WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Continuing the #DALvsSEA Preview 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:05.880 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.920 --> 0:00:17.280 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This is He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:21.040 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World Head Hours at 0:00:21.040 --> 0:00:32.320 the Star in Friscott. Here are Mickey Spagnola, Brian brought us, 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:37.720 Rob Phillips, and Bill Jones. It's already Thursday, and it's 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:41.919 already time for another NFL weekend. We got Thursday Night 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:46.960 football tonight, and I just love the NFL. And welcome 0:00:47.000 --> 0:00:50.920 to Talking Cowboys. And Mickey is smiling this morning because 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:54.800 he got his get out of jail card this morning. Right, Mickey, 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.360 it's like getting your ankle monitor off of you. You know, 0:00:59.000 --> 0:01:02.720 really that's severe. Well, have you ever had an ankle monitor? 0:01:03.320 --> 0:01:05.640 I'm saying I was kind of, But it feels like 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:08.760 it's dragging this thing around for two weeks. You want 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:10.480 to explain it off the top since I would ahead 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:12.679 and brought it up off the top of the podiatrist 0:01:12.760 --> 0:01:15.240 told me that my foot looks just fine and I 0:01:15.240 --> 0:01:19.840 can start wearing a normal shoe. All right, So does 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:22.760 that mean I can't use the elevator anymore? No? So 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:26.040 do you I've got No, I've still got it because 0:01:26.080 --> 0:01:27.560 I didn't bring it with me. I didn't know that 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:30.959 was going to happen. So you got some surprising good 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:33.640 news this morning on this trip to the podiatry. When 0:01:33.680 --> 0:01:35.440 I walked out, I felt like jumping up in the 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:37.520 air and clicking my heels, you know, But then you 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:40.080 would have been right back in. I would have had 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:44.680 a bigger boot. Yeah. How about casual Bill? Huh? Oh, 0:01:44.760 --> 0:01:48.360 this is it. We Bill, all dressed up and everything. 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:50.240 We don't see the three piece suit when you got 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:53.160 TV here and you apologize, I wasn't able to be 0:01:53.200 --> 0:01:56.000 here yesterday. We're doing TV, and I would I was 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:58.680 all dressed up yesterday. Now I figured out on my 0:01:58.800 --> 0:02:01.800 schedule this fall that if I'm going to get any 0:02:01.840 --> 0:02:06.360 sleep at all, I've got to um and I'm I 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:09.800 apologize to y'all because I'm not taking a shower before 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:14.320 I come into the talking. We've learned about his hotel room. 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:17.960 We've learned about the shower habits. Sorry, Derek hat sitting 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:21.160 the start. So I figured out that I wake up 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:23.840 and I go do talking Cowboys, then I go home 0:02:23.919 --> 0:02:26.200 and take a shower for the rest of the day. 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:29.360 And yesterday, what a what a real bulldog because he 0:02:29.360 --> 0:02:32.000 went back and forth to home three times times. Yes, 0:02:32.160 --> 0:02:34.600 and then came back and came back for the Cowboys 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:39.040 Legend Show, which was quite and lightning, wasn't it. And 0:02:39.200 --> 0:02:41.720 by the way, not only did I do that, but 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:44.880 I also fixed my lawn. That's right the front yard 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:47.919 mode in between the Jason Garrett Show and the Cowboys 0:02:47.960 --> 0:02:51.839 Legend Show. The Renaissance Man right here and right now. 0:02:51.880 --> 0:02:54.519 He's got pictures too that he had parts all over 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:58.960 the place, Jamny parks left over. That's always you build 0:02:58.960 --> 0:03:00.760 a swing set, you got like three or four of 0:03:00.760 --> 0:03:04.400 those wingnut things left over. You're like coin, that's not safe. First, 0:03:06.080 --> 0:03:09.560 I understand that's not good. Thanks. I am not Wade Phillips. 0:03:09.800 --> 0:03:14.119 I am not mister fixing. And this is proof positive. 0:03:14.160 --> 0:03:16.160 I'm not mister fix it. You can showing the camera 0:03:16.280 --> 0:03:18.880 right there in the camera about the camera right from you, 0:03:18.919 --> 0:03:21.839 Bill there you go, right there, Yeah, showing up. That's 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:25.080 me there you go, Okay, that's me fixing my lawn 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:27.120 Moore yesterday. Why do I have a picture of this? 0:03:27.280 --> 0:03:30.120 You ask because my daughter showed up at the house 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:34.519 and she was so shocked that I was I had 0:03:34.560 --> 0:03:37.160 tools out it was fixing the lawn more that she 0:03:37.240 --> 0:03:41.200 took a picture of it. She sends a group text. Uh, 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:45.160 my son in laws Cody and Sean, Okay, she says. 