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Speaker 2: For the second time in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3: It is a victory Monday.
Speaker 2: On Talking Cowboys as the Cowboys absolutely dismantle New York.
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Speaker 2: It was toppling giants in week one, it was air
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Speaker 2: kick on CBS. Isaiah Stanbach, Nick Harris, Chris Beam in
Speaker 2: the back. I'm Kyle Yeomans, gentlemen. I mean it was
Speaker 2: another dominant game from Dallas. That's really all you can
Speaker 2: say it with. And they did a phenomenal job from
Speaker 2: the jump, getting out early and taking advantage of it as.
Speaker 3: The game went along.
Speaker 5: Yeah, kind of the same things that we saw last week,
Speaker 5: just a different script. You know, last week it was
Speaker 5: the defense and special teams helping to get out to
Speaker 5: the big lead. This time it was the offense. They
Speaker 5: win the coin toss, they said, give me the ball,
Speaker 5: and they drive down the field and get seven points
Speaker 5: right off the top, and then you know, from there
Speaker 5: the defense was able to settle in. Michael Parsons got
Speaker 5: another early sack, the defense with takeaways in the fourth
Speaker 5: quarter where they were just dismantling as you said, and
Speaker 5: just to help put the final statement on this game.
Speaker 5: But man, all three phases are looking so good right now.
Speaker 5: I mean we could look at, you know, the offense,
Speaker 5: I would say the red zone is a little bit
Speaker 5: of a concern. I guess we'll get to that at
Speaker 5: a point. But the offense, there's so many good things
Speaker 5: to be able to pull away from. There's so many
Speaker 5: quick game action that they're able to, you know, enable
Speaker 5: that things are looking so great with. And then on
Speaker 5: the defensive, side, I mean pointed anything, things are looking great.
Speaker 5: And then special teams Brandon Aubrey five for five on
Speaker 5: field goals and Jerry Jones we got ourselves a kicker.
Speaker 5: We do we do, so all three phases looked great yesterday.
Speaker 4: I like it. Complimentary football. We talked about it a
Speaker 4: lot yesterday on the post game show. These guys are
Speaker 4: coming out and taking care of business, right, Dyj. That
Speaker 4: was an old model I had when I was playing
Speaker 4: for other teams. But DYJ, do your job, and that's
Speaker 4: what all three fasts of the game they're doing. Whether
Speaker 4: it's Mike McCarthy call on players, whether it's dan Quinn
Speaker 4: Taine care of business, whether it's Bones Fossil making sure
Speaker 4: his guys are fully capable of delivering their portion of
Speaker 4: their contributions as well. Offense, defense, Special team. I love it.
Speaker 4: I'm sure we'll get into a lot more in depth,
Speaker 4: but this is all good stuff.
Speaker 2: I think the most impressive part to me is the
Speaker 2: fact that it has been so.
Speaker 3: I mean, just game plan to a tee in Week one.
Speaker 2: You wanted to get up early and then be conservative
Speaker 2: on offense and take care of the football.
Speaker 3: Check check check.
Speaker 2: This game it was more so a bit of a dogfight,
Speaker 2: at least in the first quarter, or at least more
Speaker 2: than it was in Week one against the Giants. It
Speaker 2: wasn't like it was really mono amano, but it was
Speaker 2: at least a challenge there. I mean, it was eighteen
Speaker 2: to ten going into the halftime break, and you felt
Speaker 2: like at least the Jets had some sort of momentum
Speaker 2: that didn't carry over because time of possession took the
Speaker 2: air out of the football. Dallas led the time of
Speaker 2: possession forty two minutes in fifteen seconds.
Speaker 3: That's an unbelievable number, second most.
Speaker 2: In a non overtime game in Cowboys franchise history. The
Speaker 2: fact that they were able to control the time of
Speaker 2: possession against the team like the Jets that wanted to
Speaker 2: do the exact same thing. They beat the Jets at
Speaker 2: their own game, and they flex their muscles in doing so.
Speaker 3: And that's what's most impressive.
Speaker 2: To me, taking the best thing that the Jets do
Speaker 2: and just completely throwing it out of the realm of possibility.
Speaker 2: And they did the same thing to the Giants in
Speaker 2: Week one.
Speaker 5: Man we talked about it last week. The tandem of
Speaker 5: Breeze Hall and Dalvin Cook. Like we expected that there
Speaker 5: were going to be problems there and you just kind
Speaker 5: of had to weather the storm and force them to
Speaker 5: throw the ball. They didn't have any problems. Eight rushes
Speaker 5: for sixteen yards between the two and Zach Wilson was
Speaker 5: forced to throw the ball very early on, and then
Speaker 5: as the game went on when he was they didn't
Speaker 5: have a choice, then it got really out of hand.
Speaker 5: But man, that rush defense, and I think it starts
Speaker 5: with DeMarcus Lawrence. He was all over the place yesterday
Speaker 5: and run defense, even Micah Yeah, and even Micah got first,
Speaker 5: yeah yeah, getting in the backfield and he was throwing
Speaker 5: guys around. Jonathan Hankins was great. Even Mazzi got in
Speaker 5: there a little bit, Ohsa Togezua. I mean that whole
Speaker 5: defensive line. Man, it seems like every single person on
Speaker 5: that line is taking a step forward. And I think
Speaker 5: what's most impressive is DeMarcus Lawrence being able to do that.
Speaker 5: Because we talked about so much at camp, you know,
Speaker 5: kind of it was like there was one side of
Speaker 5: the coin that it was like, Okay, where's the Marcus
Speaker 5: Lawrence here? When we were an Oxnard. There was another
Speaker 5: side of the coin that was, like, you know, he's
Speaker 5: putting up some of the highest energy numbers that he's
Speaker 5: put out since Mike McCarthy has been here. They keep
Speaker 5: talking about him, every staff member does. And we're starting
Speaker 5: to see that manifest with the Marcus Lawrence. He looks
Speaker 5: great out there. But again, that whole defensive line that
Speaker 5: they've taken a step forward, and you can clearly see that.
Speaker 4: I love the fact that box got checked because that
Speaker 4: was the one question mark that you had on this
Speaker 4: entire team, not just that box. That's I mean, your
Speaker 4: bubble guts are gone. You know, the bubble guts are gone.
Speaker 4: They're gone, Kyle and I had them. They were there, right,
Speaker 4: it was it was a faint bubble gut, but it
Speaker 4: was still there.
