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Speaker 1: alongside our resident Super Bowl Champion, mister Isaiah stand Back,
Speaker 1: the Great Heck Harrison, and just Rob Phillips chair today
Speaker 1: that's all we're seeing on the periscope at the moment
Speaker 1: and on the view at the moment. It's a good
Speaker 1: looking chair. I don't know if we've ever gotten a
Speaker 1: really good look at Rob's chair, but it looks great.
Speaker 1: He'll be joining us here in just a moment. He
Speaker 1: had an interview with one oh five point three the
Speaker 1: fan the flagship station down the road. But guys, were
Speaker 1: a couple of days were mooved now from what was
Speaker 1: the thirty seven thirty four win over the Giants, and
Speaker 1: of course Dak Prescott. Now the timeline is out four
Speaker 1: to six months due to the ankle injury, the foot injury,
Speaker 1: and just an unfortunate break for the Cowboys, and really
Speaker 1: something that I know we we're gonna going to address
Speaker 1: at nauseum over the next couple of weeks and really
Speaker 1: the rest of the season. But I want to kind
Speaker 1: of address something that was said today on the on
Speaker 1: the Jerry Jones side of the thing. But we're gonna
Speaker 1: wait for Rob on that one. But has your opinion
Speaker 1: of this team changed, really expectation wise, Let's just started
Speaker 1: off with that, Isaiah. Expectations changed without Dak Prescott at
Speaker 1: the helm, absolutely not um Like as I mentioned, yesterday.
Speaker 1: Annie Dalton is a heck of a quarterback. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: he's a top twenty five quarterback in this NFL. And
Speaker 1: so I understand that everybody's you know, still still mourning
Speaker 1: the loss of a starting quarterback on a franchise quarterback
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott. Obviously, he will be back and he'll be healthy,
Speaker 1: just not this season. But don't don't mistaken it, No, Danny,
Speaker 1: don't disrespect any Dalton. Any Dalton is is a duel man.
Speaker 1: He's a he's a dog. Any Dalton could have went
Speaker 1: to a lot of places this past year and started.
Speaker 1: He chose to come to Dallas and play the role
Speaker 1: of a backup. He is not a backup quarterback. He's
Speaker 1: playing the role of a backup quarterback. And that's what
Speaker 1: everybody needs to understand. So when you guys are when
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott goes down, you're not going to just your
Speaker 1: normal number two quarterback that's on most rosters. You're going
Speaker 1: to an all pro quarterback who was trying to take
Speaker 1: a year off in a sense, he kind of let
Speaker 1: his hair down for a minute before he came back
Speaker 1: the next year to go back to taking a round
Speaker 1: of responsibilities. Again, Yeah, Kyle, Yes, sir. I'm more of
Speaker 1: in a whole position on my expectation right now because
Speaker 1: I know that so much is going to have to
Speaker 1: change with the offensive line to facilitate what Andy Dalton's
Speaker 1: strengths are, and so knowing that Dak was that guy
Speaker 1: that could make plays with his legs to get out
Speaker 1: and even go on design runs. You know, that's what
Speaker 1: he was heard on. But that's one of the things
Speaker 1: that he brings to the fold for your offense. And
Speaker 1: so I just feel as though with his experience, it's
Speaker 1: not as though I'm looking at this glass half half empty. Basically,
Speaker 1: I know that there is the potential for him to
Speaker 1: have success in this offense. But look, if he's back
Speaker 1: there running for his life and he can't get comfortable
Speaker 1: in this offense, I don't know what those results will be.
Speaker 1: I'm hoping that the game plan for Andy Dalton is
Speaker 1: a heavy dose of zeke and then getting ahead of
Speaker 1: the sticks and having the advantage in second and third
Speaker 1: down to maybe then air it out, but I don't.
Speaker 1: The thing is is that I'm not trying to relegate
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton to a bus driver. I just want to
Speaker 1: know how he's going to look in this Dallas Cowboys offense. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it really is something that's come in. Go for it, Isaiah,
Speaker 1: not just I mean, I guess, I know, I know
Speaker 1: you're probably posing the same question, and most people are
Speaker 1: posing heck, but I'm like, in what regard is any
Speaker 1: Dalton that much different than dak I mean, and I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that in a disrespectful way. Andy Dalton. Any
Speaker 1: Dalton again, he might be one step Slordan. Dak Da
Speaker 1: probably runs a six. Andy Dalton probably runs a four seven,
Speaker 1: So I mean, like the ability to run, it doesn't
Speaker 1: really change. In terms of the terms of the passing game.
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton's, in my opinion, is a better passer than
Speaker 1: than Dak And I said that before the season even started,
Speaker 1: and I think Dak is coming along. He's becoming a
Speaker 1: better passer and he's doing the heck of a job. Obviously,
Speaker 1: up to the date he got hurt, he was doing
Speaker 1: a hell of a job passing a ball. But historically
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton to me, is a better passer. We know
Speaker 1: that he's been able to manage a team that hasn't
Speaker 1: been very good for a number of years, and he
Speaker 1: got them to the Playoff a number of times. He
Speaker 1: also managed to make three Pro Bowls with those terrible teams.
Speaker 1: So when we're talking about Andy Dalton, Andy Dalton is
Speaker 1: somebody who is proven in this league. He has experience,
Speaker 1: he seemed more than Dak has seen. He's experienced more
Speaker 1: than Dak has experience. And again that's no shade, but
Speaker 1: where he is just the facts, and he is more
Speaker 1: primed to handle this situation than anybody. So for anybody
Speaker 1: to look down and start luring their expectations, I don't
Speaker 1: care if you're the owner. I don't care if you're
Speaker 1: a coach, I don't care if you're a fan. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think it's almost disrespectful to Andy Dalton and what
Speaker 1: he's done in this league now. And I don't think
Speaker 1: that what I'm the perspective that I'm coming from is
Speaker 1: at all a disrespect to Andy Dalton. I understand what
Speaker 1: the skill set is. What I'm saying is we already
Speaker 1: had an offensive line that was struggling. Let's just talk
Speaker 1: about the facts of it in the in the running game.
