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morning after edition of Talking Cowboys. On a very windy Monday in Frisco, Texas, all of a sudden, about an hour ago, a blue northern blew in and the temperature to drop from about sixty four degrees to forty four degrees in no time at all. And the temperature has dropped on this Cowboys season here and after what happened last night, as we embark on the second half of this season, after the loss to the Vikings last night,

twenty eight, twenty four. But before we get into all of that, we want to wish a very good Veterans Day to everyone out there, very important day. Let's keep this stuff in perspective and just keep a thought for all of those who who make it possible for us to enjoy NFL football. And I know I've got some veterans in my family who've passed on, including my father who served in the Navy, and his brothers, one who died in the war, and it's very important holiday for

all of us. Mickey, how are you doing, Rob, How are you doing doing good? My dad served in the army in World War Two? So yeah, was there the second D Day landed on Normandy Beach, Omaha Beach? As say in Normandy, it's well said, Bill, My dad Uncle's got to keep things in perspective, right, even on a day like this where it's a disappointing loss for the Cowboys. Hard fuck game, but you know they lost to a

good team. Didn't make enough plays on either side of the ball at the end, yep, and it came right down to the wire. I know that many of you would like to chime in as well. We'll open up the phone lines here over the course of the next forty five minutes. You can do that at eight eight eight, eight, five, five two two nine seven. But let's start with your takeaways from what happened on Sunday night. Well, where to begin?

It's a deep subject. It's very complicated, as I've simplified for my column that should be posted any time now. I thought the biggest takeaway was the Cowboys just basically got out physical, out muscled in that game. Both lines of scrimmage on offense couldn't run the ball. Defense they couldn't stop the run. And when you have problems with those two things, I don't care anything about your sky

War offenses right there. It is at some point you got to stop the run, and at some point you've got to be able to run the ball at least a little bit to be able to keep balance. In this game, the Cowboys could do neither. And that's been a recipe for losses previously to very good teams when they can't stop the run. They couldn't stop the run against the Packers and they got beat. They had problems stopping some big plays against the Saints, they got beat.

I'll take you back to last year in the playoff game against the Rams the regular season game against the Indianapolis Coats. Those teams used the Cowboys aggressiveness defensively against them, and the Vikings did exactly the same thing, especially in the second half. So here we are with another close call down to the wire. If you've lost now your four games or three of the four games by a total of eight points and you're five and four, tied for first in the NFC East. And I don't think

anybody's celebrating that it's still in front of you. But I mean, you start looking at the standings and you've lost some teams that it could come down to tiebreakers at the end, So you got to focus on your division. As far as Sunday night, it's it's funny how it's such a week to week league, right, you know, two games, the last two games, defensively they get seven takeaways. They do a really solid job all the way around defensively, and Mickey spoke to it. Dalvin Cook he's a different

beast and they knew that coming in. They did a nice job on him running against the run for a half. I think he had twenty seven yards at halftime, but he also had that's the other part of his game. And I talked about it during the week. There's a little bit of Barkley to him, sae quon Barkley. His ability in the passing game in those two screens led to two early touchdowns, especially when there's no defensive guys

in front of him. Well, they did a nice job locking it up you know, I think that the second one he had for thirty yards, you saw two guys push Sean Lee out of bounds and out of the play. I mean, they really execute those well. And as Mickey said, as the second half got rolling, they kind of controlled the line of scrimmage, not only with Cook but with Madison,

their rookie did a nice job running the ball. They went with two tight ends a lot, they went with the fullback, and they just lined up and did what they had to do, physical running football, and that was the difference offensively. Of course, Dak was tarrendous and they made a lot of plays in the passing game. So Bill, yes, have you ever seen? And I wish I could go back and count up the plays. How many times the Viking used twelve personnel, twenty two personnel and thirteen personnel

in a game. It was almost like, we gotta sign up here. We are gonna run right at you, and I don't care if you know we're coming. I don't care if we've got two tight ends in a full back out there with a running back, or if we've got just three tight ends, one wide receiver and a running back. We are going to run right at you. They made no bones about it. They didn't disguise it.

