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Speaker 1: Cowboys today. Everybody, it is hump day in the Cowboys
Speaker 1: in a short week, have just two more days to
Speaker 1: rest up, prepare and get ready for the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 1: Still you're still not on It sucks. That sucks, man
Speaker 1: Like he hates to day is like the first day
Speaker 1: that your body is like okay, doesn't hurt his back
Speaker 1: he could do this again. You know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: it doesn't hurt his bag, And now you're all of
Speaker 1: a sudden seventy two hours. But wait a minute, you
Speaker 1: gotta do it again. Wait a minute, here we go again,
Speaker 1: seventy two hours. For now we're gonna be playing again.
Speaker 1: When you think about it, too, there's going to be
Speaker 1: a Monday wild Card game this year as well. There's
Speaker 1: a Monday Night wild Card game. And because of the
Speaker 1: Monday Night Wildcard game, there's a good chance that the
Speaker 1: team that wins that Monday Night game would then turn
Speaker 1: around and play the number one seed on Sunday, which
Speaker 1: means you would have six days of rest coming off
Speaker 1: of a Monday night game against the best team, playing
Speaker 1: against a team that has two weeks of rest and
Speaker 1: the best record in whatever conference there in a man, well,
Speaker 1: that sucks well, But but the thing is like, say,
Speaker 1: for instance, if we play on Saturday, and obviously I
Speaker 1: don't know how the seating is gonna go for the
Speaker 1: weekend playoff games, but if we get the let's say
Speaker 1: the Monday night game, that's an additional day of rest
Speaker 1: for this team. Yeah, you'd have what would that be?
Speaker 1: Nine days then basically yeah, right, and then you turn
Speaker 1: right back around and obviously on a short week again,
Speaker 1: I mean, who's more who's more prepared for short weeks
Speaker 1: than we are? Bro, That's true. They've been through it
Speaker 1: a couple of times. Right, Come on, that's part of
Speaker 1: the DNA here in Dallas, part of the DNA. Rob,
Speaker 1: How are you doing out in the or Rob p
Speaker 1: Island Studios out there, I'm doing I'm doing okay. I
Speaker 1: wish I was in there with you guys. I'm doing fine.
Speaker 1: I'm doing fine. I'm just a board. The beard just coming.
Speaker 1: But hey, that's a good point. Like and you know
Speaker 1: what though, Like if you're gonna tab a short week
Speaker 1: and take it down, take it down, and maybe you
Speaker 1: play next Sunday instead of Saturday, so get that extra day.
Speaker 1: The beard is coming back, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: growing it out. What are you doing? Tell you look
Speaker 1: at look at it connects on at the top. It
Speaker 1: connects at the top. I'm telling you, Pete, you will
Speaker 1: have a icy beard. Man, you gotta let that thing
Speaker 1: come in. Man. He is let Rob Pa. He is
Speaker 1: in chill more. He has a chill a sweater on right,
Speaker 1: now on his face, chilling. He's got a volleyball named Wilson,
Speaker 1: like a couple of different things. Rob, I got my
Speaker 1: a m slippers one. That's just a big party over here. Man.
Speaker 1: Just don't stand up Rose, all right, Rob, We're gonna
Speaker 1: start with you. News and notes from yesterday. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: had an opportunity to rest up a little bit, but
Speaker 1: still trying to get that preparation turning around for Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: What was what was going on at the Star in Frisco.
Speaker 1: Not a ton of news and notes at the Star yesterday.
Speaker 1: A very small practice report, which is good news going
Speaker 1: into week eighteen. And they only had a walk through yesterday.
Speaker 1: They were had a light light you know, kind of
Speaker 1: jogged through a meeting on the field type thing yesterday
Speaker 1: because of the short week, but only as Zeke is
Speaker 1: on it, and he was a full participant, and you know,
Speaker 1: would have been a full participate with a regular practice.
Speaker 1: Jeron Curse and Tony Pollard would have been limited in
Speaker 1: a normal practice. So they're pretty healthy and that if
Speaker 1: that's one thing you want to point to given, you know,
Speaker 1: despite their struggles last Sunday and apprehension about how they're
Speaker 1: gonna play heading into the playoffs, they've got to be
Speaker 1: one of the healthier teams in the league right now.
Speaker 1: And that's uh, you know, with a disclaimer, everybody's trying
Speaker 1: to dodge COVID, but from an injury standpoint, they're doing
Speaker 1: they're doing pretty well. And Quinn Bill Hannah was back
Speaker 1: off the reserve COVID list yesterday and Blake Jarwin's on
Speaker 1: his way back as well. They've designated him for a
Speaker 1: return from the IR list. How long do you think
Speaker 1: that timetable looks like. I think he would probably be
Speaker 1: back for the wildcard game things continue going well, if
Speaker 1: not this week, you know, they started the window. It
Speaker 1: is a short crunch this week, but the way Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy was talking, I think they feel pretty good about
Speaker 1: getting him back fairly quickly in time for the playoffs.
Speaker 1: How big is that to have not only Blake Jarwin,
Speaker 1: I mean, or excuse me, Dalton Scholtz, because you're not
Speaker 1: trying to replace Dalton Scholtz right now, but just to
Speaker 1: have that rotation with another tight end that can mix
Speaker 1: in with him and Sean McCune and guys like that
Speaker 1: that are talented in that tight end room. That's major.
Speaker 1: I mean, because you have to remember the confidence level
Speaker 1: that they have with Blake Jarwin. Know how much money
Speaker 1: they paid him obviously is indicative of their confidence level
Speaker 1: with him in his ability. So when you have a
Speaker 1: player of that caliber, even though he hasn't necessarily been
Speaker 1: that over the last season and a half, he still
Speaker 1: has the potential to make contributions to this team on
Speaker 1: a high level. So adding that element back into your
Speaker 1: offense obviously is a huge benefit, and I think you
Speaker 1: benefitial play design in rotation as well. From the tight
Speaker 1: end perspective, I think we tilt our hand a little
Speaker 1: bit with our tight end packages on what we're going
Speaker 1: to do. Teams obviously know that Dalton Scholtz isn't the
Speaker 1: best blocker that we have in the tight end room,
Speaker 1: so a lot of times they can dictate what we're
Speaker 1: gonna run based off of those packages that we come
Speaker 1: in with. And so look, I don't believe that Jarwin
Speaker 1: is a superior blocker either, but I think from a
Speaker 1: perspective of yards after catch and what he does with
Speaker 1: the ball in his hands, I think he obviously is
Speaker 1: an asset for the Dallas Cowboys offense. I think it
Speaker 1: is something that the Cowboys could utilize because once again
Speaker 1: it adds to the rotation. Then also remember the one
Speaker 1: two punch that Scholtz and Jarwin had whenever they were together.
