Cowboys Break: Time For Changes?

Real life from the s WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, and oh do we have so much to get into. Cowboys lay an egg? Not not literally because the points say that they didn't lay an egg, but he watched the game. They laid an egg. They got they lose to the Chicago Bears last night in Chicago thirty one, twenty four. We're coming off the visit up there to Chicago, and there are a lot of hot opinions, at least there were last night about this team and about where

they're going and how they performed last night. So let's dive right in. The First thing that I took from this game is you look at the offense, and to me, it was probably as inept a performance as you've seen from them all season. Checked this out. There were five possessions they had last night where they went three and out. Three of those possessions they got zero yards, and one of those possessions they actually got negative twelve yards. What

was the problem with the offense last night? I mean, let's start where it always starts. It starts with the offensive line and the quarterback and so offensive line. You know, I just didn't think they were there was dominant at times. I mean they ran the ball decently, and they actually did well in the red zone there. I thought the past protection wasn't I mean, Dak was running around for his life. But das was Dak's worst game of the season,

I think. I mean, I don't care what the stats say, stats lie in this case, I think it was his worst game. He did not play well. He missed open receivers, and not until people started going to bed, you know, turning it off, did he start playing well. So I said last week that you know, he threw for like three to fifty against Buffalo, and I was like, that's a hollow stat line. Well this is worse, honestly, Which

that's the crazy thing. You know, I guess I have a reputation at this point of being a Dak apologist. I certainly don't think he played well, but I said it during the game, and the offense was bad. I mean they had the sevent team play drive that you know, established the runs. Zeke looks good, they go down and score and then completely disappear. I get that. How many three announced did you say? They have five? Three announced last night? And I think they have more first downs

on the first possession than like up until the fourth quarter. Yeah, that's crazy. But at the same time, my impression was the I mean Mitch Trubisk he looked like Lamar Jackson. Like. That's what I couldn't get over is Yes, the Cowboys offense wasn't moving the ball. That's the player you don't like, And yeah, what are we? Oh, well, you're mentioning there was a play last night. There was a play last night. Yeah, I think it was the first play showed. There were

there were three different guys that had man coverage. There was one player that had like three or four guys around him, and Dak throws the ball to the guy with three or four men around him, and to me, it was just it was a symbol of what the night was for Dak Prescott. Talking about his numbers, he was twenty seven forty nine fifty five percent completion, three hundred and thirty four yards, a touchdown, and no interceptions,

eighty three point two passer rating. The interesting part, though, is if you go back and look at the first half, that's when you see the just how bad it was. He was six or thirteen in the first half, forty forty six percent completion with only sixty yards, fifty nine point eight passer rating. That's really the story of the game in the first half. Other than that first drive, they absolutely could do nothing on offense. A lot of the year, I feel like a lot of this has

fallen on dropped passes. Not necessarily his fault, but I feel like this game it was just bad throws. There were a lot of drop offs of an o' gallup had a bunch of them and comment and it was kind of everyone, But this felt like those drop passes felt a lot more onto Prescott than they have throughout the rest of the year. I oh, he was off target all night up and I mean he got it together in the fourth quarter. I guess kudos to him

for doing that. But the game was well out of reach obviously, and that's you can still say they laid an egg just because they lost by seven. The Jerry Jones, the owner of the team, came out after the game and was like, let's not let anybody get confused that this was a close game. It's like, yeah, so they definitely laid an egg. But here, I guess, here's the point that I was trying to make flame flame away. If I'm a dak apologist, I'm sorry. But seventeen plays touchdown,

Bears drive field. Jordan Lewis gets a great toe drag interception Cowboys on the one inch line. They don't I mean, I don't expect him to drive the field. They play very concerned relatively. They punt, Bears get the ball back, go down, score a touchdown seven to seven. Cowboys do go three and out, I mean no yards gained on the next drive. Then the Bears go down and score a field goal. And now you're getting toward the end of the first half. Not a pretty drive, but the

Cowboys get to the Bears twenty four. Don't give me started. We've already talked crap on the offense and defense. You might as well throw special teams in there gets him into field goal range to potentially tie the game with five minutes to play. Brett Maher misses from the all important forty to forty nine range. He's one of five on the year now from forty to forty nine, which arguably is the most important range for an NFL kicker to be accurate from. But he slept well, he did.

