Talkin' Cowboys: Blame Game

Super Bowl favorite into overtime. Somehow, the most significant loss of the weekend belonged to the Dallas Cowboys forty to thirty four in overtime against the Jacksonville Jaguars. And we are here to break it down on Talking Cowboys, presented by Black Rifle Coffee Company from the SWBC studios at the Star in Frisco. Cowboys Nation not very happy with what happened on Sunday afternoon in Florida, but we are here to talk it through with you here over the

next forty five minutes. Patrick Nose Walker, Isaiah Standback, Kyle Yeoman's. Glad you're with us, gentlemen. How are we doing. We're doing. We're doing right. We're doing keep Monday. It is keeping real Monday Monday. It's easier to do that whenever you have a game like this, leading by seventeen points, three scores, and you lose to a lesser team, or at least a team that on paper is lesser because yesterday they weren't. Okay, they were on top, he said all week. Yeah, a

whole week, it's gonna be. This Jaguoys team was not one to fool the round. We said that, Yes, the Cowboys. As we sit here and have this conversation, the Cowboys are still the better team. But we said, yeah, wars, not the Texans. They're not the Coats. They have horses on offense. They can put up points. You make the mistakes and give them out of possessions, they will take

advantage of it. So forth and so on. As now as we sit here, we're talking about the defense in the Cowboys that just allowed over five hundred yards of offense thirty four points. I mean they had forty, but you know that was the walk off pick six, So that was a defensive touchdown that got them to the forty burger. But thirty four points allowed by this Cowboys off defense. Again, Trevor Lawrence, what we talk about, Isaiah cow once you get home, because you will get home

once you get home. Bring him down, finish him. I said that he would escape a few. He'd escaped a few. To my counter, it was three sacks that he escaped. There you go. The Cowboys could have had more than one sack. They did get me my fumble when I said it with my chests. They got me my interception when I said it with my chest. But they lost the turnover margin and they should not have. Dak Prescott throws that interception. Hit the first one can't happen. He

knows it. It can't happen. Take the sack, go down whatever, Live to fight another day. But lobbing that, I mean the target with Sholton, he just flew right over his head into the defensive backs hands. Mistakes like that, self inflicted, self inflicted? Self inflicted isam listen man. Again. The game plan was executed. The Dallas Cowboys game plan offensively was executed. The thirty four we talked about Sydy scored thirty four. They did it. We talked about Dallas cheap in Dak

Prescott to thirty or under throws. He had thirty throws when he has seventy in completions. The bad part is two of those seven incompletions actually were completions to the other team. That's what hurts you defensively. We talked about the absence of Jonathan Hankins and who can do what he does. Nobody does what he does almost another two hundred yards on the ground for our team. You also lost. You lost l that. We're wondering what the value was. Yeah,

you saw it. So we talked about that and the potential of that compromising you. We also talked about the absence now of a Jordan Lewis and Anthony Brown and what does that present. Now you're forcing young players into positions and roles that they haven't been in, and we also said, hey, this might be a great time to do it. However, this team has more personnel and they're better. We said this earlier in the week. They're better at receiver than we are at dB right now, and you

saw that on display. So if you guys haven't been listening to Talking Cowboys, y'all probably should you too ahead and put that as a reminder. Yeah, go ahead and put it as a little ring the bell, Ring the bell on YouTube and make sure that you guys get it, put it on Twitter, because we previewed this now. We all chose Dallas because we feel like Dallas should have won this game. But we also told you that they were not in a position to turn the ball over

like they did before. And unfortunately, back to back weeks now against these AFC South teams DAK, the Dallas Cowboys have turned the ball over on their side of the ball, on our side of the field in a very very important portion of the game. Unlike the Texans they were they capitalize on it. Versus Texans went the wrong direction on the handoff, the dog on Jaguars came back and scored a touchdown. Yeah, I can't afford to do it. We said it, it happened, less and learn you're still

in the playoffs. Yeah, yeah, Cowboys do make the playoffs. I don't think anybody really wants to talk about that one at all. What was that we got to though? I mean you got to talk about both sides of the coin because as yea and a week like this, Yeah, because because again, even if you would feeling get the same spot. I get the feelings of it. But yeah, but you you you were trying to make the playoffs regardless with ten wins, and you were already on your way.

I hear you, but I still you accomplished the feet of getting in to the second season, which is, you know what, everybody, you're in the tournament. You're in the tournament. Make it happen. You I'm not I'm not excited about what's coming in the tournament. You know, last night, that's a different conversation. Now last night I said different. Ready, they're not ready. But guess what these are hard lessons. These are hard lessons, and what you're finding out about

your team is that you're inconsistent. So now as coach McCarthy, as a resident coach coaching staff, you have to figure out, how can I make this team consistent. Whether it's whether it's overconfidence, whether it's it's reading the dog on cliff notes, whether it's you're feeling yourself a little bit too much. Maybe you're not watching enough film, Maybe you're not thinking about your assignment enough right and playing your position instead of trying to do too much. Maybe I don't know.

