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Speaker 2: I'm Kyle Yomans. Gentlemen. How are we doing today?
Speaker 5: Doing pretty good? Okay, good playing?
Speaker 6: Can't complain John, I was telling you guys before the
Speaker 6: show stair, I got bit by some fire ants the
Speaker 6: other day. Left my phone at home today. Oh yeah,
Speaker 6: so I got to after this, I gotta go run
Speaker 6: home and get it before the mcarthy Press camera too
Speaker 6: far from here.
Speaker 7: So that's good, But I was, I don't even know how.
Speaker 6: I'm on my phone all the time. I don't know how.
Speaker 6: I just got out of my car and I realized
Speaker 6: I didn't have it on me.
Speaker 5: This would be the one moment like crazy breaking news having.
Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 7: John's just gonna be like, can I borrow your laptop?
Speaker 6: I got the laptop baked, then okay I need to
Speaker 6: go to that.
Speaker 5: I can.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm going on sitting next to aunt Man.
Speaker 2: Ant Man and who's the wasp?
Speaker 5: Don't look at me? Don't look at me?
Speaker 4: Oh Man, Good Thursday. I mean, it feels like it's
Speaker 4: it's a turn of the page. We've we've turned the page.
Speaker 4: Usually we do that on Wednesday. But I think the
Speaker 4: excitement is starting to come back for from Cowboys Nation
Speaker 4: to to get ready and try and put that bad
Speaker 4: taste out of your mouth from last week and and
Speaker 4: do so against the Patriots this week. Cowboys were on
Speaker 4: the practice field yesterday, we were in the locker room.
Speaker 4: Felt like Nick and John, both of you guys were
Speaker 4: in there as well.
Speaker 2: I mean, it felt like there was a good vibe.
Speaker 2: It really did.
Speaker 4: It didn't feel like a vibe of okay, disappointment or anger.
Speaker 4: It felt like, all right, it's time to move on
Speaker 4: and get looking forward.
Speaker 5: Yeah, especially when you talk to the defense, you know,
Speaker 5: they've been very adamant about this being a one off
Speaker 5: type of bad performance and you know that they're going
Speaker 5: to rebound. This is not their standard. In fact, we
Speaker 5: were talking to jay Ron Curse and somebody had asked
Speaker 5: he really is and somebody had asked him. They were like,
Speaker 5: do you feel like a lot of things that Arizona
Speaker 5: had success with on Sundays is gonna be something that
Speaker 5: New England tries to do again this upcoming Sunday? And
Speaker 5: he was basically like, I hope they do, because we're
Speaker 5: not going to play the same as we did last Sunday.
Speaker 5: So I hope that they try to play the same
Speaker 5: things because we're gonna stop it. So it definitely looks
Speaker 5: like this defense has put it behind them. Even talking
Speaker 5: to Michael Parsons yesterday, very much the same feelings. I
Speaker 5: asked him, how do you kind of put a bad
Speaker 5: performance like that behind you and move forward? And he
Speaker 5: gave a pretty good quote just about you know, being
Speaker 5: able to take one game at a time and being
Speaker 5: able to you know, rebound from this and put it
Speaker 5: in the past. So I'm excited about this game because
Speaker 5: both of these teams have something to prove going into
Speaker 5: Week four. You know, we kind of talked about it
Speaker 5: being as must win as it could be in Week
Speaker 5: four yesterday, I think it's more so a prove it
Speaker 5: game for these two teams. You know, New England's coming
Speaker 5: in one and two have the possibility of falling to
Speaker 5: one in three, and they talked about coming into the
Speaker 5: season that you know there's still a playoff spot available
Speaker 5: for them, that even with the Bills, Jets, and Dolphins
Speaker 5: in this division, that they can they can compete in
Speaker 5: this division and get a playoff spot. And then on
Speaker 5: the other side, for the Cowboys, if they lose this game,
Speaker 5: all of a sudden, we're looking at five hundred going
Speaker 5: into San Francisco. So a really tough opportunity for Dallas
Speaker 5: if they come out with a loss here. So it's
Speaker 5: a prove it game for both of these programs.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 6: So if you said about the defense, that was my
Speaker 6: biggest takeaway from the locker room, just because of the
Speaker 6: fact that I feel like if covering this particular team
Speaker 6: something goes wrong on the defense, I would say that
Speaker 6: there's three key guys that I want to talk to,
Speaker 6: and that would be to Marcus Lawrence, jay Ron Curse,
Speaker 6: and Mike am I leaving anybody else.
Speaker 5: That's pretty accurate.
Speaker 6: They're usually the ones that are well one, they're in
Speaker 6: a position that they make major impact on the field,
Speaker 6: so also what they're saying, they can also back it up.
Speaker 6: You know, sometimes you cover teams at some of their
Speaker 6: you know, some of the backups might be some of
Speaker 6: the better talkers. That doesn't mean you can't get good
Speaker 6: stuff from them, but I feel like those three are
Speaker 6: kind of the voice of that defense. And I got
Speaker 6: the same takeaways as Nick was saying. I think that
Speaker 6: was the biggest overall thing from the locker room yesterday,
Speaker 6: just because today will be probably a lot more red
Speaker 6: zone talk and offense because we get CD and DAK.
Speaker 6: But thinking of press conference as in player availability and
Speaker 6: all that stuff, if you get a chance, go watch
Speaker 6: Bill Belichick, I guess today talk about the Cowboys. He
Speaker 6: opens his press conference with just like we're gonna start
Speaker 6: with Dallas and then just just so monotone the all
Speaker 6: the way through names almost every single player on that starter,
Speaker 6: and when it's done, it's five minutes. And so the
Speaker 6: five minute mark is what it took before he took
Speaker 6: his first question, which and a lot of the questions
Speaker 6: he takes. His answers are very short, but it is
Speaker 6: funny how he will do those long like the best
Speaker 6: one by far if you just look up Bill Belichick
Speaker 6: long snapper. Yeah, it was just someone asked him a
Speaker 6: random question a few years back, and he just breaks
Speaker 6: down all of the reasons why you know, they're specialist
Speaker 6: on teams and and and all these all these different
Speaker 6: special teams things that you can tell he genuinely enjoys
Speaker 6: that part of the game where a lot of people,
Speaker 6: especially where where the NFL is going now, where they're
Speaker 6: taking a lot of that out of the game with
Speaker 6: rules and things like that. But I don't know, that's
Speaker 6: just funny. If you get a chance, go look that up.
Speaker 6: I tweeted it out as a full quote, and a
Speaker 6: lot of people were upset that I didn't break it
Speaker 6: up in the paragraphs, but I couldn't. I maxed out
Speaker 6: what was allowed in the tweet. So yeah, five minutes,
Speaker 6: five minute answer. On his breakdown on the couch.
Speaker 5: He talked about every single player. He mentioned Brandon Aubrey,
Speaker 5: how he missed his first kick. He mentioned Jordan like
Speaker 5: he knew everything about everybody, he may as well be
Speaker 5: on the beat.
Speaker 6: So I threw that out and lo and behold, I
Speaker 6: did not. I tweeted it out because it's one of
Speaker 6: those where like you click on the more and it
Speaker 6: puts the whole quote out there, and I'm not even
Speaker 6: thinking a lot of people are gonna read it. I'm
Speaker 6: tweeting it out from just the look at how crazy
Speaker 6: this is type thing, and lo and behold, you know
Speaker 6: people are reading it. People to start firing back one
Speaker 6: after another. You know, he didn't mention, you know, he
Speaker 6: didn't mention. You know, he didn't mention dac dac d
Speaker 6: act d act act. I'm just like, oh my lord,
Speaker 6: I didn't even know. I didn't look at that closely
Speaker 6: to you even look at something like that. But that's
Speaker 6: there are some people out there and the magnifying glass
Speaker 6: out and we're just dissecting that whole thing. What do
Speaker 6: we got here? Who did he leave off?
