Talkin' Cowboys: No Bad Wins

Star in Frisco and the SWBC Studios. The Cowboys get their fifth win of the twenty twenty two campaign, improved to five and two, as they take down the Detroit Lions twenty four to six, the final score from AT and T Stadium. Alongside Patrick No, C Walker, Isaiah stand Back, I'm Kyle Yeoman's with Chris Beam. As always, gentlemen, it's another victory Monday, and it's oh so sweet when you can get a home win in the NFL. Right absolutely,

it's fantastic. Cowboys are sitting at five and two, bounce back nicely, especially defensively, coming off of a not a bad game against Philadelphia, but a little bit of a step back as far as the elite play that we've been seen from them on a week to week basis. Absolutely ted off on golf, pun intended, and that helped settle in Dak Prescott and the Cowboys offense in the second half. Totally loved he of a subtle I like, I'm here for absolutely love. Nance was on the call. Hell,

yeah that's true. Yeah, the voice of the Masters or I guess not. Yeah, he does do the Masters, doesn't he. He does this a lot of stuff. Yeah, you're a big golf guy. Yeah, definitely not. Yeah. No, they got the dub. That's all that matters. At the end of the day, I personally didn't like how it happened, but I know we'll get into that. UM as the show goes on. Ultimately, all you automatters is that you walk away with a W. Doesn't matter how ugly, how pretty,

how whatever it is. Um, you're your one win closer to you know. Actually you needed that win because because what the rest of the division did, So that was an important win as well. Everybody that played yesterday in the NFC East one, the only team that didn't win is already the only undefeated team in the NFL, and they were on a bye week, so I mean, yeah, you needed to win to keep pace. Uh and you did.

So you were supposed to win this football game. Yeah, we said it on Friday, everybody, he said it, you needed to win this football game. Sure, the Lions come in with a number three rated offense in the NFL, a top total offense in the league, and they put up some put up some numbers, and they've got some pieces defensively, but paper v paper, you're supposed to win this football game. Yeah, and ultimately you did. Yeah. Absolutely,

a credit to the to the Detroit Lions. And and we said this, you know, each week, and we said this going into this game. It's a scrappy bunch under Dan Campbell. It is this scrappy bunch and Cowboys fans, you got reminded of it in the first half, particularly with Aidan Hutchinson. Hey, Ayton, I'm sorry, I guess you. I guess you're tuned into talking Cowboys and hurt me said you wouldn't get a sack because he went out

he got way to go freaking. But you know what, So what we're here for is bill bulletin board material. But Aidan Hutchinson, he won his battles more often than not against Tyler Smith in the past attack. But then you saw Dan Campbell move Hutchinson over to the opposite side and then he beat Terren Steele at least once. But in the run game, both Tyler Smith and Terren Steele did perform well. Struggled in the past game though in eighteen Huncherson was able to get those two sacks.

But to the Cowboys credit be an adjustments or whatever the case may be. After the half, you didn't really hear from Aiden Hutchinson over the course of the third and fourth quarter. So the Cowboys came out and we talked a lot about and we've talked a lot about this when it comes to the Cowboys just over the past few seasons, and what's typically been the case is their consistent inability to adapt at the half and come out consistently powerful in the third and then forced it

over to the fourth quarter. We've seen them get better with that in the third quarter. We saw it again against Detroit. They really came out and just basically owned the third quarter. But then the question was can they keep this, you know, the foot to the accelerating, the accelerator to the floor in the fourth slowed down just a little bit on the back end of the third quarter, but they picked it right back up. That defense, it's

it's lights out. Five takeaway. You're talking about two interceptions between Trevon Diggs and George and Lewis, you know, three more forced fumble and fumble recoveries. And I love how Diggs set the tone with his interception to start the third quarter because they needed it. They were, you know, six three, I believe at the half, everybody's like, well, what's going on. Defense is like, okay, we got you. So then the question was okay, Dak defense got you.

They got you. This takeaway, what can you do with it? Oh? Okay, well, lo and behold we were we remembered the Cowboys remember that they have Ezekiel Elliott back there, and they use Ezekiel Elliott and Tony Pollter to just ram the ball down Jared Golf's throat pun intended and they ended up getting the touchdown on that one. The Cowboys. Biggest takeaway from me is the Cowboys offense gained three touchdowns off of three of the five takeaways from the from the

few defense. That's how you win game. Yeah, so you mentioned you don't like how it got there. Yeah. I don't think you're alone in that fact. There's a lot of Cowboys Nation that is almost Russell. Yesterday in the studio, you and I got wet, We got after it a little bit. Oh yeah, we got after a little bit. Put the hand on backwards, like over the top. Yeah. And I understand your your side of things, because you're a player and you want to look at how to improve.

