WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: No-Show on the Road 0:00:02.680 --> 0:00:03.199 The following. 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:05.200 He is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and 0:00:05.240 --> 0:00:06.960 the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:11.960 Cowboys. 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:16.280 This He's Talking Cowboys, springing live. 0:00:16.120 --> 0:00:19.040 From the Dallas Cowboys worlds. 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:20.920 At the Star in Frisco. 0:00:20.320 --> 0:00:20.960 Straight. 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:32.880 Titown and now your hosts Isaiah Standback, Nick Harris, Josh Rodriguez, 0:00:33.400 --> 0:00:37.640 and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:41.000 It is the morning after a thirty one to ten 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:44.839 loss for the Dallas Cowboys up in Buffalo. As we 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:48.519 welcome you into Talking Cowboys, presented by Black Rifle Coffee Company. 0:00:48.760 --> 0:00:51.080 We are live from the Star in Frisco, Texas, in 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:55.040 the SWBC studios. We've got Isaiah Standback, Nick Harris, I'm 0:00:55.080 --> 0:00:55.920 Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:59.760 And it wasn't pretty in Buffalo. It was never pretty. 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:04.160 Buffalo jumps out to a fourteen to nothing lead, Dallas 0:01:04.280 --> 0:01:07.600 musters of field goal and really outside of garbage time, 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:08.880 that was about it for the Boys. 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:09.360 Is uh? 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:12.560 They were down by the biggest tap time deficit nineteen 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:16.479 points or excuse me, eighteen points since they were down 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:20.839 nineteen against Washington and twenty twenty and then they lose 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.200 in this one thirty one to ten with a late 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:26.679 touchdown from Ceddee Lamb, Nick Harris, you were on the scene, 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:30.120 you were there, you watched it. The weather wasn't as 0:01:30.160 --> 0:01:33.840 bad as it definitely couldn't have could have been, but 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:35.640 the play on the field wasn't very good. 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:37.520 Yeah, that kind of leads into my point. The weather 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:41.240 was not the issue. Jonathan Hankins not being in the game. 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:42.600 I don't think that was the issue. 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.240 Oh that was a big issue. I completely disawreveed. Well, 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:46.559 I like what you're saying. 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:54.720 Hold on, I think you've got an MVP award for 0:01:54.960 --> 0:01:56.080 Jonathan Hankins. 0:01:55.720 --> 0:01:58.920 Okay, hold on, Jonathan Hankins was not the reason they 0:01:58.960 --> 0:01:59.600 lost that game. 0:01:59.600 --> 0:02:02.920 That's what I'm saying. Do you think we'll get through 0:02:02.960 --> 0:02:03.920 going We can get to it. 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.440 The reason that the Cowboys lost this game is because 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:08.720 they don't show up on the road, and it's it's 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:12.000 becoming a theme over and over year after year, these 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.440 big games, these big tests on the road, they don't 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:14.840 show up. 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:16.280 There was no physicality. 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:19.160 I mean sure, there's probably a lot you could take 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.079 away from these past two games. You can look at 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.200 and say, Okay, these two last two games against the 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:26.560 Seahawks and the Eagles, really physical games, probably more physical 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.600 top three physical games that the Cowboys have had all season, 0:02:30.040 --> 0:02:32.239 So maybe there's a little bit of layover going into 0:02:32.240 --> 0:02:34.040 this game. But still you have to show up on 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:36.120 the road against a team like the Buffalo Bills. We 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.120 were talking about their offensive line last week. All these 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:41.079 guys are six five plus three twenty plus, and they 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.239 all showed that throughout the game. They were getting into 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:47.520 that second level, dominating de Mont Clark, dominating Marqueespell. On 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:49.440 the offensive side of the ball, it was the same deal. 0:02:49.480 --> 0:02:51.720 I mean, Dak Prescott was running for his life at times. 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:54.000 And Dak was not great either. I mean, he made 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:56.600 some poor decisions. He wasn't trusting, he wasn't trusting the 0:02:56.639 --> 0:03:00.200 timing with Ceedee Lamb and Brandon Cooks. And I'll talk 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.560 about the running game really quick, just because I know 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:06.200 that that's already an early talking point here. Jonathan Hankins 0:03:06.200 --> 0:03:09.560 being in the middle of the field doesn't prevent the 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.359 edge not being contained the entire night. James cook still 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:14.520 runs for probably one hundred and twenty yards last night. 