Speaker 1: The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com
Speaker 1: and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys,
Speaker 1: Screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the
Speaker 1: Star in Frisco, following the Sallow Tuscott pick and now
Speaker 1: your hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and
Speaker 1: Kyle Yeoman's it's a wonderful Thursday edition of Talking Cowboys
Speaker 1: here from the s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star
Speaker 1: in Frisco. Welcome in for the next forty five minutes.
Speaker 1: We break things down with this Dallas Cowboys organization, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna unleash the beast when it comes to breaking
Speaker 1: down those Arizona Cardinals as they come to town on
Speaker 1: Monday night. But you're on Talking Cowboys. Heck Ma Harrison,
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, isa stand back, I'm Kyle Yelmans and guys,
Speaker 1: it's it's a fun week because we finally I feel
Speaker 1: like this is the week we finally get to see
Speaker 1: who this Dallas Cowboys team really is. And I know
Speaker 1: a lot of fans will immediately kind of say, but
Speaker 1: what do you mean, Kyle, We have a quote unquote
Speaker 1: backup quarterback. I still think that Andy Dalton should be
Speaker 1: considered a starting quarterback in the NFL, but you have
Speaker 1: a backup quarterback in for Dak Prescott. However, whenever you
Speaker 1: look at the teams that the Cowboys have played, and
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and the team that the Arizona Cardinals are,
Speaker 1: this is the first time you could really look at
Speaker 1: an opponent and say they're not a contender, and they're
Speaker 1: not oh and five. At the same time, I mean,
Speaker 1: they're not winless teams. Whenever you talk about the wins
Speaker 1: and losses that the Cowboys have had, rob and I
Speaker 1: know whenever you look at the Cardinals specifically, there are
Speaker 1: a ton of tough matchups. But at three and two,
Speaker 1: this is a team that I think could really be
Speaker 1: susceptible and allow us to get an accurate look at
Speaker 1: how this roster is built out. That's a good point.
Speaker 1: I hadn't thought about that. You know, it's not it's
Speaker 1: not the Falcons and it's not Seattle, so it's somewhere
Speaker 1: in between. I think it comes down to it's gonna
Speaker 1: come down to which defense shows up and is more consistent,
Speaker 1: because I think the Cardinals defense has been more consistent
Speaker 1: than the Cowboys. I think any defense in the league
Speaker 1: just about has been in terms of where they stand statistically.
Speaker 1: But that game they lost a couple of weeks ago
Speaker 1: to Carolina Man, they got shredded. They got shredded in yards,
Speaker 1: they got shredded in points, and without Chandler Jones, It'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see how the Cowboys can can match
Speaker 1: up against it. We're gonna get into that, but defensively,
Speaker 1: which team brings it more is going to make the difference,
Speaker 1: I think in week Week six. Yeah, my thoughts, My
Speaker 1: thoughts on this game are going to all revolve around
Speaker 1: turning the fall over and if we can correct those mistakes,
Speaker 1: we will probably put ourselves in any ball game versus
Speaker 1: any opponent. It's the it's just those self inflicted things
Speaker 1: that we've done over the course of the last five games,
Speaker 1: and it's turnovers on our side of the field that
Speaker 1: have all been points for the for the other team.
Speaker 1: So limiting those are going to help us a lot.
Speaker 1: And obviously with Andy Dalton, we're going to have to
Speaker 1: modify our game plan. And I'm not saying dumb it down.
Speaker 1: I just believe it's going to be a modified game
Speaker 1: plan in order to give us some success on offense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep leaning on the fact of the type
Speaker 1: of possession, right, And I know it kind of goes
Speaker 1: hand in hand with a lot of different aspects of
Speaker 1: the game. But Rob alluded to the defense. I'm a
Speaker 1: big component of obviously, defense really controlling the game. And
Speaker 1: as long as we can keep this offense off the
Speaker 1: field and we can remain on the field, we win
Speaker 1: that time possession, and that's exactly what we need to do.
Speaker 1: I see that Arizona has had the ball, you know,
Speaker 1: almost twenty nine minutes every game, on average of twenty
Speaker 1: nine minutes, and we have not had that. We we
Speaker 1: have not been there. We've We've lost every every game
Speaker 1: I think in a time of possession aspect. And that's
Speaker 1: something that we have to turn around this game if
Speaker 1: we want to win. I win and looked it up, Isaiah.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys are thirty first in average time of possession.
Speaker 1: I think it's like twenty six. Opponents are averaging the
Speaker 1: having the ball seven more minutes a game than the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: That's that's ridiculous. And if you the only team worse
Speaker 1: is the Jets. So if you're in the Giants are
Speaker 1: right there, Washington's right there. Those are three teams you
Speaker 1: don't want to be right next to really in any
Speaker 1: stat So you're right, they've they've got to and it
Speaker 1: ties into turnovers. Like Hekma said, two more last week,
Speaker 1: you lose the turnover battle again, but yet you win
Speaker 1: the game. So that's not going to happen too often.
Speaker 1: They've got to clean it up. And we mentioned it yesterday,
Speaker 1: and I think Heckma brought up a fantastic point about
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray and the fact that Kyler Murray will turn
Speaker 1: the football over. He's thrown six interceptions already and he's
Speaker 1: at eight touchdown passes, so that touchdown interception ratio not
Speaker 1: as bad as what we saw with Daniel Jones last
Speaker 1: week from the Giants perspective, but this is still a
Speaker 1: quarterback that's going to force some mistakes and it's gonna
Speaker 1: put you in a situation as a defense to take advantage.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys did take advantage last week with de Marcus
Speaker 1: Lawrence and the scoops scoop and score from Anthony Brown
Speaker 1: as well, But whenever you look at the teams that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have beaten, a combined oz and ten. That's
Speaker 1: really a statistic that I think a lot of people
Speaker 1: might already know because of how bad the Giants and
Speaker 1: the Falcons have been. But you look at the teams
Speaker 1: they've lost to are a combined thirteen and two. Right now,
Speaker 1: when you talk about the Browns, the Seahawks, and of
Speaker 1: course the season opener against the Los Angeles Rams, but
Speaker 1: then the Arizona Cardinals who come in at three and two,
Speaker 1: the teams that they have beaten are a combined three
Speaker 1: and twelve. So, Isaiah, whenever you look at preparation from
Speaker 1: week to week in the NFL, the saying is, hey,
Speaker 1: let's our next opponent, It's going to be that same
Speaker 1: kind of mentality. But whenever you have a team that's
Speaker 1: coming in that like Rob said, it is somewhere in
Speaker 1: between a Falcons or a Giant, in between a Seahawks
Speaker 1: or Browns. How does that change your week of preparation
Speaker 1: as a player. It doesn't change it at all. You know,
Speaker 1: I've never been a real big stat guy. I'm a
Speaker 1: big believer in you know, every week it's a new week,
Speaker 1: right It's a new opponent, and every team matches up
Speaker 1: differently against other teams. That's just facts, right, Personnel versus personnel,
Speaker 1: scheme versus scheme. So yeah, I could look at my
Speaker 1: record and say, Okay, we lost, we lost to the Rams,
Speaker 1: we lost to the Seahawks, you know, but guess what,
Speaker 1: you know, we might we might match up pretty well
Speaker 1: against the Cardinals. Right. It just really comes down to position,
Speaker 1: positions of play, and then obviously it's schemes. So I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't put much weight on previous records or any
Speaker 1: of that stuff. You better show up and play every
Speaker 1: week in this league. The only the only stat that
Speaker 1: doesn't ever seem to lie is the turnover battle. Yea, absolutely,
Speaker 1: the last I think the Cowboys in the last year's
Speaker 1: a stat, but it's turnover stat. In the last twenty years,
Speaker 1: they've had a negative turnover ratio eleven times. They missed
Speaker 1: the playoffs ten out of eleven years, and the only
Speaker 1: year they didn't miss it, they were right, you know,
Speaker 1: they were in position actually when they had a positive
Speaker 1: turnover ratio just about every year they made the playoffs.
