WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: Physical Education 0:00:02.720 --> 0:00:05.160 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:05.200 --> 0:00:06.760 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:09.119 --> 0:00:12.039 Cowboys. 0:00:12.080 --> 0:00:16.360 This he is Talking Cowboys, straining live. 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:20.079 From the Dallas Cowboys World Course at the Star in Frisco. 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:31.360 Straight todaydown and now your hosts Isaiah Standback, Nick Harris, 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:35.040 John Mashoda, and Kyle Yeoman's. 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:42.319 It's a wonderful Wednesday edition of Talking Cowboys presented by 0:00:42.560 --> 0:00:45.480 Black Rifle Coffee Company. We are live from the Star 0:00:45.560 --> 0:00:49.240 in Frisco, Texas and the SWBC Studios. It is Week 0:00:49.440 --> 0:00:53.440 seventeen of the NFL season, the Dallas Cowboys facing the 0:00:53.440 --> 0:00:57.760 Detroit Lions coming up on Saturday. We've got Isaiah Standback, 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:00.240 John Machoda back in the building to day. 0:01:00.400 --> 0:01:03.000 Mister Nick Harris, Yeah, barely back in the building, but 0:01:03.520 --> 0:01:05.560 you got him here. My flight landed at eight eighteen, 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:07.440 but I am here nine am ready to go. Let's 0:01:07.640 --> 0:01:08.480 Jennie Capper. 0:01:08.680 --> 0:01:11.319 Yeah, it sounds like that Black Rifle this morning too. 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:11.839 I haven't. 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:13.040 I haven't. I'm just ready to go. 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:16.240 Oh you just that excited to talk about this. I'm 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:16.640 going to hit. 0:01:16.600 --> 0:01:17.880 Black Rifle after though, for sure. 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:18.280 Yeah. 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:21.559 Yeah, nice felt left out yesterday. I getting better at. 0:01:21.440 --> 0:01:24.640 This Chris being in the back of Kyle Yeoman's glad 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:26.560 you're with us, all right, Nick, we haven't heard your 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:29.679 thoughts on the Miami lost twenty two twenty yet you 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:30.080 were there. 0:01:30.680 --> 0:01:31.280 What happened? 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:35.800 Yeah, I think if we remember back to last week, 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:37.840 I would not. I was not expecting this defense to 0:01:37.840 --> 0:01:40.320 play as well as it did on Sunday in Miami. 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:43.200 I think that was probably the biggest surprise. Honestly, the 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:46.920 run defense was great. It was pretty pretty damn good, 0:01:47.400 --> 0:01:50.840 limiting mostered in a chance to the yardage that they had. 0:01:51.680 --> 0:01:53.440 If you told me going in that that was going 0:01:53.520 --> 0:01:55.080 to be the case, you were only going to limit 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:58.400 that Dolphins offense to one touchdown, You're going to force 0:01:58.440 --> 0:02:01.280 them into some long field goal situations with a kicker 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:03.960 that had missed seven straight fifty plus yard field goals 0:02:03.960 --> 0:02:06.040 going into that game. That always told you, oh, okay, 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.600 this this Cowboys team that they figured this out. But 0:02:08.639 --> 0:02:10.600 that second and third quarter man not being able to 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:13.760 get anything going offensively. Obviously, the fumble on the goal 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:17.320 line from Hunter Lipkey, it's very tough, very tough stuff 0:02:17.320 --> 0:02:19.320 to talk about it. Unfortunately, let's pull the band aid. 0:02:19.360 --> 0:02:23.240 This is you know, I think I think there's probably 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:26.600 half half blame on both sides between Dak and Lipkey. 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:28.400 I mean, that's a that's a that's a handoff that 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:31.000 you got to practice throughout the week, and that they 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:33.840 haven't had that practice throughout the year. Obviously, he had 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:36.080 only had six touches coming into the game. Go ahead, 0:02:36.080 --> 0:02:37.640 go ahead, you touch on it. 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.840 So going back, how long do you think hunter Lypkey 0:02:40.880 --> 0:02:43.080 has been playing the running back slash fullback position in 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:46.760 his whole life? Okay, yeah, so there's certain just mechanics 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:51.799 operation for per se that just just happened every single time, 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:57.000 meaning like arm up, armed down with a little clamping motion, right, Okay. 0:02:57.480 --> 0:03:01.360 He had no bottom arm. The bottom arm was was 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:02.120 was non existent. 