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Speaker 2: Well Happy victory Monday, Cowboys Nation. A very dominant performance
Speaker 2: by your Dallas Cowboys forty to three beating the Minnesota Vikings,
Speaker 2: and we're going to get all into that. This is
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Speaker 2: I'm joined here with two incredible co hosts of mine,
Speaker 2: of course, we have Christie Scales and Ayisha Morrison. I'm Jessnavars.
Speaker 2: I am holding down at the h host seat before
Speaker 2: and I'm a little too excited about this win, guys,
Speaker 2: So I am not sorry for anything I say today
Speaker 2: because I am just pumped, y'all. How are we feeling
Speaker 2: on this victory?
Speaker 3: I am lit like, y'all.
Speaker 4: I'm lit like. I'm very excited about this win. For
Speaker 4: a number of reasons that we're gonna get into.
Speaker 5: But I'm the same. I'm composed, but then not.
Speaker 2: Right, right, Christy, how are you feeling all?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean just dominating in all three phases. So
Speaker 7: I like the way just that you use the word dominant,
Speaker 7: because that's what it was yesterday. And the one thing
Speaker 7: that you never expect when you play a game in
Speaker 7: Minnesota is a silent crowd, and that's what we had
Speaker 7: by the second half, because that's a raucous group. They've
Speaker 7: such great fan support up there, and so when you
Speaker 7: can just take control early in the game, you know,
Speaker 7: state pedal to the metal.
Speaker 3: That's what happened.
Speaker 7: And at the end it was just Cowboys fans left
Speaker 7: and the starters on defense who were on the sideline
Speaker 7: as the backups took their place. Late in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 7: They're raising the roofs oh Man, and the only sound
Speaker 7: chew here are Let's go Cowboys, And that's something I
Speaker 7: would never expect to hear in Minnesota.
Speaker 2: That is glorious music to my ears, for sure. But
Speaker 2: I wanted to get initial reactions because of course, this
Speaker 2: was a game with high stakes and very high pressure
Speaker 2: on this Cowboys team to make their comeback after what
Speaker 2: happened in green Bay, and so I wanted to get
Speaker 2: y'all's reactions because of course a win would have been exciting,
Speaker 2: but this style of win, we're talking forty to three.
Speaker 2: Minnesota was already capped out at seventeen points for that
Speaker 2: being the highest deficit in their season so far, for
Speaker 2: any game that they've played. This is not a bad
Speaker 2: team by any means. Minnesota is a fantastic team. We
Speaker 2: are talking a playoff component at this point top of
Speaker 2: the NFC, and Dallas went out forty to three. Guys.
Speaker 2: I can't stop saying that that's just so exciting. Is
Speaker 2: you're an initial reaction to this dominant Dallas performance? A
Speaker 2: shall I'll start with you and then we'll hop to Christy.
Speaker 2: Now I'm pass it. Go ahead, Christy, I'm down here.
Speaker 2: What she got to say?
Speaker 5: She was there?
Speaker 7: No, they just dominated the line of scrimmage, both sides
Speaker 7: of the ball and the holes that Tony Pollard and
Speaker 7: Zeke had to run through. Malik at the end, Malik Davis,
Speaker 7: what was happening the previous week in green Bay? Remember
Speaker 7: how we talked about yards after contact Aaron Jones and
Speaker 7: green Bay was getting at against the Cowboys. This week,
Speaker 7: it was totally the opposite. It was the Cowboys that
Speaker 7: were getting the push up front from the line. The
Speaker 7: pass rush was relentless. And so when you get up
Speaker 7: on offense right and get a big lead and force
Speaker 7: the opponent to have to try and pass the ball
Speaker 7: to get back in the game, then you can unlease
Speaker 7: the unleash the pass rush, but just a and then
Speaker 7: special teams. We'll talk about that more as we go along,
Speaker 7: but complimentary football at its finest, and so you win
Speaker 7: the line of scrimmage, you don't commit too many penalties,
Speaker 7: you protect the ball. And it goes back to what
Speaker 7: we say every week, the team that's going to win
Speaker 7: the game is the one that makes the fewest mistakes.
Speaker 7: Minnesota is licking their wounds today because not only did
Speaker 7: they get dominated, but they had self inflicted wounds.
Speaker 2: There you go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Cowboys just looked prepared in this game.
Speaker 5: It was they were so locked in to start that game.
Speaker 4: And one of the most most impressive things about this
Speaker 4: game to me is just seeing that this team is.
Speaker 5: Not afraid to adjust.
Speaker 4: And when I say that, I mean like, even from
Speaker 4: an offensive standpoint, you have a new offensive line, a
Speaker 4: fairly new offensive line. These guys have come in here
Speaker 4: adjusted and they're playing well, they're yelling well. And then
Speaker 4: also on the offensive side of the ball, to make
Speaker 4: the adjustment to know that running the ball is your
Speaker 4: strength and that you can play off of that, and
Speaker 4: then to incorporate it took a listen. It took kell
Speaker 4: In a while to get to understand. I don't even
Speaker 4: know if it's to understand, but just to really see
Speaker 4: the full scope of what Tony Pollard is capable of
Speaker 4: and this offense and the way that this running game
Speaker 4: is really taking off, I think is definitely the reason
Speaker 4: why this offense is starting to go. And I'm I'm
Speaker 4: that was the biggest thing to me. The defense is
Speaker 4: gonna play relentless. I was definitely impressed with them, But
Speaker 4: the offensive side of the ball, the willingness to make
Speaker 4: adjustments and do different do different things.
Speaker 5: Tempo. Your quarterback is back, like your quarterback.
Speaker 4: Is playing at a high level, not afraid to use
Speaker 4: his legs anymore. Crazy, I mean, just so efficient even
Speaker 4: at the line of scrimmage, like it's him at the
Speaker 4: line of scrimmage is becoming a weapon. I feel like
Speaker 4: checking into the right place, free plays, getting guys off sides.
