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Speaker 1: We're gonna get into all sorts of things here over
Speaker 1: the next forty five minutes. Once again, a little bit
Speaker 1: early today nine fifteen start time on Thursdays and Friday's
Speaker 1: due to the press conference from Mike McCarthy. But it
Speaker 1: is Talking Cowboys. Harrison, Rob Phillips, our resident super Bowl
Speaker 1: champion Isaiah stand back, I'm Kyle Yeoman's and guys, it's
Speaker 1: always a little refreshing to get back on with you
Speaker 1: guys every Friday, because we talked throughout the week, we
Speaker 1: preview the matchup. But now it's really kind of getting
Speaker 1: down on the the nitty gritty. You're a couple of days away,
Speaker 1: you're one practice away from really seeing or I guess
Speaker 1: yesterday was our one practice to see exactly where we
Speaker 1: might stand in terms of the injury reports. First off, Rob,
Speaker 1: we saw some practice yesterday from Tyron Smith. Mike McCarthy
Speaker 1: alluded to it yesterday and as press conference said that
Speaker 1: we were going to see some limited action from ty
Speaker 1: But is that what ended up happening? Rob? Yeah, limited
Speaker 1: means you know, he was asked yesterday because we talked
Speaker 1: about it, what's the threshold between not practicing and limited practice?
Speaker 1: And obviously by limited he got some teamwork in apparently
Speaker 1: so and he was on the fan. Mike McCarthy was
Speaker 1: this morning and apparently said he's on course to play Sunday.
Speaker 1: So that's really good news if that continues to hold.
Speaker 1: And we talked about yesterday how Thursday's practice is always
Speaker 1: the key because they don't practice on Fridays and then
Speaker 1: they've got a very short practice scheduled on Saturday, so
Speaker 1: really good to see him there. To Marcus Lawrence did
Speaker 1: not practice again Thursday, but it sounds like they're just
Speaker 1: trying to get him to the game, trying to manage
Speaker 1: that knee, and that's you know, they've done that with
Speaker 1: him in the past with a shoulder injury that he's had.
Speaker 1: So you know, I think he's gonna play Sunday. The
Speaker 1: question will be how many snaps and how effective can
Speaker 1: he be? So do you think both Tyrn Smith and
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Lawrence end up playing snaps on Sunday based on
Speaker 1: what we're hearing right now, Yeah, I think so, And
Speaker 1: I think that you know, we're going to talk about
Speaker 1: this offense, but what they've been able to do without
Speaker 1: Tyrann Smith at left tackle, think what they can do
Speaker 1: if he's at full strength and they've got things short
Speaker 1: up a little bit better on that left side. So
Speaker 1: that's pretty optimistic for what they might be able to
Speaker 1: continue to do and build on. Oh man, that just
Speaker 1: gets me excited thinking about the potential there. Of course,
Speaker 1: Lyle Collins, who we thought was going to be returning
Speaker 1: right around this time, it's gonna be a little bit
Speaker 1: longer for him. He still has not practice, has not
Speaker 1: been activated off of IR, and even when that's happening,
Speaker 1: you're probably gonna have to wait a couple of days,
Speaker 1: maybe even a week before he's ready for game action.
Speaker 1: In terms of getting back in there and seeing starting
Speaker 1: time at the right tackle spot. We're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: Tyrn Smith though, really quickly here and the fact that
Speaker 1: if he does return, we've got a decision to make
Speaker 1: on the right tackle position. Whenever it comes to either
Speaker 1: one of the two guys that have come in and
Speaker 1: filled up that left tackle and right tackle position through
Speaker 1: the first three weeks of the season, Is it gonna
Speaker 1: be Terren Steal over it right tackle again? Or do
Speaker 1: you go with Brandon Knight Isaiah, who it looks like,
Speaker 1: at least over the course of the first three weeks,
Speaker 1: has had a little bit more success than Terren Steal.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't really don't think it matters
Speaker 1: too much. I think those guys are both playing well.
Speaker 1: I think you're gonna have to give give them either
Speaker 1: one you no matter who it is, You're gonna give
Speaker 1: them some assistance either way. I think you're gonna need
Speaker 1: to you know, obviously we've touched on it, these guys
Speaker 1: chipping out the backfield, we touched on it in the
Speaker 1: film room. You're gonna need somebody coming out the back.
Speaker 1: You're gonna need some tight end assistance because of the
Speaker 1: techniques that these guys play, specifically on passing down. So
Speaker 1: it really doesn't matter who's out there. They're gonna be
Speaker 1: on an island and they're gonna have their hands full.
Speaker 1: Do you agree it's a lot of musical chair. No.
Speaker 1: I do, and I just believe that it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of musical chairs going on with this offensive
Speaker 1: line until we actually get Leo Collins back back in
Speaker 1: promising news to hear that Tyron Smith was was just
Speaker 1: limited in practice. But you know, with him being a veteran,
Speaker 1: he knows the playbook, he knows his responsibility. I don't
Speaker 1: think we're worried about that. We just don't want him
Speaker 1: to continue to have to go through these stinger issues.
Speaker 1: But Brandon Knight has proven to us in a very
Speaker 1: short period of time that he is serviceable, he allows
Speaker 1: for I don't believe that he's given up a sack
Speaker 1: he may have, and maybe talking prematurely on this, but
Speaker 1: at the same time, if Tyren Smith is back, and
Speaker 1: if we're thinking moving Brandon Knight to right tackle is
Speaker 1: going to help this team to get a victory on Sunday,
Speaker 1: then I'm all for it. You know, if you get
Speaker 1: a nickname from Zeke, if he nicknames you wore Daddy,
Speaker 1: I don't know if he came up with that, but
Speaker 1: you're pretty good. I mean, yeah, you got you got
Speaker 1: some talent. So I probably feel more comfortable about Brandon
Speaker 1: Knight than Terrence Steele at this point, just because he
Speaker 1: started more games, and I think holding down that left
Speaker 1: side that's usually not as easy a job as right tackle.
Speaker 1: And it's a good nickname too. It's not a bad nickname.
