 is not what they were when they had Winston that quarterback. 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.719 Let's be honest. They didn't have Winsday at quarterback. They 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.560 didn't have Kamara at running back. They don't have a 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:30.760 Michael Thomas, they haven't had them all season. They didn't 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:33.279 have their offensive tackles. They didn't they didn't have some 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:36.480 of their main defensive alignment. This was a depleted team, 0:04:36.920 --> 0:04:39.280 no different than how the Dallas has been depleted at 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:41.440 different points of this season. And we didn't perform the 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.159 way we should have. So this is a game that 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:44.839 you're supposed to win like that. We talked about it 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:47.040 in the pregame show. This was the bounce back game 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.000 for the Cowboys. This was to get your swag back 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.080 type of game. I don't give a dog on what 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.599 they have. That's unfortunate that their situation was what it 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:55.680 was when they faced us. But guess what, we took 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:57.480 full advantage. That's the way it should have been. We 0:04:57.480 --> 0:04:59.040 should have got a bunch of turnovers because we know 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:00.960 that he's not a great pas. We knew that he 0:05:01.000 --> 0:05:02.640 was gonna run the balls. We knew we're gonna get 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:04.640 ran on a little bit. We didn't get did the 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:06.840 ball moving offensively like we know that we should have. 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.000 So that was very disappointing. Dak still didn't doesn't look 0:05:10.040 --> 0:05:13.039 like dak Zeke is injured. As we talked about last week, 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:15.640 I mean earlier in this week. There's everything that we 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:17.880 that we knew going into this game happened and so 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.440 we should be no surprises. Ugly win or not. It's 0:05:20.520 --> 0:05:23.560 ugly because of the expectation that we have and other 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:26.200 people have for this team. This team did not perform 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:28.440 to the level that they should have performed, even though 0:05:28.480 --> 0:05:30.600 they got a victory against another NFL team. But you 0:05:30.640 --> 0:05:33.640 got an ugly loss versus the Chiefs. You got an 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:38.120 ugly loss on Thanksgiving Day, versus the Broncos. Yeah, versus 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:41.080 the Broncos and the Raiders. I mean those are ugly losses. 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.320 Those are games that you go into expecting your team 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:46.400 to respond and they don't. And the questions that were 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:49.839 asked before this game, where is this team snake bit 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.279 is there's something going on all of the different things 0:05:52.279 --> 0:05:54.599 that we're going You talk a lot about diversity and 0:05:55.080 --> 0:06:00.080 the them going through certain things and the culture of 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:03.440 this team. Man, you saw it, you know they had 0:06:03.800 --> 0:06:07.680 They were hit with adversity, not diversity at adversity, and 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:12.080 they responded with everything that was going on prior to kickoff. 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:14.680 This is a response that I think for me, it 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.479 really set my minded these to see your leaders come back, 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:19.800 guys like Tank Lawrence. Yep, when you get a Tank 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.000 Lawrence back on the field, you see automatically with what 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.760 you have in Michael Parsons combined with his leadership, skilled 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.480 and what he does in the running game, this defense 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:33.400 to me, took on a whole like they It looked different, right, 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.440 So if we could squeak out some ugly wins, even 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:39.440 though the Saints had some success. They had some success 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:41.680 run and they had some success passing as well. But 0:06:41.720 --> 0:06:44.000 if you're gonna squeak out a win like this, this 0:06:44.080 --> 0:06:46.000 is the one that you want. And that's a statement 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.400 for your defense in the way that they play. I 0:06:48.440 --> 0:06:50.599 think I think two things can be true. Like it's 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:53.840 it's you're right, Like the offense has created such a 0:06:53.880 --> 0:06:58.080 standard through half the season that you expect more out 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.600 of this offense. And with five games to play, they've 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:02.400 got a right. I mean, they've got to fix some things, 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:05.720 and we'll get into all of that, but you look 0:07:05.760 --> 0:07:08.640 around the league. Every team is going through some kind 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:12.280 of stretch like this, and you just got the way 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:15.120 this week went for this team, and look the way 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:18.320 these this rivalry goes. The last two games twelve to ten, 0:07:19.040 --> 0:07:22.600 New Orleans thirteen ten Cowboys in eighteen. It's a tough game. 