WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Sounding Off 0:00:04.400 --> 0:00:06.920 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.000 --> 0:00:18.320 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This he's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:21.720 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World Headquarters at the 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:32.800 Star in Frisco. And now your hosts Isaiah stand back, 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:38.800 heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips and Kyle Yeoman's It is 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:42.440 a beautiful Tuesday edition of Talking Cowboys here from the 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:45.680 s WBC Mortgage Studios at the Star in Frisco. It's 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:48.559 a byeweek edition. Oh wait, it's not a byeweek kind 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:50.600 of sort of. It kind of is a byeweek, though 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:53.479 at least it feels like it's a byeweek. We'll take it. 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:55.960 I mean, I'll take it? Or will you take it? 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:57.840 I definitely take it. Heck, well will you take it? 0:00:59.360 --> 0:01:02.040 I will? Oh he's showing off the Christmas tree, Rob 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:05.360 Rob bye week are you taking it? Leaving it? What 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:08.600 do you? I'll take a bye, I'll take a mini bye. 0:01:08.760 --> 0:01:10.800 I got a Christmas tree for you coming up later 0:01:10.840 --> 0:01:14.520 this weekend on your Christmas tree. Wait, so on the weekend. 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:16.720 You're not doing it? You're not starting now on the 0:01:16.800 --> 0:01:21.560 Christmas tree. No, just give me till the end. Oh, 0:01:21.560 --> 0:01:23.800 we're gonna have a tree off. Yeah, we're gonna have 0:01:23.800 --> 0:01:26.160 a tree off. Am I gonna have to am, I 0:01:26.160 --> 0:01:28.479 gonna have to bring mine to the studio and put 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:30.320 it in here. Chris is probably not gonna like that 0:01:30.440 --> 0:01:34.199 very much, but I would no, But you're the prop 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:36.760 guy on the show, so do it. Okay? Fine? Cool, 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:39.240 Rob said I could. I'll just tell him. I'll tell 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:41.400 everybody that, like whenever I walk in with a full 0:01:41.480 --> 0:01:44.400 Christmas tree, you you have a Christmas tree, You're gonna 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:46.240 you're gonna put up. I don't. I don't have one up. 0:01:46.920 --> 0:01:49.040 My question because I know Heckman has had his tree 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:53.280 up since uh since Halloween? But did you do you 0:01:53.320 --> 0:01:55.200 have an elf on a shelf? Heckman? Do you guys 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:59.040 do elf on a shelf? Yes? We do? Did you 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:02.520 kick get all? You did your what's what's your else name? 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:10.320 What's your else name? I can't say. That's embarrassing. Wow, 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:17.080 I'm just gonna say tup tupacow. Yeah, okay, that's pretty 0:02:17.080 --> 0:02:20.480 fa that's pretty awesome. But I'm learning more about you 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:22.880 guys as weeks every day. But hey, that's how it 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.639 is here on this show. Cowboys. What's up? Rob? That's awesome? 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:28.760 When are we going to break down the Ravens like 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:30.600 Monday of next week? Like, what do you want to 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:33.360 do the rest of them? See Friday. Here's the thing 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:35.280 that's that's kind of where I was leading with this, 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:38.520 is that the Dallas Cowboys who played the Washington football 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:42.280 team on Thursday, we broke down that game at nauseum 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:44.560 yesterday and we were going to continue into today, and 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:46.679 we still are going to continue in today because there's 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:49.359 nothing else related to go go after. But I mean, 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:53.120 that felt like forever Thursday to Monday to finally break 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:56.000 down that game on this show. Well, now we've got 0:02:56.120 --> 0:03:00.079 to wait forever because we've got till next Tuesday, and 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.959 that's just scheduled because tomorrow is when the Ravens and 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:07.000 the Steelers are going to play due to COVID nineteen 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.880 protocols and trying to get the Ravens outbreak contained. And 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:15.000 then the Ravens and Cowboys are scheduled to play next Tuesday, 