Talkin' Cowboys: Breaking Down The Week 11 Loss

ready to break it all down for you guys. Of course, you have to figure out what went wrong. So autopsy this is what you do. Yeah, just run into it. When there's a death, you have to figure out what happened. Yes, pretty pretty? Can you sang a few bars from Mama's in the Papa's Monday Monday? Oh that's that was a good song though, right about everybody Hurts by r M. That's more yeah speed Yeah. When when was that song made? Everybody hurts? No, Mama's in the Papas That had to

be late sixty Yeah, yeah, good song. How cruel are you? Yeah? Exactly? That game was cruel. It was hard to watch in the second half. Of course, the first half they hold him it. You win the first half and it's nine to seven of Mike Nugent just wonder leg for the day. But that was it. That was the only points they scored. What happens when you kick field goals and Nicky will tell you don't kick field goal. I don't know if Well, a couple of touchdowns wouldn't have helped either. It should

have been up seventeen seven and a halftime. Well, let's start at the top arguing exception there, Dak's worst game of his entire career. Is that fair too for the Cowboys career or the Cowboys career? Yeah, first time he's had three interceptions in a game and you can put one of them on the receiver, but two of them on the receiver. Okay, what it was the miscommunication watching them play, I could see after the game what he said.

He's scrambling and he's thinking that he's thinking that that Bryce Butler's going to go outside and it goes out spins. But I mean, it's one of those things where Dak was just trying to get rid of football because of the pressure and him and Bryce. It just wasn't right. But if you throw a ball behind Terrence Williams, you should know better. It's gonna go up in the air every time, especially if it's a contested catch. The one to DAEs, he just forced it double coverage, trying to

make a play. He knows that, he knows it. He called it a bone head, as simple as that, and it was he forced it. M got late pressure in his last but again he's getting he's getting pressure. And I guarantee you that internal clock's ticking a little bit faster after these last two games. Yeah, yeah, about not wanting to fall flat on his face or get hit or get hit faster games. He's been set twelve times. Yeah, and they cut it in half, but still four times.

Like Brian said, he's still under duress. And I think it's evident in some of his throws. Some of his throws especially, and you noted during the game he's on the run and he's missing guys high when he misses flat. To me, that's a sign of he's he's he's pressured. He's not comfortable in the pocket, he's not setting his feet and doing everything that he normally does when he

throws the ball. In the move. He's usually money. Yeah, And that one throw he missed the Beasley on the third and ten would have been a fourth down decision for Garrett. But that's a throw he normally doesn't miss going to his left. Yeah, So that's what you feel when you feel like that, I've gotta move, i gotta go forward, i gotta try. You know, he had the ball flew out of his hand, and you know he

had Beasley open on the sidelines. It was too high, and you know he had too many of those where it was he's had a ball that was short to does Bryant too, hit him, him at his feet and him at his feet? You know he hit set play with Bryant's a nine yard game. That does get a target on that probably does. He does target. I'm the official target giver here. Yeah, I'll tell you what though. And he made a poor decision too on another one. If I could just say, they run a special play

with they throw to the screen. Nothing wrong with the one the screen to Dez Bryant. You know you're getting three yards, you're down there on the in the red zone. They through a screen to Brant. But they have a special call where they bring Beasley into the backfield, and it's the same play they usually run with with Ezekiel Elliot where they run two guys inside and pick and then get him to the flat and then flip the ball.

If he goes to where he needed to go with the ball the design to the play and not run the screen. If he goes with the design, then they're likely gonna they're likely going to score on that play. I mean, it's it's it's a it's one of those things where Beasley's got uh McLeon in a leverage situation. He's in the flat, he's gonna be it's gonna be one on one down the sidelines, and I'll bet on Beasley on that one. But they ransom design things that

that he didn't. He chose to go another direction in and that's again nothing wrong with Dez one on one on the outside, but if you're gonna make that throw, make sure though that's you're gonna get something out of it because you took yourself out of a you took yourself out of a design play that that likely would have scored. They missed Tyron Smith in this game. Again, it wasn't as evident with the sack total. Like like you said, Tay, it was in half. But they had

to give Byron Bell a lot of help. Saw James Hannah chipping a lot. They even tried to, you know, be a little creative there where they'd have Hannah chipping and they'd run to the opposite side and trying to you know, disguise things a little bit. But it really showed up in the second half when they when they got into pass first mode, they were down. Obviously, the sack strip fumble was a was a notable play that Bell gave up. This team can't afford to play behind big,

It can't do it. You know, it has to have balance, It has to be able to have that ability to sustain drives. It helps their play action game. You know, when they don't have that, then they're just a pretty mediocre team on offense, no doubt, actually got the running game going. I was just gonna say, let's get to Alfred Morris. I mean ninety one yards, big deal. It's the most against the Eagles this season, I think, yeah.

But Mickey's argument is what they didn't didn't It didn't mean anything, didn't it didn't get them anywhere, didn't and you know. Sorry, they did have some lucky breaks. I mean you look at that that one where they don't get any points from the interception, and then you know, Alfred Morris has a long twenty two yard run. Just felt like they couldn't. How many touchdowns did they run for? Yeah?

