WEBVTT - Talkin’ Cowboys: Scenario Break Down 0:00:02.279 --> 0:00:04.760 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:04.760 --> 0:00:06.360 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:11.600 Cowboys. 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:15.920 This He's Talking Cowboys, springing live. 0:00:15.760 --> 0:00:18.239 From the Dallas Cowboys World Tours at. 0:00:18.160 --> 0:00:19.160 The Star in Frisco. 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:24.680 Stret Tison. 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:32.520 And now your hosts Isaiah Standback, Nick Harris, Josh Rodriguez, 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:35.000 and Kyle Yeoman's. 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:38.880 Thank you're on Talking Cowboys. 0:00:38.880 --> 0:00:42.120 It is a Talking Tuesday here from the show. 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.680 Is this mike mute? I don't know, I feel muted 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:49.920 to here. It's okay, we're here. Something's going on. We're here. 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:55.520 How about now there was here yesterday decided to mute 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.040 this mic. But hey, it's Talking Cowboys. You're on a 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:01.800 Talking Tuesday, everybody. It is we sixteen of the NFL season, 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:05.399 and of course the Cowboys coming off that loss against Buffalo. 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:07.200 Everybody's still a little bit down about that. 0:01:07.319 --> 0:01:09.320 I get it, I get it. It won. But all 0:01:09.319 --> 0:01:11.080 of a sudden, yeah, all of a sudden, I feel 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:13.160 a little bit better about it after what happened on 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:14.280 Monday Night football. 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:19.160 We've got isaiahs standback, Nick Harris, not Josh Rodriguez today, 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:19.880 he's on Friday. 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:23.479 We have John Machoda today j EM's back in the building. 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:25.680 Chris Beam is back in the building as well. In 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:28.520 the back running everything. John, I want to get your 0:01:28.560 --> 0:01:30.320 thoughts on what happened in Buffalo. 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:34.760 Oh yeah, man, I'm just listening to Jerry on the radio, 0:01:34.800 --> 0:01:37.720 and we got the Jerry that was, I don't want 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:39.520 to say making excuses, but he was not the Jerry 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:43.600 Jones that was ripping the team. And I guess as 0:01:43.640 --> 0:01:45.440 the owner and general manager he has to do that 0:01:45.480 --> 0:01:47.200 in this point. But he could have come out and 0:01:47.240 --> 0:01:48.960 ripped the team and it would have been totally worthy 0:01:49.000 --> 0:01:51.720 of it. It's not that loss in Buffalo. That isn't 0:01:51.720 --> 0:01:54.240 the thing. You can lose a close game that is 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:56.320 a good football team and not be surprised if they 0:01:56.360 --> 0:01:58.840 make a deep run in the playoffs. I really do 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:00.800 think that is a much better team, and the record says 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:04.880 it's the thirty one to three midway through the fourth quarter. 0:02:05.160 --> 0:02:08.320 You're too good of a team for any team in 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:10.480 the NFL to do that to you in their place, 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:14.000 at your place wherever. That's the part that you know. Yeah, 0:02:14.040 --> 0:02:16.280 you can be happy that Seattle just beat the Eagles 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:18.400 and all that, and hey, you can be happy that 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:20.800 the Eagles look like they got some serious problems going on, 0:02:21.600 --> 0:02:25.880 But you've got some issues of your own. To to 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.040 have the run defense play as poorly as it did, 0:02:28.400 --> 0:02:30.600 for this offense to have as many weapons as they 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:32.320 have to not be able to put together a drive, 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:34.880 whether we're talking before half coming out of the half, 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.440 it just doesn't give you a lot of strong feelings 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:40.639 of all right, if this team goes on the road 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.000 in the playoffs, that they can win consecutive road games, 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:44.760 which has been the thing that we've felt for the 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:46.800 last couple of years. I know I have at least 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:50.400 so yes, while it is three consecutive playoff appearances in 0:02:50.440 --> 0:02:52.760 a row, that's great. This is obviously one of the 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.320 best teams in the NFL. There's no arguing that. There's 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:57.320 no question is one of the best teams in the NFL. 0:02:57.720 --> 0:03:00.600 But the goal for this team is to make a 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.600 run to the super Bowl. And when you have performances 0:03:03.639 --> 0:03:05.640 like that one, you have performances like the forty nine 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:08.360 Ers game, and even that Arizona won, to a certain extent, it. 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:08.720 Makes you. 