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Speaker 1: Welcome into the SWBC studios at the Star in Frisco.
Speaker 1: It is a Thursday before the Cowboys and the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: Week of Weaven of the NFL season is here, and
Speaker 1: we are going to talk about the Cowboys offense and
Speaker 1: how they can exploit that Kansas City defense over the
Speaker 1: next forty five minutes. Hope you're buckled up ready to go,
Speaker 1: because Heck Harrison's here, Isaiah standbacks here, Rob Phillips as always,
Speaker 1: Chris Beam in the back of Kyle Yeoman. So glad
Speaker 1: you're with us, And gentlemen, there you go. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be collecting coins. It's warm, fuzzy feelings
Speaker 1: all the way from here on out. That's some super Mario.
Speaker 1: Yea love it. Chris, who you go and do the
Speaker 1: jump and then you hit the brick and then dud
Speaker 1: the little coin pops down? How goes? What was that?
Speaker 1: How did it? God? Is that? How it is that? One? Instead?
Speaker 1: Cut that? And then if you use that on any
Speaker 1: other show other than ours, I could just imagine Derek
Speaker 1: being like, what the heck was that? What are we
Speaker 1: doing here? So? Ho ho ho? Thanks Brad. Another grace
Speaker 1: even better? Oh it is? Yeah, it's tis the season.
Speaker 1: Anybody looked at Christmas lights? Everybody put up their Christmas lights.
Speaker 1: Yet no wife's been on my head about it, so
Speaker 1: I guess it's just it's coming in here soon. It's coming. Heck,
Speaker 1: min's your tree up? Nope? Not yet, nope. No. Do
Speaker 1: you guys hang your own lights up at your house? Yeah? Outside? Yeah,
Speaker 1: since we've moved though, No, we might put it like
Speaker 1: a little lit up yeah, something low ornament. I did
Speaker 1: it one time, like at the arch of the house,
Speaker 1: like the very peak. I won't do that again, like
Speaker 1: Christmas vacations. Yeah, that's not me. Or I was definitely
Speaker 1: up at the top. My wife left me so inside
Speaker 1: of it. Hey, wait, a minute. Wait, wait, wait, wait,
Speaker 1: if I fall and break some up, I need somebody
Speaker 1: to call them called nine one. Have you ever fallen
Speaker 1: while doing the Christmas Like, oh heck no. I was
Speaker 1: so scared though. I was literally shaking on the top
Speaker 1: of the peak of my house, just kind of holding
Speaker 1: a bear. I'm gonna like this looking down like help,
Speaker 1: sound like me with the heights. Yeah, I always do
Speaker 1: all my stuff. Man, It's yeah, that's just wish. You know,
Speaker 1: how long does it normally take you to do it?
Speaker 1: Because I don't have a house yet, so I don't.
Speaker 1: It's it's a well now that I have, you know,
Speaker 1: I incorporate the kids in and as well, so it's
Speaker 1: not what yeah, get a little heck out there. No,
Speaker 1: we get everybody. I mean, if you want to lie,
Speaker 1: yeah yeah yeah. And so it's a team effort and
Speaker 1: so what happens. It's really cool. You know, my daughter
Speaker 1: she names all of the little blow ups that we have.
Speaker 1: So so we have a snowman she's named at CARDI
Speaker 1: b don't even ask, it's just what it is. And
Speaker 1: we're just gonna deal with Christmas as the Heckma's house
Speaker 1: looks like the grizz Walls. It does. I'm married to
Speaker 1: the black version of the grizz Walls, so trust me.
Speaker 1: It's at my house once and my wife walked outside
Speaker 1: as me and my dad and his truck was in
Speaker 1: the front of our house with the ladder on it,
Speaker 1: and my wife, No, who are calling to do this
Speaker 1: next year? Who's who's doing it next time? Because it's
Speaker 1: not you? No, But it's a family, a familyoy. You
Speaker 1: get everybody out of here and watch this. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: the best line right before trouble, but right right before truble.
Speaker 1: If you hear that line, then you know something's uh
Speaker 1: and and man, I've heard that a couple different times
Speaker 1: in my life. I grew up in a country family
Speaker 1: out in Waco, and we had we had some land
Speaker 1: out there. There was a couple hold of my beers.
Speaker 1: That's awesome. It was fun. It was a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: But uh, anyways, with the with with it being November eighteenth,
Speaker 1: I feel like everybody's still I was driving through a
Speaker 1: neighborhood yesterday and every other house already had their lights
Speaker 1: up and stuff. So I was asking you guys, if
Speaker 1: you were on that train yet. Well, it's big business now.
Speaker 1: For like these little lawn usually it's like a long
Speaker 1: company that comes out there and just hang your lights. Now, yeah,
Speaker 1: you just kind of it together with your three hundred dollars,
Speaker 1: you know, for you to rent them for them to
Speaker 1: come put your lights up, take them down. And I
Speaker 1: need to look at that then going yeah, Rob's like
Speaker 1: that's not that bad. Less effort for me. Yeah, there
Speaker 1: you go. All right. News and notes from the Cowboys
Speaker 1: back on the practice field yesterday, and it really seemed
Speaker 1: like it was a lot of good news from the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: No bad notifications from Rob Phillips yesterday. Thank you was
Speaker 1: for heck, that was just for heck. Yeah. This is
Speaker 1: the cleanest injury report I've seen since I don't know,
Speaker 1: Week one, maybe knock on wood a few times. There's
Speaker 1: only one guy who was limited nobody miss practice, you know.
Speaker 1: That's on the active roster currently, Tyrann Smith limited with
Speaker 1: the ankle injury. Only other guys on the injury report
Speaker 1: Mary Cooper, Zeke Will Greer, the backup quarterback Cedric Wilson,
Speaker 1: and the Sean Wright all full. Wow, so no CD
Speaker 1: even on the injured list. He's on it. Oh, he's
Speaker 1: on it. But a full participate. Yeah, with that tricept deal.
Speaker 1: So he's good. Well, that's good because I know, at
Speaker 1: least toward the back end of that game that was
Speaker 1: one of my worries was looking at him on the
Speaker 1: sideline and him, of course not coming back in a
Speaker 1: lot of a lot of that had to do with
Speaker 1: the fact that it was forty three to three, so
Speaker 1: thank goodness for that, he didn't have to come back in.
