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Speaker 1: back and now your hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck My Harrison,
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeoman's it's a Say It with
Speaker 1: Your Chest Friday edition of Talking Cowboys. Every Friday and
Speaker 1: nine fifteen, we continue to break down this matchup between
Speaker 1: the Cowboys and the Pittsburgh Steelers, week nine of the
Speaker 1: NFL season, and we're gonna say it with our chest today.
Speaker 1: Bring your complaints, bring your questions, bring the fire in
Speaker 1: the Paris go chat. We want to address it and
Speaker 1: we want to get you ready. We've got predictions coming up.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about that secondary a little bit more.
Speaker 1: I've got some questions for Rob, Isaiah and Hecma and
Speaker 1: also not to mention, we may even talk about the
Speaker 1: quarterback battle and what we saw yesterday deering practice. But
Speaker 1: we're gonna start things off by of course, saying it
Speaker 1: with your chest. Isaiah dan Back our residence super Bowl
Speaker 1: Champion We've got the great Rob Phillips in the building
Speaker 1: as well, and heck Ma Harrison always I can't I
Speaker 1: want to say sultry voice every single time. I can't
Speaker 1: get away from it. But I'm not gonna say it.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say it because you're better than what.
Speaker 1: Say it with your chest, Say it with your chest.
Speaker 1: It's the sultry voice of heck Ma Harrison. Sorry, heck Mob.
Speaker 1: Rob told me too. So that's how we're gonna start
Speaker 1: things off today. Glad you're with us, Glad you're with us,
Speaker 1: and Rob. Let's let's dive into practice yesterday. What did
Speaker 1: we see from the Cowboys perspective? And maybe some of
Speaker 1: these injuries that were lingering earlier in the week, and
Speaker 1: maybe some updates that we saw later on. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean injury report, like we always say this year, if
Speaker 1: you take away injured reserve, it looks pretty clean for
Speaker 1: the Cowboys in week eight. Chris Jones is on it.
Speaker 1: He was set to have that core muscle surgery on Thursday,
Speaker 1: so he's gonna be out for a while. They have
Speaker 1: a new punter. How did we pronounce his name? Kyle
Speaker 1: nice Wander. Nice Wander is how you say his name
Speaker 1: Hunter Nice Wander. Hunter the Punter is in against the
Speaker 1: Steelers this week, and the big ones obviously are Zeke
Speaker 1: and Alden Smith, both limited the last two days in practice.
Speaker 1: But I you know, Mike McCarthy kind of said yesterday
Speaker 1: doesn't sound like anything serious, just trying to get those
Speaker 1: guys both to the game. Wait a minute, we have
Speaker 1: a punder name, last name Nice Wonder. Apparently, yes, he
Speaker 1: wears number one. He wears number one. Heck, just like
Speaker 1: Matt number Ier back in the day, number one Nice Wonder.
Speaker 1: This is twenty twenty and it's rat Hunter the Punter.
Speaker 1: He said in an interview during his time at Northwestern
Speaker 1: that his teammates would call him HTP for Hunter the Punter,
Speaker 1: and it kind of disappointed Nick Heaman upstairs because he
Speaker 1: thought he kind of made it up. I think and
Speaker 1: Nick did not make it up. Apparently it's been something
Speaker 1: back to his time at his time at Northwestern. But Rob,
Speaker 1: he's kind of a big guy. This isn't Chris Jones
Speaker 1: back there punting the ball. He's a little bit of
Speaker 1: a bigger character. And somebody out of the XFL. The
Speaker 1: man is a He's a man of size, he's a
Speaker 1: man of size at the hunter, at the hunter at
Speaker 1: the punter position. So U no, wait a minute. You
Speaker 1: know we saying to see how I go. Wait a minute, now,
Speaker 1: hold on, guy. So we're saying a man of size
Speaker 1: like heckma man of size or like Isaiah man a size.
Speaker 1: Where are we going with this? Hey, we're the same size?
Speaker 1: Hey what are you talking about? No? No, no, no, God,
Speaker 1: God definitely made you differently than for me. So let's
Speaker 1: be clear about that. Thank you. That so nice. But nah,
Speaker 1: so come on, put that in context. So what we're
Speaker 1: talking about. How about the time whenever I put on Isaiah,
Speaker 1: I don't have his measurables memorized. The time I put
Speaker 1: on Isaiah's jersey, they said I would look like a
Speaker 1: retired punter. Well it might. You could take the retired
Speaker 1: out of that. You could take the retired name out
Speaker 1: of that, and it's kind of looks like that. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's necessarily the case. He's definitely more trim
Speaker 1: than I am. But he's a big guy. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's and I'm interested to see if rob can find
Speaker 1: his measurables because he's a lot bigger than I anticipated
Speaker 1: and he had a one punt yesterday during the media
Speaker 1: session that was pretty impressive. There were some that were
Speaker 1: kind of duds. But I guess that's how we're gonna
Speaker 1: start our saying with the chesch Fridays, talking about hunters,
Speaker 1: nice ones. Where we're at, talking where we're out in
Speaker 1: the season, talking about the backup punter or how about that?
Speaker 1: That's that's something to talking about punters. Isaiah, how are
Speaker 1: you doing this Friday morning? I'm Fan Tabuloso. You know.
Speaker 1: I woke up this morning. So it was a great start.
Speaker 1: That's good. That's always good. This morning, I can't say it.
Speaker 1: I went, I went, and I coordinated some nice workouts
Speaker 1: for individuals this morning at the gym. Okay, that's good. Nice?
Speaker 1: Sure didn't nice? Okay, Okay, real quick, I gotta get
Speaker 1: the measurables in there, thank you. He is a man
Speaker 1: of size, dude, I didn't realize this. He's six four
Speaker 1: two forty three. Oh my goshee. Okay, so he's bigger.
Speaker 1: You can play quarterback like buy a lot. Wow, that's impressive.