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:19.399 push back again twelve days in between the Washington game 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:23.120 and the raven game. A Ravens game coming up for 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:25.639 the Cowboys, and like I, like Rob said earlier it's 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.079 a mini bye week. But at the same time, there's 0:03:28.080 --> 0:03:30.239 a lot of stuff we can talk about. But I 0:03:30.280 --> 0:03:33.480 don't know when we'll start that that breakdown. Friday, maybe 0:03:34.000 --> 0:03:36.760 we start we start breaking down that game. I mean, 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:39.000 we could just go six days, just go on one 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:40.800 player at a time, just go all the way down 0:03:40.840 --> 0:03:44.080 the roster for both teams. They just do that, and 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:46.920 then I mean that would work. He liked that idea. 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:53.440 I do. I like that. That's dangerous though, but yeah, 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.440 I like it. I mean, the NFL man blessed hard. 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:59.080 They've had a lot to try and digest and get 0:03:59.120 --> 0:04:03.520 through this whole of a nineteen twenty situation, and they're 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:05.920 doing the best that they can. I mean, the Steelers 0:04:05.960 --> 0:04:08.680 in the Ravens game has been moved what four times 0:04:08.800 --> 0:04:11.800 now yep. So I mean I think we're just thinking 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.320 our lucky stars that they're actually going to be able 0:04:14.400 --> 0:04:17.040 to play a game. But even for our game, I 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:19.320 think if there are any more any more of an 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:24.120 outbreak than there already has been with Baltimore, our game 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:28.480 may be in question. It's tough and rob whenever you 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:31.480 look at the scheduling and everything that's involved here with 0:04:31.720 --> 0:04:34.000 these two games. Talking about the Steelers game for the 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:38.039 Ravens and then of course Cowboys Ravens. Is this something 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.880 that the Cowboys needed in terms of a little extra 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:44.000 time after what was ended up being a blowout loss 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.840 in Washington, a very emotional week last week. Is this 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:49.400 something that the doctor ordered for the Cowboys or is 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.560 this something that you didn't necessarily want for this team? 0:04:54.360 --> 0:04:57.400 I think they definitely need it. That's just me speaking 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.600 the outside. I know McCarthy. Mike mc arthy said on 0:05:00.680 --> 0:05:03.479 Friday that you know, will will adjust if we still 0:05:03.520 --> 0:05:05.159 play that you know by that at that point they 0:05:05.200 --> 0:05:07.039 didn't know if they were playing this week or next 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.200 and but he said, you know, we'll take it because 0:05:10.200 --> 0:05:13.000 I think not only from a from a physical standpoint, obviously, 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:17.640 the injuries have been a factor because, like you said, Kyle, emotionally, Um, 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.120 this has just been really hard man. I mean, and 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:23.760 and I think Mickey said it, um. I want to 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:27.120 say during on Thanksgiving at the game, you know a 0:05:27.200 --> 0:05:29.160 lot of young guys on the team that probably have 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:33.480 not experienced something like losing someone close to him, like 0:05:33.720 --> 0:05:36.480 like Marcus paul Um and really and the way it happened, 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.360 it happened in the building where where he suffered that 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:43.320 that emergency, and so I think they definitely could use it. 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:46.000 And now the thing about it is, what's what's interesting 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:49.760 is you play next Tuesday, but it's a road trip. 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.840 You're probably gonna get back early hours Wednesday morning, and 0:05:52.880 --> 0:05:54.960 then you've got to turn around and travel. I would 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:58.480 assume Saturday the twelfth to go play at Cincinnati on 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.440 the road. That's that's doing them no favors with the schedule. 