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Speaker 1: We are live from the s WBC studios at the
Speaker 1: Star in Frisco, looking back at week fifteen, and then
Speaker 1: of course we will turn the page to week sixteen
Speaker 1: as the Cowboys prepared to take on the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 1: Back alongside Isaiah Stanback, Patrick Nose Walker, We've got Chris
Speaker 1: Beam in the back. M. Kyle Yeoman's glad you're with us, gentlemen.
Speaker 1: How are we doing better? Better? Today? Better today? Got
Speaker 1: a little bit asleep, We'll go asleep and it's time
Speaker 1: to turn to page So yeah, we'll better do. We
Speaker 1: have to look back, Kyle, We're gonna look back at
Speaker 1: today for partner, as we are gonna take a little
Speaker 1: bit of a look back because we are taking calls
Speaker 1: today eight eight eight eight five five two two nine seven.
Speaker 1: It's a talking Tuesday. So we're gonna hit up Cowboys Nation.
Speaker 1: See what they're thinking twenty four hours. See, but they're
Speaker 1: not gonna take that Cowboys Nation that's still upset to
Speaker 1: start turning over. Oh yeah, yeah, I mean we're effective
Speaker 1: definitely tomorrow as far as full oh yeah, full bone talking.
Speaker 1: Me feeling better, it's because twenty four hours has passed.
Speaker 1: I'm starting to emotionally get onto the nick. How's your foot?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I'm still in limp mode. Still there. I'm
Speaker 1: still in limp mode and will be for a few days.
Speaker 1: Is it sore today? Yesterday was more pain and to
Speaker 1: dating sore bruised? Yeah yeah, but you know, I'm not
Speaker 1: going on nine our fellas. I'm not know. Every time
Speaker 1: you talk about the foot, I always think it's guy
Speaker 1: going on that we played the stairs. Somebody had had
Speaker 1: another gool yesterday. He tweeted me after the show and
Speaker 1: they were like, it reminded them of that scene in
Speaker 1: the Quiet Place. Oh yeah, on the stairs when she
Speaker 1: was going down the stairs. I was like, you know what,
Speaker 1: it was pretty similar, only she couldn't scream. I May.
Speaker 1: That's what I was just about to was the pitch
Speaker 1: so so news and so news. Enough, he just went
Speaker 1: right past. It wasn't like cur It wasn't. It wasn't.
Speaker 1: It wasn't. It wasn't blood curling. But there were plenty
Speaker 1: of expertits was it? Uh? I would say it was Marvesha,
Speaker 1: It's Mark. I mean, first of all, it takes that.
Speaker 1: It takes anyone who has stepped on anything shop like
Speaker 1: that with a puncture wound. You know, it takes like
Speaker 1: a split second for the register in your brain, and
Speaker 1: then when it had registers, you're like, you know, you
Speaker 1: lose it. So like the first like two seconds was
Speaker 1: just a void in your voice, like it has left
Speaker 1: you and it came in. Yeah, like you lose your
Speaker 1: air force. Second. Yeah, that was That was pretty accurate.
Speaker 1: Sorry for everybody listening that has headphones on and it's
Speaker 1: only listening to the audio. I didn't know your voice
Speaker 1: could get that high, Isaiah. That was pretty impressive of
Speaker 1: my offering. You know, when I was younger, I used
Speaker 1: to want to do voiceovers. I still really voiceover. Yeah
Speaker 1: what's your name? From Police Academy inspire me? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: so I always copy everything that he did. Think of
Speaker 1: his name the impressionist. Ye, yeah, yeah, I know what
Speaker 1: you're talking about. Class Isaiah is actually singing the national
Speaker 1: anthem at the game on Sunday. I don't Maybe, all right,
Speaker 1: let's do some news and notes Cowboys, of course, like
Speaker 1: you said, off today, and then they will take a
Speaker 1: look ahead to the the Philadelphia Eagles. Let's start with
Speaker 1: Cowboys news, because we've got some Eagles news I want
Speaker 1: to hit as well. There's a big Eagles bomb that
Speaker 1: came down yesterday. Let's start with the Cowboys. Though, well
Speaker 1: that that sound impression needs something like that, some refinement.
Speaker 1: I'll be Michael Winslows by the way. Okay, so we're
Speaker 1: gonna what would Rob do news and notes? First of all,
Speaker 1: we're not going to discuss it, but it's a news item,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna mention it and we'll move past it.
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones spoke to one or five point three IF
Speaker 1: from the fan this morning. One of the questions he
Speaker 1: was eventually asked, obviously, is about OBJ quick and quick out.
Speaker 1: He basically, the optimism sounds like it's leaving the room.
Speaker 1: The air is no longer in the sales, you know,
Speaker 1: if you go back and listen to it, Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: basically said that every day that passes makes it less
Speaker 1: likely that it that it happens. Obviously, that's a complete
Speaker 1: one eighty degree turned from last week when he said
Speaker 1: stay tuned, this thing could break any moment. So there
Speaker 1: you go. The air is leaving the sales on the
Speaker 1: OBJ boat. We'll see if it happens, but looking less
Speaker 1: and less likely as the days go on. Moving right
Speaker 1: past that late In Vanderesh yesterday that we were wishing
Speaker 1: the best for Lvee. We sent our prayers and positive
Speaker 1: energy to him and it worked. Ladies and gentlemen, thank
Speaker 1: you for that worst case scenario has been avoided. It
Speaker 1: is actually not a Nick injury on late In Vanderesh.
Speaker 1: It is a pinched nerve in his shoulder, i e.
Speaker 1: Shoulder sting or whatever you want to call it, but
Speaker 1: it's a shoulder issue. He is expected to return, likely
Speaker 1: before the postseason. Obviously that would you know what will
Speaker 1: determine that is can the Cowboys went against the Eagles
Speaker 1: and put themselves in position for the game against the
Speaker 1: Titans and the Commanders to matter. But great news, Lvee.
Speaker 1: He's gonna miss this week against the Eagles on a
Speaker 1: short week, but he shouldn't be back this regular season,
Speaker 1: but most certainly for the postseason. That is absolutely huge.
Speaker 1: The fact that and dan Quinn even talked about it yesterday.
