WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Psychological Advantage 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:06.480 The following. He's a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:16.120 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:16.560 --> 0:00:19.959 springing live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:26.759 Star in Frisco. Blowing to the goal line, says gotta 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:33.720 and now your hosts Isaiah stand Back, Patrick Walker and 0:00:34.479 --> 0:00:39.680 Kyle Yeomans. It is a wonderful Wednesday edition of Talking 0:00:39.760 --> 0:00:43.360 Cowboys presented by Black Rifle Coffee Company, the official coffee 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:46.159 of the Dallas Cowboys. We are live from the s 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:50.400 WBC studios at the Star in Frisco with Isaiah stand Back, 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:54.000 Patrick Nosy Walker. I'm Kyle Yeoman's Chris Beam in the 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:58.080 back as always, gentlemen, how are we doing? Fantas fantastic cool? 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:02.480 So moving in two week eighteen? Is it crazy to 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:04.000 you that we are in the final week of the 0:01:04.040 --> 0:01:07.240 regular season? Tom Flies? It does, fly Man. But the 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:11.520 good thing is we won't be done. What was the 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:18.080 last questions? Like, Kawi for a second? You like that 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.479 the year one by entirely too fast? Yeah, hopefully we're 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:24.479 not anywhere near the finish all. I was thinking about 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:29.120 it the other day. We were going two Cincinnati or 0:01:29.360 --> 0:01:34.039 playing Cincinnati in Week two, not knowing what this team 0:01:34.120 --> 0:01:38.640 was going to look like. Dak Prescott injured nineteen to 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:42.199 three in Week one. Doesn't that seem like four ever ago? 0:01:42.520 --> 0:01:45.360 I mean, that seems like another lifetime. How long ago 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:48.400 those games were happening early in the season. But at 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:51.080 the same time, I also feel like we just were 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:53.840 a training camp. We were just in Oxnard getting this 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:56.880 thing started. So it's kind of a weird paradox of 0:01:57.360 --> 0:02:00.000 time of the way that the NFL season has gone. 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:01.920 But I'm happy to be where we are at the moment. Well, 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:05.200 it's you know, like we said all season, and particularly 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:08.359 at the beginning of the season, you suffer that just 0:02:08.520 --> 0:02:12.120 Abismo loss to the Tampa by Buccaneers, and then you 0:02:12.240 --> 0:02:14.880 lose Dak Prescott, and you know, all of a sudden, 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.200 fans are saying the sky is falling. You know, media 0:02:17.240 --> 0:02:19.160 pundits are saying the sky is falling. But we did not. 0:02:20.000 --> 0:02:23.080 We said there's a lot of football to be played. 0:02:23.680 --> 0:02:27.000 And there was even even Isaiah, who's like the leader 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:29.600 of the chart sometimes when the sky is falling Badwagon, 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.639 even he was like, hold up, let's let's top the 0:02:32.720 --> 0:02:35.519 brakes here. Yeah, a lot of football that needed to 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:38.920 be played, and now the Cowboys played it and applied 0:02:39.000 --> 0:02:42.239 pressure to the Philadelphia Eagles going into week eighteen, and 0:02:42.800 --> 0:02:45.600 like Asaiah said, hopefully there's a lot more football to 0:02:45.880 --> 0:02:49.280 be played because as everyone knows, this is the starting 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.440 line next week with Super wild Card weekend, so this 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:55.120 is not the finish line. The regular season has ended 0:02:55.400 --> 0:02:58.560 or is about to end. But then dance, it's coming. 0:02:58.680 --> 0:03:01.600 It's time for the prom That's the thing about where 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:06.680 the Cowboys are right now after that start is everything 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:09.440 is still on the table for you. Every single goal 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:12.079 you set out to start when you did start in 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:16.360 Oxnard is still there. Win your division. You could win 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:17.959 that this week. Now you need a little bit of 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:19.799 help to do so. You've needed a little bit of 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:22.560 help to do so, maybe a lot of help, but 0:03:22.720 --> 0:03:25.320 you could still do that. Be the number one seed 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.359 in the NFC. You need a little bit more help 0:03:28.400 --> 0:03:30.520 to be the number one seed in the