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Speaker 1: and Isaiah in the bottom of the bushwhackers backing. Okay,
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Speaker 1: on a Friday Lager with us. Kyle are resident Super
Speaker 1: Bowl Champion, Isaiah stand back, our Cowboys insider Rob Phillips
Speaker 1: as always, and then our professional football analyst, heck Ma Harrison.
Speaker 1: I'm glad to just be driving the bus today because man,
Speaker 1: we've got a great show. Of course, we've got to
Speaker 1: say it with you, chess Friday. We've got some DraftKings
Speaker 1: coming up later on, But first I want to talk
Speaker 1: about a bet that happened last week, and I want
Speaker 1: to talk about how last week Isaiah was so confident
Speaker 1: that Andy Dalton was gonna throw for three hundred touchdown
Speaker 1: or three hundred yards and three touchdowns against Cincinnati. And yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not a bad bet, it really isn't. But he
Speaker 1: was confident in it. And so he lost that bet.
Speaker 1: And so there was a Christmas tree that was shipped
Speaker 1: to a certain heck Ma Harrison as payment for this bet.
Speaker 1: But heck I heard, I heard Santa Claus left something
Speaker 1: on your doorstep yesterday, and how was that. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you something, man, this guy Isaiah, don't ever bet
Speaker 1: him anything. He is an extremist, Okay, because this thing
Speaker 1: that got delivered to my doorstep is Look, I understand
Speaker 1: losing a bet, but did you have to find the
Speaker 1: biggest damn tree you can find in Texas? If Paul
Speaker 1: Bunnyan wants to cut this thing down, okay, we are
Speaker 1: naming this tree tree. No no, no, no no no.
Speaker 1: We are naming this tree Tree Kardashian because it is
Speaker 1: a big ass tree. Okay. This is unbelievable, unbelievable, Okay.
Speaker 1: I wanted to have it set up because I know,
Speaker 1: I know people have been asking us about the tree.
Speaker 1: All right, I finally got it. I would have loved
Speaker 1: to have this thing set up back here, but there's
Speaker 1: assembly required and all kind of I mean this, so Monday, Monday,
Speaker 1: I will have Tree Kardashian right here for everybody to see.
Speaker 1: You fit in the room. Oh no, bro, somehow I
Speaker 1: feel like I lost the bet. Like, yeah, I feel
Speaker 1: like I lost. This is ridiculous, Isaiah. You do better,
Speaker 1: do better, Isaiah, better man. I appreciate you. I appreciate
Speaker 1: you bringing that that debot quote from Friday in there.
Speaker 1: I won, you lost, But I told I told my guy.
Speaker 1: I told my guy k y A k A Kyle.
Speaker 1: I told him when I ordered it, because Kyle, how
Speaker 1: long how long after losing the bet, after the game
Speaker 1: actually ended? How long was it before it actually had
Speaker 1: already put my phone down and say it's done. Not
Speaker 1: very long, it was. It was right before we went
Speaker 1: on the first word on Sunday, Tree is ordered. And
Speaker 1: I was like, oh, now, if you were so colfident
Speaker 1: and just fact that you were like the tree is order,
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh, something's up. Here. Hey, you know
Speaker 1: what the thing is. You know, I'm a man of
Speaker 1: my word, you know, and anybody who knows me, I'm
Speaker 1: a man of my word, and anybody else who knows
Speaker 1: me as well knows that I don't have step on anything. Heck,
Speaker 1: if I win, I'm going to win. And if I lose,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lose, and I'm gonna take that ill. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna put it right here in my forehead and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be proud in the prize in which I have
Speaker 1: to now give someone. So heck, you won the bet
Speaker 1: I felt. I did not like the fact that I lost.
Speaker 1: I don't lose often, right, But it was out of
Speaker 1: my hands. It was in the hands of Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: and Kellen freaking Moore, Okay, and you know what I lost.
Speaker 1: And I said, you know what, if I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: him something, it has to represent Isaiah, it has to
Speaker 1: represent everything Isaiah stands for. And it has to be big,
Speaker 1: bold and bright. And that's what I wanted to make
Speaker 1: sure that you and your family had. Y'all know the
Speaker 1: tree that's outside Radio City Music Hall in New York,
Speaker 1: That's what got delivered into my driveway. So Okay, you
Speaker 1: know what I've got to My wife and I have
Speaker 1: a tradition now every Christmas when we put up our tree,
Speaker 1: we decorate it while we watch Christmas Vacation. Not nice.
Speaker 1: And so there's that scene like ten minutes in where
Speaker 1: they climb to like the top of the mountain and
Speaker 1: cut a tree down and they put it up and
Speaker 1: it's busts out all the windows in the living room
Speaker 1: and all. That's what this is what I'm predicting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that little tree anymore? Hey, Rob, the biggest? Is it
Speaker 1: gonna fit in his room? I said, oh no, no,
Speaker 1: oh no, that's the thing. I didn't even I didn't
Speaker 1: even ask that. I just said how big is it?
Speaker 1: And he just said, an ang, gonna fit in that
Speaker 1: little room? Pretty big. It's gonna be it. Heck, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be pushed. He's gonna be pushed into the side,
Speaker 1: little branches and stuff, trying to like get his face
Speaker 1: clear for the camera. I can't wait. We are praying
Speaker 1: for you, buddy, and hopefully you get that thing up
Speaker 1: by Monday so we can see it. Just take up
Speaker 1: the entire back of your room. Scott, can't wait. Move
Speaker 1: some furniture in there as well. But let's talk about
Speaker 1: the Cowboys a little bit here, and of course, the
Speaker 1: Cowboys back on the practice field yesterday, and some more
Speaker 1: injury news surrounding Ezekiel Elliott not in practice again for
Speaker 1: the second straight day. Rob What's what else is on
Speaker 1: the injury report whenever it comes to the Cowboys And
Speaker 1: is there a real concern around Zeke plan this weekend.
Speaker 1: I don't know if there's a real concern. I mean,
Speaker 1: I think they're trying to manage him to get him
Speaker 1: to the game as best they can. Now. Look, he
Speaker 1: was limited last week and was able to do something
Speaker 1: in practice this week. I think coming out of the
Speaker 1: game he had some some sortness, some stiffness with the calf,
Speaker 1: and so they're really just trying to focus on, you know,
Speaker 1: resistance training and all that stuff with the athletic training staff.
