Cowboys Break: Who’s To Blame?

The Break. Life in the s W Mortgage. He and I don't even want to laugh because it's just actually do kind of want to laugh, just because it's just like, what else can you do at this point near the other one? I'm sure what your people have done, maybe, which our producer did right before we went on the air, Like, I think that was kind of what we're all feeling. Cowboys lose twenty three seventeen to San Francisco. I can't say that it was a surprise. I think we were

all very concerned about this matchup last week. Yeah, I thought they'd win. We all picked, we all picked, we did. I think we all had some trepidation. I don't think any of us were like, oh, Cowboys A roll through this team. I don't think like I roll. But yeah, I thought they'd win. I mean I thought they would win. I thought they would play better, but they just did. They're not. They're not. I mean I fell for it. I really did. I wrote this, we talked about I

fell for it. I thought they were better. I did. I thought this season was different because it was it was season was different than what we've had, but not to the point where it was going to be a different ending. So everything they've done all year long, they showed it in that game, and they were you know, they were a pretty good team. They've been pretty good

shot all year long. Ago, Well, I feel like at the beginning, and I was thinking that this morning as I was driving here, I'm thinking, I'm like, man, how did I personally go from watching the game and feeling so pumped and confident that they would this is a year that they could get to the Super Bowl? You know, the way that the offense was playing, that we're making mistakes and all that, but they were overcoming in every

single time. And then all of a sudden it changed in the second half of the season, we've talked about it on here. Oh well, teams start looking at your schemes, they start preparing for you and all that. But it's like it has to be more than that. There has to be something else as to how this team changed so much like night and day from what we had seen initially, from me thinking and coming out here and saying, well, we aren't going to the super Bowl, asking for my

ring and everything about that. I really don't think they changed. I don't think they were the same team. It's just that they face different changed it. As I was saying, they were pretty good team this year, and pretty good, we'll get you knocked out in the wild card round. That's what pretty good does. See. I think you're right, but for different reasons. I think they didn't change. They

didn't adapt. They did not respond to any of the challenges that came their way, whether that was their problems with officiating, whether that was their problems with teams figuring out how to beat them, which is to rush for and drop in zone. I mean that problem arose on November seventh, and they looked just as helpless dealing with it on January what was yesterday fifteenth? Whatever doesn't matter, They looked just as helpless dealing with something that they

saw all the way back in November. They looked just as terrible cleaning up their penalties as they did in October when that was an issue that they overcame, but they never adjusted to it. And maybe maybe I'm just shooting from the hip in the wake of a frustrating loss, but it just strikes me as like an unearned type of arrogance, Like every week, in the wake of all of this stuff, there was this confidence, maybe arrogance, seeing as how they didn't handle it, exuding from this team

of line them up. We got it, I know what we have in this locker room. We're gonna do this, we're gonna do that, we're gonna do the other, and it never really translated. They played some crappy teams and showed off their potential doing that, but from week six until yesterday, they never answered the bell against like the type of opponent that you need to be to be a great team. And it's frustrating. I think I've said this a few times. It reminds me of twenty nineteen.

You'll never convince me like that twenty nineteen team belonged in the playoffs. I'm not saying that they were a super Bowl team, but they were good enough to be in the playoffs, and they couldn't get there, couldn't get out of their own way. I do think this team had the talent and the potential to be special, but they just didn't change. They did not take the steps necessary over the course of the season to be something more.

And the problem that we said from training camp and before that that we were worried about continue to be a problem all year. The center and the left guard spot. They can't block, they can't move the guys off the ball. And you're not going to change your quarterback because he's making more money than God right now. So that's that's what he's gonna do. But you better get the guys up front to block for him. You have to. You have to sell out next year to protect him because

Dad needs your help. He ran more than a cross country runner yesterday and he's not good enough to do that all the time. He needs help, and he didn't get it either. So let me ask you guys this, and I know this happens all the time, because especially for you guys, that right you find yourself years from now, you'll go back and you'll think about this playoff game, and there'll be a certain thing in your mind, whether it's a memory of a specific play or just how

they played in general. What will be that thought, like, years from now, how you guys crystallize this particular game. That's actually what I wrote about last night, and I think it's ironic. I think because the way that it was talked about. It was the first five minutes of Mike McCarthy's press conference, it was the first ten minutes

of Dak Prescott's press conference. What I will probably remember is the final fourteen seconds and really that whole sequence from the time Trent Williams got the false start to win the clock ran out. That's what you'll remember, like, oh, the game where Dak couldn't get the spike off. But that's not It should be remembered for them playing like crap for fifty fifty minutes and like I mean, and we've seen that time and time again, and it rubbed

me the wrong way. Even as bonkers as that whole thing was, I was like, why are we talking about this as if this is the reason why they lost. It's not. It's not it's the fact that it took them thirty five minutes to realize they were in a playoff game. That's why they lost. So that's probably what I'll remember, is like, oh, yeah, that was the game with the weird spike situation. But really they got nobody

to blame with themselves. I mean yeah, I'll probably say something snarky five years from now and be like, yeah, that was the game where they played in the playoff and they didn't get the playoff. That's that's that's like. And not only not only once, but twice. Yeah. Yeah, but I mean I got a problem with that play with with with the officials. I mean, because everyone's saying

that they they did it right. They you know, even that that arrogant referee that in the transcript that we read, he was like, we did it right, we did it right, we did it right. I don't think so. I don't think he did it right. But we'll talk about it. We'll get to them, Amber, because I've left a lot of games, so I know, how will you remember that game, Amber,

I don't know. But right now how I feel is that it's it's just here we are again again, and you know, so many times like giving him the second half of you keep thinking, maybe my biggest thing is the quarterback right now. You keep thinking he's got it or at least me. Every time, you know, we see progress of the year, even last year before he got hurt, it's like, Okay, he got it, he got it, But

then you realize he doesn't. Or then there comes a time where you really need him and he plays like crap. And I think he's a special player and everything, but it's just like one of those moments again where in a game that you really needed him to step up, he did not. So this is how I'm coming off this year. It's like, I don't want to say that they made the right choice in signing him and giving him all that money and all that, but it is questionable.

