WEBVTT - Talkin' Cowboys: How Many Wins? 0:00:07.800 --> 0:00:10.320 The following is a production of Dallas Cowboys dot Com 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:21.280 and the Dallas Cowboys Football Club. This He's Talking Cowboys, 0:00:21.720 --> 0:00:25.119 screening live from the Dallas Cowboys World Hours at the 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:35.920 Star in fris Joe Say now, your hosts, Rob Phillips, 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:44.600 heck My Harrison, Danny Serek and Kyle Yeomans. It's another 0:00:44.760 --> 0:00:48.920 edition of Talking Cowboys here on this Tuesday morning. Glad 0:00:48.960 --> 0:00:54.320 you're with us from our respective SWBC Mortgage studios. Kyle Yeomans, 0:00:54.320 --> 0:00:57.960 heck My Harrison, Rob Phillips and the Great Isaiah stand 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:00.960 back our residence super Bowl champions. We bring you the 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:05.280 recent storylines and talk through this Dallas Cowboys offseason. Heck, 0:01:05.480 --> 0:01:07.760 you got a big smile on your face. You have 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:12.640 a good Mother's Day weekend? Why are you laughing? I 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:17.400 don't even know that now? Is that it's gonna be 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:21.040 a laugh? Is that what you're going with here? Coyle Man, listen. 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:23.880 I wasn't ready for the before and after a picture 0:01:23.920 --> 0:01:26.000 of a child star, but that's what you look like 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:32.720 right now, a child star. You look like McCulloch Culkin 0:01:32.920 --> 0:01:42.800 after the Fame, post post home, Malone mccullar, Oh God, Kyle, 0:01:43.000 --> 0:01:45.679 Kyle I'm good with it, man, I okay, I'm like, 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:48.920 it's it's been like eight weeks of quarantine. I've got 0:01:48.960 --> 0:01:51.960 like a mullet working back here like it's business and 0:01:52.600 --> 0:01:55.919 and it's like you just can't. I gotta do something myself. 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:58.880 So hey, Kyle, Kyle, I'm actually disappointment. I thought you's 0:01:58.880 --> 0:02:00.760 gonna come to the dark side with drizz man, but 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:04.960 you know, I like to I don't know if I 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:07.560 could even I don't think it was long enough first off, 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:10.119 to even try that, And second off, I probably would 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.920 have gotten maybe one of those sit down talks from 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:17.280 either my bosses or my family saying you gotta look 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.720 at your life here. Yeah, you gotta have the intervention. 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:23.920 So yeah, that's fair. Now, Isaiah, you called me Forrest 0:02:23.960 --> 0:02:26.480 Gump off the air, and I don't know if it's 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:30.600 Justin Bieber or Forrest Gump better. I don't know. It 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:32.320 looked like you was ready to run somewhere, So I 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:34.200 don't know. I'm just going on what I see, you know, 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:38.880 I'm he just happens to be actually right, yeah, exact 0:02:39.120 --> 0:02:42.600 more aerodynamic. Tell everybody that's what it is. That's what 0:02:42.639 --> 0:02:44.840 I'm doing. I'm trying to get it all slim down 0:02:44.840 --> 0:02:48.280 so that tomorrow's half marathon for Ceedee Lamb is much 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:51.600 more enjoyable. I guess if a half mile I can 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.880 be enjoyable. Now tell him why you are doing the 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:57.799 half mile? You don't just know, don't just yeah, it's 0:02:57.840 --> 0:03:02.040 glaze over that bro you lost. So basically, yeah, that's 0:03:02.040 --> 0:03:04.000 pretty much what it was. It was a tweet for 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:07.080 those of you who haven't seen it on Twitter, well 0:03:07.160 --> 0:03:09.240 before the draft. About a month before the draft, I 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:13.320 tweeted or somebody asked me a question and was asking 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.400 if it's possible that Ceedee Lamb falls with the Cowboys. 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:19.680 I love Ceedee Lamb, and the fact that he even 0:03:19.680 --> 0:03:24.600 fell down that far was so far fetched to me 0:03:24.960 --> 0:03:27.079 that I said, if he does fall to seventeen and 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.920 the Cowboys select him, I'll run to the Star and 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:32.639 back from my apartment in a little elm. Well that's 0:03:32.639 --> 0:03:34.840 what I'm doing tomorrow, which just so happens to be 0:03:35.120 --> 0:03:38.720 about thirteen point four miles. So I'm getting started right 0:03:38.760 --> 0:03:43.120 around ten o'clock and I'm gonna head head down. It's 0:03:43.120 --> 0:03:46.360 actually downhill there, but it's uphill back, which is probably 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:49.960 the worst case scenario. So it'll be interesting. I'm not 0:03:50.000 --> 0:03:52.520 a runner, so that's what makes this thing tough for 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:55.320 all thee runners out there. I respect you more than 0:03:55.360 --> 0:03:57.640 ever now that I'm having to try and do this 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:01.120 and not hurt myself is pretty much the biggest thing. 