0:06:01.560 --> 0:06:04.880 But but Heckma said it too. Uh, they're the league 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.320 is in unchartered territory here and they're just trying to 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:09.240 get through the season the best way they know how 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:13.000 and also give the Ravens some chances to get to 0:06:13.120 --> 0:06:17.760 get healthy because you know, this isn't well. I don't 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:19.920 know exactly what caused it, but with an outbreak, they're 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:22.599 trying to help them as much as they can. Yeah, 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.200 I mean the league, like you guys already said, the 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:26.680 league trying to figure it out. I think they're they're 0:06:26.680 --> 0:06:29.160 in a bad spot. Um, but you know, I'm hearing 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:30.920 some things out of Baltimore that you know, if they're 0:06:30.920 --> 0:06:32.680 forced to play it, that they they might do a 0:06:32.720 --> 0:06:34.960 little striky strike and all the kinds of other stuff man. 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:38.360 So um, but there's there's there's implications of that as well, 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.480 because the NFLPA and in the league and lawsuits and 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:43.800 all kinds of stuff. So this week is crazy. I 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:45.320 think all of us just have our antennas up just 0:06:45.360 --> 0:06:46.760 trying figure out what the heck is going on. So 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:49.719 you're saying, if they're forced to play, the players, there's 0:06:49.720 --> 0:06:51.840 there's word that the players are going to try to 0:06:51.920 --> 0:06:55.040 do a strike because they're saying that they're being exposed 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:59.320 to you know, it's it's dangerous, dangerous conditions. I thought, 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:02.920 at least for the other perspective from a league standpoint, 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:06.040 it would be not okay to take away game checks. 0:07:06.279 --> 0:07:08.120 So that's kind of where I was confused, or that's 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:10.680 where I'm confused by that. Just the fact that if 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:12.560 you don't play, you're not gonna get paid. And I 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:14.400 think you could say that about both the Cowboys and 0:07:14.440 --> 0:07:17.000 the Ravens if that game's canceled. The Cowboys were sitting 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:20.360 here saying, well, what did we do wrong? What happened 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:22.640 with us? Why is our game check getting taken away? So, 0:07:22.800 --> 0:07:25.360 I mean, there's so many different layers and factors to 0:07:25.480 --> 0:07:28.560 this thing. It's crazy to talk about because, I mean, one, 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:31.680 it's unpresident and we never never had to experience anything 0:07:31.760 --> 0:07:33.800 like this. I mean the season in general. I mean 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:36.640 we had a backup, backup, backup wide receiver playing quarterback 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.720 for the Denver Broccos last I mean, and that was 0:07:39.920 --> 0:07:42.400 that was league induced. I mean, that's what that's what 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.800 we're dealing with right now with this COVID nineteen protocol. 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.040 But if you were a player, what side would you 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:49.720 be on? Would you want to be on the safe 0:07:49.760 --> 0:07:51.680 side or would you want to be on the side 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:55.120 of let's play, let's let's do our job kind of thing? Um. 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:58.920 I mean back then, I didn't have any kids, so true, 0:07:59.560 --> 0:08:02.000 you know, I mean I trust, I know, I know 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.000 specifically here, every time we come in the building, I know, 0:08:04.400 --> 0:08:07.040 you know, they're they're testing out the wazoo. So um, 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.200 I know that they're doing everything that they possibly can 0:08:09.240 --> 0:08:11.120 to try to keep people safe. Um. At the end 0:08:11.160 --> 0:08:13.720 of the day, it's it's a it's an airborne disease 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:16.280 that you really can't contain, right. So um, at the 0:08:16.400 --> 0:08:18.600 end of the day, there you know, people aren't getting 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:21.360 diagnosed as soon as they have on set, right they're 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:25.120 being diagnosed days after um, you know they actually contracted. 