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Speaker 1: back as always, gentlemen, how are we doing? Fantas fantastic cool?
Speaker 1: So moving in two week eighteen? Is it crazy to
Speaker 1: you that we are in the final week of the
Speaker 1: regular season? Tom Flies? It does, fly Man. But the
Speaker 1: good thing is we won't be done. What was the
Speaker 1: last questions? Like, Kawi for a second? You like that
Speaker 1: the year one by entirely too fast? Yeah, hopefully we're
Speaker 1: not anywhere near the finish all. I was thinking about
Speaker 1: it the other day. We were going two Cincinnati or
Speaker 1: playing Cincinnati in Week two, not knowing what this team
Speaker 1: was going to look like. Dak Prescott injured nineteen to
Speaker 1: three in Week one. Doesn't that seem like four ever ago?
Speaker 1: I mean, that seems like another lifetime. How long ago
Speaker 1: those games were happening early in the season. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, I also feel like we just were
Speaker 1: a training camp. We were just in Oxnard getting this
Speaker 1: thing started. So it's kind of a weird paradox of
Speaker 1: time of the way that the NFL season has gone.
Speaker 1: But I'm happy to be where we are at the moment. Well,
Speaker 1: it's you know, like we said all season, and particularly
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the season, you suffer that just
Speaker 1: Abismo loss to the Tampa by Buccaneers, and then you
Speaker 1: lose Dak Prescott, and you know, all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: fans are saying the sky is falling. You know, media
Speaker 1: pundits are saying the sky is falling. But we did not.
Speaker 1: We said there's a lot of football to be played.
Speaker 1: And there was even even Isaiah, who's like the leader
Speaker 1: of the chart sometimes when the sky is falling Badwagon,
Speaker 1: even he was like, hold up, let's let's top the
Speaker 1: brakes here. Yeah, a lot of football that needed to
Speaker 1: be played, and now the Cowboys played it and applied
Speaker 1: pressure to the Philadelphia Eagles going into week eighteen, and
Speaker 1: like Asaiah said, hopefully there's a lot more football to
Speaker 1: be played because as everyone knows, this is the starting
Speaker 1: line next week with Super wild Card weekend, so this
Speaker 1: is not the finish line. The regular season has ended
Speaker 1: or is about to end. But then dance, it's coming.
Speaker 1: It's time for the prom That's the thing about where
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are right now after that start is everything
Speaker 1: is still on the table for you. Every single goal
Speaker 1: you set out to start when you did start in
Speaker 1: Oxnard is still there. Win your division. You could win
Speaker 1: that this week. Now you need a little bit of
Speaker 1: help to do so. You've needed a little bit of
Speaker 1: help to do so, maybe a lot of help, but
Speaker 1: you could still do that. Be the number one seed
Speaker 1: in the NFC. You need a little bit more help
Speaker 1: to be the number one seed in the NFCA. However,
Speaker 1: you can still do that. You could still make a run,
Speaker 1: you could still get a buy, you could still go
Speaker 1: to the wild card and make a run from there. Regardless,
Speaker 1: if you've got everything in front of you going into
Speaker 1: the final week, of the regular season. If I were
Speaker 1: to tell you that and then also say that you
Speaker 1: matched your win total from last year, what would you
Speaker 1: say about this season? Ridiculous? This season has just been
Speaker 1: there's no way right. I mean, I figured the Cowboys
Speaker 1: would would fight the adversity, and you know that's why
Speaker 1: I figured they've bounced back and defeat the Bengals, even
Speaker 1: after you know the the what happened in Week one,
Speaker 1: including the loss of Dak Prescott. But you know, even me,
Speaker 1: even myself, having predicted a twelve and five season back
Speaker 1: in March when I was looking forward, you know, having
Speaker 1: some foresight for the season, obviously didn't predict that you
Speaker 1: lose Dak Prescott for five games, etcetera, etcetera. Still on,
Speaker 1: that didn't change it. But nonetheless, I'm not mad at
Speaker 1: anyone who might have predicted twelve and then saw the
Speaker 1: loss of Dak Prescott and then shaved it back to
Speaker 1: ten or nine wins. I mean that that was just
Speaker 1: logical to do so. But again, here they are twelve
Speaker 1: on the cusp of potentially getting thirteen, thirteen and four
Speaker 1: after losing your starting quarterback for five games. The Eagles
Speaker 1: couldn't get one win with their starting quarterback, I mean
Speaker 1: with their backup quarterback, and they're supposed to be world beaters.
Speaker 1: So you know, shout out out to the Cowboys, and
Speaker 1: it is something that you said yesterday and we really
Speaker 1: need to just give kudos to this coaching staff has
Speaker 1: been magnificent. They've they've whether the storm, yeah they have not.
Speaker 1: With the win over Tennessee, they have now registered a
Speaker 1: season in which no two game losing stream none. I
Speaker 1: think the only other team that has that can boast
Speaker 1: that now that the Eagles have suffered that are the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings, and I know the Kansas City Chiefs, so
Speaker 1: I think if the Vikings were to lose in Week eighteen,
Speaker 1: then only the Chiefs and Cowboys could could make that claim.
Speaker 1: And that's pretty good company right there. Yeah, last time
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have lost back to back games was the
Speaker 1: week eleven, Week twelve, the short week with Kansas City
Speaker 1: and Las Vegas going into Thanksgiving in twenty twenty one.
Speaker 1: So it's been a long time since you've lost back
Speaker 1: to back matchups in the same season. So that's always
Speaker 1: fun to look at now kind of makes me one funny.
Speaker 1: I always want to beat the rivals. I want to
Speaker 1: beat everybody, sure in fact this period. But funny thought
Speaker 1: on the way here, you know, team hasn't lost two
Speaker 1: in a row. You know, maybe to guarantee that first
Speaker 1: playoff around win, maybe you drop one and watch drop one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: don't do it though, stop but yeah, don't do it.
Speaker 1: But just funny thought, I said, funny thought. Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 1: I got my laugh. And now let's move on. All right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's let's pretend like that one didn't happen. Isaiah's just
Speaker 1: looking down at his iPad or as a tablet right now.
Speaker 1: I'm looking into the percentages of the scenarios, potential scenarios
Speaker 1: I knew as I knew it the question. That's that's
Speaker 1: where I'm That's where I'm looking at. So I'm looking
Speaker 1: at the percentage of chance that they win with the vision,
Speaker 1: the conference and you know host A, you know, the
Speaker 1: two seed, like I'm looking at all those Okay, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you the scenarios that it takes while
Speaker 1: you find the percentages of of the likelihood of each
Speaker 1: of those scenarios. So Dallas has to win regardless if
Speaker 1: they lose. There the five seed, plain and simple boom,
Speaker 1: there you go. So that's the one to the five.
