WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Midseason Awards 0:00:04.080 --> 0:00:06.640 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:18.040 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:18.440 --> 0:00:21.880 Screaming live from the Dallas Cowboys World headquarters at the 0:00:21.960 --> 0:00:31.800 Star in Frisco, et Sawt Teaching. Here are Mickey Spagnola, 0:00:32.159 --> 0:00:37.600 Brian Brauns, Rob Phillips, and Bill Jones. It's a beautiful 0:00:37.680 --> 0:00:41.840 day for football here at the Star in Frisco, Texas. 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:45.599 It's a great day to be outdoors for a practice, 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:50.240 and the Cowboys will be practicing outdoors, yes, on a Wednesday, 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:52.720 as usual, but that's about the only thing that's usual 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:55.680 about this week here at the Star. It is bye week. 0:00:55.720 --> 0:00:59.880 It's an afternoon practice for the Cowboys today. Very sure, 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.120 very short week, and then some time off and some 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:07.240 much needed time off for this football team. But we 0:01:07.280 --> 0:01:10.479 are taking you through the weekend with this edition of 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:14.760 Talking Cowboys. We're setting you up for a buy weekend 0:01:14.800 --> 0:01:17.600 where the Cowboys of course won't play, but it is 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:20.120 a busy sports weekend. And then we get set for 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:23.880 the New York Football Giants halfway point of the season 0:01:23.959 --> 0:01:27.440 next week. And I'm excited about watching some football other 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:31.000 than what the Cowboys put on display each week this week? 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.679 Do you think that's what the fans do? I cannot 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:38.199 live without my NFL Sunday. I'm sorry, I just can't. 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:40.800 So you're gonna do your pregame show anyway, I'm doing. 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:44.200 That's what we're doubling up this week. I mean we're 0:01:44.319 --> 0:01:46.959 paid for I got. I've got more work today and 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:51.880 Thursday in regular weeks to buy those for me. Three 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:55.800 days off Friday, Saturday, Sunday, how about you, guys. Yeah, 0:01:55.840 --> 0:01:58.480 I'm watching some football for sure, that might be might 0:01:58.480 --> 0:02:00.960 be at another stadium. We'll see. I'm gonna try and 0:02:01.000 --> 0:02:04.040 go fishing. Yeah, I knew Brian was going fishing. I'm 0:02:04.040 --> 0:02:05.880 gonna try two nice for a weekend, not to try. 0:02:05.960 --> 0:02:08.600 I think Dak's going fishing this weekend. I wish if 0:02:08.600 --> 0:02:10.359 I'd love to go fishing with Dak. I'll see. I 0:02:10.400 --> 0:02:13.000 want to go fishing with its Lyle Collins. Yeah, Lile 0:02:13.040 --> 0:02:15.760 Collins seems to go out there and pullings. He's got 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:18.280 this system or something he knows how to pull some 0:02:18.280 --> 0:02:23.320 big fish out of them lake. So imagine we're not 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:27.240 very smart, but we can fish. So I was gonna 0:02:27.240 --> 0:02:31.600 say no. Since Brian went on his campaign to lose weight. 0:02:31.600 --> 0:02:32.960 I was gonna say, that's a lot of weight in 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:37.440 one boat. Yeah, I try. But I'll tell you what. 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:40.639 Let's start with Lyle Collins. How well is Lyle Collins 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:43.200 playing football? This? You know what? You know me? I 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:44.960 came up with some questions and that was one of 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:47.320 my questions. That was one of my questions I had 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:49.320 for you guys because I was I just kind of 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.240 it was just kind of in my head, was sitting 0:02:51.280 --> 0:02:54.160 there and and I was thinking, Okay, who who's been 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.840 better at their job this year? If you think about things, 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.640 just better at his job? You know byron owns like 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:04.160 Lyle proved on their own. Yeah, from the year before. Yeah, 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:07.639 who who's been better at their job? It's Lyle Collins 0:03:07.639 --> 0:03:10.400 been one of those guys that's uh has been you 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:12.560 know as you as you you know, we we've talked 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:14.560 so much about all the other guys. Heck, I was 0:03:14.560 --> 0:03:17.560 wrong about him possibly getting an extension. I thought, you know, 0:03:17.639 --> 0:03:19.480 Lyle Collins was going to go off and be a 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:24.760 Tampa Bay buccaneer or some other you know, NFL right tackle. 