Just because you you don't win, or just because you win the football game doesn't mean you were perfect work. Your work is not done at all. And if you play like you did yesterday against the Detroit Lions in the future, you're gonna lose games. You're gonna lose to good teams. You didn't lose yesterday because you played the Lions, but there were good things to take away. And that's kind of where I'm at. And you win the football game and you do it in a dominant way. I

thought the defense played really well, really well. Yes, six points, five takeaways. I know a lot of that came in the fourth quarter, but when do you need to play your best football in the fourth quarter? So that's kind of where I'm at too with the defense. But I'm I'm interested to see your thoughts on how you didn't like this win. Kind of yeah, kind of. I don't want to put words in your mouth by any no,

the kind. So let's look at this. What do we know that Detroit was gonna come out and do after watching the Philadelphia film be physical and run the football, Be physical and run the football. How was that working for them in the first half? Pretty dog on good? Would you say decent? Pretty dark? No, it wasn't decent. It was dog on. They didn't find the end zone though, That's my thing. Okay, so put it. So let's go back to that. Okay, let's go back to that. Now.

First of all, let me lay this out there. The Dallas Cowboys got the w I'm just gonna say that out there, Okay. I come from the player's standpoint, and the player's standpoint is, Yes, the things that you do good, you're supposed to do good. And I'm always looking for the things that we can improve upon. That's always my outlook. That's just me as a human being. That's I don't pat myself on the back of life for things that I'm supposed to do. I look for the things that

I can improve upon. That's me, that's me as a player human all that. I'm gonna lay that out there. Okay, now let's move forward. The Detroit Lions came out there and were more physical, especially in the first half. Yes, yes, they got after they got after talking about the defense, flying in, flying in their I was pointing out to you in the studio how they were shooting at the knees of absolutely dirty, play dirty. Where else can you tackle Nowadays? You can't go high. You can't go high, right,

So I mean, so that's what you do. So I relate that to the time when I was playing back in the day in Troy Paulamalu and the Pittsburgh Steelers. They all tackle tackle like that. They run full speed, they shoot all their body weight and their shoulder at your kneecap. You're gonna either move sideways and get hit by somebody else, or you're gonna get hit by them one or the two unless you're Ezekiel Elliott and you hop over people. Okay, That's that's what's how you tackle.

So they were more physical on defense. There were more physical on offense. When we go back to the first half, and everybody's like oh what the defense balled out in the second half when Detroit had to abandon their their their strategy and their game plan. Absolutely, that's what we expect our defense to do. Any team that has to drop back and pass against this defense, you're going to lose.

I don't care who you are. If you have to drop back and throw the ball and rely on your pass to win you a ball game, it's probably not gonna work out that well. Because the Dallas Cowboys because their defensive front and their front seven is just absolutely nasty. It's a last that's it's the last resort in terms of an offensive strategy. Okay, but they're tight end. I don't know how you don't score on that heck of a play by Michael Parsons. That's why that's why you don't.

But I mean, but your piece of I mean just has a play. Again, from the player's standpoint, if I'm that close to the ends, on what am I doing with the ball? You're diving? Okay, thank you very much. So amazing played by Michael Parsons. Not taking anything away from him. He's the reason why you're in a position to be able to create a turnover on the following play. But from that tightens perspective, that should have been a touchdown. Sure, I'm just gonna lay it out there. It should have

been a touchdown. And I'm not saying you're wrong. Okay, so he didn't he he didn't know the lion was absolutely Hey, regardless of the line or not, if I have people in pursuit, I'm diving across it. You're not You're not wrong. Absolutely, really quickly. Before we move on, though, I went back and watched all twenty two today. Oh my gosh, that Michael Parsons is a couple of plays in his career that are just draw dropping. This might have been my favorite for ever, pure effort ever. This

is just go back and watch it. Do yourself a favor. I'm not saying go buy NFL Plus or whatever. We'll say that on the Reds later. Go look at this. Find a way to get it. If it's on Twitter, take it. Michael Parsons is seven yards behind this tight end and has a guy in between, and he catches him within twenty yards. We were talking last week about how many strides Patrick would beat me on at forty and it's like, oh, well forty, Michael would destroy anybody.

That play was unbelievable up to I think Nick jen put it at almost twenty one miles. That's crazy. He's a physical specimen. But his relentless his relentlessness all right, and his willingness to go and stay and pursue at all given times, no matter if he's getting cut, no matter if he's on the backside of a play, he's going to continue to pursue. So super kudos to him. Yeah, I mean, he's the reason why his defense is doing what they're doing, right, He's one of the main reasons.