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:12.360 It makes you think, well, why why won't this happen 0:03:12.360 --> 0:03:14.480 in the playoffs? Why won't this happen in January if 0:03:14.520 --> 0:03:16.639 they go on the road. And like I said, there's 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:17.920 a lot of people that are probably looking at like, well, 0:03:17.960 --> 0:03:19.440 they're just San Francisco. That's the only team you have 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:20.080 to worry about. 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:20.680 Now. 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:22.359 You play like that, you can lose at Philly, even 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:24.440 as bad Phillies playing run out. You can lose at Detroit. 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:25.960 I don't think you can lose. 0:03:25.760 --> 0:03:26.040 In the FIRS. 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:27.640 I don't think they'd lose in the first round. I 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:29.400 really don't. I don't. I don't think that they'll have 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.239 any problem with if they don't win the division and 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:35.360 they yeah, and they open against NMC South. But but 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:37.200 there was just things that happened in that game where 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:39.440 they can lose a game like that, and you can 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:41.800 you can be like, I get it, but to play 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:45.520 the way that they played, you know, there's just so 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:47.040 many levels to it that it was just it was 0:03:47.120 --> 0:03:48.320 just very very disappointing. 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:50.880 Yeah, you mentioned Jerry didn't really rip the team, and 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.040 definitely not. There was a moment though where he kind 0:03:53.040 --> 0:03:56.160 of challenged the coaching staff a little bit on the 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:59.440 on the fan this morning, and he said, it's your 0:03:59.520 --> 0:04:02.080 fault talk about the coaching staff. It's your fault that 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.320 you know that the Cowboys are on this pedestal. Now 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:06.800 you got to live up to that point every week, 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:08.280 and wherever you go out and you lay an egg 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:10.480 like that to Buffalo, it doesn't live up to what 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.800 you've you've accomplished to this point basically is the words 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:15.400 he was trying to put together in the Jerry way. 0:04:15.480 --> 0:04:18.960 So I think that's a that's a valid point. 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:21.200 But I I think at the end of the day, 0:04:21.200 --> 0:04:22.960 and we talked about it so much yesterday, it just 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.760 kind of came down to fit physicalness, of physicality, discipline, 0:04:26.800 --> 0:04:27.719 all those kinds of things. 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.120 So we'll see it get corrected this week. 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:32.360 Maybe they're just parts of that game where you're just like, 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:36.559 it felt like how much longer do they have to play? 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:38.560 How many more quarters would have to be played in 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:41.880 this game before they started playing the way that they're 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:44.160 spot Like, was it going to be six quarters? 0:04:44.279 --> 0:04:44.839 Eight quarters? 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:46.600 It just felt like you were just like watching the 0:04:46.640 --> 0:04:48.320 same thing over and over again, where you could almost 0:04:48.360 --> 0:04:50.120 be like, oh, let's go see if they put out 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:52.000 any more food in the press box here, because I 0:04:52.040 --> 0:04:53.760 already know what's going on here. That's that's not gonna 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:55.920 change Joey back see you guys, Like, I mean, it 0:04:56.080 --> 0:04:57.600 just was like what is going on here? 0:04:57.880 --> 0:04:58.080 You know? 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:00.480 Like again, and I do think Buffalo is a good team, 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:02.800 but they're not that good. They're not that good like 0:05:02.800 --> 0:05:05.040 hold you to thirty one three midway through the fourth quarter. 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:07.680 They're not in that level. When Josh Allen isn't even 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:09.200 throwing for one hundred yards, I mean, what do we 0:05:09.520 --> 0:05:10.279 let's I mean. 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:12.640 Well, even we talked about this a little bit yesterday. 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:17.680 Mike greg Olsen was talking about how this is a 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.960 team that's never had the running game, not while Josh 0:05:21.000 --> 0:05:23.760 Allen's there. They've never had that consistent running game. And 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:25.640 then all of a sudden they're running all over Dallas 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:28.200 and so yeah, it was it was a change of mentality. 