Speaker 1: So I'm glad to see him ready to go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought it was a shoulder game. Arm contusion is
Speaker 1: what they said during the game. But he looked okay
Speaker 1: on the sideline. There is that the new word for
Speaker 1: booboo contusion? I think so some bruise or yeah, some
Speaker 1: guy came at me with like ten questions, So you
Speaker 1: mean a bruise, Is that what that is? I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what it. I'm just giving you. The quad contusion
Speaker 1: is the worst. Sounds bad. Oh, it's terrible. Why is
Speaker 1: it worse than any other because you can't bend you
Speaker 1: can't bend your leg if you mean, that's why thipads
Speaker 1: are so important. A lot of guys back in the
Speaker 1: days to try to take the thigh pads out and
Speaker 1: they would get fine, So you have to So guys
Speaker 1: would literally take the thigh pad. High school students don't
Speaker 1: listen to this. Take the thigh pads, take a razor blake,
Speaker 1: cut it open and take the It's a hard plastic
Speaker 1: insert so it's like really thin. And you guys would
Speaker 1: slide that into their pants to say if they have
Speaker 1: their thiahpads, because they do. Um. But if you didn't
Speaker 1: have that and you take a shot to the thigh,
Speaker 1: oh man, you have to sleep with your knee bent
Speaker 1: wrapped with an ace banish because if you straighten it
Speaker 1: out and it starts trying to you know, the scarchis
Speaker 1: you starts trying to build knee, trying to bend your knee.
Speaker 1: Have fun with that and like sitting down. I feel
Speaker 1: like even now it would hurt if you're sitting on
Speaker 1: a on a stool or if you're just working. You
Speaker 1: know that happened to Dez Bryan against that. I believe
Speaker 1: it was the Jets. Remember that rom Yeah, I remember
Speaker 1: that's what he had. Yeah, you're right, he did a
Speaker 1: I think it was a punt return and it put
Speaker 1: him out for like gosh to put him out for
Speaker 1: like a while, like six weeks. Wow, it sucks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was bad. Goodness six weeks for a contusion, Huh,
Speaker 1: it was it was bad. We lost him for a
Speaker 1: while that week. It's not fun. Not fun. Well, luckily,
Speaker 1: Ceede Lamb's good to go, and we're going to see
Speaker 1: him back on the field this week, because, well, this
Speaker 1: Cowboys offense has an opportunity to really make their name
Speaker 1: known across the nation if it hasn't been already. I
Speaker 1: feel like the nation's already taken notice on what the
Speaker 1: Cowboys were doing on that side of the football. But
Speaker 1: I want to kind of keep the opening conversation of
Speaker 1: this show centered around Dak Prescott because you're looking at
Speaker 1: the stats going into it with Mahomes and Prescott, and
Speaker 1: this is a historically, i mean a potential for a
Speaker 1: historic matchup because of the numbers coming into it. You
Speaker 1: look at some of the different comparisons of games before.
Speaker 1: I mean, Manning and Romo are on that conversation. You
Speaker 1: look at Breeze in Romo back in twenty fourteen. I mean,
Speaker 1: there are a bunch of different ones. That one didn't
Speaker 1: go well for the Cowboys, but there are a bunch
Speaker 1: of different big time matchups that this lines up against
Speaker 1: in terms of quarterbacks, and of course it's Dak's first
Speaker 1: trip to Arrowhead, It's mahomes first game against his childhood
Speaker 1: favorite team in the Dallas Cowboys. So is this the
Speaker 1: best opportunity to see Dak Prescott take that step to
Speaker 1: being considered elite not just around Cowboys Nation, but around
Speaker 1: the entire nation as a whole. Oh yeah, yeah. To
Speaker 1: answer that question, okay, well yeah, I mean this is
Speaker 1: this is you want to go against the best. You
Speaker 1: want to circle this on the calendar and say, look,
Speaker 1: I get an opportunity to show everybody how I match up. Obviously,
Speaker 1: it's a team game and you need so many different
Speaker 1: people to help you be successful. But for Dak, he
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's tired of everybody keeping him on the
Speaker 1: outside of that elite conversation. And there are some guys, Look,
Speaker 1: you don't touch the Aaron Rodgers is, the Tom Brady's,
Speaker 1: even Patrick Mahomes. He's done it at a high level
Speaker 1: for so long, so come on, I mean, but you
Speaker 1: cannot continue to keep him out of that conversation. And
Speaker 1: there's so many people that they try and push to
Speaker 1: the front without even giving him credit for his QBR
Speaker 1: how he came in the league not turning the ball over.
Speaker 1: I just feel as though, obviously it's the cowboy Hey,
Speaker 1: I'm much gonna put it out there, this is the
Speaker 1: cowboy hate. But you can no longer deny Dak of
Speaker 1: elite status. And then he has Ezekiel Elliott, he has
Speaker 1: the offensive line and what if this? What if that?
Speaker 1: He has all of those things and he's successful in it.
Speaker 1: He's done it really well with Kellen Moore's offense and
Speaker 1: the throws that he's making. Like one of these guys
Speaker 1: had made a walk off touchdown throw like he did
Speaker 1: against New England, we'd still be seeing the highlights from
Speaker 1: But Dak does it. Let's see it a couple of times.
Speaker 1: It's not on replay because it's Dak right. And then
Speaker 1: they don't want to go back to when they were
Speaker 1: talking about when WinCE was better than him, or they
Speaker 1: the Detroit quarterback was better than him. They even Matthew Stafford,
Speaker 1: Matthew the one that's now current. Oh, I think matt
Speaker 1: Stafford as well, matthe Stafford and Jared Goff, but they
Speaker 1: compared him and now, especially last season when it came
Speaker 1: down to all of the contract talk. Was that gonna
Speaker 1: get paid? And what was that gonna get paid? How
Speaker 1: does he measure up? Patrick mahomes got I think he
Speaker 1: got signed this contract right before Dak signed is you
Speaker 1: can no longer keep him outside of this contract, I
Speaker 1: mean outside of this conversation, whether whether it be to
Speaker 1: money or playing. He she's showing you at each level.
