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Speaker 4: Let's go get in the lines. Man. We want to
Speaker 4: talk to you people. There you go, We got we
Speaker 4: got jam in the building today, Bula. We need like
Speaker 4: the airwork about it like that? What's up? John? What's
Speaker 4: going on? Listening to Little Jerry this morning?
Speaker 5: Listen to Little Jerry. He went for about seventeen eighteen
Speaker 5: minutes there, maybe even longer.
Speaker 6: There was a lot there. Yeah, yeah, it was pretty
Speaker 6: impressed with how they played on Sunday. And I know
Speaker 6: you guys already discussed.
Speaker 4: It, but yeah, I want to hear your thoughts.
Speaker 5: I didn't expect it to be.
Speaker 6: That lopsided, man, did I just I felt like Bill
Speaker 6: Belichick would have something in his bag for them. And
Speaker 6: I looked at that early second quarter as boxing UFC
Speaker 6: whatever into fight where looked like, you know, cowboys had
Speaker 6: a little bit of an edge, and then there was
Speaker 6: a Jayalen that Jalen Tolbert hit on the punt return,
Speaker 6: and then they they've come back and you know, get
Speaker 6: the Dante Fowler sack fumble and then they go for
Speaker 6: two and in that little space of time, it's reminded
Speaker 6: me of a fight where you this guy gets danged
Speaker 6: out pretty good and you're just like, yeah, there's more
Speaker 6: left of this fight, but that guy's definitely hurting right now,
Speaker 6: and it's going to be tough for them to come back,
Speaker 6: you know, and they were gonna have to have something
Speaker 6: in their bag to come back from.
Speaker 5: And I don't know if there is anything.
Speaker 6: In mac Jones's bag to come back from something like
Speaker 6: that against that defense. You know, if they're playing against
Speaker 6: a different team maybe, but against that defense and how
Speaker 6: fired up that defense was and how they played like
Speaker 6: we expect them to play from the very beginning.
Speaker 5: That was really impressive, you know, so.
Speaker 6: Huge, huge answer because of the fact of man, can
Speaker 6: you magic going in this game at two and two?
Speaker 6: If they would have lost that game, it would have
Speaker 6: been so bad. So to respond with that type of
Speaker 6: an effort, I thought that was pretty pretty impressive.
Speaker 5: So it sets you up to where this game.
Speaker 6: I mean, this game is always going to mean a lot,
Speaker 6: but it makes you feel a little bit more like, Okay,
Speaker 6: they're back into being in maybe that same conversation with
Speaker 6: the forty nine ers, but I don't know. I'm more
Speaker 6: intrigued in seeing that game now than I was. If
Speaker 6: let's say that would have been a close game against
Speaker 6: the Patriots that I lost to the Patriots, I would
Speaker 6: have had, like I said last week, I had them
Speaker 6: a little bit lower on the rung.
Speaker 5: I still have San Francisco at the top.
Speaker 6: But I do think that they would be the favorite
Speaker 6: right now to win the NFC and this will be
Speaker 6: a great test. So and I'm not nearly as concerned
Speaker 6: about the red issues I think everybody else is, you know,
Speaker 6: just because of how sloppy or not sloppy, but how
Speaker 6: just the style of those first four games, even the
Speaker 6: three wins, it wasn't like you really needed the offense
Speaker 6: to put up some big numbers. So that will be
Speaker 6: this will be the real test this Niners game of
Speaker 6: where this offense is. You'll be five games into this season.
Speaker 6: If you have some major issues there, then then we'll
Speaker 6: see we can we can talk more about that obviously,
Speaker 6: but what a great test is going to be just
Speaker 6: because of the fact of this offense is really the
Speaker 6: reason they've lost to the Niners the last few times
Speaker 6: in the playoffs. You know, the defense didn't enough the
Speaker 6: offense they needed.
Speaker 5: More from them.
Speaker 6: And so with Mike McCarthy, calm plays and some different
Speaker 6: piece on offense, how different will this be or will
Speaker 6: it be the same as as it's been against the Niners?
Speaker 5: Are they still a rung higher?
Speaker 7: So yeah, I think Jerry Jones talked about it a
Speaker 7: little bit this morning, saying that he would put the
Speaker 7: Diners at the top of the list of favorites to
Speaker 7: go to the NFC or go to the Super Bowl
Speaker 7: rather out of the NFC.
Speaker 2: And I mean, this game itself probably doesn't have us
Speaker 2: the same amount of draw as it would if both
Speaker 2: teams were four and oho, but four oh and three
Speaker 2: and one. There's still gonna be plenty of eyes on
Speaker 2: this game. I think everyone will be watching this one,
Speaker 2: everybody in their mama.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a this is that test. And we've
Speaker 2: talked about it plenty. I mean we were talking about
Speaker 2: a week one and they blew out the Giants forty
Speaker 2: to nothing, and John was ready to hit the Madden
Speaker 2: sim two Week five.
Speaker 5: Mode like I always was. I'd never changed with these
Speaker 5: other games.
Speaker 6: I'm not saying that the player should have been that way.
Speaker 6: I'm not saying you guys should have been.
Speaker 1: There for me.
Speaker 2: But John wants to see him against the forty enough over.
Speaker 6: The last ten to fifteen years I needed to see.
Speaker 6: I want to see how they stack up against the Niners.
Speaker 6: That still will tell me. They'll tell me way morning
Speaker 6: in these first four games, will Yeah.
Speaker 4: What are some news and notes from today?
Speaker 8: Nick Harris, Well, you took one of mine saying that
Speaker 8: Jerry said this morning that U he felt like San
Speaker 8: Francisco was the favorite.
Speaker 9: I don't.
Speaker 8: I don't really know if he was saying it as
Speaker 8: if he felt that way, or if he was just
Speaker 8: talking about the general public. And the betting odds and
Speaker 8: all those things. Either way, I thought it was just
Speaker 8: an interesting comment to make at that certain point.
Speaker 2: I thought, at least in initial listening, I thought he
Speaker 2: said that he thinks they're the favorite, like that's.
Speaker 5: His whole NFL.
Speaker 6: He said was he thinks he's they're the favorite right now.
Speaker 6: Went to win the Super Bowl, Yeah, to win, to
Speaker 6: win this.
Speaker 4: And I thought he said, make.
Speaker 5: It no, no, no, And they are in Vegas right
Speaker 5: now too.
Speaker 8: Yeah. Interesting, they are the betting odds.
Speaker 6: You got the Chiefs, you know, opening the season, losing
Speaker 6: the Lions, messing around with the Jets. I mean they
Speaker 6: would be the clear AFC favorite.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I would agree.
Speaker 2: I'm talking to say it's sitting here shaking his head.
Speaker 5: I'm talking about Vegas.
Speaker 4: You don't like Vegas. Nobody cares. I mean the first players,
Speaker 4: the players don't care.
Speaker 8: Vegas always knows something. The players, early players don't care.
Speaker 3: Who's projected to be Like I'm just telling you from
Speaker 3: our perspective, we don't give a dog on. We know
Speaker 3: it's a tough team and that's all the matter. And
Speaker 3: they beat you the last few times. So I'll say
Speaker 3: dot guns and no, I.
Speaker 4: Can't say it with my chest all the way cow.
Speaker 3: But no, I mean that's that's from a player's perspective.
Speaker 3: Like I said yesterday, this is get back this. These
Speaker 3: last few times you played these guys, they have knocked
Speaker 3: you out the playoffs, so they are.
Speaker 4: Pointed that that's that's it is disrespect.
Speaker 3: You know, they they walked up in your house a
Speaker 3: couple of years ago and they walked in with the
Speaker 3: little boombox and they sent you on your on your
Speaker 3: little mary way right. And then today, I mean not today,
Speaker 3: but last year they sent your butt home. Last again,
Speaker 3: it was just like this is this is for respect,
Speaker 3: This is for respect.
