WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Final Predictions vs. Packers 0:00:00.040 --> 0:00:03.240 In Talking Cowboys as we get you set for the 0:00:03.279 --> 0:00:07.840 Cowboys and the Green Bay Packers on Sunday afternoon at 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:11.240 at and T Stadium in Arlington. I am Bill Jones, 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:15.320 along with Mickey Spagnola, Rob Phillips and Brian brought us 0:00:15.440 --> 0:00:18.520 and we've got a special treat today because it being 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:22.640 a fabulous football Friday edition, we now are bringing in 0:00:22.680 --> 0:00:26.280 a new audience on Texas twenty one in Dallas Fort Worth. 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:28.600 I have to make sure I keep smiling. That's why 0:00:28.640 --> 0:00:31.760 you wore dress shirt today. Mickey, Uh no, I have 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:35.680 to do a TV thing right after just say you're 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:38.239 dressing up for the show. Oh I'm not. I did 0:00:38.400 --> 0:00:41.840 I dressed up? Yeah. Look, for the first time all 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:46.080 football season, I showered on our Friday morning the cobble 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:48.760 beach hat that where usually exactly right. I see. I 0:00:48.920 --> 0:00:52.879 was being honest and so it is great to welcome 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:56.560 in the Texas twenty one audience. And this show every 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:59.600 Friday will air on Texas twenty one in Dallas Fort 0:00:59.600 --> 0:01:02.920 Worth from eight until nine o'clock. It's not going to 0:01:03.040 --> 0:01:05.480 change much as far as what we do on Friday 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:07.640 mornings go a little bit longer. With the show, which 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:11.080 is a special treat for our Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:14.560 listeners and uh and viewers, and of course you can 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.559 check us out on Dallas Cowboys dot com and all 0:01:17.600 --> 0:01:21.440 the other places where you normally will find a Cowboys 0:01:21.600 --> 0:01:24.679 podcast and of that sort. And we get things started 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:28.080 by wondering who's going to play in this football game 0:01:28.360 --> 0:01:31.400 on Sunday afternoon. We just heard Jason Garrett's Friday morning 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:35.520 press conference and there's hope on the Lyle Collins front. Yeah, 0:01:35.520 --> 0:01:37.600 I think that that's a I think that's a that's 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:39.840 a good They did what they have to do to 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.360 get him ready for this game, and he's going to 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:45.360 practice today and talking to people. I know we all 0:01:45.400 --> 0:01:48.720 do that, but and talk to some folks they felt like, Okay, 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:51.559 he's in a good spot and do the rest helped 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:53.640 him and we'll see him practice today and then you'll 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:56.920 see him out there on Sunday going against the law 0:01:56.960 --> 0:01:58.960 firm of Smith and Smith. You know, they're going to 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:00.680 need him to play. They're gonna need him to play 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.360 well because of Cam Fleming being on the other side. 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.600 They can't have too many liabilities along that offensive line. 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:10.160 And Lyle Collins has done a super job with his 0:02:10.280 --> 0:02:14.120 consistency overall playing that right tackle spot. So you know 0:02:14.160 --> 0:02:16.280 they're gonna have some concerns over on the left side, 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.600 but it's good to have him playing that right tackle. Yeah, 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.320 and you can't help out like both sides, he starts 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:25.440 spreading himself thin on offense, so I assume they're gonna 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:28.160 help out Cam Fleming and they're gonna have to rely 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:31.440 on LC Collins to play to the level he's been 0:02:31.440 --> 0:02:33.920 playing at all season long. It's a tough spot when 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:36.640 early in the week he got three different spots change 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:39.519 because of those two situations. So getting him backs big 0:02:39.880 --> 0:02:42.920 and allows Connor Williams, a second year guy, to play 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:44.839 his normal spot at left guard in the game, which 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:47.400 is important. Yeah. I think though that the plan was 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.040 to get him some reps at tackle as the possible 0:02:50.120 --> 0:02:52.960 swing guy, but it worked out really nicely for him 0:02:53.040 --> 0:02:55.239 that he you know, if he if he's going to 0:02:55.280 --> 0:02:57.799 have to probably go into a game, it would probably 0:02:57.800 --> 0:02:59.280 be on that left side if you were going to 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.280 do some make some switching around there. But you know, 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:03.920 the fact he played on the right side, they can 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:06.359 kind of say, okay, he was a left tackle at Texas, 0:03:06.639 --> 0:03:08.600 got a little work on that right side. So you know, 0:03:08.680 --> 0:03:11.160 he's a pretty you know, he's an athletic guy, he's 0:03:11.160 --> 0:03:14.600 flexible position wise, but just good that he got a 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:16.920 whole practice where he can be a part of that. 