Speaker 4: I was just very impressed by the composure of the team,
Speaker 4: and they hurt the whispers you can tell they and
Speaker 4: I love that they're not I love that they're not
Speaker 4: afraid to acknowledge that, like this is a they're a
Speaker 4: social media age right now, let's keep it a buck right,
Speaker 4: Like you're gonna see, they're gonna see all of these
Speaker 4: things that people were talking about on this week and
Speaker 4: the things they're wearing a fishing in and they came
Speaker 4: out and shut a lot of us up.
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, there we go. And you know, I think
Speaker 2: something that we've constantly talked about on this podcast in
Speaker 2: terms of the Cowboys is them kind of you know,
Speaker 2: with the self inflicted wounds and kind of shooting themselves
Speaker 2: in their own foot sometimes. And it was very interesting
Speaker 2: to kind of see that role reverse when it came
Speaker 2: to the Vikings this week. I mean penalties, you're talking.
Speaker 2: I think, what were they the second least penalized team
Speaker 2: in the NFL, and the Cowboys had them just throw
Speaker 2: in those penalty flags over and over and I mean
Speaker 2: it was just the most dominant performance I think you
Speaker 2: will see in years and years to come. It was
Speaker 2: a glorious football game by the Dallas Cowboys, and Christy
Speaker 2: I wanted to hop into your sideline report because I
Speaker 2: had so many notes and when I was just sitting
Speaker 2: there watching, I was like, I need to ask Christy
Speaker 2: about all of this. But first and foremost, you talked
Speaker 2: about the crowd reaction. The crowd. I was listening to
Speaker 2: your the radio broadcast at one point point of the
Speaker 2: game and you said that the loudest crowd reaction came
Speaker 2: after a certain penalty call and that, Uh, that was
Speaker 2: interesting since the first quarter everybody got kind of quiet,
Speaker 2: and then there was a penalty I believe in the
Speaker 2: third or fourth quarter. Uh, and the crowd went wild
Speaker 2: at that point.
Speaker 7: Oh that was when they bowed so h that that's
Speaker 7: when Dalvin Cook, the running back for the Vikings, got
Speaker 7: called for personal foul.
Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 3: George Edwards.
Speaker 7: So, George Edwards is a Cowboys. He works a lot
Speaker 7: with the linebackers, but of senior defensive assistant coach and
Speaker 7: for many years he was the defensive coordinator for the
Speaker 7: Vikings and he was with Mike Zimmer staff and all
Speaker 7: of that. So long history. George Edwards in Minnesota and
Speaker 7: with a lot of those players that are still there.
Speaker 7: And so, but what's so funny is George. It's not
Speaker 7: that he's not competitive, but he's pretty mild mannered. And
Speaker 7: so we were remarking on the radio broadcast, it's like,
Speaker 7: of all the people on the sideline to to you know,
Speaker 7: get a response, Yeah, you wouldn't expect it to be George.
Speaker 7: So but yeah, the crowd did not have a lot
Speaker 7: to cheer for because remember it was interesting the Vikings
Speaker 7: won the toss and decided to take the ball. They
Speaker 7: didn't defer till the second half. And then the third
Speaker 7: play of the game is when Michael Parsons gets the
Speaker 7: sack strip forced fumble that's recovered by Dorance Armstrong and
Speaker 7: leads to a Cowboys early three to nothing leads. So overall,
Speaker 7: the Cowboys did a good job of keeping the crowd
Speaker 7: tamped down. And so, and that's a big factor because
Speaker 7: that place with their skull Vikings and the song and
Speaker 7: when they when they get the chance going and they
Speaker 7: get that Yowler horn going, it can be really raucous.
Speaker 4: And to your point, the I think that I'm sorry
Speaker 4: to interrupt you, I think that Dak mentioned that, like
Speaker 4: he mentioned it in his interview, like they were like,
Speaker 4: let's go out here and you know, quiet this. One
Speaker 4: of the guys, he said, one of the guys is like, hey,
Speaker 4: let's go and quiet this crowd down.
Speaker 5: And I'm like, that's the energy y'all on okay?
Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know what's great is that Minnesota has
Speaker 2: not won a game a home game against the Cowboys
Speaker 2: since twenty ten. And that's the keeping that streak alive.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And that's the first time they haven't scored on their
Speaker 4: open and drive this season.
Speaker 2: Yep, yep.
Speaker 5: And I think the panic set in.
Speaker 3: I really do.
Speaker 4: Like a lot of people are like, why did they
Speaker 4: go away from the run? Why did they you know,
Speaker 4: why didn't they keep continue to run the ball.
Speaker 7: I'm like, well, they fell behind hello, yeah, I mean
Speaker 7: they fell behind quickly.
Speaker 4: But that first, I mean immediately you saw in their
Speaker 4: faces when Micah bust through there and you could see
Speaker 4: them walk into the sideline and they were like, man,
Speaker 4: this is this is gonna be a I do have.
Speaker 3: To admit that.
Speaker 7: I mean I was expecting the Cowboys defense to rebound
Speaker 7: after because, like you were talking about, they heard the
Speaker 7: criticism all week, and so they had to chip on
Speaker 7: their shoulder, you know, going into this game. But I
Speaker 7: really expected the Vikings offense to be so much better
Speaker 7: just because what they have is continuity on their offensive line.
Speaker 7: People talk the last month or so scoring us down
Speaker 7: in the NFL this year, and what's the reason why. Well,
Speaker 7: it's because there's not a good There's not a lot
Speaker 7: of offensive line depth in the league.
Speaker 3: And so when teams.
Speaker 7: Like that, you know, why is Tom Brady, why was
Speaker 7: he struggling early in the season. Why is Matt Stafford
Speaker 7: out with a couple of concussions and having a bad season.
Speaker 7: Joe Burrow has been struggling behind their a lot of
Speaker 7: injuries with their offensive line, right, and so, but the
Speaker 7: Vikings have had the same guys start every single game.
Speaker 7: In fact, other than trading for Hawkinson and a couple
Speaker 7: of changes at tied end, they've had the same starting
Speaker 7: lineup on offense the whole year round. Now, when they
Speaker 7: lost Christian Darrisaw their left tackle to the concussion their
Speaker 7: midway through the first half, that made a big difference,
Speaker 7: and you saw Michael Parsons lining up a lot more
Speaker 7: what would be on the right edge of the Cowboy
Speaker 7: defense taking advantage with the matchup with the backup left
Speaker 7: tackle for the Vikings, and it paid dividends.
