WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: Heavyweight Fight 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:05.240 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.280 --> 0:00:07.080 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.079 Cowboys. 0:00:12.160 --> 0:00:16.440 This He's Talking Cowboys, screening live. 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:18.880 From the Dallas Cowboys World Headquarters. 0:00:18.480 --> 0:00:20.160 At the Star in Frisco. 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:27.240 Streaks, that's got kidsay touchdowns. 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:32.800 And now your hosts, Isaiah Standback, Nick Harris, John Mashoda, 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:34.640 and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:36.360 --> 0:00:39.559 It's a wonderful Wednesday edition of Talking Cowboys, presented by 0:00:39.560 --> 0:00:42.800 a Black Rifle Coffee Company, live from the Star in Frisco, 0:00:42.960 --> 0:00:43.839 Texas in. 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:45.880 The SWBC Mortgage Studios. 0:00:45.880 --> 0:00:51.760 It is Week five, Cowboys forty nine Ers, the rivalry 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:55.760 that just keeps on giving. It's the fortieth all time 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:59.880 meeting between the two, Isaiah, without looking at it, would 0:00:59.880 --> 0:01:02.600 you guess where the win total stands for both of 0:01:02.640 --> 0:01:04.959 these teams through their first thirty nine meetings. 0:01:05.080 --> 0:01:07.440 I have no idea, no clue. Would you like a guess? 0:01:07.520 --> 0:01:09.200 Or did you see it already? I haven't you have 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:09.640 seen it? 0:01:09.680 --> 0:01:11.400 Twenty wins for the Cowboys. 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.520 Twenty wines for the Cowboys? Would that be like nineteen 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:15.360 for the for the forty nine ers? 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:18.120 I think I saw it yesterday. It's I remember it 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:18.720 being very. 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:19.600 Close Yeah, it's tied. 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:24.440 It's nineteen nineteen and one including postseason play. Wow, that 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:28.680 is the all time meeting between the two Crazy stuff. 0:01:28.760 --> 0:01:32.560 I mean that this rivalry has so much storied history 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.440 behind it, so much packed in there. Owing then, by 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:36.880 the way, these are two of the best teams in 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:39.399 the NFC facing off on Sunday Night football, so it 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.840 doesn't get much better than that. Of course, alongside Isaiah standback, 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:45.720 John Matchoda, Nick Harris, I'm Kyle Yeomans with Chris Beam 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:48.080 running everything in the back. Gentleman, how we doing today? 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:49.280 Fan Tabuloso? 0:01:49.480 --> 0:01:53.080 Okay, good, I am. I'm really amped about Sunday. 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:53.680 Why. 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:55.960 Each each of these games so far definitely have like 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:58.960 their own level of juice, But this one's different obviously, right, 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:01.040 and I'm I'm excited to get up there to San 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:02.000 Francisco and see this one. 0:02:02.040 --> 0:02:03.800 It's the biggest game you've covered so far. 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.200 You could say, which is big? You could say NFL 0:02:06.200 --> 0:02:08.120 game for sure, NFL game. Yeah, sure, it covered a 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.760 lot of really for sure game. But yeah, I'm really 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:11.680 excited about this one. 0:02:11.800 --> 0:02:12.280 Yeah. 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.919 What about from a from a team standpoint, is there 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:18.280 ever just a little bit of extra juice? A little 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:21.120 bit of extraor something something going into a week like 0:02:21.160 --> 0:02:23.080 this where you you know you got. 0:02:22.880 --> 0:02:23.720 To be laser focused. 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:25.760 Yeah, I think your senses are hiding, right, and all 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:28.280 your focus is hiding everything. Tension to detail, all that 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:31.120 stuff has to be on point. And like I said yesterday, 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:33.880 you know when you throw, you throw the element that 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:35.480 you've gotten punched in their mouth the last few times 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:37.320 you played them. I mean that that adds to it 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:40.040 as well. So you're really trying to manage emotions the 0:02:40.240 --> 0:02:43.360 entire week. But to your point, you know, as a player, 0:02:43.400 --> 0:02:44.880 you know what this means to your season. 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:45.799 You know this is. 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:48.520 A huge test that you want to pass, that you 0:02:48.560 --> 0:02:50.760 need to pass and shoot. 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:52.760 What better way to do it than on prime time. 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:55.360 I just think it's a huge game for the quarterback. 