Speaker 1: Bigger than me six four two forty three for our
Speaker 1: backup hunter, mister nice wander. So with that being said,
Speaker 1: Chris Jones having that abdominal injury, seems to be out
Speaker 1: this week, and it'll be interesting to see how the
Speaker 1: Cowboys utilize him. I guess is kind of the sad
Speaker 1: way to put it, because the Cowboys having moved the
Speaker 1: ball offensively over the last couple of weeks. And we
Speaker 1: kind of talked about it a while back following the
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott injury and the drop off from Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: to Andy Dalton. But Isaiah, whenever we look at the
Speaker 1: drop off from Andy Dalton too, I guess whoever's at
Speaker 1: quarterback following Andy Dalton, whether it's been the Nuche, Garrett Gilbert,
Speaker 1: or Cooper Rush. Did you really anticipate the drop off
Speaker 1: being that much, because I mean we said it last
Speaker 1: week it costs you a game against Philly. Yes, I
Speaker 1: anticipated that. Now when we everybody, everybody in Twitter world,
Speaker 1: in pariscript world, they all know I've stood up by
Speaker 1: any Dalton. I did not expect there'd be a substantial
Speaker 1: drop off between Deck and Andy, which was but the Andy,
Speaker 1: which there was. Um, And I was wrong, I admit it.
Speaker 1: But Andy Dalton to whomever, Um, you know, it's just
Speaker 1: it's substantial. I expected it to be that bad. You're
Speaker 1: you're taking. You know, we took a ricky quarterback, a
Speaker 1: rooky quarterback who had no preseason, who's had probably I
Speaker 1: say maybe, if I had to guess, probably less than
Speaker 1: twenty reps all and all from the time he's touched
Speaker 1: touched foot at the Star UM to now in terms
Speaker 1: of reps versus the first team defense UM. And that
Speaker 1: was his first experience versus a coach that we knew
Speaker 1: was going to be a jerk in terms of he
Speaker 1: didn't even really bring a lot of sure, right, but
Speaker 1: but we knew he was just gonna play mind games
Speaker 1: with him. And you know, he didn't have a chance.
Speaker 1: He had zero chance. But we all knew that, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know some people were trying to give
Speaker 1: him all kinds of nicknames to make themselves feel better,
Speaker 1: as if he's gonna coming a ball out. Everybody on here.
Speaker 1: We all knew it was gonna be terrible. Um. We
Speaker 1: try to keep them a route up as much as
Speaker 1: possible sometimes, but sometimes the facts are facts, and you know,
Speaker 1: we take that motion out of it. Ain't that right? Heck,
Speaker 1: he started with me already, leave me alone. Oh man,
Speaker 1: it's uh you talk about a drop off between where
Speaker 1: we were the Nucci Uh Gucci Didnucci hey for he
Speaker 1: went a big Gucci Ucci to Benjamin And it's true, Man,
Speaker 1: we are we are there. Uh And no matter how
Speaker 1: you look at it with these quarterbacks, I don't think
Speaker 1: that the expectation is for these guys to go out
Speaker 1: and have a four hundred plus game, uh, multiple touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So I think we're all in a wait and see.
Speaker 1: We don't know who's gonna start, do we. I still
Speaker 1: we're still waiting to see what the I think the
Speaker 1: over under we were all with rush and pretty much
Speaker 1: putting that based off of his experience with Kellen Moore.
Speaker 1: But man, the drop off is steep, especially when we're
Speaker 1: talking about from my number one gude to where we
Speaker 1: are right now. And so you know, we need so
Speaker 1: many things that happen in this game for us to
Speaker 1: have any success. And like like we had talked about
Speaker 1: previous this week, the defense have to have a pick
Speaker 1: and score, special teams has to score. We have to
Speaker 1: have a whole lot of things go in our favor
Speaker 1: in order for us to pull out a victory. Rob
Speaker 1: whenever it comes to a backup quarterback situation like this,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to ask here in a minute kind
Speaker 1: of just a prediction, because none of us know who
Speaker 1: the starting quarterback is, but if you had a feeling,
Speaker 1: who would it be. But before we get into that,
Speaker 1: what position is affected the most by a change at quarterback?
Speaker 1: Because Ceede Lamb earlier this week was asked the question
Speaker 1: He's had a ton of different quarterbacks now have thrown
Speaker 1: them the football over the last couple of years, and
Speaker 1: he felt like that gives him an advantage. But there's
Speaker 1: a ton of wide receivers that have not had the
Speaker 1: same or have not had different quarterbacks. They've had the
Speaker 1: same quarterback and Dak Prescott throwing them the football over
Speaker 1: and over again. But what other position has affected the
Speaker 1: most rob whenever it comes to the change of quarterback, Well,
Speaker 1: I think you answered it. I mean I would say,
Speaker 1: you know, the center position, you got to get the
Speaker 1: cadence down to the same the same cadence as the
Speaker 1: previous quarterback. But other than that, it's it's got to
Speaker 1: be the skill position. Got the wide receivers. I mean, look,
Speaker 1: the production the last few weeks has not been anywhere
Speaker 1: close to what it's been, uh, not even with Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton early in his stint as the starter, but definitely
Speaker 1: not even close to Dak Prescott before he got hurt.
Speaker 1: So the rapport, the timing with wide receivers, that's why,
Speaker 1: I you know, we get to predictions in a minute,
Speaker 1: but but that's why experience is so critical at those
Speaker 1: two positions. It's why Dak had guys out at his
Speaker 1: house throwing on a makeshift football field over the su
Speaker 1: to try to get back what they didn't have during
Speaker 1: OTA's It's it's just so critical, Isaiah, I agree, I agree.
Speaker 1: I mean skill position, there's so much that goes into timing,
Speaker 1: so much that goes into the chemistry, uh, you know.
Speaker 1: But but not too far behind is you know, in
Speaker 1: a close second is offensive line, And it really just
Speaker 1: comes out to how much communication is being asked of
Speaker 1: the quarterback in terms of getting these guys set um.
Speaker 1: Some teams put a lot of responsibility on the quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Some teams put a lot of responsibility on the center. Um.
