WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Rebound Or Browns? 0:00:03.760 --> 0:00:06.280 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:17.680 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:21.079 screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hollowers at the 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:30.160 Star in Frisco, Flowing saws, got tay and now your 0:00:30.160 --> 0:00:35.560 hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips and Kyle 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:40.680 Yeoman's Wow. Do we have a treat for you today? 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:44.960 It's an official hashtag say it with your chest Friday 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:49.400 here on Talking Cowboys. Everybody's fired up because it's Brown's 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:52.199 Week and we have at and T Stadium to have 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.200 a football game on Sunday. As Cleveland comes to town, 0:00:55.280 --> 0:00:59.400 Baker Mayfield coming to town, Nick Chubb, Kareem Hunt, Myles Garrett. 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:02.360 It's a whole crew. But literally do they know they're 0:01:02.400 --> 0:01:06.400 going up against the hungry Cowboys team led by Mike McCarthy. 0:01:06.400 --> 0:01:09.120 We're gonna get into all sorts of things here over 0:01:09.120 --> 0:01:12.119 the next forty five minutes. Once again, a little bit 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:16.679 early today nine fifteen start time on Thursdays and Friday's 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:21.680 due to the press conference from Mike McCarthy. But it 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:25.640 is Talking Cowboys. Harrison, Rob Phillips, our resident super Bowl 0:01:25.680 --> 0:01:28.680 champion Isaiah stand back, I'm Kyle Yeoman's and guys, it's 0:01:29.640 --> 0:01:32.400 always a little refreshing to get back on with you 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:35.080 guys every Friday, because we talked throughout the week, we 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:37.840 preview the matchup. But now it's really kind of getting 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:39.960 down on the the nitty gritty. You're a couple of days away, 0:01:40.480 --> 0:01:44.319 you're one practice away from really seeing or I guess 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:46.840 yesterday was our one practice to see exactly where we 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:50.440 might stand in terms of the injury reports. First off, Rob, 0:01:50.760 --> 0:01:54.720 we saw some practice yesterday from Tyron Smith. Mike McCarthy 0:01:54.880 --> 0:01:57.720 alluded to it yesterday and as press conference said that 0:01:57.760 --> 0:01:59.880 we were going to see some limited action from ty 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:05.640 But is that what ended up happening? Rob? Yeah, limited 0:02:05.720 --> 0:02:09.359 means you know, he was asked yesterday because we talked 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:13.560 about it, what's the threshold between not practicing and limited practice? 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:17.680 And obviously by limited he got some teamwork in apparently 0:02:17.760 --> 0:02:20.280 so and he was on the fan. Mike McCarthy was 0:02:20.320 --> 0:02:24.000 this morning and apparently said he's on course to play Sunday. 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.080 So that's really good news if that continues to hold. 0:02:27.720 --> 0:02:31.280 And we talked about yesterday how Thursday's practice is always 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:34.520 the key because they don't practice on Fridays and then 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.560 they've got a very short practice scheduled on Saturday, so 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:41.760 really good to see him there. To Marcus Lawrence did 0:02:41.800 --> 0:02:45.320 not practice again Thursday, but it sounds like they're just 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:47.080 trying to get him to the game, trying to manage 0:02:47.120 --> 0:02:48.840 that knee, and that's you know, they've done that with 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:51.040 him in the past with a shoulder injury that he's had. 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:54.760 So you know, I think he's gonna play Sunday. The 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.400 question will be how many snaps and how effective can 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:00.240 he be? So do you think both Tyrn Smith and 0:03:00.880 --> 0:03:06.280 DeMarcus Lawrence end up playing snaps on Sunday based on 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.080 what we're hearing right now, Yeah, I think so, And 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:11.840 I think that you know, we're going to talk about 0:03:11.880 --> 0:03:15.080 this offense, but what they've been able to do without 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:18.800 Tyrann Smith at left tackle, think what they can do 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:21.360 if he's at full strength and they've got things short 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:23.440 up a little bit better on that left side. So 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:26.720 that's pretty optimistic for what they might be able to 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:30.000 continue to do and build on. Oh man, that just 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.400 gets me excited thinking about the potential there. Of course, 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:35.800 Lyle Collins, who we thought was going to be returning 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:37.760 right around this time, it's gonna be a little bit 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:40.280 longer for him. He still has not practice, has not 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.080 been activated off of IR, and even when that's happening, 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:45.120 you're probably gonna have to wait a couple of days, 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:48.240 maybe even a week before he's ready for game action. 0:03:48.280 --> 0:03:50.720 In terms of getting back in there and seeing starting 0:03:50.720 --> 0:03:53.040 time at the right tackle spot. We're gonna talk about 0:03:53.480 --> 0:03:56.400 Tyrn Smith though, really quickly here and the fact that 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.040 if he does return, we've got a decision to make 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:01.680 on the right tackle position. Whenever it comes to either 0:04:02.160 --> 0:04:03.840 one of the two guys that have come in and 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:07.120 filled up that left tackle and right tackle position through 0:04:07.120 --> 0:04:09.120 the first three weeks of the season, Is it gonna 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:12.680 be Terren Steal over it right tackle again? Or do 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:15.760 you go with Brandon Knight Isaiah, who it looks like, 0:04:15.800 --> 0:04:17.880 at least over the course of the first three weeks, 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:20.360 has had a little bit more success than Terren Steal. 0:04:22.960 --> 0:04:25.239 I don't know. I don't really don't think it matters 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:26.960 too much. I think those guys are both playing well. 0:04:27.160 --> 0:04:29.520 I think you're gonna have to give give them either 0:04:28.960 --> 0:04:30.720 one you no matter who it is, You're gonna give 0:04:30.760 --> 0:04:33.640 them some assistance either way. I think you're gonna need 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:35.480 to you know, obviously we've touched on it, these guys 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:37.200 chipping out the backfield, we touched on it in the 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.240 film room. You're gonna need somebody coming out the back. 0:04:39.279 --> 0:04:41.240 You're gonna need some tight end assistance because of the 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.760 techniques that these guys play, specifically on passing down. So 0:04:45.000 --> 0:04:46.800 it really doesn't matter who's out there. They're gonna be 0:04:46.839 --> 0:04:48.440 on an island and they're gonna have their hands full. 0:04:49.480 --> 0:04:51.680 Do you agree it's a lot of musical chair. No. 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:54.520 I do, and I just believe that it's gonna be 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:57.080 a lot of musical chairs going on with this offensive 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.280 line until we actually get Leo Collins back back in 0:05:00.600 --> 0:05:04.960 promising news to hear that Tyron Smith was was just 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:08.359 limited in practice. But you know, with him being a veteran, 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:11.840 he knows the playbook, he knows his responsibility. I don't 0:05:11.839 --> 0:05:14.479 think we're worried about that. We just don't want him 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.560 to continue to have to go through these stinger issues. 