Speaker 1: You think about the taking the top off. I mean,
Speaker 1: they've been pushing Dalton Scholtz down the field a little
Speaker 1: bit more as the season has gone along, but that's
Speaker 1: still not his strong suit. Having both of those guys
Speaker 1: on the field and two tight end sets could really
Speaker 1: open things up, I think for Kellen Moore's offense. But
Speaker 1: now I want to open up the floor a little bit.
Speaker 1: This wasn't on the rundown, but I do want to
Speaker 1: hit it. Why do you feel like this loss to
Speaker 1: the card set everyone's expectations back because I, and maybe
Speaker 1: not everyone, but a good majority of fans out there
Speaker 1: right now are so disappointed in the fact that you
Speaker 1: lost to the Arizona Cardinals, you lost to a good team,
Speaker 1: that you feel like those expectations are starting to temper
Speaker 1: a little bit. Not the case in the building. They're
Speaker 1: still going for everything. Still, everything's out on the table,
Speaker 1: and that's what it should be. But do you feel
Speaker 1: that you get that same sense that you feel that
Speaker 1: the confidence level in the fan base surrounding this Cowboys
Speaker 1: team took a massive hit whenever they lost to the
Speaker 1: Cardinals the other day. I think anytime that you're you know,
Speaker 1: as fans, I think you know, when your team loses,
Speaker 1: you obviously take a hit, especially when you face a
Speaker 1: team that's well respected and that you know puts out
Speaker 1: a good product. And I think that's what happens around
Speaker 1: fandom in regards to any team, not just the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: but you know, especially when when when your team is
Speaker 1: winning and you're going into the NFC race and you're
Speaker 1: eight and one versus NFC, and then you all of
Speaker 1: a sudden face a team that is at the top
Speaker 1: of the rankings in their division and you lose, and
Speaker 1: it's kind of a I guess I jo to to
Speaker 1: your ego a little bit because you're like, crap, we
Speaker 1: were riding high and all of a sudden, we have
Speaker 1: to face the reality that this is what happens. This
Speaker 1: is this is the evidence that's that's shown when we
Speaker 1: face another good team or really good team that's that's
Speaker 1: can considered to be one of the best in the league,
Speaker 1: in our in our conference. And so it's a reality
Speaker 1: check and I think people would like to think that
Speaker 1: Dallas is above and beyond most of these other competitors
Speaker 1: around the league. And when you have games like this,
Speaker 1: you have to realize licking the mirror and say, crap,
Speaker 1: we got some work to do. Yeah, it's it wasn't
Speaker 1: the expectation I think from from fans were just riding
Speaker 1: high from the December four wins in a row and
Speaker 1: then you all of a sudden, you have your heels
Speaker 1: cooled a little bit by a team that going into
Speaker 1: the game you said, look, this is a measuring stick game,
Speaker 1: and that's the way that it was being dubbed going
Speaker 1: into Sunday. You lose that game, and your offense doesn't
Speaker 1: fire the way that you wanted it to. Your running
Speaker 1: game isn't there. You have so many things that you
Speaker 1: can point to, and obviously, uh, all Cowboy fans are
Speaker 1: you know, looking on social media and just hearing the
Speaker 1: naysayers and what they have to say about this team. Um,
Speaker 1: if you do a close analysis or if you listen
Speaker 1: close enough, man, these people will convince you that we're
Speaker 1: the worst eleven and five team that's ever in the league,
Speaker 1: you know, and that we shouldn't be in the playoffs
Speaker 1: and that everything is is one week is the Cowboys
Speaker 1: super Bowl? Next week is they suck? You know? So
Speaker 1: uh you know. My my take has been on this
Speaker 1: is that when anytime you you look at this team,
Speaker 1: I do, I look at it in totality. I don't
Speaker 1: look at this season as a sample size. I don't
Speaker 1: go back five games. I don't go back three games.
Speaker 1: I look at the whole season. And if you can
Speaker 1: do that, I think it puts a greater perspective on
Speaker 1: where this team is right now. Rob, Yeah, I agreed,
Speaker 1: and I think I think it comes down to really
Speaker 1: the fact that they it's been ten games since they
Speaker 1: beat a playoff team, and so that gives people a
Speaker 1: lot of apprehension. They beat the Patriots right before the
Speaker 1: bye week, and everybody was riding high, and you could
Speaker 1: argue that's been kind of their signature win of the season.
Speaker 1: I want to say, they're like three and four this
Speaker 1: year against teams with winning records, and obviously Arizona was
Speaker 1: the most recent loss. But that gives fans apprehension, can
Speaker 1: we beat the best teams in the league when we
Speaker 1: have to? And I think that's I understand why fans
Speaker 1: feel that way. And I think the other thing, too,
Speaker 1: is there has been an unsettling feeling around this offense.
Speaker 1: I think he just referenced that for weeks now, and
Speaker 1: the Washington game kind of made everybody feel better for
Speaker 1: a few days. But you ran into an Arizona team
Speaker 1: that did a lot of good things schematically to stifle you.