Whatever it is, you have to put your finger on it and figure it out, because it doesn't get easier. You're about to face another freaking, ridiculously tough team in the Philadelphia Eagles. We know what that's about. Okay, all right, biggest game of the year to date. And then you gotta go out there and face at Tennessee Titans, which we know they boys are bloody your nose. Okay, you're

gonna get beat up and they've been beat up later. Yeah, yeah, you're desperate, you're gonna be Yeah, they have to win, so you're gonna you're gonna get everything that they have. And then you're gonna play a play against washing the Commanders that will have a Chase Young. So get your mind right going into the playoffs because you're gonna get punched into the dog our mouth over these next three weeks.

Bottom line is two things are true. One, congratulations to the Cowboys for making the playoffs for a second consecutive year. Those ten wins matter, They matter, they matter, they matter, especially being that four of them occurred with the backup quarterback. This is a team that should have this season could have been over effective, you know, early October. Okay, so that's why I'm saying, clinching yesterday, regardless of how it happened,

it matters. Yeah, But what also matters and is also true, is that the matter in which they clinched is not how it should have happened. If you're concerned about this particular team you saw yesterday going into the playoffs, you're rightful in doing so, and that warrants a discussion that should be had. So all of that is true, is what I'm saying. I'm sure. Yeah, it's not a situation where okay, well yesterday sucked and yesterday did suck. Listen

fellas true story. This morning, as I'm getting dressed, getting ready to head out the door, I stepped on a nail. Barefoot. Oh no, home alone, Yes, barefoot. It took twenty minutes for me to stop the bleeding, only for me to then see that there was blood on my carpet, on my bathroom floor, white dress shirts that were sitting over there, et cetera, et cetera, and that made me less angry then watching the Cowboys losing seventeen point lead in Jacksonville. Yar.

So yeah, So I say that to say I get it. Ladies in general, patricks liked, well, get after them because they shouldn't have lost this game. But again, this has to be another another lesson learned in that for me, I thought about this on the on the plane ride home. I thought about it on my drive to my front door. More and more. The only team, especially when you see the Texans have the halftime lead against the Chiefs and Eagles struggling with the Bears, the only team that can

beat this Cowboys team is this Cowboys team. And that's frustrating, infuriating even However, just get in, clean this up and let's see what happens. But big game of the season moving up in five days from this conversation, Yeah, coming up on Saturday. It's a little less big because now your your chances for an NFC title hope is pretty

much diminished. However, you can avoid the Eagles wrapping up the NFC title championship on your home turf because if the Eagles win, they win, they win the division on Saturday, and they will absolutely celebrate it on your playoff football. This one right here, this is your preview to playoff football. If if you're worried, if you're if you're questioning, or

if you never experienced playoff football before. What you're about to experience this Saturday will be playoff football atmosphere, the environment, the intensity, the emphasis on each individual play, and how the importance of it. You were going to feel this, I don't care. What's at stake, the dog on Pride's at stake. And then Dallas Cowboys versus Philadelphia Eagles will be the biggest game of the year, not only for Dallas, not only for Philly, but also in the NFL. It

is about to go down like two flat tires. And they better get their mind right and they better plug these dog on holes. They better figure out what they're gonna do a linebacker. They better figure out a big boy that they just brought in could play, could replace Jonathan Hankins. They better figure out how to stop that dog on bleeding at the run. Michael Parsons and this defensive line, this front seven better figure out how to get home and get pressure on somebody when they're sitting

up there running RPO at you all day long. We talked about Philadelphia showing the blueprint for that earlier in the season when they beat Dallas. Okay, and they wouldn't have it, and they stopped his feet in saying he was in quick saying because he didn't know where direction to go. The missdirection was all over the plays, the RPO was all over the place. There was no pass rush. Lovey Smith watched that film. What did he do last week? He figured out a way to incorporate that into what

they were doing. Had people running all over the dog on field. What happened to the defensive pressure? Slim to Nune Right, he didn't get any sacks last week. Now, all of a sudden, you have a Doug Peterson who comes in. He does the same exact freaking thing. Guys running all over the place. Right, You get a little bit of pressure on Trevor Lawrence, but you don't bring him down like we talked about. He's a big fellok. You gotta bring this dude down. And what does he do?