Speaker 1: You don't want a bad nickname from Ezekiel Elliott because
Speaker 1: of what you're doing on the field. That's not necessarily
Speaker 1: the at least the recipe for success. But in talking
Speaker 1: about the musical chairs, of course, yesterday we hit up
Speaker 1: a point about Tyler Battish or Joe Looney playing at
Speaker 1: the center position and we were split. Me and Heckma
Speaker 1: both thought, hey, let's give the rookie a shot. You
Speaker 1: put the Wisconsin Remington Trophy winner at center and see
Speaker 1: what he can do as a starter against this Cleveland
Speaker 1: defensive line. And then Rob and Isaiah went with the experience.
Speaker 1: They went with Joe Looney saying, hey, let's let's keep
Speaker 1: it the same. Let's not change too many things up,
Speaker 1: especially against a good Cleveland defensive line. But whenever we
Speaker 1: talk about these injuries, and there's a couple of them
Speaker 1: to hit on, whether it is the tackles, whether it's
Speaker 1: in the defensive side of the football, with Layton vander
Speaker 1: esh even I'll throw to Marcus Lawrence into the mix.
Speaker 1: And then of course the corners, who do we miss
Speaker 1: the most throughout the three weeks of the season. As
Speaker 1: we're heading into week four, is there somebody that at
Speaker 1: least whenever you look at them being out affected on
Speaker 1: the sideline, that man you would give anything to give
Speaker 1: it back to him. Is there anybody that's sticks out
Speaker 1: to you? Heckma, why am I gonna say, Earl Thomas, No, no,
Speaker 1: don't do that, don't do that. No, I'm sorry, let's
Speaker 1: let's brink it out. I don't want this show to
Speaker 1: go off the rails. Just in the first segment. Okay,
Speaker 1: um oh, I mean there's a there's a lot of
Speaker 1: guys on the injury report, and I mean I'm just
Speaker 1: having to deal with who we have and once you,
Speaker 1: you know, let us know what we were gonna be
Speaker 1: talking about. I started in my mind that the will
Speaker 1: started to turn on. Who is a guy that I'm missing?
Speaker 1: Obviously left Tackle, we know we need him, Layout Collins,
Speaker 1: we're missing him. I just Kyle, that's really a tough question. Man.
Speaker 1: You you're probably missing an iron this morning on that shirt.
Speaker 1: But I digress, digress. So you didn't even when that
Speaker 1: ship happened. You didn't even answer that question. That's all
Speaker 1: you do. I want to hear your answer. You know
Speaker 1: what it's God, that's that's a bachelor's stuff. Man. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, Hey, Kyle, Hey, Hey, just say you know that, Kyle,
Speaker 1: I would I would never do you like that? Kyle,
Speaker 1: Just don't. Yes, you would. Yes, my favorite new member
Speaker 1: of the show other than Rob Phillips or ye are
Speaker 1: both time. Now, can you please give me the answer
Speaker 1: to the question. You didn't even answer it. Who do
Speaker 1: you want? Who do I miss? I miss? I missed?
Speaker 1: Tyren Smith Okay, so that was your your answer. You
Speaker 1: just went on like a like a merry go round
Speaker 1: around it and then didn't actually say a very long
Speaker 1: way of going about it. Isaiah, who you got? Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm going with the lone wolf, all right, the lone wolf.
Speaker 1: His presences is being missed because not only are teams
Speaker 1: averaging five yards per carry against the Cowboys right now,
Speaker 1: but this team that's coming in here averages over five
Speaker 1: yards per carry with their two dogs. So you need
Speaker 1: this dude in the middle. Jalen is not a middle linebacker,
Speaker 1: No disrespect to him. He can play the position, all right,
Speaker 1: just like many people. I can go play punter two, right,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean that's what I do. You know,
Speaker 1: Jaylen Smith needs to be able to have the freedom
Speaker 1: to roam free and run sideline the sideline, and right
Speaker 1: now he does not allowed to do that. We need
Speaker 1: vander eschback. We need him back one hundred percent healthy.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's something that we would get,
Speaker 1: but he is the most miss member of this team
Speaker 1: and they are missing him direly. I love wardrobe Talk
Speaker 1: because I used to do this show with Nate Newton
Speaker 1: and he always took shots at what I was wearing.
Speaker 1: I always part of it. I mean, it's just part
Speaker 1: of being on this show. Um, I gotta go with
Speaker 1: the cornerback position. Take your pick between Cheeto or Anthony Brown.
Speaker 1: They just need more numbers back then, they need more
Speaker 1: options back there. And um, but does Gerald McCoy count
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I know, I know he's not. I know
Speaker 1: he's I know he's not on the roster. He would
Speaker 1: have been if he didn't have that quad injury and
Speaker 1: got the release via injury waiver. But I think they
Speaker 1: could use his presence inside for sure, uh, trying to
Speaker 1: stop the run, trying to get more of a presence
Speaker 1: in that interior push, and they just don't have that.
Speaker 1: But I will say Tristan Hill has done a really
Speaker 1: nice job working in there and battling and trying to
Speaker 1: give him something with the extra snaps he's gotten. But
Speaker 1: I probably would go with corner just because you know,
Speaker 1: Treyvon Diggs is a really talented rookie, but he's the
Speaker 1: one constant back there, and that's that's really challenging for
Speaker 1: a second round pick to come in and be and
Speaker 1: have that much on his plate right now, because he's
Speaker 1: had some good moments and he's had some bad moments,
Speaker 1: and I think that's something that's kind of lost in this.
