Don't believe the (Cowboys) hype.

But Ed, um, I mean, we'll, we'll hit a lot of different areas, but I would just say, uh, a, a very embarrassing performance overall by the Cowboys, especially after the training camp and a preseason of all the talk and all the hype, and then some of it centered on having a new young defensive coordinator, new scheme, new personnel.

Ed, pretty much same result and if anything, it was even more embarrassing.

Yeah, I think, uh, one of these teams looked like a last-place team, and it wasn't the Giants, who have finished in last place in the NFC East the last two seasons.

You know, I think, I think under John Harbaugh in his first game, the Giants were the better team.

They were more disciplined, more physical, uh, better coached.

And, you know, I think once again, just like last year, the Cowboys defense seemed a combination of poor coverage and no pressure on the quarterback, and it produced, uh, predictably disastrous results.

Cowboys, you could argue, actually had better performances in Mike Zimmer's only season as a defensive coordinator in his week one debut, and in Matt Eberflus's, uh, debut last season, even though they allowed the most points in NFL history over those, uh, two seasons.

I mean, Christian Parker's first game as the youngest defensive coordinator in franchise history was not at all what we expected.

Now, I had warned people that, hey, this is...

Yeah, he's a, a young, aspiring, you know, coach who's worked on, under some masterful defensive coordinators in Vance Joseph in Denver and Vic Fangio in Philadelphia.

They had great success with their secondary in Philadelphia, but he's never called plays.

He's never created game plans.

He's never made adjustments on the sidelines in the middle of a game.

And, you know, the Cowboys, the Cowboys allowed 28 or more points 10 times last season.

That's tied for the, with the Jets for the most in the NFL, and they did it again, uh, in week one against an opponent that was highly unlikely to achieve that.

The Gi- the Giants, now, it was under different coaching staffs, but the Giants had not scored a single touchdown in any of their last three season openers.

They scored 12 points on four field goals, and against the Cowboys, they scored 28 points on four touchdowns.

They scored every time they got in the red zone, they scored a touchdown.

And I thought the Cowboys defense made, made the Giants look like a Bill Parcells, Tom Coughlin, you know, beat you up, punch you in the nose, and not give you back the ball kind of a team.

And whether, whether this is m- you know, what we expect the rest of the season or not remains to be seen, but it's not the start that everybody expected.

And I thought the Cowboys were actually set up schedule-wise to start fast.

The two teams that Dak Prescott has his most wins against, his highest winning percentage against, and thrown his most touchdown passes against are the Giants and Washington, the Cowboys' first two opponents.

Yeah.

And yet Jackson Dart goes out tonight, throws for more yards than Dak Prescott and rushes for more yards than Javonte Williams.

I mean, can you fire Eberflus again? Who can you [laughs] can, can blame some of this on him? It is the, uh, the Doomsday Podcast.