So super super credit to him in terms of going out there and making that play. But in reality that dude should have scored a touchdown, sure, but he didn't. But he didn't. So you go on to the next play. What happened right next play? De Law did a heck of a job getting vertical and creating some mayhem back there. But that's not supposed to happen in human plays. Yeah, if you go back and watch that all twenty two we talked about Mica, go look at what Tank did.

Blew up three guys, now de lawd Law had a heck of a game, in my opinion, that's his best in my opinion, that's best. You you're cool. Yeah, he understood that assignment. Yes, he understood assignment. Something may leave. Kudos to d law on that play. Those two plays, in my opinion as a player, that's not supposed to happen. Right, those are errors by the players on Detroit side. Oh

well right, they happened. Okay, Oh well they happened. That was the turning of the game because had those had the first play, the tight end play would have been a touchdown. Detroit Lions are able to stay in their strategy and stayed by running the ball on the ground because they didn't go to the second half. Now you have a terrible ball by year Golf on a play where Treyvon did was actually beat. Yep, he was beat.

It's much like the play last year against the New York Giants where it was he was beat and it was a bad ball underthrown. He makes an amazing play. It wasn't an interception if they had they replayed it because the ball he trapped it. But still amazing play. Still amazing play. Even make it even a speculation whether or not it was a catch or not. I don't

think he was beat as bad as you're intending. The receiver had the sideline, Reynolds had the sideline and golf through it thinking the sideline would be there, And then Reynolds didn't adjust to the ball well. And Treyvon Digs tracked that ball well. And I'm taking nothing away from Trayvon's ability to track the ball, make a play on the ball, and make it even you know, questionable whether or not he caught it or not. It was a terrible ball by Golf's I mean, let's not just again,

Let's let's be honest there. It was a terrible ball by golf. It is what it is. Had the ball been where it was supposed to be down to have been a big play for them offensive. So when I'm watching film, I look at it for the what ELPs Now. The reality is trayvonn made a heck of a player. The reality is golf through a bad ball, and you expect golf to make bad throws from time to time. So that is the reality. But I'm always looking at it.

Had had those plays turned out the way that they were intended to go, based upon what took place, this is a totally different ball game and I'm not sure that Detroit is in a position where they then now have to drop back and pass the ball and allow those goons for Dallas to come do what they do, because I think that they would have stuck with the running game and been efficient like they were efficient by averaging over four and a half yards per per rush. Well,

here's my problem. My problem is the bottom line is if ifs were fifth Sweethearts, we don't got drunk. Okay, So I drink water, though, and you make a point that I'd rather the ladder, you know, it goes great with the black rifle light. My thing is this, and you made several valid points, so let me let me kind of pull one out and kind of thread it

out from there. You mentioned that the lions were put in a position and over the lions kind of kind themselves and run and put themselves into position be errors or whatever the case may be where they kind of had to get away from what was working right. Well, that was because the cowboys forced them to make those mistakes and though and put themselves in that position. Like they didn't just say, well, I'm gonna go out and I'm gonna fumble on the right. So it goes back

to scheme versus personnel, who has the better personnel. The Cowboys have the better personnel, and their personnel be at Michael Parsons, Trevon Diggs shout off to Sam Williams. We have to mention Sam Williams, just a breakout game. Fantastic, fantastic, fantastic. And it goes back to kind of what during so Armstrong said to me a couple of weeks or so ago.

He said, everybody on the defense is to him. We saw another him yesterday, Sam Williams, Right, this Cowboys defense has kind of lived on Ben Don't Break, which I think is what Kyle was going to kind of allude to. So in allowing, not allowing, but allowing because you didn't stop it. In allowing some of those gainers on the ground, Cowboys were basically saying, Okay, you can have that. You can have that, you can have that, but show me what you're gonna do in the red zone. When it

came time to get closer to the red zone. Personnel and the differentiation between elite personnel and okay versus or bad personnel, that's where it shows up. I think you can agree in the red zone any other part of the person Michael parsons that play where he chased down the tighten from back in. That's elite personnel versus okay personnel.

Because if if it was elite versus elite, an elite tight end George Kittle, Travis Kelsey, they would have doved even if it was right, they would have dove do right, but they didn't. Yeah, So Michael Parson, there you go. Ye, well, yeah, exactly. You get down on the one yard line, you gotta run the ball, and all you gotta do is punch it in. Here's the problem, okay personnel versus elite personnel, and the Marcus Lawrence goodbye to you, Goodbye to you,

good bye to you. You're okay, goodbye to you. Give me the fune but I don't, don't so, and then it forced Jerry Golf into exactly what we wanted Jay Golf to be forced into. Now you have to win the game with your own absolute and we don't believe that you can. So I believe you're accurate in that the Lions were ended up being one dimensional in the dimension they didn't want to participate it, which was the

passing game. But that was by design for the Cowboys and Dan Quinn and then they went out and executed it and forced those mental mistakes that led to it being a completely different second half. I think with Tryvon Diggs and that was Those are excellent plays. Obviously Michael Parson stopped in then DeMarcus Lawrence, but I have to go back to a play like Treyvon Diggs. I have to go back to Sam Williams in the fourth quarter.

