WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: The MVP Debate 0:00:07.880 --> 0:00:10.400 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:10.400 --> 0:00:19.880 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club Cowboys. This is Talking Cowboys, 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:23.720 screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:32.520 Star in Frisco. Elliot flowing to the Scott and now 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:37.599 your hosts Isaiah Stanback, heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips, and 0:00:37.840 --> 0:00:43.800 Kyle Yeoman's It is a Thursday edition of Talking Cowboys 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:49.160 presented by Toe Stdo's Getting fans right back in the game. 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:53.760 Welcome into the SWBC studios at the Star in Frisco. 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:58.400 It is a Thursday before the Cowboys and the Chiefs. 0:00:58.920 --> 0:01:01.680 Week of Weaven of the NFL season is here, and 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:03.920 we are going to talk about the Cowboys offense and 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:07.200 how they can exploit that Kansas City defense over the 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.040 next forty five minutes. Hope you're buckled up ready to go, 0:01:10.200 --> 0:01:13.800 because Heck Harrison's here, Isaiah standbacks here, Rob Phillips as always, 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.080 Chris Beam in the back of Kyle Yeoman. So glad 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:19.560 you're with us, And gentlemen, there you go. I mean, 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:22.720 it's it's gonna be collecting coins. It's warm, fuzzy feelings 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:25.160 all the way from here on out. That's some super Mario. 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.200 Yea love it. Chris, who you go and do the 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:30.080 jump and then you hit the brick and then dud 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.880 the little coin pops down? How goes? What was that? 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:36.360 How did it? God? Is that? How it is that? One? Instead? 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:40.000 Cut that? And then if you use that on any 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:42.199 other show other than ours, I could just imagine Derek 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:45.000 being like, what the heck was that? What are we 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:52.600 doing here? So? Ho ho ho? Thanks Brad. Another grace 0:01:52.960 --> 0:01:55.400 even better? Oh it is? Yeah, it's tis the season. 0:01:56.400 --> 0:01:59.040 Anybody looked at Christmas lights? Everybody put up their Christmas lights. 0:01:59.080 --> 0:02:01.680 Yet no wife's been on my head about it, so 0:02:02.120 --> 0:02:05.040 I guess it's just it's coming in here soon. It's coming. Heck, 0:02:05.080 --> 0:02:08.680 min's your tree up? Nope? Not yet, nope. No. Do 0:02:08.720 --> 0:02:13.320 you guys hang your own lights up at your house? Yeah? Outside? Yeah, 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:16.000 since we've moved though, No, we might put it like 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:19.200 a little lit up yeah, something low ornament. I did 0:02:19.200 --> 0:02:21.240 it one time, like at the arch of the house, 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:23.600 like the very peak. I won't do that again, like 0:02:23.760 --> 0:02:26.560 Christmas vacations. Yeah, that's not me. Or I was definitely 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:29.760 up at the top. My wife left me so inside 0:02:29.800 --> 0:02:31.520 of it. Hey, wait, a minute. Wait, wait, wait, wait, 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:33.160 if I fall and break some up, I need somebody 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:35.519 to call them called nine one. Have you ever fallen 0:02:35.560 --> 0:02:37.760 while doing the Christmas Like, oh heck no. I was 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.119 so scared though. I was literally shaking on the top 0:02:40.160 --> 0:02:42.040 of the peak of my house, just kind of holding 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:44.280 a bear. I'm gonna like this looking down like help, 0:02:44.880 --> 0:02:49.480 sound like me with the heights. Yeah, I always do 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:52.640 all my stuff. Man, It's yeah, that's just wish. You know, 0:02:53.080 --> 0:02:54.720 how long does it normally take you to do it? 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:56.840 Because I don't have a house yet, so I don't. 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.280 It's it's a well now that I have, you know, 0:02:59.360 --> 0:03:02.120 I incorporate the kids in and as well, so it's 0:03:02.160 --> 0:03:04.560 not what yeah, get a little heck out there. No, 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:06.600 we get everybody. I mean, if you want to lie, 0:03:06.720 --> 0:03:10.400 yeah yeah yeah. And so it's a team effort and 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:12.760 so what happens. It's really cool. You know, my daughter 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:15.280 she names all of the little blow ups that we have. 