WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: 4 to Go 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:06.440 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.480 --> 0:00:16.040 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. Cowboys. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:16.480 --> 0:00:19.360 straining live from the Dallas Cowboys World head. 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:21.360 Course at the Star in Frisco. 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:30.240 Stat six second, Pascott pizonsdown. 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:34.160 And now your hosts Isaiah Standback, Nick Harris, Josh Rodriguez 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:36.640 and Kyle Yeoman's. 0:00:48.120 --> 0:00:49.519 Dallas Cowboy. 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:57.760 The Dallas Cowboys are champions of the NFC eased. A 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:01.800 thirty eight to ten beat down of the Washington Commanders 0:01:02.200 --> 0:01:05.720 has the division in Hangland. For the Dallas Cowboys, they 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.919 finished the season twelve and five for the third straight 0:01:09.040 --> 0:01:11.880 season and are also the number two seed in the 0:01:12.160 --> 0:01:18.000 NFC Playoff picture. Welcome in to Talking Cowboys, presented by 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:21.480 Black Rifle Coffee Company. It's the Cowboys and the Green 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:24.959 Bay Packers in the wildcard round, the two versus seven seed. 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:29.040 It's a historic matchup between two historic franchises. We've got 0:01:29.040 --> 0:01:31.240 a lot to talk about this week. It is playoff 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:35.440 week in Frisco. We've got Nick Harris, Josh Rodriguez, Chris 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:37.240 Beam in the back of Kyle Yeomens to break it 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.839 down for you. No John Matchoda or Isaiah Standback Today, 0:01:40.880 --> 0:01:44.040 Isaiah said he was gonna be here on Monday. He 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:46.720 just couldn't take the fact that the Cowboys won the 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:48.080 NFC East. That's what it was. 0:01:48.360 --> 0:01:49.880 He just saw us in the gym and he got 0:01:49.960 --> 0:01:52.360 a free That's what it was. He went the opposite way. 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:54.559 He didn't want to talk about a Washington team losing. 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:56.680 That's what it was. 0:01:57.000 --> 0:01:58.800 That. Yeah, Yeah, he's on his way down to Houston. 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:02.160 Took the took his son late last night and they 0:02:02.240 --> 0:02:04.280 decided to get a hotel room, go do the whole 0:02:04.320 --> 0:02:07.000 fan experience. So happy for him, and I know he's listening. 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:09.320 I'm sure he'll probably call in at some point if 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:12.519 I if I had to make a guess on Isaiah 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:14.120 stand back, he doesn't want to stay away from it 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:18.560 too long. Cowboys dismantle the Commanders. It was a little 0:02:18.760 --> 0:02:22.480 rocky really till midway of the second quarter. He got 0:02:22.560 --> 0:02:25.840 a little bit nervous along the way. But then Dallas 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.120 did exactly what you expected them to do. Put it away. 0:02:28.560 --> 0:02:30.640 And when at thirty eight to ten, Nick, you were 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:32.960 on site, what were your thoughts. I was not on site, 0:02:33.120 --> 0:02:35.560 but correct, you were driving from. 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:40.200 Yeah, I was driving from Mexico there, But that's besides 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:44.280 the point. Yeah, was there ever really any concern, Like, truthfully, 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:46.120 even when it was ten to seven in the second 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:49.200 quarter and a couple of things had just gone perfectly 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.560 right for the Commanders up to that point, and you 0:02:52.720 --> 0:02:54.400 just knew that the offense is going to bounce back 0:02:54.560 --> 0:02:57.800 from those setbacks because you saw that first drive they 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:00.640 marched down the field, Dad goes six for six two yards, 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.160 touchdown a CD and it just kind of gets things going. 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:05.799 Or it wasn't Tolbert on the opening touch it was 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:11.280 the opening touchdown. Yeah, I never really felt concerned. I 0:03:11.400 --> 0:03:13.600 really felt like this team was eventually gonna move away 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:15.960 with at least a three score win, and that's what happened. 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.760 You saw that there were holes in the Washington secondary. 0:03:19.240 --> 0:03:20.760 There were a lot of guys in that game that 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:22.520 had not had a lot of reps throughout the season. 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:24.919 You know, this good, good, good experience for those guys. 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:26.639 But when you have that kind of matchup and you 0:03:26.720 --> 0:03:28.880 look on the other side and what that team is 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:30.920 playing for, you just kind of felt like the Cowboys 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:32.880 would eventually bounce back and win in the fashion that 0:03:32.960 --> 0:03:34.600 they did. But yeah, I think there were a lot 0:03:34.600 --> 0:03:36.600 of really positive moments that you could take out of this. 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:39.200 I think one of the bigger ones obviously is just 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.560 being able to take the ball away, limiting the run game. 0:03:42.240 --> 0:03:46.280 The defense did what they they should do, even in 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.280 allowing ten points. It kind of didn't really feel like 0:03:48.440 --> 0:03:50.760 they allowed it because of the block field goal allowed 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:52.640 them to push so far into the red zone. And 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:55.840 you know, that gave up a ten point swing in 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:58.400 a game that you won by twenty eight. So you know, 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:00.280 it's not a huge deal. When you look at the 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:02.160 concerns from yesterday, there are a lot of positives to 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.480 take away, especially on the road, that that can only 0:04:04.520 --> 0:04:05.720 help you going into the playoffs. 0:04:05.760 --> 0:04:08.040 And how about it, cayle Yam with his playoff. 0:04:07.680 --> 0:04:09.360 Time, it is playoff times, let's go. 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.040 I mean, when they got up to ten to seven, 0:04:12.120 --> 0:04:14.040 I was like, that's cute, but we're gonna get the 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:15.080 ball at some point. 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.480 So you know what I mean, Like, that's nice, Yeah, 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:18.760 that's cute of them. 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:23.760 And also the desperation to go for two fourth down 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:26.640 conversions on their first drive. 0:04:26.760 --> 0:04:30.560 It's like, okay, we get it, guys, but no, dice, 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.120 don't just see me fall on his share it went 0:04:33.200 --> 0:04:34.920 a lot lower than I wanted it to go. Actually, 0:04:36.080 --> 0:04:37.039 foreheads on the table. 