0:05:28.240 --> 0:05:30.360 We previewed Josh Allen all the way through. They didn't 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:32.600 get Josh Allen, they got James Cook and that's kind 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:34.960 of what ended up happening. And Jerry was asked about 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:37.120 that directly on the fan. Credit to Sean and rj 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:40.880 H for asking the question. Bobby there too, but they 0:05:40.920 --> 0:05:44.640 asked it as as really as bluntly as possible. Do 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:47.040 you think it's a problem that you got out physicaled 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:51.480 by Buffalo, and he said, basically, you gotta change. You 0:05:51.600 --> 0:05:53.480 gotta be more physical, and you got to make tackles. 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.560 You got to do all the fundamental things. And it's 0:05:55.640 --> 0:05:58.080 kind of like what you said initially is he wasn't 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:01.960 giving complete excuses, but he was also saying, okay, like, 0:06:02.040 --> 0:06:04.080 this isn't the defense that we've seen in the past. 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:06.000 You just got to play better than what you did 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:10.480 on Sunday. I don't agree. I could tell. I could 0:06:10.520 --> 0:06:11.799 see the face. Yeah, I don't agree. 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:13.640 This is the defense that you've seen in the past 0:06:13.680 --> 0:06:17.279 and it hasn't changed. Unfortunately, we've talked about it yesterday. 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.359 We don't have to, you know, recap it. But this, 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.919 this is a really good defense as long as they 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:26.039 don't play a physical team that is persistent to run 0:06:26.120 --> 0:06:26.839 and running the ball. 0:06:26.960 --> 0:06:30.600 Is that because they were built on speed and not physicality. 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.240 Yeah, they're built on a pass rush. Absolutely. So I mean, 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.599 is there's no secret here. I mean, this is the 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.760 reason why. And again, coming off yesterdays show of You 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:39.720 Guys and listen, we kept bringing up the fact that 0:06:39.760 --> 0:06:44.360 you needed to have another version of Jonathan Hankins because he. 0:06:44.480 --> 0:06:45.839 Was not the only problem. 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:49.240 But psychologically, what that does to your entire defense in 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:53.480 terms of their confidence against the run is everything. And yes, 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:55.719 you're missing his presence on the inside. Yes, you got 0:06:55.720 --> 0:06:57.359 beat up on the outside as well in terms of 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.080 your defensive ends getting getting reached and linebackers coming and 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.560 getting reached and getting power drive into the ground. But 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:06.200 teams that can run the ball and are persistent in 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:09.200 running the ball have never had a problem against Dallas, 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.480 And I would love to hear a team that did. 0:07:14.240 --> 0:07:17.320 Washington when they were persistent a couple years ago. Did it, 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:22.680 Minnesota did it? Forty nine ers did it, Arizona did it. 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.680 We're talking about the top teams. Obviously I went back 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:27.320 a couple of years, but let's go back to this year, right. 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.920 I brought up to the stat yesterday of the top 0:07:30.040 --> 0:07:33.840 seven teams rushing teams in the NFL, Dallas has lost 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:38.600 to three of them in the top five that remain. 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:42.720 Detroit in Miami as second in number four. You're going 0:07:42.760 --> 0:07:45.760 to see more. What are you going to do to 0:07:45.800 --> 0:07:46.280 address it? 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:46.640 I don't know. 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:49.400 It's definitely not going to be personnel, So it has 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.400 to be an approach. You're going to ask your guys 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:55.800 to do something that they haven't done against teams that 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:58.680 are going to be persistent and are very successful in 0:07:58.760 --> 0:08:01.320 running the ball. So how are you going to change? 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:03.320 What are you going to do? Because you can't change 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:06.120 your personnel. You got to change your mentality and your 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:07.920 approach to how you're going to take this on because 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.240 you're going to see more and the teams that you're 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:11.920 about to face do it better than the teams that 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:12.680 you've played yet. 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:14.800 It's part of it. 0:08:14.920 --> 0:08:17.080 And I mean, like you said, personnel wise, is not 0:08:17.080 --> 0:08:19.080 gonna happen until Jonathan Hankins comes back. 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:23.400 With that being said, are there any updates news and notes? Yeah, 0:08:23.960 --> 0:08:24.960 Jonathan Hankins news. 