Player's Lounge: How Disappointing Was This Loss?

over football season over for the Cowboys. They lose. He was so excited, Bro, I have no more frustrations to give. I have been let down so much. Brother, you can't. When you've been down here so long and you've covered this disappointment so much, it is what it is now. You look at this town, Dallas Fort Worth, and you look at the massive amounts of disappointment. Now. I got to cover Jimmy's last year with the Cowboys. I was working in Austin. Got to cover that, got to cover

some of Barrie's first year. So I've seen what a championship team looks like, seeing the atmosphere, seeing the people, and when you talk about being in this town since two thousand, like I have since then two thousand, since I got here to work at Channel five, I've watched the Stars played for it twice cup twice lost. Boat watch the Rangers play in the World Series twice lost, boat, watch the Mavericks play for the NBA Championship twice lost. One.

Cowboys have never gone to Super Bowl during the time I've been here. But I mean, and and along the way, I have seen teams that had the talent to get to that level and they didn't do. It's that phone. It don't make it no easier to take. I mean, because well maybe maybe maybe for you, maybe for you, but for me who literally like I get invested in the squad. We do the show every day, so I'm

more in tune now with the game. Even even when I, like, after I retired, I was just watching the games on Sunday, so talking about it every day, figuring, hey, man, we're inventially gonna figure this, figure this thing out. I know we're gonna get into it. Don't make it no easier to sit to watch what happened yesterday, especially how bad it was yesterday, does not make it any easier because you know that if you don't, if you don't do knuckleheads stuff, then you probably got a chance to at

least make it to the next round. And you just watching it like, now, why would you do that? Why would you do that? Why would you do this? Why would you do that? We've been doing this all year. You're ever gonna learn And you watch it, and you watched the culmination of the entire season, all the mistakes that were made throughout the entire season, when you say, these are the ones that we're gonna go back and fix, and then you watch it happen in the playoff game,

You're like, it's frustrating. It's frustrating. They are who we thought they were. I mean, it's as simple as that. I'm talking about the whole the whole organization. When you when you go through the entire season and you're the most penalized team throughout the entire season, it's gonna reoccur. Something that's gonna hit you. It's gonna hurt you when

it matters most. And they got into the playoffs and what happened Fourteen penalties for eighty nine yards and we ain't talking about you know, first down, But we're talking about on both sides of the ball, money down, third downs and big situations. It was either a hold defensively, which I've never seen, nothing like that. But if you look at the calls they were they were warranted calls,

hands to the face, Nevill Gallimore third down situation. You got a team that's not disciplined at all, and we've seen it, by the way, But who does that fall on? It starts up top and it works its way down, by the way, Barry Church, Danny m Crazy New Scrubs dot Com. As we talked about the loss of the nine Ers, the Cowboys have had three playoff wins, um and you keep going back to ownership. You're you're in charge of this, so when you say where does it go?

It has to start at the top because this is Jerry's organization. If I point the finger like I always do and say, you know, Washington's not winning, I pointed Daniel Snyder, get what this guy's done. You're the constant here. Start looking over the last two generations in twenty five, it's the gem. The Joneses are on top, so it falls on them. Yeah, and then you go next level of Mike McCarthy You guys talked about the penalties after the game, Mike was asked about him. Okay, and that's

that's one thing I tried to defend me. I said, look, they were like he could plain about he was asked. He was asked, I want to hear about that, about this? He gave Mike mccarthier age, he did, okay, yeah, we can get full right, Can I get the full record of what I said? What did I say? No? No, no, no, let grad yes letter? And what did I say after I said you had the right to change your mind? Right? I said it right no at the time, and I said,

when the playoffs come, because it's incomplete, it's like the final. Okay, it's just like your NBA final. How much do you can how much? Who was your finals? How much? Who was it? Waited? Come on, man, I waited. I waited playoff. Come on, let me tell that we need we can let it. Let tell you. Let me tell you what I said. I graded the playoff like a final. It was. I let you. I'll let you walk into this newe.

I'll let you walk right into that because you are the same dude who gave me somebody an A and then talk about the entire season you just agreed to saying they are who we thought they were, the most penalized team. Right. You gave the guy who has that team in eight? Is that right? And then we're talking about what they do and what they what I gave him by a four? So now I'm gonna change my mind. Oh No, I told him he was brought he was brought here, and I was gonna get based it on.

