WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Needing A Complete Game 0:00:05.400 --> 0:00:07.920 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:18.480 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is He's Talking 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:23.080 Cowboys screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:33.080 the Star in Frisco. Elliot, stay here are Mickey Spagnola, 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:38.320 Brian brought us, Rob Phillips and Bill Jones. And it 0:00:38.520 --> 0:00:42.680 is a Tuesday here at the Star in Frisco, Texas, 0:00:42.800 --> 0:00:47.680 the SWBC Mortgage Studios. Bill Jones with Mickey Spagnola, Rob 0:00:47.720 --> 0:00:50.320 Phillips and Brian brought us as we turned the page 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:53.000 and get set for Eagles Week at a day off 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:56.680 of the players here and the practices resume of course 0:00:56.720 --> 0:01:00.520 on Wednesday, and it's Eagles Week and of course a 0:01:00.520 --> 0:01:02.760 lot to get to with the Jets. Jerry Jones was 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:06.360 just on the flagship station one oh five three the 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.800 fan in Dallas Fort Worth talking about his head coach 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:13.560 as well. Ask what happened in uh Sunday's game against 0:01:13.600 --> 0:01:16.039 the Jets, the twenty four twenty two loss. I guess 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:19.120 we can probably start with that, but her first hello 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:21.800 to everybody? Are you today? Good mon? Bill? Good morning, 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.560 very good, very good. I also got the XFL Draft 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:26.800 going on right now Brian brought us this is what 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:30.840 a nerd I am. I'm actually tracking that draft. How 0:01:30.880 --> 0:01:32.759 does how do you like to pick? So far Landry 0:01:32.800 --> 0:01:36.000 Jones being your quarterback? You okay with that? That brings 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:38.120 it back to the Cowboys right off the bab because 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:40.760 Landry Jones was named after Tom Landry. There you go 0:01:40.959 --> 0:01:45.240 up where Lance Dunbar was drafted? Was he really? He 0:01:45.319 --> 0:01:47.440 wasn't seen that? Yeah? He was drafted? Yeah, all right, 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.520 there are some interesting names. Did the locals get anybody 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:54.600 worth note? Well? Landry Jones was the court got him? Yeah, 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:58.080 and he was the Desert their first round draft pick, 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.800 with the fourth pick of the twenty and twenty I 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:05.720 guess XFL draft. This is the skills portion of the draft. 0:02:05.840 --> 0:02:12.120 The Dallas Renegades select wide receiver Jeff Badet from Oklahoma, 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:16.919 the University of Oklahoma. Oh, there's a common theme play there. 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:20.600 He did. He was actually transfer from someplace I can't 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:23.160 remember where he played one year there. Fast guy can 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:27.560 really run. Yeah, that's exactly right. And so anyway, Christian Michael, 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.400 we've had a cup of coffee here. Trey Williams, they 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:34.680 were first round draft picks as well. So anyway, there's 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:38.040 your XFL draft update. We'll keep you posted as the 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:42.880 day goes along, or maybe not all right, Jerry on 0:02:42.919 --> 0:02:45.320 the radio, he was quizzed quite a bit about his 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.040 head coach, and it sounds to me like there will 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:50.560 not be a decision made on this head coach until 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.600 after the season is over, as he said last week, 0:02:53.639 --> 0:02:56.200 and as he said, I mean really after the game too. 0:02:56.200 --> 0:02:58.960 He said, I'm not even glancing into the long term future. 0:03:00.040 --> 0:03:02.880 The future is this Sunday against the Eagles. That's all 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:04.919 they're focused on right now. I don't know how many 0:03:04.960 --> 0:03:08.000 times he has to say it, but I guess you know, 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.320 people feel the need. They got to ask. They got 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:11.880 to ask when you've lost three games in a row 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:15.480 and the expectations of the team has right, Mick, Oh, absolutely, 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.720 And you know he also went on to say that 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:19.800 you know they I don't know if they thought they 0:03:19.800 --> 0:03:21.560 were trying to trip them up or nothing with that 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:26.360 philosophy question that right, And Eddy said if I disagreed 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:30.160 with Garrett's philosophy, he wouldn't be the coach. Yeah, that's 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.400 for the ten years out. I'm glad Mickey pointed at 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:34.240 out that was the one thing you know if you 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:37.480 kind of take put it into a bow that I 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:40.560 think that's the veteran reporter right there telling you that 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.760 that that's that's the thing. Hey, if I didn't agree 0:03:43.840 --> 0:03:45.920 with his philosophy, if I didn't agree with how he 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.320 