Speaker 1: The following.
Speaker 2: He is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com and
Speaker 2: the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.
Speaker 3: Cowboys.
Speaker 2: This He's Talking Cowboys Straining live from the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 2: World Course.
Speaker 4: At the Star in Frisco.
Speaker 3: Streak Sect.
Speaker 5: And now your hosts Isaiah Standback, Nick Harris, John Mashoda,
Speaker 5: and Kyle Yeomans.
Speaker 2: It's so Wonderful Wednesday edition of Talking Cowboys, presented by
Speaker 2: Black Rifle Coffee Company, Live.
Speaker 6: From the Star in Frisco, Texas, in the s WBC studios.
Speaker 2: It is wild Card Weekend Cowboys Packers Sunday afternoon, three
Speaker 2: thirty kickoff from beautiful at and T Stadium. We've got
Speaker 2: Isaiah stand Back back in the building today.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, John Mitchoda, Nick Harris, Chris Beam, I'm Kyle Ons.
Speaker 2: Sorry, Bud, Sorry for apologize. How was it was it fun?
Speaker 3: It was cool? It kid. I got to go with
Speaker 3: the kid. Oh man. You know, I got to see
Speaker 3: somebody My teammates didn't see a lot of them because
Speaker 3: I had the kid and a lot of the events
Speaker 3: that were going on because you were the kid friendly.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you were in like the VIP section and they
Speaker 2: were in the general public public.
Speaker 3: No No, that definitely wasn't the case.
Speaker 7: But uh landed in the helicopter on top of NRG.
Speaker 3: Yeah no, but repelled down my seats. I was at
Speaker 3: the I was sitting at the club level and three
Speaker 3: hundred level And no, I don't know. It wouldn't have sweet.
Speaker 3: It was just a higher, higher price ticket with a
Speaker 3: higher view than I probably would have would want. But
Speaker 3: it was cool. I got a chance to sit next
Speaker 3: to my guy, warm Moon. That was cool. Two quarterbacks
Speaker 3: watching the game together. It's probably a bad idea because
Speaker 3: we literally are talking through all the different situations.
Speaker 7: Who around you?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think he had his Dinnis with He's
Speaker 3: what he brought to the game. That's very interesting. But yeah,
Speaker 3: but yeah it was. It was literally myself, my son,
Speaker 3: and warm Moon. Like that was the line up there
Speaker 3: in our row. And then a couple of rolls back
Speaker 3: was the dude from barstools.
Speaker 6: What's his name, Dave Portnoy.
Speaker 3: I guess like yeah president, Yeah, the main game, the
Speaker 3: main guy.
Speaker 2: He was a few rows behind you. Yeah, oh so
Speaker 2: you had better shut up, Kyle. Yeah, he had a
Speaker 2: better interesting, better view.
Speaker 3: I guess, like a multi millionaire. Yeah, he was locked
Speaker 3: apparently he's like a big time Michigan fan, but he
Speaker 3: was like locked in. He was geared up, locked in, like.
Speaker 7: It was ridiculous, fascinating.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty cool.
Speaker 8: But you should have gotten to that though, because they're
Speaker 8: they're they're making content. Yeah, you know, I think I
Speaker 8: don't think you were going there to make content, like
Speaker 8: you know, like no.
Speaker 3: He definitely had his photographers and stuff there, like taking
Speaker 3: pictures of him watching the game, but but you could
Speaker 3: tell he was genuinely into the game, like he was
Speaker 3: locked in on the game. Like people were he was cool.
Speaker 3: People were going up and taking pictures with him. He
Speaker 3: was like okay, yeah, and it's like just like to
Speaker 3: get back to the game.
Speaker 7: Like imagine if like Brad Sham showed it to a
Speaker 7: Cowboys game with like film crew every week.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, that would make sense.
Speaker 7: I mean it would be like the content, it would be.
Speaker 6: Anybody that worth what Dave Portnoy, Yeah, take a guess
Speaker 6: what isn't that worth?
Speaker 1: Is one hundred million?
Speaker 6: Might triple digits? I would say eighty.
Speaker 7: I know he sold that company a couple of years
Speaker 7: ago for a bought it back for like half the
Speaker 7: price or.
Speaker 3: Not even far like a dollar.
Speaker 7: Oh really, friends are razy?
Speaker 6: What is it? One hundred and fifty million dollars?
Speaker 3: Goodness?
Speaker 6: Good for him? He built that from Yeah, I built
Speaker 6: that from the ground up.
Speaker 8: And on that site ground right now, what does it
Speaker 8: say the net worth is for a standard.
Speaker 3: Fifteen dollars?
Speaker 2: Well, you had better seats, so it's probably one hundred
Speaker 2: and fifty one million.
Speaker 6: What I thought.
Speaker 8: I would love for my name to pop up on
Speaker 8: there and it says like seventeen dollars and twenty.
Speaker 3: Don't forget the twenty seven. It's very more than.
Speaker 6: Twenty sixteen million. You're right, yeah, sorry, that's warn Moony exactly.
Speaker 6: Definitely be throwing shots back there.
Speaker 1: You got to get picture there. I like that, the
Speaker 1: one of you and your son and warm Moon.
Speaker 3: That dude, that's not bad, not bad. I was glad
Speaker 3: to my that was It was important to me because
Speaker 3: Warn Moon was very important to me and my development
Speaker 3: and my tenure over there at the University of Washington.
Speaker 3: He was the first African American quarterback. I was the second.
Speaker 3: We were sitting there watching the fourth. It was pretty
Speaker 3: it was pretty dope. Yeah, I'm pretty dope. Pretty surreal.
Speaker 3: My son had no idea I was talking about. So
Speaker 3: I'm like, you know who the first black quarterback was
Speaker 3: a University of Washington. He was like, yeah, you I'm not,
Speaker 3: as I said, you know what the second one was?
Speaker 3: He was like yeah, I was like you know who
Speaker 3: the first one was? He was like, no, I'm like
Speaker 3: that guy. He was like in Warren's Order eating Poper, Like.
Speaker 6: That's me.
Speaker 7: Who was the third?
Speaker 3: Uh Price? Price Price? I can look it up.
Speaker 8: Well, yeah, picture the other day on Instagram and made me,
Speaker 8: I think of you forgot to send it to you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a dope on a.
Speaker 7: Moon dus awesome, Yeah, like you can really Yeah, I
Speaker 7: could have told.
Speaker 3: You that he's the beast man.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's awesome.
Speaker 3: Though. That was all the records in Canada and the NFL.
Speaker 6: It's just in Keith Price.
Speaker 3: Keith Price.
Speaker 8: When I first started like really watching college football as
Speaker 8: a kid. Though, Washington's guy was Steve Batman, and I.
Speaker 3: See, yeah he was there. I wish I could have
Speaker 3: saw him. Man. There were so many alumni events that
Speaker 3: I just couldn't attend because they're usually bars or they
Speaker 3: had like I think they we had offset offset and
Speaker 3: some other people.
Speaker 8: I heard that it was tough for like, uh, some
Speaker 8: of the pregame tail gating and things like that because of.
Speaker 3: The weather was trash. Yeah yeah, we didn't. We were
Speaker 3: going to get to the stadium early, but it was
Speaker 3: literal thunderstorms. Like we're driving there and the clouds were grilling.
Speaker 3: It had the sunroof opening and you just feel like
Speaker 3: that gust of cold air come through it. You're like, oh,
Speaker 3: because it was like a seventy three degree day. It
Speaker 3: was cloudy, you know, on and off rain, and then
Speaker 3: it dropped down to like forty like immediately and it
Speaker 3: was just freezing and freezing rain and it was nasty.
Speaker 3: So like we parked and you just tried to hurry
Speaker 3: up and run in the stadium. And then after the
Speaker 3: game it was pouring again. I was like, come on, man,
Speaker 3: and we walked the wrong direction and they're like where
Speaker 3: did we part at?
Speaker 7: That's how it was last year at so Far for
Speaker 7: the Georgia TCU National Championship. And like the people that
Speaker 7: were sitting in the upper deck of that stadium.
Speaker 6: Were right, it was pouring, right, was one of them?
Speaker 3: He was one of the poor new Yeah it is,
Speaker 3: but that was all cowboys, baby. Yeah, my Boys had
Speaker 3: a chance that they dropped the ball. Now Cowboys got
Speaker 3: to deliver college football over over baby in the back,
Speaker 3: wildcar around here, wildcar time for a little time of.
