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Speaker 2: All right, man, how's everyone doing?
Speaker 3: Everybody's good?
Speaker 2: Good?
Speaker 3: I have no yesterday was so stressed free, wasn't nice except.
Speaker 4: For well that's different football.
Speaker 3: I was just I stayed home.
Speaker 5: I just watched TV and I just sat up here
Speaker 5: and watch everybody else team screw up, watch their quarterbacks
Speaker 5: do crap, you know what I mean. I just loved it, like, okay,
Speaker 5: this one's like to watch the Cowboy.
Speaker 2: See the Cowboy were on their bye week last week.
Speaker 2: Last week. They returned this week getting ready to take
Speaker 2: on the l A Rams, who took a defeat yesterday
Speaker 2: by the Pittsburgh Still a quick side.
Speaker 3: Note Pittsburgh Steel.
Speaker 2: There isn't a coach that I believe in the National
Speaker 2: Football League. And this is my moment to give a
Speaker 2: little bit of praise to Mike Tomlin that gets more
Speaker 2: from less than Mike Tomlin, like he really, really really does.
Speaker 2: And so we're gonna need Mike McCarthy to get more
Speaker 2: from more this weekend, coming up against the L. A.
Speaker 5: Ram in the same city. They're in the same stadium.
Speaker 2: I'm like Saint Louis two weeks. Yes, I mean to back. So, Jess,
Speaker 2: what did you do? What did you do during your
Speaker 2: bye week? And how will it improve the Cowboys heading
Speaker 2: into this week?
Speaker 4: I got you? Okay. So I went to the State
Speaker 4: Fair for the very first time ever ever from Texas. No,
Speaker 4: I'm from New Mexico. Yeah, so I've lived here for
Speaker 4: two years and I have never gone. So I was
Speaker 4: told I needed a corn dog, that it would be
Speaker 4: life changing, and I hate to break tea was not.
Speaker 4: It was not life changing. It was it was not
Speaker 4: life changing.
Speaker 3: The cheesecake's crust, Okay, so.
Speaker 4: It was dipped in chocolate and then rolled in bisc
Speaker 4: off cookie brisk off.
Speaker 3: That's what. Yeah, delicious, my daughter line for that.
Speaker 2: Yes, I did too.
Speaker 4: I just stood in line for an hour worth it.
Speaker 4: But how it will help the cowboys?
Speaker 3: Don't know how we help the Cowboys.
Speaker 4: We're all mentally recharged, mentally recharged, and not just me
Speaker 4: that you know has to cover the Cowboys day in,
Speaker 4: day out, but the players as well. We just got
Speaker 4: off of a conference call with Marquise Bell and then
Speaker 4: Brandon Cooks and he talked about a lot of the
Speaker 4: reset going into this week, and you know how the
Speaker 4: majority of the games going on out is on home
Speaker 4: turf and how important it is to protect the home turf.
Speaker 4: Talked about that, and then he also talked about which
Speaker 4: I thought was interesting. I guess it's a generational thing
Speaker 4: that he talked about the scrutiny that the Cowboys get
Speaker 4: even in the bye week. He talked about how different
Speaker 4: it is and his advice to the guys when he's
Speaker 4: out there and not stay in not being on social media,
Speaker 4: which is huge. I mean, you're talking about I'm sorry,
Speaker 4: guys my generation, we're all social.
Speaker 3: Media, right, we have no choice, but we have no choice.
Speaker 4: How important it is. So something he also mentioned was
Speaker 4: I asked him, you know, what's one thing you've learned
Speaker 4: about Dak Prescott in the course of the last seven weeks,
Speaker 4: now that you're kind of in the thick of the season,
Speaker 4: getting into that mode, and he said his resilience and
Speaker 4: his ability to bounce back really quickly. So looking forward
Speaker 4: to the second half of the season officially, and now
Speaker 4: we're all mentally resting. I think that goes in the
Speaker 4: locker room as well.
Speaker 2: Everson Wolves what did you do during your bye week
Speaker 2: and how will that helped the Cowboys for the rest
Speaker 2: of the season.
Speaker 5: I also went to the stage film. I didn't want
Speaker 5: to wait to the last day. That was no where
Speaker 5: I was going to go yesterday. I went on Thursday.
Speaker 5: Of course I had. I had everything I did. I
Speaker 5: didn't stand in line for the cheesecake. They can have that.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: I'm not a cheesecake guy. Anyway, I'm not that curious.
Speaker 5: And otherwise, you know, I just went there and had
Speaker 5: a good time. And I must say that all of
Speaker 5: that culminated in doing not zip for the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 3: It didn't help them at all.
Speaker 5: It helped my outlook on the season thus far. I
Speaker 5: saw teams yesterday, uh, that have the same problems that
Speaker 5: we have. I see teams being overly praised the same
Speaker 5: way we overly praised the Cowboys. So yeah, I saw
Speaker 5: the similarities of what everyone else has been seeing, you know,
Speaker 5: for the first five weeks. And one thing I can
Speaker 5: say is where I was all the time, Cowboys are
Speaker 5: still one of the best teams in the NFL.
Speaker 2: And that's a that's a I was quickly saying, I
Speaker 2: did that nothing absolutely. I absolutely nothing felt good. Didn't
Speaker 2: to do nothing, to like to literally wake up and
Speaker 2: go because I'm so regimented everything everything.
Speaker 5: You are going to come and work on Thursday and
Speaker 5: Friday if it wasn't for us, you.
Speaker 2: Know, because you understand this. Once we get a schedule
Speaker 2: and we get our it becomes automatic. It becomes automatic.
Speaker 2: And so to wake up and go, okay, what's on
Speaker 2: the edgend of the day. All right, workout and then bla,
Speaker 2: I'm like, wait, work out and there's nothing else, and
Speaker 2: and and so sometimes you get caught in that that
Speaker 2: place and you're just like, it's a little bit. The
Speaker 2: anxiety bell goes off a little bit and you're like,
Speaker 2: I got nothing to something.
Speaker 3: I should be doing something. I'm missing something.
Speaker 4: Let me check my I don't even know what it
Speaker 4: is anymore.
Speaker 2: Like, well, I guess I just watch the dog and
Speaker 2: I'll just you just start trying to.