That's what I heard. I heard. Yeah, here was his quote, just to be clear. He says, I hit every ball pretty well tonight. I'll put my head on the pillow to night feeling good about what I did. I feel good. You know what you need to be cut for that? You don't. You don't feel good. Why are you gonna feel good about what you did? The results matter, right, you know what? I actually one time, You know, I don't play a lot of golf, but one time I hit the greatest shot ever into the middle of the

number twelve fairway. Was unbelievable. The problem was I was on number nine. Great shot. Hitting the ball well is not what we're trying to do here. Hitting it through the middle is what we're trying to do. I would take the knuckleball that just trickles in and hits every crossbar and upright and all that. Oh I struck it. Well, I'm gonna sleep well tonight. Yeah. Well, a lot of that with when they talk to the media is kind

of not telling the ful truth. And that's what really everything they say, you know, they're always going to say, you know, like we still believe in this team. There's no confidence. As all that stuff you take with a grain of salt. But with this, you can't lie to yourself. You can't lie to the media about that. You have to be honest. Yeah, And that wasn't his worst kick. His worst kick was the four kickoff out of bounds.

You know what. I said this in the pregame show about two thousand and seven against the Bears when they went up there and Devin Hester was the guy and you had to kick it away from him, and they kicked out of bounds and all that, and they finally they just told the coaches, listen, kick it will tackle him. At some point, you just have to see be an NFL player and say we're gonna stay in our lane.

Run down there. Yes, Cordarell Patterson's a great player, but we're gonna tackle him because you're doing all this extra stuff and then you kick it out of bounds. And but my question is is was that also a reflection of the fact that maybe special teams just isn't on the right, Like special teams has not played well these

last few weeks. Was a situation where they were making a decision because they knew special teams that not played well, and they're like, just don't get it to it, Cordarell pass Patterson because we don't trust that the special teams will make a tackle. But the alternative there is you kick out of bounds absolutely forty, which is what he's trying to do. But that also again that makes that shows you why it is such a big problem is because one thing begets the other. It's the same thing

with him kicking these field goals and being inconsistent. At some point it starts to affect the strategy of the game. It affects your decision making, and that becomes a problem, I guess. But that's what I was gonna say, is like the irony is you're out thinking yourself on kickoff because you don't trust your deficiencies in the kick game, but they have no problem trotting him out there for field goals that he can't make, Like I mean, this

week isn't a great example. He should make that kick, but like Thanksgiving against the Bills as a perfect example, where like they're not even thinking about what hash he should be on, or like how accurate he is from certain They're just like, well, like he'll, he'll, he's the kicker. He goes out and kicks, and they have no reason to feel that confidence, but they do it anyway. It's maddening. And after the game, I mean, I know we're gonna talk about it, but I guess we can talk about now.

I mean after the game, Jerry was very noncommittal about that situation. He basically said, now he did talk today. I didn't hear it, I think at first, No, I mean he didn't say anything. I mean, he didn't say anything about Brett Maher. Jason Garrett's got a conference call today at four. I mean, I wouldn't be shocked if we hear something about it today. I don't know that, Yeah, but I mean it can't get worse, kin it. Yeah, that's my thing. I don't think it can get worse.

It doesn't you can find the guy that can miss and kick out of bound. That's my point, right, I don't And I said this year in the press box last night, what is maher doing for you? Right now? He's kicking out of bounds regularly. He's not kicking it through the end zone, so he's not doing much on the kickoffs. He's so in act, I mean, so um

inconsistent when it comes to kicking field goals. The only thing that right now you could say that's even on the on the plus side of the ledger for him is if you get in a situation where you need a sixty two yarder, he's got as good a shot of doing that as any kicker in the league. Like, that's the most you can say about him. That's not enough to keep a guy. I don't agree anybody last week, right, anybody on the street, in my opinion, that is an NFL caliber kicker should be able to be at least

that bad. Right, Yeah? Is it? There's like a weird parallel there with the coach as there in my way, I mean, just I mean, at this point, with everything that's happened, like what are who's out there? Who's out I mean, well, like you're like, what are you getting from Jason Garrett And you're like, well, what's the alternative? And you're like, well, can it be worse? Like could it be worse than what I've seen in the last

three weeks. I think that this last game, after the Bills game, they came back and told us all what it was going to be. You know, we're gonna we're gonna actually grab the wheel and we're gonna take control of the destiny and it's gonna happen and all that. Dac said it. He was really clear about it, and he comes out and plays his worst game Dak does in my opinion, and then Jason Garrett same thing. I mean, they go out and I thought they had okay and