Speaker 1: And that's just my belief. And I'm a homer, so
Speaker 1: to take it forward with a grain of salt, because
Speaker 1: that's where I'm putting it. But I'm just saying, there's
Speaker 1: no way that you can keep Dak outside of the
Speaker 1: conversation any longer. Statistically, it's true, he's played better than
Speaker 1: anybody else in the league right now. Over those guys,
Speaker 1: he's played better than those And it's on the film too,
Speaker 1: And I agree with you completely, And yes we are
Speaker 1: a Cowboys podcast, but at some point you look at
Speaker 1: the statistics, you look at the completion forage, the way
Speaker 1: he's take care of taking care of the football, the
Speaker 1: way he's navigating an offense, and you have to put
Speaker 1: him in that conversation. Yeah, I personally think he's getting
Speaker 1: the due he needs Nationally. I hear you. I know
Speaker 1: there's haters out there, especially within this division, the fan
Speaker 1: bases and all that, but I think people were recognizing
Speaker 1: how great of a season he's having. I don't know
Speaker 1: that he's considered the top of the MVP race right now,
Speaker 1: but this is the game to elevate yourself into maybe
Speaker 1: the first spot. Him and Kyler, I think should. I
Speaker 1: think he and Kyler should be considered the top two
Speaker 1: guys right now based on the way their teams are playing.
Speaker 1: They're rising stars in the NFL. I think that always
Speaker 1: should carry weight what they're doing as far as improvement.
Speaker 1: And then they play each other at some point down
Speaker 1: the road too, so I think that'll be a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. But I think if you go on the
Speaker 1: road to Arrowhead and you go toe to toe with
Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes and you win that game and you play well,
Speaker 1: I think he should be the front runner for MVP.
Speaker 1: That's just me personally. Why Kyler and Dak over some
Speaker 1: of the other quarterbacks. Josh Allen's having a great year.
Speaker 1: I mean, there are other guys out there, but why
Speaker 1: those two. Well, maybe I'm partial to see it, wanting
Speaker 1: to see something new. Maybe that's just me but you
Speaker 1: mentioned the stats. I mean, among starters, the top two
Speaker 1: guys in terms of completion percentage, just for one stat
Speaker 1: it's Kyler and then it's Dak and it's over seventy percent.
Speaker 1: They're the only two guys in the league doing that.
Speaker 1: And you think about, like Mike McCarthy said yesterday, this
Speaker 1: is not a dink and dunk offense that we're running here.
Speaker 1: That's what makes it so impressive. Yeah, and you know
Speaker 1: they both miss a little time off the field, but
Speaker 1: you know, usually this award goes to the teams who
Speaker 1: have the best records, and these teams are right there,
Speaker 1: Arizona and Dallas right now. What do you think? What's
Speaker 1: your original question? Is Dak supposed to be in the
Speaker 1: elite conversation? Does Dak deserve to be in that elite conversation? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think that he isn't. I think I'm along
Speaker 1: the same lines as Rob. Cowboys are gonna get hate regardless.
Speaker 1: I don't care if it's quarterback, running back, office a line,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter quarterback. The Cowboys are going to receive
Speaker 1: hate from around a league, around other fan bases. That's
Speaker 1: just reality. But also the reality is Dak is getting
Speaker 1: respected from the league, from players, from people who decide
Speaker 1: on who's having a conversation in terms of MVP race.
Speaker 1: I think Dak is in those conversations. I think what
Speaker 1: separates Dak from some of these other guys that we
Speaker 1: that we're talking about when we started talking about the
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers to Tom Bradys and things like that, is
Speaker 1: his playoffs. That's what people are, I think, are waiting
Speaker 1: to see. So I don't think this game so much
Speaker 1: is gonna give him that big jump that everybody needs
Speaker 1: to see to be in this considered this, you know,
Speaker 1: for guys to consider him to be, Oh my god,
Speaker 1: he says this elite quarterback. I think he's an elite
Speaker 1: quarterback in terms of how he's playing right now. But
Speaker 1: when you talk of talking about elite in terms of
Speaker 1: career wise, I think people are going to look at
Speaker 1: the playoffs and that's just that's just the facts. That's
Speaker 1: our male bad question today. Actually, why why are the
Speaker 1: Cowboys considered underdogs? It's resume. I mean, it's it's resume.
Speaker 1: Pat Mahomes is twenty five years old and he's done
Speaker 1: it all already, and he's playing really well and this
Speaker 1: team starting to ascend like we thought they would, and
Speaker 1: they're playing at Arrowhead. That's that's why the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: or underdogs in this game. But if you look at
Speaker 1: the whole body of work, there's no reason they can't
Speaker 1: go in there and win the way they play when
Speaker 1: they're playing their best, and Matt Stafford is considered elite
Speaker 1: and he hadn't won a playoff game in there. There's
Speaker 1: what I guess when I'm what I'm referring to is
Speaker 1: the people that say, like, right now, when you talk
Speaker 1: about the MVP race, yeah, how is he not you know,
Speaker 1: tops in that MVP race? Who do you think that
Speaker 1: of him? Like? Nationally, who do you think people are
Speaker 1: talking about more? I think people are definitely talking more
Speaker 1: about Kyler. People are definitely still talking more about Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: even with the games that he missed over Dak. I
Speaker 1: think even Tom Brady at this point, you know, I
Speaker 1: just believe Jarrick Henry's probably in that conversation as a
Speaker 1: non quarterback, but he's not gonna win it now, right,
Speaker 1: And so I mean, look, just going back to years past,
Speaker 1: I think it was eighty seven John Elway one h MVP,
Speaker 1: but then at the same time Montana was balling, Rice
Speaker 1: was balling Jared Rice one offensive Player of the Year
Speaker 1: that year, and they went to the player I believe
Speaker 1: they played Man Denver played New York the Giants in
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. That yeah, this Giants won that game.
Speaker 1: But still, you know, you talk about how the national
Speaker 1: media tries to prop other guys up against and it's
Speaker 1: always good to use PFF when it is in favor
Speaker 1: of your argument. You know, you know, I definitely that
Speaker 1: if I need something like it's the end all be
Speaker 1: all when he was well, p PFF said where right now,
Speaker 1: even when you go to PF, Dak's numbers are legit
Speaker 1: versus everybody. That's all I'm saying is give him his due, now,
Speaker 1: you know, give him his due. That's my only point.
