Talkin' Cowboys: Critical Errors

and the SWBC studios. As we break down the Cowboys loss to the Philadelphia Eagles twenty six to seventeen on Sunday Night, Football and world do so here over the next forty five minutes. Chris being in the Backgrob Phillips, Isaiah stand Back, Patrick No see walk around. Kyle Yeoman's. Gentlemen, this is the last time the Cowboys will play on primetime for a little bit of time. So that's probably good. Patrick, What times you get in last night Wheels touched down

here at DFW a little bit before for you. Yeah, so you're bright and earlier, you're rested. You got your black Holday No no sleep right, no sleep? Patrick? No sleep. Walker was the first time you stayed up to four o'clock, Not at all. That's just saying there. No, see, don't make it like it's the first it was basically that's bite like the first time. That's basically a carbon copy of the New York trip. That's like literally exactly and I didn't go on this one. That's literally exactly when

we rolled in from New York. So those are tough ones. So God bless you for being even if you're more so when you don't have the dope to ride in on. Unfortunately, Yeah, you can't. You can't put on the cowboy hat and you can't drink the tiger notice week. It's unfortunate. But that's okay for the lion milk though, But we'll get to that later in the week. Okay, we're going we're going that far into the Lions rivalry. Don't know what this is. We'll talk about those. Okay, nine point loss

for the Cowboys yesterday. Cooper rush eighteen of thirty eight passing. He had more in completions than he had completions one hundred and eighty one yards, one touchdown, three interceptions. He had not thrown a pick prior to this game. This season and then throws three in the one game and Isaiah, we had talked about it that the luck at some point for Cooper Rush was going to run out, and it looked like it ran out a little bit last night.

He threw three interceptions. It could have been worse, really if you look at some of the throws when you go back on the film. But in the game where you we talked about it previously, you can't give up the football. You have to hold onto the football, take care of the football. He gave it up and that ultimately was the difference. Yeah, it wasn't just him, but this for people that are like, oh my gosh, I

can't believe he played like that. You've seen this from Rush, and and I don't want to make this like it's just a Rush thing. Rush didn't lose you this ball game. Now, but we saw this in Washington. We talked about this last week that that was lucky as all get out. And that's why the whole conversation came up, because you had two interceptions that got called back because of illegal

contact and holding or whatever else. So we've seen that those Errand throws, you know, be kind of tossed up there. We've also seen it when he's under a little bit of duress him not make the best decisions. Okay, the velocity changes all those types of things, but we've also seen it where we just can't move it up come ball that effectively. And the biggest thing we said last week was the biggest threat to the Dallas Cowboys in

this weekend's game was getting behind. Because now you're gonna ask somebody who you've tasked with being a game manager. Don't be confused by having Cooper Rush as your game manager versus being somebody who can go win you a game, and the moment that you placed that responsibility on him, that's what you're gonna see is what happened yesterday. Yeah.

I didn't go on the trip, but I thought watching the broadcast, I thought Chris Collinsworth just summed it perfectly up at the end when he said the Eagles had more ways to win the game than the Cowboys did. And I wrote this in gut feeling on Friday, I felt like the Eagles are probably the better overall complete team right now. I was still willing to ride with the Cowboys defense, provided Cooper Rush takes care of the ball. And they still because we've talked about it for weeks.

They've had to play a certain way to be able to win football games, and it leaves a very slim margin for error. And anytime you lose the turnover battle three to nothing and really four to nothing, and you gift a team that good the ball three times in your own territory, you're probably gonna lose. Now. I was really impressed with the way they fought back. Yeah, that's

the mark of a good team. That's a team that's gonna They're still gonna go places, I think, and and they should probably be favored in at least the next three games that they play. UM and Dak's coming back based off of that pregame work out, no see, I can't imagine he won't be back for Detroit. UM, but that that was the recipe for losing games with Cooper Rush.

