WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: The Mailbag Continued 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:07.520 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:18.480 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:22.319 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headhoars at the 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:29.480 Star in Frisco. The gold Line say let's go pay 0:00:30.640 --> 0:00:34.680 And now your hosts, Isaiah stand Back, heck My Harrison, 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:41.720 Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeoman's it's a Wednesday edition of 0:00:41.920 --> 0:00:46.800 Talking Cowboys here from the SWBC Mortgage Studios. As always, 0:00:46.880 --> 0:00:49.760 it's the normal crew at hand. It's our resident Super 0:00:49.760 --> 0:00:54.400 Bowl Champion, Isaiah stand Back, it's Rob Phillips, the Cowboys Insider, 0:00:54.600 --> 0:00:56.840 and it's the fantastic oh Man. Look at heck My 0:00:56.960 --> 0:00:59.880 Harrison with the drip and the Cowboys sweater today. 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I mean, all of it has been fantastic. 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:46.319 So uh, lots of it is it is hump Day. 0:01:46.360 --> 0:01:49.480 Oh wow. Okay, so now we've got there. We go. 0:01:49.600 --> 0:01:52.320 So now we've got something else new for talking Cowboys. 0:01:52.320 --> 0:01:55.000 Well it is hump Day. But guess what, there's Wednesday 0:01:55.080 --> 0:01:58.720 Night Football or Wednesday Afternoon football to talk about, including 0:01:58.760 --> 0:02:01.920 the team the Cowboys are going to face come up 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.600 next Tuesday. So we're going to talk a little bit 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:07.840 about the Baltimore Ravens and the Pittsburgh Steelers today. And 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:12.760 it's kind of the craziest situation that you could potentially have. 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:16.320 I mean, RG three, Robert Griffin, the third of Texas born, 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:21.160 Texas raised quarterback is starting for the Baltimore Ravens tonight 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:25.000 and supposedly going against the Pittsburgh Steelers. And I say 0:02:25.000 --> 0:02:27.640 supposedly because there were a couple more positive tests and 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:30.079 everybody has to test through if they're Baltimore in order 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:33.560 to actually play tonight. So any other updates that you've 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:36.000 heard of Rob in terms of this game and how 0:02:36.000 --> 0:02:38.920 it could potentially affect the Cowboys moving into next week. 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:43.760 I don't know how it affects the Cowboys just yet. 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:45.960 I think the Cowboys are just doing their thing, just 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:48.320 trying to, you know, go through their schedule and get 0:02:48.360 --> 0:02:51.880 ready for Tuesday. It is next Tuesday, right is. Yes, 0:02:52.160 --> 0:02:55.640 they're supposed to be back to practice today and I 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:58.760 think the schedule for the Cowboys is to practice today 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:04.600 and practice on Friday and Saturday. So that's that looks 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:08.240 like what they're planning to do, and hopefully this game 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.840 stays on schedule for the third time. And you know, 0:03:11.840 --> 0:03:14.160 as far as Raven Steelers, just what you said, Kyle, 0:03:14.240 --> 0:03:17.040 you know, Ian Rappaport was on NFL Network today saying, 0:03:17.040 --> 0:03:19.359 like you said, there's still some POC tests they've got 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:22.120 to do, and they've got to wait those results before 0:03:22.160 --> 0:03:24.560 that game can be kicked off. And there's still questions 0:03:24.560 --> 0:03:26.760 about who's going to be activated for the Ravens. So 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:28.800 it's kind of hard to talk about them right now, 0:03:28.840 --> 0:03:31.359 just because we don't know who they're going to have 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.320 available other than we know RG three is going to 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.920 start for him, and I know they activated Trace mcsoreley, 0:03:38.000 --> 0:03:42.560 the backup quarterback out of Penn State. He was activated yesterday, 0:03:42.640 --> 0:03:45.400 so they have two quarterbacks, which is I mean more 0:03:45.520 --> 0:03:47.920 quarterbacks than what Denver had to work with this past week. 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.520 But that's something that is significant going into this game. 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:54.520 This game tonight doesn't necessarily affect the Cowboys outside of 0:03:54.560 --> 0:03:56.880 the fact that it needs to get played in order 0:03:56.880 --> 0:03:59.120 for them to play next Tuesday. That's pretty much the 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:02.200 by them lying with it. Plus, like you said, Rob, 0:04:02.240 --> 0:04:06.560 it's it's crazy. How do you prepare as a Cowboys organization? 