Speaker 1: And first off, I love your sleeper pick and Gerald
Speaker 1: McCoy because we were so excited about him and he
Speaker 1: looked so good in training camp, better than any of
Speaker 1: the other defensive tackles, and then whenever he goes down
Speaker 1: with the injury, that's a guy that I really wish
Speaker 1: we had in the interior of that defensive line. But
Speaker 1: I agree with you on the secondary though, because going
Speaker 1: into the year it looked like it was depth that's
Speaker 1: at corner depth in the secondary. You had three guys
Speaker 1: that could start and then another three guard guys that
Speaker 1: wasn't necessarily a huge drop off. But now with Cheeto out,
Speaker 1: of course, with Anthony Brown out, you're limited in your
Speaker 1: options and you had to go get a Brandon car,
Speaker 1: You had to call up a Savian Smith. You had
Speaker 1: to find a way to really fill those holes with
Speaker 1: guys that, of course aren't necessarily up to par. And
Speaker 1: I think that's where we've struggled here over the last
Speaker 1: couple Yeah, go ahead, go ahead, heck you get him
Speaker 1: for I'm right behind you. Do you believe that if
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown had played last week that he would have
Speaker 1: made a difference in the Seattle Cheeto would have made
Speaker 1: a difference in the Seattle game. I think, yeah, either
Speaker 1: one of those guys would have made a difference. It
Speaker 1: might not have been a huge difference, but you don't
Speaker 1: see the guys running twenty five yards untouched down the
Speaker 1: field difference. Kyle. Okay, Kyle, I'm have to disagree with
Speaker 1: you just on the meritive. That's fine. Yes, we did
Speaker 1: it acknowledge that this is gonna be a very competitive secondary, right.
Speaker 1: We did not say that there's gonna be a competitive
Speaker 1: secondary full of guys that are lockdown corners, right, that
Speaker 1: we don't have not one lockdown corner on this team.
Speaker 1: I think that it's very competitive because there's not one
Speaker 1: person that distinguishes themselves above and beyond the others. That's
Speaker 1: why it's competitive. It's not competitive in the nature of that,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you have a Ramsey back here, and
Speaker 1: then you also have a Darrell Rebus on the other side, Like, no,
Speaker 1: that's that's not what you have. You don't have any
Speaker 1: of those guys, And these first four weeks have not helped, Right,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter who you would have put over there.
Speaker 1: They're all going to get torched by one of these receivers,
Speaker 1: and that's okay. That's when you need your defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: to put you in the best situation possible, and he
Speaker 1: just hasn't done that. Well. I agree with you that.
Speaker 1: I mean, in terms of guys who have had extended absences,
Speaker 1: you could argue between Tyring and Layton probably Tying best
Speaker 1: player that they're missing. Layton's the quarterback of the defense,
Speaker 1: so that that is huge. I just I'm just looking
Speaker 1: at it from the number standpoint of Daryl Worley's playing
Speaker 1: safety snaps one week and now you've got to plug
Speaker 1: him into corner just to try to get your try
Speaker 1: to stabilize things. And I'm with you. I mean, the
Speaker 1: receivers that they're playing, they're gonna give up plays. But
Speaker 1: I just I would just feel better about the position
Speaker 1: if you had a cheeto back there at least to
Speaker 1: a big corner that can match up a little bit
Speaker 1: and give them something else to throw at. But they
Speaker 1: haven't had it, and they've just had to make do
Speaker 1: for now. And also, Isaiah, what were you saying last
Speaker 1: week whenever we talked about the problems in the secondary.
Speaker 1: What was your one thing, if you had to put
Speaker 1: it down to one word, what caused a lot of
Speaker 1: those issues. Oh, it's communication, thank you, It's communication. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with you. Okay. If Anthony Brown and you
Speaker 1: to Elusier are in the secondary, do you agree the
Speaker 1: communication would undoubtedly be better, just solely based on the
Speaker 1: fact that it's it's camaraderie, it's it's at least the
Speaker 1: familiarity in that secondary. I get what you're going, I
Speaker 1: see what you're putting down. I pick up what you're
Speaker 1: putting down. Okay. However, the issues that occurred last week
Speaker 1: primarily occurred with the set with the safeties, right, safeties
Speaker 1: were the one as Woods and Thompson and were back,
Speaker 1: they're looking around that stuff that they weren't responsible for.
Speaker 1: So that's what really got them in trouble because they
Speaker 1: were playing I mean you, and it's kind of frustrating
Speaker 1: to hear let them talk about how we have to
Speaker 1: pull back on what we're doing. Dude, you guys were
Speaker 1: running high school coverages, right. You guys are running cover four,
Speaker 1: covered two, covered three, Like these are the base coverages
Speaker 1: that you learned when you first put on a helmet,
Speaker 1: so this stuff's not complicated. But yes, communication was the issue,
Speaker 1: but it really occurred between the safeties at the cornerback position.
Speaker 1: Guys are just getting beat playing and playing a simple
Speaker 1: Guys are just getting um you know some of the
Speaker 1: some of these zone coverages really turned into man coverages
Speaker 1: depending on whether receivers are aligned at So even though
Speaker 1: they might be playing zone, as long as that person
Speaker 1: remains in your zone, that's man to man coverage. And
Speaker 1: these guys are just getting ran by. Hey, I had
Speaker 1: one question for you on that track though, the touchdown
Speaker 1: that and you have to cycle through which touchdown It
Speaker 1: was the locket touchdown where he went across the field
Speaker 1: in the end zone and they're supposed to happen. Yeah, coverage,
Speaker 1: Aikman said in the broadcast, it looked like maybe Digs
Speaker 1: thought they were in zone on one side of the
Speaker 1: field and the other side of the field and playing man.
Speaker 1: Is that Is that too much of a complex coverage? Right?
Speaker 1: You know? I don't I don't know that. Just so
Speaker 1: for everybody that's out there, if you guys didn't watch
Speaker 1: Kyle and myself to do the film room breakdown, y'all
Speaker 1: go check that out, but this it was pretty It's
Speaker 1: pretty simple. You know that you guys have those quarters, right,
Speaker 1: so when you hear quarters or cover four, it's literally
Speaker 1: the four of us, right. So we spread all the
Speaker 1: way across fifty three and a half yards, right, and
Speaker 1: we're all splitting those up into quarters of the field.
Speaker 1: Those are our responsibilities. Now, when somebody's in our zone,
Speaker 1: that's our responsibility, and that's pretty much man to man
Speaker 1: until he does what he goes over to your zone.