Speaker 1: And I agree with the fact that you have to
Speaker 1: look at the full six team games this season and
Speaker 1: look at it and say, this team is awfully talented,
Speaker 1: they are well coached, They're capable of beating teams in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. I still believe that, but based on what
Speaker 1: we've seen just now on Sunday, that's not gonna get
Speaker 1: you far in the playoffs. And obviously that's why fans
Speaker 1: are worried. And I understand that, and I'm glad you
Speaker 1: phrased it that way because now it leads me into
Speaker 1: my next question. Is this the perfect pre playoff game
Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboys, the pre playoff matchup because it
Speaker 1: is a playoff team. The Philadelphia Eagles are in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: they will be the six or the seven seed. They
Speaker 1: also are above five hundred. You could add a win,
Speaker 1: you could add some confidence against the team that's above
Speaker 1: five hundred with a win against Philadelphia, and of course
Speaker 1: you would be six and oh against your division, which
Speaker 1: that bodes pretty well for confidence levels as well, first
Speaker 1: time since nineteen ninety eight that they would be undefeated
Speaker 1: against the NFC East. So, Rob, I'll start with you
Speaker 1: on this one because of all these factors, because of
Speaker 1: the opportunity that's in front of you for this Cowboys
Speaker 1: team to build momentum, build confidence, and to win this
Speaker 1: game in Week eighteen, do you feel like this is
Speaker 1: the perfect lead into a postseason run. I don't know
Speaker 1: about perfect lead in, but I think it's a good test,
Speaker 1: especially provided if Philly gets back some of their key
Speaker 1: guys they're currently on the COVID list. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: another factor in this matchup this week, because we don't
Speaker 1: know how many guys they're going to have or not
Speaker 1: have in this game. But I agree with you in
Speaker 1: the sense that this is a very tough place for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys to play. Every single year, I've covered a
Speaker 1: lot of games up there. Whether the Eagles are good,
Speaker 1: whether they're not so good, it's tough, and I would
Speaker 1: argue that they're playing about as well as most teams
Speaker 1: in the playoff field right now in the NFC. I
Speaker 1: mean they offensively are playing more efficiently than the Cowboys
Speaker 1: right now. I mean the Cowboys are more talented offensively,
Speaker 1: but Philly's doing a nice job of balance and helping
Speaker 1: out Jalen Hurts and all of those things. I think
Speaker 1: it's a good test for the defense this week, and
Speaker 1: just going up there in the cold and against and
Speaker 1: that environment is a good test for the offense. It
Speaker 1: always is. Yeah, And you know, when you do the
Speaker 1: evaluation of the Philadelphia Eagles, you have to look at
Speaker 1: the fact that they've played some of the same teams
Speaker 1: that we've played in the last three weeks as well. Um,
Speaker 1: we get no credit for beating up on the Washington
Speaker 1: football team, and I'm not gonna give him any credit either. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we're gonna take it. They don't deserve it.
Speaker 1: They don't. If we don't deserve it, they don't deserve
Speaker 1: it either. Well. I agree with you Pee. You know,
Speaker 1: they've gotten some things going, especially with their running game
Speaker 1: in Boston Scott Is. They found a way to make
Speaker 1: him a weapon. I think maybe they have pulled back
Speaker 1: the reins h so to speak on uh, Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 1: you know, just taking those short drop off passes. He's
Speaker 1: done a really good job of those. And I do
Speaker 1: agree that this offense is running with a bit of rhythm.
Speaker 1: But when you talk about this game being important to us,
Speaker 1: obviously you want to be six and oh and the NFC.
Speaker 1: I just want to see this offense get back on
Speaker 1: That's that's all I care about. I want to see
Speaker 1: that synergy continuity. I want to see all of those
Speaker 1: things start to happen for this offense, because we know
Speaker 1: going into the playoffs, if we don't forty five yards rushing,
Speaker 1: it just ain't gonna get it. Yeah, that's factual. I
Speaker 1: don't want to give this Philadelphia A team a lot
Speaker 1: of credit. I really don't. However, I have to face
Speaker 1: the facts and acknowledge the fact that these guys are
Speaker 1: playing well. They're playing good ball. We have two more
Speaker 1: wins than they have on the year. We have allowed
Speaker 1: only two less points than they have in terms of
Speaker 1: defenses all year long, So you have to acknowledge as
Speaker 1: good as our defense has been playing, their defense isn't
Speaker 1: too far behind in terms of points allowed. These guys
Speaker 1: have also scored almost as many points as a dog
Speaker 1: on Cardinals and offensively, so you have to acknowledge the
Speaker 1: fact that these boys are playing and with that you
Speaker 1: better bring you better bring your dog on big boy pants.
Speaker 1: They have some guys that can disrupt some things on
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball, and with the way our
Speaker 1: momentum has been swinging, we have to do whatever Dallas
Speaker 1: has to do, whatever it's possible to ensure that you
Speaker 1: correct the those things, check those boxes that are simply
Speaker 1: glaringly open right now, and address those problems so that
Speaker 1: you can make sure that you are going into the
Speaker 1: playoffs feeling the best that you possibly can, because you
Speaker 1: can't expect to your team to go into the playoffs
Speaker 1: and be like, oh, yeah, we're gonna fix everything that
Speaker 1: we've been struggling with. Yep. No, those boxes have to
Speaker 1: be checked before you get in there, so the light
Speaker 1: don't just come home. Heck to the know, it's not
Speaker 1: a flip of the switch. Yeah, And that's kind of
Speaker 1: where I'm leading into it, because you would also have
Speaker 1: not only an undefeated record against your division, but you
Speaker 1: also have another road win under your belt, and you
Speaker 1: know you're now you know, for the most part, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to win on the road in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: When the playoffs come around, more than likely you're going
Speaker 1: to have to win at least one, maybe two playoff games.
Speaker 1: And going up in Philadelphia, like Rob said, is not
Speaker 1: a tough task. It's a I mean, excuse me, it's
Speaker 1: not an easy task to go up and win in Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: no matter what time of year it is, especially when
Speaker 1: it's in the middle of January. Now, I kind of
Speaker 1: want to go back to what Heckman was saying about
Speaker 1: the teams that Philadelphia had played Washington twice, New York twice,
Speaker 1: and they actually lost one of those games. They played
Speaker 1: the Jets, they played the Saints, beat the Saints beat
Speaker 1: the Broncos. So I mean, they've won four straight, they've
Speaker 1: won six out of their last seven, But is it realistic?