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.240 I'm gona do like I do my wife Beuh every 0:04:03.280 --> 0:04:05.840 year she runs in the New York City Marathon. I'm 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:07.760 gonna take I'm gonna take mental rips with you the 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:13.120 entire time. Nice. I like that, the quality mental reps, 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:20.279 and I thank you. And David Hellman said the same 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:23.360 thing yesterday. He quote tweeted my What I said was, oh, 0:04:23.400 --> 0:04:26.000 I'm doing it on Wednesday, and he quote tweeted it 0:04:26.000 --> 0:04:27.760 and said, I'm here for this. And so I said, 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:30.000 how are you running it with me? And he just said, no, 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:33.279 I'm not running with you. He's like, no, you're crazy. 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:35.719 I'm not running it with you at all. But enough 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:38.880 about the haircut and a half marathon for betting or 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:42.520 losing a bet against myself. Some recent storylines around the 0:04:42.600 --> 0:04:46.320 Dallas Cowboys over the past week. Of course, the schedule 0:04:46.800 --> 0:04:50.719 was released on Thursday, and the Cowboys open up against 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:53.920 the Los Angeles Rams. They'll open up that beautiful billion 0:04:53.960 --> 0:04:57.720 dollars Stadium and Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles as they 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:01.400 take on the Rams Thanksgiving, it's the Washington Redskins, which 0:05:01.400 --> 0:05:05.080 seems to be familiar territory ten times. It's the tenth 0:05:05.080 --> 0:05:07.440 time that those two teams will meet on that holiday. 0:05:07.480 --> 0:05:10.560 But we've kind of looked through the schedule. Everybody's done 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.080 their predictions win loss, win loss, all the way through, 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.240 and that's kind of the go to when you see 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:18.600 a schedule. But I want to take a different angle 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:21.719 at the schedule release and kind of look deeper into 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:24.920 what it could bring once we get past Thanksgiving and 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:29.119 get into the meat of that playoff hunt run. Because 0:05:29.120 --> 0:05:31.359 it seems like over the last couple of years it 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.520 has come down to a game either in Philly or 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:38.159 New York, it doesn't matter. It comes down to a 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.599 big time game later on. So let's look at some 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:45.000 of the NFC stretch. Now I mentioned after Thanksgiving. So 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:49.080 they play Washington week twelve Thanksgiving, and then you turn around, 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:52.560 you go to Baltimore a Thursday after that on the 0:05:52.640 --> 0:05:55.680 road Thursday Night Football against Lamar and Jackson and the Ravens. 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:58.320 Then you're at the Bengal so back to back cold 0:05:58.320 --> 0:06:01.240 weather games Baltimore since in Addie on the road in 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:05.080 open weather stadiums in December. Then you return home take 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:08.159 on the forty nine Ers and the Eagles before you 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:10.320 close out on the road against the Giants, and that's 0:06:10.360 --> 0:06:14.680 actually a January game on the road at MetLife Stadium 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:17.600 against the Giants. So just initial thoughts, guys on the 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:20.520 stretch run for the Cowboys and what it could mean 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.320 to them whenever they're trying to get that NSC East 0:06:23.400 --> 0:06:27.840 crown back from those Eagles. Well, I mean, it looks 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:31.080 tough on paper that final stretch, but it always does. 