You were brought here to be better than Jason Garrett in the playoffs. He failed and the fact that he failed, and to me, the playoff is like the final, you're going down to a seed, you're a C. Plus. She shouldn't have had an A. Should have been going going into going into this. I had him there. I know he failed. He bombed on the final. Okay, they're the only one I was talking about as a head coach and great as a head coach. I had me he had an ag going into the final. He bombed. You

know how you see plus? Because the final and the way I waited it and the way I was grading him was this is why you're here, This is why I was booboodo fool I hit drinking the kool aid saying Mike McCartney, they got it right. He's a super Bowl guy. This is upgrade over Jason Garrett. It wasn't. And there's no excuses to usten to what happened. I mean, look, this is what he, like you said, it is Brant. What is what he was about here to do to get this team over the to be that super Bowl

winning coach. He had a number one offense, his defense took the football away better than any team left in the playoffs, and relatively they were healthy. Outside of Kiano Kneel, they were healthy. So there's just no excuses for this one. And he is what I thought he was. Let me tell you something, Okay, I'm gonna go back to my days with the Chicago Bears where we were in training camp.

The defense was killing the offense. We like, this is gonna be a top notch defense until you get out there and you realize that that offense is tramsh all right, And this is what I'm talking. I won't hear about this number one offense anymore, okay, because what happens is it's the law of averages, right, That's how you get

the number one offense. So when you go out there and you put up a fifty on a Washington football team, you go out there and you put up another big, big, big score on the Philadelphia Eagles team, and you continue to do this against these squash Yeah, you got a number one offense. But if you watch the game like we watched the game, a true football with true football knowledge,

you know that this was no number one offense. Just like when you say, all right, I think the defense was top ten based off what I'm seeing, but the numbers won't show them what we said when the season ended, Can you say the same thing about the offense, especially the last eight weeks of the season. No, they were on this slide. There's a whole slump in there that we talked about. Have a touchdown the last he had one catch. Yeah, last he didn't have a touchdown in

the game. But but Kelly Moore's got job interview to prepare for them. Man, young head come he better still he better go watch that film with what Shannahan did to us and watch CBO debo saying you get ten carres for save me two yards and two three three cards. But that is that is what CDEE Lamb can do something similar to it. I'm not gonna say that he's as good as or whatever because we see Debo doing it now. But that's how that's how you get creative

and get the ball in your playmaker's hands. We ain't see it again yesterday. Look who we targeted out there. I mean no disrespect, but we're getting, said Wilson, the majority of these targets. When it came down a nutcutting time, who did that? Press got put the prayer too? It was said Wilson was an interception to Wilson, it's it's

it's mind blowing the mad. Do you think it's it's the it's the kelling Moore drawn these up for these specific players where you just think, this is where Dak Prescott is going with the foot back was off yesterday. I've been at home long enough to watch because I don't get to watch the actual film like when Brunos we used to get the film, so I have to like watch whatever or live Ski and Ryan Clark and them. And it's good because sometimes they break down specific plays

and it's the play that we're talking about. You line up at three by one, you got single covers on the back side. It's covered four. It's covered four. You got one on one on the back side because the backside safety is coming to three, right heat threw it to, said Wilson at number two. You got one on one on the back side. I don't want to hear nothing about that. That ain't killing more fault. That was that like?

And I'm sure this is consistent throughout that entire game because they ran pretty much the same stuff and they found a way to stop us throughout the entire game. So now I'm not so if you watch it that way, it's like, nah, I can't get it. I can't put it all though, killer, but not running the ball, that's

all that's on killing. Sixteen carries. Sixteen carries the entire game between Zeke and Polo, and Zeke was getting positive yards, bro, And what did we say, but did we say last couple of weeks we don't need them to get a thousand, We don't need them get a hundred fifty yards. Just the attempts to keep a defense, honest, We'll do you wonders. And what did we see out there when you when you try to give a play action with only sixteen carries? That defense is not gonna bite up. They're gonna sit

back and coverage of being all in the windows. And as we saw out there, a lot of those throws they were contested. They were in mucky coverage because you have no run game to throw that balance off. And our best drive was when we came out and ran the ball. Literally the boot work, like everything worked all of a sudden. I'm like and like I said, I'm sitting at the bar, and you would be no, no kidding, bro. The bar's full full of people, everybody watching the game.

We come out, they run the ball and people are high fiving. Yeah, this is this is ridiculous. Absolutely right in concrete Cowboy right up the street were talking about Philly. You at a game. Turns out I see turns on TV, hundred thousand people outside. It was on the Vaccinator whatever. So on that drive you spoke up, that was an eight play drive. Six of the players were running plays and it ended obviously in that touchdown to to Cooper. So McCarthy head coach brought in to win that kind

of game, didn't do it. Dak Prescott paid one hundred and sixty million dollars as a franchise quarterback. You're paid to win that game two minutes forty two seconds ago despite a an awful let down performance as an entire team, and Dak there as a quarterback, you had your shot, had your shot, and you don't get it done. So when I look at the quarterback, I say, you didn't get it done either. Somethingist he didn't get it done as the quarterback. That's making that kind of money, all right,

