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Speaker 1: It's a Friday edition of Talking Cowboys as we lead
Speaker 1: you into week two between the Atlanta Falcons and the
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Speaker 1: bringing you some fires. It say which a chest Friday,
Speaker 1: we get everything off the chest of Cowboys fans and
Speaker 1: our own chest, and we give the keys of the game.
Speaker 1: We figure out what's right, what's wrong with Cowboys Nation,
Speaker 1: and then we get your set for kickoff on Sunday
Speaker 1: at noon on Fox. I'm Kyle Yeoman's alongside heck My Harrison,
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips and Isaiah stand back. Guys. It's been a week,
Speaker 1: it really has around Cowboys Nation and around the Star.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of panic already with an O on
Speaker 1: one start and some of the injuries that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: were dealing with. But because it's Friday, because we're just
Speaker 1: getting started on a Friday. Let's stay positive. How about that, y'all?
Speaker 1: Okay with doing some positive notes to start off on Friday. Here,
Speaker 1: I'm ready to say it with my chess, Kyle ready
Speaker 1: to say it with your chess. So yes, let's stay positive.
Speaker 1: The first positive thing is Isaiah's back with us on
Speaker 1: a Friday. He was not here last Friday. He's here
Speaker 1: on this Friday. So here's a positive. How about that? Right,
Speaker 1: there's a positive. Second. The second positive is, let's say
Speaker 1: how about this Amari Cooper. It was only limited in
Speaker 1: practice yesterday and we're gonna get into potential injury updates
Speaker 1: coming up in just a little bit, but he wasn't
Speaker 1: a did not practice. He was just limited. So that's
Speaker 1: a positive, right guys? Positive? Sure? Rod? Sure, Roger? Okay, Rob.
Speaker 1: He wasn't on the injury report at all forty eight
Speaker 1: hours before the game exactly. Yeah, So yeah, a little
Speaker 1: you got a cool T shirt on, Kyle, that's a positive.
Speaker 1: I do have a cool T shirt on. That is
Speaker 1: a positive. This is from the Cowboys Pro Shop. You
Speaker 1: should go check it out and get your own because
Speaker 1: this is one of the new like vintage lines for
Speaker 1: the sixtieth anniversary. I thought it was pretty cool. It's
Speaker 1: got Cowboy Joe on it, so I decided to sport
Speaker 1: it on the show. You guys will, uh, you guys
Speaker 1: will be a part of that. That wow pro Shop games. Man,
Speaker 1: I sure wish I can get me one of those.
Speaker 1: I know, I mean not Saiah. Wouldn't you like to
Speaker 1: have a shirt like that? Would it be cool? You know,
Speaker 1: I'm still rocking my my polo from like, you know,
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven years, so, I mean it still works.
Speaker 1: But the golf tournament they get they give great at
Speaker 1: the golf tournament. Well that's the thing is, you guys
Speaker 1: will get your You'll get your Pro Shop gear. But
Speaker 1: if you want to go get Pro Shop gear, the
Speaker 1: pro shops open, you can go look at it online
Speaker 1: as well, so go check it out. They do great stuff.
Speaker 1: But here's the most positive thing I could potentially give
Speaker 1: you guys before we get into maybe some of the
Speaker 1: negatives that the Cowboys are having to deal with. But
Speaker 1: the most positive thing is that as of Sunday at noon,
Speaker 1: pro football will be back in Texas, and I think
Speaker 1: that's something to celebrate and there will be fans in
Speaker 1: the stand still not a disclosed amount in terms of
Speaker 1: how many fans will be there, But Mike McCarthy's talked
Speaker 1: about it. We've talked about it all week. But finally
Speaker 1: football is back in the Lone Star State. It'll be
Speaker 1: before the Texans kickoff. The Texans didn't play there in
Speaker 1: week once, so the Cowboys will officially be the first
Speaker 1: pro team to play in Texas. And I think that's
Speaker 1: something to celebrate and get excited about for Cowboys Nation
Speaker 1: out there, because hey, we get to watch football in
Speaker 1: our own backyard. And I think that's something positive to
Speaker 1: look at. But let's look at some of the negatives.
Speaker 1: And I mentioned the injury report with Amari Cooper only
Speaker 1: being limited but apparently dealing with a foot issue. Rob
Speaker 1: he was not the only one on that list. That
Speaker 1: was a bit of a surprise, as Tyrn Smith did
Speaker 1: not practice as he's dealing with a neck issue. What
Speaker 1: can you tell me about Amari Cooper and Tyrn Smith
Speaker 1: and what we're dealing with in the amount of severity
Speaker 1: that we're dealing with heading into Week one, Man, I
Speaker 1: found myself looking at the schedule today saying, went to
Speaker 1: the bye week, like, can the can the bye week,
Speaker 1: get here soon enough, and then I realized, ooh, it's
Speaker 1: like two weeks before Thanksgiving, so we got a long
Speaker 1: way to go before everybody can heal up. Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: was on the fan this morning doing an interview and
Speaker 1: he said he's not alarmed by Tyrn Smith's neck injury,
Speaker 1: but it's something they're looking at. And he was also asked,
Speaker 1: is offensive line probably your biggest concern going into week two?
Speaker 1: And he said I would? You said yeah, I would
Speaker 1: say yes, Wow, not good, Bob, not not great right now?
Speaker 1: With you with your top three tackles being banged up,
Speaker 1: two of them will arguably your top three tackles most
Speaker 1: experienced was cam irving law Collins on injured reserve right now.
Speaker 1: And with Tyring, I mean, he's played through a lot
Speaker 1: of things before and so it's entirely possible he's going
Speaker 1: to be ready to go by Sunday. Get some treatment.
