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Speaker 1: The Dallas Cowboys are champions of the NFC eased. A
Speaker 1: thirty eight to ten beat down of the Washington Commanders
Speaker 1: has the division in Hangland. For the Dallas Cowboys, they
Speaker 1: finished the season twelve and five for the third straight
Speaker 1: season and are also the number two seed in the
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Speaker 1: Bay Packers in the wildcard round, the two versus seven seed.
Speaker 1: It's a historic matchup between two historic franchises. We've got
Speaker 1: a lot to talk about this week. It is playoff
Speaker 1: week in Frisco. We've got Nick Harris, Josh Rodriguez, Chris
Speaker 1: Beam in the back of Kyle Yeomens to break it
Speaker 1: down for you. No John Matchoda or Isaiah Standback Today,
Speaker 1: Isaiah said he was gonna be here on Monday. He
Speaker 1: just couldn't take the fact that the Cowboys won the
Speaker 1: NFC East. That's what it was.
Speaker 4: He just saw us in the gym and he got
Speaker 4: a free That's what it was. He went the opposite way.
Speaker 4: He didn't want to talk about a Washington team losing.
Speaker 2: That's what it was.
Speaker 1: That. Yeah, Yeah, he's on his way down to Houston.
Speaker 1: Took the took his son late last night and they
Speaker 1: decided to get a hotel room, go do the whole
Speaker 1: fan experience. So happy for him, and I know he's listening.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he'll probably call in at some point if
Speaker 1: I if I had to make a guess on Isaiah
Speaker 1: stand back, he doesn't want to stay away from it
Speaker 1: too long. Cowboys dismantle the Commanders. It was a little
Speaker 1: rocky really till midway of the second quarter. He got
Speaker 1: a little bit nervous along the way. But then Dallas
Speaker 1: did exactly what you expected them to do. Put it away.
Speaker 1: And when at thirty eight to ten, Nick, you were
Speaker 1: on site, what were your thoughts. I was not on site,
Speaker 1: but correct, you were driving from.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I was driving from Mexico there, But that's besides
Speaker 5: the point. Yeah, was there ever really any concern, Like, truthfully,
Speaker 5: even when it was ten to seven in the second
Speaker 5: quarter and a couple of things had just gone perfectly
Speaker 5: right for the Commanders up to that point, and you
Speaker 5: just knew that the offense is going to bounce back
Speaker 5: from those setbacks because you saw that first drive they
Speaker 5: marched down the field, Dad goes six for six two yards,
Speaker 5: touchdown a CD and it just kind of gets things going.
Speaker 5: Or it wasn't Tolbert on the opening touch it was
Speaker 5: the opening touchdown. Yeah, I never really felt concerned. I
Speaker 5: really felt like this team was eventually gonna move away
Speaker 5: with at least a three score win, and that's what happened.
Speaker 5: You saw that there were holes in the Washington secondary.
Speaker 5: There were a lot of guys in that game that
Speaker 5: had not had a lot of reps throughout the season.
Speaker 5: You know, this good, good, good experience for those guys.
Speaker 5: But when you have that kind of matchup and you
Speaker 5: look on the other side and what that team is
Speaker 5: playing for, you just kind of felt like the Cowboys
Speaker 5: would eventually bounce back and win in the fashion that
Speaker 5: they did. But yeah, I think there were a lot
Speaker 5: of really positive moments that you could take out of this.
Speaker 5: I think one of the bigger ones obviously is just
Speaker 5: being able to take the ball away, limiting the run game.
Speaker 5: The defense did what they they should do, even in
Speaker 5: allowing ten points. It kind of didn't really feel like
Speaker 5: they allowed it because of the block field goal allowed
Speaker 5: them to push so far into the red zone. And
Speaker 5: you know, that gave up a ten point swing in
Speaker 5: a game that you won by twenty eight. So you know,
Speaker 5: it's not a huge deal. When you look at the
Speaker 5: concerns from yesterday, there are a lot of positives to
Speaker 5: take away, especially on the road, that that can only
Speaker 5: help you going into the playoffs.
Speaker 4: And how about it, cayle Yam with his playoff.
Speaker 1: Time, it is playoff times, let's go.
Speaker 6: I mean, when they got up to ten to seven,
Speaker 6: I was like, that's cute, but we're gonna get the
Speaker 6: ball at some point.
Speaker 4: So you know what I mean, Like, that's nice, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's cute of them.
Speaker 6: And also the desperation to go for two fourth down
Speaker 6: conversions on their first drive.
Speaker 4: It's like, okay, we get it, guys, but no, dice,
Speaker 4: don't just see me fall on his share it went
Speaker 4: a lot lower than I wanted it to go. Actually,
Speaker 4: foreheads on the table.
Speaker 1: I think that was the thing. You expected Washington to
Speaker 1: be aggressive. Of course, Riverboat Ron Ron Rivera, which, by
Speaker 1: the way, he was let go early early this morning,
Speaker 1: I think even eastern time at midnight he was let go,
Speaker 1: and the uh so he ended up going for it
Speaker 1: multiple times. They were going to be aggressive. They brought
Speaker 1: the house on the field goal block. That went perfectly
Speaker 1: for Washington. They picked it up, went all the way
Speaker 1: back into the deep into Dallas territory. You take the
Speaker 1: field goal block away. I mean it's a three point game.
