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dip of the Dallas Cowboys. Here from the Star in Frisco in the s WBC studios, and we are breaking down what was not the ideal Sunday at at and T Stadium, Week nine of the NFL season. Ghost just like that perfect timing from Chris Pane, because the Cowboys did not score until four minutes and eight seconds left

in the ball game. They were blanked thirty to nothing to start, tacked on a couple touchdowns late in the final score against the once even five hundred four and four Denver Broncos Denver thirty, Dallas sixteen, And I mean, what else can you say about it? This was just one of those weeks where nothing went your way. Heckma was at the game. Rob was at the game, Isaiah and I were in studio. But we'll start with Rob.

Where does this one rank in terms of games where it was just one of those days as on a good Cowboys team. Yeah, I think Dak said it. I think twenty eighteen when they got shut out in Indie when they were rolling rolling after the Amari Cooper trade. That's the closest thing I can remember to a just a drop in momentum. Like I said it last week, the Vikings win in Minnesota was the best win of

the McCarthy era. Then you around and have this. I just want to share a few words slash phrases from last night's postgame thumped, whooped, out, hit out, physical, punched in the face, embarrassing, the last one from Mike McCarthy, outplayed and outcoached. It sounds like a match with the Undertaker. You know you did there? Yeah, yeah, the other Taker was there and Rob Phillips got to interview the Undertakers. Best part of the day by far, by far. Yeah, by far, is a good day and a great day

to you know, to honor the our armed forces as well. Yeah, but after kickoff, man was not funning, would you think, he man, it looked like one of those games where everything was out of sorts from the beginning. I mean, from the beginning, the vibes were just off and uh, you know, I want to you know, you do you talk about the words out hit, outcoached. Embarrassing is the other word that I heard, because you you hear. You know this. This team knows that they're better than the

performance that they put up. And everyone has been asking when is that let down game gonna come? When are we gonna have that roadblock? And unfortunate, well, fortunately for us, we got it at home and it was embarrassing and it was that kind of butt whipping that I think you can remember. I mean, I don't know if you guys have ever lost a fight in your life, but if you, if you ever, I mean look at me. Yeah,

Rob's undefeated and fights. Well, look, it's something to be learned from getting your butt whoop, you know, And sometimes it's a humbling experience. And I just feel like, look, man, we got that humbling experience. And you saw guys take the podium and they looked humbled by the experience that they had. In credit credit the Denver Broncos and what they did because defensively, they showed up ready to go.

They didn't have whatever the mountain time that they came from, they didn't affect them because they were right all the time when they got here, and defensively and offensively they were clicking on all cylinders. There was a few names we didn't even talk about, but I'm sure we'll get into and dissect here in just a minute. Yeah, we sat here all week in Gas passed up Dallas. We

sat up here all we can. Talked about the matchups, the advantages that we had offensively, defensively, how our receivers can destroy their secondary even though that was the strongest part of their of their team. We also talked about some of the dangers, the number one danger being that even though on paper, even though historically based upon this season, we're a better team than them, that you still have to show up. We said that, We said you still have to show up and you still have to play.

You have to respect them simply because these guys are professionals at what they do, too, right, and if you choose not to show up, you will get popped in your mouth, right or black. My mom says, my kids, right, her grandkids, don't make me spank that pal pal. Right, the Cowboys got their pal pals faked all right, because they chose not to show up. And it was very apparent, it was very obvious in that game that from the snap of the ball, they weren't there. They weren't there.

I don't know now, we don't know why. We don't know if they just thought that they were gonna show up and Cadillac through it. We don't if they showed up and they were just out of sorts. We really have no idea. But I do know that in all aspects of the game, set for maybe special teams. Actually, he said, those guys didn't show up. Offense, Dak looked bad. Let's just call it how it is. People can yell

at me all day long. Dak looked bad, and I'm sure he would stand behind here and say the same thing. His mechanics were off, his accuracy was off. But on the other side of that offensive line did not help the matters right. Officsive line looked like trash right at both tackles and interior. Wise, those guys running stunts in

which created a lot of open seams. For their second, second, and third level defenders to be able to put pressure on dec as well our receivers when the ball did get to our receivers, drop balls on third downs, huge huge plays, right dropped opportunities. So offensively, it was it was trash. Defensively, we talked about the one thing that the one area that we can that we can get

hurt was wearing in the running game. Even though we didn't really respect these backs, we had to respect the fact that these guys have a good running scheme right this zone, the zone offense. I alluded to the old school Terrell Davis days where you had to be aware of what these guys do because of that scheme. Well guess what they did that, right, they did that and

our guys they switched that up. They went from zone they I mean, they changed a lot of what we had seen throughout the week from running the ball in the zone since, like you said, stretching U and they man, they had some counters going, They had a lot of different things that whatever they wanted on the ground. Well, but then you know, I was talking to Pee before we got in here, and it just seemed like in the first half defensively, I guys just just weren't getting set,

you know. I don't know if they were waiting on the call or what it was. But once Teddy Bridgewater went with a quicker up tempo, you saw guys still standing around the line of scrimmage while the Denver Broncos were already set. So I don't know if those things were a part of us not being off a little bit, but those just things that were happening in doing the game.

