Player's Lounge: Defensive Concerns?

I'm new He Scrubs. I was there for that. I was there hold on on the sidelines watching it go down for the last five minutes. But before that, did you go somewhere? Did you go somewhere before that? What's up? Man? What's going on there? Okay? I'm gonna also bring in Chris Beam in this because Chris Bean partook of the Flying Iguana as well. I did um After the game they had they had catered the food for them. I actually went to and you saw the picture posted on Twitter.

I went to Neptune Beach, nice nice little spot. Okay, man walked down to the beach after good. Um, I got what you told me to get the potatoes, and then I got the junkyard which had junkyard was better. It was better. It was on fire company was only thirty two dollars. I would never leave your own. Got got the fresh fresh guacamole. It was great. The chips which Chris Bean had as well. The chips were fantastic. The seasoning and whatever they put on there, and the

and the sauce that was good. Tacos were okay, it was just average. They were okay. They were okay, a one to ten. What would you get a tacos five? Not okay, that's five piece now now, I also tried to put myself in the burry church shoes. Tequila probably made it all taste better. You had some drinks. I got a virgin peanut call otto there and it was great. It was great. Services great. Man. We watched the Colts Di Center great right there, the flying it going, it

was good. Just didn't you won't filling the TACCOs pos papados is terrible. So the guac man, the guac was great good. And then so after the game, Um, when the team left, because they leave behind food we got some day it was like, oh, it's flying to Guada. I had just a straight kind of like a Chicken street taco that was good and it put some guak on that I enjoyed. Yes, that's what Chris bom. It was good. But you know, the way you built it up, maybe it was under new management. I mean, you know,

I mean, I just wet. That's what ultimately we were. We were not going to go to North Georgia, which I call southern North Florida, which I call Southern Georgia. We weren't gonna go there and get tacos that were better than here in Texas or or California. So it was. It was. It was disapplied. He no, no, look, I was full left there, glad I went the food here

yesterday when we laugh he was good. But would I if I took Danny down there, Hey man, let's go fly to going I'm like, Noah, let's try someplace else. That's all. That's all. But if we ended up there, I'd be fine too. I'd be fine too. Go on, I got a five, and you would like you ended up there, you'll be fine with it, all right. So we're gonna take that into just remember that because I need to know. Look, I wasn't disappointed, like oh I was terrible, but you had made it seem like it was.

You know it was to me it was man so and that I said, I think alcohol probably pay a little part in it, man, because the peanut colot of Virgin pinclot I had, the guac was on fire. Man. Great, they can't made it about your table, should the temple? You don't normally I do. Normally I do because I don't drink enough. I don't drink, man, You know what, normally I will oh me and the kid, and me and the kids all the time. Many temple throw them on down, throw them on down. You know what, man,

I'm gonna tall this. Back when the Cowboys used to train in Austin, there was a strip club which many of the cowboys went to, and that was the best place to get to know the players. I don't order shirty temple. And the guy who's the manage, his name was Don Kennedy, said, you know what, you know what? I like you new because you don't cost me no money. On my looker, these guys all cost like Thank you

very much. He got that's what he told him. Work work, yes, yes, Claris Hill, Claris Hill, tall man back, yes, yes, no, that was that was That was one of the best places to get to know the guys because you know, everybody was loose, everybody was cool. So yeah, I don't do that anymore because now I'm a old man. I want to be the old man up in a club like look at this, look at this. Yeah, but back to what happened. What happened was he floor shorts. Damn

first he hits your slogan. Now, yeah, that man, I love him, my favorite man, my favorite guy right there. New he struggle. But look, man, you know what it is. What it is. You know, you win something, you lose something. We're tending for. We found out last night. We found out last night that we're in the playoffs. It's not the way you want to get into it. Um, we got a big one coming up. We got a big one coming up on Saturday, as big as it was,

not as not quite as big as it was. But you still mathematically it's a it's don't don't you count that? They don't don't you count. I looked at the met you still you still got a ways to go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that is it is. It is what it is. I can't I can't go. You know what the thing is about that loss? Your things about that loss. You had every opportunity double digital lead, all right, your defense should