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:18.760 So so we have a snowman she's named at CARDI 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:21.080 b don't even ask, it's just what it is. And 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.720 we're just gonna deal with Christmas as the Heckma's house 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:27.640 looks like the grizz Walls. It does. I'm married to 0:03:27.680 --> 0:03:31.519 the black version of the grizz Walls, so trust me. 0:03:31.680 --> 0:03:35.040 It's at my house once and my wife walked outside 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:37.120 as me and my dad and his truck was in 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:39.800 the front of our house with the ladder on it, 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:44.360 and my wife, No, who are calling to do this 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:48.760 next year? Who's who's doing it next time? Because it's 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:50.920 not you? No, But it's a family, a familyoy. You 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:54.080 get everybody out of here and watch this. Yeah, that's 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:59.720 the best line right before trouble, but right right before truble. 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:03.760 If you hear that line, then you know something's uh 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:06.560 and and man, I've heard that a couple different times 0:04:06.560 --> 0:04:09.160 in my life. I grew up in a country family 0:04:09.280 --> 0:04:11.440 out in Waco, and we had we had some land 0:04:11.440 --> 0:04:13.119 out there. There was a couple hold of my beers. 0:04:12.960 --> 0:04:14.760 That's awesome. It was fun. It was a lot of fun. 0:04:15.400 --> 0:04:20.320 But uh, anyways, with the with with it being November eighteenth, 0:04:20.480 --> 0:04:22.640 I feel like everybody's still I was driving through a 0:04:22.640 --> 0:04:25.560 neighborhood yesterday and every other house already had their lights 0:04:25.640 --> 0:04:27.360 up and stuff. So I was asking you guys, if 0:04:27.360 --> 0:04:30.120 you were on that train yet. Well, it's big business now. 0:04:30.160 --> 0:04:33.560 For like these little lawn usually it's like a long 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:36.920 company that comes out there and just hang your lights. Now, yeah, 0:04:36.960 --> 0:04:40.599 you just kind of it together with your three hundred dollars, 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:42.120 you know, for you to rent them for them to 0:04:42.120 --> 0:04:43.880 come put your lights up, take them down. And I 0:04:43.960 --> 0:04:46.080 need to look at that then going yeah, Rob's like 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.840 that's not that bad. Less effort for me. Yeah, there 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.080 you go. All right. News and notes from the Cowboys 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:53.760 back on the practice field yesterday, and it really seemed 0:04:53.760 --> 0:04:55.919 like it was a lot of good news from the Cowboys. 0:04:55.920 --> 0:05:00.120 No bad notifications from Rob Phillips yesterday. Thank you was 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:02.599 for heck, that was just for heck. Yeah. This is 0:05:02.600 --> 0:05:05.800 the cleanest injury report I've seen since I don't know, 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.720 Week one, maybe knock on wood a few times. There's 0:05:08.760 --> 0:05:12.719 only one guy who was limited nobody miss practice, you know. 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.719 That's on the active roster currently, Tyrann Smith limited with 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:18.559 the ankle injury. Only other guys on the injury report 0:05:18.640 --> 0:05:22.640 Mary Cooper, Zeke Will Greer, the backup quarterback Cedric Wilson, 0:05:22.800 --> 0:05:26.640 and the Sean Wright all full. Wow, so no CD 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:29.400 even on the injured list. He's on it. Oh, he's 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:32.720 on it. But a full participate. Yeah, with that tricept deal. 0:05:32.839 --> 0:05:35.400 So he's good. Well, that's good because I know, at 0:05:35.440 --> 0:05:36.960 least toward the back end of that game that was 0:05:37.000 --> 0:05:38.520 one of my worries was looking at him on the 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:42.920 sideline and him, of course not coming back in a 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:44.000 lot of a lot of that had to do with 0:05:44.040 --> 0:05:46.640 the fact that it was forty three to three, so 0:05:46.880 --> 0:05:48.839 thank goodness for that, he didn't have to come back in. 0:05:48.920 --> 0:05:51.120 So I'm glad to see him ready to go. Yeah, 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:54.719 I thought it was a shoulder game. Arm contusion is 0:05:54.720 --> 0:05:57.279 what they said during the game. But he looked okay 0:05:57.279 --> 0:05:59.080 on the sideline. There is that the new word for 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:03.159 booboo contusion? I think so some bruise or yeah, some 0:06:03.240 --> 0:06:05.039 guy came at me with like ten questions, So you 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.320 mean a bruise, Is that what that is? I'm like, yeah, 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.120 that's what it. I'm just giving you. The quad contusion 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:13.520 is the worst. Sounds bad. Oh, it's terrible. Why is 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:16.400 it worse than any other because you can't bend you 