Speaker 1: Sometimes it's the guard um, you know, depending on the
Speaker 1: inexperience of the center. So it really just comes down
Speaker 1: to that. But I think, yeah, in terms of the
Speaker 1: chemistry between the quarterbacks or the lack there of the
Speaker 1: chemistry between these quarterbacks and these receivers is definitely that
Speaker 1: has to be. It has to be the case. Well,
Speaker 1: and look at how the Mighty have fallen. Man. Eight
Speaker 1: weeks ago we were talking about three thousand yard receivers
Speaker 1: and yeah, we have three sports cars that we can't drive,
Speaker 1: but three sports cars that we're putting in right, So
Speaker 1: there's no way that this office can run with all
Speaker 1: the options that we have, and the only thing that
Speaker 1: we can rely on is our running game in a
Speaker 1: short passing games and hopefully these guys could take it
Speaker 1: the rest of the way and hopefully and just getting
Speaker 1: back to some of our NFC East matchups, Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: can return and that chemistry that we've been talking about
Speaker 1: at the skills position can return as well. But right
Speaker 1: now it's just not there, and these guys have to
Speaker 1: be frustrated as all heck because of it. Now this
Speaker 1: is the time to say it with your chest in
Speaker 1: terms of where you think the Cowboys are gonna go
Speaker 1: this Sunday. And once again, I want to just preface
Speaker 1: this by saying, we do not know at this very
Speaker 1: moment of this recording who will be the starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: But if you had to lean one way or the other, rob,
Speaker 1: who would it be at quarterback for the Cowboys this week?
Speaker 1: And why? Who do I think? Or who would I
Speaker 1: go with? Give me both? Why not? Well, I've said
Speaker 1: if I'd go with one, I'd go with Cooper Rush,
Speaker 1: mainly just because he's the one of the two that
Speaker 1: I've seen play. I mean, I really haven't seen Garrett
Speaker 1: Gilbert play at the NFL level. I Also, I think
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush's experience throwing to these particular set of receivers
Speaker 1: and tight ends could give him an advantage. Now he
Speaker 1: just got here and and so, and he did tell
Speaker 1: us yesterday on a conference call that ninety percent of
Speaker 1: the offense is pretty much the same as it was
Speaker 1: last year when he was here. But if I had
Speaker 1: to lean towards what they might do, I might say
Speaker 1: Garrett Gilbert, just because based on what they've done to date.
Speaker 1: You know, Ben de Nucci started last week, because he's
Speaker 1: been here, he was there a little bit longer than
Speaker 1: Garrett Gilbert. It's not that much of a difference. It's
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. But because of that, I might
Speaker 1: say they lean towards that. I mean, Cooper Rush has
Speaker 1: not been in with a team for a few weeks,
Speaker 1: you know, and he just got here. For that reason,
Speaker 1: I might I might side with the guy who's been
Speaker 1: around the offense just a litttle bit longer. But we'll see.
Speaker 1: I mean he might wanted. That's why practice is so important.
Speaker 1: You know. If Cooper Rush comes out and shows what
Speaker 1: he can do and shows the rapport continue with the
Speaker 1: guys he's played with before, maybe they make a different
Speaker 1: decision now. I like that. I like that, Robin. I
Speaker 1: believe the same thing as far as with Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: and his familiarity with Moore system, but also with Garret Gilbert.
Speaker 1: I think the other wrinkle is he spent a lot
Speaker 1: of his time in the AFC AFC North with Cleveland
Speaker 1: and also with with the Patriots, so that may give
Speaker 1: him a leg up. And he's played in a June
Speaker 1: Jones system where he's throwing the ball around a lot
Speaker 1: at smu UM. So look, my heart says uh, Cooper Rush.
Speaker 1: But it wouldn't surprise me if Garret Gilbert played because
Speaker 1: of like I said, the wrinkle of him being in
Speaker 1: the AFC. I'm gonna go with Cooperville. I'm going oh no, no, no, no, no, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeahs name yea, he gets the nickname, yeah, freak gets
Speaker 1: his nickname Cooper Rush. The Cooper gets already have we
Speaker 1: not learned from this week? We're already there. That's that's
Speaker 1: how he's whipping that thing this weekend. Uh we hear
Speaker 1: last week he didn't work. No no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I did not, So this week I'm giving Coop the bill.
Speaker 1: All right to nod and Cooper Bille is gonna be
Speaker 1: the quarterback this week, reason being he has the most chemistry.
Speaker 1: He is um, he is, he is has He has
Speaker 1: the best relationship with H. Keller Moore and that's that's facts, right.
Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, who's calling the
Speaker 1: place right now? Keller Moore is calling the place So
Speaker 1: the head coach is gonna come to the office, the
Speaker 1: coordinator who calls the place right and say, um, who
Speaker 1: you feel most comfortable with? He's like, uh, Cooper Rush,
Speaker 1: Why Because I know him, I know what he's capable of.
Speaker 1: I know that he knows that my language, he knows
Speaker 1: my schemes, he knows all my stuff and I and
Speaker 1: I just have a better knowledge base of him versus
Speaker 1: going with Gary Gilberry Gilmore. You just don't you don't know, right,
Speaker 1: you don't know, you don't know, right, he doesn't know him.
Speaker 1: And nobody wants to go into a game with somebody
Speaker 1: that you don't know, especially when they're responsible for controlling
Speaker 1: your entire offense. So even if he even if Cooper
Speaker 1: Rush is less prepared at this point in time, you're
Speaker 1: more familiar with him, which means that you feel more
Speaker 1: comfortable of making making different calls and things that that
Speaker 1: nature within his offense audibles. You can go back to
Speaker 1: things from your playboo from last year that you might
Speaker 1: not even installede it. You know, it's just because of
Speaker 1: a familiarity. And that's that's why practice yesterday was so
Speaker 1: critical because it was a padded practice, it was a
Speaker 1: longer practice like they normally do. They had a light
Speaker 1: practice Wednesday coming off the late game. So if Cooper
Speaker 1: Rush can come into practice and demonstrate a command of
Speaker 1: the offense, even though there's some tweaks from last year,
Speaker 1: then maybe that sways their decision. So yeah, it is
Speaker 1: kind of a toss up because I mean, both guys
Speaker 1: really haven't been here that long, so it's kind of
Speaker 1: it's kind of a watch. But Kyle, we're giving everybody nicknames. Man,
Speaker 1: we're giving you nicknames. Yeah, yeah, we're sure right now.
