WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: What A Game! 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:09.200 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:18.680 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:19.079 --> 0:00:22.440 screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World How Hours at 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:31.560 the Star in Price jol Scot Pictures and now your 0:00:31.600 --> 0:00:36.960 hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle 0:00:37.120 --> 0:00:53.840 Yeoman's twenty to sixteen the Dallas Cowboys over the Minnesota 0:00:53.960 --> 0:00:59.240 Vikings as well. Cooper Rush gets the job done twenty 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:03.680 of forty three hundred and twenty five yards, two touchdowns, 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:07.400 and the Cowboys are six and one. It is another 0:01:07.600 --> 0:01:12.360 Victory Day edition of Talking Cowboys, presented by Tostitos, the 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:16.880 official chip and the official chip of the Dallas Cowboys. 0:01:16.920 --> 0:01:19.760 I hope you have your headphones turned down for the 0:01:19.880 --> 0:01:23.200 next let's go forty five minutes, because this is gonna happen. 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:28.800 All yeah, Yeah, you brought your rally towel today. What 0:01:28.959 --> 0:01:31.800 you're talking about? Let's go? You know this is not 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:34.360 good radio yelling into a microphone. It's all good. How 0:01:34.480 --> 0:01:36.360 y'all feeling this? Mom? I want to wake y'all up. Man. 0:01:36.560 --> 0:01:38.920 I know y'all was working last night. I do apologize. 0:01:39.120 --> 0:01:41.400 I know y'all need some coffee this morning, and I 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:46.040 just wanted to be y'all. Y'all always one for y'all. 0:01:46.160 --> 0:01:50.720 He's always up back quick. I did. I did. WoT 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.520 landed at three. Heck, you're my wake up call. Thank you, 0:01:56.200 --> 0:02:00.280 thank you. Come on, man, No goodenough feeling swell, Kyle, Yeah, 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:02.720 well it's hard not to be, Isaiah. Did you get 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.040 some rest this morning? I did. I got me a 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:06.680 new bad man and this, you know, I got some 0:02:06.800 --> 0:02:09.239 good sleep. Back's feeling good. You know, woke up to 0:02:09.320 --> 0:02:12.960 a w over here in a column. You know, kid life. 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:17.000 I mean it's crazy. I mean reliving that game through 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:19.600 your head. I went back and rewatched the condensed version 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:24.720 yesterday and just there was really no business winning that 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:28.160 football game. You had to make every play down the 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:32.880 stretch from so many different people. You're exactly right. That 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:36.359 was a win that if if this season continues on 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:38.959 the way that it's been continuing and they reach a 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:42.640 potential that a lot of Cowboys fans think they can reach, 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:44.840 that's a win. You're gonna come back and circle and 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:48.600 say that one was that was a difference maker because 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:52.280 it gives you confidence moving forward. Cooper Rush. I mean 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:55.440 the way he was able to come in fill in admirable. 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:59.280 I mean, he was a gutted out sort of player 0:02:59.400 --> 0:03:01.160 last night. But it took a lot of guys to 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:03.799 get that win. I mean, it's an overall team win. 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:06.400 You gotta feel good about it, knowing that you missed 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.280 the key piece and the way that your defense played 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:13.040 yesterday has got to give you confidence going forward with 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.880 the end this season. What was it one for thirteen 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:20.480 on third down? Unreal? That's hey, man, that and that 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:24.400 takes eleven guys to contribute and do the job that 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:28.239 they did yesterday on Kirk Cousins and those receivers. And 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:31.160 they tried us, they tried us multiple times. And I 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:33.560 will say that Treyvon Dix may not have had his 0:03:33.760 --> 0:03:39.400 best game yesterday, didn't continue to streak by getting another interception. 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:44.200 But man, all in all, everybody, everybody contributed to the win. 