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:58.040 And I wrote today for The Athletic about how I 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.560 think the offense, whatever the Cowboys offense does, will tell 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:02.400 you what happens in this game, and that starts with 0:03:02.480 --> 0:03:05.119 Dak Prescott. When I was writing this, I went back 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:06.800 and I was like, let me go watch that last 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:10.320 press conference after the lost San Francisco in the playoffs 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:12.520 and how much he took on himself and you know, 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:15.000 blamed himself for a lot of the way the offense played, 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:17.639 how much they struggled and couldn't get you know, still 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.480 can't get past that second round. I just expect him 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:23.760 to be as motivated as he could potentially be for 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.720 a regular season game. I think that he knows all 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:30.079 eyes will be on him. I think that the Cowboys 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:33.000 haven't shown everything in their back on offense, and so 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:36.120 for for someone like him, like maybe it lends to 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:38.040 him running a little bit more in the red zone. 0:03:38.160 --> 0:03:42.520 Maybe just there's something a little extra for him. He's 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:45.280 the number one player that I'll be watching in this game. 0:03:45.440 --> 0:03:46.920 Like if I was going into a game, you know, 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:48.200 a lot of times, you know, your editor would be like, 0:03:48.200 --> 0:03:50.000 what are you thinking about his storyline? Stuff like that, 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:52.960 So you go in thinking one thing. Ninety nine percent 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:54.120 of the time that never ends up being what you 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:56.200 read about. But it would be for me, what does 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:58.680 four do? How does four play? You know, because there's 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:00.440 a part of me even if the let's say the 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:03.240 fort Enders one, but Dack played really well, it would 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:04.320 be interesting. 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.280 To see how that unfolded. I don't see that happening. 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:08.840 I really don't. I think if Dak plays well, Cowboys win. 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.840 Wow, So that's the key moving forward and it doesn't 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:14.640 help And you actually started your article with this on 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:18.960 the athletic is it was the final two offensive plays. 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:20.320 Are the most memorable ones of. 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:23.000 The losses in the Divisional round last year and the 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.480 wild Cart Round in twenty twenty one. Twenty one, it 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:27.920 was dack sliding and not getting back up to the 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:29.599 line of scrimmage and time running out and it was 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:32.039 just that whole debacle at at and T Stadium. And 0:04:32.040 --> 0:04:33.960 then last year in the divisional round it was the 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:37.159 Ezekiel Elliott getting run over while he was trying to 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:39.000 block on the weird play and then you got it 0:04:39.120 --> 0:04:41.080 to Cavant de Turpin and then he gets tackled before 0:04:41.080 --> 0:04:44.400 he could start pitching. Like it was all the oddness 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:46.920 at the end of those games that sticks out. Does 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.160 that add a little fuel to the fire from an 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:52.560 offensive standpoint, knowing that, hey, the last two games, one 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:54.640 we haven't held up our end of the bargain, but 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:58.040 two it's ended in a way that hasn't been great. 0:04:58.279 --> 0:04:58.719 It has to. 0:04:58.960 --> 0:05:01.400 I mean I wrote in the article for today that 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:03.920 if they win that game, Kelimore is still the oc 0:05:04.680 --> 0:05:06.960 I really don't care what anybody wants argue on that, 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:08.800 there's no way they gets the NFC Championship game, and 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:11.240 they're like, yeah, first time twenty seven years, But let's 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:13.719 go in an other direction offense, because also to have 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:15.400 won that game, there would have had to have been 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:18.240 some big offensive possessions late. And so if they got 0:05:18.279 --> 0:05:20.240 past that, who knows, maybe they beat the Eagles, maybe 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:21.640 they don't. But if they get past that, I find 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:23.800 it very ARDU believe that they go in the offseason like, yeah, 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:25.880 something just absolutely has to change here. I think that 0:05:25.920 --> 0:05:27.520 the momentum would be I think we're headed in the 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.080 right direction. We finally got past forty nine ers, we 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.880 came up with these big possessions late. Who knows, maybe 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:36.240 Ezekiel Elliott still here too, you don't know. But the 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.120 way that that offense played, I think led to some 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:41.080 of these changes. And Clarence Hill asked Mike McCarthy about 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:42.560 it the other day, and of course he said, no, 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:44.160 it's not going to come down to one game like that. 