Speaker 4: Push stuff you gave your dog about.
Speaker 2: I did the big dog the bath too.
Speaker 5: You have to put out some time, You have to
Speaker 5: put some time aside.
Speaker 2: I have one hundred and thirty plus pounds Connie. Course, yeah,
Speaker 2: so for him.
Speaker 4: No, it's cute, but I'm not the one that had to.
Speaker 2: Get for him. It's just not like hey splashed the water,
Speaker 2: you just in. It's a process, right, It's like three
Speaker 2: or four coats of washing.
Speaker 4: How will that helped the Cowboys this week?
Speaker 5: Thank you that you asked the question. You started the question,
Speaker 5: So tell me how that connected to the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: I hope they washed away Oh oh.
Speaker 3: Good, yeah good.
Speaker 5: He came up with that Bayon No my how I
Speaker 5: got the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: I hope that during this time they washed away all
Speaker 2: the bad things that we talked about prior to this.
Speaker 2: I hope Mike McCarthy washed away the lack of creativity
Speaker 2: in his offense. I hope that Dak washed away the
Speaker 2: hesitancy in him delivering the football. I hope Ceedee Lamb
Speaker 2: washed away the negative being to his whatever's going on
Speaker 2: with the quarterback and the offense. I hope that the
Speaker 2: defense have washed away their inability to stop the run.
Speaker 2: So I'm hoping that all the things that were negative
Speaker 2: for the Cowboys that they got that. So I watched it.
Speaker 2: I put dove on, not the dove, I put the dawn.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, so.
Speaker 2: Right that I do that first, and then I go
Speaker 2: back with this lavender.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah, yeah, So I.
Speaker 2: Hope that the Cowboys put you know, yeah, yeah yeah,
Speaker 2: and then and then and then you know, I just
Speaker 2: kind of just dried him and made sure he was
Speaker 2: good and clean his air. So some prayer, the Cowboys
Speaker 2: did the exact same thing. Clean your ears, clean.
Speaker 4: Your ears, clean your ears.
Speaker 2: Because I want the message from Mike McCarthy and their
Speaker 2: Dan Quinn. I wanted to be clear when it hits
Speaker 2: their ears about what the assignments are for this week
Speaker 2: because coming up against the l A Rams, there's going
Speaker 2: to have to be I think that Kyle, I'm sorry
Speaker 2: that Sean McKay is one of the top tier coaches
Speaker 2: in the National Football League. So the message has to
Speaker 2: be very clear for the Dallas Cowboys that you're going
Speaker 2: to have to be assignment and alignment sound, especially defensively
Speaker 2: by what they're able to do. They got Cooper cup back.
Speaker 2: They started this year out with Poka Nakua, so you
Speaker 2: got a Cooper and a Pooka and they are a
Speaker 2: ball They are absolute balling. And one of the things
Speaker 2: that the Cowboys that kind of been struggling with defensively
Speaker 2: is being able to stop the over the middle passes,
Speaker 2: and you can bet your bottom dollar that you're going
Speaker 2: to see a ton of that from McVeigh and company off.
Speaker 3: Until you learn to stop it, you will continue to
Speaker 3: see it.
Speaker 2: And to for Jess, one of the things that I've seen,
Speaker 2: and tell me what you've seen, is the we talk
Speaker 2: about the lack of down the field productivity, right, we've
Speaker 2: been asking for that, we've been asking for that. You
Speaker 2: got a chance to hear from from from Brandon Cooks
Speaker 2: today and he's been one of the guys that we've
Speaker 2: talked about, Hey, we need to see more of that
Speaker 2: coming into this week. Do you feel like Mike McCarthy
Speaker 2: and company is kind of figured out or going to
Speaker 2: figure out a way to stretch the field a little
Speaker 2: bit more? Get gods like that involved.
Speaker 4: They should, I mean they need to. It's not even
Speaker 4: an option at this point because here's the thing. When
Speaker 4: you're not getting downfield, you didn't even have an opportunity
Speaker 4: to work on the red zone wes that we were
Speaker 4: talking about three weeks ago. We don't even know what
Speaker 4: that looks like. And so I think, yes, you have
Speaker 4: a Brandon Cooks that is warmed up now, he has
Speaker 4: his feet going, he has everything he needs. But more
Speaker 4: than anything, what I'm waiting to see is the tight
Speaker 4: end production too, and getting them involved in the passing game.
Speaker 4: I think that's something that has lacked a lot, you know,
Speaker 4: so far in the last six weeks from the Cowboys.
Speaker 4: So not only could you see more of the Brandon
Speaker 4: Cooks aspect, but seeing the receiving threat that you have
Speaker 4: from a Jake Ferguson with a yak ability that he's
Speaker 4: able to give you when you needed, especially when you're
Speaker 4: trying to get down the field. Those yardeds. That extra
Speaker 4: yardage just stacks up if you can keep getting that
Speaker 4: yak ability going and going. So yeah, I think Brandon
Speaker 4: Cooks is absolutely a big factor in that. But I
Speaker 4: also think Michael Gallup having this week to potentially figure
Speaker 4: out what has been holding him back because he had
Speaker 4: the most receptions you know on Monday night. That's also
Speaker 4: most targets, Yeah, most targets. I think that will help
Speaker 4: a lot too. So figuring that out, getting Brandon Cooks involved,
Speaker 4: getting those tight ends involved, and then I want to
Speaker 4: see those special packages that we keep hearing about too
Speaker 4: with Deuce Vaughan Lepky, even the running backs, getting all
Speaker 4: of that involved in the receiving game. I think that's
Speaker 4: important as well. So I think it's a mixture of everything.
Speaker 4: Ball distribution, Cobby.
Speaker 2: We we all talk about sometimes over correction. Last year,
Speaker 2: Dak Prescott led the league and interceptions, majority of them
Speaker 2: came with the ball going down the middle of the
Speaker 2: football field, right and there was this mixed traffic, traffic
Speaker 2: is in there middle of the field, open, middle of
Speaker 2: the field called. There was some there was some missed
Speaker 2: opportunities between receiver and quarterback. Has there been an over
Speaker 2: correction by Mike McCarthy in his offense because you got
Speaker 2: fifteen receptions last year and most of us will say
Speaker 2: that's that's not who Dak is. Mike comes in, is
Speaker 2: fully in charge of the offense now and you don't
Speaker 2: see that attacking down the middle of the field anymore.