Speaker 1: He is imperative to this defense. Facts, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of things that are built around what Lvee could do
Speaker 1: at the second level. And Isaiah, I know you've seen
Speaker 1: it on the film too. I mean having him back
Speaker 1: in the fold is going to help this team tremendously.
Speaker 1: But I mean it is gonna be a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks You're gonna see a lot of Anthony bard Bone Clark.
Speaker 1: Would you classify l v as the most underrated defensive
Speaker 1: player in his team? Absolutely, not even not even a question.
Speaker 1: Because Dorn's Armstrong is finally getting his flowers, He's finally
Speaker 1: getting the the attention that he deserves. Eight sacks. You're
Speaker 1: gonna get that in a check. I don't think l
Speaker 1: Vee gets that. Yeah, people, people try to find reasons
Speaker 1: still to devalue Lvgre in the face of obvious evidence
Speaker 1: to the contrary. Those people don't watch the film. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna I'm gonna say it right now. If you're not.
Speaker 1: If you're hating on LVE this year, you're not watching
Speaker 1: the Pelt either you're I'm not watching the film and
Speaker 1: or you're seeing it and you're just still don't like. Nope,
Speaker 1: I don't want to eat my vegetables. Nope, I don't
Speaker 1: want to I don't like the peas and carrots. Nope,
Speaker 1: the Isaiah and the offensive line conversation. Eat these pieces
Speaker 1: and carrots. But yeah, so how big is he though?
Speaker 1: To that second level though, he's huge. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: the one guy that you asked to come downhill and
Speaker 1: he's a guy that we knew would have a solid
Speaker 1: season simply because of all the changes that they made
Speaker 1: on the on the defensive front. They needed to do
Speaker 1: it for his health. They needed to do it to
Speaker 1: obviously stop the run. I'm still working that out. But
Speaker 1: they're giving him an opportunity now to free flow and
Speaker 1: play without always having to deal with a three hundred
Speaker 1: pound man grabbing at his chest. So that's why he's
Speaker 1: been productive this year. He's taking full advantage of the
Speaker 1: opportunity that's presented to him on his one year deal.
Speaker 1: They showed him that you got to prove it to
Speaker 1: me and he's been doing it just that, you know,
Speaker 1: and and to this conversation and will breeze over after
Speaker 1: this to the Philly to the blockbuster Philly News. Now
Speaker 1: the question becomes, is Jabril Cox in fact? Ready, ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, the question has been asked weekly, weekly, weekly, weekly,
Speaker 1: particularly and my Twitter mentions which leads to insect facts.
Speaker 1: If you know me, why Jabril Cox inactive? What's going on?
Speaker 1: Why does it lead the insects insect fact facts? Sorry? That?
Speaker 1: Because why when I have repeated myself continually about a
Speaker 1: particular topic, regardless of what the topic is, I just
Speaker 1: turned to insect facts and start educating the masses on
Speaker 1: whatever random insect fact I want. We could talk about
Speaker 1: butterflies and wings and dragonflies and you know how much
Speaker 1: an ant can lift? Yeah, I mean you might as
Speaker 1: well get educational with it, right, So yeah, those who
Speaker 1: are listening and follow me on Twitter and start set
Speaker 1: the insect facts situation. Sobrial cox um Michae McCarthy said, one,
Speaker 1: what is the strongest insect? An army? End? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: was about to say it's an ant? And you try
Speaker 1: those search sciences what I do? Okay, Like Michael Parsons
Speaker 1: does national geograph. Yeah. Um. Mike McCarthy said on yesterday
Speaker 1: that Brill Cox is quote unquote ready um. With the
Speaker 1: Cowboys having recently released a wave Malik Jefferson from the
Speaker 1: practice squad to make room for Anthony Rush in the
Speaker 1: wake of Jonathan Hankin's injury for nose tackle depth, they'd
Speaker 1: have now no linebackers on their practice squad, so they
Speaker 1: have two on the active roster as far as backups
Speaker 1: are concerned, because you're top three now you got Micah
Speaker 1: Damon Clark and Anthony Barr behind them, it's Luke Gifford
Speaker 1: and it's Jabril Cox. That's who you got. And we
Speaker 1: both know Luke Gifford is a special team's ace. That
Speaker 1: being said, we don't know how much they're gonna be
Speaker 1: willing to risk him in the defense of capacity, but
Speaker 1: I don't think they really have a choice. If Luke
Speaker 1: Gifford best Jabril Cox this week for those reps, that's
Speaker 1: so I think you should give it to And if
Speaker 1: Jabril Cox best Luke Gifford, And though you know this
Speaker 1: practice these practices this week, then you give it to
Speaker 1: Jabril Cox. But however you slice it looks like Jabril
Speaker 1: Cox is up. Is it possible he's just not moving
Speaker 1: the same way they anticipated when he was coming back
Speaker 1: from his injury. I know it's been a long time
Speaker 1: since he technically returned. It was training camp when he
Speaker 1: was back into the fold, but he was known as
Speaker 1: a coverage lineback. Yes, he's somebody who changes direction in
Speaker 1: order to play at least to his strength. So if
Speaker 1: he's unable to change direction, maybe he's not as good
Speaker 1: coverage wise. Is that a possibility. I know it's it's
Speaker 1: a long way out, but maybe the injuries affecting him
Speaker 1: to this point in the year, or is he just
Speaker 1: not good enough to make the roster? Tell me now
Speaker 1: I'm asking. We're talking about jabro Cox. Is a Cox yet? Yeah?
Speaker 1: The injury affected him, Okay, no doubt about it, and
Speaker 1: it's unfortunate he had, But he had an a cl
Speaker 1: in an ACO. Typically for most individuals, most humans, affects
Speaker 1: your ability to be as agile as you once were. Um,
Speaker 1: there are certain individuals who were created and not born
Speaker 1: that come back from acls and they're just as productive
Speaker 1: as they were before the injury, but typically you lose
Speaker 1: a little something with it. I would feel like with
Speaker 1: each injury, you lose a little something physically and mentally.
Speaker 1: And what we've seen so far is it's affected him
Speaker 1: tremendously and it's it's I think it has put a
Speaker 1: huge burden and wait over in a cloud over his
Speaker 1: confidence on the defensive side of the ball. Being confident
Speaker 1: in your role on special teams being confident in your
Speaker 1: role on defense are two separate entities, two completely separate entities.