That was one of the first times, at least dating back to the opening week of the season, where I looked at the defense and said, they don't necessarily know what's going on. I mean, there's a lot of different confusing jin looks. I mean, deer in the headlights on multiple occasions throughout. So that kind of brings me back to it to what you were saying earlier, because I mean, the Denver Broncos did their job of switching things up on film and then executing the adjustments that they made.

Dallas stayed stagnant and it seemed like they didn't have any adjustment along the way. So were they out coached in this game? And how severely were they outcoached in the game? It's hard to say from from a viewer's perspective, is really hard to say that you're outcoached. I do know we can point out and say, hey, you know, we were inaccurate, Hey we didn't block all these kind of executions defensively. They were hesitant as all get out.

We've been talking about how fast and physical our team has been all year long, and then all of a sudden, you see, I pointed out multiple times during the game where because he was sitting back there, just waiting for the for the guy to turn around to a three sixty and everything, he's still sitting there. Well, I'm like, bro, can we go hit somebody? Even Micah Mica as well as he as well as he played sideline the sideline, there were still some plays where he was he was hesitant.

So there was a lot of I'm just pointing out those two guys. It was the first two to pop my head. There's a lot more than that, but guys were hesitant and to that point, were they thinking too much or were they just out of it? We don't know, right, but what we do know is that it equaled that. Yeah, I was gonna ask you about Kean O'Neill. Also, you saw those situations. It wasn't good, you know, it really wasn't And I saw down on the goal line where Luke Gifford was in the game. On the goal line,

I don't know, but he was in the game. He was in the game, and number ninety nine Hamilton justin Hamilton's you know done, Terry Poe is gone, you know, but I'm telling you he reminded me. It reminded me, no doubt when I've seen him and getting thrown around my bro Now, that's that wasn't good. And I think upfront physically, that was where some of the problems were started.

I just look, I think what was more frustrating than anything, it's just seeing the Broncos in situations like was it second and seventeen and then they get a fifteen fourteen yard pick up and we have situations where we can get the ball back. It just nothing was going our way at all, and he goes even from the punk locker good even did a bump block, right, So that was that was the hurt. Yeah, did that hurt? Hurt?

And have you seen that? And I've seen it before, but have you been a part of a game, you see something like that. We're in a studio and Barry and I were actually up in arms about it, really going back and forth about, Hey, what the heck is a ruling on this, because in our head, if the Cowboys never possessed a ball, it should have never been a change of possession. But this is a funky rule, So, I mean, it's rules. It's a different word than funky.

If it's not possessed by the player, even if it's half of the line of scrimmagery, why is it eternal? It's dumb and they need to look at it because I think you should have possession of the ball and then lose. It didn't to be a muff and a fumble, correct. Mike McCarthy didn't shy away. He said, we know the rule, and Sean Right apparently knows the rule. It was an instinct thing, yep. You know, if you see the ball,

go get the ball. See ball, get ball. Yeah. And so he's a young player, and young players make those mistakes. The one thing about that rule, that mistake, Yeah, I mean I think anybody will can't. You can't fault in a Sean Right, a rookie trying to make a play on special sees the ball, He's like, yeah, let's you'll get it and have it. When he did that, it made me think about a play that I had a bad everybody think. I don't know if everybody has a

bad play. But we're playing against Philadelphia Eagles with the old old Cowboys stadium and the dog one kicker kicked the ball a little squip kick, little joint um, little curball, and they dropped out and I came out to get it from the kickoff return position and it hit my hands and the dove right out underneath me. So it hit my hands and went into the end zone. Instinctively, what is what are you thinking? Crap? I touched the ball, right,