Speaker 1: Can't say that on there, but I think whatever you yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, but everybody has yeah, right, I think. I
Speaker 1: think when you think when you compare the two and
Speaker 1: you talk about it being a wash, you're going with
Speaker 1: the more experienced in terms of years NFL quarterback and
Speaker 1: Garrett Gilbert, and then you're going with a more comfortable
Speaker 1: feel with Cooper Rush. And I'm kind of gonna want
Speaker 1: to go off of what you just said, Isaiah. Is
Speaker 1: it more so the coordinator's decision here? I know that
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy's gonna ultimately have the final say, but is
Speaker 1: there a lot of weight on what Kellen Moore has
Speaker 1: to say in base of the fact of the playbook
Speaker 1: just might be thicker for Cooper Rush and that's why
Speaker 1: he might be selected. I don't think he has anything
Speaker 1: to do with the how decided the playbook because no
Speaker 1: matter who was at your who was at the helm
Speaker 1: of the position this week, you were going to use
Speaker 1: your whole playbook. But it comes down to you know,
Speaker 1: what's your confidence in him? Right? What is your confidence
Speaker 1: to that he's going to go out there and actually
Speaker 1: execute the plays that you're calling the way of what
Speaker 1: you want them ran. What's this? What's the confidence in
Speaker 1: terms of you being able to call a play and
Speaker 1: you knowing that he knows where you want him to
Speaker 1: go with the ball, right, These things like that, Right,
Speaker 1: and then you step into the huddle, Well, how are
Speaker 1: these offensive line're gonna look at him? They're gonna look
Speaker 1: at h and say, hey, this catch just got here
Speaker 1: last week, And I'm gonna look at him like, hey,
Speaker 1: what's up? Man? I ain't seen you in a while,
Speaker 1: you know. So it's so, you know, all those all
Speaker 1: those things matter, um, and you know, and the last
Speaker 1: thing you want to do as an office coordinators going
Speaker 1: to a game with somebody that you just are unfamiliar
Speaker 1: with because it's too minish, it's too much new. You're
Speaker 1: dealing with a stout defense, you're dealing with a you know,
Speaker 1: with with talent all across the board. You're dealing with mismatches, um,
Speaker 1: you know, tempo pace, all that jazz, and then you're
Speaker 1: gonna throw a quarterback in there that you don't know
Speaker 1: how how he's gonna handle it. You don't know if
Speaker 1: he's going to execute your plays. You don't know what
Speaker 1: a snap count's gonna be like. You don't know if
Speaker 1: he's gonna rush the snap count and throw your offensive
Speaker 1: linement off. And now you're backing up five yards and
Speaker 1: it's it's too much. It's too much. So you go
Speaker 1: where you're most familiar, and that's with Cooper Rush. Do
Speaker 1: you think that offensive line is also more familiar with
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush as well, even with the center that's a rookie. Absolutely, absolutely, yep. Interesting.
Speaker 1: I've always kind of wondered back and forth which one
Speaker 1: would matter more or at least this week, I've wondered
Speaker 1: that because we're about to see our fourth quarterback in
Speaker 1: the span of five weeks as a Cowboys fan. So
Speaker 1: I mean, either way, it's not gonna mean go for it.
Speaker 1: Look at it like this, right. We all used to
Speaker 1: play pick up basketball, right, I know, I know Heck
Speaker 1: meeds to be on the block. So you're going to
Speaker 1: pick up basketball court, right, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you know you got next, You got next, right, And
Speaker 1: all of a sudden here comes do without the car
Speaker 1: and he comes on on the side on the sideline.
Speaker 1: You got, you got three of your guys picked out,
Speaker 1: and you're like, you know what, that dude's been sitting
Speaker 1: for a while. I don't really know him, but hey,
Speaker 1: that's I played with this dude a couple a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, and I remember him. He's not He's
Speaker 1: not that great, but I know what I'm what I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get out of him. Right, So you're like, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with that cat because I know what I'm
Speaker 1: going to get. I'm not gonna go with the new
Speaker 1: cat because it's a curveball. Right, It's a curveball. I'd
Speaker 1: rather go with or the potentially with less possible potential.
Speaker 1: But I know what I have versus the unknown. Right,
Speaker 1: It's just like stocks. There's just like stocks. You're gonna
Speaker 1: go with the you're gonna roll the dice, or you're
Speaker 1: gonna go with something that you know is steady and
Speaker 1: you can kind of control it. I can kind of
Speaker 1: control Cooper Rush aka Coop Deville. Do you have another
Speaker 1: medal for I like the basketball? I like this. I
Speaker 1: got a lot. I'm throwing it out there. Can you
Speaker 1: try to throw it out there? I got more and
Speaker 1: I got you know, I got heck Maharrison, I got
Speaker 1: the h H. You know what I'm saying. I got
Speaker 1: the rock phillis the RP. I got my initials, I arrest,
Speaker 1: and we got k Y. That's it great, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna stay right there. We're gonna stay right there. So look,
Speaker 1: here's the thing. If we ever have a pickup basketball
Speaker 1: game and I'm standing on the sideline, don't I can
Speaker 1: not hoop alright, Perception Perception is not reality in this situation.
Speaker 1: But either way, either way, it looks I think you
Speaker 1: would probably be a lot more comfortable going into a
Speaker 1: game like this if it were not the Bittsburgh still
Speaker 1: the defense. So let's just call it what it is.
Speaker 1: This is a tragedy. Uh And the this these quarterbacks
Speaker 1: they have, they have not slept at all. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like us man and John King standing at the
Speaker 1: board all night. Man, they're gonna have to have legs
Speaker 1: like kings. Ya. You saw my tweet this morning. It
Speaker 1: was awesome. It was awesome. But either hell, either way,
Speaker 1: it goes you know that the pressure that they're gonna
Speaker 1: be under from the Pittsburgh still A defense is gonna
Speaker 1: be a mention hopefully, And we talked about it. You know,
Speaker 1: the difference between Danucci and rush our Gilbert is hopefully
Speaker 1: man they don't they don't fumble the ball. They if
Speaker 1: there is a sack that they don't fumble the ball
Speaker 1: as well. And you know that Pittsburgh still a defense.
Speaker 1: That's what they're all about, is getting to the quarterback
Speaker 1: and calls in those errors like that. Yeah, Mike McCarthy said, yes,
Speaker 1: or the other day, you know, we gotta do this,
Speaker 1: you know, we got to have command of the offense.
Speaker 1: And he said, we got to take care of the
Speaker 1: damn ball. Damn ball. He threw in a four letter
Speaker 1: word there. He's never done that before when it comes
Speaker 1: to ball security. So I think, I think, I think
Speaker 1: his patience is getting tested just a little bit. Eight
Speaker 1: games in. Finally, finally, in the frustration you need you
Speaker 1: need it. You should fear your coach. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you should fear your coach. I mean, and all my
Speaker 1: time in the NFL, the only coach that I didn't
Speaker 1: fear was Coach Carroll and the only reason and coach
Speaker 1: Coach Phillips. I didn't fear a coach Phillips either, But
Speaker 1: that didn't we see how that went um when I was.