Speaker 3: And I want to mention one.
Speaker 7: More player, And I know we're going to talk more
Speaker 7: about defense in a bit, but Dorince Armstrong, Oh, had
Speaker 7: a terrific game this week. He looks like the Dorance
Speaker 7: of the first month of the season. So that's the thing.
Speaker 7: Not only did they win as a group, The thing
Speaker 7: is to win as a group, you individually have to
Speaker 7: whip the man in front of you. And they consistently
Speaker 7: did that yesterday.
Speaker 2: Oh, say Christy, and you know there was a couple
Speaker 2: of key moments that we all saw, Christy, you saw
Speaker 2: this in person, CD's toe drag swag catch. What was
Speaker 2: that like on the sidelines when that happened? And were
Speaker 2: you close enough to see that happen in real time?
Speaker 2: How did that all go down?
Speaker 7: So what happened was Dak is flesh from the pocket,
Speaker 7: He's running to the right and just makes a great throw,
Speaker 7: you know, at a full sprint as he's headed towards
Speaker 7: what would be the Cowboys sideline. As Dak is going
Speaker 7: to the right, Dak's kind of comeing right at me.
Speaker 7: And so when he let the ball go and it
Speaker 7: was so like, oh, thank goodness, he's getting rid of it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you thought he just ran it away.
Speaker 3: And then and then CD.
Speaker 7: You know, from my view, I could really only see
Speaker 7: CD's hands. I couldn't see his feet. I was blocked
Speaker 7: off by all the people on the sideline. It's like,
Speaker 7: there's no way he caught it. But the way that
Speaker 7: everyone was reacting to it, it's like, oh, my gosh,
Speaker 7: he caught the ball. So that was that was an
Speaker 7: amazing catch. It reminded me of a Terrence Williams toe
Speaker 7: tapper along the sideline in Seattle, uh, several years ago.
Speaker 3: But the way that these guys they the.
Speaker 7: Way they have trained their bodies and to have that
Speaker 7: muscle memory where they can just with their feet just
Speaker 7: get their toes down and basically just go limp, but
Speaker 7: still be able to get the ball.
Speaker 3: And you know, go down with it.
Speaker 7: That that was one of the most outstanding plays of
Speaker 7: the season for the Cowboys offense in my opinion.
Speaker 2: And CD's self awareness too to just understand. And again,
Speaker 2: as football fans, I think watching the game, you sometimes
Speaker 2: forget how well where these guys have to be of
Speaker 2: every inch of their body, because had those toes not dragged,
Speaker 2: wouldn't have been the same outcome. And you know, that
Speaker 2: catch led to another thing I wanted to ask you
Speaker 2: about because after that, Brett maher goes for a sixty
Speaker 2: yard field goal, makes it. It feels a little bit,
Speaker 2: but he does make it in, and then all of
Speaker 2: the sudden, the officiants call it back for review, and
Speaker 2: they don't call the field goal back that Brett just made.
Speaker 2: They call CD's catch back to see if it was
Speaker 2: actually a catch or not. Christy, have you ever seen
Speaker 2: something like that happened to where I mean, Aisha and
Speaker 2: I were talking about this before we started. There was
Speaker 2: a period of time between the catch and the setup
Speaker 2: for the field goal, the field goal non field goal,
Speaker 2: and then them saying, wait, no, it's still under review.
Speaker 2: Have you seen something like that?
Speaker 5: What was your take?
Speaker 7: A few times in twenty four years on the sideline,
Speaker 7: I've seen it where a team is halfway off the
Speaker 7: field and then gets called back by the officials. But
Speaker 7: what happened was there was there were five seconds on
Speaker 7: the when maherk gets so enough time that time expires,
Speaker 7: he nails the sixty yarder and everyone is joyously going
Speaker 7: into the towards the tunnel to go to the locker
Speaker 7: room for halftime, and everyone's about halfway across the field,
Speaker 7: and then I see Clay Martin, the referee. He's a
Speaker 7: tall guy, so even I can see him across all
Speaker 7: the bodies. He's at the middle of the field and
Speaker 7: he's motioning. He's like pushing, he's motioning like this, like
Speaker 7: go back, go back, and telling the players to go
Speaker 7: and coaches to go back to the sideline. Literally, everyone
Speaker 7: is halfway off the field, and it's like, what's going on.
Speaker 7: What was surprising to me was usually when the replay
Speaker 7: official buzzes down and they're going to stop a play
Speaker 7: before it happens. So you know they're going to buzz
Speaker 7: down and say we need to review this play, or
Speaker 7: someone throws a red challenge flag, or a coach calls
Speaker 7: time out from the sideline to icy kicker. It's easy
Speaker 7: to spot because an official will always run in or
Speaker 7: he'll he or she will raise his hand to signal
Speaker 7: stop playing now. Sometimes it's just a half second before
Speaker 7: the play. I didn't see any of that. And then
Speaker 7: even getting home last night after the riding home on
Speaker 7: the team Charter and watching it on TV. I didn't
Speaker 7: see any official doing that. Clay Martin was just watching
Speaker 7: the you know, from behind Brett Maher to Maher's left
Speaker 7: watching the play. So I wonder how was it as
Speaker 7: you guys were watching it? What were your thoughts, Ayisha,
Speaker 7: did you have any idea what they were doing and
Speaker 7: why they were getting called back out onto the field?
Speaker 5: I was lost.
Speaker 4: I thought that maybe Mike McCarthy had called a timeout
Speaker 4: or something.
Speaker 2: But yeah, yeah, from the broadcast view, it just looked
Speaker 2: like a timeout was called or something. But after the
Speaker 2: field goal, That's why it was so confusing, because you
Speaker 2: didn't understand exactly why everything was stopping after the field
Speaker 2: goal was already made. So, you know, it wasn't It
Speaker 2: wasn't enough that Brett Maher said, all right, I'm gonna
Speaker 2: make this sixty yarder, but but to make another one
Speaker 2: right after and right down the middle the second time.
Speaker 9: Good for Brett Maher. He deserves all the flowers this week.
