WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: Historic Opener 0:00:05.120 --> 0:00:07.600 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:09.160 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. 0:00:11.520 --> 0:00:14.360 Cowboys. 0:00:14.480 --> 0:00:18.720 This He's Talking Cowboys, streaming live. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:22.520 From the Dallas Cowboys World Course at the Star in Frisco. 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:29.560 Straight touchdown, six second Tesscott teass any contient touchdown. 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:35.120 And now your hosts, Isaiah Standback, Nick Harris, John Moshoda 0:00:35.479 --> 0:00:37.440 and Kyle Yeomans. 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:44.480 Go Dallas Cowboy. 0:00:46.120 --> 0:00:50.400 For the first time in twenty twenty three. It is 0:00:50.520 --> 0:00:55.000 a Victory Monday on Talking Cowboys presented by Black Rifle 0:00:55.080 --> 0:01:02.320 Coffee Company with the most undeniable, unbelieved show of all 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:06.480 three phases, complimentary football from the Dallas Cowboys in a 0:01:06.800 --> 0:01:10.720 forty to nothing beat down of the New York Giants 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:14.520 on Sunday Night Football. Welcome into Talking Cowboys, everybody alongside 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:19.240 Nick Harris, Isaiah Stanback, I'm Kyle Yeoman's Nick. You were there. 0:01:20.120 --> 0:01:23.720 It was rainy, it was sloppy. Not from the Dallas 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.600 Cowboys side of things. They took care of business and 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:29.640 they laid down the hammer against the New York Giants. 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.600 Yeah, it started early and often it was the Giants 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:35.160 driving down the field on their first offensive possession and 0:01:35.640 --> 0:01:40.160 stalling out at deep in Cowboys territory and the blocked 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:43.360 field goal by jon Ye Thomas returned by Noag Bonoghani, 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:45.640 the newest Cowboy. He was probably one of the last 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:47.800 guys on the roster jan Ye Thomas as well. So 0:01:48.760 --> 0:01:50.680 don't tell me the cut daw doesn't matter anymore. I 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:54.200 don't care about that stuff anymore. But yeah, really excited 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:55.920 to see that happen right out of the gate. And 0:01:55.960 --> 0:01:57.760 then the tone was said from there and it never 0:01:57.880 --> 0:01:58.920 really got relinquished. 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:00.440 Nick, things slick. 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:04.120 Yeah, the right sleeve there, Kyle, what's the what's the 0:02:04.240 --> 0:02:06.120 right sleeve show? A show called Your Right Sleeve? 0:02:06.360 --> 0:02:09.799 Jerry Jones Classic presented by a Waterburger. That's it was 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:13.919 a high school football game. Yeah, is there is there something? 0:02:14.760 --> 0:02:19.679 There's a water burgerd there's a Whataburger? And on this shower? 0:02:20.120 --> 0:02:20.639 What do we got? 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:21.160 What was it? 0:02:21.400 --> 0:02:24.600 A forty burger? It was just a big four zero. 0:02:25.760 --> 0:02:27.560 Let's go, let's go. 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:29.000 They gonna put me on. 0:02:30.840 --> 0:02:35.720 Amber Amber exactly. Uh yeah, forty burger and a shutout, 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.639 I mean, the biggest point differential on the road in 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.720 Dallas Cowboys franchise history. They had not had a game 0:02:42.280 --> 0:02:45.239 where they beat somebody that bad on the road, and 0:02:46.360 --> 0:02:49.120 I think it's more impressive when you talk about a 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:51.040 well a number of things, the fact that it was 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.799 a divisional game, the fact that it was a road game, 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:56.639 the fact that it was a game against the playoff 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:58.760 team and a team that got a playoff win a 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:02.639 year ago, primetime primetime game. First week of the season. 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:04.800 I mean, this is the first look of the twenty 0:03:04.880 --> 0:03:10.200 twenty three Cowboys. Forty points scored and zero points allowed 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:11.799 are what we have to look at at this team. 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.079 It's not always gonna be like that. It will never 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:17.720 always be like that. But enjoy it. Why you've got it, 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.280 I mean, because that's what you have at least in 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:21.520 week one here in twenty three. 