be able to win you that game. There are a lot of finger points going on right now in the media, and it's really kind of confusing, and I'm sure for Cowboy Nation they're trying to figure out, well, damn you know, it's not like we love seem like they want you to lose. Two times. We won last week, but in mind, in hindsight, you want to take that as a loss as well. This game right here was one that I can just go back to, starting from the third quarter on and say, your defense should have been in a

situation to win you that game. You had enough turnovers, you had enough things happened, You got set up in thirty four when you score thirty four once d MAC were supposed to win that game. You guys played the game, so you got his No, we're gonna tell you this though. The reason why people were so up in arms last week is because they said, if you do the same stuff you did against the Texas you tul not beat the Jacksonville Jaguars and some of the same stuff. Running

the ball. Hey, we talked about that at LYNT. Yeah, I'm just saying, yeah, turnovers, running the ball, those are the same things that we ran into. There were issues against the Texas, and we did it again against the Jaguars, and they were a better team than the Texas and they and they beat us. But we also talked about Ceede Lamb last week. We talked a lot about because

the OBJ and me and you. First Friday we went in about the Ceedee Lamb saga and him being a number one I think I think Sunday he showed that we were talking about it after the last Eagles game about him having man to man coverage and him not being able to beat that. He showed in this game that if you put me a man the man situations,

I'm gonna go seven foot one twenty six. And he did that all right, And he credited and credit to the Jaguars by saying like, look, man, we're not gonna let you be the reason that we lose this game. But where are you? Where's the rest of your guys? Well, I mean he got the Maury Cooper treatment after that though, Oh absolutely, I mean they doubled him up, but I mean you Max protected on third down? Man, they Noah Brown running up the run of the field by itself.

Who are supposed to be throwing that ball too? Who is that place supposed to be supposed to go ceedee lamb? That's supposed to go ceedee lamb? Or hey, I'm not I'm not throwing that to Noah Brown. Eut. But but let me just ask when you go back to that play, and you guys have probably talked about this agnagium about that last play. The Cowboys were probably trying to go for the throat. They were gonna for the game, for

the game right there that player. I hadn't seen that play design all years, so I'm thinking to myself, like maybe this is a play that they had buried in their playbook, and like this is a perfect time that we rolled this one out. We got the look that we won't let's go But why Noah Brown on that play? Turn? You know, like I know the easiest thing for you

to defend. We get happy when they go max protect because it ain't that many things you can do as you if you if you're playing safety or cornerback and you see Max protect, you have to assume that the balls going deep because you're not You're not gonna do what you ain't in a run. Yeah, and you ain't going max protech for quick game like you telegraphing exactly what you want to do in that situation. So yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I'm gonna tell you what one

on that deep ball situation. You got a guy that's that's what he's known for, gallup. He's the fifty fifty guy. He's the guy that you throw jump balls too. That's in that situation. I don't know why you would throw that to Noah Brown, But at the end of the day, that was a mistake. I think that happened to me overall. I'm with you. Heck this, this is this on the defense. This is on Quinn and his boys. Man. If that

is that's when it comes down to. You had a twenty seven to ten lead in the third quarter, twenty seven to ten lead in the third quarter, and you gave it up. And we're not talking about they gave it up on the ground game, which we know, which was an achilles hill to this defense. They gave it up through the air. They're missing some of their key components.

You know what the injuries are in the secondary. The injury to Lvee early in that game, I think was huge because that guy, to me, he was having a better season than he did last year and he was one of the main reasons they were able to corral the run. In these past couple of weeks, he's gone off the table. So that gave the Jacksonville Jaguars a balanced game plan. They rushed for one hundred and ninety two yards and they also threw the ball for three

hundred and eighteen yards. What happened to if the Dallas Cowboys get up by multiple scores, you fall right into they track because they got the pass rushers on top. Up pass rushers, they get after you. That man back there in the pocket had a clean pocket the entirety of the game. I think he might have got sacked one time the first quarter. One time in the first quarter. Parsons was able to get him. After that, he was clean the rest of the game, and he was able

to expose that young secondary outside of digs Bland. He had a good game, but he was also getting beaten that second half towards the end, kirkstont It going off on him towards the end. We all know what happened with Calvin Joseph out there. You know, I don't know what it is. He has to become more coachable, but it looks like it's just a lack of discipline in my opinion. Because he got beat on the double move,