Speaker 1: As Isaiah knows, they've got a great athletic training staff. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: but you know it is it's something that raises your
Speaker 1: eyebrows because you know you're already down. You got Terrence
Speaker 1: Steele at right tackle, or you did in week one,
Speaker 1: So how does that affect the functionality of the offense
Speaker 1: going forward? And then Amari Cooper being limited. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't know necessarily if he's any danger of missing
Speaker 1: the game, but how effective is he going to be
Speaker 1: because he had to play through stuff last year and
Speaker 1: they clearly affected him last year as well. So not
Speaker 1: great to see that on the injury report yesterday. Heck,
Speaker 1: is this something that we need to be extremely concerned
Speaker 1: about whenever it comes to not having Amara Cooper and Tyrants?
Speaker 1: Man if I don't want to send chills down the
Speaker 1: spines of Cowboys fans out there, but let's look back
Speaker 1: at the Jets game last year when you didn't have
Speaker 1: your tackles and you didn't really have a morning for
Speaker 1: the majority of the game. But that's kind of what
Speaker 1: we're being reminded of right now. Right Hey, fellas, have
Speaker 1: you ever been to a restaurant and they serve you
Speaker 1: that mystery meat and you eat it and you ask yourself,
Speaker 1: what is this? Exactly exactly? It's chick It's chicken ish, right,
Speaker 1: And then you get home and then that that little
Speaker 1: girdle in your stomach like it's just like, uh, why
Speaker 1: did I eat that? That's the feeling I got in
Speaker 1: my stomach when I saw the ESPN flash Tyrann Smith. Right,
Speaker 1: So you got to mistery me bubba. I didn't want
Speaker 1: to say that, but thank you for go ahead and
Speaker 1: taking it there. But that's where I met with the
Speaker 1: news that Tyren Smith in the neck. And then this morning,
Speaker 1: this morning when I hear Mike McCarthy said, oh no,
Speaker 1: I'm not not alarmed. Yeah, okay, it's man, this is
Speaker 1: why why why why? Rob, like you said right before
Speaker 1: on a Friday, right before forty hours before the why
Speaker 1: do we have to deal with this news? But look,
Speaker 1: in football, I understand you're gonna have little things happen
Speaker 1: that ebbing flows. And I know, and no one expects
Speaker 1: to go through a sixteen game season, regular season and
Speaker 1: expect for everyone to be healthy. And look, we don't
Speaker 1: have an all pro at every position as a backup.
Speaker 1: But this is not the week, and especially coming off
Speaker 1: of a loss in what we've deemed a must win
Speaker 1: game in Week two. Who ye ain't that we that
Speaker 1: we are now questioning whether our left tackle is going
Speaker 1: to play? Then the PF grade last week on our
Speaker 1: offensive line was horrible. We ranked the third worst in
Speaker 1: the league for the first week. We need all hands
Speaker 1: on deck, and we definitely need Tiring to be a
Speaker 1: part of those hands. So yeah, I'm a little nervous
Speaker 1: in the mystery eating my stomach and I'm sorry, I
Speaker 1: can't get past this. Bubb missing me, bubble guss if
Speaker 1: I swear we come back next week and we have
Speaker 1: a segment sponsored by some baby white company. Anyway, Hey,
Speaker 1: let's talk about this, Okay, Amary, I can't get it out. Uh,
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper is gonna be fine, Okay, whatever that is.
Speaker 1: I honestly think that they're just keeping a keeping track
Speaker 1: of the mileage that he has on him. Um. You
Speaker 1: know you mentioned Rob In terms of the training staff
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys have, they have, um, one of the best,
Speaker 1: if not the best. And trust me, I was with
Speaker 1: those guys all the time, so I know I'm unfortunately.
Speaker 1: Those guys are absolutely amazing with with Britt Brown and
Speaker 1: Jim Mauer over there, they're they're they're dope. Um, so
Speaker 1: they I know they have a lot of technology in
Speaker 1: terms of tracking, you know, tracking advice that guys were
Speaker 1: during practice. I mentioned how fast they're running, how many
Speaker 1: miles they've ran, So I honestly think they're just limiting
Speaker 1: his his mileage right going into this big week where
Speaker 1: I believe that they're going to face the substantial amount
Speaker 1: of man coverage he's going to have to be on
Speaker 1: his horse, So they definitely want to make sure that
Speaker 1: he's going into it at one hundred percent. Now, Tyron Smith,
Speaker 1: that's something you want to keep an eye on, because
Speaker 1: if my last name is McKinley or Fowler, my dog
Speaker 1: on ears up right now like a pit bull. Okay,
Speaker 1: because you already know if these guys are already hurting
Speaker 1: at one right tackle position, and now if you're telling
Speaker 1: me that this guy is not going to be at
Speaker 1: one hundred percent, it's a it's a wounded animal, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, just imagine what a hyena is going to
Speaker 1: do out there in a safari right, So as you
Speaker 1: recognize that is that his prey is wounded. So this
Speaker 1: is not something you don't want to see him. I
Speaker 1: don't know if there's a way that you can hire
Speaker 1: guys on the injury report, obviously not, but they literally
Speaker 1: just let everybody know on that defense that hey, guess what,
Speaker 1: he's not one hundred percent, So who we're gonna see
Speaker 1: what happens if you want to be positive about it.
Speaker 1: You know, tyrn Anna Marii both had little hamstring meals
Speaker 1: in training camp, and they were very very careful with
Speaker 1: both guys. And I think tyring in particular, like you know, Marie,
Speaker 1: at least he got some practice work in yesterday, like
Speaker 1: Isaiah said, not as concerned about that, I don't think.
Speaker 1: But with tyring Man, anytime he has a little something,
Speaker 1: they are very careful. Because he's this is an eleventh season.
Speaker 1: He cannot practice and be ready to go, you know,
Speaker 1: And so I think they're gonna be obviously very careful
Speaker 1: with him. But the problem is, I don't think we're
Speaker 1: gonna have much of a gauge based on today because
Speaker 1: if the schedules anything like it was last weekend, I
Speaker 1: think it is. You know, it's just a walk through today.
Speaker 1: So the final injury report's going to be an estimation
Speaker 1: based off of, you know, what happened early in the week.
