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Speaker 2: Hailey sat Naisha Morrison, Jess Navarez. Before we dive into this,
Speaker 2: I want to give a huge shout out as we
Speaker 2: get started to my girl Jess.
Speaker 3: Oh, naturally, I sound terrible.
Speaker 2: I got hit with the flu on Christmas Day, so
Speaker 2: it has been a miserable week to say the least.
Speaker 2: And then my flu morphed into laryngitis. So I am
Speaker 2: recovering from laryngitis. And Jess, last minute, y'all, last minute,
Speaker 2: I text her and I'm like, we need someone to
Speaker 2: do the flashback show on Monday. Can you get up
Speaker 2: here and do it? Just at flashback? She crushed it, y'all.
Speaker 2: It aired on Valley yesterday.
Speaker 3: We're getting it up on YouTube, so go check it out.
Speaker 3: And then and then y'all, it gets better.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, then five or I guess.
Speaker 2: It was more like a couple hours before we needed
Speaker 2: someone else to also do press conference live, and I said,
Speaker 2: just no pressure, Uh do you want to do this?
Speaker 2: And just is like when and where I'll do it.
Speaker 2: She crushed that Mickey had very nice things to say
Speaker 2: about your show yesterday.
Speaker 4: So so nice, Jasey Q.
Speaker 2: The applause for Jess Navarres stepping in, pinch hitting. So
Speaker 2: happy to have someone step in while I'm sick.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'd like to just say thank you like it is.
Speaker 5: It is so amazing to work with people, and you
Speaker 5: specifically that just has this energy that always wants to
Speaker 5: see other people to succeed and thrive. And it's not
Speaker 5: there's not a lot of people in this world that
Speaker 5: think that success can go any which way. There's a
Speaker 5: lot of selfish people that want the success for only themselves.
Speaker 5: So you said other people up for success. Me, I've
Speaker 5: experienced it. Ayisha's experienced everybody that comes in contact with
Speaker 5: the experience.
Speaker 4: Is it so we love you?
Speaker 3: Hating you guys starting to sounds.
Speaker 4: So good today, Like I just want to say yesterday
Speaker 4: yesterday I was like this, she called me oh like that.
Speaker 6: I wouldn't expect that when she came.
Speaker 4: When I answered her phone call, I was like hello.
Speaker 3: Like the ghost of me.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's been it's been a it's been a
Speaker 2: rough week, but I appreciate just stepping in. Kyle has
Speaker 2: stepped in a couple of times to do it, so
Speaker 2: it's obviously a team effort. But I wouldn't be here with.
Speaker 3: Without you guys.
Speaker 2: So really excited to get back on track, Really excited
Speaker 2: to talk a little bit of cowboys. Unfortunately, we kind
Speaker 2: of have to shift the uh energy just to kind
Speaker 2: of stay up to date with everything that's been happening
Speaker 2: with Bill's safety tomorrow, Hamlin. It's obviously something that we've
Speaker 2: been watching all day long.
Speaker 3: All the media outlets.
Speaker 2: Are speaking about it, and rightfully so, so I do
Speaker 2: want to start our off just by saying number one,
Speaker 2: like we are wishing the best.
Speaker 3: I think I speak for all of us when.
Speaker 2: I say I was glued to Twitter, glued to all
Speaker 2: of the major outlets last night, you know, just praying
Speaker 2: for an update, praying that this young man was okay.
Speaker 2: So really scary stuff that I kind of just want
Speaker 2: to surround table talk before we get into that though.
Speaker 2: I want to read the very latest on him. It's
Speaker 2: actually interesting. It's up on NFL Network right now as well.
Speaker 2: The family has released a statement. The NFL also released
Speaker 2: a statement about the game that it will not be rescheduled.
Speaker 2: There's no decision, according to the NFL, regarding the possible
Speaker 2: resumption of a game at a later date.
Speaker 3: That, of course, though, is not the story.
Speaker 2: The story is DeMar Hamlin, this guy who is really
Speaker 2: fighting for his life when into cardiac arrest, had to
Speaker 2: be resuscitated.
Speaker 3: On the field.
Speaker 2: And I can't imagine what those guys on the field
Speaker 2: experienced yesterday. I can't imagine when anyone at that game
Speaker 2: experienced yesterday. And it's one of those things that really
Speaker 2: makes you put everything in perspective.
Speaker 7: Yeah, definitely took a step back and reevaluate it. Just
Speaker 7: I think it gives everyone an opportunity to kind of
Speaker 7: reevaluate how.
Speaker 6: We look at this game.
Speaker 7: I will say, on this Yere podcast, this one right here,
Speaker 7: we constantly harp how much these gentlemen are human, and
Speaker 7: how important their lives after this game are and things
Speaker 7: of that nature. So to see the overwhelmed, overwhelming response
Speaker 7: to what's happening is a lot of reflection, and it was.
Speaker 7: It was definitely scary me and just we're talking about
Speaker 7: it this morning.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's a realization that nobody ever wants
Speaker 5: to have in that way that these players are human,
Speaker 5: and it's something that we say day to day, but
Speaker 5: you really don't understand the magnitude of that until something
Speaker 5: like this happens, and this tragedy, you know, it's what
Speaker 5: it is. It's it's tragic for him, it's tragic for
Speaker 5: everybody that had to be there and see their brother,
Speaker 5: their teammate, their son in that state on the field.
Speaker 5: And I just can't streuss it in that, you know,
Speaker 5: going forward, I hope that everybody keeps that same mindset
Speaker 5: with these players. They are human all the time. Whether
Speaker 5: they're playing football, whether they're driving, whether they're doing anything.
Speaker 5: They are human. And I think the one thing that
Speaker 5: has come out of this that just speaks volumes is
Speaker 5: the amount of generosity of people donating to his toy drive.
Speaker 4: Last I checked, it was it three million.
Speaker 8: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I was keeping up with it throughout the day and
Speaker 2: once it kind of crossed that three million, Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's incredible really just to see how a community can
Speaker 2: rally together in that regard. I want to read the
Speaker 2: update from his family, and I wanted to say too
Speaker 2: before I read this. This is one of those situations.
Speaker 2: It reminded me a lot of when the helicopter crash
Speaker 2: with Kobe Bryant and GG Bryant happened, and so many
Speaker 2: people were pulling the trigger and trying to report what
Speaker 2: was happening. So I really have been doing my best
Speaker 2: just to make sure that the information that I'm retaining
Speaker 2: and sharing is coming from you know, direct source. This
Speaker 2: is the statement that came from the family of Damar Hamlin.
Speaker 3: It reads on behalf of our family.