Speaker 6: And it's not like either game were blowouts. I mean
Speaker 6: it comes down to right to the end. Your offense
Speaker 6: in both games had chances to win that game and
Speaker 6: and couldn't get it done. Now, last year, obviously they
Speaker 6: didn't have Tony Pollard. I think that game might have
Speaker 6: been different had they had Tony Pollard in the second half.
Speaker 6: So maybe that was a factor. Maybe they have the answers,
Speaker 6: Maybe Mike McCarthy calling the plays will make the difference
Speaker 6: what we will see. But I have my uh, I
Speaker 6: have my doubts about uh, it becoming a defense like
Speaker 6: on the Cowboys defense.
Speaker 5: I think it's it's one of those things.
Speaker 6: If the offense shows up and they answer in the
Speaker 6: red zone, I think the Cowboy's got a great chance
Speaker 6: to win in this game.
Speaker 4: In terms of the red zone.
Speaker 3: Everybody keeps talking about the red zone, right, and I
Speaker 3: know you said you're not that concerned about it. I'm
Speaker 3: not that concerned about it either. However, Like at the
Speaker 3: end of the day, Coach McCarthy, I was telling them
Speaker 3: some of my business.
Speaker 4: Partner actually this. He was like, man, we gotta figure
Speaker 4: out this red zone thing. I'm like, Noah, that's how
Speaker 4: he talks to figure ze.
Speaker 10: No.
Speaker 4: Now, he's from he's from Houston. Actually, wait, which one.
Speaker 8: Of these years.
Speaker 2: As soon as you said it, I was like, hey,
Speaker 2: we're in the red zone.
Speaker 4: That I'm like, I said, no, we're good. It's the best. Listen,
Speaker 4: Coach McCarthy, go only called the place right.
Speaker 3: He's calling their proper plays against the proper against the
Speaker 3: defenses that are being present.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 4: He's guessing right, right. It's a guessing game. You call
Speaker 4: a play based.
Speaker 3: Upon what the analytics say the defense is going to present, right,
Speaker 3: based upon down the distance, personnel groupings, all that stuff
Speaker 3: right list literally a mind game, right back and forth
Speaker 3: his chest. So he's calling the proper plays. Think about
Speaker 3: how many drops there has been in the end zone.
Speaker 2: At least too that I can think of schoonmaker this
Speaker 2: week and hinder shot for further right.
Speaker 6: I think there's some things like that that have happened
Speaker 6: in the red zone though that make me think that
Speaker 6: it's not just us talking about it.
Speaker 5: They're talking about that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they're definitely so these are drops. They're not
Speaker 3: like they're like you're struggling to get guys open. Oh no, no, no,
Speaker 3: these are these are like just drop opportunities because had
Speaker 3: those been touchdowns the way they should have been, there as.
Speaker 4: A different story.
Speaker 3: And they're not even talking about but how many drops have.
Speaker 4: There been from Brandon Cooks.
Speaker 2: He hasn't even seen a target yet in the red
Speaker 2: I mean like, I mean Michael Gallup had the one where.
Speaker 3: It was p I but then it was picked up
Speaker 3: and need to go back and watch the pregame show.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm just there's there's there's there's elements that
Speaker 2: are missing of this offense in the reds.
Speaker 4: Yes, that's no doubt.
Speaker 2: Is it as big of an issue as it has been,
Speaker 2: at least in the media and across Cowboys Nation.
Speaker 4: Probably not.
Speaker 2: But if it rears its head like it did against Arizona,
Speaker 2: then it is an issue.
Speaker 4: And that's where I have it. You haven't needed it
Speaker 4: in three of the four.
Speaker 2: Games you've played so far, it's been a relatively non issue.
Speaker 4: You're gonna need it against you, No, you're gonna need
Speaker 4: to convert.
Speaker 3: You're gonna need to Actually, like del I don't think
Speaker 3: that he's I don't think that coach McCarthy struggling to
Speaker 3: come up with great concepts in the red zone. And
Speaker 3: I think that's really I don't think that. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: I think that's the narrative going around right now. Right
Speaker 3: people are saying, oh, the red zone struggles, are they
Speaker 3: really struggling narrative? And I disagree too, Yeah, And I
Speaker 3: whole hardly disagree, right, And I watch a fair amount
Speaker 3: of film like begin I'm like, okay, first game, second game, Okay,
Speaker 3: you got to figure this out. When I say figured
Speaker 3: this out, I mean like, actually, like take care of
Speaker 3: your assignments as players, cute execute right, make the catches
Speaker 3: you can't afford to drop balls in the in the
Speaker 3: red zone.
Speaker 2: You just can't.
Speaker 3: You work too hard to get down there. You have
Speaker 3: eighty snaps per game, right, I think we're averaging like
Speaker 3: seventy five. Right, there was maybe fifty something, sixty something,
Speaker 3: eighty something in then and seventy something again right, something
Speaker 3: run there anyway, So you're averaging around around seventy five
Speaker 3: plays a game. You just got to convert and three
Speaker 3: touchdowns that I can think off off the top of
Speaker 3: my head have been dropped.
Speaker 8: Three touchdowns, so you could throw in the Pollard carry
Speaker 8: on Sunday is basically like in that same category, just
Speaker 8: because Pollard went the wrong way. If he goes the
Speaker 8: right way, he walks in on touch walks in.
Speaker 4: So I'm again, it's not it's not a McCarthy at all.
Speaker 5: I don't think that's anything that that's in their head.
Speaker 8: I think they notice when they're inside the twenty. I'll
Speaker 8: say that. I think I think it's I think notice
Speaker 8: it a little bit more than they did Week one.
Speaker 8: Does that affect their play? I don't know. I'm not
Speaker 8: in that moment. I'm not the guy who has the
Speaker 8: brain in that moment. But I think inside the twenty.
Speaker 8: They're looking around, Okay, we've got to score here. And
Speaker 8: I think there's a little bit more urgency in that.
Speaker 6: And there will be it for this game too, because
Speaker 6: of the fact. For this is one of those games
Speaker 6: when you watch it, like you've watched the Patriots for
Speaker 6: so many years when they were in their dynasty era,
Speaker 6: where you're you're a team trying to knock them off
Speaker 6: and your team gets in the red zone and they
Speaker 6: settle for a field goal, You're like, yeah, that's not
Speaker 6: gonna get it done. And that's how I feel about
Speaker 6: this game. Minimum three touchdowns. Cowboys have to score at
Speaker 6: least three touchdowns to win this game. They will not
Speaker 6: get it done. When with just two to they have
Speaker 6: to score. So when they're in the red they have
Speaker 6: to they have to capitalize it.
Speaker 3: I just want to squash the narrative that, oh yeah,
Speaker 3: it does coming from the game.
Speaker 4: But that's that's what it feels like.
Speaker 3: Like people aren't saying, Oh, we're just not we're not
Speaker 3: finishing plays, we're not making the catches. That's not the conversation.
Speaker 3: The conversation, Oh my gosh, they're just struggling in the
Speaker 3: red zone.
Speaker 4: That's false. That's false. It's interesting you one of the.
Speaker 2: Best points I thought you brought up just from like
Speaker 2: a player or player's perspective during the game when you
Speaker 2: and I were watching in the studio with Barry and Nate,
Speaker 2: and you said, Bill O'Brien, right now, he's losing his
Speaker 2: mind on the sideline because he's calling the right plays.
Speaker 2: There's separation, there's openings, and just lack of execution. But
Speaker 2: at some point the lack of execution has to fall
Speaker 2: back on the coaching staff too, at some point.
Speaker 4: Right, No, not all the time, all the time.
Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, I mean, did you watch Watchable
Speaker 3: is losing his mind? He was, I was on TV
Speaker 3: right now, right now, I mean he I mean, there's
Speaker 3: only so much you can do as a coach. As
Speaker 3: a listen, the players. The players have to prepare right.
Speaker 3: The players have to prepare mentally, and they have to
Speaker 3: prepare physically right. Physically, there's their job to get themselves ready.
Speaker 3: There's a whole strength and conditioning staff that is there
Speaker 3: in place, okay. Aside from that, they have the dietitian
Speaker 3: staff in place, okay, So they have a responsibility to
Speaker 3: get themselves physically ready, get your rest, get your nutrition,
Speaker 3: get your weights in right, get your conditioning. That's their
Speaker 3: responsibility as play On the mental side of it, their
Speaker 3: job is to receive the coaching right. So the coaches
Speaker 3: has to get them ready. So the coaches are sitting
Speaker 3: in there with the scouting department, they're sitting in there
Speaker 3: with all the analytics. They're doing their film breakdown, they're
Speaker 3: doing their their strategy, they're creating all these different schemes
Speaker 3: and game plans, and they're drawing up one hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty plays a game, whatever it might be, and they're
Speaker 3: handing that down to now they're teaching the players right.
Speaker 4: So their job is simply get their minds right. That's
Speaker 4: all the coaches can control.
Speaker 3: Get your mind right, take the mental make sure you
Speaker 3: relay it down to the players, and then let's take
Speaker 3: it to the practice field and make sure that we
Speaker 3: feel comfortable running these things right. We're gonna take what
Speaker 3: we worked on mentally right, we're gonna apply it physically
Speaker 3: and then we have to convert that from to the game.
Speaker 3: But from the coaches perspective, all they can do is
Speaker 3: make their proper predictions. That's all they can do, right, Nick,
Speaker 3: I think you're gonna call this on defense. So I guess,
Speaker 3: as coach McCarthy, when we line up in eleven personnel
Speaker 3: on the twenty yard line, I'm calling this play because
Speaker 3: it says analytics say sixty seven percent of the time
Speaker 3: you're in this coverage. And if you're in this coverage,
Speaker 3: this is the play that I'm calling because I feel
Speaker 3: good about it. Oh we got Oh there it is.
Speaker 3: We got it, got the coverage, got the play, got
Speaker 3: the snap drop ball. I can't control that. I can't
Speaker 3: control that. That's when I look at the players, say,
Speaker 3: Kyle catch the dog on ball.
Speaker 4: But it's frustrating another day.
Speaker 6: I understand how it would be frustrating if you're a coach,
Speaker 6: for example, using the one that we were just mentioning
Speaker 6: over our shoulder here. If you're Brian Dable and that
Speaker 6: doesn't work out for you, that can be your job,
Speaker 6: absolutely and you can have the best play calls you,
Speaker 6: but you went to a situation where your quarterbacks can
Speaker 6: four years, one, sixteen, it's your job to fix it, absolutely.
Speaker 6: And so that's that's the part where like I see
Speaker 6: some of the frustration there, just kind of understand.
Speaker 3: Because personnel comes into it. Right, because personnel comes into it.
Speaker 3: And the thing is, Dallas doesn't have a problem with personnel.
Speaker 3: Dallas just has a problem with execution right now in
Speaker 3: that part of the part of the field. That's just
Speaker 3: also real quick.
Speaker 6: It is pretty interesting that and it speaks to how
Speaker 6: good the Cowboys are is that everybody has focused on
Speaker 6: that one thing. And let's be honest, if there was
Speaker 6: something else there would be focus on that. If the
Speaker 6: red zone was great, they'd be focusing Yeah, exactly, because
Speaker 6: the fact of like you just go back to training camp,
Speaker 6: you would have thought for sure that at this point
Speaker 6: in the season we would have had at least a
Speaker 6: couple games where we're like, yeah, I don't know if
Speaker 6: that not signing a kicker until.
Speaker 5: Late was a great idea.
Speaker 6: You know, like there's just so many like little things
Speaker 6: that have happened that outside of red zone. It's obviously
Speaker 6: the offensive line health and that's really about it. Everything
Speaker 6: else has been outstanding. And that speaks to because I
Speaker 6: feel like we're not doing this show five days a
Speaker 6: week to sit there and not bring up anything that
Speaker 6: might be bothering a team.
Speaker 5: I'm sure they're doing that in San Francisco.
Speaker 6: I don't really know if there are any weaknesses there,
Speaker 6: but there are very few teams that just sit there
Speaker 6: and go, yeah, man, everything's rolling, you know, And I
Speaker 6: don't know if there are any that even say.
Speaker 3: The only concerns that I that I've had this year, right,
Speaker 3: It hasn't been the red zone, I just got just know,
Speaker 3: gods just aren't converting. It's been the interior line on
Speaker 3: both sides of the ball and controlling the line of screamers.
Speaker 3: That was my biggest fear of going to gainst New England.
Speaker 3: That's why I thought New England was gonna win the game. Honestly,
Speaker 3: before knowing that Zach Martin and Tyler be Otis were
Speaker 3: going to be active, right, my mindset was, Hey, it's
Speaker 3: gonna be rough, right, they got to They have some
Speaker 3: big boys up front, they do a great job controlling
Speaker 3: line of scrimmage. They're disciplined, right, That was my mindset
Speaker 3: going into it. Well, we get our we get two
Speaker 3: of our three guys backstarters back and they go out
Speaker 3: there and control the line of scrimmage. As long as
Speaker 3: this team can control and at least have it even
Speaker 3: around the line of scrimmage, They're always going to be
Speaker 3: in a good position to win ball games. I do wonder.
Speaker 6: I'm not saying that the Cowboys still wuldn't have won,
Speaker 6: but I do wonder if Christian Gonzalez doesn't get hurt
Speaker 6: the impact that that has.
Speaker 5: I do still think the Cowboys win.
Speaker 3: I just don't know if it's but they lost their
Speaker 3: they lost their two best players on defense.
Speaker 2: The three I mean Peppers went down too, because they
Speaker 2: had Judon down for a significant amount of time.
Speaker 4: Looks like a bicep tear tear, he toy's bicep and
Speaker 4: Gonzales dislocated.
Speaker 6: And I'm telling you, I always go back to that
Speaker 6: to two years ago when the Cowboys lost the Niners
Speaker 6: in that playoff game. I always go back to the
Speaker 6: fact that they they were at home, they had a
Speaker 6: chance to go down there and score. I'm talking with
Speaker 6: like a few minutes ago, not that last year, and
Speaker 6: they didn't have Fred Warner out there, and they didn't
Speaker 6: have Nick Bosa. It's like, man, that's exactly what you'd
Speaker 6: want should be. But to fort Ninder's credit, they've built
Speaker 6: this thing there that is just so like thing that
Speaker 6: it's at so many different levels, whether you're talking about
Speaker 6: their receivers blocking down the field, or just how they
Speaker 6: next man up on defense with you know, guys that
Speaker 6: aren't all first round picks and things like that. Like
Speaker 6: it is pretty wild how they've been able to overcome
Speaker 6: some of those those big injuries and big moments like that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's so many elements, so many storylines to this game.
Speaker 2: All week long, I feel like the energy level is
Speaker 2: just higher. It's heightened in this building because everybody knows
Speaker 2: what's at stake on Sunday night and not and not
Speaker 2: only just another game in the regular season. There's a
Speaker 2: lot of pride at stake between these two organizations. All right,
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Speaker 2: segment on Friday. He's our first caller here on Talking
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Speaker 4: Mike, what's going on? My friend?
Speaker 3: Hey, he came out.
Speaker 12: I knew it.
Speaker 4: I had a bad week. I had a bad week.
