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Speaker 1: How are we doing today? Gentlemen doing will? Sir? How
Speaker 1: are you doing good?
Speaker 4: Just got finished listening to Jerry Jones on one O
Speaker 4: five through the fan. A couple of talking points out
Speaker 4: of that couple of things to highlight.
Speaker 7: We'll start Clue me in.
Speaker 1: Do you want to start with.
Speaker 8: Running backs, you start clude out. I don't think you're
Speaker 8: ever clued out.
Speaker 7: I didn't listen this morning.
Speaker 1: Oh then you clued out.
Speaker 4: We get we got you covered. Got the one thing
Speaker 4: that or the number one thing that I thought stuck
Speaker 4: out to me was And it was a phenomenal question
Speaker 4: from Bobby.
Speaker 1: Bobby Belt asked it on one O five through the Fan.
Speaker 4: And he was asking, does the significant injuries to guys
Speaker 4: like DeMarcus Lawrence, Michael Parsons, de Ron Bland, does that
Speaker 4: change the way that you evaluate a head coach going
Speaker 4: into his final year of the contract, which is I mean,
Speaker 4: that's the fact of what my party is facing here
Speaker 4: is his final year of his contract. And Jerry's answer
Speaker 4: was intriguing in the fact that he basically said, if anything,
Speaker 4: it helps the evaluation.
Speaker 1: It doesn't give him a pass.
Speaker 4: He said, it's a part of the game as much
Speaker 4: as a kickoff is. He said, there's no pass whatsoever.
Speaker 4: If anything, you either are you aren't. We've got to
Speaker 4: move forward depending on whatever's best for this football.
Speaker 8: It was interesting answer, but then my interpretation of it
Speaker 8: made it make sense, because you want your coach is
Speaker 8: an approve it year and what you don't want is
Speaker 8: to lose any of your talent to injury.
Speaker 1: You just don't want that. Period. But the sun is
Speaker 1: going to rise.
Speaker 8: In the west instead of the east rising the sets.
Speaker 7: In the west.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so.
Speaker 8: See clue out when you look at it from that capacity,
Speaker 8: it's going to happen.
Speaker 1: It's inevitable, like thanos.
Speaker 8: And you want to see how your coach handles that
Speaker 8: level of adversity, right, And this is when you talk
Speaker 8: about injuries.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Cowboys have had injuries before.
Speaker 8: They had they lost Trevon Diggs, but then they had
Speaker 8: Stefan Gilmore who was fortuitously here, right, And that's just
Speaker 8: one example of you know, you lose this guy, but
Speaker 8: you got that guy. They haven't lost Michael Parsons for
Speaker 8: any period of time over the last three seasons, including
Speaker 8: this one, with the exception of that one game due
Speaker 8: to COVID. But now you're looking at Parsons and Tank
Speaker 8: possibly being out. You're looking at Deron Bland is not
Speaker 8: back yet, and Caitlin Carson we don't know if he's
Speaker 8: going to be on the field quite yet. So you
Speaker 8: have that kind of adversity so forth and so on.
Speaker 8: So I mean it's you're about to find out exactly
Speaker 8: what kind of coach you have in Mike McCarthy. Not
Speaker 8: not just the kind of coach you have when things
Speaker 8: are going well, right, but the kind of not just
Speaker 8: the kind of coach you have when one or two
Speaker 8: things are going wrong, but when a lot of things
Speaker 8: start going wrong on the health and injury front. How
Speaker 8: can he manage this roster? And you know, then the
Speaker 8: question becomes, as Jerry was, as are the Cowboys want
Speaker 8: to look outside the building to try to bring in
Speaker 8: some guys? Now he was at we talked about this yesterday,
Speaker 8: and this is exactly what he ended up saying. Inward
Speaker 8: and then they're gonna look inward, and then they're gonna
Speaker 8: look at possible like practice squads, and then maybe free agency,
Speaker 8: and then trade being the last possible thing.
Speaker 1: It just doesn't sound like trade is on the on
Speaker 1: the back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I wish they would flip the two.
Speaker 1: I think that's what we were.
Speaker 7: Just talking about yesterday, Like you wish they would flip that.
Speaker 1: I wish they would flip it.
Speaker 9: And at least for me, it's saying, Okay, michaelccarthy, how
Speaker 9: do you respond He's going push your tee on im.
Speaker 7: You know what I'm saying, how do you respond to this?
Speaker 9: And if it's not well and you you miss the
Speaker 9: next two games without Micah and you miss, you lose
Speaker 9: the next two games without those two. I feel like
Speaker 9: the coaching his the seats will not just be hot,
Speaker 9: but infrared.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, infra red hot. Ye see
Speaker 1: through X ray all sorts exactly.
Speaker 7: I just wanted to fit another push reference.
Speaker 1: Now that's good, but.
Speaker 8: It's one one hand has to watch the other as well,
Speaker 8: because a coach is going to be tasked with making
Speaker 8: the current roster as great as it can be. But
Speaker 8: roster building and your willingness to go into free agency
Speaker 8: when it's time, you know, subjectively when it's time to
Speaker 8: go in the free agency, maybe your willingness to make
Speaker 8: a trade when you have two star edge rushers go down.
Speaker 1: Things like that.
Speaker 8: I mean, that's going to lend to what the ceiling
Speaker 8: is for the roster, for the coach that you're paying
Speaker 8: to make that roster as great as it can be.
Speaker 8: So both of those things have to work in simpatico.
Speaker 8: And that's kind of where I'm standing with it.
Speaker 7: Well, Mike Zimmers even said it yesterday.
Speaker 9: He was talking about how important depth is to a defense,
Speaker 9: and when you lose guys like this, obviously you know
Speaker 9: you're looking at it now it's like, oh, yeah, depth
Speaker 9: is important, especially when you lose your top two edge rushers.
Speaker 9: So now it really is about responding and how you're
Speaker 9: able to scheme the guys that you have on the team,
Speaker 9: the depth that you do have. But maybe to me
Speaker 9: that was a little there. Maybe there's a little more
Speaker 9: behind that statement where he's like, you know, depth is
Speaker 9: really important.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we kind of need it.
Speaker 4: Uh My interpretation of it was he's not giving a pass,
Speaker 4: which I don't think he should give him a pass.
Speaker 1: In my own this is the NFL.
Speaker 4: Injuries happen. You've got to win, whether with what you're given,
Speaker 4: regardless or not.