The Cowboys zero? Yeah. So when you want to talk about running yards, I'll take you back to twenty fifteen, when everybody talks about, uh, Darren McFadden rushing for a thousand yards. How many touchdowns did he rushed for? Yeah? Three? Do you think though the balance does hurt them the lack of at times? I think the threat hurts that. No threat in the running game hurts him. They didn't care how many yards the boys ran four it get

it handed off thirty times. It's like, fine, you're not going to run in the end zone against us, but by god, we're not gonna let Dak Prescott beat us. Yeah. I mean how many times did you see zero blitzes? I mean they were coming that one time. I mean free Rushes just threw it up because he knew well the day he had if he could have, if he if he has seen it a little bit quicker, I think he would. He gets the ball to Beasley inside and he's like, I just gotta get it. I gotta

get rid of the ball. And that's when he went to Bryant and Beasley had the inside route if he would have just seen it. But that's tough, you're right, zero blitz, zero coverage, all that. It's tough to you know, tough to know what you need to do there. They just they no running threat hurts you. Yeah, and they were no consistent running yeah, yeah, very true. It's like, okay, you pop with twenty all right, now what are you doing? I mean they had the getting the thirteen third about

how about the third and two? Third and two and they're gonna hand off to rod Smith stuffed and he gets stuffed. Cooper gets backed right into the second drive of the game. You're inside the Philly ten or they got it first and ten of the twelve. Morris gets one yard and then they throw twice and they settled for a field. But you know they ran an option playoff that last week for a first down? Did they that same play? Same play? Yeah? They put Beas in

the backfield. A matter of fact, the Eagles played it pretty well on their back end of it, though it'd been close. I mean it was the one where Daku took the ball, pulled the ball and then went, you know, whether he had the option to pitch it to beas on the edge yep. And but the Eagles played it pretty well. So you say, first and ten at the twelve, Yeah, yeah, I hear that like a week before. Yeah, and when did they get Well, they gave up a seven yard loss on a sack that yeah, last time. This time

they kicked the field goal. Last time the field goal was off the upright, So two times in a row. Now, first and ten at the twelve and they get three points. Yeah, and I think that was the filling. Even after the first half and they're leading by two. Of course, three field goals later, he was still like, Okay, field goals aren't going to cut it against this team. You know, both offensive kind of thought, though, the defensively kind of thought.

Defensively though, they could have hung in there, though, Yeah if they had and given up a seventy one yard run and thirty yard run and an eighteen yard run. How about the passes that kid made though under duress himself. They blitz they blitz him on third down, perfect call by Marinelli to get Damian Wilson in spot and all of a sudden, boom hits out the gate. You know, one of those, and they were right in his face.

David Irving had one time too on a third and third and six or so that he's a step away from I mean literally a half step away from just punishing Wins and Win stows the ball down the middle of the field to H to H the seventeen, you know, some two point conversion he had just shrugging off guys and finding the guy last minute and the ends. I mean, he was very Dac like in that game in terms of his his mobility a second half, the first half, yeah,

he was all sucked. No his number and half he had great half his numbers, his numbers were not great, but but what he did for his team was great. Right if you look at how his ability to make plays with his feet and shrug off guys. Tacklers are around him, hitting him, you know, and he still finds ways to make play and he didn't make a mistake. No, Yeah, but he tried to write before half, right, he tried. He tried to give your ball and Anthony Brown didn't

come up with it. That would have been you know, you could have maybe added points there. Again that to Rob's point, that might not have been enough. And with you take like you knew, field goals eventually weren't going to cut it because at some point the defense was going to give up some plays. Yeah. They had five straight three and outs defensively against Philly in the first half,

which is outstanding. I looked it up. The most they'd had all season was two straight three and outs against Washington against Casey and this may arguably the best offense in the league. And that in those five the Dallas get any points out of any of those stocks, I don't, well, see, I should go back in, but three been a field goal? Is it just one field goal out of five stops?

They got five stops and got one field goal. I think that they're trying to think about field goal at the end of the half because they opened with a Yes, they got one field goal off of it. See, yeah, that's that's losing football. I mean, he had a first half. I think his quarterback reading was like twenty or thirty. So I was just as bad as Dacks. Yeah, yeah,

both of them. Yeah, they're both awful and but he didn't make the mistake and he came back and you know, it looked like he lit him up the second half. I think he ended up completing seven of nine yards seven of nine passes for eighty eight yards. That's some tough that it was the running running They ran for a hundred and eighty yards the second half. One hundred and eighty. Yeah, that's that's the thing that you worried about when we were talking about Linz and I were

doing the halftime show. What were you worried about? Second half? Yeah, all of a sudden, Why is the Eagles going away from the running game? Oh yeah, j yeah, why why would why all of a sudden? That's what my biggest concern was. I quite I didn't quite know why. You know that that Doug Peterson decided not to run the football. Yeah, that's he was seven of eighteen the first half for

eighty yards. Yeah, fifty three quarterback rating. What was Daca lit it up at ten of nineteen for sixty nine yards, two interceptions and in twenty one point five quarterback rating and the score was nine. So some ugly football. In the first half both teams, Philadelphia got some stops in the second half though, they absolutely did. And you know you're talking about the defense. I mean, then you lose Hitchens. Yeah, yeah, but that was late. That was late in the game.