Speaker 3: You know?
Speaker 4: So he does that like almost every week, Isaiah, right,
Speaker 4: like he builds up the opponent in his press conferences publicly.
Speaker 4: But there's there's yeah, there you go the but there's
Speaker 4: also like an intimidation factor with it too.
Speaker 7: I mean that's kind of what it is.
Speaker 4: You look at it and you see, okay, oh wow,
Speaker 4: he said these nice things about the Cowboys. That's great,
Speaker 4: and then everybody's like, oh gosh, he said these nice
Speaker 4: things about the Cowboys like that, What is the mental
Speaker 4: game the chess match that's going on with Bill Belichick
Speaker 4: when he does that.
Speaker 8: Yeah, he doesn't care to do the first of all, right, second.
Speaker 9: Of all, he doesn't feel as if he needs to
Speaker 9: disclose any information that's going to put him at a
Speaker 9: disadvantage whatsoever. That whatsoever. So he is the master of that,
Speaker 9: and that goes across the board. That's the expectation when
Speaker 9: you're in that locker room that you don't speak out
Speaker 9: about what you're He makes Adam in our meetings when
Speaker 9: I was out there, to not disclose anything, like you'd
Speaker 9: be as black as possible. Yeah, black and white, just
Speaker 9: as black as possible. Like, don't disclose anything, keep everything tight.
Speaker 9: It's not for them to know, Like what do they
Speaker 9: need to know for. That's really his outlook on it.
Speaker 9: He's not trying to he's not trying to be a jerk.
Speaker 9: He's just trying to protect his team, like that's his
Speaker 9: number one goal. His number one priority is to make
Speaker 9: sure that they're in the best position to win ball
Speaker 9: games and disclosing information that he has internally to the
Speaker 9: outside does not do that.
Speaker 6: One of the other things that he does that's pretty
Speaker 6: outstanding on their on their website is he gets his
Speaker 6: Isaiah on after games and breaks down one offensive play,
Speaker 6: one defensive play, and when special teams play. And that
Speaker 6: is really good, especially after in the previous years when
Speaker 6: they've played the Cowboys. Like to your point, you can tell,
Speaker 6: like in front of reporters that's probably not his thing
Speaker 6: that he loves. But when he's doing the breaking down
Speaker 6: the play stuff, he puts a lot of interesting things
Speaker 6: out there. And just using one as an example, there
Speaker 6: was it might have been against the Cowboys, but just
Speaker 6: how he broke down how they punted the ball one
Speaker 6: time because where the sun was ending at so he
Speaker 6: knew that if you could put it somewhere here, Like
Speaker 6: just the fact that he had out like, no, no,
Speaker 6: we punted it that way because you could tell in
Speaker 6: the stadium the sun was starting to get over there,
Speaker 6: and I was just like wow, Like just the breaking
Speaker 6: down the things like that that I'm sure a lot
Speaker 6: of coaches say, but just to hear him break it
Speaker 6: down like that, and as Bill Belichick and you're expecting
Speaker 6: him to be the guy that kind of like Greg Popovitch,
Speaker 6: isn't gonna say much, but I'm tell you when he
Speaker 6: gets in his element, like it's it's great stuff.
Speaker 2: Mad genius.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I magine genius.
Speaker 7: What's what are some of the other news and notes
Speaker 7: to look forward to?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got a few things coming out of practice yesterday.
Speaker 5: And again these are tweets via John Mashoda. That's a
Speaker 5: great looking at the Cowboys who did not practice yesterday.
Speaker 5: All three offensive linemen were working with the rehab group.
Speaker 5: We only saw two of them during the media portion,
Speaker 5: but all three did participate with the rehab group. Tyler
Speaker 5: Biottish still dealing with his hamstring, Zach Martin with his ankle,
Speaker 5: and Tyron Smith with his knee. I feel like there's
Speaker 5: kind of some growing confidence that at least one of
Speaker 5: them come back on Sunday, and I would have to
Speaker 5: assume that at least one of them come back on Sunday.
Speaker 5: And then Ceedee Lamb and DeMarcus Lawrence did not practice
Speaker 5: for rest non injury related reasons, and then Truemedia Doga
Speaker 5: was limited with his elbow that he's been battling since
Speaker 5: the Jets game.
Speaker 4: If you had since you're thinking maybe one of those
Speaker 4: guys comes back, if you had to put your finger
Speaker 4: on it, which one do you think is?
Speaker 5: I just don't feel like Zach Martin misses back to
Speaker 5: back games. That feels very uncharacteristic. Unless it's a worse
Speaker 5: injury than we expected, that would be my bet, just
Speaker 5: because he's mister iron Man.
Speaker 4: Do you think there's a chance that you go without
Speaker 4: Beaddish and without Tyron?
Speaker 5: The thing is, if you go without Beyadis, you're in
Speaker 5: an interesting position because you've already used all three of
Speaker 5: brock Hoffman's elevations, which means you're gonna either have to
Speaker 5: put Sean Harlowe in there, who the Cowboys picked up
Speaker 5: right after training camp, right before the season from the
Speaker 5: Giants practice squad, or Billy Price, who they picked up
Speaker 5: literally yesterday. So it's going to be a very fresh face.
Speaker 5: And they're playing center, which we've we've come to learn
Speaker 5: in this offense is becoming very important position to play.
Speaker 5: I Beatis is probably the most important one going into
Speaker 5: Sunday that needs to play. I think that's it's very
Speaker 5: crucial for him to be lining up at Center on Sunday.
Speaker 2: What do you think about that and the possibilities up front?
Speaker 9: It's not good. It's not a good week for that.
Speaker 9: It's just not a good week for that. These guys
Speaker 9: the defensive line of solid, they they go balls to
Speaker 9: the wall. It's not a good week to not have
Speaker 9: any of those guys. You need all five. It doesn't
Speaker 9: sound like you're going to have that. So game plan
Speaker 9: is going to be very important. And not that it
Speaker 9: wasn't already going to need to be important, but now
Speaker 9: if you're not going to have all five of your
Speaker 9: starters that you're intending to have, you got some stuff
Speaker 9: to figure out because these guys are going to be
Speaker 9: challenging for sure.
Speaker 6: I agree with Nick on the Zach Martin part of it,
Speaker 6: yet I do think that he would be the most likely.
Speaker 6: At least we got to see Zach and Tyler on
Speaker 6: the cords. We didn't even see Tyron Smith at all,
Speaker 6: so I thought that that was kind of an interesting
Speaker 6: sign there. And then also Mike McCarthy was asked about
Speaker 6: the potential of working Tyler Smith at some left tackle
Speaker 6: because of possibly not having Tyron Smith, and he didn't
Speaker 6: want to answer that, so that makes me think that, yeah,
Speaker 6: maybe he will get some work over there Tyron Smith,
Speaker 6: I mean Tyler Smith, sorry at left tackle, but still, yeah,
Speaker 6: that middle of the offensive line, especially with what they
Speaker 6: have at defensive tackle, that seems kind of scary for
Speaker 6: this particular game and the mad scientist on the other
Speaker 6: side of the ball coaching that's probably not great.
Speaker 2: No, not at all.
Speaker 4: Are you surprised on the fact that Tyler Smith did
Speaker 4: not bump out the tackle last week in the midst
Speaker 4: of everything happening on the interior? Are you surprised by
Speaker 4: that or is that something that you feel like is
Speaker 4: a really an emphasis from this coaching staff you want
Speaker 4: to keep him at guard.
