Speaker 1: In Talking Cowboys as we get you set for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys and the Green Bay Packers on Sunday afternoon at
Speaker 1: at and T Stadium in Arlington. I am Bill Jones,
Speaker 1: along with Mickey Spagnola, Rob Phillips and Brian brought us
Speaker 1: and we've got a special treat today because it being
Speaker 1: a fabulous football Friday edition, we now are bringing in
Speaker 1: a new audience on Texas twenty one in Dallas Fort Worth.
Speaker 1: I have to make sure I keep smiling. That's why
Speaker 1: you wore dress shirt today. Mickey, Uh no, I have
Speaker 1: to do a TV thing right after just say you're
Speaker 1: dressing up for the show. Oh I'm not. I did
Speaker 1: I dressed up? Yeah. Look, for the first time all
Speaker 1: football season, I showered on our Friday morning the cobble
Speaker 1: beach hat that where usually exactly right. I see. I
Speaker 1: was being honest and so it is great to welcome
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Speaker 1: Friday will air on Texas twenty one in Dallas Fort
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Speaker 1: change much as far as what we do on Friday
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Speaker 1: podcast and of that sort. And we get things started
Speaker 1: by wondering who's going to play in this football game
Speaker 1: on Sunday afternoon. We just heard Jason Garrett's Friday morning
Speaker 1: press conference and there's hope on the Lyle Collins front. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that that's a I think that's a that's
Speaker 1: a good They did what they have to do to
Speaker 1: get him ready for this game, and he's going to
Speaker 1: practice today and talking to people. I know we all
Speaker 1: do that, but and talk to some folks they felt like, Okay,
Speaker 1: he's in a good spot and do the rest helped
Speaker 1: him and we'll see him practice today and then you'll
Speaker 1: see him out there on Sunday going against the law
Speaker 1: firm of Smith and Smith. You know, they're going to
Speaker 1: need him to play. They're gonna need him to play
Speaker 1: well because of Cam Fleming being on the other side.
Speaker 1: They can't have too many liabilities along that offensive line.
Speaker 1: And Lyle Collins has done a super job with his
Speaker 1: consistency overall playing that right tackle spot. So you know
Speaker 1: they're gonna have some concerns over on the left side,
Speaker 1: but it's good to have him playing that right tackle. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you can't help out like both sides, he starts
Speaker 1: spreading himself thin on offense, so I assume they're gonna
Speaker 1: help out Cam Fleming and they're gonna have to rely
Speaker 1: on LC Collins to play to the level he's been
Speaker 1: playing at all season long. It's a tough spot when
Speaker 1: early in the week he got three different spots change
Speaker 1: because of those two situations. So getting him backs big
Speaker 1: and allows Connor Williams, a second year guy, to play
Speaker 1: his normal spot at left guard in the game, which
Speaker 1: is important. Yeah. I think though that the plan was
Speaker 1: to get him some reps at tackle as the possible
Speaker 1: swing guy, but it worked out really nicely for him
Speaker 1: that he you know, if he if he's going to
Speaker 1: have to probably go into a game, it would probably
Speaker 1: be on that left side if you were going to
Speaker 1: do some make some switching around there. But you know,
Speaker 1: the fact he played on the right side, they can
Speaker 1: kind of say, okay, he was a left tackle at Texas,
Speaker 1: got a little work on that right side. So you know,
Speaker 1: he's a pretty you know, he's an athletic guy, he's
Speaker 1: flexible position wise, but just good that he got a
Speaker 1: whole practice where he can be a part of that.
Speaker 1: I think a great sign of that bias to hell.
Speaker 1: What this condition of Connor's GI Collins is is the
Speaker 1: fact that they went ahead and put Brandon Knight over there.
Speaker 1: If if if Collins wasn't going to play, you know,
Speaker 1: or and play well, then they would have probably kept
Speaker 1: Williams over there yesterday, yesterday's practice, a full week of
Speaker 1: practice though, But the fact that they moved him back
Speaker 1: to his guard spot tells me that Collins will be
Speaker 1: ready to go. Yeah, And they just had to safeguard
Speaker 1: themselves as much as anything, yourself absolutely if someone goes
Speaker 1: down to the game and then you've got you've got
Speaker 1: to move one of those guards out the tackles at
Speaker 1: that point. Yeah. Elsewhere on the injury front, Tyrone Crawford
Speaker 1: making some progresses. The first time he's practiced in forever
Speaker 1: almost see played the season open season, that's right, So
Speaker 1: he practiced on a limited basis, and you know, their
Speaker 1: normal protocol when a guy's been out that long as
Speaker 1: you ease him back into practice one week and then
Speaker 1: the next week maybe say okay, it's ready to go.
Speaker 1: Jason was kind of on the fence when he answered
Speaker 1: that question today, and I don't know if he was
Speaker 1: sandbagging or what, but that's kind of how he answered it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he might be sandbagging it. I think that
Speaker 1: just talking to some folks, Mickey, And again, you're you're
Speaker 1: the path you're going down is right, and it's it's
Speaker 1: been very consistent that way. Uh, you know, they're they're
Speaker 1: thinking about what's going on at defensive tackle now. They're
Speaker 1: they're looking at their spots and saying, okay, where can
Speaker 1: we you know, maybe not playing him as the right end,
Speaker 1: but playing him as the defensive tackle inside. You know,
Speaker 1: playing him is that and not starting him. I mean
Speaker 1: you've got to Covington is the us the nose and
Speaker 1: then Collins. But maybe they can buy way Mickey's talking
Speaker 1: about work him back inside, but working back in as
Speaker 1: a three technique and then that allows Collins to go
Speaker 1: over play, so they have another body inside. With the
Speaker 1: way that Quinn has been playing the last couple of
Speaker 1: weeks at that right end spot, they're like, wait a minute,
Speaker 1: we're not going to take him off the field, which
Speaker 1: initially I thought that was going to be the plan.