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:20.720 But Brandon Knight has proven to us in a very 0:05:20.720 --> 0:05:25.080 short period of time that he is serviceable, he allows 0:05:25.200 --> 0:05:27.839 for I don't believe that he's given up a sack 0:05:27.880 --> 0:05:30.200 he may have, and maybe talking prematurely on this, but 0:05:30.279 --> 0:05:33.320 at the same time, if Tyren Smith is back, and 0:05:33.360 --> 0:05:36.520 if we're thinking moving Brandon Knight to right tackle is 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:39.640 going to help this team to get a victory on Sunday, 0:05:39.640 --> 0:05:42.200 then I'm all for it. You know, if you get 0:05:42.240 --> 0:05:45.680 a nickname from Zeke, if he nicknames you wore Daddy, 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:47.680 I don't know if he came up with that, but 0:05:49.000 --> 0:05:51.200 you're pretty good. I mean, yeah, you got you got 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:55.080 some talent. So I probably feel more comfortable about Brandon 0:05:55.160 --> 0:05:57.200 Knight than Terrence Steele at this point, just because he 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.840 started more games, and I think holding down that left 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:04.520 side that's usually not as easy a job as right tackle. 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:07.640 And it's a good nickname too. It's not a bad nickname. 0:06:08.000 --> 0:06:11.040 You don't want a bad nickname from Ezekiel Elliott because 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.719 of what you're doing on the field. That's not necessarily 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:16.880 the at least the recipe for success. But in talking 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:19.400 about the musical chairs, of course, yesterday we hit up 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:22.640 a point about Tyler Battish or Joe Looney playing at 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.120 the center position and we were split. Me and Heckma 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:27.400 both thought, hey, let's give the rookie a shot. You 0:06:27.560 --> 0:06:30.960 put the Wisconsin Remington Trophy winner at center and see 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:33.520 what he can do as a starter against this Cleveland 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:37.120 defensive line. And then Rob and Isaiah went with the experience. 0:06:37.160 --> 0:06:40.040 They went with Joe Looney saying, hey, let's let's keep 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:41.880 it the same. Let's not change too many things up, 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:46.240 especially against a good Cleveland defensive line. But whenever we 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:48.640 talk about these injuries, and there's a couple of them 0:06:48.680 --> 0:06:51.320 to hit on, whether it is the tackles, whether it's 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.560 in the defensive side of the football, with Layton vander 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:56.039 esh even I'll throw to Marcus Lawrence into the mix. 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:58.440 And then of course the corners, who do we miss 0:06:58.520 --> 0:07:01.320 the most throughout the three weeks of the season. As 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.520 we're heading into week four, is there somebody that at 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:08.080 least whenever you look at them being out affected on 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:10.840 the sideline, that man you would give anything to give 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:13.400 it back to him. Is there anybody that's sticks out 0:07:13.400 --> 0:07:19.880 to you? Heckma, why am I gonna say, Earl Thomas, No, no, 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.280 don't do that, don't do that. No, I'm sorry, let's 0:07:22.360 --> 0:07:23.880 let's brink it out. I don't want this show to 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:25.920 go off the rails. Just in the first segment. Okay, 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:31.000 um oh, I mean there's a there's a lot of 0:07:31.040 --> 0:07:34.080 guys on the injury report, and I mean I'm just 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.360 having to deal with who we have and once you, 0:07:36.520 --> 0:07:37.960 you know, let us know what we were gonna be 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:40.080 talking about. I started in my mind that the will 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.960 started to turn on. Who is a guy that I'm missing? 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:46.320 Obviously left Tackle, we know we need him, Layout Collins, 0:07:46.400 --> 0:07:49.920 we're missing him. I just Kyle, that's really a tough question. Man. 0:07:50.000 --> 0:07:53.080 You you're probably missing an iron this morning on that shirt. 0:07:53.120 --> 0:08:00.440 But I digress, digress. So you didn't even when that 0:08:00.560 --> 0:08:05.880 ship happened. You didn't even answer that question. That's all 0:08:05.880 --> 0:08:08.760 you do. I want to hear your answer. You know 0:08:08.840 --> 0:08:17.280 what it's God, that's that's a bachelor's stuff. Man. I'm 0:08:17.320 --> 0:08:21.800 just saying, Hey, Kyle, Hey, Hey, just say you know that, Kyle, 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:23.400 I would I would never do you like that? Kyle, 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:30.360 Just don't. Yes, you would. Yes, my favorite new member 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.160 of the show other than Rob Phillips or ye are 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:38.920 both time. Now, can you please give me the answer 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:43.240 to the question. You didn't even answer it. Who do 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:48.160 you want? Who do I miss? I miss? I missed? 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:51.240 Tyren Smith Okay, so that was your your answer. You 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:53.679 just went on like a like a merry go round 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.360 around it and then didn't actually say a very long 0:08:56.400 --> 0:08:59.640 way of going about it. Isaiah, who you got? Yes, 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:03.960 I'm going with the lone wolf, all right, the lone wolf. 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:08.840 His presences is being missed because not only are teams 0:09:08.880 --> 0:09:11.560 averaging five yards per carry against the Cowboys right now, 0:09:12.280 --> 0:09:14.760 but this team that's coming in here averages over five 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:17.200 yards per carry with their two dogs. So you need 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:20.240 this dude in the middle. Jalen is not a middle linebacker, 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:22.920 No disrespect to him. He can play the position, all right, 0:09:22.960 --> 0:09:25.280 just like many people. I can go play punter two, right, 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:27.560 but that doesn't mean that's what I do. You know, 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:29.400 Jaylen Smith needs to be able to have the freedom 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:31.240 to roam free and run sideline the sideline, and right 0:09:31.240 --> 0:09:33.199 now he does not allowed to do that. We need 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:35.839 vander eschback. We need him back one hundred percent healthy. 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:37.400 I don't know if that's something that we would get, 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:40.760 but he is the most miss member of this team 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:45.800 and they are missing him direly. I love wardrobe Talk 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:47.760 because I used to do this show with Nate Newton 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.000 and he always took shots at what I was wearing. 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:53.600 I always part of it. I mean, it's just part 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:57.760 of being on this show. Um, I gotta go with 0:09:57.800 --> 0:10:01.720 the cornerback position. Take your pick between Cheeto or Anthony Brown. 