Speaker 3: Right, It's still we're drinking water. You were still you're
Speaker 3: still clinching tight, you know what I mean.
Speaker 4: Like you know, so, I'm just saying like you had
Speaker 4: that feeling because you were unsure, they were unproven. Now,
Speaker 4: all of a sudden, the New York Jets come in there,
Speaker 4: and they have two dogs at running back, and they
Speaker 4: have an officeive line that's not the greatest office line,
Speaker 4: but these guys they work well together. Okay, So with
Speaker 4: that two headed monster, you had a test. You had
Speaker 4: a test in front of you, and they went out
Speaker 4: and they ate the test. I mean, these guys had
Speaker 4: sixteen rushes sixty four yards. Shut them down. That is
Speaker 4: a shutdown when you have a breest haul In, a
Speaker 4: healthy Breeze Hall, and a healthy Dalvin Cook and you
Speaker 4: shut that entire unit down and you forced them, like
Speaker 4: we talked about last week, to get out of their
Speaker 4: game plan. Once you get out of your game plan,
Speaker 4: you're playing from behind against the Dallas Cowboys. Good luck. Yeah.
Speaker 5: The only time they found success running the ball was
Speaker 5: Zach Wilson escaping the pocket from that last drive in
Speaker 5: the first half, but it was really just because of
Speaker 5: what they were trying to do defensively. You know, there
Speaker 5: was more I guess pushback from the back secondary, so
Speaker 5: he was able to kind of find some runn lanes.
Speaker 5: I think he ended up with thirty rushing yards on
Speaker 5: that drive alone, So that's half the total. You take
Speaker 5: that away, then.
Speaker 4: Off he had five for thirty six out of the
Speaker 4: sixty four. Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So I mean you take that away and that's nothing.
Speaker 2: And also the sixty four just in its numbers entirely,
Speaker 2: that would have been the third best total in terms
Speaker 2: of rushing yards allowed in the entire twenty twenty two season.
Speaker 2: The only two times that they did better in that
Speaker 2: time was the wild card game against Tampa Bay they
Speaker 2: allowed just fifty two yards rushing, and then earlier in
Speaker 2: the season thirty eight yards against the Los Angeles Rams
Speaker 2: against a really a depleted Rams team in that Week
Speaker 2: five matchup last year, So two times last year Dallas
Speaker 2: was better in terms of run defense. That they did
Speaker 2: give up one hundred and eight yards on the in
Speaker 2: the first game, but really a lot of that came
Speaker 2: in the opening drive for New York and then as
Speaker 2: the game had already gotten out of hand and things
Speaker 2: just kind of turned over.
Speaker 4: For me in the rent. Yeah, oh yeah, interesting.
Speaker 2: But that's that's the thing, is like, that was the
Speaker 2: one I don't know, that was the one knock. That
Speaker 2: was the one Achilles heel. Yep, no, no pun intended. Sorry,
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers. That's not don not a joke though it
Speaker 2: is a different conversation, not a joke. The the whole
Speaker 2: point of this defense was they could not stop the run.
Speaker 2: But my goodness, if you're passing, you're you're either going
Speaker 2: to get it picked off or you're getting in pressure.
Speaker 2: So there's there's parts seven. But now you don't have that.
Speaker 2: You don't have that weakness at least through the first
Speaker 2: two games through So this first two games with a
Speaker 2: healthy defense and the way that they're playing after it,
Speaker 2: they have not shown a weakness defensively.
Speaker 4: I like it. I like it a lot.
Speaker 5: I want to read a quote from U from Michael Parsons.
Speaker 5: I'm trying to find it specifically right here. Okay, here
Speaker 5: we go.
Speaker 4: He was bold in some statements.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I asked him. I asked him in the
Speaker 5: locker room yesterday just about this rush defense and being
Speaker 5: able to limit those guys to just sixteen yards. He said,
Speaker 5: to all those teams with those game plans, run at me,
Speaker 5: run at whoever we coming. Mm hmm.
Speaker 3: So did you see them there?
Speaker 2: Did you see him quote tweeting division?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: I saw m quote Johan Johan Dotson throws up two
Speaker 2: and oh and Mike had just quote tweet and said,
Speaker 2: we coming.
Speaker 5: I think there's maybe be a little bit of Penn
Speaker 5: State love there, just because you know they both went
Speaker 5: to Penn State. There might be a little bit of
Speaker 5: a friendly rivalry there, but still, I mean that's looking
Speaker 5: at it from the outside and looking at it on paper,
Speaker 5: it's hilarious.
Speaker 2: I think for the most part, this is a this
Speaker 2: is a dangerous defense. They've got all three levels to it,
Speaker 2: and I mean, which part is it just no doubt?
Speaker 2: Defensive line?
Speaker 3: Is that no doubt? Because the secondary had.
Speaker 2: Three interceptions yesterday to a lot of that down the stretch.
Speaker 2: But has the defensive line been the one that set
Speaker 2: the tone and led the way.
Speaker 5: Absolutely. It starts up front and even in the fourth
Speaker 5: quarter when they were able to get those interceptions and
Speaker 5: the dam just completely fell in. For Zach Wilson, it
Speaker 5: was because they were just applying pressure. He had to
Speaker 5: get the ball out a lot faster than he wanted to.
Speaker 5: You could look at that throw that Malie Hooker got
Speaker 5: down the sideline as a good example. He was just
Speaker 5: having to kind of throw it up and hope that
Speaker 5: I believe it was Garrett Wills could get down there
Speaker 5: and Hooker was just waiting for it. So that was
Speaker 5: an example. I mean, the Treyvon Diggs pick was an example.
Speaker 5: Jaylon Curse pick was an example. It all starts up
Speaker 5: front and Stefan Gilmore and Trayvon Diggs, they'd be the
Speaker 5: first people to tell you that too, Like they understand
Speaker 5: that the ball is coming out a lot quicker this
Speaker 5: year and it's only going to help them.
Speaker 2: And that's the other part of it, is the offense
Speaker 2: doing their job, keep the defense fresh. Defense was only
Speaker 2: on the field for seventeen minutes. Do you think they
Speaker 2: get like half a game check this week?
Speaker 4: Because was it forty one snaps?
Speaker 3: I think yeah, forty one snaps?