Speaker 2: We want to express our sincere gratitude for the love
Speaker 2: and support shown to Tamar during this challenging time. We
Speaker 2: are deeply moved by the prayers, kind words, and donations
Speaker 2: from fans across the country. We also want to acknowledge
Speaker 2: the dedicated first responders and healthcare professionals at the University
Speaker 2: of Cincinnati Medical Center who have provided exceptional care to Dumar.
Speaker 2: We feel so blessed to be a part of the
Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills organization and to have their support. We also
Speaker 2: want to thank coach Taylor and the Bengals for everything
Speaker 2: they've done. Your generosity and compassion mean the world to us.
Speaker 2: They ended it with saying, please keep Damar in your prayers.
Speaker 2: Will release updates as soon as we have them. Of course,
Speaker 2: the last update we got is that he was in
Speaker 2: critical condition. He has had a incubator put in to
Speaker 2: help him breathe, but he did suffer cardiac arrest on
Speaker 2: the field yesterday, so it really just puts a lot
Speaker 2: into perspective. I was really really proud of the guys
Speaker 2: this morning on Talking Cowboys because I feel like this
Speaker 2: is one of those situations that is so incredibly hard
Speaker 2: to navigate. I was talking to Marcell, my boyfriend, last night,
Speaker 2: and one of the things we talked about is like,
Speaker 2: this business is so fun until it's not. And the
Speaker 2: reason why we all get into sports is to cover
Speaker 2: the fun stuff, to cover the games, to get to
Speaker 2: know these players, to share their stories. And I thought,
Speaker 2: you know, obviously, last night the ESPN crew did incredible.
Speaker 2: That is a situation that was unprecedented, and they navigated
Speaker 2: it very well, specifically Lisa Salters, who was on the
Speaker 2: ground reporting. You want to talk about a role model,
Speaker 2: Lisa Salters did it. Scott Van Pelt did a magnificent job,
Speaker 2: Ryan Clark, Booker, McFarlane, that whole crew, Susie and Adam Schefter,
Speaker 2: so really hats off to them. But I thought in house,
Speaker 2: and this is only because I listened to the Talking
Speaker 2: Cowboys podcast this morning, I thought Patrick and Kyle and
Speaker 2: Isaiah did such a phenomenal job of carrying on that
Speaker 2: same energy of talking about the motions of at Isaiah
Speaker 2: sharing a lot of personal stuff, Patrick really sharing some
Speaker 2: emotional stuff, and Kyle navigating that conversation. I thought that
Speaker 2: everyone has done a really good job speaking today, but
Speaker 2: that one really stood out. So it's it's difficult. It's
Speaker 2: one of those things in sports that you never want
Speaker 2: to see. As we mentioned, it's unprecedented, but we obviously
Speaker 2: extend our thoughts, our prayers, our condolences to Hamlin, to
Speaker 2: his family. I'll close it out with whatever you guys,
Speaker 2: if you guys want to add anything else, and then
Speaker 2: we'll take our first break and transition to Cowboys.
Speaker 9: Yeah.
Speaker 4: I just want to say we're all better when we
Speaker 4: come together.
Speaker 5: And I think the amount of prayers and love that
Speaker 5: is just being sent to DeMar through Twitter, even online,
Speaker 5: through media outlets. Is just so incredible to see and
Speaker 5: it's powerful, y'all when people come together and do not separate,
Speaker 5: and they come together for a bigger purpose than themselves.
Speaker 5: In this case, it's you know, somebody's life that could
Speaker 5: have been, you know, tragically taken away doing something he
Speaker 5: loved and in that fashion, just so suddenly just hug
Speaker 5: somebody you love today, tell them you love them.
Speaker 4: Never take any moment for granted. You just unfortunately never
Speaker 4: know what can happen.
Speaker 7: Yeah, and lastly, I just wanted to add that I
Speaker 7: know the NFL's come out and even talked about doing
Speaker 7: going above and beyond for the mental health care of
Speaker 7: every NFL team. If you have players that are affected
Speaker 7: or were affected by what they see they saw obviously
Speaker 7: the Bills players and the Bengals players that were there
Speaker 7: on site that had to witness that I've personally seen
Speaker 7: obviously being a service member, just seeing something similar in
Speaker 7: those ways and understanding that in those moments they stick
Speaker 7: with you like it sticks with you.
Speaker 6: And so I just think it's.
Speaker 7: Important that the NFL's offered that and that these guys,
Speaker 7: if you do need help, that you reach out, that
Speaker 7: you reach out and it's okay to reach out in
Speaker 7: this situation, and I just wanted.
Speaker 2: To say that, yeah, and I know, like you said,
Speaker 2: a lot of outlets have provided those resources online to
Speaker 2: the players who need it. And I also, so I
Speaker 2: know you touched on this that we speak a lot
Speaker 2: about the players on this podcast and how this is
Speaker 2: a player's first business.
Speaker 3: It should be that's how we treat it.
Speaker 2: But I think it's important to note as we wrap
Speaker 2: up that it's times like this where you really appreciate
Speaker 2: a Mike McCarthy, who you know has done so much
Speaker 2: for you know, how he takes care of his players.
Speaker 2: We obviously didn't get a chance to speak to him today.
Speaker 2: I imagine, you know, we'll hear a little bit tomorrow
Speaker 2: just on his thoughts if he speaks. But it's just
Speaker 2: one of those times where you appreciate that the Mike McCarthy's,
Speaker 2: the Zach Taylor's, the Sean mcdermots who really stopped and
Speaker 2: they said no, you know so I think that that
Speaker 2: is very important. I think it's really good that everyone
Speaker 2: is having these conversations, Jess. Like you said, so again,
Speaker 2: we will continue to think of tomorrow. We will continue
Speaker 2: to stay updated and keep you guys up to the
Speaker 2: minute on that. But we just wanted to open the
Speaker 2: show and just talk a little bit about the importance
Speaker 2: of these players being people first. With that being said,
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about the Cowboys players on the
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Speaker 2: Uh, let's talk a little Dallas Cowboys because I feel
Speaker 2: like we haven't had an opportunity to talk Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 2: It's been so long since this team has taken the field.
Speaker 2: It's really been you know, we had an abbreviated locker
Speaker 2: room yesterday, but not a ton of availability. But we
Speaker 2: will get into who was in there in a minute.
Speaker 2: But as we know, the Cowboys are officially twelve and
Speaker 2: four after beating Tennessee twenty seven to thirteen on Thursday
Speaker 2: Night Football. It wasn't a pretty game, guys, Like we know,
Speaker 2: we know the interceptions are still happening. We know that
Speaker 2: the defense is still trying to figure it out. But
Speaker 2: there were a lot of positives coming from that game.
Speaker 2: The big one is that the NFC East is still
Speaker 2: wide open thanks to the the Eagles.
Speaker 3: The Eagles decided they wanted to make this one fun.
Speaker 3: They didn't want to take the.