Speaker 2: As soon as I saw Mike's name on the list,
Speaker 2: I was like.
Speaker 4: Going in hot. I knew I'd deserve it.
Speaker 3: Hey, you know what, Hey, listen, that's what we make predictions.
Speaker 3: I had the bubble gus, but it.
Speaker 4: Just turned out to be air. Was there?
Speaker 14: Uh?
Speaker 2: Mike, tell tell Cowboys Nation what Isaiah did on Friday.
Speaker 15: He thinks against the Cowboys, did the Patriots? He said,
Speaker 15: the Patriots the Patriots, then they're gonna they're gonna.
Speaker 4: Beat the Cowboys and blah, blah.
Speaker 15: It's all good though, So I don't know. I just
Speaker 15: like I said, come into the keys, a couple of
Speaker 15: keys for the San Francisco game. Is obviously can't turn
Speaker 15: the ball over and we gotta we gotta stop McCaffrey.
Speaker 15: We gotta shut them down.
Speaker 4: Mike, thanks for the call, is always fantastic. Thanks to
Speaker 4: getting me on as mine. I appreciate you. I appreciate you.
Speaker 6: I will say, off of the McCaffrey thing, yeah, this
Speaker 6: could be a good time to play them.
Speaker 2: Really, I think so, coming off of four Tuddies.
Speaker 6: Yeah, because when you have the defense of the Cowboys,
Speaker 6: has you want them not to go in like the
Speaker 6: Arizona game where it's just like, well show up, it'll
Speaker 6: be fine. You want them to go on where everyone's
Speaker 6: talking about this guy coming off this monster game.
Speaker 5: Should he be considered for the m v P.
Speaker 6: You know, no, no running backs got MVP s in
Speaker 6: Sadrian Peterson, Like, I just think that sitting in there
Speaker 6: with them like at the top, yeah, I think they'll
Speaker 6: be they'll be very very motivated, very very locked in.
Speaker 6: For McCaffrey, now, is he still gonna possibly have a
Speaker 6: good game? Yeah, I mean he's one of the best
Speaker 6: players in the NFL. That's gonna happen. It's not completely Yeah,
Speaker 6: you're not gonna completely shut him down, but I think
Speaker 6: that they'll be full awareness and they'll be full focus
Speaker 6: on him, to the point where it kind of makes
Speaker 6: me think, well, could this be a big Kittle game?
Speaker 6: Could this be a big Aub game or somebody that
Speaker 6: you're not focused on nearly as much? Because everybody's kind
Speaker 6: of looking at this McCaffrey McCaffrey McCaffrey thing.
Speaker 4: So yeah, that's part of the.
Speaker 5: Isaiah shaking his head though he doesn't like this takee.
Speaker 4: I mean, this is a team. You don't key in
Speaker 4: on players, right.
Speaker 3: You try to shut down the scheme, and the reality
Speaker 3: is the scheme has kicked your butt the last two
Speaker 3: times you've played them.
Speaker 4: That's the reality hasn't been what I.
Speaker 6: Wouldn't necessarily say it's kick their well, I think it's
Speaker 6: kicked their buddy.
Speaker 8: The average of what what twenty one and a half points?
Speaker 8: Would you say that's killing their bot.
Speaker 4: I don't get a dog on what the scoorse is.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about. It's two losses, Yeah, two losses they
Speaker 4: control there.
Speaker 8: I think of what has struggles more.
Speaker 6: Yeah, what happens Sunday is a butt kicking if they
Speaker 6: lose to the Patriots, you know, or if the Patriots win,
Speaker 6: you know, by like a field goal or something like that.
Speaker 5: I don't look at that as a butt kicking.
Speaker 2: But Dallas winning thirty eight to three, that's that's that's
Speaker 2: the but keetting.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's the.
Speaker 5: Butt There's a big difference there.
Speaker 3: You guys just looking at one aspect of the game,
Speaker 3: y'all just looking at the stat line in terms of
Speaker 3: the score.
Speaker 4: I'm to physically control the.
Speaker 8: Game physically on the score, because that's what physically controlled.
Speaker 4: The last two times Befty nine just played the Cowboys.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and it's been in the trenches, and that's impacted
Speaker 8: the more physicensively.
Speaker 4: Physically more kick.
Speaker 6: And then if they were their butts were kicked so bad,
Speaker 6: then why was it? Why wasn't the score morel upside
Speaker 6: than that?
Speaker 4: The game is the game? But they basically basically.
Speaker 5: Metall and I don't think they were destroying those.
Speaker 4: Gys, see you, and I don't think I don't think this.
Speaker 6: Oh I'm not even gonna be here on price right now.
Speaker 6: I'm clearly picking the Niners. But at the same time,
Speaker 6: like I do not think it's been butt kickings at all.
Speaker 3: Have you felt good about your control of the line
Speaker 3: of scrimmage on either side of the ball against the Niners?
Speaker 3: Yes or no? I would say no, no, no no.
Speaker 4: This is scantrow yes, yes or no no no no,
Speaker 4: no no. That's getting your butt kick.
Speaker 3: But if you man a man on man, when you
Speaker 3: put them bands on, you can't control another man from
Speaker 3: pushing you backwards, you get.
Speaker 2: Your butt if that's hitting your one possess sides has
Speaker 2: been fine. Like both of those games twenty twenty one
Speaker 2: and twenty twenty two, I think the defense was good
Speaker 2: enough to win those games in both cases. Offensively, I
Speaker 2: do not think so. I think you got your butts
Speaker 2: kicked offensively, I really do. I don't think this offense
Speaker 2: was nearly what it wanted to be in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 2: whenever it was one of the top scoring offenses in
Speaker 2: the country, and I don't think it was one of
Speaker 2: what it wanted to be healthy had their weapons ready
Speaker 2: to go going into twenty twenty two. It wasn't what
Speaker 2: it wanted to be either, But defensively, this team was
Speaker 2: ready to play both times. They just didn't get that
Speaker 2: offensive possibility.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry you don't agree. If we walk it, if
Speaker 8: they walk into San Francisco on Sunday night and only
Speaker 8: give up nineteen or only give up twenty three points
Speaker 8: victory across the what I feel like. I feel like
Speaker 8: the offense can score at least twenty three points. Now,
Speaker 8: it's been the offense in the last two years that
Speaker 8: has been getting their butt kicked. You're right, but we
Speaker 8: were talking about the defense, and I don't feel like
Speaker 8: the defense has been getting their butts kick.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there's definitely moments in those games where I thought
Speaker 6: that the deciding factor was because of that. Like when
Speaker 6: San Francisco went down last year and scored like basically
Speaker 6: was the game winning score. I definitely looked as like
Speaker 6: they were. They man handled the Cowboys to a certain aspect.
Speaker 6: But I kind of think if Dak plays a little
Speaker 6: bit better in that game, Like I just those two
Speaker 6: weeks in a row, seeing the way Dak played against
Speaker 6: Tampa Bay and seeing the way he played in that game,
Speaker 6: if you just give me Dak in the middle, they
Speaker 6: win that game.
Speaker 2: If you think the offense had so much success against
Speaker 2: the count I know.
Speaker 5: What blowouts looks like. I've seen three of them this year.
Speaker 2: Yes, not that the Cowboys four. Yeah, Cowboys defense in
Speaker 2: the past. I mean without looking. I know you've got
Speaker 2: like stats up in front of you. Stop looking at
Speaker 2: it's look at me, Look at me, look at my eyes.
Speaker 4: Where what what did the stat lines look like? Offensively?
Speaker 2: Four for the forty nine ers in the game.
Speaker 13: I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't look at the stats.
Speaker 2: I know you don't put ten carries for thirty five
Speaker 2: yards for Christian McCaffrey. That's it that he had nothing there.