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:34.279 I swear every year. It's like I go to December 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:37.440 right away because they always put and it's not just 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:40.240 the Cowboys, they put the Vision games in that final 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:43.520 month to make the race meaningful. But then when you 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:46.560 look at this season too, you're talking about the two 0:06:46.600 --> 0:06:48.920 best records in the league, basically throwing the Saints too 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:52.320 in Baltimore and the forty nine Ers. So but again 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:57.200 it's on paper, and you really can't look at last 0:06:57.240 --> 0:07:00.520 year's records and say, well, it's a tough schedule for sure, 0:07:00.640 --> 0:07:04.359 because look, last December, the Rams came to town and 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.320 we were saw that schedule back in April and said, 0:07:06.400 --> 0:07:08.680 that's a that's a monster matchup that they're gonna lose 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:10.800 that one. Potentially they won by thirty three at home, 0:07:10.880 --> 0:07:13.160 so you just you never know you might have a 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:15.000 game like that, and you're probably gonna have a Jets 0:07:15.000 --> 0:07:17.600 game in there somewhere too. It's just it's it's really 0:07:17.640 --> 0:07:19.720 impossible to tell. It doesn't make it any less fun 0:07:19.720 --> 0:07:24.520 to talk about, though. Yeah, I absolutely love the schedule 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.160 when I saw it come out, and I thought it 0:07:27.200 --> 0:07:29.880 was pretty weird for the folks that were saying that 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:33.040 we had the third easiest schedule in the NFL, and 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:35.840 I know that's based off of last year's wins and losses, 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:39.360 but it's very interesting at from the beginning, the rubber 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.960 meets the road for the Cowboys. When you talk about 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:46.280 the Rams at home Atlanta and at and T Stadium 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:48.920 and then out to Seattle, those are teams that when 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:50.920 you look at the end of the season, teams that 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.280 are in the hunt for a wild cart or a division, 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.080 they're always there. So, like I said, the rubber meets 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.960 the road immediately. I know I went to December as well, 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:01.120 Rob to look at that little stretch that I'm sure 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:03.760 we're gonna get into it. But man, the Cowboys have 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:06.680 a very diverse schedule and they're gonna be able to 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:11.320 play a lot of different schemes and some really tough teams. Absolutely, 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:13.880 I agree both of you guys, and I hear what 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.000 people are saying about the easiest schedule, but I don't 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.240 like it. I do not like this schedule for the Boys, 0:08:19.400 --> 0:08:22.400 especially kicking off in that brand new stadium with those Rams. 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:25.400 They had a disappointing year. Obviously, I think those boys 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:29.440 are gonna come out smoking. I don't like us against Atlanta. 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.280 I'm glad we're home against Atlanta, so that's that's beneficial. 0:08:32.520 --> 0:08:35.280 And obviously everybody everybody knows about Seattle. So I feel 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:37.080 like it's like, you know, you know, high week, you know, 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:40.160 we're we have really confidence, high confidence, and then you 0:08:40.240 --> 0:08:42.480 drop down it's like, oh crap, we gotta face these dudes, 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:44.080 and I think we're gonna be tested. I think I 0:08:44.080 --> 0:08:45.880 think the whole year is gonna be tested. It's really 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.400 like a roller coaster over a year, especially that last 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:51.000 stretch right that last stretch is tough. That whole second 0:08:51.040 --> 0:08:55.720 half of the season is tough. You got Pittsburgh, Minnesota, 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:59.480 yeah whatever, Baltimore, Yeah, you know it. So it's like, 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:01.120 you know, you gotta Baltimore, then you come down and 0:09:01.120 --> 0:09:02.760 you got to play Cincinnati, and then you gotta go 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:04.840 back and play San Francisco, and then you got Phi Leagues, 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.280 you know, in New York. So it's we're gonna see 0:09:07.360 --> 0:09:09.240 exactly with this mental toughness that we've be talking about 0:09:09.240 --> 0:09:10.880 with a past few weeks. We're gonna see exactly where 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:12.880 we stand with that, because this schedule is testing for 0:09:12.920 --> 0:09:16.120 sure well. And I think if you look at that 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:20.840 stretch when you talk about Pittsburgh and then Minnesota, Luckily 0:09:20.880 --> 0:09:22.800 there's a bye week in between there