Speaker 1: You know, I think if you think about the Steelers, right,
Speaker 1: think about the personality of your coach. I know we
Speaker 1: mentioned this a couple of days ago, Mike Tomlin. I
Speaker 1: don't even know Mike Tomlin, but I know that if
Speaker 1: I was on that team, I might want to do
Speaker 1: everything that he says. I just I just might want
Speaker 1: to do it. Right. You think about the shoot who
Speaker 1: else coach Coffin at the time I spent with Coach Coffin.
Speaker 1: You might want to get on board with what Coach
Speaker 1: Coffin is saying, and otherwise you're probably not gonna be around,
Speaker 1: right bella chain. Start thinking about all the different personalities, right,
Speaker 1: and as we're talking about culture and establishing one, you
Speaker 1: cannot establish a culture if you're not set putting your
Speaker 1: foot down because people are always going to test it. Right.
Speaker 1: I think we saw a little bit of it when
Speaker 1: when b Carr got released, right, and then I think
Speaker 1: we saw it a little bit on the back end,
Speaker 1: but forward facing, you gotta let it. You gotta everybody know,
Speaker 1: this is my team, this is how it's going to
Speaker 1: go down. And we just I know that might not
Speaker 1: be his his natural personality, but at some point in time,
Speaker 1: you'd rather that be out in the forefront versus it
Speaker 1: being in response to a bunch of negative which I
Speaker 1: think we're starting to see right now, which you saw
Speaker 1: the four letter work come out. Yeah, and it's like
Speaker 1: and we don't know what he's saying privately necessarily at all.
Speaker 1: But but no, to your point, like I think he's
Speaker 1: very direct and honest with players. I think that's always
Speaker 1: been his moo. But to your point, I think he's
Speaker 1: probably had to balance, like this is a brand new team.
Speaker 1: We haven't had a lot of time together, so I've
Speaker 1: got to show these guys I care. But then at
Speaker 1: some point, like when it's not getting done on the field,
Speaker 1: you've got to put your foot down, like you said.
Speaker 1: So you know, especially seven games in, it's reaching a
Speaker 1: point where you know, you keep losing games the same
Speaker 1: exact way. I mean, although they actually won the turnover
Speaker 1: battle last week, but yeah, the turnovers on offense, they
Speaker 1: just continue. So I mean that's the biggest thing. Man
Speaker 1: whoever plays quarterback this week, just just take care or
Speaker 1: the football. Please give yourself a chance in this game.
Speaker 1: Can't give Ben Roethlisberger any extra possessions by no means
Speaker 1: now we do have to take a break. We've gone
Speaker 1: way over at this point, and I want to continue
Speaker 1: this conversation because I feel like there's a ton of
Speaker 1: pressure on this coaching staff this week, specifically to at
Speaker 1: least see some positives. We will give our predictions later,
Speaker 1: but in terms of the positives, I want to hear
Speaker 1: about that and more about this coaching staff when we
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Speaker 1: I do want to preface it. I did not update
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Speaker 1: I will tweet it out. I will following the show.
Speaker 1: How's the one that's convenienced by it? Because he's the
Speaker 1: only one that picked the Cowboys last week and he
Speaker 1: dropped the game at least I think he might have
Speaker 1: dropped too, but I'm not totally sure. I'll tweet it
Speaker 1: out after the show. Way, we have the standing in
Speaker 1: this election meddling right here, Racey, I'm like, I'm taking
Speaker 1: my time, guys, I'm taking exactly oh Man, Rob Phillips,
Speaker 1: Heck Harrison aka Luscious. And then we've got Isaiah the
Speaker 1: tax Man. You are evil. You are an evil person.
Speaker 1: I said, you're the one that said it though, so
Speaker 1: you were thinking it, oh Man. So I kind of
Speaker 1: want to continue this coaching conversation that we started in
Speaker 1: the last segment. We're talking about fearing coaches and fearing
Speaker 1: at least the wrath of coaches just because of one
Speaker 1: four letter word that Mike McCarthy decided to throw out
Speaker 1: in a press conference this week. But we haven't gone
Speaker 1: We've gone all week without talking about Mike Nolan, especially
Speaker 1: because they finally got a good performance out of the
Speaker 1: defense last week, and we haven't really talked a bunch
Speaker 1: about Nolan and really the improvement we saw on that
Speaker 1: side of the football. What have you guys seen improvement
Speaker 1: wise from the defense that can be attributed to the
Speaker 1: coaching staff. Heck, is there anything that sticks out, especially
Speaker 1: since now he's on the sideline and he's able to
Speaker 1: coach up his guys. Yeah, I think it's just communication.
Speaker 1: And you know those those high school coverages that we've
Speaker 1: talked about that have been blown up until this point
Speaker 1: that are just seem like I gots just couldn't get
Speaker 1: a grasp of what coach Mike Nolan was talking wanted
Speaker 1: from him. That's one thing that I've seen. As far
Speaker 1: as the pass rush on the edge, I've seen that
Speaker 1: improved as well. Guys. We've seen some communication errors in
Speaker 1: getting guys lined up and we're still having those problems
Speaker 1: with blown assignments there, but maybe just in the defensive secondary.
Speaker 1: But I want to mention to you can talk about us.
Speaker 1: We've talked about this all week. Just culture in getting
Speaker 1: all those things established, Guys. I had at great opportunity
Speaker 1: yesterday to interview my uncle Joe Green, and I asked
Speaker 1: him about that. I asked him about that. I asked
Speaker 1: him about what was it like to establish that culture
Speaker 1: that the Pittsburgh Stealers have that permeates from the older
Speaker 1: generation of stealers to the new generation of stillers. And
Speaker 1: he talked about what those benchmarks were when he got
Speaker 1: drafted in sixty eight from coach Nole and just setting
Speaker 1: the standard through each in every class. And he talked
Speaker 1: about the guys that came in all the way through
Speaker 1: the eighties and the nineties and the standard being the standard.
