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Speaker 1: Star in Frisco. Hell stay and now your hosts Isaiah Stanback,
Speaker 1: heck Ma Harrison, Rob Phillips, and Kyle Yeoman's It is
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Speaker 1: in the Virtual again SWBC Studios and Chris Beam is
Speaker 1: back at the Star in Frisco. Here with heck Ma Harrison,
Speaker 1: Isaiah stand back. No Rob Phillips at the moment. He
Speaker 1: may join us a little bit later on, but most
Speaker 1: likely we'll see Rob tomorrow. Gentlemen, it's day two of
Speaker 1: being virtual virtual again. I should say, and I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna say, I love it, but at least we had
Speaker 1: a fun show yesterday and today Isaiah, we get to
Speaker 1: talk about the Little Cowboys defense again taking on that
Speaker 1: Cardinals offense. I'm not ready. I'm ready for it. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm ready for it. You know our offense guys has
Speaker 1: the ball out and the defense is pretty good. They're
Speaker 1: already balling out. Yeah yeah, I'm ready for this. Though.
Speaker 1: I want to know what Heckma has to say, though, Well,
Speaker 1: this is what I gotta say, this virtual thing. You know,
Speaker 1: we all got involved like this last year in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: I hate it. I hate it. I hate it. You know,
Speaker 1: this is just driving me nuts. Man. I'm agreeing with
Speaker 1: Isaiah too much virtually as a little bit in a studio.
Speaker 1: He makes so much sensier. He makes so much sense. Man,
Speaker 1: when he's coming through my bowls, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: I agree with that. Yea. By the way, we need
Speaker 1: to have a conversation with Bows. Why do they leave us?
Speaker 1: I feel I feel left right now? Oh as a sponsor,
Speaker 1: like yeah, yeah, we've got Caliber Collision and Esselor We've
Speaker 1: got I mean, I'm not mad at our current ones,
Speaker 1: but I'm just I just feel I feel left behind,
Speaker 1: that like Bows is searching for something that they already had.
Speaker 1: Ye It's okay. It's like a symphony in your head,
Speaker 1: right it is? It is. I love it, man, and
Speaker 1: and I'm happy now that Isaiah has his own so
Speaker 1: we don't have to hear about this each and every
Speaker 1: time that he doesn't have his bowls. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: they finally got him song just saying D D E.
Speaker 1: Shout out to Derek Eaglet, whose birthday was yesterday. But
Speaker 1: you know, I appreciate you, d thanks for hooking your
Speaker 1: boy up. So I'm not out here with the with
Speaker 1: the gamer hit says, even though I know Chris Beam
Speaker 1: love my gaming hit says, I know these these look
Speaker 1: a little bit more official and team oriented. Chris Beam's
Speaker 1: gaming headsets. One trump to whatever you were working with.
Speaker 1: It wasn't even close. He received the rig that Chris
Speaker 1: Beam's working with on the Xbox night end and night out.
Speaker 1: That guy does not take it halfway, does not take
Speaker 1: it halfway. It really is kind of ridiculous. Speaking of Xbox,
Speaker 1: though we did. We can't start this show without taking
Speaker 1: some time to recognize a legend and to remember a legend.
Speaker 1: John Madden, legendary coach, innovator, broadcaster. List goes on and
Speaker 1: on about John Madden. He passed away yesterday at the
Speaker 1: age of eighty five. And honestly, it's a it's a
Speaker 1: hard hit for for me personally. It's a hard hit
Speaker 1: for really most football fans out there, because a lot
Speaker 1: of their earliest memories of football surround John Madden. Really
Speaker 1: from the get go, generation after generation has already been
Speaker 1: influenced by his influence and his love for the game,
Speaker 1: and it really has grown the game of football to
Speaker 1: a whole new level. So I wanted to take a
Speaker 1: moment and kind of ask you guys, and I'll start
Speaker 1: with heckma, what did John Madden mean to you specifically?
Speaker 1: And what kind of impact did he have on your life?
Speaker 1: And what will you remember from his legacy? Man, It
Speaker 1: just you know, John Madden reminds me of my childhood,
Speaker 1: reminds me of my grandfather really, you know, watching football
Speaker 1: games with my grandfather, who really is the one that
Speaker 1: introduced me to football, and his love and passion and
Speaker 1: he loved John Madden and just how animated he he
Speaker 1: was calling games and we would laugh, you know, our
Speaker 1: bus off during games just with him and his sound effects,
Speaker 1: the boom boom boom, you know and stuff like that,
Speaker 1: you know, doing games, you know, as a as a
Speaker 1: color analyst, he was just so magnificent and at translating
Speaker 1: what was happening on the field to any type of
Speaker 1: what you know viewer his football knowledge and I Q
Speaker 1: he just was a football guy that could relate everything,
Speaker 1: didn't matter if it was to tellustrate or what it was,
Speaker 1: you know, he could relate it. And I just remember
Speaker 1: man Cowboys games, uh, you know, Thanksgiving games specifically when
Speaker 1: he would bring out the turd ducing and describe what
Speaker 1: a turd Duncan was and big old Nate Newton with
Speaker 1: the turkey legs. And that's just like I said, it's
Speaker 1: just really a part of my purely a part of
Speaker 1: my childhood. But Kyle and Isaiah, what I've learned, man,
Speaker 1: and from losing people, losing heroes, losing people that you
Speaker 1: admire that you got, you have to celebrate all of
Speaker 1: the great things that they are and were in your life,
Speaker 1: you know, period. And he left so many great memories
Speaker 1: behind for us to celebrate. And man, I just think
Speaker 1: that those are the things that are so important when
Speaker 1: you lose somebody as legendary as John Matten and in
Speaker 1: this day and age, man, when you is the word
Speaker 1: legend and go way too much right because he personified
Speaker 1: what legend was all about. John Legend For me, he
Speaker 1: was a legend obviously h John. Sorry, John, you see it,
Speaker 1: but he's suit in my mind's at John. John Madden
Speaker 1: to me is a legend and from that from that
Speaker 1: standpoint as a child, I didn't play a lot of
Speaker 1: football growing up, so my introduction really to football was
Speaker 1: playing Madden. And obviously I learned about who he was
Speaker 1: through that experience playing video games. Going back and seeing
Speaker 1: his impact on the Raiders organization, seeing his impact in
Speaker 1: the booth. I love the fact that you guys know,
Speaker 1: I'm not wanting to be boogie and do things like
Speaker 1: like most people do it. I like throwing my own
Speaker 1: little curve on on your curveball onto things. And that's
Speaker 1: what he did, and he left, he left his impact.
