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Speaker 1: I'm Kyle Yeoman's know Nick Harris today or tomorrow.
Speaker 5: So strong with the force is strong with you?
Speaker 4: I see John just lifted his microphone and the entire
Speaker 4: table just tilted on an access.
Speaker 1: You've been in the gym to start the new year,
Speaker 1: would be playing in the gym. What's going on? Guys?
Speaker 5: You tell me? Kyle almost that sitting on your on
Speaker 5: your table there, that's.
Speaker 1: My Black Rifle Coffee. I picked this up this morning.
Speaker 6: You're gonna slam that.
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Speaker 1: Like it goes pretty much everywhere. So I'm gonna wait
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Speaker 5: Nope, none of that, None of that. Oh man, Yeah,
Speaker 5: everything's good this way. Man.
Speaker 7: I was up late last night studying, trying to see
Speaker 7: if they're anything that I can pick up from these
Speaker 7: guys to be able to convey to our audience. And
Speaker 7: we'll talk about a QB vision. There wasn't a wasn't
Speaker 7: a whole lot there, Kyle, Yeah, Yeah, you know, I
Speaker 7: looked hard. I looked good away or just in general, just.
Speaker 5: In general, man.
Speaker 7: I looked at you know, last year, I looked at
Speaker 7: our game earlier this year against them, I looked at
Speaker 7: the forty nine ers game.
Speaker 5: I looked at a lot of games, and.
Speaker 1: They played the forty nine Ers decent in that first half.
Speaker 4: And then they then they let it get away a
Speaker 4: little bit. Hey, they only allowed twenty seven points in
Speaker 4: that game to San Francisco.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to find a bright side.
Speaker 5: I know you are, Kyle.
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to find a challenge.
Speaker 4: I don't want to go into this thinking it's going
Speaker 4: to be forty four to three, Kyle, and.
Speaker 1: Then I get it upset, I get it.
Speaker 5: I mean, I just go off what's on the film?
Speaker 5: You know, you know me. I'm fact spased.
Speaker 6: Maybe I'm fascinated it.
Speaker 8: I don't know if you want to say this for
Speaker 8: the next segment, to find out what would have to
Speaker 8: happen for it to be close? What would have to
Speaker 8: happen for Washington to pull off the upset. You know,
Speaker 8: obviously taking care of the football, you know the basics,
Speaker 8: and they like that. Maybe a penalty here or there
Speaker 8: probably might help you out or something. But I just
Speaker 8: I'm interested to see how that would what that would
Speaker 8: take for that to happen.
Speaker 4: I would think Dallas would need multiple turnovers, Like Dallas
Speaker 4: wouldn't take care of the ball. That that would be
Speaker 4: what because you talk about turnovers being the great equalizer
Speaker 4: in football, it would have to be multiple for multiple
Speaker 4: possessions for same how By the way, he was named
Speaker 4: starting quarterback yesterday, you know it will be Sam.
Speaker 6: How Washington would probably have to run the ball very well.
Speaker 1: They'd have to run effectively.
Speaker 6: Cowboys offense off the field for long periods of time.
Speaker 4: Hit a big player two with Sam Howe. Just drop
Speaker 4: him back and in between his seven sacks that he's
Speaker 4: going to take on Sunday.
Speaker 5: What happen with their coaching situation.
Speaker 6: Well, they're not going to be the guy that's there
Speaker 6: right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 6: I mean I don't know that, but I don't.
Speaker 5: I think you think as soon as this game's over,
Speaker 5: yeah right now?
Speaker 1: By by then, yeah, it'll be pretty quick. He may
Speaker 1: already know.
Speaker 5: Will they let him get home?
Speaker 1: No, uh yes, I think so. Yeah, they'll let him get.
Speaker 8: Home just out of respect, sure, and just the whole
Speaker 8: new ownership group. And I would think that they're going
Speaker 8: to probably go in another direction for.
Speaker 1: Sure, people like Ron Rivera. That's the thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there are people that enjoy Ron Rivera being their
Speaker 4: head coach. And I mean, I don't know if it's
Speaker 4: one of those hey let's win one for him sort
Speaker 4: of situations right there at the end but yeah, do.
Speaker 7: You how long after the game should the Dallas Cowboys win?
Speaker 5: That is, do you believe that they let him go?
Speaker 6: I would think maybe the next day. I don't think
Speaker 6: they would do it that day. It makes no sense.
Speaker 6: I mean, what do you get what you start at?
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, usually you get a little bit of time off.
Speaker 7: Anyways, you'll learn a lot of Boker the professionalism of
Speaker 7: this new front office, true, based upon how they handle
Speaker 7: his departure.
Speaker 5: His departure, that's a good point.
Speaker 4: And with it being new ownership to a lot of
Speaker 4: times you want to put your stamp on things initially,
Speaker 4: and you might have a coaching change regardless. This is Yeah,
Speaker 4: they fired their offensive coordinator last year at the end
Speaker 4: of last season, then they hire fired Jack del Rio
Speaker 4: in the middle of the season the defensive coordinator. And
Speaker 4: usually whenever you get rid of those those coordinators back
Speaker 4: to back like that, it's a pretty bad sign whenever
Speaker 4: you still can't win.
Speaker 5: So do you believe that the new coach, the potential
Speaker 5: new head coach, should they make a move, would be
Speaker 5: on their staff existing already, or do you think they're
Speaker 5: going to bring somebody in.
Speaker 1: They'll bring somebody in.
Speaker 6: I think they're going to bring somebody in. I think
Speaker 6: they're going to a clean slate.
Speaker 8: I think the management side, they'd probably would love to
Speaker 8: have that number two overall pick. Give that new management
Speaker 8: or the new coaching staff, whatever front office pieces move,
Speaker 8: the ability to draft their franchise quarterback. I think that's
Speaker 8: what they the front office ultimately wants.
Speaker 4: All in position to do that with a loss coming
Speaker 4: up on Sunday. Before we get into QB vision here
Speaker 4: in a moment and we get to that defense.
Speaker 1: There were some roster moves yesterday and some news and notes.
Speaker 1: What m two roster moves?
Speaker 9: What?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, well three three.
Speaker 8: Roster moves technically three three Lyle Collins still hasn't been finalized. Yeah,
Speaker 8: but that's likely going to happen today. Uh well, these
Speaker 8: are all practice squad moves. These aren't anything for the.
Speaker 4: Oh I was talking about Villy Fawn Okay, those that
Speaker 4: those two and then uh there's.
Speaker 6: Those as well. But Duce Vaughan apparently has an ankle injury.
Speaker 1: H yeah, you gotta put on I R.
Speaker 9: And so vill has come on twisted up against the
Speaker 9: Troy is what happened?
Speaker 5: I remember that, What.
Speaker 8: Are you looking for? Villaco what do you what's up there?
Speaker 8: Came off of I R.
Speaker 9: Sometimes people say they they swap spots.
Speaker 6: I would say that that's a good sign for Rico Daudele. Yeah,
Speaker 6: looks like he will. I think you can expect him
Speaker 6: to play on Sunday.