Speaker 2: Deebo Samuel was four for forty five. Kittle probably the.
Speaker 4: Number one target in that game.
Speaker 2: This is the twenty twenty two divisional round. Kittle had
Speaker 2: five receptions for ninety five. They have options, they have
Speaker 2: weapons across the way.
Speaker 5: How many of that five or ninety five came on that?
Speaker 5: Kittle played down?
Speaker 6: The thirty one offended by Nevill Galamore, which you know,
Speaker 6: thirty I think should have been stopped.
Speaker 5: That should not happen.
Speaker 6: Also, go ahead and keep throwing balls at at tray
Speaker 6: Von Diggs like that and see any of those heat
Speaker 6: picks off. Yeah, I don't look at them as like
Speaker 6: they just, oh, they just are so much better they
Speaker 6: played on this higher level. Also, if they were really
Speaker 6: that much better, it probably would have.
Speaker 5: One of those Super Bowl trophies off of these years
Speaker 5: they don't.
Speaker 4: It's not that easy, cause no, a lot of good players,
Speaker 4: a lot of good teams that don't have.
Speaker 5: Some teams that are better than them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, all right.
Speaker 3: I'm just talking about the last few years Dallas with Sanfray.
Speaker 3: That's all I'm referring to. That's what they're gonna be watching.
Speaker 3: They're gonna go back and watch the film and figure
Speaker 3: out where did we lose the battles And you're gonna
Speaker 3: have to look in the mirror and say we lost
Speaker 3: up front?
Speaker 6: How much do you think the play caller change factors
Speaker 6: into that? Just because you know those previous two matchups,
Speaker 6: Calum Moore is the one calling the plays. Now Mike's
Speaker 6: calling the plays, Like, do you see a major difference
Speaker 6: in way this game could potentially go compared to maybe
Speaker 6: those because of a different play caller, And because let's
Speaker 6: be honest, I don't think we've seen, even through four games,
Speaker 6: everything that that Cowboys are gonna do, you know, I mean,
Speaker 6: there's things that we saw at training camp that they
Speaker 6: haven't done it, not even close to it.
Speaker 3: I mean, you're not, as I keep mentioning, you're not
Speaker 3: gonna see what Dallas is capable of until you have
Speaker 3: your entire starting office line.
Speaker 5: Facts, that's a good point.
Speaker 4: Until you get your.
Speaker 3: Starting office a line and you get your running game going,
Speaker 3: you're not going to see half the things that Dallas
Speaker 3: can do. That's not the issue. But again, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: keep stating it right, Dallas took care of it last game.
Speaker 3: You have to win the physicality against San Fran because
Speaker 3: they want to beat you up.
Speaker 4: Do you think this team can win it? Someone up
Speaker 4: see with the line? Looks like it by the end
Speaker 4: of the week. Okay, you guys see who's up from.
Speaker 5: The Vegas line.
Speaker 4: All right, let's go to Maurice in Tacoba, Washington. You're
Speaker 4: on talking cowboys. What's up, Maurice?
Speaker 9: Hey? How you doing?
Speaker 15: Fellas doing great?
Speaker 4: How are you?
Speaker 9: I'm doing good up here in the rainy day, the
Speaker 9: beautiful Pacific North winter.
Speaker 4: Go do go dogs? Yes, sir, yes, sir, I'm still
Speaker 4: a repent Do you see it? You see it on
Speaker 4: the hat?
Speaker 12: You know it?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 9: Absolutely? Hey, So I got a two part question. It's
Speaker 9: about coach McCarty and the play calling for the office.
Speaker 9: This week. Lately, he's been playing into our defense, which
Speaker 9: has been way conservative. But you think he's gonna play
Speaker 9: the same way against San Francisco or do you think
Speaker 9: maybe he might try to attack them? And also, how
Speaker 9: would you play them if you was coach McCartney.
Speaker 4: Listener, Thank you, Maurice.
Speaker 2: Great question and a great segue too, because we were
Speaker 2: just talking about the play calling.
Speaker 4: Nick, I'll start with you on this one. Where would
Speaker 4: you go?
Speaker 1: So?
Speaker 8: I want to start by saying, through these first four games,
Speaker 8: with three of them mostly being blowouts, and one of
Speaker 8: them where they had to simplify I don't want to
Speaker 8: say dumb down, but very much simplify the offense because
Speaker 8: of the situation up front. Against Arizona, they are throwing
Speaker 8: an offense out on the field in week five that
Speaker 8: I feel like, personally is a lot different than what
Speaker 8: we've been seeing the first four weeks, just because they
Speaker 8: haven't had to reach so far deep into their bag.
Speaker 8: I asked offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer about that yesterday. I
Speaker 8: was like, is does it feel like there's an abnormal
Speaker 8: amount of things that you still haven't been able to
Speaker 8: throw out on the field going into a week five
Speaker 8: compared to previous week fives. And he gave a long
Speaker 8: win an answer, but basically the gist of it was yes,
Speaker 8: for sure, and there's an advantage to that, but you know,
Speaker 8: end game adjustments. We'll have to play with those as
Speaker 8: things go on. Every game is different, blah blah. But
Speaker 8: I feel like what they can put on the field
Speaker 8: offensively from the opening script, Specifically, they can run a
Speaker 8: play on that first drive that they have not run
Speaker 8: the entirety of the season, all the way going down
Speaker 8: because they haven't had to reach that far deep into
Speaker 8: the bag. So that goes into Mike McCarthy's play calling.
Speaker 8: For sure, what can he do to get guys open,
Speaker 8: what has not worked to get guys open against the
Speaker 8: San Francisco defense in the past. How much do you
Speaker 8: lean on that experience, and then how much do you
Speaker 8: lean on the things that have worked through the first
Speaker 8: four weeks. I think we're going to see a mixed
Speaker 8: bag of a lot of things, but I think, excuse me,
Speaker 8: more than anything, we're going to see vertical play. Finally,
Speaker 8: I think we're going to see some shots being taken.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we saw a lot more of that in camp
Speaker 6: and we've seen so far from Brandon Cooks, so this
Speaker 6: would make some sense to bring some of that out.
Speaker 4: Also.
Speaker 6: I mean, Ceedee Lamb had the touchdown catch on Sunday,
Speaker 6: but it wasn't really this huge game from Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 6: I would be stunned if the Cowboys found a way
Speaker 6: to win this game without Ceedee Lamb playing.
Speaker 4: Well, what was the original question, do you experience?
Speaker 2: Do you expect Mike McCarthy to be a conservative play
Speaker 2: caller or an aggressive play caller?
Speaker 4: And then what would you do?
Speaker 3: You're going to walk the line, man, you both you're
Speaker 3: going to walk the line. Obviously, this offense you haven't shown.
Speaker 3: I don't even think they've showed thirty percent of what
Speaker 3: they're what they want to do on a weekly basis
Speaker 3: to some of the points that Nick brought up. But
Speaker 3: I mean, at the same time, you can't come out
Speaker 3: and start trying out everything that you've wanted to work on.
Speaker 9: In a game.
Speaker 3: You have to be you have to be able to
Speaker 3: have repetitions. You got to feel comfortable, you know, because
Speaker 3: they're gonna have their curve balls too. Defensively, So I
Speaker 3: think you're gonna it's gonna be a mixed bag. You mean,
Speaker 3: they're both both teams have been saving up some stuff
Speaker 3: for this game, and like you mentioned, Kyle, this this
Speaker 3: game has been circled for a while now ever since
Speaker 3: the schedule.
Speaker 4: Drops, so teams that they have been literally putting some.
