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Speaker 6: John, it was good seeing you in the press box
Speaker 6: the other day.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was good seeing you guys too.
Speaker 7: Man, I'm glad you're Detroit.
Speaker 2: Tigerself got to tweet out the viral video of the
Speaker 2: Texas Rangers.
Speaker 6: In the building the other day. I looked on like
Speaker 6: Rangers Nation, which is a great blogging website, and they
Speaker 6: just like had John's tweet in the video up, and
Speaker 6: I was like, I'm jealous. I was like, I'm a
Speaker 6: little bit jealous Rangers fan myself.
Speaker 9: So they started playing a Creed song, so I was like, yeah,
Speaker 9: there got it, showing somebody. So I had my phone
Speaker 9: ready when they did it because I figured there were
Speaker 9: some players.
Speaker 8: At the game. I heard Adolis was going to be there,
Speaker 8: but I didn't know who they're gonna have.
Speaker 9: But when they started playing the I can't think of
Speaker 9: the name of this sigh.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you can see.
Speaker 7: That was it? You gotta pay for the rest?
Speaker 6: That was? What was that?
Speaker 10: Yeah?
Speaker 8: What was that before?
Speaker 9: When like back in the day when you could get
Speaker 9: up was it Apple like yeah, where you could like
Speaker 9: you want to get a song for Yeah, it was
Speaker 9: on iTunes.
Speaker 2: You would just kick it and they would just play
Speaker 2: for like a second.
Speaker 6: And once that little wheel was up, it was done.
Speaker 8: How much was it for the full song?
Speaker 2: It was like it started off as like ninety nine
Speaker 2: cents might have been earlier than that.
Speaker 6: It might have been like sixty or and like when.
Speaker 7: iPods popped up like that was like groundbreaking.
Speaker 8: I'll give you ninety nine cents right now to finish
Speaker 8: that song.
Speaker 2: For you, I'll double it. Were you an iPod guy?
Speaker 2: You're so against like I was, yes.
Speaker 11: No, no, I was team Apple up until they went
Speaker 11: to the big screen, till they did you want till
Speaker 11: they went to the the six plus.
Speaker 7: They had a delay.
Speaker 11: They had a delay, they were backed up, They did
Speaker 11: not get out their their product and time, and I
Speaker 11: was like, man, screw this, man, I just want to
Speaker 11: see what else is out there.
Speaker 7: And that's when I saw that.
Speaker 2: That's when I saw the light light.
Speaker 6: Your green text messages say otherwise.
Speaker 2: Green races text me message just different.
Speaker 7: Nick.
Speaker 6: Let's let's hit some news and notes.
Speaker 2: We got to hear from a couple guys yesterday after
Speaker 2: the win forty nine to seventeen. And then after some
Speaker 2: news and notes, I want to get Actually, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: flip this, John. I want to hear your thoughts. First
Speaker 2: on the win. We haven't heard about it yet. What
Speaker 2: were your thoughts on how Dallas took care of business
Speaker 2: on Sunday?
Speaker 9: Very impressed that they were able to be so dominant
Speaker 9: in a game where it had trap game type feel
Speaker 9: written all over it, just because of what the Giants
Speaker 9: have done. Who they're starting at quarterback, and they completely
Speaker 9: took care of business in a way that you know,
Speaker 9: you see on social media people kind of try and
Speaker 9: act like it's not a big deal or whatever. I'm
Speaker 9: just wondering why all these other teams don't do that too.
Speaker 9: I mean, why aren't the Chiefs blown everybody out like that?
Speaker 9: Why aren't the Eagles blowing out everybody like that? So
Speaker 9: there's something to be said for that.
Speaker 12: Now.
Speaker 9: That doesn't do anything to erace like the way I
Speaker 9: feel about them having to play the Eagles again, or
Speaker 9: if they when they play the Niners in the playoffs,
Speaker 9: if that's in fact what ends up happening, those will
Speaker 9: be much different games, obviously.
Speaker 8: But it is a positive to.
Speaker 9: See that Dak Prescott continuing on the tear that he's
Speaker 9: been on these last four games. Ceedee lamb just playing
Speaker 9: out of this world. And then I just really felt
Speaker 9: like the coaching staff and the whole crew went OUI
Speaker 9: the way to get Brandon Cooks involved just so that
Speaker 9: someone might have to pay off a bet, so all
Speaker 9: of it, like, I don't know, just like the way
Speaker 9: it went. Like how often in sports, whatever sport you
Speaker 9: want to pick, do games go exactly how you think
Speaker 9: they're going to go. So rarely that's you know, that's
Speaker 9: why you know, spreads and lines and things like that
Speaker 9: are made because it is so difficult to predict what's
Speaker 9: going to happen. And there were so many things about
Speaker 9: that game. I mean, even on they said about Mazie
Speaker 9: Smith stepping up.
Speaker 8: Sam Williams.
Speaker 9: We had talked about that last week on the show,
Speaker 9: things that we wanted to see from some other guys
Speaker 9: on defense. So I mean, it just checked all the boxes.
Speaker 9: And probably the biggest thing outside of getting a win
Speaker 9: was the fact that it seems like they got through
Speaker 9: the game pretty healthy in terms of all the guys
Speaker 9: on the actor rest. I know, you can probably in
Speaker 9: your news and notes, we'll mention somebody else, but for
Speaker 9: the most part, yeah, they're a healthy team.
Speaker 2: I think that's the overarching thought process, at least from
Speaker 2: those who have have covered or been around this team
Speaker 2: or followed this team for a long period of time
Speaker 2: is wow.
Speaker 6: They played really well. They checked all the boxes.
Speaker 2: They got some guys involved that they hadn't necessarily gotten
Speaker 2: involved previously. But let's see it against Philadelphia. Let's see
Speaker 2: it against San Francisco. I feel like my inbox was
Speaker 2: there yesterday. We put out a ten big facts, which
Speaker 2: I mean it was just a record breaking game from
Speaker 2: a statistical category that I put out a big facts
Speaker 2: this morning with Nick Eatman, and I tweeted it out
Speaker 2: and a lot of them are like, let's see it
Speaker 2: against the Eagles.
Speaker 6: Let's see it against them forty nine ers. I agree.
Speaker 6: I totally agree. Well, but they took care of business
Speaker 6: the way that they should.
Speaker 9: Have, and I do believe that you will see it
Speaker 9: against the Eagles in that building.
Speaker 8: But that's the key there. That's why you have to
Speaker 8: beat the Eagles.
Speaker 9: That's why you have to win this division, because the
Speaker 9: home field matters more for the Dallas Cowboys than any
Speaker 9: other times since they've been in that stadium. They've never
Speaker 9: played as well as they have twelve in a row.
Speaker 9: To win at home like that, I don't care who
Speaker 9: you're beating. Give me the twelve worst teams in the
Speaker 9: NFL against whoever you think is the best. To win
Speaker 9: twelve in a row at home in a place that
Speaker 9: if you were breaking down the best home field advantages
Speaker 9: in NFL sports whatever, at and T Stadium would never
Speaker 9: be one of the top names mentioned. And for them
Speaker 9: to roll that off, I think the other teams, who
Speaker 9: were they? They mentioned after it was like the Packers
Speaker 9: have done it. Yeah, I think twice once with McCarthy
Speaker 9: and the Seahawks. You think it like Green Bay and
Speaker 9: obviously you think of Seattle like those are the ones
Speaker 9: that everybody always talks about. Oh yeah, it's a tough environment,
Speaker 9: you know, especially Green Bay. I think is the elements
Speaker 9: a little bit more. I mean it's loud, but Seattle's
Speaker 9: obviously how loud it gets, and the crowds on top
Speaker 9: of you, and just that stadium is just so loud
Speaker 9: and rock and for them to do that at home,
Speaker 9: it just it means so much for them to win
Speaker 9: this division so that they can play home playoff games.