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:47.840 She sends a group text to her sisters, saying, Cody 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:50.400 and Sean are rubbing off on Dad something I've never 0:03:50.400 --> 0:03:54.320 seen before, him using tools and it Actually I actually 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:56.680 fixed the lawn Moore yesterday. I'm embarrassed as I didn't 0:03:56.680 --> 0:04:00.560 move a launtil I was thirty. Wow, What why when 0:04:00.600 --> 0:04:02.040 I was living in Green Bay? He didn't mow it 0:04:02.040 --> 0:04:04.400 at home? You didn't it growing up? Now we had 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:06.840 law and Dad just did not trust me. Well I 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:10.120 did not trust well, yeah, because you went and went 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:14.160 crooked probably and miss spots. Probably. I had to feel 0:04:14.200 --> 0:04:16.320 that looked like you know those baseball fields where they 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:18.839 have him mowed, like you had the checkerboard patterns. Yeah, 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:20.560 that's a little bit probably what I would have done. 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:22.159 But no, it did not more yard till I was thirty. 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:23.880 All right, we'll get into cowboys here in a second. 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:27.200 But one more question to pose. Okay, I see I 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:29.359 was the type and then the reason that I can't 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.400 fix anything, Oh, I'm the same way is because my 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:34.880 dad I mean he was He could fix anything around 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:38.359 the house, and he always tried to train me. He 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:41.560 wanted me to hold the wrench, just whatever, and I 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.919 was so disinterested in that. I wanted to go play 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.039 football in the front yard or go arch a game 0:04:47.120 --> 0:04:49.800 or whatever. Sure, what were you all? Like? I learned 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:51.960 from my dad. You go across the street and ask 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:54.840 the neighbor to come over and fix it. Pretty good? Yeah, 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:57.640 same way my dad. He likes to do that stuff. 0:04:57.760 --> 0:04:59.600 So he'll try to teach me, but he's like, here, 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:01.800 just let me, let me do this right, right. And 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:03.880 so yeah, to this day, I don't know how to 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:05.960 do my any I should know how to change the 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:07.760 oil in a car. I should know all that stuff 0:05:07.760 --> 0:05:10.240 because he had me out there. I was supposed to 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:12.560 be watching, and I was. My mind was elsewhere. But 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:16.880 it doesn't matter what aide. You are the miracle of YouTube. Yeah, 0:05:16.920 --> 0:05:20.240 it's a real thing. Yes, that's how I did this yesterday, 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:22.880 YouTube new homeowner. Last couple of years, that thing has 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.280 been a godsend for me, at least to try to 0:05:25.320 --> 0:05:26.480 do it. And if I can't do it, then I'll 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.360 call some my fix it. My mister, fix it is 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:34.160 my pilot friend who you know pilots, Well, they've got 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:36.640 a spare time in the world, so they know how 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:38.800 to fix anything, right, And so I called him to 0:05:38.839 --> 0:05:41.599 come fix my lawn more well, he decided that I 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:43.600 needed to learn how to fix my own lawn more so, 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:46.080 what he'd do he sent me a YouTube video instead. 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.800 There you go, There you go. So, speaking of cutting grass, 0:05:48.800 --> 0:05:50.960 I bet I'd done something that none of you guys 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:55.039 have ever done, been right, cut cut my grass without 0:05:55.440 --> 0:06:00.240 a mower that had a motor. Oh well, one of 0:06:00.320 --> 0:06:04.240 those push things. Oh gosh, those are back man. Yeah 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.200 they bad. Yeah, they're totally because they don't use gasolines. 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.000 They're clean, they're plan Yeah, you got a push and 0:06:10.040 --> 0:06:13.559 then pull. Didn't do this. We're growing up at Honka. 