which a because it got cool. It happens, eyes are in a bad place, like It's just different things that come to mind when it comes to him. Every time he steps on the field, he gives up the TV. And that's not that's not you know, conjecture. That's he's giving up a TV every time he stepped on on the on the field. So to me, going back to preseason in Denver, so to me, you gotta get that situation right. I don't know if they're gonna bring in Nashan Ryder however they want to do it, but they

gotta get that secondary fixed. When you talk about this ground game, if they continue to let Cats do what they want to on the ground, it's gonna be a one and done. It's gonna be a simple one and done because your offense has balanced that way, how can you stop it from a secondary standpoint, and you can't. You can't. And if you're not rushing the passer as well, it's just gonna be It's just it's just it's just gonna fall down. So to me, I gotta put this

one on the defense. Twenty seven ten, third quarter. You gotta bring that home. You got to. I mean, you know, listen, we all remember San Francisco last year. Uh we drafted to fix the problem. We drafted to make sure that we were sure of our our defensive defense against the run game. And he used to came in here random ball on us and Jacksonville came in in random ball. I mean, it's something that you got to get figured out because you can't. You can't be leaky in both.

You can't be leaky in both. Didn't expect to win. But but my other thing is is there are points where I was asking myself, is this defense winded? You know, That's what it kind of looked like at a certain point. Um, they look like they were winded. And I'm thinking that some of the key injuries that you've had up front, it is kind of starting to mess with the rotation

that you're used to having. I think dan Quinn is used to a rotation of guys coming in fresh and then when lv went out, you're having to you don't have the same rotation when you don't have Anthony Brown and then you don't have Kelvin Joseph. That's affecting where you're using guys like the run Bland. Now you're coming in with Nashun right now you're having to use Bell guys that you hadn't been using in situations like that. So again, those were some of the things that I saw.

I'm like, lit, this defense look like they're gassed in a lot of these situations. And I mean five hundred yards giving that up on defense. But I also, you know, I'll pull back and say the defense finally had that bad game. They finally had the game where we say, look the floor fell out on them, all right. Usually they've been the safe haven for offense when the fourth floor falls out on them. That have saved us in situations like that. So I mean, I want to allow grace.

It's even in a situation where you had a seventeen point league. I'm gonna push back. Okay, here's what I'm pushing back on the defense did go out with Lvy out of the game, with Wilson going out of the game, with Armstrong going out of the game. Here it is, they produce the fumble. Curse produces the fumble. You got the ball back with a bucket, thirty six to go. I'm there, you got Jackson, I'm on the stacks. It was silent, it was all done. They were done. We're done.

Cowboys over there, celebrate. That's it. But you produced a twenty seven second drive. You're going for it to Noah Brown. And I was going to ask Mike McCarthy about that play in the press conference. You know, time clock stop. They didn't have to burn a time out. Kellen called a play. He needed to use strategies that point time. It didn't matter if you just ran it up the gut and got nothing, they were gonna have to call a time out. The strategy was just wrong. It was

a part of costing you the game. You needed to get a first down. Heck, I don't care if they throw full wide out there until Dak just tucking and run, but do something other than what then then throwing the ball deep a fifty fifty ball and Noah Brown, no offense, Noah Brown had a nice game, you know until that ball which was you know, couldn't get it, and then the overtime, but the defense did it. So then you

go to overtime, they win the toss. You know, that crowd that point time and down, the crowd was about two third Cowboy fan, but even the little one third decided to ride on up and they were feeling good. They thought they had it going. Defense gets small the field, so twice when it mattered the most, despite the issues that happened in the game, the defense did their part

to get you there. Your offense, your guru, offensive coordinator, your offensive head coach, let everybody down with that possession at the end of regulation not getting it done, and then the overtime we saw how it did it. That's my field, that's me. If you read the article. NICKI even wrote an article after the game, play to win the play, not the littlest great article, and I read it and didn't want to read it, but I read it.

