WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Championship Experience? 0:00:03.800 --> 0:00:06.360 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.360 --> 0:00:15.800 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:16.239 --> 0:00:19.639 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the 0:00:19.720 --> 0:00:28.400 Star in Frisco to the live Scot Tay and now 0:00:28.520 --> 0:00:33.440 your hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and 0:00:33.800 --> 0:00:38.520 Kyle Yeomans. It is a Talking Tuesday edition of Talking 0:00:38.680 --> 0:00:43.240 Cowboys presented by Tostitos, helping fans get in on the 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:46.360 game and our favorite chip and our favorite tip of 0:00:46.600 --> 0:00:50.440 Talking Cowboys. Welcome into the SWBC studios at the Star 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:54.640 in Fristoe alongside heck Ma Harrison, Isaiah stand Back, Rob Phillips, 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:57.880 Cris Beam running it all in the backup. Kyle Yeoman's 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:00.360 glad you're with us here on this Tuesday. Give us 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:02.920 a call eight eight eight eight five five two two 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:06.520 nine seven. We'll start taking Cowboys Nations calls. What are you? 0:01:06.600 --> 0:01:09.240 What are your thoughts going into the playoffs as of 0:01:09.720 --> 0:01:13.200 this Tuesday and then going into of course the matchup 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:16.600 in the wild card round against San Francisco. But how 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:22.479 is everybody doing? Swelltastic? That's awesome. Swell tastic. Hey, your 0:01:22.520 --> 0:01:27.480 mike's muted, Isaiah, Yeah, go ahead. And somebody had me 0:01:27.560 --> 0:01:28.920 hoped that right there. Somebody had me on a call 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.200 there you go, yeah, all right, we're good now we 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:34.920 were cleaning student run that back. I'm feeling very deja blue, Ah, 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:39.760 why are you so blue? Not down is a good thing. 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:42.720 Deja blue is very clear and crisp. And you know, 0:01:43.480 --> 0:01:46.240 I don't know. I feel good. How about you? Healthy? Healthy, 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:48.960 definitely healthy. I started my health kake yesterday. I'm back 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:52.040 on my plan. I'm back to working out. Okay. I'm 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:53.960 glad you're finally gonna get in shape. Thank you. I 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:57.840 appreciate it. I'm this is my first listen here. I 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:00.680 told you guys a story after song. I am very 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:03.200 little right now. This is little for me. This is 0:02:03.480 --> 0:02:06.240 like very even. My wife sent me a video yesterday. 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:08.880 She was a subtle It was a subtle thing. She 0:02:08.919 --> 0:02:10.040 was trying to make a joke. She said, have you 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:12.320 ever post a video like this again? Like we'll have 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:14.639 a conversation. There was a video on me doing like 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:16.560 some curls back a long time ago. But I was, 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.239 I was in freaking shape now, I was. She was 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:21.679 making a little hitti hiloh. He a little joke, but 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.200 the real message was your you need to get back 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:28.040 to this. So I got some work to do, but 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:30.040 I have eight weeks. I got eight weeks wrong. What's 0:02:30.160 --> 0:02:33.640 my song? Come on, man, we talk about the one 0:02:33.680 --> 0:02:36.480 I posted on my ig? Yeah, yeah, the one on 0:02:36.560 --> 0:02:41.320 the what was its January? It's time to give fit. 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:46.040 I sent that to Chris to try and play it 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:47.440 on the show, but I don't know if we can 0:02:47.520 --> 0:02:50.880 because cowboys fit. Yeah, popular music at the end as well. 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.760 Oh okay, so I guess we can't do that. Yeah, 0:02:53.840 --> 0:02:55.800 go look at it. Go look it up on Isaiah's 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:59.239 Instagram story. It's definitely not the y'all hall at me. 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.079 I stand back on ig. Yeah, it'll get you in 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:04.280 the New Year's resolution spirit. Hey, I'm just trying to 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:06.480 I'm trying to catch up to where mister Heckman has 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.200 been for the last what five months, four months? Whatever 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.519 it's been. You still stay it on that the fat 0:03:11.600 --> 0:03:14.760 ruptcy court? Yeah, he on it. I see your your 0:03:14.880 --> 0:03:19.480 your videos every day. Fantastic. Why no, wow? Well that 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:22.880 I'm asking for the people at LU. That was LU. 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:25.959 That was Danny Angels right there. Just I didn't catch it. 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:28.959 Um man, it was I've been doing it every day, 0:03:29.320 --> 0:03:31.799 uh before one hundred and one days. Whoa hey clip, 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:36.640 that's outstanding. Four old run the hustles. And when this 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:39.960 thing does happen, and I'm I'm still skeptical, but if 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.080 this inter squad thing happens, he's gonna be ready. You 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:46.280 know what, I'm gonna be ready, Robbie. I'm gonna tell me, 0:03:46.320 --> 0:03:48.960 tell you the depths that this goes to. Somebody there 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.760 so there no, I'm not gonna be ready. So you know, 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:53.760 I own a fitness facility and there there is there's 0:03:53.800 --> 0:03:56.520 some some track runners, some very competitive track runners, Olympians 0:03:56.520 --> 0:03:57.880 and all that that that come in work out a 0:03:57.920 --> 0:03:59.640 couple of times a week out of my facility. And 0:03:59.720 --> 0:04:01.920 one of the one of the young men that competes, uh, 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:04.560 he just missed Elmpies last year. He came in and 0:04:04.640 --> 0:04:07.160 he was talking about Danny McCrae. He said, Man, Danny 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:09.440 McCrae says something about how he can beat I said, 0:04:09.480 --> 0:04:12.080 why would he do that? Like, why is Danny still 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:16.120 doing this? Danny? You're staying No chance, bro, zero chance. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.360 And now that I'm working out, I will disrespect why 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:22.520 I disinfect you. You understand what I'm saying. Woh, hey, 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:27.200 these leads, get moving, start lighting the flame walk, let's go. 0:04:27.600 --> 0:04:29.920 I mean basically, we're in the playoff mode for talking 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:34.120 car talking about playoffs. But then once the playoffs are over, 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:38.280 it's game time. By game time, I'm feeling athletic. I 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:42.440 love it. One day in and I'm ready to roll. 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:49.839 Was four h one? Can you can you disclose? How 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.080 much is that a public thing? You know what the 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:54.720 thing about it is has and you probably did with 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:57.320 this every day with people setting goals and marks and 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:59.240 all of that. I didn't get into this for a 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.559 mark or old. It's consistent. I love it's all about 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.840 every day. But man, you know things are fitting. Yeah, 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:09.360 you dropped, and I asked you that because consistency is 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:11.280 everything that's it and anything that you want to do. 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:12.919 And for those that are trying to hit their new 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:16.360 fitness goals, all right, it's all about consistency. For those 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:21.520 that are trying to win ball games, it's all about consistency. 