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Speaker 1: in Fristoe alongside heck Ma Harrison, Isaiah stand Back, Rob Phillips,
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Speaker 1: glad you're with us here on this Tuesday. Give us
Speaker 1: a call eight eight eight eight five five two two
Speaker 1: nine seven. We'll start taking Cowboys Nations calls. What are you?
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts going into the playoffs as of
Speaker 1: this Tuesday and then going into of course the matchup
Speaker 1: in the wild card round against San Francisco. But how
Speaker 1: is everybody doing? Swelltastic? That's awesome. Swell tastic. Hey, your
Speaker 1: mike's muted, Isaiah, Yeah, go ahead. And somebody had me
Speaker 1: hoped that right there. Somebody had me on a call
Speaker 1: there you go, yeah, all right, we're good now we
Speaker 1: were cleaning student run that back. I'm feeling very deja blue, Ah,
Speaker 1: why are you so blue? Not down is a good thing.
Speaker 1: Deja blue is very clear and crisp. And you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I feel good. How about you? Healthy? Healthy,
Speaker 1: definitely healthy. I started my health kake yesterday. I'm back
Speaker 1: on my plan. I'm back to working out. Okay. I'm
Speaker 1: glad you're finally gonna get in shape. Thank you. I
Speaker 1: appreciate it. I'm this is my first listen here. I
Speaker 1: told you guys a story after song. I am very
Speaker 1: little right now. This is little for me. This is
Speaker 1: like very even. My wife sent me a video yesterday.
Speaker 1: She was a subtle It was a subtle thing. She
Speaker 1: was trying to make a joke. She said, have you
Speaker 1: ever post a video like this again? Like we'll have
Speaker 1: a conversation. There was a video on me doing like
Speaker 1: some curls back a long time ago. But I was,
Speaker 1: I was in freaking shape now, I was. She was
Speaker 1: making a little hitti hiloh. He a little joke, but
Speaker 1: the real message was your you need to get back
Speaker 1: to this. So I got some work to do, but
Speaker 1: I have eight weeks. I got eight weeks wrong. What's
Speaker 1: my song? Come on, man, we talk about the one
Speaker 1: I posted on my ig? Yeah, yeah, the one on
Speaker 1: the what was its January? It's time to give fit.
Speaker 1: I sent that to Chris to try and play it
Speaker 1: on the show, but I don't know if we can
Speaker 1: because cowboys fit. Yeah, popular music at the end as well.
Speaker 1: Oh okay, so I guess we can't do that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: go look at it. Go look it up on Isaiah's
Speaker 1: Instagram story. It's definitely not the y'all hall at me.
Speaker 1: I stand back on ig. Yeah, it'll get you in
Speaker 1: the New Year's resolution spirit. Hey, I'm just trying to
Speaker 1: I'm trying to catch up to where mister Heckman has
Speaker 1: been for the last what five months, four months? Whatever
Speaker 1: it's been. You still stay it on that the fat
Speaker 1: ruptcy court? Yeah, he on it. I see your your
Speaker 1: your videos every day. Fantastic. Why no, wow? Well that
Speaker 1: I'm asking for the people at LU. That was LU.
Speaker 1: That was Danny Angels right there. Just I didn't catch it.
Speaker 1: Um man, it was I've been doing it every day,
Speaker 1: uh before one hundred and one days. Whoa hey clip,
Speaker 1: that's outstanding. Four old run the hustles. And when this
Speaker 1: thing does happen, and I'm I'm still skeptical, but if
Speaker 1: this inter squad thing happens, he's gonna be ready. You
Speaker 1: know what, I'm gonna be ready, Robbie. I'm gonna tell me,
Speaker 1: tell you the depths that this goes to. Somebody there
Speaker 1: so there no, I'm not gonna be ready. So you know,
Speaker 1: I own a fitness facility and there there is there's
Speaker 1: some some track runners, some very competitive track runners, Olympians
Speaker 1: and all that that that come in work out a
Speaker 1: couple of times a week out of my facility. And
Speaker 1: one of the one of the young men that competes, uh,
Speaker 1: he just missed Elmpies last year. He came in and
Speaker 1: he was talking about Danny McCrae. He said, Man, Danny
Speaker 1: McCrae says something about how he can beat I said,
Speaker 1: why would he do that? Like, why is Danny still
Speaker 1: doing this? Danny? You're staying No chance, bro, zero chance.
Speaker 1: And now that I'm working out, I will disrespect why
Speaker 1: I disinfect you. You understand what I'm saying. Woh, hey,
Speaker 1: these leads, get moving, start lighting the flame walk, let's go.
Speaker 1: I mean basically, we're in the playoff mode for talking
Speaker 1: car talking about playoffs. But then once the playoffs are over,
Speaker 1: it's game time. By game time, I'm feeling athletic. I
Speaker 1: love it. One day in and I'm ready to roll.
Speaker 1: Was four h one? Can you can you disclose? How
Speaker 1: much is that a public thing? You know what the
Speaker 1: thing about it is has and you probably did with
Speaker 1: this every day with people setting goals and marks and
Speaker 1: all of that. I didn't get into this for a
Speaker 1: mark or old. It's consistent. I love it's all about
Speaker 1: every day. But man, you know things are fitting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you dropped, and I asked you that because consistency is
Speaker 1: everything that's it and anything that you want to do.
Speaker 1: And for those that are trying to hit their new
Speaker 1: fitness goals, all right, it's all about consistency. For those
Speaker 1: that are trying to win ball games, it's all about consistency.
Speaker 1: Well you know about that. It's another thing. I mean
Speaker 1: when I come in here every day, I sit across
Speaker 1: from somebody that was born with muscles. So it's just,
Speaker 1: you know, you just gotta kind of laid up losing
Speaker 1: it every day. You can't look at me like that. Heck,
Speaker 1: you can't look at me across the table for me
Speaker 1: and say that when I was born with muscles. I know,
Speaker 1: it's fine. I was talking. I was talking about Isaiah
Speaker 1: und You don't have waiting that two twenty eight yesterday.