Speaker 2: I also saw this from Bobby Belt speaking on the
Speaker 2: home field advantage. He put out a tweet. This was
Speaker 2: after the game on Sunday, twelfth time in the last
Speaker 2: twenty four home games where Dak Prescott has started and put.
Speaker 6: Up at least forty points on the board. That's half
Speaker 6: the time. So not only are they winning these.
Speaker 2: Home games, so they are destroying teams at home.
Speaker 6: And that's just kind of been the mo for this team,
Speaker 6: and they want to.
Speaker 2: Protect home field. Mike McCarthy's talked about it. He's kind
Speaker 2: of kept that up at the priority list, and they've
Speaker 2: taken care of business. But they did so deserve credit
Speaker 2: for that.
Speaker 7: Yes he does. I mean, yes he does.
Speaker 9: Obviously he did it in Green Bay and now he's
Speaker 9: doing it again here in a place that, like I said,
Speaker 9: I wouldn't have expected him to do that. So I
Speaker 9: think he's number one on the list of people that
Speaker 9: deserve credit for this run that they've been on at home.
Speaker 13: I post this question yesterday, John, I'm curious to get
Speaker 13: your thoughts. What would you rank this offense as far
Speaker 13: as confidence?
Speaker 7: What it's it?
Speaker 6: What is your confidence level?
Speaker 8: Ten? Being the most confident I've ever been in an offense.
Speaker 6: Yeah, ten, being like they're going to win the super Bowl.
Speaker 8: It's done seven, six and a half.
Speaker 9: Seven, The running game is the only reason that would
Speaker 9: keep me from an eight or nine. But the passing
Speaker 9: game I just think is building and again, like they're
Speaker 9: gonna face some good teams, you know, obviously coming up Miami, Buffalo,
Speaker 9: Philly again, I think it'll I think that they can
Speaker 9: keep that going. It's now they got to build that
Speaker 9: run game to go with it. And I do think
Speaker 9: if if Pollard and Rico stay healthy, I do think
Speaker 9: it will and then while the offensive line too. That's
Speaker 9: a lot of ifs in there, but if that can happen,
Speaker 9: then it can head in that direction.
Speaker 8: And it is.
Speaker 9: It is interesting to see because most of the time
Speaker 9: I've covered the Cowboys, it's been kind of built around
Speaker 9: the run game offensively, and now it's clearly a pass
Speaker 9: first deal with a defense that's dominant. It is very
Speaker 9: unlike most Cowboys in the past.
Speaker 13: So that's kind of like consist as we came to
Speaker 13: you yesterday about like just needing the running game to
Speaker 13: step up a little bit more. Yeah, But news and notes,
Speaker 13: We'll lead off with Layton vander Esh. Jerry Jones confirmed
Speaker 13: on the fan this morning that he is out for
Speaker 13: the season, So it's Marque's Bill. Time for the rest
Speaker 13: of the year in that second level initial reactions on that,
Speaker 13: and do you all think Layton vander Esh plays another game?
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was interesting. Yesterday we were talking to Mike McCarthy.
Speaker 2: It was just one of those things after the fact,
Speaker 2: just kind of in passing, Hey, what's is Layton close?
Speaker 6: He's like, no, No, not close. Do you think December?
Speaker 6: He's like, no, probably not December.
Speaker 2: And now that this news broke this morning, it's not surprising.
Speaker 2: It was just kind of that feel. I had the
Speaker 2: feel to it that it was it was gonna it
Speaker 2: was gonna end up like that for Layton vander Esh,
Speaker 2: and it does. It's it's awful to be out for
Speaker 2: the year like that, and for somebody who has been
Speaker 2: healthy the last two campaigns after dealing with a string
Speaker 2: of injuries, got.
Speaker 7: To feel for it.
Speaker 2: And it does impact your defense whether or not Marquise
Speaker 2: Bell's playing well or not. You could have both of
Speaker 2: those guys. I would have loved to have both of
Speaker 2: those guys down the stretch. But the fact that he's
Speaker 2: out for the year, man, that's that's a gut punch.
Speaker 7: That sucks for him because that very well might be
Speaker 7: it for him.
Speaker 6: It might be with it being a neck for.
Speaker 7: A second time, that might be it for him. I
Speaker 7: hate that, man, I hate that.
Speaker 8: There's a part of me that.
Speaker 9: Feels like, maybe it's a good thing not for him
Speaker 9: to play football anymore. And from a sense of while
Speaker 9: we you know, get paid to cover the team and
Speaker 9: we all obviously love football, it's not more important than
Speaker 9: life and his quality of life. Like it's one of
Speaker 9: those things where you know guys that have had like
Speaker 9: a bunch of concussions here, you're just like you you
Speaker 9: want to see them enjoy life, and it's like, you
Speaker 9: know how much they love football, but it's like there's
Speaker 9: so much more than football. That's that that there is
Speaker 9: in your life. He's a young guy, like I just
Speaker 9: would hate to see him come back and then have
Speaker 9: suffer something again like that, because he's had some of
Speaker 9: those neck issues in the past. So there's a part
Speaker 9: of you where you don't even care about the football aspect.
Speaker 9: You're just like you want to see that guy be
Speaker 9: right for the rest of his life and not have
Speaker 9: to have something that he has to deal with for
Speaker 9: the rest.
Speaker 7: Of his life.
Speaker 11: You just told me, I hate seeing guys go out
Speaker 11: on somebody else's timeline.
Speaker 7: Yeah, like that, you know what I mean?
Speaker 11: Like that, going through injuries as a part of the game, well,
Speaker 11: you know, most guys are hurt, okay, some guys deal
Speaker 11: with injury injuries meaning you know, there's a difference between being.
Speaker 7: Hurt and being injured, right, hurt.
Speaker 11: Everybody's dealing with hurt okay, and you you get scratched up,
Speaker 11: you know, you break a finger, you know whatever, those
Speaker 11: things hurt okay. Injuries are things that keep you from
Speaker 11: playing the game. And whenever guys go out of there,
Speaker 11: you know, out for the season alone, just from an
Speaker 11: injury alone, that sucks, right, But when you start talking
Speaker 11: about potentially that's the last time you touch the field,
Speaker 11: that I don't want you upon anybody, right like anybody,
Speaker 11: because in the back of your head, you you will
Speaker 11: never get over the what ifs. You'll never get over
Speaker 11: the imagery that you have of you being on that
Speaker 11: field and you not have an opportunity to take the
Speaker 11: last snap on your cord. Sometimes you see it coming
Speaker 11: that you're gonna get cut or things like that nature.
Speaker 7: But injuries, man.
Speaker 11: Like, I mean, prayers are for him, man, I just
Speaker 11: that's that sucks. That's that's really bad. I mean, that's
Speaker 11: it's really unfortunate for him. Yeah, I just I hope
Speaker 11: those guys just understand how the weight of that for him.
Speaker 13: Yeah, we could tell it it was at least kind
Speaker 13: of serious whenever it happened.
Speaker 6: It was in San Francisco, correct.
Speaker 13: Yeah, he had a family waiting outside the locker room.