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:16.640 If Jonathan Hankins is in the game. There were so 0:03:16.680 --> 0:03:19.120 many running lanes around the edges. It wasn't just the 0:03:19.200 --> 0:03:22.680 a gap was the a gap abused absolutely one thousand percent, 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:25.360 but it was coming around the edges and there was 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:29.760 no contain James Cook was breaking tackles looking like Barry 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:30.880 Sanders was. 0:03:31.120 --> 0:03:32.639 It was tough from the very beginning. 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:35.080 But I think the biggest issue with this with this 0:03:35.160 --> 0:03:37.240 team right now is they can't show up on the road. 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:39.840 And there's another opportunity to do that next week, but 0:03:40.240 --> 0:03:42.400 now since you lose that game, you have to figure 0:03:42.440 --> 0:03:43.000 out how to do. 0:03:42.960 --> 0:03:44.280 It before the playoffs come around. 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:47.320 Yep, because that's it's becoming a certainty now that you're 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:49.560 gonna have to go on the road in the wildcard round. 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:51.000 Well, it's been a talking point too. 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:53.880 I mean even Mike McCarthy addressed it yesterday talking about 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:57.520 the lack of or the presence of a gap, the 0:03:57.800 --> 0:03:59.840 fact that there is a gap between home and away 0:04:00.560 --> 0:04:04.600 and hearing your head coach address that, to me, that's 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.840 a concern because if you're head coach, a lot of times, 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:10.800 even if it's obvious you have a gap home in 0:04:10.840 --> 0:04:13.080 a way, you're not going to address it from a 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:16.040 head coaching standpoint. You're gonna talk to talk maybe within 0:04:16.080 --> 0:04:20.320 closed doors within your staff, maybe even not even address 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:22.880 the team in that instance, but he said it out 0:04:22.920 --> 0:04:25.120 loud yesterday in the post game. He's like, no, there's 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:28.360 a problem here. And if there's literally, if there's a 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:34.440 full blooded problem of having a lack thereof consistency on 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:38.240 the road, I have zero confidence going into these big 0:04:38.279 --> 0:04:40.880 pressure games on the road in the postseason and getting 0:04:40.880 --> 0:04:42.960 a win. The only one I can really think back 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:46.080 to in terms of big pressure wins where you got 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:48.839 it done on the road in recent memory was the 0:04:48.880 --> 0:04:49.760 Tampa Bay win. 0:04:49.720 --> 0:04:52.080 Last year in the Wildcard round. That was about it. 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:54.480 That was the only time that they've carried that over 0:04:54.560 --> 0:04:57.039 from what they do at and T Stadium to what 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:57.839 they do on the road. 0:04:59.040 --> 0:05:00.440 I hear what you guys are saying. 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:03.719 I agree partially with what you guys are saying as 0:05:03.760 --> 0:05:08.720 a former player, even though it might very well be 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:14.440 abundantly true that their play is diminished on the road 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:19.799 versus at home, there's no real justification, you know, like, yes, 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:24.159 that's a factual statement. They have this year played like 0:05:24.240 --> 0:05:27.120 trash on the road. At home, they play amazing. The 0:05:27.160 --> 0:05:30.160 stats back that up, coach backs that up. But there's 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:32.360 no real reason as to why you will play differently 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.080 on the road, and people are going to be looking 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:37.440 for a reason, they're going to be looking for a fix. 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:42.000 There is no fix to that. It's just how it's happened. No, 0:05:42.920 --> 0:05:45.239 you don't have a different approach to the game because 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.520 you're not at home. You might have a little bit 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.400 more energy, a little bit more momentum at times because 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:54.479 you're vibing off the crowd. Sometimes, depending on the environment, 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:58.000 you might have to go to nonverbal communication because of 0:05:58.040 --> 0:06:01.320 the environment. But in terms of your exit cution, there 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:04.600 is nothing about a different environment that changes your execution 0:06:04.800 --> 0:06:08.799 of a play. There's no there's nothing about a change 0:06:08.800 --> 0:06:12.479 of environment that changes your assignment or your ability to 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:16.080 execute that assignment. Like there's there's nothing literally nothing about 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:19.480 playing on the road aside from the noise and what 0:06:19.520 --> 0:06:21.080 you have to do to account for the noise. 0:06:21.480 --> 0:06:25.440 That's it, Like literally it not the. 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:27.640 You get out there early, you do your walkthroughs, you 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:29.159 find the play clocks. 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:31.920 You know exactly where or everything's at, you find where where. 