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Speaker 3: Welcome into Girls Talk, Boys Talk the Thursday edition. Short
Speaker 3: week for the Cowboys, short week for us, but let's
Speaker 3: just go ahead and get into it before we start
Speaker 3: looking ahead. A lot of people have asked me about
Speaker 3: can the Cowboys beat the forty nine ers. My response
Speaker 3: is if Dak has the time that he had behind
Speaker 3: that offensive line and makes the decisions that he made
Speaker 3: against the Bucks, which, by the way, hell of a
Speaker 3: defensive front. We talked about this the challenge that was
Speaker 3: the defensive line, then I think they absolutely have a chance.
Speaker 3: I love that Dak showed up to his scrum today
Speaker 3: when he talked wearing a hat that said Lineman lead
Speaker 3: the Way. And you know, I talked to so many
Speaker 3: people around here asking them about the offensive line. At
Speaker 3: times it felt like Dak wasn't really trusting his production,
Speaker 3: his protection when Tyler Biottish was out and apparently even
Speaker 3: though we don't look at Tyler Biottish as a Travis Frederick.
Speaker 3: That's what he brings to that offensive line. Even when
Speaker 3: you lost Jason Peters early in the game, to have
Speaker 3: your rookie Tyler Smith come in and switch positions mid game,
Speaker 3: I thought was incredibly impressive. And I loved what Dak
Speaker 3: had to say about just Tyler specifically today. He didn't
Speaker 3: realize he was twenty one, how young he is, but
Speaker 3: he said he's both a baller and a maller. I mean,
Speaker 3: we saw some of the cutups of him going up
Speaker 3: against the Vitavead. This week, it's gonna be Nick Bosas,
Speaker 3: so a big challenge. But my point in saying all
Speaker 3: of this is I just thought that was the best
Speaker 3: offensive line play we'd seen all season.
Speaker 4: Yeah, from a pass blocking standpoint, they were definitely out
Speaker 4: there fighting for every yard, and even with the interior
Speaker 4: you look at Videvea Hicks, those guys, it was a
Speaker 4: boxing match in there, like when those when Tyler collided.
Speaker 4: I was just watching that on film, just how much
Speaker 4: they were fighting to the last second to make sure
Speaker 4: that Dak had his time.
Speaker 5: And that's half of the battle.
Speaker 4: Like the way that the playoffs is gonna be You're
Speaker 4: gonna be going up against better players, like every time,
Speaker 4: there's gonna be better defensive linemen, and for your lineman
Speaker 4: to just hang in there.
Speaker 5: Well, Tyler dominated, but for.
Speaker 4: The interior to just at least hang in there with
Speaker 4: some of the most dominant DT's in the game.
Speaker 5: Oh heck.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I was impressed by the offensive line play too.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 7: We talked yesterday about like the physicality, how surprising it
Speaker 7: is when you see it out of Tyler Smith. Zach
Speaker 7: Martin also didn't know that Tyler's literally like the youngest
Speaker 7: guy in all of the building. So it's fun just
Speaker 7: to see his development. And we've talked about how it's
Speaker 7: hard to consider him a rookie anymore because of how
Speaker 7: well he's played. We joked about the Devin White throwing
Speaker 7: him around like a sled. So it's just it's so
Speaker 7: interesting to see his development and how he's become a
Speaker 7: staple in that line, how he's become one of the leaders,
Speaker 7: one of the guys that you want to have on
Speaker 7: that line. And I love that you brought up the
Speaker 7: lineman lead the way. I interviewed Aviant Collins, who is
Speaker 7: the creator of that brand, and I asked some of
Speaker 7: the guys Connor McGovern, Zach Martin in the locker room
Speaker 7: what that brand means Lineman lead the way? What that means.
Speaker 7: AVIANC kind of explained it to me as we get dirty,
Speaker 7: so Dak can stay clean. And so it's just the idea,
Speaker 7: the notion of that. You know, the linemen are the
Speaker 7: ones who are kind of dictating what happens. And what
Speaker 7: we talked about yesterday was how long Dak had to
Speaker 7: throw the ball. I think it was what like his
Speaker 7: time to throw the ball with when he had two
Speaker 7: and a half or more seconds, he had so much
Speaker 7: more time, has had more completions that way. I think
Speaker 7: he had an average throw time of let me see,
Speaker 7: two hundred two point eight four seconds in the pocket
Speaker 7: just to throw and make those decisions. So when you
Speaker 7: talk about the success of Dak Prescott, you can't talk
Speaker 7: about that without talking about how well the Linemen were
Speaker 7: leading the way. So I'm really excited for that story
Speaker 7: to drop. It drops in Pregame Live on Sunday, So
Speaker 7: thank you for that.
Speaker 3: I can't make use that as one of my hits.
Speaker 3: I can get a copy of the the Hat because
Speaker 3: I thought, I loved seeing them give the shout out,
Speaker 3: especially because it was the fifth offensive line combo they'd
Speaker 3: had this year. They decided to go with Jason Peters
Speaker 3: at left tackle in this one to give Dak the
Speaker 3: best chance up front, and then he went down early
Speaker 3: and then you know, we'll talk about entries a little bit.
Speaker 3: But Jason Peters seems like the one that there's still
Speaker 3: like a big question mark on him as relates to Sunday,
Speaker 3: and his availability was off to the sides. He wasn't
Speaker 3: dressed out but working on the resistance chords. But it
Speaker 3: felt like they had an answer in this game even
Speaker 3: when he went down.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I was talking to Tyler bi Ottisch in the
Speaker 8: locker room today and I said, how does it feel
Speaker 8: to be so good at communicating? That's not a skill
Speaker 8: a lot of people have. And he said, it's my job.
Speaker 8: I take pride in that. And so when I was
Speaker 8: talking to him, I said, as a communicator, you have
Speaker 8: to communicate with different people in different ways. How do
Speaker 8: you know how to do that when the O line
Speaker 8: is constantly shifting? And he said, that just goes back
Speaker 8: to the chemistry with the guys. He said that goes
Speaker 8: back to OTAs that goes back to training camp and
Speaker 8: all this time that they've spent together outside of being
Speaker 8: on the field. And something that he said, Mike McCarthy
Speaker 8: stresses is with every rep, whether it be in practice,
Speaker 8: a walkthrough, a full practice, what have you, that the
Speaker 8: mindset has to be there, that fast paced mindset. And
Speaker 8: he said he takes so much pride in being that
Speaker 8: one staple that communicates yes for your front linemen, but
Speaker 8: also everybody else, he said, because it ties back to
Speaker 8: your backs, your tight ends, your receivers, he said, everybody
Speaker 8: kind of relies on him, he said, and I take
Speaker 8: so much pride in that. And so as far as
Speaker 8: him communicating and shifting how he communicates, he said, you know,
Speaker 8: how I communicate with Tyler Smith is different than how
Speaker 8: I communicate with Jason Peters, he said. But it's knowing
Speaker 8: the guys so well that are next to you, and
Speaker 8: you know how to communicate with them individually and knowing
Speaker 8: their tandems, is what he said. So I thought that
Speaker 8: was a really interesting little nugget from him, but it
Speaker 8: showed it showed that the communication was back to back,
Speaker 8: and it also showed the confidence that they were playing with.
