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Speaker 4: It is the morning after a thirty one to ten
Speaker 4: loss for the Dallas Cowboys up in Buffalo. As we
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Speaker 1: And it wasn't pretty in Buffalo. It was never pretty.
Speaker 4: Buffalo jumps out to a fourteen to nothing lead, Dallas
Speaker 4: musters of field goal and really outside of garbage time,
Speaker 4: that was about it for the Boys.
Speaker 1: Is uh?
Speaker 4: They were down by the biggest tap time deficit nineteen
Speaker 4: points or excuse me, eighteen points since they were down
Speaker 4: nineteen against Washington and twenty twenty and then they lose
Speaker 4: in this one thirty one to ten with a late
Speaker 4: touchdown from Ceddee Lamb, Nick Harris, you were on the scene,
Speaker 4: you were there, you watched it. The weather wasn't as
Speaker 4: bad as it definitely couldn't have could have been, but
Speaker 4: the play on the field wasn't very good.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that kind of leads into my point. The weather
Speaker 7: was not the issue. Jonathan Hankins not being in the game.
Speaker 7: I don't think that was the issue.
Speaker 1: Oh that was a big issue. I completely disawreveed. Well,
Speaker 1: I like what you're saying.
Speaker 4: Hold on, I think you've got an MVP award for
Speaker 4: Jonathan Hankins.
Speaker 7: Okay, hold on, Jonathan Hankins was not the reason they
Speaker 7: lost that game.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying. Do you think we'll get through
Speaker 3: going We can get to it.
Speaker 7: The reason that the Cowboys lost this game is because
Speaker 7: they don't show up on the road, and it's it's
Speaker 7: becoming a theme over and over year after year, these
Speaker 7: big games, these big tests on the road, they don't
Speaker 7: show up.
Speaker 3: There was no physicality.
Speaker 7: I mean sure, there's probably a lot you could take
Speaker 7: away from these past two games. You can look at
Speaker 7: and say, Okay, these two last two games against the
Speaker 7: Seahawks and the Eagles, really physical games, probably more physical
Speaker 7: top three physical games that the Cowboys have had all season,
Speaker 7: So maybe there's a little bit of layover going into
Speaker 7: this game. But still you have to show up on
Speaker 7: the road against a team like the Buffalo Bills. We
Speaker 7: were talking about their offensive line last week. All these
Speaker 7: guys are six five plus three twenty plus, and they
Speaker 7: all showed that throughout the game. They were getting into
Speaker 7: that second level, dominating de Mont Clark, dominating Marqueespell. On
Speaker 7: the offensive side of the ball, it was the same deal.
Speaker 7: I mean, Dak Prescott was running for his life at times.
Speaker 7: And Dak was not great either. I mean, he made
Speaker 7: some poor decisions. He wasn't trusting, he wasn't trusting the
Speaker 7: timing with Ceedee Lamb and Brandon Cooks. And I'll talk
Speaker 7: about the running game really quick, just because I know
Speaker 7: that that's already an early talking point here. Jonathan Hankins
Speaker 7: being in the middle of the field doesn't prevent the
Speaker 7: edge not being contained the entire night. James cook still
Speaker 7: runs for probably one hundred and twenty yards last night.
Speaker 7: If Jonathan Hankins is in the game. There were so
Speaker 7: many running lanes around the edges. It wasn't just the
Speaker 7: a gap was the a gap abused absolutely one thousand percent,
Speaker 7: but it was coming around the edges and there was
Speaker 7: no contain James Cook was breaking tackles looking like Barry
Speaker 7: Sanders was.
Speaker 3: It was tough from the very beginning.
Speaker 7: But I think the biggest issue with this with this
Speaker 7: team right now is they can't show up on the road.
Speaker 7: And there's another opportunity to do that next week, but
Speaker 7: now since you lose that game, you have to figure
Speaker 7: out how to do.
Speaker 3: It before the playoffs come around.
Speaker 7: Yep, because that's it's becoming a certainty now that you're
Speaker 7: gonna have to go on the road in the wildcard round.
Speaker 1: Well, it's been a talking point too.
Speaker 4: I mean even Mike McCarthy addressed it yesterday talking about
Speaker 4: the lack of or the presence of a gap, the
Speaker 4: fact that there is a gap between home and away
Speaker 4: and hearing your head coach address that, to me, that's
Speaker 4: a concern because if you're head coach, a lot of times,
Speaker 4: even if it's obvious you have a gap home in
Speaker 4: a way, you're not going to address it from a
Speaker 4: head coaching standpoint. You're gonna talk to talk maybe within
Speaker 4: closed doors within your staff, maybe even not even address
Speaker 4: the team in that instance, but he said it out
Speaker 4: loud yesterday in the post game. He's like, no, there's
Speaker 4: a problem here. And if there's literally, if there's a
Speaker 4: full blooded problem of having a lack thereof consistency on
Speaker 4: the road, I have zero confidence going into these big
Speaker 4: pressure games on the road in the postseason and getting
Speaker 4: a win. The only one I can really think back
Speaker 4: to in terms of big pressure wins where you got
Speaker 4: it done on the road in recent memory was the
Speaker 4: Tampa Bay win.
Speaker 1: Last year in the Wildcard round. That was about it.
Speaker 4: That was the only time that they've carried that over
Speaker 4: from what they do at and T Stadium to what
Speaker 4: they do on the road.
Speaker 1: I hear what you guys are saying.
Speaker 8: I agree partially with what you guys are saying as
Speaker 8: a former player, even though it might very well be
Speaker 8: abundantly true that their play is diminished on the road
Speaker 8: versus at home, there's no real justification, you know, like, yes,
Speaker 8: that's a factual statement. They have this year played like
Speaker 8: trash on the road. At home, they play amazing. The
Speaker 8: stats back that up, coach backs that up. But there's
Speaker 8: no real reason as to why you will play differently
Speaker 8: on the road, and people are going to be looking
Speaker 8: for a reason, they're going to be looking for a fix.
Speaker 8: There is no fix to that. It's just how it's happened. No,
Speaker 8: you don't have a different approach to the game because
Speaker 8: you're not at home. You might have a little bit
Speaker 8: more energy, a little bit more momentum at times because
Speaker 8: you're vibing off the crowd. Sometimes, depending on the environment,
Speaker 8: you might have to go to nonverbal communication because of
Speaker 8: the environment. But in terms of your exit cution, there
Speaker 8: is nothing about a different environment that changes your execution
Speaker 8: of a play. There's no there's nothing about a change
Speaker 8: of environment that changes your assignment or your ability to
Speaker 8: execute that assignment. Like there's there's nothing literally nothing about
Speaker 8: playing on the road aside from the noise and what
Speaker 8: you have to do to account for the noise.
Speaker 1: That's it, Like literally it not the.
Speaker 8: You get out there early, you do your walkthroughs, you
Speaker 8: find the play clocks.