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:19.480 can't bend your leg if you mean, that's why thipads 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:21.120 are so important. A lot of guys back in the 0:06:21.200 --> 0:06:23.240 days to try to take the thigh pads out and 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:25.159 they would get fine, So you have to So guys 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:27.800 would literally take the thigh pad. High school students don't 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:30.599 listen to this. Take the thigh pads, take a razor blake, 0:06:30.680 --> 0:06:33.200 cut it open and take the It's a hard plastic 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:35.159 insert so it's like really thin. And you guys would 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.000 slide that into their pants to say if they have 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.840 their thiahpads, because they do. Um. But if you didn't 0:06:39.880 --> 0:06:42.720 have that and you take a shot to the thigh, 0:06:41.520 --> 0:06:45.520 oh man, you have to sleep with your knee bent 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.400 wrapped with an ace banish because if you straighten it 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:51.160 out and it starts trying to you know, the scarchis 0:06:51.160 --> 0:06:53.360 you starts trying to build knee, trying to bend your knee. 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:56.440 Have fun with that and like sitting down. I feel 0:06:56.440 --> 0:06:58.960 like even now it would hurt if you're sitting on 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:01.800 a on a stool or if you're just working. You 0:07:01.839 --> 0:07:04.400 know that happened to Dez Bryan against that. I believe 0:07:04.440 --> 0:07:07.800 it was the Jets. Remember that rom Yeah, I remember 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.280 that's what he had. Yeah, you're right, he did a 0:07:10.440 --> 0:07:12.760 I think it was a punt return and it put 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:14.720 him out for like gosh to put him out for 0:07:14.760 --> 0:07:17.840 like a while, like six weeks. Wow, it sucks. Yeah, 0:07:17.840 --> 0:07:20.960 it was bad. Goodness six weeks for a contusion, Huh, 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.120 it was it was bad. We lost him for a 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:26.360 while that week. It's not fun. Not fun. Well, luckily, 0:07:26.520 --> 0:07:28.480 Ceede Lamb's good to go, and we're going to see 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:31.040 him back on the field this week, because, well, this 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:34.240 Cowboys offense has an opportunity to really make their name 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:37.080 known across the nation if it hasn't been already. I 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:39.560 feel like the nation's already taken notice on what the 0:07:39.600 --> 0:07:41.520 Cowboys were doing on that side of the football. But 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.960 I want to kind of keep the opening conversation of 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:49.080 this show centered around Dak Prescott because you're looking at 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:52.280 the stats going into it with Mahomes and Prescott, and 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:57.200 this is a historically, i mean a potential for a 0:07:57.280 --> 0:08:00.600 historic matchup because of the numbers coming into it. You 0:08:00.640 --> 0:08:02.960 look at some of the different comparisons of games before. 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:05.520 I mean, Manning and Romo are on that conversation. You 0:08:05.560 --> 0:08:08.520 look at Breeze in Romo back in twenty fourteen. I mean, 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:10.040 there are a bunch of different ones. That one didn't 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:12.280 go well for the Cowboys, but there are a bunch 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:15.760 of different big time matchups that this lines up against 0:08:16.000 --> 0:08:19.240 in terms of quarterbacks, and of course it's Dak's first 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:22.760 trip to Arrowhead, It's mahomes first game against his childhood 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:25.960 favorite team in the Dallas Cowboys. So is this the 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:30.120 best opportunity to see Dak Prescott take that step to 0:08:30.200 --> 0:08:33.800 being considered elite not just around Cowboys Nation, but around 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:38.240 the entire nation as a whole. Oh yeah, yeah. To 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.640 answer that question, okay, well yeah, I mean this is 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.120 this is you want to go against the best. You 0:08:43.160 --> 0:08:45.040 want to circle this on the calendar and say, look, 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.400 I get an opportunity to show everybody how I match up. Obviously, 0:08:48.440 --> 0:08:50.440 it's a team game and you need so many different 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:54.040 people to help you be successful. But for Dak, he 0:08:54.200 --> 0:08:57.000 I'm sure he's tired of everybody keeping him on the 0:08:57.080 --> 0:09:00.800 outside of that elite conversation. And there are some guys, Look, 0:09:00.920 --> 0:09:04.280 you don't touch the Aaron Rodgers is, the Tom Brady's, 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:07.720 even Patrick Mahomes. He's done it at a high level 0:09:07.760 --> 0:09:10.640 for so long, so come on, I mean, but you 0:09:10.679 --> 0:09:13.320 cannot continue to keep him out of that conversation. And 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:15.040 there's so many people that they try and push to 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:18.400 the front without even giving him credit for his QBR 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.680 how he came in the league not turning the ball over. 