Speaker 8: I think this was a different kind of confidence that
Speaker 8: you saw from this O line on Monday.
Speaker 3: Credit to Joe Philbin too. You know, there were times
Speaker 3: at camp and even endgame where we would see some
Speaker 3: of these different offensive line combas and you sort of
Speaker 3: find yourself going, what are we doing here? Wehre aren't
Speaker 3: you just rolling the best available? But we had talked
Speaker 3: about this ahead of this game, how they were very
Speaker 3: particular about making sure that each week they were getting
Speaker 3: ten to twelve reps at different line combinations, and like
Speaker 3: I said, it paid off. I mean, when you typically
Speaker 3: are going to lose your starting left tackle and a
Speaker 3: game against the Bucks in that front seven, that would
Speaker 3: normally be a bad thing. Yeah, But the fact that
Speaker 3: they were able to adjust on the fly as well
Speaker 3: as they did. Now you lost an element of having
Speaker 3: Connor McGovern be an having him available to be a
Speaker 3: fullback for you into some of those jumbo packages, so
Speaker 3: it sort of took away a little bit of a
Speaker 3: wrinkle in your offense. But the fact that they were
Speaker 3: able to go in there and stabilize and fortify that line.
Speaker 3: I just remember watching the game in real time, going,
Speaker 3: it feels like he's got forever in the pocket, particularly
Speaker 3: on what was it that fourth and Ford to see
Speaker 3: Lamb when the protection brote down, he had all the
Speaker 3: time in the world to throw that ball. And so
Speaker 3: I think all of these things go hand in hand,
Speaker 3: and it was nice to see these cowboys kind of
Speaker 3: put this together, particularly against what felt like a boogeyman
Speaker 3: heading into this game.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I agree, I think the challenge will be a
Speaker 7: little bit steeper going into Sunday's game. I mean, like,
Speaker 7: I don't think you can talk about defense without mentioning
Speaker 7: Nick Bosa. I mean, he's insane the things that he's
Speaker 7: able to do. Mike McCarthy talked about his ability today
Speaker 7: and just what he brings to the table. So I
Speaker 7: feel much more confident going into this one from an
Speaker 7: offensive line standpoint, just getting you seeing that you can lose.
Speaker 7: Adjason Peters and we talked yesterday like it didn't even
Speaker 7: feel like there was a change in the line. It
Speaker 7: just they were like, all right, next man up, let's go.
Speaker 7: And I feel like because they had all of that experience,
Speaker 7: all that resilience as they like to use the word
Speaker 7: around here, in those different combinations that they were like, well,
Speaker 7: this isn't anything new, like let's do it again. So
Speaker 7: it makes me feel better when you have that protection
Speaker 7: and you're going against a Nick Bosa and some of
Speaker 7: those other guys on the San Francisco forty nine ers line.
Speaker 3: So the other thing that stood out to me in
Speaker 3: this game is when we're not talking about you, it
Speaker 3: means you probably did a really good job when we're
Speaker 3: talking defense specifically, Yeah, Xavier Roads, Yeah, I thought he
Speaker 3: did a hell of a job filling in there in
Speaker 3: the sense that we aren't talking about Xavier at all
Speaker 3: this week and he had only been here what eight days.
Speaker 7: Before he got the start, and I think he had
Speaker 7: three practices prior to playing.
Speaker 3: Which is wild. Yeah, I just felt like I felt,
Speaker 3: And they need that answer heading into this game because
Speaker 3: we talk about the challenge of the forty nine ers,
Speaker 3: Brandon Ayuk, Deebo Samuel, particularly those yards after the catch
Speaker 3: when you're talking about Christian McCaffrey. They need guys that
Speaker 3: are going to tackle, that are going to not allow
Speaker 3: these guys to get those extra yards. I don't know
Speaker 3: about you, guys, and I'm curious your thoughts on this. Ayisha,
Speaker 3: Xavier Roads, do you think they found an answer there.
Speaker 5: I honestly think.
Speaker 4: That it might be easy. I honestly think it might that.
Speaker 4: I mean talk about a wrinkle. We had none of us.
Speaker 3: With the for safeties that they decided to employ in
Speaker 3: this game too.
Speaker 5: But he played as a corner.
Speaker 4: He played nickel corner, and again, like we had talked,
Speaker 4: I know, I had talked to Israel multiple times this season,
Speaker 4: and he felt like he was equip for the job.
Speaker 5: And for dan Quinn to just be like.
Speaker 4: Got you you guys thought it was gonna be on
Speaker 4: the sideline, just kidding because when that an active list
Speaker 4: came out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we were weren't you shook? Like I was shocked
Speaker 3: by that.
Speaker 5: It's happening right now.
Speaker 4: And but they had a plan and they just moved
Speaker 4: Israel back to his original position, you know, playing corner.
Speaker 4: But I think they really found something with him specifically
Speaker 4: in that nickel spot, because that's it looks like that's
Speaker 4: going to allow drawn Bland or or Xavier Roads.
Speaker 5: To go outside.
Speaker 4: But at the same time, like when talk about Branda
Speaker 4: Ayyuk and those guys that really play in the middle
Speaker 4: of the field, you're gonna have guys, You're gonna need
Speaker 4: guys that are okay, we'll get in through the trash
Speaker 4: because they have a lot of crossing routes. They do
Speaker 4: pick stuff, they do all this stuff and to throw
Speaker 4: off their timing. So I like, I actually like this
Speaker 4: group of young dbs and Deron Bland, Donovan Wilson, all
Speaker 4: those guys who are willing to come up and tackle
Speaker 4: because this is.
Speaker 5: A YAK team.
Speaker 3: Donovan Wilson's the guy we don't talk about him MVP.
Speaker 3: If you start looking at you know, if you guys
Speaker 3: are following the game and you start going by, you know,
Speaker 3: the plays and you're tracking, He's in on everywhere almost
Speaker 3: every other play. And we really don't talk enough about
Speaker 3: Donovan Wilson.
Speaker 4: And he's gonna be needed in this game with Christian
Speaker 4: McCaffrey running the ball him Micah, maybe a linebacker like
Speaker 4: sedding the tone early for those guys those because Christian
Speaker 4: is a once he gets started, he's difficult to slow down.