Speaker 8: It looks like he'll be back. But yes, has an
Speaker 8: ankle injury better. He looked like he was moving well
Speaker 8: in the locker room. So I don't think it's anything
Speaker 8: long term.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I anything to say, Isaiah, No, not at all.
Speaker 5: I just hope that, you know, you know, hopefully he
Speaker 5: gets better soon.
Speaker 4: I don't think this is a terrible thing for Deuce,
Speaker 4: as weird as that sounds, as weird as it is.
Speaker 5: Getting healthy.
Speaker 4: Now he has an opportunity to focus on getting healthy
Speaker 4: and getting ready for training camp. I mean, there was
Speaker 4: an opportunity for him to be on the active roster
Speaker 4: as a rookie and make a significant impact as a rookie.
Speaker 1: It didn't materialize. It didn't happen.
Speaker 4: The way that maybe a lot of Cowboys fans, a
Speaker 4: lot of the Cowboys front office thought early in the season.
Speaker 4: But now they have an opportunity for him to focus
Speaker 4: on training camp. He'll be back at training camp because
Speaker 4: they can put him on the ir stash going into
Speaker 4: the off season, no matter how deep of a playoff
Speaker 4: run it is. And then he's back in Oxnar and
Speaker 4: he's got a chance to do something next year. So
Speaker 4: it honestly locks him up and gives him a spot
Speaker 4: purely on the roster. So then he's not going to
Speaker 4: fall victim to cutting the roster down for.
Speaker 1: Playoffs or what it ends up being.
Speaker 4: He's got a spot here in Dallas going in to
Speaker 4: training camp next year, and I think that's all he
Speaker 4: can ask for.
Speaker 1: He can still come back this year, couldn't he. I
Speaker 1: think within four weeks in playoffs? Yeah, yeah, count those out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just count those out.
Speaker 4: Oh I know, Yeah, Well I think it would be
Speaker 4: after the Divisional round, right, super Bowl four weeks well,
Speaker 4: four weeks from today they still have one two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I guess you're right. It would have to be.
Speaker 4: It would be the conference championship game would be the
Speaker 4: last one, so he could come back for the Super
Speaker 4: Bowl if he needed.
Speaker 1: To do Spawann Super Bowl return. Yeah.
Speaker 4: It is kind of a risk though, John, whenever you
Speaker 4: talk about how then they are at running back right
Speaker 4: now with no more elevations for Malik Davis.
Speaker 1: Dowbdell banged up a little bit last week.
Speaker 4: You have Hunter Lipkey and Tony Pollard as your two guys.
Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, it bodes well for doubtle. But what
Speaker 4: happens when one of those guys gets banged up.
Speaker 8: I think you'd be forced to try and sign a
Speaker 8: free agent, Go and get some type of a veteran
Speaker 8: player that you know. I don't have a name in
Speaker 8: front of me right now, but I think that's the
Speaker 8: They probably feel similarly about that player as what they
Speaker 8: currently have, or they wouldn't make a move like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I guess if they also get bagged up, you
Speaker 4: could bring up Malik Davis.
Speaker 1: You could just elevate him. That's your point.
Speaker 4: So you'll have three more call ups when the playoffs starts,
Speaker 4: it resets, it resets, starting the playoffs, will have three more.
Speaker 1: So good to know. There you go, Look at you Beamer.
Speaker 10: I like it.
Speaker 1: See your beamer back there doing some research in here
Speaker 1: all day. Baby. Our research department is better than your chest. Right.
Speaker 8: The moves that I was going to talk about on
Speaker 8: the practice squad in terms of additions, I know we
Speaker 8: talked a little bit about Leyole Collins. Yesterday, mich McCarthy
Speaker 8: did not want to talk about it at the podium
Speaker 8: because things had happen finalized yet it sounds like today
Speaker 8: they probably will be. But they have agreed to terms
Speaker 8: with three other members to add to the practice squad,
Speaker 8: one of which being Damian Wilson, linebacker former Dallas Cowboy
Speaker 8: rejoining the team.
Speaker 5: Interesting.
Speaker 8: The next two guys, We're going to be completely honest,
Speaker 8: never don't know anything about it.
Speaker 6: Receiver Racy McMath cool.
Speaker 9: Name and spell that r A c E y and
Speaker 9: mc m at the h Racy McMath.
Speaker 8: And Sir Roderick Thompson running back Mm hmm from I.
Speaker 6: Believe Texas Tech.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was about to say, Sir Roderick Thompson kind
Speaker 1: of sounds familiar.
Speaker 8: Maybe that's one of the players you can look at
Speaker 8: if word to get to injuries. But the most interesting
Speaker 8: ones obviously Damian Wilson and Lyle Collins.
Speaker 6: Because they have been here before. I think those are
Speaker 6: the most notable.
Speaker 1: Go Tigers, right, yeah, there you go, Thank you.
Speaker 11: Ed.
Speaker 1: That was for Racy McMath. He's a right LSU wide out.
Speaker 6: I've heard that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what do you think this says?
Speaker 4: These these different editions, and did they end up dropping
Speaker 4: anybody from the preank.
Speaker 6: Well, they're gonna have to.
Speaker 8: And when you add a wide receiver, it makes me
Speaker 8: wonder if maybe Martavius Bryant might be out the door.
Speaker 8: But yeah, I mean to add these guys, you're gonna
Speaker 8: have to replace them. There's gonna have to be some
Speaker 8: players taken off of the practice squad to add these
Speaker 8: players on.
Speaker 6: So yeah, that hasn't been announced yet.
Speaker 4: Racy McMath, by the way, wide receiver, like you said,
Speaker 4: played at LSU. He was a Senior Bowl guy back
Speaker 4: in twenty twenty one h six foot three or is
Speaker 4: it a six foot two and a half two hundred
Speaker 4: and twenty four pounds big book notes that I had
Speaker 4: on him buried on the wide receiver debth chart in
Speaker 4: Baton Rouge. But developed into one of the best special
Speaker 4: teamers in the SEC, and he worked out of the
Speaker 4: slot when he was in uh in game action. He
Speaker 4: only had fourteen receptions for one hundred and ninety five
Speaker 4: yards during his collegiate tenure and then his professional career.
Speaker 4: He was with the Titans for a couple of seasons,
Speaker 4: didn't do a whole lot.
Speaker 1: Then he was on the practice squad for the Colts.
Speaker 5: Six in a slot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, six two and a half. I kind of round
Speaker 1: it up a.
Speaker 5: Little bit, so do I. I But uh, boy in
Speaker 5: the s is a big point in the slot. But
Speaker 5: that was it.
Speaker 1: That was at LSU. I don't know what he's doing
Speaker 1: with the Titan.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, I'm talking about playing in the slot. But
Speaker 4: he was a six round pick for the Titans and
Speaker 4: then with the practice squad.
Speaker 5: That's good man.
