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Speaker 1: if you can't tell already, we are not in the
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Speaker 1: back virtual as we are unavailable to be in the
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Speaker 1: we are still gonna bring you some Cowboys content and
Speaker 1: we are going to talk to the fans today. We've
Speaker 1: got some Twitter questions that we're gonna hit coming up
Speaker 1: in the next twenty minutes or so. But we're back
Speaker 1: with the normal crew, Rob Phillips, Isaiah stand Back, heck
Speaker 1: Ma Harris, and I'm Kyle Yeoman's and gentlemen, that's different,
Speaker 1: but it's also it really similar to where we've been
Speaker 1: used to getting back to normal, but maybe not so
Speaker 1: much normal again for at least a couple of days.
Speaker 1: But Rob, glad to have you back, and I'm excited
Speaker 1: to hear what you had to say about the game yesterday.
Speaker 1: First of all, I'm the last time we did this,
Speaker 1: Isaiah did not have those fancy bows heads. So I'm
Speaker 1: just I'm loving this look today. I'm loving it. Thank you,
Speaker 1: Thank you, Rob Okay, Yeah, finally get the bows. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it looks fantastic. As Jason Garrett would say back in
Speaker 1: the day, fantastic. Yes, I was not on the show yesterday.
Speaker 1: You guys did a fantastic job domination. I mean, y'all
Speaker 1: covered it yesterday. That was as dominant performance as I
Speaker 1: can remember covering in what fifteen years something like that.
Speaker 1: Just it was almost a perfect game the way they played,
Speaker 1: as far as getting everybody involved offensively, defensively, the turnovers continue,
Speaker 1: special teams touchdown. It was an embarrassing loss for Washington,
Speaker 1: no question about it. And honestly, the way the defense
Speaker 1: is playing, I think you have to say this team
Speaker 1: as a Super Bowl contender right now. I know they
Speaker 1: haven't beaten some very good teams lately, and one is
Speaker 1: coming up. But I would say the way that this
Speaker 1: slump has happened, if you want to call it for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys offense, maybe it was the best thing that
Speaker 1: ever happened to this Cowboys team. If maybe if we
Speaker 1: go down the stretch, because it's allowed the defense to
Speaker 1: raise its game and it kind of forced them to
Speaker 1: raise their game. And if you can get both units
Speaker 1: kind of on this level going into the playoffs, that's
Speaker 1: the teams they make it to the super Bowl. That
Speaker 1: was a jumping out of the cake by you, Robert.
Speaker 1: I heard it. I don't have pasties at home, but yeah, man,
Speaker 1: hey everybody, Yeah, yeah, come on, you know what to do, Isaiah,
Speaker 1: do your thing. But everybody just listened to the show.
Speaker 1: Thumbs up, a thumbs down for Rob's beard. I personally
Speaker 1: love the beard look for Rob. I think it makes them,
Speaker 1: you know, as a little thuggish, ruggish to the p Island. Well,
Speaker 1: we both watched the old school Miami vice. Right, so
Speaker 1: I'm just going for Crockett really right now, is what
Speaker 1: I'm doing for Crockett. Yeah, Crockett really didn't trim it up,
Speaker 1: you know, he just kind of let it go. Mind
Speaker 1: straight out of laziness right now. But yeah, maybe I'll
Speaker 1: keep it in trim it for you. We'll see that's
Speaker 1: a T shirt, Rob and you hit straight out of lazy,
Speaker 1: Straight out of lazy, Isaiah, how's everything going in your world?
Speaker 1: Of course? Now that you're bad, I get the crib
Speaker 1: and you got that? Uh is that cowboys in the
Speaker 1: background there again? Or are you get something different? We
Speaker 1: got some cowboys back there. You know. I received that
Speaker 1: gift from one of my one of my clients. I
Speaker 1: was awesome, got my old my first touchdown with the
Speaker 1: boys and then uh Dallas Renegades when when I was
Speaker 1: working with them. So I've got a couple of things
Speaker 1: around here. But I'm about to change the officer of
Speaker 1: now that we have to be remote for a little bit,
Speaker 1: I'm about to change the officer of. My dad bought
Speaker 1: me some some background stuff. I'm about to fix it
Speaker 1: up so I can get my get my uh you know,
Speaker 1: my haygman Harrison On not trying to look bootlegs, always
Speaker 1: got the always got the office ready, man, I'm from
Speaker 1: the c FOAM Capitol right now, you know, so you
Speaker 1: know I gotta get it, get it cracking. But guys,
Speaker 1: I mean, I want to go back to what Rob
Speaker 1: pe is talking about a super Bowl caliber defense, and
Speaker 1: I just want to know from you, Pete, how long
Speaker 1: did it take for you to gravitate towards this defense
Speaker 1: looking like a super Bowl caliber defense. I think it's
Speaker 1: come to during this stretch where the offense has struggled.
Speaker 1: Obviously they if you wanted to call it a slump,
Speaker 1: that was they broke a slump Sunday. Fifty six points
Speaker 1: is just ridiculous. But yeah, I think you know, early
Speaker 1: in the season, probably the narrative and maybe it was true, was,
Speaker 1: you know, offensively, that's the strength they're dominant. The defense
Speaker 1: succeeds when they're playing with a lead. They haven't had
Speaker 1: that luxury lately, and obviously they haven't played they haven't
Speaker 1: played playoffs super Bowl caliber quarterbacks. But they played Pat
Speaker 1: Mahomes a few weeks ago and did a hell of
Speaker 1: a job. And these takeaways are could be the difference
Speaker 1: maker to me because you go back in history teams
Speaker 1: that had thirty plus forty takeaways, if they have a
Speaker 1: quarterback that is playoff, super Bowl caliber, who gets hot
Speaker 1: most of the time in the past, twenty years there's
Speaker 1: a team with that many takeaways that makes the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl because you've got a quarterback in an offense that
Speaker 1: can capitalize on those extra possessions. Is that quarterback definitely
Speaker 1: was earlier in the season, showed it on Sunday, great
Speaker 1: test Sunday against Arizona. But if he gets hot, this
Speaker 1: this team's got is dangerous. I mean, there's no question
Speaker 1: about that. Now. You mentioned it early on, You kind
Speaker 1: of talked about the fact that the defense having to
Speaker 1: raise their game to keep up with the offense. Do
Speaker 1: you feel like that's starting to kind of get to
Speaker 1: that that vice versa it's kind of starting to turn
Speaker 1: the tide a little bit because the defense did raise
Speaker 1: their game and they've done it consistently now for the
Speaker 1: last four or five weeks. In the of course, the
Speaker 1: four game win streaks certainly showing for it. But is
Speaker 1: it also now the offense with the pressure and the
Speaker 1: bet that Michael Parsons was talking about the touchdowns versus turnovers?