Listen the entire team. I don't know let down by the entire team. Okay, we had some leakage on defense. Special teams came out, made some plays. They scored twenty three points. That gives them the ball in the on territory. Deebo saying it didn't runs it in for a touchdown. All right, So they get points off turnover off turnovers our defense, Ben, but don't break that is that is what you're watching at this point, especially when your offense is going three and out and put the ball right

back to these dudes. So I want to let down, Nah defense play well enough to win twenty three points. What did we say when we love Hey man, if we if our offense and scored twenty four twenty five points, we should get the dub they scored twenty three. I will say this, then you turn the ball over. Defensively, they did score on the first four drives, Jimmy Gravelo and San Francisco did score on those first four drift

field goals. It was three field goals in the touchdown, okay, And so it's like, you know, they got to make some stops too, now, no, oh, but the defense when it was time too, they made stops after holding those dudes to field go So I'm not saying they played a perfect game. But when you go into the game, you say, hey, man, if our defense can hold this team to how many points whatever, our officers should be able to win. And yeah, they literally all agreed on

twenty four to twenty five. Like I think your pick was was what was the score? Like? Here you went and I got it right now? Uh d Mac twenty eight twenty five, Barry twenty seven twenty four. I had twenty four twenty two. So so when you so in all those right, you said, the defense played as well, give it a chance to win it turn over. You give the ball back to these dudes repeatedly at the end of the game to go make these plays. I mean,

both sides got to play. No, no, no no, no no. I'm saying they have to play better, but I'm saying it wasn't a letdown. They played it. They played well enough for us to win this this football game. It's at the end of the day, and special teams came out and they and they made some play. They gave us an extra posession. Goodwin with a anger over there, gave us an extra posession of offense let down the other ones played was enough to win. There's some stuff

that you can fix, but that is playoff football. But the letdown of what we saw in the offense, that that right there, to me, is like an excuseable. McCarthy said, the team was jittering coming out to start the game. And I want to make sure that I'm one fair as I say this. That is what I used to beat Jason Garrett. Thank you all the time, hey man, that that Packers game in which McCarthy was a head team was jittery. I did getting beat dude, that's a on us, the head coach. I want to make sure

that I put Mike McCarthy. I look at Mike McCarthy. What happened is being worse than what happened with Jason Garrett, because you're the dude who had a ring on your finger. You're the guy who was supposed to be better. You weren't better. You didn't have them ready to go. I got these penalties left and right, and after the game. You want to sit up here to agree with your players. The reps had this and not to do with it. Man, come on, man, Rady Green gram baar Hood and folks

on defense. It isn't the first time. This ain't the first time. He you know, man, he's refs, he's refts, and then your players go out there and say the same thing. It was. This was this was this disappointing, um a coaching performance that I've seen for Cowboy fans. And I'm not you know, I can't be mad at it, because damn it, it's just it's just they just changed the names and we're seeing the same old stuff, man, and it's I feel bad. I feel bad for the fans,

and because when you I grew up a Cowboy fan. Yeah, I used to have the cowboy raincoat, backpack, John's curtain. I mean my whole wardrobe was all cowboys, man. I mean I was that dude. I was a dude that didn't want to go to school on Monday because of the Catch game. My mom sitting because my mind had talked all hash noise. I don't want to go. I don't want to go. I'm not that anymore because I covered and now I just been let down so long. But they can't. You can't hurt me no more. Man,

you can't hurt me. No. My my armor's up. Can't hurt me. I saw the sea like, man, Okay, we've seen worse. Honestly, I've seen worse. I'm on the sidelines for the Romo game. I'm on the sideline for the Mason Crosby kick. I see it, um, you know, for for people like Chris Bean. You remember the game in San Francisco where the Cowboys started off slow and they fought their way back and then there was some questionable

stuff at the end of me. I've seen the letdown, man, I've seen it, and here you are one more time. I put faith in the dude that I thought could get it done. Stupid me. I look like shout shout out to a Anthony Brown for making it, you know, throughout the year. But he made an ele a play to get that interception and get us a score to make that game closer and give us a shot to win at the end of the game. Let's take our

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three of us picked the Cowboys to win. Yeah, I was the only one who covered spread Kellen Moore. Kellen Moore's got job interviews home Jacksonville. Are I mean yeah? Jackson Villey already interviewed dan Quinn helped him there. Minnesota wants to interview him, Denver wants to interview him. Um, I don't think Houston has cold for for Kellen Moore at all. Here dan Quinn has got interviews. Uh did a lot of people think he's the head the fare to get the head coaching job over with the Denver

broncos Um. How are we feeling about Kellen Moore possibly becoming a head coach and Dan Quinn becoming a head coach now that this thing is over? Same well for last week, y'all over here talking about Kelly Moore's resume and cowboys and cowboys that you can't wait to get him about it or nine. Let me tell you something. Kelly Moore just has some work to do, man, he

has some work to do. He's obviously not listening to the stuff that he should be listening to as far as hey, man, we need to get out here, and we need to establish the run. We need to be a little bit more creative with getting our playmakers the ball. I think those are two glaring weaknesses in Kelly Moore's

offensive play calling. And to give him a head coaching job knowing that you are paying guys fifty sixty seventy million dollars to be playmakers and he's not going to make sure he put those guys in the position to make plays. That's something that I would be worried about. Dudes are writing checks? You got you got ninety million dollars running back, hundred million dollars receiver back there, and

you can't figure first round receiver. You can't figure out the way to get this man to catch, You can't figure out the way to get him involved in the game. So, like, those are the things that would worry me about hiring him as a head coach, And those are the things that worry me about him staying here as an offensive coordinator because it's team players. These guys want to be Amari Cooper is only the only one who spoke up.