NFCA. However, 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:33.240 you can still do that. You could still make a run, 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:35.040 you could still get a buy, you could still go 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:37.160 to the wild card and make a run from there. Regardless, 0:03:37.440 --> 0:03:39.880 if you've got everything in front of you going into 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.120 the final week, of the regular season. If I were 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.040 to tell you that and then also say that you 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.000 matched your win total from last year, what would you 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:49.920 say about this season? Ridiculous? This season has just been 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:54.360 there's no way right. I mean, I figured the Cowboys 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:56.920 would would fight the adversity, and you know that's why 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.360 I figured they've bounced back and defeat the Bengals, even 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.280 after you know the the what happened in Week one, 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:07.400 including the loss of Dak Prescott. But you know, even me, 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:11.240 even myself, having predicted a twelve and five season back 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:13.960 in March when I was looking forward, you know, having 0:04:14.000 --> 0:04:16.120 some foresight for the season, obviously didn't predict that you 0:04:16.200 --> 0:04:19.400 lose Dak Prescott for five games, etcetera, etcetera. Still on, 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:22.280 that didn't change it. But nonetheless, I'm not mad at 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:25.360 anyone who might have predicted twelve and then saw the 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:27.560 loss of Dak Prescott and then shaved it back to 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:30.560 ten or nine wins. I mean that that was just 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:33.800 logical to do so. But again, here they are twelve 0:04:34.000 --> 0:04:37.480 on the cusp of potentially getting thirteen, thirteen and four 0:04:38.200 --> 0:04:41.599 after losing your starting quarterback for five games. The Eagles 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.479 couldn't get one win with their starting quarterback, I mean 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:48.040 with their backup quarterback, and they're supposed to be world beaters. 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:50.520 So you know, shout out out to the Cowboys, and 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.800 it is something that you said yesterday and we really 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.039 need to just give kudos to this coaching staff has 0:04:57.160 --> 0:05:01.480 been magnificent. They've they've whether the storm, yeah they have not. 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:05.680 With the win over Tennessee, they have now registered a 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:10.480 season in which no two game losing stream none. I 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:12.640 think the only other team that has that can boast 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:14.680 that now that the Eagles have suffered that are the 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:17.640 Minnesota Vikings, and I know the Kansas City Chiefs, so 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:20.240 I think if the Vikings were to lose in Week eighteen, 0:05:20.360 --> 0:05:22.800 then only the Chiefs and Cowboys could could make that claim. 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:25.760 And that's pretty good company right there. Yeah, last time 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.560 the Cowboys have lost back to back games was the 0:05:29.000 --> 0:05:32.360 week eleven, Week twelve, the short week with Kansas City 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.640 and Las Vegas going into Thanksgiving in twenty twenty one. 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.080 So it's been a long time since you've lost back 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:40.719 to back matchups in the same season. So that's always 0:05:40.760 --> 0:05:44.320 fun to look at now kind of makes me one funny. 0:05:45.440 --> 0:05:47.760 I always want to beat the rivals. I want to 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:50.800 beat everybody, sure in fact this period. But funny thought 0:05:50.839 --> 0:05:53.360 on the way here, you know, team hasn't lost two 0:05:53.400 --> 0:05:56.080 in a row. You know, maybe to guarantee that first 0:05:56.120 --> 0:06:00.880 playoff around win, maybe you drop one and watch drop one. Yeah, 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:02.880 don't do it though, stop but yeah, don't do it. 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:05.520 But just funny thought, I said, funny thought. Yeah, it's funny. 