Speaker 1: Every time you heard him announced the game, there was
Speaker 1: something that you took away. There's one thing to talk
Speaker 1: and just talking talking and talking give great information, but
Speaker 1: it's also another thing to do that and give somebody
Speaker 1: little nuggets that they always remember, whether it's a little same,
Speaker 1: whether it's a phrase, whether it's a sound effect. And
Speaker 1: that's what I loved about him because that that's kind
Speaker 1: of that's kind of my style and I learned a
Speaker 1: lot of that from from him. You know, you don't
Speaker 1: have to be you don't have to be the same
Speaker 1: as everybody else, and he was okay being an individual
Speaker 1: in that regard. Everybody I know who's encountering him had
Speaker 1: a high regard, had a high respect for him. And
Speaker 1: it's really kind of aree how how his passing just
Speaker 1: occurred because last week, actually last Sunday, during the game
Speaker 1: Nate pregame, Nate and I were having a conversation about
Speaker 1: Madden because I think they were doing his special, so
Speaker 1: it came up and we Nate and I had started
Speaker 1: having conversations about how amazing he is, the impact he has,
Speaker 1: and how Nate was actually planning on going to spend
Speaker 1: some time with him this offseason, um, because they needed
Speaker 1: to catch up, and then this obviously just occurred. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, just shout out to John Madden and everything
Speaker 1: that he's done for the game of football. Shout out
Speaker 1: to all the lives that he's impacted, and all the
Speaker 1: opportunities that he's created as well. Yeah, the All Madden
Speaker 1: special that aired on Fox on Christmas Day, I saw
Speaker 1: a lot of reaction to that, and it was even
Speaker 1: before this news, talking about the impact that he did
Speaker 1: have and arguably there are a lot of people who
Speaker 1: have had impacts on the NFL and on the sport
Speaker 1: of football, but he's up at the top of that list,
Speaker 1: if not number one on that list. I mean, he
Speaker 1: could be argued to be the most impactful man over
Speaker 1: the last forty years, forty five years in the game
Speaker 1: of football and the way that he has impacted and
Speaker 1: grown the game at new levels, and it really is
Speaker 1: a phenomenal legacy that he is leaving behind, and it's
Speaker 1: a loss that the football world is going to mourn
Speaker 1: for quite some time. And I'm looking forward to the
Speaker 1: stories that are going to be shared surrounding his legacy,
Speaker 1: and of course the tributes that will soon be followed
Speaker 1: by that, whether it be on the NFL field, on
Speaker 1: broad cast, and then of course, I'm sure whenever the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl rolls around, there's going to be some sort
Speaker 1: of talk of John Madden, because that guy, that legend,
Speaker 1: John Madden, made such an impact for so many people
Speaker 1: surrounding this sport and so he will be dearly missed.
Speaker 1: But we had to start that off and talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about John Madden, and I'm sure we'll have
Speaker 1: Rob give his impacts from Madden himself at some point
Speaker 1: down the line. But let's talk about this Cowboys game
Speaker 1: and this matchup coming up this week. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is an Arizona Cardinals team that is a bit desperate
Speaker 1: at the moment. They've lost three straight games, They've lost
Speaker 1: five of their last eight. In a team that's still
Speaker 1: fighting for an opportunity to win their division. They have
Speaker 1: not wrapped up the NFC West. If anything, they were
Speaker 1: not in the driver's seat anymore because of this recent
Speaker 1: struggle and Isaiah, when you look at this Cardinals team,
Speaker 1: what has changed the most for you? When you look
Speaker 1: at a team that was seven and oz on top
Speaker 1: of the world and then all of a sudden has
Speaker 1: Pitter pattered down the stretch, They're missing their number one threat.
Speaker 1: This is pretty pretty simple with d Hops not there,
Speaker 1: and they're they're missing him tremendously. They don't have another
Speaker 1: dominant receiver that's on their roster. This roster was really um,
Speaker 1: really cultivated around d Hop and Kyler Murray. Those were
Speaker 1: the two guys that they said, Okay, we're gonna we're
Speaker 1: gonna build this franchise around. And when you're missing one
Speaker 1: of those two elements and ones depending on the other
Speaker 1: you have that you're asking other guys to step up
Speaker 1: and fulfill that role, and nobody in this league can
Speaker 1: step up and fulfill those those shoes of d hop.
Speaker 1: But you know, these guys, these guys have have a
Speaker 1: have a have a pretty good running game. They have
Speaker 1: they have their two headed monster back um, their defenses
Speaker 1: starting to play well as they always have UM, and
Speaker 1: they're they're trying to piece it together. And I think
Speaker 1: that they will piece it together, but just not to
Speaker 1: the levels that they were when when obviously they're at
Speaker 1: full steam. No Cliff uh yes, Cliff Kingsbury squads for
Speaker 1: the last three years have started fast, you know at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the season. That's why everybody's like super
Speaker 1: Bowl is going through Arizona. And then something mid season.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is, it just seems like
Speaker 1: they start trending down. Maybe it's just the division that
Speaker 1: they're indivisional games and they just get tougher at the
Speaker 1: end of the season. Injuries all of those stags. But
Speaker 1: you know, you're looking at the team and I'm just
Speaker 1: a piggyback off of what Isaiah said. You know, they're
Speaker 1: trending in the wrong direction. At this point and at
Speaker 1: injuries and everything. You look across the league and just
Speaker 1: see how injuries have affected them. But they've had guys
Speaker 1: try to pull up the slack and Christian Kirk they
Speaker 1: have a guy and more and I'm sure you know
Speaker 1: a lot about him, Kyle from from the draft Froom
Speaker 1: told the Speedster, and so they're putting it together even
Speaker 1: with DeAndre Hopkins's absence. But Isaiah, you're right, they are missing.