Speaker 4: He's very much so a momentum runner. And so I'm
Speaker 4: looking at Donovan especially to be in this box and
Speaker 4: really be trying to shut down.
Speaker 3: How about Jonathan Hankin's first sack of the game. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the guy that's just been literally saying for a couple
Speaker 3: of weeks, I'm ready to go.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I thought he did a lot to fortify I mean
Speaker 3: the run defense, because when you talk about this team,
Speaker 3: you know, we had talked, even talked to Mike about
Speaker 3: this today. I said, have you faced a player like
Speaker 3: Christian McCaffrey yet? And he said no, and particularly not
Speaker 3: a Christian McCaffrey, Deebo, Samuel Combo. That's why to see
Speaker 3: Layton Vandersh play lights out and his first game back,
Speaker 3: the fact that jay Ron's not having to come back
Speaker 3: from the secondary to set the defense, you just you felt,
Speaker 3: not that I was surprised by this, but when I
Speaker 3: heard Mike McCarthy the week before tell me Late into
Speaker 3: the quarterback of the defense, I always kind of thought
Speaker 3: of Micah as that. But I thought that was interesting
Speaker 3: that he called it. I mean, obviously you wear the
Speaker 3: green dot, you're typically the quarterback of the defense, but
Speaker 3: always kind of looked at Micah. So I thought that
Speaker 3: was interesting and the way the guys talked about Late
Speaker 3: and because look, there were some years I think that
Speaker 3: were tough for him, particularly finding his way when the
Speaker 3: Jalen hype train was you know, running down the track.
Speaker 3: It was kind of what was his role, right and
Speaker 3: then he was dealing with the injuries. So I loved
Speaker 3: seeing that game from him, but I also loved just
Speaker 3: seeing Jonathan Hankins back. It gave you a little bit
Speaker 3: more confidence in what they've been able to do at
Speaker 3: the run, because I think we still had a lot
Speaker 3: of question marks about that heading into this postseason.
Speaker 8: I also think too, with the Xavier Roads though we
Speaker 8: didn't get to see much of him because the D
Speaker 8: line was in tom Brady's face. There was never time
Speaker 8: for him to really shine during this game because business
Speaker 8: was taking care of right in front. The pocket was collapsing,
Speaker 8: they were batting balls, they were in tom Brady's face,
Speaker 8: which is exactly the quickness that they needed to shut
Speaker 8: him down. So that way tom Brady didn't have time
Speaker 8: to bully those CBS. He didn't have time to do
Speaker 8: any of that.
Speaker 7: I just wanted to go back to Donovan Wilson really fast.
Speaker 7: Next Gen has become like my off season project to
Speaker 7: get proficient at. This is his tackle chart. So when
Speaker 7: you talk about like a guy played all over the place,
Speaker 7: he is from literally sidelined to sideline it's hard to
Speaker 7: see on the camera, but he's been a guide to
Speaker 7: me that has just quietly or not so quietly, been
Speaker 7: the MVP of this team. I think when there's been
Speaker 7: issues at that set cornerback spot, like he's the guy
Speaker 7: that you go to, I think every week other than
Speaker 7: like this past week with Leyton vanderash he's led the
Speaker 7: team in tackles, He's getting sacks, like. He's just a
Speaker 7: guy who I think is going to be so beneficial
Speaker 7: in a game like this where you're trying to limit
Speaker 7: the YAK. I think when you have a guy like
Speaker 7: Donovan who's not afraid to be physical, who's not afraid
Speaker 7: to get up in their face. Me and Patrick always
Speaker 7: describe him as like a rocket because like you watch
Speaker 7: him and he's like and so it's just really exciting
Speaker 7: to have a guy like that, especially in a matchup
Speaker 7: like this where you're gonna need some help in that area.
Speaker 3: Particularly before I wrap this Sep Jay Run Curse. Even
Speaker 3: when you saw him come off the field, you started
Speaker 3: to feel like that defense sort of let up a
Speaker 3: little bit. I don't know what it is about j
Speaker 3: Run Curse, but he's a little bit of that secret
Speaker 3: sauce when it comes to defense. And you know, look,
Speaker 3: he didn't practice. He's very limited today, sort of off
Speaker 3: on the cords. But he told reporters he's going to
Speaker 3: play on Wednesday, and I was told he's expected to play.
Speaker 3: So I think that's good for the Cowboys. You know,
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Speaker 3: Well, guys, I decided that I am too emotionally weak
Speaker 3: to be a football player in the NFL because the
Speaker 3: criticism that can be lodged at some of these guys
Speaker 3: in real time is rough, and it seems like it
Speaker 3: doesn't go away until you. As they say in journalism,
Speaker 3: you're only as good as your last story. You're only
Speaker 3: as good as your last good game. Right, And so
Speaker 3: for Brett Maaher, it's one thing to watch it on TV,
Speaker 3: but to be in the stadium and just the it
Speaker 3: was just the shock throughout the stadium, Tampa Bay and
Speaker 3: Cowboys fans alike. And then to look down at the
Speaker 3: bench and then to catch even Dak in a rare
Speaker 3: moment of frustration about the need to go for two.
Speaker 3: It you watched him actually unraveling on airon I don't
Speaker 3: know if you guys have ever had just a bad
Speaker 3: day at the office where you find yourself going I
Speaker 3: just want to go home. Nothing is going right. I
Speaker 3: felt like that was a sort of day for Brett Maher.
Speaker 3: They told us they were going to explore options. They
Speaker 3: bring in Tristan Vscano is what we've decided his actually
Speaker 3: visit and I was out of practice today. You were there,
Speaker 3: weren't you. Yeah, let's hope it's not Tristan, because Tristan
Speaker 3: is first and fourth didn't go in his second, third,
Speaker 3: and fifth. Y'all, it went left, then it went right.
Speaker 3: It looked like my golf swing on a tough day
Speaker 3: with the wind, and it was. It was roughly about
Speaker 3: twenty miles per hour out there at times the day
Speaker 3: it was going. But the good news for Cowboy fans,
Speaker 3: Brett Maher nailed every single one. He was six for
Speaker 3: six for what we saw from the open portion to
Speaker 3: the media, and I loved that. You know, Mike McCarthy
Speaker 3: said he was in the building early on Tuesday immediately
Speaker 3: working on this. You had John Fossil saying he wanted
Speaker 3: him to be his guy, that he was distraught. The
Speaker 3: first couple were seemingly mechanical. Then it really got in
Speaker 3: his head. But everyone around the building seems to think
Speaker 3: that money Maher is going to bounce back, and I
Speaker 3: think it's true. Right, Yeah, everybody has an off day.
Speaker 3: He was fifty of fifty three in extra points this season.