Speaker 7: Especially is gonna win a few games without that receiver.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, I think they would still.
Speaker 4: Well, they also have lost Isaiah Pacheco, They've lost for
Speaker 4: she Rice. They're gonna be playing Taylor Swift at wide receiver.
Speaker 8: And they might and they'll probably end up making a
Speaker 8: tree to They'll do supplement the loss.
Speaker 7: They will do something about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I think the pass is off the table.
Speaker 4: At least that's the way I interpreted it from Jerry Jones.
Speaker 4: But I also looked at it as Okay, this is
Speaker 4: a tough schedule. We've talked about that multiple times on
Speaker 4: this show. Steelers, Lions, forty nine Ers, Falcons, Eagles, Texans
Speaker 4: are your next six games. It does not get much
Speaker 4: easier coming up over the next two months of football.
Speaker 4: So even without those guys, you have zero excuse going
Speaker 4: up against some of the better teams in the NFL.
Speaker 4: If you can right the ship, it gives an opportunity.
Speaker 4: It could go one way or the other. Of course,
Speaker 4: everybody's got their own expectations, but if it goes right
Speaker 4: for you, then all of a sudden, I think we
Speaker 4: value this coaching staff a little bit better than what
Speaker 4: we had previously.
Speaker 1: Three straight twelve win seasons.
Speaker 4: The way that Mike McCarthy has led in the regular season,
Speaker 4: it to a certain extents have been undervalued because of.
Speaker 1: The lack of postseason success.
Speaker 4: But at the end of the day, that's what he
Speaker 4: was hired to do, was have postseason success. So I
Speaker 4: get the criticism there. The way that they respond without
Speaker 4: these key players over the next couple games Steelers, Lions,
Speaker 4: forty nine Ers, Falcons, Eagles, Texans, depending on who's missing
Speaker 4: for those games, is going to tell you a lot
Speaker 4: about how good of a coaching staff and how well
Speaker 4: oiled this machine is.
Speaker 1: I agree with you.
Speaker 8: If you can win, if you're a Formula one driver,
Speaker 8: if you can win your race with your car working
Speaker 8: on a fire on all cylinders, everything goes perfectly, which
Speaker 8: it rarely does in Formula one. If everything goes perfectly
Speaker 8: and you, as a Formula one driver can whin your race,
Speaker 8: everybody's applauding because you podium, and as it should be,
Speaker 8: because that's extremely difficult to do, especially consistently, right shouts
Speaker 8: out the red bull. But if you can win, if
Speaker 8: you can podium at F one after tires keep blowing
Speaker 8: out every every ten.
Speaker 1: Or fifteen laps, or your car is not.
Speaker 8: Your car is not very good, and you're you're pushing
Speaker 8: that not very good car past cars that are mechanically
Speaker 8: superior to yours that particular race, then it's that much
Speaker 8: more value to your point. So if the Cowboys and
Speaker 8: Mike McCarthy can get through this stretch and after what
Speaker 8: we sawget now it's a week the weekly, but the lines.
Speaker 1: Wow, okay, So.
Speaker 8: If you can get past this stretch the Steelers on
Speaker 8: the road, the lines are coming. You're not playing well
Speaker 8: at home. And you saw what the lines just did
Speaker 8: against the Seahawks eighteen for eighteen, passing for Jerrett Golf
Speaker 8: and a touchdown reception. That's why, kiddemy, if they can
Speaker 8: get through this stretch with two flat tires. They have
Speaker 8: two flat tires right now in the absence of DeMarcus Lawrence.
Speaker 1: And we'll see how how long.
Speaker 4: We're talking like front, left, front, right, back, right, not
Speaker 4: steers one steer okay, one steer one.
Speaker 8: Micah is a steer, okay, right, But good news is
Speaker 8: is he's still weak the week, so he may may
Speaker 8: only miss the Steelers cause you do that so fast, sterity,
Speaker 8: So yeah, Michael may only miss the Steelers game. Across
Speaker 8: all the fingers toes in your eyes. So you might
Speaker 8: be just without one tire, and then it's a matter
Speaker 8: of you go into the pit and you start bringing
Speaker 8: out replacement tires and hope they can get you through
Speaker 8: the rest of the race, because thankfully it's not the entirety.
Speaker 1: Of the races.
Speaker 8: You just got to get through these next six or
Speaker 8: seven laps. Yeah, you know what, I like it?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean I don't.
Speaker 9: I don't know, man, I think, especially after that Lion's
Speaker 9: performance yesterday, I'm just not looking forward to the schedule.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick the Lions next week. I'm telling you that, right.
Speaker 7: Yeah, that's that's too.
Speaker 4: I don't care if the Cowboys beat the Steelers by
Speaker 4: forty I'm still proud.
Speaker 9: It's still way that they're built. It's the way that
Speaker 9: the off that their offense runs in. And they are
Speaker 9: not happy with you either.
Speaker 7: They're not happy for one. So it's a grudge Max
Speaker 7: for not our fault.
Speaker 1: They didn't declare him eligible.
Speaker 4: I get it. I don't know, I get it, But
Speaker 4: Jim uh, it's it's tough, man.
Speaker 9: I just don't think that this team as is without Micah,
Speaker 9: without the Marcus Lawrence, I just don't see how it's.
Speaker 1: Just rough man.
Speaker 8: I think marsh I'm confident that Marshaw Kneeland will step
Speaker 8: up and and like I said yesterday, I'm not worried
Speaker 8: about Marshaun Kneeling because I don't think there's that much
Speaker 8: of a drop off from DeMarcus Lawrence to Marsha Kneelon
Speaker 8: in the capacity solely in the capacity of run stopping
Speaker 8: on the edge. I think Marshawn Kneeling has that in spades.
Speaker 8: But when you add the ability to draw double teams
Speaker 8: from you had the ability to disrupt in the as
Speaker 8: far as QB pressures are concerned. Even marsha Kneeling yesterday
Speaker 8: himself said when we were talking to him in the
Speaker 8: locker room, he said that he's trying to get better
Speaker 8: at pass rush. He was asked what aspect of his
Speaker 8: game is he is he does he feel he needs
Speaker 8: to improve upon going forward and he immediately he was like,
Speaker 8: pass rush, I feel like I need to be able
Speaker 8: to do more there.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So I could hear Isaiah right now. I know he's
Speaker 4: not on the show today, but I could hear him
Speaker 4: because he was so critical of Marshaw Kneel in a
Speaker 4: training camp of being a twiner. He thinks he's too
Speaker 4: big to be an ad rusher, he's too small to
Speaker 4: be a defensive tackle. And I could just hear him saying, man,
Speaker 4: there's not enough there from a pass rush standpoint for
Speaker 4: us to have any sort of confidence in the ad rushers.
