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Speaker 3: Hailey Sutton, Aisha Morrison, Jess Navarrees back with you on
Speaker 3: our Tuesday edition of this podcast. We've got a lot
Speaker 3: to talk about when it comes to the Giants game
Speaker 3: last week. We've also got some things to talk about
Speaker 3: when it comes to the Colts game next week.
Speaker 4: We've got a.
Speaker 3: Special guest in our hot seat, so a lot of
Speaker 3: things to get started with, ladies.
Speaker 4: It's been a minute since we've had a chance to chat.
Speaker 3: The Cowboys are coming off that mini bye they played
Speaker 3: on Thursday, beat the Giants once again twenty eight to two.
Speaker 3: I said in my five points recap last week, I know,
Speaker 3: or earlier this week it's a rivalry, right, But I said,
Speaker 3: what rivalry?
Speaker 4: Because it's just getting silly at this point.
Speaker 3: To consider the Cowboys arrival when Dak Prescott is quarterback.
Speaker 3: But we'll talk about that later. Cowboys coming off of
Speaker 3: a twelve day three game stretch where they went two
Speaker 3: and one. They are four and one since Dak returned
Speaker 3: a lot of really positive performances in that game. But
Speaker 3: I want to just start right there. I shall go
Speaker 3: to you first.
Speaker 4: Who is your player of the game and why.
Speaker 2: Of the game?
Speaker 5: I would say, I would say Ceedee Lamb. I think
Speaker 5: I said Ceedee Lamb yesterday. Just he is starting to
Speaker 5: take over games and spots when they need a guy
Speaker 5: to continue to make plays and his assurgence and also
Speaker 5: to looking back at the game, he's starting to get
Speaker 5: that attention.
Speaker 4: He's starting to get that.
Speaker 5: Oh, let me make sure I have an extra safety
Speaker 5: over there, and that in turn is opening up things
Speaker 5: for Michael Gallup and those guys to get going. So
Speaker 5: Ceedee Lamb emerging in this last couple of games has
Speaker 5: been big for me.
Speaker 6: Yesterday, I said Michael Gallup.
Speaker 7: But I'm gonna switch gears a little bit here because
Speaker 7: I've been sitting on this all morning.
Speaker 6: I'm gonna say Layton vander esh Okay, my player of
Speaker 6: the game.
Speaker 7: Because you know, two weeks ago we're talking about the
Speaker 7: run defense and how that's kind of this defense is kryptonite.
Speaker 7: And I feel like Layton Vandersh came in with a
Speaker 7: very vintage, like wolf hunter approach to fixing this run defense,
Speaker 7: and his tackling is so worth noting. I went back
Speaker 7: and I watched some of the key points from Thursday's game.
Speaker 7: This man's tackling has improved so much over the course
Speaker 7: of the last few weeks, but even just since last season.
Speaker 7: You look at how he tackles. He's not tackling forward anymore.
Speaker 7: It's not giving that extra yardage to you know, those
Speaker 7: receivers or those backs. But Leyton Vandersh is really impressing me.
Speaker 7: He's leading the league right now in tackles, I believe,
Speaker 7: and he just is coming out swinging this season, and
Speaker 7: I love to see that for him.
Speaker 3: I love that you said, CD, that is my honorable mention.
Speaker 3: And not only because but in the locker room whenever
Speaker 3: everyone on the sideline was like, bro, you have two hands,
Speaker 3: use them. So of course the natural question to ask
Speaker 3: in the locker room is why were you not using
Speaker 3: two hands? And CD said, quite frankly, they were holding
Speaker 3: my left hand all day, like I had to make
Speaker 3: the play, I had to do something, so I was
Speaker 3: using one hand. So we love a guy who is
Speaker 3: confident with just one hand as well as both of them.
Speaker 4: He does very well with both.
Speaker 3: I also said on this a lot because I wanted
Speaker 3: to naturally go defense. I think the easy question or
Speaker 3: the easy answer was Michael Parsons. You know, getting two
Speaker 3: sacks continues to be a menace. But I wanted to
Speaker 3: dig a little bit deeper into that, and so I
Speaker 3: picked a group. I picked the tight end group, and
Speaker 3: we're going to break it down in just a minute. Why.
Speaker 3: But I think this tight end group is so special
Speaker 3: and at this point so necessary to the Cowboys' success
Speaker 3: this season. They have such a secret weapon in that group.
Speaker 3: I asked Kellan Moore about it yesterday. When it comes
Speaker 3: to having four tight ends on an active roster who
Speaker 3: can come in and make an impact, what that.
Speaker 4: Allows him to do creatively? And here's what he had to.
Speaker 8: Say, Think that allows us certainly we can have some
Speaker 8: depth in those positions, so we're not one guy away.
Speaker 8: You know, sometimes the tight ends needs a break and
Speaker 8: whatnot when you have four of them. We can go
Speaker 8: into wist of those packages knowing if one guy's out,
Speaker 8: we still got enough depth there and so that's huge.
Speaker 8: And those guys just do such a good job. They're
Speaker 8: really smart players, so they can handle all these different
Speaker 8: roles and you know we're going to run the football
Speaker 8: in it, but we can also spread people out and
Speaker 8: we can play in empty sets with those tight ends,
Speaker 8: and they can run the receiver routterree and so it's
Speaker 8: been fun for those guys to see their growth, especially
Speaker 8: the young guys, to see them grow in those roles.
Speaker 3: So that's Kellen on the creativity. And after hearing that yesterday,
Speaker 3: I kind of wanted to dig a little bit more.
Speaker 3: I took a page out of your book, So I
Speaker 3: hope you're proud of me and this and this is
Speaker 3: some of the research that I found from this. This
Speaker 3: all comes from next Gen Stats. So the Cowboys have
Speaker 3: played fifty four point six percent of their snaps in
Speaker 3: eleven personnel, which means they have one running back, one
Speaker 3: tight end, and three wide receivers on the field.
Speaker 4: Their next highest.
Speaker 3: Would be twelve personnel at twenty five point six percent.