Is he the right guy to be the quarterback and lead this team or do you have to really spend a ton of money in bringing up guys to build around him to help him out the whole way? Yeah, you know, I'll tell you this. Here's when I think back this game, I was looking at all the different things that happened, because there were lots of things that happened in this game. You could point to to be like, yeah, that was wrong, that was off, that was a problem.

But really, for me, what this game came down to check this out. Two forty two left in the fourth quarter, they had three timeouts, they were down by six, and they have the ball in that drive. Dak was one of five for thirty eight yards at the nice reception, the nice completion to Dalton Schultz. But other than that, over like it didn't complete any other passes. They had two balls that you could say were dropped, CD and Zeke.

They had an offensive line penalty that they got declined on the play where Zeke dropped the ball because San Francisco is like, well, you dropped the ball, so we'll just take that. We don't need to necessarily take the penalty. You had a sack which Connor Williams gave up talking

about your guard and how ineffective they are. And then you had on the final play of that one, a open receiver that because Dak is feeling pressure because there's a blitz up the middle that either somebody didn't pick up or Dak couldn't make a guy miss to buy himself more time, he kind of just heaves the ball. They can't complete the pass and they can't keep the drive going. To me, you look at all that stuff that was the game right there. I don't give me

all this stuff. What happened after that? And REFF did this. REFF did at the end of the day, as bad as they played two forty two left in the game, they had every opportunity to then drive and win the game. And they were highly ineffective. Not just a few plays, they were highly ineffective on offense. And I think, and if I don't know if you said this or not, but going into the game that the forty nine two best defensive players we thought were botha and Warner and

neither one of them are. So it's yeah, you had they had the ball with north of two minutes and all of their timeouts, facing a sixth I mean, that's where that's what you want, that's what you dream about if you are a team capable of winning a playoff game. And I definitely I'm not going to absolve Dak. I thought that he had a terrible game. That I mean, the decision on the interception was was not good. Um,

his accuracy didn't seem awful to me. Yesterday and again like it's gonna sound like I am, and I swear I'm not. But their offensive line got embarrassed yesterday to not have Nick Bosa in that game for half of

the game and you wouldn't know it. Five sacks pressured all the time, And maybe I'm making excuses for him, I don't know, I'm sorry, but like when you can rush four and drop seven down after down after down and make Dak repeatedly try to squeeze balls into tight zones, they're playing zone all day and he's running for his life while he's doing. It's gonna be hard. It's gonna be hard for a lot of guys, and maybe Aaron Rodgers can overcome that. And that's why there's only like

one on the planet. So that was Dak didn't play well, but holy crap, his offensive line that the whole name name I get maybe Zach, maybe Zach Martin, And I think the forty nine ers specifically schemed their front to basically say, all right, Zach will beat his guy and we'll just embarrass the rest of him. Like that's what it seemed like they were doing. Lyle had a rough day, penalties, several priest stap he's Connor Williams. It speaks for itself. I mean, I don't know, Yeah, I don't in the

CD right now, I'm giving him the bottle. I don't know how you justify that, and and I don't know how that makes sense. Tyron Smith looked like a hobbled old player yesterday. Again, Bosa left basically at halftime and other guys were getting home plenty of I'm gonna go back and watch it again because I watched it once last night and I didn't see a lot of issues from Tyron. I gotta watch it again, I guess because I thought he played pretty well. I thought there was

a couple of issues there. He gave up a pretty shout out Longhorns Charles Charles a minute, who who? I knew? The Texas were like, we're good. I know I know his name because I cover the draft, but like a journeyman fifth round pick. He had a sack and a half yesterday, beat Tyron clean on one of them. Um yeah, and you're just not used to seeing that. It might be an end again. I don't want to give the

impression that Tyron Smith is no longer a good play. No, that's not that's what it is that I don't know that Tyren Smith is an elite player. And and then you start a questioning, Okay, if he's not elite and he's not reliable from a from a health standpoint, then is it time to start looking at other options. But here's the thing about that. You know what else is in the lead about him? It's contract? Well you got that up and down this like you've got a couple

guys like that. No. But but I'm saying, if you if you think that just Tyron Smith is a probably not a top five player anymore, and maybe he's just a top ten or top fifteen, I think he's still he's still on the cheap, I have to go look at it. But nobody like the way these contracts work.

For sure, he just hasn't. But as the play what you need if you're if you're talking about the fact that you got problems at a lot of other spots as well, and maybe that's the reason why you couldn't do anything different, because you got a lot of other spots that are much more important that you fix than left tackle. But we're getting into the weeds a little bit,

like we can go over all of that. We got a long time to talk about it, but it just I mean, again, like Nick said earlier, like and wrote about, like every single thing that's bothered them leading up to this came home to roost. And that's it makes it frustrating because they didn't do anything to address it really, or they didn't do enough except for one. What's that the field goal? An extra point? Yeah? Great? And I'm telling you this, if they would have scored a touchdown,

he's gonna hit the post. I don't know if it goes in or out, but I mean it's not gonna be right down in the middle. Can you imagine how quiet that place would have been. Yeah, No, it wouldn't have been because the other side, the other side, Yeah, it wouldn't have been quiet. There wasn't no uet yesterday.