Speaker 3: Stuff away in anticipation for this game because they know
Speaker 3: how competitive it's going to be. This this is not
Speaker 3: a blowout game on either side of the ball. It's
Speaker 3: always gonna be a close game. It's always gonna be
Speaker 3: super physical game. It's just one team's going to be
Speaker 3: more dominant than the other, and it just depends on
Speaker 3: who's going to be whether that comes from in physicality
Speaker 3: or whether it comes from being out schemed. I don't
Speaker 3: think that either team has outschemed each other over the
Speaker 3: past few years. I just I don't think it's been
Speaker 3: an out scheming thing. I think it's been come down
Speaker 3: to the physicality side.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and just whoever wins the trenches, who's tougher. I mean,
Speaker 2: that's certainly going to play a factor into it. I mean,
Speaker 2: mentality wise, it's one of those things that you have
Speaker 2: to play a balance game too, and you talked about
Speaker 2: that just very briefly. Yesterday we got a text from
Speaker 2: the two by four by the way represent two FI
Speaker 2: four asking about Dak press guy. He said that after
Speaker 2: the game on Sunday, he was at the podium. He
Speaker 2: said he was peeved about the about San Francisco. He
Speaker 2: said he was upset about it. He was emotional about it,
Speaker 2: and he kind of walked off the stage was right
Speaker 2: at the end of his press conference. And the two
Speaker 2: four wants to know why it's any different than what
Speaker 2: the past has looked like for Dak. Why can't it
Speaker 2: be different this time around than the previous two Because
Speaker 2: we were just talking about it. The offense was what
Speaker 2: let down the Cowboys in those two previous playoff meetings.
Speaker 4: Why can't it be different this time around?
Speaker 3: I mean, you have a more experienced player who has
Speaker 3: history to be pissed off about. I mean, in the
Speaker 3: short I guess there's a whole lot of other things
Speaker 3: we can kind of point to, But at the end
Speaker 3: of the day, you're talking about some of the best
Speaker 3: players in the world, literally, and everybody who's in this
Speaker 3: league is super competitive, and nobody wants to keep getting
Speaker 3: beat up by the same bully. That's what's happened here.
Speaker 3: The last two times you've gotten beat up, you got
Speaker 3: punched in the eye, and you've had to walk away
Speaker 3: and just go and take your bag and go home.
Speaker 3: And that's what they've done to you the last few times.
Speaker 3: So as a competitor, as a man, you're ready for
Speaker 3: that next opportunity. There's no different than you. Everybody who
Speaker 3: watches boxing your UFC. You get beat up by somebody
Speaker 3: two times, like no, no, no, run it back, run
Speaker 3: it back, give me that third time.
Speaker 4: Let's go.
Speaker 3: You know, nobody gets beating mad and just puts the
Speaker 3: controller down and walks away like you're like, nah, give
Speaker 3: me another chance.
Speaker 4: And that's what this is.
Speaker 3: You have to wait another year for another chance. Being
Speaker 3: at you're in different divisions, but that's what this opportunity is.
Speaker 3: That's why Dak was pissed off, like yeah, no, they
Speaker 3: they've got us the last two times, Like I don't okay,
Speaker 3: you're trying to get me there already, Like all right,
Speaker 3: let's go.
Speaker 4: I'm ready for a game plan. Let's let's start watching
Speaker 4: a film.
Speaker 8: Now to that question, I don't feel like there is
Speaker 8: anything different right now through four weeks. What has the
Speaker 8: biggest I guess inhibitor of these playoff loss has been
Speaker 8: lack of offensive execution, and that's been the thing we've
Speaker 8: had to nitpick through the first four weeks. Is offensive execution,
Speaker 8: especially inside the red zone, hasn't been a problem getting
Speaker 8: down the field. None of us have questioned that. I
Speaker 8: think that's a little bit different if you're absolutely looking
Speaker 8: for differences and how things have shaped out the last
Speaker 8: two years. But I need to see execution before I
Speaker 8: feel good about going into a road playoff environment and
Speaker 8: being able to do what they haven't been able to
Speaker 8: do the last two years. So my answer to that,
Speaker 8: I don't feel like there is anything different right now.
Speaker 6: And I'll say go back to the Dak press conference
Speaker 6: after the game. We have seen a little bit more
Speaker 6: of a chippy Dak Prescott this season with the media.
Speaker 6: It's clearly that he's motivated by the fact of he's
Speaker 6: got to get you know, well, one, it was the
Speaker 6: interceptions leading the league interceptions that was the big thing,
Speaker 6: but then now it's also the Niners. They've been like
Speaker 6: the one thing that has stood in his way from
Speaker 6: making the playoff run. That he's capable of making. And
Speaker 6: I mean I remember him on the podium after that game.
Speaker 6: I mean, he took the blame for that loss, for
Speaker 6: how poorly he played against the Niners.
Speaker 5: You know that just late in that game.
Speaker 6: That just was not like the Dak Prescott that we
Speaker 6: had seen, heck, even the week before against Tampa Bay.
Speaker 6: So I'm sure, I'm sure he's feeling that. And and
Speaker 6: to be honest with you, maybe the Niners just bring
Speaker 6: it out of him, because I'll go back to the
Speaker 6: game after they lost to the Niners two years ago,
Speaker 6: m hm. And the way he didn't immediately say that
Speaker 6: like the fans shouldn't have been thrown stuff at the
Speaker 6: officials was one of the first times I've ever where
Speaker 6: I was ever just like, oh, I can't believe Dak
Speaker 6: said it. And then it was given a chance to
Speaker 6: kind of follow up on it, and he still was
Speaker 6: just like, yeah, whatever you know about it and didn't
Speaker 6: say that like that, well, that's the wrong thing to do,
Speaker 6: to the point where like it like a couple of
Speaker 6: days later he had he had put a statement about it.
Speaker 5: You know, like, you know, we shouldn't be you know,
Speaker 5: fan shouldn't be doing stuff like that.
Speaker 4: That was.
Speaker 6: I was just kind of like surprised that he would
Speaker 6: even say that, but it just showed a little bit
Speaker 6: of just his frustration, which if it's most players wouldn't
Speaker 6: even notice that, but it just you're so used to
Speaker 6: Dak Prescott been the franchise quarterbacks in twenty sixteen. There's
Speaker 6: this huge sample size longest ten urre quarterback in the
Speaker 6: end with their current team, and you just you almost
Speaker 6: never see him say anything where you're just like, WHOA,
Speaker 6: Dak said that? So it is interesting how the forty
Speaker 6: nine ers have brought that out in him, because really,
Speaker 6: other than you know, obviously getting to a super Bowl
Speaker 6: and winning the Super Bowl, the Niners have been really
Speaker 6: the only team that have stood in his way. There's
Speaker 6: been the playoff losses the Packers, don't get me wrong,
Speaker 6: but the Niners have definitely been that team for him
Speaker 6: that he hasn't been able to get passed. So it'll
Speaker 6: be fascinating to see how how he plays individually in
Speaker 6: that game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and he was so sharp this past week too.
Speaker 2: I think taking that and building on top of it
Speaker 2: is going to be a completely.
Speaker 4: Different challenge for San Francisco.
Speaker 2: But he's coming off of a great game he played. Well,
Speaker 2: see if he can kind of replicate that here in
Speaker 2: week five. All right, we have to take our second break.
Speaker 2: When we come back, we're gonna hear from Troy in
Speaker 2: Philly an answer a couple more text messages. There are
Speaker 2: a ton of text messages and they're really good. We
Speaker 2: could have a two hour show if we really wanted to.
Speaker 2: All Right, when we come back with more talking Cowboys.
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Speaker 4: We've got Troy in Philly on the line.
Speaker 16: Troy, what's going on, hey man? How you guys doing Man?
Speaker 4: Doing great? Thanks for the call. What's on your mind?
Speaker 6: Hey? Well?
