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Speaker 3: first it is over for the season for Dak Prescott.
Speaker 5: It is. I'm over here working two phones in the MAC.
Speaker 2: And I got two nice so we make it work. Hey, Hey, hey,
Speaker 2: hey God. One for the breaking and one for the news.
Speaker 4: Kyle, Kevin Gates job is in the building, all right,
Speaker 4: So all right, check out more of the details on
Speaker 4: Dallas Cowboys dot com. We just got that published. It's up,
Speaker 4: it's live, it's breaking. Jerry Jones Tails one oh five
Speaker 4: three the Fan. The long expected procedure is actually going
Speaker 4: to take place on Dak Prescott to repair his partially
Speaker 4: torn hamstring on Wednesday in New York, which is where
Speaker 4: he went to get his final medical opinion. He sought
Speaker 4: out several opinions on what was going on with his
Speaker 4: hamstring with the hopes of there being a slim chance
Speaker 4: of him possibly returning this season. But the hopes were
Speaker 4: always going to be slim, and now the decision has
Speaker 4: been made. So Wednesday in New York, Dak Prescott gets
Speaker 4: his partially torn hamstring surgically repaired. He will then be
Speaker 4: moved to IR if not today, and that's going to
Speaker 4: do it for Dak Prescott for twenty twenty four. You
Speaker 4: will see him in twenty twenty five. We'll get a
Speaker 4: prognosis on his timetable for return as far as how
Speaker 4: this will affect the beginning of the offseason program over
Speaker 4: the next several days or so, but that's where we are.
Speaker 4: It's officially as Mike McCarthy and Jerry Jones reiterated today
Speaker 4: on the Fan, as it stands, it is the Cooper
Speaker 4: Russ Show.
Speaker 6: Yep.
Speaker 5: So that's where we are.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we talked about it a little bit yesterday, just
Speaker 3: kind of the thought process behind Cooper or Trey. I
Speaker 3: actually enjoyed hearing his side of it of saying that
Speaker 3: you can't discount what he did when he went four
Speaker 3: and one filling in for the five games for Dak
Speaker 3: Prescott in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 2: Of course you cannot discount it, which is true.
Speaker 3: But I think we've all said this on this show
Speaker 3: before that it is a different situation than twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: You don't have an offensive line, you don't have separations
Speaker 3: from your wide receivers. I think at some point, if
Speaker 3: the product can continues to look at or look like
Speaker 3: what it did against Philadelphia offensively, I think there will
Speaker 3: be a switch made at some point this season.
Speaker 2: You just can't necessarily do that right now.
Speaker 3: You can't say, hey, one opportunity, it's done, it's good, and.
Speaker 2: Then we're gonna make a switch. Sorry Cooper. I don't
Speaker 2: think that's fair to him and fair to what is happening.
Speaker 4: But oh, there's more news here regarding that wasn't the
Speaker 4: only thing that's not that's not it. You're ready for this, Okay.
Speaker 4: This season is quite literally the definition of Murphy's Murphy's low.
Speaker 5: Okay.
Speaker 4: So, Cooper Rush, Apparently Jerry Jones kind of let it
Speaker 4: slip casually as he was talking to the fan on
Speaker 4: that that fumbled snap that Cooper Rush suffered after the
Speaker 4: Cowboys got him the ball back and we talked about
Speaker 4: that that can't happen. Apparently he strained his neck on
Speaker 4: that play trying to recover that ball. So let me
Speaker 4: just let me say this again, Okay, at the top
Speaker 4: of this, as we talk about having lost franchise quarterback
Speaker 4: for the remainder of the season, your immediate backup possibly
Speaker 4: is now less than one hundred percent going into this
Speaker 4: game against the Houston Texas on Monday Night football because
Speaker 4: on an error of his own devices, of his own making,
Speaker 4: he strained his neck trying to delete that error. So
Speaker 4: now that's something to watch this week in practice for
Speaker 4: Cooper Rush. Will he be on the injury report with
Speaker 4: a next strain possibly? And if so, you know, the
Speaker 4: Cowboys obviously they know that, knew that when they declared
Speaker 4: that Cooper Rush would be the starter against the Texans.
Speaker 4: But now you really have to wonder how long or
Speaker 4: short is that rope as far as Cooper Rush. If
Speaker 4: he goes out there and he starts struggling, be it
Speaker 4: because of the next strain or you know, the next strain? Notwithstanding,
Speaker 4: what does that look like for Trey Lance?
Speaker 3: I think that's the thing is Jerry mentioned the fact
Speaker 3: that there is a rope. The rope exists for Cooper Rush.
Speaker 3: He's not pulling the rope yet. But that's my question
Speaker 3: is how long is it? How long do you have
Speaker 3: until you see Trey Lance? And then Mike McCarthy I
Speaker 3: think alluded to it yesterday that they're in the process
Speaker 3: of signing a third quarterback.
Speaker 4: Right so, as it stands, the Cowboys are expected to
Speaker 4: re sign a reunion. We like our reunions in Dallas,
Speaker 4: don't we will. Greer is expected to rejoin the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 4: but not on the active roster. He's expected to design
Speaker 4: to the practice squad, which means they will need to
Speaker 4: make a corresponding move because the practice squad right now
Speaker 4: is maxed out at seventeen if you include in Zel
Speaker 4: Dackson with the ipp exception exemption. So Will Greer obviously
Speaker 4: he spent two or three years with the Cowboys, and
Speaker 4: then he was released, and then he spent a couple
Speaker 4: of times, a couple of stints with some other teams.
Speaker 4: But now back in the building pending physical So as
Speaker 4: long as he clears his physical and all is well, there,
Speaker 4: Cowboys and Will Grill, Will Greer will reunite, maybe as
Speaker 4: early as today.
Speaker 2: Interesting, good to know you weren't here for the Will
Speaker 2: Greer drama. But there was some very emotion Yeah, there
Speaker 2: was a little emotional drama back and forth.
Speaker 5: Interesting telling, all right.