Speaker 1: I mean, there are guys in the I mean, Stephen
Speaker 1: a is making an NFL part of his career out
Speaker 1: of hating cowboys. It's I mean, it's kind of a
Speaker 1: wrestling character. You know, he didn't see and he knows
Speaker 1: it like it's it's it's a stick. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: a bit so beyond that, like, I don't think there's
Speaker 1: a lot of hate for Dak. I do think, like
Speaker 1: Isaiah said, there is some of hey, they they they're
Speaker 1: this good, gotta they gotta go prove it when it
Speaker 1: really counts, you know. I think it's a little bit
Speaker 1: of in between. Sure, the resume does play a factor
Speaker 1: because I think if maybe Dak Prescott would have had
Speaker 1: some playoff success, and I mean certainly with this team
Speaker 1: he could have playoffs success. But once again, if it
Speaker 1: doesn't happen, then he's going to be right back there,
Speaker 1: slotted back down because of how quickly understandably people can turn.
Speaker 1: And also not to mention, I think, like I said,
Speaker 1: I think it could be kind of in the middle
Speaker 1: here because if he goes out against Kansas City at
Speaker 1: Arrowhead and he throws for three fifty throws three touchdowns,
Speaker 1: doesn't throw a pick, Cowboys win by a touchdown or two.
Speaker 1: I think that conversation is automatically Okay, Kyler, you're doing great,
Speaker 1: But Dak Prescott's the MVP candidate, He's the front runner
Speaker 1: at the moment. That's what kind of game this could
Speaker 1: be for Dak. I'm not saying that, I'm not predicting
Speaker 1: that's the case, but if he goes out and does it,
Speaker 1: which he could. Then all of a sudden, he's right
Speaker 1: up at the top of that MVP race, and I
Speaker 1: don't think it's a doubt. You don't want him to
Speaker 1: win the MVP though there's an MVP the jinks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the last person to win the MVP and to win
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl was nineteen ninety nine and Kurt Warner,
Speaker 1: I like that twenty five years So, Dak, I need
Speaker 1: you to throw for one ninety one touchdowns and the
Speaker 1: coop in the regular season not translate to super Bowl success. Yeah. True,
Speaker 1: it's only been ten players ever do it well if
Speaker 1: they get if they get the buy and I'm getting
Speaker 1: way ahead of myself, jump out the I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: if they get the buy and win, however many games
Speaker 1: and he's still playing at this level, he's the MVP.
Speaker 1: I don't think you can make another case for I
Speaker 1: really don't after and I think that's part of his
Speaker 1: story too, you know, he might he's I think he
Speaker 1: should win't come back too, but they can win. You
Speaker 1: come back in his sleep. He I think he can
Speaker 1: win Comeback Player of the Year right now. If I mean,
Speaker 1: if the season ended it was it would definitely be
Speaker 1: his but you're right that consistency has to continue now
Speaker 1: real quickly before we take our first break. How just
Speaker 1: every time I look at this number, I'm astonished. But
Speaker 1: seventy percent completion, how just unbelievably tough is that to
Speaker 1: do at any level of football across the board, high
Speaker 1: school football, college football, it could be middle school football.
Speaker 1: Completing seventy percent of your passes is unbelievable. Him and
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray are both doing that. How tough is that
Speaker 1: to do from a quarterback standpoint? And it's really tough,
Speaker 1: And I think it's a testament to not only the system,
Speaker 1: but his adaptation of that system, his decision making, his accuracy,
Speaker 1: all those things. I mean, that's not when people here
Speaker 1: completion percentage, people just think, Okay, well man, he's he's
Speaker 1: really accurate with the ball, And that's not always the case.
Speaker 1: It's also about the decision making when you throw the ball,
Speaker 1: when you decide to keep the ball, when you decide
Speaker 1: to dump it off to a shorter route instead of
Speaker 1: being trying to force something down the field. So it's
Speaker 1: it's a it's a picture. It's a snapshot image of
Speaker 1: a bit of of something that's outside the frame. Right,
Speaker 1: it's a larger picture, but you can't. You can't encompass
Speaker 1: everything with just that one stat But I think he's
Speaker 1: doing an amazing job. And yes, seventy percent is crazy,
Speaker 1: especially in his NFL, especially in a system that they're running.
Speaker 1: That's just nuts for me to look at. I mean,
Speaker 1: when Heckma and I are doing a high school game
Speaker 1: or a college game and we see somewhere like sixties
Speaker 1: mid sixties of completion percentage, We're like, that guy's balling money.
Speaker 1: That guy's do that guy's dealing right now. Seventy percent.
Speaker 1: It's just next level. And Dak Prescott's doing that all right?
Speaker 1: When we come back, what kind of mismatches does the
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Speaker 1: versus the Chiefs defense. Hope you've enjoyed it so far.
Speaker 1: We've got a special guest coming tomorrow. I haven't told
Speaker 1: anybody in this room exactly who that's guest is awesome.
Speaker 1: I will reveal that at the end of the show.
Speaker 1: How about that? How about that at the end of
Speaker 1: the show, we've got a special cast joining us. Was
Speaker 1: Isaiah just like threw his phone down and just a
Speaker 1: question of what that. You were on set for the
Speaker 1: draft coverage like three years ago and we had Dave
Speaker 1: Campo on, Oh Kelly and he said something to yeah
Speaker 1: instead of Campo. Yeah. Lindsay kind of coaxed him into
Speaker 1: doing it, and he was like, how about how about
Speaker 1: how about right into the camera show I love campus,
Speaker 1: Oh Campo? Very What about this Kansas City defense? Are
Speaker 1: there any weapons on that side? Are there any problems
Speaker 1: on that side of the ball. Sure, there's probably a couple,
Speaker 1: But where are the weak spots? Isaiah? When you look
Speaker 1: at the film on this, where can the Cowboys have
Speaker 1: some success? Best offense in the league. This is not
Speaker 1: the best defense in the league, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: But if you're going to try and keep pace with
Speaker 1: an offense that's catching fire like the Chiefs, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to have quite the game on your offensive side
Speaker 1: of the ball. So where does that start, I think
Speaker 1: we can exploit their corners. I think that I think
Speaker 1: I believe that they have some some guys on the
Speaker 1: defensive line, let's not and at the second level, I
Speaker 1: think their strongest point of their team is at their
Speaker 1: safety position. Um with the Soreson and and honey Badger.
Speaker 1: Both of those guys back there are pretty dog on good. Um,
Speaker 1: so you want to try to keep things on the outside,
Speaker 1: keep them out the game. They're gonna find their way
Speaker 1: into the game. Um. The honey Badger is just too
Speaker 1: good of an athlete. He's going to be all around
Speaker 1: the place. But I think we can exploit their cornerbacks.
Speaker 1: And that's going to be dependent on us obviously making
Speaker 1: sure that guys like Chris Jones don't have an opportunity
Speaker 1: to go off and create and create some issues for us.