Speaker 1: Oh God bless you if you could get through it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I know you're talking about Yeah, all right, let's talk
Speaker 1: about this consistency though. With the Dallas Cowboys. Rob Phillips
Speaker 1: a little new notes from yesterday. They're getting healthy. Man,
Speaker 1: knock knock on. I'm gonna go ahead and knock on
Speaker 1: wood because COVID is um it ain't you know, it
Speaker 1: doesn't discriminate, it's it doesn't go away. It's always a
Speaker 1: threat out there. But in terms of their health, it
Speaker 1: looks pretty good this week. And uh, you know, Tony Pollard,
Speaker 1: they Mike McCarthy said, they're just being smart with him
Speaker 1: in the in the finale against Philly. The guys on
Speaker 1: the COVID list. You already saw Anthony Brown come off
Speaker 1: that list yesterday. It sounds like by Thursday they could
Speaker 1: get everybody back, that includes Micah Parsons, that includes Tyrn
Speaker 1: Smith Um, maybe jay Ron Curse. You know, it could
Speaker 1: be later in the week. We'll see. But for a
Speaker 1: team that's playing into January eleventh, you know, sometimes when
Speaker 1: you get to the Super Bowl, the final injury report
Speaker 1: doesn't have anybody on it. It's like, yeah, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: you got guys who are They're gonna play game of
Speaker 1: their life. The Cowboys legitimately are very healthy right now,
Speaker 1: and that is pretty unusual for this time of year.
Speaker 1: This this was the hope though. We go all the
Speaker 1: way back to the Arizona Cardinals preseason game when Gallimore
Speaker 1: got hurt, right, we were like, oh crap, here we go. Right,
Speaker 1: he was our first he was the first blow, especially
Speaker 1: after last year. Yeah, after last year he got hurt.
Speaker 1: And then it was TP got hurt and Gregory and
Speaker 1: we had all these guys get hurt, and we started
Speaker 1: trying to look at the time spans. We were looking
Speaker 1: at it like, hey, when is everybody going to kind
Speaker 1: of start coming back? And we were kind of projecting
Speaker 1: kind of left towards the end of the season. Last
Speaker 1: four games were hopeful, and then it started happening, right,
Speaker 1: it started happening. And now you're you're like the Juggernaut.
Speaker 1: You're building momentum into the playoffs. Not only did you
Speaker 1: build momentum in this last game, but now you built
Speaker 1: mimium with confidence. And now you're building momentum by getting
Speaker 1: all your guys back and you having your complete depth
Speaker 1: at every position heading into the most important portion of
Speaker 1: the year. And the Dallas fans should feel good about that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and the fact that everyone, every team, every playoff team
Speaker 1: is coming in with Nixon bruises and guys that are
Speaker 1: not going to be healthy at all until after the
Speaker 1: super Bowl and look for us, And like you just
Speaker 1: said outline, that was what we were talking about the
Speaker 1: whole time. But I think last game, man, they were
Speaker 1: players like Randy Gregory in particular. You know, I've seen
Speaker 1: him come up a few times. I don't know if
Speaker 1: the calf is still bothering, but he's he's one of
Speaker 1: those pieces going into the playoffs. Guys that man, we're
Speaker 1: gonna need this guy being on his a game, and
Speaker 1: especially with what we have coming this Sunday, so that
Speaker 1: health and everything that we've been talking about and Covid
Speaker 1: Stanley we just got he just gotta get through these
Speaker 1: first couple of weeks and possibly obviously if you can
Speaker 1: get into Super Bowl. Baby, you got a few weeks
Speaker 1: before that, and they were they you know, they played
Speaker 1: to win that game. Most of the starters played, but
Speaker 1: they were mindful of certain guys. Obviously Zeke didn't play
Speaker 1: the full game. Grandy Gregory, Mike said, was on kind
Speaker 1: of a snap count, and he's been dealing with some nagging,
Speaker 1: minor stuff all year. He's kind of had a knee
Speaker 1: thing he's had to deal with managed throughout the season.
Speaker 1: So yeah, mindful, just trying to get to this point.
Speaker 1: I actually just got curious and I looked at the
Speaker 1: number of guys who have had snaps on this team.
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy has told us a thousand times, seventy seven
Speaker 1: for Green Bay. According to this document that I have,
Speaker 1: seventy two hey have played. You know, some of some
Speaker 1: of us just special teams, but they have had to
Speaker 1: reach into their bag man, and some of it is,
Speaker 1: you know, in expanded practice squads. But they've got a
Speaker 1: lot that they've dealt with COVID, they dealt with injuries,
Speaker 1: and to win twelve games with some of the stuff
Speaker 1: they've dealt with very impressive this year. I'd have to
Speaker 1: go back and look at it and kind of see
Speaker 1: exactly the way the roster was made up for that
Speaker 1: Green Bay team that he won the title with back
Speaker 1: a decade ago. And I mean, I would be willing
Speaker 1: to say that I don't think they were this healthy
Speaker 1: going into the playoffs. I want to know, and this
Speaker 1: would be a question I would ask Mike an impress conference,
Speaker 1: but it would be is where does this this team
Speaker 1: rank compared to the others that you've taken to NFC
Speaker 1: championship games, two Super Bowl games in terms of health
Speaker 1: going into the first round of the playoff, because it's
Speaker 1: hard to get much healthier than one the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: dealing with. That's a great question. And I think this
Speaker 1: team's way more healthy. They had. They had guy guys
Speaker 1: in the teams. I think on I R when they
Speaker 1: played the Steelers here in the Super Bowl, so and
Speaker 1: that you know, I don't think they had returnable ir back.
Speaker 1: They didn't even have Woodson that is, did they have.
Speaker 1: I want to say he played in that game, but
Speaker 1: he could be wrong. I could be wrong, Okay, but
Speaker 1: they were really they were really banged up, really banged
Speaker 1: that's right, because their offensive linemen were hurt in that
Speaker 1: game too. They didn't have all their their front five
Speaker 1: and then Aaron Rodgers was Aaron Rodgers. But uh, where
Speaker 1: does the Cowboys coaching staff stand on COVID right now?