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.520 They just need more numbers back then, they need more 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:09.640 options back there. And um, but does Gerald McCoy count 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.560 Oh yeah, I know, I know he's not. I know 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:14.520 he's I know he's not on the roster. He would 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:16.840 have been if he didn't have that quad injury and 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:20.319 got the release via injury waiver. But I think they 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.640 could use his presence inside for sure, uh, trying to 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:25.720 stop the run, trying to get more of a presence 0:10:25.760 --> 0:10:28.760 in that interior push, and they just don't have that. 0:10:28.960 --> 0:10:31.640 But I will say Tristan Hill has done a really 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:34.719 nice job working in there and battling and trying to 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:37.480 give him something with the extra snaps he's gotten. But 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:40.440 I probably would go with corner just because you know, 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:44.520 Treyvon Diggs is a really talented rookie, but he's the 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:47.640 one constant back there, and that's that's really challenging for 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:49.440 a second round pick to come in and be and 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:52.080 have that much on his plate right now, because he's 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.120 had some good moments and he's had some bad moments, 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:58.040 and I think that's something that's kind of lost in this. 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:00.920 And first off, I love your sleeper pick and Gerald 0:11:00.960 --> 0:11:03.560 McCoy because we were so excited about him and he 0:11:03.559 --> 0:11:05.600 looked so good in training camp, better than any of 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:08.360 the other defensive tackles, and then whenever he goes down 0:11:08.360 --> 0:11:10.480 with the injury, that's a guy that I really wish 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:13.120 we had in the interior of that defensive line. But 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:15.679 I agree with you on the secondary though, because going 0:11:15.720 --> 0:11:18.320 into the year it looked like it was depth that's 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:21.880 at corner depth in the secondary. You had three guys 0:11:22.480 --> 0:11:25.040 that could start and then another three guard guys that 0:11:25.440 --> 0:11:28.520 wasn't necessarily a huge drop off. But now with Cheeto out, 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:31.520 of course, with Anthony Brown out, you're limited in your 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:33.720 options and you had to go get a Brandon car, 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:35.679 You had to call up a Savian Smith. You had 0:11:35.720 --> 0:11:38.520 to find a way to really fill those holes with 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:41.800 guys that, of course aren't necessarily up to par. And 0:11:41.800 --> 0:11:44.240 I think that's where we've struggled here over the last 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:47.520 couple Yeah, go ahead, go ahead, heck you get him 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:52.240 for I'm right behind you. Do you believe that if 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:55.000 Anthony Brown had played last week that he would have 0:11:55.040 --> 0:11:57.480 made a difference in the Seattle Cheeto would have made 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:59.880 a difference in the Seattle game. I think, yeah, either 0:12:00.080 --> 0:12:02.280 one of those guys would have made a difference. It 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.360 might not have been a huge difference, but you don't 0:12:04.360 --> 0:12:07.720 see the guys running twenty five yards untouched down the 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:14.360 field difference. Kyle. Okay, Kyle, I'm have to disagree with 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:16.959 you just on the meritive. That's fine. Yes, we did 0:12:17.000 --> 0:12:20.200 it acknowledge that this is gonna be a very competitive secondary, right. 0:12:20.640 --> 0:12:22.480 We did not say that there's gonna be a competitive 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:25.880 secondary full of guys that are lockdown corners, right, that 0:12:25.920 --> 0:12:28.160 we don't have not one lockdown corner on this team. 0:12:28.200 --> 0:12:30.040 I think that it's very competitive because there's not one 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:34.000 person that distinguishes themselves above and beyond the others. That's 0:12:34.000 --> 0:12:36.599 why it's competitive. It's not competitive in the nature of that, 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:39.240 Oh my gosh, you have a Ramsey back here, and 0:12:39.240 --> 0:12:41.720 then you also have a Darrell Rebus on the other side, Like, no, 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:43.520 that's that's not what you have. You don't have any 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.720 of those guys, And these first four weeks have not helped, Right, 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:48.640 it doesn't matter who you would have put over there. 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:50.840 They're all going to get torched by one of these receivers, 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:53.560 and that's okay. That's when you need your defensive coordinator 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:55.560 to put you in the best situation possible, and he 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.840 just hasn't done that. Well. I agree with you that. 0:12:58.960 --> 0:13:02.280 I mean, in terms of guys who have had extended absences, 0:13:03.040 --> 0:13:06.079 you could argue between Tyring and Layton probably Tying best 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:09.120 player that they're missing. Layton's the quarterback of the defense, 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.560 so that that is huge. I just I'm just looking 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:15.080 at it from the number standpoint of Daryl Worley's playing 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:17.000 safety snaps one week and now you've got to plug 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:20.040 him into corner just to try to get your try 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:22.600 to stabilize things. And I'm with you. I mean, the 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:25.840 receivers that they're playing, they're gonna give up plays. But 0:13:25.920 --> 0:13:27.920 I just I would just feel better about the position 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:29.839 if you had a cheeto back there at least to 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:33.280 a big corner that can match up a little bit 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.880 and give them something else to throw at. But they 0:13:36.920 --> 0:13:38.520 haven't had it, and they've just had to make do 0:13:38.679 --> 0:13:42.040 for now. And also, Isaiah, what were you saying last 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:44.559 week whenever we talked about the problems in the secondary. 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:48.000 What was your one thing, if you had to put 0:13:48.040 --> 0:13:50.040 it down to one word, what caused a lot of 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:56.440 those issues. Oh, it's communication, thank you, It's communication. Yeah, 0:13:57.200 --> 0:14:00.120 I agree with you. Okay. If Anthony Brown and you 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.160 to Elusier are in the secondary, do you agree the 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:07.040 communication would undoubtedly be better, just solely based on the 0:14:07.080 --> 0:14:10.360 fact that it's it's camaraderie, it's it's at least the 0:14:10.440 --> 0:14:16.280 familiarity in that secondary. I get what you're going, I 0:14:16.320 --> 0:14:17.880 see what you're putting down. I pick up what you're 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:21.320 putting down. Okay. However, the issues that occurred last week 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:25.520 primarily occurred with the set with the safeties, right, safeties 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:27.840 were the one as Woods and Thompson and were back, 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:30.800 they're looking around that stuff that they weren't responsible for. 