Speaker 1: I mean Dallas dominated where they needed to dominate. They
Speaker 1: had some momentum on that opening drive. But I think
Speaker 1: I'm with you, Nick, I think the nervous level was
Speaker 1: not even really registering on the nervous meter yet it
Speaker 1: was there. It might have been shaken the meter just
Speaker 1: to tad Bit when it was ten to seven, and
Speaker 1: if Dallas had the football and if they didn't score
Speaker 1: there then maybe it would it would have increased a
Speaker 1: little bit. But when Dallas was down ten to seven,
Speaker 1: they put together a put together a seven play, seventy
Speaker 1: one yard drive Tony Pollard caps it off with a
Speaker 1: physical run. He was really he ran with a purpose,
Speaker 1: he ran downhill. I liked what I saw from Tony
Speaker 1: Pollard yesterday, even in limited touches. Again, but when they
Speaker 1: went down and took care of business the way that
Speaker 1: they needed to win that drive, that was when I said, Okay,
Speaker 1: this is where it's starting to turn. Then they had
Speaker 1: the Donovan Wilson interception that then turned into the CD
Speaker 1: Lamb touchdown right before the break, a couple of touchdowns
Speaker 1: within about a six minute span, and then all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, it's twenty one to ten. You get the
Speaker 1: football to start the third.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's kind of how I felt too, whenever they
Speaker 5: had that opportunity to double dip in the final two
Speaker 5: and a half or so minutes of the first half,
Speaker 5: and then knowing that you get the ball coming out
Speaker 5: for the second half, whenever they scored to go at
Speaker 5: twenty one ten, And that's what I was like, all right,
Speaker 5: so this is they're about to put this out a
Speaker 5: hand out of the break, and that's what they did,
Speaker 5: you know, And that's what four consecutive touchdown and drives
Speaker 5: will give you two. But yeah, I think offensive execution
Speaker 5: after that interception from Dak Prescott, which.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think I'd like to talk to Isaiah on that
Speaker 5: about whose fault it necessarily was. You know, when you
Speaker 5: have a defensive lineman barreling down on you like that,
Speaker 5: you know, do you throw that ball? But that'll probably
Speaker 5: be something we look at in the AL twenty two
Speaker 5: and have more discussion about. But other than that offensive execution,
Speaker 5: I mean, you can't really complain about what happened yesterday.
Speaker 5: And you mentioned Tony Pollard and I want to bring
Speaker 5: up something with Tony Pollard, and he didn't have the
Speaker 5: season that everybody expected him to, including himself. He said
Speaker 5: it last week, He's like, this is not the year
Speaker 5: that I wanted to have. But hey, you know this
Speaker 5: is team's success, and you know we have an opportunity
Speaker 5: to do some really great things. Still, when you stack
Speaker 5: back to back one thousand yard seasons, I don't care
Speaker 5: that there's seventeen games in the season.
Speaker 4: Now, that's tough to do. Right now.
Speaker 5: Throw in a catastrophic leg injury right in the middle
Speaker 5: of that, and it takes away your entire offseason. You
Speaker 5: got to rehabit the entire offseason, you get back just
Speaker 5: in time for training camp.
Speaker 4: I got it to my cap to Tony Pollard. I
Speaker 4: that's tough to do. It would take down a lot
Speaker 4: of people. It didn't take him down.
Speaker 5: You know, there's been a lot of discussion in the
Speaker 5: last couple of weeks in the fan base about Tony
Speaker 5: Pollard and you know just how effective he is in
Speaker 5: this offense, and you know what his future is.
Speaker 4: You know, I think Tony Pollard has built to be
Speaker 4: a Dallas cowboy for a while.
Speaker 1: And the criticism there is warranted. Absolutely, It's not the season,
Speaker 1: like you said, and like he said, that was anticipated.
Speaker 1: There were expectations being put on the franchise tag, there
Speaker 1: were expectations along the way. But being RB one, did
Speaker 1: he live up to the expectations that were set for him? Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Not right, But was he a serviceable back that you
Speaker 1: can rely on and that helped you in your offense
Speaker 1: at times? Certainly? Yeah.
Speaker 6: And it took him about half the season to really
Speaker 6: look like Tony Poller. I think outside looking in, I
Speaker 6: think just watching him run, watching his stride, I don't
Speaker 6: feel like he really hit it until about halfway through
Speaker 6: the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Yeah, And he said that he was gosh, I don't
Speaker 4: remember when this was exactly.
Speaker 5: I want to say it was roughly like week twelve,
Speaker 5: week thirteen, and we somebody had asked him in one
Speaker 5: of his availabilities.
Speaker 4: They were like, you know, where are you now compared
Speaker 4: to week one?
Speaker 5: And basically what he said was like, yeah, I thought
Speaker 5: I was one hundred percent in week one, but I
Speaker 5: didn't really know until like I started sacking games, and
Speaker 5: now here I am again week twelve, week thirteen. I
Speaker 5: feel how I was before the injury. And so Mike
Speaker 5: McCarthy talks about it a lot. It really takes guys
Speaker 5: a full year, sometimes even more to come back from
Speaker 5: injuries like that. You know, Tony Poller did it in
Speaker 5: the fashion that he did. I'm fairly confident that if
Speaker 5: he's a Dallas Cowboy next year he has a better season.
Speaker 1: While Tony Pollard specifically seventeen carries seventy yards, he eclipses
Speaker 1: the one thousand yard rushing mark. Sixth running back in
Speaker 1: team history to do so. Calvin Hill, Tony Dorset, some
Speaker 1: guy named Demon Smith, DeMarco Murray, and Ezekiel Elliott were
Speaker 1: the five before Tony Pollard did do it, and Like
Speaker 1: you said, it was seventeen game season, but it still
Speaker 1: holds weight. One thousand yards is a milestone for sure.
Speaker 1: Speaking of milestones and offense, Dak and CD again, I mean,
Speaker 1: it's gotten to the point where it's clockwork for CD
Speaker 1: Lamb to go off for multiple scores or one hundred yards.
Speaker 1: He didn't have both in this game. He had ninety
Speaker 1: eight yards two touchdowns though thirteen carries on thirteen total targets.
Speaker 1: Dak has been looking for Cede Lamb and he's been
Speaker 1: finding him more often than not. How special has that
Speaker 1: connection been.