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:28.040 So it's it's scary. It's a scary place for players, 0:08:28.640 --> 0:08:31.360 especially those guys who are who are not single and bachelors, 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:32.719 the guys that have to go back home to their 0:08:32.760 --> 0:08:35.000 families and and kids and all that. So it's it's 0:08:35.000 --> 0:08:37.120 two different mindsets. I think, you know, the bachelor, the 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:39.319 bachelor guy that just came in the league versus a 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.680 family man. Um. I ran into a guy the other 0:08:42.800 --> 0:08:46.120 day at the dealership and he was he's a basketball player, 0:08:46.200 --> 0:08:48.280 NBA guy. He just he took the year off just 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.199 because he's like, it's just stop. Yeah. He's like, I'm 0:08:50.200 --> 0:08:52.640 just I'm not playing. I'm not doing that to my family. Wow, 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:56.640 that's crazy. I mean at the dealership. At the dealership, 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.400 wow with an NBA guy. Wow, that wasn't at the 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:06.520 mississ b see A Ford was go yow, we know 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:10.120 hey money he had was calling out Isaiah again for 0:09:10.200 --> 0:09:13.880 the second straight day in that regard. Now giving it 0:09:14.000 --> 0:09:17.400 back if you're looking at it from a cowboys perspective, 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:20.320 and I know, the rest is something that's gonna that's 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:24.200 gonna play a factor. And of course you're you're excited 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.440 about a couple extra days to kind of sit here 0:09:26.480 --> 0:09:28.240 and rest. But this is also a chance that the 0:09:28.320 --> 0:09:32.440 Cowboys have to to it's a chance to mess things 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:36.440 up to I mean, I remember, even from an employee perspective, 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:40.120 the Cowboys hr and overhanging or saying that, hey, you 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:43.120 got to stay home on the bye week and bye 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:46.120 weekend Thanksgiving and saying, hey, be careful. That's that's really 0:09:46.200 --> 0:09:48.679 kind of what the overhanging arching of it is. This 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.280 is kind of unregulated, or at least it feels that way, Rob. 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.240 Whenever it comes to the twelve days that you're waiting 0:09:54.280 --> 0:09:57.000 to play this football game, this team has to show 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.560 discipline in this week as at the same time, I mean, 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:01.480 you're still gonna have practices, You're still gonna have things 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:03.320 that you're gonna have to work on, but you also 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:05.520 got to stay safe outside of that. And that's something 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.640 that I think is another challenge placed on Mike McCarthy 0:10:08.679 --> 0:10:12.520 staff that I don't think we've actually hit up, Rob. Yeah, 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:14.439 but I mean they're they're going to be back in 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:16.360 the building here at some point this week. I know 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.360 the league asked all teams just as a safety precaution 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:24.000 coming off of the Thanksgiving holiday, stay home work virtually 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.559 Monday Tuesday of this week, and then I think the 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:30.040 Cowboys were set to get back into practice on Wednesday, 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:32.439 now pushing the game back another day. I don't know 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.040 if they're going to change that up, because you could 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.880 do you could do your Wednesday Thursday schedule really on 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:41.320 Friday Saturday this week. But to your point, it's all 0:10:41.320 --> 0:10:44.079 about the protocols and sticking to it, and that's you know, 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.839 that's what happened with Denver. There was a breakdown in 0:10:46.920 --> 0:10:50.600 protocol with their quarterbacks, and that's why, you know, they 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:52.719 not only didn't have quarterbacks, that's why I guess the 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.760 league one had and said let's play the game. So 0:10:56.640 --> 0:11:00.599 but I think the Cowboys are leading, maybe setting the 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.080 right example in terms of bubbling up with the staff 0:11:03.120 --> 0:11:05.920 at a hotel. Now they have better, the amenities here 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.280 are better, and then I would imagine any team in 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:11.960 the league. It's unbelievable, it's first class. But that might 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.959 be a way that the way that teams have to 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:17.960 go down the stretch here to ensure as much safety 0:11:18.000 --> 0:11:20.040 as possible to get through this season. The Cowboys are 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.120 kind of setting that example. I want to know what 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:24.079 Seattle is doing. I found out last night watching the 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:26.120 Seattle game. Seattle is the only team in the league 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:28.240 that hasn't had a case on their team yet. Yeah, somebody, 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.520 Steve Leeper right, brought that brought up that point on 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:34.280 the broadcast. I thought the same stat kind of poked 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.600 in my head. It was like, my goodness, that's pretty impressive. 