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:18.080 That's an Yeah, that didn't happen. I'm sorry that ain't happen. Okay, 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:22.279 see the experiences you guys have missed that. I'm all 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.520 good with that. All right, So what did I missed yesterday? 0:06:25.360 --> 0:06:29.360 I understand Brian played a game of Had Your Own 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:31.400 Game Show? Yeah, I know. I appreciate Mickey and rob 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:33.800 answering the questions. We kind of dope into some things. 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:36.200 I think that this will be an interesting matchup for 0:06:36.240 --> 0:06:40.400 these Cowboys this week. If you look at you know, Seattle. 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:42.400 I just worry about an O and two team with 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:44.880 backs against the wall kind of thing. I think that's 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.560 something that you know, you're you're gonna hear me say 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:50.760 us a lot this week and then probably in the 0:06:50.800 --> 0:06:53.400 post game or the pregame show. Excuse me? Is I 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.320 never liked a team that has been told that they're 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.880 not very good. They're hearing how bad they are. They've 0:06:58.920 --> 0:07:01.680 got talented player and they're fighting their way out. They're 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:03.680 gonna try and fight their way out, and you know, 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:06.160 nothing better than they get a win against the Cowboys. 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:09.560 You know, I just feel like you're gonna get Seattle's 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:13.360 best shot and can you withstand their crowd? Can you 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:16.000 withstand their best shot? If you can do that, you 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:18.720 get a shot to win. But this team also is 0:07:18.800 --> 0:07:21.400 very capable of making you look bad. Even with the 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:25.280 players and the problems that they have, they present problems 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.400 for you, and I worry about that from a standpoint 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.400 of them B and O two and they've been competitive 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.960 in their first two games too, they lost them. They 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:35.400 did have some problems. Their offensive line has been poor, 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:38.640 but they're also a proud franchise. I mean, this is 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:40.720 a franchise that expects to go to the Playoffer Bowl 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.080 here every year. And I think we talked about it 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.640 last year Christmas Eve. They were struggling coming into that game, 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:47.680 and the talk was what the Cowboys got Zeke back? 0:07:47.720 --> 0:07:50.400 They're gonna be fine, but they're playing for the playoffs. 0:07:50.440 --> 0:07:52.680 They're they're saying they're trying to stay in the playoff hunt, 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:54.640 and they came out and made enough plays to win. 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.040 The crowd noise is going to be a factor for me. 0:07:57.120 --> 0:07:59.400 I want to see how this offensive line of communication, 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.560 how they handle things up front, because it didn't go 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:05.360 well in Carolina. Yeah, and plush. As Bill learned last night, 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:09.360 the Seahawks are playing at home and they're awfully good 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:12.120 in their home openers, aren't they? Bill? Remember, and I 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:19.120 pointed that out last night. Nine nine consecutive one nine 0:08:19.160 --> 0:08:24.640 consecutive home openers in fourteen fifteen. Wow, Yeah about that 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:28.120 home opener and that is as loud as stay. And 0:08:28.160 --> 0:08:31.080 how about this for an outdoor stadium. It's intense. Kansas 0:08:31.120 --> 0:08:34.960 City's intense to and those fifteen last fifteen openers they've 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.679 outscored their opponents three hundred and sixty seven to one 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:40.600 thirty eight, and they're very proud to put that right 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.480 on the first page of their least they should. Now, 0:08:44.000 --> 0:08:46.800 Brian's talked about this. This is a different team. They've 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:50.200 changed over a lot of personnel, so every year is different. Um. 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.040 But they still got a quarterback you gotta contend with. 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:54.880 They still got a safety you gotta contend with. Linebackers. 