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:25.240 I just feel as though, obviously it's the cowboy Hey, 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:26.760 I'm much gonna put it out there, this is the 0:09:26.760 --> 0:09:29.600 cowboy hate. But you can no longer deny Dak of 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:33.319 elite status. And then he has Ezekiel Elliott, he has 0:09:33.360 --> 0:09:35.400 the offensive line and what if this? What if that? 0:09:35.720 --> 0:09:38.439 He has all of those things and he's successful in it. 0:09:38.640 --> 0:09:42.400 He's done it really well with Kellen Moore's offense and 0:09:42.679 --> 0:09:45.360 the throws that he's making. Like one of these guys 0:09:45.360 --> 0:09:49.040 had made a walk off touchdown throw like he did 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:51.960 against New England, we'd still be seeing the highlights from 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:53.920 But Dak does it. Let's see it a couple of times. 0:09:53.960 --> 0:09:56.840 It's not on replay because it's Dak right. And then 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:58.280 they don't want to go back to when they were 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:00.800 talking about when WinCE was better than him, or they 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:04.120 the Detroit quarterback was better than him. They even Matthew Stafford, 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:08.040 Matthew the one that's now current. Oh, I think matt 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:11.640 Stafford as well, matthe Stafford and Jared Goff, but they 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.400 compared him and now, especially last season when it came 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:18.640 down to all of the contract talk. Was that gonna 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:21.079 get paid? And what was that gonna get paid? How 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.040 does he measure up? Patrick mahomes got I think he 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:26.440 got signed this contract right before Dak signed is you 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:28.800 can no longer keep him outside of this contract, I 0:10:28.800 --> 0:10:31.160 mean outside of this conversation, whether whether it be to 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:34.280 money or playing. He she's showing you at each level. 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:36.560 And that's just my belief. And I'm a homer, so 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:39.319 to take it forward with a grain of salt, because 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:41.200 that's where I'm putting it. But I'm just saying, there's 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.360 no way that you can keep Dak outside of the 0:10:43.720 --> 0:10:47.760 conversation any longer. Statistically, it's true, he's played better than 0:10:47.800 --> 0:10:50.280 anybody else in the league right now. Over those guys, 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:52.720 he's played better than those And it's on the film too, 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:55.480 And I agree with you completely, And yes we are 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.280 a Cowboys podcast, but at some point you look at 0:10:58.280 --> 0:11:00.520 the statistics, you look at the completion forage, the way 0:11:00.559 --> 0:11:02.440 he's take care of taking care of the football, the 0:11:02.440 --> 0:11:05.439 way he's navigating an offense, and you have to put 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:08.920 him in that conversation. Yeah, I personally think he's getting 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:12.320 the due he needs Nationally. I hear you. I know 0:11:12.360 --> 0:11:14.960 there's haters out there, especially within this division, the fan 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:17.359 bases and all that, but I think people were recognizing 0:11:17.400 --> 0:11:20.679 how great of a season he's having. I don't know 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.600 that he's considered the top of the MVP race right now, 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:28.400 but this is the game to elevate yourself into maybe 0:11:28.400 --> 0:11:31.320 the first spot. Him and Kyler, I think should. I 0:11:31.320 --> 0:11:33.120 think he and Kyler should be considered the top two 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:35.160 guys right now based on the way their teams are playing. 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:38.439 They're rising stars in the NFL. I think that always 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:41.960 should carry weight what they're doing as far as improvement. 