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:46.440 And that's man, That's the one thing that I'm gonna 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:49.400 hang my hat on for victory Monday is the way 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:53.600 that our hold, the entire team played yesterday. Man, Like 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:55.440 you said, that's something you come back too later and 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:57.600 you go, hey, stick a pin in that. Come back 0:03:57.640 --> 0:04:00.640 to that victory because that that said something about everybody. Yeah, 0:04:00.680 --> 0:04:03.160 that was a culture win. I mean those guys to 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:05.120 your point, you know, everybody stepped up. This was not 0:04:05.280 --> 0:04:08.080 a just premier player guys you know, get guys who 0:04:08.120 --> 0:04:10.240 get the big boy checks. This was literally everybody who 0:04:10.280 --> 0:04:12.440 touched that field yesterday had an impact on the game, 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.000 had a lot to overcome. Not only did they not 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.960 have their QB one Cooper Rush stepped up, but we 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.960 lost our Obviously, we didn't have our our starting right tackle. 0:04:21.560 --> 0:04:23.200 He was in the game and the wishbone set, but 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:26.000 he wasn't starting. So we had a second string right tackle, 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:28.240 We had a second string left tackle. We had a 0:04:28.320 --> 0:04:30.320 lot of second string receivers in there that came in 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:32.800 there and took care of business. Our defensive our defense 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:36.720 played lights out. Michael Parsons probably had probably i would say, 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:38.640 probably the game of his life. Aside from him playing 0:04:38.680 --> 0:04:41.800 the d in earlier in the year. These guys played great. 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:43.960 I mean, one for thirteen, shutting down that offense and 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.760 the capabilities that they had was absolutely amazing. Um they 0:04:46.880 --> 0:04:49.480 played for rush. They they played for rush. That was 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:51.440 a little extra that wasn't just them wanting to win 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:53.960 the game. That was them saying we got you and 0:04:54.000 --> 0:04:56.240 you could tell the difference there, and that was absolutely amazing. 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.159 Mary Cooper definitely played for Rush on that last drive. 0:04:59.200 --> 0:05:02.600 Oh my god, was unreal. What an unbelievable effort by him. 0:05:02.760 --> 0:05:04.680 And he said he didn't hurt his hamstring on that 0:05:04.760 --> 0:05:07.200 last that last drive at one point and was able 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.719 to play through it. I said after the game, tweeted, 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.880 you know that good teams find a way, and I 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:16.880 think good teams find a way to beat New England 0:05:16.960 --> 0:05:18.760 and Bill Belichick on the road when you make a 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.400 bunch of mistakes and all that. I think potentially special 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:25.039 teams win a game like this. And I hadn't been 0:05:25.120 --> 0:05:27.839 up there in that stadium for five years since Dak's 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:32.840 rookie season. I forgot just how loud, crazy that environment is. 0:05:33.400 --> 0:05:35.640 And that makes it more impressive for Cooper, Rush and 0:05:35.680 --> 0:05:38.280 the offensive line, which had some trouble with the past 0:05:38.360 --> 0:05:41.160 Rush at times. But to be able to handle that environment, man, 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:47.520 that brings it should bring an extra confidence level up 0:05:47.640 --> 0:05:50.600 for this entire team. But what's more impressive is I 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:52.840 and we only talked to a handful of guys. I 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:54.680 didn't get the sense guys were just felt like this 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:56.640 was some miracle that we pulled off. I mean, these 0:05:56.680 --> 0:06:00.600 guys know they're good, and you know they found a 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:02.720 way to get it done. Give them credit. Yeah, they 0:06:02.800 --> 0:06:05.680 knew that was gutsie. They knew going into it no 0:06:05.880 --> 0:06:08.400 Dak Prescott because of the cap strain. They knew that 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:10.120 was going to take everybody to get it done. But 0:06:10.160 --> 0:06:12.440 you're right. I mean the reaction after wasn't like, man, 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:14.400 we got a dub on the road, like Wow, this 0:06:14.560 --> 0:06:15.800 is great. It was more of like, all right, we 0:06:15.839 --> 0:06:17.760 took care of business, while let's go home. We got 0:06:17.800 --> 0:06:20.360 two at home, let's take care of those. That's the 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:23.920 feeling I got, which is exceptionally exciting, I think from 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:26.440 the get go, because you want that confidence in your 