They went old school with c. J. Hamm at full backs. Yes, and and I don't know what you do, you know, can you go with five defensive linemen and just three defensive backs because they weren't going to throw it? But that none of that is a surprise. It wasn't like they they what they have done. I assumed throughout the season. I know recently in fact, last week CJ. Hamm had

twenty two snaps. And we talked about it last week that the Cowboys will see more two tight end or fullback in a tight end or three tight end formations in this game than they've seen all season. Because I mean even like last week, Rudolph and and Herb Smith, they were both one was on the field for fifty five plays, the other forty three plays. Leakwin Treadwell was their third receivers only on the field for twenty snaps

in the entire game. We go and I haven't looked at the snap counts for this week yet, but it shouldn't come as a surprise that that was what they were going to do. And that is how they built this team. They already had a second round draft pick in Dalvin Cook, and they spent a third round draft pick on Madison this year because they want to emphasize and help out their quarterback. It was prone to mistakes.

You have to be able to run the football. Mickey and I talked about that on the walk out two o'clock in the morning, that this isn't Washington for Kirk Cousins. I mean, they've Cowboys have played him a lot. He'll give you a turnover every now, at least in Washington. He did. He's only got three picks in this game or this season, no takeaways for the Cowboys. He did an effective job managing the game and he got his

tight ends involved, especially down in the red zone. It was it was good, just good balance and you know, good game plan for Minnesota. And not only did they run for one hundred and fifty three yards, but their three leading receivers in the game were a running back, a tight end, and a tight end. Those guys counted

for six teen passes, sixteen receptions. Diggs he made one play in the entire game, and oh what a play it was, and it was worth three points, right, and important three points because if they don't get that field goal at the end of the half. Yeah, you know, it's a different story on the last basically the last full drive the Cowboys had possessioned in the game. And oh, by the way, another reason that it would was no surprise they would have this game plan is the fact

they were playing without their best receiver, Adam Feeling. Yeah. I mean you look at the box score and you say, Okay, there's no Feeling Diggs is gonna get you three catches for forty nine yards. You're taken that. I mean, yeah, I would take that, But you also don't want seven catches for eighty six by Dalvin Cook. And he's got eight out of nine games this year one hundred and all purpose yards plus. I mean, the guys, he's outstanding.

He slipped through tackles, explosive at the point of attack. I mean, he's He's the best back they've seen this year in terms of what the production on the field, better than Barkley, especially the way the Vikings use him. There are times where the Giants don't use Barkley when they should be using him. Guy On, Barkley only had one yard on thirteen carries yesterday right against the Jets. And by the way, speaking of the Jets, Okay, this

game right here, it was a terrific matchup. I mean, when you set back and look at it, it was a terrific matchup for a Sunday night marquee. Two offenses going at each other, all right, one team's gotta win, one team's gotta lose, okay. And what it underscores more than anything is the ridiculousness of the loss to the Jets. I mean, that Jets loss is going to come back and haunt this team. And because these games against the Vikings, Okay, it's gonna go either way. Yeah, it's gonna go either way.

The game in two weeks from now against the Patriots, it can go either way. The result here is disappointing, but it shouldn't shock you. Then. I think we all

thought this would be a pretty close contest. That's why you gotta take care of business against the teams that they've all the other teams that they have taken care of business against, And so I mean they should be sitting here six and three instead of five and four if they would have taken care of business against the Jets like you guys are coming over to my dark side on that. I was always there. I mean, it happened.

It's gonna come back at some point. It's gonna come back in Well, they have to get one of these. They have to get these wins, like the Patriots. They need to get a win now. I mean the importance of its Detroit game is just through the roof right now when you look at you got the Patriots the next week. But but they need to steal a win in New England to upset the Jets loss. Oh, no question. And these those losses happen. I mean, I know it's a division game. But the Saints lose to a one

and seven Falcons team yesterday at home. Yeah, those losses happen. But yeah, you're gonna have to be able to steal one. This would have been a nice one for sure. The difference is the Saints got that win with their backup quarterback against the Cowboys. Yeah to to opset I yesterday. Yeah, Well, same recipe though, right fall behind, slow start, and you know what I did? You explain it if it's one thing,