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:44.480 And then they play each other at some point down 0:11:44.520 --> 0:11:46.040 the road too, so I think that'll be a lot 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:47.960 of fun. But I think if you go on the 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.000 road to Arrowhead and you go toe to toe with 0:11:50.040 --> 0:11:52.240 Pat Mahomes and you win that game and you play well, 0:11:52.679 --> 0:11:54.280 I think he should be the front runner for MVP. 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:57.840 That's just me personally. Why Kyler and Dak over some 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:00.240 of the other quarterbacks. Josh Allen's having a great year. 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:01.760 I mean, there are other guys out there, but why 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.600 those two. Well, maybe I'm partial to see it, wanting 0:12:04.600 --> 0:12:07.720 to see something new. Maybe that's just me but you 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.720 mentioned the stats. I mean, among starters, the top two 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:14.440 guys in terms of completion percentage, just for one stat 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:17.240 it's Kyler and then it's Dak and it's over seventy percent. 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:18.960 They're the only two guys in the league doing that. 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:21.360 And you think about, like Mike McCarthy said yesterday, this 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.600 is not a dink and dunk offense that we're running here. 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:26.400 That's what makes it so impressive. Yeah, and you know 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:29.240 they both miss a little time off the field, but 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.520 you know, usually this award goes to the teams who 0:12:32.600 --> 0:12:34.880 have the best records, and these teams are right there, 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.560 Arizona and Dallas right now. What do you think? What's 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:41.440 your original question? Is Dak supposed to be in the 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:45.920 elite conversation? Does Dak deserve to be in that elite conversation? Yeah, 0:12:45.960 --> 0:12:48.280 I don't think that he isn't. I think I'm along 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.800 the same lines as Rob. Cowboys are gonna get hate regardless. 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:53.839 I don't care if it's quarterback, running back, office a line, 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:57.640 it doesn't matter quarterback. The Cowboys are going to receive 0:12:57.679 --> 0:13:00.440 hate from around a league, around other fan bases. That's 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.400 just reality. But also the reality is Dak is getting 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:07.240 respected from the league, from players, from people who decide 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:09.520 on who's having a conversation in terms of MVP race. 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:12.080 I think Dak is in those conversations. I think what 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:15.000 separates Dak from some of these other guys that we 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.559 that we're talking about when we started talking about the 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:19.720 Aaron Rodgers to Tom Bradys and things like that, is 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:23.280 his playoffs. That's what people are, I think, are waiting 0:13:23.280 --> 0:13:25.640 to see. So I don't think this game so much 0:13:25.760 --> 0:13:28.280 is gonna give him that big jump that everybody needs 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.880 to see to be in this considered this, you know, 0:13:31.000 --> 0:13:32.560 for guys to consider him to be, Oh my god, 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:34.680 he says this elite quarterback. I think he's an elite 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:36.440 quarterback in terms of how he's playing right now. But 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:38.280 when you talk of talking about elite in terms of 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:40.559 career wise, I think people are going to look at 0:13:40.600 --> 0:13:43.760 the playoffs and that's just that's just the facts. That's 0:13:43.760 --> 0:13:45.760 our male bad question today. Actually, why why are the 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:49.560 Cowboys considered underdogs? It's resume. I mean, it's it's resume. 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.720 Pat Mahomes is twenty five years old and he's done 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:55.400 it all already, and he's playing really well and this 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:57.800 team starting to ascend like we thought they would, and 0:13:57.840 --> 0:14:00.000 they're playing at Arrowhead. That's that's why the Cowboys are 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:01.520 or underdogs in this game. But if you look at 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:04.280 the whole body of work, there's no reason they can't 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:06.080 go in there and win the way they play when 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.720 they're playing their best, and Matt Stafford is considered elite 