Go out there, he has time to deliver the ball. He freaking torches you Tostino style. Okay, he finds your weak spots in your hole and he took advantage of it. The blueprint was set. Now all of a sudden, you know what the blueprint is. You know where your weaknesses are. Are you going to address those or not because if you don't dog on Philadelphi, Ego's gonna come and swoop

and pick you about the dog on water. And that's part of what's frustrating about this game specifically, is that it felt like a carryover from Houston, except the opposite. Houston was a slow start. It was Houston, it was Houston, but this was a slow finish. This exactly what it was, start and a slow finish. We weren't surprised by the result of the score and how the game played out. I think what we were surprised about is that Dallas

didn't finish. They had a chance to finish on multiple occasions. I mean I wrote it down, by the way, I wrote four notes or four pages of notes on this game compared to the normal two that I do on film study. And it's not double space. It's all single I mean, I don't even take space. Show everybody right here. That's that's two of the four pages I took on this game. You can even look at it, screenshot at look at my notes. I don't care. You're gonna write my book, So I don't know if I can write

a book. I will. I do want to write a book. One day uh. Here's the summary of what I put. Misdirection and complex play calling led to the defense guessing and confusion upfront. Boom. There was a ton of misdirection. They did a lot in the first half and they led to open holes. In the second half, they took advantage and also on the defense in the back half of the game. Plenty of chances late to to to

ice the game, but came up short. Talk about j Ron Curse pulling Evan Ingram to the ground and bounce clock runs. You have to use your final time out. You don't have the full field at that point, with eleven seconds left, you got to take a shot at the end zone because if you get it complete in the middle of the field or maybe to the sideline, you gotta hurry up and get a field goal unit

out there for Jacksonville. Makes things exponentially tougher. Talk about a near sack in the middle of the game as well, Armstrong had his hands around Trevor Lawrence dumped it off to us his tailback. That would have been huge for clock management, absolutely huge. And then of course the offense trying to just get a first down instead of running three vertical routes on a third down and ten mccock fifteen twenty yards down the field for everybody stopping the clock,

and then there's a time out left over. There's so many ways they could have closed this game, but they didn't. They did so against Houston. They found a way against Houston. Today they found a way to lose it. Or it's Sunday. They found a way to lose it against Jacksonville. I said it last week, Houston lost the game. Now, sure, I don't believe Dallas won last week. I think that I don't disagree with I think any other team would have beat Dallas last week because, yeah, Dak do a

pick againside of ten. They got the ball inside the five, the quarterback went the wrong direction on a handoff, which, okay, that would have put him up by ten. The game would have been out of hand any other team. So this is really in my eyes, this is back to back losses. I don't care what the record says. I don't go where people have to say about it. And that kind of adds to what I was talking about.

That's where the frustration comes from. Because you were talking about the wake up calling, the lessons and these are hard lessons to be learned. I completely agree with you. We thought they learned it against Houston and they didn't green Bay go back. Yeah, we thought they learned it from in Green Bay and then that Houston served as a reminder. Great not not the case so much. And again to your point, this game played out for the most part how we saw it would. We knew Jacksonville

head horses. We knew that this was going to be a close game. I know. My prediction was thirty four twenty seven, thirty four thirty for me, and thirty five thirty one. It was all right there and then here here, here they are thirty four thirty one, and I say to myself, I said, okay, self, I think this is where the Cowboys. This is where the Cowboys closed this game. Out's where it's done. This is where it's done. And Trevor escapes the sell so, I said self. Trevor escapes,

the sack rolls out to the left. My heart drops. I'm like, oh crap. And then jay Rod Kurr steps up forces the fumble, fumble is recovered. Here it was done. And then I said to myself self, I told you this is where it ends. And then the next offensive sequence happened, which includes the third and ten that we're talking about, the deep run. Talk about the lack of talk about the lack of four minute offense. Okay, the

lack of four minute offense. First first play after the fumble was the same play that they ran earlier in the game that didn't work. It was where they pulled Zack Martin. They pulled Tyrant Smith to the left and I expected Ezekiel Elliott to outrace ninety one coming off the edge. Guess what didn't happen. Zeke didn't get to the edge because it got muddied up in front of him, and ninety one caught him from behind, tackle for loss. Second play, hinder shot misses a block on the edge

that would have gotten Pollard to the outside. He just whipped on him. It was a tackle or I think Pollard cut up field. He got a couple yards out of it and made it interesting. No, uh, straight vertical Jake Ferguson was missed yesterday too, by the way, straight vertical. On third play following the humble, nothing underneath playing to the sticks and I legitimately put really question mark nothing to the sticks on a third down and seven to try and get a first down and keep keep the

clock moving. Was a sequence said he was going for the kill shot, which is fine, let's do it eleven yards down the field, not thirty one. I'm just telling Beamer what happens when you go for the kill shot and call the dudio shot. You better hit you better hit it, You better hit it, or or what happens Beamer? The rest of the squad comes over and wipes you. You better make it. And I saw a clipped the other day on inches Gram somebody said, we just faced

still team six. I call it now. I don't want to get off the Sundays, so I just made me think about it. But it was ultimately after the defense. And again I can't get over the thought that this is a team that beats itself. There's I haven't seen a team in the league if the Cowboys are running on all cylinders that can beat that version of the Cowboys. But the version that we see in these losses or these very close wins, are versions of the Cowboys that

find ways to lose or almost lose the game. And that's what they have to figure out. Consistency. Consistency consistency going into the playoffs, in more specifically this game coming up before you go into the playoffs. But it was the defense. You gotta figure out what's going on opposite Trevon Diggson. Outside of Duran Bland. You saw Kelvin Joseph give up the big, big play to Zay Jones and then get put in the blender by Marvin Jones. Touchdown.