Speaker 2: So is there an over correction you see there with
Speaker 2: how he wants to call the offense and what the
Speaker 2: offense kind of needs to get a little bit more
Speaker 2: of that middle of the field action.
Speaker 5: You know, you can call over correction. I can say
Speaker 5: that it is an uber conservative. I can't say that much.
Speaker 5: We're not trying really to take any chances down the
Speaker 5: field at all. When we did try it, there was
Speaker 5: in a desperate situation, which I think is an extreme mistake.
Speaker 5: If you're going to be working on your going down
Speaker 5: the field, then you need to work on it in
Speaker 5: practice first before you try these hell mary's that they
Speaker 5: tried that was against the forty nine ers. I do
Speaker 5: think that they are very conservative conservative at this point.
Speaker 5: I don't mind that as long as we are winning
Speaker 5: with that. But it's what I told you guys on Wednesday.
Speaker 5: I want this team to be able to win in
Speaker 5: al ways. If we have to go with Michael Gallup,
Speaker 5: then I want to win with Michael Gallup.
Speaker 3: If he's going to be our target.
Speaker 5: If CD's fussing all the time, then I want to say, Okay,
Speaker 5: we can still win and get CD the ball. I
Speaker 5: want to be able to get Fergus on the ball
Speaker 5: if we can get him the ball. But it's only
Speaker 5: one ball. Okay, it's only one ball. Who do you
Speaker 5: want to have it?
Speaker 3: You know? So let's figure out what's the best fit
Speaker 3: for us. Each week.
Speaker 5: I keep trying to tell you guys, you're gonna have
Speaker 5: to win in so many different ways.
Speaker 3: You can't just win one way. You saw Lamar Jackson yesterday.
Speaker 5: Everybody's going off on Lamar Jackson, Lamar Jackson and the Ravens.
Speaker 3: They don't need Lamar.
Speaker 5: Jackson to throw for three fifty seven to win every week.
Speaker 5: Sometimes they just win by playing good defense and having
Speaker 5: a good running game. I want us to be able
Speaker 5: to adapt to whatever we need to do to win.
Speaker 5: I don't like us saying, well, we didn't win because
Speaker 5: we didn't get to ceedee lamb. Well, if CD ain't open,
Speaker 5: then we better get into somebody who's open, right. And
Speaker 5: another thing that I saw and it came to me
Speaker 5: maybe you mentioned it already. The Cowboys were successful against
Speaker 5: the Chargers because the Chargers chose not to jam. They
Speaker 5: chose not to press most of the game. Why they
Speaker 5: chose that, I don't know, because when you saw San Fran,
Speaker 5: they were all up in our faces the entire game,
Speaker 5: and we could.
Speaker 3: Not create separation.
Speaker 5: When the Chargers did choose to press, we did have
Speaker 5: trouble separating from the DBS. That's something that we got
Speaker 5: to work on. Our physicality at the line, from our
Speaker 5: wide receivers and tight ends create separation and we won't
Speaker 5: have to have these heroin passes from Dak Prescott in
Speaker 5: key moments.
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Speaker 2: went to the Break, I said that I was gonna
Speaker 2: come to Everson and talk about the identity of this team,
Speaker 2: right it being the defense and what do they have
Speaker 2: to do as a whole from a defensive coordinator perspective
Speaker 2: and defensive players to be able to to sustain this
Speaker 2: team having the defense be their identity.
Speaker 5: First of all, they have to make sure they understand
Speaker 5: the talent around them.
Speaker 3: You know, you have to know who's good at what,
Speaker 3: when and where.
Speaker 5: Basically, you know, we know that our defensive line is
Speaker 5: pretty solid, but we also know that our defensive line
Speaker 5: has given up a few running plays that in key
Speaker 5: situations that really didn't work for us.
Speaker 3: So if we're.
Speaker 5: Going to be that defensive team, then the consistency has
Speaker 5: to be there. Play in, play out, quarter in coarler out,
Speaker 5: game in, game out, And I always bring up some
Speaker 5: teams that are known for great defense. Philadelphia is known
Speaker 5: for playing good defense. The Ravens are known for playing
Speaker 5: good defense. They are solid in their scheme week in
Speaker 5: and week out. The Cowboys seem to be a team that,
Speaker 5: you know, there are some plays where it was one
Speaker 5: of those man glad that they make you know what
Speaker 5: I mean, we don't need those. We have some We
Speaker 5: have a lot of youth on our defense, and you
Speaker 5: see some mistakes being made. You see Bland, who's gonna
Speaker 5: have a tough time now, He's gonna have a tough
Speaker 5: time all year long. As good as he is, they're
Speaker 5: going to attack him. We need to understand that our
Speaker 5: dbs are not the best DB's in the NFL right now,
Speaker 5: and we need to give them the type of pressure
Speaker 5: they need to be strong. So when you look at it,
Speaker 5: it all starts upfront, and I don't know, I don't
Speaker 5: care where you put Michael Parsons. Wherever you put him,
Speaker 5: You've got to have four or five other guys on
Speaker 5: that front that's going to make plays in a consistent
Speaker 5: manner without Michael Parsons being there. We have to be
Speaker 5: a team that's able to I don't need Michael Parsons
Speaker 5: to hold my hand. There's another linebacker. I don't need
Speaker 5: a partus to hold my hand as another defensive lineman.
Speaker 5: I should be able to do this on my own.
Speaker 5: Be d law, be like de Marcus Lawns, be that
Speaker 5: guy that can make plays on his own, and just
Speaker 5: add to it, I don't need to depend on Michael
Speaker 5: Parsons to make all the plays for me.
Speaker 2: Just for the defensive side of the ball. We talk
Speaker 2: about Michael Parsons, right, I get it. He is from
Speaker 2: a player's perspective, he is the alpha dog on that defense.
Speaker 2: He's the one guy when offenses. We have a thing
Speaker 2: when offense break the huddle, you try to find that guy, right,
Speaker 2: you go break where is he where?
Speaker 8: Right?