Speaker 5: I'm not surprised because of the context of the situation,
Speaker 5: the fact that Tyron Smith went down just twenty four
Speaker 5: hours before the game started. They didn't get him any
Speaker 5: reps at left tackle. Probably, and y'all would have to
Speaker 5: correct me if maybe something happened at training camp. I
Speaker 5: can't recall Tyler Smith taking a rep at left tackle
Speaker 5: since since last season, so you wouldn't want to throw
Speaker 5: him in the fire like that in a game situation.
Speaker 5: So go ahead and Leudy Doga, who's been taking those
Speaker 5: reps at left tackle and Oxnard and sometimes in practice
Speaker 5: as well. Let him go ahead and throw in a
Speaker 5: left tackle, Let Tyler Smith go at left guard and
Speaker 5: then figure it out next week. Well now it's next week,
Speaker 5: so maybe they're figuring it out. Yeah.
Speaker 6: I think maybe there were a few at OTA's or
Speaker 6: mini camp before they like kind of made it like, hey,
Speaker 6: now we're going to go with this going into camp,
Speaker 6: started training camp. Yeah, no physicality right I started training camp.
Speaker 6: I don't think that he has.
Speaker 5: I do remember Tyler Smith taking some left tackle reps
Speaker 5: at OTA's that does ring a bell.
Speaker 6: But outside of since they got to ox Neard till now,
Speaker 6: I don't remember him. And from the portion that was
Speaker 6: over pinentially does. I didn't see him over there either.
Speaker 5: And they've preached versatility the staff since they've been here,
Speaker 5: and Mike McCarthy specifically, so they're they're going to play
Speaker 5: him at left tackle if they feel like they need to.
Speaker 5: It's not going to be like a, well, you know
Speaker 5: he's doing better at left Carlo's just keep him there
Speaker 5: while he's no. If they need it, they're gonna throw
Speaker 5: him out.
Speaker 6: There for this particular matchup. What do you think they
Speaker 6: would need him more at left guard, left tackle or
Speaker 6: does it matter.
Speaker 9: I don't think it really matters. I think holistically, you
Speaker 9: need a unit that's gonna work together. I don't I'm
Speaker 9: not out a fan of throwing him out there, put
Speaker 9: him on a yo yo. We need your tackle, we
Speaker 9: need drack Guarden. They did that last year. He went
Speaker 9: above and beyond the call of duty last year to
Speaker 9: fill that void for them. They opted not to address
Speaker 9: some things. So now kind of finding themselves in a
Speaker 9: situation again.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm interested to see going into this week, one
Speaker 4: who's healthy period and two where Tyler Smith ends up,
Speaker 4: Because if if Tyron's healthy, then I mean, of course
Speaker 4: you're gonna put him at left tackle. But if he's
Speaker 4: out for an extended period of time or maybe longer
Speaker 4: than we even anticipate from this standpoint, then maybe you
Speaker 4: do end up having Tyler Smith bounce out to the
Speaker 4: left tackle spot and kind of get right back on
Speaker 4: that yo yo that he had last year, back and
Speaker 4: forth between left tackle and left guard.
Speaker 2: Any other news and.
Speaker 5: Notes, Yeah, So obviously the big headline this week is
Speaker 5: that Ezekiel Elliott is making his return to Dallas. He'll
Speaker 5: play his first game, not only against the Cowboys, but
Speaker 5: back in at and T Stadium. He was asked yesterday
Speaker 5: on a conference call with the Cowboys beat Riders, was
Speaker 5: there any contract talks with the Cowboys after your release?
Speaker 5: You know what were those like? He said, there were
Speaker 5: minimum contract talks after he was released. Here's the quote.
Speaker 5: Business is business. Anyone who gets released or gets cut,
Speaker 5: it's going to be tough mentally, but life is life.
Speaker 5: It is what it is. It was on me to
Speaker 5: get back on the horse. You can't let negatives weigh
Speaker 5: you down. You got to take a negative and turn
Speaker 5: it into a positive. And that's what I'm working to do.
Speaker 5: So I think we all kind of expected the fact
Speaker 5: that maybe there were quote unquote minimum contract talks with
Speaker 5: the Cowboys, but I'm sure it was a situation where
Speaker 5: Jerry was like, look, man, if you want to return,
Speaker 5: this is your number, and then Zeke kind of went
Speaker 5: out and see it so if he could find a
Speaker 5: bigger number, and he did so I found that interesting
Speaker 5: from the call yesterday.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Zeke always going to present some storylines when you
Speaker 4: played against former players or former friends of yours. I
Speaker 4: guess from time at different spots did it ever stick
Speaker 4: in your head whenever you were going up against those guys.
Speaker 9: No, it's like a family reunion. I mean, it's you
Speaker 9: compete against these guys in training camp. You can you know,
Speaker 9: whether you're competing against them on another team. It's all competition,
Speaker 9: you know. You just you know, you go out there,
Speaker 9: you give it your best, You have fun, you talk, smack,
Speaker 9: and hope that nobody gets hurt. And that's really the situation,
Speaker 9: regardless if they're on another team or not. That's just
Speaker 9: the outcome. You know, you want to go out there,
Speaker 9: have a good time. You want to hit him in
Speaker 9: the mouth, talk mess to him. I got you, you know,
Speaker 9: put it on film, have a little have a little
Speaker 9: uh what's the word. I'm looking for little bragging rights.
Speaker 9: And then after that, you know, you just hopefully everybody
Speaker 9: just walks away healthy and you can go on switch jerseys,
Speaker 9: do all the other stuff out of the game, and
Speaker 9: I'll talk to you later.
Speaker 8: We'll link up in off season type of deal.
Speaker 5: Who Getsi's jersey?
Speaker 9: Hollard No, definitely, Dak, Yeah, I think yeah, that's got.
Speaker 6: To be Actually, second would probably be Mica. I just
Speaker 6: I'm looking forward to them going against each other because
Speaker 6: there was just a lot of times a training camp
Speaker 6: where that's I feel like, I feel like Micah's rookie year,
Speaker 6: he was playing more linebacker, and I felt like in
Speaker 6: training camp that's where you really got to see his
Speaker 6: speed during his rookie season, because you'd see how quickly
Speaker 6: he'd close on Zeke on some runs. And of course,
Speaker 6: you know they're the training game. They're not tackling to
Speaker 6: the ground or anything, but they've been in those situations
Speaker 6: many at times and joking back and forth with each other.
Speaker 6: I remember on some of those practices that reporters were
Speaker 6: allowed to be at, so I know that they've had
Speaker 6: those behind the scenes. Then there's that whole you know,
Speaker 6: Ohio State Penn State thing. So those two I want
Speaker 6: to see the most because they they have somewhat similar
Speaker 6: personalities too, where I really feel like they they know
Speaker 6: how to they're superstars with the Cowboys, and they knew
Speaker 6: how to like kind of they became faces franchise type
Speaker 6: guys to like that, big personalities and things. So those
Speaker 6: two particularly, I'm looking to see if they there's any
Speaker 6: situations where they get a chance to you know, kind
Speaker 6: of you know, hit each other or you know, Zeke
Speaker 6: puts his head down like you know, tries to leap over.
Speaker 6: I don't think he'll do that.
Speaker 9: I started to put in a hat because he's actually
Speaker 9: weren't the same number of jersey that I had when
Speaker 9: I played in New England.
Speaker 2: Mmm, you wore that fifteen.
Speaker 9: I started with nine because I was playing. I came
Speaker 9: in as a quarterback. But as soon as I start
Speaker 9: entering the game as a receiver, the leagues and a
Speaker 9: memo to the team and said, hey, even though you
Speaker 9: have him listened as a quarterback, if he's going in
Speaker 9: the game as a receiver, you have to give him
Speaker 9: at least a quarterback number. So I had just switched
Speaker 9: to fifteen, so I was still be on the quarterback
Speaker 9: you know list and turns on the depth chart.
Speaker 8: But when I went in the game, I had to
Speaker 8: have a two digit number as a receiver.
