00:00It's time for Dallas Cowboys thank you, no thank you notes.
00:04At least usually that's what this segment is.
00:06I have a pretty strong idea of which direction that these are going to go.
00:11So I want to try one thing.
00:15Thank you to Javante Williams and the left side of the offensive line.
00:20They created a great hole early on.
00:23He ran for 21 yards, followed up with Pickens with a 21-yard reception,
00:28and I was like, oh man, here we go.
00:32And they pushed the ball into George Pickens a lot early on,
00:35and then a lot of it was terrible after that.
00:39Yeah.
00:39But there was that.
00:40I was driving, I believe, I was in the car, and I texted you guys and said,
00:45well, the offense started fast, and Alex said, all hail Tyler Smith.
00:49And so did you feel like for a second that Tyler Smith being back was going to be the,
00:54we just added another jewel to the infinity gauntlet?
00:59I really did, because they had another great run off the left side where Tyler opened up a massive hole.
01:05And so I was like, man, here we freaking go.
01:09And then, well, you saw the rest of the game.
01:13Kevin, I'd like to say thank you to Twin Peaks.
01:17First off, for the scenic views.
01:20Really appreciate that.
01:21That's right.
01:22Secondly, for bringing up the food that they brought up, those hot dogs are fantastic.
01:26They're little, like, half-sized hot dogs.
01:28On, like, a brioche bun.
01:30Catch the Red River Rivalry at your ultimate sports lodge, Kevin.
01:35That's tomorrow.
01:35Twin Peaks, only tomorrow, by the way, for this.
01:38The Pick 2 for $2.
01:40Two game day franks for just $2, 22-ounce.
01:43Twin Peaks light draft served at 29 degrees.
01:46Just $2.
01:47That's two franks, an ice-cold draft for $4.
01:50Only Saturday.
01:51Bring your rivalry there.
01:53So that's that.
01:54But also, thank you to Twin Peaks for having Alec around.
01:59Dude, these watch parties have been awesome.
02:01Your official fan-away watch parties at various Twin Peaks locations.
02:06Next week, Sunday, October 18th, we're going to be out in South Fort Worth.
02:1156-51 Southwest Loop 820 in Fort Worth.
02:15We're going to be hanging out from 7 to 10.
02:16It's going to be me, Fred, and Lucius.
02:19And trust me, that trio, that's a good time.
02:21Especially when Fred Davis has a microphone.
02:23Things can happen.
02:24You've got to find out for yourself.
02:26But we're going to be giving out custom Tolo whiskey glass sets.
02:30Sorry, what?
02:31I have seen those sets.
02:32They're really cool.
02:34They are awesome.
02:35I'm about to post.
02:35I already posted on my Instagram.
02:37They are.
02:37Alec on the radio, the flyer for this, and you can see them.
02:40They are awesome.
02:40They say Tolo.
02:41They are beautiful.
02:42And you're going to need some whiskey sets if you're going to continue watching this football team.
02:46So may as well come out and hang out with us and try to enter one of these giveaways and
02:50win.
02:51Oh, go ahead.
02:52I'm not sure if we're going to have time for Forgiveness Friday, but Alec, does Corey need to ask you
02:57for forgiveness for the way he intro'd you to the Twin Peaks girls?
03:01Yeah, so, you know, the beautiful Twin Peaks girls that show up and show out every game day and even
03:07to the station.
03:08They pulled up with the food, and we're getting ready to take a picture, and Corey goes, huh, y'all
03:13are Alec-sized.
03:14They're adorable.
03:17Just called me adorable.
03:18You are adorable, Alec.
03:20I'll say that all the time, too.
03:21That's not what a man would do, right?
03:24It's cute.
03:25No, nobody ever wants to hear that.
03:27You're making it worse!
03:27Nobody ever wants to hear that.
03:29No, we want to hear that it's, oh, it's got teeth.
03:33I've seen that movie.
03:36Here's what I did, Alec.
03:37You guys, y'all are thinking about this all wrong.
03:39I just put them, they weren't even thinking about being in Alec's category yet.
03:44But I put them in the same category together, and they started picturing themselves in pictures next to him in
03:50the future.
03:51That's what I did.
03:52What I did was I gave them a vision for long term down the road of what life's going to
03:57be like whenever they're taking pictures together.
03:59And they started thinking to themselves, I kind of like it.
04:02That's what I'm, I'm just saying, watch.
04:05Just watch.
04:06Just watch.
04:06That's, uh, I'm a better wingman than you give me credit for.
04:09Couldn't you have just been like, well, let's put the most jacked guy in the station next year?
04:13That comes off cocky.
04:14That comes off cocky, and I don't want to do that.
04:16You said it for him.
04:17Exactly.
04:17Well, that's what I mean.