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.040 But you know, the Cowboys get him, you know, sign 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.440 him up, keep him here. I think that's impressive. But 0:03:29.600 --> 0:03:32.079 is he has He's been one of the better offensive 0:03:32.120 --> 0:03:34.760 lineman you have. And again I was trying to compare him, 0:03:34.760 --> 0:03:37.040 like as far as your job, it's taking offensive player 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.760 and a defensive player on my question, but you know 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:42.360 it's a children question we'll pose out there. Yeah, is 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:47.280 who's who's done, Who's been better at his job? Who's improved? Yeah, 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:50.280 who's improved? Is this fifth year? Now? Jerry Jones said 0:03:50.320 --> 0:03:52.200 yesterday in the radio, that's the best game he's played 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.520 Dallas Cowboys. But he's the kid Brandon Graham's ass. He 0:03:55.640 --> 0:03:59.480 really never heard Brandon Graham's name. No, no, no, no, 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.280 that's a good football player, real good football player. The 0:04:02.320 --> 0:04:04.320 guy he had to worry about him and him and 0:04:04.360 --> 0:04:07.040 that I guess maybe not so much Fletcher Cox anymore. 0:04:07.040 --> 0:04:10.080 I was gonna say, I've only heard his name once. Yeah, 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.560 I tell you what, I've been super impressed with with 0:04:13.680 --> 0:04:16.680 Lyle Collins. So he might be the most improved guy 0:04:16.720 --> 0:04:18.520 on the team. I'm trying to think of somebody else 0:04:18.560 --> 0:04:23.640 that is really like exceeded expectations, and he has high expectations. 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:27.919 He's a starter. But Michael Gallop except for that one 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:31.040 on one or two series. Yeah, and he's he's missed 0:04:31.040 --> 0:04:32.680 a couple of games. But it goes back to the 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:37.000 word of consistency, you know that consistent improved. He has improved, 0:04:37.040 --> 0:04:39.680 but most improved, most improved. I don't know if it 0:04:39.839 --> 0:04:43.000 if it's well he said improved at their position than that? 0:04:43.080 --> 0:04:47.080 What the question? Absolutely? Yeah, yeah, I pose my own question. 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:53.280 Well then, yeah, I was just trying to Okay, well, 0:04:53.360 --> 0:04:56.080 let me throw the quarterback out there. Okay, when you 0:04:56.120 --> 0:04:59.480 got the quarterback who's improving his yards per attempt? Can 0:04:59.480 --> 0:05:04.600 I can I prove that for you statman? Yes, So 0:05:04.720 --> 0:05:09.839 he has completed seventy point six point seventy point six 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:13.600 percent of his passes. That's third in the NFL. Right now, 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:18.200 all right, and what was the everybody's worry he's not accurate, 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:21.480 he doesn't throw the ball accurately. Yeah, he's third, right now. Well, 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:23.840 that's one thing. If you can throw seventy percent, if 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:27.520 you're averaging five point six yards. Here is the next 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:33.719 one on that. He is averaging per attempt eight point 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:40.039 nine two yards, third in the NFL eight point nine. 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.400 One who's won by the Cousins is first nine oh 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:46.760 five Mahomes tied with him nine oh five and then 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:50.279 dak eight point nine two. I saw this stet on Twitter. 