Speaker 1: Those are the three potential seeds for the Cowboys. If
Speaker 1: you lose, you're the five. If Philly wins, you are
Speaker 1: also the five. Or ties. Philly wins or ties in
Speaker 1: their matchup against the New York Giants, you are the five.
Speaker 1: So there you go. There's scenarios one and two that
Speaker 1: lead to the five. If you are going to win
Speaker 1: your division, you need Philadelphia to lose and you need
Speaker 1: to win as well. That would make you the two
Speaker 1: seed if San Francisco wins. So San Francisco is playing
Speaker 1: the Arizona Cardinals Cardinals at four and thirteen right now
Speaker 1: or whatever it ends up. I think four and twelve
Speaker 1: probably going to be four and thirteen. The possibility that
Speaker 1: you are going to be the one seed is very
Speaker 1: low because it would take Philadelphia and San Francisco losing,
Speaker 1: plus you would have to be point washington point zero
Speaker 1: seven percent chance that you're the one seed. Yeah, that's fair. Honestly,
Speaker 1: that's a fair percent. There's a shot, one point seven
Speaker 1: point seven shot, So curve this not even a full
Speaker 1: percentage point. So if you're looking at it in a
Speaker 1: in a fraction, that is point o seven out of one,
Speaker 1: So not a whole lot to look at there, However,
Speaker 1: it's something you need. What's do you have the ones
Speaker 1: for winning your division against Philly? Winning the division is
Speaker 1: six percent? Six percent? Yeah? And then and that would
Speaker 1: mean you're the two seed and you would play either
Speaker 1: Green Bay or Detroit. The winner of that game, yeah,
Speaker 1: would win a division. The Cowboys need to win. Eagles
Speaker 1: need to say Green Bay or Detroit. Right to secure
Speaker 1: the top seed, they need to win. Eagles need to
Speaker 1: lose forty nine, Ers need to lose correct. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: To be the two seed, you need to win. Eagles
Speaker 1: need to lose, correct, and then everything else leads to
Speaker 1: the five seed at Tampa Bay in wild Card weekend.
Speaker 1: Who would you rather face Tampa? Tampa? Not even a question?
Speaker 1: Not over Green Bay right now? Tampa give me Tampa,
Speaker 1: give me on the road or at home against green Bay?
Speaker 1: Well so, so say well, because you're at home against
Speaker 1: green Bay. You know I how Tom Brady in the
Speaker 1: highest of his teams play with him, he's the goat. Okay,
Speaker 1: he's still fully capable of playing really well. Mike Evans
Speaker 1: Finally they finally connected last week. They figure that out. Okay,
Speaker 1: two plush yards, even with those guys figuring it out,
Speaker 1: even with them having all their weapons and all that, Jazz,
Speaker 1: I believe that we match up really well against Tampa.
Speaker 1: Beginning of the year, we took that ill and I
Speaker 1: felt like we were gonna take that all right right now,
Speaker 1: if we played Tampa, I feel very confident in our
Speaker 1: ability to shut down what they do well because I
Speaker 1: don't believe that their office A line can handle the
Speaker 1: defensive front of Dallas. And that's both in the running
Speaker 1: game because they don't have a solid running game, so
Speaker 1: they have to depend on their passing game and well,
Speaker 1: they don't have the most mobile quarterbacks regardless of how
Speaker 1: smart and intellectually intelligent here. So I think that Dallas
Speaker 1: has advantage against Tampa. You go to Green Bay, it's
Speaker 1: kind of funny. They have less weapons than Tampa, but
Speaker 1: they have a dude who has a drive. Out of
Speaker 1: this world. Now, when I say that, people are automatically
Speaker 1: gonna look at it and say, well, Tom Brady doesn't
Speaker 1: have a drive. Absolutely, he has a drive, But Tom
Speaker 1: Brady isn't as streaky as Aaron Rodgers. And when Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers is in Aaron Rodgers mode. It's I don't care
Speaker 1: who's receiving the ball. He's a dude, and I just
Speaker 1: you just don't want to face him, especially in Green Bay. Well, well,
Speaker 1: first of all, let me say this, I think the
Speaker 1: Lions are gonna beat them. I think, dude, we're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna pick that game on Friday, and I might
Speaker 1: I like Detroit. Yeah there's you don't want to face
Speaker 1: Detroit either? Yeah, I think I would if you had
Speaker 1: to give me the option. I'm just saying, but like
Speaker 1: detroits of dangerous team. We talked about that when we
Speaker 1: face them, right, they hit the crap out of us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with the fighting Dan Camp, they'll bite off some knee caps. Yeah. Um.
Speaker 1: I mean I say that to say I don't think
Speaker 1: this is going to be a conversation next week. But
Speaker 1: to answer your question, I honestly don't care. And I
Speaker 1: understand why people do, because it's all about matchups and
Speaker 1: I get it. I get the science behind it, But
Speaker 1: for me, it's about Catharsis, right. Um. And And you know,
Speaker 1: to kind of glance over to MLB for a quick second,
Speaker 1: and you know, you guys know how much I love
Speaker 1: my braves but this is a situation where be it
Speaker 1: the slight odds of stealing away the division. Everybody's like
Speaker 1: or not everybody, but a lot of people are like, well,
Speaker 1: go ahead and rest the starters because the chancels are
Speaker 1: too slim, etcetera, etcetera. If you follow MLB and you
Speaker 1: saw what the Braves were able to do to the Mets,
Speaker 1: all you need is a shot. Okay, But if you
Speaker 1: look at the twenty twenty season and you look at
Speaker 1: it from the standpoint of how the Braves won that
Speaker 1: World Series, right, they had to go through they had
Speaker 1: to exercise their demons from the Dodgers, they had to
Speaker 1: exercise demons from the Astros. I mean, they had to
Speaker 1: run through goliaths to get it done. And you get
Speaker 1: it done and now no one, no one can question it.
Speaker 1: There are no doubts. So if you had to go
Speaker 1: through Rogers and or Brady in order to get the title,
Speaker 1: what questions could haters have for you? Like, what doubts
Speaker 1: could they have? There's nothing, It's at It's pure unadulterated catharsis.
Speaker 1: So I see it from both points. I see the
Speaker 1: matchup thing. Oh well yeah we do, and I agree
Speaker 1: we do match up better against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Speaker 1: than you would Aaron Rodgers. And we know Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: does love playing an AT and T stadium. We we've
Speaker 1: seen that, We've we live in the trauma. We're still
Speaker 1: trying to recover from the trauma of that. Yeah. But
Speaker 1: that being said, I just I want to beat the best,
Speaker 1: like I want you to show me all this talk
Speaker 1: about this team is being special. Okay, show me God,
Speaker 1: line up against Tom Brady whom you've never defeated, and
Speaker 1: possibly retire him. Okay, invite Aaron Rodgers in and say,
Speaker 1: you know what, you are the one who has prevented
Speaker 1: You have broken our hearts in the postseason time and again,
Speaker 1: great storyline, it's time for us to break yours en
Speaker 1: route to breaking a two and a half decade long drought. Yes,
Speaker 1: there's there's a lot to be said for me, for Catharsus,
Speaker 1: and that nothing would be more cathartic than to run
Speaker 1: through Brady and or Rogers en route to hoisting. Do
Speaker 1: you think do you think we could just fast forward
Speaker 1: to Wildcard weekend? Oh? Because I'm ready in a role
Speaker 1: that you got me riled up. But I agree, I
Speaker 1: think that's what the mindset should be going into the
Speaker 1: playoffs this year is I don't care who you are
Speaker 1: on the other side, You're gonna get it. And you've
Speaker 1: talked about that too, Isaiah, You've talked about it before.