some coaching situations. They had some head scratching moments, you know, throughout the game like they always do, but the message just isn't being hurt anymore. So to your point, who else I don't know, but they're something has to light a fire under this team, and you know that's a bad Joe considering what's happened with this team and the hot boys and stuff like that, that they're doing okay on their own doing that, but they no one else is doing is igniting this team to anything, and that

does fall on the head coach. Do you think there's another coach here whose message could be received, because as much as this falls on Garrett, it's a lot of other coaches who play a part in now. I think it would that's a good question. I think it would be Jerry's message. Jerry's message of it, just like he did nine years ago and he fired Wade and he said, I fired a good coach today because of you guys.

Can't fire all of you. So I had to fire this good head coach because you guys aren't playing well. I don't think you would say that anymore. I don't think it's the same type of situation, but it's still it's like I can't do everything, so I have to I have to let him go because it's not working. But I don't know if that lights a fire under this team, because here's the issue. The issue got right now is there's a bunch of guys that'll be in that room that already got paid. So what are you

gonna do. You're gonna cut them. You can't really cut them. They're too early in their contracts, right, you can't really cut them, So what's what's the real harm to them? Especially if they're like, well he's gone okay whatever, like if they I don't know that that firing Garrett. I don't know if that lights a fire under anybody in that locker room. Where are the right people in that locker room? Because buying large, there's a lot of people in that group who are supposed to be playing better

than they are. Their money, the amount of money they're making, says they should be playing better than they are. I don't know if that's going to change because they're still gonna get paid. Right. How many guys on this team are playing up to their price tag right now? I'll tell you this. I'll gladly say, Lyle call, yeah, we were about We said that earlier this morning, like as we started going through the list. Lyle's a guy that yeah, right,

good point. But Lyle, I think is is especially when you talk about the offensive line, which that's probably the position where you have most of your money and it's supposed to be the strength of your team. And right now across that line, outside of Lyle, I don't know that anybody's playing up to their expectations and that includes Zach mardin track like all of them. They're not playing every level that you would expend them to be, and you know, we get it. Injuries are part of that.

A lot of guys are going through stuff. It's but the you know, the black and white truth of the matters, that's just it is what it is. There aren't very many heavy hitting, expensive players playing up to that building

on this team. Yeah, and the glaring ones are the ones that just got paid, Like those are the ones I think that a lot of people are looking at, Like the expectation was that you were getting paid because you were supposed to be the up and coming leaders of this team and you're not even playing at the level of the money you're getting in If you've listened to this show all season, you know, like I'll you know, I'll go to bad for DeMarcus Lawrence any day and

say he's played a lot better than people want to give him credit for. Didn't play well last night. It's a bad look when you're crashing down and giving up a twenty three yard rushing touchdown to a quarterback that had eighty yards entering the game, eighty yards on the season. Entering that game, he had sixty four last night, Like the Bears basically flipped on the Detroit and Bills games and we're like, oh, oh, they can't defend running quarterbacks.

All right, we're gonna do that, and there's nothing they can do it well, he said, And as press conference he said, we saw some things on tape that we figured, you know, we thought we could do. You know, that's a novel concept. Figuring out what the other team doesn't do well. Well, that's the endocument this coach. It's not really that's my point. Yeah, I see, that's the thing. You can do that, I think with the Cowboys because

they do what they do exactly. That's just who it's It's a novel concept to game plan for what your opponent doesn't do well instead of just focusing on what you do well. And the fact that the Cowboys were and I don't know, maybe this is the right word. I don't know if it is, we're arrogant enough to to just think, well, it'll fix itself. There were two games there were lesser quarterbacks were able to get all those ground yards against you, right, and you didn't think, hey,

this could be a problem. Coming up. Last week when you did the Scattery port in Chicago. One thing said it was great, but one thing you said about mister Rubisky is, yeah, he's a guy that can run on you, right, And if the fact that you could see it, but they weren't thoughtful enough to say he is a guy that can run on and we've been run on by two other lesser quality quarterbacks, it is that they wouldn't

be prepared for that, to me was the indictment. It's very rare that dumb me, non scouting me can watch an hour's worth of NFL game pass and call my shot and be so blindingly right, like it was so obvious mister Trubisky's an athletic quarterback, like it was painfully out. And if he can't do that, it changes the whole projection of what he's going to do in that game. And that actually goes back to the point I wanted to make. Look, Dack didn't play well. I don't think