Speaker 9: It was even a better second kick than the first one,
Speaker 9: so good. The first one just kind of barely got
Speaker 9: over just something what would be the right side, you know,
Speaker 9: if you're looking at from the field, it would be
Speaker 9: the right corner. It kind of barely got in, but
Speaker 9: the second one, like you said, just right down the
Speaker 9: middle and cleared by five or six yards, so good.
Speaker 4: It was a good boost for that sideline too. Yeah,
Speaker 4: those guys were pumped when he made it a second time.
Speaker 4: They were pumped the first time, but you know in
Speaker 4: the way that they were feeling in that moment, like
Speaker 4: what is going on? Yeah, it definitely meant something to
Speaker 4: them to go into the half with that and support
Speaker 4: their brother.
Speaker 7: Yeah. I will say one other thing, and I mentioned
Speaker 7: this in my posting on Dallas Morning News. I contribute
Speaker 7: a sideline exclusive the day after the game on Dallas
Speaker 7: Morning News and website, and I mentioned that the replay
Speaker 7: official who worked that game and buzzed in late is
Speaker 7: the only human that I think could possibly make John Fossil,
Speaker 7: the Cowboys special teams coordinator, frustrated or angry. John Fossil
Speaker 7: is the happiest, most positive person in the world, and
Speaker 7: even when a play is going, if something bad has
Speaker 7: happened on the field, he's still missed positive, you know,
Speaker 7: and getting the guys up. But to see him completely
Speaker 7: perplexed and frustrated on the sideline. I'm like, wow, well,
Speaker 7: that that sideline, I mean that replay official has done
Speaker 7: something that I did not think was humanly possible, and
Speaker 7: that's get John Fossil in a bad mood.
Speaker 2: Well, luckily, I hope this forty to three score Dallas
Speaker 2: obviously dominating, cheered him up a little bit more after
Speaker 2: the game to say, at the very least, but we're
Speaker 2: gonna go ahead and take our first break. We're gonna
Speaker 2: dive deep into the defense, and we have plenty to
Speaker 2: talk about there, talking all about Dallas's comeback with that
Speaker 2: run defense. Stay tuned, we'll be right back after this.
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Speaker 2: the Cowboys way. Oh I love that. I love that.
Speaker 2: That is beautifully written. Speaking of doing things the Cowboys way,
Speaker 2: I don't think there can. Every time the Dallas defense
Speaker 2: just plays to their best. I don't think they can
Speaker 2: impress me even more and they find a way to
Speaker 2: do it the Cowboys way and just somehow someway find
Speaker 2: a way to be even more dominant. The word of
Speaker 2: the day, dominant, because that is exactly what the Cowboys did,
Speaker 2: especially on the defensive side. Coming back from that Green
Speaker 2: Bay game, making their message heard. Hey we heard y'all,
Speaker 2: We see y'all. Who are you talking about now? Is
Speaker 2: letting the pass or the run the run defense slide through?
Speaker 2: So let's go through some stats, real kick, real quick,
Speaker 2: because a lot of names that was interesting enough to
Speaker 2: hear on the broadcast. As Tony Romo said, under the
Speaker 2: radar players, and we were just talking about earlier, Dorn's
Speaker 2: Armstrong having a game. Tony explained it that he's an
Speaker 2: under the radar player. Dorn's Armstrong had three tackles for
Speaker 2: the day, two sacks to his name. Micah Parsons four tackles,
Speaker 2: two sacks, Jay Ron Curse four tackles, one assist, one sack,
Speaker 2: and that's not enough. Poor Kirk Cousins. I really, I
Speaker 2: really just feel bad going down this list for him.
Speaker 2: Dante Fowler two tackles, one sack, and then of course
Speaker 2: you can't forget Tank Tank having himself a day, also
Speaker 2: racking up a sack. Ladies, talk about a dominant defense
Speaker 2: and the comeback story of this defense. Aisha, I wanted
Speaker 2: to start with you because, of course, the headlines last week.
Speaker 2: We all we all know, we don't we don't have
Speaker 2: to go back. We look, we look forward, we don't
Speaker 2: look back around here. But the lack of run defense
Speaker 2: was the biggest and most dominant conversation last week. What
Speaker 2: changed this week and what helped the Cowboys defense stop
Speaker 2: the run not allowing really anything to be productive for
Speaker 2: the Vikings.
Speaker 5: So I mean the Vikings like.
Speaker 4: I mean honestly, I think there were some instances at
Speaker 4: the beginning of that game, and you also saw like
Speaker 4: Dalvin Cook was able to capture the outside. But what
Speaker 4: I really thought happened with the run defense is they
Speaker 4: tackled well and they were physical, and I think that mattered.
Speaker 4: But more importantly, your offense put a lot of pressure
Speaker 4: on that other team to score, and with that it's
Speaker 4: a trickle down effect. So then the defense was able
Speaker 4: to win the line of scrimmage. Dominantly, they also rushed
Speaker 4: for and were able to get home, which then in
Speaker 4: turns allows you to drop more of your.
Speaker 5: Dbs into coverage.
Speaker 4: And that was a huge problem because if you look
Speaker 4: at quite a few of the sacks the Cowboys got,
Speaker 4: they were covered sacks. They were because even the first
Speaker 4: sack that Mica got covered sack, because the strip sack
Speaker 4: was a covered sack because Kirk Cousins looked out there
Speaker 4: and he was like, everybody's covered, and Trayvon digs his
Speaker 4: ability to truly him showing his ability to really similar
Speaker 4: to race team's number one receiver, number one option, and
Speaker 4: for the rest of the secondary to be able to
Speaker 4: adjust to that again, adjust to that, and to play.
Speaker 5: Up to the level.
Speaker 4: I think these safeties and these dbs played extremely well yesterday.
Speaker 4: They were so sticky and coverage and nothing was easy,
Speaker 4: so even when Kirk did escape, he didn't really have
Speaker 4: much place to go. So I feel like with the
Speaker 4: run defense, a lot of it was that the Vikings
Speaker 4: were panicked, and they were panicked and they began to
Speaker 4: just pass the ball excessively, and it played into the
Speaker 4: Cowboys favor astronomically.