0:04:38.040 --> 0:04:40.680 I think that was the thing. You expected Washington to 0:04:41.960 --> 0:04:45.920 be aggressive. Of course, Riverboat Ron Ron Rivera, which, by 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:49.159 the way, he was let go early early this morning, 0:04:49.839 --> 0:04:52.680 I think even eastern time at midnight he was let go, 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:57.120 and the uh so he ended up going for it 0:04:57.240 --> 0:04:59.599 multiple times. They were going to be aggressive. They brought 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:02.000 the house on the field goal block. That went perfectly 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:03.880 for Washington. They picked it up, went all the way 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.680 back into the deep into Dallas territory. You take the 0:05:06.760 --> 0:05:11.039 field goal block away. I mean it's a three point game. 0:05:11.200 --> 0:05:14.279 I mean Dallas dominated where they needed to dominate. They 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.560 had some momentum on that opening drive. But I think 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:20.200 I'm with you, Nick, I think the nervous level was 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:25.120 not even really registering on the nervous meter yet it 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:27.880 was there. It might have been shaken the meter just 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:30.000 to tad Bit when it was ten to seven, and 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.960 if Dallas had the football and if they didn't score 0:05:33.040 --> 0:05:35.600 there then maybe it would it would have increased a 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.359 little bit. But when Dallas was down ten to seven, 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:42.039 they put together a put together a seven play, seventy 0:05:42.080 --> 0:05:45.320 one yard drive Tony Pollard caps it off with a 0:05:45.480 --> 0:05:47.920 physical run. He was really he ran with a purpose, 0:05:47.960 --> 0:05:50.200 he ran downhill. I liked what I saw from Tony 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:54.919 Pollard yesterday, even in limited touches. Again, but when they 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:56.760 went down and took care of business the way that 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:59.880 they needed to win that drive, that was when I said, Okay, 0:06:00.160 --> 0:06:02.120 this is where it's starting to turn. Then they had 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:06.400 the Donovan Wilson interception that then turned into the CD 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:09.039 Lamb touchdown right before the break, a couple of touchdowns 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.760 within about a six minute span, and then all of 0:06:11.800 --> 0:06:13.240 a sudden, it's twenty one to ten. You get the 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:14.240 football to start the third. 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:15.839 Yeah, that's kind of how I felt too, whenever they 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:19.120 had that opportunity to double dip in the final two 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:20.960 and a half or so minutes of the first half, 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:22.680 and then knowing that you get the ball coming out 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:24.400 for the second half, whenever they scored to go at 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:25.640 twenty one ten, And that's what I was like, all right, 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:26.760 so this is they're about to put this out a 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:28.120 hand out of the break, and that's what they did, 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:30.919 you know, And that's what four consecutive touchdown and drives 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:34.880 will give you two. But yeah, I think offensive execution 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.400 after that interception from Dak Prescott, which. 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:37.800 I don't know. 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:39.880 I think I'd like to talk to Isaiah on that 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.200 about whose fault it necessarily was. You know, when you 0:06:42.320 --> 0:06:44.760 have a defensive lineman barreling down on you like that, 0:06:44.920 --> 0:06:47.719 you know, do you throw that ball? But that'll probably 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:49.280 be something we look at in the AL twenty two 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:54.000 and have more discussion about. But other than that offensive execution, 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:56.360 I mean, you can't really complain about what happened yesterday. 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:58.000 And you mentioned Tony Pollard and I want to bring 0:06:58.080 --> 0:07:00.840 up something with Tony Pollard, and he didn't have the 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:03.520 season that everybody expected him to, including himself. He said 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:04.960 it last week, He's like, this is not the year 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:06.680 that I wanted to have. But hey, you know this 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:08.960 is team's success, and you know we have an opportunity 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.760 to do some really great things. Still, when you stack 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:13.920 back to back one thousand yard seasons, I don't care 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:15.200 that there's seventeen games in the season. 0:07:15.240 --> 0:07:17.360 Now, that's tough to do. Right now. 0:07:17.520 --> 0:07:20.680 Throw in a catastrophic leg injury right in the middle 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.160 of that, and it takes away your entire offseason. You 0:07:23.240 --> 0:07:25.960 got to rehabit the entire offseason, you get back just 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:27.120 in time for training camp. 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:29.120 I got it to my cap to Tony Pollard. I 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.160 that's tough to do. It would take down a lot 0:07:31.160 --> 0:07:32.400 of people. It didn't take him down. 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:34.000 You know, there's been a lot of discussion in the 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.880 last couple of weeks in the fan base about Tony 0:07:36.920 --> 0:07:38.720 Pollard and you know just how effective he is in 0:07:38.800 --> 0:07:40.800 this offense, and you know what his future is. 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:42.760 You know, I think Tony Pollard has built to be 0:07:42.800 --> 0:07:43.840 a Dallas cowboy for a while. 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:48.760 And the criticism there is warranted. Absolutely, It's not the season, 0:07:49.040 --> 0:07:51.720 like you said, and like he said, that was anticipated. 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:55.200 There were expectations being put on the franchise tag, there 0:07:55.240 --> 0:08:00.520 were expectations along the way. But being RB one, did 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:04.600 he live up to the expectations that were set for him? Absolutely? 0:08:04.680 --> 0:08:08.080 Not right, But was he a serviceable back that you 0:08:08.160 --> 0:08:10.280 can rely on and that helped you in your offense 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:11.760 at times? Certainly? Yeah. 0:08:11.760 --> 0:08:13.560 And it took him about half the season to really 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.520 look like Tony Poller. I think outside looking in, I 0:08:16.600 --> 0:08:19.640 think just watching him run, watching his stride, I don't 0:08:19.680 --> 0:08:22.880 feel like he really hit it until about halfway through 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:23.320 the season. 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:23.640 Yeah. 