Speaker 1: So we'll see. I think he wants to give it
Speaker 1: a go. I know he wants to give it a go,
Speaker 1: I would say on the injury report, if there's good news,
Speaker 1: it's that you've got Anthony Brown full practice for the
Speaker 1: first time I think it weeks. And in addition to
Speaker 1: in addition to being off the COVID nineteen reserve list
Speaker 1: and Donovan Wilson back to full practice. Secondary secondary looking
Speaker 1: pretty good for this game potentially. Now, Xavier Woods did
Speaker 1: have a growing issue that has limited him in practice
Speaker 1: on Thursday, so that's something to keep an eye on.
Speaker 1: I guess as we moved through the day and Saturday.
Speaker 1: So I mean, what you're telling me here is there's
Speaker 1: an opportunity because even Trayvon Diggs coming back and being
Speaker 1: in the middle of practice. I talked with Steven Jones
Speaker 1: yesterday and Stephen said that he's gonna see a lot
Speaker 1: more playing time. He's gonna he's gonna be back. They're
Speaker 1: not gonna shut him down. He's gonna see playing time
Speaker 1: the rest of the season. He didn't specifically or specifically
Speaker 1: say he was going to play on Sunday, but just
Speaker 1: having him back in the mix is something that I
Speaker 1: know the Jones family in the front office, along with
Speaker 1: the coaching staff, is very excited about. But also not
Speaker 1: to mention you throw in Xavier Woods, but if all
Speaker 1: of these guys are back, it's the first time since
Speaker 1: what week one, that we've seen our entire secondary back
Speaker 1: in action and back in healthy guys. I wrote about
Speaker 1: this yesterday actually on the website that it has not
Speaker 1: happened all year. Anthony Brown, your top four corners, Anthony Brown,
Speaker 1: Jordan Lewis, Cheeto, and Treyvon have not played in the
Speaker 1: same game this season. So there's at least a chance
Speaker 1: that that happens Sunday. If not Sunday, then possibly next week.
Speaker 1: So will by next week will the playoffs be a possibility?
Speaker 1: We'll find out. I guess we got to say it
Speaker 1: with our chest hair at about forty minutes, Isaiah, how
Speaker 1: big is it to have that secondary back and healthy,
Speaker 1: because I mean it's been a problem spot all season long.
Speaker 1: But kind of like how we've said on this show previously,
Speaker 1: you've got to evaluate these guys on who you want
Speaker 1: to bring back and be a part of this next year, right, absolutely,
Speaker 1: I mean evaluation happens every single day, and unfortunately these
Speaker 1: guys have had a ton of injuries on the entire
Speaker 1: side of the defensive side of the ball. But you know,
Speaker 1: when you have your whole secondary, like like I'm mentioned yesterday,
Speaker 1: it just it just feels different, right, It just feels different.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, if somebody one of us had
Speaker 1: to leave town, right for whatever it had to take
Speaker 1: care of something and somebody else stepped in. Guess what
Speaker 1: they say, you know, somebody else stepped in. You know,
Speaker 1: we're appreciative and you know, yeah, they're probably probably gonna
Speaker 1: do a good job. I guess what. It's not. It's
Speaker 1: not the crew, right, it's not. It's not the same crew.
Speaker 1: It's not the same. You know, we're not gonna we're
Speaker 1: not gonna float the same, right, We're not gonna transition
Speaker 1: the same. We're not gonna understand what we're kind of
Speaker 1: thinking and all those kinds of things. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a little bit different, right, So we're gonna we're gonna
Speaker 1: to make up for some some areas in which we
Speaker 1: were lacking in. So it's no different when you step
Speaker 1: on the football field. You know, when we talk about communication,
Speaker 1: um and that chemistry, you know, we were hope and
Speaker 1: we anticipate that those four guys really are in sync
Speaker 1: that way. We hope so because if they are, you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's the best talent that we have to put
Speaker 1: out there at one given time. And that's what you want. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the two words you say, communication and chemistry. Those
Speaker 1: are the two things that worry me, especially these guys
Speaker 1: not having that a in game experience together. So you know,
Speaker 1: obviously it's good, it's it's a good sign to have
Speaker 1: all of these guys back, especially with us not being
Speaker 1: mathematically eliminated from the playoffs, and so let's see. You know,
Speaker 1: I want to know, I want to know how these
Speaker 1: guys play together, especially knowing that we haven't been able
Speaker 1: to see this whole group. But going back to something
Speaker 1: you said, Kyle about Zeke not practicing, it does worry
Speaker 1: me a little bit. It worries me as far as
Speaker 1: you know it. Where's his health right now? I know
Speaker 1: he's been been bogged down with this calf injury for
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. Now, if we have any chance
Speaker 1: to win this game vers to forty nine, and Zeke
Speaker 1: is going to have to be a big part of it,
Speaker 1: in this running game and just allowing us to be
Speaker 1: able to move the change. He's one of the best
Speaker 1: in the league at you know, getting those first downs
Speaker 1: on third and short. So you know, having him in
Speaker 1: there being that battering ram kind of running back that
Speaker 1: he has been in twenty twenty, it's going to be necessary,
Speaker 1: especially for this game. Steven's words exactly yesterday were, Zeke
Speaker 1: is a competitor. I think he'll find a way to
Speaker 1: be on the field on Sunday. So, without saying it specifically,
Speaker 1: he thinks that Zeke will be available Sunday. But basically,
Speaker 1: whenever I asked him what kind of participation is he
Speaker 1: gonna be, it was, We're gonna see a lot of
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard. We're gonna see a bunch of different looks
Speaker 1: from Kellen Moore. But how much of a wrinkle does
Speaker 1: that take out of Kellen Moore's offense? And how how
Speaker 1: does it affect Tony Pollard too? Because we've talked about
Speaker 1: the one two punch. We talked about Ezekiel Elliott coming
Speaker 1: with the power and then Pollard comes with the finesse. Well,
Speaker 1: whenever the power is gone, how easy is it to
Speaker 1: slow down the finesse? Isaiah? Whenever it comes to slowing
Speaker 1: down Tony Pollard, when you don't have to worry about
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott, Oh, it becomes substantially easier. You know, one
Speaker 1: two punches are there for a reason. One person provides
Speaker 1: the strength that the other person doesn't provide, and obviously
Speaker 1: in vice versa, so all of a sudden. Say, for instance,
Speaker 1: Zeke doesn't he doesn't play, he doesn't suit up for
Speaker 1: some reason. Now Tony Pollard is the feature back, and
Speaker 1: guess what those defenses are gonna focus in on him.