Speaker 1: You know exactly where or everything's at, you find where where.
Speaker 8: Your sidelines at, and all the kind of information that
Speaker 8: you need in terms of identification. Outside of that, you're
Speaker 8: playing ball. So this narrative of you know, cowboys playing
Speaker 8: like trash on the road, and we got to find
Speaker 8: out why there's no why there is no why.
Speaker 4: Could it just be as simple as this this team.
Speaker 4: Maybe there's an inexperience, Maybe there's an immaturity with this team.
Speaker 4: I think there's a lack of discipline, because that was
Speaker 4: my that was my number one thing yesterday was lack
Speaker 4: of discipline.
Speaker 1: Penalties, bad assignment. Yeah, I mean, but penalties are going down, frustrating. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: there's three prints.
Speaker 8: There were three bad penalties, right, personal foul penalties that
Speaker 8: obviously when they happened, they had a dire effect on
Speaker 8: the game. However, the penalty mark has been going down.
Speaker 8: I think we were at fourteen twelve seven five now, right,
Speaker 8: so that number is going down.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they're very impactful, right, So, yes, some of those
Speaker 8: stat lines that you wanted to address, they're going in
Speaker 8: the positive direction now. The impact that those that number
Speaker 8: still has on the game is obviously is showed up
Speaker 8: in the game obviously, but again, as people were trying
Speaker 8: to dive in and trying to figure out this role
Speaker 8: versus home, I'm telling you, as a player, you ask
Speaker 8: any players outside of the alterations that you have to
Speaker 8: make and to account for the noise and the communication
Speaker 8: to how that noise affects your ability to communicate effectively
Speaker 8: in the game. There is nothing else that's different. Cowboys
Speaker 8: are not playing, they're not practicing on their home field,
Speaker 8: they're at that home field eight times a year. Whatever
Speaker 8: it is, like, there's no true advantage out side of
Speaker 8: the fact that.
Speaker 1: Your crowd is there.
Speaker 8: Like that's it, And I would love to hear anybody
Speaker 8: else that says differently, because there's no You can't find
Speaker 8: an excuse.
Speaker 1: You just got beat up.
Speaker 8: And the teams that are willing, that have the physical
Speaker 8: ability to beat you up and have the determination to
Speaker 8: be resilient and to be just unwavering in their approach
Speaker 8: to expose your weaknesses, they have beat you up. And
Speaker 8: that's something that you have to acknowledge. That something that
Speaker 8: you have to identify and you got to find a
Speaker 8: resolution for it.
Speaker 7: I think if you look at three of these four
Speaker 7: road losses, I'm gonna leave Philly the Philly loss out
Speaker 7: of this equation just because I feel like they were
Speaker 7: in that game. It's completely different. I'm looking at Arizona,
Speaker 7: San Francisco and Buffalo. They didn't bring physicality to either
Speaker 7: of those three games. They didn't bring discipline to either
Speaker 7: of those three games. So when you're trying to figure
Speaker 7: out where the road woes come from, I think you
Speaker 7: have to look at those two things first. Is it
Speaker 7: a home versus a way situation? You know, like, is
Speaker 7: there a lot to put stock into when it comes
Speaker 7: to that.
Speaker 3: Probably not. I think there's some truth in that.
Speaker 7: But I think there's a big difference between sleeping in
Speaker 7: your own bed the night before, being able to pull
Speaker 7: up to the stadium on your own accord, and having
Speaker 7: having a little bit of juice, having that little bit
Speaker 7: of fresh feel, and knowing in the back of your
Speaker 7: head you don't have to get on a flight back
Speaker 7: home after the after the game, whereas going into Buffalo,
Speaker 7: you're coming off a hotel bed.
Speaker 3: You're going into the stadium with your.
Speaker 8: Entire before Anyways, you know what I'm saying, Like, I
Speaker 8: don't know what they're doing nowadays, but.
Speaker 3: This year they've been sleeping in their own bed.
Speaker 7: Yes, it's been a big talking point about the home,
Speaker 7: you know, home success and things like that. I don't know,
Speaker 7: I think there's something to put in there. Sure did
Speaker 7: it not maybe not work for the seasons that you
Speaker 7: were playing, for sure, But you have to look at
Speaker 7: what's different about this team. What the difference about this
Speaker 7: team is they are sleeping in their own beds this year.
Speaker 7: They are not bringing the physicality or the discipline on
Speaker 7: the road. You have to look at those things whenever
Speaker 7: you're trying to evaluate the problem, because those are the
Speaker 7: only things that are different between this and times past.
Speaker 8: I just think that they're getting beat up. They just
Speaker 8: getting just getting beat up. I mean, people are trying
Speaker 8: to the physicality. That's that's what's happening. That's you have
Speaker 8: an undersized team. You're your team is undersized, that's the reality.
Speaker 8: And teams that have the personnel to beat you up
Speaker 8: and bully you they do.
Speaker 1: So. The forty nine ers are more physical than you.
Speaker 1: They beat you up.
Speaker 8: Philadelphia, you went out there, you had a competitive game.
Speaker 8: You lost the game. Okay, cool, Arizona caught you off guard.
Speaker 8: You weren't read, you didn't show up for that one. Okay, Buffalo,
Speaker 8: we're bigger than you. We're bigger than you. We're more
Speaker 8: physical than you. Who's the biggest guy that you have
Speaker 8: on your defensive line last night versus thirty huh? Two
Speaker 8: ninety versus their three sixty. The lord, the smallest guy
Speaker 8: they had on their line was McGovern at what three fifteen.
Speaker 8: We're bigger than you, we're bigger, we're more physical. Show
Speaker 8: us that you can stop us. Forty nine ers do
Speaker 8: the same exact thing. We're bigger, we're bigger, we're stronger,
Speaker 8: we're more aggressive than you. Show us that you can
Speaker 8: stop us. Teams that have that adrid that have that
Speaker 8: personnel number one, have the attitude and and have the
Speaker 8: gall to simply just punch you in your mouth.
Speaker 1: You gotta punch back. And if you can do so,
Speaker 1: then guess what I'm I.
Speaker 8: Am literally more physical than you are, and there's nothing
Speaker 8: you can do about it. It's no different than if
Speaker 8: I had a basketball team and I had a bunch
Speaker 8: of seven footers.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm doing. We're going post game the
Speaker 1: whole game. We're going post game. You know why, because
Speaker 1: you can't do anything about it.
Speaker 3: We're not putting them no shots, Yeah, no shots, you're.
Speaker 8: Six three, I'm seven foot We're going post game, right.
Speaker 8: So it's it's a physicality thing. So how do you
Speaker 8: address that? Well, first of all, they need to figure
Speaker 8: out who the heck could come in this building and
Speaker 8: start warming up.