Nick's wrong. He might have played his worst game in the season. It's certainly one of the worst two or three games that he played this year. But I come out of that game stupefied by the defense. Really more than the offense, because I just looked this up while we were talking. The offense had four possessions in the first half. They go seventeen yards and score. They go three and out from their own goal line, which, like, I'm not going to kill you for that. That's you're

limited in what you can do. Another three and out, that's not great. They have another scoring drive that gives them the potential to tie the game with the field goal. Brett maher missus. And what is happening while all of this is going on. The Bears are driving the field five out of five times. If true Bisky doesn't throw a bad pick on the first possession, they probably score

on five straight possessions. They scored on their next four after the pick, and that includes after halftime when they you know again, Cowboys took the ball to start the game. I have no idea why, but the Bears took advantage of it because the defense just didn't elect to stop anything until it was what twenty four to seven. That's when the defense started forcing points. When it was twenty

four to seven, the defense started forcing punts. And then when the offense rediscovered their mojo and scored, that's when the Bears were like, oh oh no, we're not done scoring. We Okay, now that y'all are back in the game, we're gonna go take care of business. I thought the defense was atrocious. Okay, so we're gonna take a break. We're gonna take a break real quick. I'm gonna leave you guys with this stat before we go to break. This is interesting. I saw this last night, mister brisky.

Last night was the first quarter back in NFL history two yeah, complete seventy percent plus of passes on thirty plus attempts, throw three touchdowns, rush for fifty plus yards, rush for a touchdown in a single game. He made NFL history last night. Not the first time a player has made NFL history against the team this year. So I'm going to take a break, and when I come back, I'm gonna ask you guys what went wrong with this defense? I want you to give me some answers, because it

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At and T is America's best wireless network. Best network based on GWS one score, September twenty nineteen. Back to the Break Welcome back. It's the second segment of The Break Black and s WBC Mortgage Studios. We are talking about Cowboys. We are talking about Cowboys versus Bears. Cowboys lose thirty one, twenty four, fallt six and seven on the season. They're down under five hundred three games to

go and still leading the NFC East. Amazing, absolutely amazing, But like, do you think they'd be playing better if they had to like chase to catch up to somebody, Like if the Eagles were having a good season and the Cowboys had to keep pace. Do you think they'd be playing better. That's a hard question. Maybe like you need that, which I mean you shouldn't because this is your professionals, but they need that motivating factor like, oh,

if we don't start winning games, we're done. Whereas like damn, we lost again and our you know, their percentage of making the playoffs only dropped from seventy three to sixty seven last night. Yeah, what a blessing to be in this division, if I mean that's what you want to call it. Yeah, it's something, all right. Yeah, I was before the break, we were talking about the defense, and I pose the question, what do you think is the problem with the defense? And I think it goes beyond

just this game. I think it's probably it might be all season, but it's definitely been a growing theme as the season has gone on, and personally, I think it's one that's gotten worse as the season's gone on. The defense seems to get worse, not better. What are your thoughts as to some of the issues and why they're happening to this defense? Well, I don't there's everything. They don't get enough pass rush to to really you know, make a difference there, And I think that everybody's just

kind of okay. You know, the secondary's just just an okay secondary. Nothing great there. Um, They're just not special at anything. The linebackers don't fly around the ball like you would expect. Missing Layton van Erush is a big deal. But you know, when you have Sean Lee and Joe Thomas, you think you would be able to, you know, overcome and other teams overcome their injuries all the time. So and by the way, he wasn't playing great before the injury.

I don't think he wasn't playing to his expectations. I mean he was playing, you know, he was. He was like the rest of you. Yeah. Right. Tackling has been terrible too, all across the board. That's to watch some break like three or four tackles multiple times last night was insane there. And that I mean that's you know, I was harping on the defense before the break. If this is Aaron Rodgers, I'm like, you know, I say it all the time, like, oh, the rules are skewed

toward offense, these things are going to happen. This was this is one of the worst offenses in the NFL. They were twenty ninth. Going into the game. Mitch Rubisky got benched a month ago. I know they came back and said he got hurt. I don't buy it. He got benched in the waning minutes of a loss to the Rams, says a guy who's struggled to throw for two hundred yards. This is an offense that failed to score more than twenty points in eight of their twelve games.