Speaker 1: They are missing d hop for real and AJ Green,
Speaker 1: which is really kind of trippy to me because AJ
Speaker 1: Green is one of a few receivers in the league
Speaker 1: that has thousand receiving yards. You know, he's been ten
Speaker 1: ye event and his production right now, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: obviously he's having a little bit of a better year
Speaker 1: now that de hop has been gone and the balls,
Speaker 1: if more balls have come to him. But he just
Speaker 1: isn't the same Aj Green that you remember from Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: But one of the things that this defense has to
Speaker 1: do is be mindful of the fact that he is
Speaker 1: still AJ Green, So you have to still watch him,
Speaker 1: you still have to keep your eye on him. But
Speaker 1: for this defense, for us, it's just gonna be mitigating,
Speaker 1: making sure that we don't give up the big play.
Speaker 1: And we remember October nineteen from twenty twenty, Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: put it on us man, and that is the guy
Speaker 1: that we have to circle, highlight and on the line. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that's a great point because when you look
Speaker 1: at this Arizona offense, you still see plenty of weapons.
Speaker 1: You see Kyler Murray, you see James Connor should he
Speaker 1: be healthy. Same thing with Chase Edmonds, and then aj
Speaker 1: Green on the outside, Rondel Moore on the other side,
Speaker 1: and then Christian Kirk. They have guys to get the
Speaker 1: football to Isaiah. Why why have they been so one
Speaker 1: dimensional through these last couple of weeks without DeAndre Hopkins.
Speaker 1: I know DeAndre Hopkins is that number one receiver, but
Speaker 1: is there a reason why they've seen such a massive
Speaker 1: drop off in that production. I just I don't think
Speaker 1: contribute it to identity, huh. I mean that that d
Speaker 1: hop was such a portion of their identity that when
Speaker 1: he removed him out the equation now all of a
Speaker 1: sudden you're searching and I'm not sure if Klingsbury or
Speaker 1: anybody else's that's helping and contributing to the play calling
Speaker 1: over there hasn't necessarily wrapped their mind around that that, hey,
Speaker 1: you're not going to find somebody that does is what
Speaker 1: he does, so figure out something else. Right. It's kind
Speaker 1: of like when when Coop is gone for the print
Speaker 1: of Cowboys, like, you don't have your main dude out there,
Speaker 1: he's not there. Now you have some other guys that
Speaker 1: are complimentary that can do some do some things as well,
Speaker 1: but you have to put them in the environment to
Speaker 1: do what they do successfully, not put them into Coop's
Speaker 1: shoes and expect them to do things. So I think
Speaker 1: that that's what they're still trying to wrap their mind around.
Speaker 1: And they're really starting to try to lean on the
Speaker 1: running game, um in the in the past game and
Speaker 1: now Kylor, you're starting to see Colin Murray really start
Speaker 1: to take it on his shoulders as well and start
Speaker 1: to use his feet again. And I think the you know,
Speaker 1: you're absolutely right, uh, Isaiah. But when I think about
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins, it's just he's just not a one trick pony.
Speaker 1: He's not a guy that you have some receivers in
Speaker 1: the NFL, all they could do is go routes. So
Speaker 1: all they could do is a little small intermediate routes. Uh,
Speaker 1: he does it at all. You know, cross ends us
Speaker 1: all of those things he does, and that's a big
Speaker 1: miss for them. You gotta understand, Like for Cliff Kingsbury,
Speaker 1: he has the kind of offense that when he has
Speaker 1: a weapon like Hopkins, he's going to make sure that
Speaker 1: he gets every mismatch in your secondary for number ten
Speaker 1: and without them, you could tell like they're missing that piece.
Speaker 1: But you gotta we also have to give cred you know,
Speaker 1: also have to mention that Kler hasn't been hasn't been
Speaker 1: healthy this season at all, and with his with his health,
Speaker 1: you could see the decline in their offensive production. He's
Speaker 1: tried to just kind of muscle through some of those things,
Speaker 1: but a guy his size really is harder for him
Speaker 1: to come out there seventy percent. You really need him
Speaker 1: to be one hundred percent because of all the other
Speaker 1: things that he brings to the game. Yeah, it's really interesting.
Speaker 1: I mean, over the last four games one and three
Speaker 1: for the Arizona Cardinals and they've only had twenty one
Speaker 1: points per game, which is an offense that's still top ten.
Speaker 1: They're actually eighth in the NFL in total offense at
Speaker 1: the moment, and they're tenth in passing, tenth and rushing,
Speaker 1: so that balanced the attack is there. But you're right,
Speaker 1: it's kind of like Dak Prescott in a way. Now.
Speaker 1: The Cowboys were still able to win games when Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott was either muscling through injuries or just didn't look
Speaker 1: right fundamentally. But heck, when you brought up Kyler Murray,
Speaker 1: is he's still the right man for that position? I mean,
Speaker 1: I guess that's that's an easy answer. Yes, But with that,
Speaker 1: is he in a position now to still be a threat?
Speaker 1: Is really what I should ask because this is a
Speaker 1: team that's still going into the playoffs for the first
Speaker 1: time since twenty fifteen. They still have the numbers offensively.
Speaker 1: Is he a threat to this Cowboys defense that is
Speaker 1: still firing on all cylinders? The answer is yes and yes,
Speaker 1: and look, I'm reminded. I went back and watched the
Speaker 1: game from last year and Goss. I had to watch
Speaker 1: that all boy, because I don't know, well, I just
Speaker 1: wanted to see just what the scheme was to try
Speaker 1: and attack him, and our plan of action was to
Speaker 1: have Jalen Smith spy Kyler Murray go It didn't work out.
Speaker 1: You know his ability. He's a magician in the read option.
Speaker 1: You know, he's one of those guys that you know,
Speaker 1: you don't know if he has the ball or not.
Speaker 1: That he is just uncanny. Is It's like for every
Speaker 1: one step the defender takes, he's taking like six steps.