Speaker 1: As Jonathan Hankins is gone. That's number one. And I
Speaker 1: know you talked about the edges. You're absolutely correct about
Speaker 1: the edges. It's not just a minute.
Speaker 8: They didn't play well either, but there is a gaping hole.
Speaker 8: And I said it on the show on Friday. If
Speaker 8: I'm the Buffalo Bills, I'm turning around and I'm handing
Speaker 8: the ball off the cook and I'm coming downhill until you.
Speaker 1: Show me that you can stop it consistently. And they
Speaker 1: did it, So why would I change anything else.
Speaker 8: It just so happens that they ran into a office
Speaker 8: a coordinator that was willing to keep handing it off
Speaker 8: forty nine times out of sixty four plays.
Speaker 4: That's the difference. That is literally the difference, by the way,
Speaker 4: just based off of weight. And this is on the
Speaker 4: Cowboys official roster. This is not what they're playing at
Speaker 4: right now. I can guarantee you that. But Mazzie Smith
Speaker 4: is listed as the biggest player on the defensive side.
Speaker 4: Three thirty seven is what he's listed as.
Speaker 1: There's no way he's MASSI Mozzie might be two ninety
Speaker 1: five right now.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's maybe he's slimmed down a little bit, by
Speaker 4: a little bit, I mean significantly. But then you've got Hankins, who,
Speaker 4: of course was out three twenty, and then after that
Speaker 4: it goes all the way down the Neville Gallimore at
Speaker 4: three zero two. So yeah, you're right. I mean there
Speaker 4: was a size discrepancy. I said it on Cowboys Game
Speaker 4: nine last night. This was a bludgeoning in Buffalo, is
Speaker 4: what it was. They continued to run the rock, they
Speaker 4: continued to expose Dallas defensively in the run game, whether
Speaker 4: it was inside or outside. I do agree with you
Speaker 4: in the fact that it wasn't all Jonathan Hankins. He
Speaker 4: played a significant factor. Him being in the middle there
Speaker 4: would have completely changed things. I fully believe that because
Speaker 4: it would have allowed the linebackers to play better. Dimone
Speaker 4: Clark did not.
Speaker 1: Have a good day.
Speaker 4: It would have allowed for the edge rushers to possibly
Speaker 4: be able to pin back and have some more success
Speaker 4: getting outside, because I mean, they were double gapping everywhere.
Speaker 4: And I would love to go I can't wait to
Speaker 4: go back and look at the film today and really
Speaker 4: see how much he was missed in the middle.
Speaker 1: Because he was missed significantly.
Speaker 4: But the other part about it is the offense had
Speaker 4: no rhythm because the defense was playing downhill as well.
Speaker 4: Just because the offense was playing downhill, James Cook was
Speaker 4: playing downhill, and there was a way for them.
Speaker 1: To be successful there. Defense did the exact same thing.
Speaker 4: They weren't scared of what Dallas brought offensively, and you
Speaker 4: could see that it was one of those games. And
Speaker 4: you can't blame one person. You can't blame Jonathan Hankins missing.
Speaker 4: You can't blame Dak Prescott. If you're blaming Dak Prescott today,
Speaker 4: and I know there are some fans out there that
Speaker 4: are doing so, that's a lazy take. This is coming
Speaker 4: from from Isaiah's book. He calls it the book of
Speaker 4: a Bonyx. Everybody got beat yesterday, Absolutely everyone had and nobody,
Speaker 4: nobody did their job to a perfect extent yesterday, maybe
Speaker 4: with the exception of Brian Anger and Brandon Aubrey, and
Speaker 4: even that's a stretch.
Speaker 8: This is the game of football, and in the game
Speaker 8: of football, if you can't win the trenches, you don't
Speaker 8: stand a chance.
Speaker 1: And they got beat, you don't stand a chance.
Speaker 8: This is the reason why whenever I put on my
Speaker 8: GM had I would spend all my dog on money
Speaker 8: on the bullies up front, and I would fill in
Speaker 8: the gaps everywhere else.
Speaker 1: Because defensively, defensively, you couldn't get.
Speaker 8: Home against their offensive line, no, right, and first of all,
Speaker 8: they only threw it fifteen times. Second of all, you
Speaker 8: couldn't stop their run. So defensively, you were undersized, you
Speaker 8: got beat up, you got bullied. Flip it on the
Speaker 8: other side, Okay, their defensive line. We talked about how
Speaker 8: this was going to be the most athletic defensive line
Speaker 8: that Dallas has faced to date. Right, San Francisco has
Speaker 8: a freaking really good defensive line. Right, So that's up,
Speaker 8: that's up for argument. But these guys are right there
Speaker 8: with them in terms of athleticism across the board, right
Speaker 8: in terms of every guy being able to beat you
Speaker 8: all the way from Olive other and on the inside
Speaker 8: all the way to Leonard Floyd on the outside. We
Speaker 8: didn't even talk about von Miller last week, and von
Speaker 8: Miller really didn't have an impact on the game that
Speaker 8: you still got to respect them, right, So these guys
Speaker 8: are athletic, and everybody was getting beat up front, and
Speaker 8: it killed you. When Zach Martin went down so we're
Speaker 8: talking about guys going down and then your team still
Speaker 8: having a confidence and a mental strength to overcome those adversities.
Speaker 8: I'm not sure that Dallas has gotten to the point
Speaker 8: where they can overcome major adversities and major losses in
Speaker 8: the game. You're missing your big dog on the inside
Speaker 8: on defense, You're missing your big dog on the inside
Speaker 8: on offense.
Speaker 1: Didn't overcome it. We've talked about that before, absolutely have.
Speaker 3: And even with those two guys, it would have been
Speaker 3: a blood bath in the chrenches like it would.
Speaker 1: Still I'm talking about from this point, I'm talking about
Speaker 1: the mental.
Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely, and then take those two guys out and
Speaker 7: that's when a mental really corts.
Speaker 3: It comes to equation. But I mean, I have to
Speaker 3: give it a TJ. Bass. He didn't play poorly.
Speaker 7: It's just I feel like whenever Zach Martin got pulled
Speaker 7: out of the game offensively, they just they did what
Speaker 7: they did in Arizona or it was like, okay, everything
Speaker 7: quick game, but we have to get the ball out quick.
Speaker 7: And the timing wasn't there. Because a secondary for Buffalo
Speaker 7: played so well last night. I mean they were on CD,
Speaker 7: they were on Brandon Cooks. Those guys were not able
Speaker 7: to create. It's on a separation and it threw Dack
Speaker 7: out of sorts, and the offense just never found consistency
Speaker 7: until that final drive. And I was kind of tracking
Speaker 7: like before that final drive they were on trend to
Speaker 7: have like a top ten worst total offense performance in
Speaker 7: franchise history, but then that final drive kind of pushed
Speaker 7: it along and got them outside of that range. But yeah,
Speaker 7: it was tough, man. It's a really good team. Buffalo
Speaker 7: is a really damn good team. It's they're not eight
Speaker 7: and six, like they're eight and six, but they're not
Speaker 7: an eight and sixteen. That's a nightmare of a team
Speaker 7: to catch in the wildcard round.