Speaker 1: Is it now the offense is turned to try and
Speaker 1: turn that tide moving into the final two games of
Speaker 1: the regular season. Yeah, absolutely, honestly. You know, with that bet,
Speaker 1: if the defense wins that bet this team's in trouble,
Speaker 1: you know, seriously, I mean, you can't have an offense
Speaker 1: that's losing the turnover, takeaway slash touchdown battle against their
Speaker 1: own defense every week. And obviously they came out and
Speaker 1: played really well. I think you know, Isaiah, it's been
Speaker 1: a part of Super Bowl championship teams, and I just
Speaker 1: think you can't win a Super Bowl if you've got
Speaker 1: one side of the ball really struggling. I think you've
Speaker 1: got to have look at Tampa Bay last year. It
Speaker 1: was so take a drink from home complimentary, like that's
Speaker 1: what Mike McCarthy's been saying for two years now. Sunday
Speaker 1: was the best example yet that we've seen of it.
Speaker 1: And yes, that was an opponent that was struggling with COVID,
Speaker 1: with injuries, with schedule, Cowboys were more rested, more ready
Speaker 1: for that game. But I think they've been playing at
Speaker 1: a certain level defensively for a while and they're peaking
Speaker 1: in time for the playoffs. And that's exciting if you're
Speaker 1: a fan. And obviously it's exciting that the offense took
Speaker 1: a step forward. To Isaiah, Yeah, I mean, ross point,
Speaker 1: you want to make sure that your offense is able
Speaker 1: to score points and as well as the defense is
Speaker 1: playing is a great of a job as you're doing
Speaker 1: in terms of you know, four some three and outs
Speaker 1: and ultimately getting turnovers. If your offense gets the ball
Speaker 1: and they can't score points, and it's really for nothing.
Speaker 1: And as we talked about it in the past weeks,
Speaker 1: you know, the teams that we're going to have to
Speaker 1: face in the playoffs, all those teams can score points.
Speaker 1: So the reality is your defense can't stop those guys
Speaker 1: every single time. So you're gonna have to be able
Speaker 1: to come back their onslaught with your ability to score points. Heck, well,
Speaker 1: I just think that it's I think it's interesting full
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys. How you know, the offense and defense
Speaker 1: a kind of being pi against each other. But this
Speaker 1: team in general is peeking at the right time. Pee.
Speaker 1: I just you know, the turnover, the turnovers for the defense,
Speaker 1: I think it's carrying this team. That momentum is starting
Speaker 1: to be the catalyst for the success that we're having.
Speaker 1: Just the way the aggressiveness, the turnovers, all of that.
Speaker 1: I mean, it permeates through the whole team. And you
Speaker 1: could tell the offense is like, hey, we gotta get
Speaker 1: in on the act too, and it was good to
Speaker 1: see that the last game in and just knowing that
Speaker 1: this offense for the first I don't know, is it
Speaker 1: safe to say first seven weeks of the season was
Speaker 1: just clicking on all cylinders and then something happened, and
Speaker 1: whether it was the blueprint that came about the show
Speaker 1: that look, this is how you need to play these guys. Obviously,
Speaker 1: teams are willing to die in cover two and Dak
Speaker 1: is having to find this way here. You can see
Speaker 1: it a little bit, and we talked about it yesterday,
Speaker 1: some of the throws that he was making. But you
Speaker 1: can't you can't understate how the defense is taking the
Speaker 1: range right now and leaving this team through. And I
Speaker 1: don't think that there's anybody that's going to have a
Speaker 1: problem with saying that if we win a super Bowl,
Speaker 1: it's because the defense showed up and showed out and
Speaker 1: made this possible. So I'm not complaining. Whoever decides to
Speaker 1: take the lead on this thing to get us there,
Speaker 1: I'm all for it. I'm right there with real quick.
Speaker 1: Just to piggyback on the takeaways thing, I went back
Speaker 1: I wrote about this flat last week. Last twenty seasons
Speaker 1: fifteen super bowls. Out of those twenty, there's been at
Speaker 1: least one team in the Super Bowl that had thirty
Speaker 1: plus takeaways, including Wow, Isaiah's Championship Giants team in twenty eleven.
Speaker 1: They had thirty one takeaways in that season, so did
Speaker 1: the Patriots. If you've got a really good quarterback to
Speaker 1: capitalize on that, history shows you can do this. So
Speaker 1: they are a dangerous team right now, no question about it.
Speaker 1: But again, hey, Arizona is the best team they will
Speaker 1: have played since Kansas City. So hey, great test coming up.
Speaker 1: It is a great test, and we're gonna get to
Speaker 1: that quick coming up here in the next couple of moments.
Speaker 1: In order to do that, first, Rob, I want to
Speaker 1: hear some news and notes. We didn't get the news
Speaker 1: and notes yesterday, but we also got to hear from
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy and some of the coordinators and also had
Speaker 1: some updates on a certain left tackle that might be
Speaker 1: available moving into the week. Oh, I got some news
Speaker 1: and I got some notes for y'all. Let's start with
Speaker 1: Tyran Smith. Stephen Jones on the Fan yesterday said he
Speaker 1: was quote very optimistic about Tyran returning against Arizona, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I think he made some progress last week
Speaker 1: and they felt like they, you know, could could wait
Speaker 1: another week and they were able to get the job
Speaker 1: done without him. So Stephen talked like they were going
Speaker 1: to have him back provided he's got no setbacks during
Speaker 1: practice this week, so that's good news. The COVID list
Speaker 1: continues to have some editions. Francis Bernard joins that list.