Speaker 6: A little little news and notes.
Speaker 7: Yeah, well, there wasn't a lot that happened in the
Speaker 7: building yesterday. That's per usual, so that there's not a
Speaker 7: whole lot to dive into on news and notes. I
Speaker 7: guess you could take a look at the defensive unit
Speaker 7: and just kind of the confidences being built around, you know,
Speaker 7: the the defensive unit going into the playoffs. They're coming
Speaker 7: off a stretch where allowing eighty eight rushing yards for game,
Speaker 7: seventeen points per game in the final three games, and
Speaker 7: Jarron Curse a couple other guys. A lot of confidence
Speaker 7: in that unit. Dan Quinn expressed it on Monday as well. So,
Speaker 7: I the more I look at this Green Bay game
Speaker 7: and the more that I kind of see what they
Speaker 7: do well defenses that they have done well against, I
Speaker 7: feel really good about this Cowboys matchup. You know, I
Speaker 7: think the more I look into it, the more confidence
Speaker 7: I have that this this team should be able to
Speaker 7: pull this one off and pull it off comfortably.
Speaker 2: No updates yet on Tyron Smith. Tyler or Tyler Smith.
Speaker 2: Excuse me, yeah, Tyron Smith, he's good. It should be
Speaker 2: free to go. Yeah, not on Wood Tyler Smith and
Speaker 2: Zach Martin. Appears both of those guys are trending in
Speaker 2: the right direction.
Speaker 6: We'll get more on that today, correct.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: In terms of practice.
Speaker 3: Stefan Gilmore as well, same thing with Stefan.
Speaker 8: Any McCarthy say on Monday that he thought, as of
Speaker 8: Monday thought Tyler would be in the limited category.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, which is a step up from last week.
Speaker 7: Yeah, for sure, for sure, and that that would be
Speaker 7: huge if he's able to get on the field as
Speaker 7: limited today. Although I don't expect him to be limited
Speaker 7: today because like some of the times on Wednesdays, they'll
Speaker 7: be like, yeah, we expect him to be limited, and
Speaker 7: then they don't practice just because those Wednesdays they take
Speaker 7: really light. I would be surprised if he's limited today,
Speaker 7: but I think tomorrow would be the big determining factor
Speaker 7: on if there's actually a little bit of concern going
Speaker 7: further into a week. That's just me though, that's that's
Speaker 7: my thinking.
Speaker 8: I'm wondering if they're going to practice outside or yeah,
Speaker 8: because they're it's cold outside, but they're also playing inside,
Speaker 8: and if they win, they'll play inside again.
Speaker 1: So I'm wondering how that would be today.
Speaker 7: I mean, there's only a possibility of one more potential
Speaker 7: outdoor game the rest of the way, and it's in California.
Speaker 7: That's if they play in San Francisco and that would
Speaker 7: be warm, you would.
Speaker 2: Hope, Yeah, you would think they'd be sunny in seventy
Speaker 2: five if you hope. Now, I'm interested just from a
Speaker 2: mindset standpoint.
Speaker 6: Grass grass, Yeah, Yeah, that's the difference.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that is the difference.
Speaker 3: What I'm saying. You want to you want them to
Speaker 3: practice on grass as much as possible because of how
Speaker 3: easier it is on the joints.
Speaker 6: I'm interested from a player standpoint.
Speaker 2: Did you like it more going into playoffs because you
Speaker 2: were in playoffs scenarios with multiple teams?
Speaker 6: Did you like it better if you kept the schedule.
Speaker 2: Completely the same, didn't change anything completely, business as usual
Speaker 2: or maybe a.
Speaker 6: Little bit more emphasis, a little bit more.
Speaker 3: Intensity, business as usual? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Why is that?
Speaker 3: Because you wanted to as much as you know it's
Speaker 3: not a normal week, you want it to feel as
Speaker 3: if it's a normal week because you know, the reality
Speaker 3: is football players and most professional athletes are creatures of habit,
Speaker 3: and you don't want to break that habit. You don't
Speaker 3: want anything to mess with that schedule. So you want
Speaker 3: to keep it as normal as possible. I mean, you're
Speaker 3: still going to have more film, You're still going to
Speaker 3: put in more hours, all that kind of stuff, and
Speaker 3: people going, oh, why don't you put those hours in
Speaker 3: in the regular season. Listen, y'all, you do, but this
Speaker 3: is the playoffs, so you put in more. It's overtime,
Speaker 3: it's unpaid overtime. So you go out there. You take
Speaker 3: care of business in that regard. But yeah, you want
Speaker 3: it to be as normal as possible so that you
Speaker 3: can go out there and your your clock is rolling.
Speaker 3: You don't. That's why you don't like those Saturday games.
Speaker 3: Those Saturday games throw you off, completely flip. They completely
Speaker 3: screw you up. You know, Thursday games screw you up,
Speaker 3: and except for Cowboys, are used to that. But those
Speaker 3: Saturday games, man for playoffs, really really suck because your
Speaker 3: body clock and now you obviously turn it on, right,
Speaker 3: but your natural clock, you know, and that's in your body,
Speaker 3: like it's not on. You wake up that day and
Speaker 3: you're like, oh, okay, oh crap, we got a game today.
Speaker 3: Oh they say, you got to kind of kick yourself
Speaker 3: into gear. So I'm happy that those guys have a
Speaker 3: Sunday afternoon game.
Speaker 8: And with this particular team and the situation that they're facing,
Speaker 8: I think it would be foolish to do anything different.
Speaker 8: You've been awesome at home, You've won your last sixteen
Speaker 8: at home. It's going to be a three thirty game
Speaker 8: at home. Why would you do anything different. I am
Speaker 8: completely open to the idea of trying to change stuff up.
Speaker 8: They if let's say they go on the road to
Speaker 8: San Francisco, because of just how they've played on the road.
Speaker 8: You know, they played better obviously against Miami, but if
Speaker 8: they wanted to do something to switch some things up
Speaker 8: for that game, just because they lost them the last
Speaker 8: three times, they're like, hey, let's just try and do
Speaker 8: this a little bit differ cerently.
Speaker 1: Maybe this is a spark whatever. I can listen to that.
Speaker 8: But this week, if they win this game next week,
Speaker 8: don't you should do exactly what you've been doing.
Speaker 3: Don't touch it right.
Speaker 2: That would be interesting to see if they do upended
Speaker 2: going into San Francisco.
Speaker 6: You just completely change everything.
Speaker 3: Think San frances gonna get upset at all?
Speaker 6: What do you mean?
Speaker 7: I'm telling you the Rams beaten before then the Rams
Speaker 7: have a good chance. But I'm taking the Niners ten
Speaker 7: times out of ten.
Speaker 6: Who are you thinking?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I just I just get a sense
Speaker 3: that there's gonna be one heck of upset that nobody's
Speaker 3: seeing coming.
Speaker 1: It's going on like Packers over Cowboys.
Speaker 6: Stop stop now, man, don't say that. I can't say that.
Speaker 1: I don't work for the team. I can say I
Speaker 1: can say whatever I want.
Speaker 2: Uh, let's talk about that Packers team a little bit
Speaker 2: here unless there was any news and.
Speaker 6: No, absolutely, thank you so much, Packers, gotta check.
Speaker 7: I really had to cook something up there.
Speaker 1: I saw you.
Speaker 7: The defense.
Speaker 1: I was impressed with what you came up with.
Speaker 2: Packers the youngest team to make the playoffs since nineteen
Speaker 2: seventy eight in terms of median age.
Speaker 6: They are a young, young ball club. Does that scare
Speaker 6: you a little bit?
Speaker 2: In the fact that they're young, you can get a
Speaker 2: little over excited. You can be, of course, you're led
Speaker 2: by a young quarterback. Jordan Love, by the way, first
Speaker 2: quarterback in Packers' history to lead their team to the
Speaker 2: playoffs in his first season as the full time starter.
Speaker 8: Aware, you should be aware, do that, You should be aware.
Speaker 8: You should not be scared of anything that they're doing.
Speaker 3: Okay, what you should be scared of?
Speaker 1: Their roster.
Speaker 8: You're playing at home, you're battle tested that there's nothing
Speaker 8: that the Packers bring that you should be scared of.