Speaker 1: Are they doing anything specific? They might kind of allude
Speaker 1: to anything yesterday in the press conference about whether or
Speaker 1: not they're going to take extra measures to try and
Speaker 1: keep COVID away. He just reiterated that, uh, next door
Speaker 1: is an option if you want to use it, not
Speaker 1: forcing anybody to use it. Friends and family. Friends and
Speaker 1: family can continue to test um. And I think there's
Speaker 1: probably there's guys doing that right now. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't know it's not the full team necessarily, but but
Speaker 1: certainly staff members and you know, their video department got
Speaker 1: hit hard over the weekend. They actually kind of had
Speaker 1: the delay getting started on their their you know, getting
Speaker 1: ahead on prep because guys were out with COVID. So
Speaker 1: it's a real deal. Keep it away, as Hex said,
Speaker 1: keep it just shoot, get out of bub bubble boys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so kind of keeping on the same track of Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy and this coaching staff, I mean Isaiah, I'll start
Speaker 1: with you on this one, but how much does having
Speaker 1: a coach who's been there and done that before help
Speaker 1: out the mindset of a team going into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: It's one of the big reasons why he was hired
Speaker 1: here in the first place is the fact that he
Speaker 1: has been to the mountaintop. He has won a Super
Speaker 1: Bowl title. Now it's his time to kind of, yeah,
Speaker 1: to pull that car and say here's how we get there.
Speaker 1: How much does that factor into a player's mindset and
Speaker 1: a player's preparation out a week? Huge? And I think
Speaker 1: mister Jones and the rest of the crew that makes
Speaker 1: decisions on who comes in here as the coach and
Speaker 1: the leader of this organization knew that. And I think
Speaker 1: that was their game plan coming into this last year obviously,
Speaker 1: and then now this year that the top two coaches
Speaker 1: on this team have won super Bowls. That's that's facts, right,
Speaker 1: Coach McCarthy, Dan Quinn, Both of those guys have won
Speaker 1: Super Bowls. One of those guys has has perspective of
Speaker 1: what it's like to lose opportunity in a Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: So you have the two top people, top leaders on
Speaker 1: your in your organization in terms of coaching, know what
Speaker 1: it's like to win and what it's like to lose
Speaker 1: a Super Bowl. That perspective, I always use an analogy
Speaker 1: of question marks, right, question mark leaves room for doubt.
Speaker 1: So that's what I don't like question marks. You don't
Speaker 1: go about your life with question marks. You try to
Speaker 1: make sure that you go you set a goal and
Speaker 1: you attain a goal. And anything that's in the form
Speaker 1: of a question mark leads room for error and you
Speaker 1: don't want to allow for that. So now as players
Speaker 1: are now looking transport towards the playoffs, and players will
Speaker 1: start looking at the game plans and how is coach
Speaker 1: setting up the practices and are we wearing tearing too much?
Speaker 1: Are we not practicing enough? Are we watching enough film?
Speaker 1: All those questions can really get put aside. And the
Speaker 1: reason why they didn't get put aside because you're two
Speaker 1: top leaders in your team on your organization know what
Speaker 1: it's like to win, and they know that they have
Speaker 1: a game plan. They've executed a game plan previously that
Speaker 1: has led them to walking away with the ultimate trophy
Speaker 1: in this league. It's a great point. Yeah, those indotal accounts,
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna this young team is going to
Speaker 1: reap the benefits of that. And you just hear Jerry
Speaker 1: Jones talk about what it meant to bring in a
Speaker 1: coach with the experience, But the truth is, if you
Speaker 1: hadn't been there before, you don't know. And when you
Speaker 1: have a young team like this and you talk about
Speaker 1: those question marks, there's only one guy on this team
Speaker 1: that has a Super Bowl ring, as we pointed out yesterday,
Speaker 1: a guy that's been far in the playoffs and knows
Speaker 1: what it means to play each and every week through
Speaker 1: the playoffs. And so I find it fascinating when you
Speaker 1: have it as young as this and them having to
Speaker 1: experience this together. If you've never been to the mountaintop together,
Speaker 1: then all of those question marks they're gonna be there anyway.
Speaker 1: You know, how do you experience this? And you're gonna
Speaker 1: rely heavily on that experience. A guy that has gone
Speaker 1: to the mountaintop and I don't want to say fell off,
Speaker 1: but you know, look, they lost it, yeah, and it's
Speaker 1: one of those it's how do you combat or tell
Speaker 1: the story about I had it in my hand, it
Speaker 1: was right there. He has perspective that coach McCarthy does
Speaker 1: exactly exactly, And so that's what I look. I just
Speaker 1: I just feel like when those things that you just outlined,
Speaker 1: that's a that's a one of the things that's a
Speaker 1: benefit for us. But I think man, for all of
Speaker 1: these guys, and as young as his locker room is,
Speaker 1: they just they're gonna have questions. And Mike was asked
Speaker 1: about that yesterday. I think it was Brad Sham. He
Speaker 1: asked a great question about how if a young guy
Speaker 1: comes up to you, being that you've made it to
Speaker 1: the mountaintop and ask you what's the difference between the
Speaker 1: regular season and the playoffs. And I thought he had
Speaker 1: a really good answer about it. I'm actually blanking over
Speaker 1: banking on it. It was it was it was about
Speaker 1: the intensity of I thought you had it up in
Speaker 1: front of No. I'm sorry. It was basically about how
Speaker 1: the intensity of everything was is ramped up. It's it's
Speaker 1: just immediately it's go. I mean, there's no adjustment period,
Speaker 1: there's no await time. It is immediately. Playoffs have at it. Yes,
Speaker 1: And also he kind of talked to the fact that
Speaker 1: you don't get any easy tests anymore, that every team's
Speaker 1: gonna give you their best every team's gonna scheme up
Speaker 1: everything they possibly can against you, and the competition gets
Speaker 1: better along the way as well. And it's kind of
Speaker 1: what we talked about last week. I mean, he knows
Speaker 1: what it takes to get there, and now he's got
Speaker 1: a lettle young roster to get there as well. Now
Speaker 1: I love that. And he said something about, you know,
Speaker 1: just make He made an example of having a game
Speaker 1: where you made some of your best plays and just
Speaker 1: say that's the entire game. It's like, yeah, like that.
Speaker 1: Just that speaks to the heightened intensity that goes into playoff.