managed the games. You know, I'm sure that Jerry is 0:03:48.360 --> 0:03:50.400 like a fan and know every fan's like, oh, go 0:03:50.600 --> 0:03:52.520 for it, No, don't go and then you know you 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:56.320 had that buyer's remorse when it doesn't work. But you know, yeah, 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.400 I feel like though that the question, one of the 0:03:59.440 --> 0:04:03.120 better ones they asked, was that, hey, do you agree 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:05.040 with his philosophy? Do you agree with him and how 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:07.440 he manages the games? And he says if I didn't 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:09.960 agree with him, he wouldn't be the head coach, and 0:04:10.480 --> 0:04:13.840 so this is all up for evaluation at the end 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.760 of the years. That's the way teams handle things. That's 0:04:16.760 --> 0:04:18.440 the way that Jones has handled things. Yeah, it was 0:04:18.480 --> 0:04:21.440 the one time they clearly saw and Mickey and Rob 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:24.080 will tell you that when Wade Phillips lost his team, 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:27.120 the Joneses had had enough at that point they needed 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.320 to try and do something differently. I don't feel like 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:32.360 that Jason Garrett has lost his team, even though we've 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:35.920 seen videos of guys walking by him supposedly not shaking 0:04:36.000 --> 0:04:38.560 his hand or you know whatever, I don't think that. 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:40.719 Sometimes as a player, you walk off the field and 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:42.280 you're just you just want to get to the bench 0:04:42.320 --> 0:04:44.320 and get a cup of gatorade and you don't notice 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:47.560 anything going on around you. And it was two guys. Yeah, 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.280 and we're making a big deal about that. Yeah, But 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:52.720 to me, at the end of the year, you sit 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:56.080 down and you evaluate where you're at with your coaching staff. 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:58.400 You're either gonna win enough or you're not gonna win enough, 0:04:58.440 --> 0:05:00.279 and that's where the evaluation needs to be. He is 0:05:00.279 --> 0:05:03.200 without a contract. No one's ever asked Jason garrettman if 0:05:03.200 --> 0:05:04.920 he really wants to be here. Either he might and 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:07.560 he might like be tired of this place too. You know, 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:09.600 everybody's like, well, we're all tired of you. Well maybe 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:10.880 he's like, well, maybe I can go out and do 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.279 something else. You know, he's contracted us up at the 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:15.520 end of the year, so keep that in mind as well. 0:05:15.640 --> 0:05:18.159 You know, we were talking about this yesterday off air. 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.320 When's the last time in the National Football League you've 0:05:21.320 --> 0:05:26.240 seen a team make a coaching change with a franchise. 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:30.599 That's right. Yeah, the first place in their division. Okay, 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:34.520 we I mean, you've seen hockey or Sailors Blues. They'll 0:05:34.600 --> 0:05:37.159 shuffle coaches and managers in and out, but the NFL 0:05:37.200 --> 0:05:40.560 that just doesn't happen. As as bad as this stretches, 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:43.200 they still control what they want to do. What Doug 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:46.000 Peterson said yesterday about his team is the same thing 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:48.240 that Jason Garrett could say about his team. Now, Jason's 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:50.160 not gonna say those type. He's not gonna come out 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.960 and say that. I know Doug walked it back. That's 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:55.360 not Jason's style, But the same thing holds true. They 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:57.440 can still do what they want to do. People might 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:00.920 say the Cleveland Browns last year when they made the switch, 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.760 when they got rid of Hugh and then went and 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:07.440 Greg Williams took over, and things kind of shifted a 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.400 little bit for them that way, but they say played 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:13.240 better the last time. A first place team, a team 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:17.160 that still is in control, and you did qualify into 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:21.719 what Brian said forty five seven, you lose. The Packers 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:25.360 get blown out by the Jaguars the week before. Wait 0:06:25.440 --> 0:06:27.680 Phillips and we love him. He'd lost the team, the 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.239 team had lost direction and that's why they made the change. 