Speaker 4: And to a certain extent, I agree. I think Marshaw
Speaker 4: Kneelan has the ability to edge rush. I saw the
Speaker 4: Western Michigan different competition level when you get to the NFL.
Speaker 4: But even in the preseason and even in these first
Speaker 4: four games or so, he's shown it at times consistently. No,
Speaker 4: not really, but he hasn't been asked to do it consistently.
Speaker 4: So this is his opportunity show it will now.
Speaker 8: But then I think the bigger onus is on a
Speaker 8: guy like Chauncey Ghostin, right, because Marshawn Kneelan, while he's
Speaker 8: being asked to step up that much more, he was
Speaker 8: already being asked to step up once Sam Williams went down,
Speaker 8: So he's going to see more. But it was interesting
Speaker 8: to me in speaking with Mike McCarthy yesterday that you
Speaker 8: would think the default answer would be Marshawn Kneelan and
Speaker 8: let's see more Carl Lawson. Okay, because Carl Lawson went
Speaker 8: from eight snaps his first elevation to twenty three I
Speaker 8: think twenty one to twenty three snaps against the New
Speaker 8: York Giants, and now you lose Michael Parsons in the
Speaker 8: Marcus lunch, She's like, oh, this is what you bought
Speaker 8: Carl Lawson in here for well. Mike McCarthy yesterday said
Speaker 8: that they're going to lean heavily on Kneeland and Chauncey Gholston.
Speaker 1: And I don't disagree. I wanted to put Chauncey back
Speaker 1: on it.
Speaker 8: And this is such an opportunity for Chauncey Ghosten, and
Speaker 8: in so many ways, this is a contract year for him.
Speaker 4: Part of why they kept him.
Speaker 8: Right, this is exactly this is about to be, if
Speaker 8: I'm not mistaken, the single biggest opportunity.
Speaker 1: For more reps for him.
Speaker 8: Right, He's never had this particular opportunity where they're just
Speaker 8: going to PLoP him down as a potential starter and
Speaker 8: say go eat right and then rotate loss and in
Speaker 8: with him.
Speaker 1: I thought it would be the verse.
Speaker 8: So for as much as we're talking about the rookie
Speaker 8: second round pick who's still getting his learning curve under him,
Speaker 8: with Chauncey Ghosten, this is year four and I'm sure
Speaker 8: he's loving.
Speaker 1: He hates that Micah.
Speaker 8: And tank her down, but you have to love that.
Speaker 8: This is this is your opportunity as an athlete. You say, hey,
Speaker 8: I hate that my brothers are injured, but I have
Speaker 8: to make the most of this.
Speaker 1: Got to make the most of it.
Speaker 9: But like, what was your confidence level and Chauncey Golston
Speaker 9: going into my problem with I'm not gonna say Pittsburgh,
Speaker 9: but like to not to overlook Pittsburgh either, But like,
Speaker 9: just going forward, let's just say that.
Speaker 8: My problem with Chauncey Gooston hasn't been with Chauncey Golston.
Speaker 8: It's been with the utilization of Chauncey Ghosten that's prohibited
Speaker 8: me from knowing what the hell I have fully with
Speaker 8: Chauncey Ghoston, if that makes sense. So, because he was
Speaker 8: brought in as an edge rusher right enter the league
Speaker 8: as an edge rusher, then he was right. Then he
Speaker 8: was slid inside right. So now he spent most of
Speaker 8: his his NFL's year or career should say, as a
Speaker 8: three tech and kind of you know, mulling the about
Speaker 8: there and then they pop him out every once in
Speaker 8: a while to the five and things like that. But
Speaker 8: for the most part, there's so much dedicated to him
Speaker 8: at the three. So now in training camp, they gave
Speaker 8: him some more reps at the edge for a situation
Speaker 8: such as this that might present itself. But you've not
Speaker 8: seen him full time at the edge as a Cowboy.
Speaker 8: Now you've not, but you're about to. So I don't
Speaker 8: have enough of his edge ability on film with the
Speaker 8: Cowboys to say that I am confident or not confident.
Speaker 8: But that's not a knock on him. I can say that.
Speaker 7: The sample sizes isn't there.
Speaker 8: I can say that he has traded in the right
Speaker 8: direction no matter which position they've put him at. But
Speaker 8: three tick and five those are two different animals all together.
Speaker 7: What about you, Kyle?
Speaker 4: He was drafted for this reason. I mean twenty twenty
Speaker 4: one draft, same drafts as Micah and Osa, and they
Speaker 4: were in that third round together with na Sean Right.
Speaker 4: There's a reason he's still on the roster. They've moved
Speaker 4: on from nay Sean Right, They've moved on from plenty of.
Speaker 1: Guys out of that draft class.
Speaker 4: They kept Chauncey Golson around even without the production, even
Speaker 4: without the snap counts and really the piece of the
Speaker 4: pie that you expected out of a third round pick.
Speaker 4: And he kind of hides in the weeds because there
Speaker 4: are three third round picks that year, and I think
Speaker 4: if it was just him that year in the third round,
Speaker 4: I think he would be criticized a little bit more. However,
Speaker 4: what you're saying is correct. He's in the building and
Speaker 4: they haven't moved on from him because he does the
Speaker 4: right things. He's everything they've asked him to do. He's
Speaker 4: moved inside, he's moved outside, he's done whatever he can.
Speaker 4: And for this fact, he hasn't needed been needed at
Speaker 4: the outside of the defensive line at the edge spot,
Speaker 4: because you have DeMarcus Lawrence, Michael Parsons has only missed
Speaker 4: one game in his career. You had had, you had Dorin,
Speaker 4: You had all these guys stacked at the edge.
Speaker 1: Rusher spot, so you didn't need him.
Speaker 4: You were trying to find a way to fit him
Speaker 4: into this whole puzzle. Now you've got a piece for
Speaker 4: him in the puzzle and it's where he should fit.
Speaker 4: And so I think there's there's hope there from my standpoint,
Speaker 4: that he will produce. He'll have some edge rush's, he'll
Speaker 4: be able to set the edge, he'll have some pass
Speaker 4: rush ability. Do I think he's gonna be DeMarcus Lawrence.