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.599 But he can say that, But I look at that season, 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:49.880 I find it hard to believe that wasn't the start 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:51.880 of what ended up being some offensive changes. 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:53.000 It may not have come. 0:05:52.839 --> 0:05:55.080 Down to one game like that, but it was certainly 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.440 the final nail in the coffin. I mean, it was 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:01.679 something that had really caught there as the season went along. 0:06:01.720 --> 0:06:03.720 And then if that game, like you said, if they 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:05.120 get over the hump in that game, then all of 0:06:05.160 --> 0:06:07.120 a sudden, that Creshindo dies right back down and it 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:08.600 goes right back down to neutral. 0:06:08.839 --> 0:06:10.440 And I think I agree with you. 0:06:10.480 --> 0:06:12.960 Actually, I think that's what the decision had to be 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:14.720 made if you win that game. 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:16.159 But of course you saw. 0:06:16.040 --> 0:06:18.719 Some of the similar things that had gone wrong throughout 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:20.880 the season in that forty nine Ers loss in the 0:06:20.880 --> 0:06:24.159 divisional round, and that's what led ultimately to the moving 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.799 on of Kellum Moore. Now, defensive side of the football 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:29.880 is what we're looking at today, So we're previewing the 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:33.000 Cowboys defense versus the forty nine Ers offense. Before we 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:34.880 do that, I want to get into some news and notes. 0:06:34.880 --> 0:06:37.120 Anything crazy come out of yesterday. 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.080 Yeah, So we didn't get a ton of time to 0:06:39.120 --> 0:06:41.599 talk yesterday about just a couple of things that happened 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:43.600 on Monday and Tuesday. So I have three things, one 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:45.719 of them quick, two of them more conversational. We'll start 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.120 with the quick one, Jerry Jones saying, yesterday, I'm the 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:51.160 fan that Tyron Smith is quote unquote if he for Sunday. 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.200 I don't think it's any different than what Mike McCarthy 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:57.240 has communicated to us on Monday as well. How big 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.240 is it in y'all's mind if Tyron can't go? 0:07:00.120 --> 0:07:04.239 It's major? Major? Right, yes? Major? Why why so major? 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:05.440 Against this defensive front? 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:08.240 The physicality. I mean, you know we talked about it. 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:10.920 We can't weak out. I mean obviously last week I 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:12.640 thought it was gonna be a problem, But this week, 0:07:12.680 --> 0:07:14.200 you know it's going to be a problem. 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:15.480 It's not even a question. 0:07:15.600 --> 0:07:17.880 So you want, you want your best guys out there, 0:07:17.920 --> 0:07:19.160 but you don't want your best guys out there if 0:07:19.160 --> 0:07:21.760 they're not one hundredercent healthy. So you know, chew many 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:22.760 doga strap them up. 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.680 Let's chew mydoga versus Matthew Judon last week, and he 0:07:26.680 --> 0:07:28.880 held his own I thought he did a decent job. 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.520 And I mean, of course, by that point Dallas had 0:07:31.560 --> 0:07:33.760 already really taken the lead and put that thing on 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:34.800 cruise control. 0:07:35.200 --> 0:07:37.120 However, this week it's. 0:07:36.760 --> 0:07:40.600 Not Matthew Judon on the opposite side, it's it's Nick Bosa, 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:42.480 So yeah, things get crazy there. 0:07:42.640 --> 0:07:44.840 Yeah, and he's gonna he's gonna do his best job 0:07:44.880 --> 0:07:45.880 to wreck this game. 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:47.240 And there'll be plays. 0:07:47.240 --> 0:07:49.600 I do believe that he will wreck the game to 0:07:49.640 --> 0:07:51.240 a certain extent, just like I believe they'll be plays. 0:07:51.280 --> 0:07:54.920 And Mike Parsons are the same. And that's because I 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:57.680 don't know how many possessions they'll have. There's going to 0:07:57.720 --> 0:08:00.280 be a handful of them that are don't go very far. 