because you get 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.160 a little bit of that that extra rest after you 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.840 know it's going to be a battle against Pittsburgh and 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:30.000 you know you're gonna travel up north and you're gonna 0:09:30.000 --> 0:09:33.559 take on Minnesota. But whenever you look at those those 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.080 final five games, let's just say that the fact that 0:09:36.120 --> 0:09:40.680 you you finished things off with Baltimore San Francisco two 0:09:40.720 --> 0:09:42.920 out of those first three out of the last five, 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:47.040 rather our playoff contenders super Bowl contenders. When you want 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:48.880 to look at it that way, and then you have 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:52.079 two divisional opponents to round out the season. What does 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:56.120 that do for a team that doesn't want to look 0:09:56.160 --> 0:09:58.840 ahead but kind of needs to whenever you get into 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:03.719 that Isaiah Man, Yeah, you can't look ahead when you 0:10:04.400 --> 0:10:06.840 can't do it. I mean, they can't afford to do it. 0:10:06.880 --> 0:10:08.719 I think there's only one stretch that I feel really 0:10:08.720 --> 0:10:11.360 confident about in terms of us right now, and that's 0:10:11.360 --> 0:10:14.720 really you know, games four or five, six, seven. You know, 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:16.880 like that stretch right there allows for us to really 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.280 get our feet up underneath us and get ahead so 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.240 that we can afford to possibly take some ills along 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:25.199 along the road. Right But as you're pretending to that 0:10:25.280 --> 0:10:26.839 last stretch, it's tough, you know, when you have those 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:28.760 division games. I mean that's three in a row. You know, 0:10:28.760 --> 0:10:30.680 you got you got, you got three NFC teams in 0:10:30.679 --> 0:10:32.439 a row that you're gonna have to deal with, and 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:34.880 and they're all dogs, you know, Cincinnati. You know, it 0:10:34.960 --> 0:10:36.440 might be in the sense of a you know, if 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:38.319 people want to refer to certain things as somewhat of 0:10:38.360 --> 0:10:41.000 a bye week obviously with them coming off of that 0:10:41.120 --> 0:10:44.360 rough year. But San Francisco, Philly, New York, nothing about 0:10:44.400 --> 0:10:47.800 that makes you feel comfortable or confident, and as an organization, 0:10:47.840 --> 0:10:50.280 as a team, you're simply looking at that week because 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:52.560 that's all that matters. You can't look in the future. 0:10:52.800 --> 0:10:54.520 If you find yourself looking too far in the future, 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:56.800 you're gonna lose it, lose the current. So um they 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.720 got they have to be ready to roll. You absolutely 0:10:59.760 --> 0:11:01.880 can't look in the future. The team started off three 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:04.720 and out last year and might have started looking ahead 0:11:04.960 --> 0:11:07.440 and it didn't turn out so good for them. But 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:09.679 I will say, Kyle, I mean, and we'll probably get 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:10.959 into this. If you look at the other teams in 0:11:11.040 --> 0:11:14.400 the nfcast, the schedules are obviously very similar. You play 0:11:14.440 --> 0:11:18.360 the same outside divisions, and it's not easy for the Eagles, 0:11:18.480 --> 0:11:21.920 Redskins or Giants either down the stretch. So, like Isaiah said, 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:23.600 you've got to be able to get your wins early. 0:11:24.080 --> 0:11:26.200 And there is that stretch there where they've got three 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.160 straight home games in October, and that's that's huge. You know, 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.800 the last time they had that was twenty eighteen. They 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:34.400 won all three with the Maari Cooper after they made 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.240 that big deal and found themselves winning the division. So 0:11:38.040 --> 0:11:40.120 you got to take advantage of the breaks that come 0:11:40.160 --> 0:11:42.840 your way in the schedule too. Yeah, that's that's a 0:11:42.920 --> 0:11:46.920 tremendous opportunity for the Cowboys to exact the dominance in 0:11:46.960 --> 0:11:50.520 the NFL early with those matchups. I mean just talking 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:53.360 about the Cleveland Browns and what they're going to represent 0:11:53.480 --> 0:11:56.240 on you know, on the offense and defensive matchups for 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:58.640 the Cowboys. But I look at the matchups in this schedule, 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:02.880 the coaching matchup for coach McCarthy, who's basically hitting the 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:05.800 reset button on his career, but he's going up against 0:12:05.800 --> 0:12:10.880 some guys like McVeigh, Zimmer, you know, the Tomlins, the Hardballs. 