Heading into last night, they scored thirty one. It's only the second time they've hit thirty all year. Speaks for itself. They picked on these guys. Jalen Smith got picked on last night. They singled him out in the red zone three times in a row. Yeah, until it worked, and it did and it didn't work. It and it's baffling, and I thought it was illuminating. We all know Jason Garrett is great at not giving specific answers to questions. He went up last night and said, specifically on defense,

guys are trying to do too much. They're pressing, they're trying to make the big play. You know the I thought Sean Sharif on the fan this morning had a great analogy, like, you know, you try to hit the six run home run in baseball when you're trailing by a bunch instead of just focusing on getting a hit,

it certainly looks that way. And like I said, I thought it was illuminating that if Jason Garrett gives you a specific like that, then I think it's an even bigger issue than it actually, like, it's even bigger if it's so big that Jason Garrett is willing to acknowledge it, it's pretty damn BIG's what I'm trying. So you think that that's happening because guys are trying to get their own personal highlights or because they're just trying so hard to help the team win. The reason why here's the

only reason why I asked that question. Yeah, well, here's the only reason why I asked that question. Because there's a lot of people that are giving Jalen Smith a lot of flat last knife for swiping when they're getting their butts whoop and he makes a play, and it makes me wonder, are there guys that are that are thinking more about their personal brands and thinking more about, Hey,

I gotta get my highlight. And that's why you tend to go away from doing your job for the purpose of maybe making the big splash play, and that's a different that's a whole different thing than Hey, I see my teammate over here who's struggling. I'm gonna try to give him a little extra help. And that takes me out of position from what I'm supposed to be doing. Right, So I'm trying to figure out where do you think

the slides? It can be both of those things, right, and which it's I always it's always dicey when you're talking about somebody's motives, like we don't you know, I don't know. I can't pinpoint to a certainty what drives these guys. But I do know it's a terrible look when you show boat down three scores in a football game. I mean it could be. It's a terrible look when you're dancing in front of you know, like after you've made a play on second down and a guy is

down there on the ground hurt. Now whether or not you saw that or not, because I think he tweeted out that he did see it, but that's still a problem because you're doing some kind of like high fives that like teenage girls do, you know, like a camp and stuff like that, like with some other camp. I think I had any major high fives when I was a teenage girl at camp. You didn't have like a secret.

Well you should, well because what was happening, because because you were probably paying attention to see if some other camp director was heard or something like that, because that's what was going on. So yeah, you didn't see it because you were doing that. And either way, it's second down because they went not on first, they went on second, and they might do it again, and they got him the third time, which I still would like to see it more of a review on that play, but you know,

because we review everything. But you know, and I'll say this, if there's a weird call that you haven't heard of before, watch a Cowboy game because you're gonna get it. Not only gone fourth time out, you're gonna get it twice a fourth time out, which I don't want to talk out of both sides of my mouth. Football should be fun. You should have fun while you're playing it. This year hasn't been fun for me. No, I'm sorry, I mean, I know, but you get my play football. I want

touchdown dances. I want Robert Quinn to dance like a snake when he gets a sack, but maybe not if you're getting pummeled right which they were, No, the right time. Yeah, there's a time and place. And like I said, like I don't know to a certainty what drives these guys, but they're pressing, they're out of position, like that's coming from their head coach. And it doesn't lead you to a good conclusion when you see that type of stuff in a game. No, that is lopsided. It shows that

you do not care. That's what it looks like, is that you really don't care. I remember and another fifty four, they're in Hamburg. They we're getting beat by the Eagles forty to seven in the rain, and he did a he made a tack like on third and five and went right in front of the Eagles bench and did the gravedigger dance right in front of them. And it was forty to seven, and you're like, h Okay, it just shows that I don't really care about the score.