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.600 Three four plays boom out like they're just not gonna 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:05.160 be these what we've seen so far, long ten play 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:06.000 drives differ. 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:08.160 And I mean, well, I don't think there will be. 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:09.520 If there are, that will be amazing. 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:11.400 I will be stunned if they're putting together four or 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:13.920 five ten plus play drives against this defense. But what 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:17.240 will happen is when Nick Posa does get through, it 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.240 can't turn into a SEC fumble, it can't turn into 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.280 an interception. It's got to turn into Okay, live to 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.760 play another down, punt the ball. But there will be 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:27.000 that There are gonna be two or three series where 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:28.960 you have a chance to score on and this Cowboys 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:30.600 offense is gonna have to get seven on those. They 0:08:30.600 --> 0:08:33.320 can't settle for field goals. So yeah, it's gonna be 0:08:33.440 --> 0:08:35.719 it's gonna be tough. But I still feel that way 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.520 to a certain extent. Even if less than a hundred 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:40.840 percent Tyron Smith plays, I would prefer that, but I 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:42.880 still think that they're gonna have their hands full regardless. 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:46.280 It's funny because if he does play, it'll be the 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:48.559 first time the Cowboys have had all five of their 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:52.440 best starting offensive lineman playing since that twenty twenty one 0:08:52.679 --> 0:08:55.199 wild Card game against the forty nine Ers. That was 0:08:55.200 --> 0:08:58.480 the last time their five best offensive linemen were ready 0:08:58.559 --> 0:08:59.400 to go in a game. 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:00.000 It's a long time. 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:01.439 It's a long time with. 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:03.440 Some row games. Something like that. 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:04.840 Yeah, something like that right away. 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.280 Crazy next point, We've talked about this a little bit. 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.920 We haven't talked about it since preseason, I think, but 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:14.600 yesterday Jerry Jones was asked about Ceedee Lamb's contract and 0:09:15.200 --> 0:09:18.600 if they continue those talks during the season. Jerry said, 0:09:18.640 --> 0:09:21.800 it's there. As you know, all of our players have representations, 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.440 so those conversations could be going on. They might not 0:09:24.559 --> 0:09:27.040 be going on right now. Frankly, our minds are on 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.360 going to play San Francisco, And then later on he said, 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.840 I'm noodling it all the time. And when I say noodle, 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.480 when I noodle something relative to the Cowboys and has 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.199 a good chance of having action on it, his contract 0:09:37.240 --> 0:09:39.560 is in my thoughts. But in a manner of speaking, 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.680 all of them are so rob and noodles or Jerry Jones, 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:44.600 who wins in the chick beef. 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:47.000 That's a pretty good spicy romen last night. 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:48.000 Courtesy of Barry Church. 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:53.319 Actually, yeah, it was good. Have you ever noodled before, Isaiah. 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:56.800 In this conversation? You don't like that. I don't like that, 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:58.120 not one. 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.680 I mean, whenever you write something down and does it 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:04.560 usually come true, like Jerry Jones trying to write down 0:10:04.840 --> 0:10:07.559 he should get Cede Lamb locked up in the future. 0:10:07.559 --> 0:10:09.200 I mean, we all know CD is gonna get done. 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:10.959 I mean, we just don't know when it's gonna happen. 0:10:11.840 --> 0:10:13.439 A lot of money that's about to get dished out, 0:10:13.960 --> 0:10:14.760 a ton of money. 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:16.440 Let's talk about it. 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.360 So CD Mica, of course, I mean those are the 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:19.800 first two. 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:20.480 You've already gotten. 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:23.079 Trayvon done, potentially Pollard. 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:26.360 Pollard maybe, Yeah, he's on the franchise tag. 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.680 He's doing else. If he keeps this pace going all season, 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:31.560 what act, what do you do? 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:35.600 Oh yeah, dak dak extension. Yeah, that would happen again. 0:10:36.160 --> 0:10:38.520 Would you think if if Pollard keeps this pace up, 0:10:38.520 --> 0:10:42.560 would you you saying sign a long term two year Yeah? Yeah, 0:10:42.640 --> 0:10:44.800 I'll probably give him two years and be okay with 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:48.360 it too. I'm trying to think of anybody else on 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:49.240 that defensive side. 