Speaker 4: It's going to be a shame if they do miss
Speaker 4: the playoffs. And Chris Collinsworth or not Chris Collinsworth, whoever,
Speaker 4: the old Greg Olsen said it yesterday and he said,
Speaker 4: if they sneak in, watch out for Buffalo. I agree,
Speaker 4: And we knew that going in. We talked about that
Speaker 4: significantly last week. Don't look at the record, don't look
Speaker 4: at seven and six. This team's not seven and six,
Speaker 4: and especially when they have a run game that can
Speaker 4: do that around Josh Allen. And then you have the
Speaker 4: ability of Josh Allen, who we talked about all week
Speaker 4: and he threw seven completions. I mean, we talked about
Speaker 4: Josh Allen at nauseum last week, thinking this was going
Speaker 4: to be a shootout, it was going to be him versus.
Speaker 1: Deck and it was back and forth. That wasn't the case.
Speaker 1: They took the air out of the football.
Speaker 4: James Cook had an incredible day, twenty five carries a
Speaker 4: buck seventy nine and then he had.
Speaker 1: Forty two through the air six percent rushing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's ridiculous, most or least amount of completions in
Speaker 4: a win in Josh Allen's career seven completions at.
Speaker 7: Least amount of passing attempts by an opponent quarterback for
Speaker 7: the Cowboys since like two thousand, I think it was.
Speaker 3: It's yeah, my entire lifetime.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's bad. All right.
Speaker 4: When we come back here on talking Cowboys, we're going
Speaker 4: to continue deep diving into the thirty one to ten loss,
Speaker 4: even as painful as it may be, and we're going
Speaker 4: to take a look at the offensive side.
Speaker 1: I like what Nick you just.
Speaker 4: Brought up about the changing of mentality from a play
Speaker 4: calling standpoint, is this something to be concerned about moving
Speaker 4: forward or is it something that could change based off
Speaker 4: of the learning that you did here in week fifteen.
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Speaker 1: Isaiah, did you get him in this morning?
Speaker 8: I did, Actually, Kyle, I needed him because there was
Speaker 8: a little somber around here, you know today.
Speaker 1: But it's okay.
Speaker 8: You gotta sometimes you gotta get your oats in and
Speaker 8: get you get a pep in your step sometimes, and this.
Speaker 4: Is just a peek behind the curtain a little bit
Speaker 4: some of them. Sometimes the best conversations that we have
Speaker 4: are the weeks following a loss like this, because coaches
Speaker 4: want want there, they want to air out their dirty
Speaker 4: laundry from the week before. They want to talk about
Speaker 4: something specifically. This morning, there was not a whole lot
Speaker 4: of talking.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 8: I saw coach Slari this morning. He had a pepper
Speaker 8: his step and Coach Laras was walking around. He was
Speaker 8: I've been around for a long he's been around for
Speaker 8: a long time, and I think he was surprising people
Speaker 8: by the energy that he had, you know, because everybody's
Speaker 8: kind of walking on eggs shows a little bit this
Speaker 8: morning and Coach Salari comes in, he says, it gets better,
Speaker 8: it gets better, it gets better than I'm like, all right, coach,
Speaker 8: I see you, like, yeah, the loss sucks, and you
Speaker 8: learn a lot about yourself and losses.
Speaker 1: If you're able to acknowledge.
Speaker 8: Where you were short where your shortcomings were, you learn
Speaker 8: a lot about yourself, much more about yourself in losses
Speaker 8: than you ever would and wins. And it's very important
Speaker 8: that this team identifies this consistent weakness that they have
Speaker 8: in their approach to games.
Speaker 1: It is not a capability.
Speaker 8: It is a willingness to be relentless and to be physical,
Speaker 8: regardless of the adversities that you have in the shortcomings
Speaker 8: that you have. In terms of size, some teams are
Speaker 8: just going to be bigger than you. That's why I
Speaker 8: do not look at a previous game from one team
Speaker 8: versus another team and say, oh, we're going to do
Speaker 8: this because they lost to them. Like matchups matter, Yeah,
Speaker 8: matchups matter, And unfortunately Dallas size, size, and aggressiveness hasn't
Speaker 8: been their theme. They can beat you a lot of
Speaker 8: different ways. But if you have the personnel and you
Speaker 8: have the relentlessness, relentlessness to just just bang your head
Speaker 8: against the wall all day long, you're probably gonna have
Speaker 8: some success, some success success against Dallas. And that's something
Speaker 8: that they have to identify and you have to find
Speaker 8: a way, Like how do you work around that? Like
Speaker 8: not every team that you're gonna face is gonna have
Speaker 8: that capability, but the teams when the teams that you
Speaker 8: do face that have that personnel and have that that approach,
Speaker 8: you have to find a way.
Speaker 3: I'm with you.
Speaker 7: One good thing. Massie Smith got a sack last night.
Speaker 7: It was credited to Golston whenever I left the press box,
Speaker 7: So this is news to me. I'm just stop checking.
Speaker 3: Wow that was that was wild? But yeah, it's it's
Speaker 3: it's we talked about it in the first Segment's first Way. Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's his first sack of his career.
Speaker 8: What do you want to see change from this past
Speaker 8: week to this coming So that was kind of my
Speaker 8: question was was they haven't lost back to back games
Speaker 8: since week eleven and twelve back to back in the
Speaker 8: same season.
Speaker 4: I might add since weeks eleven and twelve of twenty
Speaker 4: twenty one, so it's been a while since they've lost
Speaker 4: back to back games in the same season. That means
Speaker 4: back to back CRUs from this one, like you said,
Speaker 4: from where this loss was and how bad it was
Speaker 4: on the road, and from Nick points in that first segment,
Speaker 4: from your points there about learning lessons, is that number
Speaker 4: one lesson learned physicality. And then my follow up immediately
Speaker 4: is can you learn how to ramp up physicality in
Speaker 4: the span of seven days. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't think there's a way you can just be tough.
Speaker 3: You know, you either are or not, you know, so.
Speaker 1: Is that a problem?
Speaker 3: I don't think it is, though, because we've seen this
Speaker 3: team be tough.
