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Speaker 1: the Star and Frisco. Welcome in everybody to another edition
Speaker 1: of offseason Talking Cowboys. We've got plenty to hit over
Speaker 1: the next hour of your time. We appreciate you being
Speaker 1: with us, but we're gonna treat you to some schedule
Speaker 1: release news, first time that we've had a show since
Speaker 1: the schedule is hit the open market. We've also got
Speaker 1: rookie Mini Camp in the rear view mirror and we
Speaker 1: will take a look ahead to OTA's as well as
Speaker 1: always joined by Chris Beam in the studio. We've got
Speaker 1: Isaiah stand Back, We've got heck My Harrison, no Rob Phillips.
Speaker 1: Today he's uh interviewing some big wig, some some quarterback
Speaker 1: who wears the number four and plays for some team.
Speaker 1: He's doing something along the way. But I'm Kyle Yeoman's
Speaker 1: glad you're with us. No Rob today, Unfortunately, Isaiah, you
Speaker 1: sat down, he said, I'm not Rob, but you've got
Speaker 1: his chair today. Our son, tan Rob, That's what I
Speaker 1: am today, just a little bit. It's a little dark,
Speaker 1: little extra son, a little dark, a little vitamin vitamin
Speaker 1: D Rob over here, don't mind me just thinking if
Speaker 1: Rob woke up one day and he was you exactly
Speaker 1: a little Dickey song o, I woke up in Iaiah, Gosh, Rob,
Speaker 1: he would never give it back. Yeah, Rob p Island
Speaker 1: would will have spent way too much time on Rob
Speaker 1: p Island. Let's say that too. We go take the
Speaker 1: whole show off the rose with this guy. It's the
Speaker 1: off season. There's nothing off the table when it comes out.
Speaker 1: Since heckma, how are you doing? I'm good man, I
Speaker 1: needed to back. I needed to Mario Brothers man, Mario
Speaker 1: Brothers coin. Chris is probably laughing too, probably call all
Speaker 1: out of his chair. Yeah man, I'm good. You know,
Speaker 1: pulling double duty obviously when the when the schedule release
Speaker 1: came out, I'm talking about you pulling double duty being
Speaker 1: excited about the schedule release. And I'm also calling softball. It. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know. You and I were on a softball call
Speaker 1: at for ESPN and the Conference USA Championships and we
Speaker 1: were just sitting there. We were both on our phones
Speaker 1: like looking at the looking at the schedule and what
Speaker 1: was it? What was going on? So it was double duty.
Speaker 1: Luckily no double duty today, we can give you the
Speaker 1: full rundown of the schedule. Let's start with the first
Speaker 1: five games because in those first five games games you
Speaker 1: face three teams that have been to the Super Bowl
Speaker 1: in the last two years. Tampa Bay to Week one,
Speaker 1: open things out against the Buccaneers Sunday Night Football on NBC,
Speaker 1: followed by the Cincinnati Bengals Joe Burrow and company come
Speaker 1: to town. Jamar Chase versus Treyvon Digs. That will be fun.
Speaker 1: Of course, those two had their fair share of battles
Speaker 1: in college ball. Then you go on the road to
Speaker 1: face the Giants for Monday Night Football, back home against Washington,
Speaker 1: and then back on the road against the Rams. Three
Speaker 1: home games in the first five but two of those
Speaker 1: three against Super Bowl teams from the last two years.
Speaker 1: You've got two the last two Super Bowl champions in town. Isaiah.
Speaker 1: When you first looked at the schedule and the start
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys are faced up against. What were your thoughts?
Speaker 1: Somebody doesn't like the Cowboys. They're trying to get them
Speaker 1: yet even with this second easiest schedule, jogging about you
Speaker 1: know thirty first, I don't give a dog on about
Speaker 1: all that. Listen here, you got Tampa. I know we
Speaker 1: said first five games, but the first six games is
Speaker 1: really the threat. Okay, Okay, you got tam Bay Buccaneers,
Speaker 1: we know what they are. Okay, you got dog On Bengals,
Speaker 1: who just went to the Super Bowl and by the way,
Speaker 1: they just got better this offseason substantially up upfront, okay
Speaker 1: where they were a week at Then obviously you got
Speaker 1: New York can Washington, Okay, cool, those are always going
Speaker 1: to be, you know, competitive games. But then you got
Speaker 1: LA and then you got a Philly that's revamped and
Speaker 1: they're they're shooting their shot this year. So four of
Speaker 1: those six games I feel like are gonna be pretty
Speaker 1: dog on tough, pretty dog on tough two obvious for
Speaker 1: three of them, obviously because they've all been to the
Speaker 1: show here in the past few years. And then obviously
Speaker 1: you got Philly and we know that they've revamped, and
Speaker 1: that they're they're pretty much taking a shot directly at
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, trying to trying to get them where they're
Speaker 1: weak at in terms of loading up this offseason. So
Speaker 1: four of those six are gonna be rough, man. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously we have a long way to go. All that
Speaker 1: kind of jazz we got OTAs, we got, We've got
Speaker 1: many cams, we got regular camp, we got preseason, we
Speaker 1: got all that jazz. Okay, however, these there are there
Speaker 1: are three out of those six teams that are arguable.
Speaker 1: There's no question no matter what team you go against,
Speaker 1: all right, but what team you ask, you know that
Speaker 1: those guys can play ball. So Bucks, Bengals and Rams
Speaker 1: absolutely off top off top. Yeah, and then the other
Speaker 1: three are divisional opponents too. It's always gonna be competitive.
Speaker 1: So one of the weird things that I do at
Speaker 1: the end of every season, because that's when they start
Speaker 1: releasing not the schedule, but the team's your opponents for
Speaker 1: the next season at home. In a way, I start,
Speaker 1: I go by, you know, least amount of wins all
Speaker 1: the way down to the win. So you start with
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville's Detroit saying, go all the way down, and
Speaker 1: I started to see started to say, tell myself, all right,
Speaker 1: so I can see where you can say, well, this
Speaker 1: is an easy schedule, but obviously things change from year
Speaker 1: to year. But once the schedule was released and the
Speaker 1: way that they kind of scrambled and put this together,
Speaker 1: I think your opportunities, like you just said, are in
Speaker 1: those first six games, three of them NFC East opponents
Speaker 1: as you just mentioned, but also teams that have been there.
Speaker 1: There's a large opportunity for this team with all the
Speaker 1: offseason talk, all the things that they've said about the team,
Speaker 1: the players that you've needed to replace. That game versus
Speaker 1: Tampa could be the measuring stick for your season simply
Speaker 1: because in those first six games you have the Bucks
Speaker 1: and the Rams, and beating those two teams may set
Speaker 1: you up for NFC seating. So although the season hadn't
Speaker 1: started yet, and the way that we are starting to
Speaker 1: look at the season that playoffs, hey, it's not that
Speaker 1: you can't do a one and done, right. You gotta
Speaker 1: go far in this league, and seating in the NFC
Speaker 1: is going to be important right there with those first
Speaker 1: six games. So I don't want to say must win
Speaker 1: already sitting there in Senagar in May. But that's as
Speaker 1: close to a must win as you possibly have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: at least early in the season, and with an opener
Speaker 1: like that. And you saw it last year, the way
Speaker 1: that they played against Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Buccaneers on the road, when they were raising a banner
Speaker 1: that set the tone for the entire season. Then you
Speaker 1: rattled off sixth straight. I don't think. I don't know
Speaker 1: if you're gonna see that again this year. There's probably
Speaker 1: a good chance that that does not happen. However, there
Speaker 1: is a measure stick, and it's that first six games.
Speaker 1: I keep looking at and I was looking at first five.
Speaker 1: But you threw in Philadelphia on Sunday Night football there
Speaker 1: in October. That's certainly a big game as well. You
Speaker 1: could go through those six games and finish two and four.
Speaker 1: Here's a good chance you go two and four, maybe
Speaker 1: even a three and three if you get lucky. If
Speaker 1: you end up going four and two, and you somehow
Speaker 1: work through that and you're above five hundred, you're feeling
Speaker 1: really good about the rest of your schedule. Yes, feel
Speaker 1: really good about not only in the division, but in
Speaker 1: the your seating for the NFC in your benchmark test
Speaker 1: that we've talked about all last year, we didn't pass
Speaker 1: a single benchmark along the way. You lost almost every
Speaker 1: one of those games. If we want to maybe throw
Speaker 1: the Chargers early on, maybe, but I don't think that
Speaker 1: because they weren't a playoff team. That's the same thing
Speaker 1: for these games. Tampa Bay is a benchmark Cincinnati LA,
Speaker 1: and then you don't have another one until you go
Speaker 1: on the road in Green Bay a little bit later
Speaker 1: on in the season. So those first six games are
Speaker 1: crucial to set the tone. They're tough or not. I mean,
Speaker 1: she's aren't easy. I don't care what people say about
Speaker 1: the easy versus a hard wreck. I don't give a
Speaker 1: dog on This is last year. That is last year.