Speaker 4: So Greer had been fighting, fighting, fighting to get onto
Speaker 4: the field. Actually felt for him, Yeah, I did. And
Speaker 4: he's a really great dude, as you will find out
Speaker 4: in the locker room. He was fighting for a couple
Speaker 4: of seasons, two or three seasons to get on the field. Uh,
Speaker 4: and it just wasn't necessarily working out for him. He
Speaker 4: had some flashes, he had some struggles, and just when
Speaker 4: he really thought that he was about to break through,
Speaker 4: the Cowboys and a fourth round pick to the San
Speaker 4: Francisco forty nine ers and acquired Trey Lance and immediately
Speaker 4: thereafter Will Greer's first stint with the Cowboys assuming the
Speaker 4: second stint in NEX this week was ended and it
Speaker 4: was very emotional.
Speaker 3: They gave him one final tryout too, with Trey Lance
Speaker 3: standing on the sideline.
Speaker 2: They went up against the Raiders in the final balled out.
Speaker 4: He went maniac mode and then it was a very
Speaker 4: emotional game for him, you know, teary type thing because
Speaker 4: he really wanted it.
Speaker 5: That was a tough press conference. It was a tough
Speaker 5: press conference.
Speaker 4: So, I mean, who knows, because you know, Trey Lance
Speaker 4: is not in the contract for twenty twenty five and
Speaker 4: we want to see this evaluation. It's not happening quite yet,
Speaker 4: so will Greer right now twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5: So you're saying there's a cheat.
Speaker 2: Hit, we'll see he is here. So there's the state
Speaker 2: of your quarterback room, Josh.
Speaker 3: I want to get your thought process on on Dak
Speaker 3: season ending surgery.
Speaker 2: Not necessarily a surprise, but now it's actually official.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's no surprise, it's it's I'm surprised it didn't
Speaker 7: happen last week. But again, Dak was trying to find
Speaker 7: different options because.
Speaker 5: He wasn't quitting right, He was not giving up.
Speaker 7: He was not giving up, and he was trying to
Speaker 7: do everything he possibly could to see the field again
Speaker 7: this year.
Speaker 2: That will not happen. But I am in.
Speaker 7: A way relieved that he doesn't have to play for
Speaker 7: the remainder of the year. With the way the offensive
Speaker 7: line is playing, with the way that you know, we
Speaker 7: were calling for him to be mobile and to pick
Speaker 7: up yards on the ground. Obviously it just didn't work
Speaker 7: out that way. It's it's unfortunate. You hate to see
Speaker 7: that again. To Dak Prescott, I'm I don't want to
Speaker 7: I don't want to put it out there that he's
Speaker 7: in the Romo years, you know what I mean, Like
Speaker 7: he's at the towards the end of Romo's career where
Speaker 7: he's having all these injuries. But I'm just I'm worried
Speaker 7: for the future in that. Let's hope that the Cowboys
Speaker 7: are able to make some moves this offseason to get
Speaker 7: some people and some bodies around him that will help
Speaker 7: him in the pocket and help him get the ball out,
Speaker 7: quicker receivers getting open, receivers running their routes quickly, getting open,
Speaker 7: creating some space. But to me, part of me is
Speaker 7: thankful that he doesn't have to play with this current
Speaker 7: offensive this year for the remainder of the year.
Speaker 8: Well, obviously, I think, like Josh put it well where
Speaker 8: it was expected. I think that you know, could happen
Speaker 8: last week. But I think that it tells you how
Speaker 8: much of a competitor Dak Prescott is to be able
Speaker 8: to put this off and say I'm going to do
Speaker 8: everything I can and just pray that somebody tells me
Speaker 8: I can play and for some former fashion and some
Speaker 8: former fashion right, and so you know, obviously that's not
Speaker 8: the case. Obviously we're hoping for a speedy recovery and
Speaker 8: pray that surgery goes well. Yeah, but of course, you know,
Speaker 8: I think you're completely right in terms of this offseason
Speaker 8: needs to be focused on making sure that he set
Speaker 8: up for success.
Speaker 6: Football is a.
Speaker 8: Line of scrimmage game, and I think a lot a
Speaker 8: lot of the reason why the Cowboys have struggled the
Speaker 8: season has been because they've been weak at points at
Speaker 8: the line of scrimmage, specifically on the offensive line. I
Speaker 8: think you can look at this defensive line and they're
Speaker 8: starting to piece it together. I think these last couple
Speaker 8: of weeks, especially stopping the run, but the offensive line
Speaker 8: you've got pieces there. You've got Tyler Smith, you know
Speaker 8: you've got I still think Tyler Gouyden can be a
Speaker 8: good piece for you. I think it's more a matter
Speaker 8: of him getting the reps, because you got to remember
Speaker 8: with Guitton, he missed a lot of training camp, he
Speaker 8: missed Outa's so those are valuable reps. And mich McCarthy's
Speaker 8: talked about how those are valuable reps for a young
Speaker 8: guy to get.
Speaker 6: So awesome Richards exactly. Austin Richards played really well.
Speaker 8: Cooper BB has had a great season as a rookie
Speaker 8: center in a position he's never played before. I don't
Speaker 8: think that's talked about enough. Cooper BB is never played
Speaker 8: actually trying to bring it up, and he's playing not
Speaker 8: He's playing it the way that he is. So you
Speaker 8: know the pieces are there, But I think you're still
Speaker 8: one or two away. And when you insert Dak Prescott
Speaker 8: back into that formula, I think things will bode well.
Speaker 4: My only concern here is I don't believe that, and
Speaker 4: I'm glad you kind of pulled back on that. I
Speaker 4: don't believe this is the the sundown years of Tony
Speaker 4: rollmoy As far as injuries are concerned, but I can
Speaker 4: just we can go ahead and have a wake in
Speaker 4: a funeral for all of my hopes of Dak Prescott
Speaker 4: ever running the ball again. Probably he's never running the
Speaker 4: ball again. He will now be Payton manning back. He's
Speaker 4: never running the ball again. So that's more so than
Speaker 4: Josh's point. You got to make sure this offseason, whether
Speaker 4: it be free agency and hopefully the draft, a combination
Speaker 4: of the two, you got to put the weapons around
Speaker 4: him that can get the separate and you got to
Speaker 4: make sure because as far as the offensive line, because
Speaker 4: you don't know that Zach Martin's coming back, and even
Speaker 4: if he comes back, what's the decision there because we
Speaker 4: talk about Zach's play having declined a bit. So yeah,
Speaker 4: you got to make sure the protection is rock solid upfront,
Speaker 4: and you got to get the skill position guys outside
Speaker 4: of Ceedee Lamb who can get separation and run crisp routes.