Speaker 7: There's a lot of guys who have untold stories, a
Speaker 7: lot of guys who have not had the opportunities. Everybody
Speaker 7: thinks that everybody who has the name that you know
Speaker 7: is you know, is the only bowlers out there. That's
Speaker 7: not true. A lot of guys who have not had
Speaker 7: the opportunity. A lot of guys have been buried on rosters,
Speaker 7: you know, they didn't get their shot. And that's what
Speaker 7: the scouting department is there for to be able to
Speaker 7: find those guys and give them opportunities. And you should
Speaker 7: your roster allow for it.
Speaker 4: And then I'm looking up Sir Roger Thompson's numbers here
Speaker 4: at the moment. He's a rookie though, right anybody knows.
Speaker 6: As far as I know, I think he is.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I think he's a I don't believe he's played
Speaker 8: for in a game for another team.
Speaker 5: He's a rookie.
Speaker 1: Played in the Collegiate Bowl last year out of Texas Tech.
Speaker 4: Five eleven too oh seven too honorable mention all Big twelve.
Speaker 4: Third player in Texas Tech history with forty career touchdowns
Speaker 4: at seven hundred and sixty five yards freshman year, but
Speaker 4: didn't hit the seven one hundred mark again throughout his
Speaker 4: collegiate tenure. Ran a four six four six seven forty
Speaker 4: decent speed anything crazy.
Speaker 5: He was a combine and it was like another slot guy.
Speaker 1: He's a running back like another slot guy.
Speaker 6: Another news. Seven Cowboys made the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 8: Nine Niners had the most with nine, but seven for
Speaker 8: the Cowboys. I would say the biggest snub was probably
Speaker 8: DeMarcus Lawrence. I think that's just because he's he's at
Speaker 8: a position that's pretty.
Speaker 6: Loaded with I've got another snub too, Okay.
Speaker 5: Name who's on it? Who made it?
Speaker 6: I was a little surprised with Brian Anger. Yeah he
Speaker 6: made it at punter yep.
Speaker 4: Yah a second one second one since he's been here, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 7: I just I'm making that face because I don't feel
Speaker 7: like he's had that many opportunities in comparison.
Speaker 1: Right, we were talking about a pregame if this, we
Speaker 1: were saying it pre game. We were watching him warm up.
Speaker 4: And we were talking about him like if if if
Speaker 4: this team was not very good, Brian Anger would be
Speaker 4: an All Pro. That was what we were talking about, Like,
Speaker 4: if this team wasn't very good and he had more
Speaker 4: numbers to add to it, he would be an ALBA best.
Speaker 5: He's Pro Bowl, just haven't punted a whole lot this year.
Speaker 1: Right, So yeah.
Speaker 8: So the other six, though, are pretty obvious. Brandon Aubrey, uh,
Speaker 8: Drying Bland.
Speaker 5: Yes, both are specialists, correct, And Trent sig happened before.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Trent Sig, by the way, was like
Speaker 1: second or third in voting too. He was very close.
Speaker 5: Like that's that doesn't happen. A punter and a kicker
Speaker 5: from the same team making the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 1: That does not happen often. It could, they can't.
Speaker 6: I'm sure it's happened before.
Speaker 7: I'm sure it's happened before, But I mean how frequent?
Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I'm not I haven't heard of that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, not often.
Speaker 7: That's amazing, like truly amazing. And how much of advantage
Speaker 7: is that to have on your roster.
Speaker 1: Gosh, you love special team.
Speaker 5: I mean that's huge.
Speaker 7: To be able to change the changed the field to play,
Speaker 7: and to be able to get points, you know what
Speaker 7: I'm saying, consistent points.
Speaker 5: That's huge.
Speaker 8: Yeah, So both the specialists deeron Bland obviously because of
Speaker 8: his interceptions and pick six, is was gonna be hard
Speaker 8: to keep that guy off of there. And then Dak Prescott,
Speaker 8: Michael Parsons, Ceedee Lamb, Zach Martin.
Speaker 4: See there's a name that I'm missing. I'm interested to
Speaker 4: see if you if you agree.
Speaker 6: There's really only one other person outside of DeMarcus Lawrence.
Speaker 7: D Law doesn't have the sacked numbers, but his impact
Speaker 7: on every other aspect that again is.
Speaker 6: Correct, one of his best seasons correct.
Speaker 5: And I mean, but the Pro Bowl is a stat
Speaker 5: based absolutely oh you know, evaculate.
Speaker 7: Yeah, so I get it in terms from that standpoint,
Speaker 7: but in terms of impact, I definitely think d Law
Speaker 7: should have been on there. In terms of who else secondary,
Speaker 7: don't think they missed linebacker, no now D line, no.
Speaker 1: Receiver, maybe Osa on the D line maybe, but that's
Speaker 1: not the name. I'm talking about tight end and getting there.
Speaker 5: Running back. No, you're closing in there, you go, Tyler.
Speaker 6: That's the only other one I was thinking of.
Speaker 1: Your best offensive lineman this season has been Tyler.
Speaker 6: You think he's been baron Zach Martin?
Speaker 1: Okay, Zach.
Speaker 4: I feel like I put Zach in his own category,
Speaker 4: like that's kind of by itself, but even at times, Yeah,
Speaker 4: I mean he's been really really good this year on film,
Speaker 4: Tyler Smith has been.
Speaker 7: If you take Zach Martin's name off his jersey, yeah,
Speaker 7: is he your best office lineman this year?
Speaker 1: See?
Speaker 4: I think it would be, like you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 4: be neck and neck with him and Tyler. Yeah, it
Speaker 4: would be neck and neck.
Speaker 8: I would lean towards Zach, but that just going off
Speaker 8: things I've heard from other people. I wouldn't go off
Speaker 8: of my own offensive line assessment on that.
Speaker 4: I think Zach has been really good this year, don't
Speaker 4: get me wrong, and deserving of a Pro Bowl, but
Speaker 4: so is Tyler Smith. Tyler Smith, you could argue, is better.
Speaker 5: Who got put in his place? Who's voted ahead of him? Uh,
Speaker 5: you're going to ask me this? It was that was
Speaker 5: a beamer. Question was on?
Speaker 1: I know one of them was pretty I've got a
Speaker 1: name question.
Speaker 5: What's that Beamer twenty eighteen?
Speaker 10: Okay, Johnny Hecker Rams, Greg Zerline Rams, Jake McQuaid Rams.
Speaker 5: Three wow, trifecta.
Speaker 10: And by the way, the return specialist that year Pharaoh
Speaker 10: Cooper Rams.
Speaker 1: Whoa a clean sweep? Who who is the specialty coordinators?
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know bones, Yeah, bones, wow bones.
Speaker 8: So here are your NFC offensive linemen. Okay, okay, Now,
Speaker 8: of course these things can change. Sure, and let's be honest.
Speaker 8: The Cowboys don't want any of their players to be
Speaker 8: playing in this game because they want to be playing.
Speaker 1: Meaningful, want to be with the other Bowl in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: I can't.
Speaker 8: I don't have any issues wearing these tackles. The three
Speaker 8: tackles are Trent Williams, Lane Johnson, Penny Sool.
Speaker 1: I can't stand Lane Johnson, Trent Williams. So they're on
Speaker 1: them all right.