Speaker 1: It was going to be cos yeah, Collins starting, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be Crawford starting at the right end, and then
Speaker 1: and then you bring in Quinn as needed. But Quinn
Speaker 1: looks like, to me, get put the mud on the wagon,
Speaker 1: let him go, and then next thing you know, you're
Speaker 1: you know, helping yourself inside a little bit. Quinn played
Speaker 1: fifty snaps in the game against the Saints, and so, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not just a situational pass rusher. He's an underrated
Speaker 1: run defender. Two. But what do we always say about
Speaker 1: Tyron Crawford. He's your chess piece. He's a guy wherever
Speaker 1: you need him play. If you need him set the
Speaker 1: edge at defensive end, he can do that. If you
Speaker 1: need him kick inside, he can do that. And yeah,
Speaker 1: if he can get back and be part of a rotation,
Speaker 1: maybe that helps him manage that hip issue that's really
Speaker 1: been bothering him since offseason. Workouts really opposite hit brasidas
Speaker 1: is what they're calling. So yeah, and the definitely would
Speaker 1: help him on their nickel. Yeah, no kidding, you know,
Speaker 1: And they would have some flexibility. And that's because the
Speaker 1: way he answered the question for Woods, it didn't. You're
Speaker 1: right about that, Mickey, and I heard you this morning
Speaker 1: on one oh five three the fan talk about that
Speaker 1: Woods is a week away. Woods is a week away.
Speaker 1: He got some limited practice snaps, just doesn't have the
Speaker 1: lateral agility that he's had, and so they're thinking, Okay,
Speaker 1: get get him on his feet, get him acclimated again,
Speaker 1: and then next week you'll see him get a full
Speaker 1: load of practice and then be ready for the jam.
Speaker 1: How do you think all this then affects Tristan Hill
Speaker 1: being active? I think Tristan Hill will probably be standing
Speaker 1: next to you in the pregame, all right, I can
Speaker 1: really have a conversation with him. Yeah, we'll talk south.
Speaker 1: So okay, so what do what do they think about
Speaker 1: how Tristan Hill has looked here? I don't think there's
Speaker 1: been any problems with Tristan Hill. I just think it's
Speaker 1: a it's just a numbers thing and they have some
Speaker 1: depth at that position and they can take Like Mickey said,
Speaker 1: he brought up a great point, how do you help
Speaker 1: the Nickel pass rush? You know, if you get you
Speaker 1: get a you get a fresh Crawford in there that
Speaker 1: can penetrate along with Collins. What have we talked about,
Speaker 1: affect the front of the pocket for this quarterback keeping
Speaker 1: there and then allow that rush to scream off the edge.
Speaker 1: Mickey brought up a great point about David Baktiari, the
Speaker 1: left tackle struggled a little bit in that Philadelphia game.
Speaker 1: You got on the other side though, you know, you
Speaker 1: look at Brian Balaga. He's dealing with the shoulder. Now
Speaker 1: he's been practicing, but he's dealing with the shoulder. So
Speaker 1: get tank lords to beat on him a little bit
Speaker 1: in that game. Now you got pushed in the middle,
Speaker 1: squeeze on the outside. Aaron Rodgers, don't let him escape that.
Speaker 1: You know, he's held the ball a little bit longer.
Speaker 1: Talking some folks with the Packers, they're like any other Rodgers.
Speaker 1: You know, we were talking about the running ability and stuff,
Speaker 1: which he can still do. He'll take off, he'll do
Speaker 1: those things to you. But there's been times where he's
Speaker 1: like he's one of those guys where if he feels
Speaker 1: that he'll tuck the ball and fight for another day,
Speaker 1: you know, he'll take the sack and move on. So
Speaker 1: if you can keep the pressure in the middle with
Speaker 1: Crawford and Collins. Those guys are great, and they've been
Speaker 1: getting stunts. They've been running those twist stunts, and that's
Speaker 1: getting those defensive ends home. And that's how you how
Speaker 1: you playing Jalen Smith's big sack at the end of
Speaker 1: the game there, that was a stunt involved there. I
Speaker 1: think it was colleague Yeah, and hid Hider, right, that
Speaker 1: helped get Jalen free. So Quinn taking three blockers, yeah, Quinn,
Speaker 1: they try to they try to kind of wad everything up,
Speaker 1: and Quinn had three guys on him and and and
Speaker 1: Smith came on a tight enough path to get to
Speaker 1: the attack the pocket. So you know, they're kind of
Speaker 1: in the same situation the Cowboys would have been in.
Speaker 1: Can you help out both tackles and if you do that,
Speaker 1: then the guys inside have to be able to produce. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, We're gonna turn our attention to the Cowboys
Speaker 1: offense and Michael Gallops availability. Plus I'm asking the question,
Speaker 1: who would you like to see get more touches on
Speaker 1: offense against the Packers on Sunday. Back to Talking Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Talking Cowboys continues from here inside the SWBC Mortgage studios
Speaker 1: at the Star in Frisco. And for those of you
Speaker 1: who are new to the show on Texas twenty one,
Speaker 1: our studios here at the Star are right next to
Speaker 1: the practice field. When the Cowboys do go out on
Speaker 1: that outdoor practice field, which is basically once a week
Speaker 1: their Wednesday practice here on a Friday, they are inside
Speaker 1: Forward Center as they are on Thursdays getting set for
Speaker 1: the Packers on Sunday afternoon. Mickey, go back to your
Speaker 1: history Cowboys and the Packers. Do you have a favorite
Speaker 1: moment in this series, A favorite favorite moment in the
Speaker 1: Cowboys Packers series. Well, unfortunately for the folks in this room,
Speaker 1: I'm probably the only one that remembers the first two
Speaker 1: moments I remember NFC NFL Championship sixty six, sixty seven, Mick,
Speaker 1: group of Packer fan in Chicago. Correct, Yes, absolutely so
Speaker 1: you lived and breathe anything, Vince Lombardi said, and Bart
Speaker 1: Starr said, absolutely. How about you. Brian brought us you
Speaker 1: have a history with this Packers organization five years of
Speaker 1: my life up there in Green Bay. The best memory
Speaker 1: for me is by far winning the Super Bowl against
Speaker 1: against the New England Patriots. The worst memory is always
Speaker 1: coming down here and get my ass kill Mickey's Dallas
Speaker 1: cowboy ways. And you know, I always remember those those
Speaker 1: you know, the great Reggie White and how much he
Speaker 1: hated playing against uh, you know, against Eric Williams. And
Speaker 1: we were all celebrating a big victory against the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers. You know, we're on a way in the
Speaker 1: championship game and Reggie sitting his locker and he's just
Speaker 1: looking down and we all go edge, what's wrong, Eric Williams.