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:03.040 We all came high. 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:04.960 We talked about it in the in one of our 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:09.240 breaks on yesterday's show about the mesh of you know 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:11.160 when you do like the read option, like the polling. 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:13.359 I wonder if he thought that Dak was gonna pull. 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:17.520 Yeah, that's a I just I just don't understand why 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:18.079 they would pull. 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.320 Right there, there's no pull. 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.239 It's just it was bad mechanics. He didn't have a 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:25.720 bottom arm, there was no bottom bar. It was more 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:29.760 of like was like this, so Dak put the ball 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:32.120 rather high low. It doesn't matter, like that's what the 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.360 whole personal base. There's no there's no base, there's no 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.160 bottom shelf, right, so the ball is gonna come straight out. 0:03:37.200 --> 0:03:39.560 It doesn't matter who you are. So that's just he 0:03:39.680 --> 0:03:41.680 was anxious. That's what that's what comes out to. 0:03:41.720 --> 0:03:43.720 He was anxious, and he lost his mechanics and unfortunately 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:44.800 and the Cowboys had to pay for. 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:46.800 It four touches on the first drive though, like whenever 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:48.000 he lined up with the goal line, I was like, 0:03:48.040 --> 0:03:50.360 oh my god, here it is. 0:03:50.160 --> 0:03:53.400 This is the top. 0:03:52.080 --> 0:03:54.160 Of the mountain. And then we just came crashing down 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:56.440 the boulder, came down the mountain and hit me in 0:03:56.480 --> 0:03:58.640 the jones boler so bad. 0:03:58.800 --> 0:04:00.520 But Nick's running down the mountain. 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.520 It's just gonna clamp me. But yeah, ten point swing 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.480 right out of the gates. I mean when that happened, 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:08.320 and they came down and kicked the field goal, and 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:11.000 they had two opportunities to have some big shots that 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:13.440 Tyreek dropped the one that would have been a ninety 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:15.640 three yard touchdown, and then Waddle came back with a 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:17.920 fifty yarder. I was just worried that that defense was 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:19.800 gonna get killed over the top ball game, and then 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:22.640 that didn't happen. The defense held up, and obviously I 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:24.880 have to give credit to that unit for being able 0:04:24.920 --> 0:04:27.120 to do that against an offense like that. But man, 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.320 the offense, they're gonna have to come to play in 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:31.840 all four quarters. The third quarter has been the quarter 0:04:31.880 --> 0:04:33.960 that has killed in the most this season, but it 0:04:34.040 --> 0:04:36.720 was stacked with the second quarter this season or this 0:04:36.760 --> 0:04:39.880 past week. So we'll see against Detroit obviously a really 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:42.000 good opportunity to bounce back. We'll dive into it today, 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:46.279 going back to going back home against a quality NFC opponent. 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:48.480 I think there's still time to write this shit before 0:04:49.120 --> 0:04:52.080 the playoffs start. But man, the way Tampa Bay played 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:55.120 this past weekend, this wildcard round isn't becoming such an 0:04:55.160 --> 0:04:59.200 afterthought anymore. So they've stacked four wins in a row. 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:00.800 I think that's gonna be probably what we look at 0:05:00.800 --> 0:05:01.520 here in a couple of weeks. 0:05:01.520 --> 0:05:04.200 But what do you think the key is to on 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:07.560 the teams you've been on when to play well coming 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:11.440 out of halftime. Is there anything that you've noticed, because 0:05:11.440 --> 0:05:14.440 you know on the outside there's a lot of the play, 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:16.040 you know, halftime speech and. 0:05:16.000 --> 0:05:18.360 Halftime all sorts of stuff. 