That was the type of performance I think we thought we'd see more often, to be quite honest, just because he's never really played a lot and it's and and and as it is right like, it's not all on him, Um, but they had to play a certain way to win games, especially to be a team that good, and they didn't you know it was too late for them to come back in that game. Okay, so for me, this is this is this is going to be a difficult fine line to walk. But let's let's try to walk the

line as best we can't. Um, let's let's use a compliment sandwich when it comes to Cooper Rush right first, foremost, thank you Cooper Rush for your service, right hand class. You know, he deserves an ovation for getting the Cowboys to the point where you know, you hate that they

lost to Philly and in the fashion in which they did. However, if he doesn't play efficient efficiently and he doesn't give the Cowboys that five percent that we kept talking about on a weekly basis, maybe this team is one in five or or in six. Okay, instead they're four and two. You hate losing, You hate losing to Philadelphia. You hate losing the Philadelphia in Philadelphia on prime time. However, Cowboys as a whole are still in very good ship. Could

be better shape, but could be much much worse. So there's the positive. Thank you Cooper Rush most certainly for that. What's also true is a large portion of this loss is hanging on Cooper Rush. Your shoulders and leading into this game when we did our predictions, and you know, I'd love for them to prove me wrong in these

type predictions. But I felt like the defense would do what the defense has been doing, and for the most part, they did, but they started to get gassed when you started to look at at certain points in the game the Eagles had a nine point time of possession or nine minute time of possession advantage, ten minutes, eleven minutes. At some point, it's it's going to wear on the defense, and in large part because Cooper Rush, the LEPrecon that

was on his shoulder. As raw Peace so eloquently put it on a week to week basis, I stated that I felt like in Philly it was going to take a nap. It didn't just take a nap. It crawled under a rock and it died. Those potential interceptions, those potential interceptions that Cooper Rush would have thrown on a weekly basis that were negated by penalties that were dropped by other teams, most recently like Bobby Wagner for example,

I said, I don't believe the Eagles dropped these. I believe those those opportunities turning the giveaways for the Cowboys, and unfortunately that's what happened. I have a category that I'm working on in my analytics and science called critical error and critical error. I try to qualify because you have errors, but critical errors are different. I try to qualify a critical error by either points left on the field point or momentum swing and or it results in

points the other way. Okay, like a pick six would be a critical error. Of the seven critical errors that I have listed, I have to go back and watch the film, four of them belong to Cooper Rush. Three obviously the interceptions, but there was a nearror, a near interception on a target to Michael Gallup in the end zone that left four points on the board because all they were able to get for three at that point. Yeah,

so be a Cooper Rush or anyone. If any player where in any number gets four out of is accountable for four out of seven critical errors, then you have to kind of put the loss mostly on the shoulder. So, yes, this one is on Cooper Rush. But I go back to the bottom bun So to speak of my compliment Sandwich in that Cooper Rush did exactly what they needed him to do in a backup row. He stepped up.

He didn't lose the Cowboys any games before Sunday. Unfortunately, the carriage turned back into a pumpkin, but it did so in the days preceding, which would have probably happened anyway. QB one looks like he's on the way back. Yeah, so compliment sandwich, and I mean, this will be a little bit of the meat on the outside of that bun.

Because you look at ten points off of turnovers in the first half, the interception that led to a touchdown and only had a forty four yard field for Philadelphia to navigate after they just went fifteen plays eighty yards. They had forty four yards and they went down the field and they scored on the touchdown to a j. Brown,

so short yardage seven points. And then right after that turnover they come back and they only had the one yard but it ends up in a field goal for Jake Elliot from fifty one yards out after that second interception. So there's ten points right there. You take those ten points away from the final score, then it's a Cowboys win. Now, they wouldn't have gone for two in that situation. It's got twenty points off of critical errors by my co

there you go. So I mean you can add add one more because they would have they would have kicked the pat it would have been a tie ball game basically. I mean, it's not counted as a turnover, but when you turn it over on downs at your own thirty four, Philly got a field goal off of that, So okay, that's to me, that's thirteen points off turnovers. And like no C said, if you want to count twenty off critical errors, like you can't win that way. You just can't,

not against a team that good. And Dante Fowler had a critical error as well, neutral zone infection in fraction on fourth and fourth coaching staff, well, there were there

was one play on the fourth and one. There were two critical errors on the fourth and one one m no, the decision to not challenge the spot after Seed Lamb caught that ball, and then the play call out of the four and one that was an air it passed on a bootleg from Let's talk about that situation because I know a lot of fans are frustrated with it.

