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Speaker 1: now your hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips
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Speaker 1: Talking Cowboys. We're backing better than ever. After the bye
Speaker 1: week and after a shuffle of shows, we're now back
Speaker 1: with some say it with your chest as we've got
Speaker 1: plenty to talk about whenever it comes to us in Minnesota,
Speaker 1: the travel to take on the Vikings, the quest I
Speaker 1: should say to take on the Vikings up north coming
Speaker 1: up on Sunday. We'll break that game down, kind of
Speaker 1: lead you into that, and then of course we'll say
Speaker 1: it with your chest like we do every single Friday,
Speaker 1: and we'll give some predictions at the end of the show.
Speaker 1: If you have any fan questions, send them in on
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Speaker 1: alongside Isaiah stand back. We've got the great Rob Phillips
Speaker 1: as always, and then the incredible heck Ma Harrison up
Speaker 1: in the top right hand corner. Guys, it's Friday. Are
Speaker 1: you feeling better about this Friday than you have in
Speaker 1: the past? You feel rested, you feel a certain sort
Speaker 1: of relief, the fact that you finally get to see
Speaker 1: some more Cowboys football coming up this week. Rob, I'm
Speaker 1: always ready. I'm always ready. I think we're all refreshed.
Speaker 1: I think we all feel better about this team than
Speaker 1: we did two weeks ago. That's fair. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw that to the panel. There was such
Speaker 1: a question on better there there was a huge question
Speaker 1: mark it's better, but no. The octave, the octave that
Speaker 1: his voice went up is what shocked me. I look,
Speaker 1: I want to feel better, I want to feel better
Speaker 1: about it. But it's Robin Field going through puberty is
Speaker 1: what I think that was. That was That's a very
Speaker 1: similar to Ron Bergland little anchor, man, do we feel
Speaker 1: better about this team two weeks ago when we last
Speaker 1: had to say it? With your chess Friday? Though? Heckma, look, man,
Speaker 1: I will not admit that. I know it's saying with
Speaker 1: your chest Friday, but you're not gonna corner me in
Speaker 1: on that with Man, we're on a we're on a
Speaker 1: four game slide, so I wouldn't. I'm like a lot
Speaker 1: of fans that were like in doing the bye week.
Speaker 1: Oh God, thank you. We can take a deep breath. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my rob impersonation. Uh, you can take it. We
Speaker 1: can take a deep because the team is to play,
Speaker 1: and you know, I want to see him in action.
Speaker 1: I thought the bye week was timely for these guys
Speaker 1: and hopefully they've gotten gotten an opportunity to self evaluate. Uh,
Speaker 1: and they're much better. Yeah, I feel good about it.
Speaker 1: I feel good about these guys right now. I think
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm probably the only person that I've heard
Speaker 1: all week that says that I don't like the location
Speaker 1: of the bye week. I wish it would have been
Speaker 1: a little bit later or earlier, simply because of the momentum, obviously,
Speaker 1: and we've spoken extensively on that. But I feel better
Speaker 1: about these guys. Man. I feel like they they're gaining confidence.
Speaker 1: I think that they're starting to remember who they are
Speaker 1: as individuals, and I think they're starting to play better
Speaker 1: collectively as teams. So number one, you can't be a
Speaker 1: good team if you're not if you don't have confidence
Speaker 1: in yourself and your play. And then number two, you
Speaker 1: can't be a good team if you don't have any
Speaker 1: continuity with the guys that you play next to. So
Speaker 1: I think that all those teams are starting to come together.
Speaker 1: You know, this team that's coming in here is tough
Speaker 1: and it's going to be a challenge, but you know,
Speaker 1: let's talk about it. Well, yeah, you're right, let's talk
Speaker 1: about it. You mentioned two words there. One of them
Speaker 1: was confidence and the other one was continuity, And I
Speaker 1: feel like neither one of those were available early in
Speaker 1: the season, or at least apparent early in the season
Speaker 1: whenever it came to the Cowboys, especially on the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the football. I could argue that the confidence
Speaker 1: continuity there was there offensively all along. But Isaiah, it
Speaker 1: seems like those two things also equal a little bit
Speaker 1: of swagger. But who is to be rewarded for that
Speaker 1: or who is to be praised for the turnaround whenever
Speaker 1: it comes to finally figuring out a little bit of
Speaker 1: swagger on that side of the football. Is that the
Speaker 1: coaching staff is that the players. Where do we go
Speaker 1: and point the finger to in a positive manner to say, hey,
Speaker 1: we do feel better about this team. And here's why.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're not one person gets all the credit.
Speaker 1: I think it starts at the top, obviously, with Jerry
Speaker 1: and his crew recognizing that their their project and their
Speaker 1: investments that they made this offseason just wouldn't work. So
Speaker 1: they cut their ties. He took the ail on the end.
Speaker 1: They got rid of poll and they got rid of Griffin.
Speaker 1: That so number one, that was a win. They don't
Speaker 1: I don't think that they understood the and maybe they did,
Speaker 1: but I from my outside looking in, I don't think
Speaker 1: that they understood the effect that would that would have
Speaker 1: internally in the organization. Inside the locker room, they freed
Speaker 1: up these guys go out there and play, you know,
Speaker 1: free on the defensive line. They gave these guys free reign.
Speaker 1: They didn't feel like they had to live up anybody's expectations.