Speaker 4: Because that Zach I'm sorry, that's not He's not taking
Speaker 4: off and running anymore.
Speaker 5: We're done. I'm burying.
Speaker 7: And like you said, though, building through the draft obviously
Speaker 7: that's something that we've always done. But you'd hope even
Speaker 7: with the whether it be a new regime or the
Speaker 7: same regime that we have currently. As far as coaching
Speaker 7: staff goes, you'd hope that they put a bigger emphasis
Speaker 7: on free agency. Yeah, because there are still really good
Speaker 7: guys out there in free agency that you could pick
Speaker 7: up to help enforce this. This offensive line tight ends
Speaker 7: wide receivers.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 7: Uh, there's a lot of wide receivers.
Speaker 3: The thing with at least this upcoming offseason is they're
Speaker 3: they're going to.
Speaker 2: Have a little bit more wiggle room than they did
Speaker 2: this past offseason.
Speaker 3: That's because they got the Dak deal and the CD
Speaker 3: Lamb deal done, but not as much as you would
Speaker 3: think to go and just absolutely spin like crazy because
Speaker 3: you've got Micah on the horizon. That's going to be
Speaker 3: another contract that's going to eat up a ton of
Speaker 3: your cap. D ron Bland possibly on the timeline if
Speaker 3: they want to extend him and continue having his services
Speaker 3: moving forward, which I think all of us here would
Speaker 3: like to do.
Speaker 2: Yep, there's a lot more on the horizon.
Speaker 3: Tyler Smith too, I mean goodness, he's playing at an
Speaker 3: all pro level right now. He's the only one on
Speaker 3: the offensive line that you can say is doing his
Speaker 3: job and excelling at it at this point, so there
Speaker 3: might be a tiny sliver of wiggle room, but for
Speaker 3: the most part, it's still going to be a slow
Speaker 3: spending offseason, which when you were talking about that, and
Speaker 3: you're building separation from your wide receivers and you're revamping
Speaker 3: your offensive line, I mean, it's no surprise that on
Speaker 3: this show.
Speaker 2: I love the NFL Draft.
Speaker 3: That's part of my favorite part of this job that
Speaker 3: I get to do on a yearly basis. Start to
Speaker 3: getting a little butterfly feeling because it's like, Okay, it's
Speaker 3: going to be that conversation again in the first round.
Speaker 3: Is it going to be a wide receiver or an
Speaker 3: offensive lineman?
Speaker 2: Again?
Speaker 3: That's what it'll be in April. That's exactly what the
Speaker 3: conversation when we start the Draft show. Whether that's four
Speaker 3: weeks from now or ten weeks from now, it's starting
Speaker 3: to look a little bit more like four weeks.
Speaker 2: From now as we go along.
Speaker 3: But if whenever we start the Draft show, that will
Speaker 3: be the first segment of as we stand today, where
Speaker 3: are you going in the first round? And right now
Speaker 3: I'm kind of in between wide receiver and offensive line
Speaker 3: because those are the things you're going to You're going
Speaker 3: to have to build around your sixty million dollars on average.
Speaker 2: Per year quarterback, and there's going to be basically going
Speaker 2: to be running a hole.
Speaker 4: There's going to be a curve ball, not to get
Speaker 4: into the draft show, but you're going to get the
Speaker 4: curve ball of lack an Ashton Gentt.
Speaker 5: Right. Sure, so, I mean that's what But that's going
Speaker 5: to make your conversation.
Speaker 3: I think the astrion gent conversation would have been a
Speaker 3: little bit higher up in the in the calling card
Speaker 3: if you were picking in the early twenties or late but.
Speaker 4: Not as you might sniff top five, you might be
Speaker 4: top ten.
Speaker 2: Yeah, moving up, knocking on the door of top ten,
Speaker 2: right exactly.
Speaker 3: You're at eleven right now, right, So yeah, I don't
Speaker 3: know if I'm okay with gent that high.
Speaker 2: I love Ashley put A. Don't get me wrong, because
Speaker 2: we end.
Speaker 5: Up having a draft conversation right now, just a.
Speaker 3: We can have a draft conversation. No, we need to
Speaker 3: talk to talking cowboys too. But yeah, tell me was
Speaker 3: that thing yesterday about? Because we get to startry.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we watched a little film yesterday, did you a
Speaker 6: little film.
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Speaker 2: Starting to heat up already, we're having draft conversations were.
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Speaker 3: Our first caller today on a Talking Tuesday, eighty eight
Speaker 3: eight five five two two nine seven, our guy Champ
Speaker 3: in Nebraska.
Speaker 2: Champ, you're on Talking Cowboys. What's going on?
Speaker 13: Hey, gentlemen, how we doing this morning?
Speaker 14: Doing that?
Speaker 2: Three? What's on your mind?
Speaker 13: Good? Good? Oh my gosh, excuse me so much? And
Speaker 13: talks about with this team, Like, what a disciplining season.
Speaker 13: You know, we had three great runs the last three
Speaker 13: years and a lot of hope going into this season,
Speaker 13: some question marks, and it just all fell apart. I mean,
Speaker 13: the wheels have just fallen off the car. I have
Speaker 13: a huge question about the head coaching. I don't know
Speaker 13: why it feels like, well, I do know why everybody's
Speaker 13: on the Mike McCarthy's gone. He's on the one year contract.
Speaker 13: He's gone, But yet Jerry refuses to fire him right now.
Speaker 13: If that's what he's going to do, what are the
Speaker 13: chances that Jerry excuses all the injuries and brings him
Speaker 13: back on a two year contract or something. Is that possible?
Speaker 13: Do you think that's something he would do? Being that
Speaker 13: Jerry does what Jerry wants to do. And then on
Speaker 13: that hand, my other question is I love Jerry. Jerry's
Speaker 13: a great owner. He's been a great owner and ambassador
Speaker 13: for the NFL for many many years. That being said,
Speaker 13: Jerry is getting old. A lot of the stuff Jerry
Speaker 13: says is no longer Jerry isms, the stuff that I
Speaker 13: think we should be a little concerned about. I still
Speaker 13: think he's an into elegent man, but he's not as
Speaker 13: sharp as he was when he was a lot younger.
Speaker 13: One of the things being this morning flipping with the
Speaker 13: Cooper injury. I don't think that was supposed to come
Speaker 13: out the DAK when he admitted the Dak's having surgery tomorrow.