But I know behind those doors there's a lot of dudes out there like, bro this, why like why are we not getting this person the ball? Like I can help us be better? Zeke's I know he's he's a team guy, but I know he's upset with his lack of production and his opportunities this season as well. Yeah, I mean, look, but all works out for Kelly. You know, I hope he goes and maybe he'll get, you know, the Jacksonville job and be down there with with Trevor Lawrence.

But you're absolutely right, there's some things that he's got to work on, And to me, it's it's adjustments because we've seen at the beginning of the year. I mean, we were all in here calling him the hall man, He's the boy Jenius. He's getting the most out of this team. Man, they're flying all over the place. You know. That was the first couple of weeks, first maybe six weeks out there, and then team started figuring them out.

People started getting the tape on him like they do rookie quarterbacks, and they started to figuring them out, and we couldn't make any adjustments to it. We started playing doing hook and laterals for you know, third town calls, which it still blows my mind, but we did that a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, we did a couple of I was like, man, with what's going on? But yeah, there's some things he's got to work on. But overall, I mean, I can't see him getting out of here.

I mean, I think he's got that connection with the Joneses, and I can't see them letting him just walk away to the to go be a head coach somewhere else. I mean, I could see them letting Dan Quinn do that before they let Kelly Moore. How much success can we have with Kelly Moore? Here's office avecordinator. If he keeps up the way he's going, I'm not saying a lot, because we've just because the blueprints out there. When we have a balanced attack, that's when we're at our best.

But he's not willing to do that. So as long as he's here, I mean, and as long as he keeps that same type of game plan, I can't see us having that much success. Thought, if Kellen Moore's back and Vic Fangio does not get a head coaching job, or in fact, I'd call Vic Fangio now before he even gets another job, just an assistance. What about paying him saying, man, I need you to come in here. I need to spend an afternoon with Kellen Moore and

my staff. Tell us what you guys did in that Denver game, because whatever you did, everybody else ran got that tape and they figured it out. Help him get better, you guys tell me. I don't know how so because I think at this point he is who he is, Like, it's not it's not about what Denver did in that game.

Like we can all sit here and see that there's a simple solution, right, being balanced, Right, that is something that he will have to accept that he has to do versus I'm going to draw up this scheme to make sure that I get somebody open versus Hey, man, it's a man on man game. It's zero something. Somebody wins, somebody losers, and that is that is what the essence of NFL football is, all right. So sometimes you gotta get out there and you just gotta run the ball.

Let me let me push back as a as a person who didn't play in the league like you guys. Are you guys? Did I say that from the standpoint of if I'm running a business and somebody out here is figuring out how to beat me in a certain area, why not go get a consultant to help me understand how do I get better in this area? I mean,

as a defensive guy and you guys play defense. Is it helpful at times when you go to the offensive guy to say, hey, look, this is how we got you here, this is how we got you there, and it's definitely helpful. But like I was saying earlier, or is he willing to take these adjustments? Is he willing to take this coaching? Because as we see in the entire city, he was stuck in his ways. We wanted

to throw the ball all over the place. We continued, even though we've seen if we get these running backs carries, our record is improven, we get the most production out of our offense we've seen if we see that. I know that coaching staff sees that. So I think he's kind of stuck in his ways where I don't know if he wants to be the sexy thing or just you know, he wants to air it out, play mad and whatever the case may be. But for some reason, he wants to put it in Dak Prescott's hands alone.

And from what we've seen, once we get to the playoffs and having a long projective season, that's just not the solution. And also you'll remember this when I said, I believe it is during the bye week where they do self scout, so dan Quinn will watch our offense and then go tell Kellen what he thinks about and what he would do to stop it. So it's not like somebody like nobody has has gotten in his ear and say hey, this is this is this is what's happening to you, and this is how you need to

get it fixed. Because during the bibe week, literally every year that I played, it would sell Scout week and Kellen Moore would would scout dan Quinn's defense and dan Quinn with scout Keller Moore's offense, and then you would come together and say this is how we can be better. Okay, let's go through each job here for Kellen Moore, and you tell me your thoughts if you're Jacksonville in terms of why would you say yes? Why would you say no? So let's start with the last one here, Miami, why