Speaker 1: They didn't feel like they had to be underneath somebody
Speaker 1: else's umbrella, Like I can go out there, I could
Speaker 1: play like I played in college. And we saw that
Speaker 1: resurrect itself last week or the week before last when
Speaker 1: we played Pittsburgh. So um, you saw a little bit
Speaker 1: of that, and now just a continuity side of things
Speaker 1: that's coming together simply because these guys are starting to
Speaker 1: get more familiar with their coaches. We've talked premitted extensive
Speaker 1: amount about, you know, their lack their ability to work
Speaker 1: together this off season, to be able to work with
Speaker 1: this brand new coaching staff. Let's not forget the fact
Speaker 1: that these you know, no excuses, they got to figure
Speaker 1: it out. But you know, they didn't have the whole
Speaker 1: off season. So if you think about it, around this time,
Speaker 1: this is about the time we would expect them to
Speaker 1: start trying to figure things out, because around this would
Speaker 1: have been the amount of time they had during the
Speaker 1: offseas and program. So they're figuring that aspect out, and
Speaker 1: they're starting to realize what their responsibilities are. They're starting
Speaker 1: to understand how well they play together. Communication, all those
Speaker 1: things come together, and that's when the continuity comes together.
Speaker 1: So all in all, everybody gets a little bit of credit.
Speaker 1: Bars that was good. Yes, spitting he said that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he said that. Nah, he don't have to do I mean,
Speaker 1: there it is no I mean he said at all.
Speaker 1: I mean, I feel like this team along the more
Speaker 1: time they get together, the more you start to see
Speaker 1: all of the things that would have been developing had
Speaker 1: they had an offseason, just the defensive continuity, being able
Speaker 1: to understand the scheme. Offensively, we shouldn't expect for any
Speaker 1: continuity at this point because of the amount of injuries
Speaker 1: that we've had on the offensive line and also a quarterback.
Speaker 1: So we're just trying to find our footing and and
Speaker 1: hopefully this is the game where you start to see
Speaker 1: a lot of those things start to to happen. So
Speaker 1: I'm like everybody else, man, I want to see this
Speaker 1: team that is on a four game losing streak take
Speaker 1: that next step to start against some quality victories. Let
Speaker 1: me clear my throat real quick. One two one two,
Speaker 1: probably alrighty, uh yeah, no, what you guys said. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I think I think Mike McCarthy spoke about this on
Speaker 1: the fan this morning that they're not and I think
Speaker 1: we're talking mostly about the defense. I think special teams wise, yeah,
Speaker 1: they're as consistent as anybody on the team right now.
Speaker 1: I think they're just John Fossil's concepts and everything is
Speaker 1: his system. Is coming into place, I think with the defense.
Speaker 1: Mike McCarthy spoke to it, they're just cutting it loose.
Speaker 1: They're they're playing more freed I think, and you know,
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence kind of called things out a couple of
Speaker 1: games ago. They're playing with pride. I think they like
Speaker 1: they just have a better understanding of what they're supposed
Speaker 1: to do, and it's allowing them to play faster. And
Speaker 1: if you make a mistake, fine, keep going. Don't let
Speaker 1: it affect the next play, in the next play. I
Speaker 1: think that's the biggest thing. But we talked about it
Speaker 1: earlier in the week. This is a test. This is
Speaker 1: an absolute test this week for the defense, a bigger
Speaker 1: test arguably than even Pittsburgh's offense a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 1: just of of what Dalvin Cook brings to the table,
Speaker 1: and really just the way Minnesota is playing right now.
Speaker 1: There's an ugly game against Chicago, but three wins in
Speaker 1: a row. They're really playing well right now and doing
Speaker 1: what they need to do to win games. So I'm
Speaker 1: very I'm fascinated to see how they how they handle
Speaker 1: this matchup. I like that question, and I'm I'm gonna
Speaker 1: steal that from you, Rob, Is this a bigger test
Speaker 1: this week from a defensive standpoint? I think offensively you
Speaker 1: might take a step back from Pittsburgh to Minnesota. But
Speaker 1: I would agree with Rob and saying that Dalvin Cook
Speaker 1: and the matchups that are on the outside with Adam
Speaker 1: Feelin and with Justin Jefferson, those two are more likely
Speaker 1: to have success against this defense. But do you think
Speaker 1: that's the same way, Isaiah? Do you think that's a
Speaker 1: different and more impressive test with Minnesota this week? I
Speaker 1: do believe that Minnesota provides presents a larger the word
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find, I think. I think definitely this
Speaker 1: week is a bigger task for our defense in the
Speaker 1: previous week. The reason why Pittsburg is a better team overall,
Speaker 1: let's not even get this confused. Pittsburghs are a really
Speaker 1: good team, which is why they're doing what they're doing. However,
Speaker 1: you know they don't have their running game figured out
Speaker 1: right now right and we had to you know, take
Speaker 1: care of that. Obviously, still had to defend the run,
Speaker 1: but primarily we had to worry about Roethlisberger and all
Speaker 1: his weapons in the receiving corps. That's the easier task
Speaker 1: than trying to stop the run. And the reason why
Speaker 1: I feel like this is a tougher task for us
Speaker 1: is because of the scheme that these guys run. These
Speaker 1: guys run a zone running scheme, a zone running scheme.