And by the way, it wasn't that they were overpowering, but they were enough that they were there was there are enough of them there when the refs, when the refs said the game was over, there was there was a sizeable cheer. And honestly that that I liked that atmosphere. I loved that. I loved that in a playoff atmosphere, No it was great. Got a loud audience, a loud set of fans, and they're you know, you got some on both sides. I would say, what do you guys say,

seventy thirty split? I would So I think that's that. That felt right, That felt good for a playoff team, you know, and and thirty good fans. Yeah, you know, passionate, Yeah, passionate fans of fan base. You know, obviously, if you're gonna spend that money to get in, you know you are. And so anybody can be loud, you know, anybody can you know, if you boo, you're gonna hear that. So, I mean, there they they were. They were there, just like it would have been if the Cowboys would have

played there, it would have been the same thing. I mean, that's that's what happened in the play playoffs. Yeah, all right, were gonna take our first break. When we come back, I do want to dive into that end of game scenario. What you guys thought of it. We've heard from Nick. I want to hear what Amber and Dave heard yet. Okay, well let's let's talk about that when we come back. This is Dallas Cowboys dot Com Radio at at and tea. Everyone new and existing customers get our best deals on

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be a great game. It will be. It will be. It will be, you know, honestly, And I heard this before the game, and I think it's true. We talked about all week how bad of a matchup it was for Dallas, how tough of a matchup I should say it was for Dallas. It's really a tough matchup for almost anybody's left in the playoffs, just because they do what they do so well and it's so different than what everybody else does. So it's gonna be a tough matchup for green Bay as well. Differences. Green Bay's got

that dude. He's got that dude at quarterback. You can kind of right size all that kind of stuff. All right, Let's talk about though the end of the game. I

talked about a little bit in the first segment. Basically, they decide that they're going to with very little time, they opt to allow Dak to get to basically run the ball right up the middle of the field, and the hope was he would get down in time to be able to then respot the ball, spike it, and give them one more shot roughly twenty five to thirty yards in order to win the game, which sounds like a great probably a more well, I'll let you guys

answer that. Was that the right decision or should they have opted for take a shot at the end zone or maybe two shots the end zone from back at the fifty and see what you can come up with. Here's the thing I like. I like that they thought outside the box. Like your odds of completing it. They were at the forty one, they were at the San Francisco forty one. So odds of completing a forty one yard pass to the end zone in the NFL is not good. So you gotta find a way to get

up there a little bit and in a vacuum. It's a smart idea. It is like nobody's expecting this, nobody's going to be covering the draw because you got to be a crazy person to do it, and you theoretically, like fourteen seconds is the traditional threshold of like you have enough time to get down, get everything together, spike it. I like the thought process and a vacuum. Here's the thing. Football games aren't played in a vacuum. And they said this after the game. They wrap it time and time

again and it works. But here's the thing. You're on your own practice field, in your own environment. Everybody knows exactly what you're trying to do. Our dear friend Dylan Keane, the equipment manager, plays referee. He knows exactly what they're doing. He's going to sprint in with the ball, put it where it needs to be. That's not going to happen in a game. Maybe, like the ref doesn't know what you're gonna do. The ref is maybe out of shape

or winds up twenty yards behind the play. Should he be? No? Is it something that you have to kind of count on maybe going wrong? Absolutely? The forty nine ers player is probably gonna lay on you and like forget how to get up and maybe swat at the football. That stuff's gonna happen. That's what they're trained to do. And

so I like the idea. The thought that it was ever gonna work in a live game perfectly was probably far fetched, and so I think you would have been better off maybe running an out for twelve yards the Jason Witten special. They ran it with Dalton Schultz earlier. I think that's more likely to get you there than that. Like I said, I understand the thought process, but I just don't think it was realistic that I was ever going to work. Everything was just very sloppy. It's like

nobody was on the same page. It's like, this is your first time playing football and you're still trying, like, you know, this is like mistakes that you do in the practice field when you're trying to figure out, Okay, what are we coming up with this week? But the way that they went out there, and let me say this, I said this to several people yesterday, and people, you know, I always talk about demeanors and vibes and all that and it's dumb or whatever, but I said it to

several people. When I got there and I was watching the sidelines both teams the Cowboys were just standing there, which is fine or whatever. And then I look at the forty nine ers and I can't I can't remember what players those two were because they were from the side, so I couldn't see their numbers, and they were far but they're hitting each other like this to the point

where I'm thinking are they fighting? In my head? And then I keep watching and what They're just pushing each other really really hard and just going at it and then they hug at the end or whatever. So it was like hyping each other up, and like right at the beginning of the game, like pre game, I could see just the energy on both sides. And I know I always talk about this, but I made my point of sending it to several people. I'm like, this is not looking to be great because of how they're coming

into the game. The game anyway. Point is I feel like they didn't come in prepared and they didn't have the what they needed to do and it was just too late at the end of the game. And what they did even what was that one where they was it they handed the past to Cedric and then he threw it to get it to the hook and ladder. Yeah yeah to Tony Poller, was it right? Well they messed they botched that one, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah it was.

It wasn't good. But my point is, like little things like that, when you watch it, it's just like they they they were lost, Like it's not like everybody's in sync or this was planned or they knew what we're going to do. And I know they play and they practice all this place, but I don't know just the

whole thing from beginning to end. And at the end with the ref, what was the problem without in like a few more like an extra second and going back and saying reviewing this player, and like, you know, I know you're gonna talk about it, Nick, what happened there with the ref at the end, But I don't get what the big deal is and adding an extra second and saying, you know what, we kind of messed up.

Let's just let you guys go it, even though it's not gonna work out for you guys at the end, because they they don't think that they did mess up because they're there. What the official said was as we spotted the ball correctly. The Cowboys supposed to hand the ball to the official apparently, and they be honest, tried

to spot the ball and whatever. But my issue though, is just that the back judge was he was in it was at six flags when that play started, when that play ended, I mean he would he was at the fifty yard line and he stayed at the fifty. When Dad got down, he had to run and sprint. He should have already been doing that. And once Dak took off his job to get the ball, he should have been running. He was out of position. So yeah, he spotted the ball, but it took way too long

for him to get there. I mean, he's not twenty five years old. I mean he he as a as a ref, and your job is to be athletic and get up there, then you better get up there quicker. And he wasn't. So I mean they're not going to probably make the helmet or the player or whatever. I mean, that's not why they lost. But I don't I don't I think for the NFL to say that our guys did it properly, I don't think that's correct. I mean, you got you got seven refs there or eight refs,

you got a thousand refs on the sideline. He got New York sitting up there. I mean, I'll say this, they didn't win anything with New York this year. It was either New York called down and changed the call on him, or they didn't call or whatever. I mean, they gotta they gotta figure that out. About when do we go to New York and when do we not? You know, it seems a little weird, But I just