Speaker 1: Now you're our guy. Now you get all of our attention.
Speaker 1: It's no longer we're gonna watch seventy percent of Zeke
Speaker 1: film in thirty sat A Pollard. Now it's like, now
Speaker 1: we're gonna pick you apart, Poler. We're gonna know everything
Speaker 1: that you do. Um, it's no longer a surprise. Um.
Speaker 1: It's the same reason why you know in football, you
Speaker 1: don't you don't run the same speed. You know, if
Speaker 1: you if you're if you're trying to run around on somebody,
Speaker 1: you don't run the same speed the whole route. Because
Speaker 1: guess what, I could stick with you, I know what
Speaker 1: to expect. You want to be able to change gears
Speaker 1: on somebody so that you can create some degrees of separation.
Speaker 1: So when you come with that one headed monster to
Speaker 1: the whole game, I know what you're doing. But that
Speaker 1: two headed monster, that change up, that that change a speed,
Speaker 1: that's what really throws people off. So um, the element
Speaker 1: of surprise has gone as soon as he's out there
Speaker 1: just solely by himself, right, Yeah, I mean I would
Speaker 1: lean towards Zeke playing in this game. He very well
Speaker 1: could be listened as questionable later today, if you know,
Speaker 1: even if he does play. Look at the stats from
Speaker 1: the Bengals game last week. It was twelve carries for Zeke.
Speaker 1: It was eleven carries for Pollard. So I think I
Speaker 1: think TP's gonna get get some run either way. I
Speaker 1: would say one one underrated part of a couple under
Speaker 1: parts of Tony's game. I think he's better between the
Speaker 1: tackles than he probably gets credit for. He's not Zeke,
Speaker 1: and that's not the main part of his game. He
Speaker 1: is that change of pace, but I think he can
Speaker 1: do it. Also, I think some of that goes back
Speaker 1: to what he did in college. He just wasn't that
Speaker 1: type of running back in college. He didn't have to be. Also,
Speaker 1: I would say his blitz pick up in his pass protection.
Speaker 1: I've just noticed it watching games this year, better than
Speaker 1: it's been last year. There's just it seems like a
Speaker 1: game a couple player two a game. I see him
Speaker 1: may recognize something and give the quarterback whichever quarterback has
Speaker 1: been in the game an extra second or two. So
Speaker 1: I think he's improved in a couple of different areas
Speaker 1: since he's been drafted, and I think either way, he's
Speaker 1: probably gonna get some touches this week. And that's I'm
Speaker 1: glad you brought that up, Rock, because that's one of
Speaker 1: the things that you that people don't really take, and
Speaker 1: people take for granted. Look at much, Look at much
Speaker 1: Zeke's probably rubbing off on him. You know, you can't,
Speaker 1: even though Zeke isn't being the Zeke that we all
Speaker 1: know what we would like this year, look at the
Speaker 1: other look at the other areas in which he's affecting
Speaker 1: the game. He's allowing our quarterback more time to throw
Speaker 1: the ball. Right, He's given that sense of security to
Speaker 1: coach philbin in the offensive line, right, knowing that somebody
Speaker 1: else is back there. He's showing the guy that's that's
Speaker 1: that's that's second in command behind him, exactly how you
Speaker 1: go about your business, right, Okay, Paula. Yeah, you can
Speaker 1: go out there and you can run around people, you
Speaker 1: can get the edge and blow past me with your speed.
Speaker 1: But guess what this part of your game that you
Speaker 1: haven't that you haven't really excelled in this is where
Speaker 1: this is where I excel right past blocking, right running downhill.
Speaker 1: So look at those areas that Paula's growing in. He
Speaker 1: has somebody to model that off of. So that's that's awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I like that. But but also also, you know,
Speaker 1: I just feel like it feels as though the knock
Speaker 1: on Kelly Moore's offense has been that he has gone
Speaker 1: away from giving Zeke the lion share of the carries
Speaker 1: right going, and Zeke's carries have progressively gone down. And
Speaker 1: so you know, I know a lot of people we
Speaker 1: talked about the great Nate Newton and his months or
Speaker 1: three three yards in a cloud of dust, you know,
Speaker 1: and people wanting to see Zeke just running to that
Speaker 1: brick wall the whole game, Tony Pollard being that changeup guy,
Speaker 1: and with Rob saying, look, he's, you know, Zeke rubbing
Speaker 1: off on him and he is picking up those blitzes.
Speaker 1: Gives you a little bit more trust in him. But
Speaker 1: you know, for four quarters, I don't you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know if we're in a situation like that where
Speaker 1: we're primarily relying on him to do those things, if
Speaker 1: we're in a good area, like, that's what I'm That's
Speaker 1: all I'm saying as far as the importance of having
Speaker 1: Zeke in here and Rob, You're right, he does a
Speaker 1: lot better than people that say to give him credit
Speaker 1: for meaning Tony Pollard in between the tackles. He is tough,
Speaker 1: but he does have he is susceptible to losing yards
Speaker 1: on on runs, whereas it seems like for Zeke he's
Speaker 1: always falling forward to gain a yard or two. So
Speaker 1: that's just the difference between the two. But it's gonna
Speaker 1: be interesting going into this game if we don't have him.
Speaker 1: That's a good point because there was a couple of
Speaker 1: games ago. I think it was the Ravens game. I
Speaker 1: don't think it was a lack of strength on Tony's part,
Speaker 1: but he hesitated hitting the hole following his landmarks, whatever
Speaker 1: the case was, and he got dropped for a loss.