Speaker 1: Teams have loaded up since last year. Teams have added
Speaker 1: players through the draft, Teams have added players through free agency.
Speaker 1: Teams are not what they were last year. Let's just
Speaker 1: go ahead and lay out on the table. Okay, so
Speaker 1: you can look at last year stats and all that
Speaker 1: jazz all you want to. Coordinators that moved around, head
Speaker 1: coaches have moved around, personnel has moved around. These are
Speaker 1: totally different teams. So yes, there might be core members
Speaker 1: of teams that are still in place. However, there's new
Speaker 1: players there, Okay, so there's gonna be a different look.
Speaker 1: So Tampa is Tampa TV. Twelve's back. Sorry everybody. All right,
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a showdown again from last year. Boom,
Speaker 1: all right, hopefully it goes that goes our way. You know,
Speaker 1: you got the dog on Bengals. Okay, these boys bought
Speaker 1: out last year somehow, some way, and their win percentage
Speaker 1: probably brings the win percentage down for the Cowboys a
Speaker 1: little bit because they were ten and seven as a
Speaker 1: division champion. They were the four seed in the NFC
Speaker 1: or excuse me, the AFC, and then they go on
Speaker 1: a run. That Bengals team is not a ten and
Speaker 1: seven ball club anymore. A team that's going to win
Speaker 1: twelve thirteen games and they're not going to give and
Speaker 1: they're not gonna give up ten sacks a game. Now,
Speaker 1: you know, with what they did with their offensive line
Speaker 1: this past year, and we knew that was a major
Speaker 1: weakness for them last year. So they addressed the areas
Speaker 1: that they were weak at, and they were weak at
Speaker 1: major weaknesses, and they still found a way to make
Speaker 1: it to the dog our superball. Yeah, so there you
Speaker 1: go with that. Giants Okay, Washington, Okay, La. They just
Speaker 1: I don't know how they got through their salary cap bows,
Speaker 1: but they did it. They bent the rules, yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: and they loaded up even more. Yeah. The thing for
Speaker 1: me is looking is looking at the schedule and seeing
Speaker 1: where the boot Eagles following our schedule, because it's always
Speaker 1: about who we played before and who we play after,
Speaker 1: because that's such a big NFC East matchup for us.
Speaker 1: And you look at where they are, I mean, we
Speaker 1: play the Los Angeles Rams before we go before you know,
Speaker 1: before Philadelphia. Yeah, and then you look later on the
Speaker 1: schedule and we have the Tennessee Titans after we play
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia I mean, and so those are the tough
Speaker 1: parts your schedule, and when when you when you talk
Speaker 1: about you know what's going to be interesting, Where the
Speaker 1: tough patches, where can you be in trouble? We just
Speaker 1: know that those rivalry games, no matter what, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be tough. They're gonna be tough opponents. We're at home,
Speaker 1: then we're away. The travel is always the thing. As
Speaker 1: we've had Mike McCarthy mentioned being the Dallas Cowboys coach
Speaker 1: for his third season getting used to that in the
Speaker 1: amount of prime time games that we're gonna play, Buckle
Speaker 1: up and get ready because this is a schedule that
Speaker 1: is going to that's gonna have a lot of narratives.
Speaker 1: H and it's going to be very intriguing to see
Speaker 1: how this team competes talent wise with what we have
Speaker 1: on the schedule. And when I look at this schedule
Speaker 1: in terms of these first six games, right, it's just
Speaker 1: specifically we were weak on the old line last year,
Speaker 1: I feel, right, and we've tried to address that, right
Speaker 1: and we still have some pieces that we're still question that,
Speaker 1: we're still question marks. We're still hopeful all that jazz.
Speaker 1: Look at the defensive lines of these first six teams. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay nasty, Cincinnati nasty. New York beefed it up.
Speaker 1: That made may not be there yet, but they beat
Speaker 1: it up. Washington, Washington nasty, last nasty, Philadelphia super nasty. Yeah. Okay,
Speaker 1: So so no, I agree, we're gonna get tested quickly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna figure out what your offense. You gonna figure
Speaker 1: out your old line quickly. So I know everybody's looking
Speaker 1: at the big picture, but in terms of how this
Speaker 1: team rolls. Defense is gonna do what they do, Okay,
Speaker 1: they dan Quinn's gonna do what he does. He has
Speaker 1: his personnel there. We're still gonna get places pieces we
Speaker 1: gotta add in there. But those guys, for the most part,
Speaker 1: you know what you're gonna get. Okay, hopefully, hopefully you
Speaker 1: get those turnovers again, chances are you probably won't. But
Speaker 1: he's gonna get pressure and make it difficult for offenses.
Speaker 1: Offensively though, you have to find a way to move
Speaker 1: the ball on the ground, and it's gonna be very
Speaker 1: difficult to do so against dominicun Sue. All right, he's
Speaker 1: not there, Okay, Who's who Cincinnati got on the front line.
Speaker 1: That's and so so I mean, you know what I mean, like, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: to your point, I think that's interesting about the defenses.
Speaker 1: And that's why I say the two people that were
Speaker 1: starting with the one person that the most pressure is
Speaker 1: out on. When I saw the schedule, as dad, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean you talk about these or six games, this
Speaker 1: is this is it. I mean, this is and I'm
Speaker 1: saying Dak, but I'm also throwing in there and like
Speaker 1: you know, it's Dak's pitching and then there's everybody else
Speaker 1: that's going down on that. It's one of those situations
Speaker 1: where offensively, if you don't start off hot, and it
Speaker 1: doesn't even matter about the excuses that you have for
Speaker 1: guys coming back from injury, nobody wants here. Nobody's gonna
Speaker 1: want to hear that. And that's why the biggest responsibility
Speaker 1: is on DAK. I know that Tampa, a lot of
Speaker 1: teams aren't what they used to be. I mean, you
Speaker 1: just try to mention someone from being from the Bengals defense,
Speaker 1: and I don't think anyone thought of them in the
Speaker 1: in the breath of being a doomsday defense. But once
Speaker 1: you get down to the commanders and we know who
Speaker 1: the rams are those matchups, DAK should be DA should
Speaker 1: be looking at this like a these are opportunities for
Speaker 1: me and the other person I'm thinking about as dan Quinn.
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn is in his second season and although he
Speaker 1: has elevated the defense and we were looking at there's
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are seventh in points allowed. Then it is
Speaker 1: the quintessential bend but don't break style of defense. But
Speaker 1: in his second season, I'm thinking that they are planning
Speaker 1: to play a whole nother style. You can't depend on
Speaker 1: being a defense is going to have the number one
Speaker 1: turnovers or interceptions in the league. That's gonna have to
Speaker 1: be another part of this. You saw last season where
Speaker 1: in the playoffs we could not stop the run. We're
Speaker 1: seeing all the interceptions from our cornerbacks, but also giving
Speaker 1: up a ton of yardage. Those are the things, no
Speaker 1: matter what you do, no matter where you rank, those
Speaker 1: are the things that's gonna bring your defensive numbers down,
Speaker 1: because bring your production down. You can add the bazooka.
Speaker 1: You can ask Sam Williams, you can, you can have
Speaker 1: as many players as you like, but if you're giving
Speaker 1: up that kind of yard you're not going to be successful.
Speaker 1: And the offenses that you go up against early are
Speaker 1: gonna test you. You got to slow down the run
Speaker 1: and you gotta run the ball. That's clear and simple.
Speaker 1: That's the easiest way to solve some of your problems
Speaker 1: is figure out a way to do both of those things.
Speaker 1: And to y'all's point of talking about just how these
Speaker 1: these front sevens at the first six games of the
Speaker 1: season are just next level five of them, five of
Speaker 1: the six are in the top ten or we're in
Speaker 1: the top ten last year and rushing yards allowed per game.
Speaker 1: Half of the top ten in the NFL and rushing
Speaker 1: yards allowed per game are on your schedule in the
Speaker 1: first six weeks of the season, Tampa Bay, Cincinnati, La, Washington, Philly.