Speaker 2: Christy, what about you, what do you think changed from
Speaker 2: last week to this week to I mean, really just
Speaker 2: skyrocket this team into a new level of a performance.
Speaker 3: Well, Ayish is right. They had to pass the ball
Speaker 3: so much.
Speaker 7: The Vikings did just because again falling behind so far,
Speaker 7: but only giving up seventy three rushing yards for the
Speaker 7: Cowboys defense, Vikings only ran at seventeen times. Okay, they
Speaker 7: only ran at seventeen times because they had to throw it.
Speaker 7: I like the fact that Aisha used the word adjustment.
Speaker 7: Let me tell you what the plan was going into
Speaker 7: the game. After doing a little recon on the sideline pregame,
Speaker 7: it's not a surprise that Trayvon Diggs, which would travel
Speaker 7: with Justin Jefferson the.
Speaker 3: Cowboys do not travel.
Speaker 7: When I say travel, that means when you take a
Speaker 7: cornerback and have him follow the top receiver for the
Speaker 7: other team. It doesn't even have to be the top receiver.
Speaker 7: Sometimes you might want to travel with the second best
Speaker 7: receiver and then single them up and that way that
Speaker 7: gives you two guys to cover the who you view
Speaker 7: as the biggest threat. But anyway, the previous week in
Speaker 7: Green Bay, Trayvon Diggs traveled with Alan Blizzard, who was
Speaker 7: the big play. He was viewed as the top threat
Speaker 7: for Aaron Rodgers passing attack. Christian Watson ended up having
Speaker 7: the big game. Trayvon Diggs was covering Alan Lizard. The
Speaker 7: plan yesterday was to have Trayvon cover Justin Jefferson most
Speaker 7: of the game. So the other thing was Anthony Brown,
Speaker 7: the other starting cornerback. Remember he had suffered the concussion
Speaker 7: last Sunday in the game at Green Bay. The plan
Speaker 7: was for Anthony Brown to rotate out some and get
Speaker 7: Kelvin Joseph in there. And it's not because Anthony Brown, well,
Speaker 7: he had cleared concussion protocol, but he didn't have much
Speaker 7: practice during the week. He was limited on Wednesday and Thursday.
Speaker 7: And Wednesday's practice, by the way, was not a real
Speaker 7: it was not a full practice. It was just a
Speaker 7: walk through. So they were going to get Kelvin Joseph
Speaker 7: some reps. And you know in place of Anthony Brown, Well,
Speaker 7: Calvin Joseph becomes ill in the second quarter and doesn't
Speaker 7: finish the first half and plays none of the second half.
Speaker 7: So Anthony Brown, who was supposed to come out and
Speaker 7: get some rest and stuff like that, he ends up
Speaker 7: playing ninety five percent of defensive snaps. So they were
Speaker 7: making adjustments with the rotation at cornerback. They couldn't do
Speaker 7: what they had planned to do, and it's because of
Speaker 7: the illness to Calvin Joseph. But in regards to the
Speaker 7: pass rush, the fact that it was spread amongst the
Speaker 7: seven sacks is the most by a Cowboys defense in
Speaker 7: a game since two thousand and eight. Back in November
Speaker 7: two thousand and eight against Seattle, they also had seven sacks.
Speaker 7: So the fact that it was spread amongst all those
Speaker 7: players goes back to what we were saying before about
Speaker 7: whipping the guy in front of you.
Speaker 3: And one more thing that one.
Speaker 7: Of the best moments at the game yesterday was after
Speaker 7: j Ron Curse got his sack in the second half.
Speaker 3: It was a blitzes he gets the sack.
Speaker 7: And of course jay Ron was the defensive captain yesterday,
Speaker 7: and that's because you know he had played, he had
Speaker 7: started his career with the Vikings. But did do you
Speaker 7: guys see him do the motion to the crowd?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 2: He did.
Speaker 3: He did a skull. So we saw the time skull scull.
Speaker 7: Okay, pcind, you're doing the Y, M C A, so
Speaker 7: put your hands out for a Y, skip the M
Speaker 7: and the C and do an A.
Speaker 2: So that's how you score a proper skull.
Speaker 3: That's a proper skull. Skull is a Nordic word. It
Speaker 3: means it means.
Speaker 7: Cheers, you know, kind of like salute or you know, cheers.
Speaker 7: But anyway, that's there, cowboys, that's their chance. Yeah, Well,
Speaker 7: there we go. That's why that's why you saw jay
Speaker 7: Ron doing his arms like that is he was given
Speaker 7: the skull to the crowd he used to play in
Speaker 7: front of.
Speaker 2: I love that kind of energy. And you know you're
Speaker 2: talking about sacks and really how important they played out
Speaker 2: to be in this game. The Cowboys now have forty
Speaker 2: two sacks in the season, the second most saxon team
Speaker 2: history through the first ten games of US season. The
Speaker 2: leading season so far was back in nineteen eighty five
Speaker 2: with forty three sex. So if that doesn't give you
Speaker 2: any context to historically how great this defense plays when
Speaker 2: they play their best, I mean, I don't know what
Speaker 2: really will. And so I was going back through my
Speaker 2: notes too, because something else I wanted to make sure
Speaker 2: to mention was the amount of penalties. And I alluded
Speaker 2: to this earlier when we were just kind of skimming
Speaker 2: over things, but the amount of penalties that Minnesota had
Speaker 2: on themselves, I mean, let's go back to the stats here.
Speaker 2: We had penalties. Minnesota had seven for fifty nine yards,
Speaker 2: which for a team that hardly gets penalized, that's a lot.