Speaker 1: You know, Zeke just doesn't do that unless he gets
Speaker 1: hit in the backfield. So some of that maybe just
Speaker 1: comes with experience, And I do think there's times where
Speaker 1: Zeke softens up the defense and the box. The look
Speaker 1: is not the same for Tony. Maybe they're not expecting
Speaker 1: a run and you know, if Tony is ever the
Speaker 1: featured back in a situation if he has to be,
Speaker 1: that's not gonna be the case anymore. Especially gets a
Speaker 1: front like forty nine Ers front now, and they're gonna
Speaker 1: bring pressure and they're gonna challenge Andy Dalton to throw
Speaker 1: the football. If that's the case, I mean, they're gonna
Speaker 1: they're gonna challenge Tony Pauler to being him on the ground,
Speaker 1: and then it would make Andy Dalton's job uber more
Speaker 1: tough whenever it comes to this Sunday to try and
Speaker 1: figure out how to pick apart this forty nine Ers secondary.
Speaker 1: But when we come back, I heard a couple of
Speaker 1: things that were pretty interesting in the press conferences yesterday,
Speaker 1: one about Kellen Moore and one from Jalen Smith that
Speaker 1: I kind of want to break down a little bit
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Speaker 1: stuff coming up later, and then we've also got some
Speaker 1: predictions where Isaiah, you said earlier you don't lose very often.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna challenge that because you lost a lot last week.
Speaker 1: I just wanted to let you know, you know what
Speaker 1: you but everybody knows that I was going to get
Speaker 1: I was going against the grain last week. Everybody who
Speaker 1: heard it obvious, see, but it's okay. There's a difference
Speaker 1: between going and there's a difference between the holding against
Speaker 1: the grain and you know what one and then yeah,
Speaker 1: you would, wouldn't you Because every single time, Isaiah that
Speaker 1: you differed in picks from HECMA or Rob. You lost
Speaker 1: every single take, which I knew was a high percentage risk.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, I'm just saying about we just move on, yeah,
Speaker 1: and we're about bringing back the shots you don't take.
Speaker 1: He missed all of the shots he did take, So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's pretty unfortune, but it was. It wasn't a great
Speaker 1: week for me, but I had a chance. He did
Speaker 1: have a telling me there's a chance. Yeah. Okay, So
Speaker 1: before we get into predictions, I heard some interesting press
Speaker 1: conference answers yesterday. We're gonna start with the positive one.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start with the good. We'll get with the
Speaker 1: bad or maybe you want to call it ugly later
Speaker 1: here in this segment. But I wanted to talk about
Speaker 1: what Kellen Moore or excuse me, what Andy Dalton said
Speaker 1: about Kellen Moore yesterday. He's been resilient just with everything
Speaker 1: that's gone on. He's been able to adjust to playing
Speaker 1: four different quarterbacks this year. He's been able to adjust
Speaker 1: to some different guys not being in the lineup and
Speaker 1: has given us great opportunities out there. High praise for
Speaker 1: our Andy Dalton talking about how there's a lot of
Speaker 1: back and forth there's different coaches, there's different players, different
Speaker 1: things going on amongst this offense, and I kind of
Speaker 1: wanted to ask the question, what kind of growth have
Speaker 1: we seen from Kevin Moore? Because I feel like early
Speaker 1: in the season there was a lot of blame on
Speaker 1: the young boy genius coordinator, and lately there hasn't been
Speaker 1: as much of that worry. You've seen some of the creativity,
Speaker 1: You've seen some of the play calling that's allowed them
Speaker 1: to be successful. Sure, there's some short yard of situation
Speaker 1: things kind of thrown in there that you could argue,
Speaker 1: but overall, and we'll start with you, Hackma, how have
Speaker 1: you felt about Kellen Moore lately and how has he
Speaker 1: grown as a coordinator here in twenty twenty. You know,
Speaker 1: some of the criticism of Kelly Moore has been warranted,
Speaker 1: but you know, when you look at this season, man,
Speaker 1: he's been so shorthanded with personnel that it's hard to
Speaker 1: be critical of everything that he does. I think in
Speaker 1: the Philadelphia game, we were just all over the place
Speaker 1: just with Ben Denucci and him trying to get through
Speaker 1: that game, and like you just said, man, he's had
Speaker 1: four different quarterbacks in there and just trying to put
Speaker 1: a game plan for the strengths of all of these
Speaker 1: guys has been a challenge. And so look, it's not
Speaker 1: Kelly Moore isn't a guy that I'm worried about it
Speaker 1: all as far as his ability to get the quarterback
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott, you know, moving this offense. You look at
Speaker 1: the numbers that he's put up. I think Dak was
Speaker 1: at eighteen nineteen hundred yards before he got hurt. So
Speaker 1: come on, man, It's just it's just one of those
Speaker 1: years where you look at Kellen Moore and just say, look, man,
Speaker 1: if you run this back and he has his full
Speaker 1: arsenal offensive line and has his quarterback, I think this
Speaker 1: year would be a lot better towards the end. These
Speaker 1: guys would have gained a lot more momentum as the
Speaker 1: season had went along. But you know, I'm not very
Speaker 1: critical of him now, just based off of all of
Speaker 1: the changes that have happened with our offensive line and
Speaker 1: also with the quarterbacks. Rob Yeah, I think you know.
Speaker 1: I was watching they kind of shared a hug on
Speaker 1: the sideline. Andy and Kellen did I think after that
Speaker 1: last touchdown pass against Cincinnati, and it just I got
Speaker 1: to think it, Who's who's older in this situation, and
Speaker 1: I looked it up and it's Andy Dalton's like a
Speaker 1: few months older than Kellen Moore. He's been in the
Speaker 1: NFL longer than Kellen Moore by one year, I think,
Speaker 1: And so I think sometimes you forget just how young
Speaker 1: and early in his career Kellen is. And so, yeah,
Speaker 1: I haven't been perfect, there's no question about that. I think.