would you say yes to Kellen Moore? Wid saying why would you say? Now? I don't even know who they got on a roster, right, you don't have You don't really have a quarterback to me that I believe in as being a franchise guy, and I think Keller Moore needs needs some pieces. Um. It's hard for me to answer these questions right now. I'm so down on the due so it's like it's easy for me to say like why not, Um, but yeah, go to Miami. I don't know, I don't I don't really know who who

the hell they got up? If I'm Miami, I'm saying yes because he's a he's a young quarter woll to answer half of the question, Yes, because he's a young quarterbacks coach. He or he's offensive coordinator, but he can relate to the quarterbacks. We've seen what he's done with Dak Prescott and how he's been able to have the number one offense out there. And from what we've seen from this Miami team, the strength of their team has

been the defense. The defense is bawling and the offense has you know, kind of gotten here and there, up and down. Maybe if you bring a guy like that in, he can help stabilize that and make that offense one of the powers of that team overall. But what you say no, is you got to look at the season. We just had the inconsistencies, the ups and downs. That's exactly what happened with your squad last year with two us. So to me, raw if I was Miami, I'd say no.

What about Denver. Denver, there's a situation where I think he might have an opportunity. I think dan Quinn has the better opportunity. But from what we've seen in Denver, hiring defensive you know, minded coaches has not really been productive for them. I mean it was Vick Vanjie was there last year, and we've seen what happened. They need an offensive mind to get the most out of their team. They got a great wide receiver corps, two great running

backs back there, they got a good tight end. I think they're one quarterback away from from being a pretty good team. And if you have an offensive minded coach like Kella Moore to balance out that great defense, I think you've got something going on right there. I'm gonna just push back on that one because I think we got the same stuff here. Yea, And when we're watching the same the same guy who's calling these plays have these weapons. You got to Zeke. You got a Mary Cooper,

you got a Michael Gallup, you got Cede Lamb. These I think the weapons here are better. And we're sitting here looking like, so, so, how are you going to use these dudes? Why? Why are we throwing the ball? Why said Wilson, a feature in the offense at this point versus a CD Lamb or a Mary Cooper? And why are you even giving the quarterback the options to

be looking at? And said, right, hey, man, hey, this I'm drawing up this play for nineteen Well, I've been saying this for almost two years now, and I just I just don't Maybe it needs a rookie quarterback. You got Minnesota, So Minnesota, you've got Jefferson, you got Feeling, You've got doubt her cousins, you got Kirk Cousins. So um your thoughts on Kellen Moore and Minnesota wants to

talk to him once again? Okay, once again? If the guy is able to use his weapons the correct way, Like if you could if Keller Moore goes to Minnesota and all of a sudden, Adam Feeling and Justine Jefferson cannot be productive. There's there's an issue. And I will be worried about that watching the Cowboys offense, like what what is he going to do with the weapons that we have in place? All of a sudden you want to start throwing the two guys who who are third

on the depth chart because they're opening your scheme. I just it worries me. It worries me. Minnesota Kellen Moore, same thing? Why not? Why not? I mean, look at it. I think they got a better runner than what we have here. And I think he's he's a guy that's not as I mean, I don't know him personal, but you know Zeke to me, seems like he's one of

these team players, team first, team first. I feel like they add the personalities over there in that running back room that'll say I need the ball, and he'll make it known that hey, I need these touch is right now? Why am I only getting four or five touches a game? And I think he put keller More in a situation where you gotta feature your best player, which is Dalmond Cook, So maybe that would give him the opportunity to have more of a balanced structure. It's Kelly more than back

here next year? Or is he a head coach? I think he's back here. I don't think the Joneses let him leave. I see Quinn maybe getting an opportunity somewhere else before the Jones let Kelling Moore walk on the door. It's either McCarthy or killing Moore, but one. I don't believe that both of them will be here next year. As I said last year, I believe that Mike McCarthy should be taking the play sheet and he's been in the lab like no literally when you advertise like that

is what you have been doing. And then now we look at at the script and whatever you're this offensive gene that you're supposed to be knowing all this stuff. You ain't even calling the plays like like there should be next year. There should be no opportunity for us to say, oh, it ain't Mike McCarthy fault because he ain't call him to place. Nah. You should live and die with your ability to call these plays for your quarterbacks.

And that's why I think that's why you gotta give him a sea or even maybe less whe we're talking about earlier, because if he's not calling the plays offensively, we know he's not calling the plays defensively. You're here to be a manager. You're here to make sure this team goes in the right direction time situations, whatever the situation may be, Mojo moments. You're the coach that makes these decisions, and as we've seen, it's been a failure so far. I think Kellamore's gonna be a head coach.