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:24.479 Well you know about that. It's another thing. I mean 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.359 when I come in here every day, I sit across 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:28.920 from somebody that was born with muscles. So it's just, 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:31.719 you know, you just gotta kind of laid up losing 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:35.800 it every day. You can't look at me like that. Heck, 0:05:36.120 --> 0:05:38.040 you can't look at me across the table for me 0:05:38.160 --> 0:05:40.280 and say that when I was born with muscles. I know, 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.480 it's fine. I was talking. I was talking about Isaiah 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:45.680 und You don't have waiting that two twenty eight yesterday. 0:05:45.839 --> 0:05:49.800 Oh God bless you if you could get through it. Yeah, 0:05:50.240 --> 0:05:54.920 I know you're talking about Yeah, all right, let's talk 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:59.360 about this consistency though. With the Dallas Cowboys. Rob Phillips 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:03.280 a little new notes from yesterday. They're getting healthy. Man, 0:06:03.760 --> 0:06:05.320 knock knock on. I'm gonna go ahead and knock on 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:09.040 wood because COVID is um it ain't you know, it 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:12.280 doesn't discriminate, it's it doesn't go away. It's always a 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:15.800 threat out there. But in terms of their health, it 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:19.080 looks pretty good this week. And uh, you know, Tony Pollard, 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.400 they Mike McCarthy said, they're just being smart with him 0:06:21.440 --> 0:06:24.160 in the in the finale against Philly. The guys on 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:26.960 the COVID list. You already saw Anthony Brown come off 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:30.520 that list yesterday. It sounds like by Thursday they could 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:34.279 get everybody back, that includes Micah Parsons, that includes Tyrn 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:38.120 Smith Um, maybe jay Ron Curse. You know, it could 0:06:38.160 --> 0:06:41.160 be later in the week. We'll see. But for a 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:45.800 team that's playing into January eleventh, you know, sometimes when 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:47.680 you get to the Super Bowl, the final injury report 0:06:47.920 --> 0:06:50.120 doesn't have anybody on it. It's like, yeah, okay, okay, 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.400 you got guys who are They're gonna play game of 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:55.720 their life. The Cowboys legitimately are very healthy right now, 0:06:55.800 --> 0:06:57.920 and that is pretty unusual for this time of year. 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:00.520 This this was the hope though. We go all the 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.279 way back to the Arizona Cardinals preseason game when Gallimore 0:07:03.480 --> 0:07:05.840 got hurt, right, we were like, oh crap, here we go. Right, 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:07.960 he was our first he was the first blow, especially 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:10.240 after last year. Yeah, after last year he got hurt. 0:07:10.360 --> 0:07:13.080 And then it was TP got hurt and Gregory and 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:15.080 we had all these guys get hurt, and we started 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:16.720 trying to look at the time spans. We were looking 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:18.160 at it like, hey, when is everybody going to kind 0:07:18.160 --> 0:07:20.120 of start coming back? And we were kind of projecting 0:07:20.240 --> 0:07:21.800 kind of left towards the end of the season. Last 0:07:21.840 --> 0:07:24.680 four games were hopeful, and then it started happening, right, 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:27.760 it started happening. And now you're you're like the Juggernaut. 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.640 You're building momentum into the playoffs. Not only did you 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.040 build momentum in this last game, but now you built 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.600 mimium with confidence. And now you're building momentum by getting 0:07:35.640 --> 0:07:38.239 all your guys back and you having your complete depth 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:41.360 at every position heading into the most important portion of 0:07:41.440 --> 0:07:43.800 the year. And the Dallas fans should feel good about that. Yeah, 0:07:43.840 --> 0:07:46.640 and the fact that everyone, every team, every playoff team 0:07:46.760 --> 0:07:49.160 is coming in with Nixon bruises and guys that are 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.240 not going to be healthy at all until after the 0:07:52.360 --> 0:07:56.200 super Bowl and look for us, And like you just 0:07:56.280 --> 0:07:58.520 said outline, that was what we were talking about the 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:00.560 whole time. But I think last game, man, they were 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:05.280 players like Randy Gregory in particular. You know, I've seen 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:07.600 him come up a few times. I don't know if 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:10.120 the calf is still bothering, but he's he's one of 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:13.120 those pieces going into the playoffs. Guys that man, we're 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:16.640 gonna need this guy being on his a game, and 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:20.720 especially with what we have coming this Sunday, so that 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.240 health and everything that we've been talking about and Covid 0:08:23.320 --> 0:08:28.200 Stanley we just got he just gotta get through these 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:31.920 first couple of weeks and possibly obviously if you can 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:35.240 get into Super Bowl. Baby, you got a few weeks 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:37.920 before that, and they were they you know, they played 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:40.559 to win that game. Most of the starters played, but 0:08:40.880 --> 0:08:43.880 they were mindful of certain guys. Obviously Zeke didn't play 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:47.199 the full game. Grandy Gregory, Mike said, was on kind 0:08:47.200 --> 0:08:50.400 of a snap count, and he's been dealing with some nagging, 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:52.360 minor stuff all year. He's kind of had a knee 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:54.360 thing he's had to deal with managed throughout the season. 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:57.720 So yeah, mindful, just trying to get to this point. 0:08:57.760 --> 0:08:59.559 I actually just got curious and I looked at the 0:08:59.679 --> 0:09:02.080 number of guys who have had snaps on this team. 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.280 Mike McCarthy has told us a thousand times, seventy seven 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:09.800 for Green Bay. According to this document that I have, 0:09:10.440 --> 0:09:13.760 seventy two hey have played. You know, some of some 0:09:13.840 --> 0:09:16.079 of us just special teams, but they have had to 0:09:16.120 --> 0:09:18.199 reach into their bag man, and some of it is, 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:20.319 you know, in expanded practice squads. But they've got a 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.280 lot that they've dealt with COVID, they dealt with injuries, 0:09:22.600 --> 0:09:25.160 and to win twelve games with some of the stuff 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.480 they've dealt with very impressive this year. I'd have to 0:09:27.520 --> 0:09:29.520 go back and look at it and kind of see 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:31.760 exactly the way the roster was made up for that 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:35.000 Green Bay team that he won the title with back 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:38.240 a decade ago. And I mean, I would be willing 0:09:38.320 --> 0:09:40.800 to say that I don't think they were this healthy 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:43.439 going into the playoffs. I want to know, and this 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:46.079 would be a question I would ask Mike an impress conference, 0:09:46.160 --> 0:09:49.559 but it would be is where does this this team 0:09:50.000 --> 0:09:53.120 rank compared to the others that you've taken to NFC 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:56.160 championship games, two Super Bowl games in terms of health 0:09:56.600 --> 0:09:58.800 going into the first round of the playoff, because it's 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:00.640 hard to get much healthier than one the Cowboys are 0:10:00.679 --> 0:10:03.000 dealing