Speaker 5: Okay, this is something Roger Goodell came after you. That's
Speaker 5: the story here.
Speaker 8: Pretty sure he didn't do that.
Speaker 4: This is something he's in a personal letter to your address.
Speaker 9: So like in my closet, I have two different jerseys.
Speaker 9: I have nine and I have fifteen from New England.
Speaker 6: This is something that maybe only I'm interested in, but
Speaker 6: I'm always fascinated by this. What do you do with
Speaker 6: all of your old gear, like your old jersey's, helmets,
Speaker 6: stuff like that. Do you have it like out or
Speaker 6: do you keep it in the closet or I mean
Speaker 6: you ever look at the stuff or you just kind
Speaker 6: of throw it away to the side.
Speaker 9: I'm gonna check the box type of guy person. I mean,
Speaker 9: I played football, but I never identify myself as a
Speaker 9: football player. So you know, I've talked to Kyle about this.
Speaker 9: Achievements for me are just things that are along the journey.
Speaker 9: So I'm not one to keep admiring stuff from the past,
Speaker 9: you know, like my jerseys are in my closet, my
Speaker 9: helmets are just sitting up on a bookshelf. You know,
Speaker 9: ring is just put away, you know, I mean, I
Speaker 9: just don't look at that stuff.
Speaker 8: That often personally.
Speaker 6: Where you ever get anything from a former teammate, like
Speaker 6: a jersey or something like that, or from an opponent
Speaker 6: or anything like that, you know a lot of guys
Speaker 6: put them up and you know they're sports rooms things
Speaker 6: like that.
Speaker 9: We ever, my house isn't that big, so the jerseys
Speaker 9: that I have acquired, those are sitting in the closet.
Speaker 5: We're gonna come much the game once Sunday. In your
Speaker 5: Sports last thing, really really quickly, you were talking about
Speaker 5: Mica and Zeke. You're excited about that matchup. We did
Speaker 5: ask Michael yesterday about Zeke and he said, I feel
Speaker 5: like Zeke's coming for me. He used to tell me,
Speaker 5: you're lucky I'm not out there. I'd really get you.
Speaker 5: So he has an opportunity to go get him this week.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be fun. I'm excited to see what fifteen
Speaker 4: has in store. I'm excited to see what this offense
Speaker 4: does for the Cowboys to rebound against this Patriots defense.
Speaker 7: And he may not display the helmets or.
Speaker 4: The trophies or the Super Bowl ring, but you better
Speaker 4: believe that analyst in me is right from the center
Speaker 4: in that house.
Speaker 2: It's as soon as you walk in the door.
Speaker 4: It is sitting right there, and he's going to give
Speaker 4: you an Emmy award winning and ANALOS device. He's going
Speaker 4: to give you an award winning analysis when we come back.
Speaker 4: As we preview the Patriots defense in the Cowboys offense
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Speaker 4: Central Time. All right, Isaiah, your former team, your former
Speaker 4: head coach, the defensive mind that is Bill Belichick. What
Speaker 4: should we look for in the scouting report for the
Speaker 4: Patriots defense?
Speaker 9: Well, first of all, I think everybody knows that Coach
Speaker 9: Belichick changes up his scheme weekly, like literally weekly. I mean,
Speaker 9: they might have something that they do majority of the time,
Speaker 9: they might have tendencies, but they are going to literally
Speaker 9: change their defense according to who they are playing and
Speaker 9: what they feel is most threatening. No different than offensively,
Speaker 9: They're going to try to attack you where your weakest,
Speaker 9: and they're going to try to expose that defensively. Coach
Speaker 9: Belichick's gonna do the same exact thing. Regardless of what
Speaker 9: his title is, he's going to be the one called
Speaker 9: the shots on that he wants to play single high.
Speaker 9: This is a single high team, especially if they don't feel.
Speaker 8: Threatened by your pass.
Speaker 9: So when as you look at some of their most
Speaker 9: recent games, their game plan against the Jets is totally
Speaker 9: different against than their game plan against Miami to completely.
Speaker 9: I mean, you turn to field one, it couldn't as
Speaker 9: different in any different than it was Miami. They went
Speaker 9: three safeties across the top.
Speaker 5: I was just going to say they have three high
Speaker 5: against firing mean, is it to account for the speed
Speaker 5: that they have.
Speaker 9: It's not the only account for the speed, But Miami
Speaker 9: a lot of times their routes that they get open
Speaker 9: or over the middle crossing routes. So by having a
Speaker 9: three high safety, their game plan against Miami specifically was
Speaker 9: to take away that crosser. So whether they were taking
Speaker 9: those safeties and pumping them back and dropping the middle
Speaker 9: safety down to a cover two look, or whether they're
Speaker 9: taking those three safeties, dropping them down into a cover
Speaker 9: three look and putting that safety over the top. Either way,
Speaker 9: they were able to negate the over routes by waddle
Speaker 9: by Tyreek hill. They so they were able to get
Speaker 9: the speed and negate the routes that have hurt other
Speaker 9: teams a lot of the overs, and so instead of
Speaker 9: having to pass pass coverage across you know, and responsibilities,
Speaker 9: they have guys literally sitting in those holes. So Miami
Speaker 9: had to adjust to start running a lot more West
Speaker 9: Coast type offense. They started running a lot of shorter routes.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 9: So Dallas's offense actually works really well against New England
Speaker 9: because when they do go single high, they play off.
Speaker 9: They don't like to play a lot of press right.
Speaker 9: They like that it's a bend but don't break. It's
Speaker 9: always been Bill Belichick's way. He'd rather keep you in
Speaker 9: front of him than allow you over the top. So
Speaker 9: he'll play single high cover three, but he'll play his
Speaker 9: guys off about seven yards. Okay, So in terms of
Speaker 9: the West Coast offense, you're able to get a lot
Speaker 9: of your passes in right. The quick outs, the hitches,
Speaker 9: the flaars, all those kinds of things that they have
Speaker 9: been doing primarily in this offense to date. Those things
Speaker 9: should be open unless Belichick changes up and decides to
Speaker 9: press those guys up. He has an availability to do that. Obviously,
Speaker 9: with Christian Gonzalez playing the way that he's playing, it's
Speaker 9: his homecoming. I'm sure he'll have opportunity to come up
Speaker 9: and play a lot more press depending on who it
Speaker 9: is that he's going up against. Brandon Cooks has not
Speaker 9: been utilizing the way to threaten any defenses down the
Speaker 9: way to date. That's actually something that we'll talk about
Speaker 9: in I think film room or a special edition on
Speaker 9: one of those you do, yeah, winner, but there's an opportunit.
Speaker 9: I think this offense is set up to do well
Speaker 9: passing wise. If you are if you are patient, if
Speaker 9: you're patient, if you try to take your shots, well,
Speaker 9: we've seen Gonzalez make guys pay. If you try to
Speaker 9: take your shots and you're not safe about where you
Speaker 9: put the ball at, Peppers will knock your face off, right,
Speaker 9: So they have guys out there that can make some
Speaker 9: plays in the secondary. In terms of the defensive front,
Speaker 9: they got some dudes. They got some freaking dudes. Obviously,
Speaker 9: to one of everybody knows most about is Matthew Judon.
Speaker 9: He's absolute dog. Believe he has four sacts coming into
Speaker 9: this game, more than anybody on our team right now.
Speaker 8: And he is a complete problem.
Speaker 7: He is pretty he doesn't have a lot.
Speaker 9: Of versatility in terms of his style of rushing, but
Speaker 9: it's effective. It's effective. He wants to get up the field.
Speaker 9: If you have a short edge, he's gonna take it.
Speaker 9: If you try to get and try to stay high
Speaker 9: up on him, he's going to spin back. But they
Speaker 9: do a really good job of constricting the whole right
Speaker 9: Dietrich wise, obviously, he's another Dallas guy from out here.