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:32.880 So that's what really got them in trouble because they 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:35.280 were playing I mean you, and it's kind of frustrating 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:37.080 to hear let them talk about how we have to 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:39.240 pull back on what we're doing. Dude, you guys were 0:14:39.320 --> 0:14:42.720 running high school coverages, right. You guys are running cover four, 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:47.000 covered two, covered three, Like these are the base coverages 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:48.880 that you learned when you first put on a helmet, 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:52.800 so this stuff's not complicated. But yes, communication was the issue, 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:56.160 but it really occurred between the safeties at the cornerback position. 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.080 Guys are just getting beat playing and playing a simple 0:14:59.160 --> 0:15:01.520 Guys are just getting um you know some of the 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:04.120 some of these zone coverages really turned into man coverages 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:07.040 depending on whether receivers are aligned at So even though 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:09.000 they might be playing zone, as long as that person 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:11.400 remains in your zone, that's man to man coverage. And 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.720 these guys are just getting ran by. Hey, I had 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:16.960 one question for you on that track though, the touchdown 0:15:17.040 --> 0:15:19.920 that and you have to cycle through which touchdown It 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:24.680 was the locket touchdown where he went across the field 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:28.400 in the end zone and they're supposed to happen. Yeah, coverage, 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.800 Aikman said in the broadcast, it looked like maybe Digs 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:33.440 thought they were in zone on one side of the 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:35.880 field and the other side of the field and playing man. 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.920 Is that Is that too much of a complex coverage? Right? 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:43.560 You know? I don't I don't know that. Just so 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:45.440 for everybody that's out there, if you guys didn't watch 0:15:45.600 --> 0:15:48.440 Kyle and myself to do the film room breakdown, y'all 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:50.960 go check that out, but this it was pretty It's 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.280 pretty simple. You know that you guys have those quarters, right, 0:15:53.320 --> 0:15:55.920 so when you hear quarters or cover four, it's literally 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:57.960 the four of us, right. So we spread all the 0:15:57.960 --> 0:15:59.800 way across fifty three and a half yards, right, and 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:02.160 we're all splitting those up into quarters of the field. 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:05.640 Those are our responsibilities. Now, when somebody's in our zone, 0:16:05.720 --> 0:16:08.720 that's our responsibility, and that's pretty much man to man 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:11.240 until he does what he goes over to your zone. 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:14.440 Rob Now I'm like, oh, there's there's literally using them off. Yeah, 0:16:14.440 --> 0:16:16.200 I'm passing them off. That's a red line. I can't 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.520 cross that. That's not my area, right, So he's going 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:20.480 over to you now, I just it's my job to 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:23.360 alert you and make you known that somebody's coming over 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:25.920 to you, right, and when you're playing that coverage, they're 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:28.280 gonna try to cross you up. Because it does get 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:30.160 a little confusing when you have one dude in your 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:32.160 zone and other dude's coming two year zone. It's like, okay, 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:34.240 who do I go with? You have to go back 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:36.560 to the basis and say this is where I'm at. 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:38.480 I have to trust that my other dudes are gonna 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:40.960 take care of their business. And when I don't trust that, 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:42.800 that's when I when that's when I get committed to 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:45.720 somebody that's not I'm not responsible for, and I screw 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.680 somebody else behind me. Rob. I think the most frustrating 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:51.240 thing about that play is the fact that Tyler Lockett 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.080 went from one side on the goal line to the 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:56.400 other side and nobody, nobody bumped him at all. And 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.240 maybe that's old school, but man, you gotta touch guys. 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:03.000 You gotta put your hands on especially in the goal line. 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:06.600 It's a free release all the way across untouched. I mean, 0:17:06.680 --> 0:17:09.800 that's that's one of the easiest throws. I believe that 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:13.359 that Russell Wilson will make this entire year which we 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.000 just didn't touch anybody. We didn't throw anybody off of 0:17:16.040 --> 0:17:17.960 their routes at all. And to see that happened on 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:20.480 the goal line, a guy just run across linebackers in 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:24.040 safety's face. It is I don't know how you fix that. Herry. 0:17:24.240 --> 0:17:25.800 There was another one too, when they were on the 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:28.879 goal line again and everybody was down in the box 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:31.000 and they had a tight split, would lock it right 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:33.120 like I had a tight split to the tight end 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:35.720 and Diggs was about half a man to a man 0:17:35.880 --> 0:17:38.240 outside of him right, which means that he was lined 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:41.280 up outside with outside leverage, meaning he should never get 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:43.760 outside of you to run to the flat perfect position 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:47.720 per positions. But because because Diggs had his eyes in 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.000 the backfield, Diggs was looking in there like he was 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:51.119 about to go in there and make a dog on 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:52.840 a hit on Carson. You're not getting in there to 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.080 make no hit on Carson. While his eyes were locked in, 0:17:55.160 --> 0:17:58.560 Locke looked at him like all right, and gotten outside 0:17:58.560 --> 0:18:00.840 of him, and he was too steps outside him by 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:02.400 the time he even realized, oh, it's not a run 0:18:02.640 --> 0:18:06.080 it was, so just do your as we what we 0:18:06.119 --> 0:18:08.280 said in New England and when I said and when 0:18:08.280 --> 0:18:10.359 I was playing with the Giants is d y J 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:16.080 do your job and stop worrying about everybody else's responsibilities. 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:19.119 Your job is to stick these receivers and play your coverage. 