But yeah, that'll that'll have repercussions on Thursday though, right, Yeah, and Philip Rivers just becomes the MVP once more. They find ways to lose games too. But having a Buffalo fifty four points, they gave up quarterback five interceptions at home quarterback change. No, they weren't at home, they were that was law in Los Angeles. Back up quarterback through five picks. He was the starting quarterback. Well he yeah, but they somehow putting they got it out of there,

but he was the starting quarterback. If I was Tyrod Taylor, I'd say, you know, I got a hamstring. Let the rookie spinners. You know what, you're probably passed the point of no return there. If you're going to play the guy, if you've determined you want to go play him, go play, well, then why did they pulled him. That's a good point though, Yeah, well it was you know, they talked to Jason Garrett on the fan every more Monday morning, and they were talking to him today and they were like, why did

you wait? You know, why did you pull Dak for Cooper this game but not last week? He said, that was just the decision we made then, you know, under four minutes. What why do people get worried about stuff that's not important? Well, he said last week it's we played for sixty minutes. Yeah, but what was the score last week? I think it was still twenty seven seven? And all right, and what it was at this time thirty seven nine, probably not coming back from that, right,

probably coming back. And when they put Cooper Russian, what did they do? They handed off twice? Did through? Oh? It was over one. I gave up watching at that point. Yeah, oh, I would had to go down. I don't go down with seven minutes to go in the game, all right, I kind of wish we have to film something downstairs, so don't judge games. Gotta finish though, Okay, didn't Phil. I wanted it to end early last night, bigger mercy,

bigger disappointment though, offense or defense. The way it finished out. Offense, I'd say offense. Defense gave you a half of really good football, as underman as they are. And I when I say underman no shan Lee and you had you had to get a touchdown or two in that first half, and you didn't do it. It was bad all around. I'll say that sure offense. The offense had to carry

this team. You're gonna go up, as I wrote on Friday, against a team averaging thirty three point four points a game, chances are they're gonna score some points, so you better score two. And the backbone of this team has been the offense. And when it doesn't score a touchdown in a game, a touchdown and only sixteen points and consecutive games, you're gonna have problems. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean the first time in Dak's career with the Cowboys that they haven't

scored at our show. Yeah, I was surprised how well the defense actually played for a half, And be honest with you, I was. I was pleasant surprised. Yeah. I was thinking, like, man, if they could just you know, second half adjustments to me was Okay, continue to do what you're doing on defense. Offensively, you got to figure out a way to make more big plays to you know, to take you can't be kicking field goals like we talked and all that. But well, it was just you know,

and you get that huge kickoff return to start the game. Yeah, and you're like, you kicked the field goal and I'm like, game seven yards. Yeah. I just was like, damn, how does that? You know? But that's well, that's what Mickey said. There needed to be a threat in that game, and there wasn't. You know, I don't felt like I didn't feel like they were threatened by Dez Bryan at all. You know, that's now becoming a it's becoming a storyline.

It is becoming a storyline. It is absolutely becoming a story And it's one of those things that you don't want to sit there. You mean, we all love Dez, and we all want to say, well he means this and that and the other. But you know what, the there comes a point in time you have to say, Okay, is it routes, is it quarterback? Is it them together? You know, is it blocking? What is it that's not allowing them? Now? I think he got a terrible call that didn't happen for he got one in the end zone,

he got interfered with. Yeah, that cannot you know, And and I'm watching the tape and the official standing right there, and I guarantee you every other official in the NFL throws a flag right there. It's way too much contact ten yards down the field. No, it was in the he granted the balls in the air hands. Yeah, I mean Dez is fighting to get away and he's I mean it is And again I'm not being a Homer guy here, but I mean referees call all that all

the time. They call that all the time, especially in the red zone. Chris Chris Collinsworth called it that way. Somebody said Al Michael's and I love Al Michaels, but he said on the broadcast apparently that it could have been offensive. Pr Yeah, yeah, Al missed that one because collins Worth stuck to his guns and he said that that right there, and they stopped it when the guy had two hands on him in the end zone with the ball in the air, and they don't get the call.

And then and then you get a red zone call against you, which probably was a red zone call with with Anthony Brown on the touchdown inside. You know, I mean, you know, it's it's hey, it's tough. It's a tough. Uh. It's tough when when things kind of go against you that way. But you know. Yeah, it's uh, you know again, Dak gets hit you know, in the face, the hand, you know, I mean, he's officials. He's not going to get calls. I've now come to realization that Dak Prescott

is not going to get calls in this league. It seems very similar to Cam. Yeah, he is not gave because people seem as a big, physical runner. Yeah he's gonna be, he's gonna run around, he's gonna make plays, and that's and he's not. And they're treating him like a running back. That's not treating him like an NFL quarterback. It's dangerous too. Yeah, you get into that. It's a slippery slip because look look at what happened to Cam. Look how much damn meeting he took this year. This

you know this, Yeah, something bad. I just don't want anything bad to happen to Dac. But he is not going to get any calls. And I'm not one to complain about the fish shame because I well, let me do it, trust me, I don't. I mean, I as long as they let it go both ways. But I don't think they always let it go both ways. And but the rule is if you hit a quarterback in the face or in the head with at any time.

That's an automatic call. And he gets hit a lot in the face and that and that that's a problematic. You know, the one on Anthony Brown that you mentioned. I thought it should have been holding. I didn't think the ball was in the I gotta go back, And yeah, I looked at it a couple of times. It was it just looked like he held him with well he grabbed out of the break. He grabbed him in the break.

