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Speaker 1: It is Monday, December twenty seven, twenty twenty one, Season seventeen,
Speaker 1: episode number eighty five. Welcome to very latest edition of
Speaker 1: The Break. We're Alive from that's WBC Morriage Studios at
Speaker 1: the Star. We are done with Christmas and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have given everyone's a really really nice Christmas present. Yesterday.
Speaker 1: They gave Amber that game, as she's been asking for
Speaker 1: for the last several weeks, a fifty six to fourteen
Speaker 1: beat down of the Washington football team. Benches in all
Speaker 1: and uh and I like Nick's tweet bench please like
Speaker 1: that was really? That was that? We should have used
Speaker 1: that as a headline after the game. That would have
Speaker 1: been pretty pretty perfect. But we're gonna break down the
Speaker 1: game for you guys, tell you guys what went right
Speaker 1: and if there was anything that went wrong for this team.
Speaker 1: So let's start nick. We didn't get a chance to
Speaker 1: get eighty four last week because he didn't get a
Speaker 1: chance to do our show. You want to give me
Speaker 1: an eighty four and eighty five real quick to get
Speaker 1: us kicked off here. I always been a big fan
Speaker 1: of Joey Galloway, Yeah, eighty four. I know there's some
Speaker 1: other great tight ends, and there were eighty four, but
Speaker 1: I like I like Joey Galloway myself. I love how
Speaker 1: our personal things kind of filter into things sometimes. I
Speaker 1: got no issues with Doug Cosby, like Cosby eighty five. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Remember Ernie Mills, Yes I do, Yeah, or Arnie Mills.
Speaker 1: I liked him, I did too. How long was he
Speaker 1: here for? Like? Two years? Years? Noah Brown? Sorry, Dave
Speaker 1: Keepson real was who's here that? Yeah? I think he's
Speaker 1: the only guy that's warrant that I can think of
Speaker 1: the whole time I've been here about Darren Chefferini, I
Speaker 1: remember the name? I remember? Then? All right, all right,
Speaker 1: let's get right into this. Craton was a good eighty four,
Speaker 1: it was. It was one of my favorites. I like
Speaker 1: Patrick just as a person, cool guy. All right, all right,
Speaker 1: let's jump right in Cowboys win fifty six fourteen. Uh,
Speaker 1: it was a it was a game that was um,
Speaker 1: I don't know, just everything about it just seemed to work.
Speaker 1: But let's start first with some storylines, big picture storylines.
Speaker 1: What do you think coming out of that game? Games over,
Speaker 1: Cowboys win fifty six fourteen. What's your first thought? Nick,
Speaker 1: they get win the Super Bowl if they play like that?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sorry, I mean you can though, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's not too far fetched. If you play like that,
Speaker 1: you're gonna beat any team, maybe other than the AFC
Speaker 1: Pro Bowl squad. I mean, that was that was an
Speaker 1: absolute perfect type game. That doesn't mean they're gonna play
Speaker 1: like that all the time. There's better quarterbacks, better teams,
Speaker 1: better offense that will challenge them them. But if you're
Speaker 1: gonna dominate on offense, defense and specialty, dominate all three.
Speaker 1: This team, this is a team that can go and win,
Speaker 1: win games and get into the super Bowl. That's that's
Speaker 1: how good that they are. Well, they do it when
Speaker 1: it counts the most we'll see. But man, they have
Speaker 1: they put it out there. Amber it ain't that hard,
Speaker 1: is it? When you have the talent exactly exactly That's
Speaker 1: what I've been complaining about. We know the talent that's
Speaker 1: there on offense, on defense, even special teams. They showed
Speaker 1: up last night as well. Kellen Moore. We know he
Speaker 1: has talent. So this is what I was waiting and
Speaker 1: complaining to be to see, to see finally, and it's
Speaker 1: not that complicated. Once they're clicking, it's freaking amazing. And
Speaker 1: I was probably that was probably the game I've enjoyed
Speaker 1: the most, just sitting there, I have my feet up,
Speaker 1: my laptop on my legs, watching the game and enjoying it.
Speaker 1: No sweating, no nothing. So I expect the Cowboys to
Speaker 1: take this win and carry it over the next few
Speaker 1: weeks and hopefully that's something that's that doesn't go away
Speaker 1: with Arizona coming up next week and I know we'll
Speaker 1: talk about it later in the week, but this is
Speaker 1: a great start to end the final regular season. Dave
Speaker 1: Mbar reminds me of my dad a little bit, and
Speaker 1: that sounds weird, but my dad is only happy if
Speaker 1: his team is just blowing the doors off, or the
Speaker 1: other days, if it's if it's remotely close. He's like,
Speaker 1: these guys are stressing me out. I can't watch this.
Speaker 1: I'm like, you chose the wrong league to be a
Speaker 1: fan of if that's the only way you're gonna be happy.
Speaker 1: But you're right they I mean, that's about as perfect
Speaker 1: as you can play a game of NFL football. And
Speaker 1: like they've beaten down four or five teams this year,
Speaker 1: and this still felt like it was in a different
Speaker 1: stratosphere than those games just beginning to end. Ass whipping
Speaker 1: um that you just you get. You typically get those
Speaker 1: like once a generation in the NFL, and it's special
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys have managed to do that a handful
Speaker 1: of times this year. I mean that, don't take that
Speaker 1: for granted. Knicks totally right. You had the wonderful analogy
Speaker 1: last week or whenever it was that it was like
Speaker 1: they were playing a guitar out of tune. Well they
Speaker 1: tuned up, they tuned up. And yeah, I mean with
Speaker 1: what the defense is doing. I wrote about this last night,
Speaker 1: like whole hum, whole hum. They only had two takeaways
Speaker 1: and still scored a defensive touchdown, So like they're still
Speaker 1: doing that and the offense did what it was supposed
Speaker 1: to do, didn't even really have to change that much.
Speaker 1: Like CD makes some tough catches instead of dropping the ball,
Speaker 1: Dak throws some fans. He puts it on the money,
Speaker 1: which is something he hasn't been doing is consistently. But
Speaker 1: it was there last night. And when they play even
Speaker 1: close to that level of potential, I just I think
Speaker 1: they could beat anybody in the NFL. Yeah. My big
Speaker 1: picture from that game is really just this defense is great.