Speaker 1: You know, if there's a criticism of Kellen is probably
Speaker 1: that he gets to pass happy. But I think there's
Speaker 1: been situations this year where the turnovers were just so
Speaker 1: crazy early in the season that you know, you had
Speaker 1: Dak throwing forty fifty times a game in consecutive games,
Speaker 1: and that's just that's not I don't even think that's
Speaker 1: the way Kellen wants to play. I think they've gotten
Speaker 1: with Andy kind of entrenched as the backup filling in
Speaker 1: for Dak, and they've been able to stay closer in
Speaker 1: some games. They've gotten more of the balance they want
Speaker 1: to have. I think when you go when Kellen Moore
Speaker 1: looks back, when he's a head coach down the road,
Speaker 1: and he will be a head coach somewhere at some
Speaker 1: point in his career, He's probably gonna look back at
Speaker 1: this season as being one of the most beneficial seasons
Speaker 1: for his career ever because of what you guys mentioned
Speaker 1: four quarterbacks, basically having to change game plans and week
Speaker 1: to week based on what your quarterbacks shrinks are. So
Speaker 1: I think that's valuable experience for him, not only for
Speaker 1: next season, but for you know, his career down the line. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's good points, Robert. I totally agree. Um, he's
Speaker 1: he's coming a long way. Um, he's had his ups
Speaker 1: and down. It's just like any coach. He's probably had
Speaker 1: a little bit more lows and in the eyes than
Speaker 1: that you will want. But I think that just comes
Speaker 1: from the inexperience that you just mentioned. You know, you're
Speaker 1: talking about, you know, trying things outside of himself, trying
Speaker 1: things outside of our our our dna. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: I think he's grown in the form of becoming content
Speaker 1: with just moving the chains. I think that's something that
Speaker 1: was a challenge for him, and I think that's something
Speaker 1: that he's kind of grasping, Um that it's okay to
Speaker 1: just move the chains. It's okay to sustain drives and
Speaker 1: have long drives. You just want to finish him off
Speaker 1: in the red zone. So I think where you know,
Speaker 1: you saw that progress last week we started having some
Speaker 1: longer drives and we started eating up some clock. Now
Speaker 1: it's just a matter of just kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: continue to build on that, on that momentum and now
Speaker 1: in things with a with a touchdown instead of you know,
Speaker 1: trying to kick these field goals. But I think I
Speaker 1: think he's I think he's definitely grown in that in
Speaker 1: that arena, because if we saw earlier in the season,
Speaker 1: even midway through the season, you know, triple quadruple reverse
Speaker 1: passes and all kinds of stuff, and he's always looking.
Speaker 1: He's always looking for that big splash, you know. And
Speaker 1: I think it's okay to be able to drip that
Speaker 1: in from time to time, but you shouldn't be dependent
Speaker 1: on a big splash. Not when we're built the way
Speaker 1: we're built. We have plenty of receivers to move the ball.
Speaker 1: We have plenty of running backs to move the ball,
Speaker 1: and it's just about moving the chains. And you have
Speaker 1: to kind of remind yourself as long as like it
Speaker 1: these ten yards, we're good. We have a whole new
Speaker 1: set of downs and be okay with that I really
Speaker 1: think timing played a big factor into it as well
Speaker 1: of allowing your quarterback to have enough time to get
Speaker 1: it out to your wide receivers. And I think early
Speaker 1: on they may have over anticipated the amount of time
Speaker 1: that Andy Dalton or Ben d Nucci and or Garrett
Speaker 1: Gilbert had to throw the football. And I think they
Speaker 1: did a nice job of turning that around and giving
Speaker 1: those quarterbacks opportunities to find it into the hands of
Speaker 1: those playmakers. Like you said, Isaiah, just trying to find
Speaker 1: a way to give an opportunity for these weapons to
Speaker 1: make an impact. But whenever it comes to Allen Moore
Speaker 1: and kind of the play calling, heckman, I know you
Speaker 1: agreed with one of the points that Isaiah talked about,
Speaker 1: and just finding different ways to get creative. That's kind
Speaker 1: of where I'm at with it, is not the crazy
Speaker 1: trick plays, but trying to kind of simplify it. And
Speaker 1: I think kind of that's also what Rob was saying,
Speaker 1: if this is beneficial because he's had to get creative
Speaker 1: while keeping it simple at the same time. Yes, you
Speaker 1: know you've heard the term kiss keep it simple stupid, right,
Speaker 1: And that's what he's had to do with a lot
Speaker 1: of situations with what he's dealt with. But also you know,
Speaker 1: the as you mentioned, Isaiah, if red zone efficiency has
Speaker 1: got to be the big knock on Kelly Moore's offense. Right,
Speaker 1: We've we've gone over the years and we've looked at
Speaker 1: the fact that our red zone efficiency is not that good.
Speaker 1: Now this year twenty twenty, no one is gonna just
Speaker 1: kind of brand that and say that's who you are.
Speaker 1: You're weak in the red zone because of all the
Speaker 1: changes that have happened to the front line. But we've
Speaker 1: got to get better at that. Right when you're at
Speaker 1: the three yard line and you cannot punch that thing
Speaker 1: in and you have to go on the fourth and
Speaker 1: one and throw at the back of the end zone,
Speaker 1: that's just indicative of how week the offensive line has
Speaker 1: been where we hadn't been able to just get that
Speaker 1: one yard. So, you know, give him praise for that,
Speaker 1: And like I agree with what Rob said, this has
Speaker 1: been a difficult gear and if this is grooming him
Speaker 1: for anything in the future, it's just been the adversity
Speaker 1: that he's had to face and changing his game plan
Speaker 1: to fit the quarterback that he has every single week.
Speaker 1: Speaking of changing whenever it comes to this Sunday's game.
Speaker 1: It was no secret that they switched that game and
Speaker 1: changed it from a primetime Sunday night football game to
Speaker 1: the afternoon on CBS. They flexed the game out of
Speaker 1: Sunday Night Football between the Cowboys and the forty nine
Speaker 1: ers and they switched it to a noon kickoff. It
Speaker 1: wasn't a secret to anybody not named Jalen Smith and Rob.
Speaker 1: I want to know if you were on this call
Speaker 1: yesterday with Jalen Smith, were you there? Yeah? Okay. So
Speaker 1: with Jalen Smith's answer, there was one quote that stuck
Speaker 1: out and it was picked up by a couple of
Speaker 1: media outlets, but one it didn't really seem like he
Speaker 1: didn't understand that the game had already been flexed. He
Speaker 1: kind of seemed surprised by the fact that the game
Speaker 1: was flexed to noon. But secondly, his quote, and i'll
Speaker 1: read it off here just so I don't paraphrase, but
Speaker 1: if the owner ain't trippin, We're good was the way
Speaker 1: that he said it. In terms of are you upset
Speaker 1: about are you embarrassed about this game being switched? His
Speaker 1: quote was if the owner ain't trippin we're good. What
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on that, Isaiah? I can see you
Speaker 1: kind of working with your eyebrow there a little bit.