Speaker 2: That's a lot of yardage for them, which they couldn't
Speaker 2: afford to do. I mean this you're talking a team
Speaker 2: that had one hundred and eighty three total yards throughout
Speaker 2: the day. They were really putting those self inflicted wounds
Speaker 2: on themselves, and especially Yeah, you go back to I
Speaker 2: believe this was their eighth drive. You had Let's see,
Speaker 2: you had a flag for a false start and then
Speaker 2: you see Dorrance kind of making that little jump to
Speaker 2: get that, and then right after that they're already in
Speaker 2: a very difficult third down situation. You get another one
Speaker 2: third and fifteen false start again, Dante Fowler contributing to
Speaker 2: that one, and then that puts them in a third
Speaker 2: and twenty and then Dornce Armstrong comes in and gets
Speaker 2: that sack. So to me, that is playing the best
Speaker 2: kind of football that you possibly can when they're baiting
Speaker 2: into the mind games that you're putting them through. And
Speaker 2: I think, you know, listening back to a lot of
Speaker 2: the Vikings postgame press conferences, Kevin O'Connell alluded to a
Speaker 2: lot of this being a mind game. And really it
Speaker 2: was something that we talked about early early in this podcast,
Speaker 2: was that Dan Quinn has the ability with this defensive
Speaker 2: scheme to be confusing for other offenses. And I think
Speaker 2: you saw that shine through once again. It was going
Speaker 2: back to the basics. It was polishing it up, and
Speaker 2: it was just ensuring that every I knew what he
Speaker 2: was doing. They weren't trying to make the play happen
Speaker 2: every single time. They were just making it happen as
Speaker 2: it came, and it was starting to come easier and easier.
Speaker 2: I mean, just looking at these stats, which is incredible
Speaker 2: because we always talk about how stats don't talk about
Speaker 2: the entire story of the game. What really stood out
Speaker 2: to me was something else we talked about here is
Speaker 2: the third down efficiency for the Cowboys offense, which we'll
Speaker 2: get into in a bit, but the third down efficiency
Speaker 2: for the Vikings yesterday, y'all one of eleven. Yeah, for
Speaker 2: the Vikings ouch just absolutely dominant there. And so something
Speaker 2: else I wanted to ask y'all open ended here, who
Speaker 2: had the most surprising game to you? Who did you
Speaker 2: not expect to have this kind of game? If you
Speaker 2: have to go back and pick somebody, who did you
Speaker 2: not expect to come out like they did right out
Speaker 2: of the gates? Aisha, We'll start here and then I'll
Speaker 2: jump to Christy.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I didn't expect for him to
Speaker 4: come out this way, but man Terry still Dre's still
Speaker 4: really ahead. A point proved yesterday because he put a
Speaker 4: Zadarius Smith in a seat belt plenty of times like
Speaker 4: Terren Steele right now from a run blocking standpoint and
Speaker 4: just just being there for his quarterback and just being active.
Speaker 5: Dude. He really they took it to those guys.
Speaker 4: This offensive line took it to those guys, and he
Speaker 4: I think he surprised me.
Speaker 5: I guess.
Speaker 4: I guess you could say he surprised me. I wasn't
Speaker 4: surprised by his play, but just how assertive and just
Speaker 4: dominant he was yesterday was just was different. It was
Speaker 4: different from a right tackle perspective, like he's he's even
Speaker 4: cheering after, like he claps and cheers after they get
Speaker 4: a first down. He's pointing when they get first downs,
Speaker 4: like can you imagine being a d N and like
Speaker 4: you can't get this guy's hands off of you. And
Speaker 4: then then every time there's a first down an offensive
Speaker 4: line and it's like, yeah, let's go first down, like
Speaker 4: it's just his his He's so locked in, and I
Speaker 4: think he deserves praise for how he's played and how
Speaker 4: he's the developed in this system.
Speaker 7: So yeah, yeah, and such a great guy, so quiet,
Speaker 7: so kind and polite and nice off the field. But
Speaker 7: on the field, he's the one, it would say, Mark Colombo,
Speaker 7: uh and before that, Mark tuan A. He's the guy
Speaker 7: that you want walking behind you in a dark alley
Speaker 7: at night. You know he's going to have your back.
Speaker 7: He's the first one there to pull up a teammate,
Speaker 7: you know from the ground. Had a real interesting conversation
Speaker 7: with Terrence last week actually, and Aishu, you will h
Speaker 7: appreciate this as a veteran even more than the rest
Speaker 7: of us. But there's going to be something special for
Speaker 7: the Salute to Service Cowboys home game, which will be
Speaker 7: the December fourth game against Indianapolis, and it's it hasn't
Speaker 7: been announced yet, so I don't want to say too
Speaker 7: much about it, but the offensive line is going to
Speaker 7: be doing something special in conjunction with that particular game.
Speaker 7: And Terrence has a military background in that his stepfather
Speaker 7: is decorated veteran who an Army helicopter pilot who crashed
Speaker 7: in Iraq and lost a leg and suffered broken backs
Speaker 7: like I think it was nine vertebrae and stuff like that,
Speaker 7: And so I was talking with Terrence about it to
Speaker 7: use for a future article in the Game Day program.
Speaker 7: And he's just such a great guy and understands the
Speaker 7: sacrifice that families of military members have to make as well.
Speaker 7: So I don't know if everyone knows about Terrence's background
Speaker 7: as a military family member, but it's important. And he
Speaker 7: does so many good things off the field on Tuesday's
Speaker 7: volunteering time and things like that for some of the
Speaker 7: character playbook and things like that. So I'm glad that
Speaker 7: he gets recognized on the podcast and was getting some
Speaker 7: love on the National TV broadcast as well, because usually
Speaker 7: the offensive lineman, so the offensive linemen are the ones
Speaker 7: that are overshadowed and don't get the praise.
Speaker 5: Who is your person?
Speaker 3: Who's my person? For the game?
Speaker 7: Most surprising of the game, you know, I wasn't expecting
Speaker 7: to see much of Demon Clark and yet, and that's
Speaker 7: because the Cowboys thought that Anthony Barr was going to play.
Speaker 7: Anthony had the hamstring injury. He practiced on Wednesday and
Speaker 7: Thursday and Friday, but right at the very end, like
Speaker 7: the last play of practice on Saturday, retweak that hamstring,
Speaker 7: so he did not play. The other thing is the
Speaker 7: Cowboys did not have Quentin Bohanna. They're starting defensive tackle illness.
Speaker 7: So to put that effort out there on defense and
Speaker 7: not have two guys that you thought were going to
Speaker 7: be starting the game and playing a lot of reps.
Speaker 3: Another reason to give kudos to the defense.