Speaker 1: And so we have to make sure that we maintain
Speaker 1: the edge and not allow Colin Murray to get out
Speaker 1: on us. We have to keep a spy on him,
Speaker 1: and I feel better about our spies that we have now,
Speaker 1: whether we go with guys like Ken O'Neill or if
Speaker 1: we go with Michael Parsons. Again, I just feel as
Speaker 1: though the pressure that we're gonna be putting on him
Speaker 1: is gonna be hard for him. And we talked about
Speaker 1: this yesterday. If we go after him and you go
Speaker 1: to get home, you better get home. You better not
Speaker 1: miss him, because by bringing that pressure, he still has
Speaker 1: that ability to get outside. And you know, I've heard
Speaker 1: you say this before, Isaiah about you know, quarterbacks, the
Speaker 1: hight and all that stuff doesn't matter. But you see
Speaker 1: what Arizona does for him because of his maybe hYP disadvantage.
Speaker 1: They keep him in the shotgun. They really try to
Speaker 1: roll him out and create that space for him for
Speaker 1: his lunching points. But Colin Murray has has a big arm,
Speaker 1: man and Kyle you'll not both. No, man, this dude
Speaker 1: is a Texas high school football legend, and the things
Speaker 1: that he did in high school, he's just transferred all
Speaker 1: of that to the NFL. And it's really kind of
Speaker 1: just like I said, it's just one of those amazing
Speaker 1: things to watch. He's a special he's a special athlete.
Speaker 1: He's dominant. You already know. But there should be nobody
Speaker 1: disrespecting this man or his name the way he's capable
Speaker 1: of doing. If you choose, if you choose to step
Speaker 1: on the field and act as if he's just like
Speaker 1: every other quarterback that you faced up to date, you
Speaker 1: will be hurt. You will be hurt. And even though
Speaker 1: he doesn't have his number one receiver, he still has
Speaker 1: a lot of guys and that backfield is getting healthy.
Speaker 1: So the things that they do with him in the shotgun,
Speaker 1: heck right zone, the zone reads, the sprint outs, the bootlegs,
Speaker 1: the you know, simply just sitting back and just trying
Speaker 1: to throw the ball over your head. You have to
Speaker 1: take the approach up. Do we want to pressure this guy,
Speaker 1: or do we want to just sit back into high
Speaker 1: and gate his ability to throw the ball down the field, Like,
Speaker 1: what what's the approach we want to take? Because we've
Speaker 1: seen him just take off for sixty yards on Indianapolis
Speaker 1: last week like it was nothing. I don't know why
Speaker 1: they didn't put his speed on there like they do
Speaker 1: everybody else. But the boy had to hit twenty miles
Speaker 1: per hour easily. And what would you do if you
Speaker 1: were if you were making that same decision, what would
Speaker 1: you do right now? With their receivers. I'm playing single high,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna play five men underneath, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ensure that there's always a man in that zone or
Speaker 1: in that area that if he should should he choose
Speaker 1: to try to cross a line of scrimmage, at any
Speaker 1: point of those fifty three and a half yards, there's
Speaker 1: gonna be somebody within five yards of him. And I
Speaker 1: would say that their their receivers can't beat our DBS,
Speaker 1: and I would call our DBS out. I would say
Speaker 1: that our defensive front has been kicking, but every single week,
Speaker 1: giving you guys opportunities. Now I need you guys to
Speaker 1: go out here and just simply take these guys out
Speaker 1: the game, and I would say, I would challenge Digs.
Speaker 1: I would tell a challenge a brown ChIL j Lou
Speaker 1: if he's back all these guys, I say, step up,
Speaker 1: shut these guys down, because we need to ensure that
Speaker 1: he doesn't beat us with his feet. That's that's high
Speaker 1: I Q football right there, talk right there, Isaiah, that's uh,
Speaker 1: you know. And But me to think about it is
Speaker 1: if I was in the studio with y'all, would disagree
Speaker 1: with you, completely disagree. Well, if you put as that
Speaker 1: guy who's spying, who would you put as the guy
Speaker 1: who if Kyler Murray were to get past the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage? Who's the guy you want to stop him? Man?
Speaker 1: I would put you know, my guy Cramleton, curse on him.
Speaker 1: I would put h I would put curse around him. Uh.
Speaker 1: And I already said Kean O'Neill. The thing is is
Speaker 1: that we can't change our spots for him. We have
Speaker 1: to come after him and I and I agree with
Speaker 1: Isaiah with a single high look. I would definitely cry
Speaker 1: out the line of scrimmage and dare them to do
Speaker 1: certain things they know right now when they're doing their
Speaker 1: film study that the Dallas defense is coming and they're
Speaker 1: gonna be applying pressure. We're gonna smoke come out and
Speaker 1: those outlets. We got to make sure that we have
Speaker 1: a defender in his face so that he doesn't create
Speaker 1: those big plays with his legs. But he's also his
Speaker 1: vision is uncanny and it has a great arm. So
Speaker 1: there's the challenge that Isaiah's talking about for the DBS,
Speaker 1: and that's the pressure of these guys at the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage. They're gonna try and get the ball out quick.
Speaker 1: I don't see them doing in any other way. And
Speaker 1: so if they do that, that's gonna give guys like
Speaker 1: Trey Von Diggs an opportunity to take one to the
Speaker 1: house because you know he's glitchy. You know he will
Speaker 1: jump your route. But that's the same thing that makes
Speaker 1: them susceptible on the back end as well, and maybe
Speaker 1: that's where the zone protection helps. Well. When we come
Speaker 1: back here on talking Cowboys, I'm gonna keep this conversation
Speaker 1: going because I like the thought process here because, if
Speaker 1: we want to look at it, Cowboys having faced a
Speaker 1: dual threat quarterback at the same caliber as Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: all year long and arguably the last guy that they
Speaker 1: faced had a pretty good game against them, and will
Speaker 1: tell you who that was and how they can stop
Speaker 1: it and down potentially the best road team in the
Speaker 1: entire NFL when we come back here on Talking Cowboys.
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Speaker 1: not even it. I have to add this on top
Speaker 1: of it, and I don't even know maybe even my mouse.