Speaker 1: Zone teams are very very very very patient, like very
Speaker 1: patient like they will literally run the ball for two quarters,
Speaker 1: three quarters in a row, not getting much, just for
Speaker 1: that big opportunity down when you're not being as discipline
Speaker 1: And that's where I question, that's where I'm a little
Speaker 1: bit hesitant in terms of my confidence and our ability
Speaker 1: to be effective in this game, because I don't know
Speaker 1: if we're confident enough to trust our techniques, if we're
Speaker 1: confident enough to trust our schemes, if we're confident enough
Speaker 1: to trust our teammates to be where they're going to
Speaker 1: be and do what they're supposed to do. And when
Speaker 1: you're not confident in those things is when you get
Speaker 1: outside of your scheme and that's when things open up
Speaker 1: and the big plays are allowed for Yeah, totally. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Time of possession. Yeah, time of possession is going to
Speaker 1: be a big part of this game. And that's what
Speaker 1: Minnesota does really well because they are so overly committed
Speaker 1: to running the ball, and so every possession for the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys is going to be very important because again,
Speaker 1: if you get behind the eight ball and they can
Speaker 1: run the ball for a quarter and a half and
Speaker 1: next thing you know, you're down fourteen points and you
Speaker 1: hadn't had but one possession. So that's the big part
Speaker 1: about this. But I also believe that when you talk
Speaker 1: about Minnesota, I think you are starting to look at
Speaker 1: the fact that they started so poorly, but you have
Speaker 1: to give credit to the way that these guys have
Speaker 1: kind of circled the wagons and started to play together
Speaker 1: over the last three games. This three game winning streak
Speaker 1: for them has been huge. You talk about confidence as
Speaker 1: a team, that's what it's given them, knowing that they've
Speaker 1: had some injuries that some key positions. So it's almost
Speaker 1: like the Cowboys should look at what Minnesota it has
Speaker 1: done and mirror that because that is what has been
Speaker 1: their success, just getting some quality wins, getting some victories
Speaker 1: one after another, and no matter how ugly it is,
Speaker 1: a dove is a dove and they got it. So
Speaker 1: that's important in this game. When you when you talk
Speaker 1: about Minnesota, for sure, it's I think they struggle early too,
Speaker 1: he because they had those they had a lot of
Speaker 1: young guys. Man, they got a ton of young guys playing,
Speaker 1: So it makes sense that that they struggle early, but
Speaker 1: it may also make sense while they're starting to play
Speaker 1: so much better now because those guys have that experience
Speaker 1: under their belt. And I think we'll absolutely, absolutely go
Speaker 1: for it. Heck, no, I agree with you. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, you know, when we were talking yesterday
Speaker 1: about the names on defense, not having those first rounders,
Speaker 1: like a lot of the teams like the Washington football team, Arizona,
Speaker 1: other teams that we have played. But still, man, they
Speaker 1: collectively they play really good, to play really well together
Speaker 1: as a defense, even with those young guys on the outside,
Speaker 1: they're really solid in the center of their defense. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a test for us no matter how
Speaker 1: you look at it. But on the offensive side of
Speaker 1: the ball, four Minnesota Kirk Cousins, if you just allow
Speaker 1: him to give Dalvin Cook the ball and get yards there,
Speaker 1: then kirk Cousins starts to look a lot better than
Speaker 1: what he is because he can just dink and dunk
Speaker 1: down the field with Christoff Rudolf. For all those who
Speaker 1: didn't catch yesterday show. That was really funny, so you
Speaker 1: should go back and watch it. They kill me now. Heck,
Speaker 1: you mentioned the defense a little bit. I know we're
Speaker 1: mostly talking about the offensive matchups at this point, but
Speaker 1: I would kind of want to shift over to the
Speaker 1: defense as well. And you and I had a conversation
Speaker 1: last night about Zimmer, and of course he's a defensive
Speaker 1: minded guy. He's a defensive guru, and a lot of
Speaker 1: people respect him across the league, and for good reason.
Speaker 1: He's put together some of the best defenses that really
Speaker 1: we've seen, even with minimal talent. But he's, like you said,
Speaker 1: had to deal with a thinner roster whenever it comes
Speaker 1: to injuries. This season, the second area is about as
Speaker 1: depleted as they come. But they're still giving up their
Speaker 1: worst scoring and total defense and the entire Zimmer era.
Speaker 1: Looking at some of these numbers, twenty seven and a
Speaker 1: half points allowed per game, that's the worst since twenty
Speaker 1: thirteen Zimmer was hired in twenty fourteen. Over three hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty three yards per game, worse since twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: Completion percentage, passer rating those are both higher than ever.
Speaker 1: Is this the worst defense we've seen from Zimmer as
Speaker 1: a head coach in Minnesota. Heckmu And is that makes
Speaker 1: you feel a little bit better about the offensive matchup
Speaker 1: heading into the week? Yeah, and I think again, there
Speaker 1: are a lot of coaches in the NFL that you
Speaker 1: look at their numbers and historically where they've been, and
Speaker 1: you have to give some credit to the fact that
Speaker 1: they are coaching in a pandemic. We've never seen a
Speaker 1: defense get off to this kind of start, and so
Speaker 1: you're seeing them, like Isaiah said, at this point in
Speaker 1: the season, certain things are starting to click, even with
Speaker 1: their youth movement. So what you know that they're going
Speaker 1: to present for us is that two deep, two safeties high.
Speaker 1: They're going to play that zone. They're gonna play really
Speaker 1: well together. But my worry is is what they do
Speaker 1: with Harrison Smith. His ability to blitz from the outside
Speaker 1: and also bring their linebackers on the inside gaps to
Speaker 1: us as well. So the Cowboys are offensively are gonna
Speaker 1: have to play really well together. And if this word
Speaker 1: continuity means anything, it's gonna have to apply this week
Speaker 1: because you know that Viking defense is going to give
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton Fitz. Yeah. I was just gonna say that
Speaker 1: Harrison Smith, Kendricks, They've still got veteran guys that can
Speaker 1: kind of hold this thing together with around some of
Speaker 1: the young players they're having to play. I can't recall.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine Mike Zimmer ever starting two rookie corners
Speaker 1: in the same season in his career. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: used to having Terrence Newman and vet guys that have
Speaker 1: been around forever. But I think they're getting better. You know,
Speaker 1: you look at these last three games. You know, Chicago
Speaker 1: struggled offensively, but you know, thirteen points, Detroit twenty points,
Speaker 1: Green Bay twenty two points. Even though that game was
Speaker 1: kind of weird. It was really windy, it was hard
Speaker 1: probably for Aaron Rodgers to get the ball down the field.
