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Speaker 1: and it's all good to go. Oh. The Cowboys get
Speaker 1: another win, their third straight overall, they're eighth straight against
Speaker 1: the NFC's twenty five to ten over the Washington Commanders.
Speaker 1: And we're here to break it all down for you
Speaker 1: here from the Star in Frisco. Patrick No, C. Walker,
Speaker 1: Isaiah stand back, Rob Phillips, I'm Kyle Yeoman's gentlemen, Cowboys
Speaker 1: get the job done today and we are happy to
Speaker 1: be able to go all the way through it. And
Speaker 1: I'll start with you Patrick, just because you got your
Speaker 1: victory hat on. Yes, you're ready to roll. You got
Speaker 1: going on right there? Oh, you can't. You can't wear
Speaker 1: the headphones right right but radio raheem yeah yeah, sounds
Speaker 1: out of the spike. Yeah yeah. Those who know no,
Speaker 1: if you know, you know, well, you know. What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on the win? Uh? It was? It was
Speaker 1: a good another gutsy win for the Cowboys. I mean,
Speaker 1: was it clean? Absolutely nut um. But as I've said
Speaker 1: time and time again, pretty win, ugly win. I don't care,
Speaker 1: Just win baby the Cowboys. You know, I predicted that
Speaker 1: they would break through the thirty thirty point mark for
Speaker 1: the first time this season, and they could have, which
Speaker 1: is a little bit frustrating. They did leave some plays
Speaker 1: on the field again to Rob's point in the press box,
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush had a leprechn on his shoulder two interceptions
Speaker 1: that were deleted by penalty. But the defense did exactly
Speaker 1: what we knew that they would and be able to do.
Speaker 1: They held another team to under twenty points, this one
Speaker 1: specifically ten points. They've now allowed only one touchdown per
Speaker 1: game every game this season. This is a super Bowl
Speaker 1: caliber defense. The only question was it remains Can the
Speaker 1: Cowboys offense continue on a weekly basis to play clean
Speaker 1: enough and effective enough to compliment that and what's going
Speaker 1: on with special teams as well. They did it again again.
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush dodged a couple of buds, but in the
Speaker 1: second half he looked much better. Michael Gallop the return
Speaker 1: of Michael Gallop was huge for both Cooper Rush and
Speaker 1: opening up those lanes for Ceedee Lamb. They stuck to
Speaker 1: the run with Ezekiel Elliott just enough to sit up
Speaker 1: the downfield. So don't necessarily love what I saw from
Speaker 1: the Cowboys office yesterday. I love what I saw from
Speaker 1: their defense and their special teams, but I love to
Speaker 1: win as a whole three and win. You can't complain
Speaker 1: too much there, right, Yeah, good stuff from no Ce.
Speaker 1: This is probably the most unexpected, at least outside the
Speaker 1: locker room, most unexpected three game win streak that I
Speaker 1: can remember since twenty sixteen, since Dak Prescott was the
Speaker 1: rookie and we didn't know what to expect from Dad,
Speaker 1: and probably more so honestly, because there are more overall
Speaker 1: questions about this roster, at least on offense than there
Speaker 1: were in twenty sixteen. They had a nice veteran nucleus
Speaker 1: around Dak that year. We've talked about receiver, we've talked
Speaker 1: about left tackle. We've talked about left guard. They don't
Speaker 1: have their leading tackler from last season at safety either,
Speaker 1: by the way, and they're finding a way to get
Speaker 1: it done. I don't even think Jerry Jones, the eternal optimist,
Speaker 1: expected three wins in a row, and he wouldn't say it,
Speaker 1: but the way he talked in the locker room outside
Speaker 1: the locker room after the game about how Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: has exceeded all my expectations, this is, uh, this is
Speaker 1: a really special win streak that they're on to be
Speaker 1: oh and one, and you think the season might be
Speaker 1: just off the rails, and now you're I think you're
Speaker 1: tied for second in the NFC East and Dak is
Speaker 1: getting healthy. You could not ask for more right now
Speaker 1: from the Cowboys right now. I agree. I think they
Speaker 1: they found a way to win. Ultimately, that's really all
Speaker 1: that matters. I don't think that anybody satisfied with the
Speaker 1: offense once again. But you know, they won and they
Speaker 1: got lucky. And as we've said a couple of times
Speaker 1: this year already, is better to be lucky than to
Speaker 1: be good. It would be good. So it worked. Defensively,
Speaker 1: they were dominant again. I think they were dominant again.
Speaker 1: They definitely showed a couple of weeks here and there,
Speaker 1: But I think that's going to happen in every game.
Speaker 1: It's the NFL. There's there's always gonna be things that
Speaker 1: you want to go back and shure of. Nobody's ever
Speaker 1: gonna be satisfied as a coach, You're never gonna be satisfied.