0:05:50.400 --> 0:05:52.320 Aren't there two guys in the history of the league 0:05:52.320 --> 0:05:54.960 who have done this? I mean it's halfway through the 0:05:55.040 --> 0:05:59.320 year one and average Joe Montana was when I'm again 0:05:59.600 --> 0:06:04.280 in slinging Sammy bah yeah, nineteen something like that, and 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:07.799 then his two thousand, one hundred and twenty three yards 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:11.880 passing right now is third in the NFL. Okay, how 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:15.320 about that? Is he your offensive MVP? That's my next 0:06:15.360 --> 0:06:23.360 question for halfwayutely PUPPETSI MVP. Yeah, no question, no, no question, 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.800 not even close. No, He's he's putting up big time 0:06:26.880 --> 0:06:29.000 numbers and there's a lot of people that thought he 0:06:29.000 --> 0:06:31.599 couldn't do it. Yeah, so yeah, I'd go with dec 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:36.200 Rain Dakota I Scott, I agree with that. Yeah. And 0:06:36.360 --> 0:06:39.200 the only guys that have thrown for more yards than 0:06:39.360 --> 0:06:43.800 him at this point, uh Matt Ryan. And how are 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:46.919 they doing? Not very well? Now? They're playing from behind 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:49.760 in a lot of games and mahomes with twenty one 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:53.240 eighty DAC has twenty one twenty three. Okay, wait then 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:55.720 can I pose this question on you? If that? But 0:06:56.160 --> 0:06:59.000 would he be. And maybe this is a bad way 0:06:59.040 --> 0:07:03.040 to ask it, but was I wanted to know the 0:07:03.080 --> 0:07:06.360 player you felt better about now that you didn't at 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:09.560 the start of the season. There you go. It's it's so, 0:07:09.680 --> 0:07:12.360 I mean, we felt to your point of exceeding it. Yeah, 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:15.440 we felt good about We felt good about Dak. But man, 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.240 I mean, it's do you feel been better about Dak? Right? 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.600 That's the way I feel about him, and I think everybody. 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:25.920 I mean, and he's handled it. The leadership stuff that 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:29.520 was all there, right, But it's this being able to 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:34.040 develop a vertical passing game. Oh yeah, down the field, 0:07:34.040 --> 0:07:37.600 it's where the improvement comes. And Amari Cooper is the 0:07:37.960 --> 0:07:41.360 is the critical guy that has allowed that to happen. 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:45.680 That's true. Could it be that a little bit of 0:07:45.720 --> 0:07:48.120 a scheme change and adjustment has allowed him to be 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.560 able to do that? I mean it was because he 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:52.760 was doing it the second half of last year. If 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.440 you think about it, as soon as Marie got here, 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:59.200 nobody voted for a Mari for offensive end Right. That's 0:07:59.200 --> 0:08:05.160 because we have said, well, yeah, oh MP halfways improved 0:08:05.200 --> 0:08:07.360 because he's been he's been doing this. No, no, but 0:08:07.520 --> 0:08:12.280 offensive MVP through the halfway wow, um, we all started. 0:08:13.240 --> 0:08:15.200 Either one of them can do what they're doing without 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:17.920 the other. I mean I might put Tyrn Smith in 0:08:17.960 --> 0:08:20.840 that boat just because of what they when they don't 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.840 have him. Okay, it affects the quarterback. Throw another question 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:27.400 out there, who is the most influential player on this 0:08:28.120 --> 0:08:33.360 offense or team? Who influences how well they play? It's 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:35.720 a lot to choose from. I think it's got to 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:39.400 be the quarterback, or about the left ackle. There's no 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:44.640 question about that though. Either well, the most irreplaceable yeah yeah, yeah, 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:50.600 although trying to replace Dak. We've seen somebody try to 0:08:50.640 --> 0:08:53.040 replace Tyran. But see what happens when you don't play 0:08:53.040 --> 0:08:56.160 with a Maori two for three plays, See it all 0:08:56.160 --> 0:08:58.240 goes together. I wouldn't want to play without Zeke either. 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:03.719 They've tried doing that before. Mari might beat it, you know, 0:09:04.880 --> 0:09:07.880 because of a year ago. Remember what it was like. Oh, 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.440 they've won a bunch of games since Mickey made the trade. 