You know, I want to stay up a game, but you know, there's there's there's always hindsight, you know, in losses like this, and I want to, you know, if they're successful at that play. Guess what, Kelly Moore is a guru. He's you know, he's a cold blood of killer. It didn't go that way all right at the At a certain point in the game in the second half, jacksonville A keyed in on the run and it seemed

like every run was for a loss. Serious If that last drive in the opening drove the first play was for three four yards, you come out the next place is you barely get anything, and then on third down that's the best you come up with and you're going for the kill shot at that point. And so there's two schools of thought. Are you are you going here you're trying to win the game or what is it? You know, are not to lose it in that situation. That was a bad call. Everybody can look at it,

and that's a that's a stupid call. You know you don't you don't do that if you try and get something in the middle of the field and even if the clock is still running, you make them one burn a timeout. That was the same thing. But do we know even if they didn't have a timeout, if we're able to get there tight there tight end that was able to get out of bounds and rug Curs is trying to tackle this brother's looking for a ride. Now you drug this guy out of bounds. So here here

it is. You get the ball at one twenty eight to go first and ten Dallas at the thirty eight Elliott minus three yards time out, Jacksonville one, twenty five second and thirteen Dallas thirty five Pollard right in three yards time out, Jacksonville one, twenty third and ten dollars thirty eight Dak Prescott incomplete deep ball to Noah Brown. Yeah, they didn't need to call a time out, but ahead, you run the ball. They had to call a time out.

So Mike afterwards talking about what we wanted to be aggressive, What were we trying to do here? What was was aggressive didn't need to happen here. You needed to play a situational football and run out, make them burn the clock was what we were trying to work with you. So clearly, hey, first, first couple of plays here it first you play didn't work. Now we're about the clock. I need you to burn a time out. I gotta make you and think we'll send out anger get a punt.

It was a bad punt, but you know we'll send out the punt team and try and make you go down the field. I think this was this was a failure from the coaching staff and offensive coordinator. That is that is fair. And so when we talk about the defense, saying this is defense is fault. Defense got you the ball back. You're supposed to be the offense. All these high powered folks over here, we got all these all these Google Guru offense. Cos you didn't get damn job done.

I'm gonna hold of defense to a higher standard. And they gave a five hundred. I wish they didn't. Did they make the place when they needed to, the same way they did against the Texas? Yes, but we still thought the defense could have played better. If we're gonna play a season of we're gonna leaning on our defense and run the ball, then our defense is going to

have to play better. But this ain't the same. D No, no, no, you know, especially in the Jews were dropping man, and I get it, but I'm saying our expectation for our defense, especially being able to rush the passer and make some plays. Trayvon Dix turned the ball over, find Michael Parsons getting to Marcus Lawrence in there. We figured that we have some guys who can make some big plays. Curse did

make a big play uh and caused that fumba. But we are used to seeing it more than Michael Parsons having one second the first quarter and then not really being visible in there. Second part is all right, they should have I believe that they should have ran the ball. Well, we're on the same page with that one. If you are not, though, your play call from your gourguruquar Natter has to be something much more creative than they max protect. Max Protect allows the defense to say, we know that

they think they can't protect. So what they're gonna do is they're gonna bring more people in to give the quarterback time to get off a deep ball. So you're now telegraphing where you're going with the ball. You gotta get more creative in that. At this point, this is your guy to have it played. The one that you pull out of your back pocket and say, man, I've

been waiting. That's waiting. That's all telling. That's what that's what, that's what that play needs to And when you got Cde Lamb and you've got Michael Gallup and you got Tony parlor. You got Dak Prescott, you got Dalton shows in there, who can be a safety blanket and get you ten yards similar to what he did at the Houston Texas. You give those guys an opportunity to get out there make a play. This is also why Jerry Jones is saying, I'm keeping this Odell Beckham junior thing alive.