Speaker 1: When they didn't, it was those eight and eight years
Speaker 1: with Garrett when they were right last week of the
Speaker 1: season trying to win the division. So yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe with Dalton, maybe they're they're going, like Heckma said,
Speaker 1: they're gonna try to be a little bit more balanced
Speaker 1: and try to do some things where they're not putting
Speaker 1: in some of its scoreboard related but not putting your
Speaker 1: offense in a position where were your turnover risky. You know,
Speaker 1: they got to clean that part of it up. I guess,
Speaker 1: I guess the good news is I think the Cardinals
Speaker 1: are are negative for right now on the turnover ratio,
Speaker 1: so that's that's a positive. Yeah, And Kyle, I just
Speaker 1: wanted to say, you know, it's an old boxing term.
Speaker 1: Styles make fights, and the Cowboys have been looking for
Speaker 1: that style that matches this, that they can have dominance.
Speaker 1: We thought we were gonna have that with in the
Speaker 1: Cleveland game versus their running game, and man did they
Speaker 1: show us with their running game. We also thought the
Speaker 1: same thing with the Giants are X coming in and
Speaker 1: we surrender thirty four points to Giant to the Giants,
Speaker 1: so we're not in a position to overlook anyone, especially
Speaker 1: when you're giving up one hundred and sixty points in
Speaker 1: the last four games. I mean, my D I S
Speaker 1: D math may not be that good, but that's about
Speaker 1: forty points a game. And when you look at that
Speaker 1: ratio and you talk about us making history by still
Speaker 1: winning two of those games after giving up close to
Speaker 1: forty points. Man, those are the things that have to
Speaker 1: be corrected. Now. I talk about the turnovers, and those
Speaker 1: are very important because you put your defense at a disadvantage.
Speaker 1: But at some point we are going to have to
Speaker 1: take advantage of the matchups that we have on our
Speaker 1: side as far as defensively are offensively, to take advantage
Speaker 1: of these games so that we can break these games open. Basically,
Speaker 1: it's what I'm trying to say. We just haven't been
Speaker 1: in a situation like that because every game we play
Speaker 1: has been a track meet. It's been a track making
Speaker 1: and I think this one will have an opportunity to
Speaker 1: be a track meet as well as Today, of course
Speaker 1: being Thursday, we're going to break down the Cowboys offense
Speaker 1: against the Arizona defense, and that Arizona defense guy has
Speaker 1: had a huge blow and I mentioned it yesterday when
Speaker 1: the breaking news came down as three time Pro Bowler,
Speaker 1: two time first team All Pro Chandler Jones is out
Speaker 1: for the season for the Cardinals at linebacker. Injured his
Speaker 1: right arm during the first half of last Sunday's win
Speaker 1: against the Jets. But whenever you miss a guy like that,
Speaker 1: This guy who had nineteen sacks a year ago only
Speaker 1: had one sack this year, but he was once again
Speaker 1: just a presence in that front seven for Arizona. But hecklo,
Speaker 1: whenever there's not a guy like that across the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, how much easier does it make it for
Speaker 1: a guy like Andy Dalton coming in as first week
Speaker 1: as a starter for the Cowboys. Well, yeah, obviously he's
Speaker 1: going to be a noted miss, notable miss for the Cardinals.
Speaker 1: But at the same time they have some dudes still
Speaker 1: number ninety eight, Corey Peters, he's a presence in the middle,
Speaker 1: and he's a guy that does push the pocket. So um,
Speaker 1: I think when when it's not we're not at the
Speaker 1: point as a team where if there's a guy missing, okay,
Speaker 1: we could take advantage of this, We're still gonna have
Speaker 1: our word cutout for us. I mean, Angelo Blackson, number
Speaker 1: ninety six, he's got six six, three hundred and forty pounds.
Speaker 1: So look, I know, Jones being you know, the injury
Speaker 1: does kind of say, okay, we have it a little
Speaker 1: bit easy because we don't have that dog up front.
Speaker 1: But nah, not really. Uh and especially on the back end, man,
Speaker 1: their secondary is strong and well we'll get into that.
Speaker 1: But guy's like Budda Baker and Pat Pe. Look, this
Speaker 1: is gonna be a challenge for our offense no matter
Speaker 1: how you frame it. Yeah, it could be. It could
Speaker 1: be looked at as a gift, or it could be
Speaker 1: looked at as a curse. Right, because you think about
Speaker 1: it from a defensive defensive coordinator's perspective, as soon as
Speaker 1: you lose your number one pass rusher, what's the first
Speaker 1: thing that you're gonna do to apply pressure. You're gonna blitz. Blitz. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna blitz, right, And these guys have the they
Speaker 1: have the personnel in the secondary in order to blitz
Speaker 1: and not sacrifice, you know, the ability to cover somebody.
Speaker 1: So these guys can stay on you, man to man,
Speaker 1: they will get in your face. They will they will
Speaker 1: stay in your hit pocket the entire route and enforce
Speaker 1: a very contested catch. So with that being the case,
Speaker 1: if I'm a defensive coordinare okay, my guys can can cover.
Speaker 1: So guess when I'm gonna send him. Now I don't
Speaker 1: have my guy that could bring pressure just on that
Speaker 1: one side, So now I'm sitting my dogs. Now you
Speaker 1: have matchup problems on the offensive line in a tight
Speaker 1: end and a running back front because you're bringing guys
Speaker 1: from the front of the second level when you bring
Speaker 1: guys from the secondary as well to create pressure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it'd be interesting to see how they adjust without without
Speaker 1: Chandler Jones, because you know they've got Zach Allen there
Speaker 1: as as a down lineman, but maybe he could he
Speaker 1: could switch into more of that outside role. Hassan Reddick.