Speaker 3: The only guy that was better than him though, was
Speaker 3: Robbie Gould with the forty nine ers. So Cowboys cannot
Speaker 3: afford to miss that extra point. But I will be
Speaker 3: interested to see if they actually travel with this guy
Speaker 3: or if they brought him here to kind of push Brett.
Speaker 3: I just I hope he just was. Maybe it was
Speaker 3: first day out there jitters in front of the media,
Speaker 3: but it didn't give me a lot of confidence.
Speaker 7: Yeah, where I get where I lean more towards this
Speaker 7: feels like a insurance slash. We need Brett to just
Speaker 7: have that motivation. And we talked before the show started.
Speaker 7: It was very similar to the OBJ chats that kind
Speaker 7: of motivated CD. Whether he admits that or not, it
Speaker 7: motivated him. The timeline matches up, so I kind of
Speaker 7: feel like it's similar in that regard, but also too
Speaker 7: you have to think about it from a logistics standpoint,
Speaker 7: like at this point in the playoffs, like you can't
Speaker 7: afford to just be elevating guys and putting them on
Speaker 7: the game day roster just to have them on there
Speaker 7: as insurance, right, because then what are you sacrificing. You're
Speaker 7: putting two kickers on your roster and losing it where
Speaker 7: you're gonna have to go to special teams.
Speaker 3: Well, not to mention how physical this game was last year,
Speaker 3: how physical this game could exactly forty nine ers.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so to me, it doesn't feel to me, this
Speaker 7: feels like, Okay, Brett we love you, We need you
Speaker 7: to have a push out there on the practice field,
Speaker 7: get it done. Remind us that you're our guy because
Speaker 7: you've been that all season. And then in the events
Speaker 7: that for whatever reason, if they play on or if
Speaker 7: he plays and they win and he still has a
Speaker 7: bad game, now you go to that insurance and now
Speaker 7: you say like, hey, like we've got to figure this
Speaker 7: out at least for this next game. So I don't
Speaker 7: know that we see him, uh viscano is how we
Speaker 7: say a viiscano viscno miscano. I don't know that we'll
Speaker 7: see him on Sunday on the active roster. But it
Speaker 7: was refreshing to remind all of us, like Breads still
Speaker 7: that dude. He had a bad day, like you said,
Speaker 7: but it had a bad day also too.
Speaker 8: It's interesting because Brian Inger spoke earlier this week about
Speaker 8: what a bad field it was. He used to be
Speaker 8: in Tampa, so he can speak on this specifically as
Speaker 8: somebody who worked on that grass, and he said it's
Speaker 8: just a bad turf overall, and talking to a couple
Speaker 8: of people too who confirmed it's just not a good
Speaker 8: place to be kicking for kickers. It's very patchy and
Speaker 8: something that people don't consider about Tampa is the humidity
Speaker 8: and how that soaks into the ground and that that
Speaker 8: impacts the grass in itself because it's not just a
Speaker 8: top level of moisture. It's soaked into the dirt under
Speaker 8: and that's going to make it more slippery to begin with,
Speaker 8: which makes it more patchy and just easier overall to
Speaker 8: become more messed up field.
Speaker 3: I'd be curious how. I'd be curious how a background
Speaker 3: and points have happened in Tampa this year.
Speaker 8: Then it would be interesting to look.
Speaker 3: I don't know that.
Speaker 7: I want to say Bobby looked at the statistics for this,
Speaker 7: maybe give it, But I think I heard him talking
Speaker 7: about that on the radio earlier in the week about
Speaker 7: kickers in Tampa.
Speaker 3: That's interesting.
Speaker 7: Maybe shoot imitated.
Speaker 8: Yes, Brian Inger I thought it was interesting too. In
Speaker 8: his locker room interview mentioned how the NFLPA is this
Speaker 8: is something that's been brought to their attention, specifically about
Speaker 8: Raymond James Stadium because of the grass and just how
Speaker 8: bad it is condition wise for kickers in general.
Speaker 3: That's fascinating I learned, just like I never knew And
Speaker 3: shout out to Christy Scales I don't think people understand
Speaker 3: how good she is on the sidelines. Yeah great, but
Speaker 3: just bringing up the Wilson footballs and how they get
Speaker 3: there two and a half hours ahead of kick each
Speaker 3: team gets three balls, and how they were literally going
Speaker 3: to have to go to Tampa and borrow one of
Speaker 3: their footballs because they were getting lost in the stands.
Speaker 3: I thought that was fast.
Speaker 7: I never knew that.
Speaker 3: I never even think to ask that. I also learned
Speaker 3: from Manning this weekend during the Manning cast that halftime
Speaker 3: adjustments don't exist. So now don't expect me to ever
Speaker 3: ask a coach, so tell me about your halftime adjustments,
Speaker 3: because apparently they don't exist. Quick turnaround. There's not a
Speaker 3: lot of examples that exist of Cowboy or any team
Speaker 3: for that matter, going on the road for a wild
Speaker 3: card game or a playoff game in general on a
Speaker 3: Monday and then having to turn around and play on Sunday.
Speaker 3: What does that actually mean for the Cowboys? Not only
Speaker 3: the fact they just got back from a West or
Speaker 3: East coast trip the last three weeks in a row,
Speaker 3: I'm exhausted, but now having to fly West coast, you're
Speaker 3: getting fifty two less hours to prep for this one.
Speaker 3: I joked with Dak. I said, Mike McCarthy said, a
Speaker 3: number of these players were already on their iPads checking
Speaker 3: out game tape. I said, were you one of those guys?
Speaker 3: He said, Nah, I was looking at the cutups from
Speaker 3: this game. He goes around two o'clock the next day,
Speaker 3: I got myself two beers, some chips, and saw started
Speaker 3: digging at the table. That sort of gives you the
Speaker 3: mindset of these guys. I don't think they're taking it lightly,
Speaker 3: but they're not pressing, if that makes sense. And it
Speaker 3: sounds like a lot of I mean, we've talked to
Speaker 3: guys in the past. They hate practice. They just want
Speaker 3: to play the game at this point, right at this point,
Speaker 3: I think in the year because I had asked a
Speaker 3: couple of coaches, I said, is Mike not you know
Speaker 3: when the guy when the guys were struggling last couple
Speaker 3: of weeks, is Mike not pushing these guys enough practice?
Speaker 3: What's with all of these like in shells? And I sold, no,
Speaker 3: that's normal this time of year. It's just a lot
Speaker 3: of teams don't really talk about it as much. Where
Speaker 3: the cow where the Cowboys beat, we dissect every single thing.
Speaker 3: But my point in bringing this up is talking to
Speaker 3: Heke and to talk to the other guys. I think
Speaker 3: it just it requires you to focus more. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: I don't think that's a bad thing. I mean, even
Speaker 3: this week I am locked in because I've got a
Speaker 3: shorter week. I'm on a plane to Santa Clara on Saturday.