0:05:18.360 --> 0:05:22.120 Honest with you, man, there's there's substantially more talk on 0:05:22.320 --> 0:05:24.800 outside looking in than there ever is on the inside. 0:05:24.880 --> 0:05:26.760 Yeah, like you only got eight minutes in there. 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:33.480 Yeah, this quick, Isaiah's literally. 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.120 You walk in the job, you walk in the locker room, 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.120 you throw your helmet in your locker for a hot second, 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:40.799 you go use the bathroom, you sit down, you grab 0:05:40.800 --> 0:05:41.239 a drink. 0:05:41.560 --> 0:05:43.839 Coach runs in there. Literally, the whole coaching staff runs 0:05:43.839 --> 0:05:45.520 into the locker room. They get in front of the 0:05:45.560 --> 0:05:47.200 border like all right, boys, listen up, listen up, all right, 0:05:47.240 --> 0:05:48.440 this was going on, boom boom, and they hit on 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:49.880 a couple points. And then it's like they have to 0:05:49.920 --> 0:05:51.800 run out and get back to the booth like it's 0:05:51.839 --> 0:05:54.360 literally no time. So I mean, yeah, you addressed up 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:56.560 the key points, but it's not like you're sitting there 0:05:56.560 --> 0:05:58.600 having a whole team meeting, you know what I'm saying 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:00.680 for a half hour like this not that much time. 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:01.520 They're gonna come down. 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:03.520 They're going to tell you exactly what's been going on, 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.160 all right, the changes that need to happen really really quick. 0:06:06.160 --> 0:06:07.880 And then like it's gone, and then you come out 0:06:07.920 --> 0:06:11.039 and you try to execute better. Like that's there's there's more, 0:06:11.400 --> 0:06:13.719 substantially more talk. On the outside looking in, it's just 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:16.760 an insight. You're just you're playing, man, you're playing. You recognize, Hey, 0:06:16.760 --> 0:06:18.520 things aren't going our way. We've got to make some changes. 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:20.599 But it's not like a come to Jesus meeting where 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.040 you have to you know, everybody's sitting there kumbaya and 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:23.760 at halftime. 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:27.000 Would it be comparable to would it? Would it be 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:30.200 comparable to like in between drives having conversations when your 0:06:30.240 --> 0:06:31.640 coaches on the sideline. I mean it's the same thing. 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:35.520 Basically, there's there's more time in the game that's on 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:35.960 the drive. 0:06:36.480 --> 0:06:40.000 There's more, there's more information that's conveyed in between drives, 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:41.120 and there areas at haveltime. 0:06:41.680 --> 0:06:43.400 I do think it's funny because I think on the 0:06:43.440 --> 0:06:45.839 outside you look at it as it's like the movies. 0:06:46.000 --> 0:06:48.640 You know, it's like any given Sunday, it's like you're 0:06:48.640 --> 0:06:51.120 in picturing almost like Mike McCarthy's the only one talking 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.920 to the entire team the Niners. I want to say 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:56.040 it was last season. I think it was last season 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:57.920 during preseason game, they let one of our writers at 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:00.840 the athletic go in the locker room. Now the writer 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:03.280 can only write about certain things. But to your point, 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:05.600 it was a lot about how people are broken off 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.440 into groups. It's not like this one big like message 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:10.640 rah rah, you know, speech in the middle of the 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.200 locker room type thing like I think that maybe you 0:07:13.240 --> 0:07:14.440 see in the TV shows and movies. 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:16.760 Everybody take a knee right right, and like you get 0:07:16.760 --> 0:07:19.520 the white board and then there's like a soft music underline. 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:20.960 Literally, the coaches. 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:22.600 Are the same for you in college too, same deal 0:07:22.640 --> 0:07:25.360 where you break off like that or because it's a 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:26.760 longer halftime. It's the reason I ask. 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.040 I feel like college was more deliberate in terms of 0:07:30.080 --> 0:07:30.440 the team. 