Speaker 1: As an analysts, you're never gonna be satisfied. You just
Speaker 1: you say, Okay, good job for the things that you
Speaker 1: did well, and then you you're going to focus in
Speaker 1: on the things that you did negatively right, because you
Speaker 1: want to share those things up. You want to make
Speaker 1: sure there's no crack in your armor anywhere that anybody
Speaker 1: watching on the outside or upcoming can look at and say, ah,
Speaker 1: that's where we can get them at. So you take
Speaker 1: the dub, You walk away with the dub. You're happy
Speaker 1: about that, but at the same time, you look at
Speaker 1: the areas in which you can improve in so that
Speaker 1: you can make sure that as this competition continues to increase,
Speaker 1: especially over these next few weeks, that you're you're right
Speaker 1: ready to rock and roll. Yeah, you've got two really
Speaker 1: big games coming up. You've got a benchmark test that
Speaker 1: we talked about that all last year was what do
Speaker 1: you do in your benchmarks? You've you've passed one, you
Speaker 1: failed one so far this season. The first one was
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, you failed that one. The second one with Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: the reigning AFC champions, you pass that one. Right now,
Speaker 1: you've got another one against the Rams coming up, reigning
Speaker 1: Super Bowl champs, and then right after that Philadelphia is
Speaker 1: still undefeated going into Week five. So you've got two
Speaker 1: massive matchups on the way. But the way that you're
Speaker 1: trending here, and going back to what Rob said, it
Speaker 1: couldn't have been asked for more. You've taken care of
Speaker 1: the football. Your defense is dominated. They've done everything that
Speaker 1: they've certainly needed to get the win. And even though
Speaker 1: it hasn't necessarily been pretty all the time. On offense,
Speaker 1: they've gotten back to where they've got separation at the
Speaker 1: wide receiver position. They've been able to run the football effectively,
Speaker 1: and they've stuck with the run. The run wasn't as
Speaker 1: effective yesterday as it had been the week prior, not
Speaker 1: even at any point in the ball game. However, they
Speaker 1: stuck with it. Nineteen carries for Ezekiel Elliott yesterday he
Speaker 1: only ended up with forty nine yards. Much of that
Speaker 1: was because that the interior of the Washington line was
Speaker 1: really really good. Yes, right, So with all of the positives,
Speaker 1: I'm hearing a lot of negative too. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is a three game win streak you did not anticipate
Speaker 1: to have. Why is there so much pause to give
Speaker 1: credit where credit is due around the country. I think
Speaker 1: from the aspect of those was that are on the
Speaker 1: outside looking in, they're looking at it as well. You know,
Speaker 1: you get Michael Gallop back, and you got Ceedee Lamb,
Speaker 1: and rightfully so everyone expected more of Ceedee Lamb from
Speaker 1: minute one, sure in twenty twenty two, So so that's justifiable. Right.
Speaker 1: He's starting to come on strong here now. Had one
Speaker 1: hundred yard game last week. He was only three yards
Speaker 1: shovel a hundred yard game this week. Noah Brown has
Speaker 1: been fantastic. We will get news and notes on the
Speaker 1: update on Noah Brown. Michael Gallop is back, but you know,
Speaker 1: to this point, be it Dak Prescott and or Cooper Rush,
Speaker 1: the passing attack hasn't been what it was. But I
Speaker 1: think that the pause should have been placed prior to
Speaker 1: the season beginning anyway, because Amari Cooper is not here,
Speaker 1: Michael Gallop was not going to start the season, he
Speaker 1: was going to miss several games. You didn't know necessarily
Speaker 1: that Noah Brown was going to have a career best season.
Speaker 1: You would hope that he was stepping to the Cedric
Speaker 1: Wilson roll, but you didn't know that would happen. And
Speaker 1: then behind Noah Brown and Ceedee Lamb, it was just
Speaker 1: a bunch of question marks, right, So I get it,
Speaker 1: But at the same time, you have to be able
Speaker 1: to realize what's happening here. Because we said this prior
Speaker 1: to Cooper Rush's first start. If Cooper Rush could get
Speaker 1: you the two wins in the two division games, and
Speaker 1: maybe he drops Cincinnati, maybe he drops Los Angeles, he's
Speaker 1: two and two. Maybe Dak is ready. At that point,
Speaker 1: we were talking about two and three being a best
Speaker 1: case scenario. At one point during a five game stretch
Speaker 1: where where Dak Prescott was out and you didn't necessarily
Speaker 1: know what was going on, you were thinking two and
Speaker 1: three was going to be a big time win. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Now you're three and out, three and o on the
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush three, three and one going into Sofi Stadium,
Speaker 1: massive matchup. Like you said, this is a benchmark test,
Speaker 1: a litmus tests for the Cowboys. We will see who's
Speaker 1: going to be the quarterback. I'm more inclined to believe
Speaker 1: it's going to be Cooper Rush. We'll talk about that,
Speaker 1: you know, shortly. But at the same time, you know,
Speaker 1: you cannot complain about being three and one because it's
Speaker 1: very hard to win in this league. So you take
Speaker 1: the win and you run with it and you prepare
Speaker 1: for the next opponent. But to Isaiah's point, that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that you have the luxury, big player or coaching
Speaker 1: staff to then say, Okay, well we don't have anything
Speaker 1: to fix. You do have some things that you need
Speaker 1: to That's what I was waiting to be answered, because
Speaker 1: there are things that you need to fix, right, I
Speaker 1: mean on both sides of the ball, not even just
Speaker 1: the offensive side. The defense had some some leakage. Like
Speaker 1: you said, yeah, the defense had some leak hitch. I know,
Speaker 1: they want to show up some things in terms of
Speaker 1: their run defense. They they really Washington really got after
Speaker 1: them in terms of the edges. They really tore them
Speaker 1: up on the edges. And whether that was the cornerbacks
Speaker 1: unwillingness to come up and make stops, whether that was them,
Speaker 1: you know, grabbing the edge and kicking Mica out and
Speaker 1: kicking out d Law and everybody else I was on
Speaker 1: the defense end, that's something that I know Dan Quinn's
Speaker 1: gonna want to shore up. Okay, that's just one area.
Speaker 1: If I'm gonna be nitpicking, that's one area that the
Speaker 1: defense needs to clear up. And I think that was
Speaker 1: probably the first team that really came out and adamantly
Speaker 1: tried to challenge them on the ground game. And I
Speaker 1: think the interior defensive alignment responded really well. Big Bowl
Speaker 1: had a good day. Tristan Hill, the reps that he had,
Speaker 1: they did really well. Olsa was in there. I mean
Speaker 1: the guys interiorly wise did a really good job run
Speaker 1: defense outside as where we gotta shure it up and
Speaker 1: asking to play into the secondary as well. Offensively, I mean,
Speaker 1: call a spade a spade. They got. They caught some
Speaker 1: dog on breaks. There is there's penalties on those two plays,
Speaker 1: and that's still so it is what it is, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, they got the call right. However, that call
Speaker 1: didn't affect the result of the what what the play
Speaker 1: would have been so those first one did. The first
Speaker 1: one was a holding call on the guy who intercepted
Speaker 1: the pass, but where the ball was going, they would
Speaker 1: have got picked it. It would have got picked. So
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just saying like, they're lucky they got
Speaker 1: those back there. I mean, they got it right, the
Speaker 1: referees did. However, those are the things that you're watching.