Speaker 9: I don't know what high school we went to, but
Speaker 9: Dietrich's out there as well. He does a good job
Speaker 9: of just just constricting the whole high effort. Guy's long arms,
Speaker 9: really just pushing a pushing the pocket back, and really
Speaker 9: just making it hard for guys to get outside the pocket,
Speaker 9: whether that be the quarterback, whether that'd be running backs.
Speaker 9: There's not a lot of running lanes, so running the
Speaker 9: ball is difficult against these guys because they are so disciplined.
Speaker 9: They're not gonna they're not gonna be playing peekaboo. They're
Speaker 9: not gonna be they're not gonna choose wrong. They're gonna
Speaker 9: grab you, They're gonna drive you directly back to the quarterback.
Speaker 9: They're gonna try to restrict those those running lanes, and
Speaker 9: then it really does make it hard for you to
Speaker 9: just get out now behind those guys.
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, Dietrich Wise went to Hebren as well,
Speaker 4: So that was that was the local park product.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna go back to something that you said right
Speaker 7: at the beginning.
Speaker 4: For sure you were you were talking about three high
Speaker 4: looks in the way that they play. They don't like
Speaker 4: the press correct against the West Coast offense, at least
Speaker 4: that's what you've seen on film.
Speaker 2: They're backing up.
Speaker 4: They're not playing press or playing off but against the
Speaker 4: West Coast offense, something that works.
Speaker 7: Effectively is the press absolutely disrupt timing.
Speaker 8: I foresee that happen. You think they I foresee that happen.
Speaker 8: I think they.
Speaker 9: I think they go single high because they know that
Speaker 9: Dallas needs to get the run going. Okay, So you
Speaker 9: go single high because why because you're able to have
Speaker 9: set another safety in the box. So you have eight
Speaker 9: guys in the box. Now if you're not threatened by
Speaker 9: anything going deep, which they Dallas really hasn't shown much
Speaker 9: of that except for a couple of players by CD.
Speaker 9: Then all of a sudden, I'm gonname up and put
Speaker 9: my hands on you. All right, I have a big corner,
Speaker 9: a big rookie that can run with guys. He's fast,
Speaker 9: he's a fourth four guy, fourth three four four guy
Speaker 9: that can run. He's long, lanky, he's gonna disrupt your timing.
Speaker 9: The press disrupts your ability to run your outs. It
Speaker 9: disrupts your ability to be able to run your slamts. Right,
Speaker 9: and so I could take away a lot of things
Speaker 9: that you do that require timing, to Tyles's point, but
Speaker 9: also I have run support. So if I now can
Speaker 9: negate Tony Pollard, which is probably one of your obviously
Speaker 9: you're your one or two greatest threats, then what do
Speaker 9: I do. Now I'm able to start taking away a
Speaker 9: lot of things you do. Right, So, if I could
Speaker 9: have eight guys in a box, take away Tony Poller,
Speaker 9: because my defensive line, they're gonna have outside containment, they're
Speaker 9: gonna force everything back inside. My linebackers are freaking huge.
Speaker 9: Bentley number eight, well, he's a dog, complete dog. I
Speaker 9: like him in the running game out in space not
Speaker 9: so much. But in terms of their interior interior d
Speaker 9: linemen in their front seven, their run defense is pretty
Speaker 9: dog on good, but if you can get behind them
Speaker 9: in that second on that second tier, they don't do
Speaker 9: well in space. They'll try to bring Peppers down. Peppers
Speaker 9: isn't the greatest and coverage as well, but they'll hit you.
Speaker 9: They will hit you. So you have to make sure
Speaker 9: that you possess the ball. You got the ball location
Speaker 9: has to be on point because they're not going to
Speaker 9: take risks. They're not going to take the risk that
Speaker 9: will allow for most of the time for you to
Speaker 9: have those big plays. So in a nutshell, you have
Speaker 9: to you have to be really patient against these guys.
Speaker 8: You have to be really disciplined.
Speaker 9: Coach McCarthy's gonna have to be really methodical in the
Speaker 9: way and that he approaches the game. He's been doing
Speaker 9: so to date, I think, so I don't think that's
Speaker 9: a problem. I think that was more of a killing
Speaker 9: more issue in terms of him not wanting to be
Speaker 9: patient within this offense. But when you're running seventy five
Speaker 9: eighty plays a game, you have patience, right, you have patience.
Speaker 9: So I'm looking forward to seeing this battle, but it
Speaker 9: is going to be that it's gonna be a batter.
Speaker 9: As you start talking about the office a lineman and
Speaker 9: how who may or may not be here. That doesn't
Speaker 9: make me feel good. It does not made me feel
Speaker 9: good because you look across his line and there's not
Speaker 9: too many guys that are just absolutely just dominant guys
Speaker 9: that you have to be concerned about. But they're all
Speaker 9: high effort, they're all disciplined, they all do their job
Speaker 9: very well. They just don't get the recognition of a
Speaker 9: lot of other teams.
Speaker 6: The thing I'm most interested in on this side of
Speaker 6: the ball this matchup is that so Bill Belichick is
Speaker 6: known for always taking away like whatever your best thing is,
Speaker 6: and right now watching the Dallas Cowboys on offense, I
Speaker 6: think it's pretty clear the best thing they have is
Speaker 6: cd Lamb. And you add that in with the fact
Speaker 6: of what ced Lamb did the last time they played
Speaker 6: the Patriots. How do you think they try and take
Speaker 6: Is it just simple as oh, Christian Gonzalez is going
Speaker 6: to follow him? Or how do you think they try
Speaker 6: and limit what Cede Lamb does.
Speaker 8: Be honest with you, I think they may have Christian
Speaker 8: Zalez following.
Speaker 5: This is crazy because I had the same exact question
Speaker 5: he I'm just waiting for you like I was sitting
Speaker 5: there looking at John. You know that question.
Speaker 8: No, really, I really believe that.
Speaker 9: I believe so if I'm projecting in terms of what
Speaker 9: I've leave Coach Belichick is gonna do. I think he's
Speaker 9: gonna go single high safety. I think he's gonna come
Speaker 9: up and press. He's gonna put his hands on everybody.
Speaker 9: Bee Cooks has been negated to running short routes right
Speaker 9: the time. Be Cooks has been having to convert all
Speaker 9: of his rous versus two high safety, so they might
Speaker 9: roll coverage to him just to take him out of
Speaker 9: the game, take out the possibility to throw on the
Speaker 9: ball his way, and then come up in press CD
Speaker 9: because now I'm going to force Dak to be accurate.
Speaker 8: I'm gonna force Dak to be accurate down the field.
Speaker 9: That's if I'm Coach Belichick and what I've seen on
Speaker 9: film and what he's done, I'm gonna come up and
Speaker 9: put hands on I'm gonna disrupt your timing. Dak has
Speaker 9: not held the ball much beyond two and a half seconds.
Speaker 9: When he has held the ball past two and a
Speaker 9: half seconds, bad things happen. Right, So if I can,
Speaker 9: if I can play to that strength as much as possible,
Speaker 9: come up, put my hands on you. Let Judon go crazy,
Speaker 9: because especially if you have a tackle that's not true
Speaker 9: starting tackle, why wouldn't I let him go crazy? And
Speaker 9: then they bring pressure with with Judeon, they bring pressure
Speaker 9: with with Bentley.
Speaker 5: I like key On White as well. That's a That's
Speaker 5: another one they got that's just been really active off
Speaker 5: the edge. They got some guys.