Speaker 1: He tested positive, Avante Collins and Brandon Smith from the
Speaker 1: practice squad where COVID list editions as well. So I
Speaker 1: count one two through four nine players currently sorry on
Speaker 1: the on the COVID list since last week, and Tristan
Speaker 1: Hill's part of that group too. He has not returned
Speaker 1: since being on there a week or two ago, so
Speaker 1: still dealing with COVID throughout the league. The league had
Speaker 1: one hundred and six placements on the reserve list and
Speaker 1: now that's four hundred and seventy six on the list
Speaker 1: since December thirteenth, according to the NFL four hundred twenty
Speaker 1: eight of last season. So this is something the Cowboys
Speaker 1: continue have to be mindful of. Everybody does, and it
Speaker 1: kind of goes back to what Dak said before last
Speaker 1: season where healthiest team wins, you know, injuries slash COVID
Speaker 1: and heckm I want to get your your thought process
Speaker 1: on the offensive line and the way that they played
Speaker 1: on Sunday night and the way that they kind of
Speaker 1: bottled up the defensive line from Washington and to a
Speaker 1: certain extent frustrated the defensive line from Washington. And I
Speaker 1: say that a little tongue in cheek, of course because
Speaker 1: the pain and the Allen of course, but the way
Speaker 1: that that offensive line played, how exciting is it now
Speaker 1: moving into these final two games. The fact that Tyren Smith,
Speaker 1: should he remain off the COVID list, looks like he's
Speaker 1: going to be a part of it. Yeah, and you're right,
Speaker 1: I know you said that tongue in cheek, but man,
Speaker 1: we was. We was bringing it to him so much
Speaker 1: so that they got in the fight themselves on their
Speaker 1: own hot benches with them. And that's just you know,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, obviously, Tyren Smith coming back is
Speaker 1: going to be very important. You want to see your
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame left tackle back in action. But as
Speaker 1: much criticism as coach Philbin has taken from the whole
Speaker 1: swing tackle by committee approach, man, it worked. I mean,
Speaker 1: you didn't see a drop off from Niseki or still,
Speaker 1: but I really love the way that if you go
Speaker 1: back and watch that Washington take, they were giving them
Speaker 1: them countertrads. And that's how old Joe Gibbs back when
Speaker 1: they were called the Washington Redskins offense, that the counter
Speaker 1: trade was what they started and pulling guards and tackles.
Speaker 1: And it worked. And you saw Ezekiel Elliott a patient
Speaker 1: runner and pick up those gash yards in the last game.
Speaker 1: But I think if you continue this, and as me
Speaker 1: and I have talked about it, how this running game
Speaker 1: can also catapult the passing game to where it needs
Speaker 1: to be. Play action was very important, and I think
Speaker 1: that was all because of the job that the offensive
Speaker 1: line what's doing. We have seen so many times that
Speaker 1: Beadish and Connor Williams or McGovern whichever one we were
Speaker 1: having problems over the left side, over the center with
Speaker 1: getting pressure up in Dak's face, didn't have to go
Speaker 1: through that. Obviously, you're going to have a test this
Speaker 1: Sunday with the Arizona defense because they are all formidable
Speaker 1: and they have some guys that are going to come
Speaker 1: after him. So I really. Look, I'm with p on this,
Speaker 1: Like you know, you understand that you have a test
Speaker 1: coming on Sunday. Yeah, it's great to hear that Tyran
Speaker 1: Smith is back man or possibly back. I mean simply
Speaker 1: because of the fact that you know what you have
Speaker 1: in that all pro left tackle, and as soon as
Speaker 1: he comes back, you automatically get all of your debt
Speaker 1: back right, you get all your guys go right back
Speaker 1: to sitting right behind him, and you have a sure thing,
Speaker 1: no question marks, and you guys can go out there
Speaker 1: and continue to be dominant up front. You know, these
Speaker 1: guys did a great job and obviously and replacing him
Speaker 1: during that time where he's been gone, and hopefully that
Speaker 1: ends this week. But those guys are able to get
Speaker 1: movement up front, and by having that movement up front,
Speaker 1: you force the defensive line, the defensive front seven to
Speaker 1: now respect your running game. We only ran for one
Speaker 1: hundred and eight yards. It wasn't like we beat beat
Speaker 1: the ground up, but they had to respect it. And
Speaker 1: by doing that, like next said, it opens up all
Speaker 1: of the threatening aspects of our passing game, which really
Speaker 1: comes off of the play action passes. And it was
Speaker 1: awesome to see and Terrence Steele, can can you know,
Speaker 1: go back to his true calling. Apparently that's playing wide receiver,
Speaker 1: you know, on the edge. The other thing too, and
Speaker 1: I know y'all covered this yesterday, was Dak scrambling like
Speaker 1: that is an element that you know, it's not by
Speaker 1: design necessarily, but it does keep the defense honest. And
Speaker 1: that's as much as he's running. I feel like, I
Speaker 1: don't know if the stats board out, but as much
Speaker 1: as he's running weeks in the game and at least
Speaker 1: as good as he's looked while running in weeks, right, Isaiah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's almost like he just made the decision. I still
Speaker 1: feel like there was a little bit of hesitation, but
Speaker 1: he was like, man, screw it, I know I need
Speaker 1: to do this. I know this is gonna help us
Speaker 1: move to chains. I notice is going to help our
Speaker 1: entire offense continue them, you know, put points up, so
Speaker 1: freak here I go, all right, and I'm not happy
Speaker 1: about it, but I'm doing it, you know. And he
Speaker 1: made it happen. And guess what they obviously the offense
Speaker 1: was the benefactors of it. Yeah, Dak's game has definitely changed.
Speaker 1: If you go back to twenty nineteen and dad got
Speaker 1: in trouble. If there was an extra five seven yards
Speaker 1: to pick up, four will go get it for you.