All right, you have the double move, stole some ankles. Okay, Eventually it was Nashan right that winning the game. But you claimed Trayvon Mullen last week, McKinsey, Alexander the week before. Kendall Sheffield is on the practice squad this week. You're gonna have to it's an open competition, and it's open competition. Understand that you wanted Kelvin Joseph to be the front runner of that position to replace Anthony Brown because former second round pick. I get it, I get it, I

get it. But no, from a GM standpoint, I get it. You want to give the kid the shot, Nope, I'm fine with But they gave him the shot and then they ripped it away from him. Right Na Sean Wright was was the corner at the end of the game, they took Joseph out of the game, no disrespect to any player on his team. Okay, this is an all

opinion basis is my opinion. I sat here with y'all. Okay, all right, No, see wasn't here yet, but it sounds like you're referencing, you know, this is this this all season, right, okay? And I said, when Nick Kelvin Joseph's situation presented itself, that was Dallas's opportunity to walk away, because it was it was he is not a contributor on the defensive side of the ball, and you drafted him to be

drafted him to be a starter second round pick. So again, yeah, they're continually giving chances to somebody who at this point in time in their career is not capable of making contributions. And I agree with that. And I don't want anyone listening or watching this after the live or after the fact to think that NOC is saying it is defending. I'm not. I'm saying he has ability. I'm also saying he hasn't shown the ability. And I'm also saying I had my pre draft question marks on if he would

be with the Cowboys wanted him to be. It's not working out that way. It's not working out in their favorite It's unfortunately working out the way I thought it would. But I'm saying I understand why they gave him the front, the front running position for this. Now. What I saw in them putting Nashun right in after those two touchdowns is that Mike McCarthy and Dan quinn basically said, Okay,

saw it, saw enough of it. We're done here. Open competition, and that's what I'm interested to see this week going into the Eagles game. But defense, Kelvin Joseph in the secondary, not Treyvon Diggs, not Deron Blad, but some of the other guys. The run defense, you lose LV. And we have pounded the table weekly on this program and said the value of Lve this season is insane. He's playing out of his mind. That also goes to helping show

up the run defense. LV goes down with the Nick injury, doesn't return in Travis atn He his speed became such a problem for Anthony Barr, it became a problem. Damon Clark is ramping up quickly, but he can't do it all. He needs that complimentary guy, right now and Barr couldn't handle the speed of at N whereas LV could but no LV, no LV, so forth and so on. The defense gave up the cheeks on several plays, but then

they locked it down. But then they locked it down, and then it was the offense that in the end couldn't get it done. They the lack of a four minute offense in the regulating in a regulation and then in overtime, and then in overtime the throw to Noah Brown, which that interception was not on deck the way I said earlier he put it. I don't think it was a great play call. I think it was again put it right where he needed to lowing away. Receiver has to come up with that ball and worst case not

tipping into the air and make it interceptible. Just real quick prayers up for vander Ish. I'm not sure what the report is hoping on him, but I can imagine his mindset right now as we're talking about mental health. I can only imagine the frustration and the stress that he has on himself right now, not even from external but just from himself. Being that you previously had a neck injury that could have put you out of your career,

but it ended your career. And now all of a sudden you're put out of a game because of a neck injury. Don't know if they're related, don't know at all, But the neck is not that dug. I'm big, okay. I pray that he's okay, because anything from the shoulders up, you gotta be concerned about somebody's career. Yep, not a game, a career. His neck is pretty big. But if saying yeah,

but that's the thing though about Lvee. This is a guy who came back last year, just needed to be healthy in a contract year, just wanted to be healthy, be on the field, contribute. He did that. He stayed healthy all the way through all seventeen games into the playoffs and he was healthy. Came back this year, bet on himself again. Yep, one year deal, Yah did bet

on himself, did not pick up the fifth option. He signed a one year deal for cheaper money than he probably could have gotten elsewhere, to bet on himself to try and stick around and be a top notch linebacker. Guess what his play spoke for itself. He played exceptionally well all the way through this season. Like you said, we're big LV stands on this show. But we're also critics in the past when he hasn't played well. I know you and I have gotten onto LV in the past.

