WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: Beware Bijan 0:00:02.480 --> 0:00:04.640 The following He is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot 0:00:04.640 --> 0:00:06.800 Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:15.240 Cowboys. This He's Talking Cowboys. 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:18.439 Straining live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at. 0:00:18.360 --> 0:00:19.400 The Star in Frisco. 0:00:21.360 --> 0:00:26.960 Touch six SEGMENTUS dot tixis any pain today, touchdown. 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:32.839 And now your hosts Isaiah Stanback, Patrick Walker, Josh Rodriguez, 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:38.239 and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:42.559 It's a wonderful Wednesday edition of Talking Cowboys, presented by 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:46.720 a Black Rifle Coffee Company, live from the Star in Frisco, Texas, 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:51.280 in the SWBC studio. Today we preview the Dallas Cowboys 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:54.520 defense taking on the Atlanta Falcons as we officially turned 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:58.520 the page to Week nine of the NFL season, alongside 0:00:58.560 --> 0:01:02.000 Patrick Nosey Walker, Josh Rodriguez, Chris Beam in the back, 0:01:02.040 --> 0:01:04.760 I'm Kyle Yeman's glad you're with us, gentlemen. How are 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:08.399 we doing today? We're doing, We're doing, We're doing up. 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:09.480 It's Wednesday. Let's see. 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:12.240 Uh, let's see who practices for the Cowboys today and 0:01:13.040 --> 0:01:15.520 let's see who doesn't. This is the first day we 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.760 start to figure out on a weekly basis. This is 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:20.960 the latest week we start to figure out if guys 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.520 like Dron Bland have a chance, if Michael Parsons has 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:25.080 a chance, and we'll kind of go from there. 0:01:25.120 --> 0:01:27.640 Do you think anybody has a chance out of those 0:01:27.959 --> 0:01:28.319 those two? 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.000 Specific walker Michael Parsons better in this game. 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:35.440 I'm for you. Oh hey, listen, I'm coming for you. 0:01:35.680 --> 0:01:36.480 I do what I can. 0:01:36.760 --> 0:01:39.880 I've saved, I've hit them with Miyagi. 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:42.399 You know what I mean. You have done like I've 0:01:42.400 --> 0:01:44.520 done all of this. At least you're doing it. I'm 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:45.520 doing my part. 0:01:45.600 --> 0:01:48.639 But no, seriously, man, I'm right there with you. Michael 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:51.520 Parsons absolutely needs to be on the field for this game. 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:54.840 If he if he can go, then you know, we'll 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:58.240 see how it goes. But I mean, Darn Bland is 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.000 a little bit of a different story in that Whereas 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:03.560 Michael Parsons is not on injured reserve, so there's not 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.840 that decision to be made. The decision has to be 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:10.520 made today on if ter Ron Bland is going to 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.640 be put on the active roster, and if he's not 0:02:13.680 --> 0:02:16.200 put on the active roster, then he reverts to season 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:20.720 ending IR so kind of a massive day in that regard. 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:23.440 You would anticipate he would just anticipate he's going to 0:02:23.440 --> 0:02:25.440 be at a fifty three man roster and then from 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.160 there he can be inactive, right, but he has to 0:02:28.200 --> 0:02:31.720 go on because the twenty one day windows started three 0:02:31.760 --> 0:02:36.480 wednesdays ago, literally twenty one days ago. So now and 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:39.239 that Cowboys can't continue to slow play it, like you said, 0:02:39.280 --> 0:02:41.200 if they want to with dron Bland and you know, 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.600 but what you don't want to do is have him 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:45.960 become ready at some point in the season, and now 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.280 he's on season ending ir so the smart thing to 0:02:48.320 --> 0:02:50.600 do would be the obvious thing, and you put him 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:52.600 on the active fifty three man roster. We'll see what 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:54.720 the corresponding roster move would be in that they. 