Speaker 1: That's what Mike McCarthy, coach Mike McCarthy is trying to establish.
Speaker 1: Here is a standard in connecting the old generation to
Speaker 1: the new generation of great Cowboy players, and we have
Speaker 1: to we have to get that. And it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: if it's a in the down years players are hurt.
Speaker 1: The standard has to be the standard with us as
Speaker 1: Cowboys because the drop off is severe and defensively, offensively,
Speaker 1: all of those great players that we've had, we have
Speaker 1: to try and connect that so that we can have
Speaker 1: that culture that we've been talking about. Rob. Now, that's interesting. Um.
Speaker 1: To answer your question, I would just say I would
Speaker 1: agree with Heck Money that it's it's the communication. There's
Speaker 1: been less busts in the secondary. Uh. They did a
Speaker 1: better job in the second half against the run. And
Speaker 1: as we've continued to say, it's more about just being
Speaker 1: assignment sound uh and and I think they benefited from
Speaker 1: a confident standpoint making some plays early, making some big
Speaker 1: plays early, your best player tank getting things going on
Speaker 1: the first drive, and then other players kind of feeding
Speaker 1: off of that. I thought that that was that was important. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, what hecka said that. That's interesting about coaching
Speaker 1: because from you know, the Cowboys tried this with Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett for ten years and ultimately it didn't work out.
Speaker 1: But the Steelers haven't had that many coaches. You know,
Speaker 1: it's almost like a college program. I mean they have
Speaker 1: they have coaches for ten twenty years at a time.
Speaker 1: That that really lay out a culture that works over time,
Speaker 1: and that's one reason why they've been successful. They're also
Speaker 1: really good at drafting players and fitting players to schemes
Speaker 1: that they kind of keep over time. More or less. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think more than anything felt us. I think for myself, Um,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to go with the fact that they
Speaker 1: they're playing with a little bit more energy. Um. And yeah,
Speaker 1: that was that was apparent last week. I think by
Speaker 1: getting those those veterans off the team and allow those
Speaker 1: young guys to really step up and feel as if
Speaker 1: they were empowered enough to establish start to try to
Speaker 1: establish a character for this defense. And you know, hopefully
Speaker 1: that character will eventually trying into a culture. Um. But
Speaker 1: you know you saw do you law while you know,
Speaker 1: playing hard. You saw Digs making some some some tough catches.
Speaker 1: Obviously in coverage. Um. You know, when he played press coverage,
Speaker 1: I think he was very effective and when he actually
Speaker 1: got hands on guys, and I think you started to
Speaker 1: see a little bit of the characteristics of what this
Speaker 1: team could be. You know, Vanders getting a tough hit.
Speaker 1: You know, that's what this defense is capable of. But
Speaker 1: a lot of times you have to do it. You
Speaker 1: got to see yourself do it, and then you got
Speaker 1: to see and then you have to have fun with it,
Speaker 1: right And when you when you do that, you start
Speaker 1: to look around and be like, oh crap, this this
Speaker 1: is okay. We can run around and hit people and yeah,
Speaker 1: and and and we can actually high five each other
Speaker 1: and jump up and get crop How about that? Man?
Speaker 1: I mean in coaches and coaches happy, look at coach.
Speaker 1: Everybody can look at coach. Oh shoot, coach, coaches, Oh
Speaker 1: this is us right. So it's it's it's like a
Speaker 1: it's like a trial by you know, a trial by
Speaker 1: aerotype of thing. And you know it was it was
Speaker 1: inspiring to see. Last week obviously wasn't what wasn't enough,
Speaker 1: but it was inspiring to see and it's something to
Speaker 1: build off of, So I look forward to seeing more
Speaker 1: of it. Now. Now that you've broken that sea and
Speaker 1: you've you've kind of seen the success that you can
Speaker 1: have as a defense, do you expect that to move
Speaker 1: into a week when you play a better opponent, Because,
Speaker 1: like we've talked about already, Philly is Philly. I mean,
Speaker 1: we we have our own issues. They have their own
Speaker 1: issues whenever it comes to the Eagles and the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: But now that you have an actual offense that knows
Speaker 1: how to move the football, one of the top scoring
Speaker 1: offenses in the NFL coming to town, do you expect
Speaker 1: that to continue? Isaiah? And if there's one person on
Speaker 1: this defense that needs to step up and play well,
Speaker 1: who would it be. I think that they're outmatched. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna say it as plainly, as positively, as simple
Speaker 1: as possible. I think they're outmatched. But even when you're outmatched,
Speaker 1: if they take on the character they took on last week,
Speaker 1: and they play fast and they play physical, I mean
Speaker 1: they make everything contested. I think even by you know,
Speaker 1: even if this team comes in here and rents through
Speaker 1: you like Seawee Water. I think you can still prove
Speaker 1: a lot to yourself. Um, you know, you still prove
Speaker 1: a lot to yourself. You can still prove a lot
Speaker 1: to each other by how you play, how how how
Speaker 1: you play against this this this offense. Um, because this
Speaker 1: office is ran by one of the you know, the
Speaker 1: the long standing veterans and more respected quarterbacks in this league. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, he has a ton of talent around him.
Speaker 1: And and the only way in which you can beat
Speaker 1: this team is if you're flying around. The only way
Speaker 1: Baltimore compeace with this team is because they fly around. Um.
Speaker 1: And I think that you have to. I think this
Speaker 1: team forces you to play a certain way because if
Speaker 1: you don't play that certain way, you have zero chance.
Speaker 1: When I say zero, I mean zero, because they will
Speaker 1: just run you off the table. So I think that
Speaker 1: they have the opportunity to do that. When you talk
Speaker 1: about as far as who who has to step up,
Speaker 1: I think the law has to keep the energy going.
Speaker 1: I think he has to keep the energy buzz going.
Speaker 1: I think that everybody is now looking to him. I
Speaker 1: think everybody on the second level is now looking to
Speaker 1: vander esh you know, vanders You're you're our guy, and
Speaker 1: Jayleen is just like, okay, yeah, you do you And
Speaker 1: I'm I get to run around and and you know,
Speaker 1: and I think those are the two guys that are really,
Speaker 1: you know, that are really need to step up this defense.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure who was going to be in a
Speaker 1: secondary Um. I like. I like Anthony Browns. I like
Speaker 1: his you know how how tenacious. I like his fight.