Speaker 1: They've got a guy guard Deck who's got two sacks,
Speaker 1: who's kind of stepped up for them. But aside from
Speaker 1: that Carolina game hight reference, they didn't get any pressure
Speaker 1: on Teddy Bridgewater at all. Besides that game, they've been
Speaker 1: pretty good in terms of kind of across the board,
Speaker 1: getting some pressure the middle pressure with Jordan Phillips Corey Peters.
Speaker 1: As Heckma mentioned, I think they've got fourteen sacks on
Speaker 1: the year, So yeah, I think to Isaiah's point, they
Speaker 1: feel like they probably can get pressure. They could be
Speaker 1: selective with their blitzes, but they might be able to
Speaker 1: you know, hold things down where they don't have to
Speaker 1: sacrifice their secondary on the back end and or trust
Speaker 1: those guys to do that without having to give him
Speaker 1: help back there. And we'll talk about the secondary coming
Speaker 1: up here in just a little bit. But of course, Kingsbury,
Speaker 1: and addressing Chandler Jones's absence, said he wasn't sure whether
Speaker 1: Vans Joseph, the defensive coordinator for Arizona, is actually going
Speaker 1: to make a single replacement for Jones at that outside
Speaker 1: linebacker spot, or it'll be a rotation with Fitz guard
Speaker 1: deck like Rob just mentioned, and also Reddick in there
Speaker 1: as well. There's a couple of guys that could fill
Speaker 1: that spot. But whenever you talk about that front seven
Speaker 1: and the pressure they put even without Chandler Jones being
Speaker 1: in the fold, and Isaiah, I know you've you've been
Speaker 1: critical of this offensive line that has played better over
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks, But how do you feel
Speaker 1: like they match up specifically against the tackles on the outside.
Speaker 1: I think they match up okay right now. Honestly, I
Speaker 1: think I think they're okay. I think I'm more concerned
Speaker 1: with that internal, uh defensive line and the type of
Speaker 1: signs that they have up there. They're they're able when
Speaker 1: you watch them on the films, they're able to get
Speaker 1: some really good push um against there against the posting
Speaker 1: offensive line. So that's probably more of my concern than
Speaker 1: it is more so the edge rush um. And honestly,
Speaker 1: that presents a bigger issue for us because you know,
Speaker 1: because we have a Ricky in there as well, um,
Speaker 1: and you know we have him, we have Connor Williams,
Speaker 1: both of those guys who are a little light um
Speaker 1: lighting the butt as I would say, for interior alignment.
Speaker 1: So um, that's probably the biggest challenge. But in terms
Speaker 1: of our tackles and with the issues that we've been
Speaker 1: having in that regard, m I actually feel okay, yeah.
Speaker 1: And you know, for me, when I look at uh
Speaker 1: Zack Martin in the middle, I think he helps us
Speaker 1: tremendously at what you're alluding to, Isaiah, because he's the
Speaker 1: guy that you know next to be honest, which bey
Speaker 1: honest man is he's putting it out there man, and
Speaker 1: he is a oh he's going after people. I love
Speaker 1: what the rookie is doing. So I feel confident with that.
Speaker 1: I mean, Connor isn't going to be by himself and
Speaker 1: they'll be able to get him some some help. But
Speaker 1: you know they're gonna be the way that Arizona stacks
Speaker 1: and where their strength is is where we're stronger in
Speaker 1: our interior line, and that's you know, at the right
Speaker 1: guard position. So I'm looking forward to that matchup. Yeah,
Speaker 1: be honest, did a nice job, excuse me, in this
Speaker 1: first start. I think he gave up a sack second half,
Speaker 1: but overall, what he's been able to do really impressive.
Speaker 1: I thought this quote from Patrick Peterson guys was really
Speaker 1: interesting though, just in terms of the Cardinals approach potentially
Speaker 1: this game. He said he told CBS Sports stop the run.
Speaker 1: Definitely got to stop the run and force not saying
Speaker 1: he can't do it, but we have to force Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton to beat us. We feel if you, if you
Speaker 1: take the ball out of Ezekiel Elie's hands, there's more
Speaker 1: opportunities for bad things to happen if the ball is
Speaker 1: in the air. So and now he made I think
Speaker 1: he went out of way to say that wasn't a
Speaker 1: knock on Andy Dalton, but clearly that's their approach, and
Speaker 1: so how do they approve it? Like do they do
Speaker 1: they load up to stop the run or like A said,
Speaker 1: so they feel like they can just kind of play
Speaker 1: it straight and do it that way because that's been
Speaker 1: that's been a game plan of every team. That's been
Speaker 1: a game plan of every team we faced. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, nothing's sa that is that's I mean,
Speaker 1: that's the truth, right, He's not spending anything, he's not
Speaker 1: shooting any shots. I mean, we have averaged over what
Speaker 1: forty four passes I think this year per game. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's absurd, right, So, I mean it's just clear that
Speaker 1: way that teams are taking away the run and they're
Speaker 1: trying to make you know, before you know, before Dak
Speaker 1: got hurt, Dak was throwing it up there too. Luckily
Speaker 1: they weren't getting intercepted. But there's plenty of opportunities for
Speaker 1: teams to get I and T. So that's essentially what
Speaker 1: Patrick Peterson's alluding to. They are very confident in the
Speaker 1: secondary affair for right, for the very sole right reasons. Now,
Speaker 1: with that being said, and this could be a stupid question,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna ask it anyways because I'm the host.
Speaker 1: But whenever it comes to taking care of the football
Speaker 1: and you we just talked about how the game plan
Speaker 1: hasn't changed, and you want to force Andy Dalton to
Speaker 1: throw the football, much like how Dak Prescott was forced
Speaker 1: to throw the football. Who are you more comfortable taking
Speaker 1: care of it and not turning over a couple different times?
Speaker 1: You think it's Andy Dalton or is it Dak Prescott?
Speaker 1: In terms of your two quarterbacks, I know Dak Prescott's
Speaker 1: out of the fold right now, but whenever who's back
Speaker 1: behind center? Who are you more comfortable having not turned
Speaker 1: over the footback? Okay? By how much of a margin? Though?
Speaker 1: Bye a lot? Really? Why bye a lot? He's He's right,
Speaker 1: I mean, because you look at the number statistically, he
Speaker 1: hasn't been a turnover machine. He may have had a
Speaker 1: year where he had thirteen interceptions, but if you go
Speaker 1: back to Andy Dalton's career, his tenure career, he's he's
Speaker 1: had a few well a year with fifteen or twenty interceptions,
Speaker 1: So that's I mean, that's I'm just basing it off
Speaker 1: of the numbers. I would he's he it's not a
Speaker 1: guy that turns the ball over. Hadn't been a guy
Speaker 1: that's turned the ball over this first four games. Obviously
Speaker 1: he was on a roll to go somewhere we didn't
Speaker 1: want to see. But at the same time, yeah, just
Speaker 1: based off of those numbers, I would say that, Okay,
Speaker 1: I feel more secure with with Andy personally, and obviously
Speaker 1: I liked but I think Andy's a better pastor. That's
Speaker 1: I just feel like he's just an all around better pastor.