04:18I don't want to be, I don't want him to sound cocky through my voice.
04:22So just trust me on this, guys.
04:24Okay.
04:25Trust.
04:25I don't.
04:26That's a good point.
04:27Thank you to George Pickens.
04:31Yeah.
04:31Dude looked like he had a pretty bad shoulder situation going on there late in the game,
04:35and he kept going out there.
04:37Is that a tiny bit his own fault?
04:38Yes, it was definitely his fault.
04:39Because that was off the leap, right?
04:41He didn't need to make that jump.
04:42Right.
04:43He actually just, just lower, just lower down and get the yardage, try to jump underneath
04:47their legs or whatever.
04:49But he did keep going back out there.
04:51He got the touchdown.
04:52Big deal there.
04:53I'll give, that's about all I got really for thank you notes, though, dude.
04:57Like, Dak, no thank you to Dak's accuracy last night, man.
05:00It was troubling, and I started wondering if all the throws he made against Houston had
05:05worn him out, and he just didn't have anything left in the shoulder last night.
05:09Maybe he does need the rest, but no thanks to Dak's accuracy.
05:13Yeah, he was 6 for 15 for 55 yards to start the first half, and then Anger punted for the
05:22third time in the first half.
05:24I don't think he'd been punted more than two times in a game in quite some time.
05:29So, that was, that was very, very disheartening.
05:33But I'm going to take you to, I'm going to take you to another series of events that
05:39was very disheartening.
05:41I thought this was going to be, hey, good job, Rashawn Gary, because he got a hand on
05:49one of Daniel's throws, and it forced an incompletion.
05:52But in between that, Tampa had another freaking penalty that forced a first and 20, but then
06:00they got an 11-yard run from Bucky Irving, who obviously had the unbelievable run down
06:05the left side.
06:07And then you got absolutely no pressure on third down.
06:11I realize that Marquise Bell, and look, we've been tough on Marquise Bell.
06:16I realize that Marquise Bell made a phenomenal play, and when he got flagged for it, I was
06:21like, what the hell for?
06:23That's a damn good football play.
06:25And it was a damn good football play.
06:26And they picked up the flag, we hit the two-minute warning, and it forced a punt.
06:31But what concerns me on the other side of that is, I know you got the right result, but we've
06:36talked about it time and time again.
06:38You got absolutely no pressure on a must-have third down late in the first half.
06:45Like, you really felt like you needed that, and you got no pressure on that.
06:49So I realize it turned out right, but that has just been something that we've talked about
06:55again and again and again.
06:57My notes were Sean Gary ain't it.
07:00That's tough to argue.
07:01I had really high expectations for him.
07:03We saw a tougher dude in training camp.
07:06Yeah.
07:07Yeah, and right now, he looked like he was on skates going back there trying to get the
07:11quarterback last night.
07:13I'm not loving this little, I'm trying to juke you move that he's trying to do, too.
07:18Like, maybe it is.
07:20He doesn't have the legs for it right now.
07:21But that dude looked like he was trying to pull a Kobe on people, and that's not what
07:26football is.
07:27Right.
07:28So, like, trying to slide.
07:30He was a running back.
07:31Yeah.
07:31I mean, put that swim move on him, dude.
07:33Use the, whatever it is you got to do, just don't do that anymore.
07:37Um, but yeah, the pass rush non-existent.
07:39Ezraku didn't get credit for that sack.
07:41Malachi Lawrence did, which I think is deserved there, even though Ezraku got back there.
07:45But he's not doing that nearly enough either.
07:48And so, no thank you to sealing off the edge, too.
07:51Uh, yeah, I know you got beat up in the middle, but across that defensive line, there's a struggle
07:56bust right now.
07:56No thank you to Kirk Herbstreit and Kevontae Turpin.
08:01Kevontae Turpin mostly for fumbling the ball.
08:04But Kirk Herbstreit for adding on a day when he also said, much like Jerry did earlier,
08:09that Jake Ferguson just doesn't drop the ball when, like, obviously the evidence is that
08:14is inaccurate.
08:15But when he said that Turpin is an elite returner, Turpin absolutely had been an elite returner.
08:22And you see a flash every now and again that reminds you of that.
08:25But for the most part, I don't know.
08:27What do you mean?
08:27But that fumble was crushing.
08:28I haven't seen a flash.
08:29I haven't even seen a flicker, dude.
08:31I'm sorry.
08:32It was the return to start the second half last week that I thought looked really good.
08:38They got you a little further than usual?
08:40I got you, like, midfield almost.
08:42A little further than usual.
08:44No, I'm serious.
08:45If you're elite, you would have at least another return for a touchdown at some point.
08:49I hear you.
08:50I know there aren't a lot of them in the NFL anymore, but you at least have something.