Speaker 6: I just remember Christian Barrymore was a guy that when
Speaker 6: the draft was around, I remember it was a guy
Speaker 6: that talking about a lot just because that was this
Speaker 6: is pre Mazi, like, oh, this could be a guy
Speaker 6: that the Cowboys could get to potentially help in the
Speaker 6: middle of their defense. And I haven't watched them super close,
Speaker 6: but I mean it sounds like he's living up to
Speaker 6: you know, the high draft status he had coming out
Speaker 6: of his Alabama wasn't it. I don't remember who was it,
Speaker 6: Christian Barrymore, Barimore Barimore, Yeah, from family tackle. So yeah,
Speaker 6: that's another one that I just think when I think
Speaker 6: of these Bill Belichick defense, I usually think of them
Speaker 6: being pretty good in the middle of that defensive line
Speaker 6: always big.
Speaker 9: Yeah, they're always big on the interior, and they always
Speaker 9: have guys on the outside that have good size that
Speaker 9: could constrict and rush, right, That's what they just want
Speaker 9: to They just want to take this little bubble and
Speaker 9: just close it in. That's all they want to do.
Speaker 9: That's just want to take a big bubble and just
Speaker 9: close it in, right and make a hard to breathe
Speaker 9: for quarterbacks. And I think they're really going to test
Speaker 9: Dek Dek has not been forced to put the ball
Speaker 9: down to I think they are going to say, all right,
Speaker 9: have you fixed your issues.
Speaker 8: From last year? You know he only has one so far.
Speaker 8: Have you fixed that?
Speaker 9: Let's see, all right, you've been real comfortable sitting back
Speaker 9: there at throwing throwing little five yard six yard routes.
Speaker 8: Let's see what happens when you try to put it
Speaker 8: down a field.
Speaker 4: It goes back to what you were saying a second ago,
Speaker 4: where this is a team that doesn't get the same
Speaker 4: type of pet pub as it used to whenever they
Speaker 4: were in the middle of the Patriots dynasties. This defense
Speaker 4: is still nasty. Yes, this defense is a possible top
Speaker 4: five defense in all the NFL.
Speaker 8: You think so asolutely?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they're right there, if not borderline.
Speaker 4: So either way, they've It goes back to what we've
Speaker 4: always talked about the Dallas defense. Playmakers at every level,
Speaker 4: and you see defenses like that every once in a while.
Speaker 4: But it's not only just the playmakers at every level,
Speaker 4: it's the depth and the rotation that they have. And
Speaker 4: that's kind of like what Nick was just talking about.
Speaker 4: You have multiple guys that can rotate in and have
Speaker 4: some success.
Speaker 2: I'm most nervous about the.
Speaker 4: Way that the offensive line holds up against this front.
Speaker 4: That's where I'm the majority of the concern. I think
Speaker 4: you're still going to get separation with CD.
Speaker 2: I think Brandon Cooks finds a way to get separation.
Speaker 4: I think you can even use Michael Gallup a couple
Speaker 4: of times in this in this matchup specifically, But in
Speaker 4: terms of blocking the front seven from New England, that's
Speaker 4: where I have pause and I'm legitimately concerned.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I just I think that coach McCarthy's going to
Speaker 9: be tested more this week than he has all season,
Speaker 9: and in the regards that he's gonna have to open
Speaker 9: up the playbook, he's not going to be able to
Speaker 9: keep the same style of offense against these guys.
Speaker 8: He's just not.
Speaker 6: I did find it interesting thing I'm talking about opening
Speaker 6: up the playbook. How when there's these big leads and
Speaker 6: you're blown out the two New York teams, that's when
Speaker 6: you get a lot more of the you know, Cavante, Turpin,
Speaker 6: dude's fun. And then when it's a tight game, No, no, no, no,
Speaker 6: no no, no, guys, we're not doing that.
Speaker 9: You know what I'm saying, Like, well, I mean he
Speaker 9: tried so last week against the Cardinals, coach McCarthy tried
Speaker 9: to open it up a little bit. He tried it force,
Speaker 9: He tried to get the ball to beat Cooks. He
Speaker 9: tried to get the thing down the field, but it
Speaker 9: just wasn't time. Yeah, there wasn't. There was not time.
Speaker 9: So it's not that he's not trying to. Is that
Speaker 9: he's cut in a deal pickle because he's like, well,
Speaker 9: especially this week, I can't run my I'm most likely
Speaker 9: not going to be able to run my quick game
Speaker 9: the way I want to because of what most likely
Speaker 9: what Belichick's going to present in terms of press, in
Speaker 9: terms of guys being in the box and not a
Speaker 9: lot of throwing windows. So but I also don't have
Speaker 9: the time to sit back there with Dak and throw
Speaker 9: the rock. So now if I don't get my running
Speaker 9: game going, I can't get I can't get Dak on
Speaker 9: the move, I can't get guys on the over routes.
Speaker 8: Like what am I going to do?
Speaker 9: You have to be able to drop back and just
Speaker 9: throw the ball as well beyond ten yards, and that's
Speaker 9: what I'm interested to see how he's going to incorporate that.
Speaker 5: And that's what they did really well whenever they went
Speaker 5: up to New England a couple of years ago. I mean,
Speaker 5: Dak was really able to push the ball downfield Ceedee
Speaker 5: Lamb had a huge game. We all remember the touchdown
Speaker 5: end of that game, of course, but I would love
Speaker 5: to see some of that reintegrated, especially after what we've
Speaker 5: seen the first three weeks and everything's been so you know,
Speaker 5: dipping dunk. I want to see fifteen twenty yards downfield.
Speaker 5: I need to see that action. And I feel like
Speaker 5: that's what you're going to have to do after this game.
Speaker 6: Correct, that was such a play and just how everything
Speaker 6: that happened there because that game and everything was just
Speaker 6: taken off for the Cowboys on that play. It's a
Speaker 6: great play, but it's also the one where Dak treads
Speaker 6: his calf, and it was like even after he came back,
Speaker 6: it was just never quite like it was as it
Speaker 6: was going up that season. Sort to your point yesterday
Speaker 6: when you're talking about the Joe Burrow the calf thing
Speaker 6: and all that, like it is interesting because of course,
Speaker 6: like Dak's never gonna tell us, you know, week twelve,
Speaker 6: you know, you know, the calf still bothered me a
Speaker 6: little bit from the New England game, you know, so
Speaker 6: you're never really knowing that, but just their play was
Speaker 6: never the same after that. If you, okay, Dak aside,
Speaker 6: if you could just pick one player from the Cowboys
Speaker 6: that you say, hey, if they play their best game,
Speaker 6: the Cowboys would be good shape with this one. Who
Speaker 6: would you say? I mean, obviously I think Dak would
Speaker 6: be never one. But outside of Dak, is there you know,
Speaker 6: a wide receiver or offensive lineman or is it Collard?
Speaker 8: I think I think it's Pollard.
Speaker 9: Yeah, I think they have to find a way as
Speaker 9: tough as that matchup is going to be. I mean,
Speaker 9: I'm really trying to stress this defensive line because I
Speaker 9: could say names all day long, but people aren't. They're
Speaker 9: gonna recognize because the roles that they fulfill for New England.
Speaker 9: They don't have the big name guys outside of Juda.
Speaker 9: They just don't. But they do a damn good job
Speaker 9: of their responsibilities. They are well coached that I do know.
Speaker 9: They're well coached, and I think if you can't get
Speaker 9: Tony Pollard going, you're gonna find yourself in a rough
Speaker 9: spot against these guys. You know, because Coach Belichick can
Speaker 9: get in his bag, and he has a bag. He
Speaker 9: has a freaking bag, a deep bag. I mean, you're
Speaker 9: talking about somebody. You were just talking about it earlier
Speaker 9: in the segment about you know, his film study and
Speaker 9: how he's breaking things down. Listen, this is a guy
Speaker 9: who sleeps at the stadium sometimes, like legitimately sleeps, like
Speaker 9: has a cot in his office, like he does not sleep.