Speaker 1: And I'm not sure from what I've seen that he
Speaker 1: has that confidence back yet defensively. And the only way
Speaker 1: you get that confidence back with reps by playing, get
Speaker 1: out there and start hit it. And he's going to
Speaker 1: be tasked with doing that on this coming Saturday against
Speaker 1: a very good Philadelphia Eagles team, regardless of who the
Speaker 1: quarterback is, regardless which is there, Wait, what are you
Speaker 1: talking about? Regardless Jalen Hurts is the quarterback, past Walker,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's all right, he's an MVP. Conversation With
Speaker 1: that being said, Jalen Hurts reportedly suffered a shoulder strain
Speaker 1: in the Eagles victory over the Chicago Bears in the
Speaker 1: third quarter. Did play through that um and yeah, well,
Speaker 1: throwing shoulder. Actually it's conflicting reports because some reports say
Speaker 1: that it's the throwing shoulder, but then there's one particular
Speaker 1: report of Jeff McClain, Philadelphia, inquired word inquired. He's right there,
Speaker 1: boots on the ground, and he says it's his left
Speaker 1: non throwing shoulder. Yeah, he landed on it looked like right.
Speaker 1: So I'm no trainer, but I got eyes. But I
Speaker 1: have eyes. I've had my share of injuries together. That
Speaker 1: looked like an AC joint spring old. Isaiah's about it,
Speaker 1: educated on injuries and yeah, so for those that don't know,
Speaker 1: it's a little bone right hill, Yeah right, And when
Speaker 1: you get driven into the ground, it's literally literally something.
Speaker 1: Depending on how severe it is, can look like Looney
Speaker 1: Tunes where it's like and it raises up. You guys,
Speaker 1: You guys remember Anthony Fassano, of course, yes, And they
Speaker 1: Vossanos separated his his ac joint and kept playing peace.
Speaker 1: Never seen nothing like it. I remember Jim and those
Speaker 1: guys making taking dipads and molding them to his shoulder.
Speaker 1: He was out there looking like thriller like this, right,
Speaker 1: And I'm here my last game for the Dallas Cowputs
Speaker 1: before I got released and went to to New England.
Speaker 1: I had an acy joint spring and that joint is
Speaker 1: tender rony at somebody tries to reach out and say
Speaker 1: what's up, and you're like, don't, don't, don't, don't touch it,
Speaker 1: don't get out. If I'm not mistaken, I believe it
Speaker 1: was twenty twenty. Dak Prescott dealt with that that injury. Uh,
Speaker 1: you're talking about the brain shoulder that he had to
Speaker 1: fight through the month of December. I believe it was
Speaker 1: a couple. It wasn't twenty twenty. It would have been
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. OK, sounds because twenty twenty was heard sound.
Speaker 1: When you're throwing either shoulder, it sucks because if it's
Speaker 1: it's non throwing shoulder, you still have to pull with
Speaker 1: that army. If it is a throwing shoulder, then that
Speaker 1: boy's gonna be on something. If he does play, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be on some magic. Right now, the Philly passing
Speaker 1: to decide it if he's going, oh yeah, the magic
Speaker 1: check haven't Philly, haven't. Philly has not decided as of
Speaker 1: yet if Jalen Hurts will be on the field. Obviously,
Speaker 1: they just need to win one more than they clinch
Speaker 1: both The NFC and the NFC East. If they leave
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew can walk into AT and T Stadium and
Speaker 1: get it done, then they will likely put him on
Speaker 1: the field. Mike McCarthy said that the Cowboys are preparing
Speaker 1: for both quarterbacks. And it's not as if the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have not seen Gardner Menshoe. They played against him in
Speaker 1: January of this very calendar year in the final game
Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty one season, and here was his
Speaker 1: stat line nineteen. Well, first of all, it was the
Speaker 1: fifty one point explosion yet against Philadelphia fifty one twenty
Speaker 1: six with the final, but it was Gardner Minshue went
Speaker 1: nineteen for thirty three, only one hundred eighty six passing yards.
Speaker 1: He did have two passing touchdowns, but he had an interception.
Speaker 1: He was sacked three times, rating was eighty one point one.
Speaker 1: He took off and ran with the ball five times,
Speaker 1: but average only two yards per carry for a total
Speaker 1: of ten combined yards and no rushing touchdowns. And this
Speaker 1: was without Michael Parsons and Trevon Diggs on the field.
Speaker 1: So yes, different weaponry for the Eagles with A. J.
Speaker 1: Brown and Devantae Smith. That is absolutely accurate. But again
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons Trevon Diggs weren't on the field when this
Speaker 1: stat line occurred. So I'll call at a wash for
Speaker 1: the most part and say that this is the film
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are pulling from to get Garda manshoes tendencies.
Speaker 1: And you know it's not it's not an unfamiliarly said
Speaker 1: I'm common upon it, but he's not unfamilve. I've always
Speaker 1: liked him as a backup quarterback. Yeah, I mean he
Speaker 1: you know what I said yesterday someone used the wrong
Speaker 1: adjective for that guy. They said he was formidable. False.
Speaker 1: He is serviceable. Yeah, that's why he's eight and fourteen
Speaker 1: as a starter. That's why he got put back in
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville but then got benched immediately, etcetera, etcetera. He's serviceable.
Speaker 1: He can win games at the NFL level. Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: is formidable. That's formidable. Patrick Mahomes formidable, Josh Allen formidable.
Speaker 1: Let's let's be careful with how we you know, right,
Speaker 1: so throw throw words out there. Yeah, gardamnshoe. He can
Speaker 1: step in and win a game if you underestimate him.
Speaker 1: But if you estimate him correctly, then you can repeat
Speaker 1: the stat line of Isaiah has been a big fan
Speaker 1: ahead since he was at Washington State Stand Washington Stable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it was wise. That's a player though, I
Speaker 1: do I always have. I think I like his fight,
Speaker 1: like I kind of wanted him. It sounds like you
Speaker 1: want to get some credits from Wazoo. I like that
Speaker 1: about this is about it. Any complimences Wazoo player, whatever, credit.
Speaker 1: I think he's a competitor. I mean, you're not. You're
Speaker 1: not putting him you you don't want to depend on
Speaker 1: him for multiple games. But in terms of playing filling
Speaker 1: in from a game, he's very service that regard, and
Speaker 1: he's a he's a little lightning bowl. He is. But
Speaker 1: it also if he is the starter, it's going to
Speaker 1: wildly change how Syrianty has to call this game. Now.