Speaker 16: First of all, John and Nick, you guys are great
Speaker 16: addition to the show. Great to have you guys, and man,
Speaker 16: I love the insight you guys.
Speaker 8: Thank you, sir. I appreciate that.
Speaker 16: No problem at all. My first thing I do. I
Speaker 16: love the conversation around the whole buck kitchen versus not
Speaker 16: buck kicking. I kind of kind of agree with John
Speaker 16: and Nick on it that that wasn't quite a buck kicking.
Speaker 16: But I keep in mind Isaiah played in the and
Speaker 16: you know, you got to get a different humans to
Speaker 16: play in the NFL.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, so I kind of see it.
Speaker 16: I see where he is with that. And then my other,
Speaker 16: my other thing you guys kind of touched on about
Speaker 16: the offense kind of missing a little something. I kind
Speaker 16: of feel like, you know, when you put something on
Speaker 16: the tip of your tongue and you just kind of
Speaker 16: something that is missing, something that is not quite right.
Speaker 16: But I get the offense, the offensive line, and there's
Speaker 16: something that's not quite missing, something that's not quite right
Speaker 16: about that dolphin. And I'll be glad when they get
Speaker 16: it together. But Nick, you're gonna love this one. When
Speaker 16: are they going to realize that you have your short
Speaker 16: yard is back? When they're gonna realize that I mean,
Speaker 16: he's right there and he showed it to him last week.
Speaker 16: He showed vision and a little bit of burds.
Speaker 6: He cut back like, this is.
Speaker 16: Your short yard is back. I wish they would just
Speaker 16: stop being cute and realize that this is your guy
Speaker 16: and to the whole being bullied thing. I'd like to
Speaker 16: see them third and one against San Francis on line
Speaker 16: up and just pounded with pounded with this guy. This
Speaker 16: is your short guardage back. I'll be glad when they
Speaker 16: finally realize that this is your guy and just use
Speaker 16: it that way. I'll think up and listen to you guys.
Speaker 2: Thank you for taking my call, man, Yeah, of course,
Speaker 2: great call.
Speaker 4: It starts.
Speaker 8: Also, I've I've been I've been trying to be very
Speaker 8: mindful about my hundred Louckky bias on this show. Like
Speaker 8: whenever we talk about him, I just kind of let
Speaker 8: the room breathe because I know I appreciate him a
Speaker 8: little bit more than the average person, just because I
Speaker 8: love fullbacks, like that's just me and this guy is
Speaker 8: not just a fullback. He's a versatile weapon. But now
Speaker 8: that I have the platform, shout out to this guy
Speaker 8: for being able to Troy shout out to Troy for
Speaker 8: being able to bring this to the table. He's right,
Speaker 8: and I think there's a really good opportunity going into
Speaker 8: San Francisco with a Pro Bowl fullback on the other
Speaker 8: side of Now we're talking about the guy that we
Speaker 8: compared Hunter Looky to as soon as he walked into
Speaker 8: the building, and he was like, I don't want to
Speaker 8: be Kyle Uschek. I want to be Hunter Lucky. He
Speaker 8: can have a chance to go be a hundred lopee
Speaker 8: on Sunday after Sunday night in UH in San Francisco,
Speaker 8: especially if you go double cannot play. I think you
Speaker 8: have to. You have to turn up the notch on him.
Speaker 8: Give him those short yartage opportunities, give him those UH
Speaker 8: pass blocking opportunities as well.
Speaker 2: So you're saying Hunter Lopke could go into this game
Speaker 2: on Sunday and turn Kyle use Check into Kyle Who's Check.
Speaker 8: I didn't say all that. That's what I've heard because
Speaker 8: I love Kyle us Check. Like I said, I'm a
Speaker 8: far will be the better fullback by the end of
Speaker 8: their career. I don't know. I don't know. You can't
Speaker 8: ask me that.
Speaker 2: I've got my my scouting report for Hunter Lipkey full
Speaker 2: back North Dakota State, and right here in comparison.
Speaker 8: Kyle Check, There's there's very few fullbacks that can line
Speaker 8: up in the slot, and I've only seen two do
Speaker 8: it in my lifetime at least, Kyle Use checking Hunter Lookey.
Speaker 6: The one thing I'll say about that, And and I
Speaker 6: hope this doesn't happen for your sake, but I think
Speaker 6: this game is going to be close. And when the
Speaker 6: games have been close this year, which is only one,
Speaker 6: you just haven't seen as much of Flip Key and
Speaker 6: Duce Vaughan and then handoffs on dey Turf, And like.
Speaker 2: Do you think they should see more of that even
Speaker 2: in a close game though, because that's been one of
Speaker 2: the fan questions.
Speaker 6: By the way, probably not I'm trying to. I just
Speaker 6: I don't think you have to do. I don't know,
Speaker 6: Like I guess maybe a play.
Speaker 5: Here or there.
Speaker 6: But Ceedee Lamb's healthy, Brandon Cooks is healthy, Michael Gallup's healthy,
Speaker 6: Jalen Tolbert keeps progressing like the weapons are there, Jake
Speaker 6: Ferguson is coming off a really big game, Like I
Speaker 6: think I don't want to take any of those guys
Speaker 6: off off the field, really in the big in the
Speaker 6: biggest moments, because I think those are your best playmakers.
Speaker 4: I could be wrong.
Speaker 8: Well, if Freako Doubtle cannot go, who's your change of
Speaker 8: pace guy?
Speaker 5: Now, that could definitely open up some lip key snaps there.
Speaker 8: That's what I'm thinking. More so, like I, he shouldn't
Speaker 8: have more than five touches in a game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, curve ball if they into the goal line
Speaker 3: and put Micah at run.
Speaker 5: Back, if they don't have doubt.
Speaker 3: The game of doing he was He's no, it would not.
Speaker 3: Oh yes, I formation lift fullback, Mike, I have running back.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: See, even if I have that in my bag, I'm
Speaker 6: saving that for playoffs January.
Speaker 5: I'm not trying to. If you getting me, I.
Speaker 4: Want them to.
Speaker 2: This is interesting from the six one five. I haven't
Speaker 2: seen a question like this in a long time. But
Speaker 2: if the Cowboys win the coin toss, what should they do?
Speaker 2: Should they receive no going offense or should they defer
Speaker 2: put the defense.
Speaker 5: On the field for since I think they're cheap in offense.
Speaker 5: So why do you think that?
Speaker 4: Oh see, there is.
Speaker 12: Some split here.
Speaker 4: The defense is your best asset.
Speaker 6: Love it, don't I don't disagree with that, but I
Speaker 6: think the best possibility is you having a drive that
Speaker 6: goes down there. Let's say it gets in the red zone,
Speaker 6: you score a touchdown, you have the lead. You want
Speaker 6: Rock Purdy to have to throw the football. That's your
Speaker 6: best chance to beat them. Uh if they get out
Speaker 6: and they get a lead early. I don't love the
Speaker 6: Cowboys coming from behind. I just think that the way
Speaker 6: this team is built, I think it's best for them
Speaker 6: to have a lead project.
Speaker 3: I mean, I hear you, that's a very valid point.
Speaker 3: I mean, but the reality is most likely going to
Speaker 3: be a close game. And yeah, I don't think either
Speaker 3: coach is gonna say this is gonna be a blowout.
Speaker 3: So knowing that it's going to be a close game
Speaker 3: most likely, I want the ball coming out to half.
Speaker 6: It has been fascinating this year though, because Mike McCarthy
Speaker 6: is mister double double where he loves the opportunity of
Speaker 6: going into that half scoring and then coming out. And
Speaker 6: so when they've won these tosses and then he's elected
Speaker 6: to receive, it's surprised me a little bit. But it
Speaker 6: also speaks to like you said, I mean, the defense
Speaker 6: is their strength.