Speaker 13: It try to sound like he came out and maybe
Speaker 13: it shouldn't have. But then he's like, well I already
Speaker 13: said it, so let's just go with it. So just
Speaker 13: wondering what you guys think. I mean, I know you
Speaker 13: work for him. I know you're not kind of doggle man.
Speaker 13: I don't expect that, but you know, what do you
Speaker 13: think about that part of him? That being said, I
Speaker 13: love the show and listen to you guys every day.
Speaker 13: Patrick Uh Trayvon Steal to Pappy Steal got him one
Speaker 13: more time. So you guys have a great day. I'll
Speaker 13: be listening, have a great week. Love you guys.
Speaker 3: Thanks, appreciate a Chandler, great job. Two great questions. I'm
Speaker 3: going to address the second one first and I'll leave
Speaker 3: it up to you guys here in a moment, and
Speaker 3: this is a fan asking the questions.
Speaker 2: I want to let it be known because, like.
Speaker 3: He said, we work for the team, and there's a
Speaker 3: little bit there, but I'm going to tell the truth
Speaker 3: in this factor.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to sugarcoat this one bit tok effects.
Speaker 3: Jerry Jones is still extremely calculated. Everything that he let
Speaker 3: slip in terms of one, O, five to three the
Speaker 3: fan this morning was.
Speaker 2: A calculated move.
Speaker 3: He's doing that because he's Jerry Jones, and because he
Speaker 3: does that, everything he says in the media is still
Speaker 3: exceptionally calculated. He's not letting anything quote unquote slip that
Speaker 3: he doesn't want to let slip. That news was going
Speaker 3: to come out at some point anyways, and so Jerry
Speaker 3: Jones saying it from the lips of Jerry Jones just
Speaker 3: allows for more eyeballs, more ears, more attention to the
Speaker 3: flagship station, all sorts of things like that along the way.
Speaker 3: That's a smart move from Jerry Jones and all that
Speaker 3: he knows how to stir the pot.
Speaker 2: He knows how to make a national storyline.
Speaker 3: We're watching our guy Isaiah standback on Good Morning Football
Speaker 3: on the screen next to us right now, and the
Speaker 3: bottom line is breaking news. Jerry Jones says blank. That's
Speaker 3: why he says it on the radio. There's nothing slipping
Speaker 3: three D chess. Yeah, and the Cooper Rush thinks same thing.
Speaker 3: It's the same exact deal. That's that's calculated. And there
Speaker 3: might be.
Speaker 4: Things in the event Cooper Rush struggles. Absolutely, it was
Speaker 4: a soft pointing.
Speaker 5: Of Hey, I kind of told you that he was
Speaker 5: dealing with something right.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, and there are things that I'm sure the coaching
Speaker 3: staff and the team across the hallway would love to
Speaker 3: keep silent.
Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, this is.
Speaker 3: The Jones Families organization, That's what it is. And they're
Speaker 3: going to say what they want to say, period. And
Speaker 3: so if they wanted to be out there in the
Speaker 3: open and they want to use that as a nugget
Speaker 3: in their weekly phone call, they're going to do it
Speaker 3: like that's just plain and simple part of it.
Speaker 7: Let me address a champ's first question really quickly, Coach McCarthy.
Speaker 7: Coach McCarthy, if if you bring him back, my question
Speaker 7: is who is your defensive coordinator?
Speaker 14: What?
Speaker 5: Al Harris?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I say that quickly, and
Speaker 4: I say that unequivocally because he would He was a
Speaker 4: top my list for defensive coordinators before they brought in
Speaker 4: Mike Zimmer and gave him the position. Al Harris has
Speaker 4: outright earned a shot at coordinating his own defense.
Speaker 2: What does his defense look like?
Speaker 4: Does it go back to takeaway takeaways?
Speaker 5: And it is dan quinnesque with Remember he was hired.
Speaker 3: By the McCarthy initially and was under Mike Nolan initially.
Speaker 3: He wasn't hired by dan Quinn. So do you think
Speaker 3: he would take that dan Quinn?
Speaker 5: I think it's more dan Quinn.
Speaker 4: I've had several conversations with Al Harris and he during
Speaker 4: the time with dan Quinn, he couldn't offer up enough
Speaker 4: praise for what dan Quinn was teaching him as far
Speaker 4: as the knowledge that was being imparted growing him as
Speaker 4: as a coach and the scheme that dan Quinn operated
Speaker 4: under that allowed for an exceptional pass rush as well
Speaker 4: as an exceptional defensive takeaway scheme right, And we're seeing
Speaker 4: right now under Mike Zimmer even though Al Harris got
Speaker 4: the promotion assistant head coaching, he's still defensive backs coach.
Speaker 5: But with this new.
Speaker 4: Scheme, I see very little Al Harris' fingerprints, very few
Speaker 4: of Al Harris's fingerprints on this, and I think that's
Speaker 4: one of the things that the Cowboys need to get
Speaker 4: back to. So yeah, knowing how the front office works,
Speaker 4: they love their proven head coaches, coordinators, God, they really
Speaker 4: love them. They seem kind of allergic to newer, younger
Speaker 4: faces that weren't groomed by the organization, like a Kellen
Speaker 4: Moore or Jason Garrett, which is why I find it difficult.
Speaker 4: Although I you know, looking forward, Ben Johnson would be
Speaker 4: a good candidate if he becomes available. We can't talk
Speaker 4: about him as if he's available because that's tamporing. But
Speaker 4: you have those younger names, but that isn't the same
Speaker 4: as like a Kellen Moore when he was within the
Speaker 4: here Jason Garrett. Al Harris is a young minded guy
Speaker 4: who's here and has been here several years. So I
Speaker 4: feel like that part of how the Cowboys pattern works
Speaker 4: coaching wise, hiring wise, and the fact that al Harris
Speaker 4: has shown that he can develop guys and get them
Speaker 4: taking away the ball Al Harris for.
Speaker 7: Me another question though, if McCarthy is gone next season,
Speaker 7: does Al Harrison have that chance to become defensive coordinat.
Speaker 5: I don't see why he would not. I don't see
Speaker 5: why he would not.
Speaker 2: Keep in mind, depends on who they would hire.
Speaker 5: Us agree because that head coach would have said.
Speaker 2: Most of the time they would.