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:31.719 They're not going to do that here. It's a good 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:34.320 thing this is a football town and not a hockey town, 0:06:34.400 --> 0:06:37.960 because that guy would be fired already. Right if you're 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:40.719 not aware, most of you probably aren't aware that Dallas 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:44.280 Stars are one five and one to start the start, Yeah, 0:06:44.560 --> 0:06:47.880 out of here, let's go doing. But you know, the 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.920 other thing they asked him if and they were trying 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:54.080 to hint on the perception out there that the Cowboys 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.320 aren't prepared to start a game, they're not motivated. And 0:06:57.520 --> 0:07:00.000 Jerry's answer to that they wanted to know what he'd 0:06:59.920 --> 0:07:02.560 does on game day. He said, I think he's tremendously 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:07.400 organized on game day, So that shot down that line 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:11.360 of questioning. Also, uh so yeah, and you know, and 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:16.000 the weird thing is, Okay, you don't have your team 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:20.000 prepared to start the game, right, but in ten minutes 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:22.280 at halftime they come out playing like their hair is 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.480 on fire. So what what what? What all of a 0:07:25.520 --> 0:07:29.160 sudden you got organized And last year they couldn't make 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:33.200 half time adjustments. Now I can. Yeah, And so by 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.640 the way, I just saw this and this is gonna 0:07:35.680 --> 0:07:39.280 be interesting. I'm trying to see where I wrote it down. Um, 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:45.680 the Eagles, their defense has been scored on on the 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:48.800 first possession five of the last six games. Yeah, and 0:07:48.880 --> 0:07:53.600 the Cowboys don't score on those first possessions. So now 0:07:53.920 --> 0:07:57.640 something's gonna give, right, Yeah, something's gonna happen, either one's 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:01.360 not gonna score, or one's gonna score, or when you 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:05.520 when you're I'd be interested. Just a thought from everybody 0:08:05.520 --> 0:08:08.400 if I could. I kind of on Twitter this morning, 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:11.160 I kind of went the thought of a lack of 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:16.720 offensive rhythm? Is that? Is that being too simplistic? Is 0:08:16.760 --> 0:08:19.840 that being with you? I was saying last night. Is 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:24.480 there is their ability Mickey to move the ball just 0:08:24.600 --> 0:08:28.680 so fine? When you don't have I mean, I'm not 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:32.280 I'm not saying about the players on the field, But 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:34.280 even when they have the players on the field, even 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:37.360 when they have their full compliment or roster, is there 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:42.240 is their margin of error so small that it hurts 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:45.400 them to have any kind of rhythm? Am I am? 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:48.199 I just making too much of something that probably isn't 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.200 what it is. Well, if you look at the start 0:08:51.320 --> 0:08:57.560 of this pass game, all right, the h the Jets 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.920 came out and they were four and out. They got 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:02.920 one first down on the on the first play, and 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:05.520 then they went three and out. Right, the Cowboys went 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:08.480 three and out. Then the Jets had a fourteen play 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:13.440 scoring drive, right, and then the Cowboys end up going 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:20.200 eight plays and kick a field goal right, So, and 0:09:20.200 --> 0:09:23.360 then the Jets went no score. The Cowboys went no 0:09:23.559 --> 0:09:28.199 score thanks to well, there was a holding penalty. Anyway, 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:32.160 the Jets didn't score, and then the Cowboys are they 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:36.480 should have scored right, fourth and two, right, and then 0:09:36.679 --> 0:09:40.240 they score on one play. So it was very even 0:09:40.360 --> 0:09:43.160 to start the whole game saying, Okay, they didn't swell. 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:46.200 The Jets didn't start real well either. Hey, but I 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.360 mean you can look at all of that, but look 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:51.959 at the Dallas drives. Okay, look the week before against 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:54.079 Green Bay, there were a couple of picks, right that 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.920 derailed possessions in the first half. Yeah, this time they 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:01.160 weren't picks, but they were drops. I mean, when you're 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:05.000 sitting there at the thirty two yard line with a 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:07.360 third and four and there's a ball that clinks off 0:10:07.440 --> 0:10:09.920 Michael Gallup's hands, you're not moving the chains and you're 0:10:10.000 --> 0:10:12.800 kicking the feet in the fifty yard field go next possession, 0:10:13.040 --> 0:10:16.320 which was early second quarter. They're sitting there second and 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:21.960 eleven and complete off gallops hands and when I write 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.959 drop with an exclamation point, that's a drop. Yeah, I 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:26.840 give them the benefit of the doubt. You have to 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:29.320 go to a football focus, so you wind up so 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:33.000 you wind up punting there. And people don't want to 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:36.160 hear about