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:22.239 I like it. 0:03:22.520 --> 0:03:22.880 I like it. 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.800 I like these guys did man defensively. These guys were dominant, 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:29.519 and we know that this is a defensive team. There's 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:31.280 no question about it. We've been talking about it ever 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:33.239 since training camp, ever since we were down there in 0:03:33.240 --> 0:03:35.760 a nice seventy degree weather in ox and Are, California. 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.560 These guys are completely dominant on defense, and you know, 0:03:38.680 --> 0:03:41.560 this is the one team that you can't get behind on. 0:03:42.360 --> 0:03:44.680 If you get behind on the Dallas Cowboys, and you 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:47.640 have to abandon your ability to run the ball because 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.520 of the time of possession aspect and just a time 0:03:50.560 --> 0:03:52.800 and the game clock. Then you're gonna find yourself in 0:03:52.840 --> 0:03:54.240 a situation where you have to throw the ball. And 0:03:54.280 --> 0:03:55.920 if you have to throw the ball against this defense, 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:56.440 good luck. 0:03:56.920 --> 0:03:57.760 It just is what it is. 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:00.000 I mean that kudos at his front office for continue. 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.440 You want to secure the guys that you need to secure, 0:04:03.240 --> 0:04:05.200 acquiring the guys that you need to acquire to make 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.880 it even more difficult for teams to be effective on offense. 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:10.400 It was a little scary enough first on that first drive, 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:12.640 you know, but sometimes luck goes your way, and then 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:14.320 once leut goes your way, then it's just a dog 0:04:14.360 --> 0:04:14.920 on snowball. 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:16.280 You just gotta keep rolling it man. 0:04:16.600 --> 0:04:19.840 Very very seldomly do I ever call a game super early, 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:22.360 Like very seldomly do I look up like, oh, this 0:04:22.480 --> 0:04:25.520 is cooked. But eight minutes left in the second quarter yesterday, 0:04:25.560 --> 0:04:27.559 it was twenty three to nothing. The offense had finally 0:04:27.640 --> 0:04:31.320 gone down and finished inside the red zone, and I 0:04:31.400 --> 0:04:34.159 looked to Patrick Nosey Walker I was like, look between 0:04:34.200 --> 0:04:36.600 the rain and then having to throw the ball the 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:38.080 rest of the way to climb back into this. 0:04:38.640 --> 0:04:40.200 They're not coming back from them. So like this is 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:40.960 this is cooked and. 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:41.960 That was sure it sure was. 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.360 That was later called it nothing mean, Kyle. We called 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.600 that in like the middle to first really yeah, with 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.120 the way that this team is constructed, with the defense 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:52.360 and how nasty they are. And then, like you said, 0:04:52.440 --> 0:04:56.000 if teams are forced to throw the football, that's that's 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.640 a problem. I mean, because you saw early New York 0:04:58.720 --> 0:05:01.480 ran the ball effectively, especially on the opening drive. Ten 0:05:01.560 --> 0:05:04.240 plays they go down, they're threatening to get into the 0:05:04.360 --> 0:05:07.320 end zone, and on third down and short, Dallas did 0:05:07.360 --> 0:05:09.320 a nice job of forcing third down and short and 0:05:09.360 --> 0:05:12.160 then a bat snap from John Michael schmidtz mishandled by 0:05:12.240 --> 0:05:14.000 Daniel Jones has to fall on top of it and 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:17.280 that leads to the blocked field goal. So they ran 0:05:17.360 --> 0:05:19.400 the ball effectively at times, but then they had to 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:21.960 abandon the run. Yeah, they abandon what they do best. 0:05:22.000 --> 0:05:24.359 And that's what good teams do, is they take away 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:25.839 what you do best. 0:05:26.000 --> 0:05:28.280 And it was kind of inadvertent. It's not like they 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.720 just absolutely stuffed Saquon Barkley in the beginning of this 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:33.960 football game, but they did make it to the point 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:36.880 where they couldn't go back to Saquon Barkley, they couldn't 0:05:36.920 --> 0:05:38.679 run the ball effectively, and then all of a sudden, 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:43.160 Daniel Jones is running for his life, literally running for 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:46.280 his life. I almost put the there's the meme of 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:48.640 course with Johnny Depp running on the beach and he's 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:51.720 getting chased by all the other the zombie pirates or 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.160 whatever they were behind him. That was Daniel Jones running 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.000 from Michael Parsons, Dorn's armstrong. Anybody that really had a 0:05:57.040 --> 0:05:58.200 white jersey on yesterday? 