WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Final Thoughts & Predictions 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:05.520 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:16.959 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:17.360 --> 0:00:20.759 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the 0:00:20.840 --> 0:00:33.360 Star in Frisco. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian Brons, Rob Phillips, 0:00:33.640 --> 0:00:39.519 and Bill Jones. And it's a fabulous Football Friday edition 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:42.120 of Talking Cowboys as we get you set for the 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:45.640 Cowboys and the New York Giants, a three twenty five 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:49.760 kickoff on Sunday afternoon at at and T Stadium. It 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:53.159 is finally here. It's time for the real deal, and 0:00:53.200 --> 0:00:56.400 I think we're all ready for it, right guys? Absolutely yep, 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:03.440 nice alliteration. A fabulous or fantastic football football Friday here 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:06.520 and and what a great football weekend. We're not going 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:09.560 to belabor the point, but huge games for Rob Phillips 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:12.760 and Brian brought us as Rob Phillips Aggies will take 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:16.399 on Clemson and Brian brought us LSU Bayou Bengals will 0:01:16.440 --> 0:01:18.840 play the Texas Longhorns. You're not going down to Austin, 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:20.200 are you? If you had a high school game there 0:01:20.200 --> 0:01:23.760 tonight and I'm driving home right afterwards. Really gonna stick around, hope, 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.119 I canna stick around. Yeah, my son plays down there 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:29.440 Friday night, and so yeah, we're gonna head back after 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:32.440 the game. Okay, all right, very good and uh and 0:01:32.560 --> 0:01:35.440 love the well. And of course, we had a high 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.080 school football game here at Ford Center at the Star 0:01:38.240 --> 0:01:40.920 last night as play O played at El Paso Eastwood. 0:01:40.920 --> 0:01:43.400 A great scene there. Jerry Jones was out in the 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:47.960 Tostitos Championship plaza greeting the Eastwood team as they made 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:51.520 their way into the Star. And good feelings all around 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:54.240 on that. And Mickey, you got a big game tomorrow 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.040 two at eleven am West Virginia. I try that's the 0:01:57.120 --> 0:02:00.080 ugly off. And now we get to the Giants and 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:02.440 what's Oklahoma? Everyone to play South Dakota. We don't need 0:02:02.480 --> 0:02:05.440 to talk about South Dakota. Okay, it's our one layup, 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:08.800 all right, So let's move on to the New York Giants. 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:13.320 And speaking of Jerry Jones and the Zeke Elliott press 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:18.040 conference yesterday, I just think Jerry Jones has been on 0:02:18.240 --> 0:02:22.080 his game, and not only this week but throughout the preseason. 0:02:22.240 --> 0:02:24.440 And I think one of the reasons is he feels 0:02:24.680 --> 0:02:27.040 very good about where this football team is right now. 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:29.440 He has to feel better about getting that elite running 0:02:29.480 --> 0:02:31.480 back in here, for sure. And I think that if 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:33.639 you are a fan of football and you watch last 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:36.280 night's games, you'll see what a lack of a running 0:02:36.320 --> 0:02:38.639 game will do for you there. And neither teams really 0:02:38.639 --> 0:02:41.200 could do anything offensively. And if you if you're gonna 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:44.239 have in balance and you're gonna have problems throwing the ball, 0:02:44.280 --> 0:02:46.120 you gotta have something to hang your hat on. And 0:02:46.160 --> 0:02:48.760 I feel like that Jerry Jones knows. Now. You know, 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:51.200 Tony Poller did a lot of nice things, but Ezeki 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:53.519 Elliott is an elite player, and to turn around and 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:55.360 be able to hand him the football if things are 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.519 kind of a little crazy on offense, you know, those 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.200 are the things that can give your offense some stability. 