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Speaker 1: And now your hosts, Isaiah Standback, Nick Harris, John Mashoda,
Speaker 1: and Kyle Yeomans.
Speaker 3: Go Dallas Cowboy.
Speaker 4: It is a victory Monday here at the Star in Frisco.
Speaker 4: The Dallas Cowboys have dismantled the Los Angeles Rams by
Speaker 4: a score of forty three to twenty.
Speaker 2: Ooh, that makes you feel good when you wake up
Speaker 2: in the morning. Sounds so good. Also, a forty burger, Oh,
Speaker 2: you know it is a forty burger.
Speaker 5: It is a forty burger.
Speaker 6: I had to wear the water Burger sponsored Cowboys polo today,
Speaker 6: you know, in tradition. I guess we're doing that all
Speaker 6: year since I accidentally did it after the Giants game.
Speaker 2: So oh, here we are. I'll see what you did that. Yeah,
Speaker 2: you fell into that one, but this time it was
Speaker 2: actually playing.
Speaker 5: It was purposeful.
Speaker 7: All right.
Speaker 4: Well, Isaiah stand back here with Nick Harris. We are
Speaker 4: expecting mister k Y, Kyle Yoma is coming in hot.
Speaker 4: But it is a great Monday. It's always good to
Speaker 4: wake up to a victory. You were in the building,
Speaker 4: you were in the building. What was the feeling in
Speaker 4: the building after the first shrive. We're not gonna talk
Speaker 4: about the first drive right now, but after the first drive,
Speaker 4: how did it feel?
Speaker 6: I'll tell you this. After those first to three plays,
Speaker 6: it was like, Oh damn, this is gonna get this
Speaker 6: is gonna get a little shaky, especially with Tyron Smith out.
Speaker 6: I mean, they had gotten three sacks in a hurry,
Speaker 6: and fortunately that one was called for illegal contact. Kind
Speaker 6: of a controversial call. It's actually probably the biggest call
Speaker 6: you could ever point at from a first drive standpoint,
Speaker 6: because they ended up driving down the field. Dak was
Speaker 6: just surgical that not only on that drive but the
Speaker 6: entire day and was able to get a touchdown drive.
Speaker 5: And how about Fergie going up and grabbing it.
Speaker 6: Ergie, man, we've been talking about it, getting these tight
Speaker 6: ends involved in the same way, and also these Titans
Speaker 6: taking that next step And while we maybe haven't seen
Speaker 6: it from the rest of the group completely yet, we
Speaker 6: saw a little bit of schoon yesterday. But Jake Ferguson
Speaker 6: really took it upon himself yesterday and that seam route man,
Speaker 6: he beat the linebacker from the jump and he was
Speaker 6: able to get open in the end zone, went up
Speaker 6: high and brought it down.
Speaker 5: It was good to see.
Speaker 2: It was awesome.
Speaker 4: I know there's been some troubles in the past in
Speaker 4: terms of Rezon woes, but those guys went out there
Speaker 4: and it was able to connect on it.
Speaker 2: Finally fergus able to ree that thing in and that.
Speaker 4: Seemed like that might have been the launching pad for
Speaker 4: him in terms of his ability to be able to
Speaker 4: start start to scoring more touchdowns down there in the
Speaker 4: red zone. But going back to predictions back on Friday,
Speaker 4: you and I both predicted.
Speaker 7: I believe that the Cowboys were going to win this game.
Speaker 4: I predicted to be a little bit close. I had
Speaker 4: at twenty one seventeen.
Speaker 6: I believe, what did you have this thirty one seventeen
Speaker 6: thirty one seven? Yeah, I feel like it would be
Speaker 6: a healthy margin two scores. But I think Kyle was
Speaker 6: probably the most spot on. He was like, yeah, I
Speaker 6: think he said forty one seventeen, So I think he
Speaker 6: was the closest, and he definitely he definitely got it right.
Speaker 6: But I mean it makes sense, and I'm glad we
Speaker 6: were able to look at the matchup and see a
Speaker 6: hole in the secondary for the Rams, see an opportunity
Speaker 6: on the outsides of the defensive line to be able
Speaker 6: to try and make some things happen in the flats,
Speaker 6: and we saw all those things happen. And I think
Speaker 6: what you could take away most positively is that Dak
Speaker 6: was just he was on. It was the best game
Speaker 6: he's had all season, and that's the second week in
Speaker 6: a row we've been able to say that, or second
Speaker 6: game in a row rather, But yeah, there's a lot
Speaker 6: of positives to take out, not many negatives.
Speaker 2: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: You talk about Dak Prescott twenty five for thirty one,
Speaker 4: three hundred and four yards, four touchdowns, one interception, head,
Speaker 4: four tuddies, four tudies, had a QB rating of one
Speaker 4: hundred and thirty three.
Speaker 7: Don't forget the point seven. Yeah, one hundred and thirty
Speaker 7: three point seven.
Speaker 4: So again, like you mentioned, coming off of the Chargers game,
Speaker 4: he did relatively well and then he just continued to
Speaker 4: build upon that. Do you feel that this offense is
Speaker 4: starting to finally get their mojo the mojo moment is
Speaker 4: just kind of starting to be a little bit more
Speaker 4: elongated as he's got the season goes on.
Speaker 6: You know that's funny you say that, because as I
Speaker 6: was driving home yesterday at a healthy five thirty PM.
Speaker 5: I was I was good, it felt fantastic.
Speaker 6: I settled in and I was like, oh, I can't
Speaker 6: wait to watch Sunday Night Football. And then I turn
Speaker 6: it on and it's Chargers and Bears and it's already
Speaker 6: like twenty three nothing, and I was like, you know what,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna watch basketball instead. I had a great time
Speaker 6: watching basketball. But uh, whenever I was driving home, I
Speaker 6: was like, I want to ask the guys tomorrow. I'll
Speaker 6: probably wait for Kyle before we get too deep into it,
Speaker 6: but I'll kind of address it a little bit.
Speaker 5: Do you feel confident with his offense?
Speaker 6: And I think there's something you could take away from that,
Speaker 6: just because the timing between Dak and CD, Dak and
Speaker 6: Brandon Cooks, Dak and Jake Ferguson, it was all there.
Speaker 6: I think the only thing that I'm like, I'm hesitant
Speaker 6: on before I crossed that bridge of being confident is
Speaker 6: a healthy run game. But I will say we saw
Speaker 6: a lot more creativity in the run game yesterday. There
Speaker 6: was draws, counters and pulling guys veers. I want to
Speaker 6: see a lot more of that. And I think they
Speaker 6: were setting up Pollard in health positions. I think once
Speaker 6: you get Tyron Smith back, that probably helps it a
Speaker 6: little bit, kind of helped turn that curve a little bit.
Speaker 6: But overall, man the creativity in the offense. It felt
Speaker 6: like they were working on something during the bye week,
Speaker 6: and Mike McCarthy found.
Speaker 7: It a little bit.
Speaker 2: I think he went in his bag.
Speaker 4: I referred to it on the postgame shows as Coach
Speaker 4: McCarthy going into his door bag. You know, for those
Speaker 4: of you that watched Nickelodeon, he went to a door backpack.
Speaker 4: It seems like this offense is starting to expand, right
Speaker 4: and we talked about this earlier in the season in
Speaker 4: terms of how it's going to take a little bit
Speaker 4: of time.
