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Cowboys for another week. Bill Jones with Mickey Spagnola. Brian brought us saying, Rob Phillips and do we ever have a lot to talk about this week as we look back at what happened on Sunday. It's the morning after a twenty four twenty two loss to the New York Jets, and we look ahead to the Philadelphia Eagles as it will be a battle of division leaders as expected to three and three teams at AT and T Stadium on Sunday night. But we got a lot of time to

get to that. Over the next forty five minutes, we're getting to what happened yesterday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Mickey, you were there. I was there. Rob you were there. I was there too. Brian was here at the Star and doing pre and post game stuff. You've heard a lot what Brian has had to say already on the post game show. Let's start with the guys that were there. You're just a quick little run around here to get your impression of where we are

right now. Go ahead. Mac's kind of hired to be quick on this one. Just quick. We've got to hold five. There's so many things that go into a two point loss. It's like you can't be quick about it. You're playing with kind of one hand behind your back, with the injuries that they went into the game, suffered during the game, the fact that your defense just can't seem to get

it right now. Giving up fifty eight points in two games not good enough, especially when you knew your offense was going to struggle without your two starting offensive tackles, and then two of your top three wide receivers out of the game by the second series, and then you fight your ass off to get back into the game, and you need one more stop down the stretch, and they give up a field goal that ends up being basically the difference in the game because the offense finally

finally scored some touchdowns in that fourth quarter and you lose by two. And here's what you find out when you're on the plane for three and a half hours and you have time. I look back over the history. You have to go back to nineteen eighty six to find the last season they lost two games by two points. And now they've done it in three weeks. Interesting. Yeah, a second straight week though that it didn't seem like it's that close, you know, the score didn't seem like

it was that close. And Mickey spoke to it once again. Really slow starts on both sides of the ball. Offensively, third straight game without scoring a touchdown until the second half. Defensively, Mick touched on it. They did a better job against the run two point eight yards per carry for Leveon Bell and company. But Sam Darnold clearly they're a different team with him at quarterback. He had a lot of time in the pocket, was able to set his feet,

and Brian spoke about Jamison Crowder. Those receivers were able to get separation and made a lot of big plays in the passing game. Penalties were a factor. They actually won the turnover battle this week, but it wasn't enough, and once again Dak spoke to it after the game. We keep digging ourselves a hole. We're not playing complimentary football, and that's why they've lost three games in a row.

I'm getting tired of all the postgame comments, you know, I'm getting tired of the you know, trying to find answers and know, we have to do this, and we have to do that. You know, it's about time to go out and play football. You know, I'm tired of, Oh, we're not execute. We're not doing this, We're not doing that. You're talking about the postgame answers in the locker room from the players and stuff. Yes, it's the same song, second and third verse. You know, I'm tired of it.

You know, go out there and play better, and Mickey's right, you get handicapped. It nobody feels sorry for you. We talk about that they built this team with backups, you know, with the backups to be able to play in these games. You have a starting quarterback, you have your running back. You know, you have a guy that I felt like was one a complimentary wide receiver that goes out there

and drops passes for you. You know, when when when things were dark, when Amari Cooper coming off the field, you had to feel better about Okay, hey, you still have Michael Gallop to go out or make plays. Michael Gallup didn't make enough plays in that game. You know, I'm pointing a finger at him a little bit on this. I'm pointing the finger at Tank Lawrence and those guys. Tank Lawrence didn't have every single time being double team. This is a Jets offensive line that struggled to protect him.