Speaker 5: Yeah. Do you know what Traybon dig said? He was like,
Speaker 5: I don't like it. It's like, do you like the
Speaker 5: time of possession battle being what it is? You know,
Speaker 5: somebody had asked him and it was all like a
Speaker 5: peppy like hype question. He's like, no, I don't like it.
Speaker 5: I want to be on the field. He was like,
Speaker 5: but it's a team win.
Speaker 4: We won, so whatever, right, I mean, if you played
Speaker 4: a full game, so let's just flip it on its head. Okay,
Speaker 4: Let's say that the Jets had eighty some eighty was
Speaker 4: eighty one plays? I think Dallas had eighty one snaps? Okay,
Speaker 4: and you had this defensive front of the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 4: break it up. Say it's four and we're about three,
Speaker 4: I'll call it three defensive lines deep. Let's say that. Okay,
Speaker 4: we really like four. Yeah, but everybody gets everybody gets
Speaker 4: what twenty twenty plus plays? Yeah, yeah, I can. You
Speaker 4: can play twenty plays. I can give you everything I
Speaker 4: got twenty plays, no hesitation whatsoever. I'm giving you all
Speaker 4: everything I have. These guys had forty snaps total, were
Speaker 4: in the whole game if they played the entire game.
Speaker 4: So some guys who were rotating in maybe got ten snaps.
Speaker 5: Michael probably only got like twenty five snaps. Twenty five snaps.
Speaker 4: Give me five minutes like that is the that's a nightmare.
Speaker 4: That's like me watching Freddy Krueger and freaking problem child.
Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: All at the same time, when I was a little kid,
Speaker 4: that's not what you want to face.
Speaker 3: You you are.
Speaker 4: Your only hope is that you get a stay in
Speaker 4: your game plan or b wear them down enough where
Speaker 4: they're tired. Neither neither are happening.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, it isn't happening for defense or for opponents
Speaker 2: in general. I think it also goes back to the
Speaker 2: game plan that Mike McCarthy has set aside, and I
Speaker 2: think he deserves a bunch of credit. I think Dan
Speaker 2: quint does too. I mean, it's almost like you have
Speaker 2: two different head coaches. You have the head coach for
Speaker 2: the offense and the head coach for the defense, and
Speaker 2: both of them are doing their jobs exceptionally well.
Speaker 3: Right now. The offense had their struggles and we.
Speaker 2: Will talk about it in the second segment about the
Speaker 2: red zone and converting on drives, finishing on drives. But
Speaker 2: there's also a conservative nature to this offense of let's
Speaker 2: not do anything too outlandish, let's not do anything to
Speaker 2: turn the football over. This is the first time in
Speaker 2: franchise history the Cowboys have not had a turnover, not
Speaker 2: committed the turnover in the first two weeks.
Speaker 4: Do it, do it? Thank you, yep, But it's there.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's a stat first two games of the
Speaker 2: regular season, first time that the Cowboys have ever had
Speaker 2: two straight turnover free games to start a campaign. So
Speaker 2: they're taking care of the football, they're driving with the football.
Speaker 4: You just got to finish them drives.
Speaker 5: Yeah, they got a little bit of luck not turning
Speaker 5: the ball over. Yesterday it looked like sauce Gardner had
Speaker 5: that he would still be running right now. But nevertheless,
Speaker 5: this offense, and we've talked about it at nauseam at
Speaker 5: this point, this offense is predicated around, you know, getting
Speaker 5: things out quick, having quick reads, and when those things
Speaker 5: are manifested, it creates say football, and it puts the
Speaker 5: ball in situations where they can't where they can't have turnovers.
Speaker 5: There was a situation in the first quarter yesterday where
Speaker 5: Tony Pollard had a ball from Dak Prescott that kind
Speaker 5: of got him like right here, and there was a
Speaker 5: tackler right on top of him, and I just immediate
Speaker 5: PTSD was like, he's about to tip this up and
Speaker 5: it's about to be a pick six. But he hauled
Speaker 5: it in. It was good, It was fine, Everything was dandy.
Speaker 5: But I guess that was the only thing that I
Speaker 5: could look at yesterday aside from the sauce Gardner near
Speaker 5: pick six that I was like, Okay, that could have
Speaker 5: been trouble last year, but this time around it worked out.
Speaker 5: So maybe it's luck, maybe it's game plan. It's a
Speaker 5: little bit of both, but it's worked so far.
Speaker 2: Okay, here are the snap counts for the defense going
Speaker 2: back to that conversation we just had. There were four
Speaker 2: players that played one hundred percent of the time, Layton
Speaker 2: vander ash jy Ron Kurse, Stefan Gilmore, Travon Dicks.
Speaker 3: All of course off of that second.
Speaker 2: Level, then you've got Malie Cooker, he played forty four
Speaker 2: of the forty seven snaps. Michael Parson's played forty one
Speaker 2: of the forty seven. Then it's a significant drop off.
Speaker 2: So it went from one hundred for those four players
Speaker 2: than ninety four for Elie Cooker eighty seven for Michael Parsons.
Speaker 2: The next man up, Deron Bland, played fifty five percent
Speaker 2: of the snaps. So the outside of that, Osaiti Gizua,
Speaker 2: DeMarcus Lawrence each played fifty one percent.
Speaker 3: Of the snaps.
Speaker 2: Everyone else on defense played under fifty percent of the.
Speaker 4: Snaps, under twenty some other snaps.
Speaker 2: It's yeah, the next highest is Bland at twenty six.
Speaker 2: He was the first one in the twenties, and then
Speaker 2: it was twenty four to twenty four to twenty two
Speaker 2: and then on down.
Speaker 4: So yeah, you do moresh you do more running than
Speaker 4: that when you're just doing conditioning on your regular workout days. Yeah,
Speaker 4: like just just being real, just being real, like it's
Speaker 4: easy work. That's beyond easy work. There's a thing called
Speaker 4: a one o six that coaches like to do. Right,
Speaker 4: one o six you run across the field, and you
Speaker 4: run back across the field fifty three and a half yards. Kay,
Speaker 4: one o six You got it? Okay. That is conditioning.
Speaker 4: You usually run about fifteen to eighteen of those, depending
Speaker 4: on who your coach is and how tough he wants
Speaker 4: to be there. I made you run, I mean I
Speaker 4: ran all of them, king around eighteen. Absolutely. Sometimes you
Speaker 4: gotta do itthing, you gotta do it in thirteen seconds.
Speaker 5: He did two twelves he didn't do.