Speaker 2: Easy route, which that's fine, it's fine, like whatever, it's fine.
Speaker 2: They lost to the Saints on Sunday, So I it
Speaker 2: was so funny. I was in Knick's office kind of
Speaker 2: chatting about this earlier, just talking about the scenarios in
Speaker 2: which the Cowboys can win. So as it stands right now,
Speaker 2: Philadelphia is in first place of the East at thirteen
Speaker 2: and three, Dallas is in second at twelve and four.
Speaker 3: And as we know, the Giants are at nine.
Speaker 2: And six and one all three of those teams are
Speaker 2: in the playoffs. The Commanders, however, are not. They are
Speaker 2: out seven eight and one, but I imagine this will still
Speaker 2: be a pretty competitive game for them coming up on Sunday.
Speaker 2: So just a lot to talk about from that Thursday
Speaker 2: night game, in particular the world. Like I said, there
Speaker 2: were a lot of positives. Cowboys won, the defense I
Speaker 2: feel like is kind of figuring it out. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: But I just want to open up the four to
Speaker 2: you guys. What it's been a minute, But what stands
Speaker 2: out to you about that Tennessee game? You know, with
Speaker 2: that twenty seven thirteen win.
Speaker 5: O him, oh, I guess it. Okay, Sorry, somebody passed
Speaker 5: by and it was like squirrel.
Speaker 4: Sorry.
Speaker 5: What stood out to me was, you know, I think
Speaker 5: when it comes to style points, like everybody keeps referencing
Speaker 5: for this game, what does it matter?
Speaker 4: A win is a win? Is a win?
Speaker 5: Is a win is a win? The Cowboys went out there,
Speaker 5: was it pretty No? But y'all, if you were playing
Speaker 5: three games in twelve days, would you go out there
Speaker 5: and win for style points?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 5: Those guys had been going and going and going for
Speaker 5: twelve days straight. And yes, we talk about the physical
Speaker 5: part of playing those games, but the mental part of
Speaker 5: having to change your game plan three times in a
Speaker 5: row there and oh I have to go after this guy.
Speaker 5: Oh wait, no, the next game's here, this guy. Three
Speaker 5: games in twelve days, that's a lot for these guys,
Speaker 5: and so I was just happy to see them pull
Speaker 5: off the win, you know, and keep their potential taking
Speaker 5: over the NFC East dreams alive. I mean, really, that's
Speaker 5: they had one job, it was to go out there
Speaker 5: and win, and they've been doing that. So anytime you
Speaker 5: have a team that can win twelve games in the season,
Speaker 5: that's in the past seasons, it's impressive. Since nineteen ninetyour
Speaker 5: nineteen ninety five, that's the last time that the Cowboys
Speaker 5: did that. But yeah, look, I'm I'm happy for them.
Speaker 5: I think they deserved this mini by if you will.
Speaker 7: Oh, absolutely, And I wanted to add on to what
Speaker 7: you said in regard to just how much it was
Speaker 7: for them, Like game planning wise, Dobbs wasn't listed as
Speaker 7: the starter until that day, so just having to prepare
Speaker 7: for multiple quarterbacks and stuff like, hopefully that pays dividends
Speaker 7: to them late for them later.
Speaker 6: But two positives that took from this game.
Speaker 7: Defensively, I heard Dan Quinn talk about it Yeshay in
Speaker 7: his press conference, is that he feels that he's starting
Speaker 7: to get a better handle on that secondary rotation, which
Speaker 7: looks like it's gonna be Trayvon Diggs, Na Shaun Wright
Speaker 7: and or Doron Bland, and so that rotation, getting some steadiness,
Speaker 7: getting better in communication is going to be very important
Speaker 7: moving forward because you're going to be going against some
Speaker 7: of these great quarterbacks. But then also on the defensive
Speaker 7: side of the ball, I really felt like the d
Speaker 7: Lin's energy, specifically Tank and Bo and those guys.
Speaker 6: You could tell that they were just up for this game.
Speaker 7: And even though as the game went on you could
Speaker 7: see some of the wear set in, I was still
Speaker 7: pleased with the energy from the defense moving forward. And offensively,
Speaker 7: they can pass the ball when they need to, and
Speaker 7: that's a big deal. Like this last couple of games,
Speaker 7: Kellen Moore has shown that if the run game is
Speaker 7: not completely there, they're not afraid for Dak to go
Speaker 7: beat you in that way. And even though we don't
Speaker 7: want that consistently, just there are potential situations that you're
Speaker 7: going to run into in the playoffs where you're going
Speaker 7: to have to do that and moving forward, I think
Speaker 7: that's healthy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I want to stick with the defense because I
Speaker 2: think that it has been I know, for me, it's
Speaker 2: been really frustrating and I try not to listen to
Speaker 2: the outside noise, very similar to like how the players talk,
Speaker 2: but it's been very frustrating just to you know, when
Speaker 2: you think about where this team started defensively and where
Speaker 2: they've kind of gone. I know that there's no excuses
Speaker 2: in the grand scheme of things, because football is football.
Speaker 2: Everybody's tough, and everybody's dealing with their own personal issues
Speaker 2: within their franchise. But when you think about what this
Speaker 2: defense has been through, I mean, you lost Jordan Lewis,
Speaker 2: you lost Anthony Brown, the I mean, the injuries have
Speaker 2: just racked up and racked up and racked up everywhere
Speaker 2: across the board. Layton Vanderash We didn't know how important
Speaker 2: Laden vander Ash was until we lost him, and Allison
Speaker 2: is like, we need.
Speaker 3: Layton Vandash back.
Speaker 2: Jonathan Hankin, Yeah, Jonathan Hankins has been Brown, Anthony Like,
Speaker 2: I mean, you could just go on and on and
Speaker 2: on about the guys who have been out and short,
Speaker 2: like have they been elite the way they were at
Speaker 2: the beginning of the season.
Speaker 3: No, I think it's fair to say that.
Speaker 2: But but what drives me not and again like it's
Speaker 2: all about like not listening to the outside noise. What
Speaker 2: drives me nuts is like you have to be able
Speaker 2: to look at the now and you have to be
Speaker 2: able to recognize, like, this is what this team is
Speaker 2: doing with what they have and a player who and
Speaker 2: you're gonna love this, a player who I have been
Speaker 2: really impressed with over.
Speaker 3: The last couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: Have tried to subtly tweet about it, But Donovan Wilson,
Speaker 2: to me, is the MVP of this defense without a doubt.
Speaker 2: I am upset that he is not a Pro bowler
Speaker 2: this year. I am upset that he is not getting
Speaker 2: more attention than what he has because that man, the
Speaker 2: way he plays back there, he's like a linebacker but
Speaker 2: not you know what I.
Speaker 6: Mean, That's what he is.