Speaker 1: And this year we've seen that change, and I don't
Speaker 1: think anyone is blaming him for that. Right after seeing
Speaker 1: him go through that catastrophic injury last year, I think
Speaker 1: we all thought that that was gonna be a little
Speaker 1: bit of doubt in the back of his head on
Speaker 1: whether I should leave the pocket, you know, And and
Speaker 1: I'm with you, Isaiah, maybe it was just this game
Speaker 1: that he said, you know what, I'm done with that.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put that behind me and I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: out here. And you saw him running for those first
Speaker 1: down yards. But we're gonna need that that that Dak
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. We're gonna need the guy that leaves
Speaker 1: the pocket because I don't think that defenses are gonna
Speaker 1: change the way that they approached the Cowboys offense. I
Speaker 1: don't think, so go for it. A couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: I think it was two weeks ago, we did a
Speaker 1: segment of Pregame Live. There was about you know, the
Speaker 1: four quarters in getting in. One of the points I
Speaker 1: made was getting Dak swagged back. Did you guys notice
Speaker 1: the difference in his whole just ambyance, his his confidence
Speaker 1: when he stepped on the field yesterday, two days ago.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be honest with you, because he's the guy
Speaker 1: that's always leading the group before games. I haven't seen it.
Speaker 1: I just hadn't seen it the way that I think
Speaker 1: that you're noticing it. And you've been talking about this
Speaker 1: for weeks, confidence and things like that, so if you
Speaker 1: noticed it coming back, I just feel like he's a
Speaker 1: supremely confident athlete. But you know, hey, maybe maybe this
Speaker 1: game it was like the light switch came on. He's like, look,
Speaker 1: I'm in my bag. I gotta get it. No, I
Speaker 1: think I think, yeah, heck, and I think there's probably
Speaker 1: something to that, maybe not just for Dak but the
Speaker 1: whole team. I think they were relieved to be back
Speaker 1: at home. You know, three straight road games that had
Speaker 1: been at home since Thanksgiving. And look, you know, the
Speaker 1: stats and the record bear it out like they're a
Speaker 1: better football team, especially offensively when they're at at and
Speaker 1: T Stadium. That's why keep winning. Hope Green Bay trips
Speaker 1: up and there's a chance they're in this one seed
Speaker 1: and they're not going anywhere before possibly we'll see man,
Speaker 1: and you would feel so much better about them playing
Speaker 1: home games at at and T Stadium if at least
Speaker 1: got one right now. But then if you get a
Speaker 1: buy and then in your next two, we're supposed to
Speaker 1: be at home if you want to keep winning. Oh,
Speaker 1: I feel so much better about that than having to
Speaker 1: go up to Lambeau and having McCarthy's return on the
Speaker 1: docket and so many different things like that. So that
Speaker 1: one seed is certainly on the docket moving forward. But
Speaker 1: when we come back, what is the strongest part of
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys right now? What position group, what unit
Speaker 1: is the strongest part? We answer that and many more
Speaker 1: of your Twitter questions when we return with more talking Cowboys.
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Speaker 1: are things you can use, things that you need. You know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I love it. So with that being said, and we
Speaker 1: got to ask this yesterday with with Isaiah and with HECMO.
Speaker 1: But Rob, what was your favorite part about the win
Speaker 1: over Washington on Sunday? If there was one moment that
Speaker 1: stuck out to you, Um, I might be well, probably
Speaker 1: tanks pick six. It was almost like a yeah, like
Speaker 1: a like a trying to one up Randy Gregory for
Speaker 1: the week before. And I I'm probably stepping on your
Speaker 1: teas pre show, but the most fun to me watching
Speaker 1: this team play right now is the D line and
Speaker 1: specifically third down, and Chris Collinsworth was highlighting it, you know,
Speaker 1: the different ways they're trying to exploit matchups in pass
Speaker 1: rush situations, the way they'll line up Randy Gregory and
Speaker 1: then blitz tomorrow I'm sorry, Micah Parsons from the linebacker position.
Speaker 1: Off the ball, it's it's so much fun to watch
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn use all these talented players and put them
Speaker 1: in great positions to have success. I mean, it's it
Speaker 1: is really really exciting right now. And that's one thing
Speaker 1: that we didn't really get to highlight yesterday, but talk
Speaker 1: about the money down from Washington on offense versus Dallas
Speaker 1: on offense. I mean, it couldn't have been any more lopsided.
Speaker 1: How about three of thirteen Washington was held to just
Speaker 1: three of thirteen on third down and then you've got
Speaker 1: ten of fifteen for the Cowboys offensively, So both sides
Speaker 1: of the football able to kind of destroy Washington on
Speaker 1: third down in Isaiah, that's going to win you a
Speaker 1: whole lot of football games if you're able to keep
Speaker 1: that going absolutely, And what's kind of eerie about is
Speaker 1: I remember a couple of weeks back we were three
Speaker 1: for thirteen on third down, and it just doesn't seem
Speaker 1: that long ago that we were having along that same
Speaker 1: stat line. But if you continue to be continue to
Speaker 1: execute on third down like they did obviously against Washington,
Speaker 1: You're gonna win a lot of dog on ball games
Speaker 1: and you hope that that's going to be the result
Speaker 1: going forward. I have to say ditto and piggyback on
Speaker 1: Rob's point in terms of the defensive line. I'm loving
Speaker 1: with dan Quinn's doing in terms of these third down
Speaker 1: these third down matchups, He's done a great job. We've
Speaker 1: talked about it yesterday in terms of moving d Law
Speaker 1: over into the inside and putting parsons on over over
Speaker 1: the middle as well. These offensive guards usually sitting his
Speaker 1: little bubble, and we talked about it a lot in
Speaker 1: terms of where guys are comfortable at. Right, guys are
Speaker 1: comfortable at sitting on the inside and guard at the
Speaker 1: guard position because they have help, they have somebody there.
