Yahoo Sports’ Jason Fitz and senior NFL writer Frank Schwab react to the Cowboys’ stunning loss to the Saints. Hear the full conversation on “Inside Coverage” – and subscribe on , , or
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The concerning part to me in this one is that Dallas came out flat and that takes nothing away from New Orleans.
I, you’re right, New Orleans was great.
Dallas came out flat and all I kept thinking when I watched is this is the problem with the Cowboys and as much as I say, the Cowboys are gonna win 12 games, that’s what they do every year.
The problem is sometimes they come out like this and you better figure out what the hell happened because this reminded me a lot of what we saw last year in the playoffs.
A team that just came out and never looked checked in and it, it’s inexcusable to me to happen at any time, but especially the second week of the season when you’re at home can’t happen.
Like there’s no excuse to come out that flat against a team that was good in week one.
There’s no excuse to come out that unengaged in this ca in this game.
I, I thought Dallas, the inexcusable part of the Cowboys game was not that they got their asses kicked.
It’s the way they sort of walked through the entire game to me, that gives me pause when you talk about elite teams.
You think, man, you’re right early in the season.
Hard to figure out who’s good, who’s bad.
It’s not hard to figure out who doesn’t give a damn sometimes.
And that’s exactly what the Cowboys felt like today and, and both of us were on this, this Cowboys train of why is everybody panicking?
This is still a team that wins 12 games every season.
Yeah, they’re gonna disappoint us in January, but that’s kind of their DNA.
They’re gonna be good season.
Where are we at on them now?
Where are you at?
On the Cowboys?
Who?
Somebody?
I mean, you were very vocal.
You thought cowboy, you were talking about cowboys one seed and I’m not trying to, there’s plenty of old, old takes exposed for me too.
I’m not trying to, trying to do that to you.
But where are you at with the Cowboys?
Because they couldn’t have looked any different from week one to week two, week one.
It was like, wow, this can’t be the number one seed in the NFC.
They just demolished the Browns on the road, the Cowboys and then they come home and play like you said, they were just and disengaged the whole game.
They’re flat.
Like it was like, by the time it was like, I think it was like 21 6 at some point, you’re like, are they gonna show up at all today?
I know that the game was so out of control that they didn’t really have the chance to run.
But I don’t think there’s a threat of Dallas running the ball at all right now and they need to figure that out and they need to figure that out quickly.
The offensive line got to hold up a little bit better and they gotta figure that out quickly.
Like it just, it feels like today was one of those days where you see how bad it can look when it’s out of sync.
Now, that being said, we’ve seen that from several teams, but we only have two games body of work.
And right now it, it’s fair to look at it and say, man, you’ve seen the standard through one game that the Eagles are set.
If that’s the standard, the Cowboys are not to that standard, right?
And so they got to figure that out and figure it out quickly.