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:58.600 They've got some pass rushers. Huh who's that? Uh? Et Okay, 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:02.160 that guy? That guy? And it looks like the linebacker 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:04.920 is back, Yeah, Bobby Wagner, but I don't think it 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.720 doesn't look like kJ Wright's gonna make it now he's not. 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:11.560 And they've got some beat up offensive linemen that aren't 0:09:11.679 --> 0:09:14.480 very good to start with or haven't been very protective. 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:16.880 Let me put it that way. Justin Britt, the center, 0:09:17.120 --> 0:09:23.160 Britt didn't practice a sore shoulder. Their guard Poissick, that's 0:09:23.200 --> 0:09:27.600 the guy from LSU post I said he's having problems 0:09:27.679 --> 0:09:31.320 with an ankle, and DJ Flucker they were hopeful that 0:09:31.480 --> 0:09:35.760 he would be back from a hamstring. So they've already 0:09:35.800 --> 0:09:40.240 given Yeah, they've already given up twelve sacks. Squeeze has 0:09:40.280 --> 0:09:44.360 been starting for Flucker there at that spot. And you're right, guys, 0:09:45.040 --> 0:09:48.280 but can the Cowboys make this team one dimensional? Can they? 0:09:48.360 --> 0:09:51.640 Can they score enough points? Can they put enough pressure? 0:09:52.160 --> 0:09:55.640 Can they keep Seattle from having just to play balance 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:59.440 in their offense? That's if Dallas comes out and finds 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.360 a way to build an early lead, the pressure now 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:06.040 is going to come onto their court onto Russell Wilson. 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:08.959 Russell Wilson's capable of carrying a team. We've seen that 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:12.880 before with him, but with it's a little bit different. 0:10:13.200 --> 0:10:15.680 Russell Wilson is able to get back in games because 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.079 their defense for so many years has been so good 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:20.839 at getting them stops. But if you can build a lead, 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.079 that's what exactly the Bears did. Ye. I don't think 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:26.599 the Bears are necessarily a better team than what Seattle was, 0:10:27.040 --> 0:10:28.960 but they got a lead, they got up on them, 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:32.720 and they forced They forced the Seattle's hand, and they 0:10:32.800 --> 0:10:34.840 put a lot of pressure on Russell Wilson. They got 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.040 a couple of turnovers in the game, they got to 0:10:37.120 --> 0:10:39.040 pick six. I mean, these are all things you have 0:10:39.200 --> 0:10:41.800 to have to go win a game at Seattle. I 0:10:41.920 --> 0:10:45.720 just I do worry about that the Cowboys not scoring 0:10:45.880 --> 0:10:48.280 enough points. That's the thing. They just need to build 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:51.600 a lead and then let their defense sick that defense. 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:54.800 Let Chris Rochard and those guys go after Russell Wilson 0:10:54.880 --> 0:10:57.559 to make his life miserable if they can. Jee, I 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:01.280 look at Seattle a lot like Carolina from offensive standpoint, 0:11:01.880 --> 0:11:06.240 because I didn't think Carolina had the weapons at on 0:11:06.400 --> 0:11:09.520 offense outside of McCaffrey to score a lot of points, 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.240 which makes it all the more important to get ahead 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:15.120 in the game. Yes, you know, now Carolina's defense is 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:18.679 stronger because of the turnover that the Seahawks have had 0:11:19.120 --> 0:11:22.959 their strengthen their front seven. But I think that's the 0:11:23.080 --> 0:11:24.480 type and that's what you saw in this in the 0:11:24.559 --> 0:11:28.400 game against Chicago, right. It's interesting on Chicago. I think 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:32.360 Chicago's defense is pretty good, and especially with the addition 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:36.680 of Mac and um. But they kind of they gave 0:11:36.760 --> 0:11:38.679 you to me, they gave you a blueprint of how 0:11:38.760 --> 0:11:41.679 you tack Seattle. If you build a lead, then you 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:45.160 turn around and you just I think what kept Seattle 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.719 in that game, and they were sort of in the game, 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:49.959 they sort of late touchdown tack at a seven point game, 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:53.120 was the fact that the young quarterback for Chicago called yeah, 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:57.280 two interceptions, Yeah yeah, Shaquille Griffin, right, And and that's 0:11:57.360 --> 0:12:00.480 why Dak Prescott, you look at him, he's eighteen and 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:02.920 one in his NFL career. When he doesn't turn the 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.400 ball over, it's huge. The one thing you