Speaker 3: But they have a fifty three percent success rate in
Speaker 3: plays in that twelve personnel grouping.
Speaker 4: And here's where it gets fun.
Speaker 3: The more tight ends they have on the field, the
Speaker 3: higher rate of success they have when it comes to
Speaker 3: converting plays. They're getting an average of eight yards per play,
Speaker 3: six yards per play as opposed to the three, the two,
Speaker 3: whatever it takes.
Speaker 4: So my question for you guys.
Speaker 3: How is having that many skilled tight ends on a
Speaker 3: roster bode.
Speaker 4: Well for the Cowboys?
Speaker 3: How can they utilize that group going into this last
Speaker 3: arguably most important part of the season.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, So with the eleven personnel this year talking about
Speaker 5: it doesn't surprise me that the percentage is somewhat close.
Speaker 5: But with twelve personnel, the tight ends being receiving options,
Speaker 5: I really believe is what changes tips to tide in
Speaker 5: them all so having the ability to block and get
Speaker 5: out and also make and catch passes. But with eleven personnel,
Speaker 5: you're relying on those wide receivers to create separation and
Speaker 5: to get open on their own to some degree. So
Speaker 5: I understand that with them being in for extra blocking,
Speaker 5: teams don't know if this guy's gonna break out for
Speaker 5: a quick out or if he's really in there run
Speaker 5: blocking in those plays, and you see that with my
Speaker 5: bad with Jake Ferguson and Peyton Hindershot, they're getting dbs
Speaker 5: and linebackers to bite because they think that this is
Speaker 5: a run player and they're selling it and that's allowing
Speaker 5: them to get out and be receiving options. You got
Speaker 5: a vertical threat and a guy that has athleticisms. There's
Speaker 5: versatility in this room. And then with Sean McEwan mckun
Speaker 5: rather mckun he has the ability also to be a
Speaker 5: passing option. But his blocking has been so important, so
Speaker 5: important to what they do, and it's also helped with
Speaker 5: this offensive line and to drive this offensive line to success.
Speaker 4: So that makes so much.
Speaker 5: Sense that they're seeing so much more success with more
Speaker 5: tight ends.
Speaker 7: On the Yeah, and I think you know I usued
Speaker 7: to hit the nail right on the head. But the versatility,
Speaker 7: it allows for more versatility, it.
Speaker 6: Allows for more of a threat.
Speaker 7: And we've talked about how you know this Cowboys offense,
Speaker 7: they don't have that one threat that you know an
Speaker 7: OBGA might bring where it instills fear into opposing defenses.
Speaker 7: When you have a core tight end group like this,
Speaker 7: you don't know what you're going to get. Like I
Speaker 7: used to said, oh, hey, Fergie's on the field. What
Speaker 7: are we getting with Fergie? We're going to get hurdled?
Speaker 7: Are we going to get some pass pro in there?
Speaker 7: And you know something I know Tony Pollard has been
Speaker 7: a little scrutinized on is the pass pro. So I
Speaker 7: think if anything can come in and help take that
Speaker 7: off of him, help the pass pro a little bit,
Speaker 7: that is always a great option. Of course, it opens
Speaker 7: up the RPO, the run pass option for Dak. And
Speaker 7: most importantly, I think when we're talking about this identity
Speaker 7: of this offense, it's the run game, right And so
Speaker 7: when you have these tight ends that cannot only go
Speaker 7: in and obviously be an option for more of a
Speaker 7: wide receiver corp. But that pass pro unity, oh man,
Speaker 7: you have Zeke and you have Tony Palady, have that
Speaker 7: one two punch that is going to just eat yardage
Speaker 7: completely throughout the game. So I think it just allows
Speaker 7: for more versatility within the Cowboys offense overall.
Speaker 3: Here's what I like the most about this group. We
Speaker 3: talked last week about from a defensive standpoint, how do
Speaker 3: you help the run game?
Speaker 4: It's by doing your job.
Speaker 3: I don't think there's a single group in this locker
Speaker 3: room that knows and understands their roles better than the
Speaker 3: tight ends. You have Dalton Schultz, the guy who's going
Speaker 3: to find the end zone. He's all reliable for Dak Prescott.
Speaker 3: You got Jake Ferguson, who you have to respect.
Speaker 10: At this point.
Speaker 4: He's big, he's athletic.
Speaker 3: He'll juke you if you're the Eagles, he'll leap you
Speaker 3: if you are the Giants. I'm excited to see what
Speaker 3: he will do coming up this week against the Colts,
Speaker 3: so you have to respect him as a playmaker.
Speaker 4: You've got Peyton.
Speaker 3: Hindershot who's fast, potentially a deep threat. We just talked
Speaker 3: about that before the game, and he can run like
Speaker 3: a running back right. And then you have Sean mceun
Speaker 3: who comes in and can.
Speaker 6: Block because does his job.
Speaker 3: Every single one of these guys you have to respect
Speaker 3: because they provide such a different facet of.
Speaker 4: What it means to be a tight end.
Speaker 3: And I think I hope rather that the Cowboys will
Speaker 3: lean on them a little bit more as options and
Speaker 3: providing that spark for the offense, because we've talked a
Speaker 3: lot about where the offense has struggled. They just don't
Speaker 3: have a spark, you just said it. So hopefully with
Speaker 3: this tight end group, I think it will start to
Speaker 3: kickstart maybe a little bit.
Speaker 4: We'll see against the Colts.
Speaker 7: I also think something worth noting too is this tight
Speaker 7: end group is so close knit, not just on the
Speaker 7: field obviously, but you see off the field, on the
Speaker 7: sounds of the sideline and all of that. But you
Speaker 7: even take it back, Notch, you remember that closeness with
Speaker 7: Dalton Schultz and Blake Jarwin, you know, when Jarwin was
Speaker 7: still on the team, and so I think what's awesome
Speaker 7: to see is Dalton Schultz really bringing that same energy,
Speaker 7: in that same tight knit closeness that he had with
Speaker 7: Jarwin into this younger tight end core and really showing
Speaker 7: them the rogues and you know, knowing that yes, this
Speaker 7: is a team, this is a team thing, right, and
Speaker 7: not being selfish with those reds, because he very easily
Speaker 7: could be like, hey, guys, I'm the vet in the room,
Speaker 7: this is my stuff.