Robert Quinn, MALIEK Collins, none of those guys did a good enough job getting pressure on Sam Darnold. Your quarterback got hit eight times in this football game. Three times though, excuse me, two of the times he was outside the pocket. Took really big, heavy hits where you're wondering, is he gonna get up? Yeah, well it great toughness on his part to get up after that. But but you know, you're you're telling me that the defense, you know that

they can't cover Robbie Anderson on a double move. You know you allow that to happen. You know, you know they get caught in a situation where Jeff Heath is the deep safety. With Xavier Woods playing down you know that's a problem right there. That's not using your personnel the right way to put him in that situation. Jeff Heath cannot play the ball down the field like that. It's a problem. Okay, But you you've got guys that you are relying on each week to make plays to

help you win these games. You know that right tackle had never made a start in the National Football League for you, didn't play terrible, wasn't good in the run game, wasn't nearly good enough. On the fourth and two play they tried to run, he's the one that didn't cut the guy off going inside to make the tea. But that's about knowing the coach, knowing Okay, what do I have up front? What am I dealing with upfront? You

know I Admiron for going for it. I'm surprised he went for it, but you know they didn't have it. They didn't run a good enough play, they didn't execute a good enough play. And again, I'm just tired of after every game now it's the same commentary. Go out and do something about it. Stop with the commentary, Go play football, Go start the game, well, go finish drives, go play defense, tackle, well, all these things coaches included

on this I agree with all that. I also agree or I also look at the reaction from fans and sports talk radio and so forth. What needs to be understood in this league is that there's not that much difference in the teams. Okay, and what Brian is saying is absolutely correct. The Cowboys should have gone out there and beating that team regardless of who was playing quarterback on that team. But the Jets are a totally different team with this quarterback than what they were the last

three games. And the Cowboys are a different team when they don't have their two starting right tackles and their two other top receivers throughout the game. And so the talk that this is an embarrassment that sort of thing is ridiculous in my mind. But this team needs to get its act together in a hurry, and it needed to get it to act in a hurry yesterday. I did not agree with the call to go for it on fourth down at the seven yard line. Shot them too.

I thought that you'd take the points there. You don't give them any opportunity to understand that you know what you have or don't have on your team and what they have gained on their team, and you kick it. You make it a seven to six game. And you know, they took advantage of that. And it's a it's a ploy that coaches do all the time where you know, change the momentum, you take your shot, and they took a shot and it paid off big time for them.

Zeke had gotten stuffed one player and that's the other part of it. You know, in the first half of the game, he had thirty five yards on ten carries. Yeah, Frederick and Williams didn't do a very good job, right, double team block, right, And so I didn't have confidence and I didn't and I didn't like the play call obviously, but I did. I would not have gone for it at that point just because the nature of the game. Okay, let's make it an even game. Let's make it seven

to six and go from there. And then they found themselves in the hole. From then on, they were rattled the rest of the half. Yeah, they give up the drive where they just easily matriculated with short passes and you know, now you're down twenty one three. Right. I think that was a indication him going for it on fourth down knowing that they had an opportunity to score a touchdown and they didn't have confidence that they were going to get down there that many times that you

had to cash in and score a touchdown. They were gonna struggle those offensive tackles. You guys can say what you want about him, they weren't good enough. Dak Prescott got hit more times in that game than I and harder than I think I've seen in his entire career. Well, and just like that, you want blasted. Did you watch the game again? Absolutely? Did what hits did he take? Other than the two? I saw three? The twist stunt that Connor Williams, They missed that one. He got blasted

on that one. The boot and waggle was the one he was outside the pocket that he really got the two point conversion when the guy blitzed and came through free. That's that's right there on That to me, is on on the call. Well, I don't care what it's on. He got hit. Well, it's you know, they've got to make a play and you know, I mean, you know they're going to sell out. He tried to hang on to it as long as you know they're going to sell out. But I don't care he got hit. You.