Speaker 1: In the running game, we've been struggling, right, and a
Speaker 1: lot of the struggle also in the passing game is
Speaker 1: giving Dak the time to see those open throws, the
Speaker 1: strip sack fumbles, uh, the just the lack of being
Speaker 1: able to see the field because guys are in your face.
Speaker 1: How does that change with Andy Dalton. I'm not saying
Speaker 1: that Andy Dalton doesn't have an arm. He does. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying that Andy Dalton is that much is a
Speaker 1: statue in the in the pocket, because I think he's
Speaker 1: a lot more mobile than people believe that. It be right,
Speaker 1: I just but but what I'm saying is our offensive
Speaker 1: line we've had woes there. We just I personally just
Speaker 1: want to see how he operates. This is his team
Speaker 1: for eleven games. That's understands it. But but can we
Speaker 1: all be an agreeance that Andie Dalton coming in at
Speaker 1: quarterback this officsive line is better than any line he's
Speaker 1: probably had a Cincinnati Oh hey, okay, So I'm saying
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. So that's why I'm asking, like, where
Speaker 1: did the question marks come in with somebody who has
Speaker 1: gotten a terrible team to the playoffs. He's gotten himself
Speaker 1: to the Pro Bowl right with less than what he
Speaker 1: has now, So for us to have, for us to
Speaker 1: have Laura expectations for it. If to me, it doesn't
Speaker 1: make sense because he's walking into the situation where in
Speaker 1: his history this is better than all of his history.
Speaker 1: Better receivers collectively, better officsive line, better team talent wise,
Speaker 1: better organization, like, everything's better. So for him, he's like, man,
Speaker 1: this is freaking Christmas. Let's go. I completely agree with
Speaker 1: what Isaiah saying here, specifically based on the comparison between
Speaker 1: Dallas and Cincinnati and the teams that Andy Dalton has
Speaker 1: had to work with. He's had playoff pushes with lesser
Speaker 1: rosters than what he has to do with now. And
Speaker 1: some would say that he hasn't won a playoff game.
Speaker 1: I agree, but he's made a push to the playoff.
Speaker 1: He's made a push to push off to playoff in
Speaker 1: the AFC with a lesser roster. That's my point here.
Speaker 1: Some would also say that he's one of the more
Speaker 1: accomplished quarterbacks in the NFC East, or the most accomplished
Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFC East. And then one man that
Speaker 1: has said that is Rob Phillips, and he is now
Speaker 1: with us here on talking Cowboys and Rob. I was
Speaker 1: listening to your interview on Shawn and RJ, and they
Speaker 1: kind of gave you some flat for saying that Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton was the most accomplished quarterback in the NFC East
Speaker 1: over Carson Wentz, over of course, Dwayne Haskins, Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1: That's a no brainer. But really the big question mark
Speaker 1: was Carson Wentz. I want to give you a chance
Speaker 1: to defend yourself, because I don't think you got a
Speaker 1: chance in that interview to defend yourself. I want you
Speaker 1: to be able to kind of got your back table.
Speaker 1: I kind of agree with you, and I want to
Speaker 1: hear your reason now. Yeah, I started a poll on
Speaker 1: Shawn and RJ on Twitter from that discussion, and I
Speaker 1: you know what, I didn't. I don't even know if
Speaker 1: I took a real stance. I just threw it out there,
Speaker 1: and I think Kyle you might have thrown it out there.
Speaker 1: You can argue that Andy Dalton is still the best
Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFC East. And that's not a knock
Speaker 1: on Carson Wentz. That's just the fact that this guy
Speaker 1: has played in the league for ten years. You guys mentioned,
Speaker 1: he's been to three Pro Bowls. He played with some
Speaker 1: teams that probably weren't They weren't necessarily contenders in the AFC,
Speaker 1: just solid Bengals teams, well coached by Marvin Lewis, and no,
Speaker 1: they didn't win playoff games. Carson Wentz does have a
Speaker 1: super Bowl ring. And if I'm starting a team, if
Speaker 1: I'm starting a team right now, between those two quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: You're probably going with Wentz because of his age and
Speaker 1: his talent level. But Nick Foles was the quarterback when
Speaker 1: they won that Super Bowl. And so when you when
Speaker 1: I look at what's been accomplished over the last ten years,
Speaker 1: I think you can argue that it's that it's it's
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton and so, I, you know, expectations maybe they
Speaker 1: drop in terms of the Super Bowl for the Cowboys
Speaker 1: given all the injuries, But I don't know if you
Speaker 1: you can say, oh, they can't win the division in
Speaker 1: this in this terrible start to the division right now,
Speaker 1: and maybe they talk me into it yesterday, Isaiah, you know,
Speaker 1: listening to Mike McCarthy and and and Kellen Moore. Not
Speaker 1: a knock on Dak because I think there is a drop.
Speaker 1: I think Dak has established himself as a top ten quarterback,
Speaker 1: but they really feel like they can run their offense
Speaker 1: still with Andy Dalton, and I'm really I'm anxious to
Speaker 1: see it, to see how they fare. Isaiah, I know
Speaker 1: you're you're probably in the same kind of boat there.
Speaker 1: I mean, I was with Rob for about eighty percent
Speaker 1: of it, and I was. I was with him up
Speaker 1: until he said, you know, the whole Super Bowl, You're
Speaker 1: you're the Cowboys. Losing Dak Prescott and replacing him with
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton is not the reason why this team would
Speaker 1: that won't make the super Bowl. If it's this team
Speaker 1: won't make the super Bowl, it's not because of that. No,
Speaker 1: you're right, you're right, Okay, So yeah, so it's it's
Speaker 1: let's let's be sure of that. I don't. I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a huge drop off in production
Speaker 1: between Dak Prescott, Andy Andy Andy Dalton. I just don't.
Speaker 1: And again, that's no shade on Dack. He's a dude,
Speaker 1: so is Andy Dalton. Right, you know, he's just he's
Speaker 1: a lot younger than him, and he's ran, he's moved around,
Speaker 1: he has the ability to move around a little bit more.