this, but the coach says, we got to execute, 0:10:36.240 --> 0:10:39.040 you know, and that's execution there. You got to execute 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:43.000 ball plays. To your point, I was thinking this, I 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:45.440 think along the same lines as you. There's something about 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:50.040 this offense that doesn't feel right, even when they're being productive. Okay, 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:54.000 there came into this game with total offense leading the 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:58.199 whole league yards. Yeah, okay, but just something about it 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:02.319 that doesn't seem to be. Yeah, they hit on these plays, 0:11:02.360 --> 0:11:05.360 but what are the odds seven times out of ten 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:06.800 that you're going to hit on those plays? You know? 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:09.760 It just seems like there's there's a frantic there's something 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:11.680 about it that's not right to me. I don't know 0:11:11.720 --> 0:11:13.559 what it is. I think you're right right that three 0:11:13.600 --> 0:11:16.080 and oh start, there was a there's a rhythm and 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.280 there was a pace to their offense where they were 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:21.280 kind of dictating things. Sure, and we're not the first half, 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:23.240 we're not seeing it. But I think everybody's right because 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:24.880 what I wrote in the mail bag because we had 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:28.040 that question was asked to us on the website. It's 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:31.319 it's a play here or there that's making the difference. 0:11:31.360 --> 0:11:34.280 Like Bill mentioned the drops, there was a penalty by 0:11:34.280 --> 0:11:36.920 Tavon Austin in the first fourteen yard play right there, 0:11:36.960 --> 0:11:38.360 taken out of the book where they would have been 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:40.400 in the red zone. We've seen Dak take a sack 0:11:40.440 --> 0:11:42.360 that knocks him out of field goal range. Like there's 0:11:42.400 --> 0:11:45.600 just been different things that have happened that have that 0:11:45.679 --> 0:11:47.960 have stopped drives and and so I think you have 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.959 to you really just have to look at each individual situation. 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:53.680 And it's hard to say, oh it's one overarching thing. 0:11:54.040 --> 0:11:56.480 Oh they're they're flat or this or that. It is 0:11:56.520 --> 0:11:59.280 about execution to some degree, I mean, and they just 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.160 haven't done it for whatever reason, consistent the possession before 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:04.840 the Jets drove down and made it twenty one to three. 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:07.520 Third and two, Jarwin has a drop that was a 0:12:07.600 --> 0:12:10.960 first down. Yeah, and you know it gets knocked out. 0:12:11.280 --> 0:12:14.880 I don't know if it was a drop the guy did, Joe, 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:17.280 that was close. It was a test of bore there 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:20.240 right right. And and so then the next possession they 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:25.640 drive you know, in what twenty seconds? What was it 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:30.080 twenty yeah, twenty seven seconds and they kick a field. Yeah, 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:33.880 so yeah, I mean I was just trying to find out, 0:12:33.960 --> 0:12:36.680 you know, because people don't want to hear the execution part. 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:39.400 But and they blame it on the coach. And you know, 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:41.760 the coach actually said that, you know, some of the 0:12:41.760 --> 0:12:44.440 things execution, he said it yesterday. You know, you can't 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:46.960 put on the coaching staff. But I could say I 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.360 kind of answered the question in a way of is 0:12:49.440 --> 0:12:53.360 Tavon Austin lining up a coaching problem? Is the drops 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:56.920 a coaching problem? You know? And I just you know, 0:12:57.000 --> 0:12:59.080 I'm not trying to defend the coaches. I'm just saying 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.560 they all have a hand at the at what the 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:05.000 problems are. But when you look for reasons and when 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:08.599 they use the word execution or lack of it, it 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:11.400 does it applies to what they're trying to do here. 0:13:11.760 --> 0:13:14.400 You know, if if they if they're able to if 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.920 they're able to catch these balls and make these throws 0:13:17.320 --> 0:13:21.880 and not mess up bail coverage, you know, and uncover three. 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:24.960 If they do those things, then they then they get 0:13:25.000 --> 0:13:27.840 the rhythm. Then they don't. Then they're not so inconsistent 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:31.280 down down at each I'm trying to say down after 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:34.680 down on defense, sometimes we see something really good on 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:36.880 defense and then the next place is something really bad 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.760 and they have no consisting, no rhythm on offense, and 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:43.839 then on defense they struggle from down to down sometimes 0:13:43.840 --> 0:13:47.120 and so you're trying to kind of figure out what's wrong. 