0:04:06.600 --> 0:04:09.320 I mean they're literally out ready to practice here in 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:11.400 the next what is an hour and a half, they'll 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:13.800 be out on the practice field. What are you prepare 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:16.200 for if you're looking at a Baltimore team and you 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:18.680 don't necessarily know who's on the other side. Isaiah that 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:22.720 you might be the best one to answer that question. Well, 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:24.080 I can tell you that I'm gonna have on my 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:26.320 essel or lenses today and I'll be watching that game. 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:31.520 But aside from that, I mean, you're prepared, just like 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:33.279 I mean, the good thing is they have what eleven 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.200 weeks of game film to go off of, So I mean, 0:04:35.240 --> 0:04:37.720 what happens today doesn't really doesn't really matter much. I mean, 0:04:37.839 --> 0:04:40.960 I think these guys are they they've they've been pretty 0:04:41.040 --> 0:04:42.920 dug on punished in terms of this whole COVID deal. 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:44.719 So they don't even have a defensive line. I don't 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:46.760 know who they're playing on a d line today, But 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:48.640 I mean, you take it with a grain of salt today, 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:50.440 but you got eleven other games that you look at 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:57.080 to build your game plan off of. Hey, yeah, I 0:04:57.080 --> 0:04:59.599 mean for the Pittsburgh Steelers, for all of the teams 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:01.720 that are involved and just trying to figure out what's 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:04.680 going to happen over this next couple of hours or 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:06.680 the next week or so. I mean, look at the 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.600 curveball that those guys have been thrown, and teams are 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:11.680 just trying to scramble to figure out who they're going 0:05:11.720 --> 0:05:15.159 to be facing on any given week. So I mean 0:05:15.160 --> 0:05:18.720 for the Cowboys, obviously they're watching this closely to see 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:20.599 how this is all going to come out. But I 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:22.640 just believe that the NFL, at some point it's going 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.320 to have to step in and make some major moves, 0:05:25.360 --> 0:05:27.960 whether it be extending the season out, given everybody an 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.880 extra bye week to get this thing under control because 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:35.240 the second surge, as we've all anticipated and COVID is 0:05:35.279 --> 0:05:39.240 actually happening. So you know, they're probably doing everything that 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.000 they possibly can with the contact tracing all of those things, 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:44.760 but it's really kind of hard to contain it week 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:48.080 to week, and you're just starting to see every week 0:05:48.120 --> 0:05:50.040 that this is just kind of getting a little raggedy 0:05:50.080 --> 0:05:53.400 how they're approaching it, Kyle, they I guess one of 0:05:53.440 --> 0:05:56.720 the reports too, is that mark Ingram and JK. Dobbins 0:05:56.720 --> 0:06:00.120 will not play despite I guess being removed from of 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:04.040 the nineteen reserve earlier in the week. They've been activated, 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:05.320 but they're not gonna play. So you don't know who's 0:06:05.320 --> 0:06:07.960 gonna play running back for the Ravens this week. I 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:10.200 guess their hope would be Lamar Jackson gets back for 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.279 the Cowboys game. To Heckma's point talking about trying to 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:15.800 extend the season and give give them a week eighteen, 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:18.440 thefl just doesn't seem to want to do that, and 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:21.320 I wonder if it has to do with, you know, 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.680 you got the top two seeds in each conference that 0:06:24.920 --> 0:06:26.920 get a buye, they get a week off, and it's 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:29.400 basically two weeks before they play the divisional round. If 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.760 you played a Week eighteen and they're not part of that, 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:38.720 as my voice cracks again, then you would have, Yeah, 0:06:39.320 --> 0:06:44.200 the Sopranos are back. You would have three weeks. Three 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:47.320 weeks for those top two teams in each conference. Just 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:49.280 sit around and wait. I don't know if that's fair. 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:52.119 Maybe that's a that's a RUSS thing that they're concerned about. 