Speaker 1: If if Steel is gonna be over there, that'll be
Speaker 1: that'd be his his his thunderbuddy for the day. So
Speaker 1: we have to make sure that him Melvin Ingram, you know, obviously,
Speaker 1: then the newly acquire Melvin Melvin Ingram, keep those guys
Speaker 1: at bay so that Dad has time to throw the ball.
Speaker 1: Because if he does have time to throw the ball
Speaker 1: week and we can take advantage of these cornerbacks all
Speaker 1: day long. Did you say steal for offensive line? Smith
Speaker 1: not coming back? Are you talking about right tackle? I'm
Speaker 1: talking about left left tackle. I think Smith's coming back
Speaker 1: this week. Right He was limited in practice? Did I
Speaker 1: hear it? Did I miss something? Haven't got the word
Speaker 1: that he's back yet, So I'm assuming still still there
Speaker 1: and they're hopeful. They're hopeful. They practice in pads today. Man,
Speaker 1: I was like I had already choked it up that
Speaker 1: Smith was back. I think they're very optimistic about it,
Speaker 1: but as Mike said yesterday, they want to see him
Speaker 1: hopefully go through a full week. So I don't know
Speaker 1: if you could just put it in pin yet that
Speaker 1: he's playing this week. Yeah, but I think I'm hopeful. Okay,
Speaker 1: I say it just ruined my whole morning. I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean the reality they have. They have a couple
Speaker 1: of dudes at d N. I mean, they're not like
Speaker 1: freaking all pro guys right now, but I mean Chris
Speaker 1: Jones and Frank Clark, both of those guys are respectable.
Speaker 1: Both of those guys are respectable, and then they they
Speaker 1: have some help at the second level. Now, Um, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously Hitchens and the like I said, um, Melvin Ingram,
Speaker 1: both of those guys, those I mean, those are those
Speaker 1: are some respectable dudes now that you have to acknowledge
Speaker 1: that you have to take care of otherwise they if
Speaker 1: they get some confidence, they correct some stuff for you.
Speaker 1: What do you think, Steve Spagnolo, it's your birthday, you know,
Speaker 1: you know how I feel about guys that played against us,
Speaker 1: And you know in the NFC, E's Spacknolo. He's another guy.
Speaker 1: He's on the I'm on the revenge tour with him
Speaker 1: as well. Man lookt about what's Bags did to us
Speaker 1: and at four three defense that he brings. But you're right,
Speaker 1: Chris Jones, Frank Clark, all of those guys are are
Speaker 1: guys that you have to watch, and they play an
Speaker 1: aggressive style. They're trying to make up for some of
Speaker 1: their h and some of the things that they can't do. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, in Anthony Hitchins Man, I hated to see
Speaker 1: Anthony hitchins leave because he was solid for us in
Speaker 1: the middle. But I've also I'm happy that he was
Speaker 1: able to get a Super Bowl job. But he's a
Speaker 1: guy also that I think, you know, he's slowing down
Speaker 1: a little bit, and I think running game wise, we
Speaker 1: can do some things against them. I think by getting
Speaker 1: Zeke established early, it's going to be very important when
Speaker 1: we die. We had an interview with coach Dana Dimmo
Speaker 1: from Utah and I was pointing out the first thing
Speaker 1: I did was I attack him about his gray hair.
Speaker 1: He's like, well, you can't talk about me. Look at
Speaker 1: the grid your bid. He said, well, sometimes the best offense,
Speaker 1: the best defense is a good offense. So heyna, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go right to that that I know that our
Speaker 1: offense has to I know feel positioned. Ball control is
Speaker 1: very important in the game like this, but you know,
Speaker 1: just establishing the run, I think it's gonna be very important.
Speaker 1: But Honey Badger, the Honey Badger has been one of
Speaker 1: my all time favorite players from LSU all the way
Speaker 1: into the league. I love him. He's overly aggressive at times,
Speaker 1: and I think we could take advantage of his overly aggressiveness.
Speaker 1: But Daniel Soarson, he's the guy that after I watched
Speaker 1: tape that I felt like we could pin the tail
Speaker 1: on the donkey on number forty nine on Sorenson, and
Speaker 1: I'm looking for Dalton Scholtz, who man, by the way,
Speaker 1: Dalton Sholtz ran an out and up last week, that
Speaker 1: was textbook, I mean, and Dak missed him on that throw.
Speaker 1: But those are the kinds of things that I feel
Speaker 1: like we could take advantage of, especially when they go nickel.
Speaker 1: And I think right now one Thornhill has replaced Daniel Sorenson,
Speaker 1: so they pretty much rank him in in nickel situations.
Speaker 1: But again, I just think that for our offense, you
Speaker 1: just come on, man, pick a position, and I think
Speaker 1: we can exploit that. But I think no matter what
Speaker 1: they do, they have got to find an answer for
Speaker 1: what Amari Cooper can do to this defense. They can't.
Speaker 1: They can't double team everybody. Y'all buying this three game
Speaker 1: stress that they're on right now. They have not allowed
Speaker 1: more than twenty points in the last three games. Now.
Speaker 1: One game was to the Giants, one game was against
Speaker 1: Green Bay without Rogers, and then fourteen points to Vegas
Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders. So it's an average of like fifteen points
Speaker 1: game they're in this last three games. And I know,
Speaker 1: look Carolina, when we played Carolina, it was three games
Speaker 1: of great play by Carolina and then but they hadn't
Speaker 1: played the Cowboys, so we'll see. I think you're right.
Speaker 1: Like they got some strong in the middle guys. Hitchens,
Speaker 1: Bolton's linebacker makes place. Um oh, he was so good
Speaker 1: Frisco lone star guy here too, is he really? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Bolton went to lone star. Good young player. I'm with
Speaker 1: Isaiah though in terms of the corners, Like I think
Speaker 1: just watching back that Raider game, they tried to spread out.
Speaker 1: When they spread out their defense put they put Waller
Speaker 1: out wide, they hit him crossers and stuff over the middle.
