WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Happy Thanksgiving? 0:00:07.200 --> 0:00:09.719 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:18.360 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This he's Talking 0:00:18.520 --> 0:00:22.960 Cowboys training live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at 0:00:22.960 --> 0:00:30.200 the Star in Friswing. The sack Bowles got back today 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:36.599 and now your hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips, 0:00:36.800 --> 0:00:41.879 and Kyle Yeomans. It is a wonderful Say it with 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:47.160 your chest Wednesday here on Talking Cowboys, presented by Tostido's 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:51.720 helping fans get in on the game. It is Wednesday. 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:55.800 We are in our final show prior to Thanksgiving, and 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:58.520 we've got a couple days off after this. But guess what, 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.279 We've got a game to talk about tomorrow. It is 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:04.080 that quick of a turnaround. It just doesn't seem real. 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:06.920 It really doesn't feel like we just started this. I'm 0:01:06.920 --> 0:01:08.600 waiting on a heck, but ask, I'm just waiting for 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:11.200 the eyes to go first. I wait, morning, I was 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:15.000 waiting for the news I'm giving him wait, wait, what's 0:01:15.000 --> 0:01:21.920 he gonna guine? So anxious today I just went right 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:28.280 around that was happening. I was waiting for it. Come on, 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.319 it's the Cowboys and the Raiders. Thanksgiving matchup at AT 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:34.760 and T Stadium, And before we get into previewing the 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:39.760 Cowboys offense versus the Raiders defense, ready said News and 0:01:39.840 --> 0:01:42.120 notes from Rob Phillips, Well, go ahead, you asked me, 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:45.319 what do you what? You one percentages of what? Just 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:47.960 come on with it? Be? You know, why do you 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:50.280 do what? The people that be? You know, I don't 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:53.640 hold back anything. Ever, what do you want him to 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:58.680 tell you? I want to know Tyren Smith act, helmet, 0:01:58.720 --> 0:02:02.840 shoulder pads clean, it's ready to go tomorrow. Sounds pretty good, 0:02:03.360 --> 0:02:06.840 sounds pretty good, pretty And I don't have a percentage. 0:02:07.480 --> 0:02:10.720 What was what was yesterday's practice? He was full in 0:02:10.880 --> 0:02:15.160 a big and all through run through. Okay, so they 0:02:15.360 --> 0:02:24.720 ran he was yogging yeah, yeah, So that's very encouraging, dud. 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:28.560 I Am I gonna guarantee he's gonna play after last week? No, 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:30.920 but I'm gonna go with what Steven Jones said and 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:34.600 if if barring a setback, they think he'll be available. 0:02:34.639 --> 0:02:37.760 So I think that's very encouraging. It's very encouraging. He's 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:41.600 yogging around enough, I mean, Steve and Jones said it. 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:44.959 But you gotta understand that that p is in like 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.040 fabric in like and he's not. He's holding back and 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:51.640 people out there America, I just don't want to be wrong, 0:02:51.800 --> 0:02:54.160 all right. I learned that from I was telling you don't. 0:02:54.400 --> 0:02:56.680 If you don't, if you don't guarantee something, you can't 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:59.840 be wrong. That's that's why he doesn't guarantee anything for 0:02:59.880 --> 0:03:02.760 the most part. Just know that I asked the people 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:05.000 across the pond when I was talking to them yesterday 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.480 to turn on their notifications on Twitter for rab Pie, 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:10.919 all the things crappy news. I'm saying. No, I'm saying 0:03:11.080 --> 0:03:12.919 I just wanted them to know, Hey, this is where 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:15.560 your new sources. I appreciate that, all right, so they 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:18.400 know they understand turning your notifications on ladies and gentlemen. 