Speaker 1: Sandwich did between some guys and they're they're kind of
Speaker 1: in this nice little ice cream sandwich. But when you
Speaker 1: go out to the ends at the offensive tackle position,
Speaker 1: you're really on the island. But these guys are really
Speaker 1: taking those offensive guards and putting them at a disadvantage,
Speaker 1: and they're really making them uncomfortable because now they have
Speaker 1: man to man matchups against our best pass rushers in
Speaker 1: d law In Michael Parsons, and I hate to take
Speaker 1: away from Gregory, but Gregory's on the outside picking on
Speaker 1: the tackles and it's awesome to see every time third
Speaker 1: down pops around. There was a play that Collinsworth highlighted
Speaker 1: where one play Randy was in kind of a wide
Speaker 1: nine technique rush heck and Parsons had had free rain
Speaker 1: to go in and rush from the middle and get pressure,
Speaker 1: and then the next time they kind of blocked inside
Speaker 1: and allowed Gregory to get pressure on the outside and
Speaker 1: tank as well. It's like it's pick your poison right now.
Speaker 1: You know, you just hope that everybody can stay healthy
Speaker 1: and stay together because it's it's really exciting. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: you know, and you know, third down is the money
Speaker 1: down right now, This defense ranks somewhere around twenty five
Speaker 1: twenty six, however, and maybe after the last game they're
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot higher. But third down is very important.
Speaker 1: No matter how you look at turnover differential, you get
Speaker 1: the turnovers and also third down getting off the field,
Speaker 1: and that's what they've been so good at is getting
Speaker 1: off the field. And that's when we talk about this
Speaker 1: momentum and how you just accentuated that point about where
Speaker 1: our offense was on third down and how the tide
Speaker 1: had changed there with them, you know, obviously getting to
Speaker 1: first down the defense, and how the tide is changing
Speaker 1: them getting off the field on third down. Look, we're
Speaker 1: peeking at the right time. All the right things are
Speaker 1: happening for us. But I just want to go back
Speaker 1: to something that Isaiah said about what dan Quinn is doing,
Speaker 1: and that is isolating these matchups. Putting guards on an island,
Speaker 1: and it ain't pe island, but you get on that
Speaker 1: and you get on that island and you have Michael
Speaker 1: Parsons in front of you, or Randy Gregory in front
Speaker 1: of you, however he switches it up, or Tank in
Speaker 1: front of you, and you're finding that they're just isolating
Speaker 1: and manhandling one side of the offensive line. It's so
Speaker 1: hard for guys to slide protect to one side, to
Speaker 1: take one guy away on our front seven. It's just
Speaker 1: awesome to see this. And obviously as guys get healthy,
Speaker 1: we played that game without Tristan Hill. That's another guy
Speaker 1: that you're adding to that rotation. I don't look, man,
Speaker 1: the momentum that they have on defense right now. It's just, man,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's uncanny the way that this defense has
Speaker 1: changed from last year to this year. And one of
Speaker 1: the things that they highlighted on during the broadcast is
Speaker 1: a distribution of snaps. And that's one of the things
Speaker 1: that's undervalued right now. Guys are going from playing fifty
Speaker 1: something sixty something snaps as a typical defensive alignment, typical
Speaker 1: front seven, and now these guys are twenty twenty five snaps.
Speaker 1: You know, what does that mean? What does that mean?
Speaker 1: I mean, y'all fresh legs, man, fresh legs. I mean
Speaker 1: you think about the duration of a game. If you
Speaker 1: go out there and run twenty five yards sprints, I
Speaker 1: could do twenty five yard sprints. And that's that's really
Speaker 1: what these defensive alignment are doing. They're playing in the
Speaker 1: five to seven yard box. I can come off the
Speaker 1: ball one hundred percent twenty to twenty five times and
Speaker 1: literally be one hundred percent. Now you start taking me
Speaker 1: to fifty and sixty while I'm pushing up another girl.
Speaker 1: I'm pushing up against another girl, man, and you're mixing
Speaker 1: and run defense. I'm gonna be a little gas and
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna it's not gonna be on my best
Speaker 1: every single time. I'm gonna give my best, but I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna be at my best when I'm growing twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five snaps a game. I'm not only gonna give
Speaker 1: my best, but I'm also gonna be at my best.
Speaker 1: So you're getting one hundred percent of whoever I am
Speaker 1: every time you line up against me, and guess what.
Speaker 1: When I go out, my boys come in and guess what,
Speaker 1: he's one hundred percent too. That problem, it's a huge problem,
Speaker 1: and they had I think a ten man rotation upfront
Speaker 1: in this last game. I feel like they've done that
Speaker 1: since they've gotten some of their key guys back, so
Speaker 1: not only you, and that's without Tristan Hill playing in
Speaker 1: the game last Sunday, So that's a ten man rotation,
Speaker 1: and three of the guys with Hill coming back eventually
Speaker 1: are fresh legs, guys that have been out on top
Speaker 1: of it. I mean, DeMarcus Lawrence, Devil Gallimore and Tristan
Speaker 1: Hill should be really fresh down the stretch on top
Speaker 1: of the fact that they've got some depth, and it
Speaker 1: just continues to keep opponents off balance. I think that's
Speaker 1: one of the biggest things for dan Quinn right now.
Speaker 1: It's not even just having success snap in and snap out,
Speaker 1: it's just having the offenses confused snap in and snap at.
Speaker 1: It seems like every single time an offense goes up
Speaker 1: to the line of scrimmage, they are having to look
Speaker 1: at something different or something that they didn't anticipate, and
Speaker 1: because of that, there's really no way that an offense
Speaker 1: is able to pick that apart unless they're really some
Speaker 1: of the elite in the n All right, let's answer
Speaker 1: some of these Twitter questions. Oh, what do you want
Speaker 1: to hit Heckma, No, no, no, what you said, well solid,
Speaker 1: I liked it. I was just giving you thank you. Well,
Speaker 1: this first question is actually perfect for you, So I'll
Speaker 1: turn it right back around to you. Joshua John on Twitter.