Speaker 1: You are going to have to run the ball in
Speaker 1: the first half of the season or you may end
Speaker 1: up two and four going into Detroit game in week
Speaker 1: week seven. It really is. Let's talk about the next
Speaker 1: six games on the schedule as well, Detroit and Chicago,
Speaker 1: followed by the bye week, and then you take on
Speaker 1: the other NFC North opponents, Green Bay and Minnesota, both
Speaker 1: on the road, one in Lambeau of course, the other
Speaker 1: one back in Minnesota. How many years in a row
Speaker 1: are we going to play the Vikings on the road
Speaker 1: and we're gonna hear the skull chants in our sleep?
Speaker 1: New York? Is that Thursday, or excuse me, is the
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving game? So we'll stop at the Thanksgiving game? Detroit, Chicago,
Speaker 1: Green Bay, Minnesota, New York a bye week sprinkled in
Speaker 1: between there. Heck, when when you looked at that side
Speaker 1: of the schedule, is that your rebound schedule where you
Speaker 1: you're still facing decent teams you're just not facing the
Speaker 1: upper echelon of the NFL like you do in the
Speaker 1: first six weeks. Yeah, and that's why I said, like
Speaker 1: the first six the hypotheticals there, two and four were
Speaker 1: nightmare for me. If you can split that at least
Speaker 1: see three and three or flip it, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: really I just yeah, flipp it. That's that's being on
Speaker 1: the positive side. But I think this is this is
Speaker 1: the part in the middle of your season where you
Speaker 1: really can't make some ground. But don't be mistaken. I
Speaker 1: mean the Lions, their coach is going to have them
Speaker 1: primed and ready to go. We've seen teams go from
Speaker 1: being a basement level team to putting together two first
Speaker 1: round draft picks. And then do you think the Lions
Speaker 1: or that, I don't think that. I'm just saying that's
Speaker 1: not underestimate on him and say that, oh, that's just
Speaker 1: automatic dub. I think the Bears are the same way
Speaker 1: the Packers. Obviously for Mike McCarthy. That's the game that
Speaker 1: I'm circling for Mike McCarthy because I know he wants
Speaker 1: to win that game, and I'm sure the team wants
Speaker 1: to win it for him. But I mean to show
Speaker 1: Green Bay up at a primetime Come on, Fox, that's
Speaker 1: got to be moved, right. They gotta move that too.
Speaker 1: I don't know if they will. That's the game of
Speaker 1: the week. Yeah, I don't think they. I don't think
Speaker 1: Fox lets that one go. I think that's Kevin Burkhard
Speaker 1: and I guess who was he. That game was announced
Speaker 1: before the schedule was, so I'm assuming that's one of
Speaker 1: the Fox is big, one of their premier Yeah. Good point. Well, anyway,
Speaker 1: then you got Minnesota on the Minnesota then Minnesota again,
Speaker 1: another team that I feel like we've we've done a
Speaker 1: really good job of taking care of over the years,
Speaker 1: and the Giants on Thanksgiving. This is strange to say
Speaker 1: that we're playing the Giants on things again, first time
Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety two, and not the Manders, not the Commanders,
Speaker 1: no man like every other year on Thanksgiving. What do
Speaker 1: you think about this middle part of the schedule? When
Speaker 1: I look at it, I think all five of these
Speaker 1: games are winnable. I should be winnable. I like the
Speaker 1: middle part. I like obviously Detroit, regardless of what happens
Speaker 1: in that first six games. I think Detroit's obviously based
Speaker 1: upon what happened, what took place last year with the teams. Okay,
Speaker 1: you should be able to win the Troity, you should
Speaker 1: be able to win Chicago. You get to buy a
Speaker 1: week at the best possible portion off their seasons, best
Speaker 1: you could ever hope for, a right smack dab in
Speaker 1: the middle of your season. So that's awesome. Uh, then
Speaker 1: you didn't you need that by a week because you're
Speaker 1: about to face green Bay in Minnesota, and green Bay
Speaker 1: is green Bay. A run is out there, all right,
Speaker 1: he's making all fifty a year. He's ready to ball out, okay,
Speaker 1: and they're getting him some help. So you always got
Speaker 1: to be prepared for that. Obviously, we know how big
Speaker 1: of a game that is for McCarthy. But Minnesota is
Speaker 1: always dangerous to me. Minnesota is always dangerous to me.
Speaker 1: There's this Minnesota is never a team that I looked
Speaker 1: past him back. Oh yeah, go ahead, we should be straight.
Speaker 1: They're always with a new coach, even a new coach,
Speaker 1: because they're because they're key pieces. The key pieces are
Speaker 1: still there, right. Their linebackers are still there, their d
Speaker 1: line is still there now okay, yeah, the quarterback is
Speaker 1: still there, right, Receivers still there. That's just I don't
Speaker 1: hear them in that way. We played them a couple
Speaker 1: of times so far. Dalvin Cook, I respect his speed
Speaker 1: and what he does, but I just think on the
Speaker 1: outside we covered them pretty well. I agree that we
Speaker 1: last year with the backup quarterback beat them. Agreed, Dallas
Speaker 1: has done a great job against them. But personally, I
Speaker 1: just think that they have very good key players. Nah, yeah,
Speaker 1: key players. I liked their front seven. Always front seven
Speaker 1: is always a threat. The running game is always a threat. Right.
Speaker 1: They have three of the best receivers in the league.
Speaker 1: They those guys do a dog on a good job.
Speaker 1: That's a solid trio that they have over there. Um,
Speaker 1: so they're a threat in my eyes. And then you
Speaker 1: got the Giants, all right, and we'll get to the
Speaker 1: next one here aunt that, Yeah, we'll get We'll get
Speaker 1: to it here in a second. I never played in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Shocker for those if you're listening, Um, how
Speaker 1: much does it play a factor in the travel schedule?
Speaker 1: Right there in the middle of the season, you're at
Speaker 1: home against Detroit, you're at home against Chicago. You have
Speaker 1: the bye week, so you don't travel for an entire month,
Speaker 1: But then you go straight into Green Bay, lambeau Field
Speaker 1: and a high vaulted matchup where your coach is making
Speaker 1: a return as after winning a Super Bowl there and YadA, YadA, YadA.
Speaker 1: How much could laying off and at the trial novel
Speaker 1: and not being in a rhythm in terms of that
Speaker 1: chunk of time? Does that affect you at all? Or
Speaker 1: is that a non factor whatsoever? No, it's a non factor.
Speaker 1: I think Seattle has the worst right they got to
Speaker 1: travel miles, but far as Dallas. I mean, that's a
Speaker 1: great thing about being in Dallas. You're centrally located, so
Speaker 1: every you know, you're not fine, no more than three
Speaker 1: hours either direction. So I think that's that's perfectly fine.
Speaker 1: They need to be worried about that dog on cold though,
Speaker 1: November thirteenth in Green Bay. Do you think it'll be
Speaker 1: that cold up there? Shoot you, it's not that bad.
Speaker 1: Chris is the one on the side. Seriously, it doesn't
Speaker 1: get really bad. I mean it's not that bad, Chris.
Speaker 1: That direction, I mean, like in the thirties is gonna
Speaker 1: be nice. You do realize that the NFC Championship game,
Speaker 1: it was like it affected it affected the Green Bay Packers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it justn't affect everybody. So yeah, I agree, and I
Speaker 1: think that's probably closer to at the third degrees, maybe forty.
Speaker 1: I don't think you could really start whining until you
Speaker 1: get into the twenties about weather. Oh I'm really in Chicago.
Speaker 1: Off the play you played at you dub I played,
Speaker 1: you played, Yeah, you played in New England and fourteen. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's real. Okay, all right, let's look at the final
Speaker 1: third of the season. By the way, we used to
Speaker 1: cut the schedule and the quarters. Now it might be
Speaker 1: in the thirds with that eighteen game. It's just easier
Speaker 1: to look at along the way. But if you go
Speaker 1: four and two in your first quarter, then you go
Speaker 1: four and one in the second quarter, you're feeling pretty
Speaker 1: good or a third, I should say. But now we
Speaker 1: look at this final game or a final six games.
Speaker 1: Indianapolis the first game after Thanksgiving, so you have a
Speaker 1: long reach. Yeah, really good teams in the AFC, actually,
Speaker 1: with Indianapolis and Tennessee both of being in the mix.