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:29.120 ball club, and I really want to really quickly, I 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:30.599 want to go back to what something you said. You said, 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:34.640 potentially special teams do that, and we're not talking about 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:36.719 the third unit of the football game. We're talking about 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:42.520 special type of organizational wins. So where does this rank 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:44.800 up there in terms of those types of wins? Because 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.680 it hasn't happened a lot over the last couple decades, 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:49.360 But man, that was one that I think a lot 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.040 of people are going to remember for quite some time. 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:52.480 I just I think it was the best win of 0:06:52.520 --> 0:06:55.200 the Mike McCarthy era. And you probably, I mean, you 0:06:55.279 --> 0:06:57.640 probably have to just go back to this season only. 0:06:57.839 --> 0:07:00.320 I mean last year was just such a mess, and 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.560 I mean, I think, what you know, I think there's 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:04.960 a correlation to last year though. I think that was 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:07.600 the first game that they won that he kind of 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.640 felt like they played the way they need to play. 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:14.280 His imprint on the team, and then they take another 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:18.440 step forward a year later on the road in that environment. Yeah, 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.440 this is the best win because I Dave Hellman tweeted 0:07:21.440 --> 0:07:22.800 it last night and I agree with him. I mean, 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:26.360 they've had games like this in the past pass regime 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:28.960 and they haven't gotten it done. And they found a 0:07:29.000 --> 0:07:30.360 way to get it done. And they founded a way 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:32.840 to get it done without winning the turnover battle too, 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:35.160 which has been a key point in all these games 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.280 that they've won. And that's another step forward for the 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:40.480 defense and that hey, they proved something. They're not just 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:44.280 lucky flukey getting takeaways and all that kind of stuff. 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:46.840 They manned up and got a bunch of stops down 0:07:46.880 --> 0:07:49.320 the stretch man against a good offense that did not 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.680 play well, but that defense had a part in that. Yeah, whatever, whatever, 0:07:52.720 --> 0:07:54.480 I'm sorry. I was just gonna say, do you agree? 0:07:54.960 --> 0:08:02.240 Hell yeah. And furthermore, I love the US versus them mentality. 0:08:02.720 --> 0:08:05.200 It's us the locker room, it's us all these media 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.120 folks talking about one guy making the difference in whether 0:08:08.200 --> 0:08:12.520 you can win. The score changing and all the betting 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.920 odds changing because people saying that Dak was gonna be 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:17.880 out and this team went out and put boots on him. Look, 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:21.360 first half questionable. It was as bad as I thought. 0:08:21.400 --> 0:08:24.840 I'm like, man, and I even held my head down, 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:28.880 like man, this is not what you expect. Production wise, 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:32.360 drives were stalling out. Cooper Rush has some throws he 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:35.160 just missed on them. And it's no excuse he missed 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:37.679 on throws. He left a lot to be desired that 0:08:37.720 --> 0:08:39.080 he's going to come back and look at the tape 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:41.520 today and say, hey, man, I can be better. But 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:45.440 in that second half, the throw to Cedric Wilson, I think, man, 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:48.960 it was like the aha moment. You know, the sun's 0:08:49.080 --> 0:08:52.760 parting the clouds and you see Cooper Rush coming to 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:54.760 his own right there, just to calm down and say, man, 0:08:54.880 --> 0:08:57.800 I can absolutely do this in the running game getting 0:08:57.840 --> 0:09:00.280 behind him. Yeah, he wasn't a hundred yards year or 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:03.640 gods with the big gashes. It was just a continuous, continuous, 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:07.040 continuous run that kept moving the chains. We found ourselves 0:09:07.080 --> 0:09:09.520 in some situations and down the distance that I didn't 