Speaker 1: That's what's wrong? Eric Wis. He hated playing Eric Williams.
Speaker 1: But you know, we never never ever had a really
Speaker 1: good run against these guys with with with the players
Speaker 1: that we had, I mean, I felt like we had
Speaker 1: a good roster in Green Bay, but not a good
Speaker 1: enough roster to beat the team. And you know that
Speaker 1: that they had at that time. But it's a it's
Speaker 1: a very historic rivalry, and I think it's a very
Speaker 1: good rivalry. I think there's a lot of respect between
Speaker 1: the two organizations there. And uh, I know when working
Speaker 1: in Green Bay and being from Dallas and living up there,
Speaker 1: there was a healthy respect for that. And you know,
Speaker 1: when the schedule comes out and you know, at the
Speaker 1: end of last season, you're gonna be playing the Cowboys,
Speaker 1: gonna be playing the Packers. You kind of circle that
Speaker 1: that game, you know, And how fitting in the hundredth
Speaker 1: anniversary of the NFL to bring these teams back together again.
Speaker 1: They first met in nineteen sixty when the Cowboys first season.
Speaker 1: By the way, I went back, this is years ago.
Speaker 1: I went back in the archives at Valley Ranch. They
Speaker 1: had the old newspaper clippings in nineteen sixty. It was
Speaker 1: a huge deal in Dallas when the Packers came to
Speaker 1: town and it was a preseason game, sisanship club game,
Speaker 1: salesmanship club game. But that first one in nineteen sixty,
Speaker 1: it was banner headlines in the Dallas Morning News for
Speaker 1: a preseason game. I mean, the whole city was so
Speaker 1: excited that the Green Bay Packers are coming to the
Speaker 1: first game I ever saw it was in nineteen sixty, Yes,
Speaker 1: five years old, was a salesmanship club game between the
Speaker 1: Packers and the Cowboys that the Cotton Bowl. It was
Speaker 1: Lombardi and Landry going at each other after serving as
Speaker 1: assistant coaches for the Giants about that, yeah, and Landry
Speaker 1: never beat him as a Green Bay Packer or head
Speaker 1: coach either by the way, so you have many people.
Speaker 1: I'll give you two real quick memories. The first one
Speaker 1: was the Ice Bowl, the balls on the goal line,
Speaker 1: times running out, Packers are out of first downs, and
Speaker 1: I'm yelling at my dad. I'm going, what's he doing?
Speaker 1: Going for it? Because if they don't get it, the
Speaker 1: game's over. They got to kick the field goal and
Speaker 1: tie it. Yeah, well, what did I know? So horrible?
Speaker 1: Is that the point in time in your life you
Speaker 1: realize you always had to be right? Yeah, I said,
Speaker 1: because at least my dad said no, they should go
Speaker 1: for it. That was the moment. No. But but Vin
Speaker 1: SABARTI will tell you he could not allow the fans
Speaker 1: to sit in at conditions anyone. That's what he said.
Speaker 1: After that, they weren't going to go over time. They
Speaker 1: couldn't ask the players to it. And then my second
Speaker 1: most memorable moment, my friend's parents had a cabin north
Speaker 1: of Green Bay, and I used to go up there
Speaker 1: every summhere with him and his dad was one of
Speaker 1: those guys where you had to get there in a
Speaker 1: certain amount of hours, no stopping right, And every year
Speaker 1: we went through downtown Green Bay and went a trip
Speaker 1: their Hall of Fame. They went right and he would
Speaker 1: never stop. So when we got old enough, we stopped
Speaker 1: because we were driving ourselves. We went in there and
Speaker 1: we went through the whole thing, and we started watching
Speaker 1: all the videos right, all the old games. And finally
Speaker 1: we had been in there two hours watching games and
Speaker 1: the guy comes out of the video room and he goes, Okay,
Speaker 1: which game do you guys want to watch now? And
Speaker 1: we named the game and he played for us. I'll
Speaker 1: go a little more recent. Two thousand and seven Texas Stadium,
Speaker 1: two one loss teams. I think it was the week
Speaker 1: after Thanksgiving. We saw the first glimpse of Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: Frett Farve gets hurt. Cowboys win that game, but Rogers
Speaker 1: gave him a lot of trouble. They hadn't really game
Speaker 1: planned for him, and now here we are they got
Speaker 1: to stop him once again, and you know it's going
Speaker 1: to be a challenge even if they're depleted potentially in
Speaker 1: the offensive line or wide receiver. I think he helped
Speaker 1: him put up like twenty seven points after father got
Speaker 1: knocked out in the first They didn't first quarter. We
Speaker 1: haven't answered for him. How about recent memory if you
Speaker 1: want to talk about Dak Prescott. How many ricky quarterbacks
Speaker 1: going to lambeau Field and go toe to toe with
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers and win. Aaron Rodgers doesn't lose games at
Speaker 1: lambeau Field. He played horribly, you know that. Then the
Speaker 1: Cowboys did a great job of you know, of some
Speaker 1: big chunk plays. That was for a rookie quarterback to
Speaker 1: go in there and and get a victory on that day,
Speaker 1: that that says a lot about him. He with a
Speaker 1: couple of places that year with the Pittsburgh you gotta
Speaker 1: win two, which is not another easy place to have
Speaker 1: to do. Yeah, And what I remember more than anything
Speaker 1: from that Green Bay game was at the end of
Speaker 1: the first half and there and the Cowboys are backed
Speaker 1: up at their own five yard line or whatever, and
Speaker 1: that drive jet sweep. Yeah yeah, but that drive just
Speaker 1: taking it down the field in that environment at lambeau
Speaker 1: Field tough. I mean that that was when I first realized, hey,
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott might have it here. Absolutely, And I think
Speaker 1: it's a reminder there's a lot of history in those buildings.