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:07.360 I got my laugh. And now let's move on. All right, Yeah, 0:06:07.440 --> 0:06:10.360 let's let's pretend like that one didn't happen. Isaiah's just 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:13.320 looking down at his iPad or as a tablet right now. 0:06:13.400 --> 0:06:18.839 I'm looking into the percentages of the scenarios, potential scenarios 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:20.600 I knew as I knew it the question. That's that's 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:22.200 where I'm That's where I'm looking at. So I'm looking 0:06:22.200 --> 0:06:25.159 at the percentage of chance that they win with the vision, 0:06:25.279 --> 0:06:28.040 the conference and you know host A, you know, the 0:06:28.160 --> 0:06:30.040 two seed, like I'm looking at all those Okay, so 0:06:30.120 --> 0:06:32.200 I'm gonna tell you the scenarios that it takes while 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.640 you find the percentages of of the likelihood of each 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:38.400 of those scenarios. So Dallas has to win regardless if 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:40.960 they lose. There the five seed, plain and simple boom, 0:06:41.040 --> 0:06:43.279 there you go. So that's the one to the five. 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:47.400 Those are the three potential seeds for the Cowboys. If 0:06:47.440 --> 0:06:50.200 you lose, you're the five. If Philly wins, you are 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:53.360 also the five. Or ties. Philly wins or ties in 0:06:53.440 --> 0:06:56.039 their matchup against the New York Giants, you are the five. 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.000 So there you go. There's scenarios one and two that 0:06:59.200 --> 0:07:01.320 lead to the five. If you are going to win 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.520 your division, you need Philadelphia to lose and you need 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.240 to win as well. That would make you the two 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:11.240 seed if San Francisco wins. So San Francisco is playing 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:14.000 the Arizona Cardinals Cardinals at four and thirteen right now 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:15.720 or whatever it ends up. I think four and twelve 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:19.720 probably going to be four and thirteen. The possibility that 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:22.760 you are going to be the one seed is very 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:26.679 low because it would take Philadelphia and San Francisco losing, 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.560 plus you would have to be point washington point zero 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:34.440 seven percent chance that you're the one seed. Yeah, that's fair. Honestly, 0:07:34.480 --> 0:07:40.760 that's a fair percent. There's a shot, one point seven 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:44.960 point seven shot, So curve this not even a full 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.720 percentage point. So if you're looking at it in a 0:07:47.800 --> 0:07:51.000 in a fraction, that is point o seven out of one, 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.680 So not a whole lot to look at there, However, 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.880 it's something you need. What's do you have the ones 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:02.280 for winning your division against Philly? Winning the division is 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:05.880 six percent? Six percent? Yeah? And then and that would 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:07.920 mean you're the two seed and you would play either 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.920 Green Bay or Detroit. The winner of that game, yeah, 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.440 would win a division. The Cowboys need to win. Eagles 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:16.400 need to say Green Bay or Detroit. Right to secure 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.480 the top seed, they need to win. Eagles need to 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:22.240 lose forty nine, Ers need to lose correct. Yeah. Yeah. 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:25.200 To be the two seed, you need to win. Eagles 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:28.120 need to lose, correct, and then everything else leads to 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.280 the five seed at Tampa Bay in wild Card weekend. 0:08:31.840 --> 0:08:35.440 Who would you rather face Tampa? Tampa? Not even a question? 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:38.679 Not over Green Bay right now? Tampa give me Tampa, 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.559 give me on the road or at home against green Bay? 0:08:41.760 --> 0:08:44.600 Well so, so say well, because you're at home against 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:49.839 green Bay. You know I how Tom Brady in the 0:08:49.920 --> 0:08:53.199 highest of his teams play with him, he's the goat. Okay, 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:56.320 he's still fully capable of playing really well. Mike Evans 0:08:56.440 --> 0:08:59.440 Finally they finally connected last week. They figure that out. Okay, 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:03.600 two plush yards, even with those guys figuring it out, 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:06.640 even with them having all their weapons and all that, Jazz, 0:09:06.760 --> 0:09:09.800 I believe that we match up really well against Tampa. 