Speaker 1: So we'll see if you had to put a percentage
Speaker 1: on it, rob based off of what you've heard in
Speaker 1: Tyron Smith's availability going into Sunday, what would your percentage
Speaker 1: be confidence level wise that he would play? I put
Speaker 1: it above fifty right now. I mean I think he
Speaker 1: might be listed as questionable. I'm not sure, but I
Speaker 1: think with a couple of days to go, I'm optimistic
Speaker 1: he can play. But it's gonna have to depend on
Speaker 1: how he feels over the next couple of days. So
Speaker 1: but I would put it above fifty fifty. Okay, now
Speaker 1: that doesn't necessarily make me feel any better, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I was at least wanting him truthful statement he will
Speaker 1: be playing. Okay, a little bit higher up then, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's one hundred percent he'll be playing. He's not he
Speaker 1: may not be feeling one hundred percent, but there's one
Speaker 1: hundred percent chance he's gonna be playing. There's no question
Speaker 1: about it. You're not going into this game that you
Speaker 1: cannot lose. And yes, I have been calling it in
Speaker 1: a must win and it definitely is a must win.
Speaker 1: You're all in agreement, right, yeah, yeah, yeah, uh, this
Speaker 1: is this is not a chance. I mean, being an
Speaker 1: eleven year pro and a veteran and you know, pro
Speaker 1: bowler and all that jazz, there's no way that you're
Speaker 1: not going to go out there and protect your man
Speaker 1: back there, um and and it's a very very essential game. Yeah, Rob,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know what the percentages are, Kyle,
Speaker 1: but I know it's one hundred percent that we need
Speaker 1: him to play. Yeah, whatever whatever, we whatever we have
Speaker 1: to do, no matter how we are, just the game
Speaker 1: plan to fit him in it. Let's make it happen
Speaker 1: because he is. He is a piece to this this
Speaker 1: week that we cannot afford to lose, especially going up
Speaker 1: against that defensive line. I mean you already mentioned at
Speaker 1: Isaiah whenever it comes to tack McKinley, Dante Fowler Junior
Speaker 1: on the edge, and then you've got defensive tackles who
Speaker 1: get pressure on the quarterback, which I know Cowboys fans
Speaker 1: think that's that's a foreign language because it hasn't been
Speaker 1: the case over the past five years. But Grady Jarrett
Speaker 1: gets pressure on the opposing quarterback, even Tyler Davison back
Speaker 1: there for the Fresno State product. I think all of
Speaker 1: those guys have a chance to make an early impact
Speaker 1: and take advantage of a wounded offensive line. And like
Speaker 1: you said earlier, Rob, whenever it came to Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: talking to the media today, he was asked that question,
Speaker 1: was that the biggest concern moving into week two, and
Speaker 1: he said, yeah, it probably is the biggest concern. Outside
Speaker 1: of that concern, though, guys, what is the biggest positive
Speaker 1: going into week two? Let's stay positive on a Friday,
Speaker 1: say it with your chest and turn around. What are
Speaker 1: some things we're looking forward to and where the Cowboys
Speaker 1: can turn around on the other side of things and
Speaker 1: take advantage of something from the Falcons defense. Um, I'll
Speaker 1: start this one off on a positive note. I think
Speaker 1: you got two positives, and it's both on the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball. I think that you've established your
Speaker 1: second starting corner right um in Diggs and you heard
Speaker 1: you heard McCarthy speak on it. Um. He feels really
Speaker 1: confident in Diggs and he thinks that he's earned his spot.
Speaker 1: So knowing that you have a solid corner there, who
Speaker 1: is or who's who's rookie? Obviously he's learning, UM, But
Speaker 1: the fact that you can instill that confidence in him
Speaker 1: is going to only help him. Now, just make sure
Speaker 1: that you don't put him on Julio UM, and you
Speaker 1: can continue building his confidence. But I think that is
Speaker 1: awesome that you've established that as as your as your
Speaker 1: two starters. Now you got your cheeto and you got
Speaker 1: your and you have Diggs, so boom, you're good there
Speaker 1: on a on a on a second good note, I
Speaker 1: think that you know, I pissed off Mike Nolan is good.
Speaker 1: I think I think an embarrassed Mike Nolan is good
Speaker 1: for this, for this entire team, for the entire Cowboys nation.
Speaker 1: So I think he's going to come out a lot
Speaker 1: more aggressively than he did in the first game. I
Speaker 1: think he's not going to sit back and be patient
Speaker 1: and try to figure out what this team's gonna do.
Speaker 1: I think he is really going to just self check
Speaker 1: himself pretty sure he has this week and says, who
Speaker 1: am I, And I'm gonna go out here, remind everybody
Speaker 1: what I do and why my name is what it is.
Speaker 1: Let's go out here and put some pressure on these Falcons. Yeah. Defensively,
Speaker 1: for me, it's Alden Smith is the civil lining for
Speaker 1: that defense. I think what he was able to accomplish
Speaker 1: against the Rams just showing how tough he can be
Speaker 1: in run support, and that's we need that, especially going
Speaker 1: up against Todd Gurley. H We gotta have that defensive
Speaker 1: vent that can shut things down. Also, I guess and
Speaker 1: you you said it Isaiah Trayvon Diggs. Diggs to me
Speaker 1: didn't seem as though the lights were too bright, the
Speaker 1: moment was too big. He looked like a guy who
Speaker 1: had been there before. And we have to keep in
Speaker 1: mind that he has played some really some big time
Speaker 1: football in Alabama. So those are the two bright spots
Speaker 1: to me on the defensive side of the ball. And
Speaker 1: I just feel like if we just continue to build
Speaker 1: on that and again build that confidence. I don't know
Speaker 1: how much you can hide him scheme wise, as far
Speaker 1: as keeping him away from Julio Jones. But how else
Speaker 1: do you grade in Isaiah? How else do you get
Speaker 1: a grade on this guy unless you see him against
Speaker 1: the best there is. And so I want to see
Speaker 1: I want to see where he fits, where he's gonna be,
Speaker 1: and what the future is gonna be for Trey Von Dixon.