with. That's a great question. And I think this 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:06.800 team's way more healthy. They had. They had guy guys 0:10:06.840 --> 0:10:08.680 in the teams. I think on I R when they 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:11.800 played the Steelers here in the Super Bowl, so and 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:13.839 that you know, I don't think they had returnable ir back. 0:10:13.840 --> 0:10:16.120 They didn't even have Woodson that is, did they have. 0:10:16.679 --> 0:10:18.400 I want to say he played in that game, but 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:20.839 he could be wrong. I could be wrong, Okay, but 0:10:20.920 --> 0:10:23.600 they were really they were really banged up, really banged 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:26.240 that's right, because their offensive linemen were hurt in that 0:10:26.400 --> 0:10:28.720 game too. They didn't have all their their front five 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:33.160 and then Aaron Rodgers was Aaron Rodgers. But uh, where 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:37.600 does the Cowboys coaching staff stand on COVID right now? 0:10:37.640 --> 0:10:40.520 Are they doing anything specific? They might kind of allude 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:43.240 to anything yesterday in the press conference about whether or 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:45.199 not they're going to take extra measures to try and 0:10:45.600 --> 0:10:49.679 keep COVID away. He just reiterated that, uh, next door 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:52.199 is an option if you want to use it, not 0:10:52.360 --> 0:10:55.640 forcing anybody to use it. Friends and family. Friends and 0:10:55.760 --> 0:11:00.840 family can continue to test um. And I think there's 0:11:00.920 --> 0:11:03.719 probably there's guys doing that right now. You know, I 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:06.280 don't know it's not the full team necessarily, but but 0:11:06.800 --> 0:11:09.560 certainly staff members and you know, their video department got 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:12.160 hit hard over the weekend. They actually kind of had 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:15.120 the delay getting started on their their you know, getting 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:18.280 ahead on prep because guys were out with COVID. So 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:21.440 it's a real deal. Keep it away, as Hex said, 0:11:21.600 --> 0:11:27.440 keep it just shoot, get out of bub bubble boys. Yeah, 0:11:27.800 --> 0:11:30.120 so kind of keeping on the same track of Mike 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:33.400 McCarthy and this coaching staff, I mean Isaiah, I'll start 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.440 with you on this one, but how much does having 0:11:36.480 --> 0:11:40.840 a coach who's been there and done that before help 0:11:40.920 --> 0:11:44.280 out the mindset of a team going into the playoffs. 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:46.320 It's one of the big reasons why he was hired 0:11:46.360 --> 0:11:47.839 here in the first place is the fact that he 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.280 has been to the mountaintop. He has won a Super 0:11:50.320 --> 0:11:55.120 Bowl title. Now it's his time to kind of, yeah, 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.920 to pull that car and say here's how we get there. 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:02.599 How much does that factor into a player's mindset and 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:05.439 a player's preparation out a week? Huge? And I think 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:07.440 mister Jones and the rest of the crew that makes 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:09.599 decisions on who comes in here as the coach and 0:12:09.640 --> 0:12:12.360 the leader of this organization knew that. And I think 0:12:12.400 --> 0:12:15.560 that was their game plan coming into this last year obviously, 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:17.840 and then now this year that the top two coaches 0:12:17.880 --> 0:12:21.960 on this team have won super Bowls. That's that's facts, right, 0:12:22.000 --> 0:12:24.439 Coach McCarthy, Dan Quinn, Both of those guys have won 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:27.480 Super Bowls. One of those guys has has perspective of 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:30.600 what it's like to lose opportunity in a Super Bowl. 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.319 So you have the two top people, top leaders on 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:36.920 your in your organization in terms of coaching, know what 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:39.640 it's like to win and what it's like to lose 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:43.760 a Super Bowl. That perspective, I always use an analogy 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:46.560 of question marks, right, question mark leaves room for doubt. 0:12:47.160 --> 0:12:48.840 So that's what I don't like question marks. You don't 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:50.319 go about your life with question marks. You try to 0:12:50.360 --> 0:12:52.079 make sure that you go you set a goal and 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:54.520 you attain a goal. And anything that's in the form 0:12:54.559 --> 0:12:56.920 of a question mark leads room for error and you 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:59.520 don't want to allow for that. So now as players 0:12:59.559 --> 0:13:01.880 are now looking transport towards the playoffs, and players will 0:13:01.920 --> 0:13:03.640 start looking at the game plans and how is coach 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.320 setting up the practices and are we wearing tearing too much? 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.560 Are we not practicing enough? Are we watching enough film? 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:12.040 All those questions can really get put aside. And the 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:13.839 reason why they didn't get put aside because you're two 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:17.040 top leaders in your team on your organization know what 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:19.199 it's like to win, and they know that they have 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:22.240 a game plan. They've executed a game plan previously that 0:13:22.360 --> 0:13:25.080 has led them to walking away with the ultimate trophy 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:29.520 in this league. It's a great point. Yeah, those indotal accounts, 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:33.199 I think they're gonna this young team is going to 0:13:33.280 --> 0:13:35.680 reap the benefits of that. And you just hear Jerry 0:13:35.760 --> 0:13:38.400 Jones talk about what it meant to bring in a 0:13:38.520 --> 0:13:40.760 coach with the experience, But the truth is, if you 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:42.719 hadn't been there before, you don't know. And when you 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.600 have a young team like this and you talk about 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:47.840 those question marks, there's only one guy on this team 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:50.559 that has a Super Bowl ring, as we pointed out yesterday, 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:53.640 a guy that's been far in the playoffs and knows 0:13:53.720 --> 0:13:56.320 what it means to play each and every week through 0:13:56.360 --> 0:13:59.520 the playoffs. And so I find it fascinating when you 0:13:59.600 --> 0:14:01.920 have it as young as this and them having to 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:05.640 experience this together. If you've never been to the mountaintop together, 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.280 then all of those question marks they're gonna be there anyway. 