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:12.240 and he hadn't won a playoff game in there. There's 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:15.199 what I guess when I'm what I'm referring to is 0:14:15.840 --> 0:14:18.280 the people that say, like, right now, when you talk 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:21.640 about the MVP race, yeah, how is he not you know, 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.040 tops in that MVP race? Who do you think that 0:14:24.200 --> 0:14:26.080 of him? Like? Nationally, who do you think people are 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:28.320 talking about more? I think people are definitely talking more 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:31.680 about Kyler. People are definitely still talking more about Aaron Rodgers, 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:33.840 even with the games that he missed over Dak. I 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:36.880 think even Tom Brady at this point, you know, I 0:14:36.920 --> 0:14:39.640 just believe Jarrick Henry's probably in that conversation as a 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.800 non quarterback, but he's not gonna win it now, right, 0:14:42.920 --> 0:14:45.280 And so I mean, look, just going back to years past, 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:48.880 I think it was eighty seven John Elway one h MVP, 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:52.960 but then at the same time Montana was balling, Rice 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:55.960 was balling Jared Rice one offensive Player of the Year 0:14:56.600 --> 0:14:58.840 that year, and they went to the player I believe 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:03.600 they played Man Denver played New York the Giants in 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:06.080 the Super Bowl. That yeah, this Giants won that game. 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:09.280 But still, you know, you talk about how the national 0:15:09.320 --> 0:15:11.960 media tries to prop other guys up against and it's 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:15.240 always good to use PFF when it is in favor 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:20.160 of your argument. You know, you know, I definitely that 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:24.120 if I need something like it's the end all be 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:27.360 all when he was well, p PFF said where right now, 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:30.200 even when you go to PF, Dak's numbers are legit 0:15:30.400 --> 0:15:32.880 versus everybody. That's all I'm saying is give him his due, now, 0:15:33.360 --> 0:15:35.160 you know, give him his due. That's my only point. 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:37.120 I mean, there are guys in the I mean, Stephen 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.920 a is making an NFL part of his career out 0:15:39.960 --> 0:15:42.640 of hating cowboys. It's I mean, it's kind of a 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:45.640 wrestling character. You know, he didn't see and he knows 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:47.920 it like it's it's it's a stick. Yeah, it's it's 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:51.000 a bit so beyond that, like, I don't think there's 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:52.600 a lot of hate for Dak. I do think, like 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:56.120 Isaiah said, there is some of hey, they they they're 0:15:56.160 --> 0:15:58.800 this good, gotta they gotta go prove it when it 0:15:59.000 --> 0:16:01.640 really counts, you know. I think it's a little bit 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.680 of in between. Sure, the resume does play a factor 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.280 because I think if maybe Dak Prescott would have had 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:10.000 some playoff success, and I mean certainly with this team 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.680 he could have playoffs success. But once again, if it 0:16:12.720 --> 0:16:14.800 doesn't happen, then he's going to be right back there, 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:18.280 slotted back down because of how quickly understandably people can turn. 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.520 And also not to mention, I think, like I said, 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:22.880 I think it could be kind of in the middle 0:16:22.920 --> 0:16:25.320 here because if he goes out against Kansas City at 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:28.600 Arrowhead and he throws for three fifty throws three touchdowns, 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:31.080 doesn't throw a pick, Cowboys win by a touchdown or two. 0:16:31.400 --> 0:16:34.960 I think that conversation is automatically Okay, Kyler, you're doing great, 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.800 But Dak Prescott's the MVP candidate, He's the front runner 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:40.440 at the moment. That's what kind of game this could 0:16:40.480 --> 0:16:43.000 be for Dak. I'm not saying that, I'm not predicting 0:16:43.040 --> 0:16:44.960 that's the case, but if he goes out and does it, 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:47.600 which he could. Then all of a sudden, he's right 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:49.000 up at the top of that MVP race, and I 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:51.040 don't think