Speaker 4: But you run more in conditioning then those guys ran
Speaker 4: on the field. I mean, you're talking about Michael Parsons
Speaker 4: having what he has to run. Maybe if he goes
Speaker 4: straight from his defense and position straight to the quarterback.
Speaker 4: People were talking about.
Speaker 2: Six yards gets, there might be.
Speaker 4: Five, yeah, five to six yard burst, and if the
Speaker 4: quarterback escapes and he has to run him down and
Speaker 4: force him to throw an interception to one of your
Speaker 4: defensive backs, you're running maybe twenty yards. So they put
Speaker 4: that in perspective. We're talking about conditioning is substantially more
Speaker 4: difficult than the plays that they're actually running in terms
Speaker 4: of demand on their body.
Speaker 5: The first sack that Micah had where he just shot
Speaker 5: out of a cannon. I would love to see how
Speaker 5: fast he got on that play because he was shot
Speaker 5: out of a cannon. He came out of nowhere and
Speaker 5: almost took Zach Wilson's set off.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no way you defend that.
Speaker 5: There's not.
Speaker 4: I mean he's getting back there in about one and
Speaker 4: a half seconds. Yeah, so can give you the I
Speaker 4: don't know if you could really zoom in. We can't
Speaker 4: zoom I'll count it. Ready, here we go three two,
Speaker 4: one boom, snap Sack said, let's do it one more time.
Speaker 4: Let's do what beamers aw those that are watching, Okay,
Speaker 4: those are listening. Here we go. Ready, snap Sack. That
Speaker 4: was a little early, said okay one point four to four.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it. Just too quick, that is it? I mean,
Speaker 3: how do you even process?
Speaker 4: You don't Okay, you don't, you don't, coyle.
Speaker 5: Okay, you hope you have something pre snap that you
Speaker 5: can throw as soon as the ball.
Speaker 4: You hope you have a Lamar Jackson. Yeah, you hope
Speaker 4: you have a Lamar Jackson that can just take off
Speaker 4: and go, because that's the only thing that has hurt
Speaker 4: this Cowboys defense to date in the first two games.
Speaker 4: The only thing that's hurt this Cowboys defense is a
Speaker 4: quarterbacks ability to drop back catch the Cowboys doing a
Speaker 4: stunt on the front line, they leave a little gap
Speaker 4: on the front on the front line, and then the
Speaker 4: quarterbacks are able to put their foot in the ground,
Speaker 4: take off and get what they can. That's all that's
Speaker 4: hurt this defense so far. Yeah, So if you don't
Speaker 4: have that capability, that those characteristics, those attributes as a quarterback,
Speaker 4: all right now by by then.
Speaker 5: So do you worry about Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 4: I believe that their approach will be similar to that.
Speaker 4: I mean, they're gonna they're gonna do what they did
Speaker 4: last year and they're gonna do zone read. They're gonna
Speaker 4: do that. They're gonna make the defensive end slow down.
Speaker 4: They have to. That's I mean, that's the best strategy.
Speaker 4: But every team doesn't possess that ability. That is not
Speaker 4: within the offensive scope of most teams. Right those guys
Speaker 4: are gonna do that well, that's what they do well.
Speaker 5: So you have the game plan for that, and they're
Speaker 5: not gonna see that until Philly. Yeah, the quarterbacks coming up,
Speaker 5: I mean, no disrespect to them, but they don't have
Speaker 5: the mobility that obviously Jalen Hurts has.
Speaker 2: I mean, the quarterbacks coming up, they would have that
Speaker 2: mobility if Kyler.
Speaker 4: Murray was available. But it's gonna be Joshua Dobbs. The
Speaker 4: closest thing you're gonna come to that is going to be.
Speaker 4: I mean, and again this is not even from the
Speaker 4: quarterbacks perspective, but you know week five against San Franz,
Speaker 4: because they do so much moving, they do so much pulling,
Speaker 4: so much misdirection. That's gonna be the only thing that
Speaker 4: I could see on terms of the upcoming opponents Arizona
Speaker 4: and New England that are really going to slow down
Speaker 4: these guys on terms of their rushing.
Speaker 5: And Debo's getting involved in the backfield again. So it's
Speaker 5: going to be a backfield challenge for sure. I think
Speaker 5: you're right, it'll be a similar challenge. But as far
Speaker 5: as having a mobile guy, no, you're not going to
Speaker 5: see that until Philly.
Speaker 2: Week nine when we come back. Though, I want to
Speaker 2: talk about finishing drives. How big of a concern is
Speaker 2: it that Dallas was unable to finish multiple drives. You
Speaker 2: ended up with five field goals for Brandon Aubrey. Great work,
Speaker 2: great stat great job by the rookie kicker from Plano.
Speaker 2: But it wasn't necessarily something that was welcome from that offense.
Speaker 2: How do you look at that as a problem moving
Speaker 2: forward or is it even a problem moving forward? I
Speaker 2: think that's a big debate amongst Cowboys nation right now.
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Speaker 3: Kyle, how.
Speaker 5: Get out of here?
Speaker 3: Corny? All right? What we I mean? We had some fun.
Speaker 5: Chair before you turn put like a face card of
Speaker 5: John here When you should do that.
Speaker 2: Actually, I know Beamer is ready for them. We got
Speaker 2: to get a cut out. We need to cut out,
Speaker 2: put them right there. That would be funny, all right. Defensively,
Speaker 2: the Cowboys at the tone. Defensively, they did everything they
Speaker 2: needed to to really enforce their will on the New
Speaker 2: York Jets control time of possession.
Speaker 4: They had four.
Speaker 2: Takeaways, most of those laid in the game, but by
Speaker 2: for the most part, it was stopping the run. It
Speaker 2: was lowing down Zach Wilson and forcing the Jets to punt.
Speaker 4: Who do you get the MVP two on defense?
Speaker 2: Oh man, Micah, Well, I mean we got to do
Speaker 2: smelly stickers out of that, right.
Speaker 4: Sorry, So we'll talk.
Speaker 3: But guess where the hell I guess where the helmet
Speaker 3: is record or coming?
Speaker 2: I'm Harrison's Yeah, I'm gonna be like Michael Parsons getting
Speaker 2: up there. Uh. I want to talk about the offense though,
Speaker 2: because there is a bit of a debate amongst Cowboys
Speaker 2: Nation twitters down right now. But other than that, there
Speaker 2: we've seen.
Speaker 3: The debate already. Was it okay to see.