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:24.560 I talked about the environment. It was kind of a 0:07:24.560 --> 0:07:28.240 weird buzz inside the building early late arrivals, and it 0:07:28.320 --> 0:07:30.400 kind of seemed like maybe the Cowboys fans were gonna 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.680 have an advantage. It got loud in there. It was 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:35.560 a challenge for the offense. Offensively, I thought the communication 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.200 was better upfront pre snap than we saw like in 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:40.920 Kansas City, but obviously it wasn't as clean as they 0:07:40.920 --> 0:07:44.120 would like in one big specific area of the run game. 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:48.640 We'll get into all that, I'm sure, but yeah, win 0:07:48.680 --> 0:07:51.280 the game, get to eight and four, get this mini 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:55.679 buy and rest up, Zeke, rest up, get your coaching 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:59.000 staff back and try to get you regroup for the 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:02.160 stretch run. Try to play your best football now going forward, 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.200 because it's not your best football right now, and that 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:06.840 has to happen. And you know, and I know, I 0:08:06.920 --> 0:08:09.720 know Cowboys Nation is excited. He got the dub Aiden four. 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:13.240 This football over his last five games do not get 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.640 you pass anywhere past the first round at the playoffs. Nope. 0:08:15.720 --> 0:08:17.920 Just playing it out there from somebody who's been to 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:21.080 a lot of playoff games, it will not get it done. 0:08:21.200 --> 0:08:24.200 So that's why I'm not hype about this game. It 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:27.080 should have been this result. You should win the game, right, 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.840 You should beat up on Taysom Hill like this, especially 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:31.840 when he has a jacked up finger when he ready 0:08:32.000 --> 0:08:33.800 was not a great passer. Right, I think he has 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:36.120 a little bit of that that m Russell Wilson, be 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.520 honest with you, he pushed you. I think I'm not 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:40.600 I'm not no doctor, but it's not nearly to that. 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:42.920 But I think I think he's probably along those lines. 0:08:43.240 --> 0:08:46.240 He pushed through. He's a tough, tough SOLB. But this 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:49.600 is a team. This was not impressive to me. I'm 0:08:49.640 --> 0:08:52.000 just and maybe my standards are just that high, my 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.360 standards for the Dallas Cowboys. There's teams like this that 0:08:54.440 --> 0:08:56.400 are depleted. Like this, You're supposed to drag these boys 0:08:56.400 --> 0:09:00.000 in the ground. One possession game, majority of the game 0:09:00.040 --> 0:09:04.600 game and had it not been for for dog Sean 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:08.520 Payton throwing the ball on second, third, second and third 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:10.640 and fourth down that one drive, this could have been 0:09:10.640 --> 0:09:12.360 a totally different game. Let me ask you this, for 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:14.440 the teams that you've been on that that had those 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:17.760 playoff runs, winning in December is very important, very no 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.920 matter how you absolutely winning in December. Correct. So you're right. 0:09:20.920 --> 0:09:22.640 I mean, the parody in the NFL is there. And 0:09:22.679 --> 0:09:24.120 if you look at the teams that are supposed to 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:25.839 be the top tier teams and who they've lost to, 0:09:26.120 --> 0:09:28.360 they've lost to some teams that have been depleted as well. 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:31.040 No matter how you get it, you got to get 0:09:31.080 --> 0:09:33.440 a dub and winning in December is important, and at 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:36.599 least getting healthy in December, and now you're starting to 0:09:36.640 --> 0:09:38.360 see some of that happened for this team. I don't 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.200 disagree with you get the dub absolutely number one. However, 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:44.320 this is something that is reoccurring. This is five games 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:46.840 worth of not good football. I think we can all 0:09:46.880 --> 0:09:51.280 say that, specifically offensively not saw. This isn't just a 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:53.319 this isn't just an okay, listen, we had one game 0:09:53.360 --> 0:09:54.839 that we didn't really show up the way we should 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:57.000 or two guys, this is five games. What's the by product? 0:09:57.000 --> 0:10:00.000 What's the by product of that sloppy football? That's you're saying. 0:10:00.800 --> 0:10:05.080 You were talking about execution last week? But what's not healthy? Okay? Listen, 0:10:05.080 --> 0:10:07.640 I mean I'll take that back. Maybe Dak is healthy, 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:09.920 he's not playing as if he's healthy. Okay, He's not accurate, 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:11.840 his feet aren't said, his mechanics are off okay, and 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:13.559 I think he would stay staying here and say that too. 0:10:13.920 --> 0:10:16.760 Zeke should have sat last night. Definitely not And I 0:10:16.800 --> 0:10:18.560 said that earlier in the week. I remember you asked 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:20.280 me that question, is this good for Zeque or is 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:22.880 this good? Is terrible for Zeke? And he didn't help 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:26.360 himself last night, zeke was it hurt me to see 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:28.280 him running, how he was hurting, how he was running. 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:30.520 You know, I thought about that because I was saying 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:32.600 during the week he needs to play, they need him 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:34.960 for past protection and even to try to run the ball. 