Speaker 1: I think he's more experienced. I think he's seen more.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be more confident with this
Speaker 1: office in line than Dak was because Dak was spoiled
Speaker 1: with his previous OFFICI lines now and now it's Andy
Speaker 1: Dozen's time to be spoiled. You know, even with this
Speaker 1: office and line, he's now spoiled compared to what he's
Speaker 1: had in the pass. So I think he has every
Speaker 1: reason to continue to be confident with his abilities. And
Speaker 1: he's done it for a while. And you know, you
Speaker 1: allude to some of the previous stats and I said,
Speaker 1: I'm not really a stat guy, but you know, look,
Speaker 1: look what he was doing it with you. I mean
Speaker 1: he was, he was he was having to try to
Speaker 1: force things with that with that squad man. So you know,
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to seeing him, um now in this
Speaker 1: and this replacement role. I'm seeing what he does with this,
Speaker 1: with this opportunity, I would lean towards Dak just because
Speaker 1: I think he's had some some stretches in his career
Speaker 1: where he's turned it over too much and this is
Speaker 1: one of them. But but it's been such a weird
Speaker 1: start where they've I mean, when you throw it sixty
Speaker 1: times two straight games, like like Isaiah said, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's something that he got away with. But you're also
Speaker 1: trying to force it too, because you're trying to get
Speaker 1: back in the game, and it just it just lends
Speaker 1: itself to more high risk situations. So you know, I
Speaker 1: think Dalton's got They've got a chance to be more
Speaker 1: careful with the ball if they're more balanced, and if
Speaker 1: they try to get Zeke more involved, because like I
Speaker 1: think Patrick Peterson said it, when the balls in the air,
Speaker 1: there's just greater risks. Now you've got greater risk for
Speaker 1: big plays, and I think you win games mainly based
Speaker 1: off chunk plays. But I think they need to do
Speaker 1: what they can to help Andy Dalton out where he's
Speaker 1: not trying to just put it on his arm. And
Speaker 1: I agree with Heck by the fact of it being
Speaker 1: interception wise I think Dak Prescott was probably a little
Speaker 1: bit more conservative in the throws that he was willing
Speaker 1: to make. Andy Dalton's gonna take some shots. He's gonna
Speaker 1: take shots downfield. We saw that even in the game
Speaker 1: winning drive that he had with Michael Gallup. You're gonna
Speaker 1: see the ball push down field a little bit more
Speaker 1: with Andy Dalton. But it's something that I think is notable.
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott in his five seasons or I guess four
Speaker 1: in a quarter season's thirty four fumbles. Andy Dalton in
Speaker 1: nine career years has fifty seven, So just a couple
Speaker 1: more in about four pretty much five more years than
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott overall. Fumbling the football. That's not a stat
Speaker 1: that's brought up with quarterbacks a whole lot, but I
Speaker 1: think it does pay dividends in terms of holding onto
Speaker 1: the football and being ball secure whenever it comes to
Speaker 1: the table. We're gonna step aside when we come back,
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about this secondary. How could the Cowboys
Speaker 1: wide receivers take advantage of Buddha Baker and Patrick Peterson
Speaker 1: being on the other side. And is Patrick Peterson still
Speaker 1: an elite defensive back. We're gonna ask that question when
Speaker 1: we come back here on Talking Cowboys. Since eighteen sixty five,
Speaker 1: Stetson Hats are American maid with pride right here in Texas,
Speaker 1: and Stetson is proud to be on the field with
Speaker 1: America's team. Want to show your Texas and Team pride
Speaker 1: two You can by purchasing your own Stetson. You can
Speaker 1: look just like how the flag guys do on field
Speaker 1: at every home game. Stetson Hats the official crown of
Speaker 1: all self respecting Cowboys and your favorite football team. Get
Speaker 1: yours today at Shop dot Dallas Cowboys dot com or
Speaker 1: at Stetson dot com. Want to use what the pros use?
Speaker 1: How about the official men's skincare brand of the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: Jack Black. Right now you can get the Jack Black Starter,
Speaker 1: a curated collection of Cowboys locker room favorites, for just
Speaker 1: ten bucks with free shipping. The starter includes four Jack
Speaker 1: Flack skincare favorites, plus a full size and tense therapy
Speaker 1: whip bomb. Go to get Jack Black dot com slash
Speaker 1: Cowboys and use the code word team JB. That's get
Speaker 1: Jack Black dot com slash Cowboys. The Jack Black Starter
Speaker 1: ten bucks free shipping. Slura is a proud sponsor of
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys, helping fans see more and do more
Speaker 1: with our best vision solutions. Our lens technologies reveal a
Speaker 1: world more beautiful than you can imagine. For a limited time,
Speaker 1: get the slur next Gen offer for you by the
Speaker 1: latest generation of Transitions lenses. With select Slur lenses, you
Speaker 1: can choose a second pair of clear lenses for free
Speaker 1: with qualifying Frank purchases. Restrictions apply. Find a participating eyecare
Speaker 1: professional by visiting slur usa dot com. See more, Do More.
Speaker 1: We're back in a tasty treat that's sweeping airwaves and
Speaker 1: taste buds. It's new Doctor Pepper and Cream Soda. Let's
Speaker 1: take a listen, Doctor and Cream Soda. Is he a newcombon?
Speaker 1: Let's music to my ears? Okay, doctor time, music to
Speaker 1: my ears and mouths new Doctor Pepper and Cream Soda.
Speaker 1: Delassube to Talk in Cowboys. Second segment here of Talking
Speaker 1: Cowboys Here on a beautiful Thursday. Fletcher with us on
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys dot com and all of our various streaming platforms.
Speaker 1: Isaiah stand back, our resident Super Bowl Champion, Cowboys Insider
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, and the Great heck, my Harrison, I'm Kyle Yeomans,
Speaker 1: and uh, we were just kind of getting into the
Speaker 1: debate of Dak Prescott, who or Andy Dalton who takes
Speaker 1: care of the football better as a quarterback as a
Speaker 1: starter in this league, and really I think we were
Speaker 1: pretty split on who we tru more with the football.
Speaker 1: And Isaiah, you a statement in the middle of the
Speaker 1: break that Rob especially found interesting. I found it interesting
Speaker 1: as well. But what was that statement that you made
Speaker 1: about Andy Dalton. I'm just saying that I feel like
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton is he protects the ball better. Okay, He's
Speaker 1: just a better protector of the ball in my In
Speaker 1: my opinion, I think that he's he's more conscious and
Speaker 1: of the ball and that I've been from all his
Speaker 1: time in Cincinnati where they just they can afford to
Speaker 1: turn the ball over that much. I don't know, but now,
Speaker 1: but he's better in the party with the ball. You
Speaker 1: see him. He has to, you know, as as seabeard
Speaker 1: Um mentioned, he keeps both hands on the ball versus
Speaker 1: Dak has one hand on the ball. It's just he's
Speaker 1: more technically sound than Dak and that gains no shots.