Speaker 1: The best run rushing attack in the NFL becomes not
Speaker 1: so much. Now they will still be able to get
Speaker 1: at you and run the ball um, but more traditional. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I Jalen Hurts on the ground versus Garden Minshew on
Speaker 1: the ground. That's not a conversation, that's not a comparison.
Speaker 1: So it would work in favor of the Cowboys, and
Speaker 1: that it would be more of a drop back and
Speaker 1: throw game for Menshoe than it would be for Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 1: So it does change how they would have to prepare it.
Speaker 1: But like I said, Mike says that they're working on
Speaker 1: and I mean he's been around that system for two
Speaker 1: years now because he was the second year with Philly.
Speaker 1: So with that being said, he knows the playbook. It's
Speaker 1: not like the playbook shrinks any with him in the fold.
Speaker 1: It may shrink a little bit just to Tad because
Speaker 1: he hasn't run certain plays, but in terms of the
Speaker 1: knowledge Gardner Minshoe's ready to go. So it's a big
Speaker 1: news story. I don't think it's as big this week
Speaker 1: as it would have been last week. They put it
Speaker 1: this way, if Dallas wins against Jacksonville, this might be
Speaker 1: the biggest story of the year outside of the Cowboys building,
Speaker 1: because not only would it be prior to this matchup, however,
Speaker 1: it would be with three weeks or left in the season.
Speaker 1: You're only down by one game as opposed to three games,
Speaker 1: and so the length of the injury could really hurt
Speaker 1: some people think hurt Philadelphia, right, and that I'm glad
Speaker 1: you said that. The last point because that's what also
Speaker 1: comes into play. It's it's bigger than just will Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts be available versus the Cowboys. There are reports that
Speaker 1: he could miss the remainder of the regular season. Now
Speaker 1: obviously that's risk versus reward for the Eagles, trying to determine. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: if we the Eagles lose against the Cowboys, how confident
Speaker 1: are we that we're not going to lose out if
Speaker 1: we choose to sit Hurts for protectionary reasons until the postseason.
Speaker 1: So they got a lot of decisions to make. But
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys, you need to win this game. You
Speaker 1: and that not under any circumstances allow Gardner minshoot the
Speaker 1: Eagles period, even if it's jayaln Hurts, but particularly if
Speaker 1: it's Gardener minshoot a backup quarterback come in and clinched
Speaker 1: the conference and the division on your turf. Nope, Nope,
Speaker 1: not going to happen. New Orleans, New Orleans and New
Speaker 1: York the Giants or the two that Philly has after Dallas.
Speaker 1: So those are two you talk about serviceable, two serviceable teams.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Giants are probably one of the playoffs.
Speaker 1: The Saints are fighting to get into a playoffs spot.
Speaker 1: So if Jalen Hurts is not available for the final
Speaker 1: two weeks of the regular season as well as against
Speaker 1: the Cowboys on Sunday, once again, that's not final. It's
Speaker 1: just expected that you're expected to see Gardner Minshew on
Speaker 1: Saturday rather if he's not able to go for the
Speaker 1: remainder of the regular season. That's a significant storyline, But
Speaker 1: it also feels like a missed opportunity because of what
Speaker 1: happened yesterday, what happened on Sunday. Of course it does,
Speaker 1: but it also sets and you're not but but and
Speaker 1: it also sets the stage for what could be an
Speaker 1: explosive into the regular season because if the Cowboys defeat
Speaker 1: the Eagles go on into Nashville and defeat the Titans,
Speaker 1: and let's say, Garden Minshew is the start of this
Speaker 1: weekend next week and the Eagles lose drop these two.
Speaker 1: Oh we're talking about week eighteen. It's coming down to
Speaker 1: all the marbles, yea, all the marbles. So yeah, an
Speaker 1: interesting turn of events here in the NFC and NFC East.
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Speaker 1: a dream? Yeah, I don't know. Fielter Dreams was in
Speaker 1: Iowa and there was like seventy five and Sonny, I
Speaker 1: don't like Okay, if you filled like just like freaking
Speaker 1: Tyrn Smith, I right, tackle, I understand it, but I
Speaker 1: don't like peas and carrots. If FOOI if the Field
Speaker 1: of Dreams was filmed in ten degree weather with a
Speaker 1: little bit of a drizzle, I'm sure those ghosts would
Speaker 1: have stayed in the corn. They would have been further
Speaker 1: deeper into the cornfield. But yeah, no, no show at
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Speaker 1: Tuesday called Jordan, You're on Talking Cowboys? Hey, how's it
Speaker 1: going with great? How are you? Hey? I'm pretty good. Hey,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to make it I had a question
Speaker 1: about today. The only that can stop this Cowboys team
Speaker 1: as the Cowboys, So what do they what do they
Speaker 1: need to do to overcome getting out of their own way?
Speaker 1: I mean, I go back to all the way in
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven. I feel like that's when it
Speaker 1: really started. They're just underperforming the big game. So I'll
Speaker 1: just hang up and listen to what you guys got
Speaker 1: to say about that great, great question. Jordan, appreciate your
Speaker 1: call as always, and Patrick Ald defer to you. I'll
Speaker 1: say twenty twenty two has been interested in that. I'd
Speaker 1: say they've performed well in most of their big games. Obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, draw glowing circle around the Minnesota game. I
Speaker 1: think if you look at the ones that they're playing
Speaker 1: in close games, beat a win or a loss, it's
Speaker 1: because they're playing down to the competition. The Houston Texans
Speaker 1: game played down to the competition, the Indianapolis Coats for
Speaker 1: three quarters played down to the competition. The Jaguars, who
Speaker 1: are you know, better than the Coats and Texans. Still,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are the better team. They were the better
Speaker 1: team walking in. Played a little bit down to the competition,
Speaker 1: and you saw that over the course of you get
Speaker 1: up fourteen points, you get up seventeen points, and just
Speaker 1: like in Green Bay, another situation where you were the
Speaker 1: better team, you get this big lead and something inside
Speaker 1: you says, okay, we got this. Well until that clock
Speaker 1: hits all zeros, you don't got it. So my biggest
Speaker 1: thing for the Cowboys is not only consistency, which is
Speaker 1: a word Isaiah Kyla myself have constantly pounded the table
Speaker 1: about for this Cowboys, and I said it yesterday and
Speaker 1: you go to the dot com you'll see the on
Speaker 1: second thought that says, inconsistency plays the Cowboys. So that's one.