Speaker 4: I guess my point there to answer that question would
Speaker 4: be if Al Harris and now granted the Cowboys blocked
Speaker 4: dan Quinn from getting Al Harris from the Cowboys, but
Speaker 4: that was because if dan Quinn right, he had Joe Witt.
Speaker 4: So if dan Quinn had offered Al Harris a promotion,
Speaker 4: then Cowboys could have done about it.
Speaker 13: Right.
Speaker 4: So I say that to say, if Mike McCarthy is
Speaker 4: out of the building, there's a love that Al Harris
Speaker 4: has from McCarthy having played for him as well in
Speaker 4: Green Bay. That obviously, realistically speaking, you have to entertain
Speaker 4: the fact that maybe Al Harris is gonna go with
Speaker 4: Mike McCarthy. But I've spoken with Al Harris and he's
Speaker 4: ready to take a leap. Okay, he's ready to get
Speaker 4: his own something, if that's his own defense, if that's
Speaker 4: his own team.
Speaker 5: He's ready to get something of his own and breakout.
Speaker 4: And I could see it be in a situation where
Speaker 4: he thanks McCarthy for bringing him into the organization and
Speaker 4: everything he's done for him, both as a player and
Speaker 4: developing as a coach, and then saying, Hey, if Jerry
Speaker 4: Jones and this new incoming hit coach is going to
Speaker 4: give me a chance to prove myself as a DC,
Speaker 4: I'm not going to say no to that. So that
Speaker 4: I could continue by tutelage under McCarthy.
Speaker 2: Who would you pick?
Speaker 3: You asked the question, But I'm kind of curious on
Speaker 3: who would be here, someone outside hire or inside hier
Speaker 3: which I would go.
Speaker 2: With Al Harris.
Speaker 7: I want to see what that looks like, because I
Speaker 7: think you would bring back the element of like Patrick
Speaker 7: just said, taking the ball away, and you would bring
Speaker 7: back dan Quinn's not available, but he is, you know,
Speaker 7: but the personnel that he was using. And I think
Speaker 7: Al Harris has a better understanding of that, sure comparatively
Speaker 7: obviously they work together for such a long time. I
Speaker 7: think he has a better understanding, and of course he
Speaker 7: knows the players that he has.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: The only other thing that I could add an element
Speaker 3: to in that process is if they were to hire Al.
Speaker 2: Harris as a defensive coordinator.
Speaker 3: A lot of times that would admit fault on who
Speaker 3: they hired initially instead of al Harris In this last
Speaker 3: coaching cycle of hiring Mike Zimmer as the defensive coordinator
Speaker 3: instead of hiring who they interviewed for the job. Al
Speaker 3: Harris is the defensive coordinator. They blocked him, they kept
Speaker 3: him here, but they didn't ultimately end up hiring him
Speaker 3: moving forward. And this would admit, Hey, we were wrong
Speaker 3: the first time around. Are you wrong now over the
Speaker 3: over the options? Who knows, because we haven't seen Al
Speaker 3: Harris as a defensive coordinator.
Speaker 7: But I think the the evidence is that you bring
Speaker 7: Mike Zimmer in for one year.
Speaker 2: Sure, they signed him for a one year deal.
Speaker 3: Yes, I think that into a participate nice five million dollar.
Speaker 7: Favor, Yes, exactly right, Yeah, a big favor from his partner.
Speaker 7: But I'm saying, like you probably did that for Al
Speaker 7: Harris as well. Yeah, give him a chance to learn
Speaker 7: besides somebody that isn't Dan Quinn and really develop who
Speaker 7: he is his defensive coordinator and give him that that
Speaker 7: promotion as well, you know what I mean? So, like,
Speaker 7: I think there is a part of the grooming process
Speaker 7: right to get him where he wants to go.
Speaker 8: Would you think, Tommy, I'm completely on board with the
Speaker 8: I'm on board with the Al Harris for defensive coordinator train. Yeah,
Speaker 8: I think that you made a good point where it's
Speaker 8: his third defensive coordinator. So that's given him some time
Speaker 8: to marinate in a lot of different systems and a
Speaker 8: lot of different philosophies and a lot of different coaching styles.
Speaker 8: And I think that when you've got players coming in
Speaker 8: from different philosophies, different coaching styles, more often than not,
Speaker 8: that's going to.
Speaker 6: Gel really well for you.
Speaker 8: I think you still you take a look at all
Speaker 8: your options. You see what's on the table, like you
Speaker 8: do in any coaching search at any level, whether it
Speaker 8: be coordinator, head coach. But if you were to tell
Speaker 8: me tomorrow, hey, Al Harris is going to be the
Speaker 8: Cowboys defensive coordinator in twenty twenty.
Speaker 6: Five, I'd be completely on board with that.
Speaker 8: And I'll say this too, going back to Champs thing
Speaker 8: about Mike McCarthy and the injuries and whether or not
Speaker 8: that would be you know, something that you know gives
Speaker 8: him some extra time whatever it may be. Look, Mike
Speaker 8: McCarthy is a great head coach. I think I think
Speaker 8: he's a great football coach. You know, I think that
Speaker 8: his track record shows that he went twelve and five
Speaker 8: for three years here in a row. You don't do
Speaker 8: that by accident. Injuries are a part of the game
Speaker 8: at any level of football. You are never going to
Speaker 8: be one hundred percent healthy across the board throughout the
Speaker 8: entire season.
Speaker 2: You want a Super Bowl riddled with any of you.
Speaker 8: Want a Super Bowl riddled with injuries and a very
Speaker 8: good quarterback. But nonetheless, I think that what it comes
Speaker 8: down to in the evaluation process is how do you
Speaker 8: build off of those injuries because you know they're going
Speaker 8: to happen. Obviously for the Cowboys that has been at
Speaker 8: an unprecedented scale and unfortunate timing left and right. But
Speaker 8: how do you keep things afloat? And so I think
Speaker 8: that's going to be the biggest thing that the organization
Speaker 8: looks to when it comes to that decision that's coming
Speaker 8: up here at the end of the season, is did
Speaker 8: he do a good enough job keeping it afloat? Do
Speaker 8: we think that he can keep this afloat going forward?
Speaker 8: And that's the question that's ultimately going to have to
Speaker 8: be answered.