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:03.760 And so I think he has to be very happy 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:06.280 about that, about having the group of players he has, 0:03:06.320 --> 0:03:09.119 about having Kellen Moore is his offensive coordina. I'm really 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:12.320 excited to see what Kellen Moore can do with this offense, 0:03:12.560 --> 0:03:15.200 I really am. I think he's got some some weapons 0:03:15.240 --> 0:03:17.440 that he can work with the defense. We've talked about 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.160 them a bunch yesterday, But I think this offense has 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:22.239 got the chance to be really good in a lot 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:25.000 of different areas. In regards to that game last night, 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.240 the Chicago Bears, I'm laive. I heard on the radio. 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:31.320 This is right. Their last thirty three plays were past 0:03:31.360 --> 0:03:34.560 plays for a ten three game. You still have to 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:37.680 have balance in this that quarterback. Yeah, that's the thing, 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.040 and I think that to me. People ask me about 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:43.119 Dak Prescott and what you know, and you know, can 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:45.520 you throw the ball with him forty times a game 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:48.120 and have success? You know, last night we saw it 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:50.640 and I was the guy Yeston heck, I would draft 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:52.680 Aaron Rodgers is one of my first guys if I 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.080 was looking at a team. But that's what you see 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:58.440 the quarterback. If you have quarterback inconsistency in a game, 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:00.880 you're gonna need something else to hang your hat on. 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:05.000 And I think that's where Ezekiel. This offensive line is 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:07.440 the difference to things. If Dak were to get into 0:04:07.440 --> 0:04:09.760 a rut like they had last night, at least I 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:11.800 feel like that they could do things offensively running the 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:14.600 football to kind of get themselves going. Maybe we need 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:18.920 more preseason games. That was ugly and neither team was 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:24.920 ready to play or any preseason games, just you guysenies, 0:04:25.040 --> 0:04:29.440 the penalties, the lack of protection for the quarterbacks. I mean, 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:33.200 it was we did and we talked about yesterday's terrible 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:35.400 tackling can be an issue in week one because you're 0:04:35.440 --> 0:04:37.320 not really you're not doing it in practice, your and 0:04:37.360 --> 0:04:40.320 your starters are doing it very minimally. That's a word 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:44.240 in preseason games. So we'll see. I mean, you know, 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:46.880 the Cowboys I think have been sharp. The starting units 0:04:46.920 --> 0:04:49.640 were sharp and limited preseason action, so we'll see if 0:04:49.680 --> 0:04:51.920 they can carry that over. But to your point about 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:55.600 Jerry being on his game, I think that press conference 0:04:55.800 --> 0:05:00.000 illustrated better than anything his experience with these types of contracts. 0:05:00.120 --> 0:05:03.719 And you know, he never seemed frazzled by the situation 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:06.080 when asked about it over the last six weeks. And 0:05:06.240 --> 0:05:09.680 obviously he and Zeke are not taking whatever back and 0:05:09.760 --> 0:05:12.680 forth was the dance involved with that. Nothing was was 0:05:12.720 --> 0:05:15.960 taken personally. Obviously, based on that T shirt that's now 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:19.760 on sale free order at the Cowboys Pro Shop, all 0:05:19.880 --> 0:05:22.880 proceeds go into Salvation Army. That's right. And there's no 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:25.560 way that Zeke took a fense to what Cherry had 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:30.040 said in Hawaii is he does. Anybody asked Zeek that, Uh, 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:34.039 he said, it's it's so far away now, Yeah, he 0:05:34.160 --> 0:05:38.719 was anymore. But I'm in my opinion. I mean, I 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:42.600 think the agent used that just as you know. May 0:05:42.839 --> 0:05:44.640 maybe the agent took a fense to it. I don't know. 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:49.720 But they have too good a relationship and everybody's happy. Everybody. Yeah, 0:05:49.720 --> 0:05:52.599 he got especially you hear the context of what got 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:54.719 their player and he got his money. So yeah, I 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:56.599 mean there's a lot to be happy about. But you know, 0:05:56.640 --> 0:05:58.800 we need to see that. But to answer your question, 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:02.800 I think, yes, he understands how good this team could be. Yeah, 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.080 And I think he's feeling good about what he's seen 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:07.960 so far. And he's no different from the rest of us, right, 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.320 I mean, we can see, we can see what you know. 