Speaker 13: It was kind of emotional and it was kind of
Speaker 13: a moment before dan Quinn and Layton and his family
Speaker 13: just kind of get together, and you could tell it
Speaker 13: was something that scared everybody for sure. But we've seen
Speaker 13: him around the building, We've seen him on run trips,
Speaker 13: and you know, he looks healthy, he's walking around normally.
Speaker 13: But I think that's probably the extent of his impact
Speaker 13: for the rest of the season.
Speaker 2: Just real quickly, one more thing to add on that.
Speaker 2: I really loved what John had to say.
Speaker 6: That's that's part of the realism of football. And it's funny.
Speaker 6: While you were talking about that, I was I was
Speaker 6: thinking about, So, my mom's favorite player is Leyton vander Rush.
Speaker 7: She loves Leyton van er USh.
Speaker 6: She's got the.
Speaker 2: Jerseys, she's got the autograph. She always wants to to
Speaker 2: whenever she goes out to training camp. The one time
Speaker 2: she goes out the training camp. She's always playing for
Speaker 2: Layton vander ash There are a lot of LVE fans
Speaker 2: out there. If you haven't, if you've seen the last
Speaker 2: of the LVE on the field, that's probably a good thing.
Speaker 2: Like what John was saying, just for his health and everything. Afterwards,
Speaker 2: I loved what you had to say. I just wanted
Speaker 2: to back that up.
Speaker 13: So, Yeah, he's a good dude. He can't stand the media,
Speaker 13: but I like him.
Speaker 2: So he's never wanted to talk to us, but he's
Speaker 2: a good dude at.
Speaker 6: Who he is.
Speaker 13: Moving on, we were able to talk to dan Quinn
Speaker 13: yesterday about the frustration from Michaeh Parsons that we talked
Speaker 13: about yesterday on the show with his cryptic tweets or zets,
Speaker 13: what do they call him, mouth posts whatever. Dan Quinn said,
Speaker 13: that's any competitor, right, You always want to make an impact,
Speaker 13: and sometimes his impact is other people's chances to get
Speaker 13: things because of the attention that goes his way. Any
Speaker 13: competitor can get frustrated by that. There have been games
Speaker 13: like that and there will be more like that. I
Speaker 13: had kind of asked him about a specific play where
Speaker 13: Micah had dropped back in coverage on a jay Ron
Speaker 13: Curse blitz and how Micah cut everything off across the
Speaker 13: middle and it forced a third down stop, and he
Speaker 13: said that was a perfect example of the protection going
Speaker 13: his way, but him actually dropping back in coverage and
Speaker 13: Curse being able to blitz into the backfield from the
Speaker 13: opposite side. So it sounds like it was just kind
Speaker 13: of like the way the game plan was constructed going
Speaker 13: into Sunday. He played ten snaps in the box on Sunday,
Speaker 13: so maybe the frustration is stemming from that. But it
Speaker 13: didn't sound like there was any major concern from Dan
Speaker 13: Quinn as far as you know, boiling over or anything.
Speaker 13: And then Jerry Jones was asked about it this morning
Speaker 13: on the fan as well, and it didn't sound like
Speaker 13: there was any major concern there.
Speaker 6: But I don't know.
Speaker 13: I think for me, I think you had mentioned it yesterday.
Speaker 13: Isaiah was just like, if he has a huge game
Speaker 13: and they lose, we hear more from Micah than if
Speaker 13: he doesn't have a great game and they have a
Speaker 13: huge win. You know, it's I don't know, I feel
Speaker 13: like there should be a little bit of balance there,
Speaker 13: a little bit of balance.
Speaker 6: I tuned in he had his podcast.
Speaker 2: I don't want to say the site name because I
Speaker 2: don't know if it's technically a partner or not. But
Speaker 2: they had his podcast yesterday and whatever it's called.
Speaker 6: And I watched a little bit of it.
Speaker 2: I didn't watch the whole thing, and I didn't see
Speaker 2: anything that would stand out from him talking about it,
Speaker 2: And if he was going to address it, that was
Speaker 2: probably either that or on Thursday, whenever he talks to
Speaker 2: the media.
Speaker 6: So yeah, we'll see how he goes there.
Speaker 2: Did you have any thoughts on on Micah's reaction to
Speaker 2: the win on Sunday?
Speaker 8: Not really.
Speaker 9: He was in the locker room pretty early running off
Speaker 9: the field, but generally he's one of the last people
Speaker 9: off the field, so I thought that was kind of interesting,
Speaker 9: kind of made me think he was trying to get
Speaker 9: out there pretty quick. I think he's probably frustrated to
Speaker 9: the fact of just every game he goes into, you know,
Speaker 9: it's such the other team's game plan to throw multiple
Speaker 9: people at him, and that probably gets frustrating because he
Speaker 9: isn't maybe in the position all the time to put
Speaker 9: up the big numbers that he's capable of putting up.
Speaker 8: But if you're an opposing team, like.
Speaker 9: This is obvious, like he sent as many guys at
Speaker 9: Micah Parsons as possible, Like I mean literally, Like I
Speaker 9: feel the same way about the Cowboys offense, like send
Speaker 9: as many people at.
Speaker 8: Eighty eight as possible.
Speaker 9: Like those are like just clearly just are so important
Speaker 9: to how everything goes that you know, that's got to
Speaker 9: be the thing. I always think of Bill Belichick with that,
Speaker 9: cause it's always like he's going to find a way
Speaker 9: to take away you know, you the thing you do best. Well,
Speaker 9: if you're facing the Cowboys, I don't know how you
Speaker 9: aren't going out of your way to throw as much
Speaker 9: at eleven as possible, get him frustrated, try and take
Speaker 9: him out of the game.
Speaker 2: There's a level of respect that goes with that too, though,
Speaker 2: from a defense or excuse me, an offensive standpoint, going
Speaker 2: up against Michael Parsons, Isaiah, You've seen great players face
Speaker 2: double teams, face triple teams, and they fight through it regardless.
Speaker 6: And I'm not saying that Micah hasn't fought through it.
Speaker 2: He still gets his fill from a statistics standpoint, but
Speaker 2: like John said, it's not the gaudy numbers, the.
Speaker 6: Defensive player of the year numbers that he's been able
Speaker 6: to put up.
Speaker 11: I just think that's a part of his journey, a
Speaker 11: part of his development. He's going to have to learn
Speaker 11: that all eyes are on him at all times, whether
Speaker 11: that's the opponent, whether that's the media, whether that's his teammates.
Speaker 11: And there's a lot of responsibility that comes with being
Speaker 11: a star player. So everybody can't be the star, everybody
Speaker 11: can't wear the star. But he has to understand the
Speaker 11: weight of that responsibility and you have to hold yourself accordingly.
Speaker 7: You can't make yourself accessible.
Speaker 11: At your leisure and then not be accessible whenever things
Speaker 11: aren't necessarily going great for you or when things are
Speaker 11: going away in what you envision them. So there's gonna
Speaker 11: be times, to dan Quinn's point where guess what you are.
Speaker 7: You're the impact player.