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:27.720 And notes wise, there's nothing new on Jonathan Hankins. It's 0:08:27.960 --> 0:08:30.840 kind of the same going into this week is as 0:08:30.840 --> 0:08:32.360 it was last week. Just kind of seeing how the 0:08:32.360 --> 0:08:34.760 week progresses, and you know, maybe it'll be more of 0:08:34.800 --> 0:08:38.560 a Thursday, Friday, Saturday determination. As far as where he'll go, 0:08:38.760 --> 0:08:40.240 this is just my hunch feeling. I don't think he 0:08:40.280 --> 0:08:43.480 goes on Sunday. Whenever the injury happened, we were expecting 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:45.000 two to four weeks. I think it's going to take 0:08:45.000 --> 0:08:47.320 at least the two full weeks and if you ask me, 0:08:47.360 --> 0:08:49.400 I keep him out the rest of the regular season honestly, 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:52.120 and just make sure he's ready for the playoffs. That 0:08:52.200 --> 0:08:54.520 definitely does hurt their run defense causes whenever you look 0:08:54.559 --> 0:08:56.680 at Miami and Detroit and what they can put together 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:58.679 from a run gay perspective. So you're gonna have to 0:08:58.679 --> 0:09:01.880 figure out what to do there, But you also you 0:09:01.920 --> 0:09:03.600 also need him for the playoffs, and you need him 0:09:03.600 --> 0:09:07.319 healthy for the playoffs. As far as Zach Martin, Jerry 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:08.880 was asked about it on the fan this morning my 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:12.920 McCarthy yesterday. They're going through rehab this week. There seems 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:15.520 to be optimism there that he's gonna play on Sunday, 0:09:15.600 --> 0:09:17.800 and we're talking about Zach Martin here. I don't think 0:09:18.320 --> 0:09:20.640 a thigh bruis or a quad is going to keep 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:23.720 him out now. That is that is dependent on if 0:09:23.760 --> 0:09:27.080 he can be as strong as possible with that. With 0:09:27.160 --> 0:09:29.319 that quad, he's got to be able to put the 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:31.599 strength together for it. That's what kept him out of 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:33.640 the Buffalo game. Whenever they took him to the Blue 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:35.840 Medical ten. He says it wasn't firing as far as 0:09:35.880 --> 0:09:37.800 giving him strength and you know, being. 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:38.920 Able to plant on it. 0:09:39.080 --> 0:09:41.000 So that's gonna be the biggest thing when we're looking 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:43.720 at it again Thursday, Friday, Saturday. But my hunch feeling 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:47.080 is that he does play on Sunday. Okay, quad contusion, 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:50.199 suck man, what's have you ever had a quad confusion? 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:52.240 I've had a quad contusion, but not to the level 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:53.960 of some of the guys that I've played with. And 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.960 what when you when he talks about again, I can't 0:09:56.960 --> 0:10:00.680 speak to his particular back and speak to situations that 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:04.200 I've seen and been around. That quad contusion. What happens 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.440 is you have you have such a blow to your 0:10:06.520 --> 0:10:10.520 quad that it instantly swells up and pretty much that 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:14.440 nerve gets trauma to it to the point where it 0:10:14.480 --> 0:10:17.240 can no longer fire right. Your brain is telling your 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.240 leg to do something and it's not hearing what it 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:22.080 has to say because that nerve is not having free 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:23.719 free flow right and have. 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:24.600 The ability to free flow. 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.200 So that's why he said it's not firing, like, it's 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.160 not doing what I'm telling it to do, right, And 0:10:29.200 --> 0:10:32.200 that quad contusion, depending on the severity. Most times, what 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.120 I've seen is you have to sleep with your knee bent. 0:10:35.800 --> 0:10:37.400 You literally have to sleep with your knee bent. There's 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:39.800 a whole contraption that bends your knee because what happens 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:42.120 is as soon as your scar tissue starts binding down 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.840 on your muscles, if your leg is straight, if you're 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:46.720 sleeping with your legs straight, when your body's healing at 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.520 night time, now all of a sudden, your your muscles 0:10:49.559 --> 0:10:51.599 will not move, your tendons will not move because that 0:10:51.640 --> 0:10:53.920 scar tissue is binding it down, and it's so much 0:10:53.960 --> 0:10:57.480 harder to come back from a quad contusion whenever you 0:10:57.520 --> 0:11:00.160 don't take that proper approach. This training staff is more 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:03.000 than capable. Of these guys are knowledgeable as any staff 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:04.880 in the league. So I know they're doing everything possible 0:11:04.880 --> 0:11:07.760 to get Zach back. But that injury, even though I 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:09.319 know people are looking at him like that, doesn't look 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:09.760 like much. 0:11:10.080 --> 0:11:11.240 That quakingitution just sucks. 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:14.880 Usually Jerry's the one that's most positive about injury, so 0:11:14.920 --> 0:11:16.920 it was kind of interesting to see a flip where 0:11:17.480 --> 0:11:20.640 Zach is real positive after the game. Mike McCarthy was 0:11:20.640 --> 0:11:22.600 positive after a game and then positive yesterday, and then 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:25.319 Jerry today said he didn't know, so that was kind 0:11:25.360 --> 0:11:28.400 of surprise. I agree with you, though, I think he plays, Yeah. 