thought the ref was out of position. I mean, for sure that's not why they lost, but he was out of position to me, Yeah, I mean I think that, you know, and I'll ask you guys this question. It was that a situation where you think they didn't understand they needed to get the ball to the ref because we've seen you see this all the time in the NFL, where where I know, I get that, but I'm saying

like we see it all the time. We see it all the time in the NFL where at the end of game, guys go down and they immediately look for the ref to try to get the ball to them because they know he's the one that has to spot it. So they try to help him along like like you're right, like he should have been up there a lot of times he's not. So the player will get the ball to the ref so that the ref can you know, at least you make it a little bit faster because

you're helping him. Do you think this was a situation where the Cowboys aired and not doing that and not looking to identify who the ref is. Get the ball to him, so it makes it move a little faster. Yeah, I mean that that was That's probably part of it. But again it goes back to he's not there, so you're just in panic mode or whatever. To go back to what Dave said on the play, And I actually was standing down there and I said to the guy next to me, I would have thrown Pollards in the slot.

I said, I'd go right over the middle of the field here and go down and spike it. That's a lot quicker. Pollard's faster, he's right there. You throw it to him, he gets ten fifteen yards and then everyone's moving. The quarterback didn't have to go back and then forward. I like the middle of the field. I just would have done it with Pollard. It's wide open. But good call. Yeah, I mean I have to go back and look at the coverage they were playing, but it's obvious they left

the middle of the field wide open on purpose. You can take advantage of it. But that is a slow developing play, not I don't want to be a douche. I'm getting aggravated all over again, because like we're spending a significant chunk of the show and there's so many other reasons why they lost this game. I mean, they got pretty thoroughly outplayed and outcoached in almost every facet. I mean, the slow starts are ridiculous, and I mean at this point, I mean, we talk about the offensive

coordinator and all that, but he's gonna be a head coach. Like, seriously, I don't see it. I haven't seen it all year. I don't see it. And I don't know how you would see that. Like his teams aren't prepared in the first half, like in the first quarter of games. I mean, they haven't been that good. Now they make some adjustments, but you know, they they rally back, but I mean they shouldn't be down so much. And I think it

all comes down to preparation. So and I'll throw this out too, and I think this is where I want to go next, is the penalties. This is a game where once again penalties killed them. And I you know, I heard somebody say it like this this is more. I think it was on Sean and RJ here at in one on five to out three the fan they're like, you know, the first time you get cheated on, you know, you look at the other person, You're like, man, I

was really messed up. By the fourth time, you gotta start looking in the mirror and being like, why am I in this situation? Maybe I am allowing this to happen. Maybe there's something more I need to be doing, so on not in this situation. And it's a similar situation here with Reps. I'm kind of tired of this team talking about after games, talking about the refs did this and that and the other. I don't like it's one thing one game. It's been multiple games. It is the epito.

It's petulant, like they sound like whiny kids and like from the coach on down. Honestly, I mean it's yeah, it's gross. I mean they were flagged fourteen times yesterday. I challenge you to go find more than two or three that weren't just outright flags like I thought. I thought Connor got flagged for a holding early where I mean the guy did go to the ground, but it looked like he kind of lost his footing. And Randy Gregory one, I think sure, I think that he was

moving his foot the tackle was moving. Yeah, I mean, Trump Williams got away with some stuff, but Randy Gregory had the worst. Maybe the defensive holding on Randy. I mean, don't come at me, don't come at any like most of these weren't earned, right, you know, I was by you like just you know, that was just that was just and that's it. Almost thought like he thought he had the ball, like he was tackling him. Yeah, what

he mean, MICA's there, MICA's got this thing. It's gonna be third and nine with a minute and a half to go. You call your second time out like you're gonna get the ball back with about one twenty five instead you got it with thirty two seconds. But do you think this is all the reflection of the fact that number one, the coach says he wants the team to play on the edge, which means he's okay with a lot of these penalties, especially the penalties that are

kind of between the whistle. He was more concerned about the pre snap ones. But that particular penalty, to me, is about playing like trying to play at the edge. Guy kind of got you, so you just kind of pull him down. Whereas if the coaches maybe coaching, look, we're not gonna be stupid, We're not gonna make dumb penalties. That's not about playing on the edge. That's about being smart about the time of the game and what's happening

into what they've said earlier arrogant. I think that that's what he goes back to because at the beginning of the year, you saw them making these mistakes penalties, but it was working out. Okay, you come out with the win and you can take it whatever. But then you see how now it's affecting you. And they had play enty of time to be working on this, because this is like you guys have been saying, this is nothing new. It's been happening week after week, and then we somehow

end up talking about the refs or whatever. But I think that going back to that, I now do start seeing this team as maybe they were pretty arrogain throughout the season, and it bait them in the butt at the end of the game. At the end of the year, it beat them in the butt, because that's the only reason, the only way that you do not work on it.

I mean, let me not say work on it, because maybe they have been working on it and trying to improve of that, but for you to constantly be making the same mistakes and not see any kind of improvement week after week that's you thinking that you got the better team and at the end of the day, you're going to come out with the win regardless. My lasting impression right now of this team is like this air of defiance coming out of these losses, where it's like,

not our fault, it ain't US Vegas Cardinals. Last night. He haven't even talked about Dak's comments about the referees. It just it's a it's a terrible look. It's not a good look. That was bad. It's not a good look for your franchise quarterbacks. Costly as a costly game of what they had a chance to do, it's gonna be costly for him to say that. Just didn't hear

what was what happened after the game. Obviously you saw the people throwing stuff onto the field, um, and you know, and and it was they was asked about it, he gave a he gave a very Dak answer on it was disgusting. These players fight so hard, why would throw stuff at him? And then he was brought to his attention, was like, well, actually I think they were thrown at the refs, and he said, well, credit to them, credit

to them. Then he got a chance to come back and he was given he was given an opportunity to clarify, and he was like, yeah, that's that's what it meant. And you know that's I get it. I get I get that he's frustrated. Uh. You know, he talked about how this this is gonna last stay with him for a long time. I'm sure will. But let me let me also let me also say this too. Um. You know, we do this every day. We sit here in front of the mics. We say things, We've said things that

we regret. You know, you get finished off the show and said that. You know, it happens all the time, and and you know, and and Dak shouldn't have said that, There's no doubt about it. Um. I got a problem with the people that didn't say anything. You know, that's that's that's my issue. Are you talking about I'm talking about the guys that that that don't step up to the mic and talk. You know, nobody wants to. You think Dak wants to do that. You think Zeke wants

to do that. Zeke, Zeke's the best one that we've had in many years. As far as this is my job, I go, I talk to the me if I had twenty four yards rushing in two fumbles or whatever. This is what I'm gonna do. And I stand down there and I you know, I mean, I got I got heismaned more than anybody you know last night, Chris and