Speaker 9: Especially when they're wanting to trust me, he's he's gonna
Speaker 9: be in his bag. He's gonna present that he's not
Speaker 9: gonna do it just because though he's gonna wait until
Speaker 9: you're in a situation that you have to do something,
Speaker 9: and now he's gonna be ah got you. So you
Speaker 9: have to keep him on his heels. You know, they're
Speaker 9: gonna be and they're gonna They're gonna give a little bit,
Speaker 9: but run the ball. You have to be able to
Speaker 9: move these guys off the ball. If you can't move
Speaker 9: them off the ball.
Speaker 4: It was during this segment last week whenever you were
Speaker 4: outlining the Cardinals defense and what they did from changing
Speaker 4: coverages and the disguising of coverages. So because of that,
Speaker 4: there was a lot of pre snap post snap film
Speaker 4: watching this week from a lot of Cowboys fans out there.
Speaker 4: When we come back, I want to talk about Dak Prescott.
Speaker 4: Where is the pressure on Dak? How does he look
Speaker 4: at this pre snap post snap kind of like what
Speaker 4: he did last week, and how does it change moving
Speaker 4: forward against this Patriots defense When we come back with
Speaker 4: more talking Cowboys right after this.
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Speaker 7: You want to know something I learned about Isaiah standback today.
Speaker 2: I learned about it this morning.
Speaker 4: I got here a little bit early, got some breakfast
Speaker 4: and I kind of we get a chance.
Speaker 2: Of guess you wouldn't guess it.
Speaker 4: Speaking of super trusted superfoods, Isaiah's never had an avocado
Speaker 4: in his life.
Speaker 6: I could have guessed that.
Speaker 5: I haven't. Even right off the dome, I haven't either.
Speaker 2: You've never had an avocado.
Speaker 5: I've had gualk. But like, I'm not a hugequalk guy,
Speaker 5: Like I'll eat it if it's there, but.
Speaker 15: I have not.
Speaker 2: So he's there, he's not. I'm not.
Speaker 6: I've had it once. I'm not a fan. And you
Speaker 6: know what really made me not a fan of it
Speaker 6: is that it was at a party and so after
Speaker 6: like a few hours, like just the way when it
Speaker 6: was sitting out the way it looked, I was like,
Speaker 6: I'll never eat that again. Like it just I don't know,
Speaker 6: BWk roast to me, Like I don't know, it doesn't
Speaker 6: really have a huge, huge taste, but it just is one.
Speaker 6: I've got a huge Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5: Exact party animal. John Machow.
Speaker 4: He said he was at the party for so long
Speaker 4: that the clock turned brown.
Speaker 2: That's what happened.
Speaker 5: Rough night, Rough night, Miller lights.
Speaker 2: Guys doing up there in Detroit, and man, yeah, I'm Okay.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I have ever thought that deeply
Speaker 4: about an avocado in my life, But I love av
Speaker 4: I love guacam only.
Speaker 8: It's great.
Speaker 9: My wife loves them, but she she could eat anything.
Speaker 9: I have a little kid taste.
Speaker 7: But do you really chicken fingers and fries?
Speaker 8: When I used to eat chicken?
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, when you used to that's fair. You're a
Speaker 2: shrimp guy now though.
Speaker 9: Right, yeah, you know what, I'm about to start eating everything? No, ky,
Speaker 9: what breaking news? Wait what I have to go to
Speaker 9: Africa after the season. The other time about I just
Speaker 9: went beans?
Speaker 8: Please?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 14: When is that?
Speaker 6: Send me a chicken?
Speaker 8: Been a minute? Been a minute since the last time
Speaker 8: I did something with a raising canes M.
Speaker 6: I don't think when was that? I think that that
Speaker 6: might be my Number one on my list of things
Speaker 6: that I can't.
Speaker 2: Live without is chicken.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the food groups, Yeah, and figuring out food like
Speaker 6: pretty much right there with I mean steak is is might?
Speaker 6: I don't know, But there's just so many different things
Speaker 6: that I don't know. Chicken, yeah, I couldn't give up chicken.
Speaker 2: A lot you can do.
Speaker 6: Wow, that is crazy.
Speaker 8: So grilling.
Speaker 9: I've been eating some of the stuff in a while, Jo,
Speaker 9: But I'm about to about.
Speaker 4: He's just now started eating fish again. He was complete
Speaker 4: vegetarian up until like this training.
Speaker 8: Camp for a while.
Speaker 6: That didn't change the way you felt or anything after.
Speaker 6: Like obviously playing in the NFL, and I would think that.
Speaker 6: I don't know, actually, now that I think about it,
Speaker 6: are there guys that are vegetarians in the NFL.
Speaker 5: There's one on the team. I forget who, Gosh, keep talking.
Speaker 6: I just think of and I don't know. For me
Speaker 6: for NFL, I always think of like protein. It's almost
Speaker 6: like in a way, like you know how a lot
Speaker 6: of these offensive linemen like Joe Thomas and some of
Speaker 6: these guys, right after they retire, like yeah, they slimmer
Speaker 6: right down. So I'm like, I'm just thinking because I
Speaker 6: think Tyrone might be like that where he has to
Speaker 6: eat so much to keep it on, you know, because
Speaker 6: he just burns a lot of calories like that. So
Speaker 6: I always think of, and I'm sure there's a lot
Speaker 6: of protein in your diet and that, but I'm just
Speaker 6: thinking of to keep that on to play in the NFL,
Speaker 6: because I always just think you have to have like
Speaker 6: an body armor, you know, on you a lot of different.
Speaker 8: Ways to get protein. Yeah, okay, lot different ways of your.
Speaker 4: Prosent interesting, that's the conversation I nick still searching.
Speaker 6: I mean I can see it in basketball and based
Speaker 6: on something, but NFL. I always think of that these
Speaker 6: guys are just just eating as much as they possibly
Speaker 6: can if you burn so many calories and you're working
Speaker 6: out and all that.
Speaker 2: But now, don't get it wrong. He still eats a ton.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he still eats.
Speaker 2: A lot, but just not not meat.
Speaker 8: Okay, not yet.
Speaker 4: Anyways, whenever he's going to go climb out kill him
Speaker 4: and Jarrow. That is not the conversation I thought we
Speaker 4: were going to have in this You.
Speaker 2: Brought it up. No I did. It's my fault, but.
Speaker 4: I'm interested, all right, Dak Prescott, you talked about pre
Speaker 4: snap post snap reads last week against Arizona.
Speaker 7: How will the Patriots challenge him in that same level?
Speaker 8: They just rotate late.
Speaker 9: It's not they don't do complicated things defensively, they at
Speaker 9: least not from the standpoint from the quarterback. I don't
Speaker 9: think that he's going to be confused as to what
Speaker 9: the defense is presenting. I just think it comes down
Speaker 9: to execution. I mean, you're not going to catch For
Speaker 9: the most part, you and these guys are still humans, right,
Speaker 9: They're just very dis point. They're going to be where
Speaker 9: they're supposed to be, doing what they're supposed to do.
Speaker 9: So you know, the defense is that that caused your
Speaker 9: concepts some issues. You got to choose right. You got
Speaker 9: to choose right. You're not gonna for the chances of
Speaker 9: you catching somebody out of place are slim to none,
Speaker 9: just because of how disciplined these guys are, and that
Speaker 9: obviously comes from their coach. But he just has to
Speaker 9: be just be smart, Just be smart with the ball,
Speaker 9: don't take don't take risks. You know, this isn't a
Speaker 9: team that you could take risk against. You know you
Speaker 9: don't want to do that. Keep them on their heels,
Speaker 9: make the right decision, and again be patient. He coach
Speaker 9: Belichick banks on you getting impatient. That's he He waits
Speaker 9: for you to make that one mistake.
Speaker 8: This is you are. I think the New England in
Speaker 8: general has been that way for a while. As we
Speaker 8: talked about the Brady.