Speaker 1: He's been around longer, right, so he should be more
Speaker 1: technically sound and didn't die. Um, and then he doesn't.
Speaker 1: He doesn't throw them, he doesn't just throw the ball
Speaker 1: up there for chance as much. In my opinion, UM,
Speaker 1: I think he's a lot more precise passer, and I
Speaker 1: think he's just just yeah, he's just more efficient in
Speaker 1: that regard. I'm not saying a better overall quarterback right now,
Speaker 1: but when I am saying in certain of these aspects
Speaker 1: and where we have to be sure right now, I
Speaker 1: think he's better. That's kind of where I think he
Speaker 1: hates rather to ride. I was gonna lad it. Do
Speaker 1: you want this? What you got? Now? You know what
Speaker 1: I'm a I'm trying to lift this breathe because I
Speaker 1: feel as though the backup always gets all the right
Speaker 1: because he's the guy you hadn't seen it, go ahead,
Speaker 1: He's the guy, yeah seen, and you will tell me,
Speaker 1: you know. I believe that everyone's trying to sell this
Speaker 1: narrative that, oh, the Cowboys are in better shape now
Speaker 1: than what they were with that I don't believe it.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that you said that, but no, I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that. What I'm saying is there is a
Speaker 1: narrative that's being written that we are in at our hands. Okay, like, oh,
Speaker 1: don't worry about it. The backup is gonna thank you
Speaker 1: guys where you want to be. And also because the
Speaker 1: division is so bad, you guys can just walk into
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I just don't see that. I don't I
Speaker 1: don't see that. What I see as a Cowboys team
Speaker 1: that because they've lost, that they're gonna have to retool
Speaker 1: a lot of the things that they do. I think
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton's experience is going to make it where you
Speaker 1: don't have to limit what you do in your playbook,
Speaker 1: but there are certain things that Dad has done in
Speaker 1: your offense that you are going to miss. And so
Speaker 1: this year Dak was taking the next steps to be
Speaker 1: the elite quarterback. He was threading needle. He wasn't throwing
Speaker 1: fifty fifty balls, oh, just throwing it up by chance
Speaker 1: and hoping that a guy runs under it. I see that.
Speaker 1: So I think that, you know, because we are dealing
Speaker 1: with them, we have to deal with Andy Dalton as
Speaker 1: starting quarterback. I just can't throw away the fact that
Speaker 1: he was on the team last year that went oh
Speaker 1: and eight with him starting. Uh, they brought in another
Speaker 1: quarterback that failed miserably and he ended up coming back.
Speaker 1: But that was the reason why the Cincinnati Bengals had
Speaker 1: number one pick in the draft. So if we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep it real, if we're gonna keep it real, let's
Speaker 1: keep it all the way real, and don't tell me that, oh,
Speaker 1: we're in good hands. No, we have some things that
Speaker 1: we have to change too. Let's go absolutely, let's freaking
Speaker 1: you want to have a real quip before our going ahead? Heck,
Speaker 1: let's go now, I've got I'm about I'm about to
Speaker 1: unleash the beast. Listen to it. Okay, Hey, you're trying
Speaker 1: to talk about a team records as if the quarterback
Speaker 1: is more than one of eleven players on the field, right,
Speaker 1: And I understand he plays his position, he plays his role,
Speaker 1: but he cannot affect the play every other person on
Speaker 1: that field. He can't affect the player. He can't not
Speaker 1: at all, not at all. And I've happened to play
Speaker 1: that position. So no, you do not get those wins. Right,
Speaker 1: this organist, that organization is terrible, right that the whole
Speaker 1: organization was terrible. He went, he had new head coaches,
Speaker 1: the front office, sucked, right, the sports system sucking. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean free Andrew Worth left. I mean, come on, man,
Speaker 1: like everybody in their mama was trying to get up
Speaker 1: out of there right and have aj green for most
Speaker 1: of the time, so I didn't have a surrounding surrounding castle.
Speaker 1: Let's not compare the fact that the team was terrible.
Speaker 1: Ask you the fact to how that he was as
Speaker 1: a quarterback. And again I've reiterated, he chose to be
Speaker 1: a backup, so as everybody's looking, everybody's looking at him as,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, the second string quarterback. And no, we're
Speaker 1: not saying, at least I'm not saying heck that, oh
Speaker 1: we're about to be a better team now because Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton's in Instead of that, that's not the case. But
Speaker 1: when I am saying is Cowboys nations should not lower
Speaker 1: their expectations of this twenty twenty, twenty twenty and twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one Dallas Cowboys team simply because their second string
Speaker 1: aka Pro Bowl quarterback is now coming in and taking
Speaker 1: the round. That view should not lower your standard because
Speaker 1: the production should not change. Now when you talk about
Speaker 1: is are they gonna miss things? Of course, every quarterback
Speaker 1: is unique. They're two different styles of quarterback. Dak has
Speaker 1: a Tennessee to run more. Andy Dalton's gonna sit in
Speaker 1: there with two hands on the ball and take care
Speaker 1: and take care of the ball. Right, He's gonna be
Speaker 1: more precision pascord I guess what. He's gonna take more
Speaker 1: risks down the field and guess what with these receivers,
Speaker 1: that's probably gonna be a good thing. Right. So, as
Speaker 1: we're talking about these things, yes, you're gonna miss some things,
Speaker 1: but you're also gonna gain some things that you would
Speaker 1: miss if it was the other way around. I think
Speaker 1: there's a balance between. Yeah, like they're not they're not
Speaker 1: better off with Andy Dalton. I don't believe that. I
Speaker 1: think And obviously Dak, like Isaiah said, brings some different
Speaker 1: things to the table in terms of read options stuff,
Speaker 1: especially around the goal line. I think he has more
Speaker 1: of an I think Andy Dalton's a mobile quarterback, but
Speaker 1: I think Dak has more of an ability I think
Speaker 1: to make things out of nothing when things break down,
Speaker 1: which is really important in today's game. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I agree that you don't they expect I wrote
Speaker 1: about this day. Expectation should not plumb it right now
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys, Now, can they win a Super Bowl
Speaker 1: without Dak and without with all these other injuries. It's
Speaker 1: really hard to see at this point. But they're two
Speaker 1: and three. It's the worst division in football. If they
Speaker 1: can go four and two in the nfcast, just give
Speaker 1: me four wins out of six, then a couple wins
Speaker 1: here and there, eight and eight might win this division.
Speaker 1: I think it very well could win this division. Maybe
Speaker 1: seven and nine wins this division. Just get just just
Speaker 1: get in the playoffs. Get in the playoffs and see
Speaker 1: what happens. And I think absolutely the Cowboys. You know
Speaker 1: they've they've made some moves this offseason that have not worked. Obviously,
Speaker 1: two defensive signings and the season didn't make it through
Speaker 1: training camp. Jerry McCoy got injured, obviously, But give the
Speaker 1: front office credit for spending a little bit more at
Speaker 1: the position. Three million bucks for Andy Dalton as opposed
Speaker 1: to five hundred thousand for Cooper Rush over the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. Whatever it was, that is looking like
Speaker 1: a move that might save your season because he absolutely
Speaker 1: can come in here and play absolutely ack. When you
Speaker 1: got anything else to add there on your rebuttal side.