Speaker 8: Centers Jason Kelcey, Frank Ragnan from the Lions wishes there, guards,
Speaker 8: Zach Martin, Chris Linstrom from the Falcons, Blandon Dickerson from
Speaker 8: the Eagles, those are the three.
Speaker 5: So it's pretty much Dickerson or Smith.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I guarantee, that's probably what it was.
Speaker 1: So Dickerson have fun in the Pro Bowl. Yeah, have
Speaker 1: fun in the Pro Bowl. Tyler Smith will be playing
Speaker 1: for rings.
Speaker 5: See what that was saying it with your chest early
Speaker 5: this week?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 6: Pretty aggressive?
Speaker 1: Pretty aggressive?
Speaker 7: Uh?
Speaker 1: Any other news and notes before we shout out the bones.
Speaker 8: Fossil Man, you can do a quick if you just
Speaker 8: glanced at the injury report off yesterday's practice. It's one
Speaker 8: of like the one of those typical Wednesday ones.
Speaker 6: It's it's pretty loaded.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I can kind of scare you a little bit
Speaker 8: when you just glance through it. But it's a lot
Speaker 8: of guys that there was just just were getting rest days.
Speaker 8: So I'd say the most notable ones probably Hankins being limited.
Speaker 8: You know, I think that they're very easily He could
Speaker 8: have not practiced at all, but being limited, I think
Speaker 8: that's a good sign for him. Seeing him out there
Speaker 8: at the very beginning we were out there, I.
Speaker 6: Thought that was a good sign. Outside of that, Tyler
Speaker 6: Smith did not practice.
Speaker 8: We saw him on chords, also on chords to Marvin
Speaker 8: Overshown I thought that was interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, how about that shown him over? Yeah, how do
Speaker 1: you look?
Speaker 7: Man?
Speaker 5: I guess we can't talk about that.
Speaker 6: I thought he looked pretty good moving around.
Speaker 5: I thought he did pretty big.
Speaker 1: I thought the way that he was able to get
Speaker 1: in the room, it looked like it.
Speaker 6: He looked bigger than that he had earlier.
Speaker 4: From from an upper body standpoint playing in the gym.
Speaker 4: He he looked good, he did, and he was happy.
Speaker 4: He was having a smile on his face. He was
Speaker 4: joking back and forth with Britt Brown, and I mean,
Speaker 4: those are two of the best personalities on the team,
Speaker 4: both on the bands at the same time. It was
Speaker 4: brit and then Tyler Smith and Marvin Overshown. So yeah,
Speaker 4: it was it was good to see him back out there.
Speaker 4: It was it was both a discouragement seeing Tyler Smith,
Speaker 4: like not practicing and on the bands, but then at
Speaker 4: the same time you got a kind of a shot
Speaker 4: of encouragement with Overshown out there too.
Speaker 5: The whole season lifting weights with Harold Nash, you're going
Speaker 5: to be.
Speaker 1: Swollen, even if you were going through an injury rehab,
Speaker 1: you're going to be swool. Yeah, absolutely, I mean they
Speaker 1: do a great.
Speaker 6: Job think about doing that in the off season.
Speaker 1: I would I would pay.
Speaker 5: I would pay for let me put you on the
Speaker 5: strength building program.
Speaker 6: Okay for six months, Okay, I'll take you up on that.
Speaker 5: Oh my god.
Speaker 8: Malie Cooker didn't that practice ankle slash illness. So that's
Speaker 8: a tough part there, because, yeah, I could see with
Speaker 8: it being an illness being like just rest, don't practice
Speaker 8: day or whatever.
Speaker 6: I don't know that it would be.
Speaker 8: Because of the ankle, because there are, like I said,
Speaker 8: there's a lot of rest guys on your Brandon Cooks. Nope,
Speaker 8: it was limited head of rest day, Stefan Gilmore rest
Speaker 8: day limited, who else?
Speaker 1: Who else?
Speaker 8: DeMarcus Lawrence didn't practice rest, Jordan Lewis rest, Sach Martin rest,
Speaker 8: Tyron Smith rest.
Speaker 4: So with Malie Cooker, that was where he missed two
Speaker 4: weeks ago. It was the same designation. It was ankle
Speaker 4: and illness.
Speaker 1: Correct.
Speaker 8: I don't remember having illness. I remember an ankles, okay,
Speaker 8: because going around.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I remember talking about it with with Nate Newton
Speaker 4: at that point because I thought it was maybe just
Speaker 4: an illness what he was dealing with, and then it
Speaker 4: turned into the ankle.
Speaker 1: So maybe hopefully it's not the ankle.
Speaker 4: Flaring back up and he misses a game because we
Speaker 4: saw what happened whenever he was not there for that
Speaker 4: game against the the Bills.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was not great. No bueno? All right? You
Speaker 1: know what else is no bueno? Was that Kyle is
Speaker 1: Washington Defense.
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Speaker 4: in to Isaiah, stand Back, John Machoda, Chris Beam, did
Speaker 4: you have your oats this morning?
Speaker 5: They're right here, Kyle, I have not. You stole them, dude.
Speaker 1: I watched how that.
Speaker 7: I don't like it.
Speaker 1: I took it from right under your nose.
Speaker 5: They were super trusted and.
Speaker 8: I haven't seen something name since I saw a three
Speaker 8: offensive lineman go to a refang with.
Speaker 10: It, I like it.
Speaker 1: I'll give these back to you, I guess, thanks, Kyle.
Speaker 1: I appreciate that.
Speaker 4: I thought about just what would you have done if
Speaker 4: I would have just opened it up and just started
Speaker 4: eating that, I'd be very very angry.
Speaker 1: That'd be fun. All right, let's get into some why Eddie,
Speaker 1: Why Eddie?
Speaker 2: It's time for QB Vision with Isaiah's stands back.
Speaker 5: Well, Kyle, Well, jam Well, Cowboys Nation.
Speaker 7: There's not a lot here, and I'm sorry to report
Speaker 7: that I would love to give you guys all these
Speaker 7: two and tricks and things to look out for and
Speaker 7: what to be aware of and who to watch, and
Speaker 7: there's just not a lot of that.
Speaker 1: And it doesn't for QB Visions.
Speaker 7: It's really not, man, trust me. I looked, I looked hard,
Speaker 7: trying to find anything that was a talking point. All
Speaker 7: I can find were two players. And there's the same
Speaker 7: two players that everybody knows about with his team, and
Speaker 7: that is ninety three ninety four Duran Payne and Jonathan Allen.
Speaker 5: Those dudes are dudes. They're still there.
Speaker 7: They lost a couple of other comrades but they're still balling,
Speaker 7: so definitely keep your eye on a swivel. In terms
Speaker 7: of those guys up front, everything still revolves around them.
Speaker 7: They can disrupt the game if you allow them to.
Speaker 7: And how do you stop these guys one on one? Well,
Speaker 7: you don't, you know, that's just a reality. Sometimes there's
Speaker 7: just some guys in this league that you just don't
Speaker 7: want to run the risk of playing man to man
Speaker 7: or you know, playing matching up man a man.
Speaker 5: And this is those guys. We're all familiar. This is
Speaker 5: nothing new on in Cowboys Nation.