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.200 Yeah, And he said that he was gosh, I don't 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:27.400 remember when this was exactly. 0:08:27.440 --> 0:08:29.440 I want to say it was roughly like week twelve, 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:31.720 week thirteen, and we somebody had asked him in one 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:32.720 of his availabilities. 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:36.520 They were like, you know, where are you now compared 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:37.280 to week one? 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:39.800 And basically what he said was like, yeah, I thought 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:41.760 I was one hundred percent in week one, but I 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:44.400 didn't really know until like I started sacking games, and 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:47.679 now here I am again week twelve, week thirteen. I 0:08:47.880 --> 0:08:51.760 feel how I was before the injury. And so Mike 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:54.079 McCarthy talks about it a lot. It really takes guys 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:56.920 a full year, sometimes even more to come back from 0:08:57.000 --> 0:08:59.400 injuries like that. You know, Tony Poller did it in 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:02.720 the fashion that he did. I'm fairly confident that if 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:04.600 he's a Dallas Cowboy next year he has a better season. 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:10.160 While Tony Pollard specifically seventeen carries seventy yards, he eclipses 0:09:10.360 --> 0:09:13.240 the one thousand yard rushing mark. Sixth running back in 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:16.439 team history to do so. Calvin Hill, Tony Dorset, some 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:20.480 guy named Demon Smith, DeMarco Murray, and Ezekiel Elliott were 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.640 the five before Tony Pollard did do it, and Like 0:09:22.720 --> 0:09:25.880 you said, it was seventeen game season, but it still 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:29.720 holds weight. One thousand yards is a milestone for sure. 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:35.199 Speaking of milestones and offense, Dak and CD again, I mean, 0:09:35.360 --> 0:09:38.200 it's gotten to the point where it's clockwork for CD 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:41.280 Lamb to go off for multiple scores or one hundred yards. 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:43.040 He didn't have both in this game. He had ninety 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:48.440 eight yards two touchdowns though thirteen carries on thirteen total targets. 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.120 Dak has been looking for Cede Lamb and he's been 0:09:51.160 --> 0:09:53.280 finding him more often than not. How special has that 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:53.959 connection been. 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:58.040 I think they are the hottest wide receiver quarterback duo 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.480 in the league. And it's pretty to say as a 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:03.439 Cowboys fan, and you see all of these teams year 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:06.559 by year and you see teams stacking up wins like 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:10.040 that with a duel like that. To see that here 0:10:10.720 --> 0:10:14.360 with CD going off the way he is getting fifteen 0:10:14.400 --> 0:10:18.280 touchdowns in one year. Granted it's a longer season, but 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.600 we haven't seen that since Dez. Yeah, so just shouts 0:10:21.600 --> 0:10:23.280 to him and shouts to that relationship that they have. 0:10:23.400 --> 0:10:25.719 They've really built a lot of trust together over the 0:10:25.840 --> 0:10:29.760 course of the season. More so even than CD's previous 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:32.199 seasons and he's looked great in those two so he's 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:33.120 just getting better. 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:35.959 Yeah, what is his what is his peak? You know, 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:37.360 that's kind of what I think about right now. 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:41.840 This is year four four, year four, Yeah, and we're 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.160 looking at a top ten all time receiving season that 0:10:44.240 --> 0:10:46.439 he just put together, the number two in the in 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:50.880 the league and receiving yards top six and receptions all time. 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:52.600 I mean, he's he puts together a lot of numbers 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:54.800 this year that are just eye boggling. And man, that 0:10:55.559 --> 0:11:01.400 that bag is gonna go thud all Yeah, yeah money, yes, absolutely, Yeah, 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:02.960 it's a statement season and it came out a good 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:03.520 time for him. 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:08.400 Yeah. They need to get it done now. Just get 0:11:08.480 --> 0:11:10.120 that thing wrapped up really quick. 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:12.120 Is there any other major receiver that is a waiting 0:11:12.160 --> 0:11:14.839 a deal because Justin Jefferson got his, Jamar. 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:15.439 Chase got his. 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:18.480 Yes, so I CDs next market. 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:21.040 I don't think they necessarily have to hurry up and 0:11:21.120 --> 0:11:22.439 do anything because I think he's going to be the 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:23.280 one that resets the market. 0:11:23.360 --> 0:11:25.480 Yeah, he'll set the market for sure. Yeah. That that 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:27.920 money is going to be nuts, and I mean it 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:30.079 is going to be interesting. The fact that he does 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.800 have the fifth year team option, so he's under contract 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:35.960 for next year. But you don't really want to wait 0:11:36.040 --> 0:11:36.480 until the end. 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:37.439 Now, just get it. 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:38.600 That's get it. That's a bad idea. 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:39.680 And you have Micah coming up to. 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:42.640 And Dak renewed this year. I mean, there's a lot 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:43.560 of things that are there. 0:11:44.040 --> 0:11:45.240 Yeah, make it work. 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:46.000 This is the cowboy. 0:11:46.400 --> 0:11:48.520 I mean, it's that's the good problem that you have 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:50.600 because this is a team. And I tweeted this out 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:54.200 last night, but talking about a regular season that's well 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:57.839 balanced across the board. NFL leader in passing touchdowns Dak 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:01.520 Prescott Boom thirty six passing touch downs for Dak. NFL 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:05.079 leader in reception Ceedee Lammy finished with what one hundred 0:12:05.080 --> 0:12:08.280 and thirty one receptions something like That's insane, it was, 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:11.280 it was nuts. That's an incredible season. One hundred and 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:14.400 thirty one receptions. I'm just making sure that that is 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:16.240 the number. I can't find it on this show. 0:12:16.240 --> 0:12:18.319 One hundred and thirty five, thirty five. 