08:54And right now, you still have nothing.
08:57And so, like, that's where I am.
08:58And if you're elite, you're doing Dante Hall stuff, dude.
09:01Dude, you're not just getting your team a little farther than usual.
09:06And you can talk about the blocking up front and everything, too.
09:09That's fine.
09:10An elite returner will figure out a way.
09:14No, I get you on that.
09:16I'm just saying that's what I thought was one of the flashes.
09:19Yeah, yeah.
09:20Now, let's go to – I think we talked about this in Crosstalk, but I don't know if we brought
09:24it up here.
09:25No thank you to the play calls on the fourth down, the play call on the fourth and three.
09:30All right, so CeeDee Lamb's not on the field.
09:33He injured his quad, and then you had a Guyton back concern coming out of the game.
09:39Hopefully, you'll get more information from Steven on Monday for that.
09:43But the offense does absolutely nothing again.
09:45You go for it on fourth and three.
09:47I hated this play call.
09:48Hated it.
09:49I love going for it, but I hated the play call because you had three wide receivers and a tight
09:54end,
09:54and they all go at least four yards past the first down marker.
09:58And then Dak's throw is behind Ferguson and high either way.
10:04It was terrible.
10:05But at least give me one person.
10:07If you want to run a mini curl, if you want to run just the tiniest of slants, fine.
10:12Give me somebody who's going right past the marker.
10:15The closest person was four yards past the stick on a fourth down.
10:20I hate it.
10:21Hate it.
10:21Hate it.
10:22I thought that play call was awful.
10:23Obviously, the execution from Dak was not good either.
10:27That was right after that is when the crowd boos.
10:31The crowd boos pretty harshly.
10:33And I thought at that moment it was deserved.
10:35And then on the ensuing possession, can the defense get it back?
10:39Third and 13.
10:40Maybe so.
10:41And then Revel commits a penalty that gives up a first down on third and 13.
10:47Kevin, okay.
10:50I'm sorry because my mind's been on these scenic views and these hot dogs.
10:54Those hot dogs seriously were super good.
10:56And I did mine in queso, so I might have leveled mine up just a little bit.
11:00And I had onions on mine.
11:02That levels it back down to me.
11:04Levels it up.
11:04But did you mention the third and 21?
11:07No.
11:08No thank you to third and 21.
11:10Nobody should be converting third and 21 on you on a play that doesn't involve a missed tackle.
11:17Yeah.
11:18The third and 21 to Egbuka is a throw that was at the stick.
11:24Exactly at the stick.
11:26The quarterback had the time to make the play.
11:28He delivered the throw.
11:30And the receiver did nothing else other than get the exact first down he needed.
11:34That should never happen.
11:36And especially whenever you're in this kind of mode where you're needing plays like that.
11:41This is your opportunity to go, we did everything right the first couple downs.
11:45They screwed up also and gave us chances with penalties.
11:48And now we get to expose them and take advantage of them on a money down.
11:52And you let them have the money.
11:54I know we're going to do after further review on Monday.
11:58Can I give you like...
11:59I don't want to right now.
12:00I'm sorry.
12:01That's fair.
12:01We will.
12:02We will.
12:02Can I give you like a mini after further review for that sequence of...
12:06That play sequence?
12:09It's 1st and 10 at the Dallas 37.
12:13You get a desperately needed sack by...
12:17Well, we were just talking about it.
12:18Ezraku to start it.
12:20And then Lawrence with a follow-up contained.
12:22Then on 2nd and 21, you get a great tipped pass from Malachi Lawrence.
12:27So these first two, it's the juxtaposition of this defense.
12:31Because we'll talk about it after further review on Monday.
12:34There's a couple more examples of this.
12:36This is the Cowboys defense.
12:38You play two plays as well as you can without forcing a turnover.
12:44You get a sack and you get a tipped pass at the line of scrimmage because of some penetration.
12:48Great, great, great.
12:493rd and 21.
12:50Corey just told you exactly what happened.
12:53And I wrote seriously, what the F?
12:55And at that point, it gets brought up that the Cowboys have given up 20 plus points in each
13:00of their last 12 games.
13:01That's tied for the longest streak in franchise history.
13:04But then you see it again.
13:05You're in it because you force a 2nd and 20 and then now a 3rd and 17.
13:11And on 3rd and 17, I wrote, pray for us.
13:15And we did make the stop, but they did still get the field goal.
13:18And if you don't get that pass to Igbuka or you don't really gain too much yardage on that,
13:24they're going to have to punt.
13:25Not only do they not punt, they move back down, kick another field goal,
13:28suck more time off the clock, and give you less of a chance.
13:31You don't want them doing that.
13:32I don't.
13:33With the time.
13:34I don't.