I'm gonna get mine. There's there's to a degree where you do that gamble to hype each other up, and I get that, like, hey, you know we can still do this. We're still in this. Let's let's stay confident we can do this, but you have to understand the limit. Yeah, by that, and that's I do think. I do think the chemistry among the defensive players is good. Like I think those guys love each other, they get along. It

hasn't translated. And yeah, like I know people are tired of hearing about the hot boys, and I totally understand that. So I have a hard time buying that they're out there, like I don't give a damn about these other ten guys, Like I don't necessarily think that's true, but they're clearly trying to do too much in a lot of different ways. Well, the point is there are a lot of brands on this team. Oh yeah, there's a lot of brands. And

that's why I asked the question. Is when you have a lot of brands, I think sometimes that can lend itself to guys making business decisions. And part of those business business decisions are look at me, Like I need those moments where you have to look at me and say I'm a great player, right, And and that may not always lend itself to doing what's best for the team. You're assignment. Maybe one that does the dirty work so

somebody else can shine. And if you're not always focused on just doing your assignment and not being the guy to make the play, then what we're seeing right now is what happens right right, All right, let's take our final break. When we come back, I want to talk about this quote from Jerry Uh. It just kind of I saw a lot of people reacting to it. Basically said us night, every healthy coach will continue to coach, and that probably means that there aren't going to be

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kind of something. I don't know. You want to go to a championship gameball go to the Big twelve Championship because that's probably the closest thing we're gonna have this year at the A T ANDC Stadium other than the high school games that are the u IL Texas state playoffs will be there well, but December seventh, which is tomorrow, Oklahoma, we'll play at eleven am. So you can go to SeatGeek dot com to get some tickets there. I will say this, I'm very, very excited about the fact that

there are no Cowboys games this weekend. So tomorrow I plan to sit down on my couch around ten o'clock and I really don't plan to move again until like about ten o'clock tomorrow night. The best just watching all the conference championships. It'll be a great day of football. Those are the best days. It is. Who you guys plan LSU. I am going to be in New Orleans watching LSU play for an SEC title with most of my closest friends. Sounds fine. Yeah, I'm excited about it.

Sounds fine, And me and Nick will just be living vicariously through other people my college football. What's your curry, y'all? Well, all three of us, Like, this has been a really bad college year, really bad college the worst. I was thinking about that this morning. This is my worst football season I've ever had between college and brother. Yeah, that can't be true. It is h No, No, he's saying

across the board. But I mean I'm not trying to Like, you've wrote a book out the fifteen season and it didn't go great. Yeah it didn't. It didn't go great. But like coach was fired on one team, Arkansas, Yeah, that might be getting fired on this team. I mean, everyone wants it. The will both for you. Yeah, that's a good point eight eighteen year you know, streak of winning seasons on my other team that was snapped. Yeah, it just hasn't been a good year and okay, twenty

twenties almost here, neck it is. I was gonna say I invite anybody to vicariously root for LSU through me, but I think the opposite's gonna have. They hate it. There's a lot of people that are gonna rooting. Started. I started me earlier this year after y'all beat us. I started coming around on the idea, I really want to see these fans be able to get that championship. Get over bam all that night, and the more of the season is on, and I've heard you on Twitter,

the more I'm like. I was tell my wife the other day, I was like, I hope they don't win this national time because they get that much more. Yes, I hope Ohio State just completely runs them off the field, just so I don't have to hear about it for the year. Go big or go home, like I'm not, I hear you, this isn't this isn't a game for the meek. Go like you like, bring it off like I'm either, and if they lose, pile it ONFA. This

is why I love football. And then the book that I wrote that you're alluding to is the same thing it was in a great season. But you know, but the thing about it was is that that's why we're in this because next year we're gonna be back. And that's what's so beautiful about sports, and especially football, is that, you know what these people that said I'm done, I am done. You're done because it's Monday, and you're done because it's Tuesday and you don't have to do anything.

Maybe you're not gonna read our stories or The Break or the Talking Cowboys, but on Sunday, you're gonna wear your old Troy eightman jersey again, and you're gonna put on the same slippers you always wear, and you're gonna sit in the same spot in your couch and you're gonna watch the game because that's what your dad did and that's what you do. Like I said in a Thousand Times, you don't choose to be a Cowboys fan. It chooses you. So you'll be back Sunday against the

Rams pissed off. So you'll be there, and that's the point. You're gonna be pissed, But the point is you're still You can't if you're a real fan, and a fan of football and a fan of your team, You're still gonna be watching. It's wow. I watch Texas football, even though I'm frustrated with it. I completely agree we are all that sick type of breed and the people that listen to this type of show are too. But I will say, and Jerry Jones said this this morning on

his radio adeo. He was like, you know, I get like people are pissed off, and I get that and I understand it. And I don't remember the direct quote, but he was like, it's apathy that concerns me as the owner and general manager. I think that could be a problem if somehow this gets run back. Like what do you mean run back? I mean like people are out on Jason Garrett right, the vast, vast, vast majority of Cowboys fans. But I think the great news for them is the way this thing has gone. It really

in my opinion, And again I don't know. Jerry still gets the final say obviously, but I have a hard time believing that this thing turned out any way other than one of two. Either he goes all the way and Jerry's like, we'll see, I told you. We just got ahead to give it time, or it doesn't and he's gone and they start over. And I think that's the disconnect. I think we would all agree we're on the same page with that, and we're on the inside.