Speaker 3: And right now as we sit, as Week ten is
Speaker 3: now in the rearview mirror, I don't know if you're
Speaker 3: in that boat. I don't know if the Cowboys boat
Speaker 3: is a float across the way or not. We're not
Speaker 3: in that locker room, but we can only tell from
Speaker 3: the outside looking in it hasn't been good the last
Speaker 3: couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: And that's where these conversations are shit.
Speaker 8: And it also depends on their definition of what is
Speaker 8: a flow.
Speaker 2: What is a float? Is it strening?
Speaker 6: Is it locker room cohesion?
Speaker 2: Is it personnel?
Speaker 6: Is it scheme? Could be what is staying afloat?
Speaker 8: So yeah, all of that, you know, this has something
Speaker 8: to think about as we go into these last couple
Speaker 8: of games.
Speaker 3: We do need to take our second break and get
Speaker 3: to some more phone calls. Great call Champ, just to
Speaker 3: provoke some conversation. The thought process here for me, when
Speaker 3: when it comes to Mike McCarthy before we go to
Speaker 3: this break, is the fact that, Mike, if you were
Speaker 3: to make a switch now, how does it help you
Speaker 3: further your franchise. I don't have a legitimate reason to
Speaker 3: do it right now other than the fact if you
Speaker 3: have lost the locker room, and I don't think that's
Speaker 3: the case.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's lost me today.
Speaker 3: That's what that was the first part of champs question
Speaker 3: was why hasn't he made a move yet? If this
Speaker 3: is going to happen in anyways. Yeah, the reason you
Speaker 3: haven't made a move yet is because he hasn't lost
Speaker 3: the locker room, at least from our outside vantage point
Speaker 3: looking in.
Speaker 2: And if you were to do it, it's.
Speaker 3: The same question Josh has asked, who's your interim head coach,
Speaker 3: who's your defensive coordinator, who's your offensive coord I mean,
Speaker 3: the whole staff would have to be redone in the
Speaker 3: middle of a season. I know you're not mathematically eliminated
Speaker 3: from the playoffs, but you're pretty much eliminated from the
Speaker 3: playoffs at this point in time. It still doesn't make sense,
Speaker 3: It really doesn't. And so that's why I don't think
Speaker 3: a move has been made yet. And there's gonna be
Speaker 3: a long way, and they're going to give an opportunity.
Speaker 3: Maybe that's the respect that the front office has for
Speaker 3: what McCarthy has done the last three years. They're going
Speaker 3: to give him a chance to write the ship, to
Speaker 3: keep this thing afloat, and then they'll reevaluate as the
Speaker 3: years go on, or the year goes on and it
Speaker 3: comes to a close at the end of the year,
Speaker 3: and as his contract comes to a close, so there
Speaker 3: will be a reevaluation process. If you're expecting a mid
Speaker 3: season move, I would just stop expecting it. It's not
Speaker 3: gonna happen.
Speaker 2: Unless things absolutelyely hit the absolute.
Speaker 3: Rock bottom and maybe below. Because they're going to have it.
Speaker 3: They're gonna give him a chance to try and get
Speaker 3: back to the top. All right, when we come back
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Speaker 2: What's going on Nebby?
Speaker 17: Hey, guys, thank you so much for taking my call. Uh.
Speaker 17: First of all, I want to get this out of
Speaker 17: the way. Let's seek you guys were talking about you
Speaker 17: who you guys hate more the Philadelphia Eagles or the
Speaker 17: Washington Commanders. Well, for me, growing up, uh me personally,
Speaker 17: I have always uh believed uh uh that the Commanders
Speaker 17: were or excuse me, are the more hated rivals. So
Speaker 17: me personally, even though I obviously live in the DC area,
Speaker 17: me personally, I hate the Commanders more than I hate
Speaker 17: the Eagles. Although that said, I do give the Commander's
Speaker 17: credit for being a great football team this year. Now,
Speaker 17: having said all that, I believe we are in must
Speaker 17: win mode for the next several weeks, and if we
Speaker 17: don't win our next game this coming Monday night at
Speaker 17: home against the Houston Texans, I've ben I believe that
Speaker 17: we should be in full evaluation mode and put Trey
Speaker 17: Lanton evaluate him, gave Deuce vun a chance to play
Speaker 17: and see what happens the rest of the season. All
Speaker 17: that said, before I go, I just want to say
Speaker 17: that the season isn't over yet. But we do have
Speaker 17: to win our next several games in order to make
Speaker 17: the playoffs. And I hope you don't mind me being
Speaker 17: optimistic and not giving up on the season just yet.
Speaker 17: Take care of Thank you so much for being patient
Speaker 17: with me, and have a great week. Bye.
Speaker 5: Thanks Navy.
Speaker 2: Let's start calling Neb's calls. Nebby nos ball.
Speaker 5: To start calling his own segment.
Speaker 2: I agree, a complete evaluation mode.
Speaker 3: You've got eight games left a lot of times, in
Speaker 3: order to make the postseason in this seventeen game schedule,
Speaker 3: you need to win ten games.
Speaker 2: At least maybe eleven, depending on what division you're in.
Speaker 2: And of course, if you've looked lately, the Cowboys are
Speaker 2: in a pretty good division. You need to either all
Speaker 2: eight of your.
Speaker 3: Next games or at the minimum seven of your next
Speaker 3: eight games in order to make the playoffs. And it
Speaker 3: kind of goes back to what we talked about yesterday, like,
Speaker 3: if anybody is looking at this team right now and
Speaker 3: saying they're gonna win seven of eight, I would call
Speaker 3: you crazy.
Speaker 2: I would absolutely call you crazy.
Speaker 3: I love the optimism, but I also think Nebby brings
Speaker 3: optimism in a realistic standpoint of let's say, hey, it doesn't.
Speaker 2: Go our way and you do lose on Monday night.
Speaker 3: Like you said, there, it's a valuation time which could
Speaker 3: be beneficial to this football team as well.
Speaker 8: I would argue that it's been a valuation time for
Speaker 8: this team since like Week four, and they just haven't
Speaker 8: realized it yet because they've been playing so much young talent.
Speaker 6: And I don't say that it's a bad thing.
Speaker 8: I mean it's evaluation from a standpoint of you get
Speaker 8: to see what you have while also getting these guys valuable.
Speaker 8: Will always be valuating, exactly right, but it's been more
Speaker 8: so just because the injuries that have come up and
Speaker 8: you've got you've got two rookies on the offensive line.