Speaker 1: But but we'll see, right, I totally agree it's got
Speaker 1: a tank. Tank set the tone for the defense by
Speaker 1: what he said after the Washington game and what he
Speaker 1: showed from from Drive one against Philly and carrying it
Speaker 1: through it was awesome tank for sure. Uh yeah. And look,
Speaker 1: he plays hard all the time. He does. And I
Speaker 1: said it earlier in the year he was on the
Speaker 1: injury report. He didn't look healthy to me. He was
Speaker 1: limping around, he said yesterday, I feel he feels great.
Speaker 1: You know, he's been off the injury report for a
Speaker 1: little bit. But I think it's showing up in his
Speaker 1: play and in his production, not just with sacks, but
Speaker 1: in the run game, Uh, setting edges things like that.
Speaker 1: So that's key. And you know, just just I mean,
Speaker 1: this is simple. But if you're gonna have a chance
Speaker 1: against a team this good, we talk about complimentary football,
Speaker 1: it's not just the defense. The offense has to take
Speaker 1: care of it. They've got it. They've got to make
Speaker 1: some big plays to were points. Special teams got to
Speaker 1: take care of their house. It's got to be all
Speaker 1: three phases playing their best game of the season. It's
Speaker 1: just as simple as that, because this is probably the
Speaker 1: best team they're gonna play all year. Now, both of
Speaker 1: you guys make really good points, and I agree with that,
Speaker 1: and I think that Tank is the guy that you
Speaker 1: look to on defense. But in the NFL has been
Speaker 1: any given Sunday, and so you've got to give the
Speaker 1: Cowboys a puncher's chance, right if all of those complimentary
Speaker 1: football things go as playing for us is don't turn
Speaker 1: the ball over. But still, you, like you said, Isaiah,
Speaker 1: this is you sort of look outmatch in this contest
Speaker 1: coming up against the Steelers. But for the defense, I
Speaker 1: think they just want to take away one thing. If
Speaker 1: it's going to be the passing game that we can't
Speaker 1: stop for the Stealers, let's not allow their running game
Speaker 1: to have two hundred and fifty yards. James Connor does
Speaker 1: not scare me. And so those are the things that
Speaker 1: we can control for our defensive front. Establishing the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. We have been weak in that area. We've
Speaker 1: seen guys o other numbers. I won't call them out,
Speaker 1: but just completely just getting blown off the ball, getting
Speaker 1: blown off the line of scrimmage. We have to establish
Speaker 1: that play quicker, keep that energy weekend and week out.
Speaker 1: But Tank is one, Alder Smith is another. I hope
Speaker 1: that knee is getting better. Randy Gregory, I want to
Speaker 1: see him this week and see what he brings to
Speaker 1: the table because Ben has taken some sacks, and that
Speaker 1: offensive line, no matter how you look at them and
Speaker 1: being good, they still surrender sacks. So if we can
Speaker 1: do the other dude that on the other side by
Speaker 1: strip sack fumbling for us, I think it works. This defense.
Speaker 1: All they have is to play with energy, play together,
Speaker 1: and believe that they can get it done because no
Speaker 1: one else believes that they can. It's a good point,
Speaker 1: a lot of nothing to lose mentality whenever it comes
Speaker 1: to that defense, and really the entire organization heading into
Speaker 1: this game on Sunday. But we've got predictions coming up.
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Speaker 1: on Talking Cowboys. Isaiah stand back, Rob Phillips, hat my Harrison.
Speaker 1: I'm Kyle Yeoman's and we've got about five minutes to
Speaker 1: knock out about five games and see how many we
Speaker 1: can get from here. Let's go Ravens. Colts both teams
Speaker 1: five and two Indianapolis six at home and six and
Speaker 1: oz at home versus Baltimore all time including the playoffs
Speaker 1: against the Ravens, and they are at home again at
Speaker 1: Lucas Oil Stadium. Isaiah, who you got, Ravens. Let's go
Speaker 1: Ravens on the road, Rob Ravens. They get a game
Speaker 1: back after kind of blowing a lead against Pittsburgh. Heckma
Speaker 1: the Baltimore versus Baltimore. No, I'm not that old, So
Speaker 1: let's go Ravens. I'll go Ravens. Oh, that's that's a
Speaker 1: good one. It's gonna be a raven sweep across the board.
Speaker 1: I think Baltimore gets it done on the road. I
Speaker 1: think they're just better. I like the Colts though, I
Speaker 1: think they've got a pretty solid team. Okay, NFC East
Speaker 1: Battle the least battle, I should say, Giants one and
Speaker 1: seven against the Washington football team at two and five.
Speaker 1: New York has won four straight games versus Washington. I
Speaker 1: think that street comes to an end this weekend. I
Speaker 1: think Washington gets to win at home against New York. Heckma,
Speaker 1: somewhere a tallet just flushed. Um, let's see, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with the Washington I'm gonna go with the football team.
Speaker 1: Oh gosh, Jesus, Rob, Yeah, oh gosh. I you know
Speaker 1: the Giants are playing better lately. I'll go with the Giants.
Speaker 1: Why not? Okay, I'm going I'm going with the nameless Ones,
Speaker 1: the nameless, the nameless ones. Okay. Bears Titans, the battle
Speaker 1: of the once forgotten Lost Toy qbs of Nick Foles
Speaker 1: and excuse me, Ryan Tannehill, both teams with five wins.
Speaker 1: Tennessee won two of the last three games against Chicago. Rob,
Speaker 1: who you got Tennessee or Chicago? Yep? Um give me
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry and Tennessee Bears got problems on offense. That's true,
Speaker 1: That's true, all right. Heckma, I'm going Titans Titans, Isaiah,
Speaker 1: I'm going with the home of the sweetness shy Town.
Speaker 1: Going with the Burs. I'm gonna go with the Titans.
Speaker 1: They've lost two in a row and I think they
Speaker 1: could get back on track and this one and they're
Speaker 1: at home, and I think that does play dividends. Now,
Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football, this is gonna be a really good game.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to this. Saints and Buccaneers. You've got
Speaker 1: both got old timers at quarterback. You got Tommy be
Speaker 1: on one side, You've got Drew Brees on the other side.
Speaker 1: Battle of the NFL's two top or top two all
Speaker 1: time passing leaders. I'm gonna take the Saints reluctantly to
Speaker 1: get an upset win over the Buccaneers on the road.