Speaker 7: It's a new offense.
Speaker 4: You know, I don't get Kellen Moore was there, you know,
Speaker 4: Coach McCarthy was in the building together. But once Kellen
Speaker 4: Moore left and went down to the Chargers, this is
Speaker 4: now a completely different offense. You might be able to
Speaker 4: carry over some of the same language, you know, some
Speaker 4: of the same formations, but in actuality, these guys have
Speaker 4: to adjust and the coaching staff has to adjust to
Speaker 4: how these guys are going to play. You have to
Speaker 4: find who your playmakers are. You have to find how
Speaker 4: to create matchup issues. You have to find out how
Speaker 4: to have leverage advantages. So I feel as if they're
Speaker 4: starting to figure this thing out, and you don't hear
Speaker 4: people complaining of as much about this West Coast you know,
Speaker 4: Texas Coast offense anymore because you're starting to open things up.
Speaker 4: The routes haven't changed. The routes are exactly the same,
Speaker 4: The concepts are the same. Those haven't changed. But what
Speaker 4: has changed at coach McCarthy, how he has approached these
Speaker 4: games formations right, how he lined up the shifts, the
Speaker 4: pre snap motions, the utilization of different personnel group is
Speaker 4: all those things are changing within the established offense already,
Speaker 4: and you're starting to see the productivity of it going forward.
Speaker 4: Going looking at this game from thirty thousand feet, would
Speaker 4: you be which third of the game are you most
Speaker 4: proud of and which third of the game are you
Speaker 4: most impressed by?
Speaker 5: Shoot?
Speaker 6: I think they would both. They do have different answers.
Speaker 6: I was about to say it was probably the same answer,
Speaker 6: but it is a different answer. I'm gonna go with
Speaker 6: the first third being the most impressed by, Okay, just
Speaker 6: because it was a it was kind of a regurgitation
Speaker 6: of what we saw against New England. It was an
Speaker 6: offensive touchdown deron Blade picks six or just a defensive touchdown, right,
Speaker 6: and then it was the block punt, Yeah, getting the safety,
Speaker 6: and all of a sudden, it's thirty three to three.
Speaker 6: Like you look up in a hurt exactly and it's
Speaker 6: thirty three to three. I was probably most impressed by that.
Speaker 6: What I was most proud of was probably the final
Speaker 6: third of the game because you saw the Rams go
Speaker 6: into the half with a touchdown drive and then come
Speaker 6: out of the half with a touchdown drive, and all
Speaker 6: of a sudden, you look up, it's eleven minutes in
Speaker 6: the third quarter and it's two possession game. And I'm
Speaker 6: telling Patrick Walker next to me, I'm like, look man,
Speaker 6: like it's it's not over. Like I understand there's a
Speaker 6: lot of confidence here. It's not over. They need to
Speaker 6: go make a stop and get points back on the board.
Speaker 6: And that's exactly what they did, and then they put
Speaker 6: their their foot to the pedal and it was over
Speaker 6: from there.
Speaker 5: So I'm most.
Speaker 6: Proud of that specifically because Mike McCarthy was still aggressive
Speaker 6: in that final third. And you know, it depends on
Speaker 6: how you kind of view having a big lead and
Speaker 6: wanting to do things philosophically offensively. You know, do you
Speaker 6: want to just hand the ball off to Tony Pollard
Speaker 6: and let him get twenty five thirty carries and run
Speaker 6: out the clock, but maybe you know it kind of
Speaker 6: shortens the game a little bit and gives the Rams
Speaker 6: couple more opportunities, or do you still stay aggressive and
Speaker 6: put points on the board. And that they were still
Speaker 6: aggressive and put points on the board in a game
Speaker 6: where it was a blowout from the very start, Tony
Speaker 6: Pollard only had twelve carries. So I think that's a
Speaker 6: really big testament to two things, one positive and one negative.
Speaker 6: The one positive being the past game was phenomenal they
Speaker 6: were able to rely on it. The one negative being
Speaker 6: it's that the running game is still not that efficient.
Speaker 6: It's still three point nine yards to carry yesterday. So
Speaker 6: maybe a little bit of things you could go back
Speaker 6: to the drawing board and you know, for me, I
Speaker 6: want to get a belcal running back at the trade deadline.
Speaker 5: That would be awesome, or just make an acquisition there.
Speaker 6: Jerry Jones did say after the game yesterday that it
Speaker 6: doesn't look like anything's gonna happen before the deadline. We'll see,
Speaker 6: we'll see, but I don't know. That's just kind of
Speaker 6: how I feed the running game right now. Specifically, you
Speaker 6: brought the.
Speaker 4: Trade deadline that comes tomorrow at was it three pm Eastern?
Speaker 5: Four pm? I think something like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so trade deadline is fastly approaching.
Speaker 4: You said it called Jerry Jones did not feel as
Speaker 4: if anything was going to happen.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: That might be some gamesmanship there, there might be a
Speaker 4: little little smoking mirrors, but we really don't know if
Speaker 4: there was a move after this game lad yesterday, I
Speaker 4: can't say last night.
Speaker 2: I'm so used to saying yeah, me too.
Speaker 5: I mean after yesterday's mid day yesterday morning.
Speaker 4: Yes, Yeah, it felt like right if you still had
Speaker 4: wanted to add a piece to this to this team,
Speaker 4: would it be on the offensive side of the ball
Speaker 4: or would it be on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 6: I think I would still go offensive side. I understand
Speaker 6: the concerns that people have at corner. I don't have
Speaker 6: the same concerns, but I understand them, and I think
Speaker 6: they're very valid.
Speaker 5: It's a valid debate, meaning that.
Speaker 4: If something were to happen to Gilmour or darn Bland, anybody, yeah,
Speaker 4: anybody really okay?
Speaker 6: Or people not being as confident in Jordan Lewis, which
Speaker 6: I think he proved yesterday. Hey, I'm still here. You
Speaker 6: look at what Cooper Cup and Poking Nakoula did line
Speaker 6: up against Jordan Lewis yesterday.
Speaker 5: Wasn't much.
Speaker 6: I think Cooper Cup had four receptions for twenty one
Speaker 6: yards off the top of my head, yep, yeah, on tend.
Speaker 4: Or on ten targets for twenty one Pooking the Coop
Speaker 4: with three receptions on seven targets for forty three yards.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: By far the worst efficiency that that past game has
Speaker 6: seen all season. And the staff getting hurt probably played
Speaker 6: a part in that. But it wasn't like they started
Speaker 6: off grade anyway. But if I had to choose one
Speaker 6: one piece, I would put it on the offensive side
Speaker 6: of the ball. You know, I really wanted a running
Speaker 6: back if you had ask me on like Friday, But
Speaker 6: depending on how this too many Doga injury looks, depending
Speaker 6: on how this Tyrone Smith injury looks, do you potentially
Speaker 6: look forward to getting an offensive lineman at the deadline?
Speaker 6: But also Jerry Jones was asked specifically about offensive line.
Speaker 6: It was like everyone's looking for starting offensive linean or
Speaker 6: debt of the offensive line in this league, It's gonna
Speaker 6: be really difficult to find. So I think if push
Speaker 6: comes to shove, you try to make a move at
Speaker 6: the deadline for either either an offensive linean or a
Speaker 6: running back. And if you can't make either of them happen,
Speaker 6: go get learning for NET.