Speaker 1: But it's Indianapolis, followed by Houston, then Jacksonville on the road,
Speaker 1: first time the Cowboys have played in Jacksonville in quite
Speaker 1: some time. Then you have Philadelphia and Christmas Eve at home,
Speaker 1: which will be interesting. That game could be flex to
Speaker 1: Christmas should things get down to the wire, and it
Speaker 1: always seems to get down to the wire with Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: so maybe that will be played on Christmas. And then
Speaker 1: the final two weeks for the regular season, you are
Speaker 1: on the road Thursday night, short week again against Tennessee
Speaker 1: and then you're at Washington at FedEx Field to end
Speaker 1: out the season. When you look at this, heck the
Speaker 1: running game you've got. You've got a great test early
Speaker 1: in the season. But should he be healthy, then you've
Speaker 1: got Jonathan Taylor December fourth against the Indianapolis Colts. Is
Speaker 1: that your second litmus test for the run defense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it starts we have a even when it
Speaker 1: starts with Mixing and Leonard Fronette, we start off pretty
Speaker 1: rough too. But you're right, this is the Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 1: matchup Henry and let's not forget Gibson. We don't think
Speaker 1: we give Gibson enough credit for the commanders up either
Speaker 1: he stays healthy for Yeah, I mean, this just a
Speaker 1: stretch that we're gonna get an opportunity as our defense
Speaker 1: to find out where we are in the running game.
Speaker 1: I felt like many we were so herky jerky in
Speaker 1: the running game last season at those lights out performances
Speaker 1: versus the ones where we gave up more than and
Speaker 1: we were penalized more as well. I mean that was
Speaker 1: the other telltale sign for our defense. But you can't
Speaker 1: forget about Jonathan Taylor. I want to see how Indianapolis
Speaker 1: looks with Matt Ryan. What kind of what difference does
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan make in that offense versus Carson Wentz. And
Speaker 1: I'm so happy that Carson Wentz is with the Commanders. Also,
Speaker 1: let me say that I know you love Carson Winn.
Speaker 1: That's my guy. You know, that is my duels let down,
Speaker 1: always always on time. But also the defense for Indianapolis
Speaker 1: man really a test for man Quitty pay DeForrest Buckner,
Speaker 1: Jannick and Doc Way, Darius Leonard. I mean, yes, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: Who's who's our defense coordinator up there? Now give me
Speaker 1: a second. I'll let you know. I do not know Bradleys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Gus Bradley. That's right, exactly exactly. Chris apparently does not
Speaker 1: like that higher Unfortunately, good Indianapolis, in my eyes, is
Speaker 1: going to be one of the league's best teams. Okay,
Speaker 1: just I think think they take that jump. I think
Speaker 1: they take that jump. I think they weren't too far
Speaker 1: off last year. They just didn't. Obviously they got help
Speaker 1: from your boy Wins. They need a bus driver, and
Speaker 1: they got one, you know who. They remind me a
Speaker 1: lot of Tampa Bay two years ago when they finally
Speaker 1: got a quarterback that could be exactly what they need.
Speaker 1: And I think Matt Ryan can be that in this system.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying Maddie Ice is the end all, the
Speaker 1: be all. He's not Tom Brady. I'm not saying that either,
Speaker 1: but I'm saying he won't. I could hear the comments. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's okay. I'm just saying he won't. He won't mess
Speaker 1: it up. Yeah, And he has a good enough position
Speaker 1: right now. He's in a good enough position with this team.
Speaker 1: He's on a way better team now than he was
Speaker 1: last year. And the defense, their defense is silly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't disagree. And I think I think Tennessee might
Speaker 1: take a step back from their dominance. They're still gonna
Speaker 1: be great on the because they have Derrek Henry, but
Speaker 1: I don't know if they're necessarily going to be the
Speaker 1: same kind of top seed in the AFC that we
Speaker 1: saw a year ago. Indianapolis could certainly take that jump
Speaker 1: and Houston Jacksonville, those are both winnable. You should win
Speaker 1: on the road against Washington, But that Christmas Eve game
Speaker 1: against Philadelphia and always comes back to the stupid boo Eagles. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there they are, but it always, it always just credited
Speaker 1: to ruin your Christmas. They're gonna ruin it. Do you
Speaker 1: think that you can look past Jacksonville like you did
Speaker 1: last year, like you would have last year had you
Speaker 1: played them, Well, you're in the NFL. You can't necessarily
Speaker 1: look past anybody. I mean, you know, but no, they
Speaker 1: went and at a Christian Kirk. They added some talent
Speaker 1: on their defense. Trevor Lawrence now has somewhat of an
Speaker 1: offensive line. You just look past Detroit, Detroit. I'm not
Speaker 1: concerned about Detroit. Well, why are you concerned about Jacksonville there?
Speaker 1: Because Jacksonville's a quarterback, that's the weapons that they put
Speaker 1: around here, Doug Peterson's coach they're putting in place, and
Speaker 1: the defense that they're starting to put together again. So
Speaker 1: I don't think you could go into that thinking it's
Speaker 1: a loss. Yeah, but you can't. Yeah, I know, you
Speaker 1: can coach a good coach technically, because if you was
Speaker 1: that game, then all of a sudden years feeling their
Speaker 1: coach knows what the heck she's doing. The troitch coach
Speaker 1: are trying to figure it out. Okay, well, two things
Speaker 1: about Two things about after the Giants game on Thanksgiving,
Speaker 1: whereas we would go back back to back Thursday night games,
Speaker 1: we don't play a Thursday night game. We actually play
Speaker 1: the Texans on the eleventh, which is a ten day
Speaker 1: rest s band. And it's been a while since the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have had that. It's like a second by for
Speaker 1: these guys. I got really didn't they have it last year?
Speaker 1: What do you? Yeah, well they had they had back
Speaker 1: to back Thursdays and yeah, that's what I'm saying. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but they don't have back to back Thursday after the
Speaker 1: yeah after, because that's when they should arrest is Zeke,
Speaker 1: but they didn't. Correct it was against the Saints. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was just that's how I remember it. They did
Speaker 1: Kansas City and then they play the Raiders, Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: Raiders Thanksgiving, and then it was the Saints after on Thursday,
Speaker 1: and then Tony Poller got hurt. Yeah, um, yeah, but
Speaker 1: that's the schedule up and down. Thumbs up, thumbs down,
Speaker 1: thumbs up. It's gonna be challenge, very challenging early. You're
Speaker 1: gonna find out what you need to know about this
Speaker 1: team in the first six games. I agreed, No, I
Speaker 1: agree with what he says. I think that the team
Speaker 1: has the That's why I said dan Quinn and Dak
Speaker 1: are the two most important when I saw this schedule,
Speaker 1: because they both have an opportunity to make a statement,
Speaker 1: especially for Dak coming off of his second year removed
Speaker 1: from his injury. The quarterback matchups that he has here
Speaker 1: this whole you know, Aaron Rodgers and Cousins back to back.
Speaker 1: I can't wait for that comparison to so many people
Speaker 1: have been comparison comparing Dak and Cousins for it is silly. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, Chuck just tweeted about this. Is there really
Speaker 1: is a silly argument. But you go from you go
Speaker 1: from Joe Burrow, uh, Tom Brady. I mean just that's
Speaker 1: a matchup galore for Dak and I think Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: in Week three Yeah yeah, and Carson wentz right after
Speaker 1: that on h and by the way, preseason games just
Speaker 1: for everybody listening and keeping track. August thirteenth against Denver,
Speaker 1: that's an eight pm kick. August uh nineteen through the
Speaker 1: or nose. The twentieth, it's that Saturday at LA going
Speaker 1: to Sofi Stadium against the Chargers, that's a nine pm kick.
Speaker 1: And then the twenty sixth against Seattle and taking on
Speaker 1: the Seahawks in the preseason. Isaiah perked up a little bit.
Speaker 1: For that one. You'll be in the color booth for
Speaker 1: that is at home. I don't know. It is a
Speaker 1: home game. That's the home game you're gonna have. You're
Speaker 1: Michael Irving for that one, buddy. That's true. All right.
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Speaker 1: this past weekend here at the Star in Frisco News
Speaker 1: and notes along the way, as the Cowboys have signed
Speaker 1: six of their draft picks to their deals already, which
Speaker 1: is nice, Tyler Smith being one of them, and Cowboys
Speaker 1: have three more guys to go. Taking a look at
Speaker 1: some of the guys that they actually have signed Tyler Smith,
Speaker 1: Sam Williams, Jalen Tolbert, Jake Ferguson, and then they have
Speaker 1: also signed all of their fourth round picks, Matt will
Speaker 1: let's go the Ron Bland, Daman Clark, and John Ridgeway
Speaker 1: have all been done. So or the guys that I
Speaker 1: read first are not signed yet. Williams, Tolbert, and Ferguson.