Speaker 8: It shouldn't be looking back at what Vince Lombardi did,
Speaker 8: or Mike McCarthy or Aaron Rodgers or Brett Favre. That's
Speaker 8: all behind this history. A different Packers team. You've been
Speaker 8: great at home. There should be nothing that scares you.
Speaker 8: Be aware of that stuff. By all means, you should
Speaker 8: definitely not take them lately. They can beat you, but
Speaker 8: you should not be scared of that.
Speaker 6: What would they do best off of your early study.
Speaker 8: It's funny because I think that they're probably at their
Speaker 8: best when they're throwing it around.
Speaker 1: But you want to go at and t Sam throw
Speaker 1: it around.
Speaker 3: That's a bad idea.
Speaker 8: Let's see what happens bad. I don't think that's a
Speaker 8: great idea. I think that you probably need to run
Speaker 8: the ball. I thought it was interesting NFL research tweeted
Speaker 8: out that stat yesterday about of all players that have
Speaker 8: ever gone against the Cowboys at least three times or
Speaker 8: more rushing wise, the highest rushing average any running back
Speaker 8: has ever had against the Cowboys is Aaron joneses like
Speaker 8: at one to twenty point something. So two is Barry
Speaker 8: Sanders and three is Walter Payton. So I think their
Speaker 8: best bet is to run the football and keep the
Speaker 8: Cowboys offense on the sideline. Yeah, but their best thing
Speaker 8: is probably thrown it around. I mean, Jordan Love had
Speaker 8: had a big year statistically with his arm. He's got
Speaker 8: some weapons on the outside. But I think that's a
Speaker 8: foolish game plan to go in at and t Staum
Speaker 8: think that you guys want to get in a shootout
Speaker 8: with with this Cowboys offense.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and that running back room has been just so
Speaker 7: banged up this year too. It's interesting how they kind
Speaker 7: of approach this game. I will say that offensive line's
Speaker 7: been really good for them. They're allowing the fourth few
Speaker 7: of sacks in the NFL into the season, really strong,
Speaker 7: only allowed too in the final three games. So if
Speaker 7: they want to pass it around and they want to
Speaker 7: enact that play action game that they do so well,
Speaker 7: then you know they've they've certainly shown that they can
Speaker 7: do that. But what will win is that the Cowboys
Speaker 7: pass rush ers are the protection up front for Green Bay.
Speaker 7: If they can get some protection, then you know, I
Speaker 7: think they'll be able to make some things happen. But
Speaker 7: if they can't, I just I just don't see where
Speaker 7: this offense finds consistency. That's that's me specifically. They also
Speaker 7: do really well out of the halftime break. I think
Speaker 7: this is something to kind of point out. They score
Speaker 7: the second most points in the NFL, or actually the
Speaker 7: most points in the NFL in the third quarter. Cowboys
Speaker 7: are bottom five in the league in the third quarter.
Speaker 7: So I think coming out of the break really strong
Speaker 7: with those halftime adjustments, if the Cowboys can kind of
Speaker 7: mitigate that and do those two things, if they can
Speaker 7: attack the pass, run, attack the Jordan love, and come
Speaker 7: out of the half strong, they win this game comfortably
Speaker 7: in my eyes.
Speaker 2: And you mentioned the run game and how much they've
Speaker 2: they didn't rely on that early in the season. I mean,
Speaker 2: when they've been winning these games late, they've they've relied
Speaker 2: on Aaron Jones last three games, he had one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty seven, one hundred.
Speaker 6: And twenty one hundred and eleven.
Speaker 2: So, I mean they used him quite a bit, and
Speaker 2: he had twenty plus carries in each of those games
Speaker 2: with with Aaron Jones and I, like you said, they've
Speaker 2: they've had a banged up running back room.
Speaker 6: Do you feel better.
Speaker 2: Now going up against a two headed attack out of
Speaker 2: the backfield than you did a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 2: just based off of what you've done these last three weeks.
Speaker 2: If the if you're the Cowboys after Buffalo torched you
Speaker 2: for two sixty six.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think there's I think that's healthy.
Speaker 1: A little bit of Higgins is up back. I mean
Speaker 1: that's a huge part of it.
Speaker 3: That's big, I think. So, I mean this is this
Speaker 3: I feel like they're playing themselves offensively. Yeah. This is
Speaker 3: a West Coast offense like Packers. Yeah, like to the
Speaker 3: t like this is the route, combinations, the concepts. I mean,
Speaker 3: this is literally Coach McCarthy reincarnated on that side with
Speaker 3: less weapons. So our defense should be very familiar with
Speaker 3: the style of offense. I think the biggest challenge to
Speaker 3: the Dallas Cowboy's defense this week is going to be communication.
Speaker 3: I truly believe it's going to be communication just because
Speaker 3: of how these guys get to their route concepts. They're
Speaker 3: running a lot of bunch sets, tons of bunch sets,
Speaker 3: and even when they're not in bunch, they motion to
Speaker 3: a bunch or they shift to some type of bunch.
Speaker 3: Everything's a three by one. Like almost everything they do
Speaker 3: comes out of a three man route combination, and it's
Speaker 3: hard to decipher who has who and when you're trying
Speaker 3: to play man and man, communication becomes very important because
Speaker 3: you need to figure out Hey, on the switch releases,
Speaker 3: you know who's taking what guy? Are we in and
Speaker 3: out in this? Are we locking it? When you're playing
Speaker 3: zone this, if he has time back there, They these
Speaker 3: concepts will can eat up the zone in a heartbeat,
Speaker 3: and you have to play it balanced because they have
Speaker 3: a running They do have these guys that have a
Speaker 3: solid running attack. I don't think they're home run hitters.
Speaker 3: They're definitely not home run hitters at the running back
Speaker 3: position in terms of their scheme, but they definitely like
Speaker 3: to create shorter down of distances. They want to have
Speaker 3: all This team is more disciplined in terms of just
Speaker 3: having longwithstanding drives. They want to end up in second
Speaker 3: and four. They want to end up, you know, in
Speaker 3: third and three, like they're comfortable in that position. And
Speaker 3: then it makes it difficult for you to really be
Speaker 3: aggressive because they only need a handful of yards to
Speaker 3: get the first down and move the chains. They're not
Speaker 3: trying to take the big boy shots over the top.
Speaker 3: They don't feel the necessity to do so. So these
Speaker 3: guys are patient in that regard, and I think that's
Speaker 3: going to be the greatest challenge to Dallas. Can you
Speaker 3: communicate in the passing game. Can you negate even their
Speaker 3: ability to get three or four yards on the ground right,
Speaker 3: You're not trying to stop them from cutting back and
Speaker 3: taking this thing, you know, taking the top off it.
Speaker 3: These guys just want to be manageable down in distance,
Speaker 3: and they are disciplined enough to keep going it like
Speaker 3: that the whole game. So conditioning is going to be
Speaker 3: huge as well. And then you have to get some stops,
Speaker 3: and to your point, they can't. They can't win in
Speaker 3: a shootout, but they do a good job of having
Speaker 3: sustained drive to.
Speaker 7: The point of getting stops. I think one of the
Speaker 7: more important things up with this top three in this
Speaker 7: game is winning the time of possession battle. Yeah, and
Speaker 7: we've seen that be so critical for the Cowboys this
Speaker 7: year and whenever they possessed the ball thirty five minutes
Speaker 7: or more than unefeated six and zero. So, especially in
Speaker 7: a game like this where you're gonna try to mitigate
Speaker 7: the run and limit what Aaron Jones and AJ Dillon
Speaker 7: do out of the backfield, you want to take the
Speaker 7: ball out of a quarterback that's a top five passer
Speaker 7: in the league second touchdowns, you got to win that
Speaker 7: time in possession battle.
Speaker 3: And it's really weird that his stat line is like that.
Speaker 3: It's mainly because it's offense, because it's the West Coast offense.
Speaker 3: He gets the ball out of his hand relatively quickly, right,
Speaker 3: So that's why I would imagine his stats are like that.
Speaker 3: But I don't like his ball, Like, I don't like
Speaker 3: his ball. It's weird. His ball like floats. There's no
Speaker 3: velocity on his throws whatsoever.