Those are heartbreaking plays for the Detroit Lions and quarterback in Jared Golf who has shown that once he starts to get down on himself, once he makes one mistake, one thread comes out. That's another and all of a sudden, the yarn ball is all over the floor and the catski. I forgot about one play. One play is a player that didn't take place that we saw from Cooper Rush against the Washington Commanders for the most part, and then it showed back up again. It's Philly and that was

arrant throws by Dak Prescott and he admitted it. He admitted into postgame interviews. He said, I was overly confident in some of my throws, and they pulled him back. They pulled, they pulled the rains it was in the first half. The interception that was should have been an interception where he threw it into triple coverage. That would have changed the landscape of the game too. So that's

what I think about those three plays in particular. Had those plays went down the way that most players would have taken advantage of those plays, this is a totally different game, and I don't like the way. Had the line that's been and able to stay with their game plan, I ain't have zero confidence that Dallas on the defensive side was able to stop their rushing attack because they didn't.

We didn't see it. So that's back to back weeks we've seen now where teams were You could call it ben but don't break all you want to, but I think these guys are running the ball on the ground. I think it was the ultimate ben but dumb break because you went all the way down to the half yard line on that drive, specifically because that drive was the worst drive defensively of the entire game. It was. I don't have the numbers in front of me. I'll find it when we come back from break, but they

play it was double digit yardage. A lot of that or double digit plays. A lot of that yardage came from the ground. They ran the ball, They went back to their great game plan, and they were physical, they were up front, and they went all the way down, ran a great sprint screenplay and then it was flubbed at the end. But you also, that's the thing is that's just two phenomenal plays from two of your best players.

That's the bend. But you just don't actually break it. Man, all the way up to the top up I would a little coffee stick. You went all the way up to the edge here and you didn't actually snap. And going back to Dak Prescott, and you know we would dive more so here shortly into Dak Prescott's return. Sure, but with Dek you knew that and we talked about it before the game. If he sees a particular throw, he's gonna pull the trigger. That's something that Cooper Rush

may not have done. Now, you take the good with the bad. So he dodged a bullet, Yes, that dropped interception, but that was a matrix dodge but not fair. That was out. He went for neo against mister Mistranderson. But not long before that, he completes that ball in triple coverage to Ceedee Lamb for the first down, which then gets the face mask from cdee Lamb, so that the past to Lamb showed me and reminded him that hey, I could make this throw. Yeah, it's on that particular one.

It didn't. It almost didn't work out. It turn out in completion could have been an interception. They completely changed the game plan after those throws. Completely changed the game plan after those kind of see that I think I think it more so that was one of the mental turning points for them to say, Okay, let's kind of scale back and get back to the run game. But what what was a hint that that was going to potentially happen was the it wasn't sailed, but his first

play from scrimmage, it was a little high. It was on the back shoulder, no brown catch behind him. It is a high. My first ketchup, it's anything. First note on my all twenty two note pads says Dak misses his quote unquote get comfortable throw because that's what it was. He was wide open over the middle. He had plenty of greed, could have just put on and he put it on the back shoulder and he said he expected the tight end to be released out there as well,

but the tight end got caught up in traffic. So but nonetheless, though those ones don't bother me that much because I expected that rest. I expected that rest. Like those back shoulder throws that should have been on the front shoulder, A couple of right tip could be tips and overthrows. Got to get those type of scenarios, right, I expected those because of timing right, and they speeded a game and he has to get back at justice. Those things bad decisions in terms of throwing it up there.

It's a triple covers. Those are and he know he already admitted it. I can't do that. I can't do that because if that takes place, and if that tight end, just like any other human being in the world, extends the ball across the gold line, those are that that game is. It's that games flipped. Yeah, but you know what I did see from deck and and this makes sure where they were keeping the the energy right. So, yes, Dak had a little bit of a LEPrecon on the shoulder.