Speaker 1: But why does that worry you? Either from a player's
Speaker 1: perspective or just from a front office running the organization
Speaker 1: type of perspective. I guess if he ain't tripping, we
Speaker 1: ain't tripping. I don't. I don't know, man, I mean, yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: I don't really have much to say about it. It's
Speaker 1: just just just go play some ball, man and make
Speaker 1: some plays. I it really doesn't matter if you're playing
Speaker 1: at nighttime. It doesn't matter if you're playing, you know,
Speaker 1: at noon. Obviously, if you get bumped out of the
Speaker 1: out of the premier spot, there's something that you're not
Speaker 1: doing right. You're not gonna make the networks any money.
Speaker 1: So get your butt out the spot and go win
Speaker 1: your games at twelve o'clock. Maybe the next week you'll
Speaker 1: play a night game. I don't know, um, but you
Speaker 1: know that's that should if anything, it should, it should
Speaker 1: it should infuriate you as a player because you know
Speaker 1: that you guys haven't done what you need to do
Speaker 1: in order to be on primetime television. Rob. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean I know I know it. It caught. It caught
Speaker 1: fire on Twitter, right, people were. People were upset about
Speaker 1: the comment. When when I heard it live, I didn't.
Speaker 1: It didn't really hit me that way. And this whole
Speaker 1: flex thing, it doesn't hit me that way either. I
Speaker 1: look if if and the thing about like, in fairness
Speaker 1: to Jalen, multiple players have been asked about this thing
Speaker 1: all week long, Zeke, Ceedee, lamb Andy, Dalton, you name it,
Speaker 1: and and basically everybody's got the same opinion. It's like,
Speaker 1: well that's when we play, doesn't doesn't like Isaiah said,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, We'll just we're gonna go win the game.
Speaker 1: I mean, let's be honest here, Like it obviously is
Speaker 1: representative of a bad season. There's no question about it.
Speaker 1: This has been a horrible season on so many levels.
Speaker 1: But let's be honest here. If if both of these
Speaker 1: teams had didn't have half their roster missing, this game
Speaker 1: wouldn't have gotten flexed because both teams probably would have
Speaker 1: had a couple more wins, be still kind of hanging
Speaker 1: on in the division their respective divisions, and by no
Speaker 1: means would this game have been flexed. But instead it's
Speaker 1: it's being portrayed as this symbol of just chaos in
Speaker 1: the organization and all that, Like, let's just tap the
Speaker 1: brakes on that a little bit, you know. So I
Speaker 1: just don't. I don't have the same reaction to it.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously both teams have really underachieved, but there's
Speaker 1: been other reasons for why they've underachieved. So and the
Speaker 1: other thing too, is like I don't maybe Isaiah, maybe
Speaker 1: I'm wrong here, but I do think players in some
Speaker 1: respects don't look that far down the schedule and an
Speaker 1: another opponent until it's the week go oh, what time
Speaker 1: do we play? Okay? You know, so I think there's
Speaker 1: probably some validity to that. Yeah, No, I mean that's
Speaker 1: that's true, right, I mean, you don't look at it,
Speaker 1: but but we're it's almost game time. I know you're right,
Speaker 1: it's almost We got three play game here in a minute. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I think we're about forty eight hour rule
Speaker 1: here coming up soon, getting so, um yeah, you want
Speaker 1: to know what's how you're playing. That's not a big
Speaker 1: deal to me, but um, I would be. I would
Speaker 1: be irritated if if our time got bumped out, just
Speaker 1: because in fact I know that we haven't done what
Speaker 1: we need to do and in front of business from
Speaker 1: and Jane's a businessman, right, He's a businessman. Um and
Speaker 1: that's what this is a business It's a business move. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's a business move. What what what does
Speaker 1: the network? What do they have to promote two teams
Speaker 1: that aren't doing great? And on top of that, they
Speaker 1: don't they don't have any highlights to show up like
Speaker 1: their premier players that are balling out? Who who peoplere
Speaker 1: gonn tune in to watch? Zeke's not playing like Zeke.
Speaker 1: You know, Coop's doing being consistent, but he's not killing it.
Speaker 1: You know, forty nine ers don't have anybody that's just
Speaker 1: freaking going crazy. So what do they have to promote?
Speaker 1: It's a business move. I'm not mad at it, and
Speaker 1: you can't be. I mean, there's there's so much the
Speaker 1: way that they set these games up and Cowboys and
Speaker 1: Niners and the parody that goes into all of these matchups.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to see the Jets and Jaguars
Speaker 1: at a time on Sunday either, you know. So you're right,
Speaker 1: Rob when you talk about our record and the amount
Speaker 1: of guys that are hurt. Still, I just think We're
Speaker 1: used to football players giving you football answers. You know
Speaker 1: that sucks. You know we got flex. You want to
Speaker 1: you want to hear a guy a little set about it.
Speaker 1: But what Jalen says, you ain't. He ain't not tripping.
Speaker 1: We're not tripping. This all good. It kind of rubs
Speaker 1: you the wrong way because it gives the sense that
Speaker 1: the guys is kind of blas the blog. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, and that's the only thing I think that
Speaker 1: people disagree with. But Taylan has taken so much criticism
Speaker 1: this year that you know he could see Mary has
Speaker 1: a little lamb in someone. I would hate that. I
Speaker 1: know you would. Did it hits you different? I mean,
Speaker 1: did it am I off base here? I'm just maybe
Speaker 1: I'm too blase about this. I think you brought it
Speaker 1: up the right way. I really did. And that's the
Speaker 1: reason why I asked the question is because you're right,
Speaker 1: A lot of people are painting this in the point
Speaker 1: or in the light that there's there's turmoil in the organization.