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.679 You think he goes. You think Jonathan Hankins does not go? 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:32.720 Correct, Okay, that's my guess. 0:11:32.800 --> 0:11:33.520 There's your injury. 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:35.400 And I'm sure there's going to be a longer injury 0:11:35.440 --> 0:11:37.600 or report tomorrow whenever they're back on the practice field, 0:11:37.600 --> 0:11:40.000 because there were a couple of guys that played through 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.199 some things in Buffalo. 0:11:42.320 --> 0:11:45.040 Is the only one that's of note, like of notable 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.600 injury type. Yeah. 0:11:47.800 --> 0:11:49.920 I'll say this, Malie Cooker is very needed in this 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.280 Miami game, and we'll talk about it more this week. 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.720 But you have to keep everything underneath against this team. 0:11:55.720 --> 0:11:57.760 If you let anything out over the top, that's what 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.600 this offense becomes the most dangerous offense in the NFL. 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:02.920 That's what happened in that seventy point out burst against 0:12:02.960 --> 0:12:05.440 the Broncos. So you need Mollie Cooker as that single 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:06.959 hot guy that can keep everything underneath. 0:12:07.080 --> 0:12:08.120 That's completely huge. 0:12:08.320 --> 0:12:11.640 So yeah, kind a surprise though that he didn't play. 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:13.640 I think yeah, it was like more of a day 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:15.319 of thing where that was like, all right, well he's 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:17.520 not gonna be able to go. I think most people 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.199 felt in the building that he had a chance to 0:12:20.240 --> 0:12:22.120 play in that game. So I'm thinking because of that, 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:24.320 then he's probably got a really good chance to to 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:25.480 don back and play in Miami. 0:12:25.559 --> 0:12:26.120 That's a good thing. 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:28.800 Hopefully without a setback this week, and he stays clean 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:31.960 through practice, and then you're able to do that. Moving 0:12:31.960 --> 0:12:35.600 into Sunday, all right, I gave Nick Harriuss a call 0:12:35.679 --> 0:12:37.560 last night. I had to get on the phone. I 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:39.320 was on my way back from a basketball game, and 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:41.320 I had to had to get on the phone line 0:12:41.800 --> 0:12:46.800 the significance of Seattle's win last night. Congratulations to the 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:50.120 city of Seattle. They were two for two. One In 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:51.600 terms of helping Dallas, there. 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:52.120 Were two for two. 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:53.720 He he reps all of Seattle. 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:54.280 Yes, he does. 0:12:54.320 --> 0:12:57.160 We want to congratulate you know this in your city. 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:01.640 The Seahawks helped the Cowboys cracking lose to the Stars. 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:05.720 It was great Stars. It was over time. He stole 0:13:05.720 --> 0:13:09.520 the point. But let's talk about what was that? Two points? No, 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:15.480 it's one no points in terms of the standings. If 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:17.679 you win, you get two points. If you win and 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.160 if you lose an overtime you get a point. It's 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:20.920 hockey talk. 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:22.480 How could you how could you not know that? 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:25.160 Gosh, come on now, geez all right, No, that was 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:25.600 just funny. 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:31.640 Watch we scored two points points whatever. 0:13:31.960 --> 0:13:34.440 All right, I want to talk through playoff scenarios. We 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:35.200 talked through this. 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:38.680 Last night, because the Seattle win does have significance over 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:42.240 the Eagles anyways. It has significance because it brings back 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:43.439 the tie breakers. 0:13:43.480 --> 0:13:46.160 A couple of tie breakers in favor of the Cowboys 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:48.640 are released even with the Eagles. Here are the. 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:52.160 Top five tie breakers in terms of the NFL playoffs 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:55.320 seeding and how it lines up. Number one has head 0:13:55.320 --> 0:14:00.000 to head. Number two is wins and losses within the division. 0:14:00.600 --> 0:14:04.960 Number three is wins and losses against common opponents, and 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:09.280 then four wins and losses versus the conference five strength 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:14.240 of victory. In this specific scenario, right now, if the 0:14:14.280 --> 0:14:20.240 season ended, the Cowboys are certainly the leader. But it's 0:14:20.280 --> 0:14:22.480 only for now because of the vision, because they have 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:26.240 that number two spot at the moment. But then, of 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:28.520 course Philly can take that back, and then it goes 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:31.000 all the way down to number five strength of victory. 