Speaker 7: Those two have been around for a minute, and they've
Speaker 7: been relentless and they've been disrupted for a long time.
Speaker 5: So ninety three loves to love.
Speaker 7: He gets joy out of tearing up whatever the heck
Speaker 7: you got going on offensively. Now you can literally legitimately
Speaker 7: see that just just come just eluding out of him,
Speaker 7: like it's just it's crazy that he just loves being
Speaker 7: that guy that's like, ooh, I was this close, and
Speaker 7: he's talking to you and he's getting back on the line.
Speaker 7: He's trying to get back there again. And obviously pain
Speaker 7: is still paying big ninety four. So that's that in
Speaker 7: terms of their second level. These guys don't take them
Speaker 7: on blocks very well. These guys are avoiding blocks. They're
Speaker 7: creating a lot of holes. In terms of the running game,
Speaker 7: if you can find a way to get the ninety
Speaker 7: four ninety three out the way with some combo blocks,
Speaker 7: then you're in a good position you can run the
Speaker 7: rock against these guys.
Speaker 5: Because their second level is not stout at all.
Speaker 7: That's not the same that ours necessarily is in comparison,
Speaker 7: but I'm just saying just in general, their second level
Speaker 7: is not a force. Their secondary is slim to none.
Speaker 7: From my perspect these guys are running a lot of
Speaker 7: cover Fourkay. You heard Nick kind of allude to it yesterday.
Speaker 7: They want to be a too high team. That's what
Speaker 7: they want to be. They want to sit back and
Speaker 7: too high all day long. The first time we played
Speaker 7: these guys, these guys were sixth in the league in
Speaker 7: split safety. Now they're fifth, So nothing has changed. They're
Speaker 7: still that team. That's still who they are at the core.
Speaker 7: In terms of pressure rate. Okay, let's go to the
Speaker 7: pressure rate. Well, when we faced on the first time,
Speaker 7: they were twenty first in the league in pressures, and
Speaker 7: they were tenth in the league in blitz. Well, now
Speaker 7: they're thirtieth in the league in pressures and they're fourteenth
Speaker 7: in the league in blitz, so they have rescinded that way.
Speaker 5: They've gone backwards.
Speaker 7: They're not moving in the right direction obviously on either
Speaker 7: side of the ball, and defensively is no different in
Speaker 7: terms of what they try to do to confuse you. Defensively,
Speaker 7: they will sit in that too high shell and their
Speaker 7: cover four look right where the corners are sitting off
Speaker 7: about eight yards. The safeties are sitting at about twelve
Speaker 7: yards deep. Okay, in twelve to fifteen yards even they're
Speaker 7: all just looking in. Okay, you'll see the corners kind
Speaker 7: of angle in a little bit. They're trying to literally
Speaker 7: trying to keep everything inside. If you had a receiver
Speaker 7: running at you and Cover four, you want to funnel
Speaker 7: it in to your help, right, So if you if
Speaker 7: I'm a corner and you're safety and Kyle's a receiver,
Speaker 7: I want to keep Kyle on the inside of my
Speaker 7: shoulder so that I can funnel him into you if
Speaker 7: he decides to do anything else.
Speaker 1: That's just the numbers game and positioning more than anything.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, you've got ten guys that can help you inside,
Speaker 4: you've got a sideline correct, sit on the outside correct.
Speaker 7: So that's what they do in Cover four, right, two
Speaker 7: high guys you got the other corners are sitting off,
Speaker 7: not as deep, but just just about eight yards. Well,
Speaker 7: whenever they try to change the game up, they they'll
Speaker 7: go to single high and they'll go to Cover three right,
Speaker 7: And the only thing that you have to look for
Speaker 7: is the safeties, because the corners aren't necessarily gonna give
Speaker 7: you anything different than what they give you. And Cover
Speaker 7: four they're gonna be off, they're gonna be outside, they're
Speaker 7: gonna be looking in. That's what they do. And Cover
Speaker 7: four that's what they do. And Cover three their responsibilities
Speaker 7: from the outside are pretty much the same. Only change
Speaker 7: is now instead of having two guys over in the
Speaker 7: middle right laying lining up on a hash, now they're
Speaker 7: rolling one of those safeties down. Sometimes they do it early,
Speaker 7: sometimes they'll do it at the snap of the ball.
Speaker 7: Nothing crazy here, and we're talking about college level coverages here.
Speaker 1: This isn't the level of disguising that.
Speaker 5: Detroit, that Detroit knows, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 7: Detroit was much higher in terms of disguise and much
Speaker 7: more efficient and they obviously Dallas handled it very well. Sure,
Speaker 7: so there was no issues with Detroit. I don't foresee
Speaker 7: there being in issues with the Commanders. Those are literally
Speaker 7: the two primary coverages that they run every so Walston,
Speaker 7: they'll go into a Tempa two, they'll go in to
Speaker 7: a cover two in which the corners are rolled up,
Speaker 7: safeties go to their halves, and then you have a
Speaker 7: middle linebacker that turns and goes with what we call
Speaker 7: the number three receiver or the inside seam route. Right,
Speaker 7: he'll turn and run with that to try to take
Speaker 7: that away. Outside of that, there's done a lot that
Speaker 7: they're doing there. I mean I just mentioned that their
Speaker 7: pressure raders at the bottom of the league, the blitz
Speaker 7: Raiders right in spac dab in the middle. Yeah, they're
Speaker 7: zoning up, you know, a majority of the time they're
Speaker 7: just there's not there's I'm sorry, there's nothing there.
Speaker 8: So you would not be surprised that the Commanders did
Speaker 8: not have anybody make the Pro Bowl.
Speaker 5: Nobody.
Speaker 6: Nobody. Yeah, surprised because I look at there.
Speaker 8: You mentioned when you look at the depth chart, the
Speaker 8: first thing you look at is the defensive.
Speaker 6: Tackle spot three and nine four, and it had been
Speaker 6: one of those things.
Speaker 8: When I would look at this team, it would be
Speaker 8: the entire defensive line, and you think of Chase Young,
Speaker 8: and you think of Montest Sweat. Montest Sweat did make
Speaker 8: the Pro Bowl well a different uniform, wearing a different uniform.
Speaker 8: He was one of the defense events Nick Bosa, Montest Sweat,
Speaker 8: Adan Hutchinson. So the interior defensive lineman though, because I
Speaker 8: do think of Doran Payne and Jonathan Allen as Pro
Speaker 8: Bowl type players, but the for the NFC, the interior
Speaker 8: defensive flyman where Aaron Donald, Dexter Lawrence, and Javon Hargrave.
Speaker 8: You don't think any of these guys are playing on
Speaker 8: that level.
Speaker 7: Of those I don't, I don't. I honestly don't feel
Speaker 7: like they're like their passion is where it's been.
Speaker 6: That really happens when they start trading guys.
Speaker 7: You start trading guys away and you're doing losing things
Speaker 7: and you really don't have a chance. I mean, the
Speaker 7: fans don't like to hear that you're not giving one
Speaker 7: hundred percent, But at the end of the day, when
Speaker 7: you're in a situation that they're in, most likely what
Speaker 7: it appears like it appears as if these guys are
Speaker 7: pretty much checking the box.