Speaker 1: You know, my thing has always been with Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: not missing any snaps or two snaps in four years.
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton did come to Dallas to save the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: to take us to a super Bowl. He came here
Speaker 1: because he was gonna sit behind Dak. That's what it was.
Speaker 1: He didn't say, hey, honey, we're going to Dallas because
Speaker 1: I'm gonna play, but I'm gonna get an opportunity to
Speaker 1: play because Dak is gonna miss some games. That wasn't
Speaker 1: what was going on. And so a feeling like he's
Speaker 1: graced us with his presence is one thing. But another
Speaker 1: part about this is the fact that I feel more
Speaker 1: confident with Andy Dalton instead of Cooper Rush. That's for sure.
Speaker 1: But I just feel like it's you're not being sincere
Speaker 1: when you say, oh, he's gonna be that much, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be better than Dak. And I understand we preface
Speaker 1: who said that, You're basically is that not what you're saying,
Speaker 1: are you not? I mean, I would love for you
Speaker 1: to run the film back and see where I said
Speaker 1: he's better than Dak. I just said he's I think
Speaker 1: he's I think he takes I take he takes care
Speaker 1: of the ball better than Dak. Yes, that's what I
Speaker 1: did say. Okay, well just kind of it's I'm getting
Speaker 1: a twinge of that, and so I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: see where you at player. No, no, no, no, I'm
Speaker 1: a very direct person to heck Man, I would never
Speaker 1: just insinuate anything. Any Dalton is going to ball out.
Speaker 1: Let me just clear that up right now. He is
Speaker 1: going it is. It is unfortunate that Dak Prescott is out.
Speaker 1: Nobody on this podcast, nobody in Cowboys Nation wanted Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott to get injured or not be president in any
Speaker 1: form of fashion, whether it was his him sending his
Speaker 1: franchise tender, whether it's him signing an extension. They everybody
Speaker 1: wanted him to be playing. That's let's get that out
Speaker 1: the way now. Being that he can't play anymore. Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton is the best and I mean the best option,
Speaker 1: not only as a secondary guy, a second guy. But
Speaker 1: if you took any Dalton and said, hey, let's say
Speaker 1: any Dalton versus the worst ten quarterbacks in the NFL's
Speaker 1: worst twelve let's say the bottom twelve quarterbacks, right right,
Speaker 1: who do you put ahead of him? I mean without
Speaker 1: having names in front of me. I'm sure I would
Speaker 1: have some names that would go in front of him.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, if you if you're gonna
Speaker 1: do a hypothetical like that, if Andy Dalton has started
Speaker 1: the season with the Cowboys, what would our record be
Speaker 1: hypothetically hypothetically two and three? M oh Man, I think
Speaker 1: I don't know if I don't know if he brings
Speaker 1: you back against it Land, I don't. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't have it brings you back, I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that, I don't know if it changed.
Speaker 1: I don't know if it changed, because the reason why,
Speaker 1: the reason why. And I'm not saying that the production
Speaker 1: would have fell off. I don't think the production would
Speaker 1: have been much different at all. Actually, um our defense
Speaker 1: has sucked. That's what's games. That's so. But what I'm
Speaker 1: saying is, but by saying that we can't as I,
Speaker 1: people are trying to say there's gonna be a drop
Speaker 1: off in production on office, there's not. There is not
Speaker 1: going to be a drop off in production. He's not
Speaker 1: going to turn the ball over. He's a precision passer,
Speaker 1: he's experienced. We're about to start facing AFC teams that
Speaker 1: he's familiar with. Right, so, where where is this that
Speaker 1: we're gonna have this drop off? Exactly? I just want
Speaker 1: to know. I just want somebody to pinpoint, Hey, guess what,
Speaker 1: we are going to lose production because Andy Dalton can't
Speaker 1: do this. I'm just waiting to hear that from anybody. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think if anybody think, I think, if there's any concern,
Speaker 1: go for it, go for it. If there's any concern,
Speaker 1: it just might be the protection up front as many
Speaker 1: injuries as they've got. But he but I think he's
Speaker 1: he's underrated as a guy that can at least buy time.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's not gonna he's not gonna scramble around
Speaker 1: all day. And Dak doesn't either. Yeah, let's say he
Speaker 1: isn't either, and they and they've both been in this
Speaker 1: system for the same amount of time, right Yeah true? Now,
Speaker 1: so uh ahead, Kyle, No, I think I think absolutely
Speaker 1: they should still expect to go and win this division.
Speaker 1: I still think they can do it. But it's gonna take.
Speaker 1: It's gonna get it's gonna take getting healthier on defense.
Speaker 1: They need some guys back, They need to get better defensively,
Speaker 1: just incrementally week to week like they did last week.
Speaker 1: Last week was an improvement because you take away two
Speaker 1: turnovers offensively that led to fourteen points. You know, they
Speaker 1: didn't give up thirty four points defensively. They did a
Speaker 1: better job. Some of their better players stepped up. You
Speaker 1: do that, you clean up some things on special teams.
Speaker 1: As a team, if you get better and you stay
Speaker 1: relatively healthy after what you've been through already with Dalton,
Speaker 1: I think absolutely they should expect to go and try
Speaker 1: to win this division. Still. Yeah, I think that still
Speaker 1: is the expectation. And I know Jerry Jones and Steven
Speaker 1: Jones probably feel that same way. The expectations don't drop,
Speaker 1: even though they might change a little bit, they don't
Speaker 1: necessarily drop. It's just a different way of looking at
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty season because of what happened. Whenever you're
Speaker 1: building this roster moving forward. And I know yesterday we
Speaker 1: kind of got into who had the better supporting cast
Speaker 1: for Andy Dalton and the Cowboys. I think the supporting
Speaker 1: cast this year is better than anything else that Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton's ever played with, maybe with the exception of the defense,
Speaker 1: because even when you look at the defense in twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen and twenty nineteen, they were thirtieth in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and they were twenty sixth in the NFL in terms
Speaker 1: of average yards per game allowed defensively and then on
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the football. How about this from
Speaker 1: last year in terms of support for Andy Dalton, the
Speaker 1: leading rusher for Cincinnati last year didn't hit triple digits
Speaker 1: until the ninth week of the season. Whenever they started
Speaker 1: their O and eight run twenty one yards in game one,
Speaker 1: seventeen in game two, sixty sixty two, ninety three, finally seventeen.
Speaker 1: Then Dalton himself was the leading rusher in Week seven,
Speaker 1: and then sixty six in Week eight when Mixon had
Speaker 1: two yards as well. So I think overall, you look
Speaker 1: at the supporting cast around Andy Dalton, the production might
Speaker 1: be there for him. Finally as a quarterback, he's going
Speaker 1: to get a chance in an audition to go start elsewhere.