Speaker 1: Is it a legitimate worried the fact that they're playing
Speaker 1: so well because these are not good teams and they
Speaker 1: lost one to the Giants as well. It's an NFC
Speaker 1: East opponent. You know they're gonna play us tough. It's
Speaker 1: just what it is. We're playing in Philadelphia. They are
Speaker 1: going to be waiting for us, and they are ready
Speaker 1: and look in spite of everything that I'm saying about
Speaker 1: the Beliegals, they have made the playoffs. May let's come on,
Speaker 1: let's keep it real. They made it, and at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the season it didn't look like it. They
Speaker 1: didn't look like they were playoff teams, especially when we
Speaker 1: beat them forty one twenty one. So to see the
Speaker 1: way that they have rounded in the shape and gotten
Speaker 1: into the playoffs, it's a testament to the fight that
Speaker 1: this team has. Jalen Hurtz is playing good ball. He's
Speaker 1: you know, not turning it over. And when you play
Speaker 1: the Jets, the Aiance twice and the Washington football team,
Speaker 1: come on, guys, it makes you feel a little bit
Speaker 1: better at homecoming every week. For these guys to get
Speaker 1: some of the opponents that they have, we just gotta
Speaker 1: go in there and take care of business. It's right now.
Speaker 1: Even with the four game winning strick that we've had,
Speaker 1: our offense, as you could tell, guys, it's been sputtering
Speaker 1: and slump whatever you want to call it, which you
Speaker 1: just don't feel good about. Where you are defensively is
Speaker 1: where we have to get back. I think Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: just kind of I mean, we came up against a
Speaker 1: juggernaut and of a player, and I think Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: has a lot of those same characteristics as well, and
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be interesting. I just want to see
Speaker 1: how Dan Quinn schemes up for the Eagles and is
Speaker 1: it going to be a little similarities between the scheme
Speaker 1: last week. Well, let's answer that question on the other
Speaker 1: side of the break, because I want to hear what
Speaker 1: you guys think the Cowboys defense should do against Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts if it is different than what they did against
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray, and then whatever, what other weapons does Philadelphia
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Speaker 1: Talking Cowboys. Ac Mahrrison, Isaiah Standback, Rob Phillips, Chris Beam,
Speaker 1: Kyle Yeoman's guys, is this the perfect ramp up to
Speaker 1: potentially see Kyler Murray again in that first round? And
Speaker 1: is this a redo chance for this Cowboys defense against
Speaker 1: a dual threat quarterback, and of course here this week
Speaker 1: with the Philadelphia Eagles, we're talking about Jalen Hurts, and
Speaker 1: I'll start with you, Isaiah, how do you feel like
Speaker 1: the Cowboys learned from their mistakes against Kyler Murray last week?
Speaker 1: And how will they translate that here in the week
Speaker 1: eighteen went back and watched a lot of film in
Speaker 1: terms of how Dallas was approaching and trying to handle
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. The defensive ends did a great job of
Speaker 1: applying pressure. There is no internal pressure and we talked
Speaker 1: about there earlier in the week, saying how against our
Speaker 1: running quarterback, you have to have internal pressure and there
Speaker 1: was no presence of that, and Kyler Murray recognized that.
Speaker 1: There is also times, as you look at the film
Speaker 1: when Jalen Hurts in particular, where teams are rushing one
Speaker 1: defensive end up the field and their other opposing end
Speaker 1: is either dropping it to coverage or they're coming and
Speaker 1: getting caught into wash. So what does he see? He
Speaker 1: sees one open side and he just takes off. He
Speaker 1: has a lot of different options for him at his disposal.
Speaker 1: In terms of how dan Quinn is going to approach that,
Speaker 1: I think he has to get his dogs on the
Speaker 1: interior to get things moving. Gallimore and Tristan Hill. Oh
Speaker 1: so all the guns that are in the middle right there,
Speaker 1: they have to step up and have the game of
Speaker 1: their lives because they're going to see another running quarterback
Speaker 1: the following week. We don't know who that is gonna be,
Speaker 1: but it's gonna be another quarterback who has capability of
Speaker 1: taking off and it might be that Kyler dude again.
Speaker 1: And guess what Kyler's coming. Hey gonna have to come
Speaker 1: back into AT and T Stadium where he loves it.
Speaker 1: So they're gonna have to figure that out. And I
Speaker 1: think that just addressing that aspect alone will make a
Speaker 1: huge difference, because the defensive ends I feel actually played well.
Speaker 1: It's the interior alignment that need to step their game
Speaker 1: up now. I mean, and I love that evaluation. What
Speaker 1: I saw in looking at the game was for when
Speaker 1: you talk about the defensive end playing alignment, assignment, making
Speaker 1: sure that you don't bite too far down in And
Speaker 1: you saw Randy Gregory those last two games to end
Speaker 1: the game, he lost contained he hadn't been doing that
Speaker 1: the entire game, and then that was what cost him.
Speaker 1: I thought the pressure that up the middle from a
Speaker 1: diggy Zool and Carlos Watkins. I think I thought that
Speaker 1: they were trying to, you know, stay in their lane,
Speaker 1: stay assignment sound and not over pursue and let him
Speaker 1: out the back door, and that hesitancy, I think didn't
Speaker 1: allow for that pressure to get up the middle of
Speaker 1: the way that you're talking about. I think that they
Speaker 1: can play Jalen Hurst the same way because you know
Speaker 1: that the Eagles are gonna do a lot of design
Speaker 1: runs with him. He had nine carries against us last
Speaker 1: the last time we nine for thirty five was what
Speaker 1: he did last time. And look, we have to we
Speaker 1: have to have the same approach, but we have to
Speaker 1: get home. We have to get pressure. We had two
Speaker 1: sacks last time. Obviously we were able to create turnovers
Speaker 1: as well, but that's gonna be really important. But Boston
Speaker 1: Scott now as they're running back, I'm really interested to
Speaker 1: see how we take him on. He you know, he's
Speaker 1: bonafied as a rush. He's also bonafied as a pass
Speaker 1: catcher out of the backfield. But you know, there's so
Speaker 1: many things it's going to be happening in our on
Speaker 1: the back half. I think that Dallas Goddard is a
Speaker 1: legitimate weapon. I want to see how we handle that.
Speaker 1: And obviously, you know, look, they've got some guys. Quiz
Speaker 1: Watkins is someone that you cannot fall asleep on because
Speaker 1: he will take it to the house. Obviously Smith DeVante Smith,
Speaker 1: their first round draft pick from last year. So look,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be another one of those games where defensively,
Speaker 1: we could put these guys to sleep pretty quickly, but
Speaker 1: we've got we got to make sure that we apply pressure.