Speaker 1: But under the umbrella of consistency slash inconsistency is stop
Speaker 1: playing down to your competition. Stop you say you keep
Speaker 1: saying weekly you don't care what the record is, but
Speaker 1: we're seeing that something inside of you, be it consciously
Speaker 1: or subconsciously, actually does play down to the record. So yeah,
Speaker 1: treat the Texans of the world, the Coats of the world,
Speaker 1: as if they're the Vikings of the world, the Eagles
Speaker 1: of the world. And this team would be a one
Speaker 1: lost team because I still say Week one was the
Speaker 1: aberration that was just horrible, but this should be a
Speaker 1: one lost team right now. Ditto. Yeah, yep, yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't really have much else to add on that. I
Speaker 1: just a side from the fact that along with playing
Speaker 1: down in your competition is just execution. I think that
Speaker 1: sometimes we see a lack of emphasis on mechanics and
Speaker 1: lack of emphasis on the foundational pillars of the game,
Speaker 1: and you feel like you could just make it happen
Speaker 1: just because you're so and so, or you could feel
Speaker 1: like you could just make it happen just because you're
Speaker 1: the Cowboys, whatever it might be, whatever that mentality is
Speaker 1: and when you have that mindset, if you have that mindset,
Speaker 1: then your execution goes to crap because a man, my
Speaker 1: skill sets not as great as I thought it was.
Speaker 1: Or okay, yeah, you know, taking for instance, like a dack.
Speaker 1: You know, two weeks ago, you came in there throwing
Speaker 1: a ball like a dog on bottle rocket, just like
Speaker 1: why why are we throwing a ball so hard? You know?
Speaker 1: And when you when you do that, now, I was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I did my job, but you put somebody else in
Speaker 1: a bad situation. So go back to your mechanics. Along
Speaker 1: with not getting down or up for your competition, just
Speaker 1: be who you are to make everybody play to your level. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree. There's a saying out there that amateurs do
Speaker 1: it and practice it until they get it right. Professionals
Speaker 1: practice it until they can't get it wrong. So these
Speaker 1: are all professionals, and you're gonna get it wrong time
Speaker 1: and time again because that's what the opposing team is
Speaker 1: trying to make you do. They're trying to make you
Speaker 1: be wrong. But if you're a good team, you're gonna
Speaker 1: win some games that you probably should. And if you're
Speaker 1: a great team, you don't lose games. And that's what
Speaker 1: this team is right now. They're a good team. Don't
Speaker 1: win games, don't worry about it. But they're not a
Speaker 1: great team yet because they are losing games on their
Speaker 1: own accord. And that's something to keep in mind. I
Speaker 1: thought it was a great question from Jordan. Absolutely very
Speaker 1: angry people at you, Kyle. Why could you say Cowboys
Speaker 1: are a good team? They are a good team. People
Speaker 1: are gonna be furious. They're just not a great team.
Speaker 1: I think I think most of Cowboys Nation would agree
Speaker 1: with me, honestly, Scott in California, you're on talking Cowboys, Scott,
Speaker 1: how's it going. It's going good, guys. Hey, I with u, Kyle.
Speaker 1: I think that was a good team too. But I
Speaker 1: got a couple of things here. I was wondering if
Speaker 1: you guys could touch on why we aren't maybe shading
Speaker 1: a safety safety to Colvin Joseph's Kelvin Joseph's side. And
Speaker 1: also I don't think that's been brought up. I think
Speaker 1: this game was probably lost in the third quarter, right
Speaker 1: after Jacksonville scored that long touchdown, we come out, we
Speaker 1: go into a pass play right away from the fifteen
Speaker 1: yard line. After we return the ball out of the
Speaker 1: end zone, that Dak gets sacked and then the very
Speaker 1: next play gets picked up. I don't understand why you're
Speaker 1: not trying to settle down the team and run the
Speaker 1: ball in that situation. And the other thing I'd like
Speaker 1: to see is, I don't think that's a pocket passer.
Speaker 1: Stop making him a pocket passer. Let's move him on
Speaker 1: the side, Let's roll him out, Let's do some you know,
Speaker 1: maybe quarterback draws up the middle, something like that. Let
Speaker 1: him use his legs a little bit more, get him
Speaker 1: more involved in the game. When he's in the game,
Speaker 1: he seems to play a lot better. And alls drop
Speaker 1: off here and listen to you guys, what you gotta say.
Speaker 1: Thanks lot, guys, Thanks for your questions. Scott, let's talk
Speaker 1: about the film initially because Scott's doing some film study
Speaker 1: out there in California, and Ken too. Yeah, he's doing
Speaker 1: doing a good job. So shading his safety to Kelvin
Speaker 1: Joseph because I agree with him completely. I wrote it
Speaker 1: in my film Breakdown. Was the turning point in the
Speaker 1: ball game? Was the fifty nine yard strike to Zay Jones.
Speaker 1: That was the turning point because at that point you
Speaker 1: were still up by seventeen before that ball was caught,
Speaker 1: you were down by ten, and then all of a
Speaker 1: sudden you started to unravel from that point forward. So
Speaker 1: why not shade his safety over there? Or have they
Speaker 1: done it on occasion? I don't think that they're intentionally
Speaker 1: not giving him support. I just think that this is
Speaker 1: a man defense team. When you usually you're playing a
Speaker 1: man defense, you usually have single high safety, and that
Speaker 1: just is what it is. I mean, there is coverages
Speaker 1: in there where there was where there was cover four.
Speaker 1: I think the play that Kelvin got beat on, honestly,
Speaker 1: I think was if I remember correctly, I think it
Speaker 1: was cover four and he just bit on it. I
Speaker 1: mean his job is insured, always double moved, and he
Speaker 1: just his job on that coverage is insure. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think I remember it was cover four with a man
Speaker 1: law with U with Treybon, Traybon staying on the far side,
Speaker 1: he stayed on Marvin right and and Kelvin just got beat.