But it's one thing. If your offense malfunctions or didn't malfunctions, they had they ended up with two thirds and sixes on those first two possessions, and they didn't They didn't convert. They tried a fifty seven yard field goal and it was the worst field goal attempt ever ever that he missed. That was terrible. God, you never gave the ball a chance, right, But that doesn't he missed it by fifty seven yards. Yeah, no, no, but it was he didn't hit it. It was like

a lion. He didn't get the foot on it. Ken Harrelson duck snort, it's over my head. But okay, but okay, So you don't score your first two possessions, but that doesn't mean the defense has to give up two touchdowns on the first. Well, well, you you miss a fifty seven yard field goal and it's like a turnover. Yeah it is. You're in the ball at midfield. And so you wonder if okay, we've fallen in love a little too much with the long field goals. That one. I

don't I don't put it on the defense. I know they gave up a touchdown, but like Mickey said, Minnesota starts at their own forty seven. And I looked at up Maher's fourteen of twenty this year on field goals. He's four of eight fifty plus and I know a couple I think we're sixty plus that he hit. It's not a gimme, you know, it's not a gimme fifty proposition that you're gonna basically have a turnover. Yeah there, And I know Jason Garrett said they got a lot

of faith in him, and they should. He's great from that distance, but he's not. He's not automatic and it you know that that was a momentum swing early, no question, but at least give the ball a chance, like if it came up short or if it was just wide to the right or hit the upright. All right, fine, this thing landed over almost to the sideline. It seemed like, all right, I exaggerate, but i'd actually where it might have it. And I don't know if it ever got

high enough to get over this cross. I think it went out. They ramp and it rolled up the hill and it wound up over by the ballpark in Armada. It was like it was trying to catch that cat from last week. Okay, all right, but the slow start. So that's seven of nine games they've been behind him. Explain it. And one of them that they worked behind. They were leading the Dolphins ten six at halftime. That's almost like being behind. What's that? What's the reason for

this time? They just didn't execute and they didn't play good defense. I mean the first couple of possessions they and this was no surprise either. They blitzed right shocking. You said that during the week. We know on third down they're coming after you. And they created problems early

in the game until the Cowboys. I don't know if they adjusted or they finally beat it enough that they backed off, and that's probably why they ended up with what four hundred, four hundred and forty seven yards offense and dac three ninety seven passing. I thought Dak got some nice protection in the second half, but some of it But was him too yeah, oh by an extra time? He was. He was amazing in the game, no question

about it. Um. But I think he got hit nine times, yes, and they got after him and and uh, like we talked about it, Griffin on one edge Hunter on the other. There that's a that's a load, um. But they made a lot of plays in the passing game. I know that one of the narratives coming out is going to be did they run too much, particularly on first down? And Jason Garrett on the fan this morning, I think

alluded to it. You alluded to it to Mick. When you're blitzing like that, you're trying to establish some semblance of balance. They try to do that against the Jets, to just try to keep them away, keep them back way. Jason was saying this this morning, well when he said, you're trying to keep them at least a little bit honest if you can, um, because they were, and I think that's his quote in Jason there hell bent on

stopping the run and U and they did. They did burn them on the blitz, especially with some of those crossing routes and those slants by Mari. But they really did sell out to stop Zeke and two point four yards of carry. And then obviously we can get we can get into that late drive as well. And why don't we do that when we come back here on Talking Cowboys, let's talk second and third down play calling on that second to last possession for the Cowboys against

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Visit the Star in Frisco dot com for details. That's got to be a three twenty five kickoff at New England. So no watch party for the for brunch for the Detroit Detroit game. Detroit game is a noon Central time and so no apparently no watch party this week because people are still at church at noon. They're just getting out, mickey, and so that's why they don't do the watch party. That ideas, Okay, that's nothing to do with the opponent hurt the attendance at Texas Stadium when they were playing