0:14:08.559 --> 0:14:10.800 You know, how do you experience this? And you're gonna 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:13.840 rely heavily on that experience. A guy that has gone 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:16.160 to the mountaintop and I don't want to say fell off, 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:18.800 but you know, look, they lost it, yeah, and it's 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:21.600 one of those it's how do you combat or tell 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:24.720 the story about I had it in my hand, it 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:28.280 was right there. He has perspective that coach McCarthy does 0:14:28.400 --> 0:14:30.760 exactly exactly, And so that's what I look. I just 0:14:30.920 --> 0:14:33.520 I just feel like when those things that you just outlined, 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:35.760 that's a that's a one of the things that's a 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:38.000 benefit for us. But I think man, for all of 0:14:38.040 --> 0:14:39.760 these guys, and as young as his locker room is, 0:14:39.800 --> 0:14:42.280 they just they're gonna have questions. And Mike was asked 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:44.160 about that yesterday. I think it was Brad Sham. He 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:47.000 asked a great question about how if a young guy 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.080 comes up to you, being that you've made it to 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:52.560 the mountaintop and ask you what's the difference between the 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:54.520 regular season and the playoffs. And I thought he had 0:14:54.520 --> 0:14:57.240 a really good answer about it. I'm actually blanking over 0:14:57.400 --> 0:14:59.280 banking on it. It was it was it was about 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:01.560 the intensity of I thought you had it up in 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:05.000 front of No. I'm sorry. It was basically about how 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:09.280 the intensity of everything was is ramped up. It's it's 0:15:09.360 --> 0:15:15.200 just immediately it's go. I mean, there's no adjustment period, 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:19.720 there's no await time. It is immediately. Playoffs have at it. Yes, 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:22.480 And also he kind of talked to the fact that 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:26.160 you don't get any easy tests anymore, that every team's 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:29.320 gonna give you their best every team's gonna scheme up 0:15:29.440 --> 0:15:32.680 everything they possibly can against you, and the competition gets 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:35.440 better along the way as well. And it's kind of 0:15:35.480 --> 0:15:38.240 what we talked about last week. I mean, he knows 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.000 what it takes to get there, and now he's got 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:41.800 a lettle young roster to get there as well. Now 0:15:41.840 --> 0:15:43.880 I love that. And he said something about, you know, 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.920 just make He made an example of having a game 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:48.920 where you made some of your best plays and just 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:53.040 say that's the entire game. It's like, yeah, like that. 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:56.400 Just that speaks to the heightened intensity that goes into playoff. 0:15:56.560 --> 0:15:59.640 There's certain aspects of a game during a regular season 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.560 you can feel the intensity level rise. And for those 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:06.080 that watch the Raiders game versus of Chargers, everybody felt 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.520 the anxiety. Everybody felt that tension of old crap. Every 0:16:09.560 --> 0:16:12.800 play matters, that is every play in the playoffs. That's 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:16.040 what's so crazy about it. The preparation. When you're getting 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:19.360 taped up, you're you're focused, You're locked in for the 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:21.200 teams that are that are gonna go far. Those teams 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:23.440 are locked in. When you're watching film, you are, you're 0:16:23.560 --> 0:16:26.280 dialed in. You're watching for any little thing that's gonna 0:16:26.320 --> 0:16:28.120 give you an advantage. Now people are gonna say, well, 0:16:28.160 --> 0:16:30.480 shouldn't you be doing that during the regular season anyway, Yes, 0:16:30.560 --> 0:16:32.960 you are, and you do, but it's heightened, right. You 0:16:33.080 --> 0:16:36.400 recognize that our walkthroughs lock in. Hey, hey, stop climbing around. 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:39.640 Let's go like we're locked in. Everything matters. Your preparation 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.600 is everything. And man, when you get to the dog 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:46.040 on game and you are, you are juiced. You're juiced, 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:49.440 and when you make those plays, you're hype. But it's like, 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:51.800 I gotta have to do it again. That one play 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:53.560 is not going to change the game because everybody's gonna 0:16:53.600 --> 0:16:56.800 have a big play every game. Um, you know, I 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:58.840 hate to even bring up an example of I don't 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:01.600 believe in anything over one hundred percent. I believe that 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:03.200 your one hundred is you're a hundred and if you do, 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.560 if you go harder than what happened before, wasn't it 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:08.280 wasn't your one hundred percent. So most people will say, 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.000 I'll give one hundred and ten percent in the playoffs, 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:12.560 give you a hundred and guys, you're gonna feel that 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:14.119 the guys are gonna be going out there giving it. 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:16.960 They're all they're complete everything every play and guess what 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:18.440 if I'm gas, give me out of there and get 0:17:18.480 --> 0:17:20.560 me back in there. I'm not saving anything for the 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.119 next play I'm I'm not worried about the next player there, 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:26.200 the next series. I'm worried about the right now. That's 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:28.000 why I think that there's value, like you mentioned that 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:30.399 playoff mode. Teams that are in that playoff mode, like 0:17:30.600 --> 0:17:33.640 the Raiders, there's somebody to watch in the postseason because 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:35.919 they're already in that mindset. That's why I think it's 0:17:35.960 --> 0:17:39.000 important what the Cowboys did keep playing play for even 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:41.000 if you don't play everybody the whole four quarters, just 0:17:41.080 --> 0:17:43.879 stay in that mode. And you're seeing some of these 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:46.800 wildcard teams get farther in the NFL playoffs and they 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:48.399 used to do. Some of it is parody, you know, 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:50.920 one of the teams. You know, the buy teams aren't 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:54.000 heading shoulders above what it used to be in the nineties, 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:55.840 like when the Cowboys were getting buys back then. But 0:17:56.000 --> 0:17:58.080 but I do think having that mode and keeping that 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:00.280 edge is important, and that's why it was important. That 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:03.159 goes back to the argument of rest verse rust, right, 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:05.640 you know, and how do you go into the playoffs? 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:10.119 And I love what Jerry said today about Dak, he 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:12.320 was like, I wasn't surprised that Dak played for four quarters. 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:14.640 We knew he was gonna play for four quarters because 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:18.120 he was important that we got the momentum going. Didn't. 0:18:18.119 --> 0:18:20.480 I didn't care anything about what Philly was doing. It 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:22.639 was about us. It was about the momentum that we 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.280 go into the playoffs with. And they're so their teams 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:28.080 like the Raiders that you point out that they understand 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:29.960 that and they're taking that approach, and you saw it 0:18:30.440 --> 0:18:32.840 last Sunday. I wish I could sit in on those 0:18:32.840 --> 0:18:35.680 meetings with coach McCarthy and Dan quinn in terms of 0:18:35.720 --> 0:18:39.159 their their conversation revolving around the game plan and the 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.880 specifically this week or just anything this week, this week 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:45.000 going going into the playoffs, because you know they're sitting 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.479 there talking, Okay, this is what I've done? All right? 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:49.800 What have you done right? What have you done in 0:18:49.880 --> 0:18:51.440 terms of practice schedule? What have you done in terms 0:18:51.440 --> 0:18:54.520 of wearing tear? You know, what was your approach versus 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:56.680 what was my approach? And I would love to just 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:58.440 being there. I don't know if people say find the 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:01.040 wall flies can't here, So I would love to sit 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:03.960 up there. I've never heard that it's the thing, but 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:11.119 I would love you know that. I'm not gonna touch it, no, 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:12.800 but I would love to be a part of those conversations. 