I don't think you watch the game, they're right, Well, I did watch the game. I don't think you watch the right Well, I absolutely did watch the game the right way. So maybe you didn't watch it because you weren't there. So the point I watched this morning, Mickey, I don't think you did. To point on him getting hit a lot, well, yeah, I'm saying that they didn't get hit every single play. They may having problems blocking the front. They had to forfeit putting wide receivers out

there to keep two tight ends on the field. Most of the game, they had to put a full back. They ran twelve massiel and first down to run the football. That's the problem. You got all those first down because you didn't trust them blocked. They didn't running it, they didn't protect they didn't trust them protecting the quarterback. And well, yeah, how many times didn't get hit? He got hit eight eight times, eight times in the game, three times, two

times outside the pocket and in key situations. Okay, So yeah, it makes a difference when you don't have the best tackle in football on the field and the guy that's been playing the best on your offensive line on the field. They tried to get the ball out quickly and because of that, they didn't have a lot of explosive plays. And I went back and I counted it. I don't know how many times you may have counted the times that the Jets blitzed. I mean it was more than

half the time. Sure, um, not every it felt like it was every time, but it certainly felt like every third down they were coming and bringing pressure. And uh, the one time they got the sack, they weren't blitzing. It was just four man pressure. But yeah, there were guys in his face. They tried to you know, table On Austin's you're leading receiver. That shows you. Do you think they missed? Said the tackles more or a Cooper

and Cobb Moore, I think they missed. I think they missed, Uh Cooper and Cob More, Yeah, I think so too. Yeah to me, when especially when gallups, you know he's got to catch those. He dropped to these shot those right right, he dropped to Tavon. Austin gets an illegal formation on the second series. That's just they're set up basically in the red zone. It's a fifteen yard play. That it all he and probably what happened to him is when he's going to the outside, he's looking to

see the coverage. He doesn't see Witten come across. But he's got to know that though he's got to see Witton, he gets to know that Witton is going to switch formations from the right to the left side, and he's looking he's looking at coverage and doesn't see Witton because he's got his back to the play. So that's a problem right there. Maybe he's in the situation too where him having to play and he's not used to playing on the outside over there, and it doesn't it didn't

come naturally. But he could also ask the official you know what the situation is too, and he didn't do that. So and then you know, say what you want about Cedric Wilson's PI. I know you didn't think it was a great call, but these penalties, the drops, you can't have it when you're this compromise on your offense. And at some point I know they like you're saying in the locker room, we got to clean this up. It's

self inflicted. Good teams don't do this week after week, and I know they think they're a better team than this, but maybe they're not. But that's the thing, gets back to Parcels. You are what you are. Yeah, maybe they're not a better team. Maybe that's maybe that's the process. And that's kind of where I was at the end of the day. I mean, we're talking and gets back to my point on Okay, the Jets, they've got their

starting quarterback back. Okay, I think the two best players on the field the way they played yesterday were both Jets players. One of them was Sam Darneld, the other was Jamal Adams on the other side. Sure, and you know, and there's a reason that they were the best players on the field yesterday. One was the third pick in the draft. One was the sixth pick in the draft. The third best player on the field yesterday I thought was Zeke Elliott and he was the fourth pick in

the draft. I mean he ran his ass off second half. Try to get get the physical you know, get the tone set and trying to get something going. I point on that is, Okay, the Jets were back to full strength basically. Okay, the Cowboys were depleted, whatever, But you are what you are when you can't beat them. Okay, you fall behind, you make a dumb decision, I think, and going for it, and then you fall behind and you battle your butt back and you'd get back in it,

but you don't. You aren't able to execute to get the win. Well, you're sitting there at the end of the day, you're three and three. You've lost three straight games. You had three great wins to start the year against week teams, and now you've played stronger competition. You just lost to a week team. Supposedly, well, but I don't know that how week that team and that team when they had that quarterback lost to the Bills, which is a pretty good team, in the first game of the

year seventeen to sixteen. So I don't think. I don't put the Jets in the same category with the Redskins in the Dolphins. But others say it's an embarrassment. So we sit here and we are arguing about the offense. The defense gave up twenty four points, right, they were bad, twenty one points in the first half, three touchdowns. That was more touchdowns and a half. And I understand Darnold