Speaker 1: How about that? Is that better? That's about it. That's
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Speaker 1: Yonder in the study for Neckharrison. Second segment here of
Speaker 1: Talking Cowboys, Heck Maharrison, Isaiah, stand backup. Kyle Jomen's Chris
Speaker 1: being back at the Star running things as usual, and
Speaker 1: we were just talking about Kyler Murray and kind of
Speaker 1: bringing his threat back into the forefront for this Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys team, and the Cowboys haven't really faced a mobile
Speaker 1: quarterback since Week three of the NFL season. And that
Speaker 1: was Jalen Hurts, of course, to the Philadelphia Eagles, who
Speaker 1: they'll face next week. So they'll see dual threat quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the final two weeks of the season. Because when
Speaker 1: you go down the list, Carolina, no New York, No
Speaker 1: New England, not so much, Minnesota, Denver, Atlanta, Kansas City,
Speaker 1: maybe Kansas City, it's probably the second best there with
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and his ability to escape, but he's not
Speaker 1: necessarily using his speed as a weapon in that offense
Speaker 1: to gain yardage. And that's what Kyler Murray and Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts have done. But you go back to the stat
Speaker 1: line from that game in Week three, Jalen Hurts had
Speaker 1: a three hundred twenty six passing yards, a couple of touchdowns,
Speaker 1: a couple interceptions as well, but he only had nine
Speaker 1: carries for thirty five yards. So, Isaiah, I ask you
Speaker 1: the question, do you feel confident in the way that
Speaker 1: the Cowboys defense can slow down a dual threat rusher
Speaker 1: or a dual threat quarterback as they haven't really faced
Speaker 1: one since Week three? Yes, and the reason being is
Speaker 1: this defensive front. I'm not as a former running quarterback,
Speaker 1: a quarterback who can threaten you on the ground. The
Speaker 1: only thing that ever gave me any issues was interior
Speaker 1: defensive line pressure. Defensive ends running around me at doesn't
Speaker 1: bother you. Right, you can step up into pocket, but
Speaker 1: when you can't step up into pocket, that's when there's
Speaker 1: a problem. Gallimore, Tristan Hill, Ghost, and all our big
Speaker 1: boys up front, okay or Diggi Zuola, those boys are
Speaker 1: gonna be the ones that are going to present the
Speaker 1: most mayhem for Kyler Murray in this offense because of
Speaker 1: that internal pressure. When you start thinking about how does
Speaker 1: dan Quinn create pressure, well, he likes to line four
Speaker 1: guys up on the line of scrimmage or bring partons
Speaker 1: over that over the guard. Okay, well, where's the most
Speaker 1: of that pressure been coming from? D law in the inside?
Speaker 1: Parsons on the inside. That internal pressure has given a
Speaker 1: lot of people problems, a lot of quarterbacks in his
Speaker 1: league issues. But it also gives these running time type
Speaker 1: quarterbacks a lot of issues because it really makes them uncomfortable.
Speaker 1: They'll they'll try to step up and step out, which
Speaker 1: is why I said, you need some guys all the
Speaker 1: way across their feet three and a half yards, so
Speaker 1: that don't matter where they he decides to go, there's
Speaker 1: somebody there. You have to rely on your defensive backs
Speaker 1: to do what they do, and hopefully when he decides
Speaker 1: across the line, you take a shot at him and
Speaker 1: make them you make them reconsider that ever again, Yeah, no, no,
Speaker 1: I just in my evaluation of Colin Murray, you know,
Speaker 1: I said, I think he's one of because of his
Speaker 1: because of his hype. He doesn't like to step up
Speaker 1: in the pocket. He wants to get out side of
Speaker 1: the pocket. And so I think for dan Quinn, bringing
Speaker 1: pressure from one side, that's why I say, smoke him out,
Speaker 1: you know, make sure this guy is going to dictate
Speaker 1: his direction. Basically, bring pressure from one end and have
Speaker 1: guys waiting on him on the other end. But you're but,
Speaker 1: but you're absolutely correct. This interior defensive line guys like
Speaker 1: Osa Diggi zeul Uh like, you know, guys that we
Speaker 1: have have to get that pressure Neville Gallimore getting pressure
Speaker 1: up the middle to flush him out, because again he's
Speaker 1: so far back off the ball and once he gets
Speaker 1: the snap, he's already backing up looking to get the
Speaker 1: pass off. So that's why I feel like getting that
Speaker 1: pressure off the edge, forcing him to relegate to one side. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be impactful for the Dallas Cowboys defense. But
Speaker 1: on the back half of our defense, that's where a
Speaker 1: lot of this is gonna be come down and how
Speaker 1: we defend and and Trey Von Diggs. He's giving up
Speaker 1: some big plays, but obviously we understand that he's gonna gamble,
Speaker 1: he's gonna he's gonna take an opportunity to get you know,
Speaker 1: get interceptions, and the same thing would be applied for
Speaker 1: Anthony Brown. It's going to be very important for him
Speaker 1: to stay on. But also our safeties in the back
Speaker 1: the zone coverage, we're gonna have to make sure that
Speaker 1: we stay true to it. We just can't punch ourselves
Speaker 1: out in this game. We can't, you know, we can't
Speaker 1: get to the point where you know, we've thrown everything
Speaker 1: at him and he's just willing and Dillon anyway, so
Speaker 1: you know, making sure that we stay disciplined, staying in
Speaker 1: our lanes and whether we have Michael Parsons to whomever
Speaker 1: we have spying him, we have to stay disciplined in
Speaker 1: our lanes. Because of the pressure that Arizona is anticipating here,
Speaker 1: heckma and the way that their game playing kind of
Speaker 1: surrounds Kyler Murray and the way that he can move
Speaker 1: and get out of the pocket. You expect quicker passes.
Speaker 1: Do you expect a little bit more of that underneath
Speaker 1: game from Arizona? Not necessarily, especially without DeAndre Hopkins, not
Speaker 1: necessarily testing the deep ball, more so keeping it fifteen
Speaker 1: yards in. Do you feel like there's an opportunity there
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys secondary to giant some more or does
Speaker 1: that play against their strengths Whenever you look at that
Speaker 1: game plan, and I say, I don't know if you'll
Speaker 1: agree with this, but I just feel like when you play,
Speaker 1: when you face it athletic aggressive defense, the thing is
Speaker 1: to get them going side to side to start your game.