0:19:13.000 --> 0:19:16.120 Can you imagine that the depth of those conversations. Yeah, 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:18.920 that's sure, and that's why that's why Dan queenn is 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:22.720 trying to get plucked from our staff for that very 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:25.480 reason because of his knowledge. And you know, in going 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:27.639 into this weekend, how do you approach it? What did 0:19:27.720 --> 0:19:30.440 you do? You know, how how healthy was your team 0:19:30.480 --> 0:19:32.760 going into Super Bowl week of going into the playoffs? Yeah, 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:34.720 you're right, man, there's a lot of knowledge on this staff, 0:19:34.920 --> 0:19:37.320 not only with those two, but guys like George at Wills, Yes, 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:40.960 Joe Junior. Yeah, there's a lot of knowledge. I mean, 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:42.520 you get the list goes on and on. It goes 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:44.840 back to what we talked about in the summer. This 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:47.840 is where your coaching staff, being as experienced as they are, 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:51.560 comes into play. When you have a healthy team, you 0:19:51.720 --> 0:19:54.200 have a little bit of momentum, and of course you've 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:57.520 got a favorable matchup or at least you're in the tournament. 0:19:57.600 --> 0:19:59.680 Let's just say it that way. This Cowboys nation needs 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:02.119 under stand that this as much as everybody talks about 0:20:02.119 --> 0:20:06.040 the players, this is going to make a difference. This 0:20:06.280 --> 0:20:10.280 is the most stacked coaching staff in the league, and 0:20:10.440 --> 0:20:13.440 nobody wants to talk about that. Are confident about the 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:17.280 way that they can handle in game absolutations though, absolutely absolutely. 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:20.520 I am as confident as people are about the personnel 0:20:20.880 --> 0:20:23.200 on this team right that there's no doubt that this 0:20:23.320 --> 0:20:25.879 is probably the most talented team in NFL. There's a 0:20:25.920 --> 0:20:27.320 handful of other teams that have a lot of talent. 0:20:27.400 --> 0:20:29.520 You talk about the Rams, should talk about Tampa Bay. 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:33.360 Those teams are very talented. However, this is the same 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:35.439 conversation that people are having about the personnel. They need 0:20:35.480 --> 0:20:37.880 to have the same conversation about this coaching staff because 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:39.560 that is going to make just as much of a 0:20:39.680 --> 0:20:42.359 difference in the playoffs than the personnel on the field. 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:44.480 Absolute and people need to identify that. They need to 0:20:44.520 --> 0:20:46.600 recognize that and give these coaches their credit because this 0:20:46.800 --> 0:20:49.400 is when they really get they earn their checks during 0:20:49.400 --> 0:20:51.720 the playoffs. Yeah. Now, I completely agree, and it's going 0:20:51.800 --> 0:20:54.280 to be something that shows its head as soon as Sunday, 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:56.120 because they're either gonna win you a game or lose 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:57.960 your game at the same time, because they're gonna push 0:20:58.080 --> 0:21:00.200 just as much as the players do. 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All right, we're taking 0:24:30.040 --> 0:24:33.879 Cowboys Nations call. What are your feelings going into the 0:24:34.040 --> 0:24:39.120 playoffs this week? Let's start with Bob in Nashville. Bob, 0:24:39.200 --> 0:24:42.320 you're on Talking Cowboys. How's it going good? Tells how 0:24:42.320 --> 0:24:46.359 are y'all doing? Fantastic? I'm glad it's there. Good looking 0:24:46.400 --> 0:24:50.640 forward to the playoffs, that's for sure. Absolutely. Um. Two 0:24:50.720 --> 0:24:52.280 things that I've been worried about all year, and I 0:24:52.320 --> 0:24:56.120 think they're really going to be tested um this week, 0:24:56.200 --> 0:24:59.439 and that is our run defense and our running game. UM. 0:25:00.000 --> 0:25:01.800 You know, I've been worried about those all year. We've 0:25:01.840 --> 0:25:04.400 been able to kind of get around them. But those 0:25:04.400 --> 0:25:07.200 are my two big worries. But one question I have, 0:25:07.280 --> 0:25:09.840 and probably more to his days since he's been to 0:25:09.920 --> 0:25:14.520 the Super Bowl, and all teams usually have their you know, 0:25:14.640 --> 0:25:17.280 their base defense or their their you know, their systems. 0:25:18.119 --> 0:25:20.800 Two teams going into the playoffs and then into the 0:25:20.840 --> 0:25:24.320 Super Bowl later on, do they change some of that 0:25:24.680 --> 0:25:27.000 or do they stick to what's been true and you know, 0:25:27.119 --> 0:25:29.919 to for them all year or do they really adjust 0:25:30.080 --> 0:25:32.480 some parts of their game to kind of throw off 0:25:32.560 --> 0:25:34.800 the other team or did they just stick with what 0:25:34.920 --> 0:25:38.520 they know and what they've done all year. That's my question. Guys, 0:25:38.760 --> 0:25:41.119 Thanks for having the show, and now I'll listen to 0:25:41.160 --> 0:25:45.760 your response. I appreciate the question. Well, um, great question. 0:25:46.320 --> 0:25:48.359 So you are who you are by this time of 0:25:48.440 --> 0:25:50.160 the year. You are you who you are, and it's 0:25:50.200 --> 0:25:52.320 not the time to experiment. If that helps you, it 0:25:52.400 --> 0:25:56.640 helps you understand the thought process of going into the playoffs. Now, 0:25:56.760 --> 0:25:58.440 do you still scheme up things that are going to 0:25:58.480 --> 0:26:01.159 give you an advantage over that particular team. Absolutely. If 0:26:01.200 --> 0:26:02.960 you know that there are some things that you identify 0:26:03.040 --> 0:26:05.760 on film that are disruptive to what they're trying to do, 0:26:06.400 --> 0:26:08.879 then obviously you make those adjustments, but you still do 0:26:09.000 --> 0:26:13.320 it within the scheme of your base defense. Approaching this 0:26:13.560 --> 0:26:16.040 game coming against the forty nine ers, obviously we'll talk more. 0:26:16.320 --> 0:26:19.200 The forty nine ers do a ton of misdirection. That's 0:26:19.280 --> 0:26:22.399 not something that Dallas has been necessarily great about. So, yes, 0:26:22.560 --> 0:26:25.520 you're gonna put your guys in position to be successful 0:26:25.560 --> 0:26:27.200 in that regard, and you're going to make it a 0:26:27.280 --> 0:26:31.280 point all week long to trust your eyes, trust your eyes, 0:26:31.359 --> 0:26:33.760 trust your assignments ever by view where they're supposed to be. 0:26:33.880 --> 0:26:36.560 So it's more of a heightened focus in terms of 0:26:36.760 --> 0:26:39.560 how to execute your assignment more so than it is Hey, 0:26:39.600 --> 0:26:41.720 we're about to change everything that we do and now 0:26:41.800 --> 0:26:43.600 we're gonna put you guys in an element where you 0:26:43.640 --> 0:26:46.480 guys are no longer confident. Now you're having that question mark. 0:26:46.680 --> 0:26:48.800 Is this going to work? You want to remove all 0:26:48.880 --> 0:26:50.840 question marks and this is what we do. Do what 0:26:50.920 --> 0:26:52.800 you've been doing all year long. Now you see that 0:26:52.880 --> 0:26:54.920 dude back there, number nineteen, Yeah, we need to circle 0:26:55.000 --> 0:26:56.880 him and keep your eyes on him. But this still 0:26:56.920 --> 0:26:59.119 do what we do. Yeah, why would you get to 0:26:59.200 --> 0:27:01.560 this point change anything that you've done to be you know, 0:27:01.720 --> 0:27:05.800 to be successful. Obviously, all both all of these coaches 0:27:05.840 --> 0:27:08.440 are gonna scheme it up and trying dis guys all day, 0:27:08.560 --> 0:27:12.240 all night. But I just don't see dan Quinn going 0:27:12.359 --> 0:27:15.080 with anything exotic that we hadn't seen before to try 0:27:15.119 --> 0:27:17.520 and mix this thing up at the last minute. I 0:27:17.600 --> 0:27:21.920 do believe that obviously offensively, our sticking to what got 0:27:22.000 --> 0:27:23.959 us here, what are going to be some of our strengths. 