Speaker 1: Rob Now I'm like, oh, there's there's literally using them off. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm passing them off. That's a red line. I can't
Speaker 1: cross that. That's not my area, right, So he's going
Speaker 1: over to you now, I just it's my job to
Speaker 1: alert you and make you known that somebody's coming over
Speaker 1: to you, right, and when you're playing that coverage, they're
Speaker 1: gonna try to cross you up. Because it does get
Speaker 1: a little confusing when you have one dude in your
Speaker 1: zone and other dude's coming two year zone. It's like, okay,
Speaker 1: who do I go with? You have to go back
Speaker 1: to the basis and say this is where I'm at.
Speaker 1: I have to trust that my other dudes are gonna
Speaker 1: take care of their business. And when I don't trust that,
Speaker 1: that's when I when that's when I get committed to
Speaker 1: somebody that's not I'm not responsible for, and I screw
Speaker 1: somebody else behind me. Rob. I think the most frustrating
Speaker 1: thing about that play is the fact that Tyler Lockett
Speaker 1: went from one side on the goal line to the
Speaker 1: other side and nobody, nobody bumped him at all. And
Speaker 1: maybe that's old school, but man, you gotta touch guys.
Speaker 1: You gotta put your hands on especially in the goal line.
Speaker 1: It's a free release all the way across untouched. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's one of the easiest throws. I believe that
Speaker 1: that Russell Wilson will make this entire year which we
Speaker 1: just didn't touch anybody. We didn't throw anybody off of
Speaker 1: their routes at all. And to see that happened on
Speaker 1: the goal line, a guy just run across linebackers in
Speaker 1: safety's face. It is I don't know how you fix that. Herry.
Speaker 1: There was another one too, when they were on the
Speaker 1: goal line again and everybody was down in the box
Speaker 1: and they had a tight split, would lock it right
Speaker 1: like I had a tight split to the tight end
Speaker 1: and Diggs was about half a man to a man
Speaker 1: outside of him right, which means that he was lined
Speaker 1: up outside with outside leverage, meaning he should never get
Speaker 1: outside of you to run to the flat perfect position
Speaker 1: per positions. But because because Diggs had his eyes in
Speaker 1: the backfield, Diggs was looking in there like he was
Speaker 1: about to go in there and make a dog on
Speaker 1: a hit on Carson. You're not getting in there to
Speaker 1: make no hit on Carson. While his eyes were locked in,
Speaker 1: Locke looked at him like all right, and gotten outside
Speaker 1: of him, and he was too steps outside him by
Speaker 1: the time he even realized, oh, it's not a run
Speaker 1: it was, so just do your as we what we
Speaker 1: said in New England and when I said and when
Speaker 1: I was playing with the Giants is d y J
Speaker 1: do your job and stop worrying about everybody else's responsibilities.
Speaker 1: Your job is to stick these receivers and play your coverage.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna get cursed out by your culture doing
Speaker 1: what dear asked to do. I think whenever you look
Speaker 1: at the secondary the communication could be better. I think
Speaker 1: the scheme might have to be simplified, even more so
Speaker 1: than what we had even talked about, because I know
Speaker 1: even Isaiah, Like you said, they're running those high school
Speaker 1: those college coverages, but it still seems to be a
Speaker 1: little bit more complex. Maybe I don't know. It's tough
Speaker 1: to fix. It really is. And we'll see how they
Speaker 1: do that against Rafield and this defense. Yeah, you can't
Speaker 1: make excuses. You can't make excuses at all, especially whenever
Speaker 1: you're in the week four of the season. No more
Speaker 1: of this. We we didn't have an off season, we
Speaker 1: didn't have a long training camp. You're three weeks into
Speaker 1: the season. You're all professionals. I think this is the
Speaker 1: week or you have to see a turnaround or else.
Speaker 1: You've really got some issues on that defensive side of
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Speaker 1: Kyle Yeoman's welcome into Talking Cowboys. It's Week four, episode five,
Speaker 1: And guys, I mentioned this a little bit earlier whenever
Speaker 1: we talked about the defense, and of course the defense
Speaker 1: has its own problems. We have some issues whenever it
Speaker 1: comes to the secondary. Sure, injuries, Sure, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of things you can look at and put a down
Speaker 1: or at least a down arrow, a trending down arrow
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys on. But one thing that keeps trending
Speaker 1: upwards is this offense. And Dak Prescott yesterday in his
Speaker 1: weekly press conference, came out and said, Hey, this might
Speaker 1: be the most explosive offense I've been a part of. Now.
Speaker 1: Of course that's only dating back to twenty sixteen, but
Speaker 1: I want to ask and Rob will start with you
Speaker 1: on this one. Just how explosive is this offense in
Speaker 1: terms of the grand scheme of things in Cowboy's history
Speaker 1: and then also in Dak Prescott's short history with the
Speaker 1: with the franchise. I think he's right, and I think
Speaker 1: it is the most explosive offense so far that we've
Speaker 1: seen since twenty sixteen. And you know what, it's it's
Speaker 1: got a chance to be even better because if they
Speaker 1: can just get some leads in games, you're gonna see
Speaker 1: even more the balance of this offense, because I don't
Speaker 1: think we've seen enough Zeke so far, to be honest
Speaker 1: with you, And we've seen the depth of the receiving corps.
Speaker 1: We've seen a tight end group that has been able
Speaker 1: to withstand Blake Jarwin's injury so far, and we've seen
Speaker 1: them withstand a bunch of injuries on the offensive line.
Speaker 1: So I think they've got a shot to be even
Speaker 1: better than they've been. And they're ten points away right now.
Speaker 1: I know it's only three game sample, but they're ten
Speaker 1: points away from being right on pace for the most
Speaker 1: points buy a Cowboys offense in history, and so that's
Speaker 1: that's really encouraging. But um. You know, they've got to
Speaker 1: cut down the turnovers because not only does it hurt them,
Speaker 1: it puts the defense in a tough spot too, is Zam.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you really want that record, like
Speaker 1: unless your kids in a city, you know, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think you want that record because it insinuates
Speaker 1: that you're playing from behind and you're gonna you're gonna
Speaker 1: get yards, you're gonna get you know, obviously you're gonna
Speaker 1: score for the most part when you're coming from behind.
Speaker 1: So I don't. I don't know. That's something about want
Speaker 1: in terms of do I think it's the most explosive.