This is our job, so we approach it a little more even keeled than a fan would, and we're like, look, whether it's today or in three weeks or after their playoff game, the Jason Garrett era seems like it's over and it is what it is. And I think a lot of fans are like, I'll believe it when I

see it. They see that graphical and check right and yeah, and they're just like they're like, tell me, I'm not gonna be sitting down and it's gonna be Cowboys Giants at three thirty on September tenth next year, and Jason Garrett's gonna be the head coach. And I think a lot of them believe that. And that's I mean, you bring back app He's gonna be the head coach. Just not well, oh my god, if if that were so, it would be Sunday Night football, right, it would have

to be Garrett comes back to Yeah. But I think there and I think that's we're sitting there like, look, just let this thing play out. It'll be fine. And Cowboys fans are like, I don't think I believe seeing it before. Yeah, And that's and that's where I wonder, like,

how many times can you do this before? Or even the most died and the wool Cowboys fan is like, enough, okay, but when are you guys or other people are gonna gonna kind of come with me on this and say, it doesn't matter who your coaches, these players are not as good as we think they are. Tellent is not as great, and that's the that's what the media does and we're a part of it too. But how many times do you see Cowboys are gonna do this? Cowboys are great, this team is the number one team in

college football. All of a sudden they barely make a bowl and they're like, well, the coach sucked, the players sucked. You know what, Media, maybe you suck, maybe we suck thinking that the Cowboys were going to be better. Here's the question, though, because I think it's two different things.

Is it is it that they aren't talented or arnist talented as we thought, or is it that they're not playing up to potential because I think those are two different things, and I think in this instance, I think I go more to the point of I think they're not playing up to their potential because there are guys that I know are really good players on this team that have not played like really good players all season.

We talked about the offensive line, give me they're a numb guy, Tyring, Okay, zach Ts Travis like go down the line, like there are a number. DeMarcus Lawrence. I think DeMarcus Lawrence is a phenomenal player. I don't think he's played like that this year. I mean, I don't think he's been as bad as some people think, but I don't think he's played up to where he played

last year. This is absolutely the two thousand and eight season all over again, because that seat team was coming off a really good team for the year before everything was ready for him. They went three and oh to start the season, and then the bottom dropped out and they've had some terrible, embarrassing losses there and in the season and in the offseason before that, they signed about three guys that they signed to big long term deals basically off of what they have done and not what

they were going to do. One of them was Terence Newman. One of them was Marion Barber who was pretty much done. Maybe Colombo or did they sign when did they resign? That wouldn't have been there was a there was another guy that they put a lot of money into and it hasn't really worked out. And that wasn't Hamlin. Wasn't was Hamlin, wouldn't you say? I mean which I wasn't here. I was in college, which means, Danny, you were probably in high school? Yeah, middle school? Oh god, piece lord,

But I'm just okay. They went thirteen and three the year before that whole bunch of crap happened, they missed the playoffs, and the next year they went eleven and five. Yeah, so I'm led to believe that must have been a pretty talented group of players to push playoff runs and barely missed the playoffs in the middle of that. Oh, they kept the same coach, So how could they have been so talented last year when this is a majority of the same team. Then this it's just fall That's

why I think. I think that's the point, Like, that's the NFL. If you look at the NFL, it happens like that. Think about the Atlanta Falcons. Two years ago, they were twenty eight to three and a half time of a Super Bowl in the lead, and now they are one of the worst teams in the NFL. And a lot of the same players that were the best of what they had back then are still on that team and still playing for them. As a matter of fact, they've added talent. I mean, that's the NFL. That's how

the NFL worked. What are you saying. Do you think that these fifty to sixty year old coaches that have been doing it their whole life just now Aaron is good? I think I think it's both. I think sometimes players

just don't play as well as they should. Yeah, And I think sometimes they aren't put in the right position because coaches, Because here's the thing, if you're really that good, that means that next offseason, everybody that you're going to face the next season is spending a little extra time getting ready for you to make sure they have answers to play, especially in your division. I think I think this team's getting their ass kicked on Wednesday and Thursday.