have to 0:12:05.520 --> 0:12:08.560 be if you're a Cowboy fan and you look forward 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:11.520 to Dak Prescott has won in some hostile environments. You 0:12:11.559 --> 0:12:15.160 look at him. He has won it in art in Pittsburgh, 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:17.560 he was one in Green Bay. You know, when they 0:12:17.679 --> 0:12:20.400 do protect the football, they do run the ball. He's 0:12:20.440 --> 0:12:23.640 able to make some plays. He's capable of finishing in 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.120 games in those pretty hostile environments. And he'll be the 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:28.640 first to tell you, even though he's three years removed, 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:31.080 he's been in some difficult places. He's played in Athens, 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:33.520 He's played in Baton Rouge. He's played at Auburn, He's 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:37.160 played at Alabama. I mean, he's played in arenas that 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:39.760 are difficult on quarterbacks to have to be able to 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:43.480 hold themselves together. But going into his third season, you know, 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:47.000 I just I just hope that they don't have a 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:50.239 lull in the game. If they come out and they're aggressive, 0:12:50.760 --> 0:12:53.199 and they make some things happen early, and they put 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:55.880 some pressure on Seattle. They don't need to have the 0:12:55.920 --> 0:12:59.200 two holding penalties back to back. They need they don't 0:12:59.240 --> 0:13:02.079 need negative plays running the football. They don't need a 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:06.280 sack fumble. Uh you know one of those things from 0:13:06.360 --> 0:13:10.720 Frank Clark. Somehow he gets inside of of Lyle Collins 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:12.599 and next you know he's on the quarterback and the 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:14.960 balls on the ground and they got short field. Those 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:17.199 are all things that they can't have happened. While this 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:20.600 team offense continues to grow, they need some they need 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.160 some positive things to happen in this football game. Third 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:28.440 and thirteen, you're fighting the crowd to come in. Twelfth 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:31.439 Man started by Texas A and M University. They created that, 0:13:31.559 --> 0:13:33.800 by the way, thank you very much. That environment too, 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:37.800 as Yeah, Dak has played in that environment. Yes, yes, yeah, 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:41.000 This twelve Man is nothing compared to that twelfth Man 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.640 in Aggie Land, right, not even close. I think that's 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:45.839 what we learned last night from Dad. Right, dat Win 0:13:46.000 --> 0:13:48.280 was on our show last So you'll have to listen 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:50.840 to the last segment of the show. All you Aggies 0:13:50.880 --> 0:13:53.640 out there, just fast forward to the last segment aggies 0:13:53.640 --> 0:13:57.079 are sore tongue, and the twelves now because they're not 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.439 allowed to use twelfth Man, so it's just twelve Is 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:02.719 that right? Well you won that battle, Rob Phillips, was 0:14:02.720 --> 0:14:06.600 not a lawsuit or something in Seattle built that deck 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:09.040 over on the back side of your stadium for he 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:12.000 used to say, website. He used to say, the twelfth 0:14:12.080 --> 0:14:14.440 man is a trademark of Texas A and M University. 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:19.080 That's right. The situation lawyers, Yeah, what is your biggest 0:14:19.120 --> 0:14:21.320 concern in this game though? What is your one thing 0:14:21.400 --> 0:14:23.640 if you could point to something you're saying, Brian, I 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.680 need this really to be different. I don't need I 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.400 need this not to be a concern for me today, right, No, 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.360 it needs to be the same. No turnovers. You cannot 0:14:32.560 --> 0:14:36.600 give them cheap touchdowns because that offense is struggling, and 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:41.560 don't give them something. Let's first hand them something. You 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:45.160 used a protection guy, which always makes sense. I'm more 0:14:45.200 --> 0:14:48.440 of the no minus plays like you were saying, no penalties. No, 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:50.800 I don't want second, long, third, and long. You're gonna 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:52.520 have a couple of those. But you can't have what 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:54.920 you had in Carolina because that crowd is gonna go 0:14:55.040 --> 0:14:59.320 crazy and all of a sudden, you're fighting that they 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:02.240 need Zeke to run early and get involved early and 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:04.120 kind of take the crowd out of it. I think 0:15:04.160 --> 0:15:06.680 they've got to get Zeke going early and and create 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:08.840 those down and business for Dak to kind of settle in. 