Speaker 1: They are great, and I love watching them play. I
Speaker 1: tweeted during the game, you know, after they score the
Speaker 1: first touchdown, I was like, all right, I don't really
Speaker 1: need to see the offense anymore. Just put the defense
Speaker 1: out that arrest of the game, and I just want
Speaker 1: to see him because every play you're looking like, who's
Speaker 1: gonna do something, Who's gonna do something? Like? They are
Speaker 1: so much fun to watch because they have so many playmakers,
Speaker 1: and all their playmakers are making plays all the time,
Speaker 1: and so it's just a it's just a fun team
Speaker 1: to watch from a defensive standpoint, and the part I
Speaker 1: love the most about this team, and I think it
Speaker 1: was on display last night. When the defense is clicking,
Speaker 1: I think everything else will click. I think this defense
Speaker 1: has the ability to be able to be the catalyst
Speaker 1: for everything else. It started with that interception with Treyvon
Speaker 1: Diggs and from there the route was on. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: that's what I love about this defense. This has become
Speaker 1: a defensive team and that travels in the playoffs. I
Speaker 1: love that about this team right now. I don't think
Speaker 1: the Covers are going to get a Defensive Player of
Speaker 1: the Year award this year. I don't think it's going
Speaker 1: to happen. I think they got two guys though, that
Speaker 1: are worthy of it, that are probably gonna split some votes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because I think Treyvon Diggs. You know, we see what
Speaker 1: Parsons is doing, but Diggs should get some concern iteration
Speaker 1: as well. Um, obviously, eleven picks is amazing. Tis the
Speaker 1: Cowboys a record with Everson Walls, which I'm sure he'll
Speaker 1: have some things to say today on mix shots about that,
Speaker 1: but um, you know, he traveling with their best receiver.
Speaker 1: He's taken away your best option, or at least trying
Speaker 1: to and so that right there is helpful. And then
Speaker 1: you're getting picks on top of it. I mean, he
Speaker 1: should get some some votes as well. You know that
Speaker 1: he had they had between the two games they've played
Speaker 1: against Washington the last three weeks, there have been ten
Speaker 1: targets to McLaren. McLaren only played the first half of
Speaker 1: that last game. He got hurt in the first series
Speaker 1: of the second half. But they've had ten targets him.
Speaker 1: He's at one in one completion. I mean, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: So I mean this is this is you talk about
Speaker 1: taking the top guy, and he was doing it earlier
Speaker 1: this season too. He was taking the top guy every
Speaker 1: week and none of those guys were having great games.
Speaker 1: And so people can talk about his stats and he
Speaker 1: gives up yards and all this care The guy gets turnovers,
Speaker 1: he makes plays. He has over twenty past defenses, which
Speaker 1: is I think that's the first time in NFL history
Speaker 1: someone's had eleven interceptions and twenty past defenses in the
Speaker 1: same season. Like, he is having a remarkable season, Nick,
Speaker 1: And but for the fact that he's overshadowed, shadowed by
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons, I think he would be like there would
Speaker 1: be a lot more people talking about him in that discussion.
Speaker 1: That's insane and I agree with you, but that's insane though,
Speaker 1: to say that he's being overshadowed by anybody because he
Speaker 1: has a chance to tie an NFL record that has
Speaker 1: stood since before the Super Bowl. I mean, that's the
Speaker 1: type of territory that he's in. And it's crazy the
Speaker 1: degree to which he's kind of been discredited, and I
Speaker 1: think aig in my opinion, a big part of it's
Speaker 1: just that he plays for the Cowboys. People, if you
Speaker 1: don't love the Cowboys, you hate him and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: so what if he's got picks he gives up and
Speaker 1: he's just eleven I mean eleven interceptions. I'm looking at McLaurin,
Speaker 1: got targeted six times last night, caught it once, just
Speaker 1: coldal on factor in that game. And I get it.
Speaker 1: The Washington didn't really have a great quarterback situation, but
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's impressive. Yep, well you got
Speaker 1: surprise they went after him that first play. Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: and the way they not only did they like Washington
Speaker 1: ran double goes Kelvin Joseph was carrying the exact same
Speaker 1: route on the other side of the field. First NFL start,
Speaker 1: first snap out there, at the very least, test him, Yeah, like,
Speaker 1: test the rookie. Not the thing. It's gonna be all
Speaker 1: pro when the season's over and you're just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: we got this, We're gonna I'm just gonna check it out.
Speaker 1: Stupid and everybody Digs couldn't believe it. I think every
Speaker 1: player got asked about it and they were all just
Speaker 1: like why would you do that? Like why? Why? Why
Speaker 1: even chance it? If you're gonna test him, you think
Speaker 1: you try to bait him, like you try to work
Speaker 1: him throughout the game and then get him into a situation.
Speaker 1: You got him thinking one thing and then try to
Speaker 1: get him. I don't know why they thought that would
Speaker 1: be a good idea to start the game, but fourteen
Speaker 1: is the record. I think he's gonna get there. He's
Speaker 1: got two games, he needs three interceptions. I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna get there. That's a lot in two games. Night
Speaker 1: Lane Lane. Seriously, like that record has been around since
Speaker 1: like running back. It's amazing just to just to say
Speaker 1: Treyvon Diggs at night train Lane. Yeah, that even sounds funny. Again,
Speaker 1: I mean three and two games would be wild, but
Speaker 1: Kyler and I would be surprised. But I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: bet against him. Why Yeah, Kyl, you know he's had
Speaker 1: he had three against hers last year. Give it to you.
Speaker 1: That would be fun. I'd like to just him to
Speaker 1: get twelve for sure. You know, break the record for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. That would be cool. And Everson Walls we
Speaker 1: did talk to him about a last week and he said, hey,
Speaker 1: get it, but no one's ever gonna take my rookie record.
Speaker 1: You know. He said, no one's gonna break that. So
Speaker 1: because Everston got eleven as a rookie, so he's got
Speaker 1: the record and a rookie record. He's like, so nobody's
Speaker 1: coming into the league. I'm not being erased from the record. No, no, yeah,
Speaker 1: being there will no, there will not be another player
Speaker 1: to come in as a rookie to get eleven. And
Speaker 1: if he is, I guarantee not undrafted from Grambling. Like
Speaker 1: that ain't happening. All right, We're gonna take our first break.
Speaker 1: When we come back. We got to talk about this offense.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start with Dak and the day that he
Speaker 1: had and how he performed it. More importantly, what was
Speaker 1: different for him yesterday, because it did seem like there
Speaker 1: were some things that were a little different. We'll talk
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the second segment of the Break Life
Speaker 1: Nest WBC Mortgage Studios. At the start, we're talking about
Speaker 1: the Cowboys victory over the Washington football team. They win
Speaker 1: fifty six to fourteen. That still just sounds like I'm
Speaker 1: want to college football show that that is not an
Speaker 1: NFL score. That's how I felt last night, was like,
Speaker 1: you know, LSU's playing Sam Houston State, and like midway
Speaker 1: through they of course not sorry direct should know you.
Speaker 1: It doesn't I'm not picking on anybody, but you're just
Speaker 1: they're like, all right, let's get the freshman in here.