This year, you can't do that because he played. He was one of the best players on that line, on that second line, on that defense. Give him a chance, no doubt. I gave him a chance. The reason why he hadn't been him and Jalen in the past is because they didn't have guys up front. Nope. Right now, that's the strength of your team, yeah, your team. He was over one hundred. That's your side of the ball, your team. Yeah, right, So now that he has guys in front, and we talked about if you put guys

in front of linebackers that can play. Now linebackers can play. Yeah, and that's exactly what he was doing this year. So prayers up to him. I hope that the that the diagnosis for hoping the best for Vent deserves to be healthy and successful. And when you hear Nick on VEE, obviously you're gonna, you know, go to worst case scenario mentally. But we'll have more on him in the next day. So, yeah, we'll check up on him, and they keep asking what

Jabril Cox is here? He comes. Yeah, if Lvie can't go, he'll be there. You're about to see him. Yep. We'll see how that works out as well, because it was it was rough at the second level. It was rough on the defensive side of the football as well. We'll talk about it when we come back with more talking cowboys. When you build, you start with the foundation, and home ownership is a foundation of a stable future. The Bank of America Community Homeownership Commitment has helped over thirty four

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to thirty nine loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars. I want to talk defense here in this segment, then we'll hit the offense. I said this yesterday on the postgame show, just how you have complete team wins in football? And the Cowboys have had a couple this year, complete team wins. Minnesota is one of them that really sticks out. I thought Detroit, the way that they rebounded together was one of those games. Yeah, this was a complete team loss.

All three phases weren't great in this football game. They really weren't. It was a complete team loss. But I went back and looked at it, and I went into it knowing I wanted to try and point the finger at least at one side or the other, and I expected to point the finger at the offense. I'm not gonna going into the film study. I think this was more on the defense, the way that they played. There were holes in the entire first half though that the

seven points on the board. There wasn't a whole lot going on there, But you go back and you look at it, there were holes. Jacksonville came back after halftime, Doug Peterson, and credit to the Jags. They made the right adjustments to take advantage of those holes in the second half, and they got there and they put it home. So I agree with you, Kyle. I think this one was more on dan Quinn and a defense. There were some bad scheme decisions. There was some horrible execution from

the defensive line, from the linebackers, from the dbs. It was a across the board poor performance from the defense. What do we say on this show talking Cowboys? Geez, we drop a lot of gyms. What do we say when the defense has a bad game. Have we had that conversation, can the offense pick them up? Yeah, which we said, the defense is entitled based up on how the defenses played this year, they're gonna have a title

to having a bad gage. Now, we don't expect that aim to be against the doglar of Jacksonville Jaguars, but we knew what they were capable of who we did, and we knew who was calling their plays. Right, we know exactly who was calling their plays. A freaking mastermind. Okay, he's been really good for a long time. He just because you go to Jacksonvill doesn't mean that you suck all of a sudden duck. Peterson's a heck of a coach, okay, and he has a heck of a quarterback. They're gonna

win games there. They're gonna win games. They're gonna start figuring that out. So we said, if the defense has a bad game, can this team win? Dallas win twenty three? For thirty unpassing, Dallas had one one hundred and forty yards rushing. If one yards rushing, okay, scored or scored thirty plus points wasn't enough that it wasn't because the defense didn't have a good game. And we've talked about this many times before it takes what are we saying a pregame show? What was my key to the game?

No turnovers? Zero two rovers. There's no margin for turnovers when you play teams that can score points. This the blueprint is out. People. I'm sorry. I love dan Quinn. Nobody loves dan Quinn here more than me. Love me some DQ now, dude, he's he's been on the dan Quinn bandwagon. Love Q here more than from jump from the Seattle Day defense. Well, it's hard enough not on where are this defense? Where this strong? Where this defense as strong as in pass rush? Ye? Philadelphia opened that door.

They showed you how to slow down this pass rush correction. Smith firmed it, okay, Green Bay showed you how to take the air out the ball. So the weak spots in his defense have been pointed out. When you play a team that has the personnel at receiver that can toastito you, because now two of your three starters are gone. I don't care what team you are. If you lose

two of your three dbs, you're gonna be hurting. You're gonna be relying on guys that you were hoping that you never had to rely on every team that we faced. There are gonna be in the playoffs. Now we can talk about playoffs and I know we hit two, have three more games. Okay, you can talk about but this this this next game, they have three receivers that can that can run routes. What do we talk about in this past week they had three receivers that can run routes. Yeah,

you had to worry about the tight end. They did a pretty dugun and they're out there running them. So where Dallas is weak, these other teams are strong. And now the defense is not going to be what it has been all year long because we said by the end of the year team offensive coordinators are very smart.

They're gonna start figuring out where your weakness is, and at some point in time during the season, somebody's gonna highlight your weakness and then those oldcs are gonna see that, remember it circular with a red dot on the screen, and then starts saying, how can we pick that apart? Teams are starting to do that. So now it goes from seventy thirty from defense being being the leaders of this team and really carrying this team like a jazz

board to now guess what now is more fifty fifty? Yeah, so now when your defense gives up five hundred and now your offense has to put up four hundred and not turn the ball off and not turn the ball off. That's what I was going to go to and not turn the ball over. It was a complimentary failure by this Cowboys team yesterday. And it wasn't a good relationship.

It wasn't codependency tends to lead to failure, right. It was a situation where you got a Cowboys team that gets off to a fourteen oh lead and then a seventeen point lead at one point in the game, ultimately scores thirty four points and you're saying to yourself, and we said it, thirty four points should have been enough to win this game. Now, that was right there with our prediction. Thirty four point should have won the game.