Speaker 8: You've got DeMar Fion over shown starting a linebacker for
Speaker 8: you what essentially is his rookie year. Caitlin Carson has
Speaker 8: had to step up at corner. So you know, sometimes
Speaker 8: that evaluation period comes with a negative connotation because some
Speaker 8: would take it as Okay, the season's over, like there's
Speaker 8: nothing to play for it anymore. Well, there's always something
Speaker 8: to play for. There's always something to play for because
Speaker 8: you get those guys reps and you get to see
Speaker 8: what they've got. So I would agree with that, with
Speaker 8: that notion, with that approach.
Speaker 4: Well, we everyone knows I kicked into evaluation mode in
Speaker 4: Week four, not that far back, but I did say
Speaker 4: I wanted to see Trey Lance packages and going into
Speaker 4: that game against the Eagles, I wanted to see some
Speaker 4: Deuce Vaughn and some of these other younger guys that
Speaker 4: you haven't seen so that you could start the process.
Speaker 4: And then I said, if you lose against the Eagles,
Speaker 4: to me, it is a lost season. But again to
Speaker 4: Tommy's point, it doesn't mean that what happens from henceforth
Speaker 4: doesn't matter. It does matter because you now need to
Speaker 4: see if ducevaugh needs to be on this roster next year.
Speaker 4: You need to see more from Hunter Lipkey so that
Speaker 4: you can build him up and get him ready for
Speaker 4: next year.
Speaker 5: And you know, now we'll expected to come back.
Speaker 4: Let's see if will Grid is going to be a
Speaker 4: viable option. So for me, you know what you having,
Speaker 4: Cooper Rush, Now, I'm in start Trey Lance mode right now?
Speaker 2: Okay, and then let's let's spring document.
Speaker 4: It right and then let's sprinkle some will Gear in there.
Speaker 4: Let's just just have some phone with it while we're
Speaker 4: doing the evaluation. So that's the only difference between Neby
Speaker 4: and I, and that I agree with what he's saying.
Speaker 4: It's just that my full evaluation mode has already started,
Speaker 4: like it started more or less after.
Speaker 5: You lost to the Eagles. Right, So he's willing to
Speaker 5: wait a week.
Speaker 4: But to your point, Cayl, not only would you have
Speaker 4: to damn near went out in conjunction with that, you
Speaker 4: would need both the Washington Commanders and the Philadelphia Eagles
Speaker 4: to fall flat on their faces. The Eagles have shown
Speaker 4: that they can, but this Commander's team is just so
Speaker 4: red hot.
Speaker 5: And then you look at who they're playing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they got the Eagles twice, so two head butts there,
Speaker 4: but you know.
Speaker 5: They're playing the Cowboys.
Speaker 4: They're playing the tight ends to playing the Saints, who
Speaker 4: are surging a little bit, but maybe they'll mail it
Speaker 4: in by then.
Speaker 2: I want to get to Cynthia because Cynthia is a
Speaker 2: real one. Come on, Cynthia is one of our.
Speaker 3: Favorite colle on Talking Cowboys because he's offered us to
Speaker 3: prove tex mex whenever we got the chance to go
Speaker 3: down to Laredo, Texas.
Speaker 2: Cynthia, you're back on talking Cowboys. What's going on?
Speaker 14: Good morning, guys. It's about time Craig got me on
Speaker 14: this year. Yeah, a female fan. Okay, we love it,
Speaker 14: We love it.
Speaker 2: Cynthia. How are you.
Speaker 14: I'm doing well. I'm sad. Okay, I'm not mad at
Speaker 14: the Cowboys. I'm not mad at anybody. You know who
Speaker 14: I am so sad for.
Speaker 2: What's that?
Speaker 14: It's Sekiel Elliott. I just it hurts me that he's
Speaker 14: done so much for so many years and now the
Speaker 14: situation he's in. I just wanted to say that I
Speaker 14: appreciate all those good times we had with him. Now
Speaker 14: I want to do out guy's opinion about is this
Speaker 14: is last year? Can you retire as a Cowboy? I
Speaker 14: would love to see that. That's all I have to say. Kyle.
Speaker 14: I just want to thank you because I met you
Speaker 14: last year. Yeah, when we played the Giants and I
Speaker 14: met Nate and Michelle. His life and that will always
Speaker 14: be in my heart forever and ever and forever never
Speaker 14: a Cowboy.
Speaker 13: Fan, Yes, ma'am, and I'll listen to y'all.
Speaker 2: Appreciate you, miss Cynthia. Thank you, thanks for the call
Speaker 2: as always. Yeah, she was great. We were out of
Speaker 2: pregame life like we were last week and she came
Speaker 2: by and said.
Speaker 3: Hie, I told you we met Tim by the way
Speaker 3: this past week, huge talking Cowboys fans. Tim came by
Speaker 3: the set, was able to say Hi, I took a
Speaker 3: picture of Isaiah and I and we kind of like
Speaker 3: gave him some freebies, gave him like a Waterburger hat
Speaker 3: and the Jack.
Speaker 2: Black set, some little take me homes. But no, he
Speaker 2: was awesome.
Speaker 3: Loved talking to Tim, Loved talking to Cynthia last year.
Speaker 3: Ezekiel Elliott, the conversation was made this morning with Jerry
Speaker 3: Jones and he said, we are not living in the past.
Speaker 3: With Ezekiel Elliott, he said, let it be clear, we
Speaker 3: are not living in the past. He's like, were currently
Speaker 3: in the future, I think present future.
Speaker 2: Whatever it does that be? What does that mean for
Speaker 2: his future here?
Speaker 3: Because we talked about it yesterday, Josh, you talked about
Speaker 3: ric O Daddle fumbles at the goal line. He's made
Speaker 3: inactive next week Hunter Lipkey line.
Speaker 2: But definitely less it was Oh they were actually he
Speaker 2: was actually inactive. Remember, Yeah, he was sick.
Speaker 13: Was over him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there was there was weather there there was a
Speaker 3: storm a coming. But then you had Hunter Lipkey last
Speaker 3: year who didn't get to touch the rest of the year.
Speaker 3: Ezekiel Elliott, who has had his struggles this year, gets
Speaker 3: the opening carry of the next drive. There's a conspiracy
Speaker 3: theory out there. I'm not saying it's what I believe,
Speaker 3: but they're saying that, hey, we're gonna give you one
Speaker 3: last carry, so your last carry is.