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:50.800 Oh, I keep thinking about it. 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.120 Is just I'm trying to and I know there's gonna 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:55.199 be some obvious one that people point out. Maybe you 0:10:55.200 --> 0:10:57.680 guys will think of it, But who's like the big 0:10:57.720 --> 0:11:00.960 time Cowboys got a contract extension done during the Sea m. 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:02.880 I don't. 0:11:02.920 --> 0:11:04.839 I mean, I think back to Romo's last extension. I 0:11:04.840 --> 0:11:08.160 remember they really had like the I remember it being 0:11:08.200 --> 0:11:11.000 in March because it was like the Sweet sixteen and 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:12.839 Elite eight were out at and T Stadium, and I 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:14.439 remember it was just kind of announced, they had a 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:15.320 press release and everything. 0:11:15.400 --> 0:11:16.240 They just got done. 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:21.360 You know, I'm thinking dak as seek Jalen smith Le 0:11:21.559 --> 0:11:23.760 counting that none of them are during the season, So, 0:11:24.000 --> 0:11:25.520 I mean, Jerry's asked that, so he's not gonna sit 0:11:25.520 --> 0:11:27.839 there and say no, no, no, we're table and talks, because hey, 0:11:27.880 --> 0:11:30.160 if we're playing the two sides get together and they 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:32.080 can work something out, then yeah they do it. 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:33.439 But I just really can't. 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:35.120 No one jumps out to me as being someone that 0:11:35.200 --> 0:11:37.040 got done during the season with the Cowboys. 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:38.839 You know, maybe we'll open that up to the text 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:40.800 line if anybody can think of one that happened in 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:44.560 season eight one seven, two nine zero three two nine eight, 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:46.360 I'll hop on there and see if anybody else. 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:47.160 But I'm right there with you. 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:50.040 I don't think I know of one big name Cowboy 0:11:50.080 --> 0:11:53.280 that happened at any point the season. It was either preseason, 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:55.679 training camp or complete offseason. 0:11:55.760 --> 0:11:57.480 Yeah, so interesting. 0:11:58.240 --> 0:11:59.000 What else for new was. 0:11:59.000 --> 0:12:02.280 In those last point? Dan Quinn opened his press conference 0:12:02.280 --> 0:12:05.440 on Monday or his availability rather talking about how last 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:07.960 week he stood up on the podium saying that that 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:11.160 wasn't us, you know, very uncharacteristic of us, and everyone 0:12:11.240 --> 0:12:14.120 knew it. And he opened with last week I set 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.000 up here and was discouraged about her performance and said 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:19.080 that wasn't us yesterday. That was us talking about Sunday. 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:21.520 The energy, the hitting, the ball hawking, that is us, 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.080 and that felt like that felt more like our style 0:12:24.160 --> 0:12:26.960 and attitude. My question out of this for you guys 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:29.000 is what does the defense seem to do on Sunday 0:12:29.360 --> 0:12:32.400 to win this game? If the offense does not play well, 0:12:32.440 --> 0:12:33.600 how can the defense win this game? 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.880 I guess it's gotta be takeaways, right, absolutely, it would 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.280 have to be multiple takeaways against this. 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:42.880 Front, against the scene that doesn't turn the ball over. 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:45.360 Isaiah doesn't have words. 0:12:45.440 --> 0:12:48.360 Yeah, it's tough, man, This is a tough team. These 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:49.280 guys are freaking tough. 0:12:49.640 --> 0:12:51.320 Well tell me about him. Why are they so tough? 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.080 They just do things the right way. It's hard to 0:12:54.120 --> 0:12:55.839 tell what they're doing from play to play. A lot 0:12:55.840 --> 0:12:57.840 of their stuff looks exactly the same, but it's different. 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:00.679 They have a ton of personnel. It doesn't matter who 0:13:00.720 --> 0:13:03.760 gets the ball. I mean, heck, they elevated Willie Snead 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:05.599 last week. Like, who the heck has Willy Sneen on 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:06.400 their practice squad? 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:07.160 You know? 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.920 But like they just have guys, you know, and everybody 0:13:10.000 --> 0:13:11.720 make a play and they don't care who gets the ball. 