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.600 Yeah, absolutely, And poor Evan Neil at right tackle for 0:06:01.640 --> 0:06:03.240 the Giants, he just had. He had a rough night, 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.719 whether it feels to Marcus Lawrence also we even lining 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.480 up on him at times. Michael Parsons say, it was 0:06:09.560 --> 0:06:11.920 just tough, you know. Uh, you all remember when y'all 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:14.120 were a kid and y'all got in trouble and then 0:06:14.160 --> 0:06:16.000 the next day y'all woke up and it kind of 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:18.080 like took you a second to realize it's like, oh wait, 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:18.960 I'm in trouble. 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:19.279 Dang. 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.160 That just like feeling just kind of like set in 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:23.520 amongst like your whole body that has to be Evan 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:26.080 Neil today. It has to be like it was. It 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.240 was a horrible performance from Neil. 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:31.000 I feel bad for the guy, honestly, but you have 0:06:31.080 --> 0:06:33.680 to give credit to this Cowboys pass rush. They were 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:37.200 on it from the very get go last night. Seven sacks, 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:39.440 all of them coming from the defensive line. If you 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:42.920 want to count Mike in that equation. But uh, a man, 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.520 absolutely all around performance from top to bottom. 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:47.680 Well call me a Marion because I have an ice 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:49.400 box where my heart used to be. I do not 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:52.800 feel bad cast at all. If you don't want to 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:54.960 get beat up, then stop somebody from beating you up. 0:06:55.040 --> 0:06:58.640 The facts, pure and simple. I love watching it. I 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:02.200 love watching these guys have fun. You we talked about 0:07:02.320 --> 0:07:06.720 We talked about chemistry and culture a ton. Chemistry can't 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:10.720 be faked, It can't be fabricated. It can't just be 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:14.120 created on the day of This is something. These guys 0:07:14.200 --> 0:07:16.080 love each other. They love each other. This is literally 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.840 literally a brotherhood. When adversity strikes, these guys come together. 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:22.360 When they're having fun, they all want each other to eat. 0:07:22.600 --> 0:07:24.720 This is not a selfish team at all. This is 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.400 a very selfless team, and all three aspects of the game, 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:30.880 and that is something that you that you yearn for 0:07:31.280 --> 0:07:34.680 as a coach, you yearn for as an owner. In GM, 0:07:34.880 --> 0:07:37.520 you want your guys to love and be passionate about 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.080 playing football. And every single person that touched that field 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:42.680 last night was having fun and supporting each other, and 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:44.040 they wanted to celebrate with each other. 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:46.920 That's that's what's exciting. Because you look across the board 0:07:47.000 --> 0:07:48.800 and you look at some of the highlights in some 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:51.720 of the film, even there's there's guys that are upset 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.520 at whenever it is thirty three to nothing in the 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.960 fourth quarter because they didn't get a sack or they 0:07:58.040 --> 0:08:00.640 didn't beat their guy to the man. And I'm not 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:01.480 saying they were padding. 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:04.520 Oh man, I wish I was the first law I 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:06.920 saw a couple of times boom man, like, all right, 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:08.480 my guy got the sight, but shoot, that should have 0:08:08.520 --> 0:08:09.400 been my you know. 