I did down there, and it's ridiculous. It really was, and so so I yes, Dak, you shouldn't have said that, But I also think that there's not enough credit that that gets taken to the guys that do face the music, stand up there and have the answers, and you have veterans that had great seasons, Pro Bowl seasons, Pro Bowl players that said, I don't feel like talking. All right, he was there last night. I think he I think he was. He was tweeting about it. I would guess

he was an appropriate uh drop there, Chris. It really is. Yeah, that's these It's funny though. I mean, I agree with everything you just said, but I think I'm big enough to admit I would tell everybody to f off if I were one of those guys after a game like that would be like, I can't get in front of a microphone right now. It's not gonna be good for anybody. But I admire the guys that do it. I mean that's I mean, they're paid handsomely to do it. But

that's gotta be tough. Yeah, I mean, I mean it's part of the job. It's a part of the job for a lot of them. I'm not gonna say for everybody, because everybody is not a part of their job necessarily. I think for the leaders, it is a part of their job because that's what leadership is. If you're gonna talk about great a leader, they are, that's part of being a leader. There's a lot of disappointing stuff we

can go over. We haven't scratched the surface, Like there's so much the Cowboys play, calling the way the way like the forty nine ers, like the way they scheme things up for their guys, getting Diggs to bite on multiple double moves, Like if if Jimmy G's a more accurate quarterback, they end the game by burning Treyvon Diggs. Basically, I mean, they're just very smart coaching stuff. Well coached team.

But to go back to what I was gonna say, like, not only did he play great, but Micah Parsons once again comes out and like is is like the mature Like we didn't do enough enough of this, like just very like down to business. We gotta clean this stuff up. It's not good enough. Yeah that I mean, if you're if there's a bright spot for this game other than Zeroline not missing anything, it's probably that Laydon played the

game of his season. From this season, I think it is Michael Parsons And what how had somebody tell me last night? Man, when he becomes a leader of this team, look out? I was like, he's already as a leader of this defense. For sure, there's no doubt in my mind he's a leader of this team. I felt so smart. But like he I mean he did he blitzed and he did some edge stuff, but like they used him against the running game and the forty nine ers ran for one forty five, but like they did enough. This

reminded me a lot of the Cardinals game. Like the defense they helped him to twenty three points. And this is a dan Quinn trend at this point, Like the forty nine ers script worked to perfection. They got exactly what they wanted. They go down and get seven. Defense kind of cracks its neck and they were good the rest of the way. Their only other touchdown came on a short field because of Dakh they got a takeaway that set the offense up to get back into the game.

Not the best game of their season at all, but they played well enough to win, and Michael was right there in the run defense, I mean, I think San Francisco couldn't have had more than like two explosive runs. I mean a lot of that was gritty, tough running. No sacks though, that was that was tough. Yeah, you know.

But the other thing I'll mentioned on that day of two though, that that I think you have to take a few points off the defense is there were a number of times yesterday where they had opportunities to make tackles and the guy got another four or five yards.

That was a problem. That's what they're good at. Yeah, problem, I mean it is, it's it's that was what we were talking about all week when we said the kind of the brand of football that San Francisco plays is a tough, gritty running style, and and that's what they live on is you think you got us, We'll get another four yards and that like it's seven to nothing and it's third and twenty one at like midfield and they throw a little pass to the fullback U and

you know he stopped at the forty yard line and he spends and gets to like the thirty five and the fullback yeah wow, because I can't say his name, you check whatever. He I don't think he's gonna kick a fifty eight yard field goal with him, but he's gonna kick a fifty three and you know that five yards because you know, every every defensive players so point, you know, so excited to put their hand up and be like fourth down, fourth down. I'm like, well, you

just lost three points. Yeah, because you didn't get them when you're supposed to. You know, yeah, great, it's fourth down. It's still gonna be three points as opposed to them punning. So and you know, and then I know you can't play the game that way, but I mean, just think what three less points does when you're trying to drive and you're down by three, you're at the forty yard and you're already in field goal rings. So you know,

those things, those things add up. You're not saying anything that's incorrect, but twenty three points twenty yeah, twenty three points should win you a home game. Yeah, the offense had eleven possessions. Eight of them ended without points, either a turnover at the end of the game or a punt. Again, nothing we haven't seen this season. Three hundred and seven yards of offense and again again the other We talked

about it a lot. It's like, can can the offensive line give Dak time to stand in there and throw? And the answer was no. I mean, that's the only thing you can fix. Now you can't. You're not gonna change your quarterback. You gotta fix that. You have to figure well, I'm gonna throw one at you when we come back from a break. That I think is something that can be fixed that. I'm not sure the Cowboys have what it takes to actually go down this route,

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in history. Visit SeatGeek dot com. Welcome Back, final segment of the Break Life in SEBC Mortgage Studios at the Star we are just you guys know, we're gonna have an our normally scheduled show tomorrow as well, and then we'll start flipping into our offseason mode um on Wednesday and Thursday, and then next week will be fully ent

our offseason mode. Guard good good Bush good Hey well. Actually, speaking of which, speaking of which, I actually I talked to I talked to Kavanaugh, and I talked to brought Us this morning. They're both look. I was like, any your draft show anyone, and they're both like, yeah, we're in, We're ready to go. Let's go. So I think I think we're gonna try to start pushing this thing either later this week or at the latest next week. Can we do next week? I don't under this, and I

I love the Draft show. I enjoyed doing it. Literally on the drive end this morning, I was just like Derek's Derek. I was like, Derek's gonna tell me we're going on Thursday, and I'm gonna cry. I'm just gonna all right, because, like you, Dave, we're gonna wait till next just give me some time to digest what just happened and maybe start looking that. You know, last year they were out of the playoffs for all intents and purposes before Christmas. I don't know anything about this draft class.