Speaker 1: But they're I think they're ascending, just kind of like
Speaker 1: the Cowboys are ascending, and a lot of it's just
Speaker 1: attribute to attributed to youth on their side of the ball. Isaiah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I think we've said it all.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm looking forward to seeing I like Kendricks
Speaker 1: a lot. Smith is really good as well. Something about
Speaker 1: having a solid middle linebacker man, something about having a
Speaker 1: middle linebacker that that just controls everything on that side
Speaker 1: of the ball. Is always a threat, whether he has
Speaker 1: his boy bar on the side or not. Kendricks is
Speaker 1: a problem. He's a brick wall. He's smart, he's fast. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we got we gotta bring our a game. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna going forward to the challenge. Though I should be
Speaker 1: good match up, it's gonna be different. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: something that the Cowboys are gonna try and take advantage
Speaker 1: of on the outside. Whenever you've got two rookies out there,
Speaker 1: try and exploit it. With Cameron Danzler, who should be
Speaker 1: back from a concussion. He's back in practice for Minnesota,
Speaker 1: and then Jeff Gladdeny and TCU product. I think these
Speaker 1: wide receivers might have a chance here. And we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about Andy Dalton a little bit more. We've talked
Speaker 1: about the debate. It's at nauseum about Andy Dalton or
Speaker 1: Garrett Gilbert. We're gonna talk about what Andy Dalton has
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Speaker 1: got predictions coming up here and about maybe ten fifteen
Speaker 1: minutes or so on wed I have the upright updated
Speaker 1: records as well. I don't think you're gonna like them
Speaker 1: very much, Isaiah. So are they legitimate? Are you cooking
Speaker 1: the books. No, I'm not cooking anything. I'm not cooking anything.
Speaker 1: You can go back and checking. You can go back
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Speaker 1: it has been a little bit, but we are. I'm
Speaker 1: not cooking. I'm staying staying firm in the records. Don't
Speaker 1: worry anyway, discretion, I'll open it up for you. Uh.
Speaker 1: Mention this going into the break and kind of want
Speaker 1: to talk about this specifically because we've debated Gilbert Dalton
Speaker 1: and whether or not you think that they could get
Speaker 1: wins in the NFL and lead this team to victories
Speaker 1: and maybe even a playoff push in the NFC East.
Speaker 1: That's what you gotta work with, is Gilbert or Dalton.
Speaker 1: And so Dalton has been named the starter. We heard
Speaker 1: from him yesterday, Rob and he actually went into quite
Speaker 1: a bit on COVID nineteen and actually how he had
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen still dealing with a loss of a loss
Speaker 1: of sense of taste and smell is what he talked about.
Speaker 1: And then also he just kind of mentioned the frustrations
Speaker 1: of that coming on the back heels of his concussion.
Speaker 1: How ready do you think Andy Dalton is after what
Speaker 1: has been, in his words, a crazy three weeks, he
Speaker 1: says he's had a good, good week of practice. Mike
Speaker 1: McCarthy said that too. I think, yeah, I think his
Speaker 1: conditioning has to be something. You know, he's got to
Speaker 1: get that back up, and he's also just got to
Speaker 1: get his rhythm back and his timing back. But I
Speaker 1: think a full week of practice can help with that.
Speaker 1: As much of a veteran as he is, You're You're right.
Speaker 1: It was just crazy for him because he still had
Speaker 1: to pass concussion protocol but he couldn't do it until
Speaker 1: he got cleared from COVID and got to be back
Speaker 1: in the building to do that. So, you know, it's
Speaker 1: just been something and constantly his wife got COVID as well,
Speaker 1: he said, as well as one of his sons. Everybody's
Speaker 1: okay now, So I think now he can just kind
Speaker 1: of focus in on what he needs to do. And
Speaker 1: I think more than anything, for him, like he said,
Speaker 1: it's probably just I'm just happy to be out of
Speaker 1: the house, you know, because he had to quarrantine, you know,
Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks to get this thing right.
Speaker 1: Isam now, I felt I felt really bad. I felt
Speaker 1: really bad. For Andy Man and just everything that he's
Speaker 1: had to go through the last couple of weeks. Obviously,
Speaker 1: like you said, the concussion and then coming down with COVID,
Speaker 1: all of this is serious. Man. So many families and
Speaker 1: so many people have been dealing with this. In my
Speaker 1: heart and prayers go out to everyone that's dealing with this.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you know, in a football sense,
Speaker 1: you know, I start to ask myself, where's the time
Speaker 1: in coming? Is just the couple of days that he's
Speaker 1: gonna get to be through, go through practice gonna be
Speaker 1: sufficient for him. He knows the task that he has
Speaker 1: at hand, and he's gonna have to be sharp, sharp
Speaker 1: on Sunday. So just hearing him talk about just developing
Speaker 1: our getting better through all of the adversity was really important. Uh.
Speaker 1: And for me personally, man, I'm just obviously I've accepted
Speaker 1: the fact that he's gonna start on Sunday, and I
Speaker 1: want the best for him. But I want to see
Speaker 1: some of those qualities that we've talked about about his
Speaker 1: ability to read and react and get the ball out
Speaker 1: of his hand pretty quickly. But man, it has to
Speaker 1: go back to Zeke. Zeke hasn't had one hundred yard
Speaker 1: rush game this season, and this is the one game
Speaker 1: where it is you know, teed up for him to
Speaker 1: have it. So it's very important man for this offense
Speaker 1: to get rolled in and he's going to have success
Speaker 1: as Zeke has success. I agree, I agree. I'm first
Speaker 1: of all, I'm glad that Andy and his famier are
Speaker 1: healthy for everybody. Unfortunately, he doesn't get to make it
Speaker 1: out of that the way that he did, So I'm
Speaker 1: glad he's he's healthy, and I'm glad that he didn't
Speaker 1: and you know, can get anybody else sick on within
Speaker 1: the organization either. But you know, he, yeah, he has
Speaker 1: he has business to take care of this week, and
Speaker 1: you know, whether it's enough time or not an enough time, regardless,
Speaker 1: he's a guy, he's the guy coming into this game.