And what happened is you have the wins is running forward, he's climbing the front of the pocket and letting it fly. And so you know, the officials probably felt like that that was Yeah, well they ought to look again. It wasn't a very highly penalized game. No, it's five a thing between both teams. But like Lane Johnson getting getting away with that hold on the play that bounced to the right on the outside, he wouldn't grab the linebacker, no call. Kelsey had a couple of grabs too. Well,

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are going bad. The other team loses his kicker early and you're thinking, Okay, that's a good thing. Yeah. No, it ended up being a bad thing because where they would have kicked an extra point, they went for two and got two of them, so that's two points. And then where they would have kicked a field goal, they decided, now we got no one to kick, let's go for it, and they score a touchdown. That's five extra points. You'd have never had a linebacker kicked off and it was

probably their best kickoff of the night. It was a touchback. Was he was kicking off? Well, yeah, he just couldn't kick field goals to save us. Well, no, he only kicked one. Well, the other two landed about the fifteen or twenty yards Bunny. Yeah, well you guys are so that's when you know things are not going your way. And the Pittsburgh game last year, the Cowboys had some two point conversions and it's like, oh, they're getting these and make these right when things are going well, it's

like everything goes well. And actually that Pittsburgh game, that was the last time des Brant had one hundred yards receiving seventeen games. Is that right? It's been seventeen games. Ryan was asking me about the Philly matchup on Friday. I looked it up, the last previous three games against Philly one hundred yard games. I think, yeah, five touchdowns receiving. He's played well against Philly, but the whole offense couldn't get anything going. Yeah, it just seems stalemate like. And

you think, okay, rod Smith starting the game. Granted, of course that was just the play they called for the first one of the game, and you're saying, okay, they're going to do some things. Ask a question, take please do is it really halftime adjustments? Is that it is that low hanging fruit though it's I mean I just want to. I want to. I want to really add I want to. I mean, I'm asking to me, to me.

It's a it's an easy fall back excuse, like in the Book of Excuses, right when you don't play well on the second half, you didn't make good adjusts, you didn't make good adjusts. I feel like I was gonna bring this up. I'm glad you did, because reck me if I'm wrong. But I feel like in today's NFL, you make your adjustments after possessions on the sideline, you got, the iPad, you got. It's not the days of you going in at halftime and you get on the chalkboard,

you and you drop a new game plan. I feel like you're doing those adjustments on the fly throughout the game. So yeah, so you don't think in twelve minutes you kind of rework your game plan, don't. I mean, yeah, you talk about some things, but I think that's it's overrated. But I understand the question because once again, the third quarter has been by far the worst for the Cowboys of this season. I mean, it's not even close what they've been outscored by. So what in this game defensively

would you have adjusted going into the third quarter. You held them to like one hundred and fifteen yards. Yeah, thirty five rushing in the first half. Yeah, let me let me change. We gotta do better. Yeah. See. And somebody trying to point who somebody I think it was Jesse pointed out what you're doing postgame. He goes, well, you have to anti paid what they're gonna adjust, and you have to adjust to that. It's like, okay, that's that's pretty deep. Did you see anything vastly different from

Philly in the second half? They started running the football, ran it better. Yea. Yeah, they ran the football and they started they're they're adjust executed. Yeah. Their adjustment to you was, Okay, we're gonna get back to do it. On the first drive, the first touchdown, four passes for four runs and they bam bam bam down the field. You know, they get seven three lead, So you know your adjustment to them. You should have known. You're sitting

there thinking, Okay, what's what's the adjustment to them. Well, they're gonna come out and run the ball in the second half, be ready, you know, And that comes down to are you just good enough to stop the run? Are you good enough to run fit and you know, yeah, the seventy one yard run that they had it was. It was a very well executed play by the Eagles, a great trap play. They trapped, They trapped David Irving.

They trapped David Irving and and all of a sudden, now you've got guys pinned inside, They've got they've got to Hitchens blocked, They've got Smith blocked Byron Jones is coming up to fill on the outside, you know, and they run right past him. Where but he's filling on the other side. Now that's not a responsibility. Now Xavier Woods. Xavier Woods comes down, but he doesn't take a very

good angle inside. He comes straight ahead. So now you have this natural lane, you got the trap block, You've got two linebackers pinned, and then all of a sudden you've got a safety wide and another one taken a bad angle. Okay, what's your adjustments there? If you're a coach, I mean that's you know, hey, we need to stop the run. We're trying to get everybody in the game. How about some like you said, Tay, how about some execution? Yeah, I mean I can't tell you again, adjustments Rod third

in two and Philadelphia is up. I think it's they're up by you know, seven at the time. So they run a third and two play where again I talked about Amy and Wilson blitzen on the play off the edge, perfect call by Marinelli, perfect call, Boom gets the gets what he wants. Damian Wilson doesn't get his guy on the ground. Is that Marinelli's fault on the execution? You know that was something that was that an adjustment they made at halftime? Hey, we can't let him, can't let

him boot, We can't let him. We gotta do someone third down? Was that an adjustment? Yeah, let's bring a blitz. How about the play that went another one? How about the play that they threw to sell it that he acted like he was blocking in it went for twenty eight yards? Okay, here's here it is. They bring Anthony Brown on a blitz, a corner blitz from the side that they were throwing to. So what happened instead of instead of Byron Jones being right there ready to he

had to go over and cover. So now you know, here's another example. Anthony Hitchens loses selle it because he's blocking. He goes ball over the top, big gain on third down. It was a third and one call. Is that you know? Is that an adjustment? Yeah, they're bringing a blitz and all of a sudden and they're adjusting the safety to cover and it's a big play. Is that an adjustment? I you know that that. I think it's I think it's again low hanging fruit when you say they don't

make adjustments, Yeah, I think they make adjustments. I think that the execution coaches will always tell you this, it's our job to put the players in positions to make plays. Marinelli did and in this case Marionelli, did you know he did make he put he put him in a perfect position to make a play. It's like Scott Linahan down on the goal liner in the red zone putting Cole Beasley in a game to run a play a special play? How many hatan is Cole Beasley line up

in the backfield? Hey, here's an adjustment, here's an adjustment. We're gonna we're gonna we know they're gonna play man coverage down here, so let's adjust this way. Well, what happens A quarterback throws a smoke screen for three yards and now you've just burned a play. Where if you ran the play, it could been a touchdown. I think we have to be a little care full about saying it's all about execution. It's xuly, it's all about adjustments.