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.760 But at some point, you know, if this keeps on 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:57.760 this trajectory, they may have to do something. Like Heckma said, 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:00.000 We'll see. I mean, they're just trying to figure out 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.640 as they go the best they can. Isaiah and I 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:05.760 talked about this this yesterday while we were kind of 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:08.640 finishing up film room, and we were talking about the 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:12.320 fact that the NFL is so reluctant to finally add 0:07:12.400 --> 0:07:16.320 that Week eighteen. And I guess this point, it's kind 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.360 of a mood point because you're supposedly going to play 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.720 tonight for this Pittsburgh and Baltimore game. But do you 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.800 think fantasy sports plays an impact in that? I mean, 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:29.080 we're talking about something that shouldn't influence the real game, 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:32.000 but at this point, it's a billion dollars in an industry. 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.360 Do you think the fact that pushing this game back 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:38.320 and talking about fantasy football is one of the reasons 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:41.120 that could potentially be the reason for no Week eighteen. 0:07:44.400 --> 0:07:46.360 I think so, I know we talked about yesterday, call 0:07:46.440 --> 0:07:49.120 I think fantasy, not not solely fantasy, but I think 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:51.880 all of their contractual obligations that they have with all 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:55.120 their corporate corporates, partnerships and sponsorships and all that stuff, 0:07:55.160 --> 0:07:57.880 all this stuff has timelines on it. All this stuff 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:01.320 has raid line so as a domino effect, right, So 0:08:01.520 --> 0:08:04.120 it's once one thing moves, if you move one week, 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:07.680 everything's affected. Um. I think there's there's all kinds of 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:12.080 stadium um you know, timelines and usages and all that 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:14.160 kind of say. It gets crazy. So that's why they're 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:17.360 trying everything they can to stay within that window. But 0:08:17.440 --> 0:08:19.920 as you as you alluded to, if this thing keeps rolling, 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:22.720 I don't know what they do, because they're gonna lose 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:24.400 a lot of money if they if they decide to 0:08:24.440 --> 0:08:32.839 move this extended season out Ama. So you're saying capitalism 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:38.480 has something to do with the NFL A little bit, 0:08:40.559 --> 0:08:43.920 just a little bit. I mean, I've we've we've talked 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.960 about this at LED before the season even started. What 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:49.319 would happen if something like this happened, and how with 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:52.680 the you know, the NFL adjust. We looked at the 0:08:52.840 --> 0:08:55.280 NBA and what they did with having the bubble and 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:58.200 all of that, and people were really excited about the 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:01.240 way that the NBA handled it. The NFL being one 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.480 of the biggest leagues in the world, I think they're 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:06.160 just trying to get They're trying to satisfy a lot 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:07.960 of different groups in this, and I can see that, 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:11.720 like Isaiah said, the marketing dollars, stadium dollars, there's a 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:13.880 lot that goes into it. I don't know if it's 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.560 fantasy so much, but like you said, Kyle, it is 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:20.240 a billion dollar industry, so it may very well have 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.280 something to do with it. But I just think as 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:24.480 a whole, the NFL is just trying to scramble to 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:25.880 figure out how to get all of this done. You 0:09:25.920 --> 0:09:27.960 gotta think about it. We have five more weeks in 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.920 the season, then you have four weeks for the for 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.720 the playoffs, So man, how we get through the next 0:09:33.800 --> 0:09:36.959 nine ten weeks. It's going to be very interesting. Yeah, 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:38.960 I mean they've you know, they've put in so much 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:41.760 work trying to for the safety part of it for 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:43.959 the players, and obviously they want to play the games. 