wasn't out there the first four games. They had only scored two offensive touchdowns right, two offensive touchdowns to that point, and they got three in the first half, and that first defense has got to be better. They they they, I don't know why they insist on when when when they when they go to a single safety high they motioned uh Xavier Woods down into coverage and live Heath

up there by himself to degree right. You can call it a dumb decision or not, but that didn't mean, you know, part of the decision is okay, if we don't get it. We got them backed up at the seven yard line. You don't have to give up a ninety two yard touchdown pass, the second longest in club history. In history, you had to go back to nineteen seventy two to find a longer one, and it was only by two yards. Who was it? It was the New York Giants norm snead through a pass. I think it

was some guy named Houston or something. Alex Webster. Piladel was so too. It's in my column. I forgot the game game nineteen seventy two, and on that four yards and on their first touchdown drive, the Jets four penalties defensively, they were ready to get off the field. For a field goal, and that kind of set the tone, got them going a little bit. And then yeah that I think the ninety two yard play is the longest play from scrimmage in the NFL this year. Yeah that, it

was the second longest in Jets history. It's a shame that you don't get any pressure inside though on that ninety two yards pass. You know, it's just you just you get no you get no push to the inside. You had the quarterback has ability to step up make the throw, you know, and then you got a corner on the outside that's not playing with very much confidence out there, you know. And now you get owners who are banged up to going into this week. Good luck

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Cowboys fall to the Jets twenty four, twenty two, and going into the game, if as we approached this game last week, we were saying, well, what if they did lose to the Jets, what would talk shows be like this week? Well, we're getting the taste of it right now. We're gonna get it the whole rest of the week. You know, Jason Garrett has always said he never listens to sports talk radio, and I would advise him not to start right now. The front page of ESPN dot

com says, is Dallas done? First take you go in the break room, It's is dak losing money? Based off of the performance yesterday. I mean, it's you know, it's all coming at him right now. And that's what happens when you lose three straight games, no question about it, especially when you're the Dallas Cowboys. Especially when you're the

Dallas Cowboys, it's easy. You know, I'm not saying it's clickbait, but it's it's it's a talking point when a team with this high expectations and this type of visibility is struggling right now. There's still a lot of football left to play. Like Brian said, though, you got to figure it out. You got to figure it out. This is this is a turning point in the season right now with the Eagles coming up because they're coming off their

own struggles. But the division could be ultimately division could be decided this Sunday coming up, depending on what happens the rest of the way. It's nice Philadelphia Stulls. Some difficult games left, Yeah, they got phil It. They've got to play at Seattle. You know, they've got some games coming up that you know that New England some games you know they're gonna have to This is not gonna be one of those things where it's like Okay, that a lot of games that are backloaded and stuff like

that their schedule. I mean, they've got some easy games at the end, don't get me wrong, but they've also got some tough games that they're gonna have to deal with here going down the stretch. So we'll see. I thought we might have the dumb and dumber deal on the New York Post again from going back nineteen ninety four after the fourth and one in Switzer and Barry and Jerry on New York Post. Was it New York

Post dumb and dumb dumber picture? Yeah, But there wasn't enough media there to care because I think they we're all worried about the Yankee. There you go, here you go. They had their own problem and that's the that's the thing. Just at the game yesterday, there was not a lot of electricity in that building pregame and to start and it built? Did it built as a game where yeah, they all of a sudden, here comes the Jets. They

gave them something to cheer about. I mean, I think they did not expect their team to have the type of performance they did. Okay, did you since that the Cowboys came out flat? Because that said, that's one of those talk talking points on talk raiding. That's what you say when you don't right, That's that's one of those things where you're looking for answers and you don't understand really what's going on, and you say something like that, where are they? You know, they weren't ready to play.

They didn't have them fight, you know, Bill Cowers said, Oh, they're lifeless, emotionless, all that stuff on the sidelines. You know, I felt like the Jets just made made some good plays they did. I felt like the Jets had some good scheme things they did. I thought they took advantage of of you know, they didn't really have to run the football, but you know, Sam Darnald did enough to affect the way you getting the ball out of his hands.