Speaker 1: But he played in the SEC Zeke played, was a
Speaker 1: national champion. Those those young guys big House, Yeah, they
Speaker 1: didn't fear those type of environments and now they're experienced
Speaker 1: players in the league. You know. And even in the
Speaker 1: playoff game that year, fallen behind in the way dak
Speaker 1: rallied the Troops was fault. I don't think, no, no,
Speaker 1: but they did fall behind. But don't know what I did.
Speaker 1: But yeah, in the game, in that situation where they
Speaker 1: had to come from behind, I thought, I thought that
Speaker 1: said a lot about that. And you know, he know
Speaker 1: he's matched up against Aaron Rodgers here he has gone.
Speaker 1: He has had a nice career playing against the Packers.
Speaker 1: I mean you can say, I mean, if you look
Speaker 1: at just how he's played, I think there's like tad
Speaker 1: playoff ga. I don't think you put it on him, right,
Speaker 1: I mean usually the quarterback is that you know, he
Speaker 1: gave you a chance. That was a draw. Basically, you
Speaker 1: just played. You just played a better You played one
Speaker 1: of the top three quarterbacks in the in the history
Speaker 1: of National Football League in that game, and he came
Speaker 1: out for the better, which is party how Chris Richard,
Speaker 1: that's all going to describe to you yesterday too. That's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not you know, not wrong. The other thing that
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers he is number one all time in career
Speaker 1: passer rating the National Football League. Jason Garrett was right
Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, when he said look it up and
Speaker 1: I did. Yeah, And he is about passer ras for
Speaker 1: the numbers against the Cowboys, and he has this season
Speaker 1: and he has the two single season highest quarterback rating ever. Well,
Speaker 1: and here's the other thing that Jason Garrett brought up
Speaker 1: to me on when we take the Jason Garrett Show
Speaker 1: this week. I brought up the career passer rating thing,
Speaker 1: and he said, he basically said, you can look this
Speaker 1: up too. When he has two and a half seconds
Speaker 1: or more to throw. How did you look that at it? No,
Speaker 1: I didn't look it up, he said. He said, they
Speaker 1: have analytics, your favorite time. They have analytics that show
Speaker 1: that when he when Aaron Rodgers has two and a
Speaker 1: half seconds or more to throw, he has an even
Speaker 1: higher passer rating. It's no question. I mean, just why
Speaker 1: you don't need to you don't need analytics to tell
Speaker 1: you that. Just watch the damn game. I mean you
Speaker 1: can see when he and his ability to buy time
Speaker 1: that's going to be huge. If you talk about keys
Speaker 1: of the game for the Cowboys, you know you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to carry receivers down the field. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to be ready for some frustrating plays though, too. You're
Speaker 1: going to have to be really a short memory here
Speaker 1: when you play the Packers, especially Rogers, because he is
Speaker 1: going to make some plays that absolutely just kill you.
Speaker 1: And then but you've got to put it behind you
Speaker 1: and get ready for the next play. Because Mickey said
Speaker 1: again on the radio I was listening to this morning,
Speaker 1: he was talking about that stare that Rogers gets when
Speaker 1: he gets into that mode where he's almost like he's hypnotic,
Speaker 1: you know, where he's just in a trance. That's when
Speaker 1: he's really tough. Okay, let's get back to the stair
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Speaker 1: blank wall. That's right, all right. Uh, we were talking
Speaker 1: about Aaron Rodgers a moment ago, and that stare what
Speaker 1: the you know? I remember when Tom Brady played at
Speaker 1: Texas Stadium back last decade um and during a game
Speaker 1: just they showed a shot of him on the sideline
Speaker 1: and everyone else is sweating their butts off, right, and
Speaker 1: he's got this such a cool, calm, collected appearance about him, demeanor,
Speaker 1: and he hadn't even broke a sweat. Aaron Rodgers to me,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers has that same look about him as he
Speaker 1: plays a football game. But well, the stair, what do
Speaker 1: you what do you talk about with the stairs. Well,
Speaker 1: he just has this these cold eyes and it never
Speaker 1: changes an expression, and he looks like he And I'm
Speaker 1: writing my column about him, and I said, it's like
Speaker 1: he's got X ray eyes. He just stares right through you.
Speaker 1: And I was talking to Jeff Heath, and Jeff he said,
Speaker 1: you know, he's got this weird habit and he said
Speaker 1: it's but it's a good one for him. That a
Speaker 1: lot of times when he's kind of moving around in
Speaker 1: the pocket, you know you're supposed to always keep your
Speaker 1: eyes down field, he goes his eyes are low, he's
Speaker 1: looking for someplace to squeeze through. And he can still run, right.
Speaker 1: I know he's get older, but he can still run.
Speaker 1: He can still move. And if you remember when they
Speaker 1: beat the Cowboys up there after the twenty fourteen season,
Speaker 1: he was playing on one leg. He had a calf
Speaker 1: muscle injury and the Cowboys couldn't catch him. I think
Speaker 1: they sacked him once on one leg. So now I
Speaker 1: imagine with two good legs. So yeah, that stare he
Speaker 1: uses in the TV commercials. He's aware of where everybody
Speaker 1: is on the field. Yeah. Brian talked about his vision
Speaker 1: two during the week, and that's to me, that's a
Speaker 1: great example of a guy that's had a decade plus
Speaker 1: in the pocket seeing everything there is to see. And
Speaker 1: that's an example for Dak Prescott as he moves on
Speaker 1: throughout his career. I was reminded of him just watching
Speaker 1: the game last night Seattle, watching Russell Wilson do his thing.