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.880 Either way, he's the NFL leader in receptions, NFL leader 0:12:21.960 --> 0:12:25.440 in interceptions. Deron Bland, who was another contract that at 0:12:25.520 --> 0:12:27.800 some point you're going to have to think about. Uh nine, 0:12:27.920 --> 0:12:30.480 picks this year, five of which, of course going back 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.920 for a touchdown. NFL leader in pressures Micah Parsons He 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:36.880 entered with one oh two according to Pro Football Focus 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:39.719 that has been of course up. We don't have the 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:42.240 finishing number there, but he had a big enough lead 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:45.000 that he's the leader in pressures. Leader in field goal 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.599 makes Brandon Aubrey with thirty six. He did have his 0:12:48.760 --> 0:12:52.360 first miss officially on the field goal block and then 0:12:52.400 --> 0:12:55.120 a second miss off the doink in the second half. 0:12:55.440 --> 0:12:56.719 He needs to throw away that T shirt that he 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:59.520 got made before the game, the Bang Banger and butter. Yeah, 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:00.440 throw those out. 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:01.200 It's pretty sick team. 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:03.760 No, it's great, but those are bad. 0:13:03.800 --> 0:13:04.200 You do now? 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:06.480 Was there any PTSD from Brett maher effets feel. 0:13:06.559 --> 0:13:06.920 A little bit? 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.760 Yeah, there had to be, just a little bit. I mean, 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:11.640 it's not like, Okay, this is happening again. I don't 0:13:11.640 --> 0:13:13.120 think it was necessarily like that, but it was like 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:15.520 him coming. 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:16.520 Back, just kind of looking around the room. 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:19.440 The fact that Dallas came back and had a fifty 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:21.400 yarder and he was able to put it through in 0:13:21.480 --> 0:13:23.480 the in the fourth quarter late, and it's that made 0:13:23.480 --> 0:13:26.040 me feel so much better. Yeah, for so much better. 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:30.440 And I'm sure it probably Brandon Aubrey's very very even kill. 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:32.599 He's not up and down. It's just not who he 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:36.960 is as a personality. But yeah, it made me feel better, 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.000 which I'm sure it probably made him feel a little 0:13:39.000 --> 0:13:39.360 bit better. 0:13:39.480 --> 0:13:41.720 What did the guys think? What did Nate and everybody? 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:42.520 What were they saying? 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:46.280 Well, the first one, Nate thought he jinked because you 0:13:46.320 --> 0:13:49.040 know how like Greg Olsen on the broadcast was talking about, oh, 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:51.319 we jinked it. It was the broadcast jinx and it 0:13:51.440 --> 0:13:54.480 was kind of annoying, but whatever, Nate kept singing it up, 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:57.520 bringing it up. Nate Newton said the same thing. He 0:13:57.600 --> 0:13:59.800 was like, man, I jinked him. I've been finally talking 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:02.640 about him because he he always talks bad about kickers. 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:05.800 That's just kind of his his fel his his character, 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.719 and Nate always he talks bad about kickers. And he 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:11.800 finally was like, man, when I finally talk good about him, 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.080 then they miss a kick, then they get it blocked, 0:14:14.120 --> 0:14:15.880 and no one blocked for you brand and that one's 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:17.640 on me, like Nate. 0:14:17.720 --> 0:14:19.720 Yeah, it wasn't on Brandon Aubrey. 0:14:19.840 --> 0:14:25.240 That was just a clear thanks Terrence Steele Tyler, I 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:27.840 know right ended a good thing. Thirty five of thirty 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.400 five either way. 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I'm not talking about deep playoff runs. 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:53.360 I'm not talking about making a prediction for the rest 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:56.119 of the season. What is your confidence level one to 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:59.240 ten on how well this team is built and set 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:02.920 up into the postseason. And we'll answer that question ourselves 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.760 in our Smelly Stickers segment coming up next. But I 0:18:05.840 --> 0:18:07.720 want to talk about the Green Bay Packers. A lot 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:11.440 of Cowboys fans have bad memories in the back of 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:13.440 their head from the Packers' days and some of the 0:18:13.520 --> 0:18:17.760 other playoff matchups over these last couple of years. Where 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:23.240 is your overall since around this setup for the Cowboys 0:18:23.240 --> 0:18:24.960 seeing the Packers in the first round at home. 0:18:25.240 --> 0:18:28.200 As far as I'm concerned, the Boogeyman is gone. He's 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:31.359 off talking to Pat McAfee about, you know, vaccines and stuff. 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:35.320 So I'm not necessarily worried about the Packers. I mean, granted, 0:18:35.400 --> 0:18:38.400 Jordan Love is playing out of his mind. 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:42.120 He's the second best touchdown thrower in the NFL behind 0:18:42.200 --> 0:18:43.360 Dak Prescotte. 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:46.200 But they are nine and eight, so they're definitely beatable. 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:49.840 And I think that going into this game, just managing 0:18:50.240 --> 0:18:52.439 what Jordan Love does in and out of the pocket 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:55.680 is going to be crucial and stopping the running game obviously, 0:18:55.960 --> 0:18:58.880 that's something that we'll need to do. But confidence level, 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:00.720 I don't know, man, I'm kind of at like a five. 0:19:01.400 --> 0:19:04.680 I'm more so concerned with like what the cow how 0:19:04.960 --> 0:19:09.600 confident the Cowboys themselves are like after this game, after 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:13.399 handling the commanders, which you're supposed to do, managing the 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:16.520 running game, all of that. I'm more concerned with how 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:20.760 confident they feel going into this. I'm I have to 0:19:20.840 --> 0:19:22.479 have my hands up, shoulders out, you know what I mean, 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:24.080 Just like, all right, man, let's let's see what they 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:26.840 can what they can do. I'm I'm I can be 0:19:26.920 --> 0:19:30.040 swayed either way at this point. I think with the 0:19:30.119 --> 0:19:33.800 Green Bay Packers you mentioned it, Aaron Rodgers not in 0:19:33.800 --> 0:19:36.120 the building anymore. This is a completely different Green Bay 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:37.879 team than even the one that they saw at Lambeau 0:19:38.000 --> 0:19:41.320 last year. Let's something that was really interesting to me 0:19:41.480 --> 0:19:42.760 kind of when I was doing a little bit of 0:19:42.760 --> 0:19:46.359 prep last night on my final trek down from our 0:19:46.440 --> 0:19:49.760 trek up from the South. This is their leading receivers 0:19:50.119 --> 0:19:52.760 and the entire season will go down really really fast. 