Speaker 1: You're like, oh crap, we gotta we gotta wait with that,
Speaker 1: and we gotta share that up. Okay, who whe wipe
Speaker 1: your forehead, and let's make sure that doesn't ever happened again,
Speaker 1: because you want to ensure that those those things don't
Speaker 1: turn out the way that they could have and hurt
Speaker 1: your team. And I think that the reason why I
Speaker 1: think there's that pause, at least for me, I can't
Speaker 1: speak for anybody else. The reason why I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: good job cowboys, Like, hey, good stuff, but you still
Speaker 1: got you gotta do more offensively. You have to do
Speaker 1: more offensively because the teams that you're about to go against,
Speaker 1: they know how to score points. And as great as
Speaker 1: your defense has been playing again, I'm gonna say it,
Speaker 1: you can't expect your defense to always build you out.
Speaker 1: At some point in time, the offense is gonna have
Speaker 1: to turn it on and people are gonna say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup just got there, Like, yeah, I get it,
Speaker 1: I get it. Nor DA's out, I get it, But
Speaker 1: it's what you got. No, and you're right like they're
Speaker 1: they're gonna be challenged and at some point the defense
Speaker 1: is gonna give over. I think we'll give up over
Speaker 1: at twenty points. Maybe maybe not, Maybe I should, maybe
Speaker 1: I should print this trademark verse to twenty. But no,
Speaker 1: you're right about that. Maybe I may just be grading
Speaker 1: the offense on a curve right now because I I mean,
Speaker 1: Cooper Rush is undefeated now four and oh, first quarterback
Speaker 1: in Cowboys history to do that. But I'm still viewing
Speaker 1: this offense and through the lens of they have a
Speaker 1: backup quarterback in there, and so there they have limitations
Speaker 1: on what they can do. And no Sea talks about
Speaker 1: the extra five percent. Well, when Dak comes back, that's
Speaker 1: an extra ten percent or whatever. Like that's the way
Speaker 1: I look at me. So yeah, So, like I I'm
Speaker 1: not surprised that they have some struggles with Cooper Rush
Speaker 1: in the game even and maybe maybe we're just raising
Speaker 1: our expectations for him based on the way he's played,
Speaker 1: but he has gotten lucky in some spots. But he's
Speaker 1: run the offense overall the way it needs to be
Speaker 1: run in the philosophy that they want to run with
Speaker 1: running the football and staying committed to it, like you said, Kyle,
Speaker 1: and making plays off of that. That's been good. But yeah,
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to step it up for sure. You
Speaker 1: can't make your defenses do what they're doing every single week. Well,
Speaker 1: here's in all of these points are accurate. Out turn
Speaker 1: the knob a little bit to the right and say this,
Speaker 1: and I say this on Twitter last night. If you're
Speaker 1: three and one with a backup quarterback, you've had some
Speaker 1: look involved be you know, penalties, deleting, interceptions, whatever the
Speaker 1: case may be, and you're about to get healthy with
Speaker 1: a super Bowl caliber defense that still isn't hold j
Speaker 1: Ron Curs is not back. Yeah, yeah, this team should scare,
Speaker 1: should start to scare some other teams, the ones that
Speaker 1: are looking at the Cowboys as far as I have
Speaker 1: to face them in November, I have to face them
Speaker 1: in December. If they're winning these games in September games,
Speaker 1: they shouldn't technically be winning. It sets them up for
Speaker 1: a very strong finish to the season. So if nothing else,
Speaker 1: I mean, they're going to be analytical takeaways, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, roses to the to the penalties, for example,
Speaker 1: only four penalties last game. You gotta hats off to
Speaker 1: McCarthy and crew for that. But yes, we get paid
Speaker 1: to look at the minutia of it all and say, okay,
Speaker 1: well this can be improved, and this can be improved,
Speaker 1: just like the coaches do, just like the players do.
Speaker 1: But I think the main takeaway is to your point, Kyle,
Speaker 1: you're three and one with a backup quarterback, having played
Speaker 1: the last three games. You've not been whole on offense,
Speaker 1: you've not been whole on defense, and yet hit you
Speaker 1: are second place one game out. I'll put it like this,
Speaker 1: They're not the best versions of themselves right now and
Speaker 1: they have to be better. Isaiah's right about that, especially offensively.
Speaker 1: But I'm just impressed with the fight. Yeah, I'm impressed
Speaker 1: with the fact that they they made and they wanted
Speaker 1: to make all of us except for Pat, look look dumb.
Speaker 1: In Week two, like none of us, nobody except Pat
Speaker 1: pick pick the Cowboys that game, and and they've and
Speaker 1: they've kind of banded together, and everybody's kind of pitching
Speaker 1: in in all three phases. And that's that's the mark
Speaker 1: of a team that's together, and it's pretty well balanced
Speaker 1: and has a lot of fight to it. So is
Speaker 1: it good enough to beat every team in the league
Speaker 1: right now? No, But when you play defense like this,
Speaker 1: that gives them a chance and and and if you graze,
Speaker 1: if they raise their game around that going forward. You
Speaker 1: guys know, I'm not a big stats person, Okay, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look at some stats right here, and I
Speaker 1: don't care what website you look at. The Washington Commanders
Speaker 1: have scored seventy three points this year. All these teams
Speaker 1: have played four games in the NFC East. Washingt Commanders
Speaker 1: have scored some of them. Say it this way, Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys at the bottom seventy one points in the NFC's Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: Washingt Commanders are in second place in terms of scoring
Speaker 1: seventy three point points and they've shut down the last
Speaker 1: two weeks because they scored thirty points per game the
Speaker 1: first two weeks of the year. Then the New York
Speaker 1: Giants are in third place or in second place with
Speaker 1: seventy six points score this year the Philadelphia Eagles one
Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen. It's a pretty big gap. You've got
Speaker 1: to score some freaking points. Now, the Ram the Rams.
Speaker 1: The Rams haven't scored nothing this year. They scored sixty one.