Speaker 6: I think they are the hottest wide receiver quarterback duo
Speaker 6: in the league. And it's pretty to say as a
Speaker 6: Cowboys fan, and you see all of these teams year
Speaker 6: by year and you see teams stacking up wins like
Speaker 6: that with a duel like that. To see that here
Speaker 6: with CD going off the way he is getting fifteen
Speaker 6: touchdowns in one year. Granted it's a longer season, but
Speaker 6: we haven't seen that since Dez. Yeah, so just shouts
Speaker 6: to him and shouts to that relationship that they have.
Speaker 6: They've really built a lot of trust together over the
Speaker 6: course of the season. More so even than CD's previous
Speaker 6: seasons and he's looked great in those two so he's
Speaker 6: just getting better.
Speaker 4: Yeah, what is his what is his peak? You know,
Speaker 4: that's kind of what I think about right now.
Speaker 5: This is year four four, year four, Yeah, and we're
Speaker 5: looking at a top ten all time receiving season that
Speaker 5: he just put together, the number two in the in
Speaker 5: the league and receiving yards top six and receptions all time.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's he puts together a lot of numbers
Speaker 5: this year that are just eye boggling. And man, that
Speaker 5: that bag is gonna go thud all Yeah, yeah money, yes, absolutely, Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's a statement season and it came out a good
Speaker 5: time for him.
Speaker 1: Yeah. They need to get it done now. Just get
Speaker 1: that thing wrapped up really quick.
Speaker 5: Is there any other major receiver that is a waiting
Speaker 5: a deal because Justin Jefferson got his, Jamar.
Speaker 4: Chase got his.
Speaker 1: Yes, so I CDs next market.
Speaker 4: I don't think they necessarily have to hurry up and
Speaker 4: do anything because I think he's going to be the
Speaker 4: one that resets the market.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he'll set the market for sure. Yeah. That that
Speaker 1: money is going to be nuts, and I mean it
Speaker 1: is going to be interesting. The fact that he does
Speaker 1: have the fifth year team option, so he's under contract
Speaker 1: for next year. But you don't really want to wait
Speaker 1: until the end.
Speaker 4: Now, just get it.
Speaker 1: That's get it. That's a bad idea.
Speaker 4: And you have Micah coming up to.
Speaker 1: And Dak renewed this year. I mean, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of things that are there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, make it work.
Speaker 4: This is the cowboy.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's that's the good problem that you have
Speaker 1: because this is a team. And I tweeted this out
Speaker 1: last night, but talking about a regular season that's well
Speaker 1: balanced across the board. NFL leader in passing touchdowns Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott Boom thirty six passing touch downs for Dak. NFL
Speaker 1: leader in reception Ceedee Lammy finished with what one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty one receptions something like That's insane, it was,
Speaker 1: it was nuts. That's an incredible season. One hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty one receptions. I'm just making sure that that is
Speaker 1: the number. I can't find it on this show.
Speaker 4: One hundred and thirty five, thirty five.
Speaker 1: Either way, he's the NFL leader in receptions, NFL leader
Speaker 1: in interceptions. Deron Bland, who was another contract that at
Speaker 1: some point you're going to have to think about. Uh nine,
Speaker 1: picks this year, five of which, of course going back
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. NFL leader in pressures Micah Parsons He
Speaker 1: entered with one oh two according to Pro Football Focus
Speaker 1: that has been of course up. We don't have the
Speaker 1: finishing number there, but he had a big enough lead
Speaker 1: that he's the leader in pressures. Leader in field goal
Speaker 1: makes Brandon Aubrey with thirty six. He did have his
Speaker 1: first miss officially on the field goal block and then
Speaker 1: a second miss off the doink in the second half.
Speaker 4: He needs to throw away that T shirt that he
Speaker 4: got made before the game, the Bang Banger and butter. Yeah,
Speaker 4: throw those out.
Speaker 1: It's pretty sick team.
Speaker 4: No, it's great, but those are bad.
Speaker 1: You do now?
Speaker 4: Was there any PTSD from Brett maher effets feel.
Speaker 1: A little bit?
Speaker 5: Yeah, there had to be, just a little bit. I mean,
Speaker 5: it's not like, Okay, this is happening again. I don't
Speaker 5: think it was necessarily like that, but it was like
Speaker 5: him coming.
Speaker 4: Back, just kind of looking around the room.
Speaker 1: The fact that Dallas came back and had a fifty
Speaker 1: yarder and he was able to put it through in
Speaker 1: the in the fourth quarter late, and it's that made
Speaker 1: me feel so much better. Yeah, for so much better.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure it probably Brandon Aubrey's very very even kill.
Speaker 1: He's not up and down. It's just not who he
Speaker 1: is as a personality. But yeah, it made me feel better,
Speaker 1: which I'm sure it probably made him feel a little
Speaker 1: bit better.
Speaker 4: What did the guys think? What did Nate and everybody?
Speaker 4: What were they saying?
Speaker 1: Well, the first one, Nate thought he jinked because you
Speaker 1: know how like Greg Olsen on the broadcast was talking about, oh,
Speaker 1: we jinked it. It was the broadcast jinx and it
Speaker 1: was kind of annoying, but whatever, Nate kept singing it up,
Speaker 1: bringing it up. Nate Newton said the same thing. He
Speaker 1: was like, man, I jinked him. I've been finally talking
Speaker 1: about him because he he always talks bad about kickers.
Speaker 1: That's just kind of his his fel his his character,
Speaker 1: and Nate always he talks bad about kickers. And he
Speaker 1: finally was like, man, when I finally talk good about him,
Speaker 1: then they miss a kick, then they get it blocked,
Speaker 1: and no one blocked for you brand and that one's
Speaker 1: on me, like Nate.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it wasn't on Brandon Aubrey.