Speaker 2: Conservative play calls and points every time that Dubtless got
Speaker 2: into the red zone? As opposed to finishing off drives.
Speaker 4: I'm of the.
Speaker 2: Thought process that it's okay in this scenario because it's
Speaker 2: what the game called for get some points continue to roll.
Speaker 3: My one concern is.
Speaker 2: Moving into the future when it is a part of
Speaker 2: the game and the scenario is there they stall out
Speaker 2: and they aren't able to rely on just field goal
Speaker 2: points to win tight For Nick, what did you think
Speaker 2: about the red zone efficiency for this offense and what
Speaker 2: it looked like once the field was significantly shorter, how
Speaker 2: they stalled that on multiple occasions.
Speaker 5: So I want to start with Week one, three for
Speaker 5: five on red zone opportunities in scoring touchdowns, and of
Speaker 5: those three opportunities, I believe two of them they needed
Speaker 5: a third and goal situation. Yesterday two for six scoring
Speaker 5: touchdowns once getting into the red zone, I need to
Speaker 5: go back and watch the film to figure out what
Speaker 5: exactly is the problem. But once they get in short yardage,
Speaker 5: things become a lot more difficult, and I think part
Speaker 5: of it can be attributed to the fact that you've
Speaker 5: played really good interior defensive lines back to back weeks,
Speaker 5: guys that are really good in run defense, and a
Speaker 5: second level too that when they're not backed up five
Speaker 5: to ten yards, they can really come downhill and they
Speaker 5: can put a pop on you. You know, I feel
Speaker 5: like both of the Giants and the Jets are able
Speaker 5: to do that well. So maybe there's a little bit
Speaker 5: of a I guess, healthier play against Arizona, but short
Speaker 5: yardage run haven't been completely encouraged by it just yet.
Speaker 5: You know, I love what Tony Poler was able to
Speaker 5: do on the two point conversion. Hunter Lucky really paved
Speaker 5: the way for that one and got got his nose
Speaker 5: dirty in there and said a good block. But you're
Speaker 5: not gonna have that every time, just because personnel is
Speaker 5: not gonna always call for Hunters Lucky to be in
Speaker 5: the game for those kinds of situations. The only bright
Speaker 5: side I guess you could pull away from short yarded
Speaker 5: situations up to this point is they've been able to
Speaker 5: get the tight ends involved, whether it be Jake Ferguson,
Speaker 5: Luke's schoonmaker. They even handed it off to Peyton Hendershot
Speaker 5: and he completely missed a wide open hole for a touchdown.
Speaker 5: That's besides his point, but they've been able to get
Speaker 5: the tight ends involved, and it's been on first and
Speaker 5: second reads at times the Schoonmaker touchdown that was not
Speaker 5: his first read, but the play was designed where he
Speaker 5: was able to be open and kind of leak out
Speaker 5: and give an option for Dak. So I think the
Speaker 5: pass game in short yardage or in the red zone
Speaker 5: has been has been good, but they also have utilized
Speaker 5: ced Lamb, and I feel like he's he's at his
Speaker 5: best in the red zone because he's gonna put guys
Speaker 5: in a situation where they're gonna be five yards away
Speaker 5: from him as soon as he breaks. I believe it
Speaker 5: was the pass on third down where Dak was trying
Speaker 5: to hit Jack Ferguson in the back of the end zone.
Speaker 5: Ceedee Lamb was wide open in the other corner of
Speaker 5: the end zone. It's just Digg didn't see him. So
Speaker 5: get Ceedee Lamb more involved, maybe pave the way a
Speaker 5: little bit more for running opportunities in those short yarded situations.
Speaker 5: But I guess that's the one concern I could pull
Speaker 5: away from these first two games. And granted, yes, it's
Speaker 5: seventy to ten the score at this point, but whenever
Speaker 5: you get in those those Dog five games against Philly
Speaker 5: or San Francisco and you need those points in the
Speaker 5: red zone, They're gonna be tough to come by.
Speaker 2: I think that's the biggest concern for me is against
Speaker 2: the Jets. Whenever you've had scored opponent seventy to ten,
Speaker 2: you can look at it and say it's nitpicking, and
Speaker 2: it is to a certain extent, but.
Speaker 3: It's not always going to be like that.
Speaker 2: You're going to face good defense. Is good front San
Speaker 2: Francisco in the week five is one that I've got
Speaker 2: circled right now.
Speaker 3: Because you will.
Speaker 2: I mean, New England's got a really good defense, don't
Speaker 2: get us wrong, You'll see them in two weeks. Cardinals
Speaker 2: aren't the same team that you just played back to
Speaker 2: back weeks. You should handle the Cardinals in week three.
Speaker 2: But with the New England defense looming and the San
Speaker 2: Francisco defense looming, and we know what Philly brings to
Speaker 2: the table, you're going to face good fronts like you
Speaker 2: have in weeks one and week two, but you've got
Speaker 2: to find a way to get through that and to
Speaker 2: be significantly more efficient. This is the team that was
Speaker 2: number one in red zone efficiency last year, number one,
Speaker 2: and that was one thing that Kellen Moore was really
Speaker 2: good at. And I'm not saying Mike McCarthy's bad at
Speaker 2: it by any stretch. I just think he's been very
Speaker 2: conservative and it's a little bit concerning. If it continues.
Speaker 2: Right now, it's fine, but it's one of those things
Speaker 2: where it's not Kyle.
Speaker 4: It's not fine.
Speaker 3: It is fine.
Speaker 4: No, it's not Kyle.
Speaker 3: They are two and zero, they've won the game significantly.
Speaker 4: No, the overarching goal, yes, is fine. However, as an
Speaker 4: offensive coach, you want one hundred percent you get to
Speaker 4: the red zone. That is his goal. His goal is
Speaker 4: to be one hundred percent. We get down there, we
Speaker 4: score touchdowns. They hate kicking field goals. They'll take field goals,
Speaker 4: but they hate taking them up. They being the effect
Speaker 4: that their goal is to go ahead and score touchdowns.
Speaker 4: So from the coaches perspective, they are not satisfied with
Speaker 4: two out of six, not even remotely. Even if they
Speaker 4: had one more k percentage wise, fifty percent in the
Speaker 4: red zone's pretty dog gone good. Okay, that's not going
Speaker 4: to be acceptable for this staff either. So yes, it
Speaker 4: would get by these lower tier teams, these less competitive teams,
Speaker 4: but it's never going to be okay in the coach's eyes.