I feel like yesterday in the mentions in the comment sections that I saw from the postgame reaction, a lot of it pointed to the third or the third down dive by Cedee Lamb to try and pick up the first down upon further review and ends up being a first down. It should have been called a first down. However, no challenge from the coaching staff. Then they rush up to the line of scrimmage they run this errant play that just didn't look like it was going to work

from the first place. Isaiah, when you look back at what happened, there would one would you have challenged it? Two would you have gone for it? And three would you have called a different play if you would have gone for it? Should have never got to the point where they needed to call a play because they should have challenged it. Should have it should have just been done right there. Everybody's going to point at the referees all the referee should have made that call. Yeah, they

should have. They make calls, they miscalls, But guess what, that's why you ever read flag in your pocket, honestly, and you go. You can go back and watch on the all twenty two for those of you listening, the line judge at the top of the formation, at the top of the screen, she actually marked it right. She had a first down marked the line judge at the bottom came forward and he was covered up by a couple of extra bodies. She had the better look at it.

They should have deferred to her judgment, but instead they deferred to the line judge at the bottom of the field too, and they ended up marking at short. And it happens. But guess what all coach McCarthy had to do was reaching his little handy dandy waste man and throw that flag out. Yeah, and there's so many I think there's on average handy dandy waste man. I think, yeah, there. He obviously season in real time. He has a head

set on. He has his coaches in the booth. Offensive coordinators, defensive coordinators are all up there, and they have all kinds of not scouting, but all the other guys, I mean, they have access, right, So somebody should have told him to throw the flag, and for whatever reason, they didn't, and that hurt him. So here's here's McCarthy's explanation host game.

I'm going to read from his quote so so the fans can get his side of it down Judge Robert de Lorenzo, which kind of references what Kyle was saying as far as who they should have deferred to, but did not. On the sideline told me she had the knee down before he extended, before cite Lamb extended. So my history has been when the official tells you that it's usually pretty clear dot dot dot. There was no replaying that sequence, and there wouldn't have been in the

forty seconds. My experience has been when I'm communicated with by the official, I'm usually discouraged from challenging that play. End quote. He went on to explain more. But that's the context from the McCarthy standpoint. But I do agree

with Isaiah and most Cowboys fans in this aspect. You're on the road, and even if it wasn't as seemingly obvious as it actually was, I still would have been okay with throwing the challenge flag on that because of the magnitude of the game and who you're going against.

But you know, that's saying it was a little bit more obvious and so obviously more so I would have been willing to throw that flag and again critical error because and it could have been the consequence of it could have been deleted by a better play call on fourth and one, but instead the play calling fourth and one the bootleg to the right that ended up in the sale pass. It compounded the critical error and what happens.

The Eagles get some points after that. So I don't want to I don't want a better play calling fourth and one. I want to punt it. That was me. I was surprised they did it. It's the second quarter. You'd love your defense, you trust your defense, and you're down fourteen nothing. I get it, you want to get some momentum going. But I was surprised that they did that that early in the game. Penned back, as far as, I mean, we're seeing more and more teams do it.

Rams did it last week, McCarthy's done it before, but Man did it a number of time. Yeah, I mean teams are getting more aggressive. But that's a that's a tough situation to put your defense in. Well, even if you throw the challenge flag and you don't get it, which in this occasion you would have gotten it. But

if you throw in you don't get it. The worst case scenarios, you call a time out, you get your ducks in a row, and then you turn around and you go out and you either pump the football the way because you have more time to think about this decision, or you come up with a better play call. Because in McCarthy's explanation, they were up in that tempo, they were up in the high tempo offense, the turbo that's

what his terminology was. Use that turbo or turbo look as an excuse to say we were gonna go for it on fourth down. Anyways, that doesn't make me feel any better. Are you about the decision? Are you more upset with the non challenge? Are you more upset with the fourth down call? Oh, that's a good I think I'm more upset with the fourth down call just because a challenge is bang bang. I'm not upset by the fourth down call. I hated the play call. I couldn't

stand the play call. I liked it a lot. You like going for it down there, you're already if you're gonna go for it. I like it a lot because where you're where your eyes at. As a defense, interior worried about the interior. So getting out on the edge is not a bad thing. You get the way that there's I'm not I'm not I'm not a long developing play for a quarterback that doesn't move well. He's rolling out to his rights, throwing off balance. He had some

inaccuracy issues. You were waiting on Noah Brown to make a block on the edge. Still, then he gets tripped up by CD. It's just yourself options. It's all bad. You still get yourself options. He's out on the edge, so he has an option to throw the ball to multiple guys that are open or run it. Maybe. Ye if Noah Brown hits his block, then yes, actually he didn't. But that's why you draw the playoff. You don't draw the playoffs saying what if my guys don't do their job?