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:13.040 Beginning of the year, we took that ill and I 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:16.120 felt like we were gonna take that all right right now, 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.000 if we played Tampa, I feel very confident in our 0:09:19.000 --> 0:09:23.240 ability to shut down what they do well because I 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:25.760 don't believe that their office A line can handle the 0:09:25.880 --> 0:09:29.400 defensive front of Dallas. And that's both in the running 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.520 game because they don't have a solid running game, so 0:09:31.679 --> 0:09:34.680 they have to depend on their passing game and well, 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.280 they don't have the most mobile quarterbacks regardless of how 0:09:37.440 --> 0:09:41.280 smart and intellectually intelligent here. So I think that Dallas 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.199 has advantage against Tampa. You go to Green Bay, it's 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:49.360 kind of funny. They have less weapons than Tampa, but 0:09:49.520 --> 0:09:52.280 they have a dude who has a drive. Out of 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:55.280 this world. Now, when I say that, people are automatically 0:09:55.280 --> 0:09:56.880 gonna look at it and say, well, Tom Brady doesn't 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.000 have a drive. Absolutely, he has a drive, But Tom 0:09:59.080 --> 0:10:04.080 Brady isn't as streaky as Aaron Rodgers. And when Aaron 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:07.440 Rodgers is in Aaron Rodgers mode. It's I don't care 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:10.559 who's receiving the ball. He's a dude, and I just 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:13.480 you just don't want to face him, especially in Green Bay. Well, well, 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:14.760 first of all, let me say this, I think the 0:10:14.840 --> 0:10:18.760 Lions are gonna beat them. I think, dude, we're gonna 0:10:18.800 --> 0:10:20.960 we're gonna pick that game on Friday, and I might 0:10:24.160 --> 0:10:25.959 I like Detroit. Yeah there's you don't want to face 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:28.720 Detroit either? Yeah, I think I would if you had 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:31.120 to give me the option. I'm just saying, but like 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:32.959 detroits of dangerous team. We talked about that when we 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:34.840 face them, right, they hit the crap out of us. Yeah, 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:38.360 with the fighting Dan Camp, they'll bite off some knee caps. Yeah. Um. 0:10:38.559 --> 0:10:40.400 I mean I say that to say I don't think 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:42.280 this is going to be a conversation next week. But 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:46.360 to answer your question, I honestly don't care. And I 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:50.160 understand why people do, because it's all about matchups and 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.319 I get it. I get the science behind it, But 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.760 for me, it's about Catharsis, right. Um. And And you know, 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.040 to kind of glance over to MLB for a quick second, 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:00.520 and you know, you guys know how much I love 0:11:00.600 --> 0:11:03.439 my braves but this is a situation where be it 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:09.319 the slight odds of stealing away the division. Everybody's like 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.240 or not everybody, but a lot of people are like, well, 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:13.480 go ahead and rest the starters because the chancels are 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:17.319 too slim, etcetera, etcetera. If you follow MLB and you 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.440 saw what the Braves were able to do to the Mets, 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:23.319 all you need is a shot. Okay, But if you 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:27.600 look at the twenty twenty season and you look at 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:31.079 it from the standpoint of how the Braves won that 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:34.800 World Series, right, they had to go through they had 0:11:34.800 --> 0:11:37.360 to exercise their demons from the Dodgers, they had to 0:11:37.400 --> 0:11:39.839 exercise demons from the Astros. I mean, they had to 0:11:39.920 --> 0:11:43.640 run through goliaths to get it done. And you get 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:47.000 it done and now no one, no one can question it. 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.040 There are no doubts. So if you had to go 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:54.319 through Rogers and or Brady in order to get the title, 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:58.280 what questions could haters have for you? Like, what doubts 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:02.240 could they have? There's nothing, It's at It's pure unadulterated catharsis. 