Speaker 1: I still think quarterback or Dak Prescott is your quarterback
Speaker 1: of the future in Dallas. He's still gonna be here.
Speaker 1: I believe the Jones family is still right there. Nobody's
Speaker 1: trying to get rid of Dak Prescott. But for twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: you have to deal with Andy Dalton. Then I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna bring it to the table, just like how
Speaker 1: Isaiah was talking about earlier when we come back. I
Speaker 1: teased it earlier, but Patrick Peterson is he a top
Speaker 1: level defensive back. We didn't get to it in that
Speaker 1: segment where I promise we'll get to it when we
Speaker 1: come back here. Boys. I'm Jay Nobachik, former tight end
Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboys. Back in the day, I was
Speaker 1: the guy who always got the tough yards, and that's
Speaker 1: why I run with John Deer today. In fact, I
Speaker 1: have a John Dear three zero twenty five E tractor
Speaker 1: that can handle any yard work I need to do,
Speaker 1: even the tough yards way out back. So if you
Speaker 1: have one acre or a thousand, John Deer has the
Speaker 1: equipment that's just right for you. Visit a John Dear
Speaker 1: dealer today and run with us. We are the official
Speaker 1: tractor provider of your Dallas Cowboys. Selora is a proud
Speaker 1: sponsor of the Dallas Cowboy helping fans see more and
Speaker 1: do more with our best vision solutions. Our lens technologies
Speaker 1: reveal a world more beautiful than you can imagine. For
Speaker 1: a limited time, get the slur next Gen offer where
Speaker 1: you buy the latest generation of transitions lenses would select
Speaker 1: Eslore lenses. You can choose a second pair of clear
Speaker 1: lenses for free with qualifying frame purchases. Restrictions apply. Find
Speaker 1: a participating eyecare professional by visiting esselor USA dot com.
Speaker 1: See more, Do more. We're back in the tasty treat
Speaker 1: that's sweeping airwaves and taste buds. It's new Doctor pepper
Speaker 1: and cream Soda. Let's take a listen, Doctor cream Soda.
Speaker 1: Is he a Newcombonet's music to my ears? Okay, doctor time,
Speaker 1: music to my ears and mouths New Doctor pepper and
Speaker 1: cream Soda. Delas just do bad? Want to use what
Speaker 1: the pros use? How about the official men's skincare brand
Speaker 1: of the Dallas Cowboys, Jack Black. Right now you can
Speaker 1: get the Jack Black Starter, a curated collection of Cowboys
Speaker 1: locker room favorites, for just ten bucks with free shipping.
Speaker 1: The starter includes four Jack Black skincare favorites, plus a
Speaker 1: full sized and tense therapy lip bomb. Go to get
Speaker 1: Jack Black dot com slash Cowboys and use the code
Speaker 1: word team JB. That's get Jack Black dot com slash Cowboys.
Speaker 1: The Jack Black starter ten Bucks free shipping to Talking Cowboys.
Speaker 1: The conversation continues into the break here on Talking Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Just like always, get the ultimate fan experience for the
Speaker 1: ultimate Dallas Cowboys fan joined Dallas Cowboys United presented buying
Speaker 1: Globe Life starting at just twenty dollars, visit Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 1: dot Com slash United for just the price of really
Speaker 1: a nice meal for you and another meal for two,
Speaker 1: a solid meal for two twenty dollars. Get involved with
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys United as always presented by Global Life. We're
Speaker 1: Talking Cowboys. We've got about eight minutes left, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if eight minutes is enough to hold us
Speaker 1: from a leashing the beast here and saying it with
Speaker 1: our chest before say it with the Jess Friday. But
Speaker 1: we're gonna try our best and try and do so.
Speaker 1: But I keep bringing this up from a Patrick Peterson perspective,
Speaker 1: and I know, Isaiah, you have a ton of respect,
Speaker 1: as does the rest of the league really in the NFL,
Speaker 1: A ton of respect for Patrick Peterson, of course, a
Speaker 1: ten year veteran in one of the best corners, best
Speaker 1: defensive backs in all of football. But my question to
Speaker 1: you this year he's only had ten tackles, he's had
Speaker 1: that one interception, he's been targeted twenty seven times, and
Speaker 1: he's allowed fifteen receptions. But is Patrick Peterson when you
Speaker 1: watch him on film Isaiah, the same Patrick Peterson that
Speaker 1: he has been. I don't know if I can say
Speaker 1: he's the same. He might he lost a step, I mean,
Speaker 1: but he's still poise, man, I mean I do still poise.
Speaker 1: He's still he's still confident. Me. There's just a there's
Speaker 1: just a calming, just peace about a dbs who are experienced,
Speaker 1: you know. And I when I used to play against
Speaker 1: you know, Daryl Reeves, you know, and when I was
Speaker 1: playing for New England, I mean, he was just chill. Right.
Speaker 1: There's some guys you can get to move off their
Speaker 1: mark and you can see their legitary. And then there's
Speaker 1: some guys that are just so relaxed and it's just
Speaker 1: like it doesn't matter what you do, Like they're just
Speaker 1: moving like like poetry, you know. And that's what Patrick
Speaker 1: Peterson does, right, And and and it helps on their
Speaker 1: side that they have two University of Washington, you know,
Speaker 1: you dub guys played in the secondary with them, you know,
Speaker 1: And and and you know, I just gotta throw that
Speaker 1: out there, and Byron Murphy and Buddha Baker, you know,
Speaker 1: so those guys are coming along too, But no, I
Speaker 1: mean Patrick Patrick Peterson is um, He's he's still that
Speaker 1: guy and he's still to be respected in this league. Obviously,
Speaker 1: there's there's younger guys that have, you know, stepped up
Speaker 1: and feel like they feel like there's always somebody every
Speaker 1: year that just comes out and they're like they're the
Speaker 1: big deal of that year, and then like a year
Speaker 1: or two later, they kind of fade to the black right.
Speaker 1: But there's still those dudes, they're just not out in
Speaker 1: the front. This is still one of those guys. Don't
Speaker 1: disrespect them because he's gonna test all of our receivers
Speaker 1: who decided to step out in front of him. And
Speaker 1: I love Pat Pete man, I've been been a big
Speaker 1: fan of his since lsu UM. But you know, he's
Speaker 1: the closest thing, in my opinion to dunstanding is just
Speaker 1: as far as his ability to lock down a side
Speaker 1: of the field. Uh, Patrick, Pat p is amazing and
Speaker 1: look father Time is father Time is undefeated. But still
Speaker 1: don't test him. Yeah, he's he's he still is gonna
Speaker 1: play in close quarters with any receiver that comes out
Speaker 1: to his side. Uh. And he has everybody playing like that.
Speaker 1: They play close to the line of scrimmage, which I
Speaker 1: think is going to be an advantage for the Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys receivers who have been given a lot of cushion.