Speaker 5: You know that's me. That's me GM, Nick Harris GM,
Speaker 5: not the GM.
Speaker 7: Obviously you want to go get LF.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, all right, Well, looking at it from the
Speaker 4: from the standpoint of what aspect of the game I
Speaker 4: felt was more impressive. I feel as if the defensive
Speaker 4: unit stepped up more than anybody as impressive as offense was,
Speaker 4: as impressive as Dat Prescott was being twenty You know,
Speaker 4: I have a eighty percent completion rate, which is absolutely
Speaker 4: insane for those that are not familiar with that, seventy
Speaker 4: percent is impressive.
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Speaker 4: So we're talking about different aspects of the game that
Speaker 4: you're most impressed by his offense, defense, special teams. Right,
Speaker 4: So Brandon Aubrey obviously tying the record for the beginning
Speaker 4: of his career for what most people goes, I threw
Speaker 4: a fifty eight yard er, drilled it eighteen eighteen good
Speaker 4: from sixty five yards.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's he's he's a dude.
Speaker 5: Quick thing on him.
Speaker 6: We talked to him post game and he's he's I
Speaker 6: don't know if it's he actually believes it or not.
Speaker 6: It doesn't matter because he's working. But he's like, I'm
Speaker 6: not a huge fan of history. I'm not paying attention
Speaker 6: to the record. I'm just going out there and kicking.
Speaker 6: Whether I believe that or not, he did say he
Speaker 6: was like, it's so it's so serious that like everybody
Speaker 6: in my life knows about it, like don't talk about it.
Speaker 6: That My family has a group chat without me and
Speaker 6: then a group chat me And he's like that that
Speaker 6: group chat is where they can talk about all that
Speaker 6: stuff and then this chat there just like hey, good game, buddy,
Speaker 6: what are we having for dinner tonight?
Speaker 7: So it's important because noise is I can, I can.
Speaker 4: Noise is like water, right, Like you could try to
Speaker 4: block it out, but like eventually it's gonna start trying
Speaker 4: to see me in a little bit.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: So, like when you're on a positive path and you're
Speaker 4: starting to find your found your groove, you're doing your
Speaker 4: job effectively, like you don't want to hear about all
Speaker 4: the what ifs. And if you continue to do this,
Speaker 4: this will happen. Like just just just just let me
Speaker 4: do my job. If it happens, it happens, will be awesome.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to be mad about it, but like,
Speaker 4: don't make me uber aware of it, right, because I
Speaker 4: want to just focus on kicking that dog on ball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was really impressed with special teams. Yes, I
Speaker 3: heard you ask the question. Uh on the way in
Speaker 3: I was listening. I was at the eye doctor for
Speaker 3: everybody wondering. I scheduled a seven.
Speaker 2: Eight and I just trying to look cool.
Speaker 3: No, no, my eyes are dilated like crazy, everything super bright. Yeah,
Speaker 3: got it all checked up.
Speaker 2: We're all good. Everything's fine, it's great.
Speaker 3: I just I saw a complete game yesterday and I
Speaker 3: couldn't believe what I saw.
Speaker 2: I thought about that on the way, and that was
Speaker 2: the only thing I could think.
Speaker 5: I wore this for you too, by the way I
Speaker 5: saw that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the water burger. Forty burger, baby, let's go. Yeah,
Speaker 2: how about that? Who who called that forty burger? Were?
Speaker 2: I know you already hit it? You already. I just
Speaker 2: wanted to. I know I should have been here. I
Speaker 2: was most impressed with the special teams as as a whole.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 2: The most impactful, I thought was the offense.
Speaker 3: The way that the offense was able to work down
Speaker 3: the field and the way that they were able to
Speaker 3: move the ball, get the weapons involved. That's where I
Speaker 3: was most or what was most impactful. But I was
Speaker 3: more impressed by Cavante Turpin, the punt block, the way
Speaker 3: that Brandon Aubrey handled his business. I mean, special teams
Speaker 3: was nearly perfect and help you, helped you in that game,
Speaker 3: put you in position to win. Uh, even whenever it
Speaker 3: got a little bit tighter, I'm not gonna say tight.
Speaker 3: When I got within two scores late, uh, it was
Speaker 3: within two scores because the Special Teams had pretty much
Speaker 3: handed you you ten points at that point on the board,
Speaker 3: So I was I was most impressed with the Special Teams,
Speaker 3: but by far the most impactful was the offense, and
Speaker 3: I'm happy to see that, and I think there is
Speaker 3: a confidence growing in the way that this offense is run.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I am.
Speaker 4: Most impressed by the Special Teams unit. Yeah, right, I'm
Speaker 4: most impressed by the Special Teams unit because those guys,
Speaker 4: you know, obviously you're missing good yes, yes.
Speaker 2: Your ace, but you're able to now have a wany A.
Speaker 4: Thomas have come back into the game, and he obviously
Speaker 4: had a big impact on this entire unit. The confidence
Speaker 4: of the unit, right, the effectiveness, right, the execution, come
Speaker 4: out to interpret doing what he does. You got Dorin's
Speaker 4: armstrong going on there and being the man that takes
Speaker 4: away the guys who are actually responsible for blocking Sam
Speaker 4: Williams allowing him to go out there and get the block. Right,
Speaker 4: It's all complimentary ball and the Special Teams is such
Speaker 4: a unit that has to be super cohesive. Everything has
Speaker 4: to go right in order for you to even have
Speaker 4: a small window of opportunity. So most impressed by them,
Speaker 4: I would say most impact for me. I know you
Speaker 4: said offense, and this is that's why I raised a question.
Speaker 4: I think it's defense. I think the fact that you
Speaker 4: you come into the game only allowing one hundred and
Speaker 4: seventy seven yards receiving per game, that was that's impressive
Speaker 4: by itself. But then you take two one of the
Speaker 4: best dual units and in terms of receiver position in
Speaker 4: the game of football and Pooking the Coop and Cooper
Speaker 4: Cup right now, statistically, that's what the stats say. You're
Speaker 4: able to negate both of those guys to collectively sixty
Speaker 4: four yards.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and look at the completion percentage two Yeah, that
Speaker 6: just horrid.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 6: That's exactly what you wanted against that pass.
Speaker 4: And you had to, right because you knew that their
Speaker 4: running game was questionable because they they're rotating running backs
Speaker 4: trying to figure things out. So the one thing that
Speaker 4: they always rested sure upon was the receivers, right Pooking
Speaker 4: the Cool, Cooper Cup, those guys, that combination of those
Speaker 4: guys we broke down in film room. Couple that with
Speaker 4: Sean McVay and how creative he is, and you're able
Speaker 4: to negate that completely shut that down, and once you
Speaker 4: were able to shut those guys down, they had no
Speaker 4: running game to lean on. And then once the game
Speaker 4: gets out of hand, now guess what now you have
Speaker 4: to as And then you could become more aggressive in
Speaker 4: terms of pressing these guys, putting hands on them now
Speaker 4: and thinking off the line of scrimmage, that your defensive
Speaker 4: defensive line go to work.
Speaker 2: And that's exactly what they started to do.