0:03:18.440 --> 0:03:21.040 It sounds as of this morning, it sounds good that 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.320 you'll be able to play at think I think we 0:03:23.360 --> 0:03:26.120 need haven't heard of any setbacks at this point we 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:33.040 need them. Heck, what is your favorite Thanksgiving side? O man? Everything? Um, sweopotatoes, 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.800 sweet PoTA. So are you are you gonna be able 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.320 to just let put in all the work I put in, 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:43.440 all the deser I put in all the work, Isaiah, 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:47.920 and tomorrow it will be unadulterated spoonage. So now I'm 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:59.480 now I'm my god. Now I'm just imagining on Thanksgiving. Yeah, 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:03.120 that was a big spoonful of sweet potatoes. And then 0:04:03.200 --> 0:04:05.640 just looks at his phone and sees Rob Phillips no 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.240 Twitter notification pop up, and he just spit takes it all. No, 0:04:08.320 --> 0:04:09.800 I'm not gonna do that. I got a question, free 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:14.640 sweet potatoes, marshmallows or no marshmallows. Definitely marsh really gotta hell, yes, 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:17.960 you gotta have the marshmallows on it. Really, you marshmallow guy. 0:04:18.400 --> 0:04:19.960 We didn't do it. I thought you were looking for 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.400 some in the store. Is that Kyle couldn't find. No, 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:25.800 I thought it was I was telling them you can't 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.279 find That's what it was. Yeah, yeah, I guess people buying, 0:04:29.720 --> 0:04:31.360 you know, and I have I don't even thinking against it. 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:32.800 I just never did it. You know. My wife is 0:04:32.800 --> 0:04:36.760 from Akarin, Ohio, and they didn't put marshmallows on this either. 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.480 So I think it's a cultural Southern thing. Maybe some 0:04:39.560 --> 0:04:41.839 people put marshmallows, some people put like was it like 0:04:42.160 --> 0:04:44.560 is it becomes Oh no, don't do that, Wow, don't 0:04:44.600 --> 0:04:46.320 do that. I never don't do that. I've seen I 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:49.159 mean i've seen it. Yeah, No, that's probably a watch 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.760 not becas bro I don't do it. I don't make 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:53.320 the sweet potatoes in my house. I can, but I 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:56.080 don't care. You call dressing dressing or stuffing. I don't 0:04:56.320 --> 0:04:59.479 do dressing dressing. I call it dressing, but I don't 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.720 like it. I groups stuff is stuffing. Yes, I definitely 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:08.520 had that word thrown around my household. Stuffing, stuff stuff stuffing. 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:17.400 We had stuffing. He's your strong handwagon too, baby. All right, 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:20.400 we are off the rails early on. You're with us 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:23.839 here on this Wednesday. Is your favorite side? Oh it's 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:28.239 heavy Green being Castle? Yeah, I love Green Being Castle. 0:05:28.360 --> 0:05:32.960 You want to just do the show just right here? Sorry? Sorry, Hey, 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.400 Traymon Diggs is in the top two of Pro Bowl voting. 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.120 How about that? That's good at the cornerback position. Back 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:42.480 to news and notes. There you go, stuffing, stuffing, He's 0:05:42.480 --> 0:05:47.400 stuff in that ballot box. Any anything else from yesterday's 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:50.640 practice stick count well ceedee. Lamb did not participate in 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:55.440 that run through practice. They say he's making progress. Yeah, 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:58.599 I'm not. I'm not sure about day at this point. Yeah, 0:05:58.640 --> 0:06:01.760 we'll see. You had another day, and Zeke was full 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:04.440 as well. So that's good Tyring and Zeke seeing them 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:06.880 upgraded to full. I think's encouraging for both guys. Do 0:06:06.920 --> 0:06:10.159 you think that Zeke it's a it's a is it 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:12.839 a knee? Is it a side? And he basically said 0:06:12.880 --> 0:06:15.240 it only hurts when he falls, was his quote earlier 0:06:15.279 --> 0:06:17.640 in the week. So is this a thing that you 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:20.240 would consider resting him for to let him play through? 0:06:20.279 --> 0:06:23.800 Its occupational hazard? Right there? Right, it's my understanding, that's 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:26.159 a contusion. It's a it's a bruise, so it's a 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.680 it's a pain tolerance thing, and Zeke ain't gonna sit 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.720 out from pain tolerance. So it's kind of what I figured. Yeah, 0:06:31.720 --> 0:06:33.440 I just wanted to hear it from you as well. 0:06:33.480 --> 0:06:37.320 But then, uh, what was the Oh, Michael Parsons had 0:06:37.320 --> 0:06:40.279 a fantastic quote yesterday too. I'm sure you guys saw that. 0:06:40.320 --> 0:06:42.600 You'd get a chance to see that about the rookie 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:44.920 wall Rob. You were there for that that interview. What 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:47.320 was the what was the quote? That's my favorite quote 0:06:47.320 --> 0:06:49.400 from Michael yet, and that's saying something because he's got 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:53.160 some great ones. He said, everybody talks about the rookie wall. 