Speaker 2: Okay, he's He's the guy when you get your when
Speaker 2: you get your Scott report during the week, we call
Speaker 2: him Star, we call him Starr. Who's the guy that
Speaker 2: we're gonna start this week on defense? But teams in
Speaker 2: a way, when you look even look at the Chargers game,
Speaker 2: Micah didn't really make any noise in that game until
Speaker 2: that last sack. So teams are figuring out ways now
Speaker 2: kind of like we can. We can we can find
Speaker 2: ways to not allow him to to minimize and neutralize
Speaker 2: their best player. Who is a guy or guys or
Speaker 2: position group that you feel like in the second half
Speaker 2: of this season, because now the film is out right
Speaker 2: after about six seven games, you are who you are.
Speaker 2: There's minimal adjustments that you make within that, but the
Speaker 2: base of that is who you are. What is a
Speaker 2: guy or guys or group that you feel like needs
Speaker 2: to take a huge leap for this team to continue
Speaker 2: the identity of defense being their identity of this football team.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Sure, And I think my answer would be different
Speaker 4: if Layton vandersh was still in the picture. But the
Speaker 4: linebacker group right now is still very shaky because your
Speaker 4: main communicator, you're green dot guy, he's not in right now.
Speaker 4: He can't diagnose in his art for diagnosing anything on
Speaker 4: the offense so quick and it comes so natural to him,
Speaker 4: it looks like and so you know you have to
Speaker 4: make that adjustment. And jay Ron curse. He took over
Speaker 4: the green dot and the communication aspect of it. But overall,
Speaker 4: you're still missing a key player. And I think a
Speaker 4: lot of people tend to forget that. When did the
Speaker 4: whole conversation of the run defense become an issue last
Speaker 4: season is when Lve was out with the next stinger.
Speaker 4: And so you, I don't really think have seen that
Speaker 4: his team without him yet. You haven't felt him not
Speaker 4: be around yet, you haven't felt his lack of presence.
Speaker 4: And so for me, it's a linebacker group. So Damn Clark.
Speaker 4: I think although he's been he's been great, and he's
Speaker 4: been productive.
Speaker 3: It really has.
Speaker 4: It's time to really step it up now and step
Speaker 4: into his own and kind of take what LV has
Speaker 4: shown him and produce without LV next to him. And
Speaker 4: so I think that's two different things that you're talking about.
Speaker 4: When you're talking about playing with the guy next to
Speaker 4: you and then he's not there anymore, you all have
Speaker 4: to adjust. And so for me, it's the linebacker group,
Speaker 4: not because they're not strong or they're a weak point
Speaker 4: or anything like that. It's just when you're missing your
Speaker 4: core guy in Layton.
Speaker 3: It's their youth. It is their youth.
Speaker 5: And when we did make when we did have problems,
Speaker 5: it was because of the mistakes by the linebackers.
Speaker 3: Demon Clarck is bawling, but he has made some mistakes.
Speaker 5: Marqui's bell this past game clearly his best game. I
Speaker 5: don't know how many tackles he made, but he was
Speaker 5: literally all over the place. So we'll we're coming from
Speaker 5: a good place right now. So your question, if you
Speaker 5: would have asked me before the Chargers game, it would
Speaker 5: have been more poignant. At this point, I think that
Speaker 5: they hopefully they have made progress. You know that game
Speaker 5: that they played against the Chargers that could be a
Speaker 5: springboard to them really being the group that they need
Speaker 5: to be without Laydon Van der sh Yeah, that's what
Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to seeing how well can we play,
Speaker 5: not just how well can we play, how consistently can
Speaker 5: we play these next games with these young guys in there,
Speaker 5: because they seem to catch on in this Chargers game,
Speaker 5: it was good to watch the Marquis Bell all over
Speaker 5: the field.
Speaker 4: It's funny because he was also on the conference call
Speaker 4: today and they asked him, you know, what is it
Speaker 4: like for you having this three hundred pound guy coming
Speaker 4: after you, Like, what is your mindset? He said, attack him, period,
Speaker 4: attack him. And then he talked about holding the standard
Speaker 4: without Layton and they said somebody asked him, you know,
Speaker 4: how do you feel like you guys are going to
Speaker 4: do without that and continue to do without that, And
Speaker 4: he said he'll be really happy when he comes back.
Speaker 4: He said the standard will be held and he'll be
Speaker 4: happy to know if there's a drop off when he
Speaker 4: comes back. He also talked about, you know, kind of
Speaker 4: this versatility that he has from going safety to linebacker,
Speaker 4: and they asked him, what do you define yourself as
Speaker 4: and what's what's your title? What what's your position? He said,
Speaker 4: I'm hybrid. That's that's just what it is. I'm hybrid.
Speaker 4: And then he said, we have a few of those
Speaker 4: and it's important.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 4: He talked about in college he would play in the
Speaker 4: box a little bit, but that's where he's comfortable right now.
Speaker 4: So Marquispell, I mean, ring the bell everybody. If you
Speaker 4: get more of Marquis Bell like you did against the Chargers.
Speaker 5: I don't know his numbers. Did anyone have his numbers?
Speaker 5: Because they were they were really good.
Speaker 2: You can look those numbers up and you you know
Speaker 2: when he said what position you plan, like to say employed,
Speaker 2: right for a guy like Marquis Bell. Because when you
Speaker 2: think about a guy like Marquis Bell, when when you
Speaker 2: when you were when you come into a situation like this,
Speaker 2: you're just trying to find your footing. Where can I
Speaker 2: find myself a position on this field to get some
Speaker 2: playing time, you have to create value for your self.
Speaker 2: And what Marquis Bell has been able to do when
Speaker 2: a coach comes to you and he goes, listen, I
Speaker 2: need you to be able to do X, Y and Z.
Speaker 2: Can you do that? And then you do it with
Speaker 2: the level of excellency. Yes, you you earn yourself the
Speaker 2: ability to keep a job.
Speaker 3: It's trust. It is trust. Trust is what it's all
Speaker 3: about a team game.