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:18.960 I think a great sign of that bias to hell. 0:03:19.040 --> 0:03:22.440 What this condition of Connor's GI Collins is is the 0:03:22.480 --> 0:03:26.000 fact that they went ahead and put Brandon Knight over there. 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:29.320 If if if Collins wasn't going to play, you know, 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.720 or and play well, then they would have probably kept 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:36.560 Williams over there yesterday, yesterday's practice, a full week of 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:38.360 practice though, But the fact that they moved him back 0:03:38.400 --> 0:03:40.280 to his guard spot tells me that Collins will be 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:42.840 ready to go. Yeah, And they just had to safeguard 0:03:42.880 --> 0:03:46.720 themselves as much as anything, yourself absolutely if someone goes 0:03:46.760 --> 0:03:48.920 down to the game and then you've got you've got 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:50.920 to move one of those guards out the tackles at 0:03:51.000 --> 0:03:54.800 that point. Yeah. Elsewhere on the injury front, Tyrone Crawford 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:58.320 making some progresses. The first time he's practiced in forever 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:02.680 almost see played the season open season, that's right, So 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:06.080 he practiced on a limited basis, and you know, their 0:04:06.200 --> 0:04:09.120 normal protocol when a guy's been out that long as 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:11.840 you ease him back into practice one week and then 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.800 the next week maybe say okay, it's ready to go. 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:17.480 Jason was kind of on the fence when he answered 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:19.440 that question today, and I don't know if he was 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:23.400 sandbagging or what, but that's kind of how he answered it. Yeah, 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:25.520 I think he might be sandbagging it. I think that 0:04:25.720 --> 0:04:28.440 just talking to some folks, Mickey, And again, you're you're 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:30.599 the path you're going down is right, and it's it's 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:34.039 been very consistent that way. Uh, you know, they're they're 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:37.120 thinking about what's going on at defensive tackle now. They're 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.600 they're looking at their spots and saying, okay, where can 0:04:39.640 --> 0:04:42.240 we you know, maybe not playing him as the right end, 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.040 but playing him as the defensive tackle inside. You know, 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:47.320 playing him is that and not starting him. I mean 0:04:47.480 --> 0:04:50.720 you've got to Covington is the us the nose and 0:04:50.720 --> 0:04:53.360 then Collins. But maybe they can buy way Mickey's talking 0:04:53.400 --> 0:04:56.600 about work him back inside, but working back in as 0:04:56.640 --> 0:04:59.680 a three technique and then that allows Collins to go 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:03.039 over play, so they have another body inside. With the 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.520 way that Quinn has been playing the last couple of 0:05:05.560 --> 0:05:08.760 weeks at that right end spot, they're like, wait a minute, 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:10.400 we're not going to take him off the field, which 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:12.279 initially I thought that was going to be the plan. 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.720 It was going to be cos yeah, Collins starting, it's 0:05:15.720 --> 0:05:18.120 gonna be Crawford starting at the right end, and then 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.920 and then you bring in Quinn as needed. But Quinn 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.240 looks like, to me, get put the mud on the wagon, 0:05:24.720 --> 0:05:27.360 let him go, and then next thing you know, you're 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.320 you know, helping yourself inside a little bit. Quinn played 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:33.599 fifty snaps in the game against the Saints, and so, yeah, 0:05:33.640 --> 0:05:36.600 he's not just a situational pass rusher. He's an underrated 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:38.880 run defender. Two. But what do we always say about 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:41.839 Tyron Crawford. He's your chess piece. He's a guy wherever 0:05:41.839 --> 0:05:43.279 you need him play. If you need him set the 0:05:43.360 --> 0:05:45.320 edge at defensive end, he can do that. If you 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:47.520 need him kick inside, he can do that. And yeah, 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:49.400 if he can get back and be part of a rotation, 0:05:49.760 --> 0:05:51.920 maybe that helps him manage that hip issue that's really 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:56.280 been bothering him since offseason. Workouts really opposite hit brasidas 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:58.920 is what they're calling. So yeah, and the definitely would 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.919 help him on their nickel. Yeah, no kidding, you know, 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:04.560 And they would have some flexibility. And that's because the 0:06:04.600 --> 0:06:08.280 way he answered the question for Woods, it didn't. You're 0:06:08.400 --> 0:06:10.560 right about that, Mickey, and I heard you this morning 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:12.600 on one oh five three the fan talk about that 0:06:12.760 --> 0:06:15.599 Woods is a week away. Woods is a week away. 