This is why, man, I'm just I'm just saying. This is why t Y Hilton and Odell are are being seen as guys who are gonna come here and make some plays. Because as good as Noah Brown is, you gotta have a little bit more confidence in guys when you put them out there. Is the number three receiver? Okay, they're taking away gass, they're taking away uh Ce, we need another guy who's a number three who can get there. Who is it Dotson but Washington? Oh my god, oh

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I will definitely say say Texas high school football is some of the best football, without a doubt, in the nation. And you start looking at guys like first on the MVP League, it's gonna be a kid from Houston, tex high school football for sure. So um there we go. Man, Yeah about man Michael Vicken that got the MVP a lot of years? Do we jipped him? Dollar's the new NFL? Do I wen't worry about throwing. We run about running. How many years he had three hundred? He had three hundred,

he had three vic we jipped vic? Michael Vicken? They got it every year. Well who knew? Who knew the NFL was gonna change? And man, three hundred yard pass on yours today? All right? Two rushing touchdowns? Oh my bad? I was think about the interceptions. He had two interceptions too, my bad. So did Joe quarterback. I'm just saying, I just want let's put that in that too. That put him up to a total of five for the season. Let's just put that in that fast. He wanted your

fancy game. He losing that Man Island, I couldn't overcome. Yeah, he had jobs. I couldn't overcome him. Man, you know broth day Man, I'm hurt. Third down is the third down efficiency is what you spoke about last week. The Cowboys needed to get that fixed. Jacksonville eight of twelve for sixty sixty six point seven percent. That is losing football. We spoke about Russian okay, we talked about the Russian game here. Cowboys need to get better. There gave but

one hundred ninety two carries the ground. Uh look, Jacksonville average seven point one yards, only ninety two at n who've been on the struggle bus the past couple of weeks nineteen carries one hundred and three yards. He left the game. He was hurt. Um the things that we spoke about, boss man fat, Okay, I told you, I told you my issues are boss man fat. I'm not crazy, Okay, not crazy. Cooking that dude out there, man cooking that dude like scrambled, are getting getting hurrounds? Is paid? Is

somebody getting paid off this film? The next thing, Number one, The only time I saw was on kickoffs and ducks and just they just snatched him right on that the game. But give Z Jones is due, man, But no, you didn't want to give z Jones. I did, what are you talking about? I said, we're gonna we're gonna talk about Za Jones and Jones. We're gonna talk about the Jones. Who are you most worried about? Knewe. That's what we

were talking about. You were concerned about Kelvin Joseph and we would We pointed out which receiver was gonna give it to him. Zay Jones. We talked about the last week. We spoke about the issue of hype, not hype. I just tried to be respectful to Jacksonville Jackas and I got, how dare you the quote was? You know it was it was like twenty two, twenty thirty, like you you're not going to make me think that they're gonna get beat with something along that line was right around there.

You didn't believe it. We were trying to say, man, and I said, don't trust this. I said, don't trust this time. It's not it's Nott. There was one person in here who was thinking about he kicking. I'm gonna say this. I wouna say this because I'm gonna get I saw out today night. I wasn't gonna bring it up. I saw almost Saturday right up. I said, you really want to pick the Jackson jack? He said, yeah, I did, but I wasn't there to defend myself because I was

playing golf, So I did not. These are all I want to pick them, and then not be able to defend why I was picking the other way. So you went twenty four twenty dollars. I did so, so you did not right up? You can't for the No'm just the but you picked against us because the spread was four. So right there, you were like, man, you had the Jacks cover. Um, I had twenty six twenty three, you had twenty seven twenty. You had thirty four twenty one

score thirty four points. Thirty four points should have been enough to win the game, exactly if Kellen Moore and Mike McCarthy weren't trying to be aggressive. Um, what about the defense? You don't want to put another defense? No, Look, they gave a five hundred yards due, they gave a fire way to look they were they were bad. And as they started losing, God, the very things we were

concerned about once the once. For some reason, I know why it took him to the second half to realize Kelvin Joseph can get got They started going and getting him, and the floodgates was open and Lv's off the field. Um, dude, it wasn't good. The drawing land was. You know, he had a nice game and then all of a sudden he started getting ninety two everything that we would I mean, we worried about run defensive Kelvin Joseph. We gave up on hundred nine two yards rushing that. They made adjustments

at halftime and started figuring out. So this is what the Jaguars did after halftime. Field goal interception, touchdown, touchdown, touchdown, fumble, field goal, punt. They got busy on it and the Cowboys did not. And in fact, they had two field goals that they kicked, and Mike McCarthy had referenced that. But you go to the Cowboys second had field goal, field goal, interception, punt, touchdown, punt interception. Um, don't forget that fumble of of Trevor Lawrence. The man was rolling