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:12.680 I mean, there are a bunch of great coaches and 0:12:12.800 --> 0:12:15.920 also for Dak in those head to head matchups in 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:19.200 the season and the schedule, and so you know, look, 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:21.520 we've been talking about it, and we know that there's 0:12:21.559 --> 0:12:24.240 going to be a culture change here in Dallas with 0:12:24.280 --> 0:12:27.120 Mike McCarthy, but it's going to have to start immediately 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.360 in order for these guys to survive just the first 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:34.120 quarter of their season. So, like I said, I look 0:12:34.160 --> 0:12:36.560 at this, and I look at the fact that you know, 0:12:36.640 --> 0:12:40.600 with this COVID nineteen and Mike McCarthy not being able 0:12:40.640 --> 0:12:43.560 to put his imprint early on this team. Man, this 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:47.640 just heightens what two of days in those preseason games. 0:12:47.640 --> 0:12:49.840 And I know that we may be dealing with an 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:53.360 abbreviated version of the preseason games, but those games are 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:58.319 are important now more than ever, no doubt, and they 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:01.319 wonder wonderful. One thing that I don't one thing I 0:13:01.360 --> 0:13:03.720 don't want to blow by, especially as as a former player, 0:13:04.080 --> 0:13:06.440 that bye week and when that bye week occurs is 0:13:06.480 --> 0:13:09.360 so important. Oh yeah, this is this is perfect. I mean, 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:13.080 this is the absolute best scenario that you could possibly have. 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:15.280 Some teams have their bye week and what week four, 0:13:15.760 --> 0:13:17.760 you know, four, week five, It is like you have 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:21.600 another you know, twelve, twelve, thirteen games to run after that. 0:13:21.720 --> 0:13:24.640 So um there and they should be super happy, especially 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:26.640 after this stretch that they have to face on whether 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:28.679 they're bye week being danging their smack dab in the 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:31.400 middle of the season, which is awesome. Yeah, Detroit and 0:13:31.520 --> 0:13:34.640 Green Bay have the first bye weeks out of the NFL, 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:36.680 and both of those come in Week five. I would 0:13:36.760 --> 0:13:40.920 not have won five bye week by any means, and 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:43.680 I feel sorry, honestly for the Lions and for the 0:13:43.720 --> 0:13:46.600 Packers in that regard. Now, Rob, you kind of alluded 0:13:46.640 --> 0:13:48.480 it to it a little bit earlier as you were 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:52.439 looking ahead. But the the NFC East down the stretch, 0:13:53.000 --> 0:13:55.920 the Cowboys might have gotten a better draw down the 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:58.080 stretch than some of these other squads. And we'll let 0:13:58.120 --> 0:14:00.280 you guys decide this. I'm gonna read them off. Really, 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:03.920 the Giants have the Seahawks on the road, Cardinals, Browns 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.640 at home, Ravens on the road. Then they close, of 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:11.160 course with the Cowboys. That's their final five games. Philadelphia 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:15.000 in their final five at Green Bay versus New Orleans 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:18.400 back to back weeks. That's twelve or that's thirteen and fourteen. 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.720 Then you've got at Arizona at Dallas of course, and 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:25.520 then they close out at home against the Washington Redskins. 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:31.680 And then oh, I like that. I like that. That's schedule. 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:37.360 And then for Washington it's at Pittsburgh at San Francisco 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:41.360 home versus the Seahawks, then Carolina at home, and then 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:44.680 on the road against Philadelphia. So the Redskins no favors 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:47.440 at the end either. But out of those four teams 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:50.280 out of the NFC East, did the Cowboys actually have 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.240 maybe the easiest draw out of those four as it's 0:14:53.280 --> 0:14:57.200 up to the side. Heckman is laughing for a reason. 