Speaker 2: Not a fumble with this team and in this uniform.
Speaker 2: I don't know if I believe that's the case.
Speaker 5: That's not his last carry.
Speaker 2: I agree, but is this his last year?
Speaker 5: That was not his last carrie.
Speaker 4: I do not believe Ezekiel Elliott will retire from the
Speaker 4: NFL in twenty twenty five. So to Cynthia's question, you know,
Speaker 4: would he retire as a cowboy this year after the
Speaker 4: season He's I don't get the indication that he's the
Speaker 4: people to retire. He still thinks he can play ball
Speaker 4: and there's going to be a team that gives him
Speaker 4: a shot to do so.
Speaker 5: I don't know that that will be.
Speaker 4: Here in Dallas though, Yeah, that's kind of where I'm Yeah,
Speaker 4: I don't know that that will be here in Dallas.
Speaker 4: I think again, I said, I said it two weeks ago.
Speaker 4: Ric o'dowdo has earned the right to remain in Dallas
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty five. But you still don't know what
Speaker 4: you have in Duce. You kind of know what you
Speaker 4: have in Hunter, but we want to see more evaluation
Speaker 4: on those latter two guys. I just talked about you
Speaker 4: got to rebuild your running backs room, and I'm with
Speaker 4: rebuilding it with Rico o'dowdo in the mix. But as
Speaker 4: far as Ezekiel Elliott, it's one of those things where
Speaker 4: he how's the saying go you can't go home again?
Speaker 4: I think that's that's where they are with Ezekiel Ellitt.
Speaker 7: I mean, I don't think this is Zeke's last year
Speaker 7: playing football. I think this probably is his last year
Speaker 7: in Dallas, and hopefully eventually he retires.
Speaker 5: With the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: I would love to see that happen.
Speaker 7: But if you just look at the statistics, I mean
Speaker 7: this year compared to last year, where I think the
Speaker 7: Patriots surprisingly had a more they obviously used him in
Speaker 7: better ways for his playing style currently and we are
Speaker 7: just not that team right now. I mean, if you
Speaker 7: even look at his rushing yards, it's over six hundred.
Speaker 2: Last season, He's.
Speaker 7: Only at one seventy at the moment, and we're a
Speaker 7: good portion through the season. I don't think he's going
Speaker 7: to get anywhere near six hundred seven hundred yards rushing,
Speaker 7: and he had almost one thousand dollar purpose yards last
Speaker 7: year as well. He's not reaching that because we don't
Speaker 7: throw the ball to him either. I just don't think
Speaker 7: that our play style is playing to his strengths in
Speaker 7: any form or fashion. I think it's a shame because
Speaker 7: I think that is a tool that.
Speaker 2: You could use. He's a great athlete.
Speaker 7: I just it's disappointing that the play calls are not
Speaker 7: going his way and the offense just doesn't seem to
Speaker 7: what he does with Ezekiel Elliott does. Now, what we've
Speaker 7: talked about even in the offseason, it's like, you can't
Speaker 7: expect twenty fourteen Z or twenty sixteen Zeke to come
Speaker 7: in and play like that anymore. You have to expect
Speaker 7: twenty twenty three Zeke, you know, in twenty twenty four
Speaker 7: Z twenty four and use him to his strengths. Yeah,
Speaker 7: so it doesn't seem to be that way. And I
Speaker 7: but I don't think he this is his last.
Speaker 8: Football Yeah, I agree that I think there's still gas
Speaker 8: lucked in the tank. I just don't think the car
Speaker 8: is being driven right now. And uh, you know it's
Speaker 8: a bar I think.
Speaker 13: That is.
Speaker 8: I think I think I agree most with Josh's point
Speaker 8: about you know, this is unfortunately not twenty fourteen, twenty fifteen,
Speaker 8: Ezekiel Elliott.
Speaker 6: This is twenty twenty four Yeah, ezekiel A.
Speaker 8: The unfortunate part about Time is that sometimes he catch
Speaker 8: us up to you and father Time is undefeated. I
Speaker 8: think you've told me that, how about a half a
Speaker 8: million times in the monk that I've been here. But
Speaker 8: it's very true, and you're seeing it across the board,
Speaker 8: even Zach Martin, if you feel like Time is kind
Speaker 8: of catching up to him too.
Speaker 6: But no, I don't think this is Ezekielli.
Speaker 8: It's last year in the NFL, and I certainly hope not,
Speaker 8: because I still think that there's some juice left there.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 4: The bottom line is it's every once in a while
Speaker 4: you get back with the Knicks. You give it a shot,
Speaker 4: and if it doesn't work, don't wait until it gets
Speaker 4: to toxic.
Speaker 5: Just let it go.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think this is one of those situations they
Speaker 4: got back got back with their X, and based upon
Speaker 4: the history, they were like, there were some good things there,
Speaker 4: We had a lot.
Speaker 5: Of romance, We had a lot of good things happened.
Speaker 4: But then this time around, after you got back with
Speaker 4: the X, you're like, yeah, we're two different people now,
Speaker 4: entirely so relationships.
Speaker 3: Dude's that is the weirdest metaphor that's ever worked that well,
Speaker 3: Like that is the perfect metaphor, but it's also super
Speaker 3: uncomfortable at the same time.
Speaker 5: It's because we've all been there.
Speaker 2: Were you gonna add something there?
Speaker 7: No, I just think that not to tamper or anything,
Speaker 7: but it wouldn't it be nice to see Zeke with
Speaker 7: a quarterback that has some escapability, some dual threat to
Speaker 7: him so that you could actually see him out in space.
Speaker 6: Let me tell you about Trey Lance Bingle.
Speaker 2: Allright, he might be better.
Speaker 3: Maybe we'll be back tomorrow. Cowboys Defensive preview. Going up
Speaker 3: against C. J. Stroud and the Houston Texans offense, it
Speaker 3: does not get any easier for Dallas, and we're gonna
Speaker 3: try and see what happens. Defense has given you some
Speaker 3: things to build on, and we're gonna see if the
Speaker 3: Cowboys can take it another step forward. Maybe play a
Speaker 3: complete four quarters of defense, even whether or not the
Speaker 3: offense gives you any help as well. It's gonna be
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