Speaker 1: We've got to get home. Both Boston Scott and Dallas
Speaker 1: Goddard are in that COVID protocol at the moment, so
Speaker 1: they could get back, but hopefully, I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: want to say, I'm not gonna say it either way.
Speaker 1: I hope they get back. Honestly, I want them to
Speaker 1: get back because I want to see a realistic play scheme.
Speaker 1: I want to see how the Cowboys answer the bell
Speaker 1: in a week like this. But having both of those
Speaker 1: guys out would change a ton of things on the
Speaker 1: offensive side, but also up the middle with Jason Kelsey,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's one of the best centers in all
Speaker 1: of football, and he's also on that COVID list too.
Speaker 1: That's why I kind of lead into it that way.
Speaker 1: There were eighteen total pressures in that game against the
Speaker 1: Arizona Cardinals, eighteen pressures from the Cowboys defense. Sixteen of
Speaker 1: them came off the edge. Only two were in the middle,
Speaker 1: and they were both belonging to Neville Gallimore. So that
Speaker 1: interior pressure against this Philadelphia offensive line is going to
Speaker 1: have some sort of have to have some sort of
Speaker 1: success to really build that confidence. Rob Do you used
Speaker 1: to see that even if Jason Kelsey's back and he's
Speaker 1: playing as a realistic opportunity for the Cowboys on that
Speaker 1: side of the ball. Absolutely, And we've talked about on
Speaker 1: the show before and Isaiah played the position. Sometimes that
Speaker 1: middle pressure is more frustrating for a quarterback than the
Speaker 1: edge pressure because there's really nowhere for you to step
Speaker 1: up and go with the ball. He can't climb the pocket.
Speaker 1: Those kind of things. I love Boston Scott. I think
Speaker 1: he's he's kind of got a sprolls to his game.
Speaker 1: And when you look at this the way this Eagles
Speaker 1: offense is built, it's kind of built the way that
Speaker 1: we've seen him build it the last fifteen years. Like
Speaker 1: like Heck alluded to some of the speed. They've got,
Speaker 1: versatility at the running back position. Miles Sanders is out
Speaker 1: right now, and obviously Hurts can beat you a bunch
Speaker 1: of different ways. Michael Parsons was asked about him yesterday
Speaker 1: and he said, you know, he Kyler's the more dynamic quarterback.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Lamar Jackson and Kyler Murray are
Speaker 1: probably in a different category than everybody else in terms
Speaker 1: of what they can do as a dual threat. But
Speaker 1: we know what he can do. I think I think
Speaker 1: the Hurts can do. I think the biggest thing is
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys, can they do this is run up
Speaker 1: the score, get a lead early. That's what happened in
Speaker 1: the first game. They got a twenty to seven lead
Speaker 1: in the first half, and it forced the Eagles to
Speaker 1: not be as balanced and do all those things you
Speaker 1: know for Hurts that that's not ideal for him, and
Speaker 1: they wound up only running the ball twelve times for
Speaker 1: sixty four yards. Can the offense dictate what the Eagles
Speaker 1: offense can do? And that's that's that's contingent on getting
Speaker 1: off to a much better start than they did against Arizona.
Speaker 1: What do you think about that? I agree I agree.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think that you can take him out
Speaker 1: of his game. These guys, these guys have the recipe
Speaker 1: that the thing that sucks about when you play against
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that have the ability to beat you with their
Speaker 1: feet is what Heckma said is the hesitation. And that's
Speaker 1: what you know as well as a quarterback who possesses
Speaker 1: those abilities, you know that you create hesitation. You know
Speaker 1: that these guys instead of putting their head down and
Speaker 1: simply dipping and ripping and rushing and creating issues, now
Speaker 1: they're gonna be you know, locking on with two hands,
Speaker 1: and now they're gonna be picking over, packing over the shoulders,
Speaker 1: and their feet slow down, their eyes get you know,
Speaker 1: they get a little nosy, their feet slow down, the
Speaker 1: rush stops. So you know that, and you know you're
Speaker 1: going to have more time to throw the ball. You
Speaker 1: know you're gonna have more time to step up and
Speaker 1: step out and get outside the pocketing and you know
Speaker 1: expand you know the duration of these plays, which in
Speaker 1: turning allows for your receivers to get open against these
Speaker 1: dbs or get penalties against dbs because longer plays, I mean,
Speaker 1: it makes it more difficult for dbs to defend. So
Speaker 1: you know that as an opposing quarterback, and that's something
Speaker 1: that Dallas is going to have to try to instinctively
Speaker 1: try to address. They're got to just say, hey, I
Speaker 1: don't give a dog on who's back there at quarterback rolling,
Speaker 1: And that's something that they're gonna have to correct. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and when I do my evaluation, man, I go back
Speaker 1: to the previous year, uh, and just breaking down one
Speaker 1: last time we were in Philly, and the last time
Speaker 1: we were in Philly, Bend Nucci was the starting quarter
Speaker 1: Don't you forget it? We won't a knight? Yeah, what
Speaker 1: a knight? We won't forget it Nucci? Man. And you know, defensively,
Speaker 1: we had nothing going on. We could not get any stops.
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts was in his bag against us. But pressure
Speaker 1: we look Michael Parsons last week. This is the first
Speaker 1: time that I was just like, man, it's Michael out there,
Speaker 1: you know. But because of some of the things that
Speaker 1: the Cardinals were able to do to nullify our pass rush,
Speaker 1: and a lot of that was due to what we've
Speaker 1: already discussed. These guys are just having to make sure
Speaker 1: that they're in the lance and not let Kyle out.
Speaker 1: This is a different guy in Jalen Hurts, and I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that he's not a dual threat, because he is.
Speaker 1: He could get out on you in a hurry. He's strong,
Speaker 1: but he has a good arm and he wants to
Speaker 1: try and make those plays again. I just want this
Speaker 1: defense to obviously bring that same pressure that they had before.
Speaker 1: Jeron Curse has got to be the great neutralizer that
Speaker 1: he's been this entire season and making sure that, look,
Speaker 1: we don't let these tight ends get off against us,
Speaker 1: we don't let these these running backs get out of
Speaker 1: the backfield. We've got to get sacks. We've got to
Speaker 1: do the same thing that we did against them last
Speaker 1: time and not allow them to get any rushing yards.