Speaker 7: I love going back to watch that Seattle game and
Speaker 7: parts of that Philadelphia game, because that was a team
Speaker 7: that came in Seattle specifically, came in and was more
Speaker 7: physical than you at the very beginning, and then they
Speaker 7: are able to match that and exceed that by the
Speaker 7: end of the game, especially they're late in the second
Speaker 7: half when they needed to put a run together to
Speaker 7: win that game, and they did. So I've seen it
Speaker 7: from this team before. You've seen it whenever they're dominating
Speaker 7: opponents at home, and we can even look at a
Speaker 7: couple of road wins like Carolina that game got sneaky
Speaker 7: physical in the second half. We've seen it from this
Speaker 7: team this year. I just it's it goes away sometimes
Speaker 7: and it kind of feels like it's felt like for
Speaker 7: the last four or five years. You can watch a
Speaker 7: Cowboys game and within the first eight minutes you know
Speaker 7: how it's gonna go because it's the physicality is either
Speaker 7: matched or it's not. The intensity is matchless or it's not.
Speaker 1: And it was it was.
Speaker 7: It was that way yesterday, and it's gonna have to
Speaker 7: be fixed before you go to Miami next week, because
Speaker 7: I'll get to you because that's a really physical team
Speaker 7: and it's a really fast team, and those are two
Speaker 7: things that I think when you pair those things together,
Speaker 7: I worry about a lot.
Speaker 1: Yes, your next two games, Okay, let me start here.
Speaker 8: Your most recent game was against the number six rushing
Speaker 8: team in the league. Your next two games or against
Speaker 8: the number four rushing team and the number two rushing
Speaker 8: team in the league. How do you fix what is
Speaker 8: apparent that you need to address right now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a huge concern.
Speaker 1: It's a huge San Francisco's number three, Okay, you lost
Speaker 1: to San Francisco. They beat you up.
Speaker 8: Arizona is number seven. You lost to Arizona. Buffalo is
Speaker 8: number six. You lost to Buffalo. Okay, So three of
Speaker 8: the top seven teams you lost to so far. There's
Speaker 8: two more teams that you still have to face, Miami
Speaker 8: and Detroit that are in the top five.
Speaker 4: So what's the highest ranked rushing team that they've beaten
Speaker 4: so far? Philly and you lost to them once two?
Speaker 1: Yes, what are they? Their number ten? So you have
Speaker 1: not beaten a team this year inside the top ten
Speaker 1: and rushing. I don't like that.
Speaker 7: And the difference too, when you look at these next
Speaker 7: two games is, yeah, James Cook was awesome last night,
Speaker 7: but he carried the ball twenty five times. And when
Speaker 7: you look at the difference with Miami and Detroit, they
Speaker 7: have two headed monsters that will be fresh, that will
Speaker 7: be you know, rotating in.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be it's gonna be tough. They're gonna have
Speaker 3: to figure that one out.
Speaker 4: Phillies number nine, Phillies number nine. Okay, so you have
Speaker 4: beaten the top ten rushing attack.
Speaker 1: That's good.
Speaker 8: So of the top of the top nine teams in
Speaker 8: the league you have already played, You've already faced one, two, three,
Speaker 8: four of those top nine rushing teams, you lost all
Speaker 8: of them.
Speaker 1: You still have the number two and the number four
Speaker 1: to go.
Speaker 7: Yeah, without Jonathan Hankins most likely, yes, almost certainly in Miami,
Speaker 7: and then it's gonna be I think it's gonna be
Speaker 7: kind of.
Speaker 3: A game time thing Detroit, but or against Detroit rather so, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it's it's tough. I think.
Speaker 7: I think the biggest thing is, you know, you look
Speaker 7: at the guys that are replacing Jonathan hank It's Mazzie Smith,
Speaker 7: Neville Gallimore. And you want to ask, Yeah, those guys
Speaker 7: have to step up and improve.
Speaker 3: Yes, they do.
Speaker 7: I need it more from de Monk Clark because I'm
Speaker 7: not expecting it from those two right now, but I
Speaker 7: expect it from de Moonk Clark. So De Monk Clark
Speaker 7: had a very rough game yesterday, so I'm hoping that
Speaker 7: he can feel running lanes a little bit better.
Speaker 3: Stop guessing that.
Speaker 7: That was a big thing for me, especially once it
Speaker 7: got down in the red zone, that's where James Cook
Speaker 7: had most of his success.
Speaker 8: It felt like, So, I just think those guys at
Speaker 8: the second level, including Damont Clark, anybody else, who decides
Speaker 8: to walk down here, they have to be more decisive.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 8: Even when Van der Esh was playing, Van deer Esh
Speaker 8: would choose the wrong hole relatively often. But you just
Speaker 8: have to be decisive. The reason why it's important to
Speaker 8: be decisive even if you choose wrong is because now
Speaker 8: the players behind you know exactly where to go. So
Speaker 8: if you go right, even if you choose right and
Speaker 8: they go left, guess what as a safety Now, I
Speaker 8: know I have to feel left.
Speaker 1: Right, I'm playing off of you.
Speaker 8: But if you're playing any you know, any menie Mighty Mo,
Speaker 8: then you're trying to, you know, trying to decide on
Speaker 8: what direction you want to go. Now I'm left in
Speaker 8: no man's land, and now I have to hesitate right
Speaker 8: because I don't know where to go. Because I'm the
Speaker 8: last line of defense. The defensive line has to play
Speaker 8: better because they can't allow guys up to the second
Speaker 8: level is the reason why we talk about how important
Speaker 8: it is to have big boys up front. Talked about
Speaker 8: this many times. Up to the trade deadline, I was
Speaker 8: beating against the table. I'm like, get another Hankins, get
Speaker 8: another Hankins in here, because if Hankins goes down, you're screwed.
Speaker 4: There were two spots we were hanging for the trade deadline.
Speaker 4: It was interior defensive line up and interior off office
Speaker 4: lin line.
Speaker 10: Ye.
Speaker 8: But the one thing that we knew was that if
Speaker 8: you don't have a big boy presence up front, your
Speaker 8: second level is done.
Speaker 1: They're toast.
Speaker 8: So you're talking about Damon Clark, the player that everybody
Speaker 8: keeps watching, where he got hemmed up. Well, you got
Speaker 8: a two hundred and forty pounds Damont Clark. You know,
Speaker 8: he's built like a football player, all those things. But
Speaker 8: there's a three hundred and sixty pound offensive lineman that
Speaker 8: has his hands on his chest. You're not getting off
Speaker 8: of that. Why is there a three hundred and sixty
Speaker 8: pound office a lineman at the second level.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was Dion Dawkins, but he was really at
Speaker 1: the end.
Speaker 8: Because DeMont Clark came out to the outside right he
Speaker 8: came all the way on the outside left side.
Speaker 1: He got locked up, cut up inside, and he just
Speaker 1: couldn't get off the block. Yeah. Right, So you have
Speaker 1: to address things in waves.