Speaker 1: There's certain aspects of a game during a regular season
Speaker 1: you can feel the intensity level rise. And for those
Speaker 1: that watch the Raiders game versus of Chargers, everybody felt
Speaker 1: the anxiety. Everybody felt that tension of old crap. Every
Speaker 1: play matters, that is every play in the playoffs. That's
Speaker 1: what's so crazy about it. The preparation. When you're getting
Speaker 1: taped up, you're you're focused, You're locked in for the
Speaker 1: teams that are that are gonna go far. Those teams
Speaker 1: are locked in. When you're watching film, you are, you're
Speaker 1: dialed in. You're watching for any little thing that's gonna
Speaker 1: give you an advantage. Now people are gonna say, well,
Speaker 1: shouldn't you be doing that during the regular season anyway, Yes,
Speaker 1: you are, and you do, but it's heightened, right. You
Speaker 1: recognize that our walkthroughs lock in. Hey, hey, stop climbing around.
Speaker 1: Let's go like we're locked in. Everything matters. Your preparation
Speaker 1: is everything. And man, when you get to the dog
Speaker 1: on game and you are, you are juiced. You're juiced,
Speaker 1: and when you make those plays, you're hype. But it's like,
Speaker 1: I gotta have to do it again. That one play
Speaker 1: is not going to change the game because everybody's gonna
Speaker 1: have a big play every game. Um, you know, I
Speaker 1: hate to even bring up an example of I don't
Speaker 1: believe in anything over one hundred percent. I believe that
Speaker 1: your one hundred is you're a hundred and if you do,
Speaker 1: if you go harder than what happened before, wasn't it
Speaker 1: wasn't your one hundred percent. So most people will say,
Speaker 1: I'll give one hundred and ten percent in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: give you a hundred and guys, you're gonna feel that
Speaker 1: the guys are gonna be going out there giving it.
Speaker 1: They're all they're complete everything every play and guess what
Speaker 1: if I'm gas, give me out of there and get
Speaker 1: me back in there. I'm not saving anything for the
Speaker 1: next play I'm I'm not worried about the next player there,
Speaker 1: the next series. I'm worried about the right now. That's
Speaker 1: why I think that there's value, like you mentioned that
Speaker 1: playoff mode. Teams that are in that playoff mode, like
Speaker 1: the Raiders, there's somebody to watch in the postseason because
Speaker 1: they're already in that mindset. That's why I think it's
Speaker 1: important what the Cowboys did keep playing play for even
Speaker 1: if you don't play everybody the whole four quarters, just
Speaker 1: stay in that mode. And you're seeing some of these
Speaker 1: wildcard teams get farther in the NFL playoffs and they
Speaker 1: used to do. Some of it is parody, you know,
Speaker 1: one of the teams. You know, the buy teams aren't
Speaker 1: heading shoulders above what it used to be in the nineties,
Speaker 1: like when the Cowboys were getting buys back then. But
Speaker 1: but I do think having that mode and keeping that
Speaker 1: edge is important, and that's why it was important. That
Speaker 1: goes back to the argument of rest verse rust, right,
Speaker 1: you know, and how do you go into the playoffs?
Speaker 1: And I love what Jerry said today about Dak, he
Speaker 1: was like, I wasn't surprised that Dak played for four quarters.
Speaker 1: We knew he was gonna play for four quarters because
Speaker 1: he was important that we got the momentum going. Didn't.
Speaker 1: I didn't care anything about what Philly was doing. It
Speaker 1: was about us. It was about the momentum that we
Speaker 1: go into the playoffs with. And they're so their teams
Speaker 1: like the Raiders that you point out that they understand
Speaker 1: that and they're taking that approach, and you saw it
Speaker 1: last Sunday. I wish I could sit in on those
Speaker 1: meetings with coach McCarthy and Dan quinn in terms of
Speaker 1: their their conversation revolving around the game plan and the
Speaker 1: specifically this week or just anything this week, this week
Speaker 1: going going into the playoffs, because you know they're sitting
Speaker 1: there talking, Okay, this is what I've done? All right?
Speaker 1: What have you done right? What have you done in
Speaker 1: terms of practice schedule? What have you done in terms
Speaker 1: of wearing tear? You know, what was your approach versus
Speaker 1: what was my approach? And I would love to just
Speaker 1: being there. I don't know if people say find the
Speaker 1: wall flies can't here, So I would love to sit
Speaker 1: up there. I've never heard that it's the thing, but
Speaker 1: I would love you know that. I'm not gonna touch it, no,
Speaker 1: but I would love to be a part of those conversations.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine that the depth of those conversations. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's sure, and that's why that's why Dan queenn is
Speaker 1: trying to get plucked from our staff for that very
Speaker 1: reason because of his knowledge. And you know, in going
Speaker 1: into this weekend, how do you approach it? What did
Speaker 1: you do? You know, how how healthy was your team
Speaker 1: going into Super Bowl week of going into the playoffs? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right, man, there's a lot of knowledge on this staff,
Speaker 1: not only with those two, but guys like George at Wills, Yes,
Speaker 1: Joe Junior. Yeah, there's a lot of knowledge. I mean,
Speaker 1: you get the list goes on and on. It goes
Speaker 1: back to what we talked about in the summer. This
Speaker 1: is where your coaching staff, being as experienced as they are,
Speaker 1: comes into play. When you have a healthy team, you
Speaker 1: have a little bit of momentum, and of course you've
Speaker 1: got a favorable matchup or at least you're in the tournament.
Speaker 1: Let's just say it that way. This Cowboys nation needs
Speaker 1: under stand that this as much as everybody talks about
Speaker 1: the players, this is going to make a difference. This
Speaker 1: is the most stacked coaching staff in the league, and
Speaker 1: nobody wants to talk about that. Are confident about the
Speaker 1: way that they can handle in game absolutations though, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 1: I am as confident as people are about the personnel
Speaker 1: on this team right that there's no doubt that this
Speaker 1: is probably the most talented team in NFL. There's a
Speaker 1: handful of other teams that have a lot of talent.
Speaker 1: You talk about the Rams, should talk about Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: Those teams are very talented. However, this is the same
Speaker 1: conversation that people are having about the personnel. They need
Speaker 1: to have the same conversation about this coaching staff because
Speaker 1: that is going to make just as much of a
Speaker 1: difference in the playoffs than the personnel on the field.