Speaker 1: Those are the only three that they have not signed
Speaker 1: out of their draft class. So most of those guys
Speaker 1: good to go. But then we got a chance to
Speaker 1: see not only the draft class, but some of the
Speaker 1: undrafted free agents and some of the guys that are
Speaker 1: still classified as rookies that have been on the roster
Speaker 1: the last two years. Hack, when you made your chance,
Speaker 1: made your way out there on Saturday out in the heat,
Speaker 1: it was hot, it was steamy. But what did you
Speaker 1: get out of that practice? Anybody stand out? You know what?
Speaker 1: And I think me and you. I said, we're not
Speaker 1: gonna do what we did last year. Was that because
Speaker 1: we completely jumped out of the cake? Did we jump up? No? Yes,
Speaker 1: you were a little bit, you know. You know we
Speaker 1: went out, Okay, we wouldn't look crazy. We were exciting,
Speaker 1: you know, we were really right somebody post COVID we
Speaker 1: were getting out. Who were you right on? Who tell
Speaker 1: me who you were right on? So we were right
Speaker 1: on a few. We were right on right on. Ifew
Speaker 1: were missing, a few were right. I don't think we missed.
Speaker 1: I think our excitement we went too high on our
Speaker 1: excitement last year. Abilities we spoke on their abilities. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: but we also doubled down and said when the paths
Speaker 1: come on, we got to see it. So no, but
Speaker 1: is he mcquambo see you about faced on mcquambo and
Speaker 1: didn't tell me you was going up? Came out? No, no, no,
Speaker 1: I said, after the first preseason game, I came out
Speaker 1: and told y'all that was that was gonna not gonna work.
Speaker 1: The physicality, physicality. I saw it when the first couple
Speaker 1: of times I said, no, this ain't this ain't gonna work.
Speaker 1: But I will say this, you know, with the rookie camp.
Speaker 1: What I did see with some really good signs from guys.
Speaker 1: The wilesco is a huge person. I mean that's it.
Speaker 1: I mean it's a really really big guy. If he
Speaker 1: can move, if he can you know, good hand all
Speaker 1: of those things with it that you would need from
Speaker 1: your left tackle. If he can do any of those
Speaker 1: things man, that swing tackle position, I think they want
Speaker 1: him to take if he can take it. Uh Smith,
Speaker 1: I think he did. He did a good job. That
Speaker 1: was Friday. You know, a lot of these guys were
Speaker 1: dealing with conditioning issues. And then you go back to
Speaker 1: last year when we were talking about the Buzuoka with
Speaker 1: Mica coming out here and he was he was winded.
Speaker 1: And think about Friday and Saturday, one of the hottest
Speaker 1: days in May in Texas, and they're in between those
Speaker 1: buildings and hot and they are driving it. So they
Speaker 1: pulled him back and you got an opportunity to see Friday.
Speaker 1: I was there Friday on Saturday. But the other thing
Speaker 1: that I think Cowboy fans should feel good about is
Speaker 1: our wide receiver, you know, o Jail October I really was.
Speaker 1: I felt good about his ability. I felt I thought
Speaker 1: he's a lot bigger than six one, I mean, and
Speaker 1: Damon Clark from LSU that is a huge kid as
Speaker 1: well kid, he's a man and he carries himself like
Speaker 1: a man. But they have him listed at six two.
Speaker 1: If he's six two on five nine, I know it
Speaker 1: because it's another big person that I think once you
Speaker 1: add him to the roster, he may be someone that
Speaker 1: can play. Because you we've been trying to still answer
Speaker 1: those questions about the linebacker room. But the other guy,
Speaker 1: the wide receiver from Indianapolis, from Indiana, sy Fry Fogel,
Speaker 1: Fry Fogel, I ain't messing this name up. He is
Speaker 1: an undrafted free agent. And that's where I am looking
Speaker 1: at this roster and trying to say, like who's going
Speaker 1: to be the next Cedric Wilson, Who's going to be
Speaker 1: the next Turner Malik Turner. When are we going to
Speaker 1: have that replacement? Because that's you know, seven eight touchdowns
Speaker 1: that you don't have. That's about eight hundred yards that
Speaker 1: you have to replace that. I don't think you feel
Speaker 1: like you've replaced. And that's from your one, from your
Speaker 1: three and four or five receiver. Where do we get
Speaker 1: that production? And that's where that's why I'm looking at
Speaker 1: this part of the roster and saying maybe we can
Speaker 1: get that from these guys. And since I was there
Speaker 1: with you on Saturday, I'll kind of book in this
Speaker 1: and then we'll get back to Friday. But I agree
Speaker 1: with you. I think the wide receiver room is where
Speaker 1: you're gonna see a lot of confidence early on from
Speaker 1: these guys that are ready to come in and make
Speaker 1: this step into the NFL because they have some speed
Speaker 1: fry fogels. One of them, Jakari Robinson from Wake Forest
Speaker 1: is another one that both both of those guys in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty were top ten receivers in collegiate football, but
Speaker 1: they just had their drops in twenty twenty one. They
Speaker 1: have some question marks around them, and they came in
Speaker 1: and they performed well, especially five O gold Jalen Tilbert
Speaker 1: all of a sudden or not all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: but he was obviously the number one guy that was
Speaker 1: in the room. My favorite part about going out there
Speaker 1: and seeing the battles was Tyler Smith at left tackle
Speaker 1: left guard. They kind of put them both spots. Played
Speaker 1: a little bit in the in the interior, but he
Speaker 1: was on the edge and he was going up against
Speaker 1: Sam Williams. Seeing Sam Williams get after it. Williams got
Speaker 1: him a couple of times. Williams definitely did that's but
Speaker 1: there were other times when Tyler Smith would wall up.
Speaker 1: And so seeing that competition early on between two of
Speaker 1: those rookies was really fun. Of course, they're not going
Speaker 1: full blast yet, they're not getting training camp beat down.
Speaker 1: Just at this point. It's a lot of install a
Speaker 1: lot of classroom work, and in talking to Mike McCarthy,
Speaker 1: he has a lot of confidence in this class, said
Speaker 1: everybody showed up at seven twenty for a seven thirty meetings.
Speaker 1: He actually stopped him and he's like, I want you
Speaker 1: guys to take a picture of this. So that way,
Speaker 1: when we're an Oxnard in a couple of months, the
Speaker 1: entire rookie class is ten minutes early to a meeting,
Speaker 1: I bet it's not going to be the same, so
Speaker 1: make sure and keep that going as well. So I
Speaker 1: like the classroom side of it. Apparently that's going really well,
Speaker 1: and that translated onto the field because comparatively, it looked
Speaker 1: like Saturday was a much cleaner practice than Friday was.
Speaker 1: Because there was some sloppy in this that you got
Speaker 1: to watch. Yeah, there's some sloppy in thiss, but that
Speaker 1: was to be expected. Obviously, you guys are excited. There's jitters,
Speaker 1: there's first run. They're trying to impress there. It's a
Speaker 1: lot trying to get your feet underneath you and get
Speaker 1: adjusted to the speed. But you know, there was some
Speaker 1: definitely some pros. I was looking primarily obviously offensive line.
Speaker 1: I don't really look too hard at that, just because
Speaker 1: of the fact there's no pads, so old line D line.
Speaker 1: I don't put too much judgment on that until the
Speaker 1: boys meet them pads on that's what really matters. But
Speaker 1: at the wide receiver position, I had had my eyes
Speaker 1: peeled over there at Jayalen tolbrid and I like him.
Speaker 1: I like him, I like his work ethic, I like
Speaker 1: his demeanor, his willingness to be on special teams. That
Speaker 1: was something that we mentioned that wasn't necessarily present with
Speaker 1: the draft pick from last year. He was willing that.
Speaker 1: You could tell he was willing to go out there
Speaker 1: and give his one hundred percent and special teams, regardless
Speaker 1: if he was feeling punts and regardless if he was
Speaker 1: covering kicks. It didn't matter. Like he was out there
Speaker 1: and he was given one hundred percent. I like that
Speaker 1: his ability to run routes he's precisely is seemingly he
Speaker 1: seems bigger than what he's listed at for sure, so
Speaker 1: maybe put some weight on. But you know, I like him.