Speaker 4: So whether coach McCarthy has been quote unquote successful in
Speaker 4: that regard to date or not, He's going to be
Speaker 4: finding ways to make sure this ball finds his way
Speaker 4: to the end zone every single time they get down there.
Speaker 5: I'll tell you this, this team has become a lot
Speaker 5: better when looking at just perspective down the road. They're
Speaker 5: planning for January and February more so this year than
Speaker 5: I feel like they have in recent years. And if
Speaker 5: you look at going five for eleven in the red
Speaker 5: zone with touchdowns, if you go five for eleven over
Speaker 5: the course of two weeks in the playoffs, you probably
Speaker 5: don't win one of those games. That's a fact. And
Speaker 5: again we're nitpicking. It's only the first two weeks. But
Speaker 5: I just want to see a little bit more success there.
Speaker 5: I want the short yardage running to be figured out.
Speaker 5: I want to get more guys involved in the past
Speaker 5: game inside the twenty.
Speaker 2: What did you think about the tight ends and the
Speaker 2: way that they fared outside of just the red zone
Speaker 2: and the touches that they had there, because that talked
Speaker 2: about it in the week confidence boost for the tight
Speaker 2: ends who had multiple drops in Week one, and that
Speaker 2: was the one position that I think Cowboys Nation was
Speaker 2: looking at and saying, Ah, we probably need a little
Speaker 2: bit more from you at some point. What did you
Speaker 2: feel like they played.
Speaker 3: Like in that game?
Speaker 2: And I mean the two touchdown grabs were nice, but
Speaker 2: that was really about all they had from a production.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I did expect a lot more production from Jake Ferguson,
Speaker 5: but I think it was just kind of taking what
Speaker 5: was given to them, and what was given to them
Speaker 5: was a great game from CD Lambs.
Speaker 4: So that's true.
Speaker 5: When you have wide receiver one that's able to get
Speaker 5: open like that, man, it's you know, I'm not going
Speaker 5: to nitpick that by any means because I feel like
Speaker 5: whether it was blocking or just getting open or setting
Speaker 5: guys up, the tight ends did fine. I'm not worried
Speaker 5: about how they played yesterday from a production standpoint, Yeah,
Speaker 5: maybe expected a little bit more, but I'm not worried
Speaker 5: about it after that one. I would have been worried
Speaker 5: about it after week one.
Speaker 2: Do you think not having Brandon Cooks, even just as
Speaker 2: a pass catching threat, affects.
Speaker 3: How the tight ends are utilized? Or is that mostly just.
Speaker 2: What is what has come from a pass distribution standpoint,
Speaker 2: getting everybody. I mean not having Brandon Cooks is always
Speaker 2: gonna affect you in some regard. But it's the next
Speaker 2: man up, you know, mentality, And the reality is coach
Speaker 2: mccarthurs and Dak they're both doing a great job and
Speaker 2: shoddy of distributing the ball. And when you can distribute
Speaker 2: the ball to everyone, Now, as a deep, as a coordinator,
Speaker 2: who do you have.
Speaker 4: To worry about everyone? Right when you realize that everybody
Speaker 4: can hurt you right now? I ever seen and obviously
Speaker 4: see He's gonna get his his share. He's gonna get
Speaker 4: far more than other people. That's that's a given. That's
Speaker 4: always going to be the goal. Get your number one
Speaker 4: play maker the ball in his hands. However, every single
Speaker 4: person on this roster has touched the ball. When you
Speaker 4: think about guys that are going out there are expected
Speaker 4: to catch the ball, all the tight ends, all the
Speaker 4: running backs, Lipkey's involved, I say he's an invold because he' blocking. Okay,
Speaker 4: so all the running backs that touched the ball, Okay,
Speaker 4: all the receivers that except for Brooks. Brooks got out there,
Speaker 4: and it was at least at least.
Speaker 3: Some forlock Edge.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So I'm just saying, like everybody's involved, like they're
Speaker 4: not this This is not a team offensively that just
Speaker 4: has guys on a roster just for just in case
Speaker 4: he's putting everyone out there. If you're on this roster,
Speaker 4: you're gonna make it. And you're on the game day roster,
Speaker 4: you're gonna make a contribution. There was times in my
Speaker 4: in my career, a lot of times where if you're
Speaker 4: on the team like you were just there sometimes you know,
Speaker 4: depending on who you were, like you might not touch
Speaker 4: the field even if you were on the game day roster. Yeah,
Speaker 4: even if he were active, even not here, not here,
Speaker 4: like you better be in the game plan because you're
Speaker 4: playing on offense and not just you're not just here
Speaker 4: to be a special teamers and a number six receiver.
Speaker 4: You're not here just to be the fourth running back
Speaker 4: and you know, be a personal protector or whatever it
Speaker 4: might be on special teams. Like you're gonna play and
Speaker 4: you may be ready to contribute.
Speaker 5: You brought him up, so I have to say it.
Speaker 5: The Hunter Lokey play of the day was the block
Speaker 5: that he laid in front of a Rico Dawdell off
Speaker 5: of He got it out in the flat and Rico
Speaker 5: picked up about fifteen twenty yards. So every Monday, I
Speaker 5: think I'm gonna have a segment one hundred lucky play
Speaker 5: of the day.
Speaker 3: That was it. You You brought them up in the
Speaker 3: first segment too. Don't think of it. Yeah, you spring.
Speaker 5: I don't even remember. Man, it's like second nature.
Speaker 2: I was about to say, it's just a voluntary, involuntary reaction.
Speaker 2: Nine players with a reception. Ceedee Lamb had eleven for
Speaker 2: one three. Again, Ceedee Lamb is is just on another level.
Speaker 2: Tony Pollard had seven receptions for thirty seven yards. Jalen
Speaker 2: Tolbert had three catches. Dawdell had a catch. Deuce Vaughan
Speaker 2: had three catches. Ferguson had three catches. Turpin, Gallop and
Speaker 2: Scoon Maker all had one.
Speaker 4: Everybody, yep, everybod wives hide kids, we hit everybody.
Speaker 2: Getting Six different players had a rushing at ten. Tony
Speaker 2: Pollard said a career high with twenty five carries a lot.
Speaker 3: Did you like that?
Speaker 4: I do like that? Actually, okay, I mean especially when
Speaker 4: you think about the fact they had over eighty eighty snaps.