0:12:02.320 --> 0:12:04.400 So I see it from both points. I see the 0:12:04.520 --> 0:12:06.520 matchup thing. Oh well yeah we do, and I agree 0:12:06.559 --> 0:12:09.280 we do match up better against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 0:12:09.320 --> 0:12:11.320 than you would Aaron Rodgers. And we know Aaron Rodgers 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:14.600 does love playing an AT and T stadium. We we've 0:12:14.640 --> 0:12:17.000 seen that, We've we live in the trauma. We're still 0:12:17.040 --> 0:12:19.040 trying to recover from the trauma of that. Yeah. But 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:22.040 that being said, I just I want to beat the best, 0:12:22.120 --> 0:12:23.960 like I want you to show me all this talk 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:27.520 about this team is being special. Okay, show me God, 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:31.679 line up against Tom Brady whom you've never defeated, and 0:12:32.240 --> 0:12:37.319 possibly retire him. Okay, invite Aaron Rodgers in and say, 0:12:37.400 --> 0:12:39.960 you know what, you are the one who has prevented 0:12:40.000 --> 0:12:42.560 You have broken our hearts in the postseason time and again, 0:12:42.800 --> 0:12:45.760 great storyline, it's time for us to break yours en 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:50.320 route to breaking a two and a half decade long drought. Yes, 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.560 there's there's a lot to be said for me, for Catharsus, 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:55.520 and that nothing would be more cathartic than to run 0:12:55.600 --> 0:13:00.280 through Brady and or Rogers en route to hoisting. Do 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:02.280 you think do you think we could just fast forward 0:13:02.360 --> 0:13:05.439 to Wildcard weekend? Oh? Because I'm ready in a role 0:13:05.480 --> 0:13:09.040 that you got me riled up. But I agree, I 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:12.839 think that's what the mindset should be going into the 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:14.920 playoffs this year is I don't care who you are 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:16.880 on the other side, You're gonna get it. And you've 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:19.760 talked about that too, Isaiah, You've talked about it before. 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.240 Even going into last year's playoff run, you didn't feel 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:27.160 like this team had that mentality. Do they have it 0:13:27.320 --> 0:13:30.240 this year or is it at least a little bit closer? 0:13:30.880 --> 0:13:34.000 I don't feel any better at this point really now 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:37.560 after this week's game. I might feel differently now from 0:13:37.800 --> 0:13:39.920 what I've seen from this team over the last month. 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:44.000 I do not feel that they have that killer, consistent, 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:46.920 killer instinct right now. I think that you don't know 0:13:47.080 --> 0:13:49.559 what team you're going to see every Sunday? Are we 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:52.679 Are we nitpicking that too much though, because if they 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:56.520 win this week against Washington and they put it put 0:13:56.559 --> 0:13:59.320 it away, they were able to get it done early. 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.640 They'll enter the playoffs having won seven of their last eight, 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:06.959 seven of eight so in the season. That's why the 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:08.839 stat line. I don't just look at stat lines. You know, 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.800 you know, I know you don't how you won those games. 0:14:11.840 --> 0:14:13.840 And people are gonna say, oll ws aw, Okay, yeah, 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:15.400 that's true, right, it shows up as a w but 0:14:15.480 --> 0:14:18.439 how you won those games matters as well. Sure, Okay, um, 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.680 how you yeah, exactly. I'm just gonna leave it at that. 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:27.760 So I agree. I don't feel at this point of 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.640 the season that they are complete dogs right now. We'll see. 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:33.880 And this is why. This is another reason why you 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:37.800 don't rest starters, no doubt, because you need the momentum. 0:14:37.880 --> 0:14:41.840 And this is why I believe that Brian Dable is 0:14:42.000 --> 0:14:44.440 honest when he says no, he's not going to rest starters. 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:46.640 It's because for a similar now, well i'm not going 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:50.240 to say similar, but not entirely dissimilar reason. The Giants 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:53.120 need this final game to fine tune some things and 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:55.160 make sure that they're on the right track. The Cowboys, 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:57.760 in the same breath, need this final game against the Commanders, 0:14:58.000 --> 0:15:00.440 not only because they have a very slim chance of 0:15:00.520 --> 0:15:02.640 being able to move up from five to possibly two, 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:05.000 maybe even one. We'll see how things shake out, but 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:08.960 worst case scenario, they need to make sure that some 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:12.880 of the holes in the run defense is short up, 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:15.720 some of the holes in the secondary are short up. 0:15:16.040 --> 0:15:19.920 Keep in mind, you're Nishan right has played for the 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:23.320 most part better than you would have hoped he would 0:15:23.320 --> 0:15:25.960 have played being thrust into the situation he was thrust 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:28.960 in this late in the season after giving Kelvin Joseph 0:15:29.000 --> 0:15:30.680 the first couple of nads. That was a lot to 0:15:30.800 --> 0:15:34.680 ask of Nishan, Right, he needs this game as well. 