Speaker 1: I like I think he's gonna be a great addition
Speaker 1: to the receiver room along with James Washington. I know
Speaker 1: we keep kind of canceling him out, but I'm not
Speaker 1: canceling him out. I think he's gonna be a very
Speaker 1: integral part. I think he's gonna be this slot for
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. He's gonna be that possession guy, and
Speaker 1: tolbrid is a bigger guy that they're trying to make
Speaker 1: a possession guy as well, because they want him to
Speaker 1: be in that trifecta with CD and Gallant when he
Speaker 1: gets back on the field. But he knows that he
Speaker 1: has some work to do. I was reading up with
Speaker 1: some of the things that he mentioned falling practice. I
Speaker 1: believe on Saturday that he knows that he has some
Speaker 1: work to do internally in terms of being an inside
Speaker 1: receiver guy. Um the Jake Ferguson played a lot of
Speaker 1: attenion on watching him. I know I spoke with Linda Wills,
Speaker 1: and he's he's very excited about his tight end room.
Speaker 1: He's very excited about his tight en room. He looks
Speaker 1: he looks more than willing to block. He looks like
Speaker 1: he's like he's one of those kind of you know,
Speaker 1: just you know, drive you off the ball type of guys.
Speaker 1: My only concern is his weight. Yeah, he's a little
Speaker 1: little light, little lightened. But that's my only guess, My
Speaker 1: only concerned if you're drafting and I don't. I mean,
Speaker 1: I believe, I trust those scouts, I trust the Wills,
Speaker 1: I trust all those guys obviously that are responsible for this.
Speaker 1: I would like to see him personally come in about
Speaker 1: fifteen pounds heavier to camp because I think right now
Speaker 1: they had him listened about two forty five, and he
Speaker 1: looks like he's about two forty five. He's a little
Speaker 1: smaller than that. Yeah, he has a frame that can
Speaker 1: add it. Okay, that's one thing I can't mention. He
Speaker 1: has a frame that can put on some weight. And
Speaker 1: obviously the strength coach uh is you know, Harold Nash.
Speaker 1: He's awesome. He knows what the heck he's doing over there.
Speaker 1: So they have dieticians, all that jazz. They can get
Speaker 1: him right for before camping, he's gonna need to probably
Speaker 1: come in twenty pounds heavier than what he is right now,
Speaker 1: because you're gonna lose bas to the camp. Okay, So
Speaker 1: my only concern is that if you're being drafted as
Speaker 1: a blocking tight end, two hundred and forty five pounds
Speaker 1: in this league is not a blocking tight end. Regardless
Speaker 1: of your willingness, regardless of your tenacity, two hundred forty
Speaker 1: five pounds is not moving two hundred and eighty five,
Speaker 1: two hundred ninety five pounds off the ball. It's just not.
Speaker 1: It's just as much as the Cowboys need a blocking
Speaker 1: tight end because Dalton Schultz isn't that, and Blake Jarwin
Speaker 1: without him being in the fold, and even Blake Jarwin
Speaker 1: wasn't necessarily a purely blocking tight end. I don't know
Speaker 1: if Ferguson fits that role. I think he's more of
Speaker 1: an all around guy. He can block, he's willing to block, yes,
Speaker 1: but that wasn't his emo coming out of Wisconsin. His
Speaker 1: EMO was as a receiver. But hey, he's willing to block,
Speaker 1: and he played in a system where they used him
Speaker 1: to block every once in a while, but they need
Speaker 1: him to be a blocking tight that's the case, then yeah,
Speaker 1: you bulk him up right now. He doesn't fit into
Speaker 1: that mold and that's probably why you're looking at him
Speaker 1: and you're saying he's lighting the button. And that's what
Speaker 1: has got to make you nervous, Kyle, especially when you
Speaker 1: looked at the front of that that schedule and said
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to be able to run the ball
Speaker 1: and if you don't have a tight end that can
Speaker 1: help you capture those edges, then what the hell are
Speaker 1: you gonna do? Are you expecting for shots to be
Speaker 1: that much better? Uh? This year at blocking I don't know.
Speaker 1: You know, London Wales have to be around the clock
Speaker 1: on the teaching of that. But I want to go
Speaker 1: back to something that you said about this guy's demeanor,
Speaker 1: um um the wide receiver tober Yes, Jayleen Tilburt, his
Speaker 1: demeanor and his just that's one of the things that
Speaker 1: I talked to my son about this man. You know,
Speaker 1: keep your head up, stay, keep positive body language, and
Speaker 1: that's what Jayalen Tilbert has that that his willingness and
Speaker 1: also excitement is to fit in that role because we
Speaker 1: need glue guys. And that's what these guys that we
Speaker 1: lost were. They were those glue guys that they were
Speaker 1: all special teams guys. But then at the at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, if you need them to moonlight,
Speaker 1: they produced and they did great things. And that's where
Speaker 1: I believe that Tolbert is going to be watched for
Speaker 1: him in camp when he starts getting those extra reps
Speaker 1: on specialty. Watch when they start moving guys like you know,
Speaker 1: like that around and he's getting those rests, because then
Speaker 1: that'll tell you how they feel about him once he
Speaker 1: gets with everyone else. I mean, and and so that's
Speaker 1: going into camp. Those are the things that I'm looking at.
Speaker 1: But that's a great point that you made about his
Speaker 1: his demeanor. But there's another guy, John Ridgeway is going
Speaker 1: to be is going to be a fan favorite. I'm man,
Speaker 1: this guy he's huge, um but I mean, got an
Speaker 1: opportunity to just see him and watch him interview in
Speaker 1: the locker room, and he's a fun guy, very very personable,
Speaker 1: has a ton of character. I'm telling you, man, Cowboy Nation,
Speaker 1: y'all gonna love this kid. I'm just just what he said,
Speaker 1: you know, Hey, do they make the team him and Bohanna.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a battle going into camp between the
Speaker 1: big boys, don't I don't think it will be. And honestly,
Speaker 1: I'm going back on what I said last week because
Speaker 1: talking to McCarthy changed my mind in this regard when
Speaker 1: originally I thought it was going to be Ridgeway v. Brohannah.
Speaker 1: I think they like having both of those guys on
Speaker 1: that defensive line. You remember how we talked about that
Speaker 1: last week, and I got really excited. And it's like
Speaker 1: both Hawk Miley's up front and you have the big
Speaker 1: beefy dudes in the middle. They like it. They like it.
Speaker 1: I liked it, and I also I liked this demon Clark.
Speaker 1: I know I talked a lot about Nakobe Dean last week, right,
Speaker 1: I know my disappointment, and they're not getting him disappointment.
Speaker 1: I was disappointed. I was you know, Hey, you know
Speaker 1: I stand behind Hey. I was standing two feet down
Speaker 1: behind anything that I say. I was disappointed and I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna backpedal from that. However, this demon Clark Kat
Speaker 1: It's a big boy. He looked like somebody off a
Speaker 1: key and peel skit. I mean, he wasn't even playing
Speaker 1: he was standing on the standing there. But this dude
Speaker 1: got a frame on him. Now he got a frame, armer.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see him fly around. Obviously he
Speaker 1: was he was on the sideline on Friday. But when
Speaker 1: I think when he gets a camp, I am excited
Speaker 1: to see what he could bring to this defense because
Speaker 1: I have a vision. I have a vision of what
Speaker 1: could have been, and I want to see if it
Speaker 1: still can be right. He didn't even have a frame.
Speaker 1: He's five. I don't care. He was a lightning. He's
Speaker 1: a freaking lightning. Bomb him. Do that. Don getting off?
Speaker 1: I was getting off and him. I was off of him.
Speaker 1: But Damaron Clark, he has the frame of a mic. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why they drafted him. Okay, However, there's still a
Speaker 1: dude by the name of vander Esh that they still
Speaker 1: have on his roster that they planned on playing a lot,
Speaker 1: I assume. So I'm out of necessity, not necessarily out
Speaker 1: of want. Well, they signed them, you know, ran it back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, but he's there, so I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: seeing how he fits in or how dan Quinn's going
Speaker 1: to incorporate this linebacker rotation, because you want to think
Speaker 1: about it, Okay, we roll two linebackers, you bring down curse. Okay, cool.
Speaker 1: Now you're looking at Michael Parsons. Vander Esh's your quote
Speaker 1: unquote starters, and then you got a Daman Clark and
Speaker 1: you have a Jabille Cox as your backup. I want
Speaker 1: to see if there's ever gonna be any three linebackers,
Speaker 1: ever gonna be four linebackers depending on the different sets.