Speaker 3: What was your takeaway from the way that the weapons
Speaker 3: got involved on offense, because it wasn't just cdee Lamb
Speaker 3: Ceedee Lamb helped set the table. And of course his
Speaker 3: I mean his stat line was nuts twelve receptions on
Speaker 3: fourteen targets, one hundred and fifty eight yards, the two touchdowns,
Speaker 3: sixth multi touchdown game.
Speaker 2: Of his career.
Speaker 3: But it was it was Jake Ferguson, it was Brandon Cooks,
Speaker 3: it was at one point even Luke Schoolmaker. It felt
Speaker 3: like guys got involved a little bit more so to
Speaker 3: the point where Dak was relying on his.
Speaker 2: Weapons to make some plays and that helped open things up. Yeah.
Speaker 6: One Las note on cd career high in receptions and
Speaker 6: receiving yard So that's a big time. Yeah, I was
Speaker 6: mentioning with Isaiah the creativity in the offense. In fact,
Speaker 6: it kind of feels like they worked on something over
Speaker 6: the bye week and there was some new things thrown
Speaker 6: on to the table. I feel like we're starting to
Speaker 6: really ingest what this offense is completely and how it
Speaker 6: can kind of change as the weeks go by. And
Speaker 6: that's I think that's what's really fluid about a West
Speaker 6: Coast offense specifically, since it is so simplistic, you can
Speaker 6: throw in a lot of things and it not really
Speaker 6: throw the entire system out of order. You know, you
Speaker 6: can have aspects thrown in, like, hey, let's let's integrate
Speaker 6: this end a round to Brandon Cooks.
Speaker 5: We saw that a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 8: Work.
Speaker 6: Hey, let's let'sen a great this specific route package with
Speaker 6: Ceedee Lamb and Brandon Cooks. It's routes that you already
Speaker 6: know how to run because they run on different plays
Speaker 6: in the system. But like, let's just com combinize, comb combine, combined,
Speaker 6: Thank you combine this.
Speaker 7: I was taking that ride with you.
Speaker 2: Together as a roller coaster.
Speaker 6: Let's combine them together and see what offensive production could
Speaker 6: come out of it.
Speaker 5: We saw a lot of that.
Speaker 6: Yesterday, And I think the point that you can look
Speaker 6: at the most was the Jake Ferguson seam route because
Speaker 6: of the routes that were around him, everything was pushed
Speaker 6: out and it isolated him with that linebacker and he
Speaker 6: had that first step with the linebacker all the way.
Speaker 6: So yeah, a lot of creativity and isolating pass catchers
Speaker 6: and I think its resulted in the twenty five for
Speaker 6: thirty one, three hundred and fort yard day fro Dak Prescott.
Speaker 3: There's a lot to go into this performance because all
Speaker 3: three phases were able to combinize. Yes, put together a
Speaker 3: phenomenal matchup against the Los Angeles Rams. When we come back,
Speaker 3: I want to talk about the defensive side of the
Speaker 3: football a little bit more. Isaiah alluded to it. Are
Speaker 3: they the ones that still set the tone for this team?
Speaker 3: How did they look on Sunday? And is it enough
Speaker 3: confidence to give you a little bit more confidence going
Speaker 3: up against the team that you face in week nine
Speaker 3: when we come back right after this with more talking Cowboys.
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Speaker 6: I tried to just a super trusted super team. I'm
Speaker 6: gonna say no, I just want to throw that out
Speaker 6: there now.
Speaker 3: Not yet, not super trusted. I think the trust took
Speaker 3: a step in the right You got away a week.
Speaker 5: Yeah, ask me. I'e me next Monday, for sure.
Speaker 3: If if they take care of business this week, it
Speaker 3: will take another big leap.
Speaker 2: I still don't know if I'm there yet. I don't.
Speaker 2: And that's kind of where I wanted to lead into
Speaker 2: this second segment. Is a lot of eyewash, and we
Speaker 2: talk about eyewash.
Speaker 3: From a play calling standpoint, right movement, motion, misdirection, things
Speaker 3: of the sort from an offensive play caller to throw
Speaker 3: a defense off balance. It feels like this game was
Speaker 3: eyewash for the Cowboys.
Speaker 14: A little just a little bit of a distraction, not
Speaker 14: specifically in the locker room, but just from a confidence standpoint, Hey,
Speaker 14: we got through a tough one against the Chargers, got
Speaker 14: the buy a week rested up, took it to the
Speaker 14: La Rams, really put forty three on the board again
Speaker 14: a score Gami, by the way, first time in an
Speaker 14: NFL game it's been forty three to twenty.
Speaker 3: But then you take away that and you go into
Speaker 3: this week with a Okay, we're ready for the Eagles mindset.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I'm there yet. From a Cowboys
Speaker 3: fan standpoint, you want them to have that mindset. You
Speaker 3: want them to be confident going into this matchup. But
Speaker 3: based off of what you saw yesterday, does it change
Speaker 3: your thinking at all going into the Week nine matchup
Speaker 3: against the Eagles?
Speaker 5: You're talking about confidence specifically confidence specifically.
Speaker 2: It does.
Speaker 6: It does because you saw I wrote about it in
Speaker 6: five Takes last night. And typically in wins like this
Speaker 6: that we've had this season. You look at the Giants game,
Speaker 6: you look at the Jets game, and you look at
Speaker 6: the Patriots game. What was similar in all those wins
Speaker 6: was a blowout. What also was similar, so the defense
Speaker 6: set the tone. This time it was an offense setting
Speaker 6: the tone, and they carried the tone throughout the game
Speaker 6: and when the defense was having a lapse in the
Speaker 6: final five minutes of the second quarter, in the first
Speaker 6: five minutes of the third quarter, they picked it right
Speaker 6: back up and found that momentum and put the put
Speaker 6: the door away, you know. So that gave me a
Speaker 6: lot of confidence going into Philly next week. They're gonna
Speaker 6: need that, and I know we're gonna talk about it
Speaker 6: a ton this week, and I'm really excited to. But
Speaker 6: there's a really good opportunity that if you go and
Speaker 6: you win in Philadelphia on Sunday night, you're not only
Speaker 6: in a good position in the division, you're in a
Speaker 6: good position in the conference. Because now the San Francisco
Speaker 6: forty nine ers are heading into their bye week five
Speaker 6: and three, you still have the Seahawks and Lions on
Speaker 6: your schedule, So you know, you control your own destiny
Speaker 6: for the most the most facets.
Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you think my mind is telling me.
Speaker 2: I would like to say yes, but it's a no
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 5: I don't think you don't have any more confidence from
Speaker 5: after es.
Speaker 7: I have more confidence.
Speaker 4: I don't have more confidence in regards to the opponent
Speaker 4: that is coming up, So I have more confidence in
Speaker 4: the offense. I have more confidence in the defense. I
Speaker 4: have more confidence in a special teams unit, But in
Speaker 4: terms of where you need to be strong at versus
Speaker 4: the opponent that you're facing is the running game. That
Speaker 4: I didn't gain any confidence in that aspect of the game.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: So, even though holistically as those units, those gained more
Speaker 4: confidence right there, their attributes there. If you're looking at
Speaker 4: a video game, right and you're trying to build up
Speaker 4: your All Madden team, you know, everything went up. I
Speaker 4: still don't think that they got stronger where they need
Speaker 4: to be strong, right. I feel like if you want
Speaker 4: to be successful against the Eagles, which they have a
Speaker 4: whole week to figure this out, yep, I think that
Speaker 4: you have to establish a running game. I still don't
Speaker 4: believe that the Dallas is a drop back and pass team.