It was a small back. It hopped up one shoulder yesterday was just it was small because I had the one, Cooper's was almost his height by the end of it all, Cooper's was, you know, about six feet tall. Um. But you know, and we obviously we gave the roses to Cooper Rush and when we'll continue to do so for what he was able to do. But all in all, for those that are saying and this what botherished mean, you guys aren't saying that. But what I saw on Twitter is Dak had a bad game. No, he didn't

have a bad game. And if you go and you look at some of the advanced UH stats and some of the advanced metrics, he actually had a better game than three of the four Cooper Rush wins, I would say, because for example, his air yards, his average air yards last night was just under eleven I think I read it was ten point eight yards per per tempt. And for those that need just a bit of clarity, it is exactly what it sounds like when Dak Prescott throws the ball. What's the distance that the ball is in

the air before it hits the target. So that's pre yac okay um. The most Cooper Rush had throughout his stint as starter was I think like eight point seven or something like that. So yeah, I'm not I'm not comparing that. No, you're not. This This is clarity for those that are saying Dak had a bay game. He threw the ball. He has seventy six percent completion rate. I mean he just has. I mean that. You can't say a quarterback how you how pass hath passer rating

this season. I mean, I mean, listen, Dad didn't have a game that any of us expected him to have against the worst defense in the league. I don't think any of us did. But it doesn't matter because they ran the ball effective. So that's that's where the benefit was. These guys ran the ball for average at four point three yards per per game. TP balled out, zeke balled out, the officer line got some, got some moving up there. They Dallas had to really cut back again on their scheme.

And I think that was Mike McCarthy and well maybe might maybe we'll talk about this later. Mike McCarthy really came in there, and for the first time that I physical I've seen with my own eyes, with your eyes, with my eyes, okay, and I bought it, okay, anybody to kill them more. No, for the first time, I maybe it's happened, but I'm sure it's happened before, but the first time that I have visually seen it. They want what will happen? They were about to go for

it on fourth down. They lined up. He didn't like to look, He said, no, tell him out field goal. Kick the field goal. You had a chance. I gave you a chance. And the third and ones weren't going so well. Yeah, I gave you a chance. Right. I didn't like what you were doing. Nah, we're doing it my way. And after that, and after some of those errand throws by Dak, what did you see with the passes? You didn't see much down the field? No more did you You didn't see them launch this? Would you start

seeing taking crossing route, shorts, lance, all that stuff underneath? Right? They said, hey, hey, let's give him some stuff that he can be confident with. Let's build him up. Let's not start taking shots down the field and rolling the dice and and testing out that dog on little LEPrecon. But you know it was perfect. We sat here last week and how many throws did you and I? But we were said the same number? How many throws did you and I? Both say? We wanted to see from Dak.

No more give or take and the Cowboys will win this game. That's right there. How many did you throw? Twenty five? Cowboys won? All right there? I completely agree. Places to improve upon is certain. They're there. They've got ways to improve. They're always ways to improve, like you said, But you can't say Dak Prescott had a bad game. That's not the case. You didn't throw an interception yet he only had six incompletions and we're even getting nitpicky

by talking about the six incompletions. But that's how Cowboys Nation is where we do, that's what we do. So there's ways for him to improve. There's ways for him to play better that will come hopefully down the line. But when we come back, I want to talk about a little bit more of what you were just talking about their play calling and the balance of this offense. Did we finally see a blue print in a good way on how to get this offense going consistently down

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whis kele Eved this morning. Now he's like, bro, what are you talking? I feel like this is a bye week conversation problem, whether or not whether or not hip hop's still hip is not its trash now. H By the way, the Cowboys yesterday recorded five takeaways in the second half, second half, two quarters. They had five takeaways. The last time the Cowboys had five takeaways in a single half. If you're a Cowboys fan, you might know this super Bowl against Buffalo in nineteen that was the

last time nineteen ninety three. You do not want to know. My parents weren't even married yet. Let's say that I don't. They may not have even met that you were stealing in your faja. Yeah, maybe I don't even think I was there yet, but yeah, back against the twinkling Buffalo Bills in Super Bowl in ninety three. By the way,

the drive that ended with that Williams fumble. Our friend Mario did the work for me on Twitter, and he's tagged us in it twelve plays, seventy nine yards got him all the way down inside the one yard line on Out of those twelve plays, eight of them were rushing attempts with a long of twenty fifty five total yards on the ground, and they had three third down conversions.

Two of them were thirteen and of nineteen yards. So shout out to Mario for doing the extra work there and getting that information to us, because that was the drive that was the ultimate game change. It was a great drive for them. He could whoever won that drive had a really good shot to win that football games.

And the Cowboys won that drives. They did wait because they had the great play for Michael Parsons to stop, yeah, to stop at the one yard line, and then d All right after that with the three plays are taking on three guys at the goal line to force the fumble. So really that was the game changer. But I want to go back to the play calling because that was

a huge storyline going into it. Where you got It's okay with the play calling throughout the ball game, I thought there was a lot left on the table, especially on third downs. Third downs were really tough on a couple of occasions, mostly yes, but if you go into the micro there were most certainly instances where I would have preferred to see something different. For example, one of the third and ones where it was Ezekiel Elliott going out to the edge, and I tweeted this at the time.