Speaker 2: And it's just insane when you think about the numbers
Speaker 2: that he's putting up, Like I was looking at him
Speaker 2: this week and what he did and he had a
Speaker 2: sack for a loss of five yards, a QB hurry
Speaker 2: and a TfL Donovan Wilson, Like, this is not DeMarcus
Speaker 2: Lawrence we're talking about. This is not Michael Parsons. This
Speaker 2: is Donovan Wilson. Did you're talking about his fifth one?
Speaker 9: Yes?
Speaker 3: His fifth? Yeah?
Speaker 2: Fits sack this year. He leads the NFL in safeties
Speaker 2: with sacks. This year also tied with Bill Bates with
Speaker 2: the most sacks in a season by a Cowboy safety
Speaker 2: since nineteen eighty two. So the things that he's been
Speaker 2: able to do at that safety position is such a
Speaker 2: luxury because I'm not really sure that there's a guy
Speaker 2: playing the way he's playing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right now, how much of a luxury is he?
Speaker 3: You know what I mean?
Speaker 7: Oh, he's a luxury just in general. The safety is
Speaker 7: in the way that dan Quinn is able to use them,
Speaker 7: but Donovan in particular and what he does in the
Speaker 7: box and helping stop the run, but really just he
Speaker 7: sets the tone in such a way earlier in games
Speaker 7: when he comes down and he's dumping people.
Speaker 6: It's like, okay, everybody has to play like that.
Speaker 7: And I think that dan Quinn said that he's like
Speaker 7: the thermostat, and that's clear. But for Donovan, and I'm
Speaker 7: actually very happy for him because staying healthy has been
Speaker 7: the thing for him, and he's stayed healthy this season
Speaker 7: and contributed, and I want to say, hey, this is
Speaker 7: the first season he's been fully healthy in a very
Speaker 7: long time, and being on the field has allowed him
Speaker 7: to show people what he's capable of and for people
Speaker 7: to see who he is. This is a big year
Speaker 7: for him. This is a big year for him moving forward.
Speaker 7: And I'm glad that dan Quinn was able to get
Speaker 7: in here and utilize him in all the ways that
Speaker 7: I think a lot of us expected for him to
Speaker 7: be utilized when he was drafted.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and just going through his stats from twenty nineteen
Speaker 5: to twenty twenty two, again keep in mind there were
Speaker 5: some injuries here and there with all of that, but
Speaker 5: the jump he has made in twenty twenty two is
Speaker 5: so phenomenal, so undeniable. I mean, ninety seven combined tackles
Speaker 5: this season so far and it's not even over, so
Speaker 5: one more week at the regular seven meal, And something
Speaker 5: I did want to mention was seven tackles for loss.
Speaker 5: Donovan Wilson has been so key in making sure that
Speaker 5: those offenses are staying behind the chains because we've seen
Speaker 5: that when you have an offense in a first second
Speaker 5: down situation, you can keep pushing them back and they
Speaker 5: have to go third and long. That is when this
Speaker 5: defense is so success and they're thriving. Don Van Wilson
Speaker 5: has been an absolute beast in that component of the
Speaker 5: defense right there. So flowers to Donna because oh my goodness,
Speaker 5: it's just it's amazing to see these players take a
Speaker 5: jump and what they'll do when the culture is right
Speaker 5: for them and when things feel right for them and
Speaker 5: they're bought into it and they're just they're feeling it.
Speaker 4: So Donna is a perfect example of that.
Speaker 5: I think.
Speaker 3: I agree. He's like a rocket.
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what I say. That's the best le to
Speaker 6: describe him.
Speaker 7: His speed, Like, I don't know if his like run
Speaker 7: his speed shows how fast he looks on on film.
Speaker 7: I would actually have to go back and look at
Speaker 7: like what his forty was, but it just when he's
Speaker 7: flying around, he looks faster than everybody else.
Speaker 6: He's our baby Cam Chansler.
Speaker 3: I'm googling his forty time because I know I'm I.
Speaker 7: Definitely want to know because some guys look fast on
Speaker 7: film and then some guys like just run fast.
Speaker 6: Or vice versa.
Speaker 3: Okay, here we go.
Speaker 2: Uh oh, he did not run a forty at the
Speaker 2: combine business.
Speaker 3: I know he did not run a body, So that's that.
Speaker 4: Never mind.
Speaker 7: Well, no, no, no, I am glad that you brought
Speaker 7: him up, though, I really am. I'm glad that you
Speaker 7: brought him up because he's helped so much in this
Speaker 7: run defense and trying to improve and get better, and
Speaker 7: just having the versatility of him being able to come
Speaker 7: down in a big nickel is helped his defense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, part I think he's I think he has been tremendous.
Speaker 2: I've also been incredibly impressed with Naseean Wright back to
Speaker 2: back weeks where he has led the team in solo tackles,
Speaker 2: but just to get that first interception. I think it's
Speaker 2: been really cool just to see his development. You know,
Speaker 2: he's been inactive on and off throughout the beginning of
Speaker 2: the season and then stepping in when it mattered most.
Speaker 3: I think going into the game.
Speaker 2: Last week, prior to the Titans, he was a little
Speaker 2: bit shaky, you know, just trying to find his footing.
Speaker 2: But I like how he finished and I really enjoyed
Speaker 2: how he played last week. He just played with a
Speaker 2: lot of confidence and you guys know, I love when
Speaker 2: these guys are going out there and they play with
Speaker 2: a lot of confidence. So he gets his first career interception,
Speaker 2: he also had to pass break up, So I think
Speaker 2: he is a really been a surprise.
Speaker 6: He's a smart guy. He's a smart guys.
Speaker 7: It's he's even made some plays like clock management wise,
Speaker 7: just keeping guys out of bounds or keeping them from
Speaker 7: get out of bounds and stuff.
Speaker 6: But he's just I really like also too.
Speaker 7: And this is something we've been seeing lately with dron
Speaker 7: Bland and with Naseean. Right, these guys are not afraid
Speaker 7: to come up and tackle in the run and that's
Speaker 7: giving you a lot of support.
Speaker 6: Naean.
Speaker 7: Even if he misses, there's something he's gonna come up,
Speaker 7: but he's gonna tackle. He's physical and he played injured
Speaker 7: a lot of that game too. I know Christy talked
Speaker 7: to us about it the other day, but he did.
Speaker 7: And for him to tough it out and finish, you're
Speaker 7: gonna need him. You're gonna need him, and you're also
Speaker 7: gonna need him to be confident like you're just talking about,
Speaker 7: and confident in what he's doing. And he's seeming like
Speaker 7: the wheels are starting to turn for him.