Speaker 1: And I love this because this is the way that
Speaker 1: a lot of Cowboys fans feel right now. As fans,
Speaker 1: I think we should all say this season has been
Speaker 1: great and all, but it's always different or it seems
Speaker 1: to fall apart whenever you get closer to the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So why will this year be any different? Mister heck
Speaker 1: Ma Harrison, your defense. What we've just been talking about
Speaker 1: your defense and ability to take away whatever teams do. Well,
Speaker 1: look at it like this. You said his name is Josh. Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: here's the thing, Josh. After Sunday's game, everybody that was
Speaker 1: huddled around their television watching us play. One of all
Speaker 1: the teams in the NFC that are playing in the playoffs,
Speaker 1: one thing they don't want to do is they don't
Speaker 1: want to come here and they don't want us to
Speaker 1: go there. And the reason again is because of this defense.
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, if you look at teams, we will
Speaker 1: make teams one dimensional. And that is dan Quinn. That's
Speaker 1: what he's been doing. If we just and I think
Speaker 1: we just have a date with let's just say it,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, and everybody wants to say, well, what happens?
Speaker 1: Will we run into Green Bay? Aaron Rodgers don't want
Speaker 1: to smoke, and if he does, that running game is
Speaker 1: gonna have to be clicking and everything else their defense
Speaker 1: and what they're giving up. I think, man, when teams
Speaker 1: recognize that Dak is getting this running game back going,
Speaker 1: hey man, it's trouble. You should feel good about this team, man,
Speaker 1: you should feel good about them winning. A couple of playoffs,
Speaker 1: playoff games. Isaiah, I believe there's a number of things, Josh,
Speaker 1: that are really that have contributed to their failure going
Speaker 1: into the playoffs or at the playoff position versus now.
Speaker 1: And one of the main things, obviously is leadership. This team,
Speaker 1: this particular team, has not been under this leadership and
Speaker 1: had failure at that level. You have Mike McCarthy, you
Speaker 1: have Dan Quinn, you have multiple other coaches on this
Speaker 1: coach and staff that know what it takes not only
Speaker 1: to get to the playoffs, but succeed in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Oh and by the way, succeed at the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: So you have a level of understanding. Instead of hope,
Speaker 1: you have actual understanding and a game plan from multiple
Speaker 1: sources within your organization that know how to manage your
Speaker 1: team through through those situations and ultimately to your goal.
Speaker 1: So you couple that with the aspect of now you
Speaker 1: have a person nail to actually execute it. Offensively, you
Speaker 1: have a solid offense that everybody's getting healthy, so hopefully
Speaker 1: these these next two weeks you have all your guys
Speaker 1: going into the playoff run. That's awesome, Okay, boom. Now
Speaker 1: you go to the defensive side, you have more personnel,
Speaker 1: more talent, and more guys willing to go out there
Speaker 1: and go out to give it. They're all make plays,
Speaker 1: play like a like a brotherhood than you've ever had
Speaker 1: really not say ever, but in a very long time
Speaker 1: within this organization, and everything is clicking. So it's a
Speaker 1: heckless point. The defense is playing well, the office is
Speaker 1: playing well. You have all the personnel, you have health
Speaker 1: on your side. Oh and by the way, you have
Speaker 1: a bunch of coaches on this staff right here that
Speaker 1: understand what it takes to get there, go through it
Speaker 1: and ultimately winning. Rob totally agree with you, guys. I mean,
Speaker 1: top of the show we talked about. Look, it's the
Speaker 1: complimentary thing, like there's not right now when they're playing
Speaker 1: at their best, there's not really a weakness on this
Speaker 1: team in terms of when you go through all three
Speaker 1: phases and so, but I would really highlight the defense
Speaker 1: more than anything, like Heck said. You know, Isaiah was
Speaker 1: part of a Giants team that won the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and really both those Giants teams that got pressure without
Speaker 1: having to send a bunch of extra guys, and that's
Speaker 1: how you can have a chance to win against an
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers in the playoffs and some of these great
Speaker 1: quarterbacks that they're possibly going to run into. That's why
Speaker 1: I keep pointing towards Sunday, though, because Kyler Murray, you know,
Speaker 1: is going to present a different challenge with his ability
Speaker 1: to scramble and move around. And you know, I don't
Speaker 1: know if if the teams in the past that had
Speaker 1: a chance, like the playoff teams that Josh mentioned or
Speaker 1: the Twitter question mentioned, really limted the playoffs. But I
Speaker 1: think you know that twenty eighteen team had a weakness.
Speaker 1: They couldn't stop the run. They're better against the run
Speaker 1: this year than they were that season, but again, a
Speaker 1: big test on Sunday, can you keep it going. I'd
Speaker 1: still think though, it comes down to the d line
Speaker 1: pressure because you have to have that against championship quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, especially mobile ones at that and you're
Speaker 1: going to get a great test with that with Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray coming up this week. But I want to go
Speaker 1: back to what Isaiah was talking about in the coaching staff.
Speaker 1: I feel like that doesn't get enough credit right now
Speaker 1: because you look across this coaching staff and it's not
Speaker 1: just Mike McCarthy and the Super Bowl that he won
Speaker 1: with Green Bay. It's the dan Quinn's of the world.
Speaker 1: It's the Joe Witt Juniors and the Doug nust Meyers.
Speaker 1: These are guys that down the list have won either
Speaker 1: Super Bowls, national championships. They've gotten to the mountaintop where
Speaker 1: their sport is. And you've been a guy who of
Speaker 1: course has gotten there as well or been on a
Speaker 1: team that's gotten to a Super Bowl and won a
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. So how big of an impact do coaches
Speaker 1: make whenever you are getting close to making a run,
Speaker 1: when you have the opportunity or at least the potential
Speaker 1: to get to that mountaintop. How big are the coaches
Speaker 1: to allow that to let it happen. They're major, and
Speaker 1: they don't. They don't get enough credit. And when you have,
Speaker 1: when you have, they're the leaders. Let's let's play that
Speaker 1: out there. The coaches staff are the leaders of this organization. Okay,
Speaker 1: it goes to the ownership and he goes management, then
Speaker 1: it goes coaches. Okay, then it goes players, and the
Speaker 1: players are simply execute what they're being hot and they
Speaker 1: go along with the game plan that's laid out for them.