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:18.839 He got some limited practice snaps, just doesn't have the 0:06:18.960 --> 0:06:21.680 lateral agility that he's had, and so they're thinking, Okay, 0:06:21.720 --> 0:06:24.559 get get him on his feet, get him acclimated again, 0:06:24.800 --> 0:06:27.279 and then next week you'll see him get a full 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:29.280 load of practice and then be ready for the jam. 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:31.320 How do you think all this then affects Tristan Hill 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:33.960 being active? I think Tristan Hill will probably be standing 0:06:33.960 --> 0:06:36.480 next to you in the pregame, all right, I can 0:06:36.520 --> 0:06:39.640 really have a conversation with him. Yeah, we'll talk south. 0:06:40.480 --> 0:06:44.120 So okay, so what do what do they think about 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:46.479 how Tristan Hill has looked here? I don't think there's 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:48.440 been any problems with Tristan Hill. I just think it's 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:50.840 a it's just a numbers thing and they have some 0:06:50.960 --> 0:06:53.920 depth at that position and they can take Like Mickey said, 0:06:53.920 --> 0:06:55.479 he brought up a great point, how do you help 0:06:55.520 --> 0:06:58.080 the Nickel pass rush? You know, if you get you 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:01.160 get a you get a fresh Crawford in there that 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:03.720 can penetrate along with Collins. What have we talked about, 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:08.000 affect the front of the pocket for this quarterback keeping 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:11.080 there and then allow that rush to scream off the edge. 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:14.560 Mickey brought up a great point about David Baktiari, the 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.160 left tackle struggled a little bit in that Philadelphia game. 0:07:17.480 --> 0:07:19.520 You got on the other side though, you know, you 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:22.120 look at Brian Balaga. He's dealing with the shoulder. Now 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:24.640 he's been practicing, but he's dealing with the shoulder. So 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.040 get tank lords to beat on him a little bit 0:07:27.080 --> 0:07:29.160 in that game. Now you got pushed in the middle, 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:32.560 squeeze on the outside. Aaron Rodgers, don't let him escape that. 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:34.559 You know, he's held the ball a little bit longer. 0:07:34.560 --> 0:07:37.600 Talking some folks with the Packers, they're like any other Rodgers. 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:39.720 You know, we were talking about the running ability and stuff, 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:41.800 which he can still do. He'll take off, he'll do 0:07:41.840 --> 0:07:44.320 those things to you. But there's been times where he's 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:45.920 like he's one of those guys where if he feels 0:07:45.920 --> 0:07:47.960 that he'll tuck the ball and fight for another day, 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:50.360 you know, he'll take the sack and move on. So 0:07:50.760 --> 0:07:53.240 if you can keep the pressure in the middle with 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:55.760 Crawford and Collins. Those guys are great, and they've been 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:58.720 getting stunts. They've been running those twist stunts, and that's 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:01.200 getting those defensive ends home. And that's how you how 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.320 you playing Jalen Smith's big sack at the end of 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.280 the game there, that was a stunt involved there. I 0:08:05.360 --> 0:08:08.680 think it was colleague Yeah, and hid Hider, right, that 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:13.080 helped get Jalen free. So Quinn taking three blockers, yeah, Quinn, 0:08:13.080 --> 0:08:15.200 they try to they try to kind of wad everything up, 0:08:15.440 --> 0:08:17.960 and Quinn had three guys on him and and and 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:20.840 Smith came on a tight enough path to get to 0:08:20.920 --> 0:08:23.120 the attack the pocket. So you know, they're kind of 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.200 in the same situation the Cowboys would have been in. 0:08:25.520 --> 0:08:28.120 Can you help out both tackles and if you do that, 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.240 then the guys inside have to be able to produce. Yeah, 0:08:31.240 --> 0:08:33.479 all right, We're gonna turn our attention to the Cowboys 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:37.200 offense and Michael Gallops availability. Plus I'm asking the question, 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.080 who would you like to see get more touches on 0:08:40.200 --> 0:09:39.000 offense against the Packers on Sunday. Back to Talking Cowboys. 