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:57.359 Jaden Reid rookie, Romeo Dobs second year, Dontavian Wicks rookie, 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:01.800 Christian Watson second year, Tucker Craft rookie, Luke Musgrave rookie. 0:20:02.040 --> 0:20:05.280 So they're full with first year guys, second year guys 0:20:05.560 --> 0:20:08.040 with a first year starter at quarterback. I mean, it's 0:20:08.280 --> 0:20:10.919 really impressive what Matt Lafluor has put together. But at 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:13.199 the end of the day, I think this is one 0:20:13.240 --> 0:20:16.320 of those rare opportunities where the Cowboys playoff experience might 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:18.000 just be a little bit too much in a game 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:21.320 like this, especially at home, seven to eight to oero 0:20:21.400 --> 0:20:23.480 on the year at home and being able to stack 0:20:23.520 --> 0:20:26.480 those type of things. For that reason, I have a 0:20:26.560 --> 0:20:29.200 lot of confidence in this game for the Cowboys. This 0:20:29.320 --> 0:20:31.040 is a game that they should win. When you were 0:20:31.040 --> 0:20:33.439 looking at the possibilities going into the week about who 0:20:33.480 --> 0:20:35.479 they could get at the seven seed, this was who 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:37.639 you wanted. In my opinion, I think the only thing 0:20:37.680 --> 0:20:38.280 that could have been. 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:40.320 Better was like the Saints or Vikings, But like those 0:20:40.359 --> 0:20:42.960 were outside shots when you looked at the real possibilities. 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:45.040 I think this was the best matchup in my eyes. 0:20:45.480 --> 0:20:47.440 I was even fighting with some people on Twitter last night, like, no, 0:20:47.520 --> 0:20:50.520 the Rams are not the better matchup, Like that's just false. Yeah, 0:20:51.000 --> 0:20:53.240 it's the Packers game. I think this is an opportunity 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:56.000 for the Cowboys to go in get a big playoff win, 0:20:56.119 --> 0:20:58.080 and stack some confidence going into the divisional round. 0:20:58.160 --> 0:21:00.520 It was funny me and Isaiah were debating all week 0:21:00.600 --> 0:21:02.920 on who we would rather not see the most. He 0:21:03.000 --> 0:21:05.120 didn't want to see Seattle. I didn't want to see 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:09.560 Los Angeles. Of course, let's just remember who we're talking 0:21:09.560 --> 0:21:12.680 about here. But we when we were talking back and 0:21:12.760 --> 0:21:15.840 forth about it, both of us were agreeing on one thing. 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:19.480 We would rather see Green Bay in this scenario. Not 0:21:19.680 --> 0:21:21.920 because Green Bay is a bad football at all. No 0:21:22.040 --> 0:21:24.119 bad football teams remain. If you're in the playoffs, you 0:21:24.200 --> 0:21:24.960 know how to win games. 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:25.560 Steelers. 0:21:25.600 --> 0:21:30.600 Okay, let's not get carried talking about the NFC. But 0:21:31.280 --> 0:21:34.800 in this case, out of the teams that you're seeing, 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:37.800 the Rams are the hottest team in football possibly right 0:21:37.840 --> 0:21:41.480 now as a whole, other than maybe the one seeds 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:44.920 of Baltimore and San Francisco. But then you've got the 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:48.920 defensive prowess, three pro bowlers and playmakers on every level 0:21:48.960 --> 0:21:52.080 of the Seattle defense. I would rather see the youth 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:55.159 and the inexperience of Green Bay in this category. They 0:21:55.200 --> 0:21:58.439 can still be a matchup matchup nightmare. And I'm excited 0:21:58.480 --> 0:22:00.480 to get in to the film study to start it 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:03.120 a little early. Usually I wait until Tuesday afternoon to start. 0:22:03.160 --> 0:22:05.679 I'm going to start today just it's playoff week. Got 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:09.720 to get a little like film studies. But Jordan Love specifically, 0:22:09.800 --> 0:22:11.760 I think he's going to present some problems, I really do, 0:22:12.040 --> 0:22:13.639 but I think this is a team that's going to 0:22:13.680 --> 0:22:16.760 adjust to that well. In the Cowboys, a lot of 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:20.320 confidence answers rolling in here on the text line. The 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:24.160 first really five or six that I saw were sevens 0:22:24.200 --> 0:22:26.440 and eights, pretty high confidence level. Got an eight and 0:22:26.480 --> 0:22:30.600 a half here Jason from Philadelphia says his confidence still 0:22:30.640 --> 0:22:33.639 level is a seven. I'm in at eight. That's Reggie 0:22:33.680 --> 0:22:36.119 from Maryland. But then as the tech started coming in 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:38.080 a little bit lower, a say, on a scale of 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:41.480 one to ten, a six and a half. This one's 0:22:41.520 --> 0:22:46.440 a five. Confidence level of four, I wonder why the 0:22:46.560 --> 0:22:49.560 five says it's been heard too many times. Five says, 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:53.240 I don't think we're ready to really go all in yet. 0:22:53.320 --> 0:22:55.040 We're waiting to make a deep run in the playoffs 0:22:55.040 --> 0:22:57.480 before there's any excitement. Like Dak said, we're looking for 0:22:57.560 --> 0:23:01.440 something bigger. I completely understand. This is a team that 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:03.800 has been set up well in the past. You've been 0:23:03.920 --> 0:23:07.840 healthy into back to back playoff runs and it's ended 0:23:07.920 --> 0:23:10.240 in either one game or two games. I get it. 0:23:10.440 --> 0:23:14.000 I totally get it. Specifically about the setup. I think 0:23:14.080 --> 0:23:15.720 this is the best they've been set up in these 0:23:15.760 --> 0:23:18.000 three years with Mike McCarthy as the head coach. 0:23:18.000 --> 0:23:18.400 No doubt. 0:23:18.440 --> 0:23:20.439 And if this was like a week, you know, twelve 0:23:20.600 --> 0:23:23.159 game I wouldn't My confidence level would be like a 0:23:23.280 --> 0:23:25.960 nine or ten. Yeah, but I think just a matter 0:23:25.960 --> 0:23:27.760 of us getting into posseason, it's like, yeah, we just 0:23:27.760 --> 0:23:30.080 got to go four and oh, Like that's that's really 0:23:30.119 --> 0:23:32.720 what we need to do starting from this week is 0:23:32.840 --> 0:23:36.600 just go four and oh. But yeah, I think going 0:23:36.680 --> 0:23:40.119 into it right now, all of the pressures on us, 0:23:40.320 --> 0:23:42.360 I think at this point, and you know, granted Green 0:23:42.400 --> 0:23:46.520 Bay is who they are, but it also is kind 0:23:46.560 --> 0:23:48.720 of prime time for Jordan Love to really make a 0:23:48.800 --> 0:23:49.480 name for himself. 0:23:49.560 --> 0:23:51.920 If he goes off in this game, you know, it's 0:23:51.960 --> 0:23:54.320 like that could be another Dallas. 0:23:54.680 --> 0:23:56.560 It could be one of those situations where like, Okay, 0:23:56.600 --> 0:23:59.119 we're about to you know, make a start if our 0:23:59.160 --> 0:24:00.959 defense doesn't show on Sunday. 0:24:01.000 --> 0:24:03.840 But we'll see. That's what I'm at A five. 0:24:03.960 --> 0:24:06.280 Well, I mean, way, we had three touchdowns in this 0:24:06.359 --> 0:24:08.359 game last year. I mean, it did happen. 0:24:09.200 --> 0:24:10.840 That was like the Christian Watson coming out party. 0:24:11.080 --> 0:24:13.560 Exactly after that he just exploded because there was nothing 0:24:13.680 --> 0:24:15.800 before that, and then he just blew up right after 0:24:15.840 --> 0:24:16.400 that game was wet. 0:24:16.440 --> 0:24:19.000 So that's what I'm afraid of. Those happened very often 0:24:19.080 --> 0:24:22.040 with those Packers games. But you know, we'll see what 0:24:22.119 --> 0:24:22.439 we can do. 0:24:22.560 --> 0:24:25.119 Along those same lines. What is your number one concern 0:24:25.240 --> 0:24:26.879 for this team right now? There are a couple of 0:24:26.960 --> 0:24:28.719 them still out there. This team's not perfect. 