Speaker 5: I'm here, I'm doing my job.
Speaker 7: You're not getting anything more out of me, That's what
Speaker 7: that's the sense that I get, and I'm that's me projecting.
Speaker 5: I don't know what they feel, but that's what it
Speaker 5: looks like. In comparison.
Speaker 1: They make it pretty pretty adamant.
Speaker 4: I mean, Jonathan Allen after they lost to UH, I
Speaker 4: forgot who they lost to earlier, and I think that's
Speaker 4: the Saints you went off. I think you you read
Speaker 4: the quote eloquently stated because there was profanity scattered throughout it,
Speaker 4: and he said, I'm basically I'm I'm blanking tired of
Speaker 4: this blank and he's talking about losing.
Speaker 5: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: He said that he's had seven years of it, and
Speaker 4: there have been times where at least the front seven
Speaker 4: of Washington is formidable, or you've got weapons on the
Speaker 4: outside like a tear Ay McLaurin and a John Dotson,
Speaker 4: guys that are legitimate receivers, legitimate weapons that you can
Speaker 4: build around. On offense, they can't block and they can't
Speaker 4: put pressure on the quarterback. They lose the trench battle
Speaker 4: almost every single week, and that's why they're losing games
Speaker 4: at a significant battle and even with Jonathan Allen and
Speaker 4: Doron payn Or almost said to Ron boy, but yeah,
Speaker 4: and pain in there too, they still haven't been able
Speaker 4: to win the trenches.
Speaker 7: No, but the thing is again, and I harp on
Speaker 7: this a lot of times, and this is why I say,
Speaker 7: like personnel matchups are so important in the NFL. Like
Speaker 7: these guys are deciding to not play as hard as
Speaker 7: they can. This is this is a decision for them
Speaker 7: to not be as disruptive as they can be. And
Speaker 7: it's hard for a lot of people who have never
Speaker 7: really been in that position to understand that. But if
Speaker 7: this was a team that was on the cusp of
Speaker 7: the playoffs, you can see two different dudes.
Speaker 4: It's like seeing Dalvin Cook with the Jets and seeing
Speaker 4: Dalvin Cook with the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: That's just kind of what it is. I'm flip that
Speaker 1: on you real quick.
Speaker 8: Yeah, let's just hypothetically say that they move on from
Speaker 8: their coaching staff and they want you to be a
Speaker 8: part of it on the defensive side of the ball.
Speaker 8: And so we're going to pretend this is a Washington
Speaker 8: room right now. You've been looking at the defense Isaiah,
Speaker 8: who should we be keeping on this defense?
Speaker 4: That?
Speaker 8: Who are some guys going forward for Washington that you're like,
Speaker 8: they need to keep these guys defensively.
Speaker 5: Those two, that's it, That's where I'm starting.
Speaker 1: Those are the only non touchables.
Speaker 7: Those two have to be touchables, have to be here,
Speaker 7: and I'm going to do everything in my power to
Speaker 7: instill in them some former confidence that we are going
Speaker 7: to change this thing around. Because I need those too happy.
Speaker 7: I need those too happy. I need those two to
Speaker 7: feel I need them to feel appointed as leaders. Not
Speaker 7: that they need that, but I need them to know
Speaker 7: that we're backing them and we have a level of
Speaker 7: expectation of them.
Speaker 5: That is then everybody else.
Speaker 1: In that locker room.
Speaker 8: The interesting part to me is that not these guys
Speaker 8: aren't obviously old, but it's just one of those things
Speaker 8: where with what they've done to trade and where they
Speaker 8: are draft wise, it just seems like this team is
Speaker 8: gonna get really young. It seems you know, they have
Speaker 8: a lot of draft capital, probably gonna draft a young quarterback.
Speaker 6: How does that line up?
Speaker 13: Though?
Speaker 7: With an ail and in pain, I hear you don't
Speaker 7: find those guys. Yeah, as Dallas has found out right right.
Speaker 7: I mean no disrespect, but you don't. You don't just
Speaker 7: stumble upon those guys. They're not like an undiscovered receiver
Speaker 7: that hasn't had the opportunities. They're not a running back
Speaker 7: that's just been waiting on a really good offensive line
Speaker 7: to show what they're capable of doing. These guys are
Speaker 7: single handed disruptors. And no, they haven't shown it a
Speaker 7: ton on film, but you see flashes. H You see
Speaker 7: flashes if you see somebody talking smack to them, you
Speaker 7: can see them not in their head and then the
Speaker 7: next player. They're freaking lifting these boys up like like
Speaker 7: a forklift. They can be dominant. It's no different than
Speaker 7: when Dallas played the Rams earlier in the season. All Right,
Speaker 7: what do we say, We say, Aaron Donald is still
Speaker 7: freaking Aaron Donald. We say, had a whole debate about it,
Speaker 7: and I said, Aaron Donald still Aaron Dondon. And what
Speaker 7: happened on that first series he was Aaron Donald. He
Speaker 7: was freaking Aaron Donald. After after Dallas went up, what happened.
Speaker 6: Anything?
Speaker 5: Don't talk to him, don't talk to don't talk to him.
Speaker 7: Bring them some some freaking thin mince tic TACs, whatever
Speaker 7: you need like, just give him some candy little I
Speaker 7: don't know what the sponsors are, but give him a
Speaker 7: little black rifle.
Speaker 5: Dobby Loan, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 6: You're playing great today.
Speaker 5: Hey man, Hey guy, man, your haircut is amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 5: even with the helmet.
Speaker 4: On little off topic, did you see the NFL micd
Speaker 4: up for Max Crosby against the Colts?
Speaker 1: Did you see that that came out yesterday?
Speaker 4: He sat or I don't think he sacked Minshew, but
Speaker 4: he hit Minshew and he hit him pretty good. He said,
Speaker 4: sit down, small blank boy called him. I guess I
Speaker 4: could say that one on this here. He said, small
Speaker 4: ass boy, that's what That's what he said. And then
Speaker 4: it cuts the Minshee on the sideline. He goes, Max
Speaker 4: Crosby is so angry all the time.
Speaker 8: I can tell that from the the Netflix documentary and
Speaker 8: the Three Quarter Quarterbacks the Mahomes part, there was a
Speaker 8: good portion from that, uh one of their Raiders games
Speaker 8: when chiefs put their and just they're back and forth
Speaker 8: constantly throughout. So that doesn't surprise me. But yeah, maybe
Speaker 8: that just man, maybe that just brings out the best
Speaker 8: in some of these guys.
Speaker 4: It depends on who how you play, and that's a
Speaker 4: trigger those guys, those guys on the interior of Washington.
Speaker 4: You don't want to poke those, No, don't poke the
Speaker 4: They'll make it happen, don't they, and especially if they
Speaker 4: know that they can.
Speaker 5: So Like I know this probably sounds weird for a
Speaker 5: lot of people, but like Paine in Allen, like, let.