But I don't say understanding, But you also have seven hundred pounds of grown man sitting in the middle of your formation, so I don't I'm not opposed to getting out on the edge and giving Cooper Russia option to tuck that thing should he at one the edge. It's unfortunate that Noah Brown didn't pick up his block, is unfortunate that he didn't throw a completion, But the play call is actually a dog on good play call that one. Yeah,

this is a difficult for me. This is a difficult one for me because I see what both of you are saying You're right. You don't call plays based on your expectation that they'll fail. True, that said, you had to that point of the game, you had already seen at least two sailed passes from Cooper Rush, some inaccuracies. You had seen the interception. He was just not on here. So you say you played with scare of money. No,

I'm not saying you played with scare money. I'm saying you played in a success I say you played to what's working at any given moment. You played what's working at any given moment, and the passing attack what's not working to that point in the game. Although the running attack was showing some signs with CD open, No it was not. CD was on the ground. I just called me. He threw it at Peyton Hendershot, who was covered behind

from behind by half a step. He had a half a step on a guy through it to Peyton Hindershot, but then there was a linebacker in front of him. Threw it on the backside of it. It should have been intercepted. Call me milktoast. Okay, and people have and they're in my life. But I'm punting. I'm I'm putting him building him back I'm resetting with my defense, and I'm saying, what's resetting and and and not spot them?

Three more points that I can tell my coaches give me that same play, give me out an I understand, and you know what, like you're not cooking Rushta exactly. Mike has had a great pulse scopability team extend to play. I like the call. I'm not opposed to call. Well, he's he's been um, he's done this before, and he shows faith in his team and I appreciate it. He knows his team and he knows his offense. But in that moment, man, but the thing is, like, this is

the crazy part. I can say, I'll stand behind this. It's unfortunate, it didn't work out. It happens. Okay, you go for it on fourth, you win some let me loose on But it was just like Friday and Pop said, you live to see another day. Okay. But the reality is if they would have turned around a hand in the ball off the zeke and came downhill in Fletcher Cox or freaking Jordan Davis would have freaking came into it and just molly wapped up, the people would have

been pissed off. He would be like, oh, you you tried to run the ball at these two pel have been at that point. I'm more upset with the non challenge than I would be with the play call. I hear, I'm more upset sliding scale. I'm more upset with the challenge me too, because it's the butterfly fick. Right, we're not talking about what are called on fourth down. But the thing was bothersome was bothersome is you don't not

challenge with he didn't let me run this back. The best way to say this, let's I'm gonna assume because we don't know, Okay, but there's a high probability that he had all the information that he needed from upstairs to make an asserted challenge. Yeah, we've been in those

boots before. We see the replays. We know how fast those things come through TV copies were running replays before they even went up there and try to sneak the ball or you try to try to run the fourth down play, and that's where he's relying on his information yet upstairs. Absolutely, Yeah, and so I'm assuming that did he come in, Yeah, there must have been some kind of technical error, because if I'm the offers a coordinator or quality control wherever I'm yelling, hey, challenge, throw the

dog on flag. We see what you don't see. Throw the flag and that's completely fair, which then brings us to the fourth down. Play run the ball, don't I'm not opposed to the ball. Zeke had number one going into the game. We knew that Zeke has often played some of his best games in Philadelphia. He was playing strong last night. Cowboys kind of got away from the run early. We've seen this recipe before. It ended in

the loss in Tampa against Tampa Bay. It ended in the lost in Philadelphia because by the time they got to the run, and by the time they started utilizing the tight ends, which was which one of my keys to success, you got to utilize the tight ends, really didn't start making that connection to the third quarter. And then when they started making it, it happened mostly on one drive and that drive ended in a touchdown. So the things that were successful the Cowboys weren't doing in