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 4: Do I think he holds as much weight and pressure
Speaker 4: on his shoulders as a Marshaw Neelan, No? But will
Speaker 4: he contribute absolutely, and I think they'll see him rotate
Speaker 4: in and out a little bit more so than you
Speaker 4: anticipate going into the week.
Speaker 8: I think you're also going to have to get really quickly, Josh,
Speaker 8: You're going to have to get a maverick involved here
Speaker 8: in the guy like Tyrus Wheat.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 8: So Tyros Wheat he's on the roster because he's done
Speaker 8: so well with special team, Right, but he's an edge
Speaker 8: rusher as well. So what kind of contribution cand of
Speaker 8: guy like Tyros Wheed give you?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 9: Yeah, and I was more so going to ask about
Speaker 9: pass rush versus run block or run defense, like does
Speaker 9: he have like a change?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he was better at run defense in college.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember back. I can find my scouting report.
Speaker 4: Uh, he was better as a run stopper on the edge,
Speaker 4: but his pass rush ability is minimal. It's very similar
Speaker 4: to what marshawn Nealan has.
Speaker 1: I think.
Speaker 4: I think he's a better run stopper than he is
Speaker 4: a pass rusher. I'm going to find my my scouting
Speaker 4: report on and obviously the past rush has the last
Speaker 4: time we've seen him as a full time edge rusher.
Speaker 9: That's fair, And the last time we've well, at least
Speaker 9: the last game or the last few games, the pass
Speaker 9: rush hasn't been there period.
Speaker 1: Even that that's the concern, even.
Speaker 9: With Mike, even with Marcus Lawrence. But the way that
Speaker 9: you're kind of building up Chauncey is like, at least
Speaker 9: maybe the run defense still holds up like it did
Speaker 9: in New.
Speaker 8: York, right, And here's where and this is why I
Speaker 8: thought that they would lean more on the combo of
Speaker 8: Kneeland and Lawson is because while you'll lose some of
Speaker 8: that run defense with lost in as far as setting
Speaker 8: the edge, you're theoretically gaining the pass rush over what
Speaker 8: a guy like Chauncey would give you. Because Carlawston, although
Speaker 8: he only had two pressures against the Giants, Cowboys didn't
Speaker 8: pressure you know, the Giants, well, they didn't pressure the
Speaker 8: Ravens well as we're talking about. But those two pressures
Speaker 8: occurred in twenty one snaps, right, Chauncey Ghoston had twenty
Speaker 8: three snaps I believe, and he had one pressure. So
Speaker 8: granted that particular game is a small sample size, but
Speaker 8: when you look at the totality of their career, Carl
Speaker 8: Lawson has been a get after the guy quarterback, I
Speaker 8: mean get up to the quarterback kind of guy. Whereas
Speaker 8: Chauncey Ghoston, what has he been We don't know because
Speaker 8: again he's not been number one, he hasn't had the
Speaker 8: opp tunity because the path hasn't been clear for injury
Speaker 8: like that, but also insane that it's also true that
Speaker 8: they didn't have him on the edge anyway. Right, So
Speaker 8: you just you don't know from a pass rush perspective there.
Speaker 8: But as it stands, you have a solid edge setter
Speaker 8: for the run in Chauncey, and you have an above average,
Speaker 8: far above average edge setter against the run in Marshawn Kneeland.
Speaker 8: But from a pass rush perspective, from either one of
Speaker 8: those guys, if you roll them together in a ball,
Speaker 8: you don't have Micah. If you roll them together in
Speaker 8: a ball, from a disruption path standpoint, you don't have Tank.
Speaker 8: You need you need a Maverick, You need another guy.
Speaker 8: It might be Tyres Wheat. Maybe you go like Jerry said,
Speaker 8: maybe you go poach somebody off of somebody's practice squad,
Speaker 8: whatever the case may be. But as it stands, going
Speaker 8: against the next six or seven laps of this race,
Speaker 8: that they have to go against I just feel like
Speaker 8: you gotta you gotta add another tire.
Speaker 4: I think you gotta add another It's hired to pull
Speaker 4: it out of the pit, get to the paddock.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: Lightly recruited out of high school, outworked other higher recruits.
Speaker 4: Shocking in any regard based off of what you've seen
Speaker 4: over the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: Absolutely not.
Speaker 4: And this is this is from him in college, became
Speaker 4: a captain and had production with at least eight and
Speaker 4: a half tackles for lost in each of the last
Speaker 4: three years. Could could improve upon his play strength and
Speaker 4: his ability to anchor. However, when setting the edge, he's
Speaker 4: strong enough and has some length in order to push
Speaker 4: the boundaries of setting the edge. So yeah, better run
Speaker 4: stopper than he was a pass pass rusher. And that's
Speaker 4: the scouting report from college last time, that he's been
Speaker 4: a full time edge rusher.
Speaker 9: And with Mazzi coming up coming into coming to fruition
Speaker 9: at least in the run defense. I mean, maybe that's
Speaker 9: recipe for Yeah, we're not trying to accept expectations here necessarily.
Speaker 7: Sure, it's something to look.
Speaker 8: Out for, but it goes to what Kyle was asking
Speaker 8: yesterday and that you know, what kind of pressure does
Speaker 8: this put on the linebackers, because now you have to
Speaker 8: figure out how to get how to generate additional pressure
Speaker 8: in the past rush yeah, or maybe you don't run
Speaker 8: three linebackers, maybe you want run three safeties and Donovan
Speaker 8: becomes more of your downhill you know, blitz package guy.
Speaker 8: When he's in, it's definitely a blitz type of thing.
Speaker 8: But see then that becomes predictable. Right, so the challenge
Speaker 8: is prevalent, Yes it is.
Speaker 1: Yes, it is all right.
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Speaker 4: eight eight five five two two nine seven Mike in
Speaker 4: New York is our first caller online. Mike, what's going on,
Speaker 4: my man?
Speaker 3: What's going on? Guys. I was happy you guys got
Speaker 3: your gift on it. I know you guys definitely definitely enjoyed.
Speaker 3: It was awesome to see obviously watching you guys open
Speaker 3: and stuff them. Obviously, I hope you guys obviously enjoyed it.
Speaker 3: That's I know, it's nothing like get something, Oh man.