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.240 But I'm just gonna keep climbing over it, climbing and 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.440 climbing because I'm excited to see on what's on the 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:01.920 other side. Does that make you want to run through 0:07:01.920 --> 0:07:05.000 the wall? Makes me want to run through the wall? 0:07:05.880 --> 0:07:12.560 Zooka on the shoulder, Man, this is uh. I'm just 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:15.960 excited about him. I mean I can't. I don't know 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:18.400 how Dan Quinn each and every week is gonna use him. 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:20.880 So when when the game starts, he's just like, Okay, 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:23.360 he's at edge, He's he's a free safety. You know, 0:07:23.560 --> 0:07:29.080 he's he's at cornerback. Oh my god, he's playing running back. Wait, 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.920 you know where can't Yeah, where can't this guy play? 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.840 Where can he play? What can't he do? I mean, 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:37.640 we have a special athlete, and I think we've been 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:39.920 down playing it over the year, over the this season 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:42.960 because he's just showing so many different things. But you know, 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.160 specially when you see it man, and just some of 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:47.480 the things that he brings to the table for us 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.680 and the missing pieces that we have with guys that 0:07:50.720 --> 0:07:54.280 are out. Micah is just filling in that void. Uh. Man, 0:07:54.360 --> 0:07:57.880 It's just I'm glad he's a cowboy no doubt, Isaiah, 0:07:57.920 --> 0:08:00.240 I know you're glad as well. Yeah, I mean he's special, 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:04.440 he said. He he's different. He's different, and some guys 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:08.000 are built different physically, and some guys are built different mentally, 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:10.680 and then the really special guys are built differently on 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:12.920 both ends of that. And I think that he is that. 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:16.520 I think that he welcomes adversity. I think he welcomes challenges. 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:18.920 He welcomes people telling him what he can't do and 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:22.360 what the what the normal is. He likes defying those things. 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:26.080 And there's those there are those players like Thomas Brady 0:08:26.120 --> 0:08:27.880 who has that type of mentality he wants to defy 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:30.840 all odds. And then you have guys who have the 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:33.160 physical ability as well, and you pair both of those 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:35.240 things up and it's that that's what you call a 0:08:35.240 --> 0:08:39.000 physical and mental specimen. There's a tweet from ESPN Stats 0:08:39.000 --> 0:08:41.160 and Information this morning. He's on pace for one hundred 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.360 and five tackles in thirteen and a half sacks, So 0:08:43.400 --> 0:08:47.200 it's it's over seventeen games instead of sixteen. But the 0:08:47.280 --> 0:08:49.680 last player to hit both of those marks in a 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:54.240 season was Bruce Smith. That's company right there. Yeah, I 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:55.920 can as your question because I had a question about this. 0:08:56.000 --> 0:08:57.920 When the league changed, the game, changed the seasons to 0:08:58.000 --> 0:09:03.480 seventeen games, how are records going to be analyzed? Now? 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.600 Great question, there's no asterist. I don't think so, there's 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:08.120 no as I mean, can you think about a league 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:10.760 that didn't even count sacks for a certain period of times? 0:09:11.080 --> 0:09:14.200 It's they haven't changed that either. So so somebody goes 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.520 out and breaks to the all time sack record in 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.840 seventeen games, but they wouldn't have done it in sixteen games. 