Speaker 7: Them just be Yeah, do your assignment, don't give them
Speaker 7: an extra push, don't do anything that's gonna like, like
Speaker 7: you said, don't poke the beard.
Speaker 1: Reason being if you aggravate them.
Speaker 7: And this is not just saying bow down to them, man,
Speaker 7: I know a lot of people are, Oh my gosh,
Speaker 7: you get me scared.
Speaker 1: I get what you're saying. You're not you're not saying
Speaker 1: praise them.
Speaker 7: I don't just but but you better have a high
Speaker 7: regard for these because they can single handlely. If you
Speaker 7: try to play in them one on one, they will
Speaker 7: throw you out the club. I don't care who you are, right,
Speaker 7: you could go back into history history books. I'm sure
Speaker 7: Zach Martin want some matchups. There's a lot of matchups
Speaker 7: that he didn't win against these two guys, right, So
Speaker 7: these guys can dominate. You just don't poke the bear,
Speaker 7: because if you give them any incentive to disrupt what
Speaker 7: the heck you got going on in terms of trying
Speaker 7: to get the second seed, you might just get a
Speaker 7: different version than what you've seen on film, or.
Speaker 5: You might just get the version of them that's just
Speaker 5: trying to hurry up and clean out their locker.
Speaker 8: Yeah, that's just funny because when you said it, maybe
Speaker 8: think of aj Brown Colling, Stefan Gilmour and.
Speaker 7: Yeah, absolutely right right, they poked the bear. Gilmour was
Speaker 7: perfectly fine, just being Gilmore quiet five o'clock shatow, he
Speaker 7: went back to the defensive player of the year. Then
Speaker 7: he came out with a fresh lineup and the second half.
Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying, like, don't mess with Gilmore.
Speaker 4: It is funny because you've got two versions of this
Speaker 4: Washington team that are going to show up. You've got
Speaker 4: the one version that's playing for their head coach, that's
Speaker 4: playing to end the season strong, playing for pride, playing
Speaker 4: to try and spoil the Cowboys and trying up in
Speaker 4: the division, or yeah, da YadA.
Speaker 8: YadA, playing for yourself too. You want to put good
Speaker 8: tabot no doubt.
Speaker 4: And players are going to do that regardless. That's that's
Speaker 4: playing it simple or you're gonna get the other the
Speaker 4: other side of it, that's tired of losing, tired of this,
Speaker 4: this this continued losing mentality. And then from a coaching
Speaker 4: staff or even a front office standpoint, you're looking at
Speaker 4: a team that's going to have the.
Speaker 1: Second overall play.
Speaker 6: Hey, let me ask you that's something on that that's
Speaker 6: a good point.
Speaker 8: Do you guys think that you call a game differently
Speaker 8: from a Cowboys standpoint of inn Let's try some stuff
Speaker 8: early to try and get up on these guys that
Speaker 8: maybe we wouldn't do in some other games.
Speaker 5: I want to run it up.
Speaker 7: I personally want to run it up, respectfully. I want
Speaker 7: to run it up so I can sit my guys well.
Speaker 7: Because you don't have the benefit that a lot of
Speaker 7: these other teams have right now. You don't You don't
Speaker 7: get the you know, you don't get the option of
Speaker 7: sitting Lamar Jackson and playing huntly. You don't get the
Speaker 7: options of sitting your starters. I mean, Lamar Jackson can
Speaker 7: sit for what two weeks?
Speaker 1: Right? You don't have that luxury.
Speaker 5: So what can you gain?
Speaker 7: Like, you take anything you can let's hurry have been
Speaker 7: finished this thing in the first half if possible. Not
Speaker 7: saying that's an easy thing to do in the NFL,
Speaker 7: but if possible, let's freaking blow the Cats out respectfully
Speaker 7: and then just go sit down with our main guys
Speaker 7: like that's your goal. I'm not saying that that's easy
Speaker 7: to execute, but that is your intention as a coach.
Speaker 7: So yes, from my Standpoy, I would Yeah, I'm definitely
Speaker 7: being more aggressive.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna talk about that a little bit more after
Speaker 4: our second break when.
Speaker 1: We come back.
Speaker 4: There's a number that's a little bit concerning for me
Speaker 4: going into this matchup, and it's something that the Cowboys
Speaker 4: have a chance to fix prior.
Speaker 1: To going into the playoffs. I'll tell you what that is.
Speaker 1: And then this situation reminds me of one that happened
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago as well. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: about that as well.
Speaker 4: If of course, that were to come to fruition, and
Speaker 4: how that could help the Cowboys going into the postseason.
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Speaker 6: Man, where have you used that smile for elementary school picture?
Speaker 6: Lovely laser beams in the background.
Speaker 5: I get so mad.
Speaker 4: The faded, faded look one direction and then you've got
Speaker 4: the one looking in the in the camera.
Speaker 7: I get so mad every year, like my eyes closed
Speaker 7: when I when I smile, right. It has always been
Speaker 7: an issue for me, But now my daughter has the
Speaker 7: same exact features that. Every year she takes school photos,
Speaker 7: the photographers always like, open your eyes.
Speaker 5: I'm like, no, leave my daughter's smile alone.
Speaker 1: I've heard that for different reasons throughout my life.
Speaker 4: All right, yeah, wow, uh talking about yeah exactly that is.
Speaker 4: There's a number that's a bit concerning both at home
Speaker 4: on the road. We've heard that split, right, We've heard
Speaker 4: of the Cowboys struggles away from AT and T Stadium.
Speaker 1: In terms of point differential.
Speaker 4: Over the past three weeks, the Cowboys are minus twenty two,
Speaker 4: and of course they've lost two games and they've won
Speaker 4: the one game, and they lost one game by one point.
Speaker 1: They won the other game by one point, so that
Speaker 1: kind of evens out.
Speaker 4: Those twenty two points are from the Buffalo blowout, but
Speaker 4: their minus twenty two point differential over the past three
Speaker 4: weeks is the worst by any team currently in playoff.
Speaker 1: Position in both the NFC and AFC.
Speaker 4: Only the Vikings minus thirty two is worse among teams
Speaker 4: in playoff playoff contention.
Speaker 8: So you don't care about it when they're blowing everybody
Speaker 8: out and their point differentials like plus one.
Speaker 1: And sixty two exactly.
Speaker 6: But when it's when you're playing, yeah, then it goes down.
Speaker 4: But there's a way for you to turn that around,
Speaker 4: and that's by getting up early, and that's by trying
Speaker 4: to make a statement early. I think it's important to
Speaker 4: get off to a hot start in this game more
Speaker 4: than any other game that we've ever had or that
Speaker 4: we've had this year, that the Cowboys have had this year,
Speaker 4: and it throws me back to twenty twenty one on
Speaker 4: the road at Philadelphia. You remember this game. You might
Speaker 4: remember this game. You made the trip up there, Lincoln Financial.
Speaker 4: Philadelphia wasn't really in contention. The Cowboys had seating purposes
Speaker 4: that they could win, and they had already locked up
Speaker 4: the division, but they had a chance to go and
Speaker 4: help improve their playoff scenario. What they did is they
Speaker 4: blew out Philadelphia fifty one to twenty six. Dak Prescott
Speaker 4: through for five touchdowns. He broke NFL w rerecord or
Speaker 4: a franchise record that day for touchdown passes. Basically came
Speaker 4: out and just put it on them pretty early and often.