Speaker 1: This is the mindset that every player shares because it's
Speaker 1: the owner down and it's a top heavy problem. I
Speaker 1: don't think that's the case here. I think this is
Speaker 1: a guy who has been used to playing in primetime
Speaker 1: throughout his career. Because I remember going back and talking
Speaker 1: to Gerald McCoy preseason whenever he was kind of getting
Speaker 1: into the Cowboys and he had just been signed, and
Speaker 1: he was pumped because he had only played one primetime
Speaker 1: game throughout his entire career a career, and this is
Speaker 1: a pro bowler. This is a perennial all pro type
Speaker 1: of player. In Gerald McCoy, he played one primetime game
Speaker 1: and he had five on the schedule when we did
Speaker 1: the schedule release, and he was super excited about that.
Speaker 1: So it matters. It ultimately matters, especially for players outside
Speaker 1: of the Cowboys organization. It one hundred percent matters, because
Speaker 1: you want your family to watch, you want everybody to
Speaker 1: sit down, you want everybody to see this all happening
Speaker 1: on primetime when you're the only game happening. And that's
Speaker 1: not gonna happen this week, of course, because it ended
Speaker 1: up getting flex. Jalen Smith's been on the Cowboys, He's
Speaker 1: been one. He's been at Notre Dame, so I mean
Speaker 1: throughout his whole career, high school on, he has been
Speaker 1: nothing but primetime. Ultimately, whenever it comes to playing at night.
Speaker 1: So this is probably the wrong guy to answer that question.
Speaker 1: First off, I don't think it's an organizational issue. I
Speaker 1: think it's just a guy who's used to being in
Speaker 1: that limelight. And it's kind of the way that he
Speaker 1: answered it, and it rubbed a lot of people the
Speaker 1: wrong way. But I see where he was coming from
Speaker 1: and he's just been used to it previously. So no,
Speaker 1: it didn't rub me the wrong way, Rob, But that's
Speaker 1: kind of how I took it, and I wanted to
Speaker 1: see where you got thought about it. But when we
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Speaker 1: DraftKings kicks this week full of the Cowboys. You've got
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott up at the top. And we talked about
Speaker 1: Zeke earlier. Boys. I mean, if he plays, he could
Speaker 1: have a big game against this San Francisco run defense.
Speaker 1: Running the wide nines and there's a lot of room
Speaker 1: in between the tackles to run and Zeke, as physical
Speaker 1: as he is, that he could be tough to slow
Speaker 1: down whenever it comes to the numbers that he's been
Speaker 1: putting up. Even this year, he's been putting up decent
Speaker 1: fantasy numbers. I trust me. I've gone against him a
Speaker 1: couple times in fantasy. But Amari Cooper is an interesting one. Rob.
Speaker 1: Why could a'mari have a really big game this week?
Speaker 1: Because he's fifty eight yards from a thousand baby good
Speaker 1: time in his six year career, he needs fifty eight
Speaker 1: yards and hey, he's been pretty consistent all year long.
Speaker 1: By the way, it's not impossible to get three one
Speaker 1: thousand yard receivers. No, it's not. You know, we talked
Speaker 1: about that a lot. I think Gallup would have to
Speaker 1: average like one eighteen CD, like eighty something. But Amari,
Speaker 1: he's gonna get there, and he may he may very
Speaker 1: well get there on Sunday. You know, if they get
Speaker 1: some zone looks from the forty nine ers, there might
Speaker 1: be some soft spots, but obviously they've got some veteran
Speaker 1: dbs that he's gonna have to go against. I like
Speaker 1: his chances of getting to a thousand on Sunday well,
Speaker 1: and throwing to him is Andy Dalton. And heckma, why
Speaker 1: could Andy Dalton have kind of a breakout game for
Speaker 1: DraftKings fantasy players this week? And you know what, if
Speaker 1: Amara Cooper does get it is gonna be because of
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton. I gotta think Andy Dalton for getting me
Speaker 1: Tree Kardashian. Anyway, last week, last week, last week, I
Speaker 1: didn't think it would be three hundred and three touches,
Speaker 1: three touchdowns. But I think that this week he's gonna
Speaker 1: have an opportunity to get his receivers some touchdowns man,
Speaker 1: and it's it's gonna be those the trio of receivers
Speaker 1: that we talked about gallat Coop. It's gonna be our
Speaker 1: guys in Lamb. So if getting those short passes getting
Speaker 1: down in the red zone, his efficiency is going to
Speaker 1: be needed for the Californs to get a victory. And
Speaker 1: everybody knows what we're playing for. So no better time
Speaker 1: than Andy Dalton to pull out the red rifle will
Speaker 1: be this Sunday. So I'm going with Andy Dalton. All right,
Speaker 1: really quickly here, Isaiah Tony Pollard. What can he bring
Speaker 1: to the table at just fifty two hundred Tony Pollard
Speaker 1: with a discount? Double check, y'all, make sure you guys
Speaker 1: grab Tony Pollard because versus this defense of the forty
Speaker 1: nine ers and their wide nine defensive end schemes, Okay,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be plenty opportunity for him to sneak up
Speaker 1: in between the guard and the tackle and get up
Speaker 1: on that second level and maybe even the third level,
Speaker 1: and he might go all the way. Tune in for him,
Speaker 1: and especially if Ezekiel Elliot's still kind of dealing with
Speaker 1: that calf injury, that he could be a huge fantasy
Speaker 1: pick up this week running the football. Okay, time to
Speaker 1: say it with your chest. It is a Friday as always,
Speaker 1: and I gotta be very quick about this. But just
Speaker 1: basically last week Rob had a really good week, Heckma
Speaker 1: had a really good week, and Isaiah and I had
Speaker 1: really bad week. So Rob has a thirty six and
Speaker 1: twenty record. He is still up ahead of Heckma, but
Speaker 1: only one game back. Mister Harrison lurks in the distance
Speaker 1: to try and that spot. Then you go all the
Speaker 1: way down to the bottom and there's Isaiah and I
Speaker 1: both at twenty nine and twenty seven. So we are
Speaker 1: now a total of seven games back from Rob after
Speaker 1: what was just a awful week. Lass. Hey, ka, I
Speaker 1: guess what's up. We ain't tripping. We ain't tripping, So
Speaker 1: we go. Okay, here we go. First game. Gotta be
Speaker 1: quick here. We're probably gonna go over time, but I
Speaker 1: want to try and get through a bunch of games here,
Speaker 1: all right. Bears versus vic Kings, both teams at six
Speaker 1: and seven. Minnesota's won five of the last seven games
Speaker 1: after starting the season one and five. Heck, but you
Speaker 1: go first. I'm going Vikings, Rob Vikings, Vikings all right,
Speaker 1: vikings across the board here. I don't think the Bears
Speaker 1: get the dub there. Uh, let's go with the oh Man,
Speaker 1: They're not very good games this week. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: lie to you guys. Uh. Let's go Buccaneers on the
Speaker 1: road against the Falcons. Battle of Super Bowl fifty one quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Mattie Ice versus Tom Brady Isaiah, go TB twelve, Rob, Yeah,
Speaker 1: going twelve, TB twelve. Yeah, I'm gonna go with Yeah.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the Bucks here as well. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: get solved, Melby, don't get solved, Melfy. Come on, now
Speaker 1: take the Falcons. Man. Okay, how about this one? The
Speaker 1: Eagles who took down the Saints last week on the
Speaker 1: road against the Cardinals. Hurts versus Murray. Battle of dual
Speaker 1: threat Oklahoma or not Heisman winners but finalists Hope Oklahoma
Speaker 1: quarterbacks battling in Arizona. Rob, Who you got in this one? Arizona? Isaiah?