Speaker 1: Absolute and people need to identify that. They need to
Speaker 1: recognize that and give these coaches their credit because this
Speaker 1: is when they really get they earn their checks during
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Yeah. Now, I completely agree, and it's going
Speaker 1: to be something that shows its head as soon as Sunday,
Speaker 1: because they're either gonna win you a game or lose
Speaker 1: your game at the same time, because they're gonna push
Speaker 1: just as much as the players do. All right, when
Speaker 1: we come back on Talking Cowboys, give us a call
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Speaker 1: playoffs this week? Let's start with Bob in Nashville. Bob,
Speaker 1: you're on Talking Cowboys. How's it going good? Tells how
Speaker 1: are y'all doing? Fantastic? I'm glad it's there. Good looking
Speaker 1: forward to the playoffs, that's for sure. Absolutely. Um. Two
Speaker 1: things that I've been worried about all year, and I
Speaker 1: think they're really going to be tested um this week,
Speaker 1: and that is our run defense and our running game. UM.
Speaker 1: You know, I've been worried about those all year. We've
Speaker 1: been able to kind of get around them. But those
Speaker 1: are my two big worries. But one question I have,
Speaker 1: and probably more to his days since he's been to
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl, and all teams usually have their you know,
Speaker 1: their base defense or their their you know, their systems.
Speaker 1: Two teams going into the playoffs and then into the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl later on, do they change some of that
Speaker 1: or do they stick to what's been true and you know,
Speaker 1: to for them all year or do they really adjust
Speaker 1: some parts of their game to kind of throw off
Speaker 1: the other team or did they just stick with what
Speaker 1: they know and what they've done all year. That's my question. Guys,
Speaker 1: Thanks for having the show, and now I'll listen to
Speaker 1: your response. I appreciate the question. Well, um, great question.
Speaker 1: So you are who you are by this time of
Speaker 1: the year. You are you who you are, and it's
Speaker 1: not the time to experiment. If that helps you, it
Speaker 1: helps you understand the thought process of going into the playoffs. Now,
Speaker 1: do you still scheme up things that are going to
Speaker 1: give you an advantage over that particular team. Absolutely. If
Speaker 1: you know that there are some things that you identify
Speaker 1: on film that are disruptive to what they're trying to do,
Speaker 1: then obviously you make those adjustments, but you still do
Speaker 1: it within the scheme of your base defense. Approaching this
Speaker 1: game coming against the forty nine ers, obviously we'll talk more.
Speaker 1: The forty nine ers do a ton of misdirection. That's
Speaker 1: not something that Dallas has been necessarily great about. So, yes,
Speaker 1: you're gonna put your guys in position to be successful
Speaker 1: in that regard, and you're going to make it a
Speaker 1: point all week long to trust your eyes, trust your eyes,
Speaker 1: trust your assignments ever by view where they're supposed to be.
Speaker 1: So it's more of a heightened focus in terms of
Speaker 1: how to execute your assignment more so than it is Hey,
Speaker 1: we're about to change everything that we do and now
Speaker 1: we're gonna put you guys in an element where you
Speaker 1: guys are no longer confident. Now you're having that question mark.
Speaker 1: Is this going to work? You want to remove all
Speaker 1: question marks and this is what we do. Do what
Speaker 1: you've been doing all year long. Now you see that
Speaker 1: dude back there, number nineteen, Yeah, we need to circle
Speaker 1: him and keep your eyes on him. But this still
Speaker 1: do what we do. Yeah, why would you get to
Speaker 1: this point change anything that you've done to be you know,
Speaker 1: to be successful. Obviously, all both all of these coaches
Speaker 1: are gonna scheme it up and trying dis guys all day,
Speaker 1: all night. But I just don't see dan Quinn going
Speaker 1: with anything exotic that we hadn't seen before to try
Speaker 1: and mix this thing up at the last minute. I
Speaker 1: do believe that obviously offensively, our sticking to what got
Speaker 1: us here, what are going to be some of our strengths.
Speaker 1: They understand what the defense, like the forty nine is
Speaker 1: that's going to attack them, that they got to run
Speaker 1: at it. You have to have some success in the
Speaker 1: running game to slow these guys down. So look, I'm
Speaker 1: with you, Isaiah, and that's a that to that point
Speaker 1: that you don't get here in doing overhaul. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean maybe there's there's examples of Bill Belichick doing
Speaker 1: something completely different in the Super Bowl that we've seen.
Speaker 1: He did that against the Rams. But yeah, I think
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy spoken to this, When you get to this
Speaker 1: point in the season, it's about execution. You know, it's
Speaker 1: NBA play. I'll do an NBA comparison again. Heck, it's
Speaker 1: like by this point everybody knows what you're running. You
Speaker 1: just gotta you know, how do you execute? You know?
Speaker 1: And so there are wrinkles involved, But I think you
Speaker 1: still have to stick to what has gotten you to
Speaker 1: this point. I'm not convinced that it's not Doug nust
Speaker 1: Meyer across the hall calling us. He just loves the shop.
Speaker 1: Thanks Bob for the call. We'll get into the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers running game, but that's a great point. They
Speaker 1: are at four hundred and ninety nine carries this year.
Speaker 1: That's tied for fifth in the league. They want to
Speaker 1: run the football, and Mike McCarthy spoke to this yesterday.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys want to run the football too, And people
Speaker 1: might roll their eyes at that, because look, Kellen Moore,
Speaker 1: they want to sling it around. They've got all these
Speaker 1: weapons on the outside. Cowboys are at four seventy three attempts.
Speaker 1: That's near the top of the league in terms of rushing.
Speaker 1: So both teams want to establish that. The Cowboys just
Speaker 1: have not been able to establish that with as much
Speaker 1: consistency down the stretch as they would like. Week eighteen
Speaker 1: was a step forward. Sure, we'll see if they can
Speaker 1: build on that well. And you also talk about on
Speaker 1: the other side of things, on the defensive side, they
Speaker 1: haven't been able to slow it down very much either,
Speaker 1: and that was one of his initial concerns was the
Speaker 1: run defense as well, going up against what Same Frantisco
Speaker 1: is going to bring to the table. He kind of
Speaker 1: talked about how that is a weaker side of your
Speaker 1: defensive unit, is stopping the run. And San Francisco being
Speaker 1: a team that has run the ball five hundred times
Speaker 1: this season, is going up against a team that's given
Speaker 1: up at least one hundred yards in what is this,
Speaker 1: ten of their last or eleven of their last twelve
Speaker 1: games of the season, they gave up a hundred yards rushing.