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:47.160 They've got the TV contracts, and they don't have the 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.400 attendance coming in this year, so that's that's going to 0:09:49.480 --> 0:09:52.160 be a huge revenue loss for the league, no doubt. 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.520 It may come to the point where it's you know, 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.680 I know they dismissed the idea of a giant bubble 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:00.960 like the NBA had or like the NHL had, just 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.760 in terms of the number of players, but they may 0:10:03.800 --> 0:10:06.400 have to follow Teams may have to follow the Cowboys 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.360 blueprint as best they can. Like we mentioned yesterday that 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:11.880 most teams don't have a hotel next door to their 0:10:12.360 --> 0:10:15.880 connected to their facility, but there may be have to 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:19.160 be those home market bubbles just to try to do 0:10:19.200 --> 0:10:23.120 everything you can to lessen the risk of transmission. You know, 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:26.520 let me ask you guys this question. Had had the 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:28.920 NFL known that it was going to get this bad, 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:30.920 do you think that they would have elected to do 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:35.920 the bubble before camp started now, like a full bubble 0:10:36.040 --> 0:10:38.800 or just oh, I just don't know if you could 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.520 have pulled it off, like in terms of having a 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:44.480 facility that could do that for thousands of people. God, yeah, 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.080 that would have been an Olympic. That would have been 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:49.040 like the Olympic Village. Yeah, I wish we could have 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:52.360 been on that one, right, Yeah, I don't know, but 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:56.559 but the home market bubbles is another option. And and 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.480 I guess it's not you know, the Cowboys staff has 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.160 moved over were there. But I guess it's not in 0:11:02.200 --> 0:11:04.360 that revised CBA that the players have to do that. 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:09.440 But maybe that's something they have to revisit. And you know, 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:11.840 because it seems to be working for the Cowboys. You know, 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:13.760 they've had a couple of tests here and there. Of course, 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:16.600 you know, Andy Dalton's back, but for the most part 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:18.320 they've done pretty well. The biggest thing is that you 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:20.679 have to be responsible on your own, you know, and 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.520 guys have done a good job of that. There is 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.520 still a possibility of a playoff bubble, though, I mean, 0:11:26.920 --> 0:11:29.200 do you think that that's something that the NFL should 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:32.319 severely look into. I mean, we saw it with at 0:11:32.360 --> 0:11:34.920 least Major League Baseball for a tad bit where they 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.800 took the divisional series and they put them in separate 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:41.520 locations and then they had different locations for the NLCS 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:43.960 and the ALCS and then ultimately the World Series was 0:11:43.960 --> 0:11:46.520 held in Arlington. So do you think there's something of 0:11:46.559 --> 0:11:49.400 the sort where you could put these playoff teams in 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:51.880 a bubble? And I know Cowboys fans probably don't want 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.080 to talk about playoffs right now, but it's something to 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:57.200 think about whenever it comes to COVID nineteen. In the 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:03.720 current situation that we're in. I think they should. Okay, 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:05.199 I think they should. I mean, that's the only way 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.280 that that's the only way that you can protect protect 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:11.520 the brand. You can't control UM, this virus, that's number one. 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:14.120 You can't control. But as I always say, control what 0:12:14.240 --> 0:12:16.560 you can control, and if you get if you can 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.920 limit UM the accessibility that people have to your players 0:12:19.920 --> 0:12:22.280 and your staff, then why would you not do that? 0:12:22.400 --> 0:12:24.640 I don't care how inconvenient it is. Again, like we 0:12:24.720 --> 0:12:28.640 talked about before the season started, inconveniance doesn't matter when 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:30.960 you're when you're when you're committed to going out there 0:12:30.960 --> 0:12:32.400 and try to win a ring. I don't give a 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:34.720 dog on about conveniance. Give me the opportunity to win 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:40.520 a ring. ACMA, Well, there, yeah, there it is. I 0:12:40.520 --> 0:12:43.280 mean I think that you know, they just have to 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:45.840 be very careful with this. I mean getting a bubble 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:50.040 together for the playoffs. You're talking was at fourteen teams? 