Speaker 3: I know it's a little different, but so I know
Speaker 3: you guys obviously enjoyed that. But more to the cowboys,
Speaker 3: I think cowboys wish to wish to be a little
Speaker 3: more disciplined on with the flags. I feel like it's
Speaker 3: killing us. Man, it's been going on for I don't
Speaker 3: understand with all these penalties.
Speaker 4: That's a great point, Mike. Yeah, we love the the
Speaker 4: hand carved block. I mean, that was really cool. We
Speaker 4: put it back in Beamer's office. Josh has it displayed
Speaker 4: up in the desk so that way, it's close to
Speaker 4: our show every day.
Speaker 1: So we really imaginated displayed.
Speaker 4: But uh, let's talk about the penalties. I think that
Speaker 4: is a great point, Mike. Thanks for the call. As always,
Speaker 4: the penalties are concerning and and Jerry was asked about
Speaker 4: that this morning as well, and he kind of said,
Speaker 4: he was like, we got to find a way to negate.
Speaker 1: Those holding calls.
Speaker 4: He's like, But other than that, I think Tyler Giton's
Speaker 4: been a he called him an excellent rookie. I think
Speaker 4: there's still more to be desired with Tyler Goyiton, which
Speaker 4: is in turn leading to the holding penalties.
Speaker 9: No, of course, and it doesn't help when Tyler Gritton's
Speaker 9: calling out the refs for not being good. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 9: that's not great because now the microscope is on him.
Speaker 9: John Gotti, John Gotti, Yes, yes, yes, yes. I just
Speaker 9: think that at least with Tyler Goyiton, we kind of
Speaker 9: knew this coming in. We knew the sample size early on.
Speaker 9: You give them some time, man, the ceiling is there.
Speaker 9: And then if you look at the Jets, you look
Speaker 9: at Tyron Smith on the Jets like it's I don't know, man,
Speaker 9: and I hate to say it. I don't want to
Speaker 9: be disparager or anything like that, but he doesn't look
Speaker 9: like the same Tyron Smith. No, So if you'd rather
Speaker 9: have that at the cap that you're going to get
Speaker 9: hit with for Tyron Smith as opposed to a Tyler
Speaker 9: Goyiton that would have to sit this year year behind Tyrons.
Speaker 7: I don't know, man, I'm all.
Speaker 9: For taking that rookie, letting him develop on the field,
Speaker 9: getting those reps in good or bad.
Speaker 7: I think mostly good.
Speaker 4: Tyron allowed a sack and two pressures in their game
Speaker 4: against the he did Broncos, and what an ugly game
Speaker 4: that was.
Speaker 8: They got to get the penalties, and this is a
Speaker 8: state and the obvious of course they got to get
Speaker 8: the penalties in hand. I mean, you had thirteen penalties
Speaker 8: for over one hundred yards against the Ravens. You're not
Speaker 8: just guying you had as a team. You had eleven
Speaker 8: penalties for just under ninety yards against the Giants. And
Speaker 8: keep in mind, these don't include the penalties that were declined.
Speaker 8: These are only the accepted penalties.
Speaker 1: Okay.
Speaker 8: And the other mic, the mic from Dallas spoke yesterday
Speaker 8: about what they need to learn from September going into October,
Speaker 8: and he drew a circle around penalties and this is
Speaker 8: his quote. He said, and quote, we've way too many
Speaker 8: third down penalties, way too many red zone penalties, A
Speaker 8: couple of two minute penalties that affects scoring. It affects
Speaker 8: the opportunity for the offense to have the ball more,
Speaker 8: and that affects the defense being on the field longer.
Speaker 1: End quote.
Speaker 8: So that is definitely a point of inphasis emphasis for
Speaker 8: the Cowboys and Mike McCarthy going into October. They just
Speaker 8: have to figure out a way to clean it up.
Speaker 8: And let's be fair, not all of those penalties are righteous,
Speaker 8: but the ones that are righteous shouldn't be happening, uh,
Speaker 8: to the frequency that they are happening. So when you
Speaker 8: talk about a guy like Tyler Gout, and I don't
Speaker 8: want to single out Tyler Guyton because other guys are
Speaker 8: committing penalties as well. They're you know, when you get
Speaker 8: false starts on the drive and it's just like how
Speaker 8: you know the snap count? Okay, when you're lining up
Speaker 8: off sides, you're like, you know, all you got to
Speaker 8: do is look, yeah, right to the to the to
Speaker 8: the side, yeah, and you see where the ball is.
Speaker 1: Back up, those types of.
Speaker 8: Small discipline things, And I think that harkens back to
Speaker 8: like what a guy like Jordan Lewis said last week
Speaker 8: before the Giants game when he was like details, details, details, details,
Speaker 8: refine your details. But if the Cowboys don't finally, finally,
Speaker 8: and I'm with Mike from New York on this one,
Speaker 8: they don't finally get a handle on these penalties because
Speaker 8: it's something that's been haunting them for seasons now. It's
Speaker 8: going to eventually be the thing, excuse me, one of
Speaker 8: the things that continues to bite them in the back.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 4: And I feel like every year when we get to
Speaker 4: the playoffs, since something does go wrong, which at least
Speaker 4: has been inevitable recently, it's usually a red flag from
Speaker 4: the season and the two losses to San Francisco.
Speaker 7: Underneath Mike McCarthy, it was.
Speaker 4: Penalties, it was turnovers, it was run defense, it was
Speaker 4: all these different things.
Speaker 1: Last year against.
Speaker 4: Yeah, shoot, the last year it was penalties and run
Speaker 4: defense against Green Bay. I mean, it's all these things
Speaker 4: that have kind of lingered.
Speaker 9: Penalties have been very consistent in the Mike McCarthy era.
Speaker 1: Look at it from this point.
Speaker 8: I pulled up my game chart from the Ravens Okay
Speaker 8: Cowboys opening drive. Right, so Cowboys took the ball first.
Speaker 8: On the Cowboys opening drive first, you get a penalty
Speaker 8: holding to Cavante Turpin ten yards. Okay, you're working against
Speaker 8: yourself now you get down the field a little bit.
Speaker 8: Penalty second and nine, holding defense that was on the Ravens,
Speaker 8: the QB conversion by Dak Prescott on second and seven
Speaker 8: that was turned into a first down false start on
Speaker 8: Brevin span four. That was the drive where you had
Speaker 8: a false start on or penalty on both of your
Speaker 8: tight ends, Brevon span four and Jake Ferguson. So I
Speaker 8: sell that to say it's not only Tyler Guiden. It's
Speaker 8: happening across the board, even with names that you wouldn't
Speaker 8: normally hear, like a Jake Ferguson. Right, So Jake didn't,
Speaker 8: if I'm not mistaken, he didn't have any penalties against
Speaker 8: the Giants, and they were ones that argue it should
Speaker 8: have been a holding.