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:11.760 think were favorable, that we hadn't been in with Dak, 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:15.400 but that this team just kept responding. And you keep 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:19.840 talking about culture, Isaiah, and that's yesterday was the first 0:09:19.880 --> 0:09:23.160 time I actually saw it, and Bradley and I jumps 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:26.000 outside and you want, you want your team to go. 0:09:26.640 --> 0:09:30.679 You're used to a team going, oh no, what did 0:09:30.720 --> 0:09:34.160 that team do? They bowled up and held them to 0:09:34.320 --> 0:09:36.560 a field goal. So I don't know how they're gonna 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:38.679 spend it next week for the Denver game about how 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:41.520 great the next quarterback is gonna be. But I'm telling you, 0:09:41.640 --> 0:09:43.840 Kirk Cousins showed that he was garbage. And I loved 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.559 every minute of it. Man, I loved every minute of it. 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:48.679 I love the way this team competed, in the way 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.439 that they showed him, and those and those personal files 0:09:51.480 --> 0:09:53.560 towards the end of the game, I mean against Randy Gregory, 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.040 those were uncalled for. But at the same time, even 0:09:56.120 --> 0:09:59.560 overcame those calls. No, I mean they overcame a lot. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:02.000 I mean, you know, to your point, Cooper Rush didn't 0:10:02.000 --> 0:10:03.680 have the best first half. I mean, we're in the studio. 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.400 He had happy feet. He he was who you thought 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:08.880 he would be. In that first half. He was in 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:12.559 errand throws late on you know, split safety. Uh just 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.360 laid on the ball. He'd been lucky. It's about three 0:10:15.480 --> 0:10:17.280 or about three balls that should have been picked off. 0:10:17.360 --> 0:10:20.000 He kept trying to down the middle. Jesus in traffic. 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:21.960 It was it was just late, right, he was just late. 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:24.400 So the game wasn't coming to him at the at 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:27.000 the speed in which it needed to happen. What changed, though, 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:31.240 I don't know. I wouldn't say. I think it's confidence 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:34.840 that happened. His confidence. This league is all built off confidences. 0:10:34.920 --> 0:10:36.400 And these are the best players in the world. I 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.400 don't care if your second, first string, second string, and 0:10:38.440 --> 0:10:40.320 third string. These are the best players in the world, 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.240 hands down. So they're on the roster for a reason. 0:10:42.400 --> 0:10:46.800 I understand. Everybody on on these teams were goats in college. Everybody, 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.400 everybody who's in the league right now was an absolute 0:10:49.480 --> 0:10:50.920 dog in college. And then when you were a dog 0:10:50.960 --> 0:10:52.480 in college, you have a swag about you, you have 0:10:52.520 --> 0:10:54.400 a confidence about you. When you get to the league, 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:57.160 sometimes you have you kind of step take a step back. Right, 0:10:57.200 --> 0:10:58.920 I'm not the dog no more. That's that's the dog. 0:10:59.000 --> 0:11:01.400 I'm just a right and I feel in what I 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:03.199 need to. And that's the mentality that a lot of 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:05.719 guys have until what happens, until they're thrust it into 0:11:05.720 --> 0:11:07.560 a position where guess what, I gotta I gotta become 0:11:07.679 --> 0:11:09.400 what I was in college. You gotta beat the dog. Yeah, 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:10.760 I gotta be that dog again. I gotta get it 0:11:10.840 --> 0:11:12.599 back right. So sometimes you step in there and his 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.400 initial mindset is I'm not the guy. The guys don't 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:17.920 believe in me. Shootout, got sacked a couple of times. 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.480 Everything griffins in my face, I can't really set my feet. 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:22.280 I'm trying to make the throws, but I'm just all 0:11:22.600 --> 0:11:23.959 and then I make that one throw and I'm like, 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:27.679 that was a hell of a ball. Wait a minute, 0:11:27.840 --> 0:11:29.880 Yeah I did I did that. Wait a minute, you 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:31.840 guys just slapped me on the butt. Okay, hold on, okay, 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:33.360 maybe we can Maybe they do believe him. You know 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:34.719 what I'm saying it, And all of a sudden, you 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:36.679 get that confidence back, and you could see it changing. 