He's getting about it here. The way this league has hired. He's got a better resume than Zach Taylor, got a better resume than Nick Sirianni. This man's gonna get a job based on how we see them hire. It's not about proven resume. It's about and Mike Lombardi talked about you. You're You're chosen. You know, they choose this, you're the guy. So based on what I've seen in hiring the last few years, guy like Matt Lafloor, Yeah, this dude's gonna be a head coach, and I think it will be

this offseason. I think they're gonna lose both guys a job. Any jobs got two jobs back, Kelly got two jobs back to back. Uh. Eric Mangini got two jobs back to back. Yeah, North Turner had three jobs, Waite Phillips had three job. This is a league that will reward people. But I'm just telling when you start looking at the profile these guys that they want, Kellen Moore fits that. Kellen Moore is gonna be able to go into my Hey, look he had high schooling offense, had number I mean,

he's gonna be able to come out the end. There's going to be an owner or general manager who falls into it and he's not gonna be able to control the roster. So a GM who wants to remain in control can like they do it in Philadelphia, Nick Cerrianty, They're gonna hire it Kellen Moore I'm just telling you right now, I believe Kelly Moore's gonna be a head coach again. I don't. I don't. I don't think he's

He's a bad offensive coordinator. I think there are some things specifically for this team that could have been done differently. All right, let's take it right time to talk about the offensive line. Yeah, in the last play and what will be? What will be? Danny mc Craigberry Church New We scrugs. This is plays Lunch brought you by Hotels dot Com, Dascotboys dot Com Radio. Nobody protects you from mayhem like all State. I'm a broken traffic lady, stop and go. As the name of my game, It's easy,

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Francisco forty nine ers at home. The Cowboys were three point favorites. Nick Bosa ended up leaving and not playing in the second half at all final drive. Fred Warner their their second best football player on defense. He's not there either. So the Cowboys two forty two to go could have gone out of the field, won the game, didn't do it. Let's talk about the offensive line and we could talk about what was and what will be

concerning the ola. Gentleman, I would let down because I'm ni gonna let me beat up on the first go ahead Church. It is what it is. Man came down to what we talked about last week. I think that we brought it up exactly. He said this, this game's gonna come down to the trenches, and who's gonna win in the trenches. And as we seen this this this last game, we got bullied. They got punked out there. To just just put as simple as that, and it was.

It wasn't like they were bringing all types of different types of exotic pressures and running all these different type of things. It was man on man like coach Marion and they said, man on man, bone on bone football. And what's the most disheartening about it is they got whipped across the board like it wasn't Nobody got spared out there. You know, maybe outside of Zach Martin he might have held his own, but every other position got whooped.

I mean, Nick Bosa before he went out was giving lihell Collins, the work man on the other side, I don't even know his name. He was giving time smith head from Texas. But overall, I mean, and let's not even begin on Carna Williams, because I think his tape speaks for itself. I mean, I was one of, you know, the worst, you know, performances we've seen from an offensive lineman here in a long time. But they got whipped

across the board. And what's making it even more disheartening is they did that without their best player for three quarters. Nick Bossa was out and they still was getting pressured. I mean, I know Dak was off the entire the entire day for the most part, but a lot of his throes there was somebody in his lap. If they weren't hitting him. He was running for his life out there. So I mean, it's a lot to blame to go around. But that offensive line was, I mean, it was. It

was definitely abysmal going out there yesterday. That's what happened when you rushed in sixteen times. That's what happened when you let God tey off on you like that. They don't have to earn the right to rush the passer. They just get the rush of the passer and then you think you should be able to take a breath when Bossa goes out, and it just it didn't get any easier for the offensive line. You just like, goodness, Gracia,

what are we doing? That was? It was a bad performance bar offensive line questions that need to be answered going into the off season. Who left guard? Who's gonna be our left tackle? When we all left guard? Everybody well, like, what are we doing? You're not doing them a right tackle because you just nobody how can you get him to play better? Like like, how can we solidify this and get back to our glory days? Well, we wouldn't

win super bowls. But when you were like, hey man, this is one of the most feared offensive lines in the league. What will be when I talk about this offensive line? Number One, Joe Philbin needs at a conversation with the head coach. You need to become more physical upfront. Okay, physicality is not there. The center needs to be replaced. Okay. I know Mike McCarthy liked him coming out of Wisconsin, and I don't blame Tyler Be you are who you are, but he's a backup player. If this is your backup

center and guard, little swing combo guy, they're fine. This is not that guy. You're left guard Carter Williams. No, Nate Williams is Nate Newton has said it for a few years now talking about Williams. He's too light and you're seeing him getting bullied. He can't get bullied, and he got bullied. So if your center is light and your left guard and people are able to just attack them, I'm sorry. You saw your quarterback running for his life.

Your left tackle is undependable in terms of playing games, and you got away with it this year for twelve wins. But we got to start. He's right, it's time to start to look at who is it. Who's that next guy? Do you believe Steel can become that guy? Do you want to spend the offseason working with the terms of left up? But you got to address this because you cannot continue to gamble like this. You're gambled. I said gamble one more time this year. You're gambled. He smissed games.