Speaker 1: He chooses to run the ball a little bit more.
Speaker 1: But aside from that, I don't see it. I don't
Speaker 1: see it. Das had more than than than Andy Dalton's
Speaker 1: had his own career. Andy Dalton's had two dudes. He's
Speaker 1: had he is that He's had effort, and he had
Speaker 1: a J. Green. AJ Green was hurt half the time.
Speaker 1: So somehow, some way to Dunway and Mohammad Sanou, those
Speaker 1: guys aren't necessarily the you're right, you're right there. I
Speaker 1: may know they're not the same. They're not, no, not
Speaker 1: the same, but I mean, I mean, but I just
Speaker 1: see a lot of people kind of getting down and
Speaker 1: trying to use this as an opportunity to lower their
Speaker 1: standards for this team. The standards were lord by from
Speaker 1: this by this team, from their play these first four
Speaker 1: to five games. That's where the standards were lord It's
Speaker 1: not because Dack's out. They got to figure this thing
Speaker 1: out on defense. If this team decides to play ball
Speaker 1: on defense, this team will be perfectly fine. If they
Speaker 1: decide not to, this team will could see you to struggle,
Speaker 1: but offensive production wise, it won't change. The only thing
Speaker 1: that you'll see change is that obviously now the running
Speaker 1: game goes through Zeke, which should have been doing anyways. Right,
Speaker 1: we shouldn't be throwing the ball at sixty times a game.
Speaker 1: We should be running throwing the ball at thirty five
Speaker 1: times a game and giving it to seek for another
Speaker 1: twenty five or thirty. So that's exactly what I'm What
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Isaiah, is that that changes by those just
Speaker 1: nuance changes to our approach on offense. By feeding Zeke,
Speaker 1: that changes the output for Andy Dalton, because again, I
Speaker 1: don't think you will see any success if Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: is throwing the ball fifty seven times a game. But
Speaker 1: but you but you weren't seeing that success with Dac either.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say so, so yeah, but we're saying
Speaker 1: the same thing. But the approach had nothing to do
Speaker 1: with who was at quarterback. It was the offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: and how he was calling the game. It was your
Speaker 1: lack of production on defense, it was your inefficiency on
Speaker 1: special teams. Those were the issues that were hanging over
Speaker 1: this team. It had nothing to do with the quarterback play.
Speaker 1: And just because you go down to your second string
Speaker 1: who chose to be a second string, does not change
Speaker 1: anything with this team. On the offensive side of the ball,
Speaker 1: they should have been running the ball with Zeke a
Speaker 1: lot more and they were going to have to make
Speaker 1: that change anyway if they wanted to start winning games.
Speaker 1: We're honestly, I think Isaiah, we're in agreement because I'm
Speaker 1: with you like I think if we're gonna get we're
Speaker 1: gonna get to our number one concern on the team
Speaker 1: right now. And You're right, it's not the quarterback position
Speaker 1: for me. Even now, it's not. That being said, despite
Speaker 1: the fact they've been turning over the ball too much,
Speaker 1: I still think Dak the numbers, the yards and in
Speaker 1: position to score points. Man Like I still have to
Speaker 1: see Andy Dalton run the offense and move the ball
Speaker 1: down the field consistently the way Dak did. He may
Speaker 1: very well be able to do it, but I think
Speaker 1: Da Dak's ability to at least put keep them in
Speaker 1: games despite well as some of his own turnovers. But
Speaker 1: the defensive struggles, the special team struggles as well, that's
Speaker 1: where I still got to see it on a consistent basis.
Speaker 1: But I think you're right in terms of I think
Speaker 1: we can still see really high production because we watched
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton in training camp have a really good solid
Speaker 1: performances with this offense, and I think it has a
Speaker 1: chance to continue, especially in a weird season. I said
Speaker 1: this on a fan a minute ago. A weird season
Speaker 1: where all these road games coming up, there's not a
Speaker 1: crowd to affect this young offensive line or Andy Dalton.
Speaker 1: They can still they can operate. Mike McCarthy has said this.
Speaker 1: It's a disadvantage for the Cowboys to some degree when
Speaker 1: they come home, even though the crowd was good on Sunday.
Speaker 1: But they can go any game the rest of the
Speaker 1: season and still execute as far as communication and stuff.
Speaker 1: So I'm with you there, But I do think Dak
Speaker 1: can mask some of the problems they have on defense.
Speaker 1: They gotta get balanced. They absolutely have to get more
Speaker 1: balanced with Zeke. He's gonna hold the key. I think
Speaker 1: he absolutely does. And if you have success with Zeke,
Speaker 1: they showed it against the Giants. I mean they had
Speaker 1: two really key cornerstone drives in that wind that allowed
Speaker 1: them to where they were allowed to run the ball
Speaker 1: and then continue to punch it up the middle with Zeke.
Speaker 1: And one was in the first or the second quarter
Speaker 1: following the seventeen the three deficit. The other one was
Speaker 1: right after Andy Dalton replaced Dak Prescott. Both of those
Speaker 1: drives changed the game and allowed the Cowboys to come
Speaker 1: out on top in that thirty seven thirty four win.
Speaker 1: We are going to get to our biggest concern on
Speaker 1: this Cowboys team. We're gonna have to do it a
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Speaker 1: on this Tuesday edition. And of course it is time
Speaker 1: now for one of our favorite segments throughout the week.
Speaker 1: It's time for some fans on the fifty. Fans on
Speaker 1: the fifty of course, great work in the back from
Speaker 1: Chris Beam. And we're gonna start things off from hair
Speaker 1: Old Carter and mister Harold has uh. He has bullet
Speaker 1: points of questions. I'm gonna take two of them because
Speaker 1: I think we need to address one of them and
Speaker 1: then I like the other question a lot. And the
Speaker 1: one of them is directed toward mister Uh, the biggest
Speaker 1: Texas A and m fan in the in the room,
Speaker 1: mister I hate saw him off. We added a quarterback yesterday.