0:09:40.080 --> 0:09:45.680 Talking Cowboys continues from here inside the SWBC Mortgage studios 0:09:45.720 --> 0:09:48.480 at the Star in Frisco. And for those of you 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.040 who are new to the show on Texas twenty one, 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:53.920 our studios here at the Star are right next to 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.280 the practice field. When the Cowboys do go out on 0:09:56.320 --> 0:09:58.920 that outdoor practice field, which is basically once a week 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:02.599 their Wednesday practice here on a Friday, they are inside 0:10:02.800 --> 0:10:06.120 Forward Center as they are on Thursdays getting set for 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:11.840 the Packers on Sunday afternoon. Mickey, go back to your 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:15.560 history Cowboys and the Packers. Do you have a favorite 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:19.040 moment in this series, A favorite favorite moment in the 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:22.560 Cowboys Packers series. Well, unfortunately for the folks in this room, 0:10:22.600 --> 0:10:25.360 I'm probably the only one that remembers the first two 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:32.640 moments I remember NFC NFL Championship sixty six, sixty seven, Mick, 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:36.600 group of Packer fan in Chicago. Correct, Yes, absolutely so 0:10:36.760 --> 0:10:41.120 you lived and breathe anything, Vince Lombardi said, and Bart 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:44.360 Starr said, absolutely. How about you. Brian brought us you 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:47.320 have a history with this Packers organization five years of 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:50.160 my life up there in Green Bay. The best memory 0:10:50.200 --> 0:10:52.360 for me is by far winning the Super Bowl against 0:10:52.679 --> 0:10:55.400 against the New England Patriots. The worst memory is always 0:10:55.400 --> 0:10:59.640 coming down here and get my ass kill Mickey's Dallas 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.640 cowboy ways. And you know, I always remember those those 0:11:02.760 --> 0:11:04.880 you know, the great Reggie White and how much he 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:09.160 hated playing against uh, you know, against Eric Williams. And 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.640 we were all celebrating a big victory against the forty 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:13.719 nine ers. You know, we're on a way in the 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.240 championship game and Reggie sitting his locker and he's just 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.760 looking down and we all go edge, what's wrong, Eric Williams. 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:23.160 That's what's wrong? Eric Wis. He hated playing Eric Williams. 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:26.120 But you know, we never never ever had a really 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:29.439 good run against these guys with with with the players 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:30.760 that we had, I mean, I felt like we had 0:11:30.760 --> 0:11:32.320 a good roster in Green Bay, but not a good 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:35.320 enough roster to beat the team. And you know that 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.440 that they had at that time. But it's a it's 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:42.640 a very historic rivalry, and I think it's a very 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:44.959 good rivalry. I think there's a lot of respect between 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:48.280 the two organizations there. And uh, I know when working 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:50.280 in Green Bay and being from Dallas and living up there, 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:52.880 there was a healthy respect for that. And you know, 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:55.160 when the schedule comes out and you know, at the 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:57.160 end of last season, you're gonna be playing the Cowboys, 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.480 gonna be playing the Packers. You kind of circle that 0:11:59.480 --> 0:12:02.800 that game, you know, And how fitting in the hundredth 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:06.240 anniversary of the NFL to bring these teams back together again. 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:09.920 They first met in nineteen sixty when the Cowboys first season. 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:12.160 By the way, I went back, this is years ago. 