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:21.000 You're not gonna get cursed out by your culture doing 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:25.160 what dear asked to do. I think whenever you look 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:27.800 at the secondary the communication could be better. I think 0:18:27.840 --> 0:18:31.160 the scheme might have to be simplified, even more so 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:33.280 than what we had even talked about, because I know 0:18:33.320 --> 0:18:35.840 even Isaiah, Like you said, they're running those high school 0:18:35.880 --> 0:18:38.520 those college coverages, but it still seems to be a 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.760 little bit more complex. Maybe I don't know. It's tough 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:43.879 to fix. It really is. And we'll see how they 0:18:43.920 --> 0:18:47.000 do that against Rafield and this defense. Yeah, you can't 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:49.919 make excuses. You can't make excuses at all, especially whenever 0:18:49.960 --> 0:18:52.000 you're in the week four of the season. No more 0:18:52.040 --> 0:18:55.000 of this. We we didn't have an off season, we 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:57.040 didn't have a long training camp. You're three weeks into 0:18:57.080 --> 0:18:59.440 the season. You're all professionals. 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Michael in this what a 0:22:10.080 --> 0:22:12.960 start to the shoes re Freshman freezer fresh. Yeah, there 0:22:12.960 --> 0:22:15.960 you go. Is this is Talking Cowboys. We're sorry for 0:22:15.960 --> 0:22:20.920 our shenanigans. But Harrison, Rob Phillips, Isaiah stand back. I'm 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:26.159 Kyle Yeoman's welcome into Talking Cowboys. It's Week four, episode five, 0:22:26.240 --> 0:22:28.879 And guys, I mentioned this a little bit earlier whenever 0:22:28.920 --> 0:22:32.240 we talked about the defense, and of course the defense 0:22:32.280 --> 0:22:34.879 has its own problems. We have some issues whenever it 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:38.280 comes to the secondary. Sure, injuries, Sure, there's a lot 0:22:38.320 --> 0:22:40.400 of things you can look at and put a down 0:22:41.320 --> 0:22:43.560 or at least a down arrow, a trending down arrow 0:22:43.640 --> 0:22:46.320 for the Cowboys on. But one thing that keeps trending 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:49.720 upwards is this offense. And Dak Prescott yesterday in his 0:22:49.840 --> 0:22:52.640 weekly press conference, came out and said, Hey, this might 0:22:52.680 --> 0:22:55.640 be the most explosive offense I've been a part of. Now. 0:22:55.680 --> 0:22:58.879 Of course that's only dating back to twenty sixteen, but 0:22:59.520 --> 0:23:01.560 I want to ask and Rob will start with you 0:23:01.600 --> 0:23:05.439 on this one. Just how explosive is this offense in 0:23:05.560 --> 0:23:08.440 terms of the grand scheme of things in Cowboy's history 0:23:08.480 --> 0:23:10.760 and then also in Dak Prescott's short history with the 0:23:11.400 --> 0:23:16.560 with the franchise. I think he's right, and I think 0:23:17.160 --> 0:23:19.840 it is the most explosive offense so far that we've 0:23:19.840 --> 0:23:25.000 seen since twenty sixteen. And you know what, it's it's 0:23:25.000 --> 0:23:28.320 got a chance to be even better because if they 0:23:28.320 --> 0:23:31.160 can just get some leads in games, you're gonna see 0:23:31.160 --> 0:23:33.280 even more the balance of this offense, because I don't 0:23:33.280 --> 0:23:35.240 think we've seen enough Zeke so far, to be honest 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:39.160 with you, And we've seen the depth of the receiving corps. 0:23:39.200 --> 0:23:41.120 We've seen a tight end group that has been able 0:23:41.160 --> 0:23:44.600 to withstand Blake Jarwin's injury so far, and we've seen 0:23:44.600 --> 0:23:46.880 them withstand a bunch of injuries on the offensive line. 0:23:46.920 --> 0:23:49.040 So I think they've got a shot to be even 0:23:49.080 --> 0:23:52.760 better than they've been. And they're ten points away right now. 0:23:52.800 --> 0:23:54.680 I know it's only three game sample, but they're ten 0:23:54.720 --> 0:23:57.640 points away from being right on pace for the most 0:23:57.640 --> 0:24:02.920 points buy a Cowboys offense in history, and so that's 0:24:03.440 --> 0:24:06.680 that's really encouraging. But um. You know, they've got to 0:24:06.720 --> 0:24:09.399 cut down the turnovers because not only does it hurt them, 0:24:09.480 --> 0:24:13.320 it puts the defense in a tough spot too, is Zam. 0:24:15.800 --> 0:24:19.320 I don't know if you really want that record, like 0:24:19.880 --> 0:24:22.040 unless your kids in a city, you know, I don't. 0:24:22.080 --> 0:24:24.399 I don't think you want that record because it insinuates 0:24:24.440 --> 0:24:26.880 that you're playing from behind and you're gonna you're gonna 0:24:26.920 --> 0:24:28.840 get yards, you're gonna get you know, obviously you're gonna 0:24:28.840 --> 0:24:30.600 score for the most part when you're coming from behind. 0:24:30.640 --> 0:24:32.320 So I don't. I don't know. That's something about want 0:24:32.320 --> 0:24:34.160 in terms of do I think it's the most explosive. 0:24:34.160 --> 0:24:35.959 It's hard for me to say that, Kyle, because you know, 0:24:36.280 --> 0:24:38.280 I came in. I came in my year, my rookie 0:24:38.359 --> 0:24:40.240 year was two thousand and seven, and we had a 0:24:40.280 --> 0:24:42.920 we had a pretty dug on good offense UM back 0:24:42.960 --> 0:24:45.360 in two thousand and seven, and it maybe even better defense. 0:24:46.040 --> 0:24:47.919 So it's hard for me to go ahead and say yes. 0:24:47.960 --> 0:24:50.280 But I think talent wise, these guys have a lot. Man, 0:24:50.640 --> 0:24:53.760 these guys are stacked um at you know, I obviously 0:24:53.800 --> 0:24:56.240 at the receiver position, obviously at running back, where they're 0:24:56.280 --> 0:24:58.639 not stacked his offensive line and they're not stacked that 0:24:58.760 --> 0:25:02.200 tight end, so but they are scoring points. But I 0:25:02.560 --> 0:25:05.119 want to see them do that against some of these 0:25:05.400 --> 0:25:08.520 you know, some of these defenses that are like earlier 0:25:08.560 --> 0:25:10.520 in a game. I guess, let me, I guess I'll 0:25:10.520 --> 0:25:11.600 put it that way. I don't want to say it 0:25:11.640 --> 0:25:13.879 against the starting defense if they're doing it against starting defensive, 0:25:13.840 --> 0:25:15.439 but I want to see these guys do it in 0:25:15.440 --> 0:25:18.280 a competitive manner, not towards that when they're playing from 0:25:18.280 --> 0:25:21.359 behind and teams are are playing playing off coverage. But 0:25:21.400 --> 0:25:23.080 these guys they could play ball, man. I just want 0:25:23.080 --> 0:25:25.679 to see them do it earlier. I think it's own paper. 0:25:25.760 --> 0:25:28.560 All the names and all the statistics that you see. 0:25:28.760 --> 0:25:31.399 I mean, it looks good if you don't look at 0:25:31.400 --> 0:25:33.719 the records and the record and you look at the number. 0:25:33.960 --> 0:25:36.680 You see that these guys are trending in the direction 0:25:36.760 --> 0:25:41.440 of all three receivers having thousand yards and Ezekiel Elliott 0:25:41.520 --> 0:25:45.760 having a great season. But what does that equate to 0:25:45.880 --> 0:25:48.480 as far as wins and losses? I think you're still 0:25:48.760 --> 0:25:52.480 going towards Mediocreville. And in a five hundred season, this 0:25:53.119 --> 0:25:56.440 the Cowboys have been having to make these furious come 0:25:56.520 --> 0:25:58.760 from behind, trying to come from trying to come from 0:25:58.760 --> 0:26:02.280 behind to make it close. And that's just an indicative 0:26:02.320 --> 0:26:05.199 of how bad we've been in the first quarter. What 0:26:05.400 --> 0:26:08.040 happens to this team when they actually get an opportunity 0:26:08.080 --> 0:26:10.440 to play with a league. What happens to this team 0:26:10.480 --> 0:26:13.359 when they actually find that balance. That's what I believe 0:26:13.400 --> 0:26:16.120 we're all waiting to see, because right now, every week 0:26:16.160 --> 0:26:19.680 it's just, you know, it's becoming an event all in itself, 0:26:19.680 --> 0:26:22.840 this offense having to make this furious comeback to keep 0:26:22.920 --> 0:26:25.120 us in the game. And I feel like we're talking 0:26:25.160 --> 0:26:28.920 about last year. You know, how many times? How many 0:26:28.920 --> 0:26:33.480 times do we talk about slow starts last year and 0:26:33.359 --> 0:26:35.520 and they were able to dig out of them just 0:26:35.600 --> 0:26:38.480 in time to you know, either comfort behind and win 0:26:39.680 --> 0:26:41.720 a one score game, but most of the time lose it, 0:26:41.840 --> 0:26:46.000 you know, And so that's that's discouraging. But I will 0:26:46.040 --> 0:26:48.879 say points are up across the league for for some reason, 0:26:48.920 --> 0:26:52.600 and I think it's got something to do with lack 0:26:52.640 --> 0:26:55.840 of road crowd. I mean, you know, I think if 0:26:55.840 --> 0:26:58.120 the Cowboys going to Seattle, I don't I don't know 0:26:58.200 --> 0:27:01.199 if if if they put up thirty one points, and 0:27:01.280 --> 0:27:03.320 I think I think they have a chance to get 0:27:03.359 --> 0:27:06.320 that record because they're gonna go into places like Philly 0:27:06.320 --> 0:27:08.600 and Baltimore and they're not going to be dealing with 0:27:08.640 --> 0:27:10.520 that now. The weather's gonna get colder and it's gonna 0:27:10.560 --> 0:27:13.760 be harder probably to air it out. But I think 0:27:13.800 --> 0:27:16.960 they've got the chance to do it. They just yeah, 0:27:17.040 --> 0:27:19.320 playing from behind, you just can't. You can't continue to 0:27:19.359 --> 0:27:22.120 do that and expect to win a lot of games. Well, 0:27:22.160 --> 0:27:23.600 I kind of want to go off of a point 0:27:23.680 --> 0:27:26.119 that Isaiah made just a little bit ago, is the 0:27:26.119 --> 0:27:27.960 fact that you want to see these guys in a 0:27:28.000 --> 0:27:33.160 competitive fashion, not necessarily competitive in terms of a close game. 0:27:33.200 --> 0:27:36.000 I mean, we've had three straight one score games to 0:27:36.119 --> 0:27:38.320 start the season, but like you guys have said, it's 0:27:38.359 --> 0:27:41.399 been in come from behind fashion. Really, I think the 0:27:41.440 --> 0:27:43.359 one time we may have gotten a chance to see 0:27:43.400 --> 0:27:46.600 that was against Los Angeles, when the fact was you 0:27:46.640 --> 0:27:49.639 were leading fourteen to thirteen at halftime, you had a 0:27:49.720 --> 0:27:53.240 chance in the third quarter to really at least take 0:27:53.280 --> 0:27:55.760 the lead and extend your leads. You didn't have a 0:27:55.840 --> 0:28:00.200 chance to do it really in any of the three games, 0:28:00.240 --> 0:28:02.720 other than maybe that third quarter against Los Angeles. You 0:28:02.760 --> 0:28:05.199 could argue this has been a team that's gotten off 0:28:05.200 --> 0:28:07.760 to a slow start and has had to really kind 0:28:07.800 --> 0:28:10.439 of hustle their way back into the football game. Is 0:28:10.440 --> 0:28:12.920 that a reason why these stats are a little bit 0:28:12.920 --> 0:28:20.000 padded at the moment, especially in the Atlanta and Seattle game. Absolutely? Absolutely. 0:28:20.040 --> 0:28:21.960 I mean you're you're you're facing the best that that 0:28:22.359 --> 0:28:25.520 teams have to bring to you, usually in the first half. 0:28:26.000 --> 0:28:28.280 So I mean, the first half is when your game 0:28:28.280 --> 0:28:30.359 plan is as nice as tight, you know, and when 0:28:30.400 --> 0:28:32.639 you get a lead. We've seen it. Atlanta showed it 0:28:33.440 --> 0:28:35.560 to twice this year, back to back, and they showed 0:28:35.560 --> 0:28:37.159 it a couple years going to Super Bowl. When you 0:28:37.200 --> 0:28:39.440 get a lead, you tend to ease up, right, you 0:28:39.480 --> 0:28:41.200 ease up, you start playing this just kind of this 0:28:41.280 --> 0:28:43.640 blanket coverage on defense, and it's like, hey, you can 0:28:43.680 --> 0:28:45.280 catch it, go ahead, We're don't worry about it. As 0:28:45.280 --> 0:28:46.920 long as you don't score a touchdown. Oh crap, our 0:28:46.960 --> 0:28:49.360 backs against the wall. Shoot you score, right, So you 0:28:49.440 --> 0:28:51.880 start you're you're willing to give up things when you 0:28:51.960 --> 0:28:54.800 have a lead, and that's why you're seeing these numbers inflated. Now, 0:28:54.920 --> 0:28:58.320 I'm not taking anything away from the ability of our 0:28:58.320 --> 0:28:59.880 team to be able to move the ball downfield as 0:29:00.000 --> 0:29:03.400 were points, But we haven't shown it against these teams 0:29:03.400 --> 0:29:05.880 in the first half when they're bringing their absolute best 0:29:05.880 --> 0:29:08.040 in the games, as competitive as can be. And so 0:29:08.120 --> 0:29:11.080 that's all I'm saying. And I know we haven't seen Zeke. 0:29:11.120 --> 0:29:13.240 Why haven't we seen Zeke? Well, we haven't seen Zeke 0:29:13.240 --> 0:29:16.160 because we're putting ourselves in bad situations. We're not executing 0:29:16.160 --> 0:29:18.239 on offense when these guys have their best and now 0:29:18.280 --> 0:29:19.640 all of a sudden, we have to throw the ball 0:29:19.640 --> 0:29:21.240 to get back in the game. So when you throw 0:29:21.280 --> 0:29:22.440 the ball to get back in the game, guess what 0:29:22.480 --> 0:29:24.720 you're gonna throw fifty seven times. You're gonna have a 0:29:24.760 --> 0:29:26.760 bunch of yards. Receivers gonna have a bunch of yards. 0:29:26.840 --> 0:29:29.000 Stats are gonna be padded. But you still wanted to 0:29:29.360 --> 0:29:31.280 So what can we do earlier in the game to 0:29:31.280 --> 0:29:33.360 put ourselves in position to be what we are, which 0:29:33.400 --> 0:29:38.080 is a run first team. I went to Isaiah, that's 0:29:38.400 --> 0:29:41.440 run first team. I like how that sounds as opposed 0:29:41.440 --> 0:29:45.000 to abandoning the run. And we have to do it. Man, 0:29:45.120 --> 0:29:47.280 We've got to put ourselves in a position to find 0:29:47.320 --> 0:29:50.680 balance on offense. But Isaiah spoke to this a couple 0:29:50.680 --> 0:29:53.840 of weeks ago that teams are going to stop They're 0:29:53.880 --> 0:29:56.880 gonna load up the box to stop Zeke. If this 0:29:56.920 --> 0:30:00.040 football is about imposing your will, we can't allow that 0:30:00.120 --> 0:30:02.400 to happen. And I'm not saying run against a ten 0:30:02.400 --> 0:30:05.440 man front. I'm just saying, Look, we have to establish 0:30:05.480 --> 0:30:08.120 that part of it of our offense so that we're 0:30:08.280 --> 0:30:11.640 not throwing the ball sixty times. And also, guys, we've 0:30:11.640 --> 0:30:13.360 got to go back over a couple of these games. 0:30:13.400 --> 0:30:16.360 I think just the decisions to the punts that we with, 0:30:16.520 --> 0:30:19.040 the fake punts, and all of the things that we've 0:30:19.040 --> 0:30:23.080 had to incur, the mistakes that we've suffered as a team. Man, 0:30:23.320 --> 0:30:25.360 there's so much to try and clean up. If you 0:30:25.400 --> 0:30:28.000 look at all of the past games, and this is 0:30:28.040 --> 0:30:30.840 a team coming into at and T Stadium, The Cleveland 0:30:30.880 --> 0:30:34.360 Browns are Taylor made for the Dallas Cowboys. They are 0:30:34.440 --> 0:30:38.680 not going to present formation problems, their deepenses and all 0:30:38.720 --> 0:30:41.480 that sophisticated. They are Taylor made for us in the 0:30:41.520 --> 0:30:43.680 strengths that we have. So look, I don't want to 0:30:43.720 --> 0:30:46.120 call this a feel good game, but just a lot 0:30:46.120 --> 0:30:48.120 of the things that the defense needs to do as 0:30:48.160 --> 0:30:50.720 far as pin their ears back and come a come 0:30:50.760 --> 0:30:53.440 after the quarterback. We can do that in this game. 0:30:53.640 --> 0:30:56.360 If we can play with the lead instead of playing 0:30:56.400 --> 0:31:00.480 from behind. Yeah, that's how you're gonna see Tony Potter again, 0:31:00.640 --> 0:31:02.560 you know. For I mean now he can now he 0:31:02.560 --> 0:31:04.080 can't put the ball on the ground. But I think 0:31:04.160 --> 0:31:07.600 if that's where you can see all of your weapons, 0:31:07.600 --> 0:31:09.719 when you've got a chance to be more more balanced, 0:31:09.800 --> 0:31:13.600 I just I mean the they it was the disaster 0:31:13.720 --> 0:31:15.800 first quarter against Atlanta, but I guess I just point 0:31:15.800 --> 0:31:17.800 to that game more than anything and say the fact 0:31:17.880 --> 0:31:20.000 that you could fall behind by twenty points and be 0:31:20.080 --> 0:31:23.560 there for most of the game and still find a 0:31:23.600 --> 0:31:25.520 way to get forty points of winning. I mean, you 0:31:25.640 --> 0:31:29.880 have a chance to be really dynamic offensively. But yeah, 0:31:29.880 --> 0:31:31.520 they're not. They're not where they need to be yet 0:31:31.560 --> 0:31:33.520 in any phase of the game. That's the thing about 0:31:33.560 --> 0:31:36.120 this and that's why it's a little unsettling so far. 0:31:36.800 --> 0:31:40.640 There reminds me of last year because it's complimentary football. 0:31:40.640 --> 0:31:42.480 All three phases have to work together, and they have 0:31:42.560 --> 0:31:45.880 yet to have a game where all three phases play well. 0:31:46.000 --> 0:31:48.320 And until they do that, they're gonna have trouble winning games. 0:31:48.320 --> 0:31:51.080 It's gonna be close games. But you know, rob, But 0:31:51.120 --> 0:31:53.080 the way that this offense is set up, in this 0:31:53.360 --> 0:31:56.640 entire team, they're set up to be a dominant force, 0:31:57.040 --> 0:31:59.280 right this, I mean, this squad is stacked. Right when 0:31:59.320 --> 0:32:01.680 you start looking at position by position, all they have 0:32:01.720 --> 0:32:05.000 to do is be stubborn on offense. Be stubborn. Right. 0:32:05.200 --> 0:32:07.840 You're not gonna wear down the front nine or the 0:32:07.880 --> 0:32:10.440 front line in the front seven of a deposing defense 0:32:10.600 --> 0:32:13.320 if you abandon the run right like pound the dog 0:32:13.400 --> 0:32:15.360 on ball. I don't care if you go three series 0:32:15.680 --> 0:32:18.600 right and just just freaking punching in these dude's face. Why, 0:32:18.680 --> 0:32:21.360 because they're gonna get tired, right, That d line's gonna 0:32:21.400 --> 0:32:24.200 get tired, They're gonna get warm down, they're gonna get fatigued. 