I gotta go get this thing and win. Got it and we got tackled inside like the one yard line. Next play, Romo gets fumble for a touchdown. It was bad, right, and I like, in my head, I'm like, dude, I just screwed this whole thing up. And but the rule said as long as the momentimum of the ball keeps going, I could have downed it in the end zone. But to your point, instinctively, I gotta go do this right now. So it's hard to fault nashan split second. Yea split

second decision. Maybe in March at the owner's meetings, you know, maybe maybe it'll be discussed and changed, I mean on the competition committee. So yeah, hey, maybe circle that one. Come back to it. But whenever you're on offense and a ball is fumbled and a defender touches the football, even if it's bouncing forward, that's not an automatic change of possessionist. Now, if the defender picks it up, that holds it, makes a football move, that's different. Then he

fumbles it again, that's a change of possession. No such things. So why is that rule in special teams? And not necessarily got to ask Chris Beam about that. Man. Chris Beam was the punt return specialist. He's the guy that yelled Peter, Peter, so get away. He's the Peter guy. I do believe that I had that. Now, for those that have been on really good teams, right, if you've been on a really good team before, you've all everybody

has had a game, right. I could think back to a basketball game back in high school where we were getting destroyed by this team that should not have been beating us, and then we finally at half time, we're like, you're all ready to play, all right, let's go play, and we just came back and took over the game. I felt like, this is the same instance, right, these guys were getting beat by a team that we shouldn't

be getting beat by. The game was still close as a two possession game, and we're going to have and guys are like, you're ready to play, Yeah, all right, let's go. Let's go make some place. And then what happens. We come out boom blocked the punt and then we don't get gotta get the battle inside the thirty. But I feel like if that would have went our way, I think we were sit here talking about a victory, maybe because because I agree with him. Maybe they've been

a second half team all year. What side it was, well, they missed so many opportunities, and especially offensively because because Dak was off. There's no doubt about it. Can't sugarcoat it. But they've been outscoring. I looked it up. First seven games. They outscored teams by a total fifty one points. They've been a second half team. But I think Mike Michael Strahan said at halftime when a team is running on you like this, Yeah, it's hard to come out and

adjust to that. Yeah, And that was a problem all year long last year, the run defense, and I brought it up around bye week time. The Pats tested them, yep, and there were there were there were cracks there. Now, give them credit against Minnesota, they stood up strong against Dalvin Cook, but you know that this is the first time they really a team, really pounded it, and they really had and it changed the course of the game.

It really did. I think with the block punts, because I agree with you completely, time of possession was dominated by Denver, and I think that would have continued minutes forty one minutes on offensive I mean that that would continue whether or not you converted on the block punt. But you're talking about offensive momentum because if you get the ball inside the thirty. I'd have to go back

and chart this. But how many times did Dallas even have the ball inside the Denver thirty until the fourth quarter?

Probably not at all. Even in the first two drives of the game when they went forward on fourth down and they could have kicked the field goals, well, they didn't get into the red zone until the last two if you want to call them guard all the time touchdowns, So that could have jumped started the offense having the ball there, converting going and finding paid and then you find your your rhythm later on and made you can win that. I mean, it's it's all speculation, right, It's

all speculation. It's all what if. But having been a part of teams like that in the past, it's it sounds really bad, but it's really a light switch. It's the same reason why I think Kansas City is about to turn it on. And I hope they don't turn it on until after us, But I feel like Kenna City is about to hit that light switch. But you just know what they're capable of, and it takes one little mojo moment. It takes one mojo moment and all

of a sudden, it's all right, let's go ball. You think part of that factored into their thinking of going for it twice on fourth and short early in the game. They have so much confidence in their offense and quite frankly, confidence in their defense, say if we don't get it, we'll get it back. Yeah, exactly, That's that's exactly why. I mean, you feel like you're like you're just that good,

and again you need it. You need to the Heck's point, you need to get checked in the chin, right, You rather get checked in your chin early on in the season versus this happening later on and you're not recognizing how to respond to it. So I'm glad. I'm glad it happened early. If it was going to happen, yeah, we'll be all right. Yeah, confidence and arrogance are twins. And then similar situations and that those fourth downs, and I know, this old school way of thinking about whether

go forward or not. I just felt like there were certain points where you didn't have any rhythm at all, and those fourth those going forward on fourth downs cost you. Yeah, and four Jesus. So that not only that and the time of the time possession like you pointed out, but you know, the momentum part of it. I mean, even from the start with Tony Pollard's kickoff, and that would to me it's like, oh, Mann, we came out, were ready to go, and then you go, you know, three

and out with four and out him on the first play. Yep, That's what I'm saying exactly. And so, uh, there's Carlos Watkins, you know, got that got that sack. And there's just so many things that's happening throughout the game that even the momentum aspect of it, we were not as up against the ropes as it seemed. But once Javante Williams started pounding, pounding, pounding, it just it made it where like, Okay, there's nothing we can obviously do to get back in

this game. And Teddy Bridgewater man, look Teddy p Man. It loved Tko if y'all know, yea anyway anyway, but anyway, but he just he just found all the open receivers and he did a lot of good work yesterday. You know. One one part of the game that I highlighted, I was like, who big question mark was on the punt, the muff punt, the muff punt, whether it was says, yeah, that one that was tough, wasn't it? Man? Yeah, that's

the momentum killer. I was like, right through it could have been really bad, really bad that point it would have just added to but like it's little things like that hadn't gone downhill at that point. At that point, it hadn't gone downhill. I mean, but it allows these those negative thoughts to kind of come in your head. I mean, again, a lot of this stuff sounds really bad, but this is the reality. Sorry. People. It allows those negative thoughts to come in your head and then guess what,