My preferences. If you're gonna make that play, if that's going to be the play call, then that needs to be Tony Polled in space, not Ezekiel Elliott. And if it is going to be Ezekiel Elliott taking that hand off, then it needs to be straight up the gut and punch them in the mouth and challenge them to stop you there. That's just for me, It's just a better personnel fit, knowing who's better in space. And then we saw another third and one reverse. Yeah, yeah, cowboys got cute.

Cowboys got cute on that. And it was a game that we knew would be physical because the lines would try to out physical that the cowboy, So the Cowboys needed to out physical the Lions as opposed to trying to pull out finesse. After you've seen some of these power runs work with Ezekiel Elliott, and you've seen the tandem between he and Tony Pollard, be effective and then

you're like, hey, let's let's get fancy. You don't always have to break out the doilies for visitors, Okay, Sometimes you just need to give them the grilled cheese sandwich and tell them to shove it down the throat. So those two third and ones, over the course of the first half, they helped the Lions gain confidence, and they helped the Lions feel like, hey, we can we can walk away with this wind. And ultimately that's what made it more difficult for the Cowboys in the first half.

And then it took after halftime for them to really start to slapping the Lions around, and then you start the Lions start to begin to unravel on both sides of the ball. But yeah, in the first half, particularly those first two third and ones, that left, like you said, some meat on the bone, as my mother would tell my my children, her grandchildren. As you know, I think coach McCarthy spanked Killing Moore's pal pal. I was wondering

where that was going. I think that Killing Moore was trying to get cute, and Killer Moore was trying to take some shots that Coach McCarthy was uncomfortable with. And I think he spanked his pow pal. I think he got. I think he got sent to the to the principal's office a little bit. And I believe that coach McCarthy

really stepped up. Yeah, the ruler brou Yeah, that could the ones that make you take your cheeks and you know what I'm say so, I think that killing Moore was like, oh, my guy's back, let's do this, let's do this. Let's and Coach McCarthy was like, nah, chill out. Well they they he gave him an opportunity on the fourth team. Did he said him out there and it would happen. See what happens. He's stepped four, he said, and burning. Nah, I'm burning time out and burn. I

don't like it sent out my re unit. You want to come to the press conference with me today and ask Kellen about it. If you got his poppa s banked. I don't know if I would have phrased it that way, I would. That's why I'm not in that room though. That's why they don't give you that. I'm not calling another man delicious, and I'm not asking another man if you got that's such an entertainer, come off centric the entertainment.

But yeah, I mean it's I think it kind of harkens back to what Mike McCarthy said after the Week one loss against Tampa Bay, and I think McCarthy has been held bent on making sure that line is told in that um. The Cowboys offense needs to be quote

unquote smarter in certain situations. And I think that's a situation where it's fourth and one and he had already seen Mike McCarthy did, had already seen a couple of questionable play calls on third and one, and then he saw the lineup or they set up the scheme and the personnel, and he was like, you know what, it's not even worth the risk. I'll burn this time out.

I'll eat it now. Truthfully, you could have just tried to draw him off sides, like sent the call in to Dax's helm and said, just try to draw up my off side because you're already on the field, and just take the delay a game because it's five yards. Isn't going to back up break this field goal, and you could have kept the time out. The one thing I thought about that too, But going back and looking at it, they were inside the they were inside the ten,

weren't they. I mean they were so even then it's half the distance, so I don't think an offside's penalty would have given them the first time. So I think it was kind of a mood point there too. But but to Isaiah's point, McCarthy looked at it and said, you know what, yeah, we gotta be smarter, and these

are the situations that I was talking about. So yeah, no, so be it some pow pow spankage or a simple veto, it came down from McCarthy and then the Cowboys went a hand took that field goal and they got the points, and at that point it was you know, it was needed because the offense just could not punch it into the end zone at that point. Yeah, they were at the three yard line and it was third and two, so even if they get half the distance, it's only a yard and a half, so it would have been

fourth and inches even then. So yeah, probably not just that it would have saved you the time, It would have saved you something. Yeah. Yeah, the time out specifically would have been a way. It's kind of crazy the comparison between these statistics. You know, I'm not a big stats guy, but because it doesn't tell the entire story. It adds value to your to your points. It's just part of the science yet. But you look at it. First downs Detroit had eighteen, Dallas had twenty one. They

had six. Detroit had six rushing UH first downs, Dallas had eight. Detroit had eleven first downs by passing, Dallas had ten. Dallas had three pit first downs by penalty, Detroit had one. Third downs. They were both thirty three percent on third down. UM. The difference is Detroit got to the red zone once Dallas went there four times, it was seventy five percent. Um. You know, you look at their their total yardage was very similar. You got