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to the Chicago Bears. All right, let's dive into the second to last possession for the Cowboys against the Vikings. They matriculate their way all the way down the field. I started with a terrific pass from dactor Randall Cobb to get out of a hole, and they're moving it down the field and then they get down to a second and two at what the twelve yard liner? So and two straight run plays. What do you think with

those two calls? Go ahead? Mick? I was okay, I would say with the first one because it was two yards right. The second one, Zeke said it was supposed to be an RPO, but it didn't matter what they had called on that um because the defensive lineman blew up the play and the Cowboys had to do better job of blocking on that play. Uh, it's third and basically third and goal at the eleven, and what happened third and well, yeah, third and two. I'm sorry. I put a goal there, the third and two at the

eleven and odin Ogbo good enough. It's pretty close. Yeah, as a matter of fact, that's what the pronunciation thing says. Okay, that's it really yeah, Okay, Um, it's wrong too. Connor Williams. Connor Williams gets the right shoulder on him. He cut to the inside it and I can't tell what he was supposed to do because he kind of got him and then he went to the second level. So to me, there there there were is not going to be a pass play because if if he had pulled the ball back,

he was down field already. And unfortunately he didn't get enough of them because by time Travis Frederick came over, he got through and he blew up the play for what was it a three yard loss? So but here's what I go back to. So how about the third to the last possession, you got first in goal at the six yard line, you run zeke for nothing or

one yard where they get a field goal. Yeah, and then what did you do the next two plays, by the way, tried to throw and Stephen Weatherly comes in and blows the play up, and you got to throw the ball away out of bounds to save from getting a sack. All right, and down third down? What did they do? Through the ball again and over the middle to Jason Witten in the end zone and Kendricks runs into him, he gets knocked down, the ball goes incomplete.

I had Harrison Smith, but good enough. Yeah, and uh, go back and look at it, by the way, and then you got to kick a field goal. So you left four points on the field on a first and goal at the six. You threw the ball twice and it didn't work. Next time, you ran the ball twice and it didn't work. So which which is at fault because those four points you left on the field that first time you cost you the game. Yeah, they went one for three in the red zone and and missed

a field goal. You know, that's that's pretty much the difference in the game right there. That last the second to last drive your reference, Bill, I mean, on the RPO, the defense is going to dictate basically what you got to do there. Um. Amari Cooper was asked about it, you know, second and he said, a second and two, it's Zeke. You know we're gonna run the ball with Zeke. It's Zeke Elliott. Yeah, I had I had no problem

with the second and two run of Zeke. And you're trying, I mean, am I wrong that you're you're trying not to leave. You think you're you haven't scored, you think you're gonna score, or your confident you can score, but you don't want to leave too much time in the clock see Green Bay Playoff game twenty January twenty seventeen. Um, but they didn't. They didn't get there. And you also want to keep your time outs. Yeah, that too, but you know Zeke gets gets stopped there. I think his

longest rush in the game was was six yards. I mean, they did it, like Mickey said, they did a good job at the at the point of attack with the Vikings defensive line and the stat from David Moore, I don't know, did you. I guess you looked it up as yourself as well. I think it was Bob Thomas. Was it Bob Thomas? Actually it's in it's in the I was surprised. It's in the record portion of the media guide. Okay, third time in franchise history they did

not run for a first down in a game. I mean, that's that tells you everything you need to know about about you know, their their struggles to get balanced in this game. You let me tell you how bad that is. How bad is that? So the last time that occurred was two thousand and seven, the final game of the season, when they basically punted against the Redskins. Remember they pulled everybody out. They already had their record. I think of what it was going to be if I remember correctly,

no rushing first towns. And the last time before that that had happened nineteen sixty four, nineteen seventy November eleventh, fifty seasons ago to the day m nineteen seventy, I think it would be forty nine. Now it was fifty either seasons. Okay, seasons here a long time, I got you. So that's how rare what you saw yesterday was fifty fifty seasons, not years. Okay, let's go what that's like. This is the sixtieth season. My reaction the third and two run was what are they doing? Yeah? So I'm

second to two. I had no problem running at third and two. I was like, whoa and what is that? Yeah, and then you get to fourth down and it's it's to Zeke out out wide. Um, it looked like he might have had Cobb on that play, but I think he had Cobby. It looked like he had a step. But obviously you're you're rushed in that decision. You got to you gotta make one quickly. He gave up looking