Speaker 8: The d line is supposed to be the first wave,
Speaker 8: the linebacker's supposed to be the second wave, and then
Speaker 8: your safeties are your last line of defense, right, And
Speaker 8: everybody has their roles that they have to play. Yes,
Speaker 8: the second level has to play better. They have to
Speaker 8: play more aggressive. They have to come downhill. They got
Speaker 8: to hit their office the lineman in the mouth. They
Speaker 8: got to get shed blocks right. They have to do
Speaker 8: a better job of shocking and releasing because right now
Speaker 8: we're seeing as a lot of guys getting caught, right,
Speaker 8: and those little shoulder pads that come down. Once the
Speaker 8: big guys grab on, I don't care how strong you are,
Speaker 8: You're going for a ride. There's this the NFL. Once
Speaker 8: those guys lock on, Andy, put those little vice grips
Speaker 8: on you, you are going for a ride. That is
Speaker 8: bench press range. Once you're inside my shoulders and I
Speaker 8: grab you goodbye.
Speaker 7: Yeah, Yeah, it's a wrap after that, and then that
Speaker 7: just keep again another physicality point yep, that's all.
Speaker 1: This and I mean, de Monk Clark had a tough
Speaker 1: task anywhere last night.
Speaker 4: Because there wasn't just the one play where he was
Speaker 4: getting pushed back by Dion Dawkins and he was getting pushed.
Speaker 1: All the way into the goal coverage on Cook.
Speaker 4: He had to play in coverage multiple times and James
Speaker 4: Cook routed him up.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know it's not even that's not even
Speaker 1: a real running a corner, right He cooked him? Yeah,
Speaker 1: he cooked them. But that's not even a fair.
Speaker 8: Matchup right right, Like that's like you have, that's an
Speaker 8: unrealistic expectation.
Speaker 4: I mean, linebackers in this day and age of the
Speaker 4: NFL are expected to cover running backs out of the backfield,
Speaker 4: not as fast as Cook.
Speaker 1: I completely agree, I get it mismatched. There's there. I'm
Speaker 1: not disagreeing.
Speaker 4: I'm just saying from de mont Clark's standpoint, he's expected
Speaker 4: to do.
Speaker 1: That from a scheme standpoint. That's why they draft guys
Speaker 1: like that.
Speaker 4: That's why, I mean, honestly, if you go all the
Speaker 4: way back to twenty twenty one, that's why they drafted
Speaker 4: a guy uh like Trabrill Cox because he had coverage ability.
Speaker 4: Then he got her and then that coverage ability was
Speaker 4: significantly hindered because of it. So there's there's ways that
Speaker 4: these linebackers are put in position that are either going
Speaker 4: to put them in a spot for success or a
Speaker 4: spot to fail. And it felt like last night he
Speaker 4: was in a spot.
Speaker 1: Coach Brady drew that up. He knew once they came out,
Speaker 1: they knew.
Speaker 8: He said, Hey, when we come out in this formation,
Speaker 8: Dallas plays man ninety sei percent of the time. Right,
Speaker 8: it's like first first in the league or second in
Speaker 8: the top three I know for sure in the league
Speaker 8: in terms of man coverage. So when we come out
Speaker 8: in this personnel, I know, based upon this alignment that
Speaker 8: Damon Clark has cooked man to man, and I know
Speaker 8: that my office a line is going to give Josh
Speaker 8: Allen time. That's how confident they were, so much so
Speaker 8: that I'm gonna take my running back who is lined
Speaker 8: up five to six yards behind the line of scrimmage
Speaker 8: next to my quarterback in the shotgun, and I'm going
Speaker 8: to run him on a twenty yard corner route, a
Speaker 8: twenty yard corner route from the backfield, and I'm gonna
Speaker 8: have time to get it there, and he's gonna have
Speaker 8: time to get up on that linebacker and run right
Speaker 8: by him because it is a mismatch.
Speaker 1: They're first in dime and their first in man. That's
Speaker 1: what it was.
Speaker 8: They are you know what I'm saying, So like that
Speaker 8: has to be addressed too. If we want to play
Speaker 8: so much, man and man, you're not don't do it
Speaker 8: this week.
Speaker 1: If you thought cook was bad, gosh man, yeah, something.
Speaker 8: I'm just saying, like, yes the moon Clark had a
Speaker 8: bad night, But like some things are just unrealistic expectations
Speaker 8: of players as well, and that's the reason why you
Speaker 8: have to there's there's certain personnel groupings that you have
Speaker 8: based upon personnel that comes in somebody something to me.
Speaker 8: So many teams sit up there and they wait to
Speaker 8: see who's coming into the game on a substitution for
Speaker 8: the office so that they could put their guys in
Speaker 8: because you want the right matchup. Putting Damon Clark inside
Speaker 8: the box linebacker on a four to three running back
Speaker 8: asi ye.
Speaker 1: But just a bad idea. Eight eight eight eight five five.
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Speaker 4: look forward to that Miami matchup, which one physicality or
Speaker 4: speed concerns you to most with this team moving into
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Speaker 4: on top of it. Eight one seven two nine zero
Speaker 4: three two nine to eight real quickly you were talking
Speaker 4: about about Joe Brady and scheming up against the moon Clark, yes,
Speaker 4: and how he was able to put him in some
Speaker 4: spots there bines the Monk Clark was or was recruited
Speaker 4: by Joe Brady, right, no matter he was, I mean
Speaker 4: not recruited by Joe Brady, specifically by his staff at
Speaker 4: LSU at a fat time.
Speaker 1: So they know each other very well.
Speaker 4: And I mean he was putting some tough positions last night,
Speaker 4: all right, from the five to nine. Why didn't Dan
Speaker 4: put any bigger guys on the offensive line and move
Speaker 4: Micah back to linebacker?
Speaker 1: So, yeah, I had this question a lot. A couple
Speaker 1: of people have sent this the same question.
Speaker 8: Anybody who tweeted me. I apologize, I'm not really on
Speaker 8: Twitter like that, But Michael Parsons is not a linebacker.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry to tell you guys, that is true. He's
Speaker 8: an amazing athlete, amazing athlete, one of the best athletes
Speaker 8: that you can ever imagined and touched the football field.
Speaker 1: But he's not a linebacker.
Speaker 8: Just because your an athlete doesn't mean that you can
Speaker 8: do everything to the level of people who that's all
Speaker 8: they do. Michael Parsons, much like we're talking about people
Speaker 8: choosing the wrong holes and hesitating and things of that nature.
Speaker 8: Michael Parsons, I don't think would hesitate in terms of
Speaker 8: trying to fill a gap, but it may not be
Speaker 8: the right gap. Michael Parsons in coverage has not been
Speaker 8: great from what we've seen. He looks like a fish
Speaker 8: out of water in that space. So I would hate
Speaker 8: to take your best athlete on your team and put
Speaker 8: him in a position where he cannot be intentional, and
Speaker 8: put him in a space where he has to hesitate
Speaker 8: and question his decision making and question his abilities all
Speaker 8: that stuff. Just let him do what he does. He
Speaker 8: needs he needs more help, but he's not. The answer
Speaker 8: is not putting him at linebacker. And you don't have
Speaker 8: any bigger guys. You don't have any bigger guys to
Speaker 8: put it at the defensive line position. The biggest guy
Speaker 8: that you had, you have one of those guys. And
Speaker 8: that's why this podcast was screaming for another one of him,
Speaker 8: just because you need a backup plan.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and I've said this a few times. I don't
Speaker 7: want to take your my best pass rusher away from what.