Speaker 1: It's hard for me to say that, Kyle, because you know,
Speaker 1: I came in. I came in my year, my rookie
Speaker 1: year was two thousand and seven, and we had a
Speaker 1: we had a pretty dug on good offense UM back
Speaker 1: in two thousand and seven, and it maybe even better defense.
Speaker 1: So it's hard for me to go ahead and say yes.
Speaker 1: But I think talent wise, these guys have a lot. Man,
Speaker 1: these guys are stacked um at you know, I obviously
Speaker 1: at the receiver position, obviously at running back, where they're
Speaker 1: not stacked his offensive line and they're not stacked that
Speaker 1: tight end, so but they are scoring points. But I
Speaker 1: want to see them do that against some of these
Speaker 1: you know, some of these defenses that are like earlier
Speaker 1: in a game. I guess, let me, I guess I'll
Speaker 1: put it that way. I don't want to say it
Speaker 1: against the starting defense if they're doing it against starting defensive,
Speaker 1: but I want to see these guys do it in
Speaker 1: a competitive manner, not towards that when they're playing from
Speaker 1: behind and teams are are playing playing off coverage. But
Speaker 1: these guys they could play ball, man. I just want
Speaker 1: to see them do it earlier. I think it's own paper.
Speaker 1: All the names and all the statistics that you see.
Speaker 1: I mean, it looks good if you don't look at
Speaker 1: the records and the record and you look at the number.
Speaker 1: You see that these guys are trending in the direction
Speaker 1: of all three receivers having thousand yards and Ezekiel Elliott
Speaker 1: having a great season. But what does that equate to
Speaker 1: as far as wins and losses? I think you're still
Speaker 1: going towards Mediocreville. And in a five hundred season, this
Speaker 1: the Cowboys have been having to make these furious come
Speaker 1: from behind, trying to come from trying to come from
Speaker 1: behind to make it close. And that's just an indicative
Speaker 1: of how bad we've been in the first quarter. What
Speaker 1: happens to this team when they actually get an opportunity
Speaker 1: to play with a league. What happens to this team
Speaker 1: when they actually find that balance. That's what I believe
Speaker 1: we're all waiting to see, because right now, every week
Speaker 1: it's just, you know, it's becoming an event all in itself,
Speaker 1: this offense having to make this furious comeback to keep
Speaker 1: us in the game. And I feel like we're talking
Speaker 1: about last year. You know, how many times? How many
Speaker 1: times do we talk about slow starts last year and
Speaker 1: and they were able to dig out of them just
Speaker 1: in time to you know, either comfort behind and win
Speaker 1: a one score game, but most of the time lose it,
Speaker 1: you know, And so that's that's discouraging. But I will
Speaker 1: say points are up across the league for for some reason,
Speaker 1: and I think it's got something to do with lack
Speaker 1: of road crowd. I mean, you know, I think if
Speaker 1: the Cowboys going to Seattle, I don't I don't know
Speaker 1: if if if they put up thirty one points, and
Speaker 1: I think I think they have a chance to get
Speaker 1: that record because they're gonna go into places like Philly
Speaker 1: and Baltimore and they're not going to be dealing with
Speaker 1: that now. The weather's gonna get colder and it's gonna
Speaker 1: be harder probably to air it out. But I think
Speaker 1: they've got the chance to do it. They just yeah,
Speaker 1: playing from behind, you just can't. You can't continue to
Speaker 1: do that and expect to win a lot of games. Well,
Speaker 1: I kind of want to go off of a point
Speaker 1: that Isaiah made just a little bit ago, is the
Speaker 1: fact that you want to see these guys in a
Speaker 1: competitive fashion, not necessarily competitive in terms of a close game.
Speaker 1: I mean, we've had three straight one score games to
Speaker 1: start the season, but like you guys have said, it's
Speaker 1: been in come from behind fashion. Really, I think the
Speaker 1: one time we may have gotten a chance to see
Speaker 1: that was against Los Angeles, when the fact was you
Speaker 1: were leading fourteen to thirteen at halftime, you had a
Speaker 1: chance in the third quarter to really at least take
Speaker 1: the lead and extend your leads. You didn't have a
Speaker 1: chance to do it really in any of the three games,
Speaker 1: other than maybe that third quarter against Los Angeles. You
Speaker 1: could argue this has been a team that's gotten off
Speaker 1: to a slow start and has had to really kind
Speaker 1: of hustle their way back into the football game. Is
Speaker 1: that a reason why these stats are a little bit
Speaker 1: padded at the moment, especially in the Atlanta and Seattle game. Absolutely? Absolutely.
Speaker 1: I mean you're you're you're facing the best that that
Speaker 1: teams have to bring to you, usually in the first half.
Speaker 1: So I mean, the first half is when your game
Speaker 1: plan is as nice as tight, you know, and when
Speaker 1: you get a lead. We've seen it. Atlanta showed it
Speaker 1: to twice this year, back to back, and they showed
Speaker 1: it a couple years going to Super Bowl. When you
Speaker 1: get a lead, you tend to ease up, right, you
Speaker 1: ease up, you start playing this just kind of this
Speaker 1: blanket coverage on defense, and it's like, hey, you can
Speaker 1: catch it, go ahead, We're don't worry about it. As
Speaker 1: long as you don't score a touchdown. Oh crap, our
Speaker 1: backs against the wall. Shoot you score, right, So you
Speaker 1: start you're you're willing to give up things when you
Speaker 1: have a lead, and that's why you're seeing these numbers inflated. Now,
Speaker 1: I'm not taking anything away from the ability of our
Speaker 1: team to be able to move the ball downfield as
Speaker 1: were points, But we haven't shown it against these teams
Speaker 1: in the first half when they're bringing their absolute best
Speaker 1: in the games, as competitive as can be. And so
Speaker 1: that's all I'm saying. And I know we haven't seen Zeke.