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.480 And then now throwing special teams, you have a field 0:13:49.520 --> 0:13:52.200 goal kicker that you know, he lines up on the 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.200 forty yard line to kick and all of a sudden 0:13:54.240 --> 0:13:56.360 he doesn't make it, and now you have that problem. 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:58.920 Then he lines up at the other teams makes and 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:01.200 he makes it. Yeah, it's so now you're struggling with that, 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:04.920 and so to me, it's execution is and it's just 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:09.040 the inconsistency that they have on defense from down to 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:13.760 down is a real issue here. You can't get back 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:16.440 to back place from this defense. You know, when you 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:18.959 need to get off the field, you you just you're 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:22.920 you're holding your breath, like okay, come on, come on, Quinn, 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:25.360 come on Laurence. Somebody get a sack here, somebody gets 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:27.520 some pressure somebody, you know, And what you're having to 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:30.280 rely on is maybe you're getting a good enough rush 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:32.440 where they get a holding and it takes them back. 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.320 That seems to be the one thing that's stopping teams 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:37.760 from having any success against you. So and here's the 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.480 other thing that gets clouded when your defense is not 0:14:40.520 --> 0:14:44.040 playing well. Yeah, their last seven possessions in the game, 0:14:44.320 --> 0:14:47.960 last seven possessions, they go down to the seven yard line, right, 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:52.440 gamble and lose, right, okay, and then it's punt field goal, 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:57.920 field goal, missfield goal from forty which you should make, touchdown, touchdown. Yeah, 0:14:58.200 --> 0:15:01.840 So the off offense moving the ball, but they get 0:15:01.920 --> 0:15:05.080 one play or one miss field goal and it costs 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:08.120 you ten points that and you lose by two. It's 0:15:08.120 --> 0:15:10.560 a good point by Mickey to me. Seven possessions and 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:13.520 they punted once. Yeah, this is this is the situation 0:15:13.600 --> 0:15:15.640 you run into, is when you miss a field goal. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:17.880 To me, that's like a turnover. Yeah, I mean that's 0:15:17.920 --> 0:15:20.160 a turnover, you know, I mean, that's you know, and 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:24.240 then so actually just turnovers. If you count the fourth 0:15:24.240 --> 0:15:28.200 and two, the ball you're absolutely right about that. So 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:30.840 I'm just you know, I'm trying to. I think we're 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:33.840 all trying to help Joe and Flower Mound out there 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:36.440 understand what the problem is. You know, we're trying to. 0:15:36.520 --> 0:15:39.040 We're trying to. But then when you know, nobody wants 0:15:39.080 --> 0:15:44.720 to hear its execution, you know, yeah, coaching sure, players sure, 0:15:45.120 --> 0:15:49.080 front office sure, you know, broadcaster Brian broad Us sure. 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:51.800 You know. I think we all kind of have a 0:15:51.800 --> 0:15:54.880 little bit of a of a thought or why or 0:15:54.960 --> 0:15:58.000 trying to trying to pin trying to pin it down. 0:15:58.520 --> 0:16:02.400 And when you say something that's simplistic, people don't want 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:05.440 to buy that. They just im mediately want to say, nah, Na, 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:09.360 what is the answer? Yeah, what is the answer? What 0:16:09.600 --> 0:16:11.440 is the end? And I think we're all trying to 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:15.160 you know, you're talking to football people here, and you know, 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:17.920 Mickey and everybody. We all talk to guys in this 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:20.640 hallway and you know, and we say, hey, what is 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.000 and guys will tell you, Hey, what I know. What 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.160 I see is the things we're talking about here. But 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:29.760 people don't want to buy that. They just don't. They 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:32.120 just be like, oh well, just na, get rid of 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:34.680 the coach. Yeah, okay, get rid of the coach. Sure, 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.800 but how about the receiver that lined up wrong? How 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.040 about the guy that Brian Braus talked about, is one 0:16:40.080 --> 0:16:42.440 a at wide receiver not stepping up and having a 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.520 great game and helping you when you're one receiver is down. 