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:34.480 Okay, but then you're like the the OC comes, you know, 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.240 or your decordinator takes the team. They mentioned a couple 0:07:37.240 --> 0:07:38.680 of things that you need to hit on, like okay, 0:07:38.680 --> 0:07:40.560 get what your position groups, and like your position coach 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:42.200 comes over to your lockers like all right, look, this 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:43.400 is what we're looking at. This is what we need 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:45.800 to do, and then you're gone. But like in NFL, 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.520 it's quick. Literally by the time you come away from 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:50.600 the dog on urinal and come back to your locker. 0:07:51.120 --> 0:07:53.560 You can see the coaching staff literally running in like 0:07:53.600 --> 0:07:55.680 they're running again. They're like okay, okay, you know, like 0:07:55.760 --> 0:07:57.600 hurry up, and everybody knows they only have a hot 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:00.000 second to get across their message, so they get everybody's 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:01.800 tension real quick and they're like okay. They write their 0:08:01.840 --> 0:08:03.520 little quick notes on a board, they tell everybody what'll 0:08:03.520 --> 0:08:04.960 do it, and they're like all right. Then they're running 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:06.240 back out the door, trying to get back up to 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:07.720 the dog on booth. 0:08:08.360 --> 0:08:08.800 Interesting. 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:11.920 Yeah, because you've got you've got moments with your position coach, 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.320 and a lot of times those position coach coaches are 0:08:14.360 --> 0:08:16.200 on the sideline, so you'll probably get a word with 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:18.520 them as you're on your way in or on your 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:22.000 way out, whenever you're going in the locker room. But 0:08:22.040 --> 0:08:24.640 then you've got the coordinators and some of those other 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:26.600 coaches that see it from a different angle than you do, 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:28.840 and they have a different perspective, and so maybe that's 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:30.800 the one time you get the chance to hear that 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:34.719 different perspective. It's interesting to think about because teams, there 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.240 are first half and second half teams in any level 0:08:37.280 --> 0:08:40.280 of the sport, and so far the Cowboys, at least 0:08:40.320 --> 0:08:42.319 in terms of the first quarter, have been great. In 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:44.080 terms of the fourth quarter, for the most part, have 0:08:44.120 --> 0:08:46.520 been pretty darn good. Third quarter has been where they've 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.880 been really missing that same level of emphasis. 0:08:49.880 --> 0:08:51.520 I think that just comes from a coach's adjustments. 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:56.760 Some coaches are better at not only gaining attaining knowledge 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.400 in that first half, but then being able to quickly 0:08:59.440 --> 0:09:02.040 convey that information and those changes that need to take 0:09:02.080 --> 0:09:04.480 place to your team, and your team being able to 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:06.960 make those alterations and execute them on the field in 0:09:07.000 --> 0:09:09.800 the second half. I think that's the more important aspect. 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:12.400 And that's not to say that you know what it 0:09:12.480 --> 0:09:14.640 is to say some coaches are better communicators than others, 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:16.640 and then the team has to receive and actually go 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.520 out there and apply it. Now, there's different levels of changes, 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:21.880 right there's hey, you know, maybe the coach in the 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:25.480 booth saw something that everybody else on the field didn't see. 0:09:25.600 --> 0:09:27.600 It's like, hey, you know, makesure shorten you're split down 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:29.719 on this, or make sure that you don't overset, you know, 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:32.520 if you're tackled it. Just little cues and pointers here 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.960 and there that might that might pay huge dividends in 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:39.160 that second half. But it's not an overtaking. It's not 0:09:39.240 --> 0:09:41.920 a hey, we're gonna we're going to change everything that 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.280 we're doing now. It's just that's not what it is. 