Speaker 1: He's got to figure it out. I'm one of those
Speaker 1: guys who who thinks things happened for a reason. So
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, obviously the concussions was a
Speaker 1: bad situation, but then you backdoor with with with the
Speaker 1: COVID situation. Who knows, maybe he needed those two weeks, right,
Speaker 1: Maybe he needed those a couple of weeks to really
Speaker 1: get his mind wrapped around the fact that guess what
Speaker 1: you are playing this year. We talked a lot this
Speaker 1: off season about how about how he came here really
Speaker 1: with the expectation of, Hey, I'm backing up a guy
Speaker 1: who's playing for a contract, you know, who's a franchise,
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback and he's never missed a game. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll compete behind that guy. I told you guys a
Speaker 1: long time ago, he had zero intentions on playing this year.
Speaker 1: He thought it was going to be a straight, you know,
Speaker 1: relaxation trip um. But you know, and he got hit
Speaker 1: in the mouth right with it with this situation where
Speaker 1: he had to step in and mentally, you have to
Speaker 1: get back in that mode of I'm playing right here.
Speaker 1: Here's there's times where you're it's like the off season.
Speaker 1: Just imagine the middle of the off season. Somebody hit
Speaker 1: you up was like, hey, we got a game tomorrow.
Speaker 1: You'd be like, well, wait a minute, I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not ready yet. I think that might have been his
Speaker 1: mindset at the time. I mean, that's probably not the
Speaker 1: right thing to say. Nor am I play with putting
Speaker 1: it on him to say that. I've heard that, But
Speaker 1: I can foresee that being a situation where he was
Speaker 1: behind that just chilling. Hey, I'm practicing every week, you know,
Speaker 1: I'm preparing, you know, but I'm not really. I don't
Speaker 1: really don't have to work, nothing to worry about, right,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, crap, I'm the guy.
Speaker 1: It takes a little bit get you get you get
Speaker 1: your motors running, right, takes a little bit get your
Speaker 1: motors run. He had to put a little w D
Speaker 1: forty on there. So I think that he's had that
Speaker 1: opportunity now and I look forward to see him play,
Speaker 1: you know, a ball that we expect to come from him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the guy, the guy in front of me has never
Speaker 1: missed an entire series. Yeah, that's the game up until
Speaker 1: this season. Yeah, that's another reason that it's been a
Speaker 1: strange year. Well, and Rob whenever he kind of going
Speaker 1: off of what Isaiah just said, I mean, it kind
Speaker 1: of looked like he was caught off guard. I see
Speaker 1: exactly what you're talking about, Isaiah, because whenever we whenever
Speaker 1: we were talking about Andy Dalton taking over, one of
Speaker 1: the things we praised was his mobility and how it's
Speaker 1: kind of an unsung part of his game is the
Speaker 1: fact that he can move around and he can maneuver
Speaker 1: through the pocket, and then all of a sudden, he
Speaker 1: goes up against Washington and he goes up against Arizona
Speaker 1: and it looks like he doesn't know how to run
Speaker 1: in the pocket anymore, and he doesn't know how to
Speaker 1: get out and move around. And I think he might
Speaker 1: have found himself getting a little bit more comfortable before
Speaker 1: the concussion actually hit. But Rob, is that something that
Speaker 1: we might see a little bit more this week, kind
Speaker 1: of like what we saw from Jarret Gilbert against Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: being able to maneuver around the pocket, or is he
Speaker 1: going to be more conservative? Yeah? I was just thinking
Speaker 1: about that too, because because Gilbert flashed that mobility and
Speaker 1: and he's I think he's been kind of underrated in
Speaker 1: that aspect throughout his career. He can move around, he
Speaker 1: did it, he avoided the rush in that Giant's game,
Speaker 1: filling in for Dak after the injury, after the ankle injury,
Speaker 1: and we saw a little bit of it. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I just think more than anything, it's got to be
Speaker 1: the help around him that the protection. We've talked about it.
Speaker 1: Washington Arizona wasn't very good. It didn't seem like he
Speaker 1: was comfortable back there. It didn't seem like he was
Speaker 1: trusting it. That's my words. And so you know, if
Speaker 1: they can shore that up and again, like Heck said,
Speaker 1: established the running game, maybe there's gonna be some favorable
Speaker 1: boxes this week for Zeke, for Tony Pollard. Then I
Speaker 1: think they've got a chance to be I think we've
Speaker 1: got a chance to see more of what Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: can do than what we saw in two starts where
Speaker 1: they really struggled offensively. Ema. Yeah, just to be fair
Speaker 1: to to Andy Dalton, and we're judging our making evaluation
Speaker 1: based off of the Arizona game and the Washington game.
Speaker 1: He was completely surrounded. I mean the Arizona game, Arizona
Speaker 1: looked like they were playing with fourteen men versus our
Speaker 1: offensive line, and Andy couldn't get anything going in Buddha
Speaker 1: Baker is probably still dancing around in his head because
Speaker 1: he was everywhere. So, you know, I hope that over
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks our offensive line has is
Speaker 1: learning to play a lot better than we've got Zack
Speaker 1: Martin back. So everyone is really hanging the hat on
Speaker 1: the fact that we got in number seventy back so fully.