at that time. Well that was right. I know it was a fumble, but I'm saying as far as was stopping the guys, so he wouldn't made a play put the should on the ball, but we wasn't stopping them. No. Second half though, the defense second half was having they were on their heels. You had guys hurting, guys getting gas, and I'm just telling having watching on the field, you could just see, man, they were, they were, they were getting cooked. But they came up and made the game

saving play. Should have been the game saving play that got you out of Duvall like you did against Houston, saying, but the offense couldn't get it done despite having all that money, all that investment over there, a guru offensive coordinated, super Bowl winning head coach who was the offensive guy, they didn't get it done. And so while yes, the defense deserves blamed for all this yardage, they didn't play great, but when they needed to come up with a great

play they did and then offense screwed it up. You're going overtime. Here comes to defense getting them off the field. So yeah, beat them up for forty all that kind of stuff, but damn it, they did what they needed to do right then and there. And I'm sorry if I was in Vegas right now, you know how they do that little thing now that you can make your bed like right during the game after the fumble, like whatever, da,

I was winning ninety nine percent. I'd lost a lot of money because at the top point in time, I was like, oh man, they got they I'm like, I thought, we're gonna talk about on the show, they go talk about how they escaped one more time the AFC SID scared them. Uh, And then you can say, well, you know, the Chiefs got scared by Houston. Little bit I thought. I thought that was gonna be the whole thing. Man still got suthing to clean up. Didn't happen. Man, that

can't that can't happen. One thing I can't. I can't really get down with the fatigue part because if we look at the time of possession, Jacksonville only had the ball twenty seven minutes, but when with okay, but what was in the second half? That's the other thing. And then we also got a time the struct the strength of this defense rushing the pass, you go on against two backup tackles, two backup tackles for Jacksonville. They didn't have these starters, neither one of them, and you only

got one sack Trevor Lawns. Yeah, and legit, they came in one of the at least sack teams in the league. Trevor Lawrence hadn't been had a lot of pressure on them, And I mean for us to get that one thing about what also? Man, I mean you call it. I wanted to give you credit. Also, man about Tyren Smith and him playing right tackle, we hadn't talked about that at all, But I mean, when are they gonna get out of this whole rotation on the Peters in the game? Right?

So I mean, look, there's a little there's a lot to go around, but I want to go back to one play in particular that really just still baffles me. How didn't Donovan Wilson either tip that ball? Like I don't. I watched that several times and I still don't understand how that ball didn't get tipped. It was like fake right through his wickets. Like I was like, wait, what almost impossible? Right, almost impossible? And I'm watching this in

real time. I like, that's a that's another opportunity that's missed on defense. Look, Jeron Curse is having a hell of a season last year, had a hell of a season, but man, not being able to get that guy down Evan Ingram right there, dude, that you trip him do something, but you gotta get gotta get him down right there. You cannot allow him to get out of bounce. And because what was the big what was what was the big reason why you want to get him down so

they could burn the time out? Had Kellen done his job earlier after the defense got burnt time out? Except we point to the defense, but along the way the offense knew nothing in you says they scored thirty four points and they should have won the game when they they had thirty four points. I mean even when you go back to the Green Bay game, you're up by two scores going into fourth quarter. I mean, the NFL

has been played for a long time. Cowboys have been playing football for a long time and have not lost. Leading by two scores going into the fourth You got thirty four points, knew and nothing says you supposed to win that. I want to be clear with that. Though this year has been an anomaly. It's ways with Leeds and going into the full quarter, going to games doing all that stuff, because I don't know what it is about this season. Are you talking about in general? In general?

Leeds ain't safety point. Hey, go right back to the Indianapolis game. I mean, Lees got safety should be fired as but you were right, thirty four points should be enough. It should be enough. That was something that Nicky mean when we've been talking about that after the game, that should have been enough. Okay, But here you are in the game. You got the strip sack of the dude. You're giving your high powered offensive ball with a minute thirty six seconds. You got to close the show. Afterwards.