Tyran Smith is an all decade player, but you're still gambling, and you got to stop gambling. You have to you got away with this offseason and they got to see it. I mean I was right there with you. I was talking about this is twenty eleven, you know, Tyre Smith going into the season, and for a while there we were right word. But he got he got het work. But it's but you can't do that anymore. So I was you know, Danny said, no address it. I said, no,

band aided You band aided it. You can't band aid this anymore. So you can think about from the center to the to the left spot right there, center guard, left tackle. Uh, you gotta fix this. It's not This is not sustainable any longer. It allows you to beat up the bad teams. Good teams like this, they're eating your lot and they only rushed for the whole they're given. With these exotic blitzers, they're getting beat man on And

that's the tail tale right there. If you're getting beat man on man bone on ball, it's time to make an adjustment. What the tail tale was my man Bosa coming out and saying, we see these dudes get beat we were gonna come out and do the same. Nobody fear needs dude like, yeah, they're a great offensive line. We have to figure out a way to make sure that we that we create a little confusion fun. He's like, Nah, the dude gotta beat We're gonna come my hair wrost.

You know what will help you know that situation now is if you let that offensive line get some exert some will out there, exert some aggressions. Don't don't let them sit there and catch the entire time. If you see that you're left tackle, your left guard, sometimes your right tackle is struggling because they're catching the entire game. Let them exert somewhere, let them put some punishment out there. Run the football. But as we see, we're not gonna

do that, and we're not willing to do that. But you're also you're not physical. You know you're not physical. You got bullied. It was the first the first drive. You talked about they getting bullet and that was defensively and then on the offense then they got the ball. You know, so your defense got bully the first drive and get the offensive ball that three and out. They

got bullied with the defense. They got bullied, And I'm just sitting there and I'm like, this is this is that Shanahan offense of like you have no idea like where it's coming from, what Formacon is gonna come out of, Where Devot gonna line up in the backfield? Where your eyes got to be it? And I think as good as the linebackers played, they were out of position a few times where it was like, yeah, you're watching the game, You're like, but if I was out there, I'll be

like that wound probably confused me too. But if you look at it, you know, the bigger loss I think was the keyan O'Neil not being with not being active, and well, I know he hasn't been, you know, the the greatest linebacker this entire season, but this is a guy that he played with Shanahan on that Atlanta Falcon State, so he would know, you know, with how they're going to try to attack you, where you should have your eyes, where you should key at, and he could help, you know,

Parsons and LV playing a little bit faster, because that's hard, especially for a young rookie like Parsons to be able to diagnose these plays when you got pulling guards, misdirection, you got ghost sweeps coming at you. That's a hard thing to do. And for both guys that don't understand that it's gonna be tough. So right now, the Cowboys at the twenty fourth pick in the draft, we the three of us have not dived into it heavily, not

dived into it heavily. But if you had a choice right now, like a preference at twenty four, where would you go for your football team? Tackle the same thing I'm on last year? Like you at this point, you have a guy who you're almost sure it's not going to be able to play the entire season. Like you have a guy there that that that needs to be replaced at this point over the last few seasons, he's

missed a lot of games. Get ready to get you a guy if you if you can that late because I know this draft right now that doesn't have a lot of quarterbacks in there. So you're gonna start seeing some old line and a d line and start going at the beginning of this draft. But if you have the opportunity, man, it's time to shore up the offensive line. And I would start with the tackle. Yeah, I mean right now, And that's got to be one of the

high priorities. You know this offensive line, and you got to also see what you're able to bring back defensively because a lot of those guys are gonna be on one year deals. But to me, you know, the number one priority as we've seen in this game, this officive line has to be addressed. So and this is not diving into anything heavy right now, Okay, gotta have it. But I'm just just off the top of my head

knowing how these things normally go. You're talking about that offensive tackle at twenty four, I'm going to imagine and even just based off last year, your top two offensive tackles gonna be gone. It's not a heavy offensive tackle draft like when we was tripped and worst. You know, all those guys. So do you take tackle number three or four at twenty four or do you take possibly the number one rated center or number one rated guard If you're sitting, I think you take the highest rated

officive linement of your need. Right, So if it's a guard, center, tackle, whoever it is, at twenty four, what what I would like to see is us get another staple left tackle because we know how important that position is. You see, like the Trent Williams effect is a real thing, and and and so you know, tiring top ten guy, Trent top ten guy so and I guess what you don't. And this I kind of think about like the Taco Charleston. You had a need and so you just well, okay,

he's defensive number five. We need one. And that's what you did. Is that what you're willing to do? Or do you say, hey, give me that number one center in the game, give me that guy who won the Ramanton Awards. That that's that's kind of I think you gotta go number one overall, Like whoever's lover is the top of this guard, you know, tackle center, whoever is there. I think you gotta go with the number one choice.