It's not always all about adjustments. It's about execution. And if you want to blame their execution, I'm all for it. I am all for it because it's poor at times. That book of excuses. Yeah about offensively, well, you know what, and before you go there, right, and here was another big play in the game, that first possession quarter. They got him third and nine at the thirty seven yard line. He had all day in the pocket, they got pressure late,

and then he hits el Shan Jeffrey for eighteen yards. Yeah, he's wide open by but he had all day, you know. But it's third and nine. You get off the field there, you know you're gonna have the ball, decent field position. And then they go and it turns into a They had it. They had a situation I was talking about in the David Irving play on third down. If David Irving is a half step sooner, it just right there, a half step, it's gonna be a sack and it's

gonna knock them out of field goal range. Instead they get a first down and now they hand the ball to the burner and eleven yard touchdown, you know, and then they get the two point play, which were ridiculous. Everybody's standing around out there, may oh mayo. It didn't even move now, nobody moved. Nobody moved me. Orlando Scandrick, he just stood there for some reason. He didn't try and tackle the guy, and Anthony Hitchins took another terrible

angle inside. I mean, you want to blame coaches because it's easy. It's really easy to blame the coaches. And trust me, you guys know how I feel about the head coach. At times, he and I have gone at it a bunch, you know, and and rightfully so I respect him for I respect him for that. But you have to be a little careful about, Hey, does the front office getting enough guys I think, you know, are the right guys on the field. I mean, there's a lot of a lot of things you can point out here.

It's just not halftime adjustments. It's not that I think where a lot of this is coming from, adjustment wise. Really, though his offensive would be Tommy John No, no, adjustment there. Justment's needed, right because what happened. Look, look at the last two games, they've had twenty three drives offensively, they've scored one touchdown. Yeah, and so the question becomes, this is in like Tay mentioned twenty fifteen, it's the same thing. It's like without Tony on the field back then and

now without Zeke and Tyrn two? Is it? Do those guys mean that much? I mean, can I think Zeke is the foundation of the offense? I mean that he everything runs off of Zeke, But can you be a little more successful than that? You know, we ran the last night and didn't and didn't and didn't have I mean they ran, they ran the ball, Philadelphia didn't care. Well. That's that's and that's the flip side, right they kind of you're saying, they kind of gave it to him

in a way. They got behind in the second half, they got outscored thirty to nothing in the second half. Look the the the the first possession after they fell behind fifteen to nine, they got first and ten at the thirty nine Morris loses a yard. They get a pass behind Terrence Williams. He catches it, but they lose a yard. Yeah, and now you're third and twelve and Byron Bell has a jailbreak. Yeah. Yeah, Hey, I was all into the theory of this as a pride game.

That was my I totally I sold that. I sold that whole idea of desperate team. And I think it too. I think for a half defensively, they played with desperation. I really do. I think for a half they played as a desperate football team. They just couldn't finish it. Just don't give up a seventy one yard run? Is

that's what broke the game? Over the momentum chain hunt the ball, Yeah, you don't get a first down, and now all of a sudden you punt the ball to them and they go ninety yards basically, Yeah, I mean it's second they they were, they were second and what five six at the fourteen yard line. Yeah, that guy goes seventy one yards. Seriously. Yeah, Well, those first three

scoring drives sent five nine eighty five. But yeah, that second possession of the three that broke the damn open, well, it just seems you know, I hear what you guys are saying about momentum shifts, and I think they are real. But this needs to be a team, at least in my eyes that once there was a momentum shift, they still have the resilience to come back and keep fighting. Yeah, well, how do you know they didn't keep fighting? They just

weren't successful. They weren't good enough. They weren't good enough. Sometimes you're just not good enough. He's right about that. They don't have to come up with all these silly excuses. See where everybody's looking for reasons. And again this is where and this is my experience of being in the front office, and this is why I always apologize to Dave Campo. We never gave him enough good players. Never did.

And so you have to as a value as an organization, you have to evaluate it is do we have the right guys? Do we have the right guys to you know, if you lose and there's teams all over that that team yesterday lost, they lost their starting left tackle and they lost lost their starting middle linebacker. They beat you by thirty twenty something point and just it's these last Yeah. Yeah, I mean, sometimes you just have to Sometimes you have to say, Okay, do you have to go trade for guys?

Do you have to bring guys in Timmy Jernigan was a guy that was discarded by the Ravens. Obviously a Gia was discarded by the Dolphins. They made a made a huge pitch to give a bunch of picks to go get Carson Wins. Sometimes you can just not sit there and let this happen, you know, And that's that's that.