Speaker 1: Who is this new quarterback? Mister Garrett Gilbert, And I'm
Speaker 1: gonna ask Rob Phillips, well, he's not an aggy, He's
Speaker 1: a longhorn. And as I wanted to pitch it to you. Yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's from that town in Austin, keep Austin weird, and um,
Speaker 1: he's he's a he's a solid quarterback. He's uh, I
Speaker 1: think as far as number three options go, and that's
Speaker 1: probably what he's gonna be. Uh. I think it makes
Speaker 1: sense to bring him in given you know, he's been
Speaker 1: around the league for about six years, I think, and
Speaker 1: he's kind of bounced around practice squads. I think he's
Speaker 1: only thrown six passes in his NFL regular season career.
Speaker 1: But if you're just looking for a guy with some
Speaker 1: experience that if you had to you know, if it's
Speaker 1: a break glass emergency situation with you know, if you
Speaker 1: get all the way down the depth chart to Benda Nucci,
Speaker 1: then it makes sense. But that's the expectation that he's
Speaker 1: coming in. And it's weird though with the COVID protocols,
Speaker 1: Like I think it's six days of testing now to
Speaker 1: even get him in the building, and I don't think
Speaker 1: it even changes for a guy that's coming from another team.
Speaker 1: I think it's I have to double check that, but
Speaker 1: in either way, Ben da Nucci is going to be
Speaker 1: your backup quarterback this week and maybe just continuing down
Speaker 1: the road here behind Dalton, do you think so you
Speaker 1: you mentioned that he might be the second string quarterback,
Speaker 1: do you think it's more likely that he comes in
Speaker 1: and he's on the active roster as the backup to
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton and they continue to develop a benda Nucci
Speaker 1: on the practice squad. I don't know. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think maybe at some point, depending on, you know, if
Speaker 1: there's some competition there with reps, I think, but I
Speaker 1: think Dalton needs as many. Asaiah can speak to this.
Speaker 1: I mean, Dalton's gonna need as many reps in practice
Speaker 1: as he can possibly get because Dak's taken most of
Speaker 1: those up to this point. I just think the way
Speaker 1: this whole season has gone about, and at least the
Speaker 1: Nucci has been in the system, you know, for six
Speaker 1: weeks on the longer than six weeks since training camp
Speaker 1: started in mid August, I think that just gives him
Speaker 1: a jump in terms of being ready, but in terms
Speaker 1: of experience that Gilbert's been around longer obviously, So we'll
Speaker 1: just see how that develops. And I did just get
Speaker 1: another fan on the fifty question in our periscope and
Speaker 1: it said, is Colt McCoy available? No, he was on
Speaker 1: the other sideline on Sunday. He's the backup quarterback to
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. So no, not another Texas quarterback. We got
Speaker 1: Garrett Gilbert, the other Texas quarterback that is in here. Second. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go. Second question from Harold, and this one's
Speaker 1: a little bit more intriguing to me, And I think
Speaker 1: this is a question a lot of Cowboys fans had.
Speaker 1: But the defense seemed to find themselves a little bit
Speaker 1: in the second half of Sunday's victory against the Giants,
Speaker 1: and I know that's still a question mark as a whole,
Speaker 1: and this is a defense that's underperformed already through the
Speaker 1: first four weeks of the season, and they definitely did
Speaker 1: so in the first half of Sunday's game. However, is
Speaker 1: this something we can see continuing that second half where
Speaker 1: you saw some pass rush, you saw the winebackers able
Speaker 1: to fly around heckma, do you think this defense can
Speaker 1: continue some of that success then? I'm hoping so. Obviously
Speaker 1: with the strip sack turnover for a touchdown, those are
Speaker 1: little things that probably is given this group a bit
Speaker 1: of confidence. And everybody knows that they have been getting
Speaker 1: the brunt of all the criticism for the losses, and
Speaker 1: rightfully so, but at the same time, they have a
Speaker 1: win and something to build off of if you just
Speaker 1: go with the edge rushers. I think Tank looked a
Speaker 1: little bit better than previous weeks. Hopefully that knee is
Speaker 1: getting healthier. Interior line wise, guys, we just have questions. Then.
Speaker 1: We talked about that at length yesterday. But linebacker wise,
Speaker 1: I think Rob you said it, you felt as though
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith had his best game as a Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 1: So building on that momentum, you know this, these guys
Speaker 1: have nothing but up to go from where they are
Speaker 1: right now. Definitely this season. Definitely his best game this season,
Speaker 1: no doubt. Yeah. Isay you agree? Um? Yeah? And in
Speaker 1: the sorts, Um, I feel like I can't. I can't
Speaker 1: put too much weight on this previous game. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't want to take anything away from those guys
Speaker 1: production in the plays that they made. They made those
Speaker 1: plays against other professional athletes, but it wasn't against a
Speaker 1: very good team. So I'm looking forward to seeing that.
Speaker 1: I hope that that builds their confidence though, and I
Speaker 1: think we talked about that all last week, that there's
Speaker 1: an opportunity for them to get their confidence up and
Speaker 1: and and kind of rekindle that flame that's and that's
Speaker 1: inside you to say, hey, I'm a dog, you know,
Speaker 1: and I could play some ball around here. Um, why
Speaker 1: can't I do this every week? Okay? I will? And
Speaker 1: it's kind of almost a decision. Sometimes you just kind
Speaker 1: of need that little flame and turn inside you to
Speaker 1: to light you up. But you know, going against the
Speaker 1: Cardinals this week, that's gonna be a test, you know.
Speaker 1: I mean, those guys were able to get pressure this pass.
Speaker 1: We could gets a sitting duck. This dude is not
Speaker 1: a sitting duck that they're gonna be facing this week.
Speaker 1: So I'll have a better opinion after this week. I
Speaker 1: feel like this week is probably agree. I agree, going
Speaker 1: to answer a lot of those questions, Rob, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, Daniel Jones has talent, but he consistently turns
Speaker 1: the ball over or puts the ball on the ground.