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:54.600 Uh in a bubble? How does that travel? I don't know. 0:12:54.840 --> 0:12:59.480 The numbers would probably be again another logistical nightmare for 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.960 the n FELD and just trying to handle that. But 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:04.559 I think that guys would side where Isaiah is. They 0:13:04.559 --> 0:13:07.000 wouldn't care one way or another. I think it's you know, 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:09.360 it's the chase for the Lombardi is what these players 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:12.240 care about. And so if it's just a we're talking 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:14.959 about a week, a couple of weeks to get that 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:18.120 done versus how the NBA did it for months, I 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.280 think that would be something that the players would be 0:13:20.360 --> 0:13:24.080 prone to doing. Yeah, I mean you knew, you kind 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:26.200 of knew this second way it was coming because once 0:13:26.400 --> 0:13:29.640 once fall and winter comes, you know, people were indoors 0:13:29.679 --> 0:13:32.680 more and then that's flu flu in cold season, and 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:35.560 it's not necessarily COVID, but it's symptoms and you don't 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:39.160 know what they are, and then that causes concern. So yeah, 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:42.840 it's I'm sure they're having discussions on contingency plans and 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:44.679 maybe you could do and I'm just spitballing here, maybe 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:47.280 you could do a NFC bubble and an AFC bubble 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.520 in one city and then and just try to handle 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:52.760 it that way. I know the NCAA is planning to 0:13:53.280 --> 0:13:55.719 looks like doing the whole tournament in one city this year, 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:57.880 which March Maddness. No March Madness this year was like 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:01.960 a blow to my heart. So hopefully they can pull 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:03.840 that off. And maybe that's something that the NFL could 0:14:03.840 --> 0:14:06.439 look at too. I think it's something that you got 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:08.960 to look at. And maybe even if it's four cities, 0:14:08.960 --> 0:14:11.080 you talk about like four different cities, you take the 0:14:11.080 --> 0:14:13.600 Southern teams, the Eastern teams, the Western teams, the Northern 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:16.559 teams and put them all in a bubble each specifically. 0:14:16.559 --> 0:14:18.920 I think that's something you could potentially do from the 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.480 playoffs standpoint. I guess that would be a little bit different, 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:25.000 but because of the divisions and the overlapping of these games. 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:27.280 But I think you got to at least throw out 0:14:27.320 --> 0:14:32.040 these contingency plans and see how they fit into what 0:14:32.120 --> 0:14:35.440 could potentially happen for the NFL coming up in the playoffs. 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:38.600 But while the Cowboys still technically not out of the 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:40.480 playoff hunt, there's still a game and a half back 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:43.040 or actually just a game back of first place now 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:45.480 in the NFC East, We're gonna talk about some of 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:48.800 the later parts of the season and where the Cowboys 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.480 could improve after we take this break. When we come back, 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:56.520 you're all talking Cowboys. 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Was as we know, Rob has has the Emmy, 0:17:31.040 --> 0:17:32.560 all right, So Rob has then Emmy, and then he 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.320 has another little Emmy, right, so you got two Emmy, Rob, right, 0:17:35.840 --> 0:17:39.320 robbi in two Emmy R. And then we have mister 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:44.720 Heckma Harrison who has a signed the goat Muhammad Ali. 