0:11:36.800 --> 0:11:39.400 Even in his mechanics. His mechanics were good, His footwork 0:11:39.480 --> 0:11:41.079 was good. I told you we was in the studio 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:43.559 when he had some pressure. That boy stepped over, just 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:45.800 stepped up. Guy was diving at his feet. Boom delivered 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:47.800 the ball. So you saw his confidence start to come back. 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.440 But to what to what you what he expected of himself, 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:52.920 and these guys started believing him and believing in him. 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:55.480 They started playing. They overcame a lot early touchdown to 0:11:55.600 --> 0:11:59.040 feeling right, missfield goal, interception to rush. We gotta gave 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:00.679 up a bunch of not a bunch off. We gave 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:02.440 up three sacks in the game. Right, There's a lot 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:04.720 of things that we had to overcome. You can't keep 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:06.360 giving these guys. You talk about the off side, You 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:08.760 can't give teams. Minnesota is a good team. They we 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:11.040 we outplayed them, but they're a good team. Right, We 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:13.760 outplay them, no, no, no doubts about it. They're a 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:15.559 good team, but we played better than them, right, So 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:17.560 we made them look like they weren't a good team. Right, 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:19.360 And that is also a testament to how good this 0:12:19.520 --> 0:12:22.640 roster is. These guys are stepping up in ways that 0:12:23.280 --> 0:12:25.599 you can't draw up. You can't draw this up. And 0:12:25.760 --> 0:12:28.200 in terms of everybody who's looking for, hey, what are 0:12:28.240 --> 0:12:30.280 we going to be? Don't let's not start talking about 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:32.199 the down to roll. So let's keep taking a week 0:12:32.280 --> 0:12:34.920 by week, but understand that we have help coming as 0:12:34.960 --> 0:12:37.520 well as these guys are playing, we still have help coming. 0:12:37.840 --> 0:12:40.320 And if if these if the guys that are coming 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.760 into add assistance are some of our premier guys that 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:45.360 we've been missing, if they come in and contribute like 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:47.559 these guys are, we got, we got. We gotta have 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:49.520 a long way to go, got a long way to go. 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:52.400 It's not just a long seventeen game season. There's a 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:54.439 potential for even longer than that. And this win, of 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:56.560 course keeps you three games up in the NFC East 0:12:56.600 --> 0:12:59.280 as well. That's a little side product to think about too. 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:03.800 But I'm just so impressed with his defense man, I mean, 0:13:03.960 --> 0:13:06.800 holding Minnesota. We already mentioned it, Heckma brought it up 0:13:06.800 --> 0:13:10.080 earlier one of thirteen on third down, holding the Vikings 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:12.480 to two hundred and seventy eight total yards. Kirk Cousins 0:13:12.520 --> 0:13:15.000 didn't even hit two hundred through the air. They were 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:16.880 in his face. They may not have sacked him a 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.199 ton made out have brought him to the turf, but Rob, 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:22.199 they really made him uncomfortable in the pocket, and you 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:25.160 could see it, especially into that second half. Yeah, and 0:13:25.240 --> 0:13:28.480 he you know, he missed on some things early. They 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:32.160 hit a couple of big plays early, feeling Conklin a 0:13:32.200 --> 0:13:35.080 couple thirty plus yard plays, and there were a couple 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.000 he left on the field. But they got better as 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.439 the game went on too, you know. And I was 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.120 looking at Dalvin Cook first, how did they match up 0:13:43.160 --> 0:13:45.599 with him? Eighteen carries for seventy eight yards and a 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:47.360 lot of that's Michael Parsons. I mean he said that 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:49.400 after the game. That was my one on one and 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:53.240 he was anticipating things. You know, he talked about during 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:56.040 the week how he was in kind of a mental slump. 