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:15.480 I went back in the archives at Valley Ranch. They 0:12:15.480 --> 0:12:18.920 had the old newspaper clippings in nineteen sixty. It was 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:22.679 a huge deal in Dallas when the Packers came to 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:25.880 town and it was a preseason game, sisanship club game, 0:12:26.160 --> 0:12:29.320 salesmanship club game. But that first one in nineteen sixty, 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:32.920 it was banner headlines in the Dallas Morning News for 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:36.120 a preseason game. I mean, the whole city was so 0:12:36.160 --> 0:12:38.160 excited that the Green Bay Packers are coming to the 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:40.400 first game I ever saw it was in nineteen sixty, Yes, 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:42.760 five years old, was a salesmanship club game between the 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:45.800 Packers and the Cowboys that the Cotton Bowl. It was 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:50.080 Lombardi and Landry going at each other after serving as 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:54.920 assistant coaches for the Giants about that, yeah, and Landry 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.439 never beat him as a Green Bay Packer or head 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:59.840 coach either by the way, so you have many people. 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.760 I'll give you two real quick memories. The first one 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:07.240 was the Ice Bowl, the balls on the goal line, 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:10.800 times running out, Packers are out of first downs, and 0:13:10.840 --> 0:13:13.120 I'm yelling at my dad. I'm going, what's he doing? 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.000 Going for it? Because if they don't get it, the 0:13:15.000 --> 0:13:16.880 game's over. They got to kick the field goal and 0:13:16.920 --> 0:13:20.920 tie it. Yeah, well, what did I know? So horrible? 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:22.400 Is that the point in time in your life you 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:25.320 realize you always had to be right? Yeah, I said, 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:28.679 because at least my dad said no, they should go 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:31.679 for it. That was the moment. No. But but Vin 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:34.520 SABARTI will tell you he could not allow the fans 0:13:34.559 --> 0:13:36.680 to sit in at conditions anyone. That's what he said. 0:13:36.679 --> 0:13:38.440 After that, they weren't going to go over time. They 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:40.560 couldn't ask the players to it. And then my second 0:13:40.720 --> 0:13:44.960 most memorable moment, my friend's parents had a cabin north 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:46.640 of Green Bay, and I used to go up there 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:48.679 every summhere with him and his dad was one of 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:50.440 those guys where you had to get there in a 0:13:50.440 --> 0:13:53.400 certain amount of hours, no stopping right, And every year 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.560 we went through downtown Green Bay and went a trip 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:59.200 their Hall of Fame. They went right and he would 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:02.160 never stop. So when we got old enough, we stopped 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.520 because we were driving ourselves. We went in there and 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:06.360 we went through the whole thing, and we started watching 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.280 all the videos right, all the old games. And finally 0:14:09.280 --> 0:14:11.400 we had been in there two hours watching games and 0:14:11.440 --> 0:14:14.480 the guy comes out of the video room and he goes, Okay, 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:18.400 which game do you guys want to watch now? And 0:14:18.559 --> 0:14:20.880 we named the game and he played for us. I'll 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.680 go a little more recent. Two thousand and seven Texas Stadium, 0:14:23.960 --> 0:14:25.920 two one loss teams. I think it was the week 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:29.160 after Thanksgiving. We saw the first glimpse of Aaron Rodgers. 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:34.280 Frett Farve gets hurt. Cowboys win that game, but Rogers 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:36.160 gave him a lot of trouble. They hadn't really game 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:39.120 planned for him, and now here we are they got 0:14:39.120 --> 0:14:41.360 to stop him once again, and you know it's going 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:44.480 to be a challenge even if they're depleted potentially in 0:14:44.520 --> 0:14:47.040 the offensive line or wide receiver. I think he helped 0:14:47.080 --> 0:14:49.560 him put up like twenty seven points after father got 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:51.640 knocked out in the first They didn't first quarter. We 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:53.640 haven't answered for him. How about recent memory if you 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.120 want to talk about Dak Prescott. How many ricky quarterbacks 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.320 going to lambeau Field and go toe to toe with 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:01.480 Aaron Rodgers and win. Aaron Rodgers doesn't lose games at 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:04.360 lambeau Field. He played horribly, you know that. Then the 0:15:04.440 --> 0:15:06.720 Cowboys did a great job of you know, of some 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:10.200 big chunk plays. That was for a rookie quarterback to 0:15:10.280 --> 0:15:13.120 go in there and and get a victory on that day, 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:15.520 that that says a lot about him. He with a 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:17.680 couple of places that year with the Pittsburgh you gotta 0:15:17.760 --> 0:15:20.160 win two, which is not another easy place to have 0:15:20.200 --> 0:15:22.520 to do. Yeah, And what I remember more than anything 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:24.560 from that Green Bay game was at the end of 0:15:24.560 --> 0:15:27.000 the first half and there and the Cowboys are backed 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:29.040 up at their own five yard line or whatever, and 0:15:29.120 --> 0:15:34.000 that drive jet sweep. Yeah yeah, but that drive just 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.960 taking it down the field in that environment at lambeau 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:41.040 Field tough. I mean that that was when I first realized, hey, 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:43.960 Dak Prescott might have it here. Absolutely, And I think 0:15:43.960 --> 0:15:46.960 it's a reminder there's a lot of history in those buildings. 