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.200 So I say all that to say, you're right. If 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:40.400 you're talking about the Cowboys team that played the Titans 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.600 and lost to the Jaguars going into the playoffs right now, 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:48.400 there's concern there. But use and utilize this final game 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:49.960 to say, hey, you know what, let's just go beat 0:15:50.000 --> 0:15:52.720 the hell out of Washington. Let's just hang fifty on them, 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:56.600 fifty to three, fifty to zero, and make sure that 0:15:56.960 --> 0:15:59.000 this is not only a game that we're using to 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:02.640 try to better our standing in the playoffs seed, but 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:04.800 also to send the message to the league that hey, 0:16:05.080 --> 0:16:07.600 we are ready for the playoffs, so let's let's do it. 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.440 So let use this game for that. If nothing knils, 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:13.400 I agree, it's a it's a ramp up, and it's 0:16:13.400 --> 0:16:15.440 also a chance for you to keep your hopes alive 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:20.240 of winning a division and possibly points seven percent chance 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:25.280 to get the bye week, which that bye week is 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:28.960 those odds if there was one team that you think 0:16:29.000 --> 0:16:30.920 would hurt to have the bye week, it might be 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:34.520 San Francisco. That's a team that's won their last nine games. 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:38.720 They're probably gonna win ten straight going into their playoff push. 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:40.760 So you talk about a team that's been playing well 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:44.400 and continuing to win, San Francisco's on that that type 0:16:44.440 --> 0:16:46.320 of tear right now. So a bye week may actually 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:49.080 kind of be counteractive to what they're doing. I could 0:16:49.080 --> 0:16:51.840 see that because you're hitting pause a momentum, whereas Philly 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:54.120 and Dallas they could each very much so use a 0:16:54.160 --> 0:16:56.400 bye week. The thing is when it comes to bye week, 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.000 and I don't whole hardly disagree with you. Yeah, when 0:16:59.040 --> 0:17:02.600 you have a good percentage of your team that has 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:07.320 had good playoff experience, you can afford for guys to 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:09.840 have a week off. You can afford for guys to 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:12.320 to rest guys right if you're in a position to 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:15.320 do so, because you are fully they're fully You're fully 0:17:15.440 --> 0:17:18.399 confident that with that time off they're still gonna come 0:17:18.440 --> 0:17:20.359 back and do their job because the moment's not too 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:23.639 big for them. Been there before. Counterpoint green Bay. Last year, 0:17:24.160 --> 0:17:26.400 green Bay was the one seed. What happened? They lost 0:17:26.520 --> 0:17:28.280 to the San Francisco forty nine ers, a team that 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.639 on paper was not as good as that Green Bay teams. 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:33.960 And you know what, that's right, But we can all 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:36.119 agree San France mentality is totally different than any other 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:39.800 team in this league. Sure there's they're in a category there, oh, 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.480 which is why you don't want to face them, not 0:17:42.680 --> 0:17:46.479 from the roster standpoint, from the mentality standpoint, right from 0:17:46.480 --> 0:17:48.960 their their their approach to the game is totally different 0:17:48.960 --> 0:17:51.640 than everybody else's. And I'm fully fine standing, I'm all 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:54.359 honest saying that we got to taste of that last year. 