Speaker 1: Let's see what the young guys can do. And they
Speaker 1: even scored. Right. He gat Malakue Turner out there, just
Speaker 1: like running up and down the field. Belie Turner, I
Speaker 1: thought he was gonna house that thing. Yeah, he was
Speaker 1: not gonna go down. Yeah. That was the other That
Speaker 1: was just the epitome of like the Washington's checked out
Speaker 1: of this game. They're demoralized, and Malik Turner's like I'm
Speaker 1: putting stuff on, yeah, things to accomplish here. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about one. Dak Prescott though, I think yesterday we got
Speaker 1: to see Dak. If you thought he was in a slump,
Speaker 1: which I don't know if i'd call it a slump,
Speaker 1: but if you thought he wasn't playing his best football,
Speaker 1: yesterday he got a little back, a little bit closer
Speaker 1: to where he was earlier in the season when he
Speaker 1: was playing really great football. He was twenty eight at
Speaker 1: thirty nine seventy two percent completion, which is I think
Speaker 1: the most important thing. Three hundred and thirty yards, four
Speaker 1: touchdowns and no interceptions. Talk to me about Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: he's back, baby, which I just I laugh the kind
Speaker 1: of quibbling and they'd almost sound superstitious where he's He's like,
Speaker 1: I never called it to slump. Y'all called it to slump,
Speaker 1: but I haven't been playing my best football, and now
Speaker 1: I would what that means. But hey, whatever whatever makes
Speaker 1: feel better. Um yeah, But now he was incredible. He
Speaker 1: looked I mean, that was that was Dak at his best.
Speaker 1: That was Dak playing like an MVP candidate. That was
Speaker 1: the guy that we saw for the first seven eight
Speaker 1: weeks of the season, including Atlanta. But even like they
Speaker 1: beat Atlanta down, he didn't play that great I mean, like,
Speaker 1: I mean, he played very well against Atlanta, but he
Speaker 1: that was maybe his best game of the year, or
Speaker 1: certainly top three, along with like New England and Tampa probably. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean, he he was putting it on a dime.
Speaker 1: He had had that throw to CD the crosser over
Speaker 1: the shoulder. I don't know what else you're gonna say.
Speaker 1: He looked, he looked amazing. Goody. I just thought he
Speaker 1: was a complete quarterback too, you know. I mean when
Speaker 1: we noticed it very early in the game, even though
Speaker 1: it doesn't doesn't just jump out on the statuet, the
Speaker 1: runs him running the ball for a first down here
Speaker 1: and stepping up in the pocket and getting your seven
Speaker 1: eight and slide and getting out of there, and I
Speaker 1: thought all of that was kind of back to what
Speaker 1: type of quarterback he can be. He does not have
Speaker 1: to be this this dynamic runner that's gonna go and
Speaker 1: get one hundred yards rushing and all that stuff. He's
Speaker 1: just got to be a guy willing to do it.
Speaker 1: And I thought last last night he did that. And
Speaker 1: then that opens up a lot of things. I Mean,
Speaker 1: the best play on top of that is the third
Speaker 1: and seven. It's like twenty one to seven. The game's,
Speaker 1: you know, is Washington's trying to get staying alive in
Speaker 1: this and he looks like he's gonna run, defense sucks up.
Speaker 1: He throws it over to Gallop for forty one yards
Speaker 1: and then that kind of led to another touchdown. I
Speaker 1: just thought his ability to run was important last night.
Speaker 1: He looked like himself in my opinion. I mean, he
Speaker 1: ran for twenty one yards and yet, like we've been saying,
Speaker 1: you don't have to need Dak Press got to run
Speaker 1: for more than ten fifteen yards in a game, but
Speaker 1: the ability to do that to extend plays, and then yeah,
Speaker 1: the scramble throw to Gallop, I mean, I just think
Speaker 1: that's such a staple of his game that we haven't
Speaker 1: been seeing consistently over the last five or six weeks,
Speaker 1: you know, and trying to figure out what was different.
Speaker 1: It makes me wonder, Okay, did he play better because
Speaker 1: everybody else was playing better in the offense as a whole,
Speaker 1: or did everybody else play better because that was playing better.
Speaker 1: But then at the same time, you're like, Okay, you
Speaker 1: don't necessarily need to put the two against each other.
Speaker 1: You know, they're a whole unit. They play as a whole.
Speaker 1: I think that everyone was just working right. You had
Speaker 1: the running game, you had the tight end position doing
Speaker 1: well as well, the old line. Nothing stands out. Do
Speaker 1: you guys have anything that stood out that was ness?
Speaker 1: I mean, there was one play, but in general they
Speaker 1: did a pretty nice job. Steel getting in the end zone,
Speaker 1: there was making amazing. There's so many things about that
Speaker 1: that was just awesome, like so many. I mean Steel
Speaker 1: scoring a touchdown, um spiking it into the stands. I
Speaker 1: think the best part is that if you saw on
Speaker 1: the TV. I don't know if you saw it on
Speaker 1: the on that on the TV's um the angle when
Speaker 1: they're kicking the extra point. Zeke is in the end
Speaker 1: zone running across because he went and fetched the ball
Speaker 1: from the fans and told the fan, we're gonna get
Speaker 1: you something else or whatever, because make sure he got
Speaker 1: the ball for Steele. You know something that Steel wasn't
Speaker 1: thinking about in the moment. I'm so excited. He just
Speaker 1: scored a touch down and spikes it into the stands
Speaker 1: and he's gonna want this ball, right. I think Zack
Speaker 1: Martin said that last year, Um Zeke scored and gave
Speaker 1: him the ball and he kind of you know, just
Speaker 1: kind of threw it down and spiked and they were
Speaker 1: all getting onto him about that was a terrible spike.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, bring some authority, all right. You
Speaker 1: know he said he catches that he's never dropped that
Speaker 1: pass and in the you know, in practice or whatever.
Speaker 1: But I thought seventeenth person to catch a touchdown at
Speaker 1: the time, Yeah, to have a touchdown. No, d Law
Speaker 1: broke the record at seventeen. Okay, the record was sixteen seventeen,
Speaker 1: Steel was eighteen nineteen. Now Colston was nineteen. So I
Speaker 1: got McGovern in the only twelve of the nineteen playoffense
Speaker 1: seven different non special record. I'm guessing that has to
Speaker 1: be a record. Right are we doing? You want to?