Speaker 1: That was just a clear thanks Terrence Steele Tyler, I
Speaker 1: know right ended a good thing. Thirty five of thirty
Speaker 1: five either way. Brandon Aubrey, NFL leader and field goal
Speaker 1: makes and then NFC leader in punt average Brian Anger.
Speaker 5: So even though he only put him like six times
Speaker 5: a year day, but point three yards baby, fifty plus yards,
Speaker 5: that's okay, get it.
Speaker 1: Done where you can.
Speaker 7: Uh.
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Speaker 1: Cowboys Nation today is, on a scale of one to ten,
Speaker 1: what is your confidence level in this team right now
Speaker 1: going into the playoffs. I'm not talking about deep playoff runs.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about making a prediction for the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. What is your confidence level one to
Speaker 1: ten on how well this team is built and set
Speaker 1: up into the postseason. And we'll answer that question ourselves
Speaker 1: in our Smelly Stickers segment coming up next. But I
Speaker 1: want to talk about the Green Bay Packers. A lot
Speaker 1: of Cowboys fans have bad memories in the back of
Speaker 1: their head from the Packers' days and some of the
Speaker 1: other playoff matchups over these last couple of years. Where
Speaker 1: is your overall since around this setup for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: seeing the Packers in the first round at home.
Speaker 6: As far as I'm concerned, the Boogeyman is gone. He's
Speaker 6: off talking to Pat McAfee about, you know, vaccines and stuff.
Speaker 6: So I'm not necessarily worried about the Packers. I mean, granted,
Speaker 6: Jordan Love is playing out of his mind.
Speaker 1: He's the second best touchdown thrower in the NFL behind
Speaker 1: Dak Prescotte.
Speaker 6: But they are nine and eight, so they're definitely beatable.
Speaker 6: And I think that going into this game, just managing
Speaker 6: what Jordan Love does in and out of the pocket
Speaker 6: is going to be crucial and stopping the running game obviously,
Speaker 6: that's something that we'll need to do. But confidence level,
Speaker 6: I don't know, man, I'm kind of at like a five.
Speaker 6: I'm more so concerned with like what the cow how
Speaker 6: confident the Cowboys themselves are like after this game, after
Speaker 6: handling the commanders, which you're supposed to do, managing the
Speaker 6: running game, all of that. I'm more concerned with how
Speaker 6: confident they feel going into this. I'm I have to
Speaker 6: have my hands up, shoulders out, you know what I mean,
Speaker 6: Just like, all right, man, let's let's see what they
Speaker 6: can what they can do. I'm I'm I can be
Speaker 6: swayed either way at this point. I think with the
Speaker 6: Green Bay Packers you mentioned it, Aaron Rodgers not in
Speaker 6: the building anymore. This is a completely different Green Bay
Speaker 6: team than even the one that they saw at Lambeau
Speaker 6: last year. Let's something that was really interesting to me
Speaker 6: kind of when I was doing a little bit of
Speaker 6: prep last night on my final trek down from our
Speaker 6: trek up from the South. This is their leading receivers
Speaker 6: and the entire season will go down really really fast.
Speaker 6: Jaden Reid rookie, Romeo Dobs second year, Dontavian Wicks rookie,
Speaker 6: Christian Watson second year, Tucker Craft rookie, Luke Musgrave rookie.
Speaker 6: So they're full with first year guys, second year guys
Speaker 6: with a first year starter at quarterback. I mean, it's
Speaker 6: really impressive what Matt Lafluor has put together. But at
Speaker 6: the end of the day, I think this is one
Speaker 6: of those rare opportunities where the Cowboys playoff experience might
Speaker 6: just be a little bit too much in a game
Speaker 6: like this, especially at home, seven to eight to oero
Speaker 6: on the year at home and being able to stack
Speaker 6: those type of things. For that reason, I have a
Speaker 6: lot of confidence in this game for the Cowboys. This
Speaker 6: is a game that they should win. When you were
Speaker 6: looking at the possibilities going into the week about who
Speaker 6: they could get at the seven seed, this was who
Speaker 6: you wanted. In my opinion, I think the only thing
Speaker 6: that could have been.
Speaker 5: Better was like the Saints or Vikings, But like those
Speaker 5: were outside shots when you looked at the real possibilities.
Speaker 5: I think this was the best matchup in my eyes.
Speaker 5: I was even fighting with some people on Twitter last night, like, no,
Speaker 5: the Rams are not the better matchup, Like that's just false. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it's the Packers game. I think this is an opportunity
Speaker 5: for the Cowboys to go in get a big playoff win,
Speaker 5: and stack some confidence going into the divisional round.
Speaker 1: It was funny me and Isaiah were debating all week
Speaker 1: on who we would rather not see the most. He
Speaker 1: didn't want to see Seattle. I didn't want to see
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. Of course, let's just remember who we're talking
Speaker 1: about here. But we when we were talking back and
Speaker 1: forth about it, both of us were agreeing on one thing.
Speaker 1: We would rather see Green Bay in this scenario. Not
Speaker 1: because Green Bay is a bad football at all. No
Speaker 1: bad football teams remain. If you're in the playoffs, you
Speaker 1: know how to win games.
Speaker 4: Steelers.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's not get carried talking about the NFC. But
Speaker 1: in this case, out of the teams that you're seeing,
Speaker 1: the Rams are the hottest team in football possibly right
Speaker 1: now as a whole, other than maybe the one seeds
Speaker 1: of Baltimore and San Francisco. But then you've got the
Speaker 1: defensive prowess, three pro bowlers and playmakers on every level
Speaker 1: of the Seattle defense. I would rather see the youth
Speaker 1: and the inexperience of Green Bay in this category. They
Speaker 1: can still be a matchup matchup nightmare. And I'm excited
Speaker 1: to get in to the film study to start it
Speaker 1: a little early. Usually I wait until Tuesday afternoon to start.