Speaker 1: They're similar in that regard. Mickey said he'll take off
Speaker 1: and run, and Chris Rochard said yesterday discipline rushes. You know,
Speaker 1: the whole thing about keep him in the well. It's
Speaker 1: very simile. They played Seattle a lot, they played Green
Speaker 1: Bay a lot, and it's the same thing. You gotta rush,
Speaker 1: can't be afraid to rush, but you gotta make sure
Speaker 1: he doesn't get out of the pocket because he'll still
Speaker 1: do it and I'll get him on the ground. This
Speaker 1: is the type of game he lives for. You know,
Speaker 1: it's the national stage and he doesn't have all his weapons.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a good chance that Davante Adams is
Speaker 1: not going to play and and he's gonna go out
Speaker 1: there and say, Okay, I've got I've got this against me,
Speaker 1: I got this against me, I'm missing I got banged
Speaker 1: up Lyneman and one of my running backs is out,
Speaker 1: my best wide receivers out. You know, this is the
Speaker 1: type of game he lives for where he can show
Speaker 1: everybody how good Aaron Rodgers really is my other best
Speaker 1: wide receivers on the other team. Now. But that's how
Speaker 1: that's how he that's how he plays. That's his demeanor.
Speaker 1: And he will he will come out here, and you know,
Speaker 1: and and he's going to throw the ball up to
Speaker 1: these guys this you know, this scantling and Allison and
Speaker 1: those guys get ready. That ball is going to go
Speaker 1: down the field. It's gonna go elevated. And the Cowboy
Speaker 1: secondary had better be ready. They're gonna either gonna have
Speaker 1: to defend you know, jump balls all day or they're
Speaker 1: gonna get past interference. To me, but he is going
Speaker 1: to test this Dallas secondary with these tall receivers. I'll
Speaker 1: give you another guy. I went behind enemy lines this morning, okay,
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers dot Com listening to one of their shows,
Speaker 1: hell and to Catchman and stuff. I didn't even catch
Speaker 1: who was doing he was doing the shows. I was
Speaker 1: just listening and they were talking about this rookie from
Speaker 1: North Dakota State, Darius Shepherd number ten. He was on
Speaker 1: the field at the end of the game and they
Speaker 1: were talking about he actually worked with the Ones a
Speaker 1: lot during the offseason, and they were talking about that
Speaker 1: final play where they should have had the past interference. Well,
Speaker 1: if you look at that play, Darius Shepherd, and I
Speaker 1: think Rogers even said after the game, he said, if
Speaker 1: I would have just waited another tick, Shepherd was coming
Speaker 1: open and I should have thrown the ball to Shepherd instead,
Speaker 1: run that too. But there's a there's a name for you,
Speaker 1: Darius Shepherd. With with Javante Adams probably out, they're not
Speaker 1: ruling him out yet because he's a tough guy and
Speaker 1: has come back and played the twenty fifteen season's sterling
Speaker 1: sharp and used to take shots in his toe. This
Speaker 1: kid's not playing, by the way, that's what Marquez Valdes scantling.
Speaker 1: You can just call him MVS. That's what the Packers
Speaker 1: call him. Let me write that DOWNE. There you go, MVS.
Speaker 1: There you go. So mvs. Geronimo and Darius Shephard And
Speaker 1: as Chris Rashard said, he can throw anybody opens. It's
Speaker 1: very brady like because how many guys has Brady played
Speaker 1: with in the passing game over twenty years and how
Speaker 1: many Hall of Fame receivers as he had. Rogers has
Speaker 1: it too. There's certain guys that breeze is the same
Speaker 1: way over over fifteen twenty years. They can get guys
Speaker 1: to the ball. It really doesn't matter. These guys that
Speaker 1: played in the salary cap era that are quarterbacks, have
Speaker 1: the utmost respect for them. Yeah, because nothing against Montana Bradshaw,
Speaker 1: Staubach and those guys Bob Greasy, nothing against them. Had
Speaker 1: the same damn team every year. Yeah, for every year
Speaker 1: they play, they had the same team. So these salary
Speaker 1: cap quarterbacks are a little bit different cats, all right.
Speaker 1: From the Cowboys perspective, Michael Gallop limited in practice for
Speaker 1: the second straight day. It does look like he's good
Speaker 1: to God to go and Amari Cooper a full participant
Speaker 1: in practice, Yes, to go to Yeah, let's go get
Speaker 1: some guys back and that will certainly help out their
Speaker 1: versatility on offense to have Gallop back in so who
Speaker 1: in this offense? So clearless King doesn't play for them,
Speaker 1: that would help. What injury does he have? The growing
Speaker 1: Oh that's right, yeah, I forgot what is it? It's
Speaker 1: something with his leg lower body. It's hockey turney, it's
Speaker 1: a lower body. It's lower body growing. So we got
Speaker 1: one minute left in this segment. All right, I'm just
Speaker 1: going around the horn. Who in this Cowboys offense would
Speaker 1: you like to see get more touches Pollard, because that
Speaker 1: means more than two touches, because that means Zeke is
Speaker 1: just pounding away in the second half. That's when Pollard
Speaker 1: got the bulk of his work the other day a
Speaker 1: couple weeks ago, got Pollard. Give me Michael, give me
Speaker 1: gallop up. I want to see the juice. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: see the juice. Get that ball, get up. Feel kind
Speaker 1: of frustrate these packers in the secondary a little bit. Well,
Speaker 1: then that leaves me Ezekiel Elliott again for the second
Speaker 1: week in a row. And this time it's gonna the
Speaker 1: old pick to click. It's gonna work this time. That
Speaker 1: wasn't your pick to click. It can be your pick
Speaker 1: to click, but you can save that for the next second.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do click to click coming up here in
Speaker 1: just a moment. But I'm going with Zeke too. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think, just pound away at these packers. You guys
Speaker 1: so getting so old school the analytics guy. Yeah right,
Speaker 1: they might have to run on because now boys are
Speaker 1: back home and it's time to open it up again. Right,
Speaker 1: there you go. It doesn't matter that the Packers have
Speaker 1: it defended. They might have to score a lot of points.