This is offseason talk right now. Yeah, this is offseason talk, but it's but it's relevant now when you play an opponent that has better players than you, They really do, and they've added some players that have even better than what you have. They didn't have these guys to start the year. Now they've got these guys. Well, and look at the difference. I mean, people compare Dak and Wentz all the time, and a lot of people said, well, he just didn't have the guys. Yeah he has the guys. Yeah,

he's got it. He's got They still had some drops yesterday, Yeah they still had some guys speaking of, But he's got it. He's got a monster running game. Now, he's got two backs that can really run the football. They've got a kind of like Dallas. They've got an athletic, good offensive line, and they do have some receivers that they they did not beat you with zach Ertz yesterday. Yeah, I mean they didn't need zach Ertz in that game yesterday.

He he was hey Byron Jones. Give him credit, hey, give and also give give Zack Martin credit for not let Fletcher Cox kill him in this game. Only heard his name a couple of times. Yeah, he had a tackle for loss on one play. But you know, but yeah, that could have been a disaster right there, and it wasn't. You just don't have enough guys making play. That's that's a big, big factor in this game, well and in the last couple of weeks for sure, even even after

they fell behind twenty three nine. So you get the ball back, you get a first down, and then on second down, who drops a pass. It's third and seven. Terrence William drops the ball. Oh no, it was third and two. The first play was an eight yard run. It's third and two. And that was the one I talked about. Jernegin blew up the middle Smith, no gain. They go for the try and run the option. Yeah,

they're gonna run the option third and two. And now now you're punny and it's like you're third and two, whereas you think if you think twenty one's there, third and two they get it. See every time you get inside the twelve. To me, it's hand the ball three times to twenty one. Yeah, but this is what you are now. You don't have twenty one here to do this to help you anymore. You've got to figure out ways to do it. But are you good enough? And

that's that's where the adjustments. I don't think that talk's gonna stop because of what you just said, whether it's fair or not, because seventeen are the adjustments you're making good enough for the personnel you have, And that's a that's that's a fair question because Zeke does mean that much to this offense. Trenth Tyren Smith does too, and so does Sean Lee, you know, show does Ron Leary. Yeah oo ooh maybe that Maybe that's a discussion with

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ten bucks. Any pizza, better go get it. Papa John's, better go get it. Yes, Well, we have to get to Rob's Twitter poll because I think it's gonna it's gonna go one way or the other here, especially with these guys. This is um what's the word. It's kind of a crossroads. You got a crossroads as poll here, this is a crossroads Monday right here. With a short week, you still got two more games in what ten days? The Cowboys can still make a run to the playoffs.

Currently at five and five, do you agree or do you disagree? They got six games left and they're technically still in the thick of the wild card spot give or take playoffs? You kidding me? Playoffs? I just hope we can win a game, how a boy, Jim another game? Jim knew that well done, got whacked. They they're they're five and five and there's only one game left on the schedule that a team has a better record than five and five Seattle Christmas, Seattle. I'm not counting phil

I should say five. Philadelphia is at the end. Yeah, but yeah, Seattle Christmas Eve. Everybody else is either four and six or two and eight. I wish I felt better about what we're seeing offensively here. I do too, because if if you don't have the offense to carry this defense, we're gonna be might as well get the draft show ready, you know, but I worry if you better figure out you're you're you know what you need to do personnel wise, because defense is now really compromised

with no Sean Lee. And you know, and even if you get Seawan Lee back and he can stay healthy through the month of December, you know, anthy hitches I guess Garrett said this morning anthy Hitchins felt better dead on his on his morning show. Yeah, he said he felt better this morning. Let's see. Yeah, with a short week, maybe, you know, we'll see tonight with the walkthrough, and I think Tyrn has a chance on Thursday. Yeah, I think

he was getting close yesterday, but not close enough. Right, So you know, you never know, a couple more days, they might have to just send them out there and prop them up. Yeah, you don't have to take any moves, just stand there and hopefully they won't try to take advantage. But if this, if this offense doesn't improve, yeah, they've got no shot. Yeah. I think it was interesting as well.

Coach Garrett was talking about it this morning. He said, you can either go five and eleven or eleven and five, it's all. That's what he told the team last night. Crossroads Jack said, yeah, and I'm with Brian this this stat just boggles my mind. They've they've been outscored seventeen sixteen in the first half of the last two games, second half forty seven to nothing. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's insane. That's insane. It's not good. It's not Kent Jason. They

got to figure that out. Yeah, And I don't know if if you can, you can be better than that. But you don't have Zeke for another If there's three games though that you can win. You know, the Archers, the Chargers, I know they had a great win against Buffalo yesterday, a big but San Diego, if you go back and watch them play, they find ways to creative ways to lose games. They are a snake bit team when it comes to losing games, kind of the crazy way, and maybe you need them to have a crazy another

loss you But you gotta start somewhere. You gotta get you gotta you gotta find a way to get this one and then the next week load up against the Giant or the Redskins and get that one, and then go to the New York and win one. I mean, you gotta put something together to at least if you get Zeke back for the couple of games that it gives you, but it might not be enough. Yeah, those games gotta be meaningful. Yeah. And yeah if you keep scoring nine seven yeah, I mean one touchdown in two games.

