00:00The Dallas Cowboys are done. Their season ended last night in horrific fashion, giving up, I think for the third time this year, a 40-burger on defense.
00:10Just when we all brought it to the notion that with Quinton Williams there and the return of a couple injured players, that all of a sudden the Dallas Cowboys were back?
00:20Well, it's not once. It's not twice. It ain't three times. It's four times.
00:25Four times they've given up a 40-burger this year and last night ended their season. Fact check that, my friends.
00:33Even if the Dallas Cowboys win out, they're not getting in. And because they lost last night, your Philadelphia Eagles, whoo, Monday night's game against the Chargers, well, obviously important.
00:44You want to figure out all your nonsense and get grooving into the final quarter of the season and obviously into the playoffs.
00:51The game doesn't mean anything anymore. And had the Cowboys won last night, then we would have seen the Eagles playing for the first time in about two and a half years with actual pressure on them late in a regular season to have to win a game.
01:04But let me go back to the Cowboys for a second because it was kind of like a microcosm of everything that's been wrong with the Dallas Cowboys for a very, very long time.
01:13First off, thoughts and prayers out to CeeDee Lamb, who was on the brink of having a 200-plus yard receiving game, had six catches, a bucket, a quarter, and then has the concussion on the deep ball.
01:25And obviously the offense changed in that moment.
01:28Number two, you know, the Cowboys have had a litany of great players who, for whatever reason, whether it's out of selfishness or ego or immaturity, you know, decide that they're more important and they're bigger than the team.
01:41And you saw it last night with George Pickens. Now, George Pickens has had an amazing season statistically, right?
01:49Yep.
01:49Over 1,000 yards. He's a minimum of 60-plus yards prior to last night in every single game this year. He's a free agent. Cowboy fans fell in love with him. And the Cowboys are going to be an interesting spot.
02:01But you almost have to bring him back because the combination of Pickens and Lamb is as good as any wide receiver duo in the NFL. And I think they're top three.
02:11When it comes to just pure talent with your top two wide receivers, okay?
02:16That being said, you saw why Pittsburgh got rid of him last night. Because there are games and series where George Pickens decides to take the night off.
02:27And I want to be very clear about this. He's an amazing wide receiver. He's a top six or seven wide receiver.
02:34You want to go higher? I'm not going to argue with you. In the NFL today, the dude is dominant and has shown how good he can and is.
02:41Can be and is. In the NFL. But you can't take plays off, man. Like the Dallas Cowboys season was on the line last night.
02:52And George Pickens decided he was disinterested in playing football last night. And it's right there for everybody to see.
03:02Like if you're a left guard, you can hide taking a playoff. You can. Maybe you just got beat, right? Right.
03:09But when you're a wide receiver and you don't come back for a ball, you don't make any attempt to catch the ball at all on the deep pass down 44-30 with just over two minutes to go.
03:20Maybe you catch that ball. Maybe you score the touchdown. A lot of maybes here. But now it's a one-score game.
03:25And who knows what happens. And you looked up. We're like, yeah, the ball's right there. No interest in catching it.
03:31And it drives you crazy because on the open market, based on talent alone, George Pickens is getting $100 million guaranteed and about $40 million a year.
03:42Yep.
03:43Like he's that good. But then you watch a game like last night and I'm saying to myself, if Jerry Jones said goodbye to Micah Parsons, a guy that's got a motive that doesn't quit, who's one of the best defensive players in football for whatever the ultimate reason really was,
04:00Jerry Jones is not giving George Pickens $40 million a year or $90 to $110 million guaranteed because you can't.
04:07You can't.
04:08Now, there will be a sucker that does. There will be a team that says, man, imagine if we had George Pickens here because he is that good.
04:15But I'm just telling you now, buyer beware. Because as great as George Pickens' year has been statistically, and I'm not saying he's the root cause of last night's loss.
04:25Their defense obviously is. Turnovers played a role in that as well. But man, you know, it's so obvious that you didn't give a damn last night.
04:33I hate that. I do.
04:35And if you're the quarterback, you've been trusting him all year, and you couldn't trust him yesterday.
04:40He wouldn't run the slant route for whatever reason, and he wouldn't play the ball for whatever reason.
04:45And then when you do throw him the deep ball, and to be fair, he had the cornerback beat.
04:48The safety comes over. It would have been a tough catch anyway.
04:51And the ball lands literally three feet from him.
04:54Doesn't make a play on it.
04:54And he doesn't even make an attempt to catch it.
04:56Doesn't even try.
04:56Because they're down by two touchdowns at that point.
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