You know, he hit the receivers. That's what they haven't had. They haven't had anybody make plays for him in that way, throwing the ball down the field. You know, they hold the ball, they take sacks. But in this game they did a nice job. Darnald didn't do anything that you know, that to me was the spectacular. He moved around in the pocket enough, bought himself a little time Cowboys on

the back end couldn't cover well enough. I mean, that's that's the ultimately what he came back after the ninety two yard drive and I think was four or five on when they scored right before the half, and go back and watch it. Man, he had clean pockets every time to throw. And Jason spoke to it this morning on the fan. You know, the pressure upfront just wasn't what it needed to be consistently. They didn't even get

close to a third down on that session. Noah, No, And then you know what's not working either, by the way, as Jalen Smith lining up as a defensive tackle in a four man front and rushing, he's not getting anywhere. That's fair. Yeah, I mean that's that to me is if if you're going to bring him, but he's a liability and coverage so you got to figure out. And we're sitting there thinking, guys like me or saying, oh, we'll go ahead and bring him and then see what happens.

You know, on the rush, you know he's powerful enough to handle that, but right there you're you're just not getting anything out of that. So do you think they're doing it to employ Jalen as a pass rusher or are they doing it in order to get someone else on the field and pass coverage, you know, yeah, and they don't want to take him off the field. They're haven't there. This pass rush isn't anywhere where it needs to be, And so I guess they're looking for answers

right there to say, Okay, well let's let's add this. Uh, let's add this element to the mix. But it's not. It's not anywhere where it needs to be. Especially they they do not have players affecting the game like they need to affect the game, especially in that second half with you know Quinn, he his first sact was really

all a play. I mean, is damn good coverage? Is that they know they manned it across and not misspoke always a coverage, Yeah, absolutely, I mean they it was Quinn's second effort really that got him the sack, because if Dartle doesn't pull the ball down, you know, if he just throws it away, it's just an incomplete but you know that he held it and once they got him to pull it down, finally Malik Collins got a

little pressure inside. They just haven't had any of that nothing inside really not a whole lot coming off the edge either, and not a whole lot of blitzing in this game either. They tried to win with their front front four trying to win up front. Yeah, and I mean give credit, hey, if you want to look at a positive, Jordan Lewis came in and made most of his snaps. I think he got thirty seven, he got the pick, he got a key stop that held the Jets to a field goal at the end, kept it

to one score. Um. But yeah, and now they're looking at yeah, what about the corner situation now, Mick Byron Jones is not good. Yeah, they're they're they're in trouble. Yeah, this is gonna be a hard game for them as far. Well, we'll see what happens with the week of practice, you know, with with you know these guys, these soft tissue injuries. We know that's that Byron Jones and Anthony Brown. Yeah, Anthony Brown went out really early in this game. So yeah,

I think you have to be concerned too. I mean, I know we're talking defense, but you have to be concerned. What's going on with Amari Cooper and the quad. He usually fights through things, obviously, he must must have been just too much for him to have to make it through that game. I mean he didn't even have his helmet. His helmet was gone, So it wasn't like he had any thought that he was going to be back. Yeah in the game. So you know, and then you're you're

out there when you go, you go. And they tried not to play uh as much nickel, but you have to bring good, good one in there to play corner. Uh, and you use uh Jordan Lewis in the slot. Um. They tried going a couple of times they went their base defense against three wide. Yeah, so it's it's problematic. You know, we can say, okay, next man up, but uh, you know, at some point you get diminishing returns offense

and defense. So what do you think about the offensive approach to start the second half in throughout the second half where they decided they're gonna feed Zeke? I thought that to me, And I'm a guy that always screams for balance, you know, balance, gotta have balance, you know. To me, I just felt like there wasn't a sense of urgency that there needed to be. They'd hit have some success. I went back and was looking just at first down runs and I'm thinking, okay, were they doing