the first, first quarter, first half. But in that particular moment you talk about milk and toe, run the ball, Ryan Anger, kick it to kick it to Maxis. Yeah, you you got a little extra spice on yours. But a couple of yeah, Pumpkin, there's a couple of extra things there too to think about. One, if the replay wasn't available, Isaiah, which very well could have been the case, how hard is it to just tap the brakes. You

don't have to go turbo, take the turbo away. You don't want to give those guys a chance to su up either, because if you are going to do that, you don't The last thing you want is Davis car Grave and freaking Fletchercox in the game of the sight in the middle of the field. So I'm not opposed to the to the turbo. I'm not opposed to the fourth down call. The flag should have been thrown and there's no replay. There's no replay going to be in

house either because home field demands. It's it's a sac the same thing that you see and it's like, oh, we're not gonna throw this up there on the board in Philly, whereas in Dallas they may be like, hurry, get it on the bloor. I mean, I look at that four down call as the same thing as when you get in the red zone and you're down there and the go line and teams are like, just run the ball, you're one yard away, and then what most of the time you see bootleg guys getting out on

the edge, throwing flat rouse, throwing corners. It's the same freaking thing. You had a lot of space out There was a lot of opportunities. You just didn't you didn't convert on it. For me, it just it really just boils down to one thing, and that's the fact that Cooper Rush had already shown you that he wasn't having a great night and with a critical play like that, when a players show if it was you have to throw yourself back in the game though, I mean, you

know what I'm saying. So that's that was That's the thing, like I hear you, and it makes sense. In the third quarter, the third quarter, let's talk about that. Let's talk about it come on the other side of the break, because he did throw himself back into it. But it was also the ground game that found a rhythm too. It wasn't just the passing game. They got back to it on the ground. Ezekiel Elliott had a fantastic game in my eyes, and we'll talk about that when we

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to join the coffee Club. Today to Talking Cowboys back here on Talking Cowboys presented by Black Rifle Coffee Company from the Star in Frisco, and the Cowboys fall on the road at Philadelphia twenty six to seventeen the final scores. That's the first loss for the Cowboys against the divisional opponent in nine tries. They had an eight game win streak going into that game against the NFC East and that came to a close. So did their four game winning streak as well. They are now four and two

on the season. By the way, limited tickets for the remaining home games of the twenty twenty two Dallas Cowboys season at at and T Stadium are available right now. You can visit Dallas Cowboys dot com slash tickets or go to SeatGeek dot com, the official ticketing provider of at NT Stadium. So we left the first segment talking about how Dallas got back in it, and that's the back end of Patrick's so called compliments sandwich, right, compliments,

compliment sandwich? Is it a burger? Is it a sandwich? I mean it's a burger and this one a Pritzel book. Oh that's really nice, Okay, So compliment sandwich. The back end of it was the fact that they fought their way back into him twenty to seventeen. You had a chance for your defense whose elite level, to come up and make a stop, and you didn't get it. But I want to talk about how they got to that

point in the first place. And Isaiah, you and I were kind of talking with Patrick in the break about the situation at hand. Philly got away from themselves and Dallas took advantage, Yes, very much. So how did that happen with the RPO? It looked like the reads just said pass and Dallas was more ready for it in the third quarter. Yeah, I think I don't think Jalen Hurts had his best game. Honestly, he left a lot

of freaking meat on the bone. Dallas fans, I can say whatever you want to about it, but he could have been a lot worse. I mean, as stat it could have been a lot worse because there's a lot of reason he was running just I don't know what he was looking at him. How you heard me yelling in the dog in room, like what are you doing? What are you doing? Bro? Like there's so many times he should have pulled it. So many times you should

have pulled it in through it. I mean, there's a lot of opportunities out there that Dallas were susceptible too. But ultimately, you know, I think this officer coordinator for Philly, he showed it all year. You're right, Rob Peter in the break in terms of saying that they haven't been

a second half team. Whenever they have had leads, they seemingly get away from what's got them to actually having the lead, and then when Dallas got close, they're like, Okay, let's go back to what was working, and then they were just unstoppable again. So I think it was I don't you know, I love Dan Quinn, you know, I love this defense. I think it was more Philly pulling off the gas more so than it was Dallas being