Speaker 1: So does your confidence level waiver a little bit when
Speaker 1: you talk about the run defense. Not at all, Not
Speaker 1: at all. And the reason being is that for as
Speaker 1: much as our defensive line or our team has looked
Speaker 1: at as a pressure defense that gets out to the quarterback,
Speaker 1: I think you have guys like Tank Lawrence that that's
Speaker 1: their stick. That's the shit strong suit, it's stopping the run.
Speaker 1: As much as he is, you know, get after your
Speaker 1: quarterback kind of a guy, he's man. He's the guy
Speaker 1: to stop the run. Where I'm I think I have
Speaker 1: the most hesitancy is in our line. What are we
Speaker 1: going to do with our linebackers? You know, how physical
Speaker 1: can they play? LVE is going to have to be
Speaker 1: physical this game because of the way that the forty
Speaker 1: nine is offensive line, which is their strength, and they
Speaker 1: get to the second level and they punish you they're
Speaker 1: coming downhill. But when you switch it the other way around,
Speaker 1: I think the forty nine is defense. They just got
Speaker 1: some guys on their front line that you could tell
Speaker 1: their defensive coordinator Demco Ryans is doing a wonderful job
Speaker 1: with the way that he disguises. Thing is then when
Speaker 1: you can bring pressure from upfront and not have to
Speaker 1: bring any of your guys any blitzing, then that's man.
Speaker 1: That's definitely man. That's just a good thing for your
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator. Isaiah. Yeah, defensively in terms of scheme, you know,
Speaker 1: to to Heckma's point, I just think guys who have
Speaker 1: to get up field, they have to get up filled.
Speaker 1: They have you have to get penetration. If you don't
Speaker 1: get penetration against San Francisco, it's hard because I want
Speaker 1: to talk about a lot of details. If you don't
Speaker 1: get penetration against the San Francisco forty nineties, you're gonna struggle.
Speaker 1: And teams coming to the games from him from obviously
Speaker 1: from through film against San Francisco, knowing that they do
Speaker 1: a lot to misdirection, and now all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you start looking around. And we talked about this a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. I don't remember what team we're facing,
Speaker 1: but you start looking around if you're so concerned about
Speaker 1: what direction they're going and who has the ball. Now
Speaker 1: you're no longer coming downhill. Now your body position is
Speaker 1: now in a stand up position. And now those office
Speaker 1: alignment that want to punish you have the leverage. Now
Speaker 1: they're able to get get on half a man instead
Speaker 1: of you know, having to take on a full man,
Speaker 1: and they can use momentum, you know, against you and
Speaker 1: now those officers and let me get up to the
Speaker 1: second level, like you're talking about Hema, and now you
Speaker 1: have three hundred and some pounds trying to take on
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty pounds. Two hundred pounds, big difference.
Speaker 1: Right when those guys have the leverage, your linebackers are
Speaker 1: standing around, looking around, trying to figure out where the
Speaker 1: ball is at. Oh crap, there's the ball. Oh by
Speaker 1: the way, there's a linement who's been running for the
Speaker 1: last four yards that's about to take me head on.
Speaker 1: That's what you can't allow. You can't allow them to
Speaker 1: dictate the pace and the direction of this game. Your guys, Gallamore, Hamilton, Osa,
Speaker 1: all those boys. Challenge has been handed out to you.
Speaker 1: Get out here, get up field. Allow your linebackers to
Speaker 1: play downhill. Because if your linebackers are playing looking around,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a day. Yeah, you're kind of in
Speaker 1: a tough spot at that point, and a late vander
Speaker 1: esh Kian and Neo played very well in the game
Speaker 1: against Philadelphia. You add Michael Parsons into them at mix,
Speaker 1: but it's not necessarily a deep group at the second
Speaker 1: level for your linebackers. It's physicality that has to be there,
Speaker 1: and that's what Parsons brings. And if they're banged up,
Speaker 1: how much how much physicality can they bring? Oh No,
Speaker 1: they gotta find it. Gotta find it somewhere, right, you
Speaker 1: gotta be It's gotta be a key all right. Mike
Speaker 1: from New York is on the line. Mike, how's it going?
Speaker 1: You're on talking cowboys? What's going on? Guys? I think
Speaker 1: keys to all postseason is penalties. We kind of cut
Speaker 1: down on them, penalties. We one of the most penalized teams.
Speaker 1: And it's it's about how about being disciplined and it's
Speaker 1: and I don't know, I say, I think that that's
Speaker 1: my biggest album, Pretty cowing going in San Francisco to tough,
Speaker 1: But we'll see. I agree completely. Thank you for the call, Mike,
Speaker 1: and he I mean, he makes a great point there
Speaker 1: about how penalties are going to decide games, specially when
Speaker 1: you get to the playoffs, because you cannot beat yourself.
Speaker 1: Have they figured this out yet? Probably? There's no way
Speaker 1: to tell, right, there's no way to tell. Even though
Speaker 1: they had a better game against Philadelphia. Yeah, we talked
Speaker 1: about it. I mean there's three games where you look
Speaker 1: at it and you're like, ah, the officiating crew, maybe
Speaker 1: you got a little flag happy, and they had maybe
Speaker 1: some legitimate gripes about that. Not a conspiracy, just a fact.
Speaker 1: And that's you know, there's certain trends with certain crews.
Speaker 1: But to his point, Cowboys lead the league in penalties
Speaker 1: one twenty seven and second in yards or they're up
Speaker 1: there in yards, not second, but they're up there in yards.
Speaker 1: And that's a trend. That's not oh, they're against us
Speaker 1: or whatever that And I think Mike has spoken to this.