to the right. He looked to the right initially to see what they did with Cooper and they had a guy over the top of Cooper and they ran somebody underneath them, so the slant wasn't there. And he quickly came off of it and he focused on Zeke and Cobb was breaking over the middle. Looked like he was open, but he never saw him. All right, let's go to Scott in Jersey. You're first up here on talking Cowboys. Hello Scott, Hey, guys, good morning. Tough game last night. Um,

you know the Cowboys. The Cowboys are right there, and I hate to harp on it, but the coaching last night was terrible on both sides of the ball. We just can't adjust how do you go for a fifty yard field goal? Fifty four yard field goal when your first drive stalls out, you gotta punt that ball. You gotta play defense. You don't know if Cook's gonna run through you. But then again, then there's a fifty four yard field goal. Again he doesn't vote for he punts it.

And not throwing the flag on Winton in the end zone. It's I know you guys even say it's eleven percent chance of it's overturning, but that was probably if anyone's gonna get overturned, that one's gonna get overturned. And one other thing is with the coaching. When they're down, they're down late in the game, you don't kick that field goals. You got to go for the touchdown. And then maybe later on with another drive, you can do a fifty

four yard field goal, which would be totally acceptable. But the coaching, the coaching in all aspects last night was just broken down. They don't adjust. They just don't adjust. I appreciate you taking my call and still a cowboy fan for the rest of my life, and let's go get him and beat up Detroit next week. It's hard to be a fan it is is you win a couple of games in a row, you think like you're building momentum. All right, let me throw you a crazy

thing out there. And there's no way a coach would ever do this. But once it got down on that second to last possession, you wanted to kick the field. Yeah, I'm not saying I wanted them to kick the field. Go, I'm saying, what if to go down to go down one? Now? Okay, listen to this, listen to this. Hear me out on this. Okay, you had three time outs left, Okay, So what happened as it turns out, Okay, he falls forward three times

and punts Minnesota. Minnesota punt it and you got the ball bat well, And that's another question on the punt return, Tavon, That wasn't that the fair catch? Jason Garrett was asked about that, By the way, he said, they told him if if you don't feel like you've got a good opportunity to go north and south, you make the decision, and he judged it. Tavon did and said, well, let's not waste time on the clock and let's just fair catch it. Okay. But but as crazy as this sound,

I know what you're saying. You got three timeouts left, and with whatever Minnesota called time out with forty two seconds left on the fourth before the fourth and five play, you kick the field goal and you make it a one point game. You don't on sidekick, Okay, you can't if you won, but you don't. You're not gonna get get it on sidekick. You're gon't on sidekick. You kick it deep. Same scenario plays out, you stop them three times. Now you're gonna have a little less No, you won't.

You'll have the same amount of time left, okay, because you kick it through the end zone. They take it at twenty five okay, and you're gonna have a little bit more yardage you'll have to make up. But you got a kicker. You can kick sixty yard field goal. Where'd they get down to on that last drive? As it was? Anyway they got to the It's crazy, but if if a coach really believed in his team that they could stop him and believe in your kicker and everything,

it would be unbelievable if they did that. I'd love to see Twitter if that didn't do. Yeah, imagine they got they got to the Minnesota forty five. Just remember though they they started they started at the fourteen right, so there's ten yard difference there and they ended up but they didn't even try. All they wanted to do

was soaked the clock. And because they knew get the time out, because they knew that the Cowboys needed a touchdown, right, so their approach offensively, what would be different, especially on three being up just one nor the Cowboys had a kicker who can kick a sixty three yards. You're not just automatically running the ball into That's why you can't

play that game. But to night, that thought crossed my by that how at least they were going to get the ball at the twenty five right, and then when they punted, you're not catching the punt at the what did they catch it at the forty six? You know he could have gained He could have gained easily ten yards before he went out of bounds on the left sideline, but the time would would have taken Instead of seventeen seconds,

you probably would have had twelve. What you think about, well, and then you don't have to you didn't have to go out of bound. No, he didn't, I understand, but he would have because that's where he was headed. That's where the opening was. But again, to me, it was in his mind that he was calling a fair catch because he didn't even look to see where everybody was.