Speaker 4: Not taking away anything that they did yesterday, but your
Speaker 4: last two opponents that you faced, that the coverage that
Speaker 4: those teams played primarily recover four. So those are off
Speaker 4: coverages very you know, playing off and no no press
Speaker 4: really hardly any man de man. So like it made
Speaker 4: it easier to be successful from the passing standpoint.
Speaker 7: That's not taking away the fact that they were still productive.
Speaker 2: You still have to go out there and execute.
Speaker 4: But those defensive schemes your last two games were probably
Speaker 4: the easier schemes that you were going to face this season.
Speaker 7: So I did not gain confidence in that regard.
Speaker 4: But I do love the fact that they were able
Speaker 4: to continue to build upon their execution, continue to build upon,
Speaker 4: you know, their confidence, because the reality is you have
Speaker 4: a bunch of men in this locker room that are
Speaker 4: trying to build confidence in this offense, and they're trying
Speaker 4: to figure things out the defense side.
Speaker 2: Of the ball.
Speaker 4: I know we're supposed to be talking defense, the defense
Speaker 4: side of the ball. Like they know who Dan Quinn is.
Speaker 4: They don't have any question marks about his system. They
Speaker 4: don't have any question marks about where they're supposed to be,
Speaker 4: what they're supposed to.
Speaker 7: Be doing their assignments. Oh well I did this and
Speaker 7: it didn't work.
Speaker 4: Like they have enough enough things to recollect on to say, Okay,
Speaker 4: I still trust that what we're doing is what we
Speaker 4: should be doing.
Speaker 7: Offensively, you do something wrong.
Speaker 4: You look at the first series, sack sack sack gets
Speaker 4: called off like you're like, crap, man, Like, what the heck?
Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 4: It's not like, hey, let's way go okay, steady steady
Speaker 4: to you know, steady the ship. We're gonna be good.
Speaker 4: It's like you literally have a question mark in your head, like, man,
Speaker 4: is this system what we're supposed to be doing? And
Speaker 4: so until you get that out of your head, until
Speaker 4: you have enough reps and enough games under your belt
Speaker 4: to rest assured in what you're doing is the right
Speaker 4: thing to be doing. I don't have that bolt of
Speaker 4: confidence just yet.
Speaker 3: But going back to what Nick just talked about, this
Speaker 3: might be the first game where you might have had
Speaker 3: that wake up moment where you said, Okay, maybe this
Speaker 3: is working. Ye, maybe this is what we need to
Speaker 3: do because you finally saw what the offense could do.
Speaker 3: You finally got the chance to see even if it's
Speaker 3: just a glimpse and it's against the simple defense.
Speaker 2: Like you said, I completely agree with that take.
Speaker 3: It still got it done, and you still had the
Speaker 3: offense set the tone and win you.
Speaker 2: A football game. They would have won the football.
Speaker 3: Game I think either way, because all three units played well,
Speaker 3: but the offense was the most impressive and the most
Speaker 3: impactful in this win. Specifically, So do you believe so
Speaker 3: you don't believe that that was enough to finally solidify
Speaker 3: things on offense.
Speaker 5: And I think for me, I'm not asking you to
Speaker 5: be one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: Comes for sure. For sure, I don't just know where
Speaker 2: is that event.
Speaker 4: I totally understand what you're saying. I I gained confidence
Speaker 4: in this team. I gained confidence in all three fats
Speaker 4: is of the game. I gained more confidence defensively than
Speaker 4: I gained offensively, to be honest with you. The reason
Speaker 4: being is because they were able to shut down two
Speaker 4: really good freaking receivers and a really good offensive coordinator. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they shut that down. That's impressive to me, right, It's
Speaker 4: less than one hundred yards on both and absolutely amazing.
Speaker 4: It's also I mean, rushing wise, they were held underneath
Speaker 4: a hundred yards total on the ground. Second straight game
Speaker 4: that they've done something against the decent running attack.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying the Rams were the Chargers, but Boston Eckler.
Speaker 3: Didn't have anything against the Cowboys, and neither did the
Speaker 3: Rams as a team run in the football.
Speaker 2: I've gained more confidence in this defense this year.
Speaker 4: I already had high standards for this defense, but I
Speaker 4: continue to gain more confidence in them because they have
Speaker 4: been shutting down offenses. And that's important because what do
Speaker 4: you fear about most teams that you're gonna play. Most teams,
Speaker 4: you fear their offense. Okay, now, obviously this week's a
Speaker 4: little bit different, but most teams you fear their offense.
Speaker 4: You have to be able to shut down their ability
Speaker 4: to score points. And if you could shut down team's
Speaker 4: abilities to score points, then you improve your percentages in
Speaker 4: trying to win ball games. So I don't want to
Speaker 4: take anything. I don't want to come across, you know.
Speaker 4: I'm just I dive into the film and I don't
Speaker 4: want to take anything away from this victory nor the
Speaker 4: Chargers victory. But offensively, these schemes that they have faced
Speaker 4: over these last two games is about as simple as
Speaker 4: you can ever imagine. Now, the Chargers had a great
Speaker 4: personnel groupings, but their scheme on defense sucks, right, and
Speaker 4: it makes no sense why they should be at the
Speaker 4: bottom of the league in terms of terms of defensive
Speaker 4: production because they have the personnel. But okay, whatever, that's
Speaker 4: what you're playing, we'll take advantage of it.
Speaker 2: They did.
Speaker 4: So now you play against the Rams. Raheem Morris is
Speaker 4: a really good defensive coordinator. But he's what he's putting
Speaker 4: out there because of the personnel that he has sucks.
Speaker 7: So take advantage of it. And they did that right.
Speaker 7: They showed up and they execute it and it's not
Speaker 7: our fault. That's what you want to run.
Speaker 4: We're still going to score points on it, but it's
Speaker 4: gonna be more challenging. And I'm not even just talking
Speaker 4: about the Eagles. I'm talking about other defenses. No teams
Speaker 4: that play that started messing things, you know, messing around
Speaker 4: with their coverages. Like Arizona, they mess around with their coach.
Speaker 4: They didn't even have all their personnel, but their scheme
Speaker 4: caused Dallas problems. We started talking about press man and
Speaker 4: having to get off the ball, and you know, one
Speaker 4: week you hear people talking about all the receiver, our
Speaker 4: receivers can't get any separation.
Speaker 7: And then you play a Cover four team and it's like,
Speaker 7: oh man, we're.
Speaker 4: Killing a CD's killing Yeah he killed it on the
Speaker 4: stat line, but the scheme is completely different.
Speaker 2: Right, So now you.
Speaker 4: Have to show up against a team that's gonna play man,
Speaker 4: that's gonna play three, that's gonna play four, that's gonna
Speaker 4: play six, that's gonna play eight.
Speaker 7: They're gonna be mixing things up every single snap.
Speaker 2: And Dack sometimes after this snap.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, and Dak's gonna have to decipher what the coverage is.