Speaker 1: So I think you kind of stretch out their safeties
Speaker 1: and stuff like that with this is a this is
Speaker 1: an offense that can do that. We have a problem
Speaker 1: with the tight end. Yeah, So I think that's one
Speaker 1: area to watch. And obviously, like you said, they'll try
Speaker 1: to get the running game going for sure, especially in
Speaker 1: this road environment, trying to calm down the crowd a
Speaker 1: little bit because it's gonna be loud. So I'm looking
Speaker 1: at PF and of course PFF's always right whenever it
Speaker 1: agrees with me. But the out of the base defense
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs, and they run that four three base
Speaker 1: for the most part, there were only three players in
Speaker 1: the top fifty of their position grade wise this year,
Speaker 1: and that's Timon, Matthew want Thornhill, and then Jones off
Speaker 1: of the defensive line. But when they go to Nickel,
Speaker 1: it's a much better look. So you're probably gonna see
Speaker 1: a ton of nickel. That's what they want to run
Speaker 1: out of. It's what they run out of the majority
Speaker 1: of the time. It's what the Cowboys have gone up
Speaker 1: against pretty much the majority of the time this year.
Speaker 1: So I'm interested to see it. I think Finton's having
Speaker 1: a good year as well. He's been limited in staff,
Speaker 1: but he's had really good snaps. I'm interested to see
Speaker 1: if they use him in a couple more situations at
Speaker 1: like that. But man, I don't think of it as
Speaker 1: as looking at it and saying kind of like how
Speaker 1: we did going into Carolina, of like, they haven't played
Speaker 1: anybody there, but they're a really good defense. I think
Speaker 1: this is kind of a little bit in between. They've
Speaker 1: played a couple of people, But I don't think they're
Speaker 1: they're a bad defense. They're not, and I only and
Speaker 1: their corners are good Sneed's good too good. You're trying
Speaker 1: to look at they're young back there, and the Cowboys
Speaker 1: are so good on their perimeter. So if that's one
Speaker 1: area every week, really you look at and say they
Speaker 1: should be able to win. You know, you mentioned we
Speaker 1: mentioned in this yesterday, but two high safeties for the
Speaker 1: Cowboys potentially against their offense. Do you expect too high
Speaker 1: against the Cowboys offense this week? I think that you
Speaker 1: have to. I think both of these offenses you have
Speaker 1: to take the ben but don't break approach. You can't
Speaker 1: give up big plays either one of these teams. I
Speaker 1: mean it's gonna be a headache from both defensive coordinators
Speaker 1: trying to try to wrangle up either one of these
Speaker 1: teams as that's the best approach if you if you
Speaker 1: go single high, you're going to give up a big play,
Speaker 1: and a big play is what separates this game. You
Speaker 1: can have sixty snaps in the game and if you've
Speaker 1: got three breakout plays that changes the whole the whole
Speaker 1: tide of the game. You could be good for you know,
Speaker 1: for fifty plus snaps, but those those handful of plays,
Speaker 1: you know, can kill you. So that's the type of
Speaker 1: game that we're getting involved with on both sides. Both
Speaker 1: teams have to deal with it. Yeah, Oh man, and
Speaker 1: it's the flexibility of Tyrann Matthew and his ability to
Speaker 1: play at close to the line of scrimmage. The honey
Speaker 1: Badger is man. He's special. He don't care. He's a
Speaker 1: small he's small in stature, but he will stick his
Speaker 1: nose up there in there and he makes life hell
Speaker 1: for you, especially when you cannot establish your running game
Speaker 1: and you're tilting your hand that, oh, this is a passage.
Speaker 1: He will They will send him on the blitz and
Speaker 1: Spagnola does not have a problem with blitzing. And I
Speaker 1: think that's the one thing that I feel so much
Speaker 1: more comfortable about, is them trying to blitz Dak and
Speaker 1: you know, relegate guys to the front of our offensive line.
Speaker 1: We have to win this in the trenches. That is
Speaker 1: a must. We have to win in the trenches. I
Speaker 1: think he's going to want to blitz Dak. That's I
Speaker 1: wonder if he's not going to change his colors for us. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I do think having Ingram now in the lineup for
Speaker 1: a couple of games changes them a little bit, gives
Speaker 1: him another just a rotation piece. Yeah, and a guy
Speaker 1: that you know, just adds more versatility because they move
Speaker 1: him around and man, he delivered a thump in the
Speaker 1: run game against Vegas. You know, as I was talking
Speaker 1: about like being physical and stuff like that adds. That's
Speaker 1: a physical element that's added to their defense now. And
Speaker 1: so yeah, it becomes more important whether Tyran plays in
Speaker 1: this game or not. I'm mad at Ingram for that
Speaker 1: because he hit Josh Jones or Josh Jacobs and that's
Speaker 1: my running. It was all Jacobs, that's right. Yeah? Percentage wise?
Speaker 1: How percentage wise? Just give me a percentage, p Smith.
Speaker 1: I'm Tyring Smith. Come on, just give me a percentage
Speaker 1: just to make us feel better or worse. Uh, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go fifty fifty. Oh, don't talk me right, man, seriously,
Speaker 1: come and give me something. It's earlier in the week.
Speaker 1: I will. I always say, tell me after Thursday what
Speaker 1: he did in practice, and then I'll feel better. So
Speaker 1: tomorrow we will, first thing in the morning, First thing
Speaker 1: in the morning. Yeah, I got what's the percentage? What's
Speaker 1: it looked like? Um? The one thing I do want
Speaker 1: to bring up as our third down percentage, Okay, something
Speaker 1: that we have to improve on right now. We're at
Speaker 1: forty five percent um on third down and this is
Speaker 1: a game. We obviously, no, we can't. We can't get
Speaker 1: these boys, get these boys the ball back. We don't
Speaker 1: want to. We want to limit the amount of times
Speaker 1: they get the ball in their hands. So on third day,
Speaker 1: we got to keep these chains moving. So you know,
Speaker 1: take this point. We gotta get this running game going.
Speaker 1: We have to get this running game going, because we
Speaker 1: cannot be delegated just sitting back and throwing the ball,
Speaker 1: even though we can, even though we can, we want
Speaker 1: to make sure that we have a equal opportunal type
Speaker 1: offense in terms of being able to run and be
Speaker 1: able to run it when we want to, and be
Speaker 1: able to throw it when we want to keep these
Speaker 1: guys off balance. But we have to turn that percentage up.
Speaker 1: I think in this game we got to be over
Speaker 1: sixty percent on third down in order to lift their opportunities.
Speaker 1: We're just waiting no fourth down anyway. True. True, it
Speaker 1: would it surprised you to say that the Cowboys had
Speaker 1: the fifth highest third down percentage? True, Man, that doesn't
Speaker 1: that doesn't matter. I throw that out the window. I'm
Speaker 1: talking about you gotta. I don't care what everybody else
Speaker 1: in the league is doing in this game. In this game.