You can't just you know, stape with yourself one. We gotta get a left tackle we got because then I mean, you know, who knows what happened by the third or fourth tackle or lead? Is he gonna be that legit? Is he really a first rounder at that point? So you gotta put all that in perspective. But I think you definitely gotta go whoever's the best available offensive linen on that one. Oh yeah, okay, So there's there's a lot of stuff there. You want to talk about the

final play? Oh? Absolutely, because I listen the crazy part about that play is. I was on my way home. I ain't giving up Church. I think Church six is like worst play call every I'm like on the way home and I'm like, wait, wait, wait what did I miss? So I have to go back and rewatch it. I'm like, oh God, that is that what it was? Okay, so we do the quarterback draw. You know, everybody has already said we don't have enough time to get this thing done.

Maybe if Dak slides a little earlier. But then to hear that everybody is blamed, even the loss on a pretty much it's still a hell married shot from thirty yards out where you're running five vertical, so you're not automatically going to win the game. But don't blame the referee because you didn't give them the ball. Bro It

just that whole situation was banned. Like I said, there's a culmination of our clock banagement and Mike McCarthy's ability to make sure that these things are done the correct way to know to me all that, you know it didn't matter. You shouldn't have blamed the ref and that whole last drift didn't matter because they had an opportunity. I think it was what two minutes and two forty

two left in the game, three time mouts. You got the rock, You got an opportunity to go ahead, and you could do whatever you want, run the ball, passed the ball, quarterback, draw, whatever you want to do to get into the end zone. You had the opportunity there to do it, and you squandered it away. So I mean, all that that remaining last fourteen seconds, Oh why didn't the reff Nah, they had nothing to do with it.

You squandered it. I was in the press conference, and I would tell you it was very frustrating for me as a media member because so many of the media people kept asking about the final play, and I'm just thinking to myself, Okay, yeah, final play was. This wasn't good. But let's not act like the fifty nine minutes before. It didn't matter. You were out here, you know, not ready to play. That's what Carthy said. Jittery your fourteen penalties to me all along the way, you got bullied

in the trenches. I mean, you just didn't do your job. And to put it all as though, hey man, you know you spotted him the ball. They were about to win that thing. No, No, no, no, no, no, no, no, right, that's what That's what I didn't like. And I heard somebody's like, man, I didn't like the way they talked about the reff talked about the rest. I said, well, in fairness to them, you kept getting asked about it, you kept that was I mean, nobody wanted to left,

and I think Mike tried to. You know how you start off trying not to really go heavily there, but then the more you get asked, the more you start to tell it. And then he just went in there. Uh, and that's where you, in my opinion, you could see they were taking their cues from the top where you're trying to blame everyone else and you're not really looking at yourself. And when you hear come out of that, hearing what you hear, you say, do you guys understand

why you lost? Because it doesn't sound like you understand why you lost. Sound like you just trying to say if this, if this dude would it just you know, this dude would have shot bull drive and we we don't want to get no any dude thought they was a practice to spot the ball. Yeah, we got we got right here. Let me snap what oh if that's the case. You should have want to had ran up to the twenty. Let me get to practice spot the ball.

It cain't do it. Now that it was crazy, but shout out because this would be one of the last few times we get to talk about the twenty twenty one defense. Okay, like you said, gave them the ball back with two minutes thirty, then you stop them on third down, makeup to get the ball back again to put you in that situation. So I'm going to continue to say it ain't no defensive let down. Yeah, we gave up some stuff in the trenches, but we found out a way to get the ball back to our offense.

And office did not help us. Went to put it down as did you know to Diggs man the bubble moves, We said that, We said, you get that if Jimmy Garoppolo, I'm gonna say it's the thumb. Okay, I'm gonna give Jimmy a pass. But they they beating Trayvon Diggs and he he overthrew the receiver, overthrew the receiver and then and the Cowboys got the ball back. But you know, Jimmy couldn't finish them off. They thro the coach. The

coach called the right play. The coach dialed up the play, receivers open, quarterback couldn't get it there, which is why I don't think that they're gonna go much further because sorry, your quarterback is it gets it gets tougher. Yeah. So anyway, Uh, terrible loss. Um, Mike McCarthy gets a C for me, C plus because you didn't do what you're supposed to do. And for all all the criticism I gave Jason Garrett, I give it more to Mike McCarthy because I thought

you were the chosen one. I thought you were the answer. You didn't do it. It's disappointing. I'm with Church now, well you got see what C I can't have. You got a straight up seat now, ain't no plus nothing. Okay, okay, let's just give the sea Danny Mccraigberry Church and respects. We're done. Mick. SHOT's coming your way by to the right here on Dallas Cowboys Radio Network. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.