Speaker 3: So I don't think it's a terrible thing for Dallas.
Speaker 3: What do you guys think?
Speaker 4: No, I mean, and also too, I think people have
Speaker 4: been saying I've been hearing it all over like this
Speaker 4: is the same team from last year, from the forty night.
Speaker 5: It's about the same team beside, Okay, well good, we
Speaker 5: know that we have, you know, the.
Speaker 4: Matchups together then, so it's kind of like, even though
Speaker 4: it's been a whole year, if you're playing the same team,
Speaker 4: like I would assume, like it maybe isn't as stressful.
Speaker 4: I think they're also very confident in whatever game plans
Speaker 4: or whatever they're putting together. They like you said, they
Speaker 4: don't seem like they are pressing the issue. This does
Speaker 4: not feel like some unattainable feat like oh my god,
Speaker 4: Like it does not seem like they're going up against
Speaker 4: some Juggernaut to them. They they're like, it's another team.
Speaker 4: We're preparing the same way. And I like that from
Speaker 4: them because I think the outside is panicking and they're not,
Speaker 4: so I.
Speaker 3: Appreciate it and I love that they say they wanted
Speaker 3: this opponent. Yeah, it was quick, because let's talk about
Speaker 3: last year, guys. I remember if there was trash coming
Speaker 3: from the stands, some of that was directed at the refs.
Speaker 3: An uncharacteristically frustrated Dak Prescott was at the podium. It
Speaker 3: came down to the final play. Such a flute deal
Speaker 3: not getting the ball back, And I love that. Dak
Speaker 3: talked about this today. He said we're more mature this year.
Speaker 3: He also talked about the culture and the brotherhood is
Speaker 3: so different too. You know, he had said to us
Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago, this is one of those
Speaker 3: years where I don't remember ever talking to the defensive
Speaker 3: coordinator as much as I have a defensive line coach
Speaker 3: and the idea that and even talking about his age.
Speaker 3: He's one of the oldest quarterbacks, which is kind of funny.
Speaker 3: He was like, you know, thats changes. I do think
Speaker 3: there's some wisdom from last year. Of course, that's something
Speaker 3: they had to deal with all last season. We talked
Speaker 3: about Mike McCarthy's job security, the Dan Quinn rumors, you know,
Speaker 3: is Dak the guy. They've heard all of it, and
Speaker 3: this is their chance to sort of return the favor.
Speaker 3: I love that they're drawing this one early.
Speaker 7: I think you have to remember too, that the whole
Speaker 7: theme of the team this year is that word resilient.
Speaker 7: And where did that word come from? It came from
Speaker 7: this game. Mike McCarthy literally said, when I was coming
Speaker 7: up with this idea, the only thing that I could
Speaker 7: think of that would encompass what this team should be
Speaker 7: is resilient. How they all felt after that game, they
Speaker 7: knew they underperformed, they knew it was it the performance
Speaker 7: that they should have had. And so the fact that
Speaker 7: even in the off season that this game was maybe
Speaker 7: not their focus, but it was for sure something then
Speaker 7: they've talked about it. It's something that they've kept in
Speaker 7: the back of their mind that this is kind of
Speaker 7: the goal to get to this so they can continue
Speaker 7: to move past. I think that speaks volumes to them
Speaker 7: getting here and then being in the matchup. And when
Speaker 7: you talk about the short week too, like the Cowboys
Speaker 7: are four and oh on short weeks this year. They
Speaker 7: beat Washington, they beat Philly, they beat the Giants, and
Speaker 7: then they beat the Titans again, all on a short week.
Speaker 7: And so t Y Hilton kind of explained it to
Speaker 7: me best. He said, there's not a whole lot we
Speaker 7: can do about it, right, these are the cards that
Speaker 7: were dealt. If we wanted to be better at it,
Speaker 7: then we should have performed better in the season. But
Speaker 7: this is the reality. This is what we have. So
Speaker 7: this is all we got. There's no sense in stressing
Speaker 7: about the fact that, oh, they have more time to rest,
Speaker 7: they have more time to because that doesn't do anything
Speaker 7: except waste those fifty two hours less that we have.
Speaker 7: So I just think, kind of like you were saying,
Speaker 7: they're just they're so dialed in, they're so locked in.
Speaker 7: I've said it since the moment I've stepped into the
Speaker 7: building working for this team. It they just feel different,
Speaker 7: like they're you can't describe it. It's just they're different.
Speaker 7: They're not not taking things seriously, but they're also not
Speaker 7: over analyzing the matchups that they're drawn. They're not over thinking,
Speaker 7: you know, about what's next. It's just like all right, like.
Speaker 3: They really have a panic dog year. I mean, think
Speaker 3: about it when when Tyron Smith went down, there felt
Speaker 3: like a little bit of panic cutting. And I remember
Speaker 3: interviewing the guys with the Blue carpet the day after,
Speaker 3: and there was just a little bit of uncertainty because
Speaker 3: you didn't quite know what to expect from Tyler Smith
Speaker 3: at that point. Right, this poor kid was a rookie.
Speaker 3: Dak goes down didn't seem to waiver defensive linemen. You've
Speaker 3: lost corners. I just they haven't really flinched. The only time,
Speaker 3: I I gotta be honest, I question the little bit
Speaker 3: was after that Washington game.
Speaker 7: They just the one that just happened.
Speaker 3: They felt stunned after that one.
Speaker 7: For me, it was the Jaguars game for me. And
Speaker 7: I say that because that left them all in such
Speaker 7: a funk for so many days, you know, like even
Speaker 7: the Eagles game, Like after the first loss of the Eagles,
Speaker 7: like they were like, yeah, this sucks, but onto the
Speaker 7: next like, yeah, Jaguars game, they were upset about it
Speaker 7: until Thursday, you know, and then even still it was
Speaker 7: like you were nervous that they were gonna have that
Speaker 7: streak snapped of not dropping back to back games, and
Speaker 7: so to me, that's the only time where I really
Speaker 7: kind of felt.
Speaker 3: Like, oh, but the fact, like I said, to start
Speaker 3: this game against the Tampay Bucks and start with two
Speaker 3: three and outs, I was like, here we go again.
Speaker 3: And it was the fact that those guys, yeah, they
Speaker 3: just they stayed with it, right, And I thought that
Speaker 3: was huge. So when people ask me, why are you
Speaker 3: so confident you think the Cowboys can win? I think
Speaker 3: they've been through a lot this season. Now, you could
Speaker 3: argue so has the forty nine ers, right, I just
Speaker 3: I tend to think that the Cowboys have a little
Speaker 3: bit more of a chip on their shoulder right now.