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.240 Dee Bow, you know, it doesn't matter if it's Kiddle, 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.880 doesn't matter, if it's McCaffrey, doesn't matter if it's Brandon eye, 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.120 you doesn't matter. If it doesn't matter, they just go 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:21.720 down the line. And again their offensive scheme, They'll come 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:24.240 out in heavy sets all day long and just run 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:28.200 the ball down down your face. You know, a lot 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:31.200 of options in terms of their running scheme because of 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:34.240 how they block it up. It's not their ball, their 0:13:34.280 --> 0:13:37.440 their players aren't meant to necessarily go one direction. Like, yeah, 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:39.640 they might have a it might be mapped out to 0:13:39.640 --> 0:13:41.760 go one direction, but they have like three different lanes 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.400 that they can go through because of how they're motioning 0:13:44.480 --> 0:13:48.120 and putting guys in position, and you just always it 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:50.760 almost feels like no matter where you line up at 0:13:51.040 --> 0:13:52.000 like they want you there. 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:54.560 You know what I'm saying. It's almost like do am I. 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:56.400 Supposed to be sitting outside right now? Or do they 0:13:56.400 --> 0:14:00.000 want me outside? I'm not really sure. It's just it's tough, man, 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.319 and so you've got to be very disciplined. You're gonna 0:14:02.360 --> 0:14:05.120 have to, you know, be physical and hopefully you can 0:14:05.440 --> 0:14:07.240 force some turnovers, you know. But like it's like you 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:08.800 guys mentioned, they don't they do a pretty dog on 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:10.600 a good job of that. I think you're going to 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:12.360 have to try to find a way to get ahead 0:14:12.360 --> 0:14:14.360 of them and try to put the ball in Brock 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:17.320 Pertty's hands. I mean, I think that's really your biggest 0:14:17.360 --> 0:14:20.000 hope is to get them out of their running game 0:14:20.320 --> 0:14:23.120 as much as possible, because if they feel confident they 0:14:23.120 --> 0:14:25.560 can run the ball and you know, three downs in 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:28.960 a row and keep getting first downs, nobody can beat them. 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:29.240 Kids. 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:32.040 Yeah, for the offense, like I think it comes down, 0:14:32.080 --> 0:14:34.760 like I said, the Cowboys offense, So for the small 0:14:34.840 --> 0:14:37.360 chance that they aren't that big of a factor, like 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:39.720 they really weren't really in the three wins. It's really 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.080 been just a dominant defense. It's led to these blowouts. 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.000 But so the only way I see it happen it 0:14:44.000 --> 0:14:45.760 would be just like those three blowouts. You have to 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.120 talk about at the end of the game, that somehow 0:14:48.120 --> 0:14:50.400 they force the Niners to turnover at least three or 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.120 four times, Like I don't even think winning the turnover 0:14:52.160 --> 0:14:54.240 battle two nothing gets it done if the offense doesn't 0:14:54.240 --> 0:14:56.960 show up like you're gonna have to three four, you know, 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:58.359 scoop and score. 0:14:58.120 --> 0:14:59.200 Type stuff that I'm not. 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.920 I mean, it's pos but this forty nine Ers team 0:15:02.120 --> 0:15:04.240 just is not the type that you really pull that 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:07.040 off against I guess unless you know you got ahead 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:10.400 of them, and then yeah, prettys to throw. But even 0:15:10.440 --> 0:15:11.760 if you do get ahead of them, it's probably going 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:13.480 to be your offense has to play pretty well too. 0:15:13.560 --> 0:15:16.080 So it was interesting. I was looking up yesterday and 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:19.560 of course all of the PFF grades rained down and 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:21.040 we talked about it on. 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.280 The show before. PFF is not the go to be 0:15:23.400 --> 0:15:25.800 all indall in terms of your evaluation of players. 0:15:26.240 --> 0:15:29.440 But out of their top eight grades in the NFL, 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.600 across the league, their top eight grades, five of them 0:15:32.640 --> 0:15:35.320 belonging to the Cowboys or the forty nine ers. It 0:15:35.360 --> 0:15:38.040 was Tyler Smith as the top highest graded player. Brandon 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:42.840 Ayuk was second, Christian McCaffrey was fifth, Trent Williams was seventh, 0:15:42.880 --> 0:15:44.080 and Dak Prescott was eighth. 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:46.720 So those just offensive players are both just offensive players. 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.600 Yeah, so talking about both sides, and that goes back 0:15:49.600 --> 0:15:53.080 to Brandon to almost said branded as in Brandon Ayuk. 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.600 To Isaiah's point is you got Brandon Ayuk, but you 0:15:56.600 --> 0:15:59.000 also have Christian McCaffrey, you also have Trent Williams. 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:01.240 They were three of the top seven been graded PF 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:03.320 only offense. It is only off. 0:16:03.360 --> 0:16:05.640 Okay, yeah, only off. 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:08.960 Most of those guys, none of them should be a 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:09.960 great iron Mike hal Parson. 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:12.360