Then something negative actually happens. You're like, oh, we rather have one of those days like a drop. Yeah, yeah, a couple of those, couple of couple of those. You can say bad ball, but yeah, Cooper's right therapy dog and he's right there and below the belt. But you know, you still got to bring those in. So there's a lot of everybody in every Seemingly everybody had their part and it wasn't just like oh this one guy. Everybody had a part. So that's what that's what makes games

like this very important. And actually these games games can bring you together. Games like this can bring you together because you can't go in the locker room and say, man, he was tripping, Man, heck didn't ball out. You say, hey, all we all saw, we all saw. Let's figure this thing out. Yeah, I was thinking about that this morning. Like in the NBA, you play eighty two games and you have a crappy game like that, you burn you just say forget it. We're not even gonna watch the film.

You only get seventeen of these, and you have a young team, a very young team that, like jay Ron Curse said, this is not gonna be a fun film watch, but we gotta watch it. We gotta see what we did wrong because you're halfway through the season and you can chalk it up to just a bad game. But halfway through the year, this is where teams start to make adjustments and start to get a read on what you like to do, and so this is very important

to see how they respond coming out of this. Hey, Cordello Patterson, he's not gonna look at it and say, oh, that was just a bad game. He's gonna be like, huh yeah, take my notes. He's right here. Everybody else isn't gonna chalk it up as a bad game. So if you want to chalk it up as a bad game, sorry for you. Well, you know, these guys have to go back and evaluate. Yeah, that's just important for them as how young they are in the culture that we've

been talking about. And you're right, man, there's so many teams that would have just say, let's not even watch this beccause that wasn't US. I think for a young team, you have to go back and you have to dissect this and say what happened here? Even the coaches, I'm sure last night they were here. They're still here, you know from watching the game last night, but dissecting what

did we act? What happened? Right? And I think everybody has to just take a step back from this and just say, man, we were off, but we cannot show up again like that. You cannot let it affect you going forward. Nope, you gotta put it in your review mirror, learn from it. I mean, in the grand scheme of things. Remember we've always talked about breaking the NFL season into quarters now quarters plus one. But through the first two quarters, you were three in one, and you were three in one.

It's pretty good start to the season. If you want to continue that, let's continue it. Don't let this one loss affect you. You're gonna lose games along the way. In a seventeen game season, you will lose games. We

weren't gonna finish sixteen and one. You can't let this one, though, bleed into Atlanta, which then goes to Kansas City, and then you've got Las Vegas because you've got a tough quarter coming up, and if you let this linger, you're gonna be in trouble and you might actually find yourself in a race for the NFC East. All right, when we come back, what was the most concerning part about the thirty to sixteen loss against the Denver Broncos will

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from Tom Brady. All right. We're continuing to break down this thirty to sixteen loss against the dim ver Broncos, and like we said in the first segment, just wasn't right for the Cowboys from the beginning. A season low in total yardage, a season high and rushing yards allowed, gave up thirty points at home before you found the scoreboard. Everything went wrong. You could point it in a bunch of different directions. Can I say one more thing? What's

that Cooper Rush had more points? Oh no, stop it, Oh no, don't don't go there a fact. Stop it. It's the lowest point to the year, right, isn't that? You are the consummate antagonist. He loves he loves that role. He's poking the digital bear, right. Yea, we're going down stats and I'm just saying, so, yeah, we score less points this week? Would be your intro music? If you were a wrestler, would you go with the Undertaker stone cold all day? You have to have the alcoholic less beer.

That's it. That's it, you know, I can't have those Miller lights. Yeah, exactly, smash them together. I don't know who our drink sponsor is. That they have a non alcoholic something, don't they sure? Maybe they got to somewhere deja blue? All right, go on alcoholic? Actually all right? I want to point in one specific direction. What was your most concerning part of the loss. It doesn't have to be a specific player, doesn't have to be a unit. It could be a thought process, the mindset. But it

can be a specific player and a specific unit as well. Heck, I'll start with you but when you look back at this loss in the future, what are you gonna say? Man, this scares me going into the rest of the season. Back to what Rob said during the bye week, Man, the running game, and I think it's all predicated by our defensive line. You saw some gaping holes in our defense that we hadn't seen previously, and so linebacker communication. Even Jerun Curse looked a little bit off, and we've