Speaker 5: A couple of things I wanted to mention, going back
Speaker 5: to Donovan Wilson real quick, he is in fact a
Speaker 5: free agent at the end of the season, so Wilson
Speaker 5: earning his contract, it would seem, so I just wanted
Speaker 5: to point that out.
Speaker 4: I thought for sure, I thought he was, but I
Speaker 4: wanted to double.
Speaker 5: Check before I spit out some facts. I don't want
Speaker 5: to give y'all any incorrect information on here. But going
Speaker 5: back to Naseeon, right, I think what people don't realize
Speaker 5: about the cornerback position is how difficult that position is
Speaker 5: because obviously you're going to give up yards. That is
Speaker 5: just the nature of the position. But he has shown growth,
Speaker 5: and he's shown exponential growth in the last couple of
Speaker 5: weeks when really, I mean there's no there's no other
Speaker 5: option for him. It was a real make or break
Speaker 5: type situation and he's making it and he is doing
Speaker 5: the best to his ability, and he's being impactful. So really,
Speaker 5: all I can ask for a guy like Naean Wright
Speaker 5: who's stepping in there in that position that desperately needed
Speaker 5: the help to make that defense have their fear back
Speaker 5: in them and feeling and feeling fully confident. I really
Speaker 5: respect what he's doing and I'm excited to continue to
Speaker 5: see him growing.
Speaker 2: I think it's also important to note that the defense
Speaker 2: will hopefully be getting a boost in the next couple
Speaker 2: of games. The biggest one standing out to me this
Speaker 2: upcoming Sunday is getting Laton van Dersh back. He spoke
Speaker 2: in the locker room yesterday and he has pretty much
Speaker 2: given himself a full good guy yeah, and he's he's
Speaker 2: pretty confident that he's ready to come back. Of course,
Speaker 2: he's been dealing with that pinched nerve in his neck
Speaker 2: slash shoulder, so obviously, especially with someone who has dealt
Speaker 2: with neck and spinal injuries in the past, important to
Speaker 2: take the time you need to recover for that.
Speaker 3: But he is pretty confident that he'll come back.
Speaker 2: And kind of, like I mentioned at the top of this,
Speaker 2: you never realize sometimes how important some of these guys
Speaker 2: are because they're like quiet leaders. You know, I've been
Speaker 2: saying that about DeMarcus Lawrence for the last couple of games.
Speaker 2: You know, he's your vocal leader on the defense. To
Speaker 2: Marcus Lawrence is but some of the stuff that he's
Speaker 2: been doing in the drenches has been really impressive. He
Speaker 2: might not be lighting up the stat sheet the way
Speaker 2: we're used to, but he's done some really impressive stuff.
Speaker 2: I feel the same way about Layton Vandersh and the
Speaker 2: season that he was having. But I think you never
Speaker 2: wish injury on a player, but I think it took
Speaker 2: that injury for a lot of people to go like wow,
Speaker 2: like he is actually incredibly necessary for the Cowboy's defense.
Speaker 6: Yeah, he's so smart.
Speaker 7: He's like Leyton is such a smart player, a cerebral player,
Speaker 7: and getting guys lined up the right way. You know,
Speaker 7: even last this last game, I felt like you might
Speaker 7: have could have used them because the way that the
Speaker 7: way that the Titans were lining up and doing stuff
Speaker 7: in their linement and stuff like, you could have used
Speaker 7: the Layton telling your guy to telling telling Bow to
Speaker 7: move over a little bit or angle a little better,
Speaker 7: because he does that like he sees things before. And
Speaker 7: I am actually thrilled to see he and Damont Clark
Speaker 7: maybe get some opportunity with how well he reads. Plus
Speaker 7: Damon's speed could definitely help out with some of these
Speaker 7: edge runs and some of the stuff that people are
Speaker 7: doing to you. And I'm excited because they talked about
Speaker 7: earning the pass rush, and what you're starting to see
Speaker 7: is the Cowboys have gotten better with their run defense
Speaker 7: as of late, but if they can hamper down for
Speaker 7: sure and then put people in long passing positions could
Speaker 7: open up things even more so. Hoping for that run
Speaker 7: defense to get even better than what it's already improved
Speaker 7: to be, because it's gotten better as the season's going on,
Speaker 7: and let's get it.
Speaker 6: Let's get it.
Speaker 4: I'm excited for like pucking me up.
Speaker 6: I'm like I was one.
Speaker 2: Of those people, yeah, right, because you're like, you know,
Speaker 2: you don't recognize the impact that he's making until all
Speaker 2: of the sudden he's not there. And I mean I
Speaker 2: feel like that you can you can say that about
Speaker 2: why Anthony Brown, I think is another example of that
Speaker 2: to where like Anthony Brown definitely didn't get enough credit
Speaker 2: until all of a sudden, it was it was Calvin
Speaker 2: Joseph for Buss for a minute, and then we were
Speaker 2: like Terrence.
Speaker 6: I mean Terrence too.
Speaker 5: I was like Terrence No, I think as far as
Speaker 5: lve E, I mean, he is somebody that I think
Speaker 5: when the contract negotiations came up at the beginning of
Speaker 5: the season.
Speaker 4: Everyone was so.
Speaker 5: Quick to be like a one year contract for Lve.
Speaker 5: Why you know, and this is why, because again you
Speaker 5: want to talk about another free agent Lve. He is
Speaker 5: earning his next contract uh this season with the amount
Speaker 5: of production that he has had. What's kind of jarring
Speaker 5: to me is comparing his twenty eighteen, his rookie season
Speaker 5: to now. I feel like, you know, had this injury
Speaker 5: not occurred, he would have had similar stats at the
Speaker 5: end of the regular season, which is interesting to say
Speaker 5: because he was already let's see, he had one hundred
Speaker 5: and forty combined tack combined tackles in twenty eighteen.
Speaker 4: He was at ninety pre injury, So you're telling me with.
Speaker 5: A few weeks that he was averaging as many tackles
Speaker 5: as he was, he would have been pretty close to
Speaker 5: his rookie season.
Speaker 4: He already was.
Speaker 5: In twenty eighteen, he had two tackles for loss, in
Speaker 5: twenty twenty two he had four. Already actually had no
Speaker 5: sacks in twenty eighteen. He had won so far this season,
Speaker 5: So I'm very excited for Layton van der USh. I
Speaker 5: think when you see a player get a pulse like
Speaker 5: this again in kind of a new found energy. I
Speaker 5: want to say that this new energy that Layton has
Speaker 5: is even better than rookie season energy from Layton van Rush,
Speaker 5: who was howling and had the whole stadium howling back
Speaker 5: in twenty eight.
Speaker 3: But I love that.
Speaker 4: What I love it is that it's back.