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:33.600 We probably won't have to go further than strength of victory. 0:14:33.840 --> 0:14:36.200 That's going to be the deciding factor if it all 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:40.040 ends up, even in those first four tiebreakers, right, now 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:43.360 the Cowboys own division, but if Philly wins out, they 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.960 would take back those or at least be tied in 0:14:46.000 --> 0:14:48.040 the first four tie breakers and go all the way 0:14:48.040 --> 0:14:49.040 down the strength of victory. 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.280 Yeah, so both teams right now are at ten and four. 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:54.440 If they both finish at thirteen and four, the Philadelphia 0:14:54.440 --> 0:14:55.000 Eagles win. 0:14:54.880 --> 0:14:55.600 An NFC East. 0:14:55.840 --> 0:14:59.280 I want to throw out one misconception that going back 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:00.680 and forth with a lot of pea on Twitter last 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:03.520 night healthily because there's a lot of confusion there, but 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:05.680 it was it was healthy talk. Point differential is not 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.840 a tiebreaker, so there's there was a couple of people. 0:15:08.600 --> 0:15:10.840 That it does not play in the strength of victory either. 0:15:11.040 --> 0:15:12.880 Yes, and so there were a couple of people that 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:14.920 were like, oh, the Cowboys are leading the NFC East 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:18.160 because they beat the Eagles by more than the Eagle. No, 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:22.560 that's that's not a thing. So basically, we ran through 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.400 it all and I'm going to kind of summarize it 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.480 as easily as possible here. If the Cowboys go three 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.680 and oh down the stretch, they will need the Eagles 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:35.360 to lose one game regardless. If the Cowboys go two 0:15:35.440 --> 0:15:37.920 and one down the stretch with a loss to either 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.120 Miami or Detroit, they will still need the Eagles to 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:44.520 just lose one game. So basically, the Cowboys can afford 0:15:44.560 --> 0:15:48.040 to lose to either Miami or Detroit and still need 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:49.040 the same result. 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:51.440 So it doesn't matter which one you lose to, It 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:53.600 does not matter, does not matter as long as you 0:15:53.640 --> 0:15:54.480 beat Washington. 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:59.120 We alt beat Washington because that's a divisional game. The 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:01.840 divisional tie break comes first, so you have to win 0:16:01.880 --> 0:16:04.640 that Washington game. But if the Eagles were to lose 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.440 to they have three games left, Giants, Cardinals, Giants. They'll 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:10.640 lose to any of those three games, and the Cowboys 0:16:11.200 --> 0:16:14.320 beat Washington and one of Miami and Detroit, and the 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:15.400 Cowboys won the division. 0:16:15.600 --> 0:16:16.920 So there's there's a lane there. 0:16:17.360 --> 0:16:21.800 Granted, the Eagles are playing really two bad teams and 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:25.840 three games basically right, three bad teams, So you're hoping 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:27.200 for a little bit of help there. 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:30.000 I was talking with Kyle last night, and I. 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.760 Think the best case scenario is you have the Giants 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:36.000 going into Philadelphia this week, maybe they just get wrong 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:37.840 a little bit, figure out some things, and then they 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:38.640 get them at home in a. 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:39.720 Couple of weeks. 0:16:39.480 --> 0:16:42.440 That's that's probably your best opportunity and then yeah, you're 0:16:42.480 --> 0:16:45.040 looking at Tommy DeVito or Tyrod Taylor. 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:47.320 So we'll see there. 0:16:47.480 --> 0:16:49.960 The Cardinals also have been playing better since Kyler has 0:16:49.960 --> 0:16:54.040 been back. They've looked, they've looked better. Their defense is 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:59.120 still you know what's the word. They're acceptable at times, 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:02.320 but if you get an Eagles loss in one of 0:17:02.320 --> 0:17:04.440 those games, then you're talking. But you have to beat 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:08.280 one of Miami or Detroit and that's that's that's test number. 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:10.960 What is your level of confidence in the remaining three 0:17:11.000 --> 0:17:12.440 games for the Eagles? 0:17:12.640 --> 0:17:15.760 For the Eagles, I mean, if I'm gonna if I'm 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:18.000 gonna guess they go three and oh and it's. 0:17:17.800 --> 0:17:20.240