Speaker 1: Manise Rogers opportunities. There you go. There you go short
Speaker 1: in the game that way. Yeah, you're getting at picks
Speaker 1: to click when Talking Cowboys comes back, comes back in
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Speaker 1: through Friday. All right, our picks to click in this
Speaker 1: game against the Packers will go around the horn here
Speaker 1: and Mickey, you kind of hit on my kind myself. Pick,
Speaker 1: let's go with the Zekiel Elliott once again. In the
Speaker 1: last three games these Packer defense is given up one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy average of one hundred and seventy four
Speaker 1: yards rushing and if they don't adjust their alignment, then
Speaker 1: Zeke will run for two hundred yards. Oh, you're going
Speaker 1: out on the limb. Yes, two hundred yards rushing, Yes
Speaker 1: for Zeke Ellie. If they don't change how they lay up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a kniff there. Okay, of course there is. I
Speaker 1: qualified it because I am always right. Yes, you guys
Speaker 1: have figured that out just after that ice Pool game
Speaker 1: fifty two years. Again, he's been right for fifty two years.
Speaker 1: Man's a genius. I'm gonna go with Robert Quinn pro
Speaker 1: and I know that's stepping out in a limb too,
Speaker 1: but I looked it up. He's played against a rod
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, four times. He sacked him in three of
Speaker 1: those four games, three and a half career against him. Today.
Speaker 1: It couldn't It could be a little off, but I
Speaker 1: looked it up right before the show. Um Christmas Shard
Speaker 1: was more impressed with Quinn's celebration after his sack the
Speaker 1: other day than the actual bend he has around the edges.
Speaker 1: Like the guy's flexibility is incredible. He said it was
Speaker 1: like a cobra. You know, he's he's been outstanding for
Speaker 1: this defense. He gives them juice. And I think it's
Speaker 1: going to help DeMarcus Lawrence on the other side as well,
Speaker 1: because you know, Tank's dealing with some stuff. He's got
Speaker 1: three things listed on the injury report right now, so
Speaker 1: that can only benefit Tank on the other side too.
Speaker 1: All right, and let me ask you because you brought
Speaker 1: it up on Aaron Rodgers, and I was going to
Speaker 1: ask the question last segment about Robert Quinn. You know
Speaker 1: he comes so hard off the edge. Oh yeah, But
Speaker 1: and you may have answered the question by the number
Speaker 1: of sacks he's had of Rogers in his career. Does
Speaker 1: he have to do something different against Rodgers just to
Speaker 1: make sure that he contains and doesn't let him know
Speaker 1: his responsibility is like he does a great job of
Speaker 1: staying flat. Well, there's some of those rushers that you'll
Speaker 1: see will go so hard up the field that it
Speaker 1: creates a natural lane in between the tackle and then
Speaker 1: the end, there's that space where he can go out
Speaker 1: the back door, just you know, as you go over
Speaker 1: that tackle box, that bubble area there. So yeah, Quinn
Speaker 1: has done a great does a great job of getting
Speaker 1: around the corner, dipping and then sharpening the edge where
Speaker 1: he ends up at the level of the quarterback. He's
Speaker 1: watching enough tape of Rodgers and playing against Rogers enough
Speaker 1: to understand where he sits in the pocket. So Quinn
Speaker 1: will be Quinn should be good as far as not
Speaker 1: going too far up the field. Now Georg's armstrong or
Speaker 1: you know, maybe carry higher to a point. Maybe they
Speaker 1: get too far up the field or get washed or pushed,
Speaker 1: and then that's when you have the problem with him
Speaker 1: going out the back door on you say, the key
Speaker 1: thing with him is not only is he quick and
Speaker 1: especially with that first step, but he's also strong enough
Speaker 1: to do what Brian just said, instead of letting them
Speaker 1: just run him right up the field. When he gets
Speaker 1: to that spot where he's got a turn, he's strong
Speaker 1: enough to give a push. He could turn it and
Speaker 1: that helps out and like Tank, just his motor chasing
Speaker 1: down plays from behind. His second effort, even when he's
Speaker 1: not getting to the quarterback. We saw it against Bridgewater
Speaker 1: last week. That energizes the entire defense. He's really been
Speaker 1: a huge boost to this group so far. All Right,
Speaker 1: pick to click for Brian Young, Bill Walsh, Ke, Kellen Moore.
Speaker 1: I know I'm going different from plays been a good
Speaker 1: week for those young geniuses. Look at Sean McVay with
Speaker 1: the Rams. He lost two games this week. But yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely that that tree of his is losing some branches
Speaker 1: for sure. But I think I think this with Kellen
Speaker 1: Moore though. I think that Kellen Moore was a good
Speaker 1: lesson for him last week in that Saints game. You know,
Speaker 1: as he looked down at his playsheet, he was having
Speaker 1: some struggles. His front wasn't playing very well. His receivers
Speaker 1: dropped a couple of passes, his quarterback wasn't accurate, the
Speaker 1: other team held the ball on him a little bit.
Speaker 1: I think he gets back into a rhythm in this game.
Speaker 1: I think he gets back into an offensive rhythm. You know,
Speaker 1: I think the line will play better in this game,
Speaker 1: and we need to see what happens. Mickey's been a
Speaker 1: learning us about Cam Fleming. He's absolutely right. Keep an
Speaker 1: eye on that left side in this game. Early if
Speaker 1: he could play by himself and not have issues that
Speaker 1: have to have help, then that'll allow them to do
Speaker 1: a lot of things. But I think Kellen Moore gets
Speaker 1: back into the good vibes of call and plays the
Speaker 1: good rhythm, and he's going to get some guys in
Speaker 1: the outside. They're going to help him make some places.