Speaker 8: So I'm with Isaia Yere. I think yeah, I think yeah.
Speaker 8: I understand both sides, but I think I want the
Speaker 8: defense on the field first, especially on a Sunday night
Speaker 8: game on the road. Let's say the first half doesn't
Speaker 8: go great, you have an immediate opportunity to regain moment
Speaker 8: in the second half. That's kind of yeah, look at it.
Speaker 8: Or they could pull a Charlie Strong and just kick
Speaker 8: both halves. Remember when he was the coach at Texas
Speaker 8: they played UCLA at at and T Stadium. This is
Speaker 8: like twenty fifteen, and he kicked to start both halves.
Speaker 5: He had that much confidence in his defense.
Speaker 8: No, I think they messed up the coin toss.
Speaker 2: Up the coin toss, but I mean that was like
Speaker 2: that was a controversy a couple of years ago where
Speaker 2: it was the verbiage from Dak in a coin toss.
Speaker 4: Was that against him Ford Cisco? When was that?
Speaker 8: I don't remember if that was vaguely remember something like
Speaker 8: it was.
Speaker 2: It was something with the verbiage of the coin toss
Speaker 2: where he said we want the ball or something instead
Speaker 2: of we defer.
Speaker 4: We really well received something.
Speaker 6: Like another factor in this game. Remember Factory, the last
Speaker 6: team times they played him. Is the forty nine er
Speaker 6: has been more disciplined. They've had less penalties in both games.
Speaker 6: That was such a big part of that loss in
Speaker 6: Dallas was the officiating that you know, it was that
Speaker 6: that time where it was like the Cowboys were just
Speaker 6: had so many games they had ten plus penalties. And
Speaker 6: then even last year at San Francisco, San Francisco is
Speaker 6: the more disciplined team.
Speaker 2: I I want to ask all of these questions, I
Speaker 2: really do.
Speaker 5: Let's go rapid fire.
Speaker 4: You want to rapid fire, go go? Okay, let's say that.
Speaker 4: One just says let's go Ducks.
Speaker 2: Wow. Danny Jay from DC says, does Rico's injury mean
Speaker 2: more Duce time or will that go to Milik Davis?
Speaker 4: Possibly Duce? Oh no, no, no, no, no, Duce has
Speaker 4: been it hasn't been good for him.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think Milik Davis. But to next point, I
Speaker 5: think Lipkey could get some of those touches too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, all right.
Speaker 2: Do you think Micah lining up over the center is
Speaker 2: putting him in harm's way and that's why he's been
Speaker 2: more banged up in recent weeks.
Speaker 6: No, he's an animal and so sometimes he's sometimes he's
Speaker 6: gonna get wounded.
Speaker 4: Well, Mike was over the middle. I mean it's it's
Speaker 4: one on one matchups. They're not putting anything of a wash.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I like, I love that they move him around.
Speaker 6: I don't ever want to see him just line up
Speaker 6: at one spot.
Speaker 2: Sineca says, do you think Rishard Evans would be a
Speaker 2: good option for the linebacker spot since he's now a
Speaker 2: free agent to maybe pick up some guys free agency.
Speaker 8: I'm okay with I'm gonna go okay with things. Linebacker,
Speaker 8: I know, not cool with it.
Speaker 5: I know nothing about linebacker.
Speaker 6: If they like go to Devin Harper on top of
Speaker 6: all the other injuries, and then how few linebackers they
Speaker 6: had on the initial fifty three.
Speaker 5: I know nothing about linebacker anymore with this team.
Speaker 2: This one says inside the run or inside the ten,
Speaker 2: just run Lipkey Pollard simply doesn't have.
Speaker 8: What it takes to punch it.
Speaker 5: Incaut agree with that.
Speaker 4: I don't agree with the backside of it.
Speaker 6: But if you have that full offensive line, I think
Speaker 6: he would, You'll think differently about that.
Speaker 2: Pattern or coincidence. Dallas has gone twelve and five the
Speaker 2: last two seasons. That's an average of one loss per month.
Speaker 2: Do you feel like that's the case again this year?
Speaker 4: No, No, it's another year, another year.
Speaker 5: Completely to schedule too.
Speaker 9: Uh.
Speaker 2: Which matchup is most underrated? On Sunday to Night from
Speaker 2: Howard in Virginia. Underrated underrated matchup?
Speaker 8: Man Thursday?
Speaker 12: Like that?
Speaker 8: Yeah, probably you can land.
Speaker 2: That's that's a high flying matchup. That's not really a
Speaker 2: high flying matchup. Yeah, all right, and this is the
Speaker 2: last one I'll leave you with if I could get
Speaker 2: a one shot here.
Speaker 4: Jesus, don't do it. Don't know I'm doing it. Don't
Speaker 4: do it, Bamer, All right, here we go, don't do it.
Speaker 4: Somebody sent this in. That's just standback on the Dallas Cow.
Speaker 5: It's a tops chrome. That's a fantasy.
Speaker 4: It's a Tops chrome.
Speaker 8: Rookie card is not going as signed version?
Speaker 5: Is that a refractor?
Speaker 4: It looks like they got it in the sleeve.
Speaker 2: They've got this thing covered it probably like seventy seven.
Speaker 4: He's good, you got a refractory card.
Speaker 8: Oh man, I just snorted.
Speaker 4: That's how should we tell them they're from the four
Speaker 4: oh seven? Should we say? If they send it in,
Speaker 4: then you'll sign it and send it a beamer? All right?
Speaker 5: So that's a good looking card.
Speaker 4: It is a good look. I'm gonna go back in
Speaker 4: my collection. I've got a bunch of cars. Have something
Speaker 4: in the safe. You guys have them? Oh, I would
Speaker 4: love that.
Speaker 5: It looks like that might be a training camp shot.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Yeah, all the ones I have say sample on
Speaker 4: the back because they send them to me before. Okay, Yeah,
Speaker 4: that's kind of cool.
Speaker 5: Yeah it's even more limited.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I like it also. Yeah, just open up the
Speaker 4: open up the safe.
Speaker 8: Let's make this happen really quick. That that weird coin
Speaker 8: toss thing happened December twenty nineteen against the Rams. Jack
Speaker 8: had said we want to kick it, but then followed
Speaker 8: it up with we deferred to the second half and
Speaker 8: the ref got confused, but they did not kick both halfs.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it sorted out by the end of it, but
Speaker 2: I remember in the second quarter everyone was freaking out,
Speaker 2: like in the press.
Speaker 3: Box as a big story on TV TV, Like everyone
Speaker 3: was like.
Speaker 4: Is this what's about to happen? And then as long
Speaker 4: as he didn't say we want the ball and we're
Speaker 4: going to score, all right, that does it for us.
Speaker 2: Here on a Talking Tuesday, Fantastic questions, guys, great callers,
Speaker 2: great questions on the text line as well. Man, it's
Speaker 2: so much fun previewing this matchup. We're gonna be back
Speaker 2: tomorrow talking about the Cowboys defense versus this San Francisco offense.
Speaker 4: It's gonna look to try and kick the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: But this we think tonight, a lot of film tonight,
Speaker 2: a lot of film hitting the film always.
Speaker 6: Isaiah's gonna come back tomorrow and we're gonna have this
Speaker 6: all figured out, the game plan.
Speaker 5: He's gonna be the steps to win the game.
Speaker 4: He'll be a great time.
Speaker 2: It's over with, and we're also gonna hear some national
Speaker 2: storylines from John Michoba. That's right, Plenty more to come
Speaker 2: for Chris Beam, for Isaiah stand back, John Machoda, Nick Cares,
Speaker 2: I'm Kyle Yomen saying so long from the Star and Frisco.
Speaker 4: We'll see tomorrow with more talking Cowboys.