When I talked to Zekie Ellett, he puts like, we have to close the show. Zach Martin said, Cede Land, they are offensive. They're all, yeah, we didn't do our part. They got they got us what we needed. We didn't do our part here. So that's that's my And I'm not gonna sit here in and act like I don't understand what you're talking about, because what you're talking about a situational awareness. Understand that right in that right there on third down, you have to call something better than

a bomb on the sideline. It's gonna stop the clock. Yeah, And that's so despite the fact that Jacksonville got on a roll, they were all up in you. Your defense was I mean, losing guys something right. You needed to play, damn it, they got to play. Go run out the clock. No, we're gonna try to be aggressive here. When you stop the clock, bro, you stop the clock and I imagine Dan quinnis and you're saying, you know what, I hadn't

seen this before. I've seen this before in my life. Guru, my D's out here getting it done yet, Guru is just sitting up here, just just just trying to make me pull out the hair off from the chin. I mean it was there. That was the whole The whole thing was like. And despite all that, you were the poop poo we saw them doing. You were about to get out of due whole man. I mean you should have seen the crack there. Even the players aren't something right there back you know how players are the side.

It's like they just man, just love man. We've travels. The whole look over them was a defeat. Defeat And over there on the sideline of the guys watching right like like we go, this is what we finished it. It wasn't perfect, but we finished it off. We gon leave heim. What it does didn't happen, man, didn't happen. And then and then in overtime. All right, get off the field defense, because I'm watching part by Parsons and you know how fit that guy hit hands on his hips.

I mean it was. It was a long game and they were rolling. They By the way, Jacksonville had the ball for fifteen minutes in second half, so in the second half they had they were dude, they were moving, they were moving. And here it is, despite all the mess you went through, you had opportunity. He blew it to me, and you shit, it got all right. We gotta taken the break. Taking a break. Cowboys are in the playoffs. Guys in the playoffs. Be wild card. Here

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Cowboys dot com slash Bob Lily Award. Dak Prescott after the game. Very good. I thought, just taking accountability with which I always appreciate about Dak. We tried to talk to Noah Brown, he decided he didn't want to talk to us. I wanted to get to Tyrand Smith, but we were trying to get some other stuff done. Um I thought Tyrn played played really well. So tough loss for the Cowboys, but they make they make the playoffs.

This is the first time that they've had the same coach take this team to the playoffs back to back season. It's his chan game. What Mike McCarthy has done. Despite Cowboy fans being frustrated, I would like to say right here on the players not to by tostitos, give Mike McCarthy credit because consistency has been an issue with the Cowboys.

The guy's got two playoff appearances back to back, so normally the Cowboys make the playoffs and next year, you know, we're talking about we'll talk about the draft and where you're going. So despite losing it over time in Jacksonville, and I blame myself, I've got a two games this year. They've both in playoff losses, and was the Cowboys were up. I'm take I'm not gonna go to Tennessee. I'm not going to Washington, Okay, because I clearly the awful East.

Sure the hell, I ain't going to the first playoff game on I'm not. I'm not gonna be here to marks. I just need to hear what y'all got to say about that. I said the last night at NBC five on the players List, what's your thoughts on I put it on, I put it, I put a lot with that. You can't. It's also I tweeted it out too, So, um, four is a problem right now? Four as a problem.

I went back and I talked about how there are last two losses because the last two losses were in overtime, and Dak Prescott basically had the same touchdown interception ratio three touchdowns and two interceptions. And you talk about those four interceptions, all four those interceptions led two touchdowns for the other team. He can't do this. Was it nine touchdowns and six I mean nine interceptions and six games right here last year, four straight. The quarterback has to

be better, Jimmy Johnson us have a great lune. It's not about the place you make, it's about the mistakes that you don't make. So we put in these two. We put in those two on back, those two picks. This Dak came into this week saying, I'm going to cut down on the interceptions. You can debate, you know, because Noah Brown and hit it up in the air and they ran back to the pick six. The other one with the Dalton Schultz got his arm hit. I'm