Speaker 4: I want to add to demon Clark really quickly, is
Speaker 4: like I was excited to see him getting it during
Speaker 4: the Like these reps are so valuable for him, and
Speaker 4: there were so many instances where you could tell in
Speaker 4: the beginning of the game he was like, is it
Speaker 4: that's my gap? Yeah, it is, and then he was
Speaker 4: kind of kind of hesitant, but then later in that
Speaker 4: second quarter just filling his gaps physical I mean just
Speaker 4: physical at the point of attack, Like exactly.
Speaker 5: What you're looking for from your linebacker corps.
Speaker 4: I think as he progresses, he's gonna be helpful to
Speaker 4: this linebacker corps. It was exciting to see him get
Speaker 4: out there and play.
Speaker 2: I agree with you, Christy, And it even just goes
Speaker 2: back to this is the standard that is set, so
Speaker 2: imagine them continuing to amplify It's it's scary. I don't
Speaker 2: want to be in a posing offense that has to
Speaker 2: face the cupboy defense. I'll tell you that right now.
Speaker 2: But hey, speaking of offense, we are going to go
Speaker 2: to our next break because we are talking about some
Speaker 2: record breaking plays, some record breaking numbers, and uh, we
Speaker 2: have yet to even give kudos to our QB one.
Speaker 2: So when we come back, we're talking all things Dak
Speaker 2: Prescott's performance and even more stick around will be right back.
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Speaker 2: Also love when these postgame notes are lengthy with all
Speaker 2: of the records that were beaten, or tied or almost matched.
Speaker 2: I mean, my goodness, guys, we could go down this
Speaker 2: list and go down this rabbit hole. So let's just
Speaker 2: get right into it. This Cowboys offense really stepped up
Speaker 2: this week. I think this is the best we have
Speaker 2: seen them so far. And I say so far because
Speaker 2: I highly believe that the best is yet to come
Speaker 2: for them. I think you're finally seeing a dak Prescott
Speaker 2: that's gelling with all of his wide receivers. But you
Speaker 2: know where it starts, ladies. It starts with the run game.
Speaker 2: It starts with the one two punch of Tony Pollard.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, Zeke Elliott, and you know, just wearing down
Speaker 2: those that defense as much as possible. So let's kick
Speaker 2: it off. Let's talk all things Cowboys offense. Christy, I'll
Speaker 2: start with you. What did you notice anything different from
Speaker 2: the Cowboys offense maybe from Green Bay into this week?
Speaker 2: Did they feel a little bit more confident, a little
Speaker 2: bit more calm? What feeling were you getting on the sideline.
Speaker 3: Well, the biggest difference was the third down conversions.
Speaker 7: And the reason for a third down to was it
Speaker 7: was third and short. And Zeke Elliott, I believe he's
Speaker 7: what ten of eleven now on converting third and one,
Speaker 7: So you got you had the power runner in Zeke,
Speaker 7: and then Tony Pollard I think converted a couple of
Speaker 7: third downs. There was like a third and two that
Speaker 7: he converted. So I thought it was just a real
Speaker 7: clean game. And Dak Prescott very precise and accurate with
Speaker 7: his throws. But it was a great mixture of the
Speaker 7: you know, just whipping the guy in front of you
Speaker 7: on the offensive line, clearing holes and getting some good
Speaker 7: tough runs, but then also mixing in the fun down
Speaker 7: the field things and not just the CD Lamb toe
Speaker 7: tapper on the sideline, but finally Pollard involved.
Speaker 3: In the pass game. It's something that they talked.
Speaker 7: We heard about it all summer and all during training camp,
Speaker 7: and yesterday was the first time where we really got
Speaker 7: to see at that wheel route for the sixty eight
Speaker 7: yarder to Tony Pollard in a perfect throw by Dak
Speaker 7: And of course Pollard also had the thirty yard touchdown catch.
Speaker 7: So yeah, so you had the punch punch, punch punch,
Speaker 7: and then you had the big plays with the Haymakers.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no, Like give me chills over here, just
Speaker 2: rethinking about it.
Speaker 4: That's the thing about the offense that I like, and
Speaker 4: you did see it in the Green Bay game as well.
Speaker 4: But it's just how they ran the ball and it's
Speaker 4: and to me, I wrote I wrote in my notes,
Speaker 4: I say it's a set up because I felt like
Speaker 4: this nothing was done without purpose offensively.
Speaker 5: Is the way that they ran the ball.
Speaker 4: If they were running this outside zone, it was to
Speaker 4: set up something that was over the seems like they
Speaker 4: were doing things to set.
Speaker 5: Up the next guy and to set up the next play.
Speaker 4: And that's something that we've been looking for consistently, like, yeah,
Speaker 4: you're running the ball, but does it make sense right here?
Speaker 4: What's coming of it? And even that first drive, you
Speaker 4: get Tony, you get Ezekuelity in and he's it's just zeke, zeke, zeke.
Speaker 5: So these guys are just getting their tail beat.
Speaker 4: And then Tony comes in there and he's slippery through
Speaker 4: the tackle. So they're just the tempo of the game
Speaker 4: and how they established their tempo, their pace, they set
Speaker 4: the pace for this game and it was faster paced
Speaker 4: and even looking at I actually took the time to
Speaker 4: look into some of the Minnesota locker room sound and.
Speaker 5: They were just flabbergasted.
Speaker 4: They were very taken aback by the offensive firepower and
Speaker 4: how they came out there and played so physical with them.
Speaker 4: Even Michael Gallup, like you talked about it earlier with
Speaker 4: CD in that catch.
Speaker 5: It was a remarkable catch.
Speaker 4: But the receivers were catching, they were catching the balls
Speaker 4: with their hands and it was like, nah, this is
Speaker 4: my ball, like in every instance, and I think Dak
Speaker 4: obviously with the accuracy, but it was a there was
Speaker 4: an urgency and aggressiveness to the offense that was like
Speaker 4: and then they didn't take their foot off the gas.
Speaker 4: That was the dopest thing because you've seen plenty of
Speaker 4: times Okay, let's.
Speaker 2: Just ease up.
Speaker 5: Nah nah no, And it.
Speaker 4: Was like, okay, like, let's keep going, let's keep seeing
Speaker 4: what we can do. And that's why you got the
Speaker 4: opportunity to see some plays that I think maybe we
Speaker 4: may not have seen. So I was impressed by the tempo,
Speaker 4: the pace, and just how composed this offense was.