Speaker 6: But the fact that they know how to.
Speaker 7: Spread out so well and just not be selfish with
Speaker 7: those reps, I think that's incredible.
Speaker 3: And Dalton talked about that after the game when he
Speaker 3: was asked, you know, like, are you okay with this
Speaker 3: type of football that you're playing in that tight end room?
Speaker 4: And he said, yeah. My favorite part about these guys
Speaker 4: is that we just we do it together. We champion.
Speaker 3: I think the celebration really embodied who they are as
Speaker 3: a group.
Speaker 4: You know, Peyton gets a touchdown, but he turns around
Speaker 4: before anything and he's.
Speaker 3: Waiting over the entire group to celebrate. So I love
Speaker 3: that for them. I hope to see them continue. I
Speaker 3: believe that they will, so we will keep an eye
Speaker 3: on that. Of course, with the good always.
Speaker 4: Comes the bad.
Speaker 3: It was not a perfect performance from the Cowboys perspective. Ess,
Speaker 3: I was trying my hardest to find something in the
Speaker 3: building that would even remotely look like shot glasses because
Speaker 3: I was going to bring them down here.
Speaker 6: I have water.
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 8: I know.
Speaker 3: We laugh about it a lot, but again, doing some digging,
Speaker 3: we talk a lot about the penalties and how much
Speaker 3: of an impact they can make on the game. Thursday's
Speaker 3: game in particular, that it really was an issue. Thirteen
Speaker 3: flags cost them eighty six yards. They have thirty six
Speaker 3: pre snap penalties this season alone, so it kind of
Speaker 3: got me thinking, you know, they led the league last
Speaker 3: year in penalties, where do they stand out this year?
Speaker 4: They have been better? But how much better? Well, not much.
Speaker 4: They're in second only, second to the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 6: So first, yeah, we're not scarsed.
Speaker 3: We're second in total penalties in twenty twenty two with
Speaker 3: eighty three. Last season was one twenty seven, so we're
Speaker 3: not that far.
Speaker 5: I mean, And they stack up like when you go
Speaker 5: through them, it's like five five this game ye to
Speaker 5: this game eight?
Speaker 4: What in the world.
Speaker 5: And it's like some games they'll have. They've had a
Speaker 5: couple of spans of games where it's like okay, okay,
Speaker 5: and then it's just like a boom like today, like Thursday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like they feel like they need to make up.
Speaker 3: They're like, oh damn, we had three last week.
Speaker 4: You know what.
Speaker 6: You know what, I love me a good punt. And
Speaker 6: y'all know this. And I used to have heard this before, Haley,
Speaker 6: I haven't told you this.
Speaker 7: I was talking to you a football genius a couple
Speaker 7: of weeks ago about my my my knack for keeping
Speaker 7: track of penalties on the podcast, and uh, you know,
Speaker 7: he said, it's like mustard on the lettuce, So lettuce
Speaker 7: is green. You have mustard that goes on the lettuce
Speaker 7: quit well, and it was.
Speaker 3: It was more can we do we have a sound?
Speaker 7: It worked out better because it was the Vikings game
Speaker 7: with a forty burger, so that's why it kind of
Speaker 7: tied together for a burger and mustard and lettuce. But
Speaker 7: this week you could also keep it food related for Thanksgiving.
Speaker 6: However, no sound.
Speaker 7: But what I was going to say, see, I think
Speaker 7: she with me on that one.
Speaker 6: She did it, Jesse jesz No.
Speaker 7: So what I was gonna say, though, is you were
Speaker 7: talking about the total count, and of course Chris sent
Speaker 7: me this incredible website. Thank you Chris, our other producer,
Speaker 7: for sending me this golden this golden ticket of all things. Penalties,
Speaker 7: but eighty three penalties so far this season for six
Speaker 7: hundred and twenty six yards. That is the problem. So
Speaker 7: we always joke and the running joke is I talk
Speaker 7: about penalties, but when yours, when you have eighty three
Speaker 7: penalties that have cost you six hundred and twenty six
Speaker 7: yards this season, that's a huge issue because to me,
Speaker 7: you know, my biggest problem with the amount of penalties
Speaker 7: against the Giants is yes, it's the Giants. You can
Speaker 7: get away with thirteen penalties and obviously still pull out
Speaker 7: a win. When you're talking later on down the road,
Speaker 7: when you're talking you know, potential playoff games and things
Speaker 7: like that. That essentially is what cost the Cowboys a
Speaker 7: playoff win against the forty nine ers.
Speaker 6: Last season when you look at that.
Speaker 7: So my thing is you're already stacking up that yardage,
Speaker 7: the penalties, the accounts of everything. I don't want it
Speaker 7: to come back around and be a full circle moment
Speaker 7: that we do not want to see that cost them
Speaker 7: a bigger game down the road. That's that's my biggest
Speaker 7: issue with this.
Speaker 3: I agree, and like I said, I know we pick
Speaker 3: fun at Jess about it, but it is a serious conversation.
Speaker 4: We pick fun just because we she says.
Speaker 6: The word penalties because they love me, but it is true.
Speaker 9: Now.
Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy did speak about it yesterday, particularly when it
Speaker 3: came to the pre snap penalties. I think that's what
Speaker 3: he kind of was alluding to, and he said, yeah,
Speaker 3: we have a lot of pre snap penalties because we're
Speaker 3: trying to be aggressive. We're trying to get the guys
Speaker 3: to all be on the same page. When it comes
Speaker 3: to Dak's new cadence. We're trying to make sure that
Speaker 3: we're being aggressive. That's kind of been the running theme
Speaker 3: for this offense is aggressive. I think Kellen Moore talked
Speaker 3: about that yesterday too, but wouldn't I guess My question is,
Speaker 3: and I shall go to you for this, how much
Speaker 3: is too much when it comes to that aggressiveness?