Speaker 1: I'm going to start today just it's playoff week. Got
Speaker 1: to get a little like film studies. But Jordan Love specifically,
Speaker 1: I think he's going to present some problems, I really do,
Speaker 1: but I think this is a team that's going to
Speaker 1: adjust to that well. In the Cowboys, a lot of
Speaker 1: confidence answers rolling in here on the text line. The
Speaker 1: first really five or six that I saw were sevens
Speaker 1: and eights, pretty high confidence level. Got an eight and
Speaker 1: a half here Jason from Philadelphia says his confidence still
Speaker 1: level is a seven. I'm in at eight. That's Reggie
Speaker 1: from Maryland. But then as the tech started coming in
Speaker 1: a little bit lower, a say, on a scale of
Speaker 1: one to ten, a six and a half. This one's
Speaker 1: a five. Confidence level of four, I wonder why the
Speaker 1: five says it's been heard too many times. Five says,
Speaker 1: I don't think we're ready to really go all in yet.
Speaker 1: We're waiting to make a deep run in the playoffs
Speaker 1: before there's any excitement. Like Dak said, we're looking for
Speaker 1: something bigger. I completely understand. This is a team that
Speaker 1: has been set up well in the past. You've been
Speaker 1: healthy into back to back playoff runs and it's ended
Speaker 1: in either one game or two games. I get it.
Speaker 1: I totally get it. Specifically about the setup. I think
Speaker 1: this is the best they've been set up in these
Speaker 1: three years with Mike McCarthy as the head coach.
Speaker 4: No doubt.
Speaker 6: And if this was like a week, you know, twelve
Speaker 6: game I wouldn't My confidence level would be like a
Speaker 6: nine or ten. Yeah, but I think just a matter
Speaker 6: of us getting into posseason, it's like, yeah, we just
Speaker 6: got to go four and oh, Like that's that's really
Speaker 6: what we need to do starting from this week is
Speaker 6: just go four and oh. But yeah, I think going
Speaker 6: into it right now, all of the pressures on us,
Speaker 6: I think at this point, and you know, granted Green
Speaker 6: Bay is who they are, but it also is kind
Speaker 6: of prime time for Jordan Love to really make a
Speaker 6: name for himself.
Speaker 4: If he goes off in this game, you know, it's
Speaker 4: like that could be another Dallas.
Speaker 6: It could be one of those situations where like, Okay,
Speaker 6: we're about to you know, make a start if our
Speaker 6: defense doesn't show on Sunday.
Speaker 4: But we'll see. That's what I'm at A five.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean, way, we had three touchdowns in this
Speaker 1: game last year. I mean, it did happen.
Speaker 4: That was like the Christian Watson coming out party.
Speaker 1: Exactly after that he just exploded because there was nothing
Speaker 1: before that, and then he just blew up right after
Speaker 1: that game was wet.
Speaker 6: So that's what I'm afraid of. Those happened very often
Speaker 6: with those Packers games. But you know, we'll see what
Speaker 6: we can do.
Speaker 1: Along those same lines. What is your number one concern
Speaker 1: for this team right now? There are a couple of
Speaker 1: them still out there. This team's not perfect.
Speaker 4: It's it's it.
Speaker 6: Really is about the offense playing well and driving down
Speaker 6: the field and scoring points.
Speaker 4: That's really about it. I think the.
Speaker 6: Narrative is always there when we're not playing well, is
Speaker 6: that our offense just kind of sputters and just doesn't
Speaker 6: really like you just don't see them at their best,
Speaker 6: at their peak, which they've been so many times throughout
Speaker 6: the season. But in those big playoff games, it's like,
Speaker 6: once the offense is derailed a little bit, it just snowballs.
Speaker 1: That's true, and as.
Speaker 4: Is the defense can be. It's like there's nothing they
Speaker 4: can do if we're not scoring points, if we're not
Speaker 4: on a role.
Speaker 5: I think that consistency factor, like you're mentioning, I think
Speaker 5: that's probably where you're going is. You definitely can look
Speaker 5: at that from shoot, the four previous games before yesterday, Yeah,
Speaker 5: and then yesterday. Hopefully there's a little bit of confidence
Speaker 5: that you build off that it is the Washington defense,
Speaker 5: and there was a lot of pieces that they had out,
Speaker 5: But maybe you take that confidence into the postseason. But
Speaker 5: I understand where you're coming from there. I think the
Speaker 5: biggest concern with me probably would be when I look
Speaker 5: at the Green Bay game, I don't see any immediate
Speaker 5: like red flags. But when I look at the postseason
Speaker 5: as a whole, I worry about speed. I just worry
Speaker 5: about speed against against the defense. They were able to
Speaker 5: control it against Miami, they were able to control it
Speaker 5: against some other teams this year, but when they have
Speaker 5: to line up against a forty nine ers in the
Speaker 5: NFC Championship Game, or shoot, even the Eagles. They still
Speaker 5: have some speed. Yes, they've lost five of six, but
Speaker 5: they have some speed. They have weapons. You know, how
Speaker 5: can you contain those on a play to play basis
Speaker 5: and go from there? You're asking me right now, I
Speaker 5: think there's no excuse why this team should not make
Speaker 5: the NFC Championship Game.
Speaker 4: I see that again, I see it. I see it
Speaker 4: very clear and put.
Speaker 5: I think this team should be traveling the Santa Claire
Speaker 5: in a couple of weeks with an opportunity to bounce
Speaker 5: back from that Week five loss.
Speaker 1: We're playing at home.
Speaker 5: Whoever beats Yeah, I love how it's it's already clear
Speaker 5: clear that. I just don't don't feel like it's going
Speaker 5: to host.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. If if Dallas is in the NFC
Speaker 1: Championship Game, there's one of two options. It's either in
Speaker 1: San Francisco or it's in Dallas. That's that's incrediblely San Francisco.