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:36.800 But it kind of felt like Tampa Bay in Week one, 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:38.760 where it's like you're just running into a brick wall. Yeah, 0:10:38.800 --> 0:10:41.480 there's no way to go. So maybe, you know, maybe 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:44.360 this rest will certainly help him. Yeah, but look what 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:45.960 it could have been. Oh, I hear it could have been. 0:10:45.960 --> 0:10:48.360 It could have been sixteen seventeen days off for zeque 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:50.760 I hear you. I wonder if he's gonna be one 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.440 hundred percent the rest of the year anyway, though, I will, 0:10:53.520 --> 0:10:55.439 we'll see. I do think ten days off will help. 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:57.320 It could have been a full half month come on, 0:10:58.000 --> 0:11:01.560 getting healthy, getting healthy, and if he instead turned in 0:11:01.679 --> 0:11:04.080 thirteen carries for forty five yards, he's he's not going 0:11:04.120 --> 0:11:07.319 to not play. Let's be honest. Zeke As is a dog, right, 0:11:07.440 --> 0:11:09.800 He's there's he doesn't have a character flaw in terms 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:11.559 of somebody that you have to have a question mark. 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:14.040 Is he is he committed? Is he not committed. He's hurt. 0:11:14.120 --> 0:11:17.120 He's not hurt, y'all. He's injured. There's a difference. Everybody 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:18.520 on the end on the team right now is hurt. 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:21.480 Everybody has something they're dealing with. Bruise um, some kind 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:25.320 of strain, something's going on, dislocated finger. Everybody's hurt. He's injured. 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:27.160 He's injured. And the only reason why they had him 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.400 out there yesterday for his blocking ability. You could have 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:32.000 had somebody else do that instead of running. Letting him 0:11:32.080 --> 0:11:34.040 run out there and be gimpy on runs, instead of 0:11:34.080 --> 0:11:36.600 being gimpy on on swing routes and all that stuff. 0:11:36.600 --> 0:11:39.000 He was gimpy. And anybody that didn't see that last night, 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:44.400 we'll look at the way. Yeah, it's definitely been at 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:46.240 the last few games. But he's in a catch twenty two. 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:49.000 If he plays, he plays like this. If he doesn't play, 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:51.000 they're gonna be trying to talk about restructuring his contract 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:55.480 out of the season. He gets deeper than that. Absolutely. Yeah, 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:59.319 So my question I was asking you, I believe that 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:04.440 a lot let's take a drink continuity wide receiver position. 0:12:04.800 --> 0:12:06.360 I think a lot of that has to play in it, 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:09.640 and especially the quick tempo. Three games in twelve days. 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:12.080 We've gotten past that stretch. Not a lot of time 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.240 to prepare, maybe more time to prepare for New Orleans, 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.439 but still missing Coop in those practices. It's just on 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:21.760 that fourth down play to Cede Lamb, for instance, that's 0:12:21.760 --> 0:12:24.200 a touchdown if you turn your head in the right direction. 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:27.120 Either practicing that or being on the same page seems 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.160 to be a miss. But I think there were also 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:32.719 some throws that Dak made last night that was like, 0:12:32.800 --> 0:12:35.160 you know, so look here or miss whatever it is, 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:38.520 you get the W I think getting this break quasi, 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.360 buy whatever it's gonna be, and get these guys back 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.400 on the same page. It's going to be important. They 0:12:43.440 --> 0:12:47.000 still ranked top five in the league offensively, so everything 0:12:47.120 --> 0:12:49.440 everything that we're talking about, you're still looking at one 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:52.680 of the top five offenses. He was encouraging to finally 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:57.920 watch Amari Gallop and Cede Lamb together on one drive 0:12:58.000 --> 0:13:01.080 that all created a big play on that first touchdown 0:13:01.200 --> 0:13:03.320 drive and a Mari it's like a Marie out there 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.520 for half the game, not even half the game, kind 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:07.720 of unclogged things. You got the forty one yard catch. 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:10.280 They called it a run with CD right after that, 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.720 and then a great contest to catch by Michael Gallup 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:15.760 like that. Like you said, there's signs that offensively they're 0:13:15.800 --> 0:13:18.160 gonna have you're gonna get this going. But as a 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:21.440 complete offense, the team that was running over teams early 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:23.760 in the season, we're not seeing that right now. Can 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:25.960 I get that gat up play on a poster? I 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:29.640 need that poo man. That was a perfect post, beautiful 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:32.280 ball back the end. You've done it a few times, 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.640 just a couple. Now. The thing is about you mentioned 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:38.600 the complimentary take a drink the football that you have 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:42.480 to play. The offense didn't pick up the defense last night, 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:44.560 and that's the thing going back to what you were 0:13:44.600 --> 0:13:47.440 talking about earlier. As you can be half right in 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:49.600 the fact of this was an ugly win, this was 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:53.080 not an ugly win because for the defense it wasn't 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:55.760 particularly ugly. Now, they did give up yardage, they gave 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.319 up the run game. We can talk about it, because 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:00.160 that's got to be something you fixed. You cannot give 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:02.319 up a hundred yards rushing to a guy like Taysom Hill, 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.080 even though he is very talented and he's gonna get 0:14:04.880 --> 0:14:08.680 his due. At the same time, you forced four takeaways, 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.680 you had four interceptions. You kept that offense at bay. 