Speaker 3: He does best. And I'm not going to do that.
Speaker 1: Five.
Speaker 7: If I'm coaching the defense, I'm not gonna pull Michael
Speaker 7: Parsons away from what he does best to put him
Speaker 7: in the linebacking corps, even if that linebacking corps is
Speaker 7: heavily struggling.
Speaker 3: I'm just not gonna do that. Not me, not this guy.
Speaker 4: You know, you guys, you guys, we don't always agree,
Speaker 4: we don't, we don't always agree.
Speaker 1: But I agree with both of you.
Speaker 4: That's why you got this one right. Guys, I'm right
Speaker 4: good with you, But I appreciate the comment. Yeah, No,
Speaker 4: I think it's a concern. I mean, I think it's
Speaker 4: as you're looking for answers. You're searching for answers because
Speaker 4: Dallas sure as hell.
Speaker 1: Did not have an answer yesterday. They did not defensively. Especially.
Speaker 4: I think there's there's options there, but that's not an
Speaker 4: option to me. I don't think that's one where you
Speaker 4: can make it happen. Stanley in North Carolina says does
Speaker 4: Dan Quinn. He called him Daniel Quinn need to stop
Speaker 4: being so stubborn with man coverage and mix in zone
Speaker 4: at times.
Speaker 7: Nick Harris, Yeah, I think that. I think that's pretty valid.
Speaker 7: But I that's not a problem that was specific to
Speaker 7: this game, I don't. I don't see that as an
Speaker 7: issue from last night, that the passing game. I mean,
Speaker 7: it didn't even have to get tested, so I'm not
Speaker 7: looking at that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, if you're playing primarily zone or I'm saying not
Speaker 8: primarily if you're rolling in zone coverages, which he does,
Speaker 8: but he just percentage wise plays the most man in
Speaker 8: the league. If you're playing zone as a Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 8: most likely you don't have as much run support. So
Speaker 8: if last night you had the most run support because
Speaker 8: you were playing man, what do you think would have
Speaker 8: improved in the last night's game by taking a safety
Speaker 8: and moving them in and back into coverage.
Speaker 3: I don't think I heard your question correctly.
Speaker 8: Single high safety man coverage, yes, Dallas runs, okay, meaning
Speaker 8: that you always have eight guys near the line of scrimmage. Okay,
Speaker 8: eight man box, Okay, by playing more zone okay, there
Speaker 8: are single high zones, but there's not many of them.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 8: Majority of the zone coverages are played with two high shelves.
Speaker 8: So if you take if they to answer the question,
Speaker 8: if you take one of those safeties that is down
Speaker 8: near the box, near the line of scrimmage, and move
Speaker 8: him back into coverage. You have less and support than
Speaker 8: you had last night, So to appease this question, you
Speaker 8: would have been worse off had you played more zone.
Speaker 7: Well, if we're talking split safety looks, they were forced
Speaker 7: to do a lot more split safety looks last night,
Speaker 7: and they came out I believe if it was right
Speaker 7: off the top of my head, four of the first
Speaker 7: six plays and a split safety look with Donovan Wilson
Speaker 7: and one Yea Thomas not having Mollie Cooker, it kind
Speaker 7: of forced them to figure out what to do with
Speaker 7: the safety is there. You know, typically Mollie Cooker is
Speaker 7: that single high guy that they trust up there on
Speaker 7: that island. You saw Jaron Curse back there at times,
Speaker 7: you saw one of you Thomas back there. At times,
Speaker 7: you saw even Donovan Wilson back there. That leads me
Speaker 7: to believe that there wasn't confidence in having that single
Speaker 7: high look. So they were forced back into split safety
Speaker 7: look and that takes one more guy out of the box.
Speaker 8: But for fans out there, right, quarterbacks, if you have
Speaker 8: most quarterbacks have two plays going up to the line
Speaker 8: of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: All right, I come out. There's usually a pass play
Speaker 1: and a run play.
Speaker 8: If I come up to the line of scrimmage and
Speaker 8: I see single high coverage, okay, depending on.
Speaker 1: What I believe, it is most likely I'm going to
Speaker 1: pass the ball. It's not what you want.
Speaker 8: You don't want eight guys near the line of scrimmage
Speaker 8: for your six seven guys blocking, Okay. So but if
Speaker 8: I come out and I see too high, even if
Speaker 8: I have a pass called, most likely I'm going to
Speaker 8: change it to the run because there's less run support.
Speaker 8: We have a greater probability of having success on a
Speaker 8: running play when there's two safeties back and.
Speaker 1: Not one of them near to line of scrimmage.
Speaker 8: So, in terms of what you want to see a
Speaker 8: mix in of Morris's own coverages, there's a method to
Speaker 8: the madness. If you can have more guys near the
Speaker 8: line of scrimmage for run support and still be able
Speaker 8: to handle your responsibilities and coverage, that is the best
Speaker 8: situation possible.
Speaker 4: It's interesting to hear all of the different possibilities there,
Speaker 4: and I think there were multiple things wrong.
Speaker 1: We said that early everybody got beaten. There were multiple
Speaker 1: things wrong.
Speaker 4: But that's one thing that you can maybe do to
Speaker 4: remedy a bit of what happened, especially whenever you play
Speaker 4: against the speed of Miami coming up this upcoming week.
Speaker 1: I just had to say it.
Speaker 4: Huh, he just had to say it. A couple questions
Speaker 4: about the penalties. I'm going to try and merge these
Speaker 4: questions together here. How big of an impact do you
Speaker 4: feel like the three personal foul penalties had on the
Speaker 4: overall mindset of this team?
Speaker 1: Do you think it played? It a significant factor? I
Speaker 1: certainly did.
Speaker 7: Some just flew in my eye right as I was
Speaker 7: like trying to get to that point. But yeah, absolutely, yeah,
Speaker 7: I know. The three touchdown drives, Uh, the three first
Speaker 7: touchdown drives in the first half, the first one aided
Speaker 7: by the DeMarcus Lawrence roughing the passer call, which.
Speaker 3: Week, Yeah, I didn't love it.
Speaker 1: It was weak.
Speaker 3: I didn't love it.
Speaker 7: I didn't love the call, but you know it got called.
Speaker 7: It was late, it was a high. It was late,
Speaker 7: and it was high. So I was like, I understand
Speaker 7: it to a certain point that gave them four points?
Speaker 7: Is high that that gave them four points?
Speaker 2: Uh?
Speaker 7: Then you look at the Sam Williams of roughing the kicker,
Speaker 7: roughing the punt or whatever.