Speaker 1: I didn't see that. It was a bang bang play.
Speaker 1: Let's play football right on that touchdown.
Speaker 8: But bottom line is you can't have these types of
Speaker 8: penalties killing drives. Because that drive I'm talking about the
Speaker 8: opening Cowboys drive. You know how it resulted against the
Speaker 8: Ravens in a punt YEP, that's what happens that drive.
Speaker 1: That's what happens.
Speaker 4: Lee in Dallas is on the line, Lee, what's on
Speaker 4: your mind? Thanks for calling.
Speaker 12: Hey, good morning, guys, Thanks for having me. There's been
Speaker 12: a lot of talking this offensive line and how the
Speaker 12: struggles are and Tyler Goidens having a hard time, you know,
Speaker 12: transitioning to left tackle, and Terrence Steel's having a hard
Speaker 12: time at right tackle coming back from injuries or whatever
Speaker 12: in the season, and it just feels to me, when
Speaker 12: is there a time where we start talking about and thinking, well,
Speaker 12: Tyler Goyiton was a right tackle, his transition to left
Speaker 12: tackle has been a struggle. When do we start thinking
Speaker 12: about putting him back at right tackle if Terren Steel
Speaker 12: isn't playing any better. They talk about getting the best
Speaker 12: five on the field, that's their priority. I think one
Speaker 12: of their best five linemens on the bench in TJ.
Speaker 3: Bass.
Speaker 12: You've got a guy that has spent a season at
Speaker 12: left tackle proven that he's you know, a great player
Speaker 12: at it almost pro bowl level in Tyler Smith. And
Speaker 12: I've thought this from before the season. My starting offensive
Speaker 12: line would be Tyler Smith at left tackle, PJ Batts
Speaker 12: at left guard, Cooper BB at center, Zach Martin at
Speaker 12: right guard, and Tyler at right tackle.
Speaker 4: Interesting, Okay, Lee, I appreciate the call as always and
Speaker 4: I think he's got a point. I don't know if
Speaker 4: it's a point for twenty twenty four. And I've actually
Speaker 4: thought about this too, because Tyler Goiden was much better
Speaker 4: as a right tackle in college and what he was
Speaker 4: able to do. It's a transition period, and Josh you
Speaker 4: pointed that out just a couple moments ago. There's going
Speaker 4: to be a learning curve. We're four games into this
Speaker 4: guy's career. I don't want to completely upend his future
Speaker 4: of what could be your left tackle of the future
Speaker 4: just because of a couple holding calls.
Speaker 1: And a couple of bad games.
Speaker 4: So not yet. I don't know if it's out of
Speaker 4: the question though, because this is another draft class that
Speaker 4: as heavy at left tackle. You could draft again. I
Speaker 4: don't know how many times in a row they're gonna
Speaker 4: have to draft a tackle in the first round of
Speaker 4: the d NFL Draft. You can't do that every year.
Speaker 4: But I don't think it's out of the conversation to
Speaker 4: move guys around. I just think it's out of the
Speaker 4: conversation for twenty twenty four.
Speaker 8: I'll tell you what part of that is out of
Speaker 8: the conversation entirely. For Mike McCarthy, Tyler Smith is not
Speaker 8: moving to left tackle. Tyler Smith is not moving to left.
Speaker 4: See and I agree with that with a part of
Speaker 4: this would be adding another piece, adding a left tackle
Speaker 4: to your roster. If you've got an all pro at
Speaker 4: any of the offensive line possessions that keep him there.
Speaker 1: Correct, do not move.
Speaker 7: He's an All Pro.
Speaker 1: That's the only that's the only flaw, maybe.
Speaker 4: But I don't want to risk it. I don't want
Speaker 4: to mess with it.
Speaker 9: Is one of the only consistent things on your offensive line.
Speaker 9: The only consistent guys on your offensive line would be
Speaker 9: Tyler Smith, Cooper BB at the moment, and Zach Martin,
Speaker 9: which is you know, arguable at this point, at this
Speaker 9: point in time, Tyler Smith has been the most solid
Speaker 9: player on.
Speaker 1: The office be offensive lineman right now, close.
Speaker 7: And he's at left guard.
Speaker 1: Keep him there, keep him there.
Speaker 8: So that for me, that's the only flaw. I see
Speaker 8: the logic and the reason in Lee's argument.
Speaker 1: I see it.
Speaker 7: That's fine.
Speaker 8: But that's that's the flaw, you know, or that's the
Speaker 8: fly in your honey there is that they're not moving
Speaker 8: Tyler Smith to left tackle. So as far as maybe
Speaker 8: twenty five and beyond, let's see, because again, this is
Speaker 8: four games in and it's so early in this young
Speaker 8: man's career to write him off as not having the
Speaker 8: ability to develop and be your future at left tackle,
Speaker 8: just as it's it's difficult to to say, Okay, four
Speaker 8: games in, let's rite off Terrence Steele.
Speaker 1: Let's let this thing play out. Let's let it play out.
Speaker 8: I'm open to the conversation, not with a Tyler Smith
Speaker 8: to left tackle, because no, but let's let this play out,
Speaker 8: and let's let's have this conversation again in March.
Speaker 4: And I don't think Lee is discounting Tyler Guyton.
Speaker 1: As a player he kept. No. No, He's saying that
Speaker 1: he just wants him to fit and he's here believe.
Speaker 8: That he developed better as a starting right tackle than
Speaker 8: left tackle, which could very well could be. But what
Speaker 8: I'm saying the counterpoint is, and not that I'm disagreeing,
Speaker 8: the counterpoint is that it's only four games in.
Speaker 1: So that's why I said, let's let this play.
Speaker 8: Out, and then I'm wildly open to having the conversation
Speaker 8: revisiting this in the off season and after we have
Speaker 8: an entire season.
Speaker 1: I think you need to get us.
Speaker 7: Where that that was exactly.
Speaker 9: It then to your point about just like if if
Speaker 9: you do it now, I think that's just a disservice
Speaker 9: to the entire offensive, the whole offensive line, the offensive
Speaker 9: line as a whole, the chemistry that they've had, the
Speaker 9: reps of that shake up.