third three twelve by Detroit, three thirty by Dallas. You got passing attempts twenty and twenty. They went twenty one for twenty six. Dallas went nineteen for twenty five. UM. Miss's just crazy. You just look across the board man. Statistically, penalties, Lions had eight for fifty nine, Dallas had seven for fifty five. It really comes down just that turnover margin right there in that second half, right you start looking at that. Really the fourth quarter, they had four fumbles,

three of them got lost. Dallas had two fumbles, one of them got lost. This is the exact reason that the reason they defeated the Lions, takeaway margin and lost time posession was the reason they lost to the Eagles. Takeaway margin was in the eagles favor. This is how you win games and then the field you take the ball away, but more importantly, you capitalize off of that. That's the biggest thing. You have to capitalize off of

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Back here on Talking Cowboys presented by a Black Rifle Coffee Company, the official coffee of the Dallas Cowboys, with Chris Beam, Isaiah Standback, Patrick Nose Walker of Kyle Yeoman's all right, Isaiah, you had a question you wanted to pose. We didn't talk about it in the break. Yeah you got Yeah, I got it. So the game obviously turned right there in the fourth quarter, But I just want I didn't want to know Cowboys Nation, and we could

talk about it tomorrow when everybody starts calling in. Do you feel like there should have been a greater margin of victory? Being that Dallas undoubtedly he has a greater disparity in talent level. Dallas has far more talent offensively and defensively than Detroit does, far more tenured coaching staff. Do you feel like there should have been a man we caught our predictions. I know my prediction was was a greater margin of victory? Mine? It was thirty three

or thirty two to thirteen, So what is that? So? I mean, I mean, okay, you're you're a closer, You're a close everybody. Yeah, so his was seventeen. They won by eighteen. Yeah, I had to. I had them destroying these guys. So, I mean, I just asked that question because we all said that Dallas was gonna win. We all felt like they were gonna win by a good margin.

But do you feel like this is like, I don't know, I just feel like you're playing like you're you're you're in freaking au basketball, You're playing against the rec league, and I just felt like you should have beat them more handily, you know what I mean. So to answer your question, yes, they should have. Um the reason they didn't was because the offense couldn't get going in the first half. Offense didn't get going into the second half, which was you know, to complement what the defense was

doing with the takeaway with the takeaways. So yes, they should have absolutely just walked the dog against the Detroit lines yesterday. That is true, And that goes to your overarching point as far as improvements need to be made, absolutely. I mean, we're coming out of week seven, still still a lot of football to be played. The improvements need to be made, but there's a lot of time to

continue to make those improvements. My thing is, it's never apologized for a win because whatever energy you choose to have, and I say you, but I'm speaking generally to the listeners as well. Whatever energy you choose to have about the Cowboys, make sure you keep that energy with other teams. Example, the New York Giants was there were one yard away from losing to the Jacksonville Jaguars. For those that didn't see the end of that game, go watch the end

of that game. And Trevor Lawrence almost did it. I felt like Tennessee Rams super Bowl almost did it. So here's the thing. The Giants Now, as they said at six and one, everybody's like, oh, the Giants are real, and Brian Dayball is wonderful, wonderful. Of their six wins, none of their victories are greater than eight points, and most of their victories are Look at this six, four, five, eight,

three and one. Go and look at the Philadelphia Eagles, right, they're undefeated six and oh, but they've only broken the thirty point margin once in their victories. And their victories look almost similar to the Giants. A little bit of a disparency discrepancy there as far as the point differential, but they're not blowing teams out either. So but you hear the Eagles, they're dominant, they're the best team in the NFC. You hear the Giants, Oh my god, they're

six and one, they're the real deal. But then it comes to the Cowboys, and the Cowboys beat the Lions by a sizable margin. They didn't blow them out, but a sizable margin. And we're having the conversation of think

gets don't apologize for the winning. If we're gonna keep the energy, if we're gonna say the Giants are this and the Eagles are this, and we're not saying overlook the improvements that need to be made by the Cowboys and the mistakes that were made that shouldn't have been made in the thirty one calls and the drops by Noah Brown and a couple of passes from see. I think the question handled business, and I think the question is posed. I mean, nobody's questioned. Nobody's apologizing for the win.