Speaker 3: It was a penalty.
Speaker 7: That is the most Sam Williams penalty of all time.
Speaker 7: I tweeted it out when it happened. That was like,
Speaker 7: first off, how did he miss the block? He was
Speaker 7: there by like a second second. Yeah, we broke it down,
Speaker 7: So that's.
Speaker 3: That's that's seven points, So that's we're looking at eleven now.
Speaker 7: And then the third touchdown drive had both the fumble
Speaker 7: where Marquis Bell forced it and good job by Buffalo
Speaker 7: getting back up to the line realizing that no.
Speaker 1: Hand cooking there. You can get a replay, didn't get
Speaker 1: a look.
Speaker 7: And then it also it was also aided by the
Speaker 7: curse fifteen yard penalty on those second and nineteen in
Speaker 7: completion that would have forced a third and nineteen was
Speaker 7: also weak, I'll give you that. So that's eighteen points
Speaker 7: there in the first half. That's pretty much almost entirely
Speaker 7: aided by penalties. And you go to the half down
Speaker 7: twenty one.
Speaker 3: To thirteen, which is eighteen points.
Speaker 7: So yeah, absolutely that killed the mentality I think from
Speaker 7: a certain point, and when you're battling mistakes and battling
Speaker 7: shooting yourself in your own foot, then yeah, that's always
Speaker 7: going to be a tough battle to overcome when you're
Speaker 7: having to fight both the other team and yourself.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Final question this is from Ashley and san Diego, a
Speaker 4: loyal listener, and she asked about the offensive play calling,
Speaker 4: and by Ashley standards said vanilla offensive play calling in
Speaker 4: the way that it happens whenever Lineman goes down. We
Speaker 4: kind of addressed that a little bit earlier. Do you
Speaker 4: feel like that's a concern moving forward, the change in
Speaker 4: mentality in the middle of a game, or is that
Speaker 4: something that is a normal thing for a play caller
Speaker 4: like Mike McCarthy to go through in the ebbs and
Speaker 4: flows of the game.
Speaker 3: All an Isaiah Star here, It's a tough question.
Speaker 8: I'm not sure that I agree that it was vanilla.
Speaker 8: I don't like the things that I didn't like from
Speaker 8: last night's play calling.
Speaker 1: Really just go to the the swapping of running backs.
Speaker 1: I want to see more Tony power.
Speaker 8: Tony Poller had had what thirteen touches yep on the night,
Speaker 8: eleven on the ground, two I think in the air. Okay,
Speaker 8: that's you got to have more. He's you got to
Speaker 8: have more. He was just dude, was he was killing it?
Speaker 8: He had what five five and a half yard averagewe.
Speaker 3: Around there four point seven, but that's still solid.
Speaker 1: So five yard carries. I mean, you know, like give
Speaker 1: him the rock. So I think you need more of that.
Speaker 8: I think the situation of the game, the game management
Speaker 8: took you out of some of the things you wanted
Speaker 8: to do, but I think that you could have still
Speaker 8: continued to strike them with your running game. Dak miss throws,
Speaker 8: Dak miss some throws. Yeah, I mean that's reality as well.
Speaker 8: He wasn't perfect, but he did not have a good day.
Speaker 8: That's back to back not great days for games for Dak.
Speaker 8: The last week wasn't great, but you were able to
Speaker 8: handle some business otherwise, and then this week was just
Speaker 8: not was in a good situation. So that's something he
Speaker 8: is gonna have to go back and look at himself
Speaker 8: in the mirror as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's unfortunate.
Speaker 7: I think the MVP campaign kind of died yesterday with
Speaker 7: this loss, but nevertheless, it was still a great year
Speaker 7: so far. Talking about the play calling, yeah, I think
Speaker 7: there's a lot of truth in it being especially when
Speaker 7: Zach Martin went down. I mean I talked about it
Speaker 7: in the first segment. I feel like when Zach Martin
Speaker 7: went down, everything got simplistic again, and they ran back.
Speaker 3: To the problems that they had back in Arizona.
Speaker 7: It just kind of the offense felt almost exactly how
Speaker 7: it did in that second half against Arizona. Yeah, that
Speaker 7: was the first thing it reminded me of. It wasn't
Speaker 7: as bad as San Francisco because San Francisco it was
Speaker 7: just they were forced.
Speaker 3: You just got that point. Yeah, that was just that
Speaker 3: was completely different. But like if you're.
Speaker 7: Ranking how bad it was, from like a one to
Speaker 7: ten scale, one being the worst, ten being the best,
Speaker 7: like San Francisco was one, this is a two, so
Speaker 7: and I'd put you know, Arizona second half in that
Speaker 7: two range as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you mentioned the m VP conversation.
Speaker 4: I think if if Dak balls out and they win
Speaker 4: these final three games and he goes on just a
Speaker 4: tangent and somehow you win the division, I still think
Speaker 4: it's a live But man, I agree, And if you
Speaker 4: have Philly win tonight against Seattle.
Speaker 1: You can go ahead and kiss the Seattle go by,
Speaker 1: I hope.
Speaker 7: So well, even if phillyp beats Seattle tonight, if the
Speaker 7: Giants beat Philadelphia one of those two times, the Cowboys
Speaker 7: are leading the division.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3: I'm saying. I'm just saying, I love your positives.
Speaker 1: Your your positivity.
Speaker 7: I'm Seattle not as daunting as it seems.
Speaker 3: It's not as Dante.
Speaker 8: Seattle will win in Seattle tonight and Seattle krack and
Speaker 8: will win tonight.
Speaker 1: Against the Stars. Yeah, there's no way on that one.
Speaker 1: That's the one tonight.
Speaker 4: I have far more confidence in the Dallas Stars to
Speaker 4: get it done tonight. You crazy, mean, yeah, far more,
Speaker 4: far more.
Speaker 1: All right, that does it for us here on talking Cowboys.
Speaker 1: It's okay, fellas, We're good. We okay, guys at all
Speaker 1: We fine?
Speaker 7: I wrote I wrote on five Takes last night the headline,
Speaker 7: believe it or not, the sky is not falling.
Speaker 1: This guy's not falling.
Speaker 3: Look, there's a lot that can still be worked on.
Speaker 1: There's a lot about the Truman Show.
Speaker 3: Got three more we not chicken little, you know.
Speaker 4: I like it all right, three more weeks to go.
Speaker 4: We'll be back tomorrow. We're gonna take your phone calls tomorrow.
Speaker 4: You better line up those text lines.
Speaker 1: Those phone lives at least four weeks left. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: we've got a lot more than that.
Speaker 4: We're playing till mid February. Everybody guaranteed four games.
Speaker 1: That'd be nice.
Speaker 4: Uh, but yeah, Cowboys made the playoffs, so guaranteed four games.
Speaker 1: Go Seehawks tonight. Let's go go Stars tonight.
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