That's what we've said it several times over the you know, the years, And I think we're starting to see it more and more now that they're not as prepared to go and win games. And that is on coaching. There's no doubt that that's a coaching. It's on players too too. I mean that used to that was what we said was Jason Garrett's strength. Yeah, and yeah, I mean it doesn't It doesn't seem like it this year, right, and getting your ass kicked to something he hasn't really happened

a lot with him, but it did last night. Like the score aside, whatever, they got beat and they got beat by a pretty average to bad team. And that's now the two weeks in a row. Yeah, because the same thing happened to him on Thanksgiving Day, they got the I mean, the Bills are probably gonna be in the playoffs, the Bears are not. I get it. My point though, is like you're not used to seeing Jason Garrett teams get dominated like that. You're used to sing

them even if they lose. You used to sing them, put put forth the effort to be in the game at any point in the fourth quarter, like they're in the game. That's what me and me and say Taylor Stern had a little back and forth on Twitter last night where I was like, this is one of the worst three game stretches of football of the Jason Garrett era, and Taylor was like, well, what about twenty fifteen? I was like, twenty fifteen didn't have a quarterback and they

went down to the wire. Week after week. They were fighting their asses off, they were losing an overtime, castle, they were getting beat on the last play of the game by the Bucks, like they weren't they weren't good, but they were not getting blown out ever, Like nobody just kicked their ass. Ye, and and this team has gotten its ass kicked a few times. You're going to

pick the Cowboys to win another game? Yeah? No, I want like I mean, I'm gonna pull a Nick Eatman, Like They're gonna lose to the Rams on Sunday, then they're gonna turn around and win two straight an FC East games and make the playoffs. That's who they are. What we know of them is they beat teams that are worse the NFCAST teams. That's that's what they beat

up on this season. They're gonna finish this season six and zero against the NFC East and then two and two and eight against everybody else, and they're two wins would be against Miami and Detroit, who are not good, and both of them beat the Eagles. True, Wow, yeah

they did. Which I mean that just this I kind of u the Ringer, the sport, you know, the National website, they did an article last week where they like ranked the worst divisions of the realignment era, and they were like, oh, the nineteen NFC East isn't like, it's not the worst, but it's up there. And I kind of took issue with that. This was before the Dolphins game, the Miami the Eagles Dolphins game, and since then and since the

Bears game, I was thinking about it. I was like, no, yeah, like this this could be one of the worst two or three divisions in you know, in the history of sense realignment. I sure, is it possible? I think it is. It's possible for the win of this division to be seven and nine, right absolutely, I mean that just speaks volumes with three games left, the possibility, and I wouldn't think it's a far fetched possibility that the win of this division is seven and nine. Definitely a great possibility.

They could be eight and eight, which, to go back to my point, I think like that. I think is what has Cowboys fans mad today is they're like, I'll be damned if this team isn't going to go eight and eight and maybe even mess around and win a home playoff game, and then what do you do with this coach that they don't like? And I think that

is probably keeping a lot of fans awake at night. See, but I think that that's going to be even more validation that something else has to happen, because that means that and Jerry talked about this morning in his call. He was like, you know, if you've seen something happen before, then you know there's a possibility it can happen again.

I think Jerry belize heartily this team's talented, which leaves you with, Okay, if you're just not getting the most out of your talent, at some point, you gotta do something to get the most out of your talent. I know we're running out of time, but I wanted to say that too. Is I agree with Nick to a degree, Like, you know, thinking back to training camp, Nick, Xavier Woods didn't make the jump that I think we thought he would. Cheeta A Woozier is another one fantastic didn't translate like

media definitely takes some accountability in that. I still, even after all of this, contend that the core of this team is very talented. I think the quarterback is good. I think the running back is great. I think Amari Cooper's phenomenal. I don't. I mean, he struggled in the early going for some reason. He can't he can't play great on the road. I don't know why. I still think he's a fantastic receiver. I think there's talent on the defense. It just hasn't translated this year, and I

don't know why. All Right, we appreciate you joining us. We're back on Monday. We'll tell you about what happens this weekend. We'll tell you where the Cowboys sit, and we'll start getting ready for Cowboys versus Rams. Still then, for Nickietman, Dave Hellman, Danny Serek, I'm Derek Eagleton. This has been The Break live on Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.