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:45.959 Speaking of some changes, I just want to throw this 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:47.839 out there, because we didn't talk about yesterday to you guys. 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:51.600 I really liked when they won the toss, they took 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:53.839 the ball, just as it kind of change up. What 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:55.040 did you guys think of that? 0:09:57.920 --> 0:10:00.840 I think you have. Yeah, I gotta get out. I 0:10:00.840 --> 0:10:02.679 think it's a situational basis, and. 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:04.400 I'm doing it against the Niners two. I don't think 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.000 they've had the ball once to start the game any 0:10:06.040 --> 0:10:08.120 of those three last three nine Ers games. There's just 0:10:08.200 --> 0:10:10.520 something about getting a lead with this particular team. I'm 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.000 not saying, like Mike McCarthy loves the double double, the 0:10:13.240 --> 0:10:15.880 going into half scoring, having the ball coming out, the 0:10:15.920 --> 0:10:18.000 percentage you winning that game are through the roof. I 0:10:18.040 --> 0:10:20.440 get that, But for certain teams, I think you have 0:10:20.480 --> 0:10:22.120 to change things up. So when they won the toss 0:10:22.120 --> 0:10:24.040 and they took it, I really like that. Now, of 0:10:24.040 --> 0:10:26.360 course they didn't score, but the way that they went 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:28.000 down the field like that, I liked it. But I 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:29.199 wanted to hear what you guys had to say. 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:31.600 Well, if you have Lipkey hold onto the ball and 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.119 he's into the in zone, and let's say the Dolphins 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:36.840 and the next Cowboys drive end up the exact same 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:38.400 as it would have been anyway as a field goal, 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:40.720 and then see Lamb touchdown, you're up fourteen to three. 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:43.360 I think, completely different ballgame at fourteen to three, and 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.720 I think you're And of course it's a butterfly effect. 0:10:45.720 --> 0:10:47.760 If Flipkey scores, then you don't know what happens after 0:10:47.760 --> 0:10:50.560 that because it's a different ballgame. But let's say that 0:10:50.559 --> 0:10:52.559 that it does stay the same and he just holds 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:54.560 on and crosses the goal line, you're up fourteen to 0:10:54.600 --> 0:10:57.120 three on the road. I think this team with an 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:00.520 eleven point lead is a completely different ball club. So 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:02.880 I agree with you in this situation. And I think 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:07.000 in a situation against like per Se forty nine ers, yes, 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:10.240 I would take it. Against San Francisco Philadelphia, I think 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:11.960 I would rather my defense get out there and get 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:12.640 a stop first. 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:14.480 It's just kind of a situational basis. 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.960 But I liked it in this game because you thought 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:18.800 you were gonna have to go down and score points 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:20.120 and control time of possession. 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:22.200 You did so you just turned it over at the 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:22.680 goal line. 0:11:23.840 --> 0:11:26.200 Yeah, I agree. I agree. News and Notes, Yeah, let's 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.040 do it. Practice report coming out of yesterday. So it's 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:30.840 a short week. Reminder of the game is on Saturday 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:33.400 night this week, so yesterday was treated as a quote 0:11:33.480 --> 0:11:36.040 unquote Wednesday here in the building. We could dive into 0:11:36.120 --> 0:11:39.720 some injury things here. Jonathan Hankins, we spoke to him 0:11:39.720 --> 0:11:41.800 in the locker room last week. Y'all may have touched 0:11:41.840 --> 0:11:43.680 on this yesterday when Jerry Jones spoke on the fan, 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.440 but there didn't seem to be as much optimism yesterday 0:11:46.440 --> 0:11:48.680 morning as Hankins had last week. As far as playing 0:11:48.720 --> 0:11:51.200 against Detroit, he was listed as it did not practice 0:11:51.200 --> 0:11:54.280 with his knee slash ankle injury. We'll see as that 0:11:54.440 --> 0:11:56.960 as the week goes on where he's at with that. 0:11:57.320 --> 0:11:59.680 Tyron Smith once again did not practice with his back 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:02.400 injury that kept him out of the game on Sunday 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:05.800 against Miami and then going through some more injury stuff. 