Speaker 1: Even going into last year's playoff run, you didn't feel
Speaker 1: like this team had that mentality. Do they have it
Speaker 1: this year or is it at least a little bit closer?
Speaker 1: I don't feel any better at this point really now
Speaker 1: after this week's game. I might feel differently now from
Speaker 1: what I've seen from this team over the last month.
Speaker 1: I do not feel that they have that killer, consistent,
Speaker 1: killer instinct right now. I think that you don't know
Speaker 1: what team you're going to see every Sunday? Are we
Speaker 1: Are we nitpicking that too much though, because if they
Speaker 1: win this week against Washington and they put it put
Speaker 1: it away, they were able to get it done early.
Speaker 1: They'll enter the playoffs having won seven of their last eight,
Speaker 1: seven of eight so in the season. That's why the
Speaker 1: stat line. I don't just look at stat lines. You know,
Speaker 1: you know, I know you don't how you won those games.
Speaker 1: And people are gonna say, oll ws aw, Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's true, right, it shows up as a w but
Speaker 1: how you won those games matters as well. Sure, Okay, um,
Speaker 1: how you yeah, exactly. I'm just gonna leave it at that.
Speaker 1: So I agree. I don't feel at this point of
Speaker 1: the season that they are complete dogs right now. We'll see.
Speaker 1: And this is why. This is another reason why you
Speaker 1: don't rest starters, no doubt, because you need the momentum.
Speaker 1: And this is why I believe that Brian Dable is
Speaker 1: honest when he says no, he's not going to rest starters.
Speaker 1: It's because for a similar now, well i'm not going
Speaker 1: to say similar, but not entirely dissimilar reason. The Giants
Speaker 1: need this final game to fine tune some things and
Speaker 1: make sure that they're on the right track. The Cowboys,
Speaker 1: in the same breath, need this final game against the Commanders,
Speaker 1: not only because they have a very slim chance of
Speaker 1: being able to move up from five to possibly two,
Speaker 1: maybe even one. We'll see how things shake out, but
Speaker 1: worst case scenario, they need to make sure that some
Speaker 1: of the holes in the run defense is short up,
Speaker 1: some of the holes in the secondary are short up.
Speaker 1: Keep in mind, you're Nishan right has played for the
Speaker 1: most part better than you would have hoped he would
Speaker 1: have played being thrust into the situation he was thrust
Speaker 1: in this late in the season after giving Kelvin Joseph
Speaker 1: the first couple of nads. That was a lot to
Speaker 1: ask of Nishan, Right, he needs this game as well.
Speaker 1: So I say all that to say, you're right. If
Speaker 1: you're talking about the Cowboys team that played the Titans
Speaker 1: and lost to the Jaguars going into the playoffs right now,
Speaker 1: there's concern there. But use and utilize this final game
Speaker 1: to say, hey, you know what, let's just go beat
Speaker 1: the hell out of Washington. Let's just hang fifty on them,
Speaker 1: fifty to three, fifty to zero, and make sure that
Speaker 1: this is not only a game that we're using to
Speaker 1: try to better our standing in the playoffs seed, but
Speaker 1: also to send the message to the league that hey,
Speaker 1: we are ready for the playoffs, so let's let's do it.
Speaker 1: So let use this game for that. If nothing knils,
Speaker 1: I agree, it's a it's a ramp up, and it's
Speaker 1: also a chance for you to keep your hopes alive
Speaker 1: of winning a division and possibly points seven percent chance
Speaker 1: to get the bye week, which that bye week is
Speaker 1: those odds if there was one team that you think
Speaker 1: would hurt to have the bye week, it might be
Speaker 1: San Francisco. That's a team that's won their last nine games.
Speaker 1: They're probably gonna win ten straight going into their playoff push.
Speaker 1: So you talk about a team that's been playing well
Speaker 1: and continuing to win, San Francisco's on that that type
Speaker 1: of tear right now. So a bye week may actually
Speaker 1: kind of be counteractive to what they're doing. I could
Speaker 1: see that because you're hitting pause a momentum, whereas Philly
Speaker 1: and Dallas they could each very much so use a
Speaker 1: bye week. The thing is when it comes to bye week,
Speaker 1: and I don't whole hardly disagree with you. Yeah, when
Speaker 1: you have a good percentage of your team that has
Speaker 1: had good playoff experience, you can afford for guys to
Speaker 1: have a week off. You can afford for guys to
Speaker 1: to rest guys right if you're in a position to
Speaker 1: do so, because you are fully they're fully You're fully
Speaker 1: confident that with that time off they're still gonna come
Speaker 1: back and do their job because the moment's not too
Speaker 1: big for them. Been there before. Counterpoint green Bay. Last year,
Speaker 1: green Bay was the one seed. What happened? They lost
Speaker 1: to the San Francisco forty nine ers, a team that
Speaker 1: on paper was not as good as that Green Bay teams.
Speaker 1: And you know what, that's right, But we can all
Speaker 1: agree San France mentality is totally different than any other
Speaker 1: team in this league. Sure there's they're in a category there, oh,
Speaker 1: which is why you don't want to face them, not
Speaker 1: from the roster standpoint, from the mentality standpoint, right from
Speaker 1: their their their approach to the game is totally different
Speaker 1: than everybody else's. And I'm fully fine standing, I'm all
Speaker 1: honest saying that we got to taste of that last year.
Speaker 1: Are used? They were not no, no, no, no scared,
Speaker 1: no no, not scary. Say when he got her, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter who hands the ball off of that, right,
Speaker 1: it does not matter. Right. But the thing I'm that's
Speaker 1: what I'm waiting to see from Dallas. Dallas on paper
Speaker 1: has the best roster in football. They're all healthy, absolutely
Speaker 1: best roster in football. Last year I would have to
Speaker 1: say the same, their roster was substantially better than San Francisco.
Speaker 1: What did it come down to? Execution and mentality? I
Speaker 1: haven't seen that dog from Dallas. You don't feel like
Speaker 1: Dallas is gonna drag every team that they face. You
Speaker 1: don't feel like they're just gonna come out of it.