Speaker 1: Can we do? Can we do it? Joe Burrow segment? Danny, No,
Speaker 1: We're not doing it. Joe Burrows segment. Get out of here? Amazing, Like,
Speaker 1: what are y'all talking about? Get out of here? Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: Danny McCrae, you have been saying, we looked I got
Speaker 1: nothing to say, although they didn't. Couldn't hear him on
Speaker 1: the mic? That was Danny McCrae interrupting our show? Is
Speaker 1: that called a show? Bum? No? We're all, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you just think we're sitting around the table having a conversation, Danny,
Speaker 1: we do the show in the studio, right, He's right, though,
Speaker 1: he is right, But behind that conversation, the three of
Speaker 1: us have Danny and I have been arguing about this
Speaker 1: defense since training camp, Like every day I come into
Speaker 1: work and He's like, top ten, top ten, and I'm like, okay, buddy,
Speaker 1: And like over the course of the season, I've been
Speaker 1: like okay, and now I'm just like, you're You're right.
Speaker 1: I got nothing. Let be honest. I don't think even
Speaker 1: he thought they would be as good as they are, right, No, no,
Speaker 1: he did. Anybody could have imagined. It goes back to
Speaker 1: what I mean, even even the people that were banging
Speaker 1: the table for Mica, like the big diehard draft Micah people,
Speaker 1: even they had no idea what was coming. I mean,
Speaker 1: you could never have predicted how successful they've been. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn is just a remarkable defensive Quinn. I don't
Speaker 1: think I was. Yeah, I don't think I was in
Speaker 1: the category of banging the table for Micah Parsons. I did.
Speaker 1: That was the guy I wanted them to draft, But no,
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't think he would be like this
Speaker 1: now when he watched his tape, nobody was blocking him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that was you know evident nobody could block him.
Speaker 1: But to be able to utilize them the way they have,
Speaker 1: I think is amazing. And you know when when he can,
Speaker 1: you know, when he's on the field, he's really good.
Speaker 1: When he's not, they're not, he's good. That was the
Speaker 1: one you remember. I'm going to say, we're actually gonna
Speaker 1: play a little game. I'm gonna throw out some names
Speaker 1: and I'm just gonna let you guys riff on them
Speaker 1: and how they played. And actually that was one of
Speaker 1: the reasons why I did is because Nick was losing
Speaker 1: his mind in the breast box during one series. In
Speaker 1: the game, Cowboys are probably up by four touchdowns, twenty
Speaker 1: one to nothing, because they they've even said it's twenty
Speaker 1: one nothing. That not anymore. It ain't because it was
Speaker 1: like right when Gibson scored. But don't understand that Michael
Speaker 1: Parson's go Nick, I just the guy's the beast. I mean,
Speaker 1: when he's on the field, he helps everybody. Okay, get it,
Speaker 1: Lions need to rest too. Whatever. Into the I guess
Speaker 1: into the first core. They're driving. It's twenty one nothing,
Speaker 1: and they're okay, they're in the red zone in the
Speaker 1: court and he's sitting there helmet off, and there's like
Speaker 1: three or four plays, and then the quarter ends. You
Speaker 1: go all the way down to the other field. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: get your get your guy back in. No, he's still
Speaker 1: standing there, and they go and score touchdown on a
Speaker 1: running back out of the backfield type play that you
Speaker 1: know he can he can make those kind of plays.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just not understanding that one. I don't
Speaker 1: get why this twenty two year old lionbacker needs to
Speaker 1: needs a rest like that, especially after the end of
Speaker 1: the quarter. You don't know everything that's happening here, don't.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. Like sometimes we might see a guy
Speaker 1: just on the sideline and we're like, what the heck,
Speaker 1: Like you should be on the field, But we don't
Speaker 1: necessarily know why he's sitting on the sideline. You know,
Speaker 1: he didn't know. We didn't know either. I mean, like,
Speaker 1: I'm not very happy with him. No, he didn't know.
Speaker 1: Smoke was coming out of his ear. And what happened
Speaker 1: the next time he was on the field, He got
Speaker 1: sacked and he like hurt the guy. He was like, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I just I can't Yeah, I can't bring myself to care.
Speaker 1: I don't know, well, you know honestly, and I told
Speaker 1: I told you just during the game. Like what we
Speaker 1: don't know is was this a situation where they've been
Speaker 1: looking at his numbers and they're like, man, he's getting
Speaker 1: a lot of time on the field. We need to start, honestly,
Speaker 1: and we got our other guys back, so we can
Speaker 1: afford to do that, and so give him a series
Speaker 1: here and there because we really need to be at
Speaker 1: his best once we get to the playoffs. That is
Speaker 1: a wonderful guess at the reasoning because Mike McCarthy cares
Speaker 1: about that maybe more than anything. And I'm totally fine
Speaker 1: with that until the red zone. Okay, you want him back? Okay,
Speaker 1: that was cute, like all this you know, midfield stuff.
Speaker 1: Now get back in there, you know. But the other
Speaker 1: thing might be like we trust our other guys. Now.
Speaker 1: I know they got end zone that time, but they
Speaker 1: got a lot of other playmakers on this defense. They
Speaker 1: don't have have to have him be the only guy
Speaker 1: to make plays, right. If if that's how they if
Speaker 1: that's how they approach it in the playoffs, I'll be upset. Maybe,
Speaker 1: yeah they did. It was obvious from like the second
Speaker 1: possession that Washington wasn't gonna win that game. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: just like, okay, whatever you want to do, all right,
Speaker 1: let's move on to the next one. Zeke Elliott, what
Speaker 1: oh great? Awesome? Was he? Yeah? I thought so. He
Speaker 1: Look he's gonna I think he's gonna be dealing with
Speaker 1: stuff for the rest of the of the year, Like
Speaker 1: you're just not He's not gonna be as fresh as
Speaker 1: he would be if we had just landed in Oxnard,
Speaker 1: probably for the rest of the year. But every week
Speaker 1: he looks fresher and fresher, which like I don't I
Speaker 1: don't understand. I wish we got more time with these
Speaker 1: guys like Zeke always he's always great with us. He's
Speaker 1: the first guy into the podium. He talks for like
Speaker 1: five or six minutes. But it's just not the same
Speaker 1: as when you can, like pre COVID times, when you
Speaker 1: can just kind of chill at his locker and shot.
Speaker 1: I'm so curious at the idea of like, Okay, every
Speaker 1: six days, you're still getting beat to hell, So how
Speaker 1: do you why do you feel better? You know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Like it seems counterintuitive, but it's true. Like
Speaker 1: he he looks fresh, or he looks like he's got
Speaker 1: a little bit more burst. And yeah, I mean the
Speaker 1: running game, they I mean they it was a non
Speaker 1: factor by their standards. Zeke had thirty seven and Tony
Speaker 1: had thirty four. They didn't need to. But I thought
Speaker 1: he did the stuff that you needed him to do.