Speaker 2: It's trust. It's trust. From a coaching standpoint, I always
Speaker 2: say that I never wanted to be the type of
Speaker 2: player that when a coach laid his head down the
Speaker 2: night before a game, he was worried about me. If
Speaker 2: you're that guy that he's worried about night before the game,
Speaker 2: you probably won't be employed very long, right. Coaches want
Speaker 2: to be able to go okay. I know that I'm
Speaker 2: good wherever. Whatever Everson Walls is playing about, dont have
Speaker 2: to worry about that, Yore. I can take my attention
Speaker 2: to somewhere else that needs my attention. But you both
Speaker 2: hit on points that I think are immensely important when
Speaker 2: it comes to an identity. It's the inconsistencies, as a
Speaker 2: young people say for me is if your if you're sorry.
Speaker 4: My mom says that all.
Speaker 2: It's not just young, but it's the inconsistencies for me.
Speaker 2: And when you go up and gets an opponent and
Speaker 2: I know they coming off a loss last week. But
Speaker 2: the one thing that I do know that McVeigh does
Speaker 2: well on the offensive side of things is scheme, scheme,
Speaker 2: and he's going to find those things in those ways
Speaker 2: where if it's Marquise Bell, if it's jy Ron Curse,
Speaker 2: if it's Donovan Wilson, if it's.
Speaker 5: And those three are the number three that he's going
Speaker 5: to look at to try and attack.
Speaker 3: Trust me.
Speaker 2: And so when you had that level of inconsistency, that's
Speaker 2: where I always am a little bit scared about can
Speaker 2: we hang our hat on something or a side of
Speaker 2: the ball that has these level of inconsistencies. Because Matthew
Speaker 2: Stafford he's still a good quarterback, Yes he is. And
Speaker 2: when you talk about the receiving quarter they had like
Speaker 2: they're in a system where the open guy is gonna
Speaker 2: get the ball right. But they're also in a system
Speaker 2: where and I learned this when I was at New
Speaker 2: England with Tom Brady, is they can run the same
Speaker 2: play ten different ways and they'll go what matchups do
Speaker 2: I want to create? Of course? Do I want to
Speaker 2: create a matchup of Pooka the coup on a linebacker?
Speaker 2: Do I want to create a matchup of Cooper Cup
Speaker 2: on a safety? Where do I want this matchup to happen?
Speaker 2: Do I want it to happen in the middle.
Speaker 3: Of the field. They were created and they hated, and the.
Speaker 2: Good teams are able to match that man from man. Right,
Speaker 2: the consistency level is there, it's the ones where that
Speaker 2: kills you is when they thought because when they find
Speaker 2: the matchup best your bottom best, believe your bottom dollar,
Speaker 2: they're going to attack it.
Speaker 3: And when that comes, it has nothing to do with
Speaker 3: the system. Now it's you.
Speaker 5: Now it's you, and see that's what I want those
Speaker 5: players that can accept that challenge. It seems as if
Speaker 5: Marquise Bell and jay Ron did that in this last game.
Speaker 3: Once again, we're coming off a good game.
Speaker 5: If you talked to me before this, before the Chargers
Speaker 5: game is a totally different story. What I saw was
Speaker 5: major improvement from a team with a lot of threats
Speaker 5: they were going against. The Chargers had a lot of
Speaker 5: threats and they held them down pretty well, and they
Speaker 5: need to deserve They deserve credit just like the team
Speaker 5: that just held them down also, Okay in this past week,
Speaker 5: so you got to look at the Chiefs as far
Speaker 5: as what the Chiefs did. So I look at this
Speaker 5: team now coming off of a good win, and it's
Speaker 5: not just that we just won. It's the way that
Speaker 5: these young men that we're talking about played, and that
Speaker 5: to me gives me a lot of hope on who
Speaker 5: we play against in the future because they will be
Speaker 5: a target for the rest of the season. I was
Speaker 5: there nineteen eighty one. I don't care how many interceptions
Speaker 5: you get. You got to show me every week, and
Speaker 5: I had to show them every week. These guys are
Speaker 5: gonna have to do the same thing all year long.
Speaker 2: Jess, you have those stats pulled up Porcus both I do.
Speaker 4: It was gonna pull out a Taylor swift lyric there.
Speaker 4: It was rare people are expected at this point. Twenty
Speaker 4: seven total combined tackles so far this season. That rings
Speaker 4: him fourth on the Cowboys, just behind j Ron Curse
Speaker 4: Layton and then Demone Clark is your total tackle lead
Speaker 4: leader right now. One tackle for loss, one pass deflection
Speaker 4: from Marquise Bell, one force fumble so far. And I
Speaker 4: say so far because you have to see the rest
Speaker 4: of the season. But overall, I mean, what I like
Speaker 4: that you guys have brought up and mentioned is mcvay's
Speaker 4: ability to adjust and evolve, And I think that's so
Speaker 4: important in coaching when you're talking about any coach within
Speaker 4: this league is their success can be defined by the
Speaker 4: evolution of their play calling or of their coaching style.
Speaker 4: And he's not just set in one way. He adjusts
Speaker 4: to the opponents. Oh key, in any matchup you go
Speaker 4: against McVay. So look, are they the most successful? Are
Speaker 4: they the scariest team coming out of the bye week?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 4: But are they a threat that you should not overlook?
Speaker 2: Yes, We're gonna go to break and I think, Jess,
Speaker 2: you hit right where I want to go. Not this week,
Speaker 2: but the Cowboys have another big time opponent next week
Speaker 2: in the Philadelphia Eagles, who had a dominating win last
Speaker 2: night against the Miami Dolphins. Are they overlooking the Rams
Speaker 2: and having another one of those circle the calendar dates
Speaker 2: for the Philadelphia Eagles. We'll talk more about that coming up.
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Speaker 2: Please drink responsibly to the players loud Welcome back to
Speaker 2: the players Lounge. This is our official last day together.
Speaker 2: I know, I know you have a swiftyft lyric for that.
Speaker 2: This is a song that says so it's so, But
Speaker 2: do you have for that?
Speaker 4: I said, remember this moment in the back of my mind,
Speaker 4: the time of my life dragons with you.
Speaker 3: Oh wow, that's cool. That's cool like that, that sounds sincere.
Speaker 4: That's the ultimate compliment.
Speaker 2: I can give you, Jesse Holly. We have been the
Speaker 2: I guess, the media mask, the fill in mix up
Speaker 2: of this week for the Players Lounge. We will return
Speaker 2: back to our normal shows. Where will you bet tomorrowss.