that effective defensively. Not to take anything away from them, I just think that Philly had a complete control of that game for the most part, and there was no signs that they could ever be stopped if they truly just wanted to go and just keep beating it down to Blue. And I know that's I know, I know the real Dennis Greenish after seeing this game. The Eagles are who we thought they were. If you want to crown him, crown him, but they are who we thought

they were. We mentioned this going into into the game, and this was one of my my points of science. Jalen hurts as a as a passer man. Uh and and he showed me that, I mean before he finally threw that touchdown later in the game to kind of seal the deal for the Eagles. He only had like one hundred and twenty five hundred and twenty yards passing

and no touchdowns. The thing was he had no interceptions, so he was playing mistake free football to that point, no fumble, he still had one hundred plus passer rating, but he was fifteen. You know how passer rating is calculated, it's it's the efficiency of yea and no errors also boosts the passer rating. Russians right, it was one point zero, one point zero at Rushes was one point zero. He had more interceptions than his interception TALLI was higher than

his passer rating. You can't win like that now kind of And I'm going to circle back in the jump back in this lane. Kudos to Cooper Rush for showing the R word again, resiliency. He used his tight ends up catch by critical catch by Sean mcwan, critical catch by Payton Hendershot critical catch and touchdown later in you know that quarter by Jake Ferguson. Can we talk about that one real quick because I was sick? Yeah, we

can't really quickly before we veer back over. You have one point zero passer rating at the half, two interceptions, and that leads to a time of possession in favor of the Eagles by nine minutes and thirty five seconds. That was quite indicative of how the game was likely going to end. The Cowboys could fight back, and they probably would fight back, but you're asking a lot of a defense to keep holding them, keep holding them, and keep holding them. And the damn broke in. There was

the touchdown. But Jalen Hurts, he showed me that, you know, he is what we thought it was. He can run the ball, try to contain The Cowboys mostly did well

and containing him mostly on the ground. But this was such a winnable game even if you take a way just one of those interceptions, if you take away two of those critical errors like the one by Dante Fowler, the Neutrals only fraction that yielded points, Look how much it My bottom line is this And I thought over you did come you said, this is a winnable game. It absolutely this was a winnable game. If you give up, if you have seven critical errors that ultimately awards the

other team twenty of their twenty six points. It tells me it was a winnable game, because I think it because that game, right, it took that much to happen for you to lose on the road. It's winnable if you play it your way that's been working and you don't make any mistakes at all, or at least minimized. If you take away one or two of those mistakes, it was a three point game. That's my point. That's my point. Isay it keeps looking up and seeing twenty

to nothing, which I understand. You can't spot a undefeated team on the road. It's twenty points. It's hard to play. It's people are gonna think it sounds like like whatever,

but it's hard playing didn't impress me. And unless you unless you have a coordinator that is willing to put his foot on your throat and drive you into the freaking ground, most teams end up giving up leads and they allowed to game to get a little bit close, and they're like, oh crap, we should probably start playing again and they put their foot and you put your

foot back down. You know what I'm saying. I'm not saying that you can see what Dallas was just dominant during that period of time, or you can say that Philly let up. It doesn't well, I don't care what side of the table you are this game. When you looked up in the first part, it was fifteen minutes of possession to five at one point in time. That could have easily been that way in the entire game had he been that killer instinct. Dallas was never in

control of this game. I don't care what emotions you want to feel. You can feel all Sweden Danny and say oh we were close, we had a No, this game was dominated by Philadelphia. And you you take this film and you take your freaking tuzz them. You put it on the bottom of your tongue and you take it to take the shot to the head, and you remember this for the next time you play them. But they dominated you in this game. Here's what I'm saying. No, they did not. You lost this game. They didn't win

this game. And when column is going to say what it does, but that's the thing. Teams can win games or they can get wins because the opposing team lost the game. This is a situation where the Cowboys lost

this game. If this were the Buffalo Bills and you spotted them twenty to zero at the half, do you think Josh Allen and that offense would have only finished with twenty six to seventeen final You mean to tell me that the Eagles let up after seeing the Cowboys go from twenty to zero to twenty to ten and then twenty to seventeen before they woke back up. No, what it tells me is this team is very overrated. This isn't taken away from the fact that they got