Speaker 1: This was one of those games for me where the
Speaker 1: stats didn't say how how much I thought Zeke played well,
Speaker 1: Like if you watched him run, he looked He had
Speaker 1: several runs where he looked like the old Zeke, Like
Speaker 1: he looked like the Zeke deck in Make Things Happen,
Speaker 1: which you hadn't seen that a lot of this season.
Speaker 1: But I thought there were some moments in that game,
Speaker 1: and you go back to the touchdown he had last week,
Speaker 1: you start putting those two games together, I'm actually starting
Speaker 1: to feel like, Okay, Zeke is he must be feeling
Speaker 1: a little bit better because he's having some runs that
Speaker 1: looked more like vintage Zeke. I'm quibbling, and I know
Speaker 1: this isn't what you meant, but like up until the injury,
Speaker 1: like first six weeks of the season, he did look
Speaker 1: like that, Like, yeah, he had a fifty yard or
Speaker 1: in one of the first four games of the year.
Speaker 1: Haven't seen that in forever. And that's what I'm talking
Speaker 1: about the injury period. Yeah, I don't know if we're
Speaker 1: going to see him do that again this year. But
Speaker 1: he's getting to the perimeter, like he's getting to the
Speaker 1: edge when he runs outside. He's getting to the second level.
Speaker 1: He wasn't doing that against Denver and New Orleans and
Speaker 1: some of these other games. And he's falling forward like
Speaker 1: that was the part that was missing from his game.
Speaker 1: That's always been a big part of his game, is
Speaker 1: give me the extra two or three once you get hit.
Speaker 1: We're starting to see that again now. Yeah, we saw
Speaker 1: that in the touchdown, you know, where he basically carried
Speaker 1: those guys into the end zone. That wasn't my favorite
Speaker 1: part of the play. I kind of liked big dog
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins just leading the way out there, and he
Speaker 1: hadn't seen that in a while either. After the game,
Speaker 1: I asked him about that and he was kind of disappointed.
Speaker 1: He was like, I kind of oh, he goes. I
Speaker 1: wish I would have finished that little dude off and
Speaker 1: knocked in. He wanted another. I mean people still tweet
Speaker 1: that clip of him against the Seahawks from like six
Speaker 1: years ago. He wanted to do that. He wanted that.
Speaker 1: But let's also let's remember he's playing, you know, right tackle.
Speaker 1: He's on the left side leading the way. You got,
Speaker 1: you know, got to move your ass to get over
Speaker 1: there and get out there. Fantastic play on his part,
Speaker 1: but that's kind of to my point, that's a counterplay
Speaker 1: off of left tackle. So you got to get to
Speaker 1: the edge and then it's eleven yards. An explosive run
Speaker 1: is typically considered twelve depending on who you talk to.
Speaker 1: But so that's Zeke getting to the edge and then
Speaker 1: getting down field for a twelve yard touchdown. He wasn't
Speaker 1: doing that a month ago. Right, It's crazy how just
Speaker 1: I keep imagining the thinking about the game last night,
Speaker 1: and it's just amazing the way they played. And you know,
Speaker 1: it's one thing people from the outside criticizing you and
Speaker 1: talking crap and all that, but it's another if you
Speaker 1: got your own teammates talking crap to you. And I'm
Speaker 1: talking about the defense versus the offense and the type
Speaker 1: of bet that they made between each other. So I'm
Speaker 1: I'm assuming that has a lot to do as far
Speaker 1: as like energy wise, and the fact that everyone on
Speaker 1: offense just showed up from the get go at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the game. Everyone was playing with the different
Speaker 1: kind of energy. And I like to think that was
Speaker 1: the defense, our own defense talking crap to them. When
Speaker 1: you started talking about teammates talking crap to each other,
Speaker 1: I actually thought you were going toward the Washington No. No,
Speaker 1: that's the kind of bad crap that you don't want.
Speaker 1: We got. There's the good kind of crap, which is
Speaker 1: what the Cowboys are doing. Yeah, a good cropping back crop.
Speaker 1: That was actually pretty funny that that whole thing, And
Speaker 1: I was actually I started listening in because I like
Speaker 1: to do this just for fun. I listened into a
Speaker 1: little bit of Washington sports talk this morning, and it
Speaker 1: was just so funny listening to them talk about that
Speaker 1: whole situation and how it all went down. And I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously we've been there, Like if you're if you're an
Speaker 1: NFL fan, your city's going to be there at some
Speaker 1: point where you are you know your team is not
Speaker 1: playing well and something happens where you're the butt of
Speaker 1: the joke, right They are certainly the butt of the
Speaker 1: joke this morning, from the benches to the fight on
Speaker 1: the sideline, Like everything right now says Washington is a
Speaker 1: joke and they just got to deal with that. Man.
Speaker 1: Well they you know, the Cowboys win the NFC East
Speaker 1: even before the game starts, and I mean, I'm asked
Speaker 1: on our pregame show about you think the air is
Speaker 1: going to be kind of let out of this, and
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't think so. You know, it don't
Speaker 1: doesn't seem like it. But Washington was a team that
Speaker 1: had something to really really play for. You know, they
Speaker 1: were desperate to beat a division rival like that, that
Speaker 1: was a desperate team needing to hang on to for
Speaker 1: the playoffs. And you've already kind of wrapped something up.
Speaker 1: I mean that that makes this win even more impressive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree. Cowboys are working some stuff out last night.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's been a frustrating month and for nobody
Speaker 1: more than those guys, And I'm positive that they're tired
Speaker 1: of hearing about it. And I bet they're not the
Speaker 1: type of thing they want to say publicly, but they're
Speaker 1: probably privately pretty pissed that people like us talk about
Speaker 1: them like the sky's falling when they've won three in
Speaker 1: a row and they're ten and four and so kind
Speaker 1: of you know, crack your knuckles like yeah, we're okay.
Speaker 1: That's also the interest thing, Like whatever you can say
Speaker 1: about this team, they've shown us so many different ways
Speaker 1: of winning this year. They've won ugly, They've won some
Speaker 1: games that would defensive struggles. They've had some blowouts like
Speaker 1: last night, like it's all over the map. They can
Speaker 1: win in a lot of different ways, which is again
Speaker 1: a very good sign for a championship caliber team is
Speaker 1: how many different ways can you win? Because you're gonna
Speaker 1: have you're gonna be presented with different circumstances every game
Speaker 1: in the playoff against really good teams. Going back to
Speaker 1: Nick's point about they can win, I mean they can
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl playing the way they did. I
Speaker 1: was thinking about this last night. You never know what
Speaker 1: will happen, and obviously it definitely it gets scary if
Speaker 1: you're talking about like going to a place like Lambeau
Speaker 1: in January. But every time I've ever covered a good
Speaker 1: Cowboys teams fourteen, sixteen eighteen, every year I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're good, but they're not as good as Seattle, or
Speaker 1: they're not as good as Green Bay or whatever. I
Speaker 1: can't guarantee they'll beat those teams. But I don't think
Speaker 1: that there's a team in the NFC that's definitively better
Speaker 1: than them. All it is is And I was having
Speaker 1: this conversation with my nephews last night. There's one player
Speaker 1: that you're worried about. Yep, everybody else, all the other teams.
Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, I'll take this team up against that team.
Speaker 1: I'll take this team up against that. It's Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: Is the guy are you looking at like? I just
Speaker 1: don't know because he's Aaron Rodgers. Everybody else I feel
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys. I think the matchup is good. I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys got a real shot to beat him.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about the Cowboys win fifty six to fourteen
Speaker 1: over the Washington football team. We're gonna wrap this show up,
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Speaker 1: kill one, we go hour to hour over here. That's true,
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Speaker 1: names we need to talk about. Let's talk about one
Speaker 1: of Mark Cooper. He had seven catches, eighty five yards,
Speaker 1: one touchdown. What'd you think of his performance? The irony
Speaker 1: is that he dropped like three passes last night. That's
Speaker 1: uncommon for him. But it's funny because that's one of
Speaker 1: the things we've been talking about. And CD had a
Speaker 1: drop too, which totally is offset by the work he
Speaker 1: did in the first half. I mean, I think it
Speaker 1: was a pass from Cooper rush who cares at that point,
Speaker 1: but uh yeah, like if something happens, but it was not.
Speaker 1: He played great, and they they can downplay it. I
Speaker 1: don't think they went into the game like Mari's got
Speaker 1: to get the first target, but they made a concerted
Speaker 1: effort to get him the ball and I think that
Speaker 1: paid off. And um, it's just it's just emblematic of
Speaker 1: everything that was clicking on offense that hasn't been And
Speaker 1: it's just it's funny to me that they were clicking
Speaker 1: so well that it didn't even matter that they still
Speaker 1: had some execution issues. What's funny. So he was complaining
Speaker 1: about not getting enough targets, so I mean, there he is.
Speaker 1: But which that comment made me think. You know, I
Speaker 1: like to like sometimes over analyze things and just like
Speaker 1: it gets in my head and I'm okay, are they
Speaker 1: starting to lose some kind of chemistry? You know, because
Speaker 1: we've been like, okay, all of these receivers are happy
Speaker 1: that each other are getting as many targets as they are,
Speaker 1: and no one it's complaining or being a diva or anything.
Speaker 1: So that comment made me wander. I'm like, huh oh,
Speaker 1: you know, kind of keep an eye on it. But
Speaker 1: it seemed that it worked out fine even regardless of
Speaker 1: those drop passes. You don't know how much I love
Speaker 1: that play that they did. I love that play. I
Speaker 1: think about that sometimes, like they should teams college, they
Speaker 1: should do that way every game. Well, I mean, but
Speaker 1: what it does is that when you can catch the
Speaker 1: ball over the middle of the way the defenses are playing,
Speaker 1: you would you know they're playing it back like that.
Speaker 1: It's there and the most the simplest part of that
Speaker 1: is for him to catch that pass, and he dropped
Speaker 1: that when kind of messes the whole thing up, you know,
Speaker 1: because he wouldn't have got a first down, but it
Speaker 1: would probably been like fourth and three, fourth and four.
Speaker 1: But it's good to have when you're gonna play that
Speaker 1: kind of coverage, to say, you know, and it was
Speaker 1: set up perfectly, you know that he was he was
Speaker 1: there for it. I love the play, just like I
Speaker 1: love the flea flicker, but it hasn't worked out so
Speaker 1: well the last couple of times that I mean, and
Speaker 1: Kellen every Monday watches tape from around the league and
Speaker 1: looks for stuff. And then Jets ran that a week
Speaker 1: or two ago and then they got like forty yards
Speaker 1: off of it. I loved the decision to put it in. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you would think you'd catch a lateral, but no, I
Speaker 1: thought Amari was good. And that's um like they didn't
Speaker 1: they didn't do anything different, Like they didn't. They weren't
Speaker 1: calling all these crazy plays that they haven't been calling.
Speaker 1: That's what that's what made it so frustrating these last
Speaker 1: few weeks. Is like Washington's was still playing a lot
Speaker 1: of too high, like Dak found gallop for forty when
Speaker 1: he broke contain and extended to play. But like playing
Speaker 1: within the script, it was a lot of the same stuff.
Speaker 1: I mean, they just he was throwing better balls, they
Speaker 1: were making better catches, like CD comes to mind. If
Speaker 1: he does that, we said that last week. If he
Speaker 1: does that against the Giants, it looks way different. And
Speaker 1: I so just little little tweaks, guys executing on stuff
Speaker 1: that they weren't before. Dalton Schultz eight catches, eighty two yards,
Speaker 1: one touchdown. That's not two games in a row when
Speaker 1: he's been pretty pretty good. What are we thinking. I'm
Speaker 1: wondering how he feels today. He got absolutely blasted at
Speaker 1: the end of the first half, right he did? Yeah?
Speaker 1: He No, he did. But I know, well, I guess
Speaker 1: what I'm getting as more, we can at least rule
Speaker 1: out concussion because he would not have been back on
Speaker 1: the field if it was a concussion. And I was
Speaker 1: worried that maybe it was a concussion, but I don't know,
Speaker 1: stop it. Yeah, we can rule out the fact that
Speaker 1: it wasn't a concussion. He would not have been back
Speaker 1: on the field. No, I didn't say, okay. I just
Speaker 1: was looking at that look on Dave's face. Later though,
Speaker 1: the concussion doesn't just pop up though, right. I don't know. No,
Speaker 1: I think he came back. He said he's fine. I
Speaker 1: talked to him. He said he was fine. He said
Speaker 1: he got two fingers. No, he got the win knocked
Speaker 1: out of him. Oh good. Yeah, that's a hard hit.
Speaker 1: A hell of an effort by him to hold onto it. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: because it was it felt like it looked like the
Speaker 1: ball was kind of scorting down. He was just like
Speaker 1: everything he could to hold on to it. You know,
Speaker 1: it's encouraging. What did he finish with Dalton? Two eight catches?
Speaker 1: We said it before the Giants game because he played
Speaker 1: well against the Giants too. It's like, why isn't this here?
Speaker 1: If if everybody's committed to sitting back and taking the
Speaker 1: receivers away, where's the tight end? And so it's it's
Speaker 1: a pretty reliable target most of the time. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: and he's stringing together some good games. I'd have to
Speaker 1: go back and watch to know if he's always been
Speaker 1: there and Dack's just been overlooking it. And that is
Speaker 1: a plausible explanation, and when you go back to the
Speaker 1: whole aggressively take what they give you. Things like stop,
Speaker 1: you don't have to force the fancy plays. Dalton's hanging
Speaker 1: out right there between the hash mark. If he has
Speaker 1: decent games the name two weeks, not nothing crazy, just decent.