Speaker 1: I just felt like the Cowboys were gonna have opportunities
Speaker 1: to get the ball back for their defense, which hasn't
Speaker 1: for their offense, which hasn't happened this year. I thought
Speaker 1: just the fact that they were able to play with
Speaker 1: a lead or close to it in the second half
Speaker 1: did so much for the pass rush to at least
Speaker 1: just get in a position to try to tee off.
Speaker 1: They haven't had that that that ability. Some of it's
Speaker 1: on them because they get up too many plays early
Speaker 1: in games and points early in games. But if they
Speaker 1: can continue to do that, you know, we're there in
Speaker 1: situations where they're not playing from behind and you kind
Speaker 1: of know what the opposing offense needs to do, then
Speaker 1: I think that's going to help him going forward. And yeah,
Speaker 1: like like heck mentioned, Jalen really stepped up, you know,
Speaker 1: in terms of being on the screws and helping against screens,
Speaker 1: against the run game, and that's really encouraging going forward. Now,
Speaker 1: if you get vander eschback fairly soon, I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's this week, that will be another step forward defensively.
Speaker 1: But there are still concerns and you know, I think
Speaker 1: Mike Nolan was asked yesterday, is this the toughest receiving
Speaker 1: corps you're gonna face this year to this point? And
Speaker 1: I don't think he didn't say no. I mean, obviously,
Speaker 1: just Hopkins alone with Kyler Murray's mobility, like that's a
Speaker 1: different ball game than we saw this past week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a containment nightmare. And you've also got Kenyan Drake
Speaker 1: in the backfield who's able to make an impact in
Speaker 1: the passing game. You've got Kyler Murray, who, like I said,
Speaker 1: as a containment nightmare himself. And then of course the
Speaker 1: receiving corps. This is gonna be a challenge. I mean,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of points put up in
Speaker 1: this game because I think I think you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to in order to get in a shootout in to
Speaker 1: beat a Cliff Kingsbury led team. Now you mentioned some
Speaker 1: of the questions in the concerns of this defensive line.
Speaker 1: I think one of the biggest concerns on this entire roster,
Speaker 1: if not the biggest, is the interior presence of that
Speaker 1: defensive line. And our guy Will says, because of Dontari
Speaker 1: Poe's injury from last year and starting this year on
Speaker 1: the pup list, how hard is or how is that
Speaker 1: affecting his play this year moving into what has been
Speaker 1: really a disappointing starting week or five weeks to the season. Isaiah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know what he's what he's
Speaker 1: dealing with physically. I can't speak to his physical well
Speaker 1: being right now. I don't have eyes on all in
Speaker 1: a training room, so I can't judge as Payne Tylers
Speaker 1: what he's dealing with. I don't know, but I don't
Speaker 1: want to make any excuses for him though now I
Speaker 1: do know. If you're out there, then you decide to
Speaker 1: suit up regardless of what paying your experience, and you
Speaker 1: still have to produce. You know, when my time's in Dallas,
Speaker 1: I sublect my shoulder two years in a row, and
Speaker 1: I played with my shoulder popping in and out almost
Speaker 1: every other day. You know, I would my shoulder will
Speaker 1: pop out in practice and I'll be out of practice
Speaker 1: for a day or a half of practice and you know,
Speaker 1: get to the game and they would have to strap
Speaker 1: my shoulder down and I was not one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: But guess what, I recognize that if I'm going to
Speaker 1: be out there, there's something that I can do that
Speaker 1: somebody else can't do on this team that they need
Speaker 1: me for. So if he knows that going into it,
Speaker 1: then he needs to be able to provide that. And
Speaker 1: if he has any kind of ailment that's preventing him
Speaker 1: from being as productive as they need him, to be
Speaker 1: in his roles that they're asking him to play, then
Speaker 1: he needs to step off the field. Yeah. Well, we
Speaker 1: hadn't seen Dune Terry Pole show up on any injury report,
Speaker 1: so it sounds like to me that he's ready to go.
Speaker 1: He's just putting out bad, bad film. It's he's not
Speaker 1: winning his won on one battles, and I mean a
Speaker 1: man his size getting, you know, dug up out the middle,
Speaker 1: it's gonna show up. And I think that's the thing
Speaker 1: that Cowboy fans are most frustrated with with Done Terry Pope,
Speaker 1: because we were sold on the fact that this guy
Speaker 1: is gonna be a run stuffer that's going to anchor
Speaker 1: himself in the middle, and all the great things that
Speaker 1: he has done in his career. Coming into this season,
Speaker 1: we just hadn't seen any of it, not even a
Speaker 1: flash of what you've seen him do with other ball club.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I don't think it's because of
Speaker 1: the element. Maybe so, And like Isaiah says, man, we
Speaker 1: don't we don't have the inside track on that to
Speaker 1: be able to say, all right, how are you feeling
Speaker 1: the day, Done Terry, But he's not showing up on
Speaker 1: any injury reports, So we just got to assume that
Speaker 1: he's healthy. I don't want to give away my number
Speaker 1: one concern on defense, so I'll just pass. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: I'll save that for a little bit later now whenever
Speaker 1: he comes to getting some interior pass rush. We saw
Speaker 1: on Sunday that they actually slide in an Alden Smith
Speaker 1: and an Everson Griffin to that three technique spot. Do
Speaker 1: you think that's something we're gonna see more of moving
Speaker 1: into the later parts of the season, Rob seeing a
Speaker 1: Griffin moved to nose tackle, and not nose tackle, but
Speaker 1: to the three technique and defensive tackle, or allowing maybe
Speaker 1: an Alden Smith or an Everson Griffin whoever is still
Speaker 1: in that right defensive in spot, or a Randy Gregory
Speaker 1: when he comes back to have more snaps. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: we saw it a little bit early in the season.
Speaker 1: It look it's something he did in Minnesota too. So yeah,
Speaker 1: if it's a situation where you can move him around
Speaker 1: and again, like you said, maybe create some matchups for
Speaker 1: some of your edge rushers, then yeah, they've got to
Speaker 1: find solutions in the middle. Right now. This is this
Speaker 1: is a big, big problem in terms of you already
Speaker 1: lost Gerald McCoy. That was a big loss. Tristan Hill
Speaker 1: stepped up and really surprised everybody, maybe even the coaching
Speaker 1: staff in terms of you know, they said yesterday and
Speaker 1: Mike Nolan said, he's probably the most improved defensive player
Speaker 1: we had this year. Definitely the most improved defensive lineman.