Speaker 1: When you talk about you know, I think Cooper, you know, Gallop, Cobb,
Speaker 1: the tight end, Witt and Jarwin, and then the ability,
Speaker 1: like Mickey says, to run the football, if he could
Speaker 1: chose some a little bit of balance, a little some
Speaker 1: of those chunk plays. Again, I think the rhythm comes back,
Speaker 1: and I think Kellen Moore has a better game. He
Speaker 1: is my pick to click this week. Okay, and and
Speaker 1: what about you my pick to click. I'm going to
Speaker 1: retract my pick to click last week, which was Randall Cobb,
Speaker 1: and I'm going to make him my pick to click.
Speaker 1: You you know, I just I don't know what I
Speaker 1: was thinking last to him. So he had a chance
Speaker 1: to make a play at the end of the game
Speaker 1: was huge. There's not many people that could with three
Speaker 1: guys converge and make that catch. It's a shame they
Speaker 1: didn't have the extra ten seconds to maybe do something
Speaker 1: with the getting field goal range and see if they
Speaker 1: can make a field goal After last night, I don't
Speaker 1: know if you can make forty four yard field goals
Speaker 1: anymore and anywhere in this league. So kid, So according
Speaker 1: to Brian, now that Kellen Moore then will be calling
Speaker 1: his own place this week. Did you hear him? Yesterday's
Speaker 1: pretty good remarks He's always called. They were trying, they
Speaker 1: were trying to give him an excuse and saying, well, now,
Speaker 1: did Jason Garrett have some influence on here? It goes, Oh,
Speaker 1: so what are we saying when we scored no more
Speaker 1: than ten points in this Jason's place? Right? That's right?
Speaker 1: All right? Junior in Utah, you're up on talking Cowboys?
Speaker 1: Hello Junior, Hi, how are you guys doing him? Great? Great? Um,
Speaker 1: I just have a question for you guys with with
Speaker 1: with then Rogers, the way that he passes, the way
Speaker 1: that he is in the pocket, he's he's really good,
Speaker 1: especially against US. He's undefeated against US at home. Sure,
Speaker 1: So what do you guys think about Like as Jaylen,
Speaker 1: everybody talked about Jalen Smith having struggles in the past
Speaker 1: game with with what Severn with Joe Thomas in there,
Speaker 1: what do you guys think about using him more as
Speaker 1: a pass rusher with Quinn and Pink Lawrence in at
Speaker 1: the same time in Crawford. I'm just throwing that out there,
Speaker 1: what do you guys think about something more like that
Speaker 1: to en rogers to get him uncomfortable, that's what they're
Speaker 1: going to do. Yeah, it's not something you need to
Speaker 1: throw out. That's something they've been practicing all week. It's
Speaker 1: clear that Jalen Smith as a pass rusher has the power,
Speaker 1: the speed, the quickness, the agility to attack the pocket.
Speaker 1: And you know, sometimes these linebackers when they engage, they
Speaker 1: can't get off blocks. This guy can when he's when
Speaker 1: he's on the move, and he's shown the ability to
Speaker 1: have a feel for how to play in these games.
Speaker 1: And you have to have an ability to also get
Speaker 1: through those gaps, make yourself small, to get up the
Speaker 1: field and attack. So, yeah, this is not something you're
Speaker 1: wishing for, Junior. This is something that's actually going to happen.
Speaker 1: It's been happening in the last couple of weeks. They've
Speaker 1: been they put him in a position to do that
Speaker 1: last couple of years. Really, I mean a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago when he came back and he was wearing
Speaker 1: the brace and he still wasn't at his level physically.
Speaker 1: That was one thing that gave him to do was
Speaker 1: rush the pastor he was better going forward until he
Speaker 1: got his all his range of motion back. You could
Speaker 1: see it even into snap counts the last couple of
Speaker 1: weeks where it's Thomas two weeks ago. Shaun Lee was
Speaker 1: increased this past week. But in those Nickel type situations
Speaker 1: they've got, in fact, they had some place where they
Speaker 1: they're vander esh and Jalen were taking up. But Jalen
Speaker 1: is the type player going forward. That's his biggest strength.
Speaker 1: That is that is a great trait to have for him.
Speaker 1: Power and forward, that's that's that's where he and again
Speaker 1: if Rogers tries to run, you know, Rogers has gotta
Speaker 1: be very mindful of playing against these linebackers. He's gonna
Speaker 1: be very mindful of playing against Jeff heat too, because
Speaker 1: if you're out there running in space, those guys will
Speaker 1: light you up. We've seen Sean Watson get light up,
Speaker 1: you know, lit up. Think you remember Keet's blitz and
Speaker 1: the playoff game. That's I'm saying all rights, he should
Speaker 1: have fumbled the ball. You get guys that will light
Speaker 1: you up on the edge. You know, then you have
Speaker 1: to be very mindful of running that football. All right,
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Speaker 1: Time to make our picks for this game, we go
Speaker 1: around the horn and Mickey, would you like to go first? Sure,
Speaker 1: since you're a meteorologist. Now is the sun going to
Speaker 1: be shining through the window. That's good, that's a good point. Games,
Speaker 1: it is which way do you want to go in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter? Yeah? You want to go which way?
Speaker 1: And that your receivers looking into the sun? And do
Speaker 1: you want your quarterback or do you want Aaron Rodgers looking?
Speaker 1: Put Aaron Rodgers? There must be a game this weekend.
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Speaker 1: don't have to worry Cowboys twenty seven two. He's a
Speaker 1: distractable player. He's a distractable twenty four Cowboys. Yes, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd like to add anything to that, or just the
Speaker 1: offense gets back on track and the defense will do
Speaker 1: just enough against Aaron Rodgers, who still scares the daylights on.