Speaker 1: Why haven't we seen Zeke? Well, we haven't seen Zeke
Speaker 1: because we're putting ourselves in bad situations. We're not executing
Speaker 1: on offense when these guys have their best and now
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, we have to throw the ball
Speaker 1: to get back in the game. So when you throw
Speaker 1: the ball to get back in the game, guess what
Speaker 1: you're gonna throw fifty seven times. You're gonna have a
Speaker 1: bunch of yards. Receivers gonna have a bunch of yards.
Speaker 1: Stats are gonna be padded. But you still wanted to
Speaker 1: So what can we do earlier in the game to
Speaker 1: put ourselves in position to be what we are, which
Speaker 1: is a run first team. I went to Isaiah, that's
Speaker 1: run first team. I like how that sounds as opposed
Speaker 1: to abandoning the run. And we have to do it. Man,
Speaker 1: We've got to put ourselves in a position to find
Speaker 1: balance on offense. But Isaiah spoke to this a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago that teams are going to stop They're
Speaker 1: gonna load up the box to stop Zeke. If this
Speaker 1: football is about imposing your will, we can't allow that
Speaker 1: to happen. And I'm not saying run against a ten
Speaker 1: man front. I'm just saying, Look, we have to establish
Speaker 1: that part of it of our offense so that we're
Speaker 1: not throwing the ball sixty times. And also, guys, we've
Speaker 1: got to go back over a couple of these games.
Speaker 1: I think just the decisions to the punts that we with,
Speaker 1: the fake punts, and all of the things that we've
Speaker 1: had to incur, the mistakes that we've suffered as a team. Man,
Speaker 1: there's so much to try and clean up. If you
Speaker 1: look at all of the past games, and this is
Speaker 1: a team coming into at and T Stadium, The Cleveland
Speaker 1: Browns are Taylor made for the Dallas Cowboys. They are
Speaker 1: not going to present formation problems, their deepenses and all
Speaker 1: that sophisticated. They are Taylor made for us in the
Speaker 1: strengths that we have. So look, I don't want to
Speaker 1: call this a feel good game, but just a lot
Speaker 1: of the things that the defense needs to do as
Speaker 1: far as pin their ears back and come a come
Speaker 1: after the quarterback. We can do that in this game.
Speaker 1: If we can play with the lead instead of playing
Speaker 1: from behind. Yeah, that's how you're gonna see Tony Potter again,
Speaker 1: you know. For I mean now he can now he
Speaker 1: can't put the ball on the ground. But I think
Speaker 1: if that's where you can see all of your weapons,
Speaker 1: when you've got a chance to be more more balanced,
Speaker 1: I just I mean the they it was the disaster
Speaker 1: first quarter against Atlanta, but I guess I just point
Speaker 1: to that game more than anything and say the fact
Speaker 1: that you could fall behind by twenty points and be
Speaker 1: there for most of the game and still find a
Speaker 1: way to get forty points of winning. I mean, you
Speaker 1: have a chance to be really dynamic offensively. But yeah,
Speaker 1: they're not. They're not where they need to be yet
Speaker 1: in any phase of the game. That's the thing about
Speaker 1: this and that's why it's a little unsettling so far.
Speaker 1: There reminds me of last year because it's complimentary football.
Speaker 1: All three phases have to work together, and they have
Speaker 1: yet to have a game where all three phases play well.
Speaker 1: And until they do that, they're gonna have trouble winning games.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be close games. But you know, rob, But
Speaker 1: the way that this offense is set up, in this
Speaker 1: entire team, they're set up to be a dominant force,
Speaker 1: right this, I mean, this squad is stacked. Right when
Speaker 1: you start looking at position by position, all they have
Speaker 1: to do is be stubborn on offense. Be stubborn. Right.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna wear down the front nine or the
Speaker 1: front line in the front seven of a deposing defense
Speaker 1: if you abandon the run right like pound the dog
Speaker 1: on ball. I don't care if you go three series
Speaker 1: right and just just freaking punching in these dude's face. Why,
Speaker 1: because they're gonna get tired, right, That d line's gonna
Speaker 1: get tired, They're gonna get warm down, they're gonna get fatigued.
Speaker 1: The office of line is gonna continue to build confidence, right,
Speaker 1: they're gonna be imposed their will. Zeke's gonna get after it.
Speaker 1: He's gonna momentum's gonna start building. Then play action starts
Speaker 1: popping off right, the secondary starts getting their eyes in
Speaker 1: the backfield. So you have to be stubborn, and I'm
Speaker 1: talking to kill them, Moore. Be stubborn in in your
Speaker 1: pursuit to establish the run game. Do not abandon it.
Speaker 1: I don't care if you have three three and outs,
Speaker 1: freaking pound the ball right. Let these guys know that
Speaker 1: you trust them, and we're gonna continue to get this
Speaker 1: thing established because otherwise you're not going to have a
Speaker 1: successful season. While in that kind of based off of
Speaker 1: what Hackwall is saying earlier that this is a Cleveland
Speaker 1: team that is Taylor made for the Dallas Cowboys, the
Speaker 1: one thing that kind of worries me a little bit
Speaker 1: is the defense for Cleveland can force some turnovers in
Speaker 1: the Cowboys offense. Their one kryptonite might be turning over
Speaker 1: the rock because we've seen that through the first three
Speaker 1: weeks already. If you look at Cleveland, they forced those
Speaker 1: top five turnovers against Washington. Now, yes, I know it
Speaker 1: was the Washington football team of teams and whatnot over
Speaker 1: there in the East Coast and stuff for Washington, but
Speaker 1: I think whenever it comes to holding onto the football,
Speaker 1: that's going to play a huge key in the first
Speaker 1: quarter is just finding a rhythm, establishing a run, finding
Speaker 1: a way to get Ezekiel Elliott the ball and hold
Speaker 1: onto the ball for Zeke Antony Pollard if you wanted
Speaker 1: to get him involved as well. But how big is
Speaker 1: it actually to at least have that rhythm and get
Speaker 1: off to a hot start rather than slow things down.
Speaker 1: It's imperative, it's it's that's what we have to do
Speaker 1: in this game. And you know, Isaiah sounds like a
Speaker 1: coach man. He talks to those coaches cliches when you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: he does have anything that's that speaks to his background.