Speaker 1: I think they get it done. Rob. The Buck's defense
Speaker 1: is nasty from what I've seen, and you have Tommy touchdown.
Speaker 1: Give me Tampa Bay. Heckma oh, I think the Cannons
Speaker 1: are gonna be firing. Man. I'm going with the Tampa Bay. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm going with with with TV twelve, my ex teammate.
Speaker 1: I think Godwin coming back, and I think that Leonard
Speaker 1: Poortnett's found his groove over there too. So going with
Speaker 1: the Tampa. It isn't too late to change a pick.
Speaker 1: Am I gonna get fine for changing a pick? It
Speaker 1: would be a kangaroo court? Fine? Yes, but what what?
Speaker 1: I just want to I'm curious as to what your
Speaker 1: what do I go? I gotta go with the Washington
Speaker 1: football team. Sorry, I can't wait a minute. I'm asking.
Speaker 1: I'm asking permission. Okay, I'm asking permission. Wow. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: I feel like it would be unfair for any three
Speaker 1: of us to tell Rob that he can or cannot
Speaker 1: change his pick. So I'm gonna defer our judgment to
Speaker 1: the all overseeing of mister Chris. What do you put
Speaker 1: your ballot in? You can't change it, sir, Chris, team
Speaker 1: is allowing you know. That's fair. That's that's fair. Isaiah's right,
Speaker 1: let's you know, let's go g man, Let's go GM
Speaker 1: in Sunday. Okay, Okay, So Chris said, did you go
Speaker 1: back and change your um? Sorry? Day, So we're gonna
Speaker 1: we're gonna disallow it at this point because Chris made
Speaker 1: a joe he was time. So we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 1: keep it. Thank you, Supreme Court. Beam getting the job done, Okay,
Speaker 1: he said, be ready to that lawsuit. I love that. Okay. So,
Speaker 1: moving on to the big one, Pittsburgh Steelers Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon on CBS our friendly neighborhood color commentator Tony
Speaker 1: Romo on the call, what was that. We're not doing
Speaker 1: a Seattle game. No, you're gonna Seattle, Seattle. We're all
Speaker 1: gonna pick Seattle. It's gonna be Oh, you're one of
Speaker 1: the best games of the week. Would anybody have picked
Speaker 1: playing Buffalo? It's the Seattle versus the Bills. That's a
Speaker 1: tough game. Who okay, let's pick it fine, really quickly,
Speaker 1: go Isaiah Seattle. Okay, rob So Seahawks. Okay, heckma, wow,
Speaker 1: this wasn't even a game. We will pick it. He
Speaker 1: can't do that, he can. It's probably the most competitive
Speaker 1: game all week. Oh god, I'm going to Bills. Oh okay, Oh,
Speaker 1: he's gonna get a game back. I'm gonna pick. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna see here. Okay, go in too, Steelers and Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I'll go first, just to get us rolling. I think
Speaker 1: whenever you look at this game, I think there is
Speaker 1: a chance the Cowboys make it close. I just don't
Speaker 1: think they have enough and I think they fall at
Speaker 1: home to the Steelers. Steelers are the best team in
Speaker 1: the NFL right now, in my opinion. I think they
Speaker 1: have a chance to make a run at a super Bowl,
Speaker 1: and the Cowboys obviously do not. And you're gonna throw
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush, Garrett Gilbert or been d Nucci out there,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if that's necessarily enough to even
Speaker 1: remotely have a chance to win this game. So I
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna pick the Steelers, and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: twenty seven thirteen final score. Isaiah, who you got? I'm
Speaker 1: going with the Steelers thirty four to six. Thirty four
Speaker 1: to six. Wow, that's a big gap, okay, rob Steelers thirty,
Speaker 1: Cowboys fourteen. You know, we don't know who's starting at quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: There's just not There's just more stability with the Steelers
Speaker 1: right now and much better play over all this season.
Speaker 1: I gotta go with Pittsburgh. I hate it, but that's
Speaker 1: the case, all right, guys. Oh my god, I have
Speaker 1: to I was taking my mic off and walking off.
Speaker 1: So just to preface this pick, Heckma is the trojan
Speaker 1: horse in the royalty of a Steelers royal family of
Speaker 1: me and Joe Green. We mentioned that earlier as his uncle.
Speaker 1: All of your family right, Heck are Steelers fans? Correct?
Speaker 1: But you are Cowboys, true blue all the way through. Okay,
Speaker 1: before this pick is made, man Lorian, this is the way. Look,
Speaker 1: and I'm telling it. It's gotten really disrespectful this weekend.
Speaker 1: My family, a lot of tagging, a lot of posts
Speaker 1: that have been made. Guys are digging up pictures. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's not cool. And I just want to let all
Speaker 1: of my family that know that you guys have no
Speaker 1: coop at all. Uh so, yeah, there's that, but this
Speaker 1: came up. I gotta pick the Stillers. Oh he bumbled it.
Speaker 1: Isaiah's got his ear cupped to turn you loyalty. I
Speaker 1: gotta I gotta fix you. Can you say that? I
Speaker 1: couldn't hear that fast. It was a little quick. I
Speaker 1: gotta stat you got it. We did, We got it,
Speaker 1: And hey, we're with you, buddy. We don't like picking
Speaker 1: the Steelers either, but it's just kind of where we're
Speaker 1: at right now with cowboys. Hey, here's the thing. If
Speaker 1: they go out and get a dub, we come back
Speaker 1: on Monday and we get to celebrate. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a party. We'll bring balloons, We'll bring three mons. It'll
Speaker 1: be a whole thing. Yes, I'll bring the smelly stickers back.
Speaker 1: It'll be great. So overall, let's have some fun with it.
Speaker 1: Hopefully the Cowboys get a win. He Isaiah reminded me,
Speaker 1: I do have to take your smelly stickers tonight and
Speaker 1: Sunday whenever I see you guys next. So that's gonna
Speaker 1: do it here this week for Talking Cowboys. We'll be
Speaker 1: back on Monday nine thirty to break it all back
Speaker 1: down special thanks to Chris Beam in the back for Heat, Harrison,
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, Isaiah stand back. I'm Kyle Yeoman's We'll see
Speaker 1: you next time. I'm Talking Cowboys. This has been a
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