it's a doubt. You don't want him to 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:55.320 win the MVP though there's an MVP the jinks. Yeah, 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.040 the last person to win the MVP and to win 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:00.360 the Super Bowl was nineteen ninety nine and Kurt Warner, 0:17:01.000 --> 0:17:03.560 I like that twenty five years So, Dak, I need 0:17:03.560 --> 0:17:07.040 you to throw for one ninety one touchdowns and the 0:17:07.119 --> 0:17:13.680 coop in the regular season not translate to super Bowl success. Yeah. True, 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:15.679 it's only been ten players ever do it well if 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:18.680 they get if they get the buy and I'm getting 0:17:18.720 --> 0:17:21.080 way ahead of myself, jump out the I'm just saying, 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:24.000 if they get the buy and win, however many games 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:27.840 and he's still playing at this level, he's the MVP. 0:17:28.400 --> 0:17:30.199 I don't think you can make another case for I 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.679 really don't after and I think that's part of his 0:17:32.760 --> 0:17:35.080 story too, you know, he might he's I think he 0:17:35.119 --> 0:17:37.440 should win't come back too, but they can win. You 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:40.119 come back in his sleep. He I think he can 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:43.080 win Comeback Player of the Year right now. If I mean, 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:45.679 if the season ended it was it would definitely be 0:17:45.800 --> 0:17:48.960 his but you're right that consistency has to continue now 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:52.040 real quickly before we take our first break. How just 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:55.119 every time I look at this number, I'm astonished. But 0:17:55.240 --> 0:17:59.760 seventy percent completion, how just unbelievably tough is that to 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.280 do at any level of football across the board, high 0:18:02.280 --> 0:18:05.520 school football, college football, it could be middle school football. 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:09.240 Completing seventy percent of your passes is unbelievable. Him and 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:11.240 Kyler Murray are both doing that. How tough is that 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:13.320 to do from a quarterback standpoint? And it's really tough, 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.520 And I think it's a testament to not only the system, 0:18:16.720 --> 0:18:20.919 but his adaptation of that system, his decision making, his accuracy, 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:22.919 all those things. I mean, that's not when people here 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:25.400 completion percentage, people just think, Okay, well man, he's he's 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:27.800 really accurate with the ball, And that's not always the case. 0:18:27.880 --> 0:18:30.200 It's also about the decision making when you throw the ball, 0:18:30.200 --> 0:18:32.119 when you decide to keep the ball, when you decide 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.119 to dump it off to a shorter route instead of 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:36.320 being trying to force something down the field. So it's 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:38.840 it's a it's a picture. It's a snapshot image of 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:41.720 a bit of of something that's outside the frame. Right, 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:44.640 it's a larger picture, but you can't. You can't encompass 0:18:44.680 --> 0:18:46.800 everything with just that one stat But I think he's 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:48.920 doing an amazing job. And yes, seventy percent is crazy, 0:18:49.040 --> 0:18:51.480 especially in his NFL, especially in a system that they're running. 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:54.320 That's just nuts for me to look at. I mean, 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:56.040 when Heckma and I are doing a high school game 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:58.920 or a college game and we see somewhere like sixties 0:18:59.240 --> 0:19:03.000 mid sixties of completion percentage, We're like, that guy's balling money. 0:19:03.040 --> 0:19:05.879 That guy's do that guy's dealing right now. Seventy percent. 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:08.680 It's just next level. And Dak Prescott's doing that all right? 0:19:08.680 --> 0:19:11.320 When we come back, what kind of mismatches does the 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:15.360 Cowboys offense have against that Kansas City defense? Where are 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:17.760 the weak spots? Because there definitely are some on the 0:19:17.800 --> 0:19:21.240 cheap side of things. When we return with more talking Cowboys, Honey, 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:24.520 big news, Gary? Are you okay? Oh? I'm not Gary anymore. 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:27.960 I'm Jackie Flash. What see? I want the latest smartphone, 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:29.800 but the best deals are only for new customers. So 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:31.760