0:15:47.040 --> 0:15:50.320 But he played in the SEC Zeke played, was a 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:53.640 national champion. Those those young guys big House, Yeah, they 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:56.800 didn't fear those type of environments and now they're experienced 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:58.800 players in the league. You know. And even in the 0:15:58.800 --> 0:16:03.000 playoff game that year, fallen behind in the way dak 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:06.560 rallied the Troops was fault. I don't think, no, no, 0:16:06.600 --> 0:16:08.400 but they did fall behind. But don't know what I did. 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:11.480 But yeah, in the game, in that situation where they 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:13.640 had to come from behind, I thought, I thought that 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:16.120 said a lot about that. And you know, he know 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.840 he's matched up against Aaron Rodgers here he has gone. 0:16:18.920 --> 0:16:21.480 He has had a nice career playing against the Packers. 0:16:21.560 --> 0:16:23.120 I mean you can say, I mean, if you look 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.440 at just how he's played, I think there's like tad 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.480 playoff ga. I don't think you put it on him, right, 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:29.520 I mean usually the quarterback is that you know, he 0:16:29.920 --> 0:16:32.400 gave you a chance. That was a draw. Basically, you 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:34.440 just played. You just played a better You played one 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:36.520 of the top three quarterbacks in the in the history 0:16:36.520 --> 0:16:38.800 of National Football League in that game, and he came 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:41.840 out for the better, which is party how Chris Richard, 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:45.160 that's all going to describe to you yesterday too. That's yeah, 0:16:45.200 --> 0:16:47.120 it's not you know, not wrong. The other thing that 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.400 Aaron Rodgers he is number one all time in career 0:16:50.440 --> 0:16:54.000 passer rating the National Football League. Jason Garrett was right 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.800 about that. Yeah, when he said look it up and 0:16:56.880 --> 0:17:00.280 I did. Yeah, And he is about passer ras for 0:17:00.480 --> 0:17:04.480 the numbers against the Cowboys, and he has this season 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:09.280 and he has the two single season highest quarterback rating ever. Well, 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:11.280 and here's the other thing that Jason Garrett brought up 0:17:11.280 --> 0:17:13.520 to me on when we take the Jason Garrett Show 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.960 this week. I brought up the career passer rating thing, 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:18.760 and he said, he basically said, you can look this 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:22.760 up too. When he has two and a half seconds 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:25.680 or more to throw. How did you look that at it? No, 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:28.600 I didn't look it up, he said. He said, they 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:33.800 have analytics, your favorite time. They have analytics that show 0:17:33.880 --> 0:17:36.320 that when he when Aaron Rodgers has two and a 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:39.320 half seconds or more to throw, he has an even 0:17:39.440 --> 0:17:42.360 higher passer rating. It's no question. I mean, just why 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:45.280 you don't need to you don't need analytics to tell 0:17:45.320 --> 0:17:47.439 you that. Just watch the damn game. I mean you 0:17:47.480 --> 0:17:50.280 can see when he and his ability to buy time 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:52.800 that's going to be huge. If you talk about keys 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:55.000 of the game for the Cowboys, you know you're gonna 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:57.560 have to carry receivers down the field. You're gonna have 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:00.280 to be ready for some frustrating plays though, too. You're 0:18:00.320 --> 0:18:03.359 going to have to be really a short memory here 0:18:03.400 --> 0:18:06.080 when you play the Packers, especially Rogers, because he is 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:10.240 going to make some plays that absolutely just kill you. 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:12.080 And then but you've got to put it behind you 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:15.200 and get ready for the next play. 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