0:06:31.760 --> 0:06:33.800 Your sidelines at, and all the kind of information that 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:36.560 you need in terms of identification. Outside of that, you're 0:06:36.600 --> 0:06:42.480 playing ball. So this narrative of you know, cowboys playing 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:44.320 like trash on the road, and we got to find 0:06:44.320 --> 0:06:47.560 out why there's no why there is no why. 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:51.000 Could it just be as simple as this this team. 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:54.480 Maybe there's an inexperience, Maybe there's an immaturity with this team. 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:57.440 I think there's a lack of discipline, because that was 0:06:57.480 --> 0:06:59.840 my that was my number one thing yesterday was lack 0:06:59.880 --> 0:07:00.839 of discipline. 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:06.040 Penalties, bad assignment. Yeah, I mean, but penalties are going down, frustrating. Yeah, yeah, 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:06.600 there's three prints. 0:07:06.600 --> 0:07:08.800 There were three bad penalties, right, personal foul penalties that 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:12.400 obviously when they happened, they had a dire effect on 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:15.240 the game. However, the penalty mark has been going down. 0:07:15.280 --> 0:07:18.120 I think we were at fourteen twelve seven five now, right, 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:19.400 so that number is going down. 0:07:19.480 --> 0:07:19.640 Yeah. 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:23.000 Yeah, they're very impactful, right, So, yes, some of those 0:07:23.000 --> 0:07:25.120 stat lines that you wanted to address, they're going in 0:07:25.120 --> 0:07:28.320 the positive direction now. The impact that those that number 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:30.920 still has on the game is obviously is showed up 0:07:30.960 --> 0:07:34.200 in the game obviously, but again, as people were trying 0:07:34.200 --> 0:07:35.600 to dive in and trying to figure out this role 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:37.800 versus home, I'm telling you, as a player, you ask 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:40.560 any players outside of the alterations that you have to 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.080 make and to account for the noise and the communication 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:46.920 to how that noise affects your ability to communicate effectively 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:50.800 in the game. There is nothing else that's different. Cowboys 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.400 are not playing, they're not practicing on their home field, 0:07:53.760 --> 0:07:56.000 they're at that home field eight times a year. Whatever 0:07:56.040 --> 0:08:00.320 it is, like, there's no true advantage out side of 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:00.800 the fact that. 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:03.200 Your crowd is there. 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.640 Like that's it, And I would love to hear anybody 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:09.640 else that says differently, because there's no You can't find 0:08:09.680 --> 0:08:10.239 an excuse. 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:11.560 You just got beat up. 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.080 And the teams that are willing, that have the physical 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:18.480 ability to beat you up and have the determination to 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:21.800 be resilient and to be just unwavering in their approach 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:26.000 to expose your weaknesses, they have beat you up. And 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:28.520 that's something that you have to acknowledge. That something that 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:30.640 you have to identify and you got to find a 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:31.440 resolution for it. 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:33.360 I think if you look at three of these four 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:36.319 road losses, I'm gonna leave Philly the Philly loss out 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.160 of this equation just because I feel like they were 0:08:38.160 --> 0:08:40.160 in that game. It's completely different. I'm looking at Arizona, 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:43.400 San Francisco and Buffalo. They didn't bring physicality to either 0:08:43.440 --> 0:08:45.640 of those three games. They didn't bring discipline to either 0:08:45.679 --> 0:08:47.640 of those three games. So when you're trying to figure 0:08:47.679 --> 0:08:50.480 out where the road woes come from, I think you 0:08:50.520 --> 0:08:53.559 have to look at those two things first. Is it 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:56.400 a home versus a way situation? You know, like, is 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:58.880 there a lot to put stock into when it comes 0:08:58.920 --> 0:08:59.199 to that. 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:01.000 Probably not. I think there's some truth in that. 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:03.960 But I think there's a big difference between sleeping in 0:09:04.000 --> 0:09:05.800 your own bed the night before, being able to pull 0:09:05.880 --> 0:09:08.640 up to the stadium on your own accord, and having 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:11.120 having a little bit of juice, having that little bit 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:13.360 of fresh feel, and knowing in the back of your 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:14.760 head you don't have to get on a flight back 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:18.240 home after the after the game, whereas going into Buffalo, 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:19.840 you're coming off a hotel bed. 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:21.560 You're going into the stadium with your. 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:24.800 Entire before Anyways, you know what I'm saying, Like, I 0:09:24.800 --> 0:09:26.400 don't know what they're doing nowadays, but. 