Speaker 11: Boys, mixed shots, no boot, no place, and I know
Speaker 11: there's like Jesse stops, shut up with that.
Speaker 2: I'll be back tomorrow at one pm Central time. I
Speaker 2: must say it was great working with you. You and
Speaker 2: I never worked together before. Emis and I worked together
Speaker 2: before many times, and we always we always Yeah, it
Speaker 2: was great.
Speaker 3: But you're cool.
Speaker 2: You guys are cool too, swift.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I against against it.
Speaker 4: Look you were singing, shake it off, don't play it cooling.
Speaker 11: I have a.
Speaker 3: Hey, these guys are swiftest they are.
Speaker 2: We're not swift.
Speaker 4: No, it was cool because I remember I shared with you,
Speaker 4: what like last year before the Eagles game, which we're
Speaker 4: going to talk about. About. There was one time so
Speaker 4: my dad has season tickets and I would go to
Speaker 4: all the Cowboys games and Jesse Holly was like a
Speaker 4: big staple in the family. Be like, yeah, we love Jesse,
Speaker 4: always root for this guy. So you were outside and
Speaker 4: you were doing a pregame something I don't remember what
Speaker 4: it was. And I was like, Jesse, Holly, can I
Speaker 4: take a picture? And so we took a picture in
Speaker 4: like twenty sixteen. So then we were watching the Eagles
Speaker 4: game last year at Texas Live. Yes, And then I
Speaker 4: showed Jesse the picture and I was like, look, wow,
Speaker 4: look out full circle. And then we're both there taking notes.
Speaker 2: Just gray hairs. I was gray hairs in my beard
Speaker 2: swimmer good time, good time to twenty sixteen. What's up?
Speaker 2: What's up? Pops? How are you? Thank you so much
Speaker 2: always being a j Holly fan. I appreciate you more
Speaker 2: and ever since too.
Speaker 4: My dad was like My dad was like, okay, I
Speaker 4: stopped everything to make sure I could listen to what
Speaker 4: you were telling. Ever, Sid, I'm like, okay, Dan's not serious.
Speaker 3: You're fine, Pops. What's up?
Speaker 4: Probably listening all right, Pops?
Speaker 3: What's up?
Speaker 8: Brother?
Speaker 2: We love we love you? Over here from the non swifty.
Speaker 5: Fans, Yes, yes, I'm sure he joins us as a
Speaker 5: non swifty fans to hear.
Speaker 2: So as the Cowboys prepare themselves to take on the
Speaker 2: l A. Rams this Sunday, twelve noon at at and
Speaker 2: T Stadium, looming in the near future on the screen
Speaker 2: and the Kelly Green jersey. I gotta say, I'm not
Speaker 2: supposed out loud on the station the coaches hoodie that
Speaker 2: they had on in Philadelphia.
Speaker 4: I thought you were talking about the jersey.
Speaker 2: No, I was talk about the hoodies like that they
Speaker 2: had on. Yeah. I kind of like maybe it's the
Speaker 2: old school living.
Speaker 3: I like the jersey. Yeah, I played against.
Speaker 2: I was the Cowboys, Like the Cowboys need to go
Speaker 2: back to the Apex, like the little Giants Jersey, like
Speaker 2: they need to go back to them. Just one time, Jerry,
Speaker 2: just one time.
Speaker 5: I love to see the Cowboys come out and all black. Oh,
Speaker 5: that'd be so cool. Souse you got all white. Of
Speaker 5: course he's not, of course he's not. We can't be
Speaker 5: looked at like that.
Speaker 3: You just can't. Yeah, man, you saw you saw Indy
Speaker 3: and the Indie Blue. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah, We're gonna have to wait till like a shy uh.
Speaker 2: We may not be around to see it.
Speaker 3: I don't think so. I don't think we will.
Speaker 2: But when when when the grass when I'm gone.
Speaker 5: And that's when let's put that in the Ring of Island, Right, Okay,
Speaker 5: my son will be like old, Yeah, we didn't get it.
Speaker 4: I'll be like I remember the time we were on
Speaker 4: the Players last they.
Speaker 3: Were just joking about this. You'll be old.
Speaker 4: Taylor Swift will not be Taylor Swift will have like
Speaker 4: her mill Man.
Speaker 3: She don't be on the fifth marriage.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, she said Travis Kelsey, that's what we're
Speaker 4: talking about earlier.
Speaker 2: That will last very long. She knows that, you know, honestly,
Speaker 2: don't think that's gonna last.
Speaker 6: I do.
Speaker 4: She was with her ex boyfriend for six years.
Speaker 2: Well. Breaking news the Philadelphia Eagles, who we talk about
Speaker 2: next week. They have made a trade. They have upgraded
Speaker 2: their defensive back position. I gotta say, like they're doing
Speaker 2: Like you talk about management, they're doing a hell of
Speaker 2: a job over there in Philadelphia. They just traded with
Speaker 2: the Tennessee Titans to get All Pro safety Kevin Bayered
Speaker 2: to Philadelphia.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a good player.
Speaker 5: It's a damn good player. They worked at out real fast.
Speaker 5: Is that because of tyweek Hill I don't know. I
Speaker 5: mean because he was running by a couple of people yesterday.
Speaker 2: It could be because we play cd Land next week.
Speaker 2: It could be because they say it could be a
Speaker 2: big reason. They're afraid of what Ady is bringing to
Speaker 2: the table next week.
Speaker 3: Let's do it like that.
Speaker 2: Let's do it like that. But the Cowboys, they do
Speaker 2: have an opponent in front of them this Sunday and
Speaker 2: the Charge. But we saw them the Rams. We saw
Speaker 2: the Cowboys this year get to the point of they
Speaker 2: talked about it all off season, how big of a
Speaker 2: challenge it was to take on the forty nine ers,
Speaker 2: and that turned out to be a bit of a dud.
Speaker 2: Do you think in the back of some of the
Speaker 2: players minds that they're thinking to themselves, Boy, I know
Speaker 2: we have the Rams this week, but the second game
Speaker 2: that will circle on their calendar, because I think the
Speaker 2: Philadelphia Eagles is another mistest of what this team really is.