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:13.920 If I don't think it was a mirage what we've 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:18.040 been watching for six weeks, this should be a very 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.080 good team. We talked yesterday Buil at the end of 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:23.560 the show, what concern I think Brian went around the room, 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:25.560 what concerns you the most about this team? And it's 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.480 really hard to pick. For me, it's hard to pick 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:30.680 something and say I'm really concerned about this or this 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:34.360 like top to bottom, it's a pretty solid football team. 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:36.960 The one thing for me is, and we talked about 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.960 the kicking, you gotta see consistency there as he moves 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:43.480 out of preseason Brett Maher, But you know guys coming 0:06:43.480 --> 0:06:46.480 off of injury and the offensive line hasn't been together 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:48.880 for a little stretch here, so you know some of 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:51.400 your key guys coming back. Can they get back to 0:06:51.440 --> 0:06:54.919 the standard they're used to? And one concern for the 0:06:55.000 --> 0:06:58.920 overriding concern for me is and I think that this 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.560 team is in good shape because it's got enough veterans 0:07:01.560 --> 0:07:05.279 on the team that understand this. But it's not reading 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:08.960 your press clippings basically and not being overconfident going into 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:12.360 the season. Um, I think if they if they are 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:17.160 ready for in a mental state of mind to understand 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:19.720 that those New York Giants can beat you on Sunday, 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:23.440 which they should understand that, and they're ready to go, 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:27.480 then they're going to be fine. Um. Injuries are always 0:07:27.480 --> 0:07:30.120 a concern, and they've got better depth now as we've 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:33.880 talked about throughout the last six weeks that the depth 0:07:33.920 --> 0:07:35.800 on this team is the best it's been in years. 0:07:36.360 --> 0:07:39.080 Of course, but there are certain injuries that no team 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:42.080 could could overcome and reach the goal that your e 0:07:42.160 --> 0:07:44.720 have set out in front of you. But that's my 0:07:44.720 --> 0:07:48.040 biggest concern. It happened in twenty fifteen. You lose Romo 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:52.840 in your seasons, right, you know it's it's an uphill climb. Yeah, 0:07:52.880 --> 0:07:55.360 but I look at the look at it this way 0:07:55.600 --> 0:08:00.280 from an offensive standpoint. Look at the weapons that Dak 0:08:00.320 --> 0:08:04.360 Prescott has at his disposal going into this season opener 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:08.360 compared to last year. Yeah, You've got Amari Cooper, you 0:08:08.480 --> 0:08:10.880 got Randall cop Cole Beasley, and if you want to 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:15.480 say that's a washwever Okay, Witton's back, you got Tony Pollard. 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:19.720 I'm missing a Travis Frederick. Michael Michael Gallup is now 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:23.560 a second year guy. Yeah, okay, last year and he's 0:08:23.560 --> 0:08:26.440 a rookie. You know, everything's just flying by so fast. 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:28.760 I mean I count it. There was There's six weapons, 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:33.440 not even including the return of Travis Frederick. What he 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:35.760 does front with the whether whether they run the football, 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:39.000 He's a key part of that six skill position guys 0:08:39.280 --> 0:08:42.960 that chasing this team. Yeah that that weren't here last year. 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:46.640 Who has to give? And the quarterbacks not lacking in 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:48.800 confidence even when he didn't have these guys. But you 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:51.640 can only imagine what he's thinking going into this right now. 