Speaker 5: It's back when Layton was making plays at and T
Speaker 5: State and people were howling again. And I love that
Speaker 5: for him. He deserves that, he deserves that spotlight from
Speaker 5: the fans. So go Layton. I can't wait to see
Speaker 5: him come back. And credit to the mentorship he's given
Speaker 5: to Monk Clark because a lot of things that you're
Speaker 5: seeing from Demonk Clark Leyton Vanderish is still working with
Speaker 5: him behind the curtains here and not only with the
Speaker 5: football mind but the returning from injury kind of mindset
Speaker 5: as well. And I think that's so important to give
Speaker 5: Lateon credit that you know, Damon can kind of lean
Speaker 5: on him with that better shit veteran leadership to navigate
Speaker 5: returning from an injury as you know, severe as they
Speaker 5: had in the neck area there as well.
Speaker 4: So interesting.
Speaker 3: See.
Speaker 2: Yeah, when I talked to Timo and I did a
Speaker 2: feature with him earlier in the season, and that was
Speaker 2: one of the things that he talked about was, you know,
Speaker 2: it was easy to confine in someone like Layton because
Speaker 2: not only do they play the same position, but they
Speaker 2: have the same injury a very similar way of finding
Speaker 2: out as well. So that's always been something that I
Speaker 2: always think about. They kind of go and handom and
Speaker 2: you'll see it too, Like I love whenever I'm editing
Speaker 2: some of these pieces and I get to go through
Speaker 2: and I get to look at all of the video
Speaker 2: that all of our team shoots, like Alex when he's
Speaker 2: doing sounds of the Sideline, and my favorite clips are
Speaker 2: always the ones where again Alex shoots these and they're
Speaker 2: on the bench and it's Leyton and Damon and they're
Speaker 2: sitting on the bench, and the way that Layton is
Speaker 2: like mentoring and it's it's not like a I'm the
Speaker 2: I'm the leader, I'm the older guy, like I'm telling
Speaker 2: you how it is.
Speaker 3: It's very much like Layton is late.
Speaker 2: Back sharing his experiences with Damon and Demon's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's always in yeah, yeah, because he loves learning. And
Speaker 2: that's one of my favorite things about Demon too, like
Speaker 2: for him to be a rookie and to absorb the
Speaker 2: information that he has. He was on Cowboys Hour with
Speaker 2: us a couple of weeks ago, and I should have
Speaker 2: back to them.
Speaker 3: I'm like, bro, like what's your motivation?
Speaker 2: Like what keeps you, you know, so locked in all
Speaker 2: the time. And he's like, well, I'm not at my
Speaker 2: best yet, Like I'm not at my best, So like
Speaker 2: why would I not continue to learn it and be
Speaker 2: the best I can be if I'm not at my best?
Speaker 2: And I I love that energy from Demoon. I think
Speaker 2: that this defense has been banged up. They've really done
Speaker 2: the best with what they've had over the last couple
Speaker 2: of weeks.
Speaker 3: There's still some issues.
Speaker 2: I mean, they gave up three hundred and seventeen total
Speaker 2: net yards to Tennessee Titans, who weren't playing their starters,
Speaker 2: no Derick Henry, and that we have to keep that
Speaker 2: as a factor when you talk about that Tennessee Titans team.
Speaker 3: They had three turnovers. The penalties were down.
Speaker 2: Though three about thirty five yards. Yeah, so the penalties
Speaker 2: were down. They only gave up ninety seven net rushing yards.
Speaker 2: So a lot of positives to talk about, but still
Speaker 2: some things to work on that I'm sure, dan Quinn
Speaker 2: is going to address later this week, Let's go ahead
Speaker 2: and take.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna pivot back to the Dallas Cowboys offense that
Speaker 2: put up twenty seven points against the Tennessee Titans Dak
Speaker 2: Prescott twenty nine of forty one, which we're gonna get
Speaker 2: into twenty nine to forty one for two hundred and
Speaker 2: eighty two yards, two touchdowns, two interceptions, one of which
Speaker 2: was not his fault, but the other one was.
Speaker 6: I'm over them.
Speaker 7: You know, he's just having that year like he just
Speaker 7: he just he he like on a like a huge
Speaker 7: scale links it like ranks it like the bottom of
Speaker 7: the league. Ever, and how many interceptions he throwing.
Speaker 2: So this year is just like, yeah, it's gonna happen, Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's uh here, Here's what I don't like about it
Speaker 2: is that I'm not discrediting I'm not discrediting Dak's ability.
Speaker 2: I've said this over and over again on this podcast.
Speaker 2: I'm not discrediting his ability. I'm not discrediting the way
Speaker 2: he's played. I think he's been phenomenal when you think
Speaker 2: about everything else that's come into play.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: But the problem is is now, when.
Speaker 2: You're facing a Dak Prescott, you are facing a quarterback
Speaker 2: that you can almost guarantee will throw at least one
Speaker 2: interception in a game.
Speaker 1: Ye.
Speaker 2: And I was talking to Nate Newton about this on Thursday.
Speaker 2: I always watched the game in the away games with
Speaker 2: the guys in the studio, and I love it because
Speaker 2: I get so much insight from him and Nate and
Speaker 2: Isaiah and Barry and Kyle when he's in there too.
Speaker 2: And I was talking to Nate about it, and Nate said,
Speaker 2: I said this eight weeks ago when he came back
Speaker 2: and he was, you know, getting back in the groom
Speaker 2: and the interceptions started happening.
Speaker 3: I said this eight weeks ago.
Speaker 2: You don't want to become that quarterback that is expected
Speaker 2: to throw interceptions, because what starts happening is is now
Speaker 2: these guys are jumping you, or now these guys are
Speaker 2: reading how you're reading and being able to pick you
Speaker 2: off maybe a little bit easier because they know that
Speaker 2: at some point in the game you're gonna throw an interception.
Speaker 3: And so I have said this time and time again
Speaker 3: on this podcast.
Speaker 2: Dak Prescott, if you're listening to me, please please figure
Speaker 2: it out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know what's interesting? Please that got me thinking.
Speaker 5: I went back, and I'm here on my favorite website.
Speaker 5: I just I always like to go back and reference things.
Speaker 5: Twenty sixteen, Dak Prescott's rookie year, he had four interceptions,
Speaker 5: but then twenty seventeen he had thirteen. That's only one
Speaker 5: less than what he has right now at fourteen. Another
Speaker 5: high interception rate twenty nineteen with eleven and then twenty
Speaker 5: twenty one with ten. Something to note though, every single
Speaker 5: time Dak Prescott has had a playoff appearance, there's been
Speaker 5: at least one interception in those games. So it needs
Speaker 5: to stop, obviously, But what also I think needs to
Speaker 5: improve to make it better. Because it's one thing to say, oh,
Speaker 5: Dax stop doing that. No's let's dissect it a little bit,
Speaker 5: because it's not fair to say all fourteen of those
Speaker 5: are on deck pressure.