So all right, let's wait till next week for you day, thank you, and and we'll just kind of but just so the fans know. Next week, all right, we're gonna hit the ground running. I will be excited. I will be excited next week or even later this week, but right now, I'm just like, oh my god, you can't just jump into another relationship that quick. Thank you, Thank you.

Amber Da and I were sitting up there in the in the press box US night and he said something that I didn't think of right off the bat, but he was like, this fan base this year, I mean, it's gonna be tough. This offseason is going to be tough. God bless you. If you're listening right now, well you you're listening now, but are you gonna listen in March? Are you listen? You know, like these folks are like even like, what if the Cowboys not to mention I

mean first place schedule. I used to think that was kind of not a big deal. But when you add another game, you're adding another first place team. You know, you you face I think you face four. They got Rogers, they got Brady, they got Joey b You don't know if they got Rodgers, maybe they have the team that currently employs Rogers. Point being, there's some really really good teams on the schedule next year. It's a bits tough.

It'll be tough as it is Tampa every years. My point to that is is you get to four though five, it doesn't matter. Okay that listening, you know, it goes back. It kind of goes back to the arrogance thing. And Nick, maybe you're right, maybe they were just pretty good, not great, But like twelve wins is the reasonable expectation. That's that's the best most fans are ever gonna hope for. Like, you don't go into a season excuse me, yeah, you're right,

you don't. You don't. You don't go into a season like fourteen and three or fifty fifteen and two. I'm still getting used to the new records, But like, nobody goes into a season expecting to lose two or fewer games, Like twelve wins is the reasonable expectation. And this team at times this year looked like a pretty special team and it just didn't translate. And if you care about this team. Even if you're like the biggest die hard,

I don't blame you at all. If you need to see more, you're like, I ain't getting excited about a win in October? Why should I? I don't blame you at all. That's the hard parts me the most is that we get to this point and you always think, Okay, we're only a few pieces away. That's what it always feels like, as opposed to last year. I was like, okay, far everybody here from defen on the defense. But it

always feels like that. But then you got to go through the whole thing of like you're never gonna have the same team and just like you might get some other better player at a certain position, you're gonna lose players are have been doing a good job. So it's just, man, I don't know how you do the draft. Don't care about it. The draft is great though, because the draft like and I think that's why you know, I've already gotten a lot of tweets about like when is the

Draft show start? Because it might be unhealthy. It's definitely unhealthy, but like hope Hope springs etern like it renews you. Yeah, well, and then you have free agen they're going to deal with. Yeah, it does have a way every new Yeah. I was like not to be a downer though, And you never know what you can find in the draft, Like, shoot, Justin Jefferson was the third receiver taken in his class, and he's all of a sudden looking like far and away, not all of a sudden, he's far and away the

best receiver. Like we talked so much it was like, can't believe the league led CD fall to seventeen. Now I'm more like, I can't believe the league led Justin Jefferson fall to twenty two or wherever he was taking the point I was gonna make. It's just like this, They're not going to be significantly better next year than they are than what they were right now, unless a

minor miracle happens. You know, like they've got a lot of tough decisions in front of them in free agency, not a lot of money to spend, and you could always stumble into an amazing draft pick. But I think they're picking twenty fourth odds that you're finding a difference maker at twenty four, and then whatever pick is after that, they're not good. So this is what you got and you got to find a way to get better results with it. And we talked about the twelve wins, you know,

about being a pretty good team. I mean, this is another thing we mentioned of those twelve wins. I mean, nobody's still playing. No, I mean, you won three playoff game three. You won three games against playoff teams. The Eagles showed that they didn't belong and the Patriots didn't show, you know. And the thing about it is is what what are those two teams have in common? They have young quarterbacks that really aren't that ready to play, you know,

and it comes down to quarterbacks. I mean, I mean and da you know, we thought, you know, MVP or at one point he should be time. We thought comeback player of the year. He's not gonna win that. Yeah, because I don't think they voted yet. They don't they don't vote yet. Um, I don't know. And they're gonna vote. They're gonna vote Burrow because he's already won a game. Burrows won as many playoff games as Dak that that'll

be said. And it's true. How many years I know there are quarterbacks that come in and they played really well right off the bat. I mean Dak did it himself his first year, you know, but how many years to a quarterback's life does do they get that turning point where it's like, Okay, this guy could be elite or could be really good. Is there usually like maybe a certain amount of years that he takes a quarterback to there's no start becoming that. There's no definitive timeline it.

I mean, when do you start playing, Like are you a day one starter as a rookie like Dak? Do you sit on the bench for four years like Rogers or Romo? Are you on a good team earlier in your career? I mean, Brady got carried by amazing defenses for the first few years. There's there's no formula. But by year six, with as much starting experience as you have, I'm not gonna say you're a finished product, but that's

where these results should start coming in. Yeah, That's where I was going to ask you, guys, do you think it's fair for fans who look at Dak now and say he's been starting since he was a rookie, he's passed that first contract, he should be in his prime. And if he's in his prime, this is the best of what you're going to see from Dak Prescott. Yeah, and that. And I remember writing this article in two thousand and eight and Romo came up to me and was upset about it. And he said, yeah, I heard

you called me Matt Hasselbeck. And I said, that's not what I said. Did you read the article? He goes, no, someone told me about it. I was like, well, that's your first mistake. Please read the article and then come back, because what I wrote was is that everybody in the league there's there's only a couple of Drew Brees and Bradies and Mannings or whatever. Seattle's got Matt Hasselbeck and that they're committed to him, and that's who they've got.