But thirty four points were allowed by the defense. So now you look back at the offense and say, okay, well the defense is having a bad game. Thirty four thirty four tie. I don't know. Okay, we need you offense, make one more play, one more play, And that one more play never came but what did come was one more turnover, and that was the ball game. That was the ball game no Terrell Now offense had. On the days where the defense has a bad day, offense has

to be immaculate. Can't make a single mistake because one especially against a team that has horses. Be at the Jaguars, the Philadelphia Eagles, the Chiefs, maybe down the road, the Buffalo Bills, maybe down the road. You cannot have a bad defensive day and make offensive mistakes. That's that's the end of that game. You just name two AFC teams down the road. I don't know if I can get that far yet. Oh, I was thinking the same thing. I will say Philadelphia, they've got the horses, as they do.

Washington's got some guys out the outside too. Tennessee not so much. We've seen stranger things happen once you get in the dance they have. They now have three games. They now have three games to figure it out. I get what you're saying. If you talk to me about this last week, I'm I'm fully on board. Anything can happen. Let's get into it. I'm not there today. I can't get there when he's in six weeks fast forward, six weeks.

Fast forward. All I'm saying because now that the playoff is clinched and a fashion in which it was, they probably lost out on a chance to chase down the Eagles for the number one seed in the division and the conference. Now the game plan for me, and we'll talk about it over the course of the week, has to start slowly turning to managing and learning for the playoffs. So you've got a huge test coming up here in Philadelphia. Go all out, take that win. You're gonna get up

for that game regardless. But in doing so, thereafter you got the Titans, you got the Commanders. You need to start taking these lessons that you've been presented with, learning, polishing, and then anything can happen once you're in the dance. That's all I'm saying. You're gonna learn a lot about your team this week. The oh, you better believe that you're gonna learn a whole heck of a lot better. Philadelphia is stronger, you're weak in terms of receivers. They're

built that way. They built their team to beat you. Yeah, okay, so they so they built their defensive line to stop your running game because they know that everything comes off of your running game. They have more receivers than you have dbs. They run rpo, which literally stops your pass rush. Okay, they're not turning the ball over and they had a couple of tournaments past why they don't turn the ball over typically when they're able to establish their running game. Okay,

So these guys are strong where you're weak. And guess what they're getting healthy, you're getting hurt. Yep. So you're gonna find out a lot about who you are this week. If you had any question about it, here it is it just it just it all goes back to just

really quickly. It all goes back to when you're you're talking about the Eagles, who struggled against teams like the Coats and you know, struggled against the Bears on yesterday, and you look at teams like the Chiefs who were down against the Texans at halftime, should have lost text, right, I agree? What my point My point is, I just I know that the Eagles are good, and I've said that readily. The Eagles are really freaking good. But are they unbeatable? No? And that's the thing. No team in

the league has shown me that they're unbeatable. They're not giving Sunday, and that goes for the Cowboys as well. The Cowboys can come out and drop forty, go forty to three against Minnesota, who had the biggest comeback in NFL history here last weekend. This past weekend, you can go in Minnesota just absolutely ransacked them forty to three, but then turn around the struggle against the Texans, then turn around and lose forty to thirty four against the

Jacksonville Jaguars in Jacksonville. And again those are two different teams, the Texans and jagu Woars. Jaguars have horses, but nonetheless, my whole point being, we still don't know from any team, any playoff bound team, who they actually are unless they're the Bills and in the Chiefs we know who those teams are. Sure everyone else, including the Cowboys, we're still trying to figure this. Here's here's my and I don't know if I agree completely either, because I think you

make it fun. You know, you know what Philly is. They're one lost team right now exactly who they are, that's exactly who they are. Who cares what happens between now and then? They're going to be the number one seed in the NFCED. It's going to happen. I see what you're saying. Other than that, it's wide open. You don't have to go through the Aaron Rodgers and possibly not a prime Tom Brady. You might have to go through a different Tom Brady. I take them. You guys

know me. I don't make emotional statements. What I just stated about Philadelphi where they're strong word Dallas is week. Those are facts. It is absolute facts, okay, and put it in call of duty terms for Chris beam in a back. Okay, those guys are fully healthy. We need a midpack a still, so they gotta figured it out. You need You needed that bye week, That's what you needed.

That's what hurts this one for me the most is the fact that now you look ahead, you needed that week because just like what you're saying, you're not healthy right now. You missed a ton of guys yesterday, and I put out a tweet lv E Terrence Steele, Anthony Brown, Jonathan Hankins, Jake Ferguson, Jordan Lewis. You missed those guys yesterday. Those are all guys that make significant impacts. And yes, your guys came in and you had some guys replace them.