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.080 As you said, I had three balls slip right through 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:50.200 my fingers. Yeah, you know. I mean that's that you 0:16:50.240 --> 0:16:52.840 wonder why, you wonder why you lose games, and then 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:55.360 it's right there for you. It's right there for you 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:58.160 to see. But we don't want to accept that. We 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:00.680 want to look at something else and say, no, it's 0:17:00.720 --> 0:17:04.240 not that. It's not that Brian, you're dumbass. It's not 0:17:04.320 --> 0:17:08.000 that you know. Yeah, well, yeah, there are plays to 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.000 be made. And Jason Garrett, to your point, did say 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:13.919 yesterday anything that a player does or doesn't do, they 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:16.360 were put in a situation by the coaching staff, right, 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:18.920 so that it starts there. But at the same time, 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:20.520 there have been plays to be made in all of 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:22.520 these three losses. I know, they didn't put up any 0:17:22.600 --> 0:17:25.199 touchdowns against the Saints. They had an opportunity in the 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:27.879 end zone early in the game. They're like, they're Witten 0:17:28.000 --> 0:17:30.080 has a catching run where they're in position maybe to 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:31.639 get into a field goal at the very least. Like 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:36.600 the there are opportunities for this offense. And it's fun. 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:38.480 I mean, this game Sunday could be decided in the 0:17:38.480 --> 0:17:40.639 first quarter, first half because the Eagles are in the 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.200 same boat. Yeah, they've gotten They've gotten shut out in 0:17:43.240 --> 0:17:45.680 the first quarter I think four times this year. So 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:48.320 who you know their quarterback will he'll throw it wide. 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:50.399 I mean, he'll throw it over their heads. I mean, 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:56.000 who doesn't in the third quarter? Maybe see in that 0:17:56.119 --> 0:17:58.639 And that's why Peterson said what he said, and and 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:03.760 and I saw column and the Philadelphia in choir is 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:06.280 basically what he's saying is, I still think we have 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:09.720 a good team, right, I still have confidence in my team. Right. 0:18:09.840 --> 0:18:11.919 It's not like I'm trying to brag that we're so 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:14.600 much better than the Cowboys or anything. He's just trying 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:17.520 to instill confidence in a team that, by the way, 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:21.480 is three and three back and got run out of Minneapolis. 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:24.040 They look bad, they look bad playing. I mean, if 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:26.840 you watch that first quarter, first quarter and a half, 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:30.359 the three big touchdown passes they had, are you kidding me? 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:33.560 A team that was struggling with Kirk Cousins at quarterback, 0:18:33.560 --> 0:18:37.200 and they ran the ball too much, by the way, 0:18:37.280 --> 0:18:39.919 and all of a sudden, Rossul Douglas looks like me 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.399 out there playing corner. I'll tell you what, now, you 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.119 know what making you probably backpedal better than him right now. 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:49.960 Minnesota average six point one seven to play in that game, 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:52.959 and they were perfectly balanced. And I know that drives 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:56.320 people nuts, but they've fifty two percent run, forty seven 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.080 percent pass. I know I didn't add the points whatever 0:18:59.119 --> 0:19:00.919 to it, but that's that's where they were at. They 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:04.879 played a perfect game when you start talking, and they pressured, 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:08.239 they got after, they got after the quarterback. You can 0:19:08.359 --> 0:19:10.800 make that you could rattle this guy. If you can 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:14.480 get guys around him. He will kind of throw balls 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.639 just like just to throw them. I mean he's the 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.520 ball to the outside, could be wide. You know he can't. 0:19:20.640 --> 0:19:22.960 Sometimes he won't be accurate throwing the ball, or throw 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:24.960 the ball high in the middle of the field. You 0:19:24.960 --> 0:19:31.200 know that. I had some drops too that yeah, that 0:19:31.359 --> 0:19:33.880 can sometimes do that too. But they had some drops 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:35.800 all Sean Jeffrey, I mean they'd some that. You go 0:19:35.840 --> 0:19:37.439 back and watch him the Green Bay game they had 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:39.879 They've had some drops, and they've had some problems on 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:43.320 the offensive line too with protection. It's just the Cowboys 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:47.040 have got to find a way to just put if 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:50.080 you just could put one game together, you know, if 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:53.560 you just don't have things that's you know that the 0:19:53.880 --> 0:19:58.960 stupid mistakes, you know, the turnovers, you know, conversions on 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:01.040 third down, you know that that seemed to be right 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:03.680 against the Jets. But you're gonna have to You're gonna 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:05.800 have to find a way to get after the Eagles 0:20:05.800 --> 0:20:07.920 ass in this game. That's going to be the key 0:20:07.920 --> 0:20:09.760 in this This would be the week to put that 0:20:09.800 --> 0:20:12.600 one game together, put it all together. 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