0:27:24.080 --> 0:27:26.240 They understand what the defense, like the forty nine is 0:27:26.240 --> 0:27:28.040 that's going to attack them, that they got to run 0:27:28.080 --> 0:27:30.000 at it. You have to have some success in the 0:27:30.080 --> 0:27:33.040 running game to slow these guys down. So look, I'm 0:27:33.080 --> 0:27:36.400 with you, Isaiah, and that's a that to that point 0:27:36.600 --> 0:27:40.760 that you don't get here in doing overhaul. Yeah, yeah, 0:27:40.800 --> 0:27:44.760 I mean maybe there's there's examples of Bill Belichick doing 0:27:44.800 --> 0:27:46.840 something completely different in the Super Bowl that we've seen. 0:27:46.920 --> 0:27:48.600 He did that against the Rams. But yeah, I think 0:27:48.960 --> 0:27:50.600 Mike McCarthy spoken to this, When you get to this 0:27:50.680 --> 0:27:52.720 point in the season, it's about execution. You know, it's 0:27:53.119 --> 0:27:55.680 NBA play. I'll do an NBA comparison again. Heck, it's 0:27:55.720 --> 0:27:57.800 like by this point everybody knows what you're running. You 0:27:57.920 --> 0:27:59.720 just gotta you know, how do you execute? You know? 0:27:59.800 --> 0:28:01.680 And so there are wrinkles involved, But I think you 0:28:01.760 --> 0:28:03.320 still have to stick to what has gotten you to 0:28:03.440 --> 0:28:08.960 this point. I'm not convinced that it's not Doug nust 0:28:09.040 --> 0:28:11.760 Meyer across the hall calling us. He just loves the shop. 0:28:12.880 --> 0:28:15.720 Thanks Bob for the call. We'll get into the forty 0:28:15.800 --> 0:28:18.960 nine ers running game, but that's a great point. They 0:28:19.040 --> 0:28:21.399 are at four hundred and ninety nine carries this year. 0:28:21.480 --> 0:28:23.119 That's tied for fifth in the league. They want to 0:28:23.320 --> 0:28:26.399 run the football, and Mike McCarthy spoke to this yesterday. 0:28:26.400 --> 0:28:28.440 The Cowboys want to run the football too, And people 0:28:28.520 --> 0:28:30.600 might roll their eyes at that, because look, Kellen Moore, 0:28:31.160 --> 0:28:32.679 they want to sling it around. They've got all these 0:28:32.680 --> 0:28:35.280 weapons on the outside. Cowboys are at four seventy three attempts. 0:28:35.320 --> 0:28:37.119 That's near the top of the league in terms of rushing. 0:28:37.359 --> 0:28:40.160 So both teams want to establish that. The Cowboys just 0:28:40.240 --> 0:28:42.120 have not been able to establish that with as much 0:28:42.160 --> 0:28:45.400 consistency down the stretch as they would like. Week eighteen 0:28:45.560 --> 0:28:48.040 was a step forward. Sure, we'll see if they can 0:28:48.080 --> 0:28:49.880 build on that well. And you also talk about on 0:28:50.040 --> 0:28:52.560 the other side of things, on the defensive side, they 0:28:52.560 --> 0:28:54.680 haven't been able to slow it down very much either, 0:28:54.720 --> 0:28:56.960 and that was one of his initial concerns was the 0:28:57.080 --> 0:29:00.360 run defense as well, going up against what Same Frantisco 0:29:00.400 --> 0:29:01.680 is going to bring to the table. He kind of 0:29:01.680 --> 0:29:05.080 talked about how that is a weaker side of your 0:29:05.160 --> 0:29:08.520 defensive unit, is stopping the run. And San Francisco being 0:29:08.560 --> 0:29:10.760 a team that has run the ball five hundred times 0:29:10.800 --> 0:29:13.120 this season, is going up against a team that's given 0:29:13.200 --> 0:29:16.040 up at least one hundred yards in what is this, 0:29:16.200 --> 0:29:18.800 ten of their last or eleven of their last twelve 0:29:18.920 --> 0:29:21.160 games of the season, they gave up a hundred yards rushing. 0:29:21.720 --> 0:29:25.000 So does your confidence level waiver a little bit when 0:29:25.040 --> 0:29:28.320 you talk about the run defense. Not at all, Not 0:29:28.440 --> 0:29:31.560 at all. And the reason being is that for as 0:29:31.720 --> 0:29:34.200 much as our defensive line or our team has looked 0:29:34.240 --> 0:29:36.880 at as a pressure defense that gets out to the quarterback, 0:29:37.080 --> 0:29:39.680 I think you have guys like Tank Lawrence that that's 0:29:39.760 --> 0:29:42.680 their stick. That's the shit strong suit, it's stopping the run. 0:29:42.880 --> 0:29:44.880 As much as he is, you know, get after your 0:29:44.960 --> 0:29:48.280 quarterback kind of a guy, he's man. He's the guy 0:29:48.360 --> 0:29:50.880 to stop the run. Where I'm I think I have 0:29:51.000 --> 0:29:53.840 the most hesitancy is in our line. What are we 0:29:53.920 --> 0:29:56.440 going to do with our linebackers? You know, how physical 0:29:56.600 --> 0:30:00.160 can they play? LVE is going to have to be 0:30:00.840 --> 0:30:03.960 physical this game because of the way that the forty 0:30:04.040 --> 0:30:05.840 nine is offensive line, which is their strength, and they 0:30:05.880 --> 0:30:08.200 get to the second level and they punish you they're 0:30:08.280 --> 0:30:11.320 coming downhill. But when you switch it the other way around, 0:30:11.360 --> 0:30:15.120 I think the forty nine is defense. They just got 0:30:15.200 --> 0:30:17.840 some guys on their front line that you could tell 0:30:17.880 --> 0:30:21.160 their defensive coordinator Demco Ryans is doing a wonderful job 0:30:21.840 --> 0:30:23.880 with the way that he disguises. Thing is then when 0:30:23.920 --> 0:30:26.800 you can bring pressure from upfront and not have to 0:30:26.920 --> 0:30:30.800 bring any of your guys any blitzing, then that's man. 0:30:30.880 --> 0:30:34.000 That's definitely man. That's just a good thing for your 0:30:34.040 --> 0:30:39.440 defensive coordinator. Isaiah. Yeah, defensively in terms of scheme, you know, 0:30:39.520 --> 0:30:41.280 to to Heckma's point, I just think guys who have 0:30:41.320 --> 0:30:43.160 to get up field, they have to get up filled. 0:30:43.160 --> 0:30:45.040 They have you have to get penetration. If you don't 0:30:45.040 --> 0:30:47.600 get penetration against San Francisco, it's hard because I want 0:30:47.600 --> 0:30:49.840 to talk about a lot of details. If you don't 0:30:49.840 --> 0:30:52.600 get penetration against the San Francisco forty nineties, you're gonna struggle. 0:30:53.040 --> 0:30:56.920 And teams coming to the games from him from obviously 0:30:57.040 --> 0:30:59.720 from through film against San Francisco, knowing that they do 0:30:59.800 --> 0:31:01.560 a lot to misdirection, and now all of a sudden, 0:31:01.920 --> 0:31:04.000 you start looking around. And we talked about this a 0:31:04.040 --> 0:31:05.800 couple of weeks ago. I don't remember what team we're facing, 0:31:05.880 --> 0:31:08.320 but you start looking around if you're so concerned about 0:31:08.320 --> 0:31:10.520 what direction they're going and who has the ball. Now 0:31:10.640 --> 0:31:13.600 you're no longer coming downhill. Now your body position is 0:31:13.640 --> 0:31:15.480 now in a stand up position. And now those office 0:31:15.480 --> 0:31:18.160 alignment that want to punish you have the leverage. Now 0:31:18.240 --> 0:31:20.400 they're able to get get on half a man instead 0:31:20.400 --> 0:31:21.920 of you know, having to take on a full man, 0:31:22.120 --> 0:31:24.360 and they can use momentum, you know, against you and 0:31:24.520 --> 0:31:26.000 now those officers and let me get up to the 0:31:26.040 --> 0:31:28.040 second level, like you're talking about Hema, and now you 0:31:28.120 --> 0:31:29.680 have three hundred and some pounds trying to take on 0:31:29.720 --> 0:31:32.520 two hundred and forty pounds. Two hundred pounds, big difference. 0:31:32.640 --> 0:31:34.960 Right when those guys have the leverage, your linebackers are 0:31:35.120 --> 0:31:37.040 standing around, looking around, trying to figure out where the 0:31:37.040 --> 0:31:39.080 ball is at. Oh crap, there's the ball. Oh by 0:31:39.080 --> 0:31:40.560 the way, there's a linement who's been running for the 0:31:40.640 --> 0:31:42.480 last four yards that's about to take me head on. 0:31:42.960 --> 0:31:45.360 That's what you can't allow. You can't allow them to 0:31:45.520 --> 0:31:51.520 dictate the pace and the direction of this game. Your guys, Gallamore, Hamilton, Osa, 0:31:51.720 --> 0:31:53.960 all those boys. Challenge has been handed out to you. 0:31:54.320 --> 0:31:57.720 Get out here, get up field. Allow your linebackers to 0:31:57.880 --> 0:32:00.520 play downhill. Because if your linebackers are playing looking around, 0:32:01.280 --> 0:32:03.280 it's gonna be a day. Yeah, you're kind of in 0:32:03.400 --> 0:32:05.360 a tough spot at that point, and a late vander 0:32:05.480 --> 0:32:07.960 esh Kian and Neo played very well in the game 0:32:08.000 --> 0:32:10.840 against Philadelphia. You add Michael Parsons into them at mix, 0:32:10.960 --> 0:32:13.800 but it's not necessarily a deep group at the second 0:32:13.880 --> 0:32:17.200 level for your linebackers. It's physicality that has to be there, 0:32:17.240 --> 0:32:19.280 and that's what Parsons brings. And if they're banged up, 0:32:19.320 --> 0:32:21.960 how much how much physicality can they bring? Oh No, 0:32:22.120 --> 0:32:25.120 they gotta find it. Gotta find it somewhere, right, you 0:32:25.200 --> 0:32:28.160 gotta be It's gotta be a key all right. Mike 0:32:28.280 --> 0:32:30.680 from New York is on the line. Mike, how's it going? 0:32:30.720 --> 0:32:34.600 You're on talking cowboys? What's going on? Guys? I think 0:32:34.880 --> 0:32:38.040 keys to all postseason is penalties. We kind of cut 0:32:38.080 --> 0:32:41.320 down on them, penalties. We one of the most penalized teams. 0:32:41.360 --> 0:32:44.200 And it's it's about how about being disciplined and it's 0:32:44.640 --> 0:32:46.680 and I don't know, I say, I think that that's 0:32:46.760 --> 0:32:50.280 my biggest album, Pretty cowing going in San Francisco to tough, 0:32:50.320 --> 0:32:54.480 But we'll see. I agree completely. Thank you for the call, Mike, 0:32:54.560 --> 0:32:56.440 and he I mean, he makes a great point there 0:32:56.520 --> 0:33:00.760 about how penalties are going to decide games, specially when 0:33:00.800 --> 0:33:03.560 you get to the playoffs, because you cannot beat yourself. 0:33:04.680 --> 0:33:07.479 Have they figured this out yet? Probably? There's no way 0:33:07.560 --> 0:33:09.880 to tell, right, there's no way to tell. Even though 0:33:09.920 --> 0:33:12.880 they had a better game against Philadelphia. Yeah, we talked 0:33:12.920 --> 0:33:14.560 about it. I mean there's three games where you look 0:33:14.600 --> 0:33:17.480 at it and you're like, ah, the officiating crew, maybe 0:33:17.480 --> 0:33:20.200 you got a little flag happy, and they had maybe 0:33:20.240 --> 0:33:23.440 some legitimate gripes about that. Not a conspiracy, just a fact. 0:33:23.800 --> 0:33:26.600 And that's you know, there's certain trends with certain crews. 