Tyrants back and healthy. Great, that's fun. He had his struggles yesterday too. Comes to lost Durrance for a spill yesterday. Luckily he came back before he returned. Yeah, Tyrn Smith this night, you are banged up. You needed that bye week, and now the chance for that bye week is all but gone barring a massive collapse from the Eagles and a valiant effort for the final three. You don't expect it, No, not at all. I just don't know who any of

these playoff bound teams are. Outside of the Bills and the Chiefs, we know who they are. The Eagles, you know who they are. What I'm saying is they haven't shown you what they did in the playoffs yet, but you know who they are. Yeah, all right, let's take our second break this dance man. When we come back on Saturday. When we come back, let's talk about the offensive side of the football. Went went wrong? There? Where

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gonna limit it to forty five seconds. Beamer, Okay tomorrow because I'm gonna try and get as many people in here as possible. And I don't want to rants. I don't want people to come in here and rant because we need to get in and get out and talk about the topic that you want to talk about here on the show. So tomorrow we're taking your calls. But before we do that, Isaiah Stanbackpatrick Nosi Walker, Chris Beam, I'm Kyle Yeoman's let's take a look at the offense. Patrick,

you were in the building. What do you think about how the offensive line performed in front of Dak Prescott. You know what, and you know that a player of the caliber of Tyron Smith has the ability, But for the most part, he played well on the right side for the most part, especially over the course of the first half. I think what started to kind of go a ride there was when they started to do a

little bit too much mixing and matching. As far as it was, first it was Tyron Smith for multiple drives, and then Jason Peters would come in for a drive, and then Tyron Smith was in for a drive. But then you'd see Tyron Smith in on this play, and then Peters in on the next play, and Tyron Beck

in on the next play. When that swap became so lack of a better way to put it so close together, that's when the chemistry on that right side kind of got disrupted a bit, and that's when the pressure started to get to Dak Prescott. That's why he saw more pressure was in the second half. Then you saw him

the first half. But before that point, the offense they were rolling fourteen oh seventeen point league, you know, So I had no problem with the offensive line in the first half, but it was when they tried to because you still got to ramp up t Smith with seventy seven and Peters you know, he can't go one hundred percent of the snaps. But for me, it was the decision on when to pull one for the other. You can't get a rhythm if the next guy is always

coming in the next place. So that's what went wrong in the second half. I want Tyron at the left tackle. You want him back out there. I still want him at the left tackle with him, My mindset has not changed. Who's it right, Peters? Okay? I thought Peters. I think, yeah, you're playing for musical chairs. But they to this point, they know that Jason Peters is not going to be able to go one hundred percent. He just came on why he can't physically? Physically he can't? Why because he can't?

What do you want me to say? Ask Brick Brown? Were the we're the ones on this side of the things. We're just saying, we're taco. We're hearing at this stage, don't ask you got his Well, guess what if he can't? Didn't put Tyler. Tyler had that conversation. Yeah, if they're saying that he cannot going to happen if he cannot play a whole game, didn't put Tyler. I agree, But I'm telling you hard line, that's not going to happen

because the Cowboys, you Tyler Smith has exclusively left. So many holding calls to Tyler Tyler Smith have yesterday, he didn't have any hold. He gave up two sacks. That's what I mean. That's what I mean. That's what I meant to say. Sorry, I'm about to say he didn't have a hole. Like what game were we watching? He gave up two sections? Say right, yeah, yeah, he gave up to Peters, gave up one yeah, and almost gave

up another. And there were multiple pressures from Peters or more point pressures from Smith to your point three tackles and rolling to the dice and who was gonna be at right tackle? Yeah, you can't play offensive lineman, don't sub out? So okay, what if do you just keep tiring there the whole time? Because Mike Carthy said it yesterday, I think that's what it's going. I think that's where

it's going. Why you can't you can McCarthy said it perfectly, But it basically is it reiterating what we've been saying here in the return of to Ron Smith. The right tackle, left tackle doesn't matter. We all agree that you have to ramp him up. He's making his twenty twenty debut in mid December. You're not going to put him out the one hundred percent of the snaps, regardless of what ed you put him more, that's a fact. It just

saw him over that put him on the field. He was the only one that can do anything yesterday get him on the field. And that might now be the case against the Philadelphia Eagles because Toron Smith outplayed Jason Peters as far as snap count, I think Toron Smith had a seventy plus percent from I can give it to you at seventy plus percent and Jason Peters was

around twenty twenty five percent. So Toron played the majority, which leads me to believe that the rampant process was quick and is now over and that he'll probably see one hundred percent of the snaps at right tackle against the Philadelphia Eagles. So the issue that I had, which was the musical chairs at right tackle in the second half that led to a lot of pressures because of the disruption in chemistry, hopefully won't be an issue against

the Philadelphia Eagles. And better not be because they have horses up front. It better not be right, It better not be because they have horses up front. I got the game, but right here at Kyle got snaps. I got snaps. So Jason Peters had twenty one offensive snaps, which is twenty eight percent of the offense yesterday. And Tyler Smith that's the young young guy, fifty four fifty four. So he doubled up. He doubled him. So he doubled him. So that that's a ramp up. But it's a fairly

quick ramp up. That hint said seven seven, Why are you looking like that? Isaiah? What are you doing? Or close to it? You have one of the most dominant left tackles ever played this football game. I don't disagree with you. I'm just telling you what's going to have asked him to change his position when fully healthy. I don't think it's his fault though. I don't think it's a who's fault. I think it's a lack of he's healthy, a lack of right now. Do you disagree that he

was out there healthy right now? Why would he play anything to what he's always played because you're missing Terrence Steele. That's the problem. Put the Terrence Steele was out there, it would have been Tyrann and left tackle. No doubt in our mind. That was what the debate was. Where is Where where is Tyler Smith or karnor McGovern gonna go. I understand if they don't have any options at right tackle? Did you did you say you guys just a younger guy.