Speaker 2: That was a knock on him coming out of the
Speaker 2: draft is that he didn't have enough I guess just
Speaker 2: playing in simple velocity.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean he's got a strong arm, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 2: He can get it down the field. He can get
Speaker 2: it down the field, but it's in the air forever.
Speaker 3: Yeah. So in regards to and again, I didn't do
Speaker 3: a bunch of research on Jordan Left prior to this game, right,
Speaker 3: I'm looking at him in depth now, But like his ball,
Speaker 3: he's on time. So in terms of him not getting sacked,
Speaker 3: it makes sense because he's getting the ball out on time,
Speaker 3: but he's releasing the ball so early that the defensive
Speaker 3: backs have just as great of an opportunity to find
Speaker 3: the ball in the air than the receiver does, and
Speaker 3: it's not getting there in a quick manner. So if
Speaker 3: you can be in a good position and you can
Speaker 3: get your head turned around, I think our dbs have
Speaker 3: a great chance of getting multiple interceptions in this game, multiple, multiple, multiple. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean the ball seems like it's in the air
Speaker 3: for twenty minutes. And I'm not talking about one or
Speaker 3: two throws. I'm talking about I'm watching a lot of
Speaker 3: his stuff and I'm like, yo, like this. Yeah.
Speaker 7: I know, I've already brought it up a couple of
Speaker 7: times this week, and I think it's just it's an
Speaker 7: important note. In this game. The Cowboys rare opportunity that
Speaker 7: they have the experience advantage in a playoff game, and
Speaker 7: this is definitely one. Whenever you're going up against the
Speaker 7: Packers offense, the oldest guy in their entire past or
Speaker 7: in their entire ball catching room, whether that be receivers
Speaker 7: or tied as Christian Watson, and he's twenty.
Speaker 3: Four years old.
Speaker 7: Yeah, their top six leading receivers are either rookies or
Speaker 7: second year guys. I mean, it's crazy. And you got
Speaker 7: Jordan Low first year starter. I think if you put
Speaker 7: the pressure on them early, you get points, take the ball,
Speaker 7: get points, and you sustain that over the course of
Speaker 7: the first half, and you make sure that they don't
Speaker 7: come out of the half strong. I think they were
Speaker 7: this game by two scores.
Speaker 8: You go up, you go into the fourth quarter up fourteen,
Speaker 8: and you don't blow that.
Speaker 6: Please please sounds great.
Speaker 2: Force them to throw the ball around a little bit,
Speaker 2: get after it. I want to continue this conversation a
Speaker 2: little bit when we come back talking about the defensive
Speaker 2: matchup versus Green Bay.
Speaker 6: Where is this defense going to spread? Plus, I want
Speaker 6: to play a little game with you guys.
Speaker 2: Isaiah is not allowed to play unless he puts his
Speaker 2: phone down because we have the same notes.
Speaker 6: We share the same Google doc. So when we come
Speaker 6: back here on Talking Cowboys.
Speaker 9: Todd thought it would be secure to jog in the
Speaker 9: cheat of Savannah. Todd believed the big Cat repellent he
Speaker 9: bought online was reliable. Todd is trying to be faster
Speaker 9: than this cheetah that can run eighty miles per hour.
Speaker 9: But the good news is Todd has AT and T
Speaker 9: five G. It is fast, reliable, and secure, and he
Speaker 9: learned the best thing to do is stop running and
Speaker 9: toss her the backpack with the beef stew At and
Speaker 9: T five G. Faster, reliable, secure, It's not complicated.
Speaker 5: Five G requires compatable planning device. Five G may not
Speaker 5: be available in your area. See att dot com slash
Speaker 5: fi G for you for details.
Speaker 10: Black Rifle Coffee Company serves premium coffee to people who
Speaker 10: love America. When you drink Black Rifle Coffee, you are
Speaker 10: directly supporting veterans, law enforcement, and first responders in your community.
Speaker 10: Black Rifles expert roasters love coffee almost as much as
Speaker 10: Texas loves football, so it makes sense that America's coffee
Speaker 10: partner with America's team.
Speaker 11: Go online at.
Speaker 10: Black Riflecoffee dot com and fuel up with the official
Speaker 10: coffee of the Dallas Cowboys. That's Black Riflecoffee dot Com.
Speaker 10: To fuel up.
Speaker 2: Today, Cowboys fans. After that move, we've just coined the
Speaker 2: term rowdy replay. Let's roll back the table.
Speaker 12: Okay, there's our mascot Rowdy cheering on the boys. And
Speaker 12: now he's on his phone on his Bank of America
Speaker 12: Mobile Banking.
Speaker 2: App, staying on top of his finances with his virtual
Speaker 2: financial Assistant Erica.
Speaker 12: Bank of America's digital tools are so impressive. Cowboys fans
Speaker 12: just can't stop banking. Learn more at Bank of America
Speaker 12: dot com. Slash can't Stop Banking Everica.
Speaker 6: It's only available in the Englis language.
Speaker 2: You must download the latest version of the Mobile Banking app,
Speaker 2: only available on some like mobile devices.
Speaker 6: Message dat rags apply, remember fdic.
Speaker 13: Welcome back into Dear Doctor, the show where I answer
Speaker 13: life's questions with an ice cold can of doctor pepper. Sheila,
Speaker 13: let's hear from my next caller, would you, Dear Doctor?
Speaker 3: My friend supported me during a tough time.
Speaker 11: But what's the right gift that says thanks for being the.
Speaker 4: Soldier to cry out?
Speaker 13: Okay, this one's easy, I say, give her a delicious
Speaker 13: doctor pepper nothing says thanks gul better than one of
Speaker 13: a kind soda. Yes, any Doctor Pepper flavor will do. Now,
Speaker 13: just a reminder that I don't need to be a
Speaker 13: real doctor to know that Doctor Pepper is the one
Speaker 13: you deserve.
Speaker 4: To the Talking Cowboys.
Speaker 2: Back, You're on Talking Cowboys presented by a Black Rifle
Speaker 2: Coffee Company. This portion end of the show is brought
Speaker 2: to you by Quake Oats, a super trusted super food
Speaker 2: Quaker Roat City official oatmeal sponsor of the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 6: You made the road trip back yesterday. You got back
Speaker 6: in town. Did you get your oats in this morning?
Speaker 3: I did not. I have my baby girl with me
Speaker 3: and she's not allowed in the lunch room, so I
Speaker 3: did not get my Quaker Oats with me.
Speaker 1: So what did you eat?
Speaker 3: Actually, Wednesday mornings are usually our waffle house stuff, So
Speaker 3: you stopped there? Yeah, we did.
Speaker 7: I'm gonna join you all of these days right now.
Speaker 3: My wife and I are having a competition right now
Speaker 3: in terms of body competition, so it's not the place
Speaker 3: that I necessarily should be going.
Speaker 6: Don't get my chocolate chip waffle.
Speaker 3: What you get waffle and eggs? I eat a bunch
Speaker 3: of eggs A bunch of eggs. Yeah, yeah, okay, disappointed.
Speaker 3: I ate half my waffle though.
Speaker 6: He was there to do the waffle house challenge. Yeah,
Speaker 6: that would run four eggs.
Speaker 7: Yeah. I would never go to waffle her again.
Speaker 3: I got get back in the track. I had a
Speaker 3: lot of You went to a movie theater down there
Speaker 3: in Houston, to a movie theater that has a vi
Speaker 3: Shut up, Kyle has a VIP section. There's a v
Speaker 3: you can pay for a VIP ticket.
Speaker 7: That's the most Houston thing I've ever heard.
Speaker 3: So it's sectioned off, right, So it's a whole another
Speaker 3: part of the building.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: It has his own movie theaters and you have unlimited listen,
Speaker 3: unlimited ices. Found drinks and popcorn. There's the bottles.
Speaker 6: That's the bottle, right, bro.
Speaker 3: It was so word husky.
Speaker 6: They got like the color pis in their hands like
Speaker 6: it was so worth it.
Speaker 3: Bro.
Speaker 8: So I only went one time to one of those
Speaker 8: I'm not gonna say the name of the.
Speaker 1: Theater, one where you can eat.
Speaker 3: There.
Speaker 8: This dude that was sitting like two rows behind got
Speaker 8: like some like chocolate Sunday and it was in like
Speaker 8: a you know, in the in the glass type Sunday
Speaker 8: thing and just like, yeah, you're in.