You got the do say you no? No? No? Yeah? Mean okay, yeah there. I can't speak for everybody, don't. I am not apologizing. I am happy that I'm pleased Dallas one. Okay, I'm pleased that Dallas Cowboys one. I'm not pleased how they won. Right As as a competitor, I don't think that they that they handled Detroit Lions away, in which they should have, right, but ultimately you got

the W. So as a coach, you walk away. Okay, yeah we won, but anyone like that, right, I just shake my hand like we got THEB We're supposed to win that game. But I don't like how we did it. I don't like how we went about our business. Okay, fourth quarter, that's how I want us to go about our business. But that's not the game plan they came in with. We got some things, we got a tidy up. Okay,

that's my outlook on it. However, I lost my dog on training time the Dallas I lost my training I can get you back, I think, because you go back to last year. That's why. Yes, that's what I'm talking about last year. The offense, we're a top of the league. Yep. What do we lose offensively? Cooper Amari Cooper. Yeah, you lost Coop, but you have CD Lamb, Cedric Wilson. Okay, Cedric Wilson's returning kicks. Well, that's because Dolphins just aren't

using him. That's not because but I'm but I'm saying, like, what did you what did you lose that impact. That's going to impact taken from first yes, bottom five? Yes. Yeah. So that's why I think the expectation because you didn't lose anything. You lost you lost Coop. Yeah, that you lost a lot in Coop. I don't agree with that law. But you lost a lot of Coop. But everybody has everybody has a CD. They have a CD, right, they

have a CD. Okay, So if you're saying that CD is your guy, he's your replacement for Coop, he's read some have the front office says the CD is our guy and that we don't need Coop hasn't shown up yet, hasn't shown up yet in that regard, right. So that's why I think people are asking, at least why I'm asking the question, how do you go from the top of the league to the bottom of the league offensively

and you didn't lose a whole lot. Well, I'll say this, I think if Dak Prescott, I think if Dak Prescott doesn't get injured in week one, by now you're looking at him prolific. That's fair. That's what I can see that. I could certainly see that all right time. Now for helmet stickers, we do it every time the Cowboys get to win. This the fifth time this season that we've got helmet stickers, and it's the first time we're doing it without our guy Rob P. Phillips, which is unfortunate.

You're gonna represent Rob well, Isaiah who you got. These are helmet stickers, are players of the game for the win. Over the lines. You see this little gentleman right here righting his bicycle. Okay, his bicycles nice too, and big wheels on it. Okay. You see that backpack right there, backpack, backpack. Okay, y'all see right there, This right here is DeMarcus Lawrence. D Law got on his bike and said, hey, fellas, hop in my backpack. I'm gonna cure you guys to

the victory. He made a heck of a stop right there on the goal line. Had it not been for that, I think this is a totally different game. So d Law, way to play big dog m. I like it. I like it, very nicely done, d Law. We want the sticker, No, I'll let you go next. I like yours. Next, I'm going to go with rookie second round pick Sam Williams. Sam, I'm gonna give you a pair. No, I'm gonna get you know what, I'm going to give you a pair of Sam, Well, I'm gonna give you a pair because

yesterday you gave the Cowboys a pair of sacks. You gave the Cowboys a multi sackers game, and you had the hat trick with the strip fumble, the strip sack fumble. Sam Williams just absolutely balled out yesterday. So he gets the pair because he gave the Cowboys a pair. And very fun stat here, Sam Williams and I tweeted this out yesterday, only the fourth Cowboys rookie since nineteen eighty two to record two sacks and a force fumble in

the game. Here are the other three. Michael Parsons, Victor Butler, go look mom if you don't, and DeMarcus Ware. How's that for company? Is a pretty good day. So a pair for the pair of Sam Williams. I like it. So you guys both picked defensive players. This was a defensive football game. You picked the Marcus Lawrence, you picked Sam Williams. Sam Williams is in company with Michael Parsons in one of those areas. That's why I'm gonna go with Michael Parsons because he showed it's not just that

one's company. He continues to play well. And I picked out this little apple. It's a realistic apple. You know why apples fall from trees, right, they fall from trees. And that's kind of what it looked like. Whenever you're looking at the ALL twenty two and Michael Parsons is falling off of the tree, He's falling with the gravity to catch right at the end zone, bring him right down. I like it because how about that it came in and apple bunked right on the head, stopped them at

the one yard line. And then you turn around and Michael Parsons is my helmet. All defensive players, it was a defensive football game, was will and there were some offensive players that probably could earn that, but they didn't. Think it's I think it's maybe next week, not today. But it's time to drop the nicknames. Maybe we do start getting into there. Maybe we do that. This we maybe we do. There's a whole week of preparation to be had heading into that matchup with the Chicago Bears.

It's a string of NFC North matchups, one down, three to go in that division to try and run the table. But that does it for us. You're on Talking Cowboys Today, presented by our friends over at Black Rifle Coffee Company. Hope you had some fun with us. We'll be back tomorrow to take your phone calls. Eight eight eight eight five five two two ninety seven. We're gonna talk to Cowboys Nation all day tomorrow. May get an extra couple calls in there, Why not? But for Patrick nose Walker,

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