And so you have to the way though the quarterback market works. You have to pay your guy, but it may not be as good as you want it to be, but that's that's your guy. You at your pot committed with him. So I said, it's I mean, Seattle's got this, you got the Cowboys have. Romo's who you have. I didn't compare him to that. I'm basically saying he's better than that. You could you could be this guy. That's

where the Cowboys are, and you said it. I don't know if you want to go there that route, but you said it, and you're right, Well, actually I know what you're talking about, and I said it last night actually when I was talking to some of my family members would come to the game, and I literally took my sister off for a feast. She had to sit down like, oh God, please tell me, no, that's not

the case. But I was like, tell me the difference, like, do the Cowboys have a Kirk Cousins, Like do they have a guy who is like you were in a situation where you needed to pay him because there weren't a lot of other guys that were better. You didn't have a lot of options. But what you've seen as far as results aren't quite there yet, Like, yeah, you got some sets, but as far as getting your team to that next level, like he hasn't shown you yet that he can do that. And again, I am not

It's the same thing what you were saying, Nick. I think Dak is way better than Kirk Cousins at his best. The results, though right now are saying they're about the same. It's hard to argue that the results are different. That's what I was about to say, I still I have a lot of confidence that Dak is a better quarterback than that. I just I don't even know how to articulate it, but I think I still think he's one of the best in the league when everything is working

the way it's supposed to, right. But the fun thing is, nuance goes out the window when you sign one hundred and sixty million dollar contract. And I'm not going to bother arguing because the results are what they are, Like, I'm not just gonna sit here and pound the table after you put up a sixty nine passer rating in a playoff game like it is what it is, and yeah, you had no time to throw. Your offensive line got mauled. Sorry, there were also some opportunities though that he had. Sure

he did no, no, no, again he did. He played like crap. I think he's a better player than that. I sitting here right now, I do not think quarterback is a problem for the Dallas Cowboys. But I'm not going to argue with the people that think that it is, because that's if you don't like it, don't sign the forty million dollar contract. Like that's the nature of this business. And I think Dak is that he's just going to have to eat that and let it hopefully, let it

fuel him. Right. I think he's gonna be pissed off until he has a chance to get out there and show something better. But until then, what are you supposed to say? Yeah, I will say this. I do think that a lot of what we saw in the second half of the year from Dak Prescott was a result of an offensive line that just is not good enough. And if there's one thing that this team has to do this offseason, they have to figure out how to

start the process of remaking their offensive line. That's going to be extremely difficult for the reasons that Dave was just talking about. Don't have a lot of money, you're picking late in the draft. It's going to be difficult. But they got to start that process now. They got to start figuring out how they can start remaking this offensive line because this offensive line is highly unreliable and they're just not good at What did they do with Romo to bring it full circle? They waited way too

long to do that. Ye, Like they waited until he was closer to the end of his career. Yeah, yeah, And I don't I mean I don't think DA's at that point, but yeah, you can't. You can't let that thing slip. Maybe to knock on him. There are some quarterbacks in the league that can make it work with less, but I don't think he's one of them. They're too light on offensive line. I mean, I went back, I was watching a game two thousand and nine or ten.

Would they they play? I watched that offensive line and you know, Leonard Davis at at at right guard, and Flowzell Adams and Mark Colombo and Kyle Kozer is not the biggest guy, but the center was Andre Garrod. They got they had a big, big offensive line. And I get the football has changed a little bit, but the forteen hundred had a big line and they have a veteran line. I mean, I think this whole underside. I mean, how many screens are we really running here? How many

screens are pulling? Get the screen pages out of the playbook anyway, But their athleticism, how much does that factor in? You're I like having good athletes on the line, I mean good they all got to the line and we got to get the ball spiked. I'm sure everybody would have done that, you know, Lyell and Tyrant got there. But I'm just saying athleticism for the all offensive line for the most probably want a guy that's mean and nasty and big he can push you back, and they

don't have that. Connor Williams is athletic. Good for him. I mean, he's gonna go to free agency and his Dagan is gonna sell that. But he's not. He's not. His technique isn't great, and he doesn't push people back. He's probably a tackle. That's where he should have been playing along. Yeah, it's a hell of a hell of a final impression to leave. I will say real quick though, I do think before before we end the show, lay leave a good one thought. Layton played one of his

better games of the season. In all honesty, I said this off I said this off the air. I think he did play well, But he needs to go to a team that's gonna face the forty nine ers a lot and that's that style. Yeah, that style because him, because when they're gonna run like that. He he did have a nice game. He had a great play that could have changed the game when he stopped Debo at fourth and one or third and whatever. He stopped the one yard trub was a huge play in the game.

But yeah, you're right. I mean, because you're not asking to do as much in coverage a lot that's that's not if that's his liability. So I don't know if he comes back or not. I don't know who your coordinator is going to be. We might we're gonna we're gonna get into a lot of that tomorrow with the guards to the coaches. We're gonna need we might need

to do more shows than you would anticipate. I just feel like there's a lot of moving parts, like we're not going into the off season like well, this is what we've got, and these are the guys that will be here, Like we could be dealing with some drastic changes over the next week or so. And there certainly are reports out there that are swirling, which happens when you lose in the playoffs first round. They are going

to be those kinds of reports. We'll get into some of that stuff tomorrow because I thought we have a lot of answers, like we can sit and know about it, but it's like, okay, what's the answer then you know, Yeah, a good punt of questions that we won't find out until well, you never know, you never know how quickly things can start moving around here too. Well, the good thing is we got something to talk about, so I never I'm like, you gotta get, you gotta get and

y'all know better than me. You've got to get the NFC title game. What is that exactly? You gotta get there at some point for me to believe that it's gonna happen. So like, even at the highest of high of this season, I don't think I legitimately believe that they could reach that level just because they haven't done it. I definitely thought that they were. They were a divisional round team, like this was a team that I thought was good enough to get where the other ones have gone.