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:58.800 Moved John Stevens. They did this past week over wa 0:02:59.120 --> 0:03:01.840 signed Over Warre and and that was a corresponding move. 0:03:01.919 --> 0:03:05.840 So we'll see presumably Deron Bland goes to the fifty three, 0:03:06.000 --> 0:03:08.320 who comes off with the fifty three as a corresponding 0:03:09.000 --> 0:03:11.080 But that doesn't mean that Duran is going to play 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:14.480 against the Falcons. What would indicate that is if he 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.480 returns to practice, like actually returns to practice, because he 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:18.800 was d and p all last week. 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:20.959 So at this point we got to see the Friday 0:03:21.360 --> 0:03:24.280 practice report right, because Thay. 0:03:23.919 --> 0:03:26.480 Three weeks ago before the try, he was full full 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:30.200 and then DMP and he's been Yeah. 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:32.160 I think there was I think there was a setback 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.320 because everything was pointing in the direction that he was 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:35.480 gonna play. He's gonna play. 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:38.080 People were talking frobout the building, every indication. 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:41.920 With every indication, and sure enough, not only did he 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:44.880 not play, but he goes d n P on Friday, 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:47.120 goes into the bye week. Everybody's like, ah, he'll be 0:03:47.160 --> 0:03:49.240 good after the bye week. D m p'd all last 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:52.520 week and it's just I think something they said it 0:03:52.560 --> 0:03:56.720 was soreness there. Stephen Jones reported it as soreness as 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:57.360 the setback. 0:03:57.440 --> 0:04:00.560 I think it may have been something in itself. Hindsight 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:02.520 feels as if that was downplayed. 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:04.360 I think so too, so I think so so. 0:04:04.480 --> 0:04:07.400 Transactionally, I expect that to be a thing for Deron today. 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.840 I'm going to ask a question on that too though. 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:12.920 But uh, if they were to put him on the 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:16.440 active roster, and in order to do so, you would 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:18.919 you would eliminate that twenty one day practice window. He 0:04:19.000 --> 0:04:22.359 does not have to revert back to season ending. Ir correct. 0:04:22.680 --> 0:04:25.640 How quickly. If let's say worst case scenario happens and 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:29.440 it was a significant setback, how quickly could they turn 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:31.679 around and put them back on IR for four weeks? 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:33.400 If you put him back on IR, he's done. You 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:35.760 can't do it twice. You cannot do it twice. Cash. 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:38.640 That's to keep teams from doing that, Yeah, from going 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:39.640 correct back and. 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:41.440 Forth, fifth teams from hustling the system. 0:04:41.480 --> 0:04:43.240 That means if he is on the active roster, then 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:45.000 at least you know he will be back at some 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:45.560 point this year. 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:47.440 Yeah, for sure. Yeah, so's wild. 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.680 Yeah, so Transactionally, I expect he'll be back on fifty 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:51.359 three man rusted. 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:53.080 It's not like fantasy where he can put him on 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:57.680 IR every since. Not Yahoo, This is not. So We'll see. 0:04:57.720 --> 0:04:59.920 I mean, today's first at practice day. They'll be on 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:03.000 practice field at twelve fifty today. Mike McCarthy will talk 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.120 at twelve noon today. We'll see if he gives any 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.840 insight into you know, Yale green light the transaction or 0:05:09.839 --> 0:05:11.599 if he slow plays it. But I still expect to 0:05:11.600 --> 0:05:13.880 be done even if he doesn't, you know, show the hand. 0:05:14.920 --> 0:05:17.680 See if Mike talks about Micah and the status of 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:21.520 Micah and you know, if there's anyone else that he's 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.839 looking to help contribute in a big way that just 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:24.839 has not been able to. 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:26.800 However, that might be practice squatter. 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:31.120 Otherwise, magic wand you could heal any player. 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:33.080 On the roster. Who would it be at this point. 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:35.560 I'm gonna say DeMarcus. 