been talking about how great he looked. So I think defensively, there were just some things that we have to work on. Dan Quinn wasn't as sharp as we are accustomed to seeing him as far as the play calling, but you know, calling these defenses, we just didn't dial up anything, and it seemed to be everything that we did try to If there were any adjustments that were made, the Broncos made an adjustment as well. It just kept the party going. Early in the game, it seemed like the defensive line

was getting pushed. I mean, Randy Gregory, Carlos, Watkins, Olsa, Odiggy Zoa, my goodness. Well, the first three series he was in the backfield almost every play and they continued that same mindset throughout. But what happened. What switched from the pass rush being at least somewhat successful to just getting completely blown off the ball and then opening gaping

holes for Javonte Williams and Melvin Gordon to run through. Yeah, possession, you know, time of possession and the amount of plays that they have versus I mean, your defense can't say if you stay out there for seventy three plays that just attrition is gonna It's gonna happen. Guys are gonna get tired, These big, gashing players are gonna start to happen.

And I just feel like that's you know, over time, I think you pointed out the first quarter of how our guys were playing that Broncos found something they found like different guys to pin the tail on the donkey. We were worried about Judy and Sutton, and we never said anything about eighty one. Who. I mean this guy turned in Patrick, you know Patrick and guy from Utah that came out involved and just exposed us in a lot of ways in our secondary I think, you know,

young guys that have to step up. I mean, we talked about Trey vun days. I've been the guys saying, man, Trey vun days e lead. He does so many great things. This guy can go down baby prime all of that. That was bad last couple of last couple of games. We've seen some holes in his game. So I mean, he's got to get back to what made him, you know,

got him to the seven picks. You think teams were trying to counter his aggressiveness and say, we know you're gonna you're gonna gamble at times, and we're gonna play off of that. I mean that seems like, what that's what they're doing, that double double moves, you know that kind of thing. I mean, that's the flip side. But he gives you so much with taking the ball away.

That's that's yeah, that's Bear. Church is one of the first guys that I heard talk about Trayvon Diggs in the way that you know he the double move is going to affect him eventually. And somebody must have heard that and picked up on him, because that's they thrown a lot of double moves that Trayvon and in Ohio and it's beat from Ohio. Man, he offended the whole thing. Yeah, he gave the secret sauce. I had never really answered that call against heb, what do you think the lack

of want to that's what you're most concerned about. Yeah, I didn't like it. I didn't like it. The reason being, even if you have a game like this, you rather get beat rather didn't say that your team just let up. And I feel like it both occurred yesterday. I feel like we got beat and I feel like we our guys did not give everything that they had. I think we all can point to a number of plays where

you were just like, what the heck man? Yeah, it's just a lack of effort, not necessarily lack of execution, because execution comes based upon the effort that you put out. Guys just didn't weren't putting forth their best effort, and that, to me was the most concerning thing. We can coach up better, right, We can coach up better to guys being better gaps, We can coach up guys to schemes, all that kind of stuff. I can't coach you to have better effort. I can't make you want to make

a play. I can't make you want to go hit somebody, to go want to block somebody, to want to give that extra little bit that's going to give us opportunity to have a big play. I can't make you do that. And the fact that you that you will listen, that you show me that you're capable of pulling off, lets me know that I don't know when the next time that's going to rear is a little ugly head. When's the next time that you don't want to do something?

When's the next time that you just don't want to go out there and put out everything that you have? Because that's what I'm expecting now, that you whant to put you on the field regardless of how the game's going, the choice getting their butt kicked all year long. You guess what them boys are still playing hard, right, they're just getting beat Yeah right. They don't have any talent, they don't have any town right, But you're not questioning effort.

We question effort with one guy last year and he can't be kicked out button last week? Right, we quick question effort one time. So I don't wonder. I don't want to see that present itself, because that to me is concerned to ask that as we talk about culture councel, culture counsel that out asap. Yeah, y'all even mentioned cancel

culture Z y'all are dead on. I mean, Mike McCarthy throughout training camp always talked about play style, play style, which means physical as hell, energy, fast, and I'm really thinking more defense than anything. And everybody said it. They were more physical than us. That's the first time this year where they really got beat soundly on both sides of the line, both sides of the ball, on the

line of scrimmage, especially defensively. And you know, guys, guys don't want to say, hey, we didn't give enough effort. Sometimes you just get your ass kicked. But you know, Dak did say. I mean, he was asked, did you guys get too high in yourselves? Basically, you know, chin held high? He said, he said maybe, he said, he said, I don't know, Maybe, he said. I I think sometimes you just think you can roll it out there and get it done, even when adversity hits. And they haven't