Speaker 1: The holdings and stuff like that subjective to a certain degree,
Speaker 1: you know, but like Connor Williams, you can develop a
Speaker 1: reputation for that that can hurt you. The pre snap
Speaker 1: stuff is what they got to eliminate. You can't get
Speaker 1: false starts, you can't get all that stuff and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden dacks in second and fifteen, stuff like
Speaker 1: that that is not going to help you against this, uh,
Speaker 1: this pass rush, which is quite good. I was looking
Speaker 1: for who the actual officiating crew is. Alex Kemp Alex
Speaker 1: Camp eighth season, fourth as a referee. That's not one
Speaker 1: of the playoffs or not one of the previous referee
Speaker 1: crews that had given you trouble. I believe they're all
Speaker 1: star cruise now by the way, Yeah, this is like
Speaker 1: best of the best, so hopefully good point yea. Hopefully
Speaker 1: that plays a factor into it, if you were to
Speaker 1: say anything about the referees. But how big of a
Speaker 1: factor could penalties play in a game like that, whenever
Speaker 1: everything's on the line. It's huge. I mean that you
Speaker 1: would you would hate yourself for the rest of your
Speaker 1: life if you get to this, get to this level
Speaker 1: of play and have this this opportunity for a four
Speaker 1: game stretch to walk away with the most monumental thing
Speaker 1: achievement in your life aside from probably getting married or
Speaker 1: having a kid. And you go out there and you
Speaker 1: know that you're the one to to hurt your team's
Speaker 1: ability to move on because of penalties, whether that happens
Speaker 1: at the end of the game, whether it happens in
Speaker 1: the beginning of the game and you're in field goal
Speaker 1: range and all of a sudden, you commit a penalty
Speaker 1: that now puts you out of field goal range and
Speaker 1: you leave point, you take points off the board, or
Speaker 1: maybe it was third down, third and short and all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you have a holding penalty. Now is
Speaker 1: third and long, and now you're fair, you're punting the ball.
Speaker 1: Those things kill you. Our third down percentage of games
Speaker 1: that we have lost our third down a percentage has
Speaker 1: been trash. Has been four for thirteen, has been three,
Speaker 1: four eleven, whatever it has been, it's been awful. Those
Speaker 1: are the things that kill you offensively defensively. The teams
Speaker 1: that you're going to face in the NFC, these offenses,
Speaker 1: if you commit penalties and elongate their their drives, you
Speaker 1: will hate yourself. You can't give them second chances, get
Speaker 1: off the field on defense and score points on offense.
Speaker 1: Penalties obviously hurt your chances on both ends of the
Speaker 1: of the spectrum. Nobody wants to be that guy. No
Speaker 1: you don't. So if you don't want to be that guy,
Speaker 1: don't be that guy. But you just can't have a
Speaker 1: repeat of the Arizona game, those games where you you
Speaker 1: had opportunities in the running game to be called back
Speaker 1: through hold, And I mean that that's your ball game
Speaker 1: right there. Those those third down penalties is what costs it.
Speaker 1: And so look, I just you go back through all
Speaker 1: of our losses and look at the way we were
Speaker 1: penalized in those games, and you could come away and say, look, man,
Speaker 1: you might have had an opportunity to help yourself had
Speaker 1: you not done that. But that's all ifs and maybes.
Speaker 1: But right now, at this point, like you said, you
Speaker 1: just don't want to be that guy. They've had and
Speaker 1: they've defensively, they've had some personal foul penalties and Donovan
Speaker 1: Wilson hit Minshew in the head the other night. And
Speaker 1: it's a fine line to walk if you're Dan Quinn,
Speaker 1: because you want this defense playing fast and physical and
Speaker 1: getting after it, and that's been their calling card this year.
Speaker 1: So it's a fine line to walk. You don't want
Speaker 1: them to lose their aggressiveness. And special teams I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't want to leave out special teams. Special teams
Speaker 1: will I don't know about our games. Special teams will
Speaker 1: decide a team's ability to move on in these playoffs.
Speaker 1: I guaranteed, oh God, guaranteed. Oh no, always good. I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm just seeing I'm just seeing their lines kick
Speaker 1: being teed up. I'm just not well. I'm talking about
Speaker 1: special team's penalty. Okay, I'm not necessarily to feel old
Speaker 1: meager man probably happen. But some of the things that
Speaker 1: we saw earlier in the season, right, and making sure
Speaker 1: that you're not rough in a passer I'm a kicker,
Speaker 1: making sure that you're on size, you're not jumping off side,
Speaker 1: like those things that lock in the back, those things
Speaker 1: that could take a team from trying to you know,
Speaker 1: kick a field goad all of a sudden, now they're
Speaker 1: they're under center again. But that those things will kill
Speaker 1: you in this game. So special teams, all those guys
Speaker 1: that are depth guys, they have to be on high
Speaker 1: alert as well. Yep, can't be overaggressive. And it does.
Speaker 1: It gives us the bubble guts is there back again
Speaker 1: up in the playoffs, just in time for the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: this Tuesday. We've got some fun all week long. By
Speaker 1: the way, Friday, since we're done with like the pickums
Speaker 1: for the season, for the regular season, I don't want
Speaker 1: to end it just yet. I'm gonna bring a bracket
Speaker 1: to the table Friday. Every round that you pick right,
Speaker 1: so the first round will be one point, wildcard round
Speaker 1: will be one point, Divisional round will be two points,
Speaker 1: championship will be four points, and then if you pick
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Speaker 1: it all right. So there you go. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: bring that to the table on Friday to have some
Speaker 1: fun with our pickums. How about that? Who's in first
Speaker 1: right now? Definitely me by seven games, okay, because yeah,
Speaker 1: then it's fair. Yeah one of us were in first.
Speaker 1: It's like, oh, yeah, no, I'm back in this thing.
Speaker 1: Yeah no, I'm trying to get you back in this thing,
Speaker 1: all right. Actually I am up, Yeah, I'm up by
Speaker 1: seven games on Heckman who's in second place? Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: you sure you want to give much chance? Yeah? You
Speaker 1: think like Deebo over there right now, Yeah, you've got
Speaker 1: to kick the door down. No, you got it? Are
Speaker 1: you conceding victory? Oh? Noever, Okay he said he has.
Speaker 1: He said he has first place by seven games. I'm like,
Speaker 1: you got it. He's the one that's picking, he's the
Speaker 1: one that's counting the game. So I mean to say,
Speaker 1: he's looking over his shoulder. He better being one of
Speaker 1: those deals where you know he is definitely doctoring. That's
Speaker 1: not true. Go back and check them all. Go back
Speaker 1: and check them all, every single one of the stir fry. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've got I've got what do we get? He's Pokemon
Speaker 1: out here, he said, you gotta catch them all, but
Speaker 1: you gotta check them all. What do we What do
Speaker 1: we get? On this show? Like a hundred thousand listeners
Speaker 1: a week, and not one of them has has said
Speaker 1: that I've doctored anything. So I just say, over here,
Speaker 1: just I don't think so. I don't think I'm cooking.