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:28.120 This year they've been sleeping in their own bed. 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:30.600 Yes, it's been a big talking point about the home, 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.600 you know, home success and things like that. I don't know, 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.240 I think there's something to put in there. Sure did 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:37.840 it not maybe not work for the seasons that you 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:39.960 were playing, for sure, But you have to look at 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.000 what's different about this team. What the difference about this 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:44.840 team is they are sleeping in their own beds this year. 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:47.200 They are not bringing the physicality or the discipline on 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:48.840 the road. You have to look at those things whenever 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:50.600 you're trying to evaluate the problem, because those are the 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:52.880 only things that are different between this and times past. 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.360 I just think that they're getting beat up. They just 0:09:55.320 --> 0:09:57.240 getting just getting beat up. I mean, people are trying 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:00.360 to the physicality. That's that's what's happening. That's you have 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:04.800 an undersized team. You're your team is undersized, that's the reality. 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.640 And teams that have the personnel to beat you up 0:10:07.679 --> 0:10:08.679 and bully you they do. 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.440 So. The forty nine ers are more physical than you. 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:12.280 They beat you up. 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:15.000 Philadelphia, you went out there, you had a competitive game. 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.560 You lost the game. Okay, cool, Arizona caught you off guard. 0:10:17.640 --> 0:10:20.479 You weren't read, you didn't show up for that one. Okay, Buffalo, 0:10:20.600 --> 0:10:23.160 we're bigger than you. We're bigger than you. We're more 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:25.160 physical than you. Who's the biggest guy that you have 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:30.440 on your defensive line last night versus thirty huh? Two 0:10:30.520 --> 0:10:34.160 ninety versus their three sixty. The lord, the smallest guy 0:10:34.160 --> 0:10:36.360 they had on their line was McGovern at what three fifteen. 0:10:37.080 --> 0:10:40.640 We're bigger than you, we're bigger, we're more physical. Show 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.040 us that you can stop us. Forty nine ers do 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.720 the same exact thing. We're bigger, we're bigger, we're stronger, 0:10:45.760 --> 0:10:47.320 we're more aggressive than you. Show us that you can 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.719 stop us. Teams that have that adrid that have that 0:10:51.360 --> 0:10:55.360 personnel number one, have the attitude and and have the 0:10:55.440 --> 0:10:57.360 gall to simply just punch you in your mouth. 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.480 You gotta punch back. And if you can do so, 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:02.200 then guess what I'm I. 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:05.640 Am literally more physical than you are, and there's nothing 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:07.719 you can do about it. It's no different than if 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:09.200 I had a basketball team and I had a bunch 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:09.840 of seven footers. 0:11:09.840 --> 0:11:12.000 You know what I'm doing. We're going post game the 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.800 whole game. We're going post game. You know why, because 0:11:14.800 --> 0:11:15.719 you can't do anything about it. 0:11:15.800 --> 0:11:18.040 We're not putting them no shots, Yeah, no shots, you're. 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.600 Six three, I'm seven foot We're going post game, right. 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.360 So it's it's a physicality thing. So how do you 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:25.480 address that? Well, first of all, they need to figure 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:27.280 out who the heck could come in this building and 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:28.920 start warming up. 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.199 As Jonathan Hankins is gone. That's number one. And I 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:33.520 know you talked about the edges. You're absolutely correct about 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:34.600 the edges. It's not just a minute. 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:37.640 They didn't play well either, but there is a gaping hole. 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:39.880 And I said it on the show on Friday. If 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:42.280 I'm the Buffalo Bills, I'm turning around and I'm handing 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:45.640 the ball off the cook and I'm coming downhill until you. 0:11:45.760 --> 0:11:48.200 Show me that you can stop it consistently. And they 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:50.760 did it, So why would I change anything else. 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:52.720 It just so happens that they ran into a office 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:55.439 a coordinator that was willing to keep handing it off 0:11:56.360 --> 0:11:59.520 forty nine times out of sixty four plays. 0:12:00.679 --> 0:12:04.040 That's the difference. That is literally the difference, by the way, 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:06.240 just based off of weight. And this is on the 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:08.920 Cowboys official roster. This is not what they're playing at 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.320 right now. I can guarantee you that. But Mazzie Smith 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:13.440 is listed as the biggest player on the defensive side. 