Speaker 1: But they're capable. But they're capable. We've seen it. There's
Speaker 1: no question mark regarding whether they can. They just haven't
Speaker 1: clicked yet. Talk about a team that's not the best
Speaker 1: version of themselves exactly. They have two Rams ball. But
Speaker 1: I'm saying that to say the Giants, Cowboys and Commanders
Speaker 1: in the same category as we speak, in terms of
Speaker 1: offensive success and turns the scoring points the Philadelphia Eagles,
Speaker 1: which we'll see you next week. Okay, those guys are
Speaker 1: above and beyond right now. So in preparation, when I
Speaker 1: look at comparisons, that's what you're going to have to
Speaker 1: compete with. That's where you're gonna be challenging right based
Speaker 1: upon right now, the Giants had the same record as
Speaker 1: you as well. That's where you're gonna be challenging most likely.
Speaker 1: If you want to take this thing in terms of
Speaker 1: an NFC and I get your mentality, because in the
Speaker 1: room there today from a player's perspective. The coaches are
Speaker 1: going to stay on the guys. This is great, but
Speaker 1: we're going up against the defending champs, and it's got
Speaker 1: there has to be a level rate. This is what
Speaker 1: I love so much about these next two games that
Speaker 1: are coming up. You're talking about the defending champs coming
Speaker 1: up this weekend. You're talking about a high scoring Philadelphia
Speaker 1: offense coming up the week after. I said this before,
Speaker 1: and I'll say it again, and I'll continue to say
Speaker 1: it until further notice. I've seen enough from dan Quin's
Speaker 1: defense in Dallas to believe that this is the threshold
Speaker 1: that I am measuring other offenses against. If you are
Speaker 1: an opposing offense and you claim that to have a
Speaker 1: prolific offense coming into Dallas, or you know, with Dallas
Speaker 1: coming into your hometown, show me against this defense. Because
Speaker 1: if you can rack up thirty plus points on this defense,
Speaker 1: hats off to you. You do, in fact have a
Speaker 1: high scoring offense, even if it's just for that particular week.
Speaker 1: But until I see an opposing offense, because I've seen
Speaker 1: them now shut down Tom Brady. They didn't get to
Speaker 1: win because of the offense. Put the defenses shut down.
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. It's shut down Joe Burrow. Its shut down
Speaker 1: a commander's team that was scoring pretty readily in the
Speaker 1: first couple of weeks. It's shut down Daniel Jones and
Speaker 1: say Quon Barkley at MetLife Stadium. Four touchdowns through four weeks.
Speaker 1: Any opposing defense the Rams, all due respect to the
Speaker 1: to the raining champs, all due respect to what the
Speaker 1: Eagles are doing. But until they show me that they
Speaker 1: can run up the score on this defense, I still
Speaker 1: believe this defense is good enough to march into a
Speaker 1: march in the Philadelphia. Dallas has given up in the NFC,
Speaker 1: not even just the NFC East Defense and NFC. They've
Speaker 1: given up the second lease most amount of points scored.
Speaker 1: Man not taking to account the forty nine ers which
Speaker 1: have to play tonight, but they've given up the second
Speaker 1: lease amount one touchdown per game. You know, I like Rob,
Speaker 1: Rob said, um, He's like, well, I don't think we
Speaker 1: can expect Well, I don't know. You know what I
Speaker 1: expect it now, right from from from the defense, from
Speaker 1: the I expect a consistent basis on a weekend the
Speaker 1: week out basis, I expect no more than twenty. I'll
Speaker 1: be even generous here and say twenty to twenty four points.
Speaker 1: I believe that this defense can hold every offense to
Speaker 1: twenty four or fewer. And if that continues to happen,
Speaker 1: then it will buy time for the offense too. Does
Speaker 1: the offense need to do more? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: And I think that's everybody says that. But the defense
Speaker 1: has done. And I get the points that both of
Speaker 1: you are saying. How many points as Philly allowed in
Speaker 1: that stat you mentioned how they're about forty points above
Speaker 1: you on offense. How much have they allowed as well?
Speaker 1: Seventy one? So not a whole lot either, everyone than us.
Speaker 1: That's going to be a fun game. There you go. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, this is two weeks down the road. You
Speaker 1: still got to play the defending Super Bowl champs this week.
Speaker 1: But you go back around and Philly is the standard
Speaker 1: at the moment by the way that they've played. I
Speaker 1: will add in though, and I put this on Twitter
Speaker 1: last week, it has not changed. They've won seven straight
Speaker 1: games in the regular season. Philadelphia has, but they've been
Speaker 1: against the combined twenty five and fifty nine. Between the
Speaker 1: seven games that they've won, those teams were twenty five
Speaker 1: and fifty nine last year, so they haven't really played
Speaker 1: anybody yet. They played the Cardinals this week. That'll be
Speaker 1: a good test because they were tested by Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 1: this week too, and Doug Peterson for Philly head coach.
Speaker 1: I hear you, they got the w that's I mean. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: we're not just. I'm just. I know. I know people
Speaker 1: people get mad at me. I don't care, but people
Speaker 1: get me. You know, I don't care. But the reason
Speaker 1: why my mentality is like that. To Rob's point, like,
Speaker 1: I'm literally trained to always look for how to get better.