Speaker 1: The middle of movie, Like, bro, you get it all.
Speaker 3: We're good. I hate trying to watch this thing.
Speaker 1: I'm never doing it.
Speaker 3: I hate like unnecessary noises. Crazy.
Speaker 7: You got like another section in the corner and they're
Speaker 7: buying like all the.
Speaker 3: I whatever, giving me another round. It was awesome though,
Speaker 3: because my son was like killing his icy. He's doing
Speaker 3: the same day. I'm like, bro, it's gone. You want
Speaker 3: another one, like, I'm gonna go get you another.
Speaker 2: Gets you one more as long as you stop tell
Speaker 2: me what I missed in a movie.
Speaker 3: Akwarman.
Speaker 6: I was good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was good. I liked it.
Speaker 6: You didn't like the first one?
Speaker 3: I did not, Yeah, I did not.
Speaker 6: Like I'm actually shocked that you went to the.
Speaker 3: First one was pretty soft, but I mean first one
Speaker 3: was pretty soft, but I like the second one.
Speaker 6: All right, let's get back to football.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: Green Bay wins seven.
Speaker 2: Of the last ten to go into the plays playoffs
Speaker 2: and to make the postseason. Isaiah was talking about it
Speaker 2: a little bit, the makeup of this team, the way
Speaker 2: that they work effectively down the field.
Speaker 6: I want to play a little game with you guys.
Speaker 2: Where do you guys think these two ranks or let
Speaker 2: me rephrase, which team do you think ranks higher in
Speaker 2: these categories? So more efficient between the Cowboys and the Packers.
Speaker 2: We'll start with average pass EPA. You think it's the
Speaker 2: Cowboys or the Packers that ranks higher.
Speaker 7: Explain what average pass EPA is again.
Speaker 2: So it's expected play basically, is EPA is when you decide.
Speaker 6: To throw a pass.
Speaker 2: It's the expected analytics of how successful and how many
Speaker 2: yards it does on average basically.
Speaker 6: Okay, it's kind of a hard thing to explain without reading.
Speaker 3: The exact A tough question being that these are the
Speaker 3: same offense as pretty much, Kyle, you.
Speaker 7: Would take the Packers here though, because I feel like
Speaker 7: they take a little bit more downfield shots.
Speaker 6: Okay, it's a good question.
Speaker 1: I mean, I hate to just make fun of your
Speaker 1: game here.
Speaker 8: But if you guys looked at the Packers schedule, yeah,
Speaker 8: Cowboys might have two losses against that schedule, So none
Speaker 8: of these stats will surprise me.
Speaker 1: Green Bay, Green May is not in the playoffs that
Speaker 1: they played the Cowboys.
Speaker 6: Schedule Chicago, Atlanta, New Orleans, Detroit.
Speaker 1: Be a loss on there that the Cowboys play.
Speaker 3: That Detroit, Maybe at Detroit.
Speaker 6: Maybe at the Troit. Well they won at Detroit.
Speaker 3: You know that.
Speaker 1: You're sure about that, the Chiefs at that point. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we'll give them two.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the Chiefs weren't playing very at Chicago. Come on, yeah,
Speaker 6: that's rough against the bad Rams team.
Speaker 2: It was against the bad Broncos team that they lost to.
Speaker 1: Just want to keep everything in perspective.
Speaker 3: No, that's a good point. No, I'm glad you did.
Speaker 2: But average pass EPA, John, which one you think like Packers?
Speaker 8: I mean, there's this daunting schedule. I know how they
Speaker 8: got passed that. I don't know how they started out
Speaker 8: two and five.
Speaker 2: Looking at uh, Cowboys actually ranked higher. They're second in
Speaker 2: the league in average pass e p A. Yeah, Packers
Speaker 2: are fifth.
Speaker 3: What about run.
Speaker 6: Run EPA rush e PA. You think that's Packers far
Speaker 6: and away, you think that's the Cowboys.
Speaker 7: I would think Packers in that most of them have
Speaker 7: had kind of an under the they've kind of stopped
Speaker 7: trying to No, no, no, I'm not. They've kind of fell
Speaker 7: short of expectations to put that down stuff. He's over your.
Speaker 6: Cheating, he's looking at the same notes.
Speaker 7: I would take Cowboys, Okay, slightly.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna guess Cowboys.
Speaker 6: It's the Cowboys.
Speaker 2: Which surprised me whenever I looked at him is the
Speaker 2: fact that the Cowboys, like you said, sneaky season, but
Speaker 2: not the not the rushing campaign that you thought that
Speaker 2: they were going to have.
Speaker 6: You thought Dallas was going to be effective running the football.
Speaker 2: They're seventh in the league and average rush EPA and
Speaker 2: the Packers are twelve.
Speaker 3: A couple more.
Speaker 2: And honestly, John, you you were making the point before
Speaker 2: I made the point to a certain extent.
Speaker 6: You talk about average pass EPA allowed. It's not on the.
Speaker 3: I'm looking at the reflections your intuition here.
Speaker 2: Average pass EPA allowed Cowboys seventh, Packers twenty third, average
Speaker 2: rush EPA allowed Cowboys tenth, Packers are twenty third.
Speaker 6: Cowboys have no business messing around in this game early.
Speaker 2: It is ultimately the point that I was trying to make,
Speaker 2: which and to add to it, John, talking about the
Speaker 2: schedule specifically top to bottom. This was against a much
Speaker 2: worse schedule competition wise than what Dallas had.
Speaker 6: At any point in the campaign.
Speaker 3: So what about this offense gives you the bubble guts?
Speaker 3: Honestly about it, That's what we're talking about today, right,
Speaker 3: Packer's office efficiency.
Speaker 7: But like that doesn't give me bubble guts. I think
Speaker 7: it's just something they do well. There's nothing that gives
Speaker 7: me bubble guts.
Speaker 8: I would say the biggest thing is just them coming
Speaker 8: into the game nothing to lose, and you just get
Speaker 8: some guys that just play.
Speaker 1: Above what they normally like in the offense.
Speaker 8: About the Packers offense, That's what I'm talking about. Like
Speaker 8: Jordan Love has these floaters that you're talking about, Yeah,
Speaker 8: and they're just not picked.
Speaker 1: They just end up getting That's what I'm talking about.
Speaker 8: That would be the only only thing again kind of
Speaker 8: yeah again though, I just a big playability to I'm
Speaker 8: not like, I'm not a Cowboys fan, so when I
Speaker 8: say things like this, I don't care about the Jinxes people.
Speaker 1: Oh, don't say it, you're gonna jinx whatever like that.
Speaker 8: I'm just like, I've seen this Cowboys team play too
Speaker 8: many times at home for me to sit there and
Speaker 8: think that for me to expect anything other than to
Speaker 8: win this game, I.
Speaker 3: Don't really care where the game is being played.
Speaker 1: I just think you don't think it matters sixteen in
Speaker 1: a row.
Speaker 8: Nobody else is doing I isn't close to doing that
Speaker 8: if it's just not.
Speaker 3: A big deal that it matters to the outside. But
Speaker 3: I'm talking about I look at personnel matchups. I don't
Speaker 3: give a dog on where I play. We can play
Speaker 3: at the playground for all don't care well, but.
Speaker 1: A particular team that we cover isn't in the realm.
Speaker 3: I hear you. But I'm looking at matchups, and when
Speaker 3: I look at matchups, I feel confident in Dallas's ability.
Speaker 3: I want to see Jordan Love under pressure.
Speaker 8: My argument to that is I can look at matchups
Speaker 8: where you're like Cowboys advantage, Cowboys advantage, coverage advantage, and
Speaker 8: it can be on the road and I'll be like,
Speaker 8: I still don't know about this game.
Speaker 1: So that's the only problem with this particular team.
Speaker 3: I hear you. I hear you, so taking that out
Speaker 3: of it, taking out where you're playing at. I'm looking
Speaker 3: at the players, and that's what I look.
Speaker 1: At players too.
Speaker 8: If all their alarm clocks wake come up at that
Speaker 8: exact same time, the same route to the stadium, I
Speaker 8: really like their I really like their chances.