the three takeaways and so forth. Fine, you won the game, kudos to you. My main takeaway here, though, is based upon the film that was now created by Philadelphia against this Cowboys defense. It tells me that the Eagles require multiple critical errors by the Cowboys in order to win the game against a backup quarterback. By the time they play again on Christmas Eve, we keep talking about how these other teams, oh, this won't be the same team

later in the season. And as I stated that logic, if it applies to the Apple, it applies to the Orange. This Cowboys team doesn't have its QB one and when it gets QB one back, Let's say he has a couple of hiccups against the Lions. If he plays in the Bears, but he maybe hits his stride most likely November December. This is not the same team they'll face. But they have on film that Jalen Hursts is exceedingly one dimensional. They have on film that this Philadelphia offense

is not explosive. If you have if you would have spotted the Buffalo Bills twenty points, you would have lost this game fifty six to three. That's the difference between a championship caliber team offense like you see in Buffalo, and a team that's just taking advantage of the other team making mistakes. In Philadelphia. I agree and disagree with with you guys, because because I feel like I had to go back and watch the second half, I didn't

feel like Philly let up. I think Lane Johnson getting hurt had a big impact to their protection and they finally were able to get to him. But I think this offense, I don't think Philly's overrated either. I think their offense is so hard to play against, and it's and it has a way the way it's designed is makes it so difficult for Michael Parsons to be Michael Parsons because they NBC did a great job of showing it.

They made him choose constantly what to do. Like I think Collins words said at one point, they're not even blocking him, They're just putting him in a situation where what do I do? I got to choose, He's got to choose. And that was very challenging for the Cowboys defense. It's gonna be challenging for every team that plays this

Eagles offense. And I'm with no see on the fact that that Jalen Hurts will leave things on the table, he'll misthrows, but he's got such a good group around him he didn't have to be perfect because they've got such great weapons and a great offensive line. And that being said, was really impressed with the way Dallas fought back on both sides of the ball. Like to me, I didn't see it Isaiah as Philly letting up so much as I just think Dallas is a good team

and they woke up a little bit. But I think the better team won last night. I really do. And I think when Dad gets back, I think this thing evens out because on this particular night, the way I think the better team won, I agree with that. So, going kind of along the same lines as Rob, I agree with both of you guys in a sense. I agree with Patrick in the sense that Dallas had a chance to win that game. I agree and you and the fact, but they never had control of that chance.

They had a chance. That chance was when they were down by three. Your defense on the field, a full field for Philly to go and drive. And what did Philly do? They went eleven straight run plays. They ran the ball eleven straight times, and then they decided to put it in the air. One to A J. Brown. He breaks a tackle, actually two tackles, goes up and tied the five yard line. Then the next play are po jal touchdowns were off our pos. It's a pain

in the ass kill. It totally is. So there's the thing that Dallas Cowboys dot Com has is called the pregame Live and um there was a gentleman by named Isaiah Stammack and Barry Church that kind of went over this. If you guys want to go back, we kind of went over this and described the issues that they were going to present to Michael Parsons. We broke this down like in a complete walkthrough. And then there was something else that was said earlier in the week about how

these guys are going to run the ball. This is gonna be the team. I don't know who said it, it's kind of crazy to due with dreads, but probably Nate, Yeah, probably Nate, but you said said that, yeahsibly, most likely Jesse, but said that they were gonna this is gonna be the real test for our rush, our rushing defense, and that these guys were going to be diligent and they're a pursuit to run the ball, and then they're gonna run it so effectively that you freaking forget that they

have these receivers out there. You forgot, You freaking forgot. So there is no point in the game that you could point to and say, yeah, we're about to win this game. You can't sit up here and say that. So to say that Dallas had a chance to win this game, yeah, you had a chance before you stepped on the field too, But you can't sit up here and say at any point in the game that you felt confident that you're gonna win this game. No fan can say that, no analysts, no fan, no coach. Philly

controlled this game. In that last drive, you knew Philly was going to drive the ball down there, and there is nothing that Dallas can do. I'm sorry, that's just the reality. You can make your sup, patch yourself on the back, make yourself feel better. All you want to come back better next time, But this game last night, Philly controlled that whole game. I don't care what the scoreboard shows. So let's take our second break when we come back and how much off? Yeah, I know, how