0:33:26.640 --> 0:33:30.000 But to his point, Cowboys lead the league in penalties 0:33:30.080 --> 0:33:34.240 one twenty seven and second in yards or they're up 0:33:34.280 --> 0:33:36.440 there in yards, not second, but they're up there in yards. 0:33:36.560 --> 0:33:39.959 And that's a trend. That's not oh, they're against us 0:33:40.080 --> 0:33:43.520 or whatever that And I think Mike has spoken to this. 0:33:44.160 --> 0:33:48.080 The holdings and stuff like that subjective to a certain degree, 0:33:48.280 --> 0:33:50.840 you know, but like Connor Williams, you can develop a 0:33:50.880 --> 0:33:53.400 reputation for that that can hurt you. The pre snap 0:33:53.440 --> 0:33:55.120 stuff is what they got to eliminate. You can't get 0:33:55.200 --> 0:33:56.680 false starts, you can't get all that stuff and all 0:33:56.680 --> 0:33:59.080 of a sudden dacks in second and fifteen, stuff like 0:33:59.160 --> 0:34:01.520 that that is not going to help you against this, uh, 0:34:01.640 --> 0:34:03.960 this pass rush, which is quite good. I was looking 0:34:04.160 --> 0:34:12.760 for who the actual officiating crew is. Alex Kemp Alex 0:34:12.840 --> 0:34:15.480 Camp eighth season, fourth as a referee. That's not one 0:34:15.480 --> 0:34:18.760 of the playoffs or not one of the previous referee 0:34:18.800 --> 0:34:21.640 crews that had given you trouble. I believe they're all 0:34:21.680 --> 0:34:24.000 star cruise now by the way, Yeah, this is like 0:34:24.239 --> 0:34:27.640 best of the best, so hopefully good point yea. Hopefully 0:34:27.680 --> 0:34:29.800 that plays a factor into it, if you were to 0:34:30.680 --> 0:34:32.960 say anything about the referees. But how big of a 0:34:33.080 --> 0:34:36.120 factor could penalties play in a game like that, whenever 0:34:36.360 --> 0:34:38.600 everything's on the line. It's huge. I mean that you 0:34:38.640 --> 0:34:41.600 would you would hate yourself for the rest of your 0:34:41.680 --> 0:34:44.160 life if you get to this, get to this level 0:34:44.200 --> 0:34:46.879 of play and have this this opportunity for a four 0:34:46.960 --> 0:34:49.920 game stretch to walk away with the most monumental thing 0:34:49.960 --> 0:34:52.040 achievement in your life aside from probably getting married or 0:34:52.080 --> 0:34:54.120 having a kid. And you go out there and you 0:34:54.200 --> 0:34:57.200 know that you're the one to to hurt your team's 0:34:57.320 --> 0:35:00.440 ability to move on because of penalties, whether that happens 0:35:00.480 --> 0:35:02.239 at the end of the game, whether it happens in 0:35:02.320 --> 0:35:03.880 the beginning of the game and you're in field goal 0:35:04.040 --> 0:35:05.520 range and all of a sudden, you commit a penalty 0:35:05.600 --> 0:35:07.480 that now puts you out of field goal range and 0:35:07.480 --> 0:35:09.440 you leave point, you take points off the board, or 0:35:09.560 --> 0:35:11.600 maybe it was third down, third and short and all 0:35:11.600 --> 0:35:13.120 of a sudden, you have a holding penalty. Now is 0:35:13.160 --> 0:35:15.279 third and long, and now you're fair, you're punting the ball. 0:35:15.640 --> 0:35:18.160 Those things kill you. Our third down percentage of games 0:35:18.200 --> 0:35:21.040 that we have lost our third down a percentage has 0:35:21.080 --> 0:35:24.359 been trash. Has been four for thirteen, has been three, 0:35:24.520 --> 0:35:27.160 four eleven, whatever it has been, it's been awful. Those 0:35:27.200 --> 0:35:30.240 are the things that kill you offensively defensively. The teams 0:35:30.280 --> 0:35:33.120 that you're going to face in the NFC, these offenses, 0:35:33.400 --> 0:35:36.920 if you commit penalties and elongate their their drives, you 0:35:37.200 --> 0:35:40.279 will hate yourself. You can't give them second chances, get 0:35:40.360 --> 0:35:43.040 off the field on defense and score points on offense. 0:35:43.360 --> 0:35:45.320 Penalties obviously hurt your chances on both ends of the 0:35:45.440 --> 0:35:47.400 of the spectrum. Nobody wants to be that guy. No 0:35:47.760 --> 0:35:50.120 you don't. So if you don't want to be that guy, 0:35:50.280 --> 0:35:52.520 don't be that guy. But you just can't have a 0:35:52.680 --> 0:35:55.840 repeat of the Arizona game, those games where you you 0:35:55.960 --> 0:35:58.879 had opportunities in the running game to be called back 0:35:58.960 --> 0:36:01.359 through hold, And I mean that that's your ball game 0:36:01.440 --> 0:36:04.120 right there. Those those third down penalties is what costs it. 0:36:04.200 --> 0:36:06.839 And so look, I just you go back through all 0:36:06.880 --> 0:36:08.560 of our losses and look at the way we were 0:36:08.600 --> 0:36:12.000 penalized in those games, and you could come away and say, look, man, 0:36:12.120 --> 0:36:14.160 you might have had an opportunity to help yourself had 0:36:14.200 --> 0:36:17.400 you not done that. But that's all ifs and maybes. 0:36:17.480 --> 0:36:19.200 But right now, at this point, like you said, you 0:36:19.320 --> 0:36:21.160 just don't want to be that guy. They've had and 0:36:21.200 --> 0:36:24.279 they've defensively, they've had some personal foul penalties and Donovan 0:36:24.360 --> 0:36:27.440 Wilson hit Minshew in the head the other night. And 0:36:27.560 --> 0:36:29.640 it's a fine line to walk if you're Dan Quinn, 0:36:29.719 --> 0:36:32.960 because you want this defense playing fast and physical and 0:36:33.040 --> 0:36:35.480 getting after it, and that's been their calling card this year. 0:36:35.520 --> 0:36:36.920 So it's a fine line to walk. You don't want 0:36:36.920 --> 0:36:39.040 them to lose their aggressiveness. And special teams I don't. 0:36:39.040 --> 0:36:41.080 I don't want to leave out special teams. Special teams 0:36:41.120 --> 0:36:43.319 will I don't know about our games. Special teams will 0:36:43.440 --> 0:36:46.840 decide a team's ability to move on in these playoffs. 0:36:46.920 --> 0:36:51.960 I guaranteed, oh God, guaranteed. Oh no, always good. I'm 0:36:52.000 --> 0:36:54.480 just I'm just seeing I'm just seeing their lines kick 0:36:54.600 --> 0:36:56.879 being teed up. I'm just not well. I'm talking about 0:36:56.920 --> 0:37:00.200 special team's penalty. Okay, I'm not necessarily to feel old 0:37:00.239 --> 0:37:05.160 meager man probably happen. But some of the things that 0:37:05.200 --> 0:37:06.759 we saw earlier in the season, right, and making sure 0:37:06.760 --> 0:37:08.919 that you're not rough in a passer I'm a kicker, 0:37:09.200 --> 0:37:11.480 making sure that you're on size, you're not jumping off side, 0:37:11.520 --> 0:37:13.160 like those things that lock in the back, those things 0:37:13.200 --> 0:37:14.440 that could take a team from trying to you know, 0:37:14.520 --> 0:37:15.879 kick a field goad all of a sudden, now they're 0:37:15.920 --> 0:37:18.600 they're under center again. But that those things will kill 0:37:18.719 --> 0:37:21.919 you in this game. So special teams, all those guys 0:37:22.000 --> 0:37:23.879 that are depth guys, they have to be on high 0:37:23.880 --> 0:37:27.759 alert as well. Yep, can't be overaggressive. And it does. 0:37:27.840 --> 0:37:29.879 It gives us the bubble guts is there back again 0:37:30.000 --> 0:37:32.560 up in the playoffs, just in time for the playoffs. 0:37:32.680 --> 0:37:34.440 All right, Steve, we're gonna get to you on the 0:37:34.520 --> 0:37:37.160 other side of the break. Let's go ahead and step aside. 0:37:37.239 --> 0:37:39.680 When we come back on Talking Cowboys, we wrap things 0:37:39.760 --> 0:37:42.640 up and continue taking your calls here on this Talking Tuesday. 0:37:43.480 --> 0:37:45.640 I want to use what the pros use. 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You can see Rob Phillip's 0:40:09.480 --> 0:40:13.480 reaction there Isaiah stand back like a great red heck Ma, Harrison, 0:40:13.680 --> 0:40:16.080 Chris Beam, Kyle Yeoman's glad you're with us here on 0:40:16.160 --> 0:40:18.520 this Tuesday. We've got some fun all week long. By 0:40:18.560 --> 0:40:23.600 the way, Friday, since we're done with like the pickums 0:40:24.400 --> 0:40:27.080 for the season, for the regular season, I don't want 0:40:27.080 --> 0:40:29.760 to end it just yet. I'm gonna bring a bracket 0:40:30.960 --> 0:40:37.279 to the table Friday. Every round that you pick right, 0:40:37.520 --> 0:40:39.839 so the first round will be one point, wildcard round 0:40:39.840 --> 0:40:42.400 will be one point, Divisional round will be two points, 0:40:43.200 --> 0:40:45.719 championship will be four points, and then if you pick 0:40:45.800 --> 0:40:48.640 the super Bowl champion right, then you would get eight points. 0:40:48.719 --> 0:40:51.279 So there is a chance to catch up and make 0:40:51.320 --> 0:40:54.399 it all right. So there you go. So I'm gonna 0:40:54.400 --> 0:40:56.080 bring that to the table on Friday to have some 0:40:56.160 --> 0:40:58.080 fun with our pickums. How about that? Who's in first 0:40:58.160 --> 0:41:01.600 right now? Definitely me by seven games, okay, because yeah, 0:41:01.880 --> 0:41:04.120 then it's fair. Yeah one of us were in first. 0:41:04.160 --> 0:41:06.200 It's like, oh, yeah, no, I'm back in this thing. 