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:12.120 Like it's it's that competition element, And honestly, that's a 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:14.120 that's a credit to the coaching staff, that's credit to 0:08:14.160 --> 0:08:16.280 Mike McCarthy. It's a credit to what they've built. I mean, 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:18.040 the roster is talented, but you got to find a 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.640 way to put the roster together in a good environment 0:08:20.840 --> 0:08:24.080 and a building environment. And that's apparently what's a what's 0:08:24.080 --> 0:08:24.720 across the way? 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:26.200 Can I give a shout out? I know we're not 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:28.840 that part of it. I have others because a thousand 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:32.800 people that can get a dog on, But shout out 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:37.319 to Trayvon Diggs, big shout out to Trayvon Diggs. Most 0:08:37.360 --> 0:08:39.880 of the time, Trayvon dis gets a lot of attention 0:08:40.000 --> 0:08:42.760 for PBUs for his ability to have I N T s, 0:08:43.320 --> 0:08:45.280 you know, his ability to play sticky defense. 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:49.440 But this man heard the noise. He heard the noise. 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:52.240 He heard us, He heard everybody else out there talking 0:08:52.280 --> 0:08:55.199 about his his lack of willingness to be physical. 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.439 We've talked about it extensively. He heard the noise. And 0:08:59.600 --> 0:09:00.240 I'm sure it. 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:02.160 Wasn't just coming from outside, because you don't always listen 0:09:02.200 --> 0:09:04.000 to the outside noise. But I'm sure it came from 0:09:04.040 --> 0:09:05.599 the coaches. We need you to have more of a 0:09:05.720 --> 0:09:07.280 force in the running game. We need you to have 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:10.000 more of a presence in terms of your physical aspect, 0:09:10.040 --> 0:09:12.719 in terms of being physical in the game, hitting to 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:16.880 force fumbles. He wasn't a benefactor of those. Other people 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.040 were the benefactor of those. The whole entire defense was 0:09:19.200 --> 0:09:20.680 that was a very selfless play. 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:23.440 Doron Bland has a pick six, Absolutely. 0:09:22.880 --> 0:09:24.719 He has a pick six because of it, right, But 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.800 the fact that he was willing to throw himself in there, 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.640 I loved it because that is a sign that this 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.680 team just got that much stronger because of his willingness, 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:36.440 not because of his ability, because of his willingness. 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.200 And look what he was able to do for his defense. 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:39.120 He didn't get any. 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:40.560 Picks he probably I don't even know if he got 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.480 even mpbus yesterday, but he did get too forced fumbles. 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:45.560 He wasn't testing much, yeah at all. 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:49.400 That that that first really big pass breakup that forced 0:09:49.440 --> 0:09:51.719 to pick six on Saqua. He was on one of 0:09:51.720 --> 0:09:53.520 the more physical guys in the league even and he 0:09:53.880 --> 0:09:54.959 laid the wood on him. 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:56.400 That that was a hit. 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:58.760 You could hear just kind of like the ooh around 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.160 the crowd before Deron you see it up out of 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.760 thin air. So man, yeah, I had to give him 0:10:03.840 --> 0:10:06.719 credit for that physicality because it seemed like whenever we 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:08.520 were coming out of that playoff loss last year, it 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:10.599 was like, well, why can't he be more physical with 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:12.679 guys like George Kittle or even in the run game. 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:14.640 We've talked about it all year last year, but even 0:10:14.679 --> 0:10:16.599 in the receiving game, guys like Kittle and Man, he 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:18.439 made up for both of those things. 0:10:18.480 --> 0:10:21.440 On laying the wood on a barkleyn and receiving situation. 