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to break down all weeklong here on Talking Cowboys. Patrick no Sleepwalker, We've got Isaiah stand Back, We've got Rob Phillips and Chris Beam in the backup Kyle Yeoman's Now we've got like four minutes left, so we'll breeze through this. But Dak Prescott potentially making his return, Rob you said it earlier in the show, just the way that he looked pregame felt pretty good about it, right, Yeah, I mean just reading off with no seed and the guys

were tweeting up there. That was a extensive workout, right, and the spirals were tight. He had some zip on it. Um. They wouldn't let him throw anything much longer than twenty so you know, twenty twenty one ish, twenty two ish, um, but fifty throws, uh to my account, into McCarthy's count, and he was also dropping some dots as well, you know, back shoulder fades, back of the end zone, pylon. Um. So yeah, the only thing we didn't see were the longer throws, which you know just goes to him not

being game ready at that time. Yeah, but yeah, the zip is there. He was. He was ripping it, right, he ripping. I think what we're seeing is is they're they're executing the plan that they've had in place all long, and we've speculated week to week, but you give him a little work last week. Mike has said all along full week of practice. I think they've been pointing to this week in the last couple of weeks, and and if all goes well, yeah, I think we'll probably see him.

I think we will see him. Everything Yet that happened yesterday. I just kept replaying what Rob was saying on Friday and his predictions. In my head, this is a game where you wish you had Dak Prescott because you were playing from behind and you needed somebody to come and throw you back into a ball game. I still picked the Cowboys, and he still picked the Cowboys. That's fun. But you said it, you said, this is a game where you have a feeling that they're going to have

wanted Dak Prescott. They now now they want Dak Prescott. Everybody wants Dak Prescott back. He's back and ready to go. How much of a difference does he make against Detroit this week. Well, there's certain instances where I've been saying for weeks, I just think he's a better football player. I didn't understand that. I didn't think it was a discussion to begin with with him and Rush. Sure, there are certain plays in the game last night where you like,

we talked about the fourth down call. Dak's mobility would have helped on that play. There's throws that Rush left on the field. Now, I will say the one his third interception, where he probably could have been a roughing call. If it was a week ago. The league might have called that a roughing call, and they didn't. That's not why they lost the game. But I didn't give. I didn't say in my mind, well that's a bad throw by Rush. I think he got crushed on that play.

But um, Dak's arm talent is different. I think he can make more throws down the field, and I think he's gonna get more receivers involved. And that's again that's no disrespect to Cooper Rush. But Dak is the guy for a reason. Yeah, I say, what do you think swag? Well, all right, Patrick, what are you? I'm no, I think I mean Dak just brings a different energy. I mean that is what it is. I mean everything that Rob said, plus his swag and the confidence that you have when

you look at him. You know, you look at Cooper Rush as a manager. You look at Dak as somebody hook him when you ball James. That's just it's just two different two different categories. Yeah, and facts, not much to add to that. Cooper Rush. He did everything that he was supposed to do again, Cooper Rush, you know, excellent job. Thank you for your service, um. But it's time for QB one. And the difference is the type

of leadership that Dak provides it. It's just it's this heated passion that you're going to see come out as soon as he gets back on the field, and hopefully that'll be as quick as soon as this Sunday, and it looks like it might be. Do you think if these two teams played again tomorrow? Who would win? If they played again tomorrow? Well, I'll even back it up just so Dak Prescott's ready and we know he's good to go. If you play again in week seven, do

you think that the Cowboys have a chance to win it? Yes, Isaiah, No, not not ready yet yet. Okay, you mean him coming fresh off the injury? Fresh? Yeah? Sure, why not? Fresh off the injury. I think it's a closer game. I think I think you can still argue, Yeah, you hop over the fence when you stay on one this side. Well, we haven't seen this offense with dak In in a month. But I do I think. I think it's a much

closer game last night. If he plays I just do if he if he played perfect, he wouldn't have to play perfect. He would just have to not throw three interceptions. And I don't think that he would. And I think because he wouldn't throw three, give him one. Say he throws one interception, Cowboys win this game. And this hypothetical I made it up. I think Dallas wins just because it's because it's my hypothetical, and I say what I want.

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