Speaker 1: Every game that they faced were playing to the level
Speaker 1: of our competition. Fair point, and I agree with that, um.
Speaker 1: But here's a counterpoint to that. Which team in the league,
Speaker 1: And this is an actual question. Whose team in the
Speaker 1: league has shown you that every single week they can
Speaker 1: drag somebody? I think the best team right now is
Speaker 1: San Francisco team. Every week they can drag somebody. It
Speaker 1: just took them a field. San Francisco's playing with their
Speaker 1: third quarterback. I hear what you're saying, and they're still executing.
Speaker 1: That's the same level they're beating. Do you feel as
Speaker 1: if I do? Every they just showed you they almost lost,
Speaker 1: say dragged. I'm not even talking about the points. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about physically just beating the crap out of somebody
Speaker 1: and controlling the game. It doesn't have to always points
Speaker 1: That didn't just happened against the Raiders. The Raiders had
Speaker 1: the lead on it, and the Raiders have wanted If
Speaker 1: you look on paper, Raiders have a heck of a
Speaker 1: freaking roster, and Raiders coaches trash. The coaches trash but
Speaker 1: on paper before the season, what was everybody saying, the
Speaker 1: Raiders have their roster is freaking ridiculous Chandler Jones. So
Speaker 1: I mean, you can't disregard the fact that they're they're
Speaker 1: playing bad, but their roster is still amazing. What I'm
Speaker 1: saying is hashtag keep that energy. Again, I don't disagree.
Speaker 1: I believe that the Cowboys have shown instances of playing
Speaker 1: down the competition. Undeniable, the Coats for three quarters, the
Speaker 1: Texans for fifty nine minutes, right, And I'm not going
Speaker 1: to say Jacksonville because we agree that Jacksonville is in
Speaker 1: a different stratosphere than the Coats, the Texans, and even
Speaker 1: the Titans at this point. But played against you know,
Speaker 1: played it with your food against the Tennessee Titans, So
Speaker 1: you're right in that aspect. My point is, be at
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs. They've shown that they can play
Speaker 1: down the competition. Buffalo Bills have shown they can play
Speaker 1: down the competition. The Philadelphia Eagles with Jalen Hurts have
Speaker 1: played down the competition almost lost to the Code. So
Speaker 1: can I ask you direct question. My point is, at
Speaker 1: this point in the season, because to use Kyle's words,
Speaker 1: it is so wide open in both conferences. It's so
Speaker 1: wide open. All you have to make sure that you
Speaker 1: do is be the best that particular day. That's it.
Speaker 1: That's it, because because you might you might. I totally
Speaker 1: agree with you. Yeah, if Dallas shows up Dallas, it
Speaker 1: wins most of these games. Yeah, Okay, I don't I
Speaker 1: don't care who they face. Totally agree with you. However,
Speaker 1: you don't know what Dallas is gonna show up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And that's the problem that goes back to Patrick's point
Speaker 1: of the only team that can beat this team? Yeah
Speaker 1: is this team? Well guess what. They better figure it
Speaker 1: out because I can't put them in the same category
Speaker 1: as in the confidence going into the playoffs as a Buffalo,
Speaker 1: as a Kansas City. I can't do it. I can't
Speaker 1: do it yet. Roster wise, I roster wise, I can. Yeah,
Speaker 1: roster wise, like roster wise and coaching you can. Okay,
Speaker 1: But unfortunately that's not the whole thing. You just said.
Speaker 1: Two AFC teams, by the way, I know, I know,
Speaker 1: but I'm just talking about the confidence that you have.
Speaker 1: But the competence Saloff, I'm speaking on the confidence that
Speaker 1: you have though in those teams. Now right when city
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. You expect in the playoffs. Oh, you
Speaker 1: think about Dallas in the playoffs, But I think, I think,
Speaker 1: I think a large part of that, A part of
Speaker 1: that is what you're saying. But the larger driving force
Speaker 1: behind the lack of confidence in the Cowboys being in
Speaker 1: the playoffs this season is because of the Cowboys in
Speaker 1: the playoffs last season and their inability to make it
Speaker 1: to the playoffs. The season projects so forth and so on.
Speaker 1: So until the Cowboys make the run exactly, there's going
Speaker 1: to be the psychosis of Cowboys in the playoffs. They
Speaker 1: broke them a heart so many times. So I'm not
Speaker 1: saying you're wrong, but I think in there, in that
Speaker 1: wonderful big brain of yours, is actually trauma speaking more
Speaker 1: so than to show me I want to playoff of
Speaker 1: which is fair. But I'm saying I want to play
Speaker 1: off of that when we come back. Is there a
Speaker 1: psychological advantage of the Cowboys this year that we're not
Speaker 1: talking about? Okay, I want to hit it on the
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Speaker 1: Back here on talking cowboys. We're continuing the discussion leading
Speaker 1: into the playoffs. I promise we're gonna preview Washington's offense
Speaker 1: and Dallas's defense at some point throughout the next twenty
Speaker 1: five minutes or so. However, I want to playoff of
Speaker 1: what we talked about at the end of that first segment,
Speaker 1: because Patrick is talking about how this year has a
Speaker 1: chance to be different, and it absolutely does. You every
Speaker 1: time there's a chance. Yes, Isaiah's talking about the mindset
Speaker 1: and how it's not the same or it is the same.
Speaker 1: Early you feel the same as it was last year. Right,
Speaker 1: So last year you're going into that playoff game against
Speaker 1: San Francisco, a lot of your roster you don't understand
Speaker 1: what you're going to get from them in a playoffs scenario.
Speaker 1: You had some core guys that have been around since
Speaker 1: the last time the Cowboys were in the playoffs, but
Speaker 1: for the most part, the roster turnover was much different
Speaker 1: from twenty twenty to twenty twenty one. However, from twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one to twenty twenty two, is there a psychological
Speaker 1: advantage one because it's the majority of the same guys
Speaker 1: that are on the field with you this time around
Speaker 1: as they were last time around. Even with some sprinkled
Speaker 1: end injuries. There's not a ton of newcomers that are
Speaker 1: going out and playing a significant number snaw. So that
Speaker 1: means there's a couple I mean, Anthony Barr one of them,
Speaker 1: couple guys on the back end. But that's about it. However,
Speaker 1: now you have that heartbreak, you have that San Francisco
Speaker 1: game to lean back on and say, I don't want
Speaker 1: that to happen again. You didn't have that before. And
Speaker 1: it's also the first time you've won back to back
Speaker 1: twelve win seasons since ninety six? Awesome? Is this the
Speaker 1: best chance for the Cowboys psychologically to have an advantage knowing, Okay,
Speaker 1: we can't let that happen again. We got to take
Speaker 1: care of business in the playoffs whenever we get there.