0:14:57.240 --> 0:15:01.000 I don't think Philly's draw looks too good. No, no, 0:15:01.040 --> 0:15:04.040 I mean the Cowboys isn't great, but every everybody in 0:15:04.080 --> 0:15:05.880 the division has to play the forty nine Ers and 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:09.760 the Ravens at some point. And Mickey Spagnola's got his 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.560 own podcast now on this network, but I used to 0:15:12.640 --> 0:15:15.280 argue with him all the time, Oh, first play, schedule 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:17.760 doesn't matter. They all play the same teams. Now Philly's 0:15:17.800 --> 0:15:20.040 got to play Green Bay in New Orleans, and there's 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:23.640 a difference in having to play those two quarterbacks not 0:15:23.720 --> 0:15:27.320 having to play yea, sir, No, that's a That's a 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:30.120 tough schedule down the stretch. And you know, for us, man, 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.600 it's always been December. Like you said, Rob, when you 0:15:32.600 --> 0:15:34.160 look at the schedule, you just want to look and 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.520 see what we have for December, because we had that 0:15:36.840 --> 0:15:40.160 December cloud hanging over our head. It looks as though, 0:15:40.200 --> 0:15:42.040 I mean, even when you look at our schedule, it 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:46.160 gets really funky right there towards the end, from November 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:49.040 first all the way to December twenty seven with the 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:54.400 Steelers and the Vikings. But man, the Saints Green Bay, 0:15:54.760 --> 0:16:04.880 oh Man Boo Eagles. Absolutely, yeah, No, I mean obviously 0:16:04.960 --> 0:16:06.680 we can look at the other teams all day long 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:08.760 and see what they have to face. I mean, ultimately, 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:10.640 you know, the count ways have a lot that they 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:12.520 have to bear it this year. Um, you know obviously, 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:14.520 and we we've talked about all these things, right, new coach, 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:18.280 new regime, new offense, new defense, everything. So you know, 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:20.600 as as we always do, when you want the other 0:16:20.600 --> 0:16:23.760 teams in your division obviously to take the ales, especially 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:26.400 down the road. But like we you know, these guys 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:27.920 got to win some games. Man, they have to win 0:16:27.960 --> 0:16:30.680 them earlier, but I earlier, and hopefully we can get 0:16:30.680 --> 0:16:33.560 stay healthy too. I Saiah, let me ask you this now, 0:16:33.680 --> 0:16:36.520 when you look at those matchups like for our team 0:16:37.000 --> 0:16:42.320 versus those AFC North opponents like Pittsburgh and Baltimore, what 0:16:42.440 --> 0:16:45.200 is that gonna do for us as a team potentially 0:16:45.240 --> 0:16:48.680 going into the playoffs coming against those edgy in those 0:16:48.720 --> 0:16:52.280 tough teams like Baltimore San Francisco even I think it 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:53.880 does a great gym in terms of preparing you for 0:16:53.960 --> 0:16:56.280 what you're gonna face, because playoff football is a whole 0:16:56.280 --> 0:16:58.200 other level as we all as we all know, right, 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:01.600 So playoff football levels up about ten times or whatever 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:04.080 speed you think regular gameplay is. It is literally ten 0:17:04.119 --> 0:17:06.359 times faster and every play matter. So when you're playing 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:08.320 these greedy teams, you know, these teams that you know 0:17:08.400 --> 0:17:09.919 you can have a lot of these guys that you 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:11.760 know that have a little edge to them. Right, we're 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:14.040 talk about the Baltimore, you talk about Minnesota. At this part, 0:17:14.080 --> 0:17:15.520 you know you're gonna be in a dog fight all 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:17.919 three of those teams, right, A FC's nasty, So you 0:17:17.920 --> 0:17:19.440 know you're gonna you're gonna be in a dog fight. 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:22.159 So it prepares you for that stretch, right, it prepares 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:24.520 you for that stretch and what you're gonna endure going 0:17:24.560 --> 0:17:27.560 for because like we talked about, you know you got Pittsburgh, Minnesota, 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:29.399 all right, those teams are you got to get your 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:31.920 mind right, all right, Washington, it's always a rivalry game, 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.399 so you know whatever. But then you got Baltimore, right, 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:37.160 you got you gotta go to Baltimore. Right, it's gonna 0:17:37.160 --> 0:17:40.080 be cold them you got hardball out there, you got 0:17:40.080 --> 0:17:42.320 them dogs out the Earl Cats I played with, I 0:17:42.320 --> 0:17:44.439 mean there, I mean you have to be be serious, right, 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:46.359 be ready to roll and then you come back, you know, 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:48.439 to you know, Cincinnati, and then like I said, we 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:50.919 