Speaker 1: You can get a big sample size of that versus
Speaker 1: these three receivers. Um Um, heck, you got it, you
Speaker 1: got I don't want no smokes, I don't want no Greece.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna say, I'm just I'm just saying you
Speaker 1: had an opportunity to I'm just saying you didn't Trial
Speaker 1: by fire last week on the interior alignment against against
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald, and you found out what that grade was.
Speaker 1: I understand. I understand that now. Now remember what you said,
Speaker 1: now we found Aaron Donald and that we're going to
Speaker 1: another dog this week in Julio, Joe. But but but
Speaker 1: then you got a grade. You figured out where you
Speaker 1: were offensive line wise against the best. Next week and
Speaker 1: the week thereafter, we're gonna be playing against these guys.
Speaker 1: You gotta figure out where you You got to figure
Speaker 1: out where your team is. You got. I agree, I
Speaker 1: don't disagree there you got Rob. I love it. I
Speaker 1: love it. Um. Defensively, you guys hit on it. And
Speaker 1: I'll just add Brandon Carr having another full week in
Speaker 1: practice and maybe he can can get some snaps. I
Speaker 1: don't know exactly what the rotation would look like, but
Speaker 1: he's a Vent and he can help in that coverage
Speaker 1: aspect for sure, either corner or safety. Offensively, I said
Speaker 1: it earlier in the week. I mean they did some
Speaker 1: good things offensively, three hundred and eighty yards. They put
Speaker 1: themselves in position to score points. Last week, they missed
Speaker 1: the field goal. They got three points out of two
Speaker 1: different drives inside the Rams twenty and if they can
Speaker 1: just cash in better, they'll they'll be in better shape.
Speaker 1: Um Zeke looked like a beast. He looked as good
Speaker 1: as I've seen him in years. And Cedie Lamb was
Speaker 1: really frustrated after the game. Just on the conference call,
Speaker 1: you could tell he wasn't happy with some of the
Speaker 1: things he didn't place, he didn't make. He's very diligent,
Speaker 1: and on top of that, he showed a lot of
Speaker 1: flashes in his first game, so I think there's a
Speaker 1: lot to build on for him too. There are a
Speaker 1: lot of positives I think they can build on. I
Speaker 1: love how two of the positives that you guys just
Speaker 1: gave were rookies. It was Trayvon Diggs along with the
Speaker 1: Cede Lamb, who, like you said, had those flashes, had
Speaker 1: those plays, had the longest reception out of any Cowboys
Speaker 1: receiver last Sunday, thirty three yards in that first half.
Speaker 1: Hopefully they can recreate that a little bit against what
Speaker 1: I think is a susceptible secondary from Atlanta. I'm not
Speaker 1: scared by the rookie aj Tarell, at least not yet.
Speaker 1: I'm not scared about Isaiah Oliver. I think they're susceptible
Speaker 1: to the Cowboys wide receivers. It's just whether or not
Speaker 1: that offensive line can give Dak Prescott enough time to
Speaker 1: throw the football, and that's going to translate to success
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Speaker 1: we are talking Cowboys. The Friday before the Falcons game
Speaker 1: Week two COWBOYSZ and one Falcons and One noon kickoff
Speaker 1: on Fox at AT and T Stadium. Fans will be
Speaker 1: in attendance and the Cowboys will hopefully be back to
Speaker 1: five hundred. Now we're gonna give our keys to the game.
Speaker 1: Heck my Harrison, Rob Phillips, Isaiah stand back. I'm Kyle
Speaker 1: Yeoman's to how the Cowboys can get back to five
Speaker 1: hundred and how they can take advantage of what is
Speaker 1: a susceptible Atlanta defense and what I think could be
Speaker 1: a susceptible offensive line. But Hecko, we're gonna start with you.
Speaker 1: We're gonna let you get the ball rolling here. What
Speaker 1: is your key to the game and how important is
Speaker 1: it that that gets done for the Cowboys to come
Speaker 1: out on top hooks. If you if you look at
Speaker 1: the numbers from the Atlanta game, you well, Isaiah will
Speaker 1: have you thinking that this Sunday, the seventy two Dolphins
Speaker 1: are coming into town. They are not. It's just the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. And let me tell you something about the
Speaker 1: Atlanta Falcons. And let me here's a question for you.
Speaker 1: If you look at the stat sheet, they had a
Speaker 1: gazillion yards, hundred yards here, a hundred yards here, a
Speaker 1: hundred yards there, Russian combined guys almost to a hundred yards.
Speaker 1: It looks eerily familiar to another team that plays here
Speaker 1: in Dallas that also had a gazillion yards. But if
Speaker 1: you look at the stat sheet and you look at
Speaker 1: the end of the game, they were losing those games.
Speaker 1: And look, we're playing ourselves from last year, man, and
Speaker 1: this is an opportunity for us to exercise those demons.
Speaker 1: The key to the game is one Ezekiel Elliot period.
Speaker 1: Feed the man the football, put him in a position
Speaker 1: to be successful and he's running angry. You could tell
Speaker 1: that he's heard all the whispers about all the other
Speaker 1: running backs that are quote unquote better than him. No
Speaker 1: they're not. And Ezekiel Elliott needs to have the platform
Speaker 1: to prove it this week versus the versus, versus the Falcons.
Speaker 1: That's what we have to give them a healthy dose.
Speaker 1: And defensively, look, we brought in some guys that we
Speaker 1: thought we were going to be getting at a lot
Speaker 1: out of and Poe that didn't prove it last week.