Speaker 11: So yeah, we have to utilize you right to be
Speaker 11: the bait to draw them over here so that somebody
Speaker 11: else can go eat. And that's that's a part of
Speaker 11: team ball, right And that's not to say that he's
Speaker 11: not on board with that, but you have to he
Speaker 11: has to understand that when I have a lot of attention,
Speaker 11: and my guys eat like, that's still a win, that's
Speaker 11: still a victory, and I still have to celebrate that
Speaker 11: because even though he may have that those thoughts in
Speaker 11: his head, his actions show differently. And unfortunately, your actions
Speaker 11: speak louder than words. So your teammates are seeing how
Speaker 11: you're responding to that, and they're going to make an
Speaker 11: assumption based upon your actions. So you very well might
Speaker 11: be perfectly fine in your head and everybody's gonna look
Speaker 11: at you. Oh, he's competitor. Any competitor wants to wants
Speaker 11: to make players, or any competitor wants the ball, you know,
Speaker 11: depending on what side of the ball you're on. But
Speaker 11: at the end of the day, you can't act different
Speaker 11: whenever you're not the one making plays. Your teammates are
Speaker 11: still making plays, your team is still winning ball games,
Speaker 11: your team is still having a great impact in it
Speaker 11: and is improving week to week. You have to celebrate that.
Speaker 11: You can't isolate yourself whenever you're not the one making
Speaker 11: the place.
Speaker 9: And the other thing about that is whether you're talking
Speaker 9: about a wide receiver that's getting double teamed or an edge,
Speaker 9: your moments are gonna come like where you have to
Speaker 9: make a big time play, and being too focused on
Speaker 9: that stuff sometimes takes you out of when your is
Speaker 9: your chance to make the play, you don't make it.
Speaker 9: You see it all the time with wide receivers where
Speaker 9: they're complaining about not getting the ball and then they
Speaker 9: finally get the ball and they goes like right through
Speaker 9: their hands on a ball that they catch, you know,
Speaker 9: ten out of ten times, because it's kind of in
Speaker 9: their in their mind, and so you just want to
Speaker 9: make sure that doesn't happen. Because he's just too good
Speaker 9: of a player that you're not going to be able
Speaker 9: to shut him down an entire game. Now, his windows
Speaker 9: for making those big impact plays are going to be
Speaker 9: few and far between because of the attention, but they'll
Speaker 9: still be there, and when they are there, he absolutely
Speaker 9: has to capitalize, you know, on those plays in obviously
Speaker 9: the biggest games.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 13: The last news and note that I have after yesterday's
Speaker 13: abomination of a Monday night football game, Trayvon Diggs tweeted
Speaker 13: out man fourteen got to get up out of there.
Speaker 13: So I guess I'm posing the question, would you be
Speaker 13: welcoming Stefan Diggs on this team next season?
Speaker 6: Not this team.
Speaker 2: But we're going to ask the question, would an NFL
Speaker 2: team be interested in Stephan Diggs because he's still under
Speaker 2: contract with another.
Speaker 8: Correct, Very nicely done.
Speaker 2: Stefan Diggs is a very good player. I think any
Speaker 2: NFL team, whether it's the Cowboys or one of the
Speaker 2: thirty one other teams, would love to have Stefan Diggs
Speaker 2: as a part of their organization.
Speaker 8: No, it's okay regardless of what.
Speaker 9: Any team outside of Buffalo that wants him. I mean,
Speaker 9: he's going to command a significant salary too.
Speaker 8: That comes with it.
Speaker 9: So it also factors in what else do you have
Speaker 9: on your roster? Can you take on that type of salary?
Speaker 12: Are you?
Speaker 9: Are you already spending money at that particular position and
Speaker 9: things like that, So, I mean all teams are and
Speaker 9: consider that. But man, he wanted out of Minnesota, got
Speaker 9: out of Minnesota, got in a good spot. Now he
Speaker 9: once out of Buffalo, he'll probably get another good spot.
Speaker 2: So yeah, he's gotta he's got to find the way
Speaker 2: out of there because uh man, twelve men on the
Speaker 2: field on a missed game winning field goal attempt.
Speaker 13: Saw a tweet that said Russell Wilson and gets benefited
Speaker 13: by the twelfth Man once again or something like that.
Speaker 2: Oh that Seattle references.
Speaker 6: We love that, don't we.
Speaker 13: A couple of weeks, don't don't see that throw Russell
Speaker 13: Wilson made to courtlandt throw.
Speaker 6: In the catch wild. The Bills, by the way, have
Speaker 6: kind of a get right game.
Speaker 2: Next week against New York they play the Jets, and
Speaker 2: then the week after that they faced Philadelphia, then.
Speaker 6: A bye week, then Kansas City, then Dallas.
Speaker 13: I'm not sure if that's a get get right game.
Speaker 13: They lost to the Jets, didn't they lose to the
Speaker 13: Jets re los in season week one?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 6: They did football.
Speaker 2: Yeah that was that was like everybody was fired up
Speaker 2: because Aaron Rodgers got hurt.
Speaker 6: Back by next week damn maybe so yeah, he may
Speaker 6: be maybe out there.
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Speaker 2: We're taking your phone calls, starting with Dano in Florida.
Speaker 6: What's up, Dano? You're on Talking Cowboys?
Speaker 12: Hey, guys, how you doing doing great?
Speaker 6: How are you good?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 12: You know the worm has turned this morning. On Get Up,
Speaker 12: they were saying that Dak Prescott is now the best
Speaker 12: quarterback in the NFL.
Speaker 7: Wow.
Speaker 12: So you know, there you go, you know. But a
Speaker 12: couple of a couple of observations and one that I
Speaker 12: want to want you guys to come back with.
Speaker 6: One.
Speaker 12: I think Rico should get more carries. I think it's
Speaker 12: like thunder and lightning like last year was seeking Pollard.
Speaker 12: That's what I would like it too. But the thing
Speaker 12: I wanted to throw out was, you know, Terence Steel
Speaker 12: had a bad game against Philly. Okay, bad day at
Speaker 12: the office. But you know, I look at the roster
Speaker 12: and I look at pictures guys next to each other,
Speaker 12: and Beadish and Zach Martin on the roster are approximately
Speaker 12: the same size. I think there's an inch difference. I
Speaker 12: think the weight's the same. But when you look at him,
Speaker 12: you know, shoulder to shoulder with alter pads on. Either
Speaker 12: Zach is three forty and beats three fifteen or Zach
Speaker 12: is three fifteen and BEA's to eighty. I think is
Speaker 12: a guy. I think he's right now. He's the other
Speaker 12: four guys playing. I would say they're playing well, okay.
Speaker 12: Theyadish seems again blown up a lot in the middle.
Speaker 12: And when your center's getting blown up, either side is
Speaker 12: then going to be at risk because if he's getting
Speaker 12: blown up and pushed into the backfield at all, you're
Speaker 12: not going to go anywhere. And I think, I think
Speaker 12: that is a piece of the problem. And I don't know.
Speaker 12: He had a great year last year, looks like he's
Speaker 12: taking a step back this year.
Speaker 7: I don't know.
Speaker 12: I want to see what you guys thought about that,
Speaker 12: and I'll hang up and listen. I have a good one.
Speaker 6: I appreciate you with the call, Dano, What do you think?
Speaker 11: Isaiah Dano knows how I stand on this. I think
Speaker 11: that Tyler Beatis is a good sinner. I think that
Speaker 11: he is effective but he tries hard, but I think
Speaker 11: he's undersized for this division, and I just that just
Speaker 11: is how I feel it.
Speaker 8: Be an idiot here, but is any bigger than Kelsey or.
Speaker 7: No, he is bigger than Kelsey, but it doesn't.
Speaker 1: That's all.