Speaker 4: We know that we dissect that every week.
Speaker 5: I think silly mistakes need to stop happening as well,
Speaker 5: whether it's ball security, miscommunication, all of those things that
Speaker 5: we've been talking about for weeks. Those things need to
Speaker 5: be secured first and foremost, and then yes, figure out
Speaker 5: what is going on with the ones that are deck's
Speaker 5: fall you know, maybe misreading things, his eyes not being
Speaker 5: in the right spot, whatever the issue is.
Speaker 2: They forcing the ball into double coverage.
Speaker 5: Correct, they need to lock down on what it is
Speaker 5: and fix it. But just something to note there. I
Speaker 5: thought that was that was interesting. The twenty seventeen season,
Speaker 5: he had thirteen interceptions, right now he has fourteen.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I will say, like I said, he's not a
Speaker 2: bad quarterback. Like I know that we know and most
Speaker 2: of the people in this industry know that Dak Prescott's
Speaker 2: not a bad quarterback. He's fifth in the NFC in
Speaker 2: passing with sixty nine point two completion percentage, that's good
Speaker 2: for second in the NFL. And he's third in touchdown
Speaker 2: percentage in the NFL.
Speaker 3: So this is a guy who knows what he's doing.
Speaker 2: He's got twenty two touchdowns this year, which is impressive
Speaker 2: given that he's done that in eleven games, when the
Speaker 2: rest of these guys have had, you know, seventeen games
Speaker 2: up until this point. So I think that it's really
Speaker 2: important to note. But to me, and I will say
Speaker 2: this again and again and again, t y over OBJ
Speaker 2: all day every day. When you talk about wanting the
Speaker 2: whole conversation surrounding OBJ was that we wanted to bring
Speaker 2: in a guy who was going to make an immediate impact.
Speaker 2: We wanted to bring in a guy who was going
Speaker 2: to have explosive play, who was going to be a
Speaker 2: difference maker, who was going to draw some of the
Speaker 2: coverage away from Ceedee Lamb. And you have to make
Speaker 2: a decision on where you're going to put your coverage.
Speaker 2: T Y Hilton has had five catches in a Dallas
Speaker 2: Cowboys uniform, three of which, I'm sorry, four of which
Speaker 2: have been for third down. Have been for third down.
Speaker 2: In this last game alone, he had in the first
Speaker 2: quarter a third and five catch for seven yards, second quarter,
Speaker 2: third and three, a catch for twelve yards. In the
Speaker 2: second quarter again first and ten, a three yard catch
Speaker 2: didn't really matter, but in the third quarter he had
Speaker 2: a third and ten for twenty eight yards. I do
Speaker 2: not think that there is a player who understands the
Speaker 2: assignment more than what t Y Hilton does. And again
Speaker 2: we're not surprised because he told us, and he tells
Speaker 2: us every week, But.
Speaker 3: I just don't know.
Speaker 2: It makes me I want to be in the room
Speaker 2: when these guys in the front office are making these decisions,
Speaker 2: and I really want to know, like, did y'all know,
Speaker 2: Like did y'all really really really know that t Y
Speaker 2: Hilton was going to come in here and be a
Speaker 2: difference maker like this?
Speaker 7: Now I wonder Like I was listening to Jerry earlier
Speaker 7: and he was like, we jumped right on him as
Speaker 7: soon as we knew he was available, and I know
Speaker 7: there's probably other teams in the NFL that are kicking
Speaker 7: themselves because this Ty right here look like you know,
Speaker 7: his legs are fine, like, he looks fine, like.
Speaker 10: Oh, t Y.
Speaker 7: And I think if a lot of teams thought that
Speaker 7: that's what they were getting, they might have taken the chance. Again,
Speaker 7: I don't know if the Cowboys just were the first
Speaker 7: one in and they figured it out. But he's been
Speaker 7: everything that you were really hoping for, just to I
Speaker 7: think he's a steady addition to this offense.
Speaker 6: And I know that defenses are.
Speaker 7: Exhausted on what to do on third down because no,
Speaker 7: I'm just being honest with you, because on third down,
Speaker 7: like the Cowboys are already really efficient on third down,
Speaker 7: but to have the capability to be even more efficient
Speaker 7: now and you know, obviously CD is a third down
Speaker 7: monster as well, so now you got too. Yeah, I
Speaker 7: think it's gonna be difficult moving forward for teams to
Speaker 7: decide who they're gonna roll coverage to and cover up
Speaker 7: in those situations.
Speaker 5: Going back to your you're coming about, was it other
Speaker 5: teams not seeing the impact potential of t Y Hilton?
Speaker 5: Was it that or was the other teams are just
Speaker 5: not built like the Dallas Cowboys to create those kind
Speaker 5: of impact opportunities for t Y, because really, this is
Speaker 5: a special team that he could come into the locker
Speaker 5: room make an immediate impact, And you can't really say
Speaker 5: that for a lot of teams across the NFL, who
Speaker 5: for for the most part have a pretty established wide
Speaker 5: receiver group. This is a special year for the Cowboys
Speaker 5: and that you know, Ceedee Lamb stepped up to be
Speaker 5: that wide receiver one. You have Michael Gallup, you know,
Speaker 5: you have Noah Brown who who came to fruition this
Speaker 5: uh this season? But was it that or was was
Speaker 5: this just the perfect landing spot for Ty to sit
Speaker 5: here and say, Hey, I know I can make an
Speaker 5: impact here and let me tell you why to you know,
Speaker 5: the front office or whoever makes those decisions, because.
Speaker 4: It's not us. We don't have any saying any of that.
Speaker 4: But I think, wait, we don't. Are you sure we don't?
Speaker 6: People believe obviously we don't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think t Wy's a media impact has just
Speaker 5: been so felt, mister third down. I mean, my goodness,
Speaker 5: good for him. And what I'm excited to see is
Speaker 5: kind of the long term effect that the messages he's
Speaker 5: given to this wide receiver room have for years to come.
Speaker 5: And I say the same thing about Jason Peters and
Speaker 5: Tyler Smith. With that long term effect, you're looking ten
Speaker 5: years down the road and Tyler Smith's saying, oh, yeah,
Speaker 5: Jason Peters showed me that ten years later. So that's
Speaker 5: what I'm excited to look forward to. As far as
Speaker 5: t Y and the wide receivers.
Speaker 3: I agree.