Speaker 1: Tristan Hill that hey, he left a lot by the
Speaker 1: play still to be desired to be made, and we
Speaker 1: have to make those plays. So upfront, I want to
Speaker 1: see my deefense own the line of scrimmage. And offensively,
Speaker 1: I want to see the Cowboys feed Zeke heck. I
Speaker 1: appreciate you saying that with your chest. I can feel
Speaker 1: your passion coming through when you start talking about Zeke,
Speaker 1: you know what, I almost feel like you're about to
Speaker 1: go out and get a tent too on your stomach
Speaker 1: or something. No, but I agree with you, man. I
Speaker 1: think that the Cowboys Keller Moore, I think they were
Speaker 1: establishing the run last week. I think that they did
Speaker 1: a heck of a job giving Zeke the ball. He
Speaker 1: does look lighter, he does look more explosive, He does
Speaker 1: look like he is focused and on a mission to
Speaker 1: prove a point this year. It is disappointment that they
Speaker 1: got away from that last week because there was never
Speaker 1: a point in the game where they were out of
Speaker 1: the game, right, They were always relatively close. So for
Speaker 1: them to had gone away from the run, which it
Speaker 1: had been very successful for them last week, I was
Speaker 1: very disappointed in that. So I look forward to seeing Zeke.
Speaker 1: As we have said all offseason and we've said at
Speaker 1: these days for this first week now going to the
Speaker 1: second week of the season, he is the backbone of
Speaker 1: this team. So when Zeke eats, everybody eats. Right. When
Speaker 1: Zeke's doing well and he's consistent and he gets his
Speaker 1: twenty five twenty twenty five carries, guess what Cowboys is
Speaker 1: dog one magic and the Cowboys are gonna do well
Speaker 1: even with our offensive line woes, right, we keep talking
Speaker 1: about the old line. This goes from a great old
Speaker 1: line to a good old line. By no means do
Speaker 1: we have a bad old line. There's not a bad
Speaker 1: old line here, even with guys hurt, even if Tyland
Speaker 1: Smith couldn't play, No, you don't have what you want,
Speaker 1: but guess what, you still have a good old line.
Speaker 1: So these guys have more than enough, more than what
Speaker 1: they need. Hand the ball off to this dude, let
Speaker 1: him get his carries. Let these guys get established and
Speaker 1: get confident in the front line, and then let's go
Speaker 1: play action and use your dog oard receivers that you
Speaker 1: have out there. You know, Zeke said it in the
Speaker 1: offseason on Twitter, like, put some respect on my name.
Speaker 1: He's sick of hearing about everybody saying he's washed up
Speaker 1: or he wasn't explosive last year. I think people forget
Speaker 1: you know, no training camp probably affected him to some
Speaker 1: degree last year. Isaiah. I was kind of curious though
Speaker 1: your thoughts on this, because some fans media the Cowboys
Speaker 1: to throw more on first down, you know, they think
Speaker 1: that it's it's it's not efficient to run, Zeke, and
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't agree with that. I don't think
Speaker 1: you agree with that, and they I think they I
Speaker 1: think it was a perfect split. You know, sixteen and
Speaker 1: sixteen run pass on first down, and they were they
Speaker 1: were pretty successful doing that. So I don't I don't
Speaker 1: really get it. I mean, I think with a back
Speaker 1: with a rookie free agent right tackle, you're trying to
Speaker 1: create some balance and not have him in pass protection
Speaker 1: all the time, right, Yeah, absolutely. I mean for everybody
Speaker 1: out there that wants to pass the ball, throw it around,
Speaker 1: they just want to see these weapons get utilized, right,
Speaker 1: and they want to see gallup speed. They want to
Speaker 1: see Cooper getting down the field. They want to see
Speaker 1: CD routing somebody up there. They're they're they're anxious, right,
Speaker 1: They just like, like we talked about right on the
Speaker 1: other side of the ball. You know, they got these
Speaker 1: dog on Rose Royce and these Bentley's. Well, you know
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have theirs as well. You know, they got
Speaker 1: some Lambeau's out there. They got a couple of Raris.
Speaker 1: You know, CD comes in as a McLaren, you know. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, even you have some weapons and people want
Speaker 1: to see it. Understood, understood, But understand those weapons are
Speaker 1: absolutely nothing to you unless you have this run game.
Speaker 1: And by the way, you have a top three running back,
Speaker 1: arguably the best running back in the league in your backfield.
Speaker 1: So you do not simply just go away from him.
Speaker 1: You have to find a way for everybody to eat.
Speaker 1: But in order for everybody to eat, you got to
Speaker 1: feed the beasts in the back. Hey, Rob, I think
Speaker 1: those numbers that you're talking about was from those last
Speaker 1: year statistics where on first down we were awful running
Speaker 1: the ball, yeah, and so wanting to have more balance,
Speaker 1: and I think they tried to find that. I was
Speaker 1: surprised to start the game. We started the game off
Speaker 1: with a throw to Amari Cooper. You know, So if
Speaker 1: things have changed, I think that Kelly Moore is going
Speaker 1: to just kind of settle down and get that play sheet,
Speaker 1: that laminated play sheet, going and listening to Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: and everybody wanting to know how involved is he in
Speaker 1: the offensive play call, and he let it be known
Speaker 1: this is by committee. By committee. He has a bunch
Speaker 1: of veteran coaches on his staff that are all there
Speaker 1: for KELLN Moore if he needs that help. But he
Speaker 1: has full confidence and KELLN Moore's play calling the ability. Now, Rob,
Speaker 1: the stats, I've got those stats in terms of the
Speaker 1: difference between run and pass on first down from the
Speaker 1: Rams game, it was seventeen runs twelve passes. In terms
Speaker 1: of the first down play calling for the Cowboys on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I think the thing that gave me pause about it
Speaker 1: was just how efficient the Cowboys were throwing the football
Speaker 1: on first down. It was eleven of twelve Dak Prescott was.
Speaker 1: On those twelve attempts, he was able to complete at
Speaker 1: eleven times. Now, I know a lot of those were
Speaker 1: either check downs or just trying to get the ball
Speaker 1: out before the offensive line in the pockets started to collapse. However,
Speaker 1: the fact that he's so efficient and he's so quick
Speaker 1: at going through those reads and finding an open receiver
Speaker 1: and trying to get it into the hands of those receivers,
Speaker 1: those Bentley's, those McLaren's, those Lamborghinis. Yes, I want to
Speaker 1: get the ball into their hands. I really do. I
Speaker 1: would take some pause when it comes to running the
Speaker 1: football more, but I'm okay with a seventeen twelve split.