Speaker 1: That makes the difference for Andy Dalton. But no matter what,
Speaker 1: he's still going to have to be able to get
Speaker 1: away from press. You know, the coverage, are the blitz,
Speaker 1: get on the outside, look down the field. All of
Speaker 1: those things are going to lead to success for him
Speaker 1: because he's gonna be under pressure no matter what. I mean,
Speaker 1: we know what we have in our right tackle, we
Speaker 1: know what we have in our left guard, and so
Speaker 1: all of those are problem areas for us, and we
Speaker 1: realize that if we are going to have any success
Speaker 1: offensively on Sunday, it's gonna be with Andy Dalton obviously
Speaker 1: having to do something outside of the pocket, maybe on
Speaker 1: the run. Also, one thing with Andy Dalton that I
Speaker 1: want to mention here is the fact that sure the
Speaker 1: offensive line wasn't there, But this is also this is
Speaker 1: a guy who's a veteran. I mean, this is a
Speaker 1: guy who came in to take over against New York
Speaker 1: and he looked like a veteran and he was able
Speaker 1: to drive down the field and was able to have success.
Speaker 1: He did not play well specifically against Arizona. He did
Speaker 1: not play well against Washington. I know there were other
Speaker 1: turnovers in that game that pushed them back a little bit,
Speaker 1: and basically he was thrown into the fire there as well.
Speaker 1: But what does Andy Dalton have to do better, specifically
Speaker 1: in his role to find a way to get a
Speaker 1: win against another good team in Minnesota, at least a
Speaker 1: team that's been playing better in Minnesota, Isaiah, because Ady
Speaker 1: Dalton hasn't played like we expected Andy Dalton to play like,
Speaker 1: no matter what the situation around him has looked like. No, No,
Speaker 1: absolutely right. I mean everybody knows I was one of
Speaker 1: Any Dalton's biggest supporters right when he came in the door,
Speaker 1: and I still I still am a big supporter of
Speaker 1: Any Daltons. I believe in his abilities, I believe in
Speaker 1: his resume, and he's in a new situation and I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to seeing him show up in that way.
Speaker 1: We haven't seen that yet. We saw it, we saw
Speaker 1: a glimpse of it when he first touched the field.
Speaker 1: Right when he first touched the field, nobody had any questions,
Speaker 1: nobody was complaining about Any Dalton. Everybody was praising any
Speaker 1: dalkan Olds the best acquisition we had. And I'm and
Speaker 1: I agreed, I'm like, that's right, that's what we expected.
Speaker 1: Out of that guy right there, and then obviously the
Speaker 1: next two games didn't necessarily go that way for him. Um,
Speaker 1: and there's you know, we can say the officer line,
Speaker 1: we can say a bunch of things, but at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, he still has to find a
Speaker 1: way to be successful amongst all the adversity, amongst all
Speaker 1: the you know, the hiccups on the front line. You know,
Speaker 1: we went over in the film room and a guy's
Speaker 1: not doing their assignment. Simple blocking schemes, guys just missing
Speaker 1: quarterback takes a blunt of that, right, quarterbacks takes a
Speaker 1: blunt of that. But it's also the quarterback's responsibility to
Speaker 1: grab that dude, take him over there, you know, grab
Speaker 1: the little tablets and show him, hey, this is what
Speaker 1: we saw, this is what you need to do. We
Speaker 1: got to figure this out instead of just letting frustration
Speaker 1: boil over and then everybody gets frustrated. You know, we
Speaker 1: don't we don't need a frustration corona on the field.
Speaker 1: We don't need that bouncing around for person to person.
Speaker 1: So we you know, he has to figure it out
Speaker 1: and take accountability for how he's played and go out
Speaker 1: there and say, fellas, it's a brand New Week. You know, um,
Speaker 1: you know I got fresh legs now, I got a
Speaker 1: fresh mind. You know, my mind is now set as
Speaker 1: being a starter. I'm the leader of this team now,
Speaker 1: and guess what, go prove it, Rob, Yeah, absolutely, just
Speaker 1: I would say, just you know, trust your protection, go
Speaker 1: through your reads, and just get the ball into the
Speaker 1: hands of your playmakers and let them go. Because I
Speaker 1: think we touched on it yesterday. I think there are
Speaker 1: some matchups for the Cowboys receivers that they can take
Speaker 1: advantage of, you know, so I think just get the
Speaker 1: ball to your playmakers. Benda Nucci did not play well
Speaker 1: against the Eagles, but his mindset going in the game
Speaker 1: was really good. You know, It's like, my job's easy.
Speaker 1: I just gotta get the ball to the top three
Speaker 1: receivers and let them go. And that's Sam's Randy Dalton
Speaker 1: going forward. Like, hey, guys, like Mike Tyson says, everybody
Speaker 1: has a plan until they get hit in the mouth. True,
Speaker 1: So let's see, let's see how all of that looks.
Speaker 1: Was Andy takes his first hit right, because he's gonna
Speaker 1: be our depression and you know, there's no quarterback controversy
Speaker 1: and he's our guy and let's just see how he
Speaker 1: maneuvers in this offense. I'm sure that the players know
Speaker 1: who gives them the best chance to win, and the
Speaker 1: coaches have chosen Andy to be that guy. So again
Speaker 1: that frustration spreading amongst the team, I hope that doesn't happen,
Speaker 1: and I want him to have some success. We need
Speaker 1: to have some success because if we get a victory Sunday,
Speaker 1: we know what we have coming up Thursday. Not to
Speaker 1: get ahead, but all of these things are relative as
Speaker 1: far as trying to make a push or having any
Speaker 1: hope of actually making this postseason. Thanks, you're gonna continue
Speaker 1: to get tougher for the Cowboys. They get tougher this week.