He was already And what you see Jason said about it, Well, they told him if if you don't see an opportunity nor south, don't waste any time, you know, make and so it sounded like he d have vision, he did have a green light that he could do it if he saw the opportunity. Yeah, it wasn't like they just told him flat out fair catch. It the veteran putt returner. They left it up to him, I think. Did Jason

not say in hindsight, maybe you do that a little differently? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, because he could have He probably could have gained ten yards, but it would have taken five seconds, but run a play would take the five seconds too, right right, I mean, well they ended up getting four plays out of it, right right. Yeah, they didn't. They didn't go for the hell Mary early. They tried this is what they do

before the half sometimes with Witton or Jarwin. They tried to get those quick outs and just get out of bounds and give yourself a little a little closer should have fooled him and tried to hail Mary twice. Well, it's see, if you got a little bit closer there, then you can try that hail mary twice. Zimmer's response was, the other problem on take on the hail Mary twice.

It takes longer to run that play that well, it can't get intercepted, it can't get The thing I thought about was like, and Nick did too, It's like, and I doubt this is the case, but you are you worried about a penalty block in the back or something. Just don't do anything that's going to compromise our field position here. Just fair catch it and then let's let's

start from there. But the other case, the other part of that was he wasn't going to have any blockers because they all rushed, so they probably wouldn't have committed a penalty if you just told him rushed and stand there. So it was a it was a you know, I mean, he could have caught it and got some more yards, but it would have burned some clock, so, um, well,

what they're scared of it? He would have done one in his whirlish derby the type things and try to run this way and run that way, and the next thing you know, there's five seconds left in the game. Yeah, yeah, and in he might have done that. Wh I think it was a whirless derby, whirless derby, whorlish derby. Okay, how to transpose the issue? Okay, all right? We speaking

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It's November eleventh. That's better ends day. We took down Halloween on Saturday. Okay, blow behind. We're supposed to do that already. My next door neighbor, the Aggie next door has his Christmas lights. He not only has the Christmas lights up, they are on, shining brightly. Why does he have to be an aggie? Was there something? Because there's any decoration in the front. I got you. I'm sure

you're Christmas decorations. You have the aggie football player out there, right, I don't I do it a requirement of all aggies. They've got the aggie football player out with their Christmas decorations right right alongside Jesus twelfth Man out there. I married a Baylor Bear, so that's not allowed. But I have seen that around Texas. That's right. The one of the wise men is an Aggie football player that Texas. That's right, all right. Here's Aaron and new Brunfulls Texas. Hello, Aaron, Hi,

good morning, gentlemen. I appreciate all the hard work you do on your show. I listened to it faithfully, so I appreciate that. Um. Going into the game last night, I feel like the game was lost in the flesh quarter. We just could not get it going offensively or defensively. And I'm wondering why the coaching staff has this hubris or attitude that we're going to do what we're going to do and it's going to be that way, and that's it. With good coaching dictates that you change your

game plan according to what other teams give you. And I feel our coaching staff just doesn't meet the task when it comes to that. They don't adjust and change to what the defense will give him. Last night, Dak had the hot hand clearly, but they didn't want to seem to go with that. They wanted to seem to try to pound at will. The ball was zeke. You just have to give what the defense gives you and I'll hang up and listen to your analysis. Thank you, guys.

Well that it was a great word there, Hubris. That is our word of the day, Hubris, which he ascribes a personality quality of extreme or foolish pride or dangerous overconfidence, often in combination with arrogance our nerve. There's another word starts with a be with it too. Your eyebrows raised a Hubri smick. What do you think of that? So I was wondering what he was talking about, because that's why I looked up Hubris. The Vikings were not overplaying

the run. They were basically inviting them to run. They were blitzing a lot, but they were blitzing on passing downs. I didn't see a lot of aid and nine man fronts. They were basically when they did that, the Cowboys were throwing the ball when they got bottled up there on that last possession when they went three wide, they had four down linemen and two linebackers and that was it. So I would like to know what he mentioned. The first two possessions, they basically moved the ball and they

threw it. So I'm not sure what he meant by that. I guess running on first time, what if you run on second down? Is that okay? Like, throw it on first down and run on second down? Does that make everybody feel better? They did run a lot on first down, they did, and found themselves in a lot of second and nine, and I mean, I mean that was the case.