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:25.480 Yeah, Stephan Gilmore probably paying a little bit of a 0:10:26.160 --> 0:10:29.040 at least a role in that because you think about 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.280 what they brought Stephan Gilmore in to do. He did 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:34.240 that last night. He had an interception, he had three 0:10:34.280 --> 0:10:37.360 pass passes defended. So he was there, he was active, 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.000 he was there physically. But it's also the leadership and 0:10:40.120 --> 0:10:42.440 what he can bring to a guy like Trayvon Diggs 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:45.559 showing hey, there is another level, there is another way 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:47.360 to get to where you want to be. As one 0:10:47.400 --> 0:10:50.800 of the all time great corners in the NFL. Diggs 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:54.280 has had a phenomenal first couple seasons. He can still 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:56.360 take that next step and Gilmore is going to help 0:10:56.480 --> 0:11:00.000 him get In that conversation, Like you said, I think 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:02.160 I think a lot of those conversations. Sure they happened 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.240 outside the building about Trayvon not being physical. I guarantee 0:11:05.280 --> 0:11:08.679 that was a conversation between Stefan Gilmour, Al Harris and 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:11.439 that entire coaching staff treyvon Dick saying we need you 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:13.480 to step up, and he did so on not one, 0:11:13.960 --> 0:11:16.800 but two and maybe even three multiple I got to 0:11:17.040 --> 0:11:19.000 really chart him whenever you go back, but he had 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:22.559 three combined tackles, he had one PBu forced fumble and 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:25.160 then basically caused the interception in the pick six for 0:11:25.240 --> 0:11:29.000 Deron Bland. Now speaking on the defense a little bit 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:30.520 more because they were the ones that really set the 0:11:30.600 --> 0:11:34.840 tone yesterday. How about this stat The Cowboys generated pressure 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:39.839 on twenty three of thirty seven dropbacks yesterday. Daniel Jones 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:44.040 dropped back thirty seven times and he was pressured on 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:46.439 twenty three. He was sacked on seven, by the way, 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:50.559 the fourth highest pressure rate in the NFL in a 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:54.040 game since twenty nineteen, So the last five seasons, that 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:58.559 was the fourth highest pressure rate. Dallas had eight defenders 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:03.040 eight generate multiple pressures, including four that had at least 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:07.200 at least five pressures. That's Michael Parson's, Dante Fowler, Ose 0:12:07.360 --> 0:12:10.280 Diggi's who, Thorrence Armstrong and DeMarcus Lawrence. How about that? 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.520 I said it on the postgame show yesterday, like I 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:16.000 had a visual in my head of Talladega Knights and 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:18.000 Will Ferrell when he just took off running. 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:21.480 Don't let the invisible fire Bura friend, just running around 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:24.840 his circles. That's what I imagine Daniel Jones doing yesterday. 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:26.040 It just sucked for him. 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:28.679 It sucked for him, but it was obviously gratifying for 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:33.719 somebody who supports the Cowboys. When you execute in all 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.160 three phases of the game, this is what you put 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:39.679 yourself in position to do. The defense went out there, 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:41.880 they were struggling on that first drive. Okay there, but 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:43.719 they held down to a third down, and the third 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:47.280 down stuff happens. Stuff happens, right, one mistake puts him 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:48.880 in a situation where they have to force a field goal. 0:12:49.160 --> 0:12:51.840 And now what jan ye Okay, the man who's like, hey, 0:12:51.840 --> 0:12:54.080 I'm gonna find my way to make plays on this team. Okay, 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.200 I noticed a three headed monster at safety. I had 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:58.559 one opportunity because Donald wasn't playing, I'm gonna get in 0:12:58.600 --> 0:13:01.040 here and make some plays. What he did, right, went 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:03.240 out there and made a play. Now the ties turned. 