Speaker 4: What's risk reward of?
Speaker 3: You know, we're gonna we're gonna have these prison penalties.
Speaker 3: But I'm okay with it because.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think I think that's what they're They're trying
Speaker 5: to find the balance right now. What's not helping is
Speaker 5: the turnovers too.
Speaker 6: Yea is it's one of those things, well.
Speaker 5: Maybe you can overcome the turnover, but then to have
Speaker 5: the turnover and the penalty or the penalty that causes
Speaker 5: the turnover and then the turnover and they score points
Speaker 5: off of it. Because if you look back at even
Speaker 5: the Green Bay game and some of the Giants game,
Speaker 5: like they scored because of the penalties. And so the
Speaker 5: Cowboys have had this problem for a while just getting
Speaker 5: out of their own way and being able to to,
Speaker 5: you know, make something happen after they've gotten behind the sticks.
Speaker 5: They struggle when they're behind the sticks. Now, granted, dak
Speaker 5: is made up for some of that stuff because you're
Speaker 5: in third and long cis game and stuff because of
Speaker 5: the penalties, and he was able to do that, but again,
Speaker 5: depending on that and that aggressiveness puts you in situations
Speaker 5: where you could have turnovers.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 5: So right now, I feel like they're just trying to
Speaker 5: find the balance and it's a difficult place to be
Speaker 5: in to be, like, I want to be aggressive, but
Speaker 5: there's bad that comes out of it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And I'm just going down this list of players
Speaker 7: within the Cowboys team that has the most penalties, Tyler
Speaker 7: Smith having the most so far this season with eight.
Speaker 7: He has six offensive holding penalties and four fall start penalties.
Speaker 7: That is, to me, on the job training. And I'm
Speaker 7: not making excuses for him, but we hear that a
Speaker 7: lot when it comes to this coaching staff is talking
Speaker 7: about the on the job training. I think Tyler Smith
Speaker 7: has held up his own very well this season, so
Speaker 7: you know, to me, Okay, we're going to see that,
Speaker 7: but this is the time of the season those things
Speaker 7: need to start getting a little bit more hunkered down
Speaker 7: on because.
Speaker 6: It could have cost you a game.
Speaker 7: Yeah, And I think what I really appreciated about Mike
Speaker 7: McCarthy yesterday talking about penalties was he said, we went
Speaker 7: through every single pre snap penalty that we have had
Speaker 7: this season, and we watched it over and over again.
Speaker 7: So for me, I think the biggest question is how
Speaker 7: do you coach that? How do you fix that? What's
Speaker 7: the solution? It's that it's it's that it is watching
Speaker 7: and kind of just learning the muscle memory to not
Speaker 7: make those mistakes anymore. So to me, Mike McCarthy's doing
Speaker 7: his due diligence and making sure that it's taken care of.
Speaker 6: It's just you have to execute. Yeah, a good way
Speaker 6: to put it.
Speaker 3: I am disappointed that you guys didn't bring up Zach Martin's.
Speaker 7: We did yesterday because it was blessed.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you can't pancake.
Speaker 5: I mean that's like, I know, it's one of those things.
Speaker 5: Where is that a pancake or is it a hole?
Speaker 3: Everybody in the press everybody in the press box when
Speaker 3: we saw the flag go out and we're like, oh, great,
Speaker 3: another holding penalty, but when the announcer in the press
Speaker 3: box was like holding on Zach Martin, everybody, I mean,
Speaker 3: if we all had water in our mouths.
Speaker 4: We all would have spit it out. It was nuts.
Speaker 2: Take it back.
Speaker 4: So that was interesting.
Speaker 3: So a lot to clean up for the Cowboys. When
Speaker 3: it comes to penalties, I'm sure they'll start addressing that.
Speaker 3: We'll get another chance to speak with Mike McCarthy on Wednesday.
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Speaker 13: So traffic, okay, traffic is making sure all of the
Speaker 13: sponsored elements are in the show and go where they go,
Speaker 13: like those reads that you have to read, yes, and
Speaker 13: all of the commercials. So I manage all of that
Speaker 13: for English radio, English TV digital signage here at the
Speaker 13: Star and at the stadium.
Speaker 4: What does it?
Speaker 3: And this is always a broad question, and I love
Speaker 3: it because it just leads to so many avenues. But
Speaker 3: what does an average day for Miss Nicky Harrison look like.
Speaker 13: An average day is logs, logs, because I'm creating all
Speaker 13: of the logs for our programming that's happening the very
Speaker 13: next day and for the upcoming game. So, for example,
Speaker 13: we'll have programming on all of our flagship station tomorrow,
Speaker 13: and we've got TV shows, We've got a ton you know,
Speaker 13: We've got a ton of video content that's being produced.
Speaker 13: I manage all of the podcasts that take place, yes ma'am,
Speaker 13: I don't.
Speaker 10: Oh no, yes ma'am.
Speaker 13: And then then as I'm preparing for the next day,
Speaker 13: I'm also preparing for the next game. So we've got
Speaker 13: a game on Sunday versus the Indianapolis Cults, and.
Speaker 10: We've got digital logs that have to get done. TV logs,
Speaker 10: radio logs.
Speaker 7: It's logs blogs. How did you get to be at
Speaker 7: this point in your career? Give us a little low
Speaker 7: down on, you know, what you thought maybe you would
Speaker 7: be doing, and then how this all ended up coming
Speaker 7: to light.
Speaker 13: Okay, So, as Haley said, I graduated from U and
Speaker 13: t gomean green and requirements. So you guys may not
Speaker 13: know because you you are a lot younger than me.
Speaker 13: But MTV at the time showed music videos when I
Speaker 13: was in school, and I wanted to be an MTV VJ.
Speaker 13: I guess, ma'am, I.
Speaker 4: Could see that every morning before school.