Speaker 1: You got coach McCarthy that it does a heck of
Speaker 1: a job of understanding. Hey, I've been to the show.
Speaker 1: I've been to the playoffs a bunch of times, right,
Speaker 1: I know how to manage my team health wise, approach wise,
Speaker 1: during practice, all the different out you know, the different
Speaker 1: ins and outs that get you to that point to
Speaker 1: be competitive in the playoffs. I understand that, and I
Speaker 1: know how to win a dog on Super Bowl. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's go to dan Quinn. Dan Quinn knows the same
Speaker 1: exact thing. He knows how to manage your team and
Speaker 1: get you there. He's won a Super Bowl. But one
Speaker 1: thing that's not getting enough credits the fact that dan
Speaker 1: Quinn gave up a Super Bowl. He lost it in
Speaker 1: the worst way ever in the history of football, and
Speaker 1: that hurts him. That kills him on the inside, the
Speaker 1: same way that we saw Alan or Pain whoever that
Speaker 1: was order shaking on the sideline pissed off. That is
Speaker 1: dan Quinn on the inside. He has that little hole
Speaker 1: in his heart and he's trying to patch that thing up.
Speaker 1: So anytime you have a pain point in your life,
Speaker 1: you do everything you can from that point forward to
Speaker 1: ensure that it never happens again. So he had that's
Speaker 1: that that motivates him going forward, and he's doing he's
Speaker 1: doing everything he can to make sure that he doesn't
Speaker 1: repeat that again this year. You know, they say, you know,
Speaker 1: they say, experience is a good teacher, Isaiah, and we
Speaker 1: have plenty of experiencing. You've echoed this the entire time,
Speaker 1: the culture, the culture changing aspect of the coaches that
Speaker 1: we have. And I remember at the beginning of the
Speaker 1: season when the Hard Knocks was going on and Coach
Speaker 1: McCarthy talking about that it takes seventy seven men to
Speaker 1: win a Super Bowl and that was his experience when
Speaker 1: he was in Green Bay. Just think about how many
Speaker 1: guys have come on this roster and off the roster
Speaker 1: and how many I don't know what that number is
Speaker 1: to date, but I'm sure it's getting up there with
Speaker 1: their number of injuries and guys that we've had to
Speaker 1: fill in. But because of the culture change, you're not
Speaker 1: sweating it the same way that you did last year
Speaker 1: when guys went down, you know. And I just think
Speaker 1: all of that is a byproduct of everything that you
Speaker 1: just said, Isaiah, that when you bring in coaches that
Speaker 1: have that experience, that have been to the mountaintop. They
Speaker 1: know how to coach these guys through it. Coach McCarthy
Speaker 1: even in an interview when he asked about, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of dolling things down for his team, he said,
Speaker 1: you know, I had years where I had a great team,
Speaker 1: but I just pounded those guys and pounded them, and
Speaker 1: when I needed them to get to the next level,
Speaker 1: I took it all out of them on the practice field.
Speaker 1: And so maybe dolling these practices back and being the
Speaker 1: ultimate player coaches because his coach, because the players love
Speaker 1: him right now for that and they're rewarding him for
Speaker 1: that by going out and putting it on the field.
Speaker 1: That's a great point. He definitely said that. The other
Speaker 1: thing he said is he likes to get young players
Speaker 1: experience early in the season because it's gonna pay off
Speaker 1: late because you're gonna need, like you said, seventy seven guys.
Speaker 1: I'd argue they're already above that when you factor in
Speaker 1: the larger practice squads now and the guys they've had
Speaker 1: used because of injury. So he's had that opportunity because
Speaker 1: of the injuries they've had. And I think, you know,
Speaker 1: think of Ansa Diggi Zua, the experience he's gotten early
Speaker 1: in the season that can help make him a better
Speaker 1: player by this point in the season. This, y'all brought
Speaker 1: up a great point. I just want to point out
Speaker 1: one news and note left, and that's the fact that
Speaker 1: teams with head coaching vacancies can start talking to NFL
Speaker 1: assistance for head coaching jobs the final two weeks of
Speaker 1: the season. So we're here now starting today, So obviously
Speaker 1: dan Quinn could get some interests, Kellen Moore could get
Speaker 1: some interests. We'll see. Both guys were asked about it yesterday,
Speaker 1: kind of deflected it. Jerry didn't want to discuss that
Speaker 1: possibility or getting specifics today on the fan. But it's
Speaker 1: something to keep an eye on, and it's it's a
Speaker 1: I would call it a good problem to have because
Speaker 1: it shows the hell of a job that this coaching
Speaker 1: staff's done. To y'all's point, I would rather have this
Speaker 1: problem than having like the Mike Nolan situation from twenty
Speaker 1: to twenty, where it's like, are we done with him yet?
Speaker 1: Or what's going on? No, it's more so, oh, can
Speaker 1: we hold on to dan Quinn? Can we find a
Speaker 1: way to keep him here? And that I would much
Speaker 1: rather have that problem than what was happening a year
Speaker 1: ago around this time as well. But that is interesting.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk a little bit more about dan Quinn
Speaker 1: and his game plan on Kyler Murray and so on
Speaker 1: and so forth going into tomorrow's show as we preview
Speaker 1: the Cardinals offense and the Cowboys defense. But when we
Speaker 1: come back, we got a couple more Twitter questions and
Speaker 1: we wrap things up. How about a bubble? Could a
Speaker 1: bubble be in store for the Cowboys the final couple
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Speaker 1: a big whoa don't don't you disrespect me? University of
Speaker 1: Washington Huskies, Washington. Yeah, Never would I ever go to
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Speaker 1: segment here of talking Cowboys, Isaiah Standback, heck Ma Harrison,
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeoman's Chris Beam hold it down
Speaker 1: back at the mother Ship at the Star in Frisco. So, guys,
Speaker 1: I got one more Twitter question for us before we
Speaker 1: wrap things up, and I teased it going into the break.