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.560 Is it getting personnel and do that, or you're gonna 0:15:11.560 --> 0:15:12.760 have to spread them out and do How are you 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:14.520 gonna how are you gonna get to that? Well, we've 0:15:14.520 --> 0:15:16.480 seen them have more success when they spread them out 0:15:16.600 --> 0:15:19.200 right right, and when they go to twelve they'll go 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:21.160 to it. But they did it kind of after they 0:15:21.200 --> 0:15:24.440 got some some rhythm going offensively against the Giants. I 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:30.400 I'm for spreading them out, honestly about you, Yeah, I 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.480 think that's what you're gonna have to do. Now may 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.160 you got to make protecting them? Mickey's pointed out to 0:15:35.240 --> 0:15:37.120 me the last couple of times though the last two 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:40.440 games that the middle linebackers have made plays. Bobby Wagner 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:42.960 is capable of making every tackle, much like we've seen 0:15:43.560 --> 0:15:47.920 Ogle Tree and and and and uh keekly make play. 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.120 I do worry about are you Are you just gonna 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.160 be banking even if you spread your spread them out. 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:53.920 Are you gonna be able to block the front, right, 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:55.880 that's my concern. Are you're gonna be able to block 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:58.840 the front, and and that's where you know, we look 0:15:58.880 --> 0:16:01.320 at what's happen at center. I think the center has 0:16:01.320 --> 0:16:04.120 been okay. The guard, you know, we'll see about second 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.080 level blocks there. He played a lot better in the 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:08.320 game the other day. But you know they're gonna need 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:11.120 to get up on the get these guys secured on 0:16:11.160 --> 0:16:13.000 the downside, and then all when they get to the 0:16:13.040 --> 0:16:15.880 second level, make sure that Bobby Wagner is not running 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.080 there making every tackle for three yards. You need Zeke 0:16:19.160 --> 0:16:21.640 to get in those seven eight yard shots. I know 0:16:21.720 --> 0:16:24.120 it's asking a lot, but they're capable of doing that. 0:16:24.160 --> 0:16:27.160 They're capable of playing that way. Yes, they're very capable 0:16:27.200 --> 0:16:28.920 of playing that way. And then that sets up Dak 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:31.760 for the play action stuff, the boots, the waggles, the 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:33.800 things that they want to get into that are good 0:16:33.880 --> 0:16:37.160 simple throws for him. If you watched the game against Chicago, 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:39.120 that's what they were doing. They were getting six seven 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:42.240 yards of pop kind of second half running play action 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.160 which I had a run for about twelve fifteen yards 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:46.880 on one play on third down. I mean, that's what 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:48.760 you gotta do. They even used a little read option, 0:16:48.800 --> 0:16:51.040 I think with Trubisky a couple of us, So yeah, 0:16:51.560 --> 0:16:54.760 get him on the move. I'm with that. My biggest 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:59.200 concern is falling behind early and then it's snowballing. Yeah, 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.560 that's like, like what happened? And uh well, I just 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:04.960 looked it up two thousand and twelve, six years ago 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:08.320 where it was that the Sea second game, game of 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:11.200 the year ago crushed by Golden Tate. Golden Tate hit him. Yeah, 0:17:11.200 --> 0:17:13.960 and but I'm pretty sure that was what happened in 0:17:14.119 --> 0:17:17.000 that game, right, But what happened at the start of 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:19.920 that game while Seattle came down and kicked the field goal, 0:17:20.040 --> 0:17:22.879 they're up three nothing, and then Cowboys it was a 0:17:22.960 --> 0:17:25.639 three and out block punt and all of a sudden, 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.080 with ten twenty three to go in the first quarter, 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.320 you're already down ten nothing. Right now, that was a 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:32.040 good Seattle team. And I looked at that. That was 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.280 before Seattle's Super Bowl runs. It was two thousand and twelve. 