Speaker 2: And you know what I think was incredible about the
Speaker 2: run game specifically, was this is a game that showed
Speaker 2: you exactly why that one two punch is so effective
Speaker 2: with Zeke and Tony Pollard, because you have Zeke who
Speaker 2: just wears down defenses. Sure, maybe he's not getting those
Speaker 2: ten fifteen yard runs on a consistent basis, but he's
Speaker 2: wearing them down. He's getting five six, seven yard runs.
Speaker 2: That is just pushing and pushing in just so physical.
Speaker 2: The amount of physicality that seek plays with to wear
Speaker 2: down those defenses. You have that going, and then you
Speaker 2: have Tony Pollard, who is just acting as a hybrid
Speaker 2: wide receiver running back. I mean, you don't know what
Speaker 2: he's going to do when he's on the field. Is
Speaker 2: he going to run and take it down for fifteen
Speaker 2: yards or is he gonna catch this beauty of a
Speaker 2: ball from accurate Dak Prescott and then take it into
Speaker 2: the end zone from there. I mean, it was just
Speaker 2: so mentally confusing for the Vikings to know what was
Speaker 2: coming with this Cowboys offense. And that is the scariest part.
Speaker 2: Something else that I wanted to make sure to mention
Speaker 2: was we always talk about the time of possession and
Speaker 2: how important that can play out to be that perfect example.
Speaker 2: In this game, Dallas had the ball for thirty seven
Speaker 2: and it's in twenty four seconds. Minnesota had it for
Speaker 2: twenty two minutes and thirty six seconds. Within that time,
Speaker 2: the Cowboys had seventy total plays. We talked about the
Speaker 2: third down efficiency, we talked about just oh my goodness,
Speaker 2: four hundred and eighty five or excuse me, fifty eight
Speaker 2: total yards. Beauty, just absolutely beautiful to look at all
Speaker 2: of these statistics, especially, you know, just after everybody has
Speaker 2: been talking so highly of this team, and this is
Speaker 2: why the Cowboys are the real deal, y'all. I don't
Speaker 2: know about y'all, but I'm on that hype train and
Speaker 2: I'm on it very very hard today. But real quick,
Speaker 2: there's two things I wanted to touch base on before
Speaker 2: we unfortunately have to wrap up. Time goes by fast
Speaker 2: when you're talking about a Cowboys win. Unfortunately, game ball
Speaker 2: sit and stew on that for a second. Who you
Speaker 2: would give your game ball to? Can get into explanations tomorrow.
Speaker 2: But Christy, it tis the season and we're talking all
Speaker 2: things previewing Thanksgiving. It's a very weird week. You wanted
Speaker 2: to give the history on the Thanksgiving game before we
Speaker 2: get out of here. It's to our game.
Speaker 7: Bos So, it's nineteen sixty six and the NFL has
Speaker 7: been having one Thanksgiving Day game a year since nineteen
Speaker 7: thirty four. And it's Detroit, an early afternoon game, but
Speaker 7: the league wants to expand and have a second game
Speaker 7: later in the afternoon. Well, no team is crazy enough
Speaker 7: to have a game on a weekday on a holiday,
Speaker 7: and you're not sure people are going to show up
Speaker 7: on a holiday.
Speaker 3: Who's going to watch on TV? Well?
Speaker 7: Tech Shram, the former the late Cowboys general manager and
Speaker 7: team president, Ring of Honor member, Pro Football Hall of
Speaker 7: Famer marketing genius says, I'll do the game, but you
Speaker 7: need to know it's not like a written rule or
Speaker 7: a written agreement, but kind of a handshake agreement. We
Speaker 7: the Cowboys will host the second game on Thanksgiving Day,
Speaker 7: but we get to have it every year.
Speaker 3: The smart thing that.
Speaker 7: The Cowboys did and the league was they had the
Speaker 7: Cleveland Browns the first opponent. They're nineteen sixty six, November
Speaker 7: twenty fourth, Thanksgiving Day, so Leroy, Kelly and all these,
Speaker 7: you know, bringing in some star power to help sell tickets.
Speaker 7: So what happens, Oh my gosh, you're people going to
Speaker 7: show up. Eighty two thousand show up at the Cotton Bowl,
Speaker 7: the largest crowd in Cowboys history. Cowboys get an upset
Speaker 7: win over the Cleveland Browns. What it became obviously a
Speaker 7: Thanksgiving Day tradition. So sixty four of the past sixty
Speaker 7: six years the game has been played in Dallas, the
Speaker 7: second game of what was then a double header now
Speaker 7: a tripleheader of football on Thanksgiving Day.
Speaker 3: It was a real gamble.
Speaker 7: Back then football was not the number one sport in
Speaker 7: America that it is now. But tech Shram was willing
Speaker 7: to take that risk and Actually Cleveland had to be
Speaker 7: convinced to be the opponent, and they said, okay, the
Speaker 7: NFL guaranteed a certain percentage, Okay, we will pay the
Speaker 7: amount of gate. They weren't sure that they were gonna
Speaker 7: sell enough tickets in Cleveland said we're not gonna come
Speaker 7: if we're not guaranteed a certain amount of money of
Speaker 7: gate receipts. The NFL did that, they didn't need to
Speaker 7: do it. Eighty two thousand people showed.
Speaker 2: Up safe to say, uh, when you shoot your shot
Speaker 2: sometimes it actually works.
Speaker 8: Real quick.
Speaker 2: Game ball? Who you giving game ball to?
Speaker 4: I'm cheating, okay, can I I'm gonna give my game
Speaker 4: ball to the offensive and defensive lote because they got them.
Speaker 5: They got them all up out of here.
Speaker 2: All right. I love that Christy, who you're giving me
Speaker 2: your game ball?
Speaker 3: He's just stole mine. So I didn't go with Tony Pollard.
Speaker 2: All right, my game ball goes to Brett Money, maher money,
Speaker 2: money money. You'll love to see it, and uh, what
Speaker 2: we don't love to see is the end of the show.
Speaker 2: But we'll be back here tomorrow for even more Girls talk,
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