Speaker 1: He's probably he's gonna be close to he's gonna have
Speaker 1: eighty catches for eight hundred yards. Wow, and he's got
Speaker 1: six touchdowns, so maybe seven or eight. But it's like
Speaker 1: great year for I think he's at like he's like
Speaker 1: sixty eight or sixty nine catches for over seven hundred
Speaker 1: right now, but he's he's getting close to the eighty
Speaker 1: eight hundred range. It's ironic because and I'm not saying
Speaker 1: this is fair, but like he was. He was fantastic
Speaker 1: for the first like six weeks, and then the Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl voting window opens and he kind of drops off.
Speaker 1: And now he's going again. Now that the Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: teams have been decided. I want I wouldn't what I
Speaker 1: heard they have as many as like ten alternates. Yeah, Cowboys,
Speaker 1: I bet he might be one of them. Pits and Kittle,
Speaker 1: and it's hard to no, that's no like the guys
Speaker 1: that got it. He deserved it more than Evan Ingram
Speaker 1: did last year. Yeah, the guys that got named to
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl this year are deserving. So I'm not
Speaker 1: saying Dalton got snubbed, but if he has two or
Speaker 1: three better games in November, he might have been in
Speaker 1: there right saying. It could be said for Dak and
Speaker 1: for Zeke and you know, to Marcus, that's the next
Speaker 1: guy we got on this list. Marcus Lawrence missed a
Speaker 1: lot of games, but would you think of his play yesterday.
Speaker 1: He's he's a beast. It's it's and I keep saying this,
Speaker 1: but it's so impressive the way that these guys have
Speaker 1: just kind of hit the ground running, like to miss
Speaker 1: to miss two months and just I mean, he's been phenomenal.
Speaker 1: He's played like an All Pro in every game that
Speaker 1: he's been back. Like I forgot that he got a
Speaker 1: sack too last night. Yeah, it was it was like
Speaker 1: a pursued play and he kind of dragged him down
Speaker 1: at the line of scrimmage. But he's he's been disruptive
Speaker 1: and dominant. I think, not trying to take anything away
Speaker 1: from him, but it just makes a world of difference.
Speaker 1: That they you can't key on him the way that
Speaker 1: you used to be able to the touchdown. I mean,
Speaker 1: that was an impressive play, but I do have to
Speaker 1: ask this is maybe what they're asking on that Washington show.
Speaker 1: You were you were listening to what was Heineck doing
Speaker 1: after on that touchdown? I didn't see that? You didn't
Speaker 1: see that. What was he doing? It looks like he
Speaker 1: was sliding into second for like a ground roll double
Speaker 1: or something. He just went down. He's like, don't hit me.
Speaker 1: He he just it look him up. I mean like
Speaker 1: like I just watched it. Yeah, like what what are
Speaker 1: we doing here? Like like everyone's focused on Tank, so
Speaker 1: you're like, is he gonna be in down? SCAD's gonna score?
Speaker 1: He's don score? Oh my god, Tank. But if you
Speaker 1: just watch from the quarterback standpoint, you're like, what are
Speaker 1: you doing? Like that that right there, and you're you're
Speaker 1: into soccer, you're kind of a late a later life
Speaker 1: soccer fan. That he's going like studs up, slide tackle
Speaker 1: right there, Like he looks like a defensive midfielder. So
Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know what that was, but thanks,
Speaker 1: I mean, get him, try to get him down anyway
Speaker 1: you can't. And I guess, yeah, I'd rather my quarterback
Speaker 1: try to do something like that than like, actually, you know,
Speaker 1: put his body in the way of DeMarcus Lawrence, Like
Speaker 1: you don't want that. And at that point in the game,
Speaker 1: it was it was fourteen to nothing. But you know
Speaker 1: the Cowboys offenses. You watching this, okay, right second, he say,
Speaker 1: he say he's safe. Good, good job, Yeah he de
Speaker 1: Marcus is safe in the end zone. Yeah, and you're
Speaker 1: safe to play again. But um, you know, and then
Speaker 1: they have red zone issues. They didn't last night, but
Speaker 1: they they've had some. And then you know, at least
Speaker 1: they want to do is tackle him, you know, get
Speaker 1: him out of bounds, push him out of bounds, and
Speaker 1: then maybe hold him to a field goal or whatever.
Speaker 1: But yeah, didn't didn't happen like that. I think I
Speaker 1: don't think he's very good. I'm sorry, no, And I
Speaker 1: know that there's the moxie, toughness, all that stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that works at Old Dominion. He's playing better than you
Speaker 1: thought a guy that's coming in and those circumstances would play.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean he's good. I think that's sometimes when
Speaker 1: we kind of get it bixed. Up like he can
Speaker 1: have a player or two and you're like, oh okay,
Speaker 1: But that doesn't mean he's he had a baseball night
Speaker 1: because he threw the ball into the first base like
Speaker 1: six times one he was just trying to get rid
Speaker 1: of the ball like he was getting no shot. I
Speaker 1: really getting just harassed back there. There's no way. I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to say he's like not tough. He's definitely
Speaker 1: got a lot of moxie. But like he had to
Speaker 1: he especially with his experience at FedEx, he had to
Speaker 1: have just felt hopeless standing like making those calls. He's like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, like stop, don't hit me anymore. Or
Speaker 1: he even stepped up to the to the live scrimmage,
Speaker 1: he was probably thinking, oh God, this is not gonna
Speaker 1: be good. And they're not gonna they're about to face them.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a challenge now. I mean, because this
Speaker 1: guy can run. I mean Kyler Murray. You know I
Speaker 1: said what I said a couple of weeks ago. He's
Speaker 1: not he's not my favorite quarterback in the world, but
Speaker 1: I mean he's a great athlete. I'll see that run
Speaker 1: last week that that's just like the one that where
Speaker 1: he ran for almost such. I think he got down
Speaker 1: to like the one, but he basically he went through
Speaker 1: the defense. He was scrambling. He goes through the defense
Speaker 1: and you could just see the speed because everybody's running.
Speaker 1: But you know how you see certain guys running and
Speaker 1: everybody else is running, but they're running way faster, and
Speaker 1: that tells you just how fast they are. It was
Speaker 1: an amazing place. He every time I've ever seen him
Speaker 1: play like, he has eight yards whenever he wants it.