Speaker 9: That's the only thing I was thinking of when when
Speaker 9: when Dano's that about the size. Kelsey is the first
Speaker 9: person I thought of, just because I don't think of
Speaker 9: him as being like a bigger killer.
Speaker 6: But Chelsea got that dog in him, you know, So
Speaker 6: then it's not a size.
Speaker 11: But the thing is, so listen, if you're going to
Speaker 11: be undersized, you gotta there has to be another intangible
Speaker 11: that gives you an edge and an advantage. Right, So
Speaker 11: if you're undersized and you don't have that ruthless aggression,
Speaker 11: you're gonna you're going to struggle. You're going to struggle.
Speaker 11: So that's what I refer to. So it is a
Speaker 11: combination of size and approach, all right. I think that
Speaker 11: this offensive line has gotten away from being like that nasty,
Speaker 11: drive you in the ground type of offensive line. And
Speaker 11: I I think people had hopes when when a coach
Speaker 11: Serrano was no Serrano. This is the name Offlari sorry,
Speaker 11: I was talking about Sparrow when I was here. Coach
Speaker 11: Salari came on board that you're going to get some
Speaker 11: of that nastiness back, right. Tyler Smith comes on board
Speaker 11: last year. Obviously, he comes in, he does this thing.
Speaker 11: He's a nasty type of guy. You know, Tyron's been
Speaker 11: known as being a bully. Zach Martin historically has been
Speaker 11: a bully. Terry Steel has a little dog in him.
Speaker 11: But you just want to see that come back. And
Speaker 11: I think the more that you run the ball, the
Speaker 11: more that personality comes across for your team and comes
Speaker 11: across for your offense. So now when you're thinking about
Speaker 11: a pass first offense, you don't have that identity. And
Speaker 11: in regards to Tyler be ottist, I think you have
Speaker 11: to get him going by running the rock.
Speaker 7: I think if you get him confident in.
Speaker 11: His ability to power drive guys into the ground, you
Speaker 11: might get a little bit more, a little bit nastiness back.
Speaker 11: But right now it's seemingly pass first.
Speaker 2: I think there's an emphasis from Tyler Smith and I
Speaker 2: go all the way back to Oxnarn't for this, all
Speaker 2: the way back to training camp. If there's a scuffle,
Speaker 2: if there's anything going on. He's usually one of the
Speaker 2: ones in the mix.
Speaker 7: Smith Tyler Poti.
Speaker 2: Do you remember when he decleted who ran up all
Speaker 2: this Sam Williams. He decleted Sam Williams in the middle
Speaker 2: of that scuffle in practice, I mean Gottah got into
Speaker 2: it with Micah a couple of times. I mean brock
Speaker 2: Hoffman was in there too. I mean he was the
Speaker 2: one that kind of started it, finished it. So there's
Speaker 2: there's really really there's times and there's instances. I go
Speaker 2: back to the San Francisco game where he was in
Speaker 2: the middle of it too, outside of the whistle, where
Speaker 2: he's shown that dog. But that's that's kind of where
Speaker 2: I'm going back to your point. Inside of the whistle,
Speaker 2: it's only on the ground game.
Speaker 6: It's not in pass protection. When he's able to really
Speaker 6: plow forward, I think you're okay.
Speaker 2: When he's having to take a step back and get
Speaker 2: back on his heels, that's when I think he's having
Speaker 2: some issues.
Speaker 11: Yeah, I just preferably, like I said, obviously, he's a
Speaker 11: good senter, and he works. He went to the Pro
Speaker 11: Bowl last year, all those things, So not discrediting him, I'm.
Speaker 7: Just on yeah. I mean, yeah, I mean, but you know,
Speaker 7: he's still in the top in Vegas. In Vegas preferably,
Speaker 7: I like a dog.
Speaker 11: I like it. I like a nasty, up to the
Speaker 11: whistle type of cat that wants to, you know, that
Speaker 11: handle business in the middle of the offensive line. I
Speaker 11: think you need that attitude of That's what I would prefer,
Speaker 11: all right. I want that cat that you're like, well,
Speaker 11: who was the center for for Tom Brady in Tampa J.
Speaker 6: I want that that that was his dude too.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's his dude.
Speaker 11: Like he's a jerk, you know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 11: you want you want a jerk at the center pace.
Speaker 11: I do want a jerk at the center position. Now
Speaker 11: you want him to pull him off, like hey, hey,
Speaker 11: come back here, like let's go, I'll be right back.
Speaker 11: Like that's the type of cat that I want. Andre Gerard,
Speaker 11: I was one Andre Gerrard last night. I had dinner
Speaker 11: with him last night. Like, Andre was a jerk. Andre
Speaker 11: is a jerk, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: Like, that's the type of dude.
Speaker 7: But like that's what I like.
Speaker 11: That's that's my preference, right, And I think that you
Speaker 11: have to have that as the head in the attitude
Speaker 11: of your office line. You can have your best player
Speaker 11: at the tackle position, but the one person that touches
Speaker 11: that ball and calls the shots is right there in
Speaker 11: the middle of your formation.
Speaker 9: I guess I can I understand what you're saying. I
Speaker 9: just think that every offensive line is going to have
Speaker 9: some type of a weakness to a certain extent. I
Speaker 9: don't think you're gonna have five just animal up there
Speaker 9: that are just dominating everybody that's in front of them.
Speaker 9: So I guess the thing I would ask you is,
Speaker 9: with the current offensive line and he's on right now,
Speaker 9: if they were to stay healthy, do you think that
Speaker 9: he's good enough for that to be with that group
Speaker 9: to win a Super Bowl?
Speaker 7: I think I think he is.
Speaker 11: I just think that, you know, in reference to the
Speaker 11: call in what you're going to see in this division,
Speaker 11: I think he personally one on one is outmatched.
Speaker 7: Scheme wise. Yeah. Absolutely, you can make it happen.
Speaker 11: But when you when you say, hey, I need you
Speaker 11: to block Jordan Davis one on one, yeah, good luck.
Speaker 6: There's not a whole lot of people in the league.
Speaker 11: Okay, So to go to another team, I'm saying, go
Speaker 11: to another team, go to New York dexter Lawrence one
Speaker 11: on one, you know, to go to Washington. You know
Speaker 11: what I'm saying, Like, like all those teams that you're
Speaker 11: going to face twice a year, like you're you don't
Speaker 11: feel confident that he can handle them one on one.
Speaker 11: And I just said, I don't like having that in
Speaker 11: the center of my office A line.
Speaker 6: I think they did a nice job against Tector.
Speaker 7: Yeah, they but I'm saying, if you have one on one, Okay.
Speaker 13: We got four hundred and eighty nine offensive snaps played,
Speaker 13: three hundred and six of them are in pass block.
Speaker 13: He's allowed three sacks and fifteen pressures.
Speaker 6: On the season.
Speaker 13: Talking about Tyler Biadasch one Hittle out, I think we
Speaker 13: know where that hit came from.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's fair.
Speaker 2: All right, Gary in New Mexico. You're on talking Cowboys.
Speaker 7: What's up?
Speaker 6: Gary?