Speaker 8: I just feel like they're not trying to overcompensate for anything. Yeah,
Speaker 8: they are truly just so zoned in on what they
Speaker 8: need to do. It's not this over focus and stressing
Speaker 8: out about their matchups. I mean, they're calm, they're collected.
Speaker 8: And even when Mica talked today, somebody asked about Nick Bosa,
Speaker 8: like is this a competition between you and Nick and
Speaker 8: who's gonna play better? He's like, no, Like, I'm focused
Speaker 8: on me and what I'm doing. And specifically he said,
Speaker 8: if I play into their game plan. Of course, I'm
Speaker 8: not going to be good. I'm playing into my own
Speaker 8: game plan so I can be my best at what
Speaker 8: I'm doing. So they're focused on their own stuff. And
Speaker 8: I love that mentality because once you start to focus
Speaker 8: too much on something else, it eats at you and
Speaker 8: it gets in your head. And I think what Mike
Speaker 8: McCarthy has done with this team mentally is just so
Speaker 8: important in how they're staying locked in and focused, because
Speaker 8: I don't think i've ever seen this this team be
Speaker 8: so mentally locked in and not let the outside noise
Speaker 8: get to them, and that's hard to do when you
Speaker 8: play for the Dell these Cowboys, there's a lot of
Speaker 8: outside noise.
Speaker 3: There was a lot leading up to this one. They
Speaker 3: like each other. They get along, kid.
Speaker 5: I know it sounds redundant. I know it sounds like whatever.
Speaker 5: But to me, in any of these type of settings
Speaker 5: and team settings, liking each other is half of the battle.
Speaker 3: Mike McCarthy's first year, that defensive group did not like
Speaker 3: each other and it showed, and you.
Speaker 5: Can see it on the field that they play for
Speaker 5: each other.
Speaker 4: The celebrations, I mean shout out to uh it's Alex
Speaker 4: for sALS of the sideline because it gives us such
Speaker 4: a unique view and to them like you you brought
Speaker 4: up jay Ron Kurtz, I mean on souds of the sideline.
Speaker 5: He's talking to Michael.
Speaker 4: Like you run this thing like we go as you go,
Speaker 4: like keep going, keep going.
Speaker 5: Like that energy.
Speaker 4: I don't know if I'm maybe I'm new, maybe I'm
Speaker 4: new here, but I ain't seen that.
Speaker 3: I think they were really good in free agents this
Speaker 3: year at free agency this year, bringing in some veteran
Speaker 3: guys and now the guys that, yeah, the guys, but
Speaker 3: the guys that they've brought in off the street, the
Speaker 3: Jason Peters, the the t Y Hilton, the Xavier Roads.
Speaker 3: I think that's been huge for these guys because they
Speaker 3: have postseason experience, right, And so I felt like for
Speaker 3: a bit, it's funny watching because as Dak said, today,
Speaker 3: you know s changes. I remember his twenty sixteen year
Speaker 3: like it was yesterday. It's hard for me to believe
Speaker 3: sometimes it's been seven years. That's crazy, but that is
Speaker 3: such a young locker room. And sometimes I've watched his
Speaker 3: maturation this year, moving from like there were years where
Speaker 3: he was such a quiet leader and I don't think
Speaker 3: he quite knew what his how vocal. He wanted to
Speaker 3: be same with Zeke, But the way both of those
Speaker 3: guys has sort of turned the corner this year and
Speaker 3: the way that they've really led, I mean even Dak
Speaker 3: talked about it today. After a bad game, it's important
Speaker 3: that I show up and show them the way, you know,
Speaker 3: like I can wake up from a bad game and
Speaker 3: be in here, and he thinks that it matters, and
Speaker 3: I agree with that. I think a lot of these
Speaker 3: guys believe no matter what the scorer of the game is,
Speaker 3: if Dak Prescott is their guy under center, they still
Speaker 3: have a chance to win it.
Speaker 8: And that's hard to do after a loss, especially when
Speaker 8: you go back to the Washington game where that was
Speaker 8: just frustrating on every single level for every single person.
Speaker 8: For Dak to come in, wake up the next day
Speaker 8: and say, all right, we're.
Speaker 3: Gonna behind you and we're not gonna way. We're not
Speaker 3: going to do it from the worst game to the
Speaker 3: best game. That's what was crazy about it. And I
Speaker 3: think it helps to you that the Cowboys are heading
Speaker 3: into this one as underdogs, because I don't don't that right,
Speaker 3: but I truly believe that Dak thrives on that.
Speaker 7: I did too. I have just been so impressed. I mean, obviously,
Speaker 7: as someone who's like grown up with this franchise, you
Speaker 7: have that attachment to whoever's playing quarterback for this team, right,
Speaker 7: but it's just been so impressive to you. He is
Speaker 7: one of those people to me, very similar to Dan
Speaker 7: Quinn that he doesn't necessarily ask for your attention, but
Speaker 7: he definitely demands it quietly, just in the way that
Speaker 7: he leads and just the way you see some of
Speaker 7: these guys, I mean, even guys on the defense talk
Speaker 7: about how instrumental he is in keeping them up, or
Speaker 7: you know the fact that when he's throwing two interceptions
Speaker 7: a game, he's throwing a pick six, he's the first
Speaker 7: one to come over and say, hey, that's on me.
Speaker 7: I'm going to do it. And I know, like it's
Speaker 7: your job to as a quarterback to take some kind
Speaker 7: of accountability.
Speaker 3: But Jack Wilson wasn't doing it with the Jets this year, right.
Speaker 7: Don't get me started on Sack.
Speaker 3: So we've got plenty of examples in the league of
Speaker 3: guys that don't do that, and.
Speaker 7: I just think it's such an important part of being
Speaker 7: a quarterback that, just like you said, not everyone can do,
Speaker 7: not everybody wants to do. And the fact that he
Speaker 7: is constantly, you know, put in these situations where people
Speaker 7: are trashing him. I mean, like respectfully. Dan er Lawski
Speaker 7: had him listed as the third worst quarterback in the
Speaker 7: playoffs right now.
Speaker 3: And Dak says he's not saying attention to the noise.
Speaker 7: Yeah, he sees that.
Speaker 3: He totally sees Yeah, and it just you've got to
Speaker 3: be able to respect that.
Speaker 7: Yeah, You've got to be able to respect him. I'm
Speaker 7: not trying to say that this has been like an
Speaker 7: MVP caliber year for Dak Prescott. We know this has
Speaker 7: not been the performance that we expect from him. But
Speaker 7: the third worst quarter back in the playoffs.
Speaker 6: Dan, and.