been tested a ton lately. I mean, the Patriots game was a hell of a game. Yeah, these last two games were. I think that's why it's so surprising, you know. And I'm I don't know if we talked about rust as a factor for Dak enough that maybe three weeks off essentially was going to create some rust and maybe we shouldn't have because god, look how he played in Week one yep, with no preseason. So he'll be better, he'll get back to work, they'll get better. You guys

really took probably my top two. Well, the other one I would say, I think you have to point out left tackle didn't work out like they hoped. Terrence Steele fought out there, but it did, but it didn't go. Well are you laughing he call it that one? Well, no, no, you're right. I mean we talked about it during the week. How there's a line of thinking of let him stay where he's at and be successful. I don't think they had a great answer either way because Lyle Collins has

never played out there at the NFL level. He's been in the league since twenty fifteen. And they went with what they thought was the more practical decision. Terrence Steals young, but he played a lot of left tackle in training camp. Let's just do that. It didn't work. I don't fault the decision, but I mean, going into the thought process that way was, oh, Terrence Steal is going to take exactly what he did at right tackle and he's going

to be just as good on the left side. And even in the middle of the week last week we had a conversation about it. We were saying, are we sure that's the case? Now we're completely unsure, And now there might be another conversation on whether or not Terrence Steal stays at left tackle, because well, he did so well on the right side, you can stick him right back there, and now you can try it the other way.

I don't fault the decision because with everything that they had seen with the snap counts dating back to Oxnard, with the way that he had played throughout the season at right tackle, there was nothing showing that Terrence Steele was going to go to left side and just completely not play the same way. And the other side of that too, that we had mentioned was, you know, maybe Lyle Collins becomes the right tackle again at some whole time. Anyway, let him play at right tackle and get his feet

back underneath him. It just didn't work out, you know, And and and you know, they really attacked the edges man, but Jonathan Cooper, seventh round draft pick Von Miller's not there. He was in the backfield a lot. Thank god, wasn't there, Thank God was gone. I mean we talked about like, you know, how does that defense react? How do you know what's your mindset when you trade away the franchise player. They went the opposite direction. They didn't mail a damn

thing in. No, they didn't. They played with a chip on their shoulder. No, And just going back to that, I think the whole rhythm of the offense was thrown off. Dak seemed a bit out of swords. You talk about him selling balls, it's not getting his feet set. And obviously the stay impacted us as well. But from a pressure standpoint, it was in Dax's head. He was counting, you know, recognizing that that pressure was coming off the left side. And so I mean, what do you do

about that? You know, with Terrence still, you have to go if if let's just say Terren Smith is out against Atlanta, you got you gotta put Terren Steal back at left tackle. You can't. You can't, ye at this point, you can't. You can't. You can't change this, and you gotta allow Leo College. You're not gonnae right, I agree with right, Yeah, And so I just think that the experiment itself maybe you didn't get what you wanted. A lot of people are not gonna want to hear that.

But how else is this guy gonna be able to get any better? You put him on the right side, you gave him help, and he started to show improvement that you didn't have to give him as much help. Now you put him on the left left side, he has a horrible game. He has a horrible game. Where else do you go from there? You gotta put his back out there and allow him to get that time. And you said it best. You're paying him as a

swing tackle. That's what he is. The SEC and Terence Steele are guys that are competing at that swings tackle position. You can't just abandon ship. Now, it didn't work like that. Man, Do you think Tyan Seki instead of Terrence still out there? Do you stick with them? Never? Okay and no way. If he played well in their mind, I just my thoughts against the Vikings, he would have been the left tackle Sunday, which you think. I agree? And look, people

want to see best five. Well, this was kind of their version of the best five, you know, just from what they have, from what's available. Yeah, and we'll see if Tyrn can come back this week, maybe a week off. I asked Mike McCarthy last week, is it just a rest thing, let it calm down, and he said, I don't think it's long term. Now does that mean it's back after one game and we'll see he's not on IR which is also a good good sign. Yeah, for sure. So he could either be back in two weeks or hey,

he could be back this week. Maybe that's the case, and maybe it was a one week plug in play sort of deal. But heckma made a fantastic point. If you had to pick one guy from twenty twenty to twenty twenty one on the offensive side of the football that was most improved, it would probably be Terrence, Yeah, or no, doubtly it would be Terrence. But yeah, I would say Terrence still too. Cedric had flashes though in twenty twenty, Yeah, but he just Terrence Steele did not

have any flashes unless they were negative. Yeah. Yeah, I would say Terrence Steele far and above the most improved players. So why did not give him an opportunity to try and write some of the wrongs and improve going into the week. He had a really good mindset following the game, owning up to the fact that he did not have a good game, that the team didn't have a good game, and that he's got to get better moving forward. What

else could he say? Everybody kind of had to say, you know, Isaiah's an all week that I couldn't do it. He's got he's got to own it. I mean in the film, and the film is out there and everybody saw it. I mean, he probably had the worst fourth quarter of any left tackle in the league. It's just it's horrible. Yeah, it's bad, all right? When we come back, how does it get fixed? Where did the Cowboys go