0:09:10.880 --> 0:09:13.520 How many games have they were ago yesterday? Yeah, so 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:15.280 I'm saying how many games have they won with the 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:21.240 Marie Cooper Eleven and five in the sixteen regular season games, 0:09:21.280 --> 0:09:25.839 so seventeen and I mean twelve and six if he 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.880 count the playoffs right, and one of those games he 0:09:28.920 --> 0:09:31.800 hardly played in, but they and they lost it, by 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:34.400 the way. Yeah, yeah, that's a first round by a record, 0:09:34.520 --> 0:09:39.920 twelve and six. It's pretty good from and Okay, I'm 0:09:40.120 --> 0:09:42.760 calling that twelve and five because he played three plays 0:09:42.800 --> 0:09:45.960 against the Jets, and really, if he plays half the 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:48.160 game against the Jets, they win that game. If he 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:50.280 plays a quarter of that game, they win that game. 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:53.600 If he played more than three snaps are what are 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.520 you gritted about? I just just it's so funny because 0:09:56.559 --> 0:10:01.600 we all just immediately, said Dak Prescott immediately because the quarterback, 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:05.360 it's all the place in terms of improvement. No no, no, 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:08.720 I was saying offensive MVP, MVP. Okay, I've got our 0:10:08.760 --> 0:10:12.319 categories mixed up. No no, I've started with it was 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.160 improved the most thing. But we've answered that. We've answered 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:16.959 that one. I think we've answered that. We could have 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:20.679 given a defense no no i quinny I was gonna say, 0:10:20.679 --> 0:10:24.240 who do you got defensively for? Which? Question for not 0:10:24.280 --> 0:10:27.600 the offensive MVP, not the offensive VP, which part of 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:32.160 the improvement or defensive MVP. Because MALIEK. Collins was played 0:10:32.200 --> 0:10:34.560 pretty darn well. Okay as a guy, and he's not 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:39.040 getting much credit for he's healthy. Okay, okay, that's the 0:10:39.120 --> 0:10:41.920 improvement guy. The surprise is there was there a surprise 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.760 question there all over the place. No, no, I was 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:46.080 just trying to I was trying to get to all 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:48.280 my questions here at a time. You're going to give 0:10:48.320 --> 0:10:51.480 you an answer. You just fitted in whichever question it fits. Okay. 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.920 Robert Quinn Robert quinno had been my defensive MVP at 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:58.079 the halfway point. Yeah, I can't argue that one. Yep, 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:03.120 I think especially it's like playing Jeopardy, right, I'll give 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.920 you the answer that I was just but but yeah, 0:11:07.000 --> 0:11:11.040 I had Robert Quinn totally in mind on that defensive MBPS. Yeah, 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:13.000 just missed two games and is leading this team in 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:15.920 sacks and has been a force on that side of 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:19.560 the ball. So he's got six sacks in basically four 0:11:19.600 --> 0:11:22.720 and a half games. Yeah, he didn't he didn't play 0:11:22.800 --> 0:11:24.760 the second half of the game last week, y't play 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:26.800 the second and didn't miss the first two games of 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:33.320 the season. Yeah, that's right, So calculating games. Okay, Well, 0:11:33.400 --> 0:11:35.920 here's another qu will go ahead, here's another question. Then 0:11:35.960 --> 0:11:38.360 for you if I keep doing this, I love doing 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:39.959 this to you guys, make you think a little bit. 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:44.480 Who is the player you have the most confident sin like, 0:11:44.559 --> 0:11:47.080 just to do their job? Yeah, just to be every week, 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:56.719 just week. Zach Martin, Zack Martin, rob you throughout? Tyren Smith. Yeah, yeah, 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:01.200 I might go with Tyren Smith when he's healthy. Zack Martin. 