Speaker 4: Yeah, give me San Francisco.
Speaker 5: You're gonna you're gonna have to beat the best teams.
Speaker 5: Don't ask me right now. Confidence, You don't ask me
Speaker 5: right now, that's.
Speaker 4: We got two weeks. Two weeks.
Speaker 6: No, But I like it because it's like, if we're
Speaker 6: gonna make the super Bowl, let's go against the best.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, I truly think that the NFC Championship this year
Speaker 4: will be a better match up than the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: I think. I think.
Speaker 5: I tell you what, the divisional round, it looks like
Speaker 5: you probably get Detroit. It looks like this Teamague, it's Detroit.
Speaker 1: Unless Matthew Stafford goes and does his thing in Detroit.
Speaker 4: That's that's a very valid point. Don't get me wrong.
Speaker 4: Enet the Eagles. Either way, then you get the Eagles.
Speaker 5: So like, sure, either way, you're getting a pissed off
Speaker 5: team lost at and T Stadium within the last five
Speaker 5: or so weeks, and you're gonna have to beat them
Speaker 5: again at at and T Stadium.
Speaker 4: It's a tough thing to do.
Speaker 5: Yes, this team is eight and oh at home, but
Speaker 5: stacking those wins it's a little bit more easier said
Speaker 5: than done. But again, I really don't feel like there's
Speaker 5: any excuse why this team should not be in the
Speaker 5: NFC Championship.
Speaker 1: Game when you look at the eighteen weeks of an
Speaker 1: NFL season. It used to beat quads. You wouldn't look
Speaker 1: at it in four quad pieces quarters of the season. Instead,
Speaker 1: now it's looked at as trimasters. You look at it
Speaker 1: in three parts. You look at the final six weeks
Speaker 1: of the regular season. A lot of times, those final
Speaker 1: six weeks as a franchise will tell you exactly where
Speaker 1: you are. Dallas had their toughest try master in the
Speaker 1: final six weeks, no doubt about it. Seattle, Philly, Buffalo, Miami, Detroit,
Speaker 1: and then they had to give me at the end
Speaker 1: with Washington. But those five games, you learned a lot
Speaker 1: about your football team. You finished four and two in
Speaker 1: the final six weeks, and you had ups and you
Speaker 1: had downs. Josh was talking about consistency. Seattle Week thirteen.
Speaker 1: Your offense won that game for you. Defense did not
Speaker 1: play well in that game. Seattle put up thirty five points.
Speaker 1: Gino Smith DK Metcalf both had the game of their life,
Speaker 1: but your offense played well enough to win that game.
Speaker 1: Both came together for Week fourteen dismantled the Eagles. Neither
Speaker 1: one showed up in Week fifteen and got dismantled by
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. So they're already you've seen three games
Speaker 1: halfway through this final trimester and you've seen zero consistency.
Speaker 1: Then you go to Miami. Your defense plays well enough
Speaker 1: to win, your offense does not. You go against Detroit,
Speaker 1: your defense plays well enough to win, your offense barely
Speaker 1: gets the job done, barely, but you needed the defense
Speaker 1: to do everything they could in that game to hold
Speaker 1: Detroit to nineteen points. And then you finally get all
Speaker 1: three again to come back together against Washington and win
Speaker 1: the game in a big way, even after a pitter
Speaker 1: patter start against the bad team on the road. The
Speaker 1: consistency is my problem as well. My problem is you
Speaker 1: have to do that for four straight games. You got
Speaker 1: to win four straight games. And even when the Cowboys
Speaker 1: won five straight games earlier in the year, it was
Speaker 1: against teams like New York, Carolina, Washington, Seattle, and Philly.
Speaker 1: I want to see it put together, no doubt about it,
Speaker 1: through four games and get the job done like you
Speaker 1: know they can, but they just haven't done it yet,
Speaker 1: and against the best teams in the NFL, no doubt,
Speaker 1: Because like you said, it's going to be Detroit, it's
Speaker 1: going to be the Rams. It won't be the Rams
Speaker 1: in the second round, it'll be Detroit, Philly, Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: in the second round. One of those three teams is
Speaker 1: the team you would face in the divisional round. You
Speaker 1: got to get through Green Bay first too, because they're
Speaker 1: hungry too. So there are concerns it's not perfect. Will
Speaker 1: continue to break it down. I think there's x's and
Speaker 1: o's parts of it too. I would like to see
Speaker 1: the run game continue to blossom, because I think you
Speaker 1: need that in order to win some of these games.
Speaker 1: But hey, they are good enough to get the job done.
Speaker 1: You just got to put it all together for four
Speaker 1: strew games.
Speaker 4: You're not throwing a quick question here.
Speaker 5: This was asked very early on in the post game
Speaker 5: press conference to Mike McCarthy yesterday and he walked in
Speaker 5: and Tad Carper, director of PR here, told him that
Speaker 5: it was going to be the Packers. And he walked
Speaker 5: up to the podium and it was like that fast
Speaker 5: and his second question he was asked, Hey, it's the Packers,
Speaker 5: you know, this year old team. You know, how much
Speaker 5: are you looking forward to this matchup? And he was like, yeah,
Speaker 5: you know, to me, it's a playoff matchup, it's a
Speaker 5: playoff game. It doesn't matter who's lined up on the
Speaker 5: other side. He's like, I'm not going to buy into
Speaker 5: the drama this week without about it, like y'all can
Speaker 5: like talking about the media.
Speaker 4: Do you think there's anything in the back of his mind.
Speaker 5: I was like, Oh, I'd really love to get a good, good, good,
Speaker 5: big win over the Packers here, the team that you
Speaker 5: know gave up on me a few years ago.