Speaker 8: I mean, what's incredible. So I was watching RG three
Speaker 8: talk about Dak coming back from even just the thumb
Speaker 8: injury and how the mechanics of even just returning from
Speaker 8: that and playing like he was even this far out
Speaker 8: from it. It's still an injury that happened on your
Speaker 8: throwing hand, and people forget that that there was still
Speaker 8: a lot he had to learn to readjust throughout the season.
Speaker 8: I'm not making excuses for the interceptions or anything, but
Speaker 8: he still came back from a throwing hand injury and
Speaker 8: got this team right on track to the playoffs with
Speaker 8: a winning record, which if the NFC East wasn't so competitive,
Speaker 8: easily would have sealed the NFC East in any other season.
Speaker 3: So that's what I keep saying. The respect on the
Speaker 3: quality of opponents they've had this year has been tough.
Speaker 3: Now look this backstretch, I think is why a lot
Speaker 3: of us sort of had a big TVD on this
Speaker 3: team because they were playing I mean, teams that were
Speaker 3: rolling out backup starters and it just it didn't feel
Speaker 3: like things were clicking. But when this group gets things
Speaker 3: to click, they feel uns stoppable, and I think, I
Speaker 3: truly believe they get past the forty nine ers.
Speaker 7: That's what I said. I think that you win. On Sunday,
Speaker 7: We're pack your bags, We're going to Arizona.
Speaker 3: Okay, But ladies, we were talking about this in media Mash.
Speaker 3: It would be such a cowboys thing to do. And
Speaker 3: I've said this on the show before. This is the
Speaker 3: way that they would beat the forty nine ers, beat
Speaker 3: Tom Brady Giants, beat the Eagles, and then they would
Speaker 3: lose it home to the Giants. Can you imagine I was.
Speaker 7: I was just having that conversation with Marcel Uh, my boyfriend,
Speaker 7: the other day, and I said, honestly, like I'm more
Speaker 7: afraid of the Cowboys facing the Giants and I am
Speaker 7: the Eagles. And he was like, what do you mean?
Speaker 7: And I was like, well, obviously the Eagles are the
Speaker 7: better team right on paper, like they look better, their
Speaker 7: record is better. But there's something about Daniel Jones that
Speaker 7: that flusters this team. You've seen it every time that
Speaker 7: they played Fire. Yeah look different, Yeah, playoff different, playoff
Speaker 7: Daniel is different. And so I love that you brought
Speaker 7: that up. I was literally just having that conversation the
Speaker 7: other day. It's like that would be I would rather
Speaker 7: play the Eagles, I think.
Speaker 8: I'm like, no, Jane, I don't want to deal with
Speaker 8: my angry dad. You get your your angry text from
Speaker 8: your dad.
Speaker 7: I do too.
Speaker 8: I don't want to deal with my dad coming all
Speaker 8: the way over here to watch them lose at home
Speaker 8: again in the playoffs. It was a very long car
Speaker 8: ride when we would drive back to Los Cruises. I
Speaker 8: don't have to do that car right anymore, but my
Speaker 8: mom does I don't want.
Speaker 3: Her to have to go through that again. That dads
Speaker 3: are so silent emotional.
Speaker 5: It was no kidding me do it.
Speaker 4: I can't say I think the Giants are good. I
Speaker 4: just can't like they Dak Prescott, I just he just
Speaker 4: plays so well against them typically.
Speaker 5: I just I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't I'm also too like I agree with y'all
Speaker 4: that if they get up for the forty nine ers
Speaker 4: and they they can beat Philly, like they should be.
Speaker 8: A dang Then everybody that's been posting on their Facebook
Speaker 8: statuses for years this Cowboys going to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 7: Like I've done that every year. I love doing that.
Speaker 7: It's just like people get so mad at me. They're like,
Speaker 7: you're so stupid, your team's gotada. It's just like a really, I.
Speaker 3: Just love that people bring the Cowboys the last time
Speaker 3: they're super Like, Hey, by the way, the forty nine ers,
Speaker 3: last time they went was ninety four.
Speaker 7: Right on the.
Speaker 3: Other teams get the Raiders.
Speaker 8: I mean, it's a lot of people, it's just the Cowboys.
Speaker 8: Everything's blown out of proportion all the time.
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Speaker 3: Well, ladies, you were talking about Cowboys Dad before the break.
Speaker 3: I just have to say, I'm really excited for this
Speaker 3: game for one very specific reason. I reached out to
Speaker 3: my bosses and I said, you know, my dad is
Speaker 3: the biggest Cowboys forty nine ers fan. The reason why
Speaker 3: I do this is because of watching so many of
Speaker 3: those epic matchups in the postseason with my dad. So
Speaker 3: do we have any tickets laying around NFL Network, because
Speaker 3: from time to time they'll give tickets to staff. I
Speaker 3: had no idea that one of my colleagues, Steve Wisch,
Speaker 3: who I love, reached out to the forty nine ers
Speaker 3: and y'all, not only did they get my dad to
Speaker 3: tick to the game, he is in the end zone
Speaker 3: four rows up, which is incredible. He's say got him
Speaker 3: a sideline pass. So my dad, he was God. Had
Speaker 3: such a tough year with my mom, gotten up four
Speaker 3: o'clock in the morning, taking her to countless chemotherapy appointments,
Speaker 3: And you know, I think we talked about this is
Speaker 3: going to be a hard year towards the end, the
Speaker 3: fact that I'll be able to experience this with my dad,
Speaker 3: just because I know you girls have talked so lovingly
Speaker 3: about your father's and sort of leading you to this
Speaker 3: career path. I'm really really hyped up for it, so
Speaker 3: it'll be special. I hope my dad for that reason,
Speaker 3: gets to see it win and you.
Speaker 8: Get your picture on the sideline with him and just
Speaker 8: enjoy every moment because I'm after from a father's perspective too.
Speaker 8: Just watching you do your own thing is going to
Speaker 8: be a really proud moment.
Speaker 3: For I just got to watch him because when I
Speaker 3: took him to Kenny Chesney Man, he kept harrassing Parthy
Speaker 3: and Britt Brown.
Speaker 7: It was like, Mike, let me.
Speaker 3: Get you a drink, and he's like, oh, literally, like
Speaker 3: this guy's a fame monster. So I'm hoping he behaves himself.
Speaker 3: I told him now Newes. He didn't know that high noons.
Speaker 7: Were alcohol and not like a seltzer, they will get you.
Speaker 3: So he had like he had like seven of them
Speaker 3: before we even got there. So I'm like, listen, listen,
Speaker 3: young man.
Speaker 7: Think like white Claw, but with tequila, Barnacles or vodka
Speaker 7: which I don't know what it is, but it's like vodka.
Speaker 7: It's like straight vodka alcohol white clause more local ish.
Speaker 3: Oh god, it feels like an adult for local.