0:12:05.840 --> 0:12:08.720 Stefan Gilmour he told me in the locker om matter 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:10.560 for the game that he suffered a rib injury during 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.760 the game. It looked pretty scary whenever it happened initially, 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:15.600 just because he was kind of writhing in pain, threw 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:17.840 his helmet off really quick, but he was back two 0:12:17.920 --> 0:12:20.680 plays later on the field. He was on the injury report, 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:23.000 but it was for rest reasons. The rib is not 0:12:23.040 --> 0:12:25.560 on here, So that's that's a good sign as far 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.040 as him going forward this week. And then it's really 0:12:28.080 --> 0:12:30.680 quick to touch on some other ones. Rego Daddle ankle limited, 0:12:31.360 --> 0:12:34.640 Brandon Cook's rest limited as well, DeMarcus Lawrence with rest, 0:12:34.720 --> 0:12:37.720 Jordan Lewis with rest, Hunter Luke has a thigh injury. 0:12:37.880 --> 0:12:39.280 You know, maybe that had something to do. You know, 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:44.760 he was limited, and Molly Cooker with his ankle injury 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:48.320 limited as well. Okay, so and no major concerns for 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:52.120 the Lions either. Brought right backup tight end hip injury. 0:12:52.120 --> 0:12:53.760 He was the only one that did not practice yesterday. 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:56.160 So for the most part, whenever you're looking up and 0:12:56.200 --> 0:12:58.320 down the roster, it's about the same as what it 0:12:58.360 --> 0:13:00.280 was last week, which is, I mean not one would 0:13:00.360 --> 0:13:07.160 that's great, but Tyron Smith questionable, Hankin's probably doubtful, And 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:09.760 that's what you've got going on to injury wise, right yeah, 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:13.480 do you think there's a better shot to see Tyron 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:16.320 this week? Do you where would your confidence level meeter be? 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.840 I right now, I think he plays on Saturday. I mean, 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:22.120 he hasn't practiced first day of the week at all 0:13:22.160 --> 0:13:23.640 this season. They're not going to practice in the first 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:25.920 day of the week when he's battling something. So I'm 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:29.920 not I'm not concerned yet about Tyron. Ask me Friday 0:13:30.400 --> 0:13:32.400 and we'll see. But as of right now, I don't. 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:34.560 I think there's a little bit more concern with Hankins, 0:13:34.600 --> 0:13:35.839 if you're tsking me specifically. 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.160 But so, Tyron was walking around the locker room yesterday 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:40.720 and so for two things why that stood out to me. 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.000 One he was moving better than he was last week 0:13:43.080 --> 0:13:47.920 during the week, and two is that when Tyron I'm 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.920 not saying this is a fact, but there's oftentimes I 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:52.920 would see Tyron not being in the locker room at 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:54.600 off he didn't think he was going to play. Yeah, 0:13:54.600 --> 0:13:56.560 they're just the fact that he walked, he walked through there, 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:58.480 was at his locker for a little bit. Normally he 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:00.320 would you just wouldn't even see him in there. So 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.840 I thought that was a pretty positive sign. Again, that's 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:04.440 just some reading between the lines. But yeah, I would 0:14:04.440 --> 0:14:05.560 agree with you. I think he plays in this. 0:14:05.559 --> 0:14:07.120 Of course the one day I missed Tyron Smith. 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:11.200 Of course, dude, I will say, though I've been covering 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:14.000 this team since twenty eleven, if you were to miss 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:16.080 a day, yesterday was the day. Yeah, and like there 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.440 was just nothing going on there. It's it was the 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:21.520 least productive locker room day of any time any my 0:14:21.680 --> 0:14:24.480 entire time covering the Cowboys there. So yeah, including those 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:27.960 times when you go in there after a season ending loss, 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:30.640 you know for the locker room they get out pretty bad. Yeah, 0:14:30.720 --> 0:14:32.440 but no, this was there was just not a lot 0:14:32.440 --> 0:14:34.600 of guys there. So that means that today will be 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:37.240 very busy. Everybody will be talking the word. 0:14:37.320 --> 0:14:39.960 There's nothing to read into there, right with what based 0:14:39.960 --> 0:14:41.560 off of two straight losses. 