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:55.280 Even this is better than Terrence Williams and Deonte Thompson 0:08:55.440 --> 0:08:57.880 starting at whiten receiver. Well, they made a huge mistake 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:00.920 and they admit it. They knew that schiever by committee 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:03.360 was not the way to go. Give him credit for that, yep, 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:05.920 making the move absolutely, And you might even throw a 0:09:05.920 --> 0:09:07.920 Blake Jarwin in that mix. Now that yeah, that's right, 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:10.320 a guy, you know, a year under his belt, truly 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:12.880 a year under his belt and back practicing. It looks 0:09:12.880 --> 0:09:14.800 like you who was the NFC Offensive Player of the 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:17.520 Week the last week of the season last year the 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:20.920 New York Football Giants. That's right, you know, and he 0:09:21.040 --> 0:09:23.440 was he was so green going into last year even 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.560 though he hadn't he had been in the league, but 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:27.800 he hadn't played, you know, he hadn't played, wasn't and 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:30.280 the other guy had and Gallup hadn't played, you know, 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:35.040 and so right right, and Rico hadn't played. And having 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:37.840 said that about the list, having said that about the 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:41.520 whole offense, then you look at this defense and go 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.400 the defense, it looks like it's going to be good 0:09:45.480 --> 0:09:48.120 enough that you're going to be in every game, you 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.680 know what I mean. Oh, there's no question if you 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:53.079 look at what they did to that offense that you said, 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:55.000 had all these guys play, and I mean not to 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:59.120 everybody practiced every single snap, but I thought this defense 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.480 really held this offense to task and having to having 0:10:02.520 --> 0:10:05.040 to pass to football, whether it was a seven on 0:10:05.160 --> 0:10:07.840 seven drill, a team period of two minute drill, whatever, 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:10.280 Yeah they if it was good verse good out there 0:10:10.360 --> 0:10:12.880 work and you saw it, you know, you saw those guys. 0:10:12.880 --> 0:10:14.319 It makes you feel a little bit better about it. 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:17.080 If if Byron Jones doesn't start, at least you feel 0:10:17.120 --> 0:10:19.640 good about Anthony Brown. I used to feel good about 0:10:19.679 --> 0:10:21.959 George Lewis. At least you feel good about a woozy A. 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.520 You feel good about those guys for what you saw 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.320 from them, really all ot a and then all through 0:10:27.360 --> 0:10:30.600 training camp, and that was without Byron Jones, De Marcus Lawrence, 0:10:30.640 --> 0:10:33.960 Tyrone Crawford. Absolutely get in the field. Yeah, think about it. Yeah, 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:36.000 they're missing Zeke too on the other side, but in 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:40.360 Amari for most of camp. But look it'll y'all right, 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:43.319 Dak nothing Dak got was really easy, and I didn't 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:45.760 think it was. I thought it was good competition. And 0:10:46.040 --> 0:10:48.600 when people said, well, Dak didn't look good to day, 0:10:48.600 --> 0:10:51.120 I'm like, well, it's really not Dak's fault, because what 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:54.080 happens is Dak was getting, you know, the coverage that 0:10:54.160 --> 0:10:56.720 they you know, even guys like Michael Gallup, who we've 0:10:56.760 --> 0:10:59.960 talked about as potentially being having a great as being 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.360 one b in my mind, you know, he was having 0:11:03.400 --> 0:11:05.760 a fight for space out there on the outside, some 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.760 tight window throws and so some days it was really good. 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:10.480 Some days it would But I think it wasn't because 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:12.600 Dak Prescott was just throwing the ball all over the 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.600 park and missing throws. It was because defense was having 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.360 to play and having to cover those good receivers and 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:21.600 then having to make plays on the football. Mickey, you've 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:25.640 seen a couple of practice reports and concerns injury wise 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:30.760 going into Sunday. Not really I expected them to be 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.880 very conservative with Zack Martin, and he was really the 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:37.640 only one that was that we thought was going to 0:11:37.720 --> 0:11:40.160 play was limited and it sounded like he was going 0:11:40.240 --> 0:11:43.600 to jump into practice today fully, So yeah, I think 0:11:43.640 --> 0:11:45.800 that was more of a precaution more. Yeah, I think 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:48.679 