Speaker 1: Absolutely absolutely, heartache helps you. It should learn from if
Speaker 1: you learn from it right, otherwise you're bound to what
Speaker 1: repeat it. So I hope that that that hurts. I
Speaker 1: hope they got a little a little, a little stab
Speaker 1: in the side right there, kid. I hope that's just uncomfortable, right,
Speaker 1: like a little dog on splinter that you want to
Speaker 1: get out. I hope that's there because that pain reminds you,
Speaker 1: and when you're reminded of a pain point, you don't
Speaker 1: want to repeat that pain point. So they need that
Speaker 1: to drive them towards success. So to answer your question, yes,
Speaker 1: my concern is what Dallas does. Let's let me back
Speaker 1: it up a little bit. When you think about teams,
Speaker 1: if you had to say one way in which your
Speaker 1: team was going to beat you, right, you think about
Speaker 1: san France, right, we talk about san Fran's mentality. How
Speaker 1: san Fran gonna beat you. They're gonna be there physically,
Speaker 1: gonna beat you up. Yeah, okay for the full game.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter over time or not. They're gonna beat
Speaker 1: you up physically, okay. Kansas City finish, yeah, speed, they're
Speaker 1: gonna score. They're gonna score, right, They're gonna I'll score you. Yeah, right, Dallas,
Speaker 1: how's Dallas beat you? To run the ball? Is that
Speaker 1: what the first team comes in your mind? I was saying,
Speaker 1: pass rush rush, What have we not been? You haven't
Speaker 1: been winning on your pass rush? You see what I'm
Speaker 1: saying sometimes about the identity of the team. So so
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that there's not other ways to win,
Speaker 1: but I'm saying the identity of your team and what
Speaker 1: typically would carry you through to beat opponents, and especially
Speaker 1: really high opponents. Yeah, you have to be doing that
Speaker 1: will and look at even Philly. That's another team that
Speaker 1: you would say, what is their identity getting after people?
Speaker 1: It's gonna be their defensive front seven. They've been getting
Speaker 1: after people. They're the first team. And I god knows
Speaker 1: how long there was a stat out there this week
Speaker 1: on Twitter. I got to look at it to get
Speaker 1: it completely right that had lost after sacking the quarterback
Speaker 1: seven times in a game. So, even as good as
Speaker 1: you are pass rush wise, you gotta have something else
Speaker 1: to rely on resolutely. So what all I'm saying is
Speaker 1: that Dallas can beat you other ways, but they have
Speaker 1: to get their identity back, and right now their identity
Speaker 1: is not present. Coupled with you're turning the ball over.
Speaker 1: So if you're not so, if you're so, so, what
Speaker 1: I'm saying so if you're not getting home? Because that
Speaker 1: was west of what everybody fears the team has. There
Speaker 1: has to be one thing that teams fear about you.
Speaker 1: What do you fear about Dallas pass rush? You fear
Speaker 1: don't let them, don't let them boys get home, gone
Speaker 1: get in the past. The situation Dalla's gonna get, They're
Speaker 1: gonna get home. They're gonna sack you cause you third
Speaker 1: and long take the ball away. They haven't been doing that. No, okay, Um,
Speaker 1: then you go on the other side of the ball
Speaker 1: and we're giving the ball away. So that combination does
Speaker 1: not make me feel good. It doesn't make me feel good.
Speaker 1: Not saying that we can't overcome it, not saying that
Speaker 1: that light switch can't come back on. But as of
Speaker 1: right now, if I'm standing today, that's why I need
Speaker 1: this last game to show up. Okay, as of today,
Speaker 1: I don't feel that what Dallas does best they are
Speaker 1: doing at a high level right now because they're not
Speaker 1: and you're giving the ball away. That that scenario right
Speaker 1: there on both side of the ball does not equate
Speaker 1: two wins in the playoffs. I do feel like they
Speaker 1: still have their identity. They know exactly who they are defensively,
Speaker 1: and they know exactly who they are offensively as far
Speaker 1: as run first and then playoff the play action and
Speaker 1: get the plays down the field. So I do disagree
Speaker 1: in that aspect. I will say the pass rush needs
Speaker 1: to get home. That's something that should be no surprise
Speaker 1: because if for those that listen to the show religiously,
Speaker 1: the receipts are out there, you gotta get home once
Speaker 1: you get hands on these guys, whether it be Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence or you know, Jalen Hurts. Eventually, you know, you
Speaker 1: got to bring those guys down to the ground. But
Speaker 1: the pass rush disruptions have remained best in the league.
Speaker 1: They're still getting back there. I will say, once again
Speaker 1: agree with you, it's the giveaways. If you stop giving
Speaker 1: the ball away a lot better position, the Cowboys odds
Speaker 1: of winning games jump exponentially. So that's what I need
Speaker 1: to see from them in the playoffs. You're not going
Speaker 1: to get five or six sacks every game going forward,
Speaker 1: hopefully to the super Bowl, because look at the compet
Speaker 1: the level of competition you're about to go up against.
Speaker 1: But you can continue to get your disruptions as you
Speaker 1: have been. You can't continue to get your takeaways as
Speaker 1: you have been. But the question is are you going
Speaker 1: to give added possessions to Tom Brady or Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: or you know, don't do it. But so if you don't,
Speaker 1: you win these games. Say you saw it in Green Bay,
Speaker 1: and yeah, I'm not saying, you know, just making the point.
Speaker 1: You saw it in Green Bay. So let it be
Speaker 1: the throne in their pall. Let the overtime loss in
Speaker 1: green Bay, which was irreally similar to the overtime loss
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville. I think that that's just the universe sending
Speaker 1: the Cowboys a message used to Jacksonville jackbuoys as a
Speaker 1: reminder to say, hey, maybe you forgot what happened in
Speaker 1: Green Bay, so let's give you a late season reminder
Speaker 1: that hopefully will carry you to and through a playoff run.
Speaker 1: Because as the Cowboys entered the playoffs that the most
Speaker 1: recent humiliation that they have is fairly just. It's just
Speaker 1: that it's recent. It just happened a couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: Or going Baxonville pick six off the hands of Noah Brown,
Speaker 1: you lose that game, and what was Dex's body language
Speaker 1: after that game, like, Wow, I can't believe this happened.
Speaker 1: Remember that, mister Prescott. Remember that feeling, because you don't
Speaker 1: want to feel it a game when you get up,
Speaker 1: when you have a lead on the team, whomever you're playing.
Speaker 1: And I believe if the Cowboys don't give the ball away,
Speaker 1: they're going it doesn't matter who Tom Brady Arrod. They're
Speaker 1: going to have a league, and there's going to be
Speaker 1: a two score league. Question is can you maintain it,
Speaker 1: and yes you can if you don't throw the ball away. Yeah,
Speaker 1: those are two games that if you go back and
Speaker 1: you look at you had multi score leads and you
Speaker 1: blew it against teams at that point that didn't look
Speaker 1: like they were great. Now. Jacksonville if they win this week,
Speaker 1: they're in the playoffs. Green Bay, if they win this week,
Speaker 1: they're in the playoffs. But those are playoff caliber teams
Speaker 1: with good quarterbacks. You had them beat, you had them
Speaker 1: dead in the water, and you weren't able to close it.