Speaker 1: And you don't get. I don't get. You don't get
Speaker 1: as a player. You don't get pats on the back
Speaker 1: for what you've done. That's in the past. It's already happened,
Speaker 1: it's done, it's over with. Okay. When you're in the
Speaker 1: middle of a season, or you're in the first quarter
Speaker 1: of a season, there's more to do. And if you're
Speaker 1: not hitting on all cylinders, there's more to do. Even
Speaker 1: when you are hitting seemingly on more cylinders. Guess what
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn is gonna say, there's more to do. You
Speaker 1: can get better defense, you're playing awesome. But again, I
Speaker 1: asked that question, what if or what what win? It's
Speaker 1: going to happen at one point in time. The Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys defense is not gonna show you who they've been
Speaker 1: to date, and you're going to need your other two
Speaker 1: thirds of your team to pick it up. And from
Speaker 1: what we've seen this year that Dallas Cowboys have not
Speaker 1: shown that they're willing or not saying that willing, but
Speaker 1: abe or capable to put that backpack on and carry
Speaker 1: the team through the finish line offensively. We haven't seen
Speaker 1: it with Dak or Coop at any point this year
Speaker 1: this year, not at all. Two things to add to
Speaker 1: that before we go to our first break. First one
Speaker 1: is I think fans out there, even though they're celebrating
Speaker 1: and they're three and one and this is great, they
Speaker 1: have that pause because of one thing, and it's been
Speaker 1: the lack of success late in the season. Much like
Speaker 1: what it was last year. There was a lot of
Speaker 1: people giving this team flowers. They were healthy, they were building,
Speaker 1: everything looked great, and then you lost in the divisional
Speaker 1: or the wild card round to San Francisco. So it's
Speaker 1: a lot of show me later sort of mentality from
Speaker 1: the fans. Secondly, I think they would want the players
Speaker 1: to have a mindset like Isaiah. Yeah, they don't want
Speaker 1: players back in there on Monday saying, man, hey, a
Speaker 1: great shot man, gotta win against the Washington Commanders. That
Speaker 1: was great. Now we'll talk about the Rams on Wednesday. No,
Speaker 1: that's not what it's about. Right now. You gotta turn around.
Speaker 1: You gotta get better, all right, when we come back,
Speaker 1: let's talk about that defense, interior, defensive line. If I
Speaker 1: had a game ball, we're we'll do helmet stickers coming
Speaker 1: up in a little bit. They may get that, that
Speaker 1: helmet sticker, but we'll talk about it when we come back.
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Speaker 1: fan of the Year. I want to talk about the
Speaker 1: defense here, Rob that interior of the defensive line, Neville
Speaker 1: gallim Or, Tristan Hill, Quentin Bahanaum, Chauncey Golston. At times
Speaker 1: I thought they were fantastic. Last time, I thought they
Speaker 1: were really, really good, probably the best game that the
Speaker 1: interior has played to this point in the season. Is
Speaker 1: that what I sound like or is that singing? I
Speaker 1: mean when I think about the interior defensive line yesterday,
Speaker 1: Tristian Hill picking it up, Yeah, and just his toes
Speaker 1: were off the ground is like a little cartoon character.
Speaker 1: That was awesome. You say it one more time for me?
Speaker 1: And well, what did I say? Phenomenal? That's the T
Speaker 1: shirt Isaiah and he's it might be the title the
Speaker 1: show after the show here. Yeah, No, they did a
Speaker 1: fantastic job. I went back and I looked at both
Speaker 1: teams were five or fifteen on third down. Speaks to again, offensively,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys can get better. But eleven of the commanders
Speaker 1: fifteen third downs were third and long, and they found
Speaker 1: themselves in third and ten plus over and over and
Speaker 1: over again with a ton of minus plays. Some of
Speaker 1: it was self inflicted. They tried so hard to run
Speaker 1: the ball. I mean, and they did, and they did
Speaker 1: to a large extent, run it really well. But they
Speaker 1: focused so much on that because they didn't trust their
Speaker 1: protection for Carson Wentz. They were doing whatever they could,
Speaker 1: even when the game started getting out of reach, to
Speaker 1: make sure that he was in some manageable stuff. And
Speaker 1: all you had to look at was the first drive.
Speaker 1: Those last two plays of the drive, second and third
Speaker 1: and long he's trying screen passes and he's not able
Speaker 1: to get the ball out on time because the rush
Speaker 1: was so good. So great job upfront. I think if
Speaker 1: there's one thing, and as I spoke to it in
Speaker 1: the first segment, the run defense, though, I think we're
Speaker 1: seeing an example of why you don't want Mica to
Speaker 1: play exclusively on the edge because and it's not all
Speaker 1: on him, but when he's on the edge, and other
Speaker 1: teams have tried it, but maybe more so in this game,
Speaker 1: they're running at him and they're putting a tight end
Speaker 1: to his side and they're trying to take him wash
Speaker 1: him out of the play, and they had some success
Speaker 1: doing that in the first half. Now I'll give him
Speaker 1: credit though, because the first play the third quarter They
Speaker 1: did the same thing with Gibson and he dropped him
Speaker 1: for a minus two loss. But there's some things in
Speaker 1: there they got to clean up overall. What can you say, though,
Speaker 1: I mean, once again, a fantastic everybody. You know what
Speaker 1: I cannot get enough of when it comes to this defense.
Speaker 1: One of the things I can't get enough of is
Speaker 1: the depth. Like holy crap. Right, So we mentioned earlier
Speaker 1: this defense is not whole because Jayron Curs is not
Speaker 1: back quite yet. You lose starting Nicol Jordan Lewis yep
Speaker 1: to a growing issue. Suffrad pregame and then a Camp Champ,
Speaker 1: and then Camp Champ Dron Blaine. I like that. That's good, right.
Speaker 1: Durron Blaine comes in and all he does is he
Speaker 1: has a key PBu in the end zone because Carson wins.
Speaker 1: Of course, they're gonna scheme, They're gonna, hey, let's let's
Speaker 1: try the rookie. You get that out of here, and
Speaker 1: then gets an interception, a key interception at a critical
Speaker 1: point in the game. As I know, they didn't watch
Speaker 1: training camp live. Clearly chers clearly we tried to tell
Speaker 1: him if you knew better, you do better. Right. It
Speaker 1: seems like whether it's the safety position with the absence
Speaker 1: of darn curse. You see Lee Hooker doing Melie Cooker things.
Speaker 1: You see Donovan Wilson just bawling out of control, so
Speaker 1: forth and so on. You go to the cornerback room.
Speaker 1: You lose Jordan Lewis unexpectedly moments before the game. Hey, rook,
Speaker 1: you're starting, let's go dron playing. Hey, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: play like I've been here all my life, right, And
Speaker 1: then you go down to the defensive front. Quentin Bohanna
Speaker 1: was doing massive things as he has been doing all season.