Speaker 1: You know, screens are going to be very important. So Kyle,
Speaker 1: when you talk about those quick throws that they make,
Speaker 1: I think they'll be trying to do set up wide
Speaker 1: receiver and running back the screens to get this defense running.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be the things that's gonna be. You know,
Speaker 1: it's gonna make them have any success starting out because
Speaker 1: they can't go with a you know, waiting on gold
Speaker 1: routes to open up. There's too much pressure gonna be
Speaker 1: there so once they get And that's why I say,
Speaker 1: don't punch ourselves out, because if we're applying pressure and
Speaker 1: he's still able to will and deal and willing deal
Speaker 1: and he's able to pick up fifteen sixteen yards on
Speaker 1: just screens, that opens up everything else. And so I
Speaker 1: think the biggest thing for us, Kyle is tackling. We've
Speaker 1: had games where we've missed tackles. Uh, you can't miss
Speaker 1: tackles in this game. We've had those, you know, the
Speaker 1: Devil Broncos game to be one in particular. We just
Speaker 1: can't have a repeat of that. And I think we've
Speaker 1: healed a lot of that. But when you talk about
Speaker 1: how mobile Kylin Murray is and just the quick throws,
Speaker 1: I think that's what they have to be thinking about
Speaker 1: going into this matchup. I agree. I agree with both
Speaker 1: of you guys. I believe that they're going to try
Speaker 1: to get the ball in their hands of their playmakers
Speaker 1: as quickly as possible because because of this is pressure
Speaker 1: that the defensive front has been showing. This isn't hasn't
Speaker 1: been on one game or two game thing for our defense.
Speaker 1: These guys have been showing up consistently. So you know
Speaker 1: it's real, and Kyla Murray and and Kingsbury, all these guys,
Speaker 1: they all know that this is a real threat that
Speaker 1: they have to worry about. And it's not just one guy.
Speaker 1: It's different. When you go into a game, you're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: we have to worry about this guy and this guy.
Speaker 1: If we could take care of them, then we're good.
Speaker 1: You're not with this defense. So when you're when you're
Speaker 1: facing a defense that's playing with a motor like these
Speaker 1: guys are are are doing right now, you have to
Speaker 1: get the ball out quickly. So that means get the
Speaker 1: ball in Isabella's hands, get the ball in Kirk's hands,
Speaker 1: running them on these quick screens and trying to get
Speaker 1: those four or five yards. Obviously they're gonna try to
Speaker 1: establish a running game, but if they can't, they're gonna
Speaker 1: be trying to get that thing out to the side
Speaker 1: and get you running and use your aggressiveness against you.
Speaker 1: That's the one thing that obviously Dan quinn i go
Speaker 1: would assume it's cautioning his defensive and say, don't be
Speaker 1: overly aggressive, because when you're overly aggressive, you know you're
Speaker 1: getting your your confidence is coming right, you're balling out,
Speaker 1: you're destroying people. So every time if you come off
Speaker 1: the ball, you got your twenty five snaps and you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: here you go, it was one of my twenty five
Speaker 1: and you're going, you're running like a madman. Now you're
Speaker 1: so intent on making a play that you sometimes forget
Speaker 1: your responsibility and that's when they can use that against
Speaker 1: you and they hit you with the old rope adult
Speaker 1: and get it out to your guys and they go
Speaker 1: get good, you know, a two yard patter, a two
Speaker 1: yard you know game really turns into like a fifteen
Speaker 1: or twenty yard game. And then you start focusing on
Speaker 1: getting out there and guarding those guys, and that's when
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray can come in bite you in the butt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's why I say, don't putt yourself out, you know,
Speaker 1: don't put your stuff out. Stay disciplined, stay in your lane,
Speaker 1: you know, make sure that you're not being that guy.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure Dan coinn is saying the same thing. Man. Look,
Speaker 1: stay in your lanes, don't over commit, because the last
Speaker 1: game that we played, the man, these guys we want
Speaker 1: of double reverses on us man getting getting our defense
Speaker 1: to go to one side and come back to the
Speaker 1: other Obviously, I think things have changed tremendously and they
Speaker 1: won't try that. But still the defense has to stay committed. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but but to that point. But to that point, hey,
Speaker 1: if you're if they if they get our defense going
Speaker 1: side to side and looking okay, hey, where's the ball going,
Speaker 1: he's going over there, going over there, they can't go where.
Speaker 1: They can't go forward. So that's that's the thing that
Speaker 1: they're gonna do to try to slow down this rush.
Speaker 1: And I didn't say blitz, right, I said rush of
Speaker 1: our defense up front because they are all getting pressure
Speaker 1: and kind of keeping along the same lines of this.
Speaker 1: I mean, you guys talked about tackling earlier. Heck Man,
Speaker 1: you mentioned that tackling was a big concern of you,
Speaker 1: especially with somebody as slippery as Kyler Murray and Christian
Speaker 1: Kirk and Rondel Moore, those three guys where are known
Speaker 1: for slipping out of tackles and being able to keep
Speaker 1: their elusiveness going. Now, there's not a ton of things
Speaker 1: to nitpick on this defense over the last four weeks
Speaker 1: five weeks of the season, but through this four game
Speaker 1: winning streak, I mean, they're averaging fourteen points per game
Speaker 1: allowed to believe ten, they're plus ten in the turnover differential.
Speaker 1: Is tackling the number one improvement you want to see
Speaker 1: from the defense or is there something else that might
Speaker 1: be bothering you? Heck, look, I've already seen it, and
Speaker 1: I only point out the tackling portion because that was
Speaker 1: something that plagued us through the middle of the season.
Speaker 1: I just don't want that bad habit to rear its
Speaker 1: ugly head again in this game because you can't afford it.
Speaker 1: You know, we've seen them come up against the likes
Speaker 1: of Jalen Hurst. When you say, you know we're facing
Speaker 1: a mobile quarterbacks this week three, this gives us that
Speaker 1: opportunity right to make sure that even going into the playoffs,
Speaker 1: we may face another mobile quarterback, some mobile quarterbacks. Look,
Speaker 1: I just think our defense right now, these guys are
Speaker 1: firing on all cylinders. They have everything going their way. Um,
Speaker 1: you know when when third down, the third downs, getting
Speaker 1: off the field on third down, the points giving up,
Speaker 1: this just says to me that this is a bend
Speaker 1: but don't break style. And when you look at Treyvon
Speaker 1: Diggs and the amount of yards that he's given up
Speaker 1: as a cornerback, but still his ability to create those interceptions.