Speaker 1: So you know, now you've got you've got the playoff
Speaker 1: teams because you know now, I mean, it turns out
Speaker 1: they're not world beaters. Wonder who the I mean. That's
Speaker 1: the thing though, is if they end up both of
Speaker 1: those teams end up winning, which honestly, I think there's
Speaker 1: a chance both of them do end up winning. All
Speaker 1: four of your losses are against playoff teams. But if
Speaker 1: you take half of those away, you're the number one
Speaker 1: seed in the in the in the playoffs. You've got
Speaker 1: to buy we're not even talking about all this stuff.
Speaker 1: But you didn't do it. You didn't take care of business.
Speaker 1: So that needs to be a calling card for this
Speaker 1: team going into the playoffs. Let's talk about Washington though
Speaker 1: coming up this week. The Commanders, they've got their own problems,
Speaker 1: their own set of problems. Ron Rivera this morning he
Speaker 1: said this. Would you hear what he said this morning
Speaker 1: in the press conference, He said he didn't even realize
Speaker 1: that it was an elimination sea. He had no idea
Speaker 1: it was an elimination game. That talks to their leadership. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a problem there somewhere they had, Carson Wentzon. They're
Speaker 1: now flipping back to Taylor Heney I knew that they
Speaker 1: didn't know flipping back to Taylor Haneke and mixing in
Speaker 1: the rookie Sam Howell. So that that's the news that
Speaker 1: came out this mone good is that they're going to
Speaker 1: flip back to Taylor Honekey, but they're also going to
Speaker 1: get the rookie some snaps and obviously we don't know
Speaker 1: what the person is going to be. But from the
Speaker 1: Cowboys standpoint, you've kind of seen this before Driscoll and
Speaker 1: Davis Mills Texans so started last week, or you thought
Speaker 1: you were going to see it last week with Dobbs
Speaker 1: and Willis in the Minust has changed for Washington now.
Speaker 1: Now Washington is looking towards next year. Now, they're trying
Speaker 1: to figure out, Okay, who's gonna be who's gonna be
Speaker 1: here next year? We see that. That's why I say
Speaker 1: the players. Though the players are, they're more most certainly
Speaker 1: fine for the jobs. So absolutely, I still don't believe
Speaker 1: the news comes out and everybody's like, yeah, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be you know fifty and it should be. But
Speaker 1: it should have been regardless of if it was wins Honeker,
Speaker 1: how it should have been. It should be exactly that.
Speaker 1: So this quarterback news doesn't change that for me, and
Speaker 1: we'll talk predictions later in the week. But what it
Speaker 1: does do is tell me that the Cowboys might need
Speaker 1: to prep a different way. Right you you already played
Speaker 1: Taylor Honeke, You played against Carson went several times. You
Speaker 1: know how to play against him. Okay, so just approach
Speaker 1: it with kind of like the Texans. It's mindset where
Speaker 1: it's just like, okay, we don't know who they're going
Speaker 1: to start, and they kind of caught us off guard.
Speaker 1: So don't let the commanders get you off guard with
Speaker 1: you know, one play, it's how the next plays. Tina
Speaker 1: Key wanting the next play is how just be prepared
Speaker 1: for that and go do what you were supposed to
Speaker 1: do anyway, which is just blow the doors off this
Speaker 1: team because it's it's a dysfunctional team. It's a dysfunctional organization,
Speaker 1: and there is no reason that they should be in
Speaker 1: this game by the time halftime rose around. They've got
Speaker 1: a lot of issues. But is this a better Washington
Speaker 1: roster than you saw in week four? Yes? I think
Speaker 1: so too, Yes, but we can't talk about that till
Speaker 1: tomorrow because it's on the defensive side of the ball. Offensively,
Speaker 1: they're not very good right now. No. I mean, they
Speaker 1: had a chance and they started to kind of sneak
Speaker 1: up right in the middle of the year, and then
Speaker 1: they don't have an identity, fell off a cliff. They
Speaker 1: don't have an identity. I mean, you think about the
Speaker 1: old the Washing Commanders, even going back to last year,
Speaker 1: their rushing attack was but you minimal, Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: what you feared from them last year really I was
Speaker 1: that was what you're You're worried about the rushing attack
Speaker 1: and you're worried about Scary Terry. Those are the two
Speaker 1: guys that you're worried about. Logan Thomas. You never know
Speaker 1: if he's gonna be on the field or not, just
Speaker 1: do to health issues. But you don't fear anything about
Speaker 1: this offense right now. That's just the reality now. That
Speaker 1: does not have anything to do with well, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say that that has no effect over your approach to
Speaker 1: the game. The fact that they don't have any dudes
Speaker 1: that are scaring you. Right now, you have to get
Speaker 1: back on track. For Dallas's defense, this is a get
Speaker 1: back on track game. That's how I perceive it. Figure
Speaker 1: it out. I don't care if these guys are lighting
Speaker 1: up the scoreboard, if they suck like they do right now,
Speaker 1: you have to find a way to get back on track.
Speaker 1: Right What I was just talking about, your identity of
Speaker 1: this team is your is your pass rush? You teams
Speaker 1: fear that. I don't think teams are fearing it as
Speaker 1: much right now. Right there was a point in the
Speaker 1: season where when teams got the third down, if it
Speaker 1: was third or seven or more, we were all sitting
Speaker 1: back like watch this, Yeah, right now, we're back like
Speaker 1: can they get home? You know, if maybe it's gonna
Speaker 1: be the ball's gonna get out quick because they may
Speaker 1: have to tackle the first government tackle. You know, is
Speaker 1: that a byproduct though, of teams actually resolutely fearing the
Speaker 1: pass rush enough to where they're completely changing their identity.
Speaker 1: Teams have absolutely done that get the ball out quickly.
Speaker 1: So with that even being said, going into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: no matter if you have eight sacks or more against Washington,
Speaker 1: our team's gonna actually fear this pass rush enough to where,
Speaker 1: oh my gosh, even if we change our own It
Speaker 1: depends on how you go about it. It depends on
Speaker 1: how you go about it because there's different ways in
Speaker 1: which you get scat sacks. Right, So you got the
Speaker 1: scheme and that's one way to get sacks. And then
Speaker 1: you just have peer talent, right, just peer talent, and
Speaker 1: I'll throw another category in their will. Right, you have
Speaker 1: straight will, the will to win, right, the will to
Speaker 1: make the play. I'm gonna I don't care who you are,
Speaker 1: I don't care what you how many all pros you got,
Speaker 1: I'm about I'm about to throw you at the club. Right,
Speaker 1: nothing's gonna stop me from getting from from this point
Speaker 1: A to point B. Right, I'm throwing you just j
Speaker 1: mights was just get out the way, yeah, right, y'all
Speaker 1: MS would you go there in a screen route because
Speaker 1: I'm I'm coming right. And then you got the skill
Speaker 1: set for like a Micah and and and Fowler or
Speaker 1: stuff like that, which is like, crap, these guys are fast, right,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna spin moves and speed and dip and
Speaker 1: rip and just tenacious. And then you got the scheme
Speaker 1: of dan Quinn, right, dunts, right, mismatches, you know, all
Speaker 1: those alignments and all those type of things. So there's
Speaker 1: different ways in which you go about getting sacks, and
Speaker 1: there's throwing the worst sacks and pressures. That's an umbrella.