Speaker 3: I like I like Dallas's chances too. I foresee the
Speaker 3: only problem with this team being that they are consistent,
Speaker 3: and they are persistent, right, and their ability to be
Speaker 3: balanced offensively, you're talking about green Banks, That's what we're
Speaker 3: talking about that. So I mean, like, yes, like their
Speaker 3: ability to be balanced bothers me. Their efficiency bothers me,
Speaker 3: and that should bother Dallas and they're gonna have to
Speaker 3: do something to disrupt that. You can't. The Gilmore injury
Speaker 3: affects how aggressive you could be in the secondary physical physically, right,
Speaker 3: So now you're asking your guys to play coverage, whether
Speaker 3: it's man or zone from off. You're you're asking you
Speaker 3: guys to play off coverage now because Gilmore is not
Speaker 3: gonna be able to come up and jam up people
Speaker 3: with that shoulder, regardless if he's on the field or not. Okay,
Speaker 3: And if he can't come up in jam, then nobody
Speaker 3: else is really gonna come up in jam, right, because
Speaker 3: you have to be able to decipher who's doing what
Speaker 3: and who's playing who and the concepts that they run.
Speaker 3: I have a little bit of bubble guts that they
Speaker 3: take the they take some of the win out of
Speaker 3: the Dallas's sale being at their at home, right, John
Speaker 3: is going to your point, energy and all that jazz.
Speaker 3: You're getting hyped up. And it's third down, it's third
Speaker 3: and three, and it's oh they mood of chains. Here
Speaker 3: he goes third down again and they moved to changed right,
Speaker 3: and just them just being able to sustain drives and
Speaker 3: winning that time of position that you're talking about, nick right,
Speaker 3: being able to take the win out of Dallas's sales
Speaker 3: and not just getting really close to making big plays
Speaker 3: with them just not happening, right. And that's my only
Speaker 3: fear that I have about Dallas' defense versus Green Bay's offense.
Speaker 3: There's nothing lightning about it. There's nothing that's gonna like
Speaker 3: there's I don't fear a big spark from these guys.
Speaker 3: It's not a Dolphins, it's not a it's not a Buffalo.
Speaker 3: It's not a big play type team. It's just a
Speaker 3: team that's just gonna chip away, chip away, chip away.
Speaker 3: All right, do we score awesome? Okay, Now, we're just
Speaker 3: hoping that our defense can make a stop, right and
Speaker 3: then if they if you don't score on office, then
Speaker 3: they're right back to it. Chip away, chip away, chip away.
Speaker 3: And all of a sudden, you looking around, you're like, dang,
Speaker 3: it's a dog on the third quarter. Right, that's my
Speaker 3: only that's my only fear. If I have one, that
Speaker 3: that is it.
Speaker 7: I'll say this. I think the best defense for the
Speaker 7: Cowboys on Sunday is offense. Like if they can if
Speaker 7: they could chip away some clock again, win that time
Speaker 7: of possession battle and get it going. I'm not doing this,
Speaker 7: Derek shout out over there. I think if they could
Speaker 7: just have long, sustaint drives and keep that offense off
Speaker 7: the field, then it just whittles down their opportunity to win.
Speaker 7: I don't see. We'll talk more about it tomorrow. I
Speaker 7: think there's a ton of opportunities for this cow offense tomorrow.
Speaker 7: But but yeah, that's how I see.
Speaker 3: Does that make sense? Though?
Speaker 4: It does?
Speaker 3: It does so like just just consistency, man, Like there's
Speaker 3: I know a lot of times we want to sit
Speaker 3: up here and talk about splash players and how you know,
Speaker 3: big play that's not them, that's not and then and
Speaker 3: they don't third down doesn't bother them. There's some teams
Speaker 3: with third down there, like they get jittery. They're like,
Speaker 3: oh crap, here we goes third down. Here comes Dallas
Speaker 3: with their blitzer, and here comes Dallas with their pass rushers.
Speaker 3: I don't see them being nervous about that. Now they
Speaker 3: need to, they need to respect the crap out of it.
Speaker 3: But I don't foresee Green Bay coming in here being
Speaker 3: nervous about third down situations in this past rush. Now
Speaker 3: you have to earn that right by going out there
Speaker 3: and taking care of business on Sunday. You hit Jordan
Speaker 3: Love a couple times in his mouth, then they'll have
Speaker 3: a reason to fear it. But I don't foresee them
Speaker 3: coming in with a fear. I think they come in
Speaker 3: with a respect and a high regard. But again because
Speaker 3: of the scheme that they run. This is Dallas's offense.
Speaker 3: For all those people that haven't watched film yet, this
Speaker 3: is pretty much what Dallas does offensively, except for they
Speaker 3: do it a lot more with two tight ends, and
Speaker 3: they do it a lot more out of the bunch formation.
Speaker 8: And you're worried about them getting the ball out quick,
Speaker 8: they're going to and just slowly.
Speaker 3: And I'm worried about them getting the ball out quick
Speaker 3: and us playing soft in the secondary because of what
Speaker 3: we have out there and what their capabilities are. I
Speaker 3: don't want this team to be able to keep just
Speaker 3: work this way down the field.
Speaker 8: I don't see why you would play so off against him.
Speaker 8: I'm agree is because be aggressive. They beat you on
Speaker 8: a big one. Oh well, now you get the ball.
Speaker 8: Now you go do the same thing to this, I
Speaker 8: totally agree.
Speaker 3: But Gilmore, like I'm projecting based upon my personal experience,
Speaker 3: I don't foresee Gilmore having the capabilities of being able
Speaker 3: to be press and be physical.
Speaker 8: Well, I'm saying that with that he can possibly get beat.
Speaker 8: Let's say, give up a couple touch up. Well, then
Speaker 8: you come right back at them. You don't sit back
Speaker 8: and let them slowly bleed you like that.
Speaker 1: You just don't do that. You come up and you
Speaker 1: play aggressive. They beat in a couple of plays.
Speaker 8: They beat you in a couple of plays because you
Speaker 8: can't sit there and let them just beat you with
Speaker 8: a constant quick game. You need to allow the best
Speaker 8: thing you have going for you on defense. As far
Speaker 8: as I'm concerned, is that health of your adjur rushers.
Speaker 8: I mean, Mike Parsons is healthy, to Marcus Sowren's is healthy,
Speaker 8: Dorance Armstrong is healthy. Dante Follower like, you have all
Speaker 8: these dogs ready to eat, you have to allow them
Speaker 8: to eat.
Speaker 3: I agree, I am with you.
Speaker 2: I think it's a good conversation because this is a
Speaker 2: team in Green Bay that has a similar mindset, a
Speaker 2: similar game plan, or might have a similar game plan
Speaker 2: as to what Buffalo did to you a couple of
Speaker 2: weeks ago. They're not nearly as physical, They're not nearly
Speaker 2: as talented as Buffalo. I'm not comparing the talent and
Speaker 2: the physicality. But that's what Buffalo did. They move the chains,
Speaker 2: they kept going. It wasn't the big playability. It was
Speaker 2: the run game. It was bleeding you to death, and
Speaker 2: it was just death by a thousand cuts. That's what
Speaker 2: Green Bay would like to do to take the crowd
Speaker 2: out of it early. Whether or not they're good enough
Speaker 2: to do it, that's still to be seen. Because I
Speaker 2: agree with John, I think health wise, this is a
Speaker 2: Cowboys team that's going to have a lot in their favor.
Speaker 6: All right.
Speaker 2: When we come back here on Talking Cowboys, little national
Speaker 2: storylines to get you ready.
Speaker 6: For Super Wildcard weekend. We got some stuff coming up
Speaker 6: here on the other side of the break, more Talking Cowboys.
Speaker 3: Right after this.
Speaker 11: They say champions are remembered, but legends are never forgotten.
Speaker 11: United Agon Turf offers a winning lineup of John Deere
Speaker 11: equipment built to tackle any challenge on and off the field.
Speaker 11: Legendary John Deere Tractors combines residential mowers, commercial mowers, compact
Speaker 11: construction equipment, cater utility vehicles, and a full line of
Speaker 11: golf and sports turf equipment. United Agon Turf the official
Speaker 11: agonturf equipment supplier of the Dallas Cowboys. Visit United Agonturf
Speaker 11: dot com to find a location near you.
Speaker 10: Are you ready to take coffee off your grocery list forever?