Speaker 4: So I'll take twenty five from them from Tony Poller is.
Speaker 5: The most touches a Cowboys running back got since twenty
Speaker 5: nineteen against the Jets Ezekiel Elliott. Interesting funnel nugget there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you think he handled the workload? Well, he
Speaker 2: didn't necessarily light up the stat sheet. He didn't hit
Speaker 2: the home run ball either like he normally would.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he had a couple that he squeaked through and
Speaker 5: you know, got off for about fifteen yards but less
Speaker 5: than three yards of carry. I'd like to see a
Speaker 5: little bit more efficiency there, but that goes back to
Speaker 5: short yardage stuff as well. Just being set up in
Speaker 5: those situations a little bit better too.
Speaker 3: What do you think about the offensive line?
Speaker 2: Isaiah chumdoga out in the early parts of the game.
Speaker 3: TJ.
Speaker 2: Bass had to come in and play a significant number
Speaker 2: of snaps.
Speaker 4: I just think that these guys are regardless of the position,
Speaker 4: but obviously office of line position, next man up is
Speaker 4: being proven right, Todder Smith goes out, Chumadoga comes in,
Speaker 4: takes care of business right, holds his own against a
Speaker 4: very tough interior Devenson line. Last week with the Giants,
Speaker 4: all of a sudden he goes down. Now TJ. Bass
Speaker 4: comes in handles himself. Well, you know, I think he
Speaker 4: could have done matter, But obviously he's young, right handles
Speaker 4: himself against another very dominant interior defensive line presence. So
Speaker 4: you know, shout out to you know, Mike Salari and
Speaker 4: what he's done with this group so far. You know,
Speaker 4: it doesn't you should. You should yearn for the bit
Speaker 4: to be in a position where it doesn't matter who
Speaker 4: comes into the game, you're still gonna be able to execute.
Speaker 4: And that's where this offense is right now, especially across
Speaker 4: the offensive line front. Dallas Cowboys fans don't know what
Speaker 4: it feels like right now to have their starting offensive
Speaker 4: line out there and you're still put up seventy points
Speaker 4: in the first two weeks.
Speaker 5: I love what you may Doga did overall. And even
Speaker 5: when TJ. Bask got in, he had his moments, but man,
Speaker 5: I think it was his third snap Quinn Williams said,
Speaker 5: welcome to the NFL, buddy.
Speaker 2: Well, he laid his seal block to play before that.
Speaker 2: It was it was for a first down. Came and
Speaker 2: pulled and just boom, laid the edge. I forgot who
Speaker 2: the tailback was, it was either Pollard or Dubdle snuck
Speaker 2: right in behind him and then had a first down.
Speaker 5: It was deuce.
Speaker 3: No, No, I think it was not. I think it
Speaker 3: was doubtle. Okay, okay, I want to say it was
Speaker 3: doubt I can.
Speaker 2: Go look at the play specifically and give you, give
Speaker 2: you a confirmation.
Speaker 3: But he turns around and then the next play he.
Speaker 2: Gets thrown into the backfield, and it was like, okay,
Speaker 2: like the ups and downs, here comes the roller coaster
Speaker 2: of a rookie, undrafted free agent. I liked what Bass
Speaker 2: had to play or had to do when he played.
Speaker 2: Adoga played forty five snaps.
Speaker 3: TJ.
Speaker 2: Bass had forty two, so he got a significant amount
Speaker 2: of work. I mean when Adoga went down, I.
Speaker 5: Didn't realize he played that much.
Speaker 4: He played.
Speaker 5: I knew he played quite a bit, but I didn't
Speaker 5: realized it was.
Speaker 2: Nearly half the nearly half the offensive snaps, of course,
Speaker 2: and we've talked about it already. They took eighty plays
Speaker 2: on offense, so there's a lot of snaps.
Speaker 4: Saying yeah, it's a lot of snaps, all right.
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Speaker 3: Why are you flexing?
Speaker 4: Feeling very mica is today, Kyle?
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Speaker 3: Yeah you do. You do have an excuse you do?
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Speaker 4: This man right here is different. Do you know what
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Speaker 5: M yeah, I do know that craziness.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was fun. It was really fun.
Speaker 4: Man. Man.
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Speaker 3: You guys can sift through it, all right. I'm gonna
Speaker 3: let I'm gonna let Isaiah start this one.
Speaker 4: Oh, he's gonna throw me a smelly sticker because I
Speaker 4: think you you started?
Speaker 3: Oh wait, who started last week? I did, and they.
Speaker 5: Started last week because I didn't know the stickers were tired.
Speaker 3: Do you want to do you want a redemption to start?
Speaker 5: No, I don't know.
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Speaker 4: All right, what you got? All right? I'm having too
Speaker 4: crazy here, Okay, I already know where you guys gonna go.
Speaker 4: I'm not gonna take it. I'm not gonna take the
Speaker 4: alley oop one I might I know, I'll leave that
Speaker 4: one up for you. But you know what I'm gonna do.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna grab him. Grab this banana right here. This
Speaker 4: is a banana right there. Not a plantain. It's a banana.
Speaker 4: You know why I grabbed a banana. It's not a plantain,
Speaker 4: not a plantain, bud. It is a banana. You know why?
Speaker 3: Why is that?
Speaker 4: Because mister d Law is going bananas. M He's going bananas.
Speaker 4: He is setting the temple. I know a lot of
Speaker 4: people are saying that Michael Parsons is sitting the temple
Speaker 4: right now, but d Law is quietly setting the temple
Speaker 4: for this defense and everybody else is benefiting from it,
Speaker 4: including Michael Parsons. So d Law, you going bananas.
Speaker 2: You know it's funny. I walked in this morning and
Speaker 2: he was the first person he was. He's already done
Speaker 2: with his workout. He walked out of the building and
Speaker 2: he had his breakfast in his hand and on top
Speaker 2: of this to go box. Guess what what he had?
Speaker 2: It was a banana.
Speaker 4: Bana, that's right.
Speaker 2: A banana.
Speaker 3: I'll give Nick some some extra time.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 5: I'm ready, I'm ready after So I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 5: peel off this this beautiful lime here.
Speaker 4: It's it's a.
Speaker 5: Bright, bright green. And you know what this bright green
Speaker 5: represents for me. It's a green light for this past
Speaker 5: rush to do whatever the heck they So, I'm gonna
Speaker 5: give it to Parson's Bangs, who is definitely the leader
Speaker 5: of that past rush group yesterday.