Speaker 13: I was planning to move to New York and take
Speaker 13: a lot of lage job.
Speaker 10: But I visited New York for the first.
Speaker 13: Time and I was like, oh no, I love the city.
Speaker 13: But I was like, I don't think I could live
Speaker 13: here like this by myself. So while I was still
Speaker 13: in school, I in turn for the Dallas Mavericks, and
Speaker 13: I mean I never had aspirations of going into sports.
Speaker 10: I never played sports.
Speaker 13: I was a band nerd I you know, took dance classes,
Speaker 13: played the piano, so sports was not on my radar
Speaker 13: at all.
Speaker 10: But once I in turned for the Maps, I loved it.
Speaker 13: And one thing I would say is you build relationships
Speaker 13: and the people that you meet help you get to
Speaker 13: the next step.
Speaker 10: And that's how I got here. Yep, yep, been here
Speaker 10: ever since. I feel that way.
Speaker 3: About Kyle because Kyle Yeoman's who does all of our podcasts.
Speaker 3: He's the same way. I give him credit for helping
Speaker 3: me be in this chair. So I love the connections there.
Speaker 12: Just to.
Speaker 5: So, do you have a read that you remember that
Speaker 5: was like memorable, that was maybe a little off the hinges,
Speaker 5: or it was something very funny that resonated with you,
Speaker 5: or it was important to you that you remember from
Speaker 5: from what I don't know, just I guess possibly just
Speaker 5: one of the reads that's come out that's maybe stuck
Speaker 5: with you like this was it? Or I had, or
Speaker 5: some type of promotion that you've done that really stuck
Speaker 5: with you.
Speaker 13: Okay, Wow, I've meant something to you. Wow, that's a
Speaker 13: that's a very good question. And you know what typically
Speaker 13: happens is I tend to think of what has happened
Speaker 13: most recently, you know what I mean. So probably one
Speaker 13: of the most recent things that I've been a part
Speaker 13: of was I got to MC for our community relations department,
Speaker 13: Emily you guys had yes for her team. I am
Speaker 13: ced a women's workshop at the at AT and T
Speaker 13: Stadium and it was just helping women who were looking
Speaker 13: for a second chance, you know, trying to get back
Speaker 13: on their feet. Yes, and anytime I get the opportunity
Speaker 13: to be around women to empower women, I'm off for it.
Speaker 10: Sign me up, Sign me up.
Speaker 13: Twice, you know, And so that happened about a month
Speaker 13: ago and it was great. You know, you walk away
Speaker 13: like I did some good today.
Speaker 5: I love that.
Speaker 4: Going off of that, Thank you, Jazzy.
Speaker 3: Going off of that, while I was reading through your bio,
Speaker 3: one of the things that resonated with me really well
Speaker 3: is your passion for storytelling. That's the reason why I
Speaker 3: got into this business, and it's the premise of what
Speaker 3: I do in our pregame show every week is just
Speaker 3: reminding these people that like the Cowboys players who you
Speaker 3: root for and sometimes boo, they also have families. And
Speaker 3: you know what I mean, absolutely, where does that connection
Speaker 3: come from you? What drives you to be a storyteller
Speaker 3: and to share those type of messages and stories.
Speaker 13: Well, because that is an excellent question, because I love
Speaker 13: seeing the human side. You know, sometimes we forget that,
Speaker 13: Like what you just said, they have a family, they
Speaker 13: are human beings, and what we're doing is we're critiquing
Speaker 13: what they do and as humans.
Speaker 10: Exactly so they make mistakes, we make mistakes, you know.
Speaker 13: But yes, I just love seeing the human side. And
Speaker 13: I feel like when you can tell a story start,
Speaker 13: middle and end, that just just wraps it up in
Speaker 13: a way that just so feel good.
Speaker 10: I don't know, it's my favorite part.
Speaker 5: It's actually one of my favorite parts about when I
Speaker 5: and the Cowboys draft a player and I start going
Speaker 5: into looking in depth with them. I start with what
Speaker 5: are you know? What's their rapport? What do people say
Speaker 5: about them? Their high school coaches? And then also you
Speaker 5: know their family life, because I think so much of
Speaker 5: that plays into what they become as a player and
Speaker 5: what they put in and the time they put in
Speaker 5: their story.
Speaker 7: So one d agree, I whole hardly agree, Nikki. So,
Speaker 7: as you know on this podcast, these are all about
Speaker 7: women empowerment and making sure that the next generation of
Speaker 7: women know that although this is a male dominated industry,
Speaker 7: we're changing that and we're changing that drive. What is
Speaker 7: your advice to any of those little girls who maybe
Speaker 7: not that don't think that your your avenue is possible
Speaker 7: for them.
Speaker 6: What would you tell them?
Speaker 10: Oh?
Speaker 13: I love that, I would tell them to Number one,
Speaker 13: don't be afraid to dream big. Whatever it is you
Speaker 13: want to do, you can do it, and don't let
Speaker 13: anybody tell you that you can't. You can only be
Speaker 13: the person that can tell you that you can't. And
Speaker 13: what I said earlier is building those relationships. They are
Speaker 13: so important because you never know who you're talking to
Speaker 13: could be the person that takes you to that next level,
Speaker 13: catapults you to that next level.
Speaker 6: So yeah, I love that catapult to the level. Oh
Speaker 6: I love that.
Speaker 4: I did you So you're an Ohio native? Is that correct?
Speaker 10: Akron?
Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am Akron Ohio Lebron Jay, Yes, yes, Lebron fans
Speaker 3: all the way perfect.
Speaker 4: What was the.
Speaker 3: Path from Ohio to North Texas? And then you know,
Speaker 3: obviously you know you're here with the cowboys, but what
Speaker 3: brought you to Texas?
Speaker 10: Really simple? My parents?
Speaker 13: Yes, So Akron is like Detroit, like Toledo. It's an
Speaker 13: old town and when industry moved out, parents had to
Speaker 13: figure things out and my father went back to school.
Speaker 13: And at the time, Texas, especially North Texas, was booming
Speaker 13: with jobs and we moved down.