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see how he contributes and what his
Speaker 1: style of players in this particular defense. Have you watched
Speaker 1: this film yet a little bit? He's go die a
Speaker 1: little bit round. He's he's fun to watch on film,
Speaker 1: and he when he is healthy, he's got He's more
Speaker 1: than just inside linebacker. I mean he has range, he
Speaker 1: can cover u he does some really good things and
Speaker 1: he was still at five. His story about the Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys being the team that identified that his injury I
Speaker 1: thought was very important as yeah it's it's I mean,
Speaker 1: the kid has an amazing story, and a lot of
Speaker 1: these guys the way that they get into the NFL,
Speaker 1: if you just backtracking and listen to the stories, uh,
Speaker 1: it's amazing. But he is one of those players that
Speaker 1: I'm I'm with you on that that's a you see
Speaker 1: him and there's something about the way that he carries
Speaker 1: himself as a person, and the tape goes with it
Speaker 1: as well. That tells you this kid's gonna be a pro.
Speaker 1: Nick Eatman I was talking to Nick about Clark before
Speaker 1: practice and he said, watch watch this kid. Watch the
Speaker 1: way that he's reacting taking mental rips the whole time
Speaker 1: through practice. And that's a big thing. I mean, coaches
Speaker 1: that you talk about body demeanor. Here's a guy that's
Speaker 1: not going to be able to participate, but at the
Speaker 1: same time he's still taking those mental rips. That's a
Speaker 1: big thing. Then, in a few times that I've I've
Speaker 1: interacted with Clark because we interviewed him on the draft
Speaker 1: coverage when he came on the show, we heard his
Speaker 1: secret audio. We've interviewed him a couple times since he's
Speaker 1: been in the building. That dude is all about ball.
Speaker 1: That's that's what you got. He is a look bawler like,
Speaker 1: that's that's what he wants to be. So yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: excited about him in the future. It's a bummer that
Speaker 1: we don't get to see him for the next six
Speaker 1: months and probably won't at any point this season, if
Speaker 1: if we're being really if we're being realistic about it. However,
Speaker 1: for the future, I think it's something that you could
Speaker 1: really look forward to him being a part of that defense.
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Speaker 1: line open. But first it's been a little bit. We've
Speaker 1: got our our friend Nebbi back on the line. Nebbi,
Speaker 1: good to hear from you again. What's your question for
Speaker 1: talking cowboys? Uh Uh? My question simply is this, am
Speaker 1: I am I crazy? Am I crazy? Am I crazy?
Speaker 1: For believing that Jalen huh Tolbert uh uh can replace
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper's uh uh uh uh production? Uh uh this
Speaker 1: upcoming season? Uh uh. Take care. Thanks for being patient
Speaker 1: with me and have a great week. And baby, thanks building.
Speaker 1: Great question. And no, I don't think you're crazy by
Speaker 1: any means, but it would be tough, it really would
Speaker 1: and the reason why, and I'll let this kind of
Speaker 1: go to you guys. He's not the route runner Amari
Speaker 1: Cooper was. He's a separator, don't get me wrong, and
Speaker 1: he did so in college. But he's it's gonna be
Speaker 1: an adjustment process going from the Sun Belt to the NFL.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's you're playing and simple. He's a good receiver,
Speaker 1: he will have his production. I think you could expect
Speaker 1: him to have a good impact role in this offense.
Speaker 1: But replacing the production of Amari Cooper would be pretty tough.
Speaker 1: Pretty tough. Ditto everything Everythina College has said. The reason
Speaker 1: it's simply being Amari Cooper is a dog. Amari Cooper
Speaker 1: is a respected receiver in his league that fears absolutely nobody.
Speaker 1: There's not a route that he can't run, There's not
Speaker 1: a defense that he hasn't seen, so he's more prepared
Speaker 1: to handle this NFL. Obviously a weekend a week out.
Speaker 1: Tolbert may get there at some point in time in
Speaker 1: his career, but having that expectation of him to come
Speaker 1: into the league with that same production is a lot.
Speaker 1: It's putting a lot on top of him. But I do,
Speaker 1: like Holl said, I do believe that he will come
Speaker 1: in and contribute to this team and help him win
Speaker 1: the ball games. Yeah, it's all It's going to be
Speaker 1: a about opportunity for Tober if he's put in the
Speaker 1: position to be a productive virt receiver. Everyone knows that
Speaker 1: the pressure right now is firmly placed on CD to
Speaker 1: take the place of a Mark Cooper's production. But if
Speaker 1: if Ceedee Lamb can exceed expectations, then that's going to
Speaker 1: open up the rest of the offense and that's where
Speaker 1: Jalen Tolbert is going to be able to have that
Speaker 1: those production numbers let's think about it. I mean last
Speaker 1: year it wasn't as though a Marik Cooper was one
Speaker 1: thousand yard receiver. So we have to come back to
Speaker 1: you know, what are we replacing here? I know we're
Speaker 1: looking at his like this is fifteen hundred yards we
Speaker 1: were replacing. Ceede Lamb has an opportunity in front of him.
Speaker 1: I believe that Ceede Lamb can live up to the
Speaker 1: pressure that's being placed on him. Everybody else is really
Speaker 1: gonna have to finally going to have to define their
Speaker 1: roles in this offense, and Jalen Tolbord is going to
Speaker 1: be one of those guys. That's the biggest thing is
Speaker 1: it starts at the top. Everyone's defining their roles, even
Speaker 1: to a certain extent. Michael Gallup's going to have a
Speaker 1: new role. Yeah he's been the number two here before,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna have to be a one, be not
Speaker 1: necessarily a number two. You don't want him to be
Speaker 1: completely lead drugged by Ceedee Lamb. You want that production
Speaker 1: to be there from Ceedee Lamb. He's the one that
Speaker 1: completely goes with the flow of being that top rid
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Michael Gallup needs to take a step too,
Speaker 1: when he comes back and he's healthy. Because it starts
Speaker 1: at the top and it's a dominant effect all the
Speaker 1: way down. I completely agree. I believe that ced has
Speaker 1: to be your number one receiver. There's no one, there's
Speaker 1: no one be he is the number one guy. Michael
Speaker 1: Gallup has to be comfortable at being to be the
Speaker 1: number one all the way that is. That is the
Speaker 1: question and the answer can only be answered by Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 1: And this season they've given him all of the runway
Speaker 1: to be able to do that. You go, come off
Speaker 1: of his season last year eleven hundred yards, I believe
Speaker 1: receiving coming into this season, what would be the number
Speaker 1: that would put him in that group of the elite.
Speaker 1: If he gets fourteen hundred, fifteen hundred yards, he's going
Speaker 1: to have the opportunity to be that receiver for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: What would be mighty? What would come on by I'll
Speaker 1: ask you this question and kind of supplement that, but
Speaker 1: what would be your confidence level and a percentage one
Speaker 1: or zero to one hundred that he could do that
Speaker 1: fourteen hundred yards, Let's say fourteen hundred, because that would
Speaker 1: be an elite season if he's there fourteen hundred yards
Speaker 1: close to ten touchdowns. That's an elite season, something that
Speaker 1: am MARII Cooper never really did on a consistent basis.
Speaker 1: Can what would your prediction or not prediction, but confidence
Speaker 1: level percentage wise be for CD Lamb that he didn't
Speaker 1: do that? Yeah, how can you give you force feed him?
Speaker 1: I mean you obviously can get most I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about force feeding. I'm talking about being the number one
Speaker 1: not force offensive smooth. I don't currently see it. So
Speaker 1: what's your percentage? Seventy? That's pretty high to talk in
Speaker 1: grad school. I don't know about that. Se sees fucking
Speaker 1: grad school, right. So nine hundred thirty five is first season,
Speaker 1: eleven hundred last year making the next step. If we're
Speaker 1: just looking at the trajectory of his career, thirteen hundred
Speaker 1: should be that next level, especially when you have no
Speaker 1: one else that you would say you're competing with balls with.
Speaker 1: He doesn't have Amari Cooper there. All right, Nigel from
Speaker 1: Arizona is on the line. We're back to talking Cowboys Nation. Nigel,
Speaker 1: how's it going great? Guys? Thanks for taking night call.
Speaker 1: Probably a little redundant question, but you guys brought it
Speaker 1: up and it kind of sparked a little something in
Speaker 1: my old man brain, and that's putting the big boys
Speaker 1: in the middle there and letting our guys on the
Speaker 1: end feast. We all know, I believe the first two
Speaker 1: games of the season is going to kind of dictate
Speaker 1: what offenses are going to do to us defensively, and
Speaker 1: that's the run. You know, we all all of us
Speaker 1: know that's been an issue for the last I don't know,
Speaker 1: eight years, So I kind of you know when you
Speaker 1: were talking if Ridgeway, and I'm sure he's gonna make
Speaker 1: the team. Him and Bohanna and a couple of the
Speaker 1: other big guys just feasting in the two CENTI spots
Speaker 1: on defense and hopefully given our defensive ends a chance
Speaker 1: to feast as well. So thanks for taking that and
Speaker 1: I appreciate it. Thanks, Nigel, appreciate you, man, and I agree.