Speaker 4: A lot of people would say, Oh, this isn't Madden, right, Like,
Speaker 4: this isn't Madden. I don't think this is a Madden idea.
Speaker 4: I think it's just trying.
Speaker 1: To fit the pieces in the discussion. No, I like it.
Speaker 4: Good, good discussion, Lee, good question. We're going to take
Speaker 4: a break. Doing in Northport, Florida is on the other
Speaker 4: side of that break. We'll talk to him. Keep giving
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Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 15: Going on?
Speaker 1: Guys? How we doing doing well?
Speaker 15: Sir?
Speaker 1: How were you all right? All right?
Speaker 15: So I saw something cool or I guess not cool,
Speaker 15: actually kind of disturbing this morning.
Speaker 4: I was looking at what a swing?
Speaker 15: This could go a lot of ways? Right, I'm.
Speaker 1: I'm scared.
Speaker 15: So against the Giants. Dak Prestoll was looking at his
Speaker 15: catching chart and only five out of the twenty seven
Speaker 15: pass and tens went for more than ten yards or
Speaker 15: travel more than ten yards. Only two travel more than
Speaker 15: fifteen and going into the game, Uh, you know Dallas
Speaker 15: face light boxes at the third high street. In the NFL,
Speaker 15: Giants eyes are presented light boxes at the highest straight.
Speaker 15: I haven't watched all all twenty two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I plan to do that today.
Speaker 15: But my logical, guests, based on the historical data and
Speaker 15: just the live watch, is that the Giants are sitting
Speaker 15: back to I Safety is flogging a bunch of lanes
Speaker 15: and people are complaining about you know, Brandon Cooch running
Speaker 15: pitches and all these short routes and stuff, and uh,
Speaker 15: it's all I think stems from the lack of a
Speaker 15: ground game because teams are just sitting back and not
Speaker 15: allowing us to push the ball down the field.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 15: So until Dallas can establish a consistent running attack against
Speaker 15: light boxes and forced teams to put more guys in
Speaker 15: the box, I think you're going to continue to see
Speaker 15: Dallas run these short routes.
Speaker 4: Completely agree, Completely agree, I think. And I've watched the
Speaker 4: all twenty two from Thursday already and a lot of
Speaker 4: too high a lot of too high shell, which of
Speaker 4: course mel Kiper hates now apparently.
Speaker 1: I think that's so silly, that's dumb.
Speaker 4: The big run the football if you if you want
Speaker 4: to ban the too high shell, be the Baltimore Ravens,
Speaker 4: be the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 1: Force him in to say within issue, got into buck.
Speaker 4: Run the ball, And I agree. I think part of
Speaker 4: Dalvin or not Dalvin Cooks Brandon Cook's struggles has been
Speaker 4: because one the separation isn't there from other wide receivers.
Speaker 4: So a lot of people are saying, okay, if jayaln Tolvert,
Speaker 4: Cavante Turpin and all these other guys aren't getting any separation.
Speaker 4: Then we've got to cover CD, we've got to cover Cooks,
Speaker 4: we've got to cover Ferguson, and we should be good
Speaker 4: because they're not going to run the ball. There's no
Speaker 4: threat outside of those three guys on this offense. And
Speaker 4: right now you can even x out number three, you
Speaker 4: can x out Brandon Cooks and at that equation, because
Speaker 4: you can't run the ball, you're gonna see light boxes,
Speaker 4: you're gonna see hefty coverage, and it's going to be
Speaker 4: more for this team to decipher through.
Speaker 7: And that's tough.
Speaker 9: That's tough for a guy like Dak Prescott who was
Speaker 9: having to throw these tight window throws just to get completion,
Speaker 9: just to find somebody, just to find somebody, he's got
Speaker 9: to throw a perfect pass each and every time. Yeah,
Speaker 9: he's not gonna have a Jared Goff like game where
Speaker 9: he goes eighteen for eighteen, you know what I mean.
Speaker 9: It's crazy to me that, uh, the running game is
Speaker 9: with the running backs that you have. Like granted this,
Speaker 9: we talked about it before the season started. Yeah, Zeke
Speaker 9: is not the same Zeke. No, that's no question. It's
Speaker 9: not rookie Zeke. But that is a serviceable running back.
Speaker 9: The fact that we cannot get the ground game running
Speaker 9: with Zeke anybody, anybody, with anybody, it's it's concerning, it's so.
Speaker 1: What So then where's Delvin?
Speaker 8: That was going to be my next question and that
Speaker 8: Jerry Jones conversation to the forefront of your mind where
Speaker 8: you asked sad him instead of Brandon Cooks.
Speaker 1: So the question is where's Delvin?
Speaker 8: Where is so number one sensational take by Dylan Apps
Speaker 8: a freaking loly Oh they got those ball? Yeah, you
Speaker 8: got You gotta run the ball if you want to
Speaker 8: defeat the two high safeties, because you need one of
Speaker 8: those guys to drop down and make a heavier box.
Speaker 8: And if you can't run the ball, then you got
Speaker 8: to deal with that. And it's a lot of underneath
Speaker 8: because even the two touchdowns from Ceedee Lamb, there was
Speaker 8: a shot at one earlier in the season it with miscommunication,
Speaker 8: but that aside, he took that underneath a frozen rope
Speaker 8: through a keyhole from Dak Prescott and Ceedee Lamb made
Speaker 8: both of those touchdowns. Happened after because that was middle
Speaker 8: deep turned into a deep deep touchdown. But where's Delvin
Speaker 8: Jerry Jones this morning on one oh five three, the
Speaker 8: fan said, quote unquote, probably not this week, not this
Speaker 8: Dalvin Cook.
Speaker 1: Last week.
Speaker 8: It wasn't because it was not going to happen because
Speaker 8: per Jerry Jones, short week the week before. It's because
Speaker 8: small sample size with Zeke and Rico w induce and
Speaker 8: they're still trying to figure some things out. Well, now
Speaker 8: you're going into a long week. You got four games
Speaker 8: in and Mike McCarthy himself said yesterday, you know who
Speaker 8: you are after four weeks. Okay, Well, if you know
Speaker 8: who you are after four weeks, then you know that
Speaker 8: you might need some kind of juice injected into the
Speaker 8: rushing attack.
Speaker 4: You're bad at running the football.
Speaker 8: Yeah, John said, it's not it's for those that are asking,
Speaker 8: Jerry said, it's not a physical thing with Delvin Cook,
Speaker 8: they said he looks good. And I can attest to
Speaker 8: this in the aspect of those that I've spoken with
Speaker 8: coaches and other players, they are saying the same thing.