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.800 There was that no point in the game, maybe with 0:14:14.880 --> 0:14:17.160 the exception of the drive that that ended with the 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:19.760 curse pick in the first half, where I looked at 0:14:19.760 --> 0:14:22.480 that Saint's office and said, they have a rhythm. I don't. 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:24.760 I don't think they had a rhythm throughout the entirety 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:27.360 of the football game. And a lot of their yardage 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:29.120 came on a chunk seventy yard play at the end 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.000 of the game that was already in garbage time. Game 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:33.040 was already wrapped up. You look at the scoreboard at 0:14:33.080 --> 0:14:35.400 that point they got ten points. Yeah, and so through 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:38.840 all of that, you're like, well, they did their job exactly. 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:40.160 I mean, you want to win if you hold him 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:43.240 to ten points until garbage time. Two for thirteen on 0:14:43.400 --> 0:14:46.720 third down for the offense. This is very that's the stat. 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:50.760 That's the stat. It's not just a one timer. This 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:52.200 is this has happened a few times. I'm trying to 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.320 find it, but this this is not it would be. 0:14:54.360 --> 0:14:56.960 That's that's my concern. This is not just like oh okay, 0:14:56.960 --> 0:14:59.160 oh we can we can write that office just a 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.240 bad day. This is reoccurring This is a recurring thing 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:04.800 in terms of lack of third down conversions, in terms 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.280 of drops, we're still dropping the ball offs, in terms 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.920 of still the bad location. Yeah, he has some amazing throws, 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:11.680 but he has some really bad balls too, right, And 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.200 so all these things are playing apart into what's gonna 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:16.960 pop up down the road? What would you know why? 0:15:17.240 --> 0:15:20.240 I thought you were talking about New Orleans. I didn't 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:23.960 realize that the Cowboys offense was two of thirteen. Wow, yeah, 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:26.520 two of thirteen. But also let's give credit to the 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:31.880 Saints defense. All right, they're good, and there were some 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:33.680 things that they were doing on third down, and they 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:36.200 showed they slowed it down. They were playing some some 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.880 coverages into fronts that I think. You see what CD 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:43.000 did to Malcolm Jenkins. Oh they baptized. Oh he put 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:45.920 him in the car in the front carrier. That's one 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:47.640 of those plays. You just gotta you just shake your 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.640 head like that job, young young blood got me. But 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:53.000 you mentioned some of the different looks. I mean, they 0:15:53.040 --> 0:15:55.560 brought two sakes out the out of the slot on 0:15:55.600 --> 0:15:57.920 the blitz, and they dropped two linebackers and a lot 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:00.240 they did a lot of unique things on third down. 0:16:00.280 --> 0:16:02.240 The deck to try and confuse him, and they slowed 0:16:02.320 --> 0:16:04.480 up some things and you saw Dak back there thinking 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.520 with the ball, trying to figure out the coverage. Look, 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:11.120 no matter what, ugly cute, however you want to call it, 0:16:11.440 --> 0:16:15.040 we're in the dove. We're eight and four, it's December, 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.240 and we look, man, we're gonna enjoy this. We're gonna 0:16:17.280 --> 0:16:19.320 enjoy this victory. But we got some people we need 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:21.960 to take care of next week too, Do you exactly right? 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:24.160 But we've got five shows next week to talk about it. 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:27.640 We're not We're not even gonna mention, not even gonna 0:16:27.640 --> 0:16:31.560 talk about Washington third down for the year. That's very 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:36.280 good for an offense, this dynamic very good. Wow. All right. 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:38.560 When we come back here on Talking Cowboys, we're gonna 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:43.600 hit Micah Parsons. He was fanatical again, Suka boom, hit 0:16:43.640 --> 0:16:46.800 it again. We're gonna talk about him and the impact 0:16:46.880 --> 0:16:49.320 that he and to Marcus Lawrence had on that defense. 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.720 And then we're also going to talk about how who 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:54.000 is to blame for the run game, who is the 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:56.640 blame for the struggles on the ground. 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