Speaker 1: You've got to be bad. You've got to be better.
Speaker 1: The chance. Sorry, you know, the penalties, the holy penalties.
Speaker 1: You can't have it this week. Third you can't get
Speaker 1: into second and twenty and all that. You know you can't.
Speaker 1: And Denver, that was a problem. You could not convert
Speaker 1: because you were so back behind the chains. You had
Speaker 1: so many long situations. And it hurts you, Atlanta, you played,
Speaker 1: you didn't even have. You probably had three third downs
Speaker 1: in the entire game, and they all came in the
Speaker 1: second half because the way you're the football and the
Speaker 1: way you kind of put it on them early. So
Speaker 1: I don't know if you can really take that game
Speaker 1: into it. And I think this is gonna be our
Speaker 1: greatest challenge. And I talk about emotional intelligence. I think
Speaker 1: this is gonna be our greatest challenge in terms of that.
Speaker 1: And we've had some issues with that this year. We
Speaker 1: have had some issues with that this year. Casey had
Speaker 1: a few. I think a Brown had one. There's been
Speaker 1: a couple of cases where our guys are kind of
Speaker 1: getting back and forth of mouth and pushing in all
Speaker 1: that jazz. I'm I believe this is going to be
Speaker 1: that type of game. I think the honey Badger is
Speaker 1: going to come in there talking mess. I think the
Speaker 1: environment is going to be crazy for that too, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, but I mean, I think that environment is
Speaker 1: gonna be crazy. I think obviously we know it's gonna
Speaker 1: be loud, it's gonna be crazy, it's gonna be primetime television.
Speaker 1: Guys gonna be flying around hidden. These are two offenses
Speaker 1: that feel like they can't be stopped in the defenses.
Speaker 1: They both feel disrespected because nobody's talking about their ability
Speaker 1: to stop anybody, and and they're at their home. So
Speaker 1: I think that we can expect these guys to try
Speaker 1: to get the Cowboys out of their mental state, the
Speaker 1: right mindset, because they know that if they get him
Speaker 1: in Thirtain loans in against their ability to be able
Speaker 1: to try to convert something. So I caution us, in
Speaker 1: terms of our emotional intelling, just to be able to
Speaker 1: just remain sound, remain within yourself, stick with the game plan,
Speaker 1: ignore the noise, and go ahead and push forward because
Speaker 1: they're gonna try to get you off your game real quickly.
Speaker 1: Before we take our second break, which of the games
Speaker 1: that the Cowboys have played so far this season, have
Speaker 1: you been tested the most in that regard. I think
Speaker 1: the first one that comes to mind is New England,
Speaker 1: but there have there been any other ones like that.
Speaker 1: Trying to think of just one game off the back,
Speaker 1: there's one. I just can't think which one it was.
Speaker 1: Um you're talking about as far as tested from a
Speaker 1: mental capacity, from a game discipline, I could see that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just from discipline standpoint, Yeah, they're the champs. They come in.
Speaker 1: I mean it's they let it hang. They hate the champy.
Speaker 1: They got the banner going up, you know, I mean,
Speaker 1: it didn't get in better than that. These guys they
Speaker 1: got to ask the grind with the whole league because
Speaker 1: they felt like they got embarrassed on national during the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl. So you know, it doesn't surprise me. Like
Speaker 1: you said, Tyrn Matthew, all of those guys are gonna
Speaker 1: be chirping, and there's only one way to handle a
Speaker 1: chirping bosom in the mow. I like that. I like
Speaker 1: that all right. When we come back here on talking cowboys,
Speaker 1: what are we talking about? What we're talking about, Kellen scheme,
Speaker 1: scorched Earth? Are we going scorched turfs? Are we going
Speaker 1: conservative to keep the defense at day We'll talk about
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Speaker 1: the battle of the forty million dollars per year quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it sure is a lot of money in the backfield.
Speaker 1: Only three quarterbacks getting paid forty million dollars a year.
Speaker 1: It's a caliber collision game. Get money, get that bank,
Speaker 1: and then keep them safe. We talked about that on
Speaker 1: Media mass yesterday. How I had thought about it either,
Speaker 1: But it's like nobody even talks about Dak's contract anymore.
Speaker 1: And because they can, and the value did he is
Speaker 1: he worth it? And all this stuff. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think we have the answer resounding yes the way they
Speaker 1: went away pretty fast, didn't it? Did it did? Thank goodness.
Speaker 1: I was never on that fence. But like, because we
Speaker 1: all wanted to pay him, yeah, we all wanted it
Speaker 1: to be an extension. I don't think there was any
Speaker 1: conflict on this show about getting Dak Prescott signed up.
Speaker 1: And honestly, if you cover this team, I don't know
Speaker 1: how you could be outside of that. I mean, knowing
Speaker 1: what he brings to the table and things of the sort.
Speaker 1: Even as a fan, A lot of fans were against it. Fine,
Speaker 1: I get out there's a little bit of a riff there,
Speaker 1: But I really the more you look at it, the
Speaker 1: more it makes sense. Steve Dennis brought up a good
Speaker 1: point on that show. I mean, there's about six teams
Speaker 1: you feel like can really win it this year, and
Speaker 1: it's because of the quarterback play, and the Cowboys are
Speaker 1: in that group. Oh that's so fun to hear. I
Speaker 1: love it all right, final couple minutes, kelln Moore, is
Speaker 1: there a chance to be conservative here? Kind of play
Speaker 1: things safe? What Dak Prescott run the offense, manage things
Speaker 1: and just you know, make sure your defense wins the
Speaker 1: field position battle and you're not pushed up against the wall,
Speaker 1: you're not necessarily giving the ball back or gentlemen, is
Speaker 1: there a chance to go scorched earth and go super
Speaker 1: aggressive early? Throw Knima Governed out in the slot, throw
Speaker 1: Zeke out in the slot, get somebody in motion, do
Speaker 1: a reverse. I don't even care. How does kelln Moore
Speaker 1: attack this game plan? I'm wow, you say it was
Speaker 1: gonna be a change. I see it. You know, like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this too before before I make my point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of Eric being to me, I
Speaker 1: feel like this man should have been a head coach
Speaker 1: a long time ago. I do not like the fact
Speaker 1: that when Kansas City starts to struggle, everyone starts saying, well,
Speaker 1: maybe Read and be Enemy are not on the same page.