Speaker 1: You lose him in the second half, but then you
Speaker 1: see a chump c ghost and ohso Diggy Zoo and
Speaker 1: Neville Gallimour and those guys just galvanized Tristan Hill. You
Speaker 1: started to see flashes of Triston Hill yesterday. The depth
Speaker 1: at all three levels gives Dan Quinn so much comfort
Speaker 1: in knowing, you know what, if we lose a guy,
Speaker 1: the next guy is going to be equal to the
Speaker 1: guy we just lost. But by the way, when that
Speaker 1: guy we just lost gets back in a couple of weeks,
Speaker 1: you should also fear him as well. This defense is
Speaker 1: just it's nasty it's filthy. It should be illegal in
Speaker 1: forty eight states. Agreed. Agreed, I just I mean, Dan
Speaker 1: Quinn's freaking the genius. Yeah, and somebody's told you guys
Speaker 1: a long time ago it's freaking amazing. But I wonder who.
Speaker 1: I don't know who that was, but somebody he's good.
Speaker 1: And this in kudos to the front office of the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys to completely turn around the depth of this
Speaker 1: defense over a span of one and a half. And
Speaker 1: speaking on safety, I don't know how many people are
Speaker 1: talking about this player, Donovan Wilson. I think quite a
Speaker 1: few people are old out. If you haven't watched the
Speaker 1: film intently, go back and watch how many plays he
Speaker 1: made that weren't big splash players, and everybody sees and
Speaker 1: talks about, Yes, he made those plays. I think he
Speaker 1: had nine solo tackles. If I'm craz so, you know
Speaker 1: how hard it is. I have a solo tackle in
Speaker 1: NFL at a safety position, had pretty dog on hard
Speaker 1: like he. Those are open field tackles and he's coming downhill.
Speaker 1: Mind you, he's not a large human He's not a
Speaker 1: large human being. We talked about yesterday a five soaken, wet,
Speaker 1: soaking wet with whatever sponsors shoes we have on okay
Speaker 1: like these. He was coming downhill, he was shooting the gap.
Speaker 1: He was trusting his eyes, trusting his reads, trusting his preparation,
Speaker 1: and he was in there making plays. He was hog
Speaker 1: tying guys by their ankles and helping his defense alignment out,
Speaker 1: walking back to the safety position and doing what he
Speaker 1: does and going about his business now looking for nobody
Speaker 1: to pat him on the back. He hiped himself up,
Speaker 1: got back up, do my assignment again, and he built
Speaker 1: those guys out of so many potential big plays, I
Speaker 1: can't even tell you was that the third and eleven
Speaker 1: of Dotson where it was a little dump pass out
Speaker 1: and it was right in space and he just he
Speaker 1: just speared him basically. That was That was my favorite
Speaker 1: play of the game. It's freaking Goldburgen. Get him off
Speaker 1: the field, you know well, and we've talked about it
Speaker 1: on this show. Through the first three weeks of the season,
Speaker 1: there were times when he would come downhill and he
Speaker 1: would fly to the football, but he was a little
Speaker 1: reckless and where he was a little out of position
Speaker 1: or late. Yeah, that was not the case yesterday. It
Speaker 1: felt like he was like hit before, it felt like
Speaker 1: he was closing his eyes. It felt like he was
Speaker 1: a scud missile and he was just closing his eyes
Speaker 1: and just throwing himself, which works at times sometimes it
Speaker 1: works right, But now it feels like his eyes are open,
Speaker 1: and now it's like he's now he's seeing exactly what
Speaker 1: he's hitting, and he's making a lot of great plays.
Speaker 1: To your point earlier up in in terms of Michael Parsons,
Speaker 1: Michael Parsons, everybody looks for him to make the big
Speaker 1: plays in terms of coming off the edge or coming
Speaker 1: up the middle and getting pressures and sacks. The amount
Speaker 1: of plays he's shut down yesterday in the screen game
Speaker 1: because Washington's game plan was run, run, run screen. That
Speaker 1: was their game plan. That's what they wanted to do.
Speaker 1: They wanted they knew they had to get the balls
Speaker 1: out their hand quick because you can't sit back and
Speaker 1: and hold it against I don't care what your office
Speaker 1: on line looks like, you just can't there. To your point,
Speaker 1: too many guys, right, too many guys, too much depth,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what rotations in at the time. So their
Speaker 1: their game plan was, let's beat Michael Parsons out to
Speaker 1: the edge, and let's cut him at his knees, right,
Speaker 1: Let's take his knees out. Let us let's I want
Speaker 1: you to take all your body look at him straight
Speaker 1: in his quads, and I want you to shoot all
Speaker 1: your body weight at his kneecaps. Whether that was Logan Thomas,
Speaker 1: whether that was offensive tackles, whether that was running backs.
Speaker 1: They did it over and over and over again, and
Speaker 1: it eventually got him to the point where they messed
Speaker 1: him up for a second. Right, his back was jacked
Speaker 1: up for a second, but he came back right. But
Speaker 1: to your point, Rob, that's why you don't want him
Speaker 1: at defensive end, because you can scheme him up and
Speaker 1: you can potentially hurt him. I'm not gonna say that
Speaker 1: guys are intentially trying to hurt you, hurt you out
Speaker 1: there on the field, but they want to they want
Speaker 1: to take you out. It's more dangerous, it's more dangerous,
Speaker 1: it's easier to identify. And I brought that point up
Speaker 1: last year. I think when Heck was here, I don't
Speaker 1: want him there all the time because now I can say,
Speaker 1: take his knees out. Yes, there was a great example
Speaker 1: of why. Yeah, that was a great example of why.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what that sounds a whole lot like
Speaker 1: the science Lab call him from last week that I
Speaker 1: circled that exact point. It was about Michael Parsons and
Speaker 1: why logistically everyone needs to stop saying he should be
Speaker 1: committed full time to defensive end. These are the exact
Speaker 1: reasons I had just laid them out for you, ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen. What you would prefer it is for Michael
Speaker 1: Parsons to continue to be a weapon, a versatile guy
Speaker 1: that you can move around and you have to keep
Speaker 1: the opposing offensive coordinator guessing where's Walden or where's Waldo.