Speaker 4: The receivers are gonna have to get off the ball
Speaker 4: and win one on one matchups, and this is gonna
Speaker 4: be a great test for these guys. And then check
Speaker 4: with me on Monday about where I am at in
Speaker 4: terms of confidence, because that's gonna be more of what
Speaker 4: I considered a high level challenge.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I understand your reasoning a lot more now, and I
Speaker 6: think that's a valid case. I think just for me, offensively,
Speaker 6: even in the blowout wins that we've seen, the offense
Speaker 6: be quote unquote efficient. The negatives that we were taking
Speaker 6: away from those games that we I knew it was
Speaker 6: going to plague this team against really good teams. You
Speaker 6: didn't really see that as much yesterday. But I think
Speaker 6: I think both cases are legit there because offensively, red
Speaker 6: zone was working, multiple weapons got involved, creativity was back integrated.
Speaker 6: We've seen so much play under center from Dak Prescott
Speaker 6: this season, and it felt like that was dialed back
Speaker 6: quite a bit. We saw more motion get integrated back
Speaker 6: in So that's what makes me.
Speaker 5: Confident, absolutely.
Speaker 6: But I think there's I think that's a lot of
Speaker 6: I think that really speaks to what we can go
Speaker 6: into in Philadelphia this week knowing that there is confidence
Speaker 6: stick away on both sides of the wall.
Speaker 3: One thing that gives me confidence, too is the fact
Speaker 3: that Dak. We talked about it after the Chargers game.
Speaker 3: Dak used his legs to buy time. Yep, it was
Speaker 3: a necessity in the Chargers game, the Rams game. I
Speaker 3: don't necessarily think it was a necessity outside of maybe
Speaker 3: the first couple of drives, because it was a necessity
Speaker 3: on the first round.
Speaker 2: Couldn't get away all of them. It on the first draft.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know there's a couple of sacks and
Speaker 3: a penalty called back a little illegal contact nine.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 7: He was a conversation about him if he's still a dude.
Speaker 2: Still add I never said he was.
Speaker 7: I didn't say anybody's names. I said no names, Kyle.
Speaker 2: I said, I'm just the only one in the building.
Speaker 2: There were some conversations. It's okay, Nick, you can say
Speaker 2: that Aaron Donald's not that good anymore. Just say it
Speaker 2: with your chest. I didn't say that.
Speaker 3: People just going where I'm still continuing with where I
Speaker 3: was going, Uh, Dak Prescott didn't necessarily need to move,
Speaker 3: but he did.
Speaker 2: Against the Rams and it opened things up.
Speaker 3: Ceedee Lamb second touchdown grab because of the rollout from
Speaker 3: Dak Prescott, the way that you're able to extend plays,
Speaker 3: got it downfield. You got a couple of completions to
Speaker 3: Michael Gallup, couple of Brandon Cooks. You talked about the
Speaker 3: motion pre snap, movement, fluidity, natural movement is what I've
Speaker 3: seen from the offense, not just one week, but the
Speaker 3: last two weeks. And that's something I don't think we
Speaker 3: saw at any point in the first five weeks, even
Speaker 3: in the midst of some of those blowouts. It's the
Speaker 3: way that they got to the point of forty three
Speaker 3: to twenty this week, as opposed to what they did
Speaker 3: in the.
Speaker 2: Future or in the past with their their last blowouts.
Speaker 5: I agree.
Speaker 3: So with that being said, there's a lot on the
Speaker 3: line for Philadelphia, and there's always going to be that
Speaker 3: San Francisco Week five match up in the back of
Speaker 3: your head. If you do have a perfect week and
Speaker 3: you defeat Philadelphia, does that a RaSE all no?
Speaker 2: Not all no? And is that a good thing? That
Speaker 2: it erases just part of that week five.
Speaker 7: You need to remember you need pain is a great teacher.
Speaker 7: Pain is a great teacher, and you need that pain.
Speaker 7: Why do you think guys sit out there and watch
Speaker 7: the Super.
Speaker 4: Bowl celebrations after they lose games, after they lose super
Speaker 4: they want to remember that. They want to feel. I
Speaker 4: don't want to just see it. I want to feel.
Speaker 4: There's no different than music, right. The reason why you
Speaker 4: put a sound system in your car so not so
Speaker 4: that you can hear the music louder. You want to
Speaker 4: feel the music, right. I don't want to feel that music,
Speaker 4: absolutely right. So it's important that you feel those pain points.
Speaker 4: Everybody's talking about the forty nine ers. Oh you know
Speaker 4: the forty nine ers are going down, and yeah, they
Speaker 4: they've been exposed a little bit and some of the
Speaker 4: things we talked about in terms of pump your brakes
Speaker 4: on party, right, though, some of those things are being exposed.
Speaker 7: But does it change up how they match up against you?
Speaker 4: Absolutely not, Absolutely not. Doesn't change up how they match
Speaker 4: up against you. They where they are stronger, you still
Speaker 4: have problems with it. So you still have to handle
Speaker 4: those problems, and you're gonna face a team this week,
Speaker 4: and that's gonna give you opportunity to look at it
Speaker 4: comparison wise and say, you know what, this team is
Speaker 4: strong where the forty nine ers were strong, So guess what.
Speaker 7: This is the opportunity for us.
Speaker 4: Say see how we match up against that style of
Speaker 4: personnel and then if I once we take care of that,
Speaker 4: then maybe guess what.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, I could look at it.
Speaker 7: Okay, this is very similar.
Speaker 2: This is very similar.
Speaker 7: Personnel is very similar, schemes very similar.
Speaker 4: Okay, I might have a little bit more conference next
Speaker 4: time we face those cats, absolutely right, But you still
Speaker 4: have to go out there and check these boxes every
Speaker 4: single week. And I don't want to erase the pain. No,
Speaker 4: if you beat the Philadelphia Eagles is this coming week,
Speaker 4: you're still pissed off you lost in Arizona. You're still
Speaker 4: pissed off that you got blown out by Sam Fran
Speaker 4: Like you need that because if you face the forty
Speaker 4: nine ers again, right, or the dog on CARDI will
Speaker 4: somehow figure things out, which I don't think as possible.
Speaker 4: But for the Eagles again, yeah, or the Eagles, you
Speaker 4: will you will see the Eagles again. If you win
Speaker 4: this game, you still got to face those cats again. Right,
Speaker 4: if you lose this game, you gotta face those cats again.
Speaker 4: So like, you can't get all high and mighty on yourself.
Speaker 4: It is literally a week by week thing, and fans
Speaker 4: y'all could turn up all day long, y'all can talk
Speaker 4: all the mess you want to. The locker room's a
Speaker 4: whole other monster, and you have to live week by week,
Speaker 4: assignment by assignment, personnel by personnel. If one team loses
Speaker 4: to another team, it should not give you any confidence
Speaker 4: about about going out there and facing that same team
Speaker 4: because they line up against you differently than they lined
Speaker 4: up against the other opponents.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, I think gosh. I had a talking point and
Speaker 5: it just completely escaped my mind.
Speaker 10: Good.
Speaker 6: Oh, if you go into Philadelphia as the Cowboys and
Speaker 6: you come out with like a forty two to nothing victory,
Speaker 6: you're not gonna happen and not gonna happen.
Speaker 3: But let's say you go, like everybody on the Crew
Speaker 3: burgers on Monday. If that's the case, you say, I
Speaker 3: wouldn't even I wouldn't even light even if that does happen,
Speaker 3: That does not they discounted.