Speaker 2: Can they could they be kind of just peeking ahead
Speaker 2: a little bit? See, I know they all watched it
Speaker 2: last night. They had nothing else to do. They watched
Speaker 2: it last night. Could they they abay give their dog back?
Speaker 2: They're richer than I am. They called they called the Waggy,
Speaker 2: the portable wagon truck that comes right to the house. Yeah,
Speaker 2: they just had them show up. My dogs getting to
Speaker 2: the point now where they won't even take them at
Speaker 2: the at the at the.
Speaker 3: Lady like that's come to get the dog. Okay, we'll
Speaker 3: see you next week.
Speaker 2: That's what happened. That's exactly what happens these small.
Speaker 3: God blessing them my dogs one hundred pounds. And he
Speaker 3: does the same thing.
Speaker 2: I know, he's looking like they had a little swinging calendar,
Speaker 2: Like he's already looking over there like the last time
Speaker 2: we take him here, putting him up on a scale. Right,
Speaker 2: it's a it's a it's a test, it's a But
Speaker 2: could the Cowboys be kind of looking ahead a little
Speaker 2: bit to that Philadelphia game? Yess?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I mean, and is that a good thing?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's okay, But I don't think that's something new to
Speaker 4: this season. I think that's something you do every season.
Speaker 4: We're going to play the Eagles. I don't think it's
Speaker 4: anything different. I think it's it's a little more overhyped
Speaker 4: because the Eagles are successful and they are playing at
Speaker 4: a high level and they continue to do so. But
Speaker 4: I don't think it's anything new that you look forward
Speaker 4: to playing a divisional rival, especially the Eagles, and especially
Speaker 4: when they're playing well, and especially because you haven't seen
Speaker 4: a full forced Cowboys Eagles game and how many games
Speaker 4: now three? I mean, keep in mind, you've had injuries
Speaker 4: keeping guys out. You haven't seen Jalen Hurts and Dak
Speaker 4: Prescott game. So when it's that much hype that's going
Speaker 4: into it, why wouldn't you? I mean, I know they're
Speaker 4: excited about it, but I also think I would hope
Speaker 4: that they learned their lesson not to overlook this mixed
Speaker 4: opponent and have another San Francisco two point zero game.
Speaker 2: But you talked about the youth, right you said, And
Speaker 2: there are some young guys on this football team, and
Speaker 2: it's one thing to have a veteran squad who understands
Speaker 2: all that comes along with the day and day out, weekend,
Speaker 2: week out, long season of being locked in and focused.
Speaker 2: Could those younger guys have that mentality where they're saying,
Speaker 2: you know what, I know that we got the rams
Speaker 2: right here, but I'm checking out. Philly.
Speaker 5: Let's think about when you were young and you played
Speaker 5: in the league. Okay, I'll think about when I played
Speaker 5: in the league. I didn't look forward to any particular game.
Speaker 5: I look forward to every game. You know, as far
Speaker 5: as I was concerned as a young player, man, it
Speaker 5: was a challenge game. I was not looking past anyone.
Speaker 5: I was looking forward to making plays each week. That's
Speaker 5: what I was looking forward to. I would imagine someone
Speaker 5: like a Marquise, someone like jay Ron, with how successfully
Speaker 5: they played in that last game. If I'm them, I'm
Speaker 5: looking forward to repeating that this week alone. This week alone,
Speaker 5: I'm looking forward to this particular game because I see
Speaker 5: the challenges in this game. And I'm not just trying
Speaker 5: to sound like some old dude who's oh, I'm just
Speaker 5: gonna be playing by, But no, I'm really looking forward.
Speaker 5: I'm going against Matthew Stafford. I'm going against a Cooper Cup.
Speaker 5: Come on, man, I hear about this dude. Who's this
Speaker 5: guy with the name Hookah. I'm hearing about these guys.
Speaker 5: The young guys should never look over anything but what's
Speaker 5: coming into their face the following week. I know I'm
Speaker 5: not unique in that, you know, I just I couldn't
Speaker 5: even see that far. All I could see was the
Speaker 5: next week. I got work to do, and I better
Speaker 5: make sure I'm from Dallas. I got my family in
Speaker 5: the stands, they got my jersey on I'm looking forward
Speaker 5: to not embarrassing them. You know I couldn't. I never
Speaker 5: looked forward to another game. And so if anyone's worried
Speaker 5: about looking forward to game, it should be the coaches themselves.
Speaker 5: How are you going to handle this week versus next week?
Speaker 5: Because coaches are always so coy about I don't want
Speaker 5: to show them too much.
Speaker 3: You know, well, if we show them this, then you
Speaker 3: know they're gonna be ready for that. And you know
Speaker 3: they're not too crazy about the head coach of Philadelphia.
Speaker 5: You know he's a little smart ass, so they don't
Speaker 5: want to show him too much to make him look smart.
Speaker 5: There's always these chess games to be played weekend and
Speaker 5: week out. So if you say they look forward so
Speaker 5: much to San Francisco, well you can look forward to it.
Speaker 3: But then once you get there, and as Mike Mike
Speaker 3: Texas say.
Speaker 5: Once you get punching the mouth, once you get punching
Speaker 5: the mouth, then we got punching the mouth.
Speaker 3: How are you going to react? Not next week? No,
Speaker 3: the game still has to be played, right.
Speaker 5: They never responded from getting punched in the mouth, So
Speaker 5: you just worry about this week. Just worry about your
Speaker 5: play this week. We should be over all of that
Speaker 5: looking forward to it as far as players are concerned. Coaches,
Speaker 5: you worry about that players were looking forward to this
Speaker 5: week anymore?
Speaker 4: How could I add to that?
Speaker 11: That really was?
Speaker 4: That was perfect? Were about you anything to add there?
Speaker 2: I'm the host, No you gonna back out.
Speaker 3: I'm the host.
Speaker 2: I think everything. I think everything that you said was
Speaker 2: spot on, and then I remember it's a Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 2: And then I remember that there are a certain level
Speaker 2: of guys who has soundeds what you just said. Don't
Speaker 2: think that way as mature of a thing that you
Speaker 2: just said. Aren'ture to understand that as a focused thing
Speaker 2: that you just said. Some of these players on this
Speaker 2: team lack that. And so when you look at are
Speaker 2: they looking ahead? Are they focused on the right in
Speaker 2: front of them?