watching slow SlowMo video. Somebody came from around the back through hit his arm and he went over. So you can put it on the pass rush on the quart protection. We talked about, can't turn the football over the cowboy quarterback has you know, you could do all those like you say about Tony Romo and ain't Romo's fault. But you've been a part of the problem. And the quarterback has to be better. What did we love about Dak Preshcott and what won him the job when when when

he was here he didn't turn the ball over. He's making too many mistakes and be it hit circumstances, whatnot? Certain point time do or do not? There is no try and four has got to be better any food, And yes, thank you very much. If they want to like that, if they want to go anywhere. Ford's got to play batter. No one got to kiss that ball. That's the right throw, that's the first down throw low

on the way. He's got to catch that ball. If you get your arm hit with a dude rushing around the rushing around the back of it, I mean, yeah, I want to protect the ball, but what the hell I'm supposed to do about that? Make yes, I'm telling what I'm saying. What am I supposed to do about it? If I'm throwing the ball, my I got leaky, leaky protection on the backside and my arm gets hit while I'm trying to make a routine throw the dolts and shows, Yeah,

I'm gonna put something on that. No others. I'm like, no, you gotta kiss the ball, bro. And that's the micro. The macro is We're starting to look here. And that was game. But my big thing was not just It was not just, it was overall here you know this has been a problem, and four has been that if four fixes the I, four's not doing that. I got

believed if they win this kind of football game. You don't win last week against Houston and Ford doesn't take you on the ninety eight yard drive to win that game. First half of this Jacksonville game for his cook and he delivered a complete dime to Peyton Hendershot. He got on the same page with Ceedee Lamb. You've been clamoring for that to happen all season and then that finally happens. He gets out of the pocket and gets a ball

into Noah Brown. That was just another beautiful ball. What happens in the second half is when you need your quarterback to be the difference maker, he can't be the difference. He wasn't the difference And that's the reason why people continue to pile on Dak because you want him to be a forced multiplier. You don't want him to get

into situations like that. And you can go through each one of these interceptions and say, damn, is it just dumb luck that half of these innership exceptions are on tip balls Because as you know, BC tips and overthrows gotta get those and that's what's gonna happen to you every single time. And so look, I don't want to make any excuses for him. All I'm saying is in order for this team to go far in the playoffs win out the rest of the season, it's going to

have to be because Dak Prescott plays better. He was gotta kiss them balls. I don't I feel what y'all saying, but that Noah Brown gotta catch that ball. Of course he should have laughed. He makes he make the right read under pressure, throws it low. You ain't about to get hit. You gotta catch the ball. Drive continues to go on. All you need is a field goal this time. Like you said, your defense has made the play that they need to make it. All you gotta do is

make a drive. I'm on my way to making a drive. As the quarterback, I need you to catch the ball. Thank you, and the defense let you down. Yeah, you know what I mean. You're up twenty seven to ten. Jags get the ball back, boss man fat lit up man Christmas Trappy nine yards now, that's twenty seven to seventeen. Cowboys getting the ball back. First play. Dak sat next play interception. That next drive, they go down the fields say Jones, who do you mean number one? Number one?

It's twenty seven, twenty four? Duve all going crazy now the fourth quarter and then bam, we saw what happen here. Things got to get ficked, guys. Philadelphia's coming to town. Philadelphia is like Ken Norton, Ali Ken Norton. That left hand is gave Alie fits the way Philadelphia comes in. They they have somebody said I can't I want to me. I don't know who did they. I give a lot of credit how he Rosen basically built Philadelphia. How do I match up against Dallas? How do I match up again?

Because because the Cowboys are the standard here, how do we match up with the Cowboys? And right now, do you call up McKinsey, Axai, what do you do in terms of calling up and helping the secondary out because it's an issue right now, you cannot put number one back out there. I don't know if I want nay Sean right being out to bring some veteran help, bring some folks in hell. Hopefully Lake vander esh to talk about this issue with the should little stingering out, But

you know, hopefully he's ready to go. I got to give him a whole lot of credit. Man, Um, some of these guys, we don't know how much you miss until they're gone him, Anthony Brown, Jordan Lewis. Um, you know it's a challenge this week, guys, it's a challenge this week. Um. Cowboys in the Eagles are the only two teams in the league. By the way, you have not lost back to back games this year. Damn it

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