Speaker 6: That does not give me confidence about erasing what happened.
Speaker 6: In week five, you could you could go have your
Speaker 6: best performance.
Speaker 15: And appreciate a long time maybe of all time, maybe
Speaker 15: of all time, and it will not kind of qualm
Speaker 15: all the concerns that I have from week five, because
Speaker 15: that team still existed and that with this personnel grouping
Speaker 15: that they have right now.
Speaker 6: So it's it would it would never unless they go
Speaker 6: into San Francisco in the playoffs and beat them, then
Speaker 6: obviously there's no reason to care about week five anymore.
Speaker 6: But that's the only thing that would like take that
Speaker 6: concern out of my head.
Speaker 7: And I appreciate that, I really do.
Speaker 4: I really appreciate that because I know a lot of
Speaker 4: people would like to write off losses and say, oh,
Speaker 4: you know, it was just a hiccup, not that one.
Speaker 5: No hiccups, I'll write off Arizona. I'm not and I
Speaker 5: understand not.
Speaker 6: I because of the three offensive lineman being out up front,
Speaker 6: it was the first game, you didn't have treyvon Digs.
Speaker 6: It was a lot of things you're working around. I
Speaker 6: can write off that one. I look elle, San Francisco
Speaker 6: can't write that one off.
Speaker 7: Okay, yeah, right, how do you feel about the office.
Speaker 2: A lot of situation right now.
Speaker 5: Not perfect, better than those teams in the NFL, but
Speaker 5: not great.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree with that.
Speaker 3: There's thirty one other teams that are also struggling with
Speaker 3: their offensive line. Looking at Kansas City against Denver yesterday,
Speaker 3: that was wild. Uh yeah, it's not perfect, not not perfect,
Speaker 3: but there's still there's still guys up there that you
Speaker 3: can rely on. True Modoga going down wasn't great, but
Speaker 3: you got to see a rookie that you drafted for
Speaker 3: that reason to be depth on the offensive line and awesome.
Speaker 2: Richards step In.
Speaker 3: Haven't watched the All twenty two on Richards specifically yet,
Speaker 3: but I'll go back and watch it. See what he did.
Speaker 3: I thought he, at least in real time, looked okay.
Speaker 3: Wasn't perfect like I said, but he was okay.
Speaker 2: This is a question that's gonna probably ruffle a little
Speaker 2: feathers ruffalo say with your chest on a Monday, I
Speaker 2: don't say what much chess on a Monday.
Speaker 7: Is Zach Martin still Zach Martin?
Speaker 4: Yes, be honest, Yes, the same Zach Martin that you
Speaker 4: expected to come into the season.
Speaker 2: Yes, no, but it's not.
Speaker 7: I'm not saying is he has he fallen off I'm
Speaker 7: not saying is everybody else the same level.
Speaker 3: He's he's eighty five percent of what it used to be,
Speaker 3: but he's not one hundred percent.
Speaker 2: I agree, And and maybe that's.
Speaker 3: Because he's still dealing with some injuries, because remember early
Speaker 3: in the season, he was dealing with some things. May
Speaker 3: not be on the injury report, but everybody's dealing with
Speaker 3: things absolutely.
Speaker 2: Maybe that that that plays a factor to it.
Speaker 3: Maybe the fact that he's going into his thirty three
Speaker 3: thirty four year old season, and maybe that plays.
Speaker 2: A factor into it.
Speaker 3: I don't think he's one hundred percent Zach Martin. And
Speaker 3: you can't watch the film and tell me otherwise. I mean,
Speaker 3: you can tell me he's still really really good because
Speaker 3: he is. Yeah, yeah, but he's not his eighty five percent.
Speaker 3: So let's be let's not get that, let's not get
Speaker 3: that misconstrued.
Speaker 5: But what I'm still Zach Martin not not the dominant Tyron'
Speaker 5: still Tyrann absolutely not.
Speaker 7: Yeah no, what percentage of tyrant is left?
Speaker 5: Oh, I don't want to answer that.
Speaker 2: I mean on Sunday it was zero.
Speaker 4: It was zero percent on Sunday, right, But what I'm
Speaker 4: saying is bank confidence meter in terms of his ability
Speaker 4: to line up in be dominant the way in which
Speaker 4: you've always envisioned him. I don't think that's the same.
Speaker 4: And I'm not saying that's a negative. I'm just saying
Speaker 4: that that's the truth might be the reality. Right So,
Speaker 4: looking not looking towards the off season stuff, but i'malking
Speaker 4: about looking towards your toughest assignment that you have on
Speaker 4: that front going into this week. You might be playing
Speaker 4: with your third string left tackle and you're and you're
Speaker 4: playing with the way in which you always looked at
Speaker 4: Zach Martin's Okay, we're good there. I'm not sure that
Speaker 4: we could look at any position on the front right
Speaker 4: now and just fail. Okay, they got there, they're good.
Speaker 4: We don't have to worry about that one. I'm not
Speaker 4: sure if we're in that same posiness. Maybe Tyler Smith.
Speaker 6: That might be your only galbu And I'll give you this,
Speaker 6: Tyler Smith has become the most reliable offensive block coom
Speaker 6: in this season as we look up in weekate.
Speaker 5: I'll give you that.
Speaker 6: And I'll also give you there's been lapses in the
Speaker 6: run game with Zach Martin, but from when it comes
Speaker 6: to brute physicality and stacking good reps throughout.
Speaker 5: The course of an entire steam. I don't think anyone.
Speaker 6: I don't think anyone in the interior offensive line in
Speaker 6: the league does it better than Zach Martin. I still
Speaker 6: feel that way true and past blockade for him to
Speaker 6: not even give up pressures over the course of entire
Speaker 6: games and stack those zero pressures on games on games.
Speaker 6: No one's doing that. And that's why I say, yes,
Speaker 6: Zach Martin is still Zach Martin. Are their lapses, Yes,
Speaker 6: he's thirty two, Yes he's battling an ankle injury. Yes,
Speaker 6: But at the end of the day, that's still Zach Martin.
Speaker 6: He's playing still at.
Speaker 2: A pro bowl level. He's still a Pro bowlers. I
Speaker 2: guess it's just.
Speaker 4: More than anything, because this dude has been a dog
Speaker 4: on just I don't even know.
Speaker 3: The juggernaut he's been that dude, right, it's been perfect,
Speaker 3: and that's the thing is now he's just not per perfect.
Speaker 7: It is really good.
Speaker 5: You messed up.
Speaker 6: I say that because you've been coming out with you
Speaker 6: this Aaron Donald tank and every every time that Zach
Speaker 6: Martin has a good game from here on, als like
Speaker 6: you know, somebody on the show was saying that Zach, dude, yeah,
Speaker 6: get I remember, I remember very.
Speaker 3: Zach Martin is gonna pancake like a thirty eight year
Speaker 3: old Fletcher Cox next week.
Speaker 2: And then you're gonna get the mentions all day long.
Speaker 5: We have a picture of it on my shirt.
Speaker 4: If Zag Martin picks up big I call him big
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Speaker 4: give him the stars.
Speaker 2: Give him some of the stars.
Speaker 5: Like I respect that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 7: I like it.