Speaker 9: Versus Belichick thing, Like defensively, New England has always been
Speaker 9: the team where he's like, just don't make a mistake
Speaker 9: against these guys, just.
Speaker 8: Just work your way down the field. They'll give, they'll give,
Speaker 8: they'll give.
Speaker 9: Right, you can take your shots, but just don't make
Speaker 9: that one mistake because as soon as you make that one, Mista, I.
Speaker 6: Mean everything he's saying right here, and I think it's
Speaker 6: because I'm almost positive it happened in Arizona because we're
Speaker 6: just at that stadium, and it just makes me think
Speaker 6: of like everything he just described, even on that last segment. Two,
Speaker 6: it's really that that Patriots Seahawks Super Bowl. How it's like, yeah,
Speaker 6: the lead, you go downfield, God on the field, and
Speaker 6: I mean they're just maull and I mean you're just like, oh,
Speaker 6: Seahawks are gonna win this game. It's like boom, they
Speaker 6: get right on the goal. I know, probably should have
Speaker 6: given to Marshall Nations, but but yeah, but like you said,
Speaker 6: and then and then it's a guy like a Malcolm
Speaker 6: Butler where it's like we know Malcolm Butler's name, now,
Speaker 6: who knew his name before that play? I'll even I'll
Speaker 6: even say that there's some video of Tom Brady after
Speaker 6: the game, like way to go, Malcolm. I was like,
Speaker 6: does Tom even really know Malcolm that? Like?
Speaker 8: But not.
Speaker 6: I mean obviously does now, but uh, it was just
Speaker 6: one of those things where I will never forget that
Speaker 6: game because I was like, this is typical Belichick. They're
Speaker 6: gonna make this play at the goal line by somebody
Speaker 6: that you really don't know that well, and it's gonna
Speaker 6: won them a Super Bowl like that. It's just crazy.
Speaker 9: If you're on the field playing in New England, Yeah,
Speaker 9: he trusts you. It's just I don't care who who
Speaker 9: else knows your name. If you're on the field playing
Speaker 9: in New England, he trusts you. Because if you don't
Speaker 9: know what you're doing and you don't do it consistently,
Speaker 9: you're not going.
Speaker 8: To be on the field. Yeah. Period, point Blake.
Speaker 4: It's so interesting to think about the ins and the
Speaker 4: outs of the Belichick led franchise and what he's done.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's a legend for a reason.
Speaker 4: But it also presents a challenge even when they are
Speaker 4: one and two and this obviously isn't the same talent
Speaker 4: that they've had on that team and in that franchise
Speaker 4: for quite some time, but they're still going to bring
Speaker 4: a lot of.
Speaker 2: Those same challenges. Like John was saying, like.
Speaker 7: It reminds us of the Super Bowl Patriots.
Speaker 4: This isn't that team by any stretch of the imagination,
Speaker 4: but it is a team that's going to present some
Speaker 4: of those same principles and some of those same challenges
Speaker 4: to the Cowboys and make it happen. So did you
Speaker 4: ever find the name?
Speaker 5: I didn't. I found out justin Fields as vegetarian. That's
Speaker 5: all I found. I thought it was Jonathan Hankins, but
Speaker 5: it's not Jonathan Hankins.
Speaker 8: I think that'd been interesting.
Speaker 5: Somebody like that. That's just like you wouldn't have.
Speaker 9: A massive human Yeah, but there's a couple of documentaries
Speaker 9: that were talking about.
Speaker 2: Would it be Osa.
Speaker 6: No, No, I don't think so.
Speaker 4: We're just gonna start asking everyone in the locker room, yeah,
Speaker 4: are you vegetarian?
Speaker 6: You know, with the way everything's going though, with everything
Speaker 6: Isaiah said and knowing that Belichick background, and I'm sure
Speaker 6: the guys are getting hammered with that all week long,
Speaker 6: coming off that ugly performance against the Cardinals. I mean,
Speaker 6: I would just be stunned that if they were did
Speaker 6: I mean I was stunned watching about to say yeah, yeah,
Speaker 6: but if they put back to back games like that,
Speaker 6: I mean, that's that It's just time to panic a
Speaker 6: little bit, right.
Speaker 9: I think this is going to be the most physically
Speaker 9: challenging game that Dallas has had. Obviously we're talking about
Speaker 9: the cerebral aspect of it, but in terms of physicality,
Speaker 9: this team is built to beat you up. So that's
Speaker 9: how his teams are. I mean, Hero Nasha, the strength
Speaker 9: coach for the Dallas Cowboys. Now that's where I met
Speaker 9: him at I met him out in New England and
Speaker 9: I never ever lift the weights like that in my life.
Speaker 9: And I based upon their personnality they have. They're still
Speaker 9: that way. Their linebackers are six to two two and fifty pounds.
Speaker 9: Their d lineman or two ninety, you know, three hundred.
Speaker 8: Across the board.
Speaker 9: Like this is a physically demanding team. They want to
Speaker 9: hit you. Peppers is at the at the third level,
Speaker 9: walking him the way his way down. He's a big safety.
Speaker 9: You got Bentley who's walking down there, like these guys
Speaker 9: want to hit you in the mouth, you know. Ditrich
Speaker 9: Wise doesn't stop. He's just the most the lankiest, biggest
Speaker 9: dude you've ever seen in your life. His arms go
Speaker 9: down to his ankles and he just has a motor
Speaker 9: that's just out of his world where it's like a
Speaker 9: size twenty seven shoes.
Speaker 8: Some stupid right just just doesn't stop.
Speaker 9: Man, you know, like that's just their way defensively, and
Speaker 9: that's how they're going to approach it. So hopefully the
Speaker 9: office line can figure it out because physically it's going
Speaker 9: to be a blow bath.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The man, I'm excited for this matchup. I really am,
Speaker 4: because I'm excited to see a Cowboys rebound.
Speaker 7: Like that's what I think is.
Speaker 2: Going to happen.
Speaker 4: Like you said, if it doesn't happen, then I think
Speaker 4: it's panic mode a little bit.
Speaker 8: Where do you have the cap off?
Speaker 4: So yeah, so where the button is cover off, the
Speaker 4: cap is off, is your hand hovering, so your hands
Speaker 4: on your.
Speaker 5: I think it's I'm looking at it.
Speaker 8: Oh you're looking at it.
Speaker 5: I'd be like on my phone like okay, so we're
Speaker 5: sitting next to it.
Speaker 7: Yeah, just but but you would be able to get
Speaker 7: there quick.
Speaker 5: If you need it to uh yeah like captain open.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 9: So if it doesn't go the way you want to,
Speaker 9: like as your phone going down at that point and
Speaker 9: both eyes are going.
Speaker 5: To do but it depends how bad it gets. Oh
Speaker 5: gotch you Okay because let's look at it. If they
Speaker 5: lose this game down to two and two, traveling to
Speaker 5: San Francisco Sunday after a really physical game, after a
Speaker 5: really physical game.
Speaker 8: Yeah, this is back to back physicality.
Speaker 5: And you got to take two road trips out west
Speaker 5: to against two really good offenses.
Speaker 4: All right, well Cowboys, Uh, we will be back tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Nick is gonna give us three under.
Speaker 4: The radar players in this matchup that will make a
Speaker 4: difference on either side of the ball.
Speaker 2: So we'll have that tomorrow.
Speaker 7: Plus we'll have our picks as well.
Speaker 4: We'll give an update to the standings and how that
Speaker 4: went last week for US four in studio. But that
Speaker 4: does it for us here on this Thursday for Chris
Speaker 4: B and Isaiah standback, John Machoda, Nick Harris, I, Kyle
Speaker 4: Yoman saying.
Speaker 2: So long from the Star in Frisco.
Speaker 7: We'll see you tomorrow with some more talking Cowboys.
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