0:13:56.080 --> 0:13:57.480 I don't know if it was like a rookie wall. 0:13:57.920 --> 0:14:01.240 But he started showing up earlier U five thirty am. 0:14:01.320 --> 0:14:04.599 He said he's getting the star and I think he 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:06.960 got kind of got his mojo back in this game. 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:10.480 And I don't know what else you can say about 0:14:10.480 --> 0:14:12.199 the way he played in this football game. But I 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:14.160 think you mentioned the one of thirteen on third down. 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.439 That's that's incredible. That's incredible for an offense as good 0:14:17.480 --> 0:14:19.720 as they are because Delon and we talked about him 0:14:19.800 --> 0:14:22.920 during the week and Justin Jeffers, those guys are really 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.840 really good. On that hit, I don't know if you 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:29.200 guys remember this, but Jordan Jordan Lewis put a hit 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:34.720 on number seventeen one Osbourne. He leveled him. I mean, 0:14:35.200 --> 0:14:38.280 but those guys were we were delivering those kind of tackles. 0:14:38.800 --> 0:14:42.560 Every time they caught the ball, they were getting nailed. Uh, 0:14:43.120 --> 0:14:46.840 your guy from A and M, the Donovan Wilson, your 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:50.080 guy ab with the Roman range. You see that. Yeah, 0:14:50.320 --> 0:14:53.520 you see that. We were nailing those guys. So every 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:56.320 time they were catching the ball, our defenders were putting 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:59.040 them on the ground. You've been asking for it, we've 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.440 been waiting on and finally, man, this is the contact 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.240 when you can go into a game and no matter 0:15:05.360 --> 0:15:08.200 what's going on offense, your defense can play like this. 0:15:08.520 --> 0:15:11.240 We talked about the running game and worrying about that. Um, 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:17.200 I'm sorry, was Dalvin Cook? What happened to him? You know? 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:22.320 He one hundred and one yards. They obviously did get 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:24.640 one hundred and one yards, but they had the piecemeal 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:27.520 that thing together. Uh and so that wasn't one back. 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:31.800 These guys were putting making sure they were assignment alignment sound. 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.160 And I love to see that. And that's Dan Quinn 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:38.760 putting together coverage for a veteran quarterback that has pretty 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:41.120 much seen at all. Those are some of those were 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:43.600 coverage where he didn't know where he where he was 0:15:43.640 --> 0:15:47.360 gonna go. And Randy Gregory is about to run off 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:53.960 with the bag, y'all. He like he's on Friday running out. Okay, 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:56.480 he running out with the bag right now, boy, And 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:59.760 it's it's man. It's so good to see guys that 0:15:59.840 --> 0:16:03.560 have had problems in the past be redeemed in real time. 0:16:03.600 --> 0:16:05.920 I'm just loving to see that from Randy Gregory, man 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.520 and just overall man. This defensively, I can't say enough 0:16:08.520 --> 0:16:10.280 about how good we play. When was the last time 0:16:10.360 --> 0:16:14.400 you've seen a physicality type of game like that from 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.840 a Cowboys defense man? It's been a long It's been 0:16:16.880 --> 0:16:19.440 a long time for me. I mean when I'm talking 0:16:19.440 --> 0:16:23.640 about at every position we are knocking guys, I mean 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:25.560 it might have been back in the nineties when we 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:28.960 had Charles Hayley and them boys that it was. It 0:16:29.160 --> 0:16:31.920 was that's when we had that real funk. So it's 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:38.560 starting to remind me of that. And just Michael Parsons man, okay, 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:46.520 oh okay, oh, Christmas Tree. No, no, no, it wasn't 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:48.280 a bet involved, but there was there was a little 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:51.960 no Michael Parsons last night. The linebacker was legit. He 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:55.800 was legit. I mean he was everywhere sideline, the sideline. 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.120 They couldn't stop him in the middle. When he decided 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:01.000 that he was gonna put he was gone. But on 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:04.760 those one on ones, Alan Coverage, Oh, that was just that. 