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:21.880 They now become the doubt league best ever in that position, 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:23.600 you know what I mean? Like that point, Yeah, you 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:25.600 got to kind of take it per game, I guess 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:29.120 if you really wanted. I mean, how do they do that? Right? Like, 0:09:29.600 --> 0:09:32.760 it's really the only way Emmett Smith's record could be touched, 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:36.360 the fact that there's an extra game or Jerry Rice Jr. 0:09:37.120 --> 0:09:40.960 Touched Yeah, yeah, extra. I wondered about the game making 0:09:41.040 --> 0:09:42.600 it a year. I'm like, that's kind of unfair to 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:46.200 guys from the past, just shows how great they are. True, 0:09:46.280 --> 0:09:48.800 that's true, that's true, but but the take but for 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.880 there to be potentially having their their throne taking away 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.160 from them knowing that it only happened because of an 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:56.520 additional game. I feel like that's wrong. There were guys 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:59.199 that had their records taken from them whenever they pushed 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.319 it to a sixteen game game season two, because it's 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:04.040 not always been a sixteen game season at the same time, 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.280 so you can say the same thing previously. Oh yeah, 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:09.760 it was fourteen until the eighties. Yeah, so you could 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:11.720 say the same thing. Every time you expand the schedule, 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:13.720 the records are going to start falling. And maybe that's 0:10:13.760 --> 0:10:17.000 part of it. Yes, it's a part of the expansion there, 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.760 and sure, I mean the capital side of it is 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:24.200 certainly the driving force, but also the entertainment of trying 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:27.640 to break some more. And that's brought up something else. 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:29.040 I was thinking about what I would like to see 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:32.200 next year. Maybe the competition committee could get to this 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.560 two bye weeks. That's gonna bother some people, but I 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:38.600 think for the health, I think for the health of teams, 0:10:38.760 --> 0:10:41.520 you have to include another bye week if you're gonna 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:44.040 go seventeen games. Yeah, I just think you could tell 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:46.120 right now with the way that teams are beat up, 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:48.640 are the way that teams are having to hold certain 0:10:48.760 --> 0:10:51.400 guys back knowing that you have seventeen instead of sixteen, 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:54.800 it would only make sense. And what if it extends 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:59.120 the football season out until after Valentine's Day, I think 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:03.520 we'll be okay on cbas the only way that's gonna 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:04.920 go down to there. Okay, we'll do that. If you 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:08.880 want up twenty games, YEA, twenty games. Yeah, I'm just 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:12.240 telling you how it's gonna gon gonna add another game. 0:11:12.280 --> 0:11:14.960 If you're gonna have three games, we're headed eighteen games, 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:16.920 so it's going to add So I think I don't 0:11:16.960 --> 0:11:18.680 know this, but I assume the PA would push for 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:21.560 that because I think that's eighteen games twenty weeks is 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:25.679 what it's probably gonna end up. Agree weeks. A lot 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:28.520 it depends on the scheduling, but yes, yeah, a lot 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:31.280 of those are stacked stacked up in the first week 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.079 of the season, last week of the season, so that way, 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:35.520 it kind of it's it's a weird start date in 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:38.800 terms of college but it depends, and there's always three 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.199 weeks in between a bowl game, so yeah, right, you 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.720 got a lot of time. All right, let's talk about 0:11:43.720 --> 0:11:49.120 the Las Vegas defense and this Cowboys offense. Vegas Raiders 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.640 on defense the highest rated pass rush as a team 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:55.720 according to Pro Football Focus entering the week. A bigger 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:59.680 reason for that Max Crosby, Yanna King, Douay, both of 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.640 them off of the edge, really big players. He got 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:05.040 kJ right at the second level. He's been playing decent. 