0:12:01.200 --> 0:12:04.800 Sammons struggles with his health too, a little bit not missing. Yeah, 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:08.800 the back and feel him on the back. The ankle too, 0:12:08.880 --> 0:12:10.800 had a thing last week. Yeah, they're just trying to 0:12:10.840 --> 0:12:17.079 manage him all week, every week. Um, like most reliable players. Yeah, 0:12:17.280 --> 0:12:19.400 like weekend week out. There's a lot of those guys, 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:25.760 mister dependability. We're sorry. I was doing my math. There's 0:12:25.800 --> 0:12:28.000 no time for math here, Mickey. When I'm asking questions, 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:32.960 who who is the player ourselves? Who is the player 0:12:33.280 --> 0:12:37.200 that you had the absolute most most confidence in, you know, 0:12:37.440 --> 0:12:39.680 on the entire team, the entire team, on the entire 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:42.040 team that they're going to do their job. Yeah, they're 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.360 going to play play and play out weekend week out. 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:49.040 I hate to be jump on Bill's back, but I'll 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:51.120 go with Zach Martin because he's missed what one game 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.800 in his career. Sure, and he's always there, He's always ready, 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.080 and he's about as steady as the players there is 0:12:57.080 --> 0:12:58.680 in the entire league, even though he is dealing with 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:03.360 some stuff this year. Ezekiel Elliott, Mickey, I knew you 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.920 were going to go that route. Do you realize that's 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:10.040 that that they had their total yards from scrimmage. He's 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:13.360 over six thousand. He's tied for the second fastest to 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:16.400 ever do that. Yeah, behind Edward James did it in 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:19.920 forty four Dream James. Yeah, sure, think about that. Then. 0:13:20.120 --> 0:13:22.720 I think Geric Dickerson was in that list too. It 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:26.640 was a pretty pretty lofty list of players. You know 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.079 what I love what you guys are talking about, was 0:13:29.160 --> 0:13:32.240 Zach Martin. I agree with Mickey. I agree with Mickey 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:34.319 just I know what I can get. That's one of 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:37.319 the reasons why I thought about paying him, because I 0:13:37.520 --> 0:13:41.280 felt like that every week, I know what I'm gonna 0:13:41.280 --> 0:13:44.520 get from him. You know, every week, I know what 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:46.600 I'm gonna get. That's what people said, like he ran 0:13:46.760 --> 0:13:49.560 so hard these last couple of games. He always runs hard. 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:51.040 I mean, I know he ran over a guy in 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:53.320 the first quarter, but sure, yeah, he does set the 0:13:53.360 --> 0:13:56.200 tollon Brian A question. Oh, he ran over him because 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:59.480 he was silly enough to get in his way. A 0:13:59.480 --> 0:14:01.520 lot of time guys don't want to get in his way. 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:09.520 What's your confidence factor in the quarterback going forward? Going forward? Well, 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:15.360 you want to give me a scale one to ten, one, okay, 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:17.199 whatever high. I don't want you. I don't want you 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:18.480 to put your number on it, you know, I mean, 0:14:18.520 --> 0:14:20.720 I just you know, it's what you've seen in the 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:24.800 first half or even or even if you mister statman, Yes, 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:27.920 eight point nine yards per attempt. What's he's gonna what's 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:29.840 he gonna end the season with? As far as his 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:35.760 yards per attempt at games against that's a good who's 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.880 available around him? Let me think about in Minnesota if 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:42.440 they can stay health flow New England. I don't see 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:44.240 how it's changing though. I mean, if he's got the 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:46.080 line and he's got the protection and he's got a 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:48.880 Mari and they think about these defenses you're about to face, yeah, 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:53.920 I know, but they also you got a media guide there. 