Speaker 1: They had sixty four rushing yards the last time we saw.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, and see this is the number one rushing
Speaker 1: offense in the league right now in terms of yards
Speaker 1: per game. So you're gonna have to limit them again
Speaker 1: like that. But how much better are the Philadelphia Eagles
Speaker 1: since when you watch them in Week three and of
Speaker 1: course going back to last year as well. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: they're not that much better. I mean, they really are.
Speaker 1: I mean, and you and if we gotta be fair
Speaker 1: about our evaluation that we go like, I mean, we're
Speaker 1: the most critical evaluator in the room. Is that guy
Speaker 1: right there? And so if it comes down to when
Speaker 1: it comes down to, you know, with the camera, who
Speaker 1: they played against and the kind of ball that they played,
Speaker 1: I mean, they opened up with points scored against them,
Speaker 1: their defense got drove on. I mean, so it's not
Speaker 1: as though they've been playing this impeccable ball, uh, this
Speaker 1: entire run. If they've been you know, getting into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: it hadn't happened like that. What Pete, No, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're not wrong. I mean that there are playing there.
Speaker 1: I agree they're playing better than they did early in
Speaker 1: the season. But I just kind of go back to
Speaker 1: if you get a lead on them, all that balance
Speaker 1: and you know, one thing that's really helped Jalen is
Speaker 1: play action and playing off their running game and all that.
Speaker 1: If you're up twenty seven seven like they were in
Speaker 1: Week three, that stuff goes out the window. So I
Speaker 1: think I just think it's a lot it's contingent upon Dallas. Finally,
Speaker 1: you get off to a good start, get you know,
Speaker 1: get get up on them and force them to play
Speaker 1: out of their covers on a little bit, just to
Speaker 1: play devil's advocate here a little bit, Rob. I mean
Speaker 1: last week against Washington, and I know Washington and Dallas
Speaker 1: are not the same teams by any means. We proved
Speaker 1: that week sixteen, but they were up sixteen to seven
Speaker 1: at the halftime break. They had built that lead, they
Speaker 1: had had the momentum. They played really well in the
Speaker 1: first half, but Philly was able to kind of find
Speaker 1: their footing and then kind of charged back to the
Speaker 1: lead and put up what it's that thirteen unanswered points
Speaker 1: to win it. Uh? Do you see is there any
Speaker 1: sort of improvement in that regard to the Philadelphia side.
Speaker 1: So that way, if they do get down early on,
Speaker 1: if the Cowboys do what you just said and jump
Speaker 1: out to a lead, they still have an opportunity to answer, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: and I mean give yeah, give them credit. And they've
Speaker 1: they've got guys heck mentioned the guys they've got down
Speaker 1: the field that can make chunk plays. It hurts you.
Speaker 1: I would just argue that that's Washington and this Dallas
Speaker 1: defense when they're playing with the lead and you've got
Speaker 1: Mike aten Off and Randy Gregory and DeMarcus Lawrence. That's
Speaker 1: that's a world of hurt to potentially be it. So
Speaker 1: that's that's when this defense is at it's best. That's
Speaker 1: when this team is that its best is when they're
Speaker 1: playing with the league and the chunk plays are dangerous
Speaker 1: for us. And it is and we saw last week
Speaker 1: and trey Von Hunt dis gave up the big play
Speaker 1: to aj Green that if it had been out a
Speaker 1: little bit further, it would have been just a walk
Speaker 1: in touchdown for him. And that's been so much talked
Speaker 1: about our secondary and the big plays that they give up.
Speaker 1: One of the things that our defense can't afford to
Speaker 1: do is give up those big chunk plays. At the
Speaker 1: beginning of the game you watched last week, we gave
Speaker 1: up a twenty six yard run to open the game,
Speaker 1: followed it up by another run that was you know,
Speaker 1: fifteen twenty yard run that changed field positions, set the
Speaker 1: tone for the entire game. Those are just little things
Speaker 1: like that. Just being alert and aware right from the
Speaker 1: first bell is what I'm looking for this defense to do.
Speaker 1: Philadelphia is sneaky in the sense, and I do believe
Speaker 1: that they're better. I think they're substantially better now than
Speaker 1: they were earlier in the season when we faced them.
Speaker 1: And one of the areas is that they are committed
Speaker 1: to this run. They are They are diligent about establishing
Speaker 1: the run, and they will lull you to sleep with
Speaker 1: the run right, and they have the ability. It's it's
Speaker 1: not just a running back that you have to worry about.
Speaker 1: It's not just Scott, It's not just how are these
Speaker 1: guys that you have to worry about, You obviously have
Speaker 1: to take into account. They're dog on quarterback and they
Speaker 1: have no he has no problem. He's strong, right, he's
Speaker 1: a weight room guy. He has no problem running the
Speaker 1: ball and getting downhill. He's not a quarterback who can run.
Speaker 1: He's a quarterback who does run, and they utilize him
Speaker 1: in that aspect. And I think that's where they're dangerous
Speaker 1: because they will pound you, pound you, pound you, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, the chunk play right, and
Speaker 1: it's discouraging. There's gonna be a lot of third down opportunities.