Speaker 1: But Andy Dalton's gonna have to step up and have
Speaker 1: his best game of the season so far by quite
Speaker 1: a bit actually, if he's gonna even have a chance
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Speaker 1: mister Heckma Harrison has closed the gap a little bit
Speaker 1: on our man leading away. Two weeks ago, when we
Speaker 1: last updated the standings, he was five games back. He
Speaker 1: is now four games back, but still in last place
Speaker 1: at sixteen and sixteen. So he has closed the gap
Speaker 1: on Rob Phillips, who leads the way. Rob is twenty
Speaker 1: and twelve, a very nice record for the Cowboys Insider,
Speaker 1: the vella of the group just taking things out. Then, yeah,
Speaker 1: he did get that giant's pick and I hate him
Speaker 1: for it. Isaiah, Isaiah stand back nineteen and thirteen. He's
Speaker 1: a game back from Rob, and I am three games
Speaker 1: back from Rob at seventeen and fifteen. That's where we
Speaker 1: stand right now heading into week eleven. So we've got
Speaker 1: some games to predict this week in terms of the
Speaker 1: NFL across the board. We saw the Seahawks win last
Speaker 1: night and that was a pretty interesting game. But we're
Speaker 1: gonna start things off in Baltimore. Titans on the road
Speaker 1: against the Ravens, both teams six and three. Baltimore is
Speaker 1: allowed just over eighteen points per game this season. That's
Speaker 1: the fewest in the NFL. Isaiah, start us off Ravens. Titans.
Speaker 1: Be more Baltimore for Isaiah, that's it. Heckma, I'm going Titans. Oh,
Speaker 1: he's trying to make up ground, He's trying to und thing.
Speaker 1: I think Baltimore has got a problem offensively, so definitely
Speaker 1: going Titans. Okay, you're right, they do, they do, but
Speaker 1: I think they still get back on track at home
Speaker 1: this week. I'll go, sir. I'm gonna go with Baltimore
Speaker 1: too reluctantly because I think the Titans could very easily
Speaker 1: win this game because of the struggles of Baltimore. But
Speaker 1: I'm still gonna take the Ravens. Okay, here's a fun
Speaker 1: one because of how poor these teams have played the year,
Speaker 1: and because I think it's unpredictable. Cincinnati and the Bengals
Speaker 1: on the road against the Washington football team, matchup between
Speaker 1: twenty twenty top two overall picks Joe Burrow and Chase
Speaker 1: Young playing against each other, Bengals on the road against
Speaker 1: the football team. I'll start it off. I'm gonna pick
Speaker 1: Cincinnati to take down our NFC East rival, and Washington's
Speaker 1: is gonna be two and eight heading into the Thanksgiving
Speaker 1: battle at AT and T Stadium, Rob who you got?
Speaker 1: Give me the football team with their defensive front and
Speaker 1: they're playing better offensively too, I'll take them at home. Okay, heckma,
Speaker 1: this is another one of those toilet bowl games. Somewhere
Speaker 1: a toilet flushed. Jeez man, are we really talking about
Speaker 1: toilet boss? Are we really talking about too? This is great? Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the football team reluctantly. Okay. I
Speaker 1: can't pick a team that doesn't have a name. SIMPOSSI
Speaker 1: how you pick a team that doesn't have a name.
Speaker 1: So I'm going with it with the guys that that
Speaker 1: are Cats. I'm going with the Cats this week. I
Speaker 1: like it. I like it. Okay, some point Burrows, at
Speaker 1: some point, Burrow is gonna have one of those Burrow games. Oh,
Speaker 1: this week, I think it will be this week. I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna be fun to watch. That's one game that,
Speaker 1: even though there's a combined four wins between the two teams,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stop down and watch it because I feel
Speaker 1: like that's gonna be fun to see Chase Young chase
Speaker 1: around Joe Burrow. Anyways, Packers against the Colts on the road.
Speaker 1: The Packers. Then you've got Indianapolis, who's allowed two hundred
Speaker 1: and ninety total yards per game this season. That is
Speaker 1: they fewest in the NFL defensively, Colts at six and three,
Speaker 1: Packers at seven and two. Heck must start us off, Packers.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pack Pack attack for heckmon Isaiah yep, I
Speaker 1: can never go against my guy a Ryan. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: pick Green Bay's royal Rob. Oh. I wonder if we
Speaker 1: lost Rob? All right, I think we did. I think
Speaker 1: we lost Rob. So we're gonna give Rob the Colts
Speaker 1: there and let him just be on an island. I'm
Speaker 1: just kidding. We'll get his pick. Care man, Uh, let's go.
Speaker 1: We'll move on a game and we'll go back and
Speaker 1: get Rob's picks here in a second, when he rejoins
Speaker 1: US Chiefs on the road against the Raiders. Kansas City
Speaker 1: won fourteen of their last fifteen games. They're only lost though,
Speaker 1: came to these Las Vegas Raiders, and now the Vegas
Speaker 1: Raiders get him at home. I'm gonna take Chiefs by
Speaker 1: quite a bit because I think they want that revenge
Speaker 1: over that one loss in fifteen games. Heckma, man, this
Speaker 1: is a tough one. I mean because Vegas served him.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna I'm going Chiefs m Isaiah. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna Casey in the place to be if. If I'm
Speaker 1: not mistaken, I think that Oakland, I think they are
Speaker 1: not well. I can't say, oh jeez, Las Vegas. I
Speaker 1: think Las Vegas disrespected them. Didn't they dance on them
Speaker 1: or something like that? Crazy? Ye? So yeah, yeah, when
Speaker 1: when you get disrespected like that, you best believe. And
Speaker 1: Andy Reid's gonna come bring that fire back. Rob, Are
Speaker 1: you back with us? I just saw you give a
Speaker 1: thumbs up. I am back. Sorry about okay, sos Vegas
Speaker 1: you know. Yeah, So we're doing Vegas Chiefs and yeah,
Speaker 1: let's do a Vegas show for for the talking cowboys.