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:48.080 Nice little frame picture back there in the background. That's 0:17:48.080 --> 0:17:51.200 called stunning right there, that's pretty say you're stunting, okay, 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:54.000 that's called stunting. Um. And then we and then we 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:55.720 and then we have just me, who's just you know, 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:58.000 I just have a picture of myself that somebody somebody 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.560 painting on me. That's cool, all right, But then we 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:04.600 have you, Kyle, and you've already you've already made it 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:08.760 very clear, um that that you that we're just your 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:12.040 background dancers, Why that you are You're that you're the 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:14.720 host of this show and all of us will just 0:18:14.760 --> 0:18:17.480 play a small part, and you know, and we're just 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:20.639 a little pauns. You know. He's he's Lebron, He's Lebron, 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:26.800 and we're like Dellavedova and yeah, yeah, guys, Kyrie last names. 0:18:27.800 --> 0:18:30.960 So we're not even ever protect you on a chess board, 0:18:31.000 --> 0:18:32.720 you know what I'm saying, that's all. Why why do 0:18:32.800 --> 0:18:35.360 I ever let you take the reins of this show ever? 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:39.120 Like I don't like, I don't. I don't know Sebezi's 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:41.000 in the back. I don't think she would disagree with 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:43.640 what I'm seeing right now. And well, Sebez, he's also 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:45.719 won a couple Emmys of his own, so he's got 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:47.879 some Emmies back there as well, So he's got some 0:18:47.960 --> 0:18:51.080 of that. He's got some of the golden golden trophies. 0:18:51.080 --> 0:18:52.440 I don't even know what they're called. They hold the 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:55.520 globe up there, But welcome back, to Talking Cowboys. Well, 0:18:55.520 --> 0:18:58.440 that's the Lord lendses you'll see every exciting play. You 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:01.120 can pook an appointment at your local experts and see 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:04.360 what es Selor can do for you. See more, do more, 0:19:05.160 --> 0:19:06.840 or gott to throw that in there here on Talking 0:19:06.880 --> 0:19:10.040 Cowboys presented by Geico. I gotta remember to say that 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:14.639 too along the way. Now, yesterday we had fans on 0:19:14.760 --> 0:19:17.639 the fifty and we answered a couple of questions. We 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.720 kind of got off on a tangent though, based off 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:22.399 of a couple of those questions. So I kind of 0:19:22.440 --> 0:19:25.440 want to go back through and answer some more questions 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:28.040 from yesterday. So if you're watching and you sent in 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:30.840 a question yesterday and I completely ignored you, we're not 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:34.399 going to ignore you anymore. So Dallas Smith sent us 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:36.320 a question and actually tagged me and Rob in this, 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:38.640 and he said, do you think that Jerry told Mike 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:42.920 McCarthy that Kelly Moore has to be the offensive coordinator? 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:46.200 And that's why we haven't seen Mike take over the 0:19:46.320 --> 0:19:50.280 play calling or push more influence in on the offense. 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:52.440 And the reason why he's asking this is it's hard 0:19:52.480 --> 0:19:55.880 to believe he's okay just sitting by considering his role 0:19:56.040 --> 0:19:59.400 in Green Bay, speaking of course about Mike McCarthy, But heck, 0:19:59.600 --> 0:20:01.320 we'll start with you on this one. Do you think 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:04.119 that's the case or is it basically what we've heard 0:20:04.160 --> 0:20:06.080 from Mike McCarthy saying that it was a part of 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:12.520 his plan to have Kellen Moore. Look, I might have 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:14.639 to go with Mike McCarthy and what he said, right, 0:20:14.760 --> 0:20:16.960 he came out and said that he, you know, after 0:20:17.119 --> 0:20:21.040 being in his bunker situation in Wisconsin, he had a 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:22.879 lot of time to think about how he was going 0:20:22.960 --> 0:20:25.560 to proceed as a head coach, and analytics was going 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:27.240 to be a part of it, and when he interviewed 0:20:27.359 --> 0:20:29.800 for the job, that he knew that Kellen Moore was 0:20:29.880 --> 0:20:33.159 an up and coming offensive coordinator. Look, I don't believe 0:20:33.200 --> 0:20:36.280 any of that, right, I believe that, yes, he was 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:40.000 told that Kellen was gonna be the offensive coordinator. Otherwise 0:20:40.680 --> 0:20:42.680 I think that he definitely had a play sheet in 0:20:42.760 --> 0:20:45.320 his hand. So I'm sorry, guys, I just couldn't feed 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:47.919 you that bull right there to stop my wait, hold up, 0:20:47.920 --> 0:20:50.280 hold up, hold up, So wait, you just did you 0:20:50.359 --> 0:20:52.480