Speaker 16: Hey, guys, let's have a little bit of positivity this morning. Yeah, Gary,
Speaker 16: and let's talk about our head coach, who I do
Speaker 16: not believe gets the credit he deserves. So I was
Speaker 16: looking at ESPN's website this morning and the Cowboys right now,
Speaker 16: we're six and three. We got the fourth ranked offense
Speaker 16: in the league, the number three ranked defense in the league,
Speaker 16: number one in the conference. Dak Prescott is one of
Speaker 16: six quarterbacks with the passer rating over one hundred. This
Speaker 16: is a good football team, folks. And this is a
Speaker 16: good football team because we have a good head coach
Speaker 16: who is constantly basted in the media. Yeah, and the
Speaker 16: bottom line is this, Dallas has not made the play
Speaker 16: offs in three consecutive years since I was in college,
Speaker 16: and they're gonna do that this year. And we talk
Speaker 16: about Dan Quinn and we talk about Will McClay and
Speaker 16: those guys do a great job, especially Will McClay. I
Speaker 16: love Will McClay, but Will McClay is drafting the types
Speaker 16: of players that Mike McCarthy is telling him to draft.
Speaker 16: And Mike McCarthy's fingerprints are all over this football team.
Speaker 16: And what I love most about Mike McCarthy and Isaiah
Speaker 16: you can maybe talk about this here in a second,
Speaker 16: but Mike McCarthy adjust, he sees something it's not working,
Speaker 16: and he'll make a change. We've seen that in the
Speaker 16: last three or four weeks with this offense. Okay, it's
Speaker 16: kind of struggling. We need to do some things different. Okay,
Speaker 16: we'll do some things different and now look how it's
Speaker 16: taken off. I just wish Dallas fans are notorious for
Speaker 16: driving and always complaining, and I'm guilty as the rest
Speaker 16: of them. The BOT nine is we hadn't won a
Speaker 16: championship and you know, in almost thirty years, and we
Speaker 16: have got a good head coach, and we just need
Speaker 16: you know, we're going to be judged by what happens
Speaker 16: in January, and we'll get to that when we get
Speaker 16: to it. But right now, man, just enjoy the ride.
Speaker 16: This is a good football team. Enjoy the win this
Speaker 16: past week. Don't worry about the draft that'll come up
Speaker 16: in April. Enjoy the ride. I think this team can
Speaker 16: get to where it wants to go if some things
Speaker 16: fall right.
Speaker 2: Love it Gary, great perspective, and I like it self
Speaker 2: awareness as well. In the stats. I mean, there's a
Speaker 2: lot going on there, Isaiah. Since he referred to you
Speaker 2: specifically the in game adjustments, Mike McCarthy, I mean, he's right,
Speaker 2: this team's in the mix.
Speaker 6: But he's also right in the fact.
Speaker 2: That it's going to be judged by what happens in
Speaker 2: January and February.
Speaker 11: Yeah, that's probably one of the fully best calls that
Speaker 11: I think I've heard ye the fact that he's able
Speaker 11: to acknowledged that he falls in the mix too.
Speaker 6: We're notorious for graping, and I'm a part of it.
Speaker 11: I love that, No, I think I mean he was
Speaker 11: right on cueue with everything. Absolutely, this team is going
Speaker 11: to always be judgable happens in terms of the playoffs.
Speaker 11: I think coach McCarthy is a really good coach. I
Speaker 11: think that's the reason why they went out and acquired
Speaker 11: him after him sitting on the sideline for a minute.
Speaker 11: And he has a great He's always in tune with
Speaker 11: what the team needs and what the team needs to change.
Speaker 11: I mean, I think there he has plenty of receipts
Speaker 11: on that, and I think you're starting to see that
Speaker 11: that result kind of show.
Speaker 7: Up on the field.
Speaker 12: Yeah.
Speaker 9: And I also think that the factor that needs to
Speaker 9: be added in here is just being the head coach
Speaker 9: for the Dallas Cowboys, you know. I mean everyone talks
Speaker 9: about the pressure of being the quarterback of the Dallas
Speaker 9: cow It's a way different animal being the head coach
Speaker 9: the Dallas Cowboys compared to most other places. You know,
Speaker 9: I look at all the head coaches in the NFL.
Speaker 9: I have the standings in front of me right now.
Speaker 9: There's a lot of good coaches that I think.
Speaker 8: Yeah, they're doing good there.
Speaker 6: Yeah, would they do that in Dallas?
Speaker 8: I bet you they wouldn't. I bet you they wouldn't.
Speaker 9: And so that I think always factors in with him
Speaker 9: as well too, that he deserves credit for that, I
Speaker 9: will say, though, he was brought in to take that
Speaker 9: next step in the playoffs.
Speaker 8: So you know, as the.
Speaker 9: Caller pointed out, and that is one of the best
Speaker 9: calls I've heard. For sure, you can judge that then,
Speaker 9: but right now you should still appreciate the fact that,
Speaker 9: again the home field be able to create that type
Speaker 9: of environment at at and T Stadium where they just
Speaker 9: they go out there and you just feel like, even
Speaker 9: if you don't think they're gonna blow a team, you
Speaker 9: know that they're going to play some of their best
Speaker 9: ball at home. I can't think of another time that
Speaker 9: I've covered this team that's been anywhere close to that. So,
Speaker 9: and then the three consecutive years double digit wins, they
Speaker 9: should do that again this year. That is something that
Speaker 9: if you don't think that's that big of a deal,
Speaker 9: you just go to Pro Football Reference and type in
Speaker 9: Dallas Cowboys and look at the last time that that
Speaker 9: happened for this organization. And again, I know people will
Speaker 9: blame Jerry and things like that, but it's also because
Speaker 9: the spotlight that's on the Dallas Cowboys, they're scrutinized more
Speaker 9: than anyone as well, and a lot of the times
Speaker 9: the two people that are going to take that the
Speaker 9: most are going to be your quarterback and head coach.
Speaker 13: Yeah, he mentioned Mike McCarthy and wilbclay just being on
Speaker 13: the same page as far as drafting and developing. And
Speaker 13: while there is a lot of credit to put into that,
Speaker 13: I think this coaching staff, in this front office, they
Speaker 13: kind of unlocked to an interesting thing that they like
Speaker 13: to do in drafting. With the twenty twenty two draft,
Speaker 13: whenever they took Tyler Smith, whenever they took a de
Speaker 13: Ron Bland, guys that could be versatile, and I think
Speaker 13: versus Tilly has really been preached since then from Will McLay.
Speaker 13: And I think Dan Quinn has a lot of credit
Speaker 13: towards that as well, because he's mentioned throughout his career,
Speaker 13: going back to Atlanta and Seattle, he's always looking for
Speaker 13: versatile defenders and I think this franchise of seeing what
Speaker 13: it's done to the defense, and they've started to put
Speaker 13: offensive pieces in those same positions. You look at what
Speaker 13: Tyler Smith did last year being able to move from
Speaker 13: guard to tackle, and just the guys that they've brought
Speaker 13: in since then. So yeah, there's a lot of credit
Speaker 13: given to McCarthy and McLay, but also this entire coaching
Speaker 13: staff with Dan Quinn and the rest.
Speaker 2: I said it at the beginning of the year, but
Speaker 2: every year that Mike McCarthy has been here, they've gotten better.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it was the horrid year.
Speaker 2: Of twenty twenty and there was a lot going on
Speaker 2: outside of just on the field. There then you had
Speaker 2: twelve and five and a trip to the wildcard round.
Speaker 2: Then last year you had twelve and five and a
Speaker 2: trip to divisional round. The way that you get better
Speaker 2: this year is by putting together more wins in the
Speaker 2: regular season, of course that's an option still, and then
Speaker 2: making a deeper run into the playoffs if they can
Speaker 2: continue to get that done.
Speaker 6: I think you're great.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, like John said, like the caller, Gary,
Speaker 2: I thought, like I said, or like Isaiah.