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:56.040 I would like to know what the record is for 0:14:56.160 --> 0:15:01.000 the team for you're there, four and three yards yards 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:06.240 per give me the thing, yards per t I'm just 0:15:06.320 --> 0:15:10.600 I'm just thinking about I'm confident. I'm confident in him. 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:14.000 I am confident in him. I see some I see 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:16.480 some potential. Okay, so he's gonna have to play his 0:15:16.640 --> 0:15:20.920 rear off games. Yeah, Minnesota's defense, Buffalo, there's a defense. 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:24.640 I just I'm just outdoor games. Outdoor games at the Giants, 0:15:24.720 --> 0:15:28.280 at New England, at Chicago, right, Yeah, there's no Chicago's. 0:15:28.320 --> 0:15:30.600 And see I think you know it's funny about Chicago's 0:15:30.600 --> 0:15:33.560 here about Philadelphia. I think Mickey's hometown team is getting 0:15:33.600 --> 0:15:37.320 demoralized because their offense is so bad. I really do. 0:15:37.440 --> 0:15:40.359 I think that the defense is getting affected in Chicago 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.480 because of how bad their offense has been and lost 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:45.960 a Keem Hicks too. Yeah, but but that but that's 0:15:46.000 --> 0:15:47.720 gonna be a tough game. But here's the deal. When, 0:15:48.120 --> 0:15:50.760 as you know, Parcel has talked about this all the time, 0:15:50.800 --> 0:15:55.600 you get into November and December and you're playing outdoors 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:59.360 and so forth. That's that's where I not only the 0:15:59.400 --> 0:16:02.120 fact that I think if someone had the time to 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:04.120 do the research, I think you would find that these 0:16:04.160 --> 0:16:07.360 passing offenses the second half of the year, just because 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:09.800 teams figure you out a little bit, you know, and 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:13.120 this is the course of things. They're not as productive 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:15.080 the second half of the year. But weather con factor 0:16:15.120 --> 0:16:19.040 into that too. Yeah. Outdoors at New England, right outdoors 0:16:19.040 --> 0:16:22.040 to Chicago, at Philly, outdoors at Philly. Who knows what 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:23.320 they're going to be at the end of the day. 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:27.480 You know that's Christmas time. Yeah, who knows? All right, 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:34.240 but I mean answer the season right, first season percentage 0:16:34.280 --> 0:16:38.480 of completions, Okay, got it, caught it. I didn't know 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:41.960 we were looking at that up sixty nine point nine percent. 0:16:42.120 --> 0:16:51.560 Romo Romo what year nineteen school nineteen was a playoff year. 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:54.280 So that's when Romo went on that incredible run. Remember 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:56.960 de Marco Murray I think broke his hand and then 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:58.640 all of a sudden it came. It came down to 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:02.200 throwing the football in that month of end in November, 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:07.320 all of December. Troyankman second at sixty nine point one 0:17:07.359 --> 0:17:10.719 in ninety three. Then Dak is at seventy something. Right 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.719 now he's seventy and Dak's actually his third at sixty 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.400 seven eight buildings. That tells you what whether he's at 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:18.560 you guys make a good point. The weather could affect 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:22.760 the yards per tempt. But Statman had something last year about, 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:26.320 you know, with Amari down the stretch, well, what do 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:29.280 you rest of the year. So I don't I don't 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:32.000 know if that would drop necessarily, they might not be 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:33.880 able to sling it around in that cold weather as much. 