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you're cheering in the stands. With lenses, you can see every exciting play book an appointment at your local experts and see what can do for you. See more, do more. Isaiah's making a sad face, which is hints. That was the most sad Mike flip I've ever seen. Don't ruin read like that got glasses because of you. You gotta do the flip, man, Come, I did it. That was a sad Monday said Monday. He summed up everything right. Yeah, my screenshot that for Twitter man, No, it's not accurate.

It was good. No, it's accurate. We're happier than that to have our lens. Well they know that, Yeah, they do. Yeah. If they don't know that, they need to just watch the The best part is that Rob's never got to do an Essler spot ever. Dude. He went on Friday. Here, Chris, he's pulling your your camera up. Oh that's awesome. Okay, how do we fix it? Where do we go from here? Cowboys lose thirty to sixteen to the Denver Broncos. Heck Ma Harrison, Isaiahs stand back Rob Phillips Kyle Yeoman's final

couple minutes here of a Monday edition of Talking Cowboys. Isaiah, I'll start with you on this one. Where did the Cowboys go? Because Denver provided a blueprint and maybe that was a blueprint that was kind of stolen a little bit from the Patriots and what they did well against the Cowboys a couple weeks ago. However, Denver actually executed it through a full four quarters. How does the Dallas Cowboys rip up? How did they rip up that blueprint? Yeah?

I think they just identified that they played like crap. I think go back and watch it and to see exactly. I think some of it was scheme, some of it was assignment, and then a lot of it was just effort. That's what I really think. I think a lot of it was just they just didn't care enough. They didn't care enough, they didn't care that somebody walked in their house and punched them in their mouth like they didn't

fight back. I don't know if you guys ever been in a fight before, but I got I got cursed out by my mom when I was young. We was at a dog on a church bowling event and a kid it was standing over me talking mess to me, and I didn't stand back up. When I got home, I got my butt whoop because she said, don't you ever let somebody come in your dog on crib, in your bubble and talk mess to you right and threaten you better stand up for yourself. And Dallas didn't do that.

So I feel like they will be perfectly fine. I'm fully confident that they'll be perfectly fine because I think the culture of this team now is they will not allow this to ever rear his head again, and they will bounce back next week and say, hey, what I just realized we may be related. Yeah, I think we. Also, I got my pow power. But also, did you say you were bowling? Oh I'm a bowler, baby. You said you got in a a guy trash talk to you

while bowling. Yeah, well they stood over me. It got in some kind of, um, you know, a little dispute, and and and the person came and stood over me, and I didn't I didn't get up. So my mom was like, don't you ever let somebody feel like they have the advantage over you type of du You got Alan Iverson in a bowling alley? Yeah, never again. Though, ever since then, I've been like, I should be in

the PBA bowling. Remember he's played PC before. I just ballow by the trash talking and the bowling alley and then the fact that you almost got in a fight, dropped the gloves hockey styles straight up in the in the middle of like pink and orange balls just rolling around next to you. Ever seen Big Lebowski. Yeah, stuff happens. So he told the whole story, and you missed. You missed the most important part of that story. I heard that. I had to put that back in the view mirror.

It's too late, too late. Thinking about the bullet balls. Wait, wait, he got no fight too, Kyle. Kyle would have been sitting there with his phone like nine one one. I tried it, oh, man, But how do you make it back from that? I mean, I just pickyback, pickyback what Isaiah just said. Man, I think you have to effort, has to be there. You see a team that comes out flat, Uh, they can't. They can't just roll the helmets out there anymore. I feel like they can. And

you know, you can't drink the kool aid. Brother, you just have to you have you can't do that. You have to every week. You don't have to work towards this. And honestly, you know, sometimes you just have a bad day. And we had a bad day, you know, Lord knows,

I've had a few days here talking cowboys. When I went home and like Derek is gonna fire me, you know, And I can't wait to hit you know, no Harry up to get back to get that bad taste out of my mouth, because it's just like, man, it stays with you because you want to be at your best at all times. And I know that while these guys are watching this film, they have a bad taste in their mouth, and it's going to be there all week until Sunday, until the dirty Birds show up. Jacksonville beat

the Bills Giants one. Yesterday, Packers lost, Rams lost. I mean it's not wasn't a terrible day at the end when you look at the big picture there, But yeah, stuff's got to get corrected. I think a lot of it was they were off Dak Prescott's not gonna play like that the rest of the year. I'm pretty confident of that. Good news is as much as he was having to buy time with his legs Catholic fine, So

that's good. I did have a question for you guys, honestly, because because you mentioned blueprint and Mike McCarthy mentioned the way they played coverage and the way they played the kind of match game defensively against the Cowboys offense. Did you, guys, what'd you guys see there and you think that is a blueprint going forward? Because I'm not sure because when this this offense is at their best, they're hard to stop.