I think the first wet drives they went and Zeke went for three, and then he went for two, and then he went for four, and then the first downs, yeah, and then they threw and they converted on the first two, and then they kicked the field goal on the third after getting the second first down. I mean, all that said,

dak Press got through forty six times. I mean, it's it's not like they didn't they refused to take advantage in the passing game, but they did run a lot on first down, and they didn't have success doing it. I mean, I can't can't argue that point. So what if you don't have success running on second down? Is that lessen the Okay, well, okay, wait a second. Let's

go to their first touchdown drive. They Yeah, they ran first and ten, they ran Zeke plus two, then they threw it on second and they got sacked, and then they had a great twenty yard completion to Cooper to keep the drive alive on third and twelve. That's whereas and then they ran on the sideline there, tiptoe on these three circus catches, and then they didn't run Zeke, but they ran Tavon on the next first down, and then twenty three yard touchdown to Gallop. So that was

a successful drive that started with a Zeke first down run. Okay, next time they had the ball, they were incomplete on first down through it to Cooper first down, then that first down Zeke minus two, but they were still able to convert a third and twelve to Gallop for fifteen. Then on that first down, it was Zeke plus six, longest run right, and then they got down to third down again and a complete to Jarwin for twenty three. And so they had two Zeke first down runs on

that drive and it resulted in a touchdown drive. And then on first and ten at the twenty five, they tried to reverse Cobb passs no, but he is opened, and he did the smart thing. He basically threw it out of bound. And what they do on second and ten they gave it to Zeke plus three and then on third and seven touchdown past the Cobb. Okay, so it didn't just severely. Still, they scored touchdowns on those drives, so it's not every time they give it to Zeke

and then they don't have success on the drives. But that was later in the game, so it was they were ready to play by then, right, Yeah, yeah, that's what they were better prepared. That's right. You know you were if you reverse what happened if they scored at

the end. Here we're talking about how resilient this football team is, and they gave up a lot of yards to the leading rusher in the league, but they still found a way to win and Dak Prescott and Mary Cooper were terrific, and Reynold Cobb broke out and all that. I mean, there was a lot of good that happened in this game. Obviously, it just wasn't enough, and well and you lose, I mean, you focus on what they

didn't do right. And one of the biggest issues in the game was they had ball one time in the third quarter. Yeah, I mean the time of possession was through the roof for Minnesota in the third quarter they had they had the ball for twelve minutes and twenty one seconds. I think the Dalvin Cook touchdown drive. It was a thirteen play drive and they ran eleven times with Cook and Madison seven minute drive and just you know,

just hammered them up front. You know, that was that was a terrific drive and that was kind of symptomatic of the entire game, or at least the second half, where they got the line of scrimmage controlled. And so it was a Minnesota long drive sixty six yards for

a field goal to start the second half. Cowboys came back quickly, scored in just a two minute drive, scored a touchdown to take the lead, but then the Vikings were able to hammer it down the field, and I mean they were talking you want to talk about running the football? Yes, Cook for two, two passes. It was Madison for four, Cook for six, Cook for fourteen, Madison for well, Madison for three, Madison for sixteen, penalty Cook

for one, Cook for four. They finally threw the ball on third and goal and then Cook on fourth and goal at the one scored the touchdown. I believe that's called persistence. Well, and he also took a pretty good

chance there going for it on fourth right. And then when they were they were able to run the ball in this game, and then went for the two point conversion, which was so big because you get to the end of the game and maybe a long Mahr field goal ties it, or had Maher hit the fifty seven yard or they would have never gone for two mm could it would have should Yep, But that's how close these

games are, That's right. I think DeMarcus Lawrence talked for a while and I think he was finally given up, and he finally looked at me and he goes, you know what goes, somebody's gonna win and somebody's got Yeah. It was a hell of a game. That's right. Yeah, if you just wentn't a loss to the Jets. Now both on that one. All right? That does it for a Monday edition of Talking Cowboys. The break is next

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