Speaker 1: Once you pigeonhole him to the edge, be at the
Speaker 1: left side or the right side, he's infinitely more simple
Speaker 1: to scheme against. So you don't want to do that.
Speaker 1: Yesterday was a perfect example. But kind of circling back
Speaker 1: to Donovan Wilson really quickly. You talk about guys, you know,
Speaker 1: someone telling everyone about a particular player, Donovan Wilson. I
Speaker 1: got the receipts. Yeah. Rob Phillips has been on himself
Speaker 1: from the beginning. My guy from Kyle Field. And when
Speaker 1: we say day one, we since college, and we say
Speaker 1: day one, we mean Day one, Donovan Wilson came in
Speaker 1: with the traits that we're seeing him capitalize on now,
Speaker 1: specifically as they're being refined under under Dan quinn Um.
Speaker 1: But you saw in twenty twenty breakout season. It was
Speaker 1: his career with the Cowboys was only slowed by injury
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, So what we're seeing in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two could have easily been occurring last season if
Speaker 1: not for injury. So now he's he's basically doubling up
Speaker 1: on the success he had in twenty twenty. He is
Speaker 1: bordering on elite. I don't want to I don't want
Speaker 1: to use the E word just yet on it, but
Speaker 1: he is teetering dangerously close. No, because if I say that,
Speaker 1: then then you got to be able to put him
Speaker 1: up there with like a Jesse Bates and things like that. Close. Listen,
Speaker 1: objectively speaking, if I I'll see this, I'll say this,
Speaker 1: that's why. Okay, And I'm a player at getting that back,
Speaker 1: get your back. If I see only a couple more
Speaker 1: games of this from Donovan Wilson, I'm gonna throw the
Speaker 1: E word on his jersey, and I'm gonna say Donovan
Speaker 1: Wilson is an elite safety right now, what Nurse um
Speaker 1: it hybrid because he's not a he's not a full
Speaker 1: blone safety. He's a linebacker and a safety. He's elite
Speaker 1: at what he does. Donald's been doing the same thing
Speaker 1: jay Ron would do for the most part. Jay Ron
Speaker 1: has has more assignments, he more coverage assignments, and he's
Speaker 1: also tasked with deleting people like George Kittle for example,
Speaker 1: where Donald is more tasked with we talk about covering
Speaker 1: in space and clean up duty and things like that.
Speaker 1: It's two different roles, which is why and I'm glad
Speaker 1: you mentioned Jyron Curse because a lot of people were saying, well,
Speaker 1: once jay Ron comes back, how do you fit him
Speaker 1: in easily? You fit him in by putting him back
Speaker 1: in because the Cowboys bass isn't technically a four three
Speaker 1: as much as it is a big nickel, so you're
Speaker 1: gonna typically run three safeties in The third safety is
Speaker 1: actually the hybrid and jay Ron Curse. That's why both
Speaker 1: Curse and Wilson started in week one and played a
Speaker 1: healthy about it. If you go back to twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: he was the almost like the one guy that was like,
Speaker 1: all right, this is how Michael Carthy, this is how
Speaker 1: I want my defense to play. Just yeah, and like
Speaker 1: going back to college, sometimes his aggressiveness got the better
Speaker 1: of him targeting. That was a problem for him in college,
Speaker 1: but like that's what they needed in twenty twenty and
Speaker 1: he kind of reshaped what they wanted. Then dan Quinn
Speaker 1: comes in, Jayron Curse turned out to be way more
Speaker 1: versatile and effective than they expected. And yeah, and it
Speaker 1: kind of limited a little bit of what Dono could do.
Speaker 1: But man, he's led the team in tackles the last
Speaker 1: two weeks. Um, he's he could be a big part
Speaker 1: of it. And he's getting better. That's the big thing too,
Speaker 1: because confidence. Kind of going back to what Isaiah was
Speaker 1: talking about and Rob Rob hit this too. But the
Speaker 1: interior of the defensive line for the Cowboys was so stout.
Speaker 1: Even when Washington tried to run the football, they didn't
Speaker 1: do it inside. I would love to go back and
Speaker 1: see the numbers on how their yardage stacked up outside
Speaker 1: of the hash marks compared to like inside the tackle box,
Speaker 1: because they did not run effectively inside the tackle box.
Speaker 1: If they had rushing yardage, it was either on the
Speaker 1: outside or it was passing yardage. That was a screen
Speaker 1: that just kind of went that way too. That's because
Speaker 1: our cornerbacks were retreating. Yeah, that's I mean, call of spade, spade.
Speaker 1: Our cornerbacks did not play aggressive. Name Trey von Dix. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he wasn't good in the running. He wanted no parts
Speaker 1: of the contact of the running game out there or
Speaker 1: the screen game. It's just the film is the film. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sorry. I would say it to his
Speaker 1: face too. It just he didn't He didn't play downhill
Speaker 1: in Abergarden. Did he make plays defensively as a defensive
Speaker 1: bagall in the passing game absolutely destroyed it. Right, But
Speaker 1: I think one of the what he showed last week
Speaker 1: his willingness to come up and tackle. That needs to
Speaker 1: be more present every week. It can't be a light on,
Speaker 1: light off thing. And as we start talking about him
Speaker 1: being in this elite conversation, right, elite, you know, defensive back,
Speaker 1: an elite cornerback in this league. That part of your
Speaker 1: game has to show up. And that's why conversations of
Speaker 1: Jalen Ram, that's why he gets paid what he gets paid,
Speaker 1: because he comes up and he hits yea, yeah, you
Speaker 1: can't take care. You can't. You know, you're barely gonna
Speaker 1: get went on with the ball in the air, and
Speaker 1: if you run the ball to his side, you're probably
Speaker 1: gonna get hit. And that's the reason why he's in
Speaker 1: a conversation of his own. Those two tackles too. At
Speaker 1: the end of the Bengals game, we're like, whoa, yeah,
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Speaker 1: of a segue to something I was thinking of yesterday
Speaker 1: as well, Robin I discussed it. It looked like at
Speaker 1: times the Cowboys were seeing the right side of their
Speaker 1: defensive line attacked time and time again by Antonio Gibson.