Speaker 1: When you talk about when you talk about your you
Speaker 1: Dub guy and Buddha Baker. I love the way that
Speaker 1: he plays man. Buddha Baker is you know, obviously with
Speaker 1: them knowing that they're gonna have to stop Zeke. Look
Speaker 1: for Budda Baker to be down in the box because
Speaker 1: he is a short fire tackler at the line of
Speaker 1: him she comes on the bliss. He's just a guy
Speaker 1: that you're gonna see thirty two moving all over the field.
Speaker 1: But I think if they take that approach with us
Speaker 1: on offense, I think that is what's gonna get give
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton to the most amount of success because of
Speaker 1: his AFC North, what he's the what he has coming
Speaker 1: from the AFC North, but his ability to find receivers quickly. Uh.
Speaker 1: And so that experience is gonna pay off for him
Speaker 1: in this game. Hopefully. Yeah. I don't know if he's
Speaker 1: you know, Peterson has dipped significantly and his production. I
Speaker 1: know he's taking some criticism. I know he has said,
Speaker 1: you know, nobody's really testing me outside the numbers. They've
Speaker 1: tested me inside and I'm crossing routes and things like that.
Speaker 1: So but heck him is right. Like Buddha Baker getting
Speaker 1: him back last week from that thumb injury. He changes
Speaker 1: them because he's great on the back end. He had
Speaker 1: a sack last week. He's gonna line up in different places.
Speaker 1: He's gonna help shore up your secondary. I'm interested to
Speaker 1: see what happens, though, because I don't think you know,
Speaker 1: we talked about Ramsey in week one and how rams
Speaker 1: He's gonna take away a Mari Cooper, and Cooper still
Speaker 1: had ten catches. So I think you still run your offense.
Speaker 1: I still think you run your routes and you try
Speaker 1: to get all your receivers involved depending on how they're
Speaker 1: playing you defensively. So I don't I don't think it's
Speaker 1: a situation where they're gonna take away one side of
Speaker 1: the field. I think they're still gonna try to get
Speaker 1: a Mari going. I thought it was interesting though that
Speaker 1: a Mari only had like forty something snaps in the game.
Speaker 1: They're really trying and he's not apparently dealing with an
Speaker 1: injury that's showing up on the injury report. So they're
Speaker 1: just they're trying to get all their receivers involved. And
Speaker 1: we talked about that that long drive where it was
Speaker 1: run heavy. That was said Wilson, Michael Gallup and and
Speaker 1: Noah Brown Brown. So you know, they trust all of
Speaker 1: their receivers, especially some of their blocking ability too. But
Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see it. It's a it's a good
Speaker 1: secondary overall. Their face in this week. I really do
Speaker 1: like Buddha Bay a lot. It just kind of talking
Speaker 1: about your you Dub guy. I mean, this is a
Speaker 1: guy who's a little bit under size him. He's five ten,
Speaker 1: ninety five pounds. He looks like he would normally be
Speaker 1: in a in a high school a lot in terms
Speaker 1: of the roster and the height and weight. But this
Speaker 1: guy plays fierce. He's one of the best young safeties
Speaker 1: in the game. And I really do like him a lot,
Speaker 1: and I think whenever you bring him up and put
Speaker 1: him in the box, my one worry is if Ezekiel
Speaker 1: Elliott gets to the next level. Isaiah do you think
Speaker 1: Baker has enough juice to go up against Zeke? Whenever
Speaker 1: we've seen Zeke a couple of times. He's had those
Speaker 1: angry runs, he's had those trucks. But but can Buddha
Speaker 1: Baker be a guy to bring him down one on one?
Speaker 1: I mean, the only person that can really come up
Speaker 1: and lay the hit on on freaking Zekiel Elliott is
Speaker 1: two guys, Um Cam Chancellor, he's retired, and freaking Sean Taylor,
Speaker 1: who's who's not with us anymore. There's only two guys
Speaker 1: that can come up and lay lay hits. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: I come up and lay a hit on Zeke. So
Speaker 1: if he gets up to that level and he has
Speaker 1: any steam behind him, anybody's gonna get They're gonna get
Speaker 1: hit stick, they're gonna get truck He'll they'll they'll get tackled.
Speaker 1: They'll still make the tack um. But I don't see
Speaker 1: nobody just blowing up Zeke when he has got kind
Speaker 1: of momentum. I would throw Derrick Henry in there, if
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry decided to ever play line defense the other night.
Speaker 1: But other than that, other than that, my god, here's
Speaker 1: here's the name though, guys, Dalton Schultz. You know, Dalton
Speaker 1: Schultz may have the ability to have a really big game,
Speaker 1: h just based off of the way that they're going
Speaker 1: to a line to stop the run. So I'm looking
Speaker 1: for Dalton Schultz to be someone that gets some advantages
Speaker 1: against strong safeties and linebackers, and now this is the
Speaker 1: game for him to do that, especially with them trying
Speaker 1: to limit and take away some of the things that
Speaker 1: we do offensively. I'm just I'm really looking forward to
Speaker 1: seeing our receivers get off this press coverage, and that
Speaker 1: include Schultz too. I want to see them get off
Speaker 1: press because we haven't We really haven't had to see
Speaker 1: that that much. We really haven't had an opportunity to
Speaker 1: see them do that that much this year. Um, they
Speaker 1: did a little bit obviously where we showed in the
Speaker 1: film room, but that wasn't even really a real press Um.
Speaker 1: These guys are gonna have hands on them and they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to get off the line image and I
Speaker 1: am really looking forward to seeing can they do that
Speaker 1: and then once the balls in the air, can they
Speaker 1: go make the contested catches Because these aren't these aren't
Speaker 1: no little young whipper snappers. They're playing against these dudes
Speaker 1: can play and they they can find the ball just
Speaker 1: as well as our Our receivers can very fundamentally sound
Speaker 1: secondary for Vans, Joseph and defense. And we showed that
Speaker 1: in film room Isaiah really quickly before we have to
Speaker 1: sign off here, But who out of the Cowboys receivers
Speaker 1: has the best chance and we'll have the most success
Speaker 1: against press coverage? Cede Lamb? Oh, ceedee Lamb? You agreed?
Speaker 1: You agree there, Isaiah, Rob, Yeah, I agree, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think this quickness off the line of scrimmage. I'll go
Speaker 1: Ceede Lamb. I just wanted to hear his name a
Speaker 1: couple of times in this show. We hadn't talked about it.
Speaker 1: I knew it. I knew that's that's gonna do it
Speaker 1: here for Talking Cowboys. It's been a whole lot of
Speaker 1: fun over the last forty five minutes. Glad you've been
Speaker 1: with us for Harrison, for Rob Phillips, for Isaiah Stanback
Speaker 1: special thanks to Chris Beam in the backup Kyle Yeoman
Speaker 1: saying so long from the Star in Frisco. We'll see
Speaker 1: you tomorrow for say It with your Chest Friday. This
Speaker 1: has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot com and
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys Football Club