Speaker 1: Alice Alex asked on Twitter. Could be because of the
Speaker 1: spike in COVID cases? How is it and how it's
Speaker 1: affected potential teams performances in the NFL? Could the Cowboys
Speaker 1: be considering a bubble from here on out because of
Speaker 1: how special this team could be? And of course, the
Speaker 1: main issue right now is the fact of trying to
Speaker 1: stay healthy going into the final games of the regular
Speaker 1: season and then of course into the playoffs. So Rob,
Speaker 1: I'll start with you on this one. Is there a
Speaker 1: possibility of a bubble even being discussed? I know they
Speaker 1: had had that prior to training camp in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: with the Omni and they have the resources to do so,
Speaker 1: but is it even going to happen. I don't know
Speaker 1: if the entire team would do it, Kyle. I think
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy was asked about this recently, and I think
Speaker 1: maybe on an individual basis, it's possible that guys might
Speaker 1: do that. I mean, Mike did that prior to getting
Speaker 1: COVID a few weeks ago, just trying to keep his
Speaker 1: family safe, trying to isolate a little bit because they
Speaker 1: were having some cases in the staff. So I think
Speaker 1: maybe on an end of dual basis, I don't know
Speaker 1: if it would be a team wide operation thing necessarily,
Speaker 1: even though they've got amenities to do a lot of that.
Speaker 1: You know, in some regards, I think, you know, we're
Speaker 1: in a better place than we were last year because
Speaker 1: of the vaccine, but look, cases are rising because this
Speaker 1: new variant obviously is so contagious. So I think it's
Speaker 1: something maybe to continue to look at. Maybe there's discussions,
Speaker 1: but I don't know that the entire team would do that.
Speaker 1: I believe it's something that to look at, and to
Speaker 1: ross point, I'm not sure if they actually would go through,
Speaker 1: but it's a consideration, and I think It's a great question.
Speaker 1: It's a valid question. When you have something that you're
Speaker 1: so close to you you don't get that many opportunities
Speaker 1: to secure the bag in terms of a super Bowl.
Speaker 1: So as they approached the playoffs, I would not put
Speaker 1: it off the table. On a matter of fact, I'll
Speaker 1: throw the whole thing on the table, because you depending
Speaker 1: on it. If you get the first seed, second, whatever
Speaker 1: seed you get, you either got a three or four
Speaker 1: game run. And so those for those for those four
Speaker 1: to those four to five weeks, depending on how far
Speaker 1: you get. You know, you want to ensure the safety
Speaker 1: and the validity of your of your opportunities as much
Speaker 1: as possible. So if that requires you staying in there
Speaker 1: in a hotel for a month to get your shot
Speaker 1: at walking away with that dog on Lombardi, ain't lock
Speaker 1: it up. I can do. I can do a month.
Speaker 1: I can do an I got a month for you.
Speaker 1: Other than that, I don't know that part. No, I
Speaker 1: love it. I love what you just said. And I
Speaker 1: think the situation is so fluid right now in the
Speaker 1: NFL that they're just trying to do the best that
Speaker 1: they possibly can. He just mentioned, he just gave you
Speaker 1: the number since like December the twelfth or whatever, four
Speaker 1: hundred players more or more players have tested positive. Guys.
Speaker 1: It's just look, man, it's a serious situation. We're talking
Speaker 1: about football, but just worldwide. This is a serious situation.
Speaker 1: And obviously we've looked at different leagues and how they've
Speaker 1: dealt with, how the NBA went into the bubble and
Speaker 1: all of that. Obviously, the NFL has got to be
Speaker 1: looking at this as well because they don't want to
Speaker 1: have anything interrupt the NFL playoffs. You can't have a
Speaker 1: game where one of your star players is out because
Speaker 1: of COVID, right, So I think a bubble situation may
Speaker 1: be called for. But you know, when you have a
Speaker 1: guy like Isaiah who's been to the mountaintop and says,
Speaker 1: like a month, I'll due a month, And I'm sure
Speaker 1: that isn't a player with a star omers helmet that
Speaker 1: wouldn't isolate himself to hoist that Lombardi Trophy and make
Speaker 1: sure that everybody is straight and everybody's safe. Now, you
Speaker 1: do it for a month anyway during training camp, if
Speaker 1: you go out to ox Nord, you're out there for
Speaker 1: a month or so, and so hey, it makes sense.
Speaker 1: I think I'm right there with you, guys, and I
Speaker 1: love how you attacked all three levels. Rob said, from
Speaker 1: an individual standpoint, some guys may say, hey, let me
Speaker 1: go take this time away. Isaiah said, Hey, as a team,
Speaker 1: you have an opportunity to do something special year. Don't
Speaker 1: let it slip. Don't let something affect that in those
Speaker 1: four games, those playoff games, this final run. Don't let
Speaker 1: that be the case. And Heckma says, well, what about
Speaker 1: the league. The league could potentially do something about it.
Speaker 1: So I think you attack all three levels there, and
Speaker 1: at some point a solution should be available to at
Speaker 1: least ensure the possibility or at least lower the possibility
Speaker 1: that you are going to be affected by COVID heading
Speaker 1: into the playoffs, because I think that's a lot of
Speaker 1: people's worries at the moment, and I'm on the same
Speaker 1: page as you guys. I think they should consider something
Speaker 1: to try and stifle this before it really gets any worse.
Speaker 1: But we've got plenty more of storylines to talk about
Speaker 1: throughout the rest of the week. Tomorrow, we preview the
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense taking on Kyler Murray and that Arizona offense
Speaker 1: without DeAndre Hopkins, but still very very dangerous coming out
Speaker 1: of the NFC West, and we'll talk about that more
Speaker 1: tomorrow nine am Central Time, but that doesn't for us today.
Speaker 1: For Rob Phillips isaiashs dan Back, Heck Maharrison, and Chris
Speaker 1: bean Back at the Star. I'm Kyle Yeoman saying so long,
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