0:13:03.360 --> 0:13:05.319 Now the offense could go out there and run. Mike 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:07.920 McCarthy offense played keep away. And what does that allow 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.280 you to do? Defensively, your dogs can go eat right. 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.000 College just talked about the stat line for all these 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.440 guys on defense, everybody wanted a part of the party. 0:13:14.760 --> 0:13:17.360 Everybody on that defense wanted some of the party. D 0:13:17.559 --> 0:13:19.520 Law being frustrated because he wasn't getting the sack. But 0:13:19.559 --> 0:13:21.600 what a couple of his boys did right. It seemingly 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:23.400 was a competition who can get the most sacks tonight? 0:13:23.880 --> 0:13:25.319 Who can get the most sacks? We talked about it 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:27.520 in the pregame show, Kyle, it doesn't matter what the 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.680 stat line is. For Micah Parsons, it doesn't matter because 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:32.959 of what he demands. And if he doesn't demand that, 0:13:33.080 --> 0:13:35.120 if you don't respect that, he's gonna make you pay, 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:36.719 and he will show up in the stat line. But 0:13:36.840 --> 0:13:38.320 when you go ahead, and you go ahead and alter 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.800 your offense to ensure that he doesn't kill you, everybody 0:13:41.880 --> 0:13:44.280 else will because everybody else is fully capable of making 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.000 plays as well. And that is a shout out to 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.559 the front office, shout out to DQ, shout out to 0:13:49.920 --> 0:13:52.280 all the other coaches on the defensive staff. These guys 0:13:52.320 --> 0:13:54.760 can make plays and they are putting them in position 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:56.440 to win their one on one matchups. 0:13:56.600 --> 0:13:58.520 Yeah, and I have to give some added extra flowers 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:01.560 to one YEA Thomas, not only to take the take 0:14:01.600 --> 0:14:03.599 the field goal block out of the equation. He was 0:14:03.679 --> 0:14:06.240 coming up and filling the run on first and second down. 0:14:06.520 --> 0:14:08.560 He made a huge pass breakup that forced a punt 0:14:09.240 --> 0:14:11.440 early in the game. He was he set the tone 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:14.839 absompletely off off the rip. He set the tone, He 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:17.440 filled the voice, He filled the void that Donald left. Yeah, 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:20.520 and he didn't get many snaps, but I think probably 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:22.680 of his eleven snaps that he played, he was making 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:23.920 a play on at least seven of them. 0:14:24.080 --> 0:14:25.680 So that's a pretty good hit rate. 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:27.800 Well, and I think we've been very high as the 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:31.240 show on one Ye Thomas from the jump at training camp. 0:14:31.280 --> 0:14:33.560 I mean, he's shown out he was there at practice. 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.440 But at some point along the way, if I would 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:38.800 have asked the question of who is the number one 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:42.080 guy to fill Donovan Wilson's role as the enforcer on 0:14:42.240 --> 0:14:44.120 this defense, I don't think any of us would have 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:48.840 said wan Ye Thomas. It would have been Jay Ron Curse, 0:14:48.880 --> 0:14:50.360 it would have been a Molie Cooker, It would have 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:52.640 been guys like that coming down, maybe even Marquise Bell 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:56.080 at times. But Wan Ye was the enforcer early and 0:14:56.200 --> 0:14:58.760 he wasn't all four quarters, nor did he really need 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:00.880 to be in all four quarters. Right there at the jump, 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.240 he had the pass defense, He had two combined tackles, 0:15:03.520 --> 0:15:07.280 one of them was a solo. I think Wanye brought 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:11.119 what Dallas needed because you don't always need the superstars 0:15:11.200 --> 0:15:13.440 making the plays you had that early with Micah and 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:16.640 Trayvon and Ceedee Lamb from forty nine yards had all 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:18.840 made a play in that first half. But then it 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:22.320 was what the reserves and the rotational guys came in 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:24.800 and did, like Bell who played really well down the stretch, 0:15:25.640 --> 0:15:28.840 Yanye Thomas who played very well. Damone Clark, who I 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.160 would classify as a starter but he's not a superstar 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.880 