Speaker 4: Oh a thousand pers No doubt. There's got to be
Speaker 4: as as as a human, I feel like there has to.
Speaker 1: Be the right things. Absolutely, I'll let you guys worry
Speaker 1: about that behind closed doors. He's like, I've got to win.
Speaker 2: This to get the rest.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah. He's going to stand on business
Speaker 4: on Sunday for sure. Yeah, he's ready to go.
Speaker 1: I love it though. I love the element of the
Speaker 1: historic side of it. Plus you talk about beating the best.
Speaker 1: I know the Packers aren't the Packers of the past,
Speaker 1: but beating the Packers would be almost like exercising some
Speaker 1: demons of playoff pass for sure, Cowboys, because you think
Speaker 1: about it, the road could be Packers, Eagles, forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: You talk about trying to exercise all of it out
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Speaker 1: And that's it for Talking Cowboys. Will see you tomorrow.
Speaker 4: There's a helmet, all right.
Speaker 1: We got some smelly stickers to hand out here. We
Speaker 1: did not do this last week. We just completely forgot
Speaker 1: about it. By we, I mean me, sorry, completely forgot
Speaker 1: about it.
Speaker 4: But it was a weird week last week.
Speaker 1: It was a weird week with the new year, Isaiah
Speaker 1: wasn't here on Tuesday. It was kind of like a
Speaker 1: thing that got pushed aside. But we've got our smelly
Speaker 1: stickers are players of the game, and this helmet's getting
Speaker 1: pretty full again. Twelve wins on the campaign for the
Speaker 1: third straight year. How impressive is that? By the way,
Speaker 1: how much credit does Mike McCarthy in the front office
Speaker 1: deserve three straight years of twelve win seasons. That's not
Speaker 1: easy to do in the NFL at any level.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's impressive.
Speaker 5: I think that's a credit to this entire coaching staff,
Speaker 5: the personnel department, that the team that they put together
Speaker 5: over the last few years. That's a big time, you know,
Speaker 5: being able to win twelve games then three straight years.
Speaker 5: But I don't think anybody will care unless there's playoff
Speaker 5: success on the other end.
Speaker 1: That's that's kind of the feel. You got to have
Speaker 1: wins in the playoffs and it starts this week. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's really kind of the number one thing is
Speaker 1: you want to win games, you want to be able
Speaker 1: to make a run, but you can also stop and
Speaker 1: maybe not smell the roses, but at least smell the
Speaker 1: appreciate smell the smells. At least appreciate what this team
Speaker 1: has been doing, and they have been relevant and competitive
Speaker 1: over these last few years to this to the extent
Speaker 1: of at least being in the Super Bowl conversation, and
Speaker 1: they're doing it again this year.
Speaker 4: Let's go, let's go all right, are we kicking it off?
Speaker 7: Were?
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 4: What you got Okay, I'm gonna go with the pair
Speaker 4: of cherries. Okay, I'm gonna give these to Dak because.
Speaker 6: Dak showed showed some cherries yesterday and really went off,
Speaker 6: stood in the pocket with Zach Martin out did his
Speaker 6: thing and that ced touchdown where he's just like he
Speaker 6: had all the time in the world. Basically, Zach Martn's
Speaker 6: not playing, you know what I'm saying, Like, yeah, all
Speaker 6: the time in the world. Just kind of was like
Speaker 6: CD just kind of come over here and touch down easy.
Speaker 6: It felt like a very Romo esque and shouts to
Speaker 6: my Romo fans out there there you go.
Speaker 1: I like that.
Speaker 4: My my smelly sticker is not going to these two guys.
Speaker 2: But t J.
Speaker 5: Bass and brock Hoffman definitely showed up like very much
Speaker 5: smelly stickers, you know what, and they were they were
Speaker 5: they were very big time.
Speaker 1: Because that was a tough situation for them to go in.
Speaker 1: I've got these, I've got these macaroons. These aren't my
Speaker 1: smelly sticker. This is just an honorable mention. I've got
Speaker 1: these there. They look like macaroons or whatever. I don't
Speaker 1: even is that how you say Max macaron?
Speaker 4: That's how you say it, Macon okaye.
Speaker 1: Well whatever that is. There's two of them here. You're
Speaker 1: gonna give one of which to brock Kaffman and the
Speaker 1: other one to TJ. Bass, both of which were given
Speaker 1: really zero time to fill in, especially uh especially brock Hoffman.
Speaker 1: Hawkman was given less than twenty four hours notice of Hey,
Speaker 1: Zach Martin's gone down with an illness and we need
Speaker 1: you to step up and play.
Speaker 6: Basically the entire he just needed a word like I'm
Speaker 6: playing okay, yeah, Like he's ready to go.
Speaker 1: I will say, we've seen this for moxtar. Both of
Speaker 1: you guys were out there. He is as intense of
Speaker 1: an individual as you'll ever see, and you can see
Speaker 1: it on the field. And Isaiah and I were talking
Speaker 1: in the studio and he was like, just please don't
Speaker 1: make it personal. We had that whole conversation about Doron
Speaker 1: Payne and I know Jonathan Allen wasn't playing, but don't
Speaker 1: make it personal with those guys. He was like, brock
Speaker 1: Hoffman's gonna make it personal. Here it goes like here,
Speaker 1: here's what's happening.
Speaker 4: He's one of the doggiest dogs on the team.
Speaker 6: Yeah, for sure he's And Doron Payne had a few
Speaker 6: chances and yeah and didn't didn't fully did he get
Speaker 6: a sack or no?
Speaker 4: No, Prescott trusted them.
Speaker 1: Man.
Speaker 4: Wow, something really quick too.