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:07.320 I'm so happy he's with us. So you're passed the 0:17:07.440 --> 0:17:12.800 d N thing now quite yeah, you know, but he left, 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:15.400 you know, he looked good. That's all. I gotta give 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:18.560 credit what credit is true. It was and I mean, 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:20.880 Isaiah you said it earlier it was his best game 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.440 outside of the defensive end game in Week two against 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:25.760 the Chargers out I thought the same thing. It might 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:27.040 have been his best game of the year. I know 0:17:27.119 --> 0:17:29.840 the VF grades and the stats probably won't show that 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:32.919 he was all over the film. He had an impact 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:34.439 I mean that's the reason why I like him at 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:37.080 that position, right, because he impacts every aspect of it. 0:17:37.480 --> 0:17:39.720 Like every play you saw he was he was. He 0:17:39.880 --> 0:17:41.520 was a force. And that's what you want. You want 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:43.560 somebody who these guys have to deal with in the 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:45.199 run game. You want somebody these guys have to deal 0:17:45.240 --> 0:17:47.400 with and just swing routes and the running back routes 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:49.920 and and uh and in coverage. You know, down this 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:52.399 guy was, he said in his interview, right, he did. 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:55.600 He did that interview with britt and pretty much he said, Hey, 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:57.800 I feel like I could play any position on this field, 0:17:58.160 --> 0:17:59.960 you know. I mean, that's the confidence you want. That's 0:18:00.000 --> 0:18:01.680 I mean, he's a dog. He's a dog, and that's 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:03.520 what you have. You have a dog at the second level, right, 0:18:03.560 --> 0:18:05.840 you have a dog at the on the d line. Right. Well, 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:08.200 obviously with Gregory playing like that, you got dogs in 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:10.960 the secondary. You got a dog on mean Donovans Wilson 0:18:11.119 --> 0:18:13.159 is running around trying to take guy's hands. Oh that 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:17.720 was amazing. So when you have so in speaking to contagious, 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:20.800 when you have a team that's playing like this again 0:18:20.800 --> 0:18:22.480 I mentioned a couple weeks ago, you don't want to 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:24.720 be left out. You don't want to be the guy. 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:27.360 I told my daughter this yesterday in her soccer game 0:18:27.400 --> 0:18:30.120 before I head it into the studio, I said, don't 0:18:30.160 --> 0:18:33.040 just be a player out there. Impact the game? Yeah, like, 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:34.919 impact the game. You don't want to be the one 0:18:35.000 --> 0:18:37.480 guy that's not impacting the game. You want to you 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:38.760 want your name to be called. You want to be 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.280 circled with that dog on a little little little red 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.360 laser girl. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. It's like, hey, don't don't 0:18:44.400 --> 0:18:49.040 just be present, right, don't yeah, yeah, don't just be present? Right? Um, no, 0:18:49.240 --> 0:18:51.240 key and pill present you know, no, no, don't be 0:18:51.359 --> 0:18:53.720 that right? How can you impact the game if I'm 0:18:53.760 --> 0:18:55.800 on the field, how can I show up right? How 0:18:55.880 --> 0:18:58.200 can I make my donation my contribution to this team? 0:18:58.240 --> 0:19:01.080 Because we're flying around as a collective, they're having fun, 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:04.360 they're playing physical, they're executing their responsibilities, they're shutting down 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:07.359 good offenses. These are good teams when I know we 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:09.560 make them look like trash. They're not trash. We just 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:11.840 make them look like trash because of how these guys 0:19:11.880 --> 0:19:14.280 are approaching the game in terms of dan Quinn, how 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:16.800 these guys personnel wives, they're taking care of the responsibilities 0:19:16.960 --> 0:19:18.680 and then our dogs are going out there and saying, 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:20.520 guess what, I'm gonna leave you guys to the pastors. 0:19:20.800 --> 0:19:25.160 I can't wait to delogue his back. I can't wait 0:19:25.200 --> 0:19:28.040 because I hope. I'm looking forward to seeing. Is he 0:19:28.160 --> 0:19:31.800 gonna bring what Gregory's bringing. That's a challenge, that's a 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:35.920 challenge because that dude right there, I think he will. 0:19:36.080 --> 0:19:38.960 I don't think anybody plays harder than he does. Sacks 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:40.479 don't always show up, but I think, yeah, I think 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:43.720