Speaker 10: My mom's a teacher, so she could she could have
Speaker 10: worked anywhere.
Speaker 13: What did she teach, Well, she's retired now, but she
Speaker 13: taught elementary. She taught every grade except kindergarten. Y, my
Speaker 13: mom is a teacher right now.
Speaker 3: Anytime I get a chance to talk to anybody about teachers,
Speaker 3: Millie Cooker told me his mom was also a teacher yesterday.
Speaker 13: We have so much in common, I know, great go teachers,
Speaker 13: go lebron all the thing.
Speaker 4: What would you say? Two part question here?
Speaker 8: Yes, ma'am.
Speaker 3: What is the most challenging part of your job? What
Speaker 3: is the most rewarding part of your job?
Speaker 13: Ooh, ooh, gosh, you guys come with the question, Okay.
Speaker 13: I would say the most challenging part of my job is.
Speaker 10: Not being able to control things.
Speaker 13: I like to control things sometimes and when I'm waiting
Speaker 13: on things from other people, that kind of But I've
Speaker 13: been doing it long enough to where I don't even
Speaker 13: like let it affect me like it used to. The
Speaker 13: greatest thing about my job is, seriously, honestly, the people
Speaker 13: I work with. I mean, it's a gift to be
Speaker 13: able to work with you ladies, to be able to
Speaker 13: work with people upstairs, the people down.
Speaker 10: Here, I mean, And it should be.
Speaker 13: You go to work with people, you spend your time
Speaker 13: with them more than you spend with your own family.
Speaker 13: You should enjoy it, you know. So that that's the
Speaker 13: greatest part of my job.
Speaker 3: And you have the added benefits sometimes where your husband
Speaker 3: comes in and sits in a chair that you're sitting in.
Speaker 4: Well, what's it like getting to work with Heckma?
Speaker 3: I mean, obviously you don't work directly with him, but
Speaker 3: for both of you guys to be in the building
Speaker 3: often and seeing each other in the hallways, that kind
Speaker 3: of thing, you like, back up all the breaking news.
Speaker 5: Breaking news, Yeah, your Todd's I didn't know that this
Speaker 5: whole time. Yes, all right, well I'm sorry I was.
Speaker 13: So it's at first, it was I have to say
Speaker 13: it was weird, you know, it really was. It was
Speaker 13: you know, how you feel like you have your space
Speaker 13: and I felt like this was my space. But it's
Speaker 13: it's it's it's really really great, and it's great to
Speaker 13: see him do something that he absolutely loves and it
Speaker 13: comes so easily. I mean he talked football in his sleep,
Speaker 13: you know. So it's it's really great.
Speaker 6: We love a good power couple on the podcast. You know, Nikki,
Speaker 6: what is something that.
Speaker 7: You hope to do in in uh, you know, down
Speaker 7: the road for your career? What is a goal you
Speaker 7: have for yourself personally and maybe professionally.
Speaker 13: Oh wow, that's so good. Okay, So I was recently promoted.
Speaker 13: So my role rottened I'll be honest with you. I
Speaker 13: was at a point like this summer. I was in
Speaker 13: a point not this summer, last summer. I was at
Speaker 13: a point where I was like, Okay, is this it
Speaker 13: or do we try to go for something further? And
Speaker 13: when it was presented to me, I was like, wow,
Speaker 13: that was the first time I ever really considered the
Speaker 13: fact that it could be bigger.
Speaker 10: And now I'm thinking it could be bigger than what
Speaker 10: this is.
Speaker 13: So so this guy is the limit. You know. I'm
Speaker 13: just going to continue to learn and grow and get
Speaker 13: better and who knows.
Speaker 6: We are here for involvement.
Speaker 4: Yes, last question.
Speaker 3: Yes, we were talking before about what we did for Thanksgiving,
Speaker 3: specifically what you did for things, and you brought up camping.
Speaker 4: I think the general do you camp?
Speaker 6: I've never camped ever, you can.
Speaker 3: I don't like camping, so give us the Harrison Rundown
Speaker 3: camping on thanksgifts.
Speaker 13: So we've been doing it now for about six years now.
Speaker 13: They make fun of me because I say camping, but
Speaker 13: they say it's glamping because we're in the cabin.
Speaker 10: We got TVs, we got Wi Fi. You know what
Speaker 10: I'm saying. We're not rough. I've roughed it. I've done it.
Speaker 13: I've done the ten, I've done the camper, and I'm like,
Speaker 13: I don't need to do that. I've done the bathroom
Speaker 13: down the way, I don't need to do that.
Speaker 6: Away, Yeah, I lay the way.
Speaker 10: I'm like, we're camping, We're in the forest, so yeah, you're.
Speaker 6: Your nature somehow.
Speaker 4: Yes, it counts. I love that.
Speaker 3: Nicky Harrison, director of Programming in Traffic, I love having this.
Speaker 4: Opportunity on Tuesdays to get to know.
Speaker 3: We've met so many incredible, strong, powerful women who have
Speaker 3: all made such an impact on this almost said this program,
Speaker 3: but this franchise.
Speaker 4: And you are no different. Thank you, Thank you Tuesday.
Speaker 10: Thank you for having me.
Speaker 13: Well, I just have to say, because I watch all
Speaker 13: of the podcasts, you ladies are fabulous. You do an
Speaker 13: excellent job, Jazzy Jazz in the back working. I'm so
Speaker 13: proud and it's really really excellent. So keep up the
Speaker 13: good work.
Speaker 3: Thank you, Thank you, Nikki Harrison. Everybody. We are going
Speaker 3: to take our second and final break here on Girls Talk,
Speaker 3: Boys Talk. When we come back, we're gonna get a
Speaker 3: little bit into the colts and we're going to talk
Speaker 3: about some breaking news from the Dallas Cowboys.
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Speaker 4: Well, the Cowboys made a deal today. Although I wouldn't
Speaker 4: call it a deal, was.