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Speaker 1: But Antonio Gibson, of his thirteen carries for forty nine yards,
Speaker 1: nearly twenty of those yards were gained on, you know,
Speaker 1: running to his left, which with him the Cowboys right
Speaker 1: of their defensive line. Three of those were five were
Speaker 1: gainers of five or more. He struggled for the most
Speaker 1: part getting up to getting in between the gaps, but
Speaker 1: he was able to, you know, get a little bit
Speaker 1: of leeway there. But it goes to the overall point
Speaker 1: of the interior defensive for the Cowboys was playing quite
Speaker 1: well yesterday, even after the loss of Quentin Bohanna. They're
Speaker 1: going to need to show up when it comes to
Speaker 1: run defense. They're going to definitely need to show up
Speaker 1: that edge because Washington not going to say exposed it,
Speaker 1: but Washington showed a soft spot there that Dan Quinn
Speaker 1: and his defensive staff they're going to need to tighten up,
Speaker 1: especially going against a team like Los Angeles. In Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: if you allow Los Angeles to establish the run, they
Speaker 1: are going to tee off with Cooper Cup and Matthew Stafford.
Speaker 1: So something there to keep an eye on. Out of
Speaker 1: his forty nine yards, which that's not a lot. Dallas
Speaker 1: did a really good job of bottling him up. But
Speaker 1: forty nine yards, only twelve of them came within the tackles.
Speaker 1: It's kind of what we were talking about earlier. So
Speaker 1: inside the tackles you've been great. Outside contain it's been
Speaker 1: spotty at best at times, but overall the defense still
Speaker 1: looks fantastic. All right, Rob Phillips, you get to start
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Speaker 1: do this during a Cowboys win. Here on talking Cowboys,
Speaker 1: giving out our players of the game. I'm gonna leave
Speaker 1: Dono to no see if he wants him. Hey, I'll
Speaker 1: take it. Hey somebody, Well you can take it, but
Speaker 1: what hey is reserved for day owners day winners. Yeah, somebody.
Speaker 1: I'll just go ahead. Somebody's gotta take Michael Gallup, welcome
Speaker 1: back the numbers. He had the touchdown which was on
Speaker 1: a great scrambled drill which we watched every day in
Speaker 1: Ox and Ard, And look, he didn't get a lot
Speaker 1: of work with Cooper Rush. He's had two weeks instant impact.
Speaker 1: Instant impact, only two catches for twenty four yards, but
Speaker 1: I think two drawn penalties for over sixty yards. He
Speaker 1: could have been over one hundred if he hadn't gotten
Speaker 1: interfered with so excellent job. What he did exactly what
Speaker 1: we've talked about. He got deep, he threatened him deep.
Speaker 1: He opened things up for the other guys, and that's
Speaker 1: only going to continue going forward. So happy for him.
Speaker 1: He apps there was donut for Michael Gallup finally getting
Speaker 1: MG thirteen is back. We're gonna go to No, you
Speaker 1: have to they stole mine so to find one. So
Speaker 1: I'm going with Donovan Wilson aka Donald Wilson aka uh
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Speaker 1: the Pineapple. The reason I'm going with the Pineapple is
Speaker 1: those who are fans of the comedian Kevin Hart. No.
Speaker 1: There's kind of a running joke that he has as
Speaker 1: far as safe words are concerned, and I feel like
Speaker 1: the more an opposing offense goes against Donovan Wilson, the
Speaker 1: more they try to get past him, the more he
Speaker 1: goldbergs them into oblivion, the more they start looking for
Speaker 1: their safe word, and the safe word is pineapple. Okay,
Speaker 1: So Donovan Wilson gets the pineapple because he has opposing
Speaker 1: ball carriers looking for their safe word every play when
Speaker 1: they see him bearing down on them. So I'm going
Speaker 1: with Donald Donald Wilson Pineapple like it all right? Asa,
Speaker 1: you guys are thieves. You guys are I don't even
Speaker 1: know where fruits this year is? What is that pie? Sure? Yeah? Sure, sure.
Speaker 1: I can't wait till somebody on Twitter comes and calls
Speaker 1: you out for pop over there? Um? I think this
Speaker 1: is the papaya, right, is that it? Sure? Make sure
Speaker 1: you guys tell us I don't know what that is. Um,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of seeds there in that papaya. So
Speaker 1: with that, I'm going with C. D Lamb. You see
Speaker 1: what I did there, CD Lamb a little bit, CD
Speaker 1: pen I was on your I was on your head
Speaker 1: like a like a muffin cap the first couple of weeks. Okay,
Speaker 1: but you were starting to show up and show out
Speaker 1: and I like it. I like the confidence. I like
Speaker 1: the consistency, right, and I like the big playability that
Speaker 1: you are now helping your team entrusting you, so keep
Speaker 1: doing what you're doing. CD. I like it all right?
Speaker 1: Who you got last word to? Ky? Yeah? So I've
Speaker 1: got these two mangoes here. I've got a mango and
Speaker 1: one of them holding like an umbrella. These are the
Speaker 1: two guys in the middle of that defense that spread
Speaker 1: out to just open up and cover up the interior
Speaker 1: defensive line. This is Nevill Gallimore and Quentin behind right
Speaker 1: there in the middle. Brother just right in the middle there,
Speaker 1: plugging it up and doing a really good job of
Speaker 1: doing so. The interior of that defensive line, stopping the
Speaker 1: run through the tackles and even providing some pass rush
Speaker 1: at times. Carson Wentz is throwing off his back foot.
Speaker 1: He wasn't able to really settle into the pocket. Give
Speaker 1: me these two guys right there at the front of
Speaker 1: a helmet on the third. Congrats, and you didn't let
Speaker 1: Isaiah throw you off? Right, Yeah, thank goodness. Right, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about it. Throw you off. We'll get it whenever
Speaker 1: we get off the air. Third Cowboys win, third helmet sticker.
Speaker 1: This thing's starting to fill up. Boys like Ohio State.
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