Speaker 1: I'm okay with throwing the ball around a little bit
Speaker 1: and changing it up that way. It's not Hey, let's
Speaker 1: ask the coach on Madden and run a halfback dive
Speaker 1: right up the middle. Let's not do that every single
Speaker 1: first down. But I still think there has to be
Speaker 1: that mixture back and forth. And I thought Sunday was
Speaker 1: actually a pretty good experience in terms of throwing the
Speaker 1: football on first down. Yeah, yeah, And I think they
Speaker 1: did it less as the game went on, but I
Speaker 1: think it probably had something to do with the pressure
Speaker 1: that they were getting into trying to drop back and
Speaker 1: you're trying to you're trying to make it easier on
Speaker 1: your line and your quarterback to try to keep the
Speaker 1: defense on us a little bit. In a perfect world,
Speaker 1: I think you probably want it fifty fifty or maybe
Speaker 1: maybe if it's more your strength, if your protection is there,
Speaker 1: maybe it is passing on first down, because I think
Speaker 1: they were at like ten eleven yards when they had completions.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know when they lose it is
Speaker 1: this always comes up, this and creativity and and pre
Speaker 1: snap motion, which we got a dissertation from Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: on that yesterday past conference. I'm excited the fact that
Speaker 1: he will just answer that question preestamp motion, because that's yeah,
Speaker 1: it's kind of ridiculous. But at the same time, I mean,
Speaker 1: he had enough of it, but I think people want
Speaker 1: to see more of it. When you ask the question
Speaker 1: about the I believe it was Aaron Rodgers talked about
Speaker 1: how he's not used to seeing all the preestab motion
Speaker 1: and all of that from over the years with McCarthy.
Speaker 1: That was something that he didn't like to do. And
Speaker 1: McCarthy said, well, when you with someone for as long
Speaker 1: as I've been with him, maybe he just forgot that
Speaker 1: we did have a lot of preestamp motion. So I
Speaker 1: appreciated him returning a little bit of smoke back at
Speaker 1: a raw And just because their motion doesn't mean their success.
Speaker 1: That's that's I think the biggest storyline out of the week.
Speaker 1: And what McCarthy's thinking, Isaiah, what do you have on
Speaker 1: the fact that there's no motion, no success. Listen here,
Speaker 1: First of all, why say with your chest? I don't think.
Speaker 1: I think people just see stuff and they're like, oh,
Speaker 1: this team is doing a lot of this and they're successful,
Speaker 1: so why aren't we doing it? Yeah, you have to
Speaker 1: understand the reasoning behind motions. Right, you're motioning right, whether
Speaker 1: you have two plays called right, you're motioning to see matchups,
Speaker 1: You're motioning to see coverage. You're motioning to get leverage. Right,
Speaker 1: you're motioning to widen out certain defenders so that you
Speaker 1: can run the ball. There's a lot of different reasons
Speaker 1: why you motion. So it's not just for show. It's
Speaker 1: not just something you do just just because he has
Speaker 1: his reasons. If he's not doing it, he has his
Speaker 1: reasons as well. He probably sees what he wants. He
Speaker 1: probably has the defense aligned the exact way in which
Speaker 1: he wants them to be aligned. So why would you
Speaker 1: motion into something that's not favorable for you? So I
Speaker 1: understand people want to see yourself like Kansas City and
Speaker 1: the Rams. You know, these offenses that are running around,
Speaker 1: ripping and running. We're not them, right, We're not them.
Speaker 1: We're not built that way. That's not how we operate,
Speaker 1: and we don't need to operate that way. We are
Speaker 1: who we are, and these guys are gonna be perfectly fine.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be successful. Now, Kyle, to your point, in
Speaker 1: terms of everybody that's looking forward to seeing people pass more,
Speaker 1: you're gonna get your wish this week. There's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot more Man coverage this week. There's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot more pressure from Atlanta. So there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of big play opportunities that guys are gonna
Speaker 1: have to make it off the ball CD Gallup Coop.
Speaker 1: They're gonna have opportunity to prove themselves and defend everybody
Speaker 1: that's out there saying that they need to get the
Speaker 1: ball more. I hope you're right. I want to see it.
Speaker 1: I want to see these wide receivers utilized. I want
Speaker 1: to see them take up a defense and take advantage
Speaker 1: and have that separation and have those type of plays
Speaker 1: that we saw la. I'm Jay Novachek, former tight end
Speaker 1: for the Dallas Cowboys. Sure we lost Blake Jarwin and
Speaker 1: I hate that for Blake, but I still think this
Speaker 1: wide receiving corps is not going to see any kind
Speaker 1: of setback in terms of losing Blake Jarwin as an
Speaker 1: added weapon. Now, Rob quickly, before we head into this
Speaker 1: final segment, what is your key to the game and
Speaker 1: how did the Cowboys get the dub on Sunday, I'll
Speaker 1: just go quick. We talked about third down and red zone. Offensively,
Speaker 1: just taking advantage of your opportunities. I think there were
Speaker 1: three at twelve on down and that's just that's just
Speaker 1: not going to cut it. And so you just you
Speaker 1: got to be better on second down to be able
Speaker 1: to get there into more manageable situations. Defensively, obviously, the
Speaker 1: receivers are what jumps out at you with Atlanta. But
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith spoke to this yesterday and I agree, you
Speaker 1: got to stop the run they try to establish. Todd
Speaker 1: Gurley Atlanta did in Week one, and the game got
Speaker 1: away from him. When the Cowboys don't stop the run.
Speaker 1: Regardless of what else an opponent has offensively, they seem
Speaker 1: to struggle throughout their defense, whether it's tackling, whether it's
Speaker 1: just us be an assignment sound, So it starts there.