Speaker 1: I mean, you just don't bite on it, you give underneath.
Speaker 1: That was a ben but don't break call by I
Speaker 1: am really breaking out right now by dan Quinn and
Speaker 1: he just been on it. So I mean, it's not
Speaker 1: that he doesn't have support. It's just that you just
Speaker 1: got to execute. Man. It's not you're not babying anybody.
Speaker 1: He's a professional athletes in Yeah, you know, you call
Speaker 1: safe coverages and if people still bite on it, then
Speaker 1: guess what. You pull them out and you put somebody
Speaker 1: else in. And that's what they did. What do you
Speaker 1: think about the Dak question about moving them around a
Speaker 1: little bit using the legs. I feel like they've kind
Speaker 1: of subtly put that back into the game plan. He
Speaker 1: ran a read option in the bread zone this this week.
Speaker 1: We'll remember what I said several weeks back. I said,
Speaker 1: and we touched on this RPO situation. I said, give
Speaker 1: me some RPOs, approximately three or four. I don't eat
Speaker 1: five or more, but three or four, just enough to
Speaker 1: keep the opposing defense off balance. And the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: done that on a weekly basis. So to that point,
Speaker 1: I give Kevin Moore his roses. They are in fact
Speaker 1: running the RPOs with Dak Prescott. You saw an RPO
Speaker 1: that went for TfL when the Jaguars linebacker just sniffed
Speaker 1: it out. That was one that you would have liked
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott to keep and you know, have a better
Speaker 1: read on the lean on the linebacker. But that will
Speaker 1: happen sometimes, but that doesn't mean you see plays like
Speaker 1: that and you say okay. You look at Dak and
Speaker 1: you say, okay, just make the better read, but don't
Speaker 1: let that deter you from running our pos in the future.
Speaker 1: So they've installed them and they're actually calling them, and
Speaker 1: more often than not, they've been gainers versus plays that
Speaker 1: have been dropped in the backfield for a loss. So
Speaker 1: Cowboys are making strides in that capacity. Dak Prescott, he's
Speaker 1: making strides as far as seeing green or non RPO
Speaker 1: plays and taking off, But you would like to see
Speaker 1: that more often because there are still times where the
Speaker 1: green sea parts and you love that he's keeping his
Speaker 1: eyes down downfield. But it also goes back to fighting,
Speaker 1: living to fight for another day. So if you see
Speaker 1: that the coverage windows are being lengthened and you can't
Speaker 1: get that guy downfield and you have the grass in
Speaker 1: front of you, take that three yards, that four yards.
Speaker 1: Now you turn, you avoid third and ten because now
Speaker 1: you're third and five, and then that's more smore man,
Speaker 1: what I want to see? What do you want to
Speaker 1: see him? Throw the ball out of bounds. That's all
Speaker 1: I want to see. That's what I want for Christmas.
Speaker 1: I want to see Dak Prescott when he gets out
Speaker 1: the pocket. Sometimes it's simply just throw the ball out
Speaker 1: of bounds. So listen, he's getting out of the pocket.
Speaker 1: Usually when Dak's having a good game, he's usually on
Speaker 1: the move. So to his church caller's point, absolutely play action.
Speaker 1: He's getting out the pocket. So Kella Moore is calling,
Speaker 1: that's that's happening. Okay, that's where he's getting most of
Speaker 1: his yards from. He's on the move. Kay over routes
Speaker 1: to Cedee Lamb, dumping off the dog shows all these
Speaker 1: kind of things right, so easy, high precision passes for Dak.
Speaker 1: The problem is, and a lot of his interceptions are
Speaker 1: really starting to come from him trying to make a
Speaker 1: play when somebody is not necessarily open, trying to force it.
Speaker 1: I'm now I am unwilling to give up on my guys.
Speaker 1: And because I'm unwilling to give up on my guys,
Speaker 1: I'm going to give my guys a chance to make
Speaker 1: a play no matter what. Get out of that mindset.
Speaker 1: When it's there is there, you take it. When it
Speaker 1: is not there, throw it out of bounds and have
Speaker 1: the confidence that you guys are gonna move to chains
Speaker 1: on the next play. Gotta get it again, another opportunity.
Speaker 1: Let's take our second break. When we come back, We'll
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Speaker 1: we've got Sean in Hot Springs, Arkansas, one of my
Speaker 1: favorite destination towns. I love Hot Springs. I think it's great, Sean.
Speaker 1: How's it going? You're on Talking Cowboys? All going good?
Speaker 1: What's up? Fellas? Nothing much? How are you okay? Complaining?
Speaker 1: It wouldn't do no good if I did? There you go?
Speaker 1: There you go? All right? Two quick questions. First, one
Speaker 1: for Isaiah, are you feeling at all a little bit
Speaker 1: more comfortable about the offensive line with having a TYROLN.
Speaker 1: Smith over on the right side. It seemed like he
Speaker 1: got most of the snaps last week, and I think
Speaker 1: he'd be good over there. And second, do y'all think
Speaker 1: we might possibly see some of these corners working from
Speaker 1: the practice squad this week, whether it's Jalen Hurts or
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew on the other side, throwing the rock around
Speaker 1: just to see what we got, because I mean, he
Speaker 1: can't hurt. But that's all I got. I appreciate you
Speaker 1: guys taking my call. Go cowboys, and y'all have a
Speaker 1: good rest of your day. There we go, Sean and
Speaker 1: Hot Springs calling us on a talking Tuesday, Isaiah, I'll
Speaker 1: start with you offensive line talk again, Sean trying to
Speaker 1: get me. He's trying to get you in trouble. Sean.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you heard yesterday's episode, if you
Speaker 1: heard it, if you hadn't go back listen to think
Speaker 1: little little minnows? Still, am I more confident to say
Speaker 1: I'm more confident with say that I believe that our
Speaker 1: current lineup was is better than it was when Terran
Speaker 1: Steel was at right tackle? Right? Is that fair? Okay?
Speaker 1: Am I more confident right now? In that? I can't
Speaker 1: say that I am? I can't say that I am
Speaker 1: yet I want Tyrn I left tackle. That's that's what
Speaker 1: I mean. I don't know how it was to answer confident?