Speaker 1: There's a chance you see both of those guys on
Speaker 1: the field at the same time. But the thought process
Speaker 1: is nose tackle three technique. You need both of those
Speaker 1: positions to step up. Yeah, you need them both to
Speaker 1: step up, but you also need them to just be productive.
Speaker 1: It's one thing to be big, it's another thing to
Speaker 1: be productive. And big. There's a lot of big guys
Speaker 1: in this league. They get moved off the ball. We
Speaker 1: had that a couple of years ago. Oh yeah, so
Speaker 1: you can't. I mean, obviously, these guys have nice stature
Speaker 1: on him. We've seen what Big Bowl has done. We're
Speaker 1: still expecting more of him as he continues to develop.
Speaker 1: Now you bring Big Ridge in here, and he's gonna
Speaker 1: have to have a big impact as well. I think
Speaker 1: Urban came in prior to Urban getting hurt. He did
Speaker 1: an okay job, but he I don't think that he
Speaker 1: had the impact that we were hoping for it either.
Speaker 1: And he was a lot larger than this young gentleman.
Speaker 1: So sizes one thing. Production is another. You're hoping that
Speaker 1: you get both. And we're not mentioning Neville Gallimore a
Speaker 1: whole lot in this equation at all. And that's a
Speaker 1: guy that also and also Carlos Watkins. You know, adding
Speaker 1: those big bodies is one thing, but we have Neville
Speaker 1: Gallimore who is a big dude that obviously, if he
Speaker 1: hadn't injured his elbow, the defense I think would have
Speaker 1: been on a different level as well. Right, and so
Speaker 1: him coming back and you saw immediately the defensive line improved.
Speaker 1: He didn't get a lot of opportunity with Urban, but
Speaker 1: I think with the combination of all of those guys,
Speaker 1: the defensive line should be better. I just think that
Speaker 1: this year dan Quinn is going to have the opportunity
Speaker 1: to move pieces around. Now having that maybe done to
Speaker 1: Fowler works in that equation, but I think moving Micah
Speaker 1: round has got to be on the front of his mind.
Speaker 1: Question for you, mail bag question, I guess who has
Speaker 1: a deeper bag this year with the personnelity that they
Speaker 1: have at their at their disposal, dan Quinn easy off,
Speaker 1: Tome over over Kellen Moore is what I'm assuming you
Speaker 1: were gonna ask. Yeah, dan Quinn by far got way
Speaker 1: more women. Yeah, Kellen still has sweapons, but he's limited
Speaker 1: to a certain extent. Dan Quinn's not limited. He's got guys.
Speaker 1: Uh real quick. Let's go to Brett in Austin our
Speaker 1: final call of the day. Brett, how's it going. You're
Speaker 1: on Talking Cowboys? Hey, glad to be honest, appreciate it.
Speaker 1: I've been a listener for quite some time and been
Speaker 1: following the Cowboys since nineteen a couple of years. Um.
Speaker 1: There are two things that I really saw from this
Speaker 1: draft that really made a huge impression on me. The
Speaker 1: first four picks absolutely were steels. Sam Williams is going
Speaker 1: to be everything that we thought Gregory could have been
Speaker 1: but wasn't because of all the off field stuff. But
Speaker 1: he is so fast, so busy, and so big that
Speaker 1: he's going to be great. And you've already talked about
Speaker 1: the wide receiver. And I really think that getting Smith
Speaker 1: in the first is what was tremendous because he is
Speaker 1: projected to be the left tackle of the future and
Speaker 1: moving him into guard is going to help him. And
Speaker 1: he's everything that Williams wasn't. Connor Williams was not never
Speaker 1: did live up to you know that that movement, and
Speaker 1: so I think that they really just especially on the
Speaker 1: first four picks, you hit home runs. But throughout the draft,
Speaker 1: one thing that I kept hearing over and over again
Speaker 1: and Golf written about it is the temperament, the nastiness, yea,
Speaker 1: the absolute just sure ballers that we got. I think
Speaker 1: I gave it an a. I gave thanks for thanks
Speaker 1: for the call, Brad, and I completely agree with you
Speaker 1: to a certain extent because they filled their needs. They did,
Speaker 1: and I love your your your passion and I love
Speaker 1: your your high outlook on things. Your positivity is the
Speaker 1: word I was looking for. I like his radio voice.
Speaker 1: He's got a great voice too, no doubt, And what
Speaker 1: do you guys think about what he said there? To
Speaker 1: cap things off? I think they they got guys that
Speaker 1: fit the characteristics of this team and of this organization,
Speaker 1: the direction that they're trying to go um offensively. They
Speaker 1: got a nasty all right. At the receiver position, they
Speaker 1: got somebody who's willing um they you know, at the
Speaker 1: the linebacker in defensive and position, they got somebody. They
Speaker 1: got two people who are who are tenacious and fly
Speaker 1: around and are going to have an impact. So they
Speaker 1: got character guys that are you know, we're talking about
Speaker 1: their their demeanors, we're talking about how they're taking mental reps,
Speaker 1: we're talking about all the things that you're asking for
Speaker 1: of a rookie to come in and do. They're doing
Speaker 1: those things. You're not having to train these guys to
Speaker 1: be better people, to be better students of the game.
Speaker 1: They already coming in with that mindset, and they come
Speaker 1: in with that mindset. They come in humble, they come
Speaker 1: in willing you can work with everything else you know,
Speaker 1: and I agree with everything you just said, and I
Speaker 1: think that you know, they Sam Williams and what he
Speaker 1: said about Sam's I think Sam, that's accurate. The one
Speaker 1: thing that I always wonder with Sam would he would
Speaker 1: we have drafted him if we signed Randy, Especially with
Speaker 1: everything that we already have. People forget about Chauncey Golston,
Speaker 1: uh and guys like that that already have a year
Speaker 1: under their under their belt. I think it's gonna be Uh.
Speaker 1: Sam's gonna have to battle on this onto this depth
Speaker 1: chart to get playing even as a second round draft
Speaker 1: pick um, you know, And I think that he is
Speaker 1: probably one of very few people out there in Cowboy
Speaker 1: Nation that really feels the way that he did about
Speaker 1: the guys that we got in the draft, because it's
Speaker 1: the great unknown, and it is not until we get
Speaker 1: these guys on the field that we even know how
Speaker 1: Smith is going to translate at the left guard position
Speaker 1: because he hasn't played since high school and so there's
Speaker 1: a lot of question marks surrounding this draft class, and
Speaker 1: obviously we're going to get the answers here in the
Speaker 1: next couple of months. Completely agree the question marks around
Speaker 1: Tyler Smith at first, we thought it might have been
Speaker 1: a reach, but the more you heard about from the league,
Speaker 1: they got him at the right value. They got him
Speaker 1: at twenty four. That was exactly where they needed to
Speaker 1: get him because if not, he would not have lasted
Speaker 1: two picks after that, because the value was there for
Speaker 1: Tyler Smith, great value with Sam Williams. I think he's
Speaker 1: got a chance to make the roster, make an impact early.
Speaker 1: He's got all the traits, you just gotta put them
Speaker 1: all together. Same thing with Jalen Tolbert, and I even
Speaker 1: liked the value on the back end. I'll skip over
Speaker 1: Jake Ferguson because I think that was pretty solid in
Speaker 1: the fourth but I would say the fifth round value
Speaker 1: that you got on Ridgeway and Clark, I think that's phenomenal.
Speaker 1: So I liked the draft class as a whole, I
Speaker 1: really do. I don't know if I would give it
Speaker 1: an A, but a B is certainly fitting their overall
Speaker 1: and I think the Cowboys will when we put them
Speaker 1: on the put them on the field, we'll definitely see
Speaker 1: exactly what they what they have from their rookie class.
Speaker 1: Before we leave. By the way, Jack Crawford, former Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys announced his retirement. So congratulations Jack. Ten seasons in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Good Jack was from the UK, Yeah it was,
Speaker 1: yeah Jack, Yep, Jack is done with the good dude. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one of one of Chris Beam's favorites. So that's gonna
Speaker 1: do it for us here on Talking Cowboys. We will
Speaker 1: see you again in a week for Chris Beam, Isaiah Stanback,
Speaker 1: heck My Harrison. I'm Kyle Yeoman's We'll see you next time.
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