against the heavy box? But every every first down run appeared to be there was extra tight ends on the field, you know, and that and I'm trying to figure, Okay, they have almost seven yards throwing the ball in first down. I know it's I'm playing right into the frigging UH analytics guys here, But you know, if you're averaging seven yards to play on first down and a little less than three yards to carry on first down, it's you know, but what how are you doing it? They're doing it

in twelve personnel. They bringing extra guys in there to have to deal I'm counting them up twelve personnel, twelve personnel, twenty one personnel. And that's the two backs thirteen personnel, thirteen personnel, twelve personnel, twelve. I mean, it just goes on and on and on, and you wonder, you know why these first down runs. If you think about maybe spread him I know Mickey's talked about this before, try and spread them out a little more and then run

the ball inside and play it that way. But man, it's just they get in that heavy look and they and they just run the football and they had a little success, you know after that, But man, that just makes it tougher on your tea, on your offense to have to block with that many guys playing down or that many guys that you're putting out there, and then you're dealing with seven and eight man boxes. You know, that thirteen personnel. They had nine men in the box

trying to run the football there. So yeah, I just kind of wish that, you know, that they would have gone to Maybe they were given their defense a little blow. Maybe that was their their plan and that sequence. But I was starting to get a little impatient because I'm thinking, like, okay, start throwing the football here and start get seeing if

you can make some chunk plays. We'll see you know. Yeah, I thought maybe it was just a concession as well to what they where they were at wide receiver without Cooper, and I wonder if the influence came from the head coach that runs Zeke and yeah, but what happened and it was successful. I mean, they had a drive, but they ate up the half the third quarter with that drive, and that's the problem when you're down twenty one six to start the half and that's going to shorten the game.

Even though you're even if you drive sixty one yards in fourteen plays for a touchdown, you've just eaten up the entire third half of the third quarter. The problem is they drove that whole drive and kicked a field goal. That was and that was the next one. Yeah, that drove seventy five yards for a touchdown. Yeah, until it

got called back. Yeah. I thought it was just trying to get some balance, knowing what your situation is at your tackles, and try to get something going, whether your play action is meaningful, to try to back off some of the pressure they were getting. Fortunately, it worked for them to get back into the game because they had the interception and down in the red zone. Um, when the Jets drove back down in the third quarter, and so then you ran a position and then you missed

the field goal. Yeah, that was and it should have been twenty one thirteen at that first drive of the third quarter. No matter what they did with two tights or three wide or running the football, they drove right down and scored right. What do you think of that call on Cedric the pick? He didn't he didn't pick Jamal Adams. Jamal Adams ran into the wash and he ran into his guy that was guarding him, and the guy guarding Witten didn't get through. He has to go

either over or under, and he ran right into it. Well, and Johnson, who who was covering Cedric right, he engaged him as much as Cedric went into tackle it. He didn't. He didn't. And that that's not a pick when you the guy covering you right, because you're at the four yard line, so you got you got four yards he

can grab if he wants. I saw the exact same play on one game Saturday college football, and I saw the exact same thing where the tight end motioned inside the wide receiver and then went out and caught an easy touchdown pass. And I said to myself, Kellen Moore should watch that. That's a good play. And then they ran it and then they got called. Jets had a nice pick play that for they get Jamison Crowder up the sidelines on Anthony Brown. You know, but I mean

it's it's at the discretion of the officials. And we've learned that the officials aren't always going to do their jobs. Sometimes they're going to do their jobs very poorly. And you know that to me, I watch I watched the receiver try and get inside. You know, Wilson gets tackled basically, and now you're now he's in a situation where he's trying to fight to get free. And then they say it's it's like a moving pick, and that's that's just