Speaker 1: I'm a rower Philly. What was that one? Philly? The game? Heck,
Speaker 1: I'll go with the Cardinals. I'm gonna go with Arizona
Speaker 1: there as well. I just don't think that's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: All right, jetson Rams. Now, I'm just kidding. We're not
Speaker 1: picking that game. Chiefs versus the Saints. Drew Brees is back,
Speaker 1: and this is actually one of the top win percentage
Speaker 1: is combined out of a week fifteen or later game
Speaker 1: in NFL history. The Chiefs, it's twelve and one in
Speaker 1: the Saints at ten and three. Kansas City's won ten
Speaker 1: straight road games, longest active streak in the NFL. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pick the Saints at home to end that streak.
Speaker 1: Drew Brees comes out, has a pretty fantas asked the game,
Speaker 1: and New Orleans comes out with a win against Patti
Speaker 1: Mahomes and company. Rob Pat Mahomes, Chiefs, Mahomeboy all day
Speaker 1: guns up, Isaiah Tire Reek Hill. Okay, so not Mahomes
Speaker 1: but tyreek Hill. Okay. So now we're just picking players.
Speaker 1: We're not even talking about teams specifically anymore. All right,
Speaker 1: Final one, Brown's on the road against the Giants at
Speaker 1: MetLife Stadium. Five and eight, Giants nine and four Browns
Speaker 1: Cleveland's Mayfield seven and one versus non divisional opponents this season.
Speaker 1: One of those was against the Cowboys. Isaiah Cleveland Cleveland. Heckma,
Speaker 1: I got Cleveland and this one as well. Okay, Rob,
Speaker 1: Cleveland rocks. Yeah, I'm gonna take Cleveland there as well
Speaker 1: and make it a clean sweep. This is not the
Speaker 1: game to be gaining or the week to be gaining games,
Speaker 1: all right. Final one Cowboys forty nine ers. Cowboys have
Speaker 1: won five of the last six games against San Francisco.
Speaker 1: And since Rob, you're trying to protect the lead, and
Speaker 1: since you have the lead, we're gonna let you go
Speaker 1: first on this one. Cowboys forty nine Ers from AT
Speaker 1: and T Stadium at noon on CBS. You know, Kyle,
Speaker 1: you turned me around this week. I wasn't feeling good
Speaker 1: about this game. But you know, the forty nine ers
Speaker 1: are missing so many guys, and Kyle Shannon said they'll
Speaker 1: start with Nick Mullins might change during the game. I'll
Speaker 1: go with the cow I think. I said the Cowboys
Speaker 1: will win two of their last three, so I'll pick
Speaker 1: this is one of those two. I'll pick the Cowboys
Speaker 1: twenty three twenty wow. Uh, who's next? You go next?
Speaker 1: And I'll go and Isaiah will round it out. All right, Well,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys need to get some get back. They've been
Speaker 1: trying to do it all season versus a zone run scheme,
Speaker 1: and as Aldan Smith quote it, this week, we suck
Speaker 1: and I don't know how to go off of that too.
Speaker 1: To pick the Cowboys this week, guys, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with the forty nine ers. Wow, going with the forty
Speaker 1: they finally Yeah, championship Plaza. The Cowboys have been outscored
Speaker 1: one hundred and seventeen to fifty seven in games following
Speaker 1: a win. That is a minus sixty point differential in
Speaker 1: three games. Three games, That's what the score has been.
Speaker 1: And the big fact this week, Yes, I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: the forty nine ers in this one. I just think
Speaker 1: that one. I'm still angry with the Cowboys and that
Speaker 1: probably won't subside until twenty twenty one. But outside of that,
Speaker 1: I think the Cowboys are the better team and they
Speaker 1: should get a win. Plus I picked against them last
Speaker 1: week at the Cowboys one, and I was happy about that.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna pick the forty nine ers and hoping
Speaker 1: for a little bit of that reverse psychology again in
Speaker 1: here in Week fifteen, Isaiah, Cowboys match their physicality, Cowboys win,
Speaker 1: Cowboys win. So all right, So Robin Isaiah on the
Speaker 1: same same boat for the first time in a long time.
Speaker 1: But that's gonna do it here for us on Talking Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Glad you've been with us here over the last five days.
Speaker 1: We'll be back on Monday as always to break it down,
Speaker 1: win or lose, but make sure in tune in CBS
Speaker 1: at noon on Sunday. Kevin Harland, one of my favorite
Speaker 1: play by play announcers on the call for that one,
Speaker 1: but for Chris Beam, for heck My Harrison, for Rob Phillips,
Speaker 1: and the great Isaiah stand back. I'm Kyle Yeoman saying
Speaker 1: so long, thanks for listening to Talking Cowboys. We'll see
Speaker 1: you Monday. This has been a production of Dallas Cowboys
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