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:43.720 No, it's because the way they flipped this practice. 0:14:44.240 --> 0:14:45.960 Yeah, I wanted to put it out there because everybody 0:14:45.960 --> 0:14:48.760 at home is probably like said, like, no locker. 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:50.920 Room probably, No, it's worse than a season ending loss. 0:14:51.040 --> 0:14:53.880 No, no, no, no, they flipped the they flipped these practice schedules. 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:55.440 So that's why it's like that. So the locker room 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:58.440 available at least early in the morning when like guys 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:01.040 are either just getting there or all the guys you 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:02.920 don't see everybody at their locker because they don't have 0:15:03.000 --> 0:15:05.240 to go there. So that's the reason. It's not because 0:15:05.240 --> 0:15:07.720 of this loss or anything like that, because I thought 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:09.800 this loss after the game too, remind me a lot 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:11.440 of the Philadelphia game, where it was a loss, but 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:13.840 I didn't get the sense that it was like, you know, 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.480 after the Buffalo Niners game, We're like, we got major 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:18.840 things that we need to fix here, and then I'll. 0:15:18.360 --> 0:15:19.640 Say this, I think there was a little bit more 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:22.120 frustration in the locker room after this loss to any 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:24.640 of the other four or five. It was similar to 0:15:24.640 --> 0:15:27.280 Arizona in that sense where it's like why did this happen? 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:29.120 Like how did we not come out with the win? 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.640 And little kind of like the vibe I felt. 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:35.239 And a little bit of more officials for sure. 0:15:35.040 --> 0:15:37.880 But Micah dofinitely would stand off the record. 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.640 Absolutely, I could see that because there's a there's a 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:43.880 frustration with man. They they had every opportunity and they 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.040 let it slip because of the lip key fumble and 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:48.360 plays down the stretch and things like that. Didn't get 0:15:48.360 --> 0:15:51.360 a stop at the end. From your defense, it felt 0:15:51.360 --> 0:15:54.320 like Dallas had every opportunity to win that game and 0:15:54.360 --> 0:15:56.000 they didn't, And so I could sense a little bit 0:15:56.000 --> 0:15:57.960 of frustration. But you're right from the way that they 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:00.400 answered questions, and for what we could see from here 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:03.960 at the Star and looking at postgame reaction, it was okay, 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.880 we've we can learn from this, but we have a 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.720 bit of confidence on the road in a way in 0:16:09.760 --> 0:16:10.640 a loss like this. 0:16:11.000 --> 0:16:13.280 Not a moral victory, but still something to grow upon. 0:16:13.600 --> 0:16:15.840 All right, when we come back, we're gonna preview. 0:16:15.800 --> 0:16:19.840 The Dallas defense versus the offense of the Detroit Lions. 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:23.920 There are some weapons here, is the speed comparable. 0:16:23.280 --> 0:16:26.120 To Miami, And what do they do well with Jared 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:28.440 Goffic quarterback? We'll talk about it when we come back. 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:29.400 More talking cowboys. 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:32.760 Right after this, Todd thought it would be secure to 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:35.200 jog in the cheat of Savannah. Todd believed the big 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:38.600 Cat repellent he bought online was reliable. And now Todd 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:40.600 is trying to be faster than this cheetah that can 0:16:40.680 --> 0:16:43.280 run eighty miles per hour. But the good news is 0:16:43.320 --> 0:16:45.920 Todd has at and T five g. It is fast, reliable, 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:47.960 and secure, And he learned the best thing to do 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:50.560