Speaker 1: But how you get there, that's where the finite the
Speaker 1: details are at it, and that's what teams are gonna
Speaker 1: look at and try to scheme up, because you can
Speaker 1: scheme up some of it. But even if I scheme
Speaker 1: up what dan Quinn is doing, okay, A's office accordator,
Speaker 1: I did that, well, crap, Now I still got the
Speaker 1: women determination of these cats. Washington just doesn't have the horses.
Speaker 1: In fact, stop scary Terry and and that's a rapping
Speaker 1: we've seen Tom and again Trayvon Diggs has been able
Speaker 1: to shut down Terry McLaurin um Robinson he's not completely healthy.
Speaker 1: He's he's doing what he can to produce out there,
Speaker 1: but he's not really healthy. So you have a Gibson man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he's been banged up. He was on my
Speaker 1: fantasy team so didn't but they didn't even start the
Speaker 1: year off with him. Like it's like it's almost like
Speaker 1: they had some kind of dispute. I think he's been
Speaker 1: banged up. He's had like a lingering things like a
Speaker 1: Zeke thing. Just there was a beast. They're rushing to
Speaker 1: that point, the rushing to think after him, I know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like I feel like there's something internal
Speaker 1: that happened because they didn't even start the year one
Speaker 1: and give him the ball. Yeah, no telling, everything's internal
Speaker 1: with that organization, hopefully, but their rushing attacks hobbled quarterback
Speaker 1: play is nothing to speak, nothing worthy of speaking of whatsoever,
Speaker 1: regardless of who's back there right now. And that in
Speaker 1: itself helps Negate scary Terry. But then Treyvon Diggs, even
Speaker 1: if you had a quality quarterback to get McClaren the ball,
Speaker 1: Trevon Diggs has shown he can clamp him. So I
Speaker 1: don't see a situation where any situation any scenario in
Speaker 1: which the Commanders get their offense going against the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: I just think they get beat up early and the
Speaker 1: spirit that already is not there. I mean there will
Speaker 1: be some competitiveness because again there were players trying to
Speaker 1: keep their jobs and their coaches that are trying to
Speaker 1: keep their jobs or at minimum put on film something
Speaker 1: for another team to come and pick them up, so
Speaker 1: that there will be a competitive nature there. It'll be scrappy,
Speaker 1: but you can just go ahead and break their spe
Speaker 1: You get up fourteen oz and it'll get away from
Speaker 1: Commanders really quickly. They'll start laying now. Yeah, they'll roll
Speaker 1: over and show they barely at that point. It's a
Speaker 1: big chance for you to do that early in this
Speaker 1: football game. But when we come back here on Talking Cowboys,
Speaker 1: will wrap up this episode and we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about the secondary. We talk about getting right. This might
Speaker 1: be a chance for the secondary to beat test in
Speaker 1: getting right, but also still get right with the w
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Speaker 1: All right, gentlemen, the secondary has been the biggest question mark,
Speaker 1: and we're previewing the Cowboys defense versus the Washington offense.
Speaker 1: It's been the biggest question mark since the injuries of
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown and Jordan Lewis. You brought it up a
Speaker 1: little bit earlier. Nashaun Wright has come in and he's
Speaker 1: played above the expectations, but still a lot of room
Speaker 1: to grow. Facts, still a lot of a long way
Speaker 1: to go. And for those that there were some of
Speaker 1: my Twitter mentions when I said Nashan Right is trending upward,
Speaker 1: they were like, oh, man, he's terrible, blah blah blah,
Speaker 1: you're not watching the film. In fact, you're you're not
Speaker 1: watching the film period. He's doing good things, which is
Speaker 1: something we couldn't say from the guy he replaced. Is
Speaker 1: this a game where not only is it a get right,
Speaker 1: where it's a winnable batchup, however, but they're going up
Speaker 1: against some good receivers Curtis, Samuel, Terry McLaurin, Logan Thomas
Speaker 1: out tight end. I mean there are guys that are
Speaker 1: good on this offense. Is this the right time for
Speaker 1: them to get a good challenge and to win that challenge? Absolutely.
Speaker 1: We talk about tuning yourself up for the playoffs and
Speaker 1: for the secondary. This is your final chance to do that.
Speaker 1: And and to your point, yes, Nashan Right, who grabbed
Speaker 1: his first career interception against the Tennessee Tuttans, he's showing
Speaker 1: you what that length can do. It can be disruptive,
Speaker 1: it can get into the passing lanes. It can make
Speaker 1: quarterbacks think twice about maybe I can float this over
Speaker 1: his fingertips. I don't think that you can. So you
Speaker 1: love where the needles is pointing on a guy like
Speaker 1: Nshan Right, But he also needs more reps and that's
Speaker 1: why it's paramount that you see him get that against
Speaker 1: the team like Washington. And it's going to be a
Speaker 1: confident a chance, I should say, to build that much
Speaker 1: more confidence because you're going against the rookie and Howard,
Speaker 1: you're going against Taylor Heineke, whom the Cowboys basically own
Speaker 1: and even if even if it were Carson Wentz, you know,
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz is going to give your opportunities to the
Speaker 1: ball away. So as a young secondary not named treyvon
Speaker 1: Diggs and not named it Ron Bland, because Bland has
Speaker 1: already shown you what he can do. He's he's a star, right,
Speaker 1: But for Nishan, right and something maybe at least one
Speaker 1: or two of the veterans that the Cowboys have, trayvon
Speaker 1: Mullin has been inactive both of the games that he's
Speaker 1: been with the Cowboys. We haven't seen him yet. Maybe
Speaker 1: we see some treyvon Mullin in this game, so the
Speaker 1: Cowboys know what they have from him before. Because and
Speaker 1: I'm with Isaiah, I see the eyes. You gotta know
Speaker 1: what you got there before you go into the playoffs.
Speaker 1: You gotta know what you got there. You've seen some
Speaker 1: McKenzie Alexander, but you haven't seen Kendall Sheffield yet either.