I don't care who they're playing. Well, I mean, vic Vangio has been been a defensive coordinator, been in the NFL as a coordinator for thirty three years. I mean, this guy knows his stuff. He's seen everything, so there's not you're not gonna fool him. And I think they did a really good job of loading up on first downs. Where Dallas Dak came out throwing on first downs, He wasn't until I think the end of the first quarter that we even started run, getting the trying to establish

the run on first down. That just was how many guys they were loading into the box. And once you know, Dak started seeing that, then they were getting pressure with just four guys and dropping seven into coverage. And so they did a lot of great things. Did the Broncos to fool Dak because you saw him pumping like I'm

gonna take that back. And then finally I think it was the fourth quarter, end of the third where he did finally throw an interception, But it was just like, man, they were dropping guys into coverage and those little open screen, litle little throws that he's used to making. That was a Bronco standing in there, and you can't do that from a defensive coordinator standpoint unless you have smart guys

that can play. I mean, Kyle Fuller was a guy that had fell out of favor with the Broncos, he comes back and he has a get back in favor game yesterday. So I mean there were a lot of guys that were playing out of their mind and they

looked they played like it. And I think the Cowboys probably went into that matchup looking at Denver and saying they had the third highest blitz rate in the NFL entering last week, and said, we're gonna see blitzes in every shape, fashion and horn blitz and they didn't blitz at all. They got pressure with three and four guys,

they didn't need the blitz too. And they've watched Dak chew up blitz is all year long, exactly, and I think that might have gone into the thinking of Fangio and what he said, and he's like, you know what, we blitzed a lot. It hasn't really worked for us. Let's just try and get pressure with three four guys and maybe we'll throw an extra guy in there every now and again. But from this point forward, we need to make sure Dak Prescott doesn't beat us over the top.

We'll stop the run. We have no problem with that. But then, yeah, how many times do you think Dak would miss that throw the CD let CD puts his hand, I mean he doesn't touch down it and he overthrows it even you know, passes that just were at guy's feet. Said, you know, Wilson couldn't couldn't get his hands on some of those ball balls and Almark Cooper dropped football after not dropping. I mean, it just wasn't a night man. It was not. It was not Isaiah. Do you have

anything to add on that before we go? You know, man, listen, I want to hurt him and get to Atlanta week. Um. I mean, like I said, it's just they just didn't show up. Man. You know, you know, you know there's always a risk of it, which is why I said, you know, you still got to show up and play against professionals, but your's always a risk. There's always a chance. Um, and it's just unfortunate that we saw that they allowed that to happen. Um, kudos to the Broncos were showing up.

Cowboys did not real quick no more red strip from I liked it. I liked to look good. No, I'm just I'm playing around. I'm glad we honored them, but we didn't honor them to what we wanted to real quick from your time in the league. What is a Monday like after a loss like this For the players going through film, it's everybody understands. I mean, you just

understand what just happened. You know, you get in there, you get your your weight, you know, you get your you lift your weights, and um, you know, you try to talk about everything but the game. And then you get in there and you watch your film and you take your lumps. You know, you take your lumps, and like I said, it's better because this wasn't one or

two guys that that cost you the game. This was a everybody sucks, right, So I mean the coach can't even just highlight, and he's gonna get tired of highlighting. You might go through the first the first two or three series of highlighting people that do things wrong, and after that it's just like, y'all watch the rest of this on your own. It really gets to that point because it's just so much bad that you just you don't have enough time in the day to beat down

everything that happens. So it's just you get your grades, so you your the film will come on, you'll watch a little bit as a team, and then you break out to your individual meeting rooms when coach gets tired of it, and you, your coach will drop them a little packets on your on your desk, and every play is gonna have a plus or a minus, and you're gonna have them things up and most of the guys are gonna have a nice little D grade or or worse on the under paper, and you understand what happened,

You digest, you watch it today, and then you go on to the next one, and you recognize that you've got some boys that are playing well coming in here. Yep, Atlanta has won a couple of big games. They won a game this week over New Orleans. I mean, albeit New Orleans had a backup quarterback, but that doesn't matter. Cowboys. The way they played yesterday, they're not gonna beat a ton of teams. So Cowboys gonna have to figure it out. And we're gonna talk about it throughout the week as well.

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