0:32:24.360 --> 0:32:26.600 The office of line is gonna continue to build confidence, right, 0:32:26.600 --> 0:32:29.360 they're gonna be imposed their will. Zeke's gonna get after it. 0:32:29.360 --> 0:32:32.160 He's gonna momentum's gonna start building. Then play action starts 0:32:32.160 --> 0:32:34.440 popping off right, the secondary starts getting their eyes in 0:32:34.440 --> 0:32:36.680 the backfield. So you have to be stubborn, and I'm 0:32:36.720 --> 0:32:41.160 talking to kill them, Moore. Be stubborn in in your 0:32:41.160 --> 0:32:44.680 pursuit to establish the run game. Do not abandon it. 0:32:44.760 --> 0:32:46.600 I don't care if you have three three and outs, 0:32:46.600 --> 0:32:49.440 freaking pound the ball right. Let these guys know that 0:32:49.480 --> 0:32:51.480 you trust them, and we're gonna continue to get this 0:32:51.520 --> 0:32:53.960 thing established because otherwise you're not going to have a 0:32:54.000 --> 0:32:57.800 successful season. While in that kind of based off of 0:32:57.800 --> 0:33:01.000 what Hackwall is saying earlier that this is a Cleveland 0:33:01.000 --> 0:33:03.400 team that is Taylor made for the Dallas Cowboys, the 0:33:03.400 --> 0:33:05.520 one thing that kind of worries me a little bit 0:33:06.080 --> 0:33:09.200 is the defense for Cleveland can force some turnovers in 0:33:09.240 --> 0:33:13.440 the Cowboys offense. Their one kryptonite might be turning over 0:33:13.440 --> 0:33:15.760 the rock because we've seen that through the first three 0:33:15.800 --> 0:33:18.680 weeks already. If you look at Cleveland, they forced those 0:33:18.720 --> 0:33:21.640 top five turnovers against Washington. Now, yes, I know it 0:33:21.680 --> 0:33:24.640 was the Washington football team of teams and whatnot over 0:33:24.680 --> 0:33:27.880 there in the East Coast and stuff for Washington, but 0:33:28.440 --> 0:33:31.440 I think whenever it comes to holding onto the football, 0:33:31.560 --> 0:33:33.920 that's going to play a huge key in the first 0:33:34.000 --> 0:33:39.320 quarter is just finding a rhythm, establishing a run, finding 0:33:39.320 --> 0:33:41.760 a way to get Ezekiel Elliott the ball and hold 0:33:41.800 --> 0:33:44.280 onto the ball for Zeke Antony Pollard if you wanted 0:33:44.280 --> 0:33:46.560 to get him involved as well. But how big is 0:33:46.600 --> 0:33:49.840 it actually to at least have that rhythm and get 0:33:49.880 --> 0:33:52.280 off to a hot start rather than slow things down. 0:33:54.280 --> 0:33:56.959 It's imperative, it's it's that's what we have to do 0:33:57.000 --> 0:33:59.840 in this game. And you know, Isaiah sounds like a 0:34:00.080 --> 0:34:04.240 coach man. He talks to those coaches cliches when you know, yeah, 0:34:04.320 --> 0:34:07.200 he does have anything that's that speaks to his background. 0:34:07.240 --> 0:34:11.440 And we have to win individual battles. That's just it. 0:34:11.640 --> 0:34:14.879 And Isaiah knows that that's what coaches they talk about 0:34:14.920 --> 0:34:18.480 and they pounded on these players. Win your individual battles. 0:34:18.840 --> 0:34:21.880 The Cleveland Browns are going to crowd the line of scrimmage. 0:34:21.960 --> 0:34:23.680 Each one of these guys are going to have an 0:34:23.680 --> 0:34:26.839 opportunity to win and show that they can win their 0:34:26.920 --> 0:34:31.279 individual battles. But Miles Garrett Ogan job, all of these 0:34:31.320 --> 0:34:34.520 guys have the this is in their wheelhouse to get 0:34:34.560 --> 0:34:37.040 to the quarterback and not only just get to the quarterback, 0:34:37.320 --> 0:34:40.440 but create those turnovers. We've got to get in the rhythm. 0:34:40.480 --> 0:34:42.920 We've got to throw these guys off and not allow 0:34:43.600 --> 0:34:46.759 the Cleveland Browns defense to look at the film from 0:34:46.800 --> 0:34:49.719 some prior games and say, look, we can come into 0:34:49.719 --> 0:34:52.040 this game and do the exact same thing to this 0:34:52.120 --> 0:34:54.520 Cowboys team. We've got to bully these guys. It's gotta 0:34:54.560 --> 0:34:57.480 be bullyball and we gotta take it to him. Ejanda 0:34:57.560 --> 0:35:02.160 Styles free fighter, Get the big palm ready, Yeah, let's 0:35:02.480 --> 0:35:05.000 start our second street fighter reference in this week. I 0:35:05.080 --> 0:35:08.480 love it before we had to break. 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It's the final segment here of Talking Cowboys, 0:37:40.560 --> 0:37:44.600 Week four, Episode five Bits. Prediction time. Time to say 0:37:44.600 --> 0:37:46.880 it with your chest here over the next eight minutes. 0:37:46.880 --> 0:37:49.840 Feel free in the comments or in our Twitter mentions 0:37:50.239 --> 0:37:52.279 give your predictions to each of the games that we're 0:37:52.280 --> 0:37:54.759 talking about. I may even start keeping track of them 0:37:54.760 --> 0:37:57.840 a little bit, so stakings assistent with us last segment 0:37:58.200 --> 0:38:02.120 Every week on Talking Cowboys on a Friday, come or 0:38:02.200 --> 0:38:05.239 come with us with your predictions of these games. In 0:38:05.360 --> 0:38:08.960 the past the recent verse three weeks we only predicted 0:38:09.040 --> 0:38:12.600 the Cowboys games. We only talked about the Cowboys games. Well, 0:38:12.600 --> 0:38:16.560 this week we're two and one. Both me along with 0:38:16.640 --> 0:38:19.600 Rob Phillips and Isaiah Standback. We're all two and one. 0:38:19.920 --> 0:38:22.160 Heck Grammerson is the only one that's one and two. 0:38:22.200 --> 0:38:25.600 But luckily for heck Month, we're predicting three more games 0:38:25.640 --> 0:38:28.399 this week, and we'll predict four games every week. It's 0:38:28.400 --> 0:38:30.680 the Sunday night game, the Monday night game, and then 0:38:30.680 --> 0:38:34.279 a select game from the afternoon slates on Sundays. Are 0:38:34.280 --> 0:38:40.200 the ones that we're going to pred He may or 0:38:40.239 --> 0:38:42.520 may not, but then he made fun of my shirts, 0:38:42.600 --> 0:38:46.600 so I don't know. We may we may ask Freezer 0:38:46.719 --> 0:38:51.280 Freshman Freezer fresh Ze block back. All right, first game 0:38:51.440 --> 0:38:55.399 of the week, talking about the Bills on the road 0:38:55.560 --> 0:38:58.560 against the Las Vegas Raiders. This a Buffalo team that's 0:38:58.560 --> 0:39:01.200 three and oh the Raiders two and one. Raiders had 0:39:01.239 --> 0:39:03.800 that big win on Monday Night football against New Orleans. 0:39:03.800 --> 0:39:09.759 Heckma will start with you. I'm going Bills Mafia got 0:39:09.800 --> 0:39:16.240 the Bills. Mafia, easy one for Heckma. Rob, Yeah, Bills, Mafia, 0:39:16.640 --> 0:39:19.279 Josh Allen slinging around. I think they keep it up. 0:39:20.920 --> 0:39:23.520 I'm going to Bills as well. Bills are tough man. Yeah, 0:39:23.560 --> 0:39:25.480 that's a good team. I'm gonna go with the Bills 0:39:25.520 --> 0:39:28.120 here as well, straight across the board thirty one points 0:39:28.120 --> 0:39:31.680 per game this season from Buffalo, so nobody's gaining any 0:39:31.719 --> 0:39:34.480 ground on that one. All right. How about the Sunday 0:39:34.560 --> 0:39:38.640 night game? Are hated Philadelphia Eagles oh and two and one? 0:39:39.040 --> 0:39:40.719 I want them to start oh and three and one 0:39:40.800 --> 0:39:44.279 San Francisco their fourth straight where they're playing. It's San 0:39:44.320 --> 0:39:47.879 Francisco and the forty nine ers fourth straight game with 0:39:47.960 --> 0:39:50.879 a winless team on the other sideline from them, which 0:39:50.880 --> 0:39:53.840 is kind of interesting to start the season. I'm gonna 0:39:53.880 --> 0:39:56.880 go with the forty nine ers here, and it's not 0:39:57.000 --> 0:39:59.080 really even close to me. I still think even with 0:39:59.120 --> 0:40:02.719 their JV team, men, they should be able to win. 0:40:02.800 --> 0:40:05.560 This football game should be a fun one. Wow. Hey, 0:40:05.640 --> 0:40:09.720 I'm okay with that. Go against the Eagles. I'm always 0:40:09.719 --> 0:40:11.839 against the Eagles, and I'm sure Cowboys fans out there 0:40:11.880 --> 0:40:14.239 will be there as well. All right, Isaiah, who you 0:40:14.320 --> 0:40:21.520 got anybody that's playing against Philadelphia? So the forty nine Ers, rob, 0:40:23.120 --> 0:40:26.040 I'll take the Eagles. I think. I think people they're 0:40:26.200 --> 0:40:28.560 they're due. They'll find a way that they need to 0:40:28.560 --> 0:40:30.719 get a win bad to even have a chance here 0:40:30.719 --> 0:40:33.840 in the division. So I'll take Philly. Man because of 0:40:33.880 --> 0:40:37.080 where we are in the NFC East, we desperately need 0:40:37.120 --> 0:40:40.759 for the Eagles to continue their losing ways, and that 0:40:41.560 --> 0:40:44.160 this came this Sunday is so important for us and 0:40:44.320 --> 0:40:47.160 our standings in the division. I'm gonna say the Eagles lose, 0:40:47.360 --> 0:40:49.279 all right, I'm going to forty nine ers. There you go, 0:40:49.400 --> 0:40:52.440 and it is on the road at San Francisco. So 0:40:52.480 --> 0:40:56.120 hopefully that provides a little bit of interesting tidbit in 0:40:56.200 --> 0:40:57.880 terms of the East Coast all the way over to 0:40:57.920 --> 0:41:00.480 the West coast, and hopefully the forty nine pull that 0:41:00.480 --> 0:41:02.640 out and help the Cowboys. But I agree, I think 0:41:02.680 --> 0:41:05.440 the Philly I think Philly is definitely do. I just 0:41:05.440 --> 0:41:07.080 don't want them to win. So I'm picking the forty 0:41:07.160 --> 0:41:09.960 nine Ers, all right. Yeah? Now, now I know is 0:41:10.000 --> 0:41:11.480 as we go through the season, if I need a 0:41:11.520 --> 0:41:14.680 win to catch up, just I'm gonna take Philly. Take Philly, everybody, 0:41:14.760 --> 0:41:18.360 New York or Washington. Yeah that's fair. Yeah, yeah, you 0:41:18.400 --> 0:41:20.200 won't win a ton of those games, my friend, you 0:41:20.200 --> 0:41:21.960 won't win a ton of those games. You may may 0:41:22.040 --> 0:41:26.120 lose ground. Uh Monday Night football, This one should be 0:41:26.120 --> 0:41:28.959 a fun one. Because it's the Packers in Green Bay 0:41:29.080 --> 0:41:33.640 hosting the Atlanta Falcons. Green Bay thirty five plus points 0:41:34.080 --> 0:41:36.120 in each of the first three games this season, and 0:41:36.280 --> 0:41:39.000 oh and three Falcons team, who I mentioned earlier this 0:41:39.040 --> 0:41:40.959 week might be the best oh and three team we've 0:41:41.000 --> 0:41:43.279 seen in a long time. And then you've got a 0:41:43.280 --> 0:41:46.280 three and o Packers team that just continues to score points. Heckma, 0:41:46.280 --> 0:41:50.080 who you got? Well, I know the Atlanta is gonna 0:41:50.080 --> 0:41:51.520 find a way to lose it. So I'm going with 0:41:51.520 --> 0:41:58.279 the Packers. Damn it. I am going with a ron 0:41:58.360 --> 0:42:01.320 because they piss them off by after a first round 0:42:01.520 --> 0:42:04.680 quarterback that's there's not something you do. So they made 0:42:04.719 --> 0:42:07.080 him angry and he's on a rampage right now, and 0:42:07.320 --> 0:42:10.720 unfortunately my guy Dan Queen gets fired afterwards. Most likely. 