Speaker 6: Also mentioned, great call because you hit all of the factors.
Speaker 6: Enjoy it while it's here, and then we'll talk about
Speaker 6: it in January.
Speaker 2: Enjoy it while it's here, talk about how this is
Speaker 2: a relevant and good football.
Speaker 6: Team, and then we'll get to it whenever we get
Speaker 6: to it.
Speaker 9: And it's hard to do though, And that's just not
Speaker 9: a Cowboys fan thing, believe me. I mean, especially just
Speaker 9: a couple of weeks ago, being in Philly, there's nothing
Speaker 9: that that collective fan base seems like that they're thrilled
Speaker 9: about anything. It seems like they're always upset. They have
Speaker 9: the best team in football right now. If you follow
Speaker 9: or you're a fan of a good team, I just
Speaker 9: feel like you're always going to be able, especially with
Speaker 9: social media, find fans they're just negative all the time,
Speaker 9: and so you got to kind of try and find
Speaker 9: ways to tune it out.
Speaker 7: On the bus us.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, let's take our second break. When we
Speaker 2: come back, Are the Cowboys gonna look at possibly some
Speaker 2: free agent corners that are available?
Speaker 6: What?
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's some questions there on the text line, and
Speaker 2: then what happens if the round game never really gets
Speaker 2: Oh when.
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Speaker 6: That's disappointing. It's fair. Everybody needs in visile line. I
Speaker 6: don't know what you're talking about, all right.
Speaker 2: Three nines asked the question great win by the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: If they can't get the run game working this season,
Speaker 2: how far.
Speaker 6: Will this team go? That's Ian from Illinois, not far enough, Ian,
Speaker 6: not far enough, not far enhere would you put them?
Speaker 7: You have to have a running game. I don't. It
Speaker 7: doesn't matter. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 11: Even if you came up short in the super Boy
Speaker 11: it doesn't matter. That's not good enough. People are gonna
Speaker 11: be mad, You're gonna be complaining. You've been trying to
Speaker 11: figure out how to reset your team for the next year.
Speaker 11: The only thing that matters is rings. It's all that matters.
Speaker 11: And name a team that doesn't that has a ring
Speaker 11: aside from Kansas City that didn't have an effective Brenning game.
Speaker 8: Kansas City is fresh in my mind.
Speaker 6: What did what did new What did La have? What
Speaker 6: did La have?
Speaker 1: Curly?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Was it after only because I've looked this up. If
Speaker 9: you went back and looked at the running game they
Speaker 9: had on that twenty ten team, with that one with
Speaker 9: Bob McCarthy and Green Bay, it's not really one that
Speaker 9: you would now, they ran it when they needed to,
Speaker 9: to your point that you're going to have to, but
Speaker 9: it's not like one that you look at and oh, yeah,
Speaker 9: this is sloading.
Speaker 8: Who are your guys backs? When you guys wanted In
Speaker 8: New York.
Speaker 11: We had Brandon Jacobs okay, yeah, yep, and we had
Speaker 11: a Breshaw.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: What about like the Tom Brady years. I mean that's
Speaker 6: Tom Brady.
Speaker 7: We had a ton of running backs.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we just had a stable. We had Corey.
Speaker 11: Marony, we had Fred Taylor, we were uh no, was
Speaker 11: not there, No, No, Alfred Morris. I mean we had
Speaker 11: we had freaking we had like four solid backs.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean it was just if daubdill Say is healthy,
Speaker 9: I think he can be one of those guys. I mean,
Speaker 9: I do like his running style the way it compliments
Speaker 9: Tony Pollard. It's just man, it's just like we're talking
Speaker 9: about earlier with with Leyton vander ash like man linebacker
Speaker 9: running back, Like there's just so many collisions involved that
Speaker 9: Like I'm just always like you can never have enough
Speaker 9: of them because there's always always injuries.
Speaker 11: People have to be okay with Tony Pollard not being
Speaker 11: the bail cow.
Speaker 8: Yeah, like just that's that's just what he's best.
Speaker 7: I know, he's not what I'm saying.
Speaker 11: Oh yeah, yeah, No, Like understand that we talked about
Speaker 11: in the postgame, like it's not a bad thing.
Speaker 7: I understand that he got the franchise tag. He got
Speaker 7: the franchise tag because of.
Speaker 11: His ability to make big plays and the impact that
Speaker 11: he had on his team last year as the second
Speaker 11: running back. Right, even though Zeke didn't have the year
Speaker 11: to everybody expect them to have, Zeke was still the
Speaker 11: leading running back.
Speaker 9: Right.
Speaker 7: So Tony Poller came in with a change of pay,
Speaker 7: was a lightning in a.
Speaker 11: Bottle and now all of a sudden, you give him
Speaker 11: all this money, you franchise tag him, and you say,
Speaker 11: guess what now, we need you to lead a team,
Speaker 11: and we need you to be that dog every single play.
Speaker 13: That's not realistic, phenomenal, complimentary back, and there's.
Speaker 11: Nothing wrong with that, but like, give him what you
Speaker 11: what he can handle, right, don't ask they don't ask
Speaker 11: more of him, allow for him to be that role.
Speaker 11: I'm sure he wanted to be a lead back and
Speaker 11: he wanted to be only the main guy. Like that's okay,
Speaker 11: but guess what you have a dude that's back to
Speaker 11: Rico Dowda, who's toting that thing and he's coming downhill
Speaker 11: and he's carrying two and three cats with him on
Speaker 11: his back. Okay, dang near bear crawling with guys on
Speaker 11: his back. Let him do that and then bring in
Speaker 11: Tony Paller. This is what you have figure out the
Speaker 11: rest later on. I don't care who's franchise tag, what
Speaker 11: works best for this team and what is going to
Speaker 11: put your offense in the best position to make splash
Speaker 11: plays that have forty burgers the rest of the year.
Speaker 2: Do you think there's an element of that of Tony
Speaker 2: wants to be the lead back, Tony wants to be
Speaker 2: the number one guy, and he still is to a
Speaker 2: certain extent, but there's just got to be a different share.
Speaker 2: But with him being on the franchise tag, they're saying, Okay,
Speaker 2: here's your chance to show you can be the bell cow.
Speaker 6: Now that we've had.
Speaker 2: Enough of a sample size, it's time to make a change.
Speaker 2: It's time to put to put some some.
Speaker 6: Different carries, change the dynamic, change it up a little bit.
Speaker 13: Are you asking if that's that moment is now or
Speaker 13: just like does that moment come?
Speaker 6: Is that what you're saying either one?
Speaker 13: Okay, Yeah, I think there's a really good opportunity this weekend,
Speaker 13: get Carolina against run defense that is pretty poor. If
Speaker 13: he wants to have a breakout game, I think this
Speaker 13: is a good opportunity.
Speaker 8: But we said that last week.
Speaker 13: We said that going into the Giants game.
Speaker 7: So I to check you to check the Brandon Cooks
Speaker 7: box last week.
Speaker 6: Yeah, right, check out the box, right right?
Speaker 9: I mean fifteen, Tony Pollard had fifteen carries, Rico Daudo
Speaker 9: had twelve. I just see the way it's trending there
Speaker 9: that in one of these next couple of games, I
Speaker 9: could see Rigo have more carries.
Speaker 7: And that's fine.
Speaker 11: Yeah, yeah, no, I I think if this team is
Speaker 11: out there running for one hundred fifty hundred and seventy
Speaker 11: five yards in a game, and you're able to start
Speaker 11: getting Bee Cooks and and CD Lamb involved because of
Speaker 11: play action and every whatever else you're your established offense.