Speaker 3: Done deal now, I just know you did not boom
Speaker 3: me after we talked about mustard on the lettuce.
Speaker 6: I love it.
Speaker 7: No, I'm so proud of the puns that we've been
Speaker 7: adding in here.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 6: I love a good pun.
Speaker 2: I love the capable of saying the puns.
Speaker 6: That was beautiful, that was beautifully executed.
Speaker 2: I love that.
Speaker 3: The point is, the Dallas Cowboys have waived defensive end
Speaker 3: Terrell Basham, the former third rounder.
Speaker 4: He was drafted to the Colts back in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 3: He played minimal snaps this season, but he never quite
Speaker 3: found his footing after getting an injury in that first
Speaker 3: game against Tampa Bay.
Speaker 4: So we're not really.
Speaker 3: Surprised, I don't think in the wave, Am I right
Speaker 3: in saying that, No, it's surprised, I'm not.
Speaker 5: I guess I'm not surprised, but I'm still a little
Speaker 5: like it just it kind of wasn't for me.
Speaker 4: It was unexpected.
Speaker 5: Maybe I didn't expect to see his name because Darrell
Speaker 5: Basham is a player like he's he's he's a blow
Speaker 5: I mean above average player, absolutely a d N, so
Speaker 5: I actually expect for someone to probably pick him up.
Speaker 5: So I just it just shows the depth that you
Speaker 5: have on this defensive line, especially a d N. And
Speaker 5: then you brought in Tac McKinley. Maybe there's something there
Speaker 5: they saw from him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I just think it the move for me, that
Speaker 3: is such a hard position room to be in because
Speaker 3: there's so many weapons, you know what I mean, there's
Speaker 3: so many weapons and there's so many impactful humans. So
Speaker 3: I kind of feel as if he got the short
Speaker 3: end of the stick only because of the circumstances he
Speaker 3: was dealt this season, jury.
Speaker 2: Not being able to be on the field.
Speaker 4: Behind you, and you.
Speaker 7: Also have Dante Feller and Sam Williams who have been
Speaker 7: really sipping up. And you know, it's just interesting because
Speaker 7: yesterday during Mike McCarthy's press conference, he was asked, you know,
Speaker 7: is anybody's twenty one practice day window about to be activated?
Speaker 6: She didn't really give an answer.
Speaker 4: He told us he would let us know tomorrow.
Speaker 7: Right, didn't really say yes or no yet. However, not
Speaker 7: surprised to see a move being made this week with
Speaker 7: the talks of moving people up maybe out of IR
Speaker 7: I just.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we wish him well. We wish him well.
Speaker 4: So that leads me to my next question.
Speaker 3: Realistically, and I emphasize that word realistically because we all
Speaker 3: have our hopes and dreams of what we would like
Speaker 3: to see on this roster. But realistically, when we wave
Speaker 3: to rel basham, what does that clear the way for
Speaker 3: in terms of a roster spot?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 7: Man, well, it depends which way are we taking this.
Speaker 5: I have no idea of it, because I truly I
Speaker 5: heard Brian brad Is talking about the time in which
Speaker 5: they're looking to elevate Tyrant, which doesn't seem like a
Speaker 5: this week thing. So then it's like, well, what what?
Speaker 4: What else could possibly be?
Speaker 6: You could also tell.
Speaker 4: A reason why they would be doing this today. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not gonna say.
Speaker 7: Also, look, I I'm not gonna say the obvious thing
Speaker 7: that's coming to everybody's mind here, But you also have
Speaker 7: names like James Washington.
Speaker 6: You also you know.
Speaker 7: There's there's other things here. People don't jump to conclusions,
Speaker 7: but it's an interesting, I will say, interesting series of
Speaker 7: events with the timing that is, I'm.
Speaker 4: Gonna say it. I think it has something to do
Speaker 4: with Odeoba.
Speaker 6: There I go Haley.
Speaker 3: You could say I teach you ladies up to be
Speaker 3: in a small live you could say it. You didn't
Speaker 3: want it.
Speaker 6: I didn't want that.
Speaker 3: So and I think it's interesting too because you know,
Speaker 3: yesterday Stephen Jones was like very ominous and not talking
Speaker 3: about the situation. Jerry came on the radio today ton
Speaker 3: all about it. Five questions he was asked about the
Speaker 3: Odell Beckham Junior. The first was did the incident in
Speaker 3: Miami have any impact?
Speaker 4: Not really.
Speaker 3: I think that's kind of been, you know, the norm,
Speaker 3: especially even Mike McCarthy talked about that earlier. He just
Speaker 3: talked about, you know, his overall compatibility with the team
Speaker 3: would be very good. The biggest thing to me is
Speaker 3: that he's coming for a visit. And I think what
Speaker 3: stands out to me about the Odell Beckham thing before
Speaker 3: we kind of transition into a quick chat about the Colts,
Speaker 3: but he's coming here last, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: Like he's got Giants bills and.
Speaker 6: Then Cowboys, save the best for last.
Speaker 4: Save the best for last.
Speaker 2: The building to me, I just I just walked it down.
Speaker 7: Not in a bad way, I know, Oh my goodness,
Speaker 7: it's kind of scared don't let him go nobody building.
Speaker 3: If oh, no, Beckham, you find him tied up somewhere,
Speaker 3: you know. But I just think, you know, all of
Speaker 3: the stars kind of feel like they're the stars are Aligningell.
Speaker 3: Just something to keep an eye out for. And we'll
Speaker 3: hear from Mike McCarthy one more time tomorrow. Someone is
Speaker 3: going to ask him about it, so we'll have a
Speaker 3: little bit more clarity on that. But before we go,
Speaker 3: I want to quickly talk about the Colts, as we
Speaker 3: always do on Wednesdays. We'll dive even more into that
Speaker 3: matchup and what challenges they present, but just off the top,
Speaker 3: something that has stood.
Speaker 4: Out to me.