Speaker 1: They are going to get into third down because they're
Speaker 1: not gonna throw big plays on first and second. They're
Speaker 1: gonna run it, run it right, and there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a third down and you're gonna get all hyped up,
Speaker 1: get ready to get off the field, and then they
Speaker 1: poom they run it again, or they have a chunk
Speaker 1: play and now it's back to another set of downs,
Speaker 1: and they keep doing it over and over and over again,
Speaker 1: and they are okay having patience in that regard. That's
Speaker 1: where Philly is dangerous. So to you guys's points, you
Speaker 1: are heck when and Rob you have to get up
Speaker 1: on these guys just like you did it earlier in
Speaker 1: the season. And I like, I think I completely agree
Speaker 1: with what you just said. And that's a um when
Speaker 1: you break them down that way. But I think they
Speaker 1: went to the running game because they had to rely
Speaker 1: on guarding to miss you. At a point in the season, Uh,
Speaker 1: they were, they were getting killed. The turnover differential was
Speaker 1: was was not favoring them at all, and so they
Speaker 1: had to go and rely on what they do best. Look,
Speaker 1: the strength of the Philadelphia Eagles team is their defense
Speaker 1: and offensive line. They are strong upfront. Uh, And that's
Speaker 1: why you can't let them get gone. That's what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: that you can't let them get going. That's so even
Speaker 1: though they were forced to identify they and forced to
Speaker 1: go back to the run light bulb. Yeah, Oh dang,
Speaker 1: I guess we do have that. Maybe we need to
Speaker 1: go back and figure that out too. An office a
Speaker 1: line for Kella Moore. Sorry, Rob, do you have something
Speaker 1: that came out? No? No, I agree, I agree. That's
Speaker 1: a that's a good point too about how you know,
Speaker 1: they they probably had to shift things around with the
Speaker 1: quarterback change early on, but they you know, they they
Speaker 1: want to get the RPOs going, they want to move
Speaker 1: the pocket and get get gently kind of on the
Speaker 1: move and those things. So it's all really it's been
Speaker 1: a nice flow for them. But again, like this defense,
Speaker 1: when it's playing at their best, is a different challenge
Speaker 1: than what they faced the last four weeks. So I'm interested.
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see it. And when we come back
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Speaker 1: How do you like so effectively just comb through your
Speaker 1: entire face, like you said you do that. Oh, it
Speaker 1: was all the way through it right there. I don't know,
Speaker 1: it just comes to me, Kyle, it comes to me.
Speaker 1: I'm sitting in Rob P's seat though, so you gotta yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I gotta step it up. Yep. Pressure is on.
Speaker 1: Hopefully we'll have Rob P tomorrow. Yeah, so that way
Speaker 1: he can do the read tomorrow, so we can maybe
Speaker 1: do that. We don't know his Friday is his day
Speaker 1: is Friday. I'm on Friday. Tomorrow is our last day show. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we don't have shows on Friday. I will probably be back.
Speaker 1: It's it's gonna be Monday on Friday, like, oh, okay, Monday, Chris.
Speaker 1: Chris just said we have shows on Do you do
Speaker 1: have a show on Friday? Oh dude, nice? All right,
Speaker 1: get you mister vacation. It's awesome. Well, Chris told me
Speaker 1: earlier in the week they were canceling show. No, I
Speaker 1: never said d right here and I was standing in
Speaker 1: that I said, I said, I have not talked to Derek. Yeah, see,
Speaker 1: depending on flights. I don't I don't think. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's what I don't think that's what I saw
Speaker 1: you reading that number. I am happy under the bus
Speaker 1: right now and backed it up. But that's okay. I'm
Speaker 1: happy to have a day off, and he's like, oh, ruling, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just always definitely gonna be a Colorado. I definitely
Speaker 1: deserve it, all right. Is this defense good enough to
Speaker 1: win without takeaways? Because you were mentioning you were mentioning
Speaker 1: earlier in the show yardage middle of the pack, which
Speaker 1: they are middle of the pack, even lower of the pack.
Speaker 1: They've given up the big play, but they don't get takeaways,
Speaker 1: which they've had four games this year where they haven't
Speaker 1: had a takeaway, which is pretty darn good. That means
Speaker 1: they take the football away quite a bit. And we
Speaker 1: knew that that was the calling card for this dan
Speaker 1: Quinn defense. But when they don't get it, how much
Speaker 1: of a factor does that have on that side of
Speaker 1: the ball. It's major because it's complimentary football, right, and
Speaker 1: this is a three portion game. It's three aspects and
Speaker 1: three obviously contributors to this game. Offense, defense, special team.
Speaker 1: When your defense is not able to create the turnovers
Speaker 1: that you have been dependent on them to create, in
Speaker 1: your offense is not putting up the points that they're
Speaker 1: capaball and putting up it makes it more difficult for
Speaker 1: this team to win ball games. It really does. In
Speaker 1: that case, that is not complimentary football, not it is,
Speaker 1: you know question, it's you know. The one thing about
Speaker 1: that is it sounds so absolute when you say, oh,
Speaker 1: can you guys win if you don't get takeaways? People
Speaker 1: win their teams winning every Sunday that don't get a takeaway.
Speaker 1: It's all contingent on Obviously, you know, at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the season, we're talking about how explosive our offense was,
Speaker 1: and obviously the defense was not. It's a pleasant surprise,
Speaker 1: and all of these takeaways are as well, but you
Speaker 1: cannot count on them. What you can count on is
Speaker 1: getting off the field on third downs. That's what you
Speaker 1: can do. And regardless, if we don't get any turnovers,
Speaker 1: we have got to go back to that our formula
Speaker 1: and you look at our losses, go back to the
Speaker 1: Denver game or the Las Vegas game. Slow methodical drives
Speaker 1: have killed us and we cannot continue to allow that.
Speaker 1: We can't go into the playoffs, even against those great
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that we're gonna face, and allow them to have
Speaker 1: those you know, time melting yard melting slow, methodical drives
Speaker 1: and get scores at the end of them, regardless if
Speaker 1: we don't get any any takeaways. Nine of seventy eight yards,
Speaker 1: fifteen of ninety one, ten of forty eight of seventy five,
Speaker 1: nine to forty nine. I mean, those are all the
Speaker 1: drives that Arizona had in the game on a chivity days.
Speaker 1: So it's gonna, yeah, it's gonna hurt you, Rob Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you hope. So because you can't you can't
Speaker 1: guarantee that you're gonna get takeaways every single game, and
Speaker 1: there is an element, there is an element of luck
Speaker 1: in getting takeaways, and some of it has to do
Speaker 1: when when your offense is clicking because you're forcing the
Speaker 1: other team to kind of play in press and sometimes
Speaker 1: that can lead to those things. So I think it
Speaker 1: depends on what your offense can do too. Can you
Speaker 1: can the offense get back to scoring more points and
Speaker 1: manufacturing things and creating more opportunities for the defense? I
Speaker 1: think I think the defense in a way to me,
Speaker 1: that was a winnable game based on the way the
Speaker 1: defense played Sunday. And I know they gave up some
Speaker 1: big plays, but twenty five points playing at home allowed.