yet he played well too. I think there's ways that 0:15:34.000 --> 0:15:37.080 you can make this team even better than what we 0:15:37.160 --> 0:15:39.360 saw last night, which is crazy to talk about, and 0:15:39.760 --> 0:15:41.960 it starts with those guys like Kanye and Bell and 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:43.440 some of the guys that are going to rotate through 0:15:43.480 --> 0:15:45.880 because Isaiah and you can speak to this because you've 0:15:45.920 --> 0:15:48.800 won a Super Bowl RNK, but great teams are made 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:52.120 up of a mixture of superstars and guys that come 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:55.760 in and know their role, and the Cowboys seemingly had 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:56.400 that in Week one. 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:00.440 Absolutely, these guys it's called what is it called is 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.600 d DYJ? Just do your job. It's just simply just 0:16:03.680 --> 0:16:05.520 do your job and you have a role to fulfilled. 0:16:05.840 --> 0:16:06.200 Wanye. 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.720 Going back to Wanye, he has been that. He has 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:11.960 been consistently that guy throughout all the training camp. It 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:13.840 doesn't matter if he's working with the threes, the two's, 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:15.480 or the ones, it doesn't matter. And where he was 0:16:15.520 --> 0:16:17.080 at right when you put him in the game in 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:18.120 a preseason game, what do you do? 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:18.920 Pick off Trevor? 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:21.000 Look, gimme Trevor first played a game, give me that, 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:22.600 you know what I'm saying. Like Chris Brown, he just 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:26.400 just takes the ball away and he's a high energy guy. 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:30.160 He fits He is a DQ guy, right, and you 0:16:30.240 --> 0:16:31.480 think about it, like, man, how the heck is he 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:34.040 gonna fit in when they already have three solid safeties? 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:36.440 All right, I'll do it on special teams, Coach, whatever 0:16:36.480 --> 0:16:38.440 you need me to do, I'm there. Right, He's that 0:16:38.640 --> 0:16:41.360 type of guy and he's impactful and you fill in 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:42.960 the gaps with the rest of the dudes. 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:44.960 I mean, Marku's Bell steps up all right here we go. 0:16:45.040 --> 0:16:46.880 You guys don't have a linebacker? Cool, I roll down 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:48.400 there in the box. Not a problem. I'll throw my 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:50.360 head in there. I'll make things hard for Saquan and 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:52.520 the rest of the crew is this is a heck 0:16:52.560 --> 0:16:53.080 of a unit. 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:55.480 I love seeing these guys, like I mentioned earlier, fly 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:58.360 around and have fun together if you have, if you 0:16:58.400 --> 0:16:59.840 haven't had a chance to go back and watch the game, 0:16:59.880 --> 0:17:03.119 just watch how these guys are in terms of celebrating 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:07.720 each other. Yeah, it's a very undervalued aspect of the game. 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:10.560 You can watch other teams. Somebody makes a play, everybody 0:17:10.600 --> 0:17:12.200 just kind of walks back to the huddle or walks 0:17:12.240 --> 0:17:13.200 back to the line of scrimmage. 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.919 This team, they're celebrating. They're celebrating each other. What did 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:19.920 you think just being there in the building, Nick, and 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:23.800 kind of seeing the way that this game unfolded in 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.200 the first half and then the dominance continuing into the 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:28.200 second half. I mean, what was the feel around the 0:17:28.280 --> 0:17:32.000 stadium and how did things shift from electric at the beginning? 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:34.240 I mean, the national anthem was phenomenal. Of course, with 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:37.280 September eleventh weekend coming around, they put on a massive 0:17:37.320 --> 0:17:39.639 show there and it was really really great. But then 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.800 you had the fans both sides, Cowboys and Giants fans 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:44.720 very much so in it. What did it feel like 0:17:44.840 --> 0:17:46.280 right about halftime? 0:17:46.760 --> 0:17:49.960 Well, I will say the energy pregame was the biggest. 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:53.720