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:37.080 I thought about that too. 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.320 The reason I said DeMarcus is because Micah should be 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.160 like right there, DeMarcus is still on IR. So if 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.200 I got it, if I could waive the magic wand 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:46.400 and like delete him from IR and put him back. 0:05:46.480 --> 0:05:49.200 Anybody back on the field, the elite, delete the elite, 0:05:49.240 --> 0:05:49.599 it will. 0:05:49.480 --> 0:05:51.839 Be DeMarcus Lawrence. You need, you need, you need to 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.320 improve this run defense. My first thought was DeMarcus Lawrence 0:05:54.360 --> 0:05:58.640 run defense. That, yeah, I need some help because we've 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.480 got a guy called Beijon Robinson coming up this week. 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:05.480 That's he's pretty decent. Who was that he's pretty good running? 0:06:06.040 --> 0:06:09.360 Say fewer things like that. I'm sorry, I don't like 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:15.520 I don't like what you're saying, pure and simple. That's 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:17.680 that was my first thought. Is give me the magic 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:21.120 wand come on come on back, Dlow, come on back, buddy. 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:23.240 I'm still I'm still with MI on this one. 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:27.520 I just feel like you have to account first what 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:27.960 he's doing. 0:06:28.000 --> 0:06:30.560 I'm not I'm not going to say assuming, but I'm 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:34.040 optimistic he's Mikey is back this week. So because I'm 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.400 optimistic about that, I'm going d I'm not going to 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.400 waste yeah, over your shoulders. I'm not going to waste 0:06:39.440 --> 0:06:41.880 my magic wand on a guy that I presume we'll 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:42.560 be back this week. 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:44.080 Anyway, I waste your wish. 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.960 This is a situational hypothetical, is what is happening? Right? 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:51.960 We're making your hypothetical situational? 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:53.880 Uh? 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:56.359 Any other news and notes before we move on to 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:57.359 the not. 0:06:57.440 --> 0:06:59.200 At the moment, because they're coming off of a Tuesday 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:01.760 with no activity, no transactions or anything like that. No 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:04.520 one spoke on the radio. So yeah, we're rolling right, 0:07:04.880 --> 0:07:07.920 No right, chuckle, we're rolling right into Wednesday. 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:13.440 Let's start this defensive preview by looking inward at this 0:07:13.560 --> 0:07:19.440 Cowboys defense. Of course, across the board, it hasn't been pretty. 0:07:19.800 --> 0:07:22.800 There hasn't been one specific unit that has stuck out 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:27.840 more than the other. Which unit right now needs the 0:07:27.880 --> 0:07:31.560 most help going into this week against Atlanta. Defensive line 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:35.480 second level with the linebackers or the secondary with the 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.280 corners and the safeties. Which one are you going on. 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.600 I'm kicking off with the secondary. I feel like the 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:44.760 weapons that the Falcons have wide receiver wise, I think 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:51.840 that test will Obviously the defensive line needs to be 0:07:51.920 --> 0:07:55.240 good because they could just run the ball, they could 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:55.840 stick with it. 0:07:56.040 --> 0:07:57.840 But I think at least with Kirk Cousins on. 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:00.200 The other side of the ball having an MVP like 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:05.120 caliber season, the weapons are just too great in my opinion. 0:08:05.160 --> 0:08:06.800 And if you have an AO out there who has 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:12.000 been serviceable in that role, but without Bland, without Carson, 0:08:12.760 --> 0:08:16.320 it's a tall order. And especially with Trayvon Diggs, who's 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:20.560 you know, played relatively well, I think that the orders 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:21.280 a little bit too tall. 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:22.440 As far as secondary goes. 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.680 I'm going to go with the defensive line, and I'm 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:28.040 going with this run defense. Specifically, you're going up against 0:08:28.080 --> 0:08:30.920 b Jon Robinson and Tyler Algier. They combined for more 0:08:30.960 --> 0:08:33.599 than nine hundred yards on the ground and five rushing touchdowns. 