Speaker 1: And we have to win individual battles. That's just it.
Speaker 1: And Isaiah knows that that's what coaches they talk about
Speaker 1: and they pounded on these players. Win your individual battles.
Speaker 1: The Cleveland Browns are going to crowd the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: Each one of these guys are going to have an
Speaker 1: opportunity to win and show that they can win their
Speaker 1: individual battles. But Miles Garrett Ogan job, all of these
Speaker 1: guys have the this is in their wheelhouse to get
Speaker 1: to the quarterback and not only just get to the quarterback,
Speaker 1: but create those turnovers. We've got to get in the rhythm.
Speaker 1: We've got to throw these guys off and not allow
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns defense to look at the film from
Speaker 1: some prior games and say, look, we can come into
Speaker 1: this game and do the exact same thing to this
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Speaker 1: Week four, Episode five Bits. Prediction time. Time to say
Speaker 1: it with your chest here over the next eight minutes.
Speaker 1: Feel free in the comments or in our Twitter mentions
Speaker 1: give your predictions to each of the games that we're
Speaker 1: talking about. I may even start keeping track of them
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Speaker 1: Every week on Talking Cowboys on a Friday, come or
Speaker 1: come with us with your predictions of these games. In
Speaker 1: the past the recent verse three weeks we only predicted
Speaker 1: the Cowboys games. We only talked about the Cowboys games. Well,
Speaker 1: this week we're two and one. Both me along with
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips and Isaiah Standback. We're all two and one.
Speaker 1: Heck Grammerson is the only one that's one and two.
Speaker 1: But luckily for heck Month, we're predicting three more games
Speaker 1: this week, and we'll predict four games every week. It's
Speaker 1: the Sunday night game, the Monday night game, and then
Speaker 1: a select game from the afternoon slates on Sundays. Are
Speaker 1: the ones that we're going to pred He may or
Speaker 1: may not, but then he made fun of my shirts,
Speaker 1: so I don't know. We may we may ask Freezer
Speaker 1: Freshman Freezer fresh Ze block back. All right, first game
Speaker 1: of the week, talking about the Bills on the road
Speaker 1: against the Las Vegas Raiders. This a Buffalo team that's
Speaker 1: three and oh the Raiders two and one. Raiders had
Speaker 1: that big win on Monday Night football against New Orleans.
Speaker 1: Heckma will start with you. I'm going Bills Mafia got
Speaker 1: the Bills. Mafia, easy one for Heckma. Rob, Yeah, Bills, Mafia,
Speaker 1: Josh Allen slinging around. I think they keep it up.
Speaker 1: I'm going to Bills as well. Bills are tough man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a good team. I'm gonna go with the Bills
Speaker 1: here as well, straight across the board thirty one points
Speaker 1: per game this season from Buffalo, so nobody's gaining any
Speaker 1: ground on that one. All right. How about the Sunday
Speaker 1: night game? Are hated Philadelphia Eagles oh and two and one?
Speaker 1: I want them to start oh and three and one
Speaker 1: San Francisco their fourth straight where they're playing. It's San
Speaker 1: Francisco and the forty nine ers fourth straight game with
Speaker 1: a winless team on the other sideline from them, which
Speaker 1: is kind of interesting to start the season. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go with the forty nine ers here, and it's not
Speaker 1: really even close to me. I still think even with
Speaker 1: their JV team, men, they should be able to win.
Speaker 1: This football game should be a fun one. Wow. Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm okay with that. Go against the Eagles. I'm always
Speaker 1: against the Eagles, and I'm sure Cowboys fans out there
Speaker 1: will be there as well. All right, Isaiah, who you
Speaker 1: got anybody that's playing against Philadelphia? So the forty nine Ers, rob,
Speaker 1: I'll take the Eagles. I think. I think people they're
Speaker 1: they're due. They'll find a way that they need to
Speaker 1: get a win bad to even have a chance here
Speaker 1: in the division. So I'll take Philly. Man because of
Speaker 1: where we are in the NFC East, we desperately need
Speaker 1: for the Eagles to continue their losing ways, and that
Speaker 1: this came this Sunday is so important for us and
Speaker 1: our standings in the division. I'm gonna say the Eagles lose,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm going to forty nine ers. There you go,
Speaker 1: and it is on the road at San Francisco. So
Speaker 1: hopefully that provides a little bit of interesting tidbit in
Speaker 1: terms of the East Coast all the way over to
Speaker 1: the West coast, and hopefully the forty nine pull that
Speaker 1: out and help the Cowboys. But I agree, I think
Speaker 1: the Philly I think Philly is definitely do. I just
Speaker 1: don't want them to win. So I'm picking the forty
Speaker 1: nine Ers, all right. Yeah? Now, now I know is
Speaker 1: as we go through the season, if I need a
Speaker 1: win to catch up, just I'm gonna take Philly. Take Philly, everybody,
Speaker 1: New York or Washington. Yeah that's fair. Yeah, yeah, you
Speaker 1: won't win a ton of those games, my friend, you
Speaker 1: won't win a ton of those games. You may may
Speaker 1: lose ground. Uh Monday Night football, This one should be
Speaker 1: a fun one. Because it's the Packers in Green Bay
Speaker 1: hosting the Atlanta Falcons. Green Bay thirty five plus points
Speaker 1: in each of the first three games this season, and
Speaker 1: oh and three Falcons team, who I mentioned earlier this
Speaker 1: week might be the best oh and three team we've
Speaker 1: seen in a long time. And then you've got a
Speaker 1: three and o Packers team that just continues to score points. Heckma,
Speaker 1: who you got? Well, I know the Atlanta is gonna
Speaker 1: find a way to lose it. So I'm going with
Speaker 1: the Packers. Damn it. I am going with a ron
Speaker 1: because they piss them off by after a first round
Speaker 1: quarterback that's there's not something you do. So they made
Speaker 1: him angry and he's on a rampage right now, and
Speaker 1: unfortunately my guy Dan Queen gets fired afterwards. Most likely.