Speaker 1: They've got to be better that way. And we've talked
Speaker 1: about that interior run defense too. That's got to be
Speaker 1: short up this week too. All right, Isaiah, what's your
Speaker 1: keys to the game? My keys at the game on
Speaker 1: the offensive side of the ball. I think that is
Speaker 1: going to be difficult to establish a run this week.
Speaker 1: I truly do believe it's gonna be difficult to establish
Speaker 1: a run just because of the pressure that Atlanta is
Speaker 1: going to bring. I mean, if you watched the game
Speaker 1: last week against Seattle, they didn't let cars and get
Speaker 1: off at all, right, they didn't. They didn't let him
Speaker 1: do anything running wise. They played eight men in the
Speaker 1: box and manned up on their guys and said, hey,
Speaker 1: beat me over the top, in which you know DK
Speaker 1: Meycalf was able to beat him over the top a
Speaker 1: couple of times, right, But I mean, but that's but
Speaker 1: that's what they're going to force you to do. They're
Speaker 1: gonna force you to throw a low percentage pass in
Speaker 1: order to beat them. So if these guys are gonna
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to go out there and make some
Speaker 1: plays as receivers, I think we have to assure that up.
Speaker 1: And in order to do that, you got to be
Speaker 1: able to protect Dac. Right, but he's not gonna have
Speaker 1: a whole lot of time to get the ball out
Speaker 1: of his hands. So we'll see what happens there on
Speaker 1: a defensive side of the ball. Mike Nolan Mike Nolan absolutely.
Speaker 1: I think that I think that Poe's heard enough critics
Speaker 1: of this week. I think the interior d Lineman have
Speaker 1: heard enough. Tristan hit Hill, he did a great job
Speaker 1: in terms of just hustling last week. I don't think that.
Speaker 1: I think he just might have some technique things he
Speaker 1: needs to show up. But Nolan has a lot to prove.
Speaker 1: I think he has to show up and show out
Speaker 1: and give not only cowboys nation confidence. But he has
Speaker 1: to instill confidence that his guys on defense that he's
Speaker 1: the right man for the job and that he will
Speaker 1: make sure that they get the things done against this
Speaker 1: polting offense. I agree with J Seattle abandon the run up, Seattle,
Speaker 1: abandon the run versus Atlanta, because I don't believe that
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson could believe his eyes in their soft coverage
Speaker 1: that Atlanta was just running it. Even Carson had his
Speaker 1: opportunities in the passing game last week, So that's where
Speaker 1: I see. That's why I'm saying Ezekiel Elliott has a bit,
Speaker 1: has an opportunity to make some really big plays and
Speaker 1: continue to move the change. But defensively, I think one
Speaker 1: of the keys is, man, get off the damn field.
Speaker 1: Just get off the field. If you can win on
Speaker 1: third own, get off the field and give the offense
Speaker 1: the ball back, man, we'll have success this Sunday. I agree,
Speaker 1: And I think the run game is going to be
Speaker 1: crucial for the Cowboys because it is going to be difficult.
Speaker 1: It's not going to be an easy task. I mean,
Speaker 1: they held Seattle to eighty four yards. That's the sixth
Speaker 1: lowest total in the NFL. Last week. So I think overall,
Speaker 1: if you if you're able to establish a run, I
Speaker 1: think it opens up a world of possibilities for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys offense and really getting those receivers into the ball
Speaker 1: game early, often and throughout the course of Sunday afternoon. Now,
Speaker 1: when we come back here on Talking Cowboys, we'll give
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Speaker 1: but I got it right. I'm gonna see if I
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Speaker 1: As we get into this weekend, though, it's time for
Speaker 1: our Friday pick thems, and it's time to decide whether
Speaker 1: or not the Cowboys will be one and one heading
Speaker 1: into Week three against the Seattle Seahawks, or they'll be
Speaker 1: oh and two. Isaiah, stand back. I want to hear
Speaker 1: from you first, the former Cowboy himself, super Bowl champion.
Speaker 1: Who do you have on Sunday afternoon? Well? Well, first,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say, Kyle, kudos to picking the Cowboys losing
Speaker 1: last week. Way to go, Kyle, Way to go, Kyle.
Speaker 1: You can go apologize, but I want to know, so
Speaker 1: it's cool you are want to know. I don't like
Speaker 1: this matchup. I don't like this matchup. I'm torn. I
Speaker 1: gotta tell you I'm torn. But I know he's gonna
Speaker 1: say hurry up, so I I am going to I'm
Speaker 1: gonna say the cowboy Boys will they will win off
Speaker 1: a big plays twenty four twenty one because they're at
Speaker 1: home and they're gonna feed off this crowd. Um, But
Speaker 1: I am really torn. I don't like the matchup. All right,
Speaker 1: heck oh, it'll actually Rob. Let's go. Let's go to
Speaker 1: Rob first. Heck one wanted to go last. Isaiah, you
Speaker 1: got your crystal ball there, can you help me out.
Speaker 1: It is very cloudy. I don't, I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: like this matchup. I really don't. It's really gonna come
Speaker 1: down to five guys can make big plays if they can't,
Speaker 1: if they can't convert on some big some big plays
Speaker 1: down the field. Can you tell me if Tyrann Smith
Speaker 1: is gonna play, he's playing? All right, I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna bang on that. If Tyrn Smith plays and he
Speaker 1: is Tyron Smith or close to it, then I'll go
Speaker 1: with the Cowboys. But I'm with you. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: some matchups you don't like so much. Um. I do
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys, like you've said, have the opportunity in
Speaker 1: man covers to make plays down the field in the
Speaker 1: passing game, and I just I think they're gonna be
Speaker 1: at home with some fans there. I think they're just
Speaker 1: gonna be more efficient offensively. So I'll go Cowboys twenty
Speaker 1: seven twenty four. Okay, Well, before we get to heck
Speaker 1: my heir, Rob, you sounded like if Tyron Smith doesn't play,
Speaker 1: you would pick Atlanta. Is that true? Do you think
Speaker 1: if Tyron Smith is not available on Sunday you would
Speaker 1: reverse your pick? I'm not saying you're allowed to do that,
Speaker 1: but would you Yeah, I can do a quick podcast
Speaker 1: on Sunday. No, I uh yeah, I'd have concerns because
Speaker 1: I think you'd have We've seen it before with Lyle
Speaker 1: and Tyrn both out against the Jets. I mean, you
Speaker 1: have to It affects the what you can do down
Speaker 1: the field because you're having to probably protect both edges
Speaker 1: and devote some more guys inside. So if that's what
Speaker 1: they would have to do, I'd have more concerns about
Speaker 1: being as explosive offensively as I think they can be.