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:58.000 Are used? They were not no, no, no, no scared, 0:17:58.080 --> 0:18:00.280 no no, not scary. Say when he got her, it 0:18:00.280 --> 0:18:02.040 doesn't matter who hands the ball off of that, right, 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:05.320 it does not matter. Right. But the thing I'm that's 0:18:05.320 --> 0:18:08.000 what I'm waiting to see from Dallas. Dallas on paper 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:11.560 has the best roster in football. They're all healthy, absolutely 0:18:11.640 --> 0:18:14.520 best roster in football. Last year I would have to 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.520 say the same, their roster was substantially better than San Francisco. 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.840 What did it come down to? Execution and mentality? I 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:24.760 haven't seen that dog from Dallas. You don't feel like 0:18:24.920 --> 0:18:26.960 Dallas is gonna drag every team that they face. You 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:28.480 don't feel like they're just gonna come out of it. 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.520 Every game that they faced were playing to the level 0:18:31.600 --> 0:18:34.600 of our competition. Fair point, and I agree with that, um. 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:38.399 But here's a counterpoint to that. Which team in the league, 0:18:38.400 --> 0:18:39.840 And this is an actual question. Whose team in the 0:18:39.920 --> 0:18:42.879 league has shown you that every single week they can 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.080 drag somebody? I think the best team right now is 0:18:45.160 --> 0:18:48.520 San Francisco team. Every week they can drag somebody. It 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:50.600 just took them a field. San Francisco's playing with their 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:54.080 third quarterback. I hear what you're saying, and they're still executing. 0:18:54.119 --> 0:18:58.719 That's the same level they're beating. Do you feel as 0:18:58.800 --> 0:19:02.480 if I do? Every they just showed you they almost lost, 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:04.760 say dragged. I'm not even talking about the points. I'm 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:07.800 talking about physically just beating the crap out of somebody 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.440 and controlling the game. It doesn't have to always points 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:12.919 That didn't just happened against the Raiders. The Raiders had 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:14.600 the lead on it, and the Raiders have wanted If 0:19:14.600 --> 0:19:16.159 you look on paper, Raiders have a heck of a 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:19.399 freaking roster, and Raiders coaches trash. The coaches trash but 0:19:19.480 --> 0:19:21.320 on paper before the season, what was everybody saying, the 0:19:21.800 --> 0:19:24.399 Raiders have their roster is freaking ridiculous Chandler Jones. So 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:26.360 I mean, you can't disregard the fact that they're they're 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:28.600 playing bad, but their roster is still amazing. What I'm 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:31.960 saying is hashtag keep that energy. Again, I don't disagree. 0:19:32.240 --> 0:19:35.080 I believe that the Cowboys have shown instances of playing 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:38.399 down the competition. Undeniable, the Coats for three quarters, the 0:19:38.480 --> 0:19:42.159 Texans for fifty nine minutes, right, And I'm not going 0:19:42.200 --> 0:19:45.200 to say Jacksonville because we agree that Jacksonville is in 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:48.320 a different stratosphere than the Coats, the Texans, and even 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:50.879 the Titans at this point. But played against you know, 0:19:50.960 --> 0:19:53.560 played it with your food against the Tennessee Titans, So 0:19:53.640 --> 0:19:56.560 you're right in that aspect. My point is, be at 0:19:56.560 --> 0:19:59.240 the Kansas City Chiefs. They've shown that they can play 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:01.640 down the competition. Buffalo Bills have shown they can play 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:04.359 down the competition. The Philadelphia Eagles with Jalen Hurts have 0:20:04.400 --> 0:20:06.520 played down the competition almost lost to the Code. So 0:20:06.720 --> 0:20:09.560 can I ask you direct question. My point is, at 0:20:09.680 --> 0:20:12.399 this point in the season, because to use Kyle's words, 0:20:12.440 --> 0:20:14.720 it is so wide open in both conferences. It's so 0:20:14.840 --> 0:20:17.000 wide open. All you have to make sure that you 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:22.119 do is be the best that particular day. That's it. 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:25.240 That's it, because because you might you might. I totally 0:20:25.280 --> 0:20:27.879 agree with you. Yeah, if Dallas shows up Dallas, it 0:20:28.040 --> 0:20:29.760 wins most of these games. Yeah, Okay, I don't I 0:20:29.760 --> 0:20:31.920 don't care who they face. Totally agree with you. However, 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:33.760 you don't know what Dallas is gonna show up. Yeah, 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:35.880 And that's the problem that goes back to Patrick's point 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:38.040 of the only team that can beat this team? Yeah 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:40.920 is this team? Well guess what. They better figure it 0:20:41.000 --> 0:20:43.600 out because I can't put them in the same category 0:20:43.720 --> 0:20:46.160 as in the confidence going into the playoffs as a Buffalo, 0:20:46.320 --> 0:20:48.440