Did you disapprove of Tron's play in the first half? I don't. He was listening. He's a He's one of the best guys to ever play the game. He can do it there, just like Zach Martin could play right tackle too. He did what happened, got heard out of his position, well, out of his position. Go back and find the receipts from him. But I'm saying he's out of his position right, Yes, So when you're out of your position and all of a sudden you're using different

muscle groups, you're more prone to injury. What are we trying to prevent him from having injury? Come on, man like, like you know what I'm saying. I get. Unless it's a mental no, you don't want Tyler Smith to have

to learn another position that's third. That would be the only thing that will remotely even saying oh it's going to if it's if it's anything else outside of that, I can't, for the life of me understand why are you taking one of the most dominant guys that ever play the position and say you're fully healthy, go play somewhere else. Answered your own question though, if Tyler said if there's anything remotely outside of that, but there is

nothing remotely outside of that. The hard line stance in the building is that they do not want Tyler Smith on the right side of center trying to learn a third position in less than six months, six six plus months. That's the reason. So there is no if there is any no, that's it. And because that, because of that, that puts them in dire straits at right tackle, and they only have Jason Peters or to Ron Smith unless you would like to see more Josh ball soul were

no different than when Jason Peters first got here. Who was he turning into and asking questions too? Before he got to the line of scrimmage. Jason Peters was walking up to the line of scrimmage. When he was unsure, he turned to his left and talk to who Zack Zack Martin? How is that any different, Tyler Smith? How was it? How would be any different? That's a question

for you. It's not any different. So you're saying, you're saying, take Tyler off the field and put Peters out there for a full one d percent of the snaps moving forward at right tackle. That's what you would do. Unless what they're saying, he can if he cannot physically do it. If that's that's the question. If Jason Peters cannot, can't, not probable can't play right tackle for an entire game, then get him off the field. Peters wasn't great on

right tackle. I hear you, But guess what, you can't be great at the officive line when you're getting cycled in unless unless, and I'll say this again unless, because you just said, especially in the first half when Toronto was getting his wheels, he looked really good. If you apply that over the entirety of the offensive outing four quarters of football, if that's what you get, then you just solved your right tackle problem in the in the medium,

right in the intermediar. I'm not saying he can't do it. I just don't like it. I don't like it either. I don't say I don't see however, see however, I see him doing a great however and role. I don't see him being dominant here. He was dominant first, My point being whether we like it or not. Whether we like it or not, The question then becomes, well, if

you don't like it, what would you do? Now your your answer to that is, well you move tilet what I'm telling you, they're not so, Then, knowing that they won't, what what will you do? That's a choice? You weren't out of answer. I hear you, that's a choice. I'm saying that's a choice. But that is their choice. That's their choice. And I'm telling you what. I have my opinion and they have theirs. I know, but what would you do have their opinion? What would you do? Knowing

that that's not an option? Knowing Tyler Smith, it is an option. No, it's not because they're telling you it's a choice. It is an option. Well, you're choosing not to do it. But that's not the hypotheticals. My hypothetical is you have a healthy the healthy guy who's one of the best to ever do it at his position. Put him back in his position. Can you class everything? How are you solving right? It's not healthy? Can you classify him as healthy? One game back from a how

am I right? Tackle? Knowing that they're looking you in the face and telling you we're not putting the rookie over again. That's their choice, right, But then the question is what are you I already doing it right, And they are choosing to put a Hall of Famer who's fully healthy at a position that he that he doesn't even worked until they started cycling him out. That's good. So the answer should be stop cycling him out and hopefully that happens as early as this week. That is

a solution to fill a gap. But guess what flex all doesn't fix all. You're right, but that's all I'm gonna say. I mean, it's better than putting wax paper over. There is no easy answer to this question. There's no easy answer because there's a pro and there's a con to every single one of these options about and it'll just like it will be debated for the cornerback position on the defensive side of the football this week, it'll be debated on the offensive line to just like it

will be all the way through. No one is safe right now, not after this game. Not if you want to get it right going into the playoffs. You are not ready yet as a football team. The Dallas Cowboys are not ready to win playoff football. Their first first benchmark again this week they get a chance to rectify it and at least build some confidence this week, even though it may not affect the long run of where you sit in the playoffs. However, you're not ready right now.

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