0:42:10.840 --> 0:42:14.480 Oh no, yeah, yeah, I don't. I don't think the 0:42:14.520 --> 0:42:19.000 Falcons are due either. I put I put Rogers in 0:42:19.040 --> 0:42:21.879 the category of Russell Wilson and Tom Brady. If they're playing, 0:42:21.880 --> 0:42:24.560 I'm probably gonna pick him to win. I don't know 0:42:24.600 --> 0:42:26.560 what the spread on this game would be, but I 0:42:26.560 --> 0:42:29.560 would definitely take the Falcons on the spread because they're 0:42:29.560 --> 0:42:33.040 playing for their coach, They're playing for a chance to 0:42:33.400 --> 0:42:36.000 get back into the thick of things. But I also 0:42:36.080 --> 0:42:38.640 think Julio Jones is going to be active this week, 0:42:38.640 --> 0:42:40.840 and I think he'll be more efficient than they have 0:42:40.960 --> 0:42:42.839 been in the past. I'm gonna take the Falcons out 0:42:42.920 --> 0:42:45.520 right here. I really think that they might surprise the 0:42:45.560 --> 0:42:49.279 Packers on the road, and not just to change things up, 0:42:49.320 --> 0:42:53.160 but when you're all in three, that extra level of 0:42:53.960 --> 0:42:56.640 desperation starts to pop out, and I think that's something 0:42:56.680 --> 0:42:59.040 we might see from Atlanta this week. So I'm gonna 0:42:59.040 --> 0:43:01.000 take the Falcons all right here. We go big one 0:43:01.400 --> 0:43:04.560 on Sunday. The Cleveland Browns a two and one coming 0:43:04.600 --> 0:43:06.920 in with Baker Mayfield on the offensive side and a 0:43:07.040 --> 0:43:10.560 dual headed backfield. You've got Miles Garrett on the defensive side. 0:43:11.000 --> 0:43:14.279 Take it on the Dallas Cowboys, who desperately need to 0:43:14.360 --> 0:43:17.799 get back to two and to Isaiah has requested to 0:43:17.920 --> 0:43:20.600 go last, so I'm gonna go first, and I'm gonna 0:43:20.640 --> 0:43:23.440 make this easy on Cowboys Nation. No fake out like 0:43:23.520 --> 0:43:26.360 I've had the last couple of weeks. This is downright 0:43:26.480 --> 0:43:29.160 the game. The Cowboys get back on track, They're gonna 0:43:29.160 --> 0:43:31.719 win this one by at least two scores. I'm not 0:43:31.840 --> 0:43:35.480 necessarily I'm saying with my chess, I'm not saying it's 0:43:35.480 --> 0:43:37.760 a blowout. I think it's gonna be a tight game. 0:43:38.000 --> 0:43:39.640 But I think we're finally going to see what this 0:43:39.719 --> 0:43:42.640 defense can do against the regular offense and not an 0:43:42.760 --> 0:43:45.839 MVP and Russell Wilson a former MVP and Matt Ryan 0:43:46.080 --> 0:43:50.200 and a super Bowl caliber quarterback and offense with Sean 0:43:50.320 --> 0:43:53.720 mcvayh and Jared goff in La. I think they control 0:43:53.800 --> 0:43:55.919 Baker Mayfield. I think they stopped the run a little 0:43:55.960 --> 0:43:57.880 bit more than any of the other teams have in 0:43:57.920 --> 0:43:59.880 the NFL. I think they beat the Browns by a 0:44:00.040 --> 0:44:09.040 couple scores. Hey, well, look, well let me say this. 0:44:10.200 --> 0:44:13.000 You asked that the begin first segment. Who do we miss? 0:44:13.400 --> 0:44:16.200 And I'm gonna tell you, man, I missed the hot boys. 0:44:16.600 --> 0:44:19.400 I need the hot boys to show up on Sunday, 0:44:19.680 --> 0:44:23.839 all right, Jeff Heath, Taco Charlton, MALIEK. Collins. I need 0:44:23.840 --> 0:44:25.879 those hot boy chains back because I got a few 0:44:25.880 --> 0:44:28.439 guys over here that need those hot boy chains. That's 0:44:28.440 --> 0:44:30.200 what I need to happen. I need my deepest to 0:44:30.239 --> 0:44:33.120 show up and shut this down. We need just an 0:44:33.160 --> 0:44:35.160 easy win. On Sunday. We don't need all of the 0:44:35.280 --> 0:44:41.480 actress if funny stuff. Twenty eight seven Dallas Cowboys, Wow blowout. 0:44:41.480 --> 0:44:43.799 I think y'all don't think it's close. Okay, I don't. 0:44:44.000 --> 0:44:46.400 There's parts of this matchup I don't feel great about, 0:44:46.680 --> 0:44:49.279 and I think I'm flashing. Like I said earlier, I'm 0:44:49.320 --> 0:44:51.960 flashing back to last year when we talked about slow 0:44:52.040 --> 0:44:55.080 starts and lack of takeaways and turnovers, and every week 0:44:55.080 --> 0:44:56.879 it's like, Okay, they're gonna clean it up. They're gonna 0:44:56.920 --> 0:44:59.120 clean it up. And that didn't happen in December. It 0:44:59.200 --> 0:45:01.520 is a new team and it is a team that's 0:45:01.520 --> 0:45:06.160 still growing together. So while I think Cleveland has momentum, 0:45:06.400 --> 0:45:08.080 a two and one team that's starting to feel it 0:45:08.120 --> 0:45:11.120 a little bit, I feel better about the Cowboys ability 0:45:11.320 --> 0:45:14.279 to get chunk plays offensively and score points. I think 0:45:14.280 --> 0:45:17.600 they've got They are more dynamic offensively than Cleveland, and 0:45:17.680 --> 0:45:21.000 for that reason, I'll go with the Cowboys thirty to 0:45:21.000 --> 0:45:24.960 twenty one. I love it. There you go, all right, Isaiah, 0:45:24.960 --> 0:45:29.720 you requested the go lasts. What's going on here? Oh gosh? 0:45:29.880 --> 0:45:33.680 Oh man, here we go? Here we go? Is he 0:45:33.719 --> 0:45:36.120 gonna say it? With his chest. We've talked all week, 0:45:36.880 --> 0:45:42.759 talked all week about the issues that are prevalent here. 0:45:43.800 --> 0:45:48.839 We've also talked about whereas Cleveland is strong and where 0:45:48.960 --> 0:45:51.520 momentum is one and two versus two and one. You know, 0:45:51.880 --> 0:45:55.480 that's a challenge. I'm gonna go twenty eight twenty four. 0:45:58.120 --> 0:46:00.799 Cowboys are gonna win the game. Have a little bit 0:46:01.160 --> 0:46:05.799 more firepower on offense. But I am concerned about their 0:46:05.880 --> 0:46:09.840 ability to stop the run and to be efficient running 0:46:09.880 --> 0:46:12.680 the ball. Somehow, some way to Cowboys figure it out. 0:46:12.719 --> 0:46:14.439 But I'm telling you, there's a little there's a little 0:46:14.480 --> 0:46:17.080 piece of me inside. It's like, hey, there's a problem here. 0:46:17.120 --> 0:46:18.800 There's a little problem here, So they better figure it 0:46:18.840 --> 0:46:20.759 out otherwise it could be twenty twenty four the other way. 0:46:20.760 --> 0:46:23.239 But I'm going with the Cowboys this week. I think 0:46:23.239 --> 0:46:25.319 it's gonna be a close game. Heck Well went with 0:46:25.360 --> 0:46:27.680 the blowout. He said, Nah, this is the blowout. I 0:46:27.719 --> 0:46:30.320 respect it. You said it with your chest. It's a Friday, 0:46:30.360 --> 0:46:32.759 that's what this is for. However, I think this is 0:46:32.760 --> 0:46:34.640 gonna be a really good game. I'm there. I'm right 0:46:34.640 --> 0:46:36.880 there with Isaiah and with Rob. There are problems to 0:46:36.920 --> 0:46:40.000 be fixed. There are discussions to be had, but I 0:46:40.040 --> 0:46:43.359 think you're just a better football team even with some 0:46:43.400 --> 0:46:45.319 of the problems that you're dealing with. And that's why 0:46:45.360 --> 0:46:48.040 I think all four of us win with the Dallas Cowboys. 0:46:48.040 --> 0:46:51.239 That's gonna do it here for this week of Talking Cowboys. 0:46:51.280 --> 0:46:53.120 So glad you've been with us here over the last 0:46:53.200 --> 0:46:56.000 five days. It's been a ton of fun. We'll be 0:46:56.040 --> 0:46:58.080 back on Monday to break it all down for you, 0:46:58.200 --> 0:47:01.480 win or lose. If we win, come party with us 0:47:01.520 --> 0:47:04.280 on Monday. If we lose, we'll get through it together 0:47:04.320 --> 0:47:06.480 and we'll talk through this one and three start and 0:47:06.520 --> 0:47:09.240 get you ready for the Giants coming up in week five. 0:47:09.360 --> 0:47:12.080 But until then, for heck Ma Harrison, for Rob Phillips, 0:47:12.200 --> 0:47:14.919 isaiahs Danback special thanks to Chris Beam in the back, 0:47:14.960 --> 0:47:17.800 I'm Kyle Yeoman's saying so long from the Star in Frisco. 0:47:17.920 --> 0:47:20.920 That's it for Talking Cowboys. Enjoy the game on Sunday, everybody. 0:47:22.000 --> 0:47:24.880 This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:47:24.920 --> 0:47:26.959 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club.