Speaker 5: But you know what ifking.
Speaker 8: Those high Nuns contributes to a win, if it's if
Speaker 8: it's in his u Anti Cursed book or it's his tradition.
Speaker 8: Let him do what he's got to do, Jane. Let
Speaker 8: the man get his win how he feels he needs to.
Speaker 3: Well, how do you think the Cowboys are going to
Speaker 3: get a win? That'll be our final thought for the
Speaker 3: show today. I know, heading into the break, you love
Speaker 3: seeing Dak get mobile again.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, that's that's a big deal, like and it
Speaker 4: opens up things. And with this San fran defense, they're
Speaker 4: so fast, their linebackers are fast. I think the way
Speaker 4: that you beat them is right now, looks like their
Speaker 4: secondary has some issues you can you could take advantage there.
Speaker 5: CD I think has.
Speaker 4: Some favorable matchups back there. Also, your titands are gonna
Speaker 4: have to come play. They're gonna have to be ready
Speaker 4: to be pass catchers to go up against these linebackers,
Speaker 4: but also to be ready, willing to ready to chip
Speaker 4: and be active.
Speaker 5: I talked to Jake Ferguson and those guys about.
Speaker 4: It, and they're like they know that to get Bosa
Speaker 4: off his game, like, you're gonna have to and honestly,
Speaker 4: just get your playmakers involved Like last time you see
Speaker 4: you saw these two teams battle. CD had one pass,
Speaker 4: Tony poll or Pelley had any carries.
Speaker 5: Cowboys had almost one hundred yards of penalties.
Speaker 4: Go play your games and it's gonna change things.
Speaker 3: I think, and Dak talked about that today. He said,
Speaker 3: Ceedee Lamb was not gonna have he was gonna be
Speaker 3: getting the ball to seat lad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and when you watch their like again we watched
Speaker 4: the forty nine or secondary, there's opportunity there, so find
Speaker 4: a way to lame vendorush those guys.
Speaker 5: You know, CMC. It's the matchups.
Speaker 4: There stars on every level and it's up to who
Speaker 4: stars are going to be the stars, Like it's gonna
Speaker 4: be power for Palasis, Like I'm I'm wait and I
Speaker 4: am ready for this game.
Speaker 7: For me, it feels like you're gonna have to recognize
Speaker 7: that you're going against those playmakers, right Like you're gonna
Speaker 7: have to you know, Christian McCaffrey is gonna break off
Speaker 7: for some yards. You know, Devo Samuel's gonna get some
Speaker 7: yards after the catch. Right that being said, it becomes
Speaker 7: even more important for the Cowboys to focus on their
Speaker 7: ballgame and capitalize on their opportunities.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 7: That's something I asked t Y earlier in the week.
Speaker 7: I was like, you know, I know you didn't play
Speaker 7: in this game last year, but you're a part of
Speaker 7: it now. You know what changes? How do you guys
Speaker 7: keep focus? And he literally said, we can't divert from
Speaker 7: anything that we have done, Like, we know what our
Speaker 7: strengths are. So to your point, like adding the titands in.
Speaker 7: They're seeing the success that they had. You're facing a
Speaker 7: tough run defense, so that might be a struggle for you.
Speaker 7: So any other way you can get the offense involved
Speaker 7: taking advantage of a little bit of a busted secondary
Speaker 7: so to speak. But for me, the big thing is
Speaker 7: the turnovers last week and not having them was game
Speaker 7: changing in my opinion. So taking care of what you
Speaker 7: can control, limiting those turnovers, and then, like I said,
Speaker 7: just recognizing that big plays are going to happen, and
Speaker 7: it's not how you necessarily contain the big plays, but
Speaker 7: how you bounce back or how you recover from them.
Speaker 3: Maybe forcing some turnovers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, always this young rookie quarterback, and I keep
Speaker 4: forgetting I think people forgetting is a young.
Speaker 7: Dude here, So yeah, for sure, yeah, Dak is you
Speaker 7: mentioned earlier. Dak is the oldest quarterback in the playoffs.
Speaker 7: Brock Perty is the second youngest. Oh, they go.
Speaker 8: I think for me, it's gonna be the competition of
Speaker 8: the tight end groups on both sides. Whichever tight end
Speaker 8: room is going to get their versatility out and get
Speaker 8: their blocking better is going to be the better team.
Speaker 8: I think a lot of people forget that. The forty
Speaker 8: nine ers also have a very versatile tight end group
Speaker 8: that can do exactly what we've seen success on this
Speaker 8: side of things with their tight ends, the blocking, the
Speaker 8: past pro I mean, gosh, there's so many things they
Speaker 8: can do here.
Speaker 7: It's it's scary.
Speaker 8: So whiche tight end room can be the tightest if
Speaker 8: you will, that's gonna do it for me. Also, an
Speaker 8: emphasis on tackling for the defense specifically, obviously we know
Speaker 8: those yak The yak factor of this game is going
Speaker 8: to be huge. Forty nine ers are just so elite
Speaker 8: when it comes to those yards after catch and they
Speaker 8: push and they fight for every yard. So the defense,
Speaker 8: though they've had some slips with the tackling, they've gotten
Speaker 8: better throughout the season. Tackle your guy down the first time,
Speaker 8: no mistackles and get him down. That's really my point
Speaker 8: of emphasis is the tackling and no penalties. I want
Speaker 8: a low penalty game once again.
Speaker 3: I think we all cringe when we saw the Hot
Speaker 3: Boy chains ahead of this one. I loved it, but
Speaker 3: you guys don't. You guys don't remember being around here
Speaker 3: and covering this team during the Hot Boys days. Different
Speaker 3: And then do you remember forty nine ers also had
Speaker 3: the Hot Boys debate? They were the Hot Boys. It
Speaker 3: was so much drama, but I think it. You know,
Speaker 3: I talked to Marcus Lawrence about He said it's all
Speaker 3: about establishing their identity, and that identity seemed to work
Speaker 3: against Tom Brady. Uh, So I think they're gonna need
Speaker 3: that sort of pressure against this young guy, brock Party.
Speaker 3: I don't think he's faced a defense quite like Dallas's. Nope.
Speaker 3: I think if you get him off his game, I
Speaker 3: think the Cowboys can have a lot of success.
Speaker 8: The best defense they've faced, or brock Party is faced,
Speaker 8: is Tampa Bay. Yeah really, or even just Washington when
Speaker 8: you look at different stats. This this will be a
Speaker 8: test for brock Party. So yes, don't count him out,
Speaker 8: but also don't count this defense out. For testing brock
Speaker 8: party and what he's.
Speaker 7: I'm proud of you for not using a brock party pun.
Speaker 8: Honestly, I was gonna say, not pretty interesting what happens.
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