Speaker 10: Black Rifle Coffee Club is here to help. As a
Speaker 10: Coffee Club member, you'll get your favorite coffees, roasted package
Speaker 10: and ship to your door free of charge on your
Speaker 10: preferred schedule. Set it, forget it, and never run low
Speaker 10: on coffee again. Members also get exclusive deals on coffee
Speaker 10: products and discounts from partner brands. Ease your mind and
Speaker 10: let Black Rifle worry about your coffee supply. Go to
Speaker 10: Black Rifle Coffee dot com to join the Coffee Club today.
Speaker 2: It's the official men's skincare brand of the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 2: Jack Black and Right Now, Cowboys fans can get fifteen
Speaker 2: percent off their seventy five dollars order plus. Because every
Speaker 2: deal needs a playmaker, Your order will include a free
Speaker 2: five piece skincare set and free shipping. The Jack Black
Speaker 2: Playmaker is four of Jack's favorites and a full sized
Speaker 2: intense therapy whipball. Make a play for the playmaker at
Speaker 2: Getjack Black dot com slash Cowboys with the code Cowboys VIP.
Speaker 2: That's get Jack Black dot com slash Cowboys with the
Speaker 2: code Cowboys VIP.
Speaker 9: Tod thought it would be secure to jog in the
Speaker 9: Cheatah Savannah. Todd believed the big Cat repellent he bought
Speaker 9: online was reliable, and now Todd is trying to be
Speaker 9: faster than this cheetah that can run eighty miles per ho.
Speaker 9: But the good news is Todd has AT and T
Speaker 9: five G. It is fast, reliable, and secure, and he
Speaker 9: learned the best thing to do is stop running and
Speaker 9: toss her the backpack with the beef stew At and
Speaker 9: T five G. Fast, reliable, secure, It's not complicated.
Speaker 5: Five G requires compatable plan and device five G may
Speaker 5: not be available in your area. See att dot com
Speaker 5: slash five G for you for details.
Speaker 4: To Talking Cowboys.
Speaker 2: Back here on Talking Cowboys presented by a Black Rifle
Speaker 2: Coffee Company. This segment of the show is brought to
Speaker 2: you by in visial Line, the official Smile of the
Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys, Isaiah stand Back, John Matchoda, Nick Harris, Chris
Speaker 2: Beam in the back of Kyle's all right, John National storylines,
Speaker 2: It's playoff time.
Speaker 3: Wild Card Baby, here we go.
Speaker 1: We're jumping all the way to super Bowl. Here, super
Speaker 1: Bowl odds coming at you.
Speaker 6: I didn't take long.
Speaker 1: Who do you think is the favorite to win the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl right now?
Speaker 8: Baltimore's forty nine Ers, they're plus two to twenty five.
Speaker 8: Ravens are second at plus three twenty five. Who do
Speaker 8: you think is third?
Speaker 7: The Bills?
Speaker 3: I agree with you there, Yeah, give me Buffalo.
Speaker 7: I've been hot.
Speaker 8: So there's a there's a drop off between the Bills,
Speaker 8: I mean, sorry, the forty nine Ers and Ravens. Then
Speaker 8: it's the Bills at three. But it's very close between
Speaker 8: the Bills and who's at four?
Speaker 3: I know the answer, Dallas, right.
Speaker 8: So do you guys look at that as kind of
Speaker 8: it's those four and then everybody else?
Speaker 7: Yeah, though, because I feel like any other team in
Speaker 7: the NFC could catch Dallas on the wrong day, for sure.
Speaker 7: It likewise for the Bills. You know, I feel like
Speaker 7: the Bills could get tripped up at some point. Oh
Speaker 7: it takes is Josh Allen throwing three picks and the
Speaker 7: Steelers are in the divisional rounds.
Speaker 6: Kind of like what we talked about a little bit.
Speaker 2: It was either Monday or yeah, or it was yesterday
Speaker 2: when we were talking about how there's there's six.
Speaker 6: Teams in my head that can win at all.
Speaker 2: There's six teams and Baltimore, San Francisco, Buffalo, Dallas, I
Speaker 2: would say Detroit, and maybe Kansas City.
Speaker 6: I don't think any of those other teams can win
Speaker 6: has a chance this year. That's why I said maybe Kansas.
Speaker 6: So maybe five and a half teams.
Speaker 7: I'm a little bit more pessimistic. I really only see
Speaker 7: like two.
Speaker 6: Yeah, see, but that's the NFL.
Speaker 2: Though I agree with you logistically, I would say it's
Speaker 2: Baltimore San Francisco, but it never works out like that,
Speaker 2: and if it does, it does I mean, they're the
Speaker 2: one seeds for a reason.
Speaker 8: So Vegas is with you for the most part, except
Speaker 8: for on your Detroit. So Vegas actually has after the
Speaker 8: Cowboys have the Chiefs, Eagles, Dolphins, and then the Lions.
Speaker 1: The Lions are plus two thousand. It's a long level
Speaker 1: rope my thing on the Lions.
Speaker 8: So I just I haven't looked this up, and I
Speaker 8: probably should have. Is I just don't know, like Dan Campbell,
Speaker 8: you know, your first time coaching a team in the playoffs, like,
Speaker 8: it just seems hard for that to be a team
Speaker 8: that to go to the super Bowl, like usually you
Speaker 8: have to kind of get there, you know, kind.
Speaker 6: Of isn't it Mike McDaniel's first time.
Speaker 1: Too, though, I also don't think they're winning the Super Bowl?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well I know, but I'm saying compared to the
Speaker 2: Vegas Oh yeah, specifically.
Speaker 8: But it's I mean, it's very It's not that much
Speaker 8: higher than the Lions. And then the other one I
Speaker 8: want to talk about most likely super Bowl matchup? Obviously
Speaker 8: the first is going to be the forty nine Ers Ravens.
Speaker 8: What do you think is the next most likely Super
Speaker 8: Bowl matchup?
Speaker 3: Dallas?
Speaker 6: Baltimore in Dallas?
Speaker 1: No on either of those two, either of them?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Buffalo and Bills Niners.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had a vision that there's gonna be Baltimore
Speaker 3: in Dallas, just saying.
Speaker 1: And then what do you think when was this vision?
Speaker 3: Was this like last week or I think I was
Speaker 3: sleep a couple of days ago. Seriously, I don't dream,
Speaker 3: I really don't dream. So I woke up and like
Speaker 3: it was like, you know, something's like you feel like
Speaker 3: you're in it. I'm like, that's Raven Like that was Bultimore. Alright, weird?
Speaker 2: I know, bro, I know we're gonna circle back on dude,
Speaker 2: We're totally gonna clip Baltimore.
Speaker 8: Dallas, Baltimore, Dallas, forty nine ers, forty nine ers Ravens
Speaker 8: is one happens, but it happens forty nine ers, Bills
Speaker 8: is two.
Speaker 1: What do you think is three?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 6: Baltimore Dallas, No Dangers, Lions h San Francisco, Kansas City.
Speaker 2: Really so it's San Francisco, San Francisco, San Francisco against
Speaker 2: the top three teams in the AFC.
Speaker 1: Interesting and then fourth is Cowboys Ravens.
Speaker 6: Oh, finally, very close.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys. Cowboys Ravens is very close to forty and
Speaker 1: Air's Chiefs. It's very very close.
Speaker 3: I know nothing about betting. There's a guy who was
Speaker 3: sitting in front of me from from esp and there's
Speaker 3: like a whole crew from ESPN could day Portanoyd probably
Speaker 3: could yeah, but but dude like turns around, He's like, hey,
Speaker 3: you think they're going to cover the fifty five. I
Speaker 3: was like, I don't know what you're talking about. Broad
Speaker 3: the disgust on his face, he looked said, I don't
Speaker 3: know anything about betting.
Speaker 7: Bro.
Speaker 8: He was like, like, I do think that's funny though,
Speaker 8: because we're all obviously sports fans here at heart, and
Speaker 8: I do think it's interesting how we all can't be
Speaker 8: obsessed with every part of it, and there's some parts
Speaker 8: that you enjoy.
Speaker 1: More than others.
Speaker 8: And I'll give you a great example of something that
Speaker 8: I think me and this gentleman are very different on,
Speaker 8: and that is knowing the playoff scenarios. Ye like you
Speaker 8: and sod Usuf are like super into them, like even
Speaker 8: after the game, like like the like we went down
Speaker 8: outside the locker room when there's still a couple of
Speaker 8: minutes left in the game in Washington, and sod knew
Speaker 8: every single one of them, like no, if if Packers win, this, this,
Speaker 8: whatever like that, And I'm embarrassed at how much I'm like, yeah, okay,
Speaker 8: whatever you know, but like I don't know them like that.