Speaker 2: I think, you know, going into this Washington game, we
Speaker 2: obviously didn't talk a lot about it. We've got a
Speaker 2: couple more days to get into that matchup. But I
Speaker 2: think the most important thing for the Cowboys to focus
Speaker 2: on is the Cowboys. And I've said this a lot
Speaker 2: with Patrick Walker this season. The only team I think
Speaker 2: that can beat the Cowboys as the Cowboys. When you
Speaker 2: look back at all of the losses, all of the
Speaker 2: losses they've had four, but when you look back at
Speaker 2: each one of those games and you think about what
Speaker 2: went wrong, every single time, it was decision making or
Speaker 2: it was a mental error, as Dan Quinn mentioned yesterday
Speaker 2: in his press conference, that the Cowboys are facing and
Speaker 2: so I am really hope that with a couple of
Speaker 2: guys coming back this week next week. We didn't get
Speaker 2: a chance to talk about the offensive line very much,
Speaker 2: but that's going to be a very important part of
Speaker 2: the game. With Talibiattish avoiding a serious injury, Matt Farniot
Speaker 2: being activated tomorrow, Tony Pollard, we'll be back. You get
Speaker 2: a lot of these guys back who hopefully will kind
Speaker 2: of help the offense gel and then for the playoffs.
Speaker 2: You know, we'll see Jonathan Hankins. The team is pretty
Speaker 2: confident that he comes back. You're happy that Naseean Wright
Speaker 2: is stepping up in that cornerback spot. So I think
Speaker 2: there's a lot of positive things to look forward to.
Speaker 2: It's a matter of I think getting through this week.
Speaker 2: I know that Mike McCarthy and a couple of the
Speaker 2: players have emphasized that this is not going to be
Speaker 2: a rest week for them. They're going to you know,
Speaker 2: it's a playoff like atmosphere, it's preparing them for the playoffs,
Speaker 2: so they see no benefit in taking it light. So
Speaker 2: we'll see how that works out and how that plays
Speaker 2: in the advantage of the team before we go. Ladies,
Speaker 2: We've talked about a lot, but I want to ask
Speaker 2: if there was one thing that you would fix if
Speaker 2: you had just a little button that you could click
Speaker 2: and you could say, this will be perfect for the
Speaker 2: Stalls Cowboys team going into the playoffs. Where would you
Speaker 2: utilize that Buttonles.
Speaker 3: I know, I'm sorry, I I uh, I put you
Speaker 3: on the spot.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna go with the obvious answer in the interceptions,
Speaker 5: and not obviously, because yes, turnovers will win games and
Speaker 5: they will cost you games as well. But for Dax's confidence,
Speaker 5: because I I just root for this guy to be
Speaker 5: the best version of himself to win, to win these games,
Speaker 5: be the best leader.
Speaker 4: You can be.
Speaker 5: And I want him to go into the rest of
Speaker 5: his this season, the rest of his career feeling as
Speaker 5: confident as he can, and if that means taking the
Speaker 5: little maybe sound in his ear out of there talking
Speaker 5: about interceptions, just that and for that reason, obviously it
Speaker 5: would be nice to not see it, but more so
Speaker 5: for Dax's confidence in the rest of the team to
Speaker 5: be like, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 7: You know that's fine, I'm gonna go defense. My one
Speaker 7: little change would just be barnacles.
Speaker 3: That the the change would be barnacles. It's a hard question.
Speaker 7: I think if the cornerback two spots is short up.
Speaker 7: It's gonna help you. I feel like in these last
Speaker 7: three games, well, however, many games the big play has
Speaker 7: hurt you. It is if you can negate the big
Speaker 7: play whatever, that it's like one big passing play, just
Speaker 7: one a game. If you can mediate that, this defense
Speaker 7: is gonna look so much better statistically and just also
Speaker 7: threat wise. So that's my thing, is that the cornerback
Speaker 7: put two position is short up, and that it's competitive
Speaker 7: and it's good.
Speaker 2: That's exactly what I was going to say. I was
Speaker 2: going to say, if we could limit the big plays,
Speaker 2: that would be great because Mike McCarthy talks about how
Speaker 2: the teams that are successful in this league are the
Speaker 2: teams that are doing the big play, not giving up
Speaker 2: the big play. So I'm with you right there. I
Speaker 2: would definitely shore up that cornerback spot. And I'd also
Speaker 2: like to see the run defense or the run excuse me,
Speaker 2: the run offense, Yes, getting back to where it is.
Speaker 2: I think you missed Tony Pollard rightfully, so he needed
Speaker 2: to rest. He needed a break, just like we gave
Speaker 2: Zeke that break a couple.
Speaker 3: Of weeks ago.
Speaker 2: So I think you get that offense going Malik Davis,
Speaker 2: I think, really showed out and showed that he is
Speaker 2: a capable running back three in there. So now you've
Speaker 2: got three potential running backs that can that can make
Speaker 2: that run offense work. So I'd love to see the one, two,
Speaker 2: possibly three punch get going right.
Speaker 6: We know what we the offensive line.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but here's the thing about the offensive line is
Speaker 2: you want to fix it, But I don't think that
Speaker 2: that's necessarily the biggest.
Speaker 3: Problem on the steam.
Speaker 2: I think you've got a team full of pros who, Yeah,
Speaker 2: you want your guys to play where they where they
Speaker 2: want to play, right, But I'm not necessarily concerned in
Speaker 2: that area of the way. I'm concerned with the cornerback
Speaker 2: spot or the way that I'm concerned about the run defense,
Speaker 2: you know, like we were a couple of weeks ago,
Speaker 2: or getting the pass rush back to where it is.
Speaker 2: I think that offensive line is full of veterans. We've
Speaker 2: said it time and time again. There's three potential Hall
Speaker 2: of famers on that line.
Speaker 3: I'm good with it.
Speaker 7: Being able to activate Farniac is just barniac if that's
Speaker 7: how I'm Barniac. But just being able to do that
Speaker 7: at this late in the season. There's team right now?
Speaker 9: Cool?
Speaker 6: Is that how you say it?
Speaker 4: Farniac?
Speaker 2: Is it Parniac? I think Carniac. Farniac will ask tomorrow
Speaker 2: for clarification.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but okay, I didn't want to mess it up,
Speaker 7: but yeah, I just being able to elevate him at
Speaker 7: this time of year, and just knowing that you have
Speaker 7: a guy dependable and just like the depth is not
Speaker 7: always going to be perfect, but just having it there,
Speaker 7: you're right, is like if they're capable, they're capable. We're
Speaker 7: gonna have to get it done regardless. Everybody going through
Speaker 7: something right now.
Speaker 2: Everybody, airbody, everybody, ladies as always smart football talk. I
Speaker 2: missed hanging out with you guys. Hopefully next time I'm
Speaker 2: on here, I won't sound like a broken record, but
Speaker 2: here we are. I love talking sports, love talking cowboys
Speaker 2: with you guys. As we get into the week, the
Speaker 2: Cowboys officially play on Sunday at three forty five against
Speaker 2: the Commanders. We're going to get into that matchup tomorrow.
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