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:35.800 That's not to mention what they can do as receivers 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.720 out of the backfield. You're going to have to level 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:40.959 up your run defense and also seal the edges, and 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.080 that goes to linebackers as well, covering those two guys 0:08:44.160 --> 0:08:47.360 coming out of the backfield to prevent them from beating receivers. 0:08:48.280 --> 0:08:51.079 So yeah, I'm going with the defensive line with kind 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:53.360 of a little bit of a plus to the linebackers. 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:55.600 So let's say defensive front front seven front seven. 0:08:55.640 --> 0:08:59.600 For me, Atlanta has the best duo of running backs 0:09:00.360 --> 0:09:01.960 except for Detroit. 0:09:02.000 --> 0:09:03.199 That you say so far this. 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:06.120 Season, Detroit's the only other team that has that type 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:09.160 of weaponry with two backs. And the thing about it is, 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:12.400 it's just like Detroit that complement each other. It's not 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:15.720 just Montgomery and Gibbs. Montgomery's kind of the bulldozer bell 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:19.480 coal over and over again. Red zone back Jumior Gibbs 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:22.760 is that speeds through with some elusiveness and some lateral ability. 0:09:23.080 --> 0:09:25.760 You've got two guys in Bijon Robinson who can do 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:28.600 a little bit of everything. Bijeon's a complete tailback. He 0:09:28.640 --> 0:09:30.640 can do it all. He can run heavy, he can 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:33.560 run quick, he can run lateral, he can block, he 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:35.240 can do all of it. That's why he was a 0:09:35.240 --> 0:09:36.840 top pick in the drug correct. 0:09:36.600 --> 0:09:39.160 But you look at the two headed monster of Darnell 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:40.840 Mooney and Drake London and I think it's. 0:09:40.679 --> 0:09:42.080 Okay, I'm not there yet. I'm not there. 0:09:42.080 --> 0:09:43.040 Sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah. 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:47.000 But then you've got Tyler Tyler Algier behind them behind 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:49.800 and he's a bowling ball. He's a guy who's going 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:51.920 to run the football. So you look at that in 0:09:52.000 --> 0:09:56.280 terms of the weaponry that Atlanta has, and then you 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:59.120 look at the wide receivers and you say, okay, you've 0:09:59.120 --> 0:10:03.160 got Mooney, You've got you've got Drake London. Yes, then 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.960 you've also got Kyle Pitts. This is the closest offense 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:11.439 in terms of Atlanta that Dallas is faced to Detroit 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:14.040 so far. That's the close This is the closest thing. 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:16.800 Kirk Cousins is a game manager to a point where 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:19.840 he can just kind of think it, dun'k it, toss 0:10:19.880 --> 0:10:22.200 it around. But that's not all he can do either. 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:23.480 It's kind of like Jared Goff. 0:10:23.679 --> 0:10:25.280 No, well, look at his last game. 0:10:25.320 --> 0:10:29.760 He averaged nine point five yards, four touchdowns, four touchdowns, 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:32.240 no interceptions, eighty percent completion percent. 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:34.680 No, he is a that's that's. 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:35.480 Arguably pretty good. 0:10:35.559 --> 0:10:41.560 Yeah, he's I'm comparing this as this is Detroit Junior. 0:10:41.960 --> 0:10:45.319 It's not Detroit. It's not the Lions offense, but they're 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:47.680 very comparable in the way that they're built and the 0:10:47.679 --> 0:10:49.840 way that they're managed, and they're going to try and 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.320 do the exact same thing Detroit did to you, which 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.080 is run it, run it, run it, and then big 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:57.240 bomb over at the top. The guys like Sam la Porter, 0:10:57.559 --> 0:11:02.959 Kyle Pitts, guys like guys like Jamison Williams, Drake London. 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:06.240 I mean, they've got so many different guys, Miners, Saint Brown, 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.120 You've got Mooney, I mean, all of it. 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:10.200 That is a scary comparison. If you think about it 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:12.280 like that, that's actually like scary accurate. 