Speaker 8: So like the like thing was last week we did
Speaker 8: the show when you like had them all like like listen,
Speaker 8: Like I do not follow that stuff at all. And
Speaker 8: I want to say, about three or four weeks ago,
Speaker 8: CD was asked about it, and CD was like, I
Speaker 8: don't know, man, I just see what you guys read
Speaker 8: or whatever. And I was just like, CD, I've never
Speaker 8: agreed with you more about it anything, Like, I'm just like,
Speaker 8: there's just so much different things, especially with the way
Speaker 8: that every thing ended at the end of that Washing game.
Speaker 8: It was down to like the last minute, you know,
Speaker 8: So I just think to your point, like, I don't
Speaker 8: think we can be all like into every single There's
Speaker 8: just so much that goes on with social media. There's
Speaker 8: so many different things that you can know about. It's
Speaker 8: I mean it is there's a lot out there too.
Speaker 8: So I completely get you not giving a bath about.
Speaker 7: I'll say, the Rams coming back and beating the Niners
Speaker 7: fight in that game. It made it very exciting because
Speaker 7: you look at it on paper and you're like, Okay,
Speaker 7: if they won this game, that means they're gonna be
Speaker 7: the sixth. They won't see the Cowboys until at least
Speaker 7: the NFC Championship game. Pip go through the Niners. They lose,
Speaker 7: They're coming here next week, and I feel like that's
Speaker 7: the hottest team in the NFC when all their starters
Speaker 7: are playing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we were on the First Word. We were finishing
Speaker 6: up the First Word broadcast, and I had it on
Speaker 6: my computer.
Speaker 2: We had already found out all the scenarios and we
Speaker 2: were going back and forth, and I mean, Isaiah and
Speaker 2: Nate and Barry were in the middle of talking and
Speaker 2: I'm just sitting there just watching like the final snaps
Speaker 2: of the Los Angeles game, just to see who's winning where.
Speaker 2: And Yeah, it gets kind of crazy there at the
Speaker 2: last one.
Speaker 8: It kind of in fact, it impacts the Cowboys a
Speaker 8: little bit, just because it's the NFC East. So I
Speaker 8: like drama, and there's obviously some going on in New
Speaker 8: York right now. So Giants defensive cornerator Wink Martindale reportedly
Speaker 8: cursed out Brian Dable, the Giants head coach, after.
Speaker 3: So spit in that conversation.
Speaker 1: I would imagine their season obviously ended.
Speaker 8: Yeah, there season obviously ended, and there were coaching staff changes,
Speaker 8: and some of those changes included a couple of Wink
Speaker 8: Martindale's closest confidence on the defensive side. And while the
Speaker 8: Giants want Martindale to stay as the DC, he was
Speaker 8: furious with these changes. And this is all from a
Speaker 8: New York Post report. Stormed out and next thing you
Speaker 8: know that there's pictures of him at the airport flying
Speaker 8: to Florida. He was spotted on Tuesday morning at Newark
Speaker 8: Liberty International Airport.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 1: He went to Newark wearing a.
Speaker 8: Black sleeveless vest, which he always does Yankees cap and joggers.
Speaker 1: So, I mean, this is just such a New York
Speaker 1: thing for like everyone to have, like the video and
Speaker 1: like pictures and everything like that.
Speaker 8: So I believe he has a one year left on
Speaker 8: his contract. They still want him to be the d C.
Speaker 8: Dable still wants him to be the d C. But
Speaker 8: it's kind of up in the air right now because
Speaker 8: this is the time of year when even when your
Speaker 8: season's over, generally your coaches are doing exit meetings and
Speaker 8: things like that, so they're usually not storming out and
Speaker 8: then leaving, and and it just the fact that it's
Speaker 8: in New York.
Speaker 3: That wasn't the only drum that they had New York.
Speaker 3: Barkley opted out of his little was it was it
Speaker 3: optional meeting and they had optional exit meetings, and he
Speaker 3: was like, yeah, no, I'm good. He was like, well,
Speaker 3: if you guys gonna tag me, just tag me now,
Speaker 3: like like I went through this last year. He's not happy, Bro,
Speaker 3: he gets tagged.
Speaker 10: I think his quote wash they have my number they
Speaker 10: could call me.
Speaker 3: For Yeah, he knows what they're going to do. They're
Speaker 3: gonna tag him again.
Speaker 8: You guys still think Brian Dable is the guy there.
Speaker 8: I mean he'll be the coach next year. But when
Speaker 8: they first hired him, I was like, man, I think
Speaker 8: that's that's the right hire.
Speaker 1: I think it's now.
Speaker 6: I'm like we were talking about it week one. I
Speaker 6: remember being on this show going into that and saying,
Speaker 6: gay Ball's got that thing. We're working in the right direction.
Speaker 3: It might be better, might be better. He might be
Speaker 3: one of the guys who's just a better OC.
Speaker 6: Yeah, might be.
Speaker 3: Everybody's not, you know, a great head coach.
Speaker 2: And you can have a flash in the pan as
Speaker 2: a head coach and not be a good head coach,
Speaker 2: Like you can have some success just based off of Hey,
Speaker 2: it's a new hire, so everybody wants to impress the
Speaker 2: new coach, But like establishing a culture is a different thing.
Speaker 8: Can you be a good head coach or a great
Speaker 8: head coach without being a good or great coordinator?
Speaker 3: Yes, because your coach or job as a manager of men.
Speaker 8: Can you get to that job in the NFL without
Speaker 8: having the coordinator or probably?
Speaker 3: I don't see nothing.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think you're I see what you're saying.
Speaker 7: Anti Antonio Peers example of that.
Speaker 1: You know, and he might be a great court We
Speaker 1: just don't know exactly.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Yeah, that's tough. That's why I give credit.
Speaker 3: He's an exception because has his career right.
Speaker 6: True. That's why I give credit.
Speaker 2: Though to what Mike McCarthy has done, because he came
Speaker 2: in and did not have a great first year.
Speaker 6: But did did he waiver after that? No?
Speaker 2: No, he's he's continued establishing the culture. He did what
Speaker 2: he needed to do to turn that team from six
Speaker 2: wins in twenty twenty to twelve wins in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 2: or excuse me, in twenty twenty one, and then you
Speaker 2: had twelve wins and twenty two to twelve wins now
Speaker 2: in twenty three. So I give credit. I mean sustained
Speaker 2: success in the NFL is the hardest thing to do.
Speaker 6: Dan Campbell has.
Speaker 3: Never been off in the coordinator. By the way, Campbell,
Speaker 3: that's a good one.
Speaker 6: So he was a tight ends coach and that is
Speaker 6: a good assistant.
Speaker 1: How do you find this so fast?
Speaker 2: He's Chris breaking baby, he knows dany I know Dan
Speaker 2: and I don't.
Speaker 6: I didn't remember him being.
Speaker 5: In oc right, So he was assistant head coach for
Speaker 5: the Saints, and that's kind of what he got was
Speaker 5: he called Dan.
Speaker 7: I was just to say that for sure.
Speaker 6: He shot him a text message exactly, said, hey, have.
Speaker 3: You two way coordinator? He was like, no, man, but
Speaker 3: you know, I never reported, doesn't know if it's a
Speaker 3: coordinating Oh I just love talking man.
Speaker 7: Shot its longing for it, like I'll be here all week.
Speaker 3: A nice job this week.
Speaker 7: I'll be here all week.
Speaker 3: We will be here. It will be great.
Speaker 2: We'll be back tomorrow Thursday morning, nine am Central time.
Speaker 2: We'll give you a little QB vision Cowboys offense versus
Speaker 2: the Patrick Packers defense.
Speaker 3: I was terrible blocked it, bro, I.
Speaker 1: Didn't touch that. I just got a solid defense in
Speaker 1: your face.
Speaker 2: Chris Bey, Miaiah stand back, John Machuda, Nick Harris and
Speaker 2: Kyle Yoman saying so long, We'll see you tomorrow with
Speaker 2: more talking Cowboys. This has been a production of dallascowboys
Speaker 2: dot Com and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.