Who would have ever thought? Yeah? And Dak Prescott being the guy. I was surprised too witting yesterday only one catch well because he was blocking, not doing a lot, don't you think it was? He was in But man, there's a time when I think Witton blocking and I think, you know what, Let's find a way to get hand over there, find a way to get Jeff Swamo, get Witten in the route. There's things you could do with Whitton and Mickey, And I'm not trying to, I know,

I'm just saying I know how important Witton is. And if Witten is in route catching the ball for first play of the game, well designed, you know all really all hook for seven yards and that was it. And yeah, that was it. And you're thinking, okay, when things to kind of get Philadelphia off you a little bit, where are those where's that first down past to Witton for seven or six yards? He's not going to run away

from anybody, but it's six yards. It's better than handing the ball off to somebody getting two yards, no yards whatever. You know, throwing the ball to him is never a bad option to kind of get your offense going a little bit. They gotta do something. Seventy percent of the fandom all they're out disagrees that the Cowboys can still make a playoff run. Sure. Sure, it's a tough day. It's a tough day to be thinking positive. Right, Well, I think they see two more games, you know, right

right back to back like that. Those Thursday games are hard. Yeah, it's down everybody though, Yeah yeah, but you but you know, it's go playing. This is what the league is. Though. You've got to find ways to go. You can't lose to the Rams. You can't lose to Green Bay. When you have leads, you can't. You know, you can't go get blown out in Atlanta. You can't get blown out against the Eagles. You can't do that. You know, you had a nice little streak where you're winning some games,

and but that was with Ezekiel. It was starting to run the football. You're back to your identity, Sean Lee. The defense was playing well, You're scoring points. So what's their identity? Now? They're shell of themselves without Ezekiel. I believe that's a great question to I don't think they have They don't have one, and it's it is like twenty fifteen because all of a sudden, we're watching a different football team. Yeah, with what's their strength? We don't know.

The strength is their quarterbacks ability to run? That would be, yeah, this ability to to buy time. But when he's buying time, he has to make the throw. But there's their identity? Is dak with balance back about that? They're absolutely right, they don't have that right now and you're putting too much on him. It's Wentz went through the same thing last year. Yeah, in Philly. It's it's every quarterback the

way that the defense survives because of your offense. They're just not good enough defensively to play on their own. That that that's that's that's reality. Yeah, well let's go to the phone lines. We have justin from Portland on the line, justin. What is your question? I got a question of comment. First off, Terry Glenn rest in peace and that's uh, that was a sad thing here this morning. Um, first time, long time started listening with Bill Jones and

Mickey back in the day. Now I just kinda follow wherever Brian goes. But thank you. I'm excited flying in tomorrow with our son for the first game tomorrow, touring the Star in the stadiums, So we're pretty excited. Now. Now that's out of the way, My question is I think was talking a couple of weeks about a go against their success against the chief and how it helped the Chiefs and how it helped their confidence and the

belief in what they could do. It had me thinking last night watching this old line and the O period and what you guys have been talking about, like for example, with Green having things go wrong and then it gets in his head and snowballs. I don't believe Philly had more talent than us last night. I just believe they executed better. So oh and then it just kind of snowballed from there. So do you think the old line or offense is dealing with confidence issues after these last

two games? And if so, does it just come down to coming out and getting the W on Thanksgiving Day? I don't know. I don't. I see I see more of a lack of execution and I do see confidence. You know, And when when this team was when it and it win of the three games, it was rolling along on offense, they were making plays, they were running the football. Yeah, they had balance. The run pass ratios

were really really good. You know, confidence is you know, I think if you want to say confidence or lack of I think that would be on the defense, especially if some young kids having to play a little bit. I think I think Anthony Brown right now is not a very confident football player. You know. I want to know why everybody wants a tiptoe around the elephant in the room. There's no Ezekiel Elliott out there. You want identity, Yeah,

go go quit Zekiel Elliott back on the field. No, I that's I mean, I know it sounds like I'm almost simplifying it, but it's no coincidence what's happened here. I don't disagree with you, Mickey. I mean that to me is you know, I understand the fight, and I understand, but now I understand even more. The fight was more about the injustice of the way the process, not the trying to clear your name. The fight was about, Hey, I was wronged by my investigation by the league. That's

what he fought against. That is that's right there, That's exactly what it is. So I understand that part of the fight and I respect that. But right now you're in a bad situation because he is really the identity of your football team. He's the one that the defense. He is the he is the ultimate deodorant for the defense. Yeah, he really really is. And he's the ultimate life source. He's the blood and guts for this offense. That's what he is. He that's he is the blood and guts

for Dak Prescott, you know. And when Dak Prescott has him in the game, this offense flows better. It moves better, there's play action, there's guys open. It makes it difficult for guys to defenses to game plan for them. Yeah, it helps the receivers, helps everything, don't you think. Don't you think the opponents recognize this and they're going, oh, there's no Zeke. Oh we don't have to worry about that. You know, you've had some guys that have had some struggles.