Speaker 8: They're saying Delvin looks good. They're saying his feet are quick,
Speaker 8: they're saying he looks great out there in practice. So
Speaker 8: then that just again begs the question, where is Dalvin
Speaker 8: Cook and when, if ever, this season, when do you
Speaker 8: elevate him?
Speaker 4: Jerry's answer today, and like you said, he gave some
Speaker 4: reasoning behind it. He was talking about looking at the
Speaker 4: season as a whole, and we haven't run the football
Speaker 4: a whole lot the last couple of weeks, which is.
Speaker 1: To a certain extent true.
Speaker 4: I mean, Rico Dowdell was utilized more than anybody this
Speaker 4: past Thursday, and Zeke only saw ten offensive snaps. Ten
Speaker 4: Rico looks fine. Honestly, I think Rico is your RB
Speaker 4: one right now. That's a separate conversation right now, that's
Speaker 4: a separate conversation. But Dalvin Cook specifically, they said, we
Speaker 4: want to utilize him when we're going to utilize him best,
Speaker 4: because he's coming off with the practice squad. You can
Speaker 4: elevate these guys only so many times. Do you feel
Speaker 4: like that plays any factor into it? Because I feel
Speaker 4: like if you wanted to just elevate the guy and
Speaker 4: he plays well, good sign him. If he doesn't play well,
Speaker 4: then maybe you push it.
Speaker 1: Back to squad.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you get you kind of push it down the line.
Speaker 4: I don't know if delaying his first call up is
Speaker 4: enough to say what's not utilize him.
Speaker 8: I think the bigger issue is you remember we had
Speaker 8: this conversation Isaiah included you bring up Dalvin Cook and
Speaker 8: who is made inactive?
Speaker 4: I mean, he only had ten offensive snaps, I would say,
Speaker 4: and Zeke you would say, I would absolutely.
Speaker 8: Based on how they're using Zeke, you would think so yeah,
Speaker 8: But do you realistically think they're going to make Zeken active?
Speaker 1: Probably not. And that's for me.
Speaker 8: That's where delvin's' that's the thing because if you bring
Speaker 8: up Dalvin Cook, but you don't want to make Zeke inactive.
Speaker 8: And this Rico is not in this conversation because Rico
Speaker 8: is continuing to improve as as he as RB one
Speaker 8: right now. So this is for me, is Dalvin Cook
Speaker 8: versus Rico versus deuce yea question because Hunter Lickey he's
Speaker 8: not in the carversation either. He's finally getting more utilization.
Speaker 8: So the question becomes, if you bring up Dalvin Cook,
Speaker 8: are you making duce and active for that game, which
Speaker 8: is probably supposed to be your change of pace back
Speaker 8: or is it Zeke which creates a redundancy because Zeke
Speaker 8: and Dalvin Cook are more or less the same guy.
Speaker 9: I mean, to your point, I'd love to see Hunter
Speaker 9: lip Key with actual RB one carries like I would
Speaker 9: love to see him take those snaps.
Speaker 1: Also another conversation, he's been great.
Speaker 9: It's totally separate, but it's like, what does he look
Speaker 9: like running the football, Because as far as like utility backs,
Speaker 9: I think he has everything that you're really looking for
Speaker 9: right now. He can push a pile and he's also
Speaker 9: catching out of the backfield, and he's pass blocking.
Speaker 4: It's not out of the question to say Hunter Lipke
Speaker 4: is your third most effective player on offense right now,
Speaker 4: behind CD and Jake Ferguson. Name a guy other than
Speaker 4: lip Key who's had maybe not the stats I think,
Speaker 4: but I'm talking about effective thinking.
Speaker 1: I think it's Rico. And the reason I said I
Speaker 1: think it is Rico is because.
Speaker 4: That maybe he's a bait.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I see what you're saying.
Speaker 8: Yeah, it's more production, but also it's it's commensurate with
Speaker 8: more opportunities. So if you I think if lip Key
Speaker 8: gets those opportunities, is correlated that way, and you say
Speaker 8: it's per opportunity, now you're talking efficiency per opportunity. That
Speaker 8: was most efficient, third more third most efficient player on
Speaker 8: offense I'm not productive because he hasn't had that touches
Speaker 8: the third most efficient player on offense.
Speaker 4: I think it's hunder lip so. I yeah, when it
Speaker 4: comes to Dalvin Cook, I think there needs to be
Speaker 4: a conversation.
Speaker 1: I think there needs to.
Speaker 4: Be an added emphasis to try and shake up the
Speaker 4: running back room. Whatever you're doing right now isn't working.
Speaker 4: It's not working running the football. Try something different, try
Speaker 4: it out. See what happens.
Speaker 8: Yeah, and if it doesn't work, he drops back to
Speaker 8: the practice squad and no harm, no foul, no harm,
Speaker 8: no foul.
Speaker 1: You figure it out for the following week. We'll see.
Speaker 1: We'll see.
Speaker 4: It's not gonna happen this week. Apparently it doesn't look
Speaker 4: to be the case. All right, that's gonna do it
Speaker 4: for us here on talking Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Hope you had some fun with us.
Speaker 4: Tomorrow, we will have the whole crew back in the building.
Speaker 4: We're gonna have Isaiah stand back back and we will
Speaker 4: get you started on the preview of this matchup with
Speaker 4: the Steelers.
Speaker 1: What a historic.
Speaker 4: Rivalry this, Oh my god, eleven Lombardi trophies, Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: you got a lot going on.
Speaker 1: And battles in the seventies man. Yeah, seventies nineties.
Speaker 4: Relevant, I remember those the last every like yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 4: every matchup since the turn of the century has been
Speaker 4: a one score game.
Speaker 1: Every single matchup.
Speaker 4: They don't play it a whole lot, but every single
Speaker 4: game has been a one score affair CARDI I think
Speaker 4: you could see the exact same thing happening on Sunday.
Speaker 4: But tomorrow we're going to preview the Dallas defensive matchup
Speaker 4: going up against Justin Fields or Russell Wilson at quarterback
Speaker 4: with George Pickens, Pat Friar mused, and a couple of
Speaker 4: these other guys on the offense couple flat tires to
Speaker 4: see how they ad just In doing so for Chris Beam,
Speaker 4: Josh Rodriguez, Patrick No c walker around, Kyle Yeoman saying
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