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:40.160 And also not to mention, I wonder what their amenities are, like, 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.520 I mean, you were up there, it is it anything. 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.400 There's no hotel right next door? Yeah, hotel. There's no 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:47.480 Omni next door. I can tell you that is right 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:50.120 there on the waterfront. I mean, most guys live relatively close. 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:53.840 But I mean Seattle is a lot different in Texas, 0:11:53.880 --> 0:11:57.280 in Dallas a little bit, and they've they've locked things down. 0:11:57.440 --> 0:11:59.480 Things are pretty much locked down back that's a good 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.320 back home Seattle. So it's a lot different environment. Guys 0:12:02.360 --> 0:12:05.040 were able to leave here go out and eat at restaurants. 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:06.880 You know, I'm not hanging out with I'm just going 0:12:06.920 --> 0:12:08.679 out to eat. I'm eating outside, you know, whatever it 0:12:08.760 --> 0:12:11.920 may be. But you're still out socializing Versus a Seattle 0:12:12.000 --> 0:12:15.360 you don't have that option. That's that probably plays a 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:19.280 pretty good factor into it. Now. Whenever it comes to 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:23.160 this week in the Cowboys perspective, where do they want 0:12:23.160 --> 0:12:26.400 to start? Kind of leaning in terms of of work 0:12:26.480 --> 0:12:28.439 do you think? And Rob, I'm kind of going back 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:30.280 to what you said a second ago. You said they 0:12:30.360 --> 0:12:33.000 could start as soon as tomorrow in terms of their 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.040 practice schedule. But do you think they'll push it back 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.400 or you think they'll take these next couple of days 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:41.640 to rest up and then finally get into practice. I 0:12:42.160 --> 0:12:46.280 honestly don't know. We haven't gotten an adjusted schedule, if 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:50.400 there is one. I just know that that Monday two 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.520 they were going to get back in the in meeting 0:12:54.480 --> 0:12:58.679 space virtually today players basically back back to work off 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:01.360 the holiday today and then I think they were going 0:13:01.400 --> 0:13:04.400 to do something Friday or Wednesday on the field. Now 0:13:05.200 --> 0:13:07.439 it is an opportunity even if Mike McCarthy wants to 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.360 just to give them another day or just have meetings 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:11.719 on Wednesday and just get off your feet some more. 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.360 Um So we'll see how they do it. But you know, 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:17.880 usually they've got kind of three day set Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:20.720 and then they would travel. So you can you can 0:13:20.760 --> 0:13:22.520 do you can knock that out all on the weekend 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.640 and then have your travel day on Monday. I'm losing 0:13:25.679 --> 0:13:30.880 track of my days. I don't know it's Tuesday fifty 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:35.439 Tuesday exactly. No, Kyle, let me just add to that. 0:13:35.679 --> 0:13:37.920 Let me add to that that you know, for the NFL, 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:41.160 this is our football teams are. For the Dallas Cowboys, 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:45.360 this is a logistical nightmare, especially dealing with the schedule changing. 0:13:45.440 --> 0:13:49.839 You know how how much uh NFL coaches just create 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:52.480 that structure, and that's what you get. In the NFL. 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.680 Everything gets pretty much structured out. You're off on these days, 0:13:55.720 --> 0:13:58.720 you practice on these days, you install your game playing 0:13:58.800 --> 0:14:02.840 on certain day. But this year has been completely knocked 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:05.120 off kilter and you have no idea how this is 0:14:05.160 --> 0:14:07.280 gonna go or the scheduling is going to go. But 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:10.160 for this team, coming off of that loss to the 0:14:10.240 --> 0:14:13.240 football team, they may want to try and incorporate a 0:14:13.320 --> 0:14:15.920 little bit more rest, especially knowing that the game now 0:14:16.160 --> 0:14:18.160 it's going to be moved out to Tuesday. So it's 0:14:18.160 --> 0:14:20.680 gonna be interesting how they played and how the week 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.840 is going to form. Well, it's gonna be interesting to 0:14:23.880 --> 0:14:25.360 see how the week is going to form. From a 0:14:25.440 --> 0:14:28.000 talking Cowboys perspective, because we've got to find topics to 0:14:28.120 --> 0:14:31.640 talk about all week long. So tomorrow homeborway assignment, tone 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.000 work assignment for you all. I expect a four thousand 0:14:34.080 --> 0:14:36.480 word essay on whether or not the Cowboys or the 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.760 NFL should go into a bubble for the NFL playoffs. 