0:24:29.080 --> 0:24:30.199 It's it's it. 0:24:30.280 --> 0:24:34.440 Really is about the offense playing well and driving down 0:24:34.440 --> 0:24:36.159 the field and scoring points. 0:24:36.400 --> 0:24:38.320 That's really about it. I think the. 0:24:40.000 --> 0:24:42.920 Narrative is always there when we're not playing well, is 0:24:42.960 --> 0:24:45.200 that our offense just kind of sputters and just doesn't 0:24:45.280 --> 0:24:48.880 really like you just don't see them at their best, 0:24:48.960 --> 0:24:51.359 at their peak, which they've been so many times throughout 0:24:51.400 --> 0:24:54.159 the season. But in those big playoff games, it's like, 0:24:54.240 --> 0:24:58.400 once the offense is derailed a little bit, it just snowballs. 0:24:58.560 --> 0:24:59.920 That's true, and as. 0:25:00.200 --> 0:25:02.320 Is the defense can be. It's like there's nothing they 0:25:02.440 --> 0:25:05.480 can do if we're not scoring points, if we're not 0:25:05.680 --> 0:25:06.120 on a role. 0:25:06.520 --> 0:25:08.959 I think that consistency factor, like you're mentioning, I think 0:25:08.960 --> 0:25:11.960 that's probably where you're going is. You definitely can look 0:25:12.000 --> 0:25:16.240 at that from shoot, the four previous games before yesterday, Yeah, 0:25:16.280 --> 0:25:18.480 and then yesterday. Hopefully there's a little bit of confidence 0:25:18.480 --> 0:25:20.520 that you build off that it is the Washington defense, 0:25:20.560 --> 0:25:22.200 and there was a lot of pieces that they had out, 0:25:22.320 --> 0:25:24.600 But maybe you take that confidence into the postseason. But 0:25:24.760 --> 0:25:26.879 I understand where you're coming from there. I think the 0:25:26.880 --> 0:25:31.920 biggest concern with me probably would be when I look 0:25:31.920 --> 0:25:33.960 at the Green Bay game, I don't see any immediate 0:25:34.119 --> 0:25:36.160 like red flags. But when I look at the postseason 0:25:36.200 --> 0:25:40.560 as a whole, I worry about speed. I just worry 0:25:40.600 --> 0:25:43.800 about speed against against the defense. They were able to 0:25:43.840 --> 0:25:45.879 control it against Miami, they were able to control it 0:25:45.920 --> 0:25:48.159 against some other teams this year, but when they have 0:25:48.240 --> 0:25:50.159 to line up against a forty nine ers in the 0:25:50.280 --> 0:25:54.600 NFC Championship Game, or shoot, even the Eagles. They still 0:25:54.640 --> 0:25:56.399 have some speed. Yes, they've lost five of six, but 0:25:56.440 --> 0:25:58.639 they have some speed. They have weapons. You know, how 0:25:58.720 --> 0:26:01.199 can you contain those on a play to play basis 0:26:01.680 --> 0:26:03.920 and go from there? You're asking me right now, I 0:26:04.000 --> 0:26:06.240 think there's no excuse why this team should not make 0:26:06.400 --> 0:26:07.560 the NFC Championship Game. 0:26:07.760 --> 0:26:10.280 I see that again, I see it. I see it 0:26:10.640 --> 0:26:11.560 very clear and put. 0:26:11.840 --> 0:26:13.680 I think this team should be traveling the Santa Claire 0:26:13.720 --> 0:26:15.320 in a couple of weeks with an opportunity to bounce 0:26:15.400 --> 0:26:16.400 back from that Week five loss. 0:26:16.440 --> 0:26:17.080 We're playing at home. 0:26:17.720 --> 0:26:21.560 Whoever beats Yeah, I love how it's it's already clear 0:26:21.800 --> 0:26:23.600 clear that. I just don't don't feel like it's going 0:26:23.640 --> 0:26:24.120 to host. 0:26:24.920 --> 0:26:27.080 That's the thing. If if Dallas is in the NFC 0:26:27.200 --> 0:26:30.200 Championship Game, there's one of two options. It's either in 0:26:30.359 --> 0:26:34.360 San Francisco or it's in Dallas. That's that's incrediblely San Francisco. 0:26:34.840 --> 0:26:36.040 Yeah, give me San Francisco. 0:26:36.240 --> 0:26:38.320 You're gonna you're gonna have to beat the best teams. 0:26:38.640 --> 0:26:40.320 Don't ask me right now. Confidence, You don't ask me 0:26:40.400 --> 0:26:41.000 right now, that's. 0:26:41.200 --> 0:26:42.960 We got two weeks. Two weeks. 0:26:43.000 --> 0:26:44.679 No, But I like it because it's like, if we're 0:26:44.720 --> 0:26:46.640 gonna make the super Bowl, let's go against the best. 0:26:46.760 --> 0:26:46.920 Yeah. 0:26:46.960 --> 0:26:50.400 Absolutely, I truly think that the NFC Championship this year 0:26:50.440 --> 0:26:53.240 will be a better match up than the super Bowl. 0:26:53.560 --> 0:26:54.359 I think. I think. 0:26:54.440 --> 0:26:57.760 I tell you what, the divisional round, it looks like 0:26:57.840 --> 0:27:01.000 you probably get Detroit. It looks like this Teamague, it's Detroit. 0:27:00.800 --> 0:27:03.439 Unless Matthew Stafford goes and does his thing in Detroit. 0:27:03.560 --> 0:27:05.520 That's that's a very valid point. Don't get me wrong. 0:27:05.640 --> 0:27:07.879 Enet the Eagles. Either way, then you get the Eagles. 0:27:07.960 --> 0:27:10.040 So like, sure, either way, you're getting a pissed off 0:27:10.119 --> 0:27:13.120 team lost at and T Stadium within the last five 0:27:13.200 --> 0:27:15.000 or so weeks, and you're gonna have to beat them 0:27:15.080 --> 0:27:16.439 again at at and T Stadium. 0:27:16.440 --> 0:27:17.080 It's a tough thing to do. 0:27:17.200 --> 0:27:18.639 Yes, this team is eight and oh at home, but 0:27:19.040 --> 0:27:21.600 stacking those wins it's a little bit more easier said 0:27:21.640 --> 0:27:24.120 than done. But again, I really don't feel like there's 0:27:24.119 --> 0:27:25.639 any excuse why this team should not be in the 0:27:25.760 --> 0:27:27.040 NFC Championship. 0:27:26.600 --> 0:27:30.199 Game when you look at the eighteen weeks of an 0:27:30.280 --> 0:27:32.800 NFL season. It used to beat quads. You wouldn't look 0:27:32.800 --> 0:27:38.320 at it in four quad pieces quarters of the season. Instead, 0:27:38.400 --> 0:27:40.960 now it's looked at as trimasters. You look at it 0:27:41.080 --> 0:27:43.920 in three parts. You look at the final six weeks 0:27:43.960 --> 0:27:46.080 of the regular season. A lot of times, those final 0:27:46.160 --> 0:27:49.480 six weeks as a franchise will tell you exactly where 0:27:49.520 --> 0:27:52.080 you are. Dallas had their toughest try master in the 0:27:52.160 --> 0:27:56.359 final six weeks, no doubt about it. Seattle, Philly, Buffalo, Miami, Detroit, 0:27:56.600 --> 0:27:57.840 and then they had to give me at the end 0:27:57.880 --> 0:28:00.359 with Washington. But those five games, you learned a lot 0:28:00.400 --> 0:28:02.399 about your football team. You finished four and two in 0:28:02.480 --> 0:28:05.359 the final six weeks, and you had ups and you 0:28:05.440 --> 0:28:09.479 had downs. Josh was talking about consistency. Seattle Week thirteen. 0:28:09.560 --> 0:28:12.080 Your offense won that game for you. Defense did not 0:28:12.160 --> 0:28:14.560 play well in that game. Seattle put up thirty five points. 0:28:14.600 --> 0:28:17.320 Gino Smith DK Metcalf both had the game of their life, 0:28:17.400 --> 0:28:19.440 but your offense played well enough to win that game. 0:28:19.800 --> 0:28:24.280 Both came together for Week fourteen dismantled the Eagles. Neither 0:28:24.359 --> 0:28:28.320 one showed up in Week fifteen and got dismantled by 0:28:28.359 --> 0:28:31.840 the Buffalo Bills. So they're already you've seen three games 0:28:32.000 --> 0:28:35.960 halfway through this final trimester and you've seen zero consistency. 0:28:36.760 --> 0:28:39.240 Then you go to Miami. Your defense plays well enough 0:28:39.280 --> 0:28:41.840 to win, your offense does not. You go against Detroit, 0:28:42.160 --> 0:28:45.240 your defense plays well enough to win, your offense barely 0:28:45.280 --> 0:28:47.479 gets the job done, barely, but you needed the defense 0:28:47.560 --> 0:28:49.600 to do everything they could in that game to hold 0:28:49.600 --> 0:28:52.000 Detroit to nineteen points. And then you finally get all 0:28:52.040 --> 0:28:55.440 three again to come back together against Washington and win 0:28:55.520 --> 0:28:58.520 the game in a big way, even after a pitter 0:28:58.560 --> 0:29:01.800 patter start against the bad team on the road. The 0:29:01.920 --> 0:29:05.040 consistency is my problem as well. My problem is you 0:29:05.240 --> 0:29:07.760 have to do that for four straight games. You got 0:29:07.880 --> 0:29:10.400 to win four straight games. And even when the Cowboys 0:29:10.440 --> 0:29:12.440 won five straight games earlier in the year, it was 0:29:12.480 --> 0:29:16.240 against teams like New York, Carolina, Washington, Seattle, and Philly. 