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:15.600 Yeah, but like I said, it has to start with spooped. 0:11:15.760 --> 0:11:20.680 Yeah, he shook it before Halloween tomorrow, shook it spooky season. 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:23.240 But yeah, I mean that's why for me, it has 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:25.520 to be the defensive line, in the defensive front seven, 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:28.520 because if you can do your best to bottle up 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:32.360 that run rushing attack with Robinson and Algier. And that 0:11:32.440 --> 0:11:34.480 also goes to, like I said, the linebackers keeping them 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:37.760 in the backfield from being receivers, because the Falcons' third 0:11:37.840 --> 0:11:40.680 leading receiver is b John Robinson, so. 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:42.160 Hate that yeah he can. 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:43.360 I don't like that, right. 0:11:43.600 --> 0:11:46.680 So if you are not able to stop that two 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.839 headed rushing attack slash receiving attack out of the backfield, 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.520 your cornerbacks are going to have a much longer day 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:54.839 because now they're going to start thinking, should I when 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.720 I when they? If I'm Trayvon Diggs, I would like 0:11:57.760 --> 0:12:00.840 to be purely thinking about coverage. But if my front 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:04.520 seven isn't playing effectively, then now I got to start thinking, well, 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:06.600 maybe if I see Bejeon coming out on the edge, 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:08.319 maybe I need to crash down. Well, guess what as 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:10.400 soon as I do that over the top of my 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:13.520 head to Drake London or whomever Kirk Cousins chooses on 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:14.400 that particular play. 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:17.800 So, I don't think it works in the verse. 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:19.679 I don't think it's a situation where, oh, if you 0:12:19.720 --> 0:12:23.760 stop the pass, then this Cowboys defense has shown time 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:26.839 and again that they struggle stopping the run, and then 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:31.000 that leads to them being unable to consistently stop the pass. 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:36.080 Atlanta has scored twenty nine point eight points per game, 0:12:36.120 --> 0:12:40.320 so nearly thirty points per game over the last four games. 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:42.440 It's the fourth most in the NFL over that span. 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:44.920 And they scored, of course, thirty one points last week 0:12:44.960 --> 0:12:47.200 in the win against Tampa Bay. They've won four of 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:50.560 their last five games in order to take the lead 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:54.400 inside the NFC South, We've got more on the Atlanta defense. 0:12:54.400 --> 0:12:55.880 I want to take our first break because I want 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.080 to leave enough time in the final segment for my 0:12:58.120 --> 0:13:01.680 guy Patrick. No c Walker hit some lab coat. So 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:03.840 when we come back, we'll take a deeper dive into this. 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:07.760 Which weapon from the Atlanta Falcons worries you the most 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:11.199 going up against this Dallas defense? Plus what's the Dallas 0:13:11.240 --> 0:13:15.199 percentage to make the playoffs? Now at three and four, 0:13:15.720 --> 0:13:17.480 I've got a number for you when we come back 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:21.200 right after this with more talking cowboys. 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We had some great calls yesterday. 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:43.640 I'll talk fantastic. 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:45.440 I love it when we get quite a few in. 0:15:45.720 --> 0:15:48.000 Yeah, and spread spread the love, you know what I mean, 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:50.000 new people calling and old people calling. 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:53.120 Yeah, I love. There was a lot of hopeism, hope 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:55.440 kind of throwing out there. And that's one thing I've 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:59.560 noticed about the Talking Cowboys viewership is there's still certainly 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:02.760 the the frustrated fan, and there's probably a lot of 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:04.400 them right now, because I think all of us are 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:07.280 a little frustrated at times with this football team. Me, 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:10.920 oh yeah, what are you talking about. But a lot 0:16:10.960 --> 0:16:13.800 of times the callers specifically are very optimistic, and I 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:17.720 enjoy that. I think it's great. It provides a new perspective. 