Speaker 1: You were not saying that when they were going to
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, so stop it. And so for the matchup
Speaker 1: of offensive minds, you got a lot of genius people
Speaker 1: calling offenses on Sunday in this game. And I just
Speaker 1: feel like Kellen Moore is ascending at such a fast
Speaker 1: rate that people are not even able to recognize his genius.
Speaker 1: We talk about the formations for Kansas City and the
Speaker 1: different things that they do, like how do you how
Speaker 1: do you prepare for an offense that's running every formation
Speaker 1: twelve eleven, all of those things. It's really hard to
Speaker 1: game plan for what Kellen Moore is doing because each
Speaker 1: and every week he's expanding on his play calling. And
Speaker 1: so when I think about this game, obviously you don't
Speaker 1: want to hang your offense your defense out to dry.
Speaker 1: You definitely cannot have a repeat of the Denver game
Speaker 1: where you had less than twenty minutes with the ball.
Speaker 1: So that's the only reason why I say field position
Speaker 1: is going to be important. Taking somebody said of taking
Speaker 1: the crowd out of it with the run the game,
Speaker 1: that's gonna be important as well. But I think we
Speaker 1: put our foot on the neck as well. I think
Speaker 1: we go right back to firing. You know, we go
Speaker 1: right back to it. What's good? Are you okay with
Speaker 1: them going for it on fourth down like they have
Speaker 1: been in the past. Absolutely, don't change the thing. Keeps,
Speaker 1: don't chant against putting your defense in a potentially bad position. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's kind of what the No, it really the conversation.
Speaker 1: It could definitely put you in a bad and in
Speaker 1: a way, it's contradictory to say that. But I want
Speaker 1: to see this Cowboys teams be be aggressive. And I
Speaker 1: think Mike McCarthy has continued win, lose a draw, and
Speaker 1: whether he goes oh for four on fourth downs or
Speaker 1: three for one on fourth downs, he's continuing to be aggressive.
Speaker 1: And that's what I'm That's all I'm looking for is
Speaker 1: don't change up your spots now. Don't get to that
Speaker 1: big time game like we did. Like look, it took
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, what was it admitted as something to to
Speaker 1: get that drive. Let's not pull off the gas on them.
Speaker 1: Let's let's keep it down. Let's let's just win this one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: to your question, is it I have a question. Is
Speaker 1: it harder to do that and be that aggressive on
Speaker 1: fourth down in a crowd environment like this on the road,
Speaker 1: do you worry about pre snap communication, penalties and guys
Speaker 1: on the same page. No, because so much of the
Speaker 1: game is nonverbal. Now, okay, I think I think there's
Speaker 1: more that's that's kind of always kind of laugh because
Speaker 1: no disrespect to to fans, but the crowd always gets
Speaker 1: loud when you break the huddle, Like that's that's hard
Speaker 1: the communication. The communication is already taking place, you know,
Speaker 1: So like if you want to be loud, and I
Speaker 1: Shouldn't'm not, well, they're not listening to us. Hopefully, be loud.
Speaker 1: I mean you know what I'm saying, Like, be loud,
Speaker 1: prefect Cowboys fans, whatever we have our next home home game,
Speaker 1: be be loud in the huddle. Like when when when
Speaker 1: those teams come to the huddle, be loud, because that's
Speaker 1: when you're communicating to the office on line. That's when
Speaker 1: you're communicating to everybody else to know what they're supposed
Speaker 1: to do. Now, at the line of scrimmage, you're making alterations.
Speaker 1: But if I'm a quarterback, I'm coming up and I'm
Speaker 1: tapping my center and I'm communicating directly in my receivers.
Speaker 1: It's all nonverbals anyway, It's all hands signals and nonverbals.
Speaker 1: So to your point, no, I don't. I don't foresee
Speaker 1: that be an issue. I just I am concerned though
Speaker 1: about us being as aggressive as we've been and not
Speaker 1: being successful with it. Now we're given kanc to the
Speaker 1: ball on their side of the fifty most likely. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a fair concern. No, it is, And I'm starting
Speaker 1: to think about the next two or two of the
Speaker 1: next three weeks. I mean, of course you've got the
Speaker 1: Thanksgiving game here, but really, the two next road games
Speaker 1: you have as a ball club are two of the
Speaker 1: tougher places to play in the league, in the Superdome
Speaker 1: and Arrowhead. I mean, those are the next two road
Speaker 1: games you've got. So this is an opportunity not only
Speaker 1: to win this game and to keep the pedal down,
Speaker 1: but to also learn and to pick up different tendencies
Speaker 1: from your team that you could take into the postseason
Speaker 1: as well, to take into the playoffs. Because if you
Speaker 1: have to go to LAMBA, hopefully it's home field, and
Speaker 1: the road to the Super Bowls through At and T Stadium.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that, but if you have to go
Speaker 1: on the road and you have to play at Lambo,
Speaker 1: you have to play it so far to play at Arizona,
Speaker 1: You've already You've done it already, You've already beaten teams
Speaker 1: like Arrowhead and at that's the super Dome. You are
Speaker 1: number one and scoring, you are the number one offense.
Speaker 1: You have nothing to You got the best hand, you know,
Speaker 1: don't second guess it when you got it, play it,
Speaker 1: you know, And this isn't the time. We don't have
Speaker 1: to come up against Kansas City and start second guessing
Speaker 1: what we do. Be aggressive, you know, if we want
Speaker 1: to put the AFCO notice, put them on notice and
Speaker 1: beat the best that's out there. I believe that's that's
Speaker 1: the game plan, and I believe that this is the
Speaker 1: way that this team is going to approach it. And
Speaker 1: the last time I heard this this morning on our
Speaker 1: flagstips stationed the fan was the last time that the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys were number one and scoring and total offense
Speaker 1: was in nineteen ninety five, and ninety five was a
Speaker 1: good year. Yeah they want something that, Yeah, yeah, I
Speaker 1: love that. And I think the last time that they
Speaker 1: led it at the end of the season like that
Speaker 1: was seventy one when they wanted it the first time
Speaker 1: with Roger. So, I mean there's a lot of things
Speaker 1: going on. Oh gosh, all right, that's a good one
Speaker 1: to end on. Thanks for joining us here. I'm Talking
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Speaker 1: I've updated standings and everything when we come back tomorrow,
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