Speaker 3: A few weeks ago, we were talking about how scary
Speaker 3: the back half of the season was for the Cowboys,
Speaker 3: specifically when it came to stopping the run, because the
Speaker 3: last five or so games of the season, every single
Speaker 3: one of those teams had running backs that were a threat.
Speaker 3: It started with Dalvin Cook, last week with Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 4: This week will be why am I blanking on his name?
Speaker 3: Jonathan Taylor? Yeah, I was gonna say Jonathan Jenkins. I
Speaker 3: don't even know who that is, not a real person.
Speaker 3: But what's interesting to me is they've sort of met
Speaker 3: those expectations. And I know the conversation initially was, well,
Speaker 3: when it came to the Vikings game, it was, well,
Speaker 3: did they really fix the defense? They just got out
Speaker 3: to a big lead, and then you know, we're able
Speaker 3: to you know, punch the gas ever since, and then
Speaker 3: all of a sudden last week they're holding Saquon Barkley
Speaker 3: to thirty.
Speaker 4: Nine yards on eleven attempts.
Speaker 3: So when I look at this, and I asked really
Speaker 3: Cooker about this yesterday just for more clarity.
Speaker 4: You know, was the Green Bay game a fluke? Was it?
Speaker 9: You know?
Speaker 4: What was it?
Speaker 3: How did you guys adjust that? And he's kind of
Speaker 3: set at point blank. We've just been doing our assignments.
Speaker 10: There you go.
Speaker 3: And something to me that I thought was so interesting
Speaker 3: that he added to that as well, when it comes
Speaker 3: to why run defense is really simple when you look
Speaker 3: at it, he said, if everybody does their job, the
Speaker 3: run doesn't get through. But when just one person messes
Speaker 3: up their assignment, it shifts everybody out of whack. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And he said, up until recently that's been the issue.
Speaker 3: It's been one person or two person and not like
Speaker 3: the same person. He wasn't you know, pointing fingers or whatever.
Speaker 3: But it's been one person, two people not hitting that
Speaker 3: assignment and not getting to their gap, not properly setting
Speaker 3: that edge, and as a result, now the run's getting through.
Speaker 3: So my question as we wrap this up, when you
Speaker 3: look at Jonathan Taylor, He's got nearly three thousand yards
Speaker 3: of the last two season. He was really impressive last year.
Speaker 3: This year, the Colts have kind of been a hodgepodge
Speaker 3: of things. Last night he had twenty carries for eighty
Speaker 3: six yards. He did have a touchdown, but he's only
Speaker 3: got four touchdowns.
Speaker 4: I believe this season.
Speaker 3: Is this another game where we can see the run
Speaker 3: defense evolve another level? Do we see them thrive a
Speaker 3: little bit? Do we think Jonathan Taylor is a struggle?
Speaker 3: Just your initial thoughts on that, and like I said,
Speaker 3: we'll dive into this more.
Speaker 5: Tomorrow's gonna He's gonna. He's a guy that can run
Speaker 5: at you, run at you fast. He has cutting ability,
Speaker 5: he has a breakaway speed. Jonathan Taylor can definitely bruise
Speaker 5: up your defense. But with what's happening with the Colts
Speaker 5: offensive line, it's very odd because I wholeheartedly remember them
Speaker 5: being one of the better offensive lines, but they are
Speaker 5: really struggling to.
Speaker 4: Get pushed up front.
Speaker 5: So if your DB's come in play like they did
Speaker 5: last week and tackle the edges, if your linebackers continue
Speaker 5: to play forward and also to the DT's that felt
Speaker 5: like played pretty well in this this past game against
Speaker 5: the Giants, I think that they can definitely hold him
Speaker 5: in check.
Speaker 4: Also, they're going to be looking to lean.
Speaker 5: On the run a lot with what they have going
Speaker 5: on at quarterback right now, and they're almost one dimensional
Speaker 5: coming into this game. So I would definitely see the
Speaker 5: Cowboys defense hopefully have some success against them.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think containing the edges is key here and
Speaker 7: for the for the run defense. But also when you're
Speaker 7: looking at the Colts offense as a whole, what is
Speaker 7: their identity right now?
Speaker 6: They don't have one. Just Saturday there you go, well
Speaker 6: boo no.
Speaker 7: But what I'm saying is you have the Cowboys defense
Speaker 7: has a very big opportunity to really really amplify and
Speaker 7: take themselves to the next level, not necessarily because of
Speaker 7: what the Colts have or don't have, but because they
Speaker 7: have another shot at getting the on the job practice
Speaker 7: preparing them for later on you know when the Eagles
Speaker 7: game does roll around here in the next few weeks.
Speaker 7: But something else I did want to mention was Jolannie
Speaker 7: Woods tight end for the Colts going to be something
Speaker 7: else I do want to deep dive into tomorrow to
Speaker 7: talk about because, as my co host Brandon on the
Speaker 7: Writer's Block said, he is like a human giraffe.
Speaker 5: He was my guy and he's he was a guy
Speaker 5: in the draft. And so Jay ron Kurs coming back,
Speaker 5: if he's going to play this week with that separators shoulder,
Speaker 5: that is definitely a well shoulder injury or whatever you
Speaker 5: have going on, is a matchup to be looking for
Speaker 5: because Silani's a big guy.
Speaker 7: Yeah, So well, I'll dive deep into that tomorrow. But
Speaker 7: just a little little teaser there for us to come.
Speaker 7: Girls talk, boys talk.
Speaker 4: I love that.
Speaker 3: Something else I want to talk to I want us
Speaker 3: to talk about tomorrow December football. We've talked a lot
Speaker 3: about September football, but December football.
Speaker 4: That's a really good tease, ladies.
Speaker 3: This has been such an insightful, such a good conversation.
Speaker 3: I love sitting here with you, ladies and just talking football,
Speaker 3: talking personnel, talking OBJ all the good stuff. That'll do
Speaker 3: it for us here on Girls Talkboys Talk. But we
Speaker 3: will see you tomorrow. I'll be sure to tune in.
Speaker 3: We got a lot to dive into with this matchup
Speaker 3: against the Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 4: We'll see then.
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