Speaker 1: It's just a matter of do I want to settle
Speaker 1: for that or look for the bigger play downfield, and
Speaker 1: that's the Cowboys are uniquely positioned to combat that. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see what it looks like because every
Speaker 1: time I've ever seen Kyler play eight yards on the
Speaker 1: ground is guaranteed if he wants to do that. And
Speaker 1: not to get too far into the conversation, because I
Speaker 1: think that's going to be the conversation we'll be having
Speaker 1: over the next couple of days, But I think the
Speaker 1: one this is the one game where I want to
Speaker 1: see how does Micah match up, because this is a
Speaker 1: game where you might be able to have the one
Speaker 1: anecdote that no other team seems to have to him running,
Speaker 1: which is a linebacker who can spy him, who can run. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he can run as fast as Kyla,
Speaker 1: but he can run, and so that's gonna make for
Speaker 1: a really interesting match up. Yeah, it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: really interesting matchup at how Dallas plans to play against him.
Speaker 1: That plays off. One more thing I wanted to say
Speaker 1: about DeMarcus, and we touched on it last week, is
Speaker 1: like this this has to be the most freakishly athletic
Speaker 1: front that I've ever watched, at least like from a
Speaker 1: professional standpoint, Like the athletic ability that these guys have,
Speaker 1: Like what Randy did it at FedEx, what DeMarcus did
Speaker 1: last night. Micah speaks for himself, and they're just there
Speaker 1: aren't a lot of offensive lines that can cope with that,
Speaker 1: and there aren't a lot of quarterbacks. Kyler Murray might
Speaker 1: be one of them, but even and I don't want
Speaker 1: to get too far ahead of myself, but like Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers has killed them so many times over the years
Speaker 1: by like extending plays and you just can't get to him.
Speaker 1: They can they can do something about that, and can't
Speaker 1: move the way he normally would move with that toe.
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's there's a lot of intrigue even that's
Speaker 1: how Dallas is going to match up with a lot
Speaker 1: of these teams down that them stretching into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Neville Gallimore too, like he's he's not athletic on that
Speaker 1: level like a Micah Parsons, but like he's just a
Speaker 1: big dude who can move and move you Also, like
Speaker 1: the pocket, I mean, he's a I think he's a
Speaker 1: really big part of what they've been doing since he
Speaker 1: got back, even if his stats don't always show it.
Speaker 1: That's another thing about about Heineke, Like he's he's shorter.
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray is obviously short as well, but he can
Speaker 1: he runs a lot better. But but still, when you're
Speaker 1: standing in that pocket and it's getting collapsed, you become order.
Speaker 1: You know, those guys get tall and it's a tougher
Speaker 1: throw to make. So that's about tipped passes, right, So
Speaker 1: that's gonna be the key in a game like that.
Speaker 1: It just keep getting that interior pressure real quick. Before
Speaker 1: we end this show, I do need to get some
Speaker 1: some thoughts from you guys. On Kelvin Joseph, he got
Speaker 1: a lot of play last night. What do you guys
Speaker 1: to think of his play? I thought he was great
Speaker 1: for all things considered, Like, he couldn't have known he
Speaker 1: was going to be playing that many snaps he played
Speaker 1: fifty seven. Couldn't have known that until Friday at the earliest,
Speaker 1: maybe even Saturday. Um, they put him out there. I
Speaker 1: mean they didn't let him. They tried to keep him
Speaker 1: away from McLaren. I think that's a big part of Diggs.
Speaker 1: Probably traveled even more than he usually does, which is smart,
Speaker 1: but so he didn't have to go against McLaurin, but
Speaker 1: he also had to do more stuff like you're not
Speaker 1: just like, hey, Kelvin, he's traveling, Kelvin, you're on the
Speaker 1: left side. Just worry about the left side. They didn't
Speaker 1: really do that. Um, he should have had a pick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm sure he didn't. I'm sure he lost sleep about
Speaker 1: that last night. But I'm not going to kill him
Speaker 1: for that, no doubt. I was gonna say. I wonder
Speaker 1: what they are actually doing different this year, because I
Speaker 1: feel like most guys that have been out when they
Speaker 1: come back, even if it's not for the whole game
Speaker 1: or anything limited or whatever, they seem to do pretty well.
Speaker 1: Like in the past year, I feel like guys that
Speaker 1: have been injured or out for a while, it kind
Speaker 1: of takes them a few games to get going. And
Speaker 1: this year, man, whatever they're doing over there, it's freaking amazing.
Speaker 1: And I am so impressed by the coaching staff. I
Speaker 1: am so impressed by the medical staff and everything how
Speaker 1: they've handled because I can't think of a single guy
Speaker 1: that has come back and just had to who maybe
Speaker 1: Dak what you got to ruin my thing? You know what?
Speaker 1: As I say that he came back, okay, but you
Speaker 1: know what, you're actually right because when he came back,
Speaker 1: he was amazing. When he came back from the Atlantic game, right, No, No,
Speaker 1: he came against Denver first. Yeah, defense have been good
Speaker 1: along a similar line, just in general. I was so impressed,
Speaker 1: and we talked about Digs. Obviously he's the headliner, but
Speaker 1: I was so impressed by the secondary just bullied those guys,
Speaker 1: and that's it's fun to see what the pass rush
Speaker 1: can do for a secondary, Like, obviously you're gonna have
Speaker 1: more opportunities at picks, but you also know the ball's
Speaker 1: got to come out so fast. They were just camping
Speaker 1: on every route last night. Like ab had at least
Speaker 1: two breakups Diggs hadn't. Diggs had that play on the
Speaker 1: crosser where he just like batted it away like Mtumbo
Speaker 1: basically jumped over him to do it. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was pretty amazing. Kelvin had at least one. Like
Speaker 1: they just they were ready for everything because they knew,
Speaker 1: they knew it was gonna be eight to twelve yard
Speaker 1: routes because Heiniki didn't have time to do it more
Speaker 1: than that, and they were just swatting everything away. They
Speaker 1: were really impressed. And when when the referees are gonna
Speaker 1: call it that wayboys, because they certainly did both sides
Speaker 1: of the ball. We saw a couple of times it
Speaker 1: looked like, I mean, some of those plays on Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: would would have been I mean arrest, not just penalties,
Speaker 1: but arrest I mean against the Raiders. But this game
Speaker 1: they let them play. I think it benefits the Cowboys
Speaker 1: for that because they're gonna get their plays on offense
Speaker 1: as well. So if you can get their hands on
Speaker 1: the guys like that, that helps Dallas. All right, that's
Speaker 1: a rap. We'll be back tomorrow. We're gonna get you
Speaker 1: guys ready for Cowboys versus Cardinals. That should be an
Speaker 1: interesting game, fun game, a good game to be able
Speaker 1: to test kind of where this team is heading into
Speaker 1: the playoffs. We'll talk about that tomorrow. So they're for
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