Speaker 4: They were up thirty to seventeen at halftime. That's what
Speaker 4: I would hope happens this week. I hope it's that
Speaker 4: same mentality of hey, you've.
Speaker 1: Got something to do.
Speaker 4: Doesn't play around that other team is doing on the
Speaker 4: opposite side.
Speaker 1: Do what you have to do to get up early
Speaker 1: and take care of business.
Speaker 8: Sam Howells coming out playing for his life, though. Man,
Speaker 8: he's trying to put out some good tape.
Speaker 4: Carterner Minsheet a hero his life that at that right
Speaker 4: that day wasn't playing the enemy.
Speaker 1: He wants to try and throw it around a little bit.
Speaker 1: I think so they don't have they don't have anybody
Speaker 1: to block. They can't block for anybody. They're the most
Speaker 1: sacked team in the league.
Speaker 5: For I get it.
Speaker 1: He also throws them more.
Speaker 5: You don't think he his head in there and his
Speaker 5: hand in the in the pot four Hey, coach.
Speaker 6: I'd say the flip side of it though.
Speaker 8: Also I kind of wrote a little bit about this
Speaker 8: for today on the Athletic This is could be a
Speaker 8: huge game for Michaeh Parsons in terms of right now
Speaker 8: he is like if the season end of the day,
Speaker 8: I think Miles Garrett gets Defensive Player of the Year.
Speaker 8: But if you get Micaeh Parsons to have one of
Speaker 8: those games kind of like Aiden Hutchins and just had
Speaker 8: the three sacks, maybe he gets it because of that
Speaker 8: five five sacks.
Speaker 4: You know, that would be fun. That's five sack day
Speaker 4: for Micah. What if it what if it's like two
Speaker 4: and a half sacks and a forced fumble that he
Speaker 4: recovers he runs back, No, no runback. Run back would
Speaker 4: be too easy. No run back, just forces it and
Speaker 4: it recovers.
Speaker 8: Going by the vegas size, he has to jump on
Speaker 8: top of it. Going by the Vegas sizes, it's pretty
Speaker 8: much turned into a three horse race at the very
Speaker 8: end here of the season. It's between Miles Garrett, Michael Parsons,
Speaker 8: and t J. Watt and everybody else like Mex Crosby
Speaker 8: the next guy, but it's considerably way farther down on
Speaker 8: the list, So it's pretty much comes down to those three.
Speaker 8: Micah first two years in the league is finished second
Speaker 8: for the award each of those two years. I think
Speaker 8: if he has a big game in this one, I
Speaker 8: think he couldn't. I mean, because they would win the division,
Speaker 8: they get the two seed, and make a ton of
Speaker 8: sense that that would be enough for him to win
Speaker 8: the award.
Speaker 4: Finally, Garrett's not playing this week. He'll he'll sit out
Speaker 4: for Cleveland, I believe. I don't want to say that specifically.
Speaker 4: I think he's not playing.
Speaker 1: T J. Watt will probably play this week.
Speaker 4: So Michael Parsons has a chance if he's maybe that
Speaker 4: number two guy on that list in terms of the odds,
Speaker 4: if he does go off, and that's the last thing
Speaker 4: impression going into the postseason, Yeah, I think there's a
Speaker 4: considerable chance.
Speaker 1: It'd be interesting to see.
Speaker 4: What do you think it would take for him to
Speaker 4: really distance himself from A from a game standpoint.
Speaker 6: Pretty much adon Hutchinson's game.
Speaker 8: Yeah, two to three sacks like that, I know he
Speaker 8: two or three sacks, and like again, I think them
Speaker 8: winning division, the fact that he was second the last
Speaker 8: two years, I think that the voters would give him
Speaker 8: the benefit of that.
Speaker 6: I think he'd get it.
Speaker 4: With Dak Prescott closing in on his franchise record thirty
Speaker 4: seven touchdown passes, he's at thirty two. Do you think
Speaker 4: he can equal or surpass that he was at thirty
Speaker 4: two going into that Philly game two years ago when
Speaker 4: he broke the record and he had five touchdown passes.
Speaker 5: I don't see that happen.
Speaker 1: I don't see it.
Speaker 6: Doesn't want him to be on the field that long.
Speaker 5: Exactly.
Speaker 1: Good point. It's a good point.
Speaker 5: I hope he doesn't get it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's possible, though, how there's a little bit of that.
Speaker 8: Let's play with some good mojo going into the playoffs
Speaker 8: of a with them on the players.
Speaker 6: That's okay, And Mike McCarthy would agree with.
Speaker 1: You on that.
Speaker 7: People would be sick if you know right, shout out
Speaker 7: me and prayers up for Bradley Chubb.
Speaker 5: But yeah, what happened to him?
Speaker 1: That was for sure. Yeah, that's true. Good point. All right,
Speaker 1: that does it for us.
Speaker 4: You're on talking Cowboys before we go, John, you'll be
Speaker 4: making the trip to Washington.
Speaker 5: Let's go.
Speaker 1: What what happens on Sunday?
Speaker 6: Cowboys thirty one, Commanders twenty oh.
Speaker 1: Decent game.
Speaker 6: I think it's going to be a decent game.
Speaker 8: Is there's something about going up there? Yeah, it's the
Speaker 8: worst stadium in the league. Fact, it's just it's not
Speaker 8: nothing about it is good. I'm interested to seem right,
Speaker 8: I'm interested to see how new ownership, if there's been
Speaker 8: any changes.
Speaker 6: Is it too soon in the change to maybe make
Speaker 6: some of these But it's just been.
Speaker 8: Kind of a place where I've gone there multiple times
Speaker 8: thinking the Cowboys are going to blow out the Commanders
Speaker 8: or the Washington football team or any previous name, and
Speaker 8: they just, I don't know, they kind of hang around
Speaker 8: for a little bit.
Speaker 6: I know this team's different.
Speaker 9: But have you seen Magic telling my single cent I
Speaker 9: will I will maybe maybe he'll be their next coach
Speaker 9: for sure.
Speaker 1: That would like to see that. That would be interesting.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm down. All right, there you go, thirty one
Speaker 1: twenty decent game.
Speaker 4: Have a safe trip. We'll see you back here on Tuesday.
Speaker 4: We'll see if Isaiah's here on Tuesday. You think what
Speaker 4: you think, you'll make it on Tuesday.
Speaker 6: Good luck, man, I'm written for your boy.
Speaker 5: Thank you, sir.
Speaker 1: We'll be here on me. I'll be here Monday, here Monday,
Speaker 1: good luck, thank you.
Speaker 5: So fun.
Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for us today.
Speaker 4: We'll have Josh Rodriguez on the show tomorrow for Chris Beam,
Speaker 4: Isaiah's standback. John Mitchoda, I'm Kyli Yoman saying so long
Speaker 4: from Talking Cowboys.
Speaker 1: We'll see tomorrow.
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