Speaker 1: They loved his effort. They really thought he was growing
Speaker 1: as a player. Now you're trying to mix in Neville Gallimore,
Speaker 1: who you know. I think he had some struggles in
Speaker 1: the game, but I think you have to remember, not
Speaker 1: only is he a rookie, he's he's really young in
Speaker 1: his football career coming from Canada. I think he just
Speaker 1: probably needs some more time. But that's where they are
Speaker 1: right now. They've got to find guys who can step
Speaker 1: into that position. You guys mentioned Poe. You watch the
Speaker 1: game back and the Giants had the same success as
Speaker 1: the Browns in terms of sealing things off in the middle,
Speaker 1: and with one or two linemen seal that off and
Speaker 1: find increases. And that's that's going to continue. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's gonna that shows up on tape, and that's
Speaker 1: gonna be something that other teams are gonna try to exploit.
Speaker 1: They've got to find a way to shore that up
Speaker 1: inside because you're getting you know, you're getting late Vanderesh back,
Speaker 1: but you don't have anybody coming back in the middle
Speaker 1: of that defensive line that you can count on right now.
Speaker 1: You've it's got to find some kind of patchwork solutions. Yeah.
Speaker 1: If you if you have a position that you play right, um,
Speaker 1: and you're a vet in this league. Unless you perform
Speaker 1: at that particular position, your position is null and void.
Speaker 1: I now could push you wherever I need you and
Speaker 1: had to have the most effect, right, So I don't
Speaker 1: care if you play d N. Guess what. You haven't
Speaker 1: been productive at d N the way in which we
Speaker 1: want you to in this scheme. So now guess what
Speaker 1: you're playing at three technique because we feel like you're
Speaker 1: more experienced in there. If you're if you're a dog
Speaker 1: and they and they hide their weak spots in their
Speaker 1: interior officive line that we're gonna put you there to happen.
Speaker 1: Maybe we have an advantage because we have a Bradley
Speaker 1: and Night, we have a we have all these guys
Speaker 1: that are Gregreat that's gonna be coming an office suspension.
Speaker 1: You have all these guys that are gonna be coming
Speaker 1: into with that juice, and guess what, we need some juice.
Speaker 1: So as you get older, you lose a little bit
Speaker 1: of juice, right, so let's go ahead and squeeze that
Speaker 1: juice on the inside and put some of that fresh
Speaker 1: blood on the outside. Like that. Ye I like that.
Speaker 1: I think that Everson Griffin moving inside. That's in his wheelhouse,
Speaker 1: like you said, Robbie, he did that in Minnesota, so
Speaker 1: great to take advantage of it, especially with you know,
Speaker 1: being shorthanded after hell his incident, but also Alvin Smith
Speaker 1: had a ton of success playing inside as well. So
Speaker 1: I hope that that's something that they come back to
Speaker 1: and you know, obviously get these guys and get some
Speaker 1: type of continuity on that defensive line with the group,
Speaker 1: because now you leave, you lose. He'll never Gallimore comes
Speaker 1: in and you know, look, it wasn't that he looked
Speaker 1: that great. But if he can, you know, continue to
Speaker 1: improve week after weekend at least supplement the energy that
Speaker 1: he'll was giving you on the defensive line, will be fine.
Speaker 1: Rob Have you heard anything and this is another fan
Speaker 1: on the fifty question, but have you heard of anything
Speaker 1: specifically about looking to outside help and bringing in some
Speaker 1: guys for workouts in terms of that d tackle spot,
Speaker 1: especially with Tristan Hill out. I haven't heard anything in
Speaker 1: terms of workouts. Mike Nolan referenced yesterday that they might
Speaker 1: be looking for some help on the practice squad. Is
Speaker 1: just justin Hamilton's still on the practice squad. I think
Speaker 1: that that might be an option. Um, so yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: they're that's what they've been doing on defense, They've been
Speaker 1: looking in house, and so uh, that might be the
Speaker 1: direction they go. But no, I haven't. I haven't heard
Speaker 1: anything of anything of the snacks variety, if that's what
Speaker 1: he's asking. Have you guys noticed that this year, out
Speaker 1: of all years, like up to this year, practice squad
Speaker 1: is going to kind of looked down upon, right, and
Speaker 1: now all of a sudden, practice squad is like the
Speaker 1: most valuable asset on your dog on team. It's kind
Speaker 1: it's kind of an interesting team because you get a
Speaker 1: table or you are going to be utilized. Heckman, No, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and I think Isaiah that's because of you know, the
Speaker 1: the pandemic and just the ability to extend players on
Speaker 1: your practice squad. There are a lot of teams that
Speaker 1: are hoarding some bad players just because they don't know
Speaker 1: what's going to happen with the injuries on the team.
Speaker 1: So I think that's a by product of just not
Speaker 1: being able to evaluate guys. Yeah, I think it's sad. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's wild. They I mean, I think they had fifty
Speaker 1: one guys on the on the they kept fifty one
Speaker 1: on the active roster. But really it's it's more than
Speaker 1: that because you have the ability to elevate two guys
Speaker 1: every week. So uh, yeah, you're right, it's more of
Speaker 1: a it's more of a benefit and something you lean
Speaker 1: on definitely than past years. And while we're on the
Speaker 1: topic of young players here, Chris being if I could
Speaker 1: get a one shot here, I just want to make
Speaker 1: my weekly pitch to give Bradley a NYE more playing time, please,
Speaker 1: because he's seen six snaps throughout his rookie season. He's
Speaker 1: had six snaps. He's had two pressures and a quarterback
Speaker 1: hit in those six naps. So please, for love of
Speaker 1: any good Friday by Friday, more playing time. I just
Speaker 1: wanted to. I just wanted to get out there. I
Speaker 1: like the kid, Kyle, I do too. No, I like
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Speaker 1: By the way, just a quick little fun fact before
Speaker 1: we get in the couple more fans on the fifty
Speaker 1: questions here, But we've had three straight home games. By
Speaker 1: the time. This Monday night football game will conclude on Monday.