Speaker 1: It is twenty seven points your goal offensively? Uh? If
Speaker 1: we get twenty seven a game, I think I have
Speaker 1: a very good chance to win. They would have won
Speaker 1: last week with twenty seven, right, yes, yeah, half that
Speaker 1: last week? Yeah, well take three three possessions, two lost
Speaker 1: by a fumble and a lad pass down. Don't have
Speaker 1: to remind me of that. There you go. What do
Speaker 1: you got? Okay, Rob Phillips, I like Mickey score. You know,
Speaker 1: I'll take the Cowboys in this game. I know we're
Speaker 1: talking a lot this week about is it a copycat league?
Speaker 1: Defense is going to try to copy what the Saints did.
Speaker 1: I'm going to say until proven otherwise, that's an aberration.
Speaker 1: With that noise in the Superdome, I think it was
Speaker 1: a factor. I think the offensive line gets back on
Speaker 1: track without all that noise back at home. They control
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. Zeke gets involved and they're, like
Speaker 1: Bryant said, there's more of a rhythm to the game
Speaker 1: and offensively, and they'll take this game. Get to four
Speaker 1: and one and you're getting in your scores the same
Speaker 1: as Mickey. I'll take Mickey's score, yes, always right. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's taken a long time, but he's finally realizing that.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what this game. There's two things that's
Speaker 1: scare me about this game, and one of them is
Speaker 1: Cam Fleming and the other one is Aaron Rodgers. Those
Speaker 1: are the two things that scare me in this game.
Speaker 1: Keep an eye on earlier about what happens with Cam Fleming.
Speaker 1: If they have to all of a sudden put resources
Speaker 1: over there to help him, that might take them out
Speaker 1: of some of their game planned stuff. So just keep
Speaker 1: an eye on what goes on. Cam Fleming can hold up,
Speaker 1: this game plan will be a lot better. I guarantee.
Speaker 1: I've talked about Kellen Moore and what he can do.
Speaker 1: I think gonna have to score a lot of points
Speaker 1: in the skin because of Aaron Rodgers. I think that,
Speaker 1: like I said earlier, the challenge is he doesn't he's
Speaker 1: down his best weapon. What did he do last week
Speaker 1: against the Eagles. He had him on the doorstep of
Speaker 1: winning a football game. With all those guys out there playing,
Speaker 1: He's going to come out throwing the football. He's gonna
Speaker 1: challenge these Dallas Corners. But I think that I think
Speaker 1: that Dak Prescott will be up to the challenge too.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna have to score thirty one points
Speaker 1: to win because I got Dallas thirty one. I've got
Speaker 1: Green Bay twenty eight. It's gonna be close, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be tight. It could go either way. But somehow, some way,
Speaker 1: Dallas finds a way to get a stop and then
Speaker 1: they're able to win this football game. But it is
Speaker 1: going to be a tough game because of who is
Speaker 1: standing on the other side of that field. I agree
Speaker 1: wholeheartedly with what you're saying, and I'm going even higher
Speaker 1: with my point production for both sis. I'm going thirty
Speaker 1: four thirty one. Cowboys win and it might be a
Speaker 1: last second field goal that wins the game, some sort
Speaker 1: of lengthy one. Yeah, so he's got a chance. No,
Speaker 1: he's got a chance. It's not sixty nine yards like
Speaker 1: it would have been last No, turning back the block
Speaker 1: to the playoff game. How long was the Mason Crosby
Speaker 1: field goal to beat the Cowboys in the playoffs? That
Speaker 1: thing just barely snug in something. It's going to be
Speaker 1: this time, But it's gonna be the other way around.
Speaker 1: In fact, here's what's gonna happen. Dak's gonna have the
Speaker 1: football in the closing seconds. He's gonna he's gonna escape
Speaker 1: the pocket heave it down field for one of his
Speaker 1: tight ends. I'm thinking Blake Jarwin is going to ke
Speaker 1: the catch on the sideline, putting the Cowboys in position
Speaker 1: to race the field goal unit out, and Brett Maher
Speaker 1: is going to make a fifty five yard fields So
Speaker 1: did anybody think about not picking him? It was the
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers, the thing that would swing you the other way. Yes,
Speaker 1: it would that. That's what if you know, what if
Speaker 1: Davante Adams went there and might have swung it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they keep these teams you keep playing that don't have
Speaker 1: star players. But man, there was a thought of me
Speaker 1: that's like, okay, Dallas could lose this game thirty one
Speaker 1: to twenty eight. You know, he gets the ball one
Speaker 1: last time kind of thing. Yeah, he's that special. So
Speaker 1: the thing is make sure he doesn't have the ball
Speaker 1: last Yeah. Well, and here's the other part of it is,
Speaker 1: it's just this league. I mean, you know, we're sitting
Speaker 1: here a week ago and the Eagles are going to
Speaker 1: Green Bay and it looks like a short week. They're
Speaker 1: a road team, short week. And then the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: playing the Saints without Drew Brees and they and we're
Speaker 1: going into last week, thinking the Cowboys could have a
Speaker 1: three game lead in the division at the end of
Speaker 1: the weekend every week and Eagles are playing the Jets,
Speaker 1: Cowboys are playing the Packers. It could be even up
Speaker 1: by Sunday night. Yeah, absolutely, everything tills the Rams have
Speaker 1: now lost a couple of games in a row. No,
Speaker 1: they did not, did they? They did? The boy genius Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: so things that things change level out our final minute.
Speaker 1: Here where you're gonna be on Sunday, Brian, here, be
Speaker 1: here with the pregame at the start. Okay, at the
Speaker 1: Star work when we can see Mickey at and T Stadium.
Speaker 1: My pre game hit with the fan is about two
Speaker 1: forty I think out on the West Plaza on the sideline.
Speaker 1: Pregame live all right, and the game is a national
Speaker 1: telecast at three twenty five. There are there's one other
Speaker 1: game that I believe CBS has, but it's a Fox
Speaker 1: game at three twenty five on CBS eleven. You can
Speaker 1: catch Danny White, me Keep Russell on Cowboys Game Day
Speaker 1: at ten thirty in the morning, and catch special edition
Speaker 1: on Saturday night at eleven Jason Garrett Show at eleven thirty.
Speaker 1: And we will see you again next time you're on
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