Speaker 1: You know it look it just it just fells to
Speaker 1: how different offenses are these days, but also how different
Speaker 1: defenses are as well. But I think the tackling bowls
Speaker 1: into your original question, I think we've already healed those
Speaker 1: good I agree. I don't don't. I don't know what
Speaker 1: I will put my finger on in terms of this
Speaker 1: defense and what they need to improve upon drastically over
Speaker 1: these next few games. I do believe that they're still
Speaker 1: giving up big plays. I do believe that teams still
Speaker 1: feel confident to be able to come in and throw
Speaker 1: against us, even though there's a threat of getting interceptions.
Speaker 1: I think they're really willing to play those those odds.
Speaker 1: You know, if we throught about that though, why is that?
Speaker 1: Why do you have I haven't really given up the
Speaker 1: big play a whole lot since what week twelve, Week thirteen?
Speaker 1: I know, But statistically, when when you're looking at you know,
Speaker 1: I'm not a big stats guy, but add when you're
Speaker 1: looking at their stats, are they still twenty seventh in
Speaker 1: the league in big plays? Right? There's still twenty seventh.
Speaker 1: I mean they're first on third down, they're up there.
Speaker 1: Obviously the obviously gon turnover on number one in the
Speaker 1: turnover as well, but they just got to shoot your shot.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, to most people are gonna go
Speaker 1: into a fight scared. You respect it, But I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna go into it scared. So if I throw the
Speaker 1: ball forty times a game, like yeah, two of those
Speaker 1: might get got, But guess what, I still got thirty
Speaker 1: eight other opportunities that can turn into something major. So
Speaker 1: this is a roll of the dice. Man. You know,
Speaker 1: the strength of this defense right now is in the
Speaker 1: front seven. So I'm not going to come into this
Speaker 1: game thinking that I'm a bully. Bully these guys. So
Speaker 1: what's the best thing I could do? Try to protect
Speaker 1: it up, get it out to my to my playmakers.
Speaker 1: Let them run with the ball because like he said, Ben,
Speaker 1: but don't break. Okay, well let them boys, Ben, Then
Speaker 1: let them be in. Let's be in the like Beckham,
Speaker 1: all the way down the field. And then once I
Speaker 1: get down the field, now it's my responsibi office of
Speaker 1: coordinator to put my guys in a position to score
Speaker 1: a touchdown and hopefully we score enough to go ahead.
Speaker 1: And the gate with what Dallas does that's the approach
Speaker 1: that teams are taking, and Dallas has just been winning
Speaker 1: their their portion of the hands they're given, man, and
Speaker 1: just thinking about that defense in that front seven going
Speaker 1: after Kyler Murray. We mentioned yesterday that third down with
Speaker 1: the defense, defensive front is the most entertaining part of
Speaker 1: football games right now, and I think this is going
Speaker 1: to be as good as he gets. I think between
Speaker 1: the Cardinals and the Cowboys prior to the playoff time,
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Speaker 1: news as of the last thirty minutes or so, Dak
Speaker 1: Prescott named NFC Offensive Player of the Week. So QB
Speaker 1: on getting NF Oh what was that? Elizabeth will come
Speaker 1: to join your honey ways? When he was who No,
Speaker 1: I just he just said breaking news last he's lit
Speaker 1: with Dak. I'm like, what happened? I see what you're saying? Oh,
Speaker 1: my bad, good good? Breaking news this time? Good? So
Speaker 1: I should I should preface it by saying positive news
Speaker 1: instead of breaking news. But yes, yeah, my bad, my bad.
Speaker 1: But yes, Dak press got fifth time in his career
Speaker 1: that he has won the NFC Offensive Player of the Week.
Speaker 1: And he's got he's got this thing rolling at home
Speaker 1: thirty four points per game over four hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: five total yards per game at home this season, both
Speaker 1: of which are numbers that are best in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And then you also look at the Cardinals though they
Speaker 1: are seven and one on the road, best road record
Speaker 1: in the NFL, and they average over thirty points per
Speaker 1: game and two and a half take ways per game
Speaker 1: in the NFL, which are both good enough for top three.
Speaker 1: So heck, ma, I asked you, is this the best
Speaker 1: home team in the league facing the best road team
Speaker 1: come Sunday afternoon. I mean, I think based off of
Speaker 1: those statistics that you just brought up there, yes, if
Speaker 1: they are seven and one on the road, the Cardinals
Speaker 1: are and we are dominating with our numbers at home,
Speaker 1: so you know, I welcome in. And based off of
Speaker 1: the last game, Hey, we have a bit of a
Speaker 1: home field advantage with the crowd. Man, if we could
Speaker 1: show up like we did versus the Washington football team,
Speaker 1: I think that and Dak even talked about that, how
Speaker 1: it the defense was energized by that and it caused
Speaker 1: so many problems for the other team because of the noise.
Speaker 1: We have to keep that going, especially through the playoffs,
Speaker 1: having that home field advantage. But I love the way
Speaker 1: that we produce. Now here's the other thing about it, man,
Speaker 1: We've got to figure out how to get this thing
Speaker 1: going strong on the road as well, because we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to win. We may have to win a road
Speaker 1: playoff game. Yeah, yeah, that's that's good. Were you at
Speaker 1: the game on Sunday, I was not. I was not. Okay,
Speaker 1: I was, I was not, but I was gonna as
Speaker 1: he while you did go, I thought you did go,
Speaker 1: and I was going to ask you how it compared
Speaker 1: in terms of the atmosphere, because that's that's everything that
Speaker 1: I've heard from you, from everyone else that actually that
Speaker 1: went to the game, because I had some friends that
Speaker 1: win as well, and they said it was as loud
Speaker 1: as they've ever heard it in that building. And that's
Speaker 1: pretty impressive seeing that they've still yet to have playoff
Speaker 1: games there and at least here this season. So Isaiah,
Speaker 1: same things, talking about the best home team and best
Speaker 1: remote team in the NFL. What makes the Cardinals so
Speaker 1: successful on the road, And like Heckman was saying, how
Speaker 1: did the Cowboys somehow emulate that later on? I have
Speaker 1: no idea what makes them so successful, but I do
Speaker 1: know that I am finally excited that Dallas has home
Speaker 1: field advantage again. And I'm not talking about the playoffs.