0:29:16.560 --> 0:29:19.120 I want to see it put together, no doubt about it, 0:29:19.320 --> 0:29:21.800 through four games and get the job done like you 0:29:21.960 --> 0:29:24.640 know they can, but they just haven't done it yet, 0:29:24.960 --> 0:29:27.400 and against the best teams in the NFL, no doubt, 0:29:27.600 --> 0:29:29.680 Because like you said, it's going to be Detroit, it's 0:29:29.720 --> 0:29:31.800 going to be the Rams. It won't be the Rams 0:29:31.840 --> 0:29:35.320 in the second round, it'll be Detroit, Philly, Tampa Bay 0:29:35.480 --> 0:29:37.160 in the second round. One of those three teams is 0:29:37.240 --> 0:29:39.840 the team you would face in the divisional round. You 0:29:39.960 --> 0:29:42.480 got to get through Green Bay first too, because they're 0:29:42.520 --> 0:29:46.080 hungry too. So there are concerns it's not perfect. Will 0:29:46.160 --> 0:29:48.000 continue to break it down. I think there's x's and 0:29:48.080 --> 0:29:49.800 o's parts of it too. I would like to see 0:29:49.840 --> 0:29:52.880 the run game continue to blossom, because I think you 0:29:53.000 --> 0:29:54.760 need that in order to win some of these games. 0:29:55.240 --> 0:29:58.200 But hey, they are good enough to get the job done. 0:29:58.400 --> 0:29:59.719 You just got to put it all together for four 0:29:59.720 --> 0:30:00.320 strew games. 0:30:00.320 --> 0:30:01.760 You're not throwing a quick question here. 0:30:02.000 --> 0:30:04.160 This was asked very early on in the post game 0:30:04.200 --> 0:30:07.400 press conference to Mike McCarthy yesterday and he walked in 0:30:07.520 --> 0:30:10.440 and Tad Carper, director of PR here, told him that 0:30:10.480 --> 0:30:12.480 it was going to be the Packers. And he walked 0:30:12.520 --> 0:30:14.120 up to the podium and it was like that fast 0:30:14.640 --> 0:30:17.680 and his second question he was asked, Hey, it's the Packers, 0:30:17.800 --> 0:30:20.320 you know, this year old team. You know, how much 0:30:20.320 --> 0:30:22.760 are you looking forward to this matchup? And he was like, yeah, 0:30:22.920 --> 0:30:24.520 you know, to me, it's a playoff matchup, it's a 0:30:24.560 --> 0:30:26.440 playoff game. It doesn't matter who's lined up on the 0:30:26.480 --> 0:30:28.160 other side. He's like, I'm not going to buy into 0:30:28.200 --> 0:30:31.080 the drama this week without about it, like y'all can 0:30:31.440 --> 0:30:32.440 like talking about the media. 0:30:34.600 --> 0:30:36.320 Do you think there's anything in the back of his mind. 0:30:36.360 --> 0:30:39.240 I was like, Oh, I'd really love to get a good, good, good, 0:30:39.280 --> 0:30:42.080 big win over the Packers here, the team that you 0:30:42.160 --> 0:30:43.840 know gave up on me a few years ago. 0:30:44.600 --> 0:30:47.680 Oh a thousand pers No doubt. There's got to be 0:30:47.800 --> 0:30:50.160 as as as a human, I feel like there has to. 0:30:50.200 --> 0:30:54.320 Be the right things. Absolutely, I'll let you guys worry 0:30:54.360 --> 0:30:56.880 about that behind closed doors. He's like, I've got to win. 0:30:56.800 --> 0:30:57.600 This to get the rest. 0:30:57.720 --> 0:31:00.280 Yeah, yeah, yeah, Yeah. He's going to stand on business 0:31:00.280 --> 0:31:02.280 on Sunday for sure. Yeah, he's ready to go. 0:31:02.480 --> 0:31:05.600 I love it though. I love the element of the 0:31:05.840 --> 0:31:08.640 historic side of it. Plus you talk about beating the best. 0:31:08.760 --> 0:31:10.760 I know the Packers aren't the Packers of the past, 0:31:10.920 --> 0:31:14.440 but beating the Packers would be almost like exercising some 0:31:14.600 --> 0:31:17.080 demons of playoff pass for sure, Cowboys, because you think 0:31:17.080 --> 0:31:20.479 about it, the road could be Packers, Eagles, forty nine ers. 0:31:21.040 --> 0:31:23.040 You talk about trying to exercise all of it out 0:31:23.120 --> 0:31:27.240 at once. 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Will see you tomorrow. 0:34:15.080 --> 0:34:16.759 There's a helmet, all right. 0:34:16.840 --> 0:34:19.360 We got some smelly stickers to hand out here. We 0:34:19.480 --> 0:34:21.640 did not do this last week. We just completely forgot 0:34:21.680 --> 0:34:24.680 about it. By we, I mean me, sorry, completely forgot 0:34:24.719 --> 0:34:25.000 about it. 0:34:25.120 --> 0:34:26.640 But it was a weird week last week. 0:34:26.719 --> 0:34:30.200 It was a weird week with the new year, Isaiah 0:34:30.280 --> 0:34:32.400 wasn't here on Tuesday. It was kind of like a 0:34:32.960 --> 0:34:35.040 thing that got pushed aside. But we've got our smelly 0:34:35.080 --> 0:34:39.040 stickers are players of the game, and this helmet's getting 0:34:39.040 --> 0:34:42.719 pretty full again. Twelve wins on the campaign for the 0:34:42.800 --> 0:34:45.960 third straight year. How impressive is that? By the way, 0:34:46.000 --> 0:34:48.240 how much credit does Mike McCarthy in the front office 0:34:48.320 --> 0:34:51.279 deserve three straight years of twelve win seasons. That's not 0:34:51.360 --> 0:34:53.200 easy to do in the NFL at any level. 0:34:53.600 --> 0:34:54.400 Yeah, it's impressive. 0:34:55.000 --> 0:34:57.080 I think that's a credit to this entire coaching staff, 0:34:57.680 --> 0:34:59.680 the personnel department, that the team that they put together 0:34:59.680 --> 0:35:01.840 over the last few years. That's a big time, you know, 0:35:01.920 --> 0:35:04.080 being able to win twelve games then three straight years. 0:35:04.120 --> 0:35:06.840 But I don't think anybody will care unless there's playoff 0:35:06.840 --> 0:35:07.680 success on the other end. 0:35:08.520 --> 0:35:10.800 That's that's kind of the feel. You got to have 0:35:10.920 --> 0:35:13.920 wins in the playoffs and it starts this week. I mean, 0:35:14.000 --> 0:35:16.120 that's that's really kind of the number one thing is 0:35:16.280 --> 0:35:18.279 you want to win games, you want to be able 0:35:18.320 --> 0:35:21.239 to make a run, but you can also stop and 0:35:22.040 --> 0:35:24.279 maybe not smell the roses, but at least smell the 0:35:24.320 --> 0:35:28.759 appreciate smell the smells. At least appreciate what this team 0:35:28.840 --> 0:35:31.799 has been doing, and they have been relevant and competitive 0:35:32.400 --> 0:35:34.920 over these last few years to this to the extent 0:35:35.000 --> 0:35:37.160 of at least being in the Super Bowl conversation, and 0:35:37.200 --> 0:35:38.319 they're doing it again this year. 0:35:38.480 --> 0:35:41.040 Let's go, let's go all right, are we kicking it off? 0:35:41.080 --> 0:35:41.200 Were? 0:35:41.239 --> 0:35:41.800 Yeah, let's do it. 0:35:41.880 --> 0:35:43.839 What you got Okay, I'm gonna go with the pair 0:35:43.920 --> 0:35:48.160 of cherries. Okay, I'm gonna give these to Dak because. 0:35:47.920 --> 0:35:51.640 Dak showed showed some cherries yesterday and really went off, 0:35:51.640 --> 0:35:54.520 stood in the pocket with Zach Martin out did his 0:35:54.680 --> 0:35:59.239 thing and that ced touchdown where he's just like he 0:35:59.280 --> 0:36:01.360 had all the time in the world. Basically, Zach Martn's 0:36:01.400 --> 0:36:03.440 not playing, you know what I'm saying, Like, yeah, all 0:36:03.520 --> 0:36:05.040 the time in the world. Just kind of was like 0:36:05.120 --> 0:36:07.560 CD just kind of come over here and touch down easy. 0:36:07.800 --> 0:36:10.000 It felt like a very Romo esque and shouts to 0:36:10.080 --> 0:36:12.279 my Romo fans out there there you go. 0:36:12.600 --> 0:36:13.040 I like that. 0:36:13.360 --> 0:36:15.719 My my smelly sticker is not going to these two guys. 0:36:15.760 --> 0:36:16.120 But t J. 0:36:16.239 --> 0:36:20.279 Bass and brock Hoffman definitely showed up like very much 0:36:21.040 --> 0:36:23.279 smelly stickers, you know what, and they were they were 0:36:23.800 --> 0:36:24.920 they were very big time. 0:36:25.000 --> 0:36:27.480 Because that was a tough situation for them to go in. 0:36:27.560 --> 0:36:29.880 I've got these, I've got these macaroons. These aren't my 0:36:30.000 --> 0:36:32.640 smelly sticker. This is just an honorable mention. I've got 0:36:32.719 --> 0:36:35.480 these there. They look like macaroons or whatever. I don't 0:36:35.520 --> 0:36:37.520 even is that how you say Max macaron? 0:36:38.080 --> 0:36:42.880 That's how you say it, Macon okaye. 0:36:41.880 --> 0:36:47.080 Well whatever that is. There's two of them here. You're 0:36:47.080 --> 0:36:49.960 gonna give one of which to brock Kaffman and the 0:36:50.040 --> 0:36:54.000 other one to TJ. Bass, both of which were given 0:36:54.440 --> 0:36:59.400 really zero time to fill in, especially uh especially brock Hoffman. 