a poor call. And you know, and when they turn that one in, the officials are gonna, you know, the league is gonna say, you're right about that, because there's nothing that Cedric Wilson did that. It wasn't like he went into Adams and then turned or tried to interfere with him. He was just trying to run his route. Johnson's the one that tackled him at the point of attack. So that's that's the problem there. And even Romo corrected himself when he called it a pick and then he

saw it on replay. That's a bad call, ye, But then you got to try to overcome that, and they didn't because on the third down play at the goal line, they didn't have anybody open and he tried to dump it over the middle to Zeke and he but even if he dropped, so now you got to kick a field goal. Speaking of field goals, you know, and then you miss one from forty after you make a sixty two yarder. Well that's what we've seen. I mean, he'll, he'll, he'll.

He was knocking stiff those ones from sixty fifty eight in pre game. And but it's those money kicks thirties forties where they make those kicks. Yeah, you don't know if you mean to make thirty three yards forty yards. You know, it's funny. He went back and watched the forty yard kick that he had. He started. I don't know,

I'm have to ask, but he started early on his approach. Yea, he nodded, he nodded his head as to go and the snap, and then he took a step and had to catch him catch himself, and then he started again. You know, So you don't know if that throw off the timing did in his mind. Was he like he had to hesitate. He came back, he reset, and then he went again. So, um, you know who knows with him?

I mean, it's it's it's it's a miracle that they kick a sixty two yard field goal a fifty yard field goal, make both of them, and can't make a forty yard field goal. That's problem. That is a problem last week. Can't make you know, you could say what you want. His teammates have to have to be just. I don't know what you say to him. I don't know what you know. I don't know you're you're so happy when he makes a sixty two yard field goal.

I'm thinking, okay, please don't get this blocked. First off, you know, because he might be has to drive the ball, but that the Jets didn't rush, and so he gets a free crack at it and he makes it with with room to spare. And but then you get down there when you need him to make a field goal. Old, you know, here's the operation was fine, the snap was good, the ball the laces were away, and he he just pushes it and that's you know, they can't have that normally.

When he misses to the right, the ball fades this one never never, it never was inside the up never never did it. Just shot it to the right. And the weird thing was in warmups we were watching and he was he was really good in warmups until he was going the direction where he made the sixty two yarder. He was having trouble getting it there. From fifty five and fifty eight. So when they said sixty two, I said, might as will throw a hill Mary and then he

hits it. But he did make it from almost sixty I think, and his last kid, Yeah he did, but he had to do it twice. Remember it is the first one. It was shortened to the right, and then he hit the second one when he tried it and it was good. So yeah, it's just weird because I heard last week his warm up was terrible. I don't know how you. I don't know how you have any

faith in him. I really don't. It's it's I mean to me, it's it's it's like you want to like everything about and making a fifty yard field gold in a sixty two yard field gold. You want to like everything about it, but the fact that he has no consistency, you know, And I can say it's it's not that hard. Forty yard field gold is is should be in the money of a kicker, and for him, it's it's a it's a problem, all right. We continue with more talking

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of pass rush, consistent pass rush. I think that's a big, big issue because if the secondary is not going to cover well enough or consistently enough on the back end, you better find a way to get pass rush, especially against an offensive line that's proven that they've struggled. They were switching guys in and out and still been able to protect Yesterday, that's a bit concern to me as well. Start blitzen. They didn't really do much. I mean, I would I agree with Brian although a week ago he

said it was the run defense. And that's the thing about when the defense has struggled this season, you can't point to just one thing. There's been multiple issues they've had, depending on the opponent, in the circumstance they're alternating. Last week, they couldn't stop the run. This work, couldn't stop to pass thirty eight yards passing. Yeah, and they were like averaging one hundred and thirteen a game. Now, I know it wasn't Darnald, but still he just he clearly made

a difference in this game. I mean, it just was this the fact that he was able to move in the pocket a little bit. They've given up a ton of sacks. You know, he was a blessing for this offensive line. And like I said, they were they were shuffling guys, the guards, the tackles, they were shuffling guys trying to you know, they were doubling one side, they double the other. You know, they kind of mixed it up a little bit. They just the Cowboys just did