Cole Beasley getting open now has been a struggle. They can't get him the ball, and when they do get him the ball, I mean the ball gets knocked away. I had a third down opportunity there or it's really short stuff. Yeah, it's really it's you know two, but it's it's been, it's been. The whole offense has shut it. As bad as things are without Tyren Smith, they're worse without Ezekiel Elliott, no doubt. And that's the truth, no doubt. Stuff. It does not feel good here. But you know, hey,

we have to go back to the phone lines. We have Philippe from France on the line. Philip, Hey, I get you've watched all the games and we appreciate it, but we were struggling here today, so so bear with us. Also, as you know, I'm living far away and I'm not a believer on a great conspiracy and it's not a bad uh excuses try but but I'm gonna rent a little bit. We all know some owners and the pet the commission and his gang don't want another Cowboys dynasty,

not during this era with a big band. The mannings the brady Um to make sure that dynasty doesn't emerge. M the Commissioner and his crew decides decided on his own and in full agreement of the honors, who is appointing to to suspend the best running back in football. That's why we're struggling. I noticed another thing in the

last two games. The rest are making some strange calls against the Cowboys for almost nothing, but mysteriously become They become blind when alignment are technic defenser defenders are facemasking or eating the quarterback in the strange, isn't it. Thanks for taking Michael, have a nice day at Thanksgiving book Cowboys boot Tigers. Hey, thank you, thank you, thank you. I appreciate that. We gotta we gotta, we gotta one

of the guys from London here. Yeah, he's gonna be his first Thanksgiving because you know they don't have things bad bad day. Yeah, Yeah, he's looking forward to things. Yeah good, good gap, Yeah good? I mean fine, that's you know, did did so? The Eagles never got called for offensive holding? Did they know? So? That stretches the streetcare of how many games? Six seven? Incredible? That is amazing. I know, it's the number of quarters is now incredible.

I mean the fact that you could call you really could call that any play, any play, there's always holding. You could find it if you're really looking for it. So that's INCREDI and I'm not subscribing to his theory. I'm not here. There was a there was a false start, got turted into it off sides. Yeah, how did that happen? Yeah? I worry more about not the holding. I worry about your quarterback getting hit in the head. That's that. I think he deserves respect for how he plays the game.

But if they continually take shots at him that way, hands the phase, elbow's head, whatever, hit him while he's on the ground. But unusual tackling, I take more exception to that. Really, Cam's a great comparison. Somebody in our group said Shack last night as a comparison, like in the NBA, he never got enough foul's called because he's big, physical guy. You know, you just call it differently, and that's you know, you can't do that same thing with Will.

Just go ahead and beat up on him. Yeah, it's not hurt him because he's seven foot Yeah, something to look at. They gotta look at it. Now. I'm with you, Brian, I don't. I just don't want Dak to get no. And that's saying this brush. There's there's there's a there's holdings every day. I mean I can. I could show you the Cowboys got away with a few hole holdings themselves, but that's okay. I can live with the holding. I can't live with my quarterback getting hit in the head.

I can't, especially when the rules clearly say don't hit the quarterback in the head, hands the head, anything to the head is a foul, you know. And perfect example the Flacco concussion player. Now he you could argue, yeah, he slid late, but he got hit in the head. So regardless it's a penalty. Yeah, you know, regardless of how early he went, you can't do it. I hate I hate complaining about the officials because I always feel like something you can always complain about a fish shame

when you lose. It's it's not a sour grapes thing. I just I'm just asking the league. I'm saying, hey, when the quarterback gets hit in the head, both teams, what call it? Don't don't let that part of it go. I wonder if they go back and find those guys but the look at him, No, no, the guy that

hit him, the hits in the head. I wish, I wish the league would come out and tell me that when this week at Hockley will not referee because he's made miss three calls this week, that they'll start penalizing yet, start start keeping the official from not calling games, and then we will then we'll have then we'll have you. You don't want full time officials, great, that's fine, but take these officials off when they're making consistently bad calls.

They wait till the end. You're like, oh, you don't get to work a playoff game. They still, well, what I'm not getting in the playoffs now because I had to give away a game because you've missed three calls this year? For me, you know that that's the problem I had with officiate. And then what goes on? They don't make these guys accountable for what happens during these games.

They really don't. That's my rant about officials away. They get on an airplane, get in their first class seat, and fly to their next game and screw up somebody else's life. That's what they do. They're pigeons stage. They need to they need to at some point implement my idea. They need to have officials on the field in those volleyball towers and then you can see what's going on. Well, they have a guy upstairs in the booth. He does what's going to limit what he guys? Knee was down?

Did you see seventeens knew that we got replay? We got replay. There they show it. He's clearly down. I was confused because I thought I thought they overturned it and they were marking the ball there, and it's like, no, this is the two point conversion. I know. I And a guy reviews that. A guy reviews that. That would be Lewis Nizarro. I've never heard of you. Yeah, but they missed. They'd send that to New York. No, but

it's the replay officials, a guy named Lewis Nazarro. Yeah, he should have buzzed down and then they should have called New York. Yeah, well Bill Vinovitch too, you know, seriously, when they they would just say Bill Vinovich. Yeah, Bill Vinovitch is not referee in this week because he missed three calls in the game. The scout and Brian coming out. No, this is the guy that if I'm one game short of the playoffs because I lost because of some bad

calls too. That that's those guys. Well, he doesn't get the work of playoff games. I don't get to go to the playoff games, and you know what, I get fired because they didn't win enough games. Yeah, that's a big problem. So you guys are coming around to my side of this. Yeah, Nick, he's been on the dark side for a while now. I don't know. That's just I just had to finish that. Cowboys got they got their ask, they did and where it is. But but

it is it's the truth. They get away with everything. Yeah, it's the truth. Be good, that's what you're getting paid for it. Exact good, be good, be better than good. And if it got to get corrected, corrected, yeah, that's what replaced for quarterbacks getting hit in the head. Bad, bad for business. Before we leave today's show. Yes, all our thoughts and prayers with Terry Glenn's family. Thinking of you guys, but thank you so much for joining us on a Monday. We will be back tomorrow in the

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