Speaker 1: Am I confident in this versus the I mean, what
Speaker 1: we what are we comparing it to? Are we saying
Speaker 1: Tyrn versus Terence Steel at right tackles ball? I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: Teren Steel's not on the team anymore. If it's Tyrn
Speaker 1: versus Tarran Steele, no, I'm not more confident at the
Speaker 1: right tackle because t is the right tackle. If it's
Speaker 1: Tyring versus Ball, that's not even a that's not even
Speaker 1: a question. That's what it is. It's that It's like,
Speaker 1: do I want to drive a you know, I don't know. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're trying to come up with a metaphor, had one.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't believe it was a sponsor Hall
Speaker 1: protect the team. Come, uh, let's let's talk about corners
Speaker 1: on the practice squad Patrick, anybody that could step up there?
Speaker 1: I know there's a couple, you know what, Um, there's
Speaker 1: I mean there's a guy that was inactive this week too.
Speaker 1: The the on second thought, that's on the dot com.
Speaker 1: I and Nick and I pinned that yesterday at around
Speaker 1: eleven am. Um, and I will read to you exactly
Speaker 1: what that says. I would, you know, kind of spoiler
Speaker 1: alert on my own piece, But still go read it anyway,
Speaker 1: because you know worthy clicks are good. Uh. That means
Speaker 1: for me unleashing Kendall Sheffield, McKenzie, Alexander and Trey von
Speaker 1: mullen to lock coins with Nashan Wright and Kelvin Joseph
Speaker 1: and possibly toss Israel mcquamu in that mix as well,
Speaker 1: to finally get a handle on this situation. Not five
Speaker 1: hours later, defensivecording to dan Quinn basically said it's going
Speaker 1: to be an open competition there. I'm going to assume
Speaker 1: dan Quinn read my on second thought because he's just great.
Speaker 1: Thanks for reading it, Dan, and thanks for reacting appropriately.
Speaker 1: You know they question about is that when you guys
Speaker 1: speak with Al Harris? Okay, whenever the coaches are available,
Speaker 1: just do me a favor. Can you ask him why
Speaker 1: with him having been a very physical corner, he was
Speaker 1: a very much soul. He could shadow you, but he
Speaker 1: was very much So I'm gonna get up in your
Speaker 1: face both hand and chess cabinet. Okay, I remember I
Speaker 1: always that got Why is he not enacting that here?
Speaker 1: As a coach, They're doing a lot more shadowing, a
Speaker 1: lot more playing from off. Why are he why is
Speaker 1: he not releasing the hounds in terms of letting these
Speaker 1: guys go up there and put hands. I think that's
Speaker 1: deference to dan Quinn, to be honest with you, because
Speaker 1: if you look at to a degree, because if you
Speaker 1: look at the system, and you know better than most,
Speaker 1: if you look at the system in Seattle, there was
Speaker 1: physical right. But Sherman wasn't that al Harris built. As
Speaker 1: far as here's the free smoke, Sherman was more I'm
Speaker 1: going to give you a little bit because I have
Speaker 1: the length and athleticism to recover clothes and get this interception.
Speaker 1: That's why Sherman was so dynamic. That's a different skill
Speaker 1: set than an al Harris and you can agree with that.
Speaker 1: So I think it's a situation where, especially when you
Speaker 1: have these young guys you and we mentioned this a
Speaker 1: few weeks ago, why is this guy playing off or
Speaker 1: that guy playing off? And it's because there might not
Speaker 1: be enough trust there just yet for me to say, hey, look, Kelvin, Joseph,
Speaker 1: go put your hands in this guy's chest at the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. Jam him up for five yards. I
Speaker 1: trust that if he gets the release, you can still
Speaker 1: track him and get this pass, breakup or better a takeaway.
Speaker 1: But if you feel like you're still test driving a guy,
Speaker 1: you're going to play that guy off. They played Kelvin
Speaker 1: Joseph off of Zay Jones and it still didn't work.
Speaker 1: So if you don't have the confidence that he can
Speaker 1: press the man, and now you don't have the confidence
Speaker 1: that he can play off the man either, we are
Speaker 1: at that point where the open competition should happen. So
Speaker 1: Craig von Mullen is who you were talking about who
Speaker 1: was made inactive. I can understand why he was. He
Speaker 1: was claimed off waivers only a few days before the game,
Speaker 1: similar to t Y Hilton joining only a few days
Speaker 1: on the opposite side of the ball. But for me,
Speaker 1: the question mark remains. Kendall Sheffield has been here since October.
Speaker 1: McKinsey Alexander has been here going on three weeks now.
Speaker 1: You had two veteran options on the practice. Could elevate them,
Speaker 1: could have elevated no elevations if either of them. That
Speaker 1: has two and will likely change this week. Also, by
Speaker 1: the way, you mentioned Israel mcquamo in there as well.
Speaker 1: I asked him the other day in the locker room.
Speaker 1: I said, would you ever move back to corner and
Speaker 1: would you ever move. He said, what I there you go? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: there you go. I asked him. I was like, is
Speaker 1: that just where you're comfortable? He goes, Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: my homesy one, that's home smoke, that's home for me.
Speaker 1: So yeah, Israel mcquamo could be an option if he
Speaker 1: gets in. The coaches ear enough to do so. They
Speaker 1: like him at safety and they like him on special teams.
Speaker 1: I want them physically the line of scrimmage. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: a couple of that with this, with this defensive front,
Speaker 1: you don't allow receivers get going just the way he said.
Speaker 1: That was very peasing carrots of Isaiah there. I want
Speaker 1: physicality cutting this gracious Gimi man. I want Marco in
Speaker 1: Italy to be on Talking Cowboys. Marco, you're on the line.
Speaker 1: How's it going from across the pond? Hey guys, good morning.
Speaker 1: How are you? Thank you for having me back? What's
Speaker 1: on your mind? I wanted to share my view on
Speaker 1: the team with you. I agree with you. I mean,
Speaker 1: the team is good, does not create and over the
Speaker 1: last ten fifteen years, burying devastating injuries. We've always been good,
Speaker 1: let's say our eight out of ten, but never good enough.
Speaker 1: To win at all, and the reason being, in my opinion,
Speaker 1: the culture of the franchise since Jimmy Johnson left. Of
Speaker 1: course they want to win, but at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, if you're a Dallas Cowboys, life is beautiful anyway.