not win enough one on one battles. Again, that's clich to say, and I'm not meaning to be that way, but to me, you you you were supposed to be able. One of the things you build your team on or pride your team on, this ability to rush the passer. And you did not take advantage of a situation in this football game to get after Sam Darnold the way you should have against a team that has struggled to protect. I don't care how much he can get rid of

the ball. Quinn had two sacks, two pressures. Everybody else zeroed out on those two categories. And this is a quarterback coming off about with modern nucleosis, who's got an enlarged spleen, who obviously had great protection, but as far as his the equipment that they gave him to wear. But I mean, you're coming after this guy. So how much credit, though, do you give the Jets for their offensive scheme and being able to with a short passing

game to offset a pass rush. I think it's I think it's the way you have to play, you know. To me, Dallas, they did a great job of playing against slavey on Bell. He only had the one run for thirteen yards, and it was you know, really that was that was just kind of a misfit that they

had Robert Quinn. You know, they had the backside taking care of, our front side taking care of and Quinn overshoots the play and now the you know, the ball's out the back door and then Joe Thomas misses a tackle and again that's kind of been a problem with the Cowboy linebackers. They get a guy in the second level, Oh, we miss a tackle. Well, there's another seven yards to the play. So yeah, I thought they did well enough to handle what they had to do with running. But

this is the league. You know, we're all learning that they throw the ball almost every snap now, you know, and if you're going to throw the ball every snap, you better have a pass rush. And you know, Brian brought us talking to third person here again, told you that they had pass rushers and DeMarcus Lawrence and Robert Quinn. And you know, Brian brought us has been wrong because they haven't gotten nearly enough pressure doing that third downs. Jets were two for ten on third down and the

Cowboys were ten for seventeen. On third down. Yeah, they they've made them pay on some of the blitzes. I think Tavon's twenty three yard game that was the high for the game. That was a blitz buster. I think on the on the wit and touchdown they called back. They made them pay a couple of times, but they gave it away too, and you know, but yeah, better overall on third down. I thought they would have scored more. I went back and I couldn't believe it was what

was it, ten of seventeen on third downs. That's how they've won those first three games. Was converting third downs fifty eight percent. Yeah, that boys all season. They they're ranked fourth in the league on third down on offense,

third down percentage on offense. First time a team is lost, winning I saw this winning the turnover battle, converting more, converting ten or more third downs and then first down and then and then when the time of possession from our friend Bobby Bell, Yeah yeah, yeah, now again that's this. It was ninety and one. That's the one loss. This is the one since since nineteen ninety one, right right, NFL teams or ninety and oh when they did that

in a game until yesterday, until ninety one. Unreal, unreal, This stretch is unreal. And now it's the Philadelphia Eagles. But you know you're sitting there, you're just back to square one. Now you've got ten games left in this season.

So now I'm going to go through the schedule. I'm gonna figure out, Okay, which is the WS and which are the el to look at it, though, we get in trouble playing that way looking at the w's because you kind of felt like that going into this game, that that was a that Yeah, they threw one back. Now they've thrown two back, thrown two back. Yeah. You look at the you look at the Saints game, and you look at this one. So I mean, that's a that's a problem. At the end of the day, they're

going to add them all up. You're either gonna be one of the good or one of the bad. And and this team has no margin of error when it comes to that. Well, but look around the NFC and they're hoping. Yeah there's hope. Not a real dominant team out there this year, and we can talk about that team right now. Defense is looking pretty good. Yeah, see I don't might say something about the russ is playing pretty good. Yeah. Yeah, but that it's talking rams ain't

very good right now. No, that's right. It's kind of like talking pell boys. It's not very good, all right, but we will talk at you again tomorrow here on Talking Cowboys. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.