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:15.240 Three thirty seven is what he's listed as. 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.199 There's no way he's MASSI Mozzie might be two ninety 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:18.760 five right now. 0:12:19.000 --> 0:12:22.520 Yeah, he's maybe he's slimmed down a little bit, by 0:12:22.559 --> 0:12:25.800 a little bit, I mean significantly. But then you've got Hankins, who, 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.520 of course was out three twenty, and then after that 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:30.400 it goes all the way down the Neville Gallimore at 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.440 three zero two. So yeah, you're right. I mean there 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:36.679 was a size discrepancy. I said it on Cowboys Game 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:40.319 nine last night. This was a bludgeoning in Buffalo, is 0:12:40.400 --> 0:12:43.560 what it was. They continued to run the rock, they 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:48.000 continued to expose Dallas defensively in the run game, whether 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:49.679 it was inside or outside. I do agree with you 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.439 in the fact that it wasn't all Jonathan Hankins. He 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:55.160 played a significant factor. Him being in the middle there 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:58.200 would have completely changed things. I fully believe that because 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:00.960 it would have allowed the linebackers to play better. Dimone 0:13:01.000 --> 0:13:01.520 Clark did not. 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:02.160 Have a good day. 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:04.800 It would have allowed for the edge rushers to possibly 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:06.640 be able to pin back and have some more success 0:13:06.679 --> 0:13:09.280 getting outside, because I mean, they were double gapping everywhere. 0:13:09.280 --> 0:13:10.959 And I would love to go I can't wait to 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.000 go back and look at the film today and really 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.960 see how much he was missed in the middle. 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:17.559 Because he was missed significantly. 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:20.880 But the other part about it is the offense had 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.400 no rhythm because the defense was playing downhill as well. 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:26.400 Just because the offense was playing downhill, James Cook was 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:28.040 playing downhill, and there was a way for them. 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.480 To be successful there. Defense did the exact same thing. 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:32.959 They weren't scared of what Dallas brought offensively, and you 0:13:33.000 --> 0:13:36.240 could see that it was one of those games. And 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:39.480 you can't blame one person. You can't blame Jonathan Hankins missing. 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:42.920 You can't blame Dak Prescott. If you're blaming Dak Prescott today, 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:44.240 and I know there are some fans out there that 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.160 are doing so, that's a lazy take. This is coming 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:50.120 from from Isaiah's book. He calls it the book of 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:56.320 a Bonyx. Everybody got beat yesterday, Absolutely everyone had and nobody, 0:13:56.480 --> 0:13:59.960 nobody did their job to a perfect extent yesterday, maybe 0:14:00.200 --> 0:14:05.160 with the exception of Brian Anger and Brandon Aubrey, and 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:06.040 even that's a stretch. 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.640 This is the game of football, and in the game 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:11.840 of football, if you can't win the trenches, you don't 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:12.480 stand a chance. 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:15.400 And they got beat, you don't stand a chance. 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:17.920 This is the reason why whenever I put on my 0:14:18.040 --> 0:14:20.440 GM had I would spend all my dog on money 0:14:20.520 --> 0:14:23.080 on the bullies up front, and I would fill in 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:24.280 the gaps everywhere else. 0:14:24.120 --> 0:14:28.960 Because defensively, defensively, you couldn't get. 0:14:28.880 --> 0:14:32.000 Home against their offensive line, no, right, and first of all, 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.480 they only threw it fifteen times. Second of all, you 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:37.200 couldn't stop their run. So defensively, you were undersized, you 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:39.160 got beat up, you got bullied. Flip it on the 0:14:39.200 --> 0:14:41.720 other side, Okay, their defensive line. We talked about how 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:44.360 this was going to be the most athletic defensive line 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.040 that Dallas has faced to date. Right, San Francisco has 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:50.120 a freaking really good defensive line. Right, So that's up, 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:52.440 that's up for argument. But these guys are right there 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.160 with them in terms of athleticism across the board, right 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:56.840 in terms of every guy being able to beat you 0:14:57.120 --> 0:14:59.080 all the way from Olive other and on the inside 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:00.920 all the way to Leonard Floyd on the outside. We 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:03.120 didn't even talk about von Miller last week, and von 0:15:03.240 --> 0:15:04.640 Miller really didn't have an impact on the game that 0:15:04.720 --> 0:15:07.280 you still got to respect them, right, So these guys 0:15:07.320 --> 0:15:09.400 are athletic, and everybody was getting beat up front, and 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:12.280 it killed you. When Zach Martin went down so we're 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:15.280 talking about guys going down and then your team still 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.840 having a confidence and a mental strength to overcome those adversities. 