Speaker 3: It's a green light, a green light.
Speaker 4: I love it. Let me see the location. Let me
Speaker 4: check out the location.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you put it right there, right on the front.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it looks right, green light just to everybody sees it.
Speaker 5: Green light bang.
Speaker 3: All right, I'm gonna go with an apple. This apple
Speaker 3: right here, I'll see that.
Speaker 2: It looks nice, right, big shiny red apple, snow white apple.
Speaker 2: It does look like a snow white apple a little bit.
Speaker 2: But here's the thing with this apple.
Speaker 3: What do you what?
Speaker 2: What a teachers known for right teach knowledge, knowledge, passing
Speaker 2: that knowledge on what happens whenever a student and really
Speaker 2: the students to collectively as a group, what do they
Speaker 2: do whenever they like a teacher?
Speaker 3: They give them an apple? Right.
Speaker 2: The old adage of teacher and an apple at the desk, right, correct, Well,
Speaker 2: that teacher's Mike McCarthy, and Mike McCarthy's been teaching this
Speaker 2: Cowboys offense how to execute a game plan. It's not
Speaker 2: always perfect. Neither are students. It's not always perfect, but
Speaker 2: they're teaching and they're learning, and there's lots of learning
Speaker 2: going on with that Cowboys offense. So I'm going to
Speaker 2: give this one to Mike McCarthy this week. Mike McCarthy
Speaker 2: are sticker. We've got a ton of votes. I might
Speaker 2: have to spend like an hour going through it. You
Speaker 2: can send your votes in eight one seven two nine
Speaker 2: zero three two nine eight. We'll get John Machoda's smelly
Speaker 2: sticker tomorrow. I might as well just leave this in
Speaker 2: here so I don't have to run up again.
Speaker 4: But even though you did set a record today, I did.
Speaker 3: Set a record, Yeah, quicker than Michael Parsons.
Speaker 4: Oh is that a challenge?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: No, it's no, no, no, no, no, no, not at
Speaker 2: all all. Right, from week one going into week two,
Speaker 2: where was the biggest level of improvement? I asked you
Speaker 2: that question last week of what do you want to
Speaker 2: see as an improvement for this Cowboys team. Where do
Speaker 2: you think they did improve from their first game to
Speaker 2: their second game?
Speaker 4: I say offensive efficiency, That's what I would say. I
Speaker 4: think they were highly efficient in their execution of their offense.
Speaker 4: I think there's obviously there's still a lot that he
Speaker 4: has in a bag, which I love because in recent
Speaker 4: years we've become accustomed to a lot of things being
Speaker 4: thrown out there and being wild and ooh la lat
Speaker 4: in the first couple of weeks, but Mike McCarthy has
Speaker 4: kept probably majority of his supplies in the bag, and
Speaker 4: I love that. But I mean, you talk about the
Speaker 4: efficiency rating of DAK you know, going eighty one percent passing,
Speaker 4: I mean talk about getting out of the huddle, guys
Speaker 4: getting up to the line of scrimmage knowing what they're doing,
Speaker 4: getting eighty plays off That is insane. That is college
Speaker 4: football type snaps. When you talk about no huddle type office,
Speaker 4: and these guys are actually getting into the huddle or
Speaker 4: that of the Dallas Cowboy So this is this is
Speaker 4: a highly efficient offense right now, and I'm loving it.
Speaker 5: I'm with that. I think third down efficiency was something
Speaker 5: that was especially awesome to see in the first two
Speaker 5: plus quarters until things just kind of got out of
Speaker 5: hand and then third down efficiency kind of stepped back
Speaker 5: a little bit. But seven for ten that's what they
Speaker 5: started for third down efficiency with during the game yesterday,
Speaker 5: and I believe in week one they went six for
Speaker 5: thirteen overall on third down. So that and then getting
Speaker 5: more guys involved. Nine guys with the reception yesterday six
Speaker 5: and week one, So just getting your playmakers involved, and
Speaker 5: especially Brandon Cooks not in the equation either. It would
Speaker 5: have easily been ten guys with a reception if he
Speaker 5: was on the field. So yeah, getting everybody involved and
Speaker 5: slowly increasing everything across the board, whether it be Dak's
Speaker 5: completion percentage, third down efficiency, et cetera. You know, you
Speaker 5: love to see those things.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think the efficiency was the number one.
Speaker 2: I still keep going back to that turno or the
Speaker 2: time of possession stat. I think time of possession stat
Speaker 2: is nuts. To control the ball for forty two minutes,
Speaker 2: that's pure dominance. I mean, that's the way that you
Speaker 2: want to get the job done. I think there's there's
Speaker 2: still ways that this offense can improve, especially in finishing
Speaker 2: and drives, and we'll talk about that. I think going
Speaker 2: into the week and against Arizona, that's going to be
Speaker 2: a great opportunity to do so because they just don't
Speaker 2: have the same front seven that the Giants and the
Speaker 2: Jets do. But you're also just trying to make sure
Speaker 2: you keep that moment I'm going on offense and still
Speaker 2: moving the ball. They've been able to move the ball nicely.
Speaker 2: They've moved the ball significantly, but you got to find
Speaker 2: a way to finish drives. That's kind of the one thing,
Speaker 2: the one knock against this team right now is you
Speaker 2: got to finish all right. When we come back tomorrow,
Speaker 2: we will be taking your calls eight eight eight eight
Speaker 2: five five two two nine seven. We will start lining
Speaker 2: those up very early. You can also call Nick Eatman's
Speaker 2: Cowboys storyline. By the way, congratulations to Nick Eatman. Five
Speaker 2: hundred Same covers, Big five Oho, five hundred games covered.
Speaker 2: He hit that five hundred mark yesterday. We got to
Speaker 2: talk about it a little on Pregame Live and it
Speaker 2: was a it was a cool moment to get to
Speaker 2: celebrate for Nick. And he does a phenomenal job on
Speaker 2: his new podcast. We give him a call eight eight
Speaker 2: eight eight five five two two nine seven. He goes
Speaker 2: live at ten am Central Time.
Speaker 3: Here in just a couple minutes.
Speaker 2: But for Isaiah, standback Nick Harris Chris Beam in the back,
Speaker 2: it's a Cowboys victory Monday again on Talking Cowboys as
Speaker 2: they defeat the Jets thirty to ten. We'll see you
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