Speaker 1: It's also the third straight road game for Arizona. They've
Speaker 1: played three straight on the road before they'll return home
Speaker 1: for two. So you've got the benefit of a homestand
Speaker 1: and they've got the road trip working coming from Phoenix,
Speaker 1: so overall you've got another advantage there. But as we
Speaker 1: go into the final segment, Heck Harrison, Isaiah stand back,
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, I'm Kyle Yeoman's and a couple more fans
Speaker 1: on the fifty questions. And this one came actually yesterday
Speaker 1: and it maybe wasn't tabbed as a fans on the
Speaker 1: fifty question specifically, but it was one that I want
Speaker 1: to I want to throw into this mix, and it
Speaker 1: was a fantastic question, but it was what is your
Speaker 1: biggest concern on this Cowboys team right now following the
Speaker 1: injury to Dak Prescott. I'm gonna allow Rob to start
Speaker 1: this one off because he kind of alluded to it earlier,
Speaker 1: but whenever he comes to every unit, whether it's special teams, defense, offense,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. What is your biggest concern right now? Well,
Speaker 1: Isaiah and I agree, I don't know if Heck agrees totally.
Speaker 1: It's not the quarterback for me. I think Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: can come in and have success. I mentioned earlier I
Speaker 1: talked about the defensive interior line, and that for me,
Speaker 1: with losing Gerald McCoy and Triston Hill now for the season,
Speaker 1: they've got to get that short up because teams are
Speaker 1: going to continue to try to run the ball against them,
Speaker 1: and when they do that, the play action comes into play.
Speaker 1: And they have struggled against play action pretty much everywhere
Speaker 1: on the field, especially around the goal line, and that
Speaker 1: can lead to big plays down the field. So to me,
Speaker 1: it's you still. Isaiah was rattling off statistics about numbers
Speaker 1: of points allowed already the season defensively, and it's not
Speaker 1: all defense on it's off turnovers. And that's a big
Speaker 1: one too, by the way. But they've got to get
Speaker 1: things short up defensively, and it starts in the middle. Manaiah, No,
Speaker 1: I cannot. I want to just tell you. I just
Speaker 1: want to say, Rob, I agree, and I think that
Speaker 1: first of all, when you look at all the things
Speaker 1: that are showing up on tape and you're seeing teams
Speaker 1: repeat plays like the reverse, the reverses that they're running
Speaker 1: on this side. I mean the Giants ran a reverse
Speaker 1: on the goal line versus I mean, let that that's
Speaker 1: so disrespectful to give up a touchdo on the reverse
Speaker 1: on the goal line, and we've did. That's the second
Speaker 1: week in a row that we've given up points on
Speaker 1: the reverse and we gotta get that fixed. And it
Speaker 1: starts inside. Yeah, and that was to a tight end.
Speaker 1: Or Evan Ingram comes running around the outside edge of
Speaker 1: Everson Griffin and Isaiah knows just how upset I was
Speaker 1: about that fact. But that's that's another story. Isaiah. Oh,
Speaker 1: I guess Isaiah's out on us. We're having some technical issues. Man,
Speaker 1: he's frozen right now. Okay, I want to pause for
Speaker 1: I apologize for everybody who's listening at the moment. But
Speaker 1: he's frozen in this spot right now, and he's got
Speaker 1: his little smirk where he's kind of looking with just
Speaker 1: like that one eye. He's leaning in very like very
Speaker 1: Oh man, it's the Bafficks pause of a show. I
Speaker 1: think I've right, it's that. That's him. This is Kyle
Speaker 1: just said something stupid. Kyle said what Yeah, he says
Speaker 1: something dumb, and he's paused in it right now. It
Speaker 1: is hilarious. I highly encourage you to come and look
Speaker 1: at look at it. We're sure that full straight all
Speaker 1: Now it went away. That's okay, that's okay. That was
Speaker 1: the best technical place we've ever had on this show.
Speaker 1: But but Rob, I mean, whenever he comes up to
Speaker 1: giving up plays like that, you talk about the reverse
Speaker 1: and we can talk about really the weird and plays
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys have given up to the defense over
Speaker 1: or to opposing offenses overall. How do you share that up?
Speaker 1: What is this the beginning steps to kind of rain
Speaker 1: that in and go up against what is unconventional play
Speaker 1: calling being assignment sound, your preparation during the week and
Speaker 1: and not overrunning plays and trusting each other to make
Speaker 1: your own plays. I think that's something they talked about
Speaker 1: early in the season, uh, not trying to get outside
Speaker 1: your zone. And I thought they did a better job
Speaker 1: of that. You know, I thought Jalen Smith, I keep
Speaker 1: talking about Jalen Smith, he really helped shore that up,
Speaker 1: especially those problems they had in the screen game early
Speaker 1: in the scene in much better. So that's encouraging. But
Speaker 1: I agree with you guys though, you got to see
Speaker 1: it week to week and Kyler Murray. I watched him.
Speaker 1: I watched him since high school, and he just keeps
Speaker 1: getting better and better. And it's the same threat that
Speaker 1: he had when he was at Allen just down the
Speaker 1: road from here. He's gonna take off and run. He's
Speaker 1: gonna challenge you latterly and vertically. So can they shore
Speaker 1: that up? We'll see. Well, I'm back and I don't
Speaker 1: have a smirk on my face this time. I'm going,
Speaker 1: y'all see that kyllege trying to pause me. He put
Speaker 1: me up positive quick, but no, I'm I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with time of possession, and time of possession has a
Speaker 1: lot to do with really everybody. Um, So we talk
Speaker 1: about time of possession, you talk about our office's ability
Speaker 1: to actually be balanced in some form of fashion and
Speaker 1: balances that means fifty fifty. Balance just means to have
Speaker 1: a respectable m efficiency in both the running and the
Speaker 1: passing game. And then you look at the defense. You
Speaker 1: guys already touched on an interior defensive alignment. It's not
Speaker 1: just them, but they need to be able to get
Speaker 1: some kind of a push. Um. If you don't have
Speaker 1: an interior defensive line presence, um, you can survive with
Speaker 1: it without without a defensive end presence, you can't survive
Speaker 1: without an interior defensive line presence um, and that's gonna
Speaker 1: If you don't have that, then then your linebackers are
Speaker 1: affected um and then and then it turn your secondary
Speaker 1: is affected because they're not being there. They're having to
Speaker 1: cover for longer durations of time. So it's kind of
Speaker 1: a trigger down effect. Right. So the ability for other
Speaker 1: teams to be able to strike when they want to
Speaker 1: in any form or fashion, especially running the ball, is
Speaker 1: not good for you because if you're as an offense,
Speaker 1: if you're striking fast, and then on the other side
Speaker 1: of the ball, they're able to run the ball and strike.