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.880 So they have some guys in the front seven, the 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:11.040 secondary a bit depleted. They of course lost their first 0:12:11.120 --> 0:12:14.520 round pick from two seasons ago, two drafts ago. I 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:17.240 should say, Damon Arnette. He is no longer with the team, 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.320 and so they are a bit thin out there, and 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.800 well they get after the quarterback. But that's about it. Gentlemen, 0:12:23.080 --> 0:12:24.720 what do you what do you see from this this 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:28.600 Vegas defense? They scare me. I'm not even gonna lie. 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:32.559 They scare me. You clip that too, yeah, clip that 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:36.760 they do. They scare me. I don't like it. We 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.600 saw with what one man playing with his hair and 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:42.959 fire could do. Chris Jones. Chris Jones. Now they have two. 0:12:43.160 --> 0:12:45.600 These guys have two and they're on they're on the edges, 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.559 and there's another strong guy sitting in the middle of 0:12:48.600 --> 0:12:50.640 their defense at the second level. If you decide to 0:12:50.640 --> 0:12:52.480 go up the middle, he's waiting on you as well. 0:12:52.760 --> 0:12:55.520 Their secondary I agree their secondary is depleted, but gauess 0:12:55.559 --> 0:13:00.360 what our receiving chore is depleted? Depleted. So I don't 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:03.080 like that. I don't. I don't like it. I'm just 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:04.760 telling y'all straight up. I don't like it. I don't. 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:06.400 I don't have a little feeling in my gut that 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:08.679 makes me feel a little in the bubble gubbles, the 0:13:08.679 --> 0:13:10.600 bubble guts. I knew the bubble guts on a Wednesday. 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:14.520 Look at how we've struggled in past blocking, okay, and 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:18.520 look at what they do best past rushing, past rushing. Weird. 0:13:18.840 --> 0:13:20.959 Their weak spot, which we would like to expose, is 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:26.760 their secondary. We're down our top two guys possibly put 0:13:26.760 --> 0:13:31.439 that in quotations. Yeah, with CD. So we have to 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.679 get a ground game. To get a ground game, I'm 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:35.360 not saying I think that. I think Kellen Moore is 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:37.560 smart enough to scheme up some stuff and get this 0:13:37.640 --> 0:13:40.080 taken care of. But I do believe that if we 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:44.400 go into this game dropping the balls and being inefficient 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.720 and effective with our passing accuracy and things of that 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:48.920 nature like we did last week, there this could be 0:13:48.960 --> 0:13:53.040 a problem. What do you think, Well, well, it looks 0:13:53.679 --> 0:13:55.760 I've been watching the tape just like you guys have. 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:59.439 And yeah, it's a it's a good news bad news scenario, 0:14:00.440 --> 0:14:02.840 and like most people, you want the bad news first. 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.600 The bad news is is that they're gonna play you 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.760 exactly like everybody else's playing you because of the league 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:11.760 bids such a copycat league. They are going to put 0:14:11.800 --> 0:14:13.280 a lot of guys in the box and they are 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:16.360 going to dare Dak to beat them. I think at 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:18.840 this point in Dak's career that is a welcome challenge. 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.880 Even though he saw that from Atlanta, he has the 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:25.000 potential with all of his arsenal of weapons there to 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:28.600 expose that because people can't do that when you have 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:32.480 Amari CD and Gallup it's just hard to do it. 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.680 But when you're handicapped like we are that you watch 0:14:35.720 --> 0:14:40.120 the Raiders, they crowd the line of scrimmage, Max Crosby 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:43.720 and Dockway man, it's going to be a challenge for 0:14:43.800 --> 0:14:45.760 us on the outside, and that's why Tyren Smith is 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:49.160 so important. But the good news, the good news is 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:52.840 is that Kellen Moore, like you just mentioned, can be 0:14:53.040 --> 0:14:55.760 in his bag in a game like this to show 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:59.880 exactly how he's gonna get other pieces involved in this offense. 