have that last three stretch, so that's gonna prepare you. 0:17:51.000 --> 0:17:53.919 Hopefully that launches you in that competitive edge going into 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:58.200 that final stretch and then transition to straight into the playoffs. Now, 0:17:58.240 --> 0:18:02.800 you know, is Rob Well just piggyback and on what 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:04.760 Isaiah said for a couple of weeks now the whole 0:18:04.760 --> 0:18:07.760 mental toughness thing that that is so true when you're 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:11.080 talking about trying to navigate a schedule, because just the 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:13.359 longer I cover this team in the league, when I 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:15.280 see the schedule come out every year, I can look 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:17.080 at it two ways. I could say, oh damn, they 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:20.160 can win every game on the schedule, jump out the game. 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:23.920 It's just that just that just speaks to the parody 0:18:24.280 --> 0:18:26.639 in the league. And and when you talk, when you 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:29.639 talk to people around the team, the biggest thing for 0:18:29.680 --> 0:18:32.159 them is how to win close games. And they did 0:18:32.240 --> 0:18:33.840 They did it two years ago. They did not do 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:36.840 it last year. And when things weren't going their way, 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:39.400 it kind of had a snowball effect at times last year. 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:41.800 And I think that speaks to the mental toughness. Isaiah 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:43.480 talks about you got to be able to bounce back. 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:46.359 And and that's if they can find a way to 0:18:46.359 --> 0:18:48.320 win close games this year, they're gonna be just fine. 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:50.159 And but how do they do that? You know, and 0:18:50.200 --> 0:19:10.879 that that's gonna be the difference. Okay, uh yeah, we lost, 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:13.280 we lost Kyle's mike. But you know, I think what's 0:19:13.320 --> 0:19:17.359 also important about this this season is what's going to 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:20.920 be the identity of this group. Guys. You know when 0:19:20.920 --> 0:19:22.800 you talk about and I said, you know and Rob, 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:25.480 you guys know this for sure that towards the end 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:29.440 of every sea, every season, a team has an identity. Well, 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:32.480 the Cowboys are gonna have to have their identity immediately 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.480 in order to compete and not put themselves behind the 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:38.160 eight ball in this schedule because of the good teams 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:40.920 that they have on the schedule. Absolutely, yeah, these guys 0:19:40.920 --> 0:19:42.440 are gonna figure it out. They're gonna have to figure 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:44.920 it out asac right, Like you're like you're pertaining to 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:47.159 so I mean, right off the bat, you know, this 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:48.960 team is going to be tested greater than they ever 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:51.560 have been, right because everything that they're already coming into 0:19:51.560 --> 0:19:54.600 the season with right the restricted you know, preparation, you know, 0:19:54.640 --> 0:19:58.639 with the COVID nineteen stuff. You know our guys in shape, right, Um, 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:01.320 do guys have enough time to absorb this new this 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:03.600 this new system. You know, all the young guys, can 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:06.320 they catch up? Right? Can they catch up and get 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:08.800 ready for what's gonna what's gonna be expected of them, 0:20:08.880 --> 0:20:11.400 especially some of these these big name guys like CD 0:20:11.560 --> 0:20:14.280 and such. Um. And then you go straight to a 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:17.480 brand new stadium and one of the most populated cities 0:20:17.520 --> 0:20:19.680 that it's gonna that place is gonna be flooded, right, 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:23.200 and you gotta face freaking and Aaron Donald and golf 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:26.080 and you know, and then you know, and then it's like, okay, shoot, 0:20:26.119 --> 0:20:28.560 if I survived that, then I come back home. We're 0:20:28.600 --> 0:20:30.800 going home and guess what going it? We got Matt 0:20:30.920 --> 0:20:34.040 Ryan coming in right, So, so I mean it's you're 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:35.840 like you said, you're gonna be tested, you know those 0:20:35.880 --> 0:20:37.840 first three games. He's gonna be like, who who do 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:40.240 we have? Do we have some dogs in the locker room? 0:20:40.400 --> 0:20:41.800