0:36:59.560 --> 0:37:03.200 Hawkman was given less than twenty four hours notice of Hey, 0:37:03.320 --> 0:37:06.600 Zach Martin's gone down with an illness and we need 0:37:06.680 --> 0:37:07.600 you to step up and play. 0:37:07.800 --> 0:37:09.879 Basically the entire he just needed a word like I'm 0:37:09.920 --> 0:37:12.560 playing okay, yeah, Like he's ready to go. 0:37:12.719 --> 0:37:15.680 I will say, we've seen this for moxtar. Both of 0:37:15.719 --> 0:37:19.120 you guys were out there. He is as intense of 0:37:19.200 --> 0:37:21.719 an individual as you'll ever see, and you can see 0:37:21.760 --> 0:37:24.799 it on the field. And Isaiah and I were talking 0:37:24.840 --> 0:37:26.560 in the studio and he was like, just please don't 0:37:26.600 --> 0:37:29.120 make it personal. We had that whole conversation about Doron 0:37:29.160 --> 0:37:31.839 Payne and I know Jonathan Allen wasn't playing, but don't 0:37:31.880 --> 0:37:34.040 make it personal with those guys. He was like, brock 0:37:34.120 --> 0:37:37.200 Hoffman's gonna make it personal. Here it goes like here, 0:37:37.440 --> 0:37:38.280 here's what's happening. 0:37:38.360 --> 0:37:40.279 He's one of the doggiest dogs on the team. 0:37:40.360 --> 0:37:42.600 Yeah, for sure he's And Doron Payne had a few 0:37:42.680 --> 0:37:46.440 chances and yeah and didn't didn't fully did he get 0:37:46.480 --> 0:37:47.000 a sack or no? 0:37:47.760 --> 0:37:50.600 No, Prescott trusted them. 0:37:50.640 --> 0:37:50.759 Man. 0:37:50.840 --> 0:37:52.160 Wow, something really quick too. 0:37:52.760 --> 0:37:56.200 It was announced, gosh and two hours before the game 0:37:57.160 --> 0:37:59.960 that Zach Martin has an illness but he's expected to pull, 0:38:00.520 --> 0:38:03.400 you know, just letting everybody know he's We got an email, 0:38:03.600 --> 0:38:06.640 We got a pr email from it, and I was like, okay, 0:38:06.719 --> 0:38:08.400 you know, tweeted out real quick, just in case it 0:38:08.520 --> 0:38:09.800 became something bigger. 0:38:09.840 --> 0:38:10.239 And it did. 0:38:10.800 --> 0:38:14.160 And brock Hoffman has been taking backup center reps most 0:38:14.239 --> 0:38:16.040 of the season. He has been getting work at guard 0:38:16.080 --> 0:38:20.560 during practice, but he has been almost primarily backup center. 0:38:20.640 --> 0:38:22.200 So to be able to step in at right guard 0:38:22.280 --> 0:38:24.160 at that moment and do what he did, that's big 0:38:24.239 --> 0:38:27.600 time and that speaks to the trust. My smelly sticker 0:38:28.440 --> 0:38:31.320 and look I'm I would love to make this game specific, 0:38:31.360 --> 0:38:33.960 but I'm gonna make this a little bit season specific, and. 0:38:34.000 --> 0:38:35.319 I'm staying on the offensive line. 0:38:36.120 --> 0:38:38.360 It was a guy who suffered a very big injury 0:38:38.719 --> 0:38:43.080 this past season in twenty twenty two and played every 0:38:43.640 --> 0:38:46.839 single snap in twenty twenty three until he was pulled 0:38:46.920 --> 0:38:48.880 late in the fourth quarter yesterday. And that's Terrence Steele, 0:38:49.360 --> 0:38:52.759 and he fought a lot of criticism earlier in the year, 0:38:52.960 --> 0:38:55.400 had a four set game given up against Philadelphia Eagles, 0:38:55.760 --> 0:38:57.919 bounce back, had a really solid stretch on the back 0:38:57.920 --> 0:38:59.560 half of the season. Had a couple of lumps here 0:38:59.600 --> 0:39:02.320 and there, but the trust is high at right tackle. 0:39:03.040 --> 0:39:06.400 The the worth is there at right tackle. Didn't give 0:39:06.480 --> 0:39:09.240 up any sacks yesterday. I don't believe give up any pressures. 0:39:09.480 --> 0:39:11.280 Terared Steel. You got my smelly sticker today. 0:39:11.520 --> 0:39:12.120 That's a good one. 0:39:12.280 --> 0:39:12.680 I like that. 0:39:13.080 --> 0:39:15.520 How many times have we talked about Terrence Steel throughout 0:39:15.560 --> 0:39:17.800 the season. It's very few and far between them, and 0:39:17.880 --> 0:39:19.520 that's a good thing for an offensive lineman. 0:39:19.719 --> 0:39:21.719 Well earned that smelly stick You better tell them like, 0:39:21.760 --> 0:39:25.360 hey man, I have this sticker that I put it 0:39:25.400 --> 0:39:27.440 on the helmet just for you. Get away from me. 0:39:27.680 --> 0:39:29.840 I did tell Brandon Cooks about our smelly stickers. He 0:39:29.920 --> 0:39:33.640 thinks it's a funny segment. All right, I've got this donuts. 0:39:33.640 --> 0:39:34.120 Come on the show. 0:39:34.360 --> 0:39:38.319 There you go, Brandon Cooks invites always open. I've got 0:39:38.360 --> 0:39:42.279 a donut. It's a pink frosted donut here. You know 0:39:42.360 --> 0:39:45.839 what a donut also resembles zero A zero. And that's 0:39:45.880 --> 0:39:47.600 the amount of people in the NFL that can cover 0:39:47.719 --> 0:39:48.279 CD Lamb. 0:39:48.400 --> 0:39:49.680 Yeah, oh, let's go. 0:39:49.920 --> 0:39:52.919 That's the amount of people that can cover CD Lamb. 0:39:53.000 --> 0:39:55.759 That's the amount of individuals that have more receptions in 0:39:55.880 --> 0:39:59.239 CD Lamb. And honestly, right now, I'm not afraid to 0:39:59.280 --> 0:40:00.960 say it, that's the amount of people in the NFL 0:40:01.000 --> 0:40:03.880 as receivers that are better than Ceedee Lamb zero. He 0:40:04.000 --> 0:40:06.200 is the best receiver in the NFL right this second. 0:40:06.360 --> 0:40:10.239 And you can't tell me otherwise, most receiving yards, receptions, 0:40:10.280 --> 0:40:12.920 and receiving touchdowns since Week six of the NFL season. 0:40:13.160 --> 0:40:15.320 That also just happens to be the time when Ceedee 0:40:15.360 --> 0:40:17.440 Lamb said, hey, throw me the rock and let me 0:40:17.520 --> 0:40:19.719 carry this thing, and then guess what he did. He 0:40:19.760 --> 0:40:21.320 did it. They threw him the rocket. He carried this 0:40:21.440 --> 0:40:23.839 thing yeah, Ceedee Lamb. You get my smelly sticker, it's 0:40:23.880 --> 0:40:24.840 the icing on the doughnut. 0:40:25.000 --> 0:40:26.600 Oh, Ceede Lamb. But I'm taking just Jefferson. 0:40:28.640 --> 0:40:30.480 Wow, So let's get off my podcast. 0:40:30.520 --> 0:40:31.080 I'm so sorry. 0:40:31.640 --> 0:40:34.560 In the playoffs definitely, Oh okay, Well then he missed 0:40:34.600 --> 0:40:37.120 seven games we playoff season, though, I'm just saying, like 0:40:37.200 --> 0:40:38.719 that's we're talking abot playoff teams here. 0:40:38.800 --> 0:40:40.160 No, but I'm with you. 0:40:40.239 --> 0:40:42.680 I think Ceedee Lamb coming into the season really quick 0:40:42.760 --> 0:40:46.239 on this Coming into the season, there was still kind 0:40:46.280 --> 0:40:48.719 of rhetoric being left behind about can he be a 0:40:48.760 --> 0:40:49.800 consistent wide receiver? 0:40:49.920 --> 0:40:50.080 One? 0:40:50.239 --> 0:40:53.439 Is he even worthy of being an eighty eight? And yeah, 0:40:53.520 --> 0:40:55.120 I think he came in and shut everybody up on 0:40:55.200 --> 0:40:56.880 that instance. And I think the biggest thing that he 0:40:56.960 --> 0:40:59.279 fought in the preseason was is he a top ten 0:40:59.320 --> 0:41:01.120 receiver in this sleep? And I think he's firmly a 0:41:01.200 --> 0:41:03.680 top three So sure, that's that's big time. 0:41:03.760 --> 0:41:05.759 Who would be the top three is at Jefferson Hill 0:41:05.840 --> 0:41:07.439 and Lamb better A Brown? 0:41:07.520 --> 0:41:07.680 Yeah? 0:41:07.680 --> 0:41:10.160 Oh no, no, No, he's been better than AJ this year. 0:41:10.239 --> 0:41:13.440 Especially, I'm not a huge AJ Brown guy. He's had 0:41:13.480 --> 0:41:15.200 a great year, but I'm not a huge aj Brown, 0:41:15.280 --> 0:41:17.640 he's still a dude and also prayers up to him. 0:41:17.719 --> 0:41:19.120 Yeah. I was about to say he went through a 0:41:19.440 --> 0:41:23.920 nasty injury yesterday. We'll see if he's even available for playoffs. 0:41:23.920 --> 0:41:24.279 I doubt it. 0:41:24.400 --> 0:41:25.520 Have they reported that yet? 0:41:25.560 --> 0:41:26.279 No, I don't think they. 0:41:26.360 --> 0:41:28.400 Don't think they said it specifically either, but it did 0:41:28.480 --> 0:41:32.759 not look good. All right, Playoff time is here, boys, Yeah, 0:41:33.280 --> 0:41:36.719 Talking Cowboys all week long, nine am Central. We won't 0:41:36.719 --> 0:41:39.360 have Isaiah tomorrow. We will have John Machoda in the 0:41:39.440 --> 0:41:41.239 building and then we will get back after it with 0:41:41.280 --> 0:41:45.040 the whole crew on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and get you 0:41:45.120 --> 0:41:48.600 ready for the Green Bay Packers and the Dallas Cowboys. 0:41:48.680 --> 0:41:51.280 It is a historical matchup just because of the brands, 0:41:51.360 --> 0:41:54.880 the history, and of course the current implications that are 0:41:54.920 --> 0:41:59.080 on the line. 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