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:37.879 So yards gain right now twenty one twenty three in 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:41.480 seven games, the records forty nine, probably not going to 0:17:41.560 --> 0:17:45.959 get there. Romo in twenty twelve, but second is Romo 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:50.080 in two thousand and nine four four eighty three. So 0:17:50.200 --> 0:17:52.720 that's that's with it. He's on pace for that, right 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:57.400 And then on average gain, I'm gonna get to this 0:17:57.480 --> 0:18:02.760 for you guys now, average gain Roger Staubach nineteen seventy one, 0:18:02.920 --> 0:18:07.800 eight point nine two, Craig Morton eight point seven nine, 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:10.959 Craig Morton eight point six seven. But remember they're not 0:18:11.040 --> 0:18:14.760 throwing the ball quite as much back then, but they 0:18:14.800 --> 0:18:18.240 had Bob Hayes to catch the true I'd hand it 0:18:18.280 --> 0:18:20.880 to Tony Dorset a lot too if I was in Yeah, 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:22.840 I think they did that. Yeah, all right, when we 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:25.520 come back here on talking Cowboys, who needs to be 0:18:25.800 --> 0:18:28.960 the Cowboys MVP the second half of the year on 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:31.840 their offense and defense for them to get to where 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:36.480 I predicted they would go. Your new apartment's big. 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After the 0:20:48.080 --> 0:20:51.880 event festivities, the Star will be hosting the top two 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:55.560 Madden players as they face off in the EA Sports 0:20:55.840 --> 0:21:01.200 Madden NFL twenty Club Championship presented by Spire. That, of course, 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:04.560 the weekend that the Minnesota Vikings come to town for 0:21:04.760 --> 0:21:08.240 Sunday Night Football Saturday November Night the Salute to Service 0:21:08.359 --> 0:21:10.800 Plaza party. Can I also promote something real quick for 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:13.240 our pro shop? Yes, yeah, we got our shirts. Oh 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:15.199 I left mine on my dead I'm just gonna show us. 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:16.480 I didn't have a chance to put on where it 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:18.720 but here I'll try to block my mic. Mister cowboy, 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:20.879 all right, there you go? How about that? That's a 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:23.240 that's a right there there, I could get it right 0:21:23.240 --> 0:21:24.800 there you go. Yeah, these are the shirts this week 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:26.520 that are in the pro shop. I wait for the 0:21:26.600 --> 0:21:29.240 route of all the old guys I grew up with. Yeah, 0:21:29.280 --> 0:21:31.720 so the Roger Stall box of Bob Louis so. Yeah, 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:34.680 make sure you go to our pro shops check them out. 0:21:34.760 --> 0:21:36.439 These are the new shirts. I mean, if you have 0:21:36.480 --> 0:21:38.440 a mom and dad are older like me, they'll probably 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:41.719 appreciate something like they're super soft, they're stare great shirts 0:21:41.760 --> 0:21:45.600 like Tribeland absolutely great shirts. Yeah, yet that football card 0:21:46.119 --> 0:21:47.919 to pit, Bob Lillo. Yeah, I need to get the 0:21:47.920 --> 0:21:50.040 football card. And Glady got the T shirt though, but yeah, 0:21:50.160 --> 0:21:52.560 that the Roger Stabock when we're back to the rotation 0:21:52.640 --> 0:21:56.800 of all the players that the the Drew Pearsons and 0:21:56.840 --> 0:21:58.919 the Tony door sets and the guys I grew up with. 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:02.320 So that's nice to you. Still, let me put it 0:22:02.320 --> 0:22:05.200 this way, do you still have that football card from 0:22:05.440 --> 0:22:07.680 you grew up? Don't? I wish I did. I had 0:22:07.680 --> 0:22:09.000 a lot that I have that. I have a lot 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:11.640 of football cards. I got every Super Bowl program though, 0:22:11.760 --> 0:22:15.359 still have those from like the one through the recent 0:22:15.359 --> 0:22:17.920 Super Bowl I've got. That's why. Collect a shoe box 0:22:17.960 --> 0:22:20.320 somewhere with those football call you guys, and they all 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:26.119 have foo man Choe mustache crazy on them. That's I 0:22:26.119 --> 0:22:29.960 don't think I collected football cards. Collected. I love football cards. 0:22:30.200 --> 0:22:33.560 Rob Did you collect football cards? Not really? Baseball? Baseball 0:22:33.640 --> 0:22:35.439 was more than thakball. Here you go. I got some 0:22:35.520 --> 0:22:41.680 old AFL football cards. Boston Patriots, Jim Nance, Jim Bostons, 0:22:42.000 --> 0:22:44.520 I'm right, remember that guy? Yeah, all right, join us 0:22:44.560 --> 0:22:47.320 here on talking Cowboys. Make you you remember the phone 0:22:47.400 --> 0:22:51.320 number eight two nine seven, Right there you go, there 0:22:51.320 --> 0:22:55.160