Speaker 1: For example, take that after t B twelve and my homes,
Speaker 1: he's the most famous quarterback in the NFL. People may
Speaker 1: not know who the Rems quarterback is, but everybody knows that.
Speaker 1: As a consequence, they don't put enough attention to details
Speaker 1: that are the franchises have and they end up short
Speaker 1: of the goal each year. Penalties will calls, not because
Speaker 1: they're incompetence or two players, but due to lack of attention. So,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, complacency has no room in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys are a complainant organization when compared with
Speaker 1: the top franchises of the league such as the England
Speaker 1: or Casey so good but not good enough. And I
Speaker 1: think the reason is the culture. It's not the people.
Speaker 1: I'm not pointing fingers to the coaches, the players. I
Speaker 1: think that if you transfer this organization, this roster to
Speaker 1: another franchise, they may end up having better results because
Speaker 1: of the culture. I would like to hear your views
Speaker 1: on this, and you know, I wish you Americ Christmas
Speaker 1: a great twenty twenty three and go Cowboys. The same
Speaker 1: to you, Marco. Thanks Marco, appreciate your thoughts. I would
Speaker 1: love to dive into that. I really would, but we
Speaker 1: don't have that's like a week long conversation because that's
Speaker 1: the fact of the matter of what it means to
Speaker 1: have the Star. I mean, there's a tension on you,
Speaker 1: but there's also a pride factor that comes with it too, yes,
Speaker 1: and that pride factor could either be a good thing
Speaker 1: or it could be a bad thing. So that's part
Speaker 1: of it. And if you're not mentally ready for that
Speaker 1: as a player in the NFL, it's going to come
Speaker 1: back and hurt you at some point. Heavy is the
Speaker 1: head that where's the crown. And there's a reason pride
Speaker 1: is one of these seven deadly sins. If if you
Speaker 1: I did consume you and use it, you know, to
Speaker 1: counteract productivity, then I mean, it's going to be your downfall.
Speaker 1: So for the Cowboys, it's it's the most valuable sports
Speaker 1: organization on the planet. It has the most eyes and
Speaker 1: ears watching it. And like how I said, it comes
Speaker 1: with a ton of pressure to deliver. And if you
Speaker 1: look at it, the Cowboys have had more success as
Speaker 1: far as regular season is concerned over the past decade
Speaker 1: or more than most of the other NFL teams. But
Speaker 1: it's not ever going to be weighted the same way,
Speaker 1: and it doesn't matter if that's fair or not. Once
Speaker 1: you put this on your helmet, this star expectations rise.
Speaker 1: So five Super Bowls, you've been chasing a sixth since
Speaker 1: the mid nineties. It's now we're never really for a
Speaker 1: lot of these players. And I will say this and
Speaker 1: I'll toss it back to you guys when you mentioned
Speaker 1: Dak and you mentioned some of these other guys, keep
Speaker 1: in mind most of this roster is playing for their lives.
Speaker 1: This is a game of attrition. The bottom half of
Speaker 1: the roster doesn't know if they will be in this
Speaker 1: building in a uniform next year. They don't know if
Speaker 1: there will be in anyone's building, so they're really leaving
Speaker 1: it all on the field. But as a culture, I
Speaker 1: understand that thought process because when you go twenty five,
Speaker 1: twenty six years without getting to the Promised Land or
Speaker 1: even the NFC Championship, you have to take those types
Speaker 1: of criticisms, and it's fair to throw them on the
Speaker 1: Cowboys right now. I mean, you played with the star
Speaker 1: on your helmet, so you've got to have some kind
Speaker 1: of thought to that. I mean, yeah, there's weight that
Speaker 1: comes with it. I mean, but that's not what you're
Speaker 1: not thinking about that while you're playing. Yeah, you're not
Speaker 1: thinking about No, you are between games though, Monday, are
Speaker 1: you are? Because you're humane and not really I didn't
Speaker 1: if your filter isn't set up correctly and you're consuming
Speaker 1: all of this Skip Baylisses of the world and you're
Speaker 1: watching all these steven A's of the world as a human,
Speaker 1: it will start to infiltrate. You're subconscious. That's why you
Speaker 1: have to be care for what you say as a robot. No,
Speaker 1: I mean serious, man, I think it's just be careful
Speaker 1: about what I was too. I was too focused on
Speaker 1: the individual, you know, my my assignments and my battles
Speaker 1: for that week. I mean, okay, you, I mean you
Speaker 1: you're not at that time. You're not worried. We're not
Speaker 1: worried about the way of the world. You're not worried
Speaker 1: about how many super Bowls came before. You're not. You're
Speaker 1: not worried about all those things. You're worried about keeping
Speaker 1: your dog on job. You're worried about winning ball games
Speaker 1: and hopefully adding you know, some bread and some jewelry
Speaker 1: to your kind of jewels. Yeah, I mean, I mean,
Speaker 1: and when you take care of those things, and obviously
Speaker 1: the umbrella wins too, But I mean, honestly, players, players,
Speaker 1: you gotta take care of yourself. Man. Sure, but it
Speaker 1: goes back to what Patrick was saying to. You know,
Speaker 1: it goes back to what Patrick was saying too. And
Speaker 1: you know this as much as anybody, but you're playing
Speaker 1: for your football life. You're playing to stick around your resume.
Speaker 1: There's a part of it there and especially here whenever
Speaker 1: they don't. Really, if you ball out with that on
Speaker 1: your helmet, you're good. Yeah, But if you don't, if
Speaker 1: you don't move on, because it's not it's not weighted evenly, No,
Speaker 1: it's not. You could have the same stats for the
Speaker 1: Jets that you would hear for the for the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: And which do you think is gonna make you look
Speaker 1: worse quart of public opinion? No doubt? It goes Yep,
Speaker 1: good but not good enough. That's a pretty much the
Speaker 1: topic of conversation today on a Talking Tuesday. We'll be
Speaker 1: back tomorrow. We're officially turning the page to Week sixteen
Speaker 1: and the Philadelphia Eagles. We will preview the Cowboys defense
Speaker 1: going up against that Philly offense, possibly without Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 1: Thanks to Jordan, Scott, Sean, and Marco for calling in.
Speaker 1: Chris Beam in the back, Isaiah standback, Patrick Nose walk around,
Speaker 1: Kyle Yeoman's saying so long. We'll see tomorrow with more
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