Speaker 1: But I'll still stick with them. We got it, we
Speaker 1: gotta have it, we gotta have it, Rob. So we
Speaker 1: may have been do an evergency podcast all Sunday just
Speaker 1: to cover you, but hey, it's it's on me. And
Speaker 1: one of the things that I know about this matchup,
Speaker 1: and you've seen the statistics, and if you reach a
Speaker 1: ticker on NFL Network, they will tell you that Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott has not thrown they touched down against the Atlanta
Speaker 1: Falcons in his last two meetings. I think that changes
Speaker 1: his own Yeah, his only two only two meetings against him,
Speaker 1: and Sunday, I think we're gonna have a change. Michael
Speaker 1: Gallup has a lot of opportunity in front of him,
Speaker 1: and I think that we're gonna go into a high
Speaker 1: score and matchup. But I see the Cowboys winning thirty
Speaker 1: five twenty seven, thirty five twenty seven. I like it.
Speaker 1: And here's the thing, Dak Prescott, sure he hasn't thrown
Speaker 1: a touchdown pass against Atlanta throughout those two meetings. He's
Speaker 1: one and one of those meetings, I will say he
Speaker 1: also hasn't thrown an interception either, So you got the
Speaker 1: glass half empty, half full, however you want to see it.
Speaker 1: I think he's actually played okay whenever he's had a chance.
Speaker 1: Remember one of those two games, the one that they lost,
Speaker 1: was the game that he was sacked eight times for
Speaker 1: fifty yards back in twenty seventeen, so it wasn't necessarily
Speaker 1: a chance for him to throw the football. I hope
Speaker 1: it doesn't look like that on Sunday. Now. I've been
Speaker 1: asked this quite a bit in terms of where I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pick this game, because I did pick the Rams
Speaker 1: last week, and I did have a gut feeling about
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. That wasn't a positive gut feeling. I was
Speaker 1: a little scared going into last week, and what I
Speaker 1: ended up seeing was kind of what I was scared about.
Speaker 1: And so a lot of people were giving me flack,
Speaker 1: like you, Isaiah stand Back for saying, Hey, good job,
Speaker 1: I'm picking the Cowboys losing. Yeah, I didn't pick the
Speaker 1: Cowboys to lose because it was my gut feeling. I've
Speaker 1: got another gut feeling this week. And I mean when
Speaker 1: you talk about Julio Jones, and you talk about Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan and that wide receiving going up against his secondary,
Speaker 1: and you talk about the defensive line from Atlanta going
Speaker 1: up against the offensive line from this Cowboys team that
Speaker 1: has just straight banged up. I mean, Tyrren Smith might
Speaker 1: be out, Connor Williams didn't look right tackle MALIEK Collins
Speaker 1: or excuse me, Lyle Collins is still out, and we
Speaker 1: still don't know what's going on at right now. I
Speaker 1: still think with all of those problems, I think the
Speaker 1: Cowboys get a win on Sunday, and I think they
Speaker 1: bounced high. I think they get a dub and I
Speaker 1: don't even really think it's close. I think the Cowboys
Speaker 1: offense starts firing at all cylinders, even with some of
Speaker 1: the backups in the offensive line, because I think now
Speaker 1: they're ready for it. I think now they know, hey,
Speaker 1: we're a little banged up on the offensive line. I
Speaker 1: think it's gonna change the play calling. I think there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a different feel for the Cowboys offense on Sunday,
Speaker 1: and I think they come out on top. Forty one
Speaker 1: twenty four final score. Cowboys get back to and then
Speaker 1: we turn back around. Yeah, we get our first forty
Speaker 1: burger this season. Then we turn back around and I
Speaker 1: think the Cowboys might have a chance to win on
Speaker 1: the road against Seattle. We'll get to that when we
Speaker 1: get to the point too. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: you're two and one. You're feeling great about your team.
Speaker 1: So that's where I'm at. I think they turn it around.
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys get a dub on Sunday. Did
Speaker 1: I fake you out? Did I get a good lead?
Speaker 1: Corso fake out? There? You know you did? You did?
Speaker 1: Oh you did? I wish you had had to Cowboy
Speaker 1: hat from Money. I would have screamed, I'm telling you
Speaker 1: that was that was awesome. That was awesome. So I
Speaker 1: like that. Ultimately, it's gonna be a fun matchup. I
Speaker 1: think these are two very evenly matched teams. And I
Speaker 1: mean we all picked the Cowboys, I believe, except for Rob,
Speaker 1: who's like a fifty fifty based off a Tyron Smith.
Speaker 1: But uh no, I got him. I got him. He's
Speaker 1: got him all the way through. That's what I like
Speaker 1: to hear. So hopefully we're all uh we're all two
Speaker 1: and oh oh wait, I guess you guys would be
Speaker 1: one and one. I would be two and oh hopefully
Speaker 1: by the end of Sunday. Yes, I am keeping track.
Speaker 1: I am keeping tracking. You know what you know, you
Speaker 1: know what he's doing. You know what he's doing. He's
Speaker 1: just trying to protect his lead. I am that you
Speaker 1: throw that shade at us. Okay, Rob, that's all he's doing. Rob,
Speaker 1: I'm protected this case. He's tied with us next week exactly, exactly, Guys,
Speaker 1: it's been a whole lot of fun all week here
Speaker 1: on Talking Cowboys. Join us Monday nine thirty. We're gonna
Speaker 1: break down whether or not the Cowboys one or loss.
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