Speaker 1: I like that Vegas road trip Chiefs and Raiders is
Speaker 1: the game. We were picking here and then we'll go
Speaker 1: back and get one for you here. Pat Mahomes Chiefs Okay,
Speaker 1: so Chiefs in that one across the board. Packers Colts
Speaker 1: was the other one that we needed from me, Rob
Speaker 1: uh Aaron Rodgers, Packers. Okay, so Packers across the board there.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna give one more just because I think
Speaker 1: we've picked a lot of the same teams. Uh Rams
Speaker 1: on the road against the Buccaneers. Buccaneers coming off of
Speaker 1: that embarrassing loss to New Orleans. Both teams were just
Speaker 1: three losses this season. The Rams allowed eighteen point seven
Speaker 1: points per game, second fewest in the NFL behind only Baltimore.
Speaker 1: Isaiah Rams Bucks who you got. I'm going on my
Speaker 1: ex teammate TB twelve. You do not expect for him
Speaker 1: to ever pick against Tom Rady, That's true. It's like
Speaker 1: him picking against Shrine in his house. Rady. So no, no, Tom,
Speaker 1: they just they're just they're playing they're playing well together,
Speaker 1: and they they lost thirty eight to three last week.
Speaker 1: What do you mean they're playing well together? Well, that
Speaker 1: was they bounced back. TB twelve doesn't lose two games
Speaker 1: in a row like that. It just doesn't happen. So okay,
Speaker 1: oh well he doesn't lose you hecka who you got? Man?
Speaker 1: You know, I believe that the Rams, both of these
Speaker 1: defense this is a stout man. But something tells me
Speaker 1: that Aaron Donald is going to feast this game. And
Speaker 1: so I'm going Rams, Rob. Yeah, I'm going against what
Speaker 1: I normally do, and that's I don't pick against Tom Brady.
Speaker 1: But I like the way the Rams have been playing,
Speaker 1: just all across the board, complete team defensively, They're, like
Speaker 1: you said, Kylie, are so strong. I'll take them in
Speaker 1: this game. I really do like the Rams here, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take I'm gonna take the Buccaneers to bounce back,
Speaker 1: even though I just made fun of Isaiah for making
Speaker 1: that pick. I think I think Tom Brady and the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers figure it out and get back on track. Okay,
Speaker 1: got a couple of minutes left. Here we go, Cowboys
Speaker 1: on the road against the Vikings. Who wants to go
Speaker 1: first in this one? And will anybody pick the Cowboys
Speaker 1: this week? Heck? How about you start us off? Yeah? Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna start us off. The scope be a tough one, guys,
Speaker 1: and bye. Week by week I'll included in it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I gotta go with the Vikings. Man, I don't
Speaker 1: think that we've made that many strides and Andy Dalton's
Speaker 1: going to be under pressure, So yeah, I'm going Vikings
Speaker 1: are Wow, that was probably the those plaza. So I
Speaker 1: guess those plaza all the emotions, take all the emotion
Speaker 1: out of it. I say, you see that you're learning,
Speaker 1: Daniel Sun Isaiah. I'm gonna go with them boys this week? Man,
Speaker 1: whoa with them boys? I feel good. I feel good
Speaker 1: about them and their ability to build upon their most
Speaker 1: recent momentum. I think their defense is playing better. I'm
Speaker 1: hoping that they can be disciplined on that side of
Speaker 1: the ball, and I think offensively, I think this is
Speaker 1: the game they figure it out. I cannot believe that
Speaker 1: just happened. I mean, I'm just I'm shocked over here.
Speaker 1: I love it. I love it, and you say it
Speaker 1: with your chat. You gotta do what you gotta do, Okay,
Speaker 1: Rob what you got? I thought I was gonna be
Speaker 1: on rob Pie Island picking picking the Vikings, but I
Speaker 1: I'm going with Minnesota because I think the way they're
Speaker 1: playing right now is is just really good. Uh, But
Speaker 1: I think this is gonna be the best game of
Speaker 1: the season for the Cowboys in terms of best game
Speaker 1: we've seen. It's gonna be competitive, it's not gonna be
Speaker 1: as sloppy as we've seen because because you guys are
Speaker 1: right like they're starting to figure it out. But I
Speaker 1: just I'll take Dalvin Cook and you know, in a
Speaker 1: close game like twenty six twenty four Minnesota, I like that.
Speaker 1: How is that the best game we played? If we're
Speaker 1: gonna play the best game we play in the loss,
Speaker 1: come on, well, I mean the last game was the
Speaker 1: best last week. Yeah, exactly. So I'm right there with you. Now,
Speaker 1: I agree with you, and my head right here says
Speaker 1: to pick the Vikings. That my head says, let's pick
Speaker 1: the Vikings and let's go with Minnesota. But the great
Speaker 1: Michael Scott of the Office One said, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: I'm ready to get hurt again, and I've got a
Speaker 1: gut feeling this week that the Cowboys are gonna pull
Speaker 1: it out and that they're gonna find a way to
Speaker 1: get a victory. Andy Dalton's gonna show what we expected.
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton the show, and he's not gonna look like
Speaker 1: he did against Arizona. He's not gonna look like what
Speaker 1: he did against Washington. This offensive line is gonna play better,
Speaker 1: and we're all gonna be happy come Monday, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a victory Monday here at the Star in Frisco. Yes, Um,
Speaker 1: didn't you say you would never pick the Cowboys? I did?
Speaker 1: And like I said, I'm ready to get hurt again.
Speaker 1: I am. I am so ready. I am so ready
Speaker 1: to get hurt that it's one more time. But I've
Speaker 1: got I've got to get and I'm saying with him
Speaker 1: with my chest as well. Virtual shower bubble cuts, No, no,
Speaker 1: this isn't bubblecuts. Don't worry. We're good without that right now,
Speaker 1: but we'll fist pump through. You're in the studio by
Speaker 1: yourself today. Yeah, yeah, exactly right, exactly right. That's good
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