0:15:00.040 --> 0:15:03.240 I think that the Raiders are going to dare Dalton 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:06.600 Schultz to beat them because they don't. They're gonna press 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.000 so much on the outside and line so close up 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.120 on the line of scrimmage that they are going to 0:15:11.160 --> 0:15:14.000 allow him to be in one on one situations. And 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.160 I think that's where the nerve can be exposed and 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.680 that's where we can make some way. But as far 0:15:18.680 --> 0:15:21.560 as our running game is concerned, this is a big, big, 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:24.240 big time game for a Pollard in seek and that's 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.240 actually what happened in the Chiefs game. But there's a 0:15:26.280 --> 0:15:28.600 lot of open space for Scholtz in that that game. 0:15:28.920 --> 0:15:30.840 I'm with you, like I think it's I think there's 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:33.720 it's a good matchup, and it's not a good matchup 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:37.720 for the reasons you guys mentioned, Like you watch that 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:41.960 Bengals game with in Dockway and Crosby and they had 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:43.800 like a you know, first third down it was a 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:47.480 Burrow sandwich. They just met at the quarterback. And that's 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.240 if I don't want to call it a blueprint because 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:53.200 I think it's still too early say oh, Cowboys can't, can't, 0:15:53.240 --> 0:15:56.160 can't beat this, But the Chiefs are known for blitzing. 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:58.560 They didn't have to blitz in that game. Nope. And 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:00.920 the Denver Broncos didn't have to blitz in that game, 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:05.640 and so can the Cowboys protection hold. You know, is 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.360 Dad gonna be enough in rhythm to make the throws 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:11.480 he needs to make, whether CD plays or not, that's 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.520 the question. And yeah, Tyrn being back would would absolutely 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:17.400 certainly help. But that's what it comes down to, I 0:16:17.480 --> 0:16:20.920 think for me, because yeah, I mean that they play 0:16:21.000 --> 0:16:23.680 man coverage and they're they're gonna drop guys into coverage 0:16:23.680 --> 0:16:25.480 and clog the lanes and see what the Cowboys can 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.600 do on a scale of one to ten, scale of 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:30.840 one to ten, Tarren Steal at left tackle, what's your 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:33.000 confidence level in the amount of time Dak is able 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:39.760 to throw? And low lower than lower lower than lower 0:16:39.800 --> 0:16:42.120 than I mean, but they're gonna get They would give 0:16:42.200 --> 0:16:45.080 him help. I mean, you watch you watch the the 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:48.600 Raiders Bengals matchup. They put a bag, put p Rhyn 0:16:48.680 --> 0:16:50.160 there and chip and all that stuff. That's what you 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:51.920 I think you'd have to do in this matchup. I 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:54.160 was gonna say, because once you gave me a number, 0:16:54.200 --> 0:16:56.000 I was gonna give you one to ten Tyrn Smith's 0:16:56.000 --> 0:16:58.440 at left tackle. How much of an increase is it 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:02.000 in terms of your confidence level between the two as 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:05.040 it doesn't change a whole lot. No, it goes up considerably. Okay, 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:08.280 I just I do wonder, you know, is it if 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.480 he plays? Can he can he get through it without 0:17:10.520 --> 0:17:12.639 any problems? You know? That's what when I asked Stephen 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:14.760 pre game how close was he to play in Sunday? 0:17:15.200 --> 0:17:16.880 He said, once he gets back, they don't think it's 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:19.280 going to be an issue. Well, does three extra days 0:17:19.600 --> 0:17:22.280 help that? You know? Are they just being really careful? 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:24.400 So we have to see on that if he does play, 0:17:24.480 --> 0:17:27.040 and he'll be on the side of in Gockway, as 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:30.480 I believe, because Crosby doesn't travel right, he doesn't flip side. 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:32.320 He's usually on the right side. So it's gonna be 0:17:32.400 --> 0:17:35.960 Lyle Collins against Max Crosby, and then it'll be in 0:17:36.080 --> 0:17:41.679 Gockway versus Smith and or Steele. Well, I mean still, 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:44.120 I just know I'm with Pete. Yeah, you gotta get 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:47.440 this guy help. You gotta go twelve heavy if that's 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:52.080 the case. I you know, man, this is just gonna 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:54.600 be one of those matchups that from the edge they 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:57.359 have so much energy. These guys are they don't stop, 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:01.119 you know, the motor that Crosby has. And Crosby's a 