Speaker 1: So good opportunity for the Cowboys not only get additional
Speaker 1: reps for Nashan, right, but let's let's see Mullin and
Speaker 1: hopefully Sheffield, because you gotta know what you have before
Speaker 1: you go into the dance. I love Nashan. You know,
Speaker 1: I've been I've been a big fan of e Honda
Speaker 1: R since he got here exactly, and I want to
Speaker 1: see him more impressed. Yeah, I can't say this enough.
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on in terms of defensive strategy,
Speaker 1: but I know Al Harris is one hell of a
Speaker 1: press corner back in the day, and Dan Quinn used
Speaker 1: to be a press you know, press man coverage guy,
Speaker 1: and he's got two years in the system now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so I'm hoping that they allow Ehana to get up
Speaker 1: there and put some fisticuffs on some people. But he
Speaker 1: is coming along. And if it's your point, Kyle, if
Speaker 1: people are saying that he's coming along too slow, well
Speaker 1: he hasn't had a ton of reps, and then the
Speaker 1: reps he has had, he's doing pretty dug going well
Speaker 1: with them. So he was in there, He was able
Speaker 1: to be in there consistently last week and he made
Speaker 1: some place. So I'm looking forward to seeing him continue
Speaker 1: to develop and build his confidence because I don't care
Speaker 1: what people think about draft status and how high they're
Speaker 1: drafted and where are they what they should be doing
Speaker 1: by this point in time. This is a confidence game
Speaker 1: all these guys are capable of playing at a really
Speaker 1: high level. If you if you're in the NFL, you're
Speaker 1: one of the best in the world. Regardless of how
Speaker 1: bad or how good you may be looking, you're still
Speaker 1: one of the best in the world. Yeah, it's all
Speaker 1: on confidence. So if you're out there and you have
Speaker 1: your swag back and you got you know, you got
Speaker 1: closed right socks, right shoe game right? You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, got your visor on whatever it is that
Speaker 1: you do, feel good and you actually go out there
Speaker 1: and play good. Well, now you just need to double
Speaker 1: down on that. Give another game, give me, give me
Speaker 1: the same amount of reps. Let me get my feet wet,
Speaker 1: let me get used to this game. Which is why
Speaker 1: players hate getting cycled in and out because I can't
Speaker 1: get a feel for the game, right I can't get
Speaker 1: my swag because shoot, as soon as I start feeling good,
Speaker 1: I'm coming out of the game right now, I gotta
Speaker 1: get back in there and try to get warmed up again.
Speaker 1: So let guys get in there and get used to
Speaker 1: the floor of the game and start remembering the types
Speaker 1: of players that they were, because that's what it is.
Speaker 1: When I'm in the league, and I'm into my second
Speaker 1: year and I haven't had the opportunity to make a
Speaker 1: lot of plays. I was a dude in college, but
Speaker 1: now in the NFL. You know, everything that's been the
Speaker 1: position I've been in, the reps that I've been given
Speaker 1: has shown me that, oh, you're not a dude anymore.
Speaker 1: Then all of a sudden, I get an opportunity to
Speaker 1: start getting these reps again. Oh crap, maybe I still yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is what I do. Right, So you start to
Speaker 1: start remembering who you were as a player, and as
Speaker 1: soon as you make a play like that, you get
Speaker 1: an interception. Oh yeah, oh yeah, I'm back. Yeah, I'm back. Now.
Speaker 1: Just keep me in there, keep me in there. Confidence building,
Speaker 1: this booster. That's what this game has to be. A
Speaker 1: momentum boost of momentum booster as well as a confidence booster,
Speaker 1: while also potentially giving you an opportunity to move up
Speaker 1: from the five seed. And in worst case, even if
Speaker 1: even if you win this game, and like you said,
Speaker 1: the Eagles win and it all you know is could
Speaker 1: put in the Eagles clinched consideratesiderate for me. And I've
Speaker 1: said this and I would say it one more time.
Speaker 1: I said a thousand times. I'll say it one more time.
Speaker 1: The fact that you forced the Eagles to do something
Speaker 1: they did not want to do with their starting quarterback
Speaker 1: might and that might negatively impact their chances in the playoffs. Checkmate,
Speaker 1: and so win. And in that regarding going back to
Speaker 1: what you said about Nashan, for those that listen to
Speaker 1: the draft show, they know I wasn't very high on Nashan, right,
Speaker 1: I never really was. I love him as a person.
Speaker 1: He's a delight to talk to. He's a great dude.
Speaker 1: The work ethic is off the charts. I love what
Speaker 1: he does behind the scenes, and I see why they
Speaker 1: drafted him because of that. He's also got the physical
Speaker 1: tools now it's starting to put that together with that confidence.
Speaker 1: I agree with you leheartedly in that regard. I hope
Speaker 1: he continues to trend in the right direction. That'd be huge.
Speaker 1: That'd be massive for this football team heading into the
Speaker 1: playoffs and moving forward really quickly. Another guy that I
Speaker 1: loved interacting with for some time. We haven't confirmed it,
Speaker 1: but reports are out there that the Cowboys have waived
Speaker 1: wide receiver James Washington. So the reports have hit this morning,
Speaker 1: of course, with the signing of t Y Hilton and
Speaker 1: what he brought to the table. Wait to confirm, got
Speaker 1: to confirm it. But that's the report for me, and
Speaker 1: rapid reports are out there there. Yeah, So James Washington,
Speaker 1: he will be subject to waivers so he can be
Speaker 1: claimed by any of the other teams and we'll see
Speaker 1: all that happens. But the addition of Ty Hilton and
Speaker 1: the immediate impact of t Y Hilton pushed James Washington
Speaker 1: to the inactives list and now off of the rosters.
Speaker 1: I hate I hate that for James. Yeah, he's such
Speaker 1: a good dude. Yeah, really good dude, and he came
Speaker 1: in with a lot of a lot of optimism, but
Speaker 1: injury and training camp and at the start of training camp,
Speaker 1: no list pretty much deleted his chances with the Cowboy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that derailed the whole thing. But best of luck to
Speaker 1: James Washington. Whether he ends up being taken on waivers
Speaker 1: or maybe he's back here kudos squad. If he cleared,
Speaker 1: could happen in recent we'll see hopefully he wherever he
Speaker 1: ends up. Best of luck and best wishes to James Washington.
Speaker 1: Continued prayers by the way for tomorrow, Hamlin, Yes, continuing
Speaker 1: to fight up at the UC Medical Center in Cincinnati
Speaker 1: after that play on Monday Night Football. I want to
Speaker 1: continue to send our thoughts and prayers that direction into
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bill's family as well, but that doesn't for
Speaker 1: us here on Talking Cowboys on a wonderful Wednesday. We'll
Speaker 1: be back tomorrow previewing the Cowboys offense and the Washington
Speaker 1: defense for Chris Beam, isaiahs, Dan Back Patrick, No see Walker.
Speaker 1: I'm Kyle Yeoman saying so long. Thanks for joining us
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