Mickey's onto something here because Zack Martin, to me, is 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:50.640 the one guy that's going to have to play the 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:54.080 whole game, you know it. Because it's easy to monitor 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:56.840 the reps of the defensive lineman or the cornerbacks and 0:11:56.920 --> 0:11:59.040 kind of shuffle those guys in and out. It's a 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:00.920 little bit more different cool to do it with an 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.439 offensive lineman. You're not gonna sit there and say, oh, 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:05.360 Xavier two, Philo is going to go in here now 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:08.400 for two for two reds or for two series or 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.400 something like that. You need the continuity with the offensive line. 0:12:11.440 --> 0:12:13.439 So if you kind of baby him along to get 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:14.760 him to the end of the week and get him 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:16.920 to the game, maybe you're saving a little where and 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:20.200 tear of him having to potentially play sixty sixty five 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.880 snaps in this football game. You know the feeling I 0:12:22.920 --> 0:12:29.439 get on this team and it's like first games can 0:12:29.480 --> 0:12:33.640 create anxiety, like you don't know, Jason Witten said that 0:12:33.920 --> 0:12:36.560 I just get. I just get the feeling that this 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:40.720 team is like bubbling to get going. Yeah, like for real, 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:44.760 it's like they're not scared and it's still a young team, 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:48.040 but it's a young team with experience. So that's just 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:50.760 the vibe I get from in that locker room, right 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:52.719 And I'm not going to compare. I'm not going to 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.360 say this is a super Bowl team yet, but it's 0:12:55.360 --> 0:12:59.959 the same. By the way, it's the same type feeling 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.280 that I had for those Cowboys Super Bowl teams in 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.840 the nineties in that two week period leading up to 0:13:05.840 --> 0:13:07.839 the Super Bowl, where they just were going to get 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:11.640 unleashed come game day. Now that sort of thing, you know, Yeah, 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:15.400 and you mentioned over confidence. I don't think I would 0:13:15.400 --> 0:13:17.560 worry about that with this group, even though they are young, 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:21.079 because man, they were. They were left in the ditch 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.640 mid season last year and had to crawl their way back, 0:13:23.800 --> 0:13:26.600 and I think that's a good lesson for a young group, honestly, 0:13:26.800 --> 0:13:28.800 and Amari obviously it's a big part of that. But 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.160 everybody kind of pulled together to get this thing back 0:13:31.200 --> 0:13:33.520 on the road, and I think that's a good lesson. 0:13:33.640 --> 0:13:35.680 I think there was a ditch after the loss to 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:40.600 the Rams. I don't think people initially, before all this started, 0:13:41.000 --> 0:13:43.959 people took this team seriously. You know, if you looked 0:13:43.960 --> 0:13:49.800 at nationally power rankings twelfth, fifteenth, no one was taking 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:53.920 them seriously. Now I see the tide turning, and it's like, oh, 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:57.280 this team might be pretty good. Now Locally people are 0:13:57.320 --> 0:14:00.439 picking the Cowboys to win the division. But now nationally, 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:04.040 isn't it that they're they're going Eagles. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:07.560 And usually the players are watching the national shows. Yeah, 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.480 so that's that's what they're seeing. Yeah, yeah, I think 0:14:10.520 --> 0:14:12.800 that I think it'll be it's you know, you go 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:16.559 player by player with Philadelphia, there's a lot of similarities 0:14:16.600 --> 0:14:19.280 between the two teams. If you talk about the offensive lines, 0:14:20.000 --> 0:14:23.560 you know, the skill I think, you know, they Eagles 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.760 have better tight ends, the Cowboys likely better wide receivers. 0:14:27.240 --> 0:14:30.320 You know, say what you want about their quarterback, your quarterback. 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.760 You know, both the same draft, you know, both similar records, 0:14:33.800 --> 0:14:37.040 both similar stats. Kind of a thing. So one stays 0:14:37.080 --> 0:14:39.720 healthy the other doesn't, you know. So yeah, I think 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.680 if you look at overall, you would say these teams 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.280 are pretty evenly matched. And that's why I feel like 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:48.640 that that that national people are looking at the Eagles. 