And they weren't even that good. They weren't even good enough to go one and one in the postseason like the Owen one with some of the highs we saw from this team. Owen one is just a Dak said it himself. I'm not even I'm not even calling him out. Dak said it himself. They underachieved this year. Yeah they did. I don't think there's anybody that can that can question

that they did. All right, uh, real quick, before we end this year, I do want to say to all you guys that are out there listening, and Nick mentioned you guys, but I want to mention you because it means a lot to us that you guys through an entire season, and really this starts in the off season.

It goes into training camp when we starts gearing up and talking about this team every day, and then you guys take this ride with us every season and through the ups and the downs, you laugh with us, you probably cry with us a little bit, but you're definitely there with us, and we appreciate you guys taking your time every day come and sit in on our shows

and listening to what we have to say. I ran into a guy yesterday at the stadium just randomly like oh yeah, Derek, and I was like yeah, and we talked for a bit and it was just that does me good because I know the people out there listening, they're willing to take this ride with us. We appreciating We don't want you to ever take that for granted. We appreciate you taking this ride with us every season,

and we can't promise the results. What we can promise you is that we're gonna get on here every day when we're supposed to get on here, and we're gonna talk about it, and we're gonna hopefully entertain you while we keep you informed about this team. And that's what we try to do, and so we appreciate you doing

it with us. I think the whole night, Like the whole night last night, I love being like the conduit for information for people that care about this team, Like it's what it's your hobby, it's your passion, it's your life, and it's awesome that I get to help you do that. And like the ole last night in the press box, I was just like, how do we sell this to him? Nick? Like, how do we? How do we? It's all it's like your disappointed parents or something. You're like, how do I

explain that I wrecked the car? Right? How do I explain that they lost again? I just I don't know how to do it. I mean, and I said it before, I just they are they were. I mean I feel like the like the late Denny Green said it, even though he's like they are who they thought we were, you know, but I didn't. I didn't think they were

this way. I didn't see it. I wanted to see differently and I didn't I and I feel like in a way, I feel like broad us here by saying this, I kind of like failed the fans because I kept saying yes. I kept saying, hey, no, they're gonna win, and I said it, they're gonna beat the forty nine ers four nineers could have been nine and eight. But I didn't see it, and I didn't want to see it. That's the thing. I didn't want to see it. But they showed us who they were all year and by

they kept showing us. We just refused to believe. I refused. I do apologize times. Yeah, that's myself credit. It kind of sounds like you are well. I got so much crap from people saying you're downer, blah blah blah. My dude, I get on here and I talked about what I feel like I see on the field. So I'm just saying I there were times where I was taking myself to the super Bowl, but there were times where I'm like this, ain't it so you both this season? Rights,

It's been on both. It's so true though, like go, I mean on Friday, I don't remember exactly what I said, but like I didn't want to. I didn't want to pick him. I didn't want to, but I was just like, I don't want to be the guy that didn't hop on board if they do catch fire, like if they do play up to their potential, I don't want to be the guy that thought they couldn't do it. And our first instinct turned out to be the right one, unfortunately.

But enjoy the ride. Yeah, he so fun. But you know, honestly, I still as much as I hated it last night, and I woke up this morning feeling awful because I always do when this moment comes. The fact is I still had some very enjoyable moments this season watching this team play, and so it was a joy to every Sunday watch Michael Parson's play football, Like I got some pleasure out of watching. So yes, you have to enjoy the ride. That's a part of being a fan as well.

And it's extremely disappointed, I was telling you before we went on the air, like I got it both ways. My college team and my pro team both Like they just disappoint me. That's what they do. They try to disappoint me. They look for opportunities to disappoint me. But if you don't enjoy the ride, it's the point of being a fan, right, It's no fun if you can't enjoy it, And that's part of the ride, even if it doesn't get where you wanted to go. Ultimately, that's

what's gonna happen next year. I mean, they're gonna have some good moments and bad moments, and everything's gonna be compared to the playoffs. But I mean, if if you can't, if you can't enjoy it, that you're right, Like you said, what are we doing? Like like, we're gonna get to a Thanksgiving and it's gonna be fun. It's gonna be fest of whatever. Hopefully we're back to normalcy, you know, not wearing masks and full press box and all that kind of stuff. But you're not gonna sit there and

be like, well this doesn't matter, good win. But it doesn't matter. Once once I started, I wouldn't be here this long. If I'm ready to retire, you know, I'm gonna do something else. We wouldn't. We wouldn't do it for this long. So it sucks. But I mean when the draft show stop so many I'm ready. I mean, I got so many emails guard centers. Let's go this morning of people complaining about how many years since though,

what is it? Eighty? For years and years and we're in twenty twenty two now and they're still writing emails, they're still in it, and I'm like, damn, y'all want to speak. I mean, I do it every year. I'll do it again. It being a fan, you don't choose it. It chooses you. It chooses you. You you want you. They're like, I don't want to be cows. I'm done, b f s, you will be there again, all right. I'll just say I'll go, I'll go with the bull and that's it. BFS, you will be here again because

the cowboy fandom, it chooses you. Cowboy. You don't want to do it. It It pisses you off. You're done. You're gonna throw it away. You'll be dusting it off in a little bit, and that's who you are, and embrace it. It sucks right now. But man, the real ones, they've been through worse than this. True. True. I hate when someone says I've been a fancy nineteen seventy four or whatever,

and I'm done. I'm like, nineteen eighty nine. Where were you, you were here, you could have dusted this thing off a long time if you've been a fan since nineteen seventy four. Yeah, like the eighties were way worse than anything we're dealing, right, So you know it sucks, and you have a right too. You have right to be pissed off. You should be. But yeah, stay with us because we're gonna we're gonna do it again. Yeah, we're gonna get on the horse and we're gonna do it again.

And that's that's what we do. We're gonna find some damn offensive arm that's your job, Dave, go find us some offensive lineman. You brought us to Kavanaugh Kyle. All right, we appreciate you, guys, john us. We'll be back tomorrow. Till then for Nick even Dave elm and Ambergarcia. I am Derek Yelton. 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.