Speaker 6: Some?
Speaker 2: Yes, But when you look at from man one to
Speaker 2: Man sixty eight on the roster, I think I think
Speaker 2: there's a mix up in that. I think there's a
Speaker 2: I think there's a core of guys that are like, nah, man,
Speaker 2: we got to focus on the task at hand, with
Speaker 2: the rams and McVeigh in that whole situation, and I
Speaker 2: think it's the cord. It's like man I can't wait
Speaker 2: to play Philly. I can't I can't wait to go
Speaker 2: up to Philadelphia, right because even some of the young
Speaker 2: guys who've never been to Philadelphia, that alone is what
Speaker 2: that's an experience. If you never played the game in PA,
Speaker 2: it's an experience. The entire thing is an experience. From
Speaker 2: the time you get to the hotel to the time
Speaker 2: the game happens, to the time the game to the
Speaker 2: time you're leaving the game. It is an absolute experience.
Speaker 2: It is and and sometimes it's a shell shock to
Speaker 2: some of the younger players. So what you said so eloquently,
Speaker 2: put so mature put, I think there's still a maybe
Speaker 2: it's not fifty to fifty, maybe it's sixty forty, maybe
Speaker 2: it's seventy thirty. But in that thirty there may be
Speaker 2: some players that you really need to be locked in,
Speaker 2: right because that that thirty may not be a guy
Speaker 2: who just plays special team. That thirty may be your
Speaker 2: starting safety, that thirty percent may be your starting receiver
Speaker 2: or whatever it may be. That that can sometimes have
Speaker 2: their focus all over the place. And I'm with you,
Speaker 2: I'm with you one hundred percent. Is you know, worry
Speaker 2: about the game that you have to deal with right now.
Speaker 2: Next week will take care of yourself, and tomorrow will
Speaker 2: bring its problems of its own, so don't focus on
Speaker 2: those now. But I remember that everyone's not as mature
Speaker 2: as Everson Wallas. Everyone's not as mature as a Jesse
Speaker 2: Holly this day. And these kids they have, they have trouble.
Speaker 2: You know why TikTok is so addictive. They can they
Speaker 2: cannot hold their attention span longer in thirty seconds. It's
Speaker 2: flip flip, flip, flip flip, so their minds belay.
Speaker 4: You know, the players TikTok what he said, all.
Speaker 5: The players, the ones that are still off into that
Speaker 5: because to me, whether you're into how old.
Speaker 3: Is your daughter thirty nine?
Speaker 2: Okay, then she's she's not that, she's not that stage.
Speaker 2: But these younger guys, they are doing this all day,
Speaker 2: they're like scroll, So I know that there are attention
Speaker 2: spans all over the place because they're not they're not
Speaker 2: solely FI players like that.
Speaker 4: Well, I also think too, how much the bye week
Speaker 4: will help that, right, because at that point you've had
Speaker 4: a week off, you kind of what is it? Distance
Speaker 4: makes the heart grow fonder? You missed playing football, so
Speaker 4: instead of focusing and jumping ahead. They're just ready to
Speaker 4: get back out there this week against the Rams because
Speaker 4: you didn't have it this week before and you still
Speaker 4: have a sour taste in your mouth from the forty
Speaker 4: nine ers.
Speaker 5: I say this, before we start talking about are we ready,
Speaker 5: you start thinking about somebody like Philly. Philly's getting ready
Speaker 5: for us right now. They are getting ready for us
Speaker 5: right now. So you have to worry is Philly overlooking us?
Speaker 5: How is Philly approaching this particular game coming up? Are
Speaker 5: they gonna feel like they got everything in the in
Speaker 5: the bag because they're they're playing at home, you know,
Speaker 5: because they only lost one game that NFC East leaders.
Speaker 5: Are they gonna be the ones that will be over confident?
Speaker 5: Let's look at what they're thinking right now.
Speaker 2: But you have, right now, you have a contingency of
Speaker 2: fans that are watching this show. That's like that ship
Speaker 2: Kebby you tell Jesse and his hating, like that's what
Speaker 2: you're saying right now. They're telling you got people And
Speaker 2: I know, I know there's a bunch of people watching
Speaker 2: this show right now, like you tell ever since Jesse.
Speaker 4: Is always breaking up guys.
Speaker 2: But you're absolutely right but man, that is our time
Speaker 2: here on the Jess Cobby you knew Me is in Houston.
Speaker 2: Hopefully the Rangers bring it home tonight when the Alcs
Speaker 2: to the nothing you knew you gotta bring it home,
Speaker 2: baby Brady take on the Houston Astros tonight. Hopefully they
Speaker 2: can win it. Game seven is there before we go
Speaker 2: Game seven? Who has the best?
Speaker 7: Like overall?
Speaker 2: Is it basketball Game seven? Hockey Game seven? You got
Speaker 2: your star shirt on? Or is it baseball games hockey?
Speaker 4: I'm partial. I'm partial. You can't ask me. I'm I'm
Speaker 4: biased in that hockey.
Speaker 5: I'm basketball. I'm basketball all the way. I'm basketball all
Speaker 5: the way.
Speaker 2: You got hockey, you got basketball, jazz and basketball.
Speaker 4: Let's go.
Speaker 2: Baseball is thrilling, man, like a single pitch matters.
Speaker 5: And I like how they up just a little bit, yes,
Speaker 5: just enough, like every because it's still it's still intense,
Speaker 5: right yeah.
Speaker 2: And that's the thing. I think baseball has the greatest
Speaker 2: Game seven because you know.
Speaker 5: You just never first you're still, and then it's action. Yeah,
Speaker 5: then you're still there's action. You know, it's it's like
Speaker 5: so surreal, you know, a serene at times. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 5: and then all of a sudden on his action. You know,
Speaker 5: it's between these.
Speaker 2: Pits, basketball, baseball, hockey. All right, that's our time for
Speaker 2: the Players Lounge. We'll all be back to our regular
Speaker 2: schedule program means tomorrow Girls Talk, Boys Talk mix shot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I said it. I said that. You don't have
Speaker 3: to go ahead hang it with.
Speaker 2: Yes, we appreciate you, guys man.
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