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:50.440 You know, the Eagles have in the last couple of 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:53.400 years want a super Bowl with that coach, So that's 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.720 you know, that's probably thinking, okay, with that talented of 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.760 roster and with that coach that gives them the edge 0:14:58.760 --> 0:15:01.320 O with the Cowboys right now, that's a good point. 0:15:01.440 --> 0:15:04.000 And then if you look across the conference, man, you 0:15:04.000 --> 0:15:06.680 can I mean, I think everybody feels like it's the 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.160 Eagles are the biggest threat to the Cowboys over the 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.240 course of the entire season in the division. 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That's Monday night, 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:35.520 and of course Sunday afternoon it's the Cowboys and the Giants. 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:39.879 Check out the Thursday show for some of the breakdown 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.360 on these New York Giants. But let's go around the horn. 0:18:43.280 --> 0:18:46.320 What concerns you the most about this opponent this week? 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:49.760 The Giants? You know, I'll leave everyone else to talk 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:51.840 about the runner, because I kind of feel like that's 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:54.000 the direction I'm going to talk about something that could 0:18:54.040 --> 0:18:56.240 be a problem. I don't think the Giants can create 0:18:56.400 --> 0:18:59.480 much of a pass rush, Okay, So I feel like 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:04.639 though that the James Betcher, the defensive coordinator for the 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:06.680 Giants is going to have to come up with some 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:10.720 creative ways to get pressure. I think that the Cowboys 0:19:10.800 --> 0:19:13.680 upfront can protect if if, in fact, he just tries 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:16.719 to rush for but where he's going to have to attack? 0:19:16.880 --> 0:19:21.120 And I think he attacks because if Ezekieli does play, 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:22.960 and he's one of the best bullets pickup guys I've 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:25.200 ever seen, but how much is he really going to play? 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:27.560 Can they catch him when he's not on the field 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:31.919 and take advantage of say Tony Pollard or take advantage 0:19:31.960 --> 0:19:37.240 of Jamais Olawally. This is going to be the for 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:38.920 what the Giants are going to have to do for 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:41.280 their game plan, because if they just sit there and 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:43.879 rush four all they Dallas will eat them up. And 0:19:44.080 --> 0:19:46.359 Garrett talked about their secondary being good and all that 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:49.919 and having respect. He's right. They've got a couple of rookies. 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:51.520 They got a rookie at the nickel, they got a 0:19:51.600 --> 0:19:54.159 rookie on the outside, they got a gambler on the 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:57.080 other side. So you know, there's some things I think 0:19:57.119 --> 0:19:58.639 you could do this group, but they're going to have 0:19:58.800 --> 0:20:02.440 to create pressure. If the Giants are going to have success, 0:20:02.600 --> 0:20:05.239 it's going to be blitzing the Cowboys and seeing if 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:08.960 these cowboy running backs can pick up the blitz and 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:11.800 can handle the pressure in order to get the football off. 0:20:11.880 --> 0:20:14.520 That's something that would be concerning to me because Zeke 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:17.280 hasn't had the training camp practices. Can you get him 0:20:17.280 --> 0:20:19.440 off the field? Is that Pollard in there? Is that 0:20:19.520 --> 0:20:21.760 Oldiwally in there? Who is the guy that's gonna be 0:20:21.760 --> 0:20:23.680 blitz picking up That's going to be the key for 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:25.920 the Cowboys right now, Mick, would you like to take 0:20:25.960 --> 0:20:29.760 the runner? I'll take the runner. I just knew you, guys. 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:31.879 I mean I was just trying to. I mean, there 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:37.680 were very few things to worry about other self infliction. 0:20:38.840 --> 0:20:41.520 But yeah, I think that he's a guy that can 0:20:41.640 --> 0:20:44.640 take over the game. They did a pretty good job 0:20:45.000 --> 0:20:48.440 early last year against him when he was a rookie though, 0:20:48.680 --> 0:20:52.760 just starting off. But he did catch enough passes for 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:56.159