Speaker 3: This is such a fun week. And we said that
Speaker 3: going into the forty nine ers week and it didn't
Speaker 3: end up as fun as we thought it would. But
Speaker 3: I would love and we're pretty close. We're fortunate to
Speaker 3: be pretty close to being this. I would I would
Speaker 3: love to be a fly on the wall all week
Speaker 3: long in these meetings and in the locker room to
Speaker 3: be able to did you just hear the conversations flies here?
Speaker 2: Hopefully? I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, I would love to just hear the conversations
Speaker 3: of what this the mindset is for this team going
Speaker 3: into Philadelphia as opposed to what it did against San Francisco,
Speaker 3: and see how it compares, how it matches up Is
Speaker 3: it different or is it very similar?
Speaker 2: I would love to hear those conversations as the week goes.
Speaker 3: On, and we'll try and get as close to that
Speaker 3: as we possibly can here for you on Talking Cowboys.
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Speaker 3: hand down. We've got plenty of them to possibly give out.
Speaker 3: Should be a fun one when we come back right
Speaker 3: after this with more Talking Cowboys.
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Speaker 3: Back here with Isaiah stand back, Nick Harris Chris Beam
Speaker 3: in the back. I'm Kyle Yeoman's Isaiah. Why don't you
Speaker 3: start us off on those smelly stickers?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 7: I'm not picking that one.
Speaker 12: That one.
Speaker 2: I'm not doing that one. No, IM not gonna pick
Speaker 2: that one.
Speaker 7: Who do I want to give my what you got
Speaker 7: smelly sticker to here? Let me think it. Let me
Speaker 7: think it, man.
Speaker 5: I got it? If you if you go ahead, go ahead, Yeah, okay,
Speaker 5: I need to pop it up.
Speaker 6: So I am choosing this pineapple. That's that's rolling on
Speaker 6: a bike because a certain offensive weapon really needed to
Speaker 6: get rolling after a tough performance in San Francisco, and
Speaker 6: he has now stacked two great performances, including a career
Speaker 6: best twelve reception one hundred and fifty eight yard day
Speaker 6: from Sidarian Lambs.
Speaker 5: So since he was rolling all day.
Speaker 6: He's gonna be rolling with the smelly sticker the first
Speaker 6: one of the week.
Speaker 2: There you go, yep, yep, yeah, very nice. See d
Speaker 2: Lambs right there.
Speaker 5: On top of the other one.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we're just gonna put every rolling pineapple on
Speaker 3: each of the corners of the star.
Speaker 2: That's what's gonna be the next point.
Speaker 5: That's one smells great too.
Speaker 2: Oh nice.
Speaker 3: What's the scent over there with pineapple scent? Yeah, that
Speaker 3: makes sense since it's pineapple riding a bike.
Speaker 7: This is gonna be a curve ball for you boys.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, here you.
Speaker 7: Go, beamer, want shot baby.
Speaker 2: You see that face right there? Yeah, looks like excited.
Speaker 7: Huh, high energy type of pre pumped.
Speaker 2: Who would you guys say.
Speaker 7: Is on his coaching staff that that resembles this right here?
Speaker 11: Uh?
Speaker 2: Dan al Harris wrong and wrong?
Speaker 3: Oh, I was thinking Al Harrison, the slow mo shot
Speaker 3: they had after Don Blas picked.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was exactly what it was.
Speaker 4: Bones Fossil given this one to Bones Fossil, the ultimate
Speaker 4: heighte man for not only creating this special teams unit
Speaker 4: to be one of the most dangerous in the league.
Speaker 4: But these guys are now starting to figure things out.
Speaker 4: And when you start figuring things out as a special
Speaker 4: teams unit, you add a third of the game that
Speaker 4: is now dangerous. Not only that, he found a freaking
Speaker 4: gym in Brandon Aubrey that you can now rest assured
Speaker 4: of once you cross a certain portion of the field
Speaker 4: that you absolutely have three points.
Speaker 7: So Bones Fossil, you don't get enough credit.
Speaker 2: That is you, sir, there it is.
Speaker 6: This is a Bones Fossil group chat fan club. That's exactly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we love ourselves some Bones Fossil. All right. I
Speaker 2: lied to you, Isaiah. I went back to it.
Speaker 3: Oh Jesus, I went back to the lollypop and there's
Speaker 3: a he's in on this.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 3: Do you know the history of this, No, he doesn't,
Speaker 3: and I don't think bring it back. If you do,
Speaker 3: remember that Cowboys ot or Og family, good talking cowboys
Speaker 3: fam Uh.
Speaker 2: You can tag Nick in the video. It make it happen. Okay.
Speaker 3: Anyways, on this lollipop, there are seven twists. There's seven
Speaker 3: of them, seven different rings. Okay, along the way, please,
Speaker 3: there are more twists on the lollipop than there were
Speaker 3: incompletions for Dak Prescott, who had just six incompletions and
Speaker 3: he had four touchdowns the matchup.
Speaker 2: So there we go.
Speaker 6: We can't we have a combined agent.
Speaker 3: Dak Prescott gets my smelly sticker, and it's for good reason.
Speaker 2: He was surgical.
Speaker 3: If I would have had a smelly sticker that was
Speaker 3: like a surgery knife, I would have taken that.
Speaker 2: He was No, it doesn't.
Speaker 3: He was surgical, uh in the way that he destroyed
Speaker 3: the RAMS defense.
Speaker 2: He was fantastic from the jump.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna give this one to Dak Prescott and
Speaker 3: he deserves it.
Speaker 2: Congratulations QB one. Congratulations.
Speaker 3: Somebody on the text line, if you want to give
Speaker 3: us your smelly sticker votes, you can go ahead and
Speaker 3: text that.
Speaker 2: In as we can. Oh man, I just took off
Speaker 2: my sunglasses.
Speaker 7: That somebody called in yea.
Speaker 4: They wanted to give a smelly sticker to Kyle because
Speaker 4: of it because of his forty burger prediction.
Speaker 2: So that's ky right.
Speaker 5: Can we put that on there? Let's put it on there,
Speaker 5: Let's put it on.
Speaker 2: Put it over like the warning sticker, put it in
Speaker 2: like a not so.
Speaker 7: Let's put it right in the back, right over the Yeah,
Speaker 7: that's you, Kyle.
Speaker 2: You deserve it, sir, thanks man, you deserve that first.
Speaker 2: That's the first. Uh, host smelly sticker. Look at that
Speaker 2: for the picture? Perfect? How about that?
Speaker 5: That's perfect?
Speaker 2: Should I make the the face? There you go, smelly stickers.
Speaker 3: Every week after the Cowboys get a victory, it's our
Speaker 3: way of giving out our players of the game. We'll
Speaker 3: have John's tomorrow. We'll have the fans tomorrow. To text
Speaker 3: it in right now, while you've got an opportunity, Cowboys
Speaker 3: text line eight one seven two nine zero three two
Speaker 3: nine eight. We'll be back tomorrow with a Talking Tuesday.
Speaker 3: We're gonna answer your questions on the phone line. We're
Speaker 3: gonna talk to Cowboys Nation. It's this one's gonna be
Speaker 3: a fun week, everybody, Okay, so buckle up. Be sure
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Speaker 3: for more Talking Cowboys with Nick Harris, Isaiah standback, John Machoda,
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Speaker 3: the Rams forty three twenty the final score.
Speaker 2: In Week eight. We'll see tomorrow.
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