Speaker 7: Nobody's going to complain.
Speaker 11: Yeah, nobody's going to be like, oh, how dare them
Speaker 11: not give Tony Pollard more carries?
Speaker 7: Are you running the ball? Are you getting first down?
Speaker 7: Is it effective?
Speaker 11: Is it effective our team's having to drop down to
Speaker 11: one single high safety because of how effective your running
Speaker 11: game is? Or are they able to stay back with
Speaker 11: two safeties and double CD lamp?
Speaker 9: Like?
Speaker 7: What do you want? You know what I mean? Like,
Speaker 7: that's what people really have to ask themselves.
Speaker 11: And I believe that last game was the lightning I
Speaker 11: mean that was that was the light bulb that went
Speaker 11: off for this coaching staff. Not this not to say
Speaker 11: that they didn't already know, but to your point, Cad,
Speaker 11: I think they were just like, hey, here.
Speaker 7: You go, here you go, here you go.
Speaker 11: They were given them a gi opportunity to But I
Speaker 11: think this past week was the light bulb moment that
Speaker 11: went off, and I think most likely Tony Poller probably
Speaker 11: recognized it as well.
Speaker 7: Yep, that's that's it.
Speaker 2: It's also not a bad thing for him for the
Speaker 2: longevity of his career too.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but he's not going to get that hair, right,
Speaker 7: he's not going to get the bag.
Speaker 11: That's that's we get the bag, bag, and that's and
Speaker 11: that This was his opportunity to get the bag back.
Speaker 11: He tried to get the bag back this offseason. They said, nah,
Speaker 11: let's wait and see, let's see you play it out.
Speaker 11: Here's a franchise tag, right, give us a show me year.
Speaker 11: And that's what this is. It was a great opportunity.
Speaker 11: First half of the season, you were the opportunity to
Speaker 11: go out there and get it. I was giving you
Speaker 11: twelve carries. Not much was going on, averaging three point
Speaker 11: eight yards per carry. We didn't really get established. We're
Speaker 11: gonna start giving us Rico Caade a couple opportunities. Oh man,
Speaker 11: Rico's getting four or five yards per carry.
Speaker 7: Oh crap. All of a sudden, this looks pretty darg
Speaker 7: on good. And then last game what happened.
Speaker 11: Rico has more carries, right, they were not more carries,
Speaker 11: but Rico has a lot more opportunities. He's a lot
Speaker 11: more successful. And when you talk about the yardage and
Speaker 11: guess what, Tony Paul walks away. He's healthy, all right,
Speaker 11: he was able to come in and make some splash plays.
Speaker 7: Let this be your new.
Speaker 9: Offense and you can call into the season with your
Speaker 9: plan of like hey, yep with Zeke and now it's
Speaker 9: Tony's show, here we go. And if that's not working
Speaker 9: and you have another back that's stepping up, you can't
Speaker 9: just keep rolling out somebody getting three point seven yards
Speaker 9: and a guy's getting six to six and all of
Speaker 9: a sudden, you're just gonna be like, no, we're gonna
Speaker 9: keep going three because the rest of the team is
Speaker 9: going to be like, what are we doing doing?
Speaker 8: We're trying to win games, aren't we?
Speaker 7: Like just just what the last caller just said.
Speaker 11: Coach McCarthy does a great job of making adjustments.
Speaker 2: This is an adjustment he needs to make correct and
Speaker 2: he's started to make that adjustment. Yes, Marcus and Richmond
Speaker 2: Virginia asked, with Jay Lou's injury late in that game,
Speaker 2: do the Cowboys take some time and look at some
Speaker 2: free agents that are potentially on waivers this week?
Speaker 6: Nick as, I.
Speaker 13: Don't believe so everything that I've I've heard sounds like
Speaker 13: jayl is gonna be all right, mis limited in practice
Speaker 13: this week, but he should be good to go on Sunday.
Speaker 13: As far as corner depth, I mean, we've talked about that.
Speaker 13: I think that's a situation you address if you have
Speaker 13: to cross that bridge.
Speaker 2: But Jack Jones released by the Patriots out on the
Speaker 2: open markets intrigue you at all.
Speaker 6: It's fascinating. I'll say that it was the thought, but
Speaker 6: I don't.
Speaker 7: Think why was he released?
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's that's excellent.
Speaker 11: Coach coach is not releasing guys in the middle of
Speaker 11: the season just because just because yea das.
Speaker 6: Mond King out there as well.
Speaker 11: A couple you have guys they just haven't had reps, right,
Speaker 11: You got Nation, right, Israel mccuammell and Eric Scott Jr.
Speaker 11: Yeah right, Yeah, Yeah, So you have guys they just
Speaker 11: haven't had a lot of reps.
Speaker 7: Right. So these are un un quote unproven guys.
Speaker 11: But I guarantee you that coaching staff knows what their
Speaker 11: full capabilities are and if they felt like they needed
Speaker 11: to be put in a situation, I think those coaches
Speaker 11: are confident in doing that.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: All right, Tomorrow we will break down the Dallas defense
Speaker 2: going up against the former first overall pick, Heisman Trophy
Speaker 2: winner Bryce Young.
Speaker 6: We're gonna talk about.
Speaker 2: That combination and how that looks. Roll timee Isaiah, Isaiah.
Speaker 7: I just want to get the Friday.
Speaker 6: You wanna get the Friday? You want to say it
Speaker 6: with your chest. It is countdown day. We are three
Speaker 6: days away from the Hot Sauce Challenge. Hey, y'all gonna
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Speaker 6: I haven't looked at it. I'm going to tell you
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Speaker 13: So I was talking to Kyle yesterday about it. So
Speaker 13: I think what we're gonna do is, you know, I
Speaker 13: have key matchups in that second segment. So I'm gonna
Speaker 13: do it right at the beginning of the segment and
Speaker 13: try to get through the segment.
Speaker 7: You're not gonna keep matchups.
Speaker 6: Well, see he's gonna he has to.
Speaker 13: So you said you're going to douse the chip with it, right,
Speaker 13: you said you were going to handle the down.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you're gonna do it.
Speaker 8: Hold on, hold on, are you talking about that? You're
Speaker 8: going to do one of those chips that you.
Speaker 2: Know, P're gonna get it toasted those chip Hopefully that
Speaker 2: provides us maybe and then we're gonna put some hot.
Speaker 9: He said, dowse it like not just one drop with
Speaker 9: the hottest sauce that you can find.
Speaker 11: Bro, This this hot sauce is meant to go in
Speaker 11: a bowl of like a whole container of chili. One
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Speaker 6: He's not gonna make it. I'm not worried about it
Speaker 6: going in. Not worried about that ring a fire concern
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Speaker 6: It's gonna be wild.
Speaker 7: You gotta check it out, Joe, You'll love Yeah.
Speaker 8: I saw the video. He's very well done, very well done.
Speaker 7: Nice.
Speaker 6: I can't wait.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna look.
Speaker 8: Clipped all that together.
Speaker 4: Me.
Speaker 11: Yeah, surprisingly Broa, It'll be like when I am doing that.
Speaker 11: It took me forever, but I did it. I have
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Speaker 2: This is three days countdown to the Hot Sauce, pet
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Speaker 7: Pale Ring of Fire.
Speaker 6: You're gonna be injured, Nick Harris to the injury report.
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