Speaker 5: It was announced, gosh and two hours before the game
Speaker 5: that Zach Martin has an illness but he's expected to pull,
Speaker 5: you know, just letting everybody know he's We got an email,
Speaker 5: We got a pr email from it, and I was like, okay,
Speaker 5: you know, tweeted out real quick, just in case it
Speaker 5: became something bigger.
Speaker 1: And it did.
Speaker 5: And brock Hoffman has been taking backup center reps most
Speaker 5: of the season. He has been getting work at guard
Speaker 5: during practice, but he has been almost primarily backup center.
Speaker 5: So to be able to step in at right guard
Speaker 5: at that moment and do what he did, that's big
Speaker 5: time and that speaks to the trust. My smelly sticker
Speaker 5: and look I'm I would love to make this game specific,
Speaker 5: but I'm gonna make this a little bit season specific, and.
Speaker 4: I'm staying on the offensive line.
Speaker 5: It was a guy who suffered a very big injury
Speaker 5: this past season in twenty twenty two and played every
Speaker 5: single snap in twenty twenty three until he was pulled
Speaker 5: late in the fourth quarter yesterday. And that's Terrence Steele,
Speaker 5: and he fought a lot of criticism earlier in the year,
Speaker 5: had a four set game given up against Philadelphia Eagles,
Speaker 5: bounce back, had a really solid stretch on the back
Speaker 5: half of the season. Had a couple of lumps here
Speaker 5: and there, but the trust is high at right tackle.
Speaker 5: The the worth is there at right tackle. Didn't give
Speaker 5: up any sacks yesterday. I don't believe give up any pressures.
Speaker 4: Terared Steel. You got my smelly sticker today.
Speaker 1: That's a good one.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 1: How many times have we talked about Terrence Steel throughout
Speaker 1: the season. It's very few and far between them, and
Speaker 1: that's a good thing for an offensive lineman.
Speaker 4: Well earned that smelly stick You better tell them like,
Speaker 4: hey man, I have this sticker that I put it
Speaker 4: on the helmet just for you. Get away from me.
Speaker 1: I did tell Brandon Cooks about our smelly stickers. He
Speaker 1: thinks it's a funny segment. All right, I've got this donuts.
Speaker 4: Come on the show.
Speaker 1: There you go, Brandon Cooks invites always open. I've got
Speaker 1: a donut. It's a pink frosted donut here. You know
Speaker 1: what a donut also resembles zero A zero. And that's
Speaker 1: the amount of people in the NFL that can cover
Speaker 1: CD Lamb.
Speaker 4: Yeah, oh, let's go.
Speaker 1: That's the amount of people that can cover CD Lamb.
Speaker 1: That's the amount of individuals that have more receptions in
Speaker 1: CD Lamb. And honestly, right now, I'm not afraid to
Speaker 1: say it, that's the amount of people in the NFL
Speaker 1: as receivers that are better than Ceedee Lamb zero. He
Speaker 1: is the best receiver in the NFL right this second.
Speaker 1: And you can't tell me otherwise, most receiving yards, receptions,
Speaker 1: and receiving touchdowns since Week six of the NFL season.
Speaker 1: That also just happens to be the time when Ceedee
Speaker 1: Lamb said, hey, throw me the rock and let me
Speaker 1: carry this thing, and then guess what he did. He
Speaker 1: did it. They threw him the rocket. He carried this
Speaker 1: thing yeah, Ceedee Lamb. You get my smelly sticker, it's
Speaker 1: the icing on the doughnut.
Speaker 4: Oh, Ceede Lamb. But I'm taking just Jefferson.
Speaker 1: Wow, So let's get off my podcast.
Speaker 4: I'm so sorry.
Speaker 5: In the playoffs definitely, Oh okay, Well then he missed
Speaker 5: seven games we playoff season, though, I'm just saying, like
Speaker 5: that's we're talking abot playoff teams here.
Speaker 1: No, but I'm with you.
Speaker 5: I think Ceedee Lamb coming into the season really quick
Speaker 5: on this Coming into the season, there was still kind
Speaker 5: of rhetoric being left behind about can he be a
Speaker 5: consistent wide receiver?
Speaker 11: One?
Speaker 5: Is he even worthy of being an eighty eight? And yeah,
Speaker 5: I think he came in and shut everybody up on
Speaker 5: that instance. And I think the biggest thing that he
Speaker 5: fought in the preseason was is he a top ten
Speaker 5: receiver in this sleep? And I think he's firmly a
Speaker 5: top three So sure, that's that's big time.
Speaker 1: Who would be the top three is at Jefferson Hill
Speaker 1: and Lamb better A Brown?
Speaker 11: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, No, he's been better than AJ this year.
Speaker 4: Especially, I'm not a huge AJ Brown guy. He's had
Speaker 4: a great year, but I'm not a huge aj Brown,
Speaker 4: he's still a dude and also prayers up to him.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I was about to say he went through a
Speaker 1: nasty injury yesterday. We'll see if he's even available for playoffs.
Speaker 2: I doubt it.
Speaker 1: Have they reported that yet?
Speaker 4: No, I don't think they.
Speaker 1: Don't think they said it specifically either, but it did
Speaker 1: not look good. All right, Playoff time is here, boys, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Talking Cowboys all week long, nine am Central. We won't
Speaker 1: have Isaiah tomorrow. We will have John Machoda in the
Speaker 1: building and then we will get back after it with
Speaker 1: the whole crew on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and get you
Speaker 1: ready for the Green Bay Packers and the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: It is a historical matchup just because of the brands,
Speaker 1: the history, and of course the current implications that are
Speaker 1: on the line. Sunday afternoon at for thirty. It was
Speaker 1: a fun one breaking this one down. The Cowboys win
Speaker 1: the division thirty eight to ten as they take down
Speaker 1: the Washington Commanders in week eighteen and take home the
Speaker 1: two seed in the NFC playoffs. For Chris Beam, Nick Harris,
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