0:14:39.920 --> 0:14:42.680 So debate back and forth. We'll read them live on 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:45.600 the air, and that's how tomorrow's show. So with that 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.320 being said, I'm totally joking for everybody listening, please tune 0:14:48.360 --> 0:14:50.720 in tomorrow. We will not be doing that anyway. San 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:53.160 Francisco is doing something like it that you're not wrong, 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.080 you're not wrong. Well they're kind of forced to, kind 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.960 of have to. Yeah. But with that being said, it 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.600 is a fan on the fifty Tuesday, and we've got 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.440 some fan questions to answer. 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I don't 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:07.960 want to hear what you have to say here in 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.200 the next final next couple seconds, because I know you're 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:12.720 about to say something along the lines that I don't 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.800 want to hear. Anyways, let's go to our first fans 0:18:15.840 --> 0:18:20.159 on the fifty question, starting with Gary, Well, wait, actually 0:18:20.359 --> 0:18:22.919 I forgot the stinger. Okay, wait, fans on the fifty, 0:18:27.119 --> 0:18:29.040 Oh it didn't fire off. This is this is this 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:32.600 is not just this is unfortunate, this is this is sad. 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:36.480 It's okay, though, It's okay. Chris Beams always doing fantastic 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:38.920 stuff in the back. So let's go to Gary's question, 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:41.320 the question for the fans on the fifty. It doesn't 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:45.880 appear that Ezekiel Elliott fits in Kellen Moore's pass happy offense. 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:49.320 With that being said, he gave us multiple choices here, 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:52.800 So so listen up. So A with the front office 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.080 this season, are you going to try and move on 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:58.960 from Zeke? B? Are you gonna cut ties with Kellen Moore? 0:18:59.520 --> 0:19:03.600 Or see do they run it back next season? Let's 0:19:03.600 --> 0:19:10.160 go with Hekma first. I'm I'm going to see run 0:19:10.240 --> 0:19:13.600 it back. I mean, this is uh gonna be this 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:16.440 is gonna go down for Zeke is probably one of 0:19:16.600 --> 0:19:20.520 one of his worst statistical years, and so I would 0:19:20.560 --> 0:19:23.080 like to see what he looks like with a healthy 0:19:23.200 --> 0:19:27.400 offensive line. I mean we've we've pretty much just that's 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:29.200 the point that we have to make with Zeke is 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:32.320 that he's running behind this makeshift offensive line. Is hard 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:36.480 for him to try to be the running back that 0:19:36.520 --> 0:19:38.720 we've known him to be in the past. But I 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:40.920 wouldn't say that I would rush to get rid of 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:43.520 one of the probably one of the best running backs 0:19:43.560 --> 0:19:49.720 in the league to this point. Rob see run it 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:54.159 back and basically to what Hekma said that if they 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:58.000 could take care of the ball next year with Dak 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:02.000 with you think a healthy offen line, I would imagine 0:20:02.000 --> 0:20:04.800 they put themselves in position to have more leads in 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:07.320 games and you can actually use ze because they didn't 0:20:07.359 --> 0:20:09.600 give themselves chances and some of it was equ with 0:20:09.640 --> 0:20:13.440 the fumbles, but they haven't given themselves chances to run 0:20:13.640 --> 0:20:15.560 a lot of the times because of turnovers and because 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:19.400 of deficits and at times situationally you've seen Kelly Moore 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:21.840 go to the pass and lean pass, so there's been 0:20:21.880 --> 0:20:23.600 that too, But I think they need to be I 0:20:23.720 --> 0:20:26.600 think from a play calling standpoint and from a personnel standpoint, 0:20:26.680 --> 0:20:29.680 they need to be more balanced going forward next year 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:32.840 when they get healthy. I'm going with options to see 0:20:33.000 --> 0:20:36.480 with a conversation. Okay, right, run it back, but Kellen 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:39.240