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:37.560 They wound up going eleven and five days. What was 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:39.760 the one that Dallas kit behind in the game, though 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:42.400 they won the toe tap game from Williams. They got 0:17:42.440 --> 0:17:44.640 behind in that game, too behind, and then they made 0:17:44.680 --> 0:17:48.400 a frantic comeback at the last romo throwing around. Yeah, 0:17:48.400 --> 0:17:50.680 I'm making some play last couple of minutes. Ran the 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:52.800 ball with DeMarco Murray too in that game, kind of 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.040 finished to drive out. I remember the thing opened up 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.400 on a counter that that was good. Really, I don't 0:17:57.400 --> 0:17:59.520 and judge things wrong and go down too early. And 0:17:59.600 --> 0:18:01.879 I went down too early in that game. I was 0:18:02.000 --> 0:18:05.800 standing back of the end zone when the toe tap happened. Yeah, 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.400 I usually can judge, and I said, nah, this is over, 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:10.560 and then all of a sudden, boom boom they scored 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:13.399 and ended up winning the game. That was a game 0:18:13.440 --> 0:18:15.280 everybody said, Okay, they're for real, because I don't think 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:17.640 anybody gave them a shot up there that game. Besides, 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:25.480 was that the big game from Julius Jones. You're talking Williams. No, No, 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:30.080 I know Murray Murray. Murray ran the ball he did 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:32.520 in the one game that they won. But that was 0:18:32.760 --> 0:18:37.960 Mickey's right. This was that was twenty fourteen. It was 0:18:38.000 --> 0:18:40.919 a thirty to twenty three cowboy win. I think Julius 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:42.720 Jones had like one hundred and ninety eight yards and 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:45.520 oh four and he was fresh coming off a collar bone. 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:48.280 That's right. Yeah, now we're going way back here. But look, 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:50.200 it's not easy to go up there and win a game. 0:18:50.320 --> 0:18:52.840 And to Mickey's point, on the two thousand and fourteen game, 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:56.120 just like the two thousand and twelve game, the Cowboys 0:18:56.200 --> 0:18:59.359 fell behind ten nothing early in the game, first half 0:18:59.400 --> 0:19:03.000 of the first quarter, and it was a blocked punt 0:19:03.080 --> 0:19:06.480 return Mike Morgan for Seattle that gave him a ten 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:09.800 nothing lead, which I had forgotten now that I now 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:12.640 I remember it. I'd forgotten it before. And then the case. 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:14.960 So the Cowboys were down ten nothing with seven thirteen 0:19:15.080 --> 0:19:17.240 left in the first So that's how far the Cowboys 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:20.560 came from twenty twelve to twenty fourteen. They were able 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:23.320 to go to Seattle and overcome attend nothing half time, 0:19:23.359 --> 0:19:26.359 our first quarter deficit. So your honor, I rest my case. 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:29.239 You do not turn the ball over. Don't give them 0:19:29.280 --> 0:19:32.679 anything cheap. Besides the defense, what are you what are 0:19:32.720 --> 0:19:36.120 you happy about here? Besides the defense? Going into this game? 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:38.400 What are you happy? What can you hang your hat 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:41.920 on in this game? Other than your defense? You know, 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:46.520 I I think it's promising what they were able to 0:19:46.640 --> 0:19:49.640 do on that fourth quarter drive against eight minute drive. Yeah, 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:52.320 the eight minute drive fourth quarter or I think, well, 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:55.600 maybe their balance a little better, right, yeah, right, maybe, 0:19:55.760 --> 0:19:58.840 and that was what was their calling card in their 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:02.720 blueprint for success finished the game. Yeah, yeah, and and 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:06.359 I think they might be able to Um, you know, 0:20:08.119 --> 0:20:10.119 that gave him some confidence that they can do that's 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:11.920 the first time we've seen them be able to share 0:20:12.080 --> 0:20:14.840 drive like that together. Now can they do it again? 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:20.360 So do you think Seattle's defense is better than the Giants? Well, 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:25.160 with Bobby Wagner in there, it improves them if he's healthy. 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:28.359