Speaker 1: You know, at some point in time with four and
Speaker 1: a half minute, five minutes, six minute drives right and
Speaker 1: then for whatever reason you either turn the ball over
Speaker 1: or you go three and out. Guess what advantage goes
Speaker 1: to them. It doesn't matter how fast you strike right
Speaker 1: at some point in time once they're as long as
Speaker 1: you're continue to move the ball and like they're like
Speaker 1: our schedule shows if you take away the first game,
Speaker 1: if you take away the Los Angeles Rams game, we
Speaker 1: have given up at least thirty four points per game,
Speaker 1: ye at least including and thirty thirty four points came
Speaker 1: by let me see, the worst offense in the league
Speaker 1: last week. So you can't continue to do that. And
Speaker 1: time possession is huge and we have to be able
Speaker 1: to control that if we think we want to go
Speaker 1: far in the playoffs. That's that's that, Isaiah, that's that
Speaker 1: high football IQ of yours working right there when you
Speaker 1: call a lot of time of possession, because it's true.
Speaker 1: I mean, so many people that deal with analytics and
Speaker 1: they see the you know, throwing the ball all over
Speaker 1: the place and getting yards is like that. Uh, they
Speaker 1: discount time of possession and you saw it. And Robert
Speaker 1: talked about that that drive for the Dallas Cowboys in
Speaker 1: the third quarter where they had eleven runs and what
Speaker 1: it did for our defense and galvanising them to make
Speaker 1: plays in the fourth quarters. It's a part of our
Speaker 1: game plan that we have to incorporate if we plan
Speaker 1: on having any success going forward. I totally agree, and
Speaker 1: I'm glad. I'm glad you said that, Isaiah about the
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean balance, doesn't have to mean fifty fifty because,
Speaker 1: like I talked about that drive during the game, I
Speaker 1: was like, they had to have a drive like this,
Speaker 1: and on Twitter and guys came at me like THET
Speaker 1: analytics dudes come out and they're like, no, you gotta throw,
Speaker 1: you gotta throw, you gotta throw. Keep in mind, like
Speaker 1: a lot of the problems they've had with turnovers that
Speaker 1: lead to the time of possession problems and lead to
Speaker 1: the defsits are because you have a banged up offensive
Speaker 1: line and you're asking them to pass protect over and
Speaker 1: over again. There are I know, Zeke's put the ball
Speaker 1: on the ground some, but there's there's less of a
Speaker 1: chance of turning the ball over if you you mix
Speaker 1: in runs and you're not as bad as one sided. Uh.
Speaker 1: And it does help your play action game, it doesn't,
Speaker 1: you know. I think Mike McCarthy said, I don't think
Speaker 1: his goal is fifty fifty. He said, I think it
Speaker 1: of a perfect game. He said, it's like seventy plays
Speaker 1: and he said forty forty passes, thirty runs, like just
Speaker 1: some of that, not fifty seven passes. You know, that's
Speaker 1: what they have to get away from. People have to
Speaker 1: understand that we're passing the ball like we've been doing.
Speaker 1: It's very hard to manage the time of possession. Reason being,
Speaker 1: even even on a completed pass, if I catch it
Speaker 1: and go out of bounds, I guess what clock stops? Right?
Speaker 1: If I throw an incomplete pass, guess what clock stops right.
Speaker 1: So you're literally saving time exactly. You're doing exactly what
Speaker 1: you want to do on two minutes drill right you
Speaker 1: want to get out of bounds or you know you
Speaker 1: want the clock to stop. We're doing that throughout the
Speaker 1: whole game, and you're just giving up more opportunities for
Speaker 1: them to do what they need to do on their
Speaker 1: side of the ball. And then they just simply wait
Speaker 1: for you to mess up or wait for you to
Speaker 1: go three and out and guess what then then advantage switch,
Speaker 1: it switches to the other team. It's interesting. I mean,
Speaker 1: even look at the mistakes that were capitalized by the
Speaker 1: Giants's past Sunday, I mean, the fourteen points off at turnovers,
Speaker 1: and they controlled the game really up until the last
Speaker 1: I guess, really the last quarter and a half of
Speaker 1: this one, which is the one time that the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have not seen a deficit throughout the course of the
Speaker 1: course of the season. The way fun fact, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: have not led during any two minute warning at any
Speaker 1: point in the season so far at all. That's devastating.
Speaker 1: They have not led at any point, any of them.
Speaker 1: This kind of a first half, our second half, first
Speaker 1: half of the second half, and so you talk about
Speaker 1: time of possession. That's one way to bring up the
Speaker 1: argument and really prove Isaiah's point there because it is
Speaker 1: that crucial. But that's gonna do it here for Talking
Speaker 1: Cowboys here on this Tuesday. Quick shout out to Talking
Speaker 1: Cowboys Nation out there, fire questions today on fans on
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Speaker 1: it back all week long. We'll say it on with
Speaker 1: our chest on Friday, and then of course Monday Night
Speaker 1: football coming up here in a couple of days as well.
Speaker 1: But that's gonna do it today for Heckma Harrison, for
Speaker 1: Rob Phillips, for Isaiah dam back in a special thanks
Speaker 1: to Chris Beam in the back up Kyle Yeoman saying
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