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.320 I'm not sure that Dallas has gotten to the point 0:15:21.320 --> 0:15:26.360 where they can overcome major adversities and major losses in 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:29.200 the game. You're missing your big dog on the inside 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.240 on defense, You're missing your big dog on the inside 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:31.800 on offense. 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:35.880 Didn't overcome it. We've talked about that before, absolutely have. 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:37.560 And even with those two guys, it would have been 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:39.560 a blood bath in the chrenches like it would. 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:41.120 Still I'm talking about from this point, I'm talking about 0:15:41.120 --> 0:15:41.640 the mental. 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.200 Yeah, absolutely, and then take those two guys out and 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:45.840 that's when a mental really corts. 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:47.880 It comes to equation. But I mean, I have to 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:49.520 give it a TJ. Bass. He didn't play poorly. 0:15:49.720 --> 0:15:52.560 It's just I feel like whenever Zach Martin got pulled 0:15:52.560 --> 0:15:54.560 out of the game offensively, they just they did what 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:56.400 they did in Arizona or it was like, okay, everything 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.680 quick game, but we have to get the ball out quick. 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.640 And the timing wasn't there. Because a secondary for Buffalo 0:16:01.720 --> 0:16:04.800 played so well last night. I mean they were on CD, 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:06.880 they were on Brandon Cooks. Those guys were not able 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.080 to create. It's on a separation and it threw Dack 0:16:09.120 --> 0:16:11.560 out of sorts, and the offense just never found consistency 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:13.840 until that final drive. And I was kind of tracking 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.400 like before that final drive they were on trend to 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.240 have like a top ten worst total offense performance in 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:21.520 franchise history, but then that final drive kind of pushed 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:24.320 it along and got them outside of that range. But yeah, 0:16:24.440 --> 0:16:26.680 it was tough, man. It's a really good team. Buffalo 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:29.480 is a really damn good team. It's they're not eight 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:31.200 and six, like they're eight and six, but they're not 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:33.080 an eight and sixteen. That's a nightmare of a team 0:16:33.120 --> 0:16:34.160 to catch in the wildcard round. 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:36.120 It's going to be a shame if they do miss 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:40.320 the playoffs. And Chris Collinsworth or not Chris Collinsworth, whoever, 0:16:40.840 --> 0:16:44.400 the old Greg Olsen said it yesterday and he said, 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.320 if they sneak in, watch out for Buffalo. I agree, 0:16:47.520 --> 0:16:49.400 And we knew that going in. We talked about that 0:16:49.480 --> 0:16:51.640 significantly last week. Don't look at the record, don't look 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:53.520 at seven and six. This team's not seven and six, 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.000 and especially when they have a run game that can 0:16:56.120 --> 0:16:58.280 do that around Josh Allen. And then you have the 0:16:58.600 --> 0:17:01.360 ability of Josh Allen, who we talked about all week 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.640 and he threw seven completions. I mean, we talked about 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.520 Josh Allen at nauseum last week, thinking this was going 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:09.600 to be a shootout, it was going to be him versus. 0:17:09.520 --> 0:17:11.520 Deck and it was back and forth. That wasn't the case. 0:17:11.640 --> 0:17:13.160 They took the air out of the football. 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.359 James Cook had an incredible day, twenty five carries a 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:17.960 buck seventy nine and then he had. 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:20.679 Forty two through the air six percent rushing. 0:17:20.960 --> 0:17:25.639 Yeah, that's ridiculous, most or least amount of completions in 0:17:25.720 --> 0:17:28.680 a win in Josh Allen's career seven completions at. 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.280 Least amount of passing attempts by an opponent quarterback for 0:17:31.400 --> 0:17:33.320 the Cowboys since like two thousand, I think it was. 0:17:34.280 --> 0:17:35.880 It's yeah, my entire lifetime. 0:17:36.640 --> 0:17:38.119 Yeah, that's bad. All right. 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:41.040 When we come back here on talking Cowboys, we're going 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:44.080