0:41:06.280 --> 0:41:07.920 Yeah no, I'm trying to get you back in this thing, 0:41:07.960 --> 0:41:10.960 all right. Actually I am up, Yeah, I'm up by 0:41:11.000 --> 0:41:13.719 seven games on Heckman who's in second place? Oh yeah, 0:41:13.760 --> 0:41:16.120 you sure you want to give much chance? Yeah? You 0:41:16.239 --> 0:41:18.400 think like Deebo over there right now, Yeah, you've got 0:41:18.440 --> 0:41:22.080 to kick the door down. No, you got it? Are 0:41:22.120 --> 0:41:26.600 you conceding victory? Oh? Noever, Okay he said he has. 0:41:27.360 --> 0:41:29.840 He said he has first place by seven games. I'm like, 0:41:30.000 --> 0:41:32.200 you got it. He's the one that's picking, he's the 0:41:32.280 --> 0:41:35.560 one that's counting the game. So I mean to say, 0:41:35.640 --> 0:41:40.520 he's looking over his shoulder. He better being one of 0:41:40.560 --> 0:41:44.080 those deals where you know he is definitely doctoring. That's 0:41:44.200 --> 0:41:46.640 not true. Go back and check them all. Go back 0:41:46.640 --> 0:41:49.480 and check them all, every single one of the stir fry. Yeah, 0:41:50.440 --> 0:41:53.000 I've got I've got what do we get? He's Pokemon 0:41:53.040 --> 0:41:54.360 out here, he said, you gotta catch them all, but 0:41:54.360 --> 0:41:56.239 you gotta check them all. What do we What do 0:41:56.320 --> 0:41:58.480 we get? On this show? Like a hundred thousand listeners 0:41:58.520 --> 0:42:00.680 a week, and not one of them has has said 0:42:00.760 --> 0:42:03.600 that I've doctored anything. So I just say, over here, 0:42:03.719 --> 0:42:06.280 just I don't think so. I don't think I'm cooking. 0:42:06.360 --> 0:42:10.880 I don't think i'm anything actually cooking anything up. I 0:42:11.200 --> 0:42:12.880 did the pick hims last year, and I finished them 0:42:13.040 --> 0:42:19.439 last Okay, Kyle's grocery games. All right, Stephen, New York. 0:42:19.560 --> 0:42:21.840 You've been waiting patiently on the phone. You're back on 0:42:21.960 --> 0:42:25.520 talking cowboys. How's it going, Steve, Hey, what's going on? 0:42:26.000 --> 0:42:29.480 What's um? I sayah, kind of hit on what I 0:42:29.560 --> 0:42:34.000 was gonna ask you, based on Zeroline struggles. Do you 0:42:34.040 --> 0:42:37.800 think that, um, it's going to impact McCarthy some of 0:42:37.880 --> 0:42:41.319 his decisions. Maybe it's a guest like a orphan two 0:42:41.480 --> 0:42:44.440 or something in that mid range thirty five to forty 0:42:44.480 --> 0:42:48.920 five yards field goals. Do you think, yeah, maybe he'll 0:42:48.960 --> 0:42:51.440 go for it any of those which around. Yes, that's 0:42:51.480 --> 0:42:56.080 a heck of a question, Steve. I want to say 0:42:56.960 --> 0:42:59.759 you can't do it. I want to say, you know, 0:43:00.120 --> 0:43:01.839 but as the saying back in the hood, scared money, 0:43:01.880 --> 0:43:05.040 don't make money, and you have to give him an 0:43:05.040 --> 0:43:09.759 opportunity to prove who he was. You have to give 0:43:09.840 --> 0:43:13.560 him that opportunity because because if you go back, if 0:43:13.760 --> 0:43:16.239 you go into this game and you show that you 0:43:16.280 --> 0:43:19.000 don't have confidence of your kicker, it's done. He's he's 0:43:19.120 --> 0:43:21.640 mentally mentally he's screwed. I don't care how many kicks 0:43:21.680 --> 0:43:24.000 he's made. You have to show that you have confidence 0:43:24.040 --> 0:43:25.680 in him. You have to give him that opportunity. Now, 0:43:25.719 --> 0:43:28.800 if he proves you wrong, then you adjust. But I 0:43:28.880 --> 0:43:30.520 think initially you have to come out and say, hey, 0:43:30.760 --> 0:43:32.880 as soon as we crossed the forty, Greg, get your 0:43:32.920 --> 0:43:35.600 butt out there, let's go. So I didn't get to 0:43:35.680 --> 0:43:37.640 hear Jerry this morning, but he was asked about Greg's 0:43:37.680 --> 0:43:40.400 or lyne. He said, this is from Jama showed his 0:43:40.440 --> 0:43:46.000 struggles have absolutely quote, absolutely altered the game plan. He's 0:43:46.000 --> 0:43:48.560 a sound kicker, experience kicker. Our guys are all sensitive 0:43:48.560 --> 0:43:51.080 about how to approach the game. I don't they're very 0:43:51.120 --> 0:43:53.200 aggressive anyway on fourth down, So I don't know how 0:43:53.320 --> 0:43:55.359 much of it is they don't trust the kicker as 0:43:55.400 --> 0:43:58.919 opposed to Mike McCarthy. Got to go to the game 0:43:59.080 --> 0:44:02.160 plan you have. That's got to be a part of it. 0:44:02.239 --> 0:44:04.279 And just what Steve just said, Man, we get to 0:44:04.360 --> 0:44:08.040 the thirty five yard line and here we are three points. 0:44:08.440 --> 0:44:11.560 You drive, you do everything you possibly can, and you 0:44:11.680 --> 0:44:16.440 send their line out there. Where's your confidence level? Like 0:44:16.680 --> 0:44:19.200 where I want to see everybody in Cowboys Nation? Is 0:44:19.280 --> 0:44:22.239 heart rate at that moment? Does it go from like 0:44:22.320 --> 0:44:24.480 a sixty to like a ninety five? Just Scott to 0:44:25.120 --> 0:44:27.319 get that Apple watch out and it's like sees it sky, 0:44:27.600 --> 0:44:29.879 you guys send that in when the playoff. Let's do that. Okay, 0:44:29.960 --> 0:44:32.200 what hey, everybody out there in Cowboys Nation. If you 0:44:32.280 --> 0:44:34.920 guys have so prior any prior to the kick, I 0:44:35.000 --> 0:44:37.399 want you guys to chack take your pulse. Okay, well 0:44:37.440 --> 0:44:39.799 that's on your whatever the device you have. And then 0:44:40.040 --> 0:44:42.239 by the time he kicks it, I want everybody to 0:44:42.440 --> 0:44:44.160 to go ahead and dial it in, send it on Twitter. 0:44:44.320 --> 0:44:46.799 What was your your beats per minute? By the time, 0:44:47.040 --> 0:44:48.600 they're like, man, you don't know what kind of party 0:44:48.640 --> 0:44:54.600 in pople look at analytics after after you don't convert 0:44:54.680 --> 0:44:56.480 on third down and you look at your watch, you 0:44:56.520 --> 0:44:58.799 have the beat beats per minute and then as soon 0:44:58.880 --> 0:45:00.520 as the ball's in the air, you don't know what 0:45:00.680 --> 0:45:06.160 the result is looking at the game. Please do it. 0:45:06.520 --> 0:45:09.040 I want to see this Cowboys Nation. We need this 0:45:09.800 --> 0:45:12.080 media is qua Hey, whoever's up there dialing on this 0:45:12.120 --> 0:45:14.640 stuff in, please keep that track. I need to see that. 0:45:14.800 --> 0:45:18.799 I have like an NFL next gym on fan heartbeats. 0:45:19.200 --> 0:45:23.279 That'd be kind of fun. Yeah, that's hilarious. Heck was 0:45:23.320 --> 0:45:29.000 already and so you know that when I had a 0:45:29.040 --> 0:45:30.759 fit bit. I broke my fit bit. We were able 0:45:30.760 --> 0:45:32.799 to track each other's heart rate, so my wife would 0:45:32.800 --> 0:45:36.719 definitely be like, what are you doing? What's going on? 0:45:36.840 --> 0:45:41.800 And find I'm walking. There's a funny story about that. 0:45:43.680 --> 0:45:53.040 I said, it's done. You do realize that happened to James. Yeah, 0:45:53.080 --> 0:45:56.919 Jane talked about what happened to Jane had they her 0:45:57.000 --> 0:46:00.839 and her like other had body each other? Fit Vince 0:46:00.880 --> 0:46:03.120 and he was having like spikes at like three am. 0:46:08.239 --> 0:46:15.879 You want to lunch? That's how he got you must 0:46:16.400 --> 0:46:19.840 jacking each other? What what kind of hot saush you 0:46:19.920 --> 0:46:27.680 got each other? They're checking all their performances around, maybe 0:46:27.960 --> 0:46:30.120 all of our listeners, all our male listeners about the 0:46:30.120 --> 0:46:38.560 give Vince and Ample watches the next time that God 0:46:41.080 --> 0:46:44.320 definitely going upstairs and talking to miss Nicky. I'm definitely 0:46:45.640 --> 0:46:49.839 oh uh, Mike and Iowa, you're on talking cowboys. That's 0:46:49.880 --> 0:46:54.080 not an end. This is the last one. Mike and Iowa, 0:46:54.200 --> 0:46:57.160 please get us back on track. How's it going? Okay, 0:46:57.200 --> 0:47:00.719 I'll get back on track. Howboy naked and everybody there 0:47:01.120 --> 0:47:03.680 when he's guy, I'm really pumped up when they get 0:47:03.800 --> 0:47:05.960 on that field and getting that huddle. They need to 0:47:06.040 --> 0:47:10.960 dedicate this one to John Madden. Boom pass up cowboy 0:47:11.080 --> 0:47:14.680 nagent just before John Madden boom, see you guys later, 0:47:14.840 --> 0:47:19.960 Bye bye. Thanks. How about that? That was awesome? Yeah, 0:47:20.040 --> 0:47:22.919 his heart rate is through the roof. I love it. Yeah, 0:47:23.040 --> 0:47:25.919 dedicated to John Madden. I love it. I love that. Yeah. 0:47:26.200 --> 0:47:28.560 Fantastic And he had the energy like John did too 0:47:28.680 --> 0:47:30.520 in that phone call, so I appreciate it. Thank you 0:47:30.600 --> 0:47:33.520 so much from all the way out in Newton, Iowa. 0:47:34.560 --> 0:47:37.239 But that doesn't for us here on talking cowboys. What 0:47:37.400 --> 0:47:40.240 a day in his spend. We'll be back tomorrow nine am. 0:47:40.280 --> 0:47:44.640 We're previewing the San Francisco offense versus the Dallas defense. 0:47:45.120 --> 0:47:48.160 What is Jimmy Garoppolo and company have in store for 0:47:48.320 --> 0:47:53.080 Dan Quinn Kyle Shanahan versus Dan Quinn former offensive coordinator 0:47:53.120 --> 0:47:57.240 of Dan's out in Atlanta. We'll talk about that matchup, coaching, matchup, quarterbacks, 0:47:57.320 --> 0:48:00.399 running backs. What's going on? Heavy birthday, John Neilson, Yes, 0:48:00.640 --> 0:48:04.839 John Nelson could save their heck on top of things. 0:48:05.200 --> 0:48:07.200 One of our friends from across the pond. Hope you're 0:48:07.239 --> 0:48:10.759 feeling better, John, Yes, absolutely, but happy birthday. We usually 0:48:10.800 --> 0:48:13.760 give a birthday shout out to John and great friend 0:48:13.840 --> 0:48:15.840 of the show as well, but that doesn't for us. 0:48:15.880 --> 0:48:19.040 You're on Talking Cowboys for Chris Mean, for heck Ma Harrison, 0:48:19.120 --> 0:48:22.000 Isaiah Damn Back, Rob Phillips and Kyle Yeoman saying so 0:48:22.120 --> 0:48:26.000 long for Talking Cowboys. We'll see you tomorrow, nine am Central. 0:48:26.680 --> 0:48:29.279 This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:48:29.520 --> 0:48:31.560 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.