Speaker 1: Oh no, yeah, yeah, I don't. I don't think the
Speaker 1: Falcons are due either. I put I put Rogers in
Speaker 1: the category of Russell Wilson and Tom Brady. If they're playing,
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna pick him to win. I don't know
Speaker 1: what the spread on this game would be, but I
Speaker 1: would definitely take the Falcons on the spread because they're
Speaker 1: playing for their coach, They're playing for a chance to
Speaker 1: get back into the thick of things. But I also
Speaker 1: think Julio Jones is going to be active this week,
Speaker 1: and I think he'll be more efficient than they have
Speaker 1: been in the past. I'm gonna take the Falcons out
Speaker 1: right here. I really think that they might surprise the
Speaker 1: Packers on the road, and not just to change things up,
Speaker 1: but when you're all in three, that extra level of
Speaker 1: desperation starts to pop out, and I think that's something
Speaker 1: we might see from Atlanta this week. So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take the Falcons all right here. We go big one
Speaker 1: on Sunday. The Cleveland Browns a two and one coming
Speaker 1: in with Baker Mayfield on the offensive side and a
Speaker 1: dual headed backfield. You've got Miles Garrett on the defensive side.
Speaker 1: Take it on the Dallas Cowboys, who desperately need to
Speaker 1: get back to two and to Isaiah has requested to
Speaker 1: go last, so I'm gonna go first, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: make this easy on Cowboys Nation. No fake out like
Speaker 1: I've had the last couple of weeks. This is downright
Speaker 1: the game. The Cowboys get back on track, They're gonna
Speaker 1: win this one by at least two scores. I'm not
Speaker 1: necessarily I'm saying with my chess, I'm not saying it's
Speaker 1: a blowout. I think it's gonna be a tight game.
Speaker 1: But I think we're finally going to see what this
Speaker 1: defense can do against the regular offense and not an
Speaker 1: MVP and Russell Wilson a former MVP and Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: and a super Bowl caliber quarterback and offense with Sean
Speaker 1: mcvayh and Jared goff in La. I think they control
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield. I think they stopped the run a little
Speaker 1: bit more than any of the other teams have in
Speaker 1: the NFL. I think they beat the Browns by a
Speaker 1: couple scores. Hey, well, look, well let me say this.
Speaker 1: You asked that the begin first segment. Who do we miss?
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you, man, I missed the hot boys.
Speaker 1: I need the hot boys to show up on Sunday,
Speaker 1: all right, Jeff Heath, Taco Charlton, MALIEK. Collins. I need
Speaker 1: those hot boy chains back because I got a few
Speaker 1: guys over here that need those hot boy chains. That's
Speaker 1: what I need to happen. I need my deepest to
Speaker 1: show up and shut this down. We need just an
Speaker 1: easy win. On Sunday. We don't need all of the
Speaker 1: actress if funny stuff. Twenty eight seven Dallas Cowboys, Wow blowout.
Speaker 1: I think y'all don't think it's close. Okay, I don't.
Speaker 1: There's parts of this matchup I don't feel great about,
Speaker 1: and I think I'm flashing. Like I said earlier, I'm
Speaker 1: flashing back to last year when we talked about slow
Speaker 1: starts and lack of takeaways and turnovers, and every week
Speaker 1: it's like, Okay, they're gonna clean it up. They're gonna
Speaker 1: clean it up. And that didn't happen in December. It
Speaker 1: is a new team and it is a team that's
Speaker 1: still growing together. So while I think Cleveland has momentum,
Speaker 1: a two and one team that's starting to feel it
Speaker 1: a little bit, I feel better about the Cowboys ability
Speaker 1: to get chunk plays offensively and score points. I think
Speaker 1: they've got They are more dynamic offensively than Cleveland, and
Speaker 1: for that reason, I'll go with the Cowboys thirty to
Speaker 1: twenty one. I love it. There you go, all right, Isaiah,
Speaker 1: you requested the go lasts. What's going on here? Oh gosh?
Speaker 1: Oh man, here we go? Here we go? Is he
Speaker 1: gonna say it? With his chest. We've talked all week,
Speaker 1: talked all week about the issues that are prevalent here.
Speaker 1: We've also talked about whereas Cleveland is strong and where
Speaker 1: momentum is one and two versus two and one. You know,
Speaker 1: that's a challenge. I'm gonna go twenty eight twenty four.
Speaker 1: Cowboys are gonna win the game. Have a little bit
Speaker 1: more firepower on offense. But I am concerned about their
Speaker 1: ability to stop the run and to be efficient running
Speaker 1: the ball. Somehow, some way to Cowboys figure it out.
Speaker 1: But I'm telling you, there's a little there's a little
Speaker 1: piece of me inside. It's like, hey, there's a problem here.
Speaker 1: There's a little problem here, So they better figure it
Speaker 1: out otherwise it could be twenty twenty four the other way.
Speaker 1: But I'm going with the Cowboys this week. I think
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a close game. Heck Well went with
Speaker 1: the blowout. He said, Nah, this is the blowout. I
Speaker 1: respect it. You said it with your chest. It's a Friday,
Speaker 1: that's what this is for. However, I think this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a really good game. I'm there. I'm right
Speaker 1: there with Isaiah and with Rob. There are problems to
Speaker 1: be fixed. There are discussions to be had, but I
Speaker 1: think you're just a better football team even with some
Speaker 1: of the problems that you're dealing with. And that's why
Speaker 1: I think all four of us win with the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: That's gonna do it here for this week of Talking Cowboys.
Speaker 1: So glad you've been with us here over the last
Speaker 1: five days. It's been a ton of fun. We'll be
Speaker 1: back on Monday to break it all down for you,
Speaker 1: win or lose. If we win, come party with us
Speaker 1: on Monday. If we lose, we'll get through it together
Speaker 1: and we'll talk through this one and three start and
Speaker 1: get you ready for the Giants coming up in week five.
Speaker 1: But until then, for heck Ma Harrison, for Rob Phillips,
Speaker 1: isaiahs Danback special thanks to Chris Beam in the back,
Speaker 1: I'm Kyle Yeoman's saying so long from the Star in Frisco.
Speaker 1: That's it for Talking Cowboys. Enjoy the game on Sunday, everybody.
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