Speaker 1: I don't think i'm anything actually cooking anything up. I
Speaker 1: did the pick hims last year, and I finished them
Speaker 1: last Okay, Kyle's grocery games. All right, Stephen, New York.
Speaker 1: You've been waiting patiently on the phone. You're back on
Speaker 1: talking cowboys. How's it going, Steve, Hey, what's going on?
Speaker 1: What's um? I sayah, kind of hit on what I
Speaker 1: was gonna ask you, based on Zeroline struggles. Do you
Speaker 1: think that, um, it's going to impact McCarthy some of
Speaker 1: his decisions. Maybe it's a guest like a orphan two
Speaker 1: or something in that mid range thirty five to forty
Speaker 1: five yards field goals. Do you think, yeah, maybe he'll
Speaker 1: go for it any of those which around. Yes, that's
Speaker 1: a heck of a question, Steve. I want to say
Speaker 1: you can't do it. I want to say, you know,
Speaker 1: but as the saying back in the hood, scared money,
Speaker 1: don't make money, and you have to give him an
Speaker 1: opportunity to prove who he was. You have to give
Speaker 1: him that opportunity because because if you go back, if
Speaker 1: you go into this game and you show that you
Speaker 1: don't have confidence of your kicker, it's done. He's he's
Speaker 1: mentally mentally he's screwed. I don't care how many kicks
Speaker 1: he's made. You have to show that you have confidence
Speaker 1: in him. You have to give him that opportunity. Now,
Speaker 1: if he proves you wrong, then you adjust. But I
Speaker 1: think initially you have to come out and say, hey,
Speaker 1: as soon as we crossed the forty, Greg, get your
Speaker 1: butt out there, let's go. So I didn't get to
Speaker 1: hear Jerry this morning, but he was asked about Greg's
Speaker 1: or lyne. He said, this is from Jama showed his
Speaker 1: struggles have absolutely quote, absolutely altered the game plan. He's
Speaker 1: a sound kicker, experience kicker. Our guys are all sensitive
Speaker 1: about how to approach the game. I don't they're very
Speaker 1: aggressive anyway on fourth down, So I don't know how
Speaker 1: much of it is they don't trust the kicker as
Speaker 1: opposed to Mike McCarthy. Got to go to the game
Speaker 1: plan you have. That's got to be a part of it.
Speaker 1: And just what Steve just said, Man, we get to
Speaker 1: the thirty five yard line and here we are three points.
Speaker 1: You drive, you do everything you possibly can, and you
Speaker 1: send their line out there. Where's your confidence level? Like
Speaker 1: where I want to see everybody in Cowboys Nation? Is
Speaker 1: heart rate at that moment? Does it go from like
Speaker 1: a sixty to like a ninety five? Just Scott to
Speaker 1: get that Apple watch out and it's like sees it sky,
Speaker 1: you guys send that in when the playoff. Let's do that. Okay,
Speaker 1: what hey, everybody out there in Cowboys Nation. If you
Speaker 1: guys have so prior any prior to the kick, I
Speaker 1: want you guys to chack take your pulse. Okay, well
Speaker 1: that's on your whatever the device you have. And then
Speaker 1: by the time he kicks it, I want everybody to
Speaker 1: to go ahead and dial it in, send it on Twitter.
Speaker 1: What was your your beats per minute? By the time,
Speaker 1: they're like, man, you don't know what kind of party
Speaker 1: in pople look at analytics after after you don't convert
Speaker 1: on third down and you look at your watch, you
Speaker 1: have the beat beats per minute and then as soon
Speaker 1: as the ball's in the air, you don't know what
Speaker 1: the result is looking at the game. Please do it.
Speaker 1: I want to see this Cowboys Nation. We need this
Speaker 1: media is qua Hey, whoever's up there dialing on this
Speaker 1: stuff in, please keep that track. I need to see that.
Speaker 1: I have like an NFL next gym on fan heartbeats.
Speaker 1: That'd be kind of fun. Yeah, that's hilarious. Heck was
Speaker 1: already and so you know that when I had a
Speaker 1: fit bit. I broke my fit bit. We were able
Speaker 1: to track each other's heart rate, so my wife would
Speaker 1: definitely be like, what are you doing? What's going on?
Speaker 1: And find I'm walking. There's a funny story about that.
Speaker 1: I said, it's done. You do realize that happened to James. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jane talked about what happened to Jane had they her
Speaker 1: and her like other had body each other? Fit Vince
Speaker 1: and he was having like spikes at like three am.
Speaker 1: You want to lunch? That's how he got you must
Speaker 1: jacking each other? What what kind of hot saush you
Speaker 1: got each other? They're checking all their performances around, maybe
Speaker 1: all of our listeners, all our male listeners about the
Speaker 1: give Vince and Ample watches the next time that God
Speaker 1: definitely going upstairs and talking to miss Nicky. I'm definitely
Speaker 1: oh uh, Mike and Iowa, you're on talking cowboys. That's
Speaker 1: not an end. This is the last one. Mike and Iowa,
Speaker 1: please get us back on track. How's it going? Okay,
Speaker 1: I'll get back on track. Howboy naked and everybody there
Speaker 1: when he's guy, I'm really pumped up when they get
Speaker 1: on that field and getting that huddle. They need to
Speaker 1: dedicate this one to John Madden. Boom pass up cowboy
Speaker 1: nagent just before John Madden boom, see you guys later,
Speaker 1: Bye bye. Thanks. How about that? That was awesome? Yeah,
Speaker 1: his heart rate is through the roof. I love it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: dedicated to John Madden. I love it. I love that. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Fantastic And he had the energy like John did too
Speaker 1: in that phone call, so I appreciate it. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much from all the way out in Newton, Iowa.
Speaker 1: But that doesn't for us here on talking cowboys. What
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Speaker 1: We're previewing the San Francisco offense versus the Dallas defense.
Speaker 1: What is Jimmy Garoppolo and company have in store for
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn Kyle Shanahan versus Dan Quinn former offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: of Dan's out in Atlanta. We'll talk about that matchup, coaching, matchup, quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: running backs. What's going on? Heavy birthday, John Neilson, Yes,
Speaker 1: John Nelson could save their heck on top of things.
Speaker 1: One of our friends from across the pond. Hope you're
Speaker 1: feeling better, John, Yes, absolutely, but happy birthday. We usually
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