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:20.040 And I thought yesterday, right at the end, we had 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:23.320 a very good call down the stretch that was all 0:16:23.360 --> 0:16:26.479 about optimism. I believe it was Gavin that had the optimism. 0:16:26.640 --> 0:16:28.600 Yeah, you had me ready to run through a brick wall, 0:16:28.760 --> 0:16:30.080 Thank goodness Gavin did. 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:34.560 But what have you seen? Yeah, not the same today, 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:38.040 not this march, Gavin, Go ahead, give it a call. 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:40.920 Recent when you went to sleep, Yeah, I've slept since then. 0:16:41.600 --> 0:16:43.920 Uh, Cowboys at three and four? Do you know the 0:16:44.000 --> 0:16:46.920 percentage off the top of your head of how many 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:48.920 three and four teams have ever made the playoffs in 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:49.480 the NFL. 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:52.280 Top of my head, if you had a guess three 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:54.720 and four, I'd say twenty nine percent. 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:58.320 Okay, twenty nine percent, would you say, Pat, I go 0:16:58.400 --> 0:17:02.960 thirty five? Thirty five? Little bit bigger three and four 0:17:03.000 --> 0:17:07.600 teams that have made the playoffs nineteen point two percent 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:11.880 m GB not good, right, not great? Ball not great, 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:13.200 but not great. 0:17:13.960 --> 0:17:15.040 That puts us in a pickle. 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:19.080 Forty four times in NFL history that a three and 0:17:19.160 --> 0:17:21.439 four team has made the playoffs forty four. So Dallas 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:24.040 could be number forty five, could be a nice round 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:26.720 number forty five. Dallas has done it before. By the way, 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:29.240 they were three and four back in twenty eighteen. Turn 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:31.680 Around made the playoffs. They won seven of their last 0:17:31.720 --> 0:17:34.080 eight games in order to do so a little bit 0:17:34.080 --> 0:17:35.920 of a tougher schedule this time around than it was. 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:39.480 Also eighteen at the trade did they did a thing? 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:44.639 A thing? Winton got a guy named Amari Cooper that 0:17:44.800 --> 0:17:47.000 helped you kind of turn things around. So might it 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:48.840 take doing another big thing? 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:51.479 I mean at what position? At what position? 0:17:51.520 --> 0:17:53.159 What would Yeah, that's a great point. What would you 0:17:53.200 --> 0:17:53.560 do it at? 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:54.080 MM? 0:17:54.400 --> 0:17:57.439 Well, assume because we can't talk about players specifically, but 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:57.840 we can. 0:17:58.119 --> 0:17:59.960 Just a guy, just one guy, one position. 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:03.879 We can't talk no, I mean like yeah, like one spot. 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:05.160 In theory, it would be a man. 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:09.120 Theory would be. 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:17.920 Like the guy on that shirt, you know, man, Just 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:21.280 just just drop a guy right next to Osa. Just 0:18:21.320 --> 0:18:23.880 drop a guy right next big body defensive. Just drop 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:26.400 a monster right next to Osa. And let's really get 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:26.840 this cooking. 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.680 And I mean scrab Aaron Donald off the what not? 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:30.680 I mean, Maus Smith. 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:34.040 He's he's shown progress over year one most certainly that is, 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:36.240 you know, not even arguable. 0:18:36.480 --> 0:18:37.760 He has shown progress. 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:40.040 Is he where you would like him to be at 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:44.440 this point as far as mauling guys consistently every single rep? 0:18:44.480 --> 0:18:46.240 He's not quite there yet. He's getting there, but not 0:18:46.320 --> 0:18:47.000 quite there yet. 0:18:47.080 --> 0:18:50.679 And if we're talking about potentially saving the season, trade 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:55.160 for just an absolute monster. Put him in between Tank 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:58.240 and Osa and Micah and uh and in front of 0:18:58.359 --> 0:19:03.000 Kendrickson and was shown and go eat these. 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:04.959