Speaker 1: I'm not talking about the seedings. I'm talking about the
Speaker 1: fact that when they show up to a T T Stadium,
Speaker 1: that joint is rocking because because for a long time
Speaker 1: there at and T Stadium that went to the Bougie's
Speaker 1: the boogie. I needed the Yeah, the pea exactly. I
Speaker 1: needed Old Texas Stadium at home field advantage. That's when
Speaker 1: that's what I'm used to. I'm used to that place,
Speaker 1: rocking people out there, kicking it all day, drigging the
Speaker 1: Miller lights up there, Stone Cold, Steve Bowson, and then
Speaker 1: when they get in there, they go in there and
Speaker 1: go ham And that's the home field advantage. Every time
Speaker 1: there's a big play man on defense, every time there's
Speaker 1: a scoring on offense, the crowd goes wild, and you
Speaker 1: feel that as a player, You want that, you yearn
Speaker 1: for that as a player, and now these guys are
Speaker 1: starting to have that same feeling at at and T Stadium.
Speaker 1: So I want to say thank you fans. Keep doing
Speaker 1: what you're doing because it has a direct impact on
Speaker 1: the play of these players that step on the field.
Speaker 1: Does that kind of go back to what we talked
Speaker 1: about yesterday, heck, but about how there is a special
Speaker 1: feel to this season. Do you feel like that that's
Speaker 1: why this is starting to crescendo as opposed to maybe
Speaker 1: a twenty eighteen season that you made the playoffs but
Speaker 1: it still didn't necessarily feel like this. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: people have just been waiting. Man, you know, you're just
Speaker 1: not sure about the team. Are they what you think
Speaker 1: they are? And then finally they start to show you.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're eleven and four and what else? You know,
Speaker 1: we have number one on offense. The defense is starting
Speaker 1: to round into shape. You know, I personally was ticked
Speaker 1: off about the Denver game, the home game when I
Speaker 1: saw a lot of orange out there. But obviously enough
Speaker 1: complaints was made that has changed home field is ours
Speaker 1: and defensively, defensively, I think that impacts them so much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and man, it's just it's just good to see, right,
Speaker 1: It's just good to see where we are right now,
Speaker 1: going through these next two games and finishing out right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, you couldn't imagine this team at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the season possibly being thirteen and four. I just
Speaker 1: think about that. Think about what you what you went
Speaker 1: through last year, and just to complete just one eighty
Speaker 1: from where you were last season. This is all this
Speaker 1: this this team has been revamp, retooled, or whatever re
Speaker 1: word you want to use. But when's the last time
Speaker 1: the Cowboys with thirteen three? I know, my rookie year
Speaker 1: they're thirteen and three or twenty sixteen. Six seven? Okay, seven,
Speaker 1: that's the last one. Uh no, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, that's sixteen bad. How how does it feel,
Speaker 1: you guys know better than me. How does it this
Speaker 1: feel in comparison to that year? Oh? I think, man,
Speaker 1: it's better because you have a defense. I mean, that
Speaker 1: offense was was next level. And the way that those
Speaker 1: those guys were firing on all cylinders with Prescott and
Speaker 1: Zeke and then Daz, I mean they were rolling. But
Speaker 1: that defense was still good, but they weren't this good.
Speaker 1: And that's what I think is different about this season
Speaker 1: is that that that defense in its kind of what
Speaker 1: we talked about in training camp was if you had
Speaker 1: a mediocre defense and a top level offense, you still
Speaker 1: have a chance to win a lot of football games.
Speaker 1: And they did. I wouldn't say they were even an
Speaker 1: above average defense. This defense has been dominant. And then
Speaker 1: you turn around and say you have an offense that
Speaker 1: has also an opportunity to be dominant. That's where I
Speaker 1: think it is a little bit higher than twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: as well. I'm gonna go back to oh seven, and
Speaker 1: the reason I'm going back to seven because Terrell Owens
Speaker 1: was on that team and that was just a team
Speaker 1: that you just felt like they were so explosive that
Speaker 1: they could score, and then the defense was there to match.
Speaker 1: You know, you had some young hounds on that Cowboys
Speaker 1: defense and No. Seven. It just felt that year. That
Speaker 1: year felt like it was our year. It really did.
Speaker 1: It felt like the stars were aligned. We had the
Speaker 1: first seating with the buy and the Giants come in
Speaker 1: and cancel Christmas. Yeah, let's go back to that. Ka.
Speaker 1: I have trauma, But that's the last time I could
Speaker 1: think of a defense that match when you were saying
Speaker 1: on both sides of the ball and everything like, that
Speaker 1: was the year that I felt like I defense matched up. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with you. And if you ask others, I
Speaker 1: mean some might say it's been since the nineties that
Speaker 1: the defense has matched up and there's been kind of
Speaker 1: that go that back and forth. I agree with you.
Speaker 1: I think that two thousand and seven team is probably
Speaker 1: at least right now, that's the easiest comparison because that
Speaker 1: twenty that two thousand and seven team had an opportunity
Speaker 1: to do very special things and the same thing with
Speaker 1: this team right now. But if if this team executes,
Speaker 1: then they can be carried over and compared to the
Speaker 1: nineties teams and those teams that actually did make it
Speaker 1: to the mountaintop. And so hopefully the Cowboys keep moving
Speaker 1: in the right direction, and we'll talk about the Cowboys
Speaker 1: offense and NFC Offensive Player of the Week Dak Prescott
Speaker 1: and company taking on that Cardinals defense that seems to
Speaker 1: like the offense does find a rhythm on the road,
Speaker 1: and we'll see if they can can keep that from
Speaker 1: happening and keep their momentum rolling as well. But that
Speaker 1: doesn't for us here on Talking Cowboys today. Hope you
Speaker 1: had some fun with us here over the last forty
Speaker 1: five minutes or so. We'll talk to you again tomorrow morning,
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