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:05.440 local guy, uh, from from Chris Beams High School, Collyville 0:18:05.480 --> 0:18:07.280 Heritage is in the third round of the playoffs here 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:10.760 and there we go. Yeah, of course they't know Crosby 0:18:10.880 --> 0:18:15.120 was a pacer. Yeah, absolutely, But you know, it's just 0:18:15.359 --> 0:18:18.480 he's constantly moving. And that's the one thing about him 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.160 that I think it's going may give Leo Collins some 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:22.800 some trouble because he didn't have a good game. We 0:18:22.880 --> 0:18:25.680 talked a lot about other pieces, but Leo didn't have 0:18:25.720 --> 0:18:28.080 a good game last week either. So, uh, in the 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:30.240 middle of their in the middle of their defense, I 0:18:30.240 --> 0:18:32.119 think that's where we can make hay even on the 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.440 outside with Casey Hayward Junior, he reminds me a lot 0:18:35.480 --> 0:18:37.800 of a cornerback that we used to have here. Uh, 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:39.840 the guy that didn't make any interceptions, but he didn't 0:18:39.840 --> 0:18:43.120 give up. Byron Jones reminds me a lot of Barren Jones. 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:45.200 And so I just think that, you know, man and 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:47.640 man with CD, I'm really looking forward to that matchup 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:52.160 or with Gallup or whomever. I'm just saying I'm looking 0:18:52.160 --> 0:18:54.240 forward to that matchup to see if they can stop 0:18:54.240 --> 0:18:56.639 our guys. I say, his look right now, he's just 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.680 looking at the ceiling, just thinking about not having cd 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:01.920 LA And then I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't. 0:19:02.000 --> 0:19:05.200 I'm not brit Or Jimbo. So I'm not gonna I 0:19:05.200 --> 0:19:06.560 can't sit up here and say that it's not gonna 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:08.800 get Yeah, but I don't think he's gonna be. There 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:12.040 haven't been somebody who's had a concussion before a number 0:19:12.040 --> 0:19:15.920 of times. I don't see CD player. Um, because even 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:17.240 if he does get on the field, it takes one 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:20.320 hit and those guys know he's concussed some somewhat and 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:23.000 recently as of late, they're gonna take a shot at 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:25.320 him in there. They'll take a late hit call to 0:19:25.359 --> 0:19:26.720 make sure that he gets out of the game. Not 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:28.399 to say that there's killers on the field, but that's 0:19:28.440 --> 0:19:30.840 what they do. Um, we're gonna check it's it's yeah, 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:33.120 we're gonna make sure and it's the same thing retiring. 0:19:33.560 --> 0:19:36.439 You know, I do agree, obviously. Tyrann's a huge upgrade 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:38.520 from Terren Steele. Terren Steel does his best to fill 0:19:38.560 --> 0:19:42.120 in when he can um. But even if Tyrn does 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:46.560 play these ends, to your point, it's one thing to 0:19:46.560 --> 0:19:49.159 play against a really good defensive end. And you know, 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:51.679 out of those sixty snaps you might have, you know, 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:54.359 say you have, you know, thirty five passes, you know 0:19:54.400 --> 0:19:56.120 you have you have passed back on those gut thirty 0:19:56.119 --> 0:19:58.760 five times, maybe you could stop him majority of the time. 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:01.400 You know, maybe there's one play on most guys that 0:20:01.400 --> 0:20:03.000 that you're good with, you know, and then they just 0:20:03.080 --> 0:20:06.320 get you that one time. These guys, that percentage goes 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:10.480 up drastically because they just don't stop. When you play 0:20:10.560 --> 0:20:12.720 some guys, you stuff them, you might muffin boom, get 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:14.119 a little pancake, and they are You don't have to 0:20:14.119 --> 0:20:15.840 worry about them for the next three or four plays, 0:20:15.920 --> 0:20:18.000 because they got they gotta charge back up. I don't 0:20:18.000 --> 0:20:19.800 know what these guys are on. I really don't know 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:21.280 what they're on. They're on, they're on something. I don't 0:20:21.280 --> 0:20:24.080 know what kind of energy drink they're drinking, but they're 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:26.800 both juiced up and they're coming yeah and there and there. 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:29.320 And I know their defensive coordinator. Defensive coordinator was with 0:20:29.440 --> 0:20:31.399 me in Seattle, Gus Bradley, and I had him as 0:20:31.400 --> 0:20:34.640 a head coach in Jacksonville. He's the energizer bunny. That's 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:37.879 why I do like this matchup in summer because Bradley's 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:40.000