Speaker 1: I think that's enough for your offense to go win
Speaker 1: the football game. You should be able to win. You're right,
Speaker 1: I think that loss was I think that loss was
Speaker 1: more on your offense didn't get started fast enough and
Speaker 1: you missed a big field goal, you know, and obviously, yeah,
Speaker 1: there are some calls that didn't go your way too,
Speaker 1: but but I think it was more about not playing
Speaker 1: well enough early enough. I have a quick question. There's
Speaker 1: something we haven't addressed, and we may not have a
Speaker 1: time to address it right now in this particular show.
Speaker 1: But I saw something come across the screen the other
Speaker 1: day and had it was in regards to Trayvon Dix.
Speaker 1: And yes, he's leading the league obviously interceptions. However, he's
Speaker 1: also leading the leagues in the league in most yards
Speaker 1: allowed in his direction. What are you, guys thoughts on that?
Speaker 1: You do? You? Are you happy with that trade off? Yes,
Speaker 1: especially when it's eleven interceptions. A lot of people were.
Speaker 1: I saw one that said he was the Jamis Winston
Speaker 1: of corners Jesus, and it's like, come on now, a
Speaker 1: lot stop it. I think this is a dumb argument. Honestly,
Speaker 1: what do you think? Well, I think the argument is
Speaker 1: all based off of guys that played the position before,
Speaker 1: and that's what they're talking about. And it's this comparison business.
Speaker 1: And at the beginning of the year, everybody's comparing them
Speaker 1: to Dion and guy you know, Revo Island, and these
Speaker 1: are guys that probably didn't give up a thousand yards
Speaker 1: in multiple seasons to wide receivers. I think the NFL
Speaker 1: has changed. I think it's so much about what cornerbacks
Speaker 1: can do with the line of scrimmage that they cannot
Speaker 1: do anymore. I mean, Dion used to be able to
Speaker 1: bear hug you at the line of scrimmage, and now
Speaker 1: he can't do that, you know. Uh, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: for what he is and for the skill set that
Speaker 1: he has, I think he maximizes it. There have been
Speaker 1: other shows that have talked about him being susceptible to
Speaker 1: the double move, right, and we've seen it over the
Speaker 1: last couple of weeks that the double move is something
Speaker 1: that will kill him. He will get caught on it,
Speaker 1: but then he'll come right back and take one to
Speaker 1: the house. So the ebb and flows, the give and
Speaker 1: takes right now, the eleven interceptions, I don't take it
Speaker 1: I'll take it. I'll take it, Robert, do you think
Speaker 1: totally agree? I mean, I don't know, Isaiah, if you've
Speaker 1: seen all year long the PF has ranked him. I
Speaker 1: think at one point recently he was ninetieth among quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the NFL. And I think PFF has some good stuff.
Speaker 1: But like they've got to change their grading system based
Speaker 1: off that eleven interceptions. You are you are, You are
Speaker 1: impacting the game in a major way for your defense,
Speaker 1: and I you know, there's got to be some kind
Speaker 1: of let's meet in the middle here in terms of yes,
Speaker 1: he gives up big plays, he gambles, he'll freelance, and
Speaker 1: sometimes it pays off, sometimes it doesn't. But if you
Speaker 1: are in the firmly in the conversation for defensive player
Speaker 1: of the year, then you're better than the ninetieth player
Speaker 1: at your positions. Right now, he has currently ranked as
Speaker 1: eightieth out of the cornerbacks in the NFL. He is
Speaker 1: the third best or third highest rated corner the cowboy
Speaker 1: away throw it all out the windows take on that.
Speaker 1: I figured you guys have stronger I mean no, I agree,
Speaker 1: I mean yeah, you change the game when you when
Speaker 1: you when you negate the ability for somebody to throw
Speaker 1: it in your direction. However, that you know people are
Speaker 1: getting yards on him, and that's something that you don't
Speaker 1: want to continue aloud if he's unable to continue with
Speaker 1: the turnovers, because that just means that you're going to
Speaker 1: continue to pick on him in that regard. But there's
Speaker 1: always a chance of him making a big play, and
Speaker 1: I think that that possibility is a game changer for
Speaker 1: your defense. You played against the real Reevis and guys
Speaker 1: like that. I mean, what is as a comparison between
Speaker 1: the two, what would you say would be the difference
Speaker 1: between the digs and revs. Revs were more way more
Speaker 1: physical than Dick's way more physical, and he was a
Speaker 1: strong human being. But I feel like people really were
Speaker 1: like scared to go at Revis. I don't think people
Speaker 1: are scared to go at Dicks, Okay, And what's the hesitation?
Speaker 1: Why why do teams like you saw watching football team
Speaker 1: they came right out against. I think it was dumb.
Speaker 1: It wasn't dumb, especially from Washington. But I think that
Speaker 1: with Revis, I think, obviously I think Reves was a
Speaker 1: better cover corner, just pure cover corner, not the ability,
Speaker 1: not the necessarily to make a big interception. I don't
Speaker 1: think that was the fear for people against Revis. It
Speaker 1: was like Revas actually just shut you down. I don't
Speaker 1: think Diggs is there yet. I think Diggs has a
Speaker 1: capability making a big play, but the fact that he's
Speaker 1: allowing the most yards his direction, he hasn't he hasn't
Speaker 1: shared up that aspect of his game yet, but he will.
Speaker 1: And well also not to mention he's a second year player, Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: I mean he is on the early, early early parts
Speaker 1: of his career and he's even new to the position.
Speaker 1: Remember he only switched to play corner halfway through his
Speaker 1: career at Alabama, so he's what four years now, this
Speaker 1: is his fourth full year of playing the position period.
Speaker 1: I think you're all right. I think he's got plenty
Speaker 1: of for him to grow and he's an impact player.
Speaker 1: If teams aren't scared to throw his direction by now,
